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My soul thV sae'r- and itnage W|K
My ftiidhiKht dreams are all of thee;
For nature then in silenee sleeps.
And silente broods o'er laod sea;
Oh. in that still, mysterious hour.
How oft from waking dreams I start,
To find thee but a f Miry flo” er.
Thou cherish’d Mol of n.y heart.
‘thou hast each thoofcht and .Ihta... of rmoe,
tyuvt 4 in tent hduc thotSght of thiue.
Fort vet thine mv Yl'reams will he,
Whatever oiayhe rrtv f.frtune liete,
i] „k not loVe— l claim for thee
Only one boon, a gentle tear ;
Mav e’er hlesi visiwws from above
Flay brightly ’round tin ttappv heart,
And may the beams of peace nod loVe
Ne’er Irotn thy glowing soul depart,
farewell! mv dreams arc still of thee,
.si thou one’ tender thought of me I
Mv jays like summer birds my fly.
My hopes like summer blooms depart..
But there's one fl .wer that cam ot die,
Thy holt memory in my heart;
No dews that one flower’s cop may fill,
No suit igtit to its I aves lie given,
But it wi I live and flourish stih,
As deathless as a thing of heaven,
My soul greets thine, mraskt and, uirsooe'ltt, j
ILst tiiotj for me one gotle thought 7 i
, I
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, Farewell! farewell! my far-off friend !
Between us hyoa. , Idue rivets flow,
And forests waVe and plains extend.
And mountains in the sunligh. glow;
The wind that hieathes upon thy brow
1 |i not the Wind tltat breathes on mine,
The star beams shining ou me wow,
Are not the beams tltat on tne sunef
But mehmry’s spell is “ith me >et—
<Caiisl ihWu the holy past forget ?
The hitter tears that thou ands
May *hed whene’er by anguish bowed,
‘Pixilated itiiw the and; *
,Vla.y meet and Oiiogle’ in the cloud ;(
Ami thus, my much loved trieod, tho we
F .r, far apart must itve aud move,
Our souls, When Gwd shall set them free.
Can mingleso-tfie world of love,
This were aw ec-stacy -to we—
vWowlO st ho a joy r® tbee %
From iNstersotl’a Magazine.
IN DUE AM-I.ANO, LOVE.
6V WAV.
Oh. come to me iudi eam-laud, love,
in flowrv realms away ;
Where brighter gleams the fair starlight —
M ore soft the moon’s pale ray;
WliereSnWHtter skirts hed soft and blue,
And roses w tro each gafet
And streamlets murmur songs of love
Aduwn each dewy vale.
I’m weary of this cheerless toal>
‘1 hts prosy world of xm.is.
Where, toil, aud care, and endless strife.
Blight all the heart’s sweet flowers.
But in that clime life’s sterner cares
Are never, never known,
And We ran pass the fleetiug hours
lu ilieautmgs sweet, mute owu !
Then meet me oft in dream-laud, love,
Comeat me twilight hour,
When posie lends to the heart .
A strange and wondrous power.
And 1 will gaze in thy soft eyes,
And calm this Wearying strife *
And while the heart respouds to heart.
Forget the ills of lif*-
•{ COULDNA’ GIST MY LESSON,”
bt a school, girl.
I couldna’ get my lessou
Wi* the book before my ‘eGtt,
For the thoughts o’ canny Willie
Came a bobbiu* iu between.
And ilka Word sae simple
Had naught to Ellen mean.
For the thoughts o’ eannie Willie
Came a bobbin* iu between.
She tead frae top to boitom,
Owre many a page t ween.
For the thoughts o* canny Willie
Came a bobbin* in between.
And ilka leaf was pictured
Wi* Willie’s winsome look.
All my thoughts were a’ wi’ Willie*
Aud nane upon my book.
An honest dame in the town of—
standing beside the corpse of her deceas
ed husband, bewailing in piteous tones
hit untimely departure, observed—
• It’s such a pity he’s dead, for his teeth
re as good as ever they were.’
the oiti; A
stu temperance
SKETCH,
Jin intelligent and wealthy Tmn.
who did not drink in society* nor ha
bitually at home, had a room in his
mansion in which, as often as three or
four times a year, he would gorge him*
self with liquor. When he finds his j
craving for rum coming on, he would 1
luck himself up in that room until, ‘the !
scale’ was finished. The appearance I
of this room at the close of one oft
these sprees was disgustingly filthy.—
A friend who knew his habits remon
strated with him, but was told that re
form was impossible, so irresistible was
his cravings for rum at certain times, j
His friend begged him to irv. His!
two sons, fifteen and seventeen years’
of age, earnestly press- and the appeal. I
At Inst the Wan consented to trv, and
drawing from his pocket a key, said to
his older son—• Here is the key to the
liquor closest; will yon take it and
promise We on no condition, and for no
violence with which 1 may threaten
yon. ‘o give it up when 1 demand it V
The boy, knowing how furious his
father was on such occasions, declined
the trust. The Father then asked the
youngest son, a boy of uncommon
nerve, the same question, and he
promptly replied—*l will.**
For a few weeks things went on
Smoothly, but one day the father came
home at an unusual hour. His manner
betokened that his appetite was gnaw
ing and craving. He called his son
and demanded the key to the liquor
closet, but he firmly refused. The res
fusal maddened him, and seizing some
weapon he sprang at his son. . For a
tnortnwt he stood over him with glar-’
mg eves and insane with rage, hut the
youjßs hero never quailed. Fixing
firm hut tearful eyes on his father, he
said, ‘ Father, 1 promised you that I
would not give you that key. no mat
ter what violence you might threaten,
and now you itiav kill me, but 1 will
never give you that key.’
Instantly the key dropped froth the
man’s hands, and as he himself express
sed it—‘the appetite for liquor seemed
to abandon We before the tloblc firm
ness of my son.’
He was reclaimed, and never fell—
his cure Was radical and thorough.—
And there is many a man with as
strong an appetite for rum as this man.
but who is not so Fortunate as to have
the Maine Law so summarily admin
istered at the right time. Could this
outside help only been at hand, many
thousands of drunkards, once apparent
ly reformed, would not be filling dis
honored graves.
It is related of a certain New Eng
land divine, who flourished not many
years ago, and whose matrimonial re
lations are supposed to have been the
most, agreeable kind, that one Sabbath
morning, while reading to his congre
gation the parable in Luke xtv, in
which occurs the passage, ‘And anoth
er said 1 have bought five yoke of oxen
and go to prove them; 1 pray thee
have me excused; another said, I have
married a wife* and therefore cannot
come,* he suddenly paused at the end
of this veise. drew off* his spectacles,
and looking around on his hearers, said
with emphasis, ‘The fact is. my breth
ren, one woman can draw a man far
ther from Heavin than five yoke of
oxen.’
(j
Badly Corned — A traveler, fa
tigued with the monotony of a long
ride through a sparsely settled section
of the country, rode up to a small lad
who was trimming and dressing out a
sickly looking field of corn, and reliev-
oppression of his spirits thus
•My young friend, it seems to me
your corn is rather small.’
‘Yes, daddy planted the small kind.*
*Ah, but it appears to look rather
yellow, too.* •
•Yes, sir, daddy planted, the yaller
kind.’
Simplicity.— A little one, after under
going the disagreeable operation of vac
cination, exclaimed —’ Now 1 won t ha\e
to be baptized, will I?’
Hamilton* Ga. Saturday, April 5,
A WOLF HUM’ IN KANSAS.
A letter to the ‘St. Louis Republican’
from Palermo, Kansas Territory, says the
cold weather and deep snows have driven
the wolves into the settlements to seek
for food,*anu the mps.t pleasant and exci
ting pastime of the settlers is to give theip
chase. The writer then proceeds to give
the lolloxving account of a wolf hunt and
the finding of a human skeleton in the
cavity of a tree ;
A lew days since, while riding in the
rear ol our iown, in a small ravine, thro’
which a streamlet-takes Its quiet way be
neath its crystal covering, and whose irri
gation has produced fall grasses and
shYubs that makes a hiding place tor game,
I came suddenly upon a large black wolf.
He was scratching at a thin place in the
ice, aud seemed almost famished for was
ter. Wh en he saw me he started in full |
run lor the forest in the liver bottom. I
kept upon his heels and tried to tide up
on him. He was almost exhausted, and
just as I supposed lie would give out, he
slipped into the hollow ol a large cotton
wood tree.
I stopped the hole through which he
entered, and came back to town and got
an aXe and the dogs, and the assistance of
Frank Mahan and William Palmer, and
together, we returned to cut him out
The dogs were anxious, and we were pre
pared with our guns to receive him.
When we had made a large hole t about
foui feet from the ground, the dogs jump
ed at it on outside and the wolf on the in
side, and such a barking, growling, snap
ping and howling, 1 never heard before.
It made the woods re-ound for a great
distance, and brought several of the neigh
bors to the spot. Things continued to
for a while and we consulted what had
best be done. We could not shoot
the wolf through this opening, without
too great a risk of killing the dogs, for he
only appeared at the inside when the
dogs were at the outside. We finally
concluded to stop the hole thal we had
made, and fell the tree .by chopping a
•jarrow eta*h. aU - aWnaikw. ‘
The tree came down a little sootier
’than we expected.” Frank Malian had
the axe lilted for another stroke, as it
went over with a crash. The wolf, with
bristled back and glaring eyes, and glit
tering teeth, leaped at his tbioat with ter
rible ferocity. The descending axe met
it hall way, cleaving its skull and laying
it dead at his feet.
We had no time to express our wonder
and congratulations at his narrow escape
before our attentiou was called to that
which filled us with amazement if not
dread. It was a hu.nan skeleton, medi’
uin size, and of a female, hidden in the
cavity ol the tree, its posture was erect
and the bones were held together by a
kind of clear integument that seemed to
cover, like a transparent skin the entire
frame. The jar of the felled tree sever
ed several ol ihe joints and we drew them
again in form. The proportions were
perfect and the limbs straight indicating
a contour, when in flr-sh, of perfect sym
metry. Who could it have been thus per
ished, years ago in this wild forest? and
how came her death in this strange place?
were queiies that weie immediately sug
gested. Could it have been some maid
en, who, like the btide in ‘The Mistletoe
Bough ’ had concealed herself from her
lover in the heart of this old tree, and be
come fastened there and died f Or, in
escaping wild beasts, had climbed in this
close retreat whence she could not extri
cate herself? These were natural sug
gestions, lor the skeleton fitted close in
the cavity and seemed to have been fasU
tened there. How many years ago this
frame possessed vitality, and how many
yesrs it had inhabited this time-worn,
storm-rocked tenement, and how it came
there, and to what race it once belonged,
will remaiu a tnysffcry unul the universal
revelation.
To Agriculturists —ln her increase,
the moon supplies more electricity to the
atmosphere hence all vegetation which
depends upon the atmospheric electricity
chiefly lor nourishment should be sown
then. Blossoming shrubs, or plants,
should be sown, planted, set, or pruned
near the second quarter, they grow thrilt
|y, but seldom near much flowers or fruit
trees set or pren and, some lour to two days
before the luil tr.oon. II such vegetables
or trees are sown, &.c., alter the full, they
seldom realize expectation ; but esculent
roots, potatoes, onions, beets, See., depeni
ding lor nourishment on terrestial magne
tism instead of atmospheric electricity, do
best when sown or planted in the decioos- j
i ing moon. .
SUNSET.
Daylight dies along the p’ain ;
Shadows lengthen on the grain ;
Birdlings seek their early net;
Dew-drops fill the violet'* bre.Bt.
Brooks unseen, like fairy .hells,
Tinkle soft in mosay dells ; /
In the Western mellow’ light ...
Shines a star, a gem ol uignt, , t .
*.£k
O’er the lake the whip-poor-will
Sounds his note so sad and *hriil {
Gently waves the srented fl nv’r,
Pearly drops gleam from the bower.
Slumber closes childhood’s eyes ;
Angels W'atch from Paradise;
Night steals on with garments bright,
Holy calm and silent night,
BED BUGS. 1
Mr. Editor: As this is the season of
the year, to p.event the increase, and for
the destruction of these troublesome night
creepers which interfere so much with
man’s restorer, ‘balmy sleep,’ I will give
you, for the benefit of your readers, what
has proven to be an infalible remedy.—
Take as many China berries (and this is
the time to gather them) as will fill a
common pot ; pour on them as much v#a
ter as will cover the berries, and boil
down the water to about a half gallon ;
strain out the berries from the water, and
add about a (Inart of lard and simmer it
over hot coals until the water evaporates,
leaving the substance of the berries in the
lard, then bottle up for use, Scald jour
bedsteads well, and with a soft brush or
rag put the oil on those, places where
these troublesome customers hide them,
selves, and they will immediately retire.
The above remedy lor these unprofita
ble.boarders, was given to me by one of
the best house keepers in Georgia, who
has tried it, and she as'sored me she ne
ver detected one on a bedstead she ap
plied th£ oil to. This w&s a discovery of
her own, and she certainly deserves the
thanks of mankind. Might not the apo
thecaries do good business to prepare and
keep it fur sale ? — Cor. Empire Slate.
A Patr or 1 Insane Lovers —ln the
Lunatic Asylum at Columbus, Ohio,
is a pair of insane lovers Mental anx
iety of a peculiar character is supposed
to have deranged the intellect of the
young man, who was sent to the Asy
lum some time ago, cured, it was
hoped permanently, and sent home. —
While at home he fell deeply in love
with a young girl who returned his de
votion, and they became tenderly at
tached to each other. But, unhappily,
she malady returned Upon the young
man ; he was separated from the ob
ject of his love and sent back to the
Asylum, Left so herself to muse on
her bereavement, and the sad destiny
of her lover, the mind of the girl also
became affected almost as it might
seem, from sympathy—and it was not
long before she, too, was immured
within the walls that sheltered him.—
They are both there now. Occasion
ally they seem to have recovered their
reason, and are permitted to hold in-*
tercourse with one another; In one
of these, the poor girl begged her lov
er to marry her, but he replied with
melancholy real enough to bring tears
to the eyes of the listeners, ‘You know
that we cannbt be married. Ellen, we
are unfit for that happiness—poor un
fortunate creatures that we are*’
Some chap down East throws
an awful responsibility on the ‘wim
min folks’ in the following choice mor*
sel—
Whether a man leads a sober life or
not, depends upon the temper of his
wife. No man will listen all night to
a scold, who knows where a ‘good
warm sling’ can be had for a sixpence.
At Cocktail’s the other night, we
found no less than tli t e n married
men who spent six evenings a week
squirting tobacco juice on a coal stove.
We thought we would find out who
they were. On inquiring, we learn
that eleven of them were blessed wiih
wives Who ‘jaw,’ while the other two
wedded a couple of ‘the philanthro
pist’ ladies, so constantly engaged in
the ‘ welfaie of Central Africa* that
they have no time to keep their bus*
band’s shirts whole.
[ VOL,. S—NO. 4
HOW TO Bfe BBaHTII’I/L.
As’ we were about to start, f saw
the captain rnoVe to nti elevatid poai*
lion above the wheel? and ft/sveain 1 -
terestipg to see how Quickly ajid com*’
pletely the inward thought or purpose
niters the outwa’rd man. Hk gave a
quick glance to every pari of the ship.
He cast his eye over the multitude
coming on hoard the ship, among
whom Was the American afobassadot’
to England, who, if the’captain may
be said to embody VfiO ship, Wray be
said with equal truth Vo efhbody in hit
official person a nation’s right attd hob*
or. He siw the husbands and Wives,
the mothers and children etttWisfOd td
his care-; and Iris slender forth, afc We
gave orders for our departure, seemed
at once to grow more erect and firm t
the muscles of his face swelled —hii
dark eve gfowed with a neW fire, and
his whole person expanded and beau*
lifted itself by the power of inwatd
emotion. I have often noticed the in
teresting phenomenon, and have contO
to the conclusion, if man or woman
either wishes to realise the full powef
of persons'! beauty, it must be by cher*
ishing noble hopes anil purposes—by
having something to do, and something
to live for which b worthy of human
ity—and which, by expanding the ca*
parities of the soul, gives ekpstnsioh
and symmetry to the body Which com
tains it.
The physical ApppiVUrt'Cte of 4 jnkh
sometimes changes the currents of eveotsv
A case io point lately occurred on Front
street. The children of two neighboring
families had their daily quarrels and
which occasionally resulted in bruised fa-,
ces and torn garments. The father of
one famtlj', believed his thftdten to have
been sadly maltreated, and being Upasv
sionate man, concluded that tftfc surest
way to settle the difference betWfceft theflr
households permanently, tootihf be to
chastise the head of the other family, ah
though, as yet, he had never seen him-.
He thereupon procured a rawhide, and
abruptly entering his neighbor’* tene
merit, inquired in a threatening tdtie sos
the man of the house-.
‘ I am here, sir-,’ said 4 p'efSoft&ge df
upwards of sik feet and weighing ovef
two hundred pounds, as he approached to
learn the business of his neighbor.
‘ Did I understand you, that you Wert
the gentleman of the house?’
Yes. sir.’
4 Well I—t just dropped iik. Sir, to art
if this was your rawhide;’
O
For tho Orgau.
lesson In Nro. L
Question Ist. What issoUud?
Answer. Sound is a hearable action;
2d. How is sound produced ?
Ans. By vibration.
3d. What is vibration ?
Ans. Vibration is a moving with quick
return.
4th. How is sOUnd represented?
Ans. By Certain signs.-
sth. How are ideas represented ?q
Ans. By letters being formed intd
words.
Bth. How are musical sounds repre*
sented ?
Ans. Bv letters, figures and notes;
7ih. Which are mostly Used t
Ans. Notes are mbstly Used;
Bth. What are notes?
Ans. Notes are signs of Sollhd, 6f thti*
sical characters representing sounds.
9th. How does notes represent soUnds ?
Ans. By pitch and duration in time.
10th. What are those twd qualified
called? M
Ans, Those two qualities irfe called the
Tune and Time of notes*
11th. What Is the tune of notes ?
Ans. Proper intonation, or equality Os
tone.
12th. What is the Time Os notes i
Ans. The time of notes is the length of
time allowed In performing tbenl j
13 h. How many kinds of ttotea are
there used in music?
Ans. There are six essentiat kinds.
14th. What are the nalnes of those e
sential notes ?
Ans. SemibtevOj Minim; Cfotcbeti
Q ‘-aver, Semiquaver, and tJettfisetniqui 4
ver>
lsiln How may thtise six be d*tin
guished ?