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A Postmaster is required to give notice by tetter, (returning a paper does not answer the law) when a subscriber doe 3 not take his paper out of the office, and state the reasons tor its not being taken; and a neglect to do so makes the Postiuas tcr repeoneibl* to the publishers for the payment 2. Any person who'takes a paper from the Post office, whether directed to his name or another, or whether he has subscribed or not is responsible for the pay. 3. If a person orders his paper discontinued, he must pay all arrearages, or the publisher may continue to send it until payment is made, and ollect the whole amount, whether it be taken from the office or not. There can be legal discontin ucnec until the payment is made. 4. If the subscriber orders his paper to be stopped at a certain time, and the publisher con tinues to send, the subscriber is bound to pay for it, if he token it out of the Poet Office . The law proceeds upon the ground that a man must pay for what.be uses. 5. The courts have decided that refusing to take newspapers and periodicals from the Post office, or removing and having them uncalled for, is prima facia evidence of intentional frand. St <£nv&. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. AND LINGENFELTEU, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, ra. Ilavo formed a partnership in the practice of the Law, in new brick building near the Lutheran Church. [April 1, 1869-tf A. POINTS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFOBD, PA. Kespectftilly tenders his professional services to the pnblio. Office in the INQUIRES Building, (second floor.) jhß~Coilections promptly made. [ April,l'69-tf. TNSPY M. AI.SIP, 111 ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA., Will faithfully andpromptly attend to all busi ness entrusted to his care in Bedford and adjoin n g counties. Military claims, Pensions, bock jmy, Bounty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with Mann A Spang, on Juliana Btreet, 2 doors sooth of the Mengel House. apl 1, 1889.—tf. R R. DURBORROW, 0 . ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEBFOBD, PA., Will attend promptly to ail business intrusted to his care. Collections made on the shortest no tice. 11c it, also, a regularly licensed Claim Agent and wil give special attention to the prosecution , "lit.s against the Government for Pensions, Back I ay, Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac. Office on Juliana street, one door South of the Inquirer office, and nearly opposite the 'Mengel House" April 1, 1869:tf S. L. RUSSELL. J. H. LONGENECKKR RUSSELL A LONGENECKER, ATTORNEYS A COUNSELLORS AT LAW, Bedford, Pa, Will attend promptly and faithfully to all busi ncs- entrusted to their care. Special attention given to collections and the prosecution of claims for Back Pay, Bounty, Pensions, Ac. ,r®-Office on Juliana street, south of the Court House. Apri 1:69:1yr. J' M'D. SHARPS E. F. KERR OLIARPE A KERR, iO A TTORSE YS-A T-LA W. Will practice in the Courts of Bedford and ad joining counties. All Easiness entrusted to their care will receive careful and prompt attention. Pensions, Bounty, Back Pay, Ac., speedily col lected from tho Government. Office on Juliana street, opposite the banking bouse of Reed A Schcil. Bedford, Pa. Apr l;69:tf U R C. SCHAEFFER ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA., Office with J. W. Dickerson Esq.. 23apr1y P~A Y s ICTANS. J JR. B. F. HARRY, Respectfully tenders his professional ser vices to tho citizens of Bedford and vicinity. Office an 1 residence on Pitt Street, in the building formerly occupied by Dr. J. H. Hollas. [Ap'l 1,69. MISCELLANEOUS. 1 ACOB BKKNNKMAX, O WOODBERRY, PA., -< RIYENER, CONVEYANCER, LICENSED CLAIM AGENT, and Ex-Officio JUSTICE OF TIIE PEACE, Will attend to all business entrusted into his hands wuh promptness and despatch. Will remit mon ey by draft to any part of the country. 17sely OE. SHANNON, BANKER, . BEDFORD, PA. BANK OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT. Collections made for the East, West, North and ■ uth, and the general business of Exchange transacted. Notes and Accounts Collected and Remittances promptly made. REAL ESTATE bought and sold. April 1:89 nMAXIEL BORDER, PITT STREET, TWO DOORS WEST OF THE BED TERD HOTEL, BBIFOED, PA. WATCHMAKER AND DEALER IN JEV/EL RY. SPECTACLES. AC. He keeps on hand a stock of fine Gold and Sil ver Watches, Spectacles of Brilliant Doable Refin. e l Glasses, also Scotch Pebble Glasses. Gold Watch Chains, Breast Pins, Finger Rings, best •,'ialityof Gold Pens. He will supply to order any thing in his line not on hand. (apr.2B/65. I) W. GROUSE, DEALER IX CIGARS, TOBACCO, PIPES, &C. On Pitt street one door east of Geo. R. Oster £ Co.'s Store, Bedford, Pa., is now prepared to sell by wholesale all kinds of CIGARS. Ail rdcrs promptly filled. Persons desiring anything in his line will do well to give him a call. Bedford April 1. '<59., p N. HICKOK, v -- DENTIST. Oi. eat the old stand tn BANK BUILDING, Juliana St., BEDFORD. All operations pertaining to St'rgieal and Mechanical Dentistn/ performed with care and WARRANTED. >•etktlic adminietered, when deeired. Ar ;' teeth inner ted at, per eet, SB.OO and up. \S I am deteimined to do a CASH BUSINESS or cone, I have reduced the prices for Artificial : '"th of the various kinds. 20 per cent., and ol •' • 1 Fillings 33 per cent. This reduction will be toads only to strictly Cash Patients, and all such wsl! receive prompt attention. 7feb6S \Y ASHINGTON HOTEL. This large and commodious house, having beer re taken by the subscriber, is now open for the re ception of visitors and boarders. The rooms an large, well ventilated, and comfortably furnished The tabic will always he supplied with the bes the n arket can afford. The Bar is stocked witl the choicest liquors. In short, it is my purposi keep a FIRST CLASS HOTEL. Thankin, the public for past favors, I respectfully solicit i renewal of their patronage. B. Hacks will run constantly between flit " el ar.d the Springs. tnayl7/69:1j WM. DIBERT, Prop'r. pSCHAHOB HOTEL, 'if HUNTINGDON, PA. I jus old establishment having been leased by ■ i'JßttiaoN, furmerly proprietor of the Mor r House, has been entirely renovated and re '■ ic-i and supplied with all the modern im , u ' e ™eots and conveniences necessary to a first c.as, lintel. e ,', fce d '' iln S room has been removed to the first U.. „ u no '! B ! ,acious aE, i airy, and the cbam 1 e a,i well ventilated, and the proprietoi H endeavor to make hi* guest., perfectly .1 nie - Address, J. MORRISON, VI- , ~ EXCHANGE HOTEL, " lja] - nf Huntingdon, Pa JOHN JLUTZ, Editor and Proprietor. guquim Column. w ♦ JjO ADVERTISERS: THE BEDFORD INQUIRER. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING, BY JOHN LUTZ, OFFICE ON JULIANA STREET, BEDFORD, PA. THE BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN <OUTH■ WESTERNPENNSTL YANIA. CIRCULATION OVER 1500. LOME AND FOREIGN ADVERTISE MENTS INSERTED ON REA SONABLE TERMS. I FIRST CLASS NEWSPAPER. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: 12.00 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE. JOB PRINTING: ILL KINDS OF JOB WORK DONE WITH NEATNESS AND DISPATCH, AND IN THE jATEST & MOST APPROVED STYLE, SUCH AS 'OSTERS OF ANY SIZE, CIRCULARS, BUSINESS CARDS, WEDDING AND VISITING CARDS, BALL TICKETS, PROGRAMMES, CONCERT TICKETS, ORDER BOOKS, SEGAR LABELS, RECEIPTS, LEGAL BLANKS, PHOTOGRAPHER'S CARDS, BILL HEADS, LETTER HEADS, PAMPHLETS, PAPER BOOKS, ETC. ETC. ETC. ETC. ETC Oar facilities for doing ill kinds of Job Printing ire equalled by very few establishments in the country. Orders by mail promptly filled. All ! ettors should be addressed to JOHN LUTZ. 3 a ° rji mrral n.rtosujprv, Drbotrft to Lolitirs, ©Duration, ILtetatuw an* lerals7 ITEMS. NEWSPAPERS.— The Newark Courier says: "To criticise a newspaper is an easy j task, bat to print one to please everybody and the rest of mankind is no small under taking. Those who find fault with every little item which does not suit their ideas of right and wrong, should buy type and pub lish a paper of their own. Let them try it for awhile, and if they don't get some new ideas on the subject, we are no judge of hu man nature—that's all." The California pioneers' excursion to the Atlantic States will leave Sacramento for New York on September loth, 1569. The round trip is charged for at half fare, and the cost for each ticket is $112,50 in gold, or $l5O in currency. The parties must start together, and can stop for a day or more at Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, or any other eastern city that a majority may determine on. Sleeping cars solely for the excursionists have been provided. Thi- ! tickets are available to return within sixty days. MAJOR OSBORNE, of the New Haven : Register , now among the White Mountains, gives quite a notion of the steep grade of j the pony road up Mount Washington in this ! anecdote: "A hartford friend, whose hu mor it would be difficult to Hyde (A. P.) under any circumstances, was coming down the declivity, with every indication that he ! was about to slide over the horse's neck, j Looking hack, the guide hailed him. 'All right up there, Mr. H?' 'Perhaps so,' was < the reply, 'it all depends on the tenacity of the animal's tail; if it wavers an inch, I'm over the precipice.'" THE Impartial , a newspaper of Madrid, I says that the American Minister has uot j sent any note to the Spanish Government pointing out the probability of the recogni tion of the Cuban insurgents by Gen. Grant under the pressure of public opinion ; but that what General Sickles lias said is this— that the filibusters have made immense progress in gaining American sympathy, ! and they do not relax their efiorts to obtain recognition for the Cubans. Well, this is ' something; but we expect soon to hear that General Sickles lias been speaking a little closer to the main question, and to some purpose. ON Saturday a shocking accident occurred i near Bucyrns, Ohio. As an eastward bound j train on the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway was approaching the sta | tion, an elderly lady and gentleman, whose | names our informant could not ascertain, i attempted to drive across the track. The vehicle was struck by the engine and shiv ered to atoms. The lady was instantly kill ed, and the gentleman was frightfully man gled. He was alive when taken up, but it was thought impossible for him to live ma ny hours. No blame was attached to the officers of the train, as the proper signals were given before reaching the crossing. TENDERNESS.— We may talk, says Net tleton, of the best means of doing good, hut, after all, the greatest difficulty lies in doing it in a proper spirit. Speaking the truth iu love, in meekness instructing those that op pose themselves— with the meekness and gentleuess of Christ. I have known anx ious sinners drop the subject of religion in consequence of a preacher addressing theni in angry tones. "I never was fit," says Payson, "to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself, when I was subdued and melted into tenderness, and felt as though I had just received par don to my own soul, and when my heart was full of tenderness." How LONG DID THE MINERS LIVE?—A great many opinions have been given on the probable length of time which the imprison ed men lived after the fire in the shaft broke out at nine o clock 3looday morning at Avondale. Some people believed the ques tion was entirely set at rest by the finding of several dinner and water cans full, from which fact it was inferred death resulted be fore twelve o'clock, noon, the time when the men are accustomed to rake their dinner. This theory is plausible enough; but then it is by no means hard to believe that when the miners discovered the dreadful nature of their situation a thought of dinner an 1 din ner .cans fled from their minds; and had they lived for twenty-four hours it is not unrea sonable to think the same indifference to food would have continued. Anybody who has been amid the daDgers of a battle-field will readily recognize this feeling. TIGHT SHOES.— The most casual observer cannot fail to notice the contortions of many young ladies when promenading the streets, caused by the pain they suffer from wearing tight shoes. The waist they may squeeze, and in time will get used to the compression, but the feet are fitted with delicate machin ery that will not bear being bound too tight ly, without retaliating by causing propor tional suffering. When a voung lady is gin gerly walking with a sort of higgle-dcpiggle dy motion, as though she were perpetually about to take a scat, and as often changing her mind, she is generally supposed to be suffering from a severe stread of Grecian Bend, but in fully half the instances noticed there will be a look of intense pain on the face, the reflection of the torture suffered by trying to appear to have small feet. The best remedy is to let such folks keep so do ing, as in a short time the wearer of tight boots will be blest with a crop of corns, the tenderness of which will certainly change the opinions of the wearer as to the propri ety of having the feet comfortably clad. TERRIBLE CONDITION OF SPAIN. —The correspondent of the Rail Mall Gazette , who writes from Barcelona, declares that the Spaniards are utterly disgusted with their system of justice, and will remedy it, if no other remedy is obtainable, by Lynch law. Even criminal justice is corrupt, men ling ering out their lives waiting for trial, bo cause the judge will not admit them to bail without a bribe. In Andalusia, a kind of territorial socialism prevails, produced by overgrown estates and absentee landlordism. Four men own most of the province, and the biggest of them lives his life in St. Petcis hurgh. Brigandage is beginning to pre vail everywhere. Prim has ordered all Gen erals to shoot Carlists, and has promoted two officers who murdered nine persons who had fowling pieces, but were not resisting or attacking in any way. Add that the treasury is insolvent, the patties without leaders, and the trees coming down so fast that there is drought every three years, and our readers may have a faint idea of tbo State of Spain. It is tho red revolution which is coming there. BEDFORD, PL, )A Y, SEPT. 21 1869^ j Sarin-. , | THE PRINTER'S HOHEfIiUNDEV. In seasons when our funds are low Subscribers are provoking slow ; A few supplies keep up the flow Of dimes departing rapidly. t I But wt shall see a sadder sight, , j TVhen duns pour in from morn till night, Cowiuaudiug every sixpence bright , To be forked ovpr immediately. Our bonds and due-bills are arrayed, | i Each seal and signature displayed ; , The holders vow they must be paid, T\ itli threats of law and chancery. i 1 hen to despair we're almost driven, There's precious little use of livin', W hen our last copper's rudelv riven From hands that held it lovingly. But larger yet those dues shall grow, When interest's added on below, | Lerigth'ning our chain a foot or so, When gazing at them hopelessly. 'Tis so, that scarce have we begun To plead for time upon a dun, Before there comes another one, j DematMii z pay ferociously. ! The j respect darkens—ob, ye brave ! Who would our very bacon save ; TTaive, patrons, all your pretexts waive, And pay the printer cheerfully. Ah 1 it would yield us pleasure sweet A few delinquents now to meet, Asking of us a clear receipt For papers taken reg'larly. LONGING. BT JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. Of all the myriad moods of mind That through the soul came thronging. Which one was e'er so dear, so kind, i So beautiful, as longing. The thing we long for, that we are, For one transcendent moment: Bc-foro the present, poor and hare. Can make its sneering comment. | Still, through our paltry stir and strife, ; Grows down our wished Ideal; And longing moulds in clay what life Carves in the marble Real; To let the new lite in we know, Desire must ope the portal: Pei Laps the longing to be so Helps make the soul immortal Longing is God's fresh heavenward will, With our poor earthward striving: TT e quench it that we may be still Content with inerelv living : But, would we learn the heart's full scope, \\ hich we are hourly wronging, Our lives must climb from hope to hope, And realize our longing. Ah ! let us hope that to our praise Good God not only reckons The moments when we tread his ways, But when the spirit beckons; That some slight good is also wrought Beyond self-satisfaction, When we are simply good in thought, How e'er we fail in action. sUsfcttmw.ou.s, SQITKE SLTI-'OLK'S SI ISSCHIP TIO.N. Squire Suffolk was the richest man in North Grafton, and gossip said the stingi est. "As close as the bark of a tree," they described biin, for in a country place like North Grafton a small fortune entitles one to rank with the Rothcbilds. In the mean time let U3 hope that the Squire was not so narrow as they believed. How true it was let Miss Catharine Poore answer. Miss I'oore, who took in sew ing, and bad made up more than one piece of fine linen tor the Squire, and who during her vacations and hours of relaxation, purveyed for the parish or any needy body who came in her way— one human creature being quite as worthy as another of her aid and sympathy. One summer nforning Miss Poore tied on her straw bonnet—the identical bonnet sho had bought with the money Squire Suffolk had paid her five years ago, and which bon net site bad tewed over with her own lingers four SL-pcrate times, in oider to be a3 near the fashion of the day as respectability re quired—so orte morning she tied on this work of art, and taking her purse, as a nec" cssary precaution she believed, bent her steps along the blooming country road to ward the imposing mansion of Fquire Suf folk, on charitable thought intent. Now Miss Poore was no blooming uiLs of twenty, with dimples ooqueting with blushes on her cheeks, nDd eyes running over' with lovely mirth and peach bloom of youth thrown like a glamour over all. She was simply a plain woman of forty or thereabout, with a face in no way remarkable, except for its expression of kindness and good hu mor ; and these, be it said, are faces that best outlive youth, and that catch at last the reflections of the spirit, and grow beau tiful in the illumination of good deeds and pare Miaw Puoiu was Just, lliu one to beg for others and desire nothing for herself; just the woman to make a thou sand plans for tho welfare of others, and feel their frustration as acutely as if they had been for her own personal happiness. She was shown into the dining rcout at Squire Suffolk's where she found him dawn ing over a late breakfast, which the servant had just brought in on a silver truy. "You make me ashamed of myself," said he, reflectively sugaring his coffee by the aid of wrought silver tongs of an ancient de sign. "I'm sorry. I hope to make you pleased with yourself before my visit is over." "Then take this seat, Miss Poore, and drink a cup of this 3loeha ; it's my own iiu portion. There isn't another such lever age iu North Gralton, I'll venture to say." "Thanks. I love Mocha, but it dove not love me." "That's odd, very odd of the 3loeha un requited affection, eh?" M isa Poore laughed, but she was thinking rather of a family in North Grafton who drink cold water every morning at break fast, only indulging themselves in the luxury of tea on Sunday, in order to keep in coun tenance the lather, who ucedtd it to nrsist him through tho wear and tear of the day, and who disdained noy dainty which he must enjoy alone. This was tho country pastor, the Rev. Herbert Hasent and fami ly, who lived, or rather suffered on a salary of five hundred dollars a year, and what ex tras were to be obtained by fitting stupid boys for college. She cleared her voice then, a little nervously, for action. "Mr. Suffolk," said she, "I have come on a matter of business, and I may as well get it over at once mid leave you at your break fast in peace. Bome dim idea of sewing work flashed through his mind, wlu'o he iuvoluutarily ran over the items of his wardrobe. "I don't see—" he began. Oh, please don't refttse till I tell you. j V. itb the aid of several charitable societies j we ate fitting out touie young elergyajen as missionaries to the Feejee—" ' Oh, the mi-sionaries be hanged !'' he interrupts 1, scenting danger perhaps far I others besides the missionaries. "I beg pardon, Miss Poore; but—the devil—it SET MS to ME that charity begins at home." I've no objections to that, only don't make hci to UiUeA (. a home-body ; a little neigh borltuess is/good." "hit 'they'll be eaten alive, those young fools. Its downright UDcliristian to send I them o'ti merely as food for the savages. I ; won tieuJ a hand to such cruelty. I " . very well," said crest fallen Miss Poore, rising to leave. -■<o, it s not very well—begging your pat lon again. Sit down. Now it stands to reason that if the said call was a worthy one that is, If I should be as ready as the j next, one. There's your minister now. the Rev. .Mr. Hasont—never was a poor devil letter named—he hasn't a cent to bless : himself; his wife wears calico in December; j , buys fuel by the barrowl'ull—so my gar i finer tells me ; he wears patches in the julpit; they live on Leans and oatmeal! iVhy doesn't some one raise a subscription here? I would come down with something landsome—upon my word I would*!" And here the Fquirc tossed off bis cup of 3 >cha, well satisfied that he had staved her of with his specious humanity. But Miss P re was valiant, ami not to be worsted in tie encounter. "You speak feelingly," she said ; "it docs you credit, I am sure," taking out her tab lots. "TVhat a luxury it is to be able to give wb.re your heart dictates and your jitdgnjt tit approves ! Acting upon your sug gestion, I will open a subscription for Mr. ffa iCDt at occc, ar.d headed by your name. 1 am certain it will meet with great success." This was a turn of affairs the squire had lardly anticipated. You won't get a cent, mark my word." "I shall make the effort at least. What ffiall I put von <1 jwn at ? A great deal de ltoids upon that, you know." 1 rhoulJ think to. Why, my dear lady, Vu won't get a sixpence out of these clod voppers. Come now, I won' put my name i wwn, but I'll do this for you ; I'll agree to ; diuble all ycu collect. Now isn't that hand sale.-?—I gue-s I've heard the last of that spry," thought the merry Squire. "Thank y, u," said Miss Poore. ' 1 hen you'll see me again. Good uiorn in; Mr. Suffolk." -nd she was away through the blcssoni ing'ancs again without a thought for any thin: hut Mr. Haunt's comfort and the Squid's offer. " Low vt>y good it was of the Squire !" "he is* tvo mean as people believe, after a!!, ifyouoiy work the right vein. Heigh ho! what godsend it will be to 3lr. Ilasent —a little Judv money for the necessities of ] next winvr ; a new gowu for little Belle, ] who hasn been at church for weeks; a jack- 1 et fcr Toi, who is inimediably out at the ' elbow." What cm fort, what heart's ease was laid uj> in.hat blank subscription list! Oh, 1 if the day were each a year long, and all the farmers ge.-e laid golden eggs! What a pity it waao many dose-handed people lived in North fraften! There was Mrs. Adams and Capt:n Jaekson ; they were both well to do, butio what a wretched extreme they carried cvnomy ! TV til, but now that she was pa.-.-iq she might as well go in. 'Good Horning, Caption Jackson. I'm raising a Subscription for poor dear 31 r. Ilasent, ad I want your name." "You tant my money, you mean?" "Certaoly; yours, and that of a good many otter good people. How pleasant it is to liatc something to give away !" "1 should think very like! but I hain't got a sent a head myself; never was so poor ly r.flln my life." "li ar me, what a pity !" .-ighed Miss Pool i. "Now we all thought you were fort landed. How surprised the neighbors will ltd Did you lose in that fire?" "lis*;! I hain't lost anything. What put Oat Lee in your bonnet ? I hain't got a cent, though, to give any prating parson— not 1" "Wry well. Then I must go and try 3lrs. Adams. The world has u-ed her well; perlilps she is grateful enough to give a mite" "A precious little mite you'll get there. Wltji my dear woman, she's closer than a !:>vt to the band. She wouldn't give a centto save her soul, provided she has one. Con*, I'll venture to double what she gives; i v>.n't stave a hole through my bulwarks, T wif be hound !" "Good morning, then ; perhaps you'll see mo ojain." And Miss Pcore was off to 3lrs. Adam s. She found the lady turning a loaf of plum cake out of the oven. "Lone to a charm, isn't it?" said the •ati L-J housekeeper. "Vou know I took a premium on bread last fall." "lut sure you ought to have one on cake, if it's as good as it looks. I wottder if 3lrs. Has at tastes such a thing once a year ?" "Not oftener, I guess, laughed 3lrs. Adams. "Fhe's too slack to b- at up the eggs—catch her." Tbis didn't look promising, surely. ''She is not well, you know ; she's an in valid. She has been denied the greatest blessing God can bestow, of which you and I seem to have store. Ln't it a pity that she .-hould be deprived of so much beside*?' "Oh, but there must be a screw loose somewhere; either they're wasteful or something." ' Bless you. they haven't anything to waste; they don't know the meaning of the word. Why, Mrs. Ilascnt has worn that choco'atc calico for three years running. "Well, you know, invalids don't cloth s as fast as active bodies like me and you, Miss l'oore. Mow it's my opinion, bel\v<LU us two, that Mrs. Hasent might sit up and do hci house wotk as well as her neighbors, if she choose. Law, think of the parson bothering about and cooking break fast ! I'd like to see the morsel cf bread I would cat of his making !" "I guess if you were starving you would'nt a.-k who made it. I tell you it's a suffering household.'' "I Suppose all this talk means that you are begging for them! Law takes! it's as much as a widow can do to make both ends meet. What with ten tons of hay and a new barn swept off by fire, and a likely calf drowned in the freshet, you see. Law, this is the world, and the other's the country." 1 hat s true ; and we shan't any of us reach that country if we aren't open hearted toward one another. But Captain Jaekson, he warned me that I shouldn't get tcidow's mite here. He was so morally certain that he offered to double whatever you gave, thinking, no doubt, that it wouldn't hurt him to double nothing—quite in his line, to be sure." "Ha! ha! did he? Well that's a good one ! I never expected the captain would be so generous. I'd like to twist a few coppers out of the rusty old skinflint. It'll make him lose flesh. Now I think of it, I've got a ten dollar bill that I was going to send away; but I suppose the Hasents may as well have it, and then, too, Captain Jack son'll have to fork over a twenty !" "Thirty dollars 1* a very Talr beginmg," thought Miss Poore. It didn't seem exact ly necessary for her to quarrel with the mo tive, when the action was so acceptable; and therefore her business carried her back to Captain Jackson. "Again!" cried he, looking a little blank. "Where's the widow's mite? mighty small, isn't it?" attempting the facetious. "Well no; it's very good of her. She was just going to send it away. It's a ten dollar bill, Captain!" "Thunder! You don't mean it? Let's see it. It isn't counterfeit, is it? Did it give her the cramp? How did she weather it ? She must be on her beams ends! Dear, dear, and I agreed to double it! Well I've doubled the capes, and a good many other dangerous points, but bless me if this isn't double trouble. There's doulloon, at all events, aud golds up, you know. I'm the the last man to abandon a promise." Very good trophies to begin with were the ten dollar bill and the doubloon. The story of how they were obtained raised a laugh in many a farm kitchen, and a hearty laugh opens the heart and the purse by one impulse. She painted Mr. Hasent's difficulties so graphically, she related her experiences so humorously, that few could say to her nay. It would have been likego ing to an entertainment and then refusing to pay the price of admission. Besides, none could resist Miss Poore; and who would be outdone by Mrs. Adams and Captain Jack son? No one eared to compete with these worthies; and then wasn't Squire Suffolk to double the whole amount, after all was said and done? That was a pill which every one was anxious to administer to him, and they did their prettiest in the way of compounding it. The more nauseous the better, swallow it he must, if it made him black in the face, and strangled him into the bargain. Into every house in the place went Miss Poore and her subscription paper. Where money was scarce she accepted produce, aud borrowing a team, drove into town, and drove her bargains as shrewdly as Reynard himself, only more honestly. Barnyard fowls, and game that the neighbors' boys had brought down for the benefit of the parsons and the discomfiture of the Squire; butter, eggs, lamb's wool aud sheep skins; bags of grain, and fruit and vegetables—all was grist that came to her mill. One morning, going into town, she met the Squire himself in his smart gig, mounted behind a tall, chesnut colored horse, for the Squire's one extravagance was horse flesh, said the gossips again. He reined in, however, when he recognized her, and asked if she had taken to farming, said he wanted to let his farm on halves, would she under take it ? and he threatened to waylay and rob her when she returned homeward with the funds in hand. "You've some fine lambs wool there," said he, alighting to examine it. "Card and Skinner have engaged a hundred weight of me at a premium. Here, I'i' drop them a line, and you can take this up to them if you like, and say I sent it as an installment; they pay you cash down." "But —do you know what the money's for?" hesitated Miss Poore. She could not make up her mind to this unfair advantage, even in the cause of the Church.'' "Certainly I do. It's to run the Squire and enrich the parson. Shall I have to mortgage the farm, do you think? In that case I shan't ask you to take it at the halves." "A persistent little brigand!" laughed the Squire, rolling along over the country road, and enjoying the breezy morning; the odor of wild blossoms, the gushes of bird song that palpitated on the air in an ebb and flow of harmony, enjoying them as no mere miser could enjoy such unsubstantial pleasures. "It's your money or your life with her. She wouldn't disfigure the old place either, she wouldn't Blood will tell; she's got the high and mighty ways of the Jerrolds, and they bought their lands of the Indian sachems —nothing much older than this, I tancy, in this country,—if tbey did part with them to the devil, so to speak. Heigh ho ! I thought danger was over when a fellow reached tho fifties, but I do believe that, like the measles and whoopingcougb, it goes harder with the adult. And thus the Squire pursued his way, sometimes humming a strain of that old tune. "Lovely Zitana, list while I play.'— Brigands abroad, I may not stay.'— But thy bright eyes if the brigand should see, Thou art the bandit, the captive is he?" All through the summer days 31 isa Poore pursued her scheme, and into autumn, early in the dewy morning before her day's drudgery began, and again after it was finished. If she took a holiday to her.'elf, it was only in order to swell the subscrip tions. The neighbors caught the infection' and the children picked berries and went nutting in the season to pile Miss Poore's market wagon. Women who had nothing else to bestow took their knitting with them when they went out to tea or pleasuring, and gave tho results. Ruth Brown made yards of tatting, like a trace of hoar-frost, while she gossiped about the neighbors crops, the last singing school, and the young man with the golden mustache who came to buy grain of Farmer Gould, and said sweet things to his daughter; while a reminiscence I of this smart young man with the golden I mustache, and the tender nothings be had said to Kate Gould, appeared in the dis guises of graceful loaf and open bud, in satin stich and laco work embroideries, undertaken in the cause; and if they did not sell the better for this it surely was no fault of Kate; I she had put her best into them. And it was Maggie Stono who surrcndorol the VOIi". 42: NO 35. i premium of a gold eagle, which she had f taken at aby gone county fair, very much > as one surrenders an eyetootb, only because one would feel infinitely worse to keep it, i and Nell—not to be outdone—offered her I ear rings, and found that they were pinch beck. • It seemed as if one and all were bent upon ■ beggaring Squire Suffolk, fur on the first day of November the amount had reached three hundred dollars, and the subscription list was closed, except to the Squire. Accordingly one afternoon Miss Poo re put on her work of art. and taking her treas ure with her, proceeded to the Suffolk place. It was a bleakt Autumn day, a forerunner of sleet and storms and pinching wintry weath er, and Miss Poore, wrapping a threadbare shawl about her was glad at last to find her self before the blazing fire in Squire Snf folk's drawing room. It seemed to her at first as if be would never allow her to come to the point. .Either he had forgotten all about the affair, or meant to wear out her patience; but that was simply inexhausti ble. In the mean time he entertained her with a detailed account of hiseslate, as if he were the steward and she the master; with the increase in his crops and prices; with the story of his youth and schooldays : of his first beaver and swallow-tailed coat; of his awkward first love; and when he paused it occurred to Catharine that she knew him perhaps better than be knew him self. She wondered at this strange famili arity which was growing upon her; and when at leDgth she pulled out her subscrip tion list it was with a quaint reluctance of manner, not at all like Miss Catharine Poore's usual promptitude. Was she afraid he would fail to fulfill his obligation, and so disappoint her hopes? Was it because, having acquired a sort of friendliness for him, she feared lest he would prove the nig gard? '"Three hundred dollars," said he, "You have done finely." It plainly wasn't a very stunning affair to him, or he met an emergency with consum mate coolness. "Yes. I have it here in ready money. You shall count it if you will." "Three hundred dollars! Why, child I haven't so much on hand." She had feared it would come to that. "I never keep it about me, you know,' he pursued. "I don't like to put a premium on murder, to make it worth the servant's while to put a dirk through me any time after dark. •>he left her seat then and prepared to go home. She was quite miserable at that mo ment. To be balked thus! Six hundred dol lars would have gone so far with the Hasents —they needed it so sorely ! Only yesterday she had seen Thad's stocking peeping through his shoes; and then the doctor bad ordered porter for the mother; but it was one thing to be ordered and another to ob tain. Here would have been porter and plenty. She did not realize that all this, bad enough truly, was yet not enough to make her so dispirited as she seemed. She felt, as if some disaster had overtaken her which money in itself had no power to alle viate. "I will send lo town to-morrow," said the Squire, 'and you will have the money before nigbt. Will that do." "Do!" The tears steod in her eyes, the reaction of feeling was so intense. You cannot understand what it was to this wo man, who loved her neighbor as herself, who made his welfare, spiritual as well as material, a personal thing, happiness, the business of her life. She called in at Mr. Hasent'son her way home. There was no cheerful blaze in the grate. Mrs. Hascnt sat bolstered up in bed darning stockings, while her husband made the toast and tea, and lighted a solitary lamp. Miss Poore looked about her and thought of changes to come; of the comfort ably clad children; of the warm winter fires; of the new suit that should replace the shab by black of her father's; of porter and part ridges for the mother—and then she bid them grmd night, and her gladness illumined the path before her so that she seemed to walk in noonday. She went about her work as usual next day, never allowing her gaze to wander out expectantly, till a sharp ring brought her to her feet, with her nerves all quivering in her flesh, as if the points of enumerable pins were stabbin" b*- through and through. It was the m' ney from the Squire, in crisp bank notes, the full three hundred dollars —but what else ? What was it that made Miss Poore's hand tremble like an aspen, that sent the tears dropping slowly one by one, and made her flush and pale before this scrap of paper? "My Dear Miss Catharine: —'"The stin giest man in North Crafton" offers you his hand and heart. As it is the first time in his life that he has been guilty of such gen erosity, pray encourage him and heal him of his infirmity. JOHN SUFFOLK. And so Mr. Ilasent's heart and home wore gladdened with the six hundred dol lars, and this gladness rebounded upon the Squire and Catharine Poore and there was a great wedding, for North Crafton, in Mrs. | Hasent's best parlor, and everybody had a new gown for the occasion, not excepting the hostess herself, whose new gowns were like angels' visits—few and far between.— Harper's Magazine. JOSU BILLINGS PAPERS. THE HOBNEI. The hornet is an inflamibel bugger, sud den in hiz imprcshuns and has'y in h;z con clusion, or end. Hiz natral disposishen iz a warm cross between red pepper in the pod and fusil oi. and hiz moral bias iz, "git out ov mi way. They hav a long, black boddy, divided in the middle bi a waist spot, but their phisi kal importance lays at the terminus ov their subburb, in the shape ova javelin. This javelin iz alwuz loaded, and stands reddy to unload at a miDit's warning, and enters a man az still az thought, az spry az litening, and az full ov mclankolly az the toothake. Hornets never argy a case; they settle awl ov their differences ov opinyun by let ting their javelin fly, and are az certain to hit az a mule iz. This testy kritter lives in congregations numbering about one hundred souls, but whether they are male or female, or con servative, or matched in bonds ov wedlock, or whether they are Mormons, and a good many ov them kling together and keep or.c husband to save expense, I don t kno nor don't karc. . J never hav examined their habis much, f - -.—r y T r 'iff", SUBSCRIPTION iC Tke Tiqi.ntaa ii psklishtii c*cry (-"ninar morn ing be following rates : On Tetn, (in advance,) $2.00 " " (il not paid within lit mot)... $2.50 " " (if not paid withia the year,). . $3.00 A)! papers out-ide of the -#ufy ducoUirated without notice, at the expiration of the tiine for which the subscription has been paid. Single copies of the paperfnrnished.in wrappers, at five oeats each. Communications on subjects of local or general merest, are respeetfsCy solicited. To ensure at tention favors of this kind must invariably be publication, but sis guaranty against i All letters pertaining to business <>f should be addressed to JOHN LUTE, Kcnror.o, V* I i never kocsidercd it healt! y. Hornets bild their nests wherever they take a noshtin to, and seldom arc disturbed, for wbat would it profit a man tew kill 'J'J hornets and he v the one hundredth one hit him with hiz javeliu? They bild their nests ov paper, without enny windows to them or back doors. They hav but one place ov admi-sion, and the nest iz the shape ov an overgrown pine apple, and iz cut up into just ax menny bedrooms az their iz hornets. It iz very simple tew make a hornets' nc-at if yu kan, but i will wager enny man 300 dollars he kant bild one that he could sell tew a hornet for' half price. Hornets are az bizzy as their second couz- Z'.ns, the bee, but what tbey are about the Lord only know.-; they don't lay up enny honey, nor enny monev;. they seem to be bizzy only jist for the sake ov working all the time; they are alwus in az mutch ova hurry az tho (hey waz going foradoktor. I suppose this uneazy world would grind arouwnd on its axle-tree onst in 24 hours, even cf tliare want enny hornets, but hor net- must be good for sumthing, but I kant think now wbat it iz. Thare haiot been a bug made yet in vain, nor one that want a good job, tbare iz ever lots ov human men loafing around black smith -shops, and cider mills, all over (he country, that don't seem to be necessary for ennything but to lug plug tcbaeco and swear, and steal water-melons, but yu let the cholara break out once, and thou yu wiil sec the wisdom of having jist sieh men laying around; they help count. Next tew the cockroach, who stands tew the head, the hornet hazgjt the most waste stummuck, in reference tew the rest ov hiz boddy, than er.ny ov the iosek popula-liun, and here iz another mistery; what on arth duz a hornet want so mutch reserved corps for ? I hav jift thought—tew carry biz javelin in, thus yu see, the more we diskoverabout things the more we ate apt to LDOW. It iz always a good purchase tew pay out our last surviving dollar for wisdnm, and wisdura iz like the misterious hen's egg, it aint laid in yure hand, but iz laid away under the barn, and yu hav got tew sarch for it. The hornet iz an unsoshal! kuss, he iz more haughty than he is proud, he is a thorough bred bug, bu' his breeding and refinement has made him like sum other folks I kuo ov, dissatisfied with himself, and every boddy else, too much good breed ing ackts this way sometimes. Hornets are long-lived—l kant state ji&t how long tfceir lives are, hut I know from instinkt and observashun, that enny krit ter, be he bug or be he devil, who iz mad all the time, and stings every good chance he kan git, generally outlives all his nabers. The only good way tew git at the exact fiteinc weight ov the Knrnpt. is {.ew fntoh him, let hitn hit you once with his javelin, and you will be willing tew testify in court that sumbody run a one-tincd pitchfork into yer; aD J s z for grit, i will state for the informashuu ov thoze who havn't had a chance tew lay in their vermin wisduui az freely az i hav, that one single hornet, who feeta well, will brake up a large camp meet ing. What the hornets doforamuzemontisan. other question i kant answer, but sum ov the best read, and heavyest thinkers amung the naturalists say they hav target excur sions, and heave their javelins at a mark, but i don't imbibe this assersbun raw, for i never knu enny body, so bitter at heart, az the hornefs are, to waste a blow. Thare iz one thing that a hornet duz that i will giv hiui credit for on mi books—he alwuz attends tew hiz own bizziness, and wont allow aDy boddy else tew attend tew it, and what he duz iz alwuz a good job, you never see them altering enDy thing, if they make enny mistakes, it iz after dark, and aint seen. If the hornets made liaff a L mcuuy blun ders az the men do, even with their jave lins, everboddy would luff at them. Hornets arc clear in another way, they bav found out, hi tricing it, that all they kan git in this world, and brag on, iz their vittles and clothes, and yu never see one, standing at the comer ova street, with a twenty-six inch face on, bekausc sum bank had run opb, and took their money with him. In ending oph this essa, I will cum tew a stop, by concluding, that if hornets was a little more pensive, and not so darned peremptory with their javelines, they might be guilty of less wisduru, but more charity. But yu kant alter bug uatur, without spileing it for nunything else, enny more than you kan an elephant's egg.— New York Weekly. THE WAIST OF THE PERIOD. The London Lunot srys: "Our old friend tight lacing has again made its ap pearance. Beaten back for a time, proba bly more by fashion than by the spread of knowledge, he has not been killed, but has only recoiled apparently for a better spring, for its victims are as numerous and pitiable as ever. The folly is one which was for mally to be found mainly in the drawing room, but now it also fills cur streets. It is lamentable to observe at every turn a wo man, young or old; who moves forward in a stooping position, unable even to hold her self upright in consequence of tbe constraint upon the muse!e o° the back. If the evils of tight lacing were confined to the distorted appearance which it never fails to produce, we might regret indeed to see the female form divine so defaced; but it would scarce ly be in our province to comment upon it. But, as medical practitioners, we see its effects every day in the train of nervous and dyspeptic symptons by which it is constant ly indicated, and in the still more grave and internal mischief of permanent character which is often caused by it. Until some little physiological knowledge is made a part of female education, and is considered an 'accomplishment,' we suppose it is of little use to protest against the cruel injury to health which women thus inflict upon them selves. The matter is one that is 'worse than crime—it is folly,' for beauty is de stroyed by tbe process which is intended to increase it. ' DURING a series of wet days, a gentleman ventured to congratulate his umbrella maker. "Yes, that's all very well, sir." he replied, "but then there's nothing whatever in parasols."
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