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The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1858-03-10
The "RetirCd PHYSICIAN"

Old Sands is catching it all around. If he
had not taken the advice of "H. B. S." and
mixed little molasses with his sand, it
must have entirely run out by this time.
The Cleaner gives him the following
"puT:"
Messrs Editors Permit me through your
columns TO bear testimony to valuable
medicine. My great aunt has been trying
10 reach heaven for thirty years. Having a
cough she finally fel! into the hands of the
"retired physician, whose sands of life are
nearly run out" She purchased a bottle of
his Connabis from which she gained
strength, Judging from the violence of her
cough. On taking the second bottle, her
strength so increased that she was able 10
cough day and night without intermission +;
and the third bottle landed her in heaven.
Thus in briel space of time, the fond
hopes and anticipations of more than a
quarter of century are realized for The sum
of seven dollars twelve and half cents.
In view OF this and other facts that are
almost daily coming to light, it is no more
than an act of justice 10 that pious, concien-
tious Oil ''retircd physiciau;S whose shnds
of life continue TO run from him, TO recon-
mend his wounderful medicines 10 all who
are afflicted with coughs, colds, asthma
brown kettis, lonliness of the gall bladder,
in inflammation of noraX, refusal of the mucus
membrane, vacant telling i'll the head, such
as lack of brains SC. To pessons who are
desirous of changing husbands and wives,
and all who are anxious 10 visit t'other side
Jordan, this medicine is confidently recon-
mended. To those persona, who take a
lively interest in natural history | would
advise them TO throw themselves into the
arms of the "retired physician" and they
may be assured that they will see the ele-
phaut and the rhinoceros.
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TIE PASS OF DEATH.
Il was a narrow pass,

1t was narrow pass,
Watered with human tears,
For death had kept the outer gate
Almost six thousand years,
And the ceaseless tread of worlds feet
Was ever in my ears
Thronging, jostling hurrying by,
AS if they were only born TO die.
A stately king drew near,
This narrow pass 10 tread,
Around him hung gorgeous robe,
And a crown was on his head
But Death, with q look of whitening scorn,
Arrested him and said,
In humber dress must the king draw near,
For the crown and the purple are useless
here"
Next came a man of wealth,
And his eye was proud and bold,
And !po bore in hia hand alengthy scroll,
Telling OF sums untold,
But Death, who careth not for rank,
Carclh as little for gold
Here that scroll cannot allow,
For the gold of the richest is powerless
now"
Another followed fast,
And book was in his hand,
Filled with the flashes of burning thought,
That are known in many land;
But the child of genius quailed TO hear
Deaths pitiless demand
"Here that book cannot enter with thee,
For the bright flash OF genius are nothing
TO me.n
Next came a maiden fair,
With that eye so deeply bright,
That strs within you strange, sweet care,
Should you meet on summer night;
But Death, ere the gentle maid passed
through,
Snatched away its light
Beauty is power in the world" he saith,
q But what can ii do III the Pass of Death ?''
A youth OF sickly men
Followed in thoughtful mood,
Whose heart was filled with love TO God
And the early brotherhood;
Deah felt he could not quench the heart
That lived for others good
Il own," cried he, ''thc power of love,
must let it pass TO the realms above ~
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The old ram
To another world was sent,
The cares over him done went"
T SoMrpopy's DEap.-There is blca'

U SoMEBoDY's DEAD.-There is bleak
Grape Oh the door, somebody's dead. Yes,
within has fallen another chip from the block
of humanity and the ax-man, Death, is
swinging his weapon for another blow
There the bell is tolng; somebody's dead
slow rolls the sound, and how they resound,
reaching clear into the heart of the thought
ful The coffin maker is fixing cof-
fin; somebody's dead That beautiful pol
ished box must soon moulder and rot
the worms will crawl over it-woms,
the only witness of mortality dropping
away, departing from shape and SUBJ
stance. There gose the hearse; somebody's
dead. All, that's the last ride and the pas
seneer will not come back, the stay away is
eternal. Somebody's dead all the time ;
mankind are dying the earth is our produ-
Ger and consumer, and will tie no Grape
upon her door and wear no black in mourn
ing for our loss While we are dying she
smiles, and laughs, and dances forward in
her perpetual joy.
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The ALPs.-Dark in color robed in ever
lasting mourning, for ever ,ottering like a
fortress shaken by war, fearful as much in
their weakness as in their strength and yet
gathered after every fall into darker frowns
unhumilated threatening; forever incapable
of comfort healing from herb or flower,
nourishing no root in their crevices, touch
ed by no hue of life on buttress or ledge, but
10 the utmost desolute knowing no shaking
of leaves in the wind nor of grass beside
the stream-no other motion but their own
mortal shivering, the dreadful crmnbling OF
atoms in their corrupting stones; knowing
no sound of living voice or living tread,
cheered neither by the kids bleat or mar
mot's cry; haunted only by uninterrupted
echoes from afar off, wandering hither and
thither among their walls, unable TO escape,
and by the hiss of angry torrents, and some.
times the shrieks of bird that fits near the
face of them, and sweeps frlghtend back
from under their shadow into the gulf of air.
And sometimes, when the echo has tainted,
and the wind has carried. the sound of the
torrent away, and the bird has vanished, and
the mouldering stones are sill for little
time-a brown moth, opening and shutting
its wings upon grain Of dust. may be the
Only thing that moves or feels in all the
waste of weary precipice, darkening five
thousand !, ct of the blue bepth of heaven.
-Rtskin
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LITTLE JO.kERS.

Ep "Madam," said a polite traveller TO a
testy landlady, "if see proper 10 help my
self o this milk, is there any improperly in
Il" "I don't know what you mean; but if
you mean 10 insinuate that there is anything
bad in that milk, I'll give you 10 understand
that you've struck the wrong house. There
amt a first hair in the milk for as soon as
Dorothy Ann told me the cat was drowned
in ii, went and strained it over" The hor-
riied young man declined partaking Of the
cat.aavored milk.
~ The medical attendant at the St. Louis
Hospital accosed an Irish servant at the
door of the same, the other day, with, "Did
you give the medicine as told you?"-
':Faith, an | did" "And the brandy p
"Sure, an thought it a pity 10 waste so
much good liquor on the men that were
bound to die any how, so drank it mesell."
VERY SATISFACTORY -"Charles, do you
know what people are saying about us?"
"No, dear; what is it?
"Why, neutrality-suspicious.
are-a-going 10 be mar-married -
"Fudge let them say so. We knoav bet
ter We are not so foolish as that, are we ~
x A SHoEMAKER's ADvRRTIsEMENT-D.
C. Gates, of Danville, Va, boot and shoe
maker, closes an advertisement thus poetic.
ally;
eBlow, oh blow, ye heavenly breezes,
All among the leaves and treeses
Sing oh sing, ye heavenly muses.,
And will mend your boots and shoesesG'
rg' The dog in kennel barks at his feas
the dog who hunts does not feel them
Great minds have wills; others have only
wishes. One day is wrote three to
him who does everything in its order. Who
is the greatest liar ?-he who talks the most
of himself.
w Hello! Jim what are you making
inquired a young friend, as he passed by
"Why, mother made apple. butter, the Other
day, aud she don't like it, and am making
it back into apples again."
t. "Well, Tom, how fare you about the
times" ooh, quite COMFORTABLY, just now, y
said Tom, rubbing his stomach. "You hold
your own, see, said his neighGor. ayes, u
replied Tom, "and a little of another mans
too"
POEM -
The wind it blew, the snow it flew,
And raised Darticular thunder
With skirts and hoops, and chicken coops,
And all such kind of plumber.
g 1t is unhealthy TO fall in love with
another mans wife. In Arkansas, this kind
of thing usually Terminates in death" the
first year.
ET The Oldest mennonite curiosity is, that
woman who never knows her own age
knows 10 half an hour that of her feminine
friends.
~ How much more difficult it is 10 get
woman out on wet Sunday than on a
wet week day. Can the shut shops have
anything TO do with thiss
Eg An Irishman lately fought duel
with his most intimate friend because he
jocosely asserted that he was born without a
shirt TO his back.
~ The young man who recently mar
ried widow with six children, furnished
his house with second handed furniture
in order to have everything 10 match.
| A modern tourist calls the Niagara Rive
:'the pride of rivers" That pride certainly
| has tremendous fall.
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CROOKED EaouoH-Speaking of the Rio
Grand a writer says :-"lmagine one OF the
crookedest things in the world, then imagine
four more twice as crooked, an imagine to
yourself a large river three times as cfopked
as all these put together, and yon have
faint idea of the crooked disposition OF this
crooked river. There is no driilgood i'll 1t,
from the fact that it is so crooked that timber
cannot find its way down far enough to
lodge two sticks iogether ;-bat few-s snakes,
because it is not straight enouge 10 SWIM IN;
and the fish are all in whirlpoos in the
bends, because they cannot find their way
out. Birds frequently attempt TO fly across
the river, but light on the same side they
start from-being deceived by the crook
Indeed you may be deceived when you
think you see across it; and some OF the
'b'hoys say it is so twisting there is but one
side TO it.
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LASDs.-Brigham Young talks of going TO
the Sandwich Islands as safer place than
the United States 10 set up his polygamous
institutions. King Kamehameha's subject
will not probably be much corrupted by the
many wived system being introduced among
them, and Brigham is probably wise in try
ing it on the South Sea savages before he
attempts to revolutionize the fixed morals
and domestic institutions of civilized and
Christianzed countries. Mormonism and
lis spiritual wife docrins can have no foot
hold out of Asia and if Brigham keps on his
western hegira, he viii soon find himself
back among the semi. civilized and luxuri-
Gus Mohammedans whence his lascvious
practices sprung. He has travelled over this
continent trying TO find resting place, but
the moral atmosphere this side the Pacific
seems fatal TO the growth of such an abom :
inatlon, at least on such widely extended
plan as he contempla:es.
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CONTEXT is the tranquility of the heart
prayer is its aliment. 1t is satisfied under
every dispensation of Providence, and takes
thankfully its all allotted portion; never in
quired whether little more would not be
little better; knowing that if God had so
Judged, it would have been as easy for him
TO have given the more as the less That is
not true content which does not enjoy, as
the gift of Infinite Wilson, what it has !;
nor is that true patience which does not
suffer mekly the loss of what it had, because
it is not His will that it should have it lon-
ger. Hannah More.
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W A French Engineer was travelling
upon an old Ohio steamboat. He observed
TO the captain:
"But, this engine is in very poor condi-
tion."
"That's so,' was the reply.
"And how long do you expect TO run it2"
"Til ii burts, was the cool reply.
After passing the next landing place there
was enc Frenchman less on board that boat
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The l. f. MANA.-"We cannot compre.
hend," says an exchange, "why that re-
spectble English letter Y should de discard
ed from the termination of Christian names,
and two letters and L substituted? 1t does
not save time, and it is possible ie, as an
ending, are not bit more refined or elegant
looking, than noble q, with its tail winding
off into graceful flourish" We have be-
fore us a catalogue of the young ladies of a
''Female College," loacted less than thou
sand miles distance, and find the good old y
quite knocked out of sight. AT present, it is
Bette and Pole, and SalIie and Mollie ;
Fannie and Matte, and Peggie and Pattie
Marie and Kittie, and Addie and Mittie
Jennie and Netie, and Josie and Hattie, and
many others, too numerous TO mention.-
But the grand finale of this l. E. verSus Y.
mania, is that the other sex are adopting it
-cubstautal Billy Moody have recently
effeminized himself into Billie Noodle, Esq.
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U AN EXCHANGE notices the marriage of
Miss Angellne Braham, daughter OF the
great vocalis., and adds owe congratulate
the bridegroom upon his privilege of repo-
sing, even on earth, upon A. Braham's bo-
SOM"
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IL Winter, which strips the leaves from
around us, makes us see the distant regions
they formerly concealed; so does old age
rob us of our enjoyments, only to- enlarge
the prospect of eternity before us.
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~ Philosophers say that shutting the
eyes makes the hearing more acute. A
wag suggests that this accounts for so ma
ny closed eyes at church during sermon
timp.
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ORIGINAL POETRY.

LINES.
Doubts VIII arise
To darken Life skies,
Though at times they appeared uncloudcd
And the heart that to-day,
Is SO happy and gay,
May tomorrow in sadness be shrouded.
Love may for while,
The fond heart beguile,
And lull to repose with soft numbers,
But the cares and the strife,
Of this short busy life,
May rudcly disturb the sweet sluinbors.
Alas, that the dream,
That so pleasant doth seem,
Should be broken by Discord's rude finger
That Loves soothing note,
That around us doth float,
Might not ever through life sweety linger
Beck HORN, 1858. LILLIAN.
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B A lady inquired at one of our dry
goods stores the other day for whale
bone. The gentleman in attendance pro-
dueed bundle after bundle, as the fair custo-
mer successfully rejected the article submit
ted for her inspection. The whalebone was
TO short by several feet for the purpose de-
sired. But the clerk, not 10 be outdone,
made another search through the store, in
hope of discovering the article of tho requi-
red longitude. He was. unsuccessful, and
''broke" his chagrin to the lady in polite
speech to the effect that "the extraordinary
expansion of the ladies caused so great a
demand for long whalebones that all the big
whales had been killed and used up, and
there were none but little ones now in the
ocean-but, madam, they'll grow" .
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The great business of life is to watch over
yourself. Second thoughts have novelty to
guard against that.
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IT WAS a maxim of Gen. Jackson's "Take
time to deliberate; put when the hour for
action arrives, stop thinking and so in"
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ET-" How is coal this morning?" said
purchaser to an Irishman who was working
in Il coal.yard. "Black as iver" replied
PAT
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Long words like long dresses, frequently
hide something wrong about the understan-
ding.
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Honesty is term formerly used in case
of man who paid for his newspaper and
the coat on his back.
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If man cannot find ease within himself
it is to little purpose to seek it elsewhere.
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The UnfOrliOnate st. Valentine.


The UnfOriOnate st. Valentine.
"Good morrow, it's St. Valentines Day.
so sings the fair OpEelia, and although old
ceremonies no longer give their wonted
charm to the occasion, the day is still note
worthy. OF late, however, it has been voted
somewhat of a nuisance but we hope
the observers of the day in this instance will
conduct themelves with decorum s. mingle in
the carnival of love with spirit that shall
bring no regret. The origin of the day has
been the subject of much uncertain inquiry,
and who st. Valentine was is mooted
point.
We have read somewhere that st Valen-
entine was lady of the cold court of St.
Louis, and the most beautiful, statcliest, as
well as the eoldest maiden there. She was
, bisieged by scores of lQyors, who were con-
tinuaIly annoying her by throwing billet douz
in her way, until at last it became positive
ly unbearable, and she was obliged 10 seek
refuge from persecution within the "clois-
ter's pale;"
"Till tired of courts and countries,
She sought the 'clolster's pale,'
And calmly had her hair cu off,
And calmly took the veil"
But after she had done this she felt deep
regret, and she found the reception of billet
dour was not disagreeable after all. She
missed them so much that she was sorely
distressed, and employed fasting and prayer
to mortify the flesh and drive such worldly
thoughts from memory. 1t was all in vain.
Her fasting and nagelations at length
became the admiration of the country, and
she eventually raised 10 the position of an
abbess. The struggle, however, was 10
much, and she slowly pined away, until.
Gone night, unto her pallet side
She called the nuns, and said,
mo doubt they'll make saint of me
AS soon as am dead.
Remember, sisters, If they do,
The patron saint Ill be
OF lovers and OF ladies,
Who shall warning take by me-"
AMUSING EprAPHs.-The following is from
graveyard in Massachusetts,:
t'Ilere lies
The bodies OF John aud Lucy
Leaven,
Killed by lightning sent FROM
Heaven,
in l777."
In ST. Mary's church yard, Whittlesea,
England, is the following:
Here lies the bodies of Elizabeth Ad-
olson,
Her son,
Aud old Roger TO come"
"Old Rodger' was her husband il seems,
and nearly twenty years afterwards, when a
traveller visited the place, was still living,
but had not yet come
The following may be seen conspicuously
inscribed on board stuck OH Il tree, on the
bend of Benson Creek, in one of the West.
ern States
Beneath this tree lies young Billy Gun.
ningham,
Who was bulted 10 death by our old bob
tail ram,
The old ram
Be d-n,
To another world was sent,
The cares over. him done went"
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Sorrow grow less and less every time
they are told, just like the age of woman.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-12-15

property belonging to the G. d, and sub
NIT them at the next session of the same
or return them to the G. S.
6. You will encourage and aid all pro-
per efforts made within your jurisdiction
to revive old Divisions or to form new Di-
visions in communities likely to sustain the
cause-taking a leading part in the formal
organization under charter granted by 6.
ID. of North Carolina, and do every thing
in your power to advance the Order.
7. Immediately after installing the off
GERS, during the first or second week of
each quarter, You will without fail make
out a full report of such occurrences and
facts as you may deem interesting to the
Ordef generally, and forward it to the g.
w. p, through the district deputies of yOar
county.
8. 1t is expected Of all D. G. W. P.'s,
that if unable or indisposed to conform to
the above directions, that their commissions
will be promptly resigned.
All of which is respectfully submittedir
l.. =. & +.
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HIigrrll1ln1utlT,
HOWARD ASSOCIATION,
Philadelphia, Pa.

4AA1AOApAAc1 o.
4 BeneroIentI Institution established By Spe-
cial Endowment for the Relief of the
Sick and Distressed, afflicted wih Vir-
ulent and Epidemic Diseases.
7 n times of Epidemics, it is the object Of this
L Institution to establish Hospitals, to provide
n Nurses, Physicians, Clothing, Food, Medicines,
&C., for the sick and destitute, to take charge of
the orphans of deceased parents, and to minister
in every possible way to the relief of the afflicted
and the health of the public at large. It is the
duty of the Directors, at such times, to visit per.
sonally the infected districts, aud to provide and
execute means of relief. Numerous physicians,
not acting members of the Association. usually
enrol their names on its books, subject to be call
ed upon to attend its hospitals, free of charge.
In the absence of Epidenics, the Directors have
authorized the Consulting Surgeon to give advice
and medical aid to persons suffering under Chron-
ic Diseases of a virulent character, arising from
abuse of the physical powers, NAL treatment, the
effects of drugs, &C., &c.
Various Reports and Tracts on the nature and
treatment of Chronic Diseases, by the Consult
ing Surgeon, have been published for gratuitous
distribution, and viii be sent free of charge to the
afflicted.
Address, for Reports or treatment, DR.. GEO.
r.. CALHOUN. Consulting Surgeon, Howard As
ISOLATION, No. 2, South Ninth Street, Philadelphia
Pa. By order of the Directors.
EZRA D. HEARTWELL, President.
GEO. FAIRcHILD, Secretary. 4-1y
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FALL AND WINTER CAMPAIGN
OF 1853.

We would say to our friends and the public
that we are fully prepared, with the best work
men and materials, to execute any orders in our
line, such as
RooFING, GUTTERING, SCOUTING,
House and Ship Plumbing, Copper work for
Steamers, Mills, Distilleries, &C., executed in
the best manner, and at the shortest notice.
STOVES AND HOT AIR FURNACES
OF all kinds, put up in the best manner and war
ranted to give satisfaction. We also have on
hand, and are manufacturing the largest and best
asSortments of all kinds Of Copper, Tin, Brass,
Sheet Iron and
JAPANNED WARE,
at whole ale and retail, lower than any other es.
Enlistment in Virginia.
ETHEREAL AND COAL OILS.
and Lamps of all patterns for using it. Force,
Deep Well and Cistern Pumps,
BLOCK TN, TIN PLATE, SHEET IRON, BAR AND
SHEET LEAD, COPPER, &c.
We would solicit an examination Of our stock.
Having extended our stores and largely increased
our facilities with the experience of 20 years of
the Senior Partner, and all the advantages that
can be derived from new improvements, in ma,
ehinery, &c, we are enabled to compare fayorably
with any house North or South.
Orders from the country promptly attended to
WIN. D.. ROBERTS, JR., 6 Co.
Roanoke Square, Norfolk, Va.
September 18th, 1858. 25-tf
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A. M. GORMAN,
J. F. FOARD,
THOS. WILSON,

The following Resolutions were adopted
unanimously, by a rising vote:
Reso!eea, That the sincere thanks of this
Grand Division, be rendered to the citizens
Of Greensborough, forthier kind hospitality
to the members during its session.
Also, to the officers and members of the
Presbyterian church for the use of their
church for public services.
Also to the President and Directors of
the various Rail Roads, for return tickets
tc the Representatives Of this Grand Divis-
ion.
No other business arising, the G. D. adj
journed, to meet in S~emi-annual session, at
White Hall, in M~ecklenburg county, on
the Sd Wednesday in July, 1859, at 10
o'clock, A. NJ.
Annual session to convene in Raleigh
on the 1st Wednesday in December, 1850
at 10 o'clock, A. NJ.
A. NJ. GORMAN, c. S.