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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. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. J lINT. KSAGY, ATTORN EY-AT-LAW. Offieo opposite Reed A Schctl's Bank. Counsel given in English and German. [apl26] J/- IMMELL AND LINGENKELTER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BKDFORD,I*A. Have formed a partnership in the practice of the Lav, in new brick building near the Lutheran Church. [April 1, 1884-tf yj. A. POINTS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Respectfully tenders his professional services . • tho public. Office with J. W. Lingcnfeltor, Esq., on Public Square near Lutheran Church. Collections promptly made. [Dee.9,'M-tf. j J AYES IRVINE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Will faithfully and promptly attend to all busi. ness intrusted to bis carc. Office with G. 11. Spang, Esq., on Juliana street, throo doors south of the Mongol House. May2l:ly \ IASPY M. ALSIP, VJ ATTORNEY AT LAW, Ilr.Dronn, PA., Will faithfully and promptly attend to all busi ness entrusted to his care in Bedford acdadjoin d counties. Military claims, Pensions, back . ay, Bounty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with tlann A Spang, on Juliana street, 2 doors south j of the Mcngel House. apll, ISB4.—tf. A. F. METERS. J. W. DtcKEuso.Y ; MEYERS A DICKKRSON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PENS'A., Office nearly opposite the Jlengel House, will practice in the several Courts of Bedford county. Pensions, bounties and back pay obtained and the purchase of Real Estate attended to. [may 11,'C6-ly B. STUCKEY, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, 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 of Mis ■uri and Kansas. July 12:tf , S. L. ItrSSEDI. H. LOXCEXECKEU i OUSSKLL A LONGENECKER, [V ATTORNEYS A COUNSELLORS AT LAW, Bedford, Pa., Will attend promptly and faithfully to all busi ness entrusted to their care. Special attention given to collections and the prosecution of claims j : .r Back Pay, Bounty, Pensions, Ac. p/y-Office on Juliana street, south of the Court n .use. Apriloilyr. J- M'D. tt. F. KERR QIIARPS A KERR, AT TOR XE YS-A T-1A IV. WIU practice in the Courts of Bedford and ad- ' joining counties. All business entrusted to their care will receive careful and prompt attention, j Pensions, Bounty, Back Pay, Ac., speedily col lected fruic. What prouder refrain heartens to the core Than thou hast sung in brave Excelsior? ! Where sounds mre gladdening 'mid this earthly strife, | Than the sweet clarions of thy Psalm of Life? None but the rarest raconteur may grace ! The mimic contest where most yield the place. I .Say which, for either, fairer wreaths produce, | Irving's Astoria or thy Flower do Luce? Which haunted hostel lures more gnests within, j Hawthorne's Seven Gables or thy Wayside Inn? j Turning thy pictured page, what varying dyes Shine through oach latticed margin's new sur prise! Here the swarth Blacksmith, smirched with grime i and tan, Tears in his eyes, yet every inch a man* Hero, 'mid the rico-field, heaving his last breath. ! The poor Slave-monarch, dreams himself to death. Here, while without loud raves the tempest's din, : Here, while around the revelers brawl within, The dying Baron through tho grave's dark goal. Scek's Christ's redeeming passport for his soul, IVbo hears not now, stormed down among thy ! leaves, The rain that poured like cataracts from the eaves, \ Roared through the kennels, lashed the stream- 1 ing panes, Flooded the squares, tho sticets, the courts, the ; lanes, Raging like seas that over some foundering wreck Swill thro' the scuppers from the swimming deck! Cool, teeming, plenteous, soul-refreshing showers, Quaffed by parched earth and by the thirsting flowers, Nor less by those who listened to thy song As, like Lodoro's, thy deluge dashed along, Where subtler solace than thy gentle voice From riven hearts can draw till griefs rejoice? Answer, what oft-repining woe o'erpowers That lay serene, the Reaper and the Flowers? So large thv sympathies, thy hand can trade Charms in each clime and glories in each race. So penetrant thy love, its gaze can find God in the flower, Ilis breathings in the wind; Mesh with mere hempen coil in liope-work spun All human joys and ills beneath the sun; V ake with grand echoes of lesponsive rhymes Long siknt notes of medieval chimes; "The diapason of the cannonade." 'Mid purgatorial fires, in heaven, in hell. Thy dauntless soul hath lately dared to dwell, Passim? o'er burn inn- mart where Dant trrul With Virgil's ghost, to Beatrice and God. Yet, rarely gifted nature to translate, Reflect not others, thus: thyself create, Ring out once more in thy own golden lines Life's inner meaning, not the Florentine's— Thou who hast given thy drcamings to our sight And syllabled the Voices of the Night; Th a large amount lof unfinished and intri cate business. Ik Mu.vl. i —, a imoush / re-nominated by the Republican State Convention, i'or the office he now so ably and satisfactorily fills. A unanimous re-nomination from a State Convention of either party, is no small compliment to any man, and no one within our recollection ex- ; ccpt Gen. Campbell and his colleague on the State ticket ever before received such a marked endorsement. Such in brief, Ls a hurried sketch of the life and services of one of Pennsylvania's noblest sons. He is first found a "printer's devil," a "jour," a "deck hand on a steamboat, a "clerk," "mate" and "part owner of a vessel." lie is next found in the iron business, then in California, and fi- j tially in the gigantic enterprise of the eele- 1 bratcd Cambria Iron Mills, where his great experience added largely to the success of that stupenduous undertaking. At the breaking out of the war, he was Lieutenant of a militia company, entered the army and was appointed a Quartermaster, then a Col onel, and after a brilliant campaign of three \ long, weary years, he was honored with a Brevet Brigadier General's Commission, a j position long aud doubly earned in com- j maud of a brigade and division, and by gal lantry iu the field. Thus, it will be seen, that Gcti Campbell came from the working class, and is emphatically a working man. llis social characteristics never fail to cre ate the warmest friendships and a lasting impression, lie is a shrewd business man j and a useful citizen—a man endowed with > .-trong common sense, and rarely fails in his ; judgment of men and measures—is well j read, aud familiarly acquainted with all the internal workings of the great machinery of our government. Among the ablest articles on the subject of our National finances, was one from his pen, written during the early part of last winter! He is a genial compan ion, a clever, whole-souled, honest man, strictly tcnijH-rato in his habits; and that he will be re-elected by an increased majority, I Ls already beyond a peradveuture. NASBV. ! Mr. Noxby hag a Most Curitnig Dream— ; The Relative Position of the Tico I'or tics. and 'he tcoy Gentlemen Get from One to ' the Other, ; POST OFFIH, CONFEDERIT X ROODS, J (Wich is in the Stait uv Kentucky,) June 27, 1.868. ) Last nite, after I had addressed a Chase mcetin in Garrettstown in the afternoon \ and one at the Corners in the evenin, I re } tired to my virchus couch full uv my sub j ject, and whisky. Its rnther tryin for a ! man at my time uv life to do these things. I j To say nothin uv lif'tin up my voice-like one cryin in the wilderness for an old line Abo ! lishinist, the terrible oncertainty as to j whether I ought to holler "Kkel Rites — | Suffrage for all!" or "Ameriky for white ! men," troubles me. Likewise the doubt ez to whether I ought to make sjiecches in fa- : vor uv payin the debt in Greenbax, a l j Pendleton, or in Gold a la Seymour, or a ; repudiatin the debt altogether, like Puuie roy, is a incubus which weighs onto me, and 1 paralyzes my best efforts. For instants, at both nieetins I wuz compelled to talk uv ; tariffs and sich, of which our people know jest about ez much es the gentle hog does uv Hebrew. Wood! oh wood the nomina : shens wuz made and the platform adopted, I that I might go instructin our people from i a proper stand pint. Tired out and disgust ed, I retired early and slept a troubled sleep, j O sich a nite ! I dreemcd most horrible, dreoms, the follcrin being a feeble statement . uv the lightest uv om. In my dream I was in a country the like uv wich I never seed afore. There woz a low, level place, a sort uv a pit indeed, and j not a pit either, so much ez it wuz a swamp or bog, with only here and there a dry spot, it wuz not ez cheerful a lookin place ez yoo eood think uv. It wuz full uv skulls and dead men s bones. The highways leadin into it were slushy and nasty, and an odor ez uv seven hundred thousand million dead cats constantly assended to vex the pure air above. It wuz inhabited, it wuz. Roilin about in the currupsbun, I saw the face nv ! every Deuiokrat I had ever seen, and they wuz all about their yoosual avocashe-ns, too. Ben. \) ood wuz a scllin lotterv tickets. Fer nandy bed Lis baud into a city treasury. A. Johnson wuz a siguin a pardon for a coun terfeiter (another counterfeiter, who wanted the skill of the iukarscratcd one, wuz a waitin to carry it to him,) a iiumcnse con course uv Joha Morrissey'a cnostitooents were organizin a raid onto nigger orfan asy lums, and another immense mass wuz a burnishin weapons cz if for another cdnflick with sutbiu. Rite back uv this place wuz a precipice risin up almost perpendicular many feet, on the top uv which stretched a most beautiful prospeck, I asked one who was erawlin out uv the place what it all meant, and he replied that it wuz the rcstin place uv the Dimocrisy. "Look !" said he, "about yoo. Secstyoo that elevated breezy plain ? That's the cbo sou home uv Republikenism up there, and I'm goiu for it." But stay! sed I, "I fain would know more. Vho s that i ' I asked, cz a body come shootin down the abyss, boundiu plum into a most friteful mass uv corrupshcn be low. "Ihats Ross, uv Kansas," sed he. Lookout, here comes Henderson, too, and l'owler. Ha! ha! laffed this etcapin one, ez he saw Ross aud Henderson scramble out uv the dirt, with it stickin to cm and try to crawl up the side uv the precipice. Fowler seemed to like it, and settled down as though he intended to stay. There were others who got so close to the verge of the precipice that I reely trembled for em, but they had strong hands holden of em back. "ioo notis that there is one way uv com municashen between the two places," sed he, "wich is legitiinit. Y'oo observe that ladder?" "I hedn't, but Ido now. My eyes is dim," sed I, "watis them inscripshens on the rounds ?" "They are inscribed as follows: No. I—(The1 —(The highest.) "Consct vatism." No. 2 —"Constitooslincl DouLts." No. 3—", Southern Rites." No. 4—"Greenbax." No. s—"Repoodiashen."s—"Repoodiashen." No. 6—"Ameriky for white men." No. 7 —"Afrikin slavery." "Yoo will observe the last one is partly under the slush which kivers the bottom uv the plain. It's a trifle lower than the orig inal level. But look ! tber's suthin a goin on up there! See!" Trooly, there wuz suthin a goin on. Cheel Justice Chase appeared at the head uv the stairs on the very brink uv the prec- T. I, ■ „ stay, wuz Theodore Tilton, Horace Greeley, and moren a million of others, white and black, who wuz a holdin up their hands in horror at the way his face wuz turned. The Chief Ju.-tice wuz a assurin uv CUI it was all rite, that he shood probably go down to the first round, wich wuz "Conservatism," as he considered if safer ground. Theodore grabbed him by the sholder. to restrane him, but Salmon shoved biui off roodly, and put his foot on the first round. I looked closer and saw it all at a glance. August Belmont hed climbed up so cz to be in site uv any one standing on that round, and wuz wavin a flag at him onto wich wuz inscribed "nomiuashen." 8. I'. hed his venerable eyes fixed onto that, and didn't see nothin else, a kind uv parshel blindness wich hcz rooiocd quite a many public men. "Don'T go to em," cried Theodore and mor ris. "I won't," returned the cheerful old innocent. "I'll bring em up to me." ln fooriated with the site uv that flag wich Bel mont kept artfully movin afore him, he quickly dropt onto the second step, and the next, each step being longer than the one prceedin it. By this time the attenshen uv the Democrisy below wuzattractad toward the spectacle, and they cheered lustily, not so much at the prospeck uv gcttin the eminent Judge, ez at the sorror and chagrin depict ed onto the faces uv Greely, Tilton, et al.> at the top. Down he went, amid the plaudits uv the Democrisy, who, by this time, was all hur rahin for him, step by step, till he come lo the last one. "Come!" said Boregard, Forrest, Furnandy Wood and Vallandygum, "come! One step more—one little tiny step, and it's over. Come, love, come!" 'No!" he, tremblin like a man with the ager "I can't go that step. I can't, in deed I can't. Come up to me—yoo must!" "Well," sed Belmont, "its better for us to stand on that last step. Get hold, Mar ble, and the strongest uv yoo, and lift the concern out uv the mire, and up to the C'hoefJustis. Take hold close! Now ! all together! with a will!" They tugged and tugged, but to no pur pose, Pendleton, Hendricks, and a score uv others, who didn't like this Chase biznis, hed slipped down to the bottom, and waz a pullin back. Once or twict they got em out so cz yoo cood see the heads uv the multi tood above the liquid they wuz under, and a few late recroota climed up onto the step, but the weight wus too heavy, and they sag ged back, "Onct more !" shreekt the Cheef Justis. "One more trial. Oh git them on this step. Oh git them up, foi 1 can't go no lower, in deed I can't, and we must come together. I hev gone down six steps and long ones, an 1 you can, and you must come up ibis oue. Git em up—" At this pint I awoke. The screeching uv the wretched men arouud me. It's a pity the dreeui did not continyoo. Ez it is, I don't know whether he's agoin to take the last step or not. I don't know whether he's i agoin to plunge into the mire with us, or whether he's agoin to cliuib back agin and wash hisself.clcan uv the filth that's stuck to him, in the clear waters uv repentance, or whether another effort is to be made to lift us up to him. I left em when i returned from the laud uv drecms, a settling back into i the mire, aud Chase staDdin onto tho next but last round, with an expression uv despair onto his countenance, jist in the wayuv the missels both parties wuz a throwin Conse kently, I'm no better off bccoz uv this dream than I wuz before. lam still tost on the wa ters uv uncertainty. I shall still be forced to ; talk uv tariffs aud aieh, not kuowiu wat is oi is not safe ground. The drcem wuz] about a minit too short for my purpose. But it's offen thus. PETROLEUM V. NASP.Y, P. M. (Wich is Postmaster.) DANIEL S. DICKINSON ON ilOK\. TIO SEYMOUR. The following jsan extract from the speech of Daniel S. Dickinson, delivered at the great ratification meeting held at the Coo per Institute in the city of New York, Oc tober 8, 1862. As Mr. Dickinson was a life long Democrat, and in a positiou to be per fectly posted on Mr. Seymour's record, the picture he draws may be especially refresh ing just now to those "Conservative soldiers" who at their late Convention in New York, committed themselves so unreservedly to the support of the Democratic nominee for the Presidency: V hen the most atrocious conspiracy which ever desecrated earth found develop ment in an assault upon our National flag at Sumter, and in efforts to massacre a half starved garrison placed there in a time of profound peace, according to uniform usage for no other offence than asserting the su premacy of their country's Constitution, and giving to the breeze, as emblematical thereof the glorious Btars aud Stripes of their fath ers—when the brave volunteers who were hurrying to the defence of our natiou's Capital, to save it from mob rule and rebel lion, and conflagration, were bleediDg by traitorous hands—when strong men trem bled; when women wept, and childicn instinctively clung closer to the maternal bosom—when all communication between the loyal States and the Capital was cut off by rebellious forces —when the President elect of the United States had then recently reached the seat of Government, where duty called him by a circuitous and an unusual route, and in disguise, to escape the dagger of the assassin, and when our land was filled with excitement, consternation and alarm —when "shrieked the timid and stood still the brave," and the confiding musses looked about to see who were the men torthe crisis, amung the citizens of the Empire State, who had borne a part in public affairs, aud were naturally looked up to as exemplars in such a crisis, he (Horatio Seymour) hied himself away upon the double quick in the opposite direction [laughter], and for nearly half a year hid himself among the lakes and rivers and romantic woodlands and inland towns of Wisconsin; and his tongue was as silent on the subject of denouncing the re bellion as those of the murdered volunteers, whose "ghosts walked unrevenged amongst us." [Sensation.] There we may suppos ed he basked and balanced, and watched and waited, and turned and twisted [laugh tori, until autumn, when a small knot of de funct, defeated, desperate and despicable politicians, who had for years hung upon the subsistence department of the Demo cratic party in this State, came to his relief by entering the fit-Id. [Laughter.] They borrowed without leave the honored name of Democracy, under which to perpetrate their covert treason, as the hypocrite. "Stole.the livery of the Court of Ueaveu Their disgraceful and disloyal record stands out as the doings of men too stolid in politi cal depravity to be gifted with ordinary in stincts, and too regardless of the popular ( will to be mindful of shame; and the defeat they experienced at the hands of the people I should serve as a warning to trimmers and traitors and parricides and ingrates, through all future time. This movement drew the secluded one from his hiding place, and he came forth, with all the courage of him who, in a conflict with his wife, being driven under the bed, while remaining thus ensconced, declared, that whether she consented or not he would look out through a knot-hole in the clapboards, so long as he had the spirit of a man! [Great and repeated laughter and applause.] lie entered the political canvass, aud on the 28th October, 1861, a few days before the election, made a speech, the burden of which was an apology for the rebellion, and a condemnation of the Ad ministration for having meted out the rigor of martial law to those in arms against the Government, Though abounding with flimsy disguises and sophistical generalities, it contained one point worthy of not only no tice, but of the severest reprehension, and here it is: * 'lf it is true that slavery mustbe abolish ed to save this Union, then the people of the South should be allowed to withdraw themselves from that Government which cannot give them the protection guaranteed by its terms.'' What ! Place this glorious Union —this heritage of human hope—this asylum for the world's weary pilgrim—this refuge for the oppressed of the earth, in the scale of being beneath the black and bloated and bloody—the corrupt and corrupting—the stultified and stultifying institution of slavery! No! Sooner than see this Union severed, let not only the institution perish whenever and wherever it can be found, but let the habitations that have known it perish with it and be known no more forever. [Tremendous and long continued applause. "That's so," "That's the talk." Three cheers.] And yet this returning fugitive from patriotism proclaims as his creed, in effect if not in terms, that if either slavery or the Union mu.-t be destroyed, it should be the Union! And the name of this man is Iloratio Seymour. |Sensation.] [From th© London Saturday Review.] LITTLE WOMEN. The conventional idea of a brave, and en ergetic, or a supremely criminal woman is a tall, dark haired, large armed virago, who might pass as the younger brother of her husband, and about whom nature seemed to have hesitated before determin ing whether to make her a man or a woman, a kind of debatable kind of, land, in fact, between the two sexes, j acd almost as much one as the other. . Helen Macgregor, Lady Macbeth, Catharine do Medici, Mrs. Manning, and the old fashioned murderesses in uovels, are all of the muscular, black brigand type, with more or less of regal grace superadded, according to circumstances; and it would be thought nothing but a puerile fancy to suppose the contrary of those whose personal description is not already known. Crime, indeed es pecially in ait aud fiction, has generally been painted in very nice proportion to the number of oubie inches embodied and the depth of color employed; though wc aro VOL.. IT: NO. _>*. bound to add that the public favor runs towards muscular heroines almost as much as towards muscular murderesses, which to a certain extent redresses the over weighted balance. Our later novelists, however, have altered the whole set ting ol the palette. Instead of five foot ten of black and brown, they have gone in for four foot nothing of pink and yellow; instead of tumbled masses of raven hair, they have shining coils of purest gold; instead of In f low caverns whence flash unfathomable eyes eloquent of every damnable passion, tlie-y bave liujpid lakes of heavenly blue: an 1 their worst sinners are in all respects fash ioned as much after the outward scuiblsin of the ideal saint as can well be managed. The original notion was a very good one, and the revolution did not come before it was wanted; but it has been a little over done of late, and we are threatened with as great a surfeit of small limbed, yellow headed criminals as we have had of the man-like black. One gets weary of the most perfect model in time, if too constantly repeated; as now, when we have all begun to feci that the resources of the angel's face and demon's soul have been more heavily drawn on than is quite fair, and that, given ' heavy braids of golden hair," "bewilder ing blue eyes," "a small, lithe frame," and special delicacy of feet and hands, wc ai booked for the companionship, through three volumes, of a young person to whom Me.-- salina or Lucretia Borgia was a mere nov ice. And yet there is a physiological truth in this association of energy with smallness; perhaps, also, with a certain tint of yellow hair, which, with a dash of red through it, is decidedly suggestive of nervous force. Suggestivenes3, indeed, does not go very fa in an argument; but the frequent connection of energy and smallness in woman is a thing which all may verify in their own circles. In daily life, who is the really formidable woman to encounter? —the black-browed, broad-shouldered giantess, with arms ai most as big in the girth as a man's ? or the pert, smart, trim little female, with no more biceps than a ladybird, and of just about equal strength with a sparrow? Nine times out of ten, the giantess with the heavy shoulders and broad black eyebrows is a timid, feeble minded, good-tempered person, incapable of anything harsher than a mild remonstrance with her maid, or a gentle chastisement of her children. Nine times out of ten her husband has her in hand in the most perfect working order, so that she would swear the moon shone at midday if it were his pleasure that she should make a fool of herself in that di rection. One of the most obedient and in dolent of earth's daughters, she gives no trouble to any one save the trouble of rou - ing, exciting, and setting her going; while, as for the conception or execution of any naughty piece of self assertion, she is as utterly incapable as if she were a child un born, and demands nothing better than to feel the pressure of the leading-strings, and to kn >w exactly by their strain where she I is desired to go and what to do. Tint the little woman io irrepressible, 100 [ tiagilc to come into tne uguiiug sauvu in humanity, a puny creature whom one blow from a mau's huge fist could annihilate, absolutely fearless, and insolent with the insolence which only those dare show who know the retribution cannot follow, —what can be done with her? She is alraid of 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 own way in everything, aud every where. At home and abroad she is equally dominant and irrepressible, equally free from obedience and from fear. Who breaks all the public orders in sights and shows, and, in spite of King, Kaiser, or I'oliceman X, goes where it is expressly for bidden that she shall not go? Xot the large boned, muscular woman, whatever, her tem perament; unless, indeed, of the exception ally haughty type in distinctly inferior surroundings, and then she can queen it royally enough, and set everything at most lordly defiance. But in general the large-boned woman obeys the or ders given, because, while near enough to man to be somewhat on a par with him, she is still undeniably his inferior. She is too stroDg to shelter herself behind her weak ness, yet too weak to assert her strength and defy her master on equal grounds. She is like a flying-fish, not one thing wholly; and, while, capable of the inconveniences | uf two lives, is incapable of the privileges lof either. It is not she, for all her well-de | voloped frame and formidable looks, but the little woman, who breaks the whole bode of laws and defies all their defenders, —the pert, smart, pretty little woman, wholaoghs in your face, and goes straight ahead, if you try to turn her to the right hand or to the left, receiving your remonstrances with the most sublime indifference, as if you were talking a foreign language she could not understand. She carries everything before her, wherever she is. You may see her stepping over barriers, slipping under ropes, penetrating to the green benches with a red ticket, taking the best places 011 the platform over the heads of their right ful owners, settling herself among the re served seats without an icch of pasteboard to float her. You cannot turn her out by j main force. British chivalry objects to the public lay ing on of hands in the case of a woman, even when most recalcitrant and dis obedient; more particularly if a small and fragile-looking woman. So that, if it is only a usurpation of places specially maseu line, she is allowed to retain what she has got amid the grave looks oi the elders not really displeased, though, at the flutter of her ribbons among them and the titters and nudges of the young fellows. If the battle is between her and another woman, they are left to fight it out as they best can, with the odds laid heavily on the little one. All this timethere is nothing of the tumult of contest about her. Fiery and combative as she generally is, when breaking the law in public places she is the very soul of serene daring. She shows no heat, no passion, no turbulence; she leaves these as extra weapons of defence to women who are as sailable. For herself she requires no such aids. She knows her capabilities, and the line of attack that best suits her, and ~he knows, too, that the fewer points of contest she exposes, the more likely she is to slip into victory; the more she assumes, and the less she argues, the slighter the hold she gives her opponents. She is either per i fcotly good-humored or blankly innocent; BATES OP ADVERTISING. All advert i.-eraonta for lea* than 3 month? 10 cents per lino for each insertion. Special notices one-half additional. All reaolntiona of Asaocial lion, commnnfc-atiocs of a limited or individa interest and notices of marriages and deaths, ex ceeding five lines, 10 eta. per line. All legal noti ces of every kind, and all Orphans' Court and other Judicial Bales, are required by law to be pub lished in both papers. Editorial Notices 15 cents per line. All Advertising due aftcrfirst iniertion. Aslibcral discount made to yearly advertisers. 3 moots. 6 months, 1 year One square - $ 4.50 $ 0.00 SIO.OO Twc squares (5.00 9.01 1(5.00 Three rquarcs 8.00 12.00 20.00 One-fourth column 14.00 20.00 35.00 Half column IS.OO 25.00 45.00 One column 30.00 45.00 80.00 -he either smiles'you into indulgence, or wearies you into compliance by the sheer hopelessness, of making any impression on her. She may, indeed, if of the very vocifer ous and shrill-tongucd kiud, burst out into such a noisy demonstration that you are glad to escape from her, no matter what spoils you leave on her hands; jufat aa a mastiff will slink away from a bantam hen all heckled feathers and screeching cackle, and tremendous assumption of doing something terrible if be docs not look out. Any way tiie little woman is unconquerable; and a tiny fragment of humanity at a public show setting all rules and regulations at defiance, is only carrying cut in the matter of benches the manner of life to which nature has dedi cated her from the beginning. As a rule, tho little woman is brave. When the lymphatic giantess falls into a faint, or goes off into hysterics, she storms, or lu.-tles about, or holds on like a game ter rier, according to the work on band. She 1 will fly at any loan who annoys licr, aud ! bears herself a? equal to the biggest and -tronge.-t fellow of her acquaintance. Ia general she does it all by sheer pluck, and is not notorious for subtlety or eraft. Had Delilah been a little woman, she would r.i-vcr have taken the trouble to sheaf Sani -on's locks. She would have defied him with ail his strength untouched on his bead, and she would have overcome him too. Judith and Jact were both probably large women. The work they went about demanded a certain strength of musclo and toughness of sinew; but who can say that Jezebel was not a small, freckled, auburn haired Ladv Audley of her time, full of the consecrated fire, the electric force, the p.i-..-iunate recklessness of her type? Began an! Goncril might have been beautiful demous of the same pattern: we have the example of the MeiVihiopess de Brinvillieis as to what amount of spiritual deviltry can exist with the face and manner of an angel direct from heaven; and perhaps Cordelia was a tall dark-haired girl, with a pair of brown eyes, and a long nose sloping down wards. Look at modern Jewesses, with their flashing Oriental orbs, their night black tresses, and the dusky shadows of their olive-colored complexions; as catalogued properties according to the ide;d, they would be placed in the list of the natural criminals and law-breakers, while in reali ty they are about as meek and docile a set of women as are to be found within the four seas. Pit a fiery little Welsh woman or a petulant Parisienne against the most regal and Juuonic amongst them, and let them try conclusions in courage, in energy, or in audacity; the Loaelitish Juno will go down bolbre cither of the small Philistines, and the ikllacy of weight and color in the generation i of power will be shown without the possibility of denial. Even in those old days of long ago, when human characteristics were em bodied and deified, we do not find that the white armed large-limbed Here, jhojmh iierlaster goddesses by any superior energy vi lulu- ui iiaiuic. cm On; nmtnry, she was rather a heavy-going person, and unless moved to auger by ber husband's numerous infidelities, took her Olympian life placidly euough, and onoe or twice got cheated in a way that did no great credit to her sagacity. A little French woman would have sailed round her easily; and as it was, shrewish though she was in her speech when provoked, i her husband not only deceived but chastised her, and reduced her to penitence and obedience as no little woman would have suffered herself to be reduced. There is one celebrated nice of women who were probably the powerfully built, large-limbed creatures they are assumed lo have been, and as brave and energetic as they were strong and big,—the Norse wo men of the sages, who, for good or evil, seem to have been a very influential element in the old Northern life. Prophetesses, physi cians, dreamers, of dreams, and the ac credited interpreters as well. endowed with magic powers, admitted to a share in tho councils of men, brave in war, active in peace, these fair-haired Scandinavian women were the fit comrades of their men, the lit wives and mothers of the Berserkers and the Vikings. They had no tame or easy life of it, if all we hear of them is true. To defend the farm and the homestead during their husband's absence, and to keep them selves intact against all bold rovers to whom the Tenth Commandment was unknown law; to dazzle and bewilder by magic arts when they could not conquer by open strength; to unite craft and courage, de ception and daring, loyalty and independence —demanded no small amount of opposing qualities. But the Steingerdas audGudrunas were equal to any emergency of fate or fortune, and slashed their way through tho history ol their tune more after the manner of men than of women; supplementing their downright blows by ride thrusts of craftier cleverness when they had to meet power with skill, and were fain to overthrow brutality by t'raifd. The Norse women were certainly as largely framed as they were mentally energetic, and as crafty as either; but we know of no other women who unite the same characteristics, and are at once cunning, strong, brave and true. On the whole, then, the little women have the best ofit. More petted than tln ir bigger sisters, and infinitely more powerful, they have their own way in part because it really does not seem worth while to contest a point with such little creatures. There is nothing that wounds a man's self-respect in any victory they may get or claim. Where there is absolute inequality of strength, there can be no humiliation in the self-im posed defeat of the stronger; aud as it is al ways more pleasant to have peace than war, and as big men for the most part rather like than not to put their necks under the tread of tiny feet, the little woman goes on her way triumphant to the end, breaking all the laws she does not like, aud throwing down all the barriers that impede her pro gress, perfectly irresistible and irrepressible in all circumstances and under any condi tions. THE rose-fields of Adrianoplc extend over from twelve to fourteen thousand acres supplying the most important sourco of wealth in that district. i A Young Mas sent his lather in the coun -1 try his photograph, stating that he was poor l aud required money. The father refused, stating that ho could not be very poor to be I living surrounded by marble vases, rosewood . furniture and choice flowers, as his photo graph represented hiai-