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4. H. SEALS, i a? • £. A- STEED. S MR VOL I. THE TEMPEBANCTE BAJNTNER, £VV„t\ WATCH.'AV TWO JH THV WAS, BY JOHJT H. REALS. Tm hu A ’nr*. -<r-u’nti i, wh.'ti !■< *lljj •*- .■***.•■!-■'<. xr.d Md* *rr to nte . >e m-'*: popular ;s;>rr in the Ac'jth. *i ia (Mforc-t, v*th ViDftiien-o, C’ ing t-* Ita etreuJstlon He- eo general,} V Mashkitiets -.n-’ Pr^feaj 1 “iat. 4. a-. AUVrnTTSI.W MEDTtJM throe*!. urHMi ■*•& Tiny k* e •*v**.<>*■! *n ~nJ *<*,J Si-% \CF. TKit M i* OF SUBBCRIPTI^*. Hjl,W **>r vr.r ,!. jm : l in tl/an-*. Qtf&j >4 * 1? B*#t y sfd wlthL ■'/ ncn* n ** ** Jf r.ot paM u*'.. , l i v frd of r^-* TKRJVfOF ADVERTISING. 4 (cijjAi i!*v* Qr-t insertion, * * 00 TS*rh eaatinL&rier • •*•••■ >? Bu*a€*ff ? nrdd, rM €xo*tdin# * Mi.'*,;>• jr 5 “” f*T AN DING ADVKRTIBF.MEN r*. i r>jr’ overt to*, altev.itioj*, ... .$ iW) i * ** ** altopM T r>o 1 M “ “ * 12 ™ squares 14 * •* t •* • *. h 21 oo * u w •* •• * !*5 00 fr-3P'*.A‘Y*rtl?T2*TAi* rwt ozarked vfth th* number es inherit *o t ho ffoniinned until fbrtid, ah-! rhurprei aorordlngly. D-ugjris'.B, auJ >tLsrt*, -Aftr <*Ani**Ar for A Iyv*- kiffrig !>y th# year, on reaoo■**>< “OH, LST ME MY’fi TO KIUHT, MOTHER,” We give below the words of a charming song, which has boen put to music bv Mr. Traver, cf this city, and which has become a great favorite. The w.p.g is go woded to music and melody, that the words cling to the memory without effort —Es Oh, let me sing to-night, mother, That, song I used to sing, When nope v, as bright, and ray heart was light Asa bird upon the wing 1 I know thou'lt mis# the voice, mother. That warbled w ith the strain, But lot ms sing to-night, mtber. The dear old song again. But lot me sing to-night, mother, The dear old song again I know ‘twill bring sad thoughts, mother. Thy tears may fall like rain. For a loving eye and a fair young far.. Thou ne’er may’staee again. But I’d have thee send each tear, mother, Back to its secret cell, And let me sing to-night, mother, The song she loved so well. And let me stng to-night, mother. The song she loved so well. It will bring bright dreams to my heart, mother, Bright dreams of the joyous past. When hope, all rainbow htied, mother. Her halo around me cast. 1 know- the light grows dim, mother, But still 1 fondly cling To the bright dreams that com*, back, mother, With the song 1 used to sing. To the bright dream# that come back, mother. With the song I used to sing K*. I sing that song of joy, mother. Faith upward lifts it* eye,— Towards th* land of rest, mother, Where hope * an never die, Whore ties that strongly bind, mother May ne’er be riv’j. in twain; Where tears are dried, and the heart, mother, May never know sorrow aga*n Where tears ar*. dried, and the heart, mother, May never know sorrow again. Then let me sing to-night, mother. That dear old song of old, and pray when 1 sleep at last, mother By her aide all silent and cold, <>ur spirits may meet ne’er to part, mother. Where heaven-bom music ring, And our voice's be mingled there, mother, Ir the songs the angels sing And our voices be mingled there, mother. Ic the songs the angel* sing. Cgetctpcttutce* A FKW THOTf.HT* W THK LFqi'Oß TRAFFIC. Vy TttOft. J. WAKUK>\ Ir. tb*> !wvt place, ie the liquor traffic right? We ; ask thi vjili candor and ahwerit;., ktH h* pondered and awttvered accordingly. b'r urpart. wo are prepared to asawer it promptly, with ar. r-m ----phaticno. WV> ie a"rio to point to a single : r.stance’ ir. which ih*r* can b- shown a good reason for its r-intirxanco} Who is ab.c t. ah ns where this traffic ha? beuefittod tbe world, >r oonf* m-d the slightest gvod <w our ra-y eith” socially, morally, ‘< politically? far. w* find ir ti • wtwJ* length aad treadti. oi i this ••*)de, wide world,” H dug!* church, -chool bouae, or any worthy institution which the liquor traffic has aided in erecting? Nay; verity, the* 4l (,r- not to be seen a. the fruits of thin traffic. Not over, a enlitarv hoe pita! or asylum wear* ; ts spire upon the contribution of the liquor dealer.— No bouse of refuge, no pla <■ ir, provided for the myriads of hapless victim* which this r]*ntl<.-as curse has bequeathed to th world for its support * VVe look in vain for a single instance where this traffic, has aide-) U wards the pr motion of public <>r * bcnevclent enterprise*. >n the contrary, it ; t no toriously a.: i lamentably true; the amount >f capital employed in the manufacture, the value A the pro ducts consumed, the lai cr expended ;r* tb n dtstilla tion of liquors in this country, with the incidental and consequential outlay* of monies, would be apt Bfbotci) to fnnptrante, literature, (General IntfUigcncr, anb tjjt fattst flttos. pie t>> build our college* l and railroad* educate and feed, and make thrice t* n thousand homos happy, which ar< now ruined and desolate. Dear reader! fvn ov r tlo p'icio. of the W( cen- I eUS Os ttlCHf* rtiiUai State-;; rt ewltat th. ■ tStMUtticg i reveal, what fearful anti ippalling fart- ar>; these i that star, lie in th s-ve; ‘■ t ’t* fond the truth and I know the worst. j ■£lt?<'n ■mihivn’i, tirtit-aerer. tithun-irfi an-i slrty <ynr (ll,"t'-7,'it'il') hutshelt ‘j. earn ii* j - also true, that corn is soinctirnc- yearoo. Keen w<a, the very stall of life i. needed to support the emaciated and tottering frames of scores in South Carolina. Think of it; >m Vst friend converted into our deadliest enemy- corn msd- into poison! How much human sutli ring, starvation and death would this relieve and prevent! Nor is this all The truth-telling census exhibits to our astonished gaze another frightful figure Th~<i viilliona, ont hvn drd and forty- >hrx thnuecnu, ■■ i:u hundred and tieenty-eertn bethels of are also distilled We look agai The record shows us that 51,517 bushels of oats are consumed, with 521,840 bushels of apples; 3,787,1‘.i5 bushels of barley, 1,224 tone of Iv-V's; and 61,076 hhds. of molasses, all these eon surried in distilling and malting, the aggregate value of which, at averagr tiric, s, will not vary much from *>14,64.8,727. There is anoth r pnd a fearful thought brought to our minds by these statists -h, which shows us in figures that cunnct lie,, the aggravated and terrible enormity of this evil. It is the ratio of distilled grains compared with the grant it is grown, which, according to compulation is; “Os corn, 1 bushel distilled ir. every 54; of rye, 1 in every f>; of oats, 1 in 2,618; of barley, there is malted 3 bushels in 6. From these products are manufactured forty-two millions, one hundred and thirty-three thousand, nine hundred and fifty-five gallons of whisky; six millions, five hundred thousand, five hundred gal lons of rum; one million, seven hundred and seventy seven thousand nirt. hundred and seventy-four bar rels of ale.” “The aggregate value of these liquors at whole sale prices is estimated at $19,941,897.” Besides the above, there are made 221,221 gallons of wine, and an inconceivable amount of “bad li quors” that draw s heavily for their constituents upon domestic and foreign drugs in their manufacture, but which are not counted in the manufacture. In view of those, with ten thousand other start ling facts which, had w< time, might be easily ad duced, wo ask *br candid arid honest reader if he will not respond to the sentiment, that tho liquor I traffic is ? crr>r,q, all irro>"i, and ought in bo abol ished. Ha- not this liquor traffic injurutl the world in millions of cases? Does it not people our jails and 1 | penitentiaries with scores arid hundreds of misera- 1 hie victims whose hands and hearts are steeped in | crimes of the deepest dye? Another important j thought we desire just here to present. This system j of legalized wholesale destruction to human life and property docs not support itself, but relies upon tho people, the sovereign independent peoplo who are taxed for its support. Our contingent uccoc -it sta tistics warrants this assertion. No one can deny, but that drunkards are made by this traffic. If there were no tippling shops, we would have few, or no miserable specimens of de praved humanity ree ling in our streets, and found on our highways often in a .state of beastly intoxi cation, as it it— “ Pass where we may, thro’ city or thro’ town, j Village or hamlet, of this fairy lami, cv’ry twentieth pace { Conducts the unguarded no-.. p, such a whiff, ’ Os stale debauch, f .rth issuing from the sties, | That J .aw has licensed, as makes Temp’ranec reel.” 1 Why ought liquor dealers to bar.- special and re j served rights guaranteed ov the laws of the land, j which, in their daily operations, injure ai! other I'•lasses of the community; and -luce it is manifest I that almost all our eoeial and political troubles are j occasioned by ihi- legal;/’ and whol<t,!> mischief, why should the peop’u longer submit ir. rib-nco to a sys tem so grievou- and unjust? There can V no half right and half wrong m this matter. The traffic in ardent r-niritv either all right or jdi wrong. If it |is right, why are the trader in it Ur-<i for pursu mg it as a common avocation, the sain* as any oth~r j article of merchandize? It it b wrong, it ought to |li abolished Tic liquor laws f ..,uth Carolina : present a strange an unaly. If it is wrong to soil a ■ pint of poison nßt >ut a !>c< nsi. it ur< ly ought to ;be coR-idor u ju.-t as much -o to sell three gallons • with on. Strange legislation, that! Th* peot/le must take tnifc matter I.cum to their hearts and ex amine. es<h for him” ill and decide ujmr. the justice ir injurv which they receive from this miserable traffic. Lei u.- fri<*t.O, r-c*r • ’og'-tlnr I ook at .! the qn <tio:. lalriy and hor.estly, and as men who ■ J love their Country, ndeavor ‘e do all we eai to aljo'ish thi- v” - -t.] debasing. Ood-dishon >riag truffle I.et the - r,;i of ten thousand ff'-.oien l.e i heard i; the land from th lofty peak-* oi the l/’ie ridge to J.- aboard- low* iti! .? Ltocou , Taimc 4DO HO L—ITS I SF tilt IBI'SS || ur JOfIK BALBIRSrc, s. f). • ‘’ Krt'.r- it drink have been amongst civilized I ciety the u„,.> prolific source of its phy-ica;. a:-veil l|as it- inoral evil- Diseases that daughter more than ever fed victims to - word, famine and peg lik-Ti-1- combined, acknowledge thi* arigin. This i can \>e. made apparent to th*- -implest understands • ing. The sophisticated drinkers in question direct- PK\KIKLD, GEORGIA, SVFIRDAI, AUGUST 25, 1855. ly poison the spr>n,;s >f physical and mental health I - iht digestive apparatus and the brain; charging i tb*> blood with h gi cater quantity of extraneous i mature than can h> easily eliminated, and forcing their svpnration within the acopomy in the shape of various morbid depo.-iU Th. lacteals take up but a smalt portion of the fluids received into the ali mentary canal. The veins ami lymphatics of the stomach and intestines absorb a much greater ptirt. This i received into the general mass of tho venous I blood of the mewentery —the cornu*-.ting membrane i cf the bowels. Ml this blood has ro pass through , the liver —tho largest gland in tho body, ami the ] tm m frequently and easily disordered. Jlcnct the . liver receives the first impression of noxious drinks, i and retains it most permanently Ilenc. the indi gostion and billious attacks after a debauch: and the j organic alt* rations of the stomach and liver couse- i quent to long continued irritation from the excessive 1 us*> of ardent spirits, or fermented liquors. From i its delicate organization, th*’ brain is the next, organ i to receive and retain these morbid impression*. In- i toxicatioti, although beastly enough, is i mere tran- i sient result. Alcohol is easily detectable in the brain of those kilied when drunk. Not only is tho i nervous connexion between the brain nnd stomach i impaired by this nv-ans, but it.- mental and moral i perceptions arc equally blunted. The kidueys, as 1 ttw eliminators of morbid or effete elements from the Wood, are tlio next organs to feel and resent or- ; rors of diet and drink- -often jirndueing tho granu lar or mottle*! kidney. < Alcoholic drinks, lernu iited liquors, as well as me dicinal stimulants of all kinds, should only bo had recourse to on extremely rare occasions, and under circumstances of great exhaustion, when life appears sinking. They can never be taken with impunity in a stab of health. The nutritious ingredients in any, of over; th* best, of the liquors in question, are almost an infinitessimal element compared with the. noxious principle they contain. The temporary stimulus of organic activity, and ilia transient exhil aration of an animal feeling they produce, ir mista ken for thu acquisition of strength and nourishment. This fallacy has propagated u master evil over many climes, and throughout many generations—entail ing the ruin of countless myriads of tho ‘xist and brightest, as well as tho worst and dullest of the human specie-. We charitably ho|e*l that “the times of this ignorance, God winked at.” But in these days, to counsel alcoholic stimulant*, to feeble suckling mothers, and dyspeptic invalids, is inexcu sable. They may indeed, temporarily counteract exhaustion, rouse torpid nervous energy, and flog up languid vascular action, producing a glow in the stomach, or a draught, in the bosom, but they will fail to impart available nourishment. This facetious strength is soon succeeded by increased weakness, and a more imperious demand for a repetition of tho stimulant. The mischief does not hero; for the ordinary ibex fading to produce it- wonted effect, a deeper and a deeper draught becomes necessary, and at last lunges into a hat an often an incdntroll ahh passion. In other cases, vlicre the adminis tration of ’•vine 01 spirits is commonly supposed to bo justifiable; ir; persons exhausted by inordinate fatigue, it is better to allow tho y-b m to wait and want, till an interval of repos* gives time for the stomach to resume its activity; to otter the voice, and to take upon itself th< supply of the organic demands. The greatest and longest-continued efforts, txvth lof body and mind, art those made on simple diet • and unstimulating beverages. ’ Even without going tliq length of palpable futoxi | cation, the habitual indulgence in “strong drink,” produces chronic inflan.ruation of the stomach and duodenum, thickening of their mucous lining, in fraction of the glandular critic and drying up of their secretions; organic changes of th* liver, with obstruction of its bileducts; alteration of th* kid wyc. The heart, lungs, blood vessels, brain and norvus, become the seats of various disease; indu cing apoplexy at the head, and gangrene at tho ex tremities; shaking of the han i. and pais\ of the leg; epilepsy, delirium tremens, and lnsar.itn raving madness suieulicol despondency, or blank idiocy. It inducer pr**rnat.*r* and determines h habit i of body that renders fetal the sifnpkwt accidents of j wounds or fractures. It giv. sto its votary a greater | suacuptibillty to the impression of ordinary disease; ‘■ land imliecllity on (/wtertty. it shatter► the power* ’ lof th*- n* * t gifted intellect: i ‘■. tritr. On- vriw it ! r*< r\; r‘> the conscience; it render- <|uaily iowwle,s*( jto v :’! •r V’ *lo. it i nfib dike for tho struggles, or ; the sur “esses of life totrjHf a. Wis; or its weae It 1 n; nr a;’ pr.-vnt happiness ami blights oil future ’ pr'-pe ‘ta It entaile a!, one*, ftj’ ! *>- of chara-ter, and the ruir nf circumstanr. It iropel*. to .-very crii'i qar and prrsiuces reckles;:. -of iU commission. I i It dissolves th * ti*‘sot relatioiump. and extingutshns the claiu * **f humanity. It stimulates to murders, | robVs;rit*i, ificendiariu, arid riots It fiib oor pri . | ons, hvspitaU, asylums, -ti'l work-houses It has i even swept from the (/,., of tin earth entire trils.-s j jof men ft per ertn couritle*- hordes of th* grain : nature had giver, to- “*h<* stall of life” to mortals, i J into a means <>f -.*akrre**, and r engine of death! 1 So i are the tendencu • n lefii ‘1- of tfn- indul gence ir. iiiUjxicating liquors--such the ternanut to I which it foe ritab’y leads its rictiut Is there any i gnarantee agairr-t reaching’ ‘hia ttrminv* by Utoae ! who one’ set foot upon th* latai rail- that lead to it? Vi, habitual medicine *r beverage ol the kls.vs na ‘ lure, who-*- limits of moderation and ex* c*w cannot >.c d’ rm-1 and when therefore, tras sgremian must Miry, in Ircst not to l *e tampered with. The im , me*!iate, entire, ami linai cesmaticm of its use is the 1 only salvation for the weak, and the only forth** strong Id the veriest i.k thisnbandonmeni is •>’** , and, if not hi youd retrieve, will cusure th* apoedy return S’ health, nf peace, and *>f prosperitv. Selecticmtf* TUB H HITE BOSE. HV VIUOtNU r. ItiWNSKNn. She wkk u sweet child, little Kntta Willis, and her faceahonn like some rarv old picture out of its world of golden hair, and her young widow od mother fold ed her to her heart, and blessed the gn at father that Nona’s hair and eyes w ere like those that had lain ever since, the early June time under thu white shroud plaits. “Look, mamma, its leaves are beginning to unfold, and it w ill he entirely opened by New Year’s night, so that I can wear it to Helen’s rurty,” and Fnna lifted her lair fare, eager from the flower, whose snowy petals were just, breaking through their sheath of groen That w inter rosebush was a girt fryun En na’.s father, and it whk his last on* No wonder the child loved it. “Yea, darting, you shall wear it, twitted right here in this bunch of curia,** and the small fingers lifted the bright tresses from Knna’s forehead, while the mother’s pensive features retlceied so*newhnt of the light in her child’s. Every day, every hour, Emm watched It a,* ,r mi ser watches his gold. Every day the large creamy looking petals curb’d outwards, and lay in exquisite contract with the world of green leaves amid which tho flower’s beautiful life was opening. “Do you want to come in and see my rose, little boy r” Anna was returning from echo'd that afternoon when her eyes first, rested upon the child. He w.is standing before the window in whose embrasure the mother had placed the exot**’, that the pale winter sunbeam.* might grant it n brief visit The tcry’s large, mournful eyes w civ fastened • aeerly on tho large blossom, for it was now only two days before New Year’s. Hie clothes were greatly worn and patched with many colors, hut Kuna did rmt mind tlit--nlie only saw the eager light i” those large brown eyes. “Then you love flowery dr, you, nry ■•hiltl?” said Knna’s mother, in h**r soft tones, as they all three stood Irefore the plant “fflr! y on, ma’am ; but not so well as Mary does. I was thinking when f stood out there on tho pave ment, looking at it, if Mary could only ace it!” “Who is Mary V Han’t you bring her hero?” ask ed Erins, eagerly. “No!” said the boy, shaking his head mournftfliy. “Mary is my si star, and she is sick Mamma says she* cannot live much longer, and at night, in her dreams, she, tulks so much about tin w hit* roses that grow so thick in the low meadows; just west of where wc used to live. They wore just Hk those, and Marv usnd to weave wreaths of thi rn< very May. Oh, dear, if she could only see it!” “Mamma,” whispered Knnn, whilst her blue eyes were inois’ with tears, and she pulled her mother’s dress, “please give the rose to the little buy ft r his bick sister ; I do not want it new.” “My good child,” and tho mother's tremulous lips dropped to Eona’** forehead, “i * *.i will reward you for this I” “F)o you mean ft ma’am —do you really mean that I I shall take thin to Mary?” questioned thu child, 1 while his deep > y e* grow rnrhant with joy, tic Mrs. i Willia platted the precious branch in his hand.-- i “Oh ! how glad who will he,” and t the thought of his sister s great delight, the little heart gave away, and the tears dashed over the Ixiy’s hruwn lushes It was New Year’s night. Very beautiful looked Finns Willis in her pink dress and shining hair, amid wh’oh her nmtlier'e tasteful fingers had entwined a few green leaves, na nhi put, up her little ripe lips for a parting kin*, before she started for her school mate’s soiree. At that moment th<- door opened, and the, little stranger entered, flic face was very whits as he glided up to Mrs. Willis and “aid, “Mary is dying, and rh ha ■ ut for the little girl who gave her the white rose Pleas'*, ma'am, may i sl*e rotnc , and you will com': with her ?” | “I’ve brought them, Mary, fvt brought them!” (cried the lw>\ • agorly, as h<: ushered his gu, sts into * the chaielr. r, where the light flickered with a strange, wan smile over the barn walls and tie old chairs - A pale, grief-worn woman tottered forward, and led them toward n bed it, one c< rt :r. The tick child j lifted her head. It •was. a v .ry beautiful out:, with its brrv rt hair and bide ‘ye , hut *.hi u-ub ’’’lll vas on it. “Co’/ic nenr< r,” t*b* cried faintly, ‘fot “Otnehow !my ey*s> are grev. r; ‘Wind ‘* *od the Tittle cold f'n i gors cls-cd round Flrmti’r “I held ft. all day, and at’ J night I went to t-fte.p with it in toy? and Venter'lav ! j the I aves dropped away, ‘ait an ang,.l nuir to rnc ! t and said. ‘Don't cry for the rose, Mary. In a little I iwh’V you <j:ial! cowo ■ /itb me, and gather fairer tones.’ Oh’ I v.o then., I see tFcm 1” and the light I surged once more into th* ■ blue eyes, o.nd lightened tup the rigid n atur .- with exceeding glorv “They ‘am growing there, thousands and thousands of them, j ‘by a m-eat. ..hiring river, and ‘M‘ angel standi there, [and its white robe flows in great sK’niug billows to tits feet Mother, Charts., good-by-*? Little girl,for j that row you gave m* 1 w : !l weave you a crown of \ those thai bloHooai up there. Thy are larger and fairer, and i will have it reedy when, you come, and .yon shall wear it. in that bright world ” i The brown head sank baik, the light went out, i fn.rr, th"so bright eyes and Mary had gone to braid ; Enna’s rose-wreath in the great meadow ‘ands of . , MK..U) you •"“ “♦ VOL XXI.-MMBER 34. 0 .SPARE THOSE LITTLE BIRDS. When a lad, r small light gun was given me ’ For several days I gloated over it with delight. One evening I went alone with it into the fields; a very small and pretty bird, a blue cap, was hopping nisi twittering on a bush in all the innoeenco and sport ivvness of paradisical life. T drew near, I holi* v - within five or six feet, admiring the beauty of it* form and dress, its sprightliness, and the apparent confidence with which it turned its little eyes upon me. I was conscious it would bo wrong wantonly or for the purpose of testing my skill, to slay it; yet I fired. Picking up the lacerated and expiring tic tim, I felt very much liko a murderer. I had taken away life without a murderer’s motive. Its bleed ing image haunted me for several days, and also that nf its mate, which flew alarmed from an ad joining bramble. Simply ns a piece of mechanism, of which tho combined efforts of tho moat ingenious of men through all time can never produce the like—so wonderful in contrivance, construction and move- . merits - thus, ruthlessly and without cause, to de stroy it was nn offence against heaven, an insult to •he Divine Artificer. But as an organism, sensitive to pleasure and pain, possessing affections, and moreover not only harmless, hut belonging to tribes whose habits and instincts lend them to protect tho crops of the husbandman from tho ravages of in sects- an active benefactor to our species, and ono of tho most charming ornaments ol our planet— to draw near, assassin-like, and barbarously terminate its useful labors ami its happiness, was purely wicked. W hat go*Hi did its death bring rue? Its disfigured Isxli was of no use and would goon become putrid and loathsome. While delighting itself as in tho I effulgence of F,il*'ti, 1 had done, what it is doubtful if any demon would deliberately do -destroyed it by a blast of what has been likened to “tho fire of bell ” I never friot another bird. I wish those lads who an daily roving through field*, and highways bringing down everything their guns can reach, would pause and reflect, and cease to kill little birds for the mere pleasure of killing them, often throw ing them away as soon as shot, nnd sometimes not even picking them up. Let young nportmen learn to subdue their animal by their rational instincts, and not commit, from im pulse or for a fugitive gratification, nets which can not Ik* dwelt r. n in after life with satisfaction, if with out pain. J would respectfully suggest to ministers of our churches an occasional Sabbath or week day lecture on our relationship to the lower tribes. They who lov (iod love his w orks. Many wise ami good men have taught that animal’ will live ngain and be re warded for their suffering here. Whether this be so or not, there is no doubt that wc shall have to ac count for our ill-treatment of them. Would that we had “an appeal in behalf of littlu birds” in a dozen tra* ts by a- ninny reverend authors! V more appropriate and sweetly influential subject could not well lit- taken up. The pretty visitors would re turn to our yards and gardens and dear buds and blossoms of weevils THE DINOBEDIENT BOY. On*ss th’ r< was a little boy named Johnson, and hia father told him not to ride anew pony that he hnd bought, because he had a great many hud tricks, and might throw him. Johnny’ mamma had ju.-t made him a beautiful new suit of clothe*, a blue jacket with hilvcr buttons, and a pair of white linen pantaloon*. Johnny’s mamma wanted to take him out to visit, but he was so naughty ae to tell flic coachman tc saddle the pony, because his father told him ho could ride, but this was not true. Tho old coachman told him that he had bolter not go, but h** would, and in truth he looked very grand with his new clothes on, seated on the pony and prancing down the street Johnny went on very well until some bad boys in the street popped a whip right under tho horse's head, and off ho ran. Poor Johnny held on bravely, but it would not do. Just an they came to a oft muddy place the pony gave a hard jerk, pitchiug Johnny into the mud, and spoiling his fine clothes, b<“*iden frightening him ilrcadfulljr, but not hurting him. ■When the coachman saw the hors; come hack without Johnny ho was terribly scared, and ail the n**ighl*ors helped to luoP for him, far they thought ho might be injured very much, or perhaps dead, but they met him coming homo, looking worse than a chimney-sweeper, and they v ere not sorry for him at all, because they kn* w how disobedient he hud hem. Tb'-n his father shut him up in his study for a whole ‘day, and aold the pony that he had meant to keep ! until Johnny w as older, and his mother kept his soil ,and clothes, and whenever he wanted to be disobedi- I out, his mother would point to them and ...ay, “Re member your ride, Johnny.” THE HOI'SE OF GOD. The glory of a sacred edifice lies not in its vaulted i roof, and lofty spire, and pealing organ, but in the ! glory that fills the house —the divine presence; not ’ in its fabric of goodly atones, but in its living stones, polished by the hand of the Spirit; not in its point jod window hut in its Gospel light; not iri its choir -of singing men and of s nging women, but in the ’ music of well tuned hearts; not in its sacred priest i hood, but in the great High Priest. If every stone j were a diamond, and every beam of cedar, every ; w indow a crystal, and every door a pearl; if the roof ’ Wt . r ech„M~* .*■““ * unii ■iiMiiiiiii I i"i i 1 ‘ J JAMES T. BLAIN, ‘( PUIWTT-.K.