THE. LITTLE ROBE OF WHITE In o'romorrond cradle a baby lay ; It§ mother was st4shing, stitching away On a litho robot df wirito; Ono foot on the rocker; ohu hopod to keep Iler froliekaomo babe fast asleep, Te finish her work that night. In every stitch of Out garment she wrought That loving mother (wanted a thought, Hopes for tfiat, Mae ono; And ilniilld on her:baby in happy pride. An it slept In its crap by hor side, Till the littlo rols was done. Than she folded up the cambric and lace, And kissed her little one'o chubby face, That smiled in ita infant glen; She tossed It up and down In the air—__ Alms pretty you'll look, little babe, when you wear a' 4 That now little robe," said she. 0 ~. I In a rosewood coffin the baby lay , Its mother had wept the night away, Watching its dying breath ; With it peened to her boeom she to keep t !for darling baby from going to sleep In the cold, cold arms of death. They buried the babe in the garment just wrought Whose every Mitch held • hopeful thought, From the. loving mother's eight; On a marble Atone she wrote with a tear, .Ilow many hopes are buried here In that little robs of white." • x • vi r• • • In the Sat•iour's arms a baby lay, From the rosewood coffin far away, In the realms of love and light , Th• angles a garment have foldwriagout Its little form, which will never wear out -- A seamless robe of white. At the Top of s Chimney. A man will go blind, and mad too, from fear; I have seen it happen, and, if you don't mind listening, will tall you the story. T - wee apprenticed to m blinder when I loft school, and soon got to like the trade very much, especially when the work wan perilous, and gave inn chance to out-do the other lads in dar ing "Spider" wan my nickname is those days, given partly on account of my long legs, for I had outgrown proportions, and partly beettuee they Pail] I could crawl along a roof, like my namesake When I wan about three anddiventy, I wan workin4 with the famous Mr —, and went sown to Swansea with his picked hands, to - carry out a contract ho had taken in that town While there, 1 fell ia love pith the prettiest girl l hnd eeen in Wales, and that la saying a gird deal. For a time I tangled she liked Me, uu , l t h at I was getting on very well with toy love making, but I noon fotand my mistake, tar an old lover oflere joined our men, and Mary gave me the cold shoulthir direcily. You may believe this sweet heart of here (who wan called lien Lloyd) and I were not the bent friends in the world , but I urn not the sort of fellow to harbor mallet., and when the Mailings to the wedillog went round, and I knew flat my chance was'gone, I made the bent of it ; I kept my pore heart to myself, and determined to heat down Jealousy by being great eltuitis with Bob I went to the wedding, and there were not many days when I did not"feel 11/11(91/ hour to nit by Illy fireside, whirl' was 119 bright and cosy and homelike as you would wish to Her Mary being Ihi• soul of order and industry. It to noi, perhap., the usual way of drivint , out envy, to go and look at the hoppme4s another man hay done ycu out or, but then you know the proverb says, • What 18 ono Lunn's meat is another man a Poison;" and 80 it was I gut to look upon Wary 09 a sort l ot' sinter, Aid lien had no cause for jealuuqy. although there were plenty of cv:l tongues ready to put him up to it The contract was nearly up, when a hghtning conductor upon one of the highect chtinneyo over itt Llanelly sprang, and the owner id the works offer.ed our master tho job. * "It's Just the sort of thing for you, Harry," said Mr --- , when ho told us of it I touched my cap and accepted tt off. hand, and thou lien stepped up and said he'd volunleer to be the second man, two being reciatefti. "All right," said the master; "you are the stcadiest-headed fellows I have. The price is , a good one, find every penny of it /limn bc divided between you We'll not fix a day for the work, but take the first calm mcrrtiing arid it6t it done quietly." So it was that, some feu; or ttye morn ings after, we found ourselves at Llanel ly, and all 4'cady for the start. The kite by which the lino attached to dlki block was to ho aunt over the chimney, was flown, and did its work well; the rope which was to beta oft the cradle wse ready, and stepping ni, Ben and I began the ascent. There had been •ery few people about when we went into the yard, but Its we got higher, I saw that the news had tpread, and that the streets were filling with sightseers "There's plenty of star gazers, Ben," said, waving my nap to thorn ; dare say they'd like to He ,. 11`i come down with a run." • "Cannot you keep quiet ' answered Ben, speaking in a steunge tone; and, turning to look, I cart float ho was delay pale, and sat in the boldoin of the cradle, huidled up tog.efher tt ith his eyes fa9t phut. rf•ft frightened, oil chap? I asked e fi c , 11 if 1 ati f f ! HAI 1 x / . (1 / L ittair )r, 7_ __....1._.c_ VOL. -13 BELLEFONTE, PA., FRIDAY NOVEMBER 27, 1868. NO. 47. “Whet'a that to you!' "Oh,'nothing; only we are getting up pretty quickly, and you'd have a better bead for work if you'd get gradually used to the height." Ile said nothing, a•d never moved Then, looking up, I saw we wore close to the top—a few yards more, and we would•be there; yet those who were turning the windlass were winding with unabated speed. A sudden chill ran through my blood, and sot my flesh creeping They hail miwalculated the distance. and with the force they were winding at the rope, it must inevitably hreak when the cradle came in contact with the block. There was no time to attempt a signal, only un !natant to point out the danger to Ben, and then to get hold of the rope, and, by going hand over hand, reach the coping be fore the cradle came up This was done almoet quicker than I can tell yell, Ben following. —S„6„n / The cradle came on; then. as I an ticipated, the rope go•e a shrill, ping ing sound, like tt life-ball passing through the air, and snapped. Down went the cradle, and there were we left, nearly three hundred feet in the air, with hothing to rest upon but a coping, barely eighteen inches wide. lieu shrieked out that he was a dead man, and cried: "Tell mo where I can kneel, Harry, show inc where I can pray 10 Almigh," God, fur I cannot die this way" “1111.h' lad," I . ••ilon t lose heart Gel can bear you just as well sitting as kneeling, and if you try to get up, you'll tumble, to a moral ear. taint). Think of Maly, notn, anti keep But be only shook and swayed more find inure, groaning and crying out. that lie wan ; and I could see that, if be 111./ not mind, he would overbalance —tiet hold of the rod," I said, think ing that, even sprung as it won, the touch of ti would give him courage ''Where is it, boy human' hoarsely, rind then looking into his face, which was turned to me, I saw that his eyes were drawn Cogeth , r, squinting and bloodshot, and knew that. the fright haul driven bun blind So pushing myself to him, I placed my aria round hti and worked round to the rod, million I put In tins hand , and then 1 looked be low to see wlint,ier they were trying to help us , but there won no sign The yard was ful , l„, of people, all running hitter find thither, and as I afterwards knew, all in the greatest consternation --the cradle having faileu on one of the overs.eeri of the works, killing him on the spot, and so occupying the attention of Owe near that we unfortunates were for the time forgotten I was stntining my eyes, in the hope of seeing some ellen !Tttle to help. us, when I was startle , ' by a horrible yell, and brought to a sense of a new danger, for looking round, I eaw llen eh tinning with his teeth and foaming at the mouth, and gesticulating in i unearthly way Fear had not out blindel him, but crazed his brain. Scarcely had I tune to comprehend this, when he begnit 'edging his way to wards me ; and cveiy hair: on my head seemed to stand on end an I moved away, kggping as far off as I could, and scarce ly daring to breathe, lest he should hear me, for see too he could not—that was my 'only consolation. Once, twice, thrice, he followed me round the mouth of that horrible chimney ; then, no doubt thinking I, had fallen over, he gave up the search, and began trying to get. on his feet. What could I do to save his life? To touch him was cer tain death for myself as well as him, for ho would inevitably seize and we should go over together. To let him stand up was to witness his equally oar-lain destiuction. I thought of poor Mary, and I re membered that if ho died she might get to care for me. The' devil put that thought in my rni't - 1, I suppose ; but, thank God, there was a stronger than Satan near, and, at the risk of my life, I roared out, ..Sit still, or you will fall, Ben Lloydd!" Ile crouched down and held on with clinched teeth, shivering and shaking. In after day, he told me that ho thought that it wns toy spirit sent to warn dud save hint. "flit rope:tied from time to time, watching with• aching eyes and brain for sonic eigu of old. gaol' milk- ate smiled to be au hour. My lips grew dry, my tongue literally olive to toy moull4 nod the perspiration running "STATE RIGHTS AND rzuninAL 'UNION." down blinded me. At last—at last— hope came. The crowd began to gather in the yard, peoeLe *ere running in from distant laneend a sesi of lliC'es were turned upward; then someone who hail got a speaking trumpet shouted, "Keep heart, boys ; we'll save you I" A few minutes more and the kilo began to rive ; higher and higher it (tomes, on and on. How I watched the white-wiog ed messenger,,comparing it in my heart to an angle, and surely, as an angle Was it premitted to come to us poor sin nerv, hanging on the verge of eternity. Up it came, nearer and nearer, guided by the akillful flier. The *lank rnpe crossed the chimney, and we were saved. I could not shout hurrah, even had I dared , but in every beat of my heart was n thanks-giving to the God I had never tiuiy known till that hour, and whose merciful providence I can never doubt again. The block was fixed, the cradle came up again, and Ben, obeying my order, got in. I followed ; but uo sooner did I touch hint than he began trying to get out. I got bold, of him, and, taking in hii head that I was attempting to throw him ewe, Ito strughled andfouglit like the 111.1111 Sn he Wll9--grappliog, tearing with hit tPt , h, shouting, iikriek ing, and praying all the way down, while the cradle strained and ',racked, swinging to and fro Ine the pendulum of a clock As we came near the ground I could hear the roar of voices, and an, occasional cheer; then suddenly all wag silent, for they had beard Ben's cries, and when the cradle touched the ground sc.Lrcly a man dare look in The first who dl.l SSW a horrible eight, for, ex hait.ted by the struggle and excitement, no moon with.. cradle stopped I hail faint ed, and Ben, feting my hands relax, had fasiened'his teeth into my neck No wendnt the. men fell book with blanched face3—they saw that Ben woe crazed , but they thought ha had killed me, (or, as they said, he wad actually worrying me like adog• At last the master gut to us and pulled Ben off me I soon came round, but it was a long time before ho got well, pqor fellow; and when ho did come out of the asylum lie was never fit fur his old trade again, oho and Mary went out to Australia, and the last I heard of th , in way that lien had got a couple of thousand cheep and was doing capi- tally I gave up the trade, too, soon after finding th•it 'get queer in the head when I tried to fare height So, you 09 : that morning's work changed two inen'e llvee The Gipsies A German paper gives au account of the gipsics in Hungary w h en they first arrived in 1497, under the rule of liaig Sigismunt., and quickly adopted, with tho imitative split of their race, the manners and customs of the people among whom they settled In Northern Hungary, which is an agricultural country inhabited chiefly by Slavonians, they seldom moved beyond the bounds of their villages , in Southern Hungary, l'inhabited by Wallachians, Germans and Serviette, they le.ttl a named life The Ilunk - arian gipsiss are of all varieties of color, (ruin while to a yellowish red, like that of the Indian gipsies. There arc front :10,000 to '40,000 .of them in Hitugary proper (excluding Traneylva nit& and Cr , rtio), where they are chiefly horse dealers, musicians. and black smiths. They have always been well treated by the Government, but, not withstanding all the efforts of Maria Theresa and Joseph 11 , they could never be persuaded to business or to busy them selves with agriculture. Once the Oov ernment actually built houses for them, but they were never inhabited, the gip siee'preferring to sleep in the open air or in straw huts emoted by themselves. The men though they led a vagabond life, tire on the whole tolerably % honeet; but the women and . obildren are nensdt all theism, or beggars. Their only hii , torical tradition is the celebrated defence by 1,000 gipsios of the fortress of Na gy Ida in 1587. The gipsles showed extraordinary bravery on this occasion, keeping the fortress for three days against the enemy far more numerous. At length theassailants began to retreat, upon which, with their usual boastful ness, the gipsies exclaimed that Itheir victory would have been mete complete if they had not used all their powder Tti., enemy, hearing this of course re turned to the assault, took the fortress, and-killed the gipsy garrison to a man. Earthquakes in History During the' first half of this oentury 8,240 of those visitations were noticed, or about one every week. In Europe, during the last ten years, there have been 120 earthquakes, or one every nine days. At the combenciement of the fifteenth century, only 750 of these shocks had found a place in hinter, During the next 800 years, 2,804 earth quakes are recorded, or almost four time as many as during all the preced ing ages. From these facts it bee been inferred that, whatever may he the ori gin of these uplieuvinge of the...must of the earth, the phenomena are greatly inerei in number and their causes Among the earlevit earthquakes re ported are those by which thb famous Herculaneum and l'ompeii were destroy ; ed to the year 138 Fifty-two years after thM, Antioip in Syria. wail almost en tirely destroyed, the calamity occurring just at tho,time the then emperor Tro jan, was on a visit to the place. 458 it was again visited by an earthquake, and then again in 525, the numberof persona perishing in the rioter on thin latter oo caeion being estimated at a quarter of a million - In 1602, fort Royal the capital of Ja maica, was entirely submerged by the force of an earthquake,ihat swallowed up over a thousand acres, and drove ships so fur inland that they floated above the buried oily lu-1772, au entire volcano sunk into the earth in the Island ofJava, carrying, with it forty villages, the mountain it self which was fifteen miles long and six broad, the accompanying hamlets and their 2,857 inhabitants (In the first of November, 1755, oc curred the memorable earthquake of Lisbon by which 60,000 persons perished in the twinkling of an eyeik Here, also, was the great tidal - wave seen at an alti- Hide of fifty feet. One of moat awful incidents of this earthquake was the sinking of the city quay. This had joisd been constructed of marble at anima memo expense, and to it, as tea last re fuge, fled thousands of the hapless in habitants With a moment's warning, the earth suddenly opened to receive it, and after sucking in the 'mass closet! over it, as not a single body of all th e thousands that went sown, nor the least spar or ark from any of the ships near by thel were sucked into thd chasm, ever came to the top The 'enter there iv near six hundred fathoms deep, at, an unknown distance beneath the bottom repose the hapless Lisbonese. This Lis bon earthquake, Humboldt estimates, affected a portion of the earth four times as large as Europe, and was felt in the Alps, on the coasts of Sweden, in the West Indies, on lake Ontario, and along the coast of Maasachueetts. 1811, the earthquakes on the Missis sippi, se•erest at New Madrid, Missouri, shook the ground for many days, and al ternately raised and depressed it here and (here, the latter sections forming a section called the sunken country to this lay On the 218.11 March, 1812, a •iolent thunder otorm, with ineessant flashes, was obAer•ed by the people of New Mad rid, and nt the same„tircia the eity of Cit.- rocas, in South Ameties, was laid in ruins, twel7e thousand of its people per ishing, The great eruption of Vesuvius, in 1857, with nooompanying earthquakes, r ill also be remembered as taking human ills, variously estimated at from 22,000 to 40,000 lives In 1858, June 19th,ibe V i a'ley of Mer ino was also devastated by one of these visitations demolishing houses through out Its length sad destroying the costly aoqueduot supplying the city with water. March 22, 1869. Quito, in Ecquador, was uearly destroyed by an earthquake, and thousands of lives were lost. —Before the election all the Redd cal papers and politicians were in eosin cies oyez Grant's "Let us have peace :'' Grant now goys it to the office•seehers who are already beginning to porseoute him. To these h res Grant denies him self and says "Let us have peace." They don't like the phrase as much as they did--it Is not as pretty as it was. --.Bambo, hare you fed the pip ?" "Yes, massa, me feud 'um," replied Sambit. "Did you count thorn?" "Yee, 111(l938, iue comm them all but one ; dorc way ono e'peckled .pig, frlekml about co I couldn't count him." SONG OF THE SOUTH DT SPENCIIR W. CONE, esq We have no unizio on the breeze, No hastier in the beams— Our Standards are the forest item Our Trumpeters the streams:— Yet dot till all The forest fall, Nor till the streams be hushed, Shall we, who weld Nor sword nor shield By t(raany be crushed. Like men who met the ANA rt steel For what we deemed our right, Nor sheathed the sword to grovelling kneel To those we mead in fight. To honor's hand We gave our brand And not to Irelo'ol'one knaves. But dm' we wield Nor sword nor shield. They shall not make us slaves. hike milk when the conflict grew, We turfed the stus sad Bars, And fresh 'allegia,ce, firm and true, Swore to the Stripes and Stare; And crust - the month, In all ,lire South, • Which makes that oath n lie, Or dare proclaim The White man's shame And negroes' mastery. Go! Tyrants! trample White men's souls Whilst license yet is given. But know—ye tread on burning ooala That have been lit in heaven And if no blaze Arrest your gaze. Deem not the . spirit flown. Which, though your he./ Be rhod tenth •ted, Wilt burn you to the bon, THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER —Ths s. Popular Music or tho train— .43ar-toon. ----For bad habits go to a cheap clothing MEI ----May a military man be lespeeted to keep ,ri•il7 —Will sticking a stove-pipe into a hole stop a hole? —The :weevils°, of the ilreirian Bend— The Venetian blind —Men of Mork— Thorn who cool write their named. —Krror —The crook in 11 pig'm tail, hard ,to get out. ---An obscure but vary popular author— Anonymous. —The Labor Question—What is the least we can do for the most mosey. --The Bun that bhines fur all (who ba%o ten cents)—The hoot blacks One definition of a "corn dodger" is a 1112f1 who refuses whisky —A weak inception of the enemy—the coffee wo have now s-days. Nlissourl, the other day man died while being baptized, in NBA river --The ronens, Just eompleted, makes the population of Chicago 252 054. ---Harvard University had last year 1,- 020 students in all its departments. --lien. McClellan it about to take up his residence pc ri aa et tly at Hoboken, N. J. now fu prevent C _mop i racy from leaking out—Let the plot thicken. —A dcrirable docn•atic bird—a duck of IMIEI —Queer that a shoemaker who is "ever hieing" is coneWually. "pegging out." —lteauty is the murk Clod sets upon 1211131 --There is no more potent antidote for low sensuality than edarnationof beauty. ---Ho who can'plant *enrage in the bu man heart is the beet physician• —Douglas Jerrold says Eve eat the forbidden fruit that she might have the pleasute of dressing. —l l lh7 is a son who objects to his mo ther's marrage like an exhausted pedestriaal Halmos° he emit go a step father. --A farrier. in Massachusetts has ausde four thousand dollars en hie onion crop this 62 —Tho manufaoruro of omoking pipois In Prance represented iu 1867 upwards $2,- 080,000. - : —Genesal ltoseerans has Nailed for !deo ioo, and. General Longstrees seempaalea —Of the 4,800 vote 'polled in Macon, Ga.. nut exceeding ice white nits voted for Grant and Colfax. —Three strikes are now in. progress in New York city, Viz: The cigar makers, shoemakers and"plano torte sinkers. --The price of wheat in lit. Paul Min• nesota, has gone down toy 75 and 80 cent! per bushel, and flour sanest $5 per barrel. —Brasil is tho only ouuntry whose se curities sell at u larger discount than, the Unitod States. —While ton men watch for chances, one men makeechancea; while ten men wait fur something to turn up, one turns up something ; •no while ten fail, ono encore& and id reined a man of luck, the hirofito of fortune. Vitro in no luck like pluck, and fortune most furorr thorn who aro moat in different to fortune. Statistics of the Bible The Scriptures have been translated lido 118 langusgee 'awl Matteis, of whir\ 121 hail,"prior to the formationof the British and Foreign' Bible Society. never appeared: and 2. of these lan guages etieted without au 01, }pig absl, in an oral farm. Upward of 43,000,000 of thee° copies of God's word are circulated among not lees than 600,000,000,14 peo ple. The first division of the divine (melts into chapters and verses ie•attributed to Stephen Langton, archbishop of Can terbury, in the reign of King John, in the latter part of the twelfth century or the beginning of the thirteenth. Cardi nal Hugo, in the middle of the thirteenth century, divided the Old Testament into chaptercis they stand in our transla tion. In 1661, Athias, a Jew of Ma sterdom, divided the sections of Hugo into verses— a French printer had pre viously (1661) divided the New Testa ment into , as they aro. at pres ent. The entire Bible contains 66 books, 1,187 chapter., 31,185 , 774,632 weeds, 3,566,480 letters. Th• 'name of Jehovah. or Lord, ocoure 6,665 time. in the Old Testament. The ehortfat, verse in the Bible is J ohn xi, tlit The nine teenth chapter of the second King., and Isaiah thirtrsix, are the same. There la a Bible in the library of the Univer sity of Gottingen written OS 5,476 palm I . A day's journey was 33 1-s.tbiles. A sabbath journey wiry about en English mile. EzekieTe teed was 11 feet, rier ly. A cubit is 22 inohee, nearly. A hand's breadth la equal to 3t inches. A finger's breadth is equal to l inch. A shekel of gold was $8,09. A talent of silver was $516,89. A talent of gold was f 11.3,809. A piece of "Hier or a penny was 13 cents. A farthing was 3 cents. A cerah was 1 oent. A mile was 14, cents. A. homer contained 7Z, gallons sod b pinto. A bin wee 1 gallon and 2 piste. A firkin was 7 pints. An amer was 6 pints A cab wee :Ipinte. The eemmeniorstive ordinanees'of the Jews were : Cireumoision, the seal of the corinint with Abraham: the pass over, to commemorate the protection of the lersitlitee, when all the first born of the Egyptians were destroyed; the feast of the tabernaelee, Instituted to the sojourning of the laraelites for forty years in the wildernees ; the feast of penteeost, which was appointed to be held fifty days after the passover, to commemorate the delivery of the law from Itloiart Sinai ; the feast of purim, kept in sensory of the deliverance of the Jews from the wicked machinations of Haman --Ba,hange In 127 . 2 it would have coat a laboring maw years of labor to purchase a Bible, an his pity would be only I ¢ pewee per Jay, while the price of s Bible was $lOO. A Bekutiful Legend. The Couple's Uda, (laugh's' of lb. Palatine Godfrey, gave her bond to Count Aberstein, who died a year after their marriage Numerous rivals then disputed the band of the young widow, who joined to the happiest gifts of na ture the brilliant advantages of wealth and station From the number of ber most illustrious suitors, Uda clime the broth of the Duke of Bavaria. It was a proud anion's. but not • happy one.— After pluming the rest of her life in the bitterest domestic trials, the Countess Ude beosipse • widow for the Beyond and last time, a., the idea of smother mar- liege was extremely repugnant to bee mind. Already bowed down by the weight of age, the Countese thought on ly of another end happier world; devo ted wholly to the practice of sincere de votion, eke was only miriade to secure the repoito of her soul and gain eternal happiness hereafter. To wain this ob ject the noble lady coneetived the idea of enjoying a part of her wealth in found ing • monastery. Ae she heeitated where to build it, she retiolved to leave the decision to the wilt of lleiven, and, according to the legend, the following were the means she adopted to learn the Nein. pleasure: An ass was loaded. with a large seek fated with pieces of gold, to the amount which she intended tedetple to this pious purpose •The ..nrent shall be erected on the spot where the gold first touches the ground. whether the ass lies down, or gets rid of his burden by throwing it off.v Suck' was the order given by the Countess Uda ; and immediately the us, gaily caparisoned,'" was sent on i s missies. followed by a chaplain and two.grooma„ who watched its movements. Oa leav ing the castle it struck aeronaut valley, and in taro hours arrived at Soliolberg. There, Laing thirsty, it strut* the ground with its foot, .anti • spring of water gushing forth, the ass drank and went onward. Having reached the sum mit of ilte'tnountain, the animal seemed to think It had carried its load fax enough ; and by dint of kicking, and ,pluaging, it broke the oords by which 11 wee attached, and the sack, thus vio lently throwntli rolled from the top of the mountain into the valley where It burst. A. little chapel, crusted with a fouLnemoratie inscription, was erected on the spot w here the spring had gushed forth; and a monastery was built at the place whore the pieces of geld were scattered upon the turf.
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