The Trinity journal., 1856-02-09
Bonnie kittie.
BY W. W. FoSDICK.

Bonnie kitte came to bring
Silver water from the fountain
Where the water-crcsscs spring:
Shrinking from my loves carcsses,
Loose her raven ringlets dropped
And the strcamlet caught her tresses
As she blushed but smiling stopped
kittie, cried |, hear thy overr
But the laughing maiden fled
To the cottage through the clover,
With its nodding blossoms red
Wantou Willie cease to tarry.'
Said she as her black eyes smiled,
Bonnie Kittie may not marry
Mother needs her darling child
kittys eyes are drowned in sorrow ;
From her cheek the rose has fled;
For that mother on the morrow,
In the valley found bed.
Round her green couch friends are weeping,
Oh, twas sad to see them part
Through the hand that am keeping
can feel her beating heart.
Like the night that leaves the mountain
ncn the gloom Is turned TO gold,
Once again beside the fountain
Bonnie Kittic cnfold
There spoke my loves bcguling,
But she answered not my strain;
But upon my breast wcpt smiling
Like the roses after rain.
STAR PREAcmNG.- Somebody says that
star preachers cost dear, like star actors
without the compensating receipts. The
minister who runs down the church while
building up congregution-picks out the
best points, and after giving and taking Il
benefit passes on to others dazzling and
disappearing, now here, now there-hand
ling a few wcll-thumbcd star teNts-prccedcd
by carnal trumpet and followed by q
spiritual colapsc-rendcrs to the kingdom
Of Christ doubtful service Your regular
'worky' belonging to the stock company Of
laborerS, does twice the real service, and sub
sist at half the cost We are not without
star sermonizers' in California-mcn who
make the pulpit stcpping-stone to fine
houses, woman's admiration, and first rate
newspaper notices. GoIden Era.
80 D-.t
AMUSEMENT AND REFom.-We must set
ourselves to drive out the gross pastimc OF
drinking, by enticing the people to amuse-
ments that are at least harmless, and may
be positively beneficial
1t may be doubted whether the wise and
good generally look upon amusement with
the respect it deserves 1t is rather borne
with than sought out; allowed, as better
than low enjoymcnts, instead Of encouraged
as being really good thing in itself
Now, the truth is, that to a man who is
hard at work all day, it is matter ofmuch
Importance that he should be enlycncd and
chcefcd in the evening by gentle excitement.
1t is right good thing for him to have so
cial pleasure to have his eye or his car
fcastcd, and if possible, that "his mouth
should be filled with laughter Indeed, the
fact that amusement is congenial to man, is
proof that it is intended for his good.
Ba5- One of the finest passages in Richie
lieu is the following
Rtchel'ea-Y Young man, be blthe for,
note me, from the hour you grasp that pack
et think that your star rains down fortune
on you.
Fraacois-If | fail ?
RscAeiieu-Fai fail in the bright lex
icon of youth which Fate reserves for
most glorious manhood, there is no such word
as fail
Why should a young man fail If he be
honest, if he be honorable, if he be ardent,
if he be energetic, if he be gifted with men
tai power, if he be right in soul and strength,
he should never fail and if any aliurng
temptation whisper in his ear words that
make him turn aside, let him revert to that
bright lexicon, and never fail.
geS" W hen young man confidently tells
you that such and such young lady has
no heart, you may be sure that he has been
trying it on, and has failed in making a fa-
yorable impression.
Re25-lf girl thinks more of her heels
than her head, depend upon it that she will
never amount to much Brains which set
tlcln the shoes, never get much above them
De0-A would-be-prophet down south late
ly said in one Of his sermons, that he vas
sent to redeem the world and all things
therein Whereupon a native pulled out
two five dollar bills of broken bank, and