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10. VV'litti’ h- i■ atone.
ft g)T Kvery friend to Temperance x
?siioul(i take tiie Temperance Bannenft
Temp raise a men will not
ISjthe Temp -r.iiice. Press, who will]”
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SIOIi.VL AND ItKMGIOOS.
For the Temperance Manner.
fCCtiOSSB-
E 7 F. H. E.
As 1 ourue upon lifo's troubled wave,
I’ve snatched bright flu-ver-’ from the
shore;
Which oft have cheered and made m<- brave,
The storm a id tempest wildest roar;
Yet ! have seen them fade away,
h he fleeting treasure* •>! a day!
I've fondly hoped that some soft breeze,
Would waft me to a port, of rest;
lut life’s sh ift stream, devoid of peace.
Hath bourne me on its stormy breast,
While hope liiiiit to my soul.
And hid me onward u< the goal!
Ah! changeful life, thou hast no go-\
This side the cold, unlovely grave!
For onward all thy waters roll,
Tiiott hast no stationary wave!
To pleasures which wc now pursue,
To-morrow wo must bid adieu!
Full well 1 know that- earth can give,
N<> joys that will not fide away;
Its brightest treasures only live,
To he the food of dull decay!
Yet in the heart sweet flowers bloom,
Which shall survive thfc lonely tom >!
These are the joys of heavenly birth,
Which flotiri'li in the soil of love;
A . dews do watei flowers of earth,
They’re watered from the streams above;
To seek the joys of earth is vain,
For soon the soul will thirst again.
Hut lie who seeks the joys which tl >w,
In living streams lrotn heaven’s blight
shore;
Atone can have the joy to know,
What ’tis to drink and thirst no more;
Yet eagerly and void of rest.
We grasp earth’s toys which cannot bless!
Behold, behold, the moving throng,
Os toiling men who sigh for bliss;
They seek it eagerly and long.
But dvittg, know not what it i-!
Because they have refused to go,
Where joys unfading only grow!
And yet the heav. nly way i- plain,
And pleasant nre the “paths of peace;
All other paths are paths <>‘ pain,
And lead to woes that never cease;
Oh! let us all pursue the, road,
That leads to happiness and God!
Cherokee Cos, Oct. 10th, 1852.
The Chances ok Life.— Among the
interesting facts developed by the re.
n t census are some in relation to tie*
i-i ws that govern life and death. 1 hey
ura based upon returns from the Stato
of” Mary lurid, and a comparison with
previous ones. ’1 he calculation it i
unnecessarv to explain, but the result 1
is a table from which sve gather the
following illustrations:
10,268 infants are born on the sam ■
day, and enter into lil simultaneously •
Os these, i,2*13 never reach the tmoi
versarv of their birth; 9,025 commence,
the second year; but the proportion of
deaths still continues so great, that at
the end ofthe third, only 8,183, or a
bout four fifths ofthe original number,
survive. But during the four.h year
the system seems to acquire more
strength, and the number of deaths ra
pidly decreases, it goes on decreasing
until twenty-one, the commencement of
maturity and Fm period of highest,
th. ’ 7,13 4 nter i ■ -
ties am] responsibilities of life —more’
tliun two thirds ol the original number.
Thirty-five conn s the meridian of man- i
h00d—6,302 have reached it. —Twenty j
years more, and the ranks are thinned
i only 4,727 or less than half of those j
j who entered life fifty .live years ago, |
I are left. And now death comes more
i frequently, livery year the ratio ol |
| mortality steadily increses,uinl a: seven- 1
ty there arc not u thousand survivors. A j
‘scattered few live on to the century,!
and at tho age of one liun 1 red and six i
[thedrama is ended—the last man is!
j dead.
*® |) res si v e is t! i 1
[stillness of midnight, when “millions i
!of suns” shower beauty on tho sleep-1
ing earth in silence. In such an hour’
Mhe waking mind must commune with
itself, with nature and with heaven..
Long pent up thoughts rush out—fresh j
comminglings with the past, the pres
j eat and the future, occupy their place.
A Divinity is seen, felt and acknovvi
edged, above, within and around us,
and the quiescent puls,: o! nature seems
: emblematic of an eternal test beyond
j the tomb.
“1 never complained of my condi
tion but once, said utt old man, ••when
my foet were bare and 1 ha-i no money
[to buy .shoes; bull met a man without
! feet and became contented.”
! .Man wastes his morning in anlicipa
ti ig his nf.er noons, an I he wastes his
afternoons in logrolling his mornings.
Palmetto, G,t , UthOot., 1852.
Dear Uaimer: —Though I have not
I troubled you or the public with a .sorali
j for sometime, yet 1 have concluded
i this morning to write to you and my
j friends in Georgia to let all know tim ,
| thank God, i am in pretty good health,
| with a heart beating strong with hope
for the ultimate triumphs of our heaven
i blessed cause. And though 1 lecture
;no where unless invited, yet lit** old
; •‘guerilla” has noi been idle. My in
; vital ions were given n.td accepted
i mostly through private inth s, and mu
Iny of tiie interesting i> ■.■.-clings I have
i attended have been unnoticed by my
| self or others.
In the month of July 1 attended tem
1 perance meetings in Tei.iiess.'-e an I up
| p.*r part of Georgia. In Angus'. Ikc
lured before U.ik Hill D.vision an I
; public in Newton c u :ty. Too bieth
j ren iht io know about tin meting,--
j several accessions. Lectured also a.
S Ooyai Division in Henry, and though
•'it was *>u Ai.iiiday, and a short notice,
j yet we. i,u,i u ji.i! crowd ut night; tiiey
initiated a M.-ih , .'i>t eigtliv years oh.
|On i’ne y alier lectured be fore Udei
Division, —here we had a tight funny
‘time of it —soma good do,.—i s.runic
lon one side, a school master who sells
\liquor , appeared against me and th,
i Suns, ho he striking one >, is ml I on
‘I he otlier. good was dune, Fro-.i heiv
’ ! returned home. But by th * way
I think of a school master and retailer of
I liquor associated m the same purson.—
i [ know in oi leu times it was so, when
j they taught the children to say big-A,
i 1 ittle-a—ot —Aaron —hut do. s it do
now ?
I 1 lectured the first day of September
in Jefferson county at a Camp Ground,
Mount Moriah on the anniversary of
; their Division, a lovely day and lively
I occasion, a large audience. The outset
upon old alclty and his allies was mad •
iby my friend Ben Carswell, and noble
I did he fight upon the subject of it gisla
! lion, his arguments were unanswerable.
.Tiie people us Jefferson and Burke!
j would do well to thrust him out in the >
field—and the people might do u great j
deal worse tlmn to send him to the log
jislature. J moved at the meeting that
his name be enrolled upon ill kin list,
! and he be called Untied” Ben, and if j
you become jealous, say Uncle Ben ofj
j the Banner, and say L ucie Bui ofJef-j
j f rson, provided 1 retaian my r< lation
i ship, of “Uncle Dabney” to all tin,;
men, women and children in Georgia !
, I see an account of the good meeting
I at the Glade Division, 1 hope my brelh
i ren there are not hurt w ith me, espe
cially as 1 sent the appointment ‘or the
7th of Sept., as ciicurnstat.ces trans
pired afterwards that pro veil nrl entirely
my attendance ; ! was glad to read so
good an account of their meeting. The
j same causes prevented my being at
! Crawfordville and Jonadab Division.
I Sav to the brethren at Bartlesville:
who invited inc through tiie last Ban
tier. that Providence willing, I will be
; with them and public ou Siiurday the I
g:jJ Oct., mid will expect to spend the
Sabbath them.
Say to Bha run Division, Fayette coun- .
ti ,'hat they may make on appointment
for me ou Friday the 22 Oct., provided a
! conveyanc meet me in Griffin at Bil
ly Freeman’s Cold Water house on
Thursday b'*fjre, to carry me to Sha
ron early on Friday morning. Sound
your trumpet, run up your Banner to
the top the mast, and call upon every
Division in Georgia to send every dele. J
gate eligible to a seat in the Graim Di
ii-t.nl- A. .1 iv ‘id htoilv b to
PENDILLD, GA. OCTOBER 23, 5852.
■ show his teeth and wag his tail, mid lit- j
: ter portentous yells! Tiiut the days ofj
the Grand ljiwdou and consequently,
! subordinates, are where, thank God, I
there are hosts of good men and true,!
; who will never Dow th'e knee to old !
! Baal.
Let our t-.riper.tnc,’ hosts in Georgia
1 and the Union do their duty, and the
I day will come when tiiu people like Nt
; agara’s roar, shall shout the down
fall of democracy. Georgia must he
1 wide awake and duly soon, or her sister
! Alabama will lead in the onslaught up
|on the enemy’s rank, her sons i t cold
[ water counsel at Selma will “bring tit j
ind house” trembling over old aluiiy ! *i
| head he little dreamed of.
i God willing expect to be at tho Gfund
Division, where 1 hope to take the hand
;of many of my hr -tliro.i in the church, ,
(I mean any orthodox church ) and,
, ort’thr m Sons. Como up Christians,
come Divisions, and let us in counsel j
and by prayer to the God of temperance, 1
give the hall another turn, and may ii -
turn and turn on utr.il the triumphs of
temperance succ c! ,1 by -ho gospel
ahull usher in millennial glory upon
our siu-cursod planet.
Truly iu L,. I\ & F.
JJABNI2IGP. JONES.
P. 3. 1 hop •to meet you at Macon,
and hopes you may gel live hundred
new aub.-uriu, rs and collect a thou and
dollars.
IS. 13. Tell the brethren of Brothers
! vilie to pardon mv neglecting to notice
jmy visit t.> their Givis.on in the propei
! place. First, let me say, it would tak>.
| a whole letter for ail 1 would say about
them. A preily place, goo I society,
and they have prettiest Hall 1 have cv
j#r seen away from Columbus. Tins
J ladies !ty tiieir industry iu getting up a
j fair, built it; i saw too, a beautiful
■ I motto wrought by a lady’s fair hand iu
j a frame, (needle work) “touch not the
! cup.” The lady, if lam not mistaken,
I who got up the lair, had the pleasure
1 ! the day 1 lectured, to s-e her broilc*
marcli up and enroll his name to become
1 a Son. Girls of Geer J , your Uncle
Baun, y s tys, say to tho hoys “touch not
• the ctiji.”
The young gentleman, Dr., who pie
ceded me at Mi. Moriah Lamp Ground,
i will please pardon me in u t uiludiogjo
him us 1 forgot bis name; “ids modesty
alone i quailed bis merits.” His speech
’ “as a fin;; off, 1 arit certain both hound
his speech were popular with I tie ladies.
1). I*. J.
F: mu the Mobile Register
•rite License System. — Wo 4
i Th-: off net s against society are more
j secret than open, and we measure the
extent of injury too much hv the vio
i b nce of tiie deed—lienee the general
apathy on the subject under oxainina
-1 lion —familiarity with the appliances of’
| evil mitigates the wrong committed
hence tin* false appreciation ofthe efibot
of intoxicating drink.s
One man, tor money, murders upon
j the highway—another, for money, bur
j ters a slow, but certain poison. Tim
j violence of the one, appals, and the
j grey', heart of the people til robs with
j pity. Thu measured tread of the oilier
j gives to the mournful pageant thu com
’ mon gloom of death. The one strikes
, wuh the st l l lotto; tiie other lets out with
a lancet, the warm stream of life. The
muidcrer finds in every man a ready
executioner; the other weighs out th ;
deadly portion, protected arid licensed
by law.
In wimi consists the difference? I
; the social wound more fatal, when the
1 sword perform! its office? Is the in-art
. less lacerated, vvhon intemperance wit!,
a!, its horrid aocompaniirientselainis is
! vicinri.
It is our familiarity with the medium
j that induces tim measure of retaliation.
Tne refinements of the age condemns
I the w.-ariiig ami use of weapons, and
j lh** stern rigor of the law, nvcngi s the la
: king of life. ‘l'he refinement of thr- ago
i sanctions the use of intoxicating ciiiu,,;
’ it is common to all classes—sis ef/bet
j 1 hough as fatal as the steel, is robbed
; of its enormit v.
Toe penal cole proscribes gambling
Why ( B cause it involves an ille
gitimute transfer ofe-iatr—a goiiiof
cb inee, whcie tact and villainy supply
the usual investment of skill and labor,’
and men make a business of fleecing
! each otlier of estates and honor. For.
tunes vanish with the cast of'a die, and
-m- night’s debauch will beggar a house.
1 hold. File fascination of the gamin"-
t . bln disturbs the quiet of social life, io
the seduction of the young, and the corn
. fidentiai leiations in business ate (Je
, stroyed in the sacrifice of poisonal pro.
‘pi rty. Public sentim. nt decides this
to be wrong, because the people realize
it. The transition is sudden, ■ ff-ct fol
lows cause, in startling rapidity, there
is violence in the deed. i'hi s public
j sentiment is hoard in the law, a,m p Uil
ishes gambling as a crime, m on..- i-,
found to question tire propriety ol such
I legislation, yet the same coui.riu., :y, ’
1 will, throng i the medium ot th • sunc
law . custain and license, the | oi.- ( >,i „t.
pieces where by a slower, but equally]
, .rtuin process, th- same terrible re
sults are produced, with this exception,;
that disease iranstniis to posterity the
consequences of dissipation.
Now, 1 c k any rational mind,
whence the discrimination? ,Shake utf
the trammel of social usage and exam-’
ine the question lrunkly and t, -.nessly. i
Weigh the effects of intoxicating drink, j
in tliesame scale, with the consequences j
of the gamingtable, uml answer the |
(j.ijtion —whence the discrimination?!
(i ] • man opens a luro bank. T’ho stake
ii. .oade, the card is turned; ’tis lost—
,.,‘ain and again, urged by the hep ■of
| icciaiiiation, the dcspaiatM venture sue- j
coeds defeat till bankruptcy .s'ops tin-j
came. Another opens a bar-room to
sell intoxicating drink. The old and I
; young, rich and poor, the geutieman
[and vagabond, the moialis! and church
man, all meet on common ground to de
il nd a common convenience—at this
; place, fortunes arc staked and lost; butt.
, urabl-.: positions sit i rendered, mail! v dig
. tti-y compromisod, and intellectual enti
’ in; ll ct* degrad dto the level of u street
[ getter.
The gambler does his work, boldly
land with dispatch. ihe bar room
I keeper, slowly, but, with terrible cer*
i lainiy. ihic law slops the gambler,
ia - ,eiin.- muphatically that lie is a puli
-ic nuisance; tout lie do's not respond
Ito a public necessity; that lie tampers
a iih the virtue and is rm enemy lo the
! good older of society.
The law interposes and protect? (lie
I hquor dealer, thus declaring tiiat all the
j evils of intemperance, so vividlv pre
j senied to every man, arc, (if not hlets
: ings,) necessary evils—the tight of iiis
j pensation granted lor a monied oottsid
j oration.
This is an interesting phase of our
subject, and exhibits at one view theen
orgy and imbecility of law—the gross
inconsistencies of legislation.
FRO BONO PUBLICO.
W.io Oppose tb Plains Liquor Lav/?
Not wives whose husbands come to
their Ininas, infuriated by the cu;>, to
I bi-al and bruise them ini-J l-n ir help
-1 less ciiildren.
i Not sisters whose brother* nre
|- r .'tijght to their homes at midnight,
■in i luibd in upon the hall floor besot
ted and insensible
Not parents, whose sous, just (tiller
ing upon manhood, begin t>> find pleas
ure i:i the cup, and meet temptation
at evary corner in our cities and large
towns.
Not sober ami lirluons citizens, who
look with sympathy and dismay upon
domestic peace destroyed, and reputa
tion thrown away, estates wasted, jails
prisons, alms.fi uses mid hospitals Idled
by the monster intemperance with no
possible good returned to society.
Not drunkards tiiems.fi vea, we desire
to reform, who know their weakness,
and dread temptation as the cutting off
of their last hope of deliverance from
til” chains which bind them.
Who are the opposers?
J. AlannfaOturi rs jfthe poison, who,
to increase their wealth, would roll a
j mream of liquid fire over tne whole
earth.
2. L'quor dealers, ol every stamp
from the wholesale vender to the re
j tailors of every ( mm; from the keepers
jof fashionable hotels and elegant .-a
: loons, down to the haunt* where poor’
jday laborers ate swindled out of cam- j
; inga which are needed by their suffer.
iiig faniiliuH.- Watchman.
°
How C-o c 'a tha Bat He f
Look into A! and see hoiv it
goes. The ruiiiinies scut to Boston
land other large e. s out of llte Slate,
lor money. I’tif-v go it- They used
f it. Tiiey boast <1 that they would drive
j tis from our posit-on, and repeal the
l l.iw on which our liop.-s rested, ihe
j buttle was fought, and they were (Jo-
Meutfd—rout ,and in every city, in al
most every corn r. They have chc
ted three men in York county who
! were n iminutec as enemies of the law,
’ hut backed out f'.-uin ti.tr position, two
or three days before the election camej
(iff Their majority was about five j
hundred. The usual majority ofthe
party to which the candidates beloeg
led and by which they were nominated, i
is about t -os- md. 1 liny claim
■ one Senator from the Kasteru part of
- the State. Jf they have got one, he
j counts just one; add to him the three
from York comity who could not
stand the fire, anJtl.cv have fiur —-just >
sou a Seriate composed of thirty
one member . Tiiey cmiriot get anotli
er.
Three.fourths of 1 ‘ha members
elect of tiie H msc— mm tent'is, r-ome
aocouuts iiiie. o us--are friends ot the
Law! This dr • not . rk like repeal.
And yet the rum nics tolJ ns lo look to
Maine. T> ■ would show tis what
could be done m -luce- 1 rtey “oul l
commence the work o rape I m Maine,
‘j’iioy d-j not seeui io make much head
way.
To.-ni*. ■ New ff a mp.sk i 'e and I
\ ermoiit. A presidential election is ,
; close at hand, and yet temperance is the
great question with the people. The ]
temperance meetings are tho largest— :
tho temperance fires hum brightest—j
Both these States will have the Maine i
Law, before the rummies can gel on j
their boots.
Connecticut is not asleep, cither.— 1
] The Fountain and the Advocate are
j dealing heavy blows. The rummies
| wince. They feel that their time is
| short, Connecticut will get the Maine
! Law in less than a year.
Look at homeHinuU^^^^i^^^^Hiv
■ myrnsm mmiim
i well. Tiie
ius out, but they cannot do it. We
j have at least made rutnselling u miser.
[ able business. It does not pav. It is
; driven too close—too close to the wall.
I We have only begun, and are just got
! ting warmed up. We guilt strength ev.
] ery day'. Wo shall triumph.--7m
iterance Advocate.
Afraid oi Opposition to Lav/.
At a religious conference meeting
• lately, vve saw a large good nutured
looking man arise and quit* eloquent,
laud the immense and heavenly power’
ui moral suasion, occasionally however, j
obliquely condemning the Maine Li
:q-1 or Law. Evidently, lie was a very
mild, milk and water man, except in hi.-,
antagonism to that statute; but thete, j
ready and willing to fight. j
When he sat down, a lady, a strati
get, remarked to us in a whisper, “that
she was afraid of that man.” This
seemed lather strange. She must be
rather timid thought vve, to ho afraid of
such a dear, loving, rose-water moral
suusionist.
A lew days afier, we met the lady
in the cars, and obtained an explanation
“My husband,” said she, “is apt to
drink too much when he is tempted by
the sight and sale of rum. lum the
mother of suveiul children, and we
have suffered almost every thing bv his
intemperace. since the anti-liquor law
lias been enforced, he has been n sober
man, and a kind husband and father:
and 1 uin afraid of any man oi unv
tiling that tries or tends to repeal or
make unpopular that excellent law.”
We think this is one of the boat argu
limits in lavour of tho law we ever
hetud or saw, and there is not a drunk
ard’s wife or children in the State who
do not daily have the fears of that poor
woman, and repeat Iter argument.
The Prince of Criminals
j lain a criminal if I introdueu into
imy neighborhood, anything which ini
j pairs the iiealth of my follow citiz'-ns.
Or if i do anything to corrupt the
! morals of society .
I Or if 1 destroy the character or the
life of a human being.
Or if disturb the public peace.
Or if I take my neighbor’s property i
| without returning an equivalent for it.)
Or if I invade tiie firmly circle, and j
j weaken or destroy the relations of'hus
j bund and wife, parent and child.
Or if 1 knowingly mid wantonly ex
i pose my neighbor’s house to the torch
I of nn incendiary.
Or if! eiicouiago licentiousness arid
j dobaurichery.
Or if I nerve the arm of the highway
robber.
i (Jr if I sharpen th“ knife of the us
j sa- sin.
if ( utri a liquorseller I do all these
1 things, and am therefore fairly entitled
to the honorable appellation <d’ the
“Prince of Criminals!”—Organ of Tem
jieranr Reform.
Tkavbu.ing. —Few persons make
good travellers. The majority travel
; without any adequate understanding of
what one should travel fiir. Th chief
result of travelling is lo have paid con
sidcrable sums of money, lo have seen
unimportant curiosities with the privd
ego of giving exaggerated accounts nf
tiierri. M-jst people who go abroad
bring back nothing more valuable than
a few chips from deserted monuments,
and a large stock of affectation. An
intense egotist can never he n good
; traveller. Socrates being told that a
cert air. person hud travelled unprofu
iibly, replied: “No wonder—fbr lie
travelled ulone with himself,” One
who makes a looking glass of every ob
j“Ct fie sees, will never make any His.
cov'iies worth relating. Such travel
f t- arc like Wordsworths P it-r Bell
“They travel here, they, travel tlu-re.
But not the value of a Imir
Are head or heart the b.-tter.’’
About tiie year 1634, the I >ee jsla
tore ofPermsylvcnia pas-sod a re-elu
tion that “no member thereof slimil i
come to the house barefoot, or cat his
bread and cheese ori the -lops.”
Different sounds will travel with riif
| furent velocities—a call to dinner will J
, run over a ten acre lot in a moment j
-and a half, while a summons to return j
| to iv-trk takes from rive to eight min
! tlfes. I
Ouriou!} Experiments.
The Christian Inquirer, of this city,
lias b ii making some experiments
which ure ut least quite novel and cu
rious, and so simple, withal, that any
body can repeat and verify them. \Ve
copy us follows:
“A Irienfi told us, tho other day,of a
very curious experiment, which led us
toiryolhcis equally curious, with tho
same success. 11 is experiment was
this: Take a gold ring, and suspend it
by a thread about half a yard long; then
hold it by the thumb and finger of the
gMkte|||jul yU i r the paj.tn.fll,the loft
at’lTlc ring may swing freely
an a pendulum; it will oscillute to and
Iro iu the direction of the arm,, with tu
crcusing force. Then let another per
son form a connection between the
thumb and forefinger of the operator s
left hand by his own thumb and finger;
the motion of tho l ing will change from
as’raiglu line to a circle at once, and
on tho withdrawal of tho connection it
will return to a straight line;- and on
touching tlic operator’s left shoulder
with tlic hand, the motion will cease
and tlie ring ho at rest.
“We tried the experiment successful
ly, and found that it would succeed
equally with a key instead of a ring, or
with any body of proper size, aimilaijy
suspended, whether of metal, or wood,
or glass. Wo found, also, that if sus
pended over the knees, the penduiutn
would swing from knee to knee, und im
mediately begin to revolro as aeon as
the feet were brought together. Sus
pended over the heart, the pendulum
revolved of itself in a circle of consid
erable diameter; uml over the forehead
it revolved in un opposite direction from
its course when held on the back of the
head. These experimi nts vary some
what with different persons; yet, with
grimier or less force, they seem to follow
the same law in nearly ulI cases.--
What does it mean? Tiie force is not
electrical, for it acts as well through
non-conducting a, through conducting
bodies, and a silk instead of u cotton
thread makes no difference in the re
sult. It is not mere imagination, for
titer is mo much uniformity in result
to favor that supposition. In somo
cases tfto revolution is in an orbit, a foot
in diameter, if not mote.”
Din anybody explain the why and
when so of these phenomena?— TV. Y.
Organ.
Fanny Indignant-
I Ladies have probably soon tbo
I floating paragraph winch declares, that
I (lie “best thing u man oan possess is an
, amiable wife;” and another, which re
cointmoids wives lo always look cheer
ful in the presence of their husbands,
\ because “a husband likes to ba oonsid
j erod the source of his witejs liappin*B.s.”
land tiie sight of u smiling spouse “flat
j tors” him; arid th-y may have seen a
i third, equally ridiculous, which an
; imuncea “ifiut the tear of a loving girl w
like ad v drop on a rose; but on the
■cheek of a wife, is a drop of poison to
her husband.” These puiagraplis have
justly excited the indignation of Fanny
Fern, who, in a late number of the
Olive i ’/ranch, relieves her mind in the
murnier following.— Home Journal.
“It's ‘an ill wind that blows nobody
any goon. 1 ’ I’apas wiil be happy to
hour that t wen tv. five dollar pocket-hand
kerchiefs can be dispensed with note, in
the l/iidal trousseau. Their ‘occupa
tion’* gone!’ Matrimonial teur.s are
‘poison.’ There’s no knowing whut
you’ll do, girls, with that escape valve
shut off; but that’s no more to the point
imm —whether you I. iva anything to
j smile at or not; one thing is settled—
i/nii inusn t. cry!l Never rnind back
aches, and side-aches, arid head aches,
* arid dropsical complaints, and smokej
chimneys, arid old coats and young ba
oics! Smile/ It flatters your husband.
He wants to be c unsidkkeu the source
olyour happiness, whither he ivus br(>-
i used Ne.ro or Moses! Your mind nev
er being supposed to be occupied with
any otlo-r object than himself, of courso
(i t- ir is a tacit reproach. Besides, you
i miserable little whimperer, udiat have
you to cry for? Am t y o-u mo r-
Ir i. ed? Isn’t that the mm mum bonuin
! --die height of fen inine ambition?—
You can l get beyond that// It’s the
1 jumping off place! You’ve akiuv! got
to tie-, cm) ot your journey! Stage puts
iup there! You’v - nothing ro do hut re
tire on your laurels, and spend tiie rest
of you: - life endeavoring to be thankful
tti.it you are Mrs. John Suiiili! ‘Smile!’
j you simpleton'”
Con-idot ing, says f’unch, tlie iin
, me .so variety of smells that emanate
from thr- Thames, what a capital spec
ulation die river would be, if it C-nuid
be made to pay in:; per (s) cent. I
The Belfast (Me.) Journal has a love
story in it, of which the editor says:
“If it has iinv virtur \ it ties m its
trutn.
A Clahkt Punch —A hit on tlie nose
I that draws blood.
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