®he (Cratw jgmartat. BELLEFONTE, PA. Tke Largest, Cheapest and Best Paper PUHLISHKU IN CKNTKB COUNTY. Fivoi flio New York Ob— INTERNATIONAL LESSONS. Second Quarter. m asv. s. r. soon*, n. t>. MAY 15. Lesson 7. Tho Rich Mail and Lazarus. I.OKR 10:10-31. Uil.TiK* TEXT " Thi* wl'-k*l lrlv*-u swsy In hl wickadncssi but thn Tighten in hslh Uupa In tits iloftth."—l'ruterba H '3i Central Truth .—The use made of this life will determine our character and condition in the next. So far as appears, this parable is a continuation of the saute discourse as that of the last chapter and the last two lessons. It was spoken to the Phar isees, and the occasion of its utterance, together with n hint of its purpose, may be found in the fourteenth verse. In tho parable of the unjust steward, with which this chapter opens, our Saviour had spoken to his disciples con cerning tho right use of money. They were so to manage lite affairs of this lile as not to forleit, but to make sure, the heritage of eternal riches, i>f this the Pharisees, who stood by and who were covetous, made light. They derided him. They were lovers of this world, and had for their "good things" the shows and luxuries which can fx- bought with money. At the counsel to make friends ot the mammon of unrighteous ness, who should receive them into ever lasting habitations, they mocked. Our Saviour replied that Hod looks upon the heart rather than the outward appearance; and. alter some other words of rebuke, proceeded to this parable. The story is told to meet their sneer, and is full of warning against pride and satisfaction in earthly things. The pic ture is vivid for the reason that the warning was greatly needed, as it is now, nnd is likely always to be. It should be distinctly noticed that the rich man was not sent to the place of torment because lie was rich; nor yet for the one case of heartlessnes* brought before us in the story. Such a supposition would be contrary to the whole tenor of Bible teaching. His use of worldly goods and his treatment of the beggar at his gate were signs and expressions of inward character and moral drift. They plainly signified that bo hof neither the fear of Hod nor re gard for man. He lived for himself alone. Pride and present indulgence were his ruling passions. He left the future to take care of itself. And for this, not for any great blasphemy or crime such as the world condemns, he was excluded from Paradise. There is something very startling in this. The teacher and scholar wiil do well to fix it in thought. It is not flagrant wickedness alone which shuts out from heaven. F.osy-going worldli ness, which forget* Hod and a hereafter, or the selfishness which cares little for others, is just as sure to do it. Nor was Lazarus taken to the com panionship of the blest because he was poor. His name gives a clue to hi* character. It is a modified form of the Old Testament Klea/.er, and signifies "God is my help." It indicates that hi* was a heart that looked up and beyond ; a spirit of patient waiting upon tiie wiil of God, of child-like trust. It is the heart at which God looks. And every condition of life, whether of wealth or poverty, puts this to the test and reveals character. The scene on the other side of death is a study from which the earnest and thoughtful will not shrink. It is a vivid and appalling picture; but just such an one as we need, it is in no respect too alarming. There are those who*e ruin ous security Is not broken up even by such disclosure of the consequences of worldly and self-indulgent living. The word "remember" is an emphatic one in the story. Reflection is a chief source of the rich man's misery. "It is not suggested that this torment came from any external source; least of all, that God inflicted torture ujKin him as one now brought under his jtower. * * The key to the torment is within the man, along with absence of all that he had been wont to regard as of value." (Calderwood.) It is noticeable that the rich man, in his conversation with Abraham, shows no signs of repentance. Nor does he ask to be taken out of the place of tor ment. This would indicate tbat he per ceives that his wretched condition is the inevitable, fitting and necessary result of bia earthly choice. The past cannot be changed. The most he can think of with hope ia for some slight mitigation of his pains. "Whatsoever a man sow eth, that shall he also reap." A most impressive nnd practical truth ia brought out in the closing verses of the parable. The old Jew had Moses and the prophets. These were sufficient for his awakening and guidance. Much more is the completed Bible enough for us. There is a very common impression that some other more convincing and persuasive means would bring tho un repenting to repentance. This ia a de lusion, as we are here plainly taught. The first effect of an appearance from the dead would be to startle and terrify. But there is nothing in astonishment and terror that can change the heart. Unbelief and worldly security would soon reassert themselves. PRACTICAL SIOGISTIONS. 1. In tbe study of such a lesson as this it ia not wise to attempt to go be yond tbat which is written. Ho much is told us as for our profit we need to know. Nothing is recorded for the gratification of idle curiosty. Specula lion can add nothing to our knowledge of the hereafter. Its tewdency is to divert from those practical applications of truth which are all important. No human tescbor can either add to, or take from, the disclosures which our Saviour has thought to be on the one side nscessary, and on the siher r-Jlrient for us. 2. Note tbe fresh evidence which this parable affords of the mixture of tender compassion with atriot justice in all God's dealings with men. There is nut u bitter or taunting word in what in aikid to the rich man. Ho i* reminded that the choice of an earthly portion and unwillingness to repent, is the ex planation of his misery. It is not Hod's pleasure that any should perish. .1. I>o not overlook the great fact that wo are here and now shaping the character which is to determine our own future. 4. Fix it in mind that for our guid ance unto salvation the Bible is all- Nutllcient. Men perish because they are unwilling to heed and obey the truth which fiod hits made plain. Were greater light needtul, could it have been helpful, it would not have been withholden. All attempts to supplant or supplement divine revelation are as wicked as they are vain. It is enough to know that there are two states in the invisible realm, one of which is un speakably dreadful, as tho Other is to tie desired. We have a sure guide in our prayer and effort to escape the one and gain the other. For our use of that we are responsible. I'pon our faithful use of it how much depends. TIIKKK are about a score of papers in this country that are published and conducted by colored men, most of them at the South. It is worth re marking that men like Messrs. Dawes aud Hoar never find occasion to make quotations from any of them in sup port of their statements that the ne groes arc oppressed and maltreated by the Southern writes. The Dallas (Texas) Baptist Journal, edited by col ored men, and which being a religious pajHT, may la; presumed to try to tell the truth, testifies as follows : "Of the South it may be truly said that old things have passed away and all is becoming new. The old dispen sation, of which slavery was a part, end ed with tho war. The old Northern Slates bad many years liefore volunta rily thrown off the incubus of slavery. As emancipation was forced upon the people of the South they very naturally opposed it, and they honestly believed it was to their interest to do so. Hut sixteen years of experience has con vinced all classes that slavery was a curse to tho South and that emancipa tion was both wise and safe. The bet ter class of the Southern white*—and they are the majority—are kind, honor able, just and noble. This we know to be true, from a residence of fourteen years among them. Hence, after being fully convinced both of the justice and safety ot .emancipation, they are cheer fully accepting the situation and con forming to the new order of things. Though they may not yet approve of the modes of reconstruction, they ac quiesce in its results. Evidences of con tentment with the order of things are everywhere apparent. Manual labor, formerly regarded as dishonorable, i* now properly respected and practiced by ail classes. Towns aud cities are be ing founded, railroads constructed, fac tones built and operated, mines worked, and thousands of acres of land culti vated, by while men. The education of the masses is keeping pace with tho other improvements, and the South is becoming dotted ail over with public schools. The relations between the white and colored race* are becom ing more confidential and hurmoniou*. Much of the rapid progress which tho colored people have made is due to tiff* encouragement and assistance of their white fellow citizens. The whites pay taxes for the sup|>ort of our public schools, assist in the erection and sup j>ort of our private school* and colleges, sell us lands on easy terms, and aid us in many other ways. The exodus from the South still continues, but tho emi grants are acting from the same mo tives in the main which cause white people to move from one State to an other, and that is to better their con dition." The Huntsville (Ala.) Hernld, also conducted by colored men, and "de voted to the elevation of the colored people," says: " F.very day the colored people are throwing off the yoke of Kadicaiim and assuming an independence of thought and action. Wherever we find inlelli gent, honest thinking colored men they are open in defence of the South. We have not just taken this stand, but did it when it tried one's soul to be any anything but a tire eating Republican, and now it givea us unbounded gratifi cation to see new recruits under the banner around which we rallied in the thickest of the fray, and when it re quired an iron nerve to withstand the utilise and all manner of denunciation from the ignorant masses, led on by men who respected neither the laws of (iod nor man. And when the dark minds of Hie masses become illuminat ed by the resplendent rys of the sun of knowledge and elevated manhood, then will our labors be appreciated. And the only reward that we ask is the approval of our conscience that we were never lacking in true love for our race and devotion to our country." A Great French Railway Scheme. From (ht Hw York The French contemplate building a railroad across the Desert of Sahara. Three years ago they employed Depou chel, the celebrated engineer, to study the ground. He waa followed by an exploring party, many of whom were killed off. There is a population of 50,000.000 black jieople in the country. Sixty thousand while people added to them, it is alleged, would turn tbem into a civilised ma*s. The width of the desert is about 1,200 miles. Instead of having been the tied of the sea, Sahara is like any other part of the world's surface, except tbat the water in the beds of the streams has evaporated. It contains beds of sail, but no sea-shells. The Sahara mountains run up to peaks as high as 10,000 feet. It is easier to build a railroad in the African Desert than across the Americsn Desert. To build a railroad from the frontier of Algiers, as is proposed, to the Niga river, will be 1,200 miles. For ' Now Vurk Turn*. During tho administration of Mr. Huyes, ono depurtiucut, ami one only, at Washington was conducted in ac cordance witli the )iriutrilaid down liy the President with reference to the civil service. In the interior department the "public business wan transacted," so fur as the selection of employes was concerned "in a business manner." A "reform", thorough, radi cal and complete, such as Mr. Hayes fee I a red to be necessary in the entire Service was there undertaken and fair ly carried out. Competitive examina tions, of an intelligent and practical kind, were employed to test the prima facie fit new) of the applicants for ap pointment. The appointees thus se cured were subject to a further and more searching test of probation, and where satisfactory results were obtain ed, were finally installed in their re spective positions. Promotions were made by a like process. In all grades of the service a principle was applied perfectly familiar to every business man. The best jiersons for any given work were choseu from those available, by uiethisls the most practicable and effective that could be devised. The consequence was precisely what it is in private life. Fitness being the best claim to appointment, the applicants were of a constantly higher grade of fitness. Fidelity, honesty and compe tence being the chief requisites to suc cess in the service, employes devoted their energies to excellence in these qualities. Discipline and order were easily enforced ; intrigue was lessened, if not banished ; outside interference was substantially abolished, and the work of the various offices was |>er formed steadily, carefully, systematic ally and with efficiency. It is noteworthy that this result was due to the zeal and good sense of the then secretary of the interior, and though it was welcomed and approved and siipjiortcd bv the President, it was not required or obtained by him. In other departments a very different state of tilings was found. The treas ury department was largely managed, to all intents and purjiose*, corruptly, to further the political ambition of the secretary. The postoflice department, where the old evils of political in fluence, the interference of Congro**- men and Senators, the debasing traffic in votes ami expenditures, had full swing, developed the amazing and humiliating star route scandals which are now being exiioecd. The chief executive, in w hose hands the constitu tion places the great body of appoint ments, and who could at any moment have dismissed a cabinet officer who refused or neglected to carry out his views, in effect nlxlicnted his office for the benefit of men, who, whether sel fishly ami in violation of public inter est or not, shapes] appointments with little reference to the principles that had been distinctly announced by their superior. There was sound adminis tration in one department only becaase the head of that department was more loyal to the President's professions than the President himself. Mr. (iarfield. entering on his work with a professedly less elevated stand ard, bids fair to fall even further lie low that standard that Mr. Haves did below bis. The one department which under Mr. Haves was distin guished for its thorough application of the principles of sound administration has la-en turned over to the politicians. The new secretary of the interior seems to have re-established the most vicious, wasteful, and demoralizing method* of the old system. He has abandoned the comjH-titive examinations, and the examinations which he has so ostensi bly substituted for them are in fact farcical. New and incompetent men are put in over the heads of men of tried and proved capacity, often at higher salaries. The mainspring of of discipline and efficiency—namely, the certainty that merit and merit only would secure advancement is broken. The best men among the subordinates are. naturally disgusted and dicournged. Gradually, if this state of things IK: continued, we shall see the old evils creeping in. The hacking of Congressmen and Senators will take the place of good and honest work as a claim to consideration. Public business will lie neglected for the cultivation of political influence. Favoritism in fact and the confidence in favoritism rather than in fidelitv, will be the rule. Extensive and deli* catc affairs, requiring training, integri ty, and impartiality, will fall info the hands of more or less ignorant men whose reliance is on the intriguers, and not on the upright performance of difficult work. The miserable squab bles of place-hunters will occupy the time and energy of the department to the exclusion and injury of the public business. How this change will affect the public mind it is not difficult to fore see. Mr. Garfield owes his election to the confidence felt in him by a class in the community who will be shocked and indignant at such a result of their support of him. The parceling out of a few hundred places among the clam orous office-hunters of the capital will never earn for the party of wnich Mr. Garfield is the chief strength sufficient to compensate for the loss of the sym pathy and approval of this class. We should like to appeal to a higher mo tive in the President's mind for the rebuke and reform of this conspicuous abuse, hut there ia little in his course to encourage such an appeal. The Republican party bos a right, how ever, to ask him whether ordinary political sagacity does not condemn a policy that disappoints and alienates the very element whose support was absolutely necessary to his and its success in the late election. UEXKKAE JOSEPH EASE. A MAN or MAUK IN A |-AT GENERATION. Wrvtti the New York Tlinea. The brief dispatch announcing the death of Joseph Lane, which came from Oregon a duy or two since, can have had but very little significance for the great majority of the people who read it. Yet the man to whotn it related was at one time one of the foremost figures in the republic. Had he died thirty years ago, the nation would have gone in mourning for him, yet so fleeting is fame in our country that the present generation scarcely retails his name ami knows next to nothing of his most eventful history- Joseph Lane's grandfather was an American, born near the present site of Raleigh, N. in the early colonial times. Ho and his two brothers did good services during the war of the Revolution. His son, John Lane, the father of Joseph, was at the battle of King's Mountain ami served in the patriot army until the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. , Ho voted for George Washington for President and lived to six- Jackson in the i-umc office. The son of this old soldier was born in North Carolina in 1801. Early in life he went to Indiana. latter he became a power in the politics of the West. When the Mexican war broke out he was one of the first to go to the front and by hard fighting ami distill ; guished bravery won his way to a i major generalship. Returning to his i home, all Indiana united in doing him j honor, and luter on President Polk, in ! -light recognition of his services, made I him Governor of the Territory of < )regon, to which place he was reap iviinted bv President Pierce. In 18.V2 jhe hail thirteen vote* in the national convention which nominated Cass for ! I'ro-ident, and at one time during that : memorable meeting seemed almost : -ure of the nomination. As old Wil i liam Allen u*ed in after years to re late, "Joe Unsie came nearer being j President than any man who ever i missed." Rut though he missed the presidency, he did not lose influence with his party. In 18ofl he was elect ed to the United State* Senate from the new Slate of Oregon. He sympa- I thized with the South in the struggle then pending, and later wa* nominated tor Vict: President on the ticket with Rrcckinridge. Jl'" carried eh ven of the slave State*, hut wa* buried out of sight in the fret: North. Little ha* been heard of him since. He spent the last years of hi* life in his favorite Oregon. Some months ago, to a par ty of excursionist* who called on him for n speech, he said : "I come not as a celebrated man or a distinguished soldier, but as a humble citizen of Oregon. Onlv once during my term of office did I have occasion to visit this portion of the Territory. It was on the first of July, now almo-t thirty years ago, that a courier arrived at < fregon ( ity, bearing the news that a Mr. Wallace, living on Rudd's Inlet, where Olympia is now situated, had l**en murdered hy the Indians. With an army of six men, tried and true I comrades in arms with me in the con flict with Mexico, we proceeded down the Willamette, river in a canoe to the Columbia, down the. Columbia, and thence up the Cowiltz to the Catholic mission. Here we procured mules and horses and added three fresh re cruits to our force. We took the In dians hy surprise, and demanded a surrender of the murderers. The old chief after viewing our forces and looking me in the eye, concluded to accede to this demand, and the mur derer* were accordingly delivered up, tried and executed. Thi* made good Indians of them." During the same s|>eeoh (ten. I.anc, referring to his service during the Mexican war, said : "Two year* ago I looked over the old army register, ami I found there only five of the seventeen American gene rals who entered the Mexican war sur viving. Of the seventeen who entered the strugglo, fourteen were younger than myself. One hy one these brave men have answered to the lat roll call. Since I last looked over the register, Pillow ha* lieon railed away, Cadwalader and Cushing followed, and on the first of the present month .Shields answered the summons and passed over the dark river, across the valley and shadow of death. During j the last few years the roll has been called onee in six months and one one these gallent men have responded." Joseph has now been called and he too has responded to the summons. TEX GltiAirriC LOCOMOTIVES. OKIVING WHEtI.S I! Kill UK THAN A TALI. MAN WITH A Sll-K HAT. Ten iron giants for the Pennsylva nia railroau company will be built this summer at Altoona. Thcvwill be much larger and more powerful than ordinary passenger engine* and are to be built for the particular purpose of making up time on portions of the road where there are long stops. On the fast run between New York and Philadelphia, for instance, the time al lowed is so ahort that when there are usual stopa, letting off and getting on passengers, the ordinary engines can not make it up. Hence a monster locomotive, known on the road as "No. 10," has boon built as an experi ment and tried on different train* to see wlial eat) he done. The result has been satisfactory, hut there are many improvements that suggest themselves which will be made m the building of the other heavy engines that are to follow In the slang of the railroad yard, No. 10 i* known a* "Long legged loco. 1 hi* comes from the big driv iiig wheel* she rides upon which stand six feet and six inches above the rails, or higher than a tall man with a Milk hat on. Hhe ha* two pair of driver* forged for her hy IJerr Krupp, the famous cannon maker. In this is supposed to have been solved the highest aim that can be sought in a locomotive—to pull the heaviest trains over all grades against stiff winds and with the least possible lia bility toward* hot boxes or low steam on the quickest schedule titne. Her engineer -av: "She goes like a bird and rides like a rocking chair." Ever since it has been running thi* engine ha* been making u mile in fifty-seven seconds on up grade with a long train in tow without getting heated. She makes less than a mile a minute and "keeps cool. ' Of course there is a great consumption of fuel. In 180 miles 12, ' XX) pounds of coal are u-ed up. Ihe water tank contains 3,' XX) gallons, 400 more than is usually car ried. Everything else is on a propor tionately large scale. < Oily the delay in getting boilers sufficiently large, ha* prevented the completion of two oth er* of nearly the same pattern. An Art of llerol-m. THE < GM'EKEKATE *ll AttrsHOOTEEA CHEEK j ING A DRAVB SEDER AI. AT IKEUERK K-Rl KG. i I'f.r.k II r.ol In WmKlt Tim-* The following incident of the battle : of Fredericksburg is well authenticat ed. It may prove that, though the i North ami South were at war, a spirit ; of chivalry did exi-t among the South j eni soldiers. On the loth dav of December, I*B2, the Sixteenth Regi* i rnent and throe companies of the Sec j olid Rattalion of Feat her* toue's Mis si—ippi Rrigade were sent to the front i to relieve a brigade p.-ted at the foot of Marvc's Height*, to the left of the plank road leading from the city be ward* Orange Court House. Ret ween them and the city was a tan-yard and | many out-building*. Much sharp ' shooting was indulged in on Kith sides opportunities being ufforded u* hy -quail* of Federals, who in two* or : threes kept moving rapidly from be j hind extemporized shelter* to their rear, posted in the city limits proper, j While a squad of these were braving our shot* one of them was seen to drop, while all hi* companions hut one, tak : ing advantage of our empty rifle*, I soon cot to cover behind the houses, i Thi* brave fellow, seeing his comrade fall, deliberately faced about, and, dropping hi* rifle, agisted hi* friend ito arise, and together they slowly j sought the rear. A* they moved off a j score or more of rifles, in the excite- I ment of the moment, were leveled with deadly intent, hut before a single j one could lie discharged, our Colonel, | Carnot Posey, commanded "cease fir ing ; that man is too brave to be kill ed," and then, with characteristic ad miration for the brave fellow, we gave him a hearty cheer, to which he re plied by a graceful wave of his rap a* he and hi* comrade passed behind the ' protection of an out-building. I have j often thought of thi* brave act and wondered if he escaped a soldier'* I death and lived to become au acknowl edged leader among men. A Woman's Whim-. The Empress Josephine had 600,- 000 franca for her personal expenses; but thi* sum wa* not sufficient, and her debt* increased to an appalling degree. Notwithstanding the riches of her husbaud, she could not submit to order or etiquette in her private life. Hhe rose at 9 o'clock. lier toi let consumed much time, aud she lav ished unwearied efforts on the preser vation and emliellishmeut of her per son. She changes! her linen three time* a day, and never wore any stock ing* that were not new. Huge bask et* were brought to her containing different dresses, shawls and hat*. Froin these she selected her costume for the day. She possessed between three and four hundred shawls, and nlwavs wore one in the morning, which she tirapod about her shoulders with uncqualed grace. Hhe purchased all that were brought to her, no matter at what price. The evening toilet wa* a* careful a* that of the morning —then she ap|>carcd with flowers, jiearl* or nreciou* stones in her hair. The smallest assembly was always an occasion for her to order a new cos tume, in spite of the hoards of dresses in the various palaces. Ronapart was irritated by these expenditures; he would fly into a passion, and his wife would weep ami promise to lie more prudent, after which she would go on in the same way. It is almost increditabie that this passion for dress should never have exhausted itself. After the divorce she arrayed herself with the same care, even when she saw no one. Hhe died, however, cov ered with ribbons and pale rose-color od satin. A FALL of one inch in ten miles in a river will produce a current. The slope of the rivers flowing into the Mississippi from the east is about three inches per mile; from the west six inches per mile. Sew AdverHnrtuenln. Wl< dwire to call thfr attention of ' V*rmm to lli f-i t!il *>• )<.. full ■!,<] ocmi(,lt<. u.rti*rit of 4 Agricultural Implements OK EVERY DKftTIUITIOX, fr#m l*-t tnaliTk Oar pnr* r fn'alnrvU, itH the q Ilk lit yof 'rf,r injj].-n,.f ) t *r- awr-ond to none in the Uaarket Karen era ar.'l nrmatiriura Mill d', w< II to r fc !| ou ua by /ft j/tjf hating fle wLi f. -if it'fk Mr| Urn#-riU wil] I. | >.&df'AK> . TON PORTABLE KJMjfiiK*, MILBt H.S WAGONS, Adriance Reapers & Mowers, ••RAIN i'ftli.lal*. HAY HAKKff, OORX PI.AKTRk" BR'i aii cact OKA IN OKI i,i.. niiuxnv, %j\- j CIIINE". HIAUti CHILI.) |i 4. A alio r i.c .[o-1| ttt.nt, ~0, HKI'AIKIXO. ktxl [ woul I r#-.;*■ tfull, aoiot Ho ~.tr-m,,.*. of nh(f o< lliiojt In lli In.. ~t lo.j !. ui ] Mk rbinrf* of tf7 -la-*' rljrt I n GORDON A LA N 1)1 S, >* u MyiLLFOXT*. FA. I . * The Planet Jr. Seed Drills IKI# Wheel Hoes and the Firefly Plows. •*C \ \\ r J- want every one who if interest ffM • • H t| Mr Aewnjtmna of the working an I A#itn> .f the moat iDfetitooa |rw4a in the world. A(i4rw a |mU) rar.J t-> S L ALLKX A CO., 1 •"—4t 22* Market fttreet. Philadelphia iOpYQUSUFFEg With that COUGH wh>n tnere t mnnlv nt SuH I'lUf AM no CFRTAIS, and ao fl A Kit. that the i*t le|j