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JOHN T. KEAGY,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Office opposite Reed A Schcli'i Bank,
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J MMMELL AND LINGENFELTEK,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BIPVOBD, PA.
llave formed a partnership in the practice of
(be Law, in new brick building near tbe Lutheran
Church. [April 1, 1864-tf
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ATTORNEY AT LAW, Banpoan, PA.
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f R. DUTIBORROW,
J . ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BfcRFORD, PA.,
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h riirer office, and nearly opposite tbe Mengel
IT use" April 2S, 1865:t
S.L. RUSSELL. J. H. LOX(i K>" ECK. E R
PI SSELL A LON6KVBCRBR,
I L ATTTORNBY* A COUNSELLORS AT LAW,
Bedford, Pa..
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for Pack Pav, Bounty, Pensions, Ac.
iff.ce on Juliana street, south of the Court
11-use. Aprilhtlyr.
J' M'N. SHARP* *.E. R. KERR
CUUKPE 4 KERR.
!0 A TTORSE T-LA H".
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MISCELLANEOUS.
OE. SHANNON, BANKER.
, BEDFORD, PA.
BANK OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT.
Collections made for the East, West, North aDd
Si uth, and the general business of Exchange
transacted. Notes and Accounts Collected and
Remittances promptly made. REAL ESTATE
I-, ugbt and sold. feb22
I \ANIEL BORDER,
1 J PITT STREET, TWO POORS WEST OF THE BED
r RD HOTEL, BEITORD, PA.
WATCHMAKER AND DEALER IN JEWEL
RY. SPECTACLES. AC.
He keeps on band a stuck of fine Gold and Sil
ver Watches, Spectacles of Brilliant Double Refin
ed Glasses. also Scotch Pebble Glasses. Gold
Watch Chains, Breast Pins, Finder Rings, best
quality of Gold Pens. He will supply to order
any thing in his line not od hand. [ tpr.2B/46.
< P. HARBAUGH & SO N,
Travelling Dealers in
NOTIONS.
In the county once every two months.
?Ell GOODS AT CITY PRICES.
Agents for the Cbambersburg Woolen Manufac
turing Company. Apl l:ly
n w. CROUSE,
* - • DEALER I!f
CIGARS, TOBACCO. PIPES, AC.,
On Put street >ne door east o* Geo. k. Oeter
ik Co. * Store. Bedford, Pa., is now prepared
to sell by wholesale all kinds of CIGARS. All
orders promptly filled. Persons desiring anything
in bis line will d< well to give him a call.
Bedford Oct 10. 'fifi.,
WASHINGTON HOTEL.
This b.rge and commodious house, having been
re taken by the subscriber, i> now open for the re
ception of visitors and oarder<*. Tbe rooat are
rge. well ventilated, and comfortably furnished.
Tbe table will always be supplied with the k *est
the a arket can afford. Tbe Bar is stocked with
the choicest liquors In short, it is my purpose
to keep a FIRnT CLASS HOTEL Thanking
the public for past favors, I respeetfully solicit a
renewal of their patronage.
N. B. Hacks will run constantly between the
Hotel and the Springs,
may 17. 67:1y WM. DJBERT, Prop'r.
OLOODY ROT
I > MARBLE WORKS.
R H. SIPES having established a manufactory
of Monuments, Tomb-stones, Table-Tops, Coun
ter slabs, Ac., at Bloody Ran, Bedford co., Pa.
and having on band a well selected stock of for
eign and American Marble, is prepared to fill all
orders promptly and do work iD a neat and work
- an like style, and on tbe most reasonable terms
A 1 work warranted, and jobe delivered to all parte
' this and adjoining counties without extra
apllfclj.
OFF AT COST!
BEADY-MADE CLOTHING,
CABSIMERES, HATS A CAPS,
AT COST.
<<lec3ai K. W. BEBK&IRESSEE.
JOHN LUTZf Editor and Proprietor.
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IfortNt.
BEAUTIFUL STANZAS.
1 here it no heart but ha'h it* inner anguish.
There is no eye bat haib with tears been wet.
There is no Toice but hath been beard to lan
guish
O'er hours ol darkness it can ne'er forget.
' There is no cheek however bright its roses,
i But perished buds beneath its hues are hid ;
: No eye in its dewy light reposes,
But broken star bean-B tremble neath its lid.
There is no lip. howe'er with laughterringing,
However light and gay its words may be,
But it bath trembled at some dark upspring
ing
1 Of stern affection and deep misery.
We are all brothers in this land of dreaming,
Yet nand meets hand, and eyatoeye replies;
Nor deem we that beneath a biow all beam
; ing
| The flower of life in broken beauty lies.
Oh ! blessed light that gilds our night of sor
row ;
Oh ! balm of Gilead, for our healing found ;
We know that peace will come with thee
to-morrow,
And that afflictions spring sot from the
ground.
MY LOVERS TWAIN.
Mr lovers twain—my lovers twain
I pray TOU let me be !
To wed you both I would be fain,
Only that may not be.
One lover is like music sweet,
That steals my heart away ;
And one is like the trumpet-blast,
Which calls me to the fray.
One is of gentle, courteous mind,
To low and high degree;
And one is stern and harsh of mood,
And meiteth Out to me.
One is so strangely loveable,
That but to touch his band
Do women kneel—before the one
Do men uncovered stand.
And if I this one do not wed,
He never wife will seek ;
And if that one I do not wed,
He sorrovieth a week.
My lovers twain —my lovers twain,
Ye should have let me be :
I love the one with all my heart —
Tbe other loveth me.
P bed la IK ous,
JAPANESE COINAGE.
The Mtchovtct Magazine gives the fol- i
lowi i g account r.f the decidedly primitive!
nn th otls L\ which Japanese -ilvci tu' Dev is
coined at the Government mint at Yeddo:
"A lump of silver of the necessary tine
ne-s, ob'ained ei'her from the Government
mines or by melting down Mexican dollars,
is placed in an iron ladle, and reduced to a
moben state by means of a charcoal fire snd '
a pair of blacksmith's bellows. It is then
poured into a mould, foui which it i- taken
out in the shape of thin ri ctungular bars, !
which are immediately thrown into a tub of;
cold water. On being taken out. a man
seated on the ground, shear- off. with a pair !
of la-ge fix'd scissors, all jagzed pieces ad- i
hering to the angles. They are now handed
to another man. who weighs them one by i
one, and a piece is cut off, if neces-ary, to
reduce the bar to its proper weight. The -
next process is rlrntot dividing the bar by a '
fixed pair of shears into eight equal portions :
of the size of ichifus. This is done by a
workman cutting it as accurately as his prac
ticed eye would enable him; and his work is i
te-ted by weighing, light pieces being rejec
ted, and the heavy ones reduced to their
proper weight by the scissors. Tbe pieces
are now heated white-hot in a charcoal fire,
plunged into water, boiled, and washed in
a kind of brine, from which they come out
with a moderately bright surface. They are
next very slightly milled on the two sides,
and more deeply on the edges, by means of;
a milled hammer. They are now ready for
stamping. A man places one of the pieces
on a stationary die, and lays on the top the
other die; a second man, armed with a huge
hammer, gives one blow on the upper die,
and the coin is struck. The plows are dealt
in rapid succession, aDd the whole scene re
minds one of a black-mith shop. Boys now
punch small stars on the edges by means of
chisels and hammers. The coins are weigh
ed on by one for the last time, aud the light
ones are rejected. The imperial stamp is
added by means of another stamped chisel
and mallet, and the coins are complete.
They are rolled up in paper packets of one
hundred; each packet is weighed and mark
ed with a seal, which serves as a guarantee
of its contents, and gives it currency as one
hundred iehibus.
' While every operation is performed in
this primitive manner, perfect order prevails
in th establishment; every man goes
through his portion of the work in .-ileuce,
and with the regularity of dock work, and
many evince considerable skill. There are
about thiee hundred hands employed in the
building. When the men enter in the morn
ing they are made to divest themselves of
their own clothes, and pur on others belong
iug to the mint. At the end of the day's
work a gong sounds, when the somewhat
curious spectacle is presented of three bun
dled men springing from the ground on
which th y bad been stated, throwing off
their clothes, and rushing, a naked throng,
to one end of a yard. Here they [ ass
through the following ord al to prove that
they have no silver on them: Their back
hair is pulled down and examined ; th<y
wash their h*i ds and hold them up to view;
they drink wa er, and then ha loa; and, last
ly, th y run to the other cud of the yard,
e earing two or three hurdles on their way,
after which performance they are allowed to
put onih' irown clothes and depart. Mr.
Sidney Locock. her Majesty's Secretary of
I Legation, from whose report of this year
| these statements are taken by the Times,
i believes that the mint has be'-n only twice
entered by foreigners, and states that the
apparent absence of all restrictions with re
gard to touching and handling the coins
points to the probability that it is not often
I open to the public; but he remarks that even
if it were, the manners and customs of the
country are not such as would preclude a
mixed assemblage of visitors from going over
it and remaining to the end. The quantity
of silver being coined daily at the beginning
of this year was 50,000 tnomme, which at
the rate of 23 morn me to the ichibu, would
give a daily total issue of over 21,000 bus,
or about £ISOO. The whole of the>e coins
are produced by the simplest manual labor,
unaided bp a single piece of machinery."
BEDFORD, PA.. FRIDAY, FEU. 26 iB6O.
THE NEW All T Of SOI.IU COLOR
ING.
j About thirty months ago an inventor in
New York while seeking some means of
making barrel staves impervious to petro
leum, accidcntly used a piece of marble to
j wedge the barrel he was experimenting
upon into its place in the rat containing
the solution with which he wa, trying to fill
j the pores of the wood. On taking out tbe
marble he noticed that it was beautifully
| stained but threw it aside without further
] thought. About a mouth later (in Septem
ber, li>Cß,) he picked it up, examined it,
tried to wash it clean, failed, broke it with a
hammer stroke, and lo! the color had pene
trated the whole mass! Perceiving the
almost irifiuite value of tbe discovery he
had so happily stumbled upon, he began
DC w investigations, and assoeiated others
with him in the enterprise. A suitable
laboratory was obtained, communications
were quietly opened with leading marble
men, a scries of about twenty five thousand
experiments were instituted, and now, after
more than two years of patient toil, this
happy discovc-ry is set forth to the world.
Yesterday a number of gentlemen were
invited to call at the laboratory of the Inter
national Marble Coloring Company, No.
79 Third avenue, northeast corner of
Twelfth street, second story. Here they
found an Italian sunset imprisoned in en
during stone. Here were snow white mar
bles from Vermont, turned by wizard touch
of chemic art into scarlet splendor, not
found in nature save in tbe gem, tne flower
and the cloud. On one hand the purple of
the Cesars gleamed in solid stone, and on
the other a mantel's yellow luster rivaled
the rarest marble from Sienna s quarries.
Here a plain white chimney piece had been
tinted with dove colored hues softer than
those of the choicest Lisbon stone, and there
the wondrous touch of this new art had
created a massive black-veined emerald,
eclipsing in beauty the finest verd-antique
that nature ever stained. In a word, more
than six hundred hues and tints and shades,
ai! the work of man's adorning finger,
shimmered and blazed on every side with a
confusion and a glory of color that it hath
not before entered into the heart of a man
to conceive as possible in the domain ol
architecture. This invention consists simply
in the discovery of a certain mordant, with
which the proper dyes are mixed, forming a
solution. In a shallow bath of this the mar
ble is placed, moleculat aetion immediately
ensues, and in a few hours or days the
whole mass is saturated with color. Tbe
severest tests from acids and exposure to
the elements show that these colors are
more durable than those of nature. Th
interstices of the mat ble being thoroughlj
filled, grease cannot penetrate it. and se
verest weather can scarcely wear it, and it
becomes susceptible of the highest poli-h.
Iu fact this single, easy, and inexpensive
process secures at once the three great end
of beauty, durability and economy. A plas
ter cast has just Wen completed of a bap
tismal font, sculptured with a cross and
wreathed with a vine, which is to L repro
duced in blood red marble, the sacrificial
hue. For a white marble altar in a new
cathedral at Albany $65,000 in gold have
been appropriated. This company have
offered to put up one of purple for SIO,OOO
in greenbacks.
Not ODly can marble, granite, and all sim
ilar materials be solidly colored in this way,
but so can wood, tbe result being a cheap,
durabie and exquisitely beautilu! material,
which requires neither paintiog nor varnish
ing. The vista of architectural magnifi
cence opened to the view by this discovery
must be left to the readers imagination, the
Arabian Nights being the only suitable
treatise on the subject that now suggests
itself. Apropos of this, it may be noted
that certain common cryttals were lately
subjected to this process, and afterward
-übmitted to a leading jeweler of this city,
who declared himself unable to distinguish
them from genuine emeralds !
WHITEFI ELD'S POWER.
A striking feature of Whitefield's preach
ing was singular potcer of desai'ption. The
Arabians have a proverb which says, "He
is the best orator who can turn a man's ear
intoeyes." Whitefield seems to have had
a peculiar faculty of doing this. He used
to draw such vivid pictures of the things he
was handling that his hearers could believe
th-'y actually saw and beard them. "On
one occa-ion," says one of his biographer-,
"Lord Chesterfield was among his hearers.
The great preacher, in describing the mis
erable condition of an unconverted sinner,
illustrated the subject by de-cribing a blind
beggar. The night was dark and the road
dangerous. Tbe poor mendicant was deser
ted by his dog near the edge of a precipice,
and had nothing to aid him in groping his
way but his staff. Whitefield so warmed
wi'h his subject, and enforced it with such
trraphic power, that the whole auditory was
kept in breathless silence, as if it -aw the
movements of the poor old man; and a'
length, when the beggar was about to take
the fatal ,-tep which would have hurled him
down the precipice to ceitain destruction,
Lotd Chesterfield actually made a rush for
ward to save him, exclaiming, aloud, 'He is
gone !he is gone !' The noble lord had
been so entirely carried away by the preach
er that he forgot the wnole was a picture.
A ROMANCE OF THE CUBAN REBELLION.
—An American citizen who was in the
Theatre of Villaneuva on the evening ot the
22:1 ult., and witnessed tbe riot, and mas
sacre in the streets of Havana that eveninc
says that tbe origin of the outburst wa- the
shootiug of a young woman. He says : A
very tieauufui girl, the daughter ot Aldama,
one of the-wealthiest and most noble of all
Cubans, wore upon her left breast the
American flag, with the inscription, "Long
live the Republic of Cuba,' upon it When
that stirring song was being sung, the whole
audience rose and cheered this young woman,
and as she rose to acknowledge the solute
—all eyes were now bent upon her—a low,
mean, cowardly Spaniard shot her with a
revolver, killing her instantly. Two Ameri
can gentlemen occupied the box adjoining
SeDorita Aldama, whose names I do not
know, but one of whom, seeing the pistol
pointed at the young lady's breas', drew
his revolver; and a second after the Span
iard had fired, blew the top off the head of
the cowardly assassin. Instantly the whole
theatre was the scene of the greatest con
fusion, and the Spanish troops rushed in
and begun firing upon the masse* of the
huddled, unarmed, innocent men and
women."
A GREAT EVIL.
Our race groans under evils, and carries
burdeos heavy to be borne; some of these
may he traced back to the fir-t tin and are
beyond our control, but most of them are of
our two producing, and may lie arrested by
a resolute act of the will, or by aid- which
come ftont other source*.
Two evils now fall the land and world
which are of human invent inn. and are sus
tained by human authority. One of these
is alcoholic drinks and the other is the use
lof lobaeeo—of the latter we wish to ray a
few words.
ri" has grown and overspread the na-
I tions ot the earth till now it challenges ob
servation, reflection, and tbe exercise of en
lightened conscience while looking the na
ked facts iu the face. £?uch is its present
extent, that five and a half millions of acres
are occupied in its growth, producing two
millions of tons annually and costing the hu
man race ten thousand million* of dollars,
by far more than enough to pav the whole
debt, m tnie year of the United States and i
Gnat Britian, startling as the fact may
seem. In our own country alone, one bun
dred xtd fifty millions arc expended annu
ally ip its consumption, by far more than is j
appnpriated to support the gospel of Christ
and be cause of education. How appal
ling such a state of things, while want and !
suffering are all around us! Multitudes are '
without the Bible, millions have never
heard tbe name of Christ, and the most I
itupor.ant enterprises for promoting the j
welfare of mankind, falter and fail for the ;
want of support.
Yet this enormous expenditure is entirely
useless. No one claims that he is the better
for the use of tobacco in any form. It is a
mere habit, innocently formed, aud while at
first a pleasure has grown to be a master
and tyrant.
N<>t only this, but it is an uffensive, filthy
habit, finding no place in the Church, in the
parlor, the ladies' salooD, or elsewhere, as a
high order of society meets and indulges in
exercises which the highc-r nature craves.
Multitudes, using it, are ashamed of the
fruits of it, and would be glad to be rid of it.
if they knew how to break away from the
enchantment. But this is t>ot all, or even
the wrrst of it, It is injurious to the health;
when taken to excess operates as of a poi
onous Dature, weakening the system, aod
leading to premature death.
Such evils, together with its enormous
expenditure, ought to makesober, reflecting
conscientious men consider whether it can
be right to continue such a habit a.- this—
ought it not to be overcome at all hazard-,
and thus promote health and deanlim
and save the funds thus uselessly spent to
provide for personal and family wants and
build up the cau-eof truth and riehtecu--
ne-s in the world?
PAY YOUR PASTOR.
I'av your pastor what you have prom
ised. If it be sufficient for his temporal
support, hi- mind will be free from world
ly care*, and he may give himself up t>.
iho WOrlt Of his ILIIIL try tvstlx tx diver fill.
contented, and happy heart. He will re
spect and love you for your liberality, and
labour the more earnestly for your spiritual
good. He will not be easily drawn away to
another field—at bat he will not be ever
seeking a change. Able to educate his
children, to supply his libiary with the best
books of the day, happy in the midst ol
home comforts, and able to lay up a little
for the time when he must be laid a-ide.
he has nothing to do but to study and
labour for your good and the Master's
glory.
If the salary be inadequate, it is all you
promised, and perhaps all you are able to
give. He knew it when he accepted your
call. If lie be a man of earnest devotion to
the work, willing to make sacrifices of per
sonal comfort for the sake of preaching
Christ, be may reduce his expenses to hi
income, and still be happy and useful. You
ought to appreciate his labour of love, antj
pay him by all means, to the day and the
dollar. You may be too poor to give him
more, but vou cannot afford to be di-honest,
especially toward one who is sacrificing so
much for your spiritual good.
But what is the pastor to do whose
salary is paiJ only in part, or in uncertain
installments, coming in long after the quar
ter has become due? What is he to d< ?
llow is he to sustain his character for com
moo honesty? Your promises will not pay
his bills at the butcher's, the grocer's, or
the bookseller's. How can be love you a>
dear children in Christ, or pray for you, or
labour in the study, the pulpit, or from
house to house, as he should? Is it a matter
of surprise that he should preach dull ser
mons, and seldom call to spend a pleasant
hour at your homes? Is it to be wondered
at, if he should become dissati-ficd with
you, and you with him, his miriistratioii
unprofitable to you, his temper soured, ana
his character and influence as a minister ot
the gosple ruined? No congregatiun can
afford to let their pastor's salary remain un
paid. They can better afford to borrow the
money at fitty per cent., than fail to meet
thi-ir ju-t obligations to him. and bear the
consequences which iuevitably follow to both
pastor and people. Pay your pa-tor what
you have promised.— The Presbyterian.
A SCIENTIFIC writer says that watei
which has stood in ah occupied bedroom
over night is utterly fibhv, a deleterious
poi-ou'aud unfit fer drinking. The watei
is a powerful abscr'tent of gases, taking in
during the nigh all the poison that i
thiown off by its, iratii n. The colder ih<
weather the more impute ihc water wiil I*
come. At ordinary t mptiature a pdi "1
water will contain a pint ot carbonic aei >
and sever.il pints of ammonia. The capai-i
ty is nearly doubled for reducing the temper
ature of water to ice. (If course the matter
becomes doubly serious when a small or
close room is occupied. These facts di-c!ose
another of considerable importance in do
mestic economy during cold weather, viz:
that water inny be used as an abso: bent ot
frost. Place a tub of water in a cold cellar
over night, and in the morning the vegeta
bles will lie found untouched by fiost, even
though the water should be frozen solid.
Water is excellent as a purifier, but people
who regard their health should be certain
tbat it is itself pure before applying it to tbe
person either externally or internally.
"My sox," said an anxious father once,
"what makes you use tha| nasty tobacco?
Now the son was a very literal sort of a per
son, and, decliuiug to consider the question
in the spirit in which it was asked, replied:
"To get the juice, old codger.
' A ni'RCI'LAR MAN OF OLDEN TIME.
Dr. Alfred Booth, in his reminiscences of
Springfield, Ma-s., gives the following ac
count ot a rare man of muscle in the last
century Deacon John Hi'chcock, grand
father ot the living Mr. Levi Hitchc .ck, of
Springfie'd:
"Bora m 1722, in the North Main street
| region, he moved, while a young man, into
I the eastern part of the town, now kuown as
! South Wilbrahum; married in 1743, and
was the first deacon of the church there,
; continuing in office many years. He is well
remembered by Hon. Oliver B. Morris, as
occupying the deacon's scat at meetings,
his whitened locks giving him quite a ven
erable appearance. During a long life he
was of wonderful strength, agility and en
durance, and, had he lived in the palmy
days ol' Greece, he would have been a wor- ;
thy competitor in the games of those days. I
It is related of him that, on one occasion, a i
man riding by the field where he was at
work, and boasting of the speed of his horse, j
was challenged by the deacon, who said he
could run to Springfield quicker on foot than
the hori-e with his rider could. The te-t
resulted in the triumph of tbe deacon; dis I
tanee ten miles; time not stated. lie would
lift a cart-load of hay, by getting his sboul- i
tiers under the axle, in a stooping posture. :
and throw an empty cart over with one
hand, by taking hold of the end of the axle
tree. \N ht-n loading grain in a cart, he
would take a bag by tbe teeth, and, with a
swing and the aid of a push from the knee,
throw it into the cart. He had double
teeth in front, and would hold a tenpenny
nail by them and break it off with his fin
gers. He used to say he did not know a
man he eruld not whip or run away (rom!
The day he was seventy years old, he rciaat k
ed to his wife, that when they*were first
married, he was wont to amuse her by tak
ing down bis hat with his toes, and added,
'I wonder if 1 could do it now'? 1 Thereupon
he jumped from the floor, took off the hat
with his toes, comedown on his feet like a
cat, hung up the hat on the nail, turned to
the table, asked a blessing, and ate of the
repast then ready."
EVERT ONE TO HIS PROFESSION.— The
Eltnira Advertiser says that Carl Shurz, the
new Republican Senator from Missouri, was
formerly the Washington correspondent of
'he New York Tribune. So was William
E. Robinson, now Democratic member ot
Congress from Brooklin, who made himself
faut us under the non-J/- plume of "Riche
b'en." And that was his forte. Since he
abandoned it he has sunk into obscurity.
A- "Hiehelien" in the Tiilune, he wa
known and honored; a- member of Congres.-
he is scarcely heard of. Me n are sometime
born to avocation, and tn it becomes great
and distinguished, while out of it they fail
entirely. Of this e!a- is Horace Greely.
wl o, except Thurlow Weed has ben the
most wonderful editor iu America; in
legi-lative ha! s. without any exception
whatever, be has been the completes! fail
ure. Geneial Graut. educated as a soldier,
was able, in the line of his profession, to
conquer Lee; but out of it he made but a
poor attempt at gaining a comfortable liv
ng. Daniel Webster was a great states
man and could move the world iu the Sen
ate; but he couldn't write a new-paper par
agraph to save his life. We never knew a
lawyer who was competent to edit a news
paper. We know just one who lias the
knack of writing a "leader;" but that is a.-
far as be can go. in the local column he
would "go up the spout" under the weight
of the first "mention." Yet there are
hosts of lawyers who are constantly itching
for newsparer fame; and editors arc just
as constantly tempted out of their sphere bv
tbe shioiDg glories of the forum. We are
all prone to consider our neighbor's fortune
the best. We are a restless, unsati-fied
people. Thousands upon thousands are
daily jumping out of the frying pan into the
fire. The number of people who don't
know when they are well off is amazing.
We have all kinds of organizations to ae
complish all kinds of reforms. But the one
which is more needed than any other is an
organization to educate young nten in the
faith and conviction that their lives should
be devoted to a fixed and certain purpose.
A brilliant meteor or a fiery comet ma\
some times make a hit by shooting madly
front their sphere; but the rule is the re
verse. Aud the greater the talent which
"tie posseses for the sphere in which he i
educated, the more certain and signal wil'
IK; his failure in any other. Stick to your
bu-iness; and. most of all, if you arc an edi
tor, don't exchange a seat in the sanctum
lor a seat in Congress.
How DEXTER IS KEPT.—At six every
morning Dexter has all the water he wants
and two quarts of oats. After eating he is
"walked" for half an hour or more, then
cleaned off, and at nine has two quarts more
of oats. If no drive is on the card for the
afternoon, be is given a half to three quar
ters of au hour of gentle exercise. At one
o'clock, he has oats again, as before, limited
two quarts. From three to four he i
dtiven twelve to fifteen miles, after which he
i-1 leaned off and rubbed thoroughly dry.
He has a bare swallow of water on return
from drive, but is allow d free a cess to hi
,nly feed of hay, of which he con-ume-
I'rom five to six pounds. If tbe drive had
been a particular sharp one, he is treated
a- soon as he gets in, to a a quart or two of
oatmeal gruel; and when thoroughly
cooled, half a pail of water and three quarts
of oats, with *wo quarts of bran, rani-red
with hot water. B-fore any specially hard
lay's work or trial of speed, his water allow
anoe is -tiil more reduced.
PUNCTUALITY. —It is strange how many
people there are who neglect punctuality.
Thousands have failed in life from this cause
alone. It is not only a serious vice in itself,
but it is the fruitful parent of numerous
other vices, so that he who becomes the
victim of it gets involved in toils from which
it is almost impossible to escape. It makes
the merchant wasteful of time; it saps the
business reputation of tha lawyer, and tt in
jures the prospect of the mechanic, who
might otherwise rise to fortune, in a word,
there is not a profession, nor a station in
life, which is not liable to the canker of the
destructive habit. MaDV and many a time
has the failure of one man to meet his ob
ligations brought OD the ruin of others.
Thousands remain poor all their lives, who,
| if they were more laithtu! in their word,
would secure a large run of custom, and so
make their fortunes. Be punctual, if you
i would succeed.
VOL. 42: AO. 8-
BR. HILKIMOS VELOCIPEDES.
Br JOHN QEILL.
"Bat Wilkins, I—"
"I tell you,' Mrs. Wilkins, I'm not going
to have it; you may as well make up jour
mind to that at ouce. No woman shall ever
| prancing around this cotDtnuuity on a
; velocipede while she's a wife of mine if I
1 can help it; so you can just take that old
pair of wheels you brought home and glad
den the heart of some kindling wood man
with them, for ride on thorn you don't; if
| J'OU d > 1 m a Dutchman; there "
"Mr. Wilkins you know I—"
"No I don't know anything of the kind.
Do you think I'm going to let such a look
ing woman as you dress up in Bloomers and
mount a high hat and go around trying to
show off that figure—"
"Mr. Wilkins!"
"Go straggling around the thoroughfares
of this town, looking like an old beer-ca.-k
propped up on two legs, showing those
aukles which arc so thick that you couldn't
' get one of them through the equator?"
"Wilkins, I'll scratch ."
"\\ ell, I should think not. And, besides,
1 don t knew whereabouts on this terrestrial
globe you expect to find any wheels strong
enough to bear you. You'd smash a pair
of cast iron carwheels into smithereens the
minute you sat down on them, you would.
The Lest thing >-ou can do is to walk, and on
the ground, and that too, where the crust of
the earth isn't thin; or else sit in front of a
fire and melt down your avoirdupois."
"Mr. Wilkins jou're perfectly scandal
ous."
"But, I'm not going to put up with it.
I don't intend to have you flopping around
town on a velocipede, and very likely failing
off and breaking your bones, and then have
a lot of doctors coming to my house an J
making post mortem examinations, and
-awing you up, and discovering things with
hard Latin names in your lungs and your
liver, and your physique generally. Well,
I should think not! It's bad enough to
have to submit to you now, without having
your gore spilt over the carpet, and a parcel
of sawbones blaspheming at your anatomy.
I—"
"Wilkins, ain't you ashamed to talk
so ?— ■"
"I.want you to understand that if you
ride shaj velocipede I'll >ue for a divorce.
I don't believe in a woman exercising her
muscle on any such contrivance. You'd a
good deal better get a scrubbing brush, and
go down and tackle the frontdoor steps with
-orne sand and a chunk of soap. That's the
kind of exerci-e you waDt, in my opinion."
"Mr. Wilkins, if you'd ouly listen —"
''Or else practice carrying a coal scuttle
up and down stairs every five minutes al'
lay. But as for the mother of a family and
i fl ibhy old girl of your years undertaking to
ride a velocipede, why its simply ridicu
lous.'
"Mr. Wiikins, I—"
"The next thing I know, I suppose you
will be parading yourself in the papers a
"Madame Wiikins, the Champion Female
Velocipedist," and running mile heats on
the Nicholson pavement for hundred dollar
purses, best two out of three. A beautiful
-peetaele won't it be? And then I suppose
you'll want me to bet on you and back you
up; but not one cent of my cash do >ou get.
Not a single, solitary red. Bo you suppoe
I'm going to throw away my hard earned
money on such a fanatic as you? Well, I
should tbiuk not. I wouldn't put UD a
dollar on you if I was worth untold billions.
I'm not proud of you; I want you distinctly
to understand that."
"Mr. Wiikins, that's all nonsense."
"And a pretty example you are setting to
your children. Here only yesterday Holo
femes Montgomery made a velocipede out
of two flour barrel lids, and when he and
Bucephalus Alexander tried to uiouDt it, it
broke down and hit Mary Jane on the leg
and lamed her for life, while Iloluferne.s
Montgomery fell over on the cat, which
yowled and spitted and scratched Hoiofcrnes
Montgomery orcr ho f. umlsptece, so thr
his beanty is destroyed, and he looks more
like you than ever. I say it is perfectly
outrageous, and I'm not going to stand it."
"Mr. Wiikins? oif you listen 111 tell
you something."
"Oh ! I don't want to hear it. Y\ e lldis
continue the conversation. I'm tired of
hearing you cackle."
"Well that velocipede that came home—
"Never mind now. I want to goto sleep.
Just give your tongue a chance to rest, will
you.
"What for you. I heard you say you
wanted one, and so I bought it out of the
market money I saved. But you treat me
like such a brute, 'that I —I—I—'
"For me did you say, Sarah? Well,
'then never mind now. Don't cry Sarah,
I say? Never mind; I won't do it again,
Sarah! Don't cry Sa—rah? Oh well, cry
then; who cares? You're the most aggra
vating woman that ever lived. I'll get on
■ hat velocipede to morrow morning and
abandon you as sure as my name's W ilkics.
If I don't, hang me!"
CHARLES LAMB tells his sal experience,
a- warning to young tnen, in the following
language: '"The waters have gone over
me. But out of the black depths, coutd 1
lie heard, I would cry out to all those who
have set a foot in the perilous flood Could
the youths to whom the flavor of the Grst
wine is as delicious as the opening scenes of
lite or the entering upon some newly discov
ered paradise. look into mj desolation, and
he nnde to uudcistand how drear it i-. wheq
he shall feel hitus If going down a precipice,
with open c.\e and a passive will to h;s de
struction, and have 110 human power to stop
it, and yet feel it all the way emanating
from himself, to see all godiness emptied
out of him, and yet not able to forget a time
when it was otherwise; to bear the piteous
spectacle of his own ruin; could he see my
fevered eye, fevered with last night's drink
ing, and feverishly looking for to-night s re
peating of the folly; could he but feel the
body of death out of which 1 cry hourly
with feebler outcry to be delivered, it were
enough to make him dash the sparkliug
beverage to the earth, in all the pride of its
mantling temptation."
THE most common error of men and wo
i men is looking for happiness* somewhere out
-1 B ide of useful work. It has never yet been
found, and never will be while the world
stands. Of all the miserable human beings
it has been our lot to know, they were the
I most wretched who had retired from usefu.
i employments, in order to enjoy themselves.
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ITEMS.
ON the "Leather Cockade" question, a
gentleman writes to the New York Post: "I
use them to distinguish my coachman's
hat from my own. We are both good-look
ing men ; we both wear ten-dollar hats, and
win n we go out for a drive in the Park I
think it due to myself that the public should
know who owns the carraige and who drives
it."
A SYSTEM of metalic ceilings, which con
sists in the application to the joisting of
very thin stamped metal in ornamental em
bossed panels, has lately been invented.
Those stamped panels are fitted for every
kind of decoration in color, and if inserted
an plain surfaces, may be used as the ground
for every descriptioo of cartoon painting,
combining with lightness and durability ar
tistic and ornamental effect, at a compara
tively small cost.
Gebeeal Sheridan has transmitted fo
Gen. Sherman eighteen or twenty pages,
fool-cap, of talk which two big Indian chief
tains, had on the first of January. The
burden of the discourse of each the chiefs
was: "Me touchy good bearte—me belly
touchy empty !" General Sheridan preached
to them, in effect, as follows; "Let us have
peace. The Government will treat you
(airly, and if you don't behave yourselves
you will get cleaned out. Go!"
Tiie following conversation is reported
between two irreverent little boys in tho
streets of Portland, Me.; "Johnny, do
you see that game-looking old cock going
along there?"—" You bet —who is he?"
"That's Pitt Fessenden." "Who is Ae?"
"He's the man that kept 'etnfrom hanging
the President, Ben Butler and his fellows
were going to str'mg Andy Johnson right up
in the Capitol when Fessenden pulled out a
big butcher knife and swore they shouldn't
do it unless they walked through him. So
they quit?"
The Rev. Dr. McCesh, the new President
of Princeton College, is exceedingly suc
cessful in gaining the attention and con
fidence of the young men under his charge,
lie is not only one of the profouDdest scholars
and ablest theologians of the Presbyterian
Church, but he also retains the hearty,
social usages of the Scottish clergy, among
which he grew up. He plays a capital game
of whist, and does not think a good glass of
wine on proper occasions is any more a
violation of the sacred law of temperance
than eating a good beefsteak.
The Portage Democrat says:
Two turkeys went to roost on tho lower
rail of a fence in the town of Aurelius,
Cayuga couuty, N. Y., on the evening of
December Btb. Duriog the night they were
covered wi:h about six feet of snow, and pre
sumed, of course, to be lost. Singular to
; elate, however, the late thaw unsnowed
them, and they came out on the Bth of Jan
uary alive and hungry, having been buried
i ju-t one month. Tbey managed to save
| themselves through the hollidays, and if
j they live, ought to perpetrate the same joke
j i year from now.
A MAN liviug near Xrw Canine, Darke
eountv, butchered a couple of bogs a few
days since, with the aid of a colored man in
the neighborhood, and left them out over
night, as had been bis custom to cooL In
the morning one of tbem was missing.
Suspecting his sable help, he procured a
constable and started for his abode. In
passing through the' woods they came to a
feuce, when a strange sight met their gaze.
On one side of the fence hung the hog, on
the other the negro, his head being caught
in the gambrel fastened to the hind end of
the hog. his neck broken, and of course
dead. It was a quick and strange retribu
tion for his crime.
Foit the first time in the history of Spain
a Protestant religious service was publicly
held at Madrid on Sunday, Jan. 24. Among
the audience were many ladies of different
classes of society. The proceedings took
place with perfect order and proper solem
nity. The estamtstiment of religious free
dom is one of the substantial benefits of tho
revolution. Hitherto only one form of re
ligion. the Roman Catholic, has been allow
ed publicly to celebrate its rites in Spain.
Now all persons will be free openly to wor
ship God in accordance with the dictates of
their own consciences. It is a great gain.
THE Paris correspondent of a London
journal has lately given his mind to' the
inner life of the inner chambers of the
French Empress. He has discovered that
when she wants to dress herself she rings a
bell, and her petticoats are put down through
a hole in the ceiling, the robes beiog so dis
posed that it would seem if one movement
-ufficed for the entire crremony of the toilet.
Arsene Houseaye's new work on female
beauty will be appreciated by American
ladies, whom it pronounces the most beau
tiful in the world. A peculiar feature of the
book is the sketches in which the author
portrays tho appearance of the American •
ladies whom he has met in the course of his
life. Next to the American women, M.
Arsetie Houssaye overflows with admiration
of the fair subjects of the Russian Emperor,
who, he says, make the best matches, and
are the queens of the circles in which they
move.
THE proprietor of the Planters' House,
in St.Louis, has been ordered by the courts
to pay $2389, the value of the contents of a
trunk left there in 1865, and so d at auction
with other unclaimed baggage.
At tbe recent deluge in New Orleans sev
eral gentlemen on their wa> to a dinner
party were caught by the <!••> d, and, to
-ave their polish, took off their boot 6 and
waded to the doors of the hospitable man
sion.
A LADY in New Hampshire recently de
termined to exchange for currency a silver
dol'ar which she had carefully kept for thir
ty five years. The money-changer astoun
ded her by the information that it was coun
terfeit.
Two "gentlemen"' were recently scu
te need io London to five years'.imprison
ment. with hard labor, for having willfully
damaged a railway carraige on the Dover
and Chatham Railroad. All pecuniary
offers were refused point blank by the mag
-1 tstratc.
A YOENO couple in Rock port, Maine,
while courting walked out together arm-in
arm, and fell through a hole in the sidewalk,
each breaking a leg. Their fall proved a
"lift" to them, and set them up in the
world —a jury awarding them a verdict of
12,000 against the town.