LITTLE FEET. DT 1401111113;05 VIISCITir Two Hide feet, so mad dust -both may nestle In one caressing bard Two tender feet upon the untrled'border , Of life's suysterious laud, Dimpled, JinA sprt i _ nnd pink itepeaeh tree blossoms In April's fragrant daYs— non can they walk among the briery tan glee Edging the world's rough ways? These white rose feet along the doubtful fa -tare Must bear a woman's load, Alia! Sines woman has the, heaviest bur den, And walka,the hardest road. Love, fora while, will make the piVorfo it than All dainty, smaoth, ,and fair— . Will call away the brambles, letting only The re49o bhmsum there. But whin the mother'. watehful eyes an shrouded Away from eight of men, And them dear feet are left without her gui ding, Who shall direct them then ? flow will they be allured, betrayed, deluded Poor little untaught feet!— Into what dreary mates will they *ander, What danger. VI ,they meet • Will they go Mumbling blindly in the dark near` Of Sorrow's tearful shades Or find the upland slot es of Peace and Beauty, Whose sunlight never fades? Will they galoiling up Ambition's summit, The common world above 7 Or in some nameless vale securely sheltered, Walk side by with Love? :loins feet there be which walk Life's track anwounde , Which find but pleasant ways ; ,ome hearts there be to which this life is only A round of happy -days.- But they are few. Far more there are who • wander Without • imp. or fi teed— Who find their Journey lull of pains and iOlllllll, - And long to rea.dh the end. How shall IL be with her, the tender Wan ger, Fair faced and geptle eyed, Before whose unstained feet are world's rude highway iitretehes so siauge sod wide? Ah! who may read the future For oar darling We crave all blessings sweet— Aod pray that lie who Node the crying re verie I?eiht's-tent.--- - Tile Lady's Friend, Thejlhoptitobber On a fine evenisfilrr tie aiming of IS- Al, a stranger mounted on a noble look ing horse, puled slowly over the gnaw white limestone road leading through the Black Forest, . Just as the run wan going to rest for the day, when the gloorufshadows were beginning to stalk, be drew rein, as he geld— "This must be Gear the spot," surely. VII stop here, anyhow, for a while, and see what I eau learn." lie thereupon dismounted and entered the parlor of an in.p, where he sat down beside a small table. "flow can I serve you, nreinheer I said the landlord "See to my hone outside," replied the guest oarelsesly,.but at the same time eyeing the landlord from head to fool, •'and let me have some wine--Rhine will do " The landlord was turning to wiihdraw from the stranger's presence, when br stopped and maid— ll'hioh way, meinheer, do yoli travel!" "To Vadstadt," reviled the guest. "You will rest hero to night, I sup pose," continued the landlord. "I will ety here for two or three hours but Outlet then be off, to reach my des tination there in the morning I am going to purchase lumber for the mar ket." "And you have - considerable money with you, no doubt'" sated the land lord innocently. "Yea, considerable," replied Ills goes; sipping at his wine disinterestedly. "Then if you'll take my advice," said the landlord, "you'll stay here till soya • ing." "Why," replied the stronger, looking up curiously. 'Because." whispered the landlord. looking around as if be were dieelosino • great secret, and nue afraid of being beard by somebody else, '•every sage that passes over the read between this and Fadstadt, at night, for the last tee years has been rohbed of murdered un der vorj singular eireunvetaneett." "What were the eireuesstanoes t" ask ed the tanager, putting down big gist* empty. and preparing to fill it again. "Why, yon see," the landlord wait wile be approached his guest's ti ale and took a seat. "I have spoken with ',Torsi who have been robbed, all I could leant frees them is that they re member meeting in the lesesomi pan of the wood, something that looked while and ghastly, and that frightened their horses se that they either ran away or threw their rider ; they felt a chek , ing• settestioa and 1, smothering, and Ilaallfdied, a, they thought, but await, in an hour or so to find themselves I;. big hi the roadside, robbed of every thing 1" "Indeed," ejaculated the stranger, (.- 1 -I t , ~,, •k___ -- IttJ ,I_'' 1 . VOL. 13 looking abstractly at the rafters in the •eiling as though, be was more intent . upon counting them than he was inter silted in the landlord's story. The innkeeper looked at him in as tonisbment. Such perfect coolness br had not witnessedlor i long time. 'Yon will remain then suggested the landlord, after waiting some tim. tor his gun' to speak. ..1?" oried the stranger, starting from his fit of abstraotion, as though h. was not sure that be was the person ad 'reseed. "Oh, most certinly not; l'n going etrsig.kt ahead,ghont or no ghost. to-night. Hellan hour later, the stranger and guide, called Willitslm, wren out o he road, going •L a pretty round pac. owsrds Fadstadt. During a flash of lightning the taxon ger ob d that his guide balled very uneasy about something, sod wso.sisalt ing his horse's pace as though he inton ed to drop behind. "Lead.on," cried the - stranier, don't be afraid." - •'l'm afraid I cannot,'• replied tilt pervort addressed, cont!nying to huh' his horse in until he was now at least it length behind his companion. horse is cowardly and unmanageable to a thunder etorm. If you will go tot ' bough, I think I can make him follow .los'e enough to point out the road." - The strang'tr pulled up instantly..L-A strange light-gleamed itrbie eyee, while his hand sought his breast pocket from which be drew some ibing. The guide saw the movement and stopped. "Guides should lead ) pot follow," said the stranwer,.. quietly, but with a fh.n - nese which seemed to bb tflugly un pleasant to the person addressed. , •Btrt," faltered-the. guide, "my horse won't go." , • "Won't he r queried the stranger, with mock simplicity in his tone The guide bearil a sharp click, and .taw something gleam in his companion', right band lle seemed to undrr•tend perfectLy, for be immediately drove hi• spurs into his bor.e's flanks, and sho. .head of his companion without another word. Ile no sooner rpohed his position however, than the stranger saw bin. give a sharp turn to the villa and then disappear, as though be had vanished. through the foliage of the trees that 'skirted the toad. lie beard the clatter of his horse a,. he galloped off. Without waiting an other instant, he touched his horse light. ly with the reini, gave him a prick with the rowels, and off the noble animal 'started like the wind in the wake of the dying guide 'The str►nter,s h , rsv being much su eerier to the other's, the race was u one, and terminated by the guidr being thrown nearly from his saddle by a heavy band, which was laid upon bis bridle, stopping him. Returned In his seat,behetd the stran ger's face,dark and frowning,and trem bled violently ar he felt the smooth. Gold barrel of a pistol pressed againist his check. "This cursed beast almost reit aWa) with me,oried the gulds.oonsposing him self as well sie he oould under the cir voinetanoein "Yes, I , know," said tile companion. dryly, "but mark my werde,young man If your bongo play• such tricf a again. he'll be the'rneans of seriously injitring bis minter's health." They both turned and cantered back 'o the road. When they reached I, again, aid turned the heads of thvii tnimals io the right direotion,tbe steno gAr said to his guide, in a tone which must have convinced hie hearer as to his earnestness— " Now; friend Willhelm, I hope we an derrtand each other for the rest of the journey. You are- to continue on ahead of me. in the right road, without •wery log ether to the right. or left. If I see you do anything suspicious I will drive • brace of bullets through you without word of notice. Now push on." Tim guide had started as directed-but it was evident from his inatterieg that he was alarmed at momethini besides the lotion of his follower. Is the meantime the thunder had in creased its violence, and the lashes of illtsinhig bad become more frequent and more blindisg. Fora whilithe two horsemen rode on is Silence; the guide keeping up hie directions to the letter, while 'his fol lower watched his every movement, as a cat would vetch's mouse. "STATE ILIGEMS AND FEDERAL UNIt N. BELLEFONTE, PA., - FRIDAY FEB. 14, 1868. Suddenly the gulde•etopped and fook ed behind - him. Again he heard the click of the stranger's .pistol and 11111, hie eplitted arm. "Have meroy,meinhier," he routed; -1 dare not go on." '•I give you three seconds to go o " replied the stranger, sternly- 7 -One "lc Heaven's name spare," implored he guide,almost overpowered with tear. •look bilfore me in the road and you will not blame me." - The stranger looked.• Al. first be saw aontelhing white standing motiontave iu ltie centre of the roai, but preeen*ly' e fia-th of lightning lit up the ecene.mod he sew that the woile figure WWI indeed .hlet,ly and frightful enough looking to chill the blood 3ti the veins of even the bravest man. If hie blood chilled for a moment, therefore. it wars not through any few that he !eh for his ghostly in terceplor, for the nest instant be set hi teeth hard while he whispered them just lewd enotigh to be heard by his terror stricken guide— "Be it • moo or davit!—ride it down follow " With a cry of despair upon his lips the guide urged - his 'horse forward — Kt the top of his speed, quickly followed by the stranger wits, held fits pistol read 3 in his hand. . another instant the. guide would have swept past the dreadful spot,but at that instant th• rep's of a pistol rang Chnuiltiit the dark forest. and,the scram gee 'heard a 'horse gallop - off itirough the coo•Is riderless. .Findidq hitiulfillor, the stranger rtised his pistaT , t ook deliberate aim at the-ghostly molderer, ststilkOressed hie tinier upon the trigger. The apparation ipproached h At, not in hostile attitude The stranger stayed his had At length the ghost &flat...seed him to a voice that w•e any trting hut sepulchral. • t•Here. Wil'helm. ye move out of your perch this minute and give me a heljilnp bend I'velit the game on the wing. haven't I'•' The granger wan nonpuleeed for • mAnent, but mauve, ing himself, hr grumbled something unintelligible and le psi to the ground Oue word to hie Oren and the brave animalatoodpterfesu ly still Ity the snow white trapping. et the would be emit be RBA next en attled to grope his way in the dark to bard that indi• dual, whom be found bending over s black mane about the cite of a wan on the road A• the tiger pounces upon his prey, the stranger leaped upon the etoopi figure hrfore hint, •nd bore him to the ground, '•1 arrest you in the King's name." cried the stranger, grasping bin pris oner by the throat nod bolding him .fight —'•t,ltir hand or foot until I have you properly secured, and ill' 644111 ynur soul to eterniYy, Thin was such an unexpected turn of •Haire that the would be ghost (multi herdly believe hie own senses, and wee tisedeuffed and stripped of hie dagger and pistol before be found tune to speak "Are you not my Willhelm ?" he grasped. '•No, landlord," replied the individ ual addressed, " I ant not, Butt am an officer of the King, at your service, on 'peels! duty, to do whit I have to night smoompludied. tour precikmis ~on Will helm, who you - thought was leading an innooent sheep to the slaughter, lies in be road, killed by his father's hand " Two weeks later, at Witchedle Prison in Baden, the landlord of the sign of the Deer and the Glillea Robber of the Black Forrest, who was the same 'dewiest per eon, having been proved guilty of numer ous fiendish murders and artfully con trived robberies, committed at different times in the Block Forest, paid the pen alty of his crimes by letting fall his head 'from the executioner's axe, since when travelling through Schwartzard has dot been so perilous to life and purse, ,por has there been seen any Ghostly Knight, of the Road in that sec tion of the world. —The crew of a man-of-warm:me saw a comet, and were somewhat surprised aid alarmed at its appearenoe• The bands met and appointed a committee to wait on the commander and ask his op inion of it. They approached' him and said "We want to ask your opinion, your honor." "Well, my bey., what is it about!" "We want to inquire about thit thing up there." "Now befpre I answer you, first let me know what ion think it is." "Well, your honor, we bare talked St orer, god we think it is a star sprung a leak." Gymnastic Exercises For Wornltt The general utility of gyinnastioeser , oises will be questioned only by thew who are not aware that the - health 'and vigor of all the bodily organs depend on the proportioned vitertp if each 'hey insufe in particular The detelop oent.of all tne locomotive organs, nod they prevent or correot the deformitim to which these organs are liable. Tbe; tire best calculated to produce strength and activity, and to benidw health. They at the same time code' ticauly of form,and. (=tribute" to impart an elegant air and graceful man ner. iffultitudes of ladies of the present thy ars suffering fro - nt neoralgia, head eche and dyspepsia, on account of thr teilure to take needful exercise. Prim to the opening of the gymnasium in thir Ime, it was difficult to find a remedy for thie failure. billies did not obtain , he requi-ite amount of exeroise,becanse the range of exerci, , en passible to then, V's extremely 1,0 lied. Therein no peon li rily of Holley a system so deserving of p , wee es that tis so admirably wisp led to the wants of women. Ruskin. when describing the kind of education which would fit women for the very high and influential position he is 'union ,hey should occupy. spoke as follows.: ortte first of our dutj'e to hex -no thoughtful rerlon now dowbbs this-419 . secure fol. her suck physical training and exercise as may confirm her health end perfect her beauty, the highest re- linement of that beauty being unattainit. tile without splendor of activity and of delicate strength." That kind of exercise should be firm practiced which will call into act!. those parts of the system Most defective to their de•tlopment. As the only ex eroiself most persons is ordinary walk leg. whfoh alone is quite insufficient in expand the chest—abnormally small-- ill-formed chests ~pre almost the rule; and diseases of the lungs are most fatal itffeLtlons of. ibis country. Now, al though it would not be correct to place these last facto always io the relation of cause sod effect, still there is no doubt that they are very frequently thus rela ted. and it Is certain that tuberculardis would very much decrease if only some pains were taken to exercise the lungs, and provide for their free option by strengthening the muscles of respire lion and expanding the chamber in which they work. —A new treaty with the Fejee la hinds has reached the Department of State It is a whale's tooth, richly variegated in color, with strongly twist ed grime cords at the ends. By it tLe King mortgagee inland:to the United States for three years, S 4 eeourit'y for the payment of the remaining install merit of the Indemnity on account of his subjects having eateh some American seilore many years ago. The President is to prevent a rival King from bringing war agmnst the legitimate soverifign of the Pejees. The King's instruction.' are, that if the President accept. till tooth, the treaty is to be considered estublinh ed , otherwise, to be returned. How GRANT GOT 1118 NAME —Tbe following interosiing facts are•.taken from Col. Adam Badeau'it "Military Career of Oen, Grant " "Ifiram Ulisees Grant was born on the 27th of April. 1g22. at Point Plea sant, Clermont county, Ohio. Hie fat h er was of Scotch descent, and a dea'or in leather. Ulysses was the eldest of Nix children. He entered the Military Academy at west Polite at the age of sev enteen the Congressman who proeured his appointment giving his name by mistake as Ulysses ti. Grant. Simpson was the maiden name of bleneothe - i,and was also borne by one' of his younger brothers. Thl; doubtless occasioned the error. Yining Grant applied to - the autbovitillib at Weet. Point anethe Sec rttary Of War to have the blunder cor reeled, but the request was unnoticed His comrades at once adopted the initial U 8. in his behalf, and abriatenedeithn Uncle Sam—s nickname that he aerie lost in the army ; and when be gradua ted-in 1848, twenty-first in a ohm of thirty-nine, hie oommienion .of b second lieutenant, and hin diploma both ilyled him Ulysses 8. grant, by which name be butainee been known." —lt is slated that ;thrill Booth's receipt averaged $3OOO a aepli 'during the past N$ POD. 'LOVE ON ICE, There is I little font, • That I know of somewhere ; wish I were the lee That I might freeze It there There in a little hand In which carmen lingnr And if I were Jack Frost I think rd plinth a finger There it a music mouth Where crimson blushes mingle I wish I were the cold, To bite them into jingle. There is a pair of eyes O'er hung with tresses golden I wish I were the To be so near beholden. There Is an angel face Within an angel's bonnet ; I wish I were a snow storm, To melt in flakes upon it. There is a little bent -My heart throbs at °sob minute , And I would give the world To win it—oply win it. There le a little girl Skates romewhere hereabout And if I were her ekdtes never 'Mould wear out. -THIS, THAT AID THE OTHER —The Freedmen's Bureau now sup ports two.thousand Degrees in tte District ui Columbia. —Forty•live ship are on the way wit'. 35.000,000 pound,' of tea from China to England. —........41 Tr 0 w fell Am. the first time In forty six years in Cadiz, Spain, about the middh orient month. ~ — The Louisiana tanists have got a• err as article 131. —` Mr. Auburn Irwin, one of the darker delegates to the Florida ,Convention, was Igjalg .. gyagtiAl at Lake City, fur stealing whiskey. —A gallon of brandy, rooting $l2, yield• $Ol 30 when retailed by the glass. Whisky, at $5, yields $27 50. --The Arkansas convention bee passed a resolution disfranchising all who oppose reconstruction, and the ratification of the new Constitution. . 4 , --A midnight elopement, In New York was frustrated Ly a oat, who frightened the lady ,into • fainting fit as she was going down stairs to meet the expected lover at the door. —According to the correepoadent of the Avenic National, th. inuriality from famine In Algeria in co great that the dead are thrown into trenches, as on the - lay of for a battle. --Why is kissing a girl like eating Poop with a fork Because you can't get enough. • —Mrs Partington says, one is obliged to walk very eireummerumptiourly theme slippery times, —Mrs. Jones says. "I believe I've g o t the tenderest hearted boy in the world. I can't tell one of 'em to fetch a pail of water but what hell hunt out socrying." —Make a plain statement of facts to twenty people. and nineteen of them will immediately ask some Irrelevant questloo ■bout the matter. -4 paper mill at the town of north Shapleigh, in Maine, is •t present engaged in manufacturing leather board, made - ui leather chips, rte. ft employs ten hands, and turns out about one ton per day. —An Ignoramoin had been sick,and,on reoovering, mu told by the doctor that Is, might take a little animal food. "No sir," said he, "I took your gruel easy euougb but hang me it I can est.yourhay or oats " —"Now, children." asked a schotil h; Spector, "wbo loves all men ?" A little girl not four years old, and evidently net posted In the catechises, answered quickly "All women." Jones. you said you were con fleeted with the tine arts ; do you mean that you aro • sculptor?" "No, sir, I don't Kulp myself, but Lfurnish the stone to the ipso tblit does." —lt is said hoops surround the low , II lief of all things—girls and whisky. —“Sonny, dear. you have II very dirt) face." "Can't help it, marm, dad's • black republican." —What's the Jl&redo* between editor.. end matrimonial experlimee. In the for mer the devil cries for "oopy." In the latter the "copy" arise like the down. —A celebrated song writer asked Jre 'told, "Youngsler, bast you sufficient oonL deuce la me to lend me it guinea? "Yes," said Jerrdld. "have the confidence, but helical the ganoca." . An editor *rote an article on the fair sex. Wean/sof which be said : of Matson are end bf beaus." When 'the pap* was tees- 1 b 5 was shocked to discov er that an unfortunate typographical actor had made btm say : "ti Irlsof seventeen or eighteen are toad of trnin: th A SpOolmin of M., sooohusetto PjAilon . • thropy. The following, from the / N ew York gernt r ail'ost, Is oalottlated to give one a high 'opinion of the "highly enlightened tad abristian people" y of Massachueetts. IfJoslah Spaulding had been a negrc in south Carona, the heart of the old Bay `irate 'would have. bled for him ; but, tieing one of ber own white children, he gas permitted to "Ruder the unutterable horrors of mental madness for sixty years," and die at last like a dog, at the tge of eighty-one, in the "pitiable but unpit4ed Mate'‘degoribird below. The Massachusetts papers announce the death of Josiah dpsulding, the me dal] pauper. of_Snekland, whops putd easT.filiirlieTitriirgn — YATdrFelt" to ny th - t , Press. Mr. Spaulding was the ...nly sou of the late Rev. Josiah, Spaulding, pas tor of the Congregational ohurob In littoklatid, who died in 1828. He was graduated st Yale College.to 1778. The father was an accurate scholar, an acute, , and able writer ; but, lacking the grace of shmution, his direoureep +rare marred by a monotonous and disa greeable delivery. Hie personal integ rity,,goodness of heart and eminent pie ty, were doubted by none. His fervor tnd fidelity in pastoral duly won thet.re, Teat and love Of all of . The pious .emper with which he bore his great list for eleven of the last _years of his ife, afid the unoomplaining spirit with glitch he provided, out of his scanty in nuns, for the support of his unfortunate 'en. excited the admiration of his friends teid all who became acquaimed with his ease. NO. 7 Jueish was his only son It was his sateen ohlef desire that his son * iihould 'e educated to be a minister of the gos- Ail With • feeble constitution and a mind of only ordinary, capacity, the voung man studied beyond his strength io fitting for college. being compelled *leo to engage in school keeping to arm ament his fathers narrow means. Just ,8 he was nearly ready for college, be ing twenty one years of age, be became •lolently and hopel. sely deranged. The nt public outbreak of insanity was of dburot on Sunday; while hitilather war ttlwayer, when he suddenly threW the" palm book at his Mother's head. For nearly two years he was not °en titled, until his father's life had been re peatedly endangered by his violence, when Ire was restrained with chaise for . couple of jeers, and then was pleated in a omit cage in the garret of the house, from which he never came fee* while he lived. No clothing could be t ept on him . ; but in weather he would allow himself to be covered with a blanket which lasted only until his propensities for destruction became •trungy , r than his fear of be cold. His one was not high enough for him to stand erect, anti be remained constsaitli in a sitting postare,leaning back egoista the timber where he slept. His limbs could not be straightened, his hair was n trimmed, and for cleanliness, he received only the attention given to a poorly kept animal'. In fact he lest the appearance of a hu man being, nearly lost the faculty of speech, and, for many years before his teeth. became wholly demented and idi otic. For some years before the death of his parents their poverty, compelled fb_m to throw their only eon upon the town for support as a pauper, in et plata where rigid penuriousness towards the poor was the law of public opinion.— Thus lived for sixty yeanyabed thus died' one of the "chronic insure peon" We find no record in the medical journals of co long a period of insanity. The long. est period noted by French writers, and bet in hospital, is fifty-six year,. Such i 4 the inglorious history pt One who was a son and brotherand neighbor —a scholar, egentleinan, and chanter/ —until struck with that terrible siok.. nese - of the mind which threessore years hark was so 111 understood as to be Inn ',Ole. Ile died at the age of eighty-one. No official or legal investigation of hie case, or hie ones crteasee, has ever been made by the government, but he was eft Is Olio pitiable but unpited state, in the midst of a highly enlightened and uhrietian people, to bora, end and groan, end suffer the unutterable horrors of ment;l madness for sixty years. Srucssoous NOVI otupendous tunnel enterprine hue lateiy been aceomplisited at tire silver mines io the german Harts mounts:or. The mines were over a,OOO feet dr'cp, and •eareity of fuel prevented the nee of 'team tor pumping, wbibh was done by water wheels, aided by tunnel dratate 4, But the great depth reached in eluded further progress in that mauler, sod a tunnel wks commettoed for deck Iroinage which is Just pow finished. This tunnel is twenty-two piles long; wo =Midas collie yards of solid rook were excavated, ten thousand peals ef powder used, and the linear extent of blestiai holes t9ritltftj is 180 Adam. Nag. orally, on the summered •oeseplettea aE this colostral work, ihNittrwo - thousand' isinerO, whose livellbirod is now mound: for twenty years, crelebrated the lo , itt with grand regjoloing. The sninentiehhe worked till IsB7 Without steam. sadder have been operated sines the' ybar ht continuous profitable productig4.-,