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ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
\T IM MELL AND LINGEXFELTER,
iv
ATTOKNi.VS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA.
Have formed a partncrsbip in the practice of
the I.aw, in new brick building near the Lutheran
Church. [April 1, ISC9-tf
\ | . A. POINTS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA.
"Respectfully tenders bis professional services
. lie. Office with J. W. Lingenfc'ter,
Esq., on Public Square near Lutheran Church.
promptly made. [April,! f 69-Lf.
. I.SPV M. ALSIP,
ij ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA.,
Wi!i faithfully an i promptly attend to all busi
entrusted to his care in Bedford and adjoin
atr counties. Military claims, Pensions, back
, ay. Bounty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with
M inn A Spang, on Juliana street, 2 doors south
e Mongol House. apl 1, 1869.—tf.
T R. DUHBOHROW,
0 . ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Bedford, PA.,
Will attend promptly to all business intrusted to
hi.- -are. Collections made on the shortest no
llt *i*o, a regularly licensed Claim Agent
if,dm) give special attention to the prosecution
\\h * against the Government for Pensions,
Back I ay, P.ountv, Bounty Lands, Ac.
Office on .Juliana street, one door South of the
Inquirer office, and nearly opposite the 'Mengel
House"
L. RUSSELL J. H. LOXGENECKEK
5 > 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<ls of CIQAKS. All
order* promptly filled. Persons desiring anything
ia his line will do well to give bim a call.
Bedford April 1. *69.,
/A N. HICKOK,
V • DENTIST.
Office at the old stand in
BANK BUILDING, Juliana st., BEDFORD.
All operations pertaining to
S u r(j tea! and Mechanical Dentistry
performed with care and
WARRANTED.
Aturnihelic* administered, to Ken tlenired. Ar
tijici-il teeth inserted at, per et t $80O and up.
As I arn deteimined to do a CASII BUSINESS
or none, I 'nave reduced the price* for Artificial
Tveth of the various kinds. 29 per cent., ar.d of
trold ' illings 33 per cent. This redaction will be
made only to strictly Cash Patients, and all such
will receive prompt attention. "febfiS
WASHINGTON HOTEL.
Tkir largo and commodious house, having been
' c taken by the subscriber, is now open for tha re
ception of visitors and boarders. The rooms are
large, well ventilate). and comfortably furnished.
The table will always he Bopplied with the best
the u arket can afford. The Bar is stocked with
tba choicest liquors. In short.it is my purpose
to keep a I'lßisT-CLASS HOTEL. Thanking
the public for past favors, I respectfully solicit a
renewal of their patronage.
N. B. Hacks will run constantly between the
Hotel and the Springs.
mayl7,'6'.':!y WM. DIBERT, Prop'r.
JtXCII AN 9 E HOTEL.
J HINTIN'iDOX, PA.
. ii.s old establishment having been leased by
!. "iOHIUeOX, formerly Lropnetor of the Mor
rison House, has been entirely reuovated and re
furnished and supplied with all the modern im
provements and eon* eniences ne-'essary to a ilrst
> .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.
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ITEMS.
THE old English blockade runners that
acre so successful during the American war
are being refiited, to engage in blockade
running at Cuba.
THE proposed bridge over the Last river
at New York, is estimated to cost $7,000,
000, and to require six years fir its con
struction. It will bo a luilo in length.
A TEXAS gentleman has received a qu n
tifv of silkworm eggs from France through
the mail. Some oh the eggs hatched on the
way, and tlie worms were living on their
arrival.
ENGLAND. —We n ver knew till now what
a saintly old creature England was and is.
litre, by her own confession, we find that
throuah all our war she was beset by sore
temptation to give us a dig under the filth
rib in the recognition of the Confedi racy.
Her 'ally,' urged her to i', her own interest?
demanded it, her disposition led that way;
but she refrained. Why? Because she
was find of us, and did not want to effect
unfavorably the great experiment of Repub
lican Government. Kind old creature !
EDUCATION IN EUROPE.—A map giving
the rauk of the different countries of
Europe, based upon the relative efficiency
and extent of the education imparted in
their primary schools, has recently been
published. The several nations rank as
follows: Saxony, Switzerland, small States
of North Germany, Denmark, Pru-sia,
Sweden, Baden, Wurteniberg, Holland.
Norway, Bavaria, France, Belgium, Eng
land, Italy, Au-tria, Greece, Papal States,
Spain, Portugal, Waldo-Wallacia, Turkey.
How A WOMAN KEEPS PosTomeE
Mrs. Keziuh B.Jo! n-ou was lately appoint
cd post-mistress of Leavenworth, Kansas,
and the local papers say that she commenc
ed opetations without a desk, box or table,
tumbling the mails all over the floor simply
because she got huffy, and wouldu't buy,
borrow, or take as a gift the fixtures of her
predecessor. Consequently the office hud
to be shut up for a day, and was not opened
until the bu?inc?s men of the city, by a
united effort, prevailed upon her to take
the furniture and gat matters into some
>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, ~;<L
a beautiful daughter, and gold spectacles.
John Was ushered into tbo pailor (anew
I thing for him,} and motioned to a rest —not
| a sofa [another new thing.]
But wo must use his own language :
1 took my seat and made obst tvarious.
Every thing was fice ! Fine carpets, fine la
: bit ?, fine curtains, fine bocks, fine pianos,
fine everything, and especially a fine young
: lady who wa- dri ed io fine -iik, fine satin,
' and who hid fine curls, and a fine appear
! r.nce generally.
After chat: ing with the old gentleman a
few minutes, he took down hi? hat, told no
■ to make my ? If at hi me for an hour or two
and left—left me alone with his daughter
! and a small mischievous boy, the young la
dy's brother. I didn't rc!i?h the situation
at all. The idea of keeping a city belle cn
i gaged in conversation for two hours; perdi
: lion! Sil. ncc reL-n d in the parlor for a
shoit time, you may bet. I amu?cd my-.lt
as ruu 'i a? i n-s-ihle with the boy—that is 1
' loaned him my knife and watch key, and
1 wathccdhiai cut holes iri the carpet with one.
and spoil the . thcr. 1 don't know what f
would have d-.ne had it not been for that
boy—he was so good to attract one's atten
\ tion, you know.
It's true, he asked some startling ques
; tions, occasionally, such as this, foriustance:
"Arc you going to court sitter Emily ?" hut
such things must be expected under such
i circumstances.
Mi?? Emily, thinking no doubt that to la
a good hostess she must keep her guests er
giged in conv r.-.otion. a?ked me "how 1
j liked country life," etc. She said that it
must be 0 beautiful sight to seethe laborers,
male aud female, romping on the new mown
hay onN.w Year's day; that she always
did think she would like to spend a Christ
mas in the country a nut gathering with the
' village lads and lasses; that it always had
been a mystery to her how tlicy got eggs off
! the trees without breaking them.
In return, I thought to keep up my pait
I of the conversation, it was necessary for me
to q'.mt -• poetry and the like, which I did.
Among other quotations, I unfortunately
l repeated the well-known lines of Shuke
: spoare:
■ ' There's a divinity that sha) our ends,
Rough hew tin m as vou will."
J At this juncture, the boy, who had perch
cd 1 iuiself upon my knees, looked very car
j ne-tly in my fice and said :
"Divinity shaped the enti. f jour uo.-e.
■ mighty eutious."
I m art ain that I wished somebody would
: ?t a.k tie young rascal. We talked of lulls,
mountains. vales, cataracts—l believe I -ati
waterfalls, when the boy spoke up and .said:
"Why, sist. r's .-t a trunk fu'l of'our np
sfa'rs—'papa sold they arc made out o{ boss
! hair."
Thi revelation struck terror int • and
blushes into the cheeks of my fair cotupau
i ion.
It began to Ire very apparent to um that
1 tnust l)o very guarded in what 1 said, iest
•-•••id b y might -lip in hi.- remarks at un
i called for places; in fact I turned my eon
vcrsation to him. I told hint he ought to
go home with me, and see what nice chick
ens we have in the country. Unluckily }
mentioned a yoke of calves my brothers
owned. The word calves ruined all. The
little fellow looked up and said.
".Sister s got a dozen of 'eui, bat she
' don't wear 'cm only when she goes up in
town o' windy days."
"Leave the room you unmannerly little
wretch " exclaimed Emily, "leave immedi
ately.'
"i know what you want mo to leavq for,
replied he; "you can't Idol njo—you want
i to set in that man': lap an 1 kiss Liui like
you d ! l'i i Sitninocs the other Jay—you
cau't fool me, I'll j-t tell you, Gimme
#ouie vitu Jy like he did; then I'll go. You
think beoausa you've got the Grecian bend
tuat you re einart. I know a thing or two.
I am uiatl at you anyhow, 'cause pap would
a bought tt, ;l top yesterday, if it hadn't
been for your get! tug them curia, doggone
"U uee 1 not torn so r-d in the face,
'.:au-• 1 "-ari t > < it, for the paint. There
ain t no u c in wink in' at mcwith thatgla<?
eye of yurn, cause I ain't going out'n
here, BOW that's what's the matter with the
I'd :,'>?• 11 tit care if you are twenty-eight
ve.u - old, y<m ain't n , boss o' mine, you old
fool.
11. 'i? ad the story that Job", relat- d
He SJ>> 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.
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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.