VOL. 47
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T 1 CALDWELL, Attorney -at -Law,
-. 1 --.•No. 111, 3.1 street. Office formerly occupied
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DR. R. R. WIESTLING,
respectfully offers his professional services
to the citizens of Huntingdon and vicinity.
Office removed to No. 618 k Hill street, (Sutra's
DIFILDING.) [apr.s,7l-Iy.
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United States Laws
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LAWS
J. A. SASH,
OF THE
UNITED STATES
PASSED AT THE
FIRST SESSION OF THE FORTY
SECOND CONGRESS.
GENERAL NATURE-NO. 10.
AN ACT to enforce the provisions of the
fourteenth amendment to the Constitu
tion of the United States, and for other
purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and house
of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That any
person who, under color of any law, stat
ute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or
usage of any State, shalt subject, or cause
to be subjected, any person within the
jurisdiction of the United States to the
deprivation of any rights, privileges or
immunities secured by the constitution of
the United States, shall, any such law,
statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or
usage of the State to the contrary not
withstanding, be liable to the party in
jured in any action of law, suit in equity,
or other proper proceedings for redress;
such proceeding to be prosecuted in the
several district or circuit courts of the
United States, with and subject to the
same rights of appeal, review upon error,
and other remedies provided in like cases
in sueh courts, under the provisions of the
act of the ninth of April, eighteen hun
dred and sixty-six, entitled “An act to
protect all persons in the United States iu
their civil rights, and to furnish the means
of their vindication ;" and the other reme
dial laws of the United States which are
in their nature applicable in such cases.
SEC. 2. That if two or more persons
within any State or Territory of the Uni
ted States shall conspire together to over
throw, or to put down, or to destroy by
force the government of the United States,
or to levy war against the United States,
or to oppose by force the authority of the
government of the United States, or by
force, intimidation, or threat to prevent,
hinder, or delay the execution of any law
of the United States or by force to seize,
take or possess any property of the United
States, contrary to the authority thereof,
or by force, intimidation, or threat to
prevent any person from accepting or
holding any office or trust or place of
confidence under the United States, or
from discharging the duties thereof, or
by force, intimidation, or threat to induce
any officer of the United States, to leave
any State, district, or place where his du
ties as such officer might lawfully be per
formed, or to injure him in his person or
property on account of his lawful discharge
of the duties of his office, or to injure his
person while engaged in the lawful dis
charge of the duties of his office, or to in
jure his property so as to molest, inter
rupt, hinder, or impede him in the dis
charge of his official duty, or by force,
intimidation, or threat to deter any phrty
or witness in any court of the United States
from attending such court, or from testify
ing in any matter pending in such court
fully, freely, and truthfully, or to injure
any such party or witness in his person or
property on account of his having so at
tended or testified, or by force, intimida
tion, or threat to influence the verdict,
presentment, or indictment, of any juror
or grand juror in any court of the United
States, or to injure such juror in his per
son or property on account of any verdict,
presentment, or indictment lawfully as
sented to by him, or on account of his
being or having been such juror, or shall
conspire together, or go in disguise upon
the public highway or upon the premises
of another for the purpose, either directly
or indirectly, of depriving any person or
any class of persons of the equal protection
of the laws, or of equal privileges or im
munities under the laws, or for the purpose
of preventing or hindering the constituted
authorties. of any State from giving or
securing to all persons within such State
the equal protection of the laws, or shall
conspire together for the purpose of in any
manner impeding, hindering, obstructing,
or defeating the due course of justice in
any State or Territory, with intent to deny
to any citizen of the United States the due
and equal protection of the laws, or to
injure any person in his person or his
property . for lawfully enforcing the right of
any person or class of persons to the equal
protection of the laws, or by force, intim
idation, or threat to prevent any citizen of
the United States lawfully entitled to vote
from giving his support or advocacy in a
lawful manner towards or in favor of the
election of any lawfully qualified person as
an elector of President or Vice President
of the United States, or as a member of
the Congress of the United States, or to
injure any such citizen in his person or
property on account of such support or
advocacy, each and e ,, ery person so offend
ing shall be deemed guilty of a high crime,
and, upon conviction thereof in any dis
trict or circuit court of the United States
or district or supreme court of any Terri
tory of the United States having jurisdic
tion of similar offenses, shall be punished
by a fine not less than five hundred nor
more than five thousand dollars, or by
imprisonment, with or without hard labor,
as the court may determine, for a period
of not less than six months nor more than
six years, as the court may determine, or
by both such fine and imprisonment as the
court shall determine. And if any one or
more persons engaged in any such conspi
racy shall do, or cause to be done; any act
in furtherance of the object of such con
spiracy, whereby any person shall be in
jured in his person or property, or deprived
of having and exercising any right or
privilege of a citizen of the United States,
the person so injured or deprived of such
rights and privileges may have and main
tain an action for the recovery of damages
occasioned by such injury or deprivation
of rights and privileges against any one or
more of the person engaged in such con
spiracy, such action to be prosecuted in the
proper district or circuit court of the
United States, with and subject to the same
rights of appeal, review upon error, and
other remedies provided in like cases in
such courts under the provisions of the act
of April ninth, eighteen hundred and
sixty-six, entitled "An act to protect all
persons in the United States in their civil
rights, and to furnish the means of their
vindication."
SEc. 3. That in all cases where insur
rection, domestic violence, unlawful com
binations, or conspiracies in any State shall
so obstruct or hinder the execution of the
laws thereof, and of the United States, as
to deprive any portion or class of the peo
ple of such State of any of the rights,
privileges, or immunities, or protection,
named in the Constitution and secured by
this act, and the constituted authorities of
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such State shall either be•unable to pro
tect, or shall, from any cause, fail in or
refuse protection of the people in such
rights, such facts shall be deemed a denial
by such State of equal protection of the
laws to which they are entitled under the
Constitution of the United States; and in
all such cases, or whenever *any such in
surrection, violence, unlawful combination,
or conspiracy shall oppose or obstruct the
laws of the United States or the due exe
cution thereof, or impede or instruct the
due course of justice under the same, it
shall be lawful for the President, and it
shall be his duty to take such measures,
by the employment of the militia or the
land and naval forces of the United States,
or of either, or by other means, as he may
deem necessary for the suppression of such
insurrection, domestic violence, or com
binations; and any person who shall be
arrested under the provisions of this and
the preceding section shall be delivered to
the marshal of the proper district., to be
dealt with according to law.
SEC. 4. That v:hcnever in any State or
part of a State the unlawful combinations
named in the preceding section of this act
shall he organized and armed, and so nu
merous and powerful as to be able, by vio
lence, to either overthrow or set at defi
ance the constituted authorities of such
State, and of the United States within
such State, or when the constituted au
thorities are in complicity with, or shall
connive at the unlawful purposes of, such
powerful and armed combinations ; and
whenever, by reason of either or all of the
causes aforesaid, the conviction of such
offenders and the preservation of the pub
lic safety shall become in such district
impracticable, in every such case such
combinations shall be deemed a rebellion
against the government of the United
States, and during the continuance of such
rebellion, and within the limits of the dis
trict which shall be so under the sway
thereof, such limits to be prescribed by
proclamation, it shall be lawful for the
President of the United States, when in
his judgment the public safety shall re
quire it. to suspend the privileges of the
writ of habeas corpus, to the end that such
rebellion may be overthrown : Provided,
That all the provisions of the second sec
tion of an act entitled "An act relating to
habeas corpus, and regulating judicial pro
ceedings in certain cases," approved March
third, eighteen 11 , ,ndred and sixty-three,
which relate to the discharge of prisoners
other than prisoners, of war, and to the
penalty for refusing to obey the order of
the court, shall be in full force so far as
the same are applicable to the provisions
of this section : Provided further, That
the President shall first have made proc
lamation, as now provided by law, com
manding such insurgents to disperse : And
provided also, That the provisions of this
section shall not be in force after the end
of the next regular session of Congress.
SEC. 5. That no person shall be a grand
or petit juror in any court of the United
States upon any inquiry, bearing, or trial
of any suit, proceeding, or prosecution
based upon or arising under the provisions
of this act who shall, in the judgment of
the court, be in complicity with any such
combination or conspiracy ; add every such
juror shall, before entering upon any such
inquiry, hearing, or trial, take and sub
scribe an oath in open court that he has
never, directly or indirectly, counselled,
advised, or voluntarily aided any such
combination or conspiracy r and each and
every person who shall take this oath, and
shall therein swear falsely, shall be guilty
of perjury, and shall be subject to the
pains and penalties declared against that
crime, and the first section of the act en
titled "An act defining additional causes
of challenge and prescribing an additional
oath for grand and petit jurors in the
United States courts," approved June
seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty
two, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.
SEC. 6. That any person or persons, having
knowledge that and of the wrongs conspir
ed to be done • and mentioned in the second
section of this act are about to be done and
committed, and having power to prevent or
aid in preventing the same, shall neglect or
refuse so to do, and such wrongful act shall
be committed, such person or persons shall
be liable to the person injured, or his legal
representatives, for all:damages caused by
any such wrongful act which such first
named person or persons by reasonable dil
igence could have prevented; and such
damages may be recovered in an action on
the case in the proper circuit court of the
United States, and any number of persons
guilty of such wrongful neglect or refusal
may be joined as defendants in such aotion:
Provided, That such action shall be com
menced within one year such cause of ac
tion shall have accrued; and if the death
of any person shall be caused by any such
wrongful act and neglect, the legal repre
sentatives of such deceased person shall
have such action therefor, and may re
cover not exceeding five thousand dollars
damages therein, fbr the benefit of the
widow of such deceased person, if any
there be, or if there be no widow, for the
benefit of the next of kin of such deceased
person.
SEC. 7. That nothing herein contained
shall be construed to supersede or repeal
any former act or law except so far as the
same may be repugnant thereto; and any
offenses heretofore committed against the
tenor of any former act shall be prosecuted,
and any proceeding already commenced for
the prosecution thereof shall be continued
and completed, the same as if this act had
not been passed, except so far as the pro
visions of this act may go to sustain and
validate such proceedings.
Approved, April 20, 1871.
A Mechanical Curiosity.
Mr. Buck, a Worcester jeweler, has
made a miniature engine which he claims
is the smallest in the world. The Spy says:
It is made of gold and silver, and fastened
together with screws, the largest of which
is one-eightieth of an inch in size. The
engine, boiler, governor and pumps stand
in a space seven-sixteenths of an inch
square, and are five-eights of an inch high.
Perhaps a better idea of its smallness will
be conveyed by saying that the whole af
fair may be conpletely covered with a com
mon tailor's thimble. The engine alone
weighs but fifteen grains, and yet every
part is complete, as may be seen by a mi
croscopic examination ; and it may be
set in motion by filling the boiler with wa
ter and applying heat, being supplied with
all valves, etc., to be found upon an ordi
nary upright engine. To attempt an esti
mate of its power would seem like rather
small business; but, for a guess, our opin
ion is that a span of well-fed fleas would
rurnish more force if they were properly
harnessed and shod. The little thing
would tug away several minutes if encour
aged by a drop of water heated by the
application of a burnt finger.
HUNTINGDON, PA.,
.:FEBRUARY 7, 1872
too' Aotra.
Cold !--Bitterly Cold ! !
Cold! bitterly cold!
The moon is bright,
And the snow is white,
Beautiful to behold,
But the wind is howling
Like hungry prowling
Wolves on•the wintry world.
Cold !—bitterly cold!
My shawl is ragged and old,
The hearth deserted and dark.
Gladdened by never a spark,
And my only light
Is the pitiless white
Of the moonbeam's chill,
Silvery chill,
Cruelly—splendidly bright,
This frostly Winter's night—
Cold !—bitterly cold !
Babe, more precious than gold,
nest, little one, rest!
Sleep my own one,
Clasped to thy mother's breast;
Though thin and wasted her form,
Her arms shall enfold,
And shield thee from the cold;
For the love in her breast is warm.
Though the chill night breeze
they the life-blood freeze—
Cold I—bitterly cold!
Cold I bitterly cold !
My eyes are dim,
And my senses swim.
I am prematurely old !
Foodless and fireless,
Almost attireless,
Wrapt in rags so scanty and thin,
With bones that stay through the color
less skin,
Weary and worn,
Tattered and torn,
If! should wish I had !vier been born,
Tell me, is it a sin ?
Cold world I—bitterly cold
fflteg-gtiltr.
NOT GUILTY.
IN the Spring of 18—, I was called to
Jackson, Ala., to attend court, having
been engaged to defend a young man who
had been accused of robbing the mail. The
stolen bag bad been recovered, as well as
the letters from which the money had been
rifled. These letters were given me for
my examination, and. I returned them to
the prosecuting attorney. Having got
through my preliminaries about noon, and
as the case would not come off before the
next day. I went into the court room to
see what was going on. The first case that
came up was one of theft, and the prisoner
a young girl not more than seventeen years
of age, named Elizabeth Medworth. She
was pretty, and bore that mild, innocent
look - Which is seldom found in a culprit.—
She had been weeping profusely, but as
she found so many eyes upon her, she be
came too much frightened to weep any
more.
The complaint against her set forth that
she had stolen $lOO from a Mrs. Nasby,
and as the case went .on I fount that this
Mrs. Nasby, a wealthy widow, living in
the town, was the girl's mistress. The
poor girl declared her innocence in 'the
wildest terms, but circumstances were hard
against her. A hundred dollars in bank
notes had been stolen from her mistress'
room, and she was the only one who had
access there.
At this juncture, when the mistress was
upon the witness stand, a young man came
in, and caught me by the arm.
"They tell me you are a very fine law
yer," he whispered.
"I am a lawyer," I said.
"Then save her ! You certainly can,
for she is innocent."
"Has she no counsel ?" I asked.
"None that is good for anything—no
body that will do anything for her. Oh,
save her, and I will give you all I've got.
I can't give you much, but I can raise
something."
I reflected a moment. I cast my eyes
toward the prisoner, and she was at that
moment looking at me. She caught my
eye, and the volume of entreaty I read in
her glance resolved me in a moment.
I arose, went to the girl, and asked her
if she wished me to defend her. She said
yes. I then informed the court I was
ready to enter the case, and was admitted
at once. The loud murmurs of satisfaction
that ran through the crowd told me where
the sympathies of the people were. I
asked for a moment's hesitation, that I
might speak to my client. I went and sat
down by her side, and asked her to state
candidly the whole case. She told me she
had lived with Mrs. Nasby nearly two
years, and had never any trouble before.
About two weeks ago she said her mistress
had missed a hundred dollars.
"She missed it from her drawer," the
girl said to me, "and asked me about it. I
know that Nancy Luther told Mrs. Nasby
that evening that she saw me take the
money from the drawer—that she watched
me through the keyhole. Then they went
to my trunk and found twenty-five dollars
of the missing money there. But, sir, I
never took it; somebody must have put it
there."
I then asked her if she suspected any
one, _ _
"I don't know," she said, "who could
have done it but Nancy. She has never
liked me, because she thought I was better
treated than she. She is the cook. I the
chambermaid."
Sho pointed Nancy Luther out to me.
She was a stout, bold-faced girl, about
twenty-five years old, with a low forehead,
small eyes, pug nose, and thick lips. I
caught her glance at once, as it rested on
the fair younn. p prisoner, and the moment
I detected the look of hatred which I read
there, I was convinced that she was the
rogue.
"Nancy Luther, did you say the girl's
name was?" I asked, for a new light had
broken in upon me.
"Yes, sir."
I left the court room and went to the
prosecuting attorney, and asked him for
the letters I had handed him—the ones
that had 'been stolen from the mail bag.—
He gave them to me, and having selected
one, I returned the rest, and told him I
would see that he had the one I kept be
fore night.
Mrs. Nasby resumed her testimony. She
said she intrusted the room to the prison
er's care, and no one else had access there
save herself. Then she described herself
about the missing money, and closed by
telling how she found twenty-five dollars
in the prisoner's trunk. She could swear
that it was the identical money she had
lost, in two tens and one five dollar note.
"Mrs. Nasby," says I, when you first
missed the money, had you any reason to
believe the prisoner had taken it ?"
"No, sir," she answered.
"Had you ever detected her in any dis
honest, act ?"
"No, sir."
"Should you have thought of searching
her trunk, had not Nancy Luther advised
and informed you?"
"No, sir."
Mrs. Nasby left the stand, and Nancy
Luther took her place. She came up with
a bold front, and cast a defiant look uon
me, as if to say, "Trap me if you can."—
She then gave her evidence as follows :
She said that on the night the money
was taken she saw the prisoner go up
stairs, and from the shy manner in which
she went up, she suspected that all was
not right, so she followed her up. "Eliz
abeth went to Mrs. Nasby's room and shut
the door after her. I stooped down and
looked through the key-hole, and saw her
take the money and put it in her pocket.
Then she stooped down and picked up the
lamp, and as 1 saw she was coming out, I
hurried away."
Then she went on, and told how she had
informed her mistress of this, and how she
proposed to search the girl's trunk.
I called Mrs. Nasby back.
"You said that no one save yourself has
access to the room," I said. "Now couldn't
Nancy Luther have entered the room if
she wished ?"
"Certainly, sir ; I meant that no one
else had any right there."
I saw that Mrs. Nasby, though naturally
a hard woman, was deeply moved by poor
Elizabeth's misery.
"Could your cook have known, by any
means in your knowledge, where your
money was ?"
"Yes, sir; for she has often come to my
room when I was there, and I have soften
given her money to buy provisions of
market men who happened to come along
with their wagons."
"One more question.; have you known
of the prisoner having used money since
this was stolen ?"
"No, sir."
I now called Nancy Luther back, and
she began to tremble a little, though her
look was bold and dosant as ever.
"Miss Luther," said I, "why did you
not inform your mistress at once of what
you had seen, without waiting for her to
ask about her money ?"
"Because I could not make up my mind
at once to expose the poor girl," she said,
promptly.
"You say you looked through the key
hole and saw her take the money ?"
"Yes, sir."
"Where did she place the lamp when
she did so ?"
"On the bureau."
"In your testimony you said she stooped
down when she picked it up. What do
you mean by that ?"
The girl then hesitated, and finally said
she didn't mean anything, only that she
picked up the lamp.
"Very well," said I, "how long have
you been with Mrs. Nasby ?"
"Not quite a year, sir/ I
"How much does she pay you a week ?"
"A dollar and three-quarters."
Have you taken up any of your pay
since you have been there ?"
"Yes, sir."
"How much ?"
"I don't know, sir,"
"Why don't you knew ?"
"How should I ? I have taken it at dif
ferent time, just as I wanted it, and kept
no accounts."
"Then you have not laid up any money
since you have been there r
"No, sir, only what Mrs. Nasby may
owe me."
"Will you tell me if you belong to this
State ?"
"I do, sir."
"In what town?"
"She hesitated, and for a moment the
bold look forsook her. I nest turned to
Mrs. Nasby.
"Do you ever take a receipt 4oni your
girls when you pay them ?".
"Always."
"Can you send and get one of them for
me?"
"She has told you the truth, sir, about
the payments," said Mrs. Nasby.
"Oh, I don't doubt it," I replied, "but
particular proof is the thing for the court
room. So, if you can, I wish you would
procure the receipt."
She said she would willingly go, if the
court said so. The court did say so, and
she went. Her dwelling was not far off,
and she soon returned and handed me four
receipts, which I took and examined : They
were signed in a strong, staggering hand,
by the witness.
"Now, Nancy Luther " I said, turning
to the witness, and speaking •
in a quick,'
startling tone, at the same time looking
her sternly in the eyo, "please tell the
court and jury where you got the seventy
five dollars you sent in your letter to your
sister in Somers ?"
At this she started as though a volcano
had burst at her feet. She turned pale as
death, and every limb shook violently., I
waited until the people could have an op
portunity to see her emotion, and then I
repeated the question.
"I—never—sent—any," she gasped.
"You did !" I thundered, for I was ex
cited.
"I—l didn't," she faintly murmured,
grasping the railing at her side for sup
port.
"May it please your Honor and gentle
men of the jury," I said, I came here to
defend a man who was arrested for robbing
the mail: In the course of my preliminary
examination I had access to the letters
which had been torn open and robbed of
money. When I entered upon the case,
and heard the name of the = witness pro
nounced, I went out and got this letter,
which I now hold, for I remembered hay
inc, seen one bearing the signature of Nan
efLuther.
"This letter was taken from the mail
bag, and it contained seventy-five dollars,
by the post-mark you will observe that it
was mailed the day after one hun4red dol
lars were taken from Mrs. Washy's drawer,
and is directed to Dorms Luther, Somers,
Montgomery county. And you will ob
serve that one band wrote the letter and
signed the receipts, and the jury will also
so observe. And now I will only add
that it is plain to see how the hundred
dollars were disposed of. Seventy-five dol
lars were sent off for safe keeping, while
the remaining twenty-five dollars were
placed in the prisoner's trunk, for the pur
pose of covering the real criminal. I now
leave my client's case in your hands."
The case was given to the jury imme
diately following their examination of the
letter. They bad heard from the witness'
own mouth that she had no money of her
own, and without leaving their seats, they
returned a verdict "not guilty." _ _ .
I will not describe the scene that fol
lowed, but if Nancy Luther had not been
instantly arrested for the theft, she would
have been obliged to seek protection of
the officers, or the excited people would
have maimed her at least, if they had not
done more. The next morning I received
a note, handsomely written, in which I
was told that the within was but a slight
token of the gratitude due me for the ef
fort in behalf of the poor, defenseless
maiden. It was signed "Several Citizens,"
and contained one hundred dollars. The
youth who first begged me to take up the
case, afterward called upon me with all
the money he could raise; but I refused
his hard earnings, showing him that I had
already been paid. Before I left town I
was a guest at his wedding—my fair client
being the happy bride.
failing Ur the palm
The Flight of Youth
Would anybody be young again if he
had to take with it the penalty of going
back and doing over again all the foolish
things he was guilty of in his youth ? I
wouldn't.
"Give me back my youth again !" did
you say ? Friend, it's a mistake. Ten to
one you wouldn't have it again if you could.
If old- Time were to come boldly to you
to-day, saying, "Take back, 0 wise middle
aged Noodle, these twenty past years of
your life, with all the pains and disap
pointments which have made you clear
sighted and sound-headed, with all the silly
actions you perpetrated in those days, and
all the occasions on which you made a
long-eared donkey of yourself; worry
through a second time all the tight boots
and tribulations, all the tooth-aches and
heat-aches of your youth; do, be and
suffer it again ; be, in short, once more
just the soft young Noodle you were twen
ty years ago,"—ten of manhood's hearty
hopes to one dolorous wail for your lost
youth, that you answer, "Pass on, Father
Time ! And you may as well tip those
twenty golden sandgrains back into the
lower half of your hour-glass. I do not
want them !"
It gives an odd feeling, especially if you
are a woman, to find yourself getting to be
a little bit middle-aged. First, you will
notice that you begin to be left out of every
young folks' picnic, and to get fewer notes
in pink envelopes than you used. Then
you begin to be faintly haunted by vague,
sneaking doubts as to whether white mus
lin and blue ribbons are becoming to you.
Finally, and worst of all, once and a while
you will see an infant of the male sex,
whom you remember as a rosy little fellow
in checked aprons when you were twelve
years old, suddenly lifted over your head
in the shape of a long, gawky biped, with
the tender down of a first moustache sprout
ing from his upper lip. That gives yon an
intensely exasperating sensation. Nor is it
pleasant to have saucy young snips of girls
talk of you behind your back as old Sarah
Thompsen.
Then, too, you may as well make up
your mind to the hard fact of middle age
when you chance to open some old gilt
edged book of poetry, and discover, care
fully pressed- away between the leaves a
little lock of faded hair, and you can't re
member in your life whose it is. I have
had half a dozen snob myself. They were
precious as gold once, no doubt, but I make
confidential confession to yon that if I
were questioned on the rack, couldn't now
tell whose heads they came from. What
makes me know that they were precious as
gold in their time, is the fact (you will
observe this is another confidential confes
sion) that they are nearly all locks of long
ish-short hair, before college students began
to affect the present prize-fighting style of
shaving their pates. 0 poor little rings of
faded hair, I grieve to say it, bat I have
forgotten you all.
Again, when you go to a party and dance
more than half the night, far into the
small hours, and then partake of that grind
stone mess called a party supper, maybe
you notice you feel gumpy and out sorts
next day. Well, that's a sign, too. Es
pecially if you have found yourself pausing
to listen now and then to the chattering
talk of persons younger than yourself, and
sarcastically wondering whether you ever
made such a wholesale idiot of yourself, or
whether very young misses always deluge
society with such quantities of simpering
nonsense and affectations. (I believe they
do.) It is a sure sign if you find yourself
constantly feeling a call to give your yang
er sisters advice which they don't want,
or to treat them now and then to a bit of
a preachment, for which you get no reward
except thankless insinuations about saving
one's breath, to cool one's broth. Or maybe
you say to your sister Ella, who is sixteen
and pretty, "When von have lived as long
as I have, you will find that the majority
of very young people have precious little
common sense."
Beecher en Death.
Mr. Beecher was in an unusually talka
tive
mood the other night, and dis
coursed familiarly in his lecture room about
the various ideas of death., He did not
think it an evidence of special Christian
grace to be willing to die. He didn't think
it natural for the young or for - those full
of the activities of life to desire to die. It
is better to be willing to live and to do the
duties of life, When Paul said it was
better to depart he was an old man in pris
on. If an October pippin says it is ready
to drop, is that ,any reason a little green
apple in June should be ready ? It is the
business of green apples to get ripe. All
the representations of the New Testament
about death are full of cheer and hope.—
For Paul to die was to go to Christ. Dy
ing is not growing short of breath and
feeble of pulse ; it is flying up to the all
loving soul of the universe. It is going
to sweet companionship. We struggle on
thro' the universe, finding little compan
ionship, but we go to the spirits of just
men made perfect. We go where all the
conditions lift us up N a realm of nobility.
There all is in concord. There is no sel
fishness, no hardness and crudeness and
rudeness or revenge; all are working up
with one sweet impulse with the great
genial creative force of divine love. These
thoughts ring in my soul like the bells of
a far off city drawing me thitherward.
Dying is the easiest thing men do. Suf
fering is in life, but as a rule men die as
easily as a door turns upon its hinges.
Dying is going home, not to supineness,
not to oriental luxury, but to supreme ac
tivity, where every part is developed and
cultivated in the realm of love. Bless God
for the privilege of dying ! My brother
Charles, who was always in a dying mood,
once congratulated my father upon the fact
that he couldn't live much longer. "Umph,
said the old man, "I don't thank any of
my boys to talk to me in that way. I
don't want to die. If I had my choice,
and it was right to choose, I would fight
the battle all over." "Father," continued
Beecher, "was a war-horse, and after he
was turned out to pasture, whenever he
heard the sound of a trumpet he wanted
the saddle and bridle."
"Consider Me Smith."
A good story is told of old Dr. Cadwell,
formerly of the University of North Caro
lina:
The doctor was a small man, and lean,
but as hard and angular as the most irregu
lar of pine knots.
He looked as though he might be tough,
but he did not seem strong, Nevertheless
he was, among the knowing ones, reputed
to be agile "as a cat," and, in addition,
was by no means deficient in a knowledge
of the "manly art." Well, in the freshman
class of a certain year was a burly beef
mountaineer of eighteen or nineteen. This
genius conceived a great contempt for old
Bolus' physical dimensions, and his soul
was horrified that one so deficient in muscle
should be so potential in his role.
Poor Jonei—that is what we'll call him
—no idea of moral force. At any rate,
he was not inclined to knock under and be
controlled despotically by a man he imag
ined he could tie or whip. At length he
determined to give the old gentleman a
genteel, private thrashing, some night, in
the College Campus, pretending to mistake
him for some fellow student.
Shortly after, on a dark and rainy night,
Jones met the doctor crossing the Cambus.
Walking up to him, abruptly :
"Hello Smith ! you racal—is this you!"
And with that he struck the old gentle
man a blow on the side of the face that
nearly felled him.
Old Bolus said nothing, but squared him
self, and at it they went. Jones' youth,
weight and muscle made him an "ugly cus
tomer," but after a round or two the doc
tor's science began to tell, and in a short
time he had knocked his antagonist down,
and was astraddle of his chest, with one
hand on his throat and the other dealing
vigorous cuffs on the side of the head.
"Ah ! stop ! I beg pardon, Doctor, Doc
tor Cadwell—a mistake—for heaven's sake
Doctor !" he groaned. "I really thought
it was Smith ! '
The doctor replied with a word and a
blow alternately.
"It makes no differanee ; for all present
purposes consider me Smith."
And it is said that old Bolus gave Jones
such a pounding that he never made an
other mistake as to personal identity.
Saved by a Horse
Let any man who ever struck a faithful
horse in anger, read this true story and be
ashamed of himself :
Some years since a party of surveyors
had just finished their day's work in the
northwestern part of Illinois, when a vio
lent snowstorm came on. They started for
their camp, which was in a grove of about
eighty acres in a large prairie, nearly
twenty miles from any other timber.
The wind was blowing very hard, and
the snow drifting so as nearly to blind
them.
When they thought they had nearly
reached their camp, they all at once came
upon tracks in the snow. These they
looked at with care, and found, to their
dismay, that they were their own tracks.
It was now plain that they were lost on
the great prairie, and that if they had to
pass the night there, in the cold and snow,
the chance was that not one of them would
be alive in the morning.
While they were shivering with fear
and the cold, the chief man of the party
caught sight of one of the horses—a grey
pony known as "Old Jack."
Then the thief said, "If any one can
show us our way to camp out of this blind
ing snow, Old Jack can do it. I will take
off his bridle and let him lose, and we can
follow him. I think he will show us our
way back to camp."
The horse, as soon as he found himself
free, threw his head and tail into the air,
as if proud of the trust that had been put
upon him. Then he snuffed the breze and
gave a loud snort, which seemed to say :
"Come on, boys ! Follow me ; lead you
out of this scrape." He then turned in a
new direction and trotted along, but not
so fast that the men could not follow him.
They had not gone more than a mile when
they saw the chearful blaze of their camp
fires, and they gave a loud liuzza at the
sight, and for Old Jack.
What to do in Emergencies .
If a person falls in a fit, and begins to
snore loudly, with a very read face, it is
appoplexy. Let him be seated so as to
favor the blood going downwards, away
from the head; apply cold cloths to the
bead, or cushions of equal quantities of
snow, pounded ice and common salt. If the
person is perfectly still,face pale, and there
is no preceptible breathing, it is a fit of
fainting. Do not touch him, except to'
loosen the clothing ; then keep off five or
ten feet distant, so as to allow the air to
come in ; make no noise and there will
very soon be a calm, quiet return to con
sciousness and life, for it is only a momen
tary cessation of the blood to the head.
But suppose there is a very violent motion
of the hands and feet, and all sorts of bodi
ly contortions, it is epilepsy. Let the man
cantort until he is tired; you can't hold
him still ; all your efforts only tend to ag
gravate the trouble and to exhaust the
strength ; all that ought to be done is to
keep the unfortunate from hurting
him
self. There is no felt suffering, for as
soon as he comes to he will tell you that he
remembers nothing of what has passed, ap
pears to be the only calm and self possess
ed person in the whole crowd, and is ap
parently as perfectly well as before the
occurrence. Dizziness often comes in
stantaneously, and we begin to reel before
we know it. Shut the eyes, whether you
are walking along the street, looking over
a precipice, ascening a ladder, or climb
ing to a ship's masthead ; the fear of diz
ziness disappers instantly if you look up
ward.—Hall's Journal of Health.
Eating too Past.
Eating too fast generally involves eating
too much—more than is needed for the
support and nutrition of the body—and
the reason for this is, that the organs of
taste, which are our guide in this matter,
are not allowed sufficient voice; they are
not allowed time to take cognizance of the
presence of food ere it is pushed past them
into the recesses of the stomach. They do
not, therefore, have opportunity to repre
sent the real need of the stomach. I hold
that thirty minutes should be spent at each
meal, and spent, too, in chewing the food
a good portion of the time, and not in con
tinued putting in and swallowing, but in
pleasant chat and laugh, instead of the
continuance of the intense nervous pres
sure of the office or library. If you lay
out to spend thirty minutes in this way
at your meals, you may rest assured you
will not eat too much, and what you do
eat will be in the best condition for appro
priation to the needs of your system.—Dr.
Jackson.
NO. 6.
Gems From the Poets.
Hie diddle diddle,
The cat's in the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon,
The little dog laughed
To see the sport ;
The dish ran away with the spoon
Jack and Jill
Went up the hill,
To get a pail of water ;
Jack fell down,
And broke his crown,
And Jill come tumbling after.
Sing a song of six-pence;
A pocketfull of rye ;
Four and twenty black-birds
Baked in a pie.
When the pie was opened,
The birds began to sing,
Wasn't that a pretty dish
To set before the King ?
The King was in the parlor,
Counting out his money;
The Queen was in the kitchen,
Eating bread and honey ;
The Maid was in the garden,
Hanging up the clothes,
When 'long come a little bird
And picked her on the nose.
[ln order to render this sterling poem
with effect, the nasal appendage of the
audience should be gently tweaked at the
conclusion of the last stanza.]
Little Jack Horner
Sat in the corner,
Eating his Christmas pie;
He put in his thumb,
And pulled out a plumb,
And asked "How is that for high ?"
Ride a cock-horse to Bamberry boss,
To see an old woman ride on a white horse,
Rings on her fingers, and bells on her toes.
She will make music wherever she goes,
Little Miss Muffit
Sat on the tuffet,
Eating her curd and whey;
Up jumped a spider,
And sat down beside her,
And frightened Miss Muffit away
"Falling in Love."
This expression has a vast amount of
material infelicity to answer for, as if it were
a kind of accidental plunge in the dark,
with ten chances to one that it would be a
breakneck operation, anyway. Genuine
love is not a mere passional attraction ; its
abiding place is in the soul. It should be
guided by judgment, affectional judgment
—an intuitive perception suitableness, or
adaptness. We do not advocate a selection
from expediency or interest, governed
wholly by reason or intellectual apprecia
tion, nor should the dictates of the heart
be violated by an exercise of judgment
alone; but, in a matter of such vast im
port, great care should be exercised lest
mere fancy, passion or caprice lead the
heart captive. It will not do to affirm
that unions are predestined in heaven ;
that love is intended to be stone blind,
although a majority of marriages would un
fortunately, confirm the latter assertion.
It will not do to trust to chance that the
sequel will be glorious ; that luck will bring it
out all right. Such expressions, in regard
tc matters of the heart, are as fatal as in
all other affairs of life. Indeed, they are
more so • they are but the wild vagaries
of a blind optimism.
Love will bear dissection ; poets and
dreamers to the contrary, notwithstanding.
It is as capable of giving a good and
intelligent reason, if interrogated, as is
friendship ; and surely no one is so
chimerical as to cherish a blind infatuation
for a friend without seeinc , in that friend
a reasonable foundation for such esteem.
Mere theorists may insist that love is posi
tive, inexhorable and irresistable ; but
the sober minded and practical know just
as surely that it is amenable to good judg
ment and common sense; that it can be
held in by bit and bridle, and guided in
to wholesome paths.
Open Windows at Night.
Very much has been written on this
subject, and written unwisely; the facts
are that whoever sleeps uncomfortably cool
will get sick. To hoist a window sky high
when the mercury is at zero is an absurd-
ity.
The colder a sleeping apartment is the
more unhealthy does it become, because
cold condenses the carbonic acid formed
by the breathing of the sleeper. It settles
near the door an is rebreathed, and if in
a very condensed form, he will die before
the morning Hence we must be governed
by circumstances; the first. thing is, you
must be comfortably warm during sleep,
otherwise you are not refreshed, and inflam
mation of the lungs may be engendered
and life destroyed within a few days.
An open door and an open fireplace are
sufficient for ordinary purposes in cold
weather. When outer windows are opened,
it is well to have them down at the top
two or three inches, and up at the bottom
for the same space.—Hall's Journal of
Health.
A Good Recipe
Here is a very good recipe for making
tattlers. Take a handful of weeds called
Runabout, and the same quantity of the
root called Nimble-tongue, a sprig of the
herb called Back-bite (either before or
after the dog days) a tablespoonful of Don't
you-tell-it, six drachms of Malise, a few
drops of Envy, which can be purchased at
the shops of Miss Tahibita Tea-Table or
Miss Nancy Nightwalker. Stir them well
together, and simmer them half an hour
over the fire of Discontent, kindled with a
little Jealousy; then strain it through the
rag of Misconception, cork it up in a bot
tle of Malevolence and hang it upon a
skein of Street-Yarn ; shake it occasionly
for a few days, and will be fit for use. Let
a few drops be taken before walking out,
and the subject will be able to speak all
manner of evil, and that continually.
Have Pity.
Woman, do not scorn the unfortunate
of you sex. Remember that instincts and
characteristics do not materially differ in
all classes of women. Conditions mould
the life of every person, and on the brow
of the lowest, most debased woman, God
has placed a crown of womanhood which,
though tarnished and blackened now, will
somewhere in the eternal future be clean
ed, purified, and shining bright. We can
each lend an influence more than we do,
to brighten and not to tarnish these jew
eled crowns.