We gMfmi IS PUBLISHED i:\EKY FRIDAY MOKNl\'(i BY I. R. 1H ÜBOUiIOH AM) JOUN LITZ. ox JULIANA St., opposite the .Ht-Bjfl House BEDFORD, PENN A nsuH: $4.00 a year if paid strictly in advance. If not tt.-iUI within six months £-2.50. If not paid within the year £5.00. SrofeiKitoßai Si gnsintM ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Hayes irvine, ALTORNEY AT LAW. Will faithfully an I promptly attend to all busi ness iulrustcl to his carc. Office wilhG. 11. Spang, K-ip on Juliana street, three doors south of the Man gel House. May 2t:ly I T. KEAtIY, • 1 . ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Office opposite Reed A Scheß's Bank. Couasel given in English and German. [apl26] S. L. HI SSELI. J. H. LOSCPNKCKER I > USBELL A LONGENKCKER, 1V '.TTonsKvs A CoosSeixobs at Law, Bedford, Pa., Wiil attend promptly and faithfully to all busi ness entrusted to their care. Special attention giieu to collections and the prosecution ofeluhsa for Back Par, Bounty. Pensions. Ac. on Juliana street, south of the Court Holme. A; ' US:, -' r ' j. r. w - mcbbbsob Mi.YF.RS A DICKERSON. ATTORNEYS AT LAB, 8810 obis Pexs'A.; office • mc as formerly occupied by lion. W. P. -••hell. tw> doors ea-t of the Gazette office, will practice in the several Courts of Bedford county. Pen -ions, bounties and back pay obtained and the pur-hose of Real Estate attended to. May 11,'66—lyr. _ I B. CESSNA, .1 . ATTORNEY AT LAW, OrT e with Jons Cessna, on Julianna street, in the llice formerly occupied by King A Jordan, i recently by Filler A Keagv. All business entrusted to his care will receive fe-.thfui and j.rt uipt attention. Military Claims. Pensions, Ac., speedily collected. Bedford, June 9,1863. J- M O. *• S- KERR CJHASPE A KERR. 0 A TTOItXK > S- .1 T LA II". Will practice in the Courts of Bedford and ad joining counties. All business entrusted to their core will receive careful and prompt attention. Pensions, Bounty, Back Pay, Ac., speedily col lected from the Government. Office on Juliana street, opposite the banking h-.n-c of Reed A Scheil, Bedford, Pa. inar?:tf j. B. •! BORROW JOB" WW. | y ■ RUOW A LUTZ, }* ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Bedford, Pa., d promptly to all business intrusted to t * Collections made on the shortest no ve, also, regularly lie nsed Claim Agents ,-ivc special attention to the prosecution ■ gainst the Government for Pensions, . Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac. on Juliana street, one door iMjuth of the House" and ncarlv opposite the Inquirer April 88.1865:t. SPY M. A LSI P, j'i ATTORNEY* AT LAW. IlKi-roßn, Pa., , faithfully and promptly attend to U buai entrusted to his care in Bedford and adjoin unties. Military claim s Pensions, back pav, Bounty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with cm A Spang, on Juliana strcci 2 doors south f the Mengel House. apl 1, 1364.—tf. M. A POINTS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Bedford, Pa. Respectfully tenders his professional services • ihe public. Office with J. W. Lingenfelter, K ..on Julian.i street, two d-ors ?onth of the Mengle House." Dec- 9 > 1864-tf. 1 r IMMKLI. AN it LINGENFEETEK, is. ATTt.'RNEYS AT LAW. bedfobd, pa. Have formed a partnership in the practice of Law Office on Juliana .Street, two doors South f the Mengel House. aprl.lS64—tE PIIISI€IAXS. \\' M. W. JAMISON, M.D, W BLOODY Bex. PA., Rr pectfully tenders his professional services to the people of that place and vicinity. [decSHyr OK. A F. IIARRY, Regretfully tenders his professional ser v ices to tho citizens of Bedford and vicinity. ■ iffiec and residence on Pitt Street, in the building !■ rmerly occupied by Dr. J. 11. HoSus. April I, IS64—tf. 1 L. MARBOCRG, M. D., •J . Having permanently located respectfully • nders hi.- pofessional services to the citizens . f Bedford and vicinity. Office on Juliana street, ppositetbe Bank, one door north of Hall A Pal n er's office. April 1, 1661 —tf. DR. S. I*. S-TATLER, near Sehc-llsburg, and Dr. J. J. CLARKE, formerly of Cumberland uiity, baring associated themselves in the prn-- ■,t Medicine, respectfully offer their profes ■I al services to the citizens of t-chellaburg and i lity. Dr. Clarke's office and residence same •nnerly occupied by J. White, Esq., dee'd. S. . STATLER, -•he.'-burg, April 12:ly. J. J. CLARKE. I>K^TISTS. DENTISTRY*. I. X. BOWSER.. RESIDENT DENTIST, WOOD BEEI:T. I'a., visits Bloody Run three days of each m nth, commencing with the second Tuesday of the mout' Prepared to perform all Dental cper ations with which be may be favored. Term* 'thin the re&ch of aft and strictly rath e.rcepl by */'t rial contract. Work to he sent by mail oroth wisc, must he paid for when impressions are taken. augs, *64:tf. J ! DENTISTRY'! A lii-anttfnl Set of Teeth for TEN DOIILARS ! DK. H. VIRGIL. PORTER. (LATE OF YEW VOKK CITT,'I D E >'TIS R R, Would respectfully inform his 'numerous friends and the public generally, that he has located per manently in BLOODY Rl'N, where he may he i' und at all time 3 prepared to in-crt from one to th t , a full set < r his BEAUTIFUL ARTIFI CIAL TEETH on new and improved atmospher ic principles. The TRIUMPH OF MECHAXIVAL VEX TISTRV RURTtER fur the basis of artificial leeth. This discovery which has met with such uni versal approval throughout this and other coun tries, has seemingly p laced ARTIFICIAL i E E Til at the disposal of all who require them. VP. i ORTER i- now inserting the most ßE AI - TIFVL and DURABLE at prices ranging from TEN to EIGHTEEN Dollars pc -d. Temporary sets inserted if desired. All operation warranted. TP T<< ih extracted withsmt pain by the use of X'TROPE OXIDE or LAUOfIIXO OAS. This is no humhng, but a positive fact. Gas iuiiui.-itrcd fresh every day. As the Gas ad inistcrcd by Dr. Porter is prepared in aecord ■■ with the poritying method of Dr. Strong, of Ni w Ha-. en, Ct.. and i'rof. Siliman (late Profess.ir of Chemistry in dale College) he ha- no hisita-. ti-iu in asserting that it is attended with no dan r whatever. Persons de-iring the service? of a lh ntist would jiromotc their own interest by call ing upon Dr. Porter, as he is determined to spare L . effort to please the most fastidious. Dr. Por ter? mode of operating will at all times be of the mildest character, avoiding the infliction of the lightest tinned - -arv pain, and. carefully adapted ' • the age, constitution, health and nervous con di:i,,n of the patient. ,v~ Special attention is invited to Dr. Porter's scientific method of preserving decayed and ach ing teerh. Teeth blackened and diseased, cleans ed to appear beautiful and white. H. VIRGIL. PORTER, Dentist. Bloody un, l'enn'a., March 28. 1867. -ly. DIRBORKOW A LITZ Editors and Proprietors to TWO SONGS FROM THE I'ERSIAN, 1. O, cease, sweet music, let us rest: Too soon the hateful light is born! Henceforth let day be counted night, And midnight called the morn. O. cease, sweet music, let us rest: A tearful, languid spirit lies ( Like the dim scent in violets.) In Zela's gentle eyes. There is a sadness in sweet sound That quickens tears. 0 music, lest iVe weep with thy strange sorrow, cease 1 Be still, and let us rest. U- Ah! sad are they who kuow not love, But, far from passion's tears and smiles, Drift down a moonless sea, beyond The silvers coasts of lairy isles. And sadder they whose longing lips Kiss empty air, and never touch The dear warm mouth of those they love, Waiting, wasting, suffering much. But clear as amber, fine as musk. Is life to those who, pilgrim-wise. Move hand in hand from dawn to dusk. Each morning nearer Paradise. O, not for them shall angels pray ! They stand in everlasting light, They walk in Allah's smile by day, And nestle in his heart by night. pteffUuncou.s. GAMBLING FOII THE GLORY OF GOD. The time was when Gambling was_ es teemed a very vulgar and wicked thing. None but the meanest and most abandoned were willing to be known as gambler-, But the world moves, and notions of morality move with it! It would seem that gambling has not only become genteel, but even reli gion*! Its aid is now invoked on all sides, to build asylums, hospitals, public halls, and to relieve suffering humanity in many forms! It needs only one more forward step, and we shall have lottery schemes to aid missionary societies, to build churches, print Bibles and tracts, support Sunday Schools, and all other Christian efforts! Why not? I fit is right to resort to such means to aid human and public charities, why not to support ministers and to send ; the Gospel to the heathen? The principle involved is the same in either case, and the moral effect upon the community is much the same, no matter what the object to he promoted. The principal difference is, that in a vulgar lottery, no person making any pretension to religion, and few even that have any regard to morality and to the wel fare of society, could be induced to counte nance it in any way. But where the thing comes out in the garb of human ity, to re lieve suffering soldiers, or to build an asy lum for some needy and suffering class, thousands and ten- of thousands are induced to patronize it. partly, it may be, to aid the cause, but still not without hope that a prize may be drawn, and thus advantage aeerue to as well as to the public or the -uffering poor. Thus the con.-eienee is defiled, a ta-te for gambling is and thousands arc started on the hiehway to ruin, all in the name of charity! The more philanthropic and charitable the object for which such means are em ployed, the more genera) and disastrous will be the resuit. Many thoughtful persons foresaw this when rojfbr which i- only a political name for lottery) were resorted to in aid of our Sanitary hairs. The religious and the better portion of the secular press then lifted up a warning voice against the employment of a means so damaging to the public morals; but this voice was unheeded, it was argued that a cause so holy, one ap pealing so loudly aud earnestly to all Chris tian and patriotic hearts, would sanctify al most any means that would most effectually aid that cause. The raffle was found to be most efficient in many localities. And hence, despite the carm-t, remonstrances of the more thoughtful and intelligent, it was al io we J and eucouraged in nearly all parts of the land. The result is just what many antici pated. The barrier which the law and pub lic sentiment had erected against this spe cies of gambling, in almost every State of the I'uion, i* broken down. The flood gate is hoisted, and the evil sweeps over us like a ereva.-se in the Mississippi! One can hardly take uo a secular paper now, but some grand lottery schemes meets the eye, conspiciously paraded in glaring capitals. And these not merely in aid of public chari ties, but for individual and private specula tions. We have "gift stores." and "gift sales," &c.. ike., not in the cities only, but in many of smaller town* all over the land. And what are these but lotteries in disguise, or less offensive names? And is it any won der that many of them are u.-ed as lures to attract the uninitiated, and swindle them out of all the money they can be induced to invest? If these were the only lotteries allowed, the evil could be more patiently endured. Few. besides simpletons, would ever be caught, and there but once. It is the genteel and quasi religious lottery that is most to b dreaded. These attract the young and unsu-pecting of both sexes. They are drawn in by the influence of re spectable names and by the magic of num bers. And when once initiated in this spe cies of genteel g ambling, the progress to other ami less -e.-pectaMe forms is both na tural and easy. It is like the letting out of water, easily stopped in the beginning, but lot it run awhile, and it will soon defy all re sistance. We are not called upon to show that the lottery, in all its forms, is actual gambling. The laws of nearly every State in the Union, and of almost every civilized country in Kti ro; e. have decided this in the affirmative. They have been declared a public nuisance; as most injurious to public morals, and prohibited, under severe penalties, in almost every country claiming to be Christian and civilized. Strange, indeed, that any man, in his sense, should yet advocate such an agency in the cause of humanity and benevo lence! Vou might as well substitute racing, cock fighting or butt-batting! provided only they would pay as well. The injury to morals would at least be less general, and scarcely more fatal to the few who were weak enough and base enough to be attract ed by them.— Presbyterian. Vot'xu L.vpiks should beware if they would have a fresh, healthy and youthful appearance: "Late hours, large crinoline, tight corsets, confectionary, hot bread, cold draughts, pastry, dccollette dress, modern novels, furnace registers, easy carriages, late suppers, thin shoes, fear of knowledge, nih b'ing between meals, ill temper, haste to marry, dread of growing old." A LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO PODITTOS, EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND MORALS EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY. Roy. Henry Ward Beecher thus presents the Evidences of Christianity in one of his recent sermons: There is no apology for Christianity that can have any avail. If a man is not a a Christian, no apology can make it seem as if he were one; and it a man is a Chris tian, he needs no apology. A man that is true, upright, loving, honorable, just, cheer ful, hopeful, courageous, heavenly, and that like the orange branch that you pluck from the tree and carry with you. gives evidence of his presence wherever he is, does not i need any argument to show that he is a i Christian. 1 see that Dr. Barnes is going to preach ten sermons on the Evidences of Christiani ; ty in our days, in the Mercer street Church. Now I will tell vou whero those evidences i are to be found. In city missionaries that work among the poor; in those men who study the happiness of other people more than their own; in those men who are sweet and patient when they "are sick at home, or when their children trouble them. When your neighbors speak uukindly of you, and you speak kindly of them; when men revile you and despitefully use you, and you are genial and gentlo in your bearing toward them, then your apology is in your conduct. Oh, give me Christians that prove Christi anity. Ido not mean to say that arguments are of no benefit; but all the arguments in the world never could carry Christianity far along. It is the contagion of life that does that. You must have the spirit of Christ, and above all you must live by faith and hope and love, if you would impress men with the conviction that you are a Christian. Everybody loves these things. Everybody i won by these things. And the best of it all is. you do not know how handsome you are. I hear persons say of another, "She is beautiful; and what is more, she knows it." It takes away from the moral effect of beau ty. But it is not so in Christian life. A person may be very lovely and beautiful and not know it, while others may know it. Where one in a true Christian life docs good, and passes on, it is like the summer .-hower that never comes back to sec what it "has done, but sweeps on through latitude after latitude. But the flowers and harvests wave behind to tell the story of its bounty. There are not a great many true men; but I think there are a great many things in al most all Christians that, when they come up permost, lead people to say, "I like that.'' They may say, "I wish the rest was so." It is with religion as it is with faees. There are very few persons who have not some features that are beautiful; and people say. "The upper part of that face is beautiful; but oh 1 the rest of it!" So it is in the be ginning of Christian life. The brow and the eyes are glorious as angels', but alas ! for the mouth, that consumes all things and feeds all appetites. And yet, although there may not be perfect symmetry, this is the ideal. It is no small thing to have the impression deep in the heart of every Chris tiao man. "I am bound to be true and con scientious and beautiful." A ruan that is only conscientious is like a tree in winter that hr>- no leaves on it, But is stout in the trunk; but a man that is both conscientious and lovely is not only strong in the trunk but beautiful in the branches. Christ is the vine; you are the branches. Christ is the vine that bears fruit in you. And see to it that the clu-ter- that hang from these bran ches of which Christ is the vine and trunk, are ripe, and beautiful to the eye. andagree able to every sense. See to it that they are good for wine, and for the wine of eternal iifo. And may God grant that your darkness may be dispelled, and that your desponden cy may be cleansed away. The niglit is far spent; tl.e day is at hand. Children of light, be children of hope and beauty. God loves you, and he will not forsake you in all your burdens and trials. He that bore them is not far from you all, to open up the way; to secure you the victory; to crown you with immortality and glorj"? A NOBLE WOMAN. '"There s a noble creature," whispered a friend to us, pointing to a handsome woman in the prime of life, who stood conversing witli an aged nuan. '"There is something majestic about her," was our reply. "The majesty of goodness!" exclaimed our friend, "flow low and soft her voice, and what a world of love in those dark eyes. And her lips! mark their fine but firm out line ! I tell you she stands there a true woman ; and though now splendor surrounds her, and wealth is hers, she renounced fash ion, fame and riches, for a man who was glorious in his attributes, but poor in pocket, lie had no splendor to offer her—nothing but a priceless heart. She was lively, witty, and very much accomplished. Her parents had bestowed upon her all they had, to give her a liberal education, yet she was never, because of their old fashioned, simple ways, and unpolished conversation, ashamed of them, for in all that makes nature noble they excelled, and in spite of their bad grammar, she loved and was proud of them. I have seen girls—charming girls intellectu ally and physically—who never cared to know what made the eyes of the poor old mother dim, or what kept her so silent in their company, and I know she was thus brought by the laziness, conceit, and con tempt of these charming daughters—alas! but her old mother was no slave to her dar ling and beautiful child: for she sat down smiling in the cheerful sitting room, while the sweet voice of her daughter carolled forth from the neat, homely kitchen. They married, and very soon came press ing want. Sickness blighted the stn ngth of her husband; but she loved him, and loving, what will not a true woniau do? With her own hands she toiled, with her hopeful words encouraged, until the clouds parted, and the son shone again. Slander now joined hands with envy to aid in trampling out the brave heart, but in the end they made it much stronger. Like the little flower that sends forth rarest per fume when crushed, so that gentle heart loved and trusted more exceedingly. And when that malignant sisterhood hedged up the path of her husband, she had ODly to smile, and they burst out; she had only to speak, aud the thorns bowed themselves, turning outward the down that shrouded their stalk. And they saw that with such a wife, that man could not be conquered, or even for a moment cast down. So they ceased their machination, and fortune smiled; and friends eauie with better times, and the true woman stood before the world a model wife and mother." I gazed toward the subject of M.'s eulogy, anil as 1 gazed I venerated. "How many such. " thought T, "can our land boast of in this day and generation?" TALKATIVE MEN seldom read. This is among the few truths which appear the more .-t range the more we reflect upon them. For what is reading hut silent con versation? BEDFORD. Pa.. FRIDAY. MAY 31, 1867 WHAT IS GOLD THREAD! Gold in the minutest particles is used for ornameutal purposes in the form of plating, leaf, wash, etc., but one of its most delicate applications is that of a fine thread cither woven into a fabric of silk, used lor em broideries, twisted into fringe or netted into lace. In none of these forms, however is the thread a filament or wire of solid gold; the thread is gilded and consists of two metals and a core of silk. Wire fvT gold thread is of silver with a coating of gold so infinites .simally thin as to be beyond our comprehen sion. A rod of silver is co-ued with gold to a thickness of about one hundredth part of that of the silver, and then this silver gilt wire is drawn down to a wire much finer than the finest human hair, and yet it will be then perfectly coated with the gold, still maintaining its relative thickness of one part, one JentLjvhe thickness of fine gold legf. This gilded wire is then passed between highly polished and hardened steol rollers and flattened, preparatory to being spun upon the silk thread. In this form of a film like ribbon'it is so light that a handful of it tossed into the air will float in the atmos phere of a room like gossamer. This flattened wire (if its dirainutivencs deserves the name) is spun around a thread of silk, covering it in a spiral coil, so closely laid that it appears like a solid gold thread while in fact the gold is as nothing compared to the other material, This thread is so delicate, although of triple composition, that it can be easily threaded in a fine needle and used for embroidering parposes. It can be woven into silk or into gold lace, or spun and twisted into cord, bullion, and fringe. The lace that decorates the uniforms of our soldiers, the bullion fringe of their epauletttes, which has such a massively rich appearance, is but this fine hair like thread of silk, silver and gold. But the larger part of our gold lace and other ornamental gilt material is base, hav ing not a particle of gold in its composition. That which represents gold is merely one of the compositions having copper for a base, ductile aud tenacious, and worked in the same manner as in the true gold thread. This wire, however, has no silver core, nor is it usually spun upon silk but on orange colored cotton. This is largely manufactur ed in this country, and when just from the workman's hand is very rich in appearance, but soon tarnishes, and, if exposed to mois ture, turns green from oxidation, which quickly rots the cotton core. Gold thread and its manuiacturcs are costly, not so much for the material employ ed ai for the skill and care necessary in its production. It is wonderfully strong when properly made, and if protected Irom mois ture the lace and embroidery will retain their luster for years. AN AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVE WINS TIIE PRIZE AT PARIS. The reader is already acquainted with the fact that the Patterson Locomotive Works sent a locomotive to Paris, which has attrac ted a great deal of attention from visitorsfroui all parts of the woiid. The jury on locomo tives have come to a doeiri on the- merits of the different machines. The competition was great. England having a large number, France at least a dozen. Austria and Russia three or four each. The Austrian and French members of the jury took exception to the ''America" because it was so light in some of its parts, and also to the amount of Polish to the iron work, which they thought was more for show than utility. They claitued that the lightness of some of the machinery was a sacrifice .of strength to beauty. But fortunately the English mem ber of the jury is well informed on locomotive engines, and he explaiued that the railroads in America are of an entirely different con struction from European road-; that the country is new, and the roads cheaply built, and the ties arc subject to displacement from frost; that to ride over rough roads thero must be elasticity in the machinery; that American engineers had difficulties to con tend with wholly unknown to Europeans; that, taking all things into consideration, the American locomotive was superior to any otherin the Exhibition His arguments were so convincing that the other jurors gave way and cncardi.il tin (p ld medal to the "America." This is a great triumph andit hxs been achieved through the intelligence and honesty of the English juror. Unfor tuoately I have not his name, but he is thoroughly conversant with American rail ways and American engineering, and though his own country is one of the largest compe titors, he has been strenuoas for justice and has succeeded in obtaining it for the United States. This is a good beginning, and if the othcrcontributions equally deserv ing have equal justice, the United States will have a fair share of awards, notwithstanding the meagre contributions and faults of man agcmcnt. AN UNLUCKY PRINCE. The Vienna correspondent of the London Timet writes that for some time it has been observed that the Archduke Budolf. the heir apparent to the Austrian throne, has lost much of his fresh color and healthy appearance : but the cause of the change in the child's health is only now known to the public. A few days ago, Dr. Loscbncr, a physician in whom the Emperor and Em press have great confidence, was summoned from Prague; and, after having carefully examined the little patient, recommended temporary change of air. and a total change I in the system of education. The Archduke, ' who is not seven years of ago, wa3 not long ago taken out of the hands of bis aja, or governess, and entrusted to the care of | General Count Gondrecourt, who lost no time in beginning to give the child such an education "as would speedily make a man of him." The little boy was practically taught five languages at one and the -arne time, by means of attendants of five different nation alities; he wa> regularly drilled, and every now and then he was awakened in the night | in order that he might learn to have his wits j about him. The results of such an absurd ; system of education were soon apparent, ; and the heir to the Austrian throne is now ! at, Isehl for the benefit of his health. Gen , eral Count Gondrecourt, who knows how to handle a brigade as well as anv man in the -crvice, has got leave of absence, and the chances are, that he will soon cease to bo ayo, or tutor, to the Emperor's only son. ERRORS OF TIIK WORLP. —The little I i have seen of the world teaches me too look | upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in \ anger. When I take the history of one poor heart that Las sinned and suffered, and I represent to myself the straggler and I temptations it has passed through, the brief i pulsations of joy, the feverish inquietude of hope and fear, ihe pressure of want, thede i sertion of friends. I would fain leave the er ring soul of my fellow man with Him from whose hand it came.—[ Lorngfellow. Wirr is it impossible for a yerson who lisps to believe in the existence of young ladies? I He takes every Miss for a Mvth. THE MORNING STARS. I had occasion, a few weeks since, to take the early train from Providence to Boston, and for this purpose rose at two o'clock in the morning. Everything around was wrapped in darkness and hushed in silence except by what seemed at that hour the un earthly clank and rush of the train. It was a mild, serene mid-summer's night, the .-ky was without u cloud, the winds were whist. The moon, then in the last quarter, had just risen, and the stars shone with a spec tral lustre, but little affected by her pres ence. Jupiter, two hours high, was the herald of the day; the Pleaides, just above the horrizon, shed their sweet influence on the east; Lyra sparkled near the zenith; Andromeda, her newly discovered glories from the naked eye of the south; the steady Pointers, far beneath the pole, looked meek ly Bp from the north of their sovereign. Such was the glorious spectacle as I en tered the train. As we proeeded, the timid approach of twilight became perceptible; the intense blue of the sky began to soften; the smaller stars, like little children, went first to rest; the sisters beams of the Pleaides soon melted together; but the bright con stellations of the west and north remained unchanged. Steadily, the wondrous change went on. Hands of angels, hidden from mortal eyes, shifted the scenery of the heav ens, the glories of dawn. The blue skynow turned softly gray; the ereat watch-stars shut up their holy eyes; the east began to kindle. Faint streaks of purple soon blushed along the sky: the whole celestial concave was filicd with the overflowing tides of the morning light which came pour ing down from above in one great radiance, till, at length, as wo reached the blue bills, a flash of purple fire blazed out from the horizon, and turned the dewy tear drops of flower and leaf into rubies and diamonds. In a lew minutes the everlasting gates of the morning were thrown open, and the lord of the city, arrayed in glories too severe for the gaze of man, began his course. —Erhmril Everett. THE MISERIES OF WEALTH It is to have a subscription paper handed you every hour in the day, and be called a niggard if you refuse your name. It is to eat turkey, and drink wine, at a dearer rate | than your neighbor. It is to have every | college, infirmary and asylum make a run upon the bank of y-ur benevolence, and then wonder at the -inallness ot the divi dend. It is to have sectarians contend for the keeping of your conscience, and lawyer, struggle for the keeping of your purse. It is to be taxed for more than you are worth, and never be believed when you say so. It is to have addition ot dollars, substruction of comforts, and multiplication ot anxieties, end in division among spendthrift heirs. It is to have the interest of c-vcry one about you exceed their principle. It is to make up to the merchant all the profits he looses by knavery, or frugality. It is never to be allowed to be on easy terms even with a coat or a shoe. It is to be married for your money, or have a wife always casting up the sum total of the dollars she brought. It is to have your son's steps surrounded by "man-trap.-," and your daughters made a target for the >p< dilating and e!fi-h to aim at. It is to mea.-nre friendship by the length of your pui e, to buy flattery and sell happinese. It i- to have deotors smile upon you, and knaves shake you by the hand. It is to have a dyspeptic wife, and pale chil dren. It is to have son- eo to college to buy themes of wi-ei h id- and daughter's brains turned by the flattery of fools. It is to be invited to drink poor wine, that you may give better in return. It is to have your lady's peace disturbed by a higher feather or a brighter diamond. It is to buy green peas at nine shillings, and relish them not because your ueighbi gives two dollars. It is to have relation- wi.-h you a short life and a long will. It i- to have your widow mouin bitterly, providt 1 her fortune de pends on perpetual wid rwhood. It is to nave more temptations in this world than other men; and lastly, to find the entrance into a fietter, more difficult than the rest of mankind. THE WHITING ON THE ROCK. Ages upon ages ago the tide was out, and the muddy beach lay smooth as this sheet of paper before me. A cloud passed over the -ky, and a shower of big rain or hail came down, and pitted the mud as thick a.- leaves on the trees. A strong wind drove the drop-, so th3 f the impie.-sions were a little one sided. 'I hey had written their short history as plain as my pi n can write; and even the direction from which the wind blew was recorded. Son ; great frogs and lizards which used to live there, came hopping over the mud, and left their tracks also deeply printed on the shore. By and by the great waves cauie softly stealing up, and cover ed the whole surface with fine sand, and so the tracks were seen no nmre for ages upon ages. The clay harric-ncd into -olid rock, and so did the sand; and after these thou sands ofyears bad passed away. some masons came upon the carious Men of science, who are skilled in reading these stony leaves of God's great hook, read, as plainly as if they had been present, the story of that pas.-ing shower. It had been written on the softest elav, hut it was read on soild rock. So your hearts to day are like the soft clay. Everything -tamps them, hut the stamps are not so easy to remove. They will he there when you are grown up to be a mau or woman. <). what deep, dark prints the bad words of evil a--ociates make? But how lovely it will be to recall the record which kind and loving actions make upon the soul! A Tat TIL SLRANTIF.'.T THAN FtShakspeare, "Tie true, 'tis pity; and pity'tis, 'tistrue," and the wretch ed bungler got it " Tis two, 'tis fifty; 'tis fifty—'tis fifty-two I" That is some worse than James F. Babeock's martyrdom, when he wrote "Is there no balm in Gilead?" and read next morning, to his consternation, "Is therenobarn in Guilford?" Mr. Crawford, a member of Parliament, recently sent to India the message, "The news from Amer ica favors the holders," and it arrived there with the information that "news from America savors of soldiers 1" 'I COULD NOT UNO YOU, MOTHER.' Amid all the abominations and illustra tions of the dark side of fallen humanity, seen at the station-houses, says the Boston ILrald, one occasionally witnesses a scene in which the ludicrous or affecting stands out in the strongest colors. An incident of the latter class came under our observation recently. While in one of the station-hou ses, our attention was attracted to a little boy of three or ibur years of age, neatly i dressed, playing on the matting with a cat, and apparently utterly indifferent to the fact : that he had wandered away from home, got j lost on the streets and had been brought in ias a "lost child" by the police. He was talking in his chil lish way to the persons who noticed him, and no one would have dreamed that the fountain of suppressed j grief was bubbling up so near to the smiiing I surface. Just then a plainly dressed woman rapped at the inner door of the office, and was invited in. She had hardly time to ask, in an agitated tone, if anything had been seen of a "lost darling boy," when the little fellow caught sight of her, and bounding to his feet, ran like a scared deer to her arms; then clasp'ng his littlearms around her neck, broke forth in a long pent-up agony of tears, exclaiming—' 'I coula not find you, mother!', The scene was over in less time than we can tell it, but the effect produced on the by standers, judgiug by what we the fa ces of bearded men, will not soon be forgot ten. The iittlc fellow was the only child, I and had wandered in search of his mother, who had been compelled to leave him a few minutes alone in the house. E VERY-DAY RELIGION. We must come back to our point, which is not to urge all of you to give yourselves up to mission work, but to serve God more and | inure in connection with your daily calling. I have heard that a woman who has a mis sion makes a poor wife and a bad mother; this is very possible, and at the same time very lamentable: but the mission I would : urge is not of this sort. Dirty rooms, slat ternly gowns and children with unwashed j faces are swift witnesses against the sinceri ty of those who keep others' vineyards and neglect their own. I have no faith in that woman who talks of grace and glory abroad i and uses no soap and water at home. Let the buttons be on the shirts, let the chil dren's socks be mended, let the roast mut j ton be done to a turn, let the house be as neat as a new pin, and the home be as happy as Lome can be ; and then, when the can ! non balls, and the marbles, and the shots, and even the grains of sand, are all in the box, even then there will be room for those little deeds of love and faith which in my ! master's name I seek of you who look for bis appearing. Serve God by doing com mon actions in a heavenly spirit, and then, if your daily calling only leaves you cracks and crevices of time, fill these up with holy i service. To use the Apostle's words, "'As j we have opportunity, let us do good unto j all men." — \Spurgam. HE DO FADE AS A LEAF. As the trials of life thicken, and the dreams of other days fade, one by one, in the deep vista of disappointed hope, the heart grows weary of the straggle and we begin to realize our insignificance. Those who have climbed to the pinnacle of fame; or revel in luxury and wealth, go to the crave at last with the poor mendicant who begs pennies by the wayside, and like him are soon forgotten. Generation after gen eration, says an eloquent modern writer, have felt as we feel, and their fellows were as active in life as ours are now. They passed away as a vapor, while nature wore the same aspect of beauty as when her Crea tor commanded her to be. And so likewise shall it be when we are gone. The heavens ! will be as bright over our grave as they are ! now around our path; the world will have the same attraction for offspring yet unborn that she had once for ourselves, and that she has now for our children. Yet a little while, and ali this will have happened! Days will continue to move on, and laughter and song will be heard in the very chamber in which wc died; and the eye that mourned for us will be dried and will glisten with joy; and even our children will cease to think of us, and will not remember to lisp our name. EVIL COMPANY. —The following beau tiful allegory is translated from the Ger ; man: Sopbronius, a wise teacher, would aot suf fer even his ■"•wn grown up sons and daugh ters to associate with those whose conduct was not pure and upright. •'Dear father," said the gentle Eulalia to him one day when he forbade her, in compa ny with her brother, to visit the volatile Lu cinda, "dear father, you must think us very childish, if you imagine that we should be i exposed to danger by it.'' The father took in silence a dead coal from the hearth, and reached it to his I daughter. "It will not burn you my child, take it." Eulalia did so, and behold! her debcate white hrnd was ssiled and blackened, and i as it chanced, her white dress also.'' "We cannot be too careful in handling coals,'* said Eulalia, in vexation. "Yes, truly,' said her father; "you see, j my child, that coals, even if they do not burn, blacken. So it is with the company of the vicious.'' WHY is the sun Eke a good loat? Because I it is not light until it rises. THE HHIGIIT SIDE. Look on the bright side. It is the best side. The times may be hard, bat it wili make them no easier by wearing a sail gloomy countenance. It is the sunshine and not the cloud that makes the flower. There is always that before or around us which should cheer and fill the heart with warmth. The sky is blue ten times where it is black once, l'ou have troubles, it may be. So have others. None are firce from them. Perhaps it is as well that none should be. They give sinew and tone to life—fortitude and courage to man. That would be a dull sea, and the sailor would never get skill, were there nothing to disturb the surface of the ocean. It is the duty of every one to extract all the happiness and enjoyment he can with out and within him, and above all he should look on the bright side of things. What though things do look a little dark? The lane will turn, and the night end in the broad day. In the long run the great bal ance rights itself. What is wrong, right. Men are not made to hang down their heads or lips, and those who do, only show that they are departing from the paths of true common sense and right. There is more virtue in one sunbeam than a whole hemis phere of cloud and gloom. Therefore, we repeat, look on the bright side of things. Cultivate what is warm and genial, not tue cold and compulsive, the dark and morose. The Iron Duke was right. Don't neglect your duty; look on the bright side: live down prejudice. . Gnu*