Site €ntw Uenwnat BELLEFONTE, PA. The Lftriut, Chpt and Beat Paper I"UHLt*IIKI> IN I KNTHK COUNTY. Krnm the Now York Observer. INTERNATIONAL LESSONS. Third (Quarter. VI HIV. IIHXHT M. UHul'T, v. P. AUGUST 2H. JjfSSOH 9. THE COMMANDMENTS. K*. A>: I—FT. lloLPm Tkxt uM unto him. Thou ■halt lovo tho Lord thr(leople were gathered, was about a mile and a half in length and shut in on every side by steep clitFs. The whole is like a great mountain temple. Why God brought his people to this place we do not know. It was not the nearest or easiest way. Hut it was well suited to the solemn and import ant scenes to be hero enacted; the most solemn and important, save the advent of the Son of (iod, in the his tory of the divine dealings with men. God had two purposes now to accom plish. First, he would enter into cove nant with his people. Of this we have the account in the nineteenth chapter. Israel was now no longer a family or tribe. They had begun to be a great nation. God would make them his "peculiar treasure." And all the peo ple said, "All that the Lord hath spoken, we will do." Hut a people that is to he the Lord's must know his will. That will he is now to make known. And he does it amid signs which indi cate that he is great and terrible in his holiness; a jealous as well as long suf fering God. Everything is ordered so as to deepen this impression. Two days are given to cleansing. Bounds are set so that neither man nor beast can come near the mountain. Then, amid thun derings and lightnings, the quaking of the mountain and the terror of the people, the Lord descends, tn two tables of stone he writes, and gives to Moses, his holy and eternal law. In just what the lnw was written and communicated, we are not told. In Acts (7: 53) it is said that it was "re ceived by the disposition of angels and in Galatians (3:19) that it was "or dained by angels." But is not certain that in either of these New Testament passage* there is particular reference to the events at Sinai. But, whatever the agency and manner, the tables and writings were of God. Which commandments were written on the first tabU, and which on the second, we are 4w>t told. Commonly four are reckoned to the first, and six to the second. How the ancient Jews divided them is not certain. But all are agreed that the first table included those duties which we owe directly to God, and the second, those which we render to bim through duties to our fellow-men. Some have thought the fifth properly belongs to the first divi sion. It is certainly A "link between the twoour duty to our parents being higher than that toward fellow men. The " preface " to the commandments declares the ground on which the Israel ites were required to keep them. The J,ord was their God, and had redeemed them from bondage. The command ments of such a being, from whom they bad received such benefit, could not tie otherwise than just and good. It was an appeal both to their sense of right and to their gratitude. it should be observed that the first commandment is fundamental and com prehensive. It includes the spirit of the entire first table. It is impossible to keep it, and not to keep the other three. Indeed, to keep it in spirit one must keep the ten ; for every duty to fellow-men grows out of our and their relation to God. To be more specific s the Jirtt forbids our giving to any creature or object the place, homage, or service which is dun to the one God ; it requires that we should worship, trust, love and obey him, and him only. The most common form of disobedience to it is the wor ship and service of self: the enthrone ment of our own pleasure and will. Of all idolatry this is the root and the sum. It is at this point that we are to make our most constant fight with that which is displeasing to God. The frond requires that He should be worshipped as a Spirit, and in spirit. It specifically forbids the use of images or outward representations. But the pro hibition includes any and every prac tice tending to material or sensual no tions of him, or to impair our sense of his purity and spirituality. "It con deras," says Calvin, "all ficticious wor ship which men have invented accord king to their own minds." The reason Attached to the seoond commandment applies to it in its connection with the first. God is a "jealous God" in that he cannot, anil will not. tolerate any rival. The saying, that ho "visits tho iniquity of the fathers upon tho children," is u simplo statement of what doilv passes before us. The effects of godlessness are far reaching; they go down to dis tant generations. It should, however, be particularly noticed that it is "upon them that hate" God that the judg ments descend. The repenting child of the godless parent finds evils turned to good. The third forbids tho profaning of the name of God, or of anything by which he expresses himself or makes himself known ; and so "all practices that tend to impair the awful supreme respect in which those divine terms should ho held." The baseness of this sin and its tendency to low thoughts of God's char acter and authority, are indicted in the solemn threatening attached to it. The fourth requires that one-seventh portion of time io reserved, from secu lar toils and pleasures, for purposes of rest and worship. It implies that the Sabbath was an ordinance already known ; and so it cannot he said to be merely a part of a Jewish code. In fact, it was ordained in Eden, while man was yet sinless. It is as universal and perpetual in its obligation as any of the others. It is at once God's riuht, and man's need. The case cannot advance without it. Without it God would be forgotten, religion would die out, re demption would be a failure. As origi nally ordained, it commemorated the completion of God's work as Creator; as changed to the first day of the week, it commemorates the completion of his greater work as Redeemer. It is not to be kept in any careless way, hut to be faithfully remembered. PRACTICAL 81 OUfSTIOSS. 1. The knowledge and service of God are man's first privilege and duty. 'l. He has done far more for us than he ever did for Israel. He brought them out of Egypt; but he has re deemed us, at greater cost, from a more bitter bondage. Much more, then, are we bound to worship, love, trust, and obey him. 3. The commandments are all j>er annul. Each begins, "Thou." However others may forget them, y"' and / are to remember and keep them. A Peculiar Pair of Eye*. ONE A PERIEI T TELESCOPE AND THE OTH ER MUCH LIKE A MISCROSCOI'E. From tb WlmH H-rl 1. <>ne day last winter a gentleman liv ing near I.itcbtield, < 'onn., took with him to a sleigh ride his daughter, who is just past sixteen years of age. It was a very bright sunny day, but cold. The glistening snow which had fallen the night before was bright and almost daz zling. The man. to perfect his eyes, wore a pair of glasses shaded blue, but the young girl had nothing to protect her eyes from the intense glare. Noth ing was thought of it at the time, but upon arriving home the girl complain ed of her eye* paining her. Her moth er bathed them with cream, thinking that in the m irning they would be all right, but when the morning came they were much worse, and continuing to grow still more so they called in a physi cian, but all to no purpose, as he could do nothing to relieve her from the pain which her eyes gave her. To make the story short the girl was obliged to t>e kept in a room where no ray of light could enter (or six long weary months. From time to time other pljAkian* were employed, but none her relief. They finally -V'' _ conclusion that she woui'* * become blind. In cd a close prisoner in M\* room, as a single ray of light, either from the sun or from a lamp, pained her eyes, which were relieved when the room was darkened. One day last week, while she was sit ting there all alone, she felt a new sen sation about her eyes which she had not experienced before—as she describ cd it: '"lt seetned as if inv eyes were running out, or part of them. Putting my hand up to my eyes i could feel something coining out over my lower eyelids, which I took hold of and pull ed out. It gave me some pain to do so. hut almost immediately my eyes felt better—instead of a smarting sensation when I winked they fell cool and natur at and it was a pleasure to wink them. Then came lbs thought. Why, my eyes are better, and 1 believed I could bear the light, which thought so impressed upon my mind that I was determined to try. Hesitatingly I opened the door, when to my great joy I found I was able to bear the light a* well as I ever could. The feeling that came over me at the moment that 1 found out that I could once more leave the dark, dis mal room, and see the glorious sunlight again was so overpowering that I gave one scream for joy and then fainted away." Now come* the strangest part of the story. Her eyes, which six mouths ago were straight and natural, are now what we call cross-eyed, but the girl pay* no attention to that. She sees things just the same as she always did, hut let her close her right eye and look out of only her left eye and she can see a distance of eight or fen miles and distinguish things a* well as an ordinary person can only sixty rods away. She is able to look clear to the lake, a distance of three and a half mile*, and identify any one, describing their dress, even seeing a fish pole in their hands, and can fell when they catch a fish. The distant hills are brought close to her, and she can see the farmers getting in their hay, even counting the number of heaps, which in an air line are seven miles from her. To test her we pro cured the largest field glass we could get, and her sight would far outreach any object we could see. If she CIOMM her left eye and looks out of the right, then she cannot see anything except close to, hut that eye is a perfect micro scope. Mhe is able to distinguish things that the natural eye cannot see. The point of a needle looks as blunt as a crowbar, and it ia wonderful to hear her describe tbe beautiful colon of flies and other insects. To her (he hainon your head look aa large as darning needles, and in the finest piece of linen she can count the threads aa easily a* any one can count bean poles. The moment she opens both eyes they assume the cross-eyed expression or shape, und then she sees again as any other person. It is the intention of her father to take her to New York at no distant day to let some of the celebrated physicians there see this wonderful phenomenon. —■ ■ ♦ Tho Well. L_ Dark nml cwul tb wftkir ll#* In Hi* old tunc honor#*#! w. II; Ifciwti tlw*p I In* Itiitk#*! fllM, Aml how oftcii, win. (aii tll * For tl k *, W lirrw the ohl Will now Hp|M-rt*4 well. A FOItGOTTKN Tit ANSI, A TOIt OF THE 111 III.E. lh'imuti J. l/ **ii)g, lu Chriitlan L'nloti. At near the middle of the eigh teenth century, an emigrant from the County of Derry, Ireland, a widower with four children, sailed for America. Dreadful sea-sickness prostrated him, and he died when in sight of the Cupcs of the Delaware. The little projierty he had brought with him the captain of tho vessel appropriated to his own use, and the lour destitute or phan*, two bovs and two girl*, were landed at New <"a-tle, Delaware. I file of these children was a bright, blue-eyed boy, eleven years of age. The captain placed him in the family of u blacksmith. One night lie heard the artisan tell his wife that the child was to lie bound to him the next day as an apprentice. The boy resolved not to lie chained to a forge. He was studious and thoughtful, and had dreamed of life other than thnt of mere physical drudgery for which bis delicate frame wa* inadeipiale. So, packing bis scanty clothing in a little bundle, he departed before the dawn on a journey be knew not whither. While trudging along a dusty road, hungry and weary, he was overtaken by a wealthy woman in her carriage and invited to ride. She was charmed by the boy's bright conversation, and a-ked him what he would like to be when he become a man. He prompt ly replied : "I'd like to be a scholar, and make a living by writing." I'leased with this answer, the good wornau took the hoy home with her nod sent him to school. Meanwhile his brother, older than he, had found business and prospered, and he fur nished the aspiring lad with means fi.r acquiring a classical education under the instruction of the eminent Dr. Al lison, who was the schoolmaster of so many distinguished Revolutionary pa triots. The boy grew to bo a tall, slender and well-educated young man. He became a teacher in the Friends' academy at New Castle, and learned to love and revere thnt society because of the abounding virtues of its mem |UL lie finally went to I'hiladcl ■PHi. rc he had the good fortune to win the esteem and abiding friendship of Dr. Franklin. There he establish ed a Friends' academy, and was distin f pushed a* a willing and industrious iclper in every good work. His truthfulness was so conspicuous that it was proverbial. Among the Indian triln-s of Pennsylvania, whom he fre quently a--istee for justice from the white men. In the autumn of 175fi, a council was held at Ronton, on the Delaware river, in which representatives of the Indian trilxsi —the Delaware#, Shaw nees and the Six Nations—appeared. They were met by Denny, the Gover nor of Pennsylvania, with his council and secretary, nnd a large numlrer of persons from Philadelphia, most of whom were Friends or (jankers. Among the latter was our young emi grant from Derry. Teedyuscung, a great Delaware chief, was the princi pal speaker among the barbarians, lie was elmting under the thrall of tho more powerful Six Nations, and was irritated by n trick of the Pro prietory of Pennsylvania, by which Ids people had been wrongfully de prived of niueh vtlnnhle territory, lie was, nevertheless, anxious to have the Delaware# remain nt pence. The Friends sympathized with him, and were at the council to give him ns *itance in mnintninghis rights. They requested our young emigrant, who was an export shorthand writer, to keep an unofficial record of the pro ceedings. Rev. Richard Peters was the secretary of the Proprietory. His minutes were continually disputed by Teedyuscung and his associates, while those of this scribe of the Friends were always truthful in the estimation of the barbarians. They felt a most profound resnect for him, and the Delaware# adopted him a# a son of the nation, with the significant name above mentioned. The young man's thirst for exact knowledge wa# intense and unceasing. One day ho found at a street book stall a portion of the Kcptuagint, the first and purest translation of the Hebrew Scriptures into the Greek lan guage, made nearly three hundred years before the birth of Christ. He earnestly sought for the remainder of the nrecious book and soon found it. Wishing to thoroughly master its coo t-nter' ball, where he found the Congress assem bled and waiting for his appearance. "Mr. Thomson," said the Prc-i --dent, "we have sent for you to keep the minutes of the proceedings of this Congress." He consented to do so, and imme diately seating himself nt a table, with pen, ink and pajK-r In-fore him, he en tered u(ton the duties of Secretary to the Continental Congress ns a tempo rary labor. In that official position, Charles Thomson, the young emigrant from D'-rry, now almost forgotten a the American translator of the Bible, remained fifteen years, (refusing pay for bis services,) until that body ex pired in 17Ml#, when the nation wa* Inirn. Si remarkable for accuracy were bis official records, that when ap[M-aled fo to settle doubtful questions and flying rumors, it would lie said, "Here come* Truth —here cornea Clin.*. Thomson." With It i-urc for literary pursuits after the war, Mr. Thomson prosecuted with great 7-cal, industry and fidelity, ' his self-imposed tnk of translating I the Septuagint and the New Testa ' meul into Knglish from the Greek. Me reganlefl the Septuagint a a more trustworthy translation of the Old Testament from the original Hebrew than any sultsefpient one, for it was the carlies effort of the kind, made long before the Christian era, ami free ! from the inevitable errors of traus scriplion and the interpolations of theologians to which later translations have been subjected. He nynrded it o ncee-rarily more trustworthy than Jerome's revision f the IVfus Ilnln | in the fourth century, known as the "Vulgate Version," notwithstanding the Council of Trent pronounced it nutheutic; commanded it to be used on all occasions in the Unman Catho lic church whenever the Hible was publicly read, and the assertions of the Roman Catholic doctors that the Vulgate Version was dictate*! by the Holy Spirit. Mr. Thomson's labors upon his translation were chiefly performed at his quaint country house, built of stone and yet standing, half a mile from Bryn Mawr, on the Pennsylva nia railroad. His study was in n small room isolated from the rest of the house. In that room he also wrote his "Synopsis of the four Evangelists," i and his critical Annotations on the works of Gilbert Wakefield and therin he gathered a vast amount of the most valuable materials for a his tory of the Revolution, hut which his lively conscience and nice sense of honor would not allow him to use, nor leave behind. It was all destroyed. Mr. Thomson carefully translated j his translation at least three (and probably four) time* before it was given to the printer. It was com pleted early in the present century, and was published in 180H,"in four octavo volume*, by .Jane Aitkin, wid ow of Robert Aitkin, who, in 17H2, published the first Kngli-h edition of the Bible issued in tint United (States. I homson's translation of the Septua gint was the first ever made into the English language. I believe. In thin paper I have given a brief account of the character of the Ameri can translator of the Bible, but not of bis work. Much might be said in his favor in comparison with the New Revision, but tiiis article is already too long. THE AMEHHAN FLAG. I he first European banner unfurled upon the shores of the new world, of which we have any authentic account, arc those of Columbus, who landed on the small island of St. Salvador, ()e --tober 12, 14!'2. Doubtless bis ideas of a new world to the westward came from leelund, which he visited in the spring of I 177. His sou writes that Columbus, dress ed in scarlet, stepped ashore and press ed the royal standard of Spain, em- Idu/.oucd with the arms of Castile ami IA-011. A white flag, with a green cross, was its companion. In 1 l!f!l the eastern coast of South America was explored, and eight years later the great discovery was announc ed to the world by a Florentine, Auicricus, who gave name to the west ern continent. About this time the ('alsols planted on the shore of North Aiuericu the banners of England and of St. Mark of Venice. The early voyagers found that the Indians of North America carried for a standard a pole, well-covered with the wing feathers of eagles. The red cross of St. (ieorgc floated from the mast of the Mayflower, 1(520, when the pilgrims landed on Plymouth rock. For a century and a half, dur ing the colonial and provincial js-ri ods, the use of the English flag con tinued in N'irtif America, with the addition of many device* and mottoes. Some flags were all red, white, blue or yellow. Others were red, with white horizontal strpe-, or red and blue stripes. UjMin these were the pineor "Liberty Tree," and the words : "An apjs nl to Heaven;" also stars, the crescent, anchor, Ix-aver and ser pent. I uder the latter, "Don't Tread on me." A flag at the battle of While Plain# bore the w .rds "Liberty or D< atli." t hi .January 2, 177•. at Cambridge, Mass., wa fir-t h<>i-U-d the "Grand I nion" flag of the crosses of St. George and St. Andrew, and the thir teen alternate r<-d and white stri|>es, emhlcmatical of the union of the thir teen colonies against the oppressive uet of British tyranny. 'l'liis was the flag in use when the Declaration of Independence wa* read by the committee of safety at Phila delphia, in the presence of Washing ton in New York, and from the bal cony of the State house iti Boston. ' in the 14th of August, 1777, Con gress resolved "that the flag of the United State- lie thirteen strijs-s, al ternatelv red and white, and that the Union lie thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constel lation." Once these stripes were increased to fifteen, but in I*l* they were changed permanently to thirteen, perpetuating the original thirteen State* of the I nion, and it * decreed that for every new Mate coming into the Union a star should lie added. The stars have five |M>inl* ; those on our coins six. They were first arranged in a cir cle, afterward in the form of a large star, ami now in parallel lines. Tut: inhabitants of Akyah, in Rur mah, are sclf-sacrificiug, having in formed the government that, so sad art' the effects of opium-eating there, they will willingly ninkc up any loss of revenue which may ensue upon the abolition of the trade in the drug. The Mechanic. Tntid*r, nv>*lng otth rlnnd) fraud. Tiling with |intt*nra for dnlly brand. nnd o.mld an>rn I'l to- Ml* n* hn**. tlii I I* pt* t-l ll* n.>- Imlc, W'jih Irii rhori ivHlln* In lb* rtrok* Of tb* bntnni-r *g*l tot o.* 1 o.t, i.* V. I>rting lb* pl*n* tlh * b*nrty nlll, W i,t*tling nn.| enroling n*r*r •till, Ibil in Into* doing bi. Mnt*r'* will. Oh. Utr ntning nrarhnnk I Tb* •lny nrrni-l vnnrhnnh ! Who Ml* lib timfii* nnd bnnd*. h*-rnan* ll* t proud lo 1-- • in.rhnnlr. Itaralnt* h*nrlb *fon*n nnd nnnt nnd nhnm* on nr* lb* onlrom* of n*nllb nnd inn*, ll.it to tap tb* *tn* of lb* rorktlldo-d *nrth. And It* *l**rl. Standing upon the margin of a love ly lake in the bosom of the nestling mountain* above the heuutiful village of Georgetown, in Colorado, one can see it sunset more brilliant and beauti fnl than wan ever looked upon in the Kant, and which in only equaled hy the virgin reach of reddening liglit which mellows into twilight shadows on the plain*. I saw it on a summer evening when all nature wa- hushed stillness. The fireflies shot through the growing dusk like sparkling lour ici :n Egyptian night. Overhanging forest and swart and blackened crag were reflected in the green waters of the lake. The sun hovered, as in a fascinated s|ell, above the mountain tops, while rays of golden light Hushed with crimson peak ami turret on na ture s battlements. 11seemed to glow and expand like an opening rose, un til it became full-blown, and east its arrowv penciling* for miles across the skv like a mighty flame. Then, a* if a*llamed of its boldness, it drew a veil of grayish mist alxmt its face, and blushed beneath it. The mist changed into a cloud shaped like a crescent, with ragged fringes flecked with gold, and in its wonderful a*|M-ct recalled the legends of Mahomet's banner, red and lurid beneath Asian skies. Even as 1 looked it changed. The darken ' ing scarlet was transformed to ruby brilliancy. l>mg lines of pallor w hiten j ed on the parti-colored surface, side hv side with golden lances which seemed to flash from the glowing orb like dis solving rays. The enamored skv for one feverish instant caught and mir rored all the colors of the rainbow. Then again it darkened—flushed, and paled—and drawing the hovering dra peries of the night about it sank out of sight. The stars came out. The night hawk poised on swooping pinion, shrieked above the fore-t solitude. The leafy murmurs of the moaning [lines took up the refrain, and awoke the spell-bound senses into life and ac tion. The charm was gone, hut its beauty ling-red on the fancy like a beautiful memory. Well Desert ed Praise. Sr-m th. CuMe L*-l P r. What an alert type of men the con ductors on the steam railroads are! Probably the engineers are also, but there's no good chance to get a look at them while they have their hands ou the I •'ver- and their eyes are js-eriug along the line of tra< k a far a- keen vision can reach. Hut the conductor i- all alike under his I*] T n< A few days since, I>r. I). V. Ran j nels and C. O. Iluulap of this place, were called upon to attend a son of Mr. Wing, residing in Vinton town i ship. The child is now '2l mouths old, and is afflicted in a very extraordinary manner—in fact, iu a manner unheard of in this country heretofore. About | six months ago, a blotch or discolora tion of the skin appeared on thr child, : and the blotch has since moved from I the calf of the leg t* the nap of the neck and downward again to its pres i cnt location, just below the hip. The : physicians were not long in determin , ing the cause of the blotch, and pro nounced it a worm something similar to the Guinea worm, which frequently afflicts inhabitants of that hot coun try. It lie* curled, crossed and curved in different directions in the tissues of the skin, and takes up a space of three or four inches iu diameter. The length of the worm is many feet and about the thickness of the smallest string of a violin. It has been known to move a distance of six inches in a single night. The color is that of apple jelly and it is transpar ent. or ratnor semi-transparent. The child is somewhat nervous and restless hut otherwise shows uo signs of being afflicted by such a monster. In treat ing the paitent the physicians made an incision end raised a curved section of the worm sufficient to slip under it a piece of tape. It is said that the fre quent nouring of warm water on the |>art thus exposed will induce the Guinea worm to leave iu human tene ment, although it will generally va cate the premises without surgical aid. A itom.K part of cverv true life is to learn how to undo what baa been I Wii,