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VOLUME 2.
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j n i-kinting.
We have madn arrangements by which j
we can da or have d'ne all kinds f plaiu
and fancy Job l'lintm?, such ns 1'iioVs,
l'amphets, Show Cards, lii'.l and I.ettei
Hea ls, liar, lliil'.s. Circulars, &c, in t lie lies t
style of the art- and at the mo:,t moderate
prices. Also, all kimls of Iluli'.ig. Blank
11 oks, lVj. k Binding, itc .executed to order
lis (i.id as the Levi and as cheap as the
chi-apcst.
C:52H..r .IIl'Ki;
j " .WING recently eolas-ged our stock
J&.Ji wc ure now prepared to sell at a great
reduction Itoid foriner pr'.cef. G ;r Mock con-
si of 1 mgs, Medicine-", Perfumery, Fancy
S.r-s, l.cinV, llnU's :tnl Allen's 11. or Kertor
aiiv e. l'iils, Ohtiiiien's. l'iasteis. l-katncrit.-,,
l'iiin Killeit). Citvato M ineMa, ls Jamaica
I inter, l:rc Flavoring Eiti-.itls, 'nseiices,
.ciaon Sw-u;i, Souihiag Syrup, Spiced Syrup,
Km.barb, Pi.ie S.piecs, ;
ClG.iPtH AXD TOBACCOS.
r-lank Looks, Dei-.ls, Notes ami I'onds; Cap,
l.st. CoiuQi-ici.d an i all kinds of Xote Paper;
!Cu dupe, Pens, I'enc'.ls, Arnold's Writing
l'iu'.J, liiack and Kti Ink, Poekft and Pass
Boi.ka, Magazine ;, Newspapers, Nnvels, His
lories, Liblts, Jieiigious, Prayer and Toy Pooks,
lVnkiii ves, Pipes, Kc.
r?" V "e b;tve aclJod to our stock a lot of
FINE JEWELRY, to which we would invite
the Jiitcntion of the Ladies.
PHOTOCltAPH ALBUMS at lower prices
than ever cll'ered in this place.
Paper mid Cignrs"?t)!d either wholesale or re
tail. LUMMOX k MURRAY,
July 30, lfcticS. Main Street, Ebenaburg.
rpHE ALT00NA WARE HOUSE CO.,
VnoLr.sAi.E
Dealers and Conrnission Kercliaiits
Comer Virginia St. and Plank Hoad,
AV ill keep constanily on hand ft large ami
well selected assortment ot FLOP 11, FEED,
SALT, I'ISII, GUA1X, COAL, LIMK, SAND,
Ac , nl wllulcsalc, in Altooua City, and
the aJjoinitig counties can be supplied with
the leading articles generally used by them
tit city and mill prices.
All kinds of country produce received and
paid for in cash, or sold on commission.
Prompt r turns will be made.
Storage farnish'-d for mII articles, such as
ll'oor lumber, s-hooks, shingles, etc.
Articles will be" delivered to purchasers
or sent to freight warehouse.
Having the only hou-e where goods by
the car load can be itmored at the door,
thus saikig draynge, our customers will re
ceive the benciit of it.
Price currents will be sent weekly to per
son? desiring them.
THE ALTOUNA WAREHOUSE CO.
Altoona, April CO, ISOS.-tf.
rC !NF( )l Yll A (E IK) M E I N 1 HISTHY
J&JJ --W At'.OX, BUCCV axu UAKEl AE
MANUFACTORY. Haying taken tlie Va
:'ontnaking Shop recently occupied by Mr. Wm.
Lichty. (who still remains in their employ, 1
the subscribers arc prop ireJ to m inuf.ieture
light iind heavy WAGONS, LUCGIFS, CAR
RIAOKS and" other vehicles, mid will guaran
tee all work done by thcoi to be perfectly sub
s'antial, neat and satisfactory, while their prices
will lie as moderate as those of any manufac
turer in the country. Repairing ol all kind
done promptly and done well. Give us a call
if oum-e.i aiiv woik in our line
THOMAS T.WILLIAMS & BRO.
Ebensbur, June '23, ltiS
Ti:V TA I LbllSIIOP. 1 laving
J- opened a TAILORING ESTABLISH
MENT in the shop formerly occupied by 11.
J). Thomas, a few doors east of A. A. Bar
ker's store, the subscriber respectfully in
forms his old customers and the rest of niau
kind that he is now prepared to manufac
ture all kinds of Gent's and Youths' vrearicg
apparel in the latest style of the art, with
neatness aud dispatch, and upon the most
reasonable terms. Persons needing work in
my line are respectf.illy invited to give mo
a call. DAVID J. EVANS.
Ebensburg, April 9, lSOS.-tf.
n Tc i Fa iFTFji o w a n ,
ALT GO S l Ti
HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTER,
Is prepared to make contracts for the paint
ing of Churches, Dwellings and other Build
ings in Cambria and surrounding counties,
acd for the execution of all other 'work in Lis
line. Painting done at prices more moder
ate and in a ntyle far superior to roost of the
work executed in this section. Satisfaction
Guaranteed. fcb.20.-tf.
WM. M. LLOYD.
President.
JOHN LLOYD,
Cashier.
IIItST NATIONAL BANK
OF ALTOUNA.
COVEttSMi:.T AGECY
AND
DESIGNATED DEPOSITORY OF THE
UNlTi:i) STATES.
Corner Virginia and Annie Slrecis, Nvrth
Ward, Allmna, Pa.
Authorized Capital, - - - - $.",00,000
Cash Capita' paid in, .... 150,000
All business pertaining to Banking done
on favorable terms
Internal Revenue Stamps of all denomi
nations, always on hand.
To purchasers of Stamps, percentage, in
stamps, will be allowed, as follows :
$50 to $100, 2 per cent.; $100 to $200,
3 per cent ; $200 and upwards, 4 per cent.
Jan. 31. 1867-tf.
THl EN TISTRY The undersi
graduate
of the r.ilti
more College
of Dental Sur
gery, respect
fully offers hi-
I'UOIKSSIONAL
services to the
citizens of Eb
ensburg ad vicinity, which place he will visit
on the folctii Monday of each month, to re
main one week.
An- 13. S A M "L BELrOItD, D. D. S.
EXTISTUY. Dr. D.AV. 'Ms-
icr iias lantn me rooms on r
High street recently occupied bv -N
Lloyd & Cj. as a II inking JIouse.K:?
and offers Lis professional tervi- UAA
res to the citizens of Kbensburg and vicin
ity. Teeth extracted tcithout pain ly use of
Xilrous Oxide vr L'ingJ.ivg Gas.
T. Y. M-CLUKK, Sukoeon
Dentist, Carrolltown. Cambria Co.,
Pa. Teetb inserted ou G dd, Silver. Adaman
tine, Cheoplastic, &'c. C-ProfessionalvisitB
made to Chest Springs the firt week aud to
Loretto the second week of each month.
Carrolltown, July 4. 1807 ly.4:j
DR. H. B. FILLER,
ALTOONA, PA..
Operative and Mschanical DENTIST.
Ollice au Caroline street, between Virginia
and Emma street. All work warbaxtkp.
Altoona. June 18, 18G8. Ca.
JAMES J. OATMAX, JI. I).,
cy tenders bis profetlonal services as Phy
sician and Surgeon to the citiztns-of Carroll
town and vicinity. Office in tear of build
ing occupied by J. linen & Co. as a store.
Night calls can bt? made at his rct ideuce, one
door south of A. Haul's tin and hardware
store. f May t), 18G7.
11 F)KYEm:AUX, M. IX, Phy
sician and SuntiEON-, Summit, Pa.
Oilice east end of Man.-ioi. House, on Rail
Road street. Ni2M calls my bs made at
the office. 23.1
J . LLOYD, successor to H. S.
Bitkn, Dealer in Dmas. Medicines.
Paints, Ire. Store on Main street, opposite
the "Mansion House," Kbensburg, Pa.
October 17, 1SG7.-Cm.
IX
M'LAliGIILIN,
jlTTOIlNLY AT LAW, Johnstown, Pa
l Oftiee in the Kichantre building, ou
the
Corner of Ciinlon and Locust streets up
stairs. Will attend to all business connect
ed with Ins profession.
Jau. 31. 1867. -tf.
R. L JOHNSTON'. J E. SCANLAN.
JOHNSTON & CANLAN,
Attorneys at Law,
Ebensburg, Cambria co , Ta.
O.Tlce opposite the Court House.
Ebensburg, Jan. 31, l$G7.-tf.
JOHN P. LINTON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Johnstown, Pa
li Office in building on corner of Main and
Franklin street, opposite Mansion House,
second floor. Entrance on Franklin street.
Johnstown. Jan. 31. lSC7.-tf.
F. A. SHOEMAKER,
TTOHXEY AT LAW, Ebensburg, Pa
UUice on lliirh street .one door Last of the
Banking House of Lloyd & Co.
January CI, 1SG7. tf.
P. 1. TTEKXEY,
1TTOKNEY AT LAW, Ebensburj, Pa,
ft Office in Colon ade Row.
Jan. 5. 1867-tf.
JOSEPH M'DONALI),
1TTORXEY AT LAW, Ebensburg, Pa.
li Office on Centre ttreet, opposite Linton's
Hotel. Jaa. 31, 18G7-lf.
JOHN FENLON,
ITTORNEY AT LAW, Ebensburg Pa.
I Office on High street, adjoining bis resi
dence. Jan 31, 18G7.-tf.
f L. PERSHING, Attornly-at-
Law, Johustoirn, l'a. Office on Frank
lin street, upstairs, over John Benton's
Hardware Store. Jan. 31, 1867.
WILLIAM KITTELL,
Attorney at law, Ebensburg, pa.
Office in Colonade Row, Centre street.
Jan. 81, lSG7.-tf.
GEORGE W. O ATM AN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Ebensburg, Pa.
Office in Colonade Row, Centre street.
January 31, lS67.-tf.
AMES C. EASLY, Attorney-
at-Law, CarrcXUvwn, Cambria Co., Pa.
Collections and all legal bmdneis promptly
attended to. Jan 31, 1SG7.
Tl KINKEAD, Justice of the rcace
and Claim Agcv.t. OITice removed to
the office formerly occupied by M. Ilassou,
Esq., doc'J, on Higb St., Ebensburg. jl3.
STHAYER, Justice of the
Peace. Jobnstowu, Pa. Office on the
corner of Market street rtnd Locust alley,
Sscotul Ward. dec.l'J. ly.
MB IS A
"mmS WHM
EBENSBURG,. PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1868.
"HOW I CHANGED COACHES."
"The top of tlie morning to you, Mas-
tcr William
a see you are on jour way
io Bouooi, wan your satchel of books. So
you vc changed your mind, it seems.
Well, come into my office, this afternoon,
on your way home, and I'll tell you how, I
changed coaolics."
This salutation from Mr. Dana greeted
the ears of "Billy Stokee," as he passed
the lawyer's office on his way to school,
and it was most refreshing to him, so sel
dom was he called anything but "Billy
Stokes," or spoken to in the language of
kindness.
Blushing and stammering mos t pain
fully, he replied : "Yes, sir, I've conclu
ded to try my hand at study once more,
but I dn't much think anything will come
of it, there's so many thiogs against me."
"Well, drop in, my lad, this afternoon,
nnd we'll talk about these 'so many things.'
Will you come ?"
"Yes, sir, if you are willing to be
pla-iucd with such an awful greenhorn."
"I haven't time to contradict you, Mus
ter William, for I hear the second bell;
but give me a call this afternoon, and
we'll talk about greenhorns, among other
things."
"Well, I declare," said Billy Stokes to
himself, as he hurried on to school, "I've
always took that man for a tremendous
great gentleman becauso he drove such a
splendid loam, and had Such a grand-looking
driver, but I hadn't no thought he was
so good. Inviting me, Billy Srokes, cow-
hoy, t give him a call ! Did I ever hear
the like ! Well, I II go any way, for it'll
be better than a show to hear him tell
how he changed coaches. I reckon,
though, il he ever expects to see me
change coaches, ho'll have to wait a
while."
When Billy Stokes entered Mr. Dana's
office in the afternoon, hu first "reetin"
O O
was :
"So you've come, Master William, to
hear how OId liagbag changed coaches,
have you V
"Well, I'd like to know," replied Hilly,
with an embarrassed manner and awkwai'd
smile. "It must be a good stoiy."
"That it is, my boy ; but I can't tell
you the whole of it this afternoon, for it is
too long. I can tell you enough, how
ever, to satisfy you that just as good a
btory may be told about you, some time
or other. Well, the first thing I want to
tell you is, that I came to prosperity atej)
by st-p. 1 didn't wake up, on a fine morn
ing, and find myself grown up and riding
round in a coach, but I worked my xcay
auu inai s anotner tning l want you to
notice up to prosperity and into my
coach. It was a long time before I ceased
to be 'Old Kagbag and gave up my cart.
And now do you want to know what was
the first turn in my fortune? Well, it
was this : . I was tiding along in my rag
cart one day, when I saw an unruly cow
chasing a young lady, and she was run
ning as fast as she could run, while the
boys in the street stood and laughed, for
they thought it was great fun. As soon
as I saw what was the trouble, I jumped
out of the cart and pursued the cow, call
ing cut to the young lady not to be afraid,
for I was used to cows aud could manage
a duzcu.
" 'Look back at the cart .and see the
rags flying, called out one of the boys.
'l,ook 1 Old Ragbag.
. 'Never mind ah nit the rays flying,' I
answered cooiiy, as I returned and tojk
my scat in the van. 'I've sent that coit;
flying, nnd that's enough.' .
"O.'i 1 drove, with as independent and
kingly an air as if I were in a triumphal
car; and I think I held my head a little
higher than usual because" I had refused
to take the young lady's money that she
offered me. She was determined to pav
me ; but although I was 'Old Ragbag
and drove a cart. I had quite an idea of
gallantry, and a .jcat aversion to being
paid for it. Not a penny of her three
dollars had I taken, r.ud I drove off, much
irore satisfied with myself than I should
have been if I had had the three dollars in
my pocket. But the young lady was not
so satisfied, and it wasn't long before she
gave my mother a new spnng calico dress
and me a half dozen fiae white pocket
handkerchiefs. I went home one day to
dinner, ind my mother said to me, point
ing to the opwn package on the table,
Why didu't you ever tell me that you
drove elf a cow that was running after
Miss Fauny Barber V
" 'Oh, it wasn't worth telling,' I said.
" 'But this dress and those handker
chiefs are worth having,' she answered,
'and nothing has pleased me so much in a
long time
"Well, they pleased me Ico, Master
William, and I had a chance that summer
to bo pleased over and over again, for there
was no end to Miss Fanny's kindnesses.
She gave my mother, and me too, a great
many presents, and furnished my mother
with sewing, and paid her the highest
price for it.
"We lived near Mr. Barber's, fortu
nately, and I was never out of profitable
employment after I sent that ugly cow
Hying. Miss Fanny was always wanting
me to do SjmethiBg for her in her flower
gnrden, and Mr. Barber wanted me to
take care of his strawberry-bed, and do
many other things which, he said, he
knew would do faithfully. Ob, how
happy '7' was under such treatment and
with such confidence placed in me. Well,
the good Lord at length gave ma such fa
T"E TRCT FREE, AND
vor in the eyes of Mr. Barber as I never
expected Miss Fanny told me, one
evening, when I was poiing over a book,
that her father was going to send me to
school and give me as good a chance for
an education as if I were his own son.
And he did that very thing, and, in a few
years, I was known as Mr. Robert Dana,
and the name" of 'Old Ragbag' was forgot
ten. You see, my boy, how I rose, and
yet, may be, you don't exactly see it so
let me give you a few rules to help you
up in the worldrules that, I think, fully
explain how I changed coaches.
"Honor your posilion in life, whatever
it is, and then it can't dishonor you.
"Whatever work is put into your hands
to do. do it well. 'Be faithful in that
which is least
"Don't let your circumstances get the
better of you and pull you down, hut do
you get the better of circumstances, and
the first thing you know, they'll carry vou
on to fortune, and you'll find you've
changed coaches.
"Make the most of your opportunities.
Study bravely and faithfully, for there's
nothing like education to give a man place
and power in the world.
"There is one more rule I want to give
you, for I think it is of treat importance.
Never fail to do a kindness whenever you
have a chance, for it will give j'ou the
favor of the good, as it gave me the favor
of Miss Fanny and her father."
Billy Stokes' eyes filled to overflowing,
and they were just on the point of running
over, when he made a dash out of the of
fice ; but he went out wiser than when he
came in. Phrenological Journal.
An Affecting Scene. The Rich
mond Enquirer, of a few days since, has
the following ;
An affecting scene took place a few
d:iys ago, at the police station, which
melted more than one heart to tears. A
young man of most respectable connec
tions had been arrested for drunkenness
and disorderly conduct, and was raving
like a maniac in his cell when his aged
mother, attired in widow's weeds, entered
the station-house, and requested to be al
lowed an inierveiw. The request was
granted, and she stcod face to face with
her erring ton. The surprise almost so
bered him for a moment, and he greeted
her with manly tenderness, but the demon
of intoxication soon broke forth in fresh
cravings. Tlie mother endeavored to calm
and soothe him. but without avail : Ids
dulled ear was deaf even to the tones of j
maternal love, and retirinir from the cell j
she jank into a seat, whilj the sobs, so !
long choked down, burst forth in passion j
aie cnemencc lor tier son her fallen son,
her fond hope and pride, the prop and
stay cf her old old age for whom she
would willingly have laid down her life.
For two hours her uncontrollable agita-.
tion had full sway, and then, with an ef
fort at calmness, she departed.
It was a scene which none view could
without emotion, and spoke in thunder
tones of tho evils of strong drink. For
your own sake, for your mother's sake, for
God's sake spurn, the intoxicating bowl.
It is fraught with ruin to body and soul ;
it is a liquid fire ; distilled damnation, the
strongest weapon of fall the devil's potent
enginery. Don't drink. The ruby bowl
may invite, but there is death in every
sparkle ; tears and sighs in every glow
ing drop. It will deprive you of health,
fortune, reputation and friends ; mar your
every prospect, blight your every hope,
bring down the gray hairs of your parents
in shame and eorrow to the grave, and
finally consign you a poor bloated, dis
tracted wreck to a pauper's trench in Pot
ter's field. Boys, don't diink.
LviJicnocs Scene in a Ciu-rch, An
nged clergyman, speaking of the solemnity
attached to the ministerial ollice, said that
during the whole term of forty or fifty
years that he had officiated therein, his
gravity had never but once been disturbed
in the pulpit On that occasion he noticed
a man directly in front of him leaning over
the railing of the gallery with something
in his hand, which he afterward discover
ed to be a big chow of tobacco just taken
from his mouth. Directly below sat a
man fast asleep, with his head thrown
back aud mouth wide open. The man in
the gallery was intently engaged in raising
and lowering his hand. tnkinr an nvur.1
n , p, .... t.v. t
observation, till at last, having got it
right, he Ic: tall the quid, and it went
plump into the mouth of the sleeper below.
The whole scene was so decidedly ludi
crous that for the first and last lime in the
pulpit, an involuntary smile forced itself
upon the countenance of the preacher.
Obliging. A soldier, being on picket
reserve, went to a farm-house, as he said,
to borrow a frying pan, but for what none
could imagine, as there was nothing to
fry. However, he went to the house and
knocked at tho door, which was opened
by a lady, who asked what he wished.
"Madam, could you lend me a frying
pan ? 1 belong to the picket down here."
J'Yes, sir ;" and forthwith came the
pan. He took it," looked in it, turned it
over, again, and looked into it very hard,
as if not certain that it was clean.
"Vell, sir," said the lady, "can I do
anything moro for you ?"
"Could could could you lend me a
piece of raet to fry in if, ma'am V and
he laughed, in spite of bim6elf
He got it.
ARE SI.AVES DKS1DE.
HOW IT FEELS TO BE BLOWN UP.
Most of our readers will doubtless re
member the explosion of the steamer
Magnolia, on the Ohio river, some ten
miles above Cincinnati, in March last
Mention was made, at the time, of the
supposed fatal injuries received by Charles
. xewis i-ii,m viaa "), ex local of the
Lansing Democrat, who was on his way
to accept a situation on the Maysville
(Ky.) Bulletin. Being, after a lapse of
more than three months, partially able to
resume his duties, he thus writes up an
account of his accident for the Jackson ian ;
"When I bought my ticket, I asked the
clerk if the Magnolia was considered a
safe boat. He looked at me with a half
sneering, half pitying expression, and
replied by inquiring if I had ever traveled
much.
" 'Well, no not. above the average.'
" 'Then you'll learn something by and
by,' he continued.
"I did. Was seated in the cabin,
between an ex-Colonel of a Georgia regi
ment and a Cincinnati pork dealer, and we
were all talking over the impeachment
matter. My fellow passengers soon be
came heated and angry. They were
cursing Congress and ll e President across
my head each one as tie felt and I was
looking tor a muss. Their angry talk
soon collected a crowd. I had just got
up from my chair to keep clear of the
corn'mg fracas, when I heard a yell of
agony, and before you could have counted
three, up through the cabin, and almost
under our feet, came a huge j igged mass
of iron.
"For an instant thereafter I was con
scious of every thing goirg on. I saw the
cabin roof lifted up, heard the angry hiss
of steam, the crashing of timbers, and a
cry from the injured and frightened pas
sengers that will never be forgotten.
Then I was lifted from my feet ; I felt tin
intense pain in the back of my head, and
a biting, stinging sensation ovei my entire
body. Sixteen days afterward 1 awoke
in the Commercial Hovp'tal at Cincinnati.
I knew that I was badly hurt, but could
not remember how or when I was injured.
'-As afterward ascertained, I was blown
out of the cabiu into the river. When
the explosion occurred, the steamer was
just rounding the bend above California,
hugging pretty close to the Ohio chore to
avoid the heavy current. I must have
taken a jump of at least two hundred feet,
as I was picked up close to the bank.
The survivors were conveyed down to the
city on a tug, and here comes the only
joke I can discover in the whole affair.
"From some cause or other, my face
was tur ned to as deep a black a3 any ne
gro ever wore, and I was accordingly
treated as one. A dead cart was fcent
down from the hospital, and side by side
with two wounded darkies, lying on a
mattress, I was carried up. The mistake
was not discovered until the surgeons
commenced ehaving the hair off to get at
my broken skull. I was supposed, for
the first two days, to be a deck hand,
but a telegram from my wife to the editor
of the Enquirer, who came and hunted
me up, soon set the matter right.
"On awakening in the hospital I in
quired how badly I was hurt. The only
answer I received was to 'keep e: ill-
Considering that I could move neither
hand nor foot, I regarded this advice as
entirely thrown away. But it did not take
me long to find out that, first, there was
an uncomfortable 'air hole' in the back of
my head ; second, the sight entirely gone
from my left optic, and the skin peeled
off my face and eais ; third, that I had
been 'steamed, or rather .cooked, from
head to heel, including both arms ; aud
lastly, that the doctors had just pulled me
through a severe attack of pneumonia.
Remained in the hospital twenty-nine
days, and then concluded to go home.
Had not yet been able to leave my bed,
but, accompanied by my brother-in-law,
C. II. Rullisuu, E-q., who had nursed mo
from the third day, I made the journey.
'.'Getting home my friends had been
looking to see me come in a coffin niv
wounds had all filled up wiih 'proul
flesh.' This, of course, had to be burned
out driving me crazy for a night and
a day and compelling mo to use a solu
tion of blue vitriol twice a day for forty
days. So you can form a slight idea of
the pain and suffering, and how much
'j'e local' can endure without becoming
'dead matter.'
'Now, after a lapse of almost one
hundred days, I find myself once more
about, but condemned to wear the savage
marks of the steam -fiend to my grave. A
bald spot wdicre the iron missile crushed
my skull, a 'piebald' eye, a face that re
sembles a beet, and over my arms, body
and limbs are scars that resemble great
slices of fresh beef laid upon the skin.
But after all, I am yet alive and getting
ready to once more pursue the 'itemizing'
business, which you know is vastly better
than being fished out of tho Ohio some
torpid day, with no Coroner handy for an
inquest."
..The so-called Autier sympathetic
ink, for giving a copy of a letter without
any press, and without previously moist
ening the copying paper, consists, essen
tially, of a decoction of Brazil wood and
glycerine. When any paper is written
upon with this ink, and laid cn tissue
paper, the simple rubbing over with the
linger is sufficient to produce the desired
transfer '
ALL IS WELL,
The following excellent gem is worth
preserving. We doubt if, in the whole
range of English literature, anything more
touchingly eloquent can be found :
"Twelve o'clock at night and all is
well." Fulae prophet ! Still and statue
like at yonder window stands the wife.
The clock has tolled tho small hours, yet
her face is pressed against the window
pane, striving in vain, with straining eyes
to penetrate the dark-noat siti
nothing, she hears nothing but the beat
ing of her own heart. Now she takes
her seat, opens her Bible, and seeks from
it what comfort 6he ma', while tears
blister the pges. Then the clasps her
hands and her lips are tremulous with
mute supplication. Hist!, there is an
unsteady step in the hall ; she knows it,
for many a time and oft has it trod on her
heart strings. She glides down gently to
meet the wanderer. He falls heavily
against her and in maudlin tone pronoun
ces a name he has long forgotten to honor.
Ob, all enduring power of woman's love
no reproach no upbraiding the light
arm passed around the reeling figure, once
erect in God's own image. With -tender
words of entreaty, which he is powerless
to resist, if he would, she leads him in.
It is but the repetition of a thousand
vigils ! It is the performance of a vow,
with a heroism aud patient endurance too
common every day to be chronicled on
earth, too holy and heavculy to pass un
noticed by the registering angel above.
"All's well !" False prophet ! In yon
der luxurious room sits one whose privi
lege it was to be fair as a dream of Eden
Time was when those clear eyes looked
lovingly into a mother's face when a
kind, loving father, laid a trembling hand
with a blessing on that sunny head when
brothers' and sisters' voices were heard
around the happy hearth. Oh, where
are they now ! Are there none to say to
the repentant Magdalen, "neither do I
condemn thee go and sin no mere?"
Must the gilded fetter continue to bind the
soul that loaths it, because man is kss
merciful than God ?
"All's well!" False prophet ! There
lies the dead orphan. In all the lenuth
and breadth of the green earth there was
found no sheltering nest where the lonely
dove-could fold its -wings when the pa
rent bird had flown. The brooding wing
was gone that covered it from the cold
winds of neglect and unkindncss. Love
was its life and so it drooped.
"All's well!" False prophet! Sin
walks the earth in purple and fine linen ;
honest poverty with tear bedewed f.tce,
hungers and thirsts, "while the publican
stands afar off." The widow pleads in
vain to the determined judge for "justice,"
and unpunished of heaven, the human tiger
crouches in his lair and springs upon his
helpless prej'.
"All's well!" Ah, ye?, all is well,
for He who "seeth the end of the begin
ning," holds evenly the scales of justice.
"Dive3 shall yet beg of L.-.zarus." Every
human tear is counted. Tin y shall yet
sparkle as gems in the crown of the pa
tient and enduring disciple ! When the
clear, broad light of eternity shines upon
life's crooked path, we shall see the
pitfalls from which our hedge of thorns
has fenced us in, and io our full "grown
faith, we shall exultingly say, "Fatlicr,
not as I will, but as thou wilt."
Pleasant Neigh bokhooiw. One's
pleasure, after all, is much affected by the
quality of one's neighbors, even though
one may not be on speaking terms. A
pleasant, bright face at a window is surely
better than a discontented, cross one ; and
a house that has the air of being inhabited
is preferable to closed shutters and unso
cial blind.", excluding every ray of sunlight
and sympathy.
We like to eee the glancing, cheerful
lights through the windows, uf a cold
night, or watch them, as evening deepens,
gradually creeping from the parlor to the
upper stories of the houses near us. We
like to watch the little children going in
and out the door, to play, or to school.
We like to sec a white-robed baby danc
ing up and down at the window in its
mother's arms, or the father leading his
newspaper there at evening, or any of
those cheerful, impromptu home glimpses,
which, though we nre no Paul Pry, we
will assert go to make a pleasant neigh
to.hood to those who live for comfort
instead of show.
Sad, indeed, some morning?, on wak
ing, it is to see the blinds down and the
shutters closed, and know that death's
angel, while it spared our threshold, had
crossed that of our cheerful neighbor.
Sad to miss the white-robed baby from
the window, and see the little coffin at
nightfall borne into the house. Sad to
see innocent little faces pressed at even
tide against the window pane, watchin"
for the "dear papa" who has gone to his
long Lome.
Peeskkying Tomatoes fou Winter
Use. Rire, sound tomatoes, cut and
stewed until they can be put through a
cullendtr to Ukke the skins out ; then, in
a billing state put them in dry, hot bot
tles cr jars, which may Le prepared by
setting them in hot water and gradually
increasing the heat till the water boils.
Fiil the bottles and let them, boil a few
minutes ; cork and seal while , hot, cut
ting the cork even with the top of the
bjtlle ; keep them in a dry cool place.
II. M I'IKL, Pubiitlicr
NUMBER 30.
Pointing One Thousand YeaiIs Ago.
An extraordinary discovery has been
made of a press in India. When Warren
Hastings was GovernorGeneral of India,
he observed that in the district of Benares
a little below the surface of the earth, is
to be found a stratum of a kind of fib-oe3
wooly substance, of various thickness, in
horizontal layers. Minor Roebuck, in
formed of this, went out to a spot where
an excavation had been made displaying
this most singular phenomenon. In dig
ging somewhat deeper for tlie purpose of
further research, they laid open a volr,
which on further examination, proved to
be of some size, and to their aEtonisbinent
found a kind of printing press set up "m
the vault, and on it movable types placed
as if ready for printing. Every inquiry
was set cn foot to ascertain the probata
period at which such an instrument could
have been phiccd there, for it was evident
ly not of modern origin, and from all the
Major could collect it appeared probable
that the press had remained in the state
in wuicn it was lound tor at least ona
thousand years. We believe the worthy
Major, 0,i his return to England, present
ed one of the learned associations wiih a
memoir containing many curious specula
tions on the subject. Paper we know to
have been manufactured in the East many
cenluiies before we had any knowledge of
it, and we have many reasons to think
that the Chinese had been acquainted with
the mode of printing they now employ
many years before Faust and Guttenburg
invented it in Europe. It certainly does
no credit to the inventive genius of the
Romans to know that, while they ap
proached so r.carvas to engrave in a etyla
not to be equaled in the present age on
gem? and fctones, and of course the taking
of impressions of them, theyjshould have
remained ignorant of the ait which has
bestowed so many blessings on mankind.
Exchange.
Cumatic Cckiosities. The changes
in a country's climate by settlement and
cultivation of the soil often seems strange
and inconsiftent. A letter from a late
traveller in Nebraska notes some curious
contrasts: "It is a frequent subject of
rcm. rk in the Ohio Yalley, that settling
the country, clearing, and ditching the
land, constantly makes it drier ; that old
wells and springs arc drying up, and each
succeeding summer branches run dry
which never did before. The Fieuch
Agricultural report makes the some com
ph.int, and calls upon the Government to
stop the destruction of the forests, as tho
means ci preserving tlie rivers. But here,
with settlement, exactly the reverse phe
nomena are presented, and the quantity of
rain in western Nebraska and Kansas has
doubled within the memory of man.
Perhaps this is due somewhat to the trees
planted on new farms, but I think also
that the breaking up of the sod allows it
to absorb more moisture than it could in
the prairie fctatc, and in many instances
turning a hundred acres of sod will renew
an old spring. Fresh branches arc start
ing in gullies which have been dry for
huudrcd, perhaps thousands of years.
Thus 'springs break out in the thirsty
wilderness, and streams of water in tho
dry ground!' Here is an important
principle at work, which will enable agri
culture to make great advances on what
is now the American desert." Akin to
these arc the facts of heavy rains thi.o
summer in Colorado and California, States
where tho rule of dry summer seems to
have been invariable heretofore. Who
shall divine the law of such levolutions "
Bijave Act of an Ancumsiiop. Tha
other day, says a European correspondent,
there was a destructive conflagration at
Auch. From one of the burning houses
bur.t forth cries: "Save ua ! save'us !"
Heart rending were the screams of a
mother: "Save my3child!" The arch
bishop, who had hitherto assisted tho
firemen at the engines, stepped forth and
shouted out: "I will give twenty-five
gold pieces to him who saves the mother t
and her child!' Several men hastened '
to the flames, but started back again.
Tlie archbishop repealed his ofivr, but to
no purpose. Ho then took a blanket,
dipped it into a pail of water, wrapped it
around his body, and climbed the ladder
leading to the burning room. The by
standers fell on their knees, their eyes
steadily fixed on the archbishop. He
succeeded in reaching the window, and
soon after re-appeared, carrying the mother
and her child. Upon reaching the ground
below, he tore the half burned blanket
from his shoulders and thanked God on
his knees for the success of his efforts.
He then stepped to the poor mother and
said : "My good, woman, I have offered
twenty-five gold pieces to him that would
save you. I have earned that sum my
self, and will give it to you."
"Ycba Dau' explains to the Louis
ville Courier, the origin of Manhattan :
Hans Knickerbocker, a famous navigator
of that period, came over with a Dutcli
gallion, laden with saur kraut. . He stop
ed at this island to get wood and water,
and while roaming over it he discovered
an Indian squaw hoeing corn, arraj-ed in
nothing tut a man's straw hat; He pur
chased the island of her, giving in ex
change a ban el of kraut and two dozen
pretzels. .As they could not prouounco
her name in Dutch she was known' as tha
squaw with the man's hat-bo. Ileoco
Manhattan, " v