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YEARLY Advertisements arcestitled to quar to !it changes. • TRANSIENT advarthememta must to paid for t , V ANC& ALL Resolutions of Assselatlons. Commonles irbs of limited or Individual interest, and notices of Marriages and Deaths. exceeding five lines, are charged TEN CENTS PER LINE. JOB PRINTING, of every kind, in plain and fancy cOiOTS, done with neatness and dispatch. Handbills, Blanks, Cards. Pamphlet'. Billheads. Statements, &e, of every variety and style, printed at the shortest notice. TR! REPORTER lake IS well supplied with power presses, a good assort ment of new type, and everything in the Printing line can be executed In the moat artistic tisanner and at the lowest rates. TERMS INVARIABLY CASH. ti ~-_7-~ . w : : 1 . v . -.~ . r-. JAMES WOOD, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Iv-et:LS.7I TOWANDA, PA. `"SMITH k MONTANYE, ATTOR- L.) sr.T.! 'AT LAW,—OffleA9, corner Or Main andi Vino St., opposite Dr. Porter's Drug Store. JOHN F. SANDERSON, : ATTORNEY-AT•LAW, OFFWk.-31=1s - Building (over Torch's Stoke) ihrh946 , TOWANDA, PA. 1 - 1 11. SMITH, DENTIST, ` 1.../ • Towandi. Pa. ()Mee on Park street. north side Piddle Maitre, t ex: it. Elwell nelf/SP. Q W. Wm. LITTLE, ,ITTORNEYS-AT-LAW, TOWANDA, PA IDLICe In Pattie's Block. cor. Main and Bridge-Sp. ' Towanda. Pa,. April 18. Mi. 11 STRETER. , LAW OFFICE, 111E1 OVERTON & MERCUR, ' ATTORNEYS AT LAW, TOWANDA ItL. Office aver Moutanyes Store. cular7A. D' A. OVERTON. RODNEY A. 3SERCUR. W". "‘ WELL, A T TORNE .1"-.4 T-L AAT OFFICE OVEN DATTON'II STOUL, TOWANDA., PA 'April 12, 1871. pAT RICK & FOYLE, 'ATTORNErs-AT-LAW; • Towanda, Ps. Jiyl7-72, Offv!..t, ID—Nescurs Block. GRIDLEY. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Tos - ANDA, PA AN: I; 1, lan a F. MASON. G• ATTORNEY AT LAW, TOWANDA PA. (Mee ftrst door south of C. B. 'atch Esp., set. and Loor. . Nov. 18, 78. L. HILLIS; ATTOR\RT-AT-LAW. TOWAXDA 4 PA. Otic,l with Smith & Motitanye. tnavtl.7s T ANDREW WILT, 2 ?TORSI' T AND COUNSELOR-AT-LAW. Once over Ceoss• Mutt Store, two doors north of tvoths & Long Towanda. Pa. Slay be consulted .n German. [ April 12; 76.] McP,HERSO3I it; KINNEY, A TTU R .VEFS-AT-LA w; I TOWANDA, Pa. Office In Tracy & Nobte's Block. Tow:twig.. Pa., Jau. 10, 1876 • ViT 11. TIIO.IIPSON, ATTORNEY * AT LAIT,3VTALtSING, PA. Will attend teal: entru4:e.l to ht care In Rindtord.. Sullivan at.d Wyoming .Counties. OtHce with Esq. Portet'.• [noel9-74. ELSBREE, Li. A.TTOlni EY-AT-LAW, o TOWANDA, PA MEM krTORNEY-AT-LAW, Col;ertions promptlyattended to. OMERTON ELSBREE, ATTOB SEIrf• AT Law. TOW•NDA, PA. Having eu tored Into co-partnership, offer their protesslonai serriLes Lo the public. Sperial attention given u. bn3toen th the Orphan's and Register's Coart.,t. - E. ovl.4rro:k.;, dn. (npril-70) N. C. ELSIIREE. I MADILL & CALIFF, AT - ' 4A W, • TOvrAN DA, PA. °Mc.. In W..ces's Block, first door - south of the First National balk, upstairs. H. J. IPIL [Jati6 , 73ly] J. N. CALIFF. JOHN W. MIX. ATT i VarT LAW,' ND .-S _COMMISSIONER, TowANDA„ PA.- , • OCiee—'!..iort a Side Public Squsre. IVIES fi CARNOCITAN, - ATTORNEYS AT LAW. MEItCUR BLOCK TOWANDA, PA Dor ?-1•75, - _ HPE tT, TTeir. NEY-AT-LAW. • Is prepared to practice all branches of his prob s.ion. MERCLTR BL"CK. (entrance on south IWO Tow•NDA. PA. ljans-76. TL , S. M. WOODBURN, Playsi elan and Surgeon. 03Ice over 0. A. Black's env.scryvtire. =2s== 71 - 4 1 D. PAYNE, M. D., can be -Con -4 !' at Dr. 11. C. rourgr's Drug Poor , . fr. to :0 to t 2, A. it.. and front 2t04. P. 31. Spectal attel:len given to 411*r:tars of the Eye awl Ear. Tuwando, Oct. 19 • DRS. JOHNSON & NEWTON. l'hy•tetars and Surgeons. Otttee over Dr. rort:r h Sow,: Druq Store, Toiranda. Pa. 'T. IL JOHNSON, M. D. L. N. NEWTON, M. D. FIZEM M D.. O. .l.i nd . a p , 2 B, p p S t O . N l. , D may E be NTlS t iT d . to thr eleg,.,,t new rooms on iliol floor or lir. Trait's new odic, Stara street., Business solicited. .. CM= "VT KELLY, DENTIST.OiIiee over M. E. RotenfSelirs, Towanda. Pa. Inverted on Gold. Silver, Rutiber, and Al umium !m.o. Teeth extracted without' yidn. rV. C. M. STANLY, DENTIST:, !Taring retnored Ills Dental office Into Trady & 11'W bloc':, over Bout & Watrous , store, Is rer: prcpAred to do al: kinds of dental work. He to , sNo put In a new gab aparatus. tna,rl37s. TT ,LE .& PATTON, Agents for CV. ECTICUT MUTUAL LI£E.INSUBANCt COMPANY. Offir,, NI,. Oritlitli & Patton's Black. Bridge Sta. 31v.rch GEORGE tp 7 STROUDi TTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR-Ai-LAW Ott.ce—Maln•at., tout - doors North At Ward House iPra` edees In Supreme Court of . penn.:.lvanla and United TOWANDA, PA Court),.—tDre7:76. C S. RUSSELL'S • ; GENERAL TNSURANCE AGENCY, 31.2y2R-70tf 18N. • 1876. T oWANDA INSURANCE AGENCY. ]lain str,et, opposite the Court Rouse. NOBLE tt. VINCENT, MANAGERS. 0. MOODY, BLACKSMITH. 1 t.1.• Does all klhds of wort In his doe. 110R , IE-SITOEING A SPECIALTY. f/sessett feet treated. Manufactures the tele Crated • CALIFORNIA PICK. Slop on Plank Road, near 'old Agricelt. Works. 41 Towanda. 1:11., Jan. 6, 4;64f. IN SU RANCE AGENCY. The following RELIABLE AND FIRE TRIED Companies represented , LA N CSH IRE. PIRENIX. • HOME. Marnh iip,,141 S 7 7 POSTPAID 6 • THE NURSERY, -v , . • A .IDiNTDLY MADARINE• FOR TOWRGETE READERS. • - . . • 'lscrsiturT Ita.cirravrztr. t..Sa attar ;es I maple ;wawa sa4 preakiumplW 4400 = IN IS TowAleD WlLxr.s.BAnur., PL. July =:76. MT= EMI TOWANDk; PA. MERCHANTS. , 0, A. BLAB'. 8. W. ALVORD, Publisher. VOLUME XXXVII. lent k 1111 u. HE LATEST NEWS! KENT £ Buse Hare Jut opeised anotbes large stock of DE GOODS AND NOTIONS. Cons . isp6g of FANCY GOODS FOR THE HOLIDAYS! READY-MADE SACQUES, FULL LINE OF FURS, SEAWLS, , SKIRTS, HOSIERY, GLOVES, CORSETS, ZEPHYRS, CARD-BOARD MOTTOES, CANVASS, &c., &c., &c EVERT DEPARTMENT IS FEU Call and be Convinced that we Sell as Cheap as the Cheapest ! KENT & BL' fon-anda., 1C0r.2.1. 11174. Boots =ad Shoes—Z. P 76. 1876. FALL TRA I am now rreolvlng LARGEST AND MOST COM BOOTS AND S TRUNKS, TR AVELI &c., &c., &c, Ever offered In this town, and nt fat , to please rthe closest buyer. galas in all lines of goods that ca elsr•schere. , Please call and e •• prices.. REME3IBER TqE,PLACE oId Stand, opposite Co mE: Towanda, Aug. 10, ISM BLACK'S CROCKE " AT COST I IN I F JLL STOCK-GOO MUST BE SO CROCKERY, CHINA, GLASSWARE, BABY WAG LAMPS, &c., &c., &c., lIIIM At tin: old stand of MI ..:;-,0,.:_4,_8LA.C1L ME ~ :1'.•", ' ,..:- - - 7: ,:--..:":7;. ; , -; :- , :' ,:'•• , i - ,--..'.':-.-:,,,;,,,,,' -,_, ~,.- I - - SL; l4 > - 4 - '4'- .- -:.1,. 4 .2'i f ,;•-., If you lore me, tell me so, While the rivers dreamy flow 11016'the-10re-enchanted hours fiteepid In music, crowned with flowers: Ere the aucumees dreamy days Fad.. In mystic, purple haze— Ere is hushed the music flaw— , If you love me, tell me so. • _ Feel your Manes on my hair, While In cromantiocd's Ilgt bloom. Ere bball come dark days ' gloom ; In the first fresh morning glow— , sou love me, tell me so. Pain's furl:l:teal:mat withln - tne quivers, Ood's breath upon the dame dtitl. blow, And all ray bean In anguish shivers. And trembles at the flu,' glow ; And yet I whisper. as Gid will ! And in Ills hottest lire hold still Ile comes and lays my hnart. all heated, On the hard avtl. minded so In his own fair shape to beat it • With isle great t ha.umer, blow on blow ; And yeal aids*, se God will ! And at ills heaviest blows hold still. Ife takes my softened heart awl beats It, The sparks fly k at eiery bks.; Ile turns It o•at kid o'er and heats It, And !eta It m il t and m akes It glow ; Te And yet I whlr, as God will! And inlits mighty hand hold still. Why should' murmur? For l'he sorrow, Thus only longer lived would he ; Its end may eons.N and will, to-morrow, When God has done his work in me ; So I ray, trusting, as God xlll And, trusttng to the end, hold still. - Ile kludleTe for my prt.ilt purely Ardietion"a gdovelng 11—ry-brand. And ad Hi% heaviest blows are surety Inflicted by a waster bawl. So I say. prJylug, as God will And hope In 111 w. and auger sill) THE 'BETTER WAY. One evening, as the twilight was dusking into deeper shades, Farmer Welton stood in his dooryard with gun in his hands, and sawn dog com ing out from his shed. It was not his dog, for his was of a light color. while this was a_surly Lisa. , The shed alluded to was open•in front, with double doors, for the pas sage of carts; and this shed was part of a.contin nous structure connecting the ,barn with the house. Around back of this shed was the sheep fold. There had been trouble upon Far mer Welton's place. Dogs had been killing his sheep—alid some of the very best at' that. He- had declared in his wrath thut he would shoot the first stray dog he found proWling about the premises. On this evening, by chance, he had been carrying his gun from the house to the barn, when the canine intruder appeared.,--Aye, and in the barn he, had been taking the skin from a valuable sheep, which had been killed and mangled with ti gerish ferocity. So when' he saw the strange 'dog coining through his shed,le brought the gun to his shoulder,: and, with quick, sure aim. fired. The dog gave a I yap and •how I, and having- whisked .nod in a , tircle two orthree times, 'he bounded off in a - tangent, yelping pa:nfully, and was' soon lost to sight. "Hallo! .what's to pay now, Wel ton ?" MI MII EH 183. .•`Ah—is that you Frost?" 'Yes, Ye been shootin' some thing,' haven't yer ?" -Iv'e shot a dog, I think," -Y-e-s. I seed him scootin' otit It was Brackett's, I reckon." Before the farmer could .say any thing further. his wife called him from the porch, and he went in. PTOCK MEI oEsl Very shortly afterward a boy and girl came out through the shed, as the dog had come. Down back of Welton's farm, distant half a mile or so, was a saw and grist mill,, with quite a little settlement around it, an.l the people having occasion Logo on foot from that section to the farms on the !dn, could cnt off a lohg dis tance by crossing•Welton's lot.. The boy and girl were children of Mr, Biackett.'. \'bun they reached home they were met by a scene ofdire con fusion. Old Carlo, the grand • old Newfoundland dog—the loving and the loved—the true and the faithful— had come home shot '.through the head, and was dying. The children threw themselVes upon their shaggy mate and wept and moaned in agony. Mr. BfacktAt arrived jest as the dog breathed his last. 'One of the older • boys stood by with a lighted lantern, for it bad grown quite dark now, and the farmer saw what had happened:, ."Who did this?" he asked, groan ingly. "John Welton did it," said Tom Frost, coming up at that moment. "He's been lush' sheep, and I guess he's got kind of wrathy." • "But my dog never killed a sheep. never! He's been reared to care for sheep..:How came he down there ?" AGS, 'ricer that rannot hare many hat ,ot be obtained wine goods and um phrey's rt House. F. CORSER. lE=M GOODS- "He went over 'to the 'mill with Sue and me," said the younger boy, sobbing as he spoke, "and he was running ahead of us toward home. I beard a gun just before we got to Mr. Welton's, but, oh ! I did not think he could have shot poor Carlo." • Mr. Brackett was fairly beside him self. To say he was angry would not express it. He had loved that dog— it had been the chief pet of his bouse hold for years lie was not a man in the habit of using profane lan guage, but on the present occasion a fierce oath escaped him; and in that frhme of wind—literally boiling with het wrath and indignation—he start ed for Welton's. MI John Welton and Peter Brackett had been neighbors from their ear liest days, and they had been friends, too. Between the two familieathere had been a bond of love and good ill,,aad a .npirit of fraternal neskandlisd 01144 t,44:424111; • A:61144W , Sfledo Svelte. IP TOIT LOVE ME, TELL XE SO. 111IIITING. If you lore me, tell me so, • Wait not till the summer glow., Fades in automn•s changeful light . Amber clouds and purple night ; Walt not till the winter hours Heap with snow 'drifts all the flowers; ' Till the tide of life runs tow— If you lore me, tell me so. - If you lose me, tell me so, Let me hear the sweet wards low, Let me, In llfe's mornlog fair GOD'S ATM. 1 TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY ? .PA, THTRSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 14, 1876., Jugs and positive characteristics. 'They belonged fo the . same religious !society and sympathized - in politics. They had warm discussions, but never yet a direct falling-oat. Of 143w° Welton was the more intel lectual, and perhaps a little more tinged with pride than was his neigh bor. But they w. re both hearty men, feujoying life for the„ good it gave them. t Mr. Welton entered his - kitchen, and stood the empty gun up behind the door. - "What's the matter, John ?" his wife asked, as she saw, his troubled face. "I'm afraid I've done' a bad thing," he , :replied, regretfully. "I fear I have shot Brackett's dog." "Oh, John . "But I didn't lino* whose dog it was: I saw him coming out Com the Shed—it :was too dark to see more than that it was a dog. I .only thought of the sheep . I had lot! and fired." "I am sorry, John. Oh, how Mrs. B-ackett and the children will feel. They set everything by old Carlo. But you can explain it." • "Yes, I can explain it." - Half tin hour later Mr: Welton was going to his barn with a lighted bin tern his ban I. Ile was thinking Of the recent unfortunate occurrence, nand was. sorely worried and per -What would his neighbor Say ? He hoped J there might be no trouble: He was reflecting thus when Mr. Brackett appeared- before him: Coming up quickly and stopping with an angry stamp of the foot. • . Now - ; there may be a volume of el , ctrie influence even in the stamp Of the. foot, and there Yana such an in fluence in the stamp which Brackett gave, and Welton felt it, and braced himself against it. There was, more over, an atmosphere exhaling from th , , presence of the irate man at once repellant, and ag,graviting. "John Welton, you have shot my (og!" The words were hisied forth hotly. "Yes," said Welton, icily. "How dared you do it ?"_ "I dare shoot any dog that comes prowling about my buildings, especi, ally when I have had my sheep killed 'y them." "But my dog never troubled your she6p, and you know it:" "How sfiould I know it?" "You know that he never (lid barrel to a sheep. It wasn't in his nature. It was a mean cowardly act, and (an oath) you , shall suffer for it." "Ilraekett.yOli don't know to whom you are talking." "Oh ! 11 e'll find out (another oath). Don't put on airs, John Wel ton. Yon ain't a saint. I'll have satisfaction if I have to take it out of your hide !" J "Peter, you'd better go home and enol off. You are making yourself ridienban3." Now, really, this was the unkindest cut of all. All the mad words of Brackett put together were not so hard as this single sentence; and John Welton put all the bitter sar-s easm in his command into it. lirackctt broke forth in a torrent of invectives, anti then turned sway. . - Half an hour later John Welton acknowledged to himself that he had not acted exactly right. If he had, in the outset, in answer to Brackett's first outburst, told tlu,;simple truth— that he had shot the dog in mistake; that he was sorry, and that he was to do anything in his power to make amends-;--had he, ; done this his neighbor would probably have softened at once. But it was too late nov. The bloW had bet.Utistruck ; 1 he had been gr;ossly insulted, and he would not back down. Mr. Brackett was not so reflective. lie only felt his wrath, and he nursed it to keep it warm. That night he hitched his horse to a job wagon and Went to the village for a barrel of flour. IlaVing transacted his store knlsiciess, he called upon Laban Pep per. a lawyer,., to whims he narrated the facts of the shooting of .itis dui Pepper was _a man anxious tor fees. lie had no sympathy or soul above that. "You may your dog was in ecim pany with two of your children ?" 1 "Yes." "And this paisage • over Mr. Wet ton's hold and through his shed has bi.en freely Yielded by him as a right of way to his neighbors ?" • "Yes, sir, ever since I can remem ber." "Then,. my dear sir, Welton is .clearly-liable. If you will come with me we will step into Mr. Garfield's and have a suit commenced at onee." Mr. Garfield was the trial justice. All this happy ned on Friday evening. On Saturday it had become noised abroad in the farming district • that there was not only .seri )iis' trouble between. the neighbors Welton and Brackett, but that they were going tO law about it. On Sunday Morning John Welton told his wife that he should not at tend church. She hail no need to wilt her husband why he would not go. She knew he was unhappy, and that he could not bear it, meet his old neighbor in the house of God while the dark cloud was upon' him. Nor did she wish to meet either -Mr. or Mrs. Brackett. So they both stayed at home. Peter Brackett was even more mis erable than John Welton, though perhaps he did not know 'it— He held in close companionship the very worst demon a man'can embrace—the de mon of wrathful vengeance—and in order to maintain himself st the 'strain to which he had set his feeling's, he was obliged to nurse the monster. He did n'ot attend church that . day, ni - ir did his wife. Two or three times during Abe calm , neautiful Sabbath,. as he glanced over toward his neigh , bar's dwelling. lie found himself he ginning to wish that he had not gone ta'see'John Welton in such a heat of anger but he pat the wish away and nursed back his wrath.- . On Monday toward - noon the con .stable came up from the village and read to John Welton an imposing le gal document. It was aiummonsis sued _by William - Glartield, Esq., a jaatiqe the' pesce- e atatiquornmork." titiriag eltb*l4. . • c . , REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER: to answer to the complaint of Peter cracked, etc. The 'officer read the summons and left with the defendant copy: It was the first time John Welton had ever been called upon to face the law.—At first he was awe-stricken, and then he was wroth. Ile told him self that he Would fight to , the bitter end. And'new be tried to nurse his wrath, and became more unhappy than before. On Tuesday evening Parson Surely called upon Mr.' Welton. , The good man had heard of the trouble, and was exceedingly exercised in spirit. Both the men were of his flock. and he 10 - . ed and respected them. He sat down alone with- Welton, and asked him what it meant. "Tell me calmly and candidly all about it," he said. After a little reflection Mr. Wt.lton told the story. He knew the old Clergyman fur a true man and a whole hearted friend, and he told every thing just as lie understood it. • • "And neighbOr Brackett thinks; even now, that you shot the dog, kuowing that it was his?" . "I suppose so." '‘lt you had told him the exact facts in the beginning, do you think he would have lel(' his anger?" This was a hard question for John Welton, bnt he answered it manfully. Truly, parson, I think he would." "yore you ever more' unhappy in yoUr life than you have been since this trouble came ?" "I think not." . "And, if possible, neighbor Brack ett is Inure unhappy than you:" "Do you think so ?" • "Yes. He ,is .the most vengeful and angry." A. brief pause, and -then the parson , s . ; resumed. "Brother Welton, with you are needed hut few words. You are a .4tr4nser man than Brother Brackett. Do you not believe he has a good heart ?" "Yes." "I wish you could show him how true and good your heart is." b "Pa's•on "I wish you could show .him that you possess true Christian courage.'' "Parson, what do you mean ?" wish you had the courage to meet and conquer him." • "How would you have me do it?" "First conquer your Self. Yon art. not ofiended." - k "No. ,Go on." And thereupon the good old vier gy man.drew up his chair and laid hi., hand upon his friend's arm . and to: !iiin what he would have him do. Ht. spoke earnestly and with tears inihi, eyes. • "Brother Welton, Lade `•ou the heart and courage to do this ?" The farmer arose and took two of three turns across the floor, and fin ally said '•I will (10 * ; * On the following day, toward tht middlekif the forenoot►, Peter Brack ett stood in the doorway with hi, head bent. He was thinking whethr► lie should harness his horse and be off before dinner, or a bet her he would wait until afternoon. He could not even put . his mind to ordinary chores. wonder'," he said to I►im§el "how the trial will come out? 1 s'pose Welton% hire old Whitman to• take his case. Of course the offleeli he crowded: Tom Frost says it'• naked everywhere, and everybody'll be 4 - here. Plague take it !: 1 wish- - llis meditations were interrupted by approaching steps, and on lookiti up he beheld neighbor Welton. Good morning, Peter." Brackett gasped, and finally an swered: " Good morning," though rather t•ru3til v. Welton rent on, . frankly and pleasantly : " You will go to the villageto-day?" " I s'pose so." " I have been summoned by Justice Garfield to be, there, Ids°, but reall. Peter, I don't want to go. One-of u will be enough. Garfield is a fair (meow' when he knows the facts te will 'do what is right. Now you Oh state them as well :is I pan, and what ever his decision is I will abide by it. You can tell him. that I shot' yohr dog, and that your dog had done We no harm." "Do you acknowledge that ol,i Carlo , never harmed you—that,' he never troubled your sheep?" inquired flnickett, with startled surprise. " It was not his nature to do harm to anything.. 1- am sure. be would sooner have saved one of my sheep than -have killed it." ' "Then what did you shoot liiti for ?n. ‘‘ , That is what I am coming at, Peter., You will tell the Justice. that I had 'lost' several of my best sheep— killed by, dogs ; that 1 hadjust beet, taking the skin from a fat. ven c erabl• Waiter that had •been so killed ant: mangled ; that I mit on my way iron: my house, with my gun in my hand . . when Is aw a' dog come out from nr,. shed. •Itly firsts thought was that bt bad come from my sheep fold. h was almost dark, and I could not se. plainly. Tell the Justice that I had no idea it *as your dog. I -never dreamedthat I had fired that eruct shot at Old Carlo until Tom Frost told me." How? You didn't know it wip My dog?" Peter, have you thought so hard of me as to think that I could kn6W int,7ly and willingly: have harmed that grand oldfdoir 1 would sooner have shot one of my oxen." "But you didn't tell me soot first. Why didn't you?", • Because. you camoupon and so— so—suddenly— " Oh pshnw 1" cried Brackett, witL a stamp of his foot. ", you spit 4t out as it was ? .Say, I camei down on you so like a horuit that yon hadn't a chancotO think. was a blamed fool—that's what,. I was.". "•• And I was another, Peter; if I flail been I should have told son 1.6 truth at once, instead of Baring sp. But we will understand it noir. on can at the,instic" - had seen the two men come together, and the trembledlor the result. By and by she saw her husband, as tho' flu3hed and excited, pnt out his hand. Afercy! was he going to strike his neighbor? 'She was ready to cry out with affright—the cry was almost upon her lips—when she beheld a scene that called forth rejoicing in stead. And this - was what she saw: She saw_ these two strong men grasp one anotherby the hand, and she saw big bright tears rolling down their cheeks, and she knew that the firarfal storm - Was passed, and that the warm sunshine of love and tran quility would come again. THE PEDIGREE or WORDS. A study of thd pedigree of many words which are in daily use- would prove more fascinating than almost any other kind of mental recreation. Trench, in 'his little work on the " Study of Words," has done much to cultivate . a taste for this.kind of investigation; but he made only a . beginning.- Thi . i field is inexhaustible. In this article we propose to give a short list, to which we shall add. from time to time: "Jet" derives its name from the Gotrates, a river of Lyeia, where was •found the black stone which the Fi cueh call gagate. or jaet, which we abbieviate into jet. PamPhylla, a ti reek lady, who compiled a history of the world in thirty-five little books has given her natio to the " pamphlet " • Punch and Judy arc the relies of an ancient mystery play, in which the actors' were Pontius Pilate and Judas Iscariot. Dollar is from the German_ thaler; which is derived from Thal, the val ley of Joachim t in Bohemia, where the silver-works were situated that made this coin. Bigot is from Visigoth, in which tht fi-rce and intolerant Arianism of Visigothic conquerors oft.••:pain been handed down to infamy. Humbug is from Hamburg; "a piece of Hamburg -news" was, in Germany, a proVerbial expression for fidse political rumors. " Exhort " and "yeast" are from the same root, which signifies some thing boiling or overflowing. "Gas" and " gust".have the same • parentage. " Blue Jeans Williams" probably sloes not, know that thelabric from which hggets his name was originally matte by the MoOrs at Jaen, in Spain: "Gauze" derives its natae froUl Gaza, where it was first made. Damask silk was made at - Danaai.:- , euci. `• Tabby-cat" is all unconscious . Lhat her name is derived from :kcal). ► f tmous street in Bagdad, inhabited sib• the manufacturers of silken stull*s sated Atabi; our tatlety ; the wrivy narkings or the watered silk -reserro tiling ints , ;y's coat. " Old Serateh"is the demon S 1 mt. who still survives in the supersti , ions of Northern Europe. * , * " Old Nick" is none other than N'ikr, the dangerous water demon of •_ze.mdina . vianJegend. •. in the phrase, "Deuce takeit," , ;he deity Tiw still continues to bt• nyoked. . his book,' Dc Civilatr Augustine speaks of "quosdato he nones cinsio4 (Juni nuncupant." • 'The lemon takes its name from the .41,y . of Lima., Londatone is a corrupted transls ion lydius lapis the stone of LI ,lia. The word "money" reminds us that .hu coinage of the Romans was -track at the temple of Juno Mo le:a,' the • goddess' of d counsel.— Ti,znsylvariia Presbyterian. HE PHILOSOPHY OF,DREAMS. l'rofessor Ferrier recently deliver , , ±d. at the London InStitution a lec ,;ur4 on "Dreaming," explaining its ohtnothenia by the results of his ;anions experiments on the localiza ;ion of faculties, in, the brain. For each class of impressions there are, ue said, special regions of censcious )ess in the brain. The impressions received are photographed on the brain, and are capable of being re vived. But for'this power of recall ng them no knowledge would be possible. Memory or the registra !,ioa of sense impressions", is the ulti 'nate basis of all our mental furni ture Each piece of that furniture cars its function - like the letters in a compositor's case. We have a sight memory, a hearing memory,' etc.' When thinking, or . engiged in idea tion, we, are but recalling, as shown by Herbert spencer and Bain, our original sensations and acts of cogni. Lien. Commonly the. re-production is very faint, but in some instances it is nearly o,r quite 'as vivid as the original 'sensations. This is especially true of poets, painters,. re ligious enthusia-its and others. Those portions of the brain which are most continuously in action during work ing hours require the longest rest %hiring the hours of sleep. Hence the centres of attention would sleep while the functions ,allied to reflcx actions would more easily waken: The brain in sleep Prof. Ferrier compared to a calm pool, in which a stone calves ripples, liable to inter ruption' by other ripples similarly caused. So the ripples or ideation get confused. But- again, the circle on the pool may not be interrupted, ;111:1 then the ideation will be regular: The.curient of ideation may be -co herent or incoherent. The most vivid association, wlieih is common ly the , latest, dtiminates over i the rest. Dr. Reid, the metaphysician, :Aloe dreamed of being acalped.- . -- re was a Whiter upon. his head. Dr. 'Gregory, from having a bottle of hot water ,4t his feet, dreamed or calking up tile crater of Etna. ue:al conditions are :the most 6c. quoit scources of dreams; the buil gry dream of .feasts, the thirsty`} of water, :the_ dropsibil ,of drowbling. Dr. Ferrier' happily compares inco herent dreamings to the changes in a itideidoscope. There is nothing new in dreams; the blind. do not dream that they see, nor the dvaf,of music. In =suchoaks • there. is a - -lettk.- s miss Ina frtini a. fed- of type.. .ou.r fancy_, awake:d tiring iiethisi'Eui_d the _ftiC ttelf.ll • 011 3 e:MW I , When the moon is at the full the, unassisted eye readily distinguishes on her face , certain dark grey spots more or less sharply separated from be brighter portions. Through' the telescope Wese spots appear as broad level spaces resembling terrestrial seas. Indeed, the earlier observers mistook them for seas, and by that mime (Lath), mare) they are known to this day. ; _ They are not seas, how ever, but ancient sea Beds, now pro bably nearly if not quite destitute of Water ; vast arid basins like the Sa hara, or the great interior Utah ba.: sin of oar own continent. Examined more closely, these dried up sea beds are seen to have . a rolling surface like some of our western prairies, or to be traversed by numerous - long ridges, resembling the wave-like sand hills which.give so marked and particular an appearance to the deserts of west ern, Australia, the leveler - portions being dotted with low mounds inter spersed with small crater pits. In many places foimations of an appar ently alluvial character abound, while the ancient coast lines show distinct •aces'of water action. Two of these lunar plains--Mare iluinortitu •Und Niare Chrisium--are walled in com pletely by lofty mountains, present ing, stupendous precipices to the van- - ished sea. The larger-) mares are more like ocean beds. Thy run to gether as testrial oceans do, and sometimes merge into the, brighter continental regions, without a djs- tinct line of demarkation. In other places they'show a rugged coastline, rising into • cliffs and peaks, and pierced at times by valleys andita vines. - One of the most conspicuous of these lunar ocean beds, also one of the deepest, is known as the,Alhre Serenitatis. Its area is nearly l UN . square miles. Within its crark grey bunter, from thirty to eiglty wiles wide, is 211 extensive inner plain which at times presents a fine, clear, light green tint, with a central streak of pure white, the green area lying lower apparently than the gray exte rior. The green tint is dithcult to catch, except under favorable condi tions, and, is much weakened 'by the effect of numerous small, white, round spots and gray ridges. Another of the moon's green plants was discov- ered by Madier in the Mare Humo rum already Mentioned. This is . one of the smallest as well as, most (Hs, tinctly bordered of the dark gray plains. Its area is 50;000 square miles. The greater portion of it is distinctly tinged with a dusky green, Sometimes very marked, affording a strong contrast with the pure gray of the borders and high enclosing ridges. .011 the west the. green area extends nearly to the-edge of the mare, but elsewhere, as - in the Mare Serenitatis, is separated from the . border, by a narrow,, darker gray fringe, except tm the northwest, where the gray and green areas merge insensibly into each 'other.' Still another area of ' , run is observed in the Mare Chri r, - sium, one of the most conspietions of the moon's dark plains.. It is is completely enclosed, 'and is, per haps, the deepest of Ihe liMar mares. Its area •is 78,000 squire miles. Its general tint is a grays mixed with an unmistakably' tinge Of green, .espez cially under high illumination. ..This verdant hue Is seen to bestadvantage for several days before and after the. moon is full. Those and other dolor changes on the face of the: moon- as, for instance, the darkening pf the great ring plain, of" Plato with in cr,asing light, and like changes in" certainJong, winding lunar valleys--- led Beer and Zoller to suggest that '.hey would indicate vegetation, were . vegetation possible on the surface of the` moon. But having accepted Bes sel's conclusion that there could . be neither air nor Water on the lunar , iurface, and consequently no life,. those much-respeeted selenographers could not entertain the hypothesis of lunar vegetation, howeyer strong the evidence might seem. But BesSers opinion is inconsistent not only with the conditions on which he based his calculations, but also witl A the 'results of more recent studies of the of the moonurface". So far from be- . hair, an airless, waterless, unalterable desert, a ehangeless mass ,of dead matter like so much volcanic scoria, the moon is now'known to have an atmosphere of considerable volume and f ilensity, to presentalmndant evi- lence.of physical activity and change, awl' to have in all prebabitity water erOugh to make cife easily possible. on i's•surface The moon is •dying, but very far from dead. Being so much smaller than the earth, it has l'unjas course rapidly~, but is stilt • a ! .!co o d way oil from that goal of ulti mate deadness to whica so many astronomers have theoretically as signed it. There is not the slightest adequate evidence of the popular view, and "its truth would be admit ted by no astronomer who him' de voted sufficient) attenton,,to seleno graph), to enable him to thorou?hly iealize the probable ,present Corti tion of the moon:: Such being 4he case, the hypothesis that the motin's green plains derive their color fikmi vegetation seems to be impossiblic or absurd. The evidence is not' of a character to justify a positive asser tion that the mythical man in 'the moon. may have abundant pasturage for his cattle ;, but his case ceases to absolutely helpless when a thor ough-going•selenographer can say ; as nelson does, that the moon may possess an atmosphere that must be regarded as_ fully capable of .sustain ing various- forms of Vegetation of even an advanced type; :that it does not appear how it can be justly (pies tionid that the lunar surface in fa vorable positions, may yet - retain a -sufficiency of moisture to support vegetation of many kinds; and that, in a very considerable portion of the entire su.face of the moon, the tem perature would not vary sufficiently to materially effect the existence of vegetable American,.. THE latest advance in refining the En . lish language is, instead of saying he Os ising,the old Harry," w remark that he "is elevating the ancient Harry." • wM,Little Tbreis-year•okl w h o when, eiirpnu.tMbittl tfeeti to eta tits • lIIMIMS 252'pet Annum In Advance. CHILDLE33. My nelght?or'i house Is not to high, itor halt Kink° as mine ; ' loften see the blinds ajar, And through the curtains flue, It's only usailln, and steps Aro not of stone at all— And yet I long for her small house To give mine all to all. Her lawn is never lett to 'griew-r The children tread ledowth ; And when thofather comes at night, I hear them clatter down The gravel Walk, and midi a noise Cornea to my quiet ears. As wised heart's been welting for Lo many silent yeire. • 1 1 4 Sometimes I peep to see them seize His coat and hands and knees— , Al! three so 1111101 p to be first ; t And hear her call, "Don't tease Papa'•—the babisprings—, And then the low brown door - Shuts out their happiness, and I Sit wishing as before. That my neighbor** little cottage And the Jewels of her crown Had been any own: nay mansion With its front of granite broWn, Its datiia ' it, and Its Hotiltork-I.:' Its lawn so good and bright--' , How gladly would I give Iberia For her motherhood to-night. MORAL GEMS. Yarn character cannot be essentially injured except by your own acts.. TII I EIiE are many who have eyes with out to take notice of other people's car riage, but they hive no eyes to look within to themselves. Tif,E stream is the niiller's friend'as well as servant, and rushes gladly over the wheel ; what good is creeping listlessly throUgh the valley ? • HoPE is the best 'part of our riches. Wiat profiteth the wealth of the Indies iu oui• p , ckets, if we have not the hope of heaven in our souls? Tnc cnief ingredients in the compost tioa Of those qualities that gain esteem and Praise are good nature, truth, good sensei ;.nd good breeding. Tunnz is a great deal of lore in this world Well the object on_whom it is wasted world be better without—love that is s 4 kind as to be cruel. As 'EVERT temptatioa to which we yield Fenders it more difficult•to resist the next latack, ,so does every temptation con.: quered make the next victory easier. . Tn i n essence of• true nobility Li neglect Let the thoughts of self pass in, and the beauty of . a great action is gone, like, the bloom from a soiled flower. - I%• wt: take no care for God's interest. We cannot expect that he will take care of ours;. but if we make . cons6ence of duty, we may look for his gracious rewards.. IF 41'E Would find the crown that lieth beneath any cress, it. must be shouldered nd bravely carried, not shirked for, half he time and dragged the other half. Rriaotov will . always inlke thOitter waters of Marsh wholesome and palatable, hut we must not think it will continually turn Water into wine- because it once did. IF f #E be lieiirty la God's wnrk 'be will aye us all necessary encauragements. If, amidst external discouragements, we act tor hitn with vigor, we cannot bin Succeed. AIM. which .happens in the whole world haplins through hope. INti husbandman would sow a grain of corn if he did not 1100: it: would spring up and 'bring,forth the, tar. How much mire are we helped on by hope in the "way to eternal life. TAE Itabit.of exaggeration, like dram drinking, bee 'meg a Slavish necessity, and theyishit practice. it. PUS . their lives in a iud of mental telescope,Pthrough whose agnifying medium they look npon,them selvei and everything-around them. A CMILDIIOOD passed with a due mixture of rational indulzence. : 'under fond and wise .parents, diffuses - over the AvNile of life alfceling of calm pleasure; and in ex treme old age, is the very last remem brande which time card erase I;from the mindlof man. TII4 - E. is an unquenchable expectation which at the gloontiest-time liersists in loft 'ling that lveatise we are ourselves there r must be a s - pechd future in store for us, though our nvure , and antecedents to Ihe remotest. iiartletthir have been' COTII :11011 to thousands. THERE can be no greater blessing than t' he 'burn in the, lightand air of a cheer fill, loving home. 1,4 not only insures a happy childhood—if ''there be health and a good constitution—but it alsO makes sure a virtuous and happy manhOod, and a fresh young. heart in old a To'nist, early is so teuly the one thing needful for all who are candidates: for .three grand prizes—health, wealth, and wisdom—that it is the only foundation for securing. any ,chance of obtaining, either of t hem. The sooner you leave your bed, the seldomer you will be confined to it. LANGpAGE is properly the servant of thought, but not unfrequeptly becomes its master. The conceptions of a feeble writer are greatly modifie 1 by his style ; a - man of vigoro. s powers make his style bend to his conceptions, a fact compatible of Dryden, that a rhyme has often helped to an idea. NOTE 3 ON THE INTERNATIONAL LESSONS RE REV..JOUN s. sviwAnr.,D. DECEMUER 17, 1876 PETER'S R ELEASE Acts xlf: 1-17.—GOLDEN TEXT: Psalms xxxlc: Fopentll QUAUTER. LEssoN This lesson is synchronous. with the close of the preceding one. V. 1. "About that time;" about the time of the visit' mentioned in chapter 4;30. - Thisi must have been about A. D. 44. as — this was the year in which Herod died. T. Ilertxl's l'erseciltioli. Vs. 1-5. This iS the second persecution of! the Primitive church. The first miry spread the gospel far:and wide,, and multiplied its triumphs. And this, as we shall see, issued in fresh glory to the-mune of the, Loi d.. The mover in this second persecution was "Herod the 'Hing.'? This, was not the 'Herod of St. Matt., 2d,chap.; l ira. the Herod of St. Mark, 6th chap.; but the grandson of the first, and the nephew the second. He was called Herod Agrip pa, and vras'the father of the Agrippa: be fore whom St. Paul pleaded his c. use; ch. 25. He ruled at this time, 'through the favor of. Caligula, and Claudius, over tht. whole laud of Palestine. °He was a wt ak, self-indulgent; anabitiotts'Anan. Iti Lytle began to persecute the church w i e ate nut harm:med. But it• prObable that his motive was to ingratiate himself with t e JeWs. He *as himself a strict observer :)f all Jewish rites and usages.. He laid his hands itpon to injure certain:o those froin the church." V. 2. lie: Lad the power of life aid death, since he administered the govern ment in-the name of the Romans: So "he James, the brother of John, with the sword;' This was James the Elder, the son Of Zebedee. He is to be distin guished from James the 80111 of Alphmus, who was one of thnipostleajAetar: 13), and fror":4#l3 . 1 "ith"? .1T• 1 0 443 i of PIO' /.!9“,k. V. 3. The execution orbs* id the Jews. He was irobakir * Ol l , ivn In sPreading the IfosPels of thunder, and so was lelected - asitvw agreeable sacrifice to Jewish hatred. first success encouraged Ilero4 - sindati*, arrested Peter (as the (aroused sif apostles) during the days . of ,uniesiermei t brsMd; the seven_ days imnsedistelt* - - ceeding the Passover: PerhaPO - 1 : .4 od to show howdeeply religious he w. ,144 and how determined to -exterminatogiet'" new religion by selecting this *genusliitlAti ff . son of devotion. But though he , csualC?i arrest, he could not, according to the Jew.: ='%' Loh notions, execute, the apostle durtuiv z 4 - 74 that week. - NUMEEk' V. 4. So he put him into prison . ; taps the - same prison, into which the other 'apostles were cast stimoy • ease:- before (ch. v:18). Be delivered Mai four quarternions of soldiers to guard:, him. This means that he took unusual precantioni to secure so important ' oner. The Romans divided the night to four witches of three hours each, and --' each watch was entrusted "to t a quarter- I s: 11' Oftliese, two remained with the prisoner in his cell, and two guarded-the _ doors. Of these last, perhaps, one kepv;..,.. theAckir 'of the cell, while the other guarded the outer door of the This was only t e last until the close of the ssover.week. "Intending after Easter (o:. the Passoier) to bring him fortirte thi , 'people;" i. a., that they might enjoy his decapitation as a joyous spectacle. V. 5; While Peter remained in prisou, ;- th church prayed intensely and constant ly ::or him. This prayer,- was made into ' Ged and not unto Agrippa, as they felt - th:-..t their only hope was in him. Just what tiro) , asked of God for Peter, we are - •r. no - told-' But it would seem as if they - , . hail little hope of his release.. . -; '2- ' 11. Peter'ißelease. Vs. 6-11. V. 6. It occurred the night before the tirre appointed for his execution. Fe was sleeping; showing that the danger of ' l ' his situation did not interfere. with his quet of mind and repose' of body. "So be giveth his beloved sleep." He was bound to the two' soldiers who watched in his cell; his bands chained to theirs.. This was a mode of securing prisoners - practiced by the Romans and Greeks. It is said that this very Herod •Agrippa wag at - one time so secured by order of Tiberi us. The keepers before the door guard- - ed she prison. The utmost vigilance was A maintained; so hat only by a -miracle - cou Id Peter find deliverance. V. 7. And the rnira ge was wrought in ain:wer to the prayers of the Church. " Behold !" This prepares the mind for extraordinaryan and unexpected . event. . " n angel (not the angel) stood over him, and light shined, in the prison." Thia light may have been a supernatural arid heavenly effulgence, proceeding from the ;init . "; or merely a miraculous_ illumina kion to facilitate Peter's escape. First, the angel smote him sharply on the side, arid) roused him from his sleep. Then followed his hasty salutation : " A rise tip quickly!" Next, . indistinguishable consecution the chains fell from (or out of) his hands. All this took place withoi4 awaking - the guards in the cell. No doubt their sleep was miraculously deep. _ V. 8. Again the angel ,spalie : "Gird thyself .and bind, on thy srials." Tige to Orientals, ivhen they gosleep, merely - loosen their girdle and lay , aside their eut:lr garment, and unbind their sandals. So the command v.as to gird up his Inner • garment for case and rapidity' of moveZ, moot and to put on his shoes. All this pointed to travel; it meant escape. This order obeySd, another followed. "Cast thy garment about thee, and follow the! , This was •the outer garment- When t Peter had done' this,, he was fully dressed. Then be was at once to move with the an i .elic guide. Notice here how haste anti deliberation are Combined; God does notoing slowly, and he does nothing heed- les,ly. • V. 9. Peter believed in the angel, and am' at once followed him. " But he wist . not (or knew not) that it 'was true which na : done by the':angel, but thought he • • say a vi: ion." Peter was awaked out of a s-und , leep; with the utmost rapidity -. tiii , events succeeded each other, 'so that it 1, -as not strange that he questfoced wh Aher it was real or imaginary, and in- clit'ed tv think that he bad . been a:vision .., as :.t Jo pa. But be Was soon ,a.ssurecl. V. 10. They were soon outside cif 'the pri:•on. The huge-iron gate leading into the street opened unto them automatic. : ally, and they went *on the length of one sirs et. Then immediately (as suddenly as 'le came) the wigs.' departed from him. --,, Pei er was delivered, and be must'take care - - of himself. God never exerts miraculous 1 . . power when it is unnecessary. ' . - V. 11. So far Peter had been as one in .: 1 a (imam, But now be rece;yep his self- - coLse'lmniess. trod he understands the sta.e of the case fully. l The Lord, by nis ' anwel, has saved him from the bower of s . lie rod and the xpectation of the Jews. Tli use wisp wait until the right time will • ala aYs understand God's ways. 111. The Praying Disciples. Vs. 12-17. - ~.. 12. The prayer - ,meeting that night' :- mu"; held at.the honse' or Mary i (no doubt a prominent viontin in the eitirei), .tbe sisier of Barnabas (Col. iv: 10)„ and thO . • trr.h er of John, surnamed in Latin . Mirk. This was the Mark afterward. anziociated . - . with Paul and llarnahas, 'and the author, of the second gospel It was a large • Meeting, and'very liv ely.. "Many were gathered together praying." They did not have to sins thedolor,mis i chant of our modern prayer meetings ::" Mack of our ~ time has rnn to waste." I==l V. 13. Why did .Peter direct his. way to that particular house, while the prayer Meeting was being held ?• We must be- lievohe was le& by the Spirit, in order that he and they might know l that it was '• in answer to prayer that he was deliver., ed. He knocked at the; door of the porch: L. - - probably with a stick or cane. 'A servant named Rhoda (rose-bush) came to listen;- or. as we.say l to answer the door. V. 14. She recognize& Peter's voice, •iliaps because she had often heard hini >reach and pray. So surprised and'over.; - o)ed was she that she did not wait to., 1 : ,p,..tt the door, but ran in and told the •olopany of his presence. .• V. 15. They-were greatly suithigsbed it; the answer to their,' own prayers. HOw ikn is human nature in :all ages and !el. Some thouffht her crazy; others - . b night that it was his gnardiau. : angel, 'v. 16. . It was dangerous for to ail there. while they cierio woridering; •ad ditamssing within. So he knocked mil they opened the door. There • sure enough ! No' angel ! -- but: •eritable old fisherman; and happier than I Q : king because of the Lord's mercy.' V. 17. No doubt they, all cried out wstioned at once. But he beciensttL•, - to hem to be. quiet,' and then lhe t01t(,41nV.4 . .,• . whale 'story. And. requatin them to .bnw the things unto lanai • • • Plueus)_ and ;to the.' brit** . •,, , i.ho r departt nd "opt
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