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Be Kind to the Loved ones at Home.
BE kind to thy Father, for when thou vert
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Be Kind to the Loved ones at Home
BE kind to thy Father, for when thou wer
81 young,
~ WHO loved thee SO tenderly ns he!
He caught the first accents that foil from thy
;l tongue
And joined in thy innocent glce.
Be kind to thy fa,her--for now he is old,
. ! Ills locks intcrlningle with grcy;
ills footsteps urc feeble, once fcurless and
Us, bold,
Thy fnther is passing away!
i Be kind 10 thy Mo,her-for 10! on her brow
~ May traces Of sorrow he seen;
80 well may ST thou cherish and comfort her
is now,
For loving and Kind has she been.
Remember Thy Mother! for thee she will pray
~ y AS long rs God giveth her breath,
With accents of ofkindncss then cheer her lone
~ way
Z Fen to the dark valley Of death.
BE kind to thy Bro,l,er-his heart will have
y dcartli,
K If the smile OF thy JOY he wiihdrawn;
3 The flowers Of feeling will fade at their birth,
!. If the dew of affection be gone.
& BE kind to thy Brother; wherever you nrc,
~ The love of IL brother shnll be;
An ornament purcr and richer by far,
Than pearls from the depth Of the sea.
/, Be kind to thy Sister-not many may know
Tie depth of true sis,crly love;
& Tile wealth of the ocean lies tii,homs below
Tho surfnce that sparkles above.
BE kind 10 thy Father, once fearless and bold,
BE kind 10 thy Mother so near;
BE kind to thy Brother, Ior show thy heart
fVs cold,
BE kiad TO Thy Sister SO dear.
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girls eyes were closed, so she only
laughed at their terror, and ordered
them to proceed to the cemetery. =
Tho young woman's eyes opened
again at the gate Of the cemetery;
but the burial still went on. The
coffin was shut and lowered into the
grave, but when q few shoycIsfull of
earth ha | been thrown in, a knock.
ing was distinctly l.eard in the inside
of the coilin.-Ihis knocking grew
louder and louder as the grave was
filled, and at last, the sexton, half
dead with terror, threw down lis
shovel and ran home, where he took
to his bed, in which he still remains.
Her friends now had the coffin dug
up and opened; but seeing that the
corpse gave no sign of life, they had
it buried again, aud proceeded to fiji.
up the grave, when the knockings
were again heard louder than ever.
The coffin was now taken up
second time, and carried into the
church, where it remained until the
18th. A doctor who was sent for
from Valencc. opened vein, from
which the blood flowed abundantly.
Incredible as it seems, even this fact
was not considered as conclusive of
death not having taken place, and
the poor girl was now buried for the
third time; the same knockings being
again heard as distinctly as before,
when the earth was beginning to be
thrown in. But the assistants ncv-
crthelcss looked upon her as dead,
and this time the burial was compile
ted, not withstanding the knockinys.
Some eighty of the persons present
at these extraordinary proceedings,
hereupon drew up and signed peti.
ton to the Prosecutor General Of the
Republic, who Immediately visited
the spot. Ills first care was to pro
hibit all access to the grave. yard,
and it is to be hoped that the coffin
will be opened and the position of the
deceased asccrtaincl. But as yet
nothing farther has transplrcd, supori
the subject.
il really hard to believe that ig,
norance anal prejudice can still be
so strong; and that, after so many
we'll authenticated cases of the seem.
Ing extinction of life, in cases Of
trance, s"oon. cataleEsy, &C., where,
nevertheless, the patients, though ap-
parently dead for days and even
weeks, have yet been restored to life !!
by the ,jadicious perseverance Of en-
hghtcncd cares Of those around them;
a young woman il. the prime Of
youth, and surrounded by relations
AMI friends, should have been thus
stupidity consigned to the most horri-
bic death. Of which the Imagination
can conceive.
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!" Gnu aasa ossr :sssas;ttpe nassu. =
Am Incident, ,yi.,. "a Raor,,,.

For some weeks past, says the New
York Express Of Monday, lone lndi
an tent has been standing OH the ives
tern slope of Fox Hill, lIobokcn, the
inmates of which were an old Indian
his squaw and son. They are wan.
dcrcrs, we believe, from sonic Canadi.
an tribe, and came to that ncghbor.
hood about two months ago. On Sun.
day last tho cllief of the wigwaln, who
had been ailing for some time past,
was gathered to the lard of his fathers.
~ few days previously the squaw had
set out for the State of Maine, to
bring two children she has on the from
tier to the tent, to sec the old man be-
fore the Great Spirit called him home:
but her GRAND, alas! it turned out, was
undertaken too late. The scene at the
tent, as soon sit was known the In
dian was dead, was curious and affect.
ing. The son sat mutcly and moodily
on the ground, with his arms folded,
and his dark piercing eye sorrowfully
fixed upon the corpse of his dead sire.
Is seemed strange to him that they
should put the body into coffin, in
stead of interring it after the manner
OF his own people?
as soon as the coffin was carried
away by the undertakes, the tent was
ruthlcssly rillcd ofnost OF its contents,
beads, baskets and other trnkcts the
Indians had been making for a livcli-
hood, by some palc-taccd vagabonds
in the vicinity, spite Of the renonstran-
ccs of some kind-heartcd women, who,
with those tender and humane impuls-
es native to the sex, had all along been
attentive to the wants of the dying
stranger. The tent itself was CARED
away even, leaving the surviving Inli-
an to make his bed OH the cold damp
earth, with only the sky above for
covering. And there he was sitting
last night, waiting, in silent sorrow,
the return Of his absent relative from
her pilgrimage to the East. 1t was
sad, suggestive incident, the death OF
the lone Indian on the hill. His cpl
taph is the cpitaph of Il race in this re.
glon OF the country, once all their own.
Alas, for them. their day is -o,er,r,ssss
'l'rciI fires are out from shore to shore:
No more for them the wild deer houn,!s---
The plough is ON their hunting grounds.
The i1ilc niap'spse rings through ~. n -ssGais
Tie Iale man = epils skim DER thcl, floods,
Their pleasant springs are dry;
Their children, look, by power oppressed,
Beyond the mountains Of the WrSt,
Their children so to die -
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"A Second UiYsSes;.

An old man, Of very acute pbysi.
oSnony. answering to the nanrss Of
Jacob NYilmot, was brought befdHiS
the police court of Philadelphia. His
clothes looked as if they might have
been bought sccond.handed in bis
youthful prime, for they had suffered
more from the ruhs of the world than
the proprietor Himself.
What business do you follow,
Wilmot p 4,
:. Business? None! I'm a trav-
eller.'
a yagabond, perhaps p
You are not far wrong--trayel.
lcrs and vagabonds are much the
same thing. The difference is that
the latte, travels without money, and
the former, without brains.
'Where have you travelled 2
SAll over the continent!!'
For what purpose p
sObservation.'
sWhat have you observed 2
"a little TO commend, much to
'censnre, and very much to laugh at
'Umph and what do you com
mend 2
"A handsome woman that will stay
at home, an eloquent preacher that
will preach a short sermon, a good
writer that will not write too much,
and fool who has sense enough to
hold his tongue
'What do you censurc
"A man who narries girl for
her fine dancing, youth who stu
dies law or medicine while he has
the use of his hands, and people
who elect a drunkard or blockhead
to Office
i laugh at man who expects his
position to command that respect
which his personal qualities and
qualification do not merit.
lie was dismissed.
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. q 1. y ts1N Z III
J1M's Observation-Disclosures, to-
kiss one again. Omnibus, to kiss them
all, Bfnmder6ns, to kiss another. mans
wife; sylta(y)dus, one lady kissing
another. 8
The Pittsburg Chronicle says that
the river is SO low ut that city, it is
confined to its bed.
'Who made you; inquired a lady
teacher OF lubberly boy, who hat
lately joined their class.
i don't know said he.
Not know! You ought to be-
ashamed OF yourself A boy fourteen
years old! Why, there's little Dickey
tilton--he's only threc-he can tell,
dare say. Come here, Dickey; who
made you?'
'Dod!' lisped tho infant prodigy.
"lhcrc," said the teacher trunlplialfs
tly, 81 knew lie would remembers
well, he oughtcr," said the boy;sis
amt Tut IL little while ago sincs he
was madc!'
'Madam, what age shall put you
down!" (No direct answer.) "How
old is your husband!' s'Sixty-one.''
''And Your eldest son?n .yIwenty3
seven" "And how old do y,r
call yourselfa" Il do not know
my age exactly, but it is about thir.
ty." Ibid understand You, (nadaln.
lnat your eldest was twenty-setenl''
"4cs." "Iou must surely, then, be
more than thirty?" swell, sir, {qaite
snappishly, tod you about thirty. I
cant tell exactly. 1t may be thirty
one or two, but am positive it Is
not over that"
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MISCELLANEOUS.
The Power of Religion Illus
tr;atGN.

i 1Mc ROVER Oh EhG3h5iOa HlsruS-
tr;ateu.
A,busband and wife, in New York,
who have lived in harmony AMI in
terrupted confidence for nearly a
quarter Of a century, have recently
had a misunderstanding, which grew
nut Of some trivial family circum-
stance. The wife took deep um.
bragg at some chiding remark of her
husband, and left him and abandoned
her family of children. Her alb.
sencc cocasioned great distress, and
efforts were made to bring her home;
hut she had resolved never again to
s1ive with her husband. Her friends
expostulateh, her son cntrcatcd, and
the neighbors who had noticed her
long years Of joy urged her to rcturn
to her family. The interference Of
these parties only heightened her
anger and intensified her hate, and
she finally wandered off from the
scenes of home. She went to Gin.
cinnati; was pursued by her friends
and hearing of their approach, left.
The next that was heard Of her, she
had arrived in this city. Her hus-
band and son arrived here Oh Satur-
day morning sought an interview
with her, which after much hcsita.
ton, granted; but only to give posi-
tive denial to their entrcatics. The
husband bowed down with heavy
grief, finally asked clergyman to
visit her. The priest complied, and
tho result Of his conference was, deep
contribution in the mother and wife,
and o desire again to see her hus-
band and son, and a, consent to
cheerfully return with them to New
York. Here was accomplished,
through the agency Of religion, a
blessing that could never have been
consumated BY law or physical force.
And this is always the case wherever
there is faith in God, and ii trne rev.
erence for his commands Boston
Courier.
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Snuff.
Of all the detestable. obnoxious

Of all the detestable. obnoxious.
offensive, unnecessary, and filthy i,ni-
tations which dear woman is guilty
of inhcrlting from fallen, deprayei,
corrupt and wicked men, that Of
snuff "dipping," rubbing" 'ssuck-
ing," "grinding," stand eminent.
How the second edition Of an angel,
the neplus ultra of heavens best
workmanship, the idol of man, the
diamond of song, the gem of prose,
and the crowning glory of humanity,
can concentrate tea or tablespoons
ful of a pulverized poison that would
kill hog, destroy dog, and prove
certain death to every living animal
except a tebacco scoa'm (if swallow
cd) in q mouth whichis the very es-
sence Of nectarine sweetness, upon
whose lips dwells the dcliciousness of
the honey-comb, is to us totally at
variance with all philosophy, reason,
scripture, taste, and refinement, and
utterly incomprehensible! We wish
1T were a dream, we wish it were ro-
nance, we wish it were not 80, but
sad reality presents tile picture of an
angel of beauty, with a heavenly
smile, rosy chcek.t the eye of
gazclle, standing ercctin all her ma,
jcsty, dazzlingi i'll robes Of silk and
diamonds, her form reflected in costly
mirror with chinquepin stick nicely
cramped between her white fingers
with the end in box of.snuff, tobac-
co, poison, and regularly plying it
to her shining pearls, rosy lips and
mellow tongue Give US our hat,
we must SO to conference. Ash.
lHessengcr.
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The neasBug,a Doo.l,.
BY TnE CHEAP IoARpER.

| .H
And thou too art gone! No more
when day shall veil her face before
the thousand eyes of sombre night,
shalt thou, nocturnal visitant of this
my humble couch, leave thy secret
haunt, by me oft sought but never
found, and ghoul,liko banquet on
the blood that lies within my slug
glish Y" ns. Oh, how III miss thee!
Miss the itchings, scratchings, slap
pings, and the ardent exercise Of
bootless search that worried me so
oft, and gave zcst and appetite to
after sleep, that only was vouchsafed
when thou hads't gorged thy fill.
OFT in the lone and solemn watch
es of mysterious nights high moon,
when nature lay in seeming death a.
round, and hallowcl thoughts, the
natural offspring OF q holy hour-dis,
tiled their balm upon my sinful
soul, and worldly passion powerless
and dead, lay captive to the genius
OF mans better nature-hast thou.
nnawed by circumstances or time, or
place, unmindful of the thoughts
within me stirred, with noiseless
step my body travelled Ger; plunged
by excrnciat!ng iangs deep in some
tender part, and carthwald turned
the current of pure thought, whose
fountain wellca in heaven.
How have | sprung, in madness
from my couch, and searched, ave.
blade BY blade. my pallets humble
straw; how have | scanned each ere.
vice and each nook, to wreak my
just revenge upon thy vampire head
-llow have the inquisi,ion's ter
rors, and the dircst cruelties tha,
frczc my young heart, when first
read the Book of Martyrs, placcc
before the tortnres l designed fol
thee acden Ishoula catch tAce- ant
how have | caught thee not-won
dered where thou DIST fed-and CIV
en- thought when wcaried with the
search, thou art no real being, bu
came to me a spiritbay, whose TEN
poral part in seifdefence I'd slain
Thus worried out with speculation
would | fall asleep--but morning
never failed to show to me TIN bite a
least 2cds real. b
Thou didst not die as bugs arc
wont to die, but by baneful poison'i
lingering torturing death. Tho,
WAS not crushed as many bugs have
been by screwing up afresh the bed
stcad's tottering frame. A mouse
trap caught thee A little trap, tri
angular in frame-a sixpenny gar
rote- the offspring of some groa
mind down,east, which | did pur
chase and did bait with cheese, t,
stop tho brca,h and gnawing 0
a wanton mouse that scuttlcd m,
new boots. Tho bait allured thee
and mornings earliest dawn dis
closed thy stranglca form thcu pal
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PuYsIoGICAL FACTS. Tho fol.
loving physiological facts were tran
slated from a French Scientific Jour.
nal:
"The average height Of "a man and
woman at birth, is generally SIX
teen inches. In each of the twelve
years after birth, onc-twclIth is ad.
dca to the stature each year. Be
tween the age Of twelve and twenty
the growth of the body is slower, and
it is still further diminished after
this, up to twenty-five the period of
maximum growth. In old age the
height Of the body Qininishcs on
the average about three inches. The
height of q woman varies less than
that of q man, in different countries.
The average weight Of a male in
FAINT is about seven pounds; of
female, about six and a half pounds.
The weight of an infant decreases
a few days after its birth, till it is
a week old. At the end of the
first year, the child is three times as
heavy as when it is born. At
the age Of seven years, it is twice as
heavy as when a year old
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tierch ! Of thy race and big -bag

thy tribe. sSs 2 57sssss.s, SO
And thou art gone, dread spirit siiiI &c
unrest though vampire incubus.
and q left the field to pigmy bhea hhal
heas, whose gentle pinttnscs and and
close owship will move me noe
for am tougbened By the tan.
ner,: tlme-lsaye run the gatiGtles of.
cheap board through tow1l--lIayoy.
lived on hash of>all things else
save meat-haye been the middle!
one OF seven in bedsS;n closest
room r in hottest summer HI ight have
fed te bursting gallinippers huge, and
snored to concerts of amorous TOM.
cats, settling loves disputes-ahd
md the ills that wed themselves t6
private board," swear I ne'yef.
was moped by aught save thee!
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"Order my advertisement to be
discontinued for q few days." said
a merchant to his clerk. ''I must
get away from business a few days for
my hea til but | see plainly that /
shall have no leisure as long as l con,
tinuG to advertise" T"
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lie IS ONLY 4 MECuANIC.-.-.How
frequently is this remark made by
arlsIocrahc upstarts. who have moth.
ing to lccommed them save their
money and iinpulcucc, when the
name Of an honest and intelligent
mechanic happens to be mentioned in
their presence, they consider it de.
grading to associate with those who
do no! likc themselves, possess wealth
even though that wealth was obtain.
cd by the most rascally means. No
thing is so disgusting to wcIl-brcd
wcllintormcd people, as to hear an
ignorant, conccitcd, puifed.up, long
haired, braiulcss, inpudent dandy,
talk about mechanics, as il they
were as brutcs.
No true lady or gentleman would
be guilty Of such iitt.cncss. 1t is on
ly the Ignorant, spoiled beauty, the
worthless, contemplate soap.lock
who would do SO. Show us the man
or woman who would consider it a
disgrace to associate with honest,
wcllinformcd mechanics, and we will
show you a poor, worthless, ignorant,
concoitcd creature, useless to him.
self and the world, and cncumbrancc
to his friends. = lIcst Lit. Ness.
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A spanish provcrb says, that the
Jews ruin themselves at their passo-
vcrs, the NIo0rs at their marriages,
and the Christians at their law suits.
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PREcocIoUs FILL1BUsTER. 90. Dads,
,dy, said a young three.feet.and d
half sovereign to his honored pa.
rent, won't you let me go ott to
Cuby with yodr dodble-barrelled gun
to shoot sum Spaniards2 Well Il
tell you what tits dad, wants 'cite.:
ment, and if you wont let me 80 ouss8
thar to muse myself, I'll borry jim jim
Meggott's big pistol and shoot old
uncle Myers. l will, by jewkes !'55s
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Why would yon suppose fish did a
great deal Of weighing Because
they always carry scales.
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Several KEGS marked 1. I ard e but.
loand to con tain spirits, were lata,l
" seized as royidence. a com.
smnanicatieni mica from kfrs Darlington
through q 'mediun," says: ..This
IS rendering unto seizer the thinss
that are seizer's.'
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Boys.

An exchange thus dagacrrcotypcs
the boy OF the prescntss age. All
who read it will confess it in the
best likeness yet obtained;
"This has been tcrmedthe age of
progress. The most stsikiing exen.
Plltication of the rrdgressivc tenden-
cy OF the age NAV be found in boys
from i saaal1'Rs twenty.
years oi.age. The boy Il fifteen or
upwards must wear better broadcIoth
than his employer, and boots to
match. lie agets the spring and
summer style Of hats as soon as they
come on from New York. He wears
dickeys Of fabulous dimensions. He
has his hair curlel and unctihcd bv
the most approved Of BARRIERS. He
would wear a monstache or imperial
if he could. He has a " woman
whom he pays attention to. lie
sometimes carries cane, about as
large IS your little finger, with ball
Of lead on the end of it. He struts.
He smokes. lie chews. He swcars.
lie drinks. Ofa fair Sunday he
stands at the corner Of the street to
show himself. He stays ont ali night.
or into s'"ail hours, sitting up With
his woman, or otherwise raising
''Ncd" generally. He takes his
woman out to ride. During the win
ter he goes to all the dances which
come oil about every o:her night. =
lie makes magnificent presents to his
woman. His horse hire bill! is rs the
lniIionalics. lie reads nothing but
the Pirates Own Book" Life in
Boston, and the "Unclc Sam.''
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Trying to tho patience: For q
wooden legged man to have wife
given to waltzing.
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SUDDEN AND SINGULAR DEATH.
One Of the most sudden and singu-
lar deaths from fright we have ever
been called upon to chronicle, occur
red at North Market on yesterday
morning. 1t appears that Mrs. Sa-
rah Jane Bolton, in passing through
the market, dropped her pocket
book, and woman named King, i'm
mcdiatcly behind her, picked it up.
Mrs Bolton missed the book, and
turned and asked Mrs. King if she
had found it, who instantly replied
that she had, and returned it to the
owner. Mrs. Bolton opened the
book, and declared that ten dollars
had been taken out it, which Mrs.
King denied. The former insisted
that she bad, and threatened her
with a policeman if she did not re.
turn it, when Mrs. King tainted and
fell at her feet. Que or two police.
men came up and commenced hurry,
ing the poor woman off towards the
calaboosc, but soon finding that life
was nearly if not quite extinct, they
laid her down on cellar door, where
she soon expired. ~ coroncr's in
quest was held soon after, and the
above facts elected. a ten dollar
bill, answering to the one Mrs. Bol.
49,, ,ll,~o1 T., b,,.n i,-t ,,,, f,..,.l =.
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PREPARING FOR a SronMii. As
tew nights ago Mr.. Bodkin, who had
been out taking bis glass and pipe, on
going home late, borrowed ain UNI
brella; and when his wife's tongue
was looscned, he sat up in bed, and
suddenly Spread out the parapluice.
"What are you going to do with
that thing2" said she.
why, my dear, 1 expected d
very heavy storm tonight, and 80
| came prepared"
In less than two minutes Mrs.
Bodkin was fast asleep.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1852-12-25
TO MILLERs. cAP1TALIsrs, AND

EL1G1BLE MILL PROPERTY FOR SALE GREAT
- BARGAIN The powerful and valuable STEAM
MILL lately belonging 70 the Mount Vernon and Nev
Harmony Plank Road Company This MIL drives two
and Is warranted cut three thousand feet Of um
Der daily Il was erected three since cost o;
than four thousand dollsrs and is In exceIlen
order II has four foot boiler Of the ssry sest orsty
which cost upwards OF fve hundred dollars.
This mill Is situated on Big Creek and on the Plank
Road six miles from cunt Vernon, where the Plank
Road strikes the Ohio River. Around 1t l. .avily
iimbered country where stocks can be obtained at low
Ind in any quantity. 1t Is seldom that an esiab
lishment valuable and conveniently situated offered
to the public. Possession Immediately.
As the present proprieors bought il at cheap rate
and dc noi intend to H. It will be Sold for cash or
part credit at from ONE THIRD half its orig
nal cost. Four acres Of Land 70 with the Mill.
Apply for further particulars at Evansville to Mr.
Crawford Bell. Nam street, at New Harmony TO Mr. n
G. Nettelton, and ct Mount Vernon to Mr. William J
Lowry novls lwd6tw
Nvolksbote copy weeks and send bill to his lice