The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1860-05-31

, WHAT occupation is the sun? Why,
tanner, to be sure.
PRoLIFIc.-Twenty-six ewes belong
ing to John Tewksbury, Esq of Auburn
township, this county, have borne - living
lambs, the present season. Who can beat
that ?-NontTcse Regu6ticaa.
ADVERSELY exaspeF2tes fools, defects
cawards, draws out the FACULTIES Of the wise
and ingenious, pqts the E,odest to the nGces-
sity OF trying their skill, awes the opglcnt,
and makes the idle indq strous Much may
be said ia favor Of adversely, bat the YorSt
of it is, it has no friends.
THRoUGH the influence of fashion the
expenses of burying the dead have become so
heavy that they can hardly he borne even by
the mjddling Glasses of society We err ip this
respect. We do it for the saI { Of hogoring
the remains of the respected and beloved
dead. We purchase an expensive maLogony
or rosewood cofin. How unnecessary for
the fey hours it stands in the parlor Of the
deceased In its process. ion through the civ
it IS concealed by the hcarSe, and is soon COW
cred by the dust. Why is all this expense ?
Does it honor or crafty the dead? Does it
satisfy the living? Would not its expenses
be better employed in paying ths debts Of the
deceased, or in making the survivors COM
Portable? Is it honest, for the sake of a
pageantry OF moment TO cheat some honest
creditor ont Of his dues Is it just TO waste
money in so useless a ceremony, Bhen the
food and the clothing and the shelter of sur
viyogs have 70 be neglected?
4 DROP OF INK-Think of Queens
/ first signature OF a death warrant. where tears
tried to blank the fatal blackness of the
booming ink; Of y traitors adhesion to a deed
Of rebellion, written in gaul Of forger's
trembling imitation of aRother's writing
where each letter took the shape Of the gall
lows eli lovers passionate Pre- posai written
in fire of proud girls refusal wri,I N in ice ;
I Of mothers dying eypostulation with her
wayward son. written in the hearts blood :; of
an Indignant fathers diSinheriting curse upon
1 his first born, black with the lost color of the
gray hairs which shall 10 down in sorrow to
! the graYc-thipk of theSe, and of all the other
+ impassioy ate writings TO which every hour
gives birth, and what n strangely potent
! Protean thing, a drop of ink grows To be =
/ All over the world it is distilling at the be-
hest of men. Here a deEpairing prisoner is
/ writing with = rusty nail his dying confession
Of faith on his damp dungeon wall. There
an anxious lover Is decciying al but his bride
wiz an ink which she only knows to render
visible. Beleaguered soldiers in Indian forts
are confding 10 the pcriou5 secrcsy of rice
water or innocent milk their own lives and
the fortunes Of the country. Shp-wrecked
sailors, about TO be engulted in mid ocean
are consigning to & floating bottle the faint
pencil memorandum of the spot where they
will soon go swiftly down in the very jaws of
death. Everywhere, happy pairs, dear hus~
bands and wives, affectouato brothers and
sisters and all the busy world are writing to
each other on endless topics, with whatever
paper comes to hand, whatever lax The
varied stream thus forever flowing is the in
tellectual and emotional blood of the word
and no one need visit Egypt, or summon an
Egyptian magician to show him all the arts,
al, the joys and woes of men reflected from
the mirror Of drop of ink.--Nacmaians Nag