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Long he prayed, Smiting his breast; then, as the Book he laid Open before him for the Bath-Col's choice, Pausing to bear that Daughter of a Voice, Behold the Royal preacher's words: "A friend Loveih at all times, yea, unto the end; And for the evil day thy brother lives." Marvelling, he said: "It is the Lord who gives Counsel in need. At Kcbatana dwells Rabbi Ben Isaac, who all men excels In righteousness and wisdom, as the trees Of Lebanon the small weeds that the bees Bow with their weight. I will arise and lay My sins before him." And be went his way Barefooted, fasting long, with many prayers - , But even as one who followed unawares; Suddenly in the darkness feels a hand i Thrill with its touch his own, and his cheek j fanned. ■ By odors subtly sweet, and whispers near Of words he loathes, ytt cannot choose but hear; !So, while the Rabbi journeyed chanting low The wail of David's penitential woe. Before him still the old temptation came, j And mocked him with the motion and the ! shame. I Of such desires, that, shuddering be abhorred Himself; and, crying mightily to the L< rd ' To free his soal, and cast the demon out, ' Smote with his staff the blackness round | about. ' At length, in the low light of a spent day, The towers of Ectabana far away Rose on the desert's rim: und Nathan faint And foot-sore, pausing where, for some dead saint, The faith of Islam raised a domed tomb, Saw some one kneeling in the shadow, whom He greeted kindly: "May ihe Holy One Answer thy prayers, O stranger!" Whereupon The shape stood up with a loud cry, and then. Clasped in each other's arms, the two gray men Wept, praising Him whose gracious provi dence Made their paths one; but straightway, as thc sense Of his tiansgresaion smote him, Nathan tore Himself away: "O, friend, beloved, no more Worthy am 1 to touch thee, for I came, ! Foul from my sing, to tell thee all my shame. ; Haply thy prayers since naught availelh mine. ; I May purge my soul, and make it white like ' thine; j Pity me, 0 Ben Isaac, I have sinned!" i Awe struck Ben Isaac stood. The deseit wind Blew his long mantel backward, laying bare The mournful secret of his shirt of hair 1 "I too, fiieud if uot in act," be said, "In thought have verily sinned. Hast thou | not read, | "Belter the eye should see than that desire Should wander?' Burning with a hidden fire j That tears and prayers quench oot, I come to thee For pity and for help: as thou to rne Pray for me, Omy friend!" But Nathan cried "Pray thou for me, Ben Isaac!" Side by side. In the low sunshine by the tnrban stone They knelt; each made his brother's woe his ; ; own, ' Forgetting in the agony and stress ! Of pitying love bis claim of selfishness; \ Peace, for his friend besought, his own be came: i His prayers were answered in another's name; j And when at last they rose to embrace, 1 loach saw God's pardon in his brother's face ! - Long after, when bis headstone gathered moss, Traced on the targum marge of Onkelos j In Rabbi Nathan's hand these words were I read: "Hope not the cure of sin till self is dead: i Forget it in love's service, and the debt | Thou canst not pay the angels shall forget; Heaven's gate is shut to him who comes i alone; Save thou a soul, and it shall save thine : own!" — Atlantic Monthly for October. pijSfriliiufou.s. The KING of THE FRENCH PRESS. The following is translated from the | German Dahtim: F.MILE DE GIR.IRDIN. The Presne created, from the first, a great | sensation in the newspaper world of France, i What party M. de Girardin'a journal be : longed, to, nobody could tell. Girardin was i not the man to subordinate himself to any ! party; he was bound to have a party of his own; he had to create it, lead it, and render it daily more numerous; and this party lie called no less cynically than cleverly, tin .party of the tnbtcriLeci! 11.- published in his paper whatever was spicy, and satisfied the incessantly renewed thirst of his readers S for excitiog and startling news. It was he who introduced in France popular medi cines by the side of popular science, aud the local gossip of the Prcste encroached 1 very stroDgiy upon a field hitherto held exclusively by the Gazette Jet Tribunaux, . Rising men he would pet, when they resembled his own energetic, adven turous and irrepressible character; but the editor and proprietor of the Prase detested all those quiet, timid and modest men, who, . being possessed of genuine talents, shrank from puffing themselves into notoriety. ! Girardin was the inventor of that well known system which kilis public men, as it were, by never mentioning their names. He issued the most stringent orders to his ! assistant editors and reporters not to mention the names of such men as were under his displeasure, aud if they disobeyed him, be discharged them immediately, M. de Gi- I rardiu completely ignored such mea in his : ! paper, which at one time had 120,0<j0 sub bribers, even though all Paris took the ' utmost interest in them; and it is said that , more than one distinguished statesman, < who otherwise bade defiance to the storms ;of the Tribune and to public opinion, bowed their heads before the editor of the ! Prase. We will mention here two names 1 which will certainly surprise our readers; { Guizot and Thiers. HIS DUEL WITH M. DEGOUVE DENTNCQUES. When the other journalists perceived that . their attacks upon the Prase resulted only 1 in adding to the subscription list of that paper, they attacked M. de Girardin per- j sonally, and scarcely a week elapsed but that an offended author believed he had the right of sending a ch'lleDge to him. M. de Girardin, however, was not lung in obtain ing the privilege of being able to reject all challenges. He had already fought fuur duels when M. Degouve Denuncques aocus- j ed him publicly of having sold kitu.-eif and his journal to the government. The social standing tf the accuser, whose personal re lations were koown to be auch as to enable BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY, NOV. 6. 1868. him to ascertain many things which were kept secret from a great many others, im | parted a special importance to his charge. | Girardin could not wait until public opinion would compel him to demand : satisfaction for this terrible insult, but he ; had to anticipate it; for the first time in his iife he did not accept, but sent a challenge; for the first time in his career as a journalist J gross injustice seemed to have been done him, and M. de Girardin was by no means I willing not to turn this wrong to account, j M. Degouve Dcuuncques immediately ac cepted the challenge to fight a pistol duel '• with Girardin. He was said to be an ex cellent shot, and for twenty-four hours Gi rardin was really in danger without know | ing it or being informed thereof by his ■ friends. On the duelling ground where : lots were drawn in order to settle the ques tion which of them was to fire first, this danger was much increased, the adversary of ibe editor of the Presse having drawn the lucky lot, M. Degouve Denuncques sai<L at a soiree on the eve ot the duel, "I am satisfied that ( I shall render a service, not only to France, ; but to mankind, by shooting this man; for Girardin is no man, but a disease that will soon extend beyond the frontiers of France and poison the life blood of literature," And he tired with a calm conscience and steady hand at this man whose life seemed j doomed, and — missed him. Not a muscle quivered in the journalist's face, and when | his seconds signed to him that it was time for him to shoot he took his pistol in his left hand, bowed coldly to his adversary, and fired into the air. Boundless rage seized De gouve; he demanded that Girardin should fire once more at him; but Girardin sternly , refused to do so. "I am ready," he said, j "to begin the duel afresh; but nothing will induce roe to fire at that gentleman." All Paris, as was to be expected, was in commotion, and the Prase gained thousands of new subscribers. 31. de Girardin, who had succeeded in securing to himself, by this duel, a position in which the most scru pulous man of honor could not have found A flaw, of course did not fail to use it as muck as possible to piomoto his own interests. Journalism, then much different from what it is now, found itself seriously threatened; and not only journalism, but also book pub lishers and book sellers, inasmuch as Girar din had invented the feuilleton of the Pari- j sian world, and bought the best and most ! interesting works of popular novelists at prices which seemed absolutely fabulous to the booksellers of that period. RECONTRE BETWEEN GIBARDIN AND CARREL ! We have to mentioo now a decisive epi sode iu Girardin's life, which, it was at first believed, would become the turning point of bis career, but which, so far as he was con cerned, only served to fasten his life irrevo cably to the lamentable path which he had entered. Aruiand Carrel, the managing ; editor of Le National, the ablest and best ; journalist of his time, and, withal, a noble and true-hearted man, could no longer put up with the attacks which the editor of the Presse made upon him; he sent him a ehal ltnge, and when his friends rebuked him for it, he replied. "As long as society has no laws yet to banish ruch a man from its midst the duel is the only way remaining to us for vindicating our wounded honor." The duel took place, Carrel fired first, and his bullet struck Girardin above the knee. With a trembling band and dimmed glance Girardin pulled his trigger, and Ar mand Carrel, whom death had spared in so many battles, fell shot through the abdomen and uttering a groan of pain. He was car ried, almost lifeless, pat the spot where Girardin's surgeon was dressing his wound in the leg. Girardin, lifting his head, and seeing Carrel's features distorted with pain, said in a low, compassionate voice, "I am afraid you are suffering much pain, 31. Car rel." The dying editor, summoning his last strength, raised himself up and said in a husky voice, yet with a clear and almost radiant glance, "God grant, 31. de Girardin that you may never have to suffer more from your wound than I am suffering from my mortal wound !" Even Girardin's seconds hung their heads, and Girardin himself fainted. Carrel died on the following day. Fortunately for Girardin, bis recovery lasted several months, so that time lessened the impression which this dreadful occur rence produced, even on the minds of the frivolous public of Paris. He, or at least his newspapers, would certainly have suc cumbed to the general indignation. After his recovery lie took a solemn pledge which, it is no more than just to say, he has ful filled in the most scrupulous manner; ho swore never to touch a weapon again. He , could do so without incurring the sneers of the French, for he had fought six duels, and as even his adversaries admit, always displayed the utmost intrepidity. Already, in the following year, this vow was to be tested in a very trying manner, , wben Bergeron, the author, boxed his ears at the grand opera, in the presence of the eourt and tho cream of Parisian society, ! Girardin did not challenge him, and the j courts alone avenged the insults heaped on the editor of the Presse. WE have no room to follow the career of the Presse, step by step. A journal without ; fixed principles, and whose sole object is to obtain more and more subscribers, and for this purpose now flatters public opinion and now boldly defies it, such a journal has a history on which a whole work might be written. PERSONAL HISTORY OF GIRARDIN. 31. de Girardin is now a mtllionnaire. Journalists no longer dare to oppose hint; i all of them hate him, most of them even ! despise hint, and yet all of them bow to his indisputable influence over public opinion. Suddenly the storm of tho great year 1848 tweaks out — tho storm which M. de Girar- j din has foreseen, and which he skillfully I avoids by resiguing his scat in the chamber 1 two weeks liefore the outbreak of the revo- ; lution. At the first symptom of the great political convulsion he hastens to the Tuil eries, aud the advice which he dares to give the King, and which is, of coarse, contempt uously rejected, is the only correct and ac- • ceptable one, and is carried into execution thirty-six hours afterward, when it is al ready too late. The editor of the Presse demanded the abdication of King Louis : Phillippe, the regency of the Duchess of Orleans, and a liberal Cabinet. When- all j this was granted, it was already too late. ! The throne of the son of Phillip Egalite sank in ruins, and the republic, with La martine, took possession of the old royal ! palace. The Presse now becomes a socialist j organ, defends the cause of the laborers j against their employers, and M. de Girardin finds this so good a speculation that be re ceives a host of new subscriptions, and Gen. Cavaignac, upon whom the National As sembly has conferred discretionary powers, has bim arrested during the June riot, aud imprisons hiui for eleven days. Girardin revenges himself, after his release, by pla cing the whole influence of his journal at the disposal of Prince Loui* Napoleon, whose candidacy for the Presidency he supports in the most vigorous manner. When General Cavaignac withdraws from the adininistra j tion, and the present Emperor takes the helm of the Republic, Girardin Itecomcs a very influential man; the Prase , howeverT seeuis to be going down; during the Presi dency, its circulation dwindles down to eight thousand copies, and the old manocuver of joining the opposition seems to have lost its efficacy. The coup d'etat takes place, and the modern Caesar plays Girardin a shabby trick by paying no attention to him, and thereby discrediting him entirely with the public. As soon a* order has been re-estab lished, Girardin seizes once more the helm of the Press? , raises its subscription list by superhuman efforts to thirty-five thou-aud copies, and having achieved this result, be i sells the paper for four hundred thousand : francs. I mil 1859 ho withdraws from journalis \ tic life, and devotes himself entirely tospeo I ulations; he buys a great many houses in old streets, at low prices, and, strangely enough, after a time, all these streets are ordered to be torn down by the city, which, as is well known, indemnifies the proprietors of the houses in the most liberal manner. It is generally known that M. de Girardin amassed enormous sums by these specula tions. We are not aware what else M. de Girardin was doing during this time; but we know for certain that in 1859, he had a for tune yielding him at the very lowest calcu lation, three hundred thousand francs a year. In the following year he bought the Presse, which was now vegetating with six thousand subscribers, for seventy thousand francs, and the mere announcement that the paper has passed again, into his haud procures to it, in the first week, ten thou sand new subscribers. After the Italian war Girardin saw that a new field opened in France to a party of lib eral Bonapartists, so ho leaned toward Prince Napoleon, and underbid auspices he was so prosperous that, two years ago, he was able to sell the Presse for three times as much as he had given for it, M. de Girardin is now sixty- two years old. He is one of the richest men in France, and his name is sure to live in the history of bis country. Alter the death of his first wife i he married a lady descended, it is sail, on the side of her father, from a German dy nasty lately deprived of its sovereignly. He has realized the most fabulous dream which a child, disownej both by bis father acJ mother, ever had. The world, always wor shiping mammon, considers him a high priest of its idol; and yet this man is. per haps, the unhappiest mortal whom God's sun shines. Carrel s agony lasted twenty four hours before God delivered him from his torments; Girardin's pain has been gnawing for years past at bis mind, and the more be plunges into the whirlpool of public life, the more erushingly falls upon bim the idea that all his labors, all his struggle* for wealth have been in vain, lie bad five times the joy of being a father, and, as hisfriendssay.it was the most rapturou joy which the man, whom his adversaries declare to be destitute of the heart and eon-cience, ever experienced in his life. -'A million for a son!" he is said to have ex claimed at his second wedding; and God gave him this son, and eighteen months afterward there opened a sixth grave, into which was laid the last hope of the realiza tion of his fondest wish. He locked himseif in his room for a whole month after his son's death; no one, not even his wife, was admitted to him; and when he reappeared one dav, pale and hag gard, he bought the Liberie, which had only twenty-five hundred subscribers, and which has now upward of ten times as many. THE NEW MIDDLE STATES, The Atlantic Almanac, for 1869, contains an article on that p>art of our Republic drain ed by the Mississippi, which on many ac counts is worthy of attention, a* connected with the future prospects of increase and wealth of tho whole country. Not very long after the settlement of Boston, persons employed to explore the country they had done so, as far as they believed would ever be necessary, which was about seven miles west of the colleges at Cambridge. This to them was the beginning of the great West. Settlements afterwards made in the vailey of the Connecticut removed the limit a little further. The Indian wars and the Revo lution carried it to the Ohio, in our latitude, and to the Mohawk, further north; then it soon advanced to the Mississippi, and still further away beyound the Missouri; and the Mexican war aud the discovery of gold in California removed the boundary of our great West to the Pacific OoeaD. The State in the valleys watered by the Mississippi aud its tributaries may, therefore, now be justly termed our "Middle States." The Atlantic seaboard ot the United States extends about 2,500 miles, and the Mississippi and its tributaries open up an inland navigation of 30,000, miles, upon the bosom of which is now floating an amount of commerce three times as great in value as the whole foreign commerce of the coun try. In former times the trade with foreign ports was looked upon as our most import ant interest. It is now dwarfed by the transportation and handling of domestic produce for domestic markets. In 1860, the entire produce of the United States was $1,900,000. Its exports were less.than one fifth of this amount, leaving four fifths to be exchanged between the States. It has been said that at the presant time, not more than one fifteenth of the business of New York city is based upon foreign com merce. The Mississippi drains 1,685,000 square miles, which is more than half-the unmbcr of square miles in the whole United States, and the surface contains 768,000,000 of acres of the finest land in the world. It has space for one hundred and fifty States of the size of Massachusetts, and were its population iu the same proportion, it would contain more than five times the present population of the whole United States. At this time not more than one acre in five is under cultivation, and the vast resources of coal and minerals have hardly begun to bo fairly developed. The fourteen States which | comprise this region claim (though this I witbout reason) that they pay more than one-halj the taxes, and that they work more J than half the improved land, and have a 1 majority of the population of the United •States. Tho value of the annual commerce of the 3lissi.,hippi is estimated at $2,000,- 000.000, and the Agricultural Bureau, ba sing its calculations upon past results, esfi , mates that in the year 1900 the cereal pro- \ | ducts of the West will amouutto more than | j 3,000,000,000 bushels. The values of crops, as well as of the pro ductions of the mine and the forest, depend ! mainly on facilities for transportation, either I natural or artificial. The Mississippi is but one of the outlets of the vast region through j which it passes. The great lakes open a j wide belt of the country, and canals and railroads bring almost every farm within > ea.-y distance of natural navigation. The | estimated cost of conveying a ton of mcr ' • chcndise a mile on thfe ocean, is from half | a cent to one and a half cents; on the lakes, ; ; two cents; on the river two and three fourths cent,-; on the canals two to five cents; and I on the railroads from three cents to thirteen : and a half cents. Of the amount of grata | received at Chicago, seventy-five per cent conies by railway; but from that city only ten per cent, is sent ea*t by rstl, wbil.-t ninety per cent, is sent by the lakes. The roer | chants, manufacturers and consumers of the ; East have an interest in reducing the cost 1 ; of transporta'ion to the lowest po-sible point, and this can most easily be effected by iui proving the water communications. Cheap transportation is a vital necessity to our : whole country, and it it is secured, the re ! sources and fertile regions even further west, will be developed as surely as time endures, and more rap>idly than we can at present imagine, WHAT the ARMY nnd NAVY COST L'S. The estimates for the current year of the j United States government for army and navy together are fifty-seven millions of dollars in currency—equal to forty millions of dollars in gold. These are big figures to be sure; but comparing tbem with the expenditures of France for her army and navy, they arc- not BO extravagant as they i look. This year France, with a much smaller population than we have, will spend cne hundred millions of dollars in gold more than we do, on these two depart i meuts of the public service alone. With the same amount of debt and annua! pro duction. .-he spends in time of peace tw:c3 ] as much a* we do, and her army an i navy expenses are three and a half times as large as our own. Considering that the "Em pire is at Peace," figures like these dwarf our national extravagance almost to parsi mony. Of course Napoleon holds the dubious advantage of being always prepared for war. He has at this moment, ready to 1 i respond to the first cannon -hot, one million two hundred thousand soldiers, equal to any ! the world ever knew, one-fifth more thau > the whole number we disbanded when our ; "late unpleasantness" was over. Another t evidence of the perfection (and costliness) of | the French military system, is afforded hy dro fact that not only at the Navy but also at the War office, a committee of superior officers meet every week to discuss all mat- ' ters affecting the progress of their profes- I sions, and to examine the reports of cor respondents from the principal States in the world, as to the doings of those Power-. ! For the last two weeks, the War office has , ; hi c:i oec-upied with the subjects of military i ; telegraphy and ballooning, and are said to I i have before tlrm a plan to remedy that ; great drawback to working the wires on tho battle fields, viz: the injury caused by. i horses and carriage wheels. A synopsis of : the proceedings is forwarded to the Emperor j next day. Under the direction of this ; i committee, experiments take pla e nightly ; with the new tuitraille, the effects of which . j are terribly destructive. Altogether, peace | in France must be almost as costly a thing J as war in this country — Keening Star. ! EXTRAORDINARY EXPERIMENT WITH PLANCHETTK. A few evi nings since a young gentleman j ; made a purchase of one of these tell-tale ! machines, and repaired to tie residence of; I a young lady, on Walnut street, to whom j he was paying his addresses, with the hope j | that Planchette would reveal to him what 1 : he had failed to obtain from his fair dulci- j I ness. After arriving at the house he man aged to introduce Planchette, and aceord ing'y they arranged themselves at tha table, and succeeded in receiving answers that sat isfied their minds that Planchette was but too well acquainted with the affairs of the world and what lies in the future. Km | boldcncd by success, the lady propounded, j mentally, sundry questions, and very prompt answers were returned. As a matter of course, the manipulator being a young lady, her first inquiry was, "Shall I ever marry?" "Yes," promptly came from Planchette. "33 hen ?" "Two years." "To whom?" "S B." "Shall we tc happy?" "Perfectly, i "Shall we have children?" "Yes." "Boys and girls?" "How manv f" Planchette i was deliberate, evincing no haste, desirous i of making no mistake in his figures, but i wrote with considerable distinctness, "S-e-v --! on t," when the young lady shoved the io ; dtrnment from her with force that it fell ! upon the floor, and divided in half by the fall. 33' bather Planchette intended "seven ! teen," or "seventy" was not determined, I aud we presume time alone can discover the ; entire answer. | THE most signal benefit the South will derive from the election of General Grant, ' after the establishment of order, will be the appreciation of real estate. The bulk of the iand in many states south of 3 irginia is worthless. That is, as an investment tho profits would not pay the taxes. 33 hy it is so every one knows. The remedy for the glaring defect is also palpable. Natural ; qualities belong to the soil which make it J valuable; natural advantages pertain to the whole section not found elsewhere The basis of wealth in any country is its reality. An increase of $5 per acre on Southern land will lie a Golconda to its people- It will be worth more than a decade of cotton and sugar crops, because it will not take to itself wings. A GOOD conscience is the best looking : glass of heaven: in which the soul may see : Gtd's thoughts and purposes concerning it, reflected as so many shining stars. DON'T touch the lute when drums are re sounding. A wise man remains silent when j fools arc speaking. VOIs. 41: NO. 42 EARTHQUAKE IN CALIFORNIA. Further details of the destruction of prop- I erty in the interior of the State, by the earthquake of October 21st, have been re ceived at San Francisco. Alameda county suffered the most, the damage to property extending in all directions. Back of Sau Lcandro there were numer ous fissures in the earth, from some of which i 'ame clouds of dust and from ethers vol , umcs of water. San Lenndro creek, which was dry for months, is now a rapidly run ning stream. From some places hot water still gushes | forth. The villages of San Loamlro and Ilayward are almost in ruins. The brick buildings are all down, or uninhabitable, and numerous wooden structures are much damaged. At Ilayward only one brick buiiding remains uninjured. Alameda, Brooklyn and Orfean. all suf fered severely. The destruction of property at San Jose and Brashear City is grout. The friiek and adobe homes of the Mission of rian Jo.-e are a mass of ruins. : At Stockton and Mary.-ville the injury to buildings was slight. Fetoluma, Health-burg, Santa Rosa, Val lejo and Martinez felt the frill force of the -hock. Chimneys and fire walls were thrown down and much damare was done t . prop ; erty. The loss is considerable at L • Apg-'do*. At Visallia the shock was -light and no damage was done. Santa Cruz, Monterey and Watsonvillc suffered little loss. In the State of Nevada the earthquake was scarcely felt. The San Francisco committee of archi tects, appointed bv the board of superinten dents, report the city hall unsafe, and it will have to be takeu down;'meanwhile the city officials and courts will find other quarters. The other city buildings are uninjured to any great extent. The school houses are not much damaged. The United States Marine Hospital has been condemned by the proper authorities, and will be demol ished. The patients are at pre nt encamp ed on the grounds adjoining the hospital. The custom house is wrecked to such an extent that probably it will not be occupied again. The officials have removed tempo rarily to Ileywood's building, in 'California j street. An annv of laborer 3 ls at work to day on the shattered buildings and rem: v- j ing the debris from the streets. The merchants show no disposition to . abandon their property or the location, some j of the structures are being taken down and others repaired. The vicinity of the wreck ed.buildings is a busy scene. The shock that occurred on the morning of the 23d October, caused additional dam age to the injured buildings. Some chim neys of the different manufactories, which suffered considerably by the first -hock, will now have to be demolished and rebuilt. No definite estimate of the damage to property can lie made until a proper survey of the entire city is made. Some person | estimate the loss at $300,000, and other- at $2,000,000. The latter figure is probably nearest the loss. BEAUTY AND BRAINS. Meu do not eare for brains in excess in women. They like a sympathetic intellect which can follow them, and seize their thoughts as quick as thc-y are uttered, but they do not much care for any clear or spe cial knowledge of facts; and even the most philosophic among tbem would rather be set right in a classical quotation, an astronomical calculation, or the exact bearing of a politic al question by a lovely being in tarlatine whom he was graciously unbending to in struct. Neither do they want anything strong-minded. To most men, indeed, the temiriiue strong miudedness that can discus immoral problems without blushing, and despise religious observances as useful only to weak souls, is a quality as unwomanly as , a well developed biceps or a huge fist would be. It is sympathy, not antagonism; it is companionship, not rivalry, still less su premacy, that they like in woman; and some women with brains as well as learning —understand this, and keep their blue stockings well covered by their petticoats. Others, enthusiasts of the freedom of thought and intellectual rights, -how theirs defiantly, and meet with their reward. Men shrink from them. liven clever men, able to meet them on their own ground, do not feel drawn to them, while all but high-class minds are dwarfed and humiliated by their learning and their moral courage. And this is what no man likes to feel in the pres ence of a woman, and because of her supe riority. But the brains most useful to wo man, and most befitting their work in life, are those which show themselves in com mon sense, in good judgment, and that kind of patient courage which enables them to bear small crosses and great trials alike with dignity and good temper. Mere intellect, j ual culture, however valuable it may be in itself, dees not reach to the worth of this kind of moral power, for as the true domain of woman is the home, and ber way of or dering her domestic life the best of her fac ulties, mere intellectual culture does not help in this, and, in fact, is often a hind rance rather than a help.— Saturday re vino TRIE —Dr. Franklin remarked that a man as often gets two dollars for the one he spends informing his mind, as he does for a dollar laid out in any other way. A man cats a pound of sugar and it is gone, and j the pleasure he has enjoyed is ended, but I ihe information he gets from a newspaper is treasured up to be enjoyed anew, ami to be used whenever occasion or inclination call for it. A newspaper is not the wi-dnro of one man or two men; it is the wisdom of the age. and of past ages too. A family without a newspaper is always a year behind the times iu general information; besides they can never think much nor find much to talk about. And then there are little ones growing up without any taste for reading. Who then, would be without a newspaper,—and who would read one regularly without paying for it? A TOCNO lady who teaches music in an academy in Western New York, sent an order to a publisher, recently, iu which she had spelled the words very poorly. She apologized by adding a postscript, as fbllows: "You must exkews this letter, as I pla bi note, but spel bi ear." A CHILD was asked, "What is faithflV — She answered, "Doing God swill, and ask ing no questions." | RATES OF ADVERTISING. All advert:>cment# for k than I • ' I® cents per line for each insertion, f-peeirf netleca one-half additional. All resolutions of Aasoeia rion., communications of a limited or indiridal 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 ?ale, are required hy law to be pub lished in botb papers. Edi;rial Notieaa ' 3 eenta per line. Ail Advancing duo aftcrfirsttoserta' D. A iiharal dieeouat Bale to yearly advertisers. $ moats. < months. 1 year One square $ 4.50 $ 1.00 PIS.OO Twe 5quare5................. 6.00 0.00 16.00 Three squares 0.00 12.00 20,3)0 One-fourth column U.OO 20.00 86.6# Half column 18.00 25.00 45.00 One c01umn......... 110.00 45.00 80.00 NV9IFUB. Between the time of the raw school rirl and that of the finished youDg lody ii a aLort season of the nymph, when the phy sical enjoyment of life is perhaps at its keen e-t, and a girl Is not afraid to use her iiuiba as nature meant her to use them, nor ashamed to take pleasure in her youth and strength. This is the time when a sharp run down a steep hill, with the chance of a tumble midway, is an exercise by no means objected to; when clambering over gates, stiles, and even crabbed stone walls, is not refused because of the undignified display of ankle which the adventure involves: when leaping a diteh comes in as one of the ordi nary accidents of a marsh-land walk; and when the fun of riding is infinitely enbauch ed if the horse is only half broken, or bare barked. The nymph, an out-of-door, breezy, healthy girl, more after the pattern of the Greek Oread than the amazon, is found only in the country: and for the roost part only in the remoter districts of the country. In j the town -he degenciates into fastness, ac i oordir.g to the law which makes evil merely I the misdirection of force, as dirt is only I matter in the wrong place. But amoug the mountains, in the secluded midland villages, or out • n the thinly-populated moorland tracts, the nymph may be found in the fuil perfection of her nature. And a very beau tiful kind of nature it is; though it is to bo feared that certain ladies of the stricter sort would call her "tern-boy," and that those of ttiil narrower way of thought, unable to distinguish between unconventionality and J vulgarity, would hold her to be decidedly : vulgar—which she is not —and would won der at her mother for "letting her go on so." Von fall upon the Dymph at all hours and in all seasons. Indeed, she boasts that no weather ever keeps her indoors, and prefers a little roughness of the elements to any thing too luscious or sentimental. A fresh wind, a sharp frost, a blinding fall of snow, or a pelting shower of rain, are all high jinks to the nymph, to whom it is rare fun to eotne in like a waterdog, dripping from •every hair, or shaking the snow in masses ; from her hat and cloak. She prefers this I kind of thing to the most suggestive beauty | of the moonlight, or to the fervid heats of summer, and thinks a long walk in the crisp -harp frost, with the leaves crackling under her feet, worth all the nightingales in the 1 wood. And yet she loves the spring and umraer too, for the sake of the fluwers and the birds and the leasts and the insects I they bring forth; for the nymph is almei-t i always a naturalist of the perceptive . nd ; self taught kind, and has a marvelous j faculty for finding out nests and rare habitats | and for tracking unu.-ual trails to their hid d-m homes. — From the London Saturday I Kevieic. | CAN TRAVEL LIKE "PIZEN." i The electric telegraph is bound to remain : a mystery to the million, and the ludicrous i conceptions of its modus operandi, which omc of the most ignorant people have ; formed, are as mirth provoking as anything out of Rupelia or Smoller. The last ilius ; tration of this that has fallen under our eyes, is the following story from the Pittsburg Journal: Not long since an old lady entered O'- Reilly's office, in one of our cities, and said she had a message to send to Wheeling. In a few minutes her note was deposited in a dumb waiter, and ascended in a mysterious manner through the ceiling. "Is that going straight to Wheeling inquired the old lady, with eyes bent on the ceiling. "Yes ma'am," answered the clerk. "I never was there, ' continued she, "but it bardly seems possible that the town lies in i hat direction. When wii! I get an answer, Mr. Telegraph?" "1 can scarcely tell, ma'am; it may be two or three hours.' The old lady went%w*y, and returned in exactly two hours. J ust as she entered the door, the dumb waiter came down through the ceiling. •There is your answer, ma'am." said the clerk. The old lady took the neat yellow envelop in her hands, with a smile of mingled grati fication and astonishment. "Now that beats all," exelaimed she. — "Bless my heart! all the way from Wheel ing, and the wafer still wet. That's an awkward looking box— but it can travel like pizen." TiiEl'niversity of Michigan, an institution that enjoys merited celebrity, has besn en joined for old fogyism. It appears that by a statute of ISOS the Board of Regents were required to appoint at least one profes sor of homoeopathy in the department of medicine. This they have persistently re fused to do. The Attorney General has presented his petition praying the regents to show cause why they omit to carry out the statute, and asking for a writ of manda mus to compel them so to do. The faith of the regents in homoeopathy must be weak, but in allopathy still weaker, when they de sire to shield it from competition with an adversary. Oue siege in a court room may serve to liberalize their views. A GOOD RULE. —A certain man, who is very rich now, was very poor when he was a hoy. When asked how he got his riches, he said: 'My father taught me never to play till my work was finished; and never to spend my money until I had earned it, If I had but an hour's work in a day, I must do that the first thing, and in an hour. And : after this I was allowed to play; and then I could play with much more pleasure than if I bad the thought of an unfinished task be fore my mind. I early formed the habit of everything in time, and it soon became easy to do so. It is to this I owo my pros perity." Let every one who reads this do likewise. A WELL-KNOWN author hung up his stocking in jest last Christmas Eve, and his wife, very much in earnest, put a baby in it; whereupon the author said, "My dear, dam that stocking." KNOW thyself is a Grecian maxim. The advantage of carrying it out is that you will always have an acquaintance at hand, if it isn't so gorgeous. A DEVOTEE of fashion predicts that auother season of short ball dresses, tight boots, and an agonized expression on the faces of the wearers, will bo the taehion.
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