VOL. 48. at Pogo' Nour, The Evening Story Now, we are sleepy, mother, See how wide-awake we seem ; Tell us something sweet to think of, Tell us something sweet to dream. Tell the very sweetest story That you ever heard or read, And you'll see that we'll remember Every single word you've said. Then I told them of a midnight In the very long ago, When the sky was full of angels, And from every shining. row, In a voice of heavenly music, ems a loving message, given For the sake of one sweet baby That had come that night from heaven. Now. please, tell us just another; Tell the saddest one you know. And I told of one who suffered, And he wandered to and fro ; Doing good to all around him, Without fear, or sin, or pride ; Blessing those who most ill-used him, For whose sake at last he died.. Now, please, just owe more, dear mother, Tell us now the strangest one. So I told them of a journey On a mountain-top begun; Through the azure, in a body ;rust as here on earth lie trod; rp through the shining ranks of angels, To the very throne of God. Four blue eyes and two sweet voices Waited till wy tale was done, Then they cried, "Why, that was Jesus These three stories are but one l" Zhe Otovg-Zreller. TIM DOCTOR'S MAKE. " IT'S of no use to talk about my be ing your wife, Charley. Your father will never consent, and mother will never even let me see you—if she can help it—with out his consent. No, you musn't come a step further :" And pretty Rose Carter drew her arm out of Charley Hulburt's very decidedly, when they reached the end of the village common. "you know it almost breaks my heart to say it, but I don't think I can ever meet you su again. Mother will be sure to find it out, and it would vex her so. And she has bad enough trouble without my giving her any—poor mamma 1" Handsome Charley Hulburt shrugged his shoulders impatiently. "Your mother comes before me, of course; it is no natter how I feel. You say coolly that you can never meet me again. That means, I suppose, that we are never to see each other again." "Why, no,• Charley, if you will only have patience •to wait! Everything may come out right." "Wait You have neen telling me to wait for the last two years, and things are no nearer coming out right than they ever wore." "I can't think why your father should dislike my mother so. I think mother knows, but she never will tell me. Miss Esther Wagg says that they were lovers once, and had a quarrel that your father can never forget. But one can't believe all Miss Esther's gossip." • "I can't think it is anything snore than a notion he has got into his head. lie's a crotchety, set old fellow, but he's got a good big heart, Rose, if one can only get at it. If you were only my wife, he would be sure to come round apd think the world of you. If you would only marry me, Rose ! At the worst—if he would'nt come around—he could only disinherit me, and I have .a pair of good strong arms, and some passable brains to fight my way—our way —through the world." The moonlight showed him her face, and he fancied that there was a little shadow of hesitation on it. But she shook her head firmly after .a moment. "Now, Rose, darling, don't tell me again to wait—" The rest of the sentence was never spo ken, for a heavy hand was laid on the young man's shoulder, and an angry voice mimicked his tender tones. "Rose, darling? I'll teach you to dar ling her, young man !" And there was Dr. Hulburt's face, red with anger, looking over Charley's shoul der. Rose, at the first glimpse of it, turned and ran like a little coward, as she was. "Haven't I forbidden your seeing that young woman? What do you mean by sneaking around here with her, like a thief in the•night ?" .pursued the doctor. furiously. ~-•It is not my fault that I du not walk with her openly ; it is not my fault that she is not my wife. It is only because she will not consent to be so," answered Char ley stoutly. "Won't consent to be your wife, eh? It does'nt scout to me that she treats yon ex actly like a rejected lover !" sneered the doctor. "She would marry me, if she were al lowed to choose," answerad Charley, trying hard to keep his temper. "Her mother will not consent." "Humph ! not consent? that's pretty well !" growled the doctor. "So she thinks my eon is not good enough for her daughter ?" "'She does not object to me. If you would give your consent to our marriage, she would give hers." "Al, that's it ! Well, my consent you'll never Lave, young man, you may rely upon that. And if ever I hear of your being seen with that young woman again I'll turn you ont of doors, sir. Not a penny of my money shall you ever have, sir. Re member that ! lam not one to make idle threats." Charley was about to reply, but they Lai reached the house by this time, and the doctor went into the office and shut the door behind him with a bang. So there was nothing for poor Charley to do but to' take his way disconsolately up stairs to bed. In the meantitne, the doctor seized the poker and stirred up the dying fire in his grate savagely. "Won't consent., eh ? That's like R;se Shepard she always was a proud piece. Let me catch that boy with her daughter again!" And he walked rapidly up and down the room. brandishing the poker, end with a scowl still on his face, looking not unlik; a midnight assassin, in spite of the venerable aspect which his gray hairs eve him. i3ut he caoled down very soon, sufficient :ly to carry the poker back to itapiace, and begin a search for dressing•gown and slip pers, a search which proved long, and served to turn his anger from Charley to another. "Of all the miserable housekeepers that ever I had. this Barnes woman is the worst !" he grumbled, jerking himself at Just into the dilapidated, ecanfortlesis look. '-; 'he 'I I untingdon Journal. ing dressing-gown, and slippers trodden down at the • heel. "Not a drop of warm water, or anything to eat in the house, I'll warrant !" And he strode into the dining room, which indeed was cold and void of cheer. He went into the pantry and munched a hard, very dark-colored doughnut savage- "I'd turn her away to-morrow, she and her husband, too, only that the next one would be sure to be worse. They are all about of a piece. There is nothing worse to have in the house than a housekeeper— unless it's a wife. And I don't know—" Doctor Hulburt still stood in the pantry, solemnly deliberating, after the last morsel of doughnut had disappeared. It was so long since he had a wife that he could not decide whether one was worse that a house keeper or not. It was a question that he had been revolving in his mind for years, without coming to any definite conclusion. " 'Better bear the ills we have, than fly to others that we know not of,' the poet says. But then, a man can't bear this state of things long; he might as well live in a cave in the woods ! No order, no comfort, none of the decencies of living. Some time or other I shall have to marry, and I might as well make up nay mind to it at once. And there's the widow Zilpha Thomas. (Strange that boy can be such a fool as to run after that little jade of a Rose Carter !) The widow Thomas is a good housekeeper, I have no doubt; house ,always looks as neat as ws x. Then there's that wood lot of hers that joins mine; not that I'm looking out for property with a wife, but that lot would come very handy; and the widow is a fine woman ; a little quick tempered, I'm afraid. I never did like those snapping black eyes; that girl Rose Carter, is just her mother over again, with her blue eyes and her wheedling ways —confounded little jilt! and that boy is fool enough to bo taken in by her. I should like to see anybody take me in ! No., I thank you! once is enough. I said to Miss Esther Wagg, the other day, 'The widow Zilpha Thomas is a fine wenian; a capital manager, isn't she ?'" "Manager you maybe sure of that. She managed poor Reuben Thomas into his grave," said Miss Esther. "But then, it is of no consequence what these spiteful old maids say. Most likely she has an eye on the situation for her self !" And the doctor drew himself up, in the proud assurance that when he did take a second helpmeet, he should leave every marriageable lady of his acquaintance in consolable. "I'll drive round and see the widow Thomas next week. I don't think it likely that she could manage me !" And having made up his mind, Doctor Hulburt betook himself to his chamber. But his face was not that of a man who is quite satisfied with the decision ; and he stood for a long time at the wifldow, and looked down to the foot of the hill, where the widow Carter's house was plainly visi ble in the moonlight. "No, no ! once isenough fur a man to be made a fool of ! And that silly boy shall never marry her daughter, if I can help it !" he said at last, turning away with a decided shake of the head. From which signs an observer would have sup posed bliss Esther Wagg to be right, and the widow Carter an old sweetheart who had "made a fool of him:" Rose Carter. with pale cheeks and down cast eyes, sat demurely sewing beside her mother the next morning, when her uncle, old Squire Carter, came in. The pale cheeks had been observed but not com mented on by her mother, but the Squire was not so delicate. "Bless me ! what has become of the red cheeks? Why, they are as white as snow balls! Too much sewing and moping, and not enough air and exercise—or has its sweetheart deserted it, poor little Rosy ?" Upon which Rose's cheeks grew scarlet of course. But the squire was not satis fied. "The child looks really ill, and some thing must be done," he said to Mrs. Car ter, as he went away. "She hasn't looked like herself for mouths." And the squire, haunted by Rose's pale face, betook himself directly to Doctor Hulburt's office. "I want you to go and see my neice, little Rose Carter, or prescribe something for her. She saps nothing ails her, but she looks pale and moped. I suppose it is nothing but • want of exercise ; if these girls would only do as their grandmothers did But you know what will help her— it's nerves, I suppose," said the squire who fancied that "nerves" were at the bottom of all feminine ailments. "Ah yes ! I'll send her a prescription," said the doctor, heartily. And thinking it the heartiness of interest and good na ture, the squire went on his way relieved. And Dr. Hulburt, feeling even less aimable than on the previous night, sat down at his desk, and wrote a prescription for Miss Rose Carter. Just as he finished it 'his- man Barnes bigught him a note. It was from the man who took care of the doctor's farm on the outskirts of the town, near the wider , Thomas' wood lot. “The widow Thomas' man Jake wants to know if you will let the widow take Black Bess, to go down to Saugus to the quarterly conference meeting to-night. She told him to say particular that she didn't feel very well, end thought the ride would do her good, if you would be so kind as to let her take Black Bess, which is so gentle. SAMUEL HODGKINS." The doctor's face cleared as he read. "Little Sam Hodgkins is waiting for the answer, if you please, sir," said Barnes. And the Doctor wrote a few words hur riedly, in answer to Samuel Hod g kins, not without grumbling at the man's stupiaity in not letting the widow have the horse without applying to him. Bat no matter ! the widow would not have to ask for Black Bess again. •'With all my worldly goods I thee endow," he meant to say to her very soon. Barnes was entrusted with the two notes —one for Miss Rose Carter, and the ether for little Sam Hodgkins to carry tJ his s father. In the meantime, Charley had come to a new resolve. He would see Hrs. Carter once more, and try to gain het consent to his marriage with Rose. Without leer consent, Rose would never be his wife. It was evidently a hopeless task to try to overcome his father's prejudices; but he was determined that they should not be allowed to destroy his happiness, and Rose's too, for life. 'Mrs. Carter liked him; she would give Rose to him williogly, she had told him, if it were not for his father's objections; she might be purstaded to, in spite of it. And there was no time to lose, for in two days he was going away to a distant city, to establish himself in btliness. He had hoped to carry Rose wits him, but all his pleading had been of n' avail to in duce her to marry him against her moth er's will. All his hope now lay in influ encing Mrs. Cuter. So, early that morn ing he took his way to the cottage at the foot of the hill. Squire Carter had just left, and Mrs. Carter's mind was still filled with the anxiety regarding Rose's health which he had aroused ; so perhaps Charley could not have found a better time for try ing to win her over to his side. But, though she iid hesitate for a mo ment, his pleading as in vain. . You know there is no one whom I would rather have kr a son than you, Charley," she said. "But I know your father. He is a stern man, a very stern man, and he will never relent. He would never forgive yon for marrying against his will. I cannot consent to your ruining all your prospects in life. You and Rose are both very young; you may change. The time might come, Charley, when you would regret disobeying your father's wish. You aro his only son, and so dear to Mtn; and before this, you say, he has never thwarted your slightest wish. ;ou ought not to disobey hint hastily. To be sure, his preju dice seems unreasonable--" "Unreasonable ! It is absurd !" inter rupted Charley, hotly. "Why, he has never so much as seen you, to my knowl edge!" Carter's cheek flushed faintly. 7 4 lived here when I was a glib you know. I knew your father then. He has some reason for disliking me which I don't understand." "It is nn: y a prejudice, a notion, I am sure," said Charley. "And he has no right to dictate to me in such a matter." And he was beginning his eager plead ing over again, when Barnes appeared with the note. There was no address on the outside. and Mrs. Carter opened it, while Charley waited in a fever of suspense to know what his father could have to say to Mrs. Carter. • Her face was a picture of amazement as she read, but pleasure shone through it as she handed the note to Charley. It was brief and to the point. "Let him have her. EDWARD H. HIILBURT." "I always told Rose he had a heart if one could only get at it!" cried Charley in a transport of delight. "Now; you can make no objection; we have your prom ise ! And I am going away the day after to-morrow, you know, and I must take my wife with me." "The day after to-morrow ! My dear boy, you are beside yourself !" exclaimed Mrs. Carter. "Yon and Rose have said wait to me for so long, that you can't have the heart to say it longer, now that there is no reason for waiting. I shall coax Rose over to ins side, and you can't refuse. And he did coax them both over to his aide, after countless arguments and objec tions. It was arranged that there should be a very quiet wedding, to which only a few intimate friends were to be invited, the next evening. Then Charley hurried home to express his gratitude to his father, whom he began to think he had misjudged. While this scene was transpiring at the cottage, Samuel Hodgkins has received Doctor Hulburt's answer to his note, and being somewhat surprised and puzzled by it, had transmitted it directly to the widow Thomas; thus relieving himself of all re sponsibility in the matter. So the widow, who was adorning her best cap with new cherry ribbons, in an ticipation of the doctor's taking her gentle hint and coming himself to drive her to the quarterly conference meeting, was called from that pleasing occupation to read the following note, a mere scrawl, written evidently in haste and irritation : "Let her take a dessert-spoonful of extract of valerian, night and morning, for her nerves, common sense in as large doses as she can get it, and stop gadding about evenings. "EDWARD H. HULMJET." The widow's black eyes snapped so that the doctor, if be had been there to see, would have liked them less than ever, and the roses that had deserted her cheeks she thought forever, reappeared in full bloom. She had bean angry often in her life—the departed Reuben had not been very easy to manage—but never before had she felt anything like the wrath she felt at that moment. "The impertinent old scoundrel ! 'Gad ding abant evenings' indeed ! 'Valerian for my serves !' as if I were some fidgety old maid 'Common sense in as large do ses as Jean find.' How dare he write such a note! Well, I have had a lucky escape! Stupid. cross-grained old wretch 1 a life of it I mould have had with him !" And the widow put on the cherry-rib bontd cap upside down, and fell to dusting the portrait of her deceased sponse with a yin. With all his faults Reuben was not the worst man that ever lived ! Charley was obliged to repress his gra titude for a while, for when he reached home he found that his father had gone to a neighboring town to attend a medical convention, and would not return until the following day. When' the doctor returned the next af ternoon Charley was absent, busied with preparations for the approaching wedding. Dr. Hulburt, finding a leisure afternoon upon his hands made an unusually careful toilet, and drove out to call upon the widow Thomas. He had fully made up his mind that it would be a lesser evil to have the Widow Zilpha Thomas for a wife, than Mrs. Barnes for a housekeeper, but he had not the air of a very eager wooer, and, in truth, ho was not without his misgivings; ho saw in imagination the widow's black eyes snapping defiantly at him, and won dered if he should not repent, if she pro ved to be of a quarfelsome temper. And he cast two or three glances back at the Widow Carter's cottage, and as he did so he certainly sighed. The widow had been in the window, and she had bow ed to him—bowed, and actually smiled a little, though in a shy sad way. Dr. Hul burt did not quite understand it. He had met her but twice, to be sure, since she had come back to the village, two years before, but at neither of those times had she shown any disposition to recognize him. His looks had not invited a recognition either then or now, but here she was as sweet as a May morning ! It was all her artfulness, of course ! She thought she could cajole him into letting Charley mar ry her daughter. She would see ! He would send that boy to Europe, to China if need be, to get him out of Rose Carter's way. Still it is certain that he sighed deeply as he passed the cottage, and the Widow Thomas' black eyes snapped before him all the more ominously in contrast with the Widow Carter's soft, shy blue ones. Was Miss Esther Wagg right, and was it possible that there was still a spring of sentiment in the doctor's heart, which fifty years and his crusty temper had not been able wholly to dry. HUNTING-DON, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1873. From afar off the widow Thomas saw him coming, "riding along with that grand careless air, as if he owned the whole town," as she declared, and prepared to do battle. She was in such a quiver of indignation that her cap-ribbons stood up straight, and the snapping eyes of his im agination were as nothing compared with these ! "How dare you come here, you insult ing, hypocritical villain! you perfidious wretch ! Leave this house, sir, and if you ever come here again I'll set Towser upon you as sure as you live !" she cried. To say that the old doctor was amazed would but feebly express his emotion. He was thoroughly alarmed, and lost no time in escaping from the presence of the ma niac (as he felt sure she must be), to his carriage. _ _ "Insane from evil temper, ah, I knew those eyes were not for nothing! But why her anger should be directed against me I can't understand; though I suppose her wrath falls upon any one who happens to be near when the fit seizes her. 0, what an escape I havehad !" _ _ And - Dr. Hulburt took his homeward way, resolved to be contented with a house keeper and thankful that his lot was nc worse. Mrs. Barnes met him with an unusual], smiling countenance. "141 r. Charley's been waiting toseo sir ; he waited awhile, but of course le couldn't wait any longer, and it's sx o'clock this minute. He told me to tdl yon how thankful and happy he was, aid that he should feel awful bad if you d.d come to the wedding." "'Thankful and 'happy !"Come to tie wedding !' What are you talking above, you idiot ?" demanded the doctor. "To his weddinc , with Miss Rose Car ter. I thought of course you knew. It's at half-past eight " "The young rascal ! Does he dare to do this ?" shouted the doctor, and rushed out sof the house, and down to the widow Carter's cottage. Mrs. Carter and Charles met him in the hall. His wrath bad had time to cool a little in his walk, and if it had not he would have found it hard to be so demonstrative as usual under the wid ow's calm clear eyes. But he expressed his disapproval quite strongly enough to show them that there had been some mis take. . Charley produced the note, and the doctor saw through the mystery at once— Mrs. Thomas' lunacy and all. That stupid Barnes had changed the notes. The widow Thomas had been advised to stop gadding about of evenings, and Mrs. Carter had considered herself permitted to "let him have" her daughter ! However angry he might be, the doctor saw that it was too late to interfere. "Well, young man, you have ehogen your way, and you must walk in it ! She is her mother over again, they say—you had better marry her as soon as possible or she'll jilt you, as her mother did me!" The wiClow . Carter looked at him with something like a flash in her eyes. "How can you say that, when you know it was you who deserted me ?" she said. "Didn't you write me a letter within a month of the day that was to have been our wedding day, telling me, coolly, that you had discovered that you preferred an other ?" demanded the doctor. "Never ! I never wrote you such a letter !" said the widow. Charley began to see that an explanation was coming, at which a third party would not be wanted and took his departure. It he did, then, have a faint presentiment of what might happen as a result of that explanation at some future day, he was not at all prepared for what did occur that very night. When he and Rose moved away from before the minister who had made them husband and wife, his father and Mrs. Carter stood up before him, and the cere mony was repeated for their benefit. They had decided, in that brief space of time, that that was the best reparation possible for the mistake of almost a lifetime. And it proved so agreeable an arrange ment that Dr. Hnlburt is often heard to say that, though he has always prospered in his practice, he never made so great a success as when he wrote a prescription for Rose Carter. pading fa the J; men. Constitutional Convention The following amendments were propo sed January 8, 1873: By Mr. Wherry : IVhereas, It is a universally-admitted principle in criminal law that an accused person is to be presumed innocent until he is convicted ; and whereas, although'socie ty, in virture of its right of lawful self protection, may subject its members to pre ventive detention, as the temporary hostages of justice, yet the sacred obligation of pro tection requires at its hands the exercise of parental guardianship over the accused, and the full preservation of their rights as citizens— Resolved, That the amended constitu- tion ought to contain some provision whereby accused persons and thaw detain ed as witnesses may be protectel from the penal confinement inflicted upon convicted criminals. By Mr. Runk, requiring thit in the nomination of candidates for dl elective offices (by delegates or otherwse) all le gal voters of a district shall be required to participate, under penalty of bejig depri ved of their votes at the election fill such offices. By Mr. Hunsieker, providin for bien nial sessions of the Legislature. By Mr. Temple, to give thi appoint ment of prothonotaries and cleric of courts to the courts respectively of milich they shall be officers. By Mr. Funck, requiring all links, say ings institutions, and other moihyed cor porations, or conerpart-ships for lorrowing money awl discounting notes, to make quarterly returns under oath of the money so borrowed or deposited at interest, so the same shall bo subject to tatation. Also, to prohibit all banks of issue from paying interest on depisits, or ma king it a part of their general business to borrow money and loan out th. same at in terest. By Mr. Broomall, emporerino• ' the judges of the Court of Contoon Pleas, and other courts of like jursdiction, to decide upon the facts as well Es the law in all cases in which neither paty shall de sire a jury trial. By Mr. DeFrance, that the:rial by jury in all cases in which it hay heretofore been used shall remain inviolte forever, except that in suits in justices.courts pro vision may be made by law fr trial by a jury of less than twelve men :but a jury trial may be waived by the fifties in all civil cases. Also, prohibiting the pasage of laws naking irrevocable any grant of special Fivileges or immunities. Also, prohibiting the taking or damag iig of private property for public use without just compensation. Also, that tie fee of land taken for railroad tracks without the consent of the owners shall remain in such owners subject to the use fir w'lich it is taken, and private property dull never be taken under any pretext for private use. By Mr. Broomall, amending the fourth pragraph so as to read : "That the right of trial by jury shall Emain inviolate in all cases in which the party shall demand the same." And adding to the thirteenth paragraph the words : "Nor shall the life of any person be token as a punishment for crime." By Mr. Mentor, that the Committee on suffrage, Election, and Representation be requested to inquire into and report to this 4tonvention whether, in their opinion, a provision should be incorporated in the constitution authorizing the women of this State to exercise the elective franchise, when they shall ask that right by a major ity of the votes given by citizens females over the age of twenty-one years, at an election called for this purpose, at which the women alone shall have the right to vote. By Mr. J. P. Wetherill, that the Gov ernor shall, at stated times, receive fer his services a compensation, which shall be neither increased or diminished during a period beginning on the day of his election by the people, and extending through the period for which he has been elected. By Mr. Boyd, that the Secretary of the Commonwealth and the Attorney General of the State shall be elected by the people at large. Also, that the following new offices be created : One Lieutenant Governor, to be elected by the people at large ; one Com missioner of Insurance and one Inspector General of Iron, to be appointed by the Governor. By Mr. Edwards, that it shall be the duty of the Legislature to establish by law a full and complete system of detailed sta tistics of all kinds of manufactures, com merce, and agriculture, and also the min eral resources of this Commonwealth, to in clude the quantity and quality of each, and where located. By Mr. MacConnell, that in elections by the citizens every free person ofthe age oftwenty-one years, being a citizen of the United States, having residedin good faith ad continuously in this Commonwealth one full year, and in the election district vdiere he or she offers to vote two full months immediately preceding such elec tim, and within two years paid a State or cointy tax, which shall have been assessed atleast ten days before the election, shall eijoy the right ofan elector; provided that a iitizen of the United States who had pre viinsly been a qualified voter in this State, ant removed therefrom and returned, and win shall have resided in the election dis triit and paid taxes as aforesaid, shall be enitled to vote upon residing in the State for six months. Aho, providing for a vote by the people of tie State upon the question of female suffrge. BPIr. Broomall, that the Declaration of Righs be so amended that no person shall be diqualified to hold any office or place of trist, or to testify as a witness, or exer cise he right of suffrage, on account of his religious sentiments. N. Purviance offered the follow ing Asolution, which was twice read and adopOd : R4olved, That the State Treasurer be requested to furnish the convention a state ment of the amount of interest paid an nual]: on the State debt, from 1845 to 1872 incluive, showing specifically the amount due aid paid semi-annually each year. 31... J. P. Wetherill offered a resolution for ai additional standing committee of nineon Federal Relations. Tie following additional propositions word submitted Py Mr. De France, calling upon the Sinling Fund Commissioners to lay before theconvention a statement showing what pelt, if any, of the sinking fund has been used otherwise than in the extinguish ment of the State debt since the close of the rebellion; and, if so used, for what purpose and to what amount. Referred. By Mr. Parsons, that no person shall have the right to vote or be eligible to office, under the constitution of this Com monwealth, who shall not be able to read the constitution in the English language, and write his name; provided, however, that the provisions of this amendment shall not apply to any persons prevented by a physical disability from complying with its requisitions, nor to any person who now has the right to vote, nor to any person who shall be sixty years of age or upward at the time this amendment shall take effect. By M. Alricks, directing an inquiry by the proper committee into the expediency of a provision that the rolling stock and other movable property of any railroad company or other corporation in this State shall be considered personal property, and as such liable to levy and sale on execution in the same manner as the personal prop erty of natural persons. Also, that the exercises of the right of eminept domain shall never be abridged so as to prevent the Legislature from re voking franchises or taking the property of incorporated companies and subjecting it to the public necessities in the same manner and extent as the property of in dividuals may be taken or subject. Also, that all franchises which have been or may be granted to any corporation shall be limited to the special object for which the charter has been or may be ostensibly obtained, and that no corpora tion shall have or be given greater franchises than such as are given to corporations of the same specific class of denomination. Mr. Wetherill, of Philadelphia, that the salary of the Governor shall not be in creased or diminished from the time of his electihn to the end of his term. . By Mr. Campbell, recommending a new section for incorporation in the constitu tion, as follows: "The General Assembly shall provide by law that in all elections for directors'or managers of incorporated companies every stockholder shall have the right to vote, in person or by proxy, for the number of shares of stock owned by him, for as many persons as there are directors or mana gers to be elected, or to cumulate said shares and give one candidate as many votes as the number of directors, multi plied by the number of his shares of stock, shall equal, or to distribute them on the same principle among as many candidates as he shall think fit, and such directors or managers shall not be elected in any other manner." By Mr. Worrall, requiring the reading in fall, before passage, of all bills passed by the Legislature, the same to be on three different days; every such bill to be ap proved in each house by a majority of members present at each of such readings; the votes of each house in every instance to be by yeas and nays, and the names of all members voting to be recorded. By Mr. Carter, abolishing capital pun ishment and establishing imprisonment for life, with entire withdrawal of the pardon ing power, unless in cases where innocence may be judicially proven. By Mr. Barclay, providing a form.of oath for municipal officers. By Mr. Carson, that all judges shall be learned in law, and be members of the '1 bar. By Mr. S. H. Reynolds, that all real es tate within the Commonwealth shall, fbr the purpose of taxation, be assessed at its full market value. Mr. Heverin offered a proposition pro viding that the formation or expression of an opinion shall not disqualify any citizen from acting as a juror. Also, that the Committee on the Bill of Rights be instructed to inquire into the expediency of a provision that all persons shall be competent witnesses in any ease and under all circumstances. Mr. Edwards submitted a proposition looking to a compilation of agricultural, manufacturing, commercial and mineral statistics of the State. By Mr. Brodhead, lookiog to a limita tion of the sale of spirituous and other liquors, by the granting of not more than one license for every five hundred of pop ulation. That a Board of Managers of Prisons, to consist of five persons. be appointed by the Governor, to hold office ten years, and to be classified so that the term ofone per son shall expire at the end of each two years during the first ten years; such board to have charge of State prisons, and of other reformatory institutions as the Legislature may direct; the managers to receive no salary except traveling expen ses, the Legislature to limit such expenses, such limit not to be changed more than once in five years; the board to have pow er to appoint the warden, clerk, physician and chaplain of each State prison with pow er to remove such officers for cause ; all other officers of prisons to be appointed by the warden, with power of removal, and the Governor to have power to remove any of the managers for cause. That the Legislature shall not have power to annual the contract of marriage in any case. . . . . That the accused in all criminal crises, where the offense charged is of no less grade than a felony, shall be tried by a jury without an indictment or presentment by a grand jury, but in all other cases the law shall remain as heretofore. That no person shall hold any office. of trust or profit in the State of Pennsylva nia who shall be an habitual professional gambler, and the Legislature shall provide by law for the mode of determining by in quisition at the relation of any citizen, whether any person holding an office is or is not such habitual gambler. . . That no railroad shall consolidate with another owning a parallel or competing line, and in no case shall consolidation be made without public notice being given of at least sixty days to all stockholders; also no railroads shall issue stock exce!pt for money, labor or property actually reoeived, and all fictitious increase of stock shall be void; also that no capital stock shall( be increased except on sixty days notice. That the qualified voters of each county shall elect one representative to the Legis lature and one additionalmesnber for every thirty-five thousand of inhabitants, and in counties entitled to three or more members there shall be voting by tie cumulative system. That married women shall have the same power over their property as though they were not married, and no woman on account of sex shall be deprived of her right to enter into any lawful employment. That the city of Philadelphia shall here after be the capital of the State. That the apportionment fbr Senators and Representatives shall be made every ten years, according to the latest census. That all females over the ags of twenty one years, who have paid taxes, shall have the right to vote for and be eligible as school directors. That judges of the Supreme Court shall have the power to appoint a reporter of their proceedings. That no corporation shall limit or impair by contract its responsibilities at common law. That no trade association shall limit the number of apprentices in any trade, art or mystery. That the State be divided into three equal districts f'or the election of judges of the Supreme*Court, and that the Court consist of nine members, three from each district, elected by the people. The amount of indebtedness to be in curred by cities, comities and boroughs shall be limited; also that no person who shall have charge of p ablio moneys shall be re-elected to the sarue office or shall be eligible to any office 1./Atli the accounts of his first office shall have been settled: also providing for the filling of vacancies in the office of State Treasurer. Prohibiting the Legislature from lim iting the amount of damages to be obtained from railroads in indemnity for damages. That the style of corporate name shall be the State of Pennsylvania instead of Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. That no person shall be allowed to vote who has committed perjury, bribery or been cony icted of fraud at elections as an election officer. That cities of more than 100,000 in habitants: shall be divided into districts, aldermen and justices of the peace abol ished, and judges appointed for each dis trict, who shall have power to try cases by a jury of six, and shall be salaried. That the State Treasurer shall make quarterly reports of the state of the Treas ury. . That the seat of government shall re main at Harrisburg. Making the office of Attorney General and Secretary of the Commonwealth elec tive. Giving the right of appeal from an as sessment of value for property taken for public use. That no railroad shall be laid iu any city or town without the consent of the 1061 authorities. Mr. J. P. Wetherill presented a memor ial front the Pennsylvania Peace Society, asking for the abolition of capital punish ment, and for the striking out of the sec tions of the Constitution relating to military duty of citizens, and inserting that no citizes with conscientious scruples against wars ilt* 'compelled to bear arms, or pay ally tax foroitle support of militia. The various matters in the memorial re lating to amenthaents were referred to appropriate committees. Use and Waste of Time. A life organized with order and purpose has always time for most things; one left to chance, which means chaos, is not able to pick up ten consecutive minutes out of the heap of waste and irregularity to which is reduced the pleasant harmony of the hours. No excuse is so pitiful as this want of time wherein to do your duties, to ful fill your engagements, to get through your appointed tasks. If it is a real excuse you are simply over-weighed, and your first busi ness ought to be cut off from those of your burdens you can spare best and which you fulfill worst; but if it is only an apparent excuse, and not a reality, the fault lies, not in your having too much to do, but in bad arrangements—not in the want but the waste o.' time. Then the great thing to do is to re-arrange your work and your time, and to make them fit in more har moniously together. There are some peo ple who have the faculty of making use of every moment. Some learned divine, whose name at this moment we forget, is said to have written a book during the odd five minutes when his wife was putting on her bonnet; and many women do all their little bits of fancy work and the like in the idle moments of the day, when neither work or play comes into the organization. All great men and successful workers have , )een careful of those 'odd corners of the hours, these unconsidered five minutes, which otherwise waste as of no value to any one. On the other band, most un successful people have had hazy ideas of the value of time and of its length—have been prodigal of their hours, and given to lose their five minutes everywhere, with the air of moneyed men who spend a few shillings while having thousands at their backs; then they wonder why it is they get nothing done, and fill foul for the want of time, when they should blame their own want of method.—The Queen. Tit-Bits Taken on the Fly. Stump is the name of a wooden-leg ma ker in London. Your new narrow-gauge railroads are projected in Utah. A large company has just been formed in San Francisco to cultivate and manu fact are native tobacco. They have smart thieves out in Milwau kee. One of them adroitly despoiled a lady's cloak of $l5O worth of lace while she was in church recently. Several young shad have been taken in the Sacramento river, and are considered products of the spawn taken to California by Seth Green in July, 1871. Much fault is found with the manner in which business is transacted by the Chica go Custom House officials, whose tardiness often results in great inconvenience and loss to merchants. By statiscal calculation there are1,554,- 931 illiterate male adults in the United States, and more than three times that number who think they know something bnt make a mistake. In the bottom of the Solomon river, in Kansas, near its confluence with the Smoky, have been discovered springs of coal oil boiling Up, and there is great ex citement in that section. The Comptroller of New York city paid out during the four months ending Octo ber 2S, 1872, $22,494 as counsel fees, etc.. in the suits against the Tammany thieves, none of whom were convicted. The commission which was appointed sonic time back to investigate the desira bleness of the introduction of a gold cur rency into Holland has reported that it is expedient that a gold currency should be introduced. The Ohio miners, in the Tuscarawas and Mahoning valleys, are moving to se cure, "by wholesome and just laws, the proper protection of life, health, and limb, in the coal mines." They complain of the present law as inefficient. The St. Louis Bolt and Iron Company commenced operations last week. Their manufactory, which is a very extensive one, is located in East St. Louis. They make car and bridge bolts, spikes, rivets, lag screws, fish bars and bolts, and bar iron. Certain Icelandic chronicles lately trans lated by the Royal Antiquarian Society of Copenhagen, distietly describe the discov ery of Massachusetts, under the title of Vinland, in the year 1002, nearly five centuries before the rest of America was heard of. The coina g e at the San Francisco Branch Mint for the year 1872 amounted to $16,000,000 in gold and $380,000 in silver. A lot of 89,000 in silver dollars was coined for the first time in manyyears, as an experiment for introduction into China. A December as pleasant as May has just been enjoyed in England. Acres of primroses and snowdrops were in blossom, and the banks were covered with violets, the furze was in full bloom, and a nest of young thrushes was taken out of a holly tree the week beforo Christmas. Alluding to the invention of a Virginian of a substitute for the "mad stone," which cures hydrophobia and lockjaw, a Rich mond paper calls on some one to invent a cure for limber jaws, for the benefit of mem bers of the Legislature. The latter dis ease, it says, costs the State a great deal of money. A French savan has been making ex periments to supersede borax, which is generally employed in soldering, and the result is that ' he finds that an excellent flux for solaing iron, and brazing cop per and aluminium bronze, is obtained by a mixture of equal parts of cryolit and chloride of barium. . There are several Chinese doctors in San Francisco, who drive a thriving practice with the more gullible of our own coun trymen. All sorts of abominations are used by them for medicines. Oil made from baked cockroaches is given as a specific for consumption, while the hair from rat tails, burned and pulverized and mixed with syrup, occupies a place in their materia 'maim as a sure cure for rheuma tism. A gentleman in Richmond attended a theatrical performance on Saturday after noon, and when getting out with the crowd at the close, discovered that he had lost a valuable watch and chain. The natural conclusion was that the property nad been taken by a pickpocket. It ap pears, however, that in the crush to get out of the theatre, the chain of the watch became entangled in the fringe of a lady's sacque, and thus both watch and chain were drawn from the owner, and hung to the lady's garment without her knowledge. The time piece was promptly restored. NO. 4. Vitt &Ono' ndgtt. Mick Murphy and the Ghost.. An incident occurr‘d in the hotel of one of the picturesque marine villages whioh skirt Lake Ponchartrain, on a certain oc casion last summer, that effectually served to dispel the listless enui too prevalent in such places. Among the guests there, for the time being, was one Michael Murphy, an eccen tric, good-natured soul that used to be par excellence in the land of potatoes but which now may be called potatoeless land. He had been on a big 'bust' in the city, and went over the lake to dispel the fumes of debauch, and take salt baths and soda water at the same time. All this became known to the ventrilo quist who had paid a flying visit to the place, and who had such command over his voice that he could make it do any thing, from the squeaking of a pig under the gate to the singing of a mocking bird. Believing that Michael was just about that time in an impressible state—in a re formatory mood—he thought he would, through the medium of his art, endeavor to effect a favorable change in his morals. With this view, he booked his name for a bed in the same room with Michael, and about twelve o'clock at night—that hour to superstitious minds so fraught with terror—he pitched his voice outside the door, saying in a trombone tone : °•Michael Murphy ! Michael Murphy ! are you sleep ?" • "Who's that?" said Michael, much startlsd at the sepulchral tone in which the query was put, and the time of putting it. "Ask me not, but answer," said the ven triloquist, still continuing his ghost-like accent. "Well, what have you got to say ?" said Michael. "Much of which I want you to take no tice," said the ventriloquist voice. "0 clear off," said Michael, "or else I'll give you your tay." "Better had you continued to take tea than to break the pledge, as you have done," said the voice outside the door. "What's all this noise about ?" said"the ventriloquist, speaking from the bed. "Some dirty blackguard that's outside the door there," said Michael, "interferin' with what's none of his business." "Why don't you drive him from it ?" said the ventriloquist from the bed. "I wish he dare," said the voice outside the door. "Be jabers, I'll let you see I dare," said Michael, jumping up, seizing his hickory, and hurriedly opening the door, ready on sight to knock down the annoyer. "Give it to him," said the ventriloquist front the bed. "Be gor, I believe it's the old boy him self was it," said Michael, "for I don't see a sowl here." "It's very mysterious," said the ventril oquist from the bed. "I wonder if there's any evil spirits in this country," said Michael. "I don't know," said the ventriloquist, "but they say the ghost of departed Indi ans haunt the place." "0, that was no Indian ghost," said Michael, "for it spoke as good English as I do myself." "And a little better, Michael," said the voice, as if it proceeded from one standing by his side. "0, the cross o' Christ about us," said Michael. "IVhat are you, at all at all ?" "No evil spirit, but your guardian ge nius," said the voice. _ "A mortal queer janimei you are," said Michael, "that can be heard and not seen." "Get into bed, then," said the voice, "I have something to say to you." "You won't do anything bad to me," said Michael. "Nothing," said the voice. "Honor bright," said Miehael. "Honor bright," said the voice, "you know Sou have been a hard liver." "That's a fact," said Michael. "You broke the pledge," said the voice. "More than I ever could keep a tally of," said Michael. "Then you'll pledge yourself to me that you'll change your mode of life," said the voice. "I'll do anything you ask me," said Michael. "Then I'm off," said the voice, "but re member, if you attempt to break it I'll be present and punish you through life." "Who is that with whom you are hold ing conversation ?" said the ventriloquist, speaking again from the bed. "llivil a one at all," said Michael, "bar rio' some mighty polite, invisible gentle man, that seems to take a great interest in my welfare." • "0, you are dreaming," said the ven triloquist from the bed. "Faix, it's like a dream, sure enough," Michael said. The next morning a friend asked Mi chael to take his bitters. He consented, but just as he took the glass in his hand, the voice of the ventriloquist, who was present, was heard above his head, in the air, crying out : "Touch it not, Michael Murphy—remember your promise." It was enough, Michael would not taste. "The pleasure of the wine with you, Mr. Murphy," said a gentleman at the table. "With pleasure, sir," said Michael, but just at that moment a voice was heard to issue from the corner of the room—it was that of the ventriloquist, who sat by his side—uttering his admonition. Thus the thing went on for a week, till Michael was then and forever made a tee totaler. He now industriously minds his business, enjoys good health, and pros pers. In relation to the circumstances under which be became a teetotaler he says he never had the pleasure of seeing his best friend. Couldn't Drink Wine. That was a noble youth who, on being urged to take wine at the table of a famous statesman in Washington, had the moral courage to refuse. He was a poor young man, just beginning the struggle of life. He brought letters to the great statesman, who kindly inyited him home to dinner. "Not take a:glass of wine ?" echoed the statesman's beautiful and fascinating wife, as she arose, glass in hand, and with a grace that would have charmed as anchor ite, endeavored to press it upon him. "No," said the heroic youth. l What a picture of moral graeA - r ! A poor, friendless youth refusin • e even though proffered by the fair its of a beautiful lady. "No," said the noble young man, and his voice trembled and his cheek flushed, "I never drink wine, bat (here he straight ened himself up and his words grew firm or) if you've got a little good old rye whis ky, I don't mind trying a snifter 1"
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