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" r ' om ' s provided for this depart -1 a competent instructor devotes his Hf t 0 it. *c in Lewistown, Mr.Samuel Irox I or Catalogues containing fuller in aPt>!* to the Principals? 'M2O-o_ O. K. WILLIS, 0, A. WALTERS jkbhstipihe) Asm) ipwaEUssnsiß irsr ®®®3e®is aswEswsj 9 sbejfjhhisj .& The People's Cook Book. Modern Cookery IV ALL iTS BRAVCHEs. BY MISS ELIZA ACTON. Carefully Revised by Mrs. S. J. Hale. J> Tells Yon H<nv to ehoose ail kinds of >{eats, Poultry, ami Game, with all the various and most ap proved modes of dressing and cooking Beef and Fork: also the best and simplest way of T , „ •"•dung, pickling and curing the same. it tells you All the various and itio.stappoved modes of dressing,cooking and honing Mutton. Lamb, v eal. Poultry, and game of all kinds, with the different Dressings, Gravies, and Stuf fings appropriate to each. 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"TV XILLIXERS will take notice that our LtJL stock of band bores, wire ribben, and all ether goods in their line will be sold be low cost, for we are determined to clear out the stock. JOHN KENNEDY & Co. Granite Tea and Coffee Sets of TT many patterns and styles, too numer ous to mention, for sale by JOHN KENNEDY & Co. £YARBON Coal Oil—cheaper thanthecheap er or the cheapest. By the gallon, 80 cts.. rt JOHN KENNEDY k Co's, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1860, lOftMMEM&IOiiI SAVElfSisil MOTHER'S HYMN. Mary Hovtitt (gentle Mary Hewitt, as she is some times called) has translated from a favorite Swedish author the following very beautiful hymn, sung by the mother to her children just before the - good night" parting: There sitteth a dove so white and fair, All on thedily -pray. And she listcth how to Jesus Chris*. The little children prav. Lightly she spreads her "friendly wings, And to Heaven's gate hath speed, ° An 1 unto the Father in Heaven she bears The prayers which tlie children said. And back she comes from Heaven's gate, And brings—that dove so mild— From her Fatht r in Heaven who heard he r speak, A blessing on every child. Then children lift up your pious prayer, It hears whatever you say, That Heavenly dove so white and fair, And on the lily spray. Mr. Doddridge's Dream- Mr. Doddridge had been spending the evehing with his friend, Dr. Watts. Their conversation had been concerning the fu ture existence of the soul. Long and earn estly they pursued the theme, and both came to the conclusion that it could not bo that they were to sing through all eterni ty ; that each soul must necessarily be an individual, and have its appropriate em ployment ibr thought and affection. As Doddridge walked home, his mind brooded over these ideas, and took little cognizance of outward matters. In this state, he laid his head upon the pillow, and fell asleep, lie dreamed that he was dying. lie saw his weeping friends round his bed, and he wanted to speak to them, but could not. Presently there came a nightmare sensation. His soul was about to leave his body; but how would it get out? More and more anxiously rose the query, how could it get out? This uneasy state passed away, and lie found that the soul had left Lis body, lie himself stood beside the bed, looking at bis own corpse, as if it were an old gar ment laid aside as useless. His friends wept around the mortal covering but could not see him. While he was reflecting up on this, he passed out of the room, he knew not how, but presently found himself float ing over London, as if pillowed on a cloud, bom by gentle breezes. Far below him, the busy multitude were hurryiug hither and thither, like rats and miee scampering for crumbs. ' Ah,' thought the emancipa ted spirit, ' how worse than foolish appears this foolish scramble! For what do they toil, and what do they obtain ?' London passed away beneath him, and he found himself floating over green fields and blooming gardens. ' How is it that I am borne through the air?'thought he. lie looked and saw a large purple wing, and then he knew that he was carried by an angel. 'Whither arc we going V caid he. 'To Heaven!' was the reply. lie asked no more questions, but remained in delicious quietude, as if they floated on a strain of music. At length they paused before a white marble temple of exquisite beauty. The angel gently placed him on (he steps. ' f thought you were taking me to heaven,' said the spirit. ' This is heav en,' replied the angel. ' This ! assuredly it is of rare beauty, but I could imagine just such built on earth. 'Nevertheless, it is Heaven,' replied the angel. They entered a room just within the tem ple. A table stood in the centre, on which was a golden vase, filled with sparkling wine. 'Drink of this,' said the angel; ' for all who would know spiritual things, must first drink of spiritual wine.' Scarce ly had the ruby liquid wet his lips, when the Saviour of men stood before them, smi ling most benignly. The spirit instantly dropped on his knees, and bowed his head before hiin. The holy hands oi the Purest were folded over him in blessing, and his voice said, 'you will see me seldom now : hereafter you will see me more frequently: in the meantime observe well the wonders of the temple.' The sound ceased. The spirit remained a while in silence. When he raised his head, the Saviour no longer appeared. He turned to ask the angel what this could mean, but the angel had departed also; the soul stood alone in its unveiled presence ! Why did the Holy One tell me to observe well the wonders of this temple, thought he. He looked slowly round. A sudden start of joy and wonder! There, painted on the walls, in most marvelous beauty, stood the whole of his spiritual life. Ev ery doubt, and every clear perception; ev ery conflict and every victory was there be fore him ! and though forgotten for years, he knew them at a glauce. Even thus had a sunbeam pierced the darkest cloud, and thrown a rainbow bridge from the fi uite to the infinite. Thus had he slept peacefully in green valleys, and by the side of running brooks; and such had been his visions from the mountain tops, lie knew them all. They had been always painted within the chambem cf Lie sou!; but now, for the first time, was the veil removed. To those who think on spiritual things, this remarkable dream is too deeply and beautifully significant ever to be forgotten. In the words ot Whittier: We shape ourselves with joy and fear Of which the coming life is made, And fill our future's atmosphere With sunshine or with shade Still shall the soul around it call The shadows which it gathered here, And. painted on the eternal wall, The past shall re-appear. world makes us talkers, but soli tude makes us thinkers THE SPANISH EANDIT; Or, Pepe Morales' Wooden Head. Once upon a time, and that time very soon alter the Inquisition was suppressed in Spain, a certain man, whose name I forget, but whom wc may call Juan do la Vega y rey do los Kribones byway of shortness, came to reside at Tarragona, which, if you turn to your map and look for, will not be found very far removed from Barcelona or Valencia, and midway between both.— Moreover, if your map be a good one, you will also find, quite close to tlie sea-coast, a place called Balagucr. Nov.- this Juan de la Vega y rey do los Bribones was a gentle man, in the police court definition ol the same; you will, therefore, for politeness sake, put Don before his christian name whenever you chance to address him, and on occasions of extraordinary politeness you will be careful to put Senor before the Don. This Juan de la Vega was a man who ate, drank, and dr . ed yell, though he was by no means merry. A certain sombre gravity of demeanor seemed natu ral to him. He was a man of few words, severe, and sometimes repulsive. He had the habit of eyeing one askance and never looking a man straight in the face when he addressed him. Altogether the Senor Don Juan de la Vega was what the Scotch would call ' uncanny/ But the hidalgo had his good points, ac cording to his own way of viewing the case, liis house bristled with crucifixes, large and small; his walls were covered with the pictures of saints. He went to mass regularly when at home, and confess ed from time to time. The Senor Don Ju an lived well, as I have said, though visi ble means of subsistence he had none. This was not, however, a matter for ad verse comment or suspicion in a country where hardly anything fit to wear is made at home, and whence every foreign thing fit to wear is prohibited by the laws —peo- ple managing to got foreign goods notwith standing. The sea was near; smuggler ships abounded. The Senor Don Juan might, nay, lie must do a little business in the smuggling line; he must be a eontra bandkta. This conviction is a passport to respect iu Spain among a certain class;but nevertheless, for some reason which I can not explain, the Senor failed to conciliate the respect of his neighbors, mu' li less gain a hold upon their affections. Bit by bit the fact that he was not a contrabandists came out. That was clear; and being clear, the question arose with redoubled pertinence, what did the Senor Don Juan do? lie was destined to acquire a bad name in the end, as you will presently see ; but among his vices I do not think drunkenness can be laid to his charge. He was not a total ab stainer either, as the sequel will make ap pear. From time to time the Senor Don Juan drank wine, and he drank aguadiente; and ' in vino Veritas,' you know, I dare say; and so it happened in the end that a stoup of wine brought truth from out of the reluctant mouth of the Senor Don Ju an do la Vega y rey de los Bribones. Hard by Tarragona, some go xl wild duck shooting is to be had; and seeing there are no game laws in Spain, one need not won der that wild ducks found their way some times into the cilas of Tarragona. It was one balmy evening, the sun just going down. when a party of wild duck shooters returning from their sport, happened to en counter tlie Senor Don Juan on a moun tain path. Slung to his back was a car bine —a garniture which adorns almost ev ery Spaniard in traveling; besides, what more probable on this occasion than that the Senor Don Juan had been wild duck shooting like the rest? ' Buenas tardes, (good evening,) Senor Don Juan,' said one of the sportsmen, touching his sombrero. ' \ ay a usted con Dios,' (God he with you.) promptly replied the Don, touching his hat also, and endeavoring to pass on. ; Nay, not so fast, hombre !' interposed a second sportsman. ' Yamonos ! come, take a stoup of good wine,' continued he, un slinging a cantaro, or gourd traveling bot tle. Now, in Spain, where refusal to eat or drink anything set before you is always an offence, the moody-minded sombre Don Ju an had only to sit down and do as he was bid; there was no help for it. lie quaffed a good stoup, and seemingly, not adverse to the taste of it, he quaffed a second, where upon his toungc was, in a measure, untied, so that fie presently spoke imprudent words, as you shall hear. ' I did not know you were a sportsman,' said one of the strangers, playing with the Senor's carbine. ' L don t shoot birds,' replied the Don. So much he never would have spoken Imu it not been fcr the wine; but there was no particular harm in what he said af ter all, you see; because he might have gone shooting wild boars or wolves. What if murders had been known to occur from time to time between Barcelona and Valen cia, particularly at the pass of Balaguer? Are not murders common enough in Spain? Show me one mountain pafii on the Span ish Mediterranean coast where there are not memorials of them thickly studded— rustic crosses set up to hallow the spot, as it is thought. Could anybody aver that Don Juan committed the murders? Was there ever a man mysteriously hW from Tarragona since the Duu Juan dm la Vega had come there to live ? By no means. The impartial historian must admit that strangers to the spot had alone fallen \ic tims at the pass of Balaguer; so that less heed was taken of the matter than there would have otherwise been. At length it came to pass that critics noted some . trange points in connection with these murders. : F.ach victim fell precisely on the same ; spot, and had been killed in exactly the same way, by a bullet passing through the ' middle of the forehead right into the brain. Moreover, each corpse when discovered was found lying on the back, decently laid j out, arms and legs straight, eyes closed; ; and, still more strange to say, having a I crucifix on his breast. There seemed to be something supernatural in all this. People j did not care to inquire too narrowly into : the causes of it. Balaguer came to be re * garaed as a haunted spot. Travelers who i could, avoided the path, and those who I could not, took care to go in company ; for J it happened that none but lonely travelers ! had ever been known to fall in the pass of | Balaguer. To examine the spot from afar | was not aii easy thing, on account of its j being so much hemmed in with rocks.— ; llowevjr, a herdsman once upon a time testified to having heard the report of a gun, and, looking towards the spot whence the report came, saw a monster of gigantic stature, enveloped in flume, rusli down along the crags, approach a certain spot, and, stooping down, place a murdered trav eler on his back, arrange his limbs, knee! down close to him, apparently engaged in prayer, finally lay a crucifix upon the body, and escape back to the mountain as abrupt ly as he came. At length the mystery was solved. A sort of l'uuch and Judy show, with pup pets the size of life, takes place in Spain during' Lent, sacred subjects being repres ented. Well, it so happened that a certain proprietor of wooden puppets for Lent per formances, and of great cleverness, had been starring it at Barcelona, under the proprietorship of a certain little man, whom we will call I'ope Morales. Pepe having drawn crowded audiences at Barcelona, wished to go to Valencia, and, al! the bad repute of Balaguer notwithstanding, he de termined on the following l-oute. Pepe 3loraies amongst his puppets had one of extraordinary cleverness, and the clever ness of it, I must hasten to explain, was in the part where the cleverness ought to be, I mean in the head. That head could open its eyes, shut its eyes, laugh, bow—and in short, do most things except think, and 'speak o Bright. Such a clever head had never been made before; no wonder Pepe Morales set great store upon it. But clev er as the cabeza was, Pepe Morales had the notion that his own proper head was more clever still, and that he would be a block head indeed, ii, the choice being forced on him. he did not sacrifice tlie wooden cabe za for a cabeza full of brains. So, remem bering that he had to traverse the ill-star red mountain path of Balaguer, remember ing that travelers were often murdered there each by a bullet through the head Pepe bethought himself of an expedient which you reader, if of a thoughtful turn of mind, will have guessed already. Safety often conies of putting two heads together, you know, the proverb says; and so said Pepe Morales. So. mounting his mule, wrapping his capa or Spanish cloak about him, closing it at the neck, quite over his own head, allowing his nose to poke out a little, whereby he could breathe, the intrepid Pepe Morales got a a friend to stick the wooden head on the top of his own head ; and the cabeza being surmounted by a jaunty sombrero, the get up looked human enough, 1 dare say, es pecially at twilight, the hour when he elec ted to pass the defile oi' Balaguer. The better to try conclusions, Pepe desired his companions (for there were many in his train), to remain some distance in the rear, concealed in the turn of the path, whilst he passed on; telling them that, on hear ing the report of a gun, they should quick ly pass to the spot. Merrily Pepe trotted along, a fine looking fellow enough, thanks to the cabeza. Step bj* step the spot fatal to many was reached. Crack! is heard the discharge of the carbine. Fp goes Pepe's hand to the head ; off he falls in true artistic style, just like a man killed outright. Pepe waa not killed, however, but tightly grasped a knife under his coat. \ ery wide awake, though you might not have'thought it, Pepe looked about him, and perceived, as the herdsman had before perceived, somebody clambering down th 3 rocks—with these variations, however the clamberer was not monstrous in size, nor was he enveloped in flame. lie was sim ply a man, not particularly ill-looking. He approaches stealthily, he lays hold of Pepe's leg, and, much quicker than I can recite it to you, Pepe jerks away his wooden head, easts aside his cloak, and cuts vvith his knife right and left at the stranger. The latter screamed with vigor. lie did not get much wounded, and Pepe was a little man ; but Senor Don Juan it was no less than he) was so astounded at the mystery of the case, that he made no attempt at resistance. By this time Pepe's New Series—Vol. XV, No. 4. companions c.irue to the rescue, bound the .stronger hand and foot, delivered him over to the nearest alcade, and in dm course of time the Senor Don Juan de la Vega was garrotted. This villain, it transpired bad been ! a familiar or servant of the Inquisi ! tion. Tie servant of those w hose professed object it was to make people repent, had a • very poor notion of repentance for his own sins. To the last he protested he had noth | ing to repent of. ' The taking of a man's life is itself a small matter,' he would say . ' provided you see the welfare of his soul, j I have taken many a life, but 1 always gave ; the soul a passport to Heaven, by playing | over the corpse and decking it with a cru | cifix.' Well now, reader, you perhaps c~i - ! ld.n tliis a uu.ro tale to while away a leisure ( hour. 1 do not. I belivc it to be true, i It passes for true on the spot, and has been more than one. published in all 'bo lead ing particulars, as I have told them. -1 PoiMMcd Ring. —The Paris papers sf .f: that a gentleman who had lately pur chased some objects of art in the Hue St. j Honore, was engaged in examining an an j Cient ring, when he gave himself a slight scratch in the hand with a sharp part ol u lie c ntinued talking with the dealer for a short fiihei when he suddenly felt an inde scribable sensation over his body, which . appeared to paralize all his faculties, and j he soon became so seriously ill that it was i considered necessary to send for a medical ' man. The doctor immediately discovered every symptom of poison by some mineral substance, lie applied strong antidotes, j and in a short time the gentleman was in a measure recovered. The ring was found i to be what was formerly called a death | ring, in use in Italy when nets of poisoning i were frequent, about the middle of the 17th j century. Attached to it inside were two claws of a lion, made of the sharpest steel, and having clefts in them filled with a vi olent poison. In a crowded assembly, or : in a ball, tiia wearer of thi.> fatal ring, : wishing to exercise revenge on any person, would take their hand, and wjien pressing it the sharp claw would bo sure to inflict a slight scratch on the skin. This was suf ficient, for on the following morning the victim would be sure to be found dead.— Notwithstanding the many years since j which the poison in this ring had been pia iii :i ; it retained its strength sufficient ly to cause'great, inconvenience to the gen - I tleman, as stated. Population oj Brooklyn. —The census taking of the city of Brooklyn has been completed and the number of inhabitant:: ascertained to be 260,674, making her the third city in the ! nion in point of populu lation. In 185 d Brooklyn contained 90,- 888 inhabitants and in 1855 it had 205,'- 250. The remainder of Long Island con - tains 12,402, making the population of the Island 279,180. Brooklyn is proper ly a part of Ncw York. The latter con tains 882,000, which added to the other makes a grand total of 1,148,774. This approaches i'aris, and makes Mew York (with Brooklyn) the third city in the civil ized world. The census of 1870 will mak her rank next to London. Census of Minnesota. —The following is the summing up of the marshal el' the census of Minnesota • Total population 175,525 Number of farms 19.095 Number of manufacturing estab lishments 508 Number of deaths 1,295 The total area of Minnesota is estimated at 81.259 square miles, so that the population ol Mu nesota on the Ist of June, 1860, was a little over two persons to the square mile X> w Dimes. —The new dimes and half dimes lor iB6O have appeared. The thir teen stars encircling 'Liberty' arc omitted, the words 4 Yoked States of America' ap pearing in their stead. On the reverse the piece is encircled with a sheaf of corn and other native product. The coin is very prc-ity, but the omission of the stars will pjrobubly strike many unfavorably. J&aj* ' Now, then, hearties,' said a gallant captain in South Carolina last week, ' you have a tough battle before you. Fight like heroes till your powder's gone, then—run! I'm a little lame, I'll start now." is the opinion of the doctor that the lawyer gets his living by plunder while the lawyer thinks the doctor gets Jais x>y ' pillage.' CIARPET and Oil Cloth Bags, School SatcE ' els, Umbrellas, Window Paper and Fooi Tubs, at ZERBE'S IfcBQWN Sugars at 8, 9, and 10 cents. ) White " 11, 12, 13, and 14 cts, at novß ' ZERBE'S I") 10, Laguira and Java Coffees. Esseuc,- X and Turkey C<-ffee, at Zerbe's Grocery and Variety Store. novS qpilE largest ana best lot of Imperial, Green, and Black Teas ever brought to town, for sale at ZERBE'S. wis bv the gallon or fcec, J nov-8 ZERBE'S
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