©he flmcrrat. BELLEFONTE, PA. Tk* L*r|*it,ClipMt sad BeitPpr PUBLISHED IN CENTRE COUNTT. DAVII) AM) UOLIAH. TIIE STORV AS TOLD BT A PREACHER IN TIIE SOUTH WEST. Last week, my brethren, as I was a readiti' my Bible, I found a story of a big fight (I .Samuel, xvii.) It was powerful interestin', and I studied it almost all the week. There was two armies a campin' en two mo ntains right forneust each other, and a holler aud, I reckon, some good bottom land and a medder lot lyiu' between 'em. In one of the armies there was a big fellow—a whoopin' big fellow —and every day he went down into the med der lot aud looked up the hill to t'other camp aud just dared 'em. lie told 'era to pick their best man send him down and he'd fight him. And he just strutted around there in his soger close and waited for 'em to send on their mau. Aud such soger close I never heard tell on afore. He had a brass cap and brass trou sers, and a coat made like mail bags where they are all ironed and riveted together. But the fellows iii t'other camp jest clean flunked. They daren't light the big fellow, nary one on 'ciu. They jest all sneaked away* and the big fellow he weut mck to camp. But he didu't quit thar, the big fellow didn't. He was spihu' for a tight, and he was bound to have it. He jest went down into the bottom land, into the medder lot, every day, niorniu' and evenin', and dared 'cm and dared 'em. I ley you he pestered "em mightily. The old fellow, Saul, the Gire ul, he felt more chawed up and meaner than the sogers, and, when he couldn't stau' it no longer, he told the boys that if any on 'era would go down ami lick the big fellow he'd give him his gal and a right smart chance of plunder. But they was ail so skeer'd that evcu that didn't start one of 'em. The big fellow went down aud dared 'em and pestered 'em more'n a month—forty days, the Bible says. I don't know what they'd a done if it hadn't a-been that a jwart little fel ler had cotue down to camp one dav to fetch some extra rations,to his three big brothers that their old dad sent to 'em from home. Kind old pap he was, and sharp, too, for he sent along a big preseut to the boys' Cap'eo. Well, jest as the little feller drove up, they was all gwine out to fight, and the little fellow left his traps with the driver, and legged it after the sogers, and told his big brothers howd'y. Kight thar the old big feller came out and dared 'em again, and they were all so skeer'd that they just run like mad. The little feller heered him, and then went back into camp and heered all the sogers talking about him. and what the old Gineral would give to have him licked. He asked 'em n heap of questions about it all, and his big brother he got mad at him, and twitted him about keepin' sheep, and gave biiu a right smart of sass. He was plucky, but you sec lie had to stan' it, 'cause 'twas his big brother. Big brothers are mighty mean some times. But the little feller talked a heap with the other sogers, and they told the old Ginernl about him, and he told them to tell the little feller to come and see him. The little feller was mighty plucky, and he jest up and told the old Gineral Saul that he'd fight the big feller! TheGineral looked at the handsome little feller—he was real handsome—and sos he, kinder softly, "I reckon," and shakin' his head, "it's too big a job; you're onlv a chunk of a hoy, and he's an old fighter.'' The little feller spunked up and told the old Gineral that he'd had one b'ar fight and he had killed the b'ar. He said there was an old lion and b'ar got among bis dad's sheep, and was gwine off with a lamb. lie broke for 'im, and as soon as lie met up with the b'ar he larnm'd him till the b'ar turned on him for a hug; but he got one hand into the long h'ar under his jaw, and lamm'd him with the other'n till he was dead. He'd killed the lion and the b'ar, and he know'd he was euough for the old big feller. Then the little fellow talked real religious to the old Gineral. You see, he'd got religion afore that, and he knowed that the Lord would help a feller, if he was all right, and got into a tight place. He told Gineral Haul that the Lord had made him mighty supple, and looked out for him when the old lion and b'ar tried to get their |nws into bim; and he knowed He'd see him through the fight with the big feller, for he was just darin' 'em and peslerin' 'em to make gameofveliginti. When the old Ginprai seed he was so plucky and religious, too, he knowid them's the kin' that fight powerful, and he told him to go in, and he made a little prayer for him hisself. Then the old Gineral put his own soger close on the little feller, and strapped his sword onto binfe But they were a heap too big, and ne shucked 'era off directly, and made for a dry branch down in the bottom. Then he hunted five little rocks, smooth as a hen egg, put 'em in a little bag where he carried his snack when he was a-tendin' the sheep, jjot his sling fixed all right, and hurried up to ineet the old big feller in the medder lot. When he seed him comin' lie was powerful mad they'd sent down such a littlo fuller, aud jawed awful. But the little feller jest talked back religious, aud kept his eyes peeled. And I reckon the big feller couldn't a be'n a lookiu'. I've studied a heap on it, and I just know the big feller couldn't a be 11 a lookiu'; for the little feller got out his sling and drew away ami shied a little rock at him, and lie popped him aud down he tumbled, i'hen the little feller rushed up and mounted him, jest as an old hunter loves to get on a b'nr after he's shot him ; and he out with the big fellow's long sword and off went his head. Then it was them Philistine sinners' turn to be akeer'd, and they broke for the brush; and all of them chil'u of Israel fellers jest shouted and chased 'em clean over the mountain into a valley, anil then cotn'd back and got all their camp plunder. My brethren, that is the best story of a light I ever read of, and you can buy no belter story book nor this very Bible.— Dr. I 'if reon '* Hem i• i itcencc*. A Word on Education. We clip the following clear, com | prehensive, common sense article on j educ .tion from a recent number of the National BaptitL The article is from the pen of a cultured, clear-headed lady who him hud ample opportunity of substautialjug whnt she says, from the fuct of her being personally en gnged in the training of children in the higher, as well as the lower branches of studies. "A gentleman of high educational and religious position recently said : 'Woman should not have the same course of study as man, because of her physical weakness. Htudy tends to produce nervous disorder in every one; and woman should not, therefor, lie taxed on account of transmission.' It appears to me that God did not intend that one part of the nature lie has given should be developed in such manuer as to sacrifice othegs equally e-sential to success ami happim-s. To me it is uuaccouutable tliut when the cud of education may be ns perfectiv attained, nay far more perfectly, by what may be termed a more practical course,and should IK> SO blind to their own prejudices as to tight against it. If education produces nervousueas, then some physical law of God is tran greused. Have wo any right to sin against our body? Why not the laws of the body be so fully studied, and the curriculum so arranged that these laws may be obeyed ? Have we not to answer to God lor breaking them ? Surely, we need not teach our chil dred to MII habitually. There should be a chair of medical science in our Colleges, and similar instructions should be given to our girls, and the course should be so arranged that physical laws shall not be broken, but observed with religious conscientiousness. The education of (be moral li-elings should go hand in hand with every study, for there is a link binding nil knowledge to the knowledge of God, ami the Christian teacher never severs that link. All man need* to know may be Iwst studied in such connec tion. 'The Bible directs our atten tion both to the teachings of nature and providence,or science amj history, which would exhaust a large part of what we lalxir for years to look into. Kducation is the mind God has made, seeking to know as much as fxmsihle, lie it more or less of itself and of his other works and of his nature. Kdu cation being the means of conveying to our minds a knowledge of God and of his loving kindness to mankind.' What will improve the taste for every kind of beauty? What will serve to brighten and enlarge the in tellect equal to a knowledge of God and his works ? Why, then, is most of the time in our schools occupied with the study of Greek and Latin or the study of mail's works? Have we not living languages which contain all that is needed to be studied without the objectionable features of the dead ? or, if these are so pure, will not a good translation do, and save our time for those branches which will yield both discipline ami knowledge ? Our educational system is not prac tical. While much is said about edu cation preparing our children for the duties of life, in many instances it un fits them for life's duties. Life, it ap liears to me, is made up of business, tusiness in the house and business in the mart, business in the study and business in the pulpit and cottage. Is the preparation as practical as it needs to lie for the transaction of these vari ous works? Is there a chair for the study of elocution, for the lienefit of ministerial students ? Are they trained and encouraged to make human na ture, with which they have to do, a practical study by mixing among busi ness men and learning their modes and channels of thought and various experiences, that their instructions and encouraging words may not be lost upon them ? The l>ook human nature issme which should have attention and study next to God'town Word? I'iety ami talent being equal, that minister will tie far more successful and useful in every fc>nse ' pecuniary and religi ous) who has best executive busiocse knowledge. Why do not social and political sciences occupy a large space in - in struction. Girls now acquire a dis taste for home duties through study, and this will continue until they arc educated in the business of life ; tsught to put poetry and love into, and get poetry and love out of, daily duties ; taught the relations jo each brother and mater in life; taught to lend a helping hand, especially to the poor of their own aex. They need a social acience to teach them how to do thin beat. We need to have all acliool hooka written upon a religious basis. Ia it not high time Christian parentw took this matter into their own handa, and made preparation for life prepa ration for Heaven also. The ideal man and woman will he reached by giving attention practically to health and making morul attainment not theoretically but practically the hiyhett, and reaching the intellect through these. Then our children will he prepared to meet and overcome every obstacle and discharge every duty in a spirit which will clothe with moral dignity the most trivial action and which will it self he strengthened by each outward act of life." A Cheap Fire* Escape. The .Scientific American rcceutly contained a suggestion which, if it hud been carried out hv the owners of the "World Building,' might have pre vented the loss of life by the lire. The suggestion was to the etiect that there ahould la: a law compelling the owners of factories and of other high buildings in which large numbers of [ample are employed, to provide at each window u cheap and efficient fire es<*a|e, in addition to the appli ances nod stairways required by exist ing laws. This lire escape for each window should be one that would always he ready, easily understood, ami usable by any person of ordinary intelligence, even under excitement. Such a one, it is said, could lie made in the follow ing tnauuer: To a stake firiyly driv en in the wall over each window at tach a ro|M' or cord, say three-eights of an inch m size, and long enough to reach to the ground. Thi* cord should lie well made and pliable, and might lie knotted at intervals of twelve or or fifteen inches. The cord should then IK* rolled into a coil or a hall, and tits! ina place by a small cord or strap, ready at a moment's notice to he un tied and the end thrown out of the window. Men, and even women, could descend this rojie with little difficulty: and the stronger aud cooler headed could tie it around the I todies of the weaker and quickly lowi r them to tho-e ready to receive theiu below. It would be a wise [dan fur those living in or occupying the upper .-to-' rics of high dwelling houses to have such a roiie convenient, as it often hup pens that a fire gets such headway that escape is only effected by running through the flames. This is at the best dangerous, and the person who at tempts it, il he cscajs-s death, is liable to lie seriously burned. With a rojie handy, whru escape hv the stairways is cut off, one msyca-ily let himself or herself down to the ground unharmed. i'l HI; K.M AI'KS. The I..ih of lVnnjhanln. An A't to I'rot ■lf i >r fAc H'ttrr Sentritu '* l.tje and I.imh in Gun of k'trt in UnftU />. I rlhrr Jituliin/i. i June 11, IT9. WHEREAS, In consequence of fin-* breaking out in hotels, factories and other high buildings, many lives have been lost and great personal injuries suffered, through the want of efficient means of escape therefrom, indepen dently of the ordinary iuternnl stair ways; therefore, HkxtioN 1. Be it enacted servers who have keen eyesight will view the great luminarv, deprived of hi- glare by stnoked gloss, and per haps discern with the naked eye a tiuv Idack dot making it- slow wav over hi faces Halting Almost I car lleforc ( (aim ing III* llrlilr. *. Tort Worl.| f>n the 21 Id of March, 1881, a gen tleman, accompanied by n lady and "Otnc witncwses, called UJMIII the Kev. Dr. Joseph 11. Rylance, of St. Mark's Church. He introduced himself a.* Mr. Washington Irving, and the voting ladv its Mias Susan Rhea Harvard, and stated that they wished to Ire married. The iiece**ary blanks Wing filled and signed. Dr. Rylance performed the ceremony and thought tin more about it. Oil Weduetday last a gentleman called u|K>n hitn, ami saving that he wf Mr. Bayard, asked, it his sister had liccn married to Mr. Irving in March last. I)r. Rylance refered trim to the church book*, kept hy the sex ton in the safe. There the record of the marriage was found, and then Mr. Bayard Uild a curious story. For sonic time prior to the marriage Mr. Irving had been engaged to Miss Bay ard. the consent to the engagement Wing somewhat unwillingly given bv the parent* of the young lady. It was not supposed that the young couple were in a hurry to marry, uor at that time did Mr. Irving'* circumstance* justify any such step, a* he was only a clerk in an insurance company on a small salary. Nothing was said about the marriage at the time it took place to an? of Mia* Bayard's relations, nor was the fact that the ceremony had Iwen performed even suspected. Af ter the marriage Mrs. Irving returned to her mother's house and lived there as usual. A few days ago Mr. Irving'* salary wa* raised and he, thinking that he could support a wife, applied to the astonished relations of the lady for hi* bride. A* might have been ex|>ected the *1 affluent made hy Itoth of them that they had been married was warm ly disputed, and Mra. Irving'* brother at once took *tep* to ascertain if the *tory was trite. Convinced that hi* *iter wa really Mr*. Irving, he at once gave publicity to the fact hy ad vertising the marriage and surrendered the wife to her husband, with whom she now i*. OUT ON THE NEXT DEAI.— "Hut I |ia*s," said a minuter recently in dis missing one theme of hia subject to take up another. "Then I make it spades," yelled n man from the Kl --lery, who was drdiiming the happy hour* away in an imaginary game of euchre. It i* needle** to ray that he went out on the next deal, agisted by one of the deacons. A LcnrtfJb firm recently sent a lot of hills west for collection. The list came hack with the result noted against each name, one being niarkid dead. Three months after the same bill got into a lot that was forwarded, and when the list camo hack the namo was marked, "still dead." I'lctures of*,\ indent MMratuiraiire, Cramms, when a candidate for the consulship, a Oust of 10 Odd tables, to which all th cilisenaof Konin were indiscriminately invited. Ocar. to cele brate the funeral of a daughter, gave one of 22,0(10 tables, with accommoda tion for three guests of each. This en tertainment was repealed and exceeded for his triumph, lie brought together more gladiators aod wild beasts than wi re produced on any former occasion in an amphitheatre, but his exhibitions of tills kind were so completely outshone that it were > waste of time to dwell upon them. In a document annexed to his tests men t, Augustus states as a a title to public gratitude that he had 1-xhlhited K.OOO gladiators and brought more than 3,.W0 wild beasts to be killed jin llie circus. In the course of the fen tivities instituted bv Titus to celebrate the opening of the Colosseum, KS| wild beasts were let loose and killed by I gladiators. The Kraperor I'robus col lected for a single show ] IST> JIOIIS, pgl 1 lionesses,|(K) Libyanand HriSynan leop ards, .'OO Iseais and oO stags, 1,000 does and 1,000 bears, to be lturiO-d by the populace, who were to keep whatever I they could catch or kill J lie fiercer animals were encountered by the gladi ators. It docs not appear how long this ! show lasted. I iberms, a hose life at Capri was a disgrace to human nature, fonder of saving money than of spending it, left HI immense sum in the treasury, which i Ins successor, t'aligula, liiansged to di ■ipate in two years by extravagance of the most senseless kind. As i! in rival ry of Cleopatra, he SM allowed precious •tones dissolved in vinegar, and caused ins guests to lie helped to gold (which they carried away) instead of bread and meat, i lio> ol bis favorite amusements wis showing money among the popu .see from the I'asdjicu of .'ulius t u snr. He I utlt galleys of cellar, covered with | jewelety. and large enough to contain I Vines and fruit trses, and bad canal* •ut for them along the coat. The sta hie of his favorite horse, which be talke 1 of naming Consul, w* of marble. the trough of ivory, the harness of j urple • n<-*rl* worn by one of hit wive*. I.oliin i'atllitia, Was Valued at I i **J sterling. I tie printl l >al extravagance of Claudi u* wa in the public game*. d 111 I lie way of cruelty and vice would he i declared incredible if human history iiad not already ahonrn what revolting : atrocities may tie conceived hy a (ii-i-as • '1 imagination and executed ty irre -(•onsible power, Aftir burning the city he gratified j ( j, t issst<•. in entire dis regard ol the proprietors, in rebuilding it. He at once appropriated a number of the sites and a large |*orlion of the putilic grounds for his new palace. The porticos, with their rank* of columns, were a mile long. The vestibule wa | isrge enough to contain the collo*.al • laiueol him in silver and gold, lit) feel high, from which the Colosseum got its iiaruca. The interior wtsgdded through ! out and adorned w ilh ivory and moth er of pearl. I fie ceilings ~1 n,e dunng ruotua were formed of movable tables ot ivory, which shed flowers ami perlunies on the company I the principal saloon had a dome which, turning day and night, imitated the movements of the teircstrial fxxl.es. When this place wxa finished tie exclaimed : "At last I am lodged like a man.'' Hit diadem was valued sit half a million. Hie dresses, which he never wore twice, were stiff with embroidery and gold. He fished with purple lines and books of gold. He never traveled with lea* than a thousand carriages. The mule* were shod with silver, and the, muleteers clothed with the finest wool and the at tendants wore bracelets and necklace* ol gold. five hundred she asses fol lowed bi* wife Popin< in her progresses, to supply milk for her bath. He was fond of figuring in the circus as a chari oleer and in the theatre as a singer and actor. He prided himself on being an artist, and when hit possible depoaiti n was hinted to him he said that an artist could never he in want. There was not a vice to which he was not given, nor a crime which he did not commit. Yet the world, exclaim* Suetonius, endured this monster for fourteen years ; and lie was popular with the multitude, who were dazzled by hit magnificence and mistook his senseless profusion for lib eralily. On the anniversary of biadeath, during many years,they crowded to cov er his tomb with flowers. The utmost excess in gluttony was reached by ViteJlu*, who gave feasts at which 2.000 fishes and 7.000 birds were served up. He prided himself on his culinary genius, and laid every quatier of the empire under contribution to supply material* for a dish, which con tamed liver* of mullet, brains of pheas ants and peacocks, tongue* of flamin goes, roe oi lampreys, etc. Tacitus stale* that he spent what would bo tanta mount to several million* sterling in less than eight month* in eating and giving to eat. —— ♦ A IMscotrry la Marble. The Knnxville (Tenn.) Tribune My* a quarry of remarkable marble has been discovered three mde* from that city. The Tribune declare* that "to speak of 1 Ihe color of the marble is to mention the rainbow. It show* every color in the I let, with the most beautiful lint* that can be conceived of. The prevail ing color is Mlmon or pink. The mark ings in this ground are piece* of India, running into all shade* of red and pink. A small bit of the most brilliant orange also appear* which seem* to be a small molluak of some description. Then sdd to this spot* of blue running into shade* of green, with white and a thousand nameless compound colore, and try to conceive of the splendor the composi tion gives. The stone polishes like glass, snd is of the soundest crystalline structure," A Cjclniie. In examining cyclones, phenomena occasionally present themselves which strongly suggest the idea that they in -1 elude within tln ir circuit, a* an inde pendent meteor, the whirlwind or the tornado, the phenorueua in question being most lr< quently met with in those ! cyclone* which present, in clone conti nuity, masses of nir differing verv ! widely from each other in tcmfieratur'e and humidity. Of MJ ' |, cvclonen the | great storm of October 14th last ap pear* to lie one. On that Oceanian the changes of temperature „ I|( | humidity were sharp and sudden, particularly from the Orauipiana to the Cheviots, the great full occurring when the wind* changed to northward. Off the Jh-r --wiekshiro coast the darkness accom panying the change* of wind, teiiijx ra ture, and humidity wan denser ami more threatening than elsewhere, ami almost simultaneously with the aji proach of thse change*, a hurricane, or rather to-,undo broke out with 11 devouring energy which bore every thing In P.re it. ihe tornado charac ter of the storm off Eyemouth is showu I by the accounts of some of the survi vors, w ho describe the wind as blowing straight down from the skv with HU irnjH tuosity so vehement and overmas tering that the M-a for some extent wan beaten down flat into a stretch of seeth ing foam, in whiih many boat- sank as if driven down beneath the foam bv the wind, while outside this tract the waves SI 'I IIH-II to be driven up to a height absolutely appalling, which in their turn engulfed many of the boau y<*t n*mait)iri(s. Hitnilar M-a* ( v\i*h level waste, lit seething foam, hounded immediately by waves of a height and threatening a-pi*-t never before wit ne.ed, were encountered by several jwi II appoint*d steamers out in the ! middle of the North S-a during thi storm, thu* confirmii gt he oh.* ri at ions of the J'.vemouth fi-hertnan. These Cui is MI M to point to one or js-rhaps more turnadoe. ol no incousiderahie dimensions, with slanting coluinns, the terrific force of the g\ rations of whose lowi r extremities played no inconspi cuous part in tin* devastation wrought during tl i l ojiinjuain e ol this memor able storm. or Course. IN the ||. From i „ H s i, \Vmld it n<<( b- ar<-ml time. >t all modern vice- it wern to I* the one that grown !a*t'-t: c rance. and seldom relaxr* it* hold after it ha-owe lieen fixed on a man. The citizen- of the town of hrie have heen no often outraged by one of these professional bla*pln rner* that the ancient law has been evoked again*! the offender, ami much to his surprise lie wa* compelled to pay ff'i.TO fur divesting himself of ten oaths, or at the legal iat<- of sixty-seven cents for eve rv oath. Not having the mow v necessary to liquidate the tine, lie wa* -e nt to jail, where he still remains. What woakl I* tin (fleet if this law wa* enforced in this rounty? The exninty treasury. wrould lie filled to overflowing or the county jail lie in adequate to accommodate one-tenth of the profane offenders who would be sent there. There are organizations | for the suppression of cruelty to ani mals and men, for the suppression of vice in nearly every form. Why is it, therefore, that some of these organiza tions that look after the morals of the , community do not take the chronic swearer in hand ? "VOI R arguments are sound mv son, and delivered with force," said the clergyman to his boy, who hati heen hanging away at his drum for an hour or more; "hut we have heard quite enough on that head." A CURE for whooping cough, accord ing to a superstition, is "(Jet a piece of bread baked by a lady who didn't change her name in marry ing and eat H ___ It is now asserted thai a few pots of flowers in a sleeping room are not injurious to health. Neither is a bar rel of flower in the kitchen. Ai Cambridgepnrt, Mu., the barrel l factory ol Janes A Co. was burned, with fifty car load* of headings and stares, worth 911,000 ; 92000 worth of boop.. !*OOO flour barrels, 500 sugar barrels, 500 syrup barrels, rslued at 97.750. In ad dition, about 91.000 worth of rough lum leer and six box cars loaded with hoop*, stares and headings, worth 96000, were consumed. A bickering pair of Quakers were late ly beard in btgh controversy, the bus band claiming : "I am determined to hare one quiet week with thee!" "But how will thou he able to get it?" said * the taunting spouse, in that sort of reit eration which married ladies so pro rokingly indulge in. "I will keep thee a week after thou art dead," was the Quaker'# rejoinder. Tai editor of a Teaas exchange ears he does not like turkey ; that if he can't bare jxissum to celebrate with he font want any at all; but his neighbors still continue to lock up their turkeys after dark. Some people don't beliese everything they read in a newspaper. The editor can't play M 'possum" in them that way.