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Jll. LONGENECKER,
. ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA.,
All banner entrusted to his care will receive
prompt attention.
JR-IR OFFICE with S. L. KISSED, Etq., nearly
opposite the Court House.
Oct. 16, '6.-6'n.
S. r. METERS I. w. BICIRMO*
ML. VERS 4 DICKERSON,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
BEDFORD, FUSS'S.,
Office same as formerly occupied by HOB. W. P.
Schell, two doors east of the Gazette office, will
practice m the several Courts of Bedford county.
Pensions, bounties and buck pay obtained and the
purchase of Real Estate attended to.
May 11,'66— lyr.
J OHN T. KEAGY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
BEDFORD, PERM'S.,
Offers to give satisfaction to all who may en
trust their legal business to him. Will collect
moneys on evidences of debt, and speedily pro
cure bounties and pensions to soldiers, their wid
ow" or heirs. Office two doors west of Telegraph
office. aprll:'M-ly.
JB. CESSNA.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Office with JOHN CESSSA, on Julianna street, in
the office formerly occupied by King 4 Jordan,
and recently by' Filler A Keagy. AU business
entrusted to his care will receive faithful and
prompt attention. Military Claims, Pensions, 4c.,
speedily collected.
Bedford, June 9,1865.
J- M'D. *• V- UK""
SHARPE 4 KERR,
A TTOIiNE PS-A T-LA W.
Will practice in the Courts of Bedford and ad
joining counties. AH businesr entrusted to their
care will receive careful and prompt attention.
Pensions, Bounty, Back Pay, Ac., speedily col.
lected from the Government
Office on Juliana street, opposite the banking
house of Reed 4 Schell, Bedford, Pa. mar2:f
JOHN PALMER.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Will promptly attend to all business entrusted to
his care.
Particular attention paid to the collection
oFMilitary claims. Office on Julianna St., nearly
opposite the Mengel House.) june 23, '65.1y
/. J*. IUTBORROW JOHN LUTZ.
DUBBOKROW 4 LUTZ,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
BEBFORD, PA.,
Will attend promptly to all business intrusted to
their care. Collections made on the shortest no
tice.
They arc, also, regnlarly license! Claim Agents
anil will give special attention to tlie prosecution
of claims against tb Government for Pensions,
Back Pay, Bounty, Bounty Lamls, Ac.
Office on Juliana .creet, one door South of the
'Mengel Mouse" and nearly opposite tho Inquirer
office. April 28. 1885:t
ESPY M. ALSIP,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFOBD, PA.,
Will faithfnlly ami promptly attend to all busi
ness en'nisted'to his care in Bedford and adjoin
ing counties. Military claim*- Pemymps. h*ej.
f,nv Beauty, Ac. speedily collected. Office wua
Mann J Spang, on Juliana street 2
of the Men gel House. apll, 1861. .
M A ATTORSEY AT LAW, BrnroßH, PA.
Respectfully tenders his professional services
to the public. Office with J W. I-R- ei "
Esq.. on Juliana street, two doors South of the
"Menglo House." Dee. 9, 18*4-tf.
TNHN MOWKR,
T J ° ATTORNEY AT LAW.
BEDFORD, PA.
April 1, 1864. —tf.
TTIMMELL AND UNOFNFKLTKR,
L\ ATTORNEYS AT LAW. BBPFOHO, PA.
Have formed a partnership in the practice of
the Law Office on Juliana Street, two doors South
of the Men gel House,
nprl, 18(14—tf.
DKNTIKTS.
c. *. BICKOK '• ■ mss.ca, jn.
DENTISTS, BR.I>RI>NR>. I**-
office in Ike Bank Building, Juliana Street.
All operations pertaining to Surgn-al or Me
chanical Dsntistrv earrfullj mad faithfully per
formed and warranted. TERMo CASH.
Too th Powderc and Mouth YVat-b, excellent ar
tides, always on hand.
jan6'6s-lj.
I t KNTISTKY.
\) I. N. BOWSER, REMOEKT DKSTIST. Woon
r.EKRT, Pa., visits Bloody Run three days of each
month, eommrncing with the second Tuesday of
the month. Prepared to perform ail Dental oper
ations with which he may he favored. Term*
trithin the rench of all anil ttricllg cash except by
trpecial contract. Work to he sent by mnil or oth
wise. must be paid for when impressions are taken.
augS, '64:tf.
PHYSICIANS.
DR. GEORGE C. DOUGLAS
Respect.tully tenders his professional services
to tbe people of Bedford and vicinity.
jfPSMlesidence at Maj. Washabaugh's.
>e- Office two doors west of Bedford Hotel, up
stairs. aul7:tf
HTM. W. JAMISON, M. D.,
W RLOODT Res, PA.,
Respectfully tenders his professional services to
the people of (hat place and vicinity. [deeß:lyr
DR. B. F. HARRY,
Respectfully lenders his professional ser
vices to the citizens of Bedford and vicinity.
Office and residence on Pitt Street, in tha building
formerly occupied by Dr. J. 11. Hofius.
April 1. 1884— tt.
JL. MARBOURG, M, D„
. Baring permanently located respectfully
tenders his pofessional services to the citizens
of Bedtord and vicinity. Office or. Juliana street,
opposite the Bank, one door north of Hall A Pal
mer's office. April 1, 1864—tf.
JEWELER, Ac.
ABSALOM OARLICK.
CLOCK AND WATCH-MAKER,
BI.OODT RCH. PA.
Clocks, Watches, Jewelry, Ac., promptly re
paired. All work entrusted to his care, warranted
to give satisfaction.
He also keeps on hand and for sale WATCH
US, CLOCKS, and JEWEL BY.
.pff Office with Dr. J. A. Mann. my 4
DANIEL BORDER,
PITT STREET, TWO POORS WEST or TH* BD
FOBP HOTEL, BESTOBP, PA.
WATCHMAKER AMD DEALER IN JEWEL
RY. SPECTACLES, AC.
He keeps on hand a stock of fine Gold and Sil
ver Watches, Spectacles of Brilliant Double Refin
ed Glasses, also Scotch Pebble Glasses. Qold
Watch Chains, Breast Pini, Finger Rings, best
quality of Gold Pens. He will supply to order
any thing in his line not on hand,
apr. 28, 1865—5.
JM. LEHMAN,
wrsTic* or THE pzici ANN SCXIVZHB,
COAL DALE.
Will promptly attend to all collections intrusted
to him. He will also execute all instruments of
writing with neatness and dispatch.
Goal Dale, Sept. 14, 1866 :6m.
BeOtoro J u quiver.
BI'KBORROW £ M'TZ Editors and Proprietors.
THE SMACK IN SCHOOL.
The following incident in a district school,
is told by Mr. William Pitt Palmer, of New
York, President of the Manhattan Insurance
Company, in a phetical address before "The
Literary Society," in Stockbridge, Massachu
setts his native home:
A district school not far away,
'Mid Berkshire hills, one winter's day
Was humming with its wonted noise
Of three-score mingled girls and boys ;
Some few upon their task intent,
But more on furtive mischief bent ;
The while the master's downward look
Was fastened on a copy-book :
When suddenly, behind his back,
Rose sharp and clear a rousing SMACK !
As 'twere a battery of bliss
Let off in one tremendous kiss !
'What's that?" the startled master cried ;
"That, thir," a little imp replies,
"Wath William Willith, if you pleathe—
I tliaw him kith Thuthannah Pcathel"
With frown to make a statue thrill,
The master thundered "Hither, Will !'
Like wretch o'ertaken in his track,
With stolen chattels on his back,
Will hung his head with fear and shame,
And to the awful presence came—
A great, green, bashful simpleton,
The butt of all good-natured fun—
With smiles suppressed, and birch upraised
The threatener faltered —"I'm amazed
That you, my biggest pupil, should
Be guilty of an act so rude !
Before the whole sc-t school to boot—
What evil genius put you to't ?"
"Twas she, herself, sir," sobbed the lad,
"I didn't mean to be so bad—
But when Susannah shook her curls,
And whispered I was 'fraid of girls,
And dursn't kiss a baby's doll,
I couldn't stand it, sir, at all,
But up and kissed her on the spot !
I know—boo boo—l ought to not,
But, somehow, from her looks —boo hoo
I thought she kind o' wished me to 1"
TO-MORROW.
We can't recall the vanished past,
Nor on the future reckon ;
The light-winged hours, flying fast
Cs to embrace them beckon.
No more let Folly shruutl thine eyes ;
Live while 'tis called to-day ;
What if yon setting sun should rise
To warm thy lifeless clay 1
Life is r.ot given ; 'tis but lent ;
And tksuiimmls vet would borrow.
For past, for present, time misspent,
A day of grace to-morrow.
Oh, day of hope ! oh, day of fear !
Foreboding joy or sorrow ;
That comest not, though ever near,
To-morrow ! still to-morrow 1
pwUmuw.
BIS.*ARK, FRANCIS JOSKI'H AND
GARIBALDI.
[By George Alfred Townsend. \
BISMARCK.
Three times within three months I sat in
the presence of Count Bistuark. A reac
tionist —in other words an enemy of every
idea on whieh an American republicanism is
based —by sheer boldness he precipitated
the great war of 1866, and made himself a
name in spite of his arrogance and unscru
pulousncss. Almost a giant, both in height
and industry, measuring six feet two, huge
and homely, in feature, of a terrible eye,
full of baneful fire, with a creased skin and
an ear big enough for a railroad depot, a
mouth so wide and so cruel that it could
bite a State in two, and a neck into which you
might turn a river—of anything but water ;
his powers of mind are profound, his speech
resolute ; but with you and me, common
people, who demand achance and an influ
ence, Count Bismark has no more sympathy
than with so many horses. I did not love
him more than he was bluff and affable ; no
tyrants are more aimable than his great ene
mies of the house of llapsburg, the Imperi
al family of Austria.
FRANCIS JOSEPH.
Francis Joseph, the Emperor of Austria
is thirty-seven years old, a mild faced, grace
ful man, come prematdrely to the discretion
of one who feels that a sceptre, seven hun
dred years potential, is barren in his gripe.
The weak inheritor of a barbarous fame,
and an Emphe built upon plunder and
treaty, the only lessons taught him by re
verses were to pinch his subjects the tuore,
and kneel the meaner at the foot ol the
Pope. Twenty-one dissimilar nations are
bound to his dynasty, the mastic of his em
pire being force or despotism. .In this re
public wc number thrice as many varieties
of people ; but freedom makes them peace
ful and true ; they are so diffused upon our
soil that they mutually neutralize and
i strengthen each other. What quiet should
we have think you, if Ohio were exclusive
ly made up of Dutchmen, Pennsylvania of
Africans, Virginia entirely a Fenian Repub
lic, and Indiana of docile Camanehc or hi
oux ludians. and directing them all at
Washington, a soft spoken German gentle
man, whose claim to their gratitude lay al
together in the fact that ho had subdued
their ancestors? When I saw the Emperor
review an army corps at Prague— deli
eatc hands and limbs almost a woman s his
soft grey breeches and sky blue jacket too
neat for battle, and in the perpetual repose
of his handsome face, and the quiet mild
ness of his brown eye, a school teacher rath
er than a King, I felt like a rising storm
cloud, the scowl ol the people's faces; _ the
bright line of troops burned a score of dif
ferent dislikes, fusing their nationalities for
one moment in one moody obedience. They
shifted arms, hut their souls made no con
sent ;it was a spectacle of the European
word loyalty, perhaps, but not of patriot
ism. 1 found it hard to see the despot in
the half sad face of this young Emperor ;
yet every hour of his crowned existence is
by necessity and legacy a crime. With the
same repose he countersigns the mortal
findings of courts-martial, which hang a
score of volunteers, who will not serve
against their brethren and freedom. VY ith
the same sweet youthfulness his sisters go
to the infamy ol marriage without love,
andto the arms of tyrants, like Maria Loui
sa in her girlhood to the breast of Napoleon,
bis true wife's tears yet wet ou the kiss
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with which he killed her. And I wonder
ed as 1 looked, if the smile were not as sad
and soft on the face of Maximilian, this
Emperor's brother, who held with the true
Hapsburg tenacity to his Mexican bauble,
though the shrieks of his wife, gone mad,
troubled the world.
As between Austria and Prussia the right
fulness of this recent war was so infinitesi
mal that you might put both causes into a
druggist's scale and overweigh them with a
lawyer's wafer. Prussia is a young, ambi
tious nation,_ in which the barbarism of war
and the cultivation of the intellect are al
most equal passions. A land of poets, phi
losophers, musicians; the streets of Berlin
show the statues of soldiers only; the reign
ing family is made up of thick headed des
posts; the military system of the country is
irresistible in its powers and infamous in its
conception; Prussia, in a word, is intelligent
feudalism; yet her victory over Austria was
desirable in the light of the century in which
we live. The campaign she treacherously
precipitated grew glorious by its brilliancy
and energy. A King who had broken his
oath to the Constitution, seized money
without law and stabbed his brother and
ally went with his hated Minister to love
and heroism in a week, and every British
moralist that held him up to execration
when he seemed likely to be beaten cried
loudly now that he was a noble Sovereign
and the national ally of England.
UARIBALDL
There I looked into the face and sat at the
feet of Garibaldi the first character of our
generation; a patriot and countryman of all
oppressed people, into whose kindly and
forgiving nature fell the speed and mettle of
the wild South American horses on which,
like a fiery centaur, he rode down the ty
rants of the West. The freedom of Italy is
his work. Kings inherit it; lie inspirited it;
Caesar and Cincinnatus meet in him. His
face is both womanly and fatherly, the light
I house to a good conscience burning the bct
j tor as it grows the grayer, crumbling in tho
! tower but undecaying in the flame. His
dutiful boys, who go to battle at his side and
in returning peace till his half barren island
are born of an American wife to whose mem
ory though long dead, he has been faithful
She was an Amazon women, and on the |
Argentine plains rode with lance and lasso;
when freedom came to her native country,
she accompanied Garibaldi to his own land
then the piece meal prey of tyrants.
Together they entered Rome, in mutual
love and triumph, and overturned the tables
of the money changers and the seats of them
who sold doves—in the beautiful city of
Brutus and Kietizi. Driven thence by com
bined Kings and Princes they hid in the
mountains, like the heroic Maccaheans, till I
flying along the coast of the Adriatic an Au- |
stiiati vessel shot down the wife at the hus ]
band's side. That Adriatic coast is free to I
day and Garibaldi with Anna's hoys to be |
hor monuments, eternal in purpose as the ;
Eternal City to which he turn- for the
crowning struggle of his life, shall pass its
gates again and standing in the Pantheon,
among his kindred god-, found the new
tl4tf,"liO€ yfiTtws: — " ' * *
EDUCATION WITHOUT MEANS.
A young man of Croton, lowa, writes
that lie has fbOO, that he is married, that
he wants to take a College course ami yet
save his capital. He asks advice. There
arc many who would like an answer to this
question. Thousauds of young men have
no money at all.
To get a classical education with the use ,
of SS(K), requires more skill than any young _
man is likely to possess, unless he earned _
the money. If he is a mechanic, he may j
buy a house and lot near a college and work
during spare hours. Or, with a few acres,
he can raise small fruits and vegetables, it
he knows how ; if he docs not he will be
likely to fail, rive hundred dollars is a
very small sum to a young man who does
not know how to work, to one who does it is
a large one. ..... ,
What shall our young man with his hand
some wife do ? Let him get a small farm
ten, twenty or forty acres —near libraries
and good society. Or. with a choice selec
tion of books, he may live remote. Three
things he should do at once : study mathe
maties, learn to write a good hand, and plant
an orchard. It he must spend some of his
hours at billiards and in saloons, he had bet
ter take a rope about eight feet long and go
out to the barn.
One aim should be to make home elegant
and comfortable. Let him not fear this will
distract his attention. If there was ever a
time when an education which was of use
could be united with poverty, it has passed
forever. Days spent in strugglingforbread
are lost; if not the bitterness they bring is
equal to their loss. Nor need there be a
fear that sad experience will not come when
fortune smiles.
Education is limited if it do not include
a knowledge of the immensity and the un
told riches of the affections. If a man can
not find happiness with his wife and_ chil
dren, and in a home of his own, in vain will
he seek it over the face of the whole earth.
There cannot be much love of home where
home is unlovely—where poverty, dirt and
inconvenience are in every room. Young
men are apt to fear they will not live long,
and they are in haste. In no situation is
the foundation of a long life so securely es
tablished as on a farm.
This course will take time. He should
understand that the education of this age
demands time. So broad is the field of
knowledge, so sharp is competition, that to
succeed, many years are required. We do
not propose failure. It is a modern discov
ery. and well settled, that from three to
four hours' study of books every day are
more profitable to the majority of men than
any longer periods. Every one cultivating
land can have this time. A ljfc which does
not establish a habit of meditation will be
fruitless. We have known lawyers take
this, and become judges in high courts ;
doctors so skilfull as to give little medicine ;
and preachers so learned as to convince both
the understanding and the heart.
In literature, we confess the examples are
few. Hut, long ago, there was a young po
et who set his heart on having a farm, and
what most is known of him, is the trouble
he had in getting it. \\ ith little knowledge
of foreign languages, and none of a dead
language, he diligently studied his own.
He became familiar with previous knowl
edge, and he noted everything relating to
rural sights and sounds. He was in no
haste to be eminent. He was only eager to
excel. He wrote and re-wrote ;he review
ed, he meditated and lingered ; and he ac
quired the rare art of licing able to wait.
The result is a work on the life of farmers,
and on arms and heroes, which will last till
I the end of time.— N. Y. Tribune.
A eounscl being qucetioned by a judge to
know 'Tor whom lie was concerned," replied
"I am concerned, my lord, for the plaintiff,
but I am employed by the defendant."
"I have not loved lightly." as the man
.taid when he married a widow weighing
three huudred pounds.
BEDFORD. Pa.. FRIDAY. JANUARY 25. 18G7.
IIENItY WARD BEECHER.
It is announced, says tho Fort Madison,
(Iowa) Plain Dealer, that Henry Ward
Beecher is engaged in writing a story for
Bonner's Ijedger, having withdrawn all his
lecturing appointments for the winter. Of
course Bonner pays him more than S2OO a
night, and Bonner will be the gainer, should
the outlay be over through the
vastly increased circulation of his paper.
Mr. Beecher is one of the most remarkable
nnd liberally endowed men of the age.
Twentv-five years ago, in addition to his pa
rochial labors, he edited an agricultural jour
nal with marked ability. It was the best
paper of the kind that Indiana ever had,
before or since. When the Independent was
started Mr. Beecher became the star con
tributor, and though there were four respon
sible editors, men of marked ability, the
public persisted in thinking that he was the
editor, because his spirit vi talized the paper.
And when, because of a little misunder
standing between the editors and publisher,
Mr. Beecher became the responsible editor,
the leading editorials of that journal became
a character and a power in the land, without
a parallel in the history of journalism since
the publication of Junius' letters in JfWf-
JalC * Advertiser. This was in the early his
tory of the war, and what he did in prepar
ing the public mind for the conquest of the
rebellion no tongue can tell, no pen can de
scribe.
His health failing he made a tour to Eu
rope, and on his way home, traveled the
British Isles, delivering those most wonder
ful speeches which aroused the sympathy of
the popular heart and arrested the aggress
ive measures of the ruling aristocracy. The
government had sent over special envoys,
Bishop Mcllvaine, Bishop Hughes, Thur
low Weed, and others, but it is saying little
to affirm that he did more than tbey all, and
he a private gentleman, on his own respon
sibility, and at his own charges.
The country, in its integrity and restored
prosperity, owes a debt of gratitude to Mr.
Beecher, more than to any other man, save,
always, Mr. Lincoln and General Grant.
Mr. Beecher now appears in a new role,
as a novel writer, in competition with Dick- j
ens, \ ictor Hugo, Harriet Beecher Stowe,
and others, and it is said that he will fail.
We shall see ; and we mean to take Bonner's
Ijedger until the story is completed. Mr.
Beecher does not know how to fail. His
conceptions take on forms of beauty, as cool
ing bodies assume crystaiization—spontane
ously, and though, among innumerable gems
there are some flaws, it should be remem
bered that there arc; flaws also in the agate
and in the diamond.
Mr. Bcechcr's utterances arc now nearly
all reported by the stenographer, and many
of them published. Few men havo ever
lived who had brain power enough to bear
such a draft, and some of these days he
must fail, but the time is not yet. He is
only fifty-three years old. And his audi
ence—a sertnon in the Independent , a ser
mon in the Examiner , a sermon in the Meth
odist, and a serial story in the Ledger —is
innumerable the Tounar Amaru** -U * -i K„„
mouth pulpit, aria nts audience chamber is
the broad expanse of continent.
Thirteen years ago wc were told in the
city of New Turk, by prominent men, that
.Mr. Beecher had then passed the culmina
ting point, and that his reputation was al
ready in the decadence, and it seems that
the prophets of evil are not all dead yet.
Mr. Beecher has generally been esteemed
to be a radical, and it is true that his mental
habitudes and the elements of his intellect
ual convictions and emotional sympathies
are of the radical type, but he is of late,
strange as it may seein to those who do not
know him, a conservative, as compared with
multitudes of his admirers and former coad
jutors, and especially as compared with his
protege and successor in the editorial chair
of the Jiidi-jtentleiit. His later and present
position is not a defection—is hardly an in
consistency. It results from the natural ac
tion and interaction of his mental and emo
tional nature —his earnest conbativeness and
his generous magnanimity. He would not
be Henry Ward Beecher were it otherwise.
For rebels in arms he knew only prompt,
speedy subjugation—for the fallen foe he is
in favor of the most liberal terms compati
ble with the public welfarj. He may be in
error, but that he is honest, earnest and in
tensely patriotic, the results of his labors
and of his life afford the fullest attestation;
and if his supposed conservatism shall af
ford him a broader theatre of activity and a
more numorous auditory, the eountry and
the world will be none the losers.
The pendulum in its vibrntioosmay touch
either extreme, but it will ind the centre of
gravity.
CAUSES OP SUDDEN DIATU —Very few
of the sudden deaths sail to arise from
heart disease really arise fr>m that cause.
To ascertain the origin of sudden deaths, an
experiment was tried in Europe, and report
ed to a scientific congress. Sixty-six cases
of sudden death were made the subject of a
thorough post mortem examination. In
these eases only two were found who had
died from heart disease, Nine of the sixty
six died from apoplexy, forty-six cases of
congestion of the lungs—that is, the lungs
were so full of blood they could not work,
for want of sufficient air to support life.
The causes that produce congestion of the
lungs are cold feet, tigit clothing, costive
bowels, sitting still until chilled after being
warmed by labor or a ripid walk, going too
rapidly from a close heated room into the
cold air, especially after speaking, and sud
den depressing news operating upon the
blood. These causes of sudden death being
known, an avoidance of them may serve to
lengthen many valuable lives, which would
otherwise be lost under the verdict, of heart
disease. That complaint is supposed to be
inevitable and incurable, hence many may
not take the pains they they would to avoid
| death, did they know it lay in their jrower.
WICKED AND UGl.l'. —Throughout the
middle ages it was a prevalent belief that the
ugliness of the wicked—and the wicked
were ever ugly—was in precise proportion
to their wickedness, and so the Spirit of
Evil himself was ever pictured as abomina
bly hideous, and revoltingly frightful—very
unlike the "not less than archangel ruined,"'
as his outward presentment is portrayed by
Milton. "As ugly as siu," "diabolically
hideous," arc phrases to be found in other
languages besides our own. In the same
way virtue and goodness, the attributes of
the saint, the characteristics of the angel,
are habitually linked, both in idea and ex
pression, with either majestic charms or en
chan ing loveliness. "As beautiful as an
angel," "seraphic beauty," are modes of
expression familiar to our lips ; and farther
more, it is usually enough, when the desire
is to convey approbation of a certain line of
conduct, to Simply say that such conduct
was "decidedly handsome." Hereby we
discover the connection which unconsciously
perha[>s subsists in ourmidst between things
which are true, honest and just, and things
which are lovely.
THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD
COMPANY.
A glance at the map if the United Stales
discloses the fact that Pennsylvania has a
seaport, a harbor on the lakes, and a city at
the head of the Ohio river, which drains
the eastern slope of the Mississippi valley.
Upon the three navigable water systems
which drain all the States between the
Rocky mountain crest and the Atlantic
coast, Pennsylvania has three ports, one in
each hydrograpbic basin. These three ports
enable Pennsylvania to participate in the
foreign commerce of the world, in the
steamboat navigation of the Mississippi
and its affluents, and to employ propcllors
and sailing vessels on the northwest lakes.
Between these three ports there ia unbro
ken communication from west to east and
cast to west, over iron track of uniform
guage, operated by one corporation, the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company. As a
ground plan it is difficult to conceive a tran
sit or portage, on a large scale, more com
prehensive or complete than the connected
roads operated by the Pennsylvania Rail- 1
road Company, lengthwise over the State,
reaching from its seaports to its capital, and
thence, over diverging lines, to Pittsburgh
and Erie City.
Traversing a Commonwealth abounding
in native staples that are eagerly sought as
well in markets beyond as within the State,
there are resources at and between the fork
ing termini of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company's iron routes, capable of almost
unlimited development. And in addition
to these home and wayside sources of traffic,
the Pennsylvania Railroad, between Phila
delphia and Pittsburgh, unites the portals
of the East and _West, and opens away for
intercourse and inter-trade between the sea
board and inland States. The Pennsylva
nia Railroad is, therefore, at the same time
a State route, a United States route and a
Continental highway.
And considering the great railroad corpo
rations in England as they are, and the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company as it is,
the continued expansion of the Pennsylva
nia Railroad Company is inevitable ; because
independent of the through traffic to be
cultivated and cared for, the growth of local
business is so real and so rapid that it is al
ways un to, and sometimes in advance of its
allotted accommodation.
It must be borne in mind, moreover, that
Pennsylvania is this day deficientin railroad
mileage, especially portions of the State
west of the Susquehanna river. Ana as
there are three railroad corporations in
England (which in area is only equal to the
area of Pennsylvania with one-half of New
Jersey added), each of which has an invest
ed capital exceeding tiro hundred millions
of dollors , it must not be expected that the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, will or can
stop at forty millions, nor fifty millions.
Occupying so large a part of the State,
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company cannot
cease to accommodate additional tiaffic
from year to year, so long as there is devel
opment and progress at and between the
t w hu.il 4FM 1.1.i'/ul llKMllitAV tn
tercst of Pennsylvania, as a State, is a big
theme ; and the policy of tie largest rail
road corporation in the State is a fruitful
ttlpic. —U. S. It. & M. Register.
NEW WAY or FAYING SI'IISCKIP
TIONS.
The following is an amusing account of
the way a farmer was taught how cheaply
he could take the paper. The lesson is
worth pondering by a good many men "we
wot of.' 1
"You have hens at home, of course.—
Well. J will send you uiv paper for one year,
for the products of it single hen for one sea
son; and the proceeds. It seems trifling,
preposterous, to imagine the products of a
single hen will pay a subscription; perhaps
it won't but I make the offer.
"Done," exclaimed farmer B. "I agree
to it," and appealed to me as a witness of
the affair.
The farmer went off apparently much
elateJ with his conquest; the editor went
on his way rejoicing.
Time rolled around, the world revolved
on Its axis, ami the sun in Us orbit as it ror
uierly did: the fanner received his paper
regularly, and regaled himself with the in
formation from it, and said he was surpris
ed at the progress of himself and family in
general information.
Some time in the month of September, I
happend to be up again in the office, when
who should enter but our friend fanner B.
"How do you do, Mr. B.? ' said the ed
itor, extending his hand, his countenance
lit up with a bland smile; take a chair and
be seated, fine weather we have."
"Yes, sir, quite fine indeed, he answered,
and then a short silence ensued, daring
which our friend B. hitched his chair back
ward and forward, twirled his thumbs ab
stractedly, and spit profusely. Starting up
quickly, he said, addressing the editor, "I
have "brought you the proceeds of that
hen."
It was amusing to seethe peculiar expres
sion of the editor, as he followed the farmer
down to the wagon. I could hardly keep
my risibles down.
When at the wagon the farmer commen
ced handing over to the editor the products
amounting to eighteen pullets, worth twelve
and a half cents each, and a nmber of doz
ens of eggs, making in the aggregate at the
least calculation, one dollar and fifty cents
more than the price of the paper.
"No need," said he, "of men not. taking
a family newspaper, and paying for it too.
I don't miss this from my roost, yet I have
paid for a year's subscription and over. All
tolly, sir; there's no man hut what can take
a newspaper; it s charity, you know, com
menced at home."
"But," said the editor, "I will pay you
for what is over the subscription, 1 did not
intend this as a means of profit trot rather
to convince you. I will pay —
"Not a bit of it, sir: a bargain is a bar
gain, and lam already paid, sir—doubly
paid, sir. And whenever a neighbor makes
the complaint I did, 1 will relate to him the
hen story. flood day, gentlemen. — Ag
Rev.
OVERWORK AND UNDERWORK.— "WhiIe
overwork," says a medical writer, is a
great evil from which one class of society
suffers, another class suffers still inore from
underwork or idleness. Better wear out
than rust out, if it is done in a good aiuse,
for then some good will be accomplished,
and humanity will be better for it. But the
true course is to avoid both extremities and
pursue the evil tenor of a happy medium.
By so doing, n far greater amount of labor
can be accomplished, at less expense of
health, strength and vitality."
STI;ART, the celebrated portrait painter,
once inct a lady in (he street, in Boston,
who saluted him with, "Ah, Mr. Stuart, I
have just seen your miniature, and kissed it
because it was so much like you. "And did
|it kiss you in return?" "Why no.
' "Then," said Stuart, "it was not like uie.
VOLUME 40 ; XO *.
PEOPLING OF OTHER WORLDS.
A little wriggling mite, looking off from
the rim of a daisy wpon a field dotted with
millions or those meadow flowers, if it had
a mind equal to its physical being, might
say and believe that, of all these white-belt
ed globes, his own yellow orb alone was in
habited ; that mites like itself could not live
on these surrounding planets; and they
were all empty houses, and its own little
world was the only one of the myriads whi
tening the boundless space, which the Crea
tor had selected and honored AS the abode
of intelligent beings. Thousands of good
men, with minds or large grasp and reach,
may look front off the earth into the world
studied expanse above; they may count the
stars in the nearest heaven, and measure
and weigh them with the reeds and scales
of ncienoc, and yet say and believe, with the
nute-mlmled animalcule peering over the
daisy's rim, that all the millions of those
constellated orbs are empty houses, built for
no intelligent peopling—for no purpose ex
cept to besprinkle the tapestry of this small j
planet of ours with drops of light, to please
our eyes for a few hours by night. So great
are man s "here and now so tall the stat
ure of his being to himself; so wide a space
be and his dwelling fill in creation, that as to
the mite on the daisy, all outside is to him
j the mere garniture or setling of his abode,
thus, doubtless, ninety-nine out of a hun
i r( j J ' ntu^'Bent and Christian men do
hold this one planet of our occupancy, not
only as regards ali the other members of our
own sun's family circle of orbs, but all the
myriads of worlds which revolve around the
other suns that dot the common heavens of
the material universe. But one in a hun
dred surely may believe, on the clearest an
alogies reason can construct or educe, that
as nature abhors a vacuum, so Nat ure's God
permits no waste in the realm of His crea
tions ; that the millions of lesser lights
above are not the chips scattered about in
building the earth for man, nor the scaffold
ing from which it was erecteJ; that they
are not empty houses, nor built for beasts
and birds alone, nor for bodiless spirits, but
for spirits wearing flesh and blooa like our
selves, with a human nature as finely adapt
ed to the faculties and sensibilities of the
intellectual soul AS Adam S physical being
was to his mind in the holiest days of his
innocence. To those thinking differently
from this, one might fancy that it would be
like inbreathing the death damp of a uni
verse of desolation to admit the thought
that the Almighty Greater had no sentient
worshippers in all the millions of these out
lying worlds; that of them all, this one on
which we dwell is the solitary island of hu
man existent*—of beings with a living,
thinking mind; and that here alone are
heard the voice of prayer and praise, and
all the other voices of faith, hope, and love.
—Elihit Burri't.
TOO MUCH READING.
1 never knew but one or two fast readers,
or readers of many books, whose knowledge
was worth anything. Miss Martinean says
-somvciaics tt page iu an fiour ; true : hen
wbat she reads she makes her own. Ho itn
preas this on E- . Girls read too much
and think too little. I will answer for it
that there are few girls of eighteen who
have not read more books than 1 have ; and
as to religious books, I can count on my fin
gers in two minutes all I have read, but
then they are mine. Sir Erskine Pcrp
said the other day, that a fortnight ago, in
conversation with G'ouite, one of the pro
foundest thinkers in Europe ; Comte told
him that he had read an incredibly small
number of books these last twenty years;
I forgot how many and scarcely a review.
But then what Comte reads lies there fruc
tifying, and comes out a living tree with
leaves and fruit.
Multifarious reading weakens the mind
more than doing nothing; for it becomes a
necessity at last, like smoking, and is an ex
cuse for the mind to lie dormant, whilst
thought is poured in, and runs through a
clear stream, over unproductive gravel, on
which not even mosses grow. It is the
idlest of all idleness, and leaves more of im
potency than any other. Ido not give my-
SCH AS * va-tfeivw
are shattered by stump oratory, its excite
ment and reactions ; but I know what read
ing is—for I could once, and did. I read
hard or not at all, never skimming, never
turning aside to more inviting books ; and
Plato, Aristotle, Butler, Thucydides. Sterne,
Jonathan, Edwards, have passed like the
iron atoms of the blood, into my mental con
stitution. — F. B*. Robertson.
TRIE N us II ll*.
How often we speak of friends as though
they might be found on every hand; and yet
how little real friendship we find in this
busy world! A true friend is one who will
cling to you in adversity, sympathize with
you in sorrow, and rejoice with you in pros
perity. He is a being who feels, who thinks
who acts from the purest motives. Friend
ship is one of the noblest feelings—one of
the grandest privileges ol humanity; it can
only be found in connection with noble souls
of merit and virtue united. In fact, to pos
sess true friends, you need the most com
plete and nicest power of discrimination in
selecting them, a natural gift to cherish .
them, with the most unselfishness. I
Young ladies, young men, and all, be
generous; be kind to those around you, es
pecially to those who are the least attractive
and who arc often the least noticed. Try
to merit, the real name of friend; it will fill
you with a deeper joy than you have ever
experienced: It wiil cause you to be beloved
and esteemed by all around you. Practice
self denial, and you will feel its ennobling
influence; it brings the happy consciousness
of having given pleasure to others which is
of itself ample remuneration for all the in
convenience you could have suffered by so
doing.
I)R. HAVES' ADVENTURE WITH A WITITE
BEAR.—The following amusing story is told
by Dr. Haves, in his work on "The open
Polar Sea," and gives us a somewhat differ
ent idea of Polar bears from that which we
have been accustomed to hear from travel
ers : Strolling one day along the shore, I
was observing with much interest the effect
of the recent spring tides upon the ice foot,
when, rounding a point of land, I suddenly
found myself confronted in the faint moon
light by an enormous bear. He had just
sprung down from the land ice, and was
meeting me at a lull trot. Wc caught sight
lof each other at the same instant. Being
without a rifle or other means of defense. I
| wheeled t uddenly toward the ship, with I
fancy much the same reflections about dis
cretion and valor as those which crossed the
mind of old Jack Falstaff when the Douglas
set upon him ; but finding after a few lengthy
strides, I was not gobbled up, I looked back
over my shoulder, when as much tc my sur
prise as gratification- the bear tearing
away toward the open water with a celerity
which left no doubt as to the state of his
mind. I suppose it would be diffi n't
termine which was the worst irigbluuvl—
the bear or myself.
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Bio BEAR STORY — OI.D "JPTTT" OUT
DONE.—The other day a party of four hun
ters went out sporting from Crescent, a sta
tlo? - >l ' ort h cr n Central, between here
and \\ llliamsport. After reaching the
' toontain they decided to separate in search
of game, the discharge of a gun being the
rallying signal, should one need the assist
ance ol the rest. One of the four, Wm.
Godcharles, in his peregrinations, came
across the opening of what seemed a den,
amid some rocks. He boldly entered and
about the same time was rather rudely
thrust back and out by an enormous black
bear, which resented intrusion by at once
showing fight. Having his gun loaded and
pointed in front he at once discharged its
contents, which took effect in the head of
the bear and killed it instantly, fortunately
for his future comfort and safety, about
w rpu began to have serious doubts.
the noise of the firing brought his com
panions quickly to the spot. They at once
went to work and skinned and dressed the
aniniai. and started home with what meat
they could carry. When weil on their way
they bethought themselves that likely the
den might be a wintering place for bears,
and posibly there were more to be found.
! ho they trudged back and put their guns in
order, and entered, and succeeded in stam
peding three more bears, which showed good
pluck, out at length were compelled to yield
to the superior prowes of the hunters. They
secured the trophies of their day's sport and
proceeded home without further hindrances,
and showed the evidences of the hot work
they had encountered with the four black
bears. — Elmira Advertiser.
AMERICA NO PLACE FOB FOOLS,— In a
lecture lately delivered before the London
Farmer's Club, Mr. James Howard, the
well-known manufacturer of implements of
Bedford, England, made the following
pointed remarks concerning his experiences
in a recent visit to the United States : He
said he had been profoundly impressed wtih
the happiness, prosperity, energy, intelli
gence, and self-government of the Ameri
can people. He wondered that so many
people are willing to remain in the Old
World, without a chance to rise, with hard
ly a chance to exist. If the United States
were crowded as England is, the population
would be nearly a thousand millions. In
reply, however, to the question whether he
thought large and opulent English farmers
would do well to send out their sons to
America, he remarked that one of the first
memoranda which he made in his diary,
after seeing the United States, was, that it
was no use to send a fool to America. Mr.
Howard hit the nail on the head.
HOPE ON ! —A bankrupt merchant, re
turning home one night said to his noble
wife : —"My dear, I am ruined ; everything
we have is in the hands of the sheriff."
After a few moments of silence the wife
looked kindly into his face and said :
• WiU the sheriff sell you ? Oh !no 1
Will the sheriff sell me ? Oh Ino 1 Will
sell . the children ? Oh 1 no I
All that is most rirutnns to 'lis—
manhood, womanhood, childhood. We
have lost but the result of our skill and in
dustry. We can make another fortune if
our hearts and hands are left us."
\\ HAT is MONEY? —Money is independ
ence. Money is freedom. Money is leisure.
Money is the gratification of taste, t>enevo
lence and public spirit. The man is a fool
or an angel who does not try to make money.
A clear conscience, good health and plenty
of money, are among the essentials of a full,
joyful existence. Still unfortunately, it too
often happens that people who have an
abundance of money are destitute of charac
ter. While it is desirable that men should
have both notwithstanding all the advanta
ges of money, it is better to have character.
THE following duly signed, was lately con
tained in a Western paper: "Whereas, at
particular times, I may importune my friends
and others to let me have liquor, which is
hurtful to me and detrimental to society—
"trm Mpse
count; for if they do, I will positively prose
cute them notwithstanding any promise I
may make to the contrary at the time they
may let me have it."
MAKK TWAIN, a California humorist
about to visit the Atlantic States, in the
printed programme of a lecture he was late
ly to give in San Jose, proposed to illustrate
the cannibal propensities of the ancient ise
lai.ders, by devouring a child in the pres
ence of the audience, if some lady would
furnish him one for the occasion. That part
of the programme, however, was necessarily
omitted, no maternal relative coming for
ward with a spare infant to enable him to
carry out the illustration.
Cultivate acquaintances if desirable: if not
cut them.
Never sow the Seeds of Dissension.
Weed your Library.
Get as much Heart's ease as you can.
Attend to Wall-ilowersand trim Coxcombs.
Emulate the Cucumber —be cool.
Don't Peach.
Avoid Flowers of Speech.
' 'Bedding out'' is good for Plants, but
not for friends.
Take the advice of the Sage, or you may
Rue the consequences.
FORTUNE tellers and tilting hoops operate
differently. The former reveal what the
lady will be in the future; the latter reveal
what she is at present.
"BEFORE love comes in at the door, ' it
would bo well for him to peep through the
keyhole. He might see something that
would prevent him from entering.
"Now papa, what is a humbugr?" said a
little four year old Johny. "It is. replied
papa, "when mamma pretends to be very
fond of me and puts no buttons on my under
i garments."
A HOLY life, spent in the service of God,
and in communion with Him, is without,
doubt the most pleasant and comfortable
life that any man can live in this world.
THE virtue of prosperity is temperance ;
the virtue of adversity is fortitude.
CHILDREN have wide ears and long
tongues.
MIRTH should be the embroidery of con
versation ; not the web.
CONSCIENCE has three offices, —to instruct
command and judge.
NOT the rich, but the wise avoid misery
and !•< happy.
I'ooitaud true t better tiiau rich ud
i false.