The Butcher-Knife, Volume 2, Number 4, Danville, Hendricks County, 22 August 1857 — Page 6

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cj What as:: a :o:n t I. even in a f .1 rc'-itrf

JL head can get but six shillings a day in any market in the world; men of intelligence often make as many dollars. A man who can't write, is as much a slave as if he had been born a brute. lie is doomed to be hewer of wood and a draper of water all the days of his life. Drudge! drudge! h all that is m store for him, should lie continue on the earth a century. Educate your children; therefore, not only for their happiness, but ; their . incomes. All can ce that-wickedness leads to- misery:' vet very few find out that whmh 'is -equally certain, that ignorance leads to misery, and -misery fo wretchedness. Dr. Johnson was once asked 'Who was the '' most miserable man?' and the reply of the Kage was,-'The man who cannot - read on sv.' rainy day.' The-writer-'' was once through a park and saw nailed to one of

the trues, this warning: 'All dogs found

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dies, t! it 0: ch. 2 ami butter, another butchered, a fourth carried on a distillery, another was contractor on canals, others were merchants and mechanics. They are acquainted with both ends of society, as their children will be after them though it will not do to sav so out loud. For often you shall find that these toiling worms hatch butterflies and they live about a vear. Death brings a division of property and it brings new finan

ciers. . The old cent is di.-ch.anied, 11

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in this park will be shut.- A friend ' who

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was with us remarked, Unl

read, they are pretty badly ;o'F here;'

Now, God-has not only written his laws upon the fret s. but-in the stars and in'the "Hewers; his laws are above us sifd 'beneath on our right hand and on our left, and if a man is not to read he is- - 'orettv badly

Tub Dead Child. Few things appear 5 0 beautiful as a young child in its shroud. The little innocent face fooks so sublimely beautiful and confiding among the cold terrors of death. Crimeless and fearless that little mortal has passed alone under the shadow. There is death in its sublimest and purest image; no hatred, no hypocracy, no suspicion, no care for. the morrow .darkened that little face; death come lovingly upon it; there' is nothing cruel or harsh in its victory.. The yearninys of lore indeed can trot he? stifled: for

e i the prattles and smiles, all thelillle worlds

xouw pent, takes his revenuer and begins! of thoughts that were so .delightful,' are to travel towards poverty, which ' he ! gone forever. iwe too, will overcast us reaches before death, or his children do in its presence, for the lonely voyage, for if lie does not. fcf.q that, in fact, though the child has gone, simple and trusting, there is a sort of moneyed race it is not ; into the presence ; of an all-wise Father, hereditary: it is acees.ible to all. Three and of such we know is the kingdom of good seasons of cotton will send a genera- Heaven. ... lion of men up a score of" years will ; bring .them all down, and send their chil- t-fT'A clergyman observing n poor man dren to labor. ' 'i ke father grubs and , by t hi e ) oad-side breaking . stones with a grows rich--his children strut and use the ! pickstxe, and kneeling to get at his work liYoney.". The', children, in turn, inherit ! the better, made the remark -the prideand go to shiftless poverty. j 'Ah! John, Lwih I could break the sto-

ivcxt,' their children,, remvigorated by ny hearts oi my hearers as easily as you

fresh plebian blood, and by the smell of the clod come up again. - r

Thus society, like a. tree, draws its sap 'you do not-uvrk on-.tjcitr-hwes.

from the earth, changes it mto 'leaves' and

are breaking these .stones

'Perhaps, master,' replied the man,

off here' -worse oil-than the dog; for j blossoms, spread 'them abroad-in great

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man has no master but ween him and his

God. The'eonsetpaence is, he is trapped by. cunning at every, corner. lie is taken in and done forbv tiie sijring-guh duplicity and . ih-e man -traps of , ungodliness, and all he can do is to llounder and bear, lie is even, averse off than thewicked 'for they may hope, but for the ignorant man, there is no hone. 'Tie is sentenced to hard labor for the term of Ins natural life, and all the pardoning power in the world cannot prevent it. . ...',.. '

at length lb re-appear in new dress and

hesh 'garniture.

One .hundred and twenty-five

thousand ions oi iron were m use, in . cannon, carriages and balls, in the last battle that decided the fate of Sebastapol, 'a quantity suOicient, if made into rails,

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(jCT3 There has recently been .held in Syracuse a 'Dress ItefoiiJ Convention,' at which one Dr. Jackson, in the course of a speech in favor of short petticoats, told the audience that 'lie had seen fifteen hundred women take off the long skirts and put on the short ones' ' The old reprobate. " " There is but one passage in the -" '-ere the girls are-commanded to .men, and that is the golden rule 1 bate: ever ye would that men should do unto v l, do ye even s'o'untd them . .

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days to pa-vi ior coat behind, and

out. If he can up?c-t apple stand two or three times it will help the ;:ittcr var.tJy.

(jTj" A friend, 'says an exchange, return, ing from a depot a few mornings since, with a bottle of- freshly imported 'Maine Law saw a young lady, whom he must inevitably join. Boutiing the bottle under his arm, he walied a!ong side. 'Well, said the young lady, after disposing of 'health' and the -'weather 'what is 'that bundle under your arm?' (from which she discovered a dark fluid dripping.) 0 nothing but a coat which the tailor has been mending for me.' ,0! it's a coat, is it? Well, you'd better carry it back, and get him to sew up one more hole, it leaks.'

last?' and who has not devoutly' wished that it really' 'was the hist?' Prentice while he has said many sham things. oim,1

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. .UdJ Jin oiu winer on urcss s;iys i.uat ;a great nmny tlUtmcsj never put thtoui'li 'young women should let their judgment him anything sharper than that. be seen' by the 'frugality . and simplicity of ' ' their apparel'. Our'modern young ladies are 'frugal enough in some articles of dre.s ketty Good. Ike lawyers of Dubtiheaven knows and us to letting 'their i Tuu' Jl f persons less than live hundred

judgment be seen that U nearly'tll that:uests ""eluded, made, an excursion, a few is not' exhibited. " daysago as far down the river, as Fulton,

iiie ulncago irluune has a note from - an outsider a member of the medical profession saying that he was never in such mortal terror in all his life as durin r that trip. He says he thought of the-fate of Sodom and Gomorrah of the history of Jonah and oilended heaven, and the more he thought the more frightened he becamenot because of his own sins but lecause of the company lie was in. Ho attributed his safe return in part to the fact that the devil failed to improve a rood chance to nab his prey while in covey or prehaps to the other fact that there wen; half-a-dozen editors on board.

(r The local editor of an exchange, publishes a punning "market repoet," in which .he states, tin plates are flat, lead heavy, iron dull, rakes not much inquired

after, champagne is brisk, rheubarb and

CrATm All that a man has to do in there

a gemus, is to outton n 11 ( tcuu.i .uum ao, vu cuuuuuig, uuu pawear his hat wrong side (per stationary. There is no life in deaJ

hogs, but considerable animation m old oho p f f

(jT At apolitical meeting in Pike co., Pennsylvania, while the committee was

out writing resolutions, a sturdy old farmer arose and addressed the Chair: Mr. President, m ought I say a word'?' asked he. 'The meeting would be proud to hear from you, .Mr. Ifiibsoih 'Well, sir, Mr. President, endurin' of the time the committee am out, could you tell us how you've bedded vour ta'crs?'