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one OF THE SENTRIEs.

In recent lecture upon Washington, Theo-
dore Parker told tho following anecdote:
At Cambridge, Gen. Washington had heard
that the colored soldiers were not to be depend
ed upon for scntries. So one night, when the
pass word was sCanbridge,' he went outside
the camp, put On en- overcoat, snd then ap-
preached a colored sentinel
sWhe goes therea' cried the sentinel.
4 friend,' replied Washington.
FREUD, advance unarmed aud give the coan-
tersign,' said the soldier.
Washington came up and said sRoxbury.'
No sar,' was tie response.
sMedford, said Washington.
NO sar,' returned the colorcd soidier~
eCharlestown.'
The colored man Immediately exclaimed,
4 tell you, Aassa Washington, 10 man 60 by
here 'out be says Cambridge
Washington said Cambridge, and went BY.
and The next day the eolored gentleman Was
relieved Of all further necessity for attending
to that particular branch of military duty.
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VOL. 80, NO. 12.
THE LORDS PRAYER .


We have lately fallen upon something very
different from, the usual poeticaI paraphrases of
Sacred Writ 1t is o yersifcation Of the Lords
Prayer--an orison, the bTevi.y and coacentra-
ton of which ought to be lesson to those
who indulge il many words when they pour out
prayer and praise. 1t has lately been publish
ed in London, is composed rs duet, and har-
monized for four voiees, with an accompani-
ment for tue organ or piano-forte. It runs
thus
..0ur Heavenly Father heaf oef prayer
Thy name be hallowed everywhere;
Thy kingdom come thy perfect viii
In earth as IN Heaven, let all fulfill
Give this days bread, lhst we may live
Forgive our sIls as We ter2ige;
Help US temptation 10 Withstand
From evil shell ns by Thy hand
Now and ever nAIo Thee,
The kingdom, power, aud glory be, Amen
Here nothing is redundant, nothing wanting.
The music, simple and lelodious, is said to be
worthy of the words.
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DO RIGHT.

4 man that has soui worth six-rehcd
must have enemies. It is utterly impossible
for the best man to please The whole world, and
the sooner this is understood, end a position
taken in view of this fact, The better. Do
right though you have enemies. You cannot
escape them by doing wrong, and ii is little
gain to barter array your honor and manhood,
aud diTest yourself of moral courage, to gaia
What 2 Nothing Better abide by the truth
--frown down all opposiiiou, and rejoice in
the feeling which must Inspire free and III
dependent man.
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HoW COFFEE eAME no BE USED.

At the time Columbus discovered America,
coffee bad never been known or used. 1t only
grew in Arabia and upper Ethiopia. The dis
coVerY Of its use as a drink is ascribcd to the
superior of monastery in Arabia, who, desi-
rous of preventing the mcnka fran sleeping at
their nocturnal services, nlade them drink the
infusion Of eeffee, upon the report Of sonse
shepherds, wha observed tkat their fDcks we're
mosc lively after browsing on the fruit Of that
plant. Its reputation rapidly spread through
the adjacent countries, and in abont two hum
dred years il reached Paris. a single plant,
brought in 1914, became the parent stock of
all the coffee plantations in the Wes. Indies
The extent of consumption can now hardly be
realized. The United States alone annually
consume at the cost Of its landing from four
teen to fifteen millions of dollars. You may
know the Arabia or Mocha, the best coffee, by
its small bean and dark color. The Java and
East India, the next in quality, is q larger
bean, and of yellow color. The West India
Rio has blue, greenish gray tint.
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AGRICULTURAL.
From The .4mrican .Agriculturisf.
now LONG WILL TREES LIVE,

Wby may not trees live forever! Is there
necessary limit to their existencel Do they,
like animals, have their infancy, youth, maiu-
ritz, decline, and death! This is the commou
opinion. 1t is believed that they die, no. sole
IL because accidents befall them, or diseases as
sail them, or because they are cut down By the
woodwan's axe-but because, escaping all such
contingencies, their cells and vessels become
hardened and inc-uslsd, and the fluids cease to
aow, and they perish from sheer exhaustion and
old ege. They wear out aud run down, like an
old clock.
Let US overhaul this opinion little. Vege-
table physiology shows that the living parts of
au sxogenous tree, that is tree growing By ad-
ditions to the outside are: ~ the heextremities OF
the stems and branches, including the buds; (2)
The extremities of the roots and rootlets; and
t3) the newest strata of wood and bark. These
are all that are concerned in the life and growth
of tree; and these are renewed every year
The functions of life in an animal are carried
on for whole lifetime in one set of organs;
aud when these organs wear out, the animal
dies. But the life processes in plant are car
red on through organs annually renewed, and
hence the plant is not subject to decay, for the
same reason that The animal is. Every year
the crude sap rises from tho roots to the leaves,
where it is dgested, and from whence it de-
scends, leaving deposits on the way, of new
buds, bark, wood, and roots. If, then, all that
is cozcerned in the life and growth of tree is
annually renewed, making the living and active
parts of tree never more than ono year Old
why should not the tree continue to live on for
an indefinite period. There seems to be no ne
eessary reason, no cause inherent in the tree IT
self, Why it should die.
Again: tree is not, philosopbically speak-
iog, an individual, like a man, OF any animal.
1t is a community, an aggregation of individu-
ais. The only real individual in plant is tho
Sret cell Of which she plant was originally coul-
POSED. Every bud on tree may also be con-
sidesed an individual, since il has 10 Itself all
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PROSE POETRY

Igs4. hsrs fosa ard hs- . riras and
asked her to marry me then--bat she sent
them all back, the insensible thing, and said
she'd no netting Of men. ] told herI lad
oceans Of money and goods, and tried to fright
her with growl, but She answered she was not
brought up in the woods to be scared by the
screech of an owl. | called her haggage.
and everything bad - sighted her features
and form, till at length succeeded in getting.
her mad, aud and she ragged like sea in q
storm. And then iE moment | turned and
smiled, and called her my angel, and she fell
, in my arms like wearisome child, and cxeta-
lined, sswe viii marry this fall"
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WEIGHT OF A MnLIoN IN GoLD.--lu answer
to the question sswhat is the weight OF q mill
lion of dollars iu gold - an officer of the mint
calculates as follows The weight of one mil-
lion of dollars Of United States currency, in
gold, is $3.50 troy OF. TAiS makes 44T9
pounds, 2 oz,--or nearly two tons and quart
er, reckoning 1000 lbs only to each ton. As
weighty as this is, we have no donht that, if
tho amount were offered to any body who would
lift it, there would be enough persons found
ready to break their necks in the ysio at
tempt.
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FUTURE EQUALITY.

We stand upon common ground. The Great
Leveller will knock at your door, Sir Million
aire, as we'll as al mine, and we must both open
to him, whether we bid him welcome With
our hearts or not Roll along, then, in your
chariot, nor heed the poor pedestrian who drags
his blistered feet over the hard sidewalk
Stoop not at the imploriug voice of the ragged
mendicant. We arc all travelling the same
way, and shall ultimately reach the same inn--
the grave. ssThere the wicked cease from
troubling, and the weary are at rest" The
weary ia there no, consolation in the assur-
ance?
Courage, then, storm beaten journeyers over
The desert Of lifel Toll on, yet, while amid
trials and tears. The goal is at hand-your
home-your haven Of rest. Does the man Of
this world, who has laid up stores for many
years and spoken peace to bis own soul, afiict
or oppress you? forgive him He is your fell.
low traveller 10 the land of souls--he will
soon stand upon IN equality with YOURSELF
His treasures cannot bribe the spoiler His
gold may soon become cankered, and bis fine
gold be dim.
Let net the rich be unduly elated, cor the
poor unduly depressed; for in the great COM
munisy of the dead there is nothing known of
inequality. Let the proud be BUNDLED at the
thought, and the humble lifted up.
Come, neighbor, thy hand. We will trudgc
along LIES uneven road together, if you please
and encourage each other SO to live-will it
| not be the better way? that when our summons
comes 10 depart hence,
q We go not Ike the quarry slave at night
Scourged to his dungeon-brt sustained and
soothed
Ev t,,tfaI Ifar;,o it,fof
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, ana lies down TO pleasant dreams
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CHRISTIAN EARNEsTNEss.

How beautiful and how needful ln our
churches is Christian earnestness What are
professed Christians doing TO bring sinners to
the Saviour Shall not the sight of souls IN
the guilt of uanumhered sins, and under the
threat of everlasting woe, move us? Surely
there is power in the death of Christ as a
motive. May His love consirain US, as it did
one who was awounding Him in the house of
his friends,o' bu, was brought to repentance
and to duty by a picture Of the Crue'6xion
beneath which were engraved the words
81 did this for thee;
What hast thou done for mes
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MASKS AND FACES.

a great masquerade ball was given in Mil
waukee about week ago. The .Ns'os of that
city. 10 the course of an article describing it,
says:
s,Ono gentlemen fell in love with bis own sis
ter, while another man danced, talked and
promcnaded with a gentleman IN woman's
dress three hours in the vain hope of lndlng
out who the dear creature was. One young
man took his mother to the supper, and great
was the surprise of both on learning how mat
ters stood. One of oar leading merchants gave
his ring to young lady If she would raiso ner
mask that he might see her features, when 1t
was bis own sister, who he supposed was at home
with the toothache. Two gentlemen got into
warm dispute as to who certain young lady
with black domino was, and after making
wager Of two bottles of champagne, found out
that the young lady was the yonger and mis-
chisyous brother Of the losing party
Wanted 10 know-where the bail stones are
c,a.r,adf
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SELECT POETRY.
THE VISIBLE CREATION.
BY MONTGOMERY


Yhe God of Mature and OF Grace
In all his works appeaisi
His goodness through the earth we trace.
His grandeur IN lie spheres.
Behold this fair and fertile globe,
BY Him in wisdom plann'd;
i was He, who girded like robe
The ocean round the land.
Lift to the frmament your eyei
rhither his path pursue;
His glory, boundless as the sky,
O'crwhelms the wo ndering view.
He bows the heavens-the mountains stand
a highway for their God;
lie walks amidst the desert-land,
-'ris Eden where lie trod.
The forest in his strength rejoicei
Hark on the evening breeze,
AS once OF old, the Lord Gods voice
Is heard among the trees.
Here on the hills r. feeds his herds,
His focks on yonder plains;
His praise is warbled by ths BIRDS
20 could we catch their strains
Mount with the lark, aud bear our song
Up to the gates of light,
Or with the nightingale prolong
Orr numbers through the night
In every steaa his bounty flows
DifEusing joy ana vsal'hi
In every breeze his spirit tiows
The breath Of life and health.
His bless iDgs fall in plenteous showers
Upon the lap OF earth,
= hat teens with foliage, fruit, and flowers.
And rings with infant miEtli.
Ii God haiti mace his world 50 fs'ir
Where sin and death abound;
How beautiful beyond compare
VIII Paradise be found
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BRAINS.

An American sloou of war had put into an
English port, and the first lieutenant went
ashore to reeonnoiter. In the course of his
travels, he entered tavern where number of
British officers were carousng. They at once
reco osnzed the lieutenants nationality By his
dress, and resolved to amuse themselves by
bullying him.
"Well, comrade," says one, ''y0u belong to
the United States, see."
"Right," was the answer
"Now, what would you 10 to man who
should say that your navy did not contain an
officer it for bumboatl" continued the En-
glishman.
II would blow his brains out =" returned the
lieutenant, with great GOODNESS.
There was silence among her majesty's SER
wants for moment, but finally, one of them,
more muddled than the rest, managed to stam-
mer out.
"W-well, Yank, say it 20
The American walked to bis side, and re-
Piled calmly:
'IIt is lucky for you, shipmate, that you have
no brains TO btotD out ~
Struck by the dignity of the answer, the of
fender at once aPologized, and our hero was
invited to join the mess.
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MARY sUBDUEs HIM.

Iosr Mary! offered myself to her every
tune she turned up, or came round. I am
hers but wish to enter my solema protest
before the world, tha. she alone could not have
conquered me. But who could bold out, when
surrounded BY an army of Marys on skates 2
| am hers but am awfully sore! All! l
have learned something. Cupid makes bache-
lors tender as cooks do tough steaks, by ham
mering and pounding.
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COURTING BY TElEGRApg

A certain yoHDg man, whom we shall call
Smith, was employed at an Office on the Ma
tional line. In the course of business, no as
certaIned that person having charge Of a
station IN small town some seventy miles dis
tant, was young lady, and that her name was
Sarah. Forthwith, in an interval Of leisure,
flashed ever the wires this message
"Ny name is Smith-how old are you 90
10 which an answer was promptly return
ed
"My name is Sarah None Of your busi-
ness -
The next one ran thus
g am not married--What are you worth ~
''To which the words came back:
'sWorth milliou.''
AS climax, the youth replied:
"Will you marry me %
Tho answer was, 'Yes'--and in four months
they were married.
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WHO MARY Is,


Hear him
WHO MARY Is.
Mary is as pretty piece Of humanity in The
shape of woman as you can End this side Of
Heaven. Such eyes such hair! such teeth
Aud her hand Well now there think il was
Just the smallest, the wliitest-why. ivory is
slow to it, And her foot vas like lit
lie white rose bud, its snowy leaves lust show
ing enough to set off the neat covering that
concealed the rest from profane eyes, Il did
not seem a foot, as one saw it reposing in its
tiny kid slipper, like Canary bird in It's nest.
MARY HAS TrIE SKATING FEVER.
Well, sir, this Mary caught tie skating fo-
yer, which is now raging SO feaIfuly. heard
her express wish for pair Of skates and the
next day she had the best pair thes could be
found in The city, and nobody knew who sent
them 10 her---but, bless me, how my blood boiin
at the thought of tie consequences.
MARY PUTS HER FOOT IN IT.
We went down upon tue Zee, and there that
little devil Of a Mary just set quietly down,
ordered me on my knees and quietly placed
that foot, tho foot, the poetic myth, in my lap
and bid me put on her skates. Sir had Venus
dropped from heaven, and lid me rub her
down with rotten stone and oil, it could not
have astonished me more than when that divine
foot was placed in my unworthy lap. T felt
very faiut-bu ] buekled on the skate, and
stood up, With Mary by uy side.
THE BACHELORS HEAD swIMs.
Have YOU ever taught woman to skate ?
No; we'll, let me tell you. You've been in
a room lined with mirrors, haven't you -
You've seen Kaleidoscope with few old bis
of glass, &e., in tin tube, and turning it have
seen all sorts of beautiful figures Just ina
| CINE kaleidoscope, and IN place of beads aud
broken glass, please substitute blue eyes, curv-
ing eye lashes. lips, ivory, wavy hair, criuoline.
gaiteT boots, zephyr worsied, cupids, hearts,
darts, clap Of thunder. a fash ef liahtairas1,
and tauld Nick, Imaginc yourself the centre
OF system With all these things revolving
round you, and violet bank breaihiog sigbs
upon you all the while, and you have Mary aud
her victim in the first skating lesson.
CATERS IN TUE PIT OF HIS STOMACH.
But just let me try to describe our perfor-
rnances Mary start she on my left arm all
square. Lord have mercy on my poor puzzled
brain while try to describe the stirred and
mixed rainbow of sights and sentiments. -
First, Mary's dear little gaiter boots present
themselves to my astonisbed vision, and before
have time to wonder how they came UP before
me L feel them pressing their blessed beauty,
With emphasis, into the pit of my stomocb
MARY PITCHES INTO HIM GENERALLY.
Next scene-wavy hair, with thirty dollar
bonnet and divine head, came pitching into
my waistcoat. with such force that feel the
buttons against my spine. Next-Mary gazed
up at me from between my jack boots, and
anon her blessed little nose is thrust into the
bosom of NY SKIRT. All my friends, all RI
search and study on he mysterious subject of
woman has been comparatively in vain, till il
this eVentful year of 1859, the fashion of skat-
| ing has opened and varied sources of informal
tior.
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VARIETY IN CREATION.

There ara $4,000 species of plants on exhi-
ton i'd the museum Of Natural History of Par
is. The whole number Of species in earth and
sea cannot be less than four or FIVE thousand.
Thesc are Of al sizes, from the invisible for
ests in5a Bit Of mouldiness to tho towering
trees es Mallbar, so feet in circumference, and
tho hapsans, whose shoots cover circumfer-
encc of five acres. Each of these has a COM
plicated system of vessels for the circulation
OF its juices. Some trees have leaves narrow
and short, Others. as the talipot of Ceylon-
have leaves so large that one Of them can shell
ter fffesn OIL twenty men Some exuviate
their Leaves annually, as whole robe, leaving
the trer nude, its bare stem towering aud its
branches spreading themselves uncovered in
the shy While the leaves of others drop off
one by one, new ones constantly growing in the
place oElhe dismembered ones, and the tree re-
tanning III perpetual Eerdure.
Thers haYe actually been ascertaincd, in the
animal lIngdein, about 10000 species of liy-
ing creatures. There are 600 species of nam
malia-taase that suckla tLeir young-the
most ofVhich are quadrupeds. OF birds,
/ there arqh 1000 species; of fishes, 5000; Of
reptiles 200, and Of insects, 1900 species.
BesidesE hese, there arc 1900 species Of shell
nsll, antthQf less than eighty or one hundred
thousandspecies Of aninalcules Invisible to the
naked cyl
/ Some f1s Of life require moist atmos-
/ Phcre, otfFs dry one A blue water lily
| grows IN canals Of AIexaudria, which when
the water EapoIaies froal the beds Of The ca
nails drlesap; aud when the water is again in
the uanslst again grows and blossoms And
some oil thelowest animals may be completely
dried AID kpt 10 this state for any length af
time, but |san they arc again moisteucd, they
resEne thAanetions of life. Some plants are
adapted cEs to particular climates; others
grow in aren't climates; bu. they do rot
flourish eqtIr well IN these. AS tree which
in the Soutt bro States attaiis a height Of 100
feet, at Gr4 Slave Lake, the Northern limit
at which iAis found, becomes dwarfed 10 0
shrub of onI i've feet high, Life, both vegc-
table aod aE4aal, is infinitely modified; but in
all Cases ils st Development is only under
those condl NJ 10 which II Is specially adapt
REQ. 'siToW ahifoti rrrr my Troslts, (, Gud In
wisdom tbou hst a,ade them all.--Ltfs Hius-
trated.
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An lrishman who had returned from Italy,
where he had been with his master, was asked
in the kitchen, sYea, then, Pat, what is the
lava hear the master talking about 20
''Only drop Of the cratcr,' was Pats re-
pig.
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Benevolent impulses, where We should not
expect TEEN, in modest privacy, enact manya
scene Of beautiful wonder amidst the ptsaoits
of angels,
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A Yankee doctor has got up remedy fo
hard time. 1t consists of ten hours labor vel
worked in.
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Wanted by a Dutch gardener-a journeymau
cooper. to head cabbage.
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A lover had been offered kiss If hc would
prove his assertion that locomotives were ac-
eustomed 10 chew loboccc, as well as smoke Qua
of their pipes
's0bserye the sound
as the crank comes round,
He arehly said,
nIt's choo--choo--choo
To go ahead,
And choo-choo-ch -choo-rhew,
To back'er."
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LIFE

How truly 1es the journey OF single day,
its changes adj its hours, exhibit the history
Of human lifes We rise up in the glorious
freshness Of a'rring morning. The jews of
night, those sFeet tears of nature, are hanging
from each bossh and rejecting morning. Our
hearts are batting with hope, our frames are
buoyaut wi,!g health. We see no cloud, We
fear no storm ard with our chosen ana below
ed companiojs clustering around u.s. We COM
uence our jdprney. Step by step, the scene
becomes moh lovely; hour by hour, our hopes
become brighter. a few Of our companions
have dropped away, but in the multitude re-
naming, and the beauty Of the scenery, their
loss is unfek. Suddenly we have entered up
on a new country. The dews of the morning
are exhaledby the fervor Of the noon day sun;
the friends that started with us are disappear
ing Some remain, but their looks are cold
and estranged, others have lain down to rest,
but new faces are smiling upon US, and new
hopes are beckoning Us on. Ambition and
fans arc before US, but youth and affection are
behind rs. The seems is more glorious and
brilliant, but tie beauty and the freshness Of
:ho morning have faded and forever. Onward
and onwsrd We go; the horizon of happiness
and famo reoades as We advance to 1t; the
shadows begin to lengthen, aud the chilly airs
pf evening are usrrping the noon day. Still
Ee press onward; the goal is not yet won, the
haven not yet reached. The orb of hope that
lad cheered US on, is sinking in the West; our
lmbs begin to grow faint, our hearts to grow
sad; we turn to gaze upon the scenes that we
have passed, but the shadows Of the twilight
have intcrposed their veil between US; We look
around for the old and familiar faces, the COM
panions Of our travel, but we gaze in vain 10
iud them; we have outstripped them all in the
race after pleasure, and the phantom yet un-
caught, 10 land OF strangers, in sterile and
inhespitable country, the night time overtakes
us--the dark and terrible night time of death
and, weary and heavy laden, we lie down tc
rest in the bed of the grave. Happy, thrice
happy, is he who has laid up treasures for him.
self, for the distant and unknown tomorrow
Knitkerb0eksr.
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What tune csn make every one giadi Ans.
Fortune.
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DANGERS OF SKATING.

A correspondent of the Philadelphia North
.4nserican writing from Q town in Massacbn-
aetts, where skating is all the rage, tells about
his adventures on the ice with Mary.
Hear him
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Calamity never laaves where y fonh0 w.
it either softens or hardens the hearf 81 hA
Victims.
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The greatest charm of books is, perhaps,
that we see in them that other men have sut-
fered what we have. Some souls we ever End
who could have responded to all our agony, be
what it may. This, at least, robs misery of its
loneliness.