RATES OF ADVERTISING. USSBLL & LONGENECKER, 1 V ATTORNEYS A COUNSELLORS AT LAW, Bedford, Pa., V."ill attend promptly and faithfully to all busi es entrusted to their care. Special attention . en to collections and the prosecution of claims : r B;tuk Pay, Bounty, Pensions, Ac. Office on Juliana street, south of the Court JI, - Aprl l:f9:lyr. J" ' r>. SHARPE R. r. KERR CJHARPB A KERR. A TTOIIXE YS-A T-LA \V. Will practice in the Courts of Bedford and ad r iiig counties. All business entrusted to their re vviil receive careful and prompt attention. IVns ns, 1: unty, Back Pay, Ac., speedily col ic :-*d from the Government. Office on Juliana street, opposite the banking eof Reed A Seheil. Bedford, Pa. Apr l:C9:tf y^ T C. SCHAEFFER ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDVOHD, PA, 1 with J. W. Dickersun F..?.j.. 2>aprly PHYSICIANS. . \IJ. F. HARRY. Respectfully cen-lera hit professional ser es to the citizen* of Bedford and vicinity. vf.ee ani residence on I'itt Street, in the building : erly occupied by Dr. J. H. Ilofius. [Ap'l !,. MISCELLANEOUS. /-A E. SHANNON, BANKER. V'. BEDFORD, PA. BANK 01? DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT. Collections mads for the East, West, North and ■ uth, and the general business of Exchange transacted. Notes and Accounts Collected and Remittances promptlymade. REAL ESTATE 1.--light and sold. April l:i>3 DANIKU BORDER, PITT STREET, TWO noons WEST or THE BED- F.IEP HOTEL, BEIPORD, PA. WATCHMAKER AND DEALER IN JEWEL RY. SPECTACLES. JC. r kccj s on hand a stock of fine Gold and Sil vt-r Watches, Spectacles of Brilliant Double Refin ed Glasses, also Scotch Pebble Glasses. Gold Watch Chains, Breast Pins, Finger Rings, best ■ IVY f Gold Pens. He will supply to order f.ny thing in his line not on hand. [*pr.2B,'Bs. I \ W. CHOUSE, U. BXALEK I* CIGARS, TOBACCO, PIPES, AC. -i Pitt street one dour east of Oeo. R. Oster & O Store, Bedford, Pa., is now prepared to sol! by wholesale all kin .o-f Hotel. The dining room has been removed to toe first k a.r and is new si acinus and airy, and the rham "ers are all will ventilated, and ihe proprietor will endeavor to male his guests perfectly at 'tue. Address, J. MUKRIaOJT. , KXCHA.VGE HOTEI.. • iju.ytf Huntingdon, Pa. MAtsAZiNES.-— The following 5!, g%smet tor sale at the Inquirer Book Store:' ATLAN i loT MOS '" aLY ' PPTXAM':- MONTHLY kww PI S COTT ' 8 ' 6ALAXY, PKTKRS'iX, ort of shape. THE CHESAPEAKE FISHERIES.—Herring fishing, on an extensive so tie, says the Wil mington, Del., Conimerdtl, has about elo.-cd on the Chesapeake, and the hauling -eine fisheries "cut out," i. e., cot the seine out of the ropes, and quit during ia?t we k. 'The hauling seine - ' fi-'m rincri have had a very successful season this year. The hauls have been regular and the price? have b en uniform. Herring sold at. the beginning of the season at $1 per hundred, and tlii? price was maintained up to the clo-e of the -i a. n. Shad a!.?o brought sl4 per hundred, a very good price, the whole season through. FIXING THE STANDARD.—Anna Dickin son maintains that Mis. Stone, Mr.?. Liv-| • rmore ami Mi?s Anthony, the greatest women of the age, are superior in intellect to New York aldermen an 1 lcgi- lator-. \\ e think they are —just about. Bat we would j like to know it this claim of superiority to the aldcrmauic intellect is all the claim the women make on behalf of their groat lights. If so their modesty is commendable. We would have put them a great d .1 higher. We woula have compared them with George Francis Train, Senator Spragae, Colorado Jewett, the Bight Honorable Mr. Gladstone, Garibaldi and tire Mayor of Cork. BEKCHER ON CHURCH UNION. —Rev. Henry Ward Beecher on Sunday preached against the schemes of Church union, whether planned by I'ope, Protestant or Pagan, taking the novel ground th t tl.e strength of the Christian religion lies in the oumber of the existing denominations. lie hop?? to see the sco's increase in number rather than combine, and prefers to have the Gospel preached by wicked men rather than not have it preached at all. He did not claim originality for these novel ideas, but showed that they were in consonance with those of that n?tute Itwver, Saint Paul. GEORGIA COTTON CROP. .V? e- ntinue to receive from all sections most di-eoureg ing accounts of the cotton crops. The con tinued cold nights and the recent cold winds which have prevailed thru .-h-iiit the entire , eastern a id middle sections of the Sta>c ' hive cans:d the plant to die, and in many localities the crop has been plowed up and replanted in corn. There can be no longer the slightest doubt that the crop is at least twen'y to twenty five days later than usual, and that th*3 stand is generally very defi cient. If the season should become more favorable titan early day, a fair crop may j be made, but this is quite uncertain. THE GOOD COUNTRY. —Edna Dean Proc | tor, writing in the Independent, ufherarri- vol at the Hudson River Railroad depot, in this city, at an early mnralog hour says : Amour the throng waiting the departure of the train was a groupof emigrants; and in it two children crying bitt' rly, apparently from sheer, sleeplessness an l fatigue. "Poor little things," [ said, "how tired they seem." "Yes" answered the mother, who stood by, trying to comfort them—a meaify-ciad, worn-looking woman, hut with soft dark eyes and abundant chestnut hair coiled un der her torn hood. "Yes, we landedyester day fr un K tig la nd, after five long week- at sea. Rut thank God! I don't mind it naw. 11 'c vegoi to the good country." CROP PROSPECTS IN CALIKORXIA.— The rain which has fallen since Tuesday nieht was greatly needed for maturing the early and saving the late grain from utter blight It i- the opinion of farmers with whom we conversed (rout many parts of the State, sf;ys the Sacramento Union, of the 21st uit., that without this rain there could hardly have been half the average yield per acre this year. Had it como ten days s.ion< r it woukl have been better, but coming as it has it will greatly increase the yield by saving the late sowing from the destruction wish which it was menaced. Such weather as we have had since Tuesday night, con tinued through this week is just what we wanted. It will add millions of bushels to the wheat harvest and improve the quality of the yield. As for injuring the hay tuop that is not to be feared. If the wet weath er holds out long enough to damage what has been cut and still remains in the fi dJ, it will send forward a new and better growth of gra.-s than the old, and give us a June haymaking that will more than make up for the small losses thus occasioned. BEI>FORD, PA.. FRIDAY, JUNE 11. IBG9. i HE untl M, OF LOVE. J wo dark-eyed maids, at shut of day, Sat where a river rolled nvfay, ; With culm, sad hrowg and raven hair, And one was pale, nnd both were fair. Bring I, ,-vers, they sang, bring flowers un blown, Brine forest blooms of name unknown ; Bring budding sprays from wood and wild, : To strew the bierot Love, the child. CI -e softly, fondly, while ye wren, I His eyes, that death may seem like sleep. And fold his hands in sign of rest. ; Llis waxen hands, across his breast. | And make bis grave where vio' "? hide. : Where star-flowers strew the rivulet's side, And blue birds in the misty spring ; Of cloudless skies and summer ring. i Place near him, as ye lay him low, | His idle shafts, his loosened bow, ! The silken fil'et that around His wuggi?h eyes in sport he b ,und. ' But we shall mourn him long, and miss : His ready smile, his ready kiss, i The prattle of his little feet, i Sweet fr ns and stammered phrases sweet; And graver looks, serene and high, A light of heaven in thai young eye ; j And these shall haunt us till the heart j Sha'l ache and ache, and tears will start. The bow. the band shall foil to dust, J The shining arrows waste wiih rust. : And all of I.ove that earth can claim, ' Be Da: a memory and a name. Not tbu? his nobler part shall dwell, i A prisoner in his narrow cell; j But he whom now we hide from men, ' In the dark ground, shall live again ; ] Shall break these clods, a form of light, I With nobler mien and purer sight, | And in the eternal glory stand Highest and nearest God's right baud. j_ - bnilmuLoui-. AN UNPLEASANT SITUATION. John Smith—you've heard of hint—is very htisiii'.i!; too bashful in truth. He wa? 1 horn and r;; ?ed in the country. Hi? father : gave him a education and allows him i kilty of uion.-y. But John, with all other attainments never could ue.cus:out himself to : the society of females, not because he did ! not like the girls, but because his shy nature would not permit him to associate with th-- ; fair sex. It on -e happened, not very long ag . either, that John's father had - -ui ; very important ! u?it> ss to transact in the city. He a'so had son e very particular af f.ii- li- rttter.il to at home, which demanded ! his pcr.?ond attention, aud not pos?-;ng j , the power of übiquity, be delegated his s-m John to transact that in the city. John, b in IT thus commi-sionod, immedi ately proceeded to the city and to the resi (donee of his father's old friend, whom he | fUllt.-l IO ! .etj nice ..Id ..tlvw.u, ~; < it, for the paint. There ain t no u c in wink in' at mcwith thatgla?• 11 tit care if you are twenty-eight ve.u - old, y> h. don t know Low he got out of the scrape. A3IKKICAN GIRLS. American girls have a certain something ndi cii i? not inaptly called dainty; dainty features, dainty forms, dainty feet. \\ if'n what ta.?te they dress ! It is true Gu ylb cm r-.if.en-ivi!;; not because Atneri cat. -di? ar - extravagant, hut because arti cle for the fair sex are dear. We have no home manufactures, but must imp -rt our silks, velvets, laces, linens, gloves, and almost everything that goes to makeup too toilet; the very same dres? would rot an American treble what it would i I. :r: •'wo:; n io bcr native land. No wonder th - latter can dress better than the former on less money. Aur r'cans do not invent fashions, but th y i-vize upon them at once, and wcat i hem as gracefully as those who do invent them. L is a saving as true, alas ! as it is old, that American women fade early; still when their day of positive beauty is pari, they are.goad wives and mothers, affectionate, ehe rful companions; in their homes the\ are excellent housewives, even as muc'i so us Engli-liW' men, who in this respect ar. It is time to ctedit our countrywomen with something beyond mere beauty: though not in the world crowded boulevards of the luxurious French capital, nor in the priori i-al st ctt? of the sturdy metropolis ofGreai Bit an, can one meet in an afternoon's stroll ?uch throngs oflovely girls and womei a? flock down Broadway on a sunny day. The i iear. women are the most intel i'gent among civilized nations. The French - nly equal them in quickness of perception ".nd in wit, hut not in face, lor the lattei are notoriously ugly, as a general thing—n pretty face in France being almost as rare as an ugly one here. Americans are bcttei ef -eaii'd, too, than most women; so, what wiih learning, wit, cheerfulness, graee and beauty, they may be pronounced as nearly P" rf • as it is possible for mortal women to 1' irtuii itcly, they are sufficiently do f etiv • to answer Coleridge's oft quoted line-: they are not • —"Too bright and good l or human nature's daily food." In nduiition to possessing all the charms and virtu- ■ ol mo women of other nations, th - ha\t a self-rt liatit manner and self u ui t.ii r, invincible virtue, which non< ■ ither- art • ncedi-d to have at so early an age; for cttr custom of entrusting mere girls in the ty of gentlemen alone is the sub rt nfwcnd r and outcry among foreigners. T ■ the eternal honor of American men b i- -aid ri. y have in g-ncral the most sacred r -: et for the purity of young girls, and th -. w : the high sen. e of propriety which prevails among the latter, causes oui c nntry tj 1 aim- -t altogether free from that hide a: ci im ■ which brings in its crim son tr:un the infanticide of illegitimate off spring. Can thi system be entirely wrong which averts the betrayal of young girls? This, in Gr- it Irifain, h almost become a na tional criae. So lit iU. is infanticide thought of in Eng iind r. • that the wretched unwedded n t'mr t Idem hanged, or even transpor i 'J, but i? condemned to imprisonment for tr m six to eighteen months. Too I! ,-ster Vaoghans of England do not suffer lone; it i? -imply because the sup pi cd or actual crime of the unfortunate creature n-iw languishing in a Philadelphia jail is .?o rare here that it awakqns unusual horror. While we have considerably less of the times of seduct ion and chi'd murder than h England, we have not more depravity Uiiu exist? tin re in wedlock, and much less Un in i'ra : though as married happi #?s in the latter country i* based upon the Mplati -n of th first principles of matrimony, n comparison is po.?-ib!e. Let, ns admire the bewitching beauty of American women —their girlish freshne?s, thir enchanting gra -s, as they develop into w iien; let us d > homage to their sprightli neaof speech— I which, if not actual wit, c'otly approaches it —and their strong in ri-li; nee. And a?, with all their gifts, th< :.r - not exempt from suffering, let u rein-xt the prejudice against their laboring tc winjread for themselves and little ones; thi? wild be a greater boon than the suf frage; >r voting is not an absolute necessity —anino doubt will come in time—but bread s. Whoever a woman, by her int-d'eri, ran wotk pe by side with a man, let her fce paid oiaily well. This seems hut just'ce to thetresent as well as to the coming gen • arii for whatever tends to elevate te yond iveriy and ennoble trie mind of the moth, must lift up and advance her sons; -o. lit bv little, the whole tace is benefit ed. li useless t i lament the necessity for a worn '.? Working; since it exists, let us cope with ie dark evil a? best we may; and if tli "; .JVagc tends to the welfare of men it m u.-f o the same by wou.eo. ESently, this present outcry for the snffgc and the right to labor is but an out- of the intelligence, the heart, the soifl the genius of the lovely aul noble i.ilt-J American women. —C'elia Logan I\ org, in Packard"t Monthly, for June. I FCGKI tors PLEASURES. —Ihave sat upon tb pa-shorn End waited fi.r its gradual ap prjhes, and have seen its dancing waves ar.white surf, and admired that He who injured it with his hand had given it such jut;td motion; and I have lingered until taeatle waters grew into mighty billows, alli ed well nigh swept me from my firmest foiig. So have I seen the heedless youth gfcg wi;h a curious spirit upon the sweet uf)n- and gentle approaches of inviting pinre; till it has detained his eye and im p|ncd his feet, and swelled upon his soul afcwepi him to a swift destruction. STRONG 1)RI SR. The history of strong drink is tbo histo ry of ruin, of tears, of bluod. It is per haps the greatest curse that over scourged the earth. It i 3 one of depravity's worst j (rusts a giant demon of destruction. Men may talk of earthquakes, storms, confla grations, famine, pestilence, despotism and war; but intemperance, in the use of in toxicating drinks, has sent a volume o' misery and woe into the stream of tlii wor Id's history, more fearful aDd terriffiv than either of them. It is the Amazon and Mississippi among the rivers of wretchedness. It is the Alexander and Napoleon among the warriors upon the peace and good of man. It is like the cale horse of the Apocalypse, whose rider is Death, aud at whose heels follow hell and desi ruction. It is an evil which is dmited to no age, no continent, no nation, no party, no sex, no period of life. It ha.? •aken the poor man at his toil and thi rich ruan at his dek, the senator in the balls of state and the drayman on the street, the young man in his festivities and the old man in his repose, the priest at the alter and the layman in the pew, and plunged thein into a common ruin. It lias raged equally in times of war and in times of peace, in periiids of depression, and in periods of prosperity, in republics and in monarchies, among the civilized and among the savages, Since the time that Noah came out o! the ark, and plant ed vineyards, and drank of their wines, wo read in all histories of its terrible do ing.?, and never once lose sight of its black and bloody tracks. States have recorded enactments against it, ecclesiastical penal ties have been imposed upon it, societies, have succeeded societies for its extermina tion ; but, like him whose name was Legion no man has been able to bind it. For there four thousand years, it has been ra ring over the world, destroying some of virtue's fairest flowers and some of wis dom's fruitage. It was this that brought the original curse of servitude upon the leeendants of Ham, that has eaten away the strength of empires, wasted the ener rie? of states, blotted out the names of families, and crowded hell with tenants. Egypt, the source of science—Babylon, the wonder and glory of the world- Greece, the home of learning and of liber ty —Rome with her Ctesars, the mistress of the earth—each in its turn had its heart lacerated by this dreadful cankerworm, and thus become an easy prey to the destroyer. It- has drained tears enough to make a sea, expended treasure enough to exhaust Gol onda, shed blood enough to redden the waves of every oeean, and wrung out wailing enough to make a chorus to the lamenta tions of the under world. Some of the mightiest intellects, some of the most gen rous natures, some of the happiest homes, yime of the noblest specimens of man, it has blighted and crushed, and buried in squalid wretchedness. It has supplied very jail, and penitentiary, and almshouse, and charity nospital tn the world with t nants. It has sent forth beggars on every -treet, and flooded every city with beast iality and crime. And it has, perhaps, done more toward bringing earth and lull together, than any one other form of vice. Could we but dry up this one moral ulcer, and sweep away forever all the results ol this one form of sin, we would hardly need such things as prisons, asylums, charity houses, or police The children of haggard want would sit in the hails of plenty. The tears of orphanage and widowhood, and dis appointed hope, would dwindle in a goodly measure. Disease would be robbed of much of its power. The clouds would vanish from ten thousand afflicted homes. And peace breathe its fragrance on the world, almost as if the day of its redemption had come.— Dr. J. A. Scirs. MEN WHO WIN WOMEN.—God has so made the sexes that women, like children, cling to men; lean upon them for protec tion, care and love; look up to them as though the? were superior in mind and body. They make them the suns of their -y.?tem, aud they and their children re volve around them. Men are gods it they but knew it, and women, therefore, who have good minds and pure hearts want men to lean upon. Think of them rever encing a drunkard, a liar, a fool, or a lib ertine. If a man would have a woman to do him homage, he must be manly in ev ery sense, a true gentleman, not after the Chesterfield school, but polite, because his heart is full of kindness to all; one who •reats her with respect even deference, be cause she is a woman; who never conde scends to say silly things to her; who brings her up to his level, if his mind is above hers; who is never so anxious to please, but always anxious to do right; who has no time to be frivolous with her; always dignified in speech and act; who never spends too much upon her; never yields to temptation, even if she puts it in his way; who is ambitious to make his mark in the world, whether she encourages him or not; who is never familiar with her to the extent of being an adopted brother or cousin; who is not over carelu! about dress; always pleasant and consid erate, but always keeping his place of the man, the head, and never losing it. Such deportment, with noble principles, a good mind, energy and industry, will win any woman in the world who is worth winning. ! OITT AT XIGHT. —Fathers and mothers, look out for your boys when the shades of evening have gathered around you!— Where are ihey then? Are they at home, at the pleasant, social fireside, or are they running the streets? Are they gaining a street education ? If EO, take care; the chances of their ruin are many. There is scarcely anything so destructive to their morals as runuing abroad at night. Under cover of darkness tfccy acquire the education of crime; they learu to be rowdyisb, if not absolutely vicious ; they catch up loose talk, they hear sinful thoughts and they see ob scene things, and they become reckless and riotous. If you would save them from vulgarity, save them from ruin, save them from prison, see to it that night finds them at home. More than one youDg man has told the chaplain of the State Prison that here was the beginning of his downward course that finally brought him to the felon's cell. Let parents solemnly ponder this matter, and do all they can to make homo attractive to all the children, so attractive that the boys will prefer it to roaming in the streets. There is no place like home in more senses than one—certainly no place like home for boys in the evenings. VOL. 42: NO. 23 A DEAD POPE. There was joy at Rome in the year 1513, for Pope Julius 11. was dead. It was no unusual thing indeed, for tbe Romans to re joice at the death of a Pope. If there was any one the people of the Holy City com temned and hated more than all other men it wa usually tbeir spiritual father, whose blessings they so devoutly received and next to him his countless officials, who preyed upon their fellow citizens as tax-gatherers, notaries, and a long gradation ef dignities. But upon Julias, tbe withered and palsied old man, the rage of the people had turned with unprecedented vigor. lie had been a fighting Pope. His feeble frame had been torn by unsated and insatiable passions that would have become a Ctcsar or an Alexan der, but which seemed almost damoniac in this terrible old man. His ambition had been the curse of Rome, of Italy, of Europe; he bad set nations at enmity in the hope of enlarging bis temporal power; he had made insincere leagues and treaties in order to escape the punishment of bis crimes; his plighted frith wu held a mockery in all European courts; his fits of rage and impo tent malice made him the laughing-stock of kings and princes; and the cost of his feeble wars and faithless alliances bad left Rome the pauper city of Europe. And now Julius was dead. Tbe certainty that his fierce spirit was fled forever had been tested by all the suspicious forms of the Roman church. Tbe Cardinal Cam erlengo stood before the door of the Pope's chamber, struck it with a mallet, and called Julius by name. Receiving no answer, he entered the room, tapped the corpse on the head with a mallet of silver, and then fall iDg upon his knees before the lifeless body, proclaimed the death of the Pope. Next ihe tolling of the great bell in tho Capitol, which was sounded upon these solemn occa sions alone announced to Rome and to the Church that the Holy Father was no more. Its heavy note was the signal for a reign ol universal license and misrule. Ten days are always allowed to pass between tbe death of a Pope and the meeting of the con clave of cardinals for the election of his sue cessor, and during that period it was long an established custom that Rome should be abandoned to riot, bloodshed, pillage, and every species of crime. Tbe very chamber of the dead Pope was entered and sacked. The city wore the appearaoce of a civil war. The papal soldiers, ill paid and half fed, roamed through the streets robbing, mur dering, and committing a thousand outrages unrestrained. Palaces were plundered, houses sacked, quiet citizens were robbed, murdered, and their bodies left in tbe street or thrown into the Tiber. "Not a day passed," wrote Gigli, an observer of one of these dreadful saturnalia, "without brawls, murders, and waylayings." At length tbe nobles fortified and garrisoned their palaces, barricades were drawn across the principal streets, and only tbe miserable shop-keepers and tradesmen were left exposed to the out rages of the papal banditti.—Eugene Law rcuce, in flarprr' Magazine. WHITHER ARE YOU GOlNG.—Three trav elers from Frankfort to Bale, fell asleep. They had entered a wrong carriage, and were taken away toward Strasburg. They never discovered their error until they reached the bank of the great river, where there tickets were a?ked for Their vexa tion on discovering what their sleep had cost them, suggested a solemn lesson. I thought of another journey—of the thou sands who are passing on to eternity fast asleep; of the speed with which they are hurrying along; of another river; of other sleepers awaking to find that they have been on the wrong way, and that they must face an eternity undone. "Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light." I have read a 6tory of a professional fool, one of those who once formed an appendage to every great house. The king, bis mas ter, on investing him with the badges of bis office—the cap and =taff and bells—told him to wear them till he found a greater fool than himself. The king was dying. He sent for the fool, and told him that he was going on a journey—a very long journey—and that he would never return. "What provision have you made for your journey ?" said the fool. None, said the dying man. What! said the other; are you going into etcrni'j without making any provision ? Yes, said the king, with a heavy sigh. The fool drop ped his staff, cap and bells, and laid them before the king, saying: "Iwas only to keep them till I had found a fool greater than mvself, and I have found him.'' SABBATH BEI.LS. —Said Daniel Webster: "1 once defended a man charged with the awful crime of murder. At the conclusion of the trial I asked him what could induce bim to stain his hands with the blood of a fellow-being. Turning his blood-shot eyes full upon me he replied, in a voice of despair 'Mr. Webster, in my youth I spent the holy Sabbath in evil amusements, instead of fre quenting Jhc house of prayer and praise.' Could we go back to the early years of all hardened criminals. I believe, firmly believe that their first departure from the path of morality was when they abandoned the Sab bath school, and their subsequent crimes might thus be traced hack to the neglect of youthful religions instruction. "Many years ago I spent a Sabbath with Thomas Jefferson, at his residence in Vir ginia. It was in the month of June, and the weather was deligntful. I remarked: (How sweetly, how very sweetly sounds that Sabbath bell !' That distinguished states man for a moment seemed lost in thought, and then replied: Wes, my dear Webster, yes; it nrelts the heart, it calms our passions and makes us boys again.'" HERE is a story in rhyme, with a moral iu prose which people in business will do well to read at their leisure. It runs thusly: When trade grew slack, and notes fell dnc the merchant's face grew long and blue; his dreams were troubled through the night, with Sheriff's bailiffs all in sight At last his wife unto him said, "Arise at once, get out of bed, and get your paper, ink and pen and say these words unto the men; 'My goods I wish to sell to you, and to your wife and daughters too; iny prices are so very low, that each will buy before they go." He did as his good wife advised, and straightway went and advertised. Crowd* came and bought out all he had, his notes were paid, his dreams were glad; and he will tell you to this day, how well did printer's ink repay. He told us with a knowing wink how he was saved by printer's ink. o** TSAR, (In advanoej... .R.XA " " (it not paid within six m0#.)... IZ.K " " (if not paid within the year,)... 13.80 AH papers outside of the county discontinued without notice, at the expiration of the time for whieh tho subscription bus been paid. h'ingle copies of the paper famished, in wrappers, at five cents each. Communications on subjects of local or general uterest, are respectfully solicited. To ensure at tention favors of this kind must invariably be accompanied by the name of the author, not for publication, but as a guaranty against imposition. All letters pertaining to business of the office should be addressed to JOHN LUTZ, BEDFORD, PA. INFLUENCE OF CHILDREN'S PRAYERS. —Io one of the darkest periods of the Re formation, when Luther, Meiaitcthon, and others, were assembled to consult upon what should bo done, Melanctbon retired from tbe council under great dejection of spirit. After a short time he returned, his countenanoe beaming with confidence and joy; and when all were surprised at tho change, he told tbera that he had just seen a sight which assured him of success. He had seen some little children engaged in prayer for the Reformation. Tbeir mothers, who had assembled for the same purpose, had brought them together; and he was as sured such prayers would be heard of God Courage in the needful hour for the great est work ever accomplished by uninspired men was thus breathed into the soul by children's prayers. Such prayers the church need yet. Children, do you pray —not only for father and mother, for brother and sis ter, but also for the Church of God and the world?— Visitor. ETERNlTY. —Eternity has no gray hairs!" The flowers fade, the heart withers, man grows old and dies; the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages but time writes wrink les on the brow of eternity. Eternity! Stupendous thought I The ever present, unborn, undecaying, undy ing—the endless chain, compassing the life of God —the golden thread, entwining the destinies of the universe. Earth has its beauties, but time shrouds them for the grave! its honors, they are but as the gilded sepulchres; its posses sions ! they are hut bursting bubbles. Not so in the untried bourne. In the dwelling of the Almighty can come no footsteps of decay. Its day will know no darkening—eternal splendors forbid the ap proach of night. Its fountains will Dever fail; they arc fresh from the eternal throne. Its glory will never wane, for there is the ever present God. Its harmonies will never cease ! exhaustless love supplies the song. A TOUGH STORY.— The other evening, in our "private crib," there was a learned dissertation; subject: "Bedbugs and their remarkable tenacity of life." One asserted of 'his own knowledge that they could be boiled and then come to life. Some had -oaked them for hours in turpentine with out any fatal consequences. Old Hanks, who had been listening as an outsider, here cave in his experience in corroboration of the facts. Says he, "Some years ago, I took a bedbug to an iron foundry, and drop ping it into a ladle where the melted iron was, had it run into a skillet. Well, my old woman used that skillet pretty constant for the last six years, and here the other day the broke it all to smash, and what do you think, gentlemen, that ere instct just walked out of his hole where he'd beeu layin' like a frog in a rock, and made tracks for his old roost upstairs! "But," added he, byway of parenthesis, "by George, gentlemen, he looked mighty pale." A CONUNDRUM.—A young man seated at dinner, the other day. said to his wife: "Ellen, if you are good at guessing, here is a conundrum for you: If the devil should lose his tail, where would he go to get another one?" After some time spent in guessing, she gave it up. "Well," said he, "where they retail spir its." Eager to get it off, she hastened to a lady friend with: "Oh, Marian, I have such a nice conun drum ! Joejust told me of it. I know you can't guess it, If the devil should lose his tail, where would he go to get another one?" Her friend Marian having given it up she said: "Where they sell liquor by the glass." Marian didn't see the point of the joke. ABOUT HANDS.—Arsene Housays says in his latest essay on female beauty: "Irish girls have the most beautiful hands English girls have too fleshy and plump hands. The hands of American girls are too long and narrow. The fingers of Ger man girls are too short and palms too broad. Next to the Irish girls, the daughters of Po land deserve the palm, so far as the beauty of the hands is concerned. The hands of French, Italian and Spanish girls, may not be called indifferent, though there are more beautiful hands to be seen in France and Italy than in spain. The porisiennes bestow a great deal of oare on their hands, and the consequence is that superficial and inexpe rienced observers will believe that they have finer hands than the women of any other part of France or any other country." IT is a sin for men to disfigure their bodies, injure their health, corrupt their minds, and shorten their lives, by taking intoxicating liquors. It is a sin for men to neglect their fam ilies, punish their wives and children, and increase misery at home by drinking in toxicating liquor. It is a sin to associate with persons who frequent grog shops. A CASE of "cruelty to animals," for the consideration of tho Society: 0 BeD (A little darkie in bed with nothing over him.) AN Irishman being asked what he came to America for, said : "Is't what I came here for, you mane ? Arrah by the powers! you may be sure that it wasn't for want, for I had plenty of that at home." A SHREWD but unenlightened school di rector, away out west, used to say, on ex amining a candidate for the post of teacher, "We all know that a, b, o, is vowels, but we want to know why they is vowels." A peacock would bo a pretty bird if it would ooly keep its mouth shut. So would some angels we know if they would only fol the same precept. To be always intending to Uvea new life, but never to find time to set about it, is as if a man should put off eating from one day to another, till he is starved. AN hour's industry will do more to pro duce cheerfullness, suppress evil humors, and retrieve your affairs than a month's moaning. IF some men—or even women —wore to carry their hearts in their hands they would not be overburdened with weight.