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Hypocrisy.
BY A BIGGS PITGI.E.
Hypocrisy, accursed bane
Of life, divine and social,
The mind may trace its origin,
To Eden's bowers ambrosial,
When man, in pristine purity,
Dwelt in those shades primeval
In favor and security,
'Twas practiced by the devil.
When Love devised the holy plan
Of man's complete salvation,
Behold I right in redemption's van,
Accursed dissimulation.
And now that Zion's walls assume
Significant dimensions,
This demon of eternal gloom,
Sows broad-cut fell dissensions.
It penetrates the holy air
That fills the church's altar,
And overwhelms with black despair
The souls of those who falter.
It intercepts the soothing tide
Of Love's emolient river ;
Beholds unmoved the crucified,
Beneath the torturer's quiver,
Though mercy's tears in torrents fail,
It bars the church's portal ;
Pollutes salvation's cup with gall,
And slays the sou immortal.
Disrobes the Deity, and spills
The blood of Christ as water,
Q„Ch avenue of mercyfills,
With unrelenting slaughter.
Hews down the Cross of Calvary,
And on its site upraises,
A monument to levity,'
For man's impotent praises.
Let Zion's heralds still condemn "
The Devil's glittering pageant,
But don't forget my present theme,
His most successful agent.
*torß-Etiter.
RESC U ED.
BY HELEN FOREST GRAVES
"I don't like it at all," said Miss Esteott,
"The flowers are vulgarly massed ; the
feathers are hot-looking, and that rope of
Roman pearls stretched across the crown
is dowdy in the extreme."
Madame Bassompierre, the fashionable
French milliner, gave a little deprecating
smile and courtesy at each one of these em
phatically announced opinions.
"But, Miss Estcott—" she ventured to
insinuate, as the spoiled beauty paused fur
breath. _
"There are no buts about it !" pronounced
Victoria Estcott, dominantly. "The bon
net is perfectly horrid, and I shall not take
it. Pray, who trimmed it 7"
At this question, Madame Bassompierre
looked inquiringly at the tail, slender girl
who had brought the box into the room.
She colored deeply ; the tears sparkled
out under her long lashes.
"I trimmed it, madame," she faltered,
a a tone that was almost inaudible.
"Take it back again in the work-room !"
said Madame Bassompierre, savagely.—
"Miss Estcott is not suited with it; and.le‘
Mrs. Farley bring in some of those exqui
site hats that we imported from Paris in
the Belle Helene, last week."
But, apparently, Miss Estcott was de
termined not to be pleased with anything
that morning, and she finally swept out of
the show room without having made a
choice.
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Madame Bassompierre followed her to .
the door ' with the sweetest and most en
gaging of smiles ; but the instant Miss
Estcott was gone she frowned darkly.
"Spoiled, arrogant thing !" muttered she,
setting her teeth close together. "One
need have the patience of Job to cope with
a New York heiress ! Farley, send Mike
Wrynde here!" .
Once more the tall, slender girl, with,
the hazel brown eyes, that were heavy with
tears. and the pale cheeks, ,came into
Madame Bassompierre's presence;"
"You are discharged," , said madnme,
sharply. "No, don't attempt to argue the
question—indeed, it isn't worth while. A
girl who can't trim a hat to suit my best
custom, cannot expect to be retained in my
employment. -Mrs. Farley will settle with
you up to date!'
"But, madame—" ga.Qpedili4ilOi girl,
looking like a frightened lawn, into whose
heart an arrow had entered
Madame .Bassompierre lifted. a iwaraing
finger. • •
"Pray spare my poor ilerves,"'l4o she.
"I am compelled to discharge you.. Be so
obliging as to leave the room !"
And Coral Wynde obeyed.
. •
Miss Eseott's claret-olored brougham
rolled up to the door next day, and Miss
Estcott, came in all smiles.
"I'll look at that hat again, madame,"
said she. "Upon second thought,rve come
to the conclusion that it was really very
pretty. Only I was cross and out ortemper
yesterday, and nothing looked right to
me."
Madame Bassompierre was very sorry—
very sorry—but the hat had been taken to
pieces, being. so unfortunate as to.. m,eet
With Miss'Estcott's disapproval, anB='
"Then let it be trimmed again. By the
same hand," said the imperious , young j l
beauty, "and as nearly as possibla in the
same style. That rope of Roman pearls
has haunted me all night."
"I regret that it is quite impossible,"
said madame, with a puzzled look: "I
have discharged the young person wbo."
"That tall, pretty girl, with the shining
.brown hair and the dove like eyes ?"
"Miss Coral Wynde—Yes."'
"Discharged her ? And only because I
was captious enough to find fault with ler
work ?". cried Victoria, impetuously ,
"Was not that reason enough ?" obse
quiously smiledMadime.BassOnipietie.
"No," said Victora, "I don't think it
was. Be so good as to give me her address.
If I've lost her her place, it's only fair
that I should try and do something to help
ber. And to think that all this came from
one careless word !"
"I am very sorry," said Madame BO
sompierre ; "but it is quite out of my power
to give you her address. I have nor get it
myself. I never had it. We have so many
young persons in our employ that—"
"And can none of your people obtain it
for me 2" interrupted Misa Estcott.
Madame did not think that they could ;
and Victoria went away with a troubled
ache at her heart. m.
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"Why can't I learn to hold my tongue r
she asked herself, clasping her small,
plump bands so vengefully together .that
the sparkling rings- made red, angry dents
on the fair, pick flesh. "Why can't I
control my temper ? I shall never fOrget
the tears in that poor girl's eyes, the quiver
on her lip ! And I—to call myself a
Christian woman !"
HENTINGDON, PA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1878.
Victoria Estcott went home in no en
viable mood that night.
It was scarcely a week afterward that
Miss Estcott was crossing the Brooklyn
Ferry, toward twelve o'clock at night.
Miss Estcott on a Brooklyn ferry-boat
was rather an unusual sight, but she had
been spendiug the evening there, and in
consequence of some misunderstanding be
tween her own maid and the coachman,
, her carriage had not been sent, as ordered,
and St. George Fawcett, the brother of the
youtig friend she had visited, had volun
teered to escort her safe home.
•Victoria didn't at all dislike this idea
of his companionship. The night, early in
April, was soft and balmy, and altogether,
Miss Estcott regarded it in the light of a
gipsey-like adventure.
"Isn't it lovely ?" said she, looking
brightly around—"the lights reflecting in
the river, and the salt air rushing against
one's cheek ? One never sees this cooped
up in a carriage and—Good heavens !
who is that ?''
It was a face—the face of a, tall, slight
young girl, wrapped in some dark, pall-like
garment, who leaned upon the guards of
the boat, and looking intently down into
the,UatrOwy flight' of the waves. Victoria
never would have seen her pale cheek, the
t -oubled.,•dark. eyes, had it not been for
the illumination cast on it by the lantern
of a deck hand.
Tho deck hand himself stopped, and
looked irresolutely back.
"Beg pardon, said he, "but you're
in an unsafe place there. The board is
slippery, and there ain't much to hold by,
araif you should get a jostle—"
The girl drew hack into herself with a
petulent jerk, as if the words irritated her,
and that moment Victoria Esteott recog
nized Coral Wynde's pale face and large,
g4,ttqiw; eye?. .
She rose nervously to• her feet. Just
then, the boat (washed against the floating
piles of the pier, and the slight, slender
figure made a rush toward the dark and
lurid waves that surged below.
flow she did it, Victoria Esteott could
never afterward tell, but she sprang for
ward and caught Coral Wynde in her
arms, although the unpremeditated spring ,
nearly precipitated her, too, into the boil
ing depths of the black tides.
"Don't V' She cried. "For God's sake,
don't throw away your life !"
Coral struggled frantically with her
rescuer for a second or two.
"Let me go,''. she cried—"oh, let me go
lam alone; lam starving ! Why do you
not let me ,go ?"
And then she fell fainting into Victoria
Estoott's arms.
All this happened when the April
shower& were dimpling the waves, and the
soft 'April green:was smiling up in all the
parks ; and when Victoria Estcott was
married, in June—married to St. George
Fawcett, of course—a tall, pale girl was
helping her with her wedding trunks and
"marriage garments."
'And mind you're in the houie to wel
come us, dear when we come back from
Niagara,"''Say Victoria. "Because you
are my sister now and home won't seem
heme wiibOat
And Coral Ws,n4e smiled back, ~vith
shy, sweet eyes, wondering how it can
possibly be that she is so radiantly happy
—she was all alone in the world but a few
weeks since.
"It must 'be because God is good !" she
ponders, to herself.
But when Victoria looks at the sweet,
dove calm face, and thinks what might
have been, all through, her careless words,,
she shudders and grows pale.
6butatinal .1: after.
Our Common Schools.
- We find the following excellet digest of'
the report of the Superintendent of Public
ItiMtiction for 1877 in the Altoona Tri
budift : V
Among the prominent topics discussed
in the report is a revision of the school
laws. As they exist at present, they are a
mass of fragments, wanting in clearness,
cumbered with useless vet biao e e and with
out logical ,coberence. The basis of the
whole is the act of 1834, but ever since
that time new laws . have been passed mod
ifying and supplementing that act, until
we•new have a body of enactments some
tithes' ineomPlete, Often inconsistent, and:
always 'dilEcult , of interpretation The Su
perintendent recommends the appointment
of a commission by the Legislature to take
charge of this unwieldly mass of laws and
decisions,and digest the same, and report
to that body in compact firm the laws
covering the whole subject -of education
in the State.
In regard to school Organizations in
cities, the Superintendent is convinced
from wide observations of the workings of
school boards, in this and other countries,
that such organizations are most efficient
with the following features : 1. A single
school board, elected by the people on a
general ticket,without respect to wards, no
elector being 'allowed to vote for more
than half the number to be elect
ed, thus freeing the board from partisan
influence. 2. A Superintendent, an ex
pert in matters of education, as the execu
tive officer of the board, with such assizt
ants as may be necessary to organize the
system, examine and instruct the teachers,
inspect the schools, and perform such pro
fessional work as may be assigned him. 3.
The taxes for school purposes to be levied
by the board,-collected in its name, and
the money paid out on its orders.
Prof. Wickersham thinks the cost of
text books used in the public schools in
this State is probably between two and
three millions of dollars annually, and is an
onerous tax upon the patrons of our schools.
The question arises whether this burden
can not be lessened ? There is no law al
lowing school directors any discretion in
the matter, though some have furnished
books to poor children where parents have
been unable to procure them, and also
purchased them at wholesale rates and sold
them to children in the schools at cost
prices, all of which is of doubtful legality.
After stating the advantage to be derived
to our school system by allowing boards of
directors to purchase books, as they do ap
paratus and appliances, free to all pupils
attending schools, and answering the few
objections that may be interposed to the
plan of free-text books, recommends the
passage of a law giving school boards dis
cretion in the matter.
The condition of the normal schools of
the State is discussed at some length. The
State can spend the amount of money re
quired for no other purpose that will bet
ter subserve her higbest interests than in
the Co.ttering care .of our normal schools.
The importance of the election of superin
tendents in the several counties and cities
next May is hard to estimate. That is the
best system of schools which is best super
vised. and the parties to whom the watch
, ful duty depends should have a sufficient
salary so as to prohibit them from follow
ing any other business interfering with its
performance. The high schools are strong
ly commended, and the objections to them
very conclusively answered. The evil of
children out of school Las grown no less,
and seems likely to increase unless some
measures be taken to check it. The pas
sage of a law is suggested, embodying the
following points : 1. Making it the duty
of school boards to use all proper ' efforts to
have every child of suitable age attend
school 2. Giving school boards the pow
er to order the arrest of children guilty of
habitual truancy; Vagrancy,'n'r non attend
ance at school. Providing for a fine
upon parents, guardians or persons having
charge of such negligent children. 4. Re
quiring every county or district to estab
lish and support a county home for friend
less children, to be under the control of
the school board or poor overseers,, and to
be disconnected entirely from the alms
house. 5. Securing the enthrcement of
existing laws in reference to employment
ofyouug children ab3ut mines, mills, shops,
factories, etc.
The. Superintendent dwells at considera
ble length on the• importance of education
for work, and is of the opinion that work
shop schools are needed at the present
time only in our cities and large towns.
The establishment need not necessarily add
to the expense of our system of public in
struction. Boards of directors. now have,
under our laws, full authority to establish
schobli of this character. The Superin
tendent couoludes with reference :to the
history of education in this State as com
piled by the E uperintendentivof - Old several
counties and cities of the commonwealth,
and asks the Legislature to provide the
means for printing the same in a',apecial
volume. The following statement, is a
summary of our school statistics for the
past year :
Number of school districts in the State.... 2,145
Number of scho015...,
Number of graded schools . .. 6,290
Number of school directors 14,120
Number of superintendents..
Number of teachers
Average salaries of male teachers per
month $37@38
Average salaries of female teachers per
month
Average length of school term in months 6.77
Number of pupils ....
Average number of pupils 575,597
Percentage of at , eniance upon the whole
number registered .74
Average cost of tuition per month for each
pupil
Cost of tuition for the
year 54,817,563 35
Cost of building, pur
chasing and rent
ing school houses 1,276 578 55
Cost of fuel, contin
gencies, dent and
interest paid
2,389,237 54
Total cost for tuition, building, feel
and contingencies
Total cost including expenditures of
alt kinds
8,583,379 44
Total State appropriatiou
Estimated value of school property 25,460,761 75
If we add to the sum expended for com
mon schools, as above $380,656.70, the sum
expended for orphan schools, we have $B,-
964,036.14, the full amoUtit e.xpended by
the State for school purposes during the
year 1877.
The changes in the most important items
of our school statistics, as compared with
last year, are as follows :
Increase in number of districts-- 4,2
Increase in number of schools 286
Increase in number of graded schools. 333
Increase in numberof school directors. 160,
Decrease in the average salary of mate
teachers per month ....... $248
Decrease in the average salary of te- •
male teaohers per month L3O
Decrease in school term in months 08
Increase in number of
Decrease in average number of pupils 3,121
Decrease in cost of tuition 530,325 58
Decrease in cost of building, parches-
ing and renting
Decrease in cost of fuel, contingencies,
debt and interest paid — 82,653 36
Decrease in cost of expenditures of all
kinds
Considering the shrinkage in valuei,
says Prof. Wickersham, ,it is not surpris
ing that there should be -a falling off du
mg the year of teachers' salaries, att,d
. in
other expenditures for Fchool purposes. It
is much to the credit of our school boards
and peOple that the falling off hasnt4 been
greater. The leagth of the school tern),
it will be observed, remains, within a very
small fraction, the same as last year ,
~cicct ticeUan+
As to Woman.
SUGGESTED. BY. THE CONVENTION OF FE-,
MALE S VITRA-GISTS,
.I.istory is full of woman's ,indireet in,
fluence for evil rn the direction of State
affairs, and we believe that it can be safely
said that no notable national crime has ever
been perpetrated in which some woman
has not participated.
What a benign influence on themorals
of the age was that exercised by Cleopatra,
or that of Jouna, of Naples, or Catharine
of Russia, or Catharine de Medicis, or, iu
fact, any one of the lovely list, from Semen.
amis down to the shameless wretch who
was but recently driven from the throne
of Spain !
What is their history but one long record
of shame, crime, and cruelty ? The fires
of Smithfield testify, to Bloody Mary's sweet
influence in English affairs, and the bloody
block on which Scottish Mary laid her
head to the touching tenderness that "Good
Queen Bess" displayed toward her rivals
and subjects, and even the mush-lauded
Isabella of Castile encouraged the estab•
lishinent of the Inquisition, drove the Jews
out of Spain, ' and, in violation of the
stipulations of her treaty with the Moors,
persecuted many of them. even unto death,
simply because they chose to adhere to the
faith of their fathers. Sacred history teems
with records of womaa's crimes and cruel
ties. That was not a very good influence
that Mrs. Potipharsought to exercise upon
the unsophisticated Joseph,and Mrs. Ahab's
gentle disposition didn't tend much to the
encouragement of longevity in prophets'
lives. Ruth's experience on the thrashing
floor with Boaz is not a very engaging
picture of inodest conduct, nor avery,good
example for young widows. • .•
Jael treacherously drives a nail into the
head of her sleeping guest, the fugitive
Captain Sisera, and is extravagantly com
mended for the act by Deborah, the gentle
female who judged Israel in those days.—
But why multiply instances ? Almost
every page of history is stained with them,
and the exceptional cases of good women
who have figured in affairs of State, only
prove the general rule of female depravity.
The Salic law, which for a time excluded
women from some of thrones in Europe,
dimbtless had its'
,oilgin in. a, profound
knowledge the se4 3?y its promulgator,
the great Charlemagne.— Washington Post.
Petroleum V. Nasby.
SILVER AT THE CORNERS-MR. NASBY,
FULL OF A FINANCIAL IDEA, ATTEMPTS,
ONCE MORE, THE FINANCIALRALVATION
OIigELE CORNERS. „ ,
[Prom the New York Evening Mail.]
' CONFEDRIT X ROADS, •
(Wich is in the State of Keetnekj).
lanuary 4, 1878.
Ez a matter of course, the Corners is
impecunious. There never wuz a time in
the history uv this place, that it' wuz't in
that state uv finanshel,helth ,The, disin
clinashen uv the people to labor—the por
ousnis uv ther clay with requires so much
likwid fillip, and the loss of time resuftin,
makes it extremely difficult foranything
like accumulashen to happen,. Cansekently
borrerin is the principal, industrial persoot,
wich would be' well enuf of there wuzn't
any payin. Payin is -Wat b'lites a man, and
cripples his energies. Payin is slowly, but
shoorly underminin the Corners, and sap
pin its prosperity. I hate pain It robs
a dollar of all its delito to know you hey
got to pay it agio, after you hey spent it.
'Vat I shood like wood be to hey dollars
wich reprodoose their selves. Ef two dol
Lars cood only marry and bey large fami
lies! That wood be suthin like.
The Silver bill wich Bland is pushin
pleases us here for several reasons. The
Corners is largely composed of the debtor
class. We are all in debt. That graspin
Shylock, Bascom, hex furnisht us the
necessaries uv life these twenty years, and
hez kept on "char fain it up," when we
didn't pay, with the remorselis accooracy
uv a feend. He never could get no mort
gage out uv me to secoor hisself fo'r the
reason that I don't happen to hey anything
to mortgage, but he does hold mortgages
on Deekin Program's place, and also on
every other place in the visinity,:fur money
lent and supplies furnisht. Wat happens ?
Why Bascom wants his pay. He sneer
ingly sez that of we don't expect to pay
wat do we drink fur ? "Kin I buy likker
in Looisville, and sell it to you without
pay ?" sez he
Ah ! cf he only knows how pleasant it
is to drink and how onpleasant it is to pay,
he would change his mind about it. But
there are very few large heartid men in
the world.
20,652
Bascom wants his money and Bascom is
consekently a Shylock. He is a oppressor,
and a grinder uv the faces uv the people.
We wood rise up in our wrath and mob
him, but alas! there ain't one uv us which
hez credit enuff fur a barl uv likker in
Looisville, and so we hev to endoor him.
Therefore when we heerd of this silver
biznis we wuz rejoist. Ef silver is made
a legal tender, and is only wuth 92 cents
oa the dollar now, we rescood our
selves from the grasp ttv this mercenary
cuss wich wants his money, S cents wuth
anyhow. And we .are satisfied it will go
longer than that. When Sharon and Jones
and the silver miners of Nevady hey got
things fixed so that they can pay wat they
owe in their own silver,
they will hist it
out to an extent which. will wake it ez
cheep ez cool be wished. Then we will
hey this yoosurer, which holds destruck
ahen over us. Our land —I am speekin uv
the other citizens now with hey land—will
go up ten times in valoo. Land wich is
now wuth $4O an acre will spin up to $4OO
—in sliver—and we will sell An acre 'or
two Oif our farms. . We, will sell .ennif to
git wat we owe Bascom, and we will load
a dart with it, and take it to that 'tinnier
ci:ful creditor, and compel him to take
and release us from his dominashen.
89 cts.
I see in my mind's eye that deer, tk
lightful old saint, Dekin Pogram, Makin a
deed for two acres uv the hundred and fifty
he hez. That miserable grindin Bascom
lent him $l,OOO four years ago, wich hez
bin runnin on interest ever sense, and he
hez a bar bill uv $3OO or more, making in
all perhaps $1.500 wich this Shylock holds
agin him. There will be a speckilator
from Looisville down to the Corners buyin
land.
"Deekin, wat will yoo ask me an aker
for two akers off the east side nv yoor
place" sez the speckilatoi.
"Mirandy," sez the deekin, "wat do I
owe that crooel, hard hearted Shylock uv
a Bascom ?"
"Oae thousand five 'hundred dollars,"
will be Mirandy's anser. •
"Sir," sez the deekin, "you kin hey two
akera far jist.sl,soo. I must git out uv
the clutches of that mcaster with demands
reinntselisly' the money he lent me Oh,
the hard heartiduie uv this world'! Thank
heaven I hey but a few more yeers uv it.
Mirandy, send the jag to Bascom's, and
tell him I'll try, to pay bii' suthin on ac
count next week."
And then the land will be sold (the two
akers), leavin the deekin 187, with is
enuff, and the deekin will load the silver
in his cart, and will take it over to Bas
coin's and dump it triumphantly down on
the floor, and demand his releese. Then
will he be free of this shark—he will sat
isfy this cormorant—he will walk the
streets erect, a free man. Then will every
body do likewise, but me, and I persoom I
will, fur silver will be so cheap that I kin
probably borrer enuff.,to pay the graspin
man wat I owe him.
We held a meeting last nite and re
solved that it was the sentiment uv the
Corners that silver shoold be remonetized,
and that resurnpshen shood be put off.—
The Corners will alluz resolve to put off
paying anythin. It was an enthoosiastic
meeting, made up entirely of the debtor
class. I made a stirrin speech wieh wood
hey hed an immense effect but for one
triflin drawback. I wuz dilatin on the
"Dollar uv the Fathers," and said with a
bust of elokence, "Look at this piece of
money ! It wuz this kind of money which
carried the country thro—"
It wuz an unfortunit way uv gittin at
things. Fur I didn't hey a piece uv silver
in my pockit, and I appeeled to the aujence
to hunt one-up that 'mite give pint to the
flite, but alas ! there wuzn't a piece uv
silver in the house, not even a dime l But
I turned this to akkount even. I pride
myself on hein able to pluck the flower
Safety from the nettle Danger. Most men
would have been disconcerted at this, but
not Me. "My friends,",l, sed, "when we
hey this silver bill past, I won't be caught
in this awkward fix. Every man in the
Corners will hey a cart-toad uv it.
And they give three cheers fur the 4-
ver bill, and adjourned.
PETROLEUM V. NASBY,
Pinanseer.
P. S.—That graspin Bascom hez throwed
a fire brand into the Corners. Ez silver
is at a discount uv eight per cent., he hez
watered his whisky jilt that amount. He
sez of we want to pay him in debased cur
rency, we hey got to take debased likker,
Thai man will hey to be killed yit.
A DAY of idleness tires more than a week
of work.
Two little souls, a boy and girl,
Wandering on to the foot of the hill,
Bushes of green and blossoms of pearl
Laugh at themselves in the roadside rill.
Crossing the lane a gorgeous jay,
Bathed in the light of a flattering ray,
Jauntily chatters, "Some day, some day !"
Two sweet souls, a man and .a maid,
(Beechen branches twisted above),
Picking the daisies which sprinkle a glade,
And trying their luck at a game of love.
"This . year I next year !" What do they say ?
And out of the beeches the curious jay
Peeps out and chuckles, "Some day,some day
Two old souls, at the end of the day
Follow them borne to the foot of the hill ;
One late gleam which has wandered astray
Breaks trom a copse and dimples the rill.
Autumn leaves are strewing the way,
And hoarse from the larch the hungry jay
Shouts out to the night, "Some day,some day I"
Two poor souls in the dead of night,
Side by side lie stiffened and
And the winter's moon just softens her light,
As it solemnly rests at the foot of the hill.
Remembering the bees and the buds and the
May,
The summer gold and the autumn gray,
And the warm green lane where the beetles
play,
In the crisp cold night the shivering jay
Croaks out of his dream, "Some day, some
day!"
Law a Hundred Years Ago. ,
The Aiban . y Lau Jotblict?lAdrin
History of Easternll4l;nont, r sonie*Oti'nnt:
of the laws whioli were in.foree , a butuired.
years ago : " ""
"Burglary was punished, by: l a toftike
with a B in the forehead, and nailing : one,
of the offender's ears- by a post, and cutting
it off, and whipping; for thOsetitiddffenee .
there was the like branding,. and , nailing,.
and eutting off of the' other ear; - .for , the ,
third 'offence the OhiSfiniehr Viff ., death;
the offender being.4eemed,lncorriible.','
Counterfeiting was purrished-by enttimg oft
the right ear, branding yrith'•C; 'and,per
petnal punishment. .PeriUry,Was punished
by a fine of £5O and imprisontnesit•foraiz
months, but if the offender entild' Mit' pay
I the fine he was Jet off by Sitting' in the
pillory two hours, and having both ears
nailed and cut off. Wilful lying, to public
prejudice or private injury, or deceiving or
injuring the people with false news or re
ports, was punished by fine, sitting in the
stocks and whipping, the punishment being
increased with each repition of the offence,
except in no case was the stripes to eiched
the number of thirty nine. Theft was
punished by compelling threefold restitu
tion, by fine and by a sort of temporary
slavery, the prosecutor being empoWered
to dispose of the offender in service to any
subject of the State
to
such time as he
should be assigned to the prosecutor by
the court. "Unseasdnable night walking,"
that is to say, after nine o'clock, was pro
hibited, as was also the convening of per
sons under, the government of parents,,
guardians or masters after that untimely
hour. "Tavern haunters" were punished'
by posting their names at thedoor of every
tavern, and ptohititing, , stire — ta.vern-keeper
from supplying then] with anything in the
way of strong drink. No clamorous dis
course, shouting, hallowing,screaming, run
ning, riding, dancing, jumping, swimming
or blowing of horns, was tolerated on the
Lord's day. Listeninc , outside of the
meeting-house during th e time of public
worship was not permitted. , Secular meet
ings of any number, of persons, ,in . the
street or elsewhere, on Saturday or Monday •
evening•were forbidden, tinder penalty. - of'
fine or stocks. '
•
"Mr: Hall gives several hotable , .
of popular legal errors prevailing ,in Ver ,
wont. One notion-was that if the•friends•
of one dying 'in prison carried his , remains ,
beyond the o . undarieS' of:the jail yard ',
they were accomplices in a t ia; ""escape," antl
liable to satisfy tne jedgment,by virtue
.of'
which he had been , .confined. Another
notion was that if one' should 'bury 'the
body of' an imprisoned debtor,: he 'thereby .
became admieistrator in his own, Wrong,
and liable to discharge the debtor's ohli-,
gations. In the case of Judge Chandler,
who died while confined in jail for - debt,
his interment became a serious 'probtem.
In this predicament the jaitor• discovered.
that by stretching the chain he -.could in,
elude within •the jail liberties-a email, per,
tion of the adjoining burying•grointi& A.
grave was dug, commencing just - outside
the graveyard fence, an . .d.j0.0, 36;ichp, ' „the
jail yard, sloping under:thermic°, until_ a,
sufficient depth and obliquitywasiebtaine
So Judge Chandler' Warr berried' after- a!!
christian fashion, and . yet 'he "escape was''
suffered,"
Treahnent of Inverted Toe-Nails.
Lvery practitioner,,proba y,
ed with this. affection. Every- .00q.keows,
also, thavtbe•various , plans .ef • treabment3
Rgenerally pursued are very' unsatisfactory..
emoial of the . liail,•or Apart Ofi, to*
generally considered, the .only Certain ,rein-.
edy. . This procedure is,, to: say the least,
barbarous. The purpose of that article is 4
however, not to discuss the aceepted . modes
of:treatment,:4l# to iicoMMend a hoode of
treatment that has been empl6yed. hy. the
writer for about four years,
.whiohlasteem
highly satisfactory It is, simply to apply
the muriated tincture of iron to' the 'Dail
and the surrounding, ulcerated 'O4 'gtiinti
lated surface, once or twice a., ;34,.
camel's hair peacil. .. As ageneral- rule v to
apply it once a day,ut bed-limo, will beseF
ficient: The-Ulcerated Surface - heals with , .
astonishing'rapidity;
,and the nail assrinieS
its,normal appearance,, making.A OM:dote
cure, in most cases, in .a few weeks.,
. .
I commenced , asieg this remedy,- I. have
done uothin i i else in such ' cases. Perirtt
and Citttiog the corners of the Oaf! tisitia/ly
ao.more 'harm thangood:'ticket
temptito speak of the modus ope,randi, 4):f
the remedy, the object .being Merely to
recommend 'a trial of it to others.-4 Dr.
W. ukill, Medical
j cptcl Sikaiq . ..??etbrt
7 -
,er Phila. ,
WHEN the present Khedive of Egypt
succeeded Said Pacha, his private'eitates
.did not exceed tO,OOO , ficrfs...*t:tbe Kea
ent -moment the,libectilys,is his qip, INP 3 O
and• is that of! his Maher -and sehildsea,:
owns upward of I:;ooo,ooo , ficres , --that , is,
'fully one-frfn'of the WhOleciiititible soil
of Egypt.
As THY deepest hate- may spring from
'the deepest love, ao the greatest ingratitude
may arise from the largest benefits.'' It is
said that Cicero was slain by oue,„wboM
his oratory had defended when accused of
his father's murder. , ,
WHEN a man is treating a' kaliing
widow to oysters, and sees his wife Coming
into the restaurant, about all he can do is
to button his coat and hang to his chair,
and trust in Providence.
P. V. N.
EXPEDIENCY is the science of exigen
cies.
A Picture.
ir, : t f•i ..7
The Marvels of Man.
While the gastric juice has a mild, bland,
sweetish taste, it possesses the power of
dissolving the hardest food that can be.
swallowed. It has no influence whatever
on the soft and delicate fibres of the living
stomach, nor upon the living hand, but et
the moment of death it begins to eat. them •
away with the power of the strongest
acids.
There is dust on sea, on land, in the val
ley and on the mountain-top, there is thing
always and everywhere ; the atmosphefre is
full of it; it penetrates the noisome dun
geon and visits the deepest, darkest (*vs ,
of the earth ; no palace door can shut, it
out, no drawer so secret as to escape its'
presence; every breath of wind dashes it
upon the open eye, yet that eye is not
blinded, because under the eyelid there is
incessantly emptying itself a, fountain of
the blandest fluid in Nature, which spreads
itself over the surface of the eye at every
winking and washes every atom of dust
away. But this liquid, so mild and so well
adapted to the eye itself, has some aoridi
ty, which, under certain circumstances, be
comes so decided as to be scalding to the
skin and would rot away the eyelids were
it not that along the edges of them there
are little oil manufactories, which spread
over their surface a coating as impervious
to the liquids necessary for keeping the eye
ball washed clean, as the best varnish is
impervious to water.
The breath which leaves the lungs has
', been so perfectly divested of its life-giving
properties that to re breathe it, unmixed
' with other air, the moment it escapes From
the mouth, would cause immediate death
by suffocation, while if it hovered about us
a more or less destructive influence oyer
health and life would be occasioned. But
, it is made of a nature so much lighter than
the common air that the instant that It es- •
capes 'the lips and nostrils it ascends to
the higher regions above the breathing ,
pint, there to be rectified, renovated sod
sent back again, replete with purity and
How ow rapidly it ascends is beautifully
exhibited every frosty morning.
But, foul and deadly as the expired air
is, Nature, wisely economical in all her
works and ways, turns it to good account,
in its outward passage through the organs
of the voice, making of it the whispers of
love, the soft words of affection, the tender
tones of human sympathy, the sweetest
strains of ravishing music, the persuasive
eloquence of the finished orator.
It' a well made man be extended on the
ground, his arms at right angles with the
body, a circle, making the navel its +motes,
will just take in the head, the finger-ends
and the feet. The distance from tfp to
toe is precisely the same as that between
the tips of the fingers when the arms are
extended. The length of the body is past
six times that of the foot, while the dis
tance from the edge of the hair on .tha,
forehead to the edge of the chin is one
tenth the length of the whole nature.
Of the sixty-two primary elements known
in Nature, only eighteen are found in the
human body, and of these seven are metal
lic, Iron is found in the blood,phospho
rous in the brain , limestone in the bile,
lime in the bones, and dust and ashes in
all ! Not Only these eighteen human ele
ments, but the whole sixty-two of which -
the universe is made, have their-essential
basis in the four substances of oxygen,, hy
drogen, nitrogen and carbon, representing
the more familiar names of fire, water, salt
petre and charcoal. And such is man, the
lord of earth ! A spark' of fire, a drop of
water, a grain of gunpowder, an atom -of .
charcoal !—Hall's Journal of Health.
Honor Your Profession.
It is a good sign when a man is proud
of his own work; yet it is a common oe-.
currence to hear men constantly finding
fault with their business or profession, and
deeming themselves unfortunate because
compelled by necestity of gaining a liveli
hood to stick to it. In this spirit men fret,
and laboriously destroy all their comfort in
work.
jt sometimes happens that a man fails to
life because he is tiot in the place he is fit
ted by nature to fill. It happens ten times
oftener that the failure results from neg
lect and even contempt of an honest busi
ness, and he would not prosper any hatter
in any other profession that does not have
its cares and vexatious.. No man• will es
cape annoyance by exchanging from one
occupation to another No mechanical,
business is entirely agreeable. Commerce,
in its endless varieties, is affected like's]]
other pursuits, with trials, unwelcome du
:ties and spirit-tiring necessities. Ne man
'should search out the frets and burdens of
his calling, and give his mind to a taknaid
eration of them daily. They belong to hu
man life—they are inevitable. Brooding,
then, Only gives them strength. On The
other hand, man has a power given him to
shed beauty and pleasure upon the hum,
blest toil, if be is wise. Let a man adopt
his business, and identify it with his life,
and cover it with pleasant association . ..
Heaven has given us imaginations, not
alone to make some men poets, but to ena
ble all to beautify things. Accept your
lot as a man does a piece of rugged ground,
and begin to get out the rocks and roots,
to deepen and mellow the soil', to enrich
and plant it. There is something in the
most forbidding avocation around which
may, twine pleasant fancies, out of which
may be developed an honest pride. A man
can impart to a business a flavor of lonor
by his own conduct, which shall make 'it
hereafter more creditable to any one who
enters it Franklin left upon the printing
office an impress which has benefited the
whole profession of printers. Blacksmiths
love to speak of the uneanonised Elibta
Burritt. Once let a man convert his bus- •
loess into an instrument of honor, benevo
lence, and patriotism, and from that mo
ment it is transfigured, and men judge its
dignity and merit, not by what it ester.
nally is, but by what it has done and can
do. It is far better to stick to your.pro
fession, snd by patient industry and hon
orable enterprise crown it with honor, than
to run away from it and seek prosperity
ready made to your hand. It is not what
amen finds that does him good, but what
he does.— Quadrat.
NOSE AND LIPS.—A sharp nose and
thin lips are considered by physiognomist'
certain signs of a shrewish disposition. As
a criminal wa.: once on his way to the gal
lows, proclamation was made chat if any
Woman would marry him under the gal
lows, with the rope around his neck, he
would receive pardon. "I will," cried' a
crackf3d voice from amid the crowd. The
culprit Jesired the eager candidate for
matrimony to approach the cart, which she
did, and be began to examine her *counten
ance. "Nose like a knife," said he, "lips
like wafers. Drive ye, larva I"
S 1:711 st an]: for the 10-LIINAL.
NO. 4.