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JOHN HENRY SEALS, ) T r ANI > > Editors. L. LINCOLN VEAZEY,) NEW SERIES. YOL. I. TIMPERAIE CRUDER. ’ ‘ PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, EXCEPT TWO, IY THE YEAR, * BY JOHN H. SEALS. TKRMB I #l*oo* in advance; or $2,00 at the end of the year. R.VTEft OF ADVERTISING. 1 square (tvrulye lines or less) first insertion,. .$1 00 Each continuance, 50 Professional or Business Cards, not exceeding six lines, per year, 500 Announcing Candidates for Office, S 00 STANDING ADVERTISEMENTS. 1 square, three months, 5 00 1 square, six months, 7 00 „ t square, twelve months,.*. .. .12 00 2 squares, “ “ 18 00 3 squares, “ u .....21 00 4 squares, “ “ 25 00 39^“Advertisements not marked with the number of insertions, will be continued until forbid, and charged accordingly. Merchants, Druggists, and others, may con tract for advertising by the year, on reasonable terms. LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Salp of Land or Negroes, by Administrators, Executors, and Guardians, per square,— 5 00 Sale of Personal Property, by Administrators, Executors, and Guardians, per square, —3 25 Notice to Debtors and Creditors, 3 25 Notice for Leave to Sell, 4 00 Citation for Letters of Administration, 2 75 Citation for Letters of Dismission from Adm’n. 5 00 Citation for Letters of Dismission from Guardi anship, 3 25 LEGAL REQUIREMENTS. Sales of Land and Negroes, by Administrators, Executors, or Guardians, arc required by law to be held on the first Tuesday in the month, between the hours of ten in the forenoon and three in the after noon, at the Court House in the County in which the property is situate. Notices of these sales must be given in a public gazette forty dayys previous to the day of sale. Notices for the sale of Personal Property must be given at least ten days previous to the day of sale. Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an Estate must be published forty days. “Notice that application will be made to the Court •of Ordinary for leave to sell Land or Negroes, must *bc published weekly for two months. Citations for Letters of- Administration must be published thirty days —for Dismission from Admin istration, monthly , six months —for Dismission from Guardianship, forty days. Rules for Foreclosure of Mortgage must be pub lished monthly for four months —for compelling titles from Executors or Administrators, where a bond has been given by the deceased, the full space of three months. will always be continued accord ing to these, the legal requirements, unless otherwise ordered. The Law of Newspapers. 1. Subscribers who do not give express notice to the contrary, are considered as wishing to continue their subscription. 2. If subscribers order the discontinuance of their newspapers, the publisher may continue to send them until all arrearages are paid. 3. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take their newspapers from the offices to which they are di rected, they are held responsible until they have set tled the bills and ordered them discontinued. 4. If subscribers remove to other places without informing the publishers, and the newspaper? are sent to the former direction, thev are held responsi ble. 5. The Courts have decided tlrat refusing to take newspapers from the office, or removing and leaving them uncalled for, is prima facie evidence of inten tional fraud. ft. The United States Courts have also repeatedly decided, that a Postmaster who neglects to perform his duty of giving reasonable notice, as required by the Post Office Department, of the neglect of a per son to take from the office newspapers addressed to him, renders the Postmaster liable to the publisher for the subscription price. JOB PRINTING-, of every description, done with neatness and dispatch, at this office, and at reasonable prices for cash. All orders, in this department, must be addressed to J. T. BLAIN. PROSPECT I 7 8 OF THE wmm CRUSADER. [qtosbam] TEMPERANCE BANNER. ACTU ATED by a conscientious desire to further the cause of Temperance, and experiencing great disadvantage in being too narrowly limited in space, by the smallness of our paper, for the publica tion of Reform Arguments and Passionate Appeals, we have determined to enlarge it to a more conve nient and acceptable size. And being conscious of the fact that there are existing in the minds of a lar‘e portion of the present readers of the Banner and it* former patrons, prejudices and difficulties which can never be removed so long ns it retain? the name, we venture also to make a change in that par ticular It will henceforth bo called, ‘‘THE TEM PERANCE CRUSADER.’ 1 This old pioneer oLthe Temperance cause, is des tined yet to chronicle the triumph of its principles. It has stood the test—passed through the “fiery fur nace,” and, like the “Hebrew children,” re-appeared unscorched. It has survived the newspaper famine which has caused, and is still causing many .excel lent journals and periodicals to sink, like “bright ex halations in tho evenin'to rise no more, arid it has .even heralded tlvj “death struggles of many contem poraries, lalroring for the same great end with itself. It “still lives,” and “waxing bolder as it grows older,” is now waging an eternal “Crusade” against the “In fernal Liquor Traffic,” standing like the “High Priest” of the Israelites, who stood between the people and .the plague that threatened destruction. We entreat the friends of the Temperance Cause to give us their influence in extending the usefulness jaf the paper. We intend presenting to the public a sheet worthy of all attention and a liberal patronage; for while it is strictly a Temperance Journal , we shall endeavor to keep its readers posted on all the current events throughout the country. iggf“Price, as heretofore, sl, strictly in advance. JOHN H. SEALS, Editor and Proprietor. Penfleld, G*, Dee. 8,1855. Sftfeflttfr to Cemptrance* UloMb), pteoitiire, (feral Intelligence, Jta, &t. From the American Union. A SHREWD WIFE, —OB — An Unprofitable Trip to the Gold Regions. BT WILLIAM H. THOMAS. think,” said Mr. Dana v as he j-nshod back his chair from the breakfast table, and looked hard at his wife, a pretty little woman with largo blue eyes, ‘ I think that I should lik to goto California and try my luck. Darn it all, everybody is going about here. Do you think you could spare me for a year, Nelly?” Mrs. Dana made no immediate reply, she appeared to be very busy turning out a cup of tea, although a keener observe] than her husband would have noticed an uncommon tremulousness in her hands, as Mr. Dana ceased speaking. “I think I might do well there,” the bus band continued, as though speaking to himself. # “Areyou not doing well here on your farm ?” the wife asked, at length. “I’m making a living perhaps, but it’s only by hard work. Now if Ish ukl go to California, -and he lucky, why, we could have a great many more comforts than we are blessed with at present.” “We have everything that we could wish for to make us contented, and I’m sure I sigh for no luxuries, excepting what we can well afford,” Mrs. Dana replied. “Yes, we have enough to eat and clothes to wear, but can’t buy lots of good furni tore, and have a pinny, like. ’Squire Bol ton. Darn if, I want.to be rich as he is, and then I should be contented,” Mr. Dana said, rising from his chair, and walking back and forth the kitchen with energy. “Mr. Belton is far from being happy, with all ofhis wealth,” said the wife. “Well, I know that; but then who could be contented with such a wife as he has ? Shu’s either crazy half the time, or else— “ Hush!” cried Mrs. Dana, with a re proachful look, “remember if she have faults, so have we all.” “But what I meant, Nelly, is that if he had such a wife as I’ve got, and with his wealth, he couldn’t helpLeing happy. 1 ” “And yet you want to*leave a wife yon think so highly of,” Mrs. Dana said, with a reproachful look. “But don’t you see that it is fr your comfort and benefit in the end. Yon know, Nelly, that nothing in the world would in duce me to quit you, unless it was the hope of making a fortune in a short time, i wouldn’t be gone longer than a year, and if Hiked the conn fry, and I thought you would be contented there, I’d send for you.’ “And what will you do with thefaim while yon are gone?” “I will get my youngest brother to come and live here and carry it on. You shall be left in full charge, Nelly, with power to do as you please.” “Give me a week to think of it,” the wife replied; “at the end of that time I’ll make up my mind whether to consent to your going or not.” Mr. Dana was too well pleased to obtain even this concession, to argue any further that day, and after bidding his “wife read the accounts in the newspaper, containing the latest news from California, lie started off’ to his work. Mr. Dana owned a farm of about one hundred acres, near the town of Windsor, Vermont. He was a young man, and a person of considerable energy, and bad, during his minority, saved a small stun of money, which he had safely deposited in the saving's bank, until such time as he should want to use it. After he became of age, he had added to his capital, and when he thought he should like Jane Perkins for a wife, and proposed fondier, and was accepted, he bought the farm which we find him occupying, and was doing as well as any young farmer in the neighborhood. lie had been married two years when the gold fever of 1848 and ‘49 broke out, sweeping off thousands of our most indus trious mechanics and fanners-, and leaving many an hearthstone desolate, and many a wile to mourn for her absent husband. _ How few have returned with their anti cipations fulfilled ? Thousands who left the New England States, expecting to win a competency in a short time, have been too glad to work their passage back in some slow sailing tub, while others, too proud to return empty-handed, have toiled on, barely gaining a livelihood, and now ivjjl from their cares and trouble? by the bank of ftome river, with nothing but a rude board to mark their grave. After Mr. Dana lett his wile, she wash ed her dishes and put them-away, and sat down to read the glowing accounts of the gold discoveries. The more she read the more faeinated did she become, until she at last came to the conclusion that, if she was a man she would be tempted to go and try her luck. ( • Twice during the forenoon did she peruse, the paper, ami each time her resolution of not consenting to her husband’s departure grew weaker, until she finally made up her mind, if ho asked her consent again, she would give it.* Mrs. Dana wa&a woman of considerable energy af mind. Ever since, a child she hadi been obliged to labor, and by her con PENFJELD, 6A, SATURDAY, JUKE 11 1856. tact with the world she had acquired ; knowledge of business, which did not how ever, impair or detract from the natural modesty of a good woman’s heart or mind. A week had not passed before the hus band again alluded to the subject upper most in his mind. A com pan} 7 was about to leave Windsor, and many of the young men of the town were enroling their names Mr. Dana thought it would b ‘ a good chance for him, as he would have acquain sauces to lend him a helping hand, in cast he was taken sick. His wife thought the same thing, and delighted her husband in givingher consent toiiis going. They were not aware of the selfishness exhibited in the gold regions, where each man struggled for himself, and thought ii waste of time to help his feverish friend to a cup of cold water, or make him a mess of gruel, to keep him from starving. Mr. Dana’s arrangements were soon made. He had some money on hand, and with it he determined to cross the Isthmus in company with his townsmen, as Ik thought he could make enough in a week’s time, after his arrival, to pay his passage They wrote to engage steerage births, and received answer that the steamei would sail on such a day, and that they must be promptly on the spot. This news caused the party to hurry their arrange merits and the day before they were to start Mr. Dana requested his wife to accompa ny him to a lawyer's. “I am‘going a long journey,” he sai l, “and may be gone longer than I anticipate. I shall leave you the farm, to do with if as you please. If you get tired of carrying it on, sell it to the best advantage; I shall make money enough while gone to buy a larger one when I return. But I hardly think I shall live on a farm when I come back. We’ll get one of the grand new houses in town, and live like ’Squire Bol ton.” His wife thought at the time that there might be a failure in his schemes; but she was hopeful: and would not say any thing to dash his bright anticipations. The day of parting came, and with it tears and mournful looks; but it was not until Dana had left the house, never per haps to return, that the young wife felt the loneliness of tier condition. For a week or two she was low spirited and sad, but as she received letters from her husband in New York, written in a lively vein, and bidding her to be of good cheer, as he should certainly rejoin her in course of a year, she became more compos ed and reconciled to his absence. We will not follow him in the crowded steamship, nor cross the Isthmus, where he narrowly escaped drowning, while ascen ding the river; nor will we tell ofhis arri val at San Francisco, and departure for the mines, where he worked in the bed of the river, and was quite fortunate, until at tacked with the fever and agile, which roasted him at one moment and froze him the next. He would lie in his tent, and wish that the gentle hand of his wife could wipe the moisture from iiis brow or cover him with blankets when shivering with cold. All ofhis adventures might be written out, and perhaps Mr. Dana will, some flay, give the world an account of his doings in tire land of gold. They will, possibly, serve as a warning to other husbands, and thus prevent many a heart from mourning for the absent. Mr. Dana's fever got no better, and at last the doctor told him he had better seek a change of climate, as lie might shake himself to death. Dana thought the same thing, for it appeared to I. mi, when the chills came on, that every bone in his body would be wrenched apart, and when tin fever returned, he imagined himself in an oven. He considered the subject one day, and determined to start for home. A team was to leave the next day for Sacramento city, audits soon as his resolution was formed, he engaged a passage, sold off* all of hi* clothes, excepting enough to reach Ver mont, and found that he was the master of a capital of only five hundred dollars, after working in The mines for four months. To be sure, his sickness had cost him a large sum, and his doctor’s bill was frightful to contemplate. lie started the next day for home. He determined to live a fanner and die one, if tlie Lord s|aied hie- life. He had seen enough of the gold mine , and as he was going in the cart, and jolted- over the tine ven roads, he thought what a ninny lie had been, to leave a comfortable borne, and a loving wife, for the sake of trying to accu mulate a fortune. The joltings of the cart may have bene fitted him, for the fever rapidly left him, and by the time lie reached San Francisco he felt like a different man- Hf had a mind to turn back and try it again, blithe thought of his wife, and nature and love conquered. He went immediately to the office of the steamship company, and secu ed a passage for home. It was a cold blustering day in the mid dle of winter when D ina reached Windsor, He pulled his cap over his eves to prevent being recognized, and then started on toot for his home. He had heard from his wife but once since he had been absent, and be hardly dared to hope that she was well He quickenedthis pace, and came in sight of the house in which he had spent so many hapj y hours. He glanced over his farm, and saw that everything appeared to be well cared for. The stone w. lls were in good order, the barns looked neat and well repaired, and just as he was thinking that his wife and brother had done remarkably well, the train on which he had ridden .rom Boston whizzed past, directly across his farm. He groaned in anguish at the sight. His beautiful meadow was rniiud, he thought, and it was all owing to his wild goose chase for a fortnn . His wife could not be expected to know how to attend to such things and he had no doubt but the railroad company had swindled her. He approached the house and knocked timidly at the door. It was opened, and ‘there stood his wife, as handsome as ever, but she looked at him with surprise. IL had forgot that he had not shaved since he left her. He spoke and held out his hand then his arms. There was a shriek, and then the latter were tilled. Two hours -afterwards they were talking seriously and solely up on matters of business. “I am sorry that the railroad passes over utir meadow,” he said, “it renders it almost useless.”’ “They have the rightof way, but it has not injured it as much as you think,” she replied. “I don’t suppose they paid you more than one hundred dollars tor the land.” “There is where you are mistaken. They gave me twelve hundred dollars for merely the right of way.” “I suppose they paid you in stock?’ Da na said, surprised to think that she had got so large a sum. “Yes they gave me part stock and part cash,” the wife replied, trying not to look triumphant. “And the stock, what is that worth, a mere song, I suppose.” “I sold mine the very day that I receiv ed it. at an advance. It is not worth so much per share now. 1 thought I had better have the money than trust to an un certain ty.” The husband was slightly astonished. He had received for a narrow* strip of land as much as he had given for the whole farm. “And what did you do with the money, Nelly?” “I took six hu and e l and bought the r ch mowings of Squire 80l ton’s, iouretmin btr how you used to wish you owned it?” Dana did remember perfectly well. He had thought of the land when in California, and was in hopes ofgetting hack with mon ey enough to buy it. “The other six hundred and fifty I placed in the saving’s bank, where it is nt interest.” “You are the best wife in the State,” the husband cried with admiration. “But I have not given a full account of rny stewardships as yet. You remember the forest of pines on the hill just back of die meadow ?” Dana nodded an assent. • lie was wan dering what was to come now. “ VVell, there is no longer any forest there I sold every tree just as it stood.” “Why, who was fool enough to buy pine wood ? Dana asked with a laugh. “The railroad company. They must have wood to get up steam. They gave me lout hundred dollars lor the privilege of chop ping down the trees, and 1 was glad to get rid ol them, for the purpose of making a sheep pasture.” “A sheep pasture!” the husband cried in astonishment. •‘Yes it makes a very fine one. I bought one hundred and fifty sheep, and then had some left, which 1 added to that in the bank. Last summer i sold lour hundred pounds of wool, at forty cents per pound.” “That amounts to one hundred and sixty dollars,” said Dana, after a slight calcula tion. “Precisely* without counting the increase of lambs, l think 1 did verv well by that trade.” “You are a better manager than I am, Nolly. Hereafter you shall be the head of the house.” “Thank you, but l am perfectly contented to resign, now that you have arrived,’ “Then you have no more wonderful bar gains to relate?” he asked. “Yes,” she replied, with a slight hesitan cy. “I have made one more trade, but perhaps it is one that, will displease you.” What after my warm welcome? You cm do nothing in future that I’ll not ap prove of. Remember, Nelly, I’ve returned poor in pocket, and none too well in health.’ “I will take such excellent, care ot yon that your health will be quite restored by spring, and as for being poor, why that is absurd when you have a good farm, well stocked, and nearly a thousand dollars in the hank.” “Besides a treasure of a wife.” “Thank you. But will you step into the pot joy and see my latest trade?” Dana followed his wife, and as she open ed the door, she pointed significantly to a dark object in one corner ol the room. “A piano!” cried the astonished. “Yes,a good, well toned piano. But be fore you express surprise let me tell you how 1 earned it. I sold all the butter that 1 made the last nine months, and invested the pro ceeds in an instrument that f knew you longed for, and, to tell the truth, I was rath er anxious to own myself, but I never said so, and until I found myself able I never thought of buying one. Now, are vou angry ?” “Angry?” 1 iieie was a peculiar sound heard in *he p.uloi as tnough 1 bin a was kissing his wife. At any rate when she again enteied the kitchen, her face looked uncommonly Hush ed, as though her husband’s rough beard had chafed lief soft skin. Mi. Dana lias never expressed a wish to roam again. He is perfectly satisfied that he can find more hupp ness on h : s farm, and the soc.efy of his wile, th n tie could if sur ioi in fed bv all the gold males of Califor nia. DR. WARREN ON TOBACCO. M mle the general means, for the preser vation ol health, have been materi illy ad vanced in our society, by attending to exer cise, by the external use of cold water, by moderation in food, by the curtailment in dinner parties, and, more especially, bv the Inst extension ol abstinence from stimulant and intoxicating drinks, there is one in par ticular, a decided and unhappy deteriora tion of our social habits—the increased use of tobacco. Many persons, and some ol them wise and valuable men, impair their health, and shorten their lives, by this po • son. ir we look around in a company ol our legislatures, judges, and even of our ven erable clergv. we see a certain number ot them marked by pallid countenances, relax ed muscles, yellow-colored lips, and a lan guid. listless posture. We may set tltes down as chewers of tobacco. If we foil v them to their home-, we find some of then, complaining ot lost appetites, pains m tin chest., occasional palp’tations, daily ind’ges tion, and finally, some irremediable disease which carries them to their graves, jhe number of persons of intellectual pursuits who voluntarily place themselves in this sir cidai list, is too great to he counted; and this country, we are sorry to say 7 it, exhibits an immense proportion of such instances among its best men. in my experience, ; great number of cases, simulating disease 7 of the lungs and stomach have been expl tin ed by the discovery of the habit of chewing tobacco, and the relinquishment of the prac tice has been followed by restoration t< health. “Os the three modes of using tobacco smoking is that which seems to have insinu ated itself, most extensively, among tlu young men of our community. This prac tice impa.rs the natural taste and relish sot food, lessens the appetite, and weakens th< powers of the stomach. As to the pleasuie produced by it, it is 1 believe a well-known fact, that a person, smoking in the dark,if often unable to determine whether his cigai is lighted or not. “ Tobacco, employed in this way, being drawn in with the vital breath, convevs its poisonous influence into every pait of tin lungs. These organs, by the countless num ber of cells, which from their internal struc ture.havea surface, greatly exceeding th.m ot the whole interior ot the body. The l.n ing membrane of’these cells has a wonder tul absorbent action, by which they suck in the air destined to vivify the blood, if this air is impregnated with the fumes of tobac co, even in a weak degree, the great extern ot surface in which the absorbent nctioi takes place, must necessarily produce at impregnation of the blood with the deleteri ous properties. The noxious flu and isentan gled in the minute spongy air-cells, and bar time to exert its influence in the blood, no in vivifying, but in vitiating it. The blood having imbibed the narcotic principle, cir culates it through the whole system, am. produ es, in consequence, ii febrile action ii most individuals, and especially in those o a delicate habit, ‘ihe p euliureffects of flu narcotic action must of course be develop ed to a greater or less extent ; and erup tions on the skin, weakness of the stomach heart and lungs, dizziness, headache, confu mo it of thought, and a low febrile action must be the consequences. Where then •is any tendency to phthisis in the lungs, the debil ty ot these organs, consequent on the use of tobacco in th.s way, must favor the deposit of tuberculous matter, and thus sow the seeds of consumption. Snuff, received into the noslrils. to some extent enters the cavities opening from them, fills those cavities, and makes a snuff box oi the olfaciory apparatus. The voice is con sequently impaired, sometines to a remark able degree. 1 knew a gentleman of the le gal profession, who, from the use of snufl ‘occasionally 7 , lost the resonance of his voice, and the power of speakmg audibly in court. Moreover, portions of this powder is con veyed into ihe lungs and stomach, and exert on these organs their deleterious effec's. “The worst form in which tobacco is em ployed is in chewing. This vegetable is one of the most powerful of narcotics ; a verv small portion of it, say two drachms, and perhaps le. s, might prove fatal. When it is taken into ihe mouth in smaller portions and t here retained some time, an absorption of part ot it into the system takes place, which has a most debilitating effect. If we wished to reduce our physical powers, in a slow yet certain way 7 , we could not adopt a more convenient process. Who, among the chewers of tobacco, has not felt that deadly sickness, which it occasionally pro duces ? Those who have exj er.eneed these effects, will not, 1 think, deny its great pow er of relaxing the system. “The more hm.ted and local effects are in digestion, fixed pains about the region of the L Llui i\l ,■* l . ) JAMEfTfT RLaO, VOL XIIL-NUMBER 23. st mach. in some cases looseness of t ie bow els in others torpor of these pruts, debility oft lie back. & c * * * ‘f<> the cun se quences al eady mentioned, we will only add affections of the brain, produc tie verf : - ‘4O. an effect well knovs n to most of those who ire. in the hah t of chewing tub ecu, and also affections of the m ) jth, gener 11 ng cancer. •‘Tobacco is by some persons recommend ed as beneficial to tire teed'; but. while it •an have no ma erial effect in preserv ng she bony substance of the teeth it has a real influence on their vitality, by impairing the healthy action of the gums. These,.- nd al ts* the adjacent pans, me ve-y subject to ancer. particularly the t mgue and I ps For more than thinv y -sirs I have been in the habit of inquiring of patients who came to me with cancer of these parts, whether tftey used tobacco, and if so, whether by •hewing or nnoking. If 1 bey have some times answered in the negative as to die first question. I can truly say that, to the oest of my knowledge and be I es. such cases ire exceptions to the general rule. When, as is usually the case, ones de of the tongue s affected with ulccnted cancer, it arb.es from the habitual retent on of the tobacco, in contact with this part. The imitation from a cigar, or even from a tobacco- p : pe, frequently precedes cancer oi the Up. dhe lower lip is more commonly affected by can cer than the upper, in consequence of the natation on th s part by. acrid substances o n the mouth. Among such suhstan -e-. vhat is more i fcelv to cause i m.l * A f ‘'ion term n 1 nig ai d.-erse. tin . i\. j ent application ui to ha :o> jj ce. 1 LITTLE~QUAxiRii3~M A HURRY. An amusing matrimonial story is to and f 1 lie olden time of New England. Ir so f 11 out that two young people became very mich smitten with each other, as young •>eople sometimes do. The voting woman’s lt !iti‘ was a wealthy Quaker —the voting uiau was poo but respectable. Tii.e father “hid stand no such union, and resoluulv •pjiwsed ir. and die daughter dare not dis ■ >ey openly. She ‘■•met him by mo<u glitb _ w bile prrhnding never to have een him—and she pined and wasted in pite ot heiselt. She Was reailv in l.,\* • state of sighs ami tears, which w .imui 1 tenor reach in imagination than reality. Still the father remained inexorable. Time passed- on, and the rose ot Mary’s la mask cheek passed off*. She let no c< n -- almeut, like a “worm in the hud,' 5 prav ■n that damask cheek, however; but when h r fatlnr a-ked her why she puied she al ia \ S told him. Ihe old gentleman was i wiuuvver ami beloved his daughter deur •iy T * Had it been a widowed mother who uid j\faiy in charge, a Woman’s pride nev u-would have given way before the im *ol trinities of a daughter. Men are not lovvever, so stubborn in such matters, and -vhen the.fattier saw that the daughter's eart was really set upon the 1,1.1 1 1.,* |.; So h on,- .I, •Alary, ratlier (hull m.je Ueatli, in.. u ad.>t hetier marry as thee chooses and when thee pleases.*’ And wltaidid Mary ? Wad till the birds t she aii had told her swam of the change ■r till her father had time to change bis aind again? Not a hi:of.it. She chipp and • r mat bonnet on her head, vvaiki-o di ■> ctly to the house of tier intended as the treet could carry her. She walked, into ie house without k oyking, for ktiockin ,r vas not then fashionable, and sh • found tie family ju.-t. sitting down to bniii-r. bmie little commotio, was exhibited ; ,t m, me\j>ccted ; n apparition as tin heije-s in the widow's 1 o::.age, but she heeded not. loim looked tij> inquiringly. Js|, e vval-kcd o him and took Ins hands in herV: ‘Jolm.’ aid she, “lather says I may have. thee.” Vud John gut directly up from the table, ml went to the parsonV. In just twenty <ive minutes they were, man and wife. — SOMETHING to be borne in mind. Neither lovers nor husbands should ever indei take to enterta n their sweethearts or wives by extollmg the beauty and accom plishments of other maids or matrons; and neitner sweethearts nor wives should ever urive to render their lovers or husbands more affectionate bv going into ecstac.es I bout the elegance and generosity of other nen. Well—why not? Because, unt.l the •laws ol nature change,” all such undertak ings and strivings will always prove most decidedly I. The rose of Fonda, the most beau tiful ot flowers, emits no fragrance; the bird ot Paradise, the most beautiful of birds gives no song; the cypress of Greece, the finest of trees, yields no fruit; dandies the • shiniest of men, have no sense; and ball ro m belles, the loveliest of cr.*u r e I eiva- II ivs, are very often ditto—tud a i,.i e more sol #.<,. 0= When a man cannot -‘get a living” w.tliout selling rum, it is about t.me for hair to leave this ‘ sphere.” The quicker such people are out of the way, Ihe better. They are a curse to themselves, and to the world. DCr* Wh it is life ? A short journey thro’ time to eternity; then keep your eye and your heart on the end of your race. HI/ 3 A family Without prayer i9 like a house without a door, exposed fb every dan ger, and offering an entmiice to-every evd, ■ / ■