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With reverent love we rescue,
Though centuries despoi:,
The statues and the pictures
Of artists' sacred toil;
Who sings the patient thousands
That ground their stone and oil ?
0, men of sturdy muscle,
By them the world grows fair;
The nameless patient thousands,
Who in no glory share ;
But unto toil and danger
Daily their bosoms bare.
The noble, patient thousands!
0, careless world and blythe,
13e grateful and unloosen
Each needless ohain and withe,
And give them of your triumphs
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THE STORY OF A BROTHER'S REVENGE
"It won't last long I Can you bear it,
baby ?" and with a wild look in her great,
brown eyes, she clasped the wee thing
tighter to . her breast and went rapidly to
ward the rocky ledge that hung over the
ocean. She had played here a thousand
times in her childhood; had watched the
tide creep lazily in and out on a summer's
day, or, wild and tempesttous, dash ships
with their precious lives upon the rocks.
The ocean was like a lover. It could be
ail things.
"Wili it be very cold for the baby—mv
baby—his baby ? Will he mind it much ?
The birds sang sweetly. and the baby cooed,
and the mild spring air brought up the
breath of the violets For a moment she
filtered. If life were only birds and blos
soms, but it was not, and, with a last kiss
on her baby, and a death-like grasp, a leap,
a struggle, and all was over.
Missing'
Grace Reeverly was missing, but the
ocean told no tales.
The little Atlantic village was stirred
from centre to circumference. A lovely
girl, confiding in nature and pure as snow,
she bad been the pet and pride of the
townsfolk. Her voice was clearest in the
choir of the little church ; her hand was
gentlest on the head of the poorest and
roughest child, and the village school-mas
ter thought she repaid his teachings a
thousand fold by her intelligenc,e.
There had come a young physician of
good family to the town, a young man of
manly physique and agreeable manners
Acquaintance grew into love and the good
people looked on with joy, that providen
tially their loved one had found one worthy
of her. He had been trained in city ways.
Either woman was not a sacred thing to
him, or, matching her artlessness with his
art, he judged wrongfully when he tested
her virtue by her self-forgetting love. Per
haps it was not true, as 13uffon says, "that
every person has his price." All may not
fall, under the strongest temptation, but
most err because they blindly trust a
leader who leads them over a precipice. Is
there no remedy ? Mothers
. must do more
than they have. Girls must knew that
life is full of quicksands, and boys, that
virtue is of God, and the destroyer of it,
if not always punished here, will meet a
deserved hell hereafter.
Missing!! The whole town knew the
story; how be had deserted her, claiming
that a woman who could be won was un
worthy of him; bow the day for the bridal
came and went; how Grace and her aged
mother wept and prayed how, whet] the
baby came, she hid its darling face against
her breast, so that nobody ever looked
upon it save the mother, for beautiful
though it was, it had his face ; how the
springtime came and the fresh May morn
ings, but no color came to the whitened
cheeks, but a strange unusual brilliancy
into her eyes, and then the old mother was
alone!
Everybody was questioned, but uubody
had seen her. The aged woman crept
down to the ocean day by day, but the tide
came in bringing only sea-weed and empty
shells. One morning, far up the beach,
kindly hidden from sun and storm, under a
clump of trees, some boys at play found
the missing ones. Her child was held fast
in her arms. The sea weed was wound in
and out as though to bind the hands still
closer, lest the weakness of death unlock
them and let go her treasure.
The town had a common sorrow. At the
burial the little church was crowded All
the way to the graveyard that lay just
above the sea, where the waves sang con
stantly to the sleepers, there was an un
broken procession. From that day no
woman ever spoke to the young physician.
He walked the streets unnoticed. He car
ried himself less proudly. Circumstances
would compel him to seek another home.
"Strange that in a country town a woman
was so highly prized," he thought. The
world was not all thus.
The aged mother soon lay beside Grace
and her baby.
The good ship BPtsey heaves in sight.
The news went like wild fire through the
town. The whaler of Captain Reeverly
(Grace's only brother) bad been on a ten
years' cruise. The crew were wild with
joy, swung their handkerchiefs long before
they got into port, hardly waiting for the
plank, and fairly embracing every person
who came within their reach. The people
whispered among themselves. Who could
tell the Captain what those ten years had
brought ? Nobody I After a few directions,
the bluff and generous hearted Captain
started eagerly toward the dear old home.
The old lady in the next house had stolen
over, unlocked the door and gone back
again. How light his step was as he went
over the threshold. Bow natural every
thing looked.
Pr .
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"Mother ! Gracie !"
No answer.
"Not a very warm welcome to a homeless
fellow ten years away !" he said. The old
lady had crept in.
"Your mother's gone, Captain. I hoped
you'd heerd on't afore you got here. Won
derful good woman ! Such clean house,
and so good to me ! She was allus askin'
me to a cup o' tea. Never had nothin' go
to my heart so since my John died !"
"And where's Grace ?"
LTY. -
"She and her baby's lyin' aside her !"
and then, between her sobs, the kind old
woman told the pitiful story.
A Song of Labor.
With wreaths of shining laurel
The hero's brow is bright;
Deep in the costly warble
His battle names we write ;
Who sings the patient thousands
.That won for him each fight?
The world rings with their praises
Who .•onquer land and sea,
By lines of speech electric
Or roads where ships sail free;
Who sings the patient thousands
That wruught each bolt and key
HUNTINGDON, PA,, FRIDAY MARCH 7, 1571.).
Reeverley'- eats grew very h1a...:.
and his lips very white lie went straight
way to the new graves. and. with eurses in
his hent, he wept like.a child. And that
man had been the cause There was much
talk in the village, but the Captain kept
his own choug,hts.
The Bet was readyl
ntue.i Ramer than
usual for the next trip The captain never
seemed so anxious to be away from the
town. Some lumber was laid in, with ex
tra quantities of corn, potatoes and un
ground flour, but why the men could not
divine. The night. for starting came.
There was a knock at the dour of the y....ung
physician who was just preparing to leave
the village. "You are to go on a journey,"
said the captain. 'Take your clothes and
books if you want 'em."
The young man struggled, but sailors'
arms were too strong, and he was hurried
on to the ship From that time on, no
one spoke to him save one sailor, when a
sailor was commanded to print in India ink
across his forehead, so that the world might
read, "This man robs womanhood," and.
on either hand, that it might be firever
in sight, the word "Grace."
That was an indescribable journey. Go
ing away from kindred, he knew not
whither, but he had sent another on a
longer journey. The days wore away in
bitter, stifling thoughts. What was their
plan for him ? how could he ever appear
before the world, branded as lie was ?
Would they bury him in the ocean, where
no law could reach them because the world
would say his penalty was just ? What.
would life amount to if he lived ? Where
would it be spent ? He slept and ate lit
tle. Lines were growing along his brow
and about his eyes.
After weeks of anguish an island came
in sight. Thither the ship turned her
course and gtopped. It was a desolate
place, with no sign of habitati6n for man
or beast. Rock bound, the ocean washed
up with the same souud it used to have
against the cliff, where Grace and he had
so often sat, and from whence she went to
her death. There was a solitary clump of
trees, just like the spot where they found
her body. :Nlust everything remind him
of her ?
The lumber was taken out Then quick
hands fashioned a rude shelter. Sufficient,
food was placed - in the hut, and s. , .ed for
planting. Theu, as the Betsey wade ready
fir starting. the captain said, in a cold,
bard way, •This is to be your home ! Re
member !"
"Great God ! No !" gasped the young
man, "kill me ! Do anything rather than
this death by inches. I shall go wild."
"Another went wild for von !" and the
Betsey moved out from her barren moor
ings, and there was only the. far off sky.
the limitless ocean and the desolate waste
whereon be stood.
Should he kill himself? A man who
robs another of life usually has not the
courage to rob himself. We are creatures
of necessity. We accept what we must.
With faltering steps he walked around his
prison. There was not one thing to love,
not a flower, or bird. Only the monotone of
the sea that had no kinship with joy.
Tired, broken, an old man in a day, he
flung himself down in his hut to sleep.
Nature is even kind to her enemies, and
he slept. lie dreamed that he and Grace
sat again on the headland, and she talked,
hi her purity and trust, of her confideue,
in him ; her belief that he could do no
wrong; of their peaceful and blessed fu
ture, and of the joy her brother would feel
when he came home, f_r he so reverenced
a nobly man. How pretty their home
should be down where they could hear the
waters as they heard them on . the cliff.
She was prettier than ever, he thought ;
her hand so smooth and white as he held
it, and her cheeks so delicately tinged with
red She trusted in him too fully ; would
that she doubted him a little, only that
he might show her how true he was ! Then
the scene changed, and he was away on a
far off journey, longing to get to her, but
an ocean rolled between. Every vessel he
essayed to enter sank, and some were far
away and would not come, though he hailed
them ever so loudly He cried cut in
agony of despair, when a voice, just like
that of Grace, said sweetly, "I come to
you!" and looking up, an angel stood be
side him, and it was Grace. Her hand
touched his forehead. He reached out to
clasp her in his arms and awoke. He was
alone ; alone on a barren island in the mid
die of the ocean, but he never forgot that
touch of her hand.
The hours and the days and the months
and the )ear's crept by with a snail's pace.
He planted the corn that burst through
the ground and took on blade and tasseled
ear, with no eye to see it save God's. He
read and reread his few books, and thought;
but oh, the desolateness of such a life I
Death would have been a mercy, but death
did not come. Every morning and even
ing were the same. Sabbath and week
days were alike to him. No word was
heard. He forgot the sound of him
voice. Year after year he strained his
eyes for a sail, but there was never one
in sight. Oh, to look upon a living thing ;
to see once more a human face :
Five year-4 went by and a sail was in
sight. With an intensity almost suicida.
he watched the ship draw nigh. Fears
mingled with his hopes. It was no d. , ubt
the Betsey, but what would that bring to
him ? She could not bring worse than she
had brought. She came alongside, dropped
anchor it seemed only for a minute, when
the Captain handed him some books and
said, in a hard old way •Remember !" the
only word spoken, and the Betsey was soon
lost in the horizon. His heart died within
him, but he had seen a face once more,
thank God for that, if onty a bitter enemy
His hair was grown quite white He
was older by thirty years than when he
came. How much longer could this last ?
He hoped when he died it would be under
the clump of bushes life those where they
found Grace. Eternity alone must wash
out those India brands on his hands and
forenead. His steps grew feebler year by
year. It was a terrible expiation of a ter
r►ble sin. To rob womanhood was to rub
God
At last another live years had gone by
Ten years silent commune with G.,(1 arid
nature had wrought a great change. He
could bear now whatever came, but there
cculd not be long to bear it.
Again the old ship Betsey came in sight.
Calm, unruffled as a man who knows he is
going home, whether he knows the route
or not, he waited for the familiar ship.
The captain took it all at a glance
"Shall I go home to die ?"
"Yes."
"I should like to see the grave of Grace
and our baby once more."
The incoming voyage was shorter than
the outgoing, but not short enough for the
weary man to reach the desired haven.
They were nearing port.
"I have asked and received forgiveness,"
said the dying man. f 6 I want yours also.
It is Grac,:s hai,..l; I feel it. just as in uj
&yam. .:' , l - ;(2 Lis coule for me. I have
but , t,e Trish—to lie beside her.
••It be as y'u wish " And the
captain's hand pressed warmly the cud
band of death.
The Brfrsy cattle in with ligs at half
wart The villagers did not sec the braud
which repentenee had washed idut for
heaven, but not for earth. And they
buried him by the side of Grace.
*i tied Mistellann.
From Warriorsmark.
THE PLACE AND I Tti TRADITIONS-TEIE
SOLDIER'S MONITMENT, ETC
An Altoanian, who visited Warriors
mark, in this county, a few days ago, writes
the Tribune of that city an account of his
trip. and has this to say about. the torn
land its clever people :
The other day en invitation of' that
clever young gentleman, Mr. George W.
Burket, grocer, of Sixth avenue. your cur
tespondeta took a trip to old "Mother
Huntingdon" county. The sleighing was
excellent., and of course the trip was en
joyable. Altoona was left at 9A. M. and
Warriorsmark, the destination, was reached
after three hours and a half of a drive.
Considering that Warriorsmark is twenty
two miles from Altoona this was making
pretty good time. The village is situated
in Warriorsulark township, in the extreme
northwestern part of Huntingdon county,
which on the northwest and southwest. is
bounded by Blair county. This township
was originally a part or Tyrone township,
and was formed in 1798, taking its name
from the village of Warriorsmark, which
is in the central part of tho township in
the midst of a beautiful country, and of in
telligent and well-to-do farmers. As to
the origin of the name tradition is not very
definite, but it appears to be almost certain
that the Indians had made marks of some
kind on the trees near their village, or
meeting place, near the site of the present
village. It is related by old resideuta, one
of whom was interviewed, that certain oak
trees in the vicinity having a cresenr. or
half moan cut upon them with tomahawks
or knives can still be seen. This is no
doubt, an old legend of more uncertainty
than fact. The Indians lingered longer in
this neiohborhood than in any other part
of the country, a great many remaining
here years after the close of the Revolu
tionary war. Captain John Logan was
one of thesa latter. Blair county boasts
of Logan township, Logan spring and be
gan valley, and Altoona of the Logan
House end Logatitown, all named after the
great aboriinal chief. This is entirely a
firming community. The Lewisburg, Can
tie and Spruee Creek railroad runs through
here from Tyrone to Lewisburg. This
road was surveyed, ballasted, bridged,
1 4 rade4 and entirely completed, except the
laying of the rails, but in 1873 ..vork ceased
on it for want of funds. This road runs
through a magnificent iron-ore and throng,
country. it is thought the road will be
completed—some day. Huntingdon caunty
boasts of wore Indian names fir places and
things, especially in the neighborhood of
Warriorstnark, than any place in the State.
In this neighborhood good water is to be
had in abundance ; the people are very
healthy and robust ; good back barns are
everywhere to be seen, and good crops are
generally the result of patient and careful
toil to the people of this beautiful country.
The village heists of a Methodist Epis
copal Church, a Baptist Church, a Pr a,
byteriau Church and five stores, the latter
kept by Mattern & Bro., William Robinson,
George Cox. J. W. Houk and Wiltz Rowe.
Mr. David Punk keeps a large drug afore,
which has a capacity equal to Altouna's
like stores, and W. L. Rider keeps the
only saddler shop in the place. Two black
smith shops run by D Kinch, an old friend
of the TRIBUNE, and E. Houk are also
here. Two doctors practice here, and
there are two school houses. The business
of the place is completed in a tin shop,
two tanneries—kept by Mr. Murray and
Peter H Burket—and an excellent country
inn, the "Boniface" of which is the clever
and esteemed James Chamberlain. The
population of the place is nearly 400 The
people are of a patriotic turn of mind, as
is evidenced by the number of soldiers'
graves and the beautiful monument erected
to their memory in the Methodist Episco
pal churchyard, near the residence of
Peter Burket The monument is a model
of beauty, and is upwards of twenty feet
high, with a six.feet square base. It took
ten horses to bring the stone for the base
from the 'Allegheny mountains to Warriors
mark, a distance of about ten miles. The
base is cut stone from the mountains, while
the pedestal is granite, and the whole, after
being placed in position, cost nearly $l.OOO.
On the monument are inscribed the names
and records dope hundred and eight brave
oldiers from this community, who to day
sleep their last swe=et sleep of death On
the sides are figures of soldiers in bust
form and on horseback, while from the
front a splendid engraving of Abraham
Lioefilu awl the words, •• With charity for
all ; with malice toward none," greet the
vision The whole is surmounted by an
angel bowed in prayer, the figure being
four feet high and about five feet wide
from the tips of the outspread wings
Guns, swords, flags and other articles of
.ar are cut on the stone with effect. The
beautiiui memento was erected on July 4,
1878, and paid for by subscription by the
generous eilizens of the village and neigh
burhood.
The flagpole raised here to commemor
ate the Centennial year, in the ceremonies
of which the• Mountain City Band,• of Al
toona, participated, still stands and can be
seen quite a distance off. In concluding
this hastily penned sketch yours truly de
sites t return his thanks to Mr. Y. H.
Burket, one of the cleverest nvn in War
riorswark valley. father of our townsman
G W. Burka, and his estimable family
for favors rendered.
WHEN a fond s.,n starts forward in life
he sowetitues turns round to caress his
friends, but a mule never turns round.
He is the only affectionate one of his
species who can strike out in life both
ways at once.
"Do You think your father is going to
move out soon ?" inquired the owner of a
rented house of the son of his tenant.
"Reckon so," was the reply; "we've be
gun using window frames fur firewood."
"DON'T let's have any words about it,"
as the wan said when he dodged the dic
tionary his wife threw at him.
CONCERT PITCH for Stringed instru
ments—Rosin.
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Oid-Time Methodism.
SKETCHES OF ITS EARLY HISTORY
BY J. 11. FLANIGEN
From the Philadelphia ',ecorl]
The marked growth of the . Christian
denomination which owes its existence to
Wesley, not only in our own but in other
count.ritts, ie.ll-)rs a consideration of its
movements, or its stall= ,either generally
or locally, at all times a subject of much
intere , t to very many persons And it has
hence been thoug.ht that a series of articles
relating, to its existence in Philadelphia in
the olilon time, and iti progres duritig the
several decades that have since passed,
would be acceptable to a large number of
readers.
It may be safely said that the period of
our history covered by the years that have
elapsed since the breaking out of the recent
rebellion have constituted, not only "a fast
age." but one of remarkable forgetfulness.
it is n ,, t at all surprising that such is the
fact. for the strain upon the public wind
during the period covered by the war, sup
plemented and continued, as has been the
case, by reason of the industrial and finan
cial revolution that followed, has not only
proved a most powerful absorbent of mind
and memory. but a source of great demor
alization. and it will require years of less
"disjointed thinking" and rcading, to re
store the necessary healthful equilibrium
by which our people will be, enabled to
retrospect with facility and profit such
portions of their country's history as are
essential to creditable intercourse in so
ciety.
'tre. are a somewhat singular people, dif
fering widely in litany material ways and
things from any others on the face of the
globe. tar propensity for overdoiug things,
iustence. is without a parallel in the
history of -flier nations This propensity
leads t an underdoing or a neglect of things.
that. are viral to our interest, morally, po
litically and commercially ; and it is great
ly to be deplored that there has not been
discovered some better means of calling a
"halt" than the too often inevitable one
that is ket distieguiehed by the term
"crash." The rapid progress wade in our
country during the half century which
closed with our centennial year has been
of such -turtling character as to well nigh
daze the ordinary mind, and it is therefore
nut at all wonderful if the coudit ions that
existed, of events that transpired, only two
or three decades back of the present, are
like so much Greek and Hebrew to an im
mensely large nnniber of our people. To
what extent this marvellous progress has
been tipaeficial to the Church, and whether
it bas served to promote the original de
sign of what is here best expressed as Wes
leyisnu, or te obstruct it, is a question upon
which opinions will .differ; but the matt or
woman who knows anything about the ori
gin of Metliediam, and who goes into a
Nethodist church of the present day, Hs
pecialty such as are found in the large and
populous cities of the country, gets but a
poor idea of the primitive sort of meeting
house in which the fathers of the sect were
wont to mlnister et. worship; and, Blanc
ing at the fashionable array and costly at
tire of "the congregation," one will - seek
in vain for the plainness recompended,as
an essential ingredient of the new gener
al ion" by the founder of this now extent
sive denomination of professing Christians.
THE HISTORY OF THE ORIGIN OF METH
ODISM,
although sparse enough; is a plain and
simple one. and the Hanle under which the
Banner of the Cross has been carried to
remotest quarters of the earth was given
to it in derision, designed, indeed, to be
one of reproach It was in the year 1729
that a few students in the Oxford (Eng
land) University. lamenting the low down
condition to which the Church had fallen,
and the want of vital Christianity that was
everywhere apparent, even among the
clergy, eommenced the reading and study
of the Sacred Scriptures in the original
tongue.
Bishop Simpson, in his recently-pub
lished "Cyclopedia," referring to the state
of religion in Great Britain at the period
mentioned, says it was "deplorable," and
adds : "From the period of the restoration
infidelity was widely diffused, and it had
deeply affected the educated classes of so
ciety Public morals suffered from the
abandonment of religious principles, and
from the example of those high in author
ity. While there were some of the clergy
of the Church of England illustrious for
intellectual power and personal piety, many
were quite ignorant and even loose in their
morals. Writers like Swift and Sterne in
dulged in licentious humor, to the discredit
of the pulpit which they occupied, while
other clergymen spent their time in hunt
iug, gambling and intemperance. Doctri
oal views were as unsettled as conduct.
Arianism and Socioianism were advocated
by such writers as Clarke, Prieetly and
Whiston, and evangelical piety was regarl
ed ay fanaticism. Bishop Burnett deplor
ingly says 'the outward state of things is
bad sueugh, God knows, but that which
heightens my fears -rises chiefly from the
inward state into which we are unhappily
fallen.' Of the clergy,' he adds, 'the much
greater part of those who come to be or
dained are ignorant to a great degree not
to be apprehended by, those who are not
obliged to know it.' *• * * Dr. Watts,
the eminent poet, states that, 'both among
dissenters and churchmen, there was a gen
eral decay of religion in the hearts and
lives of men.' Archbishop Decker says
'such are the dissoluteness and contempt
or principle in the higher part of the
world, and the profligacy, intemperance
and fearlessness of committing crime in the
lower, as must, if this torrent of impiety
stop not, become absolutely fatal.' "
Other authors quoted by the Bishop
show the same deplorable condition of the
churches and the masses of the people, and
it was in presence of this wretched state
of affairs that the students already men
tioned set about the work of vitalizing, or,
to use a modern term, reconstructing
themselves, with a view, doubtles, to sow
broadcast the seed which might result
from the fruit they expected to reap
through an honest and sincere study of
the word of God in all its entirety. These
young men formed themselves into a socie
ty, the membership of which was at first
confined to an extremely small number.
Their object was not simply to read and
study the Scriptures, but to aid and sup
port each other in efforts for religious im
provement. They arranged their time and
systematized their conduct, and fixed for
themselves and observed certain times and
periods for fasting and prayer, and, as they
progressed and received inspiration from
on High, they went outside of the Univer
sity among the people, carrying with them
the faith with which they had been in
spired, and exhorting the people to re
pentance and reformation ; and here may
be said to have originated what we may
quite properly characterize as the colloFsal
structure now known as Methodism. The
fell. - ?w students of these young pioneers is
the work of Gospel truth, of course ridi
ruled them, and applied to them various
tetras designed to be of reproach. They
called them "Holy Bigots," "Th, Godly
Club," "The Holy Club," and Methodists,
a term which had been applied in derision
very many years before to a sect of per
sons otherwise known as Anabaptists.
JOHN WESLEY,
who a great many persons in this country
have been iilitcrue person,
way of Lincoln College. He was
a man of stwerior attainments and an ac
conip:,-:•,,i sclirdar. He had been ordain
ed a p..!!st, and had acted for some time ns
a curate. At the period stated he was about
twenty five years old, a sincere and devout
Christian;
As the little society which originated
in Oxford grew by degrees, and begun to
be felt outside of the University. Mr
Wesley was added to its number. Some
what older than the others, he developed
administrative ability that attracted atten
tion, and, as is usual in all such cases, he
was very soon accepted as a leader of the
little band, just as Washington and other
heroes of our revolutionary times, who de
veloped the needed capacity, whether of a
civil or miKary character, were accepted
by the people as leaders in either council
or field of war, and directly there grew
into being an active organization, with Mr.
Wesley as its head and director. Awoug
THE PIONEERS OF METLIODISM
in England were also Charles Wesley, an
educated man and a college tutor; the eel
ebrated preachers, Whitefield, Morgan,
Kirkham, Ilervey and Ingham, and, by
way of ridicule, Mr. Wesley was styled,
by the opposition that would naturally ex
ist to such a movement, the 'Curator of
the Holy Club." The little society grew
apace, and differences arose as to points of'
doctrine, and some of those at first con
nected with it. turned their steps in other
directions. We do not find that there was,
at the beginning of this movement, any
intention on the part of those concerned
in it to organize or establish a separate
Church or denomination, but it is ever
thus or progressive movements which con
cern the interest of the masses of mankind.
It' the principle involved be of a vital char
acter, it grows as it is elaborated, and its
swelling proportions directly call for such
substantial recognition as resorts in dis
tinctive and permanent organization.
Within ten years after the date given
above the Wesleys visited this country,
and after their return to England they
begun the public preaching of the Word.
Whitetield, however, took the field in ad
vance, and the churches being closed
against. him, he preached in the open air.
"Letting down the gilded chains from high,
lie drew his audience upward to the sky."
"I thought," said he, •that it might be
doing the service of my Creator, who had
a mountain for his pulpit and the heavens
for a sounding board ' • and who when. His
gospel was rejected by the Jews sent His
servants into the highways and hedges."
This declaration was probably made in jus
tification of what the Wesleys were dispos
ed at first. to consider too much of an in•
nuvation, for Whitefield was really the ad
vance ceurier of Methodism in the open
fin d. th. pioneer who went before all the
rest. and relied the trees in the forests,
an.] en' ' , way the matied accumulations.
the großth of many years of ignorance ;
neglect and debauchery that had over
spread the lead; but the Wesleys follow
ed shortly after him, and the elder of these
two, feeling, propably, that he also must
justify his departure from the "decorum"
of the Church establishment, said, "I sub
witted to be wore vile. and proclaimed in
the highways the glad tidings of salVation,"
and thus was the barque of the new genera
tion of Christians got ready for launching
on the sea of public opinion in England.
But it was as yet a shapeless affair. A sin.
gle word signified the nature of the pro.
pelling force, and that was reform. There
was then no dream of revolution. Nothing
more was sought than a revival of religion ;
a calling back of the people to duty, and a
realization of their responsibility to God
We shall see, however, as we progress with
these articles.
"The matchless working of th power
That shuts within the seed the future Flower
Bids these in elegance of furm excel,
In color these, and these delight the smell ;
Sends Nature forth, the daughter of the skies,
To dance on earth, an ! claim all human eyes."
Little Things.
Never destroy anything that is beauti
ful, and pretty soon you will be all in
beautiful surroundings.
The hand of a poor man often rests in
that of God, while, the band of the rich is
full of tears and bitter sorrow
We bad rather die than to lose the love
of our darling, for in that love is our
Heaven or the road that leads to it.
Before we go to sleep at night we for
give every ene, then ask God to forgive
us and then we have no fear of death.
We never forget the good child who be
haves properly in company and who is
thus a good example to older persons.
We do not care what all the world says
of us so long as we know that we always
try to du right and to be independent.
The happiest parents are those who teach
their children to do right, and whose chil
dren honor the advice of their teachers.
Little things are not to be despised.—
The little toe is always the smallest on the
foot, but it always has the largest corn.
As different minds seek different loves
and objects to pet, so do different souls
reach out for different varieties of religion.
We are not so afraid to enter the next
life as that we shall do some oae. injustice
in this, and thereby plant weeds in the
Little children pleas , do not laugh at
the children of a drunkard, but try to help
them and be good to them for their parents
are not.
We should never go to bed at night till
we have done some kind act co some wan,
woman or child, then we are happy in the
morning.
The sweet, loving dignity of a loving
woinan who is well and bouestly loved by
a hutband is one of the west beautiful
things in the world.
One reason why so many minister's sons
make bad men is because they see the by
pocricy of their fathers and become dis
gusted with lite when they are young
We never found a grief, a pain, a sor
row or trouble half so great as we thought
it would e, and at last have learned not
to bother '' . 4sh or give stay room to them
, at all.
From the Land of the Moot's.
4 pecid eependenee of the Journal"
EnrTOR HILT NTINGDON JoußNAL:—This
is a laud of gold and silver, lead, copper,
coal, ceal oil, in fact a land iu which all
the metals which have as yet been discov
ered in the United States are found ; a
land which will in a few years be more in
dependent and self supporting than the
great State of Pennsylvania. with its great
coal and iron mines, oil wells and rich ag
ricultural lands; a land aptly doeiguated
by the historan, Mr. McGuire, as the
"Coming, Erephe,'".The Black Hills."
There have been diseoura t iva reports sent
broadc..st thr !ugh the land from here by
parties who carte here without a "stoke,"
and were too lazy to work, consecinently
they could not make a start With res
pect to the mineral weal h of the Hills
that is demonstrated beyond a doubt. There
are rich quartz and placer mine diggings.
The fi,riner are uut much more than start
ed beeeuse it has token gonsiderable time
before n:eti tt -;. h capital would ibvest it
here, now there are upwards of 100 mills
crushing good paying ore and enough of it
fur thousand* mare if it was only opened
up, which it Nill be soon, as capital is
coming in here every day.
The silver miees are the richest on the
contineut—that is so far as they have been
assayed—but it takes more capital to work
silver to advantage than gold. The mines
have to be opened and costly smelting
works erected. There is a smelting
works being erected now at Galena, and
the owner is confident of making a fortune.
When this is proved to be a paying con
cern, capital will not be found wanting to
erect dozens of others. Three years ago
there was not Mere than a few hundred
people in the Black Hills, now the popu
lation of Deadwood alone is upwards of
6000, and in the same county of Lawrence
there are the large. town of Central, Lead,
Gayville, Golden Gate, Anchor, Elizabeth,
- ,rook, t pearfish, Sturgis, Galena, Little
Rapid and Silver City, with several other
new towns being started on Redwater, the
north fel of the Cheyenne and White
wood, these latter are in the agricultural
portions of the country. The best farming
lands in the Black Hills are in Penning
ton county, of which Rapid City is the
capitol, and it bids fair in a few years to
be the principal town in soutweatern Da.
cote All the great stage and freight
routes to Sidney, Cheyenne, and the Mis
souri River centre here. The richest
mines in the Hills are io this county, nota
bly those at Roch fort, Rockerville, Newton
Forks, and Hill City. The writer of this
article has been five years in the far-famed
Yellowstone couietry, which everybody
praises for its rich farming lands, but they
are nothing when compared to some. sec.
tior.s bordering on the Black Hills, espe
cielly Pennington county, in which is Rapid
River, whieb drains 40 miles in length of
the finest re/ening - land - in the world. The
valley drained by Rose Elder, is about the
same extent. There is alsb Sprin' and
Battle Creeks, where there is good water
and the beet. of lancl; i ,Intersecting use
well watered velleys are finastratchea-of
rolling prairie,'lmited' for kraiitig PurPo•
sea, in which
. thongands %If 'cattle can be
raised without the heeeFsitig 'ef feeding
them with hay iu Winter, as the gran,
which is composed chiefly of buffalo
and wild rye, cures on the . nand. this is
owing to the absence of rain in tlae Fall
and Wicter, which would rit
I have lenown'iiiitc — filioh - ave been
miners ell the?: lives. bat eehenthey tame
to the Bleek Mlle went into the farming
business with nets musts more than agrub
"stake," and are worth 120,000 44 day.
Agricultural produce will fet i ch , a,, high
price here for years 'to come nuaccont of
the enorttlnilS mitiirl,g"populatlen' L ,which is
yearly' increasing ; and thi high freigh4i en
goods from the States, Which now:mina
31 in Summer, to 6i ceata per poug4,,ia
the Winter. Eepi if the railwaysget..in
here soon. which" they are expeeteitt'Co
we can raise food here, (with flit) akin-
Cage of having good land and aburshintaof
water) cheaper - than wtrst the - freight from
the States on the same artielee *mild
amount to.
A man who means work, au'd'oo4looll to
the Hills with a little capital to etaftrwtitho
is bound to get rich io a few years, apd . l
do not know of a better or a safer way to
invest it than in farming wind stoditsraisittg.
One will never get rich working for an
other ; he wants to have the means of work
ing for himself, which here is easy, as the
ground needs only plowing when it will
grow good crops of potatoes. oats, tvrifips,
beaus, &e , the first year. These crops do
well here ott sod ground. The average
yield of potatoes is from-300 to 660 bush
els„ they will fetch. from 2 tb 8 cents
per pound. The soil .is also ,a4apted4o
raising wheat arid oats, the tet4er.fetlng
51 ceuts per pound in the home Ili'. - et.
A farmer here does not bare to ifjiatiit tfttt
best years of his life dotting a. Kink like
it has been done in the eastern staSes. There
the children must spend their life nursing
worn out soil to produetivea.ess.. No
axes or Stump extractors, are needed here,
the plow and harrow are sufficient. The
land is too rich in gypsum to need other
manure for generstions, and:then when it
dies, gypsum can be hauled from any of
the bluffs in the utigliborhood Of the farm.
IT any of the readers of yottriatuable
JOURNAL should want further information
I will willingly furnish
GEO. H. WILSON.
MONTANA RANCH, RAPID CITY, Penning.
ton county, D
A KENTUCKY preacher rose to speak,
and opened the bible. The first verse that
met his eye happened to be, "The voice of
the turtle shall be beard in the land."
"Brethering," said he, "at first sight one
would not think there was much iu this
text, but, on a little consideration, you will
see there is a great deal in it.. Now, you
all know what a turtle is Ifyon i ve been
al ng by a pond, you have seen them on a
log sunning themselves. Now, it ia said,
'The voice of the turtle he heard
through the land.' But the turtle hasn't
'ny voice, that anybody ever heard j . so it
must) be the noise be makes in •pitinging
off the log into the water. - Hence, we
conclude that immersion is 'Meant, and
that immersion will become universal."
THE other day a father gently said,
"Don't stuff victuals in your mouth that
way my son; Oliver Cromwell didn't eat
after that fashion " The boy after ponder
ing for awhile, remarked to himself, "And
I don't believe Oliver Cromwell wholloped
his boy for finding a bottle of whiskey in
the shed when he was hunting for a horse
shoe, either."
PouTENEss cOstsnothing, 'but it is not
expected that you will wake a man up at
midnight to ask permission to go through
his hen house. It is more courteous tq
let him enjoy his needed repose.
NO. 10.