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T: 1 - f- : I ) ' , ,_ r '.- •-..-. :. •:- :- •-• - 7 \ \.. ..---'''.'':. . , • r DORCAS ,RiSTOSIZP as Tart. - , .. I ' , ~,...... , • A' I :.• I 1 ; • . t , „.1 ~ •(,, i• ,i , • 1.- -.,..- - . .1 . - - - ~.:'''' ' ..... • i• . , . k Acts 11. at.43.—Goips . • - 4 k- i ' a • . • - -- A ' 1 / \ • ‘.. \.. • . , . . ~ , . • . ~.....4%. ' 70V11111 QOASIVIL Lsssost V 711., . . - , . • • - • . . . , • . . . . • , • : • 4 1. r ' ' -. 1 . • • . ' - , , ~. •i• . . , . r . - , ,I. - • . , . . 1 ' . . i .- . . . _ . • S. W. ALVORD, Publisher. VOLUME XXXVII. Taylor 1t Co. T A Y L 0 C\4.:?!, Are receiving, !Ais.uteek, a LARGE AND -ATTRACTIVE! Assortment of DRY GOODS For the FALL & WINTER SEASON EVERY; -DEPARTMENT' IN OUR STOPS WILL DE FILLED WITII DESIRABLE GOODS! And we propose to sdLtliem .L l ' OTV R' PRICES ! .THAN 'HAVE YET BEEN OFFERED IN THIS SECTION PLEASE CALL AND EXAMINE OU 1: STOCK._ TAYLOR k CO TOM amln. Sept. 2. 1 , IS 7g Ent & Miss. .74Z•Ew GOOI)S! NEW GOODS!! NEW ,GOODS!!! KENT , & BLISS Have just received their first invoice of AVINTIT GOODS ! All the new styles" in HIESS GOOD---DRESS GOODS &c , , & c.'•,,'. - .Sc We offer Barmins 7 11ERET . OFORE 17NEII.TALE1.)! CALL AND EXAMINE QUIZ STOCK And b? ..... cnivinpt.,l KENT BLISS. Taitaddi t ppt. 4, Off*. gcleri44 4tottro. i Seventeen hundred and seventpseven, Fair and pun Is the face of heaven, Aud softly the sunlight Bunts allure The calla old City of 'Brotherly Lure Ilelsey Itoss In her t homespun dress Ilas paused fur a moment of idleness; The little shop with the sanded floor Look?, bright from Hui halt•wap open door ;; But Betsey watcht.s with anxious eyes A cloud of dust that the pees arise. Adown t 'street iliere's a fe , POilly SUN— Aiparly of liornmeti are seeking tier. 311Mress Betsey,” !hr flrsl one cries -1 w on his forehead the 'cocked hat Iles-- "In the name of Congre. , :s, we bid you leave Your other labors a. ft •g to weave • A field of blue yon shllll light with stars, UI silk prepare nykir Ms milk-white bars, =ME •. ".t!Itl, with the erlinson they Ile between, The goodly number , hall be thirteen." Then needle and , selssors Butsey sought.; With sk a Tingtrii the ttagWas wrought; And It waved aloft lu many a fight, Where the watch-word rang, —Fur God and Right Then the years weld by, anti Betsey' soul Had nett ere the war-drum eMit•ed to Toil ; And liwtH•yi daughter stood by the door ttr the little t•hoitlvlth the :-..jaded floor. •••iiive a more flak:;," the sii4dler, erled ; "We have imitglit tint rag, *hero t be stars are dyed With tin:ldt.sd of hoes, andith, intik-white bars Are torn, like our breasts, It Itb raggA scars," It it the maiden said, "lin $.Oll knm the Friends: , Thy weave nip hauliers l'i•r waillke ends, I weai lla. it co Is..f s , .b:•r t, Ittrll:rj•ritilmAt ~r :lzure I can weave tm nag.' that may nave In strlfe ' \Shore btotht•r 18 8,0.1117, a Lrut hers Then ! , il..nt the vet•r:.us turned away From that qa!rt maid In the PAK. o{ gray, AVho:ifter UIeID el •s Ileacy lo6r or the link ch o p with tilt. 11,0 r Eiglitem htii 4i. 1 aninsvvt•nly-slx, to wild confu,ion tlm c(Otor+ Inlx, tot :Ito vat lots. It:ws of the r.dobow pl:ty I)t r thr rlty grim aml gr.i ; iuvrl.ul 1.3110e1, tin•c wave abm•.• a!1:1 Iflty of Itrorlwrly -I.n.d ay.dr.artit Au.l Qaar rd,y mret.ll, a :13 5 t, r 74 j TAa -impt;d,tiowr Wr.,:glit ill d IA ~r a 1'.' , 111111 . , band, id!gh , s • Thmigh I,:ttlit..l in IL, p•ar...,f •,:L;ln 'nd 1.!n:1•1- NV:11, , ,,...`T a la;a1 f I , lght Tl': tria!“.r mal.l.li, r wtr!r,.. t!:en. w..re this, 11. , 1 1.0 earthrice.! :a a 1,11:10,. Yn hrave heart &TA in the .111,t to lie. , I .at tht• a:nl mill., might !hat on high th • Inhi‘t Aland Jo drag T., the ea..h that 11 ,, Inespa:i nag. It tea, !tutu• a:or tfauti:4l) blood and tear., laps of a 111111(11%,/ Iu th • City of Penn It 11.61, natal N..), Wt:i!c• tI tayrl.l.l !Lig, of a Joyous wor:(1, I ri ttrc gnt••t 111,41 rittarrets En! whit. t Itt•ir fultis the dal, of t . Larl••r'a I(D.kly A SHORT RULE FOR PRETTIES A young friend has been visiting me who was a fretter. She fretted when it rained, and fretted vhen it shone: She fretted when others came to see her, and fretted when they did not. It is dreadful to lie a fretter. A fretter i-Aroublesonie to herself and trouldesotue to• her friends. We, to e sure,: have our trials; hut frettin! , ,ioes not hvip us to tivar or ,et rid of them. I Lave hitcly conic acro-s a f t l li ? rt rule for 11i:U....1.5, which they Alai' have. Ilere it is : I . Irr ! ( 11111111 illo.l l . 711 , 1 /11 ll * l ill I he'rali , C bp \r.r•rr fret 01),,a! what ! pp; et: 11 help: because, It volt cat, !wit, it, do so._ Say this when you _et tip in the morning, say it at noon, awl say it at night; and not only . try, but : and that will be, do cot fret all—a fine doing. '• But we have our* trials," my readers say. Yes, yon have; I awl your iittle trials are as hard to hear as our' big ones. but irrit illy doesn't help thcfn, nor wisliing we were sotui•where else, or somebody (Ise, or dwelling upon : them until they look a ~T eat deal hi er. than'' they really are. .Did you ever see that fable abOut the toad and the . ; A 'toad used to live under a, stone the brook. lie was a pretty I:it toad, and gut along in the world :1:•• NVt'll as tuacl . fq•ner:llly do. One day ho went Out to !lad somethin! , to eat. fin•l hopping ont among the grcen leaves by the creek's y side, he heard a rustle among the leaves. lie said to himself. 6' There's a nettle ! I like beetl , F. I'll be quiet and catch hint." So he crept along till he got to it, and stuck out his toneale to get 11;111: but it happened to oe a Int ruble ! Ile dropped It like a hot coal. :old had to cry out' in the way toads cry, and hop hack to, his hole und;:r the.stone. Ile suffered with the pain, and hici tongue swelled anti he was oblin.ed to lie i v for two or three days. flopping bail to his home he plficked a leaf of the plantain, and 'took it home for his medicine, and put it in his mouth to cure the sting of the bee. Ile stayed at-home for two or three days, and bep,•an to get Itit7ry. and poor, and lean: As he hopped along, he came under the leaf of a iolantan, and being, very, tired and bun!rry, he stopped under the leaf, and looking up, lie said, "Oh, what a nice time you plantains have! 1 should like to change places. Toads . have a hard life." The plantain said, " Fri,end toad, I . shoubl like to chan7e tod. Idon't see *hat tonds..havc to complain of. I think they must have a fine time of it.- "Let me tell said the toad. "la the first place. we lia+.'e to work fur our living, and find all we get to eat : and sometimes, when we think we are going to 'get a beetle, we get a huMble-bee. Then, :I , •ain, in winter time .we get frozen up, and when we come out the boys come along and stone us, and the crows pick us up ; isn't - that trouble while you plan- Litmus have just to sit by the river, and don't have to work. I should like to. change places with yon."'. "StOp ! let ige A LEGEND OF THE FLAW NM TOIVANDA, BRADFORD,COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY lORNING, NOVEMBER 16, 1876. cried the plantain. "Wm cannot hop 'about as you can, but have to stay where we are put. If we want a 'drink of water; we can't go to the creek and get' it.. We can't_inove an inch to go and see the world - and visit our next neighbor. Then , thO . sun - ahines hot all day, and we Lye 'to bear it, and can't imp under a cool leaf as you do. Then, by-and-by, comes along a cow and nips off our head, or a little worm and ets'into our heart, and we ()Ave not 1 hoer to shake him otf. I should like ,o change places with you. Yoo take mine Anil I will take yonrs; for I am so anxious to hop down to the creek and get a drink." • t • "Stay, stay !" cried the toad, "I hear a cricket:: Let me get it and oil he went hfter the cricket, and • never came back. So it appears only have trials; and the only right way of get ting along is:not to wish oUrselves' somebody ,else, and fret ourselves be cause we are not, but contenteilly . bear our lot, 'and be satisfied with what God has; given The Day of Days. A STUDY OF NATURE. THE LOON One of the strong and original strokes of Nature was when she made the loon. It is always refresh:- ing. to contemplate a creature so positive and chdiaetcristie. Ile is the great and flyer under water. The loOn is the yen tts loei of the wild northern lakes, • as solitary as they are. Sonie birds represent the majes ty of Nature, like the eagles; others ,its ferocity, like the hawks:, others its canning, like the crow ; others its I sWeetness and melody, like the song The loon represents its wild ness and solitariness. It is `Fgousin to the. beaver. It has the feathers of a bird and tiw fur of an animal, and the heart of both. It is in the strict est sense an aquatic fowl. It c:in barely walk upon the Ixlll, and one species at least cannot take night fro►n the shore. But in the water its eet are more than. feet and its wings ire nvire than wings:. It plianges into Ids denser air andllies with incredi- Ile speed, Its head awl beak form sharp point to its tapering neck. Es wings are far in front awl its legs •dually 1?a• in the rear, and its course throin4lithe crystal depths is like the speed of an arrow. I had never seen one till last Fall, when one appeared, on the river in front . (if my house. I knew instantly it was a loon. Who et:MI(1 110 t tel the 10011 a half a mile or more away, though he had never seen One before? The river was like glass, and every movement of'the . hint as it sported about broke the lirlarc into ripples, that revealed it PO. and whit.. Vresently a boat shot out from the shore and went rip ling up the SUrraVe town rd _the loon. 'fl?. crc.ature at once seemed to divine the intentions of :the hot man, and sidled olf obliquely...keeping a sharp look out as if to ake sure it was pursued A steamer . came down and passed between them., and when the way was ag.tin clear. the loon was still swim ill!Y on the surface. Presently it dis appeared under the, water. and the boatman pulled sharp and hard. In a few moments the bird reappeared,. some rods further on, as if to make an observatimi. Seeing it was being pursued, and no mistake, it dove q ui e tir s , and when it Callle, np again. it. had gone many times as far as the b.ett had in the same space of time Then it dove n! , ain, and distanced its pursfier so easily that he gave over the chase, awl ,reste , l upon his oars. lout the bird Made a limit plunge, anti whcii it came tip it was over One mile itway. Its course' must have been, anti doubtless was, an actual night tinder water, and half as fast as,the crow ilk:3 ill the air. The lopu would have deli! 'idol the 31d pooe•ts. Its wild demoniac laugh er awakening its echoes on the soli- tarp' Likes. and its f'eritj••or li .rdiness w:is kindred to those robust spirits. L--Graft.ry.. Tut: Ilisnite AND ..rur: BEES.—WC : Lind the following good story in a foreign journal : • A French Bishop, being abriut to make his annual visitation, sent word to a certain curat, whose ecclesils tical benefice was extremely trilling, that he ineant to dine with hint, at the same time requesting that he would not put himself to any extra ordinary expense. The en rate prom ised to attend to the bishop's sug gostion't but he did not keep his word, ft elie provided a most sump tuous entertainment. His lordship was much surf rised, and could not help censuring the conduet or the citrate; observing that it was highly redieulons in a man -whose circum stances were .so narrow, to launch out in' l snch expense, nay .almost to dissipate his annual income in a sin gle day. ' DO not be uneasy on that score, my lord,' replied the curate, • for I can assure yim that what von now see is not flit; produce or my curacy, which I bestow exclusivelv upon the poor.' 4 . Then you have a patrimony, sir:" said the bishop. • No, my lord.' 'You speak in rid dies.,, rejoined his lord:diip; 'how do you eontrive. to live, in this manner:' • My lord, 1- have a correct of young damsels here, who do -not let the want anything.' ' I low ! lim have a convent ? net know there was one' in this' - neighborhood. '1 his is all very strange, very 'unaccountable, Com-utinuE, in 'addition to his deep - Mr. 'orate.' ' Yon are joentar, my lord.' 'lint Come sir I entreat that er and loftier faculties, had ,a power you gold., solve , , thC enigma - tif retort attributed to himlin early ; IFe, and, as we gather Erma thrft would fain see the convent." So tm his you spa my lord, after dinner ; and ry of. a particular ride, eOuld ap. 10 - it according 'to the sensibilitiesl-promise at your lord-.hip will be Ids opponent. The horse ilnd geV satklied with my conduct.' accord tip of the rider onthis oceaston were ingly, when dinner was over, the cu tip open to vulgar criticism„and rate, conducted the prelate to a large alik e lvw' Wag appreciating .the general tr inclosure, entirely occupied by bee feet, asked the pest if he had a hives, and pointing to the latter ob the eon _ tailor just like himself. •• Yes,"Was This, my - lord, is , the reply," and he said he Lad just vent which gave us a dinner; it_brings Bosse." After this lOwly me in about eighteen hundred lures " this Umph, his road brought him within trig It . year upon' which I live • eery cam - , 1 a more distinguished party fortabiy, and with which Feontrivel hid/ " cif, one of whom,!a ~on-to mac-ruin my guests ;genteelly. r horsemen ' The surprise and satisfaction of the M. I'. known to have been bribed bishop may be imagined." I by the Ministry„stopped hjm t i in inire the price of horse and rider. ‘r The horse," was the, anstver,..“ is a hundred animas; as for thelrider, as he is not iu Parliament :set I have , riot fixed big taw." - A TURIi'TY young Teuton was asked if attend thy races. , "I yaits dill' Tursday,",esaid he, derfreei for all, den I bays battings." • REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER. YOUNG PEOPLE'S OAHE OF THEM NoW you will say, this is a dismal -and unnecessary sermon to preach to young people ; they have their I fathers and mothers to take care of them; they.don't take care of them selves. Very true; but fathers and mothers cannot always make their children remember and obey their dictions; more than all, it is very, hard to make children realize that it is of any great importance that they should keep, all the laws of health. I know when I was a little girl, when people' said to "You must not do thus and thus, for if you do, you will take'cold," I used to think, :" Who Cares for a` - little cold, suPpcising I catch one'?" And when ( I was phut up in the t house for several days With a bad sore - throat, and suffered liorrible pain, I never reproached myself. - .I, thought that sore throats rut come now.and then, whether or no, 'and that I must take my turn. But now I have learned that if no• lbw of health were ever broken, we teed never have a : day's illness; rilight - grow old in entire -freedom' from suffering, and g radually fall asleep at last, instead o f dying tern-- 34 deaths from disease; and I am `all the while wishing. 'that . I hail' known it when I. was young.ltl had, known tell you .what 'I should have done. I ,wonlit havti jUst tried the experiment at any rate, of never doing a single thing which could 'possWlity get any one of the in struments of my body out of order. wish . ] -Could see,some boy br girl try it yet; never sit up late atinight; never to have a close, bad akin the room ; never to sit, with wet feet • Ii ver to wet them, if it were vossible tO help it; never to go on( in cold NVeather without being ,4roperly wrapped up ; never to go, out of .a" hot room into a cold out-door air njithout throwing some extra wrap on; never to eat or drink - lan un- Wholesome, thing; never to touch tea, or coffee, or candy, or pie-erust; never to let a day pass without at lost two good hours lit' exercise in the open air; never to read a . wOrd t by twilight, nor in the cars ;, never let the sun be shut out orrooms. ,This is a pretty long Ist.a"fievers," 'kit "never' is the only word that eon oilers " Once in it while " is the very watchword of temptation and defeat. I do believe that the 6 4 OnCe i A-a-w hi le " things ha% e ruined more ,s . 1 il r odies, and more sonlS too, than all the other things put.t.il"gethei'. More over, the "never" wa . Y is easy; and the " once-in-a-while '' way is hard. After you have once made up your niind "never." to do a certain thing. that is the end of it, if you are a sensible person. But if pin o nly s;ty, "This • is a bad habit," or This i.l h dangerous indulgence; I will be a little on my guard, and' not do it too often," you have put yourself in the most uni-otufatable of all posi tions; the temptation Will knock at your door twenty times a day, and y r ri will have to be lightinglhe same o d battle _ over and over again as long, as you live. This is esPecially true in regard to the matter,tif which Ilhaye been speaking. thd ca le of the hody. When you have once laid d r own to yourself the laws you Iran th keep, the thing,s - you Will always 0, mut the things yoit will ncr r" . • then gout lire arranges itSelf into system at ()nee, and you are not interrupted and hindered as''the un- decided people are, b wondering What is best. or safo, or wlndesotne, 1 1 . too unwholeso►ne at (lillereat times DI .11) TO Tut: \\on.i.D;—'llhis city teuining with romance and trage- 1 V, if one only knew just Where tor Imk fir it. I was walking Op Four teenth street yesterday, with a lady. :mil as we passed :In elegant brown stone.' house, surrounded liY a large garden, between Fifth and Sixth av enues, she said : " Do von see that house ?,'" " Yes," said 1, i"and 1. nave often noticed it, and thought IVlett fun it would' be to live in such a placo."• . " The peop;e who live i the .e don't find it such fun,"'she re iili d, and continued, '.in the back Gel rooms of that house,lives a lady Ilio has not seen the light, of day fOr ye: ys." " Poor thing,"! said I, "is she stone blind ? " " she IS not blind at all; Tint sees as well as I can," and she turned a,pair of the brightest brown eyes in the world Up to mine. Explain yourself, !Fay," sajd•l,'•vhat-i4 the ni . ysteryr: .I.There is no mystery—only the lady . l'speak of, who yet myoung woman, lust her (Ally child Some years ago, and before she had recoi'er6F from' the shock her husband died,' Since that dim: she has not left thos i e room —the shutters are closed and the gas is kept 'burninf!„ just anon the night or her husband's death, so that she way take no note of tilde ; and there .11e, sits, waiting p.tticntly for the voice that shall call her to th'at coun- ry where there is no night." " What a sad story," said I, as I ooked back over my shoulder at the louse, which - seemeci to gather the hallows as they passed ;!" It is a \Liss llaversh m case in real life." r "The only difference," Said my ()lend, " being that this lady's mind is as clear as the noonday' , sun. She i 0 only dead. to the world lbecause tier world is dead."—BoAmiGa:rife. SELVES. ---• -4 4i11.0.- ADJUSTE' A LOSS: Keen fellows those insurance agents. There was an alarm of' tire the other day, caused by a gas explo sion in the "saloon " of Mr. Michael McGowan at the North End. As as the .excitement had quieted down a little Mr. McGowan started for the insurance office, where he lihd taken out a policy on his " shebe'en ", and its contents. Soon after Michael left a 'quiet looking gentleman entered and inter viewed Mrs. McGowan on the subject of gas. He Was very severe ; he - thought the gashad beenimproperly used ; he donliad if the company would put pipe?' 4il there again if so much damage was done. MrS. McGowan was alarmed. She knew that -much? of Mr. McGowan's business was transacted " under the gaslight," and she volubly protested: " Aisy, sir, av ye rla.ze; is it the gas , .and the fire ? Divil a harram have they done anyway, barrin' Mike drivin' the head 'jay him thro' the windy, but mariny the worse lick he's got when he's bin out wid the boyes. Burn, is it? Nothing was burnt but Mike's ould coat. As fur the whisky, it wouldn't burn if you'd,trow it on the fire. Damage, is it? Wait fill I get a drop oi whitewash, the mor row, an' divil a sign of a scorch ye'll see." Meanwhile Mike, with his heal bound up and' wearing a woeful . countenance, was waiting at the in snranee office. PreSently the agent arrived, and Mr. McGowan opened his ease atiouce. "Good marlin', mister Premium. I've jist dropped in for me insurance, sir. The' bloody gas works, bad luck to 'cm, bust the stooling all out av the pipes, and sit lire to me place, and trow'd me elane troo the Windy wid me head agin liurphy's wall as kapes the grocer's shop that came from County Cork au' knows one well, barrin' he'll sell a, glass a whis key on the sfy, which, being a grocer, is agin me rights''' As soon as3lr. McGowan stopped the agent cjnietlN• inquired " How much do you think yotir oss is, Mr. Met:lowan r' "IVell. I do not know, sor. What will me place busted, and me stock burned, •me clothin' destroyed, me heail bruk, to say nothin' av the Mild on Mtirphy's wall, I gni thinkin matter or five hundred dollars wild be squarin,: Mr. , MeGuWall," said the agent, drawinp• a bank note from hits drawer, I haVe lwen 'up to, your place this morning and seen what damage has heen done, beside havinr the , pleas ure of an interview with Mrs. Mc- Gowan. ; 'There, is twenty dollars to pay for a bucket 'of whit - en-ash. ,a) pane glass, and your broken head; and don't you ever try to , play games on insurance i - kmple." Mr. McGowan's face lengthened inch by inch, and Lis square l an dropped 'as the insurance man qon tinned. Finally, his eye falling'un der the gaze of the - other, he pocket ed the money, signed the neeestary papers,.and merely remarked - So ye hall an interview wid the onla woman, have ye ? Be gorra! I'll have 4410 wid her meself :loin .1 go back." • Mr. MeGowan was true to his word, for he paid the twenty dollars to the clerk of the police iantthe next morning for, as Mrs. McGowan di‘scrihed it, " Itatia' her like an ould wervitri . Mille THE PINT' Of ALE A \t:tncln•ster e;dieo printer ss : as, o . n his wcil , liug day, :t,kol by his vile to Allow het• two inilC-pints of; le :t cloy :1,4 her share .)1* t-xtra c•oln ort,. lie mile but trot cheerfully,.for, though a drinker hiin self, (faneyin!r, no dOubt, that he could not weirdo without,) he would have much ,prefeyred perfejtly ber wife. They both worked had. .lohn loved his wife . devotedly, but he could not • kreak away fronollia IPla assbeiates at the ale house, and, when not in thejactory, or at his meals he was with his -boon companions. His wife made the small allowance meet-her house-keep ing .expenses—keeping her dot neat and tidy, and he could not complain that she insisted on her pint of ale, N% Idle he, very likely, drank two or' three quarts. Once in a wink!, the wife succeeded by ;2 - ,entle„ loving 'arti fice, in drawing; her husband home an hour or gtv 0 'earlier 'than usual, and very rarely she persuaded him to spend a whOle evening in Ik!9 , com pany. They had been married a year, and on the inornin of their wedding, annivers.ary John lookol with pride upon the neat and comely person of his wife and with a touch of remorse in his look • and tone, lie said: " Mary, we'll had no holiday sibce we were wed, and only that I 11:1V( n't, a penny th' worlsl, we'd take a jinni to th' village to sA., thee mother," • " Would thee like to go, John " she asked. There Seas _a tear --with - ter smile, (brit touched lieFldart to hear him speak tenderly as in the old times.: '• If thee'd like to go, John, I'll stand treat." '• Thou .stand treat, Mary !, Mast thou got a foitin' left thee 1' " Nay, but I'm gptten the pint o' ale," she added. " gotten what, wife ? ' The pint o' ale," she repeated. Ind thereupon she went to the hearth. and front beneath one of the stone !lags drew forth a stocking, froth which she poured upon the ta ble the stun of 365 three-pent:es-IA, 11 s. 3d.—exclaiming : "Vie:, John, thee can have the hol- iday." • •• What is this ? " he asked it amaze. " It is my daily,- pint o' ale, John: • He w.ls consdenee, , trielien ns wel as :1111:11.ed: • "Mary, hasn't thee had any sha- ( i ? Them I'll ha' no more fro' this day." Anil he wis as gotiil ss hls word. They had their holiday ,with their old mother, and Mary's little twital, saved froM the "hints o' :de," was the seed from which, as the years rolled on, grew shop, factory, warehouse, cotmtry seat,' and carriage, with health, happiti.s TON, boor, and reni*.O. •• -.= - • • . 2 INTIKEEPING AS A FINE /ET. We fear that the line art of inn -keeping 'is on the decline. As in other departments of lifthe inrush of 'bourgeois ideaS and of the people wbOlive to make .4,Ltings pay, rather than to make them worth paying for, has not idealized the art of innkeep ing. There was a time when it was at least the ideal of'an EngliSh o•lnake glad the stranger's heart, and not merely to sell him a Certain amount of indispensable conveniences of life, But .no doubt this was the ideal before the time of railways and that multiplication of travelers which rail ways i produced, rather than since. It must be very difficult to make a fine art of innkeeping *(or, indeed of anything"else) without a certain over flow of feeling in the discharge of the ordinary duties of the profession, and' it is not easy, we dare Say, to abound in cordiality of sentiment', .toward the crowds which -railways have launched as 'travelers on the country. Ile hospitable state of mind is essential to the fine art, though not to the tride; of innkeep ing.;' arid the hospitable state of mind must Oe difficult to attain toward all the persons who crowd one after an other into the cloths of a tolerably prosperous hill, with, persistent and peremptory cries for. breakfast, lunch, dinner or suPper, chops, cutlets, wine,' beer, bacon, eggs, bedo,:baths,:towels and hol, water, between the earliest hour of the morning' and the arrival of the last omnibus at night. • But whatever the :cause, it is certain, we thint,Ahat innkeeping as tine art is on the decay, We admit ,that "crack " hotels exist, and are likely to exist in still greater numbeVs, in favorite spots or in Irretit .:cities— " crack " hotels where any.luXury can, be purchased for the requisitconsid eration. But that no more realizes the ideal of innkeeping cultivated as a line art than good printing, realizs, the ideal of handwriting cultivated as a fine art. Printing may answer a great many of the purposes of the reader:better -than the best: writing, but it has none of .the beauty of fine writing for all of 7 . . _ And so a palac9 hotel, 'i;tncli as Switzerland erects , 011. all her most magnificent sites, awl even,jEngland, erects" in great cities, and here and there; at rare intervals, in scenes of justly celebrated beauty, may answer some or the purposes of the traveler more effectively than the most perfeet of the old-fashioned inns; but for all that it is the effectiveness of machin ery rather than the ctliijtiveness of temper :Ind taste which these hotels attain—the effectiveness which comes of largLi plans and suc cessful or:mnization, rather than the effietiveness which comes of a mind which finds something more in a par ticular- calling than opportunity for profit in the adequate supply of de inand. DRINING AMONG-WOMEN. It is undoubtedly true that many of our womcn who indulge in the dissipations of . fashionable society are given to Trinking champagne and even spirituous liquoni. The practice also is ! -, Towinr - ,antl its balernl results are apparent, to any one whoOs well acquainted with the lovely creatures who adorn our gay saToons of fashion. Not long ao-o, a young g:rl, who bad devdoped a ...charming capacity for for muSie and a happy social tact, be came so hoplcss a victini of dipsoma nia that she was. taken. to a asylum, where her appetite e,Jul.l be restrain ed. a complete and shattered wreck al the opening of womanhood, This is only one ease out of many. ,The habit starts With the experience of the stimulating (urea.; of :1(10 the exhaustion ; of fashionable di4l7 patio)), or when it is desired to start gayety that does not come sponta neously.; The stimulant soon anti . become a necessity, and before she herself is aware of it the . woman is 't toper. Within the. last twenty years, the freedom with which women drink.wine and. other liquors has lie ellme ,renter and greater. There . are soine of than in fashionable life, who really seem to have stronger ,heads . than a man, and to be able to carry their wines, brandy. and liquors with a steady gait and a tongue in nowise thickened ; but the more delicate nervous organization' of a woinan .attst.'s thq. .tlects or the strain to be more serious than in the case of a man., ' A woman, too, who puce ac quires the habit of 4.lrinkino'k apt to eonstune an enormous .amount of liquor of all sorts. If our physicians who practice among the fashion:llqt• people of the el v could reveal their knowlekloo on this Abject, it would astound the puhlie. O . urse we do not bring* this change of dipsonutnia noainst our ladies generally. It is in truth only in exceptional cases thlt it exists ; but we deplore the eiremn : St:inCe that more or less of, drinking ,rowing to, he looked on as a venial ollince in fashionable women. is a dangoroui vie..., and in its train are likely to . folloW others still inure daagerous..—Neic A foreign newspaper publishes a literary Cll7:osity entitled, " lioyalty at the Dinner Table," which purports to give the favorit e dishes of the dif ferent crowned heads of Europe. I,f_neen Victoria, we are told, is fru gal at table, and is fond of beef and pastry. Mailshal MaclNla• h'in cares little for the 1!lof les of the Frenoi cui4 ire, but is very. fondiof fruit: The Emperor of Germany is "an excellent eater and an excellent drinker," quite convivial at the ta ble,J":intl of beef, mutton, and bis- . cuits. The - Emperor •of Austria re stricts himself to dark meats and the national - wines of. Hungary. The Kin7;of Italy is a great sportsman, but. unlike sportsmen, is -very fond 'if game. 9'lre Kinv of Holland is very fond Of " has. one of the linesi, cellars in Europe,'' Bur . gundy being his favorite. Leopold 11, is very fond of thrushes, though he has ft poor alictite. The king of Portugal hi fond of sweetmeats, and the King of `pain has a preference tilr lamb and veal, and "-lingers long over his dessert." • A GENTEEL referied 10 bor female 9ncol4r t01.1.411y Eve, $2 per 'Annum lei Advance. 'NUMBER 21. THE OLD LOG ROME. There's an old log house on tui , fathers fano, Al silent, and lonely And still; ;Net, a Sound of 'mirth I ever bi:ard now the old log holm on the Mil. Hut fondly Ithipk:of the bygone days, , Where, with brothers and sisters dear, Nut a Lander heine in the country around, Conn! be found, either , far or near. But my father bullded another house, Audluy brothers are gone afar; And the old log house lsdesertee now, 'AttA defaced with many a scar. . The rabbit and triii 1 rretplay With :Wee tier the oitc'en flour; they,quickly heat.° hasty retreat ' :When the ettl flies In at the tlottr.- The "tWltterlng swallow — ittrw builds its nest. On the rafters, going to decay; And the robin and sparrow hare made their house On the logs for many a day. • Tho little room, where my brother and Oft listened to the weird whip-p , ,or-will, Is open now to the birds and the bats, nd.they mane there wttliont tear of ill. Bit poor-will is missed from his nightly :kat 411 ow apple tree near the door— For there's.nOone (here, to answer him back, As we've Jone j a thousand times o'er.. , The primroses bloom nneared4or now„ - • And the "blue-eyedAdolets" And:the cottage rose, that my sister hired, Climbs In at the ea,eingut As 11'1 would ask, "Where are they all gone That tiseti once to caress and to love 1 I,oor flowers, neglected now . In the rank reetnls that or us rove ?" Rut :he friendly vine, .on the 'Old black logs, Still clings there. loving and true, AS.If It hide the marks of 11.,tay From the pa.ssln7, travelers vleiq. Oh, toy heart 'still clings to the dear old home, And the tlnies of znychililhood there; :end rather live o'er those bles,eil iiays Than to doe 1 In a palace fair.. —Rural New rarOr FUN, FADT AND FAOETIE • - "IYhat object do you now see,?" asked the doctor. The- young man hesitated, and then replied, "It appears like a jack ass,. doctor, but I think it's yourshadow." LET us keep our scorn for our own Nl , i,aknesses. our blame-for our own sins, certain that we shall gain more ustruc non, though not amusement,.by 1 citing out the- , rood which is in anything, n by hinting out the. evil.—Kin (MEW. FONTENF;LLE 'was very fond of salmon. Ile was dining out one day in Paris, when a very pretentious guest at the table, upon hearing the author ask for a second plate ful exclaimed, "Oh, ho, Mr. Fontenelle. I didn't know philosophers were ,SO fond of good things !" "Probably," was the phil7)Sophical reply, ''the gentleman is un - - der the impression that God made good things only for fo'ols." - A CE'RTAIN mad wag on a Cincinnati joni nal. lately tlNtinguished himself in N . QI)4 . York. Dining at a restaurant he noticed on the bill of fare a request to the guests ,to report "ally want of attention:" Ile sent for thelandlord and pointed out the notice. "Has there been any want of attention?" queried Bonin:cc. "I should, brink there had, was the reply; "I have I een here fifteen minutes and. no one has ask, l me to tore a drinl,7:' ADANI Seotehman being examined by his minister, • was . asked, "What kind of a man was Adam "Oh, .jist like ither folk." The minister in.:- sisted an having.a more special descrip tion of the first man, and pressed for ex planation. "Wee!," said the catechunfem '-'he was jist like Joe" Simpson, the hofse 'Conper.'"•llow so asked the minister. •`V% eel, naebody got nny thing by and many lost." GF:iTI.E.N . TAN in the habit of occasion, ally rising intoxicating drinks, took up an able temperance address, and sat down in his, fainily to peruse t. He read it through without saying a word, when he exclaim ed, "This man is fool He then read it again, and When he had tiniSled-itthe second tiMeexelahnea,"Vhis man is a foil or I am." A third time be read it with still 'greater 'care, and as he finished the last sentence exclaimed, "I was the fool!" and never tasted a drop of, ardent spirits afterward. WHAT are called innocent enjoyments, with much which makes up and adds to the happiness ,f lifepoetry, painting, smiles and laughter, the sallies of playful Wit or the ()unit chuckle, the delightful euu tions—half-smiles, half tears—created by huinot, the family fun in summer even ings, in the open air—all that kind of life wide!' \ e enjtiy and icnictuber with sue! cniktyment (albeit miaLtlell with sadness... n4 - for what it :was, hat because it is not), this not associated in our mindst hit :taintship and holiness.--Vorman Crud. Tittl most doinforting physician we have heaitl of lately is Dr. tfr___. A sick pa tient asked if lie should surely recover.. ••infallibly,"'answered the man of med icine, taking from his pocket a paper full Of figures'. "Here, look at the statistics of yore• case. You Will find. that one per rent. of those attacked with your malady arc rured." . `NN'ell:"' said the sick man, in an un satisfied manner. "Well. you are the hundredth person with this disease that 1 have had utu._Mr lily care, and the first ninety-uine are all dead.', II(a' EL K EErEns are 'seldom come up with in financial matters. hut the "Ot the worst of it , in the follow hue case: An En:dish gentleman with his IN ife _an:l six dauulters, made tt trip t') Paris. On arriving at pia hotel he asked for four bed rooms—one for his -wife and himself , anti three for his daughters—addingf " Of course you will not charge the saint as if we took a separate room ? " Mine , - host " promptly - answered, that he could not possibly mak,e a difference, he would save nothiiryby, the proposed, arrangement and it was his rule, etc. " All right," said' Pa terfamilias. " Give us eight cham bers, then " The landlord had not counted on being taken so literally .at his word, and, thinkin g discretion the better part of valor, he graceful ly retreated froutthe position- he had so hastily assumed, made a fair eon cession in his terms and the English ramify took possesSion of their four rooms. A BRIEF TE3IPERSN CE LECTURE. - t From a speech by. J. J. Talbott, who recently diedictrunk in Elkhart, Ind.: I had position higli and holy. The demon - tore from around me thcrrObes or my sacred ot4ce and sent me forth churchless and godless, a very hiss ing.and by-word am6ng men. After ward my ,voice was heard in the courts. But the "dust gathered on my open books, and no foot-fall crossed the threshold of the drunk ard's office: -I had money ample for all necessities, but it went to feed the cotlers of the devils which possessed tile. I. had a holm: adorned with all •that,wealth and the most exquisite taste could • sutra - est The devil crossed its threshold and the light ,faded from its chambers.• And thus I stand, a, clergyman without church; a barrister without a brief, a man with; scarcely a friend,. a soul without hope—,all swallowed up in .the diaetatroin of drink." -' • St. Luke here takes up another thread i ,of bis narrative. Efarng reached it coo , : venient resting-pla6 in the bistory• Saul, he goes back and resumes the iliac ry of Peter, which be continues a 4 'far as chap: xi: 18. The record in section probably occurred while Saul wear, in Damascus or Arabia. After Peter had - finished his visitation of the cbuicbes he returned to Jerusalem; and then it ros y L. most probably, that Saul went up and abode the fifteen days with him. Gain. is V. 31. " Then had the .churches rest (or 'peace) throughout all Judea and Gal ilee and Samaria." Persecution for a time had exhausted itself. This was . probably the tithe when the Jews were engaged in a stubborn contest with Ca liguth, who had commanded them to set up his image in the temple; and, there fore, they had no leisure i:r time to worry- . and waste the little church. During this season of rest they were edified or built up: a favorite figure in the. New Testa ment for int ernal , growth and progress. How they ivere,built , hsp we are expressly • told : " They walked in the fear of - the "Lord, and in , the comfort of =the Holy Ghost; " e., circumspectly and cheer fully. Such a life of holy fear and joy ways leads to growth in grace and holt- • ness. And this, in turn, conduces to nu= merical growth--they " weremultiplied." Peter's Tiiitation of the Churches. 32. After this general preamble we, have an account 'of Peter's -yisitation of" . the newly established churches. pass-' ed throughote all —l. probably- the three districts spoken of in the Preceding verse. - Daring the progress of , this jour ney he ca.me•to Lydda. This was the Lod of the Old Testament (1 Chron. viii: 12),. situated abort, 10 s miles from 'JepPa; on the road leading -thence to Jerusalem; This place became prominent during the Crusades. Richard Qccur-de-Lion bdilt there a church to St. George, the ruins of winch are said to be still visible. Heir r occurred the first of , two rernarkabld inii acles which signalized this visitation, IL The Oealiug of .f.neas. 33. The subject of the cure was,e infer from his name, a Gi.eek-- - speaking Jew. He was a confirmed. para. : . lytic. He bad kept his bed - for years. flis case was well-knoWn at Lyd da. j • ) V. 34. Patera abruptnessl is notable. No preliminary t conversation is recorded. The apostle is Is bold as a lion. lie .has no fear that Christ will fail him: Proba bly be had an inward assurance of the. Holy Spirit. Notice. that he acts in name of Jesus. Ile keeps himself wholly out.of sight. "Ariseand.make thy bed !" • For eight yeais others had{ done this for him. Now he ,is to do, it himself: as a, proof of the reality of his cure. And im mediately he arose._ The healing was in, stantaneous. This prompt obedience on thY part of the paralytic Shows that the man muit..hal;elia'd faith in Peter, agile servant of Christ.- V. 3.i. The result was great and bless ed. " 11l that dwelt , in Lydda and Sa von the region of. Sharon, ;lying on the coast.• lieo:tieeu Jniipa and Catsarea). aimed 'tufo the Lord." That is, the - Leafing of .-Eneas was the occasion-of a general conversion to Christianity in that region ,; 111. The Resuscitation . ot Dore: Ft • . V. 36. This occurred, at Juppa (mod ern Jaffa) a seaport on the Mediterranean. There the materials for the first and sec ond temple were landed. It'i plain that there were disciples there as well as saints • at Lydda. Among these \was Tabitha (Aramaic), .called also Dorcas (Greek). These names are , identfail in meaning-L gazelle' or antelOpe. It was customary in that age to ! hare two names,' because of -the mixed ;population of Palestine. She was noted for her benevolence "full of good Works and alms deeds."' -It not beautiful :as a-gazelle in face, she was in g. heart. - She had truly learned. of Christ. "" The good die first." Dorcas ' grew tick,- (how long her . .. sickneSs lasted' %%e do not 'know), and died. Her cham ber !mist have been, a very window of, Iler friends paid suitable and loving attention tO her lifeless bOdy; and then laid it in an upper ; chamber of the. house—piobably the little roem - built ott the house-top. . .;• V. 88. Then at- once they sent for ; Peter.. Why Perhaps simply 'to - give ' comfort; but more . likely; :becauSe they had faith in his power as a servant Of the Lord to work miracle+. This faith was justifiable in view of what had just taken -- place at Lydda They entreated him that ht would not delay . to come to theist. lit the East, interment took Pace' very soon after death; so that if they hoped that Peter. Would restore her, to - life, they would 'naturally request that he would! ecirne before burial. .V, Nter at once . complied, Fc+ fotind her,dead, and ail the widows7weep ing, and showing the-coats and garments (inner and outer garinCuts) which Dorcas . bad made. These widows may have been ;hose in„.Tobpa who had chat* of the sivk, like the deaconesses of the apostolic, church; but more probably those whom Dorcas had blessed by her charities. 'No tice that Dorcas made the garments as well as7gave them. She did not get others to do the work and then carry off all the credit. V. AO. The restoration was simple and reminds us of Old - Testament type,;., 1 Kings xvii: 19-24: 2 Kings, :iv: . 32-36. . Peter's action was threefold. 1. He put them all forth 7 -prebably to secure him self from interruption.' 2. He kneeled down and, prayed; thus acknowledging • his part in the transaction . to, be simply ' • nstrumental. 3: 'He tainted to thfk • ,body _,l • . ri'• and said, , Tabitba arise'.'' His tong, was , bold. and. confident. - He had no fear of the result. , This was instantaneous. She opened her eyes :'and seeing -herself-alone • . with 4 stranger she raised herself , : up in surprise and alarm. -- -,-,, • V. 41. "I'6 quint her apprehenSions and - • welcoine-her back to life he gave her his. . 7 hand and lifted her up. • Then calling in the saints and widows be formally pre- seined ter alive 'to them as. a gift of i l'hri4's grace. V.-43. The news spread through all Joppli, and many (not all, ail in Verse 35) believed in the Lord. V. 43. The result made uch a deep impression and sb aceeleratvd the'work of the Lord that Peter tarried Many days in .Toppa, with one Simon, - a, tannv: This Sin on was no doubt a believer, and welt kndwn in that city. .. IV. Seed Thought - s. '• , 1. The Lord Jesus, is the te healer of u our diseases. ' Ps. ciii: 3... l • ' 2: A sure way to - win love sto dogood. - 3. We can do great good without rich e.. Where there's a will there's a way. -., 4. The true servant of the Lord,will he , humble, and not intrude himself into no- tire. ' Xotie but Jesus." 1 ' • 5. The true source of ;prosperity and progresi in any church is •not money, Or, . ' social influence; or tine preanhing, or am sin: it is, the fear of ,the Lord and .t,h) ! comfort of the . Holy Ghlist4,.controling . E . : and' gladdening the hearts Mi d IWO tor: 1 the meridiers. l' - _:' ; :-_ - --, . I:---,:,.= ..,,,..eilnr, 41 .- 4t., 5 ~;;, ':~~. .
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