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Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-03-03
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Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1858-09-16
The Little Cup of Tears.

We find the following North German.
legend in Thorpe's Yule tide Storiesn
one of Bohn's Anticipated Stories. It il
too beautiful to remain in the sole keen.
ing of ~antiquarians
There. was once a monther and a child
and the mother loved this her only child
with her whole heart, and thought that
she could not live without it, but the AL
mighty sent a great sickness among chill
dren, which seized this little one. who
lay on its sick bed, even to death. Three
days and nights the mother watched and
wept, and prayed by the side of her dar-
ling child, but it died. The mother now
left alone in the wide world, gave way
to the most violent and unspeakable grief,
she ate nothing and drank nothing, and
wept, wept three long days and three long
nights, without ceasing, constantly calling
upon her child. The third night. as she
thus overcome with sufferings, in the
place where her child had died, hor eyes
bathed in to0rs, aud falnt from grief the
door softly opened, and the mother star
ted, for before her stood her departed
child. 1t had become a heavenly angel
and smiled sweetly as innocence, and was
beautiful like the blessed. 1t had in its
hand a small cup that was almost running
over, SO full it was. And the child spoke:
"Ohl dearest mother, weep no more
for me the angel of mourning has collec-
ted In this little cup the tears which Won
have shed for me. If for me you shed
but one tear more, it will overflow. and
| shall have no more rest in the grave
and no joy in heaven. Therefore. oh
dearest mother! weep no more for vour
child for it is well and happy, and an
gels are its companions" 1t then vanish.
ed. The mother shed no more tears. that
she might not disturb her child's rest in
the grave, and her JOY in heaven. For
the sake Of her infants happiness. she
controlled the anguish Of her heart. So
strong and self-sacrifcing is a mothers
love.
A full heart is as difficult to carry as a
full cup-the least thing upsets it.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1858-09-16
in the shadow Of its dreadfuI rooms.-

in the shadows of its dreadful rooms.-
Words annot express to you the agony
isuffered for the next two months. Perse-
cuted by Col. Glines, tortured by the
presence of his wretched son, and con.
fined q prisoner in the dwelling of my
deadliest enemyl No tidings of the
world beyond those high black closures
reached me, and | gave myself up for
lost! Indeed, l little cared how soon
death came and released me from this
horrible bondage. Every day | was be
set with arguments %entreaties, threats
and imprecatiens, all tending towards
gaining my consent TO a marriage with
Harwell Glines. l remained firm to the
last, and received in return for my tenn
Gritty, an apartment under ground, and
securely barred and bolted. The rigo-
rous unusual confinement brought on a
lingering fever, and / could plainly see
that my prosecutors intended it should
be my death. I,had taken no medicine
throughout my illness. and therefore
you may well believe | was surprised,
when Col. Glines brought me one morn
ing, a dark liquid mixture, which he
said would make me we'll. / drank more
from thirst thar from the wish of reviying
to my dread life again, and Immediately
a slumberous sensation overcame every
faculty. | heard voices in conversation
those of Col. Glines and his soul
heard them arrange the disposition of my
body when the sleeping potion should
have taken effect, and with scarcely a
thrill, | learned | was to be placed in the
cellar, and enclosed within a pile of ma
sorry while yet alive! / remem bered
no more 1t was all a void and blank till
now. es
Gertrude Winchester fully recovered
her health beneath the hospitable roof
OF the kind boatman, and in due time ap-
peared again to her astonished household
who had mourned her dead.
Col Glines had applied for legal pos
session OF her property. but owing to
some delay in the courts he had not
been able to assume formal occupancy
Immediately On Gertrude's reappear.
ance, he fed from " Woodstock's Terror"
with his son and no subsequent tidings
ever reached c.. "Woodstock's
Terror" soon became a ruin, and one
night it was reduced to ashes during a
violent thunder storm. Whether it was
fired by a bolt from heaven, or by the
hand of man was never known.
Gertrude Winchester naturally felt
very grateful to Horace for rescuing her
from a dreadful fate, and she displayed
her gratitude in a somewhat similar man
ner.
1t was quite a little romance, the
newspapers of the day said, and now it
had all ended in the common place affair
wedding with eight bridesmaids, and a
corresponding number Of groomsmen
With the full appreciation of his bride
Horace Flintwood went North, and re.
turned accompanied by his worthy pa
rents, who henceforth, through their lives,
found q pleasant homo in the luxurious
residence of their son and his ELECTION
ate young wife.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1858-09-16
White Daisies.

The prevalence of white daisies OIL
a farm is generally considered a sige
of bad management. But let US not be
too fast in our denunciations of this
weed, orof the farmer, who do not
e~xterminate it. Sheep relish it highly
and though horses and cattle turn away
from it while green, they take it kindly
when made into hay. Then, there are
certain dry, sandy soils, where Timothy
and clover grow with difficulty, and SUI.
fer in time of drought, but on which the
daisy Hourishes well. Now, if the
owner Of sush land has not the means Or
the time to enrich it all at once, why
should he not make the best of the case,
and let the daisy have the largest liberty =?
As to allowing the plants to go to seed.
and scattering over the Deighboring
LANDS, we give no such advice.
If one desires it, and really sets abont
it, the daisy is not difficult to eradicate.
Turn in flock of sheep, in spring upou
a field infested with it and after they had
cropped it quite short, break up the land
and devote it to q heavy crop of oats
and the daisies will almost disappear
Or, give the ground a good manuring and
devote it to meadow, and the luxuriant
grass will sooa chock it out. Or, rails
lug any seed crop, upen the land will ar
the same purpose.-American Agricutur
80 +HNE aEaH NE AtssHa.a LtEaZI
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1858-09-16
William Tell Outdone.

A weaver of Speyor, in Germany. re.
Gently performed an exploit which casts
the dexterity Of our Travis or Suydam
completely in the shade.
He was the father of a fine boy, an af-
fectionate husband. and known as the
best rife shot in the district but let a
man be a saint and chance to excel in
some one thing, and he is sure to have
enemies without number.
One day while the weaver sat smoking
in the bar-room of a small inn. some one
of these mea men approached him and
commenced bantering him upon the ac-
curacy of aim.
At first he treated these remarks as
mere jokes, but their pertinacity at length
overcame his good humer, and in a tow
ering passion he started for home, deter
mined to give an undeniable proof of his
superiority, or perish in the attempt.
Accordingly he called his little boy, a
lad of twelve years old, informed him
that he had a " charmed rife ball" and
could not fail to strike any mark, at the
same time ordering him to place an ordi-
nary sized potato upon MS head, and
stand at the foot of a long alley whilc he
shot it off. 51e =
The child fully imbued with the super
%stition inculcated by the stories he had
heard, did not hesitate to obey the COM
mand, and the marksman fred, cutting
the potatoe in two pieces, and leaving
him without a scratch.
Overjoyed at the success of the expert
meat, the weaver returned to the inn, and
related his exploit but the company
tainted him to the proof, and professed
to believe that he was cheating them
Nothing daunted, he took them to his
house and recalling the boy made him
stand as before.
Again the child took his position, and
it being nearly dark, held a lantern while
his father fired the dangerous shot. A
Teooond timo tho potato was cloVen while
the boy stood u~nseratched.
His e%nvious friends ~applauded of course
but the authorities hearing of the matter,
caused the a to be arrested, and
brought before them.
They severely reprimanded him for the
heartlesS deed, and declared that if he
ever renewed the experiment, they would
shut him up in a mad house.
He described his feelings during the
second essay as exciting in the extreme /;
but he was determined to succeed, even
at the risk of killing his child.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1858-09-16
Medicine for Students.

When DR.. Griffin was Professor in
Andoyer Theological Seminary, he invi-
ted the students to his room, and told
them that he had observed they were
growing thin and dyspeptic from the neg.
lect of the exercise of Christian laugh
ter, and insisted that they should then &c
through a company drill in it. He wal
"a very large a over six feet in height
and of magisterial manners. Breaking
out iHto a sonorous laugh, he fairly
obliged his pupils, one by one, to join
till they were almost convnlsed. % 9Tha
will do for once" said ne ,"' and nov
you keep in practice" The doctor wa
practising upon the principle of Solomon
who said. merry heart doeth goo
like o medicine"
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1858-09-16

NO MAN LIvRTH UNTO HIMSELF God
has written on the flowers that sweeten
the air-upon the breeze that rocks the
howerslupon the stem, upon the rain
drops that refresh the sprig of moss that
lifts its head in the forest-upon its deep
chamber-upen every penciled sheet that
sleeps in the cayerns of the deep no less
than upon the mighty sun that warns and
cheers millions of creatures which live is
its light-upon all His works He has
written, None liveth tor himself"
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1858-09-16
R. ALLEN, JR.
At Red Bank and Long Branch,

MONMOUTH COUNTY, N. j.,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
COLLECTOR, Master and Examiner in Chancery
~ Notary Public, Commissioner of Deeds for New
York, New Jersey, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Elk
oficio of the New England States. Soldiers Bounty
Service Warrants obtained and disposed Of.
Red Bank. Oct. l. 1855.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1858-09-16

Relieve misfortune quickly. A man is
like an egg-the longer he is in hot water
the harder he is when taken out.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1858-09-16
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Mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado Co., Cal.) 1854-1860, 1858-05-22
Burr and Hamilton.

Mr.. Choate thus sums up his review Of the
characters Of Burr and Hamilton:
g But how few there are like Burr When
you have enumerated Cataline and his nsso-
ciates, Cicero and his enemy, Sallust, AlcibiO.
dcs, Borgia and Machiavcl, you have cnumcr-
ated all who most resemble him. lie may
have loved his daughter, and kept some friend
ships, but he had no regard for the spirit Oi
humanity, or for any solemn plausnbility OF
life. He spared neither man in his angri, nor
woman in his lust, nor the Union in his anl-
bition. Stat nOmihiS untbTG. Let Us observe
him no longer, but pass on"
Of Hamilton, MIR. Choatc said
1.-THE public life Vi Hamilton closed with
the fall Of Federalism. The same wisdom, the
same American feeling and love Of country
characterized him as did Jefferson. Nobody
calls in question the stupendOus ability with
which he assisted ~ frame the administration
OF the government, restored order 10 its finan-
ccs, gave support to our credit, and impressed
upon US to be impartial when our first friend
had become republic aud our first enemy was
fighting her"
Asa lawyer, he was wise, safe and Just
and took rank az the leader of the bar Mr.
Choste mentioned instances Of IIamlton's up.
rightness in professional dealings, and spoke o
his defence Of CroswCAn for libel in 1904, as
his masterpiece, and as nearly the grandest
display Of the bar-one which is indelibly in.
scribed on the written and unwritten statutes
of America.
There and then, in that argument, he en-
gravcd on our public law, as with pen o.
steel upon an obclisk fronting the sun, the
doctrine that truth, from right motives anC
justifiablc ends, may be safely written on any
body, high or low. He was o thorough anG
deep rcasoner, and his eloquenec was singu
larly powerful. Hamlton's labors as the edi
tor Of the FederaList, and his remarkable pre-
cociousncss of intellect were spoken Of H,
began his career as a public speaker at tn
age Of eighteen, and at that age wns among
the ablest Of our writers in the great contro
versy with England. At twenty he wrot
that masterly letter to Duane, anticipating tn
provisions Of the Constitution; at thirty-tw,
he wrote for the FederdList, and at thirty
eight he ceased to be public man. Savin,
Paschal, Caesar and Napoleon, it is doubtful
if vaster or purer powers have been exhibited
by man.
Mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado Co., Cal.) 1854-1860, 1858-05-22

ORIGIN OF ODD FELL0ws.-It has been sup
posed by many, that the origin Of the society
Of Odd FcllowS-or rather, the organization
Of that associatiOn-was of comparative mod
crn date. They will be somcwat surprised,
however, says the Cincinnati Times, ITO learn
that its origin dates as far back as the time of
Nero. and was established by the Roman sol
ders in the year 55. At that time they were
called 'Fcllow Citizens" The present name
was given them by Titus Caesar, twenty-four
years afterwards; and they were SO called
from the singular character Of their meetings.
and by their knowing each other by night or
day by mystical signs and language. At the
same time he presented them with dispensa-
ton engraved on plate Of gold, bearing diff
erent emblcms of morality. In the 9th centu.
ry the order was established in the Spanish
dominions, and in Portugal in the 9th centu-
ry 1t did not reach France and England un.
til the lth century. 1t was then established
in the latter country by John de Neville, who
assisted by five Knights from France formed
Grand Lodge in London.
This ancient fraternity has now its lodges
in every quarter Of the globe, and by its use
fulneSs and benevolent character, commands
the respect and countcnance of all who arc
acquainted with its nature and purposes. ~
Those upon whose information reliance may
be placed, give credit to Baltimore for first in
Producing Odd Fellowship into the United
States, and TO Grand Sire Thomas Wilde. still
living among us, belongs the honor.
Mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado Co., Cal.) 1854-1860, 1858-05-22

WEDDINGS A CENTURY AGo-To begin with
a description of the lady. Her locks were
strained upward over an immense cushion
that sat like al incubus on her head, and
plastered over with pomatum, and then sprin-
klcd over with shower Of white powder
The height Of this tower was somewhat over
foot. One single white rosebud lay on it,
top like an eagle on n hay stack. Over her
neck and bosom was folded lace handkcr-
chief fastened in front by bosom pin rather
larger than dollar, containing your grand
fathers miniature set in virgin gold. Her
airy form was braccd up in n satin dress, the
sleeves as tight as the natural skin of the arm,
with waist formed by n bodice, worn out
side, from whence the skirt flowed of, and
was dstendcd at the top by an ample hoop.
Shoes of white kid, with peaked toes, and
heels Of two or three inches elevation, inclOs.
cd her feet, and glittered with spangles, as her
little pedal members pceped curiOuSly out.
Now for the swain. His hair was slceked
back and plentifully behOured, while his cue
projected like the handles of skillet. His
coat was sky blue silk, lined with yellow
his long vest of white satin, embroidered with
gold lace; his breeches of the same material,
and tied at the knee with pink ribbons
With silk stockings and pumps with laces
and ties of the same hue completed the habil-
iments of his neither linnen. Lace ruffles
clustered around his wrist, and portentious
frill worked in correspondence, and bearing
the miniature of his beloved, finished his tru.
ly genteel appearance.
Mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado Co., Cal.) 1854-1860, 1858-05-22

most conspicuous thcatcrs Of action--impos.
siblc that he could haze failed to stamp the
impress Of his genius indclibly upon our pub
lie policy. The history Of 10 public man Of
our country during the quarter Of century
which interviewed from 1920 to 1915 is more
closely interviewer with the histO y Of our
country thnn Mr.. BentOns.
In private life, in the circle Of his own iami-
ly, Colonel Benton poss, sscd none Of that
stcrnness of character and angularity Of man
ncr that distinguished him in public. AS n
husband he was tender, anxious, thoughtful,
and gentle to degree never exceeded; and this
feature of character alone would have been
conclusive proof Of noble and exalted nature
He was as devoted, aiIectonate, and assiduous
father as husband, All indefatigablc tutor in
his own household; no less proud Of the re-
suits Of his unremitting labors in this domcs-
tic department Of duty than of his more con-
spicuOus labOrs on the public theatre.
Mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado Co., Cal.) 1854-1860, 1858-05-22

The SERFs OF RUssIA.-Recent movements
in the empire of Russia indicate gradual
change in the condition Of the servic classes
among the people Of that country, looking to
the eventual aboliShing Of serfdom The strfs
Of Russia are Of the same race and complex
ion as their masters, and their condition of
Scrvtudc is an appcndage of the soil. They
are attached to the soil, and go with it in ev-
cry transfer as part and parcel Of the proper
ty. Yet when removed from the soil, the
state of serf,lom does not cease with them,
but continues in whatever other capacity be-
sides huSbandry they may be employed
This state subjects them to certain social and
civil disabilities, of less relative importance
under despOtic government like that of Rus.
sia than under ours, but still placing them in
marked and unfavorable contrast with the
frccmcd Of the empire There are many instan-
ceS Of learned and of wealthy men in Russia
who are Of the scrf class; and yet they have not
had free scope to cultivate their minds, or i'm
prove their fortunes by trade. Doubtless
the present policy Of the Gear Alexander to
gradually abolish serfdom, is a wise one, look.
ing to the growth and extent of the nation as
one among the powers of Europe; for this will
promote national spirit Of patriotism among
the Russian people, quality in which they
are apparently deficient. They will thus be
come more enterprising in peace, and more
formidable in war. Alexander has set an ex
a'n. .,le for his mobiles, by first abOlishing serf
dom on his own personal domains. -BGItOu'
Pictorial.