&ke Contes Democrat, Andrew Johoson's Sobriety, Waittog in we September Serid- wns of Andrew Johnson, the Hon. i%agh McCullch says: “I was not swsent when Mr, Johnson toot the ade of Vice President, iv the Sen. am ~hamber, but the repur s of his «ape I on tuat occasion amazed me. ews so different from what had ‘temexpected +f him—so inccher- «mt sx ramiiing that 1ho:e who “dsemed to it thonght that he was moesi sted. ‘It was not” sid a #*= atv to me the next morning, £zsge-ch of a drunken man’ and <r et undoubted vy was. He hod weail : for some days before he «fe jome, and on bis wsy to Washs ta sum had 1aken brandy as an as megest. O. the day of his mauga wianhe was really ill, and was so swiss asto resort to a stimulaot ofmxhe went 10 the Sense cham- ‘ex. Me tng Mr. Lincoln a day « mma te, Leaid to him that the wyemfry, in view of the Vice Presi- ew ‘appearance on the 4th, had a emgerst ke (han ever in his life. Vie hesimted for a moment, and “Searemw ked with unusual seri- wesaes, ‘I have known Andy John. «am fenomany years; he wade a slip == thee day, but you need not be vexed; Andy ain't a drunkard.’ Ie amely four years | had daily ‘ar acamrse with him, fr quently at vag aed I ne ver saw hin under the iallmmee of liquor. I have no hesi- asia im saying that whatever may fsmse ben his faults, intemperance wesnotamony them.” ———— > A — The Origin of Tea. Tesplant grew for endless centu- sharin Cintral Asia, sod the guile fassamclestials blandly assert that the sini was invented by Chin Hong same five thousaid years ago. A geecic: version mikes i. sixteen tmdied pears ago, and g ves the following account of earliest ap- posramce: “In the reign of Yuen Trinthe dynas vy of Tein, an old wamamwas accustomed to proceed emery morning at daybrea: to the masket-place, carrying a cup of tea isoker and. The people bought it eagerly; and yet from the bresk of day te the close of evening the cup wmmaever: exhausted. The money ramiwad was distribut.d among or- plane and beggars. The people ssised aad confined her in prison. Axwight she flew through the prison windows with her little vese io her fand™ Texwas vot hears of in China = imforthree cen uries and a half, «denn “Fo-hi” priest is said to sxeadvised its use as a medicine. 4 tiweninth century an old beggar “om Japan took some of the seeds ad plints back with him to his na- sw lind. The Japanese relished whenesedrink, and built at Osaka a imgétethe memory of those who vatmedisnd it. This temple is still +wmding, thoagh now almost seven fumlend years old. Gradually the pengle: of Tartary and Persia have xwlexmed 10 love the drink, and wave it at all hours of the day. The hosor of introducing the Serf into Earope may be considered “Sex: equally to the Dutzh aud Portu. ganse. Early in the seventeenth cmmr« tes became known among “ge es.as of quality” in Europe, and sw rfozrame Duich traders carried cor genntity of sage (which was then vse. tv make » drink popular in Eiaape) to Chine, and by some in. Kemious device s .coeeded in making die 2 mosd-eyed tea drinkers think "a fiir exchange for an squal peamtity of very good tea, which was Naish in safety and withou asofa " single Dutchman. —§t TTA Grateful Dog, His was a brindle cor, and had vor wing about him to excite admira. rim but, as he stood shivering un. diothe. “IL” station at Fif'y.giath somal, Thied Avenue, his loneliness EAS RM a Gus Two little girls came along, and stopped a moment to sp ak to the “roor doggie,” wh: atempted a litte wag of the tail in response. Then they patted him and spoke kindly to Lim, and so cheered the poor waif that he whirked sbout them and whined for joy. A h avy cumbersome brewery wagon bore down upon them. With the rattle overhead and the babel of noise about them the two litle tots did not beed the rapidly nea: ing danger, nor hear the shout that went out to them fiom tie sidewalk; but the homeless dog did. Springing be- tween the children and the advanc ing horses he barked, his shrill treble rising high above the clamor of the street. It was all dope in a moment, The wagon rolled on; the children, spell-bound with fear, stood s ill; the dog, in a last desper- ae effort to repay the kindness shown him, hurled himself at the advancing horses. One child is brushed aside and the other is cluiched by a friendly hand as the horses swerve at the dog's atiack. The brewery wagon went on its way, rocking and swaying, and two tear-dimmed little faces peered out from the sidewalk at a little heap on the stones of the street. Their defender had given his lie in grate- ful remembrance of their kindness. —New York Herald. The Habit of Delay, Some one has given the wise counsel that, in times of pressing emergency, when there is but a min- ute in which to act, one-third of that time should be devoted to thought. Certainly harm is fre. quently done by rushing ioto aetion without reflection; at the same time, an opposite evil of equal if not greater magnitude results from de- laying the action which has already commended itself to the judgement. A large majority of the unfulfilled duties of the world is caused by the practice of delay. Good intentions are abundant; the ability and the will to carry them out are not want ing; but the habit of prompt action has never been acquired. Persons with this deficiency are wrecked in an emergency. Let the house be on fire or any sudden danger threat en them, aod, instead of concentra tiog their mind upon the required decision for a port ion of the time af- forded, they spend the whole time in wavering considerations until the opportunity for action is gone, and the threatened evil that might (have been averted overwhelms them. In all business, this lack is mest disastrous. Each day brings new problems to solve, new decisions to make, new duties to perform. Each one of these demands a certsin amount of careful thought, but it also demands a final conclusion and prompt action. He who does not learn bow to apportion these to the hourly necessities can not hope to succeed in his busioess, be it what it may. If be does not promptly act, time decides for him; the offer is withdrawn, the opportunity is gone the chance has slipped away, and the dilatory man stands bereft of the power he might have wielded and the advastage he might have gained. This babit of delay is fatal to all social well-being and happiness. In our relations with others nothing is more needful than to do quickly that which we are able to do for their comfort and pleasure. Much of this consists of little things, of which, indeed, the greater part of life is made up. A letter to be an- swered, a call to be returned, a friendly word of greeting, or con. gratalation, or warning, to be utter. ed, u temporery distress to be re- lieved, a noble charity to be aided some cheering news to be commun- icsted. These things are constant- ly occuring to our minds, and we mean to do them, but not quite yet. We wait a little while, and, mesn- time, the spirit that would have am- imated them dies away, aod either they are not done at all, or, coming so late, they fall flat and uuheuded, When we are animated by evil thoughts or unkiad desires, when we are promted to revenge a wrong, to der known as the Les ids, thar have bombarded the carh woult appear incr dible and alarming, Hap, ily for « ur plan t, its sttao phere, n any miles deep interroses over cur heads an invisib'e chield which but very fiw of these any righteous decd to be done, any justice to establish, any kindaoess to express, any love to manifest, sny joy to diffus , let us hasten to give it form and voice, knowing that there i3 neither time to waste vor peoe to pause in the blessed work. heave ly proj ctiles es ad a > ples. “Minh d and recured help wid rete meq aii dis. patched the snake, : fe) ng Hx inches in MAmeot aud had forty 5 ratrles ganke. and he wes soon lyin he’ upnn the ground, The peirs down and rin ton house p SAY The ruske was eighteen The ‘arge majority zed of can pen bate, of them are me ted and volatili by heat developed in the arrest their moti n by the air, The carth this time through sn attennated part of the meteor ring and will not encounter its thickest part until 1899. While, therefore, no such str shower as was seen on November 13, 1866, can be expected, meteors enough may be observed nv show that we are in the orbit of the Leon. ids. Ifthe weather is favorable a large number of mewors may be counted rediating from the constel- lation Leo, which rises shout ¢ p.m. The best hours for eccing what is to be sein will be after midnight, whe the moon sets, EE — a —E. Don't, of doing goed, TA Mymerious Power. The beauties ot monopoly receives a further illustration in the manver in which the Siandard Oil Company manages to maintain its mysterious power over the rates of freight on rail ways. After the Interstate Commerce law had stopped the rebate game the Standard began to pump oil to New York through its pipes, shipping it thence by water to seabord cities in New England. But it could not com* pete with Beston refiners, who had a rate of 78 cents per barrel from Titus- ville. In the emergency the Stand- ard prevailed upon the railway couw- panies to advance freights from 78 ceots to $1 per barrel, which enabled it to cut under the Boston refiners. This advance would seem to have Leen made at the expense of the railroad companies, which have given up their traffic in favor of the Standard pipes. This state of affairs, says the Philadel- phia Record, isincomprehensible from any standpoint of fair dealing. The Boston refiners are now considering the feasibility of sending their oil to Philadelphia and shipping it from Ithat city to Providence, Boston, Port aod, Bangor and other eastern points. The rate on oil to Philadelphia is 45 cents per barrel, - cas . THE JURY SYSTEM. A Movement to Change the Manner of Selecting Jury Commissioners The Bar Association of Allegheny county has under consideration a bill, which it is proposed to submit to the Pennsylvania jegislatare, to provide for a change in the manner of select ing Jary Commissioners. The first provisions of the bill is that the Jury Commissioners, instead of being elec- will pass now n Don’t snub & boy becavse he wears shabby clothes, When Edison, ventor of the telephone, first entered Boston, he wore a pair of yellow lin: en breeches in the depth of winter. Don't snub a boy because bis home is plain and wopretendiog. Abrabam ine Don’t snub a boy because of the ignor. world's poet, was the son of a man who was unable to write his own pame. Don’t snub a boy becavse he chooses a bumble trade. The author of Pilgrim's Progress was a tinker, Don’t snub a boy because of physical disability. Milton was blind. Don't snub a boy because of dullpess at his lessons. Hogarth, the painter and engraver, was a stupid boy at his books. Don't snub a boy because he stotters. Demosthenes, the greatest orator of Greece, over came 8 harsh and stammering voice, ted by the people every three YEATS, | Don't snub any ove. Not alone be as at present, shall be appointed ‘by | cunge some day, he may far outetrip the Courts of Common Pleas of the you in the race of life, but becanse it several counties or Judicial districts, | iy neither kind, nor right, nor Chris. and be subject to removal by the [ginn Episcopal Recorder, courte. The second provision is that ————————— on complaint of ten or more reputable Clgaretts Made Him a Millionaire. citziens, that soy of the persons se- “But I want to say something more lected and drawn for jury service are |#bout Richmond. 1 found there Mr. not of good repute, it shall be the | Louis Ginter, of the famous house of duty of the court to inquire into the | Allen & Ginter, the largest cigarette facts, and if satisfied of the justness | manufacturers inthe world, I suppose. of the complaint, the names of the |I had not seen him for thirty-five jurors objected to shall be stticken | years. I met him in New York in from the list, 1853, when be was & yoong man. He It is something of a surprise that [and a Frenchman were in the house- the bar of Allegheny should even so |fornishing business. He lost every. much as consider such a bill, much | thing by the war, and took a new less recommend its passage by legisla. | start when peace was restored. [It tare. The first proposition—to the | was then he and bis present partner selecting of Jury Commissioners from | went into the tobacco business. Mr the people and place that power in | Ginter is now reconed a millionaire the hands of the courts—will certain. [and I doubt not be is. He has just ly never meet with popular approval. | retureed from a voysge to Australia, That the present method of electing | and is building & new residence to cost Jury Commimioners does mot work | $140,000, The one he lives in now is satisfactorily in some localities may be | as flue as & palace. I am glad to soe admitted, but that is due to the fuct | those Southern business men that people themselves do not use| ous. I believe in the South. I be proper judgment in electing Commis- | lieve iv it more to-day than ever. If sioners. Ou the whole, however, the | I were a young man I would go there system works well enough. myself. There is more outcome to As to the second provision, that | the South than any other part of the also has its objections. That there | Union.” should be some sensible method of = rging the jury list when it Js ap- The Snake Story. HL that it contains the names of Recently Madison Jolly, an well- unfit and incompetlot persons, is ad- known negro of Green county, Als- mitted, bat it can ensily be seen that bams, was attacked by a rattlesnake. under the proposed by the He threw his bundle down and made for the nearest tree, which happened Allegheay bill the question of fitoces | “ " large persimmon (ree loaded with ripe fruit, ioto which be quickty climbed, knocking off some of the ripe persimmons as he made bis way : up. Wheo the snake arrived at the tous that mach more sensible and foot of the tree, instead of climbing up practical changes and reforms in our after the negro be began to est tte Jury system could be suggested than (o L [LE Soi IO those proposed by the Alllegheny bill. Ove such might be After the snake had finished devours i. ie —— reproach a failing, to say bitter |, | words, or to do cruel deeds, then is |}, Linzolo’s early heme was a log cabin. | ance of his parents, Shakespeare, the | erlebrated | “0d a bot'on on the ei fant i fis tal, had been the terror rr Tubb's Creek swamp for the past twenty-five or thirty years, — a — What They show, The election returns show to (is that the {honest vote bas ost Demeocratie On an of the strength that it bad four years age, pariy nope sud thet in many sections it hus If its growth bad por {heen doverted by the ts) iff slarm we gained voles, lisve reason to believe that it would have swept the conntry, New England, New Jersey, Pennsyl- vania and Ohio. In the citiesof Bos ton, New York, Albsny, Newark, Philadelphia, Ciocionati, Cleveland (sod Chicago its majority was greatly Lloereased and the Republican majori. ty largely reduced. It carried Con- necticut and New Jersey as it did he. fore, It reduced the majority in { Pennsvivania and Ohio. i C— —— The Nerves and the Moods, Nothirg in natureis more mar of nerves. sometimes velous thas the netw: rk constituting what we carelessly «all our nervous | Each nerve is a telegraphic cord in itself. Each is a pari of whole com { plex and inimitab'e system of tele graphy by which mes-ages from the h sdquarters in the brain ae sent to the minute stations in the ex- If this ielegraph system were erected on {tremities. diminu it {of perees tive poles outside our bodies would be a most peculiar exhib t- Happily for us our nervous sys. {tems are, as it were, a harmonioos [arrangement of nnderground wires, carefully buried within us and defi ly concealed from outside observa tion. We cannot see them, nor know wheather they are too slack or too tightly strained. We can tell when they are disturbed, for peural- gic agony shoots along their course from station to station When we are glum and dismal and lowspiri:- ed the te'egraphic apparatus is out of ord r, and the nerve sorces are demora'ized. When nerves work wrong it is as when te'egraphic poles are shaky or wires tangled or crossed, or currents irregular, or batteries confused. According to the irregularity of our nerves, so are our irregular moods. If all is righ’, we are hap- py and cheery and sunshiny, Bat let the bateries blonder, or the currents cross, or the wires bécome entangled, and we are irritable, sul+ ky, ilitempered, or ang.y, as the case may be. In some of oar dis. tressfal moods we pout and sulk. and misinterpret, and misunder. stand. We take offence where no offence is intended, and we impute to others motives which are never conceived by them. At times when the moods are out of sort, we think the whole world is persccuting us, and we, the afflicted objects of persecution, are above all, other humana creatures singled out for martyrdom. There are circum- stances under which most of us cant without insuperable difficulty, rise from the mo) disess which isbrough about by letting the nerves bave their own way, Mental and physi- eal diet has mach to do with it Brooding over real sorrows and im aginary miseries will make the best of us moody and wretched. Nurs. ing griefs and affronts and telling the sad story of our woes has as de- pressing an effect as narcotic drugs, Sleeping in enventilated rooms often produces chronic wretched: ness, even if these rooms be furnish. ed with the appliances of wealth and refinement. Association with grim persons is depressing and dispirit ing. Good health, mental, spiritual and bodily, is worth working for, It casts out the malaria of moodiness and lifts us into the sunlight of joy, Good health is more easily obtained | » i SAAR ar | Rob fer occopid a ell It gained in | system. | A a ot i : in the tier Just above the ave where Jack was { confined, and { ra Ling time they {had no meas f communi ating | with one another. Rod fer was a (daring fellow, but had not sufficient irvagination to get up a plan of es (cape, and he relied on the Fright | mind of his fries d, Starlight Jack, ta | suggest an idea. | - { One ev ning Rodifer noticed an | innocent looking cockroach running ‘on the floor, After wa oh ny is { gemholings for a time beconcluded he would useit. Ro writing a short {note to his friend, he ried it to the Lcockroach’s wing, and kneeling {down «n the floor, he put it on the | wall under the iran alc ny in front of his cell und-rnea h, Jack noted the paper, caught the insect and read the note, Then he | answered it and p ked the Hittle | reature out on the wall from the | ceiling over the door, where he re- (leased it. The roach went int)» Rod. {ifer's cell and was caught. Then | they fed and cared for it and used it in this manner for some months. In fact, it grew to understand its Fousiness, | It must have been a female cock- roach, however, for one day it ttop~ ped to chat with a iriend and was | noticed by a warden. The note | which was wrt'en in some sort of |tipher, was 1aken off and *he hospi- | tal seward, Dr. 8id C McClure, read (it. Then the beetle wes put on the | balcony floor snd it ran into Rodi- |fer's cell. Thus the officials were | kept posted as to the two famous | jail-breakers. After a time Jack began to sus pect that som«thing was wrong" and added a postscript to his letter some- thing hike this. If everything is right you will find a hair from my, head this note. The warden read it, as did the others, but dropped the hsir and lost it. Never mind it, said Captain Craig, whose hair is red, put one of mine in it. The answer came back: That last whipping must have been an awful one, Jack, for it bas changed the color of your hair. The scheming of these two worth ics came to naught, however, and they served their terms, in —— Pack sums up the political battle in this way: “This campaign has been clean, in comparison with the campaign of four years ago. As far as Democrats are concerned, it is the fuire:t and most decent campaigs they bave fought in many years. On the Republican sides, however, it has been a campaign of the grossest and most shameless misrepresentation—so grow and shameless that it seems ridiculous that it should have been addressed to grown-up men. k sounds absurd to snygthat the vote of a free p.ople can be influenced by telling them that their president whom they themselves elected tooffice, has made a corrupt bargain with a foreign country to ruin the trade of his own, or thst upon his re-election most of the mills and factories all over the Jand will shut their doors Yet this is what the American people have been told, and have listened to; and what many of them have be- lieved, or pretended to beleve.
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