She Centre democrat. BEILBPONTI I PA. Tk UrgMt, OksapMt sad Bsat Psptr PUBLISHED llf CBXTHS COUHTT. Prom lha Now York Otworror. INTERNATIONAL LESSONS. Fourth Quarter. ■ in. iuit a. okovt,. . Deckm HBK 18. Lesson 18.—Review. Oolocs Tilt:—"Th* rl.rnil (lod M thy roftifco Mid uudornoMh oro tho mrbtfOog ornio."—Dout.dJ: *7. Central Truth .—The grace and pa tieuce of God in bis dealings with his chosen people. With the present lesson, the regular studies of both the quarter and the year are brought to an eod. It will be Well therefore for teachers ami scholars to allow thought to run hack over the entire year; to consider what great truths have been learned, what practical lemons have been mastered, and what spiritual profit has been gained. It cannot be a pleasant re flection for auy of us that grout oppor Untitles have brought us little good. Life's years are not many. To accom plish its appointed work, and to secure "an abuudaut entrance" into the rest nnd unwearying activities of the lift to come, we need to make good use of them all. Are we, or any associated with us, still without Christian hope ? Having learned so much of the supe rior happiness of the people of God, do we still hesitate to join the divinely favored company? Must any of us still say "ana we are not saved ?" The first quarter of the year took us over the first part of the Gospel by Luke ; and brought before us the sto ry of the birth, boyhood, and preach iug of Jesus, the healer of the sick and the sinner's friend. (loets ; bringing rest to the land, liberty to captives, and tho recovery of lost es tates. Our .Saviour ret erred to it as a type of the Gospel age, "tho accepta ble year of the Lord," which he him self proclaimed. The ninth lesson was The Serpent in the Wilder net* ; a believing look at which saved those ready to die of the bite of fiery reptiles ; and an impres sive symbol of him who, us Hon ol Man aud Saviour of the world, was, in like manner, lilted up, that whoso ever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life." Then tenth lesson set before us the double-in iuded aud unstable Balaam ; one who could speak noble words, and whom Gud could use to utter true prophecy ; but whose fatal example is a lasting warning against attempts to serve God and Mammon. The eleventh and concluding lesson was The Last Day* aj Mote*. Israel is now upon the cast tiauk of Jordan, and ready to cross to the promised land. Hut first the people must purl with their leader. 'I hero is both cheer and admonition in what is told us of the last work, couuscl, experi ence with six, and support aud com fort ot this great and good man. God gave him one look at the earthly Canaan, and then buried him iu a valley on tin summit of Neoo. To the last and at the last, God was with him. In each of these successive lessons, the grace and patience of God in his dealings with his chosen people, and the blessedness of u part with theiu, bas fresh and strikiug illustration. Often they murmur and complain, yet he Dover casts them oil". Ity experi ences of trial ami discipline he pre pares theui for the promised inherit ance, and then brings them thither. So he does with nil Ins people of every age. lie fits them for heaven, and then opens to them its holy gates. AKCIIUUMI HIKIIKM ON AMERICAN MOI.IUKKV. Speaking of the Connecticut troop?, ?aid he, I could not hut be struck with that miraciilou? gift of talk which is the attribute of the American citizen. We Kglisbmeii have a iinhit of look ing down ujM>n a miking man and to agree with Carlisle when ho says the able man is the silent mail. And I am bound to say that the first night I was here, when 1 heard thi**e Coutiee cut men get upon their hind and orate freely, with a go-ai deal wf bun combe thrown in, I said to imyjfv Much that I nin told I will to morrow will lie promise without ful fillment. lful it eame about quite the other way. And iam Irce to -ay that it seems to me that if there are a great many regiments like the Con necticut regiment which I saw here on parade iu the nation, it don't want any standing army at all, as they con- j stitute a tar cbea|>er and more cff'ec live force than any standing army would be. I have seen al! the armies iu the world, I believe, from the Afg- j hau scalawags to the Husiun lin peri-i ral Guards, and 1 have never seen greater precision and solidity than those men manifested on that dress parade. To ine it was a revelation, ! and rather a disagreeable revelation, simply from this (mint of view, which you can easily understand, that 1 lie- j came painfully aware that here was : another factor in the world capable j of Iwating us. A man never likes to j find out that the number of uicn strong er than himself is on the increase. We j Englishmen.have been indulging in satisfaction that however the coalmen- | tal countries might grow with their millions of reserves agaiust our hun dred or two hundred thousand traiued troops, we were yet capable of swag gering over the t'nited States, in the j matter of drill and discipline and ! punctilious performance of evolutions. , But what i saw yesterday proved to | me that such was not the case. These men marched and wheeled quite equal to our Granadier Guard, and I don't tbink I have seen auylbing to equal tbe percision in the manual in that dress parade. It seemed to me that tbe commanding officer, who went to the front and moved aa a piece of mechanism and not like a creature with bowels in him at all, had his foot on an electric wire which communica ted with the regiment and with ever? man in the regiment, anil that each was a mere automaton, not moved by the word of command, but by their colonel's foot on the concealed wire ill tbe grouud. And what I admired most of all was the absolute rigidity of accuracy that was preserved in the minutes detail. The tendency of a republican coun try like this is to despise accuracy which does not bear fruit right away. Bat tbe accuracy in military affairs which appears good to outsiders is re ally the means to nn end. It is the evidence of that discipline which in time of danger may be found to have no other stable reliance than by that cnusuctude which rigorous dull mid practice, the intuition of discipline, carries with it. Discipline becomes second nature to n soldier—aimost first nature. The weak |ioint of all volun teer improvised forces is that they huvc not the amount of discipline that becomes engrafted into the very nuture of the old soldier. Hut those men seemed yesterday to liuve been (but way so long that what tin y did was not the result of thoughtful lie**, it was not the result of a first rehearsal or a second rehearsal, hut the jierfor mancc of a thing by rote. And they bud come to that perfection us natural ly as tbe taking of a coctail. All litis seems to come out ofuti infinite capaci ty lor taking pains in these Couliecti cut people. NO I'M) i'IIL.NO.M fcXO.N. It ID ENGINE UEI.MI ANO WUIS7LIUI SOME TINES VABV IN I'ITCII. Frotldemc Jufirtial. "When two trains, goiug iu oppo site direction ul a rapid rale, meet each other, with the engine bells ring ing, or whistles blow lug, u pu*M.-ugtT of one truui notices a marked varia tion in tbe pitch ot the belt or whistle of the other train. When the sound first strikes the ear, the pitch is ul its highest. Gradually it goes down as the train duplies past, uud the lowest pitch is reachetl when the last notes tall on the ear. Why is this?" Tins question was propounded to an engineer the other day by au individual thiisiiug tor inluriuutioii. "The quesliuu is simple enough," wus the reply. "To start with, It is UII axiom which uceds no proving liiul llie pilch of a sound depends ou its number of vibrations. Thus, while forty vibrations a second produce the lowest sound,-IU,i lit*) a second produce the highest. I'itch rises with an in crease ul the number of vibrations. "A certain number of vibrations ure cuutlcd by the bell or whistle dur ing the time the train is running a cerium distance—say a quarter of a mile. Suppose each tram runs the distance lu half a minute. Then as , tbe one train approaches that in which the listening passenger is seated, all the vibrations emitted during the hall J minute will strike the car in less than j hull a minute (suppusiug, of course, i (hat they can bo heard over so great a distance.) The reason for this is that tbe first will uot he heard until more than two seconds after it has I been emitted, as the sound will have to travel half a mile, while the lust will j he lu-ard the instant it i emitted, be- 1 cause the engine will then Is- within a few leet of the ear. Thus, .'lO seconds' vibrations will he beard in UN seconds. When the trains are receding from each other, the vibrations emitted ■luring the half-minute will take rather more than 32seconds to reach the ear, as that emitted when the train is half a tuile off will have to travel to the car." "Can you .illustrate this to make it plainer?" the engineer was asked. "Certainly I can. Suppose a man with a rubber hose stands ten yards from a tub. The capacity nf this hose enables him to squirt u pint of water per second in that tub. Hut if, dur ing. sav five seconds, he walks up to the tub, nil the. while allowing his hose to |xiur water into it, there will he more than live pints of water as the result of that five seconds' work. There will lie five pints plus the quan tity contained ill the stream which would have fallen to the ground if he had stood still and at the end of five seconds turned the cock, shutting ofT the stream. By the approach of the ; whistle or bell of an engine, a greater number of vibrations meet the ear in a given time, just as a greater quantity of water reaches the tub from the hose by the approach of the nnr./.lc. And, , accepting as correct the axiom that the greater number of vibrations the j higher the piteh, it will lie seen that! when the trains approach the car gets more than its due share of vibra tions per second, and when they re cede it gets less than its share. HEI.F-rOXTROf. IS NOCIETY. Never show that you feel a slight. This is worldly-wise as well as Chris" tian; for no one person will put a slight on another, aud such a person always profoundly respects the pernio who is unconscious of his feeble spite. Never resent publicly a lack of cour tesy ;itis in the worst taste. What you do privately about dropping such an acquaintance must be left to your self. To a person of noble mind the con test of sohiety must ever seem poor and spurious as they think of these narrow enmities and low political ma noeuvre* ; but we kndw that they exist and that we must meet them. Tem per, detraction, and small spite arc as vulgar on a Turkev carjiet and in a palace as they could be in a tenement bouse; nay, worse; for the educated contestant.-' know belter. Hut, that they exist we know as we know that the diphtheria rages. We must only reflect philosophically that it takes all sorts of (teople, to make a world; ' that there are good people rank and | file; that there is a valiant army and a ; noble navy; that there are also pirates who will board the best shipw am! traitors in every army, and that we inust be ready for them all; and that If we life in a crowd wo must propiti ate that crowd. Never show a fractious or peremp tory irritability iu small things. Be patient, if a friend keeps you waiting. Bear, n* long a* you can, heat or a draft, rather thnu make others un comfortable. I)o not fie fussy about your supposed rights; yield n dispu ted point of precedence. All society has to be inadeupof these concessions; they are your unnumbered friends iu the long run. \\ <• are uot always wrong when we quarrel hut if wo meet our deadliest local a friend's house we are hound to treat him with perfect civility. That i* neutral ground. Never, by word or look, disturb your hostess; this is an occasional duplicity which is ordered by the laws of society. And, in nil honesty, cultivate a graceful salutation, not too familiar, iu a crowd. Do not ki-w your friend iu n crowd ; lie grave and decorous always. Burke said that maimers were more important than laws. "Manners are what vex or sooth, comfort or purify, exalt or de base, barbarize or refine ti* by a con slant, steady, uniform, insensible ope ration, like the air we breathe." A salutation may have a great deal of meaning in it. It may *av, "I respect you, and I wish von well." It may ay,"l love von." It may say, "I hate you.'' Ina crowd, it should simply nav the first. The fxiw of a young lady should he maidenly, quiet, not ton demonstrative; yet not cold or for bidding. The salutation of a man to a woman can not lie too respectful. It i* to be feared that "old fashioned courtesy" hits no place in our fashiona ble society. There i* either coldness or too great familiarity. The manners of young women are apt to IK- Io#ed to him abuse bun for his public acts, which, if unconstitutional or violent, were a legitimate subject for reprobation, hut ; they detained the character of his wile. Uu one occasion a newspaper publish ed iu Na*hville was placed upon the j ! General's table, lie glanced over it, and ins eyes fell U|N>U UII article in the character of Mrs. Jackson was violently assailed. So soon as he had read it he sent for hi* trusty old servant, Dunwoodle. "Saddle my horse," said he to him, ' iu a whisper, "and put my It'olsU-r* ou I him." Mr*. Jackson watched him, and ! though she hoard not a word she saw j mischief iis Ins eyes. The General went out alter a ft-w moments, when she took up the paper and understood ; everything. Hie rau mil the south j gate of the yard of the Hermitage, by which the General would have to pa*- , .She had uot been there more than a j i few second# before the geueral rode up j with the countenance of* a madman I She placed herself la-lore the horse and cried out: "O, General, don't go to Nashville! Let I lint poor editor live! Let that poor editor live ?" "Let mo alone," he replied, "how came you to know what i wo* goiug for ?" She answered: "I saw it iu the pa|R-r after you went out; put up your iiorse and go back." He replied, furiously : "But I will go —get out of my way I" Instead of ibis she grasped his bridle with faith bauds. He cried to her : "I say let go my horse! The villain that reviles my wife shall uot live !" Hhe grasped the reins but the lighter and began to expostulate with him saying that she was tbe oue who ought to lie angry, but that she forgave her persecutors from the bottom of her heart, and prayed for them—that he ■houid forgive if he ho|icd to be for given. At Inst, by her reasoning, her entreaties, and her tears,she so worked upon her husband tiiat he seemed mollified to a certain exteut. She wound up by saving : "No, General, you #W/ not take the life of even my reviler—you dare uot do it. for it is written, 'Vengeance is mine, I will repay.sailh the Lord!'" The iron nerved hero gave way lie fore the earnest pleadiug of his be loved wife, ami replied: "I yield to you ; but had it not been for you and the words of the Almighty, the'wretch should not have lived an hour." Two Irishmen, fresh from the old country, where they had no such var mints, were bothered mightly one night by the incessant attacks of the mosquitoes. Then they lay on the j bed and lit the lamp, which they fouud attracted additional hosts of the enemy. Putting out the light they crept under the tied, thinking tliev might get a respite there, A firefly then came into the room, when one of them exclaimed iu despair— "Oeh, niurther, its of no use; there comes a fellow after us with his lan tern!" i ■ ..'.a- THE NEW HOtITH AMD ITH WEALTH. IS, II.MMI.IIU Tlm The chief lesson of the Atlanta Ex position are eminently practical, and they are so regarded by the southern people. They will give not only im mediate hut lasting and incalculable f'ruitfi of the grandest character. The CottOO Exposition will silence the hum of many spindles in tbe north and it will make the south much more legiti mate field for both invention and capi ml than it bus ever iieen in the past. It will teach to the great mass of the southern people what only the theorists have known until now—that the great est boom to the south after tbe cotton gin is the cotton spindle ; and I hazard nothing in sayiug that in auother de cade Georgia will spin all her cotton, have looms for the most of it, and make the music of the cotton factory lu-ard in every cotton centre of the south. Of all civilizations of the nine teenth century, the old south was the only one that would have |id more than two hundred millions of dollars annually to a hated north to spin its cotton. With the cost of a thousand miles of tran*|>ortatioii ; the cost of baling ; the injury to the fibre by press ing ami separating it again for the spindle, and the increased cost of labor in the north, nil pleadiug for the spin dle in the south, the north gathered the chief profits of southern product* by receiving the raw material and re turning it in w<-h to fie sold largely to those who made it. Hut the new south ha* studied simple arith metic and its Cotton Kxpositi-ui is merely a huge blackboard on which is presented to the whole south the plain lesson that the three hundred millions worth of cotton, produced this year, will be worth three hundred millions more when the ample and ice less water (MOUTH of the south shall be employed to whirl the merry spindles at home. This is the great lesson of the Atlanta Exposition, and the pre liminary progress that ha* made the grand Exposition possible, has veloped a measure of invention and advancement in the south that is truly wonderful. No one can carefully note the cotton machinery at tbe Exposi tion without accepting the conviction that even the old cotton gin and the old spindle will soon become integral |mru of tbe same cunning implements, and that the raw cotton from the field sack will be ginned and spun by a single process. That once attained, or even the spinning of tbe cotton, with iu two or three hundred millions of annual compeusation, assured to the south, iu progress will ouUtrip the wildest calculation, and every channel of industry will share the impetus. It *E a hard up hill struggle even for j Atlanta and Georgia to lay the solid ! foundations for southern progress, hut j it ha* lieen done, and the active men of to-:u iu invoking a bh-ssing on the in ventor of the mean* of intellectual en | joy meat. What Peeple KnTer Saloon* Far. Nothing i* more deceptive than the saloon business. When you ret" a fat man rolling into a saloon on a hot •lay your fir*t thought is that he will (ling hi* hat on the Hour, fall into a chair and call fur a claret with ice on it, and you wrung him. He simply enters the saloon to see if coal will be any higher, if he wait* another month before buying. The saloon keeper al ways knows whether coal will he up or down, and is a!way willing to tell. You see a couple of lawyers enter a saloon, and your inipremiou is that they are going to shake dice for the drinks.—Kothiug could be more er roneous. They are simply going to consult a State map, to decide a bet. Having secured their ioformatiou, they walk right out without stopping to reflect on the awful suction nature must have given a man to pull a whole glass of lemonade through a straw six inches long. An iusurance agent is encouotered as be comes out of a saloon wiping his mouth on the hack of his hand. The public at once jumps to the con clusion that lie has been struggling with a brandy sraa*b.—That's where the public wrong him. He holds a policy on the saloon and he acciden tally dropped in to see if the stock was being kept up to the given figures. A fly bit him on the chin and he in stinctively wiped bis mouth. Out of a hundred meu who enter a saloon only a hundred per cent quaff the goblet. The rest go to find out the exact shortage on the wheat crop, the fluctuation in bank stocks, and various other things ; and if they hap pen to wipe their mouths as they come out, it is simply an involuntary movement for which they can no more be held responsible than a year ling bake. WHEX a woman sees a new fall style bonnet on another woman's head, she declares it to be hideous. The next day, when she gets one also, she suddenly discovers it to be as pretty as it can be. WIIAT should a young man carry with him when calling upon the affi anced of his heart? Affection in his heart, perfection in his manner ami confectionery in his pocket MKX are like II' old fashioned conn try wagon. When loaded, everv thing works well and smoothly ; with nothing in, it rattles so it can be heard for miles. LET US not forget that every station in life is necessary ; that each deserves our respect; that ifot the station itself, but the worthy fulfillment of its duties, does honor to man. ' THE mill will never grind with the water that is past," maybe, but the hand-organ grinds right along with the sin that are past c couple of hun dred years. THE roan whose thoughts, motives and asptffttlons and feelings are all devoted to himself is the poorest judge as to the effect of his own action on other mm. *hfsem*ker in Alleatown named Jerry Wilson, shot at a companion be cwnse be circulated a story that he mm an infidel. Boh logersolt will he M hemH of that fsllun