Plymouth Weekly Democrat, Volume 14, Number 23, Plymouth, Marshall County, 11 February 1869 — Page 1

WEEK DEMOCRAT. VOLUME XIV PLYMOUTH, INDIANA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1869. NUMBER 23.

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8JHmrzKRVs run. osopedr by un sasisnami. Herr Smsi pzep.l mike a philo?o-(lc, Von of d newest kin'l : It vent mitout ii vheul in front, And hsrtn't none pehir.l. Von vhöo'i v tu thy niU'el, AoSgh. And It writ a -hare .i-h eck-. For he htrnddled on im nl dree Mit der vheel pctwe-jn hi leek". Uh-I ven he vant to htirt id o(T He paddlet mit hi roet, Und oon he rot to l-o net fSSl Dat a very din;: ho pe it. II'.; run her ont on Brot let iStrsei, He rhkeetod like d -r viiel, B i ! how ha Sawei de vanry cra;. And lef dem all pehiud ! De vsUen mit de trottlag Pooled oop to ce him DM : D; D ;atcher a!! errtonnWJod raiat : " Fotzt vuvwl! H" lr l?s " Boot rsstrtor statin der Setaaluorl fle ,ved On mit rhiKtlv srnile : lie tidn't toctich de dirt, py esisfl !j Not vonce in half a mile. Oh, rat ish all diseartly pliss? a. vot i?h man's oocke- ! Oh. vot iah varion- kind of din.: I'nd vot ih hoppine?j Vf and a pank node in de shtreetlt, Nexl dtan der Dank ish preak ; V fo,U an I knock- oar MltaidM In. Ven ve a ten-satrikc make. Sv-i'U mit der SehnUzirtein Oi his philo.-opode. n feet hoth riinpped ontsidewaid boost Vhen at hi extra -hpeed. lie felled apotan der vheel of cookc ; D j vheel like hlttzoa flew I Und Schni'erl he vo chnit;-, in vac". For it saU-hed h in gto4 in two. I'nd for hi - rhiloopede. Id cot o -!ifcir ii. ra Ol I i.V. It pounded onward till it vein hoi atafelwardi afav. Boot vh ru i-d n w d jr S '.h-.',& ;rl soul ! Vbert dos Ut sh;irit pid.. ! In Biliel troo. de endles pine, It tak-s a medeor ride. Selected ittisccllattD. A CUP OF COLD WATER. ET G IACE REEXWOOD. Shortly after the close of the war, I traveled on the rail way for some hoUffSof a bright, Jane day, scale 1 beside a young soldier, a cavalryman, from Wisconsin, who was on his way home, with an honorable discharge, after a service of four year. Mv 1 I iveler proved to be quite intelligent and sociably inclined, and beguiled thy wry by relating many incidents of the battle field, and of camp amdaaoaprta life. One of the simplest ot his stories, told with as appearance of the u'.ni ist od faith, I have never forgotten Wsntinberlni distinctly every detail while some of !:is more marvelous and tragic il narrations h ive quite faded front ray mind. "Oar regiment," he said, "was under Banks, in the spring of 1868, when he made such good time in getting down the ShesMMktoM Valiey. It was an awful, driving, c nfoaed, exhausting, hurry--kurry 'change of base,' but it's curious that I chiefly remember it bv a little indchina, which perhaps you will think was jiaruiy won a iaing un ii and is hardly worth telliag of." I signified my desire to a iar his little story, and he went on : "I was one morning dispatched, in hot haste, to the extreme rear, with a very important order. As ill-luck would have it, I had to ride a Strange horse, af own had fillen lame. The one pr v A for m' proved tent the most ill atured, vicious brute I ever mounted. I had hard work to mount him at all, for his furious reariDeand plans?in; and when, at last, I reached the saddle, he was so enraged, her was n getting him on for at least five minutes. With his ugly head down, and his ears back, he would whirl round, and round, pi tiug on his fore-feet, aud lashine xt witf his hind legs, till 1 fancy they must have looked like the spokes of a big wheel. When he found that I was matter of the eltttatioa, that my hand was Jim an 1 my spurs were sharp, he gave in till the next time; but I knew that he was continually watching for a chance to fling me over hi3 head and trample the mastership out of me. I ro.ie hard that d iv, both because of my orders, and ir the purpose of putting that deril of :. horse through ; but there were many obstructions i;i the road m&rching columns, artillery, army-wagons, and, above all, hosts of contrabands, who , were si va.ys scrambling to get out of your way, Joel into y aw way ; so it was noon before I had nsade half of my distance. It was a hot, sultry, and dusty day. I had i ahauated my canteen, and was panting, aiuioa. lomng, iiite a eiog. jus. as my thirst was becoming quite unbearable, I came upon a group oi soiuurs, lounging Yy a wayside spring, drinking and filling their canteens. At first I thought I would dismount, as my horse seemed pretty well otbdued an I i r-,d; but no sooner cid he guess my intention, than be beg.n again fan diabolical fi latinfi and plunging, at which the stra-glers about trie spring iet np a provoking lau rh, which brought my already hot blood opto the boiling point. Still, I didn't, hjrst ont at onne. I swung' off ay naatem, and said to one of .he men, the onH fellow that hadn't laughed at my bout with the horse : 4 Here, com rade, jast you fill this for me.' " He was a tall, dark, heavy browed, ly-looking chap, but for all that, I didn't look for such an answer as he growied out : t4 4 y nr ow.j mutcaax and be to you !' I tell you I was mad ; the othr r f. : . v -laughed again, and the. I war madder, and 1 just I iys to him ! 4 You mean devil ! I hope to (lull shall yet hear you bearging for a drink of water! If ever I do, Vu see you die, and go where you belong, before 111 give It to you.' M Then I galloped on, though some ol 'he men called to me to come bick. saving ,., they'd fill my canteen. I didn't ston I reached a house, a mile or two ! .rther on, where a little black boy watered both me and my horse, and filled my canteen, Ith a smile that the handful ot new pennies I gave him couldn't betrin to pay for. When I compared the conduct of this poor little chip of ebony, who said he 1 never had no father, nor mother, aor no narae bt Pete.' with the treat meat I had received Irom a white fellowsoldier, I found that that drink of cold water hadn't cooled down my angei much. And for months and months after, whenever T thought of that af iar, me old, mad reeling would come ooiüng nr. The f'llow's fare aLvavs came out a cler beforo me as mv own brother's, only it seemed to be more sharp ly cut into my memory. I don't know why I resented this offence so bi erly. I have let bigger things of the sort pass, and soon iorgotten tnem ; Dut stuck by me I am not a revengeful fellow naturally. 1

but I never gave bp the bopc of seeing that rann tun in, and somehow paying him buk fur -his brutal insolence. There

, wasn't a camp or review I was in for the . a . T 1 i 1 x- i :... nexi iwu years uui i iookuu ior iwni, ngut and left. I never went over a field, after a battle, but I searched fir him among the dying Ood forgive me ! At last, my opportunity came. " I h id been wounded, ana was in one of the Washington hospitals almost well, i . III not quite tit for duty in the saddle, j I hate, ab )ve all things, to be idle; so I begged for light employment as a hospital nurse, and they gave it to me, and said 1 did my dutv well. "I never felt for our poor, brave fellows as I did there. I had been very fortunate, and until that summer had never been in hospital. Now I saw such suffering and such heroism as I had never seen on the battle-field Companionship helped to keep up the spirits of those we could not save, lo the last. Then It leaned hard that each brave boy must make his march down the dark valley alone. But they all went off ff.'illantiy. I would rather have sail rped forward on a forlorn charge, any day than have followed any one of them .wrto the Soldiers' Rest, though it is a pretty place to camp down in. In fact, my heart grew so soft here, so Christianixed,, as it were, that I forgot to look for my old enemy; for so, yon sec, I still regarde! the surly straggler who refassd me water at the roadside spring. " After the battles of the Wilderness, a great multitude of the WOttntSed were p "ired in upon us; all our wards were tilled to overflowing. It was hot, close weather ; most of the patients were fevered by their wounds and exposure to the sun, and up and down the long gnaltlj lines ot -vh1'.' beda the great cry wa3 for water. I took a large pitcher of ice-water and a tumbler, and started on the round of my ward, as eager to give as the poor fellows were to receive. The ice rattled and rune in the pitcher in a most inviting way, and many heavy eyes opeued el the sound, and many a hot hand WSJ st ret med out, when all at once, on one of the two farthest beds of the ward, I saw a man start up, with hil face flaming with fever and his eyes gleaming, as hie almost screamed out: ' Water ! give me water, for God's sake !' "Then, madam, 1 could see no other fac! in all the ward, for it was lu t "I ma le a few steps toward him, and saw he knew me as well a3 I knew him, for he fell back on his pillow, and just turned his face toward the wall. Then the devil tightened his grip on me, till it seemed he had me fast and sure, and he seemed to whisper into my ear : Rattle the ice in the pitcher and aggfafate him ! r i up and down, giving water to all the others, and not a dr m to him !' "Then Mh iking efaj whispered, a little nearer, though not in suh a sharp, hissing way conscience, I suppose it was; eood Methodists might rail it the Holy Spirit ; other religious people might say it w:tho spirit of my mother; and perhaps would all mean about the same thing anyhow, it seemed to say : ' Now, rny boy," is your chance to return good for evil. Go to him, give him to drink first of all !' And that norncthin n walked me rieht "P to his bedside, made me slide my hand under h'S shoulder and raie him un, and put the tumbler to his lips. Bow he drank I never c?.n forget in long, deep draughts, almost a tumblerful at "a swallow, looking at me so wistfully all the time. When he was eatisned, he fell back, and again turned his face to the wall, without a word. But somehow I knew that fellow's heart was touched, as no chaplain's sermon or tract had ever touched it. " I a-ked the surgeon to let rae have the ote care of this patient, and he consentad, though he said the man had a bad gunshot wound in the knee, and would have to submit loan amputation, if he could stand it; and if not, would probably main me a great deal of trouble w hile he lasted. " Well, I took charge of him I h id to doit, eomehow but he kept up the same silence with me for several days; then, one morning, )ust ai I was leaving his bedside, he caught h ld of my coat and pulled me back. I bent down to ask htm what he wauled, and he said, In a hoarsewhisper ' You re aember that canteen olivines in the S in anOinti prv 4 Yes; but it don't matter now old fellow ' I answered. ' But it do$ matter he Said. I don't "know wnat made me so surly that day, onlv that an upstart voting lieutenant from our town had just be en swearing at DM for straggling ; and I wasn't to blame, for I w is sick. I came down w ith the fever the next day. As fir what I said to you, I was ashamed of it before you eot out of sight; and, to tell the truth, Ive been looking for you these two years, just to tell VüU so. Dut when I met vou here. where I was cryiue. almost dvintr. was crying, almost dying, lor water, it seemed so like the carrying out of your curse, I was almost afraid of you.' I leU you wnat, madam, it gave me strange feelings to think of htm looking for me, to make up, and I looking for him, to be rerenged, all this time ; and it was such a little sin, after all. I'm not ashamed to confess that the tears came into my eyes as I said ; ' Now, Kastman (that was his name : he was a Maine man), don't, fret about that little matter anymore; it's all right, and you've been a better fellow than I ail along. " Bui he had taken it to heart, and was mean,' he said, sounsoldier-likcand bear- 1 ish :' and I was 'so iroorl tr forrivn it hn ioo v, eaa io itirow ii on. it was 'so insisted. "I -? i id by him while his leg was amputated; and when, after a time, the surgeon said even that couldn't save him, thit he was sinking, I found that the man was like a brother to me. He t ok the hard news that he must die, just as the war wa3 almost ended, like the brave fellow he was. He dictated a last letter to hia Bister, the only relative be had ; gave me some directions about sending some keepsakes to her, and then asked for the chaplain. This was a good, sensible, elderly man, and he talked in about the right style, I think, and made us all feel quite comfortable in the belief that in the Father's house there must be a mansion for the poor soldier, who had so often camped out in snow and rain; and that ! for him who had riven his all for his country, some great good must De in store,

At last, the poor fellow said to the ihild was nine -years old the father apchaplain : 'Isn't there something in the peared and endeavored to assert his claims. Bible about giv'ng a cup of cold water Y fudge Hoar refused to grant him the ensAh ! madam, I ca lt tell you how that tody of the child : holding, with the conhurt m. '() KdHtman f fnid L ' don't, currence of ttoo other judge, that where don't f But he only smiled as the chap- by misfortune or accident a father has left lain repeated the verse. Then he turned his child destitute and dependent upon to me and sai l ' You didn't think what charity, and the child has been permitted you wer-- doing for yourself when you i to form new relations in life so deep and gave me that glass of ice-water the other strong as to change its whole nature and day, did you, old fellow? ('an I pass for ; character, the child should be considered one of the UUU oass, though, with my j as emancipated by the father, and the six-feet-two ?' Then he went on talkine father can rot assort hia IP-ral rieht to hia

about being little, and the kingdom of '

heaven, till we almost feared his mind was wandering ; but perhaps it was only finding its way home. 4 1 do feel strangely childish to-night he said. 1 1 feel like Baying the prayer-verse my mother taught me when she u-ed to put me to bed twenty-five years ago. If you'll excuse me, I'll say it, all to myself, before I go to sleep.' Bo he bade us good night, turned over on his pillow, and softly shut hi3 eyes ; his

Hps moved a little while, and tnen, indeed, he went to sleep. lit irth and Rome. FACTS A XI) FIGURES. There are 310 patients in the Maine Insane Hospital. The Philadelphia theatres received last year $ 400,87s. New York is said to expend $ '2,000,000 a year tbf false hair. For the Bank of Engla: id ,000 notes are printed daily. One hundred and eighty-seven mar riagei in Cincinnati in January. Si-Aix has seventy-seven normal and 27,000 elementary schools. Five Police Commissioners of Philadelphia re worth in the aggregate $2,000,One hundred millions of dollars has been invested in the Superior copper mines. Tiik Christians of thr world last year contributed $5,000,000 to foreign illusions. Four thousand and forty four horees were killed in Berlin, and used as food, last year. A. T. Stewart ft Co. have given $25,000 worth of spool cotton for the poor in Washington. A Lyhohbubg ( Va ) carpenter has fallen heir to $4,000,000 by the death of au English relative. The Masonic L tdge at Santa Fe, New Mexico, has been presented with Kit Carson's riflf. Five hundred New York bank clerks have united in a co-operative insurance scheme. l SI I 1.1.1- I. TT ! -A - i iV HUiuwu laieiy in taunuugiem vouniy, Pa., from hydrophobia, induced by a bite from a i at. An English farmer has been sent to prison for a month for sending bad beef to market. The annual egg product of the country La 18,350,000,000 eggs, worth, at 16 cents per dozen, 13,333,339. A max in Philadelphia has been held in $1,000 bail for having wantonly and wicker lly cut off the tongue of a horse. In California, the men outnumber the women four to one; in Nevada, eight to one, and in Colorado, twenty to one. Tue residents of Put-in-Bay have cubscribed 3,300 toward the erection of a monument in honor of Commodore Perry on that island. A Pennsylvania grocer ingeniously tried to clean out a bombshell with a redhot poker. He succeeded in cleaning himself out most effectually. Sixty folio volumes are daily filled with the accounts of the Bank of England, and eight bookbinders are constantly employe A OBRTLKXAU of York, England, has been sued in $250 fiii2 for refusing to accept the office of Alderman, to which he had been elected. The area of public land asked from Congress by the numerous Pacific Railroads down to June, 1868, amounted in the aggregate to only 186,100,000 acres. A conscience stricken Connccticuttcr lately inclosed thirty-five cents to the Osborne House, Hochester, the worth of a door-key which he had carried off in 1863. An insane man became unmanageable in a New York Central Railroad car, and it was acertained that out of thirty-two gentlemen in the car, twenty-nine carried revolvers. 3 A man in Greensooro, Yt., nearly broke hi3 wife's neck, recently, by playfully shaking her. Her m ck cracked, she became partially paralyzed, and was confined to her bed seveu days. A w:dw lady named Mrs. Mead, livinc ,n rcmont Steuben county, N. Y., and ac" seventy years, has spun one hundred od sixty-eight thousand yards of yarn uu"ng the past year, TniRTV-riVK years ago Mrs. Erastus Corning deposited in an Albany Savings nk the sum of $22 to the credit of her nephew. Both forgot all about it until the other day. when the deposit had increased to $123. A Berkshire girl, say3the Boston Pott, walked fourteen miles through the snow the other day to marry a young man who couldn't come to her house for fear of a six shooter which the stern parent carried. Snow fell in such abundance in St. Petersburg and its suburbs in the latter hall of December that in several streets it rose to 12 feet in height. Accounts from the provinces state that whole villages were buried under the drift. Tite revenue officers assert, after a patient investigation and inquiry, that the amount of capital in active use in Wall street, during a year, is not les3 than a thousand millions; that is, that large amount changes hands and makes fortuncs for the owners or speculators on its way A report on the operations of the various co-operative associations in Massachusetts, it is stated, will soon be presented to the Legislature. The financial condition of about twenty-five societies is given, acd a list of the members of each. Tbe associations, it is reported, present the most varied results ,n their different statements Their capital stock varies from $1,000 to $10,000, and the small asociatloni are generally more successful than the large ones. Tna Supreme Court of Massachusetts has decided an interesting case. It came in the form of a petition of a father for the custody of his child. In the absence of the hum r, who follows the sea, the mother died, and the child, being of ten der age and destitute, was placed in the care of a resnectable family in Beverlv to be brought up as their own. When the custody

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The Beautiful Photograph. DocnTums many a passser-by, as he strolled down Poy"dra3 street, by Lilienthal'l photographic studio, admired a certain work of his art, portraying the winsome beauty of one whom mir Helen, of Trojan fame, could scarcely look upon without envy. The fair original wa nothing more nor less than a servant girl, though not u born to blush unseen and waste her sweetness on the kitchen air," as will appear anon. Whether 'twas a vain desire to see herself admired by the passer-by, or whether she w ished to preserve her beaut ful face for an occasional glance in after years, it is not given us to know; but certain it is, that Lilienthal had transferred her bewitching beauty to card. Reader mine, you petulantly ask, Why this about a prcttv face, and that, too, of a servant girl?" Thereby hangs a tale. Among those who looked with longing, lingering eyes upon the portrait, there chanced to be a bachelor, possessed of a goodly share of this world s goods and its filthy lucre, whose name is too well known in commercial circle? for mention here. How in the dim twilight hours, when the weary day is done, and home invites the busy mortal to enter and lay aside his cares and enjoy the peace and comfort only to be found there, our friend had often thought of the loce'iness and uneasiness of his bachelor life, with no kind, gentle voice to welcome him, no ruby lips held up for greeting, and no prattle of childish voices to gladden his heart. Aud often, very often, had he bethought himself of how uselessly, aimlessly he WM drifting through life. So he had determined within himself 1 5 cast about and seek a partner for his wer 1th, joys nnd woc9. And thus it happen. d that after gazing long and intently upon the fairyface liefere him. he secretly vowed that there balm in Gilead, even for a bachelor such as he, and that the possessor of that beauty was the long-looked for Lenore, of whom such visions qft came before him. That alluring smile and gentle look had won him. Straight to Lilienthal, with a strange, unaccountable thumping

beneath his vest, and sudden flushing oi the countenance, he hastened. With sparkling eyes and nervous twitchings, he did his tale unfold and his resolve to wed the girl whose portrait he had just seen. The artist muttered something about the course of love running smooth, whereat our bachelor-friend pricked up his cars and sorrowfully oh, how sorrowfully learned from the "man of pictures" that her residence was unknown. " And, moreover," observed Lilienthal, by wav of a clincher, " she is only a servant girl I" " What matters that ? I tell you she la divine , and if there be a way, she shall be my w ife," was the rejoinder. So, bearing up a stout heart, ami having hcrwd that " where there's a will there's a way," went manfully to work to ascertain her whereabouts, or, as he termed it, " went on an investigating tour." What joy illumined his face and warmed his heart when, after many fruitless button-holing of friends and wild rushing to exhibit her glorious .picture to his wonder-struck com; anions, " to see if they recognized her, you know," he k affiled that his goddess was pursuing her peaceful avocation at tho house of one of his friends. After explaining matters to his friend, he was invited to nine with him, and thus have an opportunity of seeing whether his admiration was deep enough to stand the sight of his goddess in cap and apron. It stood the test. lie told his story to the "angel incarnate," but learned that an almost insuperable birricr lay between and threatened to thwart him, after so mach patient and persevering labor. She was a Catholic and he a Protestant,1 and by the laws of her church, she could not wed him without first obtaining a dispensation from the Bishop. But he had gone so far, and would he not go further and endeavor to obtain the desired dispensation? Assuredly he would. Aud did he not say he would " wed her if there be a way r" After many fruitless trials and almost blunt denials, he at last succeeded in his object, and gained the dispensation. Shortly after the-e was a mysterious gathering one calm, pleasant evening in one of the upper districts of our city, and our worth y bachelor friend whispered in our ear the forgoing tale, and we were invited to pafftake of the wedding feast, which we did, and the style thereof was marvelous. 'Tis said many nymphs have " had their pictures taken," since such good fortune attended one of their band, but we have not been able to ascertain if any of the fair originals have met with such good hap : but yet they still do have their pictures taken, whereat Lilienthal waseth not wroth. 29 M Orleans Rep Mi can. Size of the Stars. How la roe are the stars, and are they alike, or do they differ in si.3 1 It used to be conjectured that they are of somewhat similar magnitude, presumably about as great as our sun, and that the differences of apparent size are due to differences of distance ; but w hen astronomers came to discover that some of the smaller stars are nearest to our system, this idea fell to the ground. A German computor has now, however, calculated the actual dimensions of one particular star, and finds that its mass is rather mon than three times that of tie sun. The star in qutstion is less than the fourth magnitude a comparatively small one. What, then, must be the size of the Sirius and Aldebaran class? The reason of its selection for this determination' was, thc.t it is one of the components of what is called a binary system-two stars re volving about each other like the sun and planet and the motions of the members of such a system afford data Küthe computation. The star's distance from as is a million and a quarter times that of the earth from the sun, so that light takes twenty years to travel hither from it, On re n Week. Au Interesting Helle. The Chicago Evening Journal is indebted to C.41. Nelson, Esq , of that city, for the privilege of publishing the following letter written by Benjamin Franklin, and never before published : PniLADELrniA, February 12, 175G. Dear Child I cocdsle with you. We have lost a most dear and valuable relation, but it is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside when the soul is to enter into real life. Existing here on earth U scarcely to be called life. 'Tis rather an embryo state a preparation to living, and man is not completely born until he is dead. Why, then, should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals a new member added to their society? We are spirits. That bodies should be lent to us w hile they ran afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or iu doing good to our

creatures, is a kind and benevolent act of j God. When they become unfit for their i purposes, and afford us pain instead j of pleasure, instead of an aid be-

come an incumbrance, and answer none of the intentions fur which they were given, it is equally kind and benevolent that a way is provided by which we may get rid of them, That way is death. We ourselves, prudently in some cases, choose a partial death. A mangled, painful limb, which cannot be restored, we willingly cut off. He that plucks out a tooth parts with it freely, since the pain goes with it, and he that quits the whole body parts with all the pains and possibility ol pains and desoaaoa it was liable to or capable of makh g him suffer. Our friend anel we arc Invited abroad on a party of pleasure that is to last forever. His chair was first ready, an ! he has gone before u?. We could not conveniently all start together, and why should you and I be grieved at this, since we arc soon to follow, and we hi ow where to find him? Adieu, my dear, good child, and believe that I shall be, in eviry state, your affectionate papa. Bent. Franklin. AHollBg to sedan chairs, then in faeh'.onahlc u?c. Gaffing On In the World. Titerk are many different ways of getting on in the world; it does not always mean making a great deal of money, or being a great man for the people to look up to with wonder. Leaving off a bad habit for a good one is getting on in the world ; to be careful and saving instead of thoughtless and wasteful is getting on: to be active and industrious Instead of idle and lazy is getting on ; to be kind and forbearing instead of ill-natured and quarrelsome is gettine on ; to work as diligently in the master! absence as in his presence is getting on ; in short, when we see any one properly attending to his duties, persevering through such difficulties to gain such knowledge as shall be of use to himself and others, and offering a good example to his relatives and acquaintances, we may b ure that he is getting on in the world. M ncy is a very useful article in this way, but it is possible to get on with sr'a'l means, for it is a mistake to suppose that we must wait for a good deal of money before we can do anything. Perseverance is often better than a full purse. There are more helps loward getting on than is commonly supnoscd; many people lag behind or miss the way altogether, because they do not see the abundant and simple mpans which surround them at all sides, and so it happens that there arc aids which cannot be bought with money. Thote who wish to get on in the world miiR have a stock of patienc', of hopeful confidence, a willingness to learn, and a disposition not easily cast down by difficulties and disappointments. Kxchangfi. --- The Yclocipede. ADVANCING civilization strives to economize timo by annihilating distance. Therefore the telegraph, the railway, and the standing French prize for inventors in Ihe science and art of Hying. " Oh had I wings like a dove," is a prayer not limited to tho SpMtualry weary. Railways do not always have stations where we want to 20, and wings, some scientists think, will not help lis until our forearms are developed into natural pinions. Bo we mti't adopt the next very best device. Next taster than slow pedestrianism ij to make onc'a self a burden for beasts, therefore a camel aided Mahomet's Ilegira. Bucephalus carried Alexander. ' the Centaurs were born on horseback, Gen. Taylor rode " Whitey, and Henry Ward Beecher was content with slow "Old Charlie" until he saw and bought a Velocipede, the Latin or French " swift foot " " The velocipede !" Who, after all'.the talk and all the newspaper paragraps, has not heard ot the new inanimate horse: who has not desired to know more, and yet how few have seen a genuine specimen ! The steed has almost crazed France, and now the mania, after exciting our English cousin?, has fairly invaded Yankecdom. One earnest of the ultimate success of the invention is the persistency of those who attempt to introduce it. An entirely Impracticable idea would never have been revived after its first hint, early in this century, by Möns. Drais of Manheim, France. An outline of his machine is given among the Illustrations in the last edition of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. It had no cranks, but was propelled by a succession of pushes on the ground by the feet of its rider. That embryo velocipede soon passed out of sight. A caricature representing one struggling with a locomotive, which, by the way, was then ridiculed, is now seen in a Pari3 library. In 18;t0 another Frenchman, Möns. Dreuse, Postmaster General of France, made improvements, constructed a number and mounted some of his country postmen who rode triumphantly for a year or two. Early in 1 818 several Paris and Manheim factories began to supply velocipedes, which soon found their way all over France. That country is entirely favorable to their use, because of the asphalt roads which are smooth as a floor. We are not able to precisely illustrate the varieties of the French velocipede or their American reproductions. An American has, however, produced a machino which, while it has marked improvements, preserves the general French outline. There are two wheels, the tront one three feet, and the rear, two feet and onehalf high. The front wheel is immediately for ward of the other. The connecting reach has extending upwards therefrom stiff springs upon which is affired a saddle like scat with bearings for the vertical arhor of a forked standard, the lower end of which has bearings for the short axle of the forward wheel. The person using the velocipede seats himself astride of the seat with his feet upon cranks provided on the extremities of the forward sxle, and grasps with his hands across handle furnished at the top of the arbor above Indicated. Skilliully balancing the apparatus he turns the forward wheel by the action of his leet on tho cranks, and at the same time guides it in the desired direction by turning the arbor's handles. The wheels may be of any si-e. Some front wheels are two snd one half feet high, and others are four, or even five, feet. The rear wheel is generally smaller than the otht r. Two Off three day's practice will enablo um! to rule with encouraging prospects. The familiar example of a spinning top, or a rolüug hoop, w ill suggest the principle of equilibrium. Upset! at first are fnqiient, but the confidence of the skater scon rewards the persevering. On peneotly smooth roads thq veloci

pede is entirely practicable. ( )n such, ten miles are less fatiguing than half the distance on foot. Frenchmen have trav! i eighty-live miles in eight and one-half hours, and many men in Paris, New York, Chicago and other cities pass from home to business or work, and return, mounted on the oatless horse. The rate of speed under favorable circumstances is wonderful. The writer has a friend who traversed one-third of a mile in sixty-two seconds, or at the rate of nineteen miles per hour. The prevailing article, with two wheels, i 1 called the " Bicycle." Another variety with two hind wheels, made for ladies and children, is named the M Tricycle." For the first time the velocipede has fallen into ingenious Yankee hands. These will make it a success in some form. New York, Boston, Chicago, and Indiana, Wisconsin, and scores of towns have obtained, or applied for, patents for improvements. Many of these ideas are good, and many decidedly foolish. There is a wide field for the inventive, and large hopes for the haste of him who now has neither wings, locomotive nor horse. JBTatihrnett (ni Christian Advocate.

A Thrilling Incident. TnE following incident is extracted from a very interesting paper in BentUjf MiseeUanyt entitled, "lloursin Ilindostan " The cobra copella is said to be one of tbe most venomous species of serpents in the East, its bite being attended by almost instant death : We had been playing all the evening at whist. Our stakes had been gold mohur points, and twenty on the rubber. Maxey, who was always lucky, had won five consecutive bumpers, which lent a" self satisfied smile to his countenance, and made us losers anything but pleasant, when he suddenly changed countenance and hesitated to play. This the more surprised us, since he was one who seldom pondered, being so perfectly master of the game that he deemed long consideration superflous. "Play away, Maxey; what are you about " impatiently demanded Chnrchill, one of the most impetuous youths that ever wore the uniform of the bodyguard. " Hush," responded Maxey, in a tone which thrilled through us, at the same time turning deadly pale. " Are you unwell ?" said another about to start -up, for he believed our friend had been suddenly taken ill. " For the love of God, sit quiet," replied the other, in a tone denoting extreme fear or pain, and he laid down his cards. "If you value ray life, move not." " What can he mean ? Has he taken leave of his senses ?" demanded Churchill, appealing to myself. " Don't start don't move, I tell you," in a sort of whisper I never can forget, uttered Maxey. " If you make anv sudden motion I'm a dead man !" he exclaimed. We exchanged looks. He continwed : " Remain quiet and all may yet be well. I've a cobra copella around mv leg." Our first impulse was to draw back our chairs; but an appealing look from the victim induced us to remain, although we were aware that should the reptile transfer but one fold, and attach himself to any other of the party, that individual might already be counted as a dead man, so fatal is the bite of that dreadful monster. Poor Maxey was dressed as many old residents still dress in India, namely breeches and silk stockings. Therefore he more plainly felt every movement of the snake. His countenance assumed a livid hue ; the words seemed to leave his mouth without the features altering his position, so rigid wt.s the look, so fearful was he lest the slightest muscular movement should alarm the serpent and hasten his bite. We were in agony little less than his own during the scene. M He is coiling round," muttered Maxey. "I feel him cold, cold to my limb; and now he thickens. For the love of heaven call for some milk. I dare not spak loud ; let it be placed near me; let some be placed on the floor." Churchill cautiously gave the order, and a servant slipped out of the room. "Don't stir! Northcote, you moved your head. By everything sacred I conjure yo . not to do so again. It cannot be long ere my fate is decided. I've a wdfe and two children in Europe; tell them I died blessing them that my last prayers were for them. The snake is winding around my calf ; I leave them all I possess ; I can almost fancy I feci his breath. Great God, to die in such a manner!" The milk was brought and carefully put down : a few drops were sprinkled on the floor, and the affrighted servant drew back. Again Maxev spoke : No ! it has no effect ! I dare not look down, but am sure he is about to drawback and give the bite of death with more than fatal precision. Receive me, O Lord, and pardon me ! Mv last hour has come I Again he pauses! I die firm, but this is past endurance ! Ah, no ! He has undone another fold, and loosens himself! Can he be going to some one else ?" We involuntarily started. " For the love of Heaven, stir not 1 1 m a dead man ; but bear with me. He still loosens he is abont to dart. Move not. but beware ! Churchill, he falls off that way. Oh ! this agony is too hard to bear. Another pressure,' and I am dead ! No, he relaxes." At the moment poor Maxey vent ared to look down the snake had unwound himself, the last coil had fallen and the reptile was making for the milk. " I am saved ! I am saved !" and Maxey bounded from his chair and fell senseless into the arms of one of his servants. In another instant, need it be added, we were all dispersed tho snake was killed, and our poor friend carried more deAd than alive to his room. mi 1 m Women and Marriage. I have speculated a great deal on matrimony. I have seen young and beautiful women, the pride of the gay circles, married, as the world says, weil. Some have moved into their costly houses, and their friends have all come and looked at their furniture and their splendid home for happiness, and have gone away and committed them to their sunny homes, cheerfully and without fear. It is natural to be sanguine for them, ss the young are sometimes carried away with similar feelings. I love to get unobserved into a COHM r and watch the bride in her white attire, and with her smiling face and sift e meeting rae in the pride of life, weave a waking dream of future happiness, and persuade my self that it will be true. 1 think how they will sit upon the luxuriant sola as tho twilight falls, and build gy

hopes, and murmur in low tones the not now forbidden tenderness, and how thrilling the allowed kiss and beautiful endearments of wedded life will make even part ing their joj-, and how gladly they will come back from the crowded and empty mirth of the gay to each other's quit company. I picture to myself that young creature, who blushes even now at his hesitating caress, listening eagerly for his footsteps as the night steals on, wishing he would come, and when he enters at last, with an affection as undying as his pulse, nestling upon his bosom. I can feel the tide that goes flowing through the heart, and Se with him open the graceful f rm SI "die moves about in the kind offices of affection, soothing all his unquiet cares, and making him even forget himself in her young and unshadowed beauty. I go forward for years, and see her luxuriant hair put soberly away from her brow, 1 nd her girlish graces resigned into dignity and loveliness, chastened with the gentle meekness of maternal affection. Her husband looks on with a proud eye, and shows the same fervent love and delicate attentions which first won her, and her fair children are grown about them, and they go on, full of honor and untroubled years, and arc remembered when they die. HsuMaffN Ircing.

HISCELLAirEOtJS ITEMS. Country Siiarkiioldkus Plowmen. A RouUHM Trade Keeping a menagerie. Witt is a wall like a fish ? When it is scaled. Blood, they say, tell?. But not so often as tongues. Wan is a young lady like 1 part of a word? When she is a silly belle (syllable.) Can it be said that the man who maks a business of raising pork for market gets his living by his pen f If brevity is the soul of wit, what a vast amount of fun there is in the tail of a fashionable coat. Leap Year, An old bachelor says that during leap year the ladies jump at every offer of miriiage hence the name. Timio bachel sra are congratulating one another upon he dose of leap. year and their escape b n the peculiar danger which threat ut 1 them. Maovmf. Da morest. the celebrated Tew York ModL-te, learned the millinery business at Lansinsrburg. N. Y., where she was only plain and pretty" Ellen Curt; It turns out now, aooordingto a Frrrwh man lately writing on the subject, that Napoleon lost Waterloo swaanss he was sleepy, and coffee would not keep him awake durii ig the most critical hour? before and during the final struggle. Tins advertisement recently appeared in the New York papen : " The nruon in the possession of a 1 str:.y hTsltS cat, with a white spot on its breast,' will receive the prxj'crsof a heart-broken female, and also, by leasing Hie same at No. 91 Lexington avenue." Tiik Bnaama student in Cornell University, noticing that boots were placed outside the doors of certain rooms at night (the Professor's), placed his outside also, but next morning. Instead of being well polished, he found them filled with water. PitoF. Mausi. says: "I know a man who, at the :ire of forty, entered the Lawrence Scientific School at Cambridge. Mass . became a boy arain among the boys, renewed his youth of body and mind, and probably made far more proficiency than lie would when twenty years younger." Whkn Horace Greeley started the J9 Yorker in New York, years ago, he endeavored to create a sensation by (Ufering prizes for the best poems and stories. Lewis Qeylord Clark ws chairman of the committee to decide these things, and awarded the i9 to a Mr Henry W. Longfellow, a professor in Bowdoin college, f or the poem. Nothing is more easy than to grow rich. It is only to trust nobody ; to befriend none ; to get everything and wc all we get; to stint ourselv. and every body belonging to u? ; to be the friend of no man, and have no man for our friend ; to heap interest upon interest, cent upon cent ; to be mean, miserable and despised, for some twenty or thirty years riches will come as sure as disease and disappointment. Thk Cks (N. H ) Fcp'Viran says that Richard P. Kent's mare recently getting loose in her stable, the door of Which was open, trotted out through the street to a blacksmith's shop, entering which she trotted up to the savil block, at which a man was at work, and held up her forefoot. Examination showed thu.t the nails were loose, and they were properly fixed. In Tiffin, Ohio, a few days since, a man visited an unoccupied mill and entered an old boiler that had been taken out for repairs. While pigging away at i's tides With hammer and chisel to obtain speci mens of lime s alee, it rolled anil fell on its end, closing the ntrance and imprison ing the specimen-seeker. In this unexpected dungeon he remained six hot until his eric attracted the attention of some passers iy. Sstf eral weeks since a Cincinnati doctor was called to attend a sick young man in a boarding house. Apprehensive inat the youth would edw, the d n tor refused to prescribe until the proprietor Ol the house acrecd to pay in case the patient dud The youth re overed, and is now a' work but unable to pay. The doctor then dc ssanded compensation of the propruto-. who said he had become turcty only in case death ensued, hence, as the man lived, he was not responsible. The ind nant doctor sued tbe boarding-house keep er and lost the suit. Next time he will be more careful in his treatment of such cases. Whf.s a norse d"rops dead In the ttreet, it is the duty of the policeman on the beat to examine the carcass. If he finds life 1 1 tinct, he is required to report the-sarae to the roundsman as soon ss he encounters him. The roundsman, having convinced himself of the truth of the statenitn'. imports to the Sergeant on duty when he rc turns to the station. The Sergeant on duty enters the fact on the blotter. The Captain copies it from the blotter and 1 ports to the Superintendent. The Superintendent, through the Inspector, refers tl case to the Board of ncnlth. The Board of Health, through their Secretary, com nuinicale the intelligence to the Sanitary Committee. The Sanitary Committee r t. r the matter to the Bureau of Yital Statistic. The Bureau f Vital Statistics thereupon issue instruc'ions to a contractor, wh keeps a windlass, I vo men and a deadiiorsc truck, aud the contractor thereupon proceeds at his leisure to remove the lody. Xtui York üt rald.