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' iruitá ■ I ! - ’■ - J!© B P R iB W t-N lQ .« • i Wehire ‘ facilities unsurpassed Tbr executing all_de- ■idptions.of Job Prinun'gJ with neatues* and.dKpatcA, akd at. moderate prices, j , j ¡' . _____ I .BÜÍSINESS , , ■ j BACON IIO I ’EL, i - _ : i p ó à ^ L I P S s ¿ ô i s n E i D ^ . - - . l|,j ] nistf ••Cj BACON, Proprietor. • I ' WHS. P liR B V A J^C O B S . . ' PHYSICIANS ASURGEÒNS.-Office in Dey- -'1 - creux Block, second stor^ Main St., Oueida. N. Y. \ ED W A R D II. r ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR SPOOLER, a t l a . w , Oneida, Madison Go ,'N.1 Y|. . ¡Office ôverS. H. [Goodwin's.Store, Madison St^ ( ___ ____ J1. ______ D k S .T I T c l i l A CA RPED T E H , .«URGEONS & PHYSICIANS.^ Office in Wal- T Iratli's Block, up stairs. i 1 , W lR. F itch , k . D reB. cor. Broad * Clierr?; L - - ■ M. ID., res. |cor. Broad tfc H. WrCAUP'KUTEK, ChMtnut streets. ‘i 3tf. M £ S S l N I G E R & J E N K I N S , ■\ A A t t o r n e y s .& c o u n s e l l o r s a t l a w , I Oneida, Madison Co.,|N..Y. ! ?U ^ alU j ,8t.,OppositeTUnion Printing Office. _______ [ - I . NT'.\ M E S S L U G E R , NOTARY PUBLIC for' Madiion Co. Alsd L> ‘ censed Government Claim Agent tor Bounty, Back Pay, Peusions, &c. j | __________ __ B. JEN K IN S . J A S . NOTARY PUBLIC for Oneida-county. Commissioner of Deeds for Michigan. Commissioner of Deeds ior Illinois. , 'Commissioner of Deeds 16r M iscousiu. Commissioner of Dtctls for Iowa. / Also MESSINGER' & JEN K IN S . INSURANCE AGENTS for’the followmg'relitt- ble and secure companies. ¡ yin non «ft“ “». C»?be.i;j.ul»V;ls»rif » t ^ g g . Â i ï , ’ “ « * , 000 . • J. J. L. EÄ K E R, ATTORNEY' & COUNSELLOR, .. - CHÌTTENANGO, ' N.l Y. .BENTLEY 8t GOODELL. ^ tf e r ttiiis & CCi)misrto.s a t p w . Office in Fields’ B lock, M a in S t ., ? O N E ID A l. T.\B* ktikt . , i . i WR. Âf E . N . Y . i IV. w __ I __ l CHARITY. When you meet with one suspected Of some secret deed elf shame, * And for this by all rejected As aching of evil fame,; Guard thine every look and action, Speak no word of heartless blame, For the slanderer’s vile ¡detraction Yet may soil thy goodly name.; * i I > When you meet with one pursuing • -- Ways the loBt have wandered in, Working out his own undoing . With his recklessne8s[and 8in; Think, if placed in his.condition,' - \Vould a kind word be in vain J> Or a look of.ee ld suspicion . Win thee ¡back to truth again ? • • There are spot i that hear- no flow;ers, Not because the 60 il i8 bad, But the Summer’s genial showers . Neyer makeltheir.bosoms glad. \iBetter have ¡an-act that’skindiy ’1' Treated sometimes with'disdain’ Than Uy judging others| blindly,' i Doom the innocent tc» pain. ' Q UNCLE JACOB’S. WIFE.. We were sitting\ round the break'-' fast-table, my father, mother,* brother T$m, two sisters, andtmyself, one win- tér’s morning, when thle letters came in, ne‘arly an hour late, for, contrary to the custom ii!i many country places, we had/ an eig.l t o’clook' delivery. • . i “ Postman says, sir^that the, roads“ ^■e frozen so slippery ithat he had. to leavs^his horse at a jfarm-House, and walk' o v e r ’ with, the bag,”, said James apologetically, as he laijd the letters by my. father’s piai.e. j “ There’s always something wrong,” said my father with a^hrug,. “ when I am expecting important letters.” , •, “ Give the man a glass of béer,” James left the ily inconsiderate,’ 3Ut something in for Unclp Jacob a such an unreasening my mother, in her h’ab- mercy’s side. “ Incdn'sjderkte! Disgraceful !’i said iny father.’ “ Yes, my dear Charles, very) dis graceful,” said my mother; b'ut I, caught the saiAe tone of appeal in her. voice. Ridiculous! TJn said my mother, as room Tlie girls, str .1 ‘ il iled to! each other at the lofty Ho’mid, “ important letters,,” though, to be sure', thé prices of, oats, wheat-straw, and potatoes were; very irnpoitant matters in our father’s-eyes. We, however, cared little twhether sjieep ruled' at heavy rates, pigs wei;e lively, or, turniU dull[ for it _di(d not seem to I make much matter |to us .whether tliejnar.kets were up or down, my father never malting: money, jn either case. It Is not tyonderfiil, there fore, that we should have lost our in terest in farming details. , My mother .-used to take these little misfortunes very quietly. “ Your fath er will never make his fortune, my dears,” she would sa^-with as pleas: ant a face as possible. “ He isn’t the man to do it,W en by .accident; but as lon g as he gets enhugh but of the farm to let usr live comf°rta^ y an<^ want for ’nothijig, I think w,e ought to bepontent; and then, [yoii know, there is Únele Jabotí to fall back oil ” “ If rpy fathlir would just pitch that scientific nonsense of his on One side he woiild soonj make the- farm pay ; I wish chemistry had never been invent ed,” was To in’s irreverent opinion; and as far as regards-my father’s appli cation of science to the working of our farm-, Tom was practically right. My mother supported, m'y father’s views with all her might, but aà Tom said : Mother would be rtiady to see snow ' \iy fathtfr saw it.” And should be, and she and the full comfort of their , G oodbix , C H E R R Y .! *>. XT V Office . C . - C A R S i f A J D O A j S , j ATTORNEY AT LAW,1 Oneida, Madison Co., , •N Y Office in Stone’s Block, .Madison St. ‘ . • r - . ' ' ___ i _ u ----- 1 ----- - ------ f i i SH O J E C lR A ¡ a t t o r n e y s . * coi 1 Oueidà, Madison Co Blockyovcr Rivenbu Gomniissidner of De consin. *•;•]) FXi&'SWOW, JNSELLQR& AT LAW, , N. Yl ! Office in Empire rgli’s Store. J oun S now îds for Michigan and Wis- h ' • ' ' ;o. a . « ó T h o t o g r a p A a n : ' <■' LERY,,Maints tree t of all kitíQB and.6iz ^ guaranteed.' .• | • LL E WRECK , J ) ÄMBROTYPE GAL-i Ondi da, N. Y. Pictures; • •s taken, and satisfaction, ’ -! )•' ...\ in August, if i ;this was asft! in y father had] unanimity, i “ Tom, my Married !” “ Married !” “ Married !” the dreadful w silence, and v MADISON CO., N. Ï., SATUBDAY, 20 , 1806 .' We all pronounced ord, and then thepe was e thought much and saiddittle. ' The* matter, in fact, beyond speech ^ your fortunes, gi'ls!” “ There gb said Tom, breaking silence, with a that reminded • i t * ous school-boy “ Hold your my.father. J “ I jmuBt say of Jacob’,, big my mother,“-' voice | pleaded spoke;; she wak sort of woman, it of leaning to look meVfhis old miscjiiev- days. tongue, sii; I’*1hundered t I think it inconsiderate skid her i she ;he farm, of te marries ?” s“ Shameful! qf!” My father was given to thè ipg.of epithets, “ Pitiable in is old of ¿his' age!” “ jHe mother. '. “ d i d ! On ty-seven, - and younger.” “ Ilsuppose he “ Why oou d here,,1 tiien |?” “ His-businejss, mother. “ Isu his office in to « a to marry,” said my y think of it. 1‘amkix- . he is not two' was very lonely.” he not have was^tially several; times “ excellent woman.” sion, too, my father had ing in his~presence that have no fortunes. , “ Tom mtist' have course; .and then, if my father-had said; and! Uncle Jacob had said, “ Donit fret yourself about their fortunes.” There wasfrio promise in the words certaiuly—that.i8> no promise express ed—but did^iaqt an iniplied one lurk there so^ siightlyHiidden is to be seen ? We thought so, and' rejoiced and ¡made merry over it and made sure of ^our fortunes from that <3 ay forward. “ I wonder-if he will isjc us to the wedding?” said Nettie, the youngest and liveliest of us all, as we sat to gether over the fire in t ie work-room. e'avd Ri mali years còme mv my dear,” saiq ppose he cannot;leave ■vu for long.” j Why not have asked one of the live with him if be was girls to go and lonely? Lone has n|o more fueling of loneliuesk than y ! nonsense ! Th î man Lonely !” ‘ .ity,” said the eiitlest of '^all g« mg a drijed stick. “ I t seeins , voice] of ’ the women. ' “ You don’L all, Mary! ing but marr) —an(l all out is bringing'a' shoulders and an end to his trouble of a wi fe—’’ checked himiielf, seeing perhaps in my mother’s tace, • '“ No MarV; I didn’t mean sjentle gentle- appreciate ,the (as,e at notfi- will serve hik turn of spite too l W fine lot of. cares so he’ll find, quiet life now. Here my . ell, he m his Thére’s The father something that! You ¡know I did not. You and; [ have pulled together withqut a rub for five- and-thirty years. Why, Pollyl what are you thinking of?” She did not speak, but I always thought my moth er’s smile was better than wort s. I SO too. to be am sure- my fiath'er -thought ,s known to us all under Which the ature ripened to s what 'sheas like?” que- sour weel. Her ¡smile kw the Sunlight parts of his r “ I wonder ried .Tom, unluckily giving utterance to the th“ougKt that was seeth ng in our girlish minds. ' j “ Stuff, |sir! What does it matter?” said.my fathtjr,effervescingagan. “ A designing iwotnau, no doubt; ¡design ing women- ai “ She must said Tom. The uiome dear,” said my mpther one day, wheq lie was tryiiig to per- oppose y But youi J . E . O S T R A N D E R , i J ONEIDA, Madison Co., N. Y: Office East side,of. Main street, ¿early i . aito the Walrath Block*. ; All work warranted. oppo- - ■ ( - -J.A ..B E N ; N E T T , -] itANUFACTURiR of Tin,- Copper and Sheet '''.Iron Ware,- and .dealer in. Stoves and Iron Ware generally. • Number 4, Empire Block, .Oneida: ; '' ]' • ■ ___________ Ur M A R B L E W ORKS./ MONUMENTS and Head stones Of every Btyle kept i constantly on ¡hand or made to order on Bhort notice., The^best of American or Italian Marble-used in ¿11 pases. Shop on 'MAdisioni street, Oneida. \ . F. B. HARjTYY, Proprietor. W ILLIAM S A l j l L L O ^ S p i , ’ 'A R C H I T E C T S (feiBUILDERS, o ■1 ' *. ■» hop Oijr Cedar St,‘, fronting Mes*enger St. ■ Designs with Plans; Specifications, and Bills for'Buildin$, furnished on short notice. LTOBBING/PROMPTLY LT zllotbou . 1 ATTENDED TO. W. R. W illiams . J I N S U R A N C E . ¡LIFE, ACCIDENT, F I R E ! , |iew York] Life Insurance Co. i; Assets $4,poo,0Q0. 1 Yrofitt of business, all divided nm mg aasurei . Traveler* Insurance Co. , ■ Asset» '$ 509 , 000 . Insured against death or disability - from, acci dents of au kinds.| . ■'?[ , I Morris’ Fire Insurance Co.f Asset» $1,000,000, Albany City Fire In*ura lee Co. Aaieta $900,000. -I f Allatrictly First Cl&M Comp« ie*, offering I»w rate», iettllnglosses promptlyAnd liberally. Farm buildings insured -one, three .or lve M*n \a the lowest rates'. West uOtious, “ I- would 5 nr fathev’s opinion for lhideration*. We should jounds, you think, on the. if we wjere to— . * “ Yes, certainly;, quite twenty •rupied Tom. father would not be T would pay1 twenty “ Theday will come, mother; when you won’.t be able to afford it; it’s quick work going dbwn hill. One. comfort is, however, if the’ worst cornea to the worst,- we have Uncle Ja- .cob to fall ba But w.e hav breakfast-tab ek on1 some day.”; e wandered from the Aliy father glanced e. through a coiple of letters, which did not seein to please him much. “ Read tint iVomj Jacob,” said my- mother, poin Ling to. one.! “ How do you' k’niow it’s from Ja cob ?” asked ray father,^ alw.ayS; a lit tle'jealous if he tboughtb is letters were in any way scrutinized, ejven to. the reading of a jost-ma’rk. “ I seehig ivriting|acrc8Sthe)table,” said my mot ter meekly, Here she touched another week spot of my fath er’s; he was tnh slightest bit envious of her belter sight. “ It will W;ilit,” he said, and.ohipped at his egg. I But the'touch. of .spleen was but momentary,! and he presently bioke.Uncle' Jacob’s1red. i seal. k “ ¡He is coming here,” he said, with out looking up. ■ “ He will, be welcome,” said my mother, and |my father read on. ' He always read straightj through a letter before enligfitenitfg'us. Su ddenly his, face changed. He turned, pale, abso lutely white, he whose complexion was like one of his own ruddy apples; his hand shook, too, andbe threw’ down.the letter. “ What is] it ? , Is he^'dead?,, 'asked my * mother,! jn hei* fright, forgetting that she was' looking’ at his writing. “ Worse than dead I” »aidpny father. “What* ¿as he jdone?” w.e three girls .exclaimed in a breath. “ 1» it very bad?” for my,fatlier’«face was a picture. ' . • ; [ “ Pshaw?? said my father, and his oolor came'back as he spoke.; V! he is going to be married.” ^ t • it my father, left conversation, part of modei “ L think e all alil^e.” | 1 bè uncommonly sharp,” the ta- ble, our pent-up feelipgs, had frèe play, and we relieved oiirse/ves by much' ng the my-mother play ator. our uncle has a r:gl]t to please himseli,” she said, as she left the room to attendato Tier household du- tiea. Perfiàps heriiad. not tò fie,deprived of are .old Peo :>1¿ are this and rich, and hat vs and nieces ex: embrances -in the i fell h'ardly on they cl è of nephe of'solid -remi NTo, this new had madeso ¡jure, you sec. Bu, I have '“‘iis is not describe 3 Uncle Jacob. jccause e'ia cir- pectant ir wills. lus ; w e Ti ß Was a easily.done, though, there being very little ¡of him little |mau no tainly with surmounted Utfcle Jacob bills, and sending ,my mother pres-, entsof the quaintest ornaments that could well b§ seen. He fwas really fond of her *in his undemonstrative way, and'had^told my father confiden- tha|t she was an On one occa- been lament- nre girls could io belipve you , Netti je; and, fun for “ He may spare,him«elf the troub le,” said Jane with a to is. “ His wife will take care of him no ¡v.” “ I should dearly like to be asked,” said Nettie. - '“ Why ?” “ Why, Kate, it wlould he rare fun 1” “ Fun ?” said I . ' “ I think of nothing but fur after all, it will be very poor us, this marriage.” ■ “ He will loo'k so odd! Think of the little wee man’ in lis green coat, with his shining bald head, with his bridegroom’s white gloves on, and a rose in his button-hole, putting the ring on her finger (he must have his spectacles on to do it properly), and safing all those tilings he will have to say. Oh, how romantic he will, look !• How can she ever find it in her h ea i t to' marry \him!” An d Nett-ie broke into one of her »merry peals of laughter. “ Such an old fright! How chn she!” “ She sees him mist,” Jane said'. “ I should so dearly through a golden ike to see it— the wedding !” “ If you go, ,you maj^ self,” said Jane. “ I d like a child in some th gol by yonr- think you are ing8 still, Net- tie, and yet, you are tw enty-two.” that fact, deaf, but when I “ I shall never forget you' remind me so oftejn think of your age, I fuel quite like a child; tfiirty-five sounds quite import ant after my two-and-ltweuty: Jane, never mind, I’m it was spiteful of me. this time, arid I’ll nev about your age aguin.” put her mouth into b H shape, that iane could angry if she had tried, ed prelate \tells us, iu spring, of. his geuius, that, a little nez retrousse has had power before this to. reverse the destinies of] an empire. I wonder what his verdict would Laye been on Nettie’s jmouth. I know she ruled us like a little ■queen—my fath- No, jorry I said i t ; Uon’t'be vexed er say a woijd And Nettie ch a pleading not have been’ A late learn- an erratic off er included ; and ll th Was in her mouth, jlence for a while, and fast. „• “ I wonder if si Nettie broke out. 1 “ Young, of,°c6urse,” nk hêr power There was si- ur needles sped “¡He shall wear j t ,” she Mid; “he ought to be gay on hit wedding.day. This will.smarten^hinpap from a din- gy pld moth to a buttérfly./^ifîé won’t know himself.” . Father skw ner-at he^ work, and asked who it ww lbr. “ Uncle Jacob,” 'said Nettie bdhjly ; and when he looked amazed, she fair ly laughed in his face. He will,look very .nice in it.” , Father was/ not equal to the occasion and turned away. As to commanding or exhorting Net tie, when ' she was minded to go her own way, he would just as soo|n have thought of using his loaded stick' to' flip y butterfly off-one of his roses. Nettie knew ibis, and when wel thrëàt** ened her, khe would laugh and say “ No, he won’t 1 he won’t say t|/word he’ll lift\ his eyebrows at me—so-^-and' that’s all.” . 1 What my father’s present to Uncle Jacob was, we never knew, as he has beefi grimly silent on the subject from that day to this. j The wedding-day passed, aud the fortnight’s honëy.m;oon passed, and the bride and^grooin were to be with us next day (roadspermitting): It really was pleasant, their doming so soon, for our curiosity had peen raised to the highest “pitch, and had as yetjhnd noth ing to allay it—njot a single particu lar las to the young lady’s «¡gel, looks, maimers, accomplishments, nay, nor .evqn her name. My mother had thought to write to Unde Jicjob, ask ing a few . questions as to. thejse mat ters, “ to show' jus ; a little Itindly in terest,” she ’said, but had not ¡done it, my father having looked things unut- èrable at the bare [idea. p My mother, in per motherly heart, began to pity the bride, as the hour came0, for the carriage to j he beard crunching the frost up the driee. .( concluded ] next week .) ^ large fine “ how Ragged Jim, a Judge. “ Oh, dear !” sighed’a half starved, ragged, little. boy, ¡one cold, chilly night in the fall of„1820, as he sat, or rather half reclined on his elbow, on the cold, damp step of one of the houses in New Yojrk city; I wish I ha;d one of tnem nice cakes in that window.” j And as be half muttered to himself, his dark tearful eyes watchedjthe well filled window of a large baker’s shop. There lie sat, hour after hour, wijih, □0 friend to comfort him, apd no warm bed to sleep In. ‘ The only friend he had, as he.thought, was his heavenly Father, for his mother bad died the day before from starvation, and now he was left an orphan to wander all alone through that large city. ’ Soon, however, he tell asleep, and troubles left him for. a time. He slept long and soundly. At last he was awakened from hils sleep by the sound striking five. The still, and there was were taking his e is young'or old?” said Jafie. Silly old men are-always taken in by iris young enough to |se their grand- *-ters Do ypu suppose he is go- daugh ing to marry an o’.d woman ?” “ Of course she’s young,” I said. thought or he the to’ describe. . II : over five feet six, cer- little neat, smal figure, by rather a long head, was along-headed man in “ “ “ . / , 1 ■ every sense of the word.- His features were hard and small. I mean! tjjat ihysieally hard—t^obden, for the expression]of the face was ¡good. His! hands were hard‘and small jtoo; in fact[ the seuond fiòger of the right hand, Where the pen leans, ( seemed turned to very bone. He jvas my father’s onlj. brother, and,had been sent Out ear ly in life with fifteen, hun dred pounds Lin his. pocket' to make his own wa Ij in the world,.When my fatherAas tU 3 'eldest son, had inherited the frebhjèîa farm w'e live on. ‘ With iny father, time -bai ¡stood still so to upeak;' he wàs nò; fioher and no poor if now at sixty-seven than he had* beeu forty years\ before ; but things had been different w itlm y un- cléL; He1 might sit down at-the ink- stained desk in the little mouldy of fice! in Mine ng Lane, and take his hard pen into these small.hard.fingersòfhis, and write h is hard name in the 1 crab- bedeit I of bands, and the' check he wrote it on Would be worth three hun dred and twenty thousand pounds. So. Mr1. Sneck,nis clerk, would saj.y ¡with a triumphant look to his familiars. As for Uncle Jucob, he never spoke about the 8t$te of hi’s affairs ; bis mind was tight and vti itn, and self-contained like himself., - j . Now Ur cle Jacob had never spo ken. A wor 3 .about leaving us a six pence» but ’ ve built our . kopM on thè cirbhmstam es o f thé. case, and very rçaibhàblÿ k >, I*think; >11« had not a single relat on 'in -• thé; wor Idi outside òuf houàe. He hid'always bééU kind “ I 1 shouldn’t (have would’ have noticed one way other,” said Nettie, laughing. “ Hush!” said Jane,; here’s father coming.” j | | “ Nettie,” said he, entering, “ come I want you to —I am , going mjo my writing room copy me some letterk out,” “ Very well,” I said j Nettie; “ only nfind, papa, dear, you are not to be cross if I make mistakes. That’s to be your part of ¡the bargain. Now, come and show ine.” ■ Before a week passed, my father had another,letter from Uncle Jaicob, namiug the. wedding d(ay, but not ask ing any of us to be‘present. “ Although be; invites hinilself here, in the coolest manner possible, thejfort- night after,” said! my father. “ I would fill the hoase,sir; ask the Jenkinsons and young Clive here, and tell him there wasn’t rc om/’^vas Tom’s sapient rejoinderj * “ And make hils wife an enemy for life,” said Jane, j My father shortly keep his ideas to himself—so he* had evidently decided to rjeceive the visit. The'- next question njoined Tom to mooted was, whether Uncle Jact^b would expect we’ddingjpresentsYrorn his only rela tives. After much argument, it was decided that he would, so we girls set to work at once. I worked a most elaborate handkerdhiejf for the future Mrs. Jacob, and enclosed it in the\ niost perfect of natchils. Tom.rode into Worcester, ind bought a case of prettily cut and topped scent-bottles— a gem of its kinc—for her toilet ; into which piece' of complaisance, however, it took us a wholje morning to persuade him. ‘ Jane shone conspicuous in the manufacture of a work-bag; but Net- tie, naughty Nettie, set to work on the braiding of a mUt striking waistooet for Uncle Jacob; himself. In vain we pleaded that hhe could never be in duced to commit himself tp the wear- ing c^ so very ornamiiiitalaa artide. ; . I * ' I . ,*• o v of a large, clock streets were very not the same noise and commotion that there is on other mornings, for it was Sunday. There liq sat rbbbing his eyes las though he morning hath. Presently some one pulled him by the coat, (or what might have once been oalleil a coat,) arid said : ‘•‘ Come, Jem, wake up,, it is long past daylight, and I am getting hun gry. If you will come with me, I will tell you where you can get plenty to ea£ for I saw a| shopman shut his blinds without onCe locking them.” Jem looked up in real astonishment. “ Will he give us \ something ?” “ No; we can hook it yjou krfo\V ; and he won’t miss it, I know.’’ . Jem jooked u[) slowly,! and said firmly: > . j “ I shan’t steal,! and you can’t make. m’e any more, for go> I promised my moth er as tshe died, I wouldn’t. You may’ but I shan’t.’’ | * You may starve to death, but I shall not,” then raising his voice, he cried, “ Hurrah! I am going anyhow to get something to Wat!” j Jem walked off iri the opposite di rection, whistling to nimself,.“ Home, sweet homo.” The bells were ringing for Sunday .school at 9 o’clock. Jem happened to be passing'St. Paul’s chapel, and as he saw tlie boys and girls going in, he thought he would'like to’ see the church ; so he:«ntered, but not with out first taking off his cap, and wiping his bare feet before he touched the step. , ; , One of the teachers saw him, and asked him if he came to school ? He was so much frightened he did not answer; but he pnt him in a class with the other boys.- After the session was over, the teach*1 er came and closely questioned him and finding him so honest and np-; right, be took him home and gave him his breakfast, and then leaifeed from him his whole history. The teacher’s father, a celebrated lawyer of • that city,happened to be in want, of an office-boy. Jem /accepted the office of the vacant plaoe,and kept' his employer’s office neat and dean, and was soon emit to school for in struction. He. made tfie very best u*e pf h it time, improved very fast, and was soon admitted into] the ottos as a clerlci He-studied, became a profi cient in law, kept np hu habita of strict iniespty and honor, v u finally made a partner in the! businwi bf his em- ployer, and is now one pf 'tlbe most popularindgef ia W cetera N ew.York; Thii little inddehtshowi t»grity>wina its ns reward/événin iliis XOKX AID MIEIDB. ' r’**:— ’ i Oh ! there’s a power to make etch hour As sweet ss Heaven designed i t ; ! Nor need we roam to bring It borne, < ’ Though few there be that find it. < We seek, too high for things close by,^ ? .And loee .what nature found u s; For.life hjUh here ,n]o charme ao dear As home and friends around us. i -t We oft destroy the For fatare hopes, present ioy. and pralse If we’d but stoop - , , . , pr Whilst flbwen as s ireet-bloora at our feet, them ; t to raiae them ! For things afar still sweetest are Whenyouth’s bright Bpell hath bound ua; But soon we’re taught the earth hath nought Like homeland frjlends around ua. The friends that speed In time of need,.* -When hope’s last reed ia ahaken, .. . Do show UB Btill that come what will’, ‘ I , . W« are.not quite forsaken. •Though ril were night, if hut the light . From frieudahlp’B altar crowned us, 'Twould.prdv'e'the ¡bliss of earth wa*i this— • Our home and friends around us. ’ 'f- O n a J ourney .—The loved .one« whose loss I lament are still ini i exist-, ence; they are living with me ¡at this very time; they are like myselfj dwell ing in,the great' parental mansion of God; tbe$ still belong to me a's' I to therrii As they are even ta ray thoughts, so, perhaps, am I in theirs. As I| mourn for their loss, perhaps they rejoice in anticipation of otir reunion. What to me is «till dark, they see clearly. Why do I grieve because I‘ can rio longer enjoy their society? During their lifetime I was not discon tented because I could hot have them always around me. If a journey took them from me, I was not therefore unhappy. And why is it different now. ? They ha Ye gone on a journey.- 'Whether they are living on 'earth or in. a far distant city, or in some higher world in the infinite universe of God, what difference is there ? Are we not still in the same house of the Father, like loving brothers who inhabit ’ sep arate rooms? Have wo therefore ceaned tP.be brothers ?—Rowan. I S pectacles on H orses — The Uni ted States Gazette relates the following incident!: A gentleman had an old and valued norse whose sight was defec tive. For some time p y t the quadruped evinced la tendency to stumble, audio strain hii sight at things c ose to him, in a.maner that set the kind-hearted owner to devising a remedy.. The gentleman judged that with a pair of Bpectaclus the horse would do. as well as in hii prime. An .optician ground to order a pair of pebble glasses,' about the size of the object glasses, ofa large lorgnette. They were fixed in a frame over the horse’s eyes. That animal is dow a horse in spectacles, and no eld erly gentleman ever yet showed a. greater appreciation of the .conven ience. When in the stiabig fcKe spec-, tacles are removed. ' Wse. often hear of fashionable $ 91 % jriages, but never of fashionably deaths.' * • .. 1 « Hot fiery fellows are our soldiers-^ peppered while in. the service—anfc mustered out of it;. , 7 -A ; Iiethallove8 himself has only one joyj he that loves his neighbor) has manjf '• A man must have a very bad opin1 jpn 'of himself not to b i willing td appear what be really'\is.^ K * Mrs. .Partington says that Ike haa bought a horse, so spirituous that hit val way s goes .off iu a de-canter. . * ^ I »| A new .beatitude—“ Blessed is thp man that maketh a short speech ; he Will bejnvited to come again.’*,!r ' / J * Truth1—the open, bold, honttst truth —is always the.safest for every one in any .and all circumstances. ‘ Do the best you can where you are.; and -when that is done you will see an opening*for something bétter.’ * Slander not others because they havo slandered you ; bite not a reptile be cause you have felt his bite. Believe yonr friend honest to máke him so if- he is mot; siqce, if you dis trust. him, you make his falsehood a piece of justice. Good. nature like the little busy bee, collects sweetness from eyery herb; while ill-nature like the spider, col lects poison from honeyed flowers. Look your misfortunes in the faób, apd reflect that is is better to be ac cused *of a vice, being innocent, th^n acquitted qf it; being guiltyi \ , There is no fault so rinall that it will disappear of itself; You must make a business of pulling it up by the roots and throwing it away. “ All bitters have ,a heating tenden cy of effect,!’ said a doctor to a yourig lady. - “ You will ¿xcept a bitter col^l morning, won’t you, doctor ?” in quired the lady. : )A Indy who was céntly'cured by the use of the follow- irig prescriptiori-^a new bonnet,* a cashmere shawl, and a new pair of gai ter boots: ' “ A bachelor of thirty years” writes to'the v Country Gentleman for a| recipe for bean soup.- A lady correspqndent replies, “ Get a wife that knows how tp make it.” ^ * very sick, was re- “ I’m on the sea, I ’m on the sea,” A M an of Y ears — and C locks .— A Philajdelphia paper tells a story ofa remarkable old man in Northumber land county, Pa., who is ^about óné hundred and eight years of age, and so strong and active that he will walx five miles to town and back again .in half a day without apparent .fatigue. He has in his house twenty-four clocks, all going, one a little faster than .' thè other, so that there is almost a?ooiitinr ual clock-striking. 'He refuses to3sell one of them, and says they are his. only company at night. He was.born in Germany, aud: when a boy ‘carne to Pennsylvania. - --- — • » * * W ho S hould M arry , —Every man who has sense enough to appreciate’ a woman’s worth, and energy enouglVto support her, and virtue and intelligence enough to train up his children,In the- way-they’should go—every such man we\ say should .marry. ‘ And every woman whò is able, to comprehend the value of a goqd husband, and has love enough to prompt her tò cheer liiifi in- his time of trial and weariness, and generosity enough to prevent him from making him the slave of her ex travagance—every such woman,, we say,^should marry. ,,, -------------» rn - ---------- ’ ; S coffing . —To a young infidel who scoffed at Christianity on account^of the misconduct of some of its .profes sors, Dr. Mason said.: “ Didyou.ever know an uproar made because an infidel went astray from the paths of. moral ity ?” The infidel admitted he had not. “ Then,” said the holy doctor, you admitl Christianity is a holy religion, by expecting its professors to be holy; and thus* by yòur very scoffing, you pay, itjthe highest compliment in your power.” --- - -------- *H»— -- = --------- H um an L if e .— Hope write« the poetry/of the boy, but memory that Of the man. ^lan looks forward with smiles, but. backward with sighs.—[ Such is the wise . providence of Godi The cap of life is sweetest at the brimf. The flavor is impaired as we drink deep-; er, and the dregs are made bitter that we may not struggle when it is taken from our lips. ■ ---------- • « -------- - -------- Daniel Webster penned the senti ment:] “ If we work upon marble, it wil| perish ; if we work upon brass, time will efface it ; if we raise tem ples, they will crumble into dust ; but if we| work, upon immortal minds, if we imbue them, with priuoiples/with the just fear of God and onr fellow- men, [we engrave on those tablets something that1 will ? brighten all etar- roared a bad singer. “ You’re not,” cried a musical punster, in company, “ you would be o,n the C if .you sutag in tifn'e; but you fire on ithe B flat, confound you!” ir “ Will you take the Life of Sher man, ma’am,” said; a Boston booksell er to Mrs. Partington, as she eyed the contents of his shelves. “ Land o’ Go shen, no!” replied the old lady; why should l ? Tbfe General never molested me. » U Herod’s wiffiii said, io bava’ham ljkë Fenian\ Organisation, because riis .hrií k hafid àafitbmr (héad ©entre.) , Baron Rothschild once complained to Loud-Brougham of the hardships of not being allqwed to take his seat in Parliament. “ You know,” said he, “ I was the choice of the people.” To whichcthe ex-Chancellor, with his us ual causticity replied, “ So was Bar.ab- bas.” .’ Diamonds .have been found in Ida ho ; tliut t.he discoV|erer was lost on ^the steamer Brotb'qr JTohnithan, withiihe secret of their lcoation. He hadpre viously sold one in New York, for $1600. A yoiing Widow who had married an old man, was forever speaking of \ ” The second hqs- remonk'trated. “ I to remember when you’re dead ánd.gone!” “ my first husband. .band at first gently guess,’’said the yoiing wife, poutingly, ' you’ll want rae you 3aid thé wife of in Petersburg, y a., an ex-negro-tra{der a few days since to a freedman who| was skinning a jive catfish in the market, “ How can' you be so cruel!” “¡Why,” said the. intel ligent contraband; “ disiis de way^dey used to do \me and 'I’a gwine to3get even wid some one.”. Among 'the Baymgfc attribute.d to Admiral Farragut is one that “‘you can, no more make a sailor of a lànd- I.ubber by dressing him up . in J'afiea- toggery and putting à commission ijn his pocket, than yau can make, aihoe- maker of him by filling hiim with sherry cobblers .” ; i . An officer, who was inspecting his oompany one morning, spied One pri-. vatë whose shirt was. sadly begrimm- ^ ecL “ Patrick O’Flynn !” cried out the captain. “ Here, yer bon<)r j” promptly. responded Patrick, with his hand ¡to his cap. “ How long douyou wear a shirt ?” thundered the (ofi^cer. “ l\oenty-eighi inches,, was the rejoin der. . • * ‘ J u i Some people place their ideas of hap^ pinese'u]K>D one thing, aud some Upon another. .A lady made a call1 upon a friend; who had lately, been -married. When her husband came home Ço din ner she said, “ I have been to. see Mrs . ----- .” “Well,” said her husband, “ j suppose the is very happy “¡pap py î I should think she ought-to be, She has a camel’s hair shawl* -two thirds border.” r , * W ant *©.—A pair of teiseor» to cut fi óaper; ( [The pot in whi$b:fi 'patriot’s blood boiled.; The addreM of the con fectioner Who makee ^ trifles ms light aa air,” A abort c^nb broken öS the square root. And a rocker from1 the * cradle .of libeaty.” J & \ .»
