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The courts have decided that refusing to take newspapers and periodicals from the Post office, or removing and having them uncalled for, is prima facia evidence of intentional fraud. yroffissional & gaslnrss tfante. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. T GUN T. KKAGY, ATTORNHY-AT-LAW. Office opposite Rccd A Schell's Bank. Counsel given in English and German. [apl26] IM.M.JIELL AND LLNGENFELTER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Have formed a partnership in the practice of the Law, in new brick building near the Lutheran Church. [April I, 18#4-tf A. POINTS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDPORD, PA. R-pectfully tenders his professional services to the public. Office with J. W. Lingeafelter, K- r., on Public Square near Lutheran Church. JBFR-Colleetiona promptly made. [Dec.9,'B4-tf. j | AYES IRVINE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Will faithfully and promptly attend to all busi ness intrusted to his care. Office with G. 11. Spang, Esq., on Juliana street, three doors south of the Mcngel House. May 24:1y I? SPY M. AUSIF, LI ATTORNEY AT LAW, BR.nroRD, PA., Wiil faithfully and promptly attend to all busi ness entrusted to his care in Bedford and adjoin ing counties. Military claims, Pensions, back pay, Bounty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with Mann A Spang, on Juliana street, 2 doors south of the Mcngel House. apl 1, 18SI.— tf. 8. R. MEYERS J. W. DICKERSOX MEYERS A BICKERSON. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, FERN'S., Ofiice nearly opposite the Mengel House, will practice in the several Courts of Bedford county. Pensions, bounties and back pay obtained and tbe j purchase of Real Estate attended to. [inayll,'6B-ly | JJ B. STUCKEY, A TORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,J and REAL ESTATE AGENT, Office on Main Street, between Fourth and Fifth, Opposite the Court House, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI. Will practice in the adjoining Counties or Mis- ' -N iri and Kansas. July 13:tf s. I . RI SSELL. 4- A. LONGENECKKR DUSSELL A LONGENECKER, LI ATTORNEYS A COINSELLORS AT LAW, Bedford, Pa., Will attend promptly and faithfully to all busi er V entrusted to their care. Special attention given to collections and the prosecution of claims f r Back Pay, Bounty, Pensions, Ac. LAROFFICE" on Juliana street, south of the Court 1' use, Aprils:lrr. j' M'n. SHARCE E> F. KF.RR Q IIARPfi A KERR, O /( TTORSE YS-A T-LA W. Will practice in tbe Courts of Bedford and ad joining counties. All business entrusted to their care will receive careful and prompt attention. Pensions, Bounty, Back Pay, &c. t speedily col lected from the Government. Office >n Juliana street, opposite the banking house of Reed i* now prepared TO sell by wholesale all kinds of CIGARS. All , ' - -'erg promptly filled. Persons desiring anything I 8 d 0 we to • Asas a aoU. . ikdfurti Oat J9, J fflh c fl3eftorC> 3fnolitirs, (Ptmration, Hitrvaturr aub ittorals. in assigning a name or chemical symbol to this production. To make the gum color natural and flesh like is the point wn to substantial beef and pudding just as if you were in a London hotel. The town is Egyptian, nar row streets , hou.-es built from dried brick and stone from the cliffs along the Red Sea, bayous like those of Cairo, a swarthy crowd ! of Arabs, Negroes, Nubians, Hindoos, Ital j ians, Spaniards Germans, Frenchmen, Eng j iishmen, Russians and Turks. The English I have the upper hand here, but everywhere else in Egypt French influence predomina | tes. The Rritish Government have recently i erected large hospital buildings here for in j valids returning home from India, who may ; need nursing at this half way house, j "Taking an Arab boatman, who wears no | garment but a blue cotton shirt, we cast off from the pier in front of the hotel, and with I a brisk breeze blowing from the desert, go out over the waters of the Red Sea to look ;at the excavators on the grand canal. We | can see a line of them in the north, a dozen ! or more, some at work, others getting ready. | It is only when we reach them that wc can ■ comprehend their size. Think of a machine tall as a church steeple, with great iron wheels fifteen or twenty feet in diameter, an endless chain of buckets as big as hogsheads an iron spout reaching out at a right angle two hundred and twenty feet from the ma chine. All this afloat on iron barges, with a powerful engine, keeping the excavating machinery in motion, and moving the barge from right to left and left to right, eating its way. like a great monster, through the sand. "Standing upon the bank of the canal, and witnessing the machinery, and remem bering that every piece of iron, every wheel 1 great or small, every bolt and pin and nut 1 has been brought from France, and put up I here—looking at what has already been ac -1 complished, we can hut admire the pcrseve ; ranee and energy of M. Lcsseps, and the I contractors, Messrs. Borrell k Lavalley. | Considering what has been done there are i good reasons for believing that if M. Lessens i can obtain money cuough, the canal will be ! carried to completion, and that vessels, whether sailing or steaming, will pass from j the Atlantic to the Indian oceans this I route. English prejudice against it is as 1 strong to-day as it ever has been. "It won't j succeed. Let me tell you it never will be I completed; said an Englishman, not an hour | ago, 'and if it is it won't pay.'" BEECHER ON THE UIKCU. Henry Ward Beecher thinks that the punishment of children has not been studied scientifically, and that it is questionable whether children are not really whipped too much rather than too little. He, like all others who have written on the subject, finds it difficult to define exactly in what consists the science of corporeal punishment and admits that after all parents will have to judge for themselves as to the degree and mode of punishmeut. The following re marks are sensible, and worth remembering by every parent: We would not be understood as reproba ting corporeal punishment. Grateful for our own youthful enjoyment of such a means of grace, we advocate a due measure of it, But not upon all; some children are better without it. Whipping should not be come common and vulgar. It should be j reserved as a luxury, and served up in a striking manner, so as to fire the imagina tion, while it stirs up the flesh. Only for grave offenses, for bestial sins, for brutal conduct, for most dishonorable and mean offenses, should it be employed. It is a sin j and shame to slap and pinch, rap and snap j for every peccadillo. Shall a child be un covered for breaking a plate, for tearing his j clothes, for a moment s temper, for shirking t some disagreeable work, for running off a skating, for playing truant on thcdazzliugeat afternoon of the year, when the militia are parading and the drums beating, and the whole air full of the very delirium of temp tation? We shall not venture any advice on this matter, which, after all, must be settled in every house for itself. But, if we should ever venture to express ourselves, we think it would be in about this wise: Govern by rational and moral motives, and govern yuur selffirst; use the rod rarely, but when you take it, make a jubilee of it. so that such an elect hour will stand up like a mouumcut in the child's memory; and never use it except as a kind of exorcism to expel some animal de mou. A man named Tease has married a Miss Cross in St. Louis. He teased her until she agreed she would'ut bo Crow any more. .11 IS Tit ESSES AND SERVANTS. Complaints innumerable are heard in al- ; most every household of the land about the ! incapacity of servant girls. They are indif ferent or worthless, dishonest or dirty, j Granting that these complaints be true, an examination of them will afford interesting study. A candid observer will be suiquised j at how much their tone or even their sub- j stance dejiends uiion the taste of their em ployer. One lady of refinement will tiud in some unfortunate Bridget the most vexa tious indolence, whilst another will be will ing to give her a certificate for laudable at tention to business. One ladv will find her cook slovenly aud dirty, another will recom mend her as a model of cleanliness. One ladv will cry ' 'careless nurse;'' another ' 'care ful nurse.' One "worthless huzzy;" an other "indispensable help." Tlius the un complaining servant becomes a woman or brute, a paragon or hoyden, eleau or dirtv, neat or slovenly, honest or thievish, skillful or awkward, capable or incapable as the pnqx'iisitj- of tnc mistress may happen to run. This is no fancy picture. The ser vant* themselves are living witnesses to its truth. And what does it prove? Simply this, that there is emptiness in the general complaints of servant girls. That the de fects in the households which they are ex liccted to remedy are more the faults of the superior than of the snbordidate. The wo man, the lady if you please, who allows her charge _to devolve upon the shoulders of domestics, deserve to find confusion creep ing into the kitchen and dining room. The province of servant girls is to man the ship, but the pilot, the mistress herself, should never let go the helm. Just so soon as she does, every servant will become her superior, and thej* will feel it and act upon it, and will become untidy, careless or dishonest in pro portion to their degree of irresponsibility. •Bridget in her proper place in the hands of Mrs. A.. will be a dutiful and faithful, and valuable servant: while Bridget out of her proper place, and outside of the author ity of Mrs. 8., will be vinenous and spiteful, domineering and insolent, extravagant and careless, inefficient and worthless. The fault is in the governess more than in the subject. FANNY FERN ON EDITORS. Fanny Fern think* it a great pity that editors, in reviewing the books written by woman, so often fall into the errorof review ing the woman instead of the book. After having her say on this subject, she talks of editors in general terms, thus: It is a pity that an editor should not be a gentleman, for his own sake, and because no position can be more honorable than his, if he choose to make it so, nor more influen tial for good or evil Think of the multi tude he addresses —the thinking men and women who pass his columns under critical review. Surely, this is a career not to be lightly esteemed, not to be slurred oyer bunglingly. Surely, this messenger crossing the sacred threshold of home, might well step carefully, reverentially, discreetly, and discuss fairly, justly, all topics especially connected with home duties and home re sponsibilities. Surely, his advertising list, if he have one, should be a clean one, such as any frank-browed, hitherto innocent young boy, might read. Surely, the maid en, whose horizon is not bounded by a strip of ribbon or silk, or even the marriage altar, should have th* great questions of the day, relating to the future of her sex, not brushed asidewith a contemptuous sniff, or treated with flippant ridicule, because this is the shortest and easiest way of disposing of that which requires thought and fair de liberation. It seems so strange to me, who hold in such exalted estimation an editor's calling, that one should ever be found will ing to belittle it; it is also a great comfort to know that there are those who hold this their position, for honor and interest second to none, and in this light conscientiously conduct their paper, so far as their strength and means allow. This would be a very stupid world, I grant, if individuality were not allowed in the editorial chair as well as elsewhere; but leaving a wide margin for this, is there not still room in many newspa pers for more justice, manliness, courtesy, and above all, respectful mention of woman even though the exigencies of her life may compel her to address the public? MODERN SCIENCE. One of the most notable things about the development of modern science is the man ner in which discoveries or inventions in one branch of inquiry are of immediate and signal service in elucidating other and ap parently unconnected matters. Of such in ventions the sjwctroscope is one likely to be of incalculable advantage, as by means of its refracting prisms it is enabled to separate and exhibit the spectra or rays of light which different substances reflect, each in its own characteristic system of bands and lines of color. By this means several new metals have been discovered, the atmospheres of the sun and other heavenly bodies analyzed, and discoveries are opening up to its powers on every hand. It has been put to practi cal use in analyzing the flame of a furnace during the process of making Bessemer steel, so that the exact moment when the process is complete is instantly shown by the change in the spectrum —a most delicate point ot metallurgy not otherwise determinable. The latest use to which it has been put will give it a fame in the annals of medicine and of law, as it furnishes a means of an alyzing and recognizing human_ blood, whether in abnormal secretions of disease or in dried stains upon other material. The bacmatinc, or coloring matter of the blood, shows a spectrum entirely different from other substances with all its general appear ance and color; so that where even the microscope fails, the spectroscope will in stantly detect so small a matter as the one thousandth of a grain of dried human blood, Thus all sciences gain from each one's pro gress. TRIBUTE TO AMERICA. —The London j Spectator lias the following tribute to Geo. t Peabody. the great London banker: "No ; country contains so many millionaires as | this. No country gives them so much in tlie shape of security, of social difference, and of opportunities of exertion; and no country receives so little from them. There arc at this time a hundred enterprises of national importance which could be set go ing by single gifts quite within the power of scores, not to say hundreds of rich men, and j no one expects that any of them would ob tain any such gifts. In America they are common enough. Gifts of princely amounts, amounts which would yield fortunes in mere interest, have been repeatedly made to American cities, to colleges, to libraries, and this during the lifetime of the donors; but j we can scarcely recall an instance of the kind , in Great Britain. Mr. Peabodv was an American, and we can recall no other single gift of a quarter of a million. Nobody has ever given a million, or a half a million, to anything, and there are many who could. An English millionaire would think a pro posal to give away a year's income in a sin gle check the suggestion of insanity. Men with much money keep it. CURE FOR Wnoonso COUGH.—-Physi cians in Hartford, Connecicut have adop ted with marked success a new method of; treatment for curing children afflicted with | whooping cough. The juvenile patients are j taken on a tour of inspection to the city gas works, and while intently engaged in wit nessing the various processes employed in manufacturing their evening's artifieial-illu i initiation supply, they breathe the not very pleasant air of the gas house. In some way, not very clearly understood, the inha ling of this air is found to cure or greatly alleviate the complaint. This ingenious method of benefitting the youthful mind and body simultaneously has become im > mensely popular in the place, the people at the gas works asserting that during the last twelve months no less than three hundred cases have been experimented upon, the re sults, generally, being of a most favorable ehanwtar.—SvUntifk AmviWfi* VOL. 41: NO. 21. SUNDAY It EST A NECESSITY. Nature re-affirms the Divine law that oue day in seven should be set apart for rest and worship. Both the brute and houian world need it for their well-being. Dr. Farce, a distinguished physician, says: Although the night equalizes the circula tion well, yet it does not sufficiently restore its balance for the attainment of a hmg life. Hence oue day in seven, by the bounty of Providence, is thrown in as a day of com pensation, to perfect by its repo.-e the ani mal system. You may easily determine this question by trying, it ou the beasts of burden. Take that fine animal, the horse, and work him to the full extent of his {low ers even.- day but one in seven, and you will soon perceive by the sujverier vigor wirh which he performs his function.- on the other six days, that this rest is necessary to his well-being. Man, possessing a su|>erior nature, is borne along by the very vigor of his mind, so that the injury of contiimt J di urnal exertion and excitement in his animal system is not so immediately apparent as it is ill the brute; but in the long run it breaks down more suddenly; it abridges the length of his life and that vigor of his old age which (as to mere animal power) ought to be the object of his preservation. This is sim ply as a physician, and without reference at all to the theological question. THE TWO MERCHANTS. —We cjip the following, which daily finds an illustration in even- city, from an exchange, and com mend the lesson it teaches, to the considera tion of merchants located in this vicinity: When trade grew slack, and notes fell due. the merchant's face grew long and blue; his dreams were troubled through the night, with sheriff's bailiff's all in light. At lost his wife unto hini said. "Rise up at once, get out of bed. and get your paper, ink and fven. and say these words unto all men: 'My goods I wish to sell to you, and to your wives and daughters too; my prices they shall be so low, that each will buy before they go.' " He did as his good wife advised, and in the paper advertised. Crowds came and bought of all he hadj'liis notes were paid, his dreams made glad, and lie will tell yoa to this day, how well did printer's ink repay. He told as this, with knowing wink, how he was saved by printer's ink. The other in a place as tight, contented was the press to slight, and did not let the people know of what be had, or where to go. His drafts fell due, and were not paid, a levy on his goods was made; the store was closed until the sale, and for some time he was in jail. A bankrupt uow without a cent, at leisure, he deeply repents that fool ish and unwise, he did not freely advertise. AN UNDERGROUND RIVER IN OHIO. —It is generally known that there exists about a mile west of Fremont a remarkable under ground stream, with a swift current, and no outlet above the surface of the ground this side of Lake Erie. It was discovered sever al years ago on a farniof the 3lile House, now owned by widow Sheffer by a man who was returning from a day's chopping in the woods. In walking over a slight sunken place, he noticed a hollow sound and turn ing struck the ground with his axe. The axe broke thiough and disappeared andbas never been heard from since. Further in vestigations showed a rock about six feet be low surface, with a crevice a foot or more wide, in which could be seen several feet below. By tracing its course lurthcr down and breaking through the crust, the pheno nomen appeared again, and by dropping a piece of wood or other floating substance in the upper aperture, it was soon seen to pass the lower one, showing a.strong current. A lead and line let down to the depth of seven ty feet found no bottom. The supply of water is only slightly effected by drouth. A pump sit up in one of the places above men tioned has furnished the water to the whole neighborhood during the late dry season. It is certainly a remarkable stream. "NOISY CHIEDREN." —Well, how doyou like your stupid, quiet blockheads, that never make a noise only when some oue pushes them out of the way? "I cannot bear the noise of children." Then go and shut yourself up in some quiet nook, where the music of childhood is never heard. Shut yourself away from the world, and thus stifle the little music stirring in your heart. If you wish to crush the life and spirit from the souls of children, stop their noise, instruct them to play carefully, avoid ing all outbursts of joy. We like the noise of children. Not that rude, wicked, wild noise that is heard in the retreats of the pro fane and uncultivated, but natural out bursts of childhood's innocence and mirth. As well may you command the spring brooklet, swelled by recent showers, to run over its rocky bed without making any noise, as to expect children, full of the springs of human life, to play and make no noise. Do not banish your children out o! hearing that you may not be troubled with their noise. Let them feel that you love to see them happy and cheerful, and then they wiii not seek to avoid your presence to find enjoyment. EFFECT OF EXPOSURE ON COAL.—l'rof. Rockwell, has called attention to the deterioration which coal suffers from expo sure to the weather, snd to the importance of keeping it as dry as Anthracite suffers the least; bituminous the most. Ac cording to the experiments of Grundmann, in Germany, coal exposed to the weather in heaps lost during a period'of nine months 50 per cent of its value as fuel, and about as much as a gas making material; it under goes a process of slow combustion, taking up oxygen, and giving off the volatile pro ducts of oxidation,—air and moisture play ing the principal part, and warmth promo ting it; the valuable combustible ingredi ents are lost, and the injurious ones, as sul phur, oxygen, and ash, are relatively in creased. Coke from weathered coal is of inferior quality, losing its coherence.— Scientific American. LITTLE WOMBS. —The woman is irrepressi ble. Too fragile to come into the fighting section of humanity, a pnny creature whom one blow from a man's huge first could anni hilate, absolutely fearless, and insolent with the insolence which only those dare show who know that retribution cannot follow what can be done with her? She is afraid ©! nothing, and to be controlled by no one. Sheltered behind her weakness as behind a triple shield of brass, the angriest man dare not touch her, while she provokes him to a combat in which his hands are tied. She gets her owu way in everything and every where. At home and abroad she is equally dominant and irrepressible, equally free from obedience and from fear. A WEATHER TOY.—A Bostonian. SAYS the Commercial Advertiser, has a toy barometer on exhibition, which consists of a miniature cottage, with two doors. At one ot these stands a roan, clad in such purple and line linen as constitute a Sunday go-lo ir.ccting garb in New England, while at the other ap pears a female arrayed in hke apparel, lhese twain seem to watch the impending weather. If there are signs of rain, the roan, with a no ble bravery worthy of a better fate, steps boldly out of doors, while the woman shrinks into the cottage. But il the signs are favora ble, the woman goes forth to shop and gossip while the roan stays at home and tends house and baby. A thermometer forms part of the household furniture of this institution. — Sci entific American. OF the Southern freedmen the Chicago Poet says: We look for a new literature and i 1 a new music from this impassioned, although I hitherto dumb race. They are possessed by nature of thefinest social and moral fa- I culties. They are an inherently loval race, warm hearted, mirthful, imitative, dramatic and musical. It is true, that at present we have but the rough outline, so to speak, of these latter abilities—but they are all there, and only require cultivation to givo them a distinctive character and a high ex pression. Already, and even whilst they were slaves, thev struck the key notes to an original music, that will one day be develop -1 ed and elaborated into a iwienoe. ItATES OF ADVERTIBING. All drr*i-eiDnt> for lorn than 3 twmtbs 10 cents per line for each insertion. Special notices one-half additional. All resolutions of A.socio lion, communications of a limited or ladiriilal interest arid notices of marriages and deaths, ex cecding fire lines, 10 ets. per line. All legal aoi. ces of ercrj kind, and all Orphans' Court and other Judicial rales, are required !>y law to be put liebed in both papers, Editorial Notices 15 cents per line. All Advertising due afterfirst insertion. A liberal discount made to yearly advertisers. 3 mcnts. 8 months, 1 year One square 3 1-50 3 0.00 SIO.OO Tire squares S.OO 16.00 Three squares .......- 80# 12.00 30.0# One-fourth cu'umil 11.00 20.00 35.00 Half column lA.OO 25.00 45.09 One column 5 ......... 30.00 4j.CO #O.OO Dosncanc HAPPINESS- —-WW'; tt*v< ing, a few years since. I was detained -odic •' 'j-s in much that no r; 1 J hear"a clad shout from a little voice than 1 knew il was meal time, and -;lhiddy was eonriTW," and C tr .sill, and this was lifted also, and its little cheek laid tenderly upon the shou.der, which was huuehod to bring it close to that of 1.10 father By this time the wife had bro t a bowl of water, and a white, course towel, then she took the children down, applying also sundry pats, now on the droit Me r - • t the little ones, and now on the broad, fath erly ones: mid whiie tlio hUsband gave it last rub of the mud. rough hand#, heclfeteh ed out his neck atul he-sod the prelly, giil i.-h wife, who w- uld be hovering noar tani. They said grace, they dined '■* the punn. wholesome board, and more than opce fiitttid myself wafting them a benediction with the tears- in my eyes. It is so brutish to pass without a word of recognition of tho Great Giver. The husband was a grave man. and the wife a lively, cheery one, neat as a pin. and very chatty. I thought them wonderfully well matched, for there was no moroseuess in tlic man eqi Ic\ it} in the woman, and when came, and the little household, dressed in their finery, baby and all. went out to church, it wa, a sight to behold.— Mrs. E. Oakcs Smith, m the 1L raid of Health. THE LOVE OF THE BEAUTIFUL Place a young girl under the care of a kindheartd, graceful woman, and she unconsciously to herself grows into a graceful lady. Place a hoy in the establishment of a thoroughgo ing, straightforward business man, the boy becomes a self-reliant; pratical business man. Children are susceptible creatures, and.circurastances, scones 3nd actions al ways impress thc-in. As you influence them, not by arbitrary rules, not by stern example alone, but in the thousand other ways that speak through beautiful tonus. through bright scenes, soft utterances and pretty pictures, so will they grow, Give them a corner in the garden for flowers, encourage them to put in shape the hanging baskets, allow them to have their favorite trees, lead them to wander in the prettiest woods, show them where they can best view tua sunset; buy for them pretty pictures and encourage them to decorate their rooms, each in his or her childish way. The instinct M in them. Give them an inch and they will go a mile. Allow them the privilege and they will make your home beautiful. IT is a curious circumstance that since the invention of the present form of violin, about two hundred and fifty years ago, the instru ment has undergone no improvement. IN ono of the changes which successive makers have attempted to introduce have proved of the least value. The old are still the best, and for once the general law of progress seems to have been set aside. II hen vio lins were first brought into the concert-room as substitutes for the old viol with frets, they were ridiculed as mere toys, incapable of ever producing effects equal to those of the instruments they were intended to su persede; yet in the course of a sing e gener ation the violin bad not only been recogniz ed as the first and most important of the components of the orchestra, but had attain ed its fullest development of form and tone. Tlie rtistnrawnto manufactured during the first half of the seventeenth century by the Amati family at Cremona, and somewhat later by their celebrated pupil Authouy Stadivarius, have never been excelled, and there is no reason to supposethat they ever will be. ABYSSINIAN MOUNTAINEERS. —Among the mountaineers of Abyssinia the state of things is very much what it was in the high lands of Scotland not so many years ago. The various chiefrans or large landowners who ate appointed by the rest of the tribe to manage its affairs, lead the warriors in their raids aeainst other tribes with whom they are at feud. Thus the warlike spirit is maintained which would make Abyssinnta, if united under such a chief as King Theo dore, an exceedingly dangerous antagonist for either Turkey or Egypt; for the people have no fear of death, and the cavalry, the Gallas especially, of whom there are about twenty thousand, are as good as any horse men in the world. Even if put to flight in battle, they adopt the Parthian system of flight and retreat, and avail themselves of ovory favorable opportunity that tuay offer itself of wheeling round and attacking the pursuer. They are however, in common with the infantry, deficient in discipline, and. consequently, very subject to panics. Once a Week* AGRICULTURAL INVENTIONS. —The re, port of the acting Commissoner of Agricul ture for the present year relates the interest ing fact that the number of agricultural in ventions now annually perfected is more than forty-fold greater than it was twenty years ago. These improvements are rapid- Iv revolutionizing the agriculture of the West, reducing to the lowest minimum ever attained the proportion of manual labor employed in its operations. As a single illustration the reaper is mentioned, which, while doing the work of ten men, was first supplemented with a self-raker and now, still further to facilitate and conomizc the harvest work, is furnished with au apparatus for the instantaneous binding of the sheaves. DON'T keep a solitary parlor, into which you go hut once a month, with your parson or sewing society. Hang round your wall pictures which shall tell stories_ of mercy, noi>c, courage, faith and charity. 3lake your living room the house. Let the place lie such that when your boy has gone to dis tant lands, or oven when, perhaps he clings to a single plank in the waters of the wide ocean, the thought of the old homestead hall come to hiiu in his desolation, bring ing always light, hope and love. Have no dungeons about your house—no room you never open —no blinds that are always shut. "JoilN," said a Quaker to a young friend. "I hear thou art going to be married. "Yes," replied John. "Well," replied the man of drab, "I have one, little bit of ad vice to give thee, and that is, never marry a woman worth more than thou art. W hen I married my wile I was just worth fifty dollars, and she was worth sixty-two. and whenever any difficulty oceured between us since, she always threw the odd twelve dol lar! in my face." IN a ' moral story," by the younger Du mas, a married woman is represented as writing to her lover, explaining why she will not follow him. "I am not free," sbo says; "my family, society, public opinion, and—must I say it?—my husband, too, j have claim on me." The nonchalance and careless indifference with which the husband is slipped iu among the things which pre vent her elopement find no parallel out of a French novel. SOME folks are prodigiously penitent over other people's sins, and seem to think they have a special call to confer.; thcm bc ore 1 the whole world. They w. 11 gouge their brother's eyes out rather than leave a single mote in them. At the same time they are singularly blind respecting their own tail ings. _ SOME employments may bo bett than ! others; but there is no e ' r 'P k^, n ' c^ i as the having none at all. f f.l. contract a rust and an unfitness for every thing, and a man must either ho up "is time vvith good, or at least innoowS^jp or it will run to xn.i vVe. _ .... . J&gfs-.