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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1857-12-03
BROKEN TIES.

ny JAMES MONTGOMERY.
The broken ties Of happier days,
How often do they en-
10 come before our mental gaze,
Like a remembered dream.
Arouud as each discovered chain
lu sparkling ruin lies;
Nud car.Iiy hand shall ne'er again
Unite these broken ties,
The parents Of our youthful home,
The kindred that VIZ loved,
Far from our arms perchance may roam,
To desert seas renovod.
OFT We have watched their parting breath
And closed their weary eyes;
And sighed to think how sadly death
Can sever human ties.
The friends, the loved ones Of our youth,
They too have gone or changed,
Or worse than all, their love aud truth
Are darkened and eslranged.
They meet us in the gIittering throngi
With cold averted eyes,
Aud wonder that we weep their WRONG,
And mourn our broken ties.
Ch! who in q harsh world like this
Could bear his lot Of pain,
DID not Que radiant hope Of bliss,
Unclouded yet remain.
That hope the Sovereign Lord has given,
Who reigus above the skies,
Hope that uniIes our souls to Heaven,
By faiths enduring ties.
Each care, each M of mortal birth,
Is sentin plying love,
To lit the lingering heart from earth,
And speed its flight above,
Aud every ping that wrngs the breast,
And every joy that dies,
Tells us to seek purer rest,
And trust to holier ties.
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Fast Mon


The vicious die carly. They fall like
shadows, or tumble like wrecks and
ruins into the graye--oftcn while quite
young-almost always before forty. The
wicked "livcth not half his days. The
world at once ratifcs the truth and as
signs the reasons, by describing the dis
solute as 'fast men, that is, they live
fast, they spend their twelve hours in
six, getting through the whole before
the meridian, and dropping out Of sight
and into darkness while others are in
the glow and glory of life-"Their sun
is down while it is yet day" And they
might have helped it. Many a one dies
long before he need.
Young men Of genius like Burns and
Byron, TO whom, when dissipotcd and
proHigate, thirty seven is so fatal; and
your obscure and nameless "wandering
stars, who waste their youth in libcr-
tine indulgences-thoy cannot live long.
They must die early. They put on
the steam till they blow up the boiler.
They run at such a rate that the fire
goes out for want Of fuel. The machine
ry is destroyed by reckless speed and
rapid wear. Nothing can save them.
Their physical system cannot stand the
strain they put to it; while the state Of
their minds is often such that the soul
would eat the substance of the most ro-
bust body, and make for itself way of
escape from the inccssaut hell ofits own
thoughts.-TT. Binney.
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THE HUsKERs.

ny JOHN O. WHITTIER.
Heap high the farmers wintry hoard
Heap high the Golden Cornl
No rlchor gift has Autumn poured
From out her lavish horn.
Let other lands exulting CLEAN
The apple from the pine,
The orange tiom It's glossy green,
The cluster from the vine;-
We better love the hardy gin
Our rugged wales bestow,
To cheer as when the storm shall drift
Our harvest-feds with snow,
When spring-time came with flower and bu
And grasses green aud young
And merry bob1iuks, in the wood,
like mad musicians sung,
We dropped the seed DER hill and plain,
Beneath the sun Of May,
And frightened from our sproutiug grain
The robber-crows away
All through the brightest days Of June,
It's leaves grew thin aud fair,
And waved I'm hot midsummer noon
It's soft and yellow hair
And now, with Autumn's moonlit ewes,
It's harvest time has come,
We pluck away the frosted leaves,
And bear the treasure home.
There, richer than the fabIed rift
Of golden showers Of old,
Fair hands the broken grain shall sirt,
And knead its meal Of gold.
Let vapid iders loll I'm silk
Around their costly board,
Give as the bowl Of samp aud milk,
By homespuu beauty poured.
Where'eT the wide old kitchen hearth
Sends up its smoky curls,
Who will not thank the kindly earth
And bless our Corn-fed girls!
Let earth withhold her goodly root,
Let miIdew blight the rye,
G i've TO the worm the orchards fruit,
The wheat-ield to the fly;
Bullet the good old crop adOrn
The hills our fathers trod;
Still let us for His Golden Corn
Send up our thanks TO God.
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From The Youths Penny Magazine.
THE GRACE OF MEEKNESs.


"BIessed are the meek for they shall inherit
the eauh.'-Matthew ", ;.
'I viii not play with you" said Mary
Lee to a little girl with a basket Of
chips on her arm "I will not play
with any one who has bare feet, and
such a ragged, dirty dress on"
Poor little Susan looked down upon
her well-patched frock, and said, "You
shall not call me ragged and dirty, Ma
ry, for mother has mended all the holes,
and washed it real clean, and you know
have only one pair of shoes, and if l
wore them every day they would be
worn out before L could get any money
to buy another pair, and then I should
have none ogO TO Sunday-schOol with. "
r'5Butwhy don your mother give you
90 pair Of shoes?"
because sheis so poor, answered Su-
san, "that she can hardly make out
to pay her rent and buy us bread and
potatoes 'r...
"Wellr said Mary Ice, with a loud
laugh, ~ should think ithard if had
nothing TO cat but bread and potatoes;
and I'm glad my father can afford
to give me plenty Of shoes, and
stockings too, and three nice frocks be-
sides; aud so, Susan Jones, since you
can't dress any better, you must not ex-
pect me to play with you" And she
pushed rudely past Susan, nearly knock
jag hor basket off her arm, and scat
termg the chips over the walk.
Susan's pale face turned very red
and, catching up tho largest stick, she
was Just going TO run after Mary Lee,
aud beat. her; but all at once better
thought seemed to come into her mind
The angry blood left her cheek, and
she stopped down, and patiently gather
ed the scattered sticks again, and put
them in her basket a.#....
When she came home her mother
said, "Oh, Susie, am glad you arc
oOme The baby is so cross want you
to play with him, while / finish nv
wash. What kept you SO long, my
child?'
Susan was tempted to toll her mother
how badly Mary Lee had behaved; but
she remembered her teacher had told
her it was better not to talk of the evil
we received from others but to forgive
and pray for those who used us ill., So
che only said, .'I stopped to talk with
Mary Lee, mother but If had known
tho baby was cross / would not have
stayed away so long"
Tho baby loved Susan, because she
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Gbc 8Omr Gjrtlc.
A Party for the Hard Times.

a Party Tor the Hard Times.
One of the most recherche parties of
the season "came off last evening at
the residence of one of our retired NOR
chants in S. street. which was emf
ncntly in Keeping with the times. A
sine qua n0n to the invited was for
the ladies appear draped in calico, and
the gentlemen in their summer coats,
and most faithfully did each sex carry
out their portion of the programme;
and more tastefully arranged party
Of fair demosellos rarely meets the
eye, than was here congrcgated. Up
on their heads were roscttos and pend
ants of the varied huod products of
Lowell, Manchester and Providence.
At early evening dancing was COM
menced, beneath the light of one burn
cr in each chandelier, to the music Of
the piano, at which the ladies alterna-
ted, and was kept up with unabated
vigOr, relieved by occasional charade
performances, till supper time; and
here the genius of the host in conform
ing to the times, added mirth to the al
ready happy party. The spacious din
ing-rOom was thrown open, and display
ed table, set forth, not with costly
plate, but the fruits of the harvest, in
stead. In the center, upon an inverted
tin pail, nicely draped, stood a golden
pumpkin, from whose eyes and nose
and mouth beamed forth a mellow light.
relieved by the "dips" which adorned
the corners, well secured in goodly
turnips. Yellow dishes of 'lasses gin
gerbread yielded their toothsome stores
and Cochituato ale, dispensed from
stone pitchers Of the true grandma
pattern, in mugs Of delf ware, enhauc-
ed the relish for renewed Terpsichoreon
agility Boston Transcript, Nov. 49,.
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A MUSICAL RATA few days since.
Mrs Merriam of Brooklyn, was surprised
by q sound behind the meat-safe, like
the singing of bird. On searching for
the cause, she discovered that the song
stcr was a rat, which ran away on being
disturbed, and its auditors Several rats
behind the ceiling) also retreatcd in
much haste. Since then, the songstcr rat
has returned several times, and sings
two or three times in the twenty four
hours, with the exception Of Thursday,
on which day tho songstcr was obscnb
all the day and evening, and we felt much
solicitudc for its safety. Yesterday and
to-day, it has made its appearance
This rat initiates the singing of canary
birds and the cooling of the doves. We
place food at the place the songster Rre-
quonts, and as we do not keep a eat.
there is reason to expect this rat will
cpeat its songs journal of Commerce,
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a Coon NEwspAPER-The reading
.of good aud well-conductcd newspaper,
even for the short space of one quarter
.of year, brings more sound instruc-
ton, and leaves deeper impression,
than would be acquired, probably, at
the best school in twelve months
Talk to the members of a family who
read the papers, and compare their in
formation and intelligence with those
who do no.. The difference is beyond
comparison.
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Suppose a man drinks four glasses of
liquor day, at five cents glass, in a
week he spends S1.4O, and in a year he
spends $3.50, This will buy the fol-
lowing articles: -Four barrels Of -four,
say S24; four pairs of boots, say SIS;
forty pounds Of butter $40; two hundred
pounds of beef, 50; new hat, 81; new
satin vest 81; a bonnet for wife, So; su-
gar-plums for children $3.50; total,
- so
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Debating Societies.

The New York journal of Commerce
advocates the establishment Of debating
societies blythe merchants clerks and'oth
er young men engaged in active business
during the day, as well for recreation as
for improvement and sound instruction
1t refers to the great Edmund Burke
as an instance Of the beneficial iufu,
enco Of such institutions. He com.
menced his oratorical career by taking
part in the debates of the shocmakers
society, and, having served a hard APP
premiership eventually became the
most eminent speaker Of his day.
We will ad / an instance or two in
addition quite as striking and suggest
i've as the history Of Burke's early ef-
forts. Curran won his first distinction
in debating society. With a small,
awkward figure, an habitual stuttcr, and
a face which has rarely been approach
ed or appr0achable in uglincss, he had
more difficulties to meet and overcome
than any of his cotomporaries. He
grappled them like man, however.
and threw them He made several in
cttectual efforts to speak at the meetings
Of the society Of which he was mem
Der, and was compelled to resume his
seatin the midst Of ill-concealed ridi-
cule. But time, patience, and prac-
tice, were not without their fruits
His studont-sOTows were compensated
by a manhood of unequalled roputa-
ton, and the "litte Jesuit Of st..
Omers," as the school-boys used to call
him. on account of his old, shabby,
brown coat and distracted manner, be-
came the most brilliantly impulsiyo,
and the most wierdly imaginative ora
tor that ever wrung a verdict from a
reluctant jury. lie himself attributed
his splendid success to the facilities af-
fOrded by the debating society which he
attended
Grattan joined the ranks of similar
society. He was the hardest working
student of oratory we know of-not
even Demosthenes excepted He toiled
night and day. His early life was one
long soliloquy. Before he was out of
his teens, he used to be heard by the
addressing "AIr. Speaker "-
for he already anticipated his brilliant
Parliamentary success. No wonder the
simplo-mindcd auditors of his cxuaya-
giant day-droaming orations regarded
him as a lunatic, and took no pains to
conceal their opinion. The debating
society, however, was the Lanista where
he prepared himself for the great com
bats Of the great arena ON which he af-
forwards figured so remarkably.
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Give vour ChiId a Paner

We clip the following from an ox.
change Who wrote it, or where it
came from, are alike unknown to us.
but we cheerfully put it in circulation
with our endorsement:
A child beginning to read becomes
delighted with a newspaper, because he
reads the things which arc familiar, and
will make progress accordingly. A
newspaper in one year is worth quar-.
ters schooling to a child, aud every
father must consider the substantial in.
formation which is connected with ad-
vanccment. The mother of a family
being one of the heads, and having a
more immediate charge of children
should herself be instructed. A mind
is thus fortified against the ills Of life,
and is braccd for any emcrgcucy.-
Children, amused by reading or study.
arc Of course most considerate, and
most easily governed How many par,
ents who have not spent twenty dollars
for books for their families, would have
given hundreds to reclaim son OF
daughter, who has ignorantly or thought.
Iessly fallen into error.
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PCNCTUALITY.-It is said of Melanc.
thon, that when he made an appoint
ment, he expected not only the hour,
but the minute to be fixed, that no
time might be wasted in the idlcness
Of suspense; and of Washington, that
when his secretary being repeatedly
late in his attendance laid the blame
on his watch, he said, "you must either
get another watch, or 1 another Sec
rotary"
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DoING 1T UP BRowN.-At Hitchcock
vile, Ct, few evenings since at corn
husking, 200 bushels were huskcd, 40
girls kissed, engaged and every
body at homo before 10 O'Clock Hitch.
cockyille must be nice place 10 live in
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There is a mine Of truth in the fol.
Iowipo norooronb from q lecture by
- w TT 2T.I...... ~ ,II.. -
nov " H. -l LIS. ''N, 'ne DIluu i'''
eloquent OF the NJ. II. Church South
entitled, can Hours Talk on Woman.
The picture drawn is not one of foncv
H.. ,..-,,1..;,ouL;ri.,J E., -. H.
D"' ,.o o"' ,''"' 80 0>'''''''U /" o'0'J O'J
me- IN almost every community ;
"Thcro one sin, which, if committed
by woman, has noromission in the eyes
Of the world. Committed by man, there
is plontcous grace, and fullest absolu.
ton. The serpent cntcrs-the lover; he
assails the weakest yet strongest part Of
her nature; not opunIy--fOr one glance
Of her maiden innocence would blast
him. The language of love is used
the power Of love is wrosted from its
divine agency, to be made a hclIlsh IN
strument. COnfdcrc5 and the heart S
most sacred feelings arc won! Then
comes the ruin! and the god Of this
world-our most Christian so icty-
drives the woman forth from Eden, to
wander fugitive and an outcast, J"t
Tccriccs the snake into It's most cherished
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There is no saying shocks me so much
as that which 1 hear very often, "that a
man docs not know how to pass his
time" 1t would have been but in spo.
ken by Mothuselah in the nine hun
dred and sixty-niuth bear Of his life
[ [Cowloy.
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TIE RUSSIAN DIsAsTER.-A letter
from Cronstadt, Of the 1lth Octobcr
states that the number on board the Le-
fart lino-of -of-battle-ship, which lately
foundcred in the Baltic, amounted to
1000 including her crew of 800, and
not 1000 men, as was stated in the FIRST
report One man alone has been saved,
and he was washed ashore on tho island
Of Iochland.
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PAscAL,--Pascal was the great genius
Of his time. AT twelve years Of age,
Csays Choteaubriand) he invented a sys-
tenn Of mathematics; at sixteen, wrote
the most learned treatise on comic sec
tions that had been seen for centuries;
at nineteen, reduced to machinery o
science that exists only in the mind; at
twenty-three, demonstrated the phenom-
onon of the weight Of the air, and de
stroyed one Of the greatest errors Of an
oient physics and by his thirty-ninth
year had established the language
which was used in Raciao's plays and
Bossuots orations,
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The following letter, evidently intend
ed for the Retired Physician" was
found lying around loose
KoNEYFRocE, Orgus %, 1887
Doctur III james.
/ see by yurg Advertisement in tho
nuzopapors that yuro sands NV life
have neerly rdh owt. had no idee
sand wus so skcerco in yure naibcrhud.
we have got big land here about ia
mile long where ony quantity NV sand
ken be Dug up & ewsed very extoncive
for bilding purposes Ef yu ar most
owti wudo like to tn sit Order to ship
yu sum more veri choepe. tho sand Is
not so Fine mabeo as sum yuyc oeon.
But ef yu viii bio in the nuscpapors g
git the editurs tu say it was guide it
it wude du First rate. How mutch
wudo yu yows in a yoro & how mutch
wudo yu give a Hogshed fur 70 and pay
tho FrateY yurcs respectfully
III. B SuTH
j. s.Whi don't yu save the Sand wen
it runs owt az yews q agane2 Ef yu
wud micks sum mullasses with the sand
it woodont Run owt SO fast III. B. IS.
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squeers Redivivus.

boueaer's jury at Battorsca Eng
land, has found schoolmistress named
Mccrcs, lSquecrs?) guilty Of causing
the death of little girl by starvation.
The following touching bit Of writing
was found scribblod with a pencil in
the pocket of little fellow named Tin
dali, one Of the pupils of this horrible
academy, and one Of the witnesses. pro-
duccd before the jury, Correspondence
with parents or friends was, of course,
against the rules of such an establish
ment. The wrctchcd child had sur
rcptitiously written the following letter
to the tender father who had placed him
with Mrs. Mocrcs:
"Hy Dear Papa-I hope YOU arc
quite well, but 1 am very sorry that
you forgot about me on my birth-day,
and hope you will remember me.auoth-
er. L write these lines to tell YOU how
am treated l am treated very badly.
We only have rice, half-raw, and three
potatoes, but no meat for dinner; and
for tea and breakfast only bread and
treaclc, and sometimes only dry bread.
We are half-staryed, and if you do not
como and fetch me on Christmas, shall
be crying all the time Remember me
on Christmas. Excuse me writing in
pencil. l am your afIcctionate SON.
G, f. TINUALL"
In consequence of the treatment, Of
which the particulars here mentioned
arc some Of the mildest, the girl, Maria
Bailey, died. whence the inquest with
the result we have mentioned The
principal teslimo ny as to the cause Of
death was that Of Mr.. Richardson,
surgeon who concluded his evidence by
dcposing that "he had not the least hes
itltion in saying that the death Of the
deceased had been caused from insufic-
lent and improper food, want Of cloth
ing, and absolute neglect Of eloanli
ness" Little Tindall slept in his
clothes, "because it was so cold" and
had "a shirt sometimes once fortnight"
The bedroom was a sort Of cupboard.
There were no lights or FIRE. After the
potatoes were boiled, the liquor was Civ
en- to the children, "and they were told
it was broth" The breakfast was dry
bread, with water There were neither
knives, forks, nor sHH, and only three
plates in the house for twenty-onc child
rem to feed from. There were "no reg
uIar Lessons in this little pandcmouium.
George Tindall knew some of the Com
mandments, but had not been taught
them by Mrs. Meeros.
-ot-
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gllistrLLantOns.

BENEVOLENT PoLCEMEN.-Tho po-
lice Of Newark, N. j., numbering 1G
men and officers, held a meeting few
days ago, and subscribed enough to pur-
chase 2j barrels Of -four, to be distributed
among the poor and destitute, and have
promised to provide more if necessary.
GUTrA PERCuA-Gutta pcrcha diff
fers from caoutrhouc in it's external
character, being very solid and un-
yielding at common temperatures, hav-
ing something Of the character Of horn,
but being quite plastic at two hundred
and twelve degrees, at which tempera--
turo it can be pressed and moulded in
to any required form, from the simplest
form Of q tumbler or plate, to the rich
carving of a picture frame and the mis-
mute lines of O medal.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1857-08-19
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