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‘ f (If Tfi'r a,3]; ft M 8 Lv-L .. ! J-u-DJ J. H. SEALS, ) AMD \ i:nirms. E. A. STEED, ) m\ m\\% mi,. i. THE TEMPERANCE BANNER, I’m IS|IKI> KVKKY .SATE KRAY EXCEPT TWO IN TUt YKAK, BY JOHN H. SEALS. Tli iIANNEII has a Urge circulation, which is daily in oreas’.ug, and bids fnir to hccouic the most popular paper in the *uth. It is offered, with confidence, (winff to its circulation be lie so tr- neral,) t*> Merchants, Mechanic*, and Professional men, as an ADVERTISING MEDIUM through which their business may he extended in this and a<ljoining States. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. ♦ 1,00 per annum, if paid in advance. ♦ 1,50 “ “ if not paid within aix months. ♦4,00 “ “ if not paid until the end of the year. TERMS OF ADVERTISING. I square, (eight lines or less,) first insertion, ♦ 1 00 Each continuance, 50 Professional or Business Cards, not exceeding 5 lines, pr yr 5 00 S T WRING ADVERTISEMENTS. 1 square three months, without alteration, f 5 00 1 “ six “ altered quarterly, 700 1 44 twelve “ 44 “ 12 DO 2 square* “ 44 44 “ 18 00 3 “ “ 44 “ •* 21 00 4 “ 44 “ 44 44 25 00 \d vm ; H meuts not marke<i with the number of insertions, will he continued until forbid, and charged accordingly. Merchants, Druggists, and others, may contract for alver tisiug by the year, on reasonable terms. From the Louisville Journal. “0— ••W II % T IN T 1C I TII . ” Go search yon classic tome. Where genius finds a home, For truth that jewel fair, And as thy lamp grows dim, ‘Neath midnight shadows grim, Confess it is not there. Go search the hoary deep, Where myriad beauties sleep, 15y mortal eye unseen. See if proud ocean’s caves, Beneath the dark blue waves, Furnish that gem serene. Go search in yonder field, Where beauteous llewrcts yield fheir sweet and rich perfumes. Go ope their petals fair, Alas! not there, not there, The brilliant truth-rose blooms. Go search the radiant mine, Perchance its depths enshrine That priceless jewel there. Alas! though gems they hide Where sable shadows gfule, They hide no gem so rare. Go search the works of art, Where genius gives the heart The friends of years gone by; The marble rears its head Above the silent dead, But truth ne’er meets the eye. Go search the seraph’s home Beyond the star-lit dome Where rolls the tide of song. There Truth above earth’s gloom, Rich in immortal bloom, Dwells ’mid the shining throng. Julius. Henderson, Ky., August 2G. filE TIDE OF DEATH, —o — ROBERT SI. CHARLTON. — o — tide rolls on, —the tide rolls on, — The never ceasing tide, That sweeps the pleasures from our hearts Trie loved ones from our side! That brings afflictions to our lot, And anguish and despair, And bears from youth’s unruffled brow The charms that linger there. The tide rolls on! wave after wave, Its swelling waters flow: Before it, all is bright and fair; Behind it all is woe! The infant from its mother’s breast, The gay ami blooming bride, Are swept away, and borne along By that resistless tide. The tide rolls on! the soldier’s eye Grows dim beneath its swell; The scholar shuns the mystic lore That he hath loved so well; Tin monarch puts the crown aside, The laborer’s weary slave, Rejoices that his limbs will know The quiet of the grave. The tide rolls on! like summer brook, It glidcth to the sad; But liki* dark winter’s angry tide, It rusheth to tiic glad. From kingly hull and lowlv cot. From battle field and hearth, It sweeps into oblivion’s sea. The dwellers on the earth. Roll o;, thou dark and turbid wave! Thou canst not bear away The records of the good and Brave, That kuoceth not decay; Though ti. rce may rush thy billow’s strife Though deep thy current be, Stib faitii s lull iift thy beacon high, And guide us through the sea. a a i v i; n . 0 So cairn, th waters scarcely seemed to stray, And yet they slide, like happiness, away. Bcbotei) to Cempfi ;aut, intelligence, anti the latest Httos. ii o o i*! it t it >: in! PREFACE Things as they are. Vire la fih'irn. INTRODUCTION. Reader, allow me to introduce you to Mis - Bland. Cerceau. CHAPTER !. And I waited in the drawing room, lii ! I t i>ii : lit my hair would grow grey before she \vi u; ! a| , ar. The carriage was at the door and it was a bitter cold night—l could hear the coachman mi ingitig and .- . j ping his arms to keep his hands w arm. I had wound up the musical box for excitement, and listened t itssoulless jingle for occupation : I had mad,’ 1 1 w lit th-King Charles Spaniel stand on his hind ire tii! be began to think that was his normal position. I tried with my right hand to coax “Uncle Ned’’ , it of the piano—much to the chagrin of lha‘ , iand ins!ru rnent, whose mission was classics! -e e 1 b* ,i a retreat from the realm of sweet sounds t<> t it ,1 sweet feelings—my patent leather hoots wci awful tight. In blissful agony I heard, at last, the oil ing of a door, a musical laugh the rustle of silk and there before me, just giving the last ti !,t nh to her glove-lace—was Blanche Cerceau Fu -h a seraphic smile, such a conning voice “And did I keep him waiting? ti , dear little A thm ! And did he grow fretful ?” “In the lexicon of Politeness which Fate has oi dained for a bright man of the world, there is no such word as Fretful?” I nnswerod. I had been studying this answer for two hours Bulwer gave the lesson. As I replied my eyes fi ll on the hall cos tume of Blanche. The Pyramids of Cgvpt were ev idently intended to be represented by that tin ss, In l head the apex and the bottom of her skirt the base. I had to open my eyes twice to take in the full cir- j cmnfcrencc, there was no end to that lower hoop ! : “Can she get out of the front door” -thought i;l “granted, yet can she get into the carriage? Hadn’t she better ride outside with t e driver. ’’ 1 mild’ asked her this last thought. She answered. “Never, dear Arthur—on such anight as this. Ride inside, only put your leet upon the cushions ; ! then T can stand up.” “Kind-hearted Blanche,’’ thought I —what. ac.ri j (ices you make for oi yon I entered the carri • age first—it was not gallan’, nut then she insisted |on it! Then, she came in how I ean’t te'l, but she j did it. And standing up lik- a Hippodrome girl in her chariot and holding on to the hand strap - off we started to attend Madame llavencourt’.s grand Dull. ciiai*ti:i: it. 1 It was a full hou- i, wild have gladdened i the heart of a prima dona and, i!:n i head. Through I the crush of human be 1 ,1 onward with Blanche, once only 1 thou,.. w . all up with th whalebones, hut we g< ttl ■■■■. ■ -a litis binl hut still elastic; occasional . ---i ( epthc skirts round till I saw i uty <•/. • •<--// tiny feet, aud her figure liem, u di ciei hell cut in two —but ‘ he wave sw ■; 1 • - the pyramid was a [ pyramid. “Will you waltz?” I said , lit r a- the music sounded. “Oh, no! I never waltz now !” “Confound those hoops,” thought 1. But vw ‘did’ a quadrille—very easily. Only two steps and tin figure wes complete—an awkward step from the gen tleman vis-a-vis and rip went tie ladv’ l.irt’ <fec.—then came apologies, retreat to lie. ,'.: b room—repairs impossible—had to send horn o the carriage—and instead of having - splen.J, cm Blanche and I—she sat down on tin scat now, and 1 took her deal little gloved hand in min -and uu i connotation into her heart rode Jhuiw i>< f<*i o’clock. Oh, horrors! CHAPTER 111. In a few days Blanche and 1 will b .nan and. Hoop, Hurrah ! The wedding line I wish itu:: sonic other shape, it remind me so much of h —now lies on my table. And that cart-load of u’ ah bone I saw- going into her hou one da-, laid week “Blanche,” said I, “is tlier, an umbrella toauuf tor. near you?”—reminds me that the brid and dre- --< la Pyramids of Egypt—are bring Built. Blanche hasn't been to church for the month.-: owing to the narrowness of the n> - , and the width of her hoops. CHAPTER IV. And I sit dow non my artn-ciia and wu 1 r jf such things can he possible, and if—what was, w, s right. And I’ve form: to th- • clu.-: iP at ■ y thing is that is. “My wedding day! Now, b j quized, “you can only go thiough Hus • •••’!• t once in your life—three or four times at the outside Ju>t raise the w indow and .ee it then, are my or. sual operations going on in the heaven ah, e, or u the garden below, or over in the m prhborf. ho * the other side of the street. Nothing! Ih-inatu ■ is'inauspicious, t her, ill- s i„w In-day where!“ Prophetic words!- -we w • 1 ■■■- i! ‘ church t'n g ramie tew, n’ ten ~ ck ‘• m ing. Tin- hour came, catri ii r,d- ■ - with it: we went to the ch i. WT walked up to the door—sim- door-—v ry aai: bride couldn’t get through—couldn't gc into chur h. Hoops too large. door too n.;tiJ. 1 grew as :<-d ri the face as a boiled lobster. ‘‘Put he t. .rough * ’gasped—confused, agitated aod vulgar j “Sir-r-r!” said Btanchi “Mich la goaf and •• a time!” We re-entered the can .age, ditto the friend.-, then i returned to the brides house, and then I Arthur \rnmw i.i, m. (VBii.ik!, !,■ ue ivefwvcd a foirnul dismissal. 1g u the sack, M'lle Blau, he Cyiyeau retains the hoops. Shall 1 not wii|e— Things as (liey are ! Tiic Ui Bizarre ! r,\sff\i\cELs. Twilight was deepening into night ; still, beauti ful, holy night. The wann, rosy lights that had pkiy-d about the west, tlickei -d and failed, and went out. The shadows that skiUtaUhe old f.ireiM, length en,'<l, and blended together, and crept out further and furthei, till they lay still and hushed over ovorv thimr; and the night w ind stole out shutting the rose and swinging it to sleep in its green cradle, making the shadows dance and quiver and the voting leaves whisper dreamily, as if the Kays In hi carnival among them. One by one the sentinel stars came forth and li’on* the tar oil w ails of sapphire, kept their watch •ver the dwellers of earth. Into every bosom their radiant e\,s looked down, and the secrets of all hearts were open,to them, t’liildhood, with its pas-innate dreaiuings, ail glory clad; manhood with (lie nicm u ics of Blossoms crushed, and idols broken, dashing back the Past that walks like a phantom in the foot steps, and wildly calling to the Future; and old age, with palsied heart and hushed pulse, kneeling calm ly at the graves of his youth and manhood, waiting the beckoning of the w hile-hi-nw ed angel that mor tals call deal'll. In a quiet chamber, where tin curtains waved gently to and fro in the wind, as it shook out the “dors from the night-blooming (lowers, and Imre them into the room, a young girl lay dying passing lowly through that strange transition b\ which this germ of immortality within, bursts from its cement of clay, and expands into the beauty of an niiinr ai tliilie llow’cr. It was hut ‘comm n lot’ that was up on her. We have all marked it often, and know how thcslcop steals over the body, shutting tin eyes that will never again look through tears, stiffening the gentle lip that will never again quiver to some si uni that shakes the heart’s strings, set ting a seal of p.-ac on the brow where the head of sorrow* u til never more be laid. We have marked, too, how sonietimei just w hen the soul is passing, it seems m look hack IV,mi the Spirit-land, and utti r some thrillin- word, that will dwell forever in the hearts that catch the sound. I have said oursisti r wasslying. H>■ <lo im-,1 ~ i ; already dead, yet we feared to turn our eyes from the | young sleeper, lest the angels should hear her from ,ur sight. She looked so like a glorified seraph, seemed so free from the blight of earth, she surely needed hut white pinions to make her as the slide . ones. But suddenly, as we eazod, what a change | came over her! Slowly thu white lids lifted, her face glowed with such a heavenly radiance ns if the : freed Spirit, all bathed in the glory oft he upper tem ple, had come hack to its tenement.’ again. How ■ agvily we listened, twill she not speak to us; and with hushed In-itHs we watched foi but a sign oi to < ii. I hall Bo with you when the stars brighten. Lids was all .41, said, and her lips were silent for ce r. A vars have passed since that sister faded from our sight, and the moonlight that first slept upon he r grave, now falls upon others that have gathered around it. Under the green turf by her side, we nave thrice ‘buried our dead out of our sight.’ Two ! with blight sunny hair, aud untamed laughter in ! their eves, and uric with white lo l,s like a crown of .•tors about in’s brow. We have-ooften looked info ,yi that death was darkening that w< have censed ,y farewell, and only whisper as we were wont do mound the hearthstone, ‘goodnight.’ \nd vi.r as the night conn-- over the lolls, we remember i. ..,.riis of our early called -"I shall be with you w !.< ii tin tars In ighlen.” Who shall say she is: not \ith i: ? Whet: the beautiful arc pa ing from our homes and heal t-, leaving us only mocking memo ries of the loved and lust, who shall say that, as un seen angels, they never hovei round uN?— for many a | weary form hail long sin<-< found the deep shelter of I tin. grave, hail no white wine fanned it when it f. int- and , lilt life’s fever. Many an eye had cloned in j de-paw. had it not sometime.’ •well, through its night : of deep desolation, how loving eyes looked down up on it. Many a so ndet foot had stumbled o’er its rough pathway, hut for invisible hands that guided jit gently over the dark places, j “W< ey dimly through the mists and vapors, Amid these earthly damps.” But if we might for a moment, lift the veil from air tv< , wo should find that heirs of mortality are j not th” only dweller- here. Oh, heaven is not far toll', but very, very mar, and the angels are all about u ■. — .'l mi riaiii Si: n tin el. -♦ ‘O’ *- PfiHSI RII'TItA. I’liy-i'-iati! kev.au how you pu..setibe. Yonder ‘• ■ ‘ a p u degiadcd i •• of lii- Maker, bloated, ’ and n.V'h Dead to-very sense of virtue. Physi cian! that o’ A. -in.-lie at your door. It was you! who pt< <ii!i-d the -timuhis. You were aware that t . -.a a ‘•■elaimed druekaid, and why did ye pre- M, ; iou were awai that long ago he took to hi-bosom a delicate female as wife. Fora while -• 1 v nt Lo try as a rnarriag’ hell,” hut at last the O'."’ • < a me, and oil that vas Bright w a-blast'd, I . ■ a-t.eautiful d<-t'oy-d. And then through ■bos’ rl-rk clouds came a heath of sunshine. Th< good at gel hovered over tin abode of poverty, and led tie fallen hack once more to the paths of recti tude. And there was rejoicing n Heaven, and hap pin- o:i earth. The wife strok-d again in love on the partner oft her bosom. The little offspring ho longer shr ink in rat the approach of their parent .ed protector. But such happim , could not last. The evil spirit still lingered, and at last gained the UMSterv Disease v-ucil the ,-\ re- <■ “, i Death was .•ttheriug in it. vicii Ii great M umi'liiig car, tin w heels of disease > cut rolling on i ward, sweeping oil’the !m. don and cherished. | Physician it was you who prescribed. Oh, why did you do it? Better for tin ■se delicate ones, hud the hand of death robbed them of him who now reels a bloated, drunken sot v cs! for now- the p’ril has censed to strive, and nothing but a yawning hell await, him! Oh,Physician ! irhy it hi’j/oii firi st'ribe? Spirit i t’ tin It/- . “I*l!:it YESTKRUIV,” i t Every day is written in this little - ntence: “Died yesterday ,so ami so “ Kvery day a (lower is pluck | 0.l Irom some sunny home i luciteh made in some happy ciich a jeyyn 1 stub n front some treasury of j love. Each day from the slimmer fields . f life, some | sentinel fulls from his post, and thrown from the ram liris of time into the surging u aleis of eternity. Even as we w rite, the funeral of one who “died yes terday,” winds like a shadow along the street. “Died \ e terrify Who died? Pet hups it yvasn ttentlc babe, inless a- an angel plttc ns the zephyr's hymn- “tie lres’ laugh was as the gn- !i of snmmor's rills loiterii": in a hoyvet of rose. whose'little life was a perpetual litany, a May lim • eiowm and with the passion flowers that never fade. Or may hap it was a youth, hopeful and generous- a serpent lurking niiuet i.e it h one yv hose soul panted alter toni in union with the “.real ami good, and leached forth with earnest struggle lor the guerdon in the di: t in c. But that heart of his is still now, for “lie died yen terdny.” “Did y esterday.” Wining girl pure as the or tU'.ce floyvets that clasped lu-r forehead, yvas stricken down, as she stood at the altar; and from the dull aisles of the temple, she was Imru to the “garden of the slunib’ rurs. A tall, brown man, giil with the luil * i ol y iet oi y, and the days eh sc under Ins nyyn viti and tig lice. I*ll in the (lust, ever a tin anthem j irumbled on his lips; ami In, too, was laid “where tin null’ Ihrt lathers of the hamlet sleep.” All ngi and palrian h lmuei| with iigi amliarccv n |a> he looked ii[on the di-tant hills flu (he coming’ . • the angel host, sank into a dreamless dumber; at *! on hi . door po-t :'■■>.t day vy a written, Died y,. J terdny.” “Died yesterday. Daily, men, w omen timl child ren are p'l sin 1 cyy ay, and hourly u* nnu raveyard the soil is Hung upon the dead. As often a the lll*n n we flnil some flow er that blushed .-.w cully i . tin sun ■et, lia w itlioied up forever. S* daily, k* uu*■i i. e from the hivouae to slinul against mil o-t, ,ue mi s some brother soldier yvh<• <dieu t i ih , snd struggles ot the past ha been I, from In .\- veil upon our hem i . Each day some pearl drops I? in th .! ~. ~] of friendship- some lyre to wl.:< h yy<> h- .. * nit to listen has been hushed forever. ;. | ~ |, wlio mourns not the p. ail ami mu i* IF| , |,| w ith him shall pa ayvay a.-: uu eastern miiow It m the hill , and death he a triumph and , gain. li"M Mi l!III!IIS. Thu year, one thoiisind eight huudn <! -1111111111 1 live, has he* 11 remark able lor tin- uu L< t oi > (1 i instigated by the 1* uinii rmu. h. i.l .. ,< m m honest soul in hi bo-oni li.ok ori the bloody id, and then defend th- i iiin-lieiul in hi unholy work with in iiribhiHlling ch k, ifhedar* What a dark cloud of crime loom, up over a , ;i ----tion tolerating the curse’ Men l,avi h e.u transform ed into devils and human hand m,me with 111111 tiered blood. The forbearing pcup|, |, |t-ii <J tin* criminals, [itinighcd them with the;., .din affixed U> broken laws, and calmly foot and tuc bql ofeo.-ts and we would k wbnt ptib 1 !* benefit have- amie-d from this? What i.hm bi n -aiie d? Ftesh Blood daily ■ nds up an unholy in* . us (: f rOMI ruin’s dotted and gory alt.-u . ‘I he ga11,,-.-, a and the prison cel) is fast Becoming a p<miliar institution ol our Boaitted count!y. Th* , -diidcil ho.pital is not more e -.milial I 1 the e astern I’l.r -uc than the dun geon to Bum in gb.riou . t kilumb.a ! Heatheils, who have never heard of the Nazartno and II (io.pd might plead an cx,-m f r customs a , infernal as the law-of rum; but. t'hi’ tian da 1 Worae titan all, Statesmen fGod av, tin mark!; stand in the dark shadow of gallows anil dungeon and di course valoroiislv about “loan’ inalienable rights’’ and the value in gold of rum in commerce! Thin Wisdom of God teach l u- that man is of tnoe i value to He, kingdom than all the ■ parrovva ol tin , for- I and field Dome ‘ogio • argue liistily to prove j tliM mm ■ from the ame pot that held the wine of! j ( 'ana. a lid ib-yn by tar to man tin ’ the in ten ts of tlii world and lie glory of the iu-x’ Horne, hearts, human lit-, health and happine must all he mown down to fe-1 the cousii'niiig tires of licens’ and hells above tie- tm 1 ! But a star ahov the political horizon gives proin j i •of a better day. 1 iehds in human shape shall riot ale ayu gorge upon human blood bec.lll c they have • orn to “moral character.” God speed the dav when tie aenllcial altar ■ -hall he broken! /-,’ A I'KOVIDE.YT COUPLE. A p'r , w 1 -‘'.rig from Fan Franc; co to th N< •• port New gi-e the following incident : “'1 wo common looking |.ers<m ; entered the bote! thi mornitig, just from the mines a man arid w if.-. The male individual looking for tin- world hkc ad y lahoicr, arid the female Bore aelos.- reseinblarice to no Irish -< u!lion. Sin wore coarse, vulgar hrogvns, and to her gird! wa att !.■ t a gold vvatcti aid chain, valued at least two hundred dollar . 11 - hu-band left the hotel for half an hour, and return and with a r"cipt for one hundred and fifteen thousand VOL XXi.-MIMBER 50. fhc vnluu ot the ilm-t which hehadju t con signed for transportation to New York. This sum has been gained by digging. The husband dug while the w it e vy as!led, a.-.- rated by her little son, aged abortt ton years. S***'*- IVII \ r IS PLEASISU. It is phasing t.. sm a yyomaii treading the path w a v Ot life, discarding neither its sunshine nor its storms •hut keeping ever on in tire path ofstfwightforw ard holiness and duty, neither turniii” to the right nor to the left, find utterly iwgardlers of all but the right, and for that sacrificing every pleasure and enjovnn nl. \\ hat i more piaiseuorthy and noble in the anna’ . ot historical woilhinc than a true h* arted wotnati A hat is more entitled to the regards ofte-ti, and t * their love, than a tl’Ui wouraii ? i here ar women, w ho, from their cradles to their graves, lead livn 1 of unspotted purity and religious tiolim-s , though the world may not ho aware of the fact; they live and die heroines of endurance. Though they receive 110 praises from men no r. ward in this cold and s-Hish world, their 1 cconipeiise in the world to come shall be ti thousniul fold, their place beside ‘he brightest angels. Let this couilorliiig assurance tjo home t,. the hearts oi'UioM’ who may Icel inclined to pcrniii a S) .l it of despomleney to creep over their isidated le al c ‘ ■ 1 11 Gut “hold out faithfltl to the eti.l, 1 ’ an 1 the 1 1 i:-.| ..!i.u', he great. - hl'cfimii/c. FOl'kltV, I’rent ice, of tl. I. .lofinsl, thus 1, , i,, Ropery, w ithout mittens; 1 lonian I ’on tills arc known to be both Kings ami I’ric.-t . 1 hey unite with the t IGo unjuTtu! dia dem. They hold the spiritual ord o| Jesus the temporal sword oi < and loth the keys of St. I'eter. \\ ith the two .swot they 1 avc cloven down tie pit itual ami temporal rights of mankind. With tin two key;, they haul locked up heave y and open ed heft They have disposed of crowns and king doms, lorded for twelve centuries over God’s hcrit age, and gotten drunk on tin blond of the saints. Their ire ipte ami their practice, have ever been ! destructive to tiie civil nod religious rights of man kind. The mo ! atnpii title has been afforded the the tr ial of Popery Alter a reign in Italy for twelve or fill, en centimes, no good fruit has ever been home. I’l'i e* loin of thought, of ’ li, and of n ligi.m,., wor ship, i . crushed in the very s. it of empire. On he own dunghill and at Ids own home, the head oft! hierarehy tliocl. at the sacred rights of mankind, lie rc-tiictN and punishes them systematically, pu poselv, and avow edly upon the pi imspies of his n i; nous <■ > 1 point ion. Noprid . Mir of his has ever and ‘in otherui ,o through ag* , upon ages, H the long ii* - -.fsovereign despots wen truly commissioned •> Jc im im th.; hend of Hi ( hurch, (lu-n Popery is diviim, the Declaration of Independence is a lie, ami the <'onvtitutimi of America arc usurpations on the divine 1 ‘hi ‘of tin. king. If the principles of our i lon -litui ion are cornet, every P.. ( al Pontiff’ h.m •nam< ro usurper and a tyrant. No trug Ameri ■ .in can love and revere the diameter of a Pontlfleinl tyrant; nor can the heart make a distinction be tv en he kingly and his priestly nature. If the kintdy part of him were beheaded, the priestly part w uldhardl. he. spared It is irnporsiliJe. to del.s-t and pay homage to the same person. W annotn yen in man the prie: f, while w< hate the tyrant the anetity of the despot.” \-9T I'Bc follow tig iuel'lenee i rclat and ..f tie Int, Mi. Webster’s courtship He was then a young lawyer in Portsmouth, .V 11. \t one of hi- veils to M: - Grace Eh teher, h had, pi ably with view of combining utility and enjoyment, hem hojding skeins of silk thread for her, when suddenly he stop ped, saying, ‘Gra- e wo have thun been me.-.ged in tiring knots; let. 11 -ee if we can tie a knot, one which will not untie for a lifetime.’ lb then took a piece of tape, and, after beginning a knot ~| pecul iar kind, gave it to hr to comp! !- Thi ..as tlie ceremony and rai.ili* alien of their engage lie it. And now in a little box, trunk* 1 b. him with th words ‘Precious IFnni'i.cot I, ’ :<.uia'ning the l< Mei .of bis early courtship, thi ■* uniqu loein rial 1 still p, bg found. The knot has in vet b*-o untied 53ff"f.'olerMgc telh .1 h a'fill table of a rain . iticir it was announced would de , *ml ft om heaven on a certain day, a sing e dro.v (.1 which touching a man, woman or child, should produce madness. Tim day came, the rain fell, and the people maddened, not Believing the word , iff the err, n r sheltering thetu sc!vcs from the predicted ,!,.m 11 Otic ii.au alone hid him elf in a 1 1 v.- till tl. -form was over hut roni ■ng out and finding all the world capering and danc ing in their in-.unity, lie msln and t*. :.*une of the water left standing in ;> 1 - 01, I [dnn.o il in, declaring that it was a vain aod , t .• -I thing to he t e only w-j .. man in a world off *l - J-#f A * hi: .. ‘.ed *1 ■ : i tai tr* . crooked, 1 epi; and, ■- ~.i-Bory ud upon it, 1 suppose, when it. wu - lilt!’ Nci■, hi 1. a child ungently, because lie wh check- child with terror, Slop ; it.-, play tills its song, Not alone commit an error, But n grievou moral vrong. G.vc ii play and nevei fear it, Votive lift: i- no defect; Never, never, btcak its spirit, f’urb it only to direct. VV ould you stop tiie llovving river, Tliinkirig it would cease to tlow* Onward it must flow forever - Better leach it where to go. JAMES T. BLAIN, PiinfEH.