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. BY SHEBMAN D. BICHABDSON.
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-No mansion is mine with a costly design,
, r Rising up ttjth grand pillars and towers
But a pot by the' wayunpainted and gray
J 1 ild the ineTered ' hedges ' and
k-VjnrbblTC,:tT'5 -"''-'"''
-Tet I pas v.bjr the gate t of .the wealthy
' j o.ahd great, . ' . ; '
Vitii neverla sigh for their store, r
For i know I shall find at the cottage of
- ''mine,- j' - v- 1 ; ' :
- A smile anc ; a kiss at the door. .l
r-' - . r:". v -- . ! "
Tho' weary my feet from the toil and
the heat, ' ; -
As I labor on day after day,
TTet this my song when the shadows grow
' long,- .
And the evening tints melt into grey ;
Vhat care t for toil," or the weary tur-
r.moUj . . ' ,
'i nat toe imure may naveme in store,
.With my heaien on faith, with its love-
: giiardec hearth,
And a smile and a kiss at the door?"
-,: - .y,-r .
No king oh a ;hroue has the worth that
" ' Iowu, . t' "
Or pleasure!, that I can command ; :
For the gold-laden crown makes the
. H , brow- w ear a f rown - - ' '
And wealth strikes palsied, the hand.
Then- away "with a life of contention and
' strife,
Tl?o the world should
be waiting be-
fore;!
Give me loye) in t a
cot," and content-
- ment my lot,
And a smile
and a kiss at the door.
Fur the Torch-Light
Tfc Great EriL
. rr
way. cau
yoiirig men
who consider them
selves the j very soul of etiquette,
the life of 'society go to a party or
any 'private
euieruiiumeni oi tue
: driuking-there we'll
term, without drink-
kind withou
use the true
in it. Welti
rip not condemn all that
io, hut there are some, as even
one knows5, , who go not for the
eujoyment o: 'social intercourse but
for the sole purpose of getting hap
pav as they call it, over the bottle
slyly ' passeq around. To these
cliieflv we d
irecc our remarics. -right
to use ardent
If it was
smrits at all
11 why do you pollute
the presence
ot ladies with your
why turn the house
foul breath,
of your.hoet
into a Pandemonium.
' If you take I it for your health's
sake, go to ypur. rooms and do not
disgrace youbelf before thewprld,
but best not jat all, for, it contains
a poison. i'Yjou may say, "We on
ly took a glass of wiile to heigh t
eri;our : spirits, io j awaken pur vi-
. yaqity that -ve . may appear the
more. brilliant before the women.'
Vn3 theb the old story is enact
ed, fone glass ' opens the way for
another, and another; until your
brain is clogged, you reel,, and
yhen f consciousness returns you
suffer the mortification of having
been carried out' drunk, sunk low
er ;thah a bruto, from the presence
of those, whqs4 respect and ailmir
'ratidn-you'jwiihedi-to"''win;:';f Soct
ety, fa. polluteji by your presence.
You sin ianst God ' when you
; abtise the faculties lie - has given
tou. ' ; Tb en I wKv ; persist ' in it ?
Can'i you leave home with the de
terminfltioo - not to touch ; liquor
for ''at. least Itwen.ty four " hours ?
HaYen' yo strength ? IBas Jt
such po:r tl'er you that - you are
as babejn ihe Jaws of alion ?
Iercise ; &o$r manliness. - Keep
your true selves free from the con
taminatipg cup, if hot Tor all time
4jetwhUe:tbin into the pure
iiild trntAinted -Eociety i of ladies.
-2iButf there; idre tWp sidest & 'very
me. It has"! been1 1 kaid : ah d'.per-
taps too truly that the I adi es,o er
the'who call? themselves' ladies,
are thecausa. 6f :mtich of. this I party-
rjnbin ; hat '.ci3f: top few; , of
i j
them- flisapprqvc cf it,. and -thus t
23 tcouragedf by ib not bclag'di-
tentions of those flushed with wine,
1U, UiClCIUtC IU IUC , BUUtl it LIU
sensiDie man, regaraing mm as
dull ; when he is really ten' times
wiserthan the winerbibher. Ladies
you wrho do this, : is this right?
Do you' wish' to marry ; drunkards
and weep widows' tears over
drunkards' graves.; : "Why then
do you nourish the plant that will
ultimately, yea too soon, bear
fruits more poisonous than the
tempting hemes of the Night
shade t You ; hold , the magic
touchstone. 'Apply it aright, and
see as the result benefits both
morally an d socially. .
i ; Quercus.
j Built' of Sea-Shells.
I've juit heard of a very won
derful thing. The houses and
churches and palaces of the big
and beautiful city -oj:' Paris are al
most all made of Sea- Shells I
This is how it happened: Some
handreds of thousands of years
ago, the waters of the ocean rollT
ed over the spot where farisi now
stands. Under the ocean waves
lived and, died- millions and mil
lions 'and' millibhs of tiny sea-h ell
animals.! ' By-ari d-bye; after a great
great many -years, the ocean' wa
ters no longer rolled over this spot
and the very, very big piles I
might say, indeed, the mountains
of dead shells were left for the
sun to shine onthe winds to blow
ofy i and the rain to fall, on for
many centuries ' more, till the
shells hardened into rocks. Then,
after hundreds, and hundreds of
years- more,' men came and began
to build houses. . They dug in the
earth, and found the sea-shell
stone, With : which they built the
beautiful houses and churche;s and
palaces for which Paris i3 so fa
mous. And yet the pnor little
sea-shells that lived and died so
long ago never get the least bit of
credit for all that they did for the
fine city. - Perhaps, though,' they
don't care. At any rate,' we will
remember them and that will be
something. v-- 'Jf - ;
: While we are talking about this
matter, it may : be well to remem
ber that a great many of the rocks
in different parts :of the world
were made of sea-shells I and fresh
water "shells;1 in just 1 about the
same ivay that the stone of Paris
came to be ready for I the builders.
. :
" ' 7egetaljle:Pmis.; ; :'
, Why shoul d the Bean kqep a
head of all other, vegetables ? Be
cause it has its'pole Lowell Cout
ner. y s:
The bean has its pole, but in
the vegetable race the cabbage is
always sure' to 'come in' a head.:
Boston Advertiser! ni -
: ; Hold I ; Don't you tnow the car
rot is never beat Boston Herald.
. It might not have heat if it had
not have been pulled up suddenly.
But as the s whole thing is likely
to be - run : into -the ground, we
shall i wait for something else tb
turn up; Boston: Advertiser.
Such jokes are too cumberous
mr health1 this weather. . Let us
have peafieN. " Y- Herald: 1
1 nIf this thiiiggoes on much long
er th6 rwhole vegetable race - will
exclaim, lettuce aloue.Kew Bed
ford Standard.
Re garden such jokes, it may
be said they are getting to be like
digging potatoes-up-hill-work.-
Advertiser. V- -J."- 1 -
- -.Then squash them and be done
with it-Gonffreffationaust.
r The truth will -sometimes leek
out. We own the ,corn we are
beetRural Messenger, v v v - j
-It is ithyme'this yegetable"
subject was jendeo-as it. is a green.
One. . r-rr--:r rr
,cOrDoibca;deotist;
inccrt natural tcoth.fi x ;0 -
An Uavetes edfellov..
- . ( - r -
I wandered about the town the
rest: of the .' day watching the
lazy .negroes and pid not return tp
myrhouse till after dark. - -. j :
1 struck a i matcn and set nre to
a torch to go to bed by, and cast
ing my eyes about to se& if any
thing had been disturbed noticed
something glittering and shining
under my akeko or low bamboo
bedstead. Iidid'. not pay much
attention to the subject, ; which
did ''not seem important by tbje
dim light of the torch, till, just as
J approached the2 bed H arrange
it, I saw that the glitter was pro
duced by the, shining scales of an
enormous serpent, which lay qui
etly coiled up. in .two 'feet of me.'
My first motion was to retreat, be
hind the door ; then ; I bethought
me to kill it. j , ;f . j.
But, unfortunately, my two guns
were set against the wall, back of
the bed, and the' snake was be
tween ine and them. As I stood
watching and: thinking what, to
do, keeping the doorway; fairly in
my fear for- a A speedy retreat, :'I
noticed' that ; my; visitor did 1 not
move and 1 finally :inustered up
courage to creep ' along ' the floor
to the bedside and quickly grasped
one gun.;. I placed ; the - muzzle
fairly against one of the coils of
the serpent, fired, and then ran
out. At the report there was an
instant rush of negroes from all
sides, eager to know what : was
the matter.,, They thought some
one had shot a man and then ran
in the house tor concealment . Of
course, they rushed in belter skel
ter and as quick rushed out again
on finding a great snake writhing
about the floor. Then I went in
cautiously, to. reconnoitre. Hapr
pily, my torch" had kept, alight
and I saw the snake on the floor,
j My shot had been so closely
fired that it cut the body fair in
two and both ends were now flop
ping about the iloor. I gave the
head some blows with a heavy rod
and thus killecl the1 animal. , and
then, to my surprise, it disgorged
a duck, .which ' it had probably
swallowed that afternoon and . then
sought shelter Jn my ,hut to digest
it. quietly. ' ' f Pretty steepiug
"companion ii. Sd eignteen feet
in length. I-must confess that I
dreamed more than once of ser
pents that night, "for they are my
horror. Adventure , in AfAca,
Thirty -Centuries Old.
' The oldest relic of humanity ex
tant' is the skeleton of the earliest
Pharoah , encased in' its original
burial fobes aud Ayonderfully per
fect, considering its age, which
was dep6sitedbout three hundred
years ago in the British museum,
and is justly considered the most
valuable of its archasolgicai treas
ures the royal mummy was in
scribed with the name .of the oc
cupant, Pharoah Mykerimus, who
succeeded the heir of the great
builder of the 1 pyramids, about
ten centuries before Christ. Only
think of it! The monarch whose
crumbling bones and . deadly . in
teguments are now exciting the
wonder of numerous f gazers ' in
London, reigned in Egypt before
Solomon was "born, and about
eleven centuries or so after Mesri
ainV the grand-son of old Father
Noah, and the; first of the ; Pha
rpahs, . had been gathered to his
fathers ! Wh v. the tidemarks of
the dejuge could hardly baye been
obliterated pr , the gppher wood
knee rtimbers- of , the, . Ark , have
rotted on ".Mount Ararat, when
this man of the ' early world lived
and " moved and. had his .beings
and thedate ofthe-cnicifiction is
only about i midway i r between ;his
era. and ours. i :i. u ',:::-.iO
7
The Wise Choice, cf a Wei "
He that findeth a true wife,
findeth'a treasure whose beauty
and lustre not even the shadaw of
death can J dimi It has 1 oftn
seemed strange to : me that ' men
are so blind iii their 'choice ' of
companions. In this they, some
times seem jto .be the weaker sex,
for they'yieid to delibefateiy.plan
hed schemes 1 and; in 1 the face of
an r uhbappy ' lot, 1 take 1 painted
dolls! oraifelmena share, the,
"better j or worse." ': 1 ' ! ' V
; And yet, after after all, as thp
responsibility rests ! more on him;
it! may be a harder thing, than we
are. a ware of, to find one whose
price is above rnbies. ; There ex
ists such an artificial state of soci
ety. ( Beauty is ranked so high,
and the'graces are so indispensi
ble, that homelyjn-door life loses
its ehiefest - eharm, and woman
pecomes a; creature; of wayward
ness and prettiness, that must be
aressea ana pettea; ; m order to
er in smnes ana aecent nu-
5 Most young mehthinlof an es
tablishment, and somebody must
preside Of whom they are proudi-
They loVeto hear 'their friends say :
" Well, L ; has a fine1 wife a
woman -worth having; she plays
and sings, she talks agreeably, and
altogether. makes a sensation."
jBiit when Irbuble come?, where
is the strong helperthe courage
ous spirit ? Those modest home
bodies, who seem so tiinid and
backward who oversee the hum
ble' household, and ask no praise
but that of a husbands heart who
shine but little at parties, but are
the stars1 of home these are the
wives for the trials ,of earnest life.
Their love is Ihe rock never shak
en by the tempest. ; ; ' ' '
L Lest Love.
"She loved him for himself "
Perhaps that wasn't her fault r Birt
the fact was he had nothing else
to; be loved for.': She married
him., And still she loved' him for
himself ; He gave her -not so
much as a single .dollar to aid on
her love Last week he returned
hpme.full of wbiskey as a barrel;
and undertook to assert his manly
sway in too; violent a way.! Tin
fact, .he deliberately punched her
in the eye, This was what turned
her love to gall and made her
take up the wash-board, . on which
she earned her .own and his sup
port, and belabor him with, in un
til; therP was very little of the
board left; and Ijis head looked
like a. pumkin 'Jwhich boys ; had
been using as a; foot. .'ball. Now
he earns' a living for himself anil
wife; Siic are some of the in
consistaricies of the humane femi-
A Beautifol Prayer.
A poor Irish woman - asked a
wealthy lady j the owner of a beau
tiful flower garden in Detroit for
a flower or; two to put on the coffin
of her j dead child.: The'goodlady
invited her to .be seated, and very
shortly brought a magmheent
Cross and wreath. The afilicted
pne was overcome, and as Boon as
fehe was able to i express - herself
she said most fervently, : May
bur blessed Redeemer meet you
at the gates of heswehwith a
crown i of flowers more beautiful
than these" a -most touching
prayer, in which many Svjll jpm
the afflicted inother.: t f l: 1 !
'" 'Caa't ird it-
i : Some men can't afford to take
their county paner-r-yet - they can
spend the :amount of a years srib
scri ption in liquor for ? tn6mselve
auu lumr urienus -in pne nay.
Il0W7i that?
A j. 1
- A; Chasce fbr. Saving. . ;..
! lA penny saved j is a penny
earned,": is one of poor Richard's
proyerbs, worth ; remembering by
everybody, .Any of pur readers,
when tempted t to form the habit
of smoking, will do well to think
how much they r can save by keep
ihg'put of the iabit' j Here :is a
moderate estimate : ot the saving :
A young gentleman .of my slq-
quairitance concluded to - cbm -
mence 'smoking cigars on hs
tventieth: birthday; thus Tesolved,
cigars on nis
that he wpuld : never, exceed eight
per week,' nor pay more, than , ten
cents each; for them. .1 asked him
to reckon how much money would
be saved by the time he was sixty,
if he should place the eighty cents
per week in the savings bank ev
ery six months, and let it he there,
drawing seven per cent. : interest.
Being' quick at figures He made
the calculation,' ':and j foundu:the
amount to be eight tto'iisand three
hundred and eleven1' dollars. . f U ut
that, in your pipe andf smoke it,"
young.man. : a .. j , , ,
Sharp: Wit
Lord Chesterfeldand'ypltaire
were 4 two of the : inost briijiant
wits and talkers of the last centu
rv, and! . both of . them' I indulged
their wit at the expense of the la-I
dies, when absurd fashions Tuled
in dress and in paintitlg- , J :
Lord1. Chesterfield happened " to
be at a ball in France where Vol
taire was one of the guests. The;
former was gazing about the bril
liant circle of ladies,' when Voltaire I
accosted him with ,4-
"Mv lord, I know vou ar
judge, which are the: most beau-
tiful, the English or the: French
ladies?" : l ;:;
a "Upon my word," replied his
iordshipnvith' his hsual presence
of mihd, I am no connoisseur of
painting.'' f ' i y
Some time after this, Voltaire,
being in London, went to"a no
bleman's "ball with Lord-Chestsr-
field. A , lady in . the company,
prodigiously painted, directed her
wnoietiiscourse j to jvonaire, ana
entirely r engrossed herconversa-
tion. Chesterfield came up, and
tapped, him on the shoulder say-
"Sir, take care you are not cap-
tivated." .v:: y--::v
My lord," replied the French
wit scorn, to bel taken by: an
English vessel under J?rench col-
Ore." . - .i : h ... -
; - The: Nineteenth; Century x '
. In 1807, Fulton took out the
first patent for the invention of the
steamboats I r-v. XJTinhi
The: v first steamboats ; which
made regular trips across the ; At
lantic Ocean were thej Sinus and
the Great Western in 1838."
i5-In'1813 the streets of London
were for the hrst time lighted
with gas. ,
j h About the year T 182, the ; first
railroad . in the. United States was
Completed.' ' ' ' T' V j" " ' ,
In 1840 the first experiments in
photography i were made . by Da
guerre. ! j .'j.'-f;;-':
, nThe anthracite coal business may
be said to have begun in 1820.
In 1836 the first patent tor the
invention of matches was granted.
In'1844 the first " telegram was
Sent! -.I':;;; liU ihu'H i
- The first successful i; trial ; of a
reaper took r place in 1833. c
In 1845 Elias Howe obtained a
patent for his first sewing machined
3," Johnny what do you ex
pect to do for-a living -.when you
get fcrbe a man ?" fWell, I reck
on'TU get "married - and board
with my wife's mother." 1 "h ! .
-' ; ; mmm" ' ; :
JC'SubscriKG to this paper.
Ifagthe Best cf it
hlAn infuriated father, whose
daughter liad eloped with the maul
oflher choice, followed the coupleN
to Portland, Oregan, and finding
thetn at a hotel went for h&.WR-in-;
lawtooth and nail. Tlie' . young
man hit back, and in the eiiooun
ter that followed u the old one got
the worst of itr On the principal
that map never knows howi to -pre:
iate his opponent until he is trash-
ea nv nim. tt(. taTner-m ijiw nifir-
ed by him, the fatherrin:law pick
ed himself up and acknowledged
thaVlie had obtained a son after
hisfown heart. :Ih. the presence
of aigoodly number ', of persons',
wboliad , been attracted . to the
scene by the unregulated screams
of the young wife, the old man'
sliook the young man by?. the
hand, . took ; his ; children in his
armk,,and as s beautiful a denoue
ment was presented as greeiibaize
ciirtain ever descended ujwu. "
- fv' SInts to 'Tamers. f;iuifi-;
t i '
;I)on't buy a piano for your
ddgUters while your eons lieed f,
iDon't let
vour.
horse be sec:i
staijding at the tavern door.' It
doirt look right- r
" jippii't give the merchant r.
ch'aiide tp dun ybu. P-mpt pay
ment makes independout men;
3Cciep good fences ; they promote
good fieeliugg-between neighbors
j Itcent and substantial clothing:
for your children malccs them
thiulp better of .tli.n. jlveri, aud;
keej the doctor nwuyF
I)pn't8tarve your h::idif you do
it vvijl grow lean. . .. ,
t V:-
Do not keep mere live stock on
voUrrpiace than vou can", keep
4
"It is an exploded theory'
says ine who speaks with knovyl
edge; "that women dress to please
men.
Tli
drc:3
to please or
Anv girl' of.
ie knows that
man's heart in
each i
a-
seiise and exj A,m
it iseasy tb br . a
a$2 muslm. -atlv
ma i
up, a3it
is in a ' j gu.i ccr.tume inaao uy
a nlanL. :.:;:':or." It is, in fact,
a great r1 1 ic : That natural
cham :oi a youi; i : 1 I
stroved by c -: . ivo
eft en dc-
Mep like tasteful, n xtravi-
gaht toilets; and1
uress among worn
catch a beau, but '
euniv.
n
:U
a rue
J Mill. Car
FifrhvBalla,
sbpjC)hior A;
to speak upon
the author of
Hured ut ilud
loct'.. l: waV'
tic t:iem'j.i it
to , tlie zvbr
wa thought be
teetputof compl :
jeci and the leac.
ir.Jtistry of
)lcndid"di
" domestic;
" Tf -
themlace.to make ;
piav oi ineir leao
product. ' According
weife' no chairs in the
seafled with a thousantl i
cheese boxes, tastefully iu
in qtCadruple rows ; the p4
wa garnished in like maniic
to pap the climax of domestic -prcpriateness,
a pyramid of solid
cheese was improvised for a table,
andj a seat for the speaker , and '
olficers of the evening; also for
thej band. -This, arrangement
gav a peculiar - pungency to the
atmosphere in that part of the hall
where he spoke. V f -
r. TraL Kow is the time when the'
gentle rhubarb is in bloom and
pie eauce. frbm it are in order.
The housewife's recipe is to "put in
twjccj as much sugar ai there is
rhubarb.;': Then put in r : much
again and shut your eyes, and
ehoyil in as much mere" as. yo a r
con;ienc will let vou."
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