Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1848-04-19
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grown up beneath my eye ignorant of all that truly
ennobies and exalts our uature-voniy and love Of
dress the only arm of her existence.
'''I's too late now, Mary" said Mrs Makedoo,
as she in haste TO take her departure 'ts too
late now to undo the deep injury have done my
daughter; if she lives she will have plenty Of
trouble like the rest of u.s. and in her hour of trial
she will perhaps, and justly too, blame her mother
Tor not teaching her better how to meet and bear it.
VIII 60 home and talk to my husband know
his heart will gladden. at the prospect of a reform
IN this matter; he will encourage me 10 do what
is yet IN my power FOR Aramna--a,nd I promise
you my dear Mary, to try and take the rest of Cur
children in good season for their Improvement
! Mothers, who read this, 90 ye and do !ikewisa
How He Rosa TRUE SKErcH.-About
| forty years ago, somewhere in the woods near
the line between Tennessee and Kentucky. in
log cabin sixteen feet by eighteen, which was al
ready occupied by brood of ten or twelve chill
| dren, was born youngster the hero of our sketch
In his infancy he was fed on corn and honinv. bear
meat, and the flesh of such ''wild varmnts'as was
caught In the woods At twelve wears of ape he
: was put out to work with neighbor as farm bow
and drove oxen, hoed corn. raised tobacco i'm sum.
mer, cured it in winter, till he was seventeen wears
old, when ne took to making brick to which he
added the profession OF carpenter; and by these
successive steps in mechanical arts he became able
by his unasslsted skill, TO rear house from
the clay-plt or from the stump and complete il in
all It's parts, and TO do It, too, in that none
of his competitors could surpass. His panel doors
TO this day the wonder and admiration of all the
country, IN which they continue TO swing on hinges
! lie never saw the inside OF a school-house or a
church till after he was eighteen years old Nv
the assistance Of an old man in the neirhborhood.
he learned, during the winter evenings to read and
write, when farm boy Having achieved these
valuable acquisitions by the aid of another all his
other education has been the fruit of his own app-
cation and perseverance, At the ape of twenty
two, he conceived the idea of fitting himselffor the
practice of law. He at first procured an old copy
of Blackstone, and having, after the close of his
daily labors, by nightly studies over pitch knot
fire in his log cabin mastered the contents OF that
compendium of common law, he pursued his re-
searches into other elementary works. And hav-
ING thus, by great diligence, acquired the rudiments
! OF his profession, he met with old lawyer. who
had quit practice, whose practice had quit him,
with whom ne made n bargain for his scanty libra
r.. for which he was TO pay him $3.50 in carpen-
ters work and the chief part of the Job 10 be done
in payment of these old mus,y books was dressing
and laying down oak floor or floors three dollars
per square of ten feet. The library paid for. orr
hero dropped the adze, plane and trowel, and we
soon after hear Of him of the most prominent
members of the Mississippi bar and an able states
man and orator. 81 heard him one day ,"savs one.
''make two speeches in succession, of three hours
in length each, TO the audience, and not
movement testified any WEAKNESS on the part of a
single auditor and during their deiverV the asse,-
bly, seemed swayed by the orator as weeds before
the wind"
That poor farm boy is at the present at Wash
ington, a member of Congress from Mississippi.-
His name is Patrick w. Thompkins He is a self
made man, and his history shows what an humble
boy can do, when he determines to try.-SGt,Hda},
Rambler.
lie BEST JOKE OF OUR TIoIEs.-We have
read the following wondrous legend and must saw
that we cannot now despair Of humanity any more 4:
The New York correspondent of the Philadel-
phla inquirer, says the Mobile Herald. tells an a
muslng story OF new invention against rogues,
called the Combination Lock-: Recentlya Wall
street broker of considerable wealth. who lives in
great style, in the west end Of Gotham, purchased
a beautiful fire proof safe, in which to secure his
vaiuabes against the fiery elements, TO which he
affixed one of those beautiful pieces of mechanism.
They are 50 strangely complicated that You may
lock them, hand the key to the manufacturer even.
and the chances are one TO ten thousand, that he
will be able to open them The wards and intero,
arrangements of these locks are alphabetically ar
ranged, and you select word in the langIare
take the letters and lock the wards answering Il
these letters, one by one. Thus take the WORD
''chair''-you lock c. then II, then 4, then l. ther
X. Now, it must be unlocked in the same way
and unless you bit upon the exact word You vii
never be able 10 unlock it. Well the broker ii
question locked his new safe according to the wore
boots," but after working at it for an hour or more
the next morning, he could not unlock it, and gave
ii up in despair
All his funds were locked up, says the letter. ant
he had no money to carry on his business that day
but as his credit good he raised sufficient TO
the purpose by borrowing of the banks the mex
morning the manufacturer of the lock- according t
request, called to ascertain the difficulty He SAT-
he had no doubt he could unlock the safe, if TIN
gentleman would tell him the word to which h
locked it. "Boots" was the word, and 10 work h
set to unlock il 10 ''boots" Well. lie tried. san
guine of success, but '.boots" would not unlock IN
= safe He tried again and again, and was no NOR
successful. He tried an hour. two hours, and thre
hours, with no success Finally happy though
; struck him. He wiped the Precipitation from hi
y face, took drink of water examined the KEY agai
{ and looked at the broker straight in the eye, an
u said FSir, allow me to ask you how YOU spe
% boots" GLOW do spell boots 20 said the othe
{ 'Why. spell it right--how do you spell it?''-
e ooh, never mind" said the man of combiuatio
u u locks, chow spell H." 'Bu-ts, to be sure.
Is said the broker ''Ihe ID YOU do" said Oh
Iockman; ''and if you spell boots butts will unloc
the safe butts" and he did unlock it within Il
!, twinkling ofan eye.
ID ASK TIE CAprAiN.--Whilo crossing the plair
a of Santa Fe, General Kearney was some distanc
IS ahead with the advanced guard. One of the of
TO GERS belonging 10 the rear division singled Bob on
cy and sent him ahead with letter to the Genera
to When he came up with them they had cncampe
ard Bob sauntered into the Generals marquee:
IN tWo're gcttn along right sharp, General, ;" So
e, he
r. eyes. sir" answered the commander.
is 81 wish you'd just lock at that boss Of min
ne General" said Bob, "and give me your piniC
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