VOL. 48.
The Huntingdon Journal.
J. R. DURBORROW,
Office on the Corner of F(ftla and Washington street..
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Professional Cards.
A
P. W. JOHNSTON, Surveyor and
Civil Engineer, Huntingdon. Pa.
OFricg : No. 113 Third Street. Aug 21,1572.
BF. GEHRETT, M. D., ECLEC
• TIC PHYCICIAN AND SURGEON, hav
;Lig returned from Clearfield comity and perma
nently located in Shirleysburg, offers his profes
sional services to the people of that place and sur
rounding country. apr.3-1872.
DR. H. W. BUCHANAN.
DENTIST
:Co. 22A Hill Street,
HITNTO:GDON. PA
July 3. '72,
DR. F. O. ALLEMAN can be eon-
A— , milted at his office, at all hours, Mapleton,
Pa. [march6,72.
CALDWELL, Attorney -at -Law,
•No. 111. :k1 street. Office formerly occupied
ty Messrs. Woods k Williamson. Lapl2,"il.
DR. A. B. BRUMBAUGH, offers his
professional services to the community.
Office, No. 523 Wrshington street, one door east
of the Catholic Parsonage. Dan.4,'2l.
EJ. GREENE, Dentist. Office re
• moved to Leistor's new building, 'Mistreat
tingdon.
el L. ROBB, Dentist, office in S. T.
• Brown's now building, No. 520, /fill St.,
Huntingdon, Pa.
HGLAZIER, Notary Public, corner
• of Washington and smith streets, Hun
tingdon, Pa.. [jan.l2'7l.
HC. MADDEN, Attorney-at-Law
• Office, No. —, Hill street, Huntingdon,
Po.
T FRANKLIN SCHOCK, Attorney
., • at-Law, Huntingdon, Pa. Prompt attention
given to all legal business. Office 229 Hill street,
corner of Court House Square. [de0.4,72
SYLVANUS BLAIR, Attorney-at-
C. , • Law, Ifuntinstion, Pa. Moe, Mill street,
hree doors ;met of Smith.
T CHALMERS JACKSON, Atter
e-P • ney at Law. Office with Wm. Dorris, Esq.,
No. 403, Hill street, Huntingdon. Pa.
All legal business promptly attended to. [janls
T R. DURRORROW, Attorney-at
rfi • Low, Huntingdon, Pa., will practice in the
several Courts of Huntingdon county. Particular
attention given to the settlement of estates of deco-
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Office in he JornsAL Building. [feb.l,7l
W. MATTERN, Attorney-at-Law
J • , i nd General Claim Agent, Huntingdon, Pa.,
Soldiers' claims against the Government for back
pay, bounty, widows' and invalid pensions attend
ed to with great care and promptness.
Office on Hill street. [jan.4,'7l.
S. GEISSINGER, Attorney-at-
L• Law, Huntingdon. Pa. Office with Brown
Bailey. (Feb.s- ly
.1. HALL WA SS.
K. ALLEN Lorcu..
LOVELL & MUSSER,
A ttornev-at-Law,
nUNTINOPON, Pa.
Special attention given to COLLECTIONS of a il
kinds; to the settlement of ESTATES, ice ; and
nll other legal business prosecuted with fidelity and
dispatch. Ln0v6,72
K. aeaoe PETILUL, I 3L. s sr. I s 111. seszu.
ETREK IN, MASSEY & M'NEIL,
Attorney's-at-Law, Huntingdon, Pa. Office.
Idee:l7-3mos,
Ng. 300, Hill street.
11() M..c:, M. S. LYTLE, Attorneys
-1- • at-Law, Huntingdon, Pa., will attend to
all kinds of legal business entrusted to their ease.
listen on the south side of Hill street. fourth door
west of Smith. [jan.4,'7l.
IR A. ORBISON, Attorney-at-Law,
• Office. 32l Hill street. Httotindon. P•.
fuoiy3l.ll.
iv!. SCOTT. N. T. DROWN. J. X. BAILEY
:,;;;ICOTT, BROWN & BAILEY, At
torneys-at-Law. Huntingdon, Pa. Pensions.
And all claims of soldiers and soldiers' heirs against
he Government will be promptly prosecuted.
(Mee on Hill street. Dan.4;7l.
'WILLIAM A. FLEMING, Attorney
at-Law, linutingdon, Pa. Spacial attention
given to collections, and all other Irgal business
attended to with care and promptness. Office, No.
229, fill street. [aplo;7l.
Hotels.
VXCHANGE HOTEL, Huntingdon,
Ali P. JOHN S. MILLER, Proprietor.
.1 %misty 4, MM.
,NT ORRISON HOUSE,
OPPOSITE PENNSYLVANIA R. R. DEPOT
HUNTINGDON, PA
S. IL CLOVER, Prop,
April 5, IS7I-Iy.
WASHINGTON HOTEL,
S. S. BOWDON, Prop*r.
Corner °Mitt & Juliana Ste., Bedford, Pe. may].
Miscellaneous.
ffROBLEY, Merchant Tailor, near
•Broad Top Corner, (sooond Boor,) Hunting
dwi. Pa.. respectfully iolicits a share of public
patronage from town and country. [118,72.
Illps A. BECK, Fashionable Barber
114 , and Hairdresser. Hill street, opposite the
Franklin !douse. All kinds of Tonics and Pomades
4mpt on Itandand far aale. [ap Itt,'7l-6m
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LI, BALED GERRETT,
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The H •
untmg oon Journal.
Election Proclamation,
G OD SAVE THE COMMONWEALTH.
J. A. NASH,
SHERIFFF'S PROCLAMATION.
I. Amon HOUCK, High Sheriff of Htuitingden
Cennty, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, do here
by make known and give notice to the electors of
the county aforesaid. that an election will be held
in the said county of Huntingdon, on
FRIDAY. ',larch 21, 1873,
in accordance with the following act of Assembly :
AN ACT to permit the voters of this eommentrealth
1,, rote every three year* on the aseetion of grant
.•. . :
jug licensee to sell intoxicating !ignore.
SeerioN 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is
hereby enacted by the authority of the Caine, That
on the third Friday in March. one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-three. in every city and coun
ty in this commonwealth, and at the annual muni
cipal elections every third year thereafter, in every
such city and county, it shall be the duty of the
inspectors and judges of elections in the cities and
counties, to receive tickets. either written or print
ed. from the legal voters of said cities and counties
labelled on the outside, -license," and on the in
side, '•for licence," or, '•against license" and to
deposit said tickets in a box provided for that
purpose by said inspectors and judges, as is re
quired
by law in the ease of other tickets received,
at said election nod the tickets so received
shall be counted, and a return of the same made to
the clerk of the court of quarter sessions of th e
peace of the proper county, duly certified as it is
required by law; which certificate shall be laid
before the judges of the said court at the first
meeting of said court after said election shall ho
held, and shall be filed with the other records of
said court; and it shall be the duty of the mayors
of cities, and sheriffs of counties. or of any other
officer, whose duty it may he to perform such
service, to give due public notice of such special
election above provided fee. three weeks previous
to the time of holding the same. and also three
weeks before such election every third year there
after: Prodded, That this act shall riot be con
strued to repeal or effect any special law prohibit
ing the sale of intoxicating liquors, or prohibiting
the granting of licenses: Prodded, That when the
municipal and township elections in any county
dr city do not occur eu the third Friday in March,
the election provided for in this section shall be
held on the clay fixed for the municipal elections
in said county: And provided further, That all
licenses granted after the first day of January,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-throe,
shall cease, determine and becotne void on the first
day of April, one thousend eight hundred and
seventy-three, if the district for which they shall
be granted determines against the granting of li
cense; and the treasurer of the proper county
shall then refund to the holder of such license the
moneys so paid therefor, for which the said treas
urers shall be entitled to credit in his accounts
with the commonwealth.
Seems 2. That in receiving and counting, and
in making returns of the votes cast. the inspect
ors and judges, and clerks of said election,shail ho
governed by the laws of this commonwealth regu
lating general elections: and all the penalties of
said election laws are hereby extended to and shall
apply to the voters, inspectors, judges and clerks,
voting at and in attendance upon the elections
held under the provisions of this act.
SECTION 3. Wlienever by the returns ofelections
in any city or county aforesaid, it shall appear
that there is a majority against license, it shall not
be lawful for any court or board of license commis
sioners to issue any licence for the sale of spiritu
ous, vinous. malt or other intoxicating liquors, nr
any admixture thereof, in said city or county, et
any time thereafter, until an election as above pro
vided, a majority shall veto in favor of license:
Provided, That nothing contained in the previs
ions of this act shall prevent the issuing ofliccoses
to druggists for the sale of liquors for medical and
manufacturing purpeees.
I also hereby make known and give notice that
the place of holding the aforesaid election in the
several boroughs, districts and townships within
the county of Huntingdon are an follows, to wit
let district, composed oftbe township of Hender
son, at the Union School House.
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[ap12,71,
2d district, composed of Dublin township, at
Pleasant Hill School House, Joseph Nelson's in
said township.
3d district, composed of so much of Worriers
mark township, no is not included in the 19th dis
trict, at the 80001 House, adjoining the town of
Warriorstnark.
•lth district, composed of the township of Hope
well, at the Home of Lori Moja, in said town
ship.
sth district, composed of tho township of Barree,
at the House of James Livingston. in the town of
Saulsburg. in said township.
tith district, composed of the intrough of Shirley,
burg and all that part of the township of Shirley
net included within the limits of district No. 24,
as hereinafter mentioned and described. at the
house of David Fraker„ dee'd., in Shirleysburg.
7th district, composed of Porter and part of
Walker tp. and so much of West township as is in
cluded in following boundaries, to wit: Beginning
at the southwest corner of Tobias Kaaffman's farm
on the bank of the Little Juniata River, to the
lower end of Jackson's Narrows, thence in a north
westerly direction to the most southerly part of the
farm owned by Michael Maguire, thence north
forty degrees west to the top of Tussey's Mountain
to intersect the line of Franklin township,, thence
along the said line to Little Juniata River, thence
down the same to place of beginning, at the Pub
lic School House opposite the German
_Reformed
Church, in the borough of Alexandria.
Bth district, composed of the township of Frank
lin, at the house of George W. Mattorn. in said
township.
9th district. composed of Tell township at the
Union School House, near the Union Meeting
House, in said township.
10th district, composed et Springfield township,
at the school house, near Hugh Madden's in said
township.
11th district, composed of Union township, at
Grant School house, in the borough of Mapleton,
in mid township.
12th district, composed of Brady township, at
the Centre School house, in said township.
13th district, composed of Morris tewnthip, at
public school house, No. 2, in said township.
14th district, composed of that part of West town
ship not included in 7th and 26th districts, at the
public school house on the farm now owned by
Miles Lewis, [formerly owned by James Ennis,] in
said township.
15th district, composed of Walker township, at
the houseof Benjamin Megahy, in M'Connellstoven.
16th district, composed of tho township of Tod,
at Green school house, in said township.
I7th district, composed Oneida township, at the
house of William Long, Warm Springs.
Otth district, composed of Cromwell township,
at the Rook Hill &shoot house, in said township.
fjan.4ll
19th district. oomposed the borough of Bimini
ham, with tho several tracts of land near to and
attached so the same, bow owned and occupied by
Thomas M. Owens, inc. K. MTakeis. Andrew
Robeson, John Gensimer, and Wm. Gensimer. and
the tract of land now owned by George and John
Shoenherger. known ne the Porter tract, situate in
township of Warriorsmark. at the public school
house in said borough.
. . .
20th district, composed of the township of Cass,
at the public school house in Camille, in said
township.
21st district, composed of the township of Jack
son, at the public house of Edward l.ittlos, at M'
Alavy's Fort, in said township.
. .
22d district, (impend of thly township of Clay,
at the public school house, in Seottvillc.
2nd district, ...unposed Of the township of Penn,
at the public school house in Marklesburg, in said
township.
24th distriotf composed and created so follows,
to wit:—That all that part of Shirley township,
Huntingdon county, lying and being within the
following described boundaries, (except the bor
ough of Mt. Union,) namely; Beginning at the
intersection of Union and Shirley township line
with the Juniata river, on the south side thereof;
thence said Union township line for the distance
of 2 miles from said river; thence eastwardly, by a
straight line, to the paint whore the main from
Eby's mill to Germany valley, crosses the summit
of Sandy Ridge to the Juniata:river and thence up
said river to the plseo of beginning, shall here
after form a separate election district; that the
qualified voters of said election district shall here
after hold their general and township elections in
the public school house in Mt. Union, in said town
ship.. - - .
tssth district, composed of all that part of the
borough of Huntingdon, lying east of Fifth street,
and:aleo all those parts of Walker and Porter town
ships, heretofore voting in the borough of Hunt
ingdon, at the east window of the Court House, in
said borough.
.
25th dierriet computed of all that part of the
borough of Huntingdon, lying weel of Fifth street,
at the west window of the Court House.
27th district, composed of the borough of Peters
burg and that part of West township, weetund
north of a line between Henderson and West town
ships, at and near the Warns Springs, to the
Franklin township lino on the top of• Tussey's
Mountain, so as to include in the new district the
houses of David Waldsmith, Jacob Longnecker,
Thomas Hamer, James Porter, and John wall, at
the school house in the borough of Petersburg.
28th district, composed of the township of Juniata,
at the house of John Peightal, °Tithe land of Henry
leen berg.
29th district. composed of Carbon township. re
cently erected out of a part of the territory of Ted
township, to wit. oommenceing at a chestnut oak,
en the summit of Terrace Mountain, at the Ilepe
well township line opposite the dividing ridge, in
the Little Valley; thence south 52 deg. east 380
perches. to a stone heap on the Western Summit of
Broad Top Mountain ; thence north 67 deg., east
::12 perches to a yellow pine: thence south 52 deg.
Election Proclamation
east 772 perches to a chestnut oak; thence south
14 deg.. east 351 perches to a chestnut at the east
end of Henry S. Green's land; thence south 31i
deg., east 294 perches to a chestnut oak, on the
summit of a spur of Broad Top, on the western aide
of Terrors farm; south 65 deg., east 934 perches to
a stone heap on the Clay township line, at the
public school house in the village of Dudley.
30th district, composed of the borough of Coal
:pont, at the public school house, in said borough.
31st district, composed of Lincoln tp, beginning
at a pine on the summitof Tussey mountain on the
line between Blair and Huntingdon counties,
thence by the division line south 5S deg., east 793
perches to a black oak in middle of township;
thence 421 deg., east 802 perches to a pine on sum
mit of Terrace; thence by the line of Tod township
to corner of Penn tp, thence by the lines of the
township of Penn to the summit of Tummy moun
tain; thence along said summit with line of Blair
county, to place of beginning, at Coffee Run
School House.
32d district, composed of the borough of Maple
ton.atthe Grant School Rouse, in said borough.
33d district, composed of the borough of Mount
Union at the school house in said borough.
34th district, composed of the borough of Broad
Top City at the public school house, in said bor
ough.
35th district, composed of the borough of Three
Springs, at the public school house, in said bor
ough.
:S .- 6th district..composed of Shade tiap borough,
at the public school house, in said borough.
Uth . district, composed of the borough of Or
bisonia, at the public school house, in Orbisonia.
By the Act of Assembly of 1.669, known as the
Registry Law, it is provided us follows;
1. "Election officers are to open the polls be
tween the hours of sin and seven, a, tn., on the
day of election. Before 6 selects in the morning of
second Tuesday of October they are to receive
from the County Commissioners tho Registered
List of Voters and all necessory election blanks,
and they aro to permit no man to vote whose nume
is not on said list, unless he shall make proof of
his right to vote, as follows
2. The person whose name is not on the list, claiming
the right to vote most produce Is qualified voter of the dis
trict to swear in a written or printed afilehtvit to the resi
dence of the claimant to the district for at leant tea days
nest preceding said election, defining clearly where the
residence of the
. person was.
S. The party claiming the right to vote shall also make
an aflidav it, stating to the best of • his knowledge and be
lief where and when he was born, that he is a elites of
Pennsylvania and of the United :fates, that be has resided
in the State one year, or, if formely a citizen therein and
removed therefrom, that be has resided therein six mouths
sent preeding said election, that ho her not moved into
the district for the purpose of voting therein, that he has
paid a State or county tax within two years, which wee
assessed at least ten days before the election, and the affi
davit shell state when and where the tax was assessed and
paid, and the tax receipt must be produced unless the afl
oat shall state that it has been lost or destroyed, or that he
received none.
4. If the applicant boa naturalized citizen, he must, in
addition to theforegoing proofs, state in his affidavit when
where, and by what crourt he was naturalized and produce
his certificate o f naturalization.
ii. Every person, claiming to be a naturalized citizens
whether un the registry list, or producing affidavits Re
aforesaid, shall be required to produce Ida natgralisation
certifieste at the election before voting, except' where he
has been for ten yeah+ consecutively a voter in the district
whs.. he offer.° not., and on the vote of such persons be
ing received, the election officers are to write or stamp the
wont "Toted" on his certificate with the month and year,
and no other vote can be cast that day in • irtue of said
Certificate except where sons are entitled to Tote upon the
netnral.ation of their father.
ti. If the person claiming to vote who is not registered,
shall make an affidavit that he is a native born citizen of
the United State., or if born elsewhere, shell produce evi
dence of his naturalization, or that be is entitled to citi
zenship by reason of hit father's naturalization, and furth
er, that be is between 21 and 22 years of age, and has re
sided in the State one year, and in the election district 10
days next preceding the election, he shall be entitled to
vote though he shall not have paid taxes."
la accordance with the provision of the Bth section of an
Act tattled "A further supplement to the Election Laws
of this Commonwealth." I publish the following
IV Hatless, Ily the Act of the Congress of the United
States, entitled "An Act to amend the several acts hereto
fore passed to provide for the enrolling and calling out the
national forces, and for other purposes," and approved
klarch 3d, 111b6, all persons who have deserted the mlitary
or naval services of the United States, and who have net
been discharged or relieved from the penalty or disablill
ty therein provided, are deemed and taken to have volun
tarily relinquished and torleitedlheir rights ofcitizenship
and their rights to become citizens, and are deprived otex
ercising any rights of citizens thereof;
And whereas. Persons nos citizens of the United States
are not, under the Constitution and laws of Pennsylvania,
qualified electois of this Commonwealth.
Bita.l. Be it enacted, dt, That in all elections hereafter
to be held is this Commonwealth, it shall be unlawin I for
the judge or inspectonrofany such °tactical to reeelre any
lallot er ballots from any person or persons embraced In
the provisions and subject to the disability imposed by
said act of Congress, approved March id, 1805, and It shall
be unlawful for any such person to offer to Tole any ballot
or ballots.
Sac. 2. That if any such judge or inspectors of election,
or any one of them chill receive or consent to receive any
snob unlawful ballot or ballots from any much disqualified
person, he or they so offending shall be guilty of a misde
meanor, and on conviction thereof in any court of quarter
session of this Commonwealth be shall for each offense,
he sentenced to pay a nne not less than one hundred dol
lars, and to undergo an imprisonment in the jail of the
proper county for not less than sixty days.
toe. 3. That if any pereon deprived of citir.euship, and
disqualified as aforesaid , shall at any election hereafter be
held in this Commonwealth, vote, or tender to the officers,
thereof, and offer to vote a ballot or ballots, any person so
encoding shall be deemed guilty of a misdemenanorand on
conviction thereof in any court of quarter session of this
Commonwealth, shall fur each offense be punished in lice
manner as is provided In the proceeding section of this act
In case of officers of election receiving any such unlawful ,
ballot or ballot,.
Esc. 4. That if any person shall hereafmr persuado orad
vise any person or porsons, deprived of citizenship or dis
qualified as aforesaid, Illotfer any ballot or ballots to the
officers of any election hereafter, to be held in this Corn
monwealth, or shall persuade or advise, any euch officer to
receive any ballot or ballots, from .y person deprived of
citizenship, and disqualified as aforesaid, such person. to
offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and noon con
viction thereof in any court of quarter semitone of thin
Commonwealth, shall be punished in like manner as pro
vided in the second section of that act iu the cow of officers
of such election receiving such unlawful ballot or ballots.
EXECUTIVE CHAMBER,
ILtarusatrao, Ps., August 27,1E70.
To the (booty tbronsirsioners and Sheriff OffitC CQUIIi,Y of
ifuntingthm :
IV ozasts, the Fifteenth Amendment of the Constitution
of the United States I. as follow. :
"Sic. 1. The right otCiir;en; Of the United States tovote
shall not be denied or abridged by the United States, or by
any State, on account of race, color, or previous condition
of servitude:' _
Sim 2. The Congress slusll have power to enforce this
article by appropriate legislation. „
And whereas, the Congress of the United States, on the
31st day of March, 1870, passed an act, entiled Act to
enforce the rights of citizens of the United States Locate in
the several States of this Union, and for other purposes,”
the first and second sections of which are as follows:
. .
, •SCO.I. Be it enacted by the Sena;;;;I:liet;;;;and Rept
reserdotire so/ the United States of America in °Agee.
assembled, That all citizens of the United States ' who are,
or shalt be otherwise qualified by law to vote at say elec
tion by the people, in any State, Territory, district, coun
ty, city, parish, township, school district, municipality or
other territorial sub-division, shall be entitled and allowed
to vote at all such election., without distinction to nice,
color, custom, or previous condition of servitude; any
Conetitution law, usage or regulation of any Territory,
or by or under its authority, to the contrary notwith
standing.'
*Sec. 1. And be it furtherenacted, That if, by, or ender
the anthority of the Coustitotion or laws of any State, or
the lows of any Territory, any act is or shall be required to
be done es a prerequisite or qualification for voting, and
by each eoustution or law, persons or officers are or shall
be charged with the performance of ditties in furnishing to
citizens en opportunity to perform such prerequisite, or to
become qualified to vote, it shall be thectiny of every such
person and officer to give to all citizens of the United States
the none and equal opportunity to porfonu such prerequi
site, and become qualified to vote without distinction of
race, colorer previous condition of servitude; and if any
finch person.or officers Ault refuse or knowingly omit to
give full effect to this section, he shall, for every such of
fence, forfeit and pay the MA of five hundred dollars to
the person aggrieved thereby to be recovered by au action
on the cave, with full costs and/such allowance for counsel
fees as the court shall deem just, and shall also, for every
such offence, be deemed *laity of a misdemeanor,andshall
on conviction thereof, be fined not lei] than fire hundred
dollars, or be imprisoned not bee than one month and not
more than one year, or both, at the discretion of the court.
And whereas, It le declared by the second section of the
Vlth article of the Constitution of the United States, that
"This Constitution, and the lame( the United States which
shall be made in pursuance thereof, shall be the supreme
law of the land • • • • anything in the
amstillsiion or later (trusty Stole to the confrere not
with:tending?"
And whereas, The Legislature of this Commonwealth, on
the oth day of April, a. d. 1870, passed an act entitled, "A
further supplement to the Act relating to elections in this
Commonwealth," the tenth section of which provides as
follow.
; f9t.9. 10. That so much of every act of Assembly an pro
video that only white freemen shall be entitled to Tote or
to registered as Totem, or as claiming to vote at any gen
eral or special election of this Commonwealth, be and the
sumo is hereby repealed ;and that hersatter all freemen,
without distinction of color, 'ball Do enrolled and register
ed acc o rding to the provision of the first section of the let
approved 17th April, 1669, entitled "An Act further nub
plemennil to the act relating to the elections of this Com
monwealth," and when otberwim qualified under existing
laws, be entitled to cote atoll general and special elections
in this CommorTfralth."
And increas.lt le my constitutional andndlclal duty to
"take care that the lawn be faithfully executed ;" and It
has come to my knowledge that sundry assessors and
register. of votes have refused. and are refusiug to assess
and register diver. colored malachite''s oflawful age,sud
otherwise qualified as electors.
-•- " "
Now THiezroar, In onsideratieu of the premises, the
eountv commissioners (deed county are hereby mo'llied
and directed to intrnst the saveral assessora and registers
of rotes therein, to obey and conform to the requirements
of Bald constitutional amendment and laws; end the 'sher
iff of sald eounty is hereby authorised and required to
publish in his election proclamation for the next ensuing
elections, the herein recited constitutional amendment,
act of Congress, and act of the Legislature, to the end that
the some may be known, executed and obeyed by all as
sessors registers of voters, election officers andothers ; and
that the rights and privileges guaranteed thereby may bo
secured to all the citizene of this Commonwealth entitled
to the came
Given under my band and the great seal of the State at
Harrisburg, the day and year first above written.
[cast. JOHN W. GEARY.
Attest:
Y. JORDAN, Secretary of the Commonwealth.
At Huntingdon the Sith day of February, a. d. 1873, awl
of the independence of the lJnitod States, the ninety
seventh
AMON HOUCK, Branum ,
Huntingdon, irebruary, 24, len.
A. HOFFMAN,
• Manufacturer of all kinds of CHAIRS,
and dealer in PARLOR and KITCHEN FURNI
TURE, corner of Fifth and Washington streets,
Huntingdon, Pa. All articles will be sold cheap.
Partionlar and prompt attention given to repair
ing. A share of pnblio patronage is respectfully
solicited. rjan.ls.l3y
HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY,
.MARCH 5, 1873
igke UOS' NOWT.
Hope of Spring
Hush ! the earth sleeps ! and Winter lain
Would cover her fair boson with a fleecy veil.
She is not dead—she only sleeps so still and
pale,
Until the kiss of Spring shall waken her age:n.
And like a babe without a cure
Slumbering upon a mother's fond and gentle
breast.
The flower-children, rocked to sleep in peace-
ful rest _
In her embrace, lie sweetly, calmly sheltered
there.
They dream of soft and balmy airs,
Of golden sunshine and the diamondslittering
dew;
And see the thousand odorous perfumes woo
The fields and rainbow-colored meadows ana
1, res.
They lie in wait. to hear the song
Cf birds, and what the rippling wares say to
the stream ;
They prattle with the butterflies, and ever seem
To hear the bees hum softly all the hours long.
Then stretching their frail necks on high
To see the gorgeous splendor from afar and
near,
Lo Spring with lover's kiss is really here,
Whispering to Winter her lingering "good-bye.
And thus we lie in God's own hand
While here ; calm, confident without a doubt
or feu.
Until the morn or resurrection's Spring draws
near,
And w•e behold the glories of the heavenly
land.
ight tory-eizoller.
Two Ways of BEIDE Troilble.
ll.' was a cold, dismal evening is Novem
ber that two laborers might have been seen
wending their way along the streets of a
large manufacturing town.
Slowly they proceeded, with dejected
countenances, not exchanging a word un
til the one whom we shall call Smith, halt
ed before a neat little house and unlatch
ed the gate. Then there was such a look
of utter misery and despair gleaming from
his eyes that his companion murmured,
"We must trust in God. Smith."
The words were unheeded, and his com
panion passed on, while Smith entered the
house.
A tall, dark-eyed woman was flitting
about getting supper. She gazed up as
he entered. exclaiming : "You are late to
night !"
"Yes," he articulated gloomily, and go
ing to the cradle he took up the six weeks
old baby, and sorrowfully pressed it to his
heart.
"I do wish you would put that child
down and get ready for supper," exclaimed
his with, atter enduring his gloominces for
some time.
He slowly obeyed, and then seated him
self at the table, with a deep sigh.
"What in the world is the matter with
you to-night?" she asked, as she sat down
opposite him.
- Elia voice trembled as he replied, ••I
suppose you might as well know first as
last. I have been discharged."
"There !" exclaimed his wile, quickly,
pushing back her chair. "Just what I
mizitt have expected! I'd like to know
what we are going to do now. Winter
coming on and all. I declare, Smith, you
will torture me to death :"
"I'm very sorry, Lydia, bat I cannot
help it."
'Sorry: No you arc not sorry at all.
You'd just as leave see your with and
children starve as not. It's nothing in
the world but your poor managing."
"Lydia, you are cruci. Instead of help
ing me to endure my great trouble, which
is bearing me down to the very earth, you
make it ten times harder for me to bear.
I was not the only one discharged. There
was Jim Hawley, and ever so many others.
Business is dull." "Business is dull l"
she mimicked after him. "Always an ex
cuse for a worthless man. To think that
you should be discharged now, just as our
rent is due; and then we are out of food ;
and look at my shoes, won't you ? my feet
almost on the ground. I wish I had never
married you," and a dark look accompan
ied the last words. The poor husband now
covered his face with his hands and groan
ed aloud. This Seemed to encourage his
wife to go on, for she uttered words more
and snore bitter, until at last, almost in a
state of frenzy, the wretched man rushed
from the house to the tavern and there
sought to bury his thoughts of the past
and future in the rum-cup.
In the meantime. James Hawley, his
companion in labor, entered his hotnevdth
a very sad countenance. But before he
had stepped over the threshhold, a loving
pair of arms were thrown around his peck,
and a pair of street lips were pressed to
his. He returned the salutation and then
inquired for the baby.
"She is sleeping sweetly in the cradle.
She has been a perfect little darling all
day. Supper is waiting; so make haste.
Here is warm water and towel. Are you
not later than usual to-night ?"
"Yes. Mary, and I bring bad news to
you." _
'Bad news!" she exclaimed, turning
pale as,
fur the first time, she noticed that
something was wrong.
'Yes ;1 was discharged to-night, and I
do not know that I can get anything to do
before spring. Business is dull "
. _ _
—ls that all?" asked his wife with u sigh
of relief "I thought it was something
terrible, the way you looked."
"And is it not terrible enough ? What
will become of us this winter, if I am out
of employment ?"
"The same God who feeds the sparrows
and clothes the lillies in the field, will not
let us suffer, dear James." •
"God bless you, Mary : There is sweet
comfort in your words."
"And now let us have supper," exclaim
ed his wife cheerfully. "See, I have your
favorite dish—shortcake and toast. Do
not let your trembles impair your appetite,
and' then, after tea, we will talk it all over.
God doeth everything for the best. And
as nur day so shall our strength be."
In the evening it was determined that
the quarter's rent should be paid immedi
ately, a new supply of coal obtained, and
the remaining portion of the money placed
in the wife's hands to be dealt out as spa
ringly as possible.
Then Mary suggested that all her pret
ty parlor furniture should be put away in
the garret; and the front room let out.—
Further than this they could lay no plans,
and as the husband went out to pay the
rent the future looked so dark to the young
wife that she could not altogether restrain
her tears; but seeking strength from on
high, her face wore the same cheerful
smile when her husband returned, and lit
tle did he know that during all that long
night, while he and his baby were so
soundly sleeping, his wife lay awake plan•
ning out the future.
Three months have passed, with scarce
ly a day's work in all that time, and now
another quarter's rent is due. In vain
the laborer thrusts his hands into his emp
ty pockets, and in vain racks his brain for
some solution of the problem how that
rent is to be paid. The lodger had paid
his money monthly; but then that was not
enough to meet the suns, if he had it, and
of course his wife had spent that as fast as
she received it, and it was an every day
wonder to James bow Mary managed so
well.
With feelings of great despair he enter
ed the house. The table was spread with
the same favorite dish. There w•as the
shortcake and toast, flanked with a golden
lump of butter, a plate of honey, and a
deep dish of roasted apples to be served
with sugar and cream; while at his plate
sat the steaming tea-pot. As James took
it in all at one glance, he greatly wonder
ed at the frugal yet comfortable way of
living. How his wife had been able to
make the small amount of money last so
long was a nlystery to him, and yet he
could not help wishing inwardly that she
had been more economical; then, perhaps,
the rent might have been,paid and he felt
that it would be better to have subsisted
on one crust of bread rather than to be
turned out of doors homeless.
Re refused to bit at the table, pleading
that he had no appetite. And a great
large tear arose in the strong man's eyes as
he informed his wife that on the morrow
they would be turned from their home, to
go he knew not where, a s he had not a
dollar in his pockets to secure them 3 room
elsewhere.
"Is that it ?" exclaimed his wife in a
soft tone, and tripped up stairs, and soon
returned, and placed two ten dollar bills
in his hand.
"Where did you get them ?" he asked,
eagerly turning them over in his hands,
as though to ascertain whether they were
really genuine or not.
earned them," replied his wife gaily.
"I knit afghans. shawls, children's hoods,
sacques and socks; at first only for those
whom I providentially heard wished arti
cles of the kind ; afterwards I was employ
ed to furnish a trimming establishment
with my work."
Neil kept it a eeeret from me ?"
"Yes, because I thought you would be
worried for fear I was doing too much. I
love to knit dearly, and consider it.more
of a pleasant pastime than labor."
"God be praised for givit me such a
wife!" exclaimed her husband, earnestly;
and pressing his wife and ohild closely tD
his bosom, he said : "Her ch .iren arise
up and call her blessed ; her husoand also,
and he praiseth her; for many daughters
have done virtuously, but thou excellent
them all."
. *
Twenty years have passed, and James
Hawley is a rich man. But Jos. Smith is
a confirmed drunkard, while his wife has
long since passed from earth a victim of
misery and want.
Why will not wives assist their husbands
to bear their trials with helping hands and
hearts? If they would but do this, how
many families would be saved from ruin,
and how sweet would be their reward, not
only upon earth, but al., in Heaven.
for the Mon.
A True Picture.
Intemperance cuts down youth in its
vigor, manhood in its strength, and age in
its weakness. It breaks the father's heart,
bereaves the loving mother, extinguishes
the natural affection, erases conjugal love,
blots out filial attachment, blights paren
tal hope, and brings mournful age in sor
row to the grave. It produces weakness,
not strength; sickness, not health; death,
not life. It makes wives widows, children
orphans, fathers fiends, and makes them
all paupers and beggars. It feeds epi
demics, imports pestilence, and embraces
consumption. It covers the land with idle
new, poverty, disease and crime. It fills
your jail, supplies your alms-house and
demands more asylums. It engenders
controversies. fosters quarrels, end cher
ishes riots. It crowds your penitentiaries,
and furnishes the victims for your scaf
folds. It is the life blood of the gam
bler, ailment of the counterfeiter, the
prop of the hangman, and the support of
the midnight incendiary. it counten
ances the liar, respects the thief. and es
teems the blasphemer. It violates obli
gations, reverences fraud, honors infamy.
It defames benevolence, hates love, scorns
virtue, and slanders innocence. Incites
the mother to butcher her helpless off
spring, helps the father to massacre his
wife. and aids the child to grind the pa
tricidal axe. It burns up man and de
stroys woman, &feats life, curses God, and
dispises heaven. It brings shame, not
honor; terror, not safety; despair, not
hope; misery, not happiness. With the
malevolence of a fiend it calmly surveys
its desolation. and insatiatcd with havoc,
poisions felicity, kills peace. ruins morals,
blights confidence, and slays regulation;
then curses the world and laughs at its
ruin. It murders the soul. It is the sum
of all villainies and curses; the devil's
best friend. Vote against license.
Sayings of Spurgeon,
Spurgeon sententiously expresses a num
ber of thoughts ''worthy remembering" in
the following appropriate sentences, which
he publishes as "advice gratis :"
Nobody is more like an honest man than
a thorough rogue.
When you see a man with a great deal
of religion displayed in his shop window,
you may depend upon it he keeps a very
small stock of it within. •
Do not choose your friend by his looks;
handsome shoes often pinch the feet.
Do not be fond of compliments ; remem
ber "thank you, pussy, and thank you,
pussy," kill the ea:.
Don't believe the mau who talks the
most, for mewing cats are very seldom
mousers.
By no means put yourself iu another
person's power; if you put your thumb
between two grinders they are very apt to
bite.
Drink nothing without seeing it; sign
nothing without reading it ; and make
sure that it means no more than it says.
Don't go to law unless you have nothing
to lose ; lawyer's houses are built on fool's
heat +.
Put no dependence on the label of a
bag, and count money after your own kind.
In any business, never wade into water
where you cannot see the bottom.
See the sack open before you buy what
is in it, for he who trades in the dark asks
to be cheated.
The Sience of Teaching, Ninies Eje
kashun.
WOLLER'S GROVE, Feb. 22, 1873.
Mister editur :—I had thott that i wood
ent truble yen by riting enny more peaces
for your paper, butt the artikle ritten by
Mrs. Justishy and published in the Jua-
RAL of the 11th instantus, kolls for sum
thing further on the subjekt ofthe "mutch
abused teecher." Now in the peaces that
i rote for the JURNEL before, i spoke my
mind perhaps more freeer than i had ott to
have dun, in saying that skools are a hole
sail swindle & that. teechers take bred out
of the mouths of poor starving children.
Butt if i did, wuz that a reason why mrs.
J. shood sett me down az ignerent and
cavillers and materielistick and 01l such.
And ahoy all she blainis me for cumming
to numejiate conkluzens. Now if there is
ennybuddy in the wide wurld thatt ott to
be less chargible than ennybuddy else for
summing to immejiate conkluzens, i think
that pursen ott to be N. Wocker, Esq.. is
nerams, caviller and materialist. Wiry
mr. ed., i have been 36 years in reaching
the conkluzien that mrs. J. charges me i
with arriving at immejately.
Justishy contra.dikts flatly the conkluzi
ens that i had reached, without offering a
singeF argement against them. She jest
sez it aint so ; and duzzent condocend to
so present a singel reezon of ichll it aim so.
Probebly we are to understand thatt it aint,
so becoz it izzent—a woomins reezen. Now
mr. editur, as i remarked before i had not
intended to say more on this subject butt
since it has been brott up agea i propose,
by yoor leeve, to• say several things about
it. I propose to bring fackts and figLers
(which figgcrs that' say never lye) to proore
that skools, as now kondukted, are little
sirs than a holesail swindle. I shall tell
things in as strateforwerd a manner az i
kno how ; and i woant tramp on enny body's
toze more then i ken help. If i doo kam
down on korns now & then i hoapthe oan
ers will attribute it to my iggnerence, as
mrs. Jewdishus did.
If i wuz a lawyeror a skoolteecher i mite
be expekted to preduse argements foiling
eech in lodgikal seequence—(i think ive
herd good preechers uzing that expreshnn ;
it may be rung, but ile put it in ennyway.
I like a fu big werds now and then ; ithink
it sounds better, and will make peeple
think N. W. izzent so desperitly iggnerent
after all.) Butt koncidering that i never
went to skule match, nor attended teechers
institutes, nor red the akool loz of Penna.,
nor swepped over the nasheens of the urth
to mold the karakter of gennerashens, nor
roze in silence to awake to bizzy life a sleep
inglontinen t—koneidering oil theze, i hoap
that the numeric reeders of the JIIIINAL
will look with lenyency upon the diskon
nekted manner in whitch i shall try to
keep together argements, specifecashuns
and eggzamplee, and in the end i heap they
will kompair it oil and come to a desizien,
just like a jury of' twelve sleepy folly citi
zens find a vurdikt after a half a duzzen
lawyers have torn up a kase until Solamen
himself koodent keep track of it.
Lett it be understood (if ennybuddy
kares to no) that i Mot oppozed to skools
and edikashun. I am in favor of skules
as iz skules, and i am in fever of the thor
row study of Reedin, Ritin and Rithmetio
and above oil Spellin. 0 if we bad skules
like we had when i went to skule,—when
there wuz no blackboordes and g'aized
maps to hurt the skollers ize, when the little
chaps rood lure there A B C's out of a
primmer without straining there ize out et'
there sokits to see letters on big kards like
show bills, when the master made pens
most of his spair time when he wuzzent
hearing lessees or korrektiog bad boyze,
when the big boyze otvnly rote and cyfered
and diddent stand up to reed nor spell,
when the master dun oil the hard sums
that war brott him and wazzent ashaimed
to look at his key in the prezence of the
skoller if he diddent no how to do the sum
hisself, (teachers nowidaze oil have keys
butt they keep them konseoled and look at
them in the eavnings or at recess or karrie
them in there pockits and go outside of
the hause to look up sums on speshel ok
kazians,) when the big boyze and gulls all
kept koppy books in whitch they rote '
down oil the summa in the Rithmetiu, (and
when wan got a sum oil the rest koppied
it oat of his book,) when the klasses oil
stood upp to reed and spell and say there
lessons, when we stopt wun at a komma
and six at a period and the fastest reeder
was kounted the best wun, and a reader
was trappt down if he Ornounsed a word
mug, when the gurles plaid pussy wools a
korner at dinner time and the bigg boyze
plade boll and evry boy karried a gum boll,
' when the master hadd to rite koppies an
hour nice and morning, when there wuz
no foolish studies like graminer and jogra
fy and history and kompezishen, and al
geber and nentle rithreetie, and jeotuetry
and filosofy and femilyer sience and hid
rogrefy and tomfnlery, when there wuz no
changing of books nor getting noo books
and evry skoller studied out of the book
that his mother sent along with him to
skule, when the children h d to lurn the
katekism out of the coo ingland primmer
with a picture and dieing of ebrist, a youth
and the devil in it, when the skollers oil
gut rewords and little books at the kloze
of skoul, when the master herded round
and did a ten hour daze work mid diddent
wont ee match sallery that it took a for
tuin to pay was a winter, when skollers
win satesfide to go to elm' in a log skool
house with slab sects and dident wont
brick houses with patient desks, when it
wuzzent the howling cry of "taxes" oil the
time and things mooved on profitable and
pleasant. (wonder whet grammer J. review
ed carefully ?) when there was no teechers
institutes to be attended and kounty super- ,
intendept to draw salleries & have sum
mer normal skules and holds teeohers ex
amenashens and give the best surtifekates
to the teechers that went to his normel
skool, and ride around over the kounty in
winter stopping half an hour at each
skool-0 them wuz times when it wuz a
plezzure to live.
Butt class how diferent they karry ou I
skools now. Itt is taxes oil the time ; I
taxes to pay teechers ; taxes to buy keel I
and kendling ; (they used to get wood. and
the bigg boyze chopt it upp after books
wuz kolldd ;) taxes to pay for sweeping
the skool house; (the bigg gurls uzed to
sweep the houzes dayly butt tbay are abuv
sutch things nowadaze ;) taxes to bild nu
brick skool houses ; taxes to bye a kart
lode of nu books evry year for evry skule ;
where, o where will oil theze taxez end ?
And then if the poore, wurried, persekut
ed text peeple dare to say a wurd about it
they are tolled to shet upp and seese the
heeling kry of taxez. mr. editor, if thares
envy wun thing you ken rest surtin that ile
do that wen thing iz that ile speak my mind.
Ile say whot i think about it if the hole
kommon skool sisteem shoed suffer in kon
sequence.
Nowadaze teeohers sit back in there ezy
chares six hours in the day and twenty
daze in the munth and heer lessens resited
and don't explane or tell the skollerz mutch
of ennything for they don't kno mntch to
tell. They putt in the full time five or six
munths of the year—(peeple uzed to be
satisfide with three and they lurned farr
more in that time then that' do now in six)
—and they draw their therty and forty
dollers a rnunth for hall wurk and they
aint satisfied with that. Things izzent now
as they wunce wuz.
I have much, a grate deel muteh more
to say, mr. editur on this subjekt—but i
kno yno doant like sutch long letters and i
will klose for this time. i may say in kon
kluzien that squire Woodbern has assisted
me in the getting upp of this artikle, and
more espeshelly in the spellin. b of the long
words. The squoir dames to be good on a
spell—butt him and me differd on the
spelling of sum of the wurds in which
kases we refcrd to Webbsters familybibble
& wun or the tither of us alwayze wuz rite
—that iz if we rood find the wurd in the
book ; butt offen we coodent. Doutless
there weer menny wurds that mr. w. fer
sett to putt in his book when he rote it.
NICODEMUS WOMER.
A Plea for Boys.
Educate your boys. Don't send them
to factories, or workshops, or stores, at an
immature age. We have frequently seen
boys of twelve or fourteen years of age
performing really hard labor, and propose
to say a few words on the heinousness of
the crime--for it is a crime—committed
by those who compel boys to toil aad
sweat at such an early age. We will re- ,
gard it from physiological and intellectual
standpoints, and endeavor to show that
parents, governments and society, by tol
erating this evil, are responsible for the
moral and physical death of thousands of
God's children. The movable framework
of the house in which we live, consists of
some two hundred and eight bones, curi-
I ously planned and put together.
Now, the frame work of a building of
of any kind is the most important
taut part of it, and it is essentially neces
sary that the frame work be sound and
good. In childhood, the bones are soft,
pliable and yielding, and very little pres
sure
will bend them permanently out of
shape, very often entailing upon the un- I
fortunate victims ugly, misshapen defor
mity, life-long misery, poor health and
not nnfrequently premature death. And,
again, putting a mere, or even a grown
child, to continued labor,
has a tendency
to fill up and harden the bones too rapidly,
thereby preventing a natural growth from
being attained, and leaving the world
cursed with men deformed and stunned in
•
stature.
Disease finds a congenial soil in these
deformed bodies, and they are generally
the parents of effeminate, unhealthy chil
dren, and thus the world is cursed with
this hideous evil. It seems scarcely ne
cessary to add, that this early toil has a
debasing effect upon the mind, which at
this age should be given freer scope to
contemplate the God of nature and his
works; young boys are generally quick
and intelligent, but if the expanding mind
is denied light and kept in the darkness of
drudgery, it bec•ames debased, animalize.d.
Give the boys a chance, then—give them
an education. Do net fail to impress upon
their minds that education does not cease
when, toil begins, but that our whole life
is passed in the schoolhouse of the world.
Boys are the future pillars of great na
tion, and it depends upon their parents
whether these pillars shall be strong and
substantial, and upholds the destinies of a
mighty people, or whether they shall be
weak and puny props to a tottering repub
lic. Boys should not be placed to hard
work before they are at least sixteen
years of age. Give the frame-work of the
body time to develope fully. Give the
mind time to form and fashion itself after
models of purity, goodness, honesty and
integrity. And then if in after years they
are not competent to fill high stations in
life, the fault is their own.
The Airless Moon
Among the illusions swept away by
modern seience was the pleasant fancy that
the moon was a habitable globe, like the
earth, its surface diversified with seas,
lakes, continents, and islands, and varied
forms of vegetation. Theologians and
savants gravely discussed the probabilities
of its being inhabited by a race of senti
ent beings, with forms and faculties like
our own, and even propounded schemes for
opening communication with them, in
case thy existed. One of tale was to
construct on the broad highlands of Asia
a series of geometrical figures on a scale
so gigantic as to be visible from our plan
etary neighbor, on the supposition that the
moon people would recognize the object,
and immediately construct similar figures
in reply ! Extravagant and absurd as it
way appear in the light of modern knowl
edge, the establishment of this Terrestrial
and Lunar Signal Service Bureau was
treated as a feasible scheme, although prac
tical difficulties, which so ften keep men
from making fools of themselves, stood in
the way of actual experiment; ut the dis
cussion was kept up at intervals, until it
was discovered that if there were people
in the moon they must be able to live
without breathing, or eating, or drinking.
Then it ceased.
There can be no life without air. Beau
tiful to the eye of the distant observer,
the moon is a sepulchral orb--a world of
death and silence. No vegetation clothes
its vast plains of stony desolation, travers
ed by monstrous crevasses, broken by enor
mous peaks that rise like gantic tombstones
into space; no lovely forms of cloud float
in the blackness of its sky. • There day
time is only night lightened by a rayless
sun. There is no rosy dawn iu the morn
ing, no twilight in the evening. The
nights are pitch dark. In daytime the
solar beams are lost against the jagged
ridges, the sharp points of the rocks, or
the steep sides of profound abysses; and
the eye sees only grotesque shapes relieved
against fantastic shadows black as ink,
with none of that pleasant graduation and
diffusion of light, none of the subtile
blending of light and shadow, which make
the charm of a terrestrial landscape. A
faint conception of the horrors of a lunar
day may be formed from an illustration
representing a landscape taken in the
moon in the centre of the mountainous re
gion of Aristarchus. There is no color,
nothing but dead white and black. The rocks
reflect passively the light of the sun ; the
craters and abysses remain wrapped in
shade; fantastic peaks rise like phantoms
in their glacial cemetery; the stars appear
like spots in the blackness of space. The
moon is a dead world ; she has no atmos
phere.—From "Earth and Air," by S. S.
Cnoant, in Harper's Magazine for .March.
WE want one line for this column.
NO. 10.
Our Past.
The more intently and devoutly we re
member the way along which we have
journeyed; the more we shall see how not,
only in great events, but even in the very
smallest, we were ever beneath the wise
and loving guidance of God. And we
should review the bygone years of our life
for this express purpose, that we may see
how, through all, the Lord has been kind
ly leading us, and that His way was ever
the right way. It will awaken our grati
tude and inspire our hope; and enable us
with deeper sincerity and with stronger
convictions to bear our testimony to those
who love us, that the beat and safest gui
dance is the guidance of God.
To very many a reiew of the past will
include at least some recollections of trou
ble. Thank God ! the vividness of these
recollections fade ! Yet who can forget any
great trouble that has befallen him Who
does not remember the day, the very hour,
when some great calamity smote him down ?
In what spirit should we recall our griefs ?
That we may weep our tears afresh, and
think how hardly God has dealt with WI? .
No; but rather that we may remember the
mercy which God showed us in our trou
bles, the promises that He fulfilled, the
strength with which He sustained us, the
loving sympathy of Jesus. We sho'd
think of the song He gave us in the night
rather than night itself. We should re
call the blessed results of the chastisement
rather than its severity; not that the smart
lancet with which the painful wound was
made, but rather the happy result of the
operation in our restoration to soundness
and health. If we cats thus think of
troubles which are past. their recollection
will be fraught with priceless blessing.
With grateful hearts the put we own
The future, to us all unknown,
We to Thy guardian care commit
And peaceful leave before Thy feet.
In scenes exalted or depressed,
Thou art our joy, and Thou our rest;
Thy goodness all our hopes shall raise,
Adored throughout our changing days.
Tit-Bits Taken on the Fly.
Lofty—The garret.
Men of color—Painters.
Stakeholders—Butchere.
Field exercise—Plowieg.
Soft words break no bones.
Brow beating—A prize figbt.
To gain time—Steal a watch.
A tight fit—Delirium tremens
Shocking—An electric battery.
True to the core—A goad apple.
Safety Matches—Love matches.
A worthless bond—A vagabond.
Ruled paper—The French press.
True to the last—The shoemaker.
Paper for the ronghs—Sandpaper.
Drawing paper—The dentist's bill.
To avoid corpulence—Quit eating.
A look of security—A riveted gaze.
A taking paper—Sheriff's warrant.
Women apothecaries are suggested.
Miss-government—Woman suffrage.
To keep from stuttering—Don't talk.
A man of standing —The auctioneer.
A fast friond—The electric telegraph.
Old Time's rocks—Rocky Mountains.
The best color for faces—Water color.
The last stitch—Making a sewed boot.
Too oft repeated—The same old story.
The morning hour has gold in its month.
If our passions rule us, they will ruin
To keep oat cf a fight—Stay by your
self.
The Rose that all are praising—He
roes.
A theatrical preseription-4Thange of
scene.
Last rose or summer—The last boatiug
match.
Daylight is fast taking the place of
gaslight.
A policeman's beat The habitual
drunkard.
A eellar under ground—A defunct
tradesman.
Moonlight is merely the beautiful old
ago of day.
Women is arms—Well, that's as it
ought to be.
Make men intelligent and they become
inventive.
(od who made the world so wisely, as
wisely governs it.
A truism—An expensive wife makes a
pensive husband.
The num who weeps for every one wi!l
soon go blind. a
The best words are those which have
the fewest syllables.
Towering expectations generally lead
to disappointments.
Entertain no thought which you would
blush to speak.
Many complain of neglect who never
tried to attract regard.
An ungrammatical judge is apt to pass
an incorrect ~entente.
Cannons were first used in the seige
of Algeztras, A. D., 1241.
Why is the earth like a Colt's pistol
Because it is a revolver.
There is a mode of presenting that
gives value to anything.
Cure for hard times—Work }Laid and
live within your means.
Amber is becoming a popular ornament
for evening parties.
Look not upon sin least it tempt thee ;
touch it not least it kills thee.
He that pryeth into a cloud may be
stricken with a ' thunderbolt.
Luxury increases the luggage of life,
and thereby impedes the march.
Poetry accommodates the show of things
to the desire of the mind.
Even if your enemy is small as a fly,
fancy him as large as an elephant.
He who rides only borrowed horses will
seldom mount into fhe saddle.
The young man who occaii6nallY en
livens our neighborhood witk the power
of song has talent enough for the position
of head patient in an insane asylum.