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THE TEMPERANCE BANNER, ,
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BY JOHN H. SEALS.
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Druggist*, and other*, mar contract for adver- 1
:>i i£ by the year, on reasonable ter?\s.
Selected .
Prom the Cayuga Chief.
PROHIBITION SONG.
Fling out the banner wide,
“Upon the outer wall;”
Tretfijirm —with lofty pride
Mnrth- to its motto-call
• I
Aye. <Lv>h it on the breeze,
It* gorgeous folds unroll; ;
Where Artie w aters freeze.
Where Tropic ait, control
Shout, B.s ye tx-ar on high
The. iiiht and bending staff -
Ilo.ne ’neaiL ii.= 10-l ings tly,
11- k 1 otuc and fearie . quaff!”
“AW, nail it to the mast,” |
AW, let the rum-fiends rave-
While Gutters in th- blast
. One rag, it there shall wax e. •
Dtchtf.k.
THE iIITTKR NIGHT. |
•All uight w e stood beside his bed ;
All night, with br< >ken sighs,
\t e sadly turned his aching head.
And wished the morn would rise.
His little hands .so thin and pale,
Ilis eyes half closet! with pain ;
Without, the wailing autumn gale,
\nd cold November rain; j
The great trees rocking in the
•lh ’ soon it all was o’er- -
The little heart that beat so fast
• Could beat for us no more.
t or ere the piorn its beams bad lent.
Upon his little hand
He laid his check, and softly w ent
1
Into a better land.
HIDDEN LIGHT.
1 much mistrust the voice
That says all hearts are cold.
T at mere self-interest reigns, i
And all is bought ami -old.
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1 much mistrust the man
Who will not strive to find
Some latent virtue in
The sou! of all mankind.
Yes 1 if you say the fount ‘
If. scaled and dry, I know
It noetic a wiser hand
To make th waters flon
i
If you would still appeal
To evil life in nil,
I know a demon baud j
V\ iii answer 10 vnur cal’
I
li t whet, the Lord was gone
The r.ord who came to ■.avo
Two angel- fair and bright
-dit watching by the grnt r
And from that hi. --.<l hour,
With ru. immortal mom ,
in every t<.fnb of(ood
• Some angel sits tin-een.
The spilt to bring it ibrth .
With lowly, gentle inhid.
With patient love and trust
•To seek- -and ve shall nud.
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Him THE LVH WORKS IN NEW YORK.
Wo have frequently heart it said that the Liquor
Taw in Nev. York never s .uld accomplish anything,
and a few papers have gone 90 far beyond tic- truth
a* to da* tliat it has oat siie-nt led hoi the benefit of
unbeliever-, we take the foie wing notices front dif
ferent papers, collected by the Cay ttga Chief. If the
Law doc-s any good at all in tie Mate of N<-w York,
we need have no fear- for its eucc<r:- elwwher .. Hut
here art the extracts ;
The prohibitory law of New Y’ork took effect on
Wednesday !a.st Ir. ■he larger cities it was not g-n
a rally regarded on that day. 7h Triie;rr states
that rumeelline Comished in New York and Brook
lyn, but the number of drunken person* wa* less
ilcbotfi) to (Trni|jfrancf, feature, intelligence, anb tljc fittest Jlttos.
, than at previous anniversaries Ytayor WoaiV con ‘
siruction of the law virtually nullifies its actior in
Now Aor' lie !*> • -ueemnlied to ihc mm Interest
at la-r.
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I The Syracuse Journal -ay.-:
Last year, on the morning of the sth c-t ,’ ,lv, thir
- 1■ ’ ji.air, forlorn-looking customers, who hud celebra
ted tin- “glorious fourth with too much were
, released from our city watch-house ; yesterday, fir
only of tin ,-ainc sort were found ther.
I
From the .Seneca Courier: j
Y esteiday was the day for the prohibitory liquor
law’ to tali.- full effect, and so far rs we are informed
t.he retail liquor dealers in this village submitted to
it by banishing entirely from their bars and shops
all intoxicating beverages. The good effects of this
were observed in the quiet and order that prevailed ‘
during the entire • liy. and the absence of the dis
gusting scene- with which we have been familiar on
each former recurrence of our national anniversary.
Let the law be sustained, and. such w ill alvvavs la
the case.
* We did not see an intoxicated person du
ring the day,a fact which speaks well for the “Maine
Law.”
The Canandaigua I'imwt, alti.i noticing the two j
addresses given in that place, adds:
All appeared to he highly gratified, and the coca-1
sion passed off with little disorder. Oeßsionallv j
some poor wretch was taken to jail, sometime* on :
foot, and sometimes drawn in a cart, too much intox- j
inn ted to be capable of locomotion; but we are in-!
formed by older residents that the change in this re- j
sped from former years was greatly tor the better. 1
We arc sorry to say, however, that, all otir hotels
did not show that regard to law and order that was
to be expected, but that some of them violated ht’ th
by selling intoxicating drinks during the greater part
of the day, and only eosed when the evil became so
apparent that they and ire riot do otherwise.
from the Chronicle we learn that there was no i
drunkenness at Jordan, on the fourth; that at Me-;
ri'lian in this county, “the day passed without any !
open sale, and w it hout a single case of drunkenness;’’ j
that in Oswego, “there was no drunkenness or other;
disorders, ns has been too often the case at those cel
ebrations.”
From the Lyons Whig:
There was no formal celebration in this viilag. on j
the Ith ; but almost every body took some sort of
recreation on his private account, and considerable :
numbers from the rural districts visited us. But, a !
new thing under the sun, there was no brawling, nor 1
disturbance of any kind, and not a drunken man was |
seen during the day, so far as we could learn. Those I
disposed, had their s-pi oe on Monday and Tuesday.
On Wednesday morning all whs quiet. Every bar in |
the village wa*- closed; and we understand those!
who have been in the Traffic have quit it finally.— i
This is creditable, and we sincerely trust that noth-1
ing may cause (hern to change their goad intentions. •
AY e are sure if our village can remain frt- ■ from •
/drunkenness for three months, none w ill w ish to re-.
turn to the reign of dram-selling, ix.ept .some moral I
outlaws, who long since ought to have become ac. I
quaiuted with the geological formate ns of Auburn.
From the Poughkeepsie Examiner:
So far hs we can learn, (here was not a drop of li- ;
quor sold in this city on thi 4th. A little was, no j
doubt, drank, but it had been previously procured ; 1
and gieut caution was cxerciecd in keeping the ef
fects of such drinking from view in the streets and
;in other public places. ,So that we must here do
; that which w c arc not much j tl the habit of doing,
;vu: compliment our liquor dealers for their obser
vancc of the law. And we hop- they Ln*e thus been
! taught a lesson which they will not soon forget—
’that their husines- is a-, unnecessary one—that li- j
quor do-- not make people patriotic, and that the!
. fourth of July can he celebrated without its a>d.
From the Randolph Whig:
The Prohibitory was generally observed, wet
brlievc. \\ e neither-vm nor heard of a drunken I
i person during the day. All was quiet .-.d peacea- j
, ble, and amid the crowd, there were few r fumes of ‘;
liquored breaths, than om would notice on an ordi- ;
; nary busire-vs day. It is true there were limit-find- !
j ing , and scoffing-- that Ir.d<*pendence dnv should be
celebrated, v. h*-n the right to s’ 11, buy, or drink li
! quor, was dertii and them, but it all ended, like the fir-!
ing >f the booming car.non in nooks. No doubt,
j }
.it was a long, dreary day, to a few “old soakers,” hut;
Jwe are mistaken if the greater amount of hapjiiness i
I nt the hoeie-circh; that night, was not ample coni-:
pen-atio!; for the ohwtuo r.ee from liquor-drinkingdu
-1 ring the day
| We have gathered from our exchanges, all the.
‘farts p i'-ible in relation to the tir*.f day’s o(<eration
;of the law It: our ..wn city, liquor wa.- sold openly
! at the American, and at I tartlet tV underground grog
igery, [•■■ ond-r if the xner of Stanford Block expects
[to rent'-u oodergr und /roggeries after the ,-s-cond ‘
advent'-i but •:* >l*l f sident Uifornm Us, that intweu
ty year-. *herc i a i. *t been g little disturbance on
the 4th; and more people were in town that day,
than have ever -.n at any one time during our
-••vf-n y ears’ri.-sidclw- here. Last 4th, over thirty
(lers-jiis ver. •-.k-n the watch-house thi-year
but l*'-.
Fact’ Sfitak louder than words. In every .State
where the Maine Lav, has been enfomcl. crime and
i puupet i-tn lui - decreased. W ithout a doubt it will
be so in t- : > state. All that ii> needed \* firm and
decided action on the part of the friend- of the law.
Lcttliem 3tand for the right, and th- law i* case.
Repeal can never reach it
PMIBID. CNN I. UIHMI. Jill S. Ka
‘•I T or im nr\, n or hi'm.
Not many days since, h young mmi mis cutiiiiud
in our county jail tor a misdemeanor of .some sort, -
j committed while his brain wa.* maddened with, the j
ninise.ller’s poi. on He had friends w ho, on learning
how he was situated, offered to pay (he sum which .
the law required tor hi liberation. “1 cannot go j
with you now, 1 said he, “I hall yield to temptation, j
and then 1 may be sent back for a worse deed than I !
have yet committed. Let rm remain here until the
| fourth of July. 1 hen they cannot sell me any more
1 rum, and 1 shall noi again disgrace my manhood,
and lose the confidence and respect of friends."—
Then- is no fiction in this. It is only on- of th*-
uiany equally startling results of the accursed traffic, |
made more impressive hy a nearer view.
Incarceration in a jail preferred fn freedom amid i
: the devilish influences of the liquor traffic! YVhatj
a compliment to rumsellers! The society of felons
less to he dreaded than their own! Timt young
man is right. YVt honoi him in his present position,
and with a heart throbbing with kindliest emotions,
would we welcome him hack to the path of rectitude !
and happine-s from w hich he has boon so cruelly j
driven. For him we have words of love and hope; i
■ but for those who would still live and fatten upon j
j the price of his ruin, ue can only s#Vi “Lord, have I
• mercy upon wretches so utterly depraved!’’
The above incident claims the attention of every
j candid reader. Here i- a case where a prohibitory
law brings blissful expectations to one crushed heart.
Here w e listen to the glad cry of one slave, who feels 1
i the grinding fetter- already loosening upon bis limbs.
lls there anything in all the bogus objection urged
i against the men-tire which thus comes like an angel!
of hope to the desponding inebriate, which this sin
gle argument, so powerful in it truthfulness, does i
not entirely annihilate? Demagogues may talk of]
personal right- trampled upon ; politicians may prate I
of the overthrow ot party by fanaticism; editors may
scribble columns ot nonsense about u monstrous en
actment (an imaginary phantom of their own crea
tion) which interferes with a man’s right of eating
and drinking whatever he chooses; n few lawyers
(whose “opinions ‘ may be justly termed golden ones)
may attempt to weaken truth by legs! doses of their
own preparing; but can they make honest and in
telligent men believe what they themselves know, j
■ and what experience everywhere proves, to be false:
i The people considered the claims now offered by
I tlies- disinterested gen tinmen, when they rume If. -h
t from th- lip: of the drunkard and drunkard maker ;
at.d at the ;.allot box, last tall, a verdict of condem
; nation was pronounced upon them by a majority
I vote of the State. The decision wa- like the fir. A
| sunbeam that smiles away the gloorn of a long, dark
I night. Suffering ones forgot the poverty and blight
j which rum had brought to their homes and hearts.
| The fountain of their misery was soon to b- dried
j up, and then love and happiness would again return
;to the hesrthsidr. They .taw that such would bn the
j legitimate result of the finale of liquor-telling, and
; none but the most thoughtless or unprincipled op- i
! ponents of prohibition w ill long.-r contradict a con- ’
| elusion so natural and plain. The advocates of the
| traffic may present all the sophistry and falsehood !
| that avarice and the worst passions of the human ‘
mind can dictate, but the tide of popular sentiment
| will set more fiercely against them as these glorious
’ anticipations arc realized, ami a shout of thanksgiv
j ing ascends from the full heart of a people delivered
| from the unmitigated curse of inti-mperat.c . j
“ I hen they cannot sell me any more rim.!” Thank
<lod ’ w hen to-day's sun disappears behind the west
ern hills, night will tall like a death pull upon the
bloated, blackened corse of the doomed traffic. To
morrow, he who makes his neighbor drunk, is a
criminal, in tin- eye of the law, as well as in the sight
!of Jehovah. How many desolate homes will be
changed to Edens of b!i“, where no serpent lurks to
! destroy! seraph-voices will whisper cheering words
I in the ears of thousands, returning from their shame
to honorable manhood. VYti -rever the footstep of
the plague have left their dark impre --, the happiest,
strain in the song of a free people, while aith grnti
1 tilde and joy they celebrate th-ir national birthday,!
] will be “No more Rum!” There \ill 1-e univer wl |
! rejoicing in the Empire Ma'-, ns well as in Heaven!
j (hyvjjn Chit}'.
IT IS RIGHT 1
j YVi contend that it i- eminently right and proper
that thf-liquor traffic should be brought to the test
jof public opinion through tie- ballot box, from the
: fart that it can only be removed by the Legislature
‘elected through the same medium. Men ar- eh cted
upon other i-vtuc-s, el-e they could not. Is- -.tcccs-fnl
si, * • art convinced it will he of this if the c!<-
ments of this question at e not brought to h ar in the
, election of legislators, it ‘.anr.-it succeed 1 “temper
aii-.-i i* aslmiiteti p, !,<■ ri-e gr- aU-st of exi,dng social
evils, and all the power th. (s ople ought to
given to its overthrow. The us. of intoxicating
tlrink- as ... beverage is an evil v. ith no g<s>dconnect
led. There is ne use in them—they ar-- not articles
o nocinl wellari. We may call up the victims of in-,
t.inpernri'x from every gravt; yard in the land—we
may visit th<- hort.es and tin- tear’ wlier< it is mine
or h>- f.iiuiliar. and none will tell of it -.-rvicc and
advantage. Every physiologist tells *.- that intoxi
’ ating tlrinks ar- poison--u-; they -[-read d*-truction
toth. individual tedv and tin: led* t*■!-*■ and it
ought t*r ts. comiornned bt law.
In taking this position, we only follow mis s pr:n
eiple already -o*ceded; for if there be a right to rt
striet, tber<- is a! o a ri,:ht to Ibrbid to- traffic. The
right to stop a social evil belongs to the people—it ia
a public scourge and should be prohibited
Another ground. i the necessity lying on un all to
| forbid thi- source of vagrancy and crime Ml ,-la-s
is of society ar.- inter, -r.,(| n ;j v „\\iihi.e \ c.it
| deal i-. -aid about tie right- ofthetra-k the right
jof individuals; hut the ligln oi pnbli. uelfare i
: broader than individual right.
i The determination •.> break parly lies in order to
| secure the noble end, i-- a br iglu harbinger of dav. j
jW e rejoice to see it In the great accounting day ;
, we shall be judged irulividually, not by parties.
Finally, we appeal m the will of the people give
the people an opportunity to speak out on this ques
tion, and then w, .hall fiel that tin- day of redemp
tion is at hand.- Kjrtknngr
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| VOttecetlcuceou# Scleci{oitc<. j
wnutiioY nr.U'Tin'L?
Always! In the child, the maiden, with the w ife,
mother, religion shines a holy benignant beauty of
its own which nothing on eart h can mar. Never vet
was the fi male character complete without the steady
faith of piety. Beauty, wealth, and in tel loot! they
arc all pit falls, dark in the brightest day, unless re
ligion throws her divine beams around them to pu
rify and exalt, making twice glorious that which
seemed all loveliness before.
Religion is very beautiful—in health or sickness,
wealth or poverty. YVo never enter tin, sick cham
ber of the good, but soft music, seems to lie afloat
on the air, and tin burthen of their song i.-, “),u!
peace is here.”
Could wo look into thousands of families to-day,
when discontent sits fighting sullenly with life, wo
should find the chief cause of unhappiness, want of
religion in women.
And in felons’ cells—-in places of crime, misery, j
de-titut.ion, ignorance- we should behold in all its
most horrible deformity, tie- fruit of im-ligion in
women.
Oh, religion! benignant majesty, high on thy
throne thou sit test, glorious undexidtod. Not above
the clouds, for earth-clouds com., never between i
thee and the truly pious soul not beneath the
clouds, for above thee is Heaven, opening through n
broad viidit of exceeding beauty . ;
Its gates shim* in the splendor of jasper and pre-j
cions stories, white with dewy light that neither!
flashes nor blazes, but t- adiiy prnei edeth hum the j
throne of Cod Jl towers bathed in refulgent glory I
ten times the brightness of ten thousand suns, yeti
soft unrla/zling t/> the eye.
And there r-figion point \rt thou weaiy v it j
whispers, “rest up there -forever.” Art thou t
sorrowingV “eternal joy.” Ai t thou weighed down j
with uumeritedjgnorny 1 “king: and priests in flint!
holy boni-. Art thou poor? “tin- very street bt:
fore thy mansion shall bn‘gold,” Art thou friend
less V “the angels shall he thy companion*, and fiod
thy Friend and Father.”
Is religion beautiful i Wo answer, all is desola
tion and deloi mity tv here religion is not
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REALTY OF THE BIBLE.
Th- Bible i,-; a mass of beautiful figures; its words
and if : thoughts are alike poetical, it lm gathered
around i*.. central truthsall natural beauty and hit.-
rcstv; it is a temple with one altar and win; <iod, but
illuminated with u thousand different lights, and!
studded with thousand ornament*. Uln stib-j
stantiully but one declaration to make, but it utters
if in the voices of the creation. Kliioim.- forth from
i the excellent glory, its light bn- I,ten rctlu-ied on a
myriad of intervening objects, liil it has become at
tempered for our earthly t hions. It now beams upon
us at once from the heart ot man, and from the coun
tenance of nature. ft lutz, arrayed itsa-lt in the
charms of fiction. If ha.s gathered new beauties
from the work of creation, and new warmth and
new power from the very pas-,ion-, of clay . It lias
pressed into It ervi- e flu -.'r\ inimals of the forest,
the flown of tb fields, tin; -tars of heaven -all the
element of uatu><. she lion -pur/uug tie sands of
tie desert, the ivil-f r-- leaping over the iiiountain y
the lamb led in stile)et to tie -laughter, tin goat
| speeding to tin wilde) m- , i.he eis- him.- lining in,
j Sharon, tie- fitly drooping in lie- valley, ft. npph
I tree bov : og under if- fruit, lh*. cat rook shadow -
; ing a weary Und. tb rivm- glinlih-ning a dry plies,
j the moot and the morning -tar, Oirmcl by the ien, j
i and T abor in tie- mountain , tin dew* from tbe wotnb j
froni the morning, thi-rain upon fie- mown grass, j
the rainbow • lenmpassin.’ a dark pHt<-*-. the liglrtof:
flod’- -ii'iiio v, ft * thunder Hi vof-, tie- wind ami
the earthquake Hi • fooftjt. p nil such varied objtctsj
are made a- if natural)v ‘ie- igned from tie ir era- J
tion to repie .nt Mini in whom tin Hook and all its
emblem: point, Tim- the pii-t lirv book has run-,
sacked creaiioi i ’-u it- n. ism-. -on Jehovah's al- j
tar, united the innumerable rays *>l afar streaming j
gluty on the hill of t.alvarv, and woven a garland)
for tbe bleeding brow of Emanuel, the (lowers of
! which ho.c been culled from tie cal ler, of the !
! 1
j univon ■
; “The power of the Bibl- over moil fix- been long
and obstinately roaisted, but resisted in vain. For j
age . has this .ii-iloss loosely piled little Hoolc b-' -n i
exposed to the fire of the keenest investigations,:*!
| fire meanwhile which hat consumed contemptuously!
: the mythology of the Iliad, the husbandry ot tic
; Georgies, the historical tnith of fje- Livy , the fables
jof the Shatter, the Talmud, und the Koran, the ar
tistic. merit of many a popular |cm, the authority
of many a work of philosophy and science. And
j yet ther>- th< Bible lies unhurt, untouched, w ith not
| one of its page-} singed, with oot even the smell of
‘ fir. having passed upon it. Many an attempt has
! W,n made to'‘caro aw ay the Fiery i’illsr of our
wanderings, to prove it a mer.- natural product of
! tho wilderness; but still night .*fter night rise*, like
11. MID! 30.
j on*’ of the ever shining -.(srs in the vanguard of tlu
• great march man, tbo column gliding slow, but guid
[ ing certainly to future lands of promise, both, in tin
life that is ami that which coineth hereafter.”
“While other books are planet-: shining with r:
fleeted radiance, this Hook, like the sun, shines with
, ancient and unhorrowed rays.”
“Other hooks, after shining thoir little sensor.
! may perish in flames fiercer than those which de
stroyed the Alexandrian library; this must in *-.
seme remain as line as gold, but inconsumable t
asbestos in the general conflagration.”
IXGKATITFDE \ REVOLTING VICE,
i Ingratitude is the arid desert in the region of tlu
j human heart, warmed hy the run and watered •’
j riu- rains, yet continuing as hare and unproductive
l as before. It exhibits the sluggard’s garden in our
soul, hearing disgraceful testimony huth against its
owner and itself It is like the barren tig tree incur
profession, which after years of watching and of
cultivation, brings forth no fruit. The dark mini
yield . ore, and the hard rock givi ; gold; from tin
worthless shall wo gain a pearl, and from a poo.
worm wc are supplied with silk; but from ingrati
tude wc get no return. It is darker than the mine,
and harder than the rock; it is more worthfr-ss than
the shell, more menu and ungenerous than th:.
worm. Homo sins have a specious appearance in
thoeves of the world, whereby men’s minds are oft
beguiled to call them virtues; hut ingratitude p>..*-
sesses not a fffnglc redeeming quality. It has no
specious appearance, no fair color, no bright, side
whatsoever. It is unmi.xod evil—essential evet -
“only evil, and that continually.” Historians have
not recorded it in any single instance with approbn
tion. Moralists have made no exceptional case in
its favor to admit it among the virtues. Poets have
not been heard to sing; its praises in any nation oi
language under heaven. Philosophers may have
pandered to almost every vice, but none have pun
j dared to ingratitude. Merchants have made gains
of innumerable sins, but no man has lui ucd ingrati
tuile to account. It is an unstamped coin of the
kingdom of darkness. None acknowledge it in
j earth or hell. It is a vice so base, that even tin
vilest ol men will turn with indignation when de
nominated Migrates. Ingratitude is robbery, for it
deprives the benefactor of the acknowledgment that
is his due. Ingratitude is rebellion, for the King of
heaven has commanded ns in every thing to giye
| thanks. Ingratitude is cruel, how many a heart ha.,
|it not broken? Ingratitude in a monster which,
whenever it. appears, obtains universal execration,
standing unrivaled in its own peculiar turpitude,
alike unexcn -i and and (inexcusable.
IFivv revolting, therefore, how ‘-‘exceeding sinful”
is ingratitude towards Ood. It deepens the guilt of
all our other sins against him, and impart* to oach
of them its own hateful-character.
fOI’HTTYG ON THE SQUARE
Is a gri-al thing, figuratively or literally -literally
in particular.
Last .Sunday’ night wc had occasion to cross Congo
Square, between nine and ten o’clock We felt like
-it,tin; down and resting awhile, but, to our surprise,
j were unable to find a seat—every bench in the
; whole -quare bavin; on it a gentleman and lady n
gnged in earnest and engrossing tete-a-tete -each
couple being crowded up at one.cnd of tiro :>eat as if
intending to leave room for others, but really be
cause the gentleman, in hi. magnetic ardor, had kepi
squeezing up to his duhanoa until the aim of rh
sent was imperceptibly reached. Although wc ha<l
a perfect right to take the vacant end of any seat,
there was a inoral atmosphere about each pair of
occupants something in the affectionato collision of
tulle and duck and in the warm proximity of li;
and ear, that kept us at bay a.- effectually as a brae,
of unmuzzled bull-dogs would have done. Our po
liteness in pa-sing on without stopping was rather
shabbily repaid with intons-.- staring and a cessation
of speech by each couph we par ed, except one.
i Wc -rill got -ini of that, and though wc had only
j been exercising our right, felt, to a certain extent,
that no wntebriian’-rattle or cry of .top thief had
proclaimed oui 1*: - intrusion. The couple who did
not Ur. at us, caused u- to stare at them as long a
wi were able; it was impolite we know, but wi
! couldn’t help it. The gcntlemau reclined on the
! seat with bis head resting on the back. Whether
i the bead rested on the sluiqi iron back,.or was pil
lowed by muslin with an arm in it, wo oould not
make out, hut should suspect lit’ latter, for this lady
leaned to the gentleman “lik ■ a kitten to a warm
jamb,” and, with her white neck gleaming in the
I gas-light, herd her face over his, which wooed it as
j the pool might woo the over-hanging peach. A
I we pss-ed we noticed the peach descending slowly
! (met a moat distracting sound announced its injunc
-1 tion with the pool. It was no upstart, hoyden, hut
j a full, genuine, excruciating “buss,” compared with
I which we should judge strawberries and cream to
jbe entirely nauseous. “It had a dying fall"—and
might have caused a wcaker-nerved individual titan
t ourselves to “fall dying” on the s|iot. (>ur predomi
j nant sensation was that the Sabbath had been shock-
J ingly profaned, and as wc hurried on we heard the
j profanity repeated more shockingly than before. -
The lovers, it was plain, had forgotten they were on
a scat in a public square, being high in that rosy
colored heaven concerning which the “poicks” scrib
ble so much.—aVcto Orlains f.-rateeul.
Ms There is a man nut West so forgetful of fa
ces, that his wife is compelled to keep a wafer stuck
on the end of her nose that he may distinguish her
from other ladies; but this docs not prevent him
from making occasional mistakes
, . w auuMM, since the fceumr
S JAMES T. BLAIN.
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