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I>V It BORROW A LUTE, BEDFORD, PA.
& {fawte.
VITOKXHYS AT LAW.
lOHNT. KEAGY,
• I ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Office opposite Reed A Schcll's Bank.
Counsel given in English and German. [api26]
KIM. MULL AND EJKGENFKLTER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA.
Have formed a partnership in the practice of
the Law Office on Juliana Street, two doors South
of the Mcngcl House. [April 1, 1564-tf
M. A. POINTS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA.
lie. pcctfully tenders his professional services
t" the public. Office with J. IV. Lingcnfcltcr,
Iv-.p, on Juliana street.
: £t* Collections promptly made. [Dcc.!,'fil-tf.
H AVES IKVJNK,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Will faithfully and promptly attend to all busi
ness intrusted to his care. Office withG. H. Spang,
1 j., on Juliana street, three doors south ol the
Mongol House. May 21:1 y
[ASPY M. A LSI I',
l j ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, I'A.,
Will faithfully and promptly attend to all busi
n entrusted to his care in Bedford and adjoin
ing counties. Military claims, Pensions, hack
pay, Bounty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with
Mann A Spang, on Juliana street, 2 doors south
of the Mcngel House. apl 1, IS64.—tf.
E. F. MEYERS ' J. W. DICKKKSON
MEYERS A BICKERSON,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
BEDFORD, PEKN'A.,
Office nearly opposite the Mcngcl House, will
practice in the several Courts of Bedford county.
Pen ions, bounties and Lack pay obtained and the
purchase of Real Estate attended to. [may 11 ,'66- ly
I 1!. CESSNA,
J . ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Office with Jons CESSNA, on the -ijuarc near
the Presbyterian Church. All business
entrusted to his care will receive faitiiful and
prompt attention. Military Claims. Pension.-', Ac.,
speedily collected. [June 'J, 1865.
N n. STUCK] ;Y,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
ind REAL ESTATE AGENT,
office a Main Street, between Fourth and Fifth,
Opposite the Court House,
KANSAS CITY, -MISSOURI.
V ij , u-ticc in the adjoining Counties of Mis
n .oid Kansas. July 12:tf
I ■ S.-ELL J. 11. LOSGENEI KEP.
j, i SELL A EONGENECKER,
I '. ATTORNEYS A C'oi NSKLLOR* AT LAW,
Bedford. I'a.,
! attend promptly and faithfully to all busi
cntrustcl to their care. Special attention
ivt-ii to collections and the prosecution of claims
•r Rack Pay, Bounty, Pensions, Ac.
M'r Office on Juliana street, south of the Court
House. Aprils:lyr.
r M'n. SHVUPE E. P. KEItU
CJIIARI'E A KERR,
U> A TTORSE YS-A TLA IP.
Will practice in the Courts of Bedford and ad
l ining counties. All business 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, pinoiUv the. banking
In use Of lieed A Schclf, Bedford, Pa. niar27tf ■
J. P. LFTZ.
i vUKBOKKOW A I,I'TZ,
I) ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
BEDFORD, I'A.,
Will attend promptly to all business intrusted to
their care. Collections made on the shortest no
tice.
They are, ale , regularly licensed Claim Agents
ind will give special attention to the prosecution
of claim, again-' the Government for Pensions,
Ba< k Pay, Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac.
office on Juliana street, one door South of the
• .McngclHouse" and nearly opposite the
IVrcc. April 28, lS65:t.
PHYSICIANS.
\\R.M. \Y. JAMISON, M. D.,
\\ BLOODY Rt n, PA-,
lii -pectfully tenders his professional services to
the ]• pie of that place and vicinity. [dccB:lyr
I v 11. It. 1\ 1! \IUIY,
I / Respectfully tenders his professional ser
vice. to the citizens of Bedford and vicinity.
Mf'cc and residence on Pitt Street, in the building
Inrmerlv neeuDtedbv Or. J. 11. Hofius. fAp 1 1.61.
| L. MAKBOUKG. M. 1).,
tj. Having permanently located respectfully
It t.dcr his pole -ion.il service- t*> the citizens
• I Bedford and vicinity. Office "tr Juliana sire.!,
I P ite the Bank, one door north of Hall A l'al
, • tlice. April 1, 1861—tf.
nil. s. <•. STATLEIt, near Schcll.-bi rg, and
Or. J. J. CLARKE, lormcrly of Cumberland
c nnl v. having associated them elvesin the prac
t; . i Medicine, respectfully offer their profc.
ional -ervices to the citizens of Schcllsburg and
\ amity. Or. Clarke's office and residence same
i lormi ilv oe. tipicd by J. White, Esq., dee'd.
S. G. STAT LEIS,
bill.-burg, April 12: ly. J.J.CLARKE.
HOT ElaS.
/ HI YLYBKATK HOUSE.
NOTICE. — Per n.- visiting the Watering 1'la
• . will find a very dc irahle resort at the C'llA
-I,\ 111 M L HOUSE, mar the Chalybeate Spring,
lb dfonl, Pa., where tlic undersigned i - prepared
t a "inmodatc Ir on eighty to one hundred per
. on. . Jtic Lou e i.- icw and dry, am' neatly lur
in I'.cvl. Term- modi rate.
llaclo running to Mineral Spain and Miner
al Water alw iv on hand.
Mnr ai.ain " WM. t'IIENOWETiI.
yyA.su i -\<;T( >N ill
Thi large and • minodiou house, having been
i t ken by the sub.-tliber, is m w o)icn for the rc
■ lion •f v isitor.-and boarders. The room are
. well vcntilate-l, anvl comfortably furnished,
i, table will alv. be .applied with the best
1., ■ ,n uli-ril. Tlic Oar i.- .-! " kill with
tl. ' "' -I liquors. In -liort.it i niv purpo-c
l.i-l ~ 11RST CLAS HOTEL. Thanking
.
cm w.il ' f their patronage.
. lj. Hack w ill run constantly between the
II 'el and the Spring .
y 17,'67.1y WM. OTBEIiT, l'r j.'r.
nis< i r i vvi oi s.
| > I IP A sil ANN ON, BANKERS,
I A BEDFORD, PA.
i' \NK UF DISCOUNT AND OEPOSIT.
' l< si"ii made for the East, IVest, North and
th, and the general bu-inc-.- of Exchange
•i acted. N' tc.- and A' count- Collected and
ittai. 'S promptlymade. REAL U-TATE
b' ught and -old. fcb22
hAMLL IIOKDEI!,
I'lll STIICF.T, TWO I OOUS WEST OF THE BED
f 'I) II - 1.1., BliLi I::D, l'.v.
WATCHMAKER ANO BEAKER IN JEWEL
RY. SPECTACLES. AC.
Hi keeps oil hand a lock of line Gold and Sil
cr Watches, Spectacles of Brilliant Ooublcßclin
- i Gla- es, also Scotch Pebble Glasses. Gold
fl itch Chain-, Breast Pins, Finger Rings, best
litvof Gold Pens, lie will supply to order
ay th ug in his line not on hand. [sj>r.2B-'CS.
Oil 0 YES! —'Ihe undersigned has taken
out auction license, and tenders his services
ill who have sales or auctions to cry. Live
iw a call. Post Office address, Spring Meadows,
Lciford county, Penn'a.
April; m- HENRY B. MOCK.
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#ODR\U
no'iiiicii's cat .WE.
ISY UEOBCE 1). PRKKTICK.
The trembling dew drops lull
Upon the shutting flowers, like souls at rest
The stars shine gloriously, and all
Save tnc are blessed.
Mother! J love thy grave !
The violet, with its blossoms blue and mild
Waves o'er thy head. When will it wave
Above thy child's ?
'Tis a sweet flower; yet must
Its bright leaves to the morning tempest bow
Dear Mother, 'tis thine emblem —dust
Is on tliy brow.
And I could love to die—
To leave untasted life'-a dark, bitter streams'
By thee, as lirst in childhood, lie,
And share thy dreams.
And I must linger here
To stain the plumage of my sinless years,
And mourn the hopes of childhood dear
With bitter tears.
Aye, I must linger here,
-A lonely branch upon a withered tree,
Whose last frail leaf, untimely sere,
Went down with thee.
Oft from life's withered bower,
Instill communion with the past I turn,
And muse on thee, the only llower
In memory's urn.
And when the evening, pale
Bows like a mourner, on thedim, blue wave,
I stray to hear the night winds wail
Around thy grave.
Where is thy spirit flown
I gaze above—thy look is imaged there—
r listen, and thy gentle tone
Is on the air.
0, come, while here I press
My brow upon thy grave, and in those mild
And thrilling tones of tenderness,
Bless, bless thy child !
IftAt Til l J, SENTIMENT.
There's many a goni nnpoli lied
And many a star unknown-
Many a bright bud perished.
Neglected and alone —
When had a word been spoken,
In a kindly, gentle tone,
The bud bad bloomed unbroken.
The gem had graced a throne.
Then O ! scorn not the lowly,
!Nor (to tbam nn* wrnirir.
Lest thou crush an impulse holy,
Or blight a soul of song.
£Msfcll*mcouis.
GEORGE W. CURTIS.
Mr. Curtis is a younger man than most
people think, and think in spite of his good
looks, lie is not forty-tlirce, and nine out
of ten people throughout the country have
an idea that he is over fifty. This impres
sion is partly due to a certain unanimity
of opinion among the critics concerning Mr.
Curtis and his writings. No one speaks
ill. or even lightly, of Mr. Curtis' work,
because it is almost invariably well done,
lie is as linn 011 his pedestal of good repute
as Bryant, Longfellow or Holmes are on
their " It is seldom that a writer under
fifty achieves a reputation so unquestioned
ore capes anycarpingchargesof self-conceit.
Mr. Curtis is a bold and aggressive enuneia
! tor of ultra opinions, hut nobody ever
thought of him as belonging to that class of
writers who go against the current for the
purpose of centering attention upon them
-clve : Ouo reason of this is that lie is so
palpably honest about it; another is that be
is thorough a gentleman. lie can say a
-evere thing ol' you to your face without
wagging his head or running out his tongue
at you. lie is aggressive without being
pert and saucy. lie is the Grant of ultra
ideni.-ts, not the Hhcrinan. His enemies
respect him and even admire him. You
never catch any sane man shrugging his
-boulder- or laughing in his sleeve at Ceo.
W.Curtis. How very few writers escape
thi sort of thing, at least alter they have
passed their fiftieth or sixtieth year few
people stop to reflect. Bayard Taylor docs
not escape it -Theodore Tilton does not —in
short there arc a very few who do.
Curtis was born to a respectable compe
tence, but, like many another boy who has
no present need, he began to take care of
himself when he wa-but fifteen years old.
Ili- parents removed to thi- city from Prov
idence. Bhode Island, when George was at
that age, and be entered the service of a dry
goods importer here. After a year of this
lie went to farming, in Massachusetts, and
it was while working on a farm nearConeord,
that lie mingled in the society where he met
Emerson and Hawthorne.
Curtis is a graduate of Brown i niversi
ty, and lie spent a few 111 nth- at the Uni
versity of Berlin. Hi - rare culture was not
acquired in theordinary routine. 1 lis liter
ary taste- were naturally refined, and he
improved hi - mind greatly by foreign trav
el. He wa- only twenty-six when he re
turned from hi- travel-in Egypt any Syria,
and published his ' N'iie Notes ot a Howad
ji.' This book gave him the sobriquet of
"Howadji Curtis, which has clung to him
ever since.
l>ut it w;t:- his "Potiphar Papers" which
gave liiai his most distinctive literary repu
tation. we think. These were a collection of
papers on metropolitan "fashionable" life,
very caustic and humorous, strongly sug
gesting Thackeray. Thackeray by the way,
is one of Mr, Curtis' profoundest admira
tions, ami lie has helped much to popularize
that writer in this country. "Potiphax"
appeared originally in J'ulmnii's Mont My,
of which Curtis was the principal editor.
11c was also part proprietor of the Monthly,
and its unhappy end resulted in stripping
Mr. Curtis of "all he possessed, as the
phrase is; for people talk as if a man could
not "possess" anything but hard dollars.
A - if brains, education and energy were not
property. Mr. Curtis lias clearly proved
that tliev are.
Lotus Matin-:. one of Curtis' pleasantest
books, was made up of watering-place let- i
ters tbat he wrote to the Tribune in IXSI. j
I'rue and I, lii.s poorest volume, was in i
like manner made up from the pages of
Putnam.
Mr. Curtis has now been connected with |
the Harpers' publications for ten or a dozen
A LOCAL AND QENEHAL NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, EDUCATION, LITKKATUIIE AND MORALS
years. In the Monthly, as every body
knows, he writes the-"Easy Chair," the
best part of' the whole magazine. In the
B'(he writes the editorials, and proves
his capacity for strong political writing to
be as great as that for delicate and fanciful
literary gossip. His original position on
the Wcceky was as the writer of a column
or so of light talk on literary and social .top
ics, printed in small type, and denominated
"The Lounger." It was like a younger
brother of the "Easy Chair." By-and by
Curtis let his "Lounger" talk Radical poli
tics a little, and the Harpers—who, before
the war, were the reverse of Radical—re
quested him to "stop that," or discontinue
the "Lounger," and of course Curtis stop
ped the "Lounger," altogether. Subse
quently events, however, changed the Har
per's views somewhat, and Curtis was rein
stated as a writer for the editorial page,
lie gradually took the whole thing in
his own hands, and to-day the Weekly talks
broader Radicalism in its leaders than oven
the "Lounger" did in the by-gone time.
Fifteen or twenty years ago, Curtis was
considered the adonis of New York litera
ti'ret. lie is still veiy tine looking—tall,
well dressed, with good hair and fine eyes,
an ultra gentlemanly manner and scholarly
aspect, lie resides on the south shore of
Statcn Island, in a very pleasant place of his
own.
Curtis is an always-popular lecturer. 11 is
ultra opinions arc presented with a grace
and vigor that leaves 110 hearer feeling as if
lie had wasted his evening, however widely
his views may differ from those of the
speaker.
INSECTS.
All insects have six legs, unless they have
met with accidents. They do not breathe
through their mouths, but by means of a
groat number of little pipes which run
through them lengthwise, having openings
here and there on the sides of the body
where the fresh air is drawn in. These lit
tle openings arc very curiously contrived
in some cases protected by tiny trap-doors
opening on hinges, in others having a strong
grating over them of very coarse hairs.
Hence, an insect when eut in two, as he
does not use his mouth for breathing, and as
his brain is not confined to his head but
runs all through his body, will live for many
hours in this mutilated state. In fact some
insects never cat a mouthful after they are
full grown.
Insects have from two to five eyes. Two
largo eyes called compound eyes, because
they are made up of many little eyes united,
like a bundle of six sided spy-glasses tied to
gether, large at one end and very small at
the other, and looking under the microscope,
like the meshes of a very fine net. Then
there are sometimes three little eyes in ad
dition to the large ones, placed generally on
tlie top of the head, although they occa
sionally vary their position.
All insect- arc provided with an/ant",
which are those little, many-jointed projeo
lion- extending from the head near the eyes
somewhat like raindecr's horns. These are
probably u-ed for feeling, smelling, and
!j'een' ueiuii leiy V'e filet/.' ' Vlicy' Yafy ViuctnYiJ
appearance; sometimes resembling Indian
clubs, sometimes fringed like a fir tree,
notched like a -aw, plumed like a feather,
or armed with teeth like a comb. A few
insects have 110 wings, others have two,
others four, but none have more than that
number.
Insects pass through several stages of ex
istcnce before tbev become fully developed.
Most of them are hatched from eggs; then
they pass into the larva state, in which there
are catei pillar, maggot, or grub, according
as they arc to become butterfly or beetle.
In course of time they go into pupa, or
mummy state, from which they emerge
ready for action as perfect insect.-. In some
classes these distinctions are not so strongly
marked.
On examining a fly with a microscope,
you will find six legs, anut 1 !i with two
sharj) little toes; two big compound eyes
covering nearly the whole of the head, and
the three little eyes arranged in a triangle,
two transparent wings strengthened by a net
work of veins, and covered with line hairs
to protect them from wear and tear; a pair
of tiny winglcts, and on each side of the
body a little knob which serves for unknown
purposes. <ln closer examination of hi
mouth you will find a proboscis or trunk, like
an elephant's; this is nothing but the lower !
lip lengthened and armed with three lancets. |
with which it punctures its food, or exit.- j
1 crates bald-headed old gentlemen. The j
end of the lip is flattened and grooved like j
the bottom of a meat di-h for gravy. He is \
provided with a fluid which running down j
little canals in bis trunk, dissolves soluble J
,-u bstances, so that they are easily sucked
up through the same little eannals.
On examining the foot closely under the
micro-cope you will see that it is armed with
two little claws, protected by fleshy pads,
covered with liairs. Each liair is enlarged
at the end, making a little disk, which is j
kept moist by a fluid continually exuding, j
The little claws catch 011 the iougli point of j
any surface, and the moment this is done, j
the little disks take hold by their edges, |
while their centers are retracted, leaving a j
vacuum, -and thus creating an atmospheric 1
pressure which sustains the insect against j
the force ot gravitation. While one foot is
raised, the others retain their hold, and the
rapid movement of the six logs along a ceil
ing, shows how swift is the instinctive action
of this complex apparatus.
According to Kir by and pence, the com- j
iuon bou-e flv, when undisturbed makes six 1
liuudred strokes with its wing in a second, j
and when necessary can increase its velocity j
sixfold.
There is one fact in tie natural history of
Hies that is generally very little understood,
and what is true of flies, is equally true with
regard to all insects. It is that Hie- hatched
into the winged state never grow any more,
either smaller or larger. If he is hatched a
small fly. small he remains all the days of
his life. 11 is growing and most of his eating
has been done in the larva or maggot state.
Then ho leads the life of a glutton, eating
with apparent relish till rno.-t loathsome
things, reveling in all sorts of impurities,
waxing very I'at and aldcrmanic, as do most
large eaters in the human tribe. An old
w;iter well observes, "How few of us arc
aware that all these creatures now buzzing
above our heads oneo crawled beneath our
feet!"— Riverside May .in-.
THE <! HEAT CHANUK.- There was a uian
wlm started from Jerusalem to Damascus,
on a mission of persecution and murder,
proud cruel, and vindictive; lie camcTroni
Damascus with a heari yearning towards
all mankind, with the humility of a child,
and with affection as tender as a woman's
love, ile went towards Damascus- with an
intellect narrowed down to a rapier's point,
and harder than its steel; he came from Da
in a-cus with an intellect broadened and
fused with divine lire, and with a logic so
iuviucible, and with its iiuks so warm with
the Holy Ghost, that it moulded the thought
of the world for eighteen centuries.
BEDFORD. Pa.. FRIDAY. AUGUST 9, 1867.
I'IKE <>\ TBE lILIHTII
A homestead without a par of old folks
—"Time's doting chroniclers? —seated con
tentedly in the chimney cormr, would hard
ly be a homestead at all. Ifthey arc iu the
picture it is complete.
There you may find them, (ay in and day
outj in all sorts of wcathc; steadfast to
their places and to one another. When the
caves drip, in the middle of tic winter fore
noons, the old man with thehead of silver
abandons his post and the Ist Saturday's
newspaper, to make the aeeusjpmcd tour of
the kitchen offices, the sheds-or the barn,
lingering by the way to throw (own a hand
ful of grain for the pinched pod try. With
what minuteness lie is cautionej by Grand
mother not to go out insuffieieitly clad; and
with what a single heartcd.p/ she welcom
ed him when he comes ba<|; to her again,
lie would hardly get a warAei reception if
lie was just come home from a polar expe
dition. And as soon as he ha: nestled down
snugly in his cushioned chap: once more,
and dealt out on the glowing Srestiek a few
vigorous raps with the tongs,no will launch
forth into such valuable deta|s of the keen
air out of doors, —suggesting (Arctic remin
iscences which no listener caild very well
call in question,—as will lid the white
haired coupie topic of earn'ft talk till din
ner is brought on the table.
The children invariably edae home from
school, in the wintry afternoons to find the
placid pair seated iu the sa ie accustomed
spot:—the strip of sunshine pale and
sleepily across the floor, the ray cat curled
before the fire in the nest ,f her craless
dreams, and the little sprite hat are _"pcg
ged knotty entrails" of'the ok logs singing
the drowsy hours away. Willi c would have
made the picture immortal Down along
the snowy roads the wind.-; are wrestling
with travellers, pulling and tjaring at hats,
and cloaks, and meagre ribes;—but no
winds are to be felt in this corn's tranquil
haven; here all days are halcyon days, and
no atmosphere is breathed hut that of peace
and heaven. In the old nun's cheeks the
rich mettle is as fresh, to appearance, as it
cvvr was; the features betray no look of be
ing pinched with the cold; 110 snows can get
in to benumb his attenuated lingers.
They two constitute a sort of family tri
bunal: and a highly useful arrangement it
is, in a crowded domestic congress. They
arc always to he found on the judicial bench,
ready to give audience. 31any arc the tough
little brobl cms that are brought to them for i
their wise solution. They pass upon cases
in which die intetcsts of the turbulent
younglings arc involved, with a promptness
which challenges the di-putanls' wonder;
and if Grandma only son/ thus and so, there
is no use in hunting for higher authority,—
lie is conceded to be the "era of tlic law."
Or Grandpa promises to mend the broken
sled; and never was sled of hoy repaired
with greater dexterousncss and ingenuity, j
From early morning until nightfall he ram
bb-s about the house on short excursions,
filled full and thoroughly warmed with the
dear home feeling. And when one pair of
dimmed eyes became yet dimmer, and at
last fades entirely from the earth,—and one
f-fied corner to he sccn'the're "no more 'tor
over. what vacancy in the heart of the
household then! Looking up from her
forenoon occupation, Grandmother throws
lscr eyes from sheer force of habit, into the
opposite corner, hut the chair stands empty
over there, and a great tear trembles on lier
cheek as she adjusts her needle in the knit
ting sheath die wears. The fire is not so
hot that it can warm her chilled heart any
longer. She listens to the wintry winds
that are blowing without, and thinks of that
single grave, freshly rounded under the j
pines.— Homespun.
YOUNG AIMN.
Most young men regard the want of a
rich father as a great mi-fortune, and as a
sufficient excuse for a latlure to succeed in
life. Money and the advantages it brings
—education, influence and a ' start" in life
are regarded a- ahiKPt cr-cntial to s.ue
cc--. They overlook (lit feeling of depen
dence it cherishes and the enervating effect
it produces. They forget that the proudest
and most hardy oak is ever self-sustaining
an 1 is nourished into strength and power by
resisting itself the force of winds and storms,
and not by being protected by others. They
neglect, too, the pages of biography which
abound in examples ol men who, from pov
erty, have attained eminence in every sphere
of life, whether it bein accumulating wealth
or acquiring knowledge 01 in invention, dis
covery or in any of the professions; while
comparatively few so distinguished were
nourished in the lap of ease and wealth.
Their own observation, too, might correct
their erroneous impressions and stimulate
them to energy for self-elevation. All
around them they may sec young men pos
-m-sing every apparent advantage, unambi
tious indolent, prodigal of time and money,
waiting for the portion of goods that is to
fall tj> them, that they may spend it. On
the other hand they may sec multitudes of
poor, but industrious, earnest and rising
young men, who. if spared, are certainly
destined to make a mark in the world. In
stead, therefore, of allowing this absence of
the ease and luxuries of wealth to discour
age them, it should give tlicm heart and
stimulate ambition. Barton, who has writ
ten the interesting biographies of Commo
dore Vandcrbilt. .J. Gordon Rennet, John
C. Calhoun and Henry Clay, in one of these
articles -ays: "Let us never again commend
any one for 'rising' from obscurity to emi
nence, but tescrve our special homage for
those who have become respectable human
beings in spite of having had every advan
tage procured for them by rich fathers."—
/ 'itt. tm ftfh He.
lv\'!>l;UlN<i INFLUENCE. -Time, change,
alienee, distance, break off no genuine reia
* ion-. The love which the interposition of
a continent or an ocean can diui, which the
separation of years can alter, never was love.
1 had a friend once, a woman, who was the
friend of my better nature —who taught me
inspiration, taught nie the valu of thought
made nie believe the worth of life, showed
me the joy of worth and progress—one
whose soul was so large, so deep, so gener
ous. that she reigned like a <juecn among
the highest intellects and hearts. She left
the earth one stormy night sixteen years
ago; but is as near me to day as she was
then. The life I live, the thoughts I think,
the acts 1 perform, are colored by influences
which came from her mind to mine. If six
teen years cannot separate sou! -, why should
sixteen hundred years separate them?
When our friends leave us for another world
they are les,s with us outwardly, but more
with us inwardly. We carry them with us
in our heart.
TRVTH. —'There is nothing as pleasant as
the hearing and speaking the truth. For
this reason there is no conversation so agree
able as that of the uian ot integrity, who
hears without any intention to betray, and
speak;; without any intention to deceive.
THE BEAUTIES Ol HI HUE LAN
GUAGE.
If we need higher illustrations not only
ot the power of natural objects to adorn
language and gratify taste, but proof that
here vve lind the highest conceivable beauty,
we would appeal at once to the Bible. Those
most opposed to its teachings have acknowl
edged the beauty of its language, and this
is due mainly to the exquisitd use of natur
al objects for illustration. It does indeed
draw from every field. Hut when the emo
tional nature was to be appealed to, the ref
erence was at once to natural objects, and
throughout all its books, the stars, and
flowers, and gems, arc prominent as illustra
tions of the beauties of religion and the
glories of the church.
"The wilderness arid the solitary placo
shall be glad lor them, and the desert shall
rejoice and blossom as the rose."
"The mountains and the hills -hall break
forth before you in singing, and all the trees
of the field shall c.ap their hand.-. Instead
of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and
instead ot the briar shall come up the myr
tle tree."
The power and beauty of the same objects
appear in the Havior's teaching.-. The lig
and the olive, the sparrow and the lily of
the field, give peculiar force and beauty
to the great truths they were used to illus
trate.
The Bible throughout i remarkable in
this respect. It is a collection of books
written by authors far removed from each
other in time, and place, and mental culture,
but throughout the whole nature is exalted
as a revelatian of God. Its beauty and sub
lunity are appealed to arouse the emotions
to reach the moral and religious nature.
This clement of unity runs through all the
hooks where reference to nature can be made.
One of the adaptations of the Bible to the
nature of man is found in the sublime and
perfect representation of the natural world,
by which nature is ever made to proclaim
the character and perfection of God. No
language can be written that so perfectly
sets forth the grand and terrible in nature
and its forces, .1 we hear when God answers
Job out of the whirlwind. No high appre
ciation of the beautiful, and of God a* the
author of beauty, wa- ever expressed than
when our Savior said of tlm lillics of the
field: "I say unto you that even Solomon,
in all his glory was not arrayed like one of
these and tb.cn add-: "If God so clothe
the grass of tin field"—ascribing the ele
ment of beauty in event leaf aud opening
bud to the Creator's skill and power.—/'•/'.
(hadbourne.
THE 1,1 LY OU THE FOREST LAKES.
In the northern lakes, the woodman urges
his light skifl sometimes through acres of
lily-pods, which, itt their season, bear up the
most beautiful and fragrant blossoms. 'lhc
air is redolent. The water-surface i- mot
tled with the pearliest gems. For a moment
after his canoe has passed, a tiny wake can
be traced, as the broad, flat leaves have bow
ed before the keel and oar. But soon every
mark of his track i.- obliterated ; i'or leaf
ters, have -prang again, thtough (hipping
from their bath, to their wonted place.
When the spring freshet.- come, or the swell
of the sudden .summer rain has raised the
lakes above their common level, still these
beauties of vegetation r:-e with the rising
tide. When tlie storm comes thundering
down from the mountains, and the billows
toss, and white-caps sparkle, still these
broad, fbield iikc leave.-, float and warp and
undulate, but cannot be submerged. Why ?
There is along, fine filament which stretches
downward through the dept.- and moors
them to the bottom, where the interlocking
roots hold them with a grasp which will suf
fer the stem to break before they will unclasp.
The life of the lily is above. The secret of
its life is unseen of men.
Emblem of the Christian. Thus rides he
upon the rolling billow.- of life. Storms of
sorrow and affliction cannot submerge him,
for ho is saved by his ever buoyant hope.
The tide of passion may .-well around him,
but he will ever surmount it. for the cord
which binds liim to the hidden rock has the
elasticity of "love," which "suftereth all
things, and is kind. " orldly eyes cannot
discover that golden band which moors him
to eternal truth and oodue-s; but its hold
is firm, its strength invincible. His way of
life is above. Drive through it the sharp
share of bcrcavments, and though for a
brief season the sear may be traced, yet soon
again the lovely flower.- of resignation thank
fulnc.-s, and peace, uplift their heads, and
breathe their fragrance upon the air.
Is not such a life attainable? God be
praised, hchas wrought out this wonder in
many an humble soul ol whom the world was
not worthy.— Rev. ,/. <trench, in the Am.
Mmgi if/-1.
PHYSICAL EXERCISE.
The IV' stininittti liu\< !tr declaims against
too much physical exercise, and expresses
the opinion that, physical development is
very liable to be carried too far. It says:
"Of course it is a very grand thing to be
able to maintain one's rights against half a
dozen coal heavers, or to figure as the cham
pion of injured respectability against inso
lent black-guardism, as Sir Robert Clifton
did a little time back in the public streets.
But these are exceptional cases, and few
men can be pointed out who are distinguish
ed both as pugili.-ts and scholars. But the
greatest and most dangerom abu-e, and one
that ought most sedulously to be discouraged ,
among young men, is that technically known
as 'training.' Who cannot appreciate the
indignant periods ol the ancients when they
descry the insane dhc jdine ofeveren thusias
tic athletic? Then a- now tlicy studied to
bring their bodies to a premature perfection,
at the expense of both mind and body lor i
the remainder of their lives. Those who
have gone through th severest training be
come in the end dull, listless and stupid,
subject to numerou- diseases, and in many
instances the ultimate victims of gluttony
and drunkenness. Their unnatural vigor
seldom lasts more than five years. It was
especially remarked bv the Greeks that no
one who in boyhood won the prize at the
Olympic games ever distinguished himself
afterward. The three years immediately
proceeding seventeen are years of great men
tal development, and nature cannot at the
,-auie time endure any severe taxing of the
physical eonstituti"!), l'rudence therefore,
especially at this critical period of life, must
ever go hand in hand with vigor, for the
evils of excess outweigh by far the evils of
deficiency. But as long as due bounds are
preserved, athletic sports may ever he hail
ed as the best friends of mind and body.
The Duke of Wellington is reported to have
said, when he was looking on at a cricket
match, that as long as these were tlie sports
of Englishmen, they need never fear inva
sion. To this we think we may add a more
powerful encouragement, for we sincerely
believe that as long as athletic sports hold
their proper place in our educational estab
lishments, we need never fear the invasion
of degeneracy nor the tyranny of ignorance."
YOU ME 40; NO. :>0
A .S<M TIII01L:> .A;\KKAI, IIAMtjLEM A
soi 1111.10 IH;M(KVT.
General M. Jeff Thompson, a distinguish
cd officer of the Confederate army in Mis
souri, and previously to the rebellion a
prominent lawyer in that State, lately an
nounced his adhesion to the Longstreet
!>arty, and-advised an acceptance of the re
construction act. The Southern Democrats,
like their Northern allies, immediately com
menced to argue against this movement by
showering personal abuse on Mr. Thompson.
Jo one ot them he replies, and his indignant
response gives us a little insight into South
ern history during the rebellion. Democracy
there, as here, consisted in avoiding con
scription. and fighting with words when
. other men were u.-;rig bayonets:
NEW YORK, July JO, 1867.
Ldilor ot the Banner, I'azoo, Alist:
SIR: I see in the New York Ilerald oi
in) day an extract from your paper of the
sth irtsi., in which you have, in your oppo
sition to certain letters written by gentlemen
of the South, thought proper to use very
disrespectful language about your superiors,
from the style in which you speak 1 judge
you to have been one ot those miserable,
dirty dog- who publi-hed an cight-by-tcn
sheet during the war fur no earthly purpose
but to avoiu conscription, and who to cover
up their own cows: dice tried to, and in some
instances did. break down some of the purest
and noblest men in the Confederacy. Prob
ably some of Albeit Sidney Johnson's blood
is on your bauds, an i you may be one of the
hounds that barked at Joseph K. Johnson,
and it may be, if your paper had strength
enough and was published to the end of the
Confederacy, that many of our mournful
mishaps can be partially attributed to your
meanness. You should have started earlier,
remained longer, endured more hardship,
braved more dangers, and surrendered with
more regret than either of the gentlemen
y"U name before you should have presumed
to have written such an article. J cannot
for an instant imagine you to have been a
soldier, and suppose you must be a "broken
down politician, an ".old dog'' or a "little
pup: and, therefore, 1 will let you pass
until I return South, when 1 will inquire
into your antecedents, and if you arc worthy
of notice I will teach you better manners.
M. JKFI THOMPSON, cf New Orleans.
\ IKDO.U FKO.II lIEKFH Kit's STOKV.
From the la-t installment oi' Mr. Beech
er "Norwood," in the Ledger, we clip the
following sententious bits of wisdom :
The important organic changes in our
zone take place at the second full seven of
yeai produce important results even in the
coldest temperament.- and in the slenderest
nature*. There is frequently the appear
ance of new forces in the mind, the displace
ment of old o!uif, and an entire change of
proportion and balance in the moral and in
tellectual faeultic-. Aspirations begin to
quieki n the soul. Ambitious grow nobler.
scorn of all authority which does not con
form to rea.-on or to generous views of duty
is frequently seen, and just as frequently mis
understood. The transition from girlhood to
wonianhoy<l ps parked by tlie developuient of
In estimating the causes of character men
ascribe much to circumstances, much to train
ing, andmuch to the fullness and force of one's
original endowments. But there arc other
elements more subtle, but of profound val
tt in the structure of that most wonderful
of all architectures —the character; built
up of invisible materials, without sound or
force, permanent in its nature, yet in form
flexible, and prolific inchangc. Chief among
these i- to be reckoned sympathy of facnF
ti-s and unity of action. All natures come
to their manhood through some experience
of fermentation ! \\ itlr some it is ferment
of pa—i m ; with some of the afiections;
and with richly endowed natures it is the fer
ment of thought and of the moral nature.
•Some natures squander life-force in intermit
tent efforts. Their endowments arc ample,
but they are frittered away uselessly. But
where the happy temperament unites in an
original and spontaneous harmony of all
the part-of one'.- nature, the augmentation
force i- but a small part of the good fortune.
There i- a breadth, a depth, a fertility of
experience which yield- to -ingle lives more
of joy than is posses-cd by scores of ordinary
men.
THE HOME I'ItKSS.
We clip the following from the Chicago
li< publican, and commend it to the consid
eration of our readers:
"What tell- .-o readily the .-t indard of a
town or city a.? the appearance of its paper;
and its. youth or age can as well be defined
by the ob-crving. by a glance at its news
paper as though a personal observation had
been made. The enterprise of its citizens
is depicted by it- advertisements —their
liberality by the looks of the paper. Some
papers show a good, solid, healthy founda
tion. plethoric purses and a well-to-do ap
pearance generally, other- show a striving to
contend with the grasping thousands around
them, trying to wrench out an existence
from the close listed community around
thcui. An occasional motoric display in its
column- of telegraph, of local or of edito
rial, shows what it would do if it had the
mean-.Jiut cannot coutinuc in the expensive
work until the support comes which ought
to be readily granted. A newspaper is like
a Church; it wants fostering at the com
mencement and for a few years, then as a
general thing it can walk alone, and reflect
credit upon it- location. Take your home
paper; it give- you more news of immed
iate interest titan the New York or other
distant city papers; it talk.- for you when
no other.-will speak in your favor; when
other localiih - belie you it stands up for
your rights ; you always have a champion
in your home paper; and tho.-e who stand
up lor you should certainly be well sustained.
Your interests are kindred and equal, you
rise or fall together. Therefore, it is your
interest- to support your home p per, not
grudgingly, but in a liberal spirit, as a plea
sure. not a- a disagreeable duty, as an in
vestment tint will amply repay the expen
diture.
KAXIM; WJIILE FATUIEEH, —There tire
very few habit* more-injurious to health
Uian eating when the body is fatigued. If
the brain or any part or organ of the body
become* unduly fatigued, the whole system
require* rest, until the nervous iufluenoe
and the circulation of the blood arc equalized
throughout the body, beforeanother demand
is made upon the vital energies. If the
stomach is filled without this rest, the food
remains undigested, ferment* and becomes
sour, and irritates the stomach, producing
disease of the digestive organs, and through
them, of the whole system.
THERE is a saying of Goethe .— ''latent
forms itself in solitude: character in the
storm* oflifc."
THERE is a school in Germany to teach
how to make lager. How to drink it re
quires no study.
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THE STILL KEAUTY r NATI KK.
If there could he some .splendid confusion
produced amid the serenity of the present
universal order; if some broad constellation
should begin to-night to play off from all its
lamps, volleys of Bengal lights, that should
fab in -bowers of many colored sparks and
fieiy serpents, down the spaces of the
heavens; or il some blazing and piratical
comet should butt and jostle the whole out
| work-of a system, and ru-b like a celestial
fire ship, destroying order, and kindling the
culm fleets that sail upon the infinite azure
into a flame, how many thousands there are
that would look up to the skies for the first
time, wish, wonder and awe, and exclaim in
wardly: "Surely there isthejfingcr ofGod.''
They do not see anything surprising or sub
duing in the punctual rise and steady setting
of the sun, and its imperial and boundless
bounty; and yet there is enough fire in the
sun to spirt any quantity offlaming an<l fan
tastic jets; it could fill the whole space be
tween Mercury and Neptune with brilliant
pyrotechnics and jubilee displays, such as
children gaze at and clap their hands. But
the great old sun is not selfish, and has no
French ambition for such tawdry glories.
It reserves its fires - , keeps them stored in its
breast, spills over no sheets of flame from
its higli caldron, but shoots still and steadily
its clean, white beams into the other; these
evoke flowers from the bosom of every globe,
and paint the far off satellites of Uranus
with silver beauty.-— Thomas King.
It EI) TAI'E ILLLSTKATEI).
A Prus-ian officer, inspecting a military
post found a -entry leisurely walking his
beat before a dilapidated and empty store
house. No one could give him any infor
mation as to why the sentinel was there, ex
cept that it was a "custom of the post. "
His curiosity being aroused, he examined
the records of the war office, and in an
old report, dated a hundred and thirty years
before, found that once the door' of that
storehouse had been painted, and a guard
had been placed there to warn persons of
the wet paint. The officer in charge was
ordered away, and the storehouse guard be
came a traditionaly and punctually perform
cd duty of tho post. This anecdote is
matched by one that is told of the English
-orvice. Many years ago a detachment of
troops was ordered to some out of the way
place in India, and a requisition was made
for clothing and medicines for the use of
the soldiers. In a short time the post was
broken up. but as the orders for supplies
had not been countermanded, they were sent
regularly every year for a good portion of a
century, in perfect oblivion of the fact that
there were no troop- there to wear uniforms
or take medicines.
.MAXIMS OF BISHOP MIDDLEKON. —Perse
vere against discouragements, Keep your
temper. Employ leisure in study and al
ways have some work in hand. Ie punctual
and methodical in business, and never pro
crastinate. Never be in a hurry. Preserve
self possession, and do not be talked out of
conviction. Ttise early, and be an economist
• JW,.„ •>----
pearanee ot pride; manner is something
with everybody, and everything with some.
Be guarded in discourse, attentive and slow
to speak. Never acquiesce in immoral or
pernicious opinions. Be not forward to as
sign reasons to those who have no right to
ask. Think nothing in conduct unimport
ant or indifferent, llather set than follow
examples. Practice strict temperance, and
in your transactions, remember the final ac
count.
WOMAN'S LOVE. —Women generally love
less for youth, beauty, or fortune, than for
fame; especially the high minded portion of
the sex; and this proves the purity of their
affections; for what, after all, can he the ob
ject of true love, but mind—the high and
noble mind—whieh attests itsclt by the loud
voice of fame, and the reluctant evidences of
envious mankind.' A noble spirited woman
in the prime of youth and morning of beauty
—whom she will choose? on whom bestow
her affections? Xot on a gay youth of her
own age. priding himself on his smooth face
and flexible form. She will turn away from
' he fair brow without a wreath of laurel, and
delicate hands that have rerped no harvest
rom the field of honor, and place her heart
n the custody of him whose vigor, and en
ergy of thought have gained a place among
the great of the world.
G KNKKAI.S 11 IN JiMA N AND CIIALMERS,
men who did good fighting for the Gonfed
erate cause in the army of the Southwest
from Shiloh to the disastrous onset at Nash
ville, have enrolled themselves in the Sou
thern wing of the Republican party, led by
Longstrect. Jeff Thompson, Gov. Brown,
Barksdale, Gen. S. B, Buekner, and others.
An aggressive and practical party attracts
all the aggressive and practical men of the
country. No man thoroughly alive to the
interests and future of this land can afford
to sleep with the Democracy at such a time
as this. — Philadelphia Press.
MENTAL labor is not in itself likely to in
terfere with digestion. In fact, lie who has
the largest and most active brain ought to
have the easiest anil best digestion, other
things being equal. It is not brain work,
but brain worry that interferes with the ac
tivity of the stomach. The action of the
pnciuno-gastric nerve, by which the nerve
force is carried from the brain to the stom
ach, is not influenced to a morbid degree by
intellectual activity ; but it is materially and
injuriously influenced by emotional agita
tion —fretting.
As you would lie lovely in the sight of
Hod, strive to bo Christian-like. Certainly
it is the Spirit of Christ within you, and the
beauty of Christ upon you, which only can
make you lovely; the more you resemble
him in holiness, the more will you manifest
of true excellence; and the more lrequcnt
and spiritual your communion with Christ,
the more of the loveliness of Christ will he
stamped upon your spirits, changing you
into the same image, front glory to glory.—
Flavel.
1E your afflietious are sanctified, it is tin
reasonable to murmur against God because
you smart under His rod, as it would be to
accuse your dearest friend of cruelty, be
cause he strained your arm to snatch you
from the fall of a house, or wall, which he
sawjwas ready to crush and overwhelm you
in its ruins.
NEVER make use of a woman's name in
an improper time, or in mixed company.—
Never make assertion* about her that you
think arc untrue, allusions that you feci she
herself would blush to hear. When you
meet with men who do not scruple to make
u*c of a woman's name in a reckless man
ner, shun them, for they arc lost to every
sense of honor.
A FRENCH agency for matrimonial alljan
ees concludes an advertisement with:
11 ippiuc - guaranteed for one year."