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' n% ~ Mser.ia.-atid "irtterai Co<Uc. W..rk ' 2122-tf fs T ohn Groin, "ISC, S i 11 . fnt.il, -Dfrontirf Si /rrsro 'A INTER, UDERSPORT, PA. M- aid PAi KK HANGING done ••• neatness and dispatch. -ion tr<rarrtoed. A, vi:i{ i IOUHE "*'l*'j attended to. !>• 1L NEEFEi Rr IAGE FACTORY. TbF.KSpORT. PENN'A. " of Wtjr .n-maVlMe, Rla' kimlthlnr, J "•<• t'rtiuuime ami R.-nairiiar done u_ Ij atne*s ami -toratrtlitj. Charjres *4IV c. BREUNLE, V U L 1-2 Av > it K . ' OUDErspokt, pa irnt* i> , ; P : .?r* , u ""* s . etc., Anlnbea to order, reai,',! ""i 1 "'o.lLiuaijalnp. on tonus. r*s lT*J n Jrtli 0r '*" f: " tbe office of JOCK ' *1- recct" pr-yep- Btteetkm. I For the Journal and Item. Fairy Dell. N-rt in summer's heated ?!are Sliail you fiifl its lieauty rare. Not tvlh-n springtime hlmuns are fair Nor when autumn leaves dri>p there; <H'y wlm'u the uijxiit-tvinds (to Wandering o'er the starlit suow An 1 the new-born itnxm is kw. This I know, ihe.se eyes of mine fsatv its beauty half divine. ,,f fairy fi re— that shine And its -tar-wreaths, pure and fttic; And tiie bniok was hashed: Us feet Tarried in a land so svteet I could hear its pulse- l*-aL i t ''ere the star-fires clearest gleamed One sweet face in rapture beamed (If I >aw or if I dreamed— 'l rue, I know not I—but1 —but it seemed As if some stvei-t. angel child. By tlieir merry song beguiled, * Listened lovingly and -mi'ed. Then the new moon's slender rim s id behind a mountain dim; Sudden silence olo.v d the hymn By the streamlet"- frozen brim. Mich frail lamp—a golden spark— Trembling, vanished in the dark: Fairy lieii lay cold and stark. Yet within my heart one light Burned unclouded ail the night; Kept tli.it pure child-face in sight Circled with it- aureole white i *li. that 1 might once more go W hen the new-horn moon so low Shines aero— the uind-cwept snow. M. M. H. EVEKETT. [From the liidejH-mlent.] Bessie, the Sparrow. I saw Iter mu* spring some years ago in Odessa, Delaware. I was looking at a friend's conservatory in that pretty little quiet town ami was quite surprised to see in a lar<fe catre two sparrows. They were evidently entirely contented with their lot and se'-nied to be enjoying themselves, surroundefi as they were bv prettv dowers and green plants, while out side the house all was cold and bleak. Yet that they should le ill a cage and so lively and well led me to a-k how it happened that thev were there. -My friend told me the following sto ry in explanation: Four years before, late in the an-1 tumn. and after all the birds had srone away to their Southern homes, when the air had grown chilly and , the: RCkKin 1 Kgun to Ih? dreary, one i.ay a little sparrow was seen to fi\ against the windows of the conserva tor v. The green plant- and flowers within, so in contrast with the fades! leaves without, had evidently nttrnet j ed her attcLtion and she was trying : hard to get among them. One of the family, uoticing the earnest efforts; of tire bird, oiiened aw indow as an ■ invitation to come in. The sparrow did not wait .for a I I -econd call, but at once flew into the : room and with evident de-light liegan | liojiping about among the plants to pick up her dinner, of which she se*enie*d sorely in need. The famHv thought t'-at of course when her hunger was satisfied, and especially when >he found that m-n and women and children were like-ly to be near her, she would gladly take j her departure. Not so thought Miss j Bjiarrow. She evidently likerl the . new quarters well, ano when night drew on shr 1 -selected a nice place to sleep and put her head under her w ing as if she felt entirely at home. The next day the window was .left open so that if she chose she might have liK-rty to go away again. But she showed no disposition to do any thing of the sort. Slu- might hop on the sill and take an observation, but ! she would go back to ti-e plants and . flowers again and soon made her friends in the house understand that : she had taken up her abode with them. ?he was made very welcome and 4ipent the whole winter there. 1 ■ She became one of the family and j : was called Bessie. In the spring, when the trees were covered with foliage and the days! . had grown balmy, it was thought that Bessie would of course like to j Igo out. But to the surprise of her friends she did not seem to care to do J so. If she flew out of the window it was only for a few moments and she 4 would come lack to her home. When the birds began to sing and especi ally when tlve sparrows were flying round and singing their songs, thei family supposed that certainly now Bessie would be tempted abroad. But no, she was contented to stay at home. So the days passed on; and it seemed probable that while other. sparrows might build nests and l*- twittering and singing round the house Bessie would remain by her- ' self in the conservatory. COUDERSPORT, PA., FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1878. Bessie had other thoughts. One morning before the window was opened she was observed to lie in a state of great excitement. Her w i.ig were fluttering, she was uttering loud calls and flying against the glass, as if all impatience to lie abroad. The window was opened and with a glad cry she flew- out and at ce upward and in a moment or two lighted by the side of a sparrow who was singing !on the cliimney-top. He was Bes sie's mate, just come from tlie south. A hundred other sparrow-, had lieen singing but not one of their voices were recognized or cared for until this voice was heard. At the sound the little heart was all awakened and Bessie must lie by the side of him who uttered it. It had a tone and a sweetness that made it separate and distinct from the voices of all other sparrows that sang. Her mate found. Bessie returned no more to thsweonservatorv. but re mained abroad with him, never seem ing to leave his side. There came soon an incident which showed that While Bessie loved hi r husband she also had aw ill of her own. The spring and future nestlings made house-building neeessarv, and • first there came a conflict of wishes. Bessie had a favorite bush near the house, where she proposal to build the nest. Her mate had his favorite tree in the lower part of the garden on which he had concluded was the proper place to build. He sat on his tree and called loudly for Bessie to come to him; while Bessie sat on her' bush and called as loudly and pcrsist eutly for him to come to her. Xeither was willing to yield and for some time it seemed probable that in this conflict • of authority and will no nest at all would l>e made. My friends watched the contest with very great interest wondering which of the two, husband or wife, would give in. The ladies , more than half hoped that it would not be Bessie. But they were disappointed. Bes sie"- mate gained his point. She at last flew down to liim and they wi nt amicably and diligently to work building tlie nest. The gentlemen of the house w ere in eestacies. A Iter all the female will had not tri umphed. Alas! for thee, however. The j nest was scarcely completed when to the amazement of all it was aban doned and another was built on the very bush that Bessie had selected at the first! What arguments she had brought to War U]HU her mate ' was never known; but she had her vay at the last. In the house they said it was only what always hap- j peued in such a case—the wife might ( seem to yield but she always had her w ay in the end. Bessie had a brood of little spar rows, which she and her husband . cared for well till they were grow n and the summer had gone. When autumn came and the birds went their way to wanner climes, Bessie and her mate parted. He went his way; she returned to the conserva tory. Entirely contented and happy she spent the winter there. The next spring precisely the same occurrence took place. Bessie for days heard the singing of the spar rows but seemed to take not the slightest notice of them until Un voice of her mate w-.i- heard. Then she could not lie restrained but must fly joyously to his side. No other i voice had any charm, nor seemed worthy of even a recognition till this one song was beard. True and faith- J ful, her heart responded alone to i t hat- Tim two sparrows speDt the sum mer together. In the fall Bessie was more successful than before and was able to jiersuade her mate to remain with her; and they went into the conservatory together, making it their home till spring came again. When 1 saw them it was, if I re member right, the fifth season that Bessie nad lieen tliere. That wa.- sonie years ago and 1 suppose that long since Bessie and her mate are dead; but I thiuk of her tiny form and wonder now at her will, her af fection and her constancy. THEY who make the best use of j their time have noue to spare. (From the luilejiendeiit] What the Rope Means. When the wretched Chicago mur derer. (Seorge Driver, was about I swinging off into eternity from the gallows, it is said that he gave a push to the rope which dangled lie- I -ide him and snid to a bystander: I "That rope <an n bottle of rue There i> no doubt that the fatal •noose which slipped over Foster's neck lately in New York meant pre cisely the same tiling. The Foster whom Dr. Tyng knew in the Sunday school was not the malicious lad. likely to grow up into a wanton mur derer; he was not naturally brutal. The Dottle made him a brute on the night of his frightful crime. Strip away all t.'.'e volumes of argument, appeal and apology that have grown out of the famous Foster case, and you will find that the rope M 'hich ended the case "means a boti.' e 01 rum.*' That is what four-fifths of all the murders mean. Even if not commit ted under the ferocious craze of drunk enness, the murderer was yet steeled to his devilish purpose by the influ ence of strong drink. Booth never would have put that pistol-ball into! the brain of our Lincoln if he had ; not stiffened his nerves by that last dose of brandy. I do not believe that one deliberate homicide out of! twenty is ever committed without a previous use of the conscience killing dram. And if the hangman's rope "means a bottle.'" so does manv a ! rope of the suicide. Nearly all the ' striped jackets in our jH-nitcutiario mean the same thing. Examine the (official reports of our prisons and almshouses, and you will find that ' rum furnishes more ''customers'' than all other sources of crime and pau jierism combined. The brothel, too. is bottomed upon the bottle. Every house of infamy b a drinking-house. Costly wines are both the bait, the I stimulant and the opiate to consci ence in all the fashionable resort- of prostitution. "The like- of u-." said a poor street prostitute of London, "could never live as we do without | the gin." W ho shall attempt to compute the j amount of crime engendered by tin ! | bottle, when we consider that during the year I*7l this country eithei 1 made or imported three hundred and | ' twenty-five million gallon- of alcohol 'ie drinks! If all that liquor wen i loaded oh wagons—at twenty barrels on a wagon—the horrid precession . would reach from New York to San Francisco. At a fair estimate of rv j suits, alioiit one wagon in every twenty would contain the corpse of a legitimate victim of this stupendous amount of poison ! Now the* Chris | tian nation which loads up such a j preicession of liquor-casks as that must expect to pay the toll. This is ' in the line of God's inevitable retri ! buttons. If our nation manufactures and imports 32a,ii0C.000 gallons ol : drink, then we must be prepared to I read the undeniable fact that the ! pecuniary cost of intemperance (say ing nothing of its moral waste and j havoc) will foot npeach year a round ; i billion of dollars! This is the tax we pay for the bottle*. But to return to "the rope." Who hung Driver? Who hung Foster? Who sent the two young drunken oar-tbieves to prison for fifteen years last week in New York? The* ready answer is: "Society.The common wealth hung the murderers and locked up the thieves in self-defense, j Those gallows were erected and that ! prison built to punish crime and to t protect human life and property. Society has a liemp-rope and a cell for drunken murderers and thieves, and yet society licenses the establish ments which manufacture the thieves and the murderers. New York's law permits and protects the traffic w hicb furnished to Foster his maddening glass. New York's social cnstoin encouraged and tempted Foster to become a drinker. A very large proportion of New York's Chri-tian citizens set the example of using the social glass, even though most of them may lie able to keef ••within moderation" in its use. And yet New York stands aghast around Foster's gibbet, and jierhap- piously ejaculates: "The wages of sin is f death." Yen* true. Death is the inevitable result .of such *iu. But was the wretched man who was hung die only -inner? Had the licensed dealer who -old him the fierv stimn l;lant no partnership in that crime? Have those who license tin* dram • J shop no share in the crime? And " are all those who abet and sustain • the fatal drinking usages of societv ! entirely guiltless? Jf the drinking 1 customs are fattening the gibbet and • filling the prisons, then every sup - porter of these en-nariug and destruc i' tive customs has his or her share of responsibility for the terrible conse • queuees. Those "ropes'" that have lately • j been swinging in the <vir at Chicago ? and New York suggest several sol j emu and weighty lessons. As one of the poor victims well said; uThi ; rope means a liottle." He saw the I result of hi- first sparkling and ex • hilarating glass comii g back to him f i in that awful draught of the* gall of j the gallows. He must have cursed II be day that lie touched it. But that 'is the end of thousand- of "first glasso. s " el rank as thoughtlessly as Driver ,drank his. One le*sson of these <dbbvM* is: Never touch the .first glas-; offer it toothers. A second H>s Mi of these ropes is: If the cornruum.'y continue to ! license and sustain th liquor traffic, then the community i. "Liot the bill" in murders. hangn.* " us ropes and prison- e.owded to t!>°' door ways. And no niau in such munity is guiltless wLo support : either the traffic or the drinking cus- 1 toius. The State of Indiana ha.s lately passed an admirable law in flicting the damages of drunkenness ujwin the sellers of strong drink. This is good as far as it goes. But why not prohibit the druukard-mak er s bu-ine-- entirely? And, when all the go**! statutes have lieen put upon the law book, there yet lies be nind them all that higher law of Heaven which pronounce- it woe on every man who "put.- the bottle to! ; .ii- neighbor." and also enjoins that ■ none -houJd "drink anything where I by our brother stumblcth." Finally, those hideous ••ropes'' dangle in the face of our Chris tain • I chinches and they proclaim to us that we are not guiltless unless we . • 1 I preach and practice abstinence from • ilie intoxicating cup. Come out and ihe ve separate, and touch not the • ! unclean thing, saith the Lord. A gentleman took the following , telegram to a telegraph ofliee: "Mrs. Brow n. Liverpool street.—l announce with grief the death of L'ncle James. Come quickly to read will. I believe we are his heirs.—John Black." The ; • clerk having counted the words, said, f "There are two words too many, sir." "AH right; cut out 'with grief,'" was the rcplv. TITERF. was a sort of Providential felicity, it seems to us, in a recent concourse of "fair women and brave men'* at the bouse of Colonel llichard Lathers, in Charleston, Sonth C aroli na. They came together to do hon i or to two famous Northerners, llo j ratio Seymour aud William Cullcn ! Bryant, who were the guc-ts of the ° evening, and who. representing the two old parties of the North, were able to speak, in the name of both parties, words of frank good-cheer ; and good-will towards the people of j the South. The old -trite is ended. For every reason liar-h words and uncharitable memories should be endid, too. "In mv walks through' j Charleston," .-aid Mr. Bryant, "I have not failed to note how. by the silent processes of nature, the wrecks and devastations of the war are covered aud effaced by growths of the fresh . I spring-time, aud 1 eanuot helpi hop ing and believing that in the same j way, and by similar iiiscrutible divine evolutions of the will of Providence, the moral wounds of the war w ill be • healed and greened over wiih ut*w > health-giving growths of moral Seu : j timents and impulses which w ill i make the picture fairer than it was before the rude shock- of war had f marred its beauty. I trust and lie i lieve that the chivalrous, knightly, generous race which made Southern I society what it was before the war ■ has preserved, even in its overthrow, • the vitality wnich w ill produce from : the fallen trunk new shoots of lite t and rigor which will restore, in more than pristine beauty, the fair fabrie of South m common wealths." These are words which every good man and every good patriot can re peat with fervent approbation. TUF. celebrated app ed ot the pcet to the woodman, to "spare that tree." gr ws evi ry year more'pathetic and ! more inadequate. Already, from the exterminations of our forests, a train of disasters has followed, among which are such unamiable items*as drought, cold and fever. Evidently, society lias an interest in the ques tion of cutting down trees; and the preservation of them must lie taken out of the hands of poetry and put into the hands of law. The life of a tree must come to have something of the sacredness which attaches t-o the life of man : though that, we fear, i an amount of sacrediu*6s which does not promise to the tree an excessive ; security just at present. Clearly it is a subject for statesmanship to prac tice on. The woodman must 1 pelled, not only to "spare that tree." but to plant tw o or three more trees by its side. The} manage these things better in France. Along the .cost of the Bay of Biscay, for in stance, are vast di-tricts 'which had ' been denuded of trees aud by the par'rial drying up of streams had Tie come the prolific -eat of swamp. fe\ere. Years ago. Napoleon 111. directed the planting of trees there .in iniifjcuse number. By one law I L - very proprietor wljo cuts down one tree is obliged to two in its place. Already these regions have , become comparatively hcjltbfnl. French providence lias wrought j similar results in Algeria, where many square tnilcS of deserts have lieen tran-formed into forests and the rainfall doubled bT the means. There is no French monopoly of this wise measure. When will America t j :i PI'H in earnest ? [From tii< Ainoric.-fti and GazrtU--] The White Branch of the Modoc ' Tribe. Tlie tiding- from Louisiana once' more attest the fact that savagery j knows no color aud is peculiar to no ' clinic. The English-speaking tribes jof mankind can claim no exemption from the rule that man, as he exist . to-day, whether in the torrid, the tem -1 pc'ate or in the frozen zones, isat best • in K condition of greater or less re move froih a common -tate of barbar ism. The element of brutishness may. by the restraints of law and the ' ' influence of culture, be held in a bey-. ance or made to disappear to a very i great extent for several generations only to regain its dominating power and shook human sensibilities by some sudden outcrop at a later period. Tak en without reference to the early histo- 1 rv of even the mo-t advanced races the recent outbreak in Louisiana might 1 seem to establish the fact of human retrogression. Fortunately man i known to he advancing from barbar- [ i-in, slowly and with unequal steps j 'it may lie, but none the less advan- 1 1 eing. Men who labor and look for a ! higher civilization will not suffer' themselves to become discouraged because a semi-savage remnant of the i white race resorted to the tactics of! the red man of the forest and plain and wiped out a whole neighborhood with tire and sword the other day in one of the sovereign states ol this Union.. Already we are told that this latest; • horror is only the natural result of ! putting an inferior and a superior race on the same political fooling, j There is a vast deal of wise gabble j about inferior and superior raoes in- 1 dulged by conceited politicians now ada\ s and this gabble has something to do with the situation in Louisiana, j ' To begin with, there can be no prac-, tieal recognition of superiority or in feriority in a republic like this. In ferioritv has been the pretext for the f most inhuman tyranny the world over and time through. The aristocratic , Norman enslaved the Saxon and com i pelled him to wear a collar as a liadge j of servitude. "Dog of a Saxon" was c i a common salutation,: and. sooth to say, it was not o much misplaced. Our progenitors were reduced to a condition of hoggishness and dog- i gi-hness by their Norman owners, i They were guilty of fairer skiu.- than , than their masters. But condition. 6. F. Hamilton, PublielitT. 5!75 h YEAR rather than color, fixed the status of men in that age. The gulf between the white slave and his dark-skinned lord was very wide and apparently j impassible. But as time passed, the ; gulf was seen to close and at last : what seemed utterly irreconeilable ; was reconciled. The inferior gradu a'lv rose above his condition of in ! 9 ftciority and prejudice vanished as he rose. Nor was the result excep i tional. It is the natural eonsequence of a political commingling of races. The judgment of mankind is pecu liarly sensitive to the influences of custom, and a certain education which more or le6s modifies the char acteristics of the most vicious in even- civilized community. For ex ■ ample, when the Indian wages war nd spares neither sex, age nor con dition, the civilized world is shucked t and horrified. Yet the Indian wars in accordance with nature and tradi tion. The Modoes treacherously slew General Canby and other uuof fending citizens amfthe whole country cried out in horror and indignation. , The horror was natural aud the in , dignation just. But reverse the pic . ture. Suppose treacherous white men had slain Captain Jack and his [ comrades, what a difference of opin , t ion there would have been abroad in I this Christian land! The advocates of justice and lair dealings, even with savages, would have indignantly de .. nounced the treachery. But not the less would a very laige number of , men and women have applauded the ,; deed. At worst, public sentiment . ; would have condemned with many . qualifications. Coming nearer home, suppose the colored men of Grant i jarish, Louisiana, had driven the , w/Jtes into the court house as a ref 'uge; and suppose the negroes had then set fire to the court-house and deliberately shot down the white refugees as tin "3 attempted to escape j their fiery douu b n<> * know ; tliat such savagery wou^l have filled 1 the country with ho rror indig nation. and justly tooJ j But alas! The terms*o. ffirs last horror are reversed. It was , f " su ■ perior" race" t that made a funerea. 1 of the Grant county court-house the hundreds of colored fugitives | therein gathered. It was by indi viduals of the race that boasts of its civilization and refinement that this more than Indian barbarity was per pertrated. So there is a difference of opinion among the gentlemen who write so learnedly of the ''superior' 1 and "inferior" races,and one portion ;of the presS of this Christian land ■ w ill do its best to cover up and con done this barbarous lapse. For the ,ndian there is no excuse, though we . never hear him boasting his superior j civilization. But for the '* superior " i race there is this excuse, that they cannot tov*rate the presence of a people .inferior to them in the ac complishment of civilization. We , should think not. - A SCHOOL committee in a certain j New England town said encourag ingly in Uieir report: w As this place offers neither honor nor profit, we do , not see why it should not be filled by a woman!" SAGES of old contended that Ho sin was ever committed whose conse ' quenoes rested on the head of the j sinner alone; that no man could do | ill and his fellows not suffer. They i illustrated it thus: "A vessel sailing from Joppa carried a passenger who, i beneath his berth, cut a hole through 1 the ship's side. When the men of : the watch expostulated with him, I' What do&t thou, O miserable man? ' j the offender calmly replied, ' What : matters it to you ? The hole I have made lies under my own berth.'" The ancient parable is worthy of , the utmost consideration. No man j perishes alone in bis iniquity; no . man can guess the full consequeuces f of his transgressions. | g m f A CERTAlN. religious paper has for the. heading of one of its departments, * Religion in general." Somebody says * Religion in particular is what 18 wanted among the people." NEITHER purity, virtue nor liberty can long flourish where education i-. ; negloctcd"
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