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PLACER VILLE, EL DORADO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1863.
THE STORY OR BILBO^VET.
THE BEARDLESS DKI UMKK BOY.
tu the tAl9., uv 'Ufa Re.i?imi>nt
of (he Line (which formed part of the
grand army that Napoleon lost in Russia,)
there was a little drumfner boy named
Bilboquet. Of course that was not the
name his godfa'hers and godmothers had
given him at bis baptism, but it was the
one by which be was known throughout
tbe regiment.
The soldiers, and especially the grown
up drummers, and above all, the terrible
Drum Major, irsrs in the hab t of teazing
little Bilboquet as boy ncV(fif bad been
before.
The Drum Major used even to beat him
across the shoulders with the heavy cane
which those military beadles are in the
hab(t of swinging and twirling at the head
of the regiment. At first little Bilboquet
used to cry ; but then his comrades only
laughed at him, and the terrible Drum
Major beat him all the more. Yet Billxi
quet never did anything wrong—not in
one sense, that is to say : for in another,
he never did anything right
He was neither lazy nor untidy, nor
greedy, nor mean, nor revengeful, though
he certainly-didowc agrudge to the Drum
Major, which he was resolved one day or
other to pay; but he always had his drum
slung a little too much on one side, or got
out of step in marching, or stood in the
wrong place when the regiment was drawn
up in line, or committed some mistake
which was natural enough on the part of
a boy who had left his top and his marbles
to join the greatest General of the ago, but
which was looked upon by the Drum Ma
jor and other rigid disciplinarians, as quite
unpardonable. %
The 9th of the I.inc, with Bilboquet at
its bead, the drumme s always match in
front, w as on the banks of the Dwma, on
the high road to Moscow, w hen the Gen
eral commanding the brigade of which
this regiment formed part, was ordered by
the Emperor to occupy a position on the
other sde of an enormous ravine.
The raviue was defended by a battery
of six guns. These guns were of lurge
calibre, and were all well served by tlie
Russians.
‘Are those anything like the popguns
you used to play with at school, young
Bilboquet?’ asked the magilirent, slightly
brutal Drum Major, as he proudly tw irled
his long moustache between bis finger ami I
thumb.
Tbe little drummer boy bit bis lips, for
he felt that his tali oppressor doubted his
courage ; but he did not utter a word.
‘Do you feel how the ground shakes?’
continued the giant. ‘Ah, i'.’s lucky your
head is not so high as mine; ami it’s luck
ier still that these Cossacks have a very
excellent habit of tiring in the nil .’
But the Cos-acks (the Trench cal! all
Russian soldiers Cossacks), lowered the
muzzles of their pieces, and then the
Drum Major and his little pupil observed
w tio.e file.s of soldiers knocked down like
skittles; with this dilference, that it would
be impossible to make them stand up
again.
An Aid <!e Camp now galloped up to the
Colonel of the tllli, who was in front of
the regiment close to where Bilboquet and
the Drum M .jor were standing.
‘Take the battery with two hundred
men,’ w • re the concise old, is.
‘Yes, it's easy enough to say, take the
battery with two hundred men,’ mutter, d
an old Sergeant, ‘but I should like to see
twenty of them get there.’
‘The Emperor is waiting,’ added the
Aid de Camp, observing that the soldiers
were not over pleased w ith the work they
had before them.
The captain of Bilboquet’s company
was to IcaJ the assault with two liun ired
Yoltigeurs.
‘If the Emperor is looking at us we
must be quick,' said the old Sergeant, as
lie fixed liis hayom t to his firelock.
The captain noticed considerable hesi
tation in the ranks. Tw ice lie had order
ed the Drum Major to take a couple of
drummers, go to the front, and beat the
charge. The Drum Major was evidently
in no hurry'. He was leaning on his long
cane, and shook his head from side to side
as he examined the drummers, withou
the slightest appearance of enthusiasm.
Ill the meanw hile Bilboquet sat astride
his little drum, whistling a martial air be
tween his teeth, and beating a tattoo with
bis fingers upon the parchment.
At length the captain lowered his brows
and, in a voice of thunder, roared out the
order for the third time.
The gigantic Drum Major nevertheless
seemed inclined to spend a few minutes
more in the selection of his drummers,
when suddenly Bilboquet sprang up, fast
ened bis drum to his side, seized his drum
sticks'convulsively, and passing close to
his tyrant, looked at him from head to
foot, and exclaimed, with an air of tri
umph :
•Now, who's afraid of the popguns?’
The Drum Major was about to stiike
him, but Bilboquet wus already at the
bead of tbe two companies, beating the
charge in a furious style. The soldiers
advanced, Bilboquet hurried on and the
men rushed after him toward the terrible
battery.
Tbe commander of the fort had seen
the Aid de Camp gallop up to the Ninth
Regiment, and had understood that his
battery was to be silenced by an assailing
column. But, as tbe old sergeant had re
marked, it was necessary first of all to
reach it. The Russians determined tore
serve their fire; but, when the French had
marched over about half the ground that
separated them from the guns, they were
received with a general discharge, which
seemed to blow the attacking party to
pieces.
Still young Bilboquet run ahead, ham
mering away at bis drum as if in mockery
of the Russian artillery. With wonderful
rapidity the gunners "reloaded, and again
ploughed up the ranks of- the advancing
Yoltigeurs. Bilboquet was not touched ;
but, on looking round, he saw that scarce
ly a quarter of the two companies were
following him, the rest were tying dead or
wounded on the plain. Bilboquet’s drum
sounded like twenty. If his drum had
been the.enemy he could not have attack
ed it with greater violence. The critical
moment bad now been passed. It was
impossible for tbe Russians to use their
guns against them a third time, for in half
a minute they would be in the battery en
gaged in a hand-to-hand fight with the
artillerymen.
Another rush, and after receiving a
yolley of musketry which scarcely took
effect, the Voltigeurs, with Bilboquet still
at their head, leapt into the battery, and
in a few seconds had disposed of their
onponents and the terrible guns.
During i/temtar4 the Emperor stood on a
hillock watching its progress. He shud
dered as each volley of artillery swept
down his men ; and when, at length, he
>aw less than half a company enter the
battery, he lowered his glass, exclaiming
‘Brave Fellows!’
Then ten thousand men of the Imperial
Guard, who were stationed behind him,
began to flop their hands and to shout,
‘Bravo.'YoWigeursl’ And these were good
critics; they knew what they were ap
plauding.
Immediately afterward Napoleon gave
some orders to as Aid de Camp, who
thereupon set off at a gallop toward the
battery, and instantly returned at the same
pace.
‘IIow many got in?’ inquired the Em
peror.
‘Forty-one, Sire,’ replied the Aid de
Camp.
‘Forty-one crosses to morrow morning,’
said the Emperor, turning toward the
General of the brigade to which the Oth
belonged.
The next day the regiment was formed
in a circle around the remains of the two
companies that had been entrusted with
the capture of the battery. As each name
was called out, the soldier answering to it
stepped forward to the General and re
ceived the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
The ceremony was over ; the forty-one
had received their crosses, and the men
were about to be marched hack to their
encampments,when a voice from the ranks
cried out:
‘And I, then ? Ara I to have nothing?'
It was Bilboquet, the little drummer
boy, who had been quite forgotten.
The General looked around and saw the
young hero standing before him, his face
red with excitement, and with two large
tears starting from his eyes.
‘You? what do you want?’asked the
General.
‘Why, General, wasn’t I otic of them?’
inquired Bilboquet, almost in a passion.
‘Didn't I beat the charge in front of them
all, and wasn't it 1 that got first into the
battery ?’
'It’s true, General, be did,’ exclaimed
forty-one voices.
‘Silence in the ranks,’shouted the Gen
eral. Then, turning again to Bilboquet,
lie said :
‘What am I to do, my poor boy ? It's
very hard, but they have forgotten you.
Besides, you are very young,’ he confin
ed. ‘Wait til! you have hair on your
chin, and then you'll get one, too. In the
meanwhile you must try to console your
self with this.’
And with these words the General held
out a foity franc piece to the unfortunate
Bilboquet, who looked at it for a few sec
onds without evincing the slightest inten
tion of taking it. All were silent. Every
one was looking at the little di Uliimer boy,
and wondering what lie would do. His
eyes were tilled with tears, and those who
had been the first to tease him, now pitied
him from the bottom of their hearts. The
w hole regiment seemed inclined to take
up bis ease, and probably the result would
hive In.eti a petition to the Emperor, had
n t the young diuainar suddenly chang
ed his attitude.
lie laised his head, looked the General
full in the lace, and said :
•Well, give it to me. I must wait for
another time.’
And, without further ceremony, he put
the coin in bis pocket, and Went back to
the ranks humming an air.
From this moment no one thought of
ill treating young Bilboquet. But he was
not very communicative to his comrades,
and seemed to have some strange project
in iiis head, about which he was constant
ly meditating. It was expected that lie
would spend his forty francs in a treat,
and several hhits to that effect were given
out by his fellow soldiers. But no. Bil
boquet kept his money and his counsel to
himself.
Sometime afterward the French nrtbV
entered Smolensk. Bilboquet had assisted
at the capture, and the day after walked
all over the town examining every lace
with remarkable curiosity. He seemed
pleased with tnobl of the physiognomies
he saw, for he was perpetually smiling,
especially when he met a mail who had a
long beard, and he met several thousands
of them in the course of the day.
However, the beards of Smolensk are
for the most part carrotty. This seems
not to have met with Bilboquet’s appro
bation ; but he probably reflected that if
the Russians, the Poles, and other Sclavo
niaus had red beards that was not their
fault, and that they had not chosen that
color themselves for the purpose of annoy
ing a French drummer boy.
However that may have been, he con
tinued to laugh whenever he met a man
with a red beard, until at last he found
himself in the Jewish quarter of the city,
where all the beards are black.
Bilboquet did not like Jews; but be
liked their black beards, and, indeed, was
so delighted that he resolved to have one
of them and without delay.
Behind the counter in a dirty little shop,
which was one of a long row, stood a He
brew with a magnificent beard, as black
as ebony.
‘What do you want, my little man ?’
said the Jevr, patronising!)'.
‘I want your beard,’ answered Bilbo
quet, in a decided tone.
‘My beard? You’re joking, my little
man ?’ suggested the proprietor, with an
uneasy expression of countenance.
‘I want your beard, I tell you,’ repeat
ed Bilboquet, as he put his hand to the
sabre ; ‘and what’s more, I mean to have
it. But don’t think that I want to rob
you of it,’ he mildly continued, ‘here’s a
forty franc piece, and you can keep the
change.’
The poor Jew tried to convince Bilbo
quet that his beard would be no use to
him; that it was not worth forty francs or
forty sous, or forty centimes to any one ;
that he, ltilboquet, would do much better
to invest his money in horsehair, if he
really wanted for anything of the kind ;
that ho hinnself would giadiy undertake
such a commission, and so on.
But it was all in vain. Bilboquet was
determined to have his forty francs’ worth
of black beard. Some French soldiers
had been attracted to the Jew’s shop by
the high words that had passed between
the latter and Bilboquet, and, having as
certained what the quarrel was about,
came to the conclusion that the drummer
boy’s notion was both humorous am] ori
ginal, and called upon the Hebrew to sur
render his chin at discretion.
Fortunate for the Jew, one of the sol
diers who was present happened to be
the barber of the regiment. We say for
tunately, because in the absence of a ra
zor there can be no doubt whatever but
that the Jew would have been shaved
with a sabre. However, the heard was
taken off more or less according to art,
and given to Bilboquet, who folded it
up carefully in a piece of paper, and
stowed it away in his pocket.
When Hilhoijuet regained his quarters,
he got the regimental tailor to sew the
Jew’s beard, or Bilboquet's heard as it
had now become, to a strip of parchment
cut from an old drum ; and then without
giving any explanation of his conduct,
put it at the very bottom of his knapsack.
11 is comrades bothered him about the
matter for a few days, but then the regi
ment started eastward, and after the bat
tle of Borodino and the taking of Moscow,
such incidents as Bilboquet’s adventure
with the Jew of Smolensk naturally
passed from recollection.
Then came the horrors of the retreat,
Cossacks, and famine. Napoleon's army
was decimated in an inverse sense—that
is to say, every tenth man was spared,
while the nine others fell victims to the
Cossack lances, or, worse still, to the
Russian snow. The Oth Regiment
formed part of the rear guard, which
watched and fought so magnificently un
der the leadership and auspices of Ncy.
LiUle Bilboquet was among the most for
tunate, for he was neither wounded nor
frost-bitten.
A lew days after the teniblo passage
of the Beresinn, the troops had to cross a
small river, over which the engineers had
already thrown a bridge. Uilhequet’s
brigade, which formed the extreme rear,
had passed over in safety, and the great
point now was to prevent the Russians
following. The general ordered the Sap
pers to blow it up, hut the explosion was
attended by only partial success; one
half of the bridge was still connected with
the other by means of a single beam. If
this beam could be cut in two the whole
structure would fall in the river. Other
wise the enemy would have no dilliculty
in repairing the bridge, and their pursuit
would not be delayed for more than an
hour at most. Some Sappers were di
rected to get on a raft and endeavor to
destroy the bridge altogether, but the
Russians arrived on the opposite hank of
the river before the ortlrr could be
obeyed, and opened a murderous fire,
which seemed to render its execution
quite impossible. The French returned
the lire, and the army was about to move
when suddenly a soldier with a
hatchet oti his shoulder, plunged into the
river, dived, and came up half a minute
afterwards at a distance l'roin the lo am
which it was desired to sever. By his
long heard it was aasv to t il that this
was a Sapper that was sacrificing himself
so nobly* fur the sake of his comrades.
The brave man swam vigorously for the
nearest pile, and continued a c urse
through a shower of bullets, which caus' d
the water to hoii ad round him, until at
last lie reached the centre pile of the
hr. ige, an 1. climbing up it, got on the
bridge itself. The beam was n t so large
as it appeared from the shore, ar d it was
already half divided. With on* blow the
soldier cut it into two, when the bridge,
and himself with it, fell into the water
with a tremendous crash.
The Russians, in tiieir astonishment,
ceased firing for a moment, hut the
Frenchman soon rose to*the surface, and
he was then again saluted with a storm
of shot. Now a hundred poles were ex
tended to the dating Sapper, and the
tieneral himself was among the most en
thusiastic applauders of his gallant ex
(doit. .
Maidenly the General pave a start.
lie might well he astonished, for the
supposed Sapper who ha*! destroyed the
bridge was no other than young Bilbo
quet, the drummer, with his celebrated
black heard under his chi t.
‘What in the name of fortune does this
mean!*’ inquired the General, scarcely
crediting his eyes.
‘It’s only me,’ said Bilboqu t, ‘ the
drummer-hoy that you said y ou’d give
the cross to when he had hair on his
chin. I’ve a beard now, General ; and a
capital one, too. 1 gave you forty francs
for it, and I think it ought to he good.’
The General was fairly electrified by
the youngster’s courage, and scarcely less
so by his originality and humor. Ho
took Bilboquet by the hand, and without
a moment’s delay, gave him the cross he
had been wearing on his breast.
From that moment even the veterans of
the regiment treated Bilboquet with re
spect, and the Drum Major never struck
him any more with his long cane.
Eaknestness.— Like all the virtues,
earnestness is sometimes a natural trait,
and sometimes once acquired by the
healthy graft of moral and religious prin
ciple. It is a positive essential in the
structure of character ; it is one of the
main instruments in all action that is to
benefit others. It gives persistency to
the unstable, strength to the feeble, abil
ity and skill to the inefficient, and suc
cess to all endeavor. There is a might
in it that is magical to the vacillating and
irresolute. Its possessors are those who
Stood in the front ranks of life from the
school-room to the forum ; from the child
with its first “ reward of merit,” to the
matron who presides over the well-or
dered household, and gives Iter blessings
to well-trained sons and daughters, as
they leave their mother's home for lives
of usefulness in wider spheres.
Earnestness, also, like other noble
qualities, is always making greater gains
than it aims at. There is not only the
purpose accomplished, but the strength,
the skill, and the distance already over
come, that will make the next aim loftier,
and more arduous in its accomplishment
Thus there is, naturally and necessarily,
the attainment of fresh and more inspir
ing elevation. The prospect widens, the
objects to he achieved multiply in num
ber and importance, the consciousness of
the one performance brightens the eye,
and steadies the hand, and insures the
uncertain step, till success is gained again.
—[Springs of Action.
■ —
Tkoi'BI.e is often the lever in the hands
of God to raise us up to heaven.
A child who cried for an hour dido’
get it.
fjflfe’a Myaf erleti.
They arc dark, deep and unfathomable,
and we arc unable to search them out.
At tK» vunVG'st e< «W.n* ~itV
such bn'fffancy across our pathway that
we behold with admiration its glittering
rays, antftronder that so many mysteries
have been made plain ; but in the twink
ling of an eye a cloud comes o'er our vis
ion, and we are led to grope our way on
ward, the darkness rendered still more
irksome, having seen the sun. But
“ God moves in •* mysterious way,” and
never mennt man to scale the topmost
pinnacle of divine wisdom. The fairy
being whose brow wears no mark of
time, and the gray haired grandsiie,
with one font upon the verge o( the grave
stand side by side; to-morrow you enter
their dwellings, hut you are greeted by
no kindjy welcome; the hush of death is
upon all things, and you say, surely the
messenger has called for him who had
more than numbered three-score and ten.
You enter noiselessly, as if fearing to dis
turb his repose; raise-the snowy cover
ing, start back in mute surprise ; for, in
stead of the silver locks and wrinkled
brow of the grandsire, you behold the
wavy tresses of her wiio hut yesterday
was blooming in health, .ami you exclaim,
mysterious. God's ways are not our
ways.
The slow and solemn pealing of the
tolling bell tells us that another has gone
to his last home. A few short months
ago he went forth with a band of youths, -
whose stalwart forms seemed almost to
hid defiance to the foe, to lav down his
life, if need be, upon the alter of his
country. But not in battle, hut upon the
tented Held, the messenger came, and lie
was forced to obey ; he died, hut no
mother’s hand was there to smooth his
dying pillow. Once before, when in his
childhood home, surrounded by parents
and friends, the messenger had called
loudly, but he was spared; but now,
nfar from kindred and home, he was laid
to rest in the silent grave. \Vc know
not why it is so. Strange, is it not, that
the thousand strong chords of love with
which we hind our loved one-, to earth
cannot detain their spirits for a moment
fro n their upward flight; nor prayers
nor tears suflicc to make them fold their
wings and wait.
Already has the cry gone up from a
thousand hearts and homes, “ lie is
dead!" Borne upon the telegraph wires
with the speed almost of lightning the
news come. But, even while- almost
every circle wears the habiliments ot
mourning, all nature is dressed itfchcr
gala robes ; the birds warble forth their
songs ol praise as sweetly as the breeze
plays o’er the waving tree tops, and
through the branches, making sweet mu
sic, and all things seem as bright and guy
as though nature's God had tint spoken
to the children of men. A dark veil of
mysteries hang ever about our "pathway,
and we cannot find tin in out; but, kn liv
ing that a just and richtcous < I >d rnlcth,
we will trust in Him until all tilings shall
lie made plain, and we shall behold him
as lie is.—[ Waverly Magazine.
“ Coxsckvative SiiWAttD.”— Who ever
saw a more contradictory, ireevnncilnble
conjunction of words than stall Is at the
head of this at tide? And yet the pre
tension is put forward in some (purlers
that the arcti agitator and insti.-itnr of
Abolition now at the head ttie Suite
department—the cold blot led, unpity ing
wretch who introduced and inaugurated
the bnstile system in this country, nlio
shut his ears to the cties of Justice, and
steeled luc heart )n the > leadings of Hu
manity, and whose teachings finally
wrought the dismimbermout and destruc
tion of the American ib.-pub ie, is a
“conservative,” and for liis endeavors to
shield the country from the effects of
radicalism of the Lincoln Administration,
is entitled to the confidence of the friends
of ihe Constitution! A demairogoe from
the beginning, ever watchful of the chang
ing hues in public sentiment, and un
scrupulous in adapting means to the ac
complishment of a desired end, the iufei
nal doctrines of the godless system of fa
naticism found congenial soil in 1.is low,
grovelling ambition. And non - , forsooth,
having gone down with his doctrines into
the lowest depths of public detestation,
he seeks to cut loose from them, and to
stand forth as the friend of principles lie
has spent a life in opposing! This is im
pudence worthy of Seward ! but it may,
and we hardly see why it should not be,
satisfactory to a certain class of professed
Democrats‘whose names have figured in
war meetings, and been appended to res
olutions urging upon our abolition rulers
a “ more vigorous prosecution of the
war” for the subjugation of tile booth,
the overthrow of the Constitution and the
emancipation of the slaves, lint every
true-hearted Democrat who loves his
principles more than he docs the plaudits
of the excited, unreasoning crowd, or even
his own personal safety, will a.-.k with
McMasters, What part has light with
darkness? What part has glory with
shame? What part has American De
mocracy with Seward—the follower of
Fanny Wright—the drummer of Anti-
Masonic follv—the elect of the Wooly
Head Know-Nothings in 1855 — the figure
head of Abolitionism erected into a po
litical party 1 We, the true, the young,
the living Democracy, will not consort
with these miserable destroyers of our
country ! —[Malone (N. Y.) Gazette, edit
ed by judge Flanders.
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A Foul.’* Decision. —A poor beggar, in
Paris, being very hungry, stayed so long
in a cook’s shop, who was dishing up his
meat, that his stomach was satisfied with
the smell thereof. The choleric, cove
tous cook demanded of him to pay for
his breakfast. Tho poor man denied it,
and it was referred to the decision of the
next man that should pass by, who
chanced to be a most notorious idiot.
He determined that the poor man’s money
should be put between two empty dishes,
and tiic cook recompensed by its jing
ling, as lie was satisfied with only the
smell of the cook’s meat.
What is tho difference between a bed
hug and a man sleeping with snakes un
der his bed ? One creeps over the sleep
ers, and tho other sleeps over the creep
ers.
“ W nv, I thought you were ill," said
one friend to another, meeting in a porter
house. “ Well, don’t you sec I’m ale
hig!” was the reply, with a bitter smite.
WA8HINOTOK.
In an introduction to the writings of
Washington, published a few years ago
I'U'VTWce, that distinguished prime min
isler and statesman, M. Guizot thus re
marks :
Washington had not those brilliant
and extraordinary qualities which strike
the imagination of men at the first glance.
He did not belong to the class of men of
vivid genius, who pant for an opportu
nity of display, arc impelled by great
thought or great passions, and diffuse
around them the wealth of their,own na
.turesJ/uf 'i t any outward occasion or no- f
eessify calls for its employment.
Free from all internal restlessness, and
the promptings and piideof ambition,
Washington did not seek opportunities to
distinguishing himself, and never aspired
to the admiration of the world, llis
spirit so resolute, his heart so lofty, was
profoundly calm and modest. Capable of
rising to a lcrcl with the highest
destiny, lie might have lived in igno
rance of his real power without suffering
for it, and have found in the cultivation
of his estates a satisfactory employment
for those energetic faculties which were
to be proved equal bribe task of com
manding armies ami founding a Govern
ment.”
The Great Lord Chancellor Eiskinc,
thus addressed Washington on his retire
ment from the Presidency :
“ I have taken the liberty to introduce
your august and immortal name in a sen
tence which is to be found in the book in
which I send you. 1 have a large and
valuable acquaintance among the most
valued and exalted classes of m u, but
you are the only human being lor whom
I ever felt an awful reverence, 1 pray God
to grant a long and serene evening to a
life so gloriously devoted to the universal
happiness of the world.”
Phillips, the great British orator, ex
pressed himself as follows :
“ It matters very little what immediate
spot may he the birthplace of such a man
as \\ ashingUm. No people can claim,
no country can appropriate him—the
boon of Providence to the human race,
llis fame is eternity, 1 his residence crea
tion. Though it was the defeat of our
arms and disgrace of our policy, I almost
bless the convulsion in which lie bad bis
origin. If the heavens thundered and the
eartli rocked, when the storm passed,
how pure was the climate, bow bright in
the brow of the firmament was the planet
which was revealed to us? In the pro
duction of Washington it does really ap
pear as if nature was endeavoring to im
prove upon herself, and that all the virtues
of the ancient world were but so many
studies preparatory to the patriot of the
new.”
Mr. Allison, the British historian, thus
closed a splendid panegyric on Washing
ton :
“A soldier from necessity and patriotism
rather than from disposition, he was the
first to recommend a return to pncific
counsels when the independence of his
county was secured, and bequeathed to
his countrymen an address on leaving
the Government, to which there is no
composition of uninspired wisdom which
can bear a comparison. lie was a friend
to liberty but nut to licentiousness ; not
to the dreams of enthusiasm, hut to those
practical ideas, etc. * * * It
is the highest glory of England to have
given birth, even amid transatlantic wilds
to such a man.”
Pandora's Box. —Pandora, according
to the heathen mythology, was the first
female created. She was formed of clay,
by Vulcan, at the request of Jupiter. As
soon as endowed with life, all the gods
are said to have vied with inch other in
presenting her with uil'ts. She received
beauty and the art of pleasing from Ve
nus, the powered captivating from the
Graces; Apollo taught her how to sing.
Mercury instructed her ill eloquence, and
Minerva endowed her with wisdom.
Hence she was called Pandora from the
Greek word pan, all, and doron, gift, in
timating she was all-gifted. Jupiter
finally presented her with a box, filled
with innumerable evils, which she was
desired to give to the man who married
her. She was then conducted by Mer
cury to Promethus; he, suspicious of de
ceit, would not accept the present; but
bis brother, Kpiinvtheiis, less prudent,
married her. He having accepted and
opened the box, there issued from it a
multitude of evils and distempers, which
speedily dispersed themselves all over the
earth, and have never since ceased to af
lin t all mankind, lie shut the box again
in all haste, hut all was gone. Hope
alone, which Jupiter had compassionately
inclosed in his unhappy gift, had not
time to escape, and consequently re
mained as the one consolation of wretched
mortals. This has given rise to the expres
sion “ Hope lies at the bottom."
—
HMin I.ifk.—Bayard Taylor, while in
the Arctic region in winter, used to eat a
half pound of meat at a meal to warm
himself. He thus speaks of the cold
which he endured in Lapland : “ I
should have frozen at home in a temper
ature which I found very comfortable in
Lapland, with my solid diet of bread and
butter, and my garment of reindeer skin.
The lollowing is a correct scale of the
physical effects of cold calculated for the
latitude of 65 or 70 degrees north —15
above zero, unpleasantly warm ; zero,
mild and agreeable; 10 degrees below
zero, pleasantly fresh and braving ; .20
degrees below zero, sharp but not sovere
ly cold. Keep your lingers and toes in
motion, and rub your nose occasionally,
30 degrees below zero, very cold ; take
particular care of your nose and extremi
ties; eat the fattest food and plenty of it.
40 degrees below zero, intensely coftl ;
keep awake at all hazards ; inutile up to
the eyes and test your circulation freely,
that it may not stop before you know it.
CO degrees below zero, a struggle for
ife.”
Capt. Bili.inW Pkovekbs.—I am pre
pared tu sa tu seven uv the rich men out
uv every ten, 11 Make the most uv yer
money fur it makes the most uv yu.”
Debt is a Eal pot, a big bocl where yu
go in, and a small wun where yu kiim
out.
Yu can tell jest about what a man will
du hi hearing him tell what he has did.
Man was kreated a little lower than
the Angells, and he has been getting a
little lower ever since.
\rmEMC.
T , 0x ™ e D . 8ATa L°. r *
Tlie rtmimUwi mmmhm* «m «■£■>•>
menu of a child, stand ng fnrtirad if Vit
tuub that have died 4PM)£toMto**toi> r
not exercised ule rwwaiy MHR 0*
friendship ; they have not ehpssn to bo
kind and good to us; nor stood
conscious.witl, in ;he oCjflSoUjU-,
But they have shared their pleasure* and
pains with tis as well as they could ;3»0
interchange of good offices hotweea A
h»s, of necessity, been less mingled aMth w
the troubles of the world; the aw to* art- *
sing from their death is ths only ow willsh
we can associate with their amodear* :
HhwieaTe happy thoughts thataaaaat dla»»
Our loss may always/ender then peoeive;
hut they will not always be painful.
is a pari of the benignity of Mature that
pain docs not survive like pleasure, at any
time, much less w here the cause of it Sa
an innocent one. The soiilc will remain
reflected by memory, as the moon reflecta
the light upon us when the sun has gone
into heaven. * * * * ' 1
Now the liability to the loss of children
—or rather what renders us sensible of it,
the occasional loss itself—seems to be one
of these necessary bitters thrown Into the
cup of humanity. We.do not mean that
every one must lose ono of his children
to enjoy the rest; or that every individ
ual loss ulllictM us in the same proportion,
\\ c allude to the deaths of infants in gen*
era!. These might be as few as ww
could render them. But if non* at all
ever took place, we should regard every -
little child as a man or woman secured;
and it u ill easily be conceived wbat a
world of endearing cares and hopes thiO
security would endanger. The very idea
of infancy would lose its continuity with
us. Girls and boys would be future men
and women, not present children. They
would have attained their full growth iir
our imaginations, and might aa w*B bhvc.
been men and women at onee. On <hw
other hand, those who have lost an infant
are never, aa it were, without an infant
child. They are the only p*rsooswho,ia
one sense, retain it always, and they far*
nish tl.eir neighbors with the same idea.
The older children grow up to man baud,
and woman hood, and suffer all the changes
of tnoi t ility. This one alone is rendered
an immortal child. Death has arrested it
with his harshness, and blessed it into an
eternal image of youth and innocence.
[Leigh Hunt.
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Advice on Sinduy Subjects.— Never
cut a piece out of a newspaper until you
have looked on the other side, where per
haps you may find something more valua
ble than that which you first intended to
appropriate.
Never pint salt into your soup before
you have tasted it I have known gentle*
men very much enraged by doing so.
Never burn your fingersif you can help
it. People burn their fingers every dey,
when they might have escaped if they bad
been careful. • • *
Don’t put your feet upon the table.—
True, many members of Congress do ao,
but, then, you ar&jiot a member of Con
gress. p-
If you form one of a iswgw mj.Vfd flflffU
pany, and a diffident stranger entega the
room and takes a scat among yon, aax
something to him,Tor heavens sake, af*
though it be only, “ Pine evening, sir V*
Do not let him sit bolt upright, suffering
all the apprehensions and agonies of bash
fulness, without any relief. Ask how he
has been; tell him you knew his friend 80*
and so—anything that will do to break tho
icy stiffness in which very decent fellows
are sometimes frozen on their debut be*
furs a jicw cii clo.
«. —
Is clearing out the remains of an old
chapel in Warwickshire, England, aotpe
time ago, several bodies were found;
which were buried more than two Hun
died years ago. The coffin whicbcba*
tained the body of Lady Audrey Ltfigh,
buried in 1040, was opened and tbebdly
found embalmed and io entire preserva
tion, her flesh quite plump, as if she were
alive, her face beautiful, her bands ex
ceedingly small and full. She was dress
ed in line linen, trimmed all over with *
point lace, and two rows of lace were laid
iliil on her forehead. She looked exactly
ns if she were lying asleep, and seemed
not more than 16 or 17 years old. She
was very beautiful. Even her eyelashes
and eyebrow's were quite perfect. Bet
eyes were closed, and no part of her face
or figure was at all fallen in.
'The day-laborer, who earns with horny
hand and the sweat of his brow, coarse
food for those whom he loves, is raised by
thi* generous motive to true dignity; and
though wanting the refinements of lift, it
a nobler being than those who think them
selves absolved by wealth from serving
others.
Memokv can gleam, but never can re»
new. 1 1 brings us joys faint as is the per
fume of the flowers, faded and dried of
the summer that is gone.
Okiuieus C. Kerb says that “ timbrel*
las and horses are not relations," my boyi
We put one up when it rains, and w«
rein the other up when we “ put"
-4 ......
“ Wii at is that dog barking at ?”
asked a fop, whoso boots were more pol
ished than his ideas. “ Why,” replied ft
bystander, “ because he sees a puppy k»<
your boots."
■ ' *
11e whose religion is ever on hke lips,
has seldom any of that valuable treasure
in his heart. It Uoeps-watch liha.q liv
eried porter at his door, but them fa no
body at home, and there is nothing to
steal; if it were well lodged in hff'aoul,
ho would not be so frald'Cfifs'fbcape.
lie who vouches Tor his own truthful
ness by nn oath, will tell a lie the next
moment without a blush.
. , , _ [ < 3
Toe surest hindrance to auceetfis to
have too high a standard of fyBtMMnt is
our own minds, or too high so bjjlhfon of
the judgmeiptjifJhft jUJpljc. OTTbo fe
determined not to be satisfied with any
thing short of perfection, wfVtfarer do
anything at nil. Jiifliin 111 f>|!iIf
There are no bands wpsfadhMlpk 4f
eternity; there is no shodSw sMa-Us dfat
The very hours of hssTlfa afaktoMto
ured by the sunshine; and Mfiju A|
shadow.
A good many men ara to tbefafailMM
when they are out of tpkito > pa