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Taylor k Co. AYLOR . ar, 00 ! Are receiving, this week,-a Assortment Of 1 ,:)llY .GOODS For the 'WINTER SEASON ! EVERY DEPARTMENT IN OUR STORE WILL BE FILLED WITH DESIRABLE GOODS! And w•e propose:to sell them at , L,OWER PRICES ! THAN HAVE YET BEEN OFFERED IN THIS SECTION! PLEASE CALL AND EXAMINE Orr: STOCK. TAYLOR tt CO. Towanda. sept..2a, lets Bent, 8; Miss. - V - EIV GOODS! NEW -GOODS !! NEWGOODS'!!! KENT & BLISS Have just received their first invoice of FALL WINTER GOODS ! All the new styles . in DRESS GOODS-DRESS GOODS, t , Sc., Sze. We offer Barg,nins HERETOFORE UNEQUALED! CALL AND EXAMINE OUR STOCK And be convinced for ymirsclves. KENT & BLISS 411 t, : . . . -.._ . . . . . ~. • f . lerigd # One by at, thy duties wail Lea thy whole Ur, ndtb'gct to each; Let no pause dreams elate thee, - i.ear,n thou drat what there can teach, One I , y one (bright . gifts from heaven) ' Joys are sent thee here below, Take them readily when given. Ready, too, to let them go. One by one thy griefs shall meet thee; IM not tear an armed band, One will fade u others greet thee, shadows passing through the kind. Do not look at Rte's long sorrow; See how small each moments pain; God will help thee for tn7tnorroir, So each day begin again. Every hour that Beets so slowly Malts task to do or bear. Luminous the crown and holy It thou set each gem with care. Ito not linger with regretting, Or for passing hours despond, Nor, the flatly toll forgetting, - Look too eagerly beyond, Hours are golden links, God's token, Reaching heaven; but one by one Take them, lest the chain be broken El o the pilgrimage be done. .—Adelaide Proctor JjJisccllaaeonys. RAW TIND3-THE CIAIINE AND THE [in Essay. read Wore the Wyalusing Grange. P. of 11., Saturday Afternoon. , Ort. 7th, LYN by J. W. I]GH Au. and published by ropiest of the. Gra* ge.—ED.) Won't*HT MAsVEn, 'Monti us AND NtsTang:— There Is a fallacy prevalent In the minds of many people, that the rivernnient la In some manner re sponnible for the •commercial 'convulsion, or the "hard times," which came upon the country about three years ago, and which we have not yet been able to entirely shak s off. This fallacy, that the government is always to blame for financial troubles, is not peculiar to this age, or to the people of this country, but has been believed by - many in aliages, i and In every commercial country in the world The belief Is as old as Paganism, and In general, is as tititrile. With the exception of the power to wage war and collect taxes, the government can 110 but little that affects the pecuniary Interests of the people to make them richer or poorer.. In time of peace the people themselves are the chief architects of their own fortunes, and their houSes will stand or fall accenting as they are built on a good or a bad foundatioe. If they are founded wholly on the credit system, like the house of the foolish man which was built on the sand.. It wilt need but a tight wind and a low flood to sweep them away. It is the great object of civil government to protect all In the en!,4inent of their natural and constitu tional rights, b u t it cannot he expected to provide for the people like a father provides for his family, because it is„tipt able to do so. It Is as entirely destitute of 1143113 of its own as the beggar In the streets. Every dollar in the treasury Is derived directly or indirectly from the people as taxes, and can only be properly employed lu carrying 1 - )11 the geverument awl liquidating the rublic, debt: Tire People are obliged to support the govermnent and Hit the govertoneut the people_ and In time of peace the times wilt be good or bad, as the people make them for themselves. In time of war 'the ease Is different ; niillions of men are taken from reductive labor to create armies and yarrlsous. and to manufacture war material. Thli produces a ; scarcity of laborers, Increases the price of labor, and all the products of labor. The expenditures of the government are Increased, taxes are increased, and money borrowed, to ; defray the ;extraordinary expeiAlitures which must inevitably be 'new red, In case loans cannot be obtained In nnyother way, a r:,ort Is had to the'lssue of governmegrnotes, to eirett:ate as money and lie redeemed its item as the government Is able. • When these notes are made a legs'-tender by law the people cannot refuse them if they would, and they Noon pass Into circulating astuoney, even when there is already aitabundance of currency to supply:all the legitimatedentands 4.f business.; This to suer of defraying the expenses of the government is railed a "forced loan," and %heti tin currency I. thus lnereased it is said to be . - Intlst,l.*.' ,lurreasing the amount of currency, (or ilial willip clrett:ates as money.) increases the price of tenor and of every commodity that Is bought or sold. Its purchasing power is lessened just in proportion as Lissa:Um? Is Indreased. Money follows the same great natural law of ;mply and doinand,that wheat, corn, potatoes, and every other commodity must follow. )fake 1t - plentiful as wa ter, arid If 'will hear cheap. Fill all the ntarkcts of the world with an imuinal'supplY of, wheat or any other art:c:e, and the price will goi daw n; Hard times may come without war, and as a ma'- ter of history have occurred on the average once in about. twenty reave, but in our own and other coun tries, they have been as sure to follow all great and , •%Pettily... wars, as rOVUTtY In to follow great waste , Mien,. and prodigality. • fter the I.lllle of our revolutionary, war, which lasted nearly eight years, our forefathers endured birder times than any we ever dreamed of. Their public and prii - atetlebts. In proportion to fheir pop• illation and resources. were far greater than tints. and their currency—the Continental money. lamed nr the g..vernment like oil!' greenbacks—had de. Predated to such an extent that it was nearly value te,s. Se. low had fallen the' credit of the elation, and 50 entirely bankrupt was Ur treasury. that it was iilecid "I to leave those notes without redemption in the bands of th" people, where they have remained t.) this day—an evidence that the notes of a govern ment, like the notes of an Individual, are good fur nolhi! g milks provision is made for their payment. The history of the Continental money proves t,e road the possibility of a doubt that notes printed, signed and Issued by the authority of the govern ment, cannot circulate long as Ilif.TlPy at anything like their face vaine, unless theigovernment stands prepared to redeem them wheri presented In the kind of money which Is recognized In all the mar kets fir. world: The Industry. frugality, patience and persererence of our forefathers droveaway the bard finws at the clo of the revolutionary war. and prosperity returned, like the birds and flowers of spring aftern dreary winter, and abode with them until the close of the second struggle with Gnat nritaln, In iRtS. • • This war lasted only three years. but our adver sary being tuistrlss .4 the se:u. notwithstanding the gallant de. s uls of our Infant navy, soon drove our comtner i ce from the'ocean, to the great distress of one commercial c'asses. and through them extended to all t thers.• Domestic manufacture sprarg Into existenre as a necessity from the destruction of our fnrelgn coin:tierce, hut not being protected by an adequate tariff, were ruined when peace again ipeileg our markets to the trade of all nations. So pro Crated was badness of all kind, and especially the lumber buslness.that good pine lumber was sold for F,4.50 per thousand feet in thelower markets of the Susquehanna. There were hard them, in 1837 without the occur rence of war. Our banking institutions were ail bullt on an unsafe and rotten foundation many of them broke, Inflicting ghat loss on their deposi tors and note-holders, and all of them suspended specie payments. Failures were fearfully numer ous all overthe country, and there was a general collection of all debts that could be collected. Werst of all, and what intensified the hard times, the crops were short, and Instead of having grain to sell we had to bay from foreign countries, and porn was eaten in Itradfonl county that had been Imported from Germany. , The Mexican war broke out when the country had recovered,—like Sampson after his hair had grown again,—and being of short duration, we escaped serious financial troubles until 1857, about ten years after Its close: We had nearly recovered front the hara times of 1857, when the war of the rebellion come upon ns and we were !revolved 11 a death struggle for national existence. Vast RUMS of mousy were needed 11 (be govern ment, and vast sums were borrowel frio+-the banks and from the people; but when these sources failed to supply! the sinews of war as fast as needed, treasury notes, sometimes called' " greenback s " or "legal-trnders," were issued and paid out to ear (tiers and army contractors. as hid been done lby the Continental Congress and by nearly every na tion that had barn sorely pressed for means to„car re on a great sear. Year after year as the ecniflict continued, the mountain of national debt Frew higher, and the numerous disasters' sustained by one arms lessened the probabilities of surreal, the four hundred millions of currency atUes.which bad become our chief currency, were greatly depreciat ed as compared with gold; or In papulan language. pi"Per4 bad raised." Al imp time n'golit dollar was wortL m9ll than two dollars :11a gaper Inase)'i On BY OIL REMEDY. besides the four hundred 'millions of dollars In le gal tender notes, a large amount of compound In terest notes, and floating debts. or war Clllll2lll. ;trot only was the national government deeply involved, hit most of the State governments, many comities, toUrnships, cities and boroughs had Incurred heavy liabilities to raise bounty' money to supply their quotas of soldiers without a resort to the draft. In the towns where drafting took place,many hull viduaWliorrowed money tohlre substitutes, soldiers who were disabled had to be pensioned, and the families of those who died In service had to be pro vided for, Nearly 'every railroad In the United States owed millions borrowed for their constrce elan. To pay the interest on ttils immense lode a ednessational, State. municipal, corporate, and individual, was a constant drain upon the resour s of the people, and when to this was added the or U nary governmental and municipal taxation, it c - ated a lend under which . the people would hsve staggered, Mid they not been exhilarated and ans. [alined by their Joy at the successful termination of the war. Their great sacrifices had obtained "vie-, ,tccry at last." ' Tho country was undivided, the union was restored, money was plenty, wages were' high, the products of the farm, the forest. the mine, the machine shop and the factory, comma, 4- ed good prices. Every branch of industry has been stimulated to the highest point of activity by a superabundant currency and the immense purchases by the g4v eminent of farm products, manufactured goods, arms, atrlncnition, coal and iron. The sure CI u gepienee of great stimulation, Is reaction and c e pression, and the only wonder Is that they did rut come sooner. Financial prophets had predicted 's crash as soon as the war was °ext., but when It did not come they, like Millerites in predicting the end the world, extended the time. Every person w versed In political economy knew that In the 11 1 natural !aiming which business had received, t Ind deli currency. high prices, and great inilebt ness which existed, we had the Sure elements financial trouble In our Midst, and all that was to, essary to bring It on was some disturbing event t 1 would ereate:a general alarm ; but they hoped th, the disturbing event might not happen until of Our Indebtedness had been paid, our eurren become as good as gold, and prices of everythit had gradually returned to the old standard. Tim the disturbing event would scare nobody ; then panic could do no harm. No one knew better than Jay Cooke that t .e cottony, Intoxicated with railroad building at II hazardous speculations; was very much In the co I dition of a man with the heart disease, who mig it lire many years or die at any moment by the shot k of a sudden excitement. • lie knew.that the careful mariner who expected a storm would reef reirt .p ilf his sails before the squall struck his vessel ; but y Cooke, like most of our financiers, way a iselstman, who had made his fortune by taking great risks and trusting 10 luck, so he continued to buy and s4II railroad stock, and do a general banking businevls, until one day his depositors called for their money, and called in vain, because it was Invested In North Pacific Italimad bonds. When this happens a banker his credit Is ruined, and his bank must go down. Jay Cooke's fallura caused the failure others with whom he had busineis relations, just '4 the fall of one ten-pin will knock down more ; bid what was worse, the failure of so prominent a finan cier, who had so ably negotiated the government bonds In the darkest hour of Its history, and who Was supposed to be strong as well as shrewd, un-: settled public confidence, creating a "ethic which spread over the land and brought on the thing which had been - dreaded like . death by the commercial world. ! Capitalists were alarmed end refused to lend money to auybody, because they did not know. who were solvent. Traders refused to give the usual credits, because they had soMuch already standing out. Every one win, owed debts endeavored 'to strengthen himself by collecting his dues; and nearly all credit.", whether they toted anything °rind, desired to see their 'mines ones more. Like the Fiencliman,:they not want it,:if ,t hey ,could have it," but they wanted to be sure they could have it. Petlpleeverywhebegan to retrench, some becanse they had to, others because it was the fashion. and I have no doubt that many employers discharged hands airs' were able to have kept them profitably employed. Trade fell off for want of cus tomers, or because the custemers: bought so little, and some trallers Were foolish enough to think was all owing to the Grangers, whom they errone ously supposed were buying as much as ever but buying directly from' the manufacturer or whole safe dealer. Factories and machine shops stopped, or oily. run half the time, because of the lessened dentated for their goods. It-inroad building ceased, because Most of the roads In operation, flour the falling eft InChusiness. tied (-eased to pay the inter eat of conitruction and running expenses. Rolling nillis r stometi because their rdlIS Were not wanted, er lie - CallStl the roads that wanted them had no tuoueyi Coal mining has been carried or. only at fitful intervals, because of the lessened demand and an overstocked Market. Everywhere there has been dulness and despondency, and In many places much idleness and distress. The busiest men In the com munity have been those unwelcome guests of hard tittles—the tax collectors and the sheriff's deputies; but civil governments cannot he maintained with outlaxatien, and if we have cnnsuined our credi tor's goods and cannot pay him, it is only just that the law should permit him -to take ours. - The bard tlmes affected the products of the farm by teaselling consumptlon. People must:cat, It Is true, but ; ln hard times thl,y wlll,consume less, and that of a:cheaper quality. Men out of employment cannot afford the beat beef and flour, and nothing in wasted then. Teams out of work are not allowed to lufv. , lunch grain. It is not over production. but /ex,. nod c;.n R Ihl 14 ion which has created itullness In the grain trade.• The financial storm, which swept over the lift/, reached the farmers In the ru ral districts as It . reached everywhere; but It had spent nujeh of Its forrel before It reached t hem, and tuloy began to think It would not ri.actt them at all. Its greatest ravages were among the manufactur ing and comtnerclal class , s, mutat the great money centres. To farmers out of debt, hard times red have t.O terrors. The!r fields produce the sameilwhether money is plenty or searce. Their products, If low, are always In demand, and they are never withotii all the work they are able to do. The bane of other occupations Is, that in dull times their ptotlncts are not only low, but are not much wa..ted at any price, no that production must be At/Melted or cease en. t [rely. This throws many out of employment who have no Means of a livelihood but their labor, and stops the piotl ta of their etnployers. Flint:lda! doctors may talk, about Issuing . more paper - ..uoney and Inter-convertible a-al bonds, but In our opinion there Is no certain cure for hard times but Lord <rock, and the prartire of economy in rxprwlitterra. It Is the only Infallible remedy for the disease that has ever ingen dbcorered. It Is not a new nvnlleltae, but has been known and used by the wise In all ages, and Its heatlng , vlrtues have never tailed to restore health and prosperity to lan gads-fling business, and never will., , The hard times we are passing through are gen erally ascribed to the luxury and extravagance of ourpeopto.. It is said they lived too fast, lit the candle at both ends, and consumed their capital in stead of their Incomes or earnings. This may have been tree as regards speculators and army contrac tors, who made sudden fortunes by selling shoddy et high prices to the-government ; but it I.i certain ly not tote in regard to the fainting community, who, in general, di'd not live beyond their Income., and whose Indebtedness was chiefly Incurred by tie-purchase of land and machinery, or making permanent improvements-which are worth all the money they cost. We do not Ittniw of any farmers who ',might diamonds, or gold watches, or fast hordes; if any.did so without alothdant means they have no doubt repented before tiow and will never dose :again. Farmers, generally, dreaded the at tempt to resume specie pa'yinent by the govern ment, because they knew tlit the effort, If not sue cessfisi, *mild send gold up higher and make mat' terms worse ; and If successful, the price of labor and of every species of property, would suddenly fall from ten to fifteen per cent. The great obstacle to resum non has been that the war prices. slightly re4tic d, clung to every. thing loug after the war hulceased. Every one had labor or something to sell, and no one was will lng to have lower prices for th 6 articles he had to dispose yr. All who had contr+ted debts alter the currenq was inflated desired it to remain Inflated 1 ' until those debts were paid. ' We were up, as It were, In a tralloon, and though, Its altitude was not so great as , It had been, It was still WO high for a sate Jump,land the perplexing problem to solve was how to get lowa without break ing our necks or hurting somelssly, lint the pmb lent Is no longer so illtectilt ; the'hard times have, In a great measure, solved it by crushing down the price of labor and property to he old specie stair dard The chief objection to resumption has been removed.i We are down to the loldi level on the bed roes. Prices can go no lower, .4 we might altwell make ['pour minds to resume -cle payments. and piste eat eurreaviat jpirwitli . .14) Frets peened, ...i it . 4 . •. l '.• : ~ : , i i_ . , L.,.., - t r.... : . - . . A 11 . L::. L: .itr . ENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER. PA., THURSDAY MORNING,'OCTOBER 26. 1876: • 4 there will be nq difficulty in resuming 1871, the time which has been axed, no doubt that with the balance of trade and gold Cowing Into this country from at present, we might safely :emu., Paper money Is useful and more convenient for mod purposes than gold or silver coin. We shall never be without paper money, and as much of It a 4 the mints of business require ; but our paper mnn-y should, dollar for dollar, be equal to coin. so that It will be staple and not fluctuate In value at the will of the gold gamblers in New York. We, must have our paper money so that it can be con verted without cost, at the will of the holder, Into the kind of money that Is recognlied anti accepted by the people of the whole world In exchange for their products. No other kind of paper Mottby ever supply the needs and satisfy the people of a great commercial and agricultural nation like ours. There la no lack of mtmey In hard times, the trouble Is it does not circulate from hand to hand ; it lies dormant In the !Lanka or safes of thcee, who, having no confidence in the-times,: are afraid to-use It themselves and dare not lend it to others for fear of losing It. • But confldence will be restored, faith will come back, hope o 111 triumph over despondency, and good &lines will return again, healthful and welcom-, like the bright Mil after a long stormy night. Quick remedies are of no avail; statesmanship can die nothing; the government Is powerless to aid ; uo body can help us but ourselves. Patience and po , severance, Industry and frugailty,are the only reme dies Providence has ordained for the cure of hard times. HOW TO PROLONG LIFE. .The things that a man most needs in this world are food,' Work and sleep. lie doesn't need riches, hon ors or Office to live. He needs socie ty because he is Made for it. Ile must:love and be loved; his life and happiness are promoted by compan ionship; mutual , dependence and counsel enlarge hope and stimulate courage. Yet, after all, he lives if his friends die. There is no grief, no form of bereavement, but it has its consolation. The best preserver of a man's life is contentment. Nor is work destructive of strength. Men look forward to rest, to a life of ease,, Which to them means cessation from toil and from the cares of business. They mistake the cause of weariness. It is not work; it is care, it is over exe,,,ftion, it is ambition and desire :Mei' gain that bring worn and wea r;ed feelings. All we possess we possess in life, and the sooner we'get through with life the_ sooner we re linquish our possessions. The faster a man lives the quicker - he reaches the end ante. There areithree ends to life, and death is the last and least desirable of them. One 7-:end is to live. That is why we were'created— to:live, and its well as we can. Some go murmuring and groaning on their way, as though life was a burden, and that it is piety to put a low esti mate on it. The opposite.is true. A man should seek to live out his days, and • he can:ot aceomplish it in a better way than by using every means to promote Bre. Among these means are the three things mentioned at the head of this article. IPhen a man denies himself sleep;food and the exercise work gives ; brain and body work, he robs his life of its full term. Let him be cheerful also. Ile is like an engine—it will ran well and long if it is well oiled. Content ment and cheerfulness are the oil which keep the nerves from wearing out. Busy men and women think time taken hem toil for slt!ep and recreation is time lost. It is really the -cement put in to till up the joints, to. keep out the weather and preserve the building. Providence. Journal. TILE BABY.—Who knows not the beautiful group of babe and mot her sacred in nature, sacred also in the religious associations of half the globe? • Welcome to the parents is the j puny little struggler, strong in his weakness. his little arms more ir resistible than the soldier's, Ins lips touched with persuasion which Chat ham and' Pericles in manhood had not. The small despot asks so little that all nature and reason are 'on his side. Hjs ignorance is more charm-• ing than alt knowledge, and his little sins more bewitching than all virtue. All (lay, between his three or four hour's sleep, he cooes like a pigeon house, sputters and crows, and puts pm faces of importance ; and when he fasts, the little Pharisee fails not to sound his trumpet before hihi. Out of blocks, thread-spools, cards and !checkers, he- will build his pyramid, while, with an acoustic apparatus of whistles and rattles, he explores the laws of sound. But chiefly like his senior countrymen, the young Amer ican studies- new and speedier modes of transportation. Mistrusting the cunning of his small legs, he wishes to ride on the neck Ind shoulders of flesh. The small enchanter -nothing can iwi listand—no seniority of_ age. no gra . % *tyof character ; uncles, aunts. cousins;; grandsires, grandmas—all Nl an edisy prey ; he conforms to no . - body.; all conform to him ; albcaper and -- .lmake mouths and, babbl6 and chirrup to him. On the strongest shoulder he rides, and pulls the hair of laureled heads.—Ewerson. - AN EXAMPLE FOR GIRLS.—Elise Empert, the daughter of ,a citizen of Paris, was betrothed to a young man, to whom she was to be married in Septet ber,- 1 ; G.i On the evening before the weildlng-day the bride groom was at a party, at which the bride Was also present; he was very merry, I talked a great deal, and in his self-conceited efforts 'to' amuse others" round him turned his 1 jokes against religion . His bride atfec tionately remonatrated, with him, but he rejected all her remonstrances with the tone of a man of the world, who will not appear so old-fashioned as to show an}' respect for God and for religion. The girl was frightened at first, but soon summoning up all her • courage, she ' said, decidedly : " From this moment, since I remark that religion is not worthy of your esteem, I can no longer be yours; he who does not love' God cannot really love his wife ;" and' to this de cision she remained steadfast. In vain did - the bridegroom now simu late religious sentiments; . she only despised him all the more. In vain did her parents endeavor to patch up the matter. She kept firmly to lter determination not 'to wed the man i who mocked at his God and religi n, and she won thereby the respec of all truly goixtrpeople, -who felt t at she. had _acted wisely and welj --- Pgritift Alawasinet... •• • • There is no more emphatic teach ing in the.. Scripture than that which enjoins abstinence froth intoxicating drinks. In Proverbs xxiii, 31, we are-commanded not even to look on wine, lest we should be tempted to transgiess by its use. To intelligent persons it would seem that no Bible injunction would be nedessary to re strain them from the use of these drinks, because all history and all experience and observation show that the mischief and misery coming from them .are, very great, and at the same time that no possible good cab come from them except the..momen tarY gratification of the appetite. But it may be objected that the passages of the Bible are not few where wine is.spoken of as good, and we are led to inquire how these can be reconciled with those where it is denounded as an evil. The'apparent, contradiction is so great and: yin, phatic, that without some satisfactory explanation" of it, we could not un derstand how both sorts of teaching can come from the same inspired ' source. The solution of this diffi culty is, that in Bible times, as in our day, there was an unfermented, unintoxicating wine, the- use of which was unattended with any injurious consequences. This fact is well es tablished as historically true, ..and it relieves tis entirely from the ,painful impression that the Bible is contra dictory in its several parts in its teaching as to a matter of vast im portance, since itOoeis declare that no drunkard shall see God, while we know that all persons who drink in toxicating liquors are liable to 1)(4 come such: The love of strong drinks is an acquired taste; but when this appetite is once formed, the miserable subject of it becomes its slave. It is often said by inconsiderate. persons that strong j drinks will, not hurt any one who abstainS fromthem ; but it is inevitable that, while the habit of, using these liquors pre vails, great injury and much misery must and will result to many persons who entirely :abstain from them. There are many in4tanceS on record', of dreadful shipwrecks attended with the loss of many lives", resetting en tirely. from . the intoxication of per-. sons who had charge of the ships. ThOe have also been Many railway disasters, that were caused by engine drivers; or conductors, who were in a state of partial or entire intoxica tion. There have been many instan ces of the burning of ships at sea, with the loss of many lives, caused IT tire originating in the spirit-room when some of:the crew were there with a light, drawing rum for, the grog-time," or stealing it. Anti so it is a matter of alMost every-day observation that the wives and children of drunkards sutler from violence, hunger, cold, and naked-, ness, in, conseqUence of the drinking habits of husbands and fathers. It has often - been said that the use -of strong drinks occasions more misery and suffering ,to the people. of civi lized countries than all other causes of mischief combined. It is the great est obstacle in the way of the &o gress of the gospel through the world,: and the greatest source of poverty, fiauperism,`degradation, in sanity; anderime. Now there is a certain and speedy remedy for all this evil—that is T total abStinence from the use of intoxicating drinks. If all persons would practice this, there '; would be an instant cure bf this dreadful evil. It is important that all persons should consider whether or not it is a duty to God and to the world to practice this ab stinence, as an individual contribu tions to the great purpose of banish ing intemperance ; and thus, in an important sense, to prepare the way for the coming of Christ's kingdom upon earth and the doing of Mot's will. 'God's kingdom can never ) come, and His will can never bd done on earth as in heaven, while drunken ness continues; that must go first, and this can never he until men cease to use intoxicating drinks. And so We are justified in considering the use of th'ese drinks as a disregard of a duty to God and the world. • •fiotne years agif a famous English mission ary returned to his own country from India after a residence there of many years. A great meeting was held for him in Exeter Hall, in London, where he.related hi's experience of mission- , ary' life and missionary work. The Christian world was startled by a declaration which. he t ade at that meetincr—that for ever • convert to (Arista:laity made by, up the mis sionaries in that country / . at least a thousand drunkards wer, made . by the example of the drinking English men dwelling there. This missionary was the Archdeacon Jeffries, who spent his life iif missionary labors— the most difficult of which was the labor to counteract the pernicious in fluence of the drinking habits of his countrymen. Thoughtless ' people, bad people, are missionaries wherever they life, ending - others to evil) and teaching evil by a bad example. I' know that there arc many Men i who areiconsidered .to be Christian men, sonic of whom are leaders and doctors in the church, who by pre cept and example teach that the use of strong, drinks is lawful, and that. no Christian duty requires absti r !fence, from itheini It is not a'little i singular that there can be so.great a dilleien e among intelligent Chris.- tian peoplenpont a matter of such grave importuned. Here are Bishop Blank, and BishOp Black, and the Rev. Dr. White, and Dr. Gray, who insist that the"moderate use of strong drinks is proper and wise, and that abstinence froM them is otherwise. They say that; heir opinions: upon this subject are entitled to as much weight and respectful consideration as are those of the total abstainers, who insist ,that every man is so far wrong as he departs from their stand ard Of faith and Practice. • But the abstainers reply, that this is not a question of Opinion, but :of fact—whether theirs is tile better way of life. • There can be no propo 7 sitiou easier of proof than this;; and they ask, If it'was ever knoWn that any one came to any harmlveause he: wet tkitOtaler- , -any harm. to . body, mind, or t,tate? • - Sinqe thk ,STRONG DRINK. .. . world was, never was. there an.i n stance of that. And they ask furs .ther, If it can be measured—the infi nite mischief that hai come to mill.; ions and millions- of people, of the past slid present generations, becalfse they were not teetotalers; only for that reason ;,•,4 harm to laxly, mind, and estate; . utter ruin to body„ mind, and estate; absolute ruin for time and eternity—for no other reason than that they were not teetotalers ? They insist, then, that it is . lint ' a mere question,of opinion. but a mat ter of fact, that total abstinence froth the use.of strong drink is the wiser, better, truer way'of life. . • i "Go ye into all the wOrld , and preach the gospel to every creature." .In common conversation; a mission ary is spoken of ass a person set apart especially to teach gospel truth in thinly settled districts, or neglected parts of our own country. Or in hea then lands. Ile is one of those sup posed to be particularly engaged in carrying the knowledge of Christ's mission throughout the world, and in preaching the gospel : to "every crea ture." But we are all missionaries in an important sense; we are always preaching . a true gospel or a false gospel by our example l ,and by our daily; life, wherever were.. By eve ry word and Avery act w; are silently influeneing, snore or less i for good or for evil,' all thOse with thorn we as sociate. And so we alb bound. by our duty to God and to otfr fellow men to so live that, if all the world should follow our ex:in:vie, no harm could come from it. . And in the light of , this obligation. the Wily, Christian man must feel himself bound conscientiously to ab stain from strong' drink,twhich is the cause of such mischief. To the truly Christian man, it ought to be, it will easy to obey the Scriptural in junction to avoid strong drink as an gnemy of human happiness-Lnot'even to look " upon it, in the way of in dulging in it or of tolerating it.— Neal Dow, in The. Sunday-Schoui Tiotes. • IS A PAINT MULE A HORSE? Nothing is more remarkable than the fecility with which• the colored population become acqltainted the forms of law, and the practical . management of a case in court. There was, a striking illustration of this fact in thellecorder's Court the other morning. • • The prisoner was accused of rid ing across one of the b:idges at a gait faster than a walk,and the proof was that he galloped a paint mule over Huston street bridge. man aged his own case. Ins honor said: "I think I'll have to line you, Johnsing." May I ax a few questions ?” • You may." • : " Isn'c thar a sign over dat bridge, warning people how dey must-ride ?" There, s, and that Makes you all the more guilty." 1 - "It does, cbies it? Now. Mr. Re corder, is (Tat sign what I has to go b'?'' Is dat de law ?" ...It is." `Well, den. dat sign reads; 'Walk your liors.e, or you . will be fined.' Don't it-don ' t it, boss?" " Y-e-s, 'I believe so," replied his honor. beginning to smell a rat.. • ; "Now; if your honor is to admit -dat a paint mule ain't no Voss, I'll rest de ease heap, : because you see de law is I shall walk My boss; and as it. was a paint mule, dat is fatal in the indictment. You is a lawyer, 'and you ought,' to know ide points most as well as myself." • I:eorder-,-Abem! for the purpose of this snit, I'll regard that paint mule as a hoss. i• Prionei---Your honor will please note my• 'ception. I jess wants to make one inure point. Allowin's, for o 4 sake of argument, flat a paint Mille is a boss, de sign reads: "Walk your boss." Now 1 has de witnesses here - in court to prove dat paint mule boss was not my boss at all. De Taw Says walk your horse. lletordei•—fll fine you $lO, John sing. , And As Johnson. was eontlneted to the locklup he expressed.greaUsyni pithy for the- tax-payers, as he in tended ;to bring a suit for $lOO,OOO damages,lbr false imprioninent. Ile is 'now, however„ at -work on the street.—Sant. Wen Ml:Herald: ASu fiDEN . EPENTANCf:—The . Qther clay a farmer entered a restaurant'on Griswold street, Daroit; with, his. hat On the back of his head and a joyful look in his. eyes, and, flingin g his hat on the tloor, he exclaimed : `Whoop! sold my wool ! and now I want a Thai ksnlying dinner!" Ile was in vftol to it down 'to a table, handed. Utila of fire, nnd•asked to name his dishes. " I want chiCken, turkey, oysters, fish, quail, snipe,- pie, cake, soup, wine; bring on the best you've got j in the shanty !" he said, as he pushed the bill of fare away. The waiter started out. and the farmer hauled out his wallet and counted hiS money. His ..face grew serious after a moment, as he began to realize that inxurieS cost money, and in another minute, he pounded on the table and . called out: " I :want to see that waiter!" The waiter entered, and the farmer continued : Yon - hold on a little ! You may scratch out that , order, and bring me in some •meat `and 'titters and bread. I've sold my wool, as I said before; but I just hap- Tenet'. to • think that the, corn crop may lest •n me, and where'd quail 011 toast be then ?" Wuirs. a newsboy was hanging around one of the depots, yesterday, a gentleman engaged" him iii conver sation, and inquired; = " Do you go to sehool,*hub.?" " Yes, sir, and Pm in geography," was the answer. -At, ha! Where does the sun rise?" " In the east." " Correct. Where does it set ?" • "In,the West." • • " That's right. What is the earth's surface composed of ?" • " Land and Water. • • " Right again. is the world round or flat '!" . " Less sec," mused the boy, sitting down on a bunih. ‘,‘ Well, 1 know dad and tnam bad a fight abOut that vvi thingibstift4oVwhich licked," S 2 per Annum In Advance. El THE DEAD-BEAT NUISANCE. The processes byjwhich the dead beat is made are various. - A young man of bad habits goes :on to worse,, until, as business becomes slack, he is dlieharged. From that day forth. his clothes grow'shabby., He begins toborrow from those who knew him in better days, with the promise and at tivt, with the purpose,,of paying ; but at ,last he wears out 'his friends, and _ begins to -prey upon society at large. He has no resource but bor rowing—borrowing on the basis of any story that he can invent: Be wants 'money to , bury his wife, his child, to feed a starving family, to get to . some place where he , has frien7is. Many pretend to belong in the South. and are only anxious to get _back. .Many in New York have just come froth the South, their trunks pawned for-passage-money, and they want to get to Boston. 1 ome are -just from a hospital, where they have for a long time been ill. They, have been dis missed without money, and want to reach their friends. The ingenious lies that are peddled about New York, in any single day', by men and women, fairly well dressed, for the ; purpose of extorting from 'sympathetic and benevolent people, sums varying frOm one dollar to • twenty-five dollars, Would make a series of narratives quite sufficient to get up a modern novel: So earnestly and consistently. are stories told, that it is next to impossible to realize thatithey are not tri_w:yet we suppose thatithe ex perierfc(?. of the'geueral public, like all' the private experience with which we. are acquainted, proves that ninety-. nine times in a hundred they are pure, or most impure, intentions. ' The ;genteel female dead-beat is, perhaps, the hardest US get along with. She 'puts on airs and dignities. She talks of her former fortune; and of her expectations. She has sources 411 income at present shut up, but sure to be opened in time. Or she has a small income, terribly- inadequate, at best, but not yet - due. She wants something - to bridge over the gulf that yforns 'between the last dollar and the next. Sometimes she lubri cates her speech with tears, but dig nity,and greatself-r4eCtfulness,and a beautiful show of faith in God and man are her principal, instruments; and it-takes a purse that shuts like a steel ~ t4fap to withstand her appeals. Soinef these women .selfishly stay at home, or in some , niee l boarding house, and push out. their children, and even their young and well,edn cated daughters, to do their borrow ing for theta. One whom, we know— confes.;Fedly a non-attendant at any church—rails at the church for not supporting her. " Pretty followers of .Jesus Chriit !". she thinks the church members are. The mothent a man begins to lie for the purpose of excusing hit - m -421 f for the On-payment of a debt, thin, moment li!tt changes from a man to a 'dead-beat 11 . e thus have dead-beats in business as well as out of.` busi ness—men who " shin ",from. day to (lay, and never know in- the morning how they are to , get, through. They live constantly •. - by - expedients. Of course, it cannot take long to reduce them to dead-beats of the most dk graceful stamp. - We have already, - in; a Previous number, chrpnicled the statement made by one of o - fir most truthful public men, that there is in this _city a house that harbors the professional dead-beat, and lianishes him witlf-ro mance,s to be used in 'the,praetical extortion of money. In this house there is a book kept, in Which are re corded the names of benevolent jinn' and women, with all. their historti.ts, traits, weak points. - etc. These ro mances and this knowledge are ha parted in consideration of a certain percentage of the money collected throtigh their use. Whether we call this organized beggary or organized robbery, it matters - little: The *t itself ;is enott!dt to, put every man upon his..guard, and to make him de dine (as a fixed rule, never' to he ( - viated from, exceptA in instances where his own personal knowledge warrants him in doing so) to give, anything to anyboiy , who comes to him with a story and an outstretched Sinew-nine times in. a hun 'dred the story is a lie, and the teller or it a - dead-be4it, who deserves to be kickM :from the door. Person:dly, we have never known a case in Sett - York city of this sort. of be4ing or borrowing that was . not a fraud. 'The. money .loaned never comes back, or the beggar, by. some forgetfulness, Comes round again: The only safe way to. manage these importunate and adroit scamps is either to turn . them over to the in vestig,atiGn of some "society,br to call a policeman: Eortunately, there is in a large number of houses the Ns-. trict telegraph, by the means of which a policeman cab •be summoned in a minute or two. -without the visitor's knowledge. In many in§tances the policeman will know his man at first sight. Every dollar given to these Icechesnpon the.social body is a di rect encouragement to the increase of the pauper population ; and, •if the matter is still regarded, carelessly, we'shall, in twenty years, be as badly off as Great Britain in thiS What . we give ,goes for rum, as a rule, and we not only foster idle- . ness, but we nourish vice and crime. We need to- make a dead set against tramps in the country and dead-beats in the city, if We wish to save our children from a reign of pauperism, only less 'destructive of the prosper- - ity and the best interests of the coun try than the reign of war.—Dr; G. Rolland, Scribner for august._ , . " Raising the wind" is now called, more classically, "exciting-the financial .-Eolits.) A country girl, coming from a morning walk, was told she looked as fresh as a daisy-kissed by the dew, to which she in replied : "You've got my name right-Daisy ; butAis is•'nt Dew :" A farmer the other day Wrote to a New York merchant, asking_ how the farmer's son was getting along, and where he slept 'nights: The merchant.re'plied:'"lle sleeps in the store in the day-time. I don't know where he sleeps nights." - dont see how you can have been work ing all- day like a horse," •exclaime the wife of a lawyer, her, husband having de clared that he had been thus working.— " Well, my dear," he replied, i",l'vu bteu drawing a conveyance ail day, a4tiew4" Nlf MEER IS. So might it be In lift!, When the glory and The 'strife Of its June Had shed their flowers and fruits, From pure or yolsonid roots; Late or soon; We may find a grander view, With a wider passage through To our rest. And that Joie which blossoms last, • When passion's dream Is past, Is the best. • • NOTES OH THE INTERNATIONAL LESSONS rtsrmsuommlnwmwmTilsmw We_had a hasty glimpse of Sauliof Tar :ins in connection. with the stoning of Ste libel]. Now we have a fuller and much inore interestiag view of him, We see hiin suddenly converted gom a violent pirseentor to a humble, happy Christian. Herein was Stephen's dying prayer an swered. I.* Ilis.journey. Vs. 1-2.' He 'appears here as the same hitter enemy of the Christian• Church. So Alostile. is .he that. he is represented as breathing out slaugh t4 and threatening:4; he pants and puffS out menace and murder under the excite ment of his hate. He is just as zealous as when he superintended the stoning of Stephen. He shows this by going to the High Priest, who alone could 4 sign Such.a commission, and asking for,letterS of au-• thorizatiowin order to 'seize' the Chris tians at Dainas:us i and dra — g them to Je rusalem to be tried and. punished. This power the Homan Emperors had confer-' red upon the Sanhedrin. 'lt probable 'that Christians were quite num.iozs at Daniascus. • 1 • 11. The Vision. Vs. :34. It occurted neat .Damascus— while 11e2 was on the road—at mid-day suddenly. It was a light from heaven—a powerful exceeded the splendor of thesuri at mou thy. The effect upon Saul was that it blinded him and, caused him to fall from his horse, face downward, to the ground. But though ho could not see he Cotild• hear.- Ile ‘ - ‘.lleard a voice saying unto him, -Saul, Saul, why persccutest thou nip ?" - The wOrds to him were clear and dktiuct. In v. 7'We learn that the nien who accompanied him to execute his or ders beard the voice, but from chap. xxii: '9, we infer that they heard only Um Sound, but could not distinguish the %N ords. Saul knew, that it must be seine . s4erliuman but lie did not under= stand who it was that spike. hence his question, •‘ Who art thou, , Lord.?"• The answer touched his heart and conscience, and led to his instantaneous conversion. Yielding at once, laying aside all hatred and s pet scenting plans, he cried, "Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?" In an-, steer the Lord sent him into the city where his diity was revealed to him,_as we shall' hereafter see. . • ' 111. The Visit of Ananias. Vs. $-18. After. the vision had passed %111 found himself wholly blind. He opened his eyes e., his eyelids) but saw no man, and had to be led intO Dattiascus. This was a very different sort of entrance from that which he expected to make. His bliniluess lasted three days, during which time his soul was so intensely occupied with the momentous subject suggested by the Saviour's qUestion, that he did neither t nor drink. Thus was he taught in silence of the mind by the Holy Spirit,' without human intervention.• • Ananias wa:.; a private Christ4ll -in .153 - Ina , Ams: It was a man otherivii:.e ' up known that the Lord sent to givellight to his chosen apostle. The commission clinic to him in a vision; i. e., through a visible i • - sr, who was the Lord Jesus himself. ilie. was to gointo a city called -then and ow Straight (because dividing the city in two in a straight line), and inquire in the house of a Christian named Judas for Saul of Tarsus; who was at the moment eAgaged in prayer, anti Who had seen in a vision_this very Ananias coming to him and laying his hands upon him, so that he received back his sight. Ananias was afraid at the sound of that dreaded name,. and demurred; b4t the L'ord's commaild ;was peremptory ; "Go thy waY.!" And the reason was assuring ; "'For he- is a chosen_ vessel, etc." This' was an intinni tion of bis conversion, and of the great place he was to fill in the church. Noticti that he was a chosen vessel before Anan ias visited him. ' God's chOice" and: call were immediate and direct, xvitliont hu- Man interposition. Here Saul's winleis said to be twofold—to Preach before Gen:: tiles and Jews, And tq suffer great things for ChriSt's sake.. . Ananias promptly ';obeyed. He knev that Jesus sent him, and he knew that he sent for a twofold purpose—to be the nistrument•of removing Saul'S .blindness;' and of his being tilled with the Holy Ghost. It is to ,be noted hero that the Holy Ghost is given through the laying on of the bands of a private Christian°. The effect followed the condition in aut ly. Immediately-there fell' ft ton his eyes as it had been scales; I. e., it seemed to him as if' scales fell from his eyes. This perhaps was Ids own way of expiess.. lug the great changi.. He received sight , forthwith. It is probaile, hOstrever,tthat AM; eyes alWaYs bore . the >Marks. of the. sudden blintlingl The - ,gh he could see . , his Vision W. its aft e rwards impaired and this disability wag incrva.sed, by his being v.:night afterwards 7 to • the gird'' heaven. (•.! Cur. xii). Thenceforth he 'was well nigh blind, and this; probably; constitut-1 ed-his thorn in the flesh. lie arose 6., from hie precious pros trati4n and inaction) and was 'baptized; "a sign both of his initiation into. the 'Christian church; and of thespiritnal ren ovatiOnr, without. which mere_external. membership must be _foiever Nviiromt.,o4; tinavnilingl" • . •ABTU*L They have come—the When the red sun's chastened rap, In the wood. Gilharnecbright wiahade and hue That the stitutulr clever And pierce the thicket through. Where I stood. In the Spring, content to greet Ail the beauties it toy feet, And to stay, Never cluing what beside Nature's verdant yell might hide Far away. Mi ; the view Is clearer now; Dead, the tendril on the:bough, • 1 • Sant. the veil, And the e ocean is in sight„ Dim awl►le. It had come—the Aettunn time; Passed the Sinamer and the prime; .ir my days. Careless I of joys Of ((ire, For the sod was dank with tears; Withered fell the hopes of years la nay gaze: When the,Magle of my love Let the annlri from above; I . - Soft and bright. , .And 1 iaw with altered mind , That-the Autumn, too, wa.4 kind jolts light. 1, For, Just as a brighter sheen G:orHies the passing green Of the leaf, Anil the vistas °lilting clear Let the wider scenes appear Free from grief-. BY ILEV..IOIIN S. STFAVART,'D. D NOVEMBER 5, 1671 • SAUCS CONVEItSIo:k FOCI:TR Q&ARTEIL LESSON vi MI 7 Tel7l•ple Bar
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