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Stltrt UJisctlhnn. from P»l« rwin'a M vrvsIiw. ABIFLU '*+• — UT £.' A. IIOCHXSTEK. . , The ringing of the door bell has a pleasant sound to m'e, especially in my d idle moods. Like dd unopened letter, thero it » myttery about it,, and one traits vith a pleasurable excitement to j -lee who or what is coming. Returning home, one dor, earlier than j usual, I found my wife had gone out ; and, while lounging idly orerthe paper, V the bell rang. I waited expectant till Bridget op- 1 peared with a note, containing a request ; from my old friend, Dr. Stearns, to ride ! oat to his residence in the country, the next day, to transact some business that bad been long pending, and an invitation to bring my wife and spend the d«j. I was pleased: first, because I wanted • the business completed ; and secoudly, because I thought 1 qeeded a day's fee- j reation. But the next morning every tiling seemed to go wrong. Alice coulfl~ not nccompany me, and I conld not get off as j I wished ; and, consequently, I was ' V peeresa and fretful ; and Alice reflected j r< my hnmor, I suppose— ns it appeared ' to me she bad never been io nnamiable. » At length, however, I drove away, - though not In a very pleasant mood. It j ' was a lovely October day ; and, as I | rode along, noting tbe brilliant tints or | the landscape, memory went back to ^ the golden autumn when I wooeu and ! ' won my bride. How lovely Alice was then J" I thought. "And boW happy we were ! ! ' Bnt that jras long ago. Vet nature ia I the same, though «r* are cha-iged. Lst . ine see : we have been married three i ' years ; ia h possible it 1s no longer 7" ! ' And I felt a pang, as I contrasted tbe j ( past and the present, to think that we . coold have settled down Into tbe com- ( mon-place life we now led.

We had no serions trouble, we didn't quarrel ; though when J felt cross, or ' things didn't go to soit me, I took no paina to conceal it, and often spoke harshly to Alice, who sometimes replied ia the same spirit, and sometimes with tears. Yet w^ were generally good friends. Bnt the charm, the tenderness of our early love had inperceptibly vanished. I bad become careless sbont my ap- j pearmnce at home, and Alice was equally 1 negligent. Her beautiful brown hair, j which abe used to wear in tbe most becoming carls, was now usually brushed j plainly behind her ears, unless she was going ont or expected company. I dismisssd the subject with a sigh, at tbe doctor's gate, with the reflection that it was the tame with all married people— anul be so, in fact — for how could romance nod sentiment find piece among no many prosy realities 7 I supposed we warn as happy ns anybody ; and yet. It was not the kind of life I bad looked forward to with so many bright anticipations. The doctor came ont and greeted me j oordtally. In the hall we met Mrs. Stearns, looking fresh and lovely in her pink mnslin wrapper, with her jetty hair in Ustefnl braids. She scolded me playfully for not briogiag my wife, chatted a few minutes, and then flitted away, while the doctor, remarking that bis motto was, "business first, and pleasure afterward," led tbs way to the library. As we entered the room, I noticed a van of bright autnmn flowers on tbe table, imparting an air of taste and chaarfolaets to the apartment. I made soma remark abont it, to wbich the doctor responded, "Yes, I am very fond o flowers, and love to nee them in tbe home; and, ns ■ lispnart mneh time k ere, my wife always keeps a mn of these an the -table so long ss they test." 't

, Our business urns finished before din- 1 | ner, and we walked out into the griunds i ! which were qoite extensive, and tast*.: i.fnlly arranged. There wan a variety of flowers in ; bloom, and I noticed tbat the doctor se- j j lecled here and there the finest, unlit he : . had a handsome bouquet r j When we resched the hoosc, Mrs. j' ' f Stearns wss standing on the steps, i | } The doctor, still continuing our conver- , ! sation, gave her the flowers, with a ' ( j slight bow and smile; and, holding up .J a spray of crimson berries, which lie; ' | had broken off, she bent her head while 1 ' | he fastened it among the dark braids of ; j hair. j |t was a trifling incident, yet their j | ; manner arrested my attention. Ilad I i _ | been a stranger, I should have prononn- j i ced them lovers instead of sober inurried people. All through iho day I no- !( . , ticed the same delicate attention and j difference in their deportment to each I other. j Th?re was nothing of which the most j ■ fastidious guest could complain ; yet, j ( while showing me thn most cordial at | j tention, they did not seeni to ignore j each other's existence, as married peo- { | pie so often do. | . I had never vlsted the doctor's before, . and was much pleased with bis tasteful , i home. I said so, after dinuer, when we ( j strolled out into the woods, j "Yes," he said. "I think it pleasant; ( j and," he added, "I believe I am a con- ( | tented man ; so far I am not. disappointed in life," "IIow long have you been married, i doctor f I asked. [ ' Ten years." J "Well," I pursued, can you tell u>e ( | whence the bright atmosphere that surrounds your home ? Tell me how yon j jj I and Mrs Stearns menage to retain the ' . 1 depth and freshness of yonr -early love, ' j as yon seem to do ? I should think the * ; wear and tear of life would dim it ^ome } | what. I never saw a home where my ideal ef domestic happiness was. realized before- It is what I once dreamed * of." '

The doctor smiled and pointing to a thrifty grape-vine climbing over a neat lattice, and loaded with purple fruit, he d "id' h "That vine needs careful atltntion. and, if pruned and properly car. d for, ^ it if what yon see it; but if negl.cted, how soon would it become a worthless 1 thing. So tbeUorv, which is to all, at ; i some period, the most precious thing in life, end which needs so much csre to I keep it unimpaired, if greatly ueglec'ed. ' ^ I Ah I my friend, it is little acts— trifles " ^ J -swtett lo often estrange loving hearts. { T have always niade^ it a point to treat 1 * toy wife with tbe same courtesy tbat ' * characterized my deportment in tbe days \ ^ of courtship ; and, while I am careful { not to offend her tastes and little prrjn- , dices, I am sure that mino will be equally . respected." That night, as I rode homeward, pon- ' B dering the doctor's words, and reviewing the years of onr married life, I was ( surprised at my own blindness, and I ' determined to recall tbe early dream, if ! B possibic. t The next morning, at breakfast, I as t ton i shed Alice by a careful toilet, chatr ted over tbe dinner, and after tea invit- ' utTibr to ride. When she came down, ( fo mjWorite, bine organdie, with her ' hpir in shining curls, 1 thought she bad ( | never looked lovelier. ( I exerted myself, as of old, to enter- t tain her, and was surprised to fiad bow , quickly and pleasautly tbe evening pass* "*■ 1 I L resolved to test tlit doctor's theory ft ( perfectly, and the result exceeded my ' most sanguine expectations J For all the Httie nameless attentions C I so gratifying so4* woman's heart, and j, , so universally accorded by the lover and r , neglected by tbe husband, I find myself c , repaid a thousand fold ; and I would advise all who are sighing orerthe ton- t I

- 1 fulfillment of early (ire spiv, to go^and do . i ! likewise, remeinberint' that what is , : worth winning is wort! keeping. ASUVUEft- • Ji I stood npon the sawmit of a lofty ! 1 ! mountain. It was infeed a glorious j i sight from that motinttin top. B-fore J j-roe I beheld forests and torrents, fields . f white with the ripeninf grain, majestic j , : riters, snow-capped peskv, and far away , in the hazy distance I saw the foam of a j j mighty ocean. It waaa s.eno which it c i is impossible to describe. So glorious 1 < : was the sight that lor 4 moment I stood , almost transfixed by ia dazzling splcn- ' 1 dor. I had ^Iten gaztd ou that tinted^ * panorama before, bnt never had its . I beaaly impressed me. Each object in , : the whole grand picture seemed tinged ' „ with a welestiul brightness. The sue | was low in heaven, an! it appeared as if c j at the close of bis daily journey he w as " more brilliant than ever before. Each ' roy of light that proceeded from the ex- 1 i piring luminary was like a team of gold; ' | the whole firmament trot crinmpn with j the reflection of his glory. Oh, in the », | hushed stillness \hal pervaded the n'- j » ; mosphere, how solemn were the thoughts . 1 j that arose within my breast. But be- ' fore I recovered from the first shock, as " it were, of delighted amazement, the " brightness had departed, nnd the gloom ^ of night began to fall upon that lovely ' landscape, only, however, to be succeeded by a morning equally iransluccut in c splendor. r 1 Never shall I forget the impression J made upon my mind that evening. The day had been cloudy and most of the lime the sun had been obscured. 1 1 | thought how tike the Christian's life was (J that day. Clouds and darkness may surround him ; he may be cast homeless ! i. | and friendless upon the charily afaself- ' |i world. Tbs sun, jvhicli lights his c pathway may be kid ,<W darfc-akadows of . D trial and suffering, but although these ;1 black clsods may hide that sun, does it ; b cease to shine 7 No, behind them it ' | still sheds forth genial rays of undironi. j ed lustre ; and when the end shall come,

when death shall lay bis chilling finger j upon the poor, down-trodden man, the darkness which has often crossed bis pathway hhall forever flee, and amid n yellow flood of glory streaming forth from the very throne of God, his run , soined soul shall leave its tabernacle of; | clay and ascend to dwell forever in the j never-ending bliss of Heaven. HEALTHFUL OBSE&VAHCES. , 1. To eat when you do not feel like it is I brutal, nsy, this is a slander on tbe lower • animals ; they do not so dobaio themselves 2. Di not enter a sick chamber ou an empty stomach, nor remain as a watcher or j nurse until yoa feel almost exhausted, nor eit between the patient and the Are. nor in tho direction of a current of air front the patient toward yonrteH, nor eat or drink ' anything after being in a sick room antil j you have rinsed your mouth thoroughly. 3. Do not sleep in any garment worn daring tbe day. 4. Most grown persons ore unabio to 1 sleep soundly and refreshingly over seven < in summer, and eight in winter ; the 1 attempt to force more sleep 00 the system by a nap in the day time, 'or a ".second I nap" in the morning, renders the whole of i tbe sleep disturbed and imperfect. 1 5. Some of the most painful " stomach aches" are occasioned by iodigestion) this generates wind, and hence distension. It is often promptly remedied by kneading tbe abdomen with tho boll of the hand, skin to skin, from one side to aoother, from tbe lower edge of the ribo downwards, because 1 the accumulated air is forced on and out- 1 wards along tbe alimentary caual. 1 6. When yon return to your boose from 1 long walk or other exhaastivu exercise, | to the Are or warm room, and do not | remove a siogle article «f elothing until 1 you have taken a cap or more of some kind < of hot driak. 1 7. la going into a colder atmosphere, i tbe month cloud, nod walk with a 1 rapidity sufficient to keep off a feeling or I chilliness. , 8. Two psir of thio stockings will keep 1 the feat warmer tbse owe pair of a greater ' I

: Uiickiirts then b.ilb. * " The "night awrau " of disease coma 1 ! on towards daylitiht ; their deathly clammi- ( itesa and coldness i« greatly modified by ' | tleaplng iu a single, loose, long wdoleh ' shirt. , 10. Th» man or womnn who drinks s ' of strong tea or ctiflVe. or other stimulant in order to aid in the better peKoruv . of ooy work or duty, public or private. 1 a foul, kresms it is to the body and < , brain an e\p.>ndi(ura of what is not yet ' j got ; it Is using power ir> advance, and this j never be done, even once, with imtiu- | ' oily. 11. The less a man urinks of anrthiog in . weather the belles; for tho more we ^driuk the more we want to drink, until ■ even ice-water palls and becomes of a me- I tallic ln»te; hence the longer you can p.;t ! off drinking cold water 011 the morning of a hot day. the better yo* will fre! at night 12. "Drinking Inrghiy at meal*, even of cold water or rimpto teas. i» a mere habit j and is ijlwavs hurtftfly^p one should drink 1 at any one meal mors ihhn a quu^ler of a pint of any liquid, rvi-n of cold water, for 1 1 it always retards, impairs, and interferes with a healthful digestion. 13 If yna sleep at ail in tho daytime, it 1 .*» ill interfere with the soundness of vour ' j sleep at night inuih less if Ui* nap be taken tn the foronnon. • 14 A short nap in the daytime may he 1 ' to some Let it not exceed ten I j minute- ; to this end sleep with the fore. ! ; resting on a chair back or edge of the J ( . 15. Never *w allow no atom of food while I , in a passion, or if uudor way great mental j , excitement, whether of a depiesaing or e|»- | | rating character; brutes win. '1 do it .-Hair, ' , Journal of 'Health. A BABY FOOUD OK A BATTLE-PI*: LD. | The following is an extract of a private , rrom a soldier in. the I4lh Illinois.! dated iiolivar, November lllth ; j " Let me relate to you a touching little ' incident that will doubtless strike you as a ' ' | litVle strange. At the battle or the Hat- j \ chie, when the conflir'. was waging fiercest, j advancing, midway between the con- ji : leading forces, we found a sweet, ' litrfe. r ' blue-eyed baby thing. As 1 saw it . there, hnggir.g the cold earth, its only bed, \ ! the little tear on its cheek, ( I An Ire-drap sparkling la the etoralag beam," I'

' f unalarmed mid tho awful contusion of that ! ! fearful battle, with tbe missiles of death j ; lying thick about it. and crowding close ' ' npon its young existence, yet. unhurt, it j ' j seemed, as it lay in its^niirarnlous safely, to I 1 , say to me, " My helplessness and innocence j J ' appealed to Hod. and he preserved me id ! r] the inids t of tbe wrecking carnage. If you ! | . I will make your pluint to Heaven, Hod mill | I preserve your poor bleeding country." | Who would suppose that in the wild j ( j fierce battle of the Halchie, where the i i j field was strewn with the dead, and the j . ■ shrieks of the wounded rent the heavens 1 with agony, a great army would pause in I tbe thickest of the conflict to save unburn- j cj a Jwlpli-.. child T Yet the brave 14th. 1 ^hat jurer yet has t.uailed in battle, did'; pause, and an officer of the regiment order- • ed "oor Kills baby "carried to bead quar- 1 Iters and tenderly care i for. | Tbe o-xi day after the battle • oar babe 1 | was brought fo»fc:«lhe I4ih, and was uoan- 3 imnusly adopted " Child of the Regiment." 1 Three or four days later, strange us it may t seem, a poor, heart-stricken, poverty-pinch- t ed mother Amt searching ibe battle field 1 in quest of her child. Imagine, if yoa can, , the wild exclamation of ibanksgiriog that t bnrst from that pour woman's heart when | informed that her child had been rescued. [ and, with a mother's tenderness, cared for. r <■■>> c AH OBJECT a W0BKIH6. "Typo," a member of the 37lb Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, writes to tbe r Portland " Press," saying f " Now tbe programme has been changed, and thongh we may still snSer by laborious' marches, we find an incentive torsaawed E action in the fact tbat we are invading the I; enemy's country, nnd tbe belief that onr present move menu may be productive of good. You have read of the anecdote of C the Ysnkearnnd the Quaker. The Yankee * was out of employment nod lacked the means of subsistence ; tbe Quaker offered 'j two dollars per day and board to pound a a log with tho back or an axo. l'bo Yen- J] attended to bit work very well for two «< days, bnl on tbe morning of the third refos ed to work longer, although be was satis. find ntlb. bti remuneration. The Qnskct

1 l,: evident »urpri'», inquired tbe reason.— » .Sir." replied the Yankee. ' I have on obi - joction to work, fcui I want to see Ik* ! ' Just so it is with us snidiers; we will 1 tieae tbe hardships of camp life uncomplainingly if we only knew that we were accom1 ptisbing something; bet we wast to know ■ that our IJotrt ull npon the inemy." WELL EPEiKlHO. I 1 A pastor was making a call upon a par- % , ! isliiom-r. an old lady, who had made it *n j habitual rule newt to speak III of another, 1 and had nb*er-«d it ro- elosely, that the ■ always justified those whom she heard rvH spoken of. Before the old Udy made her appearance in tbe parlor, liar several chil- - dren were spuakinguif tlus. pcculisrily of their mmher. and one of them playfully ' adiled : " Mother hat such w habit ef speaking well of everybody, that I believe If Sutair himself were tbe snliject of conversation, mother would find out soma virtue or good quality even ia bim."; Of course, this remark rlicited sorow smiling and merriment at the originality of the idea, in the midst of which the old lady | entered the room, and on being told whaS , had just been said, shy immediately and hi vol an tori Iv replied : " U ell, my dear children. I wish we all had.,Satiu's industry and perseverance." THE POWEB OF HABTT. I trust everything liv habit; npon which. ! is all age«. the lawgiver, as well at tbe ,: Si hoolmnsU r. has mainly placed hit relk • once— habit, which makes everything easy, ; and casts all diflicellies upon a deviation I from a wonted course. Mwke sobriety a I habit, and intemperance will bo hateful, ' make priiilenec a habit, ami reckless protli- ; gnry mil be as contrary to the child, grown i or adult. 09 the most atrocious crimes to any. Hive a child a habit of sacredly re- ' gurding troth, of carelnlly respecting thn I property of others, of scrupulously abstainI iog from all acts or improvidence which involve him in distrces, awl ire will just as ifkeiy think ol rushing into an element m | #hich he can not breathe, as ef lying, cbsator stealing. — Porton. r ' TraaiBi* nomsow — . That noble Unionist of Kentncky, Geo. . 0, Prentice, lost a sou in the rebel army a 1 days ago. After ulluding to the cliarutter of his son. be pours out the bitterness of his heart as David mourned for Abtw- ; loin. He say . ; i " Oh. if he bad fallen in his country's service. fallen with* '..is burnin^eyes fixed in j love and devotion upon that flag that for more than three-fourths of a seatury has | beeu a star oT worship to bis ancestors, bis | eaily death, though still terrible, might ' have been borne by a father's heart ; buC 1 alas, the reflection that armed rebellion ugainst that glorious old banner, now tho j emblem of the greatest and holiest causa I the world ever knew, is full of' desolation I and despair." HAKE THEM HAPPY. I A pastor in Connecticut, in a recent serj mon, gave til is cs an all-important clement ' in good government and training. lie says : "Thd great art in child-^ltnre is to keep the little ones happyTfiaving all things as pleasant sod bright Mtoot thsm or possible. , Children will bare triafr^nougb in spite of God wilt try them ;Vod you yourself frill be compelled to try them now unit then. It cannot be helped. This is life; tbe less tbe better. The worst men early, and hud tumults, and ungate and abuses when they ware little, and ought have bees just laughing the days sway. Homes of discontent, sour bon.es, elondy irritable, scolding, oodivias homes, make rebellious, and restlesy Mid unsuccessful lives." 1 Tears at a wedding are only tbe com* menccment of the pickle tbat tbe young folks are getting into. Tbe man that never says nothing to nobody, was married laat weak to tbo who never speaks ill of so one. The richest child in the world— Bettcbild. CALL AND SETTLET^ THK Subscriber U woOer Ike inal-r at CJU BHNT..Y ««! respMtAiUy aalllac ou sit persons having wnreitlwl recounts 1 wfib ktmlosaU 5s*re ^w^yaxsutsaar ***** - EDMCKOS. Cspe tslaaU, Jsa. 1 — lw ' BP* Advertize in tbs ««' fmy