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Year: 1859

His religion was of the most genuine, ex-
perimental kind He was VegY plain
man. He, like Mr.. Wesley, would no
more dare to preach fine sermon than to
wear fine coat. He was celebrated for
his common-sense way of exhibiting the
principles of religion. He woatld speak
just what he thought and as he felt. He
somehow got the name of being an eccen-
trio preacher, as every man, | believe, does,
who never prevaricates, and always acts
and speaks as he thinks. Somehow or
other, Elder Blunt had heard of Sister
Scrub, and of that infrmity of hers, and
he resolved to cure her. On his first round,
he stopped at Squire Scrubs, as all other
itinerants had done before him. John,
the young man, took the elders horse and
put him in the stable, and the preacher
entered the house. He was shown into
the best room, and soon felt very much at
home He expected to hear something, in
due time, disparaging the domestic arrange
ments but he heard it sooner than he ex-
pected. This time, if Sister Scrub could
be credited, her house was all upside down ;
it wasn't fit to stay in, and she was sadly
mortified to be caught in such plight.
The elder looked all around the room, as
if to observe the terrible disorder, but said
not a word. By and bye the dinner was
ready, and the elder sat down with the
family to well spread table. Here again
Sister Scrub found everything faulty the
coffee wasn't fit to drink, and she hadn't
anything fit to eat. The elder lifted his
dark eye to her face for moment he
seemed to penetrate her very soul with his
austere gaze then, slowl y rising from the
table, he said Brother Scrub, [ want my
horse Immediately must leave"


"Why, Brother Blunt, what is the mat
teri"


"Matter Why, sir, your house isn't
fit to stay in, and you haven't anything fit
to eat or drink, and l won't stay p


Both the esquire" and his lady were
confounded This was piece of eccen-
tricity entirely unlocked for. They were
stupefed. But the elder was gone. He
wouldn't stay in house not fit to stay in,
and where there wasn't anything fit to eat
and drink


Poor Sister Scrub ! She wept like a
child at her folly. She "knew it would
be all over town." she said, "and every
body would be laughing at her." And then
how should she meet the blunt, honest ell
der again She hadn't meant anything
by what she had said. Ahl she never
thought how wicked it was to say so much
that didn't mean anything.


The upshot of the whole matter was that
Sister Scrub saw herself as others saw
her." She ceased making apologies, and
became wiser and better Christian Ell
der Blunt always puts up there, always
finds everything as it should be, and with
all his eccentricities is thought by the fam
lily the most agreeable, as he is acknowl-
edged by everybody to be the most con-
sistent of men," Tales and 1alkings,'
6y ReU. ]. T. Watson.
Year: 1859

Born July 8, l586-Died about January, 1888.
This page, if thou wilt be pater (parent-fath-
err that reads it, thou wilt apardone me if nocht
suspend thy censure till thou be a father, as said
the grave Lacedaemonian Agesilaus. ."-Autobiog.
raphy Of James MeI1iLle.
One time-my soul was pierced as with a sword
Contending still with man untaught and wild
When He who to the Prophet lent his gourd,
Gave me the solace of pleasant child
A summer gift-my precious flower was given
very summer fragrance was its life;
Its clear eyes soothed me as the blue of Heaven,
When home turned, weary man of strife
With uniformed laughter musically sweet,
How soon the wakening babe would meet my


kiss;


With outstretched arms its care-wrought father
Oh in the desert what spring was this!
A few short months it blossomed near my heart
A few short months-else toilsome all and sad !,
But that home solace nerved me for my part,
And of the babe was exceeding glad
Alas my pretty bud, scarce formed, was dying
(The Prophets gourd, it withered in night y
And He who gave me all-my hearts pulse try


ing


Took gently home the child of my delight
Not rudely called, not suddenly its perished,
But gradually faded from our love away,
As ii, still, secret dews, its life that cherished,
Were drop by drop withheld, and day by day
Ny blessed Master saved me from repining,
So tenderly he used me for his own;
So beautiful he made by babes declining,
Its dying blessed me as its birth had done
And daily to my board at noon and even,
Our fading flower bade his mother bring,
That we might commune Of our rest in Heaven,
Gazing the while on death, without its sting
And of the ransom for that baby paid
So very sweet at times our converse seemed,
That the sure truth-of grief and gladness made
Our little lamb-by Gods own Lamb redeemed
There were two milk-white doves-1ny wife had


nourished,


And too loved, erewhile, at times to stand,
Marking how each the other fondly cherished
And fed them from my baby's dimpled hand.
So tame they grew, that, to his cradle flying,
Full oft they cooed him to his noontide rest
And, to the murmurs of his sleep replying,
Crept gently in and nestled In his breast!
Twas fair sght-the snow-pale infant sleeping,
So fondly guardaned by those creatures mild );
Watch Ger his closed eyes their bright eye:


keeping


Wondrous the love betwixt the birds and child
Still, as he sickened, seemed the doves too dwin


ing


Forsook their food and loathed their pretty


play;


And on the day he died, with sad note pining
One gentle bird would not be frayed away!
His mother found it, when she rose, sad-hearted,
AT early dawn, with sense of nearing ill
And when, at last, the little spirit parted
The dove died too, as if of its heart chill
The other flew to meet my sad home-riding,
As with a human sorrow in its coo
To my dead child and its dead mate then guild


ing


Most pitifully plained-and parted too
Twas my first hansel''* and "propine"t tc


Heaven


And, as laid my darling meath the sod
Precious his eomforts-once an infant given
And offered with two turtle-doves to God


Lays Of the KIRK and Covenant.


n
Year: 1859

quest over the body of little boy, three years of
age son of Mr.. John Green, Register street, near
Lombard, who had died of injuries received by his
clothing taking fire from the fireplace. The child
was terribly burnt. The jury rendered a verdict OF
''death from accidental causes"


Coroner Greentree was called on Tuesday night
to hold an inquest over the body of a man named
John Sauter, who was found dead in the third
story of his house about o'clock. The evidence be-
fore the coroner showed that he had been very low
spirited for some time, and had gone to the room
early in the day. When found, he had hung him,
selfwit bed cord. The verdict of the coroner's
jury was in accordance with the facts given.
Year: 1859

Poe, in his Essay on the Poetic Principle said o f
the poet Laureate: 81 call him and think him the
noblest of poets--not because the impressions he
produces are, at all times, the most profound-not
because the poetical excitement which he induces
is, at all times, the most intense-but because il i
at all times the most etherial-in other words the
most elevating and the most pure. No poet is so
little of the earth, earthly"
Year: 1859

We have full intelligence concerning the Difficult
ties about the invasion of San Juan Island by the
American troops. The following letter in the San
francisco Times explains the whole matter:
Year: 1859

1t is singular fact. says q writer
in one of our exchanges, that even
after death, nature respects the inhe
rent modesty of woman, for when
drowned she 1eats upon her face, and
drowned man upon his back. The
noblcst part Of a human being is the
head; but the mans head is liable to
badness; woman is never bald. The
mans face is often made repulsive on
account of a harsh growing beard, so
covered with solid hairs, as some
thing scarcely to be distinguished
from the lace Of a beast; in woman,
ON the other hand, the face always
remlins pure and decent. For this
reason, women were, by the laws of
the twelve tables, forbidden TO rub
their cheeks, lest hair should grow
and obscure their blusbiDg modesty.
Bat the most evident proof of the In
nate purity Of the female sex is, that
a woman having once washed is clean,
and if she wash in second water
will not soil it, but that man is nev-
er clean though he should wash in
ten successive waters, he will cloud
and infect them all.
Year: 1859

How. little we think OF the dead
Their bones are entombed in our
towns, villages, The houses they built,
the work of their hands are always
before our eyes. We travelthe same
road, we walk the same path, sit at
the same 6reside. sleep in the same
room, ride in the same carriage aud
dine at the same table, yet seldom
remember that those that once oecu-
pied these places are now gone-alasl
forever.


Strange that the living should so
soon forget the dead. when the world
is fnll Of tho mementoes of their
lives. Strange that the feetiug cares
of life should so soon rush In aud
fill the breaGt, TO the exclusion of
those so near. To-day man stands
and weeps over the grave with cold
indifference. To day bis heart is
wrungwilh all the bitterness Of an
guish Tor the loss Of one he so much
loved; tomorrow the image Of that
ffiend is effaced from his heart, and
almost forgotten. What common
tary upon man
Year: 1859

In the fair and beautiful land dwell,


Ever the sunshine fingers there;
The clouds are fpurple and crimson, and gold


And musi floats in the azure air.
shrink from the rude and jarring rowd,


least lar from me the mantle of care;
Freely rove Ger my castles and groves,


And revel in visions bright and fair
Thou gh Power and Wealth may pass me by,


Gaily turn from their heartless Din;
Though Fame may scorn, and Fashion may
sneer,


Yet mine are the treasures they mayDot win;
Their souls cling fast to their worldly gauds;
They hug their fetters of silded sin;
They grasp the shadows of outward pomp-
fly to my glorious world within
Year: 1859

A lady had a magnificent cat
Mrs. Jones, neighbor, ordered her
man servant to kill it, as it alarmed
her canary. The lady sent mouse
traps to all her friends, aud when two
or three hundred mice were caught


she bad them put into a box, which
was forwarded to the cruel neighbor
who eagerly opened what she hoped
was some elegant present, when out
jumped the mice, to her great horror
and filed her house. At the bottom
Of the box she found paper direc.
ted to her from her neighbor, saying
Madam, as you killed my cat, take
the liberty Of sending you my mice.
Year: 1859

A LAZY RASCAL. man named
HazzIe, of Rails county, Mo, is pos
ted for being too lazy to go for a
physician to attend his dying vile.
He lay in bed by her side, and re-
fused to stir to help her.
Year: 1859

There is a colored woman residing
in Lexington, Ky, who is supposed
to live without eating. She is a
slave, belonging to a dry goods mer-
chant by the name of Johnson, OF
that city. She says she has not
eaten any food for the past eight
years. She has been in MIR. john
sons family nearly three years, and
he nor any Of his family have ever
yet detected her in taking any food
whatever, though they have watched
her at all times, and in every way
that they could think Of. The man
of whom Mr. johnson bought her de-
clared that he sincerely believed
that she did not eat any food, and
said that he had once confined her
for some weeks, TO ascertain whether
she did or did not really eat, and du-
ring that time he could not detect
her in eating anything whatever.-
She says herself that she does not
eat. She drinks water freely, but
nothing else. She is stout, and in
good health, and never complains of
being sick. She is, also, a protessed
and practical Christian.
Year: 1859

An EDITOR S Reflections AT the
close OF review of the Sickles trag-
edy, the editor of the Baltimore Sun
adds:


No married woman can be ap-
preached by any man with undue
professions Of regard, or of affection,
bat with an instructive knowledge Of
bis design. Not the slightest impro-
priety, not the least indelicacy in
word or deed, can be thrust upon
her observation without startling her
honor and putting her on her guard.
She is at once warned aud armed;
she has counsellor ever at her side
to direct her, and champion to de-
fend her--in a true and honorable
husband. Hence the law esteems her
guilt at least equal to that of the
most seductive and designing invader
of her honor, when she falls. The
married woman is arrayed in the very
panoply of virtue, and cannot be sur
prised. She can hardly be said to
fall-she steps aside of her own free
will and sins deliberately.
Year: 1859

"THE LOST ARTS The Hartford Press
mentions that in tearing down the old Will
lyis Mansion, on the Charter Oak place, in
that city, an old manuscript receipt book
was found between the partitions, where it
had fallen many years ago. Some extracts
are given, which are not enumerated among
the "1ost arts"


10 XIII meet OF any thing so as to have the
meet sweet let the moon BE five DAYS old.


10 cure you from suffering take niece
OF lead and wear it in the holer Of vour
neck


To skare rats away Rite q paper and com.
mand the rats to quit your house and 90
somewhere else, forth with grease the paper
well and lay it in the suller they will eat
the paper up


| To cure eorns on your toes: fast out your
corns then take rat skin bind it on your
| toes.


For deafness take Rine of pork and put
1T in ear and keepe it there.
| For wiehcraft get sweet farm (fernl and
tie 1t about your neck and wear it a long
time


For deafness fine one old brown Wood
picker, kill him and get his Brans (brains) and
put in your ears and wear it in your ears.


For weeke peple take a large frog and
cut him in two and bind him on your stofnac
split open and so on one after mother.
Year: 1859

CALIFORNIA LIoN-For some months past
the people in the vicinity of Mosquito Can
yon, in this county have been excessively
annoyed by the depredations of wild beast,
which has been in the habit of carrying off
the hogs by wholesale. During the past six
months not less than fifty porkers have fallen
victims to this Unsuitable monster. Recently
our neighbors set a trap for the intruder, and
one day last week were so fortunate as to
catch the yarmint alive 1t proved to be an
old California lioness - one of the verv
largest ever seen in this country. 1t is truly
most formidable animal, measuring nearly
ten feet from the muzzle to the end of the
tail. Some idea may be formed Of its i'm.
mense strength, from the fact that when an
ordinary sized shovel handle was thrust into
the trap, the enraged beast seized it in its
jaws and literally crushed it into inch pieces.
1t is the intention of the parties who cap
tured her to put her in a strong iron cage,
and, if possible keep her aliye-PiacerviHs
Observer, Saturday.
Year: 1859

THE COMING CRoPs. "A correspondent
writing us from Tassahara Valley, Contra
Costa county, under date of May 10, says -
"In Alamo and Tasahara Valleys we have
an unusually fine prospect for the coming
crops. All kinds of grain bids fair for
large yield. We are much troubled in this
section by squirrels; but notwithstanding
this drawback, We intend beating our neigh
bors this year in San Ramon (if we CAM in
the production of grain. We are just begin
ming to cut hay and it will not take us long
to finish for there is but little that will pay
to cut. Our farmers anticipate getting
good price for their hay next winter, in con-
sequence of the shortness of the crop."-Con.
ira Costa Gazette.
Year: 1859

POETs AND POETRY OF AMERICA-That we are
as people and nation are inclined to run into all
sorts of rhyming fantasies is well known, and not
only are these rhymsters to be found in the Athens
of America or in the great City Gotham, but here
in our own city there is most wonderful versier,
five may judge from a simple "heart offering,
which has been sent us for publication, with note,
hoping that if we think the poetry is fair we will
allow our readers the opportunity to peruse it thro'
our columns &c. Accordingly we publish several
Of the stanzas, for We not only think it is 'far''
but think it surpasses almost anything we have
read. Surely Bryant or Lowell never wrote any
poetry which would compare with this,-in fact
the works of those writers and of - 1--WE will
keep our author behind the scenes at present; the
glory will be the greater 10hen he IS called out
should not bementionedt the same day Our Cleve
land poet should have written three weeks sooner
1t will be lasting cause for sorrow that we could
not have secured this 'heart offering" for a New
Years address His subject is 1.-The close of the
Year." most fitting title. He commences as fol-
lows:
Year: 1859




PRINTERS FEsTIvAL.-The Festival given by
the Cleveland typos last night at the American,
was an occasion worthy the remembrance of all
the followers of our tuteary Saint, and one whose
Feast of reason and flow of soul" was such as
would have delighted Old Richard himself. Noted
guests from abroad were present, and fright
goodly companie" of our own Editors, Publishers,
and Printers, filed the Armory to the full with
manly forms, while each bore to the field of Terp-
sichorean strife, one or more ''fair and radiant
maidens, which caused the evening to pass of
merry as a marriage bell," and good deal mer-
rier than some manageable bellies we wot of


The tables were provided with all the delicacies
and Substantial uxuries" of life until in accordance
with long established custom they groaned in 'aud.
ible silence"


The toasts and speeches were frst-rate, as our
readers will agree with US in pronouncing when
they read them in to morrow mornings LEADER
'But why not this morning ?" asks some one who
cares not to wait until the morrow Simply,
friends, because printer boys are like morals with
you-and they enjoy fun and frolic as well There
fore instead of making hurried rush to and from
the supper table that they might tell all of what
was done by Others, they, on this their own Festi.
val, felt it their privilege to spend the evening in
eating, drinking, and especially in making merry
on the smooth and tempting floor of the ball room


To morrow morning we shall give full report
of the proceedings, and of matters connected there
with, leaving to any morning contemporary who
may wish, tie honor ~ of being ahead with re
port, atthe expense of dull time for the printers
when, of all times in the year they should be merry
Year: 1859

ANNIVERsART.-The anniversary of the Chill
dren's Aid Society and the Industrial School, will
be held tonight at the Melodeon. Hon. Charles
Reemelin will be present and the occasion will be
one of much interestto all interested in the welfare
of the children of our city The Industrial School
is one of the bright institutions of the city; its
works are done quietly but none the less effective
ly, and the results for good which are brought
forth from its teachings are many. There are
hundreds Of boys and girls who can look back and
bless the day that witnessed their transition from
dirty, ragged urchn to clean, weilfed and dressed
attendant upon the good teachings of Mr. Waterton
and his daughters. Let the good people Of our
town who would know how much may be done
for forsaken, desolate children attend at the Melo-
deon and see for themselves the change that has
been wrought.


fI,a r,rorvrornraa forf fha
Year: 1859

The household expenses of the late Postmaster. Gepersl
Brown said to have been $4,000 year; his munih


The yearly salary attached to the office of Post.
General is O0O and thus the late incumbent
must have found it anything but pecuniarily profit
able The high style Of life followed at Washington
and the necessity of members of the Cabinet keeping
open house for friends and strangers renders it
feet folly for poor man to accept of such positions
The present tendency Of things is really to give to
the wealthy monopoly of all Offices of great honor
and trust. This may be humiliating statement to
make, but it is nevertheless true.


[Marksville (La.) Organ.


The starvation salary system which prevails in this
country and especially in the State Of Louisiana, we
have ever denounced, and expect to keep on de.
nouncing it until it is radically reformed 1t is not
only antirepubcan in its character, but it puts the
loftiest positions in the land beyond the reach Of
honest talented poor Len and at the same time offers
an incentive to dishonesty in public station. In all
respects it is abomnable and should not be tolerated
1t is, besides, losing game for the taxpayers to
play at.


We do not allow our Governor the salary good
and trustworthy accountant can always command
Our District Judges are starved on salaries first
class overseer would contemptuously reject and in


fine, all or nearly ALL our important public function
aries are nadequatey recompensed for their services


This should not be. The people want good officer
in every department of government and good off
GERS cannot be obtained without adequate salaries ar
paid Besides, treasures are more apt to be repen
ished than bankrupted BY the payment Of just com
pensation.
Year: 1859

THEATRICAL THUNDER.-Tho following anec-
dote Is current in musical circles 1t is known
with what impatience the public awaited the
hrst representation of the Pardon de Ploermel.
but the first performance was DELAYED by a
singular caprice of the composer At one of the
most dramatic periods Of the work violent
storm bursts forth, and is, of course, accom-
panied by thunder. The manner in which the
oPcra-Commue represented the storm did not
satisfy Meyerbeer, and he wandered about
listening to every noise that was made in the
nope o. hearing something that came ND more
closely TO his idea of thunder peal. At last
one morning, in passing before house in course
OF demolition, the falling of the stones and NOR
tar to the ground through long wood en- rough.
gave precisely the sound which he wanted
lie fastened 10 the theatre, and ordered a long
square tunnel to be made of boards and sent
down through 1t quantity of stones sThe
sound Is too hard, said the composer "we must
nave smooth lead or iron. Grape shot would
be admirably" ''But it is impossible to obtain
them, said the manager, swithout permission
from the Government" Meyerbeer replied
that he would undertake to procure them and
ne wrote the same day to Marshal valiant Mil
ls'er OF War, on the subject. The Marshal is said
10 nave been much amused at the letter and to
have replied that all the stores of Vincepnes
were placed at the composers disposal The
shot thus obtained produces, when rolled down
the wooden trough, the thunder which is heard
each night the piece is performed
Year: 1859

Blessed be the hand that prepares pleas
ure for child, for there is no saying when
and where it may bloom fourth. Does not
almost everybody remember some kind


hearted man who showed him kindness
in the day of childhood =? The writer of
this recollects himself at this moment as a
bare looted lad, standing at wooden fence
of poor little garden in his native village !;
with longing eyes he gazed on the flowers
which were blooming there quietly in the
brightness OF Sunday morning. The pos
SCISSOR came forth from his cottage he was
a wood cutter by trade, and spent the whole
week at work in the woods. He come into
the garcen TO gather flowers to stick in his
coat when he went 10 church. He saw the
boy, and breaking off the most beautiful OF
his carnations, which was sireaked with
red and white, he gave it 10 him. Neither
the giver nor the receiver said word, and
with bounding steps the boy ran home
and now here at distance from that home,
after so many events OF so many years, the
feeling OF gratitude which agitated the
breast OF that boy, expresses itself on pa
per. The carnation has long since wthered,
bu, il now blooms airesh.-Douelas Jerrold