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REFERS J- W - DICKERSOR MEYERS A DICKER.SON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PKXS'A., Office Dearly opposite the Mengel House, will practice in tho several Courts of Bedford county. 1 end cis, bounties and back pay obtained and the purchase of Real Estate attended to. [mayll,'Bß-ly I B. CESSNA, .j . ATTORNEY AT LAW, ■ffice with JOHR CESSNA, on tho square near the Presbyterian Church. AU business entrusted to his care will receive faithful and ppi-mpt attention. Military Claims, Pensions, Ac., ,-peedily collected. [lnne 9,1885. P B. STUCKEY, ATTORNEY ANL COUNSELLOR AT LAW, and REAL ESTATE AOENT, Office on Main Street, between Fourth and Fifth, Opposite the Court House, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI. Will practice in the adjoining Counties of Mis souri and Kansas. July 12:tf S. L„ RL'SSELL. J - H - LOXOESECEER T>USSELL A LONGENECKER, Ik VTTORSEYS A COLXSKLLORS AT LAW, Bedford, Pa., Will attend promptly and faithfully to nil busi i., .f claim* against the Goternment for Pensions, Back Pay, Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac. Office on Juliana street, one door South of the • Mcncel House" and nearly opposite the Inquirtr office. April 28, 1865:t. WIYSIOASS. \ITM. W. JAMISON, M. D., YV BLOODY Run, PA., Respectfully tenders bis professional services to the people of that place and vicinity. [decß:lyr DK BTF\ HARRY, Respectfully lenders BIN professional ser vices to the citiiens of Bedford and vicinity. Office and residence on Pitt Street, in the building formerly occupied by Dr. J. H. HOFINS. [Ap 1 1,64. I H MARBOURG, M. D., PJ Having permanently located respectfully tenders his pofessional services to the citizens of Bedford and vicinity. Office on Juliana street, opposite the Bank, one door north of Hall A Pal mer's office. April 1, 1864—tf. I VR. S. 'I. STATLBR, near Schellsburg. anr. J. J. CLARKE, formerly of Cumberland county, having associated themselves in the prac tice of Medicine, respectfully offer their profes sional services to the citi7.ens*ol' iSchellsburg and vicinity. Dr. Clarke's office and residence same as formerly occupied by J. White, Esq., dee'd. S. Q. STATLER, Schellsburg, Aprill2:ly. J. J. CLARKE. HOTELS. WASHINGTON HOTEL. This large and commodious house, having been re taken by the subscriber, is now ojcn for tho re ception of visitors and boarders. The rooms are large, well ventilated, and comfortably furnished. The table will always be supplied with the best the N arket can afford. The Bar is stocked with the choicest liquors. In short, it i my purpose to keep a FIRST-CLASS HOTEL. Thanking the public for PAST favors, I respectfully solicit a renewal of their patronage. N. B. Hacks will run constantly between the Hotel and the Springs. inayl7,'67:ly WM. DIBERT, Prop'r. MORRISON HOUSE, HUNTINGDON, PA. I have purchased and entirely renovated the large stone and brick building opposite the Penn -vlvania Railroad Depot, and have now opened it T r the accommodation of the travelling public. The Carpets, Furniture, Beds and Bedding are all entirely new and first class, and I axn safe in say ing that I can offer accommodations not excelled :n Central Pennsylvania. I r- for to my patrons who have formerly known MO while in charge of the Broad Top City Hotel and JACKSON House. may2s:tf JOSEPH MORRISON. JIIMELLAXKOLSi I > UPP A SHANNON, BANKERS, II BeDroBD, PA. BANK OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT. Collections made for the Kaat, West, North and •South, and the general business of Exchange transacted. Notes and Accounts Collected and Hem ittances promptly made. REAL ESTATE bought and sold. feb22 | \ANI EL BORDER, J J PITT STREET, TWO DOORS WEST OF THE BED FORD HOTEL, BEEFORD, PA. WATCHMAKER AND DEALER IN JEWEL RY. SPECTACLES. AC. He keeps on hand a stuck of fine Gold and Sil ver A atches, Spectacles of Brilliant Double Befin. e-i Glasses, also Scotch Pebble Glasses. Gold Watch Chains, Breast Pins, Finger Kings, best quality of Gold Pens. He will supply to order any thing in his line not on hand. [apr.2S,'6s. OYES! 0 YES!—The undersigned has taken out auction license, and tenders his services '•all who have sales or auctions to cry. Give liim a call. Post Office address, Spring Meadows, B< :ford count,, Pean'a. Apriij;om HENRY B. MOCK. I BI'KROKKOW Jt Ll'T® Kdltors and Proprietors. FODTY. OCTOBER. Upon the brown and far off hills The haze lies soft and blue, Where nuts are dropping thick and fast, here Summer wild flowers grew. The Maple's gold and crimson leaves Like blood-stained banners gleam,— And purple aster's ope their bloom Beside each forest stream. The woods like some grand temple stands Beneath the glowing skies, While down the long dim aisles, the haze Like slumb'ring incense lies. No organ's deep, majestic notes Come peeling on the air— No choral strain triumphant flies Along those arches lair— No voice is heard—no sound, save but The brooklet's rip'ltng flow, Or whistling quail in covert thick, Where scarlet berries grow. Perchance some frightened rabbit's tread, May wake an echo there, Or drowsy hum of hooey be. Fall on the dreamy air. The sunflower and the golden rod Their gaudy hues unfold, And seem as if some Midas touch Had changed them into gold. The grapes in purple clusters hang Upon the dinging vine, And in the orchard, 'mid the leaves, The ruby apples shine. But through the forests, o'er the bill A voice comes whispering low— It mnrmnrs of the wintry winds And of the falling snow. The crimsoned leaves to earth must fall, And breezes o'er them sigh— Oh ! sad it seems that aught so fair Should ever fade or die. We read on every falling leaf This lesson most sublime, That Resurrection's holy power Shall triumph over time. For though the summer flowers may fade, The Spring with sun and rain Shall call them from the vale To bud and bloom again. IUISCDHTTFMI.S. AHBIYAL OF A I.IVE GORILLA FROM AFRICA. T1 E NJW York lost of September Both, says: For the first time there is a live gorilla in New York—a goriila like those of which Du Chaillu has told us so many won derful stories in "Equatorial Africa," and "Asbango Land." At a late hour, yesterday afternoon, there was an extraordinary excitement in the neighborhood of Barnum's Museum. The gorilla had arrived, and his roars attracted a crowd of spectators. The animal was caught in the interior of Africa! and was put safely on board the sail ing ship Harding, and conveyed to this port. The box in which it was caged during the voyage was made of teak wood plank—the toughest material that could be found in Africa. A huge cart-cbain, fastened to the neck of the gorilla, passed through this box and was nailed fast to the outside. From the jarring the gorilla received yes terday during its transportation from the ship to the Museum, it became exasperated, and growlod furiously during the trip. Af ter the box had been taken into the Mu seum, Mr. Charles Brothwell, tho Museum carpentor, loosened the chain from the out side of the box, and, by direction of Pro fessor Davison, attached to it a rope, by which the animal was to be led froui the box to the cage, by running the rope through the bottom of the cage and then fastening the chain to a beam of the building beneath the cage. The rope was attached, when the gorilla began pulling in his chain. Professor Davi son and Mr. Brothwell both grasped the chain, and several men behind grasped the rope, but their united efforts were unequal to tho task. The animal, with apparent ease, pulled into his box both chain and rope, and untying the rope from the chain, dropped it from a hole in the cage. Mr. Brothwell then got the la:.gest cage scraper in the building—a huge wrought iron bar, an inch and three quarters thick, to which is attached a small spade—for the purpose of bringing out the end of the chain. This scraper had been used successfully in several contests with the lions of the estab lishment, which had vainly tried to make an impression upon it with their jaws. Mr. Brothwell and Professor Davison each took a scraper, and fiom opposite ends of the cage endeavored to foil the gorilla, and grasp the end of the chain. Finally the gorilla seized the bar which Mr. Broth well held. Another man, who is noted for bis muscular strength, came to the rescue. , but the animal proved their superior, and • bent the heavy piece of iron double, so that the ends touched. During this effort, however the chain was secured and the box put to the cage, the animal entrapped, and his chain secured to the beams underneath. During all this excitement, the gorilla growled furiously, the sound resembling the excited roar of a lion. All the beasts in the building became ex cited, and the plat* resounded with their cries. Women fainted anil children cried, but the crowd would not leave the room until the manager ordered them to be put out by force. A large barricade was creeled and the doorway blocked up. The gorilla is now safely in the lion's cage and co tiieddown. An immense chain, with A LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND MORALS a resistless force of six thousand pounds, is attached to the animal. For five years past, Mr. Barnum has been endeavoring to secure an animal of this species, and ordered his agent in Africa, to soeurc one without regard to cost. .Mr. B. P. Clayton, Mr. Barnum's agent, a few months siuee wrote that he could se cure one for SB,OOO, but that tho ' British Government were making every exertion to secure it for the Zoological Garden in Lon dbn. Mr. Barnum sent word that he must have this one, if it cost a much greater. Ac cordingly, the gorilla was brought to Amer ica, and is now safe at the Museum. When standing upright it is about five and a half feet in bight, apd is about the color of an elephant. Its face has more the appearance of a human being than of a monkey, with an eye exactly like that of a human being. Its band is as delicate as that of a woman's, and it would not seem possi ble that there is in it such muscular power. This morning it exhibited an intense ha tred of Mr. Brothwell, who was yesterday instrumental in its capture. Pofessor Davison feeds the animal upon vegetables, but allows nothing of acid to be placed in the cage. If the gorilla becomes irritable it is soon quieted by placing a few cloves or nutmegs in its cage. MISS V INN IK UKAU. A correspondent of the Anti-Slave)y Standard writes from Washington: In one of the chambers of tho Capitol, appropria ted to her by Congress since her commission to execute the statute of the late President Lincoln, the almost child sculptor has her studio. Light and airy, tastefully decora ted with flowers and evidences of her crea tive skill, it is the fittiug abode of art. We found Miss Ream busily employed upon a group in elay, to be entitled "America," which will fitly symbol our country when a true reconstruction is perfected. Under her skillful manipulations, clayey outline daily more nearly approaches the form of tho martyr President; and she hopes to have the complete moded wrought in time to enable her to sail for Italy, at the latest, within three months. Orders flow in upon her, and busts and statuetes, crowding the niches of her studio, speak etoquntly of her employment. Familiar faces look upon you from plaster; names well known spring to your lips as you gaze alternately upon Sen ators, Generals and dignitaries, evoked from the past, or reproduced with marvelous fi delity from the present. The "Great Com moner," Steven-,; the sad-eyed Lincoln; the •-'"tute Rcverdy Johnson, are among those the eye recognizes as most happily depicted, but in many ethers are r"— , - 1 ourrcct de lineations. He who, from fancies connecting mascu linity wieh art, has formed impressions of size or coarseness of mould, would be as tonished to see, in the gifted artist, so detite a creature, apparantly more fitted for the drawing room than such a walk of life. Born in the free West; surrounded the greater part of her life by adverse circum "tanccs, Miss Ream was early taught habits of self reliance, and in taking up her beau tiful art, to which she was irresistibly at tracted, she did it without any of the tor tuitous aids that rarely accompany strug gling genius. Yet in the continuous effort, resulting in the removal of those obstacles one by one from her path, all that is sweet and been preserved. There is an atmosphere of purity about her. Iler uaturc is artistic. Never was woman more ! truly womanly, yet she is as wedded to her art as though all of sweetness, refinement, j and tenderness of nature were not hers, and looking from her to the busts aud figures on wliicii she has breathed her artist inspi ration, one lias a broader scope, a grander vision of women, when a girl, almost wholly self-instructed, could have thus conceived and wrought. Easy id .manners, possessing a fund of intelligence scarcely to be expected, joined to raro conversational abilities, Miss Ream causes the visitor at once to feel at home in her studio and take an interest in her studies even though not a commissioner in art. Unless her visitor be some one with whom ceremony is expected, she does not cease from work, but, industrious asthe bee gath ering sweets, converses as she labors. Her j dress, as worn daily, is plainness itself, i That of no cottage maiden could be simpler. | Yet, as she flitted from one ease or model to I another, touching the cold elay with her j delicate fingers gently as though it were something animate, I thought of Hilda, that glorious creation of Hawthorne's and queried whether fairer picture than sho made with her dark brown curls floating I over her shoulders, closely fitting calico drocs and long check apron, was ever pre sented to vision. Her only ornament was a Maltese chain, suspeuded from her neck, with a cross, the latter of which may typify the trials she must expect to encounter from calumny and prejudice as she treads with i free step the future's glorious aisles of art EFFICACY OF ONIONS. —A writer' says: We are often troubled with severe coughs, the results of colds of long standing, which may turn to consumption or premature death. Hard coughs cause sleepless nights by constant irritation in the throat and a strong* effort to throw off offenseivc matter from the lungs. The remedy I propose has been tried by ino and often recommended to others with good results, which is simply to take into the stomach before retiring for the night, a piece of raw onion, after chewing. The esculent in an uncooked state, is very heating, and tends to collect the waters \ from the lungs aud throat, causing imuiedi ate relief to the patient. Sliced onion, in a ! ruw state, will collect poison from the air, I ami alo from the human system when taken internally, or externally applied to tho arm pits. BEDFORD. Pa.. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 11. 1867. GIGANTIC MONOPOLY. George Alfred Townseud, writing from Canada to the Boston Pout, mokes the fol lowing carious statement concerning the Hudson Bay Company: "W hat is the gigan tic monopoly, with two-thirds of acontiuent for its game preserve? Whence come this modern Nimrod, slaying his millions of bea ver and buffalo every yew? Are we aware that upon this hemisphere there is a private corporation owning nearly as much land as the United States? This is the Hudson's Bay Company, founded in 1670, sixty years before a house stood in Baltimore, twelve years before the Quakers sailed up the Del aware, and three years before Boston had a wharf. King Charles 11. wade tho Hudson's Bay Company arbitrary and despotic over all the region watered by the streams of Iludaou's Bay, and for two centuries its Governors have shut all this world away from civilized mankind. They have lied as to its capacity for cultivation, preferred to keep it a heathen wild for the hiding of wolves and catamounts, and the English Government has backed them up, to the wrong of the Canadian people, who have just been excluded from the fairest of the Northern lands. This enormous monopoly employs 3,000 white men to haul its boats and make up its furs, and 100,000 Indian hunters. With two million seven hundred thousaud square miles under its control, on ly 120,000 people live in it. For 110 years it paid anuual dividends of seventy percent. As far back as 1689—a hundred years be fore our Government organized—it paid div idends of fifty per cent. It ate up a rival fur company, the "Northwestern," about forty years ago, and in 1865 sold one million two hundred thousand gold dollars worth of furs, which cost it in imports only two hun dred thousand dollars. It has one hundred and sixty-four trading posts, is subject to no law, warus people of its immeusc estate as you would warn a rnau out of your office, aud protests that grain shall not grow in the haunts of the raccoon, nor prayers be -aid where the lynx crunches the bones of the Indian squaw. This association of deer slayers killed in 1856, 90,(XX) beavers, 161,- 000 martens, 2,000 lynxes, 10,000 bears, 33,00*1 foxes, 300,000 muskrats, 12,000 Ot ters, 18,000 skunks, and about 50,000 lesser animals, besides 140,009 buffaloes. It gives the Indian a pint of glass beads and a bot tle of rum for a silver fox skin, which itsclls for $250 in gold. It steals, besides, from United States lands, $200,000 gold in furs every year, and we ought to have bad a military post on Bed Biver twenty years ago. At the north end of Lake Winnepeg .iicre ■ Xorway House, where the Governors of five sub-territories meet Governor Dallas, commander over the migh ty region, and the spoil of the year is prompt ly divided aud the Indians duly swindled. The hunts for buffalo are two in number, each lasting two months, and begin respec tively June 20 and November 10. The cap ital of the company is seven millions of gold dollars, and they own a million gold dollars' worth of property in American Oregon, se cured to them by the treaty of 1846. This cormorant company is now a stum bling block in the way of progress. It is a dark age romance to see its canoes come down the rapids freighted with furs; to see its tiles of half-breeds disappear into the for ests where all the long year the Indiau has been slaying the game, making a bloody wilderness war, lyiug in ambush against the wolf, and challenging the white bear to sin gle combat. At last the long period of his hunting is over; the overflow of thirty mil lions of people will make a freshet up the streams of the Winnepeg to drown out beast and slayer together. and take by the throat tho uncircuiucised corporation that would plant its avarice across tho gates of a hem isphere and turn back the sluices of man kind. A TOWER OF SKULLS. —Lamertine in his "Pilgrimage to the Holy Land," writes as follows:—"When Iwas about a league from Nisa, the last Turkish village, almost on the frontier of Servia, I saw a large tower rising up in the midst of the plain, as white as Parian marble, I sat down under the shade of tho tower to enjoy a few mo ment's repose. No sooner was I seated than raising my eyes to the monument, I discovered that the walls which I supposed to be built of marble, or of regular rows of white stone, where composed of regular rows of human skulls. Bleached by raiu and sun, and cemented by a little sand aud lime, formed entirely the triumphal arch which now sheltered me from the rays of the burning sun; there might be from fifteen to twenty thousand. In some places, portions of hair were still hanging, and waved like lichen or moss, with every breath of wind. The mountain breeze was then blowing fresh, penetrating the innumerable cavities of the skulls, and sounded like a mournful and plaintive sigh. These were skulls of fifteen thousand Servians who had been put to death by the Pacha, in the late insurrec tion in Servia. However, Servia is now free, and this monument will teach their children the value of independence, by showing them the price at which their fore fathers purchased it. GOVERN TUYBELF.— An Italian Bishop, who had endured much persecution with a calm and unruffled temper, was asked how he attained such a mastery over himself. "By making a right use of my eyes," said be. "I first look up to heaven, as the place whither lam going to live forever. I next look down upon the earth, and consider bow small a space of it will soon be all that I oc cupy or want. I then look around me, and think how many tire far more wretched than 1 am. WHIN was beef-tea first made in England? ; When Henry VIII dissolved the Pope's bull. | NIGHT SCENE IN A HOAUDING IIOLSE. Mistakes in boarding bouses for la lies and gentlemen are not unfrequent, aud often they givo rise to considerable gossip aud scandal, receive the renown of a nine-days' wonder, and then are forgotten. We have heard of gentlemen mistaking their rooms because of the important fact of the doors, and frame work, and hall carpets, being pretty much like. Besides this, sometimes gentlemen are in a doubtful state of mental or vinous uncertainty, all bed rooms, at such times, are pretty much the same to them— iu they go, and perhaps half undressed, throw themselves upon the bed, and soon become an wrapped in the dreamy embrace of somnus, flavored with Bacchusand tobao co. Boarding houses furnish much material for shilling novels that would unquestiona bly sell well. This hint is gratuitously giv en to amateur authors, who may improve upon the following: A lady, whose husband is in Calif >rnia, Calcutta or Chicago, suddenly awakened from her sleep the other morning about two o'clock, and springing from bed, dashed out of her room, en dishabille, screaming at the top of her voice, "Murder ! help! murder! help! man in my room!" &c. &c. Under the circumstances this was quite natural, in asmuch as more than one mistake of this kind had happened in the. house recently. Now, it appeared that no less than three husbands were absent when they should have been there, and consequently there was more or less wonder, mixed up with a species of apprehension, on the part of three wives, each one wondering whether it was her husband who bad just forgotten himself or the room. "Oh! come up quickly," shouted, the ter rified female, holding on to the outside door knob, "I've got him in!" "If it's my Josey," said another discon solate, "I'll learn him better. Confound these night suppors; now he's been at one of them, and has mistaken the room, and there I've been alone all night." "Has he got whiskers?" anxiously asked the wife, upon reaching the landing on the upper floor. "Yes, ma'am, great big bushy whiskers, laying right alongside of my cheek when I awoke. Dear me, if my Alexander was here, he'd learn him better, I'll warrant you." "Joseph ! Joseph! Joseph !" shouted the wife at the door. No answer came—not even a grunt, inci- CUui io luebilailon. "May be has jumped out of the window," suggested the four or five females, all at once, who made a splendid group of long white drarerv "Here —help ! bring a light—bring a light!" shouted several of the females. Presently a light was brought, and several of the male boarders appeared, all armed to give the thief or robber such treatment as he had justly earned for himself. The door was opeDed, and in rushed the valiant squad, and sure enough the fellow was still in bed, with the top of his head just peeping above the sheet. "Come out pf here, you scoundrel!" said one of the men, at tiie same time grasping him by the hair. Tbc tableau was strikingly interesting and graphic. The resolute boarder almost fell from the impetus he had given himself, for, instead of jerkiDg out a man, it was no thing more than a "frizzed chignon," which the lovely occupant of the bed bad forgotten to take off wheu she retired for the night. It had been detached in her sleep, and grazing her check awakened her. The alarm, of course, was quite natural. The boarders had a hearty laugh, nnd all retired to happy dreams.— Philadelphia Press. LOST TIME. —J>ot any man pass an even ing in vacant idleness, or even iu reading somo silly tale, and compare the state of his mind when he goes to sleep or gets up next morning with its state Some other dayiwhen he has spent a few hour in going through the proof's by facts aud reasoning of some of the great doctrines in natural science, learn ing truths wholly new to hirn, aud satisfying himself by careful examination of the grounds on which known truths rest, so as to be not only acquainted with the doctrines of themselves, but able to show why he be lieves them, and to prove before others that they are true, will find as great a difference as can exist in the same bciug—the differ ence between looking baeb upon time un profitably wasted, aud time spent in self-im provement; he will feel himself in one case listless and dissatisfied; in the other comfort able and happy. In the one case, if he did not appear to himself humble, at least will not have earned any claim to his own res pect; in the other case he will enjoy a proud consciousness of havingby his own exertions become wiser, and therefore a more exalted nature. — Lord Brougham. A DAY. —A Day! It has risen upon us from the great deep of eternity, girt round with wonder, emerging from the womb of darkness; a new creation of life and light spoken into being by tho word of God. In itself one entire and perfect sphere of space and time, filled and emptied of the sun. Every past generation is represented in it; it is the flowering of all history, and in so much it is richer and better thau all other days which have proceded it. And we have been recreated to new opportunities, with new powers —called to this utmost promon tory of actual time, this centre of all coming life. And it is for to day's work we have been endowed; it is for this we arc pressed aud surrounded with these faculties. The sum of our entire being being is concentra ted here; and to-day is all tho time we abso lutely have Chapin. YOirMEIO: YO.fO. HANDKERCHIEF FLIRTATIONS. Some genius has recently reduced to a system the popular habit of getting up flir tations by means of handkerchiefs. The language of flowers is out of date. It is too elaborate and roundabout a mode of convey ing the tender emotions. Commend us to the handkercbiof. The u*e of it is so bandy so natural, and so easily acquired, (hat any one who has tried it will at once perceive its advantages over the old complicated sys tem. The iiandkerchief, too, is suggestive in connection with flirtations. Think of thu troubles that poor Desdemona got into by not taking proper care of that ill-starred handkerchief which tLa Egyptian woman gave to old Mra. Othello. Tiuly, as his Moonship remarked, "there's magic in the web of if." Let any one look in of a Satur day afternoon, to the matinees at some of our theatres, and he there is vast deal of meaning in a handkerchief. But hitherto it has been an unwritten language, and those who use it have knowu but little of its fundamental principles. Hence the many mistakes and misconception.- which too often follow, just as with two'persons conversing in a language with which both are unfamiliar. The following key may serve as a useful guide to the young of both sexes who are ambitious to acquire this ele gant accomplishment:— Drawing across the lips—Desirous of get ting acquainted. Drawing across the eyes—l am sorry. Taking by centre—You are too willing. Dropping—We will be friends. Twirling in both hands—lndifference. Drawing across the check—l love you. Drawing through the hands—l hate you. Letting it rest on the right cheek —Yes. Letting it rest on the left cheek—No. Twirling in left hand—l wish to get rid of you. Twirling in right hand—l love another. l-'olding it—l wish to speak with you. Over the shoulder—Follow me. Opposition corners in both hands—Wait for me. Drawing across tho forehead—We are watched. Placing on left ear—l have a message for you. Lotting it remain on the eye—You are cruel. Winding it round fore-finger—l am on gaged. SPEAK KINDLV. Much of the happiness in this world ari ses from giving uttercnce to hasty, unkind words. Many a sorrowful hour and sleep less night have been spent brooding o'er somehar.-h or anim- ri.(vU nas drop ped from the lips, in a moment of ungarded passion. llow much pain we would save ourselves and others, if we would gard all our ways and actions. Kin,? words, spoken in the right time and place, do more to heal the wounded spirit than all the gold which this world can give. They cost nothing while they enrich the heart and scatter sun shine all around, winning many true and faithful friends. A little word in kindness spoken, A smile, perhaps a tear, "Has often healed a heart that's broken, And made a friend sincere." How indellibly does a little act of kind ness, performed at tho right moment, im press itself upon the mind. Many years ago a little child stopped to admire the flowers in a beautiful garden. It was an orphan, and already had felt the hand and bitter pangs of an orphan's lot. The owner of the garden noticed the child and spoke kindly to him. "Do you love flowers ?" said he. "Ob, yes. We used to have beautiful flowers in ourgarden." The man gathered some anu handed them to the boy, saying as he did so, "here is a nice little bunch for you." The child took the flowers in a manner that plainly told his gratitude. It was an act of spontaneous kindness, and scarcely thought of again. Years went by, and through toil and pover ty the child grew to manhood. It is said from ordeals like this sometimes come our best men. ido it proved in the ease of this orphan. We now find him respected and beloved by all that know him. Through all these years he has never forgotten the man who so long ago spoke that kind word. When he again met him it was not in the beautiful garden, cultivating the fragrant flowers, but in tho cold and dismal abode of poverty. Then his was the hand stretched fourth to help the white haired old man in his hour of need. Thus the little act of kindness was doubly repaid, bringing to our mind tho words of the beautiful hymn, "Kind words can never die." LIVE FOR OTHERS.— God has writtn up on the flower that sweentens the air, upon the breeze that rocks the flower upon its stem, upon the rain drops that swell tho mighty river, upon the dew-drop that re* freshes the -mallest sprig of moss that rears its head in the desert, upon the ocean that rocks every swimmer in its channel, upon every pencil led shell that sloops in tho cav erns of the deep, as well as upon tho mighty sun which warms and cheers the millions of creatures that livo in its light—upon all has he written, "None of usliveth to himself." The passion of the French, for theatrical amusements, and the patieneo with which they will wait at the doors of theatres for the sake of obtaining a good place for wit nessing the performance are well known. At a great crowded French theatre a woman fell from the gallery into the pit, and was picked up by one of tho spectators, who, hearing bar groaning, asked her if she was much injured. 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A liberal discount made to yearly advertiser.-. 8 months, 6 mouths. 1 year One Square ( 4.50 $ 6.00 SIO.OO Two squares... 6,00 9 00 16.0# Three squres S.9# 12.00 20.00 One-fourth column 14.00 20.00 35.00 Half colnmn 18-00 25.00 45.00 One column 30.00 45.00 80.00 MAKE the heart right, and the man will bo right, the woman will be right, the child will he right; make the men, women and children right, and the name will be right; make the homes right, and the town and city will he right; make the towns and the cities right, and the States will be right, and the nation will be right; make the nations right, and the world will be right. A GENTLEMAN called to seo a tenement that was to be let. It was shown to him by a pretty, chatty moman, whose manners charmed her visitor. "Are you to he let, too? inquired ho, with a languishing look. "Yj!&," said she; "lam; I'm to be let alone." A BOSTON wit, defining the difference between an accident and a misfortune, says: "If Andrew Johnson should fall into tlTo Potomac river, it would be an accident 'Andy J. don't like water,) and if he should ever get out again, that would be a misfor tune." A LADY fell into a river, and a poor boy rescued her. When she was safe, her hus band handed tho brave fellow a shilling. Upon some of the bystanders expressing in dignation, the latter said, as he pocketed the coin, "Weil, may hap if I hadn't saved her. he'd have given me a sovereign." BEAK AND FORKEAK. —If we would have lite move on smoothly, we must learn to bear and forbear. We must indulge the friend we love in the little peculiarities of saying and doing tilings which may be impor tant to him, but of little moment to us. Like children, we must suffer each one to build his playhouse in his own way, and not quarrel with him, because he does not think our way the best. COLERIDGE was descanting, in the pres ence of Charles Lamb upon the repulsive appearance of the oyster. "It isn't hand some, Coleridge," said Lamb; "but it has the advantage of you in one thing." "What is that?" queried Coleridge, who as every body knows, was an exiiaustless talker. "It knows when to shut its mouth," was the reply. A BICKERING pair of Quakers were lately beard in high controversy, the husband ex claiming, "I am determined to have oae quiet week with thee!" But how wilt thou be able to get it?" said the taunting spouse, in "Test eralion," which married ladies so provok iDgly indulge in. "I will keep thee a week after thou artdead," was the Quaker's rejoin der. WHAT is the difference between a rifleman who shoots wide of the target, and husband w l, n uia ire s eyes? The one miss es his mark and the other marks his missis. IT is a singular fact that ladies who know how to preserve everything else, can't pre serve their tempers. Yet it may easily be done on the self-sealing principal. It is only to '"keep the mouth of the vessel tightly closed. "PATRICK, how long has it been since you left Ireland ?" "Eighteen months, my Lord; but I've been there twice since." FOOTE expressed the belief that a certain miser would take the beam out of his own eye, if he knew where he could sell the tim ber. QUILT thinks it rather remarkable that while several thousand feet are required to make one rood, a single foot properly applied, is .pften sufficient to make one civil. "I'LL teach you to play pitch and toss! I'll flog you for an hour, I will." "Father," in stantly replied the incorrigible, as he balanc ed a penny on his thumb and finger, "I'll toss with you to make it two hours or nothing." IMITATE the example of tho locomotive, lie runs along, whistles over his work, and yet never takes anything but water when he wants to "wet his whistle." "I HAVE the best wife in the world," said a long suffering husband ; "she always strikes mo with the soft end of the broom. ' | Ax Irishman applying for relief being told to work for his living, replied, "If I had all the work in the world, I could'nt do it." "AM I not a little pale?" inquired a lady who was short and corpulent, of a crnsty old bachelor. "Yon look more like a big tub?" was the blunt reply. IT won't do to be so devoted to a tender hearted wife as to comply with her request when she asks you—"How tumble over the cradle and break your neck, my dear, won't you?" > A gentleman met another in the street who was ill of consumption, and acosted him, thus: "Ah? my friend, yon walk slowly." "Yes," replied the mau, "but 1 am going fast." Men make their wills, but wives Escape a work so sad; Why should they make what all their lives The gentle dames have had ? THE more a woman's waist is shaped like an hour glass, the more it shows us that her sands of life are running out. A WOMAN'S tears are generally more effect ive than her words. In such cases, wind is a less powerful element thau water. IT is not so much trouble to get rich as i is to tell when we are rich. A mau who bumps his head against that of his neighbor isn't apt to think that two heads are better than one. "I'LL take the responsibility," as Jenkina ■aid when held out his arms for the baby. WHO is the greatest poulterer in Shaks peare? Claudius, King of Denmark, because he "murdered most foal." Nearly every evil has its compensation. If a man has but one foot, ho never treads on his own toea.