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j&'rdn the Knight of Jericho. OF JERICHO. Y R. A. GAINES. The sky of fate whs once as dark As midnight’s empty air; But, lo ! amid that gloi fxn* a spark Os Hope outshone despair, And rolling bacjj; those sable clouds, A star was. seep to glow Like life revivedflittburial shrouds; ’Twas the Knight of Jericho! Look up! fhou poor, forsaken wife! There’s happier days to come; There’s something yet to bless .thy life, And tronquilize thy home. That pois’nnus bane that mado thee mourn No longer now shall flow— Thy love and ones cheeks no longer burn : He’s a Knight of Jericho! The child that trembled ouce to see His drunken father come. Now sits upon his father’s knee, WJuying a peaceful hottie. The drunkard that was clothed in rags. Hut just twelve months ago. Is heard in loud triumphant brags : I’m a Kuight of Jericho ! No mark of rank shall point to us The rich man or the poor : We all are first, jet none are first— We meet upon one floor. The male, the female, both engage To banish the dreadful foe, And freindship is our compassed guace: • Wo Knights of Jericho ! Calhoun, Georgia. THE DRUNKARD’S CHILD. In the crowded street I met her, as twilight veiled the sky, Never, never to forget her, And the tear drops in her eye^ Fair as the Summer’s fairest blossom Played the curls upou her brow, * While beneath them heaved a bosom Whose deep anguish thrills me n<w, ‘‘harbor, Father!” speaks she mildly, “Mother prayed you would not stay !** “Father, Father!” cried she wildly, “Come, oh, come with me away.” “Hush thy tongue! * th£ father uttered— For the dram shop door was nigh— And her heart with terror fluitered. As he bade her homeward fly. Sad, and faint, and broken-hearted. Turned that little child away To the home from whence she started— Where lrr starving mother lay. All that night, with grief and sorrow. Watch’d’ they, prayed they—hope in vain! Till the daylight of the morrow Jii|oUght the drunkard home again. SoreHtdd cross, the wretch beheld them, Wanting e’en a crust to eat; Like twoWbasts, the fiend expelled them From the hovel to the street! Bitter, bitter days thf y bore it— Grief the world may never know— Till the bier, with sable o’er it, Eased their burden here below. S.ide by side two are sleeping. Faded stalk add withered rose; ’Neath the-silent willow weeping CHer the grave of many woes. Oh, my Go i! is this a story— Or a sight for every day J This a part of human glory J Let the tongue of ages say. What of courts, and what of battles, What of deeds beyond the wave, When around our hearth-side rattles All this pageant of the grave ? Dim the eyes and cold the embers, Pale the cheeks and dark the sky, And what joy the sodl remembers, Give to grief a darker eye. Here’s the spot to pause and listen, Here’s the woe to meet and heel; Whatsoever watch stars glisten, Here, O warrior, lift your steel. ’ ——o ■ O-o- — i’. From Scott s Weekly Paper— Philadelphia. THE GARDEN GATE. The day was closed, the moon shone bright, The village clock struck eight, When Sylvia hastened with delight, , To ope ihe garden-gate; But sure, as if to drive her mad, -Tbeßate wa * there but not the lad. Which made grieving cry, Was ever maid so used as I ? “* • .• 4 She paced the garden here and there, .r * village clock struck niue, When Sylvia cried, in wild despair, Last night he vowed ihe garden-gate Shoulti find him here, this eve, at eight ; Kttt this I’ll let the creature see He ne er shall make a fool of me. ®* l ®, cen9 . e i d ~' a noise her ear alarms, The village clock. struck ten, When William caught her iu his arms, And ne’er to part again. He showed the ring, to wed next day, He’d been to buy. a long, loug ivay ; Hpw, then, could Sylvia cruel prove,’ To oue that did so truly love ! A slanderer of the lair sex undertakes to prove that Satan was a woman named •Lucy Fir. The Squire’s Storv ‘Oh !’ says the Squire, ‘1 wish I was married and well on’f —l dread it powerfully. I’d like lo marry a widow: I alleys like widders since I knowed one down in Georgia that suited my ideas adzactly. ‘About a week after her husband died, she started down to the grave-* yard where they’d buried him, as she said, to read the prescription on ms monument. When she got there, she stood ffPfninute a lookin’ at the stones which w|£4c.ut at each endyd the grave with an epithet on ‘em that the minis ter ha?f writ for her, ‘Oh! boo-*hoo/ says she, Kfone*—he was of the best ojf men: I remember how the last time he came home, about a week ago, he brought down from town some sugar, and a little tea, and some store goods for me, and lots of little necessaries, ar*d a little painted boss for Jim, whjch that child got his mouth all yalla* w ith suekin it and then he kissed the child ren all round, and took down that good old fiddle of his’n and played up that good old tune “ Rake her down Sai. oh rang, danki toddle, O rang dang diddle, dang dang da*ff|£* ‘Here/ said the Squire, she began fKi dance, and I jest she was the greatest woman I ever seed-’ The Squire always gives a short laugh after telling this anecdote, and filling and lighting his plie. subsides into an arm chair in frdiHi of the,Ex** change, and indulges in calm’ and dreamy reflections. I . officers Ape nos tllkprou* dest men in the we kl#ays“tie lieved, and the following a'fftcdoteggoes far to prove thotjtheir humility isocSl sionally well imitated in its perceptive sense. / ■/ ‘Cuff/ snid one of the dignifafies to a negro at his side, as he prepared, to swallow his fifth invoice of ’hadwar! Cuff,you‘re a good honest fellow, and 1 like to compliment a man whatV lied on honest life if he is black, you shall take o’somthin with me, eh ?’ Well captain/ replied Cuff, wiping his moXtth with the nether end of his shining coat sleeve, T’se berry dry so 1 won’t be ugly/’bout it . Some nig - gers is too proud to drink with milishy ossifers—but I think a milishy ossifer, when sober, is just as good as a nigger, especially if the nigger is dry ?’ Tiie Celestial State. —Old Rick ets was a man of labor, and had little or no time to devote to speculations as to the future. He was withal, rather uncouth in the use of language. One day while engaged in stopping up hog holes about his place, he was approached by a colporteur, and pre sented a tract. •What’s all this about?’ demanded Rickets. •That, sir, is a book describing the celestial state,’ was the reply. ‘Celestial State,’said Rickets,‘where the deuce, is that ?’ ‘My worthy friend, I lear that you have not’—. ‘Well, never mind,’ interrupted Rick ets,’ I don’t wan't to hear about any better State than old Pennsylvania. I intend to live and die right here if I can only keep them darned hogs out.’ An Irish Judge said when address ing a prisoner convicted of murder— ‘You are to be hanged and I hope ’twill be a warning to you.’ Dobbs is a strong believer in, ‘guar dian angels.* If it was not for them, be asks what would keep people from roll ing out of bed when they are asleep. Tom,’ said a girl to her sweetheart, •you have paid yer distresses to me long enough ; it’s time you were m iking known your contentions, so as not to keep mein expense any longer/ •Mother sent me,’ said a little girl to a neighbor, ‘to ask you to come and take tea with her this evening/ Did she say at What time, my dear ?, No ma’am she said she would ask you, and then the thing would be off her mind; and that was all she said.’ A gentleman asked a little boy in London, ‘what occupation does your father pursue for a living?’ He ans swered with great simplicity, ‘He is a dreadful accident maker, sir, for the newspapers!’ *My son,’ said an affectionate moth er to her son, (who resided at a dis tance, and intended in a short time to get married,) ‘you are very thin.’— •Yes, mother,* he replied, ‘I am : and when you see me next, I think you may see my rib .’ (£r Cast aside every evil thought. 1854* A PAPER FOR YOUR FAMILY. Hew Series—lVew Attrac tion—.lit-w - ype. 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