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ox
JULIANA St., opposite the .Ht-Bjfl House
BEDFORD, PENN A
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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 Ft<l ION. —An
Indianapolis letter writer sap-
While passing through the Union Depot
a few days ago I was a".-ted bv aone armed
man in faded army blue Ilis apparent
familiarity surpri-i'ii me at first, but I soon
recognized him as an old acquaintance. This
is not the place for a biograpy, but the his
tory of this man is sufficiently exceptional
and interesting to deserve at least a passing
notice.
Fourteen years ago 1 first saw him work
ing at a windlass in the gold diggings of
Australia. lie and bis three partners hois
ted by that windlass, from .< single "shaft,"
more than eight hundred thousand dollars.
A few months later I bade him good bye. as
he sailed from Melbourne for New Turk,
with two hundred thou-and in bills of ex
change in his pocket. I next saw him a
wounded rebel soldier lying on the battle field
of Antietam. A little more than a year la
ter, I .-aw him as a 1 nion soldier, lying in a
hospital in Tennessee. T< -day he is a help
less wanderer dependent on chat ity for a din
ner.
SOME men are* very entertaining for a
first interview, but after that they are ex
hausted. and run out; on a second meeting
we shall find them very fiat and monotonous:
like hand-organs, we have heard all their
tunes.
VOLUME 40; NO. 33.
TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
1J i e errors which creep into newspapers
are sometimes odd and queer enough, it
may be the fault of the compositor, but
more likely that of the writer, whose manu
; script is often entirely illegible. It is said
; Horace Greeley once wrote an editorial en
titled "William 11. Seward," and was highly
enraged when the proof came to him under
the caption of "Richard the Third." Yet,
anybody familiar with his chirography, if
his inky jerks can be so designated, will
readily see not only how such a mistake
could be made, but how probable it would
be. Again, he wrote about "three men in
buckram," and the prosaic type-setter got
it "three men in a backroom." And this,
notwithstanding the fact that two composi
tors of sagacity and experience are hired at
an extra salary, because they can read his
copy. Bat George Ripley has been the vie
tim of the gioßcest outrages in this line. In
one of his book notices he took the liberty of
quoting from >Shakspeare, "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*<jJoy TO A (Jhu.D.— Bkaaei he the
hand that prepared a pleasure for a child,
for there is no saying when and where it
may again bloom forth. Docs not almost
everybody remember some kind hearted man
who showed him a kindness in the dulcet
days of his childhood? The writer of this
recollects himself at this moment as a bare
tooted lad, standing at the wooden fence of
a poor little garden in his native village,
while with longing eyes he gazed on the
flowers which were blooming there quietly
in the brightness of a Sunday morning.
The possessor came forth from his little cot
tage. He was a wood cutter bv trade, and
spent the whole week in the woods. He
had come into the garden to gather flowers
to stick into his coat when he went to church.
He saw the boy and, breaking off the most
beautiful of his carnations—it was streaked
with red ami white—he gave it to him.
Neither the giver or the receiver spoke a
word, and with bounding steps the bov ran
home. And now here, at a vast distance
from that home, after so many events of so
many years, the feeling of gratitude which
agitated the breast of that boy expresses
itsell on paper. The carnation has long
since whitnered, but now it blooms afresh.
STRONG MEN. oi character
consists of two things—power of will and
power of self-restraint. It requires two
things, therefore, for existence—stroDg feel
ings and strong command over them. Now
we all very often mistake strong feelings for
strong character. A man who bears all be
fore nim: before whose frown domestics
tremble, and whose bursts of fun- make the
children of the household' quake, because
he has his own way in all things, we call
him a strong man. The truth is, he is a
week man: it is his passions that are strong:
he. mastered by them, is weak. Yon must
measure the strength of a man by the pow
er of the feelings he subdues, not by the
power of those that subdue him. And
hence composure is very- often the highest
result of strength. Did we ever sec a man
receive flagrant injury, and then reply qui
et} v? That is a man spiritually strong. Or
did we ever see a man in anguish stand as
if carved out of solid rock, mastering him
self? or one bearing a hopeless daily trial,
remain silent, and never tell the world what
cankered his home peace? That is strength.
He who. with strong passions, remains
chaste; he who, keenly sensitive with
manly powers of indignation in him can be
provoked and yet restrain himself and for
give, there are the strong men, the spiritual
heroes.
WHAT DO YOUNG MEN MARRY?—Some
young men marry dimples; some ears; some
noses: the contest, however, generally lies
between the eyes and the hair. The mouth,
too, is occasionally married; the chin not so
often. Poor partners, these you will own.
But young men do marry all these and many
other bits and scraps of a wife, instead of
the true thing. Such as the marriage is,
such is the after life. He that would have
a wife if he can meet with one of equal so
cial position, like education, similar disposi
tion, kindred sympathies, and habits con
fenial to his own, let him marry. But let
im beware of marrying a curl or neck,
however swan-like, or a voice, however me
lodious. Young ladies do also make some
queer matches, and unite themselves to
whiskers.
A GENTLE WIFE'S EXPLANATION.—In
the police court of Chicago, a wife thus
ingeniously explained a very serious charge
of harsh treatment towards her poor hus
band:
One day when she was running across the
room, with a fork in her hand, he jumped in
the way, and struck his wrist against the
fork, wrenching it from her grip by the
tines, which he ran into his wrist. Then
he undertook to strike her, but she held up
a pan of hot dishwater between them and he
spilt it all over his head. Then he got still
more angry at this accident, and started to
jump at net, but his head came against her
hana and he fell down. She took hold of
his hair to raise him up. and the hair was
moistened by the hot water so that it came
off. Then she saw that it was of no use to
reason any longer, and she left the house.
HANDKERCHIEF PREACHING.—I notice
in some cases a handkerchief habit in the
pnlpit, which has led me to inquire if the
use of that very necessary article is a part
of theological training. I notice that some
ministers take it out of their pockets as they
do their sermons, and lay it on the pulpit.
Some spread it out lengthwise through the
middle of the Bible; some roll it up and
tuck it under the Bible; some shake it over
their heads as if they were going to throw
it at the audience: and some keep crowd
ing it into their pockets a%d pulling it out
again, with a nervous movement, as if they
did not know what use to make of their
hands. I once went to hear a popular
young preacher, and as much as half his
sermon was made up of pocket handker
chief, and the most of the other half was
gold watch and bits of poetry.— Christian
Reflector.
CITIES WHICH EMBRACE ALL NATIONAL
ITIES. —London is a world in itself. The
last English census devclopes the curious
fact that there are more Scotchmen in Lon
don than in Edinburgh, more Irish than in
Dublin, mora Roman Catholics than in
Rome, and more Jews than in l'alestinc.
Next to London perhaps New York is the
most cosmopolitan of cities. It has not so
many Seotcnmen as Edinburgh, but accord
ing to the census it has nearly as many Irish
as Dublin, while as a German city, it is prob
ably the third in the world, ranking next to
Berlin and Vienna.
tSTAa Irishman from Battle Creek,
Michigan, was at the Bull Run battle, and
was somewhat startled when the head of his
companion on his left hand was knocked off
by a cannon ball. A few moments after,
however, a spent ball broke the fingers of
his comrade on the other side. 'Hie latter
threw down his gun and yelled with pain,
when the Irishman rushed up to him, ex
claiming, "blast yer sow!, yc ould woman,
I shtop crying; ye make more noise about it
1 than the man who lost his head."