sni-6oo(te, etr.
/S AS I I BUYERS, TA K E NOT IC E!
SAVE YOUR GREENBACKS!
NEW
FALL AND WINTER GOODS,
just received,
At J. M. SHOEMAKER'S Store,
AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES!
Having just returned from the East, we are now
openiug a large stock of F ill and Winter Goods,
whieh have been BOUGHT FOR*CASH. at nett
cash prices, and will be SOLD CHEAP. This be
ing the only full stock of goods brought to Bedford
this season, persons will bo able to suit themselves
better, in style, quality and price, than at any
other store in Beiltord The following comprise a
few of our prices, viz :
Calicoes, at 10,12, 14, 15, 10 and the
best at 18 cents.
Muslins at 10, 12, 14, 15, 10, 18, and
and the best at 22 cents.
All Wool Flannels from 40 cts. up.
French Merinoes, all wool Delaines, Coburgs. Ac.
SHAWLS Ladies', children's and misses'
shawls, latest styles ; ladies'cloaking cloth.
MEN'S WEAR—Cloths, cassimeres, satinetts
jeans, he.
BOOTS AND SHOES--In this line we have a
very extensive as-ortment for ladies, misses, chil
dren. and men's and boys' boots and shoes, all sizes
anil prices, to suit all.
HATS—A large assortment of men's and boys'
hats.
CLOTHING—Men's and boys' coats, pants and
vests, all sizes and prices
SHIRTS. Ac.—Men's woolen and muslin shirts;
Shakspeare, Lock wood and muslin-lined paper
collars; cotton chain (single and double, white
and colored).
GROCERIES—Coffee, sugar, syrups, green and
black teas, spices of all kinds, dye-stuffs, Ac.
LEATHER—SoIe leather, French and city calf
skins, upper leather, linings, Ac.
We will sell goods on the same terms that
we have been for the last three months—cash, or
note with interest from date. No bad debts con
tracted and no extra charges to good paying cus
tomers to make up losses of slow and never paying
customers. Cash buyers always get the best bar
gains, aud their accounts are always settled up.
J M. SHOEMAKER,
Bedford, 5ep.27,'67. No. 1 Anderson's Row.
10 per cent, saved in buying your
goods for oash, at J. M. SHOEMAKER'S cash and
produce store, No. 1 Anderson's Row.
sep27 _
/ 1 REAT BARGAINS!
IT
Tin* uudcrdigned have opened a very full supply
of
FALL AND WINTER GOODS.
Our stock is complete and is not surpassed in
EXTENT.
QUALITY AND CHEAPNESS.
The old system of
■' TR US TING FOR E VER' *
having exploded, we are determined to
SELL GOODS UPON THE SHORTEST PROFIT
FOR
CASH OR PRODUCE.
jjp To prompt paying customers we will extend
a credit of four months, but we wish it expressly
understood, after the period named, account will bo
duo and interest will accrue thereon.
BUYERS FOR CASH
may depend upon
GETTING BARGAINS.
n0v1,'67 A. B. CRAMER & CO.
LYEW GOODS!! NEW GOODS!!
The undersigned has just received frnru the Eart a
large and varie 1 stock of New Goods,
which are now open for
examination, at
MILL-TOWN,
two miles West of Bedford, comprising everything
usually found in a first-class courtry store,
consisting, in part, of
Dry-Goods,
Delaines,
Calicoes,
Muslins,
Cassimers,
Boots and Shoes,
Groceries,
Notions,
Ac., Ac.
All of .vfiich will be sold at the most reasonable
prices.
Thankful for past favors, we solicit a con
tiuuauce ot the public patronage.
Call and examine our goods.
may24,'67. G. YEAGER
rfblOQO DOLLARS REWARD!!
Just received at the New Imperial
BARGAIN STORE,
A handsome assortment of
NEW SPBING G()<>l>S.
As goods are now advancing daily, and no doubt
will be much higher, we think families cannot buy
too soon. G. R. OSTER A CO.
feb2Bui2
y:l DOLLARS WORTH!!
ot Boots and Shoes of every description and best
Manufacture, just received and For Sale 25 per
dent Cheaper than heretofore.
The Boot and Shoe Department of
G. R. OSTER A CO.
has become a leading feature in their business,
and is now the place to get Good as well as Cheap
Boots and shoes, as they have the largest and best
assortment in town. feb2Sui2
TJATS! HATS!!
Just received the leading New Spring Styles of
G'nts, Boys and Children's llats, much cheaper
than heretofore. We would call special attention
to the Gents Self-conforining Casstmere dress Hat,
also the Velvet finish Self-conforming Flexible
Band Hat. These Hats will he found to be very
desirable, being very soft in band and conforming
immediately to the shape of the head.
feb'Bm2 G. R. OSTER A CO.
IVTEW ARRIVAL.— Just received
at M. C. FETTERLY'S FANCY STORE,
Straw Hats and Bonnets, Straw Ornaments, Rib
bons Flowers, Millinery Goods, Embroideries,
Handkerchiefs, Bead-trimmings. Buttons. Hosiery
and Gloves, White Goods. Parasols and Sun-Um
brellas. Balmorals and Hoop Skirts, Fancy Goods
and Notions, Ladies' and Children's Shoes. Our
assortment contains all that is new aud desirable.
Thankful for former liberal patronage we hope
to be able to merit a continuance from all our cus
tomers. Please call and see our new stock.
may 31
SEL LEI IS <C- EOLWELL,
WHOLESALE
CONFECTIONERS and FRUITERERS,
No. 161 North Third Street,
PHILADELPHIA.
feb2lm3 Ly?" Orders promptly attended to.
g P7HARBAUGH ASO N,
Wholesale Traveling Dealers in
FANCY DRY GOODS AND NO
TIONS.
will visit their friends and the public generally,
in Bedford county, once every two mouths. They
sell their goods at city prices. Also, agents for
Chainbersburg Woolen Manufacturing Co.
aprill,lß6Byl
A RARE CHANCE IS OFFERED
ALL PERSON'S
ispl ay their Goods;
Tt sell their Goods:
To gather information;
To make known their want*;
Ac., Ac. Ac. Ac., Ao., Ac., Ac., Ac.,
bjr advertising!" the columns of THE GAIITTC
BY MEYERS & MENGEL.
tini-Ciootls, &r.
nGMOV£O
to the
COLONNADE BUILDING!
MII/LER & BOWSER,
At the Old Colonnade, - - Bedford, Pa.,
OFFER GREAT BARGAINS,
(in order to reduce their stock, before making
their spring purchases) in
Ready-Made Clothing,
Fancy G ocD,
Notions,
Cotton Yarn,
Hats and Caps,
Boots and Shoes,
Groceries,
Queens ware,
Wooden ware,
Tobacco and Cigars,
Brooms,
Baskets,
Ac., Ac., Ac.
LOOK AT SOME OF THEIR PRICES:
CALICO, at 8, 10, 12, 15, 16.
GINGHAM, at 12A, 15, 18, 20.
MUSLIN, at 10, 12, 14, 15,18, 20.
Cassimeres, Cloths, Satinetts and
Ladies' Sacking, at very low prices.
fcif Ladies', Gents' and Misses'
Shoes. Sandals and Over-Shoes, in great variety.
tfcisp- Men's, Boys' and Youths' Boots.
Ijggr Best Coffee, Tea, Sugar and Syr
up in the market. Prices low
Feed, Flour, &c., for sale at all
times.
H-a?*- We invite all to call and see our
goods and compare prices before buying elsewhere.
teg- Our motto is, Short Projffit*.
jgfeg"- Terms—Cash, Note or Produce.
apr3.'Gß
C 1 N. HICKOK,
DENTIST.
Office at the old stand in BANK BUILDING, Juliuu
na Street, BEDFORD, Pa.
All operations, pertaining to Suriical and Me
chanical Dentistry, performed wi :i care, and
WARKASTED.
Anaesthetics administered, when desired. Ar
tificial teeth inserted, per set. $3.00 and ttpinrd.
As I am determined to do
A CASH BUSINESS
or none, 1 have reduced the prices of ARTIFICIAL
TEE IH of the various kinds, 20 I>ER CENT, and of
GOLD FILLINGS 33 TER BEST. This reduction
will bo made only to strictly CASH PATIENTS,
and all such will receive prompt attention.
feb7,'6Btf
I^ENTISTRY !
If you want
' A BEAUTIFUL SET OF TEETH,
GO TO
Dlt. S. M. GROSS,
RESIDENT DENTIST, SCHELLSBIRG, PA.,
who operates in every branch of surgical and
. Mechanical Dentistry, at
REDUCED PRICES.
Teeth extracted WITHOUT PAIS positively, and
NO HUMBUG!
by the surest, safest and best
ANAESTHETIC KNOVVN.
Persons desiring the services of a Dentist will
do well by calling on me before contracting else
where.
ALL OPERATIONS WARRANTED.
17*A IRB A N K'S STAND AR I)
J SCALES,
of all kinds, also. Baggage Barrows, Ware
house Tracts, Copying Presses. ifC.
FAIRBANKS, MORSE A CO.,
Corner Wood A Second Sts., Pittsburg, Pa.
Repaired promptly. iuar27ui6.
TO THE WORKING CLASS.—
Farmers, Mechanics, Ladies, and everybody. I
am now prepared to furnish you with constant
employment at your homes—the whole of your
time, or in your spare moments. Business new,
light and profitable. 50 eta. to $5 per evening
easily earned by persons of either sex, and the
boyk and girls nearly as much as men. Great
inducements offered those who will devote their
whole time to the business, and. that every person
who sees this notice may send their address and
test the business for themselves, I make the fol
lowing unparallelled offer : To all who are not
well satisfied with 'he business, I will send $1 to
pay for the trouble of writing. Full particulars,
directions. Ac., sent free. Sample sent by mail
for 10 cts. Address E. C. ALLEN, Augusta,
Maine.
OYES! OYES! OYes!—The un
dersigned having taken out auctioneer li
cense holds himself in readiness to cry sales and
auctions on the shortest notice. Give him a call.
Address him at Ray's Hill, Bedford county. Pa.
oct2->m6 # IIILLIAM GRACE!.
AUCTIO -EE 11. —The undersigned,
having renewed his licenso as an auctioneer,
offers his services to the publie generally. Post
office aadress Cum berlund Vley.
mar2oni2* JOHN DICREN.
[3 LASTER. —The undersigned would
I respectfully iuform the public, that he it
prepared to supply both ROCK and GROLND
PLASTER. Warehouse, Bloody Run Station.
jaii3lt>Blf JOHN IV BAKNDOLLAR
rpHE BEDFORD GAZETTE is the
L best Advertising Medium n Southern Peno
gylranit-
I TERMS OF PUBLICATION.
THE BEDFORD GAZETTE is published every Fri
>lay morning by MEYERS A"MBS3F.L, at $2 00 per
annum, if paid strictly lit advance ; $2.50 if paid
! within sis months; $3.00 if not pain within sis
months. All subscription accounts MLIST be
settled annually. No paper will he sent out of
the State unless paid for tx ADVANCE, and all such
subscriptions will invariably be discontinued at
the expiration of the time for which they are
' paid.
All ADVERTISEMENTS for a less term than
three months TEN CENTS per line for each In
sertion. Special notices one-half additional All
resolutb ns of Associations; communications of
limited or individual interest, and notices of mar
riages and deaths exceeding five liner, ten cents
per line. Editorial notices fifteen cents per line,
i All legal Notices of every Hind, and Orphans''
! Court and Judicial Sales, are. required by law
to be published in both papers published in this
| place.
w All advertising due after first insertion.
A liberal discount is made to persons advertising
j by the quarter, half year, or year, as follows :
3 months. 6 months. 1 year.
♦One square - - - $4 50 $6 00 $lO 00
Two squares ... 600 900 16 00
Three squares - - - 8 00 12 00 20 00
! Quarter column - - 14 00 20 00 3a 00
I Half column - - - 'lB 00 25 00 45 00
; One column - - - - 30 00 45 00 80 00
♦One square to occupy one inch of space.
JOB PRINTING, of every kind, done with
: neatuess and dispatch. THE GAZETTE OFFICE has
just been refitted with a Power Press and new type,
; and everything in the Printing line can be execu
ted in the most artistic manner and at the lowest
rates.—TERMS CASH.
All letters should be addressd to
MEYERS A MENGEL,
Publishers.
!KT IFTDFARD FTAZTTT*.
* REPUBLICAN MEMBER OE CON
UKV.SS IMPEACHMENT.
Gen. Sain. Carey, representative in
Congress from Cincinnati, andtheonly
Republican member who voted a
giiinst impediment, in a speech deliv
ered before a working man's meeting
in that city on Monday night, thus
gives his reasons for bis vote:
1 will now give you briefly my reas
ons for voting against impeachment.
In the first place it has, in all the his
tory of this Government, from Wash
ington down, been regarded as the
President's right to select his Cabinet
officers in every administration, and
to remove them at his pleasure. You
remember when Duane was Secretary
of the Treasury, and he was ordered
by General Jackson to remove the de
posits, contrary to the law of Congress.
He refused, and Jackson said: ".Step
out sir: I will find some one who
will." [Applause.]
Yes, my countrymen, it has been the
uniform practice, and has been regard
ed as indispensible to the wise and le
gitimate administration of this Gov
ernment, that the President should
have Cabinet officers who should he
his confidential advisers and friends.
Ain't that right? Yes; and these
very men, these very judges who are
sitting to-day on this trial of impeach
ment thought so. When Mr. Lincoln
was President o! the United States it
was supposed that one member of his
Cabinet was nut in sympathy with
him—Mr. Montgomery Blair. Sena
tors, including Wade and Sherman, of
Oltio, and Sumner of Massachusetts,
to the number of twenty-four, address
ed a letter to Mr. Lincoln, in which
they used this language:
"The President of the United States
should be aided by a council
agreeing with him in political princi
ples and general policy, and all impor
tant measures and apppointments
should be the result of their combined
wisdom aud deliberations."
That's good sense, isn't it? They
then go on to say that Mr. Montgom
ery Blair does not entertain that rela
tion towards Mr. Lincoln—that he is
not in full sympathy with him—and
then add:
"The Cabinet should be exclusively
composed of gentlemen who are the
cordial, resolute and unwavering sup
porters of the principles and .purposes
of the President of the United States.
Here, then they charge Mr. Johnson
with being guilty of high crime, in this
that he wanted a Cabinet Minister who
was in lull sympathy with him with
the administration. Those men say he
ought to have it, and every President
ought to have it, and J say so. It
doesn't matter whether he be Demo
crat or Republican, the confidential ad
visers of the President should be in
sympathy and harmony with him.
He has a inemher in the Cabinet who
dot l s not speak to him : that is in open
and direct hostility to him, and will
not go and sit in Cabinet Council with
him and lie wanted to get him out.
[A voice, "Kick him out.") Yes.
[Laughter.] If General Jackson was
in there he would touch him with the
toe of his boot. [Cheers.]
Think of the precedent we are set
ting. Suppose we should have a Dem
ocratic Congress and a Republican
President one of these days, and the
Democratic majority should say:
"There is no use in trying to do any
thing with tliis Republican President;
Let us kick him out." "Oh well,"
some one says, "what can you get up
against him?" But they can say
"what did they have against Mr.
Johnson" [Avoice —"tliat'sit."] And
if you can impeach one President and
turn him outunder the present charges,
what President is hereafter safe when
the majority in Congress is opposed to
him?" [Cheers.] It is no matter to
me how bad a man Andrew* Johnson
is. lam not his apoligist and defen
der. A man told me to-day, "Ah Car
ey, you have been Johnsonized." Put
have 1 gone over to Johnson because
I dare to say that he or any other man
sh til be protected by the laws of the
country. [Cheers.]
BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 17, 1868.
Mr. Carey continued !y saying that
Andrew Johnson could nly remain in
office a year longer. Stvnton had lost
! self-respect by acting as he did ; and
' even those who had advsed Stanton to
remain in the War Oilhe had a eon
i tempt for Lis action in so doing. He
! referred to Ben. Wad. 'ssitting on the
trial, and said that by tic spirit if not
by the letter of the Constitution, Mr.
Wade had no right to vote in the
Court of Impeachment. If Mr. Wade
| did vote in that Court," "he ought
to be spit upon by the whole civilized
world." [Applause.;
ADVICE TO VOI'SO MKC'II AXICK.
In referring to the growing inclina
tion 011 the part of yeung men, after
they have served long and hard ap
prenticeships to acquire a good trade,
to abandon this mode of making a liv
ing and to enter the or medical
profession, where it is supposed great
er emoluments can be secured and larg
er honors won, a cotemporary well
observes that in nineteen cases out of
twenty such ventures are failures, for
two reasons: First, the professions re
quire peculiar talent and the most
thorough education. As a rule, ap
prentices to the trades have neither the
time nor the means to acquire this edu
cation. Hence, when a mechanic at
the end of his apprenticeship aspires
to and enters any one of the profess
ions, he does so at a great disadvantage.
He may be a fluent speaker, know
how to argue a point in a debating so
ciety or hatangue a crowd at a ward
meeting, luit such talents do not fit
him for the legal profession. He may
know how to extract a splinter from
his own hand, how to make a salve,
how to mix a powder or administer a
pill, but all this, while it might quali
fy him as a good nurse, does not fit
him for the medical profession. The
fact is, the young men who abandon
their trades are tempted to do so by a
feeling of false pride, erroneously
imagining there is 110 honor to be secur
ed in a pursuit of the mechanical arts.
History proves the fallacy of such sup
positions.
The brightest names which now a
dorn the annals of all countries are of
the best mechanics who have blessed
mankind with the productions of their
genius. All that is beautiful and grand
is the result of improvement in me
chanics. The pendulum, the main
spring, the barometer, thermometer,
printing press, steal*> engine, locomo
tive, sewing machine, telescope—all,
all are the result or mwrhanb' arts,
making those famous who produce
them, and the people great who adopt
ed them.
A good mechanic who becomes a
pettifogger or quack, merely because
he is too proud to work at his trade,
is, indeed, a pitiful object. A man of
the right mental balance, who has pro
per mental form, with the necessary
independence, will win as much honor
and as fair a living in the trades as in
the profession ; indeed, an indifferent
lawyer or doctor lacking briefs or pa
tients is always a miserable being, a
bad example in the community. Let
our young mechanics, then, become
ambitious in their own vacation. If
they dignify their trades by becoming
proficient therein, the trades will dig
nify them with the highest honors.
If mechanics pursue their business
with a purpose to self-improvement
therein, and not merely to hammer
and file and saw, but to improve the
art, to develop something new therein,
the mind will be strengthened as the
arm becomes muscular, and the heart
of the mechanic will be made to swell
with as true a pride as ever glowed be
neath the doublet of a prince. Will
the young mechanic think of these
truths?
"THAT'S II ow.' '—After a great snow
storm, a little boy began to shovel a
path through a large snow-bank before
his grandmother's door. He had noth
ing but a small shovel to work with.
"1 low do you expect to got through
that drift asked a man passing along.
"By keeping at it" said the boy,
cheerfully; "thats how !''
That is the secret of mastering al
most every difficulty under the sun.
If a hard task is before you stick at it.
Do not keep thinking how large or
how hard it is; but go at it, and little
by liittie it will grow smaller and
smaller, until it is done.
IF YOU desire to impress the public
that you have the best wares, and the
best prices, and are worthily enti
tled to their patronage, ADVERTISE
YOURSELF. Do not expect to accom
plish everything with one trial, nor
three, but KEEP AT IT, and you will
surely win. ,
Have some SYSTEM about your ad
vertisement, and let that be your shov
el, then dig away at the people— KEEP
AT IT, and you will as surely get
through the dull times and bring more
custom than you can attend to, as that
boy went through the drift with his
small shovel.
A WESTERN paper says that the
death of the American Gorrilla, by the
burning of Barnum's Museum, may
be considered as a public calamity,
inasmuch as it deprives the Radicals
of one of their most promising Presi
dential candidates.
TIIAD STEVENS says that the consti
tution, thef fundamental law, "is too
old fashioned for this progressive age."
So, no doubt, in his views, are God's
laws.
THE VARUHS IMPJ.F.MEXTN OF HA
SOMtY.
The various Implements of Masonry,
as emblematical of our conduct in life,
afford us many very useful lessons
j which we will do "well t<\ hoed. The
| Holy Bible is one of the great lights of
the craft, one that we cannot fail to fol
low if wo kvould be true to our princi
ples, and measure up to the standard
required of us. it will guide us in the
way of truth, that adorns and strength
ens the character of man. It will lead
i us into the temple of true and abiding
i happiness, and secure for us an en
! trance into the Grand Lodge Boom
l on high. "It enriches the memory, it
i elevates the reason, it enlivens theimag
| ination, it directs the judgment, it
j moves the affections, it controls the
j passions, it quickens the conscience,
I it strengthens the will, it kindles the
{ sacred flame of faith, hope and chari
ty, it purities, ennobles, sanctifies the
! whole man, and brings him into living
i union with God. It has light for the
blind, strength for the weak, food for
the hungry, drink for the thirsty ; it
hasa counsel in precept for every sorrow,
a balm for every wound; of all the hooks
in the world, the Bible is the only one
I of which we never tire, but which we
admire and love more and more in
I proportion as we use it. Like the
diamond, it casts its lustre in ev
ery direction ; liken torch, the more
it is shaken the more it shines; like a
healing herb, the harder it is pressed
the sweeter is its fragrance." The ho
ly Bible lies open before every mem
ber of the Order, and points out the
whole duty of man. Walk in tl is
great light that you may reflect honor
I upon the Order, whose foundation
principles are the truths herein reveal
! ed.
Then, by other emblems we are
taught to regulate our actions, our cv
, ery movement by the principles of
morality and virtue; and in our differ
; ent stations among men and before
; God, to walk uprightly circumscribing
| our desires within proper limits. We
are also directed to move right onward
! in the way of truth, turning neither to
the right nor the left, and to avoid in
! our conversation and actions, dissiniu
; lation. The earnest student, as lie ad--
j vances in Masonry may also learn lcss
! ons appropriate to three principal sta
-1 ges in human life, viz: youth, man
hood and age; and if true to these less
! ons, he may, as a Master Mason, "en
! joy the happy reflection consequent on
' a well spent life, and die in the hope
:of a glorious immortallity." Let nil
| the implements and emblems of Ma
: sonrv be carefully used and closely
studied, and we shall ever and always
deserve the title of "good men and
true." We will come more fully to
understand our duty to God, and to
each other; there will indeed be enkin
dled in our hearts a flame of devotion
! to God. of brotherly love to each other,
and charity to all mankind.—Key
sfone.
-\ KEM A KKAISI.E SLMLING IX FJ.OLTL
: DA.— There is near Ocola, a remarka
ble spring, one of the largest of the
great number known in Florida, it is
called Silver Spring. I found it in the
midst of a lone hammock, overflowing
its banks. It bubbled up in a basin
thirty-seven feet deep and about an
| acre in extent, filling and overflowing
1 it, and sending from it a deep stream
fifty or sixty feet wide, and extending
| eight or nine miles to the Oklawana
river, into which it empties. In the
spring itself fifty steamboats may lie
at anchor, and in the stream, steam
j boats of considerable draught. The
: spring thus forms a natural inland
! port, to which three steamers now run
regularly from the St. John's. The
clearness of the water is truly wonder
ful. It seems even more transparent
than ai r . You see on the bottom,
thirty feet below your boat, the exact
form of the smallest bebble, the out
line and color,and shadesof eolorofthe
leaf which has sunk. Large fish swim
i in It, every scale visible, and every
movement distinctly observable. The
water is impregnated with lime and
magnesia, but lias no appreciable
taste, and is excellent drinking water.
If you go over the basin in a boat you
will see the fissures in the rocks, from
which the river pours upward like an
inverted cataract. There are more of
thespringsin theehannelof the stream,
further down. Such springs arc almost
I common in Florida. Clay Spring,
! near the east bank of Lake Apaka,
pours forth a navigable stream into the
! St. John's. Bug Spring, on the west
| side of Lake Harris, is nearly as large
as Silver Spring. I have laughed at a
story of a spring in lowa, which was
! large enough to turn a mill, but I can
: swallow all such tales now, after hav
-1 ing seen one that will float a fleet. —
1 Cincinnati Commercial.
"A MAX who'll maliciously set
fire to a barn," said Mr. Slow, "and
burn up twenty cows, ought to be kick
ed to death bv a jackas, and I'd like
to do it."
BALLADS are the gipsy children of
song, born under green hedgerows, in
the leafy lanes and by-paths of litera
ture, in the genial summer time.
"THE happiest conversation," savs
Dr. Johnson, "is that of which noth
ing is distinctly remembered, but a
general effect of pleasing impress."
NOTHING SO adorns the face as cheer
fulness; when the heart is a flower, its
bloom and beauty pass to the fea
ture-.
VOL. 62.--WHOLE No. 5,439.
TI'RKISH WOSIF.X.
One of the gi cutest obstacles to the
successful civilization of Turkey is the
condition of the femalesex there. The
theory of the Turks is that women are
created to be slaves and bear children.
As a consequence, their education and
refinement are wholly neglected. Their
ignorance is accompanied with an
amount of superstition and fanaticism
almost beyond the imagination. They
give themselves up to the ideal entire
ly. Their minds are peopled with
spirits and genii that hold high carni
val and dethrone the reason. When
sick, the spiritual physician attends be
fore the regular practitioner, and his
means of disenchantment are often
more potent than medicines. The
priest has unlimited sway over their
beliefs, and that he has power to exer
cise the devil, raise the dead, and per
form countless miracles, is accepted as
part of their religious teaching. Their
devotion to the Koran and to the Mo
ham medon religion is as sincere as it
was 1,200 years ago. Indeed, female
society is the same in Turkey as it was
hundreds of years ago.—Yet these
women, steeped in superstition and
ignorance, revelling in the errors of
heathen ages and reeking all over with
unchristian and uncivilized enormities,
are the mothers and teachers of the
Turkish youth. Reform'is impossible
with them, for the effortsof the priests
all tend to keeping them in this dark
condition, and the interests that hus
bands take in the reformation of even
their own harems is too remote to ac
complish any good. Some of the more
enlightened Turkish men speak of re
forms and education, but never in con
nection with the women of the land.
Until the female sex are relieved from
their barbaric ignorance; until the
load of superstition that now sinks
them far below the scale of mortals is
raised; until these mothers and teach
ers of the young are rendered compe
tent to fulfil their high trusts, we can
expect but little in the way of Turkish
reform.
DIETETICS— WHEAT BREAD.—A
writer in the American Farmer writes
as one learned in the chemistry of food.
He says : "Our whole process of con
verting wheat into bread has, at al
most every step, violated the laws of
nature and disregarded her sugges
tions, and the reform must be a funda
mental one. Wheat is, beyond all
dispute, the most perfect article of hu
man food, it being the only vegetable
production yet discovered that con
tain—nil the elements necessary for the
nourishment of the muscle, bones, fat
ty tissue, and brains, in just the right
proportions. Beans, peas. Indian corn,
and the other grains afford perfect nour
ishment for all the organs but the brain,
by which term is included the spinal
marrow and the nerves, which branch
from the brain, and are identical in
composition with it, the whole forming
one system or set of organ-. Now the
pabulum of the brain is phosphorus,
who.-o life-giving fire thrills along the
nerves, and whose light illuminates the
chambers of the mind—for eould we
rightly understand the correspondence
between the materia! and the spiritual,
we might see that light in the intellec
tual sense was something more than a
mere figure of speech. The wear of
the brain by study or any mental ef
fort throws off the phosphorus which
is found with other waste matter in
the urine or other secretions. 'To keep
the brain healthy and in working or
der, the waste must be restored by the
use of food containing phosphorus, and
that food is wheat.
"It would seem as if wheat was made
for bruin food, and man, the only ani
mal that works with his brain, is the
only consumer of it. But by a strange
caprice, the promptings of his intui
tions are overruled by his tastes, and
in this particular instance, t" his groat
detriment, nearly every particle* of
this brain-nourisding phosphorus is
found in the hull or bran of the wheat,
which, when separated from the flour,
for the sake of merely gratifying the
eye with the sight of white bread, car
ries with it all the superiority which
wheat possesses over a dozen other
kinds of cheaper vegetables. In addi
tion to this, the mechanical action of
the bran on the internal organs keeps
them in a healthy state, and supercedes
the necessity of pills and other cathar
tics, 'which many people are obliged to
use habitually. This matter of making
flour of the whole wheat is well under
stood, and approved by every school of
physicians, and through their recom
mendation to their patients, and the
teachings of health journals, its use is
becoming somewhat common, and
wheat meal, as it is called, is a staple
article in the markets."
JOSH BILLINGS' SAYINGS.—Ef a
man flatters you, yu kan karkerlate
that he is a rogue or you are a fule.
Keep both ize open, but don't see
mor'n half you notis.
Ef you ieh for fame, go into a grave
yard and scratch yourself against a
tumestone.
Young man, be more anxious about
the pedigree yur going to leave, than
you are about the won somebody's go
ing, tu leave you.
Sin is like weeds—self sone and sure
to cum.
About as sure away to get rich ascu
ny I know of, is to get inter debt for a
hundred thousand.
WHY is coffee like an axe with a
dull-edge? Because it ha- to l>e
ground.
A writer in nn Eastern paper says
there "ought to ho p. new edition of
Father Grant's story published irunu -
diateiy, with copious illustrations, not
forgetting, as the most prominent of
theinall, that of Grant, junior, riding
on a mule with a monkey on his back.
S ichan illustrat ion, alt hough retrospec
tive, would be quite apt to-day ; for is
not Grant riding a rnule; the animal
sometimes represented by Andy John
son and sometimes by Thud. Stevens
and the Radical party? But which
ever animal he rides he always carries a
monkey on his back in the shape of the
politicians. What effect this literary
contribution may have on public opin
ion or how it may boused by thoßolu
miunsund other men of genius we know
not. We know, however, what was the
effect of General Scott's speeches about
the sweet Irish brogue and delight
ful German accent, the delicate allusions
to a garment which shall be unmen
tionable, and the hasty plate of soup,
the tire in the rear and all the other
well-timed and ill-timed allusions of
that disappionted politician; but wecan
not conceive what the effect may be of
this paternal biography on the fortunes
of Gen. Grant.''
Too BAD.—A little girl, dressed in
bloomer costume, who had been seated
between her elder sister and beau
during a drive to the country, on her
return accosted her ma thus: "Ma, 1
won't ride with siter Jane and Thomas
Smith any more, for he ke; ps a hug
ging ana kissing her all the while.—
Now, just see how lie mussed up my
pretty bloomer hat," at the same time
holding up to the astonished mother's
view a dilapidated-looking bloomer.
"Susan! Susan! how can you talk so?"
was the mother's exclamation, "it
can't be possible that your sister allows
Mr. Smith to take such liberties!"
"Yes, but it is possible," was the reply
of the mischievous little minx; "and
mother, she likes it, for she leans up
to him just like brother Jack's Guinea
pig when he scratches his back."
COULD'XT STAND IT.—An adipose
friend whose snoring power is so great
that on a summer's night a watchman
roused the family, thinking some one
was dying in the house, lately stopped
at a hotel in Maine. Aware of his in
firmity, he requested the man to give
him a room as distant from other dor
mitories ars possible, that he might not
disturb their tenants. He retired in
due time, and fatigued by travel, sunk
into slumber and soon began to snore,
the sound gradually increasing from
that of a droning bagpipe to the loud
est trooper's bugle. At length he was
aroused by a tremendous pounding at
his door, which he opened and inquir
ed: "What do you want?" "Want!"
exclaimed the fellow who had waked;
"Want! quiet to be sure. I've slept in
a saw mill; but, hang me, if I can stand
your noise."
IN the darkest days of the Atlantic
U'lognijih enterprise, a friend of Gyros
Field's bought ten thousand dollars of
stock for a ten dollar bill. Mr. Field
offered to take the stock at a consider
able advance. "Well, hut what do
you advise me to do, Mr. Field?"
"Take your stoek home," was the reply;
"lock it up in your safe, and never
look at it, or think of it till you come
to me for your dividends on it." And
that man is now receiving on his in
vestment of ten dollar.-, eight hundred
dollars per annum in gold.
SERFDOM IN RUSSIA.—A report of
the condition of the Russian serfs, at
the beginning of 1868, has just been
published. From this it appears that
there are still 3,62!),382 serfs not eman
cipated. The number of the emanci
pated serfs is now 6,116.635, including
1,168,140 in Lithuania. Of these only
518,529 have obtained their emancipa
tion by voluntary agreements entered
into by their masters. The remainder
have become proprietors through the
intervention of the government, which
has appropriated some $300,000,006 for
the compensation of the old landhold
ers.
"TOMMY, my son, fetch in a stick of
wood." "Ah, my dear mother," re
sponded the youth, "the grammatical
portion of your education has been
sadly neglected; you should have said ;
"Thornmas, my son, transport from
that recumbent collection of comhusti -
hie material upon the threshold of this
edifice, one of the curtailed exeresceiws
of a defunct log."
A GENTLEMAN who had hec-n justice
of the peace for thirty-five years, was
not allowed to register in the State of
West Virginia, because he purchased
a horse named Stonewall Jackson; the
register remarking "that he'd be d—d
if any "troolyloil" man would own a
horse by that name.
A SOBER PROPOSITION.—A man who
had been fined several weeks in suc
cession for getting drunk, coolly pro
posed to the magisrrate that he should
take him by the year at a reduced rate.
ADVERSITY exasperates fools, dejects
cowards, draws out the faculties of the
wise and industrious, puts the mod
est to the necessity of trying their
skill, awes the opulent, and makes the
idle industrious.
"No Biddy," said Patrick to his
wife, "you never catch a lie coming
out of my mouth." "You may well
say that," replied Biddy ; "they fly
out o fast that nobody can catch 'em."
A SILLY fellow, who, wishing to
learn to swim, was almost drowned,
swore that he would never touch the
water again till he had learwd to
swim. ~
A FRENCH scientific antiquarian has
published a work in which he attempts
to prove that Solomon,s Temple was
furnished with lightning rods.
MA RKIAGE is the best state for man
in general; and every man is a worse
man in proportion he is unfit for the
marriage state.