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He keeps on hand a stock of fine Gold and Sil ver Watcbes, Spectacles of Brilliant Double Refin ed Glasses, also Scotch Pebble Glasses. Gold Watch Chains, Breast Pins, Finger Rings, best quality of Gold Pens. lie will supply to ..rder any thing in his line not on band. £apr.2S.'6o. TN W. GROUSE, 1 *• DEALER Ilf CIGARS, TOBACCO, PIPES, AC. On Pitt street one door east el Geo. R. Ostcr A Co.'.- Store, Bedford, Pa., is now prepared to ,eli by wholesale all kinds of CIGAR.S. All orders promptly filled. Persons desiring anything in his line will do well to give him a call. Bedford April 1. '69., p N. H ICKOK, V>t. DKNTIST. Office at the old stand in Cans BvildixO, Juliana St., BEDFORD. All operations pertaining to Surgical and M cch an icitl Dint if try perirrmeti with care and WARRANTED. i " rttJirtit I aduiinittrrrd, 1' en '{exired. Ar ty fil ttctk inierted at, j.rr ft, SB.'JO and tip. tenrd. 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The strong reflector bored a iane through ; the fleecy mass for s( me fifty feet, perhaps even at 'hat distance objects mingled gro tesquely with the fog. At the extreme etnl of the opening I detected a bright, diamond like spark. Nothing more could be .-een. '"lt may be the eye of a deer, and it may only be a drop of water or a wet leaf, 1 ' sai>. Ito myself. Still it looked g uney. I con eluded to hunch a bullet at it anyway. Whispering to Martin to steady the boat, 1 sunk my eye well down into the sights, and : holding for ihe gleam in the marsh gru-: fired ' The smoke mingling heavily with the fog, made all murky before me. while the ex plosion striking against the mountains on either side started a dozen reverberations, so : that we could neither tee nor hear what was ' the re.-uit of the shot. After watting in si i 1 mce a few moments, hoping to hear the deer "kick," without any such happy u suit, I told Mattitt I would go ash or to load, and see what it was 1 shot at. lie paddled for ward, and, seizing the tall grass, while be forced the boat in against the bank with his paddle, I clambered up. Being curious to j ascertain what deceived me, 1 strode off into the marsh some forty feet, and turning up the jack, lo ! and behold a dead deer lay at my feet. "Martin!" shouted I, "here the deer is d- ad as a tick ! ' "The d—1!" exclaimed the guide from the fog. 'What did you .-ay?" again I shouted. "I said I didn't Believe it," returned Martin soberly. "Paddle your canoe up here, then, you old skeptic, and see f >r yourself," I rejoined, taking the deer by the ear and dragging him to the bank. "Here he is, and a monster too. Martin did as directed, "Well," ex claimed he, as he unbent his gaunt form from the curve into which two hours of paddling had cramped it, and straightened himself to his full heighth, until his eyes rested upon the buck, —"well, Mr. Murry, you are the fir.-t man I ever saw draw a fine bead in a night like this, standing in the bow of a saranac boat, at the twinkle of a deer's eye. and kid. That jack of yours is a big thing, and no mistake.'' By the time he had finished the h. at hd drifted off into the river, for the current was quite strong at that point—and 1 was alone. I was just fitting a cap to the tube of the discharged barrel when I felt a movement at my feet, and, casting my eyes dowuward, I .-aw that the deer was in the act of getting up! The ball as we afterward- discovered, lad glanced along,tjie boat of the skull. Lae;lv . crorstng the skin. It had touched the belie slightly, and stunned him so that he dropped: but beyond this, it had not hurt him in the least. Quick as thought I put my foot again.-t his shoulder and pushed him over. "Martin I cried, "this deer i-n't dead; he's trying to get up What sha'l I do?" "Get hold of his hind leg; I'll be with you in a minute, was the answer. I did as direetcd. 1 la:d hold of his left hind leg, just above the feetlirks, and sprang to'my feet. Reader did you ever seize a pig by the hirxl !e? If o. multiply that pig, by ten; for every twitch he gives, count six: lash a big lantern to your head, fancy yourself standing alone 011 a swampy marsh in a d irk, foggy night, with a rifle in your left hand, and bang twit hed about among the bogs anl in and out of muskrat holes, until your whole system seems on the point of a separation which shall send you in a thousand infinitesi mal parts in all directions, like fragments of an exploding burr wheel, and you have my appearance and feeling as I was jerked about that night amid the mire and uiar.-h grass, as I clung to tl.c leg of that deer. Now, when I !'a?tcu to anything I always expect to hold on. This was my determination when I put my fingers around ti Ink's log. 1 have a tremendous y rq>. .My father had before me. With his hand at a two inch auger hole in the head of a barrel I have seen him clutch, now with Lis right, now with hi> left hand, twenty-two hour rats as they came darting < ut to escape the stick with which I was stirring them up, and dash them dead upon the floor, without get ting a single bite; and everybody knows th it a rat, in full bolt, comes out of a barrel like a flash of lightning. I fully expected to maiotain the family prestiy for grip. 1 did. I stuck to that deer with ail toy power of arm and will. I felt it to be a sort of personal coutest between him and myself. Nevertheless. I was perfectly willing at any time to let go. 1 had undertaken the job at the request of another, and was ready to surrender instantly upon demand. I shout ed to Martin to get out of that beat mighty quiek if he wanted to take his deer home, fori shouldn't hold on to him much longer. It took me about two minutes to deliver that sentence. Ii wa- literally jerked out of me, word by word. Never did I labor under greater embarrassment in expressing myself. In the meanwhile Martin was meet iug with difficulty. The bank of the river was steep, and the light e -dar shell, with only himself in it. was all out of balance and har ito manage. It uiav be, that his very strong desire to get on to the meadow where I was holding his deer, operated to confuse and embarrass his movements, lie would propel the boat at full speed toward the bank, then jump for the how; but his mo tion forward would release the boat from the mud, and when be reached the low the bo.it would be half-way across the liver igain. Now Martin is a man of great pa tience. He is not by any means a profane person. He bad always shown great re spect for the cloth. But everybody will see that his position was a very trying one. Three several times, as he afterward in formed me, did be drive the boat into the to bank, and three several times when begot the bow, that boat was in the middle of the river. At last Martin's patience gave way, and out of the fog came to my ears ejacula tions of disgust, and such strong expletives as are found only in choiee old English, and howls of race aud disappointment that cone but a guidecould utter in like circumstances. But human endurance baa limit. I was fast rea li ng a condition of mind when fami'y pii-le and transmitted powers of resolution fail. What did I care for iny BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY, MAY 14 1860. father's exploit with the tats at the two inch auger hole? What did the family grip amount to afle r all? I was fast losing sight of the conne tio ; such vanities -u-iaim dto me. L w.,8 | undergoing a rapid change in many respects —. f body a- well as mini ! Whin I go: In H it! that d r'- leg. I was uu in ally full of pluck and I ope: my huntit coat, of Irish corduroy, was whole and tightly button'd. Now, mentally, I was demoralized, every button was gone from the coat, end 'he light sleeve hung disconnected with the body of the garment. The jack had been jerked from my head, and Ly a rod off in ; the marsh grass. 1 could hold on no 1 ngrr. I would make one morecflint, one more ap p-ai. I did "Martin." said L "aren't i you ever going to pet cut of that boat ? ' The heavy thug of the. boat against the. lack, an explosive and spluttering noi'O which sound-d very much like the wotd "damn spoken from between shut teeth, a la-h, a scramble, at.d th n I caught sight i " the gaunt form of Martin, paddle in,. iitii d and hunting knife betwieii his teeth, opittg along toward me, through the till, rank jams-.-. B'.t, a'as! it was too late. The i v.- 11 tut l>ad passed. 3ly finger* on b\ on loosened ilicir hold, and the deer all his strength, with a ter rilie elevation of h;.- hind feet sent nic reeling backward just as Martin, doubled up into a heap, was about to alight upon hi- back He mi-std the back, but a- the good luck •.¥• ui-i have it even while the buck was in the air,—the deer going up a- Martin caun down, —the fingers of the guide closed with a fall and de.-peratc, grip upon lis tail. Quick a- flash 1 recovered myself from the bogs, re|liced the jack, which fortunately had ii"t been extinguished, upon uiy head, i and stood an interested spectator of the pro ceeding-. Now even body knows how a wild deer ean jump when frightened; and the buck, with Martin fa-Uucd to his tail, was thoroughly rouse 1. The fir.-.t leap straightened Martin out like a lath, but it did not shake him fioiii lii.s hold. If the reader has ever seen a small boy hanging to the tailboard of a wagon, when the horse was at full speed, he can form a faint idea of Martin's appearance as the deer tore like a v.!iii!wi:.d through the tall grass. II inded and licwi'ieted by the I ght, frenzied with f, ar, 'he buck, as deer often will, instead of leading off. kept racing up and down just within the border of light utade by the jack, an ! occasions'!;.- making a bolt directly for tt. My position was unique. I was the sole spectator of a series of gymnastic evolutions truly original. Small as the audi ence was, the perfottiters w-re thoroughly in earnest. Had there leeti ten thousand spectators, the actors could net have laid themselves out with greater energy. No app) >u-e couid have got another jump out oft he buck or another inch of horizontal position out of Martin. When ever, at long intervals, his feet did touch the ground, it was "tily to leave it for another and bight r Y.., 1 -I—' *.-* I-*—l. would take a long stretch into the fog and darknt—s, ■uy to iv-appeur with the same iucvitabl, attachment of amis and legs streaming behind. When the contest would have end -d, what would have bent the result had it contained, whether the luck or the guide would have come off the winner, it is not en-y to -ay. N r it ncce-sary to specu- \ late, f..r the close was speedily reached, and i in an uulookt-d for uiannerr The de< r had led off some dozen jumps out of the circle of light, and 1 wis beginning to think that he had shaken himself 100-c from his. enemy, when all a' once he emerged from the fog with Martin sir. streaming behind him, and made sir..ight 'or the river. Never did I see a buck taut higher or project himself fa - ill •in SUece-sive leap-. The Hliacacvr vv; ■'>■) much put to it to articulate a word; ou'y a scric- of gruuts, a- lie was twitched along revealed ilie state of his pent-up fetl ilias. I hist lie the d. r flat-led like a feathered shaft, heading directly for the bank. "Hang on, Martin! ' 1 screamed, sobered by the thought that he would save j him yet if he could on'y retain his grip—! "hang to him like death ! ' He did. Never did my admiration go cut more strongly to I ward Martin, as red iu the face and unall" to relieve himself by a single expression, be I went tearing alcng at a fearful rate In full bolt for t!> river. No one man in fifty j could havi kept his single handed grip, I jerked, at the close of such a -trucrgle a- the j Saraimcer had pa-sod through, aud twitched inerul. - ly as he new was being dragged through the tali bog gra.-s and over the un-; even ground. IJut til • guide's blood was up. and not iiiogcould loosen hisclutcb. Thebuek I retched the bank, and, gathering himself ; up for a desperate leap, he flung hi- body i into the air. I saw a pair of widely spread legs swiu? widely upward, and the red face of Martin, head downward and reversed, so 1 a- to be turned directly towaid by the summersault he was turning disappeared like a waning rocket in the fog overhanging the tiver. Once in the water, the buck was ; no march for bis foe. I hurried to the edge of the bank. Beneath me. and half acro-- the river, a d sperate struggle was going on. Martin itad found his voice, and was using it as if to make up for lost tiui . In a mo ment a gurgling sound reached my ears, and I kntw that the deer's load was under the water; and shoitly, in answer to my hail, the guide appeared, dragging tie buck be hind him. The deer was drowned and quite dead.— From " Ado uturcs in fit Wihftr ***, or Casrp &f e -Wiwiatkn. * * A FOOL'S ANSWER. —In years gone by was a Baptist clergyman, called Elder Stoop, who preached at Bclcodh, Momoc i county. New York. One day the reverend old elder sawed off a bl .ck of wood to make : a beetle, and com in' need to bore a hole tbroui.lt it to put in a!• "d'e ; ' t , U | ow .:IR to the shortce.-s of the block, it would n< t lie ' still, but would turn with the auger. A half wittsd fellow, eounnonly called Al bright's- fool —Bill Albright by name—came along and said in a lisping manner. 'Elder Stone. I can tell you how to bore your beetle; put it in a hog trough, and then you can bore it. The old parsou turned atound and looked at Bill and said : 'Bill, there is something to be learned trout almost any fool.' 'Yes,' replied Bill, '1 thought so Elder St ne, or there would not be so many peo ple go to hear you preach.' SIXTY-SEVEN female T tuckers in Cin cinnati have i etitioned for the tame salary a mal s, on the gr ui l th it they fit.d to reduction in bo: rd bill on ace un' of sex. SELF-SIADE MEN. j The New York corresp ardent of the Cin cinnati (Truth writes: It i- aeutious fact thst to sr y ail the succes-f ui newspaper men in n-w \ ork arc what may properly be eall •■•d - If ui:de. Henry J. Raymond, who j made the Tan's, and is, in the front rank of journal • ts. worked himself up from the low est r and in the ladder. In 1543 he wrote h'tti's fi,r the Cincinnati Chronicle, for which he roc-jived about two dollars each. I Ho utado a living at that timeehiefiy by torresponding for out of town new.-papers. Th" Tow* would now sell for $1,250,000, anil Lajmond is still at its In ad. Horace Greeley started the Tribune without capital. It is now one of the most valuable pieces of n.-w-paper properly here, and Greeley is st; I lit its head. The Tribune association ha',', 1 understand, dtc!ared a quarterly divi 'en lof thirty per cent. Its shares are worth $70,000, the par value of which is SI,OOO. J fie Herald was started ty James Gordon Benn.tr, his capital being brains '.icilindustry. Benri.tt is now worth mil lions end his paper yields a clear profit of $: hi ,qo pr annum. Mantou Marble took the it ,bl when it was an experiment. He had no money; the paper was not paying, but he was aided by capitalists. He? built up tl; paper, made it profitable, and is now sole proprietor. It yields a handsome and ant it'ii income. Charles A. Dana was. for several years, managing editor of the Trib it ie. He was subsequently editor of the Chicago Republican, but did not succeed. He came back to New York, and, in com par.y with others, bought the Nun, which, under his management is already a great succe.— . The circulation of the Sun, on the Ist of Sinuary. 1.569, was 31,000. It is now 42,000 and growing rapidly. The Sun u a two cent paper. The profits on thecir cu'a'i'ju are vt ry small, of course, but it gets plenty of advertising at twenty-five to fifty co:its per line. The New York people ad vertise lib rally, and pay big prices. I be Messrs. Brooks, of tlie Express, are a'so -elf-made men. I believe they started 'he Depress, and are ,-till managing it. Ido not know who -tarted the Post, but W. C. Bryant ha.- been identified with it, il not from the beginning, at least tor a great many yea: -. Ilis capital was made up of brains. It i- a very pi ofi table paper. The old pro p : iters of the Journal t flexibility and originality of action arc required, they make the bc.-t and most re liable workers. At least seventy five thou sand of them are scattered over these Pa cific StaU-s west of b tah; and though our American and European laborers quarrel with and abuse them ; though the law gives them no rights, but that of suffering pun ishment; though they bring no families and .-.ek no citizenship; tbou' ha 1 their women here are not oil' com aid T '"it expressly imported as ntch; thou; h they are mean and contemptible in their vie s as in their manners; though they ate de-pisvd and Licked about cn every Latil; -rill thoy come atid thrive, -lowly letter their pbysi - 1 and moral and mectal conditions, and supply this country with what it most needs for its growth and prosperity, —cheap labor. What we shall do with them is not quite c! ar yet; how tloy are to lank, socially and politically, among u.-\ is one of the nuts for our social sen no st dents to crack- if they can; but now that we have depopula ted Ireland, and Germany is holding on to its own. and the old sources of our labor supply are drying up, all America needs tb in; and, obeying the great natural law of demand and supply, Asia seem* almost cer tain to pour upon and over us countless thousands or her superfluous, cheap-liviog, -biw-chaticing, uoa-similating but very use ful laborers. And we shall welcome, and then quarrel over and with them as wcliave lone with their Irish predecessors. Our vast grain, cotton, and fruit fields, our ex tending system of public works, our multi plying manufactures, all need and can em ploy theui. But rnu-t they vote, and if so to what effect? — Atlantic Monthly. To stive God is to obey bis laws. Wor ship is not service, unless it makes us more ready to do bis will. YIF.S, WOMEN AND MANNERS. l anny Fern, in the Ledejer, has some 1 plain, common-sense talk regarding the > int:rmrse of intimate friends, which she thinks is much more reasonably conducted > j among men than by w- men. Thus, in or f der to avoid offending a female friend who may chance to call whtie a lady is occupied, 1 the latter may not send down word that she ts engaged but most resort to a "white lie," and say that she i.- out. Fanny once excus ed ht:rse : f to a female visitor because she had an article to write. The visitor, as soon a> 1-anny had gone, turned to another with the mild rematk : "I suppose she said that to get rid of us—don't you?" Fanny says ; the intercourse of men with each other has | always aroused admiration. If one wants to read or write in another's company, he doe so, and no offense is taken. If one has to leave, lie often says no more than "I m off, * or "Good-by, old fellow." Sometimes it is only the touch of the hat, or a hand laid on the other's shoulder in passing, and no bls-k eves follow, no locks of hair fly, nor do any hard words cr looks te-ult in the future. Further fancies follow regarding the possible conduct of females in imaginary emergencies. We quote ; If ladies smoked, which the gods forbid! do you suppose one lady would allow an other to stop her in the street and light a cigar from her lips, when she never was in troduced? When she didn't even know who her dressmaker wa-, or where she bought her bonnets? Good heaven-? Did you ever notice, it anything un expected occurs in the mutual path of men passing through the same street, bow naturally and frankly they accost each other, though perfect strangers, and converse about it. and go tin ir several ways, to their tombstones, after it?— Not to. sweet women? Catch her speaking to "that nasty thing" How does she know who or what she is ? Children are so delicious about these matter-. I saw two little girls, the other day, trying to crack a nut upon the side walk by pressing in turn their tiny little shoes upon it. Despairing of success, they said to a gentleman passing, "Man, man, crack this nut for us, will you?" His handsome face was luminous with fun as be pressed his polished boot down upon it, to the delight of the youngsters and myself. Now, these little girls wouldn't have thought of asking a lady to d'i that; or if they had, do you think she would have stopped to do it? THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE HU MAN FORM. WHOLESOME ADVICE TO FOOLISH WOMEN. Many leau'iful forms are made decidedly homely by individual- attempting to set at naught thj laws of nature. For this pur pose delicate young ladies laee themselves until they can scarcely breathe. And all for what? To deceive poor, weak minded creatures like themselves, and in their own niiagiiiii.wn), appear ocauuiut. When IS a girl most beautiful? Before she b;t- reach ed her teen.-; before she has disfigured her form by ti.bt lacing. When should she appear most beautiful' When she has ar rived at her majority. Young ladies forget that if they set a-ide the laws of nature, they must necessarily c ntract a deformity, and consequ ntly, c-au-e the body to become di-eased. We noticed a young uiiss ou the streets a few days ago, hor waist encased in about half its naturally requisite space, her back something iu the shape of a camel's by reason of a pannier, fcer feet cramped iD shoes about half as laree as her feet, caus ing her to walk as if she was stepping on burning coals, l'oor creature! Her folly is indeed her puni-hment. Our young la dies [and their mother-, too,] either forget that the proportions of the human figure are strictly mathematical, or else they nev er have been made acquainted with the fact. The wairt should measure five inches in circumference for every foot the lady is b'irh. The whole figure is sis times the length of the foot. Whether the form is slender or f lump, the rule holds good; any deviation from it, is departure from the highest heauty i The Greeks made ali their statues according to this rule. The face, from the highest point of the fore head where the hair begins, to the chin, is one. tenth of the whole stature. The hand, from the wrist to the end cf the middle finger, is the same. From the top of the chest to the highest point in the forehead is onc-sercnih. If the length of the face, from thi' roots of the hair to the chin, be divided into three equal parts, the first di vision determines where the eyebrows meet, and the second the place of the nostrils. The height from the feet to the top ol the head is the same as the distance from the extremity of the fingers when the arms are extended. A GOOD JOKE. Many years ago, when church organs first came in use, a worthy old gentleman was pastorof a church where they had just pur chased an organ. Not far from church was a large town pasture, where a great many cattle grazed, and among them a large hull. Oue hot Sabbath, Mr. Bull came up near the church grazing; and just as the Rev. Mr. B was in the midst of his ser mon —boo woo woo went the hull. The parson paused, looking up at the singing scats, with a grave face said: "1 would thank the musicians not to tune their instruments during service; it annoys me very ranch.' The people stared, and the minister went on. 'Boo woo woo,' went the hull again, as lie drew a little nearer the church. The parson paused again and addressed (he choir. 'I reaily wish the singers would not tune their instruments while I am preaching.' The congregation tittered, for they knew what the real causa of this disturbance was. The old parson went on again, and he had just about started good, when "800 woo woo eaiue fiom Mr. Bull. The minister paused once more and ex claimed: 'I have requested the musicians in the gallerv not to tunc their instruments during the sermon. I now particularly request Mr. L that he will not tunc his double ba-s organ while I am preaching. 'lt is isn't me. Parson —it—it is that d d town hull. ACCORDING to the Tribvnr, New lork city consumes between three and four tons of hair, at a cost of $2,000,000 per rnnunt, for its wigs and chignons. VOL. 42: NO. 19 CUT THIS Ol'T. The Mercanti'e Times gives the following reasonable roles for young nun commencing business: The world estimates men by their success in life—and, by general consent success is evidence of superiority. Never, under any circumstances, assume a responsibility you can avoid consistently with your duty to yourself and others. Base all your actions upon a principle of right; preserve your integrity of character, and in doing thi<, never reckon the cost. Remember that self interest is more likely to warp your judgement than all other cir cuinstances combined; therefore, look well to your duty, when your interest is concern ed. Never make money at the expense of your reputation. Be neither lavish n ir niggardly; of the two, avoid the latter; a mean man is universally despised, but public favor a stepping stone to preferment—therefore generous feelings should be cultivated. tGy but little—think much—and do more, Let your expenses he such as to leave a balance in your pocjfet. Ready money is a friend in need. Keep char out of the law: for, even if you gain your ease you are generally a loser of money. Avoid borrowing or lending. \\ ine drinking and cigar smoking are bad habit-. They impair the mind and pocket, and load to a waste of time. SMOKIXG IX THE STHEET. The Round TabU makes the following sensible remarks in regard to .-uiokiEg in tbe street: '"The street is not a private smoking room. One man has no more right to void his tobacco smoke into, the face of another man than he has to void his saliva. If he has. why in the name of sense? Because the smoke is the less disagreeable? That is a matter for individual preference; and, be sides, a man has no right to do the least dis agreeable thing. Why may not a man ap pear on Broadway with a stick strapped horizontally across his hack, or an open package of assafuetida in his pocket, or a polecat in his arms, or his clothes dripping with kerosene oil, or a rattlesnake around his neck, with a.- much right as bo may smoke there? Because it is not customary to carry assafoetida in the pocket, nobody thinks about it; if it only were the custom, we should hear a fearful cry from the tobac co smokers themselves. If a mau treads up on another's foat he apologizes; but he will carelessly void offensive smoke into his very throat, and never think that he does any thing reprehensible. If a man dislikes smoking, he can keep out of the street. But the right of the tobacco hater in the street is equal to that of the tobacco lover: to refrain from smoking in public places is not trar.tiuc a c ucession, but not to refrain is vtoiat-.r.ga right. Upon aetuai ngnt, without reference to the sanction of custom. a man would he perfeet'y justifiable in re sentiug the smoking of tobacco near him as a personal affront."' Sll ENT INFLCEHCE. — Albert Barnes says: "It is a bubbling stream that flows gently ; the little rivulet that runs day and night by the farm-house, that is useful rather than the roaring cataract Niagara excites our wonder, and we stand amazed at the power and greatness of God there, as lie pours it from the hollow of his hand ; but one Ni aeara is enough for the continent or the world, while the same world requires thous ands and tens of thousands of silver foun tains and gently flowing rivulets that water every farm and meadow and every garden, and shall now on every day and night, with their gentle, quiet beauty. So with the acts of cur 15Vf > Tr is not by great deeds, like those of the martyrs, that goes! is to be done, but by the daily and quiet virtues of life, the Christian temper, the good quali ties of relatives and friends. SELF EDUCATION. —It is surprising how much maybe obtained by devoting a lew hours each day to study during a series of years. Gibbon produced his great work, rather by the regularity than the protracted nature of daily studies. Franklin became the wisest and one of the best read of his co temporaries, in the midst of most incessant labor. And if the workinau with Lishealth ful mind, so well prepared for the reception of knowledge, will give two hours each day to careful study, he may, in a few years, sur pass in general information the great body of college graduates, who so ofteu obtain a diploma without dascrving it. or who have laid aside their learning the moment they left their preceptors. He may elevate bis own intellect by coming into communion with the eminent intellects of the past. A BEAUTIFUL SPNTIME.V.— Dr. Chalmers beautifully says: "The little that I have seen in the world, and know of the history of mankind, teaches me to look upon their errors in sorrow, not in anger. When I take the history of one poor heart that has sinned and sufferd, and represent to myself tlie struggles and temptations it passed through—the brief pulsation of joy; the tears of regret; the feebleness of purpose; the scorn of the world that has little charity; the desolation of the soul's sanctuary, and threatening voices within; health gone, bappine-s gone—l would fain leave the er ring soul of my fellow man with Him from whose hand': it eame. Six things are requisite to create a 'happy home.' Integrity must be the architect and tidiness the upholsterer. It must be warm ed by affeetion and bringing in fresh salubri ty day by day; which over all, as a protect ing glory and canopy, nothing will suffice except the glory of God. Two laws are more adequate to the regu lation of the whole Christian community than all political in-titutions together— namely, the love of God, and that of our neighbor.— Paschal. IT is in filling a child's mind as in packing a trunk. We must take earc what we lay iu below, not only to secure for that a safe place, but to prevent it from damaging what is to cotnc after. A boy eight years old, in one of our schools, being told that a reptile "is an ani mal that creeps," and being asked to name . one on examination day, promptly and tri umphan'ly replied: "A baby.'' ! TIME, pa-ience, and industry are the three • grand maftiH of the world. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS, AC The IXCCIKEB > jmbliabed every FBWAT morn ing be following rates : OXB 'YEAR, (in advance,) $2 00 " (if not paid within ail mm.)... $2.50 " " (if not paid within the year,)... $3.00 All paper, outside of the county discontinued without notice, at the expiration of the time for which the subscription lias been paid. Singlecjpie* of the paper furnished, in wrappers, at five cents each. Communications on subjects of local or general nterest, are respectfully solicited. To ensure at tention favors of this kind must invariably ba accompanied by the name of the author, not for publication, but as a guaranty against imposition. All letters pertaining to business of the o®ee should be addressed to •JOHN lAStTt BEDI-OBD. Pa. .farm, (larta&j&mwlJoUl. MANURES. The failure to raise good crops of wheat upon laud long cultivated is uot so often at tributable to different seed as unfair cultiva tion. In most cases the soil has been robbed of the wheat producing properties, such as the ph -sphates, pota-U and other salts. This is true in a large degree of the wheat growing section of the older States, where the soii has been so lung drained of its sub stance that it is lio longer possible to raise a heavy crop of wheat in tbe liest season. On such iaudi fanners should apply bone dust, or solube bone dust, or bone super-phos phates and ashes to restore the potash. Lime should be u-ed to gather carbonic acid. Little dcpo.-ittd in large pile 3 will collect carbonic acid Irom the air and become a , Letter fertilizer. Liuie should be applied with grass or other vegetable matter, upon which it acts chemically and produces plant food. It also corrects the sours acid in the soil. Some fields need sulphuric acid which is supplied by sowing plaster. Sown upon clover, plaster causes it to draw to it the ammonia from the air and water, and if the clover be plowed down when in fuil bloom and quick lime be used the clover is converted into plant food. The be.-t fertilizer in tbe experience of the writer is a compost of muck, barn yard in a cure and clay, thoroughly decomposed and mixed with equal parts of lime, ashes, salt, ) 'aster, and bone phosphate. No soil except a virgin soil will fail to produce wheat with this compound. It should be thor oughly mixed and screened, so that it can be drilled in with the wheat. It should be used in the Fall, when the rain helps to de compose it and to enrich the surrounding soil, aud when the graiu roots are ready to take up the parts most needed for food for the wheat plant.. Plant toots do not perme ate manures and take thctu up until tbey are decomposed by the action of the mois ture, and in times of great drought manures yield very little nourishment. When tbe moi.-tu-e penetrates the soil the roots of plants search for nourishment, and if the soil be loose they cau penetrate the particles and gather it. Vegetable manures contain a very small proprotioo of salts, and these must be sup plied if the farmer wishes to enrich the soil and raise large crops of grain. EXPERIMENTS IN WHEAT DEED ING. For the last six years I have had a plot of ground at the front of my house, of ■ 600 square feet, dibble-seeded with 3600 seecds, and which is after the rate of less than 4 quarts of seed wheat an acre: and the crops every year have been as thick on the ground before the harvest as they could well trow, and this next ,vear the same plot is again pianteu with wheat, though for the seventh time in succession and exactly in the same way, and I now engage to show that at harvest next the crops shall be again as thick as they will be able to grow to perfection. I have said crops, because it has been my cus tom for the last six years to plant sever al kinds of wheat, but this year there are only three kinds, but all shall be the same; but one year I had 16 different kinds, or I obtained so many samples from corn dealers and others who believed that they were so many different kinds. But I inform my readers that I did not sow such small quantities of seed to prove whether full crops could be grown from them, for I had known ihis for almost every year for more than half a century; but in this I had two different objects in view, which I thought aouhl ho interesting to farmers and the public generally. I wish to prove the vitality of ordinary wheat seed, and this I did by seeding many acres and half acres with one single seed only in a square foot of ground—and I had this done with several kinds of wheat—and all the seed germinated and grew, as might have been witnesssed by all people who would take the trouble to ex amine the rows, for ail were planted in rows. I instituted experiments in conjunction with some scientific meD, to prove how many years wheat might, by any scientific process, be made to retain its vitality. As the late Br. Bubeny, ; Professor of Botany at Oxford: and other scientific men had done the same, we compared our processes together and their results, when we found that neither had been able to make wheat germinate after having been kept seven years, though every system of keeping it that could be devised was adopted. All was in vain, aud showed that at the end of seven years, vitality was gone, and never again to be brought back; and I think life would be gone at the end of five years. — Agricul tural Gazette. WASHING SHEEP.— Grease or yolk, with which the fleece of all shc-cp is more or less imbued, is a natural soap, consisting chiefly of pota-h and oily matter. It is not imme diately soluble iu water, but alter the fleece is wet, and remaius so for a few hours, it is in condition to betjuiekly washed out, bring ing the dirt with it. This is to a considera ble extent, accomplished by the sheep being exposed to a raiu the day before the wash ing. Sometimes sheep are dipped, and then shut in close sheds or rooms over night, to keep one another warm, and washed the next day, and this secures a very thorough cleansing. .Shearing may be done mnch earlier in the season if the sheep are not washed. Colds and Snuffles ensue if the weather be not favorable, and there is even great rßk of losing valuable sheep. POTATOES. —There should be little delay now in planting the whole of the crop. On poor land, we think animal manure is quite as likely to prevent as to cause the rot; though in very rich soils, no doubt it ren ders the plant more liable to take the disease. There is little risk of potato seta rotting now, if cut even to single eyes. Manuring in the hill with ashes and plaster is good practice, but this dressing is probably equally effec tive, if placed upon the hill at the first or second hoeing. Among the concentrated I fertilizers in market, a good superphosphate i is probably the best application for potatoes. S < juano is rather stimulating, but, like castor pomace, which is very good for this crop, must be mixed with earth in the drill. CODFISH aristocracy is defined by an es j change as "a set of fools who think more of themselves than better people think ol i them.''