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x RMfoxit to rax rorPEßHi.ta meaokks wbo
SAT "LET ET-coee* UK *r-OO*ES."
Am—**Tke Strord of Bunker Hitt, n
No: never while a tombstone stands
Above a soldier's grave.
Can we forget your treason to
The land he died to saTe.
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Will tell to millions yet unborn
The story of your rbame.
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Your damning infamy.
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Shall hear ywor craven cry,
When freemen rushed their rights to save,
Or, fa.".ng, nobly die.
No, no; the past is ail secure.
And each returning year
Will make your treason viler still,
And liberty more dear.
THE STAMMERING WIFE.
Br you* G. sstc.
When deeply in love with Miss Emily Cline
I vowed if the maiden would only be mine,
I would always endeavor to please her—
She blushed her consent, though the stuttering
lass
Said never a word, except "You're an ass—
An ass—an as*—iduous teaser 1"
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Tbe stammering lady had spoken the truth.
For often, in obvious dudgeon,
she 1 say—if I ventured to give her a jog
In tbe way of reproof—"You're a dog—you're a
dog—
A dog—a dog—mttic curmudgeon!"
And once, when I said, "We can hardly afford
This extravagant style witb our moderate board,"
And hinted we ought to be wiser,
Sbe looked, I assure you, exceedingly blue.
And fretfully cried, "You're a ju—you're a ju—
A very ju—dick -a adviser!"
Again, when it happened that, wishing to shirk
Some rather unpleasant and arduous work,
I begged her to go to a neighbor,
She wasted to Show why I made such a fuss,
And saucily said, "You're a cu*—cus—cus—
You were always ac—customed to labor!"
Out of temper, at last, with the insolent dame.
And feeling that madam was greatly to biame
To scold me instead of caressing,
I mimicked her speech—like a churl as I am—
And angrily said, "You're a dam—dam— dam—
A dam —sge instead of a blessing!"
Initial
FOR WHOM SHOULD THE YOUNG
-MEN VOTE?
What ticket should the young menof the
country rapport ? A large number of young
men will cast their first vote for President
at this next election. Doubtless they want
to support that ticket whose election shall
most benefit the country. They do not
wish to do that of which they will have to
repent hereafter. General Sherman said
once that he voted for Buchanan, and had
been sorry for it ever since; and General
Sherman is not the only one who entertains
such regrets.
To the young men whe have a few words
to say. Everybody knows that before a
very long time passes, there must come
about a reorganization of parties. Those
who have studied most thoughtfully the
political and industrial condition of the
country are persuaded that many import
ant interests arc neglected, and that the
country suffers in different ways, because
this reorganization of parties has been so
long delayed; and that it will continue to
suffer until parties are formed upon the real
questions of the day—which are taxation
and finance.
In the present canvass neither of these
important questions takes the lead. Tbe
Democratic party had the power, if its lead
ers had possessed the necessary wisdom, to
make these questions prominent. It had
only to accept accomplished facts, to take
for granted the reconstruction of the south
ern states, and to fling out of the arena of
politics all the old questions, which prece
ded and grew out of the war; and to an
nounce a policy of equal civil and political
rights, and with this a policy of justice, wis
dom and good faith, upon the questions of
taxation, internal and external, the curren
cy and the debt.
But the Democratic leaders have neither
the courage nor the wisdom to place them
selves in the advance: they cannot or will
not see that the attitude of protest, which
they have held for so many years, is not the
attitude of a victorious party. They pro
tested. in 1860 against the spread of liberal
opinion on the slavery question—aod were
beaten. They protested in 1864 against the
war for the Union, and demanded an imme
diate cessation of hostilities—and were still
more badly beaten. In 1 868, they still pro
test —against reconstruction at the moment
it is accomplished in nearly every State;
against tbe debt, wheo the people have
made up their minds to pay it honestly;
against tbe negroes voting, when they have
voted in every Southern State.
Now, in the first place, it is plain that so
loug as the Democratic party thus disputes
the validity of accomplished facts, so long
as its sole policy is to go back, to carry the
country back over old tracks, to undo what
has been done, to begin again tbe turmoil
through which we have just painfully pas
sed—just so long is any true progress im
possible. The old questions must he put
aside before the Dew ones can come op ior
argument. It is the Democratic party,
therefore, which bars the way to progress,
and when it is swept out of the way then
only can we come to that discussion of oth
er Questions most important to the whole
country, which is so necessary and impera
tive
It is, therefore, for the general interest
and welfare that the Democratic party
should be beaten in the coming election; for
thus only can these questions which it at
tempts to revive be put aside for ever. Tbe
party protested against emancipation until
it was beaten in 1868; but that defeat settled
the question, and put the slavery question
out of our polities tor ever. So, in 1868, a
defeat of the Democrats will compel even
them to accept the reconstruction, now al
ready accomplished, aod suffer the country
to pay attention to other and more impor
tant matters.
But this is not all. There was a time
BEDFORD* PA., FRIO
when (he Democratic party was the party of
progress, the party of sound ideas, of gen
erous instincts, the party of justice, of hu
; man brotherhood, of equal rights, of free
dom. Then its leaders had courage, they
were aggressive, they were not afraid to at
tack wroog whenever they found it, or to
maintain the right wherever it led them.
If it were that now: if it bad in it even any
of the old leaven of righteousness, it might
be well to support it, and keep it from des
truction. But it has Dot a single good
Democratic quality remaining; it is the par
ty of hate, of inhuman prejudice: it has
planted itself on injustice and dishonor.
During the war it was ready to surrender
the Union; since the war it is ready to dis
grace the nation by repudiating the debt.
It denies justice, and boastfully appeals to
the baser passions of the multitude.
Is that a paity with which the young men
of the nation, generous, full of ardor, lov
ing liberty, having faith in mankind, believ
ing also in the irresistible progress of this
great Union, in intelligence, virtue and
wealth, can join ? Here, for instance, is
this question of paying the debt, which is
treated by the Democratic party as though
this nation were a bankrupt debtor, ruined
in substance, without health or strength, or
future. But what young roan believes this?
Who of them does not feel his heart inspir
ed with the faith that tbe American people
stand just upon the threshold of a long and
glorious career? Who of them, with warm
blood in his veios, does not scorn to tarnish
the honor of this growing nation by wrong
ing its areditors? Who of them does uot
know that the pressure which seems so se
vere now, to the men without faith or hope,
will pass away so completely and rapidily
that our children will no more comjrehend ;
it than we comprehend the dark days after
the Revolution, and will no more forgive us
for faintheartedness than we forgive the
fainthearts of the ante-revolutkmaiy days.
There appears to be no hope of an honor
able*future, or indeed of any future, for the
present democratic party. Its leaders are
possessed by ideas which are not in conso
nance with the spirit of the aee. They
must, in tbe nature of things, linger out
their days in an attitude of vain but bitter
protest against facts and events. Tbey are
tbe true re actiooaries, wbo, in the rough
speech of a western man, "go about tread
ing on the coat tails of progress, and crying
ont Wboal whoa!" They have shown them
selves during seven or eight most important
years, unable to catch up with events; and
their position is that of a man running after
a railroad train, and vainly flinging up his
hands in rage with the flying locomotive.
AY a have not been as ail our readers know
blind friends of the Republican party. YVe
hare had occasion, very often, to blame the
errors, the blunders, and the excesses of
some of its leaders; we have not failed to
condemn important parts of their policy;
and believe they have been in many ways
unwise. But it cannot be denied th-1 their
spirit has been a spirit of lily rty and
humanity; often when they have erred, it
has been from a love of liberty, and not
from -levotion to slavery; and often again,
the prevailing ignorance of politicians upoD
all other questions but that of slavery, has
made the party in power tbe victim of de
signing and selfish men, and the scapegoat
of their misdeeds. Bat the democratic
leaders have not shown a disposition to do
better. Tbey offer to repeat the blunders
of the Republicans; and, worse yet, they
even put into their last platform a "protec
tionist plank, "and thus abandon tbe last |
distinctively democratic ground tbey had '
retained.
I here is hope of the Republican party, it
seems to hare a future bcfcre it; it can be
wielded and formed by the young men of the
nation. But even if it c> >uJd not, it should,
in this election, receive the support of all
young men, of all voters who vrish to get i
done with the neepo in politics, of all who
de-ire to recognise accomplished facts, and
who see that the country imperatively needs
that other questions than those relating to
the rights of negroes, shall be discussed and
settled, without loss of time. These ques
tions cannot come up until the present issue
is decided; until, by a repetition of the de
feat of 3*64, the democrats are forced to
accept reconstruction, as an accomplished
fact, and turn to other questions.—Even
ing I'ott.
ANTICIPATED REPUBLICAN CAINS.
Mr. George Wilkes has published his
viewsof "The Philosophy of the Campaign,"
in which be expresses the opinion that the
victory of General Grant will be so signal
that it may be likened to a march rather
than a contest, and will hardly wear the look
of an election at all. "We also believe,"
be says, "that Grant will carry the state of
New York, and that John A. Griswold,
who is now nominated on the Grant ticket
for its Governor, will defeat anv candidate
who may be set up against him."
As the democratic vote last year was
three hundred and seventy-three thousand,
which is more than three thousand above
the highest Republican vote ever cast in
this state: and as the highest vote of both j
parties is cast when there is a Presidential!
election, we are not so confident of a large I
majority. But the democratic Tote in this j
city last year included several thou-and resi
dents of other states brought hither to deter
mine whether O'Brien or Connelly should
be sheriff; the German Republican Central
Committee took no part in the election, or !
aided the democrats, on account of disaffec j
tion created by the Excise law; and there
were Republicans who vote! the democratic
ticket, just to administer a rebuke to their
political associates.
This fall the Pennsylvania voters will be
wanted at home; and the disapponted Re
publicans will vote for Grant and Griswold. '
Besides, there are many changes in the j
state for Grant and against Seymour, but
we hear of none the other way. The Re
publicans of this city have not been more
united in feeling for ten years. 3fr. Gris
wold is a strong and unexceptionable candi
date, and is generally worth several thou
sand votes on bis persona! popularity. These
considerations give us strong hope of his ,
election by a handsome majority.
If Pennsylvania gives as full a vote as
she did in 1566, and the states of Ohio and
Indiana come in well at. the October elec
tions, there will he little motive for the
democrats of this state to work, as the ut
most to be accomplished would be to place
its destinies at the feet of Tammany Hall.
The best judges predict a majority of 20,-
000 in Indiana for Governor Baker, and a
much larger one in Pennsylvania for Gen.
Hartranft. Nobody entertains a doubt of
ics, (education, Hitrrature aiilJ J&ora(s.
. AUGUST 21. 1868.
Ohio or lowa. This is propitious augury
for New York
Letters from the Pacifie coast promise
tbe electoral vote of Oregon and California
lor Lrant snd Colfax. We have never
doubted that fradulent voting defeated the
state ticket in June, as there was an in
creased vote principally in tbe oonnties and
towns next to the territory of Idaho. Cali
fornia was h>st last j'ear by divisions in tbe
llepubliesn party, which have been adjus
ted, and tbe Republicans promise to Grant
a majority of twenty-five thousand.
In Louisiana it is said that the majority
will be 40,000. It is hardly the way to
carry tfce state to "do tall boasting," and
we shah leave it to our political adversaries
But the outlook is infinitely more promis
ing than it was at this time in 1864. It did
seem then as if Mr. Lincoln conld be defea
ted it the democrats would nominate a man
for 'hat purpose; but madness ruled their
counsel?, and they received but the insig
nificant rate of three states. A similar io
fatuationWs adhered to them in 1868, and
they are only sure of three states now. The
rest is all bragging. Tbe Republicans can
carry* New York, New Jersey, Connecticut,
Delaware and Oregon, if they will.
THE AUTHOR OF THE SCHON
BEKG-COTTA FAMILY.
The moment of our departure from Eng
land had arrived: we were at that point in
a long journey when the feeling of expecta
tion for the unknown, is satisfied, and one's
thoughts turn fondly towards home. But
ODe more pleasure was in reserve for us—we
were invited to spend our last night under
the roof of the author of the "Schonberg-
Cotta Family." Mrs. Charles lives at Hamp
stead, one of tbe pretty suburban village?
that are sprinkled thickly around L]ndon.
About six miles distant, it is perched on a
hill which commands a full view of the city.
An hour s drive on a hAutifui summer af
ternoon brought us to the place, where, af
ter climbing up and winding about the quaint
old streets and lanes, we stopped before a
house on tbe brow of a bill overlooking a
wild landscape. YY'hat a cbatm in these
English homes! There is such an air of
taste and comfort, and yet such an absence
of pretention. The plain brick walls are
covered with ivy, and the flowers in the
window, and vines over the door, give to
the most modest dwelling an air of refine
ment This sense of beauty is increased
wben, as tbe centre of a picture, a kind and
gentle woman appears to give us welcome.
Y\'e always form an idea of an author's looks.
The "Sehonberg-Cotta Family" if so thor
oughiy a German book—not only because
tbe scene is laid in Germany, but in all its
details of domestic life, it such a perfect
oouleitr loath that wben I first read it, years
since, I took it for granted that the writer
was a German. Indeed, it was my first im
pression that it was a very old book, writ
ten one or two hundred years ago, and just
brought to light. Imagine, then, my sur
prise at seeing a lady still young aod emi
nently English. of small, slight figure, whose
modest, almost timid manners at once en
gaged our interest and sympathy. There is
among women a sort of intuition of char
acter, which reveals them to each other. It
needed but a glance to recognize a pure,
transparent nature in this true English wo
man. Mrs, Charles is a native of Doven
shire, the only child of a member of parlia
ment, who died some years since, leaving a
name greatly respected ic that part of Eng
land. Her mother, a lady, of great excellence,
live# with her. Mr. Charles is a merchant
of London, who, though engaged robustness,
shares it; the tastes of his wife, and furnishes
her ample means for their gratification.
Thus placed in the most favorable posi
tion, nothing seems wanting in this beauti
ful home, to make tbe happiness of a wo
man, but the voices of children. But it is
perhaps this very freedom from family
cares which ha? given her leisure to study
and to write. Her first books were the fruits of
years of reading and observation. She had
made herself familiar with German literature
and history, especially the history of the
reformation, and in travels on the comment
had observed the scenes and customs which
she wished to describe. Thus fitted for her
task, she put into the ' Sehonberg Cotta
Family" the fruits of this long preparation.
But all this literary culture, she would
hardly have undertaken the labor of writing
books, except from a higher motive than
reputati-D. Her object from the first, as
she says herself, with as much truth as sim
plicity, has been, "to do good." It is easy
to see that she is much more preoccupied
with their usefulness than with the fame
they bring to herseil. It was a real pleasure
to be able to say to her, that on the other
side of the ocean her books were in the
hands of our young people, and made the
delight of thousands of family circles; to see
her eyes fill with tears of gratification, and
to have neither to flatter nor to spare the
susceptibilities of an author for a work which
had been a labor of love and charity- She
observed life, not witb the cold eye of a
philosopher or moralist, but with the heart
of a woman, full of pity for ignorance and
misery, and of sympathy for the poor and
the obscure, especially for her own sisters in
England and all other parts of the lands, who
are lonely and unfriended, who seem to be
disinherited of the common enjoyments of
life, and need to be led to the source of con
solation.
ODCS knowing Mrs. Charles, it Is impos
sible to regard her writings any longer mere
ly from a literary or artistic point of view—
since her aim is far higher. She is not an
author writiog for money or fame, but a
true philanthropist or missionary, anima
ted with a Christian purpose, to combat igno
rance and impiety, to strengthen faith, and
to soothe human sorrow, by whispering
into the ears of the unhappy words of peace
and hope—a noble Christian woman, who
finds in her own heart, oversowing with
goodness, a perpetual inspiration.— N. Y.
Emngelht.
I)R. HOLMES, of Boston having been call
ed upon and considerably bored by a gentle
man who had devoted himself to lecturing ,
in Kogiand without much ability fordoing
so, inquired, "What are you about at this
particular time?" The answer was, "Lec
turing, as usual. I hold forth this evening
at Roxbury." The Professor, clapping his
hands together exclaimed, "I am glad of it. j
I never liked those Roxbury people!"
IT is immortality that makes life a derira- j
ble blearing; without this it would be but an j
unprofitable and burdensome trifle, preeerv- j
ed with anxiety and quitted with terror. 1
AN EASY PLACE.
A man appealed to Henry YY'aid Beecher
as follows;
. _ __ LANCASTER, Feb. stb. 1867.
"Rev. Hemy YYareh Beecher Sir: I
hardly know how to address so great a man.
You said in a sermon, some time ago, 'that
honesty ought to be rewarded.' lam hon
est with my fellow-man. myself, ami my
God. Can get ret ommendations (the best)
from lawyers, doctors, preachers, etc. Get
me an easy {tic) situation, that honesty may
be rewarded. C. V."
We give an extract from Mr. Beecher's
reply:
"Surely a man as honest as you are has
been rewarded already. What! honest with
your fellow-men, yourself aod your God!
There are few men who can say as much:
Honest with your fellow-men! How kmg
has it been so? Have you eome to it grad
ually. as the winter apple ripens, or has it
always been so? Excuse these questions, I
am deeply interested. You belong to an
exceedingly smaU class. You have few fel
lows on earth. .
Indeed, when w>u say that you are honest
with yourself,' I cannot keep you company.
You are ahead of me: and that clause—-
honest with your God' —takes you entirely
out of my sight. Why do you come to me?
I ought to sit at your feet. You are my
master.
No doubt you can get 'recommendations
from lawyers, doctors, preachers, etc.' You
piace these gentlemen, doubtless, in a climax.
Lawyers are proverbially honest—doc-tors
never deceive—preachers always practice
what they preach. Recommendations from
any of these would smack of self-laudation
Every man praises his own virtues. Get
some one not so inevitably good to recom
mend you. Are there no editors, no mem
bers of Congress, in your neighborhood?
But I am now c-ome to the most impor
tant part of your letter: 'Get me an easy
situation, that honesty may be rewarded.'
I am ready to do all in my power for you.
Had you siguified the sort of easy place you
would prefer I should have been less per
plexed. Let me see.
You are a bora President! All parties
are looking out for you. They want a man
'honest to his fellow-men. to himself, and to
his God.' YY'hat a motto is that to run a
race with ! Thus far they seem not to have
found just the man. If I were to divulge
your name no doubt you would be ravished
away to YV ashington in spite of your screams.
And the only reason why I do not disclose
your whereabouts is that I fear the Presi
dency would not prove that ~emy' place
which you justly think is due to your hon
esty.
Don't be an editor if you would be 'easy."
Do not try the law. Avoid school-keeping.
Keep out of the pulpit. Let alone all the
ships, stores, shops and merchandise. Ab
hor polities. Keep away from lawyers.
Don't practice medicine. Be not a fanner
or mechanic; neither a soldier or sailor.
Don't think. Don't work. None of'them
are easy. Omy holiest friend ! you are in
a very hard world ! I know of but one real
easy place in it. Tbat place is in the grave.
How is it in Lancaster? Can they not serve
you there? Even graves are very dear. Try
and get suited at home."
TRIUMPHS OF GENIUS.
YY'e sometimes think of genius as a way
ward. fickle faculty: but it is rather that
persistent power of the soul which, like faith
"laughs at impossibilities." and cuts its
way through every obstacle. The life of
Charles Goodyear illustrates this in an emi
nent degree. The Scientific American says:
YY'e presume that the story of his eventful
life will be made public in some more formal
mode, and we will not attempt fully to trace
the progress of his inventions. It was in
1834 that Mr. Goodyear turned his atten
tion to the manufacture of India rubber.
There was a mystery about this tropical
gum which gave it a strange charm to his
imagination. It was mat an article of com
merce. but appeared from time to time only
as a rare curiosity brought from foreign
lands. The savages who possessed it kept
the mode of its manufacture a profound se
cret. It was found only under the burning
sun of tbe equator, in the gloomy swamps of
unexplored Amazon, or the jungles of Asia
and Africa. Its nature was as mysterious
as its origin; the chemists who examined it
were baffled in their attempts to make it of
practical use. Ingenious men, abroad and
at home, had attempted to solve the mys
tery, but all had failed. That it was of im
mense value in the arts, to supply a thou
sand wants of civilized life, was obvious to
all, but the elastic gum kept its own myste
rious secret, and there was no clue to the
discovery.
To discover the secret aDd solve the prob
lem became the dream of Charles Goodyear's
life. The difficulties and failures which he
encountered only made it more dear to him.
He a.?kSd aid from men of science, but they
discouraged him; his associates abandoned
the pursuit iu despair; his friends, one after
another, left him, but he only clung the
closer to his cherished faith. In one of the
contests by which pirates of invention
sought to rob him of his rights, the veil was
half withdrawn from the life of the inventor,
and a few details of the privations which he
endured were given. He was in such ex
treme penury that his bed was sold from un
der him: he was so poor that it was said he
could not buy an ounce of tea on credit. In
the dead of winter there was no food in his
house, and no fuel for fire. This was not
the struggle of a few months only, but it
was the story of yeture; for it was not till
1844, after ten years of toil, that he perfect
ed patented his discovery. His labor,
however, did not cease, and even to the
hour of his death he was devoted to his fa
vorite pursuit on which he lavished the im
mense sums which he received from his pat
cots. His life was subject to the strangest
; vicissitudes' He went from a poor debtors'
prison to a palace in Paris. The man who
| was an object of cold contempt in an obscure
tillage, on account of his poverty, received
the Grand Cross of the legion of Honor
| from the Emperor Napoleon as a reward of
i his genius. In Europe as well as in Ameri
; ea. his name was honored and his merits ap-
I predated, but to the hour of his death he
was the same enthusiastic and patient inven-
tor. Charles Goodyear has well been called
: the American Palissy, and to his last hour
he acted cm the principle that God did not
= create him to leave him idle.
I WHO becomes every day more sagacious
in observing his own faults, and the pcrfec
; tions of another, without cither envying
j him, or despairing of himself, is ready to
| mount the ladder on which angels ascend
j and descend.
VOL. It: XO. 31
SURROUNDINGS OF THE THEATRE
We have seen with our own eyes a once
quiet aud orderly portion of a great city
thoroughfare so changed in character by the
opening of a theatre there as to make it any
thing but pleasant, if not often actually
unsafe, for a woman to pass the spot after
nightfall without a protector. With what sin
gular constancy the gin-palace, the gambling
hell and the house of the lost woman make
their appearance in its vicinity! How conn s
it that these means and appliances of dissipa
tion and vice so constantly spring up in the
place whither theatre-goers resort? Why do
these breathing-holes of perdition open their
devouring mouths around the theatre as
naturally as ashes gather about the crater of
a volcano? Dr. Bellows admits that "the
immorality and recklessness of society, its
folly and vice, have clustered around the
theatre. ' Now why is this, if not because
"'birds of a feather flock together?" As
long as the theatre attracts such a compan
ionship, na sophistries of special pleading
will persuade thinking minds that the source
of attraction is other than the sympathy
that naturally springs up between similari
ties of taste and character.
C>f the French Revolution the celebrated
Edmund Burke writes: "While courts of
justice were thrust out by Jacobin tribunals,
and silent churches were only funereal mon
uments of departed religion '—when Paris
"was like a den of outlaws —a lewd tavern
for revc-l and debaucheries ' —there were in
that city "no fewer than twenty eight thea
tres crowded every night!" From debau
chery, blasphemy and butchery in the day
time to the theatre at night—from the the
atre at night back to butchery, blasphemy
and debauchery in the day-time! What is
there in the theatre that can adapt itself to
tastes and passious so beastly? Are schools
of virtue, are our churches so facile, plastie
and pliant?— Rev. IF. P. Breed, D. D.
LAWYERS.
Two doctors in the law came to Luther
at Wittenberg, whom he received and salu
ted in this manner. "O ye canonists! I
could well endure you, if ye meddied only
with imperial, and not with Popish laws.
But ye maintain the Pope and his canons.
I would give one of my hands on condition
all Papists and canonists were compelled to
keep the Pope's laws and decrees; I would
wish them no worse a devil
"The bishop of Mayence cannot boast,
that with a good conscience he has three
bishoprics; but ye maintain it to be lawful
and right. Ye doctors who meddle with
Popish laws are nothing; therefore, a doc
tor in the Popish laws is nothing; he iss
cbimers, a monster, a fable, nothing. A
doctor in the imperial laws is half lame, he
has had a stroke on the one side; the Pope's
laws and decrees altogether stink of ambi
tion. of pride, of self-profit, oovetonsness,
superstition, idolatry, tyranny, and such
like blasphemies.
"Ye that are studying under lawyers, fol
low not your preceptors in abuses or wrong
eases, as if a man could not be a lawyer un
less he practised such evil. God has not
given laws to make out of right wrong, and
oat of wrong right, as the unchristian-like
lawyers do who study law only for the sake
of gain and profit.
"Every lawyer is sorely vexed at me be
cause 1 preach so harshly against the craft;
but I say, I, as a preacher, must reprove
what is wrong and evil. If I reproved them
as Martin Luther, they need not regard me,
but forasmuch as Ido it as a servant of
Christ, and speak by God's command, they
ought jo hearken unto me; for if they repent
not, they shall everlastingly be damned; but
I, when I have declared their sins, shall be
excused. If I were not constrained to give
an account for their souls, I would leave
them unreproved."— Luther t Table Talk.
DOES IT PAY TO SMOKE.
Pecuniarily considered, of course it does
not pay to smoke. It costs the world an
nually five hundred million dollars for tobac
co. And this connects the use of the weed
with higher considerations, for this comes
out of the world's surplus fund, out of which
comes the means of extending civilization.
In the United States, moreover, four hun
dred thousand acres of land are exhausted by
tobaoeo, which should be devoted to grain
for the thousands who have needed it the
past winter.
One strong point made bv Mr. Parton is
that tobacco is the enemy of women. Not
only because its filthiness keeps men away
from the sex and makes them seek the com
pany of each other to indulge the habit, bnt
because it manhood. The point is
simply this:—Tobacco, by disturbing and
impairing vitality, tends to vitiate the rela
tions between the sexes, tends to lessen
man's interest in woman and his enjoyment
of her society and enables him to endure
and be contented with, and finally even to
prefer the companionship of men. Pat that
thought into your pipe and smoke it
Among the great men of our country who
did not smoke, were Washington. Franklin
and Jefferson. Washington Irving was not
a smoker, though nobody ever drew such de
lightful pictures of lusty Von Twillers en
veloped in clouds of tobacco smoke. Goethe
never smoked, nor could he have smoked
and remained Goethe. The man so perfect
in bodv, so lofty and splendid in intellect,
and so grand in character coald not have
been a smoker.
SO I NI) VS. SIGHT.
I dare say you have often notieed, when in
company, that, on being introduced to a
very plain looking lady, you found it difficult
to avoid saying to yourself "'What an
unattractive person!' at the same time in
tuitively shrugging your shoulders and
expressing j our belief that you will never
like her. Presently, however, you hear
her relating, in sweet, melodious tones, some
affecting incidents. The soft intonation of
her voice acts as a charm on your feelings
and you think, after all, she is not so very
plain-looking as you at first imagined In
fact, you repeat to yourself '"Whata nice
woman that person is!"' Now, on the other
hand, take a pretty-looking female, whose
fine forehead, artistically pencilled eyebrows
ana exquisitely small mouth strike you as
being wonderfully beautiful and preposses
sing. You think no human creature can be
fairer. When, however, you hear her speak
in a harsh and haughty strain, using bitter,
scornful words where reproaches were not
called for, the mach-prired loveliness ap
pears to vanish, and an unfavorable impres
sion, too frequently of a lasting character,
is produced.
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MAXIMS FOR YOUNG LADIES.
Don't scream unless you are frightened.
A narrowness of waist shows a nar
rowness of mind.
It is a fine silk that knows no turning.
Practice (on the piano) makes perfect.
An old maid is an odd boot —no use with
out a fellow.
The true test of a man's temper is to
keep him waiting ten minutes for his
dinner.
Never faint when you are alone. Always
select some good opportunity—or young
man. The more persons there are about
you, the successful will beyour fit. A
woman should not only faint well, but be
above suspicion.
The hand that can make a pie is a
continual feast to the husband that marries
it
Dreams are the novels that we read when
we are fast asleep.
Eyes are the electric telegraph of the heart,
and will send a message any distance, in a
language only known to the two souls who
correspond.
Sleight of hand performance—the girl
that rejects an offer of marriage.
WHAT WILL YOU SAY THEN?
While Hopu. a young Sandwich Islander,
was in America, he spent an evening in a
company where an infidel lawyer tried to
puzzle him with difficult questions. At
length the native said:
"I am a jwor heathen boy. It is not
strange that my Wanders in English should
amuse you. But soon there will be a larger
meeting than this. We shall all be there.
They will ask us all one question, namely:
'Do you love the Lord Jesus Christ?' Now,
sir, I think 7 can say yes. What will you
sav, sir?"
When he hau stopped, all. present were
silent. At length the lawyer said that, as
the evening was far gone, they had better
conclude it with prayer, and proposed that
the native should pray He did" so: and as
he poured out his heart to God. the lawyer
could not conceal his feelings. Tears start
ed from his eyes, and he sobbed aloud. All
present wept too. and when they separated,
the words, ' What will you say. sir?' fol
lowed the lawyer home, and did not leave
him till he was brought to our Saviour.
MUFFLING THE THROAT.
What is the best mode of protecting the
throat from eolds where a person is very
susceptible to them?
The common way of protecting the throat
is to bundle and wrap it up closely, thus
over-heating and rendering it tender and
sensitive, and more liable to eolds and in
flammations than before. This practice is
all wrong aud results in much evil. Espe
cially is this the case with children, and
when, in addition to the muffling of the
! throat, the extremities are insufficiently clad
' as is often the ease, the best possible condi
tions are presented for the production of
sore throats, coughs, croups, and all kinds
of threat and lung affections. It is utterly
impossible to entirely exclude cold air from
the neck, and if it is kept overheated a por
tion of the time, when it is exposed some
fona of derangement of the throat will be
very apt to occur. The rule in regard to
clothing the neck should be to keep it as cool
as comfort will allow. By doing so you will
suffer much less from throat ailments than if
you are always fearful of having a little cold
air come in contact with your neck. Any one
who has been accustomed to have his throat
muffled should he careful to leave it off
gradually, and not all at once.— Herald of
Health.
FOOTPRINTS or THI GREAT. —Few foot
prints of the great remain in the sand before
the ever-flowing tide. Long ago it washed
oat Homer's. Cariosity follows him in vain.
Greece and Aria perplex as with a rival
Stratford upon-Avon. The rank of Ar
istophanes is only conjectured from Ms gift
to two poor players in Athens. The age
made no sign when Sbakspeare, its noblest
son, passed awar. His birth, marriage,
authorship, and his retirement compose
bis biography. Of every country and
season the complaint is felt and uttered.
Precious would be the journal by a Floren
tine de Foe, or the in-door occupations of
Dante. Think of beholding, as in a glass,
Macchiavelli living along the lines of his
political web; Galileo watching the moon
plough her way across the clouds; or Tasso,
with Polybius in his Land, marshalling the
knights of Godfrey.— WiUmott"* Pleasures
of Literature.
TOE PIXFIT AND DIVORCE.— The Dio
cesan Convention of the Episcopal Church
in Connecticut have petitioned the Legisla
ture, now in session, to make such a revis
ion of the existing law of divorce as shall
remove the reproach under which the fair
fame of the State now suffers, and shall se-
inr the marriage tie ail the sanctions
with which the civil law can invest, it, and
which, in view of the paramount obligations
of the divine law, it seems to be the clear
anty of a Christian State to provide.
SCMMER DRINKS.— The best summer
beverage is cold water, ice-cold if you will;
but by all means grasp the glass by the band
take a swallow at a time remove the glass
from the lips for a few seconds, then take
another swallow; in this way it will be found
that the thirst will be thoroughly satiated
before half the water has been taken;
whereas, if h had been swallowed contin
uously, the whole contents would not have
satisfied the thirst.
TARGETS ASD MARKSMEN.— It has been
found, while firing at the running-man tar
get at Wimbledon, which is scarlet on ono
side and grey on the other, that the scarlet
dairies the eye, and is hence the most diffi
cult to hit, from leaving a red streak behind
it. in its advance, which unsettles the aim.
The grey ride was struck 74 times, and the
red only 42 times. It is a curious fact, too,
it seems, that those with grey eyes hit fairer
than those with eyes of the other color.
PARISH DOCTOR —Well, nurse, how go the
patients? Nurse—Oh pretty well, sir there's
eleven dead! Parish Doctor—Ftevea ! Only
eleven? Why, I left medicine for twelve.
Nurse —Yea, air, I know; but one was so
refractory he wouldn't take his n.
WERE it not for the searching drought
we should not appreciate the refreshing
shower. With less conflict, we would have
' less victories: with less trial, less joy.