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SA ATT , )!CN EY-AT-LA NV, OlPl('E.—Mecum Building (over Bowellls Store TOWA N Ad. PA. DI): S7IITII, DENTIST, • T(maffila. Pa. "II Park strevt. north side Public Square, rest to Flu ell [lncini-To MMI;MMI IT T , )RNEYS-47-LAW. To 11".4 ND:4, PA Oni , e in Pattcn's Main and Bridge-Sts - T , ,v,:in,la; Pa., A p ril i:. '76, . sTREETER • • • LAW OFFICE, • a u owA DA, PA. OVERTON & -MEER - LTA, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, • • TOWANDA PA. ONTT Mora:ol3'l:s Stfire. • [ may67s HoDNF.Y A. MERCUR • MAXWELL, A TTORSEY-A T-LA W OFFICE OVER DAYTON'S STORE, TOWANDA. PA' Aprll.l2. !S7G.. pATRIcK & FOYLE, r42'TORNEYS-4T-LAW. Towanda, Pa. pyl7-73, Omce, In 31etenrs t i• c: GRIDLEY. .11 14. ATTORNEY' AT LAW, TOWA N DA. PA i April 1., IS7a, t G F. - . 1SON• ATTORNEY AT-LAW,, TOR ANDA l'A. iltner first door south of Q. it, ray!' - Esp., sec ond jtoor. : i Nor. 18, '75. i l l . L. 111 • . .Ltls, L 4. . ATTORNEY-AT-LA 117, TowA.NDA. rAI °fare with - Smith & Moutanye. zmwll-75 GEORGE D. STROUT). ATT6RNEV-AT-LAw, Chestnut St. TOWANDA, PA. tote of PhiLa,lotppla. Dec. 9, 75 A NI - )IIENV WILT, J. 'A TreilLVE r 17SEL 0 T—L A IV, wrhee oier nook :Ztore, two ll.rs'-north of Long Tl•Wan.la. Pa. May be consulted fu liortnao. April 1_,';6 .) INl epllEßsom& KINNEY, A TT'uIVE TS-A T-LA TOW k La, I'A. ilMee Iu Tracy & Nof.te's Mock • :NIT IL yilomrsoN, ATTORNEY • AT. LA NV, W AT, ( . ..I!if W 111 :LSI Clld f t ': :01 entru‘tcd to his care In Brdford. S"ni:lwan and:Wpouln g Countle, orlin.e With E.g. ICrer. ! [n0v1444. ELSBREE, .&TTORNEY-AT-LAW, • I : TOW A NLIA, PA - - THE CENTRAL 110 TEL, PA. _ und••r4l7,lle , l tak..n IK.s.csslon fully sollrlis the patron. n 4.:.• .0 hi- , frkl4,l, und' the 1.11141, gener4lly. M. A. FORI:EST , • .1,..1,111.;; k.}4. ATToRN ET-AT-LAU ('6l , leetioni pretuptty aft,nded ( ) ERION ELSBREE, ATTOR y NEN' , AT LAW, To iNFANDA, I'A. Having en tered 1:11o.co-partne•rshlp, oger their protes%ional to the public. Special attention - given to in the (orphan', and Registers Courts. E. (oVEitTON..Ie.. (apr) t-70) N. C. ELsItREE. • .1, NL ADILL CALIFF,a. LAW, TOWANDA, PA. ORl , tt in Weor.'s Ititx•k. first door eolith of the :First N i - Liiat !earl:. tip-.;at:1 , 1 %DILL. 1 JaNt-731yj WEIR ATTORNEY AT LAW, AND P. S. COMMISSIONER, • TOW ANDA, PA Office—Noit a Skle Public Squaru. CARNOCILAN, 1 • ATTOILNETS AT LAW, MERCUR BLOCK Dor . 23-7 S, lIPEET. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. I 1"; pr pared to practice as branches of his pro .• ; ' MERCUIt- BLOCK, (entrance on smith aide) w No.t. rjah6-76. GEI) LIG E W. 13 It I NK, .Justice of tn. PoO , e and Conveyancer. Also Insurance A* , ..t, LelLtybville, Pa- 31 aril R. S. M. WOObBURN, Physi- ChTl an 1 Surgeon.. (Mee over 0. A. Black's Cn.:l,cry ,tore. Ntay I, 1.57:71ya. ,JOIINSON. & NEWTON 1`11:-Ic;ane and Surgeon,. ()Cleo over Dr •r Drnq Mort.. Towanda, Pa. T. 11. du:IN )I._1). 1). N. NEWTON, M. I) MD. L. 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The followingl RELIABLE AND FIRE TRIED Companies represented LA NCSIIIRX. • ERCIiANTS. O. A. BLABIC March 1 4 1 1tEDERICK TAFT ktio., GEN ERAL pnol)reE voAIIISSION f 31ElitellANTS. 'N'c) O. 9 Alt WATER STREET, PHIL ADELPHAI, - ' IctrEnt:Ncrg: - no s% a•'JDO E TA VT. Secretary of War. HESIIPRAN FORD. Esq. Rapt. Adams Expreta Co.. 'New York. JEREMIAH WALKER. Esq. Philadelphia. lit ) N. Das; REY.NETT, Haßale, New Tort. J*o. J.jiATES Cara Ikaakaago t Sur York., kfirfamiri .1,„4 And in IS' when asked 'to 'go hOme and run for Congress, he an swered Thanks, I have othpr! business just now. , Any man who would leave thiii army at this time to electioneer for Con gr&i ought to be scalped." These were the words and deeds . of the . "Patriot. Now look at the acts 6f .the recreant. :While Hayes proMptly entdred the army to•defend country, Tilden would not even participate in public meeting to sustain the tnibnl He refused in '6 I- :to, sign . this call : • • Citizens . of New York in' faror of maintaining the It!is and the Constitution of the United States, are requested to at tenil a mireting at Union Square, on Sat urday, April 20th, at 1 . o'clock." In 'refusing to . sig,n,this Tilden re fused to declare himsself " in favor of maintaining the laws and .Constitu „ tio4 of the_tnited.States." On the contrary, he openly sustained the right of secession in these words: The masters of politic - al science who constructed par. system * * left rero 'llion organizer - I, left it wit ii to Map the tie of mrifederation, as a nation might break a treaty, and to repel coercion :is a patirm might repel invasion." Thus opposed to coercion for the maintenance of the Union. Tilden openly resisted it, and in 1864 was a meMber of the Committee on Reso lutiOnS of the Chicago Convention which reported the infamous plat forM declaring the war a failure and deManding a cessation of hostilities, as follows : "Rewired, That :this Convention does explicitly declare, as the sense of the A in4ican Peol)le, that after four ye4lrs of faitn . re to restore the Union by the experi wilt of war * * justice, htunanity, liberty and the public welfare demand that immediate efforts be made for, tr,cessa•s - Hon hovtilitics." Stich are some illustrative points in the records of the two candidates —a record of glorious patriotism on the part of Hayes, and a„record of diskonorable reereancy o # , the part of Tilden. Can any true - American patriot read th 4 chapter of 'faithful and heroic defense of the imperiled Union, on the cone side, practical of ma lign-unfaithfulness and practical hos tility on the other, and then Vote for the Atecreant against the Pitriot without feeling ids cheek tingling with shame re we ready to honor thos7 , who lrmiq•h are struele down the Union in pri!&renee to those who sureit it ? • To feel that such a toes- tioii could be raised is enough to Lein;: the blush to every patriot brow. —Albany Journal. . LETISTIS FROM OM COMIESPONDENTS A yellowish newspaper—at least forty years old—is before me, in which a parti zan.,meeting has "Reliolred, That this community are in a state of unexampled destitution and unparalleled suffering. — I bare heard that cry ever since I can re meMber. After the . llevoltition, and be foreiSqo, there were two sinall civil wars WILEE , -BARRF., I'A Jlll3 27,•76 in the 'South caused by real hard times, and not by wanton outbreaks to extend slavery. 'There was a,lack of markets for products and of a sound currency, so that lioneSt, hard-working people found it dif , limit to get money to pay! taxes. "Shay's rebellion" in Ma....sachusetts, and the "whisky insurrection " in western Penn sylvania, arose from difficulties which were not helped by violence. Like a blind man, people struck nut madly in every direction, hitting friends and making foes. It eOSt the general government something to stippress them, but by firm and timely action they were quelled, at little cost of blood or treasure compared with that of the 4ebellion, which was allowed to make such lical!way before the President came iu who tried to do his duty. After the war of times were truly " haid." Merchants who bought goods at .I. N. CALIFF I!MMEiD ToWANDA, PA high'-rate, broke when prices fell ; land declined ten, twenty, thirty, forty per eenti'; .about 1820, wheat could be had for less than fifty cents in many places. The Southern Nullifier complained that "the timeii'-were so bard" they could not live under a protective tariff, and threatened many things. President Jackson told John C. Calhoun he would bang him if he went much farther, and stopped that non sens6. Ile also advii: s ed:the South to make' their own goods, and " times " would imirrove. About 1831, finances were in the worst order ever known by this generation. 4That:was the time when we had so much Honey, but it was "wildcat." Again about 184, and then in 18:37, the bowl of 't unprecedented hard times" was beard. • Nearly all of the times above indicated were much worse than they now are. We .now have the best currency we ever had ; there, is more money lying idle than ever before, which can be had on good security; cropi are fair, and there is a good cash market for every crop. Manufactured gawp; and other values have !been pro duced as never before by the immense mazhinery of later years, and by the "flush times" following the civil war. But here tomes in the trouble. - Mest kinds ofjmanufacturing have been over done. They have produced too far in ad - -. 1 ranee of the demand. Nobody likes t.. 0 "come down" in prices, but each watits., everybody else to.do so. Individuals among us have no complaint, to make, but as a-people tfe have lived' too fast—indulged in luxury and idleness . —have speculated and trafficked iu "that which is not bread." We haVe arrived at a standstill-in many lines of business, and consequently some have fallen: Expend.: ing has gone on faSter than earning, and ruin :.has met many who have been thus unwise. Our young men without work desire to shine like kings, and our young women would rival the Queen of Sheba. All-these may be very pleasant, but pay day and death always come at last. I The older among us should reflect upon former times in these respects. The younger should read and inquire. We shall all learn that '"hard times" is an ever-old story. As a people and as indi-, viduals, we must earn our money before spending it, and keep out 'of debt, and then we shall be in a more flourishing condition. " Von can not. eat your cake and keep it too." If you spend your money, of course you have it no longer,: unless yon spend it wisely. " Reform ". Must begin at home—with individuals. No " inflation " wiltbe permanent. No change: of administration 'can make a. change of bad habits for good with you or ~E arn, save, pay as you go, and you : can4oon snap your fingers at TONVANDA. PA PEtPLE don't care so much skint Mr. TILDEN'S income now as his out. shout his themes. ESEN ~.~ 1 - S. W.. ALVORD, Publisher. VOLUME XXXVII. PolifiraL ~.• THE PATRIOT VS. THE RECREANT In Is6l, Rutherford B. Haves spoke this noble utterance': 1 ` I WOULD. ?REFER. TO h 0 INTO TIIII WAR IF I KNEW I wAs TO ink: on BE FILLED IN - THE COURSE OF IT, rather than live through and after it without taking any part in it." HARD TIMES! HARD TIMES! Long years have rolled away since then, My Jetty curbs are gray, . lint oh! those words are withtme yet, Acct witl not pass away. I see my 'tether's loving face, - With goodness, : radiant figlid. • And ear her words ring* my ears, Don't drink, my boy, to-night. My mother is now resthig4,weet, in the graveyard on the la Bulher kind words come hack to Ore • And haunt my memory still ; .I've often, often passed the cup, Oh, then my heart was right; , Because I've heard the warning words, Don't drink, my boy, to-night. I've now passed down the road of life, And soon my race in run ;' A mother's warning listened .to, , An Immortal crown is wop. Oh, mothers, kith your blessed smile, - • Look on your boy so bright; And say, as you alone can say, Don't drink, my boy, to-night. • These words vrtil prove a warning, when, In the thorny path u( life, • Thy boy is In the tempter's wiles, I And warring In the strife. 'Thy Word's will stop the morning, cup, . . r And revelry at alight, Hy whispering hack a mother's voice, Don't drink, mi boy, to-night. 1 742rcUailcouz. PROFESSOR HUXLEY IN AMERICA Professor Huxley arrived in Buf falo on friday,, and attended the meeting of the American Science As sociation. llewas introduced by the President, - Prof. Ropers, in a few fit ting remarks of welcome. The audi ence was very large and enthusiastic. Professor Huxley replied substantial 1y as follows : AMERICAN HOSPITALITY. " Permit me in the first place to offer you my most hearty thanks for this, I would not say unexpected wel come, .becauSe everywhige Since I landed in America it haspcen of this kind ; but for this very cordial and he:arty welcome you will excuse me if my phraseology is inadequate, for I have always thought it the highest eloquence to condense whatever there is to be said in the fewest words. II helve been told that it would be grat ifying to you to hare me say some thing, but emotion • will 'hake my speaking a dillieulV. task. Also, I have no scientific natter to commu nicate, and I am-imprepared, - I ex- perienced it alMost immediately on my arrival, in being interviewed, , by two aetive..and intelligent represen tatives or your press, vho put to l i ne a series f inquiries of deepest and most pro ound interest, eachrof which would require la treatise in reply ; 'and I am afraid I had to dismiss them with scant courtesy. It may satisfy their curiosity if I state brief ly some of my general impijessions of this country. - 1 '• Since my arrival I have learnea a great many things, more, J think, than ever before in an equal space of time in my life. In England we have always taken a lively interest in America ; but I think no Englishman who has not had the good fortune to visit America has any real concep tion of the activity of the popula tion, the enormous distances which separate the great , centers; and least of all (io Englishmen under stand how identical is the great ba sis of character on both sides of the Atlantic. An Englishman with whom I have been talking since my arrival says I cannot find that I am abroad.' The great features of your country are all such as'l am familiar with in parts of England and Scot land. Your beautiful IludSon re minds me of a. Scotch lake. The marks of glaciation in your hills re mind me of those in the Scottish highlands. THE TIME AMERICAN. "3 had heard of the degenerati6n of your stock from the English type. I have not perceived it. Some years ago one of your most distinguished men of letters, equally loved in En gland and America,, expressed an opinion which touched English feel ing somewhat keenly—that there was a difference between your women and ours after reaching a certain • age. He said our English women were beefy.' That is his wind, not mine: 'Weil, have studied the aspect of the people that I have met here in steamboats and railway carriages, and I meet with just the same faces, the main difference as to the men be ing in the way of shaving. Though I should be sorry to use the word which Hawthorne did, yet in respect to stature for • fine portly women; I think the average here are fully as great as on the other Side. Some people talk of the injurious influence of climate. I have seen no trace of the 'North American type.' You have among you the virtue which is most notable among savages, that of hospitality. You take us to, a boun 'tiful dinner and are not quite satis fied unless we take away with us the plates and spoons. Another feature has impressed itself upon me. I have visited some of your great universi ties, and meet men as well known in the old world ia,s in the new. I find certain differences here. The English universities are the product of Gov ernment, yours of private munificence. That among us is almost unknown. The general, notion of an Englishman when he gets rich is to found an es tate and benefit his fanriilY. The gen eral notion of an American when f6rtunate is to do something for the good of the people and from which rmieftts shall continue to flow. The latter is the nobler ambition. "it is popularly said abroad that you have no antiquities in America If you talked about the trumpery of three or four hundred years of histo ry, it is true. But, in the large sense as , referring to times before man made ,his. momentary . sitipearanee, America is • tbe,plann-to is . HARD TIMES - • , . - - - - - . g f lid f d ,POthyl. DON'T MB% TO-11.113.11T I h ft my tnothrr at the door, :My sister by her tilde, They clawed their hands, and loving looks i'orto.ole their doubts to hide. I left and went with comrades gay, When the moon biought out her light, And my loving mother whispered me, Don't drink. my boy, to.hight, ANIERICA'S ANTIQUITIES. ;,. '.ort • TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., antiquities of the globe. Tle reality of the enormous amount of, tmaterial here has far surpassed my anticipa tion. I have studied the Collection gathered by Prof. Marsh of New Ha vep. There is none like it ii Europe, not only in extent of timecovered, but, by reason of its bearing on the prOblem of evolution ; whereas, b6-' fore this collection was made evolu tion was a matter of speculative rea soning; ' it is now a matter'. of 'fact and history as much as t 4 monu ments of Egypt. In that Collection ard, the tarts of the stieciission of forpis and the history of their evolti tiou. All that now remains to be asked is how, and that is alsubordj nallie question.`.With suck' matters as his before my Mind, youi will ex cuse me if I cannot find thoughts ap prOpriaie to this occasion. I would that I n ight'have, offered something more wo thybut I hope that youtlassocia -o°l may do what the Britilh Asso cia, don is doing—May sow the seeds of scientific inquiry in yOdr cities an( villages, whence shalq.arise a process of natural selection by which thole minds best fitted for the task mak be led to...help on theiwork in whlclr,we are all, interested; I Again I tl auk - you for your excessive cour tes., and, I may alsO say, -affection ate reception" 1 ALCOHOL AND ITS EFFECTS. - Ti --- . ,Iconol is composed of 51418 parts non; 13.70 hydrogen, 3442 oxy ii It will ' thus appear that more n one-half of its substance is aposed`of a gas that doeii not en -nt(o.he composition of rater e. ater at and if . infinite wisdom made w , o serve as the natural lieferage an, alcohol by, a commlin sense rence, is by the same infinite wis- I prohibited.' d - LAlcohol is the intoxicating prin . of all spirituous ' liquOrs," so i the' U. T. Dispensatotiy. The liS apparent. Indeed, sOi appar that all other facts' concerning liol are so completely n i clipsed , his, that they are not understood ';,he Masses of the people. J,. .11 cohol, as has already been; stated „ iseducedby the fermentation of !harine bodieS. And what is fer /tation ? Baron Leibig saYi: "Fer mentation is nothing else butithe pu trefaction of ni a substance containing i - 0 1 no nitrogen. Ferment or yeast is a sub Stance in a state of putrefaction, the atoms of which-are in continual motion." You can- extract - alcohol from carrion, alcohol having; all the prop, i erties found iu alcoholic. .drinks, and by adding a few grains of nitro gen" to fermenting liquor of any kind, even cider, you will instantly have the,linsiifferable stench of Carrion. Ale6hol' is, then,'the product) of de cay,ldecomposition and death, and he Islho drinks it, drinks they death principle of vegetable matter. The etfeel of alcohol by many is siipposed to warm the system, but by actual scientific measurement it is found I that the heat of the body fal,s after drinking alcohol-. It does nOti aid di gestion. Fill two A i:ils lialflfu 11 of ~ gastric iiice froth the human stom. ach l w)ut a little alcohol " 1 (.4)11 says fact) ent ale° by t by t Is p sacs, , men .I,j ai. _ alcohol in one, and a ~e. of beef in each. In five hours the beef in the vial of dear !gastric juice, will be dissolved, but jin the other it ;will never be.. • , Alcohol is not food, aS•lshown IT tie act that it does not assimi late, I, comes from the UO4 as it enteredi it, with no change inits corn pus-Rion, andn every drop which is drain - may lie gathered up again! as it Is of appropriated by the system. Bar°hiebig says there is mOrernu tritit fl in a bushel of barley than titer is : in' 12,000 gallons of the best is ; beer. 11 , Alpolial is a near relative to car boni4 acid g as , oleficent gas„' sulphu ric ether and chloroform. These are , r •ersally known as stuppfients. Ito', when taken in'ilarge 1 doses, jices coma, convulsions and f. It does this by its'stupefying r. It is an irritant narcotic n. But *hen taken in small s it stimulates , the system; to un tal action. HOW, Dr. Munroe "as soon as the alcobol has I absorbed into the blood, it is led to the heart, the' inner sur of which orgdn;disturbedjby the ;e nee of •the alcOliol, pumpS away ciudi the faster' to get rid 'of the ogler.?' This, then, is all:there is' ,he stimulating 'effect, an effort of are to expel an intruder. The a ,of alcohol is that of poiScin. It v f fitful source ,of diseasesjof the m, cli; liver; intestines andiheart pr luces paralysis and appOplexy. e f its most fatal effects is the' nging on fatty degeneracy of the 1 sxl In healthy blood there is i ) Jm wo to four,,parts of fat to ',one 311 nd parts of blood. tecann Ind one hundred and seventeen i ts f fat in a drunkard ' s blood. r. C !ambers , of England , sags that ree- ourths - of chronic diseaSes re- It l'reltii fatty degeneracyi Of the ood and are chiefly connected with linkers of. ardent 'spirits. 1 Man's animal paSsions are COnnec xl with the base 'of the brain ' and le higher, nobler passions, arefartn r itivay from the heart. It' always appens that when a man has drank, be poisonous effects will spent . itself argely in these lower organs; !hence hey are. stimulated into unnatural ictivity, while the other organs lose J t corresponding amount of; power. /fence the effect of alcohol in caus ing eery species of crime. i Al ohol destroys the physical and men 1 energies, and brings on i Mo. t i lence. ignorance and depravity: It is often the cause of insanity, idiocy, and the entire destruction of man hood.l On every part, of the:system it acts as a poison. Alcohol pos sesseS the fatal power to produce and keep ilivean appetite for itself, and that appetite continwilly „grows, until the man is-wholly in its power.' 1. It is evident,, therefore, tfig, the reason for total abstinence is not in 'the fact that terrible poisons are used in the manufacture 1 of alcoholic drink's, but in the • faet thatfalcohol' itself is one of the . most terrible poisons in its, effects upon man. If liquors were pure tbey would; still be the mated, enemy:-to man's ~,•:,i O 1 ..:ip& ealodental,.and moral welfai found lit iliii*vt-ireldnif.,4: .Z4'5.. .; <-= ~.; , . 4i: :i . :, a-z : l t4 lbtt.a von. Alcol prod; deatl! powe, ooisO r -t I REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER. .1: • "REBECCA Or IVANHOE." The Chronicle recently printed ilie lapwing vagrant item under the pO.- i4onal head : i; "Miss Grundy says that the nal of Sir Walter Scott's Rebeeo in the novel of "Ivanhoe," was! a Philadelphia JeweSs, whose picOre Washington Irving showed to Scott . ," ' This publication has called froni,a well-informed correspondent some in teresting particulars of the part taken by Irving in supplying. Scott with this interesting literary picture from real life, including 09 Americin author's early love, disappointment,' and — the Mutual vows )f eelibat;y taken by himself and dig lady who loved but was not permitted to wed him, and who is reproduced in Scots charming character' of Rebecca. Onr correspondent has his- , information from a relative_of the . lady in que,i tion, and the already, known facts leave but little room to doubt that these freshly published details are substantially correct. The story, our correspondent relates it, is its follows : Washington Irving, in early life, became acquainted wit, very very intel- Raent and beautiful , Jewess in Phila. ilelphia by the name of Rebecea Gratz.• This ,acquaintance ripened into love, in which both shared, and Tyving proposed marriage, and was accepted on the condition that the parents of the lady would consent to the union of their daughter with ,;rt Gentile. The ilebrew religion :for bade such a marriage, finu, though the parents esteemed the suitor high ly, they could, not bring their minds to consent to a violation of so sacred a_regulation of their faith. The at tachment was so strong between the lady and Irving that — nothing but their elevated sense of duty of la child to parental authority; kept theM from wedding. They resolved, hoW, ever, that in sentiment they would remain" true to each other through life and never wed. • • • It was during thig state of their relations that Irving _made his tirit visit to Sir Walter Scott: The latter had already made for .himself an tui r dying reputation as an author, and the former, with his literary product, tions, had attracted the attention Of the " Wizard of the-North," who was at that time incubating in his mind that wonderful story of " Ivanhoe." Personal intercourse with Irving so wort upon Scott's confidence that he sketched to him the plan of the story, confessing, at the same time, that he felt the, need of a lieroine other than R0en7;92.; Irving's heart and head were full of his romantic love foy Rebecca Gratz, arid he modestly prof, ere to furnish Scott - with ? a her ire, many of the incidents connected with whom should be drawn froM real life. The offer was.abeepted, and Irving's Rebecca, mutually pledged to him with unwedded -earthly ty, stood, as the model of the immor, tal Rebecca of " Ivanhoe." Scott; of course, adapted it to-the exigen cies, of his story, butthe great ideal as furnished by Irving, was unchanni, ed. It is known to l eVery on e that Irv,: o• in never was married, .and those who were intimate with ; him knew also, or believed, that i the cause of it, was an early attachment, about which -a cloud of mystery hung, rendering , him insensible to the blandishment; and charms of other women, by, whom he was, highly esteemed, and in the breaks of some it was sup' ; .: posed a warmer sentiment existed. Rebecca Gratz, gentle, and, loving', with heart and hand ever open to stif 7 fering and sorrow, remained true to her ;lighted faith, and like died unwedded. San Francisco, Chivnicle. WHAT IT COSTS IN MONEY By reference to the census of 18* we learn that in that,year New York. spent $106,590,000 for intoxicating liquors, or more than two-fifths of the value of agriculture and nearly, one-seventh of all manufactures, and nearly two-thirds of the wages Paid, for both agriculture and manufacture;' the liquor bill bein g little less than; twice the receipts of her railroads. - The liquor bill of Pennsylvania in 8: 0 also, $65,0;5,000, which was one- third the value of the productkiLof ag riculture,, newly one-tenth of her manufactures, more than two-fifths of the wages paid, and about three fourths, of the receipts of her rail roads, though there are more miles of railroad in Pennsylvania than in any bther State in the Knioo. The liquor bill in Illinois the same year, was $42,825,000, or more than one-fifth the value of the products of agriculture, a little, less than one fourth of her manufactures, about ten million dollars less than the ag gregate wages paid for 'all the agri cultural and manufacturingindustries in the State, and only about eleven million dollars leas than the annual receipts of her railroads. This year, furthermore, Ohio paid for liquors $58,845,000, which was more than one-fourth of the value of her products of agriculture, and more than one-fifth the value !of her manufactures ; while, it, was only a little more than six Million dollars less than all the wages paid fur labor, mid as much nearly as the receipts of all the railroads of the State. The liquor bill of Massachusetts was $25,195,000. being five-sixths of the value of her products of agricul ture, one-twenty-second of the , manu factures, and not one-fifth of the amount of wages paid. ' In Maine, liquors cost, for the same period, only $5,215,000, or less thin one-eight of the value of the products of agriculture, less than one-sixteenth the value of the manu factures, and only two-sevenths of the wages paid in the State. Is it possible for any State or na- tion to long prosper or exist -whose people spend fOr demoralizing drinks so large a proportion of their pro-. ducts of industry ? The people who practice, such irrational political economy will eventually sink. into decay, and leave a mass of moulder ing ruins as monuments of the egre gious follow of alloWing or licensing a traffic that produces as legitimate ftpitti idled isidd e+ ~cdme,diseare ITURSDAY gORNINO, SEPTEMBER 7,181 e MONEY SAVERS ' - There a general tendency to speak slightly of those who save money, and to extol those who do not. It is not easy to indicate the precise ground upon which this is done but there appws to prevail an impression to till...effect that' one class are mean-souled, sordid, and greedy, while the other are full of generous impulses. This impressiop, however; does not seem to be justified by the: facts of the case. In many cases, those who speak recklessly are not philanthropic'. They throw about their money, it is true, . but they do so more in a spirit of bravado 'than from charitable impulses. Their be nevolence is, to say the best that can ' be said of it, decided erratic, and un fortunate is the being who is depend ent upOn them. Because they scatter their gold with :an apparently lavish hand wherever they go, and when the eyes of the world arc upon them, it does not follow that they are doing more than giving way to a particular form of self-indulgence. They may treat their friends ~to costly enter tainments;-but there is little charity involved in the proceeding where the entertainments are. (riven at the ex.. pense Of creditors who are being de frauded of their rights. Of course it may be held that it is a rather clever thing tO 'diddle' one's creditors in or der that one may be generous to -one's aeiitiaintance; but the man who does thiS invariably lads to stand -the wear.and tear of tine. The prob ability isithat, sooner or later, he at tempts to diddle you with'the same skillfthat he has diddled his credi tors ;1. and the ehafices are that em lon o you discover that; his promises are n l Otito be relied upon, and that it is hopeless to expect him to keep his engwieMents. Nor is this all. It will be found l that, notwithstanding all his 'great show, he is indifferent wifi) suffers so long as he is forced not to deny himself. On the other hand, the niaa who saves money will gen erally he proved a man of his word. Unlike the spendthrift, who readily promises to do everything but actu ally performs next to nothing, thti money saver is slow to promise, buk what, he does engage to do he is quick to accomplish. This arises from the fact '-that when he does make an engagement he carefully calculates how far he will be able to hilfill it; He does not say he will pay yon a certain amount on a cer tain day on the strength of a, vague hope tbat Something will " turn up " 'twist now and then, but. upou that of carefullY-thought-out and reliable Calculations. ller realizes his obliga tiOn so keenly that he is occasionally led, perhaps, ;to be unduly cautious. At the same time, if you want a man to do a teal serviceable act of charity you must go to him rather than a magnificent being who holds money in contempt. It is not surprising that he comes to the front in social life, and that he is placed in .Posi tions of power and responsibility. Self-denial and integrity can never go unrewarded, their intluedee is so powerful. People mays sneer at What they call miserliness. But providence is not miserliness, and the man who saves money is not necessarily a mi ser:—/tome-Journal. . SACREDNESS OF A PROMISE. An eminent British statesman is said to have traced his own sense of the sacredness of a promise to a en ,rious lejsson he got from his father when a. boy. When home for the holidays, and walking with his father' in the garden, his father pointed to a wall which he intended to haVe pulled down. " said the boy, " I should so like to see a wall pulled down."-: - " Well, my boy, you:shall," said his, father. The thing, however, escaped his memory, and during thd boy's ab sence a number of improvements. were being made, among others the pulling 'down of • this wall and„ the building of a new one in its place. When the boy came home and saw e. it, he said : " 0 (*tither, you promised to let me see that wall pulled down." Instantly the father remembered his promise, and was deeply pained, to think that he had seemed careless of his plighted word. "My boy," he said, "you are right,. I did promise, and I ought not to have forgotten. It is too late now. to do just what I said I would, but yon •iysated' to see a wall pulled down, and so - you shall." And he actually ordered thei ma sorlikp land made =them pull down and rebuild the wall, that as nearly as pOsSible his promise might be . madegOod. " It• cost me twenty pounds," he said to frielid who was bantering him abont it, "but," he added' sol-- emnly, '" if it had cost me a hundred I should have thought it a cheap way of impressing upon my boy's mind, as long ns he lives, the importance a man of honor should attach to his plighted: word." AFRAID TO SWEAR ALONE.—The. wicked practice•of swearing, which is so common as to offend the ear in every betel, and almost in every street, is often mere bravado.' Boys think it sounds manly to be profane, And men think it giVes force and character to their sayings.. Unlike most other vices, it is done openly, and is intended by the swearer for other, people's ears. '9l will give.-you,ten dollars," said. a man to a profane' swearer, "if you will go into the village graveyird at twelve o'clock to-night and swear the same oath you have just uttered, when you are alone with God."" " Agreed," said the man , "an easy way to Make ten dollars." " Well, come to-morrow and say you have done it, and you shall have the money." • Midnight came. The man `went into the graveyard. It was a night of great darkness. As he" entered the cemetery not a sound was . heard ; all was as' still as death. Then came the gentleman's words to his mind, "Alone with God!" raniq in his ears. did.bot dare to utter an oath, but fled founOut,.'plaCA, 94414 r t F. it . • , C:t r BURIED TREASIM. TWO TORIES THAT MAY NOT Tat:Vl The Sai6lose(Cal.) Patriot of the 17th tells due thus : " One of the ivorkMen enraged in excavating for the foundation-of Col. Martin's nen buildlng of First street, near the ex.. ; preskollice, this morning, struck his spadei, against a substance not usually, net iii the: oam here abounding, and a. moment later the delverbroUght tci light ~lre ni=ck of a huge earthen jar Of veryprimitive Style. This vessel is abOnt the size of a lager beer keg, and, When uncorked by its lucky (Es"- Covero, was found to be full_ of solid gold iniggets and I dust as pure as ever came from Dntch Flat or Sacra 7 inentei. Ilow inueli the treasure trove4onotints to is not yet ascer-, tained;.but. the generous discoverer feltthat there was enough •in it to make himself and a dozen cornrades . ciornfdrtalile for the rest of their days, lie haying -at once divided the spoil With them. !When the gold ifiall have been neighed, a ,banker on El Dora do stieet remarked that he - thowrid, it would realize at. 'least half a mill , ' iOn. his was the cause of the rush ctf thejieople tothe c new mine to-clay, find hundreds offered their services to MI Martin to dig the balance of Ids cellars for what; they can make:: An Alderinan :went,'So far a l s to ten, der af , . bonus for this piivilege, and (ither made • equally ,extravagant: propoSitionS, but whether they will be accepted or not We are unable to . say. •a . At last accounts the•eity colt Stabulary Were Stationed in front of the diii(Tinds to keep the mob from . n i nderunning adjacent buildings in search for more jugs'of the metal: The pot fOund is .supposed to have been -IPiried; by an old alcaide who: lived here iii the middle of the last century." 'j Thendianapolis Joierngl of the 25th inst. tells the other. It says: " A bki'nanzatitts• been calmly living . beneatli the,i, Sod of, Morgan COunty for half a ecintiiryor:more..Mr. Mor ton Parker,an4itinest farmer, three quarters of; a mile from . Eminence, who has fc r. years been following the even tenor of his way,_ is eped to bite to the realization that he . was:immensely wealthy. On Wed , ' desday,.. - evening two Indians; present= ed themselves at Mr. Parker's house and asked the situation of a certain gnarled tree' which: they said was up on his ;farm.' The tree was a familiar, one toldr. Parker, and he gave the: necessry directions for its discovery, . Having good ground for suspicion intho strangee visitors and their. !• seemingly idle question, he inquired . their p u rpose upon his land. True their instincts they artfully evaded his question, and asked for a little salt, as:4ller intended" to hunt. Mr. Parkeenas not satisfied, and by a more directroute than he had given • them, reached the tree and concealed himself near by, awaiting develop ments;{ After dusk they came, pro vided, ras lie,'saw by the slight rays'of the setting I sun, with a pick and shovel;. They surveyed the_iminedi , , ate vicinity, and believi4g them-. selves secure, -''beaan to waft - vigor- , onsly at the root o e 'f the gnarled tree. They continned,until they had made an exeavatitin of four feet, when they drew put ai copper-chest about two fact stipare.,;!Darkness prevented fu - r- • ther Operati - ons, and a torch was, lighted, and; to the intense astonish- ' went Of Mr:."Parker, they drew forth' several bags of 'gold, which they emptied into a sack provided for the i purpose. , Mr. Parker is certain there mist l(rave ,'.'been $lO,-000 in gold. 111ild With excitement, Mr. Parker lost hi 4 presence 'of mind, and, with a cry, jumped from his place of con-, cealment and made for the tree. In • an .instant all was total darkness. Mr. Parker heard the rustling of the leaves fand the crack - Of branches as the wily woodmen made good their escape; and :that is the last he knoll s. The clipper Chest is still in his session; and he' shows the empty hole where the treasure had so long, rested; but tlit's Indians, with their booty, are ere thi s far toward their happyjiunt , ', ing-grOund. It is most proba.blO that years agoa Warrior thief, toO''.hotly . pursued, spoils beneath this tree, and driven onward and away, has. lett the, secret of the treasure .4- - toll's kin." TIII z COSTr OF THE RUM TRAFFIC.-: AMeriCa; ins itso centennial year is spending in rum (if it spends as much -Us it did lase. year, and no ilpubt it does, andmOre), as much as it would cost t4ut fiYe lines of railroad from Maineto ,California, with all their eqUipments ; L as much as it' would take tn.' endoiv. a university with ten millimlS of (Wan to every state in. the Union ; as nuth as it would take, in addition to that, to build a five thousaod dollar school house for ev ery on hundred people in America ; and asOuch As . it would takeind 'dition to all that, to put out at in t er est. ant pay for a teacher for. every one fiundred:people of the forty-two millioUs in !America. And we get from 0 that tremendoui outlay-- what? Fifty per cenL of all in sanity jeomes° from strong drink; sev enty- e pei, cent. of all criminals become such ;while crazed With alco hol,- eighty-five per cenL'of all - the murClerS grow out of drunken brawls and , come , from grog shops ; and. uidetyoix per cent. of all _worthless youth !,emerge. from drunken homes —nest.* of criminals. l; - Amapa the rforins Of insect, Life there is a' little creature-known to naturalists which ;can gather around itself asufficiency of atmospheric air, and soslothed upon, it descends into the bottom of the pool; and you may see the little giver moving about dry, and at'his ease, protected by his crys tal venture, 'though the water all aroUndi be stagnant and bitter. Pray er is Welt a protector; a transparent' vesture—the world sees it not; real ile - fenee, it keeps out the world.. By means of it the believer can gath er so 3nuclt of heavenly atmosphere around, him, and with it descend into the putrid depths of this contaminat ing world, that for a season, no evil will touch hiin, and he knows when to =4 ad for a new supply: : Com mnnioit withj. God kept Daniel pure 40. • a .. ■ ~. OM ls 2 'per Annum In Advance MI LIVING IN ENGLAND. Mr. Louis J. Jennin g s , in writing ito the WorN on the relative cost of houiickeepin'o• in England andittneri ea, thinks in the first place' that Lon don Is on the whole, as cheap to live in as the country districts of England.' Like New - York it draw.s-thy best from everywhere to its markets, even . Severn salmon at cheaper 'rates thani , they can be bought singly near the . Severn. 'As to- house rent, £lOO a year will t4ptire a good hotise, with eight- bed rooms, besides dining, draWing and 'reception rooms. In the suburbs less money will :do it, a House of six rooms; neat andlcoinfor table, being rented, 'less: than four miles from London Bridge, !for 1:,- - 25 (or, $125),. to Jcpnintr knowl.l etlge. A garden, front-0001d rear. , makes it attractive. For 4:150 a year. a hdlise in almost i any direction can, lie had, with taxes paid, ;the', like of which would command $1 1 ,200 to $1,500 a year in New York, and tax es still to pay. As to servants, two families are mentioned 'where the cooks get $9O, gold, and 0110 gold a year; and the first-named Islas good as those for which $2O to s2s~a month is pahi in New York, $240 to $3OO a year. , , A Waitress gets abobtl4:l2 and a: house maid 1.10 a year: These rates!, with the addition of some allowances fcir washing and as beer-. money; make the cost-t- t of three servants in a respectable family about s3o7ia year. ClOthing ch6per than in New; York, especially for children, who *earl common fabricks. 'E,Ven fash ionable dresses for ladies are, cheaper by One-third to one-half, and 'these price§ represent good workJ,, As to provisions, beef is 25 to 311 emits a pound, instead of 30 to 35 cents in New , l . York; though - Mr: Jennin gs favors American'beef over lEllc:dish for quality Mutton, he says; is the reverse, ibetter and j slightlY, dearer than here. Tea, sugar and bread are cheaiier there and the latter much better. - The seven pOund; loaf costs• , 14 cents. COftee and Ace fire als'a: cheatier. .The article in which Neii Yorklhas the chief ad vantage !is'''game-; whicli ordinary London housekeepers can hardly afford at all for the great er part of the season. ; Oysters are also practically denied them; though lobsters and crabS, like most other -fish, - are fine: and cheap. Fruit is comparatively, unknown in London, peaches being a luxury even for ,the rich, costing twenty-five cents apiece in &imperatively plentiful times. . Ten pounds a week, Mr. Jennings, :thinka. will keep 4. family of siv or seveniperson,s, with the exception of rent, as well as MO. would do in New York, rand £l,OOO a-year Will go further than $lO,OOO there, takin g a in rent with other expenses. ; Indeed; Mr. Jennings ,mentions .one large family which livthi very, wellln the country on £4OO a year.: Of !course theselfigures Will, 'keep, more, people - from ahifting their residences to this country than they will do the oppes ite thing. 11 . i • TRUTHS. • 1 - 1 ' - , " Br. yo also ready." , A eIIAVE, _.wherever found, pieaches a short,!pithy sermon to the soul. j Notumo can be love' to God which does not shape itself intoobedienee. 'Tittrrn sometinies i tastes like medicine, ,but that is an evidence that we are ill. Tn4rn is too simple eor us; Nye do not like those who unmask our illusifins. Tick. Bible is a window in •thi l i prison of hope, through which we look lifito eter nity. ME preserve fire by blowing it; so, by dilligence, we must kindle the gifts God bestowed upon us. ' MailkiTais purity by . yielding up noth ing thfit is God's; maintain peace by yield ing up all that is your own. Hi that preaches gratitude pleads the cause both of God and men, for without it-Awe Can neither.be sociable or relioioui. 0:4;4 hour in glory will abundantqcom pensate the Christian for all the sorrows, self-denials and sufferings he endures by the way. Tn4RE is tbo much of the legal and too little Of the filial spirit) among- belie'ers. opt ed actl more as servants than ad childyen. • • THE devil, in the • last day. shall rise agaimit us in condemnation, for that he had been more careful to get! shuls than we ins:we them. , F the Christian's course has been meant for a path of roses, would the life of the authoT of Chiistianity have been a path strewed with thorns? " OP*l , 11 . . TUNITYiS the flower of t ime; and as thelstalk may iernain when the, flower is cut, off, - with us when Opportunity is gone foretei. 1 1 . : o' - ic- ray of ; light from the eternal sun is al infinitely ,better guide to Min over, life' . mysterious sea, than tin!, most in genious system of fog-bells ever invented. NOTES ON THE INTERNATIONAL LESSONS ID! REV..IOIIN.S. STEWART, i D. D , t SEPTEMBER, 10,1876:I 1 I I , 'Ell& EXCELLENT W. 0.51• N.l I'rovi 31: IOSI,7GOLDSN Tra`r :,Ac Is 9: . , . . I • THIRD QUARTER. LESSO24 -TT; I Whi) was Lemuel, v: 1? Some think that he is only an_allegorical: substitute for Solomon,.blit we prefer to regard , him , as the king of 3lassal for that is the mean ing the word translated `_‘prophecy.", His mother was probably the I lipteen of Massa' befOre - him; fOr ch. 30:1 thould be thus translated : "Thal words 3f Agur, the soh of her who was obeyed in Massa." This would make Agar and Lemoel broth ers, Massa is located by Plot'. Stuart and others on the western slope of the highlands of Arabia, about 50 or, 60 miles from Akabah, which is at the he r idizif the eastern fork of the ilnd sea.' It was origi nally! an Amalekite city, but WaS`seized by a Colony of Simeonites in the time of Hezekiah Chrpn.f:4l-431; Hnncelhese sovereigns of Massa were Jews, :and this explains their acquaintance witb the He brew Scriptures and, the incorporation of their words into the' Book of Proverbs. The queen of illassa was,no doubt a just sovereign and. an excellent woman. She spakej from her own consciousness and ex perience, and hence sake with authority. Our lesson is concerned with her portrait of the ideal woman. "This alphabetical pOem consinte of twenty two versea r beginning with the 141 tqetteFPf 4 10 Beinffle alpha- )4 1 1 -6 01A 1 00 6 41titlitiiit.4 4 014 0110 •- ! through it foi the laSt- verse . . On account of this arrngemetit- it ?is calledl '.4 The :Golden 4-B-C for Wives ; " and . Matthew I lHenry de . nitrnitiate:4 it "The Ilioking 7 - 4 o ;Iasi; for' ''l:ii dies, ' ' into which' they Ototild ok, and . hy which they should dress thernselve . "—.lf , tei i ißelter. : 1 ' V. 10. Alvirtuoo woman, is lit Orally A. woman of sirength;ll. e., strength isf body • and of mind. ' ' The word implieg health I ~5 . i • and mental; endowipents, as well as good dispositiiirii and coiniuct.", "Wlio can find a wOnAr, of stAingthiit fncc t—i. e.,: physically, intellecitually! emotionally, vo-, litionally, qpirktually—tvery , inch a, wo.;, man. Tile questiori does pot imply the; -!: 5 absolute , i ,,, Mpiiiisihility• of findin , r ranch'a' , ,, character, but that ishe is a rare phenont-: t e non. " iler price it above,ruldr.is • W i. e., .earls or• id red cols. l 'She is of ireadworth., nal worsen Were tre rare in that far'. , off day than. this. ' But still they 'do not • @ • ipiite include, the entire sex- .! f V. I i. 4ii oriental lands! as a rule hus hands hinge norfaith in theinwives But' „ a . ,n 45, 4 N LIMPER 11. , die word,. Of God , and the fear qt . c/od '. cork . a g'reat clian4e in'human nature. hristiaiiityl makes : , ,wives true • and i t) htts-.-r ands confiding. ' "ti that he shall hav' no - o need of spoil ;" , i. 4., heshall Trot fail "^ ?f gain. ,IliS wife's industry and cOntimy iierease liiS lirosperity and wealth.; ,I i l V. l 2. 110: influence is good' and 6nly .• ~ ? ' 00(1.".. . Insifell'a Wife he, has obtained-a ' good. thin ,, 4' and. liiideth favor Of, the , - ',"1: , 1 .Lord. ''' ..: • 1 ~ . 1 •-• : : V. 13. Notice that this 'full orbeil w 0 .7 than is de:;Cribed (nily in the dd./nestle .:. sphere. We see a woman at home e I This .4trong-..i;lifo wontr, has a.definife and an humble domestic sPliere, though uSe ci int occupat4s. .S 4 pievides w4l . and , flax as Materials forler 'skillful industry. .• Then she!, works z i rill i wty—not as a house :hold drudgei but is ; partner in the cares:- and enjoyments 04't. he family. In the .'' 4ist every kind oflrapery for the per- t sou, the tent, or the muse is rnanutactur7 ^ ell at home by the wetnen.. It is saio"that tile emperor:, Augustins •usually 'wore . no lider garments' . than such as were 'Made, aitliwrie lly his wife sister, or daughter.) ' 1 V. 14. Slid is like the merchants' ships', because she' 611s.her goodS to foieigners, • , , ~ , and brings her food from far. Shh pro vines in acivtince by I er traffic for all the riecessities'ef her house. This is, of cOnrse, an oriental oi , household-life. It .• . , , isnot intended that in. all lands_ henses 1 . i ' ' - s • i, are, to beeigne . manufactones_ and wives • - Merchants; . But. 'unquestionably, ' if the Wife gather !no gain in the family, she should see to, it that she, permits rid loss. -1 - 1 V. 15... , The Orienta sgenerally' , .risef very . i .. early- in the: mornidg. And the wOmerr .. riseearlier than the ii?eril?eeause their ra..- "4: rcous labors !'squire a yery long day. First, '',' this model', niatron l distributes food to all her household, and then she assighs.to . servant' maid srva al definite amount of i work-ia'portion-- r foi :the day.' She is i s'Fstentatic4.4,4ll her iu;stry goes bylrule. • "This secures thelargiSt possible res4it... . 'V. 16. Iler care extends also tofrine- yard .culture, So' in many parts of our country, the !women Inotr l only, keep the H ,linuse but tend the girdenalSo. Slielbuys ° a ileld aftei a careful paspeetiym of ii, (she ' .1 is a thrifty! trader altrays ; =s t ue Pays for it with thd Money she has earnedland .. plants it with vines oi olives., • Thuis sh• adds to Lei imAliand'slianded property '.IV. 17. 'She: engage.4 * in all her duties ~ ; with the - Utmost actilvity and' with ea re- 'fully . husbanded stre gth. She girdeth 1 hgr loins.- iln the E t if-is thoughtithat ' , the girdle; ;twisted ightly arciundi the p a fi a b it . loinsi increases the strength of the *idyl : Iti r also adds to the grace ,of the, fori4 and secures cleanliness in )abor. ' - I ".'. V. IS, She ,enjoYslll l e restilts ofAieren erg,y.," She is not-a close, penurious heuse-. Wifs. She, enjoys what, 'she has ae . she g4es along (l Tim. e„:17). " ller ctndle' , • gOeth not out by night." This probably means that she iosesli ,go . '• even in sleep: .... ' 1 • ." V.'l9. Sire: !as works ' l as well - as oversees `. others. She is„. not f lshatned, of Mannal labor. She would have hung her !head ' v‘i,ith Shared ammo. ^ tiefine ladies of thiS • .J•" - • , hneration,; Rho are afraid. to soilltheir nds. . .1 ' . . • a g l V. 20: She can giv;e •as well a);- Make. ecause she holds the'distaff she if able - tI reach forth her liads - (both bands) to the poor. N:ottce'thait thrift and accumu lation' are not inconTstent with berieva: lence. • a V. She keeps Ii di family warmly and fen splendidly dres4d. •Snow is 'often und upon the elevated paitA of *ales 'Therear.e twenty-three alhisions to At in the Scripture. • V. 22. She :makes,herse. lt coverlem of • 't, pestry:(see 7:16); Ehe-arrays herself to si k (fine linen) and purple. These ma- .1 - t rials went very expensive and contTsted -* I i color. This way , l or ,13 dressing win a cordance with Orie l ntal; taste andifasn- i i n. The rneanitt, ik that she dre is4efi,..in a "'way becorning•her tation and hell day. gates, n V. 23. The ,the .East a#3 the • 1. p l aces of Public- conoourse. - 1 - .Aleri the • • older men net to talti over the •um l ivs of • the clay, tbn state of! the market, and to • cspense justice. Thp husband of the ex ilent "woman is kncyrn among the el l. dors -: 4•• his clean and eleg-int costume, ands by . lus-, happy Rand contented countenance: ll'e . is in part indebteii to her for his l high 4sOcial and Oficial position. •' 1 • 1 IV. 24. Theie girdhls were probably the - kind worn by peophil of, rank, and made of;silk adotllled with gold and silver! V. 25. But though superbly attired, her richest ornaments were her vigproas mind, her gentle he t art, - , her hono i rable cAmiluct, and her.4..goid name. Here' we tied a hint spa prophecy of Neiv Testa . - inent teaching, I Ti.M. 2:9-10, 1 PeE 3:3: •li i Such a l i•Oman has security for tip fu- • 1- fu ture in her 'own meek and quiet Spirit. She trusts and is not iftaid. i 1•, • , IV. 26. Thow , h a'gtllod housewife, 'Om is .1: • 4 . 'I. not cross, petulant all-dOmineeringi "Her steech is always wise her tongue re , ola- re 4 by the lan , of kincness. 1 . i 4 ~ , i V. 27. Though 'kin she is firm and -de ail-Mined. : though' ntle, she ittukyt in- . dolent. She is a mbination of Mary le and Martha: . ' • • • . 1 . • IV. 282 She ';gets her reward as all true Women :do. ' Her egildren- bless lier—d Most M • ieMn • mon'think in the-East, M here they usually treat their mothers with con timpt. ‘ Her lausbanti praiseth her. 1. Men., are always' eady_ tot praise their horses and cows, hut bow S'eldom to say EssoOd word to or pf •their fiithful wives.l I This ' 1. woman had a 'good scirt of' hUsbandj He 1•• + _ was not ashamed to sly of her: 1 . " V. 20. "Many daukhters have done vir tifously, but thou excelldst them•all„l' ,-- ; 1 " I V. 30. Herd we have a just relleCtion. (.-race of form and Iheaaty of face are fleeting, evanesceuti and . •unsatisiying. E Piety is everything. t` • t 1 4. 1 V. 31. And godliness, hath• promise of the life that! now is, as. well as of ths* wttich is to come. uch a woman! shall' 'enjoy the fruits of her industrious_ and - _virtuous life... She shill never w a nt any . god thing, and in )Irblic is Reif, as in.. Private she shall be. Praisedtuadlaoaore&r . Such a character * , sach a life must maka . . their mark, Such a pious,,wise, kind, in- ; dastrious wife and*, i • - bilkettuieu of ' von en, - C 44 4..Pu- It ' t :the Mini* Oil tai 1 5.1 44 4 164 Mkit* 3 0000 I ,- - / - I I r` i • •-'i . I : - !-;."- - ":z•--?' - '"-•'•;,"- - -"II,'",..,:-"':,,..-'1, -----.- -",•-, -.- ,• t ;,-. _ ...^: 7 .:1_ ~ ..li.- ; ', •1 1 *. it*,, , er.„,_ ., tlVZS:V,i'' ''''..' -el SE 11
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