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VOLUME XXVII.
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• By J. C. MANX.
Of all spots on earth the dearest,
And among all tho`tS the nearest,
As thro4his cold, wide world we roam;
Are the thcets that gently gnide
trs throe this world of wicked pride,
To oar own beloved home.
t Since my heart has tasted sorrow,
It lingera of r for the bright to-morrow,
And tarns away to sadly moan;
Of all the dreams that please me best,
That seem alone, by heaven blest,
Are the bonnie dreamsof home, sweet home.o
I am going to marry you, Dora,
and take you home with me next
Sumner. fy pet, my own, we will
be as, happy all the day as the birds
that warble in -the woodland," and
bending forward the speaker, a young
man with . blonde curls and_grey eyes
•• tu 4,
gentiy clasped the waist of e,gtri
ish. form by his side, with his right
arm,
while his silken mustache swept
her red lips with suspicious nearness.
He was a good looking young man,
this Dalton•omers, and in'spite of
the vascillating lines; around the
mouth, which told of weakness and
insincerity, there was a glean). of
shrewd intelligence in his eye, giving
indication - of brain, power sufficient
to battle successfully with the world.
Just now his feelings were concen
trated on the object of his love mak
ing, and for the time being he was
happy in the success of his suit.
Dora Hampton would have been
in no wise remarkable to a chance
observer. Hundreds of girls passing
daily on the street wereseemingly as
fair and interesting. ;; She had :a
good complexion, abundant broWn
hair, and quite pretty large eyes,
which shone resplendent - with love
and trust as she gazed into her lov
er's face. Hers was a joy too deep
for utterance, too sacred for works.
Her heart was thrilled and filled with
the ineffable sweetness of a first love,
noble and true. Her girlish, : idea of
manliness and perfection was realized
in the person of the man who stood
her avowed lover, and no shadow of
future pain or anguish dimmed the
sunshine of the moment, which lived
in her mind as a pleasant memory.
long after she found - her idol to be
merely broken clay..
The sweet humility of her mein,
the humble acceptance of himself.
gratified the vanity and conceit of
the man. - He knew that he had made
a conquest which was all his own. A
heart fresh and pure had gone forth
to him. It was in his power either to
crush it and throw it aside, - bruised
and bleeding, or to guard it with care
through life.
To do him justice, he meant to be
true to the trust reposed in him, and
WILKES-DA#IIE, PA
IMMO
to ,be very good and tkind to his
"little Dora," as he . called ,lier; but
alas, for good intentions when not
backed up by truth and constancy.
Scarcely three months after their
engagement, a lady with a rosier
cheek and more congenial mind
crossed Dalton Somers' path, and
Dora, if not forgotten, was neglected.
Sappily the city of N-, in
which they resided, was a large one,
and there was room for both, even
if their paths were divided, and Dora,
who if loving was also proud, did
not hesitate to tell him so, and ; gave
him back his freedom.-.. If: herheart
was nigh breaking with its load of
anguish, when she found- only the
ashes where she hadlooked for the
flowers; if his falsity'fiad turned her
love into bitterness and gall, she did
not tell him so; she only bade him
go and be happy if he could, if she
had waited for him to signify his
wish to be released, and assented to
it reluctantly, he would have been
satisfied, no matter what the effect
cost her; but to be coolly dismissed
TOWARD
by the girl who,
a few months before,
seemed to love him so dearly, aston-
ished and surprised him,
He indignantly protested against
her conduct, and then inconsistently
railed at her as being false and incon
stant to him. He dqlared that she
was jealous, stubboT and bad tem
pered, and he knew that she loved
him, and always would, even if she
married another man.
Dora listened to bin% quietly, and
then repeated as her ultimatum her
first decision.
He went forth angry and abashed.
There was no apparent change in
Dora's life, only she was a, little
quieter, and began to develop a taste
for literature. People found out
that she had not only a mind of a
high order. but also sufficient intelli
gence and brain power to ballast it.
She avoided Dalton Somers and sel
dom saw. him, .although he threw,
himself in her way whenever an op
portunity presented itselZ He seemet)
to be on the downward road, and
rumor was busy with the story of his
dissipations.
Dora grew very much ashamed of
her love episode, and although her
heart was empty and forlorn, con
gratulated herself on her escape.
Her engagement had not been gener
allyiknown, and her friends supposed
it to have been only one of those
common flirtations with which society
is so fruitful:Now she carefully eon
pealed from her circle of companions
the fact that she had ever been ac
quainted with him. '
One day Dora entered the drawing
room of a mutual friend, where a
small party were congregated. Dal
ton Somers was the topic of conver-
cation: A young =ln, a stranger to
Dora, was addressi* the group. He
and Somers had been schoolmates,
and he emphatically declared that
8. W. ALVORD, Publisher.
ipriginal goelrg.
THE BOY FROM HOME.
And then I sleep to dream again,
And see a form just row—and then
The flguro vanishes sad and alone; •
And as It gently passes by,
It stops to breathe another sigh,
And sweetly whispers "my boy come home.•`
Yes, dear mother, well meet once more,
Be It on earth, or the golden shore,
• Where angel sfdrits long since have flown,
But when I'll be, Ah, none can tell,
1.11 live, to die when "all is .
And we'll meet again In our heavenly home
It cellartratO.
DORA'S MT TARE,
BY LAIIRA WNALL.
Somers was a man without a particle
of principle; that, there was no good
in him, and warming with his subject,
no good and 'pure woman would ever
think of associating with him, and
that she would degrade herself elow
the level of a lady by so doing.
A burning blush of shara6 rushed
to Dora's cheek at. the thought of thd
kisses he had rained upon her lips,
and she sat miserably silent, feeling
inexpressibly unworthy even to re
main in the presence of this man who
had . pointed out so thoroughly her
own defTradati on.
But the stranger, Albert, Barton,
was unaware of the pain he was caus
ing, and after an introduction to
Dora, thought her a• very lovely and
interesting girl.
Ile was tall, dark and slender, with
a heavy silken mustache, which con
cealed the pride and hautetti• about
the mouth. In- conversation he was
affable and agreeable, and well versed
in the tender gallantiies so 'accepta
ble to the ladies. There was, more
over, an air of truth and earnestness
about everything.which he did which
would convince one that he was no
idle trifler in the field of life.
Dora felt drawn to him as by some
magnetic power, and found his socie
ty a solace to her empty heart.
The admiration seemed to be mu
tual, and in a very short time devel
oped into a wanner feeling; And it
came to pass one beautiful evening,
when the Moon had silvered the earth
'with her shining rays, that Albert
Barton repeated to Doratalmost the
same words that Somers had said to
her a little more than a year before.
Dora remembered with alittle feeling
of pain that other voice, and a thrill
of shame at the weakness of her
heart, which could be so emptied and
filled again in so short a time crossed
over ler. She was sure that there
was no mistake now, she had found
an anchor safe and steadfast. She
was proud even of her faith in him.
Many women would never haVe trust
ed any one again, but she had learned
to distinguish the gold from the dross.
Her thoughts were interrupted by
Barton who said, " Forgive me if I
offend you. Ido not doubt you, but
I want your whole vonildence. Have
you ever loved before ? I know you
arc young; still,you may have had a
girliSh dream and fancied that you
loved some one ; tell me, darling."
For a ' moment Dora communeu
with herself, had she loved Dalton
Somers ? No;' only her fancy bad
been touched • an impulse seized her
to tell him th whole story, but it
vanished instantly at the remem
brance of his words, "No good and
pure Woman would ever think of as
sociating with , Dalton Somers, she
would degrade herself below the level
of a lady by so doing." No, a thou
sand times no ; she could never tell
him the disgraceful truth. Her head
sank lower on his breast, and her
voice was almost inAudible as she an
iiivered "no " to his query..
no pressed her closer to him and
said, ." I am so glad ; I want you all
to myself, :did it is happiness to know
that mine are- the first lover's kisses
that have been....i)ressed upon your
lips."
That night Dorn's dreams were
haunted with restless visions. Now
Barton stood above her with uplifted
knife,. vowing vengence on her for
her dceit ; again Somers gazed at
her with 'reprOachful eves. But the
morning light banished the shadows
and her compunctions or conscience.
They were to be married in a year,
and fof six months Dora was as hap
py as a queen; then a shadow fell
which nearly marred the happiness
of her life. Barton expected some
friends on the European steamer and.
reaching the wharf before time he
stood idly gazing around when he
felt a touch on his arm • looking, he
beheld a man, whom, although seedy
and forlorn, he recognized as Dalton
Bomers. •
."llow do you do,Barton," he said,
holding out a. hand " which Barton
orasped mechanically ; "I want to
congratulate you, I heard. recently
that: you are going to marry Miss
Dora Hampton. Ass Dora is a nice
girl ; old sweetheart of mine, you
know, and if she. hadn't gone back
on me I wouldn't lmve been such a
poor shiftlesq devil as , l ainnoic: But
it is all in a lifetime! I suppose she
told yOu all about our engagement."
Engagemot! , Dora engaged
to that mawwhom he deteSted ! She
bad deceived him—proMised to be
his wife with a lie on her-lips.
His first = impulsh!cas to knock
Smilers doWn, but he restrained him
self, wrenched his hand 'from his
l
grasp, and walked rapidly away.
Somers glanced after him, and
muttered " what's the matter with
him ? He always was odd. I wonder
now if she never told him ; if she
didn't L've had my revenge," , and
putting his hands in his pockets lie
sauntered to the nearest restaurant.
As for Barton, when he walked,
away from the wharf, it seemed to
him as if the world had undergone a.
great change and suddenly become
engulfed in darkness, that Dora
should have loved this mah above all
others, and when she solicited her ten
derest confidence told him a false
hood, seemed incredible; still he
could not 'but believe Somers. He
loved Dora almost like his own life,
but deceit in the woman he loved and
would make his wife he could not
forgive.
He was a proud and resolute man
and he mapped out a._ course which
he determined to pursue to the bitter
end. He returned to hiS
packed his clothes and wrote, two
notes, one to his mother and Ipifie to
Dora. He kissed Dora's photo g raph,
and then burned it . The first train
that went westward cariied Albert
Barton. .
Dora was singing a gay song when
his note was handed to her, but when
she
. had finished reading it it fell
fr9m her nervous °rasp, and she lay
priine in a little , heap upon the floor.
The note ran thus :
Dons.—l must say, first, how could
you deceive me in regard to Dalton
Somers? How could you—with yOur
bead on my breast—as my promised
Wife, deliberately tell me a falsehood;
yes, look me in my very face and tell
it? You hay.e Warmd me in a way
which I can never forget or forgive.
I leave the, city on the neat train;
(L- - C . It-
TOWAND.A.; BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY MORNING" OCTOBER 5. 1876.
henceforward we are strangers. May
Tod forgive you; I aver can. ',
ALBERT BARTON.
Dora's mother found her - Vim; on
the floor, and for days she was quite
ill, but she gradually grew better.
With her returning health she deter
mined to find him even.if shelhad to
seek the world o4er, and on her knees
to implore his forgiveness. Bitterly
she , 'wept . over her 1011 y in not telling
him the truth—and if weeping could
have
,paliated her crime her tears
would certainly have wiped it out.
Shb had one clue to aid her in her
sear& She . would go to his mother,
She easily found this good lady, and
told her her whole history and the
fault she bad committed. ;While Mrs.
Barton chided her for not. telling the
truth, she blamed her son for express
ing himself too freely ant) being too
hasty. She greatly consoled Dora
with bright pictures for the future,
and promised every assistance in her
power.. 'For the 'resent she advised
silence: • Albert had gone to San
Francisco, but wheri his wrath cooled
down and he had time•to think, he
would repent of his hasty action. •
Dora returned home to watch and.
wait, but it was only for a short tine.
A few weeks after her visit to Mrs.
Barton she was surprised to find that
lady at her door dressed for a jour
ney. She had received a telegram
stating that her son was 7 lying very
ill in San Francisco.
Dora begged that she might go,
too, and at last wrung a reluctant
Consent from her mother and Mrs.
Barton.
After days of weary travel they
reached him, and found him in a sit
uation of the • greatest danger. Ito
was rapidly sinking, and the physi-
Cigna said there was no hope. He
was continually calling for Dora in
his delirium. He Oeemed to recog
nize her as soon as she took her place
by his side, r and her presence acted
like a narcotic, fO, after passing her
hand across his fOrehead a few times,
he sank' into a trep sleep for hours;
and when he awoke it was tci - liVe.
When he grew strong enough, to
listen to her, Dqra begged..his: for
giveness; which he readily accorded,
calling himself a brute, Ste. As soon
as he was able to go out they were
married. Dora has two children now,
a boy and a girl, and above every
thing else she strives to teach them
never to prevaricate in the slightest
degree. As for mothers-in-law she
says she does not'know what other
people think of theirs, but hers is
the dearest woman in the world.
REV. C. li. SPURGEON', in his new
book, say 4 all the stories told:of Dr.
Gill are somewhat grim. He could
not come down to the level of men
and women in the common order so
far as to be jocose, and when he at
tempted to do so, he looked like Her
cules with the distaff, or Goliath'
threading a needle. When he verged
upon the humorous the jokets sere
ponderous and overwhelming, bury
ing his adversary as well as crushing
him. It is said that :a garrulousdame
once called on Min to find fault with
the excessive length of his White
bands. " Well, well," said the doc
tor, " what do you think is the right
length ? Take them and make them
as long or as short as you like."
The lady expressed lier delight;
she was sure her dear pastor' would
grant her request, and, therefore, she
had brought her scissors with her,
and would do the trimming at once.
Accordingly, Onip, snip, and the
thing was clone, and the bibs returned.
" Sow," said the doctor, " my good
sister. " you must do me a good turn
also."
" Yes, that I will, doctor., What
can it he?"
" Well, you have something about
you which is a deal too long, and. I
should like to see it shorter."
" Indeed, dear sir, I.will not hesi
tate, said the dame. " What is it F
Here arelthe scissors ; use them as
you please."
Come, then," said the pastor,
" good' sister, put out your tongue."
• CATCHING REINDEER.—In many
bleak Northern regions these animals
are the sole support of the people.
When liberated from harness they go
directly in search of food; a species
of nutritious - moss, which their in-'
stinct enables them,. to find deeply
covered with snow. Sometimes as
many: as 6ne hundred start oil' forag
ing, there being nothing provided for
them by their exacting master. Like
camels under similar circumstances,
when they are wanted again their
seal skin clad drivers get behind
them in several- directions and by
hallooing, throwing snowballs and
making considerable uproar, tlhi!
deers are gradually ,driven into &-
smaller circle. The Gerd is then en
circled by a small cord, the men
draw it nearer, until it strikes their
long legs. They neither try to leap
over nor to break through it, but
huddle. together as close as possible.
'Finally the two ends meet, held by
one person, while the I- others enter
under the line and select the animals
they want, seizing them by their
horns, bringing them Out and tying
them to something strong enough to
hold them until harnesSed to a ;sled.
The remainder again Scatter,iniimr
suit of moss. Strong, 'tall and -fleet
though they are, able jwith a sheep
of their antlers, to mowl down-a score
of sturdy -Northmen, they cower at
Mlle voice of man. Their masters are
'harsh, rude, and. unkind to them.
They are so timid thatithe sound of
the driver's voice sets them running
at such speed, that - Alley' will die be
fore halting, if their drivers continue
to urge them.
1
" Glyn% P.v."—lt is hetter to yield
a little than quarrel a great 'deal.
The habit of standing up, as people
call it, for their (lAtle) rights, is:one
of the most disagreeablc and undig
nified in the world. Life is too short
for the perpetual bickering>which at
tends such a (lic(Position I ; and unless
a very momentous affair indeed,
where other people's claims and in
terests are involved, it is a question
if it is not wiser, happier and more
prudent to yield somewhat of our
precious rights' than 'squabble to
nuiintain them. True whslom is first
pure, then peaceable an gentle.
REGARDLESS OP-DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER.
OONDENSED HISTORY OF STEAM
About ,280 years B. C. Hero, of
Alexandria, formed a toy, which ex
hibited some of the powers of steam,
and was moved by its power.
A.' D. 610, an architect arranged
several caldrons .of water,. each cov
ered with the wide bottom of a leath
er tube, which rose to a, narrow top,
with pipes extended to the rafters of
the adjoining building. A fire was
kindled beneath the ealdronif, and
the house was shaken nh efforts of
the steam ascending the ti*es. This
is the first notice of the power of.
steam recorded.
In 1513, June 17, Brasco de Garay
tried a steamboat of 200 tci,ts with
tolerable success, at Barcelona, Spain.
It consisted of a caldron of boiling
water, and a moveatle wheel On each
side,of the Ship: . It was laid' acid
as Impracticabte. A present; bow
ever, was made. to Garay.'
. In 1630 the first railroad was con
strutted at Newcastle-oh-Tyne.
The first ilea of a steam engine i
England was in the Marquis Worces
ter's "History orlnventions " A.
,D
1663:
In 1701 Newennan made the firs
engine hi Eigland. •
In 1761 James Waits made . the
first
. perfect steam engine in Eng
land.
In 1766 Jonathan Hulls first set
forth the idea of steam navigation.
In 1778 Thomas Payne, firstpro
posed the application in America.
In 1781 Marquis Soutfrey con
structed a steamboat on the Tyne.
In 1781 two Americans ; published
a work on it.
111.17,89 Wm. Smythington made a
'voyage in' one on the. Youth and
Clyde canal. .
. In 1832 this experiment was re
pealed.
In 1782 Ramsey propelled a twat
by steam at New York.
In 1789 John Fitch, of Conneeti
cut, navigated a boat by a strata en
gine on the Delaware. .A? 7f
In '1794 John Fulton first began tb
applphis attention to steam.
In 1783 Oliver Evans, a native - 6
Philadelphia, constructed a steam en
gine to travel on a turnpike road.
The first steam vessel that ever
crossed the Atlantic was the Savan
nah, in the month of June, 1784,
from Charleston to Liverpool.—
Hiott's Merchant's Magazine.
HOME LIFE A ii;UNDRED YEARS j
Auo.—One hundred years ago not a
pound or cubit foot 'of illuminating '
gas had been burned in the, l eountiy.
No iron atnves' were used, and no
contrivances for eennomizing beat
were employed until_Dr. Franklin in
vented the iron framed fireplace which
still bears its name. All the cooking
and warming in town and country
were done by the aid of fire kindled
upon the ,brick hearth or the brick
oven. Pine knots or tallow candles
furnishetV , the light f.,t• tho lAng
ter nights, and sanded floors supplied
the: place'or rugs and carpets. The
water :use.l for, household purposes
IV 33 drawn from deep wells by the
creaking "iweep."
No form of a pump was used in
this •country, so far as we can learn,
until the commencement of the pres
ent century.
There were no friction matches in
those early days, by the aid of which
a tire could be speedily kindled ; and
if the fire "went out". upon the hearth
over night, and the timber was damp
so that the spark would not catch,
the alternative remained of wading
through the snow a mile or so, to
borrow a brand of a neighbor.
Only one room inenny house was
warm, unless some of the family was
ill ; in all the rest the temperature
was . at zero during many nights in
the *inter. The -Alen and women of
a hUndred years ago undressed and.
went to their be.ds, in a teniperature
colder than that of oar modern barns
and woodsheds, and they never com
plained.—Monte Journal 11
•
ECONOMY POE TO EMPLOYERS.—
" WaSte not, want not," is a grand
old proverb. " lie that is faithful in
littleis faithful also in much." It is
true enough. that a person who takes
no care of materials committed tolds
hands by an employer, will. not be'
careful of his - own property. Econ
omy and wastefulness are habits that
will Influence us, whether with our
own substance or that of another. As_
a rule the man or boy who takes care
of iiia'employer's goods will be like
ly to look after his own. Some men
are Worth much more than others'
simply becatise they waste nothing:
If an employer be wealthy and stock
abundant, that is no excuse for waste
Or carelessness. Loss is loss, 'and
robbery is robbery, whether it be in
much or little. It is forcibly said
that " Heaven allovis nothing , to be
destroyed." There has_not been a sin
gle djop of water wasted since the
creation. The deComposed elements
of the past autumn will supply ail
ment for the next spring. • Economy,
rigid economy, is one of the laws of
nature ; •. and we shall not realize the
" good time coming" until we are
careful and economical. -1
how THE EYE IS PRESERVED.—
There is dust on sea and land ; in
the valley and on the mountain top ;
there, is dust always and everywhere.
The atmosphere is full of it, It pen
etrates the noisome dungeon, and vis
its the deepest, darkest caves of the
earth. 'N. o palace door can shut it
out; no drawer is so secret as to, es
cape its presence. Every breath of
wind dashes it upon the open eye,
which is yet not blinded, because
there is a fountain of the blandest flu- ,
id in nature incessantly emptying it,
self under ti 4 eye -lid, which spreads
itself over the surface of the dye ball'
a every winking, and washes every
atom 'of dust away. 'This
well adapted to the eye, itself has
some .acridity, Which, under certain
circumstances, becomes so decided as
to be scalding to the
,akin, and would
rot away the eyelids, were it not that
along the edges of them . there arc
little oil manufactories wlnelt`epread
over their surface a coating as imper
vioui .to the liquids necessary for
eeping tle eyeballs washed clean,
as the best varnish is impervious to
water:
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ME
ABOHFFEOTtIitE OF BIRDS.
Birds, like savage' men, build with
the material wht comes readiest to
hand. The kingfisher uses the fish- .
.bones which arc the remnants .of, its
feast; roots and fibres line the nest
of the field-haunting rook ; while its.
cousin, the crow, which frequents
warren and sheep-walk, finds a suita
ble material in. fur and wool. A nest
of a chaffinch, taken in_ the neigh
borliood of a .honse, was shoran at a
meeting of the Zoological Society,
which had been partly constructed
out of blotting-paperi fragments 'of
visiting cards, and 'mottoes from
Crackers; and naturalist of emi-
nonce stated that be •knew of more
than • one instance of • a nest being
built with the wires from soda-water
bottles. The tools, Moreover, as,well
as the material, determied the arehi 7
tecture of birds. The delicately' io-
Ven nest (4 the wren is associated
with long fl gs and a slender beta:,
while the pigeon, heavy in body but
weak of foot and bill, contents itself
with merely arranging sticks on a
well-chosen branch ; but the fern-owl,
with far clumsier tools, must perforce
lay its eggs on the bare ground.
It appears. that there is a natural
law which connects, or correlates, the
mode of nest building with the color
of the female
. bird. When the nest
conceals the sitting 'bird, as a rule,
.both sexes arc adorned With gay col
ors, but when the :male bird only is
conspicuous, while the female is ob
scure in line, the nest is open, so as'
to - expose 'the sitting bird in view.
As color is more variable that struc
ture or habit, it is generally the char
acter which has been modified, tho'
sometimes the modification of th;'l
nest and of the color act and re-act
on one another. The end of all this
is the preservation of the female, up
on whose safety the future well-being
'of the young depemls4,,This "protec
tive resemblanee" iS_not confined to
birds, for it! may be witnessed in in
sects and other animals;
A bird biiilder Who constructs not
for mere coquetry, but for the more
serious business,. of life, is the
breast hornbill. , Specimens of. MS
bird are to be seen in the Zoological
Gardens, but as far as we {know, it
has never exhibited its peculiar pow
ers as a nest builder there. In .fact
the female can scarcely be said to
-build, but to be built up. Its nest is
generally constructed in
_the hollow
of a tree, and immediately the v.ri
od of incubation begins the male
bird deliberately sets to work tol wall
up the aperature in - the tree, leay
4Thv'the female bird only a small slit
throughbliich it can receive air and
nourishment, „Which , the male bird
supplies. In this confinement re
mains till the young 'birds arc fit to
take Wing, when. the opening is bro
ken away by the powerful beak of
the lord and master, and his mate and
young ones liberated. Mr. Wood;
the 'naturalist, says that the hornbills
or AITIda and .A . l4crlt;,l bvhave In thin
particulitr in exactly the same man- ,
nor, altlionghthey are widely distinct
hi the .zoologieah syStein.
INDIAN 111.3NNERS.-A correspond-'
ent in the Sioux country writes:
"This. system of Indian runners
seems to be little understood.. If
im
portant news is to be carried an In,
dian gorges himself with meat, takes
a short nap, mounts one of the fleet=
est of their ponies, and rushes along
like the wind mitil his horse requires
feed,lwhen he nods a few times while
his horse satisfies its hunger from the
luxurious meadows, when the ride is
renewed. The runner needs nothingfor his pony and take4nothing for
himself but his arrows and blankets,
and will in the manner indicated ride
two or three days-and nights, passing
over from sixty to one hundred miles
in each twenty-four hours. When
the nearest camp is reached his story
is taken up by other 'lndians, and in
like manner carried in every difec
tion. The speed With which the news
travels depends upon its importthice,
but . in this way the Indians often
beat the telegraph; and their first re
ports, if they Owe direct, are usually
to be relied upOn. The runner who
brings great news is feasted from one
tepee to another, and it is not until
the story begins to grow old that he
lets loose his imagination and adds
to the,orighial in order to keep up
the interest in him as the bearer of
great news. There are always volun
teers, and frequently two or three
will start foethe same point, but the
one that gets in last is bouUd to tell
thc.biggest story, if he has . to, deny
the statements of his rivals or cut his
story out of the whole cloth in order
to do so. Hence the conflicting re
ports." >
• TUE RIGHT TIME TO GET MARRIED.
—One, , ,of the things which y9unc,
pe . Ole , ' seem to lie the most ankio4s
to .know, is "the right tipwto gdt
married ; " as some of them rnit, it. -
The great majority of young peo
ple arc poor, and get comparatively
small wanes. They naturally sup
pose that if they get married it Will
cost more to live than it costs them
while they are.single. So the ques
tion with theni is: Shall= we mpry
while. we are, young, and poor; or
wait till we gCt older and better Off?
And that is the real question in their
minds when they inquire as to " the
right time to get married . 4 ' h-
There can be no rule laid down on
this subject which will fit -all cases.
Some people are naturally so indus-.
trims and thrifty that they will get
along nuder almost any circumstan
ces. Others are so lazy and shiftlesa
that they cannot get along uuderitny
circumstances. The right time for
the first claSs to get married•is when
ever they choose to do so; while the
right time for the other class to get
married seldom comes at all.
A young couple who truly love
each other, and arc willing to work
haul and live economically, and pa
tiently build Up their fortune little
by little, may safely send,, for the
clergyman as soon as it may be;con
renicnt. But young;people wile are
lazy and extravagant; and case - more
for show - than for solid • welfare,
should wait .till they acquire correct
notions_ of life and thrifty habits be- .
fore marrying. - • . .2 • :
• Alosisir is only thus far a standard of
value : 'fbat.irhith it can measure is per
ibhable, that which it catt ilat is immortal.
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Among the, many descriptions Of
sights and scenes in' California, the
following, we think it: will be admit.'
ted, is one of the most graphic and
realistic. It is froM the-pen', of B.
Shillaber, flsq., Boston',
"known to the world as "3lrs: parting
ton,". and composed a part:or a re
cent priyate letter to onevof the edi
tors of the Times ; and. Disind , :ll,
Reading, Pa
„have had a grand time in Califor
nia, and seen more in the brief space
of two months than ordinary tour
ists.` would in six. I had friends there
with ineans and disposition to have
me see the State at its.besti and se I
was on the go continually; seeing the
grandest objects and enjoying every
thing "to the trop of my bent." I can
not giVe you, even in brief, an idea
Of that great' state, with 'hut little
More than half as many inhabitants
as there are in the eity of New York
As the 'old gentleman shiii of matri
mony, who Was Married at sixty, "It
is a big thing.'? Big waters, big
mountains, .big , mines,• big wheat
fields, big. people—everything Mas
sive 'and mountainous,, - All arc grand-.
ly Cospitable, and Wealth . puts on no
airs • because of plethoric pockets.
We call . people wealthy here who
basic attained a competency. There
an income or $500,000 'a Month; is
somewhat commonouid one I . was
told touched $1,000 ; 000. I saw piled
up in a'-private bank :silver .bricks
enough to equal, in Ycuhie . measure
ment, a half cord ..of wood, sawed in
'threes. •I. saw one wheat field of, 1.4,
000 acres, owned by one man,'and
this ~was but part of a continuous
valley of such. witliont„a fence, ex
tending for thirty miles-,Wit,h a width
of from twelve . to twenty miles. I
SIINa the big trees of Calaveras and
brought 'home with me diameters
from twenty-two to thirty-two feet- 7
saw theM measured Myself. I went.
went down among the orange groves
of Southern California, with which
Were,grOwing
. almonds, grapes, poni
egranates, figs, coffee, pepper along
side of fruits of the North, growing
luxuriantly. I saw there a woman
one hundred and thirty , seVen years:_
old, who was the mother of several
children when the old church here
was dedicated in 1.771. I rode over
seven' hundred miles of, the Pacific
ocean,so-called, but such a'scal nev
er saw see-saw as I saw iri that. I saw
a petroleum well gushing to the
ocean's .surface nand spreading for
Miles with a smell like 500,000-kero
sene lamps. - I went' through the
Gellpu gate, which in ,this day of
ofilee-makin , * and office-holding has
notonc to : t i le charge of it. I rode
to the top of Mount Diablo in a ear
riage, and saw from the, summit al
most as much as Thackery's "Little
did from the mast: "Jerusa
lem awl Madagascar and North and,
Sonth - Amerikec." One of the sub
limest views I ever saw from 4.000
fccb ri boy t a l e ievei of tfic aeu.. 'flit
atmosphere was clear and -the view
unintE 4 rrupted for hundr&ls of miles,'
comprehending the ocean;the Sier!
ras. Mount Shasta and the vast wheat
plains, veined by rivers,
- stretching at
our feet, with bays-and laiteh spark-
ling in the sun , and towns scattered
along; with individual clearings that
seemed like gardens in the distance,
and behutiful with green .and - blos
som.. What a picture this Was!
When I reached the Summit I felt
an emotion akin to that : of Ensign
Stebbings when he stood for the first
time on Mount Washington—wa'ving
his hat, he exclaimed: ‘!_Attention,
the universe!" It was,a,seene nev
er to be fOrgotten. I hatdly da r re tell
these wonders lest I am met as lagoo
was in - 'Hiawatha KaW what`
lies you tell us; do not think, thatwe
believe them."
A SUAR - 1' Boxes--A. Brownville
young man called Ott his intended
the other evening, and while waiting
for her to - make her appearance ht:
struck up a .conversation -With his
prospective brother-in-lair. After
awhile the boy asked :
' Does galvitniied niggers . know
ouch
?
I really can't, say," answered tlke.
:unused young • man, and . silence
reigned a few thomentsovhen the boy
again resumed :
.
- 1.-•
" A.tn you play clieckgrs with yer
nose ? r . ,
.
_
"No I have not acquired that ac
complishment." , •
.-- " Well you' d better Warn, -you hear
MN
" Why ? "
'CauSe :Sis says that .yer don't
know as • much as
„a galvanized nig..,
ger, but ; per dad's gut lots o' stamps,
and sheill marry you anyhow; and
she said when she got a holt o'.the
old man's sugar she was agoin' to all
the Fourth of July pereeshunS and
ice cream gum woks, and let you
stay at , home to
. .Nay checkers with
that hollyhock nose of yourn."
And - when "Sis" got her hair bang
ed and came_ia, she found the parlor
deOrted by all save her brother, who
was innocently tying the tails of two
kittens together, and singing, "0, I
love the Sabbath school."
SWALLOWING A PARM.---SbnlebOdY
says, " Our Government . aand costs
one dollar an acre,
and good - whisky'
two dollars a bottle. How many men
die landless; who, during their lives,
have swallowed whole 'townships—
trees and all! "
. There is food for reflection in this
statement. Every day of. our lives,
and almost every hour. of :each day,
we meet indlViduals not merely land
less, but .'houselcss; homeless, Tenni-,
less, who in the, course of their lives.
have swallowed ardent spiritS enough
to pay for land and. house, and have .
money in their pockets besides.
But it is not the drinker of ardent.
spirits alone who thus deprives him
self of the comforts of a home—the
tobaceo.chewer, the" cigar. smoker.
the young man who_
- spends previous
hours of each day and evening' in
work: than litiless idleness. lloUr
rarely such personslefleet; upon the
folly of their course.. The young
Man who. smokes three live cent ei
&jars a day—and' many • of theta .use
double the quantity, at double the
price, pull's away enough in the course.
of ten years to give him a liandsomlt
start iabusincss, or to provide hini
self a comfortable home.
A LAND OF WONDERS.
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.S 2 per Annum In Advance.
NUMBER 15
A OOLORADO WOMAN'S MUSEUM.
Ton wilt ask yoursertes, " What
dOes that mean,.a.woman's Museum "
and you will think, I suppose, that it
Mehm only a collection of curious
things. Which some woman has bought
and arranged. in -- glass eases., AU, it
is(jui7e different •from . that. I will
try to tell you- about it, and perhaps
by the help of the pictures, and what
I say, you will - get some idea of how
wonderful a: museum. , it is:
There are many, things in this mu
seum—shells, minerals, coin's, curious
ariudri from Japan, queer: garments
fro:* • Alaska
,tapa: cloth from the
Sandwich Islands, and a great Many
other curiosities, more than*l can re
member; or could have room in the
St. Nicholas to - tell you about. I aiir
going . to tell yeit only about the
slutfed animals and' birds. These are
the - most interesting things in the
museum,
,and ,"the wonderful thing
about them is, that • they were all
stuffed and many .of them killed by
the woman who owns the museum.
Think of that !' - -44)f a woman's being
able . to fire her' rifle as well as. any
old bunter could, and then, after she
had brought - down her 'hear or wild
cat, knowing how to skin it and. stuff
it so that it looks eXiictly as if it
.we're alive. This.Lis really the most
wonderful thing or all. You know
very well hoWstuffed animals gener
ally look.' You know - they are dead
as far off al yon tqin sap them . ; but
these animals all look !as . if they
Might walk off any Minute they
liked. 3 , lrs..?)laxwell (that- is the
name of the woman who has made
this remarkable museum) is really a
Sculptor of animalS. She molds the
animal out of plaster, of the size , and
in the position, she wishes. Then,she
fits the skin on the plaster shape.
If you visit the' Centennial ExPo
sition at Philadelphia, you may see
these stuffed aairnalS and birds in the
Kansas-and Colorado building, where
_Mrs. Maxwell has arrapgo.l them for
'exhibition.—From" . A Co/orado WO-
Ilitaeu;tl," by H. IL, in St.
NiPhola..,? for Ortober.-
THAT ONE DOOR.
The Chevalier Gerard de Kampis
was a very rich and a very proud
inan, Soon after the completion of
his magnificent' castle all his great-
neighbors were invitedl to a. grand
feast. At the conclusion of the sump
tuous repast, his - auests made speech
after- speech, in which t .the host was
landed to the skids,and,told that he
was the most fortur.ate man'a(ive.
As the chevaliqr loved flattery, use
can imagine hos .proud Old delight
ed he was. •
One among the guests, howe'ver,
said nothino , for a time. When each
man had made his speech, he uttered
the - following 'singular observation
upon the happiness of the host. '
t"Sir knight," he- said, 'ln order
that your felicity should be complete,
you require but one -more thing,
but that • one is a :very important
item:" -
" And what • thing. is that? " de
man4 ed. the knight, opening wide his
eves..
" Ohe of your doors must be wall
ed up," replied the guest. 1,
At this strenge - rejoinder. several
of the guests began to . laugh, and
Geraid himself looked as much as to
say, " This man has gone mad."
Wishing, however, do have the clue
to the enigma, he continued, "But
which door do you., mean ? " he de
manded. •
•
mean that through which you
will one (lay be carried' toyour grave,"
replied, the other.
These., words Struck both guOts
and host, and made the latter reflect
most seriously. The !proud man-re
membered the vanity of all things
earthly, and from thence! forward he
n 6 longer thOught only of the per
ishable. treasures he had once so gib-
Tied in.
only
was completely altered,
and only made use of his riches for
good - Worlzs.
• Pr is related that a man fell.asle9p
as the clock tolled the first strokn of
twelve.- He awakened ere the echo of
the twelfth stroke had died away;,
havingin the interval dreamed that
'he committed a-crime, was detected'
-after five years; tried and condemned;
the shot:k of finding the palter about
his'neek aroused him to' c6iiscions;'
nesi4, when he qi - scovered that' all
these events had happene,d 'in lan in
finitesimal fragment of time. MO
hammed; wishing to illustrate the
w;mders'of sleep,'told how a certain
man, being a :sheik,. found himself,
for. his 'Ade, made a' poor fisherman;
that he' liTed as One for sixty years,
firinging, up -a family -and working
hard, and how, upon waking from his
long dream, 'so short a time had he
been asleep, that the . narrow-beeked
gourd bottle filled With water; which;
he knew he overturned as lip -fell
asleep, had not time to emptylitselfl"
NOTES ON TEE rNTERNATION4 LESSONS.
lIV REV. JOItN .9: - STIAVALT, DS D
;OCTOBER 15, 1.676.
STEIMIEN'S MARTYRDOM. I
Acts c.L iil-430.—(IOLUENI . t/L.ST l 28,
F01:11T11 QUART Y.ll. LESSON 111
Stephen's argument in his own defence'
Closes with verse 50. It is - 'a clear, con
neactl, conci.e argument; andlike a wise,
he ends when he . is done. Some sup
psi) that he was stopped short :by inter- .
rtiptionS ma the part of his ;,audience,Ebut.'
there is no ground for such an- unworthy
notion.. The turn he takes In verse 51 is
a 'natural and eminently: ,psychological
one. The impression of 'hjs argument is
so'grea., upon his oivrt-mina, thatTe reeks
not of prudence .n'orl:ealculates results,
.but charges home 'Upon them - in a just
and airless invectivel This is the practi
cal and really the logical conclusion of
his plea, and in making it'ho was led by
the Holy Ghost. , ' , • •
1. TlM.Charge. 'Vs. 5143. "Ye stifi'..
necked and uncircumcised in heart and
ears." These aro Scriptural terms. Deut:
14 Ter. vi: 10; is: 20. The first is ta
ken frOm the resistance of oxen to the
.yoke,.and, denotes t.lierefore_a stAbor . n,
rebellions disposition; Tho otli4 ternis
.have an Old Testament significance: .
eumeisiorOvasthe sign or Gal's favor
,to
his covenant penile: `The
- niiircumeised
were heathen and were u s iduded from
this favor. *meet to be meirciuncised Inc
heart and. earls was to -be, heathenish in
lecii'ng and hearing , — to - feel and
hear like • the despiked °Lanes. Tile
ilraw - lexPreases- the --itthurst un
belief 7 and rejeetion et% Clod, and
therefore-Was the 'most - , opprobrious that
could have been eroployed. ‘ "Ye do al
ways resist the • Hai Ghost;";, e., fall
against him as an 'external foa This
phrase shows that the Holy °hist did not
dwell in them as a nation; it is another
way of saying that in their organized ea
' paCity they were unbelievers. "As your
fathers did, so also . do ye." He has al
ready shown bow their tattlers rebelled
-against God, and therefore against his
Spirit. (Sco • lie charges
plainly that their are actuated by the same
unbelieving, rebellions • and heathenish
spirit.
V; 52. "Which of the prophets have .
not your fathers persecute' ?"' This is
.a
strong way of saying that it, was the Cus
tom of ; the fathers to persecute Qod'.s
prophets 7 -nirt every individual, but as a
class. •:-.lt,is a mode Of-speech adopted by.
`highly impassioned feeling. The fathers
slew the prophets who foretold the com--
ing of. the Messiah; this was bad enough.
But, they had gape much farther. They
had . betrayed by artifice ' and fraud, and
then murdered the Messiah hithself.o
V. 5:3. Here we have a farther enhance
ment of their guilt. They bavo not
,kept
the law; that great law which God'gan
to Moses on the - Mount, and of which ant.
gels acted as mediators and transmitters.
"13y the disposition of angels," , ---i, st., lit
erally, by the. orders or injunstion of an
gels. "The presenee of angels at the
giving of the law is not, express T stated
- in the Old Testament, Nit is alluded to in
iii: 19, and Heir. ii: 2. Philo and Jo
sePhus testify to the same tradition; the ,
Seventy translate Dent. 2,' m such
a Manner as to assert the same fact :‘ it is
implied perhaps in Ps. Lx- ill,: 17, The .
Jews regarded this angelic mediation as
both ennobling the law'and as conferring
special honor upon themselves, to whom;
the lati was given." (Hackett).
2. The Filed. V. 5.1. '" When they
heard these Viings";- is e., his entire
speech, rather than the three preceding
verses. The effect was tremendous.
" They were sawn through the heart."
" The strength of the'expression, and the
obvious analogy of 37 (they were prick
ed, or pierced, in their hi:arts) seem to in
dicate a more complex and violent emo
tion, which may be supposed to have con
sisted in the simultaneous combination of
a strong conviction; both of tuind and
conscience,; with unbending pride, vindic
tive spite, and furious anger, . which to
gether , no doubt sufficient to saw
through. 1 - ‘e„ir very hearts." (Alexander.)
Thiskiolent feeling showed itself in bru
tal expressions. They gnashed ever him
with their teeth—like fierce, snarling ani
mals. They' moved towards .him, and
standing over him, gnashed their teeth in•
hatred and anger. This was the begin
:ring of that tumultuary violence- whose , '
fatal termination we shall witness as we
' )roceed.
' 3. Stephen's Vision: Vs. 5ti, 7 .53. " But ,
he, being full of the Holy Ghost (see ch.
vi: 5) looked up steadfastly into heaven."
-4. e., gazed intently towards heaven. It
does not necessarily mean that he could
see the sky from whore he stood. "And
saw the glory of God." This implies a
preternatural vision. The impression was
made Upon the soul, but it' seemed as if '
he saw it with- hiS eyes. It was a real
spiritual vision. And it was confined to
Stephen. He, alone of all in • the, room,
sa%v the glory of God; i. e 4 a sensible
Manifestation of his presence and glory.
*hat the form of the manifestation was;
we cannot determine. Some form of light,
w. - suld scorn most probable. It may havo
been such a vision as dying saints often
enjoy. " And Jesus standing on the right
hand of God." 'The right band of God is
the place of honor and power. He raw .
Jesus, therefore, clothed_ with honor and
Tfower in the glory which he had with. the
'Father before the world, was. He saw
him standing: as-if to receive ,and honor
him, or pleading for him that his faith
might not fail. , . •
4. The Execution. VS. 57-60. "Then
they cried out with a, loud voice (as if to
protest against his blasphemy), and-stop
ped their ears (in order: that they might
not hear any , more of it), and ran upon
him with one accord."' The slaying of
Stephen was an irregular, tumultuous act,
done without a - formal sentence of the
:Sanhedrin, who had no 'power to inflict.
capital Punislimerit. But it is `probable
that- the Roman . Gdvornor winked at it
froin fear of the Jews,' And cast him
outof the city." Probably no. one could
be put to death withi4 the. city walls.,
'Jesus was led without the 'gate. 'See
Diva. xxiv; 14; 1 Kings - xxi: 13. "And.
thef.witnesses laid down their clothes."
(See Dent. xvii: 7). This law was de
signed to check the zeal of'informers. , In
order to throw the stones, which were
very-large, the witnesses laid off their
loose; !lowing upper gar_ments, as the
Gieck word means; "at a young man's
feet, whose liana/ was Saul:" They,left
them there for isafe:leeping, perhaps; or
in recognition of his official authority as
the representative of the Sanhedrin, chost n
to direct and witness the execution:. His
name is given, because it is the' first ap
pearance Of one who afterwardS -acts - the
most Conspicuous part in the, history, re
cOrded in this book. 119 eras evidently a
member of the Sanhedrin (xxvi: 10), and
,probably about 30 years of ago. '
"And they sit:iced Stephen, calling up
on' God." * The word GOd is in italics,
shiakving that it is not, found in the origin
al Greek. The literal translation is bet
ter "And they stinted Stephen, calling
upon .and saying, Lord Joiaus, receive my
spirit." lie invokes Jesus as his, Lord, a
strong proof of his divinity. " This pray-.
er of Stephen is not otdy, a direct imita
tion of our Lord'is upon the. cross, (Lake
46), but a further proof that he ad
dressed "him as a -divine person, since ho
here asks of the Son' precisely what the
'Son there asks of the Father." (Ak.tan
do.l) ".
" And ho kneeled down (either in pray
er, or as a „symptom of exhausted
strength), and Cried with a loud voice,
Loral, lay not (or reckon not) this sin to
the.r charge.", Here again', aro see Ste
`phonis Christ4ike spirit. ills; prayer is
evidently a recollection and imitation of
the Saviour's prayer on - the cross (Luke
xxiii 34). "And when he had said this,
ho fell asleep.\' "This is the usual mcAo
ofpxpressing the death ,of saints' in the
Bible. It.is an expression indicating (1)
thp peacefulness of their death, compared
with the alarm of sinners; (2) the hope of
a resurrection; sus awe retire to sleep with
the hope of again awaking to the duties
and enjoyments of life." (Barnes).
Tennyson thus beautifully describes
Stepthen's death, (whom he calls "an
quenched fire") in "The Two Voices":
pe beaded not reviling tones,
Nor sold his heart to idle moans. ,
Tho• cursed, and aria - fled, and "bruised with stones;
Dui Cootidg upward, ft#l,l4:
1113 p r% d, ana num abaft), place'
Gotr9 ;tur34mote3 Minot thitkechn
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