VOL. 47
The Huntingdon Journal,
.1. R. DURBORROW
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The Huntingdon Journal.
Tariff and Free Trade
We are indebted to the publishers of the
American Working People for the accom
panying sketch and description of the
workings of free trade and protection. This
journal, not quite a year old, has over 20,.
000 subscribers, and is the best tariff pub
lication in the United States. It is the
true friend and supporter of workingmen,
and no workingman should fail to have it.
Forward $1,50 to the Iron World Publish
ing Co., Pittsburgh, Pa. i ness
Free trade has here produced its legi. I The ground beneath his feet is filled
timate fruit—idleness and poverty. i with coal, but he cannot dig it. He is
J. A. NASH,
Only two businesses thrive under it, selling for a few cents his power to earn.
whisky selling and the "old iron and rags" i his bread. His house is in ruins, and his
business. In the foreground we see an I equally unitary wife, with a neighbor
industrious but poverty-stricken miner
compelled to carry his tools, with which,
in times past, he had earned his bread, to
the well-dressed, well-fed vulture ill the
shape of a man who buys iron and rags.—
He has no more need of his picks. The
mine where he worked for years is empty
and silent. He has just returned from a
hunt through it for the last few picks he
could find that lie might sell them for
bread. ' The boats that used to wait impa
tiently at the tipple for their cargo of coal
have stopped coming. The men thatbought
the - rurri Intvo my moire/ tit tiny. Ti..-. 411.
and foundaries and furnaces and shops that
used it are closed and idle and need no
more. They could not sell what they
made because English goods come in cheap-
ht ffitorg-Ztlitr,
Deaf Smith, the Spy,
Despite the cloud that hangs over the
closing days of Sam Houston's life, I have
always entertained a stron g admiration for
the hero of San Jacinto. lam fully con
scious of his weaknesses, some of which were
quite glaring, hut he had a certain pluck,
a Jacksonian stubbornness, which com
manded the respect of even his enemies.
There is an incident of Sam Houston's
career which is not generally known, but
which brings out as prominently as any
act of his, the sterling courage to which I
refer, and at the same time brings into no
tice one of the most extraordinary men of
whom I have ever heard—that is the in
dividuil known as Deaf Smith, the Texan
spy, an intimate friend of Sam Houston.
- At the time Texas succeeded in estab
lishing her independence, the constitution
provided that the city of Austin should be
the permanent capital, where the public
archives were to be kept; but the proviso
was inserted giving the President discre
tionary power to remove them temporarily
to some safe point in case of danger from
the inroads of a foreign enemy, or the pow
er or a sudden insurrection.
About two years after the Texan revo
lution, the warlike Comanches became so
daring as to commit several outrages in
sight of the capital itself, whereupon
Houston considered this condition of mat
ters warranted his availing himself of the
provisions of the constitution already men
tioned.
He resided at that time at Washington,
on the Brazos, from which he dispatched
a messenger, with an order commanding
his subordinate functionaries to send the
State records to that place, and which he
announced to be the seat of government,
pro temporara.
-
This - produced the most intense excite
ment in Austin. The hotel keepers, gro
ceries, boarding houses and gambling sa
loons foresaw irretrievable ruin. They
gathered together and denounced the pro
posed "outrage." Gradually the mutter
ings took shape, until, despite the consti
tutional warranty for the step, it was re
solved that the thing should not be done.
A mass meeting was called of the citi
zens and farmers of the neighborhood, and
the most fiery and incendiary speeches
were made. When the feeling of all were
worked up to the proper pitch, it was
unanimously resolved to prevent the exe
cution of the mandate by armed resistance.
A company of armed men were organ
ized on the spot. At their head was placed
Col. Morton, one of the most noted duel
ists in the Republic. He had achieved
quite a fame during the war just closed,
and was, unquestionably, a brave man, and
was as unprincipled as he was desperate.
He was a fellow of no little importance,
and it was with no little pride that he took
charge of the men, who unanimously called
upon him to be their leader.
So noted, indeed, was Col. Morton, that
a great many here convinced that when
Gen, Houston learned that he headed this
determined band he would hasten to re
tract his ground, and recall the offending
command. But they mistook the mettle
of the old hero.
Mahls-tf
Col. Morton, puffed up with his "brief
authority," declared that if the President
did succeed in removing the records by
power of overwhelming numbers, he would
hunt him down like a wolf, and slay him
er. The farmers could not buy those cheapl These are facts which any man can tes- t i mine. Free traders and British matinfac
' ..bods because they could not sell their tit to who can recall the days of 1856-57 i turers are spending thousands of dollars
;
corn and wheat and rye and oats. Th is when free trade prostrated us with a storm to fill the country with tracts and liters
poor man belonged to a free trade club,l of poverty. ture to deceive the voters of the country.
who believed that protective duties made But look on the other picture. Instead The crisis will come some day, and if you
leverything dear—and he voted for free of a whisky shop we see a grocery store— i are not strong enough you will sell your
trade candidates at every election, until instead of idle ; hopeless men we see happy limplements and live in reality the life of
I finally the free traders in Congress were I and industrious men. The coal is de-Ipoverty here represented.
strong enough to drag us into free trade
with its consequent poverty. There is no
school house where his children can be
educated, and they live in rags and idle-
TRADE. MIER TARIFF.
[FROM ADVANCE SHEETS OF THE A.7tLERIPAN WORKING PE3PLE.]
UNDER
woman and her son, are returning to the lis full of life—a boat is smoking and foam- in Congress; the result is an addition to
miserable place they still call home, with lag up stream to the mills, in the back- , the ranks of free traders. It is said that
a bundle of sticks to build a fire to cook— ground, with its tow of coal, where a I the composition of the Committee of Ways
what ? thousand hardy iron men are earning good and Means insures a proposal to reduce
Despair is on his countenance, and well wages, which goes to employ farmers, build
it may be, for starvation stares him in the school houses, railroads, tke. This scene
I A'. few dispirited comrades bang around
the village bar-room to spend a few cents
in drink. "P. Murphy's Miners' Hbme"
,is truly their only home. It is only when
a glass or two of strong whisky deadens
their senses to their poverty, that they
The coal road is broken, the cars are
rotting, the mills in the distance are idle
and in ruins, and general desolation pre-
I vails.
whenever he found him, whether on the
streets or in bed. He went so fur even to
send him a letter to this effect, and here is
the identical answer he received :
"If the people of Austin do not send the ar
chieves, I shall instantly come and take them, and
if Colonel Morton can kill me, he is welcome to
my ear-cap. SAN iIOUSTON."
On the reception of this answer the ex
citement became greater than ever. The
guard was doubled around the State House,
and picked sentinels were stationed along
the road leading to the capital, the mili
tary paraded on the streets from morning
until night, and a caucus of the ringleaders
was held in the city hall. Everything
threatened a coming storm.
Thus matters stood for several days,
when the caucus at the city hall were
startled by the sudden arrival of a stranger
among them.
}Je did not knock at the door nor at
tempt to ask permission there, but climbed,
unnoticed, with the celerity of a monkey,
a small oak which grew beside the wall,
and, without a word of warning, sprang
through a lofty window, and landed in the
very room where the astonished caucus
were congregated.
The strang..r was clad in buckskin, car
ried a long and heavy rifle in his hand,
wore at the bottom of his left suspender
au immense bowie-knife, and held in his
leathern belt a couple of enormous pistols.
He was very thin, tall and straight as an
arrow, and as lithe and supple as a panth
er, with a. swarthy complexion, long, jet
black hair, a rigid, iron-like countenance,
eyes of glittering blackness, and as pierc
ing as the point of the stiletto.
His sudden appearance among them so
startled them that they unconsciously
grasped their arms.
"Who are you that comes among gen
tlemen uninvited ?" *thundered Col. Mor
ton, staring ferociously at him.
The stranger turned his black eyes upon
him, and stared at him, but the only an
swer he made was by placing his finger
upon his lips.
"Who are you? Speak or I will run you
through !" shouted Morton, driven to fury
by the cool, contemptuous gaze of the oth
er who now took his finger from his lips
and laid it on the handle of his knife.
The exasperated Colonel now drew his
dagger, and was advancing upon the stran
ger when several interposed, and held him
back.
"Let him alone, Morton. Don't you see
he is crazy ?"
At this juncture, Judge Webb stepped
forward and spoke to the stranger in a
kindly, respected manner.
"My good friend, I suppose you have
made a mistake. This is a private meet
ing, where none but members are admit
ted."
The stranger did not seem to understand
the words, but he did the conciliatory man
ner. His iron features relaxed somewhat,
and stepping to a side-table, where there
wore implements for writing, he took up a
pen and rapidly traced the words, "I am
deaf."
He then held up the paper before the
spectators, as a sort of natural apology for
his seeming discourtesy.
"Will you be obliging enough to inform
us what your business is with this meet
ing ?"
The stranger answered this question by
handing a letter to the Judge, whose su-
perscription was, "To the citizens of Aus
tin." The seal was broken and it was read
aloud :
"Fst.Low crrizz.vs :—Though in error and de
eeived by the arts of traitors, I will giro you three
HUNTINGDON, PA., MARCH 13, 1872
Iscending the hill, where hundreds of I Prepare yourself.
I ners are at work, with happy families, in The following we clip today from an
comfortable homes, waiting for their return. I English paper. Read it and see what it
The miner is happy, for he knows his wife means :
land children arc not out picking up sticks " America begins to make a respectable
and chips, and the wife and children are appearance among our customers. The
happy, for they know the husband and day is near at hand when this (America)
father is not hanging around a saloon. A will be an important outlet for Cleveland
well-covered table awaits him, and a well- iron. The Western States have increased
dressed family welcome him. The river in power through increased represeutation
needs few words to teach the lesson in-
tended by it. It is a picture familiar to
all. Workingmen, which would you rather
do—carry your implements to an old iron
dealer, while your wife is pickingupsticks
to build a fire to boil once more a five-cent
bone of meat for supper, or see your wife
well dressed, with a basket full of as good
food as they have to sell. You can have
your choice. It is in your power to choose.
You will some day be called upon to deter-
more days to decide whether you will surrender
the public archives. At the end of that time you
will please let me know your decision.
BIM. lIousro:I.
After the letter wits read, the deaf man
waited a moment or two for reply and turn
ed to leave the ball. At this juncture,
Colonel Morton interposing with a lower
ing brow, beckoned him to the table. The
stranger obeyed him, when Colonel Mor
ton wrote :
"Yon were brave enough to insult me
by your threatening look ten minutes ago ;
are you brave enough now t) give me sat
isfaction ?"
The stranger instantly paned the re•
Ply
"I am at your service."
The Colonel again wrote :
"Who will be your second ?"
This was the answer :
"I am too generous too seek an advan
tage, and too brave to fear any ou the part
of others; I therefore never need the aid
of a second."
Morton wrote :
"Name your terms."
The stranger wrote without a second's
hesitation :
"Time, sunset this evening; place, the
left bank of the Colorado, opposite Aus
tin ; weapons, rifles; distance, a hundred
yards. 110 not fail to be in time."
The last sentence was not calculated to
KWh° the feelings of the irritated Coloael,
and he compressed his lips as he read it.
The next moment the stranger strode
across the floor and disappeared through
the window iu the same manner that he
had entered. •
"Is it possible, Colonel Morton, that
you intend to fight that man ?" exclaimed
Judge Webb. "He is a mute, if not a
maniac. Such a meeting, I fear, will tar
nish the lustre of your laurels."
"You are mistaken," answered Morton,
with a smile, "that mute is a hero whose
fame stands in the record of a dozen bat
tles and nearly as many bloody duels. Be
sides he is the favorite emissary and bosom
friend of Houston. If I have the good
fortune to kill him, I think the President
will retract his vow against venturing any
more on the field of honor."
"You know the man, then ? Who is
he ?" asked several.
"Deaf Smith."
"Impossible! That cannot be. Deaf
Smith was slain at San Jacinto," replied
Judge Webb.
"There again your honor is mistaken,"
smiled Morton. The story of Smith's
death was a mere fiction, gotten up by
Houston himself for the purpose of saving
the life of his favorite from the vengeance
of several Texans, on whose conduct he
had acted the part of a spy. I learned
the artifice over a year ago."
'Then you are a madman yourself Colo
nel, Deaf Smith was never known to miss
his mark. He has been known to bring
down ravens in their flight, and has
picked off Comanches and Mexicans at the'
distance of two hundred yards."
"The thing is settled. I fancy I can do
a little of that business myself."
"But for God's sake," persisted Judge
Webb, E•ecoming excited, "I don't want
you to be murdered."
"Who is going to be ?" asked Colonel
Morton, as he cooly smoked his cigar and
smiled in his usual way.
"Why, you, if you undertake to fight
Deaf Smith."
"The thing is all arranged, as I said a
moment ago, and I wouldn't back out of
it it I were certain to be shot; for what is
death to dishonor."
the import tariff this session on pig iron.
The import duty is at present seven dollars
per ton : but a reduction to the extent of two
or three dollars rer ton is expected in well
informed quarters. It remains a matter
of surprise that the production of pig iron
in the States which at present is estimated
at 2,000,000 tons per annum, does not in
crease at a greater ratio. The country has
'cnOTTIIOIIS COST uetua iu LW: nelglzbv.hvara
of mountains of iron stone, with railways
in close proximity, and these could be
worked to good profits."
Such was the absurd sentiment in Texas
at that time, and such, as we fear, is still
too prevalent among civilized nations.
Toward evenfng a large crowd assembled
at the place appointed for the meeting,
and so reckless were the people regarding
the mighty issue at stake—a human life—
perhaps two—that there were all manner
of jokes, and not a few wagers laid upon
the result.
At length, as the sun sunk below the
horizon, the two mortal antagonists appear
ed on the open space with their stations,
standing back to back. At the waving of
the hankerchief they began pacing off from
each other, both stepping exactly together
as if they were keeping time to the tap of
a drum. They completed the distance at
the same second, when they wheeled so as
face each other, and to fire as soon as possi
ble.
As they were•separated by a considera
ble space, they raised their rifles and paus
ed a moment to take aim. The pause was
long enough for the crowd to glance from
one to the other, and note the expression
of their faces.
Colonel Morton was calm and smiling;
but the smile was a murderous one—far
more terrible than the severest scowl could
be. Deaf Smith however, was as rigid and
passionless as ever. His profile might have
been supposed to have been cut in stone,
s 3 expressionless was it. The former was
attired in the finest broad-cloth, and the
other was clad in smoke-tinted leather.
The next instant the two rifles exploded
simultaneously. Colonel Morton gave a
smothered shriek, sprang upward and fell
to the ground—dead. Deaf Smith stood
unmoved, and began reloading his rifle,
which being done, he turned away and dis
appeared in the adjoining forest.
Three days after, General Houston, ac
companie3 by Deaf Smith, and ten other
men, made his appearance in Austin, and
without further opposition removed the
State papers.
_ . .
Deat' Smith, as I remarked in another
place, was one of the most extraordinary
men ever known in the West. He appear
ed in Texas at an early period, and resi
ded there until his death, which occurred
over a dozen years ago. Ho had many ar
dent friends, but nothing definite was ev
ler learned regarding his early history.
Whether he ever acquainted Houston with
it or not can never be known, for the old
hero never enlightened me, nor any one
else, so far as I can learn, upon the matter.
When Deaf Smith was questioned upon
the point, he laid his 4nger upon his lips,
and, if pressed, his black eye 'gave such a
rebuke that no one dared question him fur
ther. Although deprived of the faculty of
hearing, nature, as is often the case, seem
ed to compensate him by giving him an
eye as keen and far-reaching as an eagle's,
and a smell as perfect as a raven's. He
could discern Comanches so far off on the
prairies that they were invisible to the
most experienced rangers, and his friends
declared he could scent an Indian or Nexi
can when miles distant.
Gifted in this extraordinary manner, it
will be seen that he possessed just the qual
ities to make a spy; and his services to
Houston during the Texan war for inde
pendence were invaluable. lle nearly al
ways went alone, and very rarely failed to
obtain the infbrtnation desired.
lie had many erratic habits. No per
suasion could induce him to sleep under
the roof of a house. With his blanket
wrapped around him, he loved to lie out in
the open air, under the star-gemmed firm
ament of the silver moon.
When not engaged as a spy, he lived by
hunting, and was often absent for months
upon his excursions. He was a genuine
son of nature, at home only when upon the
prairies• or in the woods, or when engaged
in the thrilling excitement of the hunt, or
the more fiery thrill of the clash of arms
and the roar of battle.
Shut out by his infirmities from close
companionship with friends, he had made
the inanimate things of the earth his friends.
Wherever there was land or water, bar
ren rocks or tangled brakes of wild cane,
there was Deaf Smith's home, and there he
was happy; but in the streets of great
cities, in all the great thoroughfares of men
wherever there was flattery or fawning,
base cunning or craven fear, there was
Deaf Smith an alien and an exile.
Strange soul! He hath departed on the
long journey, away among those high
bright stars. which were his night lamps,
and he bath either solved or ceased to pon
der the deep rnysteriesof the magical word,
"life." He is dead; therefore let his er
r.irs rest in oblivion and his virtues be re
membered with hope.
, Ititeating fov the itlion.
--
The Constitutional Convention !
The following is the bill authorizing a'
Constitutional Convention as passed through
the House of Representatives :
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate
and house of Representatires of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania -in General
asseliably :stet. and a is hereby enacted by
authority of the seine. That at au elec•
tion to be held on the second Tuesday or
October next, the qualified electors of this
Cbmnouwealth are hereby authorized to
vote for delegates to attend a State con
vention to revise and amend the Constitu
tion of the State. The said convention to
consist of one hundred and thirty-three
members, to be apportioned and elected as
senators and representatives are now by
law apportioned and elected.
SEmoN 2. The following regulations
shall apply to the aforesaid election, to be
held on the second Tuesday of October
next, and to returns of the same:
First the said election shall be held and
Iconducted by the proper thctioa officars of
the several election districts of the Com
monwealth, and shall be goverged and reg
ulated in all respects ky the general dee
, tion laws of the Commonwealth, so far as
the same shall beapplicable thereto, and not
inconsistent with the provisions of this act.
Fourth. In the city of Philadelphia the
return judges shall meet at the State house,
at ten o'clock on the Thursday next fol
fowing the election, and make out the re
turns for said city of the votes east there
in for members of the convention: The
return judges of the several election dis
tricts within each county of the State, ex
cluding Philadelphia, shall meet on the
Friday next following the election, at the
usual place for the meeting of the return
judges of their county, and shall make out
fall and accurate returns for the county of
the votes cast therein for members of the
convention and for district members of the
p...pp.dings ..
.af...the return
judges of the said city of Philadelphia and
of the several counties of the Common
wealth, in the making of their returns,
shall be the same as those prescribed for
return judges in the ease of an election for
Governor, except that returns transmitted
to the Secretary of the Commonwealth
shall be addressed to that officer alone, and
not to the Speaker of the Senate.
Fifth. The prothonotary of Philadelphia
and the prothonotaries of the several coun
ties, shall, with reference to such returns,
promptly and faithfully perform all the
duties enjoined upon them by the eighty
fourth sections of the general election act
of July second, one thousand eight hun
dred and thirty-nine.
Sixth. The Secretary of the Common
wealth shall, as soon as the returns of said
election shall be received by him, and at
all events within fifteen days after the elec
tion, in the presence of the Governor and
Auditor General, open and compute all
the returns received of votes given for
members of the convention, and the Gov
ernor shall forthwith issue his proclama
tion declaring the names of thersona
who have been chosen members of the con
vention.
SECTION. 3 It shall be the duty of the
delegates so elected, as aforesaid, to assem
ble in convention in the hall of the House
of Represetatives at the State Capitol, in
Harrisburg, on April fifteenth, one thous
and eight hundred and seventy-three, at
twelve o'olock, H., that day.• and it shall
be the duty of the Secretary of the Com
monwealth to call the convention to order
at that time and place, and to submit all
the returns of election in his possesssion,
and to read the aforesaid proclamation of
the Governor, and thereupon said conven
tion shall proceed to organize by electing
one of their number as president, and af
ter the members are sworn in, such' other
officers as may be needed in the transac
tion of business.
SECTION 4• Any person desiring to con
test the seat of any delegate so sworn in
shall proceed as in the case of col:041041g
the seat of a member of the House of Rep
resentatives.
SECTION 5. Said convention, so elected,
assembled and organized, shall have power
to propose to the citizens of this Common
wealth, for thei approval or rejection, a
new constitution or amendments to the
present one, or specie amendments to be
voted'for separately, which shall be engross
ed and signed by the president and chief
clerk, and delivered to the Secretary of
the Commonwealth, by whom, and under
whose direction, it shall be entered on re
cord in his office, and published once a
week in at least two newspapers in each
county, were two papers are published, for
four weeks next preceding the day of elec
tion that shall be held for the adoption or
rejection of the constitution or amendment
so submitted, Provided, That one-third of
all the members of the convention shall
have the right to require the separate and
distinct submission to a popular vote of
any change or amendment proposed by the
convention.
SECTION U. For the purpose of ascer
taining the sense of the citizens on the
expediency of adopting the constitution as
prepared by the convention or specific
amendments, which the convention may
deem proper to present separately to the
consideration of the voters, it shall he the
duty of the said convention to order an
election and to issue a writ of election di
rected to the sheriff of each county of this
Commonwealth, commanding notice to be
given of the time of holding an election
for said purpose, and It shall be the duty
of said sheriffs respectfully to give notice
accordingly, and it shall be the duty of,
the inspectors and judges of the election
throughout the State to hold an election
in obedience to said convention in each of
the election districts of this Commonwealth
at the legally appointed place of holding
the general elections, and it shall be the
duty of the said election officers to receive
tickets, either written or printed, from the
citizens qualified to vote for members of
the General Assembly, and to deposit them
in a box, which tickets shall be labelled on
the outside "new constitution," or separate
specific amendments, if any, naming the
specific amendment and on the inside "for
the new constitution" or "against the new
constitution" or "for" or "against" any
specific amendments which shall be peesent
ed for a separate vote.
SECTION 7. The election to decide for
or against the adoption of the new consti
tution or specific amendments shall be con
ducted as the general elections of this
Commonwealth are now by law conducted,
and it shall be the duty of the return judges
of the respective counties, first having as
certained the number of votes given for
or against the new constitution or separate
specific amendments, if any. to snake out
duplicate returns thereof expressed in
words at length, one of which returns so
made shall be filed in the office of the
prothonotary of the proper county, and the
other sealed and directed to the Secretary
of the Commonwealth, which said returns
shall be opened, counted and published as
the returns for Governor are now by law
counted and published, and when the num
ber of votes given for or against the new
or revived constitution, or for or against sep
arate specific amendments, if any, shall
have been summed up and ascertained,
and the duplicate , certificates thereof de
livered to the proper officers, the Governor
shall declare by proclamation the result of
the election. and if a majority of the votes
polled shall be for the new or revised con
stitution
or for any .separate specific amend
ments, such new. or revised constitution
and separate spec' is amendments, shall
be henefbrth the constitution of this Com
monwealth. -
SzertoN S. The entire compensation
and allowance to each member of the con
vention shall be as follows : For salary, one
thousand dollars, fo: milage, fifteen cents
per mile circular, not to be allowed, at
more than two sessions for postage, sta
tionery and contingencies, one hundred
dollars. The clerks mid other officers to
be allowed s:‘ ueit compensation as the con
vention shall direct. Warrants for oom
pansation of members and officers and for
all proper expenses of the convention shall
be drawn by the president and et:muter
signed by the chief clerk upon the State
Treasurer for payment.
Sensual Saints
Once in a while crimes of more than
usual magnitude are proved ag,ainstclergy
men. A case in point is that of the Rev.
L. D. Huston, late pastor of the Trinity
Methodist Episcopal Church, in Baltimore.
who is shown not only to have corrupted
an innocent girl of fourteen, but to have
added to this atrocious outrage, by endeav
oring to fix it upon another. It is stated
that the child was the younger of two
sisters, of whom the elder was a cripple ;
that hen only twelve years old she at
tracted the attention of the pastor, the
clergyman named above,
who professed
an interest in her spiritual and education
al welfare ; and that she frequently visited
him at his ho , sse when he was alone in it,
and remained with him all day, It was
during one of her walks with him that her
defioration was accomplished. His com
merce with her was kept up for two years,
her betrayer contriving to convince her
both of its innocence and of the necessity
of keeping it secret. Circumstances which
it is not necessary for us to detail finally
led to the girl's confession and to Mr.
Huston's flight. A great light was then
let in on other of his misdeeds. We do
not care to follow the report through its
painful details. Enough is exhibited to
show that the pulpiteer had long been car
rying out a carefully laid plan o debauch
ery, and that by a brutal refinement of sen
suality, which in modern days has corn
partitively few adopters, his victims were
invariably selected on account of their in
nocence and extreme youth.
It is not necessary to express any repro
bation of the scoundrel who would thus use
his sacred office as a means of more securely
gratifying his unnatural lentch. The com
mon voice of mankind pronounces with
sufficient abhorrance against that. Nor is
it necessary to amain the various sets of
motives to which so accomplished a seducer
would appeal in the work of sullying the
mind and exciting the temperment of a
young female child, who had been taught
to 100 up to him as an immaculate ex
emplar. It is not perhaps easy to under
stand how such a child, properly brought
up, could, even at a very tender age, keep
concealed from her mother her first lessons
in impurity. It is more to the purpose to
inquire what could have been the instruc
t= and superintendency or the child's
conduct given by the mother for such de
pravity to become possible—for the im
purity to be repeated for many months,
and finnally come to light only through an
accident. Chief among the questions sug
gested by such an inquiry would be the
familiarities which clergymen have aright
to enjoy with respect to the young females
of their congregations. Among the religi
ons women, who think they are religious,
the average ideal of a clergyman is of a
being with all the passions of a man and
all the purity of a saint, whose spiritual na
ture holds h:s sensual in absolute subjec
tion. How near this ideal hits the truth
is painfully illustrated by the number
of instances in which popular ministers
wake their peputations merely the varnish
of their real characters and convert the
adoration in which they are held by silly
women into a medium for the more readily
sallying the youngest and most artless of
the llook.—*to York Standard.
TIIE - SILVER RULE."—You all know
the golden rule : "Do unto others as you
would wish them to do to you." Here is a
rule which is almost a part of the golden
rule, but which we will put by itself, and
because of its value, call it the "Silver
Rule." "Think and say all you can of the
good qualities of others; forget and keep
silent concerning their bad qualities. You
cannot conceive how much such a course
will heighten• your own happiness, and
raise you in the esteem of your mates.
Did you ever think any wore of a boy or
girl becaulo he or she found fault with
others? Never call your schoolmates or
playmates ugly, or cross, neither to their
faces nor behind their backs, If they are
ugly, or stingy, or cross, it does not make
them better to talk or think about it, while
it makes you love to dwell upon faults of
others, and causes your own soul to grow
smaller, and you become like the foul bird
that prefers carrion for food.
CIIARITY is an eternal debt, and with.
out limit.
NO. 11.
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Evening Hymn.
Lord! Thine eyelids never close:
When night calls us to repose,
Thou remsinest still awake,
Watchful care of us to take,
As a shepherd through the night
Guards his flock till morning light .
Therefore grant to us, Thy sheep,
That we may in safety sleep;
Let us all refresh'd arise
When the Ban lights up the skies
And in all our works may we
Ever render praise to Thee !
Bat if we are called away
Ere we see another day,
Let Thy mercy still be near,
Lest our hearts should sink in fear
We our souls to Thee commend,
Is Theo trusting to the end.
Happiness in Death ,
The Rev. William Jay, in a sermon on the
requisites for a happy death, says :
"It requires that you should obtain and
preserve the evidences of pardon ; without
these you cannot be fearless and tranquil in
the near view of eternity, since , after death is
the judgment. Keep a conscience void of of
fense toward God and toward man. Is he in a
condition to die who has lived - ia the practice
of some known sin, and in the omission of
some known duty? Is ho in a condition to
die who has worn the mask of hypocrisy
which will now drop off and expose him in his
true character? Is he in a condition to die,
who, by artifice unfair dealing, grinding the
faces of the poor, has amasstd gain which
will dishonor him if restored, and damn him if
retained ? It requires us to live in the exer
cise of brotherly kindness and charity. Of all
we do for him, nothing pleases him more than
this ; this we know he will acknowledge in the
day of judgment, and why not in the day of
death ? 'Blessed is lie that considereth the
poor; the Lord will deliver him in the time of
trouble.' , The Lord will strengthen him upon
the bed of languishing; thou wilt make all his
bed in sickness.' Many are praying for him ;
the widows and fatherless cry, and their cry
entereth "the ears of the Lord of Sabbath.'
"It requires an attention to religion in your
families. I pity that father who will be sur
rounded, when he dies, with children whose
minds he never informed, whose dispositions
be never curbed, whose manners he never guard
ed ; who sees one an infidel, another a profligate,
and all irreligious. I know that your arc not
answerable for the conversion of your off
spring, but you are responsible fur the use of
all proper means. And if these have been ne
gleited, you will plant your dying pillow with
thorns; whereas, if you have seriously and
preseveringly attended to them, your dying
repose shall not be disturbed by want of suc
cess; but you shall be able to say, 'Although
my house be not so with God, yet bath he
made with me an everlasting covenant, order
ed in all things and sure, for this is all my
desire, although he make it not to grow."
Through the mercy of God, and the grwce of
hi 3 dear son,
may I be enabled so live in the
discharge of duty, that my "dying bed shall
feel as soft as downy pillows are." Amen
Presbyterian.
Died of Whisky,
if epitaphs always told the whole truth,
these words would be cuton many tombstones.
Not only the rough stones that mark the
graves of the humble and poor, but also on
the marble monuments that rise above the
dust of the children of wealth and genius.
would appear the words, "Died of Whisky."
How tad and disgraceful the record I What
volumes are condensed into three words!
Read them, ponder them, be warmned by them.
They will-give you food for thought. They
tell of character ruined, money squandered,
families beggared, hopes crushed, the mind
besotted, and soul lost. They will recall
memories in the life of every reader. Thereis
hardly a man who cannot go back through
twenty years and call up the face of some
friend or acquaintance of whom be must say,
"He died of Whisky."
Not that the kind and considerate physician
so pronounced, not that the family of the de
ceased so admitted, but still the sober, candid
conclusion of disinterested parties, and inter
ested ones, if they would utter their honest
thoughts, is "He died of Whisky."
Now, reader, recall the past, and see how
many start up at memory's bidding to attest
this fact. Young men of fine talents and bril
liant promise; men of mature years and the
best capacity for professional or practical bu
siness; old men, whose last years grew darker
and more sorrowful as they hastened to com
plete their epitaph—" Died of whisky ;" these
from all classes of society, ewell the grand
army of victims to the insatiate demon of the
bottle. The warnings are abundant and im
pressive against a death by whisky.
Gone Out Forever,
Like drooping, dying stars, our dearlyloved
ones go away from our sight. The stars of
our hopes, our ambitions, our prayers, whose
light ever shines before us, suddenly pale in
the firmament of our hearts, and their place is
left empty, cold and dark. A mother's steady,
soft and earnest light, that beamed through
wants and sorrows ' • a fathees strong, quick
light, that kept our feet from stumbling in the
dark and treacherous ways ; a sister's light,
so mild, so pure, so constant and so firm,
shining upon us, from gentle, loving eyes, and
persuading us to grace and goodness ; a broth
er's light, forever sleeping in our soul, and
illuminating our goings ; a friend's light, true
and trusty—gone out forever. Nol the light
has not gone out. It is shining beyond the
stars, where there is no night and no dark
ness, forever and forever.
Do Missions Pay?
A seaman in returaing home to Scotland,
after a cruise in the l'acific, was asked, Do
you think the missionaries have done any
good in the South Sea Island ?" will tell
you a fact, which speaks for itself," said the
sailor. "Last year I was wrecked on one of
those islands where I knew that eight years
before a ship was wrecked and the crew mur
dered, and you may judge how I felt at the
prospect before me, if I clashed to pieces on
the rocks, to survive for a more cruel death.
When day broke, we saw a number of canoes
pulling for our poor ship, and we prepared for
the worst. Think of our joy and wonder when
we saw the natives in English dress and heard
them speak in English language. On that
island, the next Sunday we heard the Gospel
preached. Ido not know what you think of
Missions, but I know what I do."
Do You knew It?
Do you know that the vows of God are
upon you ?
Do yon know that the worth of life is in the
good we do
Do you know that your piety may uncon
sciously decline?
Do you know that you need the prayer meet
ing? . . _
Do you know that you can slight the Lord's
Supper?
Do you know that Christ enjoys secret pray
er ?
Do you know that you forfeit your hope by
indolence?
Do you know that your Sunday vacant seat
looks bad ?
Do you know, that if backslidden, Jesus
will forgive you?
A SOLD= lay dying in the hospital. A vis
itor asked him,—"What Church are you of ?"
"The Church of Christ," he replied. "I mean.
of what persuasion are you ?" then inquired
the visitor.—" Persuasion?" said the dying
man, as his eyes looked heavenward, beaming
with love to his Savior" I'm persuaded that
neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor princi
palities, nor power, nor things present, nor
things to come, nor height or depth, nor any
other creature, shall be 'able to separate me
from the love of God. which is in Christ
Jesus."
iill is rich who has God for his friend
LIT reason go before enterprise, and counsel
before action.