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I+'IIIDA�:. JULY' ;ll., 1861. er
1IJ4 4'S WE7se'.,
At night, when the sailci has struck the
bell,
Forward he steps, and he coils ' .A.11%
Welli
Then along the dark and the silentsliip
The words are carried from lip to tip ---
"Airs well,"
l a the great rout setl,in the solemn night,
When the light of the stars is the only
light,
And the lone ship pante and throbs
her way
Oh I the heart leaps up. like a prayer t
But—but-•-«tats all so dirty, he tal
'tared, for his Quakerinstiuets revolted
at the surroundings.
Welt, if they're ever to learn to
clean tip somebody's gotta teach thew,
end it might as well be its as any
either of God's children, was the an-
swer.
The old lady carried her point, as
site always,did;,aud they were settled
in the U ountaius.
It was pathetio to heat' that old
couple address each other. Ni lies
s' Thet, the wearers did stat oti'r
but Mrs, Van did.
One day they had a meeting in that
schoolhouse, to plan fora Christmas
tree for the Sunday school, Winter
was coming on,aud gaps iii.tho clothes
of the cotnpaany was worse than ever.
Why don't you buttou your caresses
as 1 do thine y she said to an eighteen
year old girl who had lost all her pills,.
Don't you think it is nice net.to have.
them *cane open 1
Laws, yes ; yI reckon 't wouldlte.
But what's flae ase 2 And .'sides, .1
dunno how.
will show you, persisted the lady.
It wodld be a sight o' trouble, I
reckon; and it'sa heap handier just
to pick up a pin; and anyway,.' ain't
got no bgLtons,
The thought flashed across
teacher's mind of the old button
in the top of the closet, and she s
Suppose I give you some pr
shiny,red buttons. Wouldn't 'you
that
The girl's eyes -gleamed, ' Al
like Indians, in their love fur be
these people are,
Mrs, Van saw her advantage,
pursued it,
. Well,; you conte to "my room to.
row morning, and we'll pick out
buttons and I will show you ho
work the buttonholes,
,And you won't tell the otherp'?
the girl. ' •
No was the answer I wo▪ n't tell
anybody,
Punctually the next morning,bef
' rs. Van was through . cleaning
tom, Sarah Jane Finney presen
on lead ever learned "to stly father and
o mother, . their three children had:died
before they mild utter the words --
but for forty 'years .the two bad
up the fortn.•
Our babies are grownup in h
she said to rue nnoe, with tears i
eyes, and we will be Pathe.
mother when we get there.,
For two years the work had
progressing, slowly,—yes, so
that it took the eye of faith alma
see the result—hut there was pfcb
The children were = gathered
Sunaay•school, and meetings wer
in the sobool•house• -hut the dirt
continued. • It is hard to stern
torrent of a lifes•time.
The,great city churches dew
tthe valley paid. the salaries of
missionaries, but Mrs Van -=as
was universally called—had, in an
tarn parlance, the heaviest lift of
leg.. Periodicalty,came up great
,of clothing for the mountain pe
filled with all sorts: • of articles
never and second hand and valuabl
,juucts they proved 'to be. Sometini
merchant would send a stook of ou
style hate,sometimes a lot of oldef
ioned shoes, sometimes wraps
were faded and shop-worn. • Batt,
ever unpromising in appearance,
deft fingers. of the good woman to
11 to use. She would cut out h
and `put in there ; she would take
secondhand hats that' cave coy
.with' flowers and ribbons, and with
dirplus trim up two or three af.
rilsw ones. • Doubtless the court
lit'' .rs would have been anntised at
riws and knots, but the Mud Lick
teas not critical, and they were hili
th delight. She told me once t
e made three rrousseaux.out'of
our boxes.
say
"A,11's well," 4. ...
When winds are fair and the sails aro
set,
And the sea is calm, be will not forget
To step to the front, and to cheerily say
To all who travel the perilous way—
"All's well,"
But oh 1 when the stormy billows roar, -
When the great winds blow to the rock-'
bound shore,
When the sky is bleek, and no port is
near,
How sweet above ' winds and waves to
' bear, •,
"All's we11,".
On the Sea of Life it is even so ;
If the sky is blue and the soft winds
blow,
If the heart lies dreaming in blissful
love.
Tho clear soul watches around --•above;
And says : 4
Oh! dearest heart, while the sunshine
lies,
In the trembling depths. of °thy happy
eyes,
White thy pulses thrill to the witching
spell,
And thv song is soft as the murmuring
shed,
•'Al's well."
And all is well when the dream is past, .
When the love.lit eyes'shall have looked!
their last ;
When the waves .and the billows all`
wildly go
Over the heart in a storm of woe,
"All's. welt."
kept
• coven,+
n her'
r • and
been
slow ly
st to
tress.
into
e held
still
the
n in
the
she
9011•
f the.
boxes
bele, ',
both
e ad •
es a herself..
ash -
that
hGw-
the
rued
ere,
the
erect
the
the
i
her
els
led
hat
one
For the soul looks out through .the
stormy night,
And it. sees that the stroug .heart saileth
right,.
Then it steps to the front and strikes the
hell—
And t clear voice answers it, "Allis well,
"All's well."
Oh l,happy are they who. can always
hear
The 'voice in their own souls, strong and
• Aar ;
Then Joy and Sorrow may strike the
bell,
They -will step to the front and ory,"All's
well,
e for ; some kind in leer hands.
Don't you think, Jemima, said,1,1"Irs,
Van: to the first one who brought here
up to be showed how, that you could
work on it :better if it was a little
oleaner,
Everybody looked down in dismay
at their awn dirty, greasy gowns, and
then up at Mrs, Vsn's tidy brown diad
,white Relico and spotless apron, Ona
nobody spoke a, word;
I tell you what, f irle, said the lady,
suppose you begin to learn', on some
pieces. I have,and then, when you have
washed the dresses, the will go W Work
on tt�,orn. Wise. Aiirs. Van,
Christmas was upon them by
the time the buttons were all iu
their places. And then the girls
shrank from wearing the clean and
mended gowns—for that had been ae•-
oomplished too—over the dirty floors.
So agrand winter cleaning took place
in all the houses. Then father's shirts
the
button
aid:
stay,
like i were washed and the boys! clothes
;overhauled, till by spring 80 wetly de,
most
ads,
and
minds were made ou it that there was
not a button left in the box, even the
pdd ones had beenu sed:
What. was the use of having 'em all
alike, was the nhiloasophical utterances,
mor. j And to think if it hadn't been for
the you 1 isould have been complaining
hos to about that old button box yet, and it's
b
b
i
said
AI
r
een the best thing that's conte to me;
ut you're always in the right, father,
said the old lady, her face fairly beam.
ng with delight. -.-S. S. 'limes. I i
the formula of a simple vegetable remedy for. the
nese.
But this is only a primary school.
where we learn the rudiments uf that
knowledge which by-and..by,in a more
perfeot life, shall be broadened and
dsaepened,uutil we shall look back and
wonder how it was that we ever freta.
ed over things so trivial.
And so, good bred*, as ,yen travel
fttotg, keep up your couragdr - Don't.
sit dowit and repine over what cannot
be helped,. If your crops fail hope'for
better luck next year. If your raining
stock proves worthless on your hands ,
profit by experience and let speculat_ .
tag schemes alone.
• Whatever you find ta'do, do it.
Wear °the harness, and wear it con
soientiously$, Never give anything up
because you aro too old.
When a than u'etires from business
he, might as ,well speak for liis coffin.
Inertia, for a man who has led a busy
life, is death. People die',of over -eat",
ing, of over•drinkint,•, of high'.pressure.
methods of existence, but very few eff
dia of honest labour. i
The human mind needs to be CMG-,
pied with something. The hands need
something honest to do, or unworthy
deeds will employ them,
And no nobler epitaph can be 'writt-
en on any man's tonrbstane than
this--
• "He died in Z.:Farness."
CONSUM$TxoN CURED.
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"All's well." b
If the waves be rough, and the strong I w
winds biow, i
If the sea be calm, and the sunshine s
glow,
If lonely they travel Life's perilous •sea, of
f Or if sweet Love keep them company,
"All's well."
Li ME;— V.ttN'S UTTON-BOX.
• BY LEIGii YOUNG
1 When Mrs Van Ness left her Penn,,
sylvania i,cnie to go down arur,ng the
*mountains of 'Kentucky, her heart al»
l most failed her at what she , found
there. Such dirt, each disorder, such
1 sliiftlessuess, she ° thought she bad
never seen in herlife.
i
' How folks could live in such a way,
for my part, I can't tell, she said to
her husband.
It had been a. series of accidents
that lead brought thein here in the first
place. Mr Van Ness health »ad fail-
-1. ed in their home in the oil regions,aticl
1 he had taken a position as colportetir
of the Bible Society in .theta`outliswest.
Through the blue grass district of
,.Kentucky they went first, and then
an up into the nfountains_which two
iregions are as utterly dissimilar as if
the gulf which divided Lazarus from
Dives rolled between instead of beim
separated by only a few score utiles.
But she was n plucky tittle w.tniain
ltd when she sate a thing go wrong,
or first iniptt'se was to d•s what she
ould to right tt. And there. was
Envof that to do where she found
aereetf.
I teal you, father, she midi .when
'fey had been settled for a week at
' hotel at Mud Lick, 1 think the
a' means us to stay and do his
k t igbt here, '
ily„ another, said tate ,gentleman,
,, t: the idea, how you talk.
It was all grist that came to
mill, except when the College Str
(Church sent in their barrel a gr
box of buttons: An old meroban
supply It must have been, .for in
.were ail classes and conditions
Now said the lady„getting down
great box uf buttons, .and putting
an the table, you shall choose fon; your-
self. °
ha
fu
Sarah Jane's eyes glittered. S
d never in her life seen such beau
1 things.
May Iechoose any of thew ?.'
Yes. any you like, said Mrs, Van
It took nit hour to make the selec-
tion ; and even then she wavered be.
tween red glass, gilt balts,,and,pi
and yellow:ntottled agate. . But final
the red won tae day, the other trea
urea went hack un the top theta agei
and she say down to her,buttonho
malting.
It was net work of one morning, .0
her 1 even two. 'The thr°ead wottld break
ect the kinks would conte ut• t �the�
eat t, , tranche
teemed flutters were clumsy and bong
ts•l.ling. But if ever sho felt inclined t
at [give. up, the sight of .the red glass ball
of
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0,
1e • Died in Harness.
Iva was only is dead.horse in a crow
r e'd city street. Be bad died in t
buttons, buttonsround,buttotissquare, (ev
buttons large, Buttons small,buttons 1 pact
g 1of t
thick, buttons thin', glass and metal, i quit
bine, green, yellow, pink and red, silk into
and cotton, worsted and wool—a.`id all butt
shapes, sizes, acid material, sphe
Look, father, look ! she cried. What A
ever will I •do with • these buttons i fro
And they took up almost half the roomsat
harness, and he lay there as he hfallen, with the bit it. his' mouth, a
the sweat of the harden and heat
o i the day yet moist on his flanks. .
sl
o Tier fresh courage.. .T'he better
of a week it took; 'hut by the end
hat time 'the work was done, and
e creditable ,were the buttonholes
which, with trembling fingers,she
oned, the satiny, gliptening red
res.
profou.uil secret she .had kepb'it
m all the girls;but at Sunday
of sUe atade an° appearance, and
r did a Broadway belle attract
,3 attention and admiration than
li Jane in her glorified old blue
on. They could scarcely wait until
tl was ov r, before an eager, ex.
.group surrounded the proud and
ant possessor of the new erne-
s, questioning, a tultaiming'and
lint., •
'ere in the world did yon get'em,1
r Jane ? , was the query from all !
e giv 'cm to me, was the reply, !
he's got pleuty ntore, 110ibtinu to
Vian,
ntuftuousty the crowd ruslt,ed oil;
little lady, who more than de.'
d with the success• of her' rxperi5,
turfs aleneet ready to cry itt the
itlt wl'ioh tvasaecomplished one'
A hundred people` paused' to book
him, and passed on!It was a cniutno
sight; such things happen every d'a
yet what a lesson that sir ple phras
which so many uttered over the .dea
body of the poor beast conveys—die
in harness 1 •
hie died at his, post—died doing It
duty—died in striving, with all th
!humble ability God bad given him; t
I answer ,the end for which he was
created.• •r
Anil looking around among the peos
ple with whom we are brought in 'can-
': trot how .rmrty do we see Who 'are
doing their beat, as this' dead horse
I did, to stand fust to the performance.
of the duty -for whieli. `they were 'des
sigue.d from the beginning!.
1tow many of us falter on the way 1
How .many fret tatid eliefe trader their
burden i How many cast off` the hal•
ifess,.and simply wear, themselves out
in trying tc'eat their bread by some
otlttn' method than the sweat of their'
brow 1
Alt honour to .the man or %ernon
who courageously Meets destitiy,what
aver it tray be, tend conquers it t All
the way along one Itfe`s pathway llo
tiptop -webs and dice falrageinents and
If your daiyr has not paid during the•
past season, do not give it up in des,
pair, but sit down and study out the
recon why. Then make afresh start. ”
.if dairymen would devote the seine
energy to keeping the ao.called animal
e ; odors out of milk that they do in try.
n'
inn to remove .them afterwards they
a
be ` would be money ahead. '
of ? Since normal milk contains about
;87 per cent. of water, no dairyman
need trouble to supplement the effect
t of the cow in that direction, . She has
d` I put it quite ariiicient.
he In a test at the Guelph Agricultural
ad , College, by Prof. Robertson, it was
nd she
cat a herd of cows gave 14 '
ofiper ceut,less milk ori an average with-
( out salting than Wit}& salt, ' '
at I Three essentials required by, tlse
n, herd of the cheese factory patror:s :=--
y, •i (1) Aliunuant pasturage and snppl'e-.
e mental foddt'rs for• draughts : (2)
di; abundant pure water; (8)salt every
d!da.-
In pliain English,aniinal odor means
is !.stable filth, or impurity of some sort,
tel The term is a misnomer, Better drop
0 it. t*ive a healthy now purfi food:
pure water ;wand pure air to breathe,
how much of that viie piing! odors *ill
the now put in her milk.
We have .no faith in the plans fol
improving bad batter and had cheese
after they are made. Blake both right
on the start. • Keep the imperfections
out. Under 'favoring conditions, the
germs of taint multiply with frightful
rapidity,' Badness in, dairy products
may be doetotHd up for a time, bat it
will soon break out in a worse fortu
to the permanent injury of the pre.
ducer and ail,coneerut;d. ' '
The count of money and bullion in
the 'vaults of the treasury at 'GVashing-
tori consequent on the transfer of the •
aloe of treasurer flow Mr Hudson to
Nebeker, began Aptit g7, arid has - in.
volved the actual handling and count.
ing, ptece by piece,clf 8614,511,B82;82,
rs. gold
1 nice as iter' 'i. e expected
xpe it.d'rt would be. We coin,
atdolll$1.89,00,2,600 h silver' ° cbltt.
t p n tits world as
'u the barrel. . And there were so neve
many things I was hoping to get.. al UV
Well, well, iuother; maybe you'll tiara
find a use for 'theta .yet There's .cott
never a thing 'that you do;i"t tarn to . gehci,
good, And, after all, the Lord. sent cited
'theta. Ili 'put them away on the top exult
shelf of the chimney closet and they'll . men
be sure to come in handy some time,
fi lige
That'§ you, father! You always look .SVI
on the best side of things, and teach r
ane a lesson. Maybe I will End a use camel
fcr them, sides.
It was a pleasant 'lotion with the c a
little. wotpan that father 'always made and s
things come right; whereas in tenth it 11T.
was she herself who wits the ?eading Tat
spirit of the firm. Without her he to the
de
mild do little. Batt such is the bless, meats
ed nature of Rome women, and we love meat,
then' for it, pass w
Bu
Mon,
Th
t that buttoat•box did have a ribs
e untidiness og the.wontwn was
one of the espectat points ttntt vexed
Mrs. V'iui's righteous soul. They
pinned their dt'esseta together with pins
miles, whichever, its they said,.
the handiest. And the na.ural
was that they were always drop.
tat, and the gowns gaping open.
"8,, stir , eind, tat;ttdtug her bead or n
came
l;l didn 't say anything till I had' result
hi; it all at, 't, but it seems clear ping o
of the greatest deeh•ea of liar heart. • vexations, uottfitt is eye
And next day was organized the
sewing class of .%iud Lick; for the
girls were all in fr'antic haste to learns
to inalte button holes• --for that was
theessentiaal step to getting the buttons.
in vain they begged to be allowed
just to cut round holes, but
Mrs, V'an was inexoraable; so hi they
carne trooping, etaclt With a dress of
0
f which amount 2G
WP intetsded to when the Were youn.% j' ' ' La Grippe"
Ni'rte of us 1
1 b.
pet ttlps,w1 1 Iiv,
t itr the;
memory of mankind half a century
after the grave pais covered us. We
shallbe tried and tempted, and our
best Taici pians will fain, and our roosti
cherished hopes iviII die in the dark,.
"La Grippe" or Influenza eau be ciutekty
cured by the nese of Wilsntt'p (;orupouurl of
Wald ('berry, the old reliable von ndy for
>ironclt, Whooping Cough, {:roulr,Colds,
Couglis and other diseases of respiratory
in use f Wilson's Wild Cherry has bee"
in use for hinny yearn and ishighly rations.
menaled by aft*who know itss virtues, Bold
by all prominent druggists.
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