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THE MYSTERY OF NATI'BE.
BY THEADORE YII.TOX.
Tte works of GoJ are fair for naught,
Unless our eyes, in seeing,
See hidden in the ihing the thought
lliat animates its being.
The outward form is not the whole,
Dut every part is moulded
To image forth an inward soul,
That dimly is unfolded.
The shadow, pictured 'n the lake
By every tree that trembles,
Is cast tor more tlian just the sake
Of that which it resembles.
The dew falls nightly, not alone
Because the meadows need it,
But on an errand of its own
To human souls that heed it.
The stars are lighted in the skies
Not merely for their shining.
But, like the looks of loving eyes.
Have meanings worth divining.
The waves that moan aloug the shore,
The winds that sigh in blowing,
Are sent to teach a mystic lore
Which men are wise in knowing.
Tht clouds around the mountain-peak,
The rivers in their winding,
Have secrets which, to all who seek,
Are precious in the finding.
Thus Nature dwells within our reach,
But, though we stand so near her,
We still interpret half her speech
With ears too dull to hear her.
Whoever, at the coarsest sound,
Still listens for the finest,
Shall hear the noisy world go round
To music the divinest.
Whoever yearns to see aright,
Because his heart is tender,
i Shall catch a glimpse of heavenly light
In every earthly splendor.
So, since the universe began,
Aud till it shall be ended.
The soul of Nature, soul of Man,
And soul of God are blended!
--Atlantic Manthlu.
A MtOTECTHE TARII f .
Its Revenue and Protective Features.
Few of "Ur people are so little inter- sted
in the subject as not to have noticed that
the antagonism which exi-ts between two
classes of thinkers and actors in this country
known respectively as l'rotectioaists and
Free Traders, is fast developing itself into a
condition of actual warfare.
Not sati.-fied with feeble attempts at con
troversion and disquisition, the champions
of free trade have sallied forth from the at
mospbere of quills and inkstands to wage
their cause in the arena of politics. Last
year, when the manufacturing inteiests of
this count tv more than ever demanded judi
cious protection, the qua.-i free traders of
the West and a few legislators from the
East, for want of something to make a rep
utation upon, seized this new sensation of
free trade, and adopted that for the pur
pose. These mistaken pcr-ons, led on by
the un.-crupulou.s men collectively known as
the "American Free Trade League," mana
ged ■■> exert sufficient influence in Congress
to defeat the bill, than which, as a measure
; ofcommercial necessity, nothing could have
been more wise, reasonable, or well adapted
to the circumstances of our manufacturing
interests. Through the same opposition
thi- bill wbeD brought up again in Congress
during the winter, was again stifled, and it
was only as an unavoidable necessity that
thi- same meddlesome clique suffered to pass
the Wool bill in March previous to the ad
journment of'the Thirty ninth Congress.
.Since that time the Free Trade League
ha.- commenced the publication of an organ
specially devoted tc its iniere.-ts. This by
itself furnishes no indication of the growth
of their peruTious doctrines, theorgan allu
ded to being altogether of too weak a nature
to aff.ml any further indication of the pro
gre.- of the Leagu-- than that of tncfe exiv
teuet But we hi lieye it to be an unques
tioliable fact that under the teachings of
Euiopcan eoooouii-;.-, who understand noth
ing yl i ut American aflairs. and the shallow
reasonings of theirdi.-ciple-here, who under
I stand, if possible, less, the doctrine of free
.trade has obtained such extensive -upport in
the, country that it will not do any longer to
ignore its existence. With few exceptions,
the lea ling papers of ihis city are devoted
to its eause, an-J the influence of the metro
politan press is such, that utiles- immediate
and energetic steps are taken, it i- not un
reasonable to expect that lietor.' a long while
the leading papers of the country will un
thinkingly be led into the -ainc. chauuei.
There is evidently but one way of dealing
with this evil, and that way is to give it bat
tle. To enter the ii>ts unarmed, against
an opponent a.- well prepared as is the Fice
Trade League, fed as it i> with foreign gold,
and fretted as it is in the clubs, would be
sheer madness. For these reasons we call
upon the manufacturing interests of the
country, and wc call almost in the tone of a
right, for their sup port of a journal which
is intended to be especially devoted to their
interests in this great cause. Unless they
wish to see the entire value of their invest
ments swept, awav by acts of legislation
eitlici ot commission or omisrion; nnless
they wish to seethe industrious poor around
thein suddenly thrown out of crnploynn ot.
and reduced to beggary; utiles- they wish to
see the entire commercial interests ol tin
country brought to a sudden stand still, and
the w hole land agitated by a financial eon
vulsi in, let them respond at nnm to every
reasonable effort which may be made to
.avert these calamities, and particularly to
siioii a otic a- the present, which, in this
Isn i of newspapers and newspaper readers,
has always prov. d the most efficacious. It
is now to lac seen which side will enlist in ii
favor the potent engine of i>n,iiil<tr opinimt.
lor without this neither cause can hope to
p. iiLuti' iitly triumph; and let ii not lie said,
should Lsipolar opinion be won for a cause
so plainly fake as that of free trade, that it
was won through any listlcssness or apathy
A LOCAL AXI) QENKRAL NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, KDUCATION, LITERATURE AND MOR\ES.
or want of cneigy on the port of American
manufacturers.
For the benefit of those who have never
thought it worth while to examine the argu
ments on this subject which have been ban
died about of late, we shall now proceed to
state the whole question as it stands to day,
for it is only upon a clear knowledge of the
situation that proper measures can be pre
dicated.
Left to itself without any legislation at all
upon the subject—left to free trade, i is
broad country would supnort but one clu ■;
of industries, and (bat ciass, agrieultur
-1 his, with a few fishing ostuulisnruents t
the coast, and a few manufactories for the
heavy and more bulky class of goods, wo> 1
constitute the support of the entire country;
and m this conuition the L'uited States
would be ent rely dependent upon the mar
kets of Europe.
If the harvests in Europe were bad, a
great advantage to this country would eu
sue. Our grain wou'd be sold at high
prices, and for a single year everything
would go as "happily as a marriage bell."
IV ith the proceeds of our exports of agricul
ture we would purchase enormous quanti
ties of foreign manufactures, and the country
would he stocked with these wares from the
lakes to the gulf. If next year the harvests
of Europe turned out to be even tolerably
good, all this would be changed. The enor
mous overplus of grain which would remain
in our warehouses without purchasers would
rot upon our hands. In short, there would
be no tale for the only thing we had to sell;
and a year of desolation and misery woulu
inevitably follow. Since in the lon-' run
there are more good harvests than ban on
in Europe—as indeed there ought to be,
even without the advantages of the appli
cation of superabundant capital and improv
ed culture, a bad European harvest is a rar
ity—the result would be that ouly once in
ten or a dozen years should we be able to
dispose of our surplus produce to advan
tage. This is the millennium to which free
trade desires to bring us—the condition of
an agricultural community without a mark
et —the condition of Southern Russia; the
condition of Egypt; the condition of Indi;
V\ ho ever heard of an agricultural country
that was rich; or of a manufacturing coun
try that was poor? The reason that these
things can never be is plain euough. The
fruits of manufacture can be replanted and
grown twenty times over within the year;
the fru'ts of agriculture but once. The
cultivation of the earth is essentially a slow
process, depending as it does upon heat,
moisture, the seasons; in short, upon a long
concatenation of circumstances over which
man has no control. The farmer depends
! upon the skill, energy, effort, and capital
properly applied. To avoid'such a condi
tion of affair.- as we have pictured, there is
but one remedy—that of a protective tariff; ■
a tariff sufficiently high to discourage for
eign importation ami to encourage the
growth and support of American manufac
tures —such manufactures as the agricultur
i t demands in return for the products of
the soil. In this way. not only i-the far
mer gratified in obtaining the clothing, im
plements. and other manufactures lie -tatid
in need of, in-exchange for his agricultural
product-, but a new market is built up for
the latter, in the shape of the large indus
trial eia-.- who manufacture for him the
wares he requires. This reciprocal relation,
once established, makes the country entirely
independent of foreign markets, while on
the other hand no on-- i.- prohibited from
selling his product- abroad, and he will
doubtless export them whenever he can
do so to advantage. The foreign market is
still as open as it ever was, and if there I
is anything to be gained by supplying it.
surely nobody is prevented from doing so.
: (In the other liana, manufactures Lave bee
established, which, after answering G
great purpose we have mentioned, work
.-till further benefit to the country; th.y
accommodate large classes of persons w, .
are unfit for agricultural employment, and
who v.ould never, in any event, make stic
ceesfui agriculturi.-ts. They takeadvautage
of and economize the natural resources that
surround us on all sides—water-power, fuel,
and convenient trail-portation, and added
to this, they place the country in such a
state of prenara.'.on that in the event of
war it is enabled to equip and send armies
I into the field or navies over the seas, and to
maintain them to the end of the contests in
i which they are to lie engaged. This is one
: reason for a protective tariff We shall now
furnish another.
Th&amount of revenue required for the
support of this Government for the next
two years, without paying off any debt at
: all, is estimated at about eight hundred tnil-
I lions of dollars. This revenue is required
for various put poses, which are roughly as
; follows:
j 7V., Expenditure*. Million Dolla. .
I Civil List 1.7
I Foreign Intercourse (including Russian
purchase) 11
Navy Department oO
! War Department 800
| I'eusions 40
< Indians 10
; Miscellaneous 70
j Interest on Public Debt 200
Total 7'JB
Now, there are tyro ways of raising a reve
nue. t >ne is by taxation, the other by loans.
As for borrowing money, we believe it will
be conceded that we have done enough of
that already - —the national debt now amoun
ting to twenty five hundred millions of dol
lars, and the voice of the people being un
mistakably towards lowering instead of in
creasing it. The revenue demanded for the
purposes of the Government must therefore
come from taxes. (It taxes there are two
| kinds—internal anl external, or customs
■ duties. Hour revenue is derived altogether
from internal taxes, the desire of the Free
Trade League would be at once gratified.
The man who makes a pair of shoes in
Massachusetts will be taxed from one to two
dollars on his manufacture; while the prod
uct of the English or French shoemaker
will be admitted into the country free of
taxes of all kind-. The man who raises
wool in lowa will be taxed twenty-five cents
| per pound on his product, while the South
| American and the Dutch Boor of the Cape
! will be permitted to land the fleeces of his
I foreign npon our shores free from
I raxes. The K-utuckian distiller of spirits
will be charged two dollars for every gallon
he manufactures, while he of I-lay or Cog
nac will be invited to import his product nn
attended by any tax. In a word, to derive
the large revenue required by this Govern
; nscnt exclusively from internal taxes, would
not only d'-t.roy the business of every rnan
: ufioturer in this country, by furnishing a
|,o-itivi ti" uiium to all foreign competitors,
but it wid throw out of employment every
man. woman, and child in the country de
pendent for their suport on anv other indus
try but agriculture, and even a great poi
tion of the latter, bv depriving them
that home market which, under a wi
! though ofo-n baffled system of protectio
ha< been .-lowly and laboriously built up
i this country. Rut public opinion clear y
I stand.-for a decrease of internal taxes; the
BEDFORD. Pa.. FRIDAY. SEPT. S. 1807
people are everywhere murmuring; the
taxes are uticonsciunahlv high; the_ tax
gatherer is seen in every house; he pries in
to every man s affairs, and auhjocts a free
people to domiciliary visits, a thing that we
have stood long enough, and which we nev
er would have stood at all, bad it not been
for a temporary and patriotic purpose.
One half of the present revonue of the Gov
ernment is derived from customs duties, and
the popular tendency being unmistakably in
favor of lowering internal taxes, as a neces
sary consequence the customs duties must
be raised, in order that the amount of rev
enue shall be obtained which the requir
menu of the Government demand. An it
crease of the tariff being conceded, it only
remains to discuss in what direction this iu
crease shall go on. Shall it be upon those
■ rticlea of common use which find their way
lto every poor man'; house,-so that his
■resent heavy burden, instead of being al
eviated, would only be rendered more un
bearable? Shall it be upon sugar, now no
longer an article of luxury but one of ur
gent necessity? Shall it be upon coffee?
upon tea? upon rice—all of them belong
ing to the same catalogue, of articles of ne
eessity, and all already taxed as high as
they can stand, and of large consumption
among the poorer classes? Or shall it be
upon French silks, laces, kid gloves, British
inn, and Cape wool, and such other articles
of foreign produce as are likewise raised or
manufactured in this country? To increase
the duties on tea, sugar, and coffee would
answer but one end—tint ol raising the re
quired revenue. To increase the duties on
textile fabrics, iron, and wool, would an
swer two ends—that of raising a revenue,
and likewise of protecting American manu
facturers. To increase the duties on tea,
sugar, and coffee would still further bur
den the poor. To increase them on textile
fabrics, iron, and wool would mainly bur
den the rich, who consume the produetj that
fall under these classes in greater proportion
than the poor. The rich wear silks, la. -is,
kid gloves, embroideries, jewelry, orna
meats of various sorts, the richer fabrics of
cotton and wool, and thousands of other ar
ticles to which the poor are comparative
strangers. It is upon these things that an
increase of customs duties should fall, for
if there is any truth well established in po
litical economy, it is this—thai taxes fall
upon the consumer in proportion as he con
sumes. Let the taxes, therefore, be upon
such articles as are mainly consumed by the
rich, who consume more largely than the
poor, and following this policy out to the
point where it will enter into pr<K.icai legis
lation, ii will result in what alone it should
result, namely, a strong protective tariff.-A",
i*. 1 rotcctiunitt.
THE IMPORTANCE OK LEARNING
V TRADE.
We do not intend, under this heading, to
speak of the importance of becoming an
apprentice to any mechanical business, but
of tli importance of learning—acquiring—
a trade, of becoming a workman at the bu
siucss chosen. It is not enough that a
young netn goes iDto a shop a"' l """As lor a
long- r ,)i a shorter period as a neophyte,
but that he becomes master of the rudi
ment- of his burines-i. The country is fill
ed with unfinished mechanics, every trado
is overburdened with the miserable hang,
ers on who, professing a knowledge of a bu
siness, bring it into disrepute by their in
competency. There is no bond in this coun
try, by which a master can control the time
of an apprentice for a period sufficient to
remunerate the employer for the losses sus
tained in the early stages of the apprentice
ship, or to give the apprentice a proper
knowledge of his business. The appren
tice is free to leave his master and employ
ment, whenever, in his opinion, he has col
lected scraps enough of superficial knowl
edge to set up as an independent worker.
He becomes dissatisfied with the character
of his work or the amount of compensation,
and, finding other work and larger pay, he
quits hi.- master's employment just when his
rvices have begun to be valuable, thus
i jtiimitting a fiaiul upon his employer and
doing a great injury to himself.
In no ease is the term required to learn a
trade too loner. According to the value and
difficulties ot the business, it varies from
three to seven years, and the most faithful
and observant apprentice, after having filled
his full term of apprenticeship, finds he has
much to learn before he can honestly claim
to be entirely and thoroughly competent.
For at least a few months the apprentice is
a constant source of anxiety and expense.
From want of experience, or from heedless
ness, or dislike to the particular job given
him, he breaks tools and ruin- work enough
in a week to cover all the profits of his work
for months. The employer bears with this,
patiently or impatiently as the ease tuay be,
in the hone that during the last part of the
novitiate's apprenticeship he may reap some
return from the profits ol his work- Under
such circumstances it must be very vexatious
to have an apprentice leave just when he is
becoming, in some measure, useful. Vet it
is a common occurrence in this country.
Apprentices seem too oftee to be devoid of
conscience and wanting in the principles of
common honesty.
Nor is such conduct of any real, perma
nent advantage to the apprentice. He be
comes the Bohemian of the workshop, a
waif driven hither aud tHUhcr, having a
smattering of knowledge and vet unoer
standing no one thing thoroughly. Ilis
services are not sought; he is only a "Jack
ata pinch," to l>e used merely to fill a
.-pace otherwise empty. Scores of such
half baked mechanics can be picked up any
day; they infest shops, torment employers,
and disgrace the business tbey falsely profess
to understand. They are industrial va
grants, if such a term is permissable, to be
shunned and despised by every honorable
workman. "Unstable as water, they can
not excel."'
The ambition of the apprentice to be
ranked among journeymen is a laudable one
when properly directed, but it can only be
resi zed by an honest and persistent sticking
to his obvious and plain duties. If he ever
expects to teach he must first be taught; if
he desires to direct he should submit to di
rection. What this country needs in the
industrial arts is fini.-hed workmen. They
are scarce and always in demand. A com
petent and intelligent workman is seldom
wauling a good job. When business is
slack the incompetents are first di-eharged.
while the valuable workman is kept often at
a serious pecuniary loss to his employer,
simply because it is difficult to fill his place.
These considerations have nothing new in
them, but. because they are so trite and
hackneyed they are not enough considered
by apprentices. We earnestly invite their
attention to the subject, believing it will be
to their present and prospective advantage
to deal honestly in this as well LS other
re.-peets.— Scientific American.
Mt .s are like bugles; the more brass they
contain the more noi-e they make, and the
farther you can hear them. Indies are
like violets; the more modest and retiring
they appear the better you like them.
TIIE CUBAN CABLE.
The United States and Uuba are now con
nected by RH ocean telegraph, and it is prr-h
able that the ond of the present year will
! find us in instant communication with all
the IVest India Islands; and that a very
short time only wi'l elapse before wc -ha
have, by the same means, daily reports
from the Cape of Good Hope and the Re
public of Liberia. The first line of the
long-proposed scheme ofan ocean telegraph
line via the V\ est Indies to South America
and the African Coa-t has be n succ .-fully
laid. This enterprise was condu ed by ti
International < loean Telegraph Cotupp <y of
New York. This company was organized
in 1865, the original projectors being C'apt.
•las. A. Scrymser and Alfred Fell, Jr., Gen.
j W illiara F. Smith being subsequently as
soeiat d with them and assuming charge as
president of this company. It tir.st built n
line through Florida 400 miles in length,
which is already operating from New Yor'
to Key West. The Cuban submarine cable
was finished in England, and was ship tied
from Liverpool on June 27, direct far Ha
vana. The work of submerging it began
during the first part of last month; but on
the 71Ii ult. the cable was unfortunately bro
ken about midway between Key We t and
Havana. And after several days spent in
grappling, the wire was drawn to the sur
face of the water, a successful splice made,
and the great work accomplished. The sev
oral i-lands of the group, including Jamaica,
St. Domingo, St. Thomas, &e., are within
short distances of each other, and great in
ducements have been made to secure the
extension. The Government of Spain
granted a concession, giving the Interna
tional Oeeau Telegraph Company the exclu
sive right for forty years to lay all cable;
between Cuba and the United States, and
the Captain General of Cuba was directed
to afford every facility in carrying out the
project. The State of Florida also granted
a similar exclusive concession for a period
of twenty years, which was further ratified
and sanctioned by the Government of the
I nited States. The Yenezulean Govern
ment has entered into a contract with par
tics to connect that country with European
lines by means of a telegraph cable to Cuba.
The government is to pay $30,000 quarterly
for thirty-three year.-*, and have its des
patches sent free. A very liberal grant lias
also been made by the Argentine Govern
ment to establish a telegraph line between
Buenos Ayres and the Chilian frontier,
which, in connection with the telegraph
system of Chili and the protected ooast-lin ;
of the Hisp*.no- American intercommuni
cation Company from Valparaiso to Fan t
ma, for which grants are now being sough:.
will place the southwest and eastern eoa.-r
--of South America in immediate communica
tion with the West India 1 -lands |the Uni
ted Stat'-, and Europe. Harp- /•'.< I U- <''
says; "The importance of these lines to the
merchant- of thi- country cam,- ;be caUu
lated. The trade of the We Indie
amounts to nearly £ D<> ), IHI'),000 a year, and.
partly owing to the superior means of com
munication sustained by Great Britain with
that region, three-fourths of this traffic j
transacted directly by English merchant-.
The Isthmus of Fanani*; itc natural rocus
of the whole trade of th Facific. The com
merce of the s nthwc s coast, which, ac
cording to all laws ; diticul and geographi
cal. should belong to u.-. i- now almost en
tirely in the hands of the European com
mercial communities, attributable, mainly,
to the ,-atne libera! system of po-tal connec
tions whereby ED lan 1 : ters indirectly
the establishment of market- for her prin
cipal staples. Were our merchants piac- d
in telegraphic communication with the
West India Islands. Brazil, and the Rej üb
lies of Columbia, Ecuador, Feru, Bolivia,
Chili, and Argentine, there vr,.uld be no
reason why a lair average of the commerce
of these countries should not be directed to
us. The -uccess of the line to Cuba, and
its extm-ion to the other islands, and to
Brazil, Funama, Ac., will undoubtedly
greatly affect this commerce in favor of
American merchants."
THE WRITING ON THE ROCK.
Ages upon ages ago the tide was out, and
the mud iy beach lay smooth as this sheet of
paper before me. A cloud passed over the
sky, and a shower of big ram or hail came
down, and pitted the ntud as thick as leaves
on the trcc-i. A strong wind drove the
drops, so that the impressions were a little
one-sided. They had written their short
history as plain as my pen can write; and
even the direction front which the wind
blew was recorded. Some great frogs and
lizards which used to live there, came hop
ping over the mud. and left their tracks also
deeply printed on the shore. By and by the
great waves eante softly stealing up. and
covered the whole surface with fine sand,
and so the tracks were seen no more for ages
upon ages. The clay hardened into solid
rock, and so did the -and; and after these
thousands of years bad passed away, some
masons eatne upon the curious inscription.
Men of science, who are skilled in reading
these stony leaves of God's great book, read,
as plainly as if they had been present, the
story of that passing shower. It had been
written on the softest clay, but it was read
on solid rock. So your hearts to-day are
like the soft clay. Everything stampstheni,
but the stamps are not so easy to remove.
They will be there when you are grown np
to he a man or woman. (), what deep, dark
prints the bad words of evil associates
make? But how lovely it will be_ to re
call the record which kind and loving ac
tions make upon the *oul!
USE OF DISTILLED WATER.—In Mr.
Quin's report upon the Fari# Exhibition,
reference is made to the u e of distilled
water at the Wallaroo Copper Mines in
South Australia, stating that until tanks for
collecting rain water had been constructed,
" perhaps for the fir-t time in the history of
the world, there was a population of some
thousands, w-ith all their horses, cattle,
sheep, etc., drinking aqua distillnta. As
many readers may not be aware of tlte fact,
it may be interesting here to mention that
in the rainless region of the Facific coast of
South America, the entire population of the
country between about the 18th and 2Sth
parallels of south latitude, or soma.6(X) miles
from south to north, including the impor
tant towns of Ualdera, Cobija, Iquiqac.Fi
sagun. and several minor ports, have lor
many years derived their supply of potable '
water from tiie sea water of the Facific, dis
tilled in greater part by co il imported from
England, and costing abovt t'.'l per tun.
Not only is a population of many thou
sand inhabitants, principally engaged in the
mines of this district, a- well n- a still lar
ger number of beasts <at burden and other
animals, supplied from thi- source, but-even
the locomotives on the Copiapo and Caldera
railway, and some steam engines for other
purposes, are actually driven with distilled
water. For a distance of some thirty to fifty
miles inlaud from the coast, very tew nat
ural springs are met with in this rainless
desert, and when met with they are seldom
sufficiently free from saline matter to be
potable.— Cor. Chemical .Vticn.
VOLUME 40; NO. 35.
A J.AUmiING DEACON.
Lee' tier, in lji.-: new novel, thus delineates
the character of a laughing Deacon. Home
genuine mod. I doubtte s sits for the por
trait
"tfow the-y ever made a Deacon out of
j .ferry Marble I never could imagine! His
• was tbc kindest heart that ever bubbled and
1 run over. He was touch, elastic, inee-- nt
!y active, aud a prodigious worker. He
-eemed not to tire, but after the longest
day's toil he sptang u;. the moment he had
done with work, as if he were a fine steel
spring. A f-w hours sleep sufficed him, and
he saw the morning stars the year round"?
iI is weazened face wa, leather color, but for
ever dimpling and cbr igiog to keep some
sort of congruity between itself and his eyes
that winked aud blinked and split all over
with merry good nature. lie always seem
ed afflicted when obliged to keep sober, lie
had been known to laugh in meeting on
several occasion', although he ran his face
between his handkerchief and coughed, as
if that was the matter, yet nobody believed
it. Once, on a hot summer day, he saw
Deacon Trowbridge—-a sober and fat man of
great sobriety—gtadually ascending from
the bodily state into that spiritual condition
entitled sleep, He was blameless of the
act. He bail struggled against the tempta
tion with th : whole virtue of a dcacoD. lie
had stirred himself up and fixed his eyes on
the minister with intense firmness, only to
have them grow gradually narrower and
milder. If he held his head up firmly, it
would, with a sudden lapse, fall away over
backward, if he learn dit a little forward;
it would drop suddenly on his bosom. At
each nod, recovering himself, he would nod
again with his eyes wide open to impress,
upon the bo; - that he did it on purpose at
Udb times.
In what otbi-i painful events of life Las a
good man >0 little sympathy as when over
come with sleep in meeting time? Against
this insidiou• seduction he arrays evety con
ceivable resistance. He stands up awhile;
he pinches himself or pricks himself with
pins. He looks up helplessly to the pulpit,
as if.-uccor might possibly come from thence,
lie crosses bis legs uncomfortably, and at
tempts to recite catechism or the multiplica
tion table. He seizes a languid fan, which
treacherously leaves him in a calm. He
tries to rea.-on, to notice the phenomena,
i Oh. that on. C4-u!J carry his pew to bed
with Lim! Vi 1 tt -ing wakefulness! what
fiery chase af' r - mnoleney! In his lawful
bed a man cannot sleep, and iu his pew he
cannot keep a.\ . : Happy man who does
not sleep iu ' 1 oh! 1) . a Trowbridge
wa not that man. Dee 1 Marble was!
D-. a M M witnessed the conflct we
have sketched ..hove, and when good Mr.
Trow' rid'.-c '■ Li- next lurch, ; covering
hint -elf with a nort, and then drew cut a
red handkerchief and blew hi.- no e with a
loud imita'-ieti, as if to let the boys know
that he had not ' n asleep, poor Deacon
Mar ble was brought to a sore strait. But
I have reason to think that he would have
weathered tli -trc if it had not 1; en for a
tf. i lb. le ! yin front of the gallery.
.e I '. had been inno-•-ntly waleluo& the
mho and at its climax laughed out
loud, with a >rank and musi al explosion,
and then suddenly disappeared into his
mother's lan. That lausrh wa- ju-t too
much, and Deacon Marble could no more
helplaughingthan could Deacon Trowbridge
help -let : ... ■. N>r could he conceal it.
Though he 1 i-Led, and put up his hand
kerchief and hemmed—it wa- a laugh, dea
e ml—and cv ry jy iu the house knew it.
and hked you better for it—so inexperienced
were they!
THE WORTH OF KNOWLEDGE,
Could young men generally be persuaded
to b.lieve that "knowledge is power," and
that he who possesses it has within himself
all the elements of enjoyment and success
in life, th. re wou! i Lea closer husbanding
of leisure hours, few;r evenings spent in
lounging upon < roors, and fewer dimes
and dollars expended for cigars, lager beer,
t ibaee , aud other costly and hurtful in
du! ren:. . [t were folly to assort that such
ability as was p messed l y Shakspcare,
Scott, Macaulev, Noah Webster. Agassis,
or other illu.-trious poets, novelists, histo
rian?, lexicographers or naturalists, is with
in tlie rc3ch of ali men: but it is sound phil
osophy to assume that every young man
who will, may so -tore his mind with useful
knowledge a to fit him ! r pleasant and
profitable association with intelligent men.
The evening hours which the majority of
our young men fritter away in idle loung
ing and unprofitable conversation and asso
ciation. it pr<q rly spent would give them
a moral influence in society, ana improve
their chances of success in life to a decree
that can scarcely be over-estimated, JIOW
small an amount of money is sufficient to
secure to those who desire to cultivate a
t i-te for mental information all the needed
facilities? Eight dollars will purchase a
share in me !' our largest and best libra
ries. an I le - than a penny a day thereafter
will secure to him all its privileges. Think
of it young men! the fifth of the cost of
that 1 ;.d cigar jou smoke, or of the glass
of lager you drink every evening, will se
cure to you for that evening the perusal at
home of some intcresiing'and valuable book,
or the privileges of the reading room, where
are to be found nearly all the leading news
papers and magazines of our own and other
countries, 1 Surely the thrusting aside of
such golden opportunities is little less than
criminal, when it i- remembered that their
improvement would not only prove a source
of lifetime enjoyment, but in almost every
pur.-uit of life a j werful adjunct to success.
He i< but half fulfilling the purposes of his
creation who, having wirhiti ready reach
the mean—of in provement. fails to employ
them. He is but halt a man who, with
books and newspapers Ml command, con
tents himself with ignorance and mere sen
sual enjovno nt An upright, skilful me
diae; • is to be commended always: but when
to bis skill he adds a comprehensive and
cultivated intellect, he stands before the
world one of nature's noblemen. Neither
wealth, rank, , >r power can enhance the
lustre of his character. Why have we not
thousand- such? Viewed in a mere utili
tarian light, how superior are the advanta
ge of > uch a man ! How much more read
iiy will he find profitable employment: how
better fitted I r the discharge of duty,
where be combines intelligence with skill !
The well informed mind directs the master
ly hand, and his labor, instead of wearying
JrU't, ry. becomes pleasant recreation. —
Phi diwi Evening Star.
A 1 n"3la," said an inquisitive lit
tle : i:!, "will rich and poor people live to
gether when they go to Heaven?"
"Y my dear, they will be all the same
them.
"Then 31a, why don't rich and poor
Chii.-iians associate here."
The mother di 1 not answer.
THOSE who blow the coals of others, striii
may chance to have the sparks fly in theii
1 own faces.
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A LOOS AT THE STAKS.
The study of the calm, eternal stars', aided
by the multifarious appliances of science,
advances with the civilization of the centu
ries and the growth of human intellect.
Ihe constant recurrence of astrononmieal
phenomena has rendered scientific study of
the planets a permanent necessity, and stu
dents oi the stars are now almost as plente
ous as "leaves in Vallumbrosa." These
mellow August nights, when the sky is not
obscured by rainy clouds, arc very favorable
for contemplation of the firmament and its
teeming mysteries and marvels. If (he
night be cloudless there will bo spread out
before the observer the most magnificent
spectacle that the mind can conceive of, the
greater and more conspicuous planets gleam
ing with marvelous brilliancy in the midst
of constellations that have clustered since
the morning stars sang together, and the
lesser satellites glinting the broad expanse
of the heavens like a tremulous swarm of
beautiful fire flies. Piercing the meridian
of these splendid August nights may be seen
the most brilliant star of the northern
hemisphere, A ega—or as it is more com
monly called Lyra, from the name of the
("iistellation of which it is the crowning
gem. l>istant from the earth about
eighteen thousand rimes further than our
planet is from the sun, yet it seems to be
one of our nearest celestial neighbors. Its
primary brilliancy is about three and a half
times greater than that of the sun. and its
light i - twenty one years reaching us. The
constellation to which this star belongs con
tains only twenty one stars. Lyra or Vega,
Lpisiton and Zeta, the two small stars East
of it, Delta in the middle, and Beta and
Gamma in the garland of the harp, are all
that to the ordinary observers are large
enough to attract attention standing where
a tub -,weep of the sky can be obtained and
facing the South. At the left will be seen
the mighty planet -Jupiter, which on the
twenty sixth inst, will be distant from the
earth four hundred millions of miles, which
is two hundred millions of miles less than
the greatest dir-tancc to which it ever re
cede:- from u.-. The large yellow star on
the right, not far from the horizon, is the
lanet Saturn; and not quite so far to the
Vest. and nearer the horizon,is the fiery-red
star Antares, the heart of the constellation,
known as the Scorpion. There are other
Cr.-t magnitude stars, visible upon any clear
night, all of rare brilliancy and beauty. Tbc
tars of August, full of the sublime and sub
tle mysteries of the universe, aud all perfect
and harmonious parts of that problem of
the Infinite wbieb surpasses human solution
are indeed a study of the grandest and most
instructive character.
LIFE'S AUTFiHN.
Like the leaf, life has its fading. We
speak and think of it with sadness, just as
we think of the aniumn season. But there
houlJ be no sadness at the fading of a life
that ha.-done we)! its work. If we rejoice
at the advent of a new life; if we welcome
the coming of a new pilgiim to the uncer
tainty of 11)1.- world's way, viliy sliould tiwro
be so much gloom when all the uncertainties
are past, and life at its waning wears the
glory of a complete task? Beautiful as
childhood is in its freshness and innocence,
its beauty is that of untried life. It is the
b. auty of promise, of spring, of the bud. A
holier and rarer beauty is the beauty which
the waning life of faith and duty wears.
It is the duty of a thing completed; and
as men come together when some great work
is achieved, and see in its concluding noth
ing but gladness, so ought we to feel when
the setting sun flings back its beams upon a
life that has answered well its purposes.
When the bud drops are blighted, and there
goes all hope of the harvest, one may well
be -ad; but when the ripened year sinks
amid the garniture of autumn flowers and
leaves, why should we regret or murmur?
And so a life that is ready and waiting to
hear the "well done" of God, whose latest
virtues are its noblest, should be given back
to God in uncomplaining reverence, we re
joicing that earth is capable of so much
gladness, and is permitted such virtue.
PRINCE SALM SALM. —In connection with
the report from Mexico that Prince Salm
Salm had been condemned to death, the fol
lowing from the Atlanta Intelligencer, will
be read with interest: Soon after the "sur
render" this unfortunate individual was
placed in command of the Federal troops
then occupying the city. He was a genial,
jovial and eccentric individual of generous
disposition,much given to pet dogs,squirrels,
fast driving, and other fast affairs. The
good people who were then occupying At
lanta in its desolation, were treated kindly
by this German Prince and never had, we
believe, cause to utter complaint at his rule.
The truth is, the prince Salm Salm would
forgive almost any offense, even a military
one, provided it was asked for. In one re
spect. however, he was inexorable, and woe
to the individual who trespassed upon that
tender point. Rude treatment of any of his
"pets"—his horses, squirrels, dogs, birds,
snakes, ct cetera —inflamed his wrath and
brought down always severe denunciations
as well as punishment upon the unfortunate
offender. He lived a dashy life while in
Atlanta, and left our city with as little re
luctance as he entered it, for to him all
places were alike. Soon after his departure
from Atlanta, we noticed his entrance into
Maximilian's service in Mexico.
A TRAVELLER stopped at a public house
in Maine for the purpose of getting dinner,
knocked but received no answer. Going in
■he found a little white headed man in the
embrace of his wife, who had his head un
der her arm. while with the other she was
giving her lord a pounding. Wishing to
put an end to the fight, our traveller knock
ed on the table, and called out in a load
voice, "Hallo, there! who keeps this house?
The husband, though much out of breath,
answered. "Stranger, that's what we are
trying to decide!" _
IT is said that after a horse is nine years
old, a wrinkle comes on the _ eyelid at the
upper corner of rlie lower lid, and every
year thereafter he has one well defined
wrinkle for each year over nine. If, tor in
stance, a horse has three wrinkles, he is
twelve; if four he is thirteen, etc.
AT a recent wedding in Nashville, ' 'the
bride and groom knelt and joined hands
from opposite sides of a table, in the middle
of the altar, en which was an open Bible
covered with a wreath of flowers. A beauti
ful pyramid of flowers was suspended over
their heads from tho ceiling.
WEDDINGS. —One month trom marriage
make.-, a sugar wedding; one year makes a
paper wedding; five years a wooden wedding;
ten years a tin wedding; twenty five years a
silver wedding; fifty years a golden wedding;
and seventy five years a diamond wedding.
A women may speak as many tongues as
| she will, but don't let her do it with too
loDg a one of her own.