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S M I T H , i » i f l i CflisBlor a! Lai, (Over D eim e l & Sehertaefs CloiM ng Store.) SDESK3BtI3b(!0£SI£^ 3ST- Y - , tat., and United States < 3 G . C . W I T H E R S T I N E rroipH e x o r s. Th 0 Union and lha Constitution. TEBM S !-$1.50 a y e a r i n a d v a n c e . V O L U M E lU X V L H E R K I M E R , W E D N l S l t n E : J A l U l R l 17, 1 8 7 7 . N U M B E R 2 3 . , ■ L l O m S S f l R E ’ S F o r I S D a y s , W © ofT e r S p e c i a In id O b s e r v e t h e fo o w j i u c e m e n t s . — ZEPHYR WOESTEDS, At 0@iOc per olJhce, u and Na- .,.41.00 worth 41-25 A large line o f RLACK SHAWLS, TS& str»HVsrD2. aVhon the darkest hours o f sadness Como stealinro’or the heart; IVhen false ones daredMelvathee And from thy side depart; Bear up beneath the anguish, . Acn.d b r ^ t the asking tide. For o’er the vale e f shadows Oh. there’s a sunny sid«. Lot earthly ties be broken' Whieh even thou hold'st dear; It matters b ut» little, The trial how severe. For there are many others In. whom thou cahsb confide. Where’er thy sad heart pineth— Yes, there’s a sunny side; Our life-time here-is fleeting. It pasaeth soon away. Like fancy’s dreamy visions. * - A n d a u tum n ’s-wan d e cay. Then take thou hold in earnest, - Before fbough thou hast triad. Life is made up of struggles. There's yet a-sannysidq. ^ rorld may look dreary, est loudest roar. THE T A B I ^ TDHNEH. A TEMFEBAKOB SXOBYw '■ “O n e ev e n in g , n o t l o n g s in c e , a n lim - b^r of, .i|8 bid sh ip m a s ters,— c h a n c e d to at a. social supper, and after tliftdilotb. was removed we went in for yarn spinning; Among our number wad Gapt. Richard IN'uttfer, and a finer or a better sailor never trod a ;th it came bis turn i ijrefecred- At S4.I 0 0 w o r t h S 6 . 0 0 . 85.b0 worth $7.00 88 00'worth 810.00 $12 00 worth $15.00 815.00 Ttorth 818.Q0 Other goods in proportion, at LOliGailORE’S i M a t q . S t r e e t , - H e r k i m e r , visited t h e Xiaboratory a i its genuine merit. I t is roots and herbs, eacji of f - ..... ive, and they are cninpounded 1 as to produce a stonishing r^.ul ___ 1 prepai -------- eacji o which is high pounded in such t VECETINE Is the great Blood Purifier. VE6ETINE Is recommendfidby physicians andnpothecaries. VEGETINE ied some marvepous cures to cases of VESEtiNE Cures the wotot cases of Cauker. VKITIME Meete with ' ' ' ' ‘o \ iss t Mercurial di*- V E S E i m r wm eradicate Salt Ehenm from the system. VEGETINE Cures th e m o st inveterate cases o f Erysipelas. VEGETINE Removes I*imple3.aiid.Humors from the face. VEGETINE Cure# Gonsiipation and regulates the bowels. VEGETINE Is a valuable remedy for Headache. VEGETINE Restores the entire system toa healthy condition. ve I etine Cures F a in s t o th e Side. VEGETINE Bem o vei the cause o f Dizziness. VEGETINE Relieves Raintuess at Uie Stomacli. ' VEGETINE \\“VEdlTINE Effectually cures IQdaey Compl^t. VEGETINE ISeffectivwinits cure a£ Female Weakness. VEGETINE IS t h e ,g r e a t .r ^ d £ ^ w ^ e r a ) D cM JUlEfiNE Vegdt!n» -iSr.Gold by a ll -janSwA- ' AULD LANG SYNE. Itsiugeth low in every boartt We hear it eaob and all,— A sons of those wbo answer uot« However wo may c a ll; ffbej tbrohff the silonce of the breast* We see them as of yore,-?- Tbe kind, the bnite» the truog the swoot. Who walk with us no more. f irown; hinkoftbem. led sore! ’ ’lave befen. They brightened all the joy of They eroftened every frown; Hut. oh. *tis good to think of tl When we are troubled gore! Thahks be te God that saob hi Although they be n o more. More homelike seetng the vast unknown. Smoe they iubve entered tbero. To foJlOTTthe® were not so hard Wherever they may fare; They cannot bo where God is not. On any sea; dr shdro; Whato’er betides. Thy love abides, , Our Cod, forevermore. —John If. Ghadwich, P E I D E ^ I, ■ I had a little rosehud given to mo; I dropped it as I wore it one fair day; X -would not turn to seek it—no; for then ’Iwere plain I pnze.dit; so X wentmy way. , II. I had a love tkat made ray life a joys , XtiSeeiaed to ialter one brisht sammer day; X could have won it back with but a sm ile; I would not smilo and so I-Wdat tap way. h' ' TEAT ONE POOR, The Chevalier de Gerard da Kanap- mau. Soon after the completioa of his magnificeat castle, all bis gre^t juvited for a long voyage. There vs^re six'hf U9 on board'Of about th;e same age, and we had about the same idaties fo perform. The ship—the old lisdy Dunlap—^was a large crew was large ia being fifty-two, all as we were callec and in all other; respects were sepa rate from the crew, jnst as much as the o^icers were. .0ur captain was a noble-hearted, honorable man,'kind and generous,'but yet very etfict.— Of course we youngsters found plenty of occasion to find fault w!thhrm,.aud very often were h is decisions arraigned before our- mesa and decidedly con* downed. In fact, we should have reversed m a n y -of his jadgtaento i f -we had had the power; but aa he;was the commander, and -we only foremast hands—and boys at thal-irrhe b ^ his -'•vn way, and the luminous deefsionk 3 came to were consCquenily o f ho, avail, and lost to the world, Now we boys had 'learned in the course o f our travels, to drink grog as well as any sailors. W e coufd toss off a glass o f rum and water with as much grace as any one, and we claimed the figh t -BO to do,_not oniy_a8.a m asile^e,. but as an honor to which a lijfe. gre^ t neighbors ‘were feast. A t the C( tuous repast, his guests made spe( after speech,^ in which the host was lauded to the skies, aud told he was the most fortunate man alive.: As the Chevalier loved flattery, we can imagine how proud and delighted he One among the guests, however, said nothing for a time. When each mau had made his speech, he uttered the following singular observati on upon the happiness o f the bo&t. “ Sir knight,” he said, “ in order that your felicity should be complete, you require but one thing, but that is a very important item.” “ And what thing is it ?” demanded the knight, opening wide his eyes. . “ One o f youf doors must b§ walled up,” replied .hi| guest. A t this rejoinder several of the guests' began to Jaugh, and Gerapd himself looked as much as to say, “ This man has gone m ^ .” Wishing, however, to have the dew to the enig ma, he continued, But which door., do m o a n V ” eplied the other. These words struck both guests ahd iQst, and made the latter riously. The proud lade the latt reflect most seriously. The proud man. remem bered the ynnity of all ihinga earthly, .and from thenceforward he no lohger thought only of the perishable treas- L.. ^ ™,i __ XT.. IMDBASCE ACEiiCY OP HENDERSO!! 4 LAWTONj HiSR K tM E R , N . Y , Resresent the foUowtox^ O ld a n d R e i i a - i b e l f i 8 u r a r i c e . G o / s : ^ g ^ ^ ^ ^ ....y.ie,0.^1,716 iffOBTHTOH&aANB’iff i k ^*^''^***’ 000,000 :F B ! ,A r , r . . , . . . w , S 3 0 , i 9 4 * '960\ The J5jpmt of l^he Iiord’s prayer is .heautifnl. The form .of petitioa breathes a ialjspfrj|t—•“ Father.” A oalbolia spirit—“ Our Father.” A reverential spirit—** Hallowed be thy name.” A mi^ionary spirit—^'Thy king dom come.” An obedient spirit-^” Thy will he done op earth.” A dependent spirit-— Give us this ay om? daily bread.” A foNgiving spirit—“ And forgive our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us.” L ciutiqug spirH--\ I^ead yg not into temptation but deliver us from A confidential and adoring spirit— “ Por- Thine ia the kingdom, and the power» aod the glory, forever And ever. Amen.” L.4-hAiV!E0Sr. L im m P A R r m H T . T r a v © ! o r » '* ilfera n d A c - L. A.LAWgCQN, Agent. I 5« a T l — It is a fact that God’s care is moro evident in some inslances e f it than ip ethers to the dim and often bewildered vision o f humanity. Upon such Instances men seize, and call thew Proyideoces. It- is well that they can; but it would be gloriously better i f they eould believe that tbe whole matter ia one grand Providence. '-^George MmDQjuM, A t lengt te l l * s£oryr or what waa. pi»l __ and what the rest of us ^atfddne—re late some incident o f experience of his own life. “ W ell, boys,” he said, as he Reject ed the wine, which was the,flrst time, ‘‘I will give you a bit o f • the ew ly part o f toy ocean life, and it is $ very important bit, too, for .Upon it I have , built the wholeof my subsequent hood.^' We Nut! for but one of' the most successful com manders in our mercantile marme.-r! W e listened and bis story was as fol- “ I was very young when I first en tered on shipboard, and at the age of fourteen I considered myself'quite. h< myseit ^ sailor, When J was eighteen I ’ shipped on, board an East Indiamanj t f e w p e c t our captain pretei differ from us. W h en we could gel on shore we would invariably indulge in our cups, and not. unfrcqueqtJy would we come off, or be brought off, in anything but sober. 1 say ‘ we,’ but there was one o f our number who could not be induced to touch a drop of anything ihti was jack Smah, «■ one of the, back, towns of JNew Jersey. Now Jack Small not only refrain ed from drinlring himseli^ but he used sometimes to ask us to let the stuff alone. He gave'that job up, however, for we made such sport o f him that was glad to let us alone, Eut puf captain, had sharp eyes; and it w;as not Jong before he began to show Jack Small favors which he did not show lia. He would often take Jack dn ,shore ith him to spend the nigbtl and suplx „g that, while we were ' m ship. Of course this created a sort of envy on ohr part, and it end ed in a decided ill will, toward Poor. “ Now, in truth, Jack was one of the.best fellows in the world. H e was hind, obliging^honkt, always willing 1 you m e a n f' to lend a helping haud in c a srof dis- “ I mean that through which yoU'-tress.ahdas-tru&afriendascyer-lived ill one day beoarried to your grave,” ;.i, „' —only he wouldn’t drink with ns-“ that was all. N o —that waso’^t all.— It t-v*<■-« > VM'A He learned faster than vr© did-^he ras a better sailor and had learned Qore o f navigatidn. But this we tried to lay to the captain^s paying him the mos'fc attention, though .we knejy better at the.iime^ idr wb h^d the fitrivil^e ofleafoing just as^rauph' a8^we h a j a mind to. Tbe truth o f the matterwas, we five loved the idea of being “ old salts’ better than\we did anything else, and we spent more time watching for I a spree than we irfect ourselves in e spent r Opportunities to have a spree than W6 did in learniog to perft the profession we had chosen. “ It even got so, at length, that Jack Small was called, upon, to take the u6ck so2ii6tiQi60y wboii th6 0ffiC6t8 w6r© busy, and he used to work out the reckoning at noon as regularly as ^id the captain. Yet Jack was in our mess, and be wai We saw that he was i ahead o f ub in every useful part; and yet we wouldn’t open his eyes,— We were envious of- his aood fortone, as we used to call it^ and used (o seize every opportunity to tease and run him. But he never got angry in re turn. 'Hesometimes would laugh at us,.and a t o.tbers he WonlJ so feeling ly chide U8 that we would rema'm si lent for awhile. « A^t' lenj W e talked the matter over in the meas when Jack was absent, and W4i mutually pledged each other that w€( would make him drink at tbe first op-^^ portunity. After this determination' waa taken, we treated Jack more kind ly, and he was happier than he had been for some time. Once more wO, laughed and joked with him ia the mess, and he in return helped us iu our navigation. We were on our ---------- ..a. m,, ip.li -------- homeward botsnd paskage, by the way |igl*Thoughl$ unhttht^d are your ot Brazili and our ship stopped at m ; thoughts uttered are the world’s. . ' Janeiro, wber© w© were to remain. L of ;t^ t^iDi_ Dver us oh board tha jhip^and of all iDthpv bad things of which we could think. For a while the poor fellpw aeemed inclined -to let bis anger get the upper hand^ but at length he calmed himself, and pteppihg hack lo his chair he said: “ Shipmates, will you listen to me fdrhmomeiaitf’ Silence gave consent, aud in a mo ment more he resumed: \ Since matters have come this pass, own; thoughts uttered are the world’s > B io Janeiro, wber© we were to remain, I baye resolved to tell you what 1 Befoember this and be governed ap-| a week-or so. One pleasant morning had: meant to keep locked up in m j cordingly, ^ W’e s is youngatei® received permis8ioiif> bp| 9 .ai.” , to go oa shore and spend tbe whole day; accordingly we rigged up in our best togs and were carried to the land- ing. , Now WEIS our chance, and we put our heads together to see how it should be dope. . Jackie very desire, as pgreed to this at once, and we thought we h.ad him sure!, We planned thatr after, dinner was eaten we would have some light sweet wine brought on, and tbEct we would con trive to get rum enough into what he drank to upset him,, lor nothing on earth could .plcEise u.s- more than to gei Jack.Small drunk, and carry him on board in that shajpeifdr then tve' fancied the captain% favoritism would be at an end, and that he would no longer look upon our rival with toore iference than upon ourselveS. Wp prof had matter nil arranged, and in the meantime we paid Jack ail the attention in oar p o w er—rso mneh that He signified ja wUlingaesa to go any where to Jplease.,,us, provided we would not go to any bad place. ■ ■ ‘^^'Dihner time .came, and a most capital dinner. we had. We had selected-one o f the best hotels. The eatables were dispatched with becom ing gusto; and then'the dishes were removed, and at a. sign from me the wine w ^ brought on. ’ “ Ah! wbathaveyou here ?”.esked Jack, betraying some uneasiness at the appearance o f the glasses and hot- litclenew wine,” X replied, as cairelessly as I could. “ MorA tiiicA of the gtopo.” ties. “ Only Mere juice But iFs wine, nevertheless” pur sued he. ; “I t . isn’t wine,” cried Sam Pratt, who was one of the hardest nuts old ■Neptune ever cracked. “ No,” chimed in Tim Black, an other'of about the same stamp. “ I t’s on^y a littlesimplb juice. Come, boys, \ 'glasses Were accordingly filled, Sam ' Pratt parformiqg that duty, and he took -good.care that Jack’s g l ^ had . a gobd quantity of sweetened rum m it. No,” said Jack, as the glass was moved-toward h im ; “ I f you are going to commence this, I w ill keep you company with water while you remaim orderly, but will not touch tvine.” -“^This was spoken very mildly, and with a kind smile, but yet it was firm ly spoken, and we could see that our plan was about being knocked in tbe ifw tteatr. vreurgea w d n a K vmn S 7J how happy his social glass would lake ns; butr we could not move him. “ TbCn-let him g o !” cried Tim, who had already, drank some. In fact, all of us but Jack had drank more or less during the forenoon. “ Let him go. We don’t want the mean fellow with us I” “ That’s it,” said Sam. “ I f he’s too good to drink with his shipmates, ion’t want him/' Tou misunderstand Jack, in a tone of pain, too good' to drink with you, iu the sense which you w.o‘uld- take it. . But I do not wish to drink at all.” “ Too stingy—that’s . a l l , s a i d ji^L ___ : __ j 4.^ me,\ said 1 am not __ ooav a. . oa-iv* x , determined to make hifo drink i f I could. But Jack looked at me so re proachfully as I said this, that !• wished X bad not spoken asX did. thiuks a . that, while we Sere kept o n l . ‘ “ I f m joy/oar wine. bo,.A tb e .hip . O f e o u r e e t b i e e ^ e i w d Sm»ll, at the wme: 8 S 0 r to fe n v v o i.0 b r t.a tt.eb d ifB b d . WnKTOlng ^ hie eb.tr, “ you c.n do so, but 1 beg you will, excuse me. I will pay my share of the. expenses for the dinner.”. “ And for your share of the wine,” said Tim, “ for we’ve-ordered it for you.” “ No,” said Jack, “ I cannot pay for any o f the wine—” “ Mead!” cried two Or three at a breath*: r. . . “ N b , no, messmates, not mOan. I will pay lor the l?hple o f the dinner— for e v e ry article you and I have -had iu tbe house,^ save the wine ” “ And as he spoke be rang the bell. He asked the waiter who entered what the bill wfle foY; the company, without the wine, and after the amount had been stated, he took opt his purse to pay it, when Sam Pratt, who was our acknowledged leader, eaugHt his arm. “ N o ,~n p t so,” said Sam. -Yon -shall not pay for it, for We will not eat at the expense of one who will sneak out of a,scrape iu this way^ We want nothing more to do with you unless you will take a glassef wine with us.” Very well,” said Jack; and as he spoke I conld see that his lip Oluiver- ed, and that He dared not speak more. He turned toward tbe door then, but before hereached.it Tim B.lack ran and cabght him, apd the saine time exclaiming: . “ jffiy,I be blessed JfyQU cut off so, iny way.” . “ ybu’ye commenced, and upw 'ott’ve got to stick it out.” This was the signal for us to com- meooe again, and once more we tried tOTirge J a o t to dnnfe the -wine, and . “ At' length the idea entered our when found that urging would Jlot; heads that Jackabould drink with U 8 , | do,-we commenced to abase and.scoff. W a acens^ him o f ' in g to step W e had always thought from Jack’s manner, that there was something pe culiar counected with his early life,- and we were all attention in a mo- “My story is but a very short one,” he continued, “ aud I can tell it in a very few words. Prom the time of my earliest childhood I never knew what it was to have a happy home.—- My father was a drunkard. Once he had been a.good husband, but rum mined all his manhood and made a brute, of him. I can remember how cold and cheerless was the first winter of my life to which my memory leads my mind. We had no fire—no food •—no clothes—no joy—no nothing ; nothing but misery and woe. My poor mother used to clasp me to her bosom to keep me warm, and once—^ once I remember—when her very tears froze on my cheek. Oh, how my; motbier prayed to God for her husband; and I, who could but just prattle, learned to pray too. And I used to see that husband and father and I Temember. r cried and tr« ’ hen 1 grew older I had go out and beg for bread. AH cold and shivering I waded through tbe deep snow, with my clothes all in tat ters and my freezing feet al most bare. And I saw other children of my own age dressed -warm and comfortable, and I knew they were happy, for they laughed and sung as they bounded along towards school. Those boys had sober-fathera. I knew that their fathers were no better than mine bad ouce been, for my mother had told me how noble my father could be if the Hacursed demon .rum was not in his way, but tbe-fatal power was upon him* aud though ho ofton promised, aod though h e often tried, yet he could not escape from it. “ Time passed on a n d T was eight years old, and those eight years had been years of such sorrow and suffer ing as I pray God I may neve another experience. At length, one cold morning in the dead of win ter, my father was not at home. He had not been at home through the night. My mother sent me to the tayeia to see if I could find him. i had gone half'the way, when I saw something in the snow by the side, of the road. I stopped, and a shudder ran through me, for it looked like a human form. I went up to it, and tu*\*!®*! the head over and brushed the MOW from the face. It was my fa ther— and he was stiff and cold. I laid my hand upon his pale brow, and it was like solid marble, He was dead, d e a d !” Boor Jack stopped a moment and ne Avipea HTB eyes, ovox one ot Us spoke for we had become too deeply .moved. But he soon went on : “ I went to the tavern and told the people there what 1 had found, and the landlord sent two of his men to carry the frozen body of ray father home. Ob, shipmates, I cannot tell you how my poor mother wept and groaned. She sank down upon kn^es and clasped that icy cor]^ her beating bosom, as though could have given it life from io her rps© to have given it life from the warmth ofh e r p w n breast. She loved her husband through all his errors, and her love was all powerful no'f.—~ The two men went away and left the body still on the floor. My mother whispered to me to come and kneel by her side. I did so. \ My child,” she said to me, and the big tears were yet rolling down her “ you know what has caused all this. This man was once as noble and hap py and true as man can be, but oh, ■see how he has been stricken down.— Promise me, tuy eh here, before Godd ’remise m e, tuy ch ild, trh promis.e me ~ > and your dead fa- gJe drop of tiia fatal poison thal wrought for us all this misery.” “ Ob, shipmates, I did promise, then lod there, all that my mother asked, and God knows that to tbi§ moment that promise Has never been broken. My father was buried, and some good, kind neighbors helped us through the winter. When tbe next spriog came I could work, and earned something for my mother.\ At iehgth I found a chance to ship, and I did so, and ev ery time I go home I have some mon ey for my mother. Not for the wealth of the world would I break the pledge I gave my mother and my God on that darks cold morning. And even bad I made no such'pledge,, I would not touch the fatal cupfk for I know thatl have afond doting mbtherj who would be made miserable by my dis honor, and I would rather die than to bring more sorrow upon her head.— Perhaps you have no mothers, and if you have, perhaps'they do not look to you for support, for 1 know you too well to believe that either of you would ever briug down a loving moth er’s gray hairs in sorrow to the grave. That is all shipmates. Let me go now, and you may enjoy yourselves alone, for I do nos believe that you will again urge the wiua cup Upon As Jack thus spoke he turned t o ward the door, t o t Xii h im w ith I “ H o l d on J a c k / ’ h e . s a i d , w ip in g his oyfis, aod startiag up from His chair, you shan’t go alone. I have ither and I love her aj! well as rim BJneketopped eve I beai shall mever have a drunken son, I will never drink another drop,” “ Give us your hand, Tim,” cried Sam P r a t t . « T’U im with -von.” “ I ’ll go with you. ■e, but quickly 3am Bratt. _ I waited no more, but quickly sfcart- iog from my chair, 1 joined the other two, and ere long the whole five o f us joined with Jack Small in his hod I b plan. W ecaljedfor pen, ink andpa-; per, and made Jackdraw up apledg.% He signed it first and we followed hii 9 , and when the dee^ was dqff^ T come off from a day’s liberty sober.— But when we had alll come over the --- g „ He could to the evidence of know we were far happier than we had been before for years. Tbe wine upon the table was not touched, and the liquor we had drank in the fore noon was now all gone in its .effect. Toward evening we rctarned to tbe ship. ^ There was a frown upon the captain’s brow as we came over the side, f(H he had never known us to a day’s 1 had a l ________ side and reported ourselves to his countenance changed, hardly give credit to the { his own senses. “ Look here, boys,” he said, after he had examined us thoroughly.— “ What does this mean ?” t paper,” I whispered Jack had our pledge, and without speaking, he handed it to the captain. H e took it and read it, and his face changed its expression several times. At length I saw a tear start to his eye, as he said: Boys, let me keep this, and if yon stick, to your, noble resolution you shall never want a friend while 1 live.” W e let the the hand. He was much and I knew that the circumstances made him happy. From that day our prospects brightened. Jack Small no more had our envy, for he took bold and taught us in navigation, and we were proud of him. Ou the next voyage we all six were rated as able seamen,and received full wages, and we left not that noble- hearted captain until we left to be- ime officers on hoard other ships. Jack: Sjoaa.ll is now one o f tHe best masters in the world-, and I believe that the rest o f our party are s till li-v- ingi honored and respected men.— Three years ago we all raet—the whole six of us—at the Astor House in New York, and not one of us had broken that pledge which we made in. the hotel at Sio. Four of us were then commanders of good ships, one was a merchant in New York, and the other was just g o ing out a s Am er ican consul to one of the Italian cities oRChe Medltfirraneap, TOO MUCH OF A BATE. They take boarders out at Dr. ones’, and am ong them are Messrs. Tyson and Botte, two young men who are engaged in buriness in luo aiuuao, tWO fellows set it up that it would be a good joke for two o f them to dress in women’s clothes and go over and scare Tyson and Boots. So several of them borrowed some skirts, aud hats, aud other female fixings, and, after assum ing them, started toward the creek. The two swimmers saw them coming and began to paddle up stream to FLAY m T H T ^ CHILDBEN. “ W h e n we were all children a t home/ 0ald a friend, “ nothing de light^ «s so much, ass a romp with toy ^ so much, a a r fotherj. W03 the happiest* iu all the twenty^ four. .- I often think if all parents Would'play With their children, home discipline might entirely loseitssevere aspect; aud become a law of love.”— Children are not made good by the rod of power. How many parents !lgt ’ or power. . are willing to devote an hour or so to play with their children ? milk to kitten will stop lapping- her play with the string you draw acrors the floor, so will the child leave almost everything for a romp with its father or mother. In these romps and dur ing these moments of recreation the jat lesson of love is learned by tlje ild. The close companionship makes the bond between parent and child which results in tbe future acceptance of advice and guidance. Perhaps you are naturally a dignified person, and unaccustomed to play, so when your infant first came you were not ac- eustomed to its care ; but you did not for that reason allow it to go uncared If you are harrassed by worldly anxieties, the recreation will benefit yon as much as it benefits the child, and your sleep will be the sounder for The experiment is worth trying. A POWERFUL MAGNET. Prof. Smythe was once lecturing on natural philosophy, and in tbe course of his experiments he introduced one of Carrington’s most powerful mag nets, with which he attracted a block of iron from a distance of two feet. ‘ Can any of you conceive a great er aUractive power ?” the lecturer de- “ I ken,” answered a voice from the audience. “ Not a natural terrestrial object?’ “ Yaas, sir.” i a genius in bis way, and or- Said he: ;hW im ] H e was a iginal. “ I ken give ye the facts, ’squire,’ and ye can judge for yourself. When I were a young man, thar were a little fiece, o’ nateral magnet, done up in caliker and dimity, as was called Betsey Jane. She could draw me fourteen miles every Sunday. Sakes alive I it were jest as nateral asslidin’ down hill. T har wa’n’t no -resistin’ her. That ere magnet o’ yourn is pooty good, but ’tain’.t a circumstance to the one ’at draw’d me.” GOOD ADYIC e V o BABBESS. Abundance of clean napkins, wheth- it shoi lands p revious to every er you work a 10 or 16 cent shop. Keen your razors well honed. W a sh youi ham\ shave. Don’t finger the lips of your cus tomer too freely. Never puff your hot breath into liis face while shaving. combs and brushes began to pa< out of their way. came nearer, and took seats on the bank of the stream, so close to the clothes of the swimmers that there was no chance at all for Tyson and Botts to sneak out and dress them- selves hurriedly. And the women sat there in the most aggravating manuer, while Tyson and Botts staid in the water shivering. Presently they got up to go, the swimmers thought; but, to the horror of the latter, they perceivefi the wom en get into a boat and begin to pad dle up stream. They went very ly, and so Tyson and Botts. had time enough to swim farther up in order to t out. of the way. The boat foltow- tbem up for about » mile, and then Tyson euncluded to do somethtug to explain the situation to the ladies. He was bescinning to feel sick. Ac- oprdingly he shouted at the top of his voice, and Botts shouted; but those idiotic women stUl oontinued to puli up stream. The swimmers were pret ty near crasy, and at last they made a dash for the bank and hid behind the hushes. Theft th.e wnmen in the boat turned round and hegaa to tow down the stream. Botts and Ty^oq water again and swam after* the boat. The women landed close by their clothes, and, to the amaze ment of the swimmers, picked them up and begap to walk off with them. Then Tyson and Botts became excit ed, and swam in close to the shore to holloa at |he womeP) and then the women began to laugh, and,the vic tims o f the-joke saw just how it was. When they emerged from the water they didn’t join in tbe merriment. They seemed gloomy and sad, and as soon as Bolts got his shirt qu be went up fo Peters and shook his fist under his nose, and said ; “ You red-headed idiot, I ’ve got a. nolioft to bang the liyer out of you. Ob, you may laugh, but if you ever try any nf y o u r jokes on mo again I ’ll munier y o u ; now you mind me.” Tyson and Botts will board else- wliere summer. A growing iasto for flowers and oral emhelitshments is a marked fea ture of our rimea, and there are jew things better,calculated to attach us to our jiomes than the love ftod eal« tore of flowers. Besides its tendeacy in this direction, 4t is h%Wj- conduc ive to intellectual and moral culture. Of all modes .of enlivening and bean- tifyiog our rooms, there is, perhaps, .none sa plettslpg as by the nan c f plants and flowets judiciouriy asrang- A c^^,bQsband, and father a i tbg head o f the lable juak^a the belt dinner unpalatable 4ind in^gesftble,’ ,, We bpild ai|d vreep toi,eeL fe9 Don’t waste time in poking lather up his nose or in his mouth. K eep your piously clean. Don’t compel your customer to talk whether he wants to or not. Always be pleasant and polite; it -costs nothing, yet pays. - and thorobuh rinsina: out ot the soap cup aud brush. When jerking a gentleman’s head around or twisting his nose, just im agine the predicament if either one should happen to come off. Moral ; Handle gently. When you come to dress the head do it tenderly, and not like a Sioux Indian taking a scalp. The following is the quini forty yeEWs’ experience in t shop. Neglect these maxims and j Will be a ■ ‘ be pronounced profession.—Hafr a botch all yoi to them, and you will 1 A No. 1 in the Drssser’s Gazette. xims and you r life; adhere A little girl asked her mother: “ What kind o f a bear is a cunseerated cross-eyed bear ?” The mother replied that she never heard of such an ani mal. The child insisted that they saftg about it at the Sunday school.— “ No,” said the mother. “ It is ‘A consecrated ero S lb ( lear.’ ” IS5“Only a-few years ago a man used to put the seal oi'affection on her lips. Now he has to put it on her back, and i f it isn’t trimmed with ot ter she makes trouble. The new style costs more, but it cank compete with the Other kind for real comfort. I ^ “ l8 it not time you paid thgS 85 ?” .said a farmer 'aint 5 you paid me sr to his neigh bor. “ ’Tain due!” was tbe reply. “ Blit,” said the farmer, “ you prom ised to pay me when yoii got back from New York.” “ Well, I been,” was tbe reply. ain’t Somebody said to Robert H a il; “ H iw many discourses do you think, Mr. Hall, may a minister get up each week^” Answered H a ll; “ I f he is ■eat condenser, a deep thinker and _ he may get up one; if he ia ary maD, two; but if he ia an ags, sir, fa© w r l i p r o d © c e - b » l f - a - f t o z e n / ’ «a¥“ He was a well-meaning man, but they had been married a long while, and when be playfully asked her what wasv next to nothing, she sa-rcaaticaliy answered that at this season of the year she thought his winter flannels were. “ William,” observed a Dan bury woman to her husband, “ Mrs. Holcomb feels pretty badly since the loss, of her child, aud I wish you would drop over there and see her.— You might say that all flesh is grass; that we’ve all got to go the same way; and 8 G 0 if she is going to use her drip- plng-pan this afternoon,” 1 ^ If you lounge down into a rock ing-chair and tilt back across the toes of a m a n m a neat-fitting boot, don’t ask him i f he is hin*t, or say anything else calculated to make him speak,— Just let him stand up and smile fox a few moments, until he gets his voice under control. false step, but one But on< wrong habit, or corrupt principle, may wreck all your prospects, and the Wpe© o f those who love you. jjgg- H o w many wives m a y a have ? Sixteen-^fonr better, four worse, foqr richer, four poorm:. times four a r e ^ e fl. , „
