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The Longest iglit in a Life.
BY CHARLES DICKliTVS.
It was one of these old-lasiiioned winters, in
the days ol the Georges, when the snow lay on
the ground lor weeks, when railroads were un
known, and the electric telegraph had not heen
dreamed of save bv the speculative ('ountess of
London. The mails hud been irregular for a month
past, and the letter-bags which did reach I he post
office had been brought thither with difficulty.
The newspapers were devoid ol all loreign intel i
gence, the metropolis knew nothing ol the doings
of the provinces, and the provinces knew little
more of the affairs of the metropolis; but the
columns of both were crowded with accidents from
the inclemency of the weather, with heart-reading
accounts of starvation and dostituiion, with won
derful escapes of adventurous travellers, and of
still more adventurous mailcoachmen and guards.
Business was almost at a standstil), or was only
carried on by fits and starts ; families were mane
uneasy by the frequent long silence of their absent
members, and the poor were suffering great misery
Irom cold and famine.
The south road had been blocked up for near
ly a month, when a partial thaw caused a public
r'joicing; coaches began to run, letters to be
dispatched and delivered, and weather-bound tra
vellers to have some hope of reaching their desti
nation. Among the first ladies who undertook the jour
ney from the west of Scotland to London at this
time, was a certain Miss Stirling, who had, for
weeks past, desired to reach the metropolis. Her
friends assur d her that it was a foolhardy attempt,
and told her of travellers who had been twice, nay
three times, snowed up on their wav to town ; but
their ndvice and warnings were ol no avail ; Miss
Stirling's business was urgent, it concerned others
more than herself, and she was not one to be de
terred by personal discomfort or by physical
difficulties from doing what she thought was
right.
So, she kept to her purpose, and early in Febru
ary look to her seat in the mail for London being
the only passenger who was booked lor the whole
journey.
The thaw had continued for some days ; the
roads, though heavy, were open ; and with the
aid uf extra horses here and there the first half of
She journey was perlornied pretty easily, though
tediously.
The second day was more trying than the first ;
the u if id blew keenly, 3nd penetrated every crevice
of the coach ; the partial thaw had hut slightly af
fected the wild moorland they had to cross ; thick
heavy clouds were garnering around the red ray
less sun : and when on reaching a liule road-side
inn the snow began to fall fast, both the guard and
coachman urged their solitary passenger lo remain
there lot the night, instead of tempting the discom
Ibrts and perhaps the perils of the next stage.
Miss Sterling hesitated for a moment, but the Ittlle
inn looked by no means a pleasant place to he
snowed up in, so she resisted their entreaties, and,
gathering her furs more closely round her, she
nestled herself into a corner of the coach. Thus,
for a time she lost all conciousness of outward
things in sleep.
A sudden lurch awoke her ; and she soon learn
ed that they had stuck fast in a snow-drift and
that no efforts of the tired horses could exiricale
the coach from its unpleasant predicament. The
guard, mounting one ol the leaders, set offin search
of assistance, w hile the coachman comforted Miss
Sterling by telling her, that as nearly as ihev could ;
calculate, they were only a mile or two from the
squ're's," and that if the guard could find his way I
to the squire's, the squire was certain to come to
Iheir nscue with his sledge. t was not the first
time that the squire had got the mail-bags out of a
snow-wreath by that means.
I he coachman s expectations were fulfilled.
v ithin
in hour, the distant tiuklinir ol the sledim
bells was heard, auJ lights were
seen
alar; tiiey rapidly advanced nearer and nearer;
and soon a hearty voice was heard hailing them.
A party of men, wiih lanterns and shovels, came
lo their assistance, a strong arm lifted Miss Ster
ling Irom the coach, and supported her Irimbling
su ps to a sledge close at hand ; and almost before
she knell where she w as, she found herself in a
large haw, brilliantly lighted by a blazing wood
lire. Numbers ol rosy glowing childish laces were
gathering around her, numbers of bright eager
eyes were gazing curiously upon her, kindly hands
were busied in removing her wraps, and pleasant
voices welcomed her and congratulated her on her
escape.
" Ay, ay, Mary," said her host, addressing
his wife, I told you that the sleigh would
have plenty of work this winter, and you see I
was nolif."
As you always are, uncle," a merry voice ex
claimed. We all say at Hawtree, that Uncle
Atherton never can he wronjr.1'
M Atherton ! Hawtree !" repeated .Miss Stirling,
in s i me amazement, M and uttered in that familiar
voice ! Eilen. Ellen Middleton, is it possible that
you are here ?"
A joyful exclamation and a rush into her I
arms were the young girl's ready reply to this
question as she cried, Unc!e Atherton, Aunt
Mary, don't you know vour old friend Miss Ster
hng T"
Airs. Atherton fixed her soft blue ryes on the
stranger, in whom she could at first scarcely re
eogaien the hnght-haired girl whom she had not I
seen for eighteen or twenty years ; but by and by
she satisfied herself that though changed, ahe was I
Ellen Stirling still, wiih the same laughing eves
thai had made every one love her in their school !
days. Heartfelt indeed were the rrreetinors which
followed, and cordial the welcome Mrs. Atherton
gave her old friend as she congratulated herself on
having dear Eilen under her own roof; more es
pecially as she owed this good fortune to Mr. Alb
ert one's exertions in rescuing her.
' It is the merest chance, too, that he is at home
at present," she said; he ought to have been
?! . I 1 . I - .
in ocouanu, out tne state o ihe roads in th
DieaK country lias Kent him nnsoner 1, f...
weeks."
" And others as well," E len Middleton added ;
11 hut both children and grown people nre only too
thankful to have si good an excuse for staring
longer at P,. I field." And then, laughing, she ask!
ed Aunt .M ry hov she meant lo dispose of Miss
Stirling for the night, for the house was as full
already as it could hold.
" Oh," said her aunt, "we shall manage very
well. Belfield is very elactic."
She smiled as she spoke ; but it struck Miss
Stirling that the question was, nevertheless, a puz
zling one so she took the first opportunity of en
treating her to take no trouble on her acconnt; a
chair by the fire was really all the accommodation
she cared for, as she wished to be in readiness lo
pursue her journey as soon as the coach could
proceed.
" We shall be able to do better for you than that,
Ellen," Mrs. Atherton answered cheerfully. " I
cannot, it is true, promise you a " state-room,"
for every bed in the house is full, and I know you
will not allow any one to be moved for your con
venience ; but 1 have one chamber still at your
service, which, except in one respect, is comforta
ble enough."
Haunted, of course ?" said Miss Stirling
giiiy.
" Oh, no, no, it is not that ! I had it filled up
for my brother William when he used to be
hero more frequently than of late, and it is of
ten occupied by gentlemen when the house is
full ; bul, as it is detached from the house, 1 have,
of course, never asked any lady to sleep there till
now."
" Oh ! if that be all, I am quite willing to be
come its first lady tenant," said Miss
heartily. So the matter was settled, and
Stirling
orders
were given to prepare the Pavillion for the unex
pected guest.
The evening passed pleasantly ; music, danc
ing, and ghost stories made the hours fly fast. It
was long past ten the usual hour of retiring at
Belfield when Miss Sterling, under her hostess's
guidance, took possession of her out-door chamber.
It really was a pleasant cheerful little apartment.
The crimson hangings of the bed and window
looked warm and comfortable in the flashing fire
light ; and when the candles on the mantle-ptece
were lighted, and the two easy chairs drawn close
to the hearth, the long departed friends found ii
impossible to resist the temptation of sitting down
to have, what in old days they used to call a " two
handed chat." There was much to tell of what
had befallen both, of chequered scenes of joy and
sorrow, deeply interesting to those two whose youth
had been passed together ; there were mutual
friends and luture plans to be discussed ; and mid
night rung out from the stable-clock before Mrs.
Atherton said good night. She had already cross
ed the threshold to go, when she turned back to
say, 44 I forgot to tell you, Ellen, that the inside
bar of this door is not very secure, and that the
key only turns outside. Are you inclined to trust
to the bar alone, or will you, as William used to
do, have the door locked outside, and let the ser
vant bring the key in ihe morning. William used
to say that he found it rather an advantage to do
so, as the unlocking of the door was sure to awake
him."
Miss Stirling laughingly allowed, that though
generally, she could not quite think it an advan
tage to be locked into her room, still she had no
objection to it on this particular occasion as she
wished to rise in reasonable time.
'Very Hell; then you had better not fasten
the bar at all, and I will send my maid with the
key, at eight precisely. Good night."
Good night."
They parted ; the door was locked outside ; the
key taken out; and Miss Slirling, standing by the
window, watched hei friend cross the narrow,
black path, which had been swept clear of snow
to make a dry passage from the house to the pavil
lion. A ruddy light streamed from the hall door
as it opened to admit its misstress, and gave a
a cheerful friendly aspect to the scene ; but, when
the door closed and shut out that warm comforta
ble light, the darkened porch, the pale moonlight
shimmering on the shrouded trees, and the stars
twinkling in the frosty sky, had such an aspect of
solitude as to cast over her a kind of chill that
made her half repent having consented to quit the
house at all, iiid let herself be locked up in this
lonely place.
Yet what had she to fear 7 ISo harm could
I happen to her from within the chamber; the door
j was safely locked outside, and strong iron stanch-
ions guard the window ; there could be no possi-
hie danger. So, drawing her chair once more
to the fire, and stirring it into a brighter blaze, she
' took up a little Bible which lay on the dressing ta-
b!e, and read some portions of the New Testa
ment. When she laid down the book she took out the
comb that fastened up her long, dark silken tres
ses in which, despite her fl ve-and-thirty years,
not a silver thread was visible ar.d, as she arran-
fri rl llim frtr (ho nlrvKf hop tlimirrlif !mvi"fl h?rlr
to the old world memories, w hich her meeting with
Mary Atherlon had revived. The sound of the
clock striking two was the first thing thai recalled
her to her present life. By this time the candles
were burned down almost to the socket, and the
fire was dying fast. As sh turned to fling a fresh
log into the grate her eyes fell upon the dressing
glass, an i in its reflection she saw, at least, fancied
she saw, the bed-curtains move.
She stood for a moment gazing at the mirror,
expecting a repetition ol the movement; but all
w as still, and she b!amcd hers If for allowing ner
vous fears to overcome her. Still it was an exer
tion, even of her brave spirit, to approach the bed
and wiihdraw the curlain. She was rewarded by
finding nothing save the bedclothes folded neatly
down, as if inviting her to press the snow-white
sheets, and a luxurious pile of pillows, that looked
most tempting. She could not resist the mute in
vitation to rest her wearied limbs. Allowing her
self no time for further doubts or feais, she placed
her candle on the mantel-piece, an stepped into
bed.
She was very tired, her eyes ached with weari
ness, but sleep seemed lo fly from her. Old re
collections thronged on her memory ; thoughts
connected with ihe business she had still to get
through, haunted her; and difficulties that had not
occurred to her till now, arose up before her.
She was restless and feverish : and the vexation
of feeling so, made her more wakeful. Perhaps if
she were to close the curtains between her and the
fire she might be better able to sleep ihe flicker
ing fight disturbed her, and the moonbeams s'eal
ing between the window-curtains cast ghosllv
shadows on the wall." So, she carefully shut out
the light on that side, and turned aain to sleep.
Whether she had or had no! quiie lost conscious
ness she could not well remember, but she was
soon thoroughly aroused by feeling the bed heave
under her. She started up. and awaited with a
beating heart a repetition of the movement, but it
did not come. It must have heen a return of the
nervous fancies which had twice assailed her al
ready that night. Laying her head once more on
the pillow, she determined to control her ground
less terrors.
Again she started up ! This time there could
be no doubt; the bt d had heaved more than once,
accompanied by a strange gurgling sound, as if of
a creature in pain. Leaning on her elbow, she
listened with that intensity of fear which desires,
almost as much as it dreads, a recurrence of the
sound that caused it. It cameagain, followed by
a loud rustling noise, as if some heavy body were
dragged from under the bed in the riiirction of
the fire. What could it be? She long' d to call
out for help, but her tongue clave to the roof of
her mouth, and the pulses in her temples throbbed
until she felt as if their painful beating sounded in
the silence of the night like the loud tick of a clock.
The unseen thing dragged itself along until it
reached the hearth-rug, where it flung itself down
with violence. As :t did so, she heard the clank
of chain. Her breath catne less painfully as she
heard it, for it occurred to her that ihe creature
might be nothing worse than the house dog, who
having broken his chain, has sought shelter be
neath the bed in the warm room. Even this notion
was disagreeable enough, but it was as nothing to
the vague terror which had hitherto oppressed her.
She persuaded herself that if she lay quiet no harm
would happen to her, and the night would soon
pass over. Thus reasoning, she faid herself down
again.
By-and-by the creature began to snore, and it
struck her feverish fancy that the snoring was
not like that of a dog. After a little time, she
raised herself gently, and with trembling hands
drew back an inch or two of the curtain, and
peered out, thinking that any certainty was better
than such terrible suspense. She looked towards
the fire-place, and there, sure enough, the huge
creature lay a brown, hairy mass, but of what
shape it was impossible to divine, so fitful was the
light, and so strangely was it coiled up on the
hearth-rug. By-and-by, it began to stretch itself
out, to open its eyes, which shone in the flickering
ray of the fire, and to raise its paws above its
hairy head.
toou (jod ! those are not paws! I hey are
human hands; and dangling from the wrists
hang fragments of broken chains !
A chill of horror froze Ellen Stirling's veins,
as a flash of the expiring fire showed her this
clearly far too clearly and the conviction
seized upon her mind, that she was shut up with
an escaped convict. An inward invocation to
Heaven for aid rose from her heart, as, with the
whole force of her intellect, she endeavored to
survey the danger of her position, and to think
of the most persuasive words she could use to the
man into whose power she had so strangely fallen.
For the present, however, she must be still, very
still ; sho must make no movement to betray her
self; and perhaps he might overlook her presence
until daylight came, and with it, possible help.
The night must be far spent ; she must wait, and
hope.
She had not to wait long. The creature
moved again stood upright staggered towards
the bed. For one moment one dreadful mo
ment she saw his face, his pale pinched features,
his flashing eyes, his black bristling hair; but,
thank .God ! he did not see her. She shrunk be
hind the curtains ; he advanced to the bed, slowly,
hesitatingly, and the clanking sound of the broki n
chains fell menacingly on her ear. He laid his
hands upon the curtains, and for a few moments
fumbled to find the opening. These moments
were all in all to Eilen Sterling. Despair sharp
ened her senses : she found that the other side of
the bed was not set so close against the wall but
that she could pass between. Into the narrow
space between, she contrived to slip noiselessly.
She had hardly accomplished the difficult feat,
and sheltered herself behind the curtains, when
the creature flung itself on the bed, and drawing
the bed-clothes around him, uttered a sound more
like the w hinnying of a horse thon the laugh of a
human being.
Porsome little time Miss Stirling stood in her
narrow hiding place, trembling with cold and ter
ror, fearful lest some unguarded movement should
betray her, and bring down on her a fate she
dared not contemplate. She lifted up her heart
in prayer for courage ; and when her composure
had in some degree returned, it occurred to her
that if she could but reach the window, she might
from that position, possibly, attract the attention
of some passers-by, aud be released from her
terrible durance.
Very cautiously she attempted the perilous ex
periment: her bare feet moved noiselessly across
the floor, and a friendly ray of moonlight guided
her safely towards the window. As she put oui
her hand towards the curtains, her heart gave a
fresh bound of terror, for it came in contact with
something soft and warm. At length, however,
she remembered that she had flung down her fur
cloak in that spot, and it w as a mercy to come
upon it now, when she was chilled to the bone.
She wrapped it round her and reached the win
dow without further adventure, or any alarm from
the occupant of the bed ; where heavy regular
breathing gave assurance that he was now sound
asleep. This was some comfort, and she greatly
needed it. The look-out from the window was
anything but inspiring. The stars still shone
peacefully on the sleeping earth ; the moon still
showed h?r pallid visage ; not a sight or sound
presaged dawn; and after long listening in vain
for any sin of life in the outer world, she heard
the stable clock strike four.
Only four!
She felt as if it were impossible to survive even
another hour of terror such as she had ju9t passed
through. Was there no hope ? None.
She tried to support herself against the window
irame, out nor hrst touch caused u to shake and
creak in a manner that seemed to her startling
ioud ; she fancied that the creature moved unease
ly on its bed at the sound. Drops of agony fell
from her brow as minute after minute wrre heavi
ly on ; ever and anon a rustle of the be clothes,
or a slight clank of ihe manacled hands sent a
renewed chill to her heart.
The clock struck (i.e.
Still all without was still. Sudd
emy, a mau s
a
whistle was heard in the court, and the driver of
the mail-coach, lantern in hand, crossed the yard
towards the pavilion. Would to God she could
call to him, or in any way attract his attention !
but she dared not to make the slightest sound.
He looked up at the window, against which he al
most brushed in passing ; and the light he held,
flashed on Miss Stirling's crouching figure. He
paused, looked again, and seemed about to speak,
when she hastily made signs thut he should be
silent but seek assistance at the house. He gave
her a glance of intelligence, and hastened away.
How long his absence Beemed ! Could he have
understood her? The occupant of the bed was
growing every instant more and more restless ; he
was rising from the bed be was groping round the
room. They would come too, too late !
And no steps in the court-yard the key turn
ing in the lock the door opens then, with a
yell that rang in Ellen Stirling's ear until her dy
ing day, the creature rushed to her hiding place,
dashed the slight window. frame to pieces, and
finding himself baulked of his purposed escape by
the strength of ihe iron bars outside, turned, like
a wild heusf, on his pursuers. She was the first
on whom his glence fell. He clasped her throat;
his face was close to hers ; his glittering eyes
were glaring at her in frenzy when a blow from
behind felled him.
She awoke from a long swoon to find herself
safe in Mrs. Atherton's dressing room, and to h ar
that no one was hurt but the poor maniac, and
that he was again in the chargs of his keepers,
from whom he had escaped a few hours before.
"A few hours! A lifetime, Mary. But Heav
en be thanked, it is past like a wild dream."
It was all past. One enduring eflect remained
ever after lo imprint on Ellen Stirling's memory,
and on the memories of all who knew her, the
event of that long night. Such had her suffering,
anxiety and terror, that, in these few hours, her
hair had turned as white as snow.
A Country Editor.
The following circumstances illustrative of the
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ity with which its conductors are regarded for
their toil, is by the Editor of a country paper in
the State of New York. We vouch for the truth
of the story, and give it in our friend's own
words. Mobile A dvert iscr.
"After I was out of my lime, I procured letters
of recommendation from the editor of the Albany
Argus, and went to the lown of to enlighten
the citizens by the corruscations of my intellect
upon the subject ol democracy, I had, as you
may well suppose, formed the most extravagant
ideas of the importance of an editor; and I think
I never was so well satisfied with myself as w hen
1 registered my name at the hotel in , as
' Editor of the Hardscrabble Republican Banner.'
" Well, I took possession of my kingdom, con
sisting of an ol-j rammage press and three case
of pica type, worn down to the third nick, and
began the new series of the Hardscrabble Repub.
lican. But at the end of six months my landlord
became pressing for my board, and I was fain to
make a call upon my patrons. This I did through
the columns of my paper, not doubting that they
would come forward enthusiastically and pay.
The notice continued a month ; but lo my utter
dismay not one of my patrons made his appear
ance. I now went to work in good earliest ,
made out my bills and presented ihem to my vil
lage customers in person, I didn'l make much by
this. I owed the tailor twice as much as he owed
me the shoe-maker brought me in his debt ihe
barber poked me in his bill for shaving my face
the blacksmith had mended ihe frisket of my con
founded old Ramage ihe tinner had a large score
for soldering a roller mould the grocery for glue
and molasses and in fine, I discovered that my
collections left mo about a hundred dollars in
debt.
"Nothing now remained but an appeal to my
country subscribers. This I made, and foitun
ately most of them were ready lo pay, but in such
currency as would astonish even these latter
days. Shin plasters are nothing to it. One said
he agreed to pay in wood, and added pointing to
the woods, 4 there it is, help yourself-' Another
promised me a load of pumpkins the next week.
One offered me a pig for his subscription ; and ns
I was a ' whole hog " editor I closed wiih the c fTer
immediately. But a new difficulty arose. There
were two pigs and the owner could not think, he
said, of separating them, they would be sure to
pine away iftad die. I suggested that he should
let me have them both and I would give.him credit
for a year's subscription in r.dvance. This he re
fused, but proposed that I should ta-ke one pig for
the year's subscription, and help him to get in his
hay two days for ihe other. This I agreed lo do.
Never did a poor devil work harder, or sweat
more prolusely than I during those memorable
two days.
" Well I got through at last; borrowed a bag,
put a pig in each end, slung ii across my shoulder,
and started home. I reached half way, ihe bag
became untied out slipped the little pigghng in
that end, cocked up his tail and ran lor dear life.
I dropped the bag and started in chape. Over the
fences, through brush and brier hedge and ditch,
we had it side, by side, as Major Downing says,
only the pig a little ahead
Ai last i gave up in
a . t 9
despair, and set down on a log to ruminate upon j
tne oignity ol the press, and the ingratitude of!
pigi and democrats."
A lady's walking dress is now the rage in Pars,
of the following curious construction :
The dress is an over-dress, made of stiflf mate
rials, so that in case of rain in the Boulevards,
by springs at the waist, it is thrown up so as to
cover the head and body and serve the purpose
of a large umbrella ; two loop holes in the skirt,
serve as eyes for navigation, aud ihe dre is verv
much admired by ihe fashiouable world.
"Jim, I was awfully frightened the other day.
Did I tell you about it ?"
"No; how ? "
" Why, a cup of cofTee was handed to me the
other day, which was so palo and thin, that I tho't
it was the ghost of some I spilt once when mv
mother caught me stealing meat off the g.idiron."
An proprialion of $-.',000 has been mad
e ov
t
the Io .arolina Agricuitur S -cieiy
prove its exhibition ground at Raleigh.
to im-
In v and Nierht.
The perpetual daylight ol the short Arctic sum
mer ranks among the great wonders of those
regions. Its singularity has often been described,
hut probably never so well or so lorcibly as by
Dr. Knne:
44 At first the novelty of this great unvarying
day made it pleasing. It was curious to see the
midnight Arctic sunset into sunrise ; and pleasant
to find that, whether you ate or slept, or idled or
toiled, the same daylight was always there. No
irksome night forced upon you its system of com
pulsory alternation?. 1 could dine at midnight,
sup at breakfast time, and go to bed at noon-day ;
and but, for an apparatus ol coils and cogs, called
a walch, would have been no wiser and no worse.
My feeling was at first an extravagant sense of
undefined relief, of some vague restraint removed.
I seem to have thrown off the slavery of hours.
In fact I could hardly realize its entirety. The
astral lamps, standing, dust-covered on our lock
ers (I am quoting the words of my journal,) pu
zled me, as things obsolctn and fanciful. This
was instinctive, perhaps ; but bye-and-bye came
other feelings. The perpetual light, garish and
unfluctuating, disturbed me; I became gradually
aware of an unknown excitant, a stimulus, acting
constantly, like the diminutive of a cup of strong
coffee. My sleep was curtailed and irregular;
my meal-hours trod upon each others heels ; and
but for stringent regulations of my own imposing,
mv routine would have been completely broken
up. My lot had been cast in the zoneol lirioden
drons and sugar maples, in the nearly midway
kl it rude of 40 deg. 1 had been habituated to day
and night; and every portion of ihese two great
divisions had for me its periods of peculiar associa
tion. Even in the tropics I had mourned the
lost twilight. How much more did I miis the
soothing darkness, of which twilight should havs
been the precursor ! I began to feel, with more
of emotion than a man writing for others likes to
confess to, 'how admirable, as a systematic law, is
the alternation of day and night words that type
the two great conditions of living nature, action
and repose. To those who, with daily labor, earn
the daily bread, how kindly the season of sleep I
To the drone who, urged the waning daylight,
hastens the deferred tusk, how fortunate that his
procrastination has not a six months' morrow !-
To the brain-workers among men, the enthusiasts,
who bear irksomely (he dark screen wh'ch falls
upon their day-dreams, how benignant the dear
night blessing, which enforces reluctant rest.
G f i n n ell IL.rpcd it ion.
Elements of Success In Bnslncs.
What are they ? Knowledge to plan, enterprise
to execute, and honesty and truthfulness to govern
all. Without these elements without them deeply
impregnated on his nature, no man can conduct
any business successfully. Without them, ho is
like a ship that has lost its rudder, or nn engine
that has no regulator. With them, success is
certain as sure as the decrees of destiny. But
with them, there are other qualities which must bo
considered. A man must not waste his life away
in small things, il he would achieve honor or
renown. He must strike boldly, lay out gigantic
plans, follow great thoughts, and drive them, curbed
by reason, to a successful issue, as he would drive
noble steeds to the end of a journey. He must
have the boldness to grasp, the vigor and intelli
gence to execute. He must look above the or
dinary ideas of those in (he same business as him
self, and attain an eminence far above them one
they may have observed, but had not courage and
resolution to nscend.
It is a trite saying that some men are gn at be
cause their associates are little. A bragging
captain of country miliiia, a spouting demagogue,
and the chief of a half exterminated horde oi
savages, nre all examples of the truth of the ob
servation. None of these must be emulated ; none
of the traits of their characters must be held :p as
model.-i. A man who would acquire fume in the
present age of social and political progression,
must not be behind the times. He must not live
in the past, but in the future. He must not only
he a thinking man, but a working machine know
how lo form great plans, and how to put ihem into
force. Mind must be the monarch of matter, and
annihilate time and spare. Man should not be an
animal, nor a mere machine of flesh and blood
he is a child of God, and should copy from his
Maker! He should not be a mere earth-worm;
but live as befits a being with a highly gifted and
immortal soul !
There are men who peddlo sand to gain their
bread there are others who just as easily build
cities, create kingdoms, and revolutionize one
fourth of ihe world. One of the first sect drives
an old horse and cart before your door, unloads
his sand, carries it into the cellar and deposits it
in a bin, pointed out by a greasy looking servant
girl, and chalks the number of measures down
with a smile of satisfaction, as he wipes the sweat
from his brow. A member of the other, sits by
his fireside, reads the news, and sends a vessel
wiih a valuable cargo up the Mediterranean to run
the blockade of the Baltic, and give him a clear
profit of fifty thousand dollars ! Both are men
nothing more or less. Each has bones, flesh and
muscle ; eyes to see, and ears to hear; and per
haps in all physical respects one is just as well
provided for as the other. Where, then, lies the
difference? fiol in the body, but in the mind.
nna rules matter. Une lives by a sort ol an
animal instinct, and is a sort of a living automa
ton ihe other lives by calling into exercise the ail
powerful faculties of an immortal soul, and is a
possessor, in an humble degree, of the power aud
magnitude that characterizes his God ! T. E.
A woman was giving evidence in a certain case,
when sh-j was asked by the lawyer
4 Was tho voung woman virtuous previous to
this affair ?"
Was she what ?"
'Viriuotis. Was she chaste ?'
4-Chased? She was chased about a quarter of
a mile."
Thk Roao to Heaven. A pedlar, calling p
j an elderly lady, recently, to dispose of eonv
goods, in his conversation inquired if she con
tell htm of any road that no pedler had ever
traveled.
44 Yes 1 know of one, and only one, which no
pedler has ever traveled, (the pedlar's conn
tenance brightened,) and that is tho road to H-a-
Veil."