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Is Religion RcnuiifuIl

Always! Inthe child, the maiden, the
wife the mother, religion shines with ho-
ly, ,benignant beauty Of its own, which moth
ing ofearth can mar. Never yet was the
female character perfect without the steady
faith Of piety. Beauty, intellect, wealth!
they are in like pitfalls, dark in the bright
est day, unless religion threw her soft beams
around them, to purify and exalt, making
twice glorious that which seemed all love-
illness before.
Religion is very beautiful-in health or
sickness, in wealth or poverty. We can
never enter the sick chamber of the good
but soft music seems to float on the air, and
the burden Of their song is--"Lo! peace
is there
Could we look into thousands of families
to-day when discomfort fights sullcnly with
life, we should find the chief cause Of un-
happiness, w0nt of religion in wOnan.
And in felons' cells--in places of crime,
misery, destitution, ignorance-we should
behold, in all its most terrible deformities,
the fruit Of irreligion in woman.
Oh religion benignant majesty, high on
Jny tnrone Lnou slttestg glorious andeXalted.
Not above the cloud, for earth clouds come
never between thee and truly pious souls
not beneath the clouds, for above these is
heaven, opening through broad vista of
exceeding beauty.
Its gates are the splendor Of jasper and
lprecious stones. white with dew light
that neither flashes nor blazes, but steadily
proceedeth from the throne of God. Its
towers batbed in refulgent glory, ten
times the brightness of ten thousand suns,
yet soft, undazzling eye.
And there religion points. Art thou
weary, j. whispers, crest up there forev-
err" Art thou sorrowing, 'joy." Art
thoa weighed down with unmeriied igno-
miny, "kings and priests in that holy
home" Art thou poor, "the streets be-
fore thy mansion shall be of gold" Art
thou friendless "the angels shall be thy
companions, and God thy friend and Faith.
er.
Is religion beautiful? We answer that
all is desolation and deformity where reli-
gion is not.
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THE TURNING POINT
BY Miss ALICE GRAY.

Lucy Holmes was one of the most light
hearted, frolicksome beings that ever shook
ringlets. Thoughtless! yes, thoughtless as
the sunbeam on the floor. Often would
old farmer Holmes smilingly smooth back
her hair, and call her his mad-cap girl; and
then sigh as he wondered whether time
and care would bend down that light spir-
it, or break it at once. Lucy had no
mother, and aunt Tabitha used to say that
she had her hands full with her. Aunt
Tabitha was very prominent in the church
-one of those people who always draw
their mouths down and their eyebrows up,
and assume lugubrous tone when they
talk about religion. Il never can get Lucy
to think of anything seriousP was her per-
petual complaint TO Deacon Fowler's wife,
their next ueighbor. Il think that at sew
enteen, it is about time she should see
the yanities of this world, and be con-
verted.'
'oh, WE'LL young people will be little
gay
Lucy is more thana lille gay. wish
could get her to set under the new min
lister in the South Church. He is getting
up a revival and has anxious meetings ev-
cry evening. Sister Wickfeld told me she
had a delightful season there the other
night
Aunt Tabitha h,ught great deal Of
dgnifed behaviour, and Lucy often awak-
ened her righteous Indignation on that
point. She would dance about the house,
and often, with sun-bonnet in hand, bound
into the very room where her aunt sat in
great converse with her revival preacher,
or some of the sisters Lucy would often
mimic Mr.. Holmes would shake his
head saying, MY daughter! your aunt
means well. 1t is unfortunate she deals
so much in cant phrases. They are RI
diculous to you, and very offensive to me
1t is sometimes fault among religious
people. They lay open to ridicule the re-
ligion really dear to them. They debast
it in the eyes of the world for very few tak'
the pains to separate the gold from thu
dross; and they make their conversation
very unwelcome, to say the least, to many
good people whose taste and refnemen
turn from everything of the kind. As fo
me, am plain man, and don't pretend t.
much taste, but don't like such things.
Let not your good be evil spoken Of
{, Lucy always listened to her father
words with glimpse of the beauty in sim
pie religion, standing by itself, refining ant
enobling; she lost it again when she view
ed the robe in which Mrs. Tabitha envel
oped hers; and she wondered whether
was only arobe, and not necessary ad
junct.'
Lucy was fond of gay colors, and feath
ers and flowers, and aunt Tabitha cast u
her eyes at the sight of them as part of th
vanities oflife. ,Lucy's perfectly forme
frame and bounding spirits impelled her t
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THAT'S So.-A New York journal is of
opinion that there are other fools besides
those who live on the Fifth avenue. Listen
to it:
"Think not, laborer, extravagance is
confined to the laces, silks and satins of the
rich alone. When target company oi
fifteen of twenty working men waste theil
money on band of music twetny or thir
ty strong, to parade the streets, that is ex
travagance. When one day in the week i.
fooled away, and only five are made worl
days, that is extravaganza. 1t was thu
very height of extravaganza for poor man
in prosperous times, to be spending all hi
means-those means which, if possible
should have been saved for such day a
this. Thus, it is not the fault alone of th'
rich, but of the poor. too, that we are nov
as we are. There is good deal of trutl
in these remarks. They may be uupalata
bic, but they are 'fouaded on facts"
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KIND WoRDs.-Kind words do not cos
much. They never blister the tongue OF
lips. And we have never heard of any
mental trouble arising from this quar-.
ter.
Though they do not cost much, yet they
accomplish much.
They help ones good nature and good
will. Soft words soften our own SOUL
Angry words are fuel to the flames o
wrath and make it blaze the more fierce
ly.
Kind words make other people good ma
tured, Cold words freeze people, and ho
words scorch them, and bitter words
make them bitter, and wrathful word:
make them wrathful. ..
There is such rush of all other kind
of words, in our days, that it seems desir
able to give kind words chance among
them. There are vain words, and spitefu
words, and silly words, and boisterou:
words, and war-like words.
Kind words, also, produce their owl
image on mems souls. And a beautifu
image it Is; they soothe, and quiet, ant
comfort the heart. They shame him O
his sour, morose, unkind feelings.
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THE nrsrrAx's WoRk.-Dr. Cum

THE CHR1sTIAN's WoRK.-Dr. Cum
ming beautifully remarks:
"The builder builds for century; we
for eternity. The painter paints for agen-
Grafton; we for ever, The poet sings for
an age, We for ever. The statuary cuts out
the marble that soon perishes; let us try to
cut out the likeness of Christ to endure for
ever and ever.
A hundred thousand men we're employ
ed in Egypt to construct Pyramidal tomb
for dead king; let us feel that we are en-
gagged in far nobler work in constructing
temples for the living God. In my hum
Bile judgment, the poorest parish school in
our land with no other ornaments than the
dew drops of the morning to gid it, and
the sun beams to shine upon it, is nobler
spectacle than the loftiest European catbe-
dral with its spires glistening in the setting
and rising suns of thousand years"
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FRESH AIR.--Horace Mannhas we'll said;
People who shudder at flesh wound and
a trickle of blood, will confne their chill
dren like convicts, ,and compel them month
after month to breathe quantities of poi
son. 1t would less impair the mental and
physical constitutions of children, gradual
ly to draw an ounce of blood from theil
veins, during the same length of time, than
to send them to breathe, for six hours il
a day, the lifeless and poisoned air ofsomC
of our school rooms. Let any man, who
votes for con6ning children in small room'
and keeping them on stagnaht air, try the
experiment of breathing his own breath on
ly four times overj and if medical aid b.
not on hand, the children will never b.
endangered by his vote afterwards.
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To CLEAN KID GLovEs.-Ladies will be
glad to learn that alcohol will wash kid
gloves of all collors, without either staining
them or leaving an unpleasant odor about
them. The gloves are simply drawn upon
thelhand and carefully rubbed with a piece
of clean white flannel, wet with alcohol,
until the soil is removed, then hung up TO
dry, and slightly stretched, when the or
iginal color reappears. This We have from
one who has tried 1t successfully.
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Thursday Morning. Jan. Is, 1885
THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIG
ADE AT BALAKLAVA.

frhe London literary correspondent OF the TrtoHn
recently said that TENNYsoN could not write on tn
themes of the present war; but the following thrilling
lyric which we take from the last LONDON Examiner
is splendid refutation of that criticism.l
HALFaleague, half league,
Halfa league onward,
All in the vail ey of Death
Rode the SIX hundred.
Into the valley of death
Rode the six hundred,
For up came order which
Some one had blundered.
SForward, the Light Brigade!
Take the guns,' Nolan said:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
Forward, the Light Brigade!
'- No man was there dismayed,
Not though the soldier knew
Some one had blundered:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not TO reason why,
. Theirs but to do and die,
Into the valley OF Death
Rode the six hundred.
va Cannon 10 right Of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon In front of them
Volleyed and hundred;
stormed at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
r Into the jaws Of Death,
Into the mouth Of He'll
Rode the six hundred.
Flashed all their sabres bare
Flashed all at once in air
Sabring the gunners there,
Charging an army, while
All the world wondered:
Plunged in the battery smoke,
With many desperate stroke
The Russian line they broke;
Then they rode back, but not#*"+
Not the six hundred.
... Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them
Volleyed and thundered:-
Stormed ut with shot and shell,
While horse and hero fell,
Those that had fought so well
Game from the jaws of Death,
Back from the mouth of He'll,
All that left Of them,
Left of six hundred
When can their glory fade!
o the wild charge they made!
All the world wondered.
Honor the charge they made!
Honor the Light Brigade,
Noble six hundred! A. I.
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How IwoULD PREACH IF CouLD.-"I
am tormented," said Rober. Hall, "wilb
the desire of preaching better than I can. E"
| am tormented, say |, with the desire of
preaching better than can,
But l have no wish to make fine pretty
sermons. Prettiness is well enough when
prettiness is in place. l like to see a pret-
ty child, a pretty flower; but in sermons
prettiness is out of place. To my ear it
should be anything but commendation,
should it be said to me, "You have given
us pretty sermon"
If were put upon trial for my life, and
my advocate should amuse the jury with
tropes an figures, or bury his argument
beneath a profusion of flowers or his rhet-
oric, l would say to him, "Tut, man you
care more for your vanity than my hang
ing. Put yourself in my placc-speak in
view of the gallows, and you will tell your
story plainly and earnestly"
Ihave no objections to lady winding a
sword with ribbons and studding it with
roses wien she presentsit to her hero-lovel
but in the day of battle he will tear away
the ornaments, and use the naked edge on
the enemy.
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MEcHANIcs.-The following beautiful ex.

MEcHANrcs.-The following beautiful ex-
tract is from Bulwer's celebrated play, en-
titled the Carpenter of Rouen." 1t is a
high compliment to mechanics:
"What have they not done? Have they
not opened the secret chambers of the
mighty deep, and extracted its treasures
and made the raging pillows their high
ways, on which they ride as on tanned
steed? Are not the elements of fire and
water chained to the crank, and at the
mechanics bidding compelled to turn it
Have not the mechanics opened the bow
els of the earth, and male its products con,
tribute to our wants? The forked light
ming is their plaything, and they ride
triumphant on the wings of the mighty
wind To the wise they are lood-gates o
knowledge, and Kings and Queens are dec
GRATED by their handiwork. He who
made the universe was a mechanic.
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OATH OF OFFICE IN IowA.-The Iowa
Legislature elected two men last week to
attend to the fires in the hall. They were
qualified by taking an oath to Support the
Constitution Of the United States and keep
GOOD fires in the house"
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One Of the best things of the day was
said by Che captain of one of our steam
boats lately. A bolt ofcanvas bolted over
board his boat. The captain bolted after
it. and exclaimed, as he got it on board a.
gain, "As went in for duck, was bound
to have the canvas-back.
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A man who admires fine woman has
vet no more reason to wish himself her hus-
band, than one who admired the Hesperi-
an fruit would have had to wish himself the
dragon that kept It.
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FATHER AND CHILo.-The Chicago Press
relates the following affecting incident du-
ring the trial Of Green, the Chicago bank
er, for the murder of his wife:
The prisoner appeared in his place ac-
companied by his little boy of 6 years, who
sat upon his fathers knee, the only being
in the world who ha Il affection enough for
lin to exhibit it in that dark hour. The
little fellow is bright and handsome child
possessing his fathers outline of head and
expression of feature, and yet in the win
ming innocence of childhood. The similar
ity and contrast betweenthe two, was stri.
king and painful. At some allusion ofthe
prosecuting counsel to the dismemberment
of his family, that stern old man pressed
his little boy 10 his heart and bowling his
head over him, wept in bitter agony. The
lad unable to realize the position of his pa
rent, yet with tie sympathy which distin-
guishes childhood, burst into tears, and
with iniantile wonder looked from his fa.h-
er to the multitude and the speaker. 1t
was sad and touching sight.
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TT7We extract the foliOwing lines from the poems
Thomas Maekeller, author Of ''DrOppings from the
cart" These poems were published In ls47 by Ca
y q Hart. The lines below have much ofths quaint
Is and pathos Of Hood. They will, no doubt, md
vor with the Printer, whose tolls aud troubles are
slingly described.
THE DOOM OF TIE PRINTER.
A printer weary and wan,
Hisfaes all nsrtally pale,
AssloWly plodded his homsWafd way,
Before ihe Iasnng early day;
Bro.e oati in bittera val.
His voice was husky and low,
Asthough his lungs were gone;
And be eoughed and gasped and coughed again
And he pressed his band 10 his breast ia pain,
While thus his plaint ran on;
"a world Of toll is tbi.?
Ithath no JOY for me:
'Tis labor by day, and labor by night,
BY the Light Of the sun, and By candle light,
Labor continually.
"soms men have rest,
but Sabbath for me there Is sot;
u Is toll all the week, and toll on the day
That God has given to rest and to pray
Lo! this is the printers lot'
'When was boy" he said,
81 played on the hills Of greea;
swan in the strean-l ashsd ia the Brook,
And blessed was TO sit and to look
Cnfsitsred natures scene,
''For twenty sad years and mora,
Mylifs was worn away
IL murky rooms of poisonousair.
wheni'ye yearned for q sight Of the vail sys faiI
And the light open day.
"An Innocent prisoner doomed,
Ny heart is heavy within:
oh why should man unta nted by guilt,
Who the blood Of creature never hath split
Re ep;ni, like f.lon, forsn?r
The printer then coughed and sighed
Th, stars were growing dim,
And he upward glanced at the morning sky,
An1 b, iHly though. # was good 10 die,
Aud death would be rest to him
His heart was tired Of beating;
He prayed for the Lord above
To pity man whose heart had bs,n rivcn,
To toll, for other mems interests given,
And be sought his mercy and lows.
H. hied 10 his humJl; home;
His infant Awose TO cry,
''Jh, fIther oh, mother. I'm hungry for bread.'
And the printer bowed with an aching head.
On his MarY's bosom TO die.
Oh ye, who have neve: known
The richness found in a crust,
When nothing is seen on ia. desolate shelf
And the poor mans pockets empty ofpelf,
Receiv, my story Or trust.
Say not in yoar careless seoTn, ....
What boots the tale 70 y01l
The rhymer who traces ties. rough writer
rhymes,
Has known Of such sufferers 10 other day time
Aud much OF his rhymes is true.
R,m.mber this holy truth
The man who alOof hath stood
whena hsart-broken brother for suceo- did crav
And he stretched not a finger to bl es3 and to saw
Is verify guilty of blood.
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Gs' Young Man, have you got libra
ry? No. Why not? can't afford it.
Why can't you afford it? Because I'm too
poor. Do you smoke cigars eat oysters
or drink brandy smashes? Yes, all three.
How much do they cost you per annum?
A trifie-a mere trife-only mere trihe
How much do they cost you a day? Well,
as lam very temperate, only about dime
for cigars, fifteen cents for liquor, and a
quarter for oysters. At the end Of tie
year do you feel any better than you would
fyou had refrained from the use of cigars
and oysters? No, Ican't say that l do.
Well they cost you each day fifty cents,
ora little more than one hundred and eighty
dollars per annum. Oh not SO much; but
stop, let me see-yes you are right-a
hundred and eighty dollars year. Now
that sum would purchase you a first
rat library; yet you spend it for what
aye, for what? Do you not comprehend
the reason that you are too poor to have a
library-do you comprehend the reason.
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GBe 9antaster @a5ette,
CITY OF LANCASTER.
pUBL1sHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING
T. S. SLAUGHTER, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR

oFFIcE-old Public Building-southeast corner OF
-. -. the Public Square.
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RMs-one wear in advance, ss,OO; at the exPira.
of the year, $3.50; Clubs often, SlS,Oo; CLUBS OF
tv- Ave S90.0O.
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U17we extract the following lines from the poems
ofThomas MaeEsiler, authoro Of sDroppings from the
Heart" These poems were published in ls47 by Ca
rey Hart The lines below have much ofthe quaint
ness and pathos Of Hood. They will, no doubt, hnd
favor with the Printer, whose tolls aud troubles are
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