Original Poetry.

Colonist, Volume III, Issue 219, 25 November 1859, Page 4

Original Poetry.

""' -"STITCH, STITCH, STITCH." " Stitch, stitch, stitch," If there's aught on the earth I hate, *'Tis to see.a woman with needle and thread - Laboring early and late. Laboring all through the day, Laboring all through the even, As if fair woman by nature was made With fingers alone to her given. " Stitch, stitch, stitch," A creature with soul and with head Wasting the golden moments of youth In pulling away at a thread. Or with a reel and a hook, Delighting for aye to sit, Deeming the worthiest aim of her life A collar of cotton to knit. Oh woman, there are for thee High duties beneath the sun ; Then wherefore give thy time and thy zeal To do of thesp duties but one. Throughout the measureless earth Is there nothing that thou canst find To raise thee up from, a worm of the dust To better thy heart and thy mind. Is there nought to love and revere . In all that hath written the sage, In the burning lay that the poet hath sung Nor in history's eloquent page. Oh many a humbling sight Since the world be^an hath been, Nor least, to make of a perishlrss soul A sewing and knitting machine. BETH.

. Newspaper Editors. —A newspaper editor must, like the poet, be born to his calling, as in the majority of instances no amount of training will fit a person for such a post unless he have a natural taste and aptitude for that description of literary labour; for, although many persons are able to write *'leaders" or "literary articles" for anewspaper, few can be entrusted with itseditorial control, few can scent out the libel which lurks in almost every communication, few can distinguish the report intended to please the speaker instead of inform the nation, and the letters written. io serve private interests instead of public ends; stillTewer who c?j,n tell at a glance the kind of literary or political material which will promote the circulation of the journal, —in fact, a good editor's great difficulty is not as to what he should put in but what he should keep ont of his columns. — Chambers' Journal*

Senselessly Qeevil. —A case has been reported of a country girl who thought it possible there might be an excess in such scrupulous regard to appearance. On her marriage day the youth to whom she was about to be united said to her in a triumphant tone, " Weel, Jenny, haven't I been uncoo ceevil ?" alluding to the fact that during their whole courtship he had never even given her a kiss. Her quiet reply was, man, senselesly ceevil." -—Dean Ramsay's Reminiscences. Marriage of Chinese Protestants. —The publication of such events is both novel and interesting, and is believed to be the first instance of Chinese Protestant Christians entering into the bonds of matrimony. The Rev. E. W. Syle, in whose chapel the marriges were performed, remarks that the chief impression that seemed to be left on the minds of the adult Chinese present, was, that this way of marrying is particularly definite and satisfactory. The JSorth CJtina Herald notices one of the marriages as the first instance in which all the parties concerned were at once Chinese/ Christian, and Protestant. The bride was entirely hidden under the red robes, crown-shaped head-dress, and crape veil of the Ming dynasty, a costcime which the Tartar conquerors have never succeeded in changing. There was music and a profusion of garlands and flowers. The whole was distinctively Chinese, but the writer hopes that soon the " weddingring" may be counted among the established institutions of the families of China. Record. '■

On the top of an Omnibus. —l have often passed by that large chapel-like first floor over a tavern, and well I know to what it leads. Long room or club room, faded piano in the corner, horse-hair seats all round the wall, smell of beer and tobacco, sawdust and sand, crossed pipes on the tables, canopy at the end (like the theatrical tent of Richard the Third on Bosworth Field), the seat of the Perpetual Grand President of the United Order of Provident Tipplers. Prudence is good in fathers of families, especially when influencing a taste for gin and water. There is something dry and sepulchral about savings' banks. Nothing like a tavern fund, with a tavern treasurer, and tavern conviviality over the periodical payments —to diminish the savings.—All the Year Mound. A French View of the Invasion of Britain.—We ought not to labor under any delusion as to our force or that of our neighbour, and we must take into account the advantages and inconvenience of the two national characters—on the one side, our impetuosity, which is soon succeeded by lassitude and discouragement; and on the other British slowness and tenacity. Our attack is furious and almost irresistable, but the thoroughbred Englishman, heavy, awkward, and disdaining a military life, and unproductive, has the temperament of a bull dog—once he bites he never lets go his hold. Wounds only exasperate him, and when attacked on his own soil, he will die or kill the aggressor. Let us not forget that characteristic of British courage. In spite of the'numerous batteries which defend the English soil, we might effect a landing but two or three victories would be far from giving us England, and it would be less difficult to get there than to leave. There is too much patriotic pride and courage in bur allies on the other side £>f the channel for us to flatter ourselves that we could easily give them a mortal blow.'— Uhivers, '■" ;;■:■:. ■...■.... ....

It is .not the quality of the meat, but the cheerfulness df ihe guests, which makes the, feast. • •■•■• •

Success rides on hour; grapple it and you may win j faut without a grapple it will-never go with y^u.

%q Batlaarat Star has the following acfcount of a curious recovery of gold :-~ The parcel' of gold amounting to 15 oz 9 dwt, which was stolen from the box m the drives of the the Long Funnel Company, Cobbler's Lead, in the beginning of last week, has been recovered in a rather strange and ingenious way. From the position of the box in which the gold was locked up, in the drives of the Company, it was at once seen, that the robbery must have .been effected by some one of the shareholders; and as the theft was discovered almost immediately, and precautions were taken to search every one before they ascended the shaft, the company were satisfied that the stolen bag of gold must be hid somewhere in the drives below. But how to discover its whereabouts was the question. There were large wide drives, with crooks and crannies and pools and puddles, and out-of-the-way holes and corners in them, extending for hundreds of feet from the bottom of the shaft, and from these again were other cross drives, rendering it almost an impossibility to discover such a small object as a bag of of gold, which there could be little doubt moreover had been carefully planted in some place most difficult to find^ Feeling this, and knowing that the thief, whoever he might be, despairing of getting his booty safely to the surface, would probably be not unwilling to restore it into the hands of its joint and proper owners, provided he could do so without discovery, the company hit upon the following plan .— The men belonging to the two shifts who were at work' during the time between which the gold was known to be safe, and the date of the discovery of the theft, were all appointed to go below, each being requested to take with him a bag similar in appearance to the missing one in which the gold had been placed. When below the men were to disperse themselves about the drives, and at the end of ten minutes, of which a signal was to be givren, they were all to proceed to the well at the bottom of the shaft, and there drop their bags. By this plan it was supposed that the dilenquent shareholder would have an oppotunity of rummaging out his stolen and hidden treasure, and depositing it. in the-well along with the " dummy" bags, without any fear of discovery. 'The scheme was successful. At the end of the appointed ten minutes, the shareholders came from all parts of the drives to the bottom of the shaft, and dropped their bags into the well, and on these being shortly afterwards taken up and examined, the stolen one with the 158 oz 9 dwt of was found all covered over with black clay, and bearing other appearr ances of having been securely and cunningly hid in some .of the recesses of the drives. By this ingenious plan the company have succeeded in recovering their property, and foiling the attempt of some cunning rascal among them. Story of a Dog.—We have a good story for the commencement of the season. Mr. Tews, who keeps a restaurant on Willinmstreet, has a large Newfoundland dog, a finer specimen of his kind than is ordinarily met with. Among his other wonderful marks of intelligence, we witnessed this a day or two ago. A gentleman entered the restaurant holding by a .cord a dog which , served as watch on board a ship. While in the place, the gentleman supposed the dog was safe, and released his hold upon the string. The door was opened while the parties were in conversation, and the dog made his escape. Mr. Tewes said to his Newfoundland, " Go bring him back sir." The dog obeyed the mandate, and within a block or two overtook the fugitive. He first proceeded to give the object of his charge a slight reprimand for his delinquency by means of a smart shake or two, and then took the rope in his mouth to lead the dog back to his master. Some holding back was manifested, the string was dropped, and another shaking was administered. Finally, by alternate chastisements and pulling at the cord, the runaway dog was brought into the restaurant, and Newfoundland, with a sly wink to his master, seemed to say " there he is." The scene was witnessed by many, and created no little excitement- Taken all in all we think it is about as good a dog story as usually finds its way into the papers, and as the advantage of being true, to©,—' Neio York Daily News.

A sailor was called upon (o stand as a witness. "Well sir," said the lawyer, "do you know the plaintiff and the defendant ?" "I don't know the drift of them words;" answered the sailor. " What, not know the meSfimgofplaintifF and-defendant?" continued the lawyer. " A pretty fellow you to come here as a witness. Can you tell me where on board the ship it was this man struck the other one ?" '•' Abaft the binnacle,'' said the sailor. " Abaft the binnacle! What do you• mean by that?" asked the lawyer. "A pretty fellow yau," responded the sailor, "to come here as a lawyer, and not to know what'abaft the binnacle means."

A Reason against the Organ.—- The kist fV ©' whistles," and the "Devil's music box," were among the milder terms by which our covenanting forefathers were wont in their holy' zeal and detestation to characterise the organ. The most sarcastic fling, however, against the: introduction of this instrument into our churches in modern days was overheard from an old and withered "flower" of Ettrick iForest the other day. " Gae wa* wi' yer organs in kirks," said our Forest 'Jenny Creddes ; ; for ma' pair<t, I'll never bring my mind to praising God «by machinery!" " ' ■'' •" Papa, what do the letters '■ M;I).; meanbehind a doctor's name V <{ piey used to stand fox Medicine Doctor, but 'noww^ey mean1 Money Down, since,physicians cannot recover:their fees at law; so-they give.lio credit, but ,ea,n lake it if the patient re-

Every man is 'bom 40/gear«h for truth, and to make free his nature &om t £Qnfusipn and doubt. ;