Delaware Gazette, 1858-08-20

; :j thb maoio of wobd s "K.v .-rssTiT-.,- Axxanx: s ' ; Wter Crandail ! was not an ill-natured, captious, or faalt-fiodiag man, and yet the home of Peter Crandail was not a ' happy home. Very little sunshine streamed in a a-cross - cross a-cross the threshold. Was It bis wife's falt A visitor who saw her in her usual mood, might, if hie conclusions wera made from first impressions, lean to this opinion. ' She inclined to fretful! ness and impatience; and often Scolded the chilhren when ber bus- band could see little in them to blame, . The Crandail were poor.- Mr. C randali was a mechaaic, and earned oo4y mecba mecba-ie's - ie's mecba-ie's wsges. ' Mrs. C rami a it was the row her of five cbildrea, the oldest of them tfairteea years old; but their narrow income left nolb nolb-to - to nolb-to spare for the hire of a domestic, and eo all Us work fell opoa ber. ' She was toil toil-worn - worn toil-worn and toH-wear at the dying of each day; and the same, although not to aa e e-miel - miel e-miel ted,' might be ssid of ber husband. tfs bad more strength for bis workV atTd1,' therefore, could enUure greater fatigue. He bad tfib advaatagei too,' Whtcb- Wa m most important one of freedom' f roM causes" -of aerVous efcitement. aad tb ibevitab! ex ex-haostioa - haostioa ex-haostioa tbat followed. H laboi'eir on' at one kind of work, urr5itrrdpted,v all ds long;' while sb waa subject to; perpetual and annoying- ftttferrtptlony HcfrUeBf to' ber lositibd df -motbd still Hwiiu&eperV r Between' Peter Crandail and bis wife there did not seem" te exist much affection. They nevW sjtolfe roving words, nor "maai fested, except' oh rare occasion, ariy pteal-" tire at meeting-, or ay rriUluat interest.- The little court e"s&a of life were something Unknown ia their cheerless dWellirigv Rude boisterous, quarrelsome, the chilttreii grew tip,' bringing discord into the boas that was": uncomfortable enough without that disagree disagreeable - able disagreeable inmate. The atotber scolded and pun punished - ished punished irj' anger; but saw' do good Vee-Jlt of her Jiscipliuei ' The father sometimes' scol scolded - ded scolded in concert; but slways felt aa tlhpleae tlhpleae-aatseBsation - aatseBsation tlhpleae-aatseBsation afterward, aif .it he had beed doing something wtongm.: ? i . , K ,; : -And so the years went eh, and the siin siin-He&ma - He&ma siin-He&ma came not across the threshold into tieir dwelling, j Occasionally Mr. Crandail ebtaiUid a brie I glance into some : other homes? eiia'as dife rJiiiasattt Vision passed', a sigh would- dlsnirb bis. boiom. Juigbt aad warmtk were xVbs'i.' --: - ... . .. j . : -Something waswrong iJ'hii"ori hbme;-' that he bad felt for a great while and , be did not wholly blame his wile But the ex exact - act exact location- of the wrung be : coiild never clearly perceive. In the beginning. W. W different." Then there waa warmth in- the heanf and sMMhiae ia the lace of his wife. wife.-But - But wife.-But itj was - ta his -meiao-r. mirtiag day , after d ay . a . a dial records - the; advan advancing - cing advancing shadow, how the brightness of her face,, diminished' steadily; until all. was eclipsed. AV . If be bail dreamed ot the cause 1 But MV. Crandhlt a" dot a'Utttu who looked in -Wad tlpon his". own iilTe-?-pv a., maar - who considered his action m their effects upon others. - He was, moreover, a silent, vlndera vlndera-obstrative - obstrative vlndera-obstrative roan, rarely expressing oi ffeel ffeel-lhya. - lhya. ffeel-lhya. He gave few odtw'aAi signs by w'Uich' any Ohb eodld see Ws' heart. If ere lay the ori origin - gin origin ef thtf tfoittil at hbr0b--4he beginning of the .eclipse that left his little world in. al almost - most almost total darknbfV.s wliba it should have been broad noonday, ft was sot enough for Mrs. Crandail in the earlier; year-", pi their wedded life, to know that her husband' loved her. Her heart aaked for more. - She wanted loving looks and loving words also; snd for lack of these, ita green things with withered, - ered, withered, and its blossoms faded. Having told her in the beginning that be loved her; hav hav-iog - iog hav-iog afterward' married her in proof of his declaration; and having ever since worked daily for the sustaining of bis home, , and and keeping her as far above want aa it was possible for him to do, Mr. Crandail saw no reason why he should be all the time pass ing compliments. He couldnt do it. -" It wasn't in him. - He would have felt asham ashamed - ed ashamed of it as a weakness " - -; : i And so almost from the beginning, lie fail failed - ed failed to give those lilt layout ward aigos of af af-fectioj - fectioj af-fectioj tboea pleasant tokens of kindness sa gratefwl to all. When bis wife said, du du-tke - tke du-tke drst year that that succeeded their mar-; nage,HTbank yoe Peter," and smiled grate gratefully - fully gratefully to reiuro for some little act oi . kind kindness - ness kindness or expressed pleasure wnea be came home from bis work at evenutg, drawing ber arm around his neck and hissing bint or told bow-lonesome abe felt all day, and what a light his coming brought into . their little home Peter Crandail felt a olow el pleasure in his hearC . But it did not come within range of his imagination dU at best to conceive that like . words from him would be to spirit of his wife like the dew to the thirsty ground- - And aa be oevep . expressed pleasqre at meeting: but rather affected, from a kind of false pride, a certain coldness, aa though it were lack of maalifle&s ta act differently. Mo matter how many - tittle attentions bis wife might show him no matter what she prepared foe bis. return, nor with what dain dainty - ty dainty skill ah cooked the evening and noon noonday - day noonday meals, he never praise; and; rvely gave even the meagre reward of expressed -gratification. But if things went wrong if the coffee was bad or the oread sour, to speak out; and not lway in over choice words. . . - - - . ' . As Mrs. Crandail began to fail in outward signs uf of affection, Peter perceived their withdrawal as the gradual tailing of sunshine wbeu-clouds gather over the sky in filmy elv riven deepen into obscuring curtains. But the cause was to hiui a mystery.- He fell as. uf old to his wife; and worked for her as cheerfully as in the becinfrinjr. . The ) feeUsa was as strong as ever; and. - .l afler w ithdrawinz from the outer world, i when the night shallows fell, be had not (lie beginning ot a desire to go abrooad from ki kwnble sanctuary, shorn as It waa of a chief attractionthe smiles tat loving tones andfwoadeof bis, changing wife. . - from tbia Inauspicious beginning went ea, ateadily the unhappy change. The com coming - ing coming ef cbildrea, which, on- their advent, waa like the falling down upon them of sun sunbeams - beams sunbeams through suddenly rifted clouds, rath er increased instead of diminishing the wo pleasant aspect of things in the bouse of Pe Peter - ter Peter Crandail. If the mother's heart bad been cheerful and strong If her husband had not shut out the light It aeedad to keep lit green thing unwithered and Ha fiowera- in bloom this would dot have been so- The cheer cheerful - ful cheerful spirit would bate given Uf to the body would batre Slled every nam with vitalforcw vitalforcw-and - and vitalforcw-and every muscle with stMngfqr daily toij. But, the children provsd, mope a burden than a comfort, ;Tbe-q,,Mis,,jn .their home, so liftfte sun.ghiiie-,.tht. few. gte,en, things flour- liahed tB.tiiir;heBrt aud ile opening of . Bower was a rare occurrence. But thorns lo wound and weeds to oflend were there, ad hourly jhey seerced lo gala , a., ranker growth,. j. ouse .or IiJterTJran- xa.ll will pe cle rto finery en flaw There. thousar.is'1o? iuch'1Viomes,',aU ue, uround-'us

ed before the cable was finally adooted. The conducting wire Is a strand made up of seven wire of the purest copper, of the gauge known tb the trade as No." 2i. The strand itself is about the sixteeutb of an inch in diameter.and is torined of one' straij; fit fitly - ly fitly drawn wire, with six others twisted rouud it. The strand when subjected to a strain will stretch twenty per cent,' of its Ien?tb without gtviug away, and is coated with gutta percba and tarred lo preserve if. ' ' The first attempt t lay the Oi eaa Cable was made- ia August, 1357.' Twelve hun hundred - dred hundred and fifty miles were Coiled in the Aga Agamemnon, - memnon, Agamemnon, and the other half in liis Niagara, the weight being about twelve hundred tone tone-to - to tone-to each vessel..' August Stb the cud of tfce cable was landed at Valencia;7 and made fast with pomp and ceremony. cThe -telegraph fleet bore away for the Western World, but on the 1Kb alter the NUrara had successful successfully - ly successfully paid out.. 335 pauoctal miles, the - cable broker. It gave way under the pressure ap applied, - plied, applied, soHu . distance from tha ship's nerB, and sunk to the bottom at a depth ol 4,000 fathoms. The disappointment waa aniversat but f aUh- in final success wis not much sha shaken. - ken. shaken. :--i,-. . ... .v.,- irfr ..;:.; The ritrec'tors of rb Atlantic Tebgrpb. Company atones commenced operations tor a Se.ujBd Expedltibb. . Plans were discussed aud it wWdec'iiied' td'splice the esbte to. mid ocean, to provide a geater length, liii'iinpTove the paying out machinery, and tjeoiriMente laying it earlier in th season.' Seven hun hundred - dred hundred miles' ef new cable wer'd drovicieifaii'd on the VSih of May, 1858, thS len'i-nh'of the cable eii' the Agamemnon w'asf'I-', 404' miles, and on the Niagara 1,510 miking a total of 3.004, miles.- The JOih' of ' JfeH tHi'e eqiiadrori'iailed from Plymouth for the rendez rendezvous - vous rendezvous in raid-ocean. Storms and bad Weath Weather - er Weather delayed operations so much that the first splice wss not made until the 25th of June. Only two miles aad forty fathoms bad been run out, when the cable was thrown -off the wheel id the attempt to shift the Niagara's portion from one groove lo another ,-and com coming - ing coming iu contact W'rth-" thfe ., tar scraper it was severed,' The fame day a new splice was' diairWs --When forty-two-miles anil' three MHidred fathoms bad been paid out from the Niagara, and about the same from the Aga Agamemnon, - memnon, Agamemnon, the electrician reported that the continuity bad'e'essed, A third: splicejwas Blade the evening of Jane Stith, aad at 6 y' y'-clock - clock y'-clock tha aiglit of the 29tb, communication again ceased, nd at 1 J P.. M. the Niagara ceased paying out. , The aggregate ot sbie lost in'the expedition was about 300 miles. Both ships returned to QTueenstoway the Ni-. agara arriving J uly' 5th, the Aga mein'noa',. a week later,.. ,1 .'-i is' The Directors of the Company in England held a special meeting and resolved temak-s another attempt,- Tho expedrtiob again e ail ailed - ed ailed from Q,ueestown, i'uly 19th, and at noun, August 5ib, the country was startled with the unexpected Mtoiligence that tli .Sub marine Cable bad been succeesiuHy laid. ' Such U a succinct history of the Llind . add Atlantic Telegraphs condensed from a Ion? anil minote account in the New York Tim'esH ol Saturday.- The despatch at the head of this article, shows that the Old and New Worlds are now within'1 the reach of instant communication', anil we append from thb Times an interesting- arid '.Hsinictive state-" mem of how the O'oean' telegraph Will be worked :' ... - -,,,. - .. .t ; tbe SAircaV to'bs vsko ih t'elEgrafhiso. The primary source of thb influence which will be charged wilh-'the service of Atlantic Telegraphing-, will be a great voitaoic bat battery, - tery, battery, of ten capacious cells, which may be appropriately termed, the ' Whiiehousa Li- minated or Perpetual Maintenance Battery," on account ot the ene uiirk'ed pesutiar'uy which especially fits it for the employment1 it is' designed' for'. TbUbatltery is made up upon - on upon the Siriee principle, so far as the adoftfion' of platinized silver and zinc for its plates, is concerned; but it differs from every form of couibi nation that has hitherto. been' in' use,1 ,. h,rtnff lh, pi of eei'cell so scbdi'td: -; Aki.j.ui.i. BHia. th-a ... .m l .. j K r .... ' .. r.. these may be takeu away' from the rest for the purpose of renewal or repair, without the action of ttlfc rtet'or1 ttie excited surface of tlife Ce'lt'bcihg'suspferiBed lor a singtV moment. The battery, in' fact,' may be entirely re newed a bundred times without its oj'eratibrl having been troubled w it li even's passing' in-tertnUsion-. .. S'u long as a fair aiuouht ol at-' tention w given to the renewal of its xinc element, piecemeal, it is indeed literally ex' ex'-bauslle8s - bauslle8s ex'-bauslle8s and permanent. This very desira desirable - ble desirable quantity is secured by a singularly sim simple - ple simple contrivance. The celt, itself is formed of a quadrangular trough of gutta percha, wood-strengthened outside, in which diilute acid is contained,' the proportion of acid to water being one part in 15 or 16. There are grooves in the gulta percha into which several metal plates slide in a vertical posi position: - tion: position: .These plates are silver and zinc alter alternately", - nately", alternately", but they are not pairs of plates "in an electric sense. " Each zinc, plate rests firmly" at the bottom of a long bar of zinc, which runs from end to end ot the trough, aad thns virtually unites the whole in oue continuous extent of sine, presenting not less than 2000 sqnare inches of excitable surface to rbe exciting liquid. Eich silver plate hangs ia a similar wsy from a metalic bar (.which runs from end to end of the trough above, and the whole of the silver being thus virtually united into oue continuous surface of equal xteut to- the' face of the xinc. The zinc does not reach so high as the upper longitudinal bar, and the silver does nut bang ao low aa the interior longitudinal bar. ' Tire battery is tlius composed of a single pair of laiaiiatedp4tes, although io the eye it seems to-be' made up of several pair ot jMatos. Nature nas-set th exaiuple of arranging ex tended surtaia Mvtorttdplicating folds, when it is required that such surface slva.lt be pack packed - ed packed away in a narrow spun a he sime time thill a large acting area is preserved, ia the laminated antenna of the Cucttchofe"- Tue antenna;, indeed, are the types o4 the) Whit Whit-house, - house, Whit-house, battery. It any o-n ot tlwae rediapli celing segment of tthvr kind ol metal is removed, tle rumaining portion coutiuut its actitiv, steadily, th effect merely bciug. .the same that would b produced if traytawnt of an ordinary pair ol piat were tempora temporarily - rily temporarily cut away. The ailvcs lamina, ar ef oo aiderabl thickness aswlrecunsly "piatiaaud" atlover-v-thttt i platinum-is thrown down upon their, surface in eompaet uveullic idfin, and not rly iu tha black puiveru ieut slat Br eottscqiantly they art almost tx empt trom wear, fiach xlac Isinitra 1 with draws as acvtt aa it amalgamatioa is Injurl. ouslyt affsaiad, or so sooa a it own aub aub-stanae - stanae aub-stanae ia mainiy ain away .by tb aotion ot the chemicai inensiruuni iu w-hich it- is immersed, and a freshly. amalgamated, or new lamina, ia-ineerted lntoiis piace. -Tu oupa oupa-bility - bility oupa-bility of the piacemeoi renewal of the. cou cou-supiptive - supiptive cou-supiptive element of the battery in this in in-terpwlatory - terpwlatory in-terpwlatory and fragmentary way, is then the I cause c! ityrje''taf mat'nfainw power.

iKa unAnniiA!;,llil M,r tnfTlwais' nir ,rava. gar ef the Woman' of faifciori'.. - I? is iadeed t, , ,isJ k'-Ji . . ' - " " ( his little savings squandered by an extrava- ua v iiV wuv lie ass as sa wwsaaw vusawawMvaa atr if A his h fi n,l enm m annaitUlinH j j.' reflection that the j i$Koricai aBd well eat wire: am n, mi. practice baa become established by immemo rial usage. The following is a letter writ written - ten written by Lady Cramptoa to ber btsband, in the beginning of; the seventeenth century. In it she gives a list of what ah supposes nec necessary - essary necessary for a woman of her poaitioa.- Wheth Whether - er Whether these things were considered necessary in a legaljioinl of view doea not appear. In justiceto Lady Crampton, however, it should be aaid that she brought her husband a large fortune? ' ' . , My Sweet Life: Now.' that I have de declared - clared declared to you my mind for the settling of your estates, I supposed it were best for me to bethink or consider with myself what al lowance were meetest for nfe; for, consider considering - ing considering what care I have bad of your estate, and bow respectfully I deal with those which, both by the laws of God, of nature, and el civil polity , wit, religion, government and honesty, you my dear, are bound to, I pray and beseech you to grant me 1,600 per annum, quarterly to be paid.. " Also, I wonld (besides that allowance for my apparel) have 600 added yearly (quar (quarterly - terly (quarterly - to be paid) for 4he perforniance of charilabU works: and. those things I would not, neither will be, accountabie forV I Also, I.wiH have three horses for mj own saddle, that none shall dare to lend or bor borrow, - row, borrow, none itrld but I", none' borrow" " but yoiK - - a - Also, t would have twe'gealiewometr lest ene should be sick or have some ether lett; also believe that it is an undecent thing for a gentlewoman to aland mumping alone, V'Tl'm God lias" blessed' fcer "Lord, snd Lady with a good estate.' -',- ..t Also, when i ride a hunting or hawWhg, or travel from one house to another, V will have them attending, so,' for either of those said women, I Oiust wd will have lot either of (hem a'h'"r.' ' ; . - . r -i ' ' Also, I will have six or eiglil gentlfemeri, snd I will have, my two coaches, one lined with velvet for myetfK with four,; very, fair horses, and a coach for my women liaed with seetcloib; one laced with gWd"'tfie oitnrr wtvt: ftvdiick, r,.u lavcu wii.ii nauir hi add silverg.itAiii-'' foai jlod horse. .fc . v ; I Also, I nill have tw.o cebiiien,one fi elbcr with't'carlet.'arni laced with watch hvee for my own 'coach, the other for my'women. Alsoat any tiiiie when; J" travel, I will be allowed not only' csrrouches and spare horses for roe and my women-' but f will have such'c'arriagca" as shall bit f' I ling for' all, crderlyViBot pestering my things with my women's, nor their's with chaiuberuiaid's, nor theif'e with wxshmaid's- , ?; rv ( - ' v Also.fiir.huBdressVwfct's' t travel, 1 will have them'seitt rrVay before withthe carri carriages - ages carriages t'O'Bee.ali safe; and the chambermaids I will have go before with the greens, - that the chamber may be ready, sweet and clean. Also, for that It is iiro'-cent to crowd up dveeir with my gen'iiem'an osher in my coach, I will have him have a convenient horse, to attend me either in city or in coun country. - try. country. - A'nd I must hav'e two' footmen! . And my desire that yWdeitay alt the expenses for sis; ' "''"' . A'nd'for myself,' bea'Sfsmif yVarly allow- once,' I1 wo did have tw'ec'ty gowns ol appar apparel', - el', apparel', six of iberri'e.rcellent good ones, eight of them for thb country, and six other of them very excellent good ones. :, - . , .. . :A Also, f would have to put in rriy purse"J,- 000 and 200, and eo' for vou to pay ray debts.'; ' . " '"'.'' ''"'('.- A g-f ntlerrian engaged an' artist to'ezecu'le a pwee ot sculpture tor him. visiting his. sled y slier an absence of severaf weeks it seeiried'to'hlrh'lhiif the aSrsi hail'iifHde little progress'. "What have' you been doing" asked thfe'gentleuiaii of the artist "Work ing on this nure. "lijt I see uothiog done since my laul visit." "Why, answer ea me .ruse, "i nave orougni out ,n.s mus - cle; I have aHored tine part yf tU 4Mb; ! have slightly changed the exp expression of the ! lip." "But these are trifles," said the gen gentleman.1 - tleman.1 gentleman.1 "True, sir," replied the artist, "but perfection is made up of trifles." - - . . Th Atlantic Teleiraab Interesting Petal!. In 1851, a writter in the - London Athen- eum suggested the practicability of i trarrs trarrs-Atlantic - Atlantic trarrs-Atlantic cable. The suggestion fell etiU- born. In 1858, experiments demonstrated that the telegraph could be worked in a con continuous - tinuous continuous circuit of over 2000 miles, and that the conditions present in insulated wires un under - der under the ground and beneath the sea are strict ly analagouj, and established, as was better ed, the practicability ef' working the Trans- Atlantic Telegraph. In 1854 the American Company was formed, Messrs. P'eter Coopfer and Cyrus W. Field, -taking a -leading and energetic part in the organization. . Charters and "rant were obtained from tb trovern- ments of Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick," England and the United State" Great Britain granted an- auuuat subsidy of 14,000 sterbu-g on til the set profits of the company reach t per cent, pemnnum, and two steamships also. Other valuable grants were made in aid of the enterprise, and the Company wss then known as "Th New York, Newtoudiaed, and London Telegraph Telegraph-Company." - Company." Telegraph-Company." ' Prof Morse was appointed e e-lectricvau, - lectricvau, e-lectricvau, aad tMHaeFoae experiments and tests wet asade by 1hh in connection with Messrs- While no aee aad Briglit. In 1856 the Vice President, Mr. Field, visited Loudon with a view uf making arrange men- to ad advance - vance advance the undertaking. The Atlantic Tel Telegraph - egraph Telegraph Com pa ay was tormed, comprisimg the holder of thee hundred and fifty share ef one thousand pounds eathj Mr. Bright be became - came became acting engineer, and Mr, While hose elcelrician. - The route was -chosen after many soundings and much investigation. .. It was ascertained that the Atlantic nowhere exceeded i depth 83,000 feet, sod that the basin svf the ocean is a long trough or groove ex-lending between the continents, almost tram pole to pole. . .. The hollow ot this basin is so great that the lowest depth of the At Atlantic - lantic Atlantic is nine miles beneath the highest peak of the Andes. . In most places the bottom is much broken up and very irregular. Tb Southern routes were all found impracticable as tracks lor the Atlantic Cable. ' - Lieut. Maury pointed out the. telegraphic plateau as tying between Cape Race in New. iuundland, and Cape Clear in Ireland. This plane is scarcely 1,000 lea v below tha level of tha sea. The track wag twin sounded at thp expense of the govsr nmeuts mot iatsr iatsr-ted. - ted. iatsr-ted. . It was shown that the water rested tranquilly on. a. bed of the minutegt particles cf 'ahplls-'the 'lejtcsites of unscunted age. The greatest, d.epr'es'aiii'n of the " pTain is in, rfi'iUoceanwieiice it mpercepti'jtj ascends ifjtfie snpa on either lap. ice vvreaiorcaa !?JWXd.thai magnetic.traclr,. whtct. sueaca. revealed to, man. , - i , -,: . fa VflThe roejrijcaLccc.iltruc cl thev cable

derlngly, while strange glow pervaded ber bosom. - What couid be the meaning of all this What sew spirit hadcoom over her bus band I . ia a ouiet, piewwtf way, tne ewi - dren gathered around their father, one ins u oon bia knee. - cumn- "What ba-ve you been doing all da?, Jin ft" asked Mr. Crandail oftHb Child. ' my "Playing," -waa the eim'p answer '"Have yorf oed'rF gotittbff"'''" ? Not all tlrW time," answered the child, u ; "Via ssr'rj' ; Jimsojf rK'dhtf trf a nil be a good i'af aH' te tiaJe.'- What have you been playingP , . v . . Kl; " 7'.' "Ob,' everything. Horses and dogs, and turning' u'j Jack, as mother says." ilr. Cranilall laughed out at the reply- say say-Wg.. - Wg.. say-Wg.. .'-', -V-s . f - : "Yea turned up Jack mostly, I suppose." -Weil, I guess I did.", , Mr. Crandail laughed again.. The spirit j ot good nature was transferred into every heart. Even Mrs. Crandail, usually in a fretted state of mind, iel f its genial influ influence. - ence. influence. ' .- iA---S--T .a "Jimmy's been a right good, boy to-day' aaid she, iu sn approving voice. - "His turn turning - ing turning up Jack hasn't amounted to much." , t Mrs. Crandail was moving busily about all this time, preparing Supper: Jane,'" who never willingly gave ber msttier any assist ance, and wbo waa rareiy- cauea upon be because - cause because she grumbled whenever .asked to do anything, now said, " "Mother, can I help y on "Yes, dear." Thardaar which had fal len so unexpectedly from tb lips of her bus-. j band, had been echoing' in the mind of Mrs, Crandail ever since, and now It came into utterance quite as spontaneously as in the case orherbu8bsnIl s"V'es, dear, you may finish setting the table,While I' dish' up the suppler."" ; ----ii. -5':v- VVondennsr almost a much at nerseit s at her husband, Mrs, CratHfalK'aftei' seeing' Jane move with a pleased alacrity about the table, went into the kitchen?' sod soon ali wW ready. CyUite eribugh- to aaliify that appetite bad Mrs. Crandail prepared; but her thoughts turned upon something else aometlhng tht woSldgiVe herrhe epportu- aity to'agk"liiu:'if slie shouM nut get it lor his supper.'"' Yes, dear." How 6he was toeoinff for this Words' dtt'erfed ij' the jrenrle,' loving way they had a little twliile;. before been spoken but for her .earii" alone. a last she turned fro !?i the fire, and going to thb doof ct' fiie ruoaVaid' very "findly1 i "Shall 1 boil a coupie of, lresh- egga for your supper, p'cter!"-! ; -,arv ' "Yes, dear, if yoir' pleas'e.'A ' sy,-f?r. rSovtf thb wile's'poot heart, 'Wbich'for years hail lain' almost dead in her bosom, leaped With'tfjbyfttl iropulet - What a light flashed' over' her countedance," making it beauiifal.as of olil, iu the face ttf ber husband. - "Yea,, dear, if you please." Njteveo. ia' tho, voice ef Grisi or Lial,would her ears' have ' found1 such' sWeerwusic-- t 'm7 s-i r;--."; - At the supper' table, Peter Crandail' prais praised - ed praised the coffee, and fried potatoes, and said the eggs Were just what, he wauled. . Mrs. Crandail looked happy, and Was 'happy.- , With th vafeWirng1 at their father's usual morose" silence,-, snd their mother's ... sour looks and fretful tones, the children's spir spirits - its spirits changing like a chatriblfeoh', afitf'eiSbg' tbte hife of things around lliem rose into new; better and Jiappier states. Contention, ceased; and there was something like an' emulalioa of kind offices among- ihem", iii iii-sli?ad - sli?ad iii-sli?ad of selfish graping cf- .wUhlcviBr the heart desiretht s,j '.'--'" ,, .- - t- Suddenly ihe ees'of Mr. Crandail opened.' Even While he was pondering at the magical change pfcfl'Jced'by a feW kind words a full revelaiion'of tlife truth cauie td'hls" mind t-' '.V new leaf in thb book' of bis life. Was turned. Thousht turned once in the right direeiibri':' Peter Crahilail nondferisd'tlilsf nfevi fabt "m'hl's inner life history tne tr.agic of Kind Words and going back to the very b eginnin g, re viewed his own conduct toward his wile and in his family," almost day by day, up to the evening when by the power of almos. a single word, the whole scene changed, and quite as suddenly as we see it sometimes, in a panto- mine. He saw bis error saw and felt bow unjust ho had been; how cold and even cruel in his coUness. ' Very carefully did he guard himself afterwards; and very prompt was be in observing all the little social courtesies toward his wife and children which are ao beauiiful to see, and io sweet in all their, influences. "The green things flourished a a-gain - gain a-gain in the heart of bis wife, and the flowers bloomed there as Of old. The children learned to emulate the kind words, auJ cour courteous - teous courteous acknowledgements for all little ser-' vices, that soon became a naoit wnn meir father and mother; and into the kind words spoken, kind feelings soou fljwfd. It was l ho beginning of new order ol things in the home of Peter Cranda 11, where, in good time, the desert blossomed as-tbe rose. Words appear na little things in thqnrv- selres, hot they have power. ' The magic ot kind word is wonderful! Try tbem, ye silent Peter Crandalls, who have fretful wives and contetWiotw children. Try the effect of a tittle hopeful praise on your tired, unhappy, overworked eo-ropon-ioriv ail see if it doaen't brighten her pale- face" as if a whole flood of sunbeara-s bad been poured uDon it. Try it with Your children, sad if you have in you the heart of a true man. you will he ao pleased with the effect that you will keep ott irymg until you will scarce ly recognize your own household. r.TFU'St.AST IIOUR3. Life's hast boar are grand, testing hours deal U tries all our princtpjea, and lays biro all our foundation. Many who have acted the hypocrite in life, are forced to be honest in the hour of death - Misgivings of beart,tbtt have been kept se cret through life, have come out in death; and-utan-y who seem all fair and FBirhl for heaven-, have had to declare that they hive only been self-deceived. A gentleman of renown, a on his dying bed, when a friend, near st bend, spoke of the Saviour. "As to the Bible, he replied, "it may be true; I do not know." "What thet ore your prospects 1" he asked. He replied in whispers, which, indeed, were ' thunders. "Very dark very dark." "But have you no light from the Sun o( Righteousness! Have you done justiceto iheBiblef , "Per haps not, ' he replied; "but it is now too late too late." A mother, who bad laughed at religion and religious people, was seen, restless and miserable on ber bed. of death. She desired that her children- should; be call-, ed they came; in broken accents she tdi dressed tbem: "ley children, I ha.ve besa leading you in the wrong road of life, ( now fipd that, the broad roadeatis to-destruction; L did not helieva it. before. 0.' seek and aer.vs God, and try to find. 'the, gatfe, ta hexy. ee.though you. may never meet. your, mother, there." Her lips wera" closed foi v.er,.s.ad her spirit deparisd.to . its acaount, wiHeatbrr.j household looked an terrcr-sunck. Mother:-Fathert-wtiaidjudj ..tb.ost t O, no, tT-hen"; poiet to Hea-r4 ajsd jieai the wav,v"

children with theirmother. Tne lady spoke to him politely when he came ia, and the cbildrea treated him respectfully. He had been at work a little while, when his atten tion was attracted by a request from this mother toon of the children-, to' go upstairs and bring her some article named. We say request, for this was" the form of words ot ottered. - tered. ottered. The child went inatsMiy, and Was back ina few momentt': ' ' ' " : "Thank you, dear," aaid the mother. ' ( , ' Crandail turned ami lootr-ed at thb chniT. HVr countenance was'tranqti'l'eHil happy. "Jane, f Will laie those scissors if you plesSe. '-- ' " , Crandalf too'ied'sgih". ft wss'tlie moth mother - er mother who bad spoken. One of the children wa? "timg on the floor, busily engaged tn diit'tin'g out pictures. But she started lip idstantly slid brought the scissors to" ber mother'. " -"';;" ' '."-l"''''' f "Tharillryon; dear. was the mother's ac acknowledgment - knowledgment acknowledgment of the service, as ia the form former - er former case. "v '""":" :" ."; "Will you want them long!" asked the child.' ;"-,-; :."' . " . "No, dear! only a few' moments. ' Then you shall have them again ' I'he child stood patiently by the mother's side until the scissors" were' out of aarvice, and then' received them. "Thank you, she said, a she took them from her molherV handi ahd' then danced back, singing, to ber place oh' thb floor where the pictures' lay'."' , '! All this struck' Craudall' as" beautiful, a'r-a ! lib slglie'd'aa'the harsher" i'm'age of tils' ow'n" home intruded itself. While yet at work, the husband and father came home. - Every child had somethingto show1 or tell him"', and He erfter'ed irito the feelltigit" of eaeh?, prais' irg their little acbeivements, and approving wKbrertr thfere seemed a chance for words of appropriatioh'.' It w'as the ssmb CoWanF his wife.' She spoke of aouie d-i-'ei'Joiis she ckrgi'en to Crandail. -'""' TtiatWas right," he asswerdd; adding, hbwtHcilitliil yod'eref.' r A pleased smile went ever the wife a coun tenance.-' t; " - . 1 " ' YoiFforgtrt' yodr poclt'et-baniersh'lef' this morning, sam tn laner naamng a wuite lined'bandkercbfef tv'fcer buiband. .- "So rdid Tbaut yotii dear!" s A'nd'h received thb handkerchief with' as' polite ac acknowledge - knowledge acknowledge rue nt i a oi an ber as" in' wornal ' : , Many other little iristancea of home coor- -testes were observed ' by Crandail, who left the house when his work' wa cotrlpleted, with a uew impression-of life" stamped po bis eonscioBsnews. " The image of that pleas- ' ant home was fixed oa bis aiied like a thing ut beauty.'- He had dreamed, --'faintly of such homes or read of them in books; but the realiiy is now before bun. The husband addfathfer, whose presence had brightened tKaf hbiiie;'h'fe lfirew,''in generei way, as a thriving man of 3 business, who camb - fre frequently - quently frequently to lh& esUiblishoibijt vsliere he work- ed-. it"--"' "''". . - 'T-i-" -' : , rfrffa'diTweTe; generally, a grave aspect a litilb sour he had thought. ie bad not gived' him" credit To- trfhch kindness of (eel (eel-ing; - ing; (eel-ing; and was, therefore, the more impressed by- what hfe had seeir'- ; : The sweet riusifcal' Wain Which "Than? you dear! had been " said," reciproeally by mother and children, many trntfesYariti' on all occasions of service rendered, n j matter bow ' small, bad found an echo in his mind, where it waa continually repeated, until,- "Tbank you dear!" as he mused at bis work,' came almost to his lips in vocal utterance. . - When Crandail went home at nightfall, he wus still dreaming over the picture in his mind, and the words, "Thank you, dear!" were still echoing there in a kind of low mu music. - sic. music. He was very much subdued in feeling, almost sad; arid there was an air of lau lau-guor - guor lau-guor about, him as be came into the room where bis wife was at work getting supper ready, she observed as something unusual., "Jane, take your father's coat and hang it up," said Mrs. Crandail to .her eldest daugh daughter. - ter. daughter. ; ;,..--."'.;,':-. -;-,.''"'.'.. -, ".; :'. --.-'. The girl obeyed, but there was no affec affectum - tum affectum in her manner, as she moved in . a list listless - less listless sort of a way, toward ber father, and reached oat ber band, for h , coat. Mr. Crandtett gave her the garment eaytng "Thanh you-dear." ; 5 : The words were spontaneous, not of de design - sign design and a pokes with tender utterance. He was but repeating the tones- lint were still Bounding in his memory. , What instant, life . seemed : to. quicken through the child's framet She gave one glance of sarprise into ber father's face, and stepped away with the coat like one well pieasedj to render service. ' ., Mr. Crandail was aurpriaed at bimeelf; and, for aa instant, half ashamed of what be bad dtsoe, as if it were weakness,' "Willyon have a glass ol water" aaked Jane coming bach to ber father. - " . "If yoii please. jf 'f i t-. . - Sir. Crandail wondered at bis own reply, almost as much aa bis wife and children wondered. A cold abrupt 'yes or 'no,' was his accustomed answer , te necrly all ques questions. - tions. questions. ;.-.'" ;.-' - : . .- 5 -. With what light feet did Jane trip from the room.-1- In a twinkling she was hack with a cool glass of wafer for her father, waa as be received U from, her hand, said, "Thank you." - " ; "-"..,: Te tUe child, a'li aaaccostonied to fcuch an acknowledgement (or aay service, these two little words were felt to be a sweet reward. The father's altered manner and way ' of speaking was perceived by the children by their mother; and, as it' by maijic the whole sphere of thetr lives seemed, chang changed. - ed. changed. :Xc-': L:-y'..t-::r '.;': . "Shall I- bring (Sown your slippers r ask asked - ed asked Jane returning to her fathet. . ' , "Yes, that's a. good girl,"' he answered, "my feet are aching in ther heavy buots." 'As Jane left the room with a springing step, Mr. Crandail comineeced drawing oif bis boots.": They were no sootier laid upon the floor, than twe litile feUiiwaeaught bold of them, each desirous of an afprovio-g word as a reward fo service rendered' their, tired father . -, i, -: . . - .-. - -- ' : - l'll put ene U the closet, and John the "What brave littla men!'? exclaimed Mr, Crandail, really pleased at heart, and mam tested his pleasure ic the tones of hie voice. "I'm a thousand times obliged to oa,,'su;t ,v Jane returnejj wjthJthe sligper ,jn a4i feif momentSx aj;stooginj4dcwpt drew v jVism upon her whei.'feV y.Wien shefosejup, with cheka glowing . and Aeyes 'dancing in new light, Mf.'Caadfc4)ffae looked really beautiful. a ,'"Tban)r you,SJdear.'n Th jvotda rcasae 'now realty1 from bis hearth X I -kai e-re.jOaridisIl looked 4ndl:Btehedwej-

" At.LfiORTS Of Mlri. ; j,.-; . Ther if strong' diposiliun- in men of ej pjsite wmde to despise each other. A grave ma ft cannot fottcieve what is the use ' of wit in. society;: a person who . take . a' strong, co ntntoi sense view of the subject, M for pushing out by head and shoulders' ItfiJ ingenious theorist, who'catches at the r.Hlil'-" est end farHfest' .'analogies?' and "anotfiWr' man, who enu the ridiculoti fttew aftr, will hold no coiriraWee With him' who teias" Duitelv the fine feefin of the heart, ria who is alive to nothing elsei' whereas, tal talent - ent talent i talent,' and mind- is tnind, in nil , its branches!- ssWit givea to Kfe ofle Mts beat flavors;-omoian-scBae leads te immediate action, and giyea society its daily motion ; large and comprehensive views cause ita an eiual rotation; ridicule chastises folly and impudence, and keeps men in their proper sphere; subtlety iezc hold of the fine thread of truth; analogy darts away in , most sub sub-Ifme - Ifme sub-Ifme discoveries; feeling paints all the ex exquisite - quisite exquisite passions of man's soul,-ant! rewards iBin- by e jhoasand inward rrtsilations, for the sorrows that come from without. - God - made it all. - It is alt good! .We must des des-pisivosort - pisivosort des-pisivosort of talcntj thVy have all their separate duties and uaes-r-all the happiness f life for then- object; they all improve, exalt and gUddeo Itfe.-Sidney Smiih. - CHRISTIAN PnHJHEh. : , ' (Speaking n. a prayer-meeting, in Hay, 1 S58, of the progreca of Christian IKe, Henry Ward Beecher, taking apng of apple blossoms which agt&e ose had that atormsg brought from the country,) said t ,j ' 7' This cluster of apple-buds and blossoms came this morning t ahow as what God is ' dovag ia the country.- ;. v- -- - , - This little piak bud, just out, ani with its leaves yet closely folded, 13 Jifeoooe jul be? ginning tq live a (Jhrjstiatt life... it i ell Utr developedf it know not yet what i within jteelf; but y et it s a fair bud, and quite good enough for a beginning. And here is one where the petals are just parted. , The color ". as deepened upon their "edges, and they have grown purer within,, Now the Chris Christian - tian Christian has made some -attainment. ' Here is bite whose leaves are half open. Its "color ta diffused ia exquisit veins, and its fragrance is becoming apparent.- This must be at . ieast a two years old ChnaUan. . And here - are the foil blossomed fiewers, like tlw fthr : era and mothers; ia Israel, wide open to all ' ihe noorishmeot of sua and dew, asd exhal exhal-. - . exhal-. ing sweetest odor on the air. The petals will fall, but, though they know it not, there ie modestly covered beneaih.them. lhe fruit which is yet to swell nd grow; and to the Chria'.idn who is thus far developed and wait- - trig fur auailier sphere, some fruit will follow the perishing ftower. v "It doth- not yet ap year what we shall be." i ; ' '" Far down in' the cptbs of the ,hui j . fieart, there ia fountain of sure- end 'iuJ 'iuJ-towed - towed 'iuJ-towed feeling, from whicii, at times,. sells Up a tide of emotions which words are pow- frleea to express wuicn the souj stone can appreciate rull many hearts thai arever .flowing with sublime thoughts and holy un- gtiHogs, need but the "pen of fire" to hold i and enrapture thousands in its spell. The '"thouphis that breathe' are there, bat ol ! the "words that burn." Nature's own "in i -- !.! jo fills the heart with -emotions too if ep for utterance, and " with the poetry of the heart lie forever concealed ia ita own Ittiysteriuus shrine. --..,. Unwritten poetry; It is stamped upon the broad blue skies, it twinkles in every tar..v,-.t.mingle m- the ocean's surge-, and Utters id the dew-drop that gems, the Ely's sfce'll, ' Jt glows in the gorgeous colors ol the , West'at the declto of day, and rests in the .blackened crest of the gathering etorm-'c'.-i. Iile ou the ciounUin'e height, and ia tho cataract's roar to the towetiog oak, ua Hi the tiny Wfrer wfr cm e tue hand df God, there beauty findssV dwet dwet-1i - 1i dwet-1i eg' placed' -m -, - ; s W 9 K1 ' 1j J if .i;-r I Pjpwtijnjtyis thSpweiff time; and as the euU may remaiu when the flower is nt off, so tirner-msy-veraata'Wiibuhec oppsM -umty Is rusa fotenari , y "?lftcreatiQh' is a .'second creation; whed Ctt carfriene haa'almost arlQihhated 6ne'apl fffts.i51t iatbe'breathingi- orthoeIWbieri ofhera tki-'nttAAd ti ettaed; with"ContirtuaJ busmessJ" h-a1 '" " "' v