In this lady we see heroism in a different form. A single lady of private fortune, actuated by the broad principles of humanity and religion, leaves her father's home, her country, and every earthly friend, to devote herself as a nurse to the sick, and a comfort to the dying. Calmly and patiently she braves pestilence and perils of every kind, and walks on through the ranks of Turks and of Christians, diffusing charity, peace and health. By the force of patient attention to the most repulsive duties, she reforms hospital management, saves the lives of hundreds, if not thousands, wins the ear of her government to all her plans and purposes of medical reformation, and stimulates the hearts of multitudes of brave men and pious women to the highest and holiest purposes of life. What HOWARD accomplished in the reformation of prisons throughout Europe, she will be found to have done eventually, quietly but effectually, in the hospitals. These have slain in times past about as many as the battle field.

Miss Dix, another remarkable lady of the present age, has labored with equal assiduity and as much success in behalf of the insane. From State to State she has gone, and from Legislature to Legislature, simply to plead with them to provide proper institutions for the care of those whose intellects were so enfeebled that they could not take care of themselves. Her brother, a distinguished statesman, aiding, she has made use of statemanship for one simple and only object, the insane. Now these two women have risen to real greatness and heroism by employing their strength to relieve man's weakness. It is just where man proves weak and powerless in his greatest efforts, that room is made in nature for woman's heroism and greatness to come in to aid and to raise him. The age of woman's greatness has not passed away.

"THE DEW DROP.”

One beautiful morning

Two children were playing,

And gaily with flowers

Themselves were arraying;

Their laugh was full of childish gleo,
And echo caught it merrily.

"Dear sister," cried Clara,
"Come hither and see

How brightly the Dew Drops'
Shine over the lea-

Do tell me where they come from, love,
And who can bring them from above."

The other stood silent

A moment t'would seem,

Then intelligence brightened

Her eyes' gentle beam;

"They're tears (she answer'd) angels shed
Because the pretty flowers lie dead.”

EDITORIAL SEED-THOUGHTS.

"GATHER UP THE FRAGMENTS THAT REMAIN, THAT NOTHING MAY BE LOST."

SERVED HER RIGHT.

Here is something for that class of } young ladies, or young men, who outgrow the Fifth Commandment, and on account of superior cultivation regard it unfashionable to hold aged parents in honor when they happen to be poor.

La Fayette S. Foster, who was recently re-elected to the United States Senate by the Connecticut Legislature, has concluded that it is not good for man to be alone, as he is soon to take unto himself a wife. The lady is said to be well known in Washington society.

would give them, and he looked forward to the day, when with his chosen one, he should meet them beneath their humble roof, and receive again their blessings, to be one of the happiest he should ever experience.

For a few moments the lady kept silence. She then said: "Mr. Foster, you know I have been educated with different ideas from yours, and have always associated with people whose manners and style of living are different from those of your parents, and although I shall make no objection to your proposed If reports are correct, this is not the visit, I wish you to understand that I first time Mr. Foster has been wounded shall not expect to repeat it soon or by the little god. When we lived in often, and that I shall not desire to asConnecticut, says a writer in "Life Il-sociate with people of their class." lustrated," we recollect hearing a story Nothing could have surprised him

that run in this wise:

more than to hear these words from her lips. For a few minutes he walked the room, seemingly half bewildered. Then taking his hat in his hand, he turned, and with words more emphatic than refined, said: "Madam, I am glad I have found you out in time. You may go to the d-1."

The last we heard of the lady, she was still living, an ancient maiden, having seen this son of parents she considered beneath her notice, filling with honor the highest public offices to which his fellow-citizens could promote him.

HUMBUG!

During his period of law study in the southeastern portion of the State, he became acquainted with a young lady, of prepossessing appearance and more than ordinary accomplishments, a daughter of parents of the highest respectability, and moving in the most fashionable circle of the vicinity. With her he entered one of his earliest pleas, and commenced his first suit. That he was successful, is evident from the fact, that, shortly after his admission to the bar, having obtained an honorable position and business connection, arrangements for consumating the marriage were made, and the route for their bridal tour decided. He added: "On our return, we In our present number will be found shall be obliged to devote a short time a very sensible article exposing the unto our friends here, after which, if you righteousness of Gift Stores-a species please, we will pay a visit to my old of humbug which has of late become father and mother, and spend a few days quite popular among soft-headed and with them." Now La Fayette was al- unthinking old men and maidens, young ways a good boy, and was taught to men and children. It is a kind of honor his father and mother, which gambling which our laws as they at early became to him a pleasure as well present exist do not reach, and which, as a duty. He had received from them it would seem, there is not moral sense words of love and encouragement which enough in the community to frown had done for him without money, (for down. they were poor,) what money could never have done, and through all his privations and struggles to attain an education and a position in life, he had been stimulated and supported by the thought of the pleasure his success

Bogus Jewelry: A correspondent of the New Hampshire Journal of Agriculture, published at Manchester, gives an item in regard to the Bogus Jewelry used in these gifts which will be interesting to those who patronize "gift

book" enterprises, and such like be- ing situation made them speechless, I nevolent schemes to put into the hands cannot tell."

of purchasers jewelry which is "itself worth more than the price" of the particular article that is ostensibly purchased:

I came through Lynn, Boston, etc., to the little manufacturing village called N. E. Vilage, and learned something about making the bogus jewelry with which the country is flooded, either by peddlers or gift-book enterprise. One company is making ear-drops of a composition called oreide, which will sell for gold, but is not worth so much as brass. The other company is manufacturing gold chains out of German silver, brass, oreide. The process of making was interesting to me, and may be to others. I'll give it :

The links are cut from wire or plate, according to the kind of chain; sometimes soldered before putting into a chain, and somtimes afterward. After it is linked, it is drawn through a machine to even it-boiled in vitriol water to take off the scales caused by heating -drawn through a limbering machine, and dipped in acid, to clean it, after which it is dipped in a solution of pure silver, and finally dipped in gold coloring-making a chain which they sell at the rate of $12 to $18 a dozen. This is gift-enterprise jewelry, which is marked "Lady's splendid gold chain, $12;" "Gent's guard, $8" or "$10." etc. The · ear-drops cost less, and are often marked higher.

A SUDDEN AND SOLEMN DEATH.

It will be recollected that the steamer "Lady Elgin" sunk a short time ago on one of the western lakes, when over two hundred lives were lost. About ten miles from shore, at 2 o'clock on a dark rainy night, the boat was struck by a schooner. One on board gives the following: "The two vessels separated instantly, and the Augusta drifted by in the darkness. At the moment of collision, there was music and dancing going on in the forward cabin. In an instant after the crash all was still, and in half an hour the steamer sunk. I passed through the cabins; the ladies were pale but silent; there was not a cry or shriek. No sound was heard but the rush of the steam and the surge of the heavy sea. Whether the ladies were not fully aware of their danger, or whether their appall

I too must fall-
Death awaits us all-

Solemn and true!
But not in the hall
Of the giddy ball,
Would I hear the call,

O God, from Thee.

WOMAN IN ADVERSITY.

Where is the man that cannot confirm

the truth of the following sensible re-
marks: Woman should be more trusted
and confided in as wives, mothers and
sisters. They have a quick perception
of right and wrong, and, without always
knowing why, read the present and the
future, read characters and acts, designs
and probabilities, where man sees no
letter or sign. What else do we mean
by "mother wit," save that woman has
tion than man?
a quicker perception and readier inven-
How often, when man
abandons the helm in despair, woman
seizes it, and carries the home ship
through the storm! Man often flies
from home and family, to avoid impend-
ing poverty or ruin. Woman seldom, if

Woman never

ever, forsook home thus.
evaded mere temporal calamity by sui-
cide or desertion. The proud banker
rather than live to see his poverty ga-
zetted, may blow out his brains, and
leave wife and children to want, protec-
torless.

counseled him to accept poverty, and
Loving woman would have
live to cherish his family, and retrieve
his fortune. Woman should be counsel-
ed and confided in. It is the beauty and
glory of her nature, that it instinctively
right. Reason, man's greatest faculty,
grasps at and clings to the truth and
takes time to hesitate before it decides: .
but woman's instinct never hesitates in
its decision, and is scarcely ever wrong
where it has even chances with reason.
Woman feels where man thinks, acts
where he deliberates, hopes where he
despairs, and triumphs where he falls.

ECCENTRIC MALADIES.

A gentleman is mentioned by Dr. Beattie, who, after a blow on the head, lost his knowledge of Greek, but did not appear to have lost anything else. A frequent modification consists in putting one name for another, but always using the words in the same sense; thus a gentleman affected in this manner, when he wanted coals put on the fire,

THE LIGHT OF HOME.

always called for paper, and when he wanted paper, called for coals; and A traveler was returning towards his these words he always used in the same home after long wanderings in distant manner. Dr. Gregory used, in his lec- lands, and his heart was full of happitures, to mention the case of a clergy-ness and hope. Many years had passed man, who, while laboring under an af- sisne he had seen his father and mother, fection of the brain, spoke nothing but and the thought of so soon meeting Hebrew, the last language he had ac- them again gave wings to his feet. quired. Dr. Prichard mentions an Edg- While he was still upon the mountain lish lady, who, in recovering from an which he had to cross before reaching apoplectic attack, always spoke to her his native village, night came on; and attendants in French, as she had abso- for some time it was so dark that he lutely lost the knowledge of the English could scarcely see the staff in his hand; language. This continued about a and when he descended into the valley month. The celebrated Dr. Broussonet he lost his way, and wandered backwards lost, after, a slight apoplectic attack, the and forwards, till at length, in deep sorpower of pronouncing substantive nouns row, he murmured to himself, "Oh that whether in French or Latin. Thus, when I could meet with some fellow-creature he wished to pronounce apple, he de- who would guide me back into the right scribed it by its qualities. When the road, after all my useless efforts to find noun was shown to him, written or it! With what gratitude would I repay printed, he immediately recognized it, him!" So saying he stood still and watchbut he had no power to designate it ed for a guide. While he was waiting, spontaneously. Cuvier, in his lectures, relates a similar case of a person who had only lost the memory of substantive nouns, but could pronounce all adjectives.

A SNAKE duel.

A traveler saw two snakes, a black snake and a rattlesnake, in the road before him, moving round in a circle and apparently following each other. This cautious manœuvre was pursued for some time, the circle closing at each round, until, when within a few feet, the blacksnake was observed to stop, coil and place itself in an attitude to strike. The rattlesnake then passed round its antagonist several times, lessening the distance at each round, when it also stopped and began to coil. But before it was ready to strike, the blacksnake suddenly darted upon it. The evolutions were too rapid to be detected; and when it was again distinctly observed both snakes were stretched out at full length--the rattlesnake enveloped in the folds of the black, which had also seized the rattlesnake at the back of the head, and held him there. After a short interval, the black snake gradually unfolded itself, loosened its grip with its mouth from the rattlesnake's head, and moved away. On examination, the rattlesnake was found to be dead, and apparently every bone in its body was crushed.

uncertain which way to turn his steps, he saw gleaming in the distance a feeble light amidst the darkness, and its beams cheered him as it flickered in the gloom. "Hail!" cried he, "thou messenger of rest! Thou tellest me of the neighborhood of some dwelling place where I can obtain shelter, and food, and repose. The glowing beams of the morning sun have never seemed to me so gladdening as thy feeble ray which now shines before me.' He went with hasty steps towards the distant light, expecting each moment to see the man who bore it. But it was only a "Will o' the Wisp," which, taking its rise from the marshy lands, hovered over the stagnant pools. He, however, wandered on, beguiled by it, till he came to the steep bank of a river. Just at that moment he heard a voice behind him crying, "Stop, if you wish to avoid death!" He stood and gazed round him. It was the voice of a fisherman, who called to him from his boat. "Why," said he astonished, "should I not follow the friendly light? I am a traveler and have lost my way." "Friendly light do you call it ?" returned the fisherman, "it is but a treacherous vapor, that lures men on to destruction! See how unsteadily it gleams, this evil production of night and darkness!" As he spoke, the flickering marsh-light expired. The traveler thanked the fisherman for his preservation with heart felt gratitude; but he was astonished and said, "You ought to thank God, for he it was who so ordered it that I should

be in my boat upon this river. How can | bright and steady ray, now doubly dear a man see his brother man in error and not strive to guide him in the right way?" Then the kind-hearted fisherman directed the traveler in the road to his father's dwelling. He followed the path pointed out to him, and soon saw the welcome light of home shining with a

to him from the many dangers and difficulties he had gone through before reaching it. He knocked: the door was opened; and parents, brothers and sisters hung round his neck, kissed him, and wept tears of joy at his return.

NOTES ON NEW BOOKS.

A NEW BOOK: Lindsay and Blakiston of Philadelphia, have in press, and will publish about the middle of October, a new book by the Editor of the Guardian. The following is the Title page: THE GOLDEN CENSER: Or Devotions for Young Christians. By Rev. H. Harbaugh.

serve them as a book of devotion when they shall have become full members of the church.

THE NEW AMERICAN CYCLOPÆDIA: A Dictionary of General Knowledge. Edited by George Ripley and Charles A. Dana. Vol. X. Jerusalem-Macferrin. New York, D. Appleton & Company, 443 and 445, Broadway. London; 16 Little Britain, 1860.

This book is designed as a manual of devotion for catechumens and such as begin a religious life, and also for the young generally after they are in full This mammoth work has been steadily communion with the church. It contains carried forward until it has now reached Meditations, Prayers, Instructions and the tenth volume. We have carefully counsels for young christians. Medita- examined volume after volume as they tions on Baptism and the Lord's Supper; have been issued; and our readers will Preparation for confirmation and the remember the favorable opinion we have Lord's Supper; Private preparation for frequently expressed in regard to its Public Worship; Prayers for morning merits as a comprehensive and reliable and evening each day of the week; work. Messrs. Ripley and Danaare well Prayers for seasons of sickness; Devo-known in the literary world; and they tions for the festival seasons; Miscella- have proved themselves thus far fully neous prayers; Thoughts for young chris- equal to the herculean task they have tians, &c. Besides numerous beautiful undertaken. What labor and patience forms of devotion from all ages of the does such a work involve; Each volume church. It will also contain a beauti- averages over 2000 subjects; and yet ful certificate of confirmation as an or- we discover no weariness in the authors. namental frontispiece; and small certif- The same care, freshness, and completeficates of Birth and Baptism, with de-ness characterizes this volume as apvotions for the anniversaries of these memorial days. It will be published in neat portable or pocket form of the usual hymn book size. It is hoped that it will be just such a book of devotion as Pastors would desire to see placed in the hands of Catechumes when they begin to attend instructions, and, as will still

peared in the beginning of the work. The work is to be finished, we believe, in sixteen volumes. It will be a library in itself; and no one who can afford the price should deny himself the advantage of possessing it. It can be procured of Elias Barr & Co., in Lancaster. Three dollars a volume, in cloth binding.