She iCrafrf $ mortal. BELLEPONTE, PA. The Largest, Cheapest and Best Paper puhmsiiki) in crnthk county. From the NYork Olwrvtr, INTERNATIONAL LESSONS. BI itrv I. p. BOi.lSa, D. I>. Makcu 18. Ltsson 1). Tho Sinuor's Priond. LI'KS 7 : -W—6o - TEXT "An.l tie Mill iinlu l"'r, Thy sins sr InruiTfii." —1.1 ki 7 : 4e. Ventral Truth : —Christ can tavo sin ners. it we turn back to Matt., 11 chap., we shall linil there his account of the "ten j 11moily of Jesus about John," almost in the same words in which it is recorded by St. Luke. Then follow these memo rable and beautiful words of Jesus, words which will never die: "Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and 1 will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, lor I aui meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls: for my yoke is easy and my burden is light. (Matt. II :28-30.) It has been supposed that these words were heard by the , woman mentioned in this lesson, and that they touched her heart and were j the means of bringing her to Jesus, j Certainly they ve had this effect in ; very many cases since her day, and they xvill tie beatd by many sorrowful sotil in ages yet to come, and will induce them with all their burdens to come to the meek and lowly Jesus for rest. Who this woman was is not certainly known. Some think that site was Mary Magdalene, but this is highly imptooa bly, as also that she was Mary, the sister of Lazarus. The brief hut significant description of her is, that she was "a woman in the city which was a sinner." She was of a class which may he found in every city, and is described in the Hook of Proverbs as one of those "which forsaketh tho guide of her youth and forgetteth tiie covenant of iter tiod." She was a guilty but penitent woman, who felt deeply her shame and sorrow, i nd longed to find comfort and forgive ness. She came into the house ot Si mon, "a respectable Pharisee," who had invited Jesus to dinner, and whose house, according to the customs of the Last, was oppn to others who thought proper to enter and view the festivities of tue occasion. She, too, had beard ot •Jesus, ami perhaps was in her heart a believer in his divine commission. At any rate, a sense of need drew her to Christ, and so, with a true courage, she put away her sense of unwortbiness and shame, and resolved that she would seek his presence and his help. She brought a costly offering also, an alabaster box of precious ointment, and witli flowing tears which fell upon his feet as she stood behind him, sprinkled his feet and wiped them with her rich tresses, pressing her lips to theni with humble gratitude, and pouring upon them the fragrant and precious oint merit. The whole proceeding was n most simple and eloquent expression of her faith, repentance and love, and was altogether acceptable to the pure and loving Jesus. He knew what was in the woman's heart, and graciously accepted her sincere faith and loving devotion, and rewarded her with his torgivmg love. Simon looked on with a cold and critical eye, and inwardly made his own censorious comme its. To these Jesus replied by the story of the two debtors and their conduct, when they were both freely torgiven by their common credi tor. With rare wisdom and discrimina tion he obliges Simon to acknowledge that the woman's demonstrations were only the natural and proper expression of her grateful sense of the lord's mer cy in forgiving her great sin, and that they who have the deepest sense of their own unwortbiness will naturally express the highest sense of obligation to Christ. He contrasts the behavior of the wo man with his hoit's forgetfulness to show his guest the ordinary tokens of Kaatern hospitality. He shows Simon that the despised woman exceeded him in a loving appreciation of her indebt edness to Christ, which proved that she keenly felt her great obligations to him ; while Simon is taught that he himself hid little idea of bis own need of Jesus, and thus little sense of gratitude and little real love to him for his forgiving mercy. It was a most wise and perti nent lesson. Then, turning to the penitent but joyful woman, the Lord assured her that her humble faith was acccepted, and dismissed her with a gracious benedic tion, "Thy faith hath saved thee: go in peace!" PR ACTICAt. Sl'O'irsTlOSS. 1. Tharisceism says to the sinner: "Stand by, for 1 am holier than thou." Infinite purity and love says : "Come unto me all ye that labor ami are heavy laden, and 1 will give you rest." 2. Many men are willing to invite the Lord to dinner, but arc not willing to give him their heart*. There is away of patronizing Christianity, which is a very different thing from embracing it. Simon's civility to Christ cost him nothing, and teas worth juet what it coot, 3. A truly penitent and loving heart thinks that it cannot do too much for Jeaja. If it has nn alabaster box of precious ointment, it will joyfully break it, and pour its fragrant contents upon the Sav iour's feet. Yet far more precious is the gift of a sinner's broken heart. 4. Many men piide themselves on being always ready to pay their debts, who never remember their largest Cred itor. We owe man two hundred pence; our debt to Clod is more than ten thou sand talents I Yet, "Jesus paid it all!" 5. Christ's hatred of sin is only equal led by his love for sinner#. 0. They who have the keenest sense of their own unwortbiness will he least censorious and bitter in their condem nation of others. In the days of great anti-slavery ex citement, two prominent pastors in New Lnglund met on Monday morning, after one hud invited a worthy Koutliern minister who was a slaveholder to preach for hint the Sunday before. "Hrother lb," said one, "now could you allow that sinner to go into your pulpit yesterday ?" "Ah! Hrother 1f.," was the reply, "a sinner goes into my pulpit every Sun day." 7. They love Christ most, not who do the most for him, but they who are sensible how much lie does for them. I much, I've* much forKl*fii ; I'm a miracle i si r • sfullv used to his knowl | edge in hundreds of cases, and would prevent smallpox, or cure it even though ! the pitting* were filling. T.ic recipe j was originally published as a panacea i j for smallpox by some of the most sci i I entitle schools of medicine in I'uris. iti :s claimed to be of infallible efficacy. ' It is a euro also for scarlet fever, and it is harmless when administered to well persons. The following is the pre scription : Snip..ate of zinc, one grain ; foxglove digitalis), one grain; half a teaspoon ful of sugar ; mix with two tablespoon fuls of water. When thoroughly mix ed add lour ounces of water, l ake a spoonful every hour. The disease will disappear in twelve hours. For chil dren smaller doses should be given, ao co.ding to their age. A subscriber ot Th- Itr. Han ton was found at In* office, and to in quiries frotn the visitor made the fol lowing interesting statement: "For some year* I have made the sub ject of engrafting one of study, and so confident was I that it could lie per formed that on last Wednesday morn ing I detetmined to make the venture. Frank and August Filer, aged respect ively twenty five and twenty-eight, for a considerable sum of money were pre vailed U|*>n to subject themselves to the ordeal, and at ') o'clock myself and as sistant amputated the little finger through the shaft of the second pha langes of the right hand of August, and the analogous finger on the person of Frank, engrafting the part amputated from one person to that of the other, pulling four sutures in each. The tin gers were dressed and the men departed, with strict injunction* to say nnthiDg about the matter and to return on Thursday morning to have their lingers redressed. During the operation quite an amusing incident took place. The little finger of Mr. Frank Filer had been amputated, wrapped in a towel, and placed on the steam heater. My assist ant, iti looking for something to wi|>e the blood from his hands, took the towel, not noticing the finger. When 1 came to look for the finger, after the one on the hand of August had been amputated, for the purpose of placing it on hit slump, I found it gone, hut, after an anxious search of a few min i utes, 1 happened to glance in the slop . bucket and saw It floating on the sur face. It was quickly rescued, placed on the hand,and bandaged. "The entire operation was performed • in less than an hour, without the use of anmsthetics or of stimulant*. Notwith standing my expressed wish, tho men wont down street, exposing themselves to tho rain and daiupne**, and at every opportunity told the story of tiio won derful experiment, contrary to my in junction*, desiring to make nothing public until the experiment was proven beyond tho possibility of a doubt. "Twenty four hours later the men re turned and had their finger* redressed, which were found in a very promising condition, notwithstanding the expos ure that the men had subjected them to. There was a union of the parts and a partial circulation, giving a normal appearance to the finger as far down as the nail. The continuity seemed per fect, and one ol the men said that he had a sensation in the member. I pro pose to watch the cases and give them my most careful attention." 'i iiF: OI.I> rouTAbK KOAII. iiisTORU W. HEMIMM KM KS or TIIK MUST HAII.KOAU CROSSING TIIK AI.I.KOIIIMES. The Pennsylvania Railroad Compa ny is about to occupy the route across the Allegheny .Mountains traversed by the old Portage Railroad. It is now fixing up the tunnel, which was bored when the new Portage Road was built. Work has been commenced on the abandoned Portage Railroad, which is to be made the freight pathway of the Pennsylvania Railroad over the Al legheny Mountains. A The main line of the Pennsylvania Canal terminated at llollidaysburg, at the eastern base of the Allegheny Mountains, and began at .Johnstown, at the western base, Between these two points was constructed u railio.nl across the mountain, called the "Al legheny Portage Railroad." It was thirty-six miles in length, crossing the mountain at Blair's Cap, and over come in ascent and descent an aggre gate of 2,570 feet, of which there w.-rc on the eastern side of the mountains feet and on the western side 1,172 feet. The top of the mountain, which is some 2,O, the line of the Pennsylvania Railroad was opened to the Mountain House, one mile west of llollidaysburg, where it made connte tion with the Allegheny Portage Road, then owned and operated hv tin- State. In December, 1852, the Pennsylvania Railroad Line from .Johnstown, the western terminus of the Portage Road, was completed to l'ittshurg and its ears run through from Philadelphia to Pittsburg, using the Portage Road, with its inclined planes, over the mountains. In February, 1854, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company com pleted its mountain division, using no inclined planes and stationary engines and abandoning the use of the Portage Road. Upon the completion of the mountain division of the Pennsylva nia Railroad there was direct unbrok ; en rail communication front Philadel phia to Pittsburg hv the State Road to lAncastcr, thence by the Hnrrishurg, Mount Joy ami l-aneaster Railroad to Harrishurg and thence hv the Penn sylvania Railroad to Pittsburg, These roads were at first leased by the Penn sylvania Railroad company, hut in 1857 it purchased the nißin line of the State railroads and canals and in lHlil leased the Harrishurg, Mount Joy ami lAiicaster Railroad for It!'!' years, thus virtually becoming owner 1 of the entire line. The railroads leased by the Pcnn , sylvania Railroad Company have given it control of aliout 1,500 miles of rnilrond in the State of Pennsyl vania and some -'l,soft miles out of the State, making it the most important railroad corporation in the {United States. How sweet is a perfect understand ing between man and wife. He was to smoke cigars when he wanted them, but he was to give her ten cents every time he indulged in one. He kept his word, and every time she got fifty cents ahead he'd borrow it to buy cigars. And so they ngreed and were happy. Day Dawn. A wind ram- up o-i m th- —a, Abd -aid, "O, mi-U. makr roots for r.n>." II hattrd th- hl|*i. and rrl-d, "Salt on, V* marlnrta, lh night la gooa.'* A-l hnnlad landtrard far atrar, frylni, " Asak I II la th dag." II -aid —ln thr fbSMt, "Shout' llang all jnvt M; l-am,-rt - the rec ords of I'iviue revelation miimparcd. Vet with the very means of pr<-< rva tion came in the pos-ibility of varia tion- and error* a liability which ba llot been completely obviated even by tic invention of printing. It i- not likely that any two edition- of our Fnglish Bible to-day, or the Bible in any other language, ar<- entirely alike in every l--tt--r and mark of punctua tion. In spite of the gr< .t<-t care mid watchfulness curious and some times even shocking misprints have on various occasion* crept in. I remem ber scribbling olf sortie years ago for a manuscript pa|wr published by a col lege soeiely s-une lines entitled "The Skaters," which had sung themselves to me when a few evening- before, un der a ehnr starlight skv, 1 had joined a party of students in skating on Mor ris' Pond and left ull the jxM-try of youth and the motion of winged feet on the resounding ice and the ringing steel. 1 had almost forgotten having written them, when I found a so-called copy of them a number of years after ward in an album handed me for a contribution. The piece had ln-en copied from book to book from year to year, and the change it had under gone in the process was surely some thing rich und strange not in Shakes peare's sense . Some lines had no sense at ull ; in others an omission or slight modification had utterly per verted the meaning ; ami the metre — which was, perhaps, the piece's strong point, if it had any—had become in several places the most excruliating discord. 120,000 ERROR*. The danger of such variations, how ever, was undoubtedly va*tly less in the case of the New Testament than in that of any merely human composi tion. The sacred text ha- always been regarded with a reverence which is ! calculated to inspire a copyist with a i profound sense of his responsibility and very great care was taken in the I comparison and revision of copies, a work often entrusted to a ditfcreut hand from that of the transcriber. Not*ilhstanding all this care, however, variations and errors crept in to the amount of no less than 120,000. At first hearing this number startles us. We almost tremble for our precious inheritance. A little examination, however, reduces its terrors. Ninety nine in n hundred—nay, perhaps 1 may say nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine in ten thousand, are practically of no importance as in volving any point of luilh or practice. The majority of the different readings in this formidable enumeration arc mere differences in spelling. Next come slight differences in grammatical form, not affecting the substantial sense ; then differences in the greater or less fullucss of writing the name of our .Saviour —the use of one of his names or both, the prefixing or omis sion before his nntne of the title Lord —(what might lie the importance of these variations being neutralized by the fact that it is often found that the same manuscript, which, against the general current, omits one. of these words in one instance inserts it in an other); then Climes the use of synony mous expressions—thus of the three (ireek words, all meaning to soy, one manuscript will use one, and another in the same passage another, and .An other the third ; then we have a claw of variations in which the effect is merely rhetorical, the same idea being expressed in different readings with greater or lew force and vividness; ; und the whole number of text* in which the variations of reading would affeet materially the doctrines convey ed can ho counted by units- —I had ul most said upon the lingers of one hand. Of the one hundred and twenty thousand differences in spelling, ar rangement and phraseology which have been noticed in our sixteen bun- . dred manuscripts many are found only in one manuscript, or in very few ; many others are obviously erroneous at first sight, like the mistaken we sometimes meet with in a letter or in a new-paper ; so 11,a the whole rium ber of readings in which there i- real ly any room for serious doubt or dis cus-ion—including question* of mere spelling, grammatical forms, relative position of words and the like—dm* not exceed from sixteen hundred to two thousand. for tin; simple translator the prob lem is still less extitjsive; fur it is evident that mere questions of orthog raphy, and in many oa*<* questions of relative position,do not affeet liitn one way or the other. It i* an encourag ing fact that by the labor of scholars the numlM-r of what can truly be call ed doubtful readings i- rapidly dimiit i-hing ; point after point becomes set tled beyond possibility of reversal, and by the strict application of the regular scientific laws of criticism the text of the New Testament is becoming estab lished with a certainty far surpassing that which attache* to tin* text of any of the profane authors of antiquity. I.X A MI'!.KM Ot CHANGE*. 11l regard to the revision, one of the first questions that comes up is, What shall he the style of language ? There i-, perhaps, a wrong popular impres sion a- res|K*cts Biblical style, the pe culiarities of old English found in our translation of the Bible being mis taken, for peculiarities of the Bible itself. Now, it is no more literal to translate in tin* fourth tiuqx) "the wind blowetb where it Jisteth," than to tran-late "the wind blows where it chnuK-." |'he former i no more the style of Divine inspiration than the latter; nav. the latter, to ti- to-dav, i the more exact r< pr -en tat ion in Eng lish of the inspired original. Still I think we shall all agree that the Con vocation at Canterbury wa- wi-<- when, in 1870. it decided tiiat the style of diction which we find in our Bibles of Kill, it-elf largely determined by Tyndalc s version of 1 .Vl4, sball I*- retained *o fur as possible, so that the revisers could hardly find exceptions to such a word as "blowetb" nor to "lisUtb" unless they should believe that tbe word bad la-come unintelligi ble to modern reader*. A some what harder question lias regard to sueh grammatical forms as Tie" for "is"' or "are," "which" for "who," and the lik<*. "Our father which art in Heav en," is a mistranslation in the English of the nineteenth century, for the English of our day, like the Creek of old, has a masculine t cho, as well as a neuter which, aud has uo right to sub stitute one for the other. But three centuries ago "which" was admissible English for a masculine relative pro noun, and its frequent use in our Bible i< oue of the most striking char acteristics of what is called the Bibli cal style. FIDELITY TO ORIGINAL MKAXtXo. It has lieen urged just at this |toint thai fidelity to the meaning of the original require* a literal modern ren dering; the case having been cited, for instance, of a clergyman, not want ing in general intelligence—but be most have been wanting in the very elements of Creek scholarship —who actually enlarged, in n discourse, upon the sublimity of the use of the vague, grand which in this passage, instead of who, "for the latter," it was alleged, "would lessen the majesty of the Deity" by making the representation of llim too sharply defined, too near and personal, perhaps too anthropo morphic. Well, I can onlv say that it has rested with the committee, in all such cases, to weigh the conflicting claims of the preservation of the old archaic color of our translation and the requirement* of modern grammar. .So, too, with archaisms in the use of words, in which the question becomes at lime* much more im|tortant ; for then* is little danger jwrhaps of any one's being misled by the "bes" and the "whichc* but a man of inferior cdueation might easily misunderstand such expressions a "David left his carriage and ran down into the val ley," when his carriage is uot a coach, but some bread and wine ; "I prevent ed the morning," when prevented was simply "anticipated" or "came before;" "he was let," meaning "he was hin dered "wizards that peep," meaning "wizard* that chatter;" "be careful for nothing," meaning not, take no care, take no thought, but simply, l>e not too full of core for anything, be not over anxious. TilK GENERAL FniTCll'Lt- But the general principle upon which the revision is made here, too, is a sound one ; retain archaic words, as well as archaic forms, where there is no danger of their meaning being misconstrued, but if there is any serious danger of this kind substitute for them words intelligible to the com mon reader at this day. In judging the new revision when it appears care should be taken to free the mind from the inevitable prejudice in favor of the readings and render ings in King James' Bible arising from familiarity. Even the imperfections in our English Bible have become; | hallowed in our minds by the*perfec tion* with which they are surrounded, and in a book in which every line and every word has become precious to our 4 souls we are, at first thought, jealous of even the slightest alteration. But remember that the reviser* have not ; themselves made any of the readings wherein the new Bible will differ from the old version. They have only found thern and collected them from the most authentic sources, and thus presented a Bible nearer the original and older than the old. If we are . convinced that nothing ha* been taken ™ away except for the purjws-f- of re moving the paste from the diamond** and the pinch heck from the gold p that nothing has been altered except to restore to it* original form and di rection what had been hammered into another shaftc or bent out of the way, I think we shall accept with thankful ness a look of which we may say with great it not with absolute confidence: "Here are no interpolations or mis tran-lution*; here are the genuine word* ol Divine inspiration—without addition, without diminution, without jK-r vers ion." A- for the amount of change, those who are expecting to we a great differ ence between the new Bible and the old will he more disappointed than those who hope there will be very I little. ItOOTII AT HOMK. iiir i/i>* DOS Mir. or Tiie ami khan tha- OSbIAN. \ cry youthful in appearance, in fact almost in proportion a* young looking a* Mr. Hare, whose resem blance to him i- rcmarkabl', Mr. Booth is yet in hi* tenth lustre ; hut, allowance l*-ing made for nervous wear and tear, i*. in manner, gait and speech, n young man. may I*.* taken, indeed, a* an illustration of Mr*. Kcely * theory, that acting is a very healthy profi-s-ion. Smoking in ec--antlv when not on the stage, Mr. Booth i- otherwise the most abstemious of men. 'hi the ground that bis ner vous tcmpcrntncul will not bear the excitement of stimulants, he drinks nothing stronger than tea, and eschews dinners and diners, junketings and frolics, of all and every kind. A member of any number of clul*. he never gee- near one of them, and live* entirely at his movable home. Once in a while be may dine, on a Sunday, With pleasant modi; but such occa sions are few and far between, and his daily routine of lib- i- of the tn'ist modest and quiet kind. In defiance of the prevailing fashion of liv ing in the open air, he never g ><•* out except upon compulsion. Ki-isig late he is contt nt to pas,, the day <*v< r a b<#ok, struggling against the depre-- ion which follow- the excitement . f appearing on the stage, and only recovers himself a- the hour for action approaches. It was once a-ki-d at what precise hour Mr. Macn ady "Iwgan to be Macbeth." In the ease of Mr. Booth the hour is variable, depending very mu- b on when reaction sets in. When tie lias done his work he goes home, not like Mr. Toole, "to his tea," but to what Americans call "a bite of supper," fol lowed by a prolonged interview with a very fine meerschaum, a gossip with his wife, and a sjkll at a book by his fireside. He is one more instance of i the quiet home-loving instincts of men who are imagined by the good-natured j public to lead lives of gayetv and splendor—the centres of admiring ; crowd* of worshippers, the picrrei de tauchc of such raconteur*, wits, and humorist* as are still left to us. Ilow Official* Were Once I'aid. j It is not a generally known histori cal fact that from 1777 to 17*4 the territory now known a* Tennessee formed a part of North Carolina, and | that in 17h"> the Tennesseeans, lamm ing dissatisfied with their government, organized a Stnte government under the name of "Franklin," which was maintained for sonic years. The State organization afterward disbanded, ami territorial Tennessee was again annex ed to North Carolina. The following is among the laws passed by the I leg islature of the State of Franklin. We Copv it as found in a speech by Daniel Welwter on the currency iu 1830; "Jte it enacted by the general assem bly of the .State of Frsnkhn, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the aame: That from the first day of Jan uary. 17*9. the salaries of the officials of this commonwealth be as follows, to wit : "His excellency the governor, per annum. 1,000 deer skins. "His honor the chief justice, 500 deer skins. "The secretary to his excellency the governor, 500 raccoon skins. 'The treasurer of the state, 450 rac coon skins. "Kach county clerk .100 beaver skins. "Clerk of the House of Commons, 200 raccoon skins. "Member of the Assembly, per diem, three raccoon skins. "Justices' fee for signing s warrant, one muskrat skin. "To the constable for serving a war rant. one mink skin. "Knacted into* Uw the 2*th day of * October, 17£9, under the great seal of the iSute." How- many amusing and ridiculous scenes would we witness If each pair of men that secretly laugh at each other were to do it openly. ♦ ■ "Downy" way of putting it: Men arc geese, women are ducks, and birds of a feather flock together.