®ht Centre femorrat. BELLEPONTE, PA. Tk LurgMt, CkMpcat and Bast Paper rUHLISHBD IN C'KNTRK COUNTY. Services In the Evangelical Lntheran Church. MONDAY MORNINO, Sept. 26, 1881. ORDKR or siavic*. Introduction by th Choir; lutrolU; Oloris Pstrl (Rung); CotifrßSMkti of 818, In Coocert; Kyrt* (Suug); Huppllcatlon ; At—lie.' ON** ' Concert; Qlorl. in KxrrUU (Puna); Lltsnr, iMludlnit AdnpUth.nj to lbs On-aston ; Hymn "twfor. JslmvsVs Awful Throne —Tuns, Old llundrcl; Scripture I—sous :rtslia mi, and extmctn from John AIT; Hymn : Ju, while our I twirls srw Hleedlnc —Tune, Alititu V sr lion; Atldraw; Pnjfir. MWID| with • Ura• pruyer ln Concert: Hymn: -Nearer, my Ood, to The*-—Tune, Betbeny ; IteueJlcllou. Tur -for when Thy JuilmenU ere In the eerth, the Inhabitant* of the world will learn righteousness.' —■•alah XAVI:9. (Not s word ef the above addreea waa written before It waa delivered. It waa reduced to writing after three daye because of a very general deelre, e*preeeeeen attained. Under the inscrutable direc tion of an all-wise and all-merciful Providence the evil defeats itself and is made to contribute and add lustre to the glorious victory of the good. Let us now turn to a few of the many LRSSONS or THE nor a. I. HobU and unselfish purposes art re versed. General Garfield did not desire the nomination for the Presidency. It was while he was pleading, with unsur passed eloquence, the fitness of another for that exalted place that attention ws riveted upon himself as the proper man. We cannot forget how strong his expressed preference waa lo occupy the aeat in the United .States Senate to which be had been elected rather than take the executive chair. A superin tending Providence, nevertheless, plac ed him in the executive mansion, and in it, during leas than four months of active service, he founded a policy at once so assuring, eocommanding and so far-reaching that half a dozen terms would have been too short to fully carry it out, but which baa become fixed in effect m a fore gone conclusion l>r the dreadful sacrifice of his precious life. Cheater A. Arthur shrank from ac cepting the nomination area for the Vioe Presidency, and when the fatal bell had atruck the President, full of emotion, he aeid, out of the abundance of an overflowing heart, to the grief •tricken, heroio wife of the auffering chief, "God known I do not want to be President." And yet to day he fills the Preaidentia) office, to carry on in detail and perplexity the work so broadly planned by bis lamented predecessor. Oh I who oould, without a shudder, have seen our now sainted Garfield go back and bear the almost unbearable burdens of that trying position after the sanctifying influences of sorest ex perience had made him too pure for earth! The unexpected and undesired change was wrought in God's judgment, whose wisdom is higher than man's, that thus the inhabitants of the world might learn righteousness. 2. The "homage on the bleeding heart of his country and the world in a manner that time can never efface ? 4. Human distinction* art brought to tl in the infancy j of the human race—reasserted in our I Declaration of Independence incor poratcd into the very foundation of our government—here finds a practical and incontrovertible demonstration in the eyes of an astounded world awed into silence by the sublime conduct of true, j widowed motherhood! That devout women should thus be enabled to fur ni.slt n natural and permanent solution j of the problem that ha* for ages con vulsed the nations of the esitli tut- j j presses u o* one of the prnfoutußjudg I meots of God, administered in wisdom. I "that the Inhabitant* of the world i I should learn righteousness." Dare anyJ j one say a death producing such i 4 eflect is in vain, or even premature? 1 5. The civilised world is united in senti ment. Critics are ai'.enced—the occupa tion ol fault-finder* i gone. Political dissension* are forgotten—bitter antag ! onistn* are dead—personal animosities are buried. Union of heart* in the United State* was never so complete —a common grief ha* cemented our union I of States more firmly thsn heretofore I All parties, *ll classes, all shade* of opinion are blended and hound togeth er by a stronger and more loving tie than has ever before leen recognixed. Truly the man around whose death-bed all difference* are dispelled die* not in vain. Rulers and subjects of all civili/cd nations, nobles and common people, men, women and children rie with each other to give the tenderest expression to the same seniumnt. The world united in opinion I it was never so. It could not be so now but for the puri fying furnace through which we hare been passing. "When God's judgments sre in the earth," then "the ihabitanla of the world will learn nghteouaneas." 6. Christianity it triumphant. Our nation haa been brought to its knees in prayer. Other nations hare been moved by the same impulse. Infidelity has heen obliged to hide its head with confusion of face. But some sav, "the prayers bare not been answerer!— God has eith er not heard or He has not heeded." Gh, no, God always hears and answers true prayer. The spirit of the prayers was that it might please God to do what would be best for the suffering one and best for ail the people. The time, the circumstances, the very manner of the death could not hare heen more oppor tune to eatablish for all time the world wide fame of the lamented dead. But what is far more important, be was permitted to give an exhibition to "the inhabitants of the world" of how a lie in* Christian faith enables a man to re ceive without a word of revenge a cruel, wanton blow causing an agony of bodi ly suffering for long, weary weeks—to prove how a brave, heroic man strong in the strength Imparted through faith oan, without a murmur, endure and die for his country—for bis age—aye, for the human race. Best of all for him self, be through this very ordeal be came more spiritually acclimated to the atmosphere of Heaven and improv ed in the graces that characterise the society of the redeemed until he was "meet for the inheritance of the saints in tight," Then be was raised above it>f perplexities, trials and pains of earth to rest forever in the never weary ing ecstatic activities of the Father'* house full of glory unspeakable. In view of all the facts stated, and of many more of which we cannot now give even a hint, und of still morn that will l< revealed as time rolls on, it wus best for his own family—hpst for the American people—best for "the inhabi tants of the world"—best for all the coming generations till time shall end, that it should be so now, .Should we wish it otherwise ? ('an we not say, in fullest confidence, "(iod's judgments" am always best ? 7. God teaches in unmistakable ways. No tice the striking contrasts. Less than seven months ago there were inaugura tion ceremonies on a grander scale than at any previous lime—to day wo have what will be chronicled as the greatest mourning in history—there is before our minds the most cowardly, most dastard ly act of the wretched assassin, and at the same instant, the most touching, most bumble submission of earthly greatness and Christian resignation to Almighty Wisdom—the poorest of the poor weeping for the same cause that iias bedewed throne* with tears—all in dicating how (iod's judgments, injustice and mercy, in wisdom and love teach mankind righteousness. (iod tias given and preserved to us a government that fosters the women and the men who are made honored instru ments in His hands to teach men right eousness for Ilia glory. In the rueroora bio words of him whose decease we tuourn, "(iod reigns and the govern ment at Washington still lives," ami let us ever remember, the government at Washington lives because (iod reigns. No other government of the present, or the past, could endure such tests with so little strain, or confusion, or danger of dismemberment. It is a comforting thought that in the ! i|uict homes of this highly favored land are to be found, still living, women and ! men who would prove rquallv noble and ; note-worthy if suddenly cslled torth fo I give testimony before the world. Oh! ! virtue is not yet all dispelled from the earth ! Because faithful and true in all I the details of humble life, these loved | ones were found prepared for high pule ; lie station. So we, using well our (iod given mesns, talents and opportunities, and acting well our part in our places, ; reading and applying aright (iod's les sons vouchsafed for our guidance, are, wherever and whoever we may he, to ; glorify (iod on earth in our l*dics and j in our spirits, and then we may glorify 1 llim forever in the enjoyment of the I rewards of the finally taitbful—of the j j eternally bleed. WF.DBKI) 0> PIKE'S PEAK. j iwo urarth ti arr. o*i 10,000 rr.nr aijovr otiicr people's iiiad*. j Cdtdrido Spring* Uit*r in th* Trlt•!. ('. A. Dutton, Herman A. Throe j inorton, Mrs. H. A. Throcmorton and i Miss Nellie J. Throemortoo, of Boston, i registered nt the Manitou House last J night. They made inquiry concern- I ing the difficulties of ascending Pike's Peak, ami in the course of the even | ing engaged the Kcv. I)r. J. Edward* ; Smith to go with them to the summit of the peak for the purpose of per forming a marriage ceremony. This morning at sunrise the six bronchos stood iti front of the Manitou House ami in a few minutes the entire party were in the saddle. The Rev. Dr. •Smith was mounted upon a particu larly lively brute, which after waltz j ing on tv.o legs down the road, from the hotel to the bridge over the Foun | tain, wound up his performance by j bucking the clergyman over the rail ing into the stream. Mr. Smith was Lrcscued at once, and although not injured the accident deranged of the wedding party, for IV'■clergyman declined to risk his | hwth by continuing the trip, in spite of all persuasion and the offer of a safe aud quiet animal. After much consultation the young gentleman sug gested that Dr. Araith should come to this city (Colorado Springs) and from the United States telegraph office, which is connected with the signal station on the peak, perform the mar rirge ceremony by telegraph. The doctor consented to this arrangement, | and thus by accident anofher element of romance was added to this already romantic affair. The summit was reached about noon, and Sergeant O'Kcefe was found in charge of the station. He received his visitor* with his usual hospitality, and when their intention of celebrating a wedding was announced was overjoyed and at once set about making arrangements. The instrument room of the signal station was decorated with flowers and flags, j and then the sergeant seated himself at the telegraph instrument and sent a call down to the springs office, 10,000 feet below. Officer Jones, who was in charge, replied and informed the ser geant that the Rev. Dr. Smith had ar rived and was ready to proceed with the ceremony. The young people joined hands and stood before the ser geant, the father and mother of the bride standing on either side, and the sergeant at the instrument read off the questions of the clergyman as they came thrilling over the wtres. There was a rapid clicking for a mo ment and then sergeant O Keefe, in a solemn voice, repeated the message: "Charles A. Dutton, do you take Nellie J. Throcmortou to be your law ful and wedded wife ?" "I do," responded the bridegroom with evident emotion. The sergeant tapped the telegraph instrument and tn a moment another message came and was read by Him ; "Nellie J, Throemortoo, do you take Charles A. Dutton to be your 1 lawful and wedded husband V' "I do," said the bride in a low voice. | The sergeant heard it, however, and | transmitted the reply. There was a , moment's pause, ana then came the r solemn concluding words. Up from tho valley to that small stone keep, fourteen thousand feet above the ocean, came that messago making two hearts one: "Then I pronounce you man aud wife." NATHAN HALE, THE SPY. TUE MAS WHO RELIEVED ANV SERVICE rod III* COCNTKV WAS UOMORAMLE. Edwurtl Kim.ll Hal*. Nathan Hulc, who was bunged bv General Howe when ho was scarcely twenty-one years old, was born in Cov entry, Conn., June 4, 1705. His edu cation was conducted with a view to the life of a minister. He was trained in the school to which America owes so much, which is willing to push every doctrine to its ultimate —the school of the Puritans, who made America. At the time of the battle of Islington Hale was not two years out of Vale college. The picked men of Yale ami Harvard (lung themselves into the army. There are many persons in this audience who have beard their lathers anil mothers tell ef the spirit with which Hale taught the Union school at New London. The school was of thirty-two boys, about half of whom were Latiners, and all but one of the rest were writers. In addition to this he kept for young ladies, through the summer from 5 o'clock to 7 o'clock every tnoriiiug, another school, which was attended by about twenty scholars. The rising of the sun would seem to have been of a different calender from ours, or the habits of the young janple. His school house was very convenient, he writes. You have seen it and can judge. He was a favorite in society, handsome, athletic, frank, wide-awake in the great popular questions which excited society, and true to the old creed of every Connecticut man—in dependence in religion, and independ ence in government, lie endeared him self to young and old. fie had, in his farewell part at New Haven, dis cussed the questions whether the edu cation of daughters l>c not more ne glected than that of sons. Here he was in a high way to reform that error, if error there wa*. He con | templated seriously making the teach ing of the young his profession for life, and New Ixmdon his home. Had he done so you and I might have seeu and talked with this delightful old man. We might have heard him tell of this and that abortive effort for freedom which failed because the tons of Connecticut stayed at home and left it to bounty-jumper* to fight their battles. But, thank God, his wa- an- j other destiny, but this was not to be. While Hale was a teacher in New , I/ondon he was not of age He Ha noi, therefore, technically a "freeman." j But he was enrolled in the militia,and he was profoundly interested in the military discipline which the time re quired. It is his prominence in the community as a favorite with the young which fiermils one of hi* age to speak out at the town mectiug called after the battle of Islington. He eu rolls himself as a volunteer, writes to Coventry for his father's permission to serve in one of the comiaiiiics of the i new establishment, and having, of course, received that permission from the sturdy patriot, enlists in Webb's regiment, the Seventh Connecticut, nsks the proprietors of the school to relieve him from further duty. The 1 regiment was one raiser! by order of the general assembly that year for j home defence and for the protection j of the country at large. In this regi ment Hale was first lieutenant, am! after the first of September, captain. , The company consisted of seventy-one men, and was organizer! before the end of July. Its first service was in j the neighborhood of New but on the fourteenth of September it was marched, by Washington's order, to the ramp at Cambridge. The summer of 177-* was a dark sea son for the American cause. Hale was a minor no longer; he was of age, and immediately afterward his country was new born. Hoon afterward Howe lauded with his immense forces. The patriots concluded rightly that New S'ork would be their point of attack, and General Heath was ordered there with most of the army. Hale made this march, passing through Norwich on the way, and Intough the summer was in active service. Of this service a few letters preserve our chief me morial. The first important duty in which be was engaged was the cutting out of an KoglUh sloop laden with supplies, which, though under the guns of the Asia man-of-war, was not safe from the audacity of the am phibious seameu soldier* of Webb's regiment. At the head of a boat load ' of men Hale boarded ber at midnight to the pier. Her store* were distrib uted as clothing and as food in the army." Washington summoned Knowlton to find some volunteer of intelligence who would find his way into the Eng lish lines aud bring back trustworthy information. Knowlton summoned his own officers, but none of them volun teered. He tried, it is said, to induce one of them to undertake the danger ous service, and received the reply: "I am willing to be shot, but not to be hanged." Tnen one of his youngest captains spoke, and Nathan Hale add: "I will undertake it" He bad come late to the meeting. He was pale with recent sickness. His college compan ion, Hull, had tried to dissuade him, but he was determined. "I wish to be useful," he add, "and every kind of service for the public good become* honorable." From that moment there i* but little to be told till the end. He crowed to Long Ldand and obtained the information he wa sent for. He nought a secluded cove on the north side of Long Island, where he wan to wait for a boat. A bout landed and he went to meet it. It wa* the boat of a British frigate, and he wan a prison er. He wan marched to New York, 'juickly tried, condemned, and sentenc ed to be hanged neat morning. On the scaffold, after hi* letter* to hi* family had been destroyed,and hi* re quest for a Uible had been denied, be nay*: "I only regret that I have hut one life to give to my country!" It i* not succeed in the field ; it in not to wisdom in the council; it is to ready self-sacrifice at the country'* call; it in to readiness to die in the country's cause, that our presence here is due to-day, that men seek for any memori al, and bring together every wreath of laurel, which may bespeak their grati tude to Nathan Hule. BEN BI'TLER AT HOME. Ill* liEVOTIOtt TO HIS wir* AND FAMILY. I'rotn PkM'h iu N*w York Sun. There is an air of comfort about his library, with the exception of one chair, which is Gen, Butler's favorite scat. It is necessary to keep one's sea legs on to occupy the chair. It is about as difficult to sit in as a bicycle i* to ride, hut the manufacturer hav ing furnished two legs of the chair, (ten. Butler contend* that he ha* done his share, anil that whoever occupies it must furnish the other two legs. A visitor who wanted to cross his legs found that the chair ran from under him like a frightened steed, and in a moment more he was gyrating his arms and leg* among the wolf skins on the floor. Gen. Butler's face did not change a particle at the sight, hut, as ' he puffed out a little bigger cloud of smoke, he said in guttural tones : "The | chair is all right, if you keep your j legs straight." It requires some in genuity to master the scat, and Gen. Butler seems to revel iu the exercise. The book case* arc adorned with bust* of eminent lawyers, for whom Geu. Butler ha* unqualified word* of j praise. (>ne richly-bound volume rest ing on a shelf is entitled "The Itepub lican Court," and it (fives the portrait* of the most beautiful women of the Revolutionary time. The book wa* a Christmas present from Gen. Butler I to his wife many years ago. and after he had been married to her about eleven year*. Accompanying the gift he sent a letter, afterward pasted by Mr*. Butler on the fly leaf, in which i letter he avow* that no feature limned within the page* of the book by the ] hurin of the engraver appeared to hini half so beautiful a* those whirh had for eleven year* shed so much of light and joy into his life. The devo tion of Gen. Ihitler to his charming wife, who died wine years ago dur \ ing his presence under a surgical operation, is instanced in many ways . by his circle of friends, and his bold temper and rugged nature yield to i nothing so quickly as to her memory. I He has studiously kept her room in the condition in which she left it. j Her pictures arc nearly all within his j own apartment, with sj>ecimeus of her needlework and reminders of her wo : manly neatness. The volume of Shake ' speare she used to read aloud, with the skill that came from her training as jan actress, is treasured bv the bus- i hand. The ardor with which, as a j youth, he followed the beautiful ae ! tress from New England to the (tanks , of the Ohio, where he at length made ; an irresistible declaration of his love, j never dimmed through life, and seems ! now as strong in his devotion to her | memory. Her theatrical genius found j appreciation and opportunity in her | own home, for Gen. Butler provided j her with a theatre under her own roof, | and one most complete in its appoint | meats. It is now hi* billiard room, i hut it was then also his theatre. The ; billiard table is upon wheeis resting |on a track. When a performance was j designed the billiard table was run I upon its track against the wall, and j covered with the flooring for the stage. The foot-lights were arranged, the j scenery was placed, and the curtain | was hung. There was a dressing room I hack of the stage, and a wardrobe j adequate for all needs. Here Mrs. Butler and her little company of chil dren and frieuds often gave theatrical entertainments to rare audiences, and no one appreciated the performances more than Maj. Gen. Ben Butler, the general manager. The billiard room has a polished hard-wood door and frescoed walls and ceilings. A rack contains a spangled Egyptian saddle, which was a present to Gen. Butler from the Khedive. A practical fea ture of the saddle U the construction of the stirrups, which have the spurs set into them. Painting* by Mrs. Ames are scattered about, the house. Mrs. Butler's picture is the first ob ject that meets bis eye io the morning, and the last that he looks upon at night. Butler displayed great affection for his children constantly when in their presence, and when he was at home be wanted Ihe boys about him. He would make acme startling assertions now and then—such, for instance, as that Brother Jasper is right and that the "*un do move," and then he would marshal up the most ingenious argu ments in order to exeito his sons to avail them and trv to break them down. He would claim that the earth i* • flat as a hatter cake; that it* centre i* the polar region, which no man can jM.-nctrate; that it i* sur rounded by water, and that the argu ment* in favor of a globular earth, such as that the mast* of ship* are seen before the hulls and the top* of mountains before their has.es, are all grounded upon a misconception of the law of perspective. He would set hi* hoys to work to fight this theory, and he made it sometimes rather difficult for them to answer him bf-causc of hi* fertility in ingenious argument*. Gen. Butler smoke* Havana cigar* a* long as a penstaff, sit* up late read ing or talking, and retires aliout mid night. He is up again at 6 o'clock, looking as fresh as a school hoy and ready for any amount of hard work, of which he seems never yet to have had too much. He makes a tour of his grounds, looks at the beautiful bed* of foliage plant* bordered with sweet alysstim, watches the coloring of the hydrangeas from huff to blue, by the charcoal he mixed with the earth about thein. takes a look for hi* squir rels, and then walk* into breakfast. His table ha* a mass of flower* in it* centre, fresh from his conservatory, and a* he settles into hi* seat, Peter, who appear* in a swallow-tail coat and a white necktie, pins a bouquet in the general'* left lapel. Thirty year* ago Mrs. Butler began this practice, and the general keeps it up. The coffee urn used by George Washington— affectionately termed "Uncle George" by the General—grace* the table. There i* a conspicuous cabinet in the dining room which is a fine specimen of antique Flemish carving. It* out line is a mass of mermaids, griffins, leave* ami fruits, and although now SWO years old, it promise* to last for ever. Upon one shelf is a coffee set painted with the picture* of (sen. But ler and hi* staff. Gen. Butler i* a hearty eater and he sips a little sherry at his meal*. Hi* breakfast over, Peter hand* him one of his big Hav ana cigars, hold* a light to its end and leads the way to the carriage that ha* just stopped at the door. As the gen eral takes his seat Peter hands him a boquet covered with tissue paper, and the driver cracks his whip. The car riage rolls away leaving a train of cigar smoke behind. Gen. Butler seems to find happiness in little things, and one of the inci dents of his day's pleasure is to just come within a second of missing the train to Boston, and vet not miss it. He often make** experiments in seeing how long he can n-maiu in his bouse or office and then how last he can go to the depot, and how near he can come to being left. The Greatest Mistake. Kveryliodv is making mistakes. Everybody is finding out afterward that he has made a mistake. But there can bo no greater mistake than the stopping to worry over a mistake already made. Temptation is irresist ible when one has slipped on an orange peel, or a banana skin, to turn hack and see just where and bow he slipped. But if a man is in a hurry to the depot, he would do better to look out for the next slipping place, and guard against it, than to turn around and walk backward, with bis eye* on the place where he slipped last, and his mind full of worry because be slipped there. And a man would stand a belter chance of entering hi* train by letting those slipping place* alone. "Forgetting those thing* which are behind, includes the forgetting to worry over the irredeemable part." "Beaching forth unto those thing* which arc before," is the "one thing" for every child of God to do in spite of many mistakes which at the best he has certainly made. The "Poor Girls." The poorest girls in the world are those who never have Been taught to work. There arc thousands of them. Tbey have been taught to despise labor and depend upon others for a living, and are perfertly helpless. If misfortune conies upon their friend*, as it often does, their case i* hopelea*. The most forlorn women on earth belong to this class. It belongs to parent* to protect their daughter* from this deplorable coudition. They do ibera a great wrong if tbey neglect it Every daughter ought to be taught to earn her own living. The rich as well as the poor require this training. The wheel of forluue roll* swiftly round—the rich are very likely to become poor, and the poor rich. £*kill to labor is no disadvantage to the rich, and indispensihle to the poor. Well-to-do parent* must educate their , children to work. No reform ia more imperative than this. A I.ITTLK fellow, turning over the leave* of a scrap Uok. came across the well known picture of aome chick* ens iust out of their shell. He exam ined the picture oerefullv, and then, with a grave, sagacious look, slowly remarked ; "They came out 'coa tbey was afraid of being boiled." A Borrow medicant said to a gen tleman : **l should like to have ten cents to appease my hunger. I have forty cento, end with ten more I could • get quite • decent supper." Ir Shakespeare had been familiar with double-barrel led shot guns he would have talked leaa of the slings tod arrows of outrageous fortune.