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T. MiOCKHANK, -
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CLEARFIELD, PA
OlJoe In Cooit lluure. ap IS.TT ly
t.. w. .en.'i.i.oron,
ram. o l bitk.
McClLLOCCn & BUCK.
ATTORN EYS-AT-LA W ,
Clearfield. Pa.
All legal bu.lneaa promptly attended to. Offlca
on second street, lo tbo alaaonio building.
.anlo,'77
W. C. ARNOLD,
LAW 4 COLLECTION OFFICK,
CUHWKN8VILLB,
.26 Clearfield Connlv, Peun'a. 75y
TBI).. B. Ml'BIUY.
emu. aonnoa,
MURRAY & GORDON,
ATTORNKYS AT LAW,
CLEARFIELD, PA.
sT-OBic. in Pie's Optra House, icoond floor.
ijr'74
FRANK FIELDING,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Clear-Held, Pa,
Will alttjuil to all buaineii a tit runted to him
pKiiuptly and faliiaftillj'. novl2'73
WILLIAM A- WALI.Ati.
h mar r. wallac.
IAVID L. KRRkl.
JO HI W. WKIflLK T.
WALLACE & KREBS,
(tiuiaeaaur to Wallace 4 Field, ok,)
ATTORyRYS-AT-LA Wf(
11-12 7:! Cleat-Meld, Pa.
tosnvu a. u'atALLr.
da -url w. m ci anr,
MoENALLY & McCURDY,
ATTOHN EYS-AT-LA W,
ClearUeld, Pa.
Legal b 11 ait. mi attended to promptly with)
liifllity. Offinaj on Second atratt, abo Iba Firit
National Hank. jan:l:7o
Q. R. BARRETT,
ATTORNKY AND CoiINHEIaOR AT IjAW,
CI.EAKPIKI.I), PA.
llarinff wig nod bif Jurlj("hip, haa rfinmad
iho uraclioo of th law lo bia old office at Clear-
flflj, Pa. Will attend the court of Je Sertoli and
Klk oountiei when ipcciiillj retained in connection
wiib ritcnt ennn!. l-.u.ii
A. G. KRAMER,
A T T O K N E Y - A T - L A W ,
Real Ketate and Collection Agent,
C1.BARFIELI, PA.,
Will promptly attend to all legal bnilneii en
truaUd to hia oara.
MTOflloa ia Pie'i Opera lUw. janl'T.
H. W. SMITH,
ATTORNKY-AT-LAW,
7a l lrartlcld. Pa.
WALTER BARRETT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Clearfield,' Pa.
OITtoa la Old Weitarn Hutal building,
eirnr of Baeond and Market 9tl. noTll,oo.
ISRAEL TEST,
ATTOHN BY AT LAW,
Cleariield, Pa.
jUrOOIea In the Court Uooaa. Ojll.'e!
JOHN H. FULFORD,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
leurtleld. Pa.
M-6 Off ea oa Matket atraat, opp. Court Home,
Jan. a, IB74.
JOHN L. CUTTLE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
thd Heal Ratafe Agent, Cleat-Held, Pa.
Offiea oa Third atraat, bat. Cberrj A Wain tit.
ffaFHtspeotfullj oflera hie if meet la aellinf
ind buying landa in Claarflvld and adjoining
ountiaa j and with an experienced OTar tweniv
mara aa a (Drveyor, flatten bimeelf that be eaa
tnder latlnraotion. Lttb. JS;M;tf,
J. BLAKE WALTERS,
HKAL KSTATK BROKKIt,
aao DKALKB IB
Haw IiOfiH ,u,l Iiuiibor,
CLEARFIELD,
0!Bo. in ilraham'a R't.
PA. '
1:21.71
J. J. LINGLE,
ATT Ojt N E Y - A T - LAW,
119 (hreola, t ie arfleld t o.. Pa. y:pl
J. S. BARN HART,
ATTORNEY AT - LAW,
Belieloiite, Pa.
Will praotlna in Clearflald and all of tba Court, of
:ba ztn Judieiai irtirioc. neat artaia nu.in.s.
and collection ol alaima nada .paelaltle.. nl'Tt
DR. W. A. MEANS,
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON,
LVTIIERSUVRU, PA.
Will attend profe.alonal aalla promptly. aaglQ'70
DR. T. J. BOYER,
PHYSICIAN ANDSUKOKON.
OOlea on Market Street, ClearUeld, Pa.
T-OBoo honrai I to 11 a. ta , and 1 lo I p. a.
D
R K. M. SCHEURER,
IIOMiEOPATHIC PUYrilCIAN,
Olfloa In revidenea on Market t.
April 14, I87J. ClearUeld. Pa
DR. J. P. BURCH FIELD,
Late Hurgtoa of the M Regiment, Ptnoiyltania
Volanteen, having returned froai the Army,
ofTen hie profenioaal aerTieai to tbeeitliana
of Clearflald eoanty.
ffProfeFtionalralli promptly attended to,
Offlie oa 8aeoad meat, foraaarlyoeciipied by
Ur.Woode. apfiM-tf
DR. H. B VAN VALZAH,
C'l.KARKIBI.II, PRKN'A.
0 V 'l CE IN MASONIC Hl'I I-DIN (i.
fir ODIea hnara Froai II lo I P. M.
May
WILLIAM M IIKNKY, JusTim
?Y or Pbai b ai. S.'lTe, LUMRErl
CITY. Colleetlon. nada and money promptly
paid arer. Arttele. of agreement and dead, a I
eoa.eyeaa. aeally aiaeaiad and warranted eor
reel or no aharga. Miy'l"'
JAME8 H. LYTLE,
la hralier'a llulldlng, Clearfield. Pa.
bealer In OroeeilM, Protl.loBS VegelaMea,
Fraiti, Floor, Feed, eta., ale.
arim-ir
HARRY KNYDEU,
BARBER AND BAIBt)HE.lKR
lit. T on Market 81.. oppo.Ha Ooart lloaaa.
A clean towal for arary eaeb'taef.
Aleo mannraetBrar of
M kluda of Arllrlea In llaaiaa Hair.
Clritllrld, Pa. m.j It, '7a.
D. M. D0HEBTY,
FAS1I10SARLE BARBER A HAIR DRtFSKR.
CLKAUFIELD, PA.
Ph.-p In rooaa formerly aeeapled by Kauga)
Market .treat.
Jalj I., Id.
JOHN D. THOMPSON,
Jaetioa of taa Paaea aad bVrieeaar,
CnrwearTllle, Pa.
t.Colleo4ieaa aaada aad moaay promptly
Hirer. fehll'Tllf
CLEARFIELD
GEO. B. GOODLANDEfi, hopncvoi. - '
VOL. 5I-WII0LE NO.
Cards.
RICHARD HUGHES,
JUSTICE OF Till PEACE
FOB
Ittcatur Townnhtp,.
Oieeola Mill. P. O.
All official bnilner. antrailed to him will be
promptly attended to. mcli?0, '7fV
FRANCIS COUTRIET,
MERCHANT,
frenetavllle, Clearfield County, Pa.
Keep, eonatantly oa band a full aaiortmant of
Jiry uooda, Hardware, urooeriea, anu areryining
omally kept In a retail .tore, wnicn Will be .old,
for oaib, aa cheap ai eWewhera ia tba oounty.
Frenchville, June 17, 187-ly.
THOMAS H. FORCEE,
DBALBB IB '
UENKKAL MERCHANDISE,
;r AIIAMTON, Pa.
Alaa.eltaaaira manufacturer and dealer In Pinare
Timber and Rawed Lumbar ol an Binaa.
-0r.l.n aolieited and all bill, promplly
tiled. I'jyinj
REUBEN HACKMAN.
House and Sign Painter and Paper
Hanger,
Clearfield, Peuit'a.
l-,Wlll execute lobi lo hit line promptly and
In a workmanlike manner. arr4,A7
G. H. HALL,
PRACTICAL PUMP MAKER,
NEAR CLEARFIELD, PENN'A.
fatrPompi alwoyi on hand and made to order
n ihort notice, riiiee noreu on reasonauia lenna.
All work warranted to render antUfaction, and
delivered if deiin-d. my26:lypd
E. A. BIGLER & CO.,
DEAI.RRI IS
SQUARE TIMBER,
and manulactarera of
AM. KIN DM OF H II) 11MI1I-.1I,
I 7'7J CLEARFIELD, PENN'A.
JAS. B. GRAHAM,
dealer ia
Real Estate, Square Timber, Boards,
BIIINQLES, LATH, A PICKETS,
U 1 0 73 Clcroi l I, Fa,
WARREN THORN,
HOOT AND SHOE MAKER,
Market at., Clearfield, Pa,
. In the .hop hlcly occupied by Frank fthort,
one door went of Alleghany llou.e.
ASHLEY THORN,
ARCHITECT, CONTRACTOR and I1I II.DKH.
Plan, and Ppccifioatioti. furnlihed fr all kind,
of building. All work Oral clan, ritairbmll
iog a epeoially.
1'. O. addrcii, Clearni-ld, I'a. jao.17 -77 If.
R. M. NEIMAN,
SADDLE and HARNESS MAKER,
Ruiubarger, ClearUeld Co., Pa.
Ketpton hand all kindi of Harnei. Saddle,
Ilridlra, and Hone Furnlabing (ioudf. Hepairlng
promptly attended to.
Itumbarger, Juo. 10, 177 -if.
JOHN A. STAPLER,
1JAKKR, Market St., Clearfield, Vm,
Frevh 11 rend, P.mk, Rolli, Pica nnd Cakeo
band or made to oriW. A general aifortmcnt
lat Confactionarice, FrultP and Nuta in elite tw
ice Cream and Oynlen in aeaeon. Kalooa nearly
oppoiile the Pott office, Pricea moderata.
March lfr-'7j.
JAMES MITCHELL.
DR1LRR 1
Square Timber & Timber Lands,
Jell'Tll CLKAHFIKLD, PA.
jalt. IrMumtAY
WILL gllPTLV YOI! WITH ANY ARTICLE
OF MRRCHANDIKE AT THE VERY LOWEST
PRICE. I'OMK AND 8EK.
(B:i73j:)
NEW WASHINGTON,
UTAH Bl.tS AND STONH VAHI.
1 Mr a. H. K. I.IDIIII I.,
llaving engaged la the Marlile buiineea, deairea
to Inform her frieudi and the publio that ahe baa
now and will keep oon.tantly on hand a large and
well lelrcled Hock of ITALIAN AND VERMONT
MAKIILE. and ir nreiarcd to nirni.h to order
TOUlllrJTONEri. HUX AND CRADLE TOilUS,
HOMMKNTh. do.
vYard on Heed itreet, near the R, K. Depot,
Clnrfiolil, Pa , Jel.,7o
IIvcry Stable.
rtl R undcrilgned begi leare to l tor in the puh-
Hp that he ( nnw niHy prepare to eccttinnio-
4.lc nil In the way of furniihing Hupgite,
Siiaitiles and lUrnritt, on tlie nbortrM notice and
an rriiPoneble termi. Henidenoe on l.oruit utreet,
between Third and Fourth.
UKO. W. OKA R1I ART.
Ilaarflelil. feb. 4, l74
WHOLESALE UQU0R STORE.
At At, end of the new bridg.,
WT CLEARFIELD, PA.
TLe pniprletor of Ihia e.tablishmrnt will buy
hi. liquor, direct front diltiilere. Parllo. buying
from tbia bouee will ba aura to get a pure article
ai a auiall margin abore co.t. Hotel kecpera can
be farm. bed with liquor! on ne.Ohahle term..
Pure wine, and hrandiri dlreet from relcy'a
Vinery, at Bath, New York.
IIEOIillE N. COI.lU TlN.
CleaiSeld. June l, 1874 tf.
S. I. SNYDER,
PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER
AB0 tB4l.r.B IB
Walolioa, Clixks and Jewelry,
Omtaai'. Row, Ji.l ,rel,
l.lvAf l-ll..l, PA.
All kind, of repairing in my line promptly at
ended to, April 23, 1871.
Clearfield Nursery.
EN'COURA(iK HOME INDUSTRY.
fpIIK anderigned, huflng eMiMinbed a Nur-
I . . I11a. .......a L.lf aaiawi klawAavwi
IvirairDPIU Run lUr'niTin, ip prriiamu .w mr-
aieh allkinda of PR1MT TKKK.S. (M.ndard and
dwarf.) Errrgraeae, Bhrabbery, flrape Vlnan,
UOnannVirj, t.HWaMal irwt-r, i.-i I w i wj ,
and Rarpberry Vioea. Aiao, Hiberiaa Crab Tree,
gainea, and aarly aearlet Rhubarb, Ap. Ordera
promptly attended to. Addratta,
a. v. wiunni,
eej.J - Carwenitille, Pa.
ANDREW HARWICK,
Market Htnet. ClearUeld. Pa..
aaBnrarTl'BaB p iibalbb ib
DARNEFS, RADDLES, BRIDLKH, COLLARS,
aad all kind, of
HOH.St rVKKHHIIHO GOODS.
. ...i, . 1. a.JJUva' .m rtru.ka..
Comb., Illn..l., Robe., ele., alwaj. oa band
and fnr Bale at the lowoMea.h prleea. All kind,
f repairing promptly attended lo.
All bmda "f klda. taken la eieheege t'l har.
aea. and repairing. All kind, nf barne.a leather
vwarnei i, m. i, i"i
JOHN H. FULFORD,
Vt ft tit At IMSLHAXCS AOttST,
ClearUeld, Pan a 'a,
R.pre.-on all 111. Ieadln Tire Iniuranoe
f . i u rj Ih . NMHlrt I
Oa.'n - .'I0.OM.0M
Royal Canadiaa
Ilome, New York
t.yeoming, Muney, P.
Franklin, l'hilad'a.M...MnH..
Pbaraia, Hartford ..........
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t.Tit.114
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I, ..
Il,l
Ilano.e., N.w lark ,.-..
Ilome. Col , 0.
lla.lfnad .
Wln.A.I
PrwTldehe., wa.ningioa
..raMiikoai rffietina aa Lafaraaee aa prop
erty of any kind, ahoald eall at my oliea, ea
Market atrret, appo.il. tba Coart lloaaa, end aaa
my Hal at eowpeoie. and ratea before lnorln.
ai'iin . a vi.a.,
Clear.eld.Pa., 0-1, V '7 It
2,527.
"THt WAUR MILL."
Llrlen to the water mill
All the lirelong day
How the ellckiog or tile wheal
Wear, the hour. away.
Lanxuldly thu autumn wind
Ntlra the greenwood leave.
From the Held the reaper, aing,
llindirig up the .h.are. i
And a memory o'er my mind
Aa a .pell I. cat i
Tin mill will n.rer grind
Wilk th. walir i hl la pait.
flummer wind, reriva ao mora
Leave, atrewn of ar earth and main,
And the aiekle no'er ean reap
Tna gathered grain again
And the rippling at ream flowa on,
Trannnil, deep, and ttlla-
Never gliding bark agaia
'Pa the waiar mill.
Truly apeak, tb. proverb old,
W ith a meaning vaet:
"The mill will never grind
With the water that ia paal."
Take the leaeon to yourself,
Loving heart and true ;
Oolden aaa. are fleeting 1yl
Youlli ia p.aalng. loo.
Btrive to miika the moal of life,
Lore no happy day i
Time will never briug you hack
Chance, .wept away.
Lear, no tender word unaaid,
Love while love .hall laat
Th. mill will aever grind
With the water that la paat.
V'nrk while yet (be daylirht ahinoa,
Man of thought and will ;
Never does tbo streamlet glide
I'aelea. by Iho mill :
Wall not till to-morrow's run
Reams upon your way,
All tbat you ean oal! your own
Lira In this to-day.
Power, intellect and beallh
May not always last
The mill will novar grind
With Ihe water that is paal.
6'HT.AT UOMES.
Tho cliirilerinir mtaiiifiits Mint cntlier
about our dear Saxon word "homo"
nro numcroiiH. It Miirgepui to im a
tumplo ol'lovunnd trull), of penco, con
solation, rind rent : tho ci'iitro of iov
nnd liarniony, of nil llint ia beautilul
and uesiruulu: una so wo mine vo re
gard licnven as a linmc, diirurinir Irom
our earthly ones only in perl'ection.
Ul every renhty in tho world wo
fan in our mindit form an ideal, of nono
n more luiiulihil than ol homo. There
Hhotild ho nil that tends to cultivate
and refino taste. Hooks to invito ono
to scan their contents : music to soothe
and cheer; well iliiwen pictures, an
artistic and harmonious Mending or
eolors which quickens tho senna of tho
lieautilul ; plants, sineo In cuch swell
ing hud and lilosotning flower lessons
ot Invo and trust may lo loiind.
i bis is our local homo but, and to
say, and ideal too Bcldom realized.
r.very home is n happy ono until vou
see beneath the roof," said a writer in
the olden time, nnd grievous it is that
tho peaceful looking roofs so freuuent-
1y cover disharmonies and inilillVrenco,
or fathering storms. In theso uncon
genial nlioiles, each member of tho
household has his or her opinion on
overy subject, if they are strong char
acters. Hitch ono tenaciously advo
cates his sido of tho question; bitter,
grievini; words ensue, and coldness
creeps into tho hearts, till homo be
comes dreaded, and only a meeting-
plnco for food and lodging, where
wearily drug tho hours nnd days. Ho
important nro tho seemingly little
things in a homo-lift), so many arc the
causes that produce theso sad results,
that it is difficult to know on which to
descant, or how to make tho weight
of their importance) felt.
Uur Domes should Do tho strong
olds of our country, since in their in
fluence nro tho minds ot our future
citizens nnd statesmen formed, and
girls nro nurtured who will raise up
other homes fashioned after the models
of those they havo known.
f.vcry vocation in lilo requires yearn
of preparation. A life work do, minds
a 1 1 lo study, nut a woman whoso
mission and whoso work it Is to make
tho home, too oflen outers upon her
duties w holly unfitted and unprepared,
having given no thought to tho weight
her iiifluonco will havo there. She
neglects her mind, forgetting that tho
impetus to improvement and culture
must emanate from her. V'ho neglects
her body, forgetful that good health
alt.no begets good temper. Slio neg
leetB her manners, forgetting that hers
will leave their impress npon every in
mate, while slio overlooks no fault in
others. Sho descends to idlo gossip,
too little mindful of n woman's homo
life, nnd fogett'iii; that, its in old Romo
tho I.aivs mnde tho home, so she now
is tho presiding nnd conferring deity.
Tho training of boys also is rarely
that which will fit them to bo loving
and thoughtf ul. If mothers would re
nlir.o this, nnd educate their tons for
husbands, nnd to be gentle men indeed,
hull tho sorrow cf home life would be
avoided. Wero bovs tauiht to bo
courteous, kind, and nttentivo to their
sisters, nnd wcrp mado to understand
that they had a duty to fulfill in tho
home, wo need no longer say as now,
that husbands nro nlso greatly respon
sible for tho too universal wretched
ness.
They too often address to their
wives sharp and discourteous words,
'Which they forget nnd wo remem
ber," a young v.'il'it sadly said to mo
the other day. Jully ubcorhed in
their own pursuits, oblivious to tho
trials nnd needs of their wives, they
offer no word of cheer to those who
havo labored wearily in dull monotony
all day. They give no md in tho educa
tion ol children, mil deem that their sole
duty lies in providing peetuiiury sup
port; failing to read in tho careworn,
patient face, from which tho girl-bloom
lios too soon faded, silent plcadin? for
a little thoughtful tenderness, a little
loving aid. J ruo, they love their
wives devotedly; but lovo, without
Iho nameless little tender acts which
it should engender, Is as thn flower
bereft of its perfume; nnd, alas I too
often such love drives nwny devotion
Irom the grieved heart, w hile cold duty
takes its place.
All must realize tins need ol our
country, nil must gnevo over tho'1
wrecked lives and hopes ol many
households ; but to women the sorrow
must bo keenest, for tho fault in creat-
cst degree is theirs, theirs alone
tho powor to rectily it. Let them
mnko it their idon- so to fill their nn-
pnintct! place, that from their abodes
may cmnnnto and descend innuenccf
that for revolving years shall bless
other households.
As our language is tho only ono
which contains tho word "home,"
would our country were the one where
tho homes exhibit tho noblest possibil
ities that the word can itiggost. '
Qi'AKr.rt CtiTtNtss. A Quaker hav
ing been cited as a witness in a case
heforo tho Session!!, ono of tho magis
trates, who had been a blacksmith,
desireil to know why bo would not
take off his hat. "It is a privilege,"
said the Quaker, "that the laws and
liberties of my country indulgo people
of my religious modu of thinking, in."
" If 1 bad it in my power," replied tho
justice, " I would havo your hat nailed
to your nena. -1 inongni, sou.
Obadinh, dryly, " t hat thou hadst (rivon
over tho trade nf driving nnil."
CLEARFIELD,
HC1ESCK ON TJIE FARM.
Tho mere mention of tho word sci
onco or scientist appears to be obnox
ious to many of our farmers, who de
nounce Hciontifio ugncultiire as a veri
tablo cheat and a snura, Of course, it
is not to bo denied that thcro has been,
nnd is at the present day, nn immense
amount of charlatanry among tho self-
etylod scientillo agriculturists, but the
saino is Into of nil othor professions or
hrnnchen ot scienco and art. J ho mod
ieal profession, important as it is to
tho welfare of mankind, ia overburden
ed with quackory, but that does not
invalidate tbo claims ol the rikilltul
physician and surgeon to honorablo ro
cognition by tho community. Tho
greatest obstacle to tho advance of
true scienco in all the learned profes
sions, is the crowding of legitimate
channels with charlatans, who stand
iu little fear of punishment if discover
ed, so that tho unlearned or even nn
becilo froquontly assumo titles to which
.i i r .i..
iiiey nuvu nu rigiii.
But tho farmer, in A majority of in
stances, has misunderstood the mean.
ing of tho term science and scientific
agriculture, believing it to bo some
thing fur beyond the comprehension ol
persons who have not boon specially
trained in school or collcgo. JN'ow,
genuine science, at beat, is merely com
mon sense nnd observation combined,
and all preparatory studies are little
moro then good tools, with which a
man works out problems iu alter years.
Ot course a mechanio cannot do as
good work with a few or poor tools as
bo can with plenty of tho vory best,
but ho may still be scientific; tho sumo
is true with the farmer, and tho better
his preparatory education, tho more
rapid will be his progress; but because
ho cannot go as deep in his investiga-
tious as siinio others, it does not follow
that no investigations should be mado.
i he idea appears to havo got abroad
that scienco in funning means chiefly
tho analysis of soils and tho food of
animals; this orror, for it certainly is
one, originated from the investigations
and writings'"! such men a liouesen
guult, Liebig, Johnson, and contempo
raneous authors, whose life moors wure
mainly in that direction, and wero, in
many instances, carried far beyond
what was necessary lor prncticul utili
ty. It is not, however, necessary for
a man to be a thorough chemist, geol
ogist, botanist, or a specialist in any
ono brunch of science, to bo a scientific
former, (jood ploughing is a scientific
operation, producing both mechanical
and chemical results, there being an
abundant opportunity tor tho display
of a high order of scientific intelligence
in tho sitnplo act ol turning over tho
soil. To ascertain just how deep to
plough in order to produce tho best ro
suits on every different kind of lurid,
requires a great amount of study, and
many carefully conducted experiments.
Then, tho ploughing provious to put
ting in a crop is often followed by the
stirring of the soil among the plants,
and the frequency, depth, the best time
lor performing tho operation, cull lor
some very close calculations, and in
vestigations, which are undoubtedly
of a scientillo order.
In the feeding and caio of animals
scientific investigations are constantly
required, and although a farmer may
not bo able to conduct various analyses
in a chemical laboratory and determine
the composition of bis timothy or do
ver tiny, nnd learn which is tho richest
food for his stock, he can readily ob
tain tho knowledge sought by experi
ments in feeding tbo two kinds sepa
rately, and noting tho effect npon the
animals. Hut it is scarcely necessary
in these days of cheap books nnd peri,
odicals lor a farmer to spend much
time in practical experiments of this
kind, for tho value for food ot nearly
every known linage plant was long
sinoe ascertained, and a man would bo
vory foolish to spend his time in re
peating experiments where no new
discoveries are likoly to bo made. Tho
groat want of tbo day is not new dis
coveries In scionco portaining to agri
culture, but tho general diffusion nnd
application of what is already known
to a comparatively small number.
Thcro is not the loust need of any now
forngo plant or grain, but those wo nl
ruady possess should boeome better
known among tho tillers of tho soil,
nnd this can only bo brought about by
a more careful pornsal of books and
periodicals devoted to natural sciences.
livery farmer should know enough
of botany to enable him to distinguish
tho commonly cultivated grasses and
other plants from those growing wild
In his uncultivated lands. When lie
has learned this much, he will know
'he noxious species from tho useful,
and enough of their natural habits to
cnnblo him to more readily destroy tho
ono and encourage tho growth of the
other, than if ho remained In total ig
norance of botanical science. Tho same
is also truo of entomology, for it re
quires no great amount ot study to
learn tho difference between the com
mon moths and butterflies, or to dis
tinguish the bugs from beetles; and
yet this little knowledgo would fre
quently bo of great assistance to the
farmer in enabling him to know bis
frijiids from his fires among insects.
Even what would generally bo termed
moro "smatterings" ol science in tho
branches named become valuable when
applied or employed in farming ; hence
the importance of ilnir accumulation,
and tho carlior in life tho bettor.
A". Y. llWy .Sus. .
PASS VH. Nil A P.
At tho last session nf tho Legisla
ture a committee of which Senator
Yerkes is chairman was appointed to
look into tho fishery interests of tho
State. This committeo wo understand
has arranged with the Heading Hail
way Company, which controls the
Susquehanna canal, that a plan for a
fish way through tho Columbia dnm,
conforming to tho natural bottom of tho
river, shall bo prepared in consulta
tion with the engineers of tho railway.
This first movement of tho committeo
in dischargo of its duty is very good,
and possibly may result in securing a
fishway throtigli tho Columbia dnm
.ht will let tho fish through. Thus
fnr tho efforts to this end havo been
signal failures, the shad being linablo
to ascend tho rapids of tho Fish Com
missioner's fishways. The ponnlo of
the upper waters ol tho nusqucbauna
have beon looking lor their promised
shad for a long while, and mnst bo
qnito tired of waiting lor them. Pro.
bably they havo given tip the expecta
tion of over seeing their brilliant sides
flush upon tho banks of tho streams as
they fall in satisfying numbers Irom
the embracing seine. Wo fear that
they harecauao lor their despair. It
may bo, and we do not see why It enn
not be, that a proper avonne can he
made lor tho fish through tho Colum
bia dnm ; and if this Is effected, tho
upper waters of tho river will event
ually be as woll supplied ai the lowor ;
and yet the fiihwny will not, pcrlmps,
PA., -WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1877.
bring tho fish to those who so long
have hungered for thotn.
Tho future trouble in the shad sup
ply will not bo with fish ways but with
the fish themselves, nnd for a reason
that will keep tho fish out of tho riror
oven at its mouth. X early lor several
yenre shad have been growing scarcer
in luuourjiguciiuiniu.aiiu iu uiseurer ino
reason why is a liar more important
duty of Mr. Yorkes' committee than to
solvo tho problem of tho Columbia
fishway, which obviously does not
need to be solved it there uru shortly
to bo no shad in the river below the
dam. Tho marked diminution in the
shad supply wo think will bo found to
have just commenced, and tho signifi
cance of its occurrence just after tho
Susquehanna has been stocked with
black bass will naturally strike the
committee If they find tbo fact to be
us wo understand iU 1 1 lias only been
siilllciently plentiful iMbo river to af
ford much sporl to the fishermen.
I.nst year tor tho first timo good
strings of large fish rewarded the rod.
Hut lor several years tho small bass
havo beon numerous enough to make
sorious havoc among tho young shad
and to keep millions of them from find
ing their way to the ocean. The bass
is a very uulivo and voracious fish nnt:
io a iV'iT uuinu unu viiihvuiiib linu mill
we think tho committee will bo able to
abundantly satisfy itsolf upon inquiry
that thoy do destroy in vast quantities
tho young shad. If this is so, tho bo
ginning of the ond of tho shad fishing
n tho Susquehanna is imminently
i,,.ni.,nn,i wuk 1 1... h.. ra..is I,;
threatened. With tlie bass yearly in
creasing in site and numbers and yearly
cutting down tho supply of young
shad going down to thu ocenn, it fol
lows that tho present decrenso in tho
in-coming shad will each spring become
more dourly perceptible, it it be true
tbat those that come back to tho river
to spawn are tho same that themselves
were spawned in it. Some think that
this is not the source, ot our supply,
but that tho maturo shad aro acciden
tally guided in tlie selection of their
spawning ground, ascending tbo river
which they find 'fullest of" water U8
they pass up the coast. Susquehanna
fishermen say the shad uro always
most numerous in years when the river
is highest. Should this theory bo cor
rect the black buss will not du us tho
dnmago we fear; but tho current of
opinion is that generally tbo fish revisit
tho waters nf their Infancy.
Wo hnpo that the committee will
look into this important matter, that
if, the danger from tho bass is such ns
it seems, measures may if possible bo
adopted to remove it. We con better
spare tho bass than tho shud, tor there
is no comparison between lite quality
id' tho two fishes, nor their value as
food. The abundance of tho shud in
their season, their size, their delicacy,
nnd tho facility with which they are
harvested unite to make them tbo fish
of fish for poor and rich. LaneaHer
Intrltijeneer.
AFFECTION IX BIRD LIFE.
The fidelity nnd affectionate intima
cy of married bird-hie nppeora most
conspicuously in pairs of tho grosbeak
family and in small parrots. Here is
perfect harmony of will and deed.
Tho two sweethearts appear unwilling
to lenvo ono another's company for a
moment all their life; they do every
thing together eating and drinking,
bathing, and dressing of feathers, sleep
ing and waking. Various degrees of
affection and harmony aro discernible
on closo observation. Among the
small grosbeaks, pairs of which sit to
gether, tho intimate relation is nevor
disturbed ; oven over tbo feeding cup
there is no quarreling. They stand
highest in this respect among birds.
Love tokens are exchanged by pressing
of beoks together a veritable kissing,
accompanied by loving gestures.
They nre also more sociable, and oven
at nesting timo more peaceable, than
other birds. In the case of other gros
beaks, when tho male bird Bits by tho
female in tho nest, there aro various
demonstrations of affection, but also
slight occasional disputes, especially
about feeding time. Next iu order
como tho small parrots, which also np-
icar almost inseparable. Tbo mulo
ird fcods his companion with seeds
from tho crop. This goes on quite
regularly during the hutching, and un
til tho young nro somewhat grown.
During all this timo tho ben bird,
which broods alone, never leaves tho
nest bnt for a lew minutes, and tho
cock shows such alToclionatu care that
thu whole day liu seems to do nothing
but tuke food and give it again. 1
even this loving union is marred from
time lo time, oven during the hutching
time, with quarrels thai even come to
blows. A,'ain, the mule bird of a pair
of chafllnchcs only occasionally aits on
tho eggs or young, but ho watches the
nest very carefully, singing lo his mate
thu while, accompanies thu hen in
flight, ami helps her in feeding the
young. Chamber's Journal.
Warning to Orii'M atkk. Ono
ol thu saddest cases not only sad, but
unusually tragic is thai ot Mrs. Isaac
C, I'urkius, ui Chicago, thrico married,
thrice divorced, nnd finally n pauper
corpse, and all owner to a lovctlor tho
fatal drug opium. Her last husband
was Mr. lauuo C. Perkins, of Hyde
Purk. rurmg all these yours slio con
tinued tho use of this puralyzing sub
stance. Slio sank lower and lower nnd
became a hopeless slave to it. She
dragged the husband down with her
in her descent. This terrible habit
stripped him of money and property
and plunged Itiin into a life, of miser)
nnd poverty. Little by little his effects
havo been surrendered. Year alter
year ho saw hi, wife gradually assim
ilating to a thing uiinutiirul, until iho
exhausted and drugged nature yielded
up its life, and its spirit took its flight.
What is thu result? Tho husband
penniless, ruined, and half crazed, has
in ud u an appeal to the authorities of
Llydo Purl, for the paltry sum of 130
with which to give his wile's body a
decent burial. Tho sum was given,
thank, to .the genorosity of the Hoard
of Trustees.. . What a full! From ro
spcclubilily and happiness to opium
and a pauper's grave.
Hei Eaters. The mooted question
as to whether toad, cat bees has boen
settled by M. llrunef. a writer in Lb
... ...
Nature, who assorts that, going into
bis garden ono day. just before a storm,
ho observed tho noes crowding into
their hives. Near ono of tho hives
was A toad which overy now and then
rose on his Tore legs ami made a dart,
with surprising quickness, towards
blade of grass, lie was found to bo
devouring bees which were resting on
tho grass blades awaiting their chance
to cuter tho hive. M. Jlrunet waited
until twelve victims had been devour
ed, expecting Iosco tho toad's rniacily
punished with a sting, but no such re
sult occurred. Tho toad was twice
removed to quite distance from tho
hivos. both times ha returned to tho
spot in a few hour". .
REPUBL
77 K OR 1 a IX OF rRAlIilES.
WnY TIIKY ARK NOT F.NCROACHED I'PON
11 V UOIIDERINO WOODS.
In a paper in tho idnrrimn Natural
ist, I'rof. j. I). Whitney, after showing
the insumctency ol tho ordinary theo
ries to explain why prairies are not
encroached upon by bordering woods,
offers the following explanation of his
own :
"Let us turn nt present to the geo
logical sido of tho investigntion. Tbo
whole ol Now Englnnd and Now York,
and a large part of Ohio and Indiana,
together with Iho wbolo of Michigan
and of Northern Wisconsin, constitute
a region over which the northern drift
phenomenn have been displayed on a
grand scale. Consequently almost the
wholo of this area is covered with
heavy deposits of course gravel and
boulder materials. Those deposits, if
not nt. tho surface, are near it, and tho
finer materials dopositcd on them, by
alluvial nnd other ngoncies, generally
brm only a tbin covoring for tlie course
deposits beneath. Hut as we go south
and west from the region indicated
above, we find the underlying rock
tho "bed rock" as tho ( 'nlifornia miners
I would call it tleeply covered with
, , .
10090 ' true, but we ob.
sorvo nlso that theso aro qnito differ
ent in character from what they aro
to Iho north and cast. Wo como to a
region where tho drift agencies have
I ',n "7 limil in their action. Tho
hulk of the superficial detritus has been
formed from tho decomposition ol tbo
underlying rock, and this detritus hns
been little disturbed or moved from
its original position. If erratic de
posits exist, they are usually deeply
covered with finer mnterinls derived
from close at hand. A great area ex
ists in Wisconsin and Minnesota over
which not a single drift pebble has
over been found, either nt the surfaco
or at any depth benenth it. Tho strata
have become chemically disaggregated
and dissolved by the percolution of tho
rain through them, the calcareous mat-
ler hns been carried off in solution,
nnd there is left behind ns a residuum
tbo insoluble matter which the rock
originally contained, and which, con
sisting largely of silica and silicate of
alumina, forms by its aggregation a
silicious nnd clayey deposit ol almost
itnplicable fineness. It is tins fino ma
terial which makes up the bulk of the
prairie soil; and as the writer con
ceives, it is this fineness which is es
pecially inimical lo tho growth of trees.
Exactly as we see tbo desiccated lakes
in the midst of forests gradually filling
up with finely comminuted materials
and becoming covered with a growth
of grasses or sedges, which is not af
terwards encroached on by trees, no
matter whether tho ground becomes
completely dry or whether it remains
more or less swampy, so wo havo the
prairies, which have certainly never
at any time beon overspread with for
ests, and which would always remain
ns they nro, providing the climate un
derwent no radical change and they
wero not Interfered will, by man. it
is for tho vegetable physiologist to sny
why this fineness of tho soil is so un
favorable to tho growth of trees; it is
for tho goologist and physical geogra
pher to set forth the facts which they
may observo within the lino of their
own professional works."
EDUCA TWX AND CRIME.
The subject of "convict labor " or ol
the employment of prisoners, which a
committeo of the Legislature is now
examining, is undoubtedly very impor
tant, and involves a great many ques
tions on tho solution of which tho
most experienced students of penology
uro not at uli ngreed. Tho inquiry
lias, however, already suggested other
subjects of far moro general interest
than that of tho employment of prison
ers, and subjects which do not require
for their discussion tho training of a
specialist, Mr. Kichard Yuux, in nn
experience of many years in tbo man
agement of tho Kastern l'cnitontinry
mid in tlie careful study of penal sys
tems, bus gullied a knowledgo which
entitles him to speak as with authority,
and we have no doubt that his testi
mony heloro the Legislative committeo
was as Intelligent and well considered
ns anything thu committee is likely, to
hear. Vol there is just ono point in
nil his long address which the general
publio will notice and understand, and
which has already attracted moro at
tention than would be betdowod upon
years discussion ot convict labor.
1 implore you, gentlemen ot tho Jeg
i8lutare," said Mr. Vaux, "to look at
our statistics, they show that our
prison is occupied lo a very great ex
tent by iinnpprcntieed convicts. . Ol all
the young men under tw enty live yearn
of ago admitted to the prison seventy
five per cent, aro wilhout a trade and
ninety per cent, uro educated. Tho
Stute hns douu so much for intelligent
labor and nothing for trade education,
Something should bo dono to make
trade education us dignified at intelli
gent labor."
W hat a terrible satire upon our boast
ed lreo school system is convoyed in
this word "educated I". Nine-tenths
nf thu young criminals sunt to tho
pcnilentittry have enjoyed its advan
tages, but three fourths of them havo
never learned to do an honest stroke
of work, i Surely there must he some,
thing very wrung about a system
which thus recruits thu great army ol
idlers anil criminals, nnd it is not won
derful that many thoughtful men be
lieve, though they scarcely dure to
speak it aloud, that our publio schools
uro an evil rather than a good. Nor is
tho fault in any wise obsouro. Our
public schools accomplish iitllo because
ihey attempt too much and becaunu
what they do attempt 'is not what a
bread common sense would suggest.
Wo uru nil so wise now-a-dnys, or so
bent upon becoming wiso, that we have
no lime to bo hunest or useful. And
our children must bo wisor still, nnd
learned in all Iho mysteries of modern
science. They must hnvo their poor
little brains crammed lull of all kinds
of impossible knowledgo, of names and
dales and numbers and unintelligible
rules, till there is absolutely no room
left lo hold any of the simple truths ot
lienor and duty and morality which
lormer gonurutiuiis deemed more un
I porttmt that nil tho learning of tbo
if . i.- n'. . i..,.. i t.:..i.
looks. They are taught to read, w hicb
i, well, but nobody thinks of teaching
them bow or what to rend, and the use
Ihey make of their knowledge is to
sliid; dime novclsand flash newspapers.
They are taught tovmululoono another
in the repetition of unmeaning words,
hut nobody thinks of inoulcutiiig in
thorn habits ofself coutrol,trulbfuliiess,
modesty, industry, sobriety there is
no time to attend to those things.
There is just ono thing that i, ever
held before, thcin tmt one man is ns
good as another, if not a little better,
and that every boy among them may
expect to becomo President of the
United States and ever' girl the richest
lady in the Intnl. Tho result is that
they leave school utterly ignorant ol
all that it is most essential for thorn to
know, and with just sufficient smatter
ing of so-called knowledge to destroy
forever their usefulness in the state of
lifb to which they bavo boen called
Every obsorvaut reader knows that
wo ao not miBrcnrcscnt the practical
working, in four cases out of fivo, of
our existing common school system
It is no wonder that it furnishes crim
inula. If wo bavo not given these boys
and girls an idea that labor is some
thing beneath tliCm, at least wo have
done nothing to toach them to work.
And out side of tho schools there is no
provision for their learning anything.
A umucu number ol boys are allowed
to Pick tip, as best they can. some su
pcrficial knowledge of a trade and im-
mediately to assume the airs of accom
plished workman, but skilled lubor, in
Iho sense in which our fathers under
stood it, is nearly extinct among tho
American born, and nobody attempt.
anything to revive it. As lor our girls,
thoy come out of school not only whol
ly ignorunt of every kind ot domestic
industry, but with an actual distaste,
if not a contempt, for it, and fit lor
nothing but to read flash novels and
wait for oomobody to come and marry
them. If we maintained those schools
on purpose to instruct our youth in
idleness we could not succed better.
And idleness is tho parent of crimo.
It is necessary to rccognizo existing
evils before wo begin to talk about rem
edies. In this case the evils are very
great and aro year by year increasing ;
thu remody is not a simple ono nor
easily applied, but a remedy thcro
must bo. It is to be sought first of all
in checking the expansion ol what we
call our educational system and bring
ing the public schools back to the sim
ple and solid work which "common"
Bchools ought to do. Whether indus
trial training enn be grafted upon them,
or what provision can best be made
for it, is too elaborate a problem to
cuter into here, but that thu welfare of
society, which is the one purpose of our
public schools, demands something be
yond what they now accomplish, will
not bo disputed by any intelligent ob
scrvor. i'liilaililpUia Timet. ,
II A PI' Y iaSllA MIS'.
Thcro is no rulu which philosophers
can devise, says Iho London ijiectntor,
lor choosing either husbands or wives
wisely that has very much effect, for j
the young do not trust tho old upon
that subject, nnd choico lor women,
especially, is by no means so fife ns
wo all affect to believe. Not one wo
man in fifty, unless she is for some
reason such as fortune, rank, or beau
tya great "catch," has anything like
a real power ot selection nmnng ad
mirers and oven when she has she often
gives itaway, in obedience loa passing,
possibly sensible, possible blundering
f ancy that she has found an ideal. Hut
wo should have said there wero two
broad rules still worth teaching, bo
causo they had some chanco of being
believed, and they wero tboso:
Let tho woman's first requisite bo a
man whose home will be to him a rest,
and tho man's first object bo a woman
who can make homo restful. It is tho
man with many interests, with en
grossing occupations, with plenty of
people to fight, with a struggle to
maintain against tho world, who is tho
really domestic man, in tho wife's
sense, who enjoys home, who is tempt
ed to mnko a friend of Ins wife, who
relishes prattle, who feels in tbo small
circle whore nobody is above bim, and
nobody unsympathetic with him, as if
ho wore in a heaven ot ensound repar
ation. The drawback of homo lire, ils
contained possibilities of insipidity,
sameness and consequent weariness, is
never present to such a man. lie is
no more bored with homo than wilh
sleep, llo no moro tires of his wife
than of his own happier moods. He
is no more plagued with his children
than with bis own lighter thoughts.
The worry and the snmeness and tho
weariness arc all outside, and home no
moro insipid than iis berth to a Bailor
or his tent lo a soldier on active ser
vice, lie gels from tho homo just tbo
change, the lihp, tho pleasant stimulus
which tho idlo man receives from the
society ho happens to enjoy. Thero is
not much champagne in life, anyhow,
but for the active limn mnst of the lit
tle is nt homo. Rural Home.
HOW RICH MEN JlEdlX LIFE.
Jt must bo Important to rcmcinocr,
or il would not bo so seriously asserted,
Unit Cornelius Ynnderbilt began litis
with nn old pirogue, running between
Slulen Island and New York city, cur
rying garden stuff to tbo market. With
S2,0(K orfJIl.OOO raised from this source,
he entered stendily upon increasing
enterprises, until he had nmnssed the
enormous sum of f ."i0,0(W,000 to (SO,
OUO.llllft. A. T. Stewart first bought a few luce,
at anetion.ond opened his way to success
in a dingy Iitllo shop on Broadway,
New Y ork, near tho sito of tho whole
sale establishment. Years of rigid
honesty, shrewd management, and
wisdom in things both great and small,
made him tho monumental merchant
of tho nineteenth century.
Daniel Drew, in bis early life, was a
catllo driver at Ibo munificent sum of
seventy fivo cents a day, but drove
liimscll into nn estate valued ut from
SM.OOO.OIIO to :i0,00n,u(l0, nnd then
lost it.
(ieorgo Law, nt 45 years of age, was
a common day Inboref on tho docks,
and nt present counts his fortune nt
something like f) 10,000,000.
, lEobort L. and Alexander .Stuart the
sugar, refiners, in their boyhood, sold
molasses candy which their widowed
mother had made, nt a cent a stick,
and to-dny they are worth probably
5,000,000 to I'll.OOO.OOO npioce.
Marshall O. Huberts is tho possessor
of 1,000,000 or fi.OHO.OlRI ; nnd yet
until lie wns $5 he did not have Find
ho could cnll his own,
II. H. Cloflliri, the eminent dry goods
merchant, worth, it Is estimated, 10,
000,000, 115,000,000, or 20,0110,000,
commenced the world with nothing
but energy, determination, and hope.
Study. To stndy successfully, tho
body must be healthy, tho mind at
ease, and timo managed with great
economy. Persons who study many
hours in the day should perhaps have
two sepnrato pursuits going on at the
sama time one for one part of the day,
and tho othor lor the other; and these
of as opposite a nature as possible, that
tho Blind may bo retreshed by change,
and all the bad effects of lassitude
avoided. Thcro is ono pieco of advico
In n life of study which wo think no
one will object lo, and that is, every
now and then to bo completely idle ; to
do nothing at all ; indued, this part ol
a life of study is commonly considered
as so decidedly superior to the rest.
that It has almost obtained an exclusive
preference over those other pnrta ol
the system, with which we wish to see
It connected.
CAN,
TEMS-$2 per annnn in Advance
NEW SERIES-VOL. 18, NO. 2(5
THE PL A G VE IX THE EAST
ERN WAR.
Tho unxiety of .Europe concerning
iho complications ot tho lurco-Kussiun
campaign is likely to be Increased by
tho entrance in the field of battle of
two unexpected hostile forces, inimical
to both sides in tho conflict, and threat
ening, moreover, to carry devastation
into neutral territories. Cholera and
plaguo, Irom their recruiting stations
in India and Mesopotamia, are on the
march, and under the fostering condi
tions of .war it is impossible to i'orotoll
the limits ot their invasion. Last year
cnoiern was on us route through. 1'ersia
townrd the linssian possessions on the
Caspian, and early in the present Bpring
grave apprehensions wore aroused as
to tho virulence and rapid diffusion ol
the epidemic. Within a few weeks sev
eral outbreaks have been reported
ono at Akyab killing twenty-flvo per
cent, oi llio r,u ropes n population in
thirty houra, and uuw foci of infection
will doubtless bo multiplied. On tho
other bund, plague, which has been
gradually extending its ravages for
Bomo years past, had, oven before Iho
commencement of actual hostilities,
spread to tho regions north of Bagdad
wilh alarming speed. I'nder those
circumstances tho war now in progress
not only threatens disaster to tho com
bnlants themselves, but menaces all
Europo with a visitulion of pestilences
which no precautions may bo able to
avert.
Tho part played by disease in previ-
ous conflicts belween Jiusaia and Tur
key lias been so terrible that these
premonitions cannot full to bo watched
with extreme concern on both sides.
In tho campaigns of 1828 and 1829,
which rcsul'.ed in tho treaty of Adrian
oplo, tho victorious Russian army was
utmost literally destroyed by the plague
which broke out in tho nrmy ol Mar-
shul Diebitseli soon after it entered tlie
principalities. In tho month of Octo
ber, 1828, alone, 20,000 Hussinn Bick
wero received in the Roumanian hos
pitals, w ithout counting tho field hos
pitals ; nnd iu February, 129, one out
of ovory four liussiun soldiers who
w ere tufecn sick died. During tho ten
months from May, 1H28, to February,
12y, there were no less than 210,108
men borne on the Hussian sick list, so
Unit on Count Yon Moltko's estimate
of the whole liussiun lbrco, non-com-baluuts
included, ut 100,000 men, every
mun had, on an average, been twice in
the hospital, nnd Count Von Moltko
estimates that this first campaign cost
thu Russians nearly one hull of their
actual effective force. During the sec-
ond campaign of 1820 tho same high
authority reckons the loss inflicted by
disenso on the Russians at UO.OOO men.
The Sultan and the foreign envoys at
Constantinople wore kept in complete
ignorance ot tho learlul state ot the
bostilo army ; and as their own was
ravaged, though much less terribly,
by tho sume influences, tbo Turks actu
ally made a humiliating peace with
Diebitseli when bo had no loss than
20,00(1 effective bayonets nt tho fort
of tho Balkans, and, had the truth been
known, might have been compelled to
surrender at discretion. Not more
than 15,000 liueian combatants return
ed Irom tho crossing of tho Halkans
and rccrosscd tho Pruth. Thcso aro
evil memories under tho shadow of
which this new war begins. Nnw York
IVorhl.
SCIENCE AND CREDULITY.
The present age. wo suppose, prides
itself on being scientific, if it is any
thing. Tho achievements of civil en
gineering, tho subtle problem of chemi
cal nnnlysis extended to tho furthest
limits ot stellar space, and a hundred
other applications of scienco, mark tho
times we live in. Tho i'acl cannot bo
disputed ; yet there are other facts
equally well attested, which are not
quilo so flattering, nnd which servo to
show that the scientific habit of looking
at things is by no means very widely
ditfusrtl. How is it that tho vagaries
of tablo turning found so many believ
ers ? When Faraday producod an ap
paratus to demonstrate its fallacy, how
many converts did ho mnko ? Look at
Iho tens of thousands of people in
America who credit a lortiine-teller ;
who would as soon doubt the influence
of iho moon on the weather as their
own existence. No; thcro nro many
scientific men in tho world, but the
mass of our people is not scientific. It
is even niicstionuhlewhoLherthesnr.nH
ol knowledge could ever mnko itBO. It
becomes all iho moro important that
cveryono who has tho opportunity
should cultivnto, as far ns he can, tho
seientifle temper of mind ; and ho will
do well to bogin with a respectable ob
servance ol Iho rules ol evidence.
lttoN of 'A NTigriTY. Tho oldest
pieces ot iron (wrougbt iron) now
known aro probably tho sickle-blade
loiind by Jielzoni under the base of a
sphinx in Kernae, near Thebes; the
Made lound by Colonel Vyse imbedded
in the masonry ol the Grent Pyramid,
the portion ot a crosscut snw exhumed
nUNnnrod by iur. J.ayard, allot which
aro now in tho British Museum. A
wrought bar of Damascus steel wns
presented by King Porus to Alexander
the limit, and tho razor steel of Chi
na for many centuries has surpassed
all European steel in temper and du
rability ol edge. 1 he Hindoos appear
to havo inndo wrought iron directly
from the ore, without passing it through
tbo furnace; from tune immemorial,
anil elaborately wrought masses of
iron nro still found in India, which date
from tho early centuries of Iho Chris
tian era.
Another Pi.oi.oii. A young cler
gyman, who is a successful pastor, was
telling a retiring missionary that he
entered collego and the theological
seminary with the intention of becom
ing a missionary, when the veteran
broke out wilh: "Ah! you turned.
Inielt alter putting your hand to the
plough r "Mo, wns the answer; "1
just took another plough.""
Honesty. livery man likes hones
ty in ono way or another. This man
likes to see it in another, enjoying the
alght of It as that of a costly luxury
which ho cannot Bfloru to indulge in ;
while that man, wilier and truer, hav
ing lost all else, hugs il as his priceless
fori line, and gloats over It as bis secret
and sufficing treasure.
Nothing undermines one's faith in a
man's liberality to tbo church ao much
aitosee him slick, his hands down
deep llito bis pockets n, tho contribu
tion box is traveling Ins way, look as
tonished, and then remark to his next
neighbor: "I've got on my other pants."
llioiiTioi's Vinueance. Home one
having urged Tasso to avenge himself
upon a man who nnd done liim many
injuries, he Bairl, "I wish to take from
him neither his property nor his life,
nor his honor, but only bis ill will to
wards me."
MVCJI IN LITTLE.
Tho lurost remedy against scandal
ia to live it down.
Love tboso who advlso, but not
thoso who praise you.
One ungrateful man does an injury
to all who aro wretched.
Frowns blight young children as
frosty night, blight young plants.
Wo believe, indeed, that It is more
laudable to suffer great misfortnnes
than to do great things.
Yo will listen to any one's convio-
'1-t.e hf ArnV h-awaet VDlie f'.Mt.lo tn
.-.. a T
" as not her death nuite snddon?"
said a condoling triced to a bereaved
widower. " Well, yes, rather, for hor."
A bibulous old Frenchman said tho
reason. ho eouldu't drink water was
becuuse it tastes so ol sinners since the
flood.
It was a Connecticut editor who
wrote, "Is there a balm in (iilead ?"
and read next day, "Is there a barn in
tiuili'ord?"
Now they aro fighting over the
woman-preacher question again. Aa
if Aaron was any hotter than Uur, in
the prioslhood.
Lady (to waiter)" Don't put that
ico into the goblot with your fingers."
Waiter " Lor' ma'am, 1 don't mind ;
my bands aro very warm."
It is pleasant to shako hands with
a girl whoso fingers aro covered with
diamonds, for you feci tbat you have a
fortune within your vory grasp.
The labor of tho body relievos us
from the fatigues of the mind ; and this
it is which tormg the happiness of tho
poor. - .-...,. , .
What this country need,, says one
oi our town ladies, is a religion which
will make a man feel that it is just as
cold for bis wife to get up ana make
a fire as it is for himself.
An Irish housemaid boasting ot
hor industrious hnbils, said that she
arose at four, pnt on tho kettle, pre
pared the breakfast, and made all tho
beds before any one in the house was up.
" Plenty of milk in your cans this
morning ? " a customer asked of tbo
milkman the other morning. And the
milkman nodded gravely, as with a
wink in his eye, be replied : " Y'es,
chalk full."
At the bottom overy religion is nnti
Cbrislian which makes the form tho
tb ing, tho letter the substance. Such
a materialistic religion in order to bo
at all consistent, ought to maintain a
muteriul infallibility.
A gentleman bad occasion'to cor
rect his daughter, aged four years.
Alterit wasoverandsbo had satawbile,
sho went to her mother and inquired,
" Don't you think it would do Papa
good to go out doors ? "
"O, yes," said an old lady, "tho
modorn cook-stove is a great invention;
and when my boy James gets through
his studies iu practical engineering, so
be can como bomo and rnn.it, I'll buy
ono of 'cm, but not afore,"
The conversation turns upon the
fastidiousness of tbo times. "Why,"
8uys a member, " they'll soon say mar
riago is Improper." " No, no," replies
Douglas Jerrold, " they'll always con
sider mnrringe good breeding."
A llhodo Island mnn has written
a locturo, entitled "Whom Shall 1
Marry?" It is a fine work; but, so
fur as 1 am able to sco, holds to tbo old
opinion tbat after all thcro is nothing
bolter than a woman for a mnn to
marry.
True religion is always mild, pro
pitious, humble ; plays not the truant,
plants no faith in blood nor bears de
struction on her chariot-wheels ; but
stoops to polish, succor and redress,
and builds her grandeur on the publio
good.
When, in 1854, Jerrold proposed
to visit Venice, the Austrian Kaiser for
bade. " We havo ordera not to admit
you inlo any part of the Austrian Em
pire," said the official to whom Jerrold
applied for a passport. " That shows
your weakness, not my strength," said
the applicant.
"John," inquired a dominie of a
hopeful pupil, " what is a nailer?" "A
man who makes nails." "Very good.
Now, what is a tailor?" "One who
makes tails," was the equally quick
reply. "Oh, you blockhead I" said
the dominie, biting his lips; "A man
who makes tails ! did you ever I " " To
bo sure," qnoth hopoful, "if the tailor
didn't put tail to tho coaU be made,
tbey would all be jackets." "Kb?
ah ! well, to be sure ! 1 didn't think
of that."
All men, especially thoso who aro
young, should be urged to bo positive
in their belief. Base not your faith on
ignorance, but on an intimate acquaint
ance with tho inspired volume. Ho
diligent students of the Word. Skep
ticism has two sources in our day an
overweoning prido ot intellect, which
disdains lo sit ns an bumblo learner at
the feet of (I ml ; and superficial knowl
edgo of tho Scripture. These are the
two fountains of bitterness from which
flow waters that quench no thirst, and
drinking which you will imbibe fever
and delirium.
Thero aro few men who would
pass through a gold mine, having full
permission to carry away wilh them
iho very choicest specimens of its
choicest treasures, who would not make
good uso of such an opportunity. All
along tho highway of life, God is set
ting beloro each traveler opportunities
to be nnd to do, which aro far moro
valuable than the richest treasures ol
gold or gemswhich earth ofl'ors. Theso
opportunities are so many open doors
which lead to the treasure house of
God, prepared for all who seek, nntl
offered to nil w ho ask.
A long, lenn, lnntcrn-jnwed, lop
cared chap, with a slouch hat and a
squeaking voice, entered a saloon and
said : "Gentlemen, how mnnyot you
will drink at my expense?" " I will ! "
was repeated by tho crowd in chorus.
" This proves to you, gentlemen," con
tinued ho, putting down a nickel for
his own beer, "how little ran bo de
pended on first expressions. 'ou love
mo now, filled with the anticipation ol
a good square drink. Y'our anticipa
tions will be blasted, and thon you
will linlo me. Let this be a great
moral lesson to you."
To reach backward and try lo
take what time has carried forever
away from ns this it well, becanso it
shows that a dreadful dream has bro
ken ; but to reach lorward, and, with
a penitent, believing heart, seize upon
that which every boiiI may surely
grasp this is infinitely better, because
it Indicates the end of all droatr., and
the beginning of life. Now, having
done this, no soul need mourn over
what is lost, because tho timo for such
mourning has gone by ; lot it rather
go abont the Master's work, conscious
only of tho riches that it ha received
and shall receive forevcrmoro.
A sick otllccr wont to a mineral
spring in Germany for the benefit of
his health, but the hotel-keepers re
fused to admit bim lest he should die
in tho houao. At tba last hotel a gen
tleman came forward, and said : "This
ofllcer is my near relative. Ho may
hav my bed, and I will sleep on the
sofa." The landlord consented, and
the half fainting man was carried to
th gentleman's room. When he bad
rested a Iitllo, hi first question was :
"May I ask your name, my kind friend?
llow are yo related to m ? " "Thro
oar Lord Jesus Christ for 1 learned
Irom him that niy neighbor t my
brother."