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"By the woes of a drunkard's mother, By the children that begged for bread, By the face of her whose beloved one Looks on the wine when 'tis red, L'y the kisses changed to curses, By the tears more bitter than brine, By many a sad heart broken, Pledge no women in wine. What has wine brought to women? Nothing but tears and pain, It has torn from her heart her lover, And proven her prayers in vain, And her household goods all scattered, Lie tangled up in the vine, Oh 1 I prithee pledge no woman In the curse of so many—WlNE." El2t ,s)tori-trtiter. THE LION TAMER. "That lioness will be the death of you yet, Joe." "Pshaw !" said Joe Amberly, "the Lion Tamer" of a large travelling circus, laugh ing at the predictions of his assistant. "You may laugh as much as you please, but some day you will find I aro right, and that to your sorrow, though then it will be too late." "I have performed with all the animals for some years, and never had any diffi culty." _ .. "Irou forgot the one at Longtown." "That didn't amount to much. I soon brought them to subjection." "But the trouble commenced with this same lioness." "Yes, though it wouldn't have been so bad if those cats or hunting leopards had not set up a yell, and drawn the black tiger into the affray." "She has a devil of a temper when it is up—is the most treacherous beast I ever fed or had anything to do with. I have been watching her close for a couple of days," continued the assistant, "and know she is mighty cross-grained. So, depend upon it, you are going to have trouble." •"I don't see why more than at any other time." "'1 hare are times—and you know it, if you will only reflect—and this is one of them. If I was in your place, I wouldn't try to show off to-day with any extras, but just give a common performance, and get out of the cage as quick as I could." "You know what we advertised, and what a crowd has gathered." "Yes"—with a laugh ; "and I know we never have or do one half there is in the bills. Paper is cheap, Joe, but human life is precious. Think how poorly off you would leave your wife and child if any thing should happen to you, and what would become of your wife if anything should happen to the child ?" . "Do not mention it." The man who had handled and tamed and toyed with the savage beasts as if they had been harmless kittens, groaned aloud at the thought. A man of the most ar dent, even passionate nature, be bowed down in worship to his wife and little girl. And that day it had been advertised that he would: take his child and a pail of blood into the cage with him. It was a very daring, foolhardy project at the best; but how much more so when the beasts were doubly savage and out of temper—when the slightest thing might arouse them to all their pristine fury, and the force blood of the wilderness assert itself in all its tempestuous wrath. But the husbandly and fatherly emotion was soon conquered. The habit of years and his natural strength gave him self reliance ; and it would take more than idle words to turn him from his purpose, no matter how dangerous it might appear to others. To this must be added the esprit de corps that would make him take the most desperate chances before having even the shadow of cowardice attached to his name. Still lie could not help thinking more deeply, perhaps, than ever before. Was there in reality any danger? He could not convince himself of it, argue the mat ter as he would. The old lion in the cage, .tbough a monster in size, was inoffensive, tame and obedient. In the language of the keepers, he was "good for nothing bat to make a show and sit back in the corner, grind his teeth, and growl." Resides, he was his friend. and upon more than one occasion had acted the part of a peacemaker. The leopards—a pair of spotted cheetahs—were scarcely to be taken into consideration.— The black tiger, the most rare and stri kingly beautiful animal in any collection, was ordinarily quiet, though when fatly aroused not to be trifled with. But the lioness was the special one to be dreaded and watched. She was a beast of uncommon power, with massive arms, long curving claws, tail lithe and nervous as a serpent, teeth sharp as needles, flex ible, treacherous, smooth, tawny skin and yellow eyes that ever flashed fiercely.— Never, even in her best moods, had she been submissive, and her mildest play was rough in the extreme. The Lion Tamer turned from his com panion to go and dress for his attractive but dangerous performance; but before doing so, he visited the double cage, and made a critical examination of the beasts, who any instant might be to him as fate. There was nothing to especially awaken fear..; and, half vexed with himself for having been needlessly disturbed, he passed from e great canvas into a smaller com partment, and found his wife and child waiting for him—the one a young and beautiful women, and the other a very fairy of a child, whose hair hung down upon her back, as the finest and brightest of spun silk. "I am sorry, Joe," said the wife and mother, as her husband entered, "that you have consented to so foolish a performance as the one advertised for to-day. "Why, May ?" and he looked most earnestly at her. "Because the ordinary performance is hazardous enough:" "Then you think this more so?" "I don't know that it is," she replied, having the most perfect confidence in her 0 , -I 0.... CD Cil ... 0 1 1 , I:7* CD Y. - HUNTINGDON, PA , FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1877 husband's ability; "but somehow I don't altogether fancy having Inez taken into the cage." "You know my reason for consenting, and that it would never have been given had your assent not first been obtained." "Certainly ; and it was very good of you, Joe." "That it was promised on account of my salary being raised." "Yes." "And that it was to secure the rise of salary, so as the sooner to accumulate enough to buy a little home against the rainy days that may come." "Yes, my dear Joe ; but"—with a smile —"had not pride something to do with it ? That's the curse of the profession.— Each one is always trying to outdo the other—running risks on that account they would not otherwise attempt." "Well, May, I only gave my promise to do the act once, but even now will give it up if you say the word. I had rather disappoint all the managers and be called coward by all the rabble in the world, than cause your heart to beat with fear or to bring tears into your eyes:" "No, no, Joe. Don't think I have lost confidence and pride in you. No, don's think of giving it up. I suppose I am foolishly nervous. But you will be care ful, and not run any unnecessary risks ?" "My own heart would have to be torn out before anything should happen to our darling;" and he stooped, raised the child, tossed hr up, caught, kissed her, and hugged her to his bosom. "But yourself, Joe ?" "Oh !I'll look out for Lumber one." The conversation did not tend to ease his mind, and before dressing he went out and held another conversation with his particular attendant, and took another look into the performing cage. The animals were more quiet than when he had seen them previously, the lioness especially appeared in a playful mood, and with something of the load lifted from his heart he returned, with but little time re maining before he would be called upon to prove his right to the proud title of Lion Tamer. And every inch he looked one as he stepped in view of the densely crowded assembly. Gorgeous in his new costume, and with a look of calmness and determi nation upon his face—looked, with his tall and sinewy form, fit to grapple with and overcome the fiercest beasts that ever prowled amid the jungles of Asia and Africa, and made night terrible with their roaring. A burst of applause—a perfect tempest of buzzas and clapping of hands—greeted him as he swung his little girl, dressed in silver tissue, and with the gossamer wings and tiara of sparkli❑g jewels around her golden curls, that represent the traditional fairy, upon his shoulder. While looking at his stalwart proportions, the men thought what a dangerous antagonist he would be, and the mothers shuddered at so beautiful a child being taken into a den of savage animals. With a graceful bow and the dignity of a Roman conqueror, the Lion Tamer strode through the circle, disappeared behind the cage, and with such rapidity as to astonish the audience, stood within the compart ment where the huge lion was lying and the agile leopards leaping about, and had placed his child between the claws of the greater brute, and she was playfully toying with its shaggy mane. For a time he made the leopards leap about him as kittens, jumping from corner to corner, resting upon his broad shoulders, bounding lightly over his extended whip. Then he gave his attention to the monster lion ; opened his immense jaws, placed his arm and thrust his head between them, raised his fairylike child upon his back and made it march around with her. Then he prepared to throw the two cages into one. "Let Inez come out, now," whispered the attenean.t, uneasily. You have done enougl' , i..eady to keep your promise, and the audi-Aiee won't know the difference." "No, I will go through. Mind what I told you, and have things ready in case there should be trouble, though I don't fancy any." Then he continued aloud, and so as to be plainly heard by every one, "Hand me the nail of blood." A cold shiver, a supernatural awe ap peared to pass through the frame of all as the vessel, dripping with crimson drops, was given to him, and more than once asked themselves if the man was mad to thus not only risk his own life, but that of his beautiful child. And when be loosened and thrust aside the partition, and the fierce lioness and sleek tiger came bound ing in, their breath was absolutely sus pended, and their hearts momentarily ceased to beat. "Down I" The tiger obeyed, and the foot of the Lion Tamer was upon his neck. "tip !" And the leopards were purring like great cats upon his shoulders, while the lionees lay crouched with her tawny paws thrust through the bars, and growling severely. "For mercy's sake, let her alone," whispered his attendant, "and mind not to kick over that pail. If the blood should be spilled, it would be all over with you both. All the men in the world couldn't save you." "Stand ready, but keep still. The brute shall mind." His child was sittinc , b on the back of the lion, and smiling in that den or horrors. Her confidence in her father ;var sublime —was as perfect as her love. She never dreamt of fear when he was near to pro tect, and while the lookers-on shuddered, she innocently aeemcd it a pleasant pastime. "Down !" The leopards leaped to either corner and crouched down. "Come !" The lioness grumblingly arose, crawled suddenly to his feet, rose and laid her great claws upon his shoulders, making him swerve with her weight, and raising her terrible head upon a level with his own. Slowly and slowly they turned round as if waltzing, the low mutterings of the beast becoming more plainly audible every mo ment, and her yellow feline eyes snapping with hidden fires. With an amazing exhibition of strength, he wrestled with, tripped and threw her from him, and the canvas tent rang again. But instantly she was upon her feet, lash ing her sides with her prehensile tail, drawing back her lips so as to show her teeth, and uttering the deepest and fiercest of growls. "For the love of mercy, hand out your, child, Joe," said his attendant. "Wait a moment. I shall be done very quickly." lie stepped to the corner, led the monster lion forth into the centre of the cage, made him lie (town, placed the little girl upon him, and stood astride. Then a shrill whistle brought the cheetah leopards bounding upon his shoulders and standing up with paws crossed above his head, and and the black tiger erect upon his left, and throttled with his hand. But the lioness failed to do his bidding and take her place at his right. She lay in the act of springing, and at but a little distance. "Come." There was no niovernent, and the whip was raised and fell heavily upon her bead. That was all that was needed to awaken her latent ire, and with a roar like that given in her native forest, she sprang with almost resistless force towards him. A sharp, stinging blow on the bridge of the nose for a moment .cowed her, and she might have been conquered, bad she not partially fell upon and upset the pail and deluged the floor of the cage in blood ! Then all became the wildest commotion —the most terrible and savage sounds.— Every beast sprung down, lapped the blood, and then turned upon him. Even the veteran lion appeared to forget the long years of training,and something of his young forest life blazed forth. Amberly comprehended all in an instant, and the father triumphed over the actor. He snatched up the now terrified and screaming child, sprang with her to the door, thrust her into the hands of the watchful attendant, and would have fol lowed, had not the lioness grappled and drawn him back, rending his shoulders with her sharp claws, and causing the blood to flow over his rich dress. He was fighting against most desperate odds, he knew it, and backed into a corner, and called for his irons. One, red-hot at the end, was handed to him, but at the first stroke the lioness sent it whirling, and her sharp teeth almost met for a moment in his thigh. "Hand me something sharp with which I can brain the brute !" Everything upon which hands could be laid was thrust to him, but he failed to reach them, and the danger was becoming more and more imminent. The blood had been lapped up cyan—all were mad with desire; the tiger and the leopard crouching upon him. Then the majesty of command asserted itself. "Come, Samson." The old lion came forward at the words, lie seemed to comprehend that something was wrong, thrust himself between his master and his raging mate, and, when she turned upon him, sent her rolling with a blow of his great paw. The Lion Tamer might have escaped ; but bleeding, wounded as he was, he would not retreat, and turned his attention to separate the now tangled mass of fighting animals. Picking up one leopard after another, he drew them into a farther cor ner of the cage, dragging the tiger with the lioness clinging to it and tearing its glossy hide, thither, tore open its paws by main strength, hurled it back and shut the partition, turned, reeled to the door, fell upon it, and was dragged through to safety, even with the lioness rattling be him as it was closing. A few steps taken, and the Lion Tamer fell fainting by the side of his already in sensible wife, who lay with her affrighted child hugged closely to her scarcely beat ing heart. Then the silence that had been as death was broken by- the most tumultous shoats, and breath was drawn again, and half fainting women and fear palsied men felt as if a mountain had been lifted from their hearts. Lame, torn and beak the Lion Tamer entered the cage the next day before the most unprecedented crowd, it having been advertised that he would do so in his bloody clothes, but never again could he be tempted to take child or pail of blood behind the bars. (stfert Pis celiang. Hints on the Care of the Eyes. There are, perhaps, more individuals who ascribe their weakness of sight to a use of their eyes under an insufficient arti ficial illumination than to any other one cause. In a great many instances this may not bb strictly true, but there can be no doubt that faulty artificial light is one of the most productive causes of a certain class of injuries, to which the eye can be exposed. The two sources of trouble with the ordinary artificial lights are—first, that they are not pure white, and secondly, that they are unsteady. The first defect is found in all artificial lights except the lime, electric and magnesium lights ; the second especially in candles and gas. The yellowness is, in a measure, counteracted by using, in the ease of lamps and gas, chimneys of a violet or blue tint, and the flickering of the gas may be obviated large ly by employing an Argand burner. All things considered, a German student-lamp furnishes the most satisfactory light. The next best is gas with an Argand burner. The chimneys of both may, as above sug gested, be advantageously of a light-blue tint. The position of the light in relation to the body is of great importance. If a shade is used on the lamp or burner (it should, by preference, be of ground or "milk" glass, never of colored glass), the light may stand directly in front of the body and the work be allowed to lie in the light under the shade, which will protect the eyes from the glare of the flame. If no shade is used the back should be turn ed to the source of light which ought to fall over the left shoulder. The same rule applies in the management of daylight. In this case the light should come from behind and slightly above, and fall direct ly on the work, whence it is reflected to the eye. It should never fall directly in the face. The light in the room during sleep is also not without its influence. As a rule, the room during sleeping hours should be dark ; and, in particular, care should be taken to avoid sleeping opposite a window where on opening the eyes in the morning a flood of strong light will fall ou them. Even the strongest eyes are, after the rt..- pose of the night, more or less sensitive to the impression of intense light. The eyes' must have time to accustom themselves to the stimulus. Attention should be called to the injuri• ons efiects that sometimes follow reading on railroad cars. On account of the un steadiness of the page, reading under these circumstances is exceedingly trying ,to the eyes, and should never be persisted in for any considerable length of time. During convalescence from severe illness the eyes are generally the last to regain their lost power. Especially is this the case with women after child-birth, and too much care cannot be taken to put as little strain upon the eyes as possible at this time. —Dr. S. M. Burnett ; Scribner for Sept. Letter from Scranton. SCRANTON, PA., August 29, 1877. ED. JOURNAL : —Scranton seems to be now and has been for some weeks one of the centres of interest in the great labor question which is agitating the minds of the people, so much so that the New York and Philadelphia dailies have each a car respondent stationed here who write lengthy letters giving in detail the situation of af fairs between the coal companies and the miners. Leaving Alexandria on Saturday morn ing last, and stopping at Lewistown, where I was obliged to wait several hours for the train on the Sunbury division of the road, I found the usual quiet county seat of Mifflin county crowded with visitors, not only from the country round about, but from neighboring cities and towns. The cause of ail this was soon ascertained to be a trial of steam fire engines by the differ ent manufacturers, preparatory to the pur chase of the best one by the authorities of Lewistown. Several of the denizens of "ye Ancient Borough" were noticed among the throng, who seemed to be taking a lively interest in the result of the contest. Passing on through Selinsgrove, Sunbury and North umberland, the Lackawana & Bloomsburg R. R. was soon speeding us up the North Branch of the Susquehanna, through Dan ville, Bloomsburg and Kingston to Scran ton, our destination, at the terminus of the road. The evening was grand, and the historic river along our pathway, the rich and peaceful farms on either side, with the lovely mountains hemming them in, the neat and tasteful villages and towns, with the gorgeous hues with which the setting sun glorified the western horizon 'ere it dropped down into the night, altogether formed a scene of loveliness rarely to be met with even in our own beautiful State. As the eye delighted itself with all this beauty, and the mind pondered the thoughts awakened thereby, and contrasted the peace and quiet with which the Crea tor has clothed the world, with the turmoil and strike upon its bosom, the words of the wise man came up unconsciously : "God created man upright, but he bath sought out many inventions," and that couplet of a hymn so often sung, referring to a heathen country, but applieable with equal force too often alas to our own land— "Where every prospect pleases, And only man is vile." - How sadly the pure face of nature is marred and disfigured, and how disastrous ly the harmony of natural laws is changed into discord and confusion by the ignorance and malice of men. The glory and beauty of nature's handi work seemed in pathetic contrast to the turbulence and bad passion and strife that all the upper anthracite region hath wit nessed during the days just past. At.Nan ticnke, twenty-four miles south of this city, the first encampment of soldiers was ob• served, a company of Pittsburgh then at Arondale, Plymouth, Kingston, and at nearly all the depots of the compa ny and important mining points the white tents of the soldiers were plainly to be seen, and the bayonets of sentries on guard over depots, round-houses and bridges were gleaming brightly in the moonlight. Several regiments of soldiers, regulars and militia, are stationed at differet points throughout the valley. Those at this city consist of the Third Regiment U. S. Reg ulars and several companies of militia from Pittsburgh. The regulars are encamped on a hill, just outside the city, and they form quite an attraction. They have dress parade every morning at 6 o'clock, which is witnessed by hundreds of citizens of all classes. But this is merely the surface views and impressions. There is a labor revolt in the Lackawanna and Wyoming Valleys of greater magni tude than this region, accustomed as it is to strikes and labor troubles, has ever known. It began with the railroad strike, but it did not end there. Your readers are familiar with the principal facts, es pecially the events of the memorable Wednesday, the Ist of August, how a large crowd of strikers and others collected ; how they held a meeting in a grove below the city, at which inflammatory speeches were made, where also an anonymous letter was read purporting to come from the manager of one of the large companies in which it was alleged that the men should be brought to his own terms; how thus inflamed the crowd started up town compelling all who were at work in the shops on their way to stop; how they were met by the mayor and a priest, the mayor receiving a broken jaw and barely escaping with his life ; how the crowd increased and became a mob, cleaning out several small stores on their way, and continuing on with threats of treating the stores on the principal busi ness avenue in the same way; at the cross ing of this avenue they were met by a res olute company of volunteers, who fired up on them, when the mob scattered and fled in every direction leaving three of their number dead on the side walk and two more wounded so as to disable them from retreating. Thus terminated the only overt and combined riotous demonstration of the present strike. Since then it has been quiet, oppressively quiet. Immediately afterward, measures were taken to form a battalion,to be drilled and armed, to act in case of emergency in the defence of the city. An organization was effected, four companies were formed and uniforms and arms for them will be received in a few days. The best, men of the city, doctors, lawyers, bankert business men and me chanics belong to this battalion,and I ven ture to say, that there is not an organiza tion in the Uuited States composed of bet ter material than this body *of citizen sol diers of Scranton. And they are in earn est, and mean just this, that mob law shall not gain the supremacy in this city as long as they have strength to shoot a rioter and protect their homes from fire and pillage. Do not then entertain the idea that this part of the State is in a state of insurrec tion or anarchy. Good citizens are not quaking in their beds at night with fear of an outbreak, and the laws are executed just as promptly and fully in the valley of the Lackawanna as in the valley of the Juniata. We have a large, turbulent ele ment, it is true, but they are powerless to do permanent mischief. The streets of Scranton are just as quiet to-night as are the streets of Pittsburgh, and her people and civil authorities have shown themselves far more capable of measuring up to the requirements of an emergency than were tha authorities and people of Pittsburgh. What is more and better, the respectable portion of the people are united in their determination that this good order, and peace and quiet and respect fer kw shall continue. Here there is no dissentient voice among good citizens. At present, howev er, there seems to be no immediate pros pect of a resumption of work in the mines. At the present price of coal, ($2.00 deliv- erect here and about $2.50 in New York at wholesale,) it is hard to see how the companies can pay the advance demanded, and, on the other hand, the miners de clare that they cannot live on the wages they were receiving; that if they are to starve it is better to starve idle than at work. None can forsee what the result will be, but if work is resumed the condition of the laboring class will be better, even with the low wages now ruling, than it was during the last season, on account of the large de cline in flour and potatoes. If the pres ent status continues, there will be much destitution and want and large drafts upon the charitabie, who, to the honor of their humanity be it said, are not slow to honor these drafts, as the large contributions to the relief fund of last winter abundantly shows. But there is a way out of all these complications, and patience, temperance, industry, frugality and the natural laws will yet open the door to a substantial and abiding prosperity for us and for the peo ple of the whole land ; but the time is not yet, and it is for the educators of public opinion, and especially the newspapers of the land, to see to it that no poison is ming led in the remedies prescribed. MAC. The Prophet Dead. DEATH OF THE HEAD OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF THE LATTER DAY SAINTS-HIS WONDERFUL CAREER. SKETCH OF THE SECT OF JOSEPH SMITH Brigham Young died at his residence, in Salt Lakd City, on Wednesday of last week, from an attack of cholera morbus. For the following obituary of the dead Prophet we are indebted to the Philadel phia Times of the 30th ultimo : The renowned ruler of the Mormons of Utah, who died yesterday, was born in Whitingham, Vermont, June 1, 1801. His father was a farmer, and the boy re ceived but little education, being put at an early age to the trade of a painter and glazier. After arriving at years of matu rity he became connected with the Babtist Church as a member, and tradition has it that he preached occasionally. In 1832 he joined the Mormons at Kirkland, Ohio, was ordained as an elder, and was number ed as one of the twelve ipostlea. As sech he was sent to the Eastern States in 1835 to make proselytes and met with great success. After Joseph Smith's death in 1844 Young was one of the four who aspired to the presidency, to which office he was unanimously elected by the Apos- tles. The choice was generally ratified by the sect, and his chief opponent, Sidney Rigdon, was soon afterward excommuni cated. After the revocation of the charter of Nauvoo and the bombardment of the city, Young set out in 1816, accompanied by his followers, and after a fatiguing march over the plains arrived at Great Salt Lake valley, which he induced them to believe was the promised land. Here, in July , 1847, he foundered Salt Lake city, managed to become the supreme ruler of the colony, aad iu 1819 organized the State of I)eseret,which soon after sought to be admitted to the Union. Congress re fused to grant the request, but in 1850 the Territory of Utah was organized and Young appointed Governor for a term of four years. Beipg succeeded in 1854 by a Governor who was not a Mormon he began to bid defiance to federal authority and the laws. Matters came to a crisis in 1857, when President Buchanan appointed Alfred Cumming Governor of Utah Terri tory giving him a military force of 2,500 men, to whom the Mormons peaceably sub mitted. On August 29, 1852,Young pro mulgated the "celestial law of marriage," which, it was predicted, had been reveal ed to Joseph Smith in July, 1843, and which sanctioned polygamy. This was immediately denounced as a forgery by Smith's widow and four sons, who be came the heads of a schism in the church. Although the imputation of either the doctrine or the practice of polygamy was several times emphatically and explicitly denied by the Mormon apostles Brigham Young's personal power was so great as to enable him to make it an institution of the church without much difficulty. He took to himself a considerable number of wives, most of whom resided in the building call ed the "lion house," from an immense lion, carved in stone, standing on the portico. His fifteenth wife left him in 1847, peti tioning the United States Court for a di vorce. Besides his Ace of president of the Church, Yonng occupied that of Grand Archee of the Order of Danites, a secret society within the Church, and derived therefrom no considerable part of his abso lute power. By managing to direct the trade and industry of the community prin cipally to his own advantage he I?ecame,solue years before his death, immensely wealthy. The Mormons, or, as they call them• selves, the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints, whose leader died yes terday, founded in 1830 .by Joseph Smith, at Manchester, N. Y., have, since 1847, been settled in the Territory of Utah, now number about 200,000 souls, The pecu liarities of the sect are in religious respects, the belief in a continual divine revelation through the inspired medium of the proph et at the head of the Church ; in moral respects the practice of polygamy,and in so cial respects a complete hierarchical ovgan ization. The government of the Mormons is a pure theocracy, its officers forming a perfect priesthood. The supremg power, spiritual and temporal, rests with the first presidency elected by the whole body of the church, and until yesterday composed of Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball and Daniel C. Wells. Then follow the office of Patriach, at present held by the nephew of Joseph Smith; then the Council of Twelve Apostles and of the Seventy Disci ples ; then the Orders of High Priests, bishops, elders, priests, teachers and dea cons. Of the first presidency, two mem bers are only coadjutors, one alone being the head of the organization—the prophet, the seer, who alone has the right of re• ceiving revelations and working miracles. The belief in the continual revelation en joins an absolute obedience to all its com mands on the persons who accept it, and is the corner stone of the Church. The Mormons accept both the Bible and the Book of Mormon as revelations, but hold them subject to the explanations and corrections of the prophet. Thus polygamy was originally condemned by the Book of Mormon, but Joseph Smith, who was a gross sensualist received a revelation in 1843, according to which it was not only permitted but recommended. The Book of Mormon was the legitimation by which Joseph Smith first ;ntroduced himself to the world, pretending that an angel from heaven' appeared to him and told him where it could be found, and Smith after wards produced a numb°, of gold plates with hierogriphic incriptiors, which he asserted he had found at the spot indicated by the angel, and upon them he erected a mass of superstitious nonsense and idolatry. The Modern Wonder. -1 A TALK THROUGH THE TELEPRON! AN A DESCRIPTION OF BELL'S INSTRIY: MENT. On a bracket in the private office of Mr. T. B. A. David, of the Central District Telegraph Company, corner Fifth avenue and Wood street, there stands a queet tie walnut-wood box, about 10 inches long, six high and eight wide. On a desk, in the o ffi ce of the Western Irod Asses:4llon; Hostetter's new block, Fourth avenue, the twin brother of the little box is reposing. Near each box is a device like a hen/ stamp, flaring at one end and attached to loose wires at the other. These devices are the first specimens of Prof Boll's tel ephone—that marvellous machine WITA must do for telegraphy what the spectro scope has done for astronomy, or the loco motive for inter-communication. From the end of each box projects what appear ed to be the mouth of a speaking tube, and from the opposite end, two connecting wires emerge, joining the two boxes,wh ich, in this case, were less than one-fourth of a mile apart. The movable device described, as resembling a hand stamp, is for placing against the ear in receiving messages, anti the speaking tube in the box must receive the words to be transmitted. In this 1111 chine, however, the voice can be applied to the ear-machine and the ear to the mouth piece of the box, and message§ transmitted nearly as well. Yesterday.af ternoon, a Chronicle representative being at either end of the wires—one at each of the above described boxes—communication was established. The word "Hello" Wild. called into the Fourth avenue box, and di rectly a still, small voice answered at the ear, "Hello, what do you want ?" The tones came as though the speaker was at. the remote end of a very long tube, and, after the ear had become somewhat famil iar with the unwonted sounds, they were very distinct and satisfactory. Even the different. qualities in the voices of different persons could be noted. The whistling of an air was also transmitted clearly. speaking, all that was necessary was ar clearness of utterance, and in listening, as alertness of the ear was requisite. The mechanism of this wonderful nitehitie t • is simple in its construction, but the wanner in which the telephone does its work re- quires some familiarity with the electri cian's profession to clearly comprehend.. In the Bell telephone, the vibmtleos of the air caused by the voice, agitate or vi brate a disk of thin iron, precisely as sound waves vibrate the tympanum of the eke' In the latter organ, back of the tympanum, lay the complicated organs of bearing. Itt the Bell telephone, just back of the iroat, disk there lies, at right angles to it, a mag netized bar of steel, or permanent magnet, whose ends project to within a very small distance of the metal disk. When the lat ter is vibrated by the air waves produced by the speaker's voice, this small distanoe is increased and decreased in rapid woes sion. But at no time does the disk aboe• lutely touch the magnetized bar. This vibration of the disk, causes electrical Cc- Lion • "tension," electrically epeakie?' which quality is that which reproduces tie voice at the other end of the wire audja. the other disk or aphragm. No be4grziff, brought into use, but the agitation oftiett receiving disk, acting as deseribeditilicitt: bination with the magnetic quality of,* bar of steel, produces the results ;Wiled by the instrument. Through its infancy, this matvellons inveation can be made available is the most practical manner, and all who desire s to inspect the device and test its powers, are invited by Mr. David to step into his office in the First National Bank building and take the evidence of their own senses!: With the Bell telephone, distance virtually , amounts to nothing. The manufacturer, in his office can issue verbal orders to the . foreman or manager at his mills away as readily as though the two were oar opposite sides of a desk. In fact, this device gives miles of slender wire the capacity and communicative power of a few feet of : speaking tube, and its applicability to. business purposes seems almost endless. Pittsburgh Chronicle. A Terrible Experience. • AWFUL CONDITION OF A YOUNG MAI 4, FROM THE USE OF OPIUM In the New York Tombs there is a ter: rible example of the use of'bpium. Henry' L. Sanford is now twenty-eight years old; and began to take morphine about seven( years ago, because whisky did not satialy, "That," said he to a reporter of the INV; "had a splendid effect on me, ma4b „me lively and ambitions, and gave me an I amount of happiness cannot express id you. It transformed me at owe. I be. came strong and independent.. Neratina was too bard for me to undertake.. I speculated and made lots of money. A. 4 the end of two years my sufferings began?' He went to the lunatic asylum, but cosh not be cured. He soon west up to 4is grains a day, and began taking it by .iO4 jection, for it bad oozed to have any ofi feet if taken through the mouth. He hat used a hypodermic syringe, but losing thli got a common syringe, which he mild IA insert into the flesh without first eutting a hole. He used to take a razor and eni a gash in his thigh and then with thi scissors bore a hole into the flesh, into which he would insert the syringe and ject the morphine. During the last two years he has taken over sixty grains a day, and has often taken over one drachm, which is equal to five hundred grains of opium. He is in jail for stealing sgsginai instruments, which he disposed of to...gut ; chase the poisonous drug, and he /esciiVp his sufferings thus : "If I wasnsteO l hOpt leas I'd soon be out of this hell Psi io. I have no fear of the next world. • Time* if nothing in this for me. For over ty.9 years I have been dead. There is no blood in inc. I can eat nothing, and that which would keep life in me I cannot get. Even when asleep I have no rest. lam eon. stoutly dreaming of being thrown iw amoag a lot of dead and being compelled to ea, their flesh. I know when I wake be, covered as I am with cold persPiritioff, that it is but a dream, bat the effect of lit makes my desire for morphine a tartars. I would kill my owe father in a minste if I could get enough for one dose. Mei the desire comes on me I would not 44„- change the morphine for Heaven. Givb me the dose and then hang me-if you like. I don't care what they do with me after at get the morphine." Imagination eag hardly picture a more awful condition sf body and mind than this. - - - AT a recent revival meeting held at Bad Az, Mich., a young man concluded a fer vent address by saying, "I wish to bea friend of the friendless, a the to the fatherless, and a widow to the widowleEs." j _ `~ NO. 35. .;