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The Corners Agicted by the Oran Infidelity of Col.
Ingersoll, of Illinois, now on the Stump for Hayes,
Hold a Meeting to Denounce Him—Joe Bigler
Makes Troubles
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CONFEDRIT X ROADS, • -
Wmn is IN THE STATE EV . K.ENTUCKY,
SeptOrnber'22d, 1876.,
The depth uv wickidniss hez been
soundid by the Ablishnists at last.
They hey Bob Ingersoll' of Illinoy,
on the stump shreekin for Hayes,
and again our reform candidate,
Samyoel Tilden. To say I am shock
ed is to state . the state uv my feelins
mildly.. Don't they know that In
gersoll is a _ infiddle ? Dont they
know that he haint no vital piety ?
I told Deekin Pocf l' ram uv it, end
when I explained to him wat an in
fiddle wuz he wuz shoCked.
" Wat !" sighed the Deekin, " not,
bleeve in religion ? Well, I'm d--Ld!
Let's hold a meetin and protest agin
the cuss."
The Deekin's suggestion struck
me ez bein an exceedinly good one,'
and I determined to act upon it. . I
bed mail to get thro with first, and
that took me nearly all day. I
coOden't stop even to rebook infideli
ty, till I 'did my biznis., I lied re
ceived $l,OOO from 'the :Coo York
Committy to be youzed in sending
voters to Injeany—l had to reed two
letters from John. Morrisey instruc
tin me how to yooze the money, and
I bed to find quarters for an Irish
brooser, who hed bin pardoned out
uv the State's prison to assist in this
campane, and who bed ben sent on
to show us how to work repeeters to
the best. advantage. Afore I cool
assist in roobookin . Republican infi
delity and castin a stigma on.religon,
I bed to bet all this out itv the way.
I called t ' the meetin at Bascom's,
our Church not Kevin been opened
fur religions meetins sense Johnston
went out in 1869. It wuz a lively
ineetin: When the Corners wuz
formed uv the impiety and irreligion
uv this Pet uv Republikinism, there
wuz au indignaitien manifes - ed that
wuz trooly encurridgin. They wuz
all convinst that of such a tontem
iner uv religion wuz permittid to go
loose; without rebook, there wuz
cussid little hope uv Republikin in-,
stitooshens, and after drinkin around
two or three times we organized, I
takin the cheer.
I remarkt that it wuz no ordinary
occasirn - that bed called us together.
Our liberties wuz in danger from the
Republikin party, and our' religion
from the shkkin infidelity uv one uy
its cheer advocates. We may lose
our liberties,' but. shel we lose our
religion ?
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of by. a d--41 site ejackilated
the awjence, ez one man.
I then presented a series of resolu
tions, ez follows:
AVAREAS, The Republikin party hey,
on the - stump. advocatin its heresies,
Bob Ingersoll uv Illinoy ; and
WAR i
SAS, Said Ingersoll is an nfid
dle uv the most radical stamp, a man
wick denies the trooths tiv holy NV
\Vat is holy Writ ?" asded a doz
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MEMO
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I had to stop and explain to em
that Ingersoll wantid to destroy the
Bible, wich infooriated em.
' 'Ain't we to be allowed, to hey our
regler township Bible ? Wat'll we.
hey to sware witnesses on in boss
cases?" they indignantly demaridid.
" Go on ! go on ! down with the in
fiddler !"
When we come to order agin, Josef
askt permission to make a few
re
marks. He sympathized with the
meetin hartily. He knowed Inger-'
soil, and knowed him: to be an intid
dle and unbeleeyer. Feelin that he
must add his unworthy testimony
agiq sich a man and sich doctrines he
wood—but if the meetin wanted to
beer him they must git away from
the bar. -
It took me some time to git em
away, for a LOoisVille drummer for a
likker house happened to come in for
a drink, and the entire meetin bad
gathered around him - expectin to be
askt to take suthin. It wuz a bitter
thing for me to stay away with such
an opportoonity afore me, but "booty
first," is my motto, and I stick it out.
The Loois•ille man havin treeted
twice, and there bein no_show that
he wood do it agin, they reassembled.
Josef then remarkt that sympathi
ziu with the objicts uv the meetin, he
bed prepared some resolooshens his
self, wieh he shood offer, with the re
mark that if he wuz interrupted he
wood to wunst lick the interrupter
out uv his boots in leis than a minit
WAREAS, The Republikin party is
lissening, jist now, to Bob Ingersoll,
uv Illinoy, a intliddle, - with denies
the trooths uv revelashen, therefore,
be it
WILKES-MARI:F., PA.
July 27;76
J. N. CALIFF
Jan. 1, 1875
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NABI3Y OH DiGERSOLL
Itesol red, That Bob Ingersoll, in
denyin the divinity uv our Savior, in
ilix a Mortal stab at the Dinweratie
party, to wich a savior is, especially,
a necessity ;
ReAdved, That Bob' Ingersoll, in
denyin the divinity uv our Saviour,
hurts our feelin ez Dimierats, ez it
Wuz for us, mostly, that he comein
to the world and died.
11".kR.EAS - , The appeerance uv sich
a man on the stump is calkelated to
outrage the feelins uv the Corners,
and tare up the bulworks uy•sosiety,
therefore be it
Resolved, Than the eleekshun uv
Tilden and liendriX is a necessity,
and that after this exhibition uv infi
delity- on the part uv ingersoll,every
RepUblikin wich don't immejitly jine
us and east his ballot for Tilden - and
reforni, is unworthy us' salvashen. •
Afore we took a vote on the •reso
looshuns, we adjourned to take a
drink, and while a takin uv it. Joee
Bigler and PollOck come in. I shud
dered when I saw em, for in all the
twelve yeers them . carpit-baggers hey
bin here I never saw em without an
tissipatin . trubble, iand Livtiz
,never
yit disappinted.
'Bigler offered the folloWing:
/?ezturred, That when Bob Inger
soll denies the trooth uv one-part of
the Idly skripters, he denies it all,
and that when he shakes our faith in
the savin us the theef upon the cross,
he destroys the only hope the average
Democrat hez in a blessed immortal
ity beyond the grave.
Beeolved i That when Bob Ingersoll
tint!. nenoesitf ttv a plate ft?
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fecher punishment which steel be
eternal, it shows that he hez never
lived in the Corners, and is therefore
ignorant uv wat the requirement uv
the sitooashen really is.;
Resolved, That Bob Ingersoll
ought to be immejitly suppressed.
These resolooshens, Bigler's and
all ; wuz passed yoonanimously, and
we wuz.agin on with our bizinis when
the Looisville man happenin to come
in agin, the meetin all rushed to the
bar, so az to be in time of he shood
invite the crowd' to another drink.
Thq fool tteetin twice or three times,
it -wuz with difficulty I got em back
to bizinis. I bed another resolooslaun
wick I lied given Deacon •Pogram to
present, but the old saint wuz too
much overcome by so much gratoo
itus likker, and he sunk prostrate on
the floor; afore he could read a word
uv em. Then, jist ez Capt. M'Pelter
wuz about makin som . remarks agin
the alarmin increes uv infidelity, in
consekence uv toleratin such men ez
Ingersoll, the Looisville man assaul
ted him for pikin his pocket uv his
handkerelier,' while at the bar, and
the brooser that Morrisey bed sent
me jined the : skrimmage without,
knowin where or wieh' to strike, the
meetinended in a skrirnmage that
wreckt Bascom's place. I managed
in the row to git the Looisville man's
hat and coat, which (le lied injudich
usly thrown off, for my share, (I shel
stump for ,Tilden and reform in that
coat.) and got out to put mu away in
a safe place.
When V returned the entire meetin
NVIIZ snorin soundly on the ttoor; for
they had got Ilea bad uv liaseum's
an' it bed finished em.
I writ out the resolooshuns -de
nounein Ingersoll's infidelity on Dee-
kin Porgam's back, for every table;
wuz bustid, and sentem to Looisville
to be published, and went home,r It
won't do for the Ablishnist tclput
any infiddles on us.
PETROLEUM V.
A PENNSYLVANIA STORY
Moles Rea& has written a story,
the Nets for which come from Hones
dale,;jl'n. Thirty years ago jJohn
Seitz German clerk in a New York
store,' was - engaged to a young girl
named Katherine ltief.7 The Califor
nia gold fever broke out, and he join
ed a party of adventurers. The first
letter that he received from
. hoine
bore the 'tidings that his sweetheart'
was soon to become the mother of
his child. Ile pledged -himself to
return as soon as possible and marry,
her. She went to Honesdale to live,
with her brother, and to wait for her
lover's return. Two or three letters
came, and then there was a silence .
fl.n. years: A
. VOußg blacksmith,
named Wendt; professed great love
I . Or her,•and al),er putting him off for
four or five years' she accepted him,
fully convinced that her gold-hunter
was dead. She took ,her child to
New York and lived with her
husband. lie was a brute. lie
abused her, he neglected her, atird
threw her into consumption. Mean
while Seitz; instead of writing letters
or dying, had made an- enormous
fortune, and returned to Ilonesdale
after his sweetheart and child. ,The
new of her marriage stunned hill).
Ile went to New York andjound her
dying in a tenement, with no one
near her but her baby—his child.
Seitz buried her in Greenwood, and
a week afterward Wendt, ovpreotne.
with remorse, shot himself over her
grave. The child was left, in Ilones
dale with her brothers. family, and,
his father returned to San Franciscel,
where he married, built a fine house
with an elegant apartment. known as
"Johny's room," and provided liber
ally for the boy in , his will. "John
ny" si t as a frail lad, with'his mother's
consumptive tendencies. Ile never
occupied that palatial room ; he died
a week agci Tuesday, as rich as a
wince. But he did not know•of his
Owl fortune, for the father dieri in
San Francisco barely 'an hour before
the son's death. The boy's inherit
ance goes to his Aunt.
A MAIL .PACKAGE CAST ON TfIE
WATt . Ri Focm YEARS AGO.-Over four
yearS'ago a package valued at $5O was
mailed at Linslenville to a postollice
in Pennsylvania, and as means of
security had it registered ; but some:.
where on its passage it disappeared
and could not be found. The case
was investigate )yspeCial ollicers,
and everything possible done to find
the lost package, but without avail.
Lindenville is, a country, postoffice,
and.from there the mail is carried to
Williamsfield, a railroad stAtion, by
a route agent, and in all ea - es regis
tered mail matter has to be iceeipted
for before he takes it away., In this
case the Lindenville postmaster had
a receipt from !the agent, but as the
agent had none •from the AV illiams
field postmaster the package could be
traced nci, furthetr. After a vigilant
search•the package was given up Tor
lost, and the route agent was com
pelled to pay the loss. The matter
was almost' foro-otten, until a few.
(lays ago the package e : turned up,
and
it had been all those years lying
within an arm's length of the Will
iamsfield postmaster's desk. It had
been received from the route agent
in a small pouch, fogether , withabout
forty letters, and as the pencil was an
extra one, only occasionally . used, it
was by mistake hung Upon a hook
near the desk, and there haling been
no use for it since, it had been 3 there
all these years. One jiay last week
the pouch was taken - down for use,
and its contents fouiid intaet.-efere
land Herald. "
"They (the framers of the Con:4li
tution) left revolution organized
whenevet it should be demanded b
the public opinion of a State; left it
with ; power to snap the tie of Con
iederntion as
,a nation might break a
treaty, and to repel coercion as a na
tion,rnight, repel invasion."—Sametel
J. Tilden, iii 186.0.
" The great issue is not hard or
soft:Money, civil,service reform or
the tariff question; but whether vio
lence and disorder shall control this
Government or the sentiment of the
law-abiding people. The South
would
,secure control of the Govern
ment by violence, and the Democrat
ic party is but the ally of the South.'?
a... Gourd ion% to 18766
TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY,. PA., THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 12, 1876.
Original flocirg.
Welcome ! thrice welcome ! each people and nation;
Come from wherever yonvhomelands be :
From populous city, and lone reservation,
And from the tar-away Isles of the Sea:
Join with Columbia,-fu grand acclamation
: Of Joy, on this llundre4 liirtiulay of the Free I
,May your nu:Witten banners that flaunt Unto heav'n
With our own starry emblem In unison twine,
Till. gently earess'd by the breezes of heaven,
k Issel and reklssed by the golden sunshine,
They tell of an Era far pleas ter even
Than ever was dreamed of by Bard or Divine
Cast, cast to the winds a 0 your strl fo and commotion
O People on this our Cenrennlal Year:
That our Peace may henceforth, like the current of
ocean,
Flow onward, with Whitt to check 11$ career,
Till the clashing of Creed , shall be atlll'd in
Devotion,
And Love bloom In beauty, unsha4owed by Fear
Clasped hands—as a sYnthol of union—sr° stand 'A
lit this dazzling sun-burst of glory,
'While the voices of wit,d4 and of wares OD our
strand,
Shalt Acho for aye the glad story
Of Liberty wrested from Tyranny's hand,—'§
Most luminous page In our Idntmy I
Welcome 1 thrice welcome 1 each people and nation;
Come from wherever your homelands be :
From populous city and lone reset*ation,
And from the far-away isles of•the Sea :
Join with Cntumhta,-ln grand acclUmation
Of Joy, on this Hundredth Birthday of the Free !
low-omit, Oct. 1, 1876. W. 11. F.
l.S'r"ll;liwoiJ L
EDEN OF WILDWOOD.
Paul Renford was thunderstruck.
FOr once in his life he was aroused
to something like consideration of a
subject in hand.
Paid was four-and-twenty. At the
age of fourteen he had been left an
orphan, 'and heir to an estate worth a
million ; and his uncle—his mother's
brother .2.- had been appointed, his
guardian. This uncle was Anson
Betterman, an enterprising merchant
and a true hearted man. After Paul
came of age, and became master, of
his property, through the advice of
hi uncle he employed a lawyer named
LOvett to act as his agent--to look
after rents, and soon—and gradually
this Lovett , was an p.t• and
ready man of business, had' gained
into his hands the control of the
whole property; and so completely
had Paul trusted him that he had not
even demanded vouchers for his bank
transactions.
Refofmr.
In fact, Paul llenford haddegener
ated into a listless, aimless being.
llis natural abilities, of the very high
est order, had been prostituted to the'
most useless of all pursuits, the mere
seeking of pleasure for the purpose of
killitgtime. At first he had, lived
moderately ; his youthful • vigor had
held him aloof from-the need of stim
ulants; but of date a long continued
round of siissil)ation-7-partio, balls,
club's and billjards, in which night
was .appropriated to wakefulness and
the day to sleep—had so reduced his
phygical Vim that without stimulants
. he found no Comfort.
.
,And now Ansn Betterman had
conic ,to inform him that Porter Lov
ett had left the country with every
available ..crap of his property.
" Do yp.o mean," gasped Paul, when
he couldl.)reathe, " that he has taken
all ?"
".Yes, everything. You had allow
ed him such unlimited sway that he
fOund no difficulty in getting every
dollar into his hands."
• "And I am fl pithiless
" You know best whether' you bad
any of your vast property invested in
business."
"Not a penny." .. .
"'Then 1 fear that you have little
at band which you car . now really
call your Own." ~.
"In Ilenven's name, Uncle, what
shall I do ?"
" Really, Paul, I see but two ways
open to you. You can lie down' anti
wither and (lie under the stroke, or
you can do. as thousands of others
have done in misfortune— arouse
yourself, put on the whole armor of
true manhood, and fight the battle
bravely."
" I must earn my own living?"
" It would seem so2'
" And how ?"
I can give you 'a 'place in my
store."
" No, no,l cannot begin the battle
here—not here in the city where I
have led -the van of folly and dissipa
tion. Let me have time to think."
" All right, my boy; and meantime
I will be thinking too."
On_ the fllowing day Mr. Better
man called again ; but Paul had not
thought what , he would do.
" What have you thought about it,
Jnele ?"
" tell you what 'I have thought.
my boy. Back in . the country—and
yet not very far from the city—are
the mills owned by my friend Sar
gent. They arc in a quiet, secluded
the inhabitants of which are
mostly his own operators. Mr. Sar
gent will givp you a clerkship there
and the pay, 'ill be ample for your
suppOrt."
said Paul, " may we not
Lind Lovett?"
'• As yct'we haye been able to gain
no clue to his whereabouts. lie is a
man not r easily to be entrapped. .But
we can try further."
"Fthink I will go up and look at
the mills."
And so Paul went up to Wildwood,
as Mr. Sargent had named his settle
ment,and he found it rural, and re
tired enough. But it was•a beautiful
spot, and he had a strong inclination
to accept the offer. He returned to
the city on theevening of Mrs.Spuit
enstinger's grand party. He was
wondering if he had, better go, when
he learned from a servant that no in
vitation had been sent him. On that
very refternoon •he met the Misses
Spuitenstinger on the avenne, And
they did not acknowledge his saluta
tion.
" So, so !" he muttered, " and, that
is all I am worth to them."
For a little time his heart sunk,
but he rallied
" Come, come, my. boy," he Sex
claimed, smiting 'himself upon the
breast s " there may he something in
life yet. Be brave for once."
° And on the very next day be ac
cepted the clerkship at the Wildwood
11111b41 find entered RI ones um IM
'REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM. ANY QUARTER.
OE3TENIIAL LYRIC.
duties. For a time he found it,dull4
hard work; but gradually his health
improved, and' the
and
of; youth
came back to him; and under simple
living his muscles"had strengthened,
and his whole frame received 'a per-,
feet tune' of manly beauty and elas-'
ticity, Ind now his duties become
light and cheering, and he sang and
whistled at his work. , •
' The overseer of the' mills was Mr.
Grayson, and with him Paul found a
home. Mr. Grayson's daughter, De - -
lia, was a healthful, light hearted, true
spirited girl of nineteen. She was
one of those blonde beauties whose
whokcpresence is sunshine, arid her
merry laugh rippled like, the sweet
music of dancing waters in the peb
bly brooklet. The student of human
nattire.who heard that laugh would
unhesitatingly qleclarc that only a
heart of native purity and gentleness
could 'underlie it.
At first Delia Grayson, ,when she
saw that Paul Renton! was weak and
dejected, sought to . -Cheer and enter
tain him. She had heard the story
of his great loss, and she pitied him.
She played for him upon the harp
and upon the piano, and she sung to
him, and talked with him. But by
and-byovhen he had grown. strong
and vigorous, and when his inate
manhood had manifested itself, she
geew shy and taciturn, and finally
sought to avoid him.
And then, for the first time in his
life, Paul knew what true love was.
For the first time he expeiieneed that
sense of devotion which leads the
heart to offer itself upori the altar of
iaith in the woman loved. He asked
Mr. Grayson if he - night seek, his
oaUghter's love. I._ ; overseer (lid
not object.
And, Delia? Had Paul been as
versed in•reatlimz.the human heart in
its native truth ,as he had been in
translating the siren song of ilattt;ry,
he might have known that the love of
the beautiful girl was all his own.
So, when Paul Benford had been a
year at Wildwood, Delia became his
wife, and he was happy—happier far
than he had ever been And he was
advanced in the mills from a clerk
ship- to a . responsible agency ; and
thus he had frequent occasion to visit
the city; but there was nothing in
its din and_ glare attractive to him,
and he always came !home with a
deeper and more abiding love for his
own fond hearthstone at Wildwood.
During the first year of Paul's mar
riage, a branch railroad was Opened
to c 'Wildwood, and thus • they were
Within an how' of the city ; and the
mill property was greatly enhanced
in value.
" ith," said 'the young man one
day, as he stood upon the piazza of
his cottage and looked off upon the
rolling landscape of hill arid dale that
stretched away beyond the river," if
I only owned that sweep of land'!"
" It is certainly a pleasant pros
pect," said his Uncle Betterman, who
had come up to pay him a visit.
"Aye," added Paul, "and how it
must increase in value now that the
rail hai opened this way."
At this juntture Delia came out
and called them in to tea. She took
uncle Anson by the arm and told him
he was her prisoner. 'And he bent
over and kissed her, and said' it would
be a most. blessed imprisonthent.
" Don't you find it so, Paul ?"
"It is heaven where she is !" was
Paul's answer.
And upon.that she left Uncle An
son and threw her arms about her
husband's beck,
" Dear Patilo-on are a blessing •to
me."'
Shortly afterward the Ohtmerchant
said to his nephew :
" Paul, do you ever firid yourself
longing for the old life in'the city ?"
•"Poes the saved mariner look back
with longing upon the fearful death
he has escaped and willingly return
to storm and wreck ?"
" I think not, my boy."
" And can a man, in his full sense,
long for the dazzle and glare of the
empty life that brings only pain and
unrest, when a bright spirit like this
holds watch and Ward for ,him over
an earthly heaven ?"
Ile held his wife by , the hand as he
spoke, and his eye was radient with a
light supernal. •
It,;, was on the following day, a
beautiful day in early autum, that
Paul and Delia walked out Upon the
gentle hill' that sloped up, from the
icottage. And again he looked off
'upon, the grand spread of landscape
beyond the river.
" Ah," he said, '=if if I owned that t
land 1 would do a great work, Delia."
" What would yon do?" asked a
voice behind hini.
Paul turned and beheld his uncle,
" If you owned that land, what
would you do with it 2"
" I would make it bloom with life."
replied the yOuth,eloquently. "Think,
now that the rail is laid, how near it
is to the city. Think of ,the toilers
there who might find ligh and corn-
fort in these healthful shades. If
owned that land I would iinv4e cal
tatol to opemit to the life that ougl
to occupy it. I would lay out streets,
and portion off lots for dwellings,
each with its garden, and I would
call it The Eden of Wildwood.'"
"And suppose you had the capi
tal of your own, my boy ?"
"The Eden of Wild wood should
be a verity."
A shadow passed over the old man's
face, and then came a shining-light.
Ile reached out and took liis neph
ew's hand.
" Paul, the capital is yourS, the
land is yours 1"
Paul would have laughed if his Ti
de had Lot looked so solemnly upon
him while he spoke. As. it was, he
simply exhibited bewilderment,
" I heard you express an earnest
wish to own the land, and secured! it,
for you," continued Betterman.
"'Uncle This is a serious jest "
"Itis no jest, Paul. In one word
—Porter Lovett has returned."
" Lovett !—returned ?"
"Yes, and your fortune is safe."
Paul Renford was not sure that he
was in -his waking senses. Ilis un
cle was not the man to utter lan
guagejestingly.
"It is true, my boy. Lovett has
'come back, and every ,dollar that he
ever had of yours is not only ,safe but
the amount is well nigh doubled.''
"Uncle Ansonff-what is this?" '
" roll nut titstt t" • .
"I dare not. Tell me.".
Again the 'old man took hid neph
ew's hand, and after a brief, silent
pause; he answered :
" Paull, you may blame me if you
care, you may heap wrath upon my
head if you like, but you Must know
that Lovett' has only acted at my
bidding. I „sent him
,away, „and he
stayed - away until I had called him
back. I saw you failing and' sinking
my boy. I saw my sister's son wast
ing and dying of a disease which
could not be cured except he Wan
lifted up.out of the pit into which he
had . fallen. I saw his young m4ir .
flood—so full of native power and
goodness—bowed, and—"•
"Stop! Stop I" said Paul, raising
his•other hand. "I see it all."
"And do you blame me."
"Blame you ?"
" - Aye, do you blame Me for the .
hard, harsh remedy I applied?"
'9lame.you, uncle ?,:Shall I blame
yoU for my italvatime ' Shall 1
blame you for My manhood's health
and strength and, vigor? Shall J
blame you for—this ?" And he let
go his uncle's hand and drew his
wondering wife to his side. - "I only
pray to God that the return of• my
lost Wealth does not make my wife
love me any less. It can never over . -
shadow with its ,bulk-these other joyk
which have now grown up from the
better life.
It was all as Uncle Betterman had
related.. Lovett had gone away at
his bidding, having first secured the
property so that no harm could-befall
to it—and it had all been done that
Paui might be thrown uponthis own
resources, and be thus saved from
the sloth that 'Was eating away his
young life. And it worked well.
And when Paul Renford had re
covered back his great fortune he
was. true to . the promise herhad made
conceining the beautiful tract of
land across the river; and this is the
true story of how the toilers of the
city came to be blessed with thoSe
pleasant healthful homes iu the Eden
of Wild wooct
FAILVRES IN BUSINESS.—The real
cause seems to rest In an over-de.
i'elopuient of the, business idea: too
much grasping too much mentality
along the line of material things.
'New England is .too Still . of mills
whielr are. too Innr . ,,too wide, and
too many stories high. - The west is
too full of too large farms, and to.,
.large storehouses.. In brief, the
country, in running after money, has
run itself out of breath. It i should
not at this tiine .be the ehief,end of
man to diSeclVer how soon again he
may take the race course, but rather
be shotild consider , whether the
chain4ightning method is either nec
essary or desirable. We need to be
impressed with the thought that we
are dwellers upon the margin of eter
nity, and to remember that those
who pursue wealth for wealth's sake
are only children running after gaudy
butterflies. Over every counter
should be written these words.
"rime is only a gateway.' * * * All
nations seem to be sharers in the pre
vailing financial distress ; so too all
should be, sharerS in a living faith in
the words of our Lord, 'Wherefore,
if God SO T clothe the grass of the
field; which to-day is and to morrow
is cast into- the oven, shall he not
much more clothe you, 0 ye of little
faith? Seek first the „kingdom of
God and his righteousness, and all
these things shall be added unto
you.—Chicago Alliance.
How comes it that the little vol
ume, the Bible, composed by humble
►ilen in a rude.age,- when art and sci
ence were but in their childhood, has
exerted more influence on the human
mind and on the social system than
all other books put together?
Whence comes it that this book has
achieved such marvelous changes in
tho opinions l of mankind—exalted
the conditi..nr of women—raised the
standard of public morality—created
for families that blessed thing, a
Christian home—and caused its,other
triumph by causing benevolent insti
tutions,opemand expansive, to spring
up as with the wand of enchantment?
What sort of a book is this, that even
the wind and waves of Itunian pas
sion obey it ? What other engine / of
social iinprovement has operated so
long and lost none of its virtue?
Since it appeared, many boasted
plans of amelioration have been
tried and failed--many codes of juris
prudencs have arisen, and run their
course, 'and expired. Empire after
empire has been launched on the tide
of time, and .gone down and expired.
But this book is still going about do
ing good—leaving, society with its
holy principles—cheering the sorrow
ful with consolation—strengthening
the tempted—encouraging the peni
tent, calming the troubled spirit and
smoothing the pillow of death.. Can
such a book be the offspring of hp
man genius? Does not the vastness
of its effects demonstrate the excel
lency of the poWer to be of God.
CAUSE OF ,INSANlTY.—Drinking is
a main cause of insanity. ' Alcohol
flies to the brain, and not unfrequent
ly dethrones 'reason, and leaves its
victim 'helpless idiot or a raving
maniac. Drinking parents often have
imbecile or insane children. Dr.
Howe; of Boston, tells us that out of
300 inmates iof an asylum there, he
knew that 147 bad drunken parents.
In addition to deranging the mental
poWers of otherwise perfectly sane
persOns, drinking develops tendencies
to insanity that already , exist. As
thereare grades to insanity; so there
are grades between perfect mental
soundness and insanity. Every one
knows people who. are _ " eccentric,"
flighty," or "weak-minded." Alco
holic liquors readily affect such, and
numbers of . the inmates of our asy
lums are people of this class who
have had the tottering• balance of
their ; reason completely upset by
drinking. are driven mad by
anxieties o» account of losses an
death caused by intemperance.
The Drinking 'System," from Mac
millan's Magazine.
SIM was plump and beautiful, and he
waa wildly fund of her. She hated him;
but womanlike; she stroll, vat eh him
Me wee afleet
0
0
OCTOBEIL
the month of carnival of all the year, • .
Wheh Nature latadlliti wild earth go Its way,
And spend whole lIPMOTIS on a single day.
The spting-time holds her white and pup*. dear;
October, lavish, flaunts them fall and near.
The Bummer charily her reds doii lay
Like Jewels on her costliest army;
October. scornful. Mitts them on a bier.
The winder hoards tile pearls of frost, In slam
Of kingdom. Whiter penes than - winter knew,
Or Empress wore, In Ears anelent)inet
October, feasting 'heath her dome of blue,
Drinks atst draught, slow filtered through
Sunshiny 'air, as Ina tingling wine I
—.4tianfce Monthly
r, For tho I!.r.rortTE . O.)
OTTE CENTENNIAL.
' •
BY MARY N. ROCKWELL.
Arriving at out destination: with
the usual aching void in the place
where nature no doubt - intended
brains to have been, and.eonsequerit
ly unfitted to find our destination,
though it had been blazoned in fire
before our very nose, it therefore
seemed little less than a special pro-
Videnee to see the imposing figure of
oar anticipated host Isoornincr up at
the portals of the Fl got: Quickly we
were under his hospitable roof, and
handed over to 016 kindly care of his
sister. Our young companion was
nt . t. Pert, to feel hiniself a stranger in
a strangecity, but taken with anoth
er newlY-arrived ''party to see the
nearest lion (Girard College), and, on
his return adopted into the fraternity
of boys (who are mutual :Free Ma
sons), escorted to the theatre, and
finally making the sixth in the jolly
crew who occupied the same room—
and pf course indulged in a " pillow
fight" in the morning. - •
Every- one up early ; toilets, and
breakfast quickly dispatched, ' - 'to be
in readineSs for the "one-horse shay,''
which was quickly loaded up with .
fire ladies, two gentlemen, two boys,
the Dutch driver (invariably happi
-1 est of the whole load), and last but
not least,, darling. little Eda, who,
ever chattering and laughing, was
the crowning glory of the . w hole, And
always elected to ride in the lap of
"that gentleman,"—a perfect stranger
to her, whom she had divined with.
the unerring instinct of childhood to
be a »mil!' man. Oh, those jolly
rides, clattering three miles down the
avenues with never-failing fire of Ain
and laughter, till we brought - up and'
were dumped at the trysting place,
the Elm-st. entrance, opposite. the
r‘ LIII9st Show !"
..r What happiness to wander through
that Allaudin's•palace of delight, the
Main Building, with its treasures
gathered from many lands!—caught
now by the weird light gleaming
from' the great Hungarian opal; lis
tening to solemn organ tones,beside
plashing fountains; beguiled now by
John Chinaman; now standing spell-
bound before the dead Christ in the
sepulchre; again wending• our way
where gentle policemen stand, senti
net beside Tiffany's Golconda.,
Outstripping the I giant's "seven
league boots " in our car ride through
Wonderland ; past the winged horses
and past the giant ironz:hand that
i)
holds up its light guide belated
mariners upon the 'miniature sea ;
alighting at the Turkish Bazar,where
a villaino,uslooking chap
. with mag
nificent black eyes and a non-descript
garment (was .it trousers or petticoat,
I wonder?) 'strides around with an
egg cup filled With , black coffee, held,
lik Charley Bates: candle, in. a cleft
stick (see Oliver Twist), shouting in
stentorian tones, "look out!" com
ing again with the same strident step
and voice, bringing a dish.of fire and
miniature pair of tongs to_ the aid of
some unfortunate ,swells 'who are
making spectacles Of theinselves try
ing to smoke the great 'urkish pipes,
Home again, happy mind hungry as
chiidren just out of school. General
rush next morning from second story,
of ladics with half-buttoned dresses
and boots, and
. two boy - i from third,
a - volunteer escort of the host to
market: But hers arose.a hopeless
conunctrutn. - Thef parlor Where the. i
hats of 'all had been left over night,
was occupied (as are nearly all par,
fors of . this beleaguered city) by
sleeping guests, and none wO•e' . so
hardy as to arouse them. But the
hostess and her sister (ever" kind)
found up for the ladies' head-gear,
would have astonished even Robin
son Crnsoe ! First boy was acconi
'modate'd with a cap, which descend.
ed upon his ears and remained sta
tionary. Second; ditto, with a hat of
our host, who beim* '' of the, propq
tions of Goliath ofGath, the unfot-
tunate young person - disappeared'
under it like a candle under , an'ex
tinguisher,; hut with great presence
of mind he extricated himself, and
wedgkng up the refractory We with
paper; hastened to bring up the rear
of the procession, who streamed after
the amiable host like the witches in
Macbeth. Back again, to breakfast
and our pleasant. iorning ride. •
- Roaming now, through the Wo
men's Pavillion, 'pausing beside the
"Dreaming. lolanthe," (medallion
hi. butter.) , What is the patent spell
of 1 this wondrous face?' 4 ' Crowding
and being crowded in the Colorado
honse to sec the stuffed animals (any
housekeeper could show those), and
the woman who shot theni with her
"little gun." - Now through the.won
derful Art Gallery, „with , its pure
marbles and glorious' bronz4; and
lire it was that, while intoxicated
with beautiful pictures, Norwegian
suns ' oldburgher faces. luciouS fruits, i
and lastly, writhing, in agony with
the poor wretch whose feet are being
burned at a slow lire (why allow such
a horrible painting here, which holds
3..ouwith an awfuCfascination?), that
it,•i. occurred to Madame Noodle to
16cise herself from her division of the
party ; hoping to regain them, she
hastened to the trystiug place; listen
ing not everCto the organ tones or
tinkling fountains. Resting some
times beside great China vases that
owered above her head, interview
ing, the gnardian angels of the stran
geri— .
l:eutle 14tIlee man, telt, I pray,
Hare my•party passe,' this say?"
Trying to_ feel very tall and very
brave, but failing miserably; making
inctreetual attempts to -get upon the
crowded cars from which people hung
like bets froth a swarm; receiving . a
sudden poke from a Centennial cane
she tprnetl.to see the kind fades. she
tistl ltAtn ieeltinto. But RhtithSr "its%
EZI
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S 2 per. Annuin In Adyance.
, l=. NUMER !b.
lamb was there," for at this juncture,
with i crimson cheeks and; swelling
throat, came up Maclaine Noodle No.
.2, saying, “ I—tho,-thought I—l
would n'Cery !". Whereat No. 1,
burst into a _hysterical laugh.' Just'
here her portino_nia - was gsped by
rl .
an invisible hand,' and tu ping 'in
wrath she beheld
,Mr. H ' , the
incorrigible of the'Party.
Now a new difficulty arose. Horse
and .vehicle were - discovered in a
neighboring court-yard, but the dri
•ver was nowhere. The incorrigible'
proceeded with the greatest : , sang
field to take possession of the-equi
page, not•x!thstanding; a slight un
pleasantness with the guardian pro
time, apqcommeneed loading it~ up; but
after his wife and little daughter were
in, the other ladies demurred, alleg
ing a dislike to being accessory to s
" horse lifting." Justhere the driver oti
put in- an appearance; and 611 were
.1 -m:
once morel.. happily on their_ home- B3
ward - way, the two•noodle:;.plotesting i .
they would never be so needless P:
again.., - • .', s „"
Shindy, on the third floor 'at 'lnid- ''"!
night; stalwart young- gentleman In'
startled - by the-apparition of a ram-,
pant cat upon the footboard of his •
bed. Up-and away again for tie glo- 2 1 .:
rious "Pennsylvania Day" Flags of all Cl
nations flying' frora their respective, in
buildings; the chimes playing our cc
national 'airs; militia marching to s ,
their different State lionses ;- soldiers' N
orphans from the various schools; 1
and. moSt'tonehing of all, a company
of veterans (gentlemen'of distinction,
.from their appearance) marching with
broken ranks, each ' break marking
where one or more brtve men have
fallen ; 'gay "West 'Pointers" finding
time to flirt with the pretty girls,'
.The Governor no doubt was- there: .
but, it would take more than mortal
eyes to discover him in-that crowd.
The fire-works were said to have been
splendid, but owing to distance we
did not try.to go down. To encoun
ter such a jam' late at night looked .
appalling, 'so we wiSely'sta.yeclaway
and attended an entertainmentich,
was both "gay and gorgeOus."
One more day. and we - must. be
,gone. Wandering up and down Ma
chinery Hall, which is all Greek and
Hebrew to us ; but delightful - to our
young companion. Pausing beside
the great . Corliss engine, - utterly ter
' rific in its strength; suddenlY it ceas
es •its labors for the hour Of on.
People lunch out of, ilPaper Tnags ;
'wheeled chairs roll 'gently Over the
toes of the unwary, and smart police-,
- men spoon with the pretty girls, who
are for an hour released from the ser
-vices of this im.prisoned giant.
Towanda,Ta., Oct. 5, '76. '
NOTES ON THE INTERNATIONAL ',pants
BY LtV. JOHN S. STEWARD, D. D. '
OCTOBER 22, 1876
1310 S" THE SORCERER
Acts vili: 9-25.—Got.DEN : Acts. vitt: 21
FOUILTII QUAETEII. LESSON IV
. The death of Stephen caused a general
persecution of Christians- (v. 1, in that
day,") and.this in turn caused general
dispersion. through Judea and
,Sain a.
ari
(V.' 1.) This dispersion, however, was
overruled by God unto 4he advancement
of his kingdom. Far and wide • the seed .
of the word was scattered, (some of it be
lug carried into' Ethiopi,* and thus the
enemies of religion were made its greatest
friends amtpromoters. The-Devil thought
lie was destroying the little church, but
'he was only extending its influence and
increasing its numbers.
Chapter gives tts":an Account of the
lai* of Philip, one of the seven deacons,
who vros also an evangelist. ; It :was in
thiS latter character, and not as a dcadon,
that he preached. There is no evidence .
in. the record of the institution of the dea
cons (eh. 6) that they were ministers of
the Word. Their special function IVati
financial and eleemosynary. Philip went
to c (not the) city of Samaria (v. 5), prob
ably Shechem, or Syclar (sec St. John.
iv :5), The events "related by St. John •
were.caleulated to prepare the way' for
Philip's visit. There he preached and
wrought miracles r s , ,if beneficence in con
firmation of his mission. The result was
•that the people with one accord gaVe heed'
to flu; words of Philip, and gr4at joy seih
.
ed the, city.
This firings us to the episocle of Simm
Magus. ,!• I. Eris character au l popularity
Vs. 9-11. 1
• 4
‘• Simon was unquestionably;-according
to the text beforerts„%one lrf the men who
traveled through -the }country in the ca 7
parity of fortune-tellers, astrologers, and,
interpreters of dreams; of who attracted
attention and acquired it fluence as jug
glers, or as men professedly endowed with,
miraculous powers to heal."
lie probably belonged to both classes;
combining considerable scientific knowl
edge. Withihe arts of legerdemain. Tra
dition ascribes to hint an 'extensive ac
qaaintanci3 with Oriettal tlicesophy,'and
traces back to him the origin of the Gnos
ticism that so long vexed the Christian
tamrch,
tlis great popular 4 is described in vs.
1041. All ranks and ages of the nation
gave attention to him,;and. were amazed
at his skill and poWer.. This ivonder
clothed itself in a phrase which probably
Simon bad used,of himself. "This man
. •
is the great, power of God"; or, "this
man is the power (angel) of God;
. which
we :know as the great one." (4 /ford.)
This means that he was a divine person,
or an emanation froth Deity,. It, is hard
to determine what he did really
Early writers say that lie professed to be
the Logos, the Messiah, the Samaritan
Archangel, and the power of God person
ified.
V. 11, assigns the reasoh - for the fac
just stated. ::1111 gave heed to him be
cause for a long time he had astonishes
them by his arts, and they could neither
qUestion nor account for them. Hence
they naturally concluded that his preten
sions were just. It'is no mean, insignifi
cant man, therefore,' who stands before
us here as•the representative of pitganisat
in its first conflict with Christianity
11. Simon's pretended conversion: Vs
0-13. ,'Phis state of things,, of :long con
tinuance, was broken up by the arrival of
Philip. The very 'people „whom Simon'
had duped, believed'his words toncernirnv
the kingdom of God and tlitt name of Je
n, tbrpt!) 'ad Time bitrepoll lath ton
and women. It,wa.s a general conversion
of tie people, iviiitcrut regard to sex or .
con , ition. It is noteworthy that these
Gen Iles, superstitious and easily led,
ast :y, were more ready, to. believe , than ,/..
the ewe. This becomes more and mei e:
pro i inent as we l advane4 in theuldstory.
.Now powerful is the gospeil No snares
nor oppositions of Satan . ' Can resist it.
"t us not despair of OEI I worst, when
eve those whom Simon Magic had be
witc ed were brotigtt lo.bislieye," (Hv&-
r I I il)
t,
1,44
only were the - dupes-convert:id, but
aceiver himself. It is an interesting;'
;ion how far; or in what sense, Simon ..
yed the preaching of Philip?, 'lt is
:that he did not believe 411 the
I all that Philip declared concerning
a atne(i. e., the persbn, the offices,
A "orlo,) of Jesus Christ. (Vs. 18, 21—
,1). Be believed only a part, viz,: that
lesu was the Son of God (i. e., ap eina
nati it fro inbeity),ithat he wrought thin : ,
acle and rose from: the • dead; in a word,
he • lieved that Jesus -was only a higher
kind of thaumaturgist than himself. So
fart h: .) ebuld go 'heartily in 'entire accord
with hiii previouh theosoPhin notions.
•
pareUtlf, however, he believed just as the
others, and, as a sign of his professed
,faith, was baptized by Philip. But this
raise another question_: Did Philip knoW
that • its faith was only -natural and par-
tial ? Probably not, as the gift of mira
cles
id-not necessarily carry, with it the
power of omniscience. Or if he did, then .
the ..ise is analogous to- the Saviour'.:
'ufre ante of I Judas. There is still an ,
:her question : why did, Simon desire to
lake a professiOn of Christianity? Mr;
am s gives three reasons : (1). An im
.ess • n,that Christianity. Was true. - lie
em to have been convinced of this, by
led iracles of Philip (2).. The fact . , that,
an others Were: hecoming,Christians; .
ad he went in;iwith the' multitude. (3)
lie hid no religion : but it is clear (vs. 20'
' ) ti at he was willing to make use of
hrisAanity to. advance his own power,
iiinence and popularity. This cast shows
1 ,
;onclusively that it is not - enough to as
sent to l the truth and appear- to obey it : .
we must lay it up in our hearts and prac
tice it in our lives. - ' /-
The visit of the . aiestles. Ys.:l-1
17. The.n*stles had *remained in .Icru--
sal.m l ; y. 1,1. • Hearing that SNuaria had "
receijed .the Gospel, they sent wo of theili
numb l er—Peter and Johir, before associat
ed in this history, (chaps. 44), evidently
•
to inspect and regulate the work, - and .
give to it apostolic sanction. Iltitwhen ,
the Y reached the city where the work had
principally been wrought, tkey found
(evidently to their surprise) that the hap-'
tiz9d eonverts. had not received the gift of
the Holy Spirit, which usually either ac
companied faith or baptism. Hence they
at once prayed for them that this testimo
ny frOni, God might be no longer withheld. .
"The Holy Ghost" main fe`stly, means the
extraordinary gifts and power of the Holy
GhoSt• such as speaking with tongues,
I' • , . •
prophesying, • . working- rneles some
tangible, visible:evidence .of the indwell
ing of tild-,Spirit. 'Of the i4artation of
this gift the laying on of the hands of the
apostles was the sign, and it certified it
self in outward results; else how could Si- •
mon See 'that, the laying on of the
apbstles' hands, the Holy Ghost Was given
unto them (v. 18) ?. The object in be
•:stowing this gift of the Spirit was partly
subjective and partly objectives subject
ive,. to 'strengthen thoir.own'faith; Objecc
kive, fn at - 6A their religion among tut
believers: . .
1V..1 Sitnoti's great sin. . 'V s. 18- , -24.
Did the apostle lay handia - onevery bap—
tized bonvert? It would seem so. Then •
Sitrion'anust have been included, and he
1,
must have received to Holy Ghost. This
would 1 make his case, analo g ous to Baal- •
• .
am's. f' IVlty, then, did he offer them-
Money ? Not that he might receive but con
fer extraordinary.gifts by the laying on of
~
histbands. He sought to increase histliaa
triatugic power by this new' accomplish T
It- is evident '. that he.. regarded
l and , J . olin as only greater itiagielans. 2 .
irnseif. N.o.thing could more clear-
w hig utter unspiritnality ;and sord:,
1, He had no conception of the na
f
the Holy Ghost - and the design of
ti. His faith in' Christ was only
u a superior xon or demiurge. He
money and practiceo:t . his arts to ob
. "He thought the, power . of an
e might as well be' bad for a good
the advice of a physician or a law-
pliviry). ' -
'cc Peter'S' terrible rebuke. He
that no child of , God' and "heir 'of
lion could thus think of the gift of
But in this, matter Peter did not
s.S' his own conclusions or feelings,
bake. the mouth -piece of God un-.
e guidance of ) .liis Spirit. "Tliy
perish with - thee."—or,, literally,
ki.silyer be with thee unto desirne- .
This might mean, " Keep thy. sil- -,
ntil it perishes;" or connecting it
•
22, we might read thus : "Let thy
perish with thee, unless thou re 4.
pent. ' But evidently the 'most natural
.11
coast etion is that usually given : "Thou ,
art apost man, in thy present state ; and - .
let tlily - money perish with thee." Tliis'is
a. divine revelation to Simon, 'intended to' •
startl him, and not an expression of Pe-
ter's feelings towards him:. .The last
clause of verse 20 gives the reason t why
he spike of him as *piing to destruction.
V. 21,, declares his nurenewed state Still
more clearly - . Thou bast no Mere - - no
•
possession—An this Word, (i.'e.,Nloetrine
or religion).. Thy heart is - uuJ anged,
and therefore evil before. Gqd.
.4,14(1 now. .
' Peter's humanity comes outs Me bas-spo
-I,:en sternly as the orgarrof the liird; now.,
be speaks kindly and tenderly as a man.
"Repent l'' , He exhorts him to ,useitha
means of saliation. But be is not Ore -
what the result will be. - Tie has no reve
latien from. God us- to this point,i and he
questions in his mind whether or not this '
is an unpardonable sin likathat of Atm-
ias.[ So he adds, "And pray God if per
ham etc." ,And thento acids as a mo
tive
what he said before in 'different lan
guage : "'For Lperceive that thou art in
the gall .of bitterness and the bond of' iii
iquity.” The gall of bitterness means
the intensest bitterness of sin, lariti de
notes the total and deep 'corruption of his,
heart. The bond of inionity may near
either the bondage or the - bundle of' un
: igliwousuess, and in either case denotes
the.coniplete slavery of. sin. 7 . •
The effect ,upon Simon was Only partial
instead of 'praying fOr_ himself, he asks
the apostles to pray for him. Fatal snare
of sinners. No friends can pray us - into
the kingdom of Heaven.- And his motive
in the request seems to have been merely
legal and cowardly= viz, to. escape- the
punishment of sin. He shOws no inward
grief and hatreduf sin. We have •no evi
&nee that the words of Peter produced
any reformaticia in his character or course
of life. . . i - .
men
Pete
tbarf
ly
idne.
ture
his gi
faith
loved
taiu i
apost
fee a:
yer."
He
knew
salvo.
God.
.xpre
but
der t
'one
"let
IRO
with
none
V. The return .4 the apostles; . v. 25.
Their work was done, and they went back
to the apostolic headquarters at Jenrsi
lem. But as they went ttiey pieached
the._ gospel in the villages of Samaria
along the route: They Could' not restrain
the glad tidings in their own histrts. See
,chap. iv: 19.40.
1. 11 the _
_Vvord Child
dwell ill to Odd, win art fall Al *VA
it t~ tlthli