Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1853-02-12

TWELVE O'CLOCK AT NIGHT AND ALL s WELL !''-
False prophet Still and statue like, at Wonder
window, stands the wife The clock has told the
small hours; yet her face is prest closely against
the window-pa striving in vain, with straining
eye,to pierce the darkness She sees nothing, she
hears nothing-but the beating of her own heart
Now she takes her seat opens a Bible, and seeks
from it what comfort she may, while tears blister
the pages. Then she clasps her hands and her lips
are tremulous with mute application. Hist there
is an unsteady voice in the hall she bnous ii =
many times and oft, it has trod on her very heart
strings. She gdes down gently to meet the wan
derer He falls heavily against her and in maud
lin tones pronounces name he had long since for
gotten "to honor" Oh all enduring power of wo-
mans love mo reproach, no uprading-the light
arm passed around that reelng figure once erect in
Goods own image" With tender words ofentreaty
which he is powerless to resist, if he would she
leads him in. 1t is but the repetition of thousand
such viglls 1t is the performance of a VOW, with
heroism and patient endurance tCo common and
every day to be chronicled on earth toohol and
heavenly to pass unnoticed by the registering an
geP' above.
"Alrs we'll p
False prophet lin yon luxurious room sits one
whose curse it was to be fair dream of Eden
Time was, when those clear eyes looked lovingly
into mothers face-when gray haired father,
laid his trembling hand, with a blessing, on that
sunny head-when brothers and sisters voices
blended with her own, in heart-music around the
happy hearth Oh chere are they RoV? Are there
none to say to the repenting Magdalen neither do
| condemn thee--go, and sin no monre' Must the
gilded fetter continue to bind the soul that oathes
it, because man is less merciful than God
"All's welln'
Eo1c hof !. Marc oc 4boI T
all the length and breadth of the green earth there
was found sheltering nest where the lonely dove
could foldits wings when the parent bird had flown
The brooding wing was gone that covered it from
the cold winds of neglect and unkindness. Lovt
was its life and SGT dropped
"All's aueH!''
False prophet !Sin walks the earth in purple
and fine linen honest poverty, with tear-bedewed
face, hungers and, shivers and thirss, "whiIe the
publican stands afar off," The widow pleads il
vain to the ermined Judge for "justice;" and, un
punished Of Heaven, the human tiger crouches in hi:
liar, and springs upon his helpless prey.
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All yes all is well, for He who '.seeth the enc
from the beginning" holds evenly the scale of jus
tice. "Dives shall yet6eg Of Lazarus" Every hu
man tear is counted. They shall yet sparkle a.
gems III the cIo"hoi the pdClent. ana enduring dis
cifle ! When the clear, broad light of eternity
shines upon life's crooked paths, we shall see tn,
snares and pit falls from which our hedg ofthorn
has fenced us in and, in the maturity of our full
grown faith, we shall exultngly say--sF Father no
as l will, but as Thou wt.!'' FANNY FERN
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How TO MAKE Doe LET Go-A note to th,
New York Times, in treating of the subject @
making dogs let go, says there is a very simpl
remedy to such cases, as know from personal ex
\ perience. A handful of Cayenne pepper, or O
dry Scotch snuff, will do the business immediate
ly if thrown into the face and eyes of the infuria
ted animal-no dog, however tenacious his hold
will keep it for moment after such an application
The st. Louis Intelligencer replies to this, that
may be all very well in its way, but there is on
considerable drawback which detracts much from
the availability of the receipt. There are but few
people who carry Scotch snuff. and less numbe
STILL Cayenne pepper, hence the dog would gener
ally have a long pull before he would be detache,
by these agents. The Editor Of the Intelligence
therefore recommends an unfailing remedy whiel
he once tried. This remedy was to play kesl
4 knife blade across the doc,s tail ;n.t III - q: