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vor,. 1 X . cape island. cape may county, new jersey, thursday, november 19, 1863. no. -23

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ij „ srtrtt f ortrj. j A LITTLE HALF- WORN SnOE. ; | j BT MM. M. L. V. TOVLE. i W ha mt( It is »U nhtlMA Hula half-worn shoe ? Or mirw torn garmeut, Joet replaced By somethlog bright and new? That if a are ret, taered place, Baptianil by teara and tight, Whare iltUt half-worn clolhrt art kept Prom cold, unfeeling cyet. Thay bare no meaning, tare lo her W hot* darlings bat bare ttrayad Far from I he taered Told of lore. Where lata In joy they played. ! The Impreo of a little foot — | How can |t be to dear? How can a little half- worn tboe Call forth a tig b or tear ? | 'Ti« mora than dear— -'tin eloquent Of graca and beauty lied ; ! It wakes tbn round of little feat — Sweet found, fore rer tped. It wbitpert to the mother't ear A lata or foudeel lore ; 1 1 tolls her that lb# little fact New tread the fields abort. OR hat the bathed it with hwr tear*, Oft kitted il o'er and o'ar ; If it were filled with cottly items She could not -lore it more. f rlrrt ^iifrllang AN I- N WHIPPED SCHOOL- HOT . ID-formation it the order of tka day ; ! the manifold modern impreveI menu, Mr. Strap, the aboolmaater, bad j j "I instruct," aaid Mr, Strap, "oo ad entirely nuw ayatem." "Ye* do T- aaid Mre. Goeliag. "I da," awid Strap, oracularly. "Now, da irH I" aaid Mrs. Gosling. ]' "Madam." aaid Mr. 8trap, "the wortd j j six tboossod yearn #H." "Law," aaid Mm. Ooallug. adsair- | Ing'ji "And it baa been all that time wrong ' on IL AabJ' clof tha education of yoatb." Mrt Gosling opened ber cyea and aura. She . knew Mi. Swap waa one of the wisest of men. TTe aaw the liked to bear him talk, and be wen'on. "Madam, children should nerer be whipped," I "No ?" aaid Mrt. Gouliag, interroga- 1 j t i rely, and with a guilty look. She bad | flegclluied ber Utile aon, Jim, e^ery day of kit life, once, at leant, on an ateraga. Thl< aeema prvily bard ; but I aolamaly beUeve the calculation to bfc within tha I r^tb- Mrs. GoaHng generally made these Infliction! with her own hand. She looked, therefore, rather eon founded at thb opinion of Mr. Strap, who waa oracle, and who, somehow or dUer, the bad imagined, by hie name, bad her r tew of the entgcct. "ChWdree," aaid Mr. Strep, "should nerer he whipped." "No r etkrd Mrs. Goelteg . "Neeer," eoW Mr. Btrap. "flow would yon govern them, then f" ashed Mrs. G., with simplicity. "Klndnet*. madam," said Mr. Strep"But when kiedoeaa won't answer 1" "Ration, modrti,' rejoined Mr Strap, tvaaaoa, ibuuoui, rqoinnr orrop,

with a magiatariai wave of the bead. "Reason may do well enough for some," aaid" Mrs Gosling, shaking ber head doobtfWHy. "It win do for sU, If properly applied. We are created with mason. We em not brat**. We are — we aro— that is," "Certainly," eald Mm. Gosling. "I ehall hemoftov eondoet my school on an entirely now lyetem," said Mr. Swap. "I ehao*t have e rod In it. 1 shall make my boys love mo— respect mf Mad intention* — bow to my reason, and obey me for their ovn good." "What do yea thorge a year P asked T"tot'W««SSM«4 bej to bring a ail»*r spoon, tew bmm of: clothes, and two poire of nboota," sold 8tmp. "I'm beoo o thinking," aaid Mrt. iGoMiwg, "w bother my too Jlns wne not ioW oaough to be put nnder ygg cam." ■'0£M> mii Mr. T» [ ukeliltP^b'pMeeore."

I "I must tell yon frankly," eaid Mrs. I G„ Mth»t I here bed trouble with him." " j "IH take him, madam," aaid Strap. * "He's rery wild," aaid Mre G. I "Xo matter, madam, ^ "gvitoratod Mr. Strap, with a smile of eelf-eoufidence. i "IH lake him." "tie's a boy of good parte," said Mra G., "but he's beyond my management " "I think 1 noderstaud bis case, Dadam," said Strap, smiling again. * "And yon never flog ?" "Ndvor, madam. .When shall he come." "When yon pleas*." "8end him to-morrow." "I will," said Mrs. Gosling. "And come yon nod :ee him this day four weeks " The next day Master James Gosling, ! with two suits of elothoe, a silver spoon, and two pairs of sheets, arrived at Mr Strap's boarding-school In the country, not far from the town where he had ! hitherto resided. Tie was a little boy, with short, sandy hair standing straight oat like a shoe brash ; a forehead half an inch high; a little peg nose; aa j enormous month ; no eyebrows, end a : pair of email eyee, which lookrd groan | in tha morning end red at night. Jim [ wee a ead fellow, and ooc would think, ! from the Dumber of whippings he had , received, must have led a sad life of It. j ' : It appeared, however, that he bed sc ; | eoomodeted himself to h!e situation, . - ami that lie lived amid bit mnlUfariont > I flagellations almost unhurt, like a stla- j rounder in the fire. He had beea lite- 1 i rally whipped through life, end bad be- ; come herdeoed,to it, aonl and body, ae a camel's knees are to the tend. And j though be aereamed end kicked from : mere habit, you might see him two ' I I minutes after one of these skin-flaying ' i operations, with a, emtio of unclouded ■ i comfort on his face, or careless mirth, i I eating a piece of brehd and better, or ; pi.. yieg marbtee or mamble-the-peg with ' | the first scaramouch he Del. Such waa I ; the led sent \>y the overwearied mother r* to Mr. Strap, not more, if the troth I moat be Sold, to get rid of • heavy treble tbea from corioeity to tee whet Jim i ' would do in a school where they "nvver i whipped." On arriving at the school Jim was let I looee amnng the root of the boy* to play. I t He got la to n game of marblea, but bis i . antagonist soon perceived that he eheet- f ' ed, and turned bio out. By-and-by ha , > was taken into a game of ball; bat, ta • five atieeUa, a round atone instead of: - the hall waa floor with neh violenco at : I one of the email boys as to knock him j > down, and inflict upon him a seven . contusion. Jim protested i( was a mis- , . r Sake. Mr. 8tnp reasoned with him. He. begged pardon end was forgiven. I The next moialng the rope of the swing broke, while a boy who was : swinging fell, to the Imminent danger J of bis life. It wm found that It had I ' been eat two-thirds through. In t|>« j afternoon the pair of globes were , ' scratched to pleas* with a nail or a j knife. And when the usher went to , ring the bell for bod, that eeosseery

inetrumaMt waa no longer to be fooad. A chain of MiwometantUI evidence fixed tbeae thiafc. on James Gosling. Mr. Strap took the boy into his private room. "Jetee*.'' "81r." "Did yon scratch tha globa f" "No, air." "Do you glea me your word of hoaor ?" "Yea, air. "Do yon kwow what aa oath ia ?" t "Yee, air." "Sboaid yon be wiUiag to swear J" ! I "Yee, air." ! Mr. Strap than arid ; "My so*, to be ' candid, I do -iot believe you. I know 'j yaa fio ba tka andor of theae deilnquseoiee-" Jamas looked op into tha mild fan of ala instructor with astonishment "If you will eonfres the troth 1 • will forgfve you. Are foa not goiity f" ' ^tos.Mr." "IthooMtlso. Now you have i»sglaed you rat :f here, doubtless, among I anemivs. I wish te show yen that you areeotso. Wn are eH . yoar friends

If yon do wrong yon do so against those ' who love yon. I* that right f" "No, sir. "Well, theo, I am williog to believe ! yon have done these things from bad habit* — from want of reflection —from ignorance of the character cf the inalroctora I pardon you. Go down among yoor companions. Be a better boy for the fotura. I shall never have gpeee lo complain of yon again, shall I ?" "No, air." "Go then my dear child. Remember j that the wey to be happy is to bo virtuous." "Yes, sir " "That if yon intend to be respected j iu society you must begin as a boy the j honorable conduct which jog mean to i j practise ea a roan. 1 could have | punished yon for the faults you have j committed bed I so pleased ; but punish- 1 ment makes the muster and scholar: ! enemies. I wish you for my frieod. j j Here is a piece of plum-cake fur yon Oo out, my dear boy Do not forget j that you bar* done wrong, and that you j have been forgiven. Do yoo hear me ?" j "Yes, sir," said Jim with his mouth crammed full of cake. "Go, then ; remember I love yon, and i trust to your generosity that you will ! not hereafter infringe env of the roles, j Good morning, my dear aon." | "Good morning," eaid Jim, putting in hit month the last bR of cake. . Two deys after this occurrence, one [ of the ushers found e pin very ingei oiously placed iu hie chair, to the great j derangement of his own ideas and the 1 undisgnisabl* merriment of all tb* school ! | when the discovery was proclaimed, j The nsxt day the cat was killed, a crea- ! tare which bad been much hi-loved, and I was universally lamented ; and in tht j ' evening on* ol the little boya was j ! frightened actually into fits by a glioat , fourteen feet high, with the head of a | pumpkin, and eyes as large as teacups | The culprit was detected in James j Gosling, and be was confined to bread aod water diet for tbrtc day*, which did Wt prevent several of the boys' stock- j jugs being filled, before they rose in the j morning, with prickly peers; end the! ■sher, who slept in the room with the | l*d«, on waking in the night fonnd bis | toes tied together by a long suing com- : i < monicating with the toes of six boys, j i who were also tbna tied, the whole j . being linked together. Mr. Strop look- 1 ed grave at this, end James Gosling ■ might thank hi* stars that be was the | t inmate of an eatabliahmtat whore thoy , "never whipped." He bad to wear a j j fooi*i cap, two feet high, with a pair of j j jackast'e ears attached to the top ; | ; but one of the liule boys near him being ; enable to repress his laughter, Jeme* ; gave him a blow on the eye, which | 1 1 blinded him for n month. That very j > j evening Mr. Strap's foot eangbt in a : string laid across the top of the stairs in such a way as nearly to break his neck, i lie took Jesses again into tbo closet, , { and talked to him an hour. The ergoi mrnts which he used would be quite too ' long for the limits of this article. So-

. crates could not have spoken more I I wisely. At the end be gave him an- t , othvr picoe of cake, aad sent him into t i the echooUjooBLwith^ e kiudnc-s more c then paternal. James was tbie time ■ malted. He wiped his eyes aad blew c hie nose, end Mr. Strep went on with e his argnmeot, till at length the worthy ; disciple of the new system frit assured t f of its success. t Vile is mine 1" eaid be to himself, ■ ( with rather a benevolent smile. "He 1 feels bis error. He .will do wrong no , ] more. How esucW>«tUr tbas to over- ■ j com* errors than with the bratiah esc of ( this I" and be regarded a email bamboo t 8 caaa which be nasally carried oat with , r. Mm la his walks. j The month bad expired, end this was I i the day appointed for the visit of Mrs. - Gosling. . In the after* eon Mr. Btrap I weal ieu> his library, where he bed seel | " Jeaea on some errand. The boy not ! returning, bo followed htm. He bed , • bees detained by a curious attraction. I A beautiful lit lis canary bird, accea- , a toned to fill the bona* with tannic, had , i been hanging in its cagsiagairat the i

i i wall; the repentant boy had taken it I down and plucked off a^ its feathers, | and was amusing himself by regarding contortions and distrevs with a grin ' of delight. Mr. Strap forgot his system, ; but obeying -tho honest sod doubtless correct impulses of bis sou', seired the i young reprobate by the collar, aud, - having accidentally in his hand his bam- > boo caoc, gave him what people in the i ' cvery-day world woald term a regular trouncing Mrs. Gosling entered while ' • | he vras in the act - The ntked cerery 1 • ' bird revealed the story. ] '"I ought to apologise," said Mr. \ Strap, taking breath. 1 "For lieklng my Jim ?" asked "Mrs. i G , surprised. i "No, madam, but for having ever • j beea such a fool a* to sappose myself 1 1 wiser than Solomon. I shall renounce | new systems, and hereafter take the I - ! world at it is !" And poor Jim, after I his brjof reprieve, received- his daily portion aa rrguiarly as ever . \P.l.\ E8E*iot8e8. > — ' Yokohama ia a considerable town of i i j eighty thousand inhabitants. Tb" Ja- ! panes* houses ere rarely more ihtu one 1 1 story, snd most consist of two rooms, a | front and a back. Built of bamboo and mud, and rarely of stone, tbey are always painted nicely outside, or vuroish- , • ed. aod generally kept very clean. AE ornamentation is eschewed except on | ! the roof, which iwireneraily edged with chequered tiles. Whenever it can be I , | afforded, a small garden, with dwarfed ; i tr«-es, it sure to be in good condition ; I and almost in every ruora you see vases I with flowers or dwarfed trvcj growing . in them. | j The floors are carpeted with a very even kind of malting, laid ia strips a I yard wide, the edges bound in black, to 1 J as to make en agreeabit- "parqueterie,"] I and it is always kept very clean, even : | by the poorest clas-ies. They take of? i : their shoes before entering a house, j I j leaving them outside the entrance, and I I I look as jealous at your boot* when you | enter ea any English Indj could, proud I i j of Y new drawing-room carpel. They i . j never sit on chairs or stouis, but squat [ ■ j down on the floor with their feet under- i i nesth, to thai tbey appear to sit on I - 1 their heel*. Aud as you pass through , | the street, thus you sdFtfaeio around a ! | kind of rquara trough io the front room, ■ I in which there it always charcoal bnrn- ; ; ing. They art cither working, eating, : | or smoking a very fragrant tobaceo out t j of a smail-bowled pipe, enjoying it k immensely, and puffing it out alowly f j through the nostril*. Women— ev»n ; girls — smoke ta much as the men, aod ; ! with eqoal pleasure ; or they are natteri i ing with greet •aroestnese aod volobilitv > | in a language much softer and more ! r j liquid, lees iwaegliug and more har- 1 s monioos, than the Chinese ; or tbey ere i singing, accompanying themselves on en . instrument like the banjo, which tbey j . play with great dexterity. Tbey enjoy j - tboir own music immensely, and turn op I a their eyes, and beat time aud look wisely : - critical, all in the most approved style

I canoot tee mncb, or ratber hear much beauty in their music, though some of their aire are plaintive; but, on the other hand, tbey can ate none in onrs, and eay it is too load, and fit only for deaf people ; or they are washing themselves without any reservation, and up parently quite nnconicioui of any harm therein. Indeed, in the baths, which they frequent very often, the women era alwejs washed ell over by men, smiling the most innocent manner. Tbis almost tout disregard of modesty, ea we should say, ia oee of the most curious features fn Japan, and does not appear lead to any lieentiooeeess. Or they era hoay at thair toilette, which is aeon aecomplUhrd, all bat tbe bmir, on which i ■t' ■ »" f' — The gift that dlslinguisfce* man from the other animal* is the vary one be most abate* — speech. Probably at tbe next ' Ba bet- bending, his speech, ioiteed of being [ oenfouuded, will be taken away allegvthrr — There are ealumnwi that kill women. ' do only e alight iojary to men. aa carI raplde* kill with pokes io tha warm • mouth* end only would to tha cold oats.

nimciL There is scarcely ^n iudridanl, who, at some period of hie life, bee not ber m overshadowed by miefortuaea, and so devoted to sorrow as to with that ha or •he had never existed. Whilst ere eonaider such e thought impfoua, we are convinced that it require* more moral courage to face the misfortunes of lift, j sad struggle ageinel the coeundiitfi : e*lli of poverty and iafirinitj of body, | than to confront death at the eaunon'a I mouth or opon tho watery element, j Fortitude and patience under long anf- : fering are the cliaracterietira of great and good minds. f -When every hope of earthly bfi»« i» gone. The coward rneakt to death — the brave live on !" We have many examples ia history i where men of mighty intellect hate undergone every kind of punishment, i and all manoer of degradation, rather then commit suicide. Wheress, oo the ' other hand, those whose lives are market) ; by cowardice and gnllt almost invariably . J grow desperate on detection, and havten to the presence of an avenging God . , with every crime nprapented of. | He that beire sorrow and calamity ' with fortitude generally triumphs in the end ; and. in most casca, the greater the d ffieulties that ere borne, ihe more successful snd victorious will be their ultimatum. the olb-FiSHIOXr.b mother. Old-fashiooed mothers have nearly all poised away with the bine check and homespun woolen of a ritnpler bnt purer time. . flare and there are retnaios. trnly aecom- ! | linked In baart and Kfa, for tha rphere of i home. Old fathiooed mothers— Ovd Ma's ibem ! i —who followed na with heart and prayer i over the world— lived in our lives and rer- . , : rowed in onr grief; who knew more rbnot patching than poetry ; spoke to dialect hat . ' love; never preached nor wondered ; "made ! melody with tbrir heart*." and rent forth j no books bnt livleg volume*, that honored 1 their authors and blessed the world. The old homnsteed ! We wi-h w» could , paint il for yoo at it is— no. we dare ut>t | »ay as it it— at il was; that w» should g<> I together from room lo room, »it by tho health ronnd which tbe cirela of light and love once swept, and there linger till all 1 ' those simpler, porer timet returned, and *» 1 iboold grew yoong again. ' And bow can we leave that spot without , remembering one form that occupied, in • deys gone by. "the old arm-chair," that oW faihionad mother — one in all tUe3*erid the t taw of whose life wat love ^ one ehq wa* . tbe divieity of onr infancy, aad tbe ascrad preaenca iu the shrine of our Bret certbly idolatry ; one wbote heart is fur below the I Lost that gather* so thickly on her brow , ' on* ta whom wo never grow oM. but in the ' 'plumed troop" or the gravo eoooeil are ' ' children Mill ; oae who weloomed us com- • i log, blessed us going, aod never forget* na . I — never 1 e ** g ' And wbeo in aomn ctoeet, some drawer, j | tome corner, she finds a garment or a toy I that once waa you re, how does she weep, ss ' | she thioks you may be suffering or std. t And when Spring "Leevrs her robr* on the treee," ' : doe* afae not remember your tree, and wish you were there to see its gidry ? II '"01 1 w *-

FIT FOR A LAWYER. An old lady walked into a lawyer's office with her boy of seven summers old. • ' Squire, I called to tee if you woald talc* tbli boy, and endeavor to make a lawyer of him." ' Decidedly loo young, madam. Have you no older boye ?" "Oh. yus, sir; but ae mean lo make farmare of tbem. My busbaed aod 1 thought, bosrever, that fib it on* would make a Bret rata lawyer, and so I brought Mm to you." "Much too youag, madam, to comaesm* the study of a profession. But why do you r oppose this boy belter calculated to awka a lawyer than yoar oWar aou* ? What ,arw , hi* peculiar qualification* ? "Oh, well, y oa see, sir, he i* jest seven year* old to-day; when he wee only five be was saucy and in-pudest >■ usy critter could be ; and sow be will steal everything • he con ley hi* baadtoe. Now. if be aiM ^ fit for a lawyer, I would like to know wh*«V . be wKI have to ieoru." •Pretty wall educated. I should think. Too :g, however. Good moretng, mo- [ dam." ^ ^ Wise** ia the best labor-raTtog mecbiee ever iavteled. %