SUBSCRIPTION, TERMS, AC. The IRQI'IRKR i# publishedeiery Fniffir morn ing attha fallowing rdHi Oxs Yx, (in advance,(_ s2.<to " (itnot paid within til mtu.),.. A3.SO " (if not Mud within the year,)... $3.00 All papers outride of the county discontinued without notice, at the aspiration at the lima for which the subscription bar boen paid. Single copier of the paper fui nished, in wrappers, at fire cents each. Communications on subjects of local or general interest are respectfully solicited. To ensura at tention, Tarors of this hind must invariably be accompanied by the name of the author, not for publication, hot as a guaranty against imposition. All letters pertaining to business of the office should be addressed to I)UR BORROW A LITTZ, BEDVORD, Pa. N'Ewsrarrn Laws.— We would call the special attention ui Post Masters and subscribers to the IstqcikEß to the following synopsis of the News paper laws : 1. A Postmaster ia required to give notice 6y letter, (returning a paper does not answer the law) when a subscriber does not take his paper out of the office, and state the reasons tor its not being t.iken ; and a neglect to do go makes the Posruias r rejtonmible to the publishers lor the payment. 2 Any person who takes a paper from the Post . ffice. whether directed to his name or another, or whether he baa sub.-eribed or not ia responsible r the pay. 3. If a person orders his paper discontinued, he aiu-t pay all arrearages, or the publisher may nstinue to scud it until payment is made, and ilect the. whole amount, t rhetker it be take a fr-rm ■ • fjffiee or not. There can be no legal discontin ance until the payment is made. 4. If the subscriber orders his pajwr to be - >pped at a certain time, and the publisher con tinues to send, the subscriber is bound to pay for it, if he take* it oat of tie J'oet Ofiee. The law pr els upon the ground that a man must pay for v hat he uses. 5. Tie courts have decided that refusing to take newspaper* and periodicals from the Post office, r removing and having them uncalled for, is i a facia evidence of intentional fraud. . 'rssicaal & 25usinrss tods. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. tohn T- keagy, ,1 attorney-at-law. Office opposite Reed A ScbeH's Bank. Counsel given in English and German. [apl2fi] irT\imki l and lingenfeltkr, IV ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Bedford, PA. Have formed a partnership in the practice of the Law Office on Juliana Street, two doors South : the Mengel House. [April 1,1954-tf \t. A. POINTB. \ I ATTORNEY AT LAW, Bedford, Pa. Respectfully tenders his professional services • the public. Office with J. W. Lingenfelter, Esq., on Juliana street. ieJ-Collectious promptly made. [ Dec. 9,'64-tL HAYES iRvrKE, attorney at law, u ill faithfully and promptly attend to all bnsi intrusted to his care. Office with G. H. Spang, ■ n Juliana street, three doors south of the Mengel House. May 24:1y UISPY M. ARSIP, VJ ATTORNEY AT LAW, Bedford, PA., Will faithfully and promptly attend to all busi ness entrusted to his care in Bedford and adjoin ing counties. Military claims, Pensions, back ; ay, Bounty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with Mann A Spang, on Juliana street, 2 doors south fthe Mengel House. apl 1, ISM.—tf. B. P. MEYERS 1. W- DICEERSOS Miters A dickerson, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Bedford, Pehm'a., Office nearly opposite the Mengel House, will practice in the several Courts of Bedford county. Pensions, bounties and back pay obtained and the purchase ofßeal Estate attended to. [may 11 ,'66-ly j I B. CESSNA, •J . ATTORNEY AT LAW, See with Johv Cesssa, on the sqnare near the Presbyterian Church. All business entrusted to his care will receive faithful and prompt attention. Military Claims, Pensions, Ac., speedily collected. [June 9,1895. J; B. STUCKKY, ATTORNEY and counsellor AT LAW, and REAL ESTATE AGENT, Tee on Main Street, between Fourth and Fifth, Opposite the Court House, KANSAS CITY. MISSOURI. Will practice in the adjoining Counties of Mis - ari and Kansas. July 12:tf - L. RfSSELL. H. LOSGESECKER T) rSSELL A LONGENECKER, I\ .Vttobsets A CorasELLOBS at Law, Bedford, Pa., v attend promptly and faithfully to all busi es entrusted to their care. Special attention a to collections an 1 the prosecution of claims : r Back Pay, Bounty, Pensions, Ac. "IF Office" on Juliana street, south of the Court House. Aprils:lyr. J" M': - SHARPS E * p - EERB OH VRPE A KERR, A TTORSE YS-A T- LA H*. Will practice in the Courts of Bedford and ad ining counties. All business entrusted to their <re will receive careful and prompt attention. Pensions, Bounty, Back Pay, Ac., speedily col .>ed from the Government. office on Juliana street, opposite the banking house of Reed A Schell, Bedford. Pa. mar2:tf J. B. LUTE. UURBORROW A LUTZ. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Bebfobd, Pa., Will attend promptly to all besiness intrusted to their care. Collections made on the shortest no- They are, also, regularly licensed Claim Agents sr. i will give special attention to the prosecution of claims against the Government for Pensions, Back Pay, Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac. Tee on Juliana street, one door h'Uth of the ; ■>er offiee, and nearly opposite the 'Mengel j H use" April 28, 1865:t : PHYSICIAN 8. \1 CM. W. JAMISON, M. D., \> Bloody Rum, Pa., 1 K lectfuliy tenders bis professional services to j the people of that place and vicinity. [decftlyr , I iR. B. V HARRY, I * Respectfully tenders his professional ser- 1 ri-cs to the citiaens of Bedford an l vicinity. ; Tc e and residence on Pitt Street, in the building rmerly occupied by Dr. J. 11. Hofiui. [Ap i 1,64. I L M arbour*;, m. d.. } . Having permanently located respectfully > !rs his professional services to the citiiens i i t llordand vicinity. Office on Juliana street. -nethe Bank, one door north of Hall A Pal-i r's office. April 1, 1364—tf. j I i . S. G. STATLKR, near Schellsburg. and ; 1 ' Dr. J. o. CLARKE, formerly of Cumberland v. having ase'sciated thenelvn in the prae- ! Medicine, respectfully offer their profes- j ' -entires ,o the cititens of Schellshurg And ! ' • ty. Dr. Gierke's office and residence same : rtnerlv o renpied by J. White, Esq., dee'd. S. G. STATLER, -* hellsburg, Aprill2:ly. J.J.CLARKE. M 1 S ('E LLANBOUS. ( k i . SHANNON, BANKER, " '• BEDfoed, Pa. ; >K OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT. I • Hons made for the East, West, North and ■ fit, and the general business of Exchange ; "*■' • "ed. Notes and Accounts Collected and "an.-ea prctnptlymade. HEAL ESTATE 1 tight and sold. feb22 j \ \Mfil. BORDER. 1 Pitt sti'.ket two doors west of the eed i so motel, Beef ibd, Pa. v t H.MAKER AND DEALER IN JEWEL RY. SPECTACLES. AC. 1 eps on hand a stock of fine Gold and Sil ches, Spectacles of Brilliant Double Refin <*, ab Scotch Pebble Glasses. Gold h Chains, Breast Pins, Finger Rings, best ' f Gold Pens, lie will supply to order his r.e rt• t on hand. [spr.2B,'6s. J) * CROCBB 1 '• WHOLESALE TOBACCONIST, P.ti street two doors west OI B. F. Harry's " -• -tore, Bedford, Pa., is uw prepared y Wholesale all kinds of CIGARS. All ■tri promptly filled. Persons desiring anything ■s t..- inie will do well to give him a call. Bedford, Oct 20. 65., A PP KINDS OF BLANKS for saie at the /* c V ...I-, r office. A full supply of Deeds, Lea tc '' Articles of Agreement Ac, DVKBORKOW A LUTE Editors and Proprietors. TDK KLSI ItRECTION. When Lord Lindsey was traveling in Egypt, he found a mummy, the inscription on which showed that it was two thousand years old. Unwrapping it, he discovered in one of its hands a tiny root. He brought the root to England, and planted it, when lo! it bloomed, and produced a lovely flower. The following beantiful stanzas, by Mrs. S. H. Bradford, were suggested by the interest ing incident: Two thousand years ago, a flower Bloomed lightly in a far off-laud; Two thousand years ago, its seed >Vas placed within a dead man's hand. Before the Saviour came to earth, That man had lived and loved, and died, And even in that far-off time, The flower had spread its perfume wide. Suns rose and set, years came and went, The dead had kept its treasure well, Natious were born and turned to dust, While life was hidden in that shell. The shrivelled hand is robbed at last. The seed is buried in the earth; When lo ! the life long, hidden there — Into a glorious flower burst forth. Just such a plant as that which grew From such a seed when buried low; — Just such a flower in Egypt bloomed And died two thousand years ago. And will not He who watched the seed, And kept the life within the shell, When those He loved are laid to rest, Watch o'er their buried dust as well ? And will He not from 'neath the sod Cause something glorious to arise? Aye, though it sleep two thousand years, Yet all that buried dust shall rise. Just such a face as greets you now, Just such a form as here we wear, Only more glorious tar, will rise To meet the Saviour in the air. Then will I lay me down in peace. When called to leave this vale of tears, For "in my flesh shall I see God," Even though I sleep two thousand years. HER BRIGHT SMILES HAUNT ME STILL. 'Tis years since last we met, And we may not meet again; I have struggled to forge*. But my struggles are in vain. For her voice lives on the breeze, And her spirit comes at will : At midnight on the seas, Her bright smiles haunt me still. At the firat sweet dawn of light, When I gaze upon the deep, Her form still meets my sight, As the siars their vigil keep. When my aching eyes I close, Sweet dreams my senses fill; When I from sleep arise, Her bright smiles baunt me still. I have sailed 'neath alien skies, I have trod the desert path, I have seen the storm arise Like a giant in his wrath; Every sorrow have I knowu That a reckless life can feel, Yet her presence has not flown— Her bright smiles haunt me still. THE NEW VOTERS of the SOUTH ERN STATES. The colored men of the southern states arc about to become voters; naturally there is a good deal of discussion of their charac ter —fcr the most part, wc notice, by men who know nothing about theui, but who evolve their negro out of the depths of their inner consciousness. The southern negroes cannot help but be an ignorant class. They and their ancestors for generations have been carefully kept in ignorance; to teach a black child to read was four years ago, a state prison offence in South Carolina and other southern states; to argue that they ought to be taught was enough to secure one's expulsion from the southern states. Every incentive to knowl edge was taken away from the blacks; and the white masters, like many English squires, held that the only way to treat their dependents was to keep them in the most abject and stolid ignorance. It is doubtful if the mass of the southern negroes are much more ignorant than the ' lower class of the English peasantry. The 1 negroes speak in a barbarous and uniotelli -1 gible jargon or dialect, but it is not more uncouth or less intelligible than the speech of the English peasant. The field negroes have sonic strange superstitions, some re pulsive habits and customs ; but these we ; believe could be matched, for the most part, j by equally strange and repuhive customs ! among the agricultural laborers of England 1 But it docs not benefit any one to show that they are no worse than others. The interesting question is, what are they, in themselves? what qualities arc they devel oping? what traits appear prominently io them now that the strong light of freedom is brought to bear upon them? We have before us the last report of the Superintendent of Schools for Freedom, from which we draw a few taetswhich wili j interest the candid inquirer. It Is plain, in j the first place, that the blacks .-how a strong and enduring desire for knowledge. There were in the southern states, on the 30th of j June, under the general charge of the I Freedmen's Bureau, J. 839 day and night j schools, 1,126 Sunday schools. 111,442 day j and night pupils, and 80,647 Sunday school scholars. These figures tell, perhaps, hut j a vague story; but ; n six months the num ber of day an 1 night schools had increased by 632, containing 657 teachers and 33,444 j scholars; the whole numlier of schoolsjn- j creased in six months by 1.303, with 76,- j 638 scholars; and of the schools 1,056 were supported wholly or in part by the freed rneo; 301 of the .school buildings were owued by them —who, until about 1865, could not ; even own themselves; and 699 of the teach ers were colored—of a class, that is to say, to whose members, until within three years, the knowledge of reading was counted a cap ital crime. There are in the southern states now 21 normal schools, with l,t>Bl pupils; there are 35 industrial schools; and the report tells us that the average attendance in all the schools A LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, EDUCATION. LITERATURE AND MORALS. is "nearly 75 per cent, of the enrolment," which shows how eager the people arc to avail themselves of the means to acquire knowledge. i We learn also from the report, that tetn . perance societies are established among the I blacks; and that these associations have a I large membership, and are redeeming many ; from the misuse of spirituous liquors. The ' grown men and women study at night; and there is a cry for "a spelling book in every house." "1 want to know what is on the ticket myself," said a black man who was busy with a primer. They have shown, in their loyal leagues, considerable talent for organization. They -bow also thrift as traders; and they have developed remarkable power of adapting themselves to the new state of liberty; have appreciated the advantages of conn: and the disadvantages of other modes of labor; and on all hands, everywhere, show the most jealous regard for their liberties. Finally, they save money. They are now twenty savings banks for fretdmen, and no doubt numbers of them deposit their sav ings in other banks. These twenty savings baDks have now on deposit over half a mil lion dollars; they have revived, first and last, over two millions; and large numbers of Freedmen have become settled in life, going into business or buying homesteads, with the money they have been induced to save; and very many more have been taught habits of economy and thrift by this institu tion. With such qualities developed among the blacks during the brief time which has elapsed since they became free, no candid man needs to despair of their improvement; and no unprejudiced mind will object to their admission to the franchise on the score of danger to the general interest. It may continue to be a dogma with ignorant party politicians that negroes ought not vote; but when men like Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, openly and distinctly urge their states, as a matter of policy, to give the blacks the vote, wc need not listen to j the evil prophecies of northern reactionary politicians who denounce ruin to the coun try from the adoption of the policy of equal rights and general suffrage.— Xew York Evening Post. POLITICS AND THE SABBATH. The Sunday laws are essentially the same | in all the States, and do not interfere with the rights of conscience or any man's liberty, but simply protect the people in their right to a quiet day of weekly rest, which is nec essary tor the body as well as the soul, and i-a civil as well as a Christian institution.. The highest legal authorities of the country irrespective of party, have proved the eon sticutionality and defended the wisdom and necessity of iaws for the protection of the Christian Sabbath. But the immediate aim of the enemies of the Christian Sabbath in New York, is to effect the repeal of the Metropolitan Excise liw, which they hate on account cf its Sun ! day clause. This clause reads as follow-; Section 14. "All persons licensed as L*a in provided shall keep the places ut which they are licen.-ed to keep, sell, give, and dis pose of strong and spiritous liquors, wines, ale, and beer orderly and quiet, and be twecn the hoars of twelve o clock at night and sunrise, and on Sundays completely and effectually dosed. Nothing herein contain ed shall be construed to prevent hotels from receiving and otherwise entertaining the travelling public upon Sundays, subject to the restrictions contained in this section. " Tliis section has no political character whatever, it has nothing to do with party platforms and party measures. It stands on high moral ground. It is not oppressive or tyrannical. It prescribes no religiou- ob servance for Sunday, but simply prohibits the public traffic in intoxicating drink on Sundays. All other kinds of traffic are pro hibited. It is in perfect agreement with older State laws prohibiting the liquor traf fic on Sundays and election days. It is not severer than the city ordinance of 1855, Is sued under the administration of, and sign ed by Major Fernando Wood. It has been pronounced con'tirntiona! by the Supreme Court and by the Couit of Appeals. It is the best feature of the Excise law, it gives to it vitality and moral vigor. It makes it effective for good, and hence the wrath of the rum and lager interest. It has worked admirably for the short time it has been in operation. It has closed more than three thousand of the worst rum holes which lived | on Sunday vice and dissipation; it ha- re duced Sunday arrests more than one half; it j saves the hard earnings of the working man which used to be spent for intoxicating drink; it gives us more quiet Sabbaths than we had for years before; it acts as a powerful check upon intemperance, vice and crime, and diminishes in the same proportion, pauperism and taxation. All good and or derly citizens are satisfied with its working. Certainly a law which has such a favora ble record to show ought not only to be su tained, but applied to the whole State. The Sunday clause at least is the very last fea ture of tbd Excise law of 1866, that ought to lie repealed. Its repeal would be a pub lic calamity to this city, and inaugurate again the supreme reign of rum and lager on the day which was ordained for repose, for worship, and for the intellectual and moral improvement of the race. But our people, we trust, will never sell their Sabbath for rum. They will watch j the candidates for the offices of public trust and give their support to no man who takes | ground against laws which protect the peo j pie in the enjoyment of one of their clearest I rights and dearest privileges. ALI. THERE. —A whole family in heaven! Who can picture or describe the everlasting joy! No one absent. No father, or moth er, nor son, nor daughter are away. In the world below they were united in faith, and love, and peace, and ascended together, i Before the throne they bow together in uni ted adoration. On the banks of the Iliver ! of Life they walk hand in hand, and as a j family have commenced a career of glory ! which shall be everlasting. There is here , after to he no separation in that family, j No one is to lie down upon a bed of pain. I No one to wander in the arms of death, j Never in heaven is that family to _ move ; along in the slow procession, clad in the . habiliments of woe, to consign one of its ! members to the tomb. God grant that, j in Hi* infinite mercy, every family may be i thus united. I'LL Do IT TO-MORROW.— There were j two boys in a school I used to go to when I ; was young, which was about forty years | ago. One was remarkable for doing with j promptness and perseverance whatever he j undertook. The other had a habit of put- I ting off everything he could. "I 11 do it to morrow," was hi.- motto. "I 11 doit now, was the motto of the other boy. The boy who loved to put things off had the best natural talent, hut be was outstripped in the race of life by his neighbor, whose mot to was, "I'll do it now. ' Latthat be yonr motto. Never put off till to-morrow what can be done to day. BEDFORD. PH.. FRIDAY JAN tT AR V 31. 1869. ONLY A BKA TY. Emma Sinclair was the htauty of V\ iilovy Grove, and she knew it. _ .Every ook and gesture, ani even the earriape'ot her head, was studied. When she was at a party she : was eoulinuaily thinking of the effect she produced; and when she was at home, she- Was planning soma now ornament to wear in public. . , Of course she had muny admirers. She could never walk half the length of the j principal street without bring joined by some gentleman; and at a dancing assembly 1 she was sure to be engaged lar every set be ' fore she had been in the roon ten minutes, j In the summer there was always a brisk j competition for the honor of her company jat a picnic. And yet, sem.'how, she was i still unmarried. j Her school companions, sncafter another had settled in life; but she wis left single, ; alone, of all the number —J' we except : Mollie Newcomb, who from shyness and ex ! cessive plainness, was generally set down a j certain to die an old maid. If truth must be told, Enmi wa- ex -- : sively particular. Her no ionj of her.- ;t I were so high that she thought iut few sui j tors good enough for her. At li-t, however j when George Budd returned from Europe. and settled down in the large old mansion i of his family, the Grove screed that the ' beauty had louud at last i lover equal to : her ideal; for he was both rich and talented : and belonged, be-ide to tie most ar:-to i eratic set of the country. George seemed to have oeou conquered ] by her charms the very first time they met. lie danced with her as frequently as he dared, and when not dancing stood apart stealing glances at her; he hung over her when she -ung, and accompanied her home. The next day he called upon her as soon a ; etiquette permitted, and on Sunday appear - |ed with Emma at church. Everybody said j it was an engagement, for if he was fascina ' ted, she appeared not less so. Bat all at once George Budd ceased his attentions to tlie beauty of the village, aud I was soon beheld as assiduous in his atten i tion to Mollie Newcomb, a- he had ever I been to her more lieautiful rival. Every- I body was astounded, except a few elders ol i the place with whom Mollie had always been I a favorite, who shook their head?, saving it ; was just what they expected, for that Mol lie's amiability was a thousand times Letter I than Emma's beauty. liet us look in on George, as he sit? ehaf ! ting with a confidential friend, and hear the 1 real cause of the change. "You mu?t know Mollie." he .-aid. "She is mode.-ty personified; yet her talents are extraordinary", and her amiability and ac complishments a- great. Indeed her mod esty, bv causing shyness, makes many think her plain : but plain she i- not. at least to those who know her ; for in familiar conver sation, the enthusiasm of her soul kindles her countenance into a spiritual beauty that is indescribable." "You were soon off with the beautiful I Miss Sinclair, of whom you wrote so rap turously the first week v/.'i -i.t r,; j; -ro ' George blu-h-d a lift 1 !*- t ,r he felt how fooli-h he had been as he replied: "Yes I She dazzled me for a while, but 1 soon found my error ; though I cannot for give myself for being duped, even for a week by a pair of fine eyes, and a coquette's artifi cial manner." "Is she merely a beauty ?" "Yes, merely a beauty. All sbe thinks about is how she look?. Her mind is a mere blank; or rather a shallow stream, of which one gets the plummet immediately." "Yet you seemed so enraptured at first. that I fear she may have begun to like you." George laughed. "No fear of that, my good fellow; she loves herself too intensely ever to love any man. Ah I what a contrast between her and Mollie. It is like passing from a crow ded, close ball-room, with its glare of gas, and its hum of meaningless conversation, to the free air of heaven, with the bird? -ingiug the waters gurgling, and the sunshine spar kling around you. '•You are poetical." "And so you will he, too, when you krow Mollie. But come, put on your hat; it is time to go there, and I want you to be quite intimate before you return to be my grooms ! man." A month from that time George Budd married Mollie Newcomb. The bride really looked beautiful on that auspicious morning i and what is more has been growing more | lovely ever since. Would you know why ? ; Because an intelligent mind, united to a 1 generous heart is the creator of beauty, even i where it does not originally exist. M iss Sinclair is now a faded old maid, i with sunken eyes, a skin like parchment and I the sharpest of noses. Her face has a sour I and discontented look which increases with j her years. Ever since she lost George Budd she has been secretly at war with the world. Now, then, reader which is the better —to he plain, and good, or merely a beauty? We leave it to your special consideration. WORKING GIRLS. Happy girls! v?ho cannot love them? with checks like ro.-c- bright eyes and eias i tic step, how cheerfully they go to work. | Our reputation for it, such girl- will niak excellent wives. Blessed indeed will tl. -e Hicu be who secure such prizes. Contrast those who do nothing but sigh all day. and live to follow the fashions, who never earn j the bread they cat, or the shot - they wear: who are languid and lazy from one wc-ek'- end to another. Who but a simpleton and popiujay would prefer one of the lath t if he were looking for a companion? Give us the working girls, they arc worth their weight in gold. You never sec th :n min ; cing along, or jumping a d>en feet to steer clear of a spider or a fly; they h ivc no affection for silly air- and trying >s! ,<v off to better advantage, and you fi ei as tl; i:h you were talking to a hum :i g and not to a painted automaton or a fallen angel. If girls knew how .-a lly they missed while endeavoring so show off th if delicate hand? unsoiled skin, and putting on a thousand airs, they would give worlds for the situa tion of working-ladies, who arc as far above them in intelligence, in honor, ia everything as the heavens are above the earth. Be wise then, yon who have made fools of yourselves through life. Turn over a j new leaf and begin, though late, to live and ' act as human tarings, as companions to mortal man, and not playthings and dolls, la uo other way can you be happy and subserve the designs of your existence. DANGEROUS. — When Franklin was am bassador to the French court, a lady who was about being presented to the king, no ticed bis exceedingly plain appearance, and asked who lie wa- On L ing told that he was Dr. Benjamin Franklin, the Ameri can atnba-ssador, she exclaimed: "The North American ambassador so shabbily dressed !" "Hush. Madam, for Heaven's sake, whi-pcred a friend, "he i- the man that i bottles up thunder and lightning. THE SONG or THE WATERS. One of the noblest of New England rivers i flowed near the hotel where I passed the j night. As lat time* awoke, it was a pleas j ing occupation to listen to the "sound of many waters" _ a? they rushed among the rock- of a neighboring waterfall. It wa not jarring and harsh, but quiet irid sooth- ' ing. I mused pleasingly upon the service i ut song, aud, though the wu.-ic itself wa monotonous, yet to me tlu-re was instruct ivc variety in the lessons I learned, for L It wa- a /ong of power. I should not have lteard this midnight music if there had '> en uo power in these ru-hing waters. The sound proved the force with which the i nias-ive rocks were -truck by the moving i flood. Strong was the band upon the harp. And the strong wafers all along in the vast course of the falls had been made by human skill to observe with great power the inter e-ts of enterprise and industry. How could I fail of musing upon Him "whose are th" resplendent river?," and who has pow -r to hold ail the ocean- in "the hollow of His hand." 2. ft was a s"e g of wisdom A drop of water! How curious its ' mpoaition! And lew admirably adapted this vast elenieu: to the use of man and the welfare of the world, 1 he fertility of the soil shall an-wer; go shall the power it furnishes for euuntlc-- mftshan Lai operation.- - ; so shall the highway of t- muiierco and travel it provides; so ?hali all the life it give- the vegetable world and all the refreshment given to thirsty man and bea-t. So that was a sweet song of the night, as it freshened ail my waking thoughts with the music of the theme—the wisdom and goodness of God. 3. It was a song of the ages. Every time 1 awoke the music wa- going on, and no man knoweth how long ago it began. Through years, through ages—none can tell how many—the harp had not been once hung upon the willow-. Ansl the midnight rnu-ie on my eat would be midday and mid night ron-ie in the nncea-ing roll of these running waiters. Generations past had heard, generations coming would hear. Would the waters ever ran Oy, so that the musician -hould drop his harp and the rone cea.-,: and be resumed no more? Would not this be an unfailing-ong? Surely, til! that remote era when He who commanded the first strains of the song should say, "Let th.-rn cease!" In the soft and thing music of this midnight song, how • a-y and natural and pleasant to think of t at other River "pro • •••fdinz our of the throne of God and the Lamb." To my acquaintance with the -•root melody of these running waters, how blessed to add acquaintance with those to which the Lamb -hail lead Hi- redeemed people—living water-, of which if one drinks, he -hall never thir-t again.—Xctr York Observer. A SLIGHT MISTAKE. They have some affectinc weddings out in *the flat country, beyond the trees. In the semi rural district of Winona, iireg, amoosc -everal other poople, a joily fellow of a justice of tbe peace. One fair day, after the ten hv twelve dispensary hid lieen swept, there wa- a step heard on the stair, and a very vigorous rap at the door. "Come in," said the justice. A handsome, bli -k-eyed, Spanish looking woman entered. It was a clear case ot a senorita, of the New Mexican brand. She had on a short woolen dress, wooden soled shoes; spotted red cheeks, black hair, and eyes that snapped like the lock of a shot gun. In a Spanish accent, and in the worst possi ble English, she -aid: "You make jnsticia acquia? You the law man ?'' "Yes, madam; be seated —" "Want paper: want paper to take the man." Just then a stout French half-breed en tered the room, He was unable to speak a dozen words, and he looked either scared or bashful. The Justice *aw at once that there was a marriage to come off, and turn ing to the woman said:— ' Want paper to take this man ?" _ • Yes, want paper; me teach him."— (Nice woman, thought the justice.) "All right." as he turned to the man and said: "you know this woman: can take her ?" The man sh- ok his head and muttered unintelligible words. "Ah. 1 see; can't talk English, well, nev er inind." He ran ir.to the street, invited a few Friends u;> stairs, and then said to the wo man:— "You want to take him ? "Yes; me pay." "All right." Then turning to the man. who stood, trembling:— "You take this woman, for better or for worse, ani promise to keep her ? "Umph !" and several nods of the head. "Then in the name of the law, and by virtue of the authority io me vested. I pronounce you man and wife. ' And he stepped forward before the woman could sav a word, and ki--ed her red lips. Slap I came her hand in his face, and she clutched his hair. The new husband jam ; , d to take the woman away, and to protect her, as the man supposed, when in self-de f.-nce the justice gave him a rap on the nose. The woman pitched inio the new husband, who in turn pitched into her, a*)<: for about five minutes there was a general bustling. At last the • arties were separated, when the man and woman took another turn at ich her, the blood and hair flying in every direction. Down came the stove, ov r went the table, clatter went the chairs, and in: > the street like mad Went the justice with the besom of his shirt looking like a warranty deed covered with red seals I A crowd rushed up stairs and found the man and woman lying on the floor, the wo man on top, and compelling the newly made ho-hand with a will. The newly married couple were separated, when through the aid of two interpreters it wa - discovered that the parties, occupying adjoining -hanth sin the lower part of the town, had got into a dispute over some stove pipe that was claimed by both, and from words they had come to blows. Each party had hastened to the justice for a war rant !or the other, with the result as stated I above. The last news from there wa- that the parties had gone in search of another justice to unmarry them. REJOICINO IN GOD. —1 will enjoy all thir.vs in God, and God in all things, noth ing in it-ell; so shall my joy- neither change nor peri-h. For however the things them selves may alter or fade, yet He, in whom they are urine, is even like Himself, constant and everlasting. Surely wc are wise for any thing hut our souls; aud so wise for the body as foolish for them. < > Dud, thy pay ment is sute; and who know- how present? Take the sou! that thou hast both madeand : bought: and let me rather give my life for thy power, then take the offers of the world 1 for nothing.— Bishop llall. VOLUME 41; JO. 5. BOOK FARM WO.— Boole Farming is sim ply the best farming put in books—yonrs, reader, if it is the best. A fool cannot write a book; an aide man mast do it—not a man . of mere accomplishments or learning—bat one versed in the business be writes upon. It is thus that we have books by the best i men in all the departments. These men make our literature—and to be opposed to them, is to be arrayed against knowledge, | against schools and newspapers. What is ; thought of the man who opposes education? I And what is education, but to learn to know a thing? If the prejudiced reader i prejudiced against book-farming) knows how to trim his vine, he is the man, if he has words for it, to write a book on the sub ject—the very man w<- want, for we are af ter facts, after the best mode. And yet this would be called ''book-fanning." It is mere prejudice, depend upon it. But there is one evil which gives rise to this very prejudice: bad books are foisted on the publie. These are read—and they lead into error; and forthwith good and bad are condemned. Our l>cst men certainly are not the fools. ()ur ablest men who lead in their depart m-nts, are men qualified, if any, to impart iu-truction. Shall we heed thetu? or shall we follow after our wn half-formed, inex porieneea notions? We haveour prejudices, and they make u-believe we are right, with out consulting the facts of the ca.-e.— Rural World. _ Ota LOST YOCTH. —How often, amid the turmoil of busy life, home, like the balmy breath from some fairy land, the en chanting visions of our youthful days; the days when our hearts knew nothing of the wounds of slighted friendship or betrayed trust, and when all the earth seemed per fection, unmarred by blemish. Truly, childhood is the Eden of life, the sunny verdurous Paradise among lovely bowers, blowing none but the most subtle and enrap turingbreezes; full of bright flowers, blissful hopes, and pure desires, and which no re ality of maturer lifS can quell. Say not, O, sordid, there is no joy in dtearning, no pleasure in recalling the past to view, while threading the tortuous wind ings of the world's ways. The days gone by—the days when buoyant youth crowned our brows and laughed in our radiant eyes, and the earth seemed free from sin—are these nothing? Maturity may bring post tion, wider experience and thorough knowl edge; but of all these, all the rich inheri tance of age and wisdom, cannot compare ' with the innocent care free hours, so fleet winged and sunny, of the early days gone ' by. Bright crown of perpetual youth ! you ' will never be donned tilt the pearly gates are entered in and changing mortality gives way to eternal life. — E.r. IHE MANAGING WOMAN. —The mana ging woman is a pearl among women: she is one of the prizes in the lottery of life, and the man who draws her may rejoice for the balance of his days. Better than riches, she i-a fountain in herself—a gold mine never failing in'its yield-—a spring of plca-ant wa t r-. whose banks are fringed with moss and flowers. The managing woman can do anything; and does everything well. Per ceptive and executive, of quick sight and steady hand, she always knows exactly what i - wanting, and supplies the deficiency with a tact and cleverness peculiar to herself. She knows the capabilities of persons as well things, for she has an infinitive knowl edge of character. The managing woman, if not always patient, is alwavs energetic, an 1 can never be disappointed into inaction. Though -he has to teach the same thing , over and over again, and though she finds her duties dense as boxwood, and hands as inefficient as fishes' fins, still she is never weary of her vocation of arranging and or dering and never less than hopelul of a fa vorable result. Mn.cn AND SCGAR PEOPLE. —A vener able oi l man gives the following as the re stilt of a life long experience. Let the slandered take comfort; it is only at fruit trees that the thieves throw stones: No man that tries to do Lis duty to his follow man and endeavors to so live as to bear the fruits of true religion in hi.- daily conduct, can for a moment suj pose that he will pass along through life without being slandered more or le-s. feuch a man will of necessity have some enemies: and those en emies will try in every way to injure him, and among others they will not be slow in stirring up the polluted water of defamma ticm and slander. "A man who has no enemies is merely a milk and water nothing. We would not give three figs for such a man. "He who is anything—who makes his mark in the world—who does good—will have enemies—and if he has them, he will be sure to be slandered." TRUTH. —Adhere always rigidly and un deviatingly to truth: but while you express what is true, express it in a pleasing man ner. Truth is the picture—the manner is the frame that displays it to advantage. If a man blends his angry passions with lib search after truth, become his superior by suppressing yours, and attend only to the justness and force of his reasoning. Truth conveyed in austere and acrimonious lan guage", seldom lias a salutary effect, since we reject the truth, because we are prejudiced asrainst the mode of communication. A man may betray the cause of truth by his unreasonable zeal, as he destroys its saluta ry effects by the acrimony of his manner. Whoever would be a successful instructor must become a mild and affectionate friend. NOT BAD. —A good story b related of the democratic meeting held at St. Clairsvjlle, Ohio, the week before the recent election. V deleagtion that left W heeling met a sim ilar delegation from Bridgeport and the marshal recognized in the marshal of the Wheeling column a rebel officer who had cruelly opposed him. when an inmate of Libby Prison. Turning to his procession he said, "Boys, here is the rebel Captain—who took my sword when I was so unfortunate a-to be taken prisoner. He is marshaling the democratic delegation from Wheeling. I go with no party that thus thrusts traitors forward to positions of honor,' Saying this, lie took off his marshal's scarf and turned his horse homeward, followed by all but one man in his delegation. LET every pious parent regard his furaiiy as a little school for the church, and act as a teacher designated by the Saviour on pur pose to train the children for his service, and we shall see a glorious result. Let parents neglect this dutv, and their children will prove incompetent to meet the responsibili ties awaiting them, and the parents must an-wer for the ruin that will ensue. The laws of Lycurgus required that all children of Sparta should be trained for the State. Jesus teaches his subjects to believe tnat children arc a heritage of the Lord, and to train them for the Church. THE best duality of mind ghat any one can couie in posses-ion of is the strength to bear up against disappointment and misfortunes. K4T B 3 0 ? IDVEBTIIJ FV- All aArertiiwmMrtl for less than 3 month* 10 oent pT lino for each insertion. Special notice* 000-half additional. All resolutions ofAwoeia tion, communication* of a limited or indiridal interest and notices t f marriages and tleiths, ex ceeding fire lines, 10 eta. per line. All legal noti ces of every kind, and all Orphans' Court and Other Judicial sales, are required hj la* to be pub lished in both papers, fWTTbrinl Notices 15 cents per line. All Advert sing dae after first Insertion. A liberal discount male to yearly advertisers. 3 moots. 6 months, 1 year One sqnare ". f 4.50 $ 6.66 SIO.OO Twe squares 6.00 9.00 16.00 Three squares 8.00 12.00 20.00 One-fourth column 14.00 29.00 35.00 Half column 18.00 25.00 45.00 One column 30,00 45.00 80.00 CONUNDRUMS.— What best describes and most retards a pilgrim ? A Banyan (bunion). Why do "birds in their little nests agree?" Because they'd fall out if they didn't. Why is a dishonest bankrupt like an hon est poor man ? Because both fail to get rich. Why is a mouse like a load of hay ? Be cause the cat'll eat it. When is a recruit supposed to be raw ? Until he has been exposed to fire. What adventure made Dick Whitting ton's fortune ? A purr adventure. What sort of blades were the Roman Em perors Augustus and Tiberius ? TLe blades that lormed a pair of Ctesars of course. What roof covers the most noisy tenant? The roof of the mouth. When is a sermon like a round shot? When it comes from a cannon's mouth. Who was Jonah's tutor? Whale, who brought him up. When -hall we have another war with Turkey? Next Thanksgiving day. What magazine wWld be likely to give the best report of a fire ? A powder maga zine. Why is love like the letter R ? Because it makes many a Mary marry. "Why is the letter D like a ring?" said a young lady to her accepted, one day. The gentleman, like the generality of his sex in cuch a situation, was as dull as a hammer. "Because," added the lady, with a very modest look at the picture at the other end of the room, "ice can't be t cfd without it." IF there is any defect more striking than another in the American character it is bashfulness. Young America, in particular, is painfully affected by it. An incident is mentioned by a correspon dent who was desired by fiis aunt to go to neighbor Shaw's and see if he had for sale any straw suitable for filling beds. "Mr. Shaw,' says our informant, 'was blessed with a goodly number of Misses Shaw, and I therefore felt a little timid at encountering them. To make the matter worse, I arrived just as the family were seated at dinner. Stopping at the doorway, hat in hand. I stammered out, 'Mr. Straw, can you spare enough Shaw to fill a couple of beds ?' 'Well,' replied the old gentleman, glanc ing around at the large family and enjoying my mistake, 'I den't know but I can; how many will you need ?' Before I could recover, those hateful Shaw girls burst into a chorus of laughter and I returned to my excellent aunt. A small boy out west, was assisting bis father to mark sheep with paint and brush. The father would catch a sheep and say to the boy, 'Mark that. After the job was done, the boy started for his home, which was some distance, and was overtaken by a minister on horseback, who, seeing the boy baiefoot, invited him to ride behind him. After the boy was seated he began to cate chise him thus: 'My lad, do you attend the Sabbath School?' 'No !' was the reply. 'You should attend the Sabbath School, mark that! All good children should at tend both church and Sabbath School, mark that!' After many mote remarks of this kind the boy replied: 'I have marked your back all over now, and it looks like thunder.' The reverend gentleman was somewhat astonished when he examined his coat. THE following colloquy took place between a New York census marshal and a native of Germany: 'Who lives here ?' 'Sharmony on der Rhine.' What'syour father's name ?' 'Nix for shtay.' When did you arrive in Albany ?' "Mit a steamboats.' 'Got any children ?' 'Yaw, two parrels mit kraut' ' How long have you been in this house ?'' 'Two and der basement.' 'Who owns the building ?' 'I pas nothing. Hans pays der same twice a month.' 'Where did you live last year ?' 'Across der red store, as you eoom up mit der market in your right hand behind der pump what belong to der back smith shop.' THE TROUBLES OF LlFE.—Sometimes I compare the troubles which we have to un dergo in the year, to a great bundle of fag gots, far to large for us to lift; but God does not require us to carry the whole at once. He mercifully unties the bundle, and gives us first one stick, which we are to car ry to day; and then another, which we are !to carry to-morrow; and so on. This we might carefully manage, if we would only take the burden appointed for us each day; but we choose to increase our troubles by carrying yesterday's sticks over again to day, and adding to-morrow's burden to our load before we are required to bear it. GOD IS NATURE.—He who balances the clouds and hung the earth upon nothing, notices the fall of the sparrow. He who gave Saturn his rings, and placed the moou like a ball of silver in the broad arch of the heaven, gives the rose leaf its delicate tint, and made the distant sun to nourish the violet. WHILE a gang of telegraph men were stringing wire from a reel in a wagon, the horse being driven along slowly. country man rushed up to the driver, and, in the in nocence of his heart, informed him that he was losiiii7 his load', that his wire was scat tered all along the road behind him. IN Texas coin has held its proper place wonderfully. It has been the standard for commercial transactions longer and more ex tensively than the Texans had a right to hope, but it is giving way to the paper cur rency, which is taken now on the Texas Central Railway fcr freight and passage money. THEBE is no funeral so sad to follow as the funerai of our own youth, which we i have been pampering with fond desires, i ambitious hopes, and all the bright berries which hang in poisonous clusters over the path of life. LEAI* YEAR DIALOGUE.—"Miss, will you take my arm ?" "Yes, sir, and you too." t , "Can t spare but the arm. replied the old bachelor. , "Then," replied she, "I shan t take it, as my motto is, go the tchole hog or nothing. ROMANTIC. —We knew a rich man in the i West, who called his manson "Glenmaiy," I out of respect to his wife Mary, who had , died. One of his neighbors, not to be out -1 done in connubial agecrion, built a new 1 cabiu and called it "Glcnbctsy."
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