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I Wonder Why.
BY M. D. BRINE.
I wonder why this world's good things
Should fall in such unequal shares
Why some should taste of all the joys,
And others only feel the cares!
I wonder why the sunshine bright
Should fall in paths some people tread,
While others shiver in the shade
Of clouds that gather overhead !
I wonder why the trees that hang
So tell of luscious fruit should grow
Only where some may reach and eat,
While others faint and thirsty go!
Why should sweet flowers bloom for some,
For others only thorns be found?
And some grew rich on fruitful earth,
While others till but barren ground ?
I wonder why the hearts of some
O'erflow with joy and happiness.
While others go their lonely way
Unblessed with aught of tenderness !
I wonder why the eyes of some
Should no'er be moistened with a tear,
While others steep from morn till night.
Their hearts SO crushed with sorrow here
Ah ! well; we may not know indeed
The whys,
the wherefores of each life!
But this we know—there's One who sees
And watches us through joy or strife.
Each life its mission here fulfills, •
And only Ile may know the end,
And loving Him, we may be strong.
The' storm or sunshine Ile may send.
Higgins and the Widow
ONE Sunday night Higgins came into
my office and sat down without a word.—
For some minutes he sat still, watching
me intently as if he was trying to make
out by the sound of my pen what I was
writing.
"Squire," said he at length, "did I ever
tell you about my scrape with the widow
Horry up here on the river?"
"Never did," said I, laying down my
pen ; "let's hear it."
"They're curious creatures, widows is,"
said he in a meditative tone, "and the
more you study about 'em the more you
don't know anything about 'em. What
was this thing I've read about in Egypt,
or some other country, that nobody could
un riddle ?"
"The Sphynx, probably," I replied.
"Well," he continued, "that was a widow
as sure as you ever had a granny. Every
thing else on the earth has been found out
but them, and they're as much a mystery
to-day as the length of the North Pole."
"You may read the history of the world
from Genesis to Revelations, and you'll
find that widows has been at the bottom or
top of five quarters of the devilment that's
been cut up. Was you ever in love with
one 7"
"Lots of them," said
"You're a great gander—that's what
you are," said he. "A man that loves one
and gets over it won't never get bit by
another, if he's got as much sense as a
ground hog; but I'm a little grain too
smart to let another of them get all the
trumps on me.
"The widow Horry that I was speaking
of is a little the handsomest woman, Ireck
on, that ever looked a man into fits, and I
ought to be a judge, for I've seen lots of
pretty women in my day. She was about
twenty-five years old when I went up there
to work, just in the bloom of her beauty,
and as full of deviltry as a three-year old
mule colt. There was a ball over at Jenk
ins', and of course I went, for I always go
where there is any fun going on, and gen
erally act the fool before I get away, of
course.
"The widow was there, dressed as fine
as Solomon's lilies, and flying around as
frisky as a_young lamb in a rye patch. I
got introduced to her and asked her to
dance with me, and when she flashed her
eyes at me and said "Yes," I jumped up
like I bad set down on a hot griddle. You
may talk about sensations, but when she
took hold of my hand and sorter squeezed
it, I felt a sensation as big as a load of
wood, and it kept running up and down
my back like a squirrel with a hawk after
him. I'm very fond of dancing, but I'll
be hanged if I know whetiher I enjoyed it
that night or not, for every time she took
hold of my hand I'd commence feeling
curious behind my ears and up and down
my back again, and then I wouldn't know '
whether I was on earth or in a balloon, or
on a comet, or anything about it. It was
undoubtedly a case of love at first sight;
and a powerful bad ease at that. For a
wonder I got through the frolic without
making myself conspicuous or cutting up
any extras, as I'm in the habit of doing
when Igo into public. I'd set my pegs to
go home with the widow after the ball, but
just as I was fixing my mouth to ask her,
up steps a big, long, leather-fated doctor,
named Mabry, and walked her right off
before my eyes. That riled me a little, but
I kept my tongue still, inwardly swearing
to break his bones the ver; first opportu
nity that presented itself. I saw there was
no use saying anything so I went home
and went to bed, and al the rest of the
night I was dreaming tbout rainbows, an
gels, butterflies, fiddes, widows and doc
tors, mixed up worst than a Dutchman's
dinner.
BUSINESS CARDS;
"Well, 'Squire to make a short story of
it, I made up mymind to have' the widow,
or kill myself, 0. somebody else.
"So I made .t convenient to be on hand
where she was, upon all occasions. I
could not eel, nor sleep, nor work, and if
the thing .Geld on, I wouldn't had sense
enonkb,so skin a rabbit. But I was deter
mine• it shouldn't last long, for I'd been
fooled so often by women that I thought I
wauldn't give her time to think of anything
but me. She appeared to take to me right
sharply and the doctor seemed inclined to
mix in with me, but I didn't consider him
no more than a brush fence, for I was so
far gone I thought she could see nobody
on earth but me. Well, 'Squire, things
went on so for about a month, and one
Sunday I screwed up my spunk and put
the question to her. She sorter laughed
and sorter looked one-sided, and finally told
me she couldn't give me an answer just
then, but if I'd call at her house the next
Thursday evening , she'd give me a final
answer. Thinks I you are mine just as
sure as there's a fiddler below. Whenever
a woman takes time to study she'll sayyes.
'Squire, don't the poet say something about
the calculation of men and rats going
crooked ?"
LEGAL BLANK 9,
PAMPHLETS
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"Mice and men, Burns says," I replied.
"Well, mice and rats is all one, and so
is fools sometimes, as I have found out in
my travels. I was so Shure she would
have me I went off and spent all my money
for fine clothes, thinking I would have
them ready for the wedding—and I did?
Confound that widow, I say ! Confound
all the widows ! In time Thursday even
ing came, though it was a long time about
it, and over I went, feeling as big as Josh
Ize Otorg-Zeller.
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HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1873
Raynor did when he was eleeted Coroner.
I got there about dark, and found a right
smart crowd collected, which was not on
the bills, but I felt as big and as good as
the rest of 'em. So I marched in like a
blind mule into a potato patch, and took a
seat by the fire. I didn't see anything of
the widow, but I kept looking for her to
come in or send for me, and passed away
the time by cussin' the crowd to myself,
thinking they had no business there, and I
would not get to talk to my woman a bit.
Presently the door opened and in walked
Polly and that. long-legged Doctor, and a
whole team of boys and girls fixed up sav
agely, I tell you. I looked around for a
fiddler, thought they were goin' to have a
ball, but wondered what they kept so still
for, and was about propoain'. a reel, when
up gets a little preacher, and before you
could swallow a live oyster, he had Polly
and the lioctor married faster than a Mex
ican greaser could tie a bull's horns. I
was so completely flununuxed that I set
there with my mouth wide open like I was
goin' to swaller the whole crowd, and my
eyes looked like billiard balls until the
ceremony was over, when I jumped up and
bellowed—
"I forbid the concern from being con
stituted."
"You are a little too late, my friend,"
said the preacher, and they all commenced
laughing like they seen somethinc , ' funny.
"I'll be squizzled if I don't be soon
enough for somebody yet," says I, "for I
was mad, 'Squire, and no mistake in the
ticket. It was too bad, after I had fixed
up to marry her myself, for her to walk
right out before my eyes and marry that
great baboon."
- "It was bad, that is a fact," said I.
Bad !" cried he, "it was meaner than
eating fried coon. I first thought I'd g o
straight
straiglt home, but then I concluded that P
wouldn't spite nobody, so I determined to
stay and see if I couldn't get satisfaction
out of somebody You know I'm the deuce
to get myself or somebody else into a scrape
when I take a notion. I'd taken one that
night that went all over me like a third
day chill, so I commenced a studyin' out
some plan. I recollected hearing the doc
tor say that where he come from (but the
Lord only knows where that was) the bride
and groom always washed their faces to
gether before they went to bed, as a charm
against infidelity, or imbecility, or some
other long word. While I was studyin'
about that I spied the doctor's saddle-bags
sitting in the corner, so I waited till they
went to supper, and then I got the bags
and looked - to see what I could discover.
Nearly the first thing I saw was a piece of
lunar caustic. I slipped it into my pocket,
for I had my plan as seen as I saw it.—
Well, I watched around till I saw one of
the girls go to the pail with the pitcher,
so I went out and asked her what she was
going to do with it ; she said she was go
ing to carry it into the room fur the doctor
and Polly to wash their faces in. I kept
talking to her while she was filling the
pitcher, and when she turned her head I
dropped the caustic into it. It was then
about bed-time and I got my hat and put
out, but I couldn't help laughing all the
way home, whenever I'd think about the
next morning.
"Well, 'Squire, they do say that when
they waked up next morning they both
had the hardest kind of fits, each one
thinking they had been sleeping with a
nigger ! Oh !it was rich ! He a cussin'
and teario' up things, and she a sereandn'
and faintin' and comin' to and goin' on
again, and me not there to see it. They
made such an unearthly racket that the
folks broke into the room to see what was
the matter, and there they was with their
faces and hands all as black as the inside
of an old stove pipe. I'd give half my in
terest in t'other world just to have seen
the whole row. As soon as they found out
that they were really the same folk's that
married the night before, they called for
warm water and soap, but just here the
doctor happened to think about the pitch
er, and took it to the door to see what was
the matter. There was a little piece of
caustic that had not dissolved, and as soon
as he saw it he says :
"It's . no use washing, Polly; all the
soap in New York can't wash it off."
"That was the truth, 'Squire; soap and
water had no more effect than it would on
a native born African, and all the chance
was to wait and let it wear off. How long
it took them to get white again I never
found out; but one thing I know," be
concluded, getting up to go out, "the next
time I saw tile doctor I had the hardest
fight and come the nighest getting whaled
that I ever did in all my life."
guano for tilt pillion.
Rules for Bathing ,
1. Never bathe soon after eating ;
2. Never take a full bath nor go into
the sun less than three hours after a full
meal.
3. The best time for bathing
is an hour
or two before breakfast, or as long before
dinner.
4. Never cat noon after bathing.
5. Those who bathe in the evening
should not remain long in the water.
6. Be sure that the body is uniformly
warm at the time of bathing.
7. Never go into the water in a state of
fatigue.
8. Never bathe when the respiration
and circulation are disturbed in conse
quence of violent exercise or any other
cause.
9. Perspiration is no objection to going
into cold water, provided the action of the
heart and the breathing are not disturbed,
and the system is not in a state of fatigue.
10. After bathing keep the body com
fortably warm by fire or exercise, and do
not expose it to a draft of cold air.—Sci
ence of Health.
Better than Gold
We often hear little boys telling of the
wonders they will do when they grow to
be men. They are looking and longing
for the time when they shall he large
enough to carry a cane and wear a tall
hat; and not one of them will say he ex
pects to be a poor man, but they every one
intend to be rich, Now money is very
good in its place, but let me tell you, little
boys, what. is a great deal better than
money, and what you may he earning all
the time you are waiting to grow large
enough to earn a large fortune. The Bi
ble tells us that "a good man is rather to
be chosen than riches, and loving favor
ratber than silver or gull. A good man
does not mean a name for being the rich
est man in town, or for owning the largest
house. A good name is the name for do
ing deeds; a name for wearing a pleasant
face, and carrying a cheerful heart; for
always doing right, no matter what we
may be.
How to be Somebody.
Don't stand sighing, wishing and wait
ing, but go to work with an energy and
preseverance that will set every obstacle
in the way of your success flying like
leaves before a whirlwind. A milk and
water way of doing business leaves a man
in the lurch every time. He may have
ambition enough to wish himself on the
topmost round of the ladder of success, but
if he has not the go-aheadativeness to pull
himself up there, he will inevitably remain
at the bottom, or, at the best, on one of
the very low rounds.
Never say I can't—never admit there is
such a word—it has dragged its tens of
thousands to poverty and degradation, and
it is high time it was stricken from our
language; but carry a whole lexicon of I
cans and I wills with you, and thus armed,
every obstacle in the way of your success
will vanish. _
Never envy your neighbor his success,
but try and become like him, and as much
better as you can. If at first you don't
succeed, don't wilt down with despondency
and say I can't, but gird on thearmor of I
can, and any word for it you will.
Always bear in mind that whatever is
worth having is worth toiling long, earn
estly and manfully fdr. So .inre as a con
stant dropping wears away the hardest
stone, so do constant efforts insure success.
If you work manfully, persistently and
with energy, you may smile, be hopeful
and happy when life's clouds hang the
darkest, for as sure as sunshine succeeds
the storms, so sure a bright future awaits
. .
Whatever you undertake try and excel
in it. That is what makes any occupation
in life honorable and profitable. A.first
class quack is better than a second-rate
doctor.
Great obstacles in the way of success are
fear of being 'laughed at, and what some
body may say. Never fear sneers and
remarks when right leads the van, but
push right straight ahead with your eyes
and thoughts on the brilliant future.
Don't always be saying to yourself, I am
going to do co-and-so-to-morrow; but act
to day. If you are invited to make a
prayer, get up and make one if it be as
simple as, "Grant, 0 Lord, that we may
not think contemptuously of our rulers;
and further more grant, we beseech Thee,
that they may not act so we cannot help
it !" If you are invited to speak in a ly
ceum, get up if you cannot say more than,
"Than you, sir, I don't speak." Neat
time you• can get a little further, and so
on until you can handle the English lan
g,uage, or anything dse, as a Yankee does
jack-nife.
A Voyage to tie Moon,
The Boston Journal says : Mr. Wash
ington H. Donaldson, d Reading, Pa.,
formerly a gymnast, and since 1371 a bal
loonist, has made a propeition to the Bos
ton - City Government to make an ascen
sion from this city on tin 4th of July, as
a itizter on a voyage acrom the Atlantic.
He has attracted considerable attention
by giving trapeze performances from his
balloon while making ascensions. He
claims that a balloon trip can be made
across the ocean in two days and a half,
although he intends to provide for a trip
of thirty days. He proposes to construct
three balloons, of nearly three times the
size of the others, the latter of which will
be used to supply the big one with gas. as
it gradually loses its liftinc , power. The
balloons will hold some 325,000 feet ofgas
and will have a lifting capacity of 11,000
pounds, besides the weight of the gas
chambers themselves, nettings, basket,
life-boat, etc. Te,will take about 2700 yards
of drilling for the big balloon, but with
the aid of sewing machines he thinks he
can get it ready in a month's time. The
basket in which he proposes to ride will be
a comfortable room, with a cellar in which
to store water andTood for the trip. The
room will have windows on all sides, a lime
stove will give abundant heat fur warmth
and to cook with, while a vacant tube with
platinum wire at each end will furnish
abundant light by sending a current of
electricity along the wire. Beneath this
chamber will be an open platform or bal
cony, and beneath that one of the Francis
metal life-boats, provided with oars, sails,
instruments, food and water, will be sus
pended, ready at any instant to receiveithe
aeronauts should a near approach to the
water take place for any reason. This
life-boat will have four large air chambers,
and will be provided with a cabin in which
the men can be protected from the weath
er. By means of an ingenious contri
vance the centre of gravity can be made
beneath the bottom of the b:at to prevent
upsetting it. He proposes to take two
men with him, and desires to have them
scientific men. He states that. Professor
Wi,e, the well known seronant, desires to
take the trip. Mr. Donaldson estimates
the cost of the preparations about $3,000,
and desires the city to assume the cest and
he will give his services.
A Protest Against Early Rising,
Dr. Hall, in his Journal of Health, says :
One of the very worst economies of time is
that filched lion' necessary sleep. The
wholesale, but blind commendation of ear
ly rising is as mischievous in practice as it
was:erroneous in theory. Early rising is a
crime against the noblest part of our physi
cal nature, unless preceded by an early re
tiring. Multitudes of business men in
large cities count it a saving of time, if
they can make a journey of a hundred or
two miles at night, by- steamboat or rail
way. It is a ruinous mistake. It never
fails to be followed by a want of general
well-feeling for several days after, if, in
deed, the man does not return home actu
ally sick, or so near to it as to be unfit for
full attention to his business for a week
afterwards. When a man leaves home on
business it is always important that he
should have his wits about him ; that the
mind should be fresh and vigorous, the
spirits lively, buoyant and cheerful.
No man can say that it is thus with
him after a night on the railroad or on the
shelf of a steamboat.
The first great recipe for sound conneet•
ad and refreshing sleep, is physical exer
cise. Toil is the price of sleep.
We caution parents particularly, not to
allow their children to be waked up of
mornings; let nature wake them up, she
will not do it prematurely ; but have airfare
that they go to bed at an early hour • let it
be earlier and earlier, until it is found that
they wake up themselves in full time to
dress for -breakfast. Being waked np
early, and allowed to engage in difficult or
any studies late and just before retiring,
has given many a beautiful and promising
child brain fever, or determined ordinary
ailments to the production of water-on the
brain.
The Right Sort of Religion
We want a religion that goes into the
family and keeps tho husband from being
spiteful when the dinner is late, and keeps
the dinner from being late--keepsthe wife
from fretting when the husband tracks the
newly washed floor with his muddy boots,
and makes the husband mindful of the
scraper and the floor mat; keeps the
mother patient when the baby is cross, and
keeps the baby pleasant; amuses the chil
dren as well as instructs them ; wins as
well as governs; projects the honey-moon
into the harvest moon, and makes the
happy hours like the Eastern tree, bearing
in its bosom at once the beauty of the
tender blossom and the glory of the ripen
ing fruit. We want a religion that bears
heavily, not on the exceeding "sinfulness'
of sin," but the exceeding rascality of
lying and stealing; a religion that banish
es small measures from the counters, small
baskets from the stalls, pebbles from the
cotton bags, clay from paper, sand from
sugar, chicory from coffee, otter from
butter, beet juice from vinegar, alum from
bread, strychnine from wine, water from
milk cans, and buttons from the contribu
tion box. The religion that is to save the
world will not put all the big strawberries
at the top and the bad ones at the bottom.
It will not offer more baskets of foreign
wine than the vineyards ever produced
bcttles, and more barrels of Genesee flour
than all the fields of New York grow and
all her mills grind. It will not make one
halt a pair of shoes of good leather and
the other of poor, so that the first shall
redound to the maker's credit and the
second to his cash. It will not put
Jouvin's stamp on Jenkins' kid glove, nor
make Paris bonnets in the back room of a
Boston milliner's shop, nor let a piece of
velvet that professes to measure twelve
yards come to an untimely end in the
tenth, or a spool of sewing silk that vouch
es for twenty yards be nipped in the bud
at fourteen and a half, nor the cotton
thread to the yard-stick fifty of the two
hundred yards of promise that was given
to the eye, nor yard-wide cloth measure
less than thirty-six inches from selvedge,
all-wool delaines and all linen handker
chiefs be hmalgamized with clandestine
cotton, nor coats made of woolen rags
pressed together to be sold to the unsus
pecting public for legal broadcloth. It
does not put bricks five dollars a thousand
into chimneys it contracted to build of
seven dollar materials, nor smuggle white
pine floors that have paid for bard pine,
nor leave yawning cracks in closets where
boards ought to join, not daub celings
that ought to be smoothly plastered, nor
make window blinds of slats that cannot
stand the wind, and paint that cannot
stand the sue, and fasteners that may be
looked at : but are on no account to be
touched. The religion that is to sanctify
the world pays its debts. It does not con
sider that forty cents returned for ono
hundred is according to law. It looks
upon a man who has failed in trade and
who continues to live in luxury, as a thief.
It looks upon a man who promises to pay
fifty dollars on demand with interest, and
who neglects to pay it on demand with or
without interest, as a liar.—Congregation
elms,
The Egyptian Slaves
About three-fourths of the population in
Egypt are Arabs, or of Arabic origin. The
remaining fourth is composed of Copts,
Turks, Jews, Armenians, Abysinians, Nu
bians, Mamelukes, and Franks or Europe
ans. The Copts are natives of longer res
idence than any other race. They are
also believed to be descendants of those
patient and clever toilers who reared the
massive monuments of four thousand years
ago, which to this day are a puzzle to the
archreolo,gue and historian. They are usu
ally darker in skin and dress than they
who are called Egyptians—that is, those
of Arabic origin. The Copt is more sombre
in expression, heavier in speech, and rath
er coarser in feature, than the Egyptian.
He has lost his language and speaks Arabic,
which is the tongue of Egypt. One of the
Coptic bishops, at my request, wrote a line
or two of Coptic character. Ho was con
sidered learned, as but few aro capable of
doing this. The Copt is a bigoted Chris
tian, who from intolerance of other Chris
tians, leans to the doctrine of the Koren-
He frequently carries an ink hors and
pen in his waist-sash, as be is generally a
scribe, or in some way co nnected with
commerce.
The Egyptians possess Arabian charac
teristics, although there are differences.
The importation of Georgian and Circassian
slaves over a long period has modified the
type of the middle and upper classes. No
public market for slaves exists at the
present time, but they are sold by stealth.
The traditions of Georgian and Circassian
beauty aro familiar to the world. For
centuries historians have drawn them in
lines of generous curves, and poets have
painted them in Titian colors. With
these pictorial fancies upon me, I was
taken aback on landing at Alexandria. A
dozen of these mountain women were
sitting on shore, where they had just
landed from the ship. They were pale,
thin, rough skinned, tawny-haired, un
kempt, in coarsest attire, and were in the
pursuit of—fleas ! I expressed my disap
pointment to an Egyptian dragoman stand
ing near, who, with a graceful wave of the
hand, replied :
"Oh ! effendi, could you see these women
three months hence you would say that the
Prophet had fitted them for heaven ! Good
mashed beetles and generous pilaf shall
make them plump. The daily bath shall
give their skin the hue of creamy milk,
and their joints the suppleness and grace
of the gazelle. With new health, their , 1
eyes shall sparkle with mirth and be dewed
with tenderness; the rose shall bloom on
their cheeks, and gold shall gild their
tresses. God is great !"
The man's•statement was substantially
correct. The slave-dealers endeavor to
bring them up to their highest physical
perfection before offering them for sale. I
afterwad saw some who had been trained,
fattened and purified to the selling point.
They were exquisitely fair, blue-eyed, and
golden-haired, but for the most part like
wax fi,tnres. It was surface beauty, with
out depth, and I looked in vain for some
indication of thought or sensibilty in their
vacant faces.
AN English writer thinks the American
early potatoes will come to an end ere long,
for as each new variety is claimed to ripen
about ten days earlier than any other, the
time between planting and digging will
soon be used up.
TT occurred to a Danbury scholar, while
writing a composition, to make the remark
able statement that "an os does not taste
as good as an oyster, but it can run fast-
Constitutional Convention,
PIIILADELPIIIA, May 29.—Mr. G. W.
Palmer, of Luzerne, moved that when the
house adjourns this afternoon, it be to
meet on Tuesday next, at half past nine
o'clock, a. m.
Mr. Alricks, of Dauphin, moved to
amend "and that it shall meet in the state
capitol at Harrisburg."
On this the ayes and nays were called,
resulting in 30 ayes and 62 nays, and so
the amendment was lost.
On motion, the Subject was laid on the
table.
Leave of absence was granted to a large
number of members, and it is looking as if
there would he no quorum present on
Monday.
Mr. Lilly moved to reconsider the vote
which laid the motion to adjourn until
Tuesday on the table. Agreed to.
Mr. M'Connell moved that when the
convention adjourns on Friday week it be
to meet in Harrisburg on the 13th of Sep
tember next. Voted down by a large ma
jority.
Tho convention then resumed the con
sideration of the article on suffrage, elec
tion, and representation, the second section
and amendments pending.
The section as follows was then adopted:
"All elections of the citizens shall be by
ballot. Every ballot voted shall be num
bered in the order it which it is received
and the number recorded by the election
officers opposite the name of the elector
who presents the ballot, and any elector
may write his name upon the back of his
ticket."
SEC. 3. Electors shall in all cases, except
for treason, felony, and breach of surety
of the peace, be privileged from arrest
during their attendance on elections and
in going to and returning therefrom.
Agreed to.
SEc. 4. Whenever any of the qualified
electors of this commonwealth shall be in
actual military service, under a requisition
from the President of the United States or
by the authority of this commonwealth,
such electors shall exercise the right of
suffrage in all elections by the citizens,
under such regulations as are, or shall be
prescribed by law, as fully as if they were
present at theirplace of election. Agreed
to.
SEC. 5. All laws regulating elections by
the people or for the registry of electors
' shall be uniform in their operation
throughout the State, but no elector shall
be deprived of voting by reason of his
name not being registered, was discussed,
many delegates considering that it was of
fering a premium for fraud at elections.
SEC. 6. Any pe:son who shall give or
promise or offer to give to any elector any
money, reward or other valuable consider
ation for his vote at an election. or for
witholding the same, or who shall give or
promise to give such consideration to any
other person or party for such election
vote, or for the witholding thereof, and
any elector who shall receive or agree to'
receive for himself or fbr another, an- ,
money, reward or other valuable con
sideration for his vote at an election, or
witholding the same, shall thereby forfeit
the right to vote at such election. And
any elector whose right to vote shall be
challenge for such case before the election
officers, shall be required to swear or affirm
that the matter of the challenged is untrue
before his vote shall be received. Agreed to.
The next section was modified by amend
ments of Messrs. Carpenter and H. W.
Palmer, and agreed to as follows :
"Every person•who shall while a candi
date for office, be guilty of bribery, fraud
or wilful violation of any election law,
shall be disqualified from holding any
office of trust or profit in this common
wealth, and any person convicted of wilfal
violation of the election laws shall be de
prived of the right of suffrage absolutely
for a term of four years.
To the next section Mr. Harry White
inured an amendment enlarging its scope
to embrace election investigations, which
was agreed to.
The section then prevailed.
It prohibits, in contested election pro
ceedings, investigating testimony on the
ground that it may criminate himself or
su bj e a him to public infamy, and such
testimony shall not afterwards be against
him in any judicial proceeding except
perjury.
Pen - din g a vote upon the neat section,
limiting election divisions to 250 votes, the.
convention adjourned until Tuesday morn
ing.
Old Time Axioms
The following I find in my scrap-book
pasted there more than a score and a half
years ago. I reproduce then► to show the
present generation what quaint ideas were
promulgated by the teachers of our fathers
and mothers of the olden time :
An independent man is one who blacks
his own boots: who can live without whis
key and tobacco ; who earns at least a pen
ny a day more than he spends; and wh3
can, upon a pinch, shave himself with
brown soap and cold water without a mir
ror.
A great man is one who can lead his
children to obey him when out of his sight
A hospitable man is never ashamed of
his dinner when a friend unexpectedly
drops in to dine with him.
A good wife exhibits her love for her
husband by seeking to promote his wel
fare, and by administering to his comfort.
A sensible wife looks for her enjoyment
at home—a silly one abraad.
A wise girl would win a lover by prac
ticing those virtues which secure admira
Lion when personal charms have faded.
A simple girl endeavors to recommend
herself by the exhibition of frivolous ac
complishments, and by a mawkish senti
ment which has as little to do with a true
heart as has the gaudy dress she wears.
A good girl always respects herself and
is thus sure to be respected by others.
The Silver Trumpet.
"Give me," said a sweet-toned voice,
"give me the money that has been spent
in rum, and I will purchase every foot of
land on the globe. I will clothe every
man, woman and child in an attire that
kings and queens might be proud of. I
will build a school-house upon every hill
top and in every valley over the whole
earth. I will supply that school-house
with a competent teacher. I will build an
academy in every State, and fill it with
able professors. I will crown every bill
with a church consecrated to the promul
gation of the gospel of peace, and support
in its pulpit an able teacher of righteous
ness, so that on every Sabbath morning
the chime of one shall reach to another
around the earth's broad circumference,
and the voice of prayer and the song of
praise shall ascend as one universal offer
ing to heaven."
NO. 24.
Tit-Bits Taken on the Fly.
Chili, too, means to have a universal
exposition.
Many Kansas farmers are planting pea
nuts this season.
lowa has 3,540 libraries, containing
673,000 volumes.
Canada is sweet on beet sugar, and has
voted not to taa it.
The burninr• ' of Columbia is now attri
buted to Mrs.O'Leary's cow.
Philadelphia lays claim to a club older
than the London "Beefsteaks."
Michigan built 1,400 mills last season
—all for grinding meal, though.
Fulton county, 111., has paid $590 for
wolf scalps in the last four weeks.
The state debt of Connecticut has been
reduced fifty per cent, in six years.
The Minnesota papers describe freezing
as the sweetest death imaginable.
The Athenreum thinks American humor
"the most genuine in the world."
Iron carriage wheels are being used in
France, and give good satisfaction.
Portland, Oregon, expects to put up 2,-
000,000 cans of salmon this season.
A hot 'coffee spring in California has
been running since the first of April.
A Jersey City milkman's horse ran
away, and left a milky way a mile long.
At wooden weddings in Montana clubs
are among the gifts to the married pair.
The sugar crop at Jamaica is reported
as heavier than during any former season.
Benjamin Franklin's electrical machine
is in the laboratory of Dartmouth college.
A negro gambler is the most successful
player among the New Orleans fraternity.
.4Laryland, through its historical society,
claims Philadelphia as its rightful property.
A boy in Richmond, Va , was injured
by the explosion of a cocoanut the other
day.
Floating docks for timid bathers are to
be a feature of the eoming season at Cape
May.
It cost a Buffalo man $4.87 to cut off
the tail of a sturgeon before the latter was
dead.
A commissary of police in Belgium has
been suspended for eating meat on Good
Friday.
A mining expedition is organizing t ion
vestigate a reported gold deposit in west
ern Texas.
The buildings of the Terre Haute car
works cover three acres and the ground
eight acres.
The Yellowstone expedition was glori
ously successful, as they had nothing to
fight against.
A man at Wolcotville, Connecticut, has
a windmill seventy feet high and of ten
horse power.
"Died a fighting Bill Jones," was the
verdict of a coroner's jury over an Indian
territory man.
An Italian court has sentenced a man
to prison for life for lassoing women and
robbing them.
Carl Schurz's wife ha cows into pos
swim of a legacy of $170,000 left by her
uncle in Germany.
Tne conductors in the employ of the
Pennsylvania Railroad in New Jersey are
all to wear unifoyms.
In Russia the wheat crop generally look
ed well, and the indieations so fur point to
a full average harvest.
The rye crop, a very important one in
France, is very poor, and there is little or
no hope of improvement.
Two unknown schooners were sunk in
East river, near Hell Gate, on Tuesday
night. It is believed no lives were lost.
A young married woman named Jen nie
Dennis committed suicide by jumping in
to the canal at Harrisburg, Tuesday night.
In Italy cold, wet weather has injured
the wheat crop very seriously, and there is
no hope of the harvest reaching the aver
age.
The European marine budgets for 1873
amount to $35,255,197.70 for France,
$26,668,215.90 for Rusia, and $7;197,912.-
50 for Germany.
Ex• Governor Jewel is now in Washing.
ton awaiting the return of the President
to give him a definite answer regarding
the tender of the Russian mission.
A Dubuque (Iowa) woman found a long
lost brother, recently, by reading over the
certificates of remarkable cures in a quack
doctor's almanac.
. Minnesota is invaded by an army of
pigeon trappers from Illinois, Wisconsin
and elsewhere, and the shipments of the
captured birds increase daily.
The Erie car wheel works are now turn
ing out 400 car wheels per doy. When
first started the capacity of the establish
ment was only eight per day.
A colored lawyer appeared fur the first
time in Louisiana court, on Monday, in the
person of T. Morris Chester, who was en
gaged as counsel for the defence in a mur
der trial.
In Holland the weather has been bad,
but the crops appear to have suffered less
than might have been expected, and the
very latest accounts may be regarded as
favorable.
It is now believed the bonds found on
the burglar Brady, caught in New York
Tuesday night, were the proceeds of the
robbery of the First National Bank of
Glenn's Falls.
A dispatch received by the Secretary of
War, from Inspector General Hardee,
announces his arrival at Pooland, Oregon,
from the Lava Beds, where be had been
in course of his tour of inspection.
Horses are so plentiful in Australia that
they are sold at the pound at prices rang
ing from sixpence to a shilling, and local
papers think they would fetch more if put
up in pound cans for the Paris market.
Kansas is importing plants direct from
Scotland, consistingof larch, spruce, Scotch
and Hungarian firs, ash, birch, oak and
elm plants; also several varieties of Hol
land„ Portugal and rhododendron ever
greens and roses.
The advanced liberal party among the
Methodists of London are about to start a
new paper to advocate the disestablishment
of the Church of England, the adoption of
a national system of secular education, and
to support all measures for the suppression
of intemperance.