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LET tl TRY TO BE HAPPY. Let us try to be happy ! We may, if we will, Find some pleasures in life to o'erb&lance the ill; There never was an evil, if well understood, But what, rightly managed, would turn to a goad. If we were but aa ready to look to the l.ight As we are to sit moping because it is night, We should own it a truth, both in word and in deed, That who triqe to be happy is sure to succeed. Let UB try to be happy ! Some shades of re gret Are sure to hang round, which we cannot for get; Tiiere are times when the lightest of spirits must bow, And the sunniest face wear a cltiud on its brow Wo must never bid feelings, the purest and best, Lie blunted and cold in our bosom at rest; But the deeper our own griefs the greater our need To try to be happy, lest other hearts bleed. Let us try to be happy ! It is not for long We shall cheer on each other with counsel or U Bong; . , * If wo make the best of our time that we may, TUMO is much wo can do to enliven the way; oim in earnestness each do our best, our conscience, and trust for trud? both in word and in deed, That who tries to be happy is supo to aucueed. I.uxnrioiiH Editorial Kooiu*. The Figaro each day is an epitome of the mosj; readable to be nothing more—and"it fulfills its mission admirably. It is a sensational paper in a country of sensations. The Fiyaro is one of the best lodged, and perhaps one of the best organized newspapers in France. Its office in the ltue Drouout is a miniature palace, in which .no appliance of comfort or convenience is wanting. It stands wedged in between the odd houses of the street, a veritable gem of renais sance architecture. You enter under its frescoed portals and find yourself in a vestibule that might for any diflerence in its arrangement be the entrance to some elegant private mansion. A mag nificent stairway, half covered with growing plants and statues, ascends to 1 he second story, where are the editorial nnd the private offices of M. de Ville -nessant, the presiding genius of the ;>aper. And such editorial rooms ! No >arnlike makeshifts such as I have seen n America. Quiet little nooks for the »ditorfl, stuffed arm-chairs for the re porters, plate-glass, gildings, tapes i ries, and paintings everywhere. And here, too, is the fencing-room, au ele i;ant apartment, hung with jute tapes tries ; it is an armory with as many nwords as there are editors, and here «ach day from 3 to 5 o'clock a professor of fenoing comes, and each editor has his lesson.— Boston Advertiser. An luliappy Attachment. A painful scene occurred in a church in Backs Township, Ohio, a few Sun days ago. The church had lately un dergone repair. Among other improve ments a new ooat of paint was placed on the pews, followed by a ooat of var nish. The result was most pleasing to the eye ; but, unfortunately, the var nish had been applied so late in the week that it had not had time to be come hard before Hunday, when the congregation flocked to their seats. No apparent inconvenience was suffered until the clergyman was about to de liver the benediction, when the congre gation ware horrified to find that they were unable-to stand up ; thej were, in fact, glued, or rather varnished to their seats. Their spasmodio efforts to rise were most distressing to witness; in '*in did the clergyman exhort them 'turn the pulpit to resignation. They wc re seized with a kind of panic, all the more frightful because they were for thu moment powerless ; at last, by what seemed to be a simultaneous ana her culean jerk, they managed to tear themselves from their sittings ; but at what a sacrifice I The pews were liter ally covered with fragments of Sunday apparel. Shredß of silk, lawns, calioo, b •oadclotb, and oassimeres were left as souvenirs of the varnish used in beauti fying that church, and the hapless con g-egation, rushing from the doors, h irried homeward with an expression o I their faces as though their hearts w ere even more severely rent than their g irments. What Am I Uooa Far ? Remember the parable of the talents —>ne had ten, another five, another tiro, and another one. So it is among is en to-day. Our "talents" may be oompared with money, with education, acquired art, natural gifts, or with an opportunity to do good. If we use our one, two, or five talents to the best of our ability, we shall be accepted, and earn the approval of Him who judges righteously. Are we so living to day that we can ask or hope far God's bless ing on the conrse we are pursuing? This is our right; our privilege, and our duty. 'We may oouut our passing mo- VBfcnts as as they may ap- I pear to be uneventful. But "time flies," and we must fly to keep up, or be left - behind ; each second, like the tick of a clock, maites its record. We do not realize this until we oome into middle life or old age, when if our time has been frittered away, we are punished in a "hell" of regrets, for "lost time and and lost opportunity. "—.A tmual of * Phrenology and Physiognomy. - ■ Hardships. A great many men, whatever may have been their experience in life, are aeoostomed to oomplain of the usage thdy have received in the world. They fill the ears of those who hare the mis foi-tune to be their friends with lamen tation* respecting their own troubles. Bt t there is na mMt who is born into a world of tronble; and no man has ever attained to anything like the full stat uro of manhood who has not been ground, aft it wete, to powder, by the ha-dships which he has encountered in Slfit, This is a world In which men were made, not by velvet, but by stone and iron handling 1 * Therefore do not „ grumble, bat eonqaer your troubles. AGRICULTURAL. SATE YOUR OWN SEED.— Every intel ligent tiller of the soil will admit that "whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap." If one sows or plants inferior seed, he cannot oxpect a boun- I tiful crop of- either roots or grain. Small and half-manured kernels of wheat, oats, rye and corn cannot be expected to yield panicles and ears filled with plump and heavy kernels. ! If one plants the seeds of carrots, pars- I nips, turnipß and cabbage which grew i in the small pods and the half-manured panicles on the slender stems, he can not produce large roots, even if the soil has been brought to an excellent state of fertility. This suggests the great importance of raising seed of the choicest quality. | It will cost no more to raise one thou | sand bushels of beets or turnips, per i acre,-than three hundred, if plump and ! heavy seed has been properly saved. J In order to produce large, heavy seed j of garden vegetables, select a few large ! few turnips,' parsnips and beets, Mid plant them in rich soil early jin the growing season. They should ! be planted about thirty inches apart, j that the tops may have ample room to | spread. W hen the blossoms begin to i appear, clip off all the small side branches, leaving only four or five cen tral stocks, I Vhich wilr yield seed of a ! much better quality than one can ns> - ally purchase. Every kernel of mi on seed, when planted, willprc/iluce alarKv root. Turnips and carrots mf« v K "'■> * inclose proximity; but turai.»H un>f carrots designed for seed slu.uM t>f transplanted several rods apart. O u cabbage will yield as much 11s 0,.e family will care to plant, uulhnm h crop ft grown for A superb should be transplanted as it grew. Tu* top of the head should be cut open, so that sprouts or seed-stalk may readily spring up through the center. As soon as the panicles of carrots and parsnips begin to turn brown, and when the pods of cabbage and turnips begin to lose their green color, let the stalks be cut off close to the ground and hung up in some out-building. When the leaves and stems are quite dry, let them be spread on a clean floor, or on a large blanket, and the seed threshed off either with a flail or by crushing the pods with one's feet. In order to have large and early to matoes, the first ripe fruit should be allowed to hang to the vines until the seeds are fully matured. By selecting seed in this manner for a few years to matoes will come to maturity much earlier than in the ordinary way, and every stalk will be loaded with fruit. The melon, squash, encumber and pumpkin that ripen first should be al -1 jwed to hang to the vines until the stems are begin to decay, remove the seeds, spread them on a board or a canvas to dry. The vitality of such seeds is fre quently destroyed by too much solar beat, or by being scorched beneath the kitchen stove. Flowers will be maturing their seed at different periods through the entire growing season. The seeds of some flowers will ripen in Jane, while others will not ripen till September or October. It will require but a few minutes to at tend to the cultivation and gathering of all the seeds on 6 may need, if he will attend to the little matter at the proper time. GAS LIME.— Gas lime, that is lime that has been used in purifying gas, is thought by many farmers to be worth as much or more as a fertilizer, as it was before its use as a gas purifier. It is a substance often neglected about here, but we have known of its some what extensive use in the neignborhood of New Haven, Conn., and there it was quite satisfactory as applied in the way of a top dressing on rough pasture. As it oomes out of the gas works it is in a powdered condition, and is usually very highly charged with ammonia. In this condition it is quite different from the oaustic or fresh slacked lime, such as we flnd it in casks, but is perhaps equal in efficiency to that. It is use ful to mix in a course compost heap made of weeds, leaves, scrapings, &a It is also valudpe on stiff clay soils, where it may be spread over the surface and left time or plowed or harrowed in. We would spread it freely on cold mossy pastures. Gas lime retains a portion of its orig inal character as a liydrate of lime, but it has acquired, in addition to that, a large amount of sulphur, a portion of which is in a free state, and if exposed it will unite with the oxygen of the at mosphere, but if there oomes in con tact with it any ammoniacal substance, or fresh manure, it will unite an£-form l sulphate of amfnonia, and this iQ valu i able for the crop. It may be applied j alone with barnyard manure if imme- I diately covered up with soil.— Massa chusetts Ploughman. Do NOT CHEAT YOUB HORSES.— Most domestic animals are as keenly alive to their own interests as a man of busi ness. They can make bargains, stick to them, and make you stick to them also. I have a little mare who used too require six men to catch her in me pasture, but I carried corn to her foiLa long time without trying to take her, leaving the corn on the ground. Next, I induced her to eat the corn whilst I held it, stilf leaving her free. Finally I persuaded her to folluw me, and aow she'll come trotting half a mile at m> whistle, leaping ditches, fording brook * in the darkness and rain, or in impent trable fog. She follows me like a «l«»g to the stable and I administer the corn there.—But it is a bargain. How TO MAKE HENS LAY —An RX change mentions a very nnoc* *»tul pr«>- dnoer of poultry and eggs wliohe In ut> lay regularly the year round. Ti>« hens are of Tarious breeds, and their profit is credited to the manner of feed ing, as follows; Not one partiole of mett or scraps iB given, and bnt the veriest trifle of vegetable food is fed in the shape of new boiled potatoes, abcut once a week. Abundanoe of grain is allowed, of Tarious sorts, ground or unground, J>ut never oooked. and plenty of unbumt oyster shell pounded, are at all times accessible. They have a pailful of skimmed milk every day, so that they can help them selves to all they want, BO other drink being provided. sciumnc. THE SUPPOSED CAUSE OF SMALL-POX AND TYPHOID FEVER. —For many years, in fact, since it was understood by men of science that the changes which we call "fermentation" were due to the growth of very lowly organized fungi in | the fermenting liquids, medical men 1 and physiologists haveHiad the notion that certain diseases, those of the ! zymotic class, such as scarlet and I typhoid fevers and small-pox; may be ' due also to the growth and activity ! within the blood and tissues of the ; human body, of lowly organized fungi. | Many times individuals have fancied i that they really had found the fungus belonging to a particular disease. Thus it was with the so-called cholera fungus j and again with other contagious dis eases. More recently it, has become a | demonstrated scientific fact, that all ] putrefaction is due to the life of minute i organisms known as Bacteria ; and it I has been shown that there is a series of ; varieties of putrefaction, each of which has its special and appropriate Bacte j rium as the cause, and that in the ab : sence of Bacteria or allied organism, I putrescible substances remain perfectly j sweet. Thus, in some putrefactions, one kind of smell and corresponding ! foetid chemical substances are pro ; duced ; in other putrefactions other i such foetid substances of a distinct kind. Moreover, in some cases, the | -pecial kind of Bacterium at work pro | a -t-s a vivid coloring matter, red, or ««-i), or blue, according to the spe- No# thfcffe discoveries have helped considerably the acceptance of the | »lit?.>i v that many diseases are due to the |.resence®dp the" human body of j minute organisms. Jußt as there are ■ i color producing Bacteria, that is to Di'iteria, the effect of whose life •■I i iuiiU iplication in the blood or other fluids of the tissues is to produce poi sonous ciiemical conditions in those fluids. There are certain diseases in which Bacteria have been detected in great quantity in the blood, and to which we are justified theoretically in attributing the disease. In the lower animals, among silk-worms and other very humble creatures, such diseases have been very clearly traced to the presence of enormous numbers of ex cessively minute and simple corpuscles, whioh are of a similar nature to that of the minute fungus-like organisms known as Bacteria. In man, there is no doubt that the terribly fatal disease, known as malignant pustule, is accompanied by, and probably caused by, enormous numbers of a minute Bacterium. This fact has been established within the last two or three years, as also the fact that pyaemia—the pntrefaction of the blood whioh follows after putrefac tion of wounds—is equally connected with the presence of swarms of Bacteria in the blood. Again, the swiftly fatal and little known pyromic condition which so recently took from us a most able physician, Dr. Anstie, was in all probability another of these Bacterious diseases. Now these facts stand upon much surer and more numerous obser vations than any of the "fungoid theo ries" of disease which have before engaged the attention of medical men. We are really beginning to see light in this matter. But must important of all, and claiming really the very closest attention at this moment, are the re cently published disooveries of Prof. Kline, of the Brown Institution in London, aa observer whose character for accuracy and acuteness is so well known, that his statements may be accepted with full reliance. Dr. Kline has shown, and can still show by means of his prepared microsoopic sections, that in the small-pox of the sheep the lymphatic vessels in the loose tissues beneath the skin and elsewhere are oocupied bv the branching filaments of a fungus-like organism. In the pustules which form on the surface these fila ments give nee to minute rounded spores, and it 'is these spores which have been seen by other observers and recognized as special "corpuscles" of the diseases small-pox and vaccinia. Dr. Kline's acoount of this organism is published by the Royal Society. Fur ther, Dr. Kline has extended his re searches to other zymotic diseases, and has published this month his results as " to typhoid fever. He has made the most careful microscopic study of the intestines, which become ulcerated, and are the chief seat of mischief in typhoid. Dr. Kline finds that minute round yel lowish-green colored organisms are present in immense quantities, both in the tissues of intestinal wall and in the villi on the surface. At present, Dr. Kline "has not published figures of either of these organisms—the fungus oi small-pox or the microoooei of ty- Shoid —but we may have sufficient oon dence in his accuracy as an observer, and his entire freedom from theoretioal prepossession, to acoept the result of these researches as definitely establish ing the parasitic origin of some, at any rate, of the zymotic diseases.— A the ruxum. DR. D. E. BELLESMS, in India, has been trying some experiments with the poison of the soorpion, which he ob tained bj irritating the animal The experiments were conducted upon dogs, pigeohs and frogs. The nine-thou- Lsapdth part of a grain of fresh venom, injected into the thigh of a frog, caused the akin to beoome violently inflamed and the animal to die in fifty-Beven minutes. On examining the blood microscopically nnder the influence of ! Mitt |oison, it was found that the cor pm. Irs were strangely deformed, and • bey tapidly became agglomerated into vi on* masses, running into each other. Tlij inaction of the blood is thus de -1 ftroyn.l, and death in one of the most ! »gou t!Dg forms must ensue. ■' m m | JAI'.VNI HK BBONZE. —A curious bronze ;IK pr.Hiucvd in Japan, whioh, when ; maue iu thin plates, resembles slate, ami IK rvd with designs in ailver. M. Monn Las Ktely analysed and ex amined the properties of the alloy, and finds that it oontains, in addition to oopper, from 4 to 6 per oeat of tin, and on an average 10 per oent of lead. The combination is easily moulded into thin plates. These an varnished, and through the oovering the designs are scratched with a burin. The plate is then plunged in a silver bath, when the silver is deposited on the unprotected portions. Lastly, the plate is placed in a muffle furnace, when the oopper blackens and the silver remains bright. DOMESTIC. ~ CAKR-SEATED GHAIRS. —When these chairs begin to wear ont, says a lady, the canes split apart, and their appear ance is anything but oramental, while the comfort of the chair is also de stroyed. Now, if we live where they can be reseated at the cabinetmaker's ! and have the money to pay for the i work, we can soon have the chairs again as "good as new." But all who do not live in such lacalities, and all have not the money to replace their seats ; yet a little time and ingenuity will settle the matter right, and make the chairs, in my opinion, better than new, for I do not take much fancy to cane-seated chairs in general. Take any pieces of bagging or burlaps —no matter how coarse—and fit them to the chairs, cutting them large enough to wrap about the rounds that hold the splints or canes. Now sew it on with a darning needle and twine twice doubled, and turn up a hem, as you sew, on the burlaps. When half fitted, stuff it with "excelsior" shaving of poplar wood ; or, if you have them, cut off layers from old quilts ,and spread them smoothly over the chairs, under the burlaps. The layers of cotton can be tacked together before they are put, in, and then they can bo laid more smoothly upon the old canes. Fine hay will also answer for stuffing, when nothing better can be procured. Now sew down the other two sides, and take piecesof carpeting,or enameled cloth, or colored rep, or all wool dress goods, and tack them closely down with large silxered or brass-headed nails which come for that purpose, and be hold ! your chairs are far handsomer and more comfortable than before. The materials have possibly cost you but little, for many an attic would furnish them all, but the nails, which must be procured at the upholsterers. Gimp to match the ground color of the cushion, or even worsted braid, is de sirable to place along the edges of the covering, and drive the nails directly through it. This makes a handsome finish to the oushion. Many a woman possesses as much in genuity as a oarpenter or cabinetmaker, and a little practice will teach her the upholsterer's trade, so that with nails, hammer, and the needful material, she will not only make as good a chair cushion as he, but will be able to cover a lounge respectably, and also an arm chair. Rocking-chairs have ofteu been made far more comfortable than when first purchased by the exercise of this art. In many fatnilies there are dis abled chairs which have been thrown aside as useless, and yet, with but little expenditure, they could be made not only useful, but ornamental, and their presence would be a great addition to the sitting-room. APPLE CHARLOTTE. —This very excel lent and healthy dish is seldom seen, but it has only to be tried once to learn its excellence. The recipe is very simple. Put in a tolerably small bread pan a ptece of butter the size of a walnut, and set it where it will melt; then pare, quarter and core a few ap [)les ; half the quarters ; if they are arge make them in thirds. Now place in the buttered pan as many slices or pieces of bread as will cover the bottom, then a layer of apples, a little sugar and four or five little chips of butter; another layer of bread, another of ap ples, etc., and so on till there is enough for dinner or until the pan is full. Butter the upper layer of bread. If the oven is too hot and browns the top too fast, before the oenter bakes, with a spoon drip a little hot water over it. Serve hot, with or without sauce. A SIMPLE PLAN OF VENTILATION.— The following simple method for venti lating ordinary sleeping and dwelling rooms is recommended by Mr. Hinton in his "Physiology for Practical Use "A piece of wood, three inches high, and exactly as long as the breadth of the window, is to be prepared. Let the sash be now raised, the slip of wood placed on the sill, and the sash drawn oloselv upon it. If the slip has been well fitteid, there will be no draft in consequence of this displacement of the sash at its lower part; but the top of the lower sash will overlay the bottom of the upper one, and between the two ban perpendicular currents of air, not felt as draught, will enter and leave the j room.— Druggist's Circular. THE making of Egyptian air-castles, ont circular by compass, and folded in eight creases to from a globe, furnishes employment for fashionable young ladies of an industrious turn of mind. They are composed of paper of various bright colore, and when formed into globe-shape, are strung upon a oord, five or six different oolors together, and hung in a portion of the room where a gentle current of air will set them in motion. They get "excited" at length, and go whirling around windmill fash ion, eventually all tangled up in a pretty little snarl forming but one globe in appearance. Whoever can understand this should try the amusement by all means. OYSTERS ROASTED. —Wash the shells perfectly clean, wipe them dry, and lay them on a gridiron, the largest side to the fire > set it over a bright bed of ooals. When the shells open wide and the oyßter looks white, they are done ; fold a napkin on a large dish to tray, lay the oysters on in their shells, taking Care not to lose the juice ; serve hot When systers are served roasted at Supper there must be a small tub between each two chairs to receive the ahells, and large, ooarse napkins, called oyster napkins. Serve oold butter and rolls of cracker* with roasted oysters. OYSTER OMELET.— Whisk four eggs to a thick froth, then add by degrees one gill of cream, beat them well to gether ; season the eggs with pepper and salt to taste. Have ready one dosen fine oysters, out them in half ; poor the eggs into a pan of hot butter and drop the oysters over it as equally as you can. COOOANUT CUSTARD. —One quart of new milk thickened with four table spoonsful of oom starch; one-fourth pound of batter; three eggs, beaten separately ; one grated ooooanut. Sugar and spice to the taste. Bake in puff paste. HCMOBOFS. > THE following incident is said to have occurred in a restaurant : A man re cently entered the place and ordered a very elaborate dinner. He lingered long at the table, and finally wound up with a bottle of wine, Then, lighting a cigar he had ordered, he leisurely sauntered up to the counter and said to the proprietor, "Very fine dinner, land lord. Just charge it to me ; I haven't got a sou." "But I don't know you," said the proprietor, indignantly. 0. "Of course you don't. If you had, you wouldn't have let me had the dinner." " "Pay me for the dinner, I say 1" "And I say I can't." "I'll see about that," said the pro prietor, who snatched a pistol out of a drawer, leaped over the counter and collared the man, exolaiming, as he took aim at his head, "now see if you'll get away with that dinner without pav ing for it, you scoundrel I" "What is that you hold in your hand ?" said the impecunious customer, drawing back. "That, Sir, is a pistol, Sir." " "Oh, that's a pistol, is it ? I don't care a fig for a pistol; I thought it was a stomach-pump." A YOUNG Parisian of wealth, who had been playing heavily at his club, where he had lost his last sou, while strolling homeward early the other morning was accustomed by a beggar: "A little charity, if you please." "I have no money," was the reply. "Give me only a small piece of money." "I haven't a farthing," said our young friend. The beggar still persecuted him, and he lost his temper. "Listen," said he to the beggar; "you oan feel my pockets, provided you agree to take what I have and let me take what money you have with you." The beggar did not dare to take up the offer, and hobbled off. A WOE-BEGONE specimen of the Celtic race accosted an officer attached to the New York Tombs Court, the other morning, and anxiously inquired: "Plaze, zur, when will Mariar cum down?" "Come down from where?" said the officer, thinking Maria was a friend of the questionfer, who had got into some legal difficulty. "Cum down to take the prisoners up," was the re sponse. "I want to see her and ask her to be kind to me wife Biddy, who is goin' up on the Island for three months." The man thought the Maria was a female jailor. MR. CURRAN was once engaged in a legal argument. Behind him stood his colleague, a gentleman whose person was remarkably tall and slender, and who had originally intended to take orders. The judge observed that the case under discussion involved a point of ecclesiastical law. "Then," said Curran, "I can refer your lordship to a high authority behind me, who was once intended for the church, though in my opinion, he was fitter for the steeple. . DELICATE COMPLIMENT. —Queen Eli zabeth, admiring the elegance of the Marquis of Medina, a Spanish noble man, complimented him on it, begging, at the same time, to know who pos sessed the heart of so accomplished a cavalier.—"Madame," said he, "a lover risks too much on such an occasion; but your Majesty's will is law. Excuse me, however, if I fear to name her, but request your Majesty's acceptance of her portrait." He sent her a looking glass. HERE is a description of a mean church, which has a moral in it : "After the old pastor died, the deacon went about for a two—hundred and fifty dollar minister, and you can get about as good a minister for that price as you can get psalm tunes out of a file." A COUNTRY newspaper tells this story of a new boy in one of the Sunday schools: "The precious youth was asked who made the beautiful hills about them, and replied that he did not know, as his parents only moved into town the day before." DURING a trial the Judge called a witness. No one answered, and an elderly man arose and solemnly said "he was gone." "Where has he gone?" asked the Judge, in no tender tone "I don't know, but he is dead," was the guarded answer.' "WHY, Ichabod, I thought you got married more'n a year ago?" "Well, Aunt Jerusha, it was talked of, but I found out that the girl and all her folks were opposed to it, and so I just give 'em all the mitten and let the thing drop." A WICKED boy, upon whose shoulders his mother was expressing her resent ment with both slippers, felt too proud to ory, and kept up his oourage by re peating to himself : "Two soles that beat as one.— Brooklyn Argus. A METHODIST minister in Kansas received only fifty cents for his first quarter's salary. And, strange to say, he did not wait for his next quarter's allowance, but fled to some spot where the laborer is worthy of higher.. THE mewl (wrote a school boy) is a larger bird than the guse or turkey. It has two legs to walk with, and 2 more to kick with ; and it wears its wings on the side of its head. It is stubbonly backward about going forward. "How CHABKINQLY naive she is," said a young beau to a crusty old gentleman. "Knave !" exclaimed the latter, gazing through his spectacles toward the co quettish beauty indicated, "I should say more of a fooL" A CALIFORNIA preacher is preaching on the best way to raise boys. We have always found a number 14 boot about as effective as anything for raising them. * ' THE milkmen of San Francisco have formed a mutual aid association. One holds the can, while the other pumps. —New York World. Mr. Wightman and Miss Blackman were reoently married in Brooklyn. YOUTHS' COLUMK. PerseTere. Drive the nail aright, boys, Hit it on the head ; ' ,r "' 1 all your might, boys. While the iron's red. When you've work to do, boys, Do it with a will; They who reach the top, boys, First must climb the hill. Standing at the foot, boyß, Gazing at tjje sky, How can you get up, boys, If you never try ? Though vou stumble oft, boys, Never be downcast. Try, and try again, bovs, 1 ou'll succeed at last. "LITTLE 80-PEEP AND THE DYING CHILD.—I remember when I was nursing in a hospital once, there was a poor little boy about six years old dying of rheumatic fever. I was night-nurse in that ward; and regularly, when the attack of pain came on, he used to S2ream out for me : "Nursey, sing. It hurts me. Sing t ae hurt away." . So then I'd prop him up on my arm ? ing son 8 arter another, from •'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star," to "Black-eyed Susan," till the paroxysm of pain was over, an' he'd quiet down again. I always knew when that was by his joiuin' his voice in too—such a weak pipe of a voice, poor lamb ! but I was better glad to hear it than any music, for it tolled me the pain was gone for awhile, an' I could lie down to sleep again. - Poor wee mite ! I was singing "Lit tle-80-Peep" the night he died. I had him in my arms. He'd been sinking all day, I knew he couldn't last >out another ; an' though he tried to join in as usual, his voice went into a gasp an' broke. I'd been sometimes used to call the children in the ward my little sheep ; an' when I came to the end of the verse— Little 80-Peep Blie lost her sheep, An* doesn't know where to find 'em ! Let 'em alone, an' they'll come home An* bring their tails behind 'em— he looked up into my face with a bit of a smile on his poor little drawn white mouth, and said : "Nursey'll know where to find her little sheep when he goes home. Will I be long going home now, nursey ?" Long ! Ah, poor lamb ! ten minutes Inter, an' he'd gone home. THE RIVEB OP LIFE.—A youth stood o:a the banks of the river of life and gized upon the countless millions of boats whioh crowded its broad surface. Each boat represented a human life, and the port to which all were sailing was eternity. At the wheel of some of the boats stood a shadowy form which guided the vessel through the foaming rapids and past the dark, rising rocks in safety, and kept the prow of the boat always pointed in the right direction. The shadowy form was the good guardian angel of that life, and the evil angel hovered around and overhead, endeavoring by false beacons to draw the boat from its right course ; but the pilot was faithful and true, and the efforts were fruitless. Other boats there were whioh had no pilot, and these were drifted and dashed around at the mercy of the waves. The evil angel showed the false beacon, and these boats were deceived and followed it. On, on they were led, until at last they were dashed upon the rocks and lost. Some of the vessels, even after being wrecked, oalled for a pilot, which even at that late hour was furnished them, and they were brought safely into port. You WILL BE WANTED.— Take courage my lad. What if you are but an hum ble, obscure apprentice—a poor, ne glected orphan—a scoff and a byword for the thoughtless and gay, and de spise virtue in rags beoause of its tatters ? Have you an intelligent mind, untutored though it be ? Have you a virtuous aim, a pure desire and an honest heart ? Depend upon it some of these days you will be wanted. The time may be long deferred—you may grow to manhood, and you may even reach your prime before the call is made ; but virtuous aims/ pure desires and honest hearts are too few not to be appreciated— not to be wanted. Your obscurity shall not always hide as a mantle, obscurity shall not always veil you from the multitude. Be chivalrio. in your combat with circumstances. Be active, however small your sphere of action. It will surely enlarge wtth every moment, and you will have con tinued increasement. THE GARDENEB'S LESSON.—-TWO gar deners had their cropß of peas killed by the frost. One of them was very im patient under the loss, and fretted about it very much. The other went patiently to work at onoe to plant a new crop. After awhile the impatient fret ting man went to his neighbor. To his surprise, he found another crop of peas growing finely. He asked how this could be. "These are what I sowed while you were fretting," said his neighbor. "But don't you fret ?" he asked. "Yes, I do, but I put it off till I have repaired the mischief that has been done." _ t M Why, then you have no need to fret "True," said his friend, "and that's the reason I put it off." A GENTLEMAN in Des Moines owns a very intelligent little dog, which he has trained to bring him his morning paper from the front gate, where it is left by the carrier. The other day some one stole the paper directly after the carrier had left it, and Carlo was greatly mys tified about the matter. Fearing his master's anger if he entered the break fast-room without his accustomed bur dsn, he scoured about in great distress. A happy idea struok him, however, as he espied a journal lying on the door step of the opposite neighbor, and galloping off in high glee, he soon came into the house with ears pricked up and tail briskly wagging, with the stolen prize in his month. It is quite need less to add that his penetration, though misdirected, was rewarded with a bone of extra size. Do BIG® and fear no one; thou jnayat be sure, that, withf all thy con sideration for the~world, thou wilt never satisfy the world.
The Alamance Gleaner (Graham, N.C.)
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March 9, 1875, edition 1
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