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l The Old Couple.
They -sit in the sun together,
Ti'l the day was almost done,
And then, at its close, an angel "
Stepjied o'er the threshold stone.
He folded their hands together,
He touched their eyelids with halm,
And tneir last breath floated upward
lake the close of a solemn psalm.
Like a bridal pair they traversed
The unseen, mystical road,
That leads to the beautiful city
Whose builder and maker is Uod.
Perhaps in that miracle country.
They will give her lost youth back.
And the flowers of a vanquished springtime
Shall b'.o im in the spit it's track.
One draught of the living waters
Shall restore his manhood's prime.
And eternal years shall measure
The love that outlives time.
Hut the sha;>cs they left behind them—
The wrinkles and Mirer hair—
Made sacred to us by the kisses
The angel impiinted there.
We'll hide them away in the meadow,
When the sun is low in the west,
Where the moonbeams cannot find them,
Nor the wind disturb tiieir rest.
Hut we'll let no tell-tale tombstone,
With its age and date arise
Over the two who are old 110 longer
In their l ather's house in the skies.
HARPER'S MAGAZINE for October
has a very interesting account ot the
•Hampton Normal and Agricultu
ral Institute," a college for colored
people at Hampton, Virginia, which
is alld has Wen since its establish
ment a very successful and nourish
ing institution.
It is one of the schools of the
American Missionary Association—
or was in the beginning.
The charge for personal expenses
—board, washing, lights, etc.—is ten
dollars a mouth and as this would
not be iiu t by the regular weekly la
bor every student is liable to be call
ed upon at any time during the term,
as the exigences of the farm may IV
quire, for any number of days not
exceeding twelve. And they have
the further opportunity to pay off
all arrears by labor during the sum
mer vacation. A Unit forty are ex
pected to remain this year. Usually
not more than half of the personal
expenses is paid by labor, the op
portunity Wing left for the most des
titute.
The farm i> steadily improving in
productiveness. It has thirty-six
acres of com, sixteen acres of oats,
and ten of clover and a plantation j
of over two-tbousand fruit trees—
peach, pear, cherry, plum and quince,
in a thriving condition. Three acres
of asj aragus ami a hundred and fifty
Concord grape vines have been j
out in the past year. Temporary
ban.s ai.d a blacksmith's shop have
been built. The market-wagon runs
dail\ with milk and vegetables, and
the meat wagon three times a week,
to Hampton and Old Point Comfort.
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1 eacaes. potatoes and cabbages are
shipped to Baltimore and the North
with very satisfactory returns, and
the boarding department is prinei
pallv Mtpplicd from the farm. Its
report for the past year shows a gain
of receipts over outlays more than
suflieient to cover the salary of the
managi r. Student labor costs about
one-fourth more than that of hired
men, 1> cause work is sometimes giv
en them at a disadvantage to enable
them to earn their expenses.
Ni xt to the farm the most promi
uent industry of Hampton is the,
! prii t'ng-otlice, opened in November.
; IS7I. The report of this office after
! the first eight months of its operation
j showed that it had more than paid
expenses. Wsides giving the students
; employed in it the opportunity of
! learning a useful trade. One of them
has acquired sufficient knowledge of
the business to pay his way in school
by his work in the printing office oqt
of the school-hours. The students
arc employed in both type-setting
and press-work, and with the excep
tion of one boy and, for a short time
during the sickness of the foreman
and extra press of work, one man.
no outside help has been employed.
The first numWr of the Southern
Workman, an illustrated monthly pa
per. edited by officers of the school,
and devoted to the industrial classes
of the South, was issued January 1,
js72. It began its second year with
a monthly circulation of fifteen hun
dred, and a paid-up subscription list
of over eleven hundred. Over three
quarters of its issue goes to the
freedmen. Avoiding politics, it
gives them intelligence concerning
their own race and the outside world,
interesting correspondence from
f teachers, and practical articles upon
COUDERSPORT, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8,1873.
science, agriculture, housekeeping
and education- It is well printed on
good paper and is supjdied with
lirst-elass illustrations by Northern
friends, among whom are the pub
lishers of the Nursery , the Christian
Weekly, Eeery Saturday and Har
per's Magazine.
Hut one should read the whols ar
ticle to get an idea of the amount of
work that this institution is doing
and providing fur.
A MATCH FOB TIIF. TOWN CLOCK.—
esterday was a hot day. an uncom
monly hot day even for July, and an
outrageously hot day for the cool
end of September. Everybody knew '
it and said so. You knew they told
the truth by the way they sidled
along in the shady strips on Main [
street about noon time- But there
was 110 use of getting up a panic
about it. The only thing to do was
to keep as cool as possible and tide
the thing over until a turn came.'
But it was just this critical time that
the red-nosed thermometer in front
of Barnes & Bancroft's chose to try |
and stir up an excitement. In spite
of its being the Lord's Day, and in
spirt* of the commandment against •
hearing false witness, this wicked
old instrument hung up there and i
kept its fluid up 94 degrees in the
shade, and a cool breeze blowing at
the time. All the other therinome-j
tors said degrees, and thought it
was uncommonly hard lines at that.
Now what is to be said about such
an incendiary concern ? The very :
least that can l>e done is to put it on
the retired list along with our blessed
old town-clock and let it go ahead.
It will then amuse the children per
haps. and certainly won't hurt any-;
body.— Buffalo Express, Sept. 29.
Death-stricken Shreveport.
Philadelphia has done well for the
people of Shreveport, Louisiana,
still writhing in the grasp of the |
worst form of yellow fever, the Mex
ican vomito; but Philadelphia can
j do better. There is not a comfortable
, citizen of our happy metropolis who
cannot spare a little for the sufferers,
1 and there are thousands of wealthy
men and women who should send
more. To all such we would say,
"pay over to Anthony J. Drexel, j
banker. iJ4 South Third street, what
I you can afford, or send it to the I
Cress, and we will at once reeoid your
generosity." If any further proof is
needed of the fearful desolation of I
Shreveport, the following letter, j
written by a noble husband, now at
that place, to his wife in Philadel
phia, which we are permitted to pub
lish. Not intended to IK* seen by
strangers, it will thrill every heart
by its earnest and self-sacrificing de
votion:
Sa EVEPOUT, Sepleml er is, 1873.
MY OWN LEAK LITTLE WIFE: YOUR
loving and comforting letter of tlie
10th inst., 1 received 1 his A. M. and
now attempt a short reply, to ease
your anxious mind. In the first
place, let me say 1 am as yet in good
health, but suffering somewhat from
fatigue, having been constantly '"on
the go" since the epidemic, i am nurs
ing. watching, laying out the dead,
and doing all 1 can to alleviate suf-j
fit-ring among our afflicted people, j
Verily we are a scourged community, j
and (iod only knows, if the pest does
not abate, whether there will lie any :
| left to nurse the living or bury the
. dead. It is horrible!—taking them!
off in three or four days. On my
way to breakfast this morning, I
dropped in to see a poor family. 1
found that the father had been buried
the day before, and the mother and!
children down with it. I pulled offj
inv coat, got some hot water, and
gave the woman a mustard bath
which got her into a perspiration. I
then went to the Howard Associa-j
tion (of which 1 aui a member), and
got them some nice things. I am go
ing to nurse tlieiy this evening. Men, |
in many instances,are nursing women
—women nurses being scarce—and
have to perform offices which, in
ordinary circumstances, would be j
out of place. 1 mention this to give
you some idea of the suffering here.
1 brought Ned through all right, and
now I am in demand. Tell John
that many of his old friends have
gone to "the spirit land"—William
Smith, H. H. Lee, Leon Frankel and
others whom I cannot recall. Should
the death-rate per day continue.
Shreveport will be a charnel-house.
It is the genuine Mexican vomito—a
jßTiiicious type of yellow fever.
Many of my acquaintances are gone.
I keep up my spirits and have no
i j fear. If it is (lod's will that I shall f.
•lie, I will die doing my duty. What
little I have, my wife, is all yours;
it is not much, but it is yours. I see
the Northern cities are responding
nobly to our cry of distress. 1 of
ten shed tears when I see the dis
tress. It seems as if a black pall
hung over our ill-fated city. lam
heart-sick and broke for want of rest,
but don't worry for your "old boy."
My little wife, all will be well. As
you truly say, I am in God's hand.
Human help and experience amount
to little 111 checking the scourge. So
with love to you, to mother and the
children, I am ever your own loving
husband. Please don't worry about
me; attend to the children and home.
—Ph iladelph ia Pres
WE GIVE below the most of an orig
inal letter from Europe, dated Edin
burgh 4th May, 1573. thinking it will le
found interesting whether or not, in all
respects, correct:
We left the Irving House in Phil
adelphia at 6:30 a. m. on the 9th of
April, arrived at 10 a. m. and went
at once on board the Cunard Royal
Mail Steamer Algeria , and at 3 p.m.
left our wharf for Liverpool, but
came to anchor otf Sandy Hook on
our arrival there, on account of a
gale blowing at the time, accompa
nied by a thick fog, and did not leave
our anchorage until 5 a. m. of the
10th, when we proceeded to sea.
From this until the following Sunday
afternoon everything went on pleas
antly, but about 3 (. ni. a heavy fog
set iu. with falling thermometer.
This was rather unpleasant, as it was
utterly impossible to see an object
the width of the vessel. At 11:30 p.
in. the temperature of the air went
to 33° and the water to 31°. so there
was not the shadow of a doubt that
we were in a field of ice and proba
bly near one of the large bergs. How
ever, our fears were soon put to flight,
for soon after midnight it got sud
denly warmer and at 4 a. m. the fog
had disappeared and the remainder
of our voyage was both pleasant ami
smooth.
On the following Saturday night
near midnight we arrived off, and
landed at (Jucenstown. Ireland, and
by 2 a. m. of the 20th of April we
were fa-t asleep in a quiet bed on
terra firnia.
20th—rose at 7 a.m.. took a hearty
breakfast, and then the train for
Cork, distant some 12 miles; put up
at the Imperial Hotel (first-rate)and
soon after were in a carriage driving
for the far-famed "Blarney Castle",
distant some 7 miles. After visiting
this and inspecting it from bottom
to top and on all sides, we went into
the grove, a fine garden of some twelve
to fourteen hundred years standing,
but kept in good order,thence back t<>
Cork where a good dinner awaited
us. After we had done ample justice
to our host's hospitality we went for
a walk and did not return till after
10 p. in., having visited the docks,
principal churches, some benevolent
institutions and nearly every back
street, or what we sometimes call the
"slums," a* 1 was anxious to see how
the poor lived, and we had a good
opportunity for it was Sunday and
the poor were all at home.
There is some dissipation but not
as much as 1 expected to see, but
they live very dirty and in miserably
bad tenement houses. The city of
Cork is large, ha-- tine dock - for ship
ping and has a very large business, the
streets are generally wide and well
paved, but it is badly furnished with
drinking water. Everything looks
old about Cork, even the children, al
though not so much as their churches.
From here we went to' ; Killarney,"
and saw about everything there is in
the town, 011 the lake, on the moun
tains and in the neighborhood.
Among other things the asylum for
the insane, the prison, all the church
es, etc. The lakes and scenery
around Killarney are very beautiful,
and very delightful to all Americans,
especially those who arrive there
from steamers fresh from the United
States. There is not much industry
in ttiis place or its neighborhood, so
after a few days we left for and ar
rived at the old town of Limerick.
Everything here is old as in Cork.
Guide books and hasty travelers
will tell you that Limerick is the
place to get hose, fish-hooks and
gloves. Now you will. 1 think, give
111 c credit for not taking anything
for granted that 1 read or that
is told me: (for it has never been my
practice.) I determined to visit these
manufactories, and I assure you that
there is not one inch of lace, nor a
fish-hook nor a glove made in this or
any other place in Ireland, nor has
there been for the last 20 years. 1
sifted this to the bottom, and yet an
American lady boarding at the same
hotel we did. namely, Cruize Hotel,
(not a good one. although 1 believe
the liest in Limerick) sjient tlie dav
before our visit twenty-seven pounds
sterling for Limerick lace and then
left for Brussels the next dav where
siie would have to pay duty on it—
in the place where it was manufac
tured. If we were disappointed in
this, for my wife wished to buy some,
we were more than repaid by a drive
out to Castle O'Donnel and other
places of note and beauty, in the sub
urbs, among others the beautiful
mansion of the Countess of Clare.
My good fortune, with a little assist
ance of the tongue and perhaps some
boldness, got me a note of introduc
tion. and we were shown through all
the principal rooms of the residence,
and the garden, all of which are per
fectly beautiful and equally wonder
ful for their state of preservation.
TEA.
The more enterprising proprietors
of the tea gardens send out their
hand-maids as runners, who nab you
as you pass the boundaries of the
garden and give you a card inscribed:
"Mrs. Crumpet's World-famed Tea
Garden. No. 10 Rose Cottage. Tea
and shrimps, one shilling; tea and
cresses, ten pence." The runners
secured me, of course. I went to
Rose Cottage first. You pass through
a little porch whose stones are white
washed every morning, through a
tiny hall-Way to the back yard, ten
feet square, and a perfect wilderness
of shrubs and creepers. Tiny trellis
partitions divide off little arbors in
which the tea is served. It is very
nice tea, by the way, and with it you
get a plate of butter, a big loaf of
bread, that fills up most of the arbor,
and the beautiful little cockroaches
so dear to the British tea drinking
female, i laid no sooner emerged
from this place than the runner for
the next cottage seized me. It was
useless to tell her that I'd had my
tea; she knew how many cups a
woman could bear, and she toted me
right into her garden. There were
twelve cottages in this row, and I
drauk tc-a in every one of'em. Fin
ally, however, beginning, like Dick
ens' fat boy, to swell visibly and feel
uncomfortable, I waited in the last
den to which I was lured till the
shades of evening fell, and under
cover of the night 1 fled, escaping
that most awful of fates, drinking
myself to death.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY.
A correspondent of the Chicago
Tribune, writing from Seattle, Wash
ington Territory, speaks as follows
about the agricultural productions of
that locality:
"Our fir timber grows to a height
of from 150 to 250 feet, and is of a
peculiar character, being harder than
Eastern pine; readily worked while
green, but, when seasoned, it becomes
almost like flint, while its durability
and strength are nearly equal to oak.
Many of the buildings in this country
are put up without any studding
whatever. The fir boards, one inch
thick, being placed upright and bat
tened on the outside, are of sufficient
strength to hold up the roof, the up
per floor, with all its ordinary weight
of furniture, etc., and, when covered
with cloth and paper on the inside,
are considered sufficiently comfort
able for winter.
'•The valleys are covered with a
growth of vine, maple, alder, ash <
and cottonwood, with some cedar,
spruce and hemlock intermixed; but,
as the timber is not usually heavy :
and roots follow near the surface, the
land is not very hard to clear—the
work of which is usually done by In
dians at irom $l2 to $l5 per acre.
The soil, being either of a clayey
loam or sandy dejiosit largely mixed
with decayed vegetation, is extreme
ly rich. The blurts are all covered
with heavy timber, chiefly firs and
ce<lar. and are hard to clear—the
soil being of a light brown or yellow -
ish clay and quite stony, presenting I
to an Eastern farmer the appearance
of being worthless, but which have
been found to produce forty bushels
of fine wheat to the acre and from
fifteen to twenty bushels of apples to
the tree, on trees six years old. Vege
tables. cereals and fruits of all kinds
yield largely, except corn, melons,
peaches and grapes—the nights 1 ic
ing too cool to grow those products
to perfection; while, in the prairie
country cast of the Cascades, they
are grown iu abundance; and those
prairies, or sage-brush plains as they
are generally called, which have been
heretofore pronounced worthless,
have proved to be the very best lands
for crops of all kinds, yielding from
fifty to seventy bushels of wheat to
the acre."
Good Manners a Duty.
Men often speak of good manners
as an accomplishment. I speak of
them as a duty. What, then, are
good manners? Such manners as
the usages of society have recog
nized as being agreeable to men.
Such manners as take away rudeness
and remit to the brute creation all
coarseness. There are a great many
who feel that good manners are ef
feminate. They have a feeling that
rude bluntness is a great deal more
manly than" good manners. It is a
great deal more beastly. But when
men are crowded into communities,
the art of living together is no small
art. How to diminish friction; how
to promote ease of intercourse; how
to make every part of a man's life
contribute to the welfare and satis
faction of those around him; how to
keep down offensive pride; how to
banish the raspings of Selfishness
from the intercourse of men; how to
I move among men inspired by various
and conflictive motives, and yet not
have collisions; this is the function
of good manners.
It is not effeminate to be refined.
And in this land no man should
plead inability. There may be a
peasantry in other countries;- there
may be a class in foreign lands who
have no opportunities; there may be
j those whose toil is so continuous,
opportunities for knowing what con
stitutes good manners are so few.
and whose ignorance is so gross
that they are excusable; but this is
not the case with any within the sound
of my voice.
1 at linn for every American citi
zen the right to be not simply a liiau,
but a good-mannered man.
Not only is the violation of good
manners inexcusable on ordinary
grounds, but it is sinful. When,
therefore, parents and guardians and
teachers would inspire the young
with a desire for the manners of good
society, it is not to be taught that
they are accomplishments which may
be accepted or rejected. Every man
i> bound to observe the law s of po
liteness. It is the expression of
good-will and kindness. It promotes
both Iteaufy in the man who posses
ses it and happiness in those who
are about him. It is a religious du
ty and should be part of religious
training.— Henry Ward lieeeher.
The Waiting Mother.
Of the terrible disaster which hap
pened on the first of April. 1873, I
suppose you ha\e all read; how a
great steamer struck at niglit on the
rocks off Halifax, and carried down
to a watery burial some six hundred
people. Many bodies have been
found and identified, but many more
will never be seen again until the sea
gives up its dead.
Among the number marked as"miss
ing" is one widow 's son, who lived
in Detroit. She still clings fondly
to the hope that her Willie will yet
come back to her. The papers have
never told her that he is "lost," and
she feels that b\ SOUR- means he was
saved. Every clay she sets his plate
on her table, that all may be in readi
ness if he arrive; and every week
she searches the papers for tidings
from the sea.
"I haven't heard from Willie yet,"
she says, in answer to the neighbors'
qlieries, "but I hope I shall this
week." How long her faith will
hold out we cannot tell, but doubt
less for years to come she will be
still an anxious watcher. A sudden
.knock at her door will make her
$1.15 A YEAR
start and her heart throb quick; and
when the door opens she will almost
unconsciously look for Willie to
come in.
Oh! how many other mothers are
watching, hoping and praying for
their boys to come back—boys who
are wrecked almost as hopelessly and
fearfully as were the passengers of
the Atlantic —wrecked on land in the
fearful dramshops that destroy more
bodies and souls than the most cruel
reefs on our coast! But a mother
never forgets them. Said an aged
mother to me of her intemperate son,
now a gray-haired man: "There isn't
an hour of the day that my poor boy
is out of my mind." And the bitter
tears coursed down her furrowed
cheeks.
A WORD TO BOYS. —Boys, don't
hang around the corners of the
streets. I f you have anything to do,
do it promptly, right; then go home.
Home is the place for boys. About
the street corners and at the stables
they learn to talk slang, and they
learn to swear, to smoke tobacco, and
to do many other things which they
ought not to do. I)o your business
and then go home. If your business
is play, play and make business of it.
I like to see boys play good, earnest,
healthy games. If I was the town. I
would give the boys a good spacious
play-ground. It should have plenty
of soft green grass, and trees, and
fountains, and a broad space to run,
to jump, and to play suitable games.
I would make it as pleasant, as love
ly as it could be, and I would give
it to the boys to play in ; and when
the play was ended I would tell them
to go home.— Sunday School Scholar.
THE BUBOl.lXK.— Throughout the
northern and eastern parts of the
Union the lark would find a danger
ous rival in the bobolink, a bird that
has no European prototype, and no
near relatives anywhere—standing
quite alone, unique, and in the quali
ties of hilarity and musical tintinab
ulation, with a song uuequaled. He
has already a secure place in general
literature, having been laureated by
no less a poet than Bryant, and in
vested with a lasting human charm
in the sunny pages of Irving and is
the only one of our songsters, I be
lieve, the mocking-bird cannot paro
dy' or imitate, lie affords the most
marked exul>erant pride and a glad,
rollicking, holiday spirit that can be
seen among our birds. Every note
expresses complacency and glee.
He is a beau of the first pattern, and
unlike any other bird of my acquain
tance, pushes his gallantry to the
point of wheeling gaily into the
train of every female that comes
along, even after the season of court
ship is over and all the matches set
tled ; and when she leads him 011 too
wild a chase, he turns lightly about
and breaks out with a song that is
precisely analogous to a burst of
gay and self-satisfied laughter, as
much as to say, "Ha! ha! ha! I
must have my fun, Miss Silverthim
ble, thimble, thimble, if I break ev
ery heart the meadow—see, see, see!"
THE telegraph brings news of the
death oi one who nine years ago, off
Cherbourg, performed a most impor
tant and timely service for this coun
try. We refer to Admiral Winslow,
who died Monday night at Boston
Highlands, Mass., and who was in
command of the Kcarxage when she
put an end to the piratical career of
the Alabama , probably saving scores
of American merchant vessels from
destruction. Semmes was heroic
enough in burning unarmed mer
chantmen, but the very first armed
enemy he met put an end to his val
orous exploits. The victory was at
tributed in some part to Admiral
(then Captain) Winslow's device of
covering the exi>osed parts of the
Keartage with chains.
THE New York Tribune , in refer
ring to the Liberals of New York
w ho are surrounding John Cochrane,
says: "We do not share the belief
some of them express, that they are
about to form the coining new party.
New parties are not made in that
way; in fact, they are not made at
all—they jjrow."