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'Clrasses spring, waters rill; flowers blow Pretty much as they did ninety-three years ago. Nothing more, did I say ? Stay one moment, you've heard Of Caldwell, the parson, who Once preached the Word Down in Springfield? What! No? Come, that's bad—why he had All the Jerseys aflame! And they gave him the name. Of the "rebel high priest" He stuck in their gorge— For he loved the Lord God, and he hated King George. He had cause, you might say ! When the Hessians that day Alarthed lip with Knyphausen they stopped on their way At the "Farms," where his wifewith a child in her arntsP Sat alone in the house. How it happened none knew But God—and that one of the hireling crew Whopred the shot! Enough !— there she lay . . . . And Caldwell, the chaplain, her husband, totay ! Did he preach—did ho pray? Think of hint, as you stand By the old church to-day—think of him and that head Of militant ploughboys ! See the smoke and the heat Of that reckless advance—of thatatrigglhiar, retreat! Keep the ghost of that wife, Coullyehiin, in Sour ~iow— Andwhet could you—what should you, what would you do? Why just what lie did j They were left in the lurch For the want of more wadding. Ile ran into the church, Broke the door, stripped the pewe, and dashed out in the road With his arms fall of hymn-books, and threw down his load At their feet! Then, above all the shouting and shots, Rang his mice—" Put Watts Into 'em—Boys, give 'em Watts l" And they did. That ia all. GratueA endig, tlowersi blow Pretty notch as they did ninety-three years ago. You may dig anywhere and you'll turn up a ball— But not always a hero like this—and that's all. Doha's Govormout Bold. "Wur do you go to Cherrywood ?" ask ed everybody three years ago. "Because nobody else goes there," we truthfully and unfashionably replied, and we never regretted it. When the railroad journey_ was ended and the twelve mile drive in a two-seated spring wagon was superadded, it must be confessed that the sight of Widow Blotch ford's, where, in the Yankee parlance of our driver, we were to "put up," was not enlivening. Externally the house was of bright red, and for a moment its appear ance increased our heat and exhaustion ; but once inside, the coolness and shadow were inexpressibly soothing. The rooms were deliciously dim to our weary eyes; through the window came the tinkling trickle of water over rocks from a spring behind the house, and though the wall pa per was a pattern of chocolate-colored urns in painfully precise rows, on a ground of sombre gray, and two mourning pieces, framed in black wood, were conspicuous ornaments, the pure white dimity curtains, and the jar of pale green and delicately fragrant wood ferns in the fireplace gave grace and lightness sufficient to redeem the depressive effects of the first mentioned features. The windows looked out on a grand mountain panorama, crowned with changing clouds, and the valley stretching away below. We exclaimed with delight as we sank into the straight-backed cush ioned rockers, and took in the situation. "I expect you're dreadful fond of moun tains," said the good hostess beamingly.-- "But hadn't you better take some supper now ? The hills will keep, but maybe the victuals won't." They did not long, for we addressed our selves to their disposal with marked suc cess. What a supper ! Crispy fried brook trout; smaller and sweeter than any other fish that swims ; powdery potatoes of mar velous whiteness, heaped-up doughnuts, ample slices of brown bread and white dit to, "slap-jacks" of size and tenderness, and the inevitable Yankee "soda biscuits," hot, light, and yellcw. How good it tasted only those can know who, like ourselves, have traveled, far and long, climbing for hours straight up hill after hill, to reach at last table-land, where the air is so pure, so clear, so bracing, that we rise body and soul on tiptoe. Then we slept the sleep of the just and undyspeptic, on husk mat tressees that were neither thin or knobby, lulled by the tinkling spring into pleasant dreams. Cherrywood life for visitors was exhilar sting with fun, fishing, mountain climbing, and mountain drives, too t for those who 1 1 had the temerity to struggle into the high wagons fearlessly of the steep up and down road, and confident in the strength of the harness. Gradually we came to know and like many of the people, beinc , taken in their homes and interests with ;free heart edness which we fear will cease if Cherry wood ever gets a name as a 'nice summer resort," and learns the give-little-and-take much system of most places so yclept. Our hostess, dear motherly woman, was a stout walking encyclopedia of information regarding every neighbor, great and small, spicing each tale or anecdote with shrewd comments and keen perception of charac ter and softening all by honest, unpretend ing charity. ..Take notice who's in the store, won't you Y I'm particular to know if Reuben Gilson has got back." - She called thus after us one pleasant afternoon, as we were going for the papers left by the mail stage at the store, which was also the postoffice for Cherrywood, and we assented, wondering inwardly if Reuben Gilson went about labeled, that we were expected to know him at once. A glance sufficed to tell us that all the occupants of the store and porch were known to us, but as we turned from the building a tall, blithe figure passed us, with a ringing tread and a courteous gesture of salute that did not savor of Cherrywood manners, which, though kindly, were mostly unpolished.— We had a glimpse of dark, keen eyes, and plain, sensible features, and presently re ported our observation to Widow Blatch ford, who came to meet us through the gloaming, greeting us a few yards from the door. WITH BUSINESS CARDS, CONCERT TICKETS, LEGAL BLANKS, PAMPHLETS "Certainly, that was Reuben," was ber interested assent, "I declare, I should like to see Delia Bligh now." Bligh ? Surely we remembered seeing her. It was our first Sunday in the white meeting-house, when, with all the congre gation we faced the choir for the singing of the last hymn. A sweet, apple blossom face with its delicate tints and baby blue eyes, redeemed from mere insipid pretti ness by the decided character of the square little chin anti the firm curve of the lips in repose. •'A wil4 rose among mullen staiks," the doctor had called her, with a man's eyes to the cheeks and dimples only, winning by his remark a pleased smile from our hostess. Ole puo,o' glum. A Hundred Years to Come We 1111 within our graves shall shin A hundred yews to come ; No living soul fur us uhall weop A hundred years to come: But other men our land will till, And other men our streets will fill, And other birds shall singes gay, And bright the sunshine as to-day A hundred Scare to come. Caldwell of Springfield NEW JEltszy-17So. Vito ffitorg-Udin. HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1873. But what had pretty Delia Bligh to do with Reuben Gilson's home-coming ? As all women from fourteen to four score are alive to any hint of a love story, we pro ceeded to importune our hostess for infor mation, and she, kind soul, soon gratified us. Pretty Delia Bligh and Reuben Gilson had '•kept company" from childhood, and had been engaged; but after Reuben went into business at Grafton Mills and Delia taught school at Cranberry Corners, a coolness arose between them, ending in the breaking of the engagement. "Reuben is a favorite with me, and so i 3 Delia, for that matter," said Mrs. Blatch ford. "Girls are high strung; mostly they have more pride than wisdom when they're young. Delia's no exception, but she is good material. I don't want to see her spoiled. "What began the coolness ?" we que ried. "Reuben lives at Mrs. Frye's when he is here; she is his aunt. I guess that had as much to do with it as anything," said our hostess, with a shrewd laugh. "I don't speak against her. I know no harm of her, except being Josephine's stepmother, and that's more her misfortune, poor thing." We knew Mrs Blatchford's opinion of the thin lipped "Josephine," having heard it aforetime when we also heard the story of Dorema Fletcher's brave struggles against poverty and public opinion. "Honey on the surface and gall inside." our hostess summed her up ; adding apol ogetically, "to be sure I suppose she is soured by what she has gone through. It must be wearing to be disappointed al ways in what you set your mind on get ting,-and it isn't every one has the gift to drink vinegar and keep sweet." "There is such a thing as making the vinegar ourselves and imbibing it instead of something sweeter," we suggested. "The bitter in every cup may be transmu ted." "Certainly," said Mrs. Ratchford.— "But then some have unfbrtunate disposi tions from the cradle, you know." Surely, if Reuben Gilson has lived in the house with her he must know her too well to be influenced by her, if he really loved Delia Bligh," we said. "Hum !" said our hostess skeptically. "Do you know blinder bats than men are in somethings ? I don't. He sees nothing artful in the way she picks up Delia's ac tions and twists them to look queer. He thinks she is fond of Delia, and tries to make the best of a light-minded flirting creature for his sake. Bats ! you may say." "Then he is very weak to be deceived by that mischievous old maid," scornfully proclaimed little Mabel. "Bless your heart, child," said Mrs. Blatchford with her comfortable laugh, "nothing is so helpless as a single-minded man in the hands of a calculating woman —for a time ;" with significant emphasis on the last clause. "Besides, Josephine Frye's isn't the only tongue in the world, either. It's my opinion nothinc , ° but talk has parted Reuben and Delia; that and their foolish young pride. Maybe it'll come right, maybe it won't. Either way folks' tongues have enough to answer for.' If the coming right meant the reuniting of the sundered lovers, it certainly did not seem probable as the days went on. Pretty Delia sang in the choir • on Sundays, and Reuben Gilson's eyes rested on the apple blossom face as if it had never been dear to him, and the sweet voice floating through the old meeting house had never touched his heart. And more than once a broad shouldered young farmer drove up from Cranberry Corners and tarried at the cot tage of Calvin Bligh. We became acquainted with both the young people, and Delia was speedily a great favorite with the doctor and the children, though the feminine spirits of our party could have little patience at her exchanging a lover like Reuben Gilson for the Cranberry Corners rustic. We admir ed the sterling sense and keen intelligence of the young man, but there seemed to rest on him a grave reserve, almost a gloom that prevented any approach to familiar ity. Presently a rumor was afloat—how it originated no one knew. Who ever can tell how. "They say" begins ? But gath ering additions daily, increasing, spreading in the mysterious ways that only rumor grows, a whisper that all was not well with Reuben Gilson's integrity; that his unu sually long vacation was enforced, not vol untary; that he had left his Grafton em ployer with a stain upon his name and hon or. Strange tales were hinted of how his employer's son had suddenly gone no one knew wether, and how his flight implica ted Reuben Gilson as a comrade in dishon esty; there were not wanting declarations that even now trial and exposure were threatening the latter. Did people believe this ? Did they accept without question this blighting of the good name of one they had known from boyhood, and whose record had been hitherto blimeless ? Cherrywood was not a whit behind oth er towns in swallowing slander, and who ever does not know the ground-like growth of scandal, has had bat a limited sphere of observation, 4. few clung to their faith in Reuben Gilson; our hostess was one, but she showed the trouble and disquiet she staunchly 'enied. Singularly enough no breath of what was on all lips seemed to reach the victim himself all this time. He kept on the grave tenor of his. way, ab stracted, absorbed ; and you may be sore gossip did net fail to comment on this in difference and seeming unconsciousness. What Delia Bligh thought nobody knew, until one morning she appeared in Widow Blatehford's kitchen, on the plau sible errand of obtaining a recipe for "spice cakes '4 Some other thought lurked be hind the troubled blue eyes, and the fact was speedily patent to the dear old woman whose spectacles wore leveled at her favor ite. "Now tell me the rest," said she, pres ently. "Are you going to set up a kitch en and oven of your own soon ?" "Oh, Aunt Blatchford !" (our hostess was "aunt" to half the country round), "no, of course not !" with a quick, pained voice. Then more softly, "Do-you know what people are saying?" "About Reuben ? Yes, child; It isn't true though," "Folks believe it," said Delia, sadly. "Ho looks so sober and gloomy; something is wrong, somehow, I am sure." "Hum !" sniffed Mrs. Blatehford, "does Calvin Bligh believe it "Father ? Well you know how father is. He isn't sure of his own mind until be is opposed. Then it's made up quick.— And I said I didn't believe it, and mother too, and now ho won't believe anything else. DeaconQuimby went to see Reuben and he would not hear a word from him ; said be was busy. And eh ! aunt, a man was up from Grafton yeiterday, and the deacon beard him talk as he went away. He said, ilVell. Reuben, three hundred will do it, and you may call yourself lucky to get off with that; and Reuben answered, 'he would see about raising it, but had a good mind to take his chance"' 'Aunt Blatchford, I want to trust you with something. I want your promise to keep secret always what I say now," pleaded the girl, getting close to her old friend. "Well," said Mrs Blatchford. affirma atively. "Aunt, I want you t.) give him this," said Delia, very low, hut earnestly. "It's my government bond—all mine, you know —five hundred dollars Uncle Silas gave me in his will. He must never know where it came from—never. May be Reuben has gone wrong; it don't seem like him, but young men have temptations, and if just this money will set him right and give him a chance to begin again, I want be should have it. Reuben was good to me when we were little—and—l used to—like him.— I don't want hint to be disgraced and wick • ed. Oh, aunt ! talk to hint—he'll listen to you, I know; tell him to set himself right with the money, and then get right with God. Reuben used to be good. I don't think he went wrong of himself." "That money was for your setting out," said Mrs. Blatchford, still unbending.— 'What will your father say ?" "I shall not be married," said Delia, yet more softly. ."Father will never know I've parted with the money. I can teach and earn more, I'd rather work my fin gers off than—than not save Reuben ?" "Delia Bligh, you're a good girl," said Mrs. Blatchford, suddenly losing her grim- i nese and drawing Delia into her ample em brace. "I take back any hard thoughts I've had, and I'll do your will and keep my counsel. There—there child—l kind of mistrusted you liked Reuben still ; don't cry—yes do, it will help you bear it." Thy] the old lady and young girl kissed and eimforted each other in true womanly fashiot, and Calvin Blight never guessed what ad deepened the Hush on his pretty daughter's cheeks, as she gave him He tea that evening. Mrs. Blatchford's opportunity for keep ing her promise tame speedily. Oppor tunities do easily come to people in ear nest. When the young man understood the meaning of her kindly, simple talk at first he raged '.like a wild tiger," as she after wards expressed it, and then he threw back his fine head and laughed so loud and long the good woman thought his reason had departed. Then he explained to her how his employer bad indeed failed, and he himself was undoubtedly oat of a situation at present. But that he and his employ er's son were connected in some invention which they were struggling to get patent. ed ; that they were contesting the point with a wealthier man, and bad been like to fail for want of funds. "But we shall pull through now, and our fortune is secured," said the young man. "As for your offer of aid, Aunt Blatehford—here give me the bond. It shall help me out of perplexity, though it isn't needed to save me from disgrace, and you shall have it again with compound in terest in six weeks. Only I shall always be in your debt for so much love and kind ness and Christian charity. • Then he kissed her wrinkled hand with the grace of a knight of old, and went away. But when widow Blatchford and Delia Bligh neat met, was there not a private jubilee? Cherrywood eyes began to get open, and the Cherrywood gourd of scandal to droop in its highest branches, about that time; and when Reuben Gilson came back from a month's sudden absence, there were plen ty to welcome him as a "worthy young man, very smart, and an inventor of real genius." Straight to the widow Blatehford's went Reuben, and to her with gratitude and love he rendered up Delia's government bond, with marvelous interest. "The land of man !" cried the dear old woman, "but I can't take more than it was to begin with. She'd never forgive me— there, what a blundering old creature I am." "She ?" cries Reuben, his dark eyes aglow. It is my belief that Widow Blatchford's blunder was not unconscious, but surely the error or the purpose were alike forgivable. With laughter and tears she let him win from her the name of her whose hand had been ready to pluck him from shame and dishonesty, and if he went from her pres ence to that of Delia Bligh, who will wish to look with curious eyes on the interview that followed ? "And they're to be married at Christ mas," said our good hostess in extreme de light., as she told ns the news next day.— "They'll live at Grafton. Reuben says his wife is too good to stay where folks blacken a man's name for nothing, and think them selves smart for doing it. Delia was near not forgiving me for telling on her, but then, an old woman like me is blundering sometimes. '•So then it is all right," we said, "and all the talk accomplished no harm. That's good " Then and there our good hostess turned with impressive uplifted finger, directed at our careless lips, and uttered this homily; . - 6•How ! Nor harm, do you say ? Don't you call it something that those children were parted for most two yeaas, just by talk ? That they suffered and had hard feelings of each other, and lost out of their lives two years that they might have been happy in ? That Delia's heart was near broken by thinking him a thief, and Reu ben's name was stained among his own townsfMks ? All over, you say. Well, but the scars are there. The pain needn't have been endured? Yes, but it was felt Life won't look exactly the same to those children if they had never lost faith in each other, and Reuben 'll never have the charity that was his before he learned how roady people are to take away a man's character wantonly. "Slander turns out a lie, and folks think no harm done. Words are cheap and folks are careless of them, But if they kuew what wordy are, they'd feel their lips scorched With hot coals whenever they use the insinuating speech, or the uncharitable remark, or meanest of all the nasty little 'they say' that carries a blight with it 'Tis never meaner than when it has a han• dle of unexplained truth, and takes up appearances that ain't understood, and twists them crooked. "No, child; spoken words don't die; you can't call them back as you call the cows home at night. Hearts ache for 'ens and souls go astray by their means. And It is my belief no more solemn reckoning is laid up against mortals than for the mis chief of their careless tongues." Tien any of our readers feel like telling a story commencing "they say," we hope they will remember this. altatling f,or Tht ;I;l tttt n. [Pubbelied by Request from the Harrieburgh Telegraph.] Reception of the Convert. From the "Catholic Standard" of July 12th, Geo. D. Wolff, (late Reformed minister), Editor and Manager. On last Sunday morning, July 6th, Rev. Edward 0. Forney, a graduate of Franklin Marshall College, and also of the Theological Seminary of the (German) Re formeechurch, and, until a short time previous, minister of the Reformed Con gregation at Norristown, Pa., was received into the loving arms of our holy Mother, the church. Mr. Forney, theologically, had belonged to the so-called Mercersburg school of thought, and was trained up intel lectually and theologically under the in fluence of Dr.'s J. W. Nevin, Harbaugh, Gerhart, Higbee, and Thomas G. Apple; and by these Protestant Theological Doc tors, the first seeds of Catholic truth—so far as our knowledge extends—were im planted in his mind. He was regarded by the members of the sect, which he has abandoned, as a young man of more than ordinary ability and promise. He was confessedly the most talented and eloquent Protestant preacher in Norristown. The congregation in which be preached was one which required the highest order of intel lectual ability to satisfy the demands of its members—his three previous predecessors, whose ministry covered a period of twenty years (more or less), having been gentle. men of mach more than ordinary talent and culture. His immediate predeecssor was the Rev: Dr. Gans, now of Baltimore, who previous ly was elected to the professorship of Greek and Exegetical Theology of the Seminary of the Reformed church—a position which he declined accepting. The minister pre ceding Dr. Gant was Rev. P. S. Davis, now in Chambersburg, Pa., a beautiful writer and eloquent speaker; and preceding him was J. S. Ermentrout, Esq., now a convert to the Catholic church, whose scholarly ac quirements and intellectual gifts, combined with rare modesty, are known to many in this Diocese. It is not saying too much for Mr. Forney that be filled the pulpit formerly occupied by these gentlemen, with entire satisfaction to the members of the congregation. A few months ago he was elected Secretary , of the Classis (a term equivalent to "Con ference," as used by the Methodists), of which he was a member; and about ten days ago he was elected by the Alumni of Franklin-Marshal College to. deliver the Alumni oration at their annual meeting— an honor usually conferred on the older graduates of the College. Mr. Forney has had the subjects in volved in the conflict between Catholicity and Protestantism under consideration for several years, but only lately • received the gift of divine faith. When he became conscious of a clear and definite conviction, be at once gave up his congregation, and left Norristown with a view to freeimg himself from the distractions to which he would necessarily have been there subject, and visited Churchville, Berks county, Pa., for the purpose of making a retreat in that secluded and quiet spot, under the di rection of the Venerable Father Agustin Bally, S. J. After the conclusion of his retreat, on Sunday morning last, Mr. Forney made his abjuration of Protestantism, and his solemn profession of the true faith. He was baptised (sub-conditione) by Father Bally, S. J., assisted by Rev. John P. M. Schleuter, S. J., of the Church of the Blessed Sacrament, Churchville, and Rev. Daniel J. M'Dcrmott, of St. Johns, Phila delphia. Thore were present, besides a number of the members of the Church of the Blessed Sacrament, Prof. C. H. Budd, M. D., and George Dering Wolff, personal friends of Mr. Forney; the latter of whom was his sponsor. We heartily congratulate Mr. Forney that his doubts and struggles for light in regard to the true faith are happily ended; and that, in the great and abounding mercy of God, he has been led forward, until he hap found certainty and peace in the guidance and loving embrace of our Holy Mother, the Church. To the mem bers of his late congregation, who esteemed him so highly for his consistency, his earn estness and his piety, and who accepted as true his forcible expositions of principles, which find their legitimate, practical con clusion only in the bosom of Catholicity, his action—involving, as it does, the sun dering of the most tender ties, the sacrifice of valued friendships, of a high elerieal position, of reputation, of bright worldly prospects and of other considerations, which we are not at liberty even to refer to—ought to speak most loudly. It calls them, with a divine voice, louder than human words could, to follow him into the bosom of the church, whose divine institu tion, unity, perpetuity and authority he has often set forth in his sermons. His friends, too, in the Protestant ministry, of the same theological school with himself, who hold, intellectually, the same ideas, which, under God, led him forward, may well lay his action to heart; and ask them selves whether God is not speaking to them through him, and calling upon them to "go and do likewise." Many of them, we are sure, see the rottenness of the Protestant platform on which they stand. Many of them preach truths that can only find their practical fulfillment in the Cath olic church. And yet their position as Protestant ministers, and their action in ascending Protestant pulpits, gives the direct lie (pardon the harsh word) to what they preach respecting the divine charac ter and perpetuity of the Church, its apos tolicity, its divine authority, and the di vine efficacy and power of its Sacraments They have no faith in Protestantism. They cannot. For they know that it has no certitude and can furnish none to its adherents. And there can be no faith in what is in its own nature uncertain, and which leads its followers only into uncer tainty. They know this, and yet in every action they perform as Protestant minis ters; nay, every moment that they allow their fellow-men to regard them as minis, ten, they proclaim in deeds, which speak louder than words, their confidence in a system, which, in their hearts, many of them doubt and others entirely disbelieve. How they can continue in this selfcontra dictory course;how they can introduce members by thir counterfeit form of the holy Sacrament of Confirmation into a re ligtous system, of whose truth they them selves have doubts, and which, with more or less clearness, some of them are convinc ed, is false, schismatic m i d heretical; how they can pro essedly discharge the func tions of a ministry, which spine of them are not satisfied is Apostolical, and which others positively know to he Aposto lical ; how thpy7 c. 4 go through the cere mony of Protestant imitation and travesty of the Holy Communion, is inure than we can understand. We recall this last word. We can understand it and yet we con not. For we acknowledge, with shame and confusion, that we were once guilty of the same inconsistency and self contra. . thetton. May God have mercy on us and them, and bring them, as we trust He has ns, to true contrition and penitence; and may He bring them—as we know and re joice He has brought us—to the light and peace, which only can be found by sub mission to the true Church ; the Church founded on the Rock ; the One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic, Roman Church, which anchored on Peter, has continued, fhrnine teen centuries, unmoved and immovable, unchanged and unchangeable, amid the conflicts of human passions, the changes of human institutions, the origin and rise, the downfall and entire passing away of nations, peoples, dynasties and kingdoms ; and which amid the rage of Hell and the enmity of the world, continually renews its youth, and increases in vigor and in strength. Let not our Protestant friends, whom we still love, and upon whom we look wills a longing, yearning heart, though the ties bf association and friendship, that once bound us closely together, are broken, think that we speak unfeelingly, because we speak plainly. Let them not think that we arc insensible to the painful strug gle through which they must pass or the sacrifices they must make, in following the leadings of divine truth. We know them. For we have passed through them. But though the immediate experience be bitter as gall, in the end it will be unmistakably sweet. They will recover a hundred fold more than they give np. This is not our poor word, but that of our Divine Lord : "Amen, I say to you, there is no man who hash left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or children or lands, for My sake and for the Gospel, who shall not receive a hundred times as much, now in this time * * * * with persecu tions; and in the world to come life ever lasting." "Blessed shall you be when men shall hate you and when they shall separate you, and cast out your name as evil for the Son of Man's sake. Be glad in that day, and rejoice : For, behold, great is your reward in heaven." To some it may seem strange that per sons, intellectually gifted, learned, in many respects self-denying and pious, possessing many admirable virtues, should remain in so self-contradictory a position as that which we have described. It may seem strange that they should hold and pro claim truths, which, under divine grace, led others forward into the true Church, and yet they themselves remain without. The answer is plain ; there is nothing strange about it. Faith is the gift of God. Intellectuarconvictions, logical conclusions human knowledge and learning do not constitute faith. They amount to nothing without divine grace. Men, of just and sound ideas intellectually, may serve—as do we often think, our non-Catholic quon dam teachers, and still friends, we trust, of the Mercersburg and Lancaster school— as guide posts, ever pointing out the "road to Rome," but never moving forward one step themselves; not able to move forward for they have not the divine help by which alone they can move towards the right road and walk therein. "Without me," our Saviour says, "ye can do nothing." And without him, and His grace, our Mercersburg and Lancaster friends may be (as they have been) used instrumentally and against their own wills to prepare others, and to a certain extent, to direct them onward into the enjoyment of bless ings, in which they themselves shall not participate. May God give them grace and light and strength, that they may fol low those, whom, according to all human probability, it might have been supposed, they would precede, into the loving em brace of our Holy Mother, the Church, and may he thus enable them to share the certitude, the peace, the blessedness, in which, under God, through their instru mentality, uninteutional though it may have been, others, far their inferiors in every respect, now rejoice. • Life In Vienna There is hot in the whole city of Vien na a place to obtain strong, intoxicating liquors, in which any one of the visitors to Barnum's, Levell's or Geekie's could bo coaxed to enter. It can be only be found bore, in any of its varieties, in what we would call low "rum mills," frequented by hack drivers, who are, in fact, the only class of people in Germany who have come down to the Anietioan level of making beasts of themselves. They are the only drunkards in this immense city, and, in fact,the only men who show in their coun tenances any evidence that their beverage is other than cold water. We have some Germans at home who we regarded as swollen up and bloated with lager beer, but we are rather inclined to suspect them of producing this result by mixing whisky with their beer. The women here drink' nearly as much beer as the men, and more healthy and finely developed specimens of feminine humanity cannot be found any where than are to be met in the restaurants of an evening, with their parents, husbands, brothers or lovers; partaking of their eve ning repast, washed down with one or two goblets of the national beverage, which most of them were reared upon and wean ed with from the cradle. An American gentleman who -had sev eral times visited Vienna, and traveled ex tensively in Europe, remarked to me to day that he was satisfied there was no peo ple living who understood how to enjoy life so well as the Vicnnoise. That hus bands, wives and children all moved about together, and enjoyed themselves in com pany. There are no anxious wives wait ing for the coming home of husbands from carnival gatheringa, and no occasion for "Caudle lectures" among the family men of Vienna. If nothing more could be al leged against them than their mode of eat ing and the quantity of beer they drink, they would be a very exemplary people. This mode of outdoor life certainly has the merit of relieving the wife from that great est of all vexations of the present day, the managent of the cook and culinary depart. ment. The old axiom, "As to-morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes to day," is the favorite sentiment of the peo ple, and under the conviction that "a fresh wind keeps the body fresh," they have adopted as their practice and rule "to take in the idea of to-day, and drain off those of yesterday." By the enjoyment of life themselves they held to the idea that they are contributing to the enjoyment of oth ers. As to their Christian duties and the observance of Sabbath, no man has a right to judge them. They attend church on Sunday morning, doff their hats and cross themselves before each of the numerous shrines erected along the thoroughfares as they pass, and spend the afternoon and evenings on Sunday in listening to music and engaging in social converse in the gardens, or attending the theaters or the opera : --Correspondent Baltimore Amer. NO. 30. Scraps from State Exchanges Warren has the Park fever. Altoona is infested with mad canines. Harrisburg wants a fire alarm telegraph. A town hall in Indiana is what they want. There are 5,000 miners in the Lehigh 'region. Mad dogs are making it lively in Berks County. Scranton Li full of Democratic aspirants for office. A cereus is blooming after nightfall in Reading. Tidioute enjoys herself by tub races on the river. Reading is moving towards a paid fire department. A cemetery is the latest improvements at Emlonton. Cricket has bowled out base ball in the Oil Regions. Local option , they Sa dri v i ng y, ie trade from Warren. The new railroad shops at Connellsville are under way. Six new school houses were built in Washington county last year. The Venango County Agricultural So ciety is in a flourishing condition. A new lodge of Odd Fellows was insti tuted at York on Friday evening last. Hugh Kane, of Indiana, was suffocated with foul air in a well last Wednesday. There is no public convenience that Mercer needs more than a good town hall. And now the "Indian relics" found in Forest county prove to have belonged to a mule. Pump up a little of two dollar oil is the way Titusville creditors approach their debtors. The County Home of Washington coun ty contains 115 paupers—GO males and 55 females. George J. High, Recorder of Lancaster county, has been sued for charging exces sive fees. Tyroners are proud of their new Syls by, which threw a stream 237 feet on the day of trial. The stock has been subscribed and Clear field is to have an incubus—in the shape of gas works Major Fmch associate editor of the Ti tusville Herald, is down with hemorrhage of the brain. The Turner well, near Edenburg, is doing sixty-nine barrels a day, by actual measurement. The new Odd Follows Hall at Tyrone was dedicated on. Thursday, with appro priate ceremonies. Altoona has eight building and loan as sociations, whose aggregate weekly loans amount to $12,000. A lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows has been established at Hooks town, Beaver county. Edward Levenride, 17 years old, took his last bath in the "Stony Creek," at Johnstown, last Sunday. A number of saloon keepers in Altoona have been held to answer for infractions of the Local Option law. A number of visitors from the cities are spending the “heated term" at different localities in Lebanon county. The black wall, on the Jordon tract, near Turkey City, is pumping and flowing one hundred and forty barrels Hon. Simon Cameron has been sojourn ing in Somerset for several days past. His family are at Bedford Springs. An Irishtown, Lancaster county, swim mer, recently made two miles in an hour, and wants any one to beat that. A Johnstown cow comes up to the mark with twenty quarts of the "lacteal" daily, and Johnstowners say "Beat that." There are 198 tribes of Red Men in Pennsylvania and 17,796 members. Their receipts last year were $148,046.67. It is said that four firms in Sharon pay the Eric & Pittsburg railroad three hund red thousand dollars annually for freights. The Butler Citizen wants the Postmas ter's salary increased, because the business of the office there has doubled within the past year. Prof. W. H. Day, editor of Our Naha"- al Progress, delivered the oration Thursday at the Franklin, Venango county Emanci pation Jubilee. The territory occupied by coke battlers in Westmoreland county is five miles wide and fifteen long. The number of ovens aggregate 3,550. A gentleman well informed in the iron business, estimates the amount of pig met al in Sharpsville and Sharon, to be worth oue million dollars. Nine hundred and seventy-one gross tons of blooms for steel rails were manu factured at the Cambria Steel Works du ring the week ending July 12th. Alexander M. Carroll Patch, of Nous tonville, Washington,- Pa., has secured the cadetship from the Twenty-fourth District, be being the successful competitor in a class of sixteen. Ten entries have been made by ambi tious adventurers who have recently been practicing the science of navigating a tub, for the tub race which will be paddled at Tidioute, Friday. Reoently several persons in Frankatown, Blair county, were teasing an intoxicated man named Henry Yon, when the latter struck a man named Kelly on the head, severely injuring him. A hen belonging to a farmer in the vi cinity of Saltsburg, Indiana county, re cently made a nest near the top of a maple tree, at least twenty-five feet from the ground, and brought out a brood of chicks. On Tuesday while several boys were hunting berries in the woods near the Ly coming county poor house, they discovered the lifeless body of a young man hanging to the limb of a tree. From a deep cut in the abdomen it is supposed he was mur dered. David Wilson, a soldier of the war of 1812, and brother of Wm. Wilson, maim of the Fayette County National Bank, in Uniontown, died at his residence in Mil flintown, Juniata county, on Tuesday morning, the 15th inst.. in the 85th year of his age.
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