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A Postmaster is required to give notice ftj •vfter, (reluming a paper does not answer the lav j •hen a subscriber doe* not take hi* paper out o) the office, and state the reason* tor its not being taken: and a neglect to do to make* the Postmas ter r*pi.,nril>U to the publisher* for he payment 2. Any person who take* a paper from the Po*t office. Whether directed to bit name or another or whether he ha* subscribed or not ia responsible for the pay. 3. If a person order* hi* paper discontinued, he most pay ail arrearagii. or the publisher may continue to send it until payment it made, and ollect the whole amount, winker it be taken from tke office err not. There can bn b. legal diecontin ueaee until the payment is mad*. 4. If the subscriber orders his paper to be stopped at a certain time, and the publisher oon tinuet to send, the •ebreriber i bound to pay for it, if ke take, it out of tke Poet Ofice. The law P'ooeeds upon the ground that a man most pa* for what he nee*. 5. The coune have decided that refusing to Uke newspaper* and periwdieala from the Post office, er removing and having them uncalled for. U fema facia evidence of inteecicnal fraud. grofttsiamil ft Cards. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. YY C . HOLA HA N , ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Bcaroap, Pa. Jan. 18, '7O-tf ALBX. KTWG. JR., .4 TTORXgY-A T-IA W. BEDFORD, Pa., All business entrusted to his care wili receive prompt and cerefui attention Office three doors Snath of the Court House, lately occupied fly J. W. liickerson. nov26 AND LINGEXFELTER, ATTORNBYB AT LAW, aaoroan, pa. Hare formed a partnership ia the practice of the Law, ia new brick building near the Lutheran Church. [April 1, 1889-tf jyj. A. POINTS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDPOBD, Pa. Respectfully tenders his professional services to the public. Office in the Inqtti naßuiid ing, (second floor.) Collections promptly made. [April,]'69-tf. ESPY M. ALSIP, ATTORSKT AT LAW, Banpoan, Pa., Will faithfully and promptly attend to all busi ness entrusted to hi* care ia Bedford and adjoin n g counties. Military claim*, Pensions, back pay, Bounty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with Mann A Spaag, on Juliana street, 2 doors soutk of the Menge! House. apl 1, 1809.—tf. JR. DCRBORROW, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Bnroan, Pa., Will attend promptly to all business intrusted to his earn Collection* made on the shortest no tice. He •-(, *to, a regularly licensed Claim Agent sol ail give special attention to the prosecution '.lis t against the Government for Pensions, Back I ay, Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac. Office on Julian* street, one deor South of the Inquirer office, and nearly opposite the 'Mengel House" April 1, 1869:tf V. L. aCMELU J. a. LOXBRRECK.KR RUSSELL A LONGENECKKR, Atrroaaars A COCHSBLLOU* AT Lav, Bedford, Pa., Will attend promptly sad faithfully to all busi ness entrusted to their care. Special attention given to collections and the prosecution of claims tor Back Pay, Bounty, Pensions, Ac. SW" Office on Juliana street, south cf the Court House. Apri ldW-lyr. • M'o. SHARPS a. R. IISR A KERB. A TTORXE YS-A T-LA W. Will practice in the Court* of Bedford and ad joining conn lie*. All business entrusted to their care will receive careful and prompt attention. Pensions, Bounty, Back Pay, Ac., speedily col lected from the Gorernment. Office on Julians street, opposite the banking house of Reed A Schell. Bedford. Pa. Apr l;69:tf PHYSICIANS. B. F. HARRY, Respectfully tenders hi* professional ser vices to the citisens of Bedford and vicinity. Office an i residence on Pitt Street, in the building formerly occupied by Dr. J. H. Hoflus. [Ap'l 1,69. MISCELLANEOUS. TACOB BRENNEMAN. WOODBERRY. PA SCRIVENER. CONVEYANCER, LICENSED CLAIM AGENT, and Ex-Officio JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, Will attendr.2S.'Si. W~ GROUSE" • DEALTA T CIGARS, TOBACCO, PIPES, AC. On Pitt street one door east of Geo. R. Oster A Co.' Store, Bedford. Pa., i* now prepared to Ml! by wholesale all kinds of CIGARS. All orders promptly filled. Persons desiring anything in his line will do well to give him a call. Bedford April 1. *.. P N. HICKTOK", DENTIST. Office at the old stand in BARE BCILDISQ. Juliana ST.. BEDFORD. AH operations pertaining to Surgical and Mecht nical Dentistry performed with care and WARRANTED. Anctetketice adminietered, ecken deeired. Ar tificial teeth iuecrud at, per est, 88.00 and up ward. A* I am determined to do a CASH BUSINESS or nooc, I have reduced the prices for Artificial Teeth at the various kiode. 2* per cent- end of Gold fillings S3 per cent This reduction will he made only to strictly Cash Patient*, and all each will receive prompt attention. 7feb6S WM. LLORO BANKER. Transacts a General Basking Business, and makes collections on all accessible point* in the United State*. GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. GOLD, SIL VER, STERLING and CONTINENTAL EXCHANGE bought and soldi C. S. RB\ ENCE STAMPS of all description* always on hand. Accounts of Merchants, Mechanics, Farmers and *ll other solicited. INTEREST ALLOWED ON TIME DEPOSITS. Jan. 7, '79. EXCHANGE HOTEL, HUNTINGDON, PA. . "yi'kmwt having been leased by J. MORRISON, formerly proprietor of the Mer fMtm House, has been entirely renovated and re iareshod end supplied with all the modern im. P'ovemeet* end conveniences necessary to a first, das. Hotel. The diking room has been removed to the fire! f°" r *°d * now spacious and airy, and the cham bers are all well ventilated, and the proprietor T endoasov to make hie guests perfectly at Address, J. MORRISON. ... Kxcnavnn BOTCL, ****** mmkmim H VM) c_ IB cMotD 3111 qr tot. LUTZ & JORDAN) BdUunandProprietor*. fnqttim Cfptuom. "£0 ADVERTISERS: THE BEDFORD INQUIRER. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING, BT LUTZ A JORDAN, OFFICE ON JULIANA STREET, BEDPORD, PA. THE BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IK SOUTH- WESTERN PENNSTL VANIA. CIRCULATION OVER 1500. ROME AND FOREIGN ADVERTISE MENTS INSERTED ON REA SONABLE TERMS. k FIRST CLASB NEWSPAPER TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION-. 12.00 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE JOB PRINTING. ILL KINDS OF JOB WORK DONE WITH NEATNESS AND DISPATCH , j AND IN THB LATEST 4 MOST APPROVED STYLE, SUCH AS POSTERS OF ANT BIZR, CIRCULARS, BUSINESS CARDS WEDDING AND VISITING CARDS. BALL TICKETS, PROGRAMMES, CONCERT TICKETS, ORDER BOOKS, BEGAR LABELS, RECEIPTS, LEGAL BLANKS, PHOTOGRAPHER'S CARDS, BILL HEADS, LETTER HEADS, PAMPHLETS, PAPER BOOKS, ETC. ETC. ETC. ETC. ETC 1 ' Oar faeilltUt far doiag ill kind* of Job Pristiag j , ra by rrj faw aatablirhmaau is the saaatry. Ordon by mail promptly #IUd. An lattarr aboald b* adireasad ta LUTE A JORDAN. a local a lib General Uttospaprr, Drbotrb 10 ilolmrs,' ©buration. literature anb iHorals. §?oftn{. NOBODY. If nobody's noticed TOO, yon inuet be small; If nobody's slighted you, you must be tall; If nobody's bowed le yon, you must be low ; If nobody's kissed yon, you're ugly, we know. If nobody's envied yon, you're a poor elf; If nobody's flattered you, you've flattered yourself: If nobody's cheated you, you are a knave; If nobody s bated you, you are a slave. If nobody's called you a fool to your lace, Somebody's wished for your back in its place; If nobody's called you a tyrant or scold, Somebody thinks you of spiritless mould. If nobody knows of your fault* but a friend, Xcbodv will miss them at the world's end ; II nobody clings to your purse like a fawn, Nobody'll run like a bound when its gone. It nobody's eateo his bread from your store, Nobody'll call you a miserable bore; If nobody slandered you—here is our peo, Sign yourself '"Nobody,'' quick as you can. OUR MINERAL. HEALTH. Remarks of General Cameron j In the I. nited States Senate. March 7th. on the occasion of presenting a memorial ! sttting forth the imporVmce of the anthra I ■ cite and bituminous coal interests of Penn- i sylttania. _ President In presenting this peti ; t ' on I w i"'> to call the attention of Senatur to the interesting region from which it comes, and to submit some facts concerning its wonderful development; trusting tbat : exhibit will prove useful by inducing this body to reflect on the vast interests now held in the anthracite aod other coal pro ducing territory of the count*?. I am not without hope tbat an intelligent study ol this subject will show the importance ol such legislation as shall continue the devel opment of the coal fields of the whole conn | try, and so prevent the destruction of the industries which furnish a market for this important article, and mainly depend on its production. All that I shall recount has taken place within my own memory and under my own observation. hen I was a young man the land from which such vast wealth has beeo extracted was a wilderness. It could be bought for fifteen or twenty cents an sere, aod no one would have it at any price. To pay the taxes on it wa* deemed f.dly and extravaganoe. Then population was sparse and comfort unknown. Now this whole region teems with a busy throng, and it has become the abode of opulence, intelligence, and refinement. On the earth's surface the unending labor of well paid men goes on, and far down in the mines the busy scenes of the upper world are repeated. The anthracite coal region of Peousylva n'" which comprises all of any importance in the eo an try—is confined within an area of 470 square miles, or 300,000 acres. I j state this now, that it may be remembered ; when I come to speak of the enormous pro- ; duel ion which has been attained, and the vast capital which is now invested in this j coal territory. I present the increase in mined coal, and population, in Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, giving the figures with critical accuracy; while, as to the pop ulation directly subsisting and attributable to the mining interest in the remaining parts of the hard coal region. I estimate from reliable data aod an intimate knowledge of the locality and a personal observation ol the subject. The year IS2O marked the beginning of anthracite coal mining in our country. The population of the county of Schuylkill—be fore referred to—and the number of tons mined were as follows, at the beginning ol each decade since 1820: Tout tear. Population. Mined. 181° J 1.336 315 ls3 ° - 28.754 89,954 • 26.081 452.291 ISM 63,205 |,712,t*07 I& '° 133,000 4,r4K,0 The population and production for the same period in the entire 470 square miles i of anthracite ooal lands were as follows, the population being estimated at a low figure, { and, I thiok, upon a basis which will bear ' the closest investigation successfully: Tone. ; ' ear. Population. Mined, j lt>2 20,000 365 1830 45,000 174,734 1840 70,000 864.353 18M 130,000 3,355.866 1560 .... 220.000 8.412,846 iB6O 350,000 15,723,038 The amount of anthracite coal yet in the earth is as follows, the area and the thick ness of the veins beiug accurately known: Depth of Square coat utile*, yard*. Tone. Central eoal fields 128 15 5,854.961,000 Southern coal fields.... 146 25 11,308,842,000 Northern coal fie1d5...193 15 9,179,572,ti00 Total 470 26,343,757,000 .Deduct J waste in mining „....13,171,828,500 ! —which !esres ©f marketable co] 13,171,928,500 tone, or a depot-it equal to an annual supply of 20,000,000 tons for 600 years, and of vast ; !y greater value than all the mineral depos its of many nations of the earth, aud by no means contemptible na> ions either, i But vast a9 this undeveloped wealth is, j and astonishing a- its development has been, j it is but a trifle when compared to the bitu mioous coal deposits of our country, or in deed of Pennsylvania. Within a circle ot one hnodred miles, of which Pittnburgb, in the western extremity of my State, is the center, there is enough bituminous coal in the earth to pay off the natiooal debts of all the governments of the world many times over. And it hat been estimated, from gt-ol ogic-al surveys, tbat this coal would pay our national debt fifty-four times if its stupen dous value could be realized at once. This, you will please remember, is in Western Pennsylvania alone, and only comprises one description of a particular wealth, which is surrounded, and to some extent dwarfed, by other wooderful resources in tbat section of our State. It is impossible to overestimate the value of this wealth, or its relations to other in dustries. It is to day the foundation of our wealth, and a glance at the di-tribotion of bituminous coal over the country indicates clearly to my mitid that development ot this single inserest is the basis for a prosperity, under wise laws, which would do more than anything else to render us independent of every external influence, however it might be exerted. The following table will show tbe area of BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 18. 187Q.^ j the bituminous and cannel coal deposits of j the country as far ss is accurately known: . Sutler. Square mils*. : Pennsylvania 12.64* Maryland S5 : West Virginia 14,060 East Virginia 224 North Carolina a Tennessee 3,T00 Georgia 17® Alabama 4,so* Kentucky 13,7f j Ohio 7,190 ' Indiana ........... #,769 Illinois ... ?.,one Michigan 13.000 Iws 24,0U0 Missouri 21,001' I Nebraska „ 4.1H 6 | Kansas . 12,000 Arkansas 12,00* Indian Territory 10, not Texas 3,0tH1 Oregon. s<-0 Washington Territory 478 West of the Rocky M0untain5............... 5,060 Showing a total of square miles of 194,216 And to this must be added of tertiary coals around the Rocky Mountains. 200,000 Making s grand total of. 264,21#. square miles of coal within our borders, or more than thirty-one times as much as there is in Pennsylvania, together with 300 square miles of anthracite in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, and 100 square miles in Oregon; these however, are "ot important deposits euJ are of very little value. These statistic* sre taken from Darrow's j " Coal aod Oil," and may be deemed as re- I liable as any work on the subject attainable to the student of such affairs. Those rela j 'ing to the anthracite coal are supplied by j Mr. Bannan, who for fifty years has ob : served and studied the subject In Pennsylvania, notwithstanding her 1 rugged surface and ber numerous mountaiu 1 chains- in spite of the fact that a mile ol I railroad in our State costs many times as much as in some others, we now have more miles of railroad than any otLer State in the Cnion, while our capital invested in there far surpasses that of any o'her, amounting in the aggregate to $300,000,000. As an indication of the value of coal in developing nearly every decription of inter mil improvement, iet me call your attention to the fact that, to carry our Schuylkill an thracite coals to market, we have invested in Railroad,- ; $49,900,090 Canal" 27,0lt0,00 Mining operations and lands 15.000,000 60,006,000 While in the residue we have in Railroads $40,000,000 Canals 49.0t1e.0m1 Mining operations and lands 13.000,000 A grand total of 205,000,000 The amount iovested in like improve ments for sending our bituminous coal for ward I have no means of accurately de termining; but it is very large. For the greater ares, and the greater distance inland j at which our soft or bituminous coal is | placed, involves a greater outlay for trans portation. The yield of this description du ring the last yesr was 14,117,628 tons, and j was ehtefly produced from the Bute of Pennsylvania And while the capital invested in mining operaiions is not so large as in the anthra cite region, this marked difference exists be tween tbe.-e great interests, and is Well worthy ol remembrance. The bituminous coal is situated far in the interior, it suffers greater wastage in mining and carriage than hard ooal, and it is open to the competition of a foreign product, having all the advan tage of cheap ocean carriage, whiie our soft coal must rely on artificial modes of trans portation, built at enormous ex|*eDse over a great mountain range, to bring it to tide water and an eastern market. It will be observed that these coal miners do not petition you to protect their e-peeial product. But. with a clear appreciation ol the iurimate relation between all branches of productive industry in our country, they ask Congress to protect American labor aod home manafac'ures, well knowing that everything which vitalizes production viral ires every material interest of the country, and especially its greatest interest —labor. I hope the statesmanship of these hardy miners may be reflected by members of Con gress whenever the threatened onslaught on American industry shall be made in the in terest of British capital, in these balls, un der the label of "Free Trade" or a 'Tariff for Revenue." I have already adverted to the fact that | my own State has more miles of railroad : than any other, and that the cost per mile ; is greater than in other States; and I have | justly attributed this supremacy to the coal mining Before I leave this branch of the subject let me add another fact which will doubtless be interesting. Beneath tbe sur face, far down in tbe mines (in some in stances as much as 1,500 feet below the level of tbe river), we have io the small an ihracite regions more than 400 miles of rail road, not included in the aggregate of rail ways in the State. I may be moee success ful in placing this fact before Senators by assuring them that these subterranean rail ways would, if formed into one eontinnous line, reach from Boston to Washington; or they would form a double track road from here to New Yurk, and back again to where I speak. While the subject on which I now ad dres < you is of national importance, I have confioed my illustrations entirely within my native State. The personal knowledge and familiarity I possess in relation to the sub ject as it bas developed about my borne, and also tbe higher degree of skill that has been attained with us than in other sections has governed me in this design. And. pursuing that course, I call attention to the cities of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh in Pennsyl vania as eminently illostrative of the benefits flowing from coal, as shown in creating and maintaining home manufactures and home industry. When the commercial interests of the country were transferred to New York, and Philadelphia lost her supremacy as the emporium of the nation, her people at once directed their attention to the creation of the wares aud fabrics which she had formerly been content to exchange. Tbe resnlt is that instead of sinking under the withdrawal of commerce she is now the greatest manufacturing city on the conti nent. Sbe has a better fed, better clothed and better paid population than any city in ibis country. And she has tbe best boused population of any city on tbe globe. Second to Philadelphia in this last par ticulai (and in the extent of her products second to Philadelphia alone) is Pi-tsburgh, in the western part of the State I, in part, represent. . Here is the great work shop of our iron manufactures. And hete too, as in our ea-tern city, th* same natural wealth —coal—forna the bais and foundation of her prosperity. Here is to be seen thrift, industry, intelligence, admirable schools, . magnificent churches, noble charities, and freedom as near perfect as can be found anywhere. While less than half a down Bruit h corsairs were sweeping our commerce from every sea, this city sent one continual Stream ol cannon, shot and shell—yes, aod heroic men—to save the nation's life from the greatest danger which ever has, or ever can threaten it. And while our commercial marine sunk under its few and not very formidable assailants, this busy hive of la bar and industry sent you the means of utterly destroying the mightiest armies, ex cept our own, which ever waged wsr. Oui blockade was maintained alone by the em.] ■hipped from the wharves of Philadelphia to our naval vessels at their stations. The battle of Gettysburg prevented the destruc of the anthracite coal mines. It al-o pre" vented the destruction of our blockade. And that crowning victory was won became in some parts of our country productive in dustry enabled us to place great armies in the field, and to supply them with the ma j terial of war. To-day the inadequate pro section given to it preveots universal bank ruptcy and national shame. Adequate pro lection will secure to ns everything which this Government needs. As the means of national welfare, assault defense aod maintenance, I contrast the two, sod, seemingly, antagonistic interests of commerce and production; and I shall not shrink from a candid examination of their relative importance to our country in either peace or war. And I will go fuitber. lam content, by this comparison, to test this whole question. I insist that the policy of protection is the true policy to apply for securing the devel •ipment of every source of wealth, commerce included. By this wise poliey the fanner puts in his pockets as a profit the freight he must now pay to bring his crops to mark et, for the workshops springing up all over the country, under this policy of protection, brings the market to his baro door. The transporter, losing this source of income, finds it more than made good by the abund snt freightage pouring from thousands ol distant workshops in every part of the coun try, seeking the seaboard and a foreign market. And here, too, when our artizan attain a higher skill, our machinery reaches perfection, and our abilitv to produce is fos tered, you will find the reliable foundation for a commerce which, like that of Great Britiao, siuce she developed her coal, will be aggressive and enduring. The working man will find his subsistence cheapent-d b\ transferring his dwelliog to the teeming "arm land* from which he must be fed, be he where he may. The churches, schools and benevolent institutions flourish when the masses who earn their bread by labor are fully employed, cheaply fed and weli paid. The revenues of the country are cer tain and generous then; and indeed, bu-i --ness, in all its ramifications, prospers when labor is prosperous The capital of every nation is its labor. When this is well and profitably invested, all goes well. When labor languishes, ail perish together in a common ruin. These petitioners come before yon asking no light thing. There is no selfi-hness i,. i heir prayer; they know they cannot be in jured by competition, but they see clearly that the department of labor in which thry are engaged underlies development and hap pioess. They see that the high state ot prosperity which marks the surrounding re gioo of their coal fields is traceable to coal. They are not confined in their request by- State lines or by local jealousy ; they point out the way to make every country as pros perous as the favored locality in which they live, and they simply ak yon to adopt ana tional policy which .-hall benefit evety part of the country. If the coal of Great Bri tian and of Pennsylvania has been the basis ■il a sound prosperity, we only ask you to d<> that which makes other States possessing the s-ime blessing equally or more prosperous. Render useful to their future development and happiness the 400,000 square miles ol coal which underlies nearly every State in the Union, and so use the benefits vouch safed to our people rather than spurn them. I now close with this imperfect refetenee to the subject 1 have alluded to with a hope that it will commend itself to the minds of Senator', and when ihese great interests are assailed, that a candid aod conscientious in quiry will be made by each about the justice and propriety of crippling our now growing manufactures and producers for the beuefit of a nation which, having attained high per fection in machinery, almost crushing pow er in capital, and degraded the wages of labor to a point bordering on starvation, now seeks by tree trade to make of us only a cus tomer for her workshops and a helpless de pendent on her for the necessities of life and the comforts of civilization. The petition, on motion of General Cam eron was referred to the Committee on Fi nances. WHAT PIANOS ARE MADE OF. —How few of the young ladies who daily finger pi anos have any conception of the variety aud combination of materials used in their cen struction. In every well made piano there are fifteen different ktnds of wood —pine, maple, spruce, cherry, walnut, wbitewood. apple, basswood, cedar, birch, mahogany. • bony, holly, beech and rosewood. Tto eonibioation of woods is nece-sary in order to produce elasticity, strength, pliability, toughness, resonance, lightness, durability and beauty, each quality being individual in itself, and to the production of which the various woods named are essential. Of the metals used there are iron, steel, bra.-s, *hite metal, gnn metal and lead. Each io strnment of seven and a half octaves has two hundred and fourteen strings, making a total of seveo hundred and eighty seven feet of white covering wire. A piano prop erly constructed of these materials, wtll staud fifteen years of constant use. The journal from which we derive these inter esting facts, slates that the manufacture of pianos in New York alone averages fifteen thousand per annum. FACTS FOR THE FAlß.—Observant Frenchmen, skilled in medical science, re port, as the result or much investigation and observation, that since women have loosened their corsets the annual mortality has decreased 184 per cent. On the other hand it is statistically proven that since wo men have loaded their heads with enormous and hideous chignons, cerebral fevers have increased 72| per cent There is matter for serious reflection on these facts. Tbcy who give willingly love to give quickly TUB UE3TLE HAND BT T. 8. ARTHCB. W hen sod where, it matters not now to relate—but once upon a time, as I was pass ing through a thinly peopled district of country, night came down upon me almost unaware*. Being on foot, I could not hope to gain the village toward which my steps were directed, until a late hour; aod I there fore preferred seeking shelter aod a night's lodging at the first bumble dwelling tbat presented itself. Dusky twilight was giving place to dark i er shadows, when I fonnd myself in the ■ vicinity of a dwelling, from the small uncur | tamed windows of which the light shone j with a pleasant promise of good cheer sal j comfort. The bouse stood within an en j closure, and a short distance from the road along which I was moving with w.-arii d leet. Turning aside, and passing through the ill-hung gate, I approached the dwell ing. Slowly the gate swung on its wooden binges, and the rattle of its latch, in elo-ing. did not disturb the air until I had nearly reached the little porch in front of the house, in which a slender girl, who had no ticed my entrance, stood waiting my arrival. A deep, quick bark answered, almost like an echo, the sound of the shutting gate, and, sudden ss an apparition, the form of a immense dog loomed in the doorway. At the instant when be was about to spring, a light hand was laid upon his shaggy neck and a low word spoken. "Go in. Tiger," said the gir). not in a voice of authority, yet in her genrle tones •as the consciousness that she would he obeyed ; and. as she spoke, she lightly bore j upon the animal with her hand, and be turn.d away, and disappeared within the i dwelling. "W bo s that?" A rough voiee asked the question; and now a heavy looking man took the dog's place in the door. "How far u it to G ■?" I a-ked, not filming it best to (•ay, in the begining. tbat I sought a restini place for the night. "To G ?" growled the man, but not so harshly as at first. "It's good six miles from here." A long distance; aui I'm a stranger, and on foot, said I. "If t©u can make room for me until morning, I will be very thankful.'' I saw the girl's hand move quickly up his arm. until it rested upon his shoulder, and now she leaned to him still closer. "Come in. We'll try what can be done for you." There was a change in the man's voice that made me wonder. I entered a large room, in which blazad a brisk fire. Before the fire sat two stoat -ads, who turned upon me their heavy eyes, with no very welcome greeting. A middle aged woman was standing at a table, and two children were amusing themselves with a kitten on the floor. ' A stranger, mother," said the man who had given me so rude a greeting at the door; and he wants us to let him stay all night." The woman looked at me doubting'.y for a few moments, and then replied coldly— "Wc don c kp a public hou*e. rt "I am aware of that ma am," said I; "but night has overtaken me, and it's along way yet to " "Too far for a tired m3n to go on foot," said the master of the house, kindly, "so it's no use talking about it, mother; we tnu.-t give him a bed." So unobtrusively that I scarcely noticed the movement, the girl had drawn to the woman's side. What she said to her I did not hear, for the brief words were uttered in a low voice; but I noticed, a? she spoke, one. small, fair hand rested on the woman's hand. Was there magic in that gentle touch ? The woman's repul.-ive aspect changed into one of kindly welcome, and she -aid : "Yes, it's a long way to G . I guess we can find a place for him." Many times more during that evening did I observe the magic power of that hand and voice—the one gentle yet potent as the other. On the next morning, breakfast being over, I was preparing to take my departure, when my host informed me tbat if I would wait for half an hour he would give me a tide in bis wagon to G , as business required him to go there. I was very well pleased to accept of the invitation. In due time, the farmer's wagon was driven into the road before the house, and I was invited to get in. I noticed the horse as a rough looking Canadian pony, with a certain air of stubborn endurance. As the farmer took his seat by my side, the family came to the door to sec us off. "Dick!" said the farmer, in a peremp tory voice, giving the reign a quick jerk as he spoke. Dick moved not a step. "Dick! you vagabond ! get up." And the farmer's whip cracked sharply by the pony's ear. It availed not, however, this second ap peal. Dick stood firmly disobedient. Next the whip was brought down upon him with an impatient hand; but the poDy only rear ed up a little. Fast and sharp the strokes were next dealc to the number of half-a dozen. The man might as well have beaten bis wagon, for all his end was gained. A stout lad came now out into the ro-.J, and catching Dick by the bridle, jerked him forward, using at the same time, the cus tomary language on such occasions, but Dick met this new ally with increased stub bornoess, planting his forefeet more firmiy, and at a sharper angle with the ground. The impatient boy now struck the pony on the side of his head with his clenched hand, and jerked cruelly at hi* bridle. It availed nothing, however; Dick was not to be wrought upon by any such arguments. ' Don't do so, John!" I turned my head as the sweet maiden's voice reached my ear. She was passing through the gate into the road, and, in tbo next moment, bad tken hold of the lad and drawn him away from the animal. No strength was exerted in this; she took hold of his arm, and he obey ed her wish as readily as if he had no thought beyond her gratification. And now tbat soft band was laid gently on the pony's neck, and a single low word spoken. How instantly were the tense muscles relaxed—how quickly the stubborn air vanished. "Poor Dick!" said the maiden, as she stroked bis neck lightly, or softly patted it with a child like hand. "Now, go along, you provoking fellow !** she added in a half-chiding, yet affectionate voioe, as sfco drew op the bridle" The pony VOL. 43: \0 11. turned toward her, and rubbed bis bear) against her arm for an instant or two; then, pricking up his ears, be started off at a light, cheerful trot, and went on bis way as freely as if no silly crotchet had ever entered his siliy brain. ' What a wonderful power that hand pos sesses said I, speaking to my companion as we rode away. He looked at we for a uiooieut an if wj remark had occasioned surprise. Tkeo light came into his countenance, and ho said briefly ' She's good ! Everybody tud everything loves her." Was that indeed the secret of h-r power? Was the quality of her soul j-ereeived in h. j impression of her hand, even by brut, beasts' The father's explanation was. doubt j 'e Inca of Peru, marched from Cuxeo a thou sand miles to the south, defeated the mnn arch of Quito," took tbe city, and made ii I the capital of his great empire. H„w tbi march could have been peiformed is hardly | conceivable, for there is no reason to sup- I pose that a road of any kiod existed. The ; Inca s dominion lasted barely elxtyyeajr. when it was overthrown by the Spaniard-. But in that brief period works were on -tructed which will rank among the mo-t stupendous ever made by human hands. Quito grew into a magnificent city. In the words of Mr. Orton, "It was tLe worthy metropolis of a vast empire stretching from :he equator to the desert of Atacama, and walled ic by the grandest group of moan tains in the world. On this lofty site, which amidst the Alps would be buried in au avalanche of snow, but within the tropic enjoys an eternal spring, palaces more bcau iul than tbe Alhambra were erected glitter ing with the gold and jewels of the Andes Bat most wonderful of all was the great military road, stretching along the flank ol the eastern Cordillera, from above Quito to below Ouzco—weil nigh fifteen hundred miles. From tbe detached portions of it which Humboldt saw, he felt warranted in pronouncing that it vied with the famous Roman military roads. Mr. Orton. who traveled over a portion of this ancient road, -ays that it "is well paved with blocks ol dark porphyry. It is not graded, but par takes of the irregularity of the country. Desigoed, not for carriages, but for troop.- and I atnas, there are steps whtre tbe as cent is steep. We can not now learn thai there now exist in Quito any remains of In ca architecture. "A!i it* splendor," says j Mr. Orton, "passed away with the scepter I"f Ataphuallpa. Where the pavilion o f the Inca once stood is now a gloomy eon vent, and a wheat field takes the place o! the Temple of the Sun." The Quito of to-day is a dull Spat i-b- American city of 30,000 inhabitants, three fourths of them Indians or mixed breeds— Indian, Spanish, aod negro. There are two or three rather imposing public build ings, the Government House and the Cath edral being the principal. The dwel ing are low Indian huts and houses tu-It of sun dried brick, none of them more than tw<- stories. "There is not."' says Mr. Orton. "in Quito —and, for the matter of that, in all Ecuador—a single chimney." Tbe bulk of tbe population consists of Cbolos, the offspring of Spaniards and Indians, the In dian blood greatly predominating. Contra ry to what is usually held to be the case, they are more enterprising and intelligent than their progenitors of either raee. Thvj are soldiers, artisans, and trade-men who keep up the only signs of life in Quito. In eoorte.-y they are lully equal to the mosi decorous Castiliso. —From " The Andes and tbe Amazon," Harper's Magazine fur February. FIGHT VOl'K WAV IP. Tbe many who have to take the world rough and tumble are prone to envy ih, few who roll through it unjolted in cu-h iooed vehicles on patent springs. Ttc toiler, as he stumbles through its thorn) thickets and climbs over its loot-blistering gravel, is apt to curse the ill luck that placed him on such a hard road, and to sigh fur a -eat in one of the splendid equipage- j that glide so smoothly over fortunes ma cadamized turnpike. Born with a pewtet spoon in his mouth, he covets the silver j one which wa* the birthright of his well to do neighbor. Occupation is the "inimtdi j ate jewel "of life. It is true that riches are no bar to exertion. Quite the reverse, when their uses are properiy understood. But the discontented worker who pines for wealth, without being willing to laboi for it, r< gards the idleness in which it would cn alj.e bitn to live as tbe acme of temporal hap: iness. He has no idea of money as a gre t motive power, to be applied in enter I pii.-es that give healthful employment to mind and body. All to loaf laxuriou-ly. We have no sympathy with such sensuous longings. People who indulge in them i never acquire wealth. They lack the en- | ergy to break their way to the world ; y inde pendence for which tbey yearn and whine. They don't know bow much more glorious it is to tear affluence from oppa-irg fate by main strength of will and inflexibility ol purpose, than to receive it as a windfall. There is infinitely more satisfaction in con quering a fortune than was ever experienced by a "lucky heir" in obtaining the golden store which *otue thrifty hand had aocumu lated. Your accidental Cioesus knows ooih iog of the pride of success—of honest ex ultation with which the self made man looks j back upon the impediments he has over j come, and forward into the far future which he has earned the right to enjoy. A faithful friend is a strong defence. Modesty has more charms than beauty, j Confidence is the companion of success. j Buisneas neglected is bu-iness lost. An idle brain i* the devi'ls workshop-. Anger and has:e hinder good counsel. Abundance, like want, ruins many. Against misfortune oppiose courage: a gainst fashion, re*? lD. 3 0 BSCRIPT ION TEEMS, &C Tb Isflfiß** it [ ibliibad ocry Wauat aon '•? ht following rates: )>* 'Vbab, in dri n,) XT 00 " " (il out paid within lit mot).,, ti.il' " " (if t flii wttbiothe jar,)... 93.90 All papers ootf-le of tbe county diacoottnoei without nonce, at the exp'rmtisr of the time for which the subscription haw been paid. Single copies of the paperfarnUbed.io w ripper* u five eentt each. Comma nidation* en 'object* of local or general merest, are respectfully rujicited. To enter# at entiun favor* of this hind matt invariably be .ccoinpaoied by the name of the author, not for oahlieation, but a; a guaranty againtt imposition. All lettars pertaining to be tin est of tha off"* •houidbe add ret ted to TAJ'lt'A A JOBhAK, BeoroHit. PA. TEA AND COFFEE. Taking into aeeouot the habits of the people, tea aod coffee for supper and break fast add 10 hutnao health and life, if a sin ale cup he taken at either meal, and is Derer ncreased in strength, frequency or quantity, ff they were stimulant", and were taken hua in moderation and with uniformity, hev would, in titae, become either ioert, or he system would become so habituated to their employment as to remaiti in the same relative position to theiu, if the> had never ■een used, and consequently, as to tbetn -elve they had better never been used as they arc so liable to abuse. But science and j 'act unite in declaring tbeuj to be nutritious is well as a stimulant; hence they will do a new good to tbe system every day, to the ml of life, just as bread and fruits do; 'itrice we never get tired of either. But the use of bread and fruits is daily abused by multitude*, and dyspepsia and cholera mor bus result; yet we ought not to forego their ; employment on that account, nor sbocld we 'orcgo u*e of tea and coffee because their in ordinate u-e gives neuralgic.* snd other ail ments: But the habitual use of tea and coffee, at 'he first and last meals of the day, has mother high advantage—is productive of incalculable good in the way of averting evils. We will driuk at our meat*, and if we da not driuk these, we will drink what is worse —cold water, miik. or alcoholic mixtures. The regular use of these last will lead the young lo drunkenness; the considerable em ployment of simple milk, at meals, bv sed •ntery people—by all, except the robust— will cither render bilious; while cold water, largely used—that i, to the x --tent of a gla*s or two at a meal, especially in cold wentber—attracts to itself so much of the system, in raising said water to the temperature of the body (one hundred de eree*' thai the process of digestion is ar reted; in the meanwhile giving rise to a ieathly sickness of the stomach, to twisting pain*, to vomitings, to purgings, aod even •o cramps, to fearful contortions and sud den death which things would have been averted had even the same amount of liquid in the shape of simple hot water been used. But any one knowing these things, and be ing prejudiced against the use of tea and coffee, would sul jcet himself to be most un ileasantly stared at and questioned, if not r ciculed, were he to a-k for a eup or glass of hot water. But as tea and coffee are now universal beverages, are on every table, md everybody is expected to take one or the itber as a matter of course, they arc un wi tingly the means of safety aod of life to multitudes. They save life where a glass of cold water would have destroyed it. So that the use of these beverages is not mere y allowable, it is politic, it is a necessity." —Hall's Journal of Health. EARLY RISING AN INGENIOUS HI . Bl'G-LET THE SUN RISE FIRST. There is no greater delusion than that which imagines early ri-ing important for neatro; no greater error tnan tnat abtvl. places it among the virtues. While early risiog Las been sung in poetry, and advoca ted in proverbs from time immemorial, it has been secretly and rightfully cursed by its unhappy victims ever since civilization conceived the idea of comfort But we are ill so bound by the law of custom, so en deared to a proverb or a musty sentiment, that our lips continually give taint assent to the va'ue of early rising, even while we long to resi-t the tyranny which it imposes upon us. What a frightful aggregate of discom forts accumulate upon a man who practices it through life—who every day is u-hered from sleep into the raw, blank, chill, du'l at mosphere of early morning, and begins his day's existence before the sun has dispell ed the fogs, dried up the vapors, warmed the air, and made ready, like nature's great servant-cf all-work as' it is, the earth for our use! Early thing means a hurried dressing in a dint, half lighted room—asleep y, yawning, stumbling descent down dark, cold stairways—a rapid breakfast in a gray, cheerless sunless room, while cold shiver* run down the back, and a sensation of drowsi ness creeps over the entire body—and then a precipitate plunge into the mists and va por*, and p-eoeral rawness in the day begun in this way, and no health either. The sun -bould be up before us to give us light, warmth, snd comfort; our breakfast-room should be cheerful with his beams, and our breakfast should be pataken with tbe ease, tbe comfort, the delibetation. the social en livenuient, that can come only when we rise at a rational hour. A breakfast eaten by candle-light, or snatched in the gray, chill ing dawn, is an abomination. Early rising, hence, opens the day with keen discomforts. It is productive of numerous social ills; it sours the stomach, promotes irritability, disorganizes the nerves, creates bad temper and makes of domestic bliss a mockery. A voyager, long suffering from sea-sickness, declared that, ifo>.ceon land again he wonld devote the rest of his days to hunting up and flogging the man that wrote. "A life OD the ocean wave." SifDi'ar sentiments animate oar heart when we recill that ancient di-tich, "Early to led and early to rise," —bat it is not no cessary to quote what we all know and have suffered from. — Apple ton's Journal. WORDS TO PARENTS. —o>e thing, howev er poor you are, yon can give your children, ard that is your prayers. They are, if real and humble, worth more thau silver or gold more than fo >d aod clothing, and have often brought from the Father who is in heaven, and hears our prayers, both money and meat and clothes, and all worldly good things. And there is one thing you can always teach, your child: you may not yourself know bow to read or write and therefore you may not be able to teach your children how to do these things; you may not know the names of the stars or their geography, and may, therefore not be able to tell them how far you are from tbe sun, or how big the moon is; nor be able to tell them the way to Jeru salem or Au*tralia; but you may be always able to tell them who made the sun, the moon and stars and numberd them and you may teli them tbe road to heaven. You may always teach thtm to pray. At a great bargain pause awhile. S< rr >w's best antidode is employmect. A good eaue makes a stoat heart aod a strong arm. Perfection is a potst at which all s'tould i siro.