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Lingenfelter, I . on Public Square near Lutheran Church. Colle tions promptly made. [Dec.G/£4-tf. J, | AYES IRVINE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, HV.t faUiifuUy and promptly attend to all busi .• jod to Ma care. Office withG. 11. Spang, E- ~on Juliana gireet, three doors south of the Mt I House. May 24:1y lASFY M. A LSIP, i!i ATTORNEY AT LAW. BEDFORD, PA., Will faithfully and promptly attend to all buM entru :edto his care in Bedford and adjoin sj counties. Military claims, Pensions, back v. Bounty, Jtc. speedily collected. Office with i! A Spang, on Juliana street, 2 doors south MM-A HOG e. ap! 1, 1864.—1£ e. r. UK vers J. w. DICKERS©* Y f LYERS A I)ICKKRSON, i>L ATTOUN KYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, Pbkn'A., 7 ■ nearly opposite the Mengel House, will! ■•.iFtit c : ii the f-evcral Courts of Bedford county. i'enMons. bounties and back pay obtained and the • .r L i • f Real F-tate attended to. [mayll/66-ly n B. STUCKEY, LJ. ITOKNEY AM) COUNSELLOR AT LAW, ad BEAL ESTATE AGENT, e a Main Str et, between Fourth and Fifth, Opposite ike Court Htu-e. KAN-AS CITY. AHS.SOURL V, . • tire in the ndi-dtiinc Ceunti"? of Mis- July I2:tf 1.7. It: H. LOXGRXECKER NI SSELL A LOXGF.NECKER, V ■•• •vs i Cot v-KM-ous AT LAW, Bedford, Pa., V, ill attend promptly and faithfully toallhu.fi entrusted t ' their -are. Special attention •I to collect i n? and 'he prosecution of claim! Back Pav, Bounty, Pension,, Ac. •";-Ori. : on Juliana .-treet, south of the Court Aprils:lyr. fit. MI I .IT E. KEBR CniARPE 4 KERR. 0 .1 rTO RUE YE-A T- LA W. Will practice in the Courts of Bedford and ad inin - counties. All business entrusted to their r • will receive rtueful and prompt attention. : castor.s. Bounty, "a,-It Pay. 4c., speedily eol. '1 fr •' the 'i rrnnent. n Jnli-- :"reet. opposite the banking : of Reel A SeVIl, Bedford, I'a. inar2:tf J. K. nrPBORBOW AOHK LT'TI. DL'ILBORHOW 4 LUTZ. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BrEroRD, I'A., Will a'tend promptly to all beinc3 intrusted to the ir cure. Collection, made on the shortest no are. , rceußrrly lie nse i Claim Agents an d will give special aitention to the prosecution of claims against the Government for Pensions, Back Pay, Bounty, Bounty Lands. Ac. Office on Juliana -treet, one door South "f the I'l'/utrer office, and nearly pposite the • Mengel Louse" , April 28, 1866:t PHYSICIANS. Y, R M. AY. JAMISON, M. D., BLOODY Run, PA., Fr,peetfally tenders his professional services to ••• - f that plr .ir.l Trinity. [l#cS:tyr | yx. D. F. lIARKY, Respectfully senders hi? professional ser r ?s to the either.* of Bedford and Ticmttj. • ' r and residence OTI Pitt Street, in the building rly occupied by Pr. J. IL Huitt. [Ap 1 1,(5-1. J \IL S. G. STATLEU, near Sdiellsburg. and I * Br. J. J. CLARKE, formerly of Cumberland :nty, having associated themselves in the prac t Medicine, respectfully offer their profw na; >tr. ys to th M'itiycns of Schellsbnrg and mi'r. Br. Clarke 4 office and residence same formerly occupied by J. White, F- dee**!. S. G. STATLKR, &chJl*burg. •.priU2:ly. J.J.CLARKE. Mlß< ELLANEOUS. / t E. SHANNON. BANKER, " _ BEDFORD, PA. BANK OF DISCOUNT ANI DEPOSIT. Collections made for the En,-. West. North and - .uth, and the general business of Exchange •ransacted. Note? and Ae-oar.t? Coßeeted and ' mittam-e* pro sip. ly made. REAL ESTATE t :ght and sold. feb22 J \ AN ILL BOKDER. I ' PITT STSRHT, TWO DOOR, wist or TBB BD --1 -ED noiEL, BK,I >RD, PA. V VTCHMAKEB AND DEALER IN JEWEL RY. SPECTACLES. AC. He keeps on hand a stock of fine Gold and Sil • r tchea. Spectacles of Brilliant Double Kefin t l Go •■?. - -; ' h Pebble Glasses. Oold h Chains. Breast Pins. Finger Rings, best i Pens. He will supply to order '..ing in bis line not on hand. [spr.2S,'6s. Travel'leg Dealers in no T i o N s. ■ 'be county nee every two months. > E'u L :OG D:i AT CUV PRICES. gent? r r ths Chimbersburg Woolen Manufae ' "I?' m ! • Apl lily j\ W.CROCEE '• WHOLE- VI.E TOBACCONIST, ~' n '. -'•-ect t . door? west of B. F. Harry", "A - re, Bedford, Pa., i? now prepared i ?eli by wholesale all kinds of CIGARS. All • lers promptly filled person? desiring anything n hi, line will do well v? give hitn a oall. Bedford (>•{ }. -f5.. DUIt.BORROW & L.UTZ, Proprietors. pftnu PRAY BR. Prayer is the weary heart's desire The sure relief of care; It is to plead with God bis word, And find deliverance there: It is to whisper every wish To him who can fulfill; A beggar coming to a King, To ask whale'er he will. The weakened eaint may thus o'ereome The strongest of his foes He prays—his God a wall of fire Around the suppliant throws: He prays—and all his enemies Away like smoke are driven; He prays, and to the fainting one Jehovah's strength is giveu, Is sia the burden of the soul, While struggling to be free? Helpless he prays, and grace divine Gives him the victory, Is holiness the prize he seeks? He can obtain it there; For nothing is impossible To wrestling faith and prayer, The spirit teaches him to plead The merits of the I.auib; And feeblest prayer acceptance gains, W hen perfumed with his name, Prayer, uttered by that precious One, Enters the court above, Whence shining hosts the answers bear, On rapid wings of love. NEVER PUT OFF. Whene'er a duty waits for thee, With sober judgment view it, And never idly teish it done; Begin at once, and do it. For Sloth says talsely, "By-and-by Is jujt as well to do it;" But present strength is surest strength: Begin at once , and do it. And find not lions ia the way, Nor faint if thcrns bestrew it; But bravely try, and strength will come, For God will help thee do it. ssteffUnnfous. A FRENCH ROMANCE. One of those little romances of which the I French are so fond, has lately taken place in Paris, and is thus described in a journal : M. Robert, an immensely wealthy and high ly accomplished elegant, well known not only for Lia valuable collections of paintings and niediajval relics, but for his rare .kili as a designer and painter, hearing that one of his tenants, a Mr. 8., whom he had nev er seen, k> pt one of the most extensive ateliers of fancy boxes and ornamental ob jects in France, called on him, with a view ; to make acquaintance. Entering the counting room, he found a good natured, eccentric gentleman of mid dle age. who greeted him. and exclaimed: T suppose that yon have also seen my advertisement, and come to apply for that situation as a ile.iuner?"' For a joke, M. Robert replied that lie had. M. B. supplied him with paints and I rushes, aud requested hint to produce a design for a oa-ket. M. Robert soon found that what Mr. B. really wanted, was an ar tist who would strictly carry out Lis own ideas. and that these were pure, and form ed on extensive knowledge of the art. In a short time he produced a sketch, which suited the employer to a dot— "a point." M. Robert very gravely, engaged himself, exacting good wages, and insisted on hav ing several new articles of furniture placed in the room which was assigned to him. But when he was introduced to the work rooms and found one hundred and tilty girls, many of them young and beautiful, busily employed, and was informed that he would he required to supply them with de signs and show the young ladies how they were to be carried out, the young artist be gan to feel as if he should have to be car ried out himself-—being very susceptible. "Working for a living.'' said he to him -elf, "is not entirely devoid of attraction. Let u- work." M. Robert being an accomplished artist, delighted his employer, and he soon found a remarkable fascination in seeing his de signs realized, in steel, silver, enamel or wood, lie rook a pleasure hitherto un known in seeing his works in shop windows and finding them in the boudoirs of bis friends. This workshop life was of course carefully concealed from "society," nor did his employer suspect that his artist was his landlord. But M. Robert soon found a more intense object of facination in the daughter ot M. B. a young lady who also took part in the duties of the atelier. This damsel was as remarkable for her accom plishments as for her remarkable beauty, and M. Robert soon found that as regarded taste and culture in all matters which speci ally interested him, he had met with any one like her. Step by step, the pair fell in ;ove, and little by little the artist so ingrati ated himself with the father that the lat ter, after due deliberation, consented to their union. Previous to the marriage, the old gentle- I man one day spoke of a dowry. "1 shall give Maria fifty thousand francs," 'aid he, with a little air of boasting. "Eh. nion garcon ?" "And I suppo-e," added M. Robert, gravely, '"that I. too. must settle something on my wife. Well—l will." This oau-eu a peai of laughter, which was redoubled when the artist added : "I will settle this piece of property, house and all, with the building adjoining, oti her." But what was their amazement when M. Roliert drew forth the title deeds, and said : "You scent to forget that I am your land lord ? Isn't my name Robert?" The young lady did not faint, but papa □early died of astonishment and joy. There was a magnificent wedding, but the bride ■ groom has not given up business. He de clares that there is as much amusement in ; being useful as in amusing one's self.—Ex change. A PITY TO HAVE AN EMPTY SEAT. A few weeks ago a gentleman was oblig ed to go to a distant depot, at an hour when there was no conveyance thither. So, al though very weary, and not strong, he was obliged to set out on a walk of two or three miles. After he had gone a little way } he was overtaken by a little boy in a carriage. The line horse was at once reined in, and his ownersaid, with a smile, "Ipresume, sir, you are going hut a short way; but this lit tle fellow insisted on my taking you to ride with us. I told him I had no doubt you were going to the next station; but he said "The gentleman is a stranger father; it is very easy to ask him. It always seems to me such a pity to ride with an empty seat." Now, that ride which cost the geulleman neither money, time, nor trouble was a real j blessing to a weary minister of Christ; and he told him so wbcu he thanked him and the dear boy who prompted the kind civility. "It is away he has. and always had, sir," replied the father. "From his cradle, he ; could never enjoy what he could not share with others. If he has any new gift or pleasure, his first thought is for those less favored. It is away he got from his mother," It was. truly ft beautiful "way" that boy .3 JLocal antJ general EJrbotfti to i>olitirs, (gftucatton, literature and j-ttovals. had; and it should be a warning to all boys, and boy's mothers too, who hear of him. Remember this you who have horses at your control to use as convenience or pleas ! ore : "It is a pity to have an empty seat." Re member it mothers, when training your boys for lives of usefulness. The little things of to day will grow into great things of years to come. The boy who is selfish with his toys and his comforts will be so j with his money and his sympathies when a man; tor the heart grows harder rather than j softer by the flight of time. A carriage is not the only place where it i "isa pity to have an empty seat." It is a pity to have one in the church or Sunday School: and there would be a less number so, if till the boys had the spirit ot the little fellow of whom we have written. Say, with him, "It is easy to ash!'' and then go among the boys you know, and urge them to fill an etnpty seat. You can do more in this way than your minister or your teacher can. every seat in the house of God and in Sunday School have a voice for you that shall send you out in the highways and hedges to compel less favored children toeomein; and in so doing, you your ; selves will receive a blessing. The coble boy who insisted on offering a ride to a stranger, thereby made a new friend who will never forget hiin, and who may return the kindness a hundred fold, in ways he lit j tie dreams of now; and better than this ha pleased God, who commands us to he care ful to entertain strangers, and reminds us that many in doing so have entertained angels unawares.— Exchange.. FASHIONABLE IN\ AMOISII. Fanny Fern almost always writes practi cally and to tbo point. The following from her pen is well worthy the perusual of all | whom it may concern: 1 hope to live to see the time when it will be considered a disgrace to he such; when people with flat chests and stooping shoul ders will creep round the backway, like other violators of known laws. Those who inherit sickly constitutions have my sincer est pity. I only request one favor of them, { that they cease perpetuating themselves till they are physically on a sound basis. But a woman who laces so tightly that she breathes only by a rare accident: who vi brates constantly between the confectioner's ; shop and the dentist's office: who has ball robes and jewels in plenty, but who owns neither an umbrella nor a water-proof cloak nor a pair of thick boots; who lies in bed till noon, never exercises, and complains of total want of appetite,' save for pastry and pickles:—she is simply a disgusting nuisance. —Sentiment is all very nice; but, were I a man I would beware of a woman that 'couldn't eat.' Why don't she take a nice little bit of beefsteak with her breakfast, and a nice wall: —not ride —after it? Why don't she stop munching sweet stuff between meals? Why don't she go to bed at a de cent time, and lead a clean, healthy life? The doctors and confectioners have ridden | in their carriages long enough, let the butchers and shoemakers take a turn at it. ! A man or a woman who 'can't eat' is never sound on any question. It is wasting breath to converse with them. They take hold of evervthing by the wrong handle. Of course it makes them very mad to whisper pityingly 'dyspepsia,' when they advance some distor ted opinion; hut 1 always do it. They are ! not going to muddle my brain with their ' theories, because their internal works are in a state of physical disorganization. Let them go into a lunatic asylum and be properly treated till they can learn how they afe put together, and how to manage them- : selves sensibly. How I rejoice in a man or a woman with a chest: l&nt ran in the eve. and step off as if they had not wooden legs. It is a rare sight. If a woman now has an j errand round the comer she must have a carriage to go there; and the men more dead than alive, so lethargic are they with con stant smoking, creep into car - and omnibus- . scs, and curl up in a corner, dreading noth ing so much as a little wholesome exertion. The more 'tired' they are, the more diligent ly they smoke; like the women who, drink perpetual tea 'to keen them up.' Keep thent up! Heavens! lam fifty-five and I feel half the time as if I were just made. To be sura I was born in Maine, where the timber and the human race last, but I don't eat pastry, nor candy, nor ice cream. I don't drink tea —bah! I walk, not ride. I own stout boots, and pretty ones too! I have waterproof cloak, and no diamonds. I like a nice bit of beefsteak, and anybody else who wants it, may eat pap. Igo to bed at ten, and get up at six. 1 dash out in the rain, beeause it feels good on my face. I don't eare for my clothes, but I mill be well: and after I am buried, I warn you, don't let any fresh air or sunlight down on uiy coffin, if you don't want me to get up. WOMAN A.NO MARRIAGE. I ' I have speculated a great deal on matri ' mony. I have seen young and beautiful ' women, the pride of the gay circles, mar ried as the worid says, well. Some have 1 moved iu their costly houses, and their friends have all come and looked at their ' furniture and their splendid home for hap ' piness, and have gone away and committed them to their sunny hopes, cheerfully and : without fear. It is natural to fie sanguine ' fcr them as the young are sometimes carried " away with similar feiHings. I love to get unobserved into a corner 1 and watch the bride in her white attire, " and with her smiling face and soft eyes ' meeting me in the pride of life; weaving a 1 walking dream of future happiness, and persuade myself it will be true. I think " how they will sit upon the luxuriant sofa ' as the twilight falls, and buiid gray hopes, > and murmur in low tones the not mw for ' bidden tenderness; and how thrilling the ' allowed kiss and beautiful endearments of wedded life will make even their parting ' joys, and how gladly they will come back from the crowded and empty mirth of the s gay to eaeb other s quiet company. 1 picture to myself that young creature, ' who blushes even now at his hesitating > caress, listening eagerly for bis footsteps as the night steals on. wishing he would come, and when he enters at last, and with I an affection as undying as his pulse, folds her to his bosom. I can feel the tide that " goes flowing through the heart, and gaze with him on the graceful form as she moves 1 about in the kind offices of affection, sooth e ing all his unquiet cares, and making hiui " forget even himself in her young and uu * shadowed beauty. 1 I go forward for j'ears and see her luxu " : riant hair put soberly away from her brow, and her girlish graces resigned into dignity and loveliness, chastened with the gentle meekness of maternal affection. Her hus band looks on with a proud eye, and shows the same fervent love and delicate attention a which first won her. and her fair children - are grown about them, and they go on, s full of honor and untroubled years, and arc e remembered when they die.— Exchange. THEY tell a good story of a trial justice in the town of Spenser. Mass., in relation to enforcing the prohibitory law. In one case a man was arranged for liquor selling—the article sold, being ale, thin, sour, and beady. The judge ordered the officer to bring along with the prisoner a pitcher of ale. The prisoner pleaded that ho had not violated the law, the ale wasoot intoxicating. "We will sec about that,"said the justice: "you drink half of what is in the pitcher and I will drink the other half, and then I will adjourn the court until two o'clock (now ten) and see." The ale was divided and drank, and the court adjourned. On reas sembling, short work was made of the case, "Guilty, and sentenced to three months." MORAL beauty, the reflection of the soul in the countenance, is as superior zo super ficial comeliness as mind is to matter. Those who look good cannot fail to be good looking. BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY, MAY 29, IHGB. PARENTAL INFLUENCES. There are but few married people who do not at times bring before each other the ex amples of their own parents as models of some excellence which they wish gently to hint the deficiency of in their own partners. The husband who has married the only child of some tender father will appreciate this. My father used to do thus and so.' And on the other hand the young lady who mar ries the son of a really neat, indefatigable housekeeper of the old school, may speak French and Italian, may sing, play and paint to perfection, but it the piano is not dusted, or the cloth soiled and awry, or the room disorderly, or the dinner ill cooked, .-he may hang her harp upon the willow, for his only accompaniment will be — sly mother never kept her house in this style. ■ It is true that persons of refinement and delicacy of feeling will usually avoid draw ing such ungracious and often irritating contrasts, but the feeling will remain equally strong in such as have, been blessed with ex cellent parents, and most devoted conjugal affection will scarcely serve to efface it in many instances. In fact, a deep philosophy lies underneath it, invaluable in its results to all the families of the earth. IT is, that du ring the long years of youth and home life, , there has been gradually maturing within each heart a beau ideal conception of family ' government—of what a father ought to be, and what a mother ought to be. In propor tion as the family is well regulated, each child looks upon his own father as the most perfect of all fathers, and his own mother as the most excellent of all mothers. Filently this eonviction has grown unconsciously un til brought in contact with the conflicting I idea of other family arrangements, and each j settles down to do just as hi parents did, ex cept where he can or thinks he can improve. That is not a wiseor well-governed family in which the child does not begin by consider ing his father the bravest, most noble, just and generous ol men, and his mother the most tender, wise and judicious of women. It may not be absolutely true, but it is true to that child, as far as ail practical purposes are concerned. And all through life, this intuitive disposition to look back to the models of our youth in all points and follow them, until we have found better models bv whieh in part we modify our beau-ideal of excellence, is the grand conservative force by which all the results of past experience in the most important affairsof life is preserved. WALKING AN'O TALKING. There is one rule to be observed in taking exercise by walking—the very best form in which it can be taken by the young and able bodied of all ages—and that is, never to al low the action of respiration to be carried on through the mouth. The nasal passa ges are clearly the medium through which respiration was by our Creator designed to be carried on. "God breathed into man's nostril's the breath of life." previous to his becoming a living creature. The differ ence in the exhaustion of strength by a long walk, with the mouth firmly closed and res piration carried on through the nostrils, in stead of through tbo mouth, is inconceiva ble to those who have never tried the ex periment. Indeed, this mischievous and really unnatural habit of carrying on the work of inspiration and expiration through the mouth, instead of through the nasal passages, is the true origin ot almost all the diseases of the throat and lungs, as bron chitis, congestion, asthma, and even con sumption itself. That excessive perspira tion to which some individuals are so liable in their sleep, which is so weakening to the body, is solely the result of such person sleeping with their mouths unclosed, and the same unpleasant and exhaustive results ari-e to the animal system from walking tt.~ .uuutlt upeu, instead nf no" engaged in conversation —preserving the lips in a slate of firm but quiet compression. 1 As the heat and velocity of the blood through the lungs depend almost entirely upon the quantity of the atsmospheric air ! inhaled with each inspiration, and as it is unavoidable that it should he taken in. in volume, by the mouth, whilst it can only be supplied through the nostrils, it is clear that the body must be much lighter and ; cooler, and the breathing much freer and I easier, when the latter course rather than j the former is the one adopted. Children ought never to l>e allowed to stand or walk ' with their mouth open; for, besides the va- i cent appearance it gives to the countenance, ! it is the certain preourser of coughs, colds and sore throats. — Exchange. APHORISMS IN LOVE.—Women like men who flatter them; hut love those who despise them. Every man, by the general law, loves all women; all women love one man. Men are by nature polygamists; women, uionogami-ts. Magnificent lovers make wretched husbands, and excellent husbands the worst of lovers. Women become attached to men not for what men do for them, hut what they do for men. Gratitude paves the way to their esteem, hut selfishness opens the road to their love.—The smallest tenderness outweighs with a woman the greatest sacrifice. She will forget the hero who would die in her behalf, for the mere gallant who would give her caresses, and nothing more. When women's hearts are touched they are all kindred. The merest dowdy then become the sister of the prou dest duchess. Women desire to love, pri marily, and men to bo loved; hence, women idealize and men analyze, the objects of their affection- If a woman will not love you make her hate you, anil she is half yours, for hate is too unnatural to her to last, and its first rebound is tenderness, and the.second passion. Men never love women whom they do not, understand and women never love men whom they do understand. "Forever," in the rhetoric of woman's affection is a i sentimental hyper sole moaning a period of exactly tw-, months.— From the Galaxy. WHY AVE SHAKE HANDS AND KISS. — | A learned Theban gives us the solution of 1 this frequently conjectured problem. In the first place it is a very old fashioned way jof indicating friendship. Jehu said to Jehonadad: "TS thine heart right as my heart is with thine heart? It it be, give me I thine hand." It is not merely an old fash ioned cu-tom; it is strictly a natural one and as usual in such cases, we may find a physiological reason if we only take pains to search for it. The animals cultivate ] friendship by the sense of touch as well as by the sense of hearing and sight; and for ■ this purpose they employ the most seusa | tive parts of their bodies. They rub their noses together or lick one another with : their tongues. Now, the band is a part of | the human body in which the sense oftoueh is highly developed; and after the manner of animals, we not only like to see and hear our friend, we also like to touch him, and promote the kindly feelings by the contact and reciprocal pressure of the sensitive hands. Observe, too, how this principle is : illustrated byanotner of our modes of gree i ting. When we wi-h to determine whether u substance be perfectly smooth, and are i not quite satisfied with the information con veyed by the fingers, we apply it to the mouth. How A DIAMOND BRACELET WAS LOST ' AND WON.—A lady in Paris recently found in her muff a bracelet of great value—a splendid collection of diamonds and opals, worth thiity thousand francs. How it got there she could not imagine. Some even ings after, at a select party, she heard the Countess B mourning over a lost brace let, the description coTesponding to that which had been so maivelously found. The lady produced it, and the countess was en raptured. At last she said : —"I have no idea how I lost it. I have been to the mib liner's, the glove store, tbc fur store —" 'The i'ur dealer's?'! That suggested some thing. "Did yon try on any muffs while you were there?" "Vcs, several." "Was this one of them ?" and the lady exhibited her own. "Yes; and 1 remember the man told me it had only been sent for repairs, and was not for sale." The mystery was explained. ahuimtcr. UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG. j Leipzig, liice nearly all ol the German : titles, exhibits an odd mixture of the old and new. iou might walk for hours through i the broad streets that constitute the great ! outer belt of the city without imagining that ; 'here are any other than modern houses to jbe found, lhen the beautiful promenades, • which are not laid out in the still, uniform rreneh style of the days of Irocis XIV., be i tray none of the marks of antiquity which are really so near at hand. Hut leave the promenades, and enter one oft hose narrow, dark streets that look uncomfortably like the necks of the Llack beer bottles that a coister of red-capped students have just emptied at the out door table of the restau rant on the corner, and you almost imme diately find yourself transported to the quaint architecture of the Middle Ages. Ibe I niver.-ity stands on a large open area, it was easy enough to tell where it was lroui the little clusters of students, with caps ant 1 watch bauds of bright colors, who stood at the door way, smoking ami eating cherries. The Library is not as large as many others in Europe, but it is well ar ranged and kept in excellent condition. 1 was fortunate in being conducted through it by, g very excellent young clergyman, who was connected with it. One of the treasures is a beautifully illuminated Hebrew MB. of the twelfth century. Two of the first print ed Bibles, in clear type and on the finest vel:um, keep each other company in a spe cial ease. rho University was founded in 1409, by Ihe German secede rs from the Bo hemian University of Prague. co ple. "Music" he called "the grandest and sweetest gilt of God to man." '"Satan hates music.' he said, "he kuows how it drives the evil spirit out of us." He was extremely interested in all natural things. Before the science of botony was dreamt of, Luther had divined the principles of vegeta ble life. "The principles of marriage runs through all creation.' Jte said, "and flowers as well as animals are male and female." A garden called out bursts of eloquence from him: beautiful sometimes as a finished piece of poetry.— From Froude's Short Studies OH Great Snlgectt. MINISTERIAL SUPPORT. —Dr. Guthrie, in a little speech, said: "I think all ministers are underpaid. lam not one now, and am free to say so. I hold that doctrine, and have learnt it from bitter experince—ail underpaid, every one of thero. I was sta ring this to.a Free Churchman, who said, '<) bat ministers should not be rich men.' 'My good friend.' said I, 'no more should any other body.' Ido not want ministers to be rich, but to be delivered from the curse and the nigthmare and the distress of poverty. I want a man to be able to walk the streets of the town in which he lives, and not to be compelled to jerk round a oorner when he ocv< ili\* LuiviiC. *. ilitbuKci irlttAsu atcuuui is not paid, I asked my friend. 'Do you think the prayer of Agur was made only for ministers —'Give me neither riches nor pov erty.' I tell you, it was made for ail: and I tell you more, that I believe money would be of more use in the hands of ministers than of some other people." BISHOP IIEBER SAID:—"It Is a fatal mistake to suppose that there can be no j apostacy from Christ, where we are not ah- j soiutely called on to deny His name, or to j bum insence tc an idol. We deny onr j Lord whenever, like that Dcmas, we through j love of tliis present world forsake the course i of duty which Christ has plainly pointed out to us. We deny our Lord whenever we lend the sanction of our countenance, our praise, or even our silence, to measures_ or opinions which may be popular or fashtna ble, but which we ouselves believe to be sinful in themselves or tending to sin. We deny our Lord whenever wc forsake a good man in affliction, and refuse te give counte nance, encouragement, and support to those who, for God's sake and for the faithful discharge of their duty, are exposed to per secution and slander." MRS. STOVTF., in her' Chimney Corner" papers, quotes the story of a young Metho dist who felt that he had a call to preach, and who was crushed bv the question of the elder, who asked him, "Hast thou noticed whether people seem to have a call to hear thee?" kF CMJM'MKf, THE SCOURGE. Those who live near Vesuvius, we are told, are so accustomed to tbe desolation from the volcanic eruption that they be come insensible to tip' danger except at the moment of actual peril. Then attention is arrested only when the burning stream rolls down iu torrents upon their houses, and as soon as the molten lava cools they return to their old haunts and homes to repair the waste and soon live on with little apparent concern about any future danger. Their history illustrates a moral phase of society. Drunkenness sweeps over our land. Next to Great Britain, probably there is not a more besotted nation iu the world thau ours. Whether this lie so or not, the curse is here, and blights and blasts on all sides. The New York Tribune computes that the whole cost id' liquors annually made and sold in the United States, that is whiskey cither in pure or derivative state, is about $500,000,000. In the consumption of this liquor. 00,000 lives are yearly destroyed, 100,000 men and women arc sent to prison, and 200,000 children are bequeathed to poor houses and charitable institutions. In ad dition. 300 murders and 400 suicides are committed, and the expense connected with these events is $A(0,000. It is estimated that one in every fifteen persons in the State of New York is substantially made a pauper by drunkenness. Eight hundred thousand baskets of champagne more than arc pro duced in all the champagne di.-triets of Eu rope are drank in this country. V here do these come from ? Madeira is made by pass ing the oil of whisky through carlton. \ ine gar. beet-root, sulphuric acid, and copperas, are vised to make jwrt wine. New \ <>rk ; city alone, says the Tribune , annually manu- I faeturcs wines to the value of $8,000,000. What is the result? The report of the New York State Inebriate A-yluni contains one answer. Here is the record of applica tions; — Clergymen, 3" judges 8 • Merchants, Physicians, Gentlemen 240 Rich Men's Daughters 1,300 Here are facts. Drunkenness is not sim- , uly the vice of the ignorant and the poor. The bloated faces of men in broadcloth, the dissipated expression of the countenances of well-dressed clerks, attest the presence of this creat foe. And yet how indifferent the on m inanity as a whole, is to the great curse! ilow many good and iwSuentiil men and women give the use of wines and even ! stronger drinks the sanction of their exara ' pie. Eminent clergymen will drink with their parishioners, and we have heard not long since of one case when* a person who was struggling against this habit, was UP RATES OF ADVERTISING. All advertisement* for leu than 3 month* J cent* per line for each insertion. Special notice* one-half additjopal. All reaolutioo* of Associa tion, com am citations of a limited or indlvidal interest and notice* of marriage* and death*, ex ceeding five line*. 10 eu. per line. All legal noti ce* of every kind, and all Orphans' Court and other Judicial sale*, are required b v law to be pob lished in both papers. Editorial Notice# 13 cent* perline. 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Think a moment. c pay 50tuX*) ; 000 dollars annually, for what f Fo make men drunkards, and then we have to spend another item of hundreds of mil lions for jails and asylum- to take care of the criminals and paupers that are made by the first 500.(0 n't,0lt0 dollars. — Christian Register. TUt: ABSURDITY OF DKIMUfI It has become a sort of popular—almost I national—faith that it is not possible to be I truly happy unless you drink. Among cer lain classes—and they are by no mean# ex ! clu.sively the lowest—drink is the beginning and end of everything. The very name of liquor is held to be synonymous with enjoy ment, and the dearer the liquor the more it is prized and coveted. Yet every man who is not a downright drunkard, is well aware that the pleasures of drinking are, oeyond a certain point, a mockery, delusion, and a snare. 1 put it to any one who has stood half the night at a bar, or sat hdf the night in a club room, drinking, smoking, and ban dying reek less talk, if the enjoyment ofsuch an evening has been anything 1 ike that of a few quiet hours speut at home with a book or newspaper? The evil influence of tavern pleasure on the health is too obvious to bo denied by any one, and the illusory natures of the pleasures themselves would be unde niable also, if the persons who indulge in them, did not deceive themselves, and put the truth out of sight. No one ever brought any good out of a drinking bout yet. It is a snort, feverish spasm of animal enjoyment, which leaves nothing behind but moroseness, regret, bad temper, sell-reproach, and headache. I should like to ask you, sir, if you say your prayers when you come home in that state; No, you don't Yo arc ashamed to say thera. You postpone theru uutil you have purged yourself, your mind, and your ljps, by more sober and rational Next night, when you pass the hours quietly at home with a book or a friend, you feel that you have bad real enjoyment, and that tho time has passed pleasantly, that you have not injured your beaitb. \ou are not ashamed to say your prayers, and you get up next morning with a clear head, a good ap petite, and an increased facility for work ana enjoyment of life.— Jill the Year Round. THE BEST LIQIOR. —"Give us a glass of your best liquor," said a toper the other day. as he entered a shop. The keeper filled a glass and jfttve it to him. The toper, without noticing it, dash ed it down his throat at a swallow. He soon began to taste and taste, seemingly not exactly satisfied. ' ; What's the matter ? said the keeper, "wa-n't it good?" "Why, yes, it was good enough, but it seems to me it wasn't very strong. What kind of liquor was it ?" "Co'.d water," was the reply; "that's the best liquor we have in the shop, and I be lieve it's the best in the town. As for any Other kind wp hnvpnnt ant, anv. for I left off selling some time ago. Tso you re saved your ten cents, and you'll feci better for it aflterward..' "Well," said the toper, "if this isn't a regular take in; but I believe you're half right for all that. And ; as you don't charge anything for your liquor, I have a good mind" to be your customer, and see if I can't get rid of my headache and sore eyes." The shopkeeper encouraged him never to drink anything but the bat liquor, and he departed. Un d €-iufe. "NAT, what are you leaning over that empty cask for?"' 'Tin mourning over de parted spirits." .Miss .TOY says she is glad she is not "a thing of beauty," for she would not like to he "a Joy forever." THE young lady who was told to take ex excise to improve her health, says that she •"will jump at ;uiy offer, and run her own risk.' MANY a man thinks it is virtue that keeps him from turning a rascal, when it is a full stomach. One should be careful and not mistake potatoes for principles. A GENTLEMAN presented a laee collar to the object of his adoration, and, in a jocular way, said: "Do not let any one else rum ple it," "No, dear." said the lady, "I will take it off. SETTLE UP.—Tell me yc angelic hosts, ye messengers of love, shall swindled printers here below have no redress above? The -hining angel band replied. ' "to us is know- I ledge given; delinquents on the printer's [ book can never enter heaven.'' ' 'W HY does the operation of hanging kill a man? inquired Dr. Whately. A physi ologist replied, '"Because inspiration is checked, circulation stopped, ana blood suf fu-c- and congests the braiu." "'Bosh, replied his grace. "It is be cause the rope is not long enough to let his feet touch the ground." _ AN Irishman who had lain sick a long time, was one day met by the parish priest, when the folio wing conversation took place: "Well Patrick, I am glad you have re covered —but WCPC you not afraid to meet your God?" Oh. no. your riverenee, it was the meet in of the other chap I was afraid uv," re plied Pat, THE Rrux; PASSION.—CoIoneI Bams, ot Boston, who died a few days ago, was an officer under the United States government. He was a man of great wit and humor, full of rare and racy stories which he always told with the most imperturahle gravity, "whilst his listeners were convulsed with "laughter. His stories always received a flavor from his peculiar voice which was quite thin and pitched uj KJII a high key, and in his later years "tuned towards childish treble." In his last sickness he very forcibly illus trated Pope's well known lines of the "Ruling passion strong in death." His physician came in an hour or two hc i fore he died, and asked how he was feeling. " Shan't live till morning." said the Colo nel. forcibly. "Oh yes, I think you will; you don't j seem to be very" near your end. "Yes I am." piped out the Colonel. The doctor then felt of his feet, and find ! ing them quite warm, he said to him j "Your feet feel quite warm; I think j there is no immediate danger." "Can't help it; shan't live till morning : persisted the sick man. "But," said the doctor, "your extremi ties are warm, Colonel. Did you ever know any one to be very near dying whoae feet were as warm as yours are ? ' That's nothing to do with vt. I ahmnit live till morning wheezed out the Colonel as if he were determined to die. M "You are quite unreasonable Colonel, ■ j gently interposed the doctor. "1 never knew a man to be so near bis end whose i' feet were as warm as yours. "Well, I have." Turning toward the doctor, with a droU twinkle in bis eyes, he laboring gaspeqtj : I ° U 'Jd ' *