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(Mice with Patrick & Foyle, (over .r,,ucnal OlticeY Towanda., Pu. - (JuneriT. 3 - AM.ES.WOOD, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, metto.76 TOWANDA.. PA JOAN F. SANDERSON. • ATTORNEX-AT-LAW, • .0010E.”31.1*!e ,13u11411.ng (mrrrowill'elnotr;) mcb9-76 , - TOWANDA, PA. W. it, -W m. LITTLE,* : • 2 •"' ' 2 - A r.7,011117 . 17,6-.1 T-LA W. TV WA FDA, PA. 1111 lee over peeker's rrovlsloti Stot 3 e, Male Street, 4 Towanda, il!a„ April 19. It. _ . C EO.t E D. STROUD, - - - A rroft vs lArDCQ tI37.4LLORtA 7-LA tr. .' °Mee—Mat t it., foot. doori Norkh of Ward House. PracticeAltt Supremit Court ' t,f l'ennsyltanla awl United 'I'OWANDA, Srats Cacirctn.--tilec7,l6. 50 §TREETER, LAW OFFICE, ISM OVER:TbN & MERCUR, ATTOENEYS AT LAW . , I ^ TOWANDA PA. Office vier MAntanifs Store. • CmayERL D.A. OVERTON. RODNEY A. MERCUE. W3l. MAXWELL, A TTORIVE Y-AT-LAW ' C l l4 ICS, °VEIL DITTO7VS ST9II April 12, 1876. piTitjt K&FOTLII, .• . 3 A TORNE TS-A T-ii W. • - Tqicartila, Ps. 1 ilyi7-73. oSlrejltx Sletcurs - Block E. .T.-ANGLE, 4 A TTORNEY-A 7-4 1 .4 IP. Office Run Dairies & Carnoebar, Towanda, Pa. Jan4,l7 G v..mAsoN, ATTOIRNIT AT L • TOWANDA PA, Orh, first door south or C. It. Petrti. F.sq., S,C -011t1 floor. . Nov. 18., L ) - .IIILLIS7. • • ATTO.IO.;EY-AT-TJA W. • TOWANDA, PA °ince with Smith & Muntanye ANDREW WILT, Itl • A TrOILVJV Y h COq.VSELLOR-AT-LAW, °glee over Cioss' inxle : Stere, two doors north of dery ins & Lnng Towanda- l's. May be consulted German. kiwi! 12, •76.1 " McPLIERSON" & KINNEY, At't 0 R IV TS -4 T--LAW, TOWANDA, F•. Office la Tracy & tiOble'a Block Towanda, Pa, .tau. 10. Is7p. Mlin ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Main Str e et (4 doors north of Ward Ronser). To. (April IYt n 177. A I T L L T W I I A I L I :S S IPIG N AA 2 . " I% T I O II R at N te g n Y d t. all foulness entrnstMl -to hls care In Bradford,. S.lliyan and Wyoming Counties. Office Porter. • Cnov.l9-71, L. 0.'114-75. ELSBREE, ATTOILN ET-AT-LAW, TOWANDA, PA. ; LAMB, • ATTIRNEY-AT-LAW, Collectlon!‘ promptly, attended to • • . 11V,ERTON R. ELSBREE, ATTOR: y !QEYS AT LAW, TOWANDA, PA.. natiDloll - Into co-partnership. offer their pretensions! sury Icon to _the public. Special attention given to ii,111.,s In the Orphan's and Register's Courts.. I:: OVERTON, JR. Capri 4-70) N. C. ELS.ililtEE: IMATTORNEY ADILL & C ALI P?\:LAw, • , ..„ TOWA N D A, PA. Ail °Mei% In Wroors Block, 1 rst doorour., of the Illesfl National bail{e, uplatatrs. • ',' ~ I. NrADILL. tjanS-731y 3 ..--, J. N. CALIFT. RIDLEY tt, PAYN.,,EI • A r I T R A T-L AII I,•Tcacx & Noist4.'s pLocx, MAIN TOWANDA, PA (14.11) = Mflia ATTORNEY AYRAW, (tt . llce—Mono Side CM AtERCUR ILLOOK Tt?WA:IDA. PA,. 1:1 PEET, AT.T6RNEY4T-LAW. I • Is prepared•to practice all branches of tits siEnrun - nr.ocg, (entrance on south P , it') TOWANDA. I'A. f1an6.78; 31:• IVOODBIMN, Phyla- J../ clan and Surgeon. Oglce over Q. A. Black's Cro , ltery store. Towas.la. May 1. 1672/s*._ 1.; I►. PAYNE, M. D., . . SIIRGEOY. !IVO ovrr Sfontanyrs.' Stn Office hours from" 10 mol iron 24.14 r. x Sprrlal attention gi 6 :o of Om s k! . - var.•-0ct.19,•76-tf, •_ 1 . )11. T. B. JO' PHYSICIAN (OVl,lc vier Dr. l'orter !&41-7.51r. 4.ATD. L., DODSON, D A; I_ • .0 n and after tkept. 2h may lati ');Ant rOOlllll 0112111 d" fkOr, of Lr,, 1,I , .••• It u ti!nte Straeh Ikualness soltclted: • ,'\V KEL . I.I ", DENTIST.-1 I 7 • over:M. E. !tor:rode Toaranda, I. ""th ted op Gold, Robber, and atractod without pain. _ - 1)1t. C. M. STANLV,'DENTIST, Haring 1T . 1110V1.11 his Dental office into Tracy tit u• ht t . r k, over Kent & Bliss' store, pn•parrd to do- all kinds of dental work. ' t , t , :lls4, gilt inn new• gas aparatus. noiyia7S. . C.-WHITAKER, BOOK BIXDRR. I*.,IIIISTI BUILDING, TOIRO FLOOR; TowmtvA S:ILITSSELL'S GENERAL S It, A NbE AGENCY Tir*ANDA, PA.% ~ar2s 70tf I !14. 1876. 1 1 1 ) WANDA. INSURANCE AGENOI% • Alqin Street oppnatte the Court House. , NOBLE & 3itas ricik . , , --- INSIJRANCE AGENCY. The 11.116 whig • it ELIABJARrAND: FIRE . TRIED Cbm pan les represented : LN(;3IIIRE PIUESIX,IIO]i4 „Ekon:Alas s "r , is tIU . , O. A. PEACH. . S. IN.. ALVORDp= VOLUME XXXVIII. * THIS WAY FOR • AND WARRANTED TO FIT ! J: McNIANON, . MERCIIAVNT :CL E bTHS, GENTS' FURNISHING .GOODS,. CAPS, &a , ac., Sm. , lie Is prepared to furnish to order, 11111116 to mtasnre, SPRING AND SUMMER SUITS, BEST QUALITY & LATEST EITYLES, TOWANDA, rA. At forices tho moot mountable of any establishment In Tintatoln. Call and•esamine my stock. • - Towanda, Pa., bptil 5, 1877. -!I'(:"NVA.NDA, PA T HE-c,tEAptsT IN TOWAigfht ; 1 ,7'1S IN MERCUIVIII,OCKI seY'i FORK MIME Cheaper I have WABIll• PERR All kinds of TINWARE on hand, j aati Tin work of all kinds done ' at lowest prima, Towanda, June 28, 1878. WILX6S-BAnns, PA. TEIGIIES'r AWARDS.! "'\ 4 CETENNIAL July 27,'74 . ~ ... . • . THIRTEENTH AND SILBERT NIL, PHLA., WROUGHT-IRON AIR-TIGLIT With Shaking and Clinker-Grinding Grates for bunting Anthr4ito or Bituminous Coal. • P. U. !XL'S.. )24E1t,- ANTAA, KF,YSTONE WROUGHT-IRON HEATERS, Jan. 1; 1873 AN, . ME Descriptive circulars SECT Fitts to any address GREATLYIIf; PLAIIING, MAT re, Towanda. STIST. 'citind In the 'tett% now Made promptly to order, aka low price, for cwilf Lumber brought bore to he milled. will be kept under coyer and perfectly dry until taken away. Goud sheds for yourchorsea, and a dry place to load. N EW FINE T CO,UN (. At IN 'Xachaat Tailor. SP-R,ING SIII,TE3 Xtle to order. SEE OPPOSITE COURT HOUSE SQUARE, tie's just received, NEW AND COMPLETE-68TOCK Or J. , L..McMA 11.0 N. ICardwari. HARDWARE STORE I Farman can tiny their Best in Use. H. T. JUNE. Heaters, ‘,tt.. J. REYNOLDS & SQN, Northwest comer . Manufacturers of Oatetitod 'HEATERS, CENTENNIAL' WROUGHT-IRON HEATERS. For BituniittOcul Coat. Cooking Ranges, Low-Down Grates, Rte. EXAMINE BEidltE SELECTING. rhiladelphlis, ;April 26, 977-17. 713 U 'CUED PRICES! - Tho un , Ans . l all kln I'S DOWN SSS So far you mil set lt.• \ • z.--- . • , I hayi3 also cm hand a large stoe of, . SASII AND DOORS, ' • Which Lank selUng at prices to dolt the tl : ; I WINDOW 111.INDS - • • AWAY ,now IP YOU WANT TO GET RICH'QUICK, Call and see my Goods and Prices. ;I=;M=l Ovaries. Towanda, .4811 5. 1877. L. KENT GLOVES, HOSIERY, L4CEI3, AND EMBROIDERIES IX SILK tE WORSTED FRINGES TABLI LINEN, NAPcKINS, CLOTHS . AND: CASIIMEREEI , IS riIiEQU,ALED, AND HA VINt BARRIS TEE ,T 411,01?, WE ARE PREPARED- CLOTHE ALL WHO MAY I'AVOR•• US WITH, THEIR PATRONAGE. • TeTanita, Jape 2t,'lrrr. NEW WE ARE NOW READY WITH A FULL. STOCK OF FURNI TITRE AT TRICES TO SUIT THE ) TIMES, OF OUR OWN MANUFACTURE, WHICH . WE INVITE :YOU TO CALL AND EXAMINE. doing 'ND RE-SAylirING, g-mlll Work, f WE KEEP 'THE- LARGEST STOCK OF UNDERTAKING GOODS:OF ANY ONE IN THIS PART OF TEE STATE; AND OUR PRICES ARE AS LOW AS THE LOWEST. L. B. RODGERS • WHEN IN WANT OF ANY, TH/iNG IN OUR LINE, DIVE US A CALL. REMEMBER, THE PLACE, AT THE OLD STAND OF MAIN STREET. TTraials, Pa, April s, ifit J. Li bat. GREAT VARIETY. A LARGE STOCK OF JUST BEUggED. /BARGAINS IN TOWELING, &c., icc. OUR STOCS OF SERVICES OF J. L. *ENT. 1,, O. Froit,'! Scam Mil J.`o. FROST'S SONS: MI El 2 :• : :::::::''..,:',0**4•,.•)3RAPT014). COUNTY, Pi,,-PURSDAY • MORNING, :AUGUST fT, 1877:': PM Aran WITH a outman I eat aloes arilth toj oasseloaea, Ifs pbsee where thae had erased, And we tallied of my rainierilving In, the land where the yisMititerease4. Ana I felt I should hare ttransw•t4 The queittOn It put to me, And to fake the garter and question ' Throurout an eternity,. •: 7 The ghosts of forgotten actions- ' • Came *sting before my sight, And things list I thought were dead thirsty , ,Were Ore with teriitdo And tie italon of all eni feet life . wasan awful Mimi to ice- • .eqoue with my eonsetentie sitting „Idthat solemnly silent place. And I thought of a far-awriy warning, 0! a sorrow that was to'he mine, !it's !Mid that then was the future, . But now is the piesent time. - And I thought of my for Mer thinking, Of judgment dAy ant silting stone Xt W my conscience lipinsed judgment for ante And so I hare learnt &lesson . Which 1 ought to hare known b4hre. * And which, though I learnt It In dreg 11 hope to forget no more. Sol sit alone with my conscience • In the place whcaoilie years Increase, And I try to ninuntiber the future. the land where limo will cease: Apd I know of the future Judguient, Ilotadreadfulroe'ei! It be, That to alt, alone wilkiliyeenselence Will be Judgment enough for me. i gilkuwL!n ( . Husk. Tom...Parcey,' yet a,young roan, had'd - grown to be a very bad .one. At heart he might have been all right, if his bead and ' his Rill had only. been all right; but these being wrong, the *hole machine was going to the.bad. very' . fast, thOngh there were times. when the heart felt something of its old, truthful „yearnings. Toni had lost. his place as foreman in. the great machine shop, and what-money he had now earned came froM„odd jobs of . tinkering which he wasable to do, here, and there, at 'private houses ;• for Tom was a genius as . ,well: as a mechanic, and when his head was steady enough, lie could mend a clock, 'or clean a' Watch,-as well as he could set up and - regulate a steam engine—and this latter he could do better than any 'other. man ever em ployed by the Scott Falls .Mannfa& taring Company. • One day. Tom had a job to mend a broken mowing machine and reaper, for which he received five dollars,' . and on the following morning - hei l started ..out for his old haunt-:-the village taverii.. He kneW his /Wife sadly needed theoney, and that his ,two little childi' . were in" absolute. ia suffering from wa t of clothing, and that morning he held a debate with the' etter part of luimself; but' the better part had .beeonic very weak and shaky, and the ,demn . of appe, • tite carried theday. 1-. .80.away"to the tavern Tom !vent, where,r fOr twe'or three hours, he felt the exhilarating effects of tho :ale(); "holic .draught, land . fancied . himself 6. - Ppy, as he could sing andilaugh ; bukas usual, stupefaction followed, and- I tlie man- died 'out.= lie • drank while he could stand, and then lay down in\a . corner, where, his compan ionit left HIM. It was !site at night, • almost mid ight, when tike landlord's wife came in i. the bar r oom to see what kept her usband up,`"and she quickl y- 'saw Tom. ! • \ " Pe Pi•r," said slie•not in a . pleasant mood; i why. don't .yon send that 'miserable "um barmy I nine ? . lie's, been . lidne. g I •round . here long enough" . . • Tom's stupe Lion ,was not Sound sleep. *The . deaf, coma bad left the brain, and the . 6a ing„ of his name stung his senses to -ten attention. He liacl an insane lov - for rum; b* did not love thd landlo . 'in other' years, Peter Tindar and t imself had loved and wooed the sweet eaiden— ,Ellen Goss—and he won her, eayinl Peter to. take. up 'with the vii gary spinster who had bought hi m the tavern E and,he .knew that lately h: \ -tapster had gloated over the miser • :of,the.woman who had once discard ' ed him.'" , TO ' \ Why don't:yen send him home ?" demanded Mrs. Tinder,' with an lin patient stamp of the foot. "Bush, Betsil He's get money. Let him ne, and he'll be sure to spend it before he goes home. J'll have-the kernel of the 'nut, and his wife•mayf have the huSk With a . sniff and a _snap Betsy turned 'away, and shortly. afteisvard Tom 'Barmy • lifted •hiinself upon his, elbow. • ," All, Tom, are you awake ?" 4 Yes." " Tlieu rouse up anir have a warm giass.7l I Tons got upon , his feet anclateacli efl- himself. . • i" . No, Peter, I *oat- drink any more to-night."- • " It won't hurt you, Tom justa little." "I knoW it won't," said Tom but toning up his coat by the . only soli tary button left. "I know it• won't." Anewith this he went out into the chill air of the night. When he got away from the shadow of the tavern, he stopped and looked up at -the stars, and theii looked dowii upon the earth. . . he muttered, grinding his heel in the gravel, "Peter Tindar is taking the kernel and leaving poor Ellen the husk, and, I am helping hint Co do-it, am robbing 'my wife of joy, robbing my children of h,onor and comfort, robbing myself of and life—just that Peter Tindar may ha.ve the kernel and Ellen the husk! We'll - see 1" - rt. was a revelation lo the 'man. The ta%ern keeper's - :brief speech, meant not for his ears, had come upon hit Senses as fell. the voice of REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER :~at• ~- .~ =0 by, past Ilfe anilug; 1 the Risen One)upou Saul . or Tarsus. " We'll' see," he replledo3etting his foot firmly upon the ground ; and then be wended his way hqmeward. 'On-the folldwing morning he said tolls wife t " Elleu, have you any coffee in the house ?" _ - . " Yes, Tom.", Slie did not,tell him that her sister had gLven it , to. her. She was glad to hear him Rai for Cof fee instead of the old, old cider. " I wish yoU would make a cup, . . 'good and strong."' There was really music in Tom's voice, and the .wife set about the work with . a strange flutter in' her heart. - Tom drank two cups of the strong, fragrant. coffee, and then went Out-- went out with a resolute step, and straight to the great manu factory, where he found Mr. Scott in the office. • , r "Mr. Scott; .1 want to: learn my trade over again:"-- "Eh, Toth! What i do_you mean?"' i i\t, . "I ine iaL that WS' Toth .Darcey, come b , .Ic. It) Abe oI A place, asking forgiven ' 'for the past, and hoping \ to do bettk ; in the future.'. '" Tom!" ried the -manufacturer , . starting fo rty d and graisping his hand; "are you `.in earnest? Is it v\ ii really the old . To ?" v . • • . "11.'s 'what's .left of him, sir, and we'll have hiti whole ' d strong very ,soon il you'll only set Om .at work." \ " Work 1 Aye, Tom, an bleSs you, too! There is an engine to bp set up \ and tested to-da5...., Come w h me." Tom's• hand ' s were weak ad . un steadY; but his brain was.clear, nd tinder ihis'skillful supervision the • - hie was set up. anti tested, but it wa Ito perfect -.Y Vieth were mistakes Whi the had Ito correct, and it was late i the- evening when the. work was co lete. • " How it now, Tom ?" asked Mr. Scott, as e came into the teSting house:and'fo d the workman ready to depart. . " She's all,si give your warrant A . "God b'les ' s you, t know how like %wee .. voice sounds. Will yo ' pace again ?" , "Wait till Monday, morning sir. If you will offer it to triB then, I Will take it." • ' t, sly. You may Irith,out fear." At the little cottage Ellen Darcey's fluttering heart- - was sinkir.g. That morning, afterlom had gone, she had found' a two-dollar bill in her coffee cup. .She 'knew that he left it for her. She . had been out and Bought tea and sug at and flour and butter , . and a bit o tender steak : ; and all day long a ray of light had been dancing and Skitn.tning before-her—a ray from the blessed light of other, da3T. With prayer and hope She set out the tea-table and waited, but the -sun went down and no Tom came. Fight o'clock—and almost nine. Oh, was it buti'd false glimmer after all I.larld The old • step l--strong eager tor howl. Yes, it 'was Tom, with the old grime upon his hands, ,and the odor of oil upon hia gal% "I have kept. waiting; N:ellie." "'Torn!"• /- "I didn't mean to, but the work .hung Toni, Tom. You have been to he old! shop." _ • " Yeki; _and ' I'm to e have the - old and—" Oh i ; Tom!" / And; sIM threw her arms around his ne6k and 'covered his face with kisses.' ' " Ntlle, darling, wait a little, and you shall: haye the old Tom back again. • . " 014 Tom ! I've got hiM now— bless him, bless himl• My own Tom l huisband, my. darling !" AO then Tom Darcey realized the full power and blessing .of woman's love. .1 It lms a banquet of the gods, was tiplt . sUpper—of the household gods all restored—with the bright angels; of . peace and loie and joy spreading their Wiilgs over the board: On the following Monday_morning, Tom . Parcey assumed his Place at the head. of the great machine shop; awl those who thoroughly knew him had mi fear Of his going back in the 81°4;4 and joylessness.. " A ;fe* days later Tom met Peter `Tindal -on the street. ,f' ''..‘ Eli, 'Tom, old boy, ti hat's pp ? 7i 1 "\I On tip—right. side ;up." 1 " Yes—l •see. . Rut 1- hope you hav'a i forsaken us, Tom ?" • . ~ •-" I liave forsaken only the evil you haveln store, Peter. The fact is, 1_ concluded my wife and little liad fed\na husks low). enough, aiiif there wasa..kernel . left in my \t heal c pr 'in my mailhood4 they should. have , -." - \ • . " Ali; -ou beard - What - I• said to my Wife - that fight?" , \ • _I -"les, P ter; and I sikall be gate= Aid tol you ritas to as 1 live. 31y„reinembrl*e of you Will AlWays be relieved by t tat tinge ofwarm.tb and. brightness." , 1 { . • GOOD -STQM—D kring the seige of; Warsaw. Prince Paskiovitch 'or dered a certain Polish battery. to be silenco by his own artillery..andEbe came.kierfectly wild with rage eif Ob serving that the artillery fire, produc ed noj, appreciable effect. Galloping. to the battery he asked : "What idiot is in charge here?" "J sir," ansiered an • °peer.. -" Then down Sou ge tolhe ranks this very- day," said4.paskievitch •, "you don't begin to knew your trade; your shells do not, enplode." " I know they don't," answered the Captain ~ "for the . best of.alli reasons, that they. can't en plods.'.'-', "Thu 's lie," said the Prince,'" Is it? 'See • for. Ourself, then,' replied the 'Officer, coolly picking _up a shell from the pile and lighting the fuse ' and holding it up between himself and, tho' ldarphat. The Marshall tranquilly crossed his : arms and watched till the fuse spift;. tered and went out. "There, Pir,", said t e. artilleryman, triumphantly;. as he threW the . shell . on the ground. "rou were right, alter all," growled .the garshal, and-rode away to :an other ipoint-of . the line. • But at night the Captain received at his tent the Crosti Of St. Vladiliti, for bravery in .. the fle'lli. - ~ -.-- - .. HISTORY • MID THE ÜBE OF • MTH POWDHEV -" • , ,• --,...._.....-.-., . . .. • - Who invented gtinpowder 1' • .No one knows. All _agree_ that its and properties weroun'-. defstood in remote antiquity. - Au thentic histery extends' but , a short way into the past, and it is always diffictilt 'WI draw the line separating the authentic from the fabulous. Lik some other, things, gunpowder, As ages rolled on, may have been invent-, ed, forgOtten,, and re-invented. Cer- - . tainly in some form it was known - and usel tor fire-works.and incendia ry, material "long before Atuif,one dreamed of a..guti,, or of using it to do more than create terror in war fare. And' yet it is said thatisome -of the ancients had means of-using it tO throw destructive Missiles among their enemies—probably a species of rocket.or bomb. Nor does.lt seem inits Infancy, to ,haye been applied to industrial purposes, such as blast -` ; ing and quarrying rock, for;th,e're is evidence that the 'people who used it' fl,r fire-wOrks.at their Yeasts; quarried immense blocks of stone by splitting them out of the quarries with ham mers and wedges. 'lts first uses probably were.con .nected- with the I religionsremonies of the pagan ancients. An ~ Id 'tra dition taught that those w re the' ce \,: •most powerful gods who 'answered their iirorfthippers with .fire. The priests, therefore, who :practiced up on, the credulity of the, people, exer- , cised their Ingenuity in inventing ways of producing spontaneous fire,.! which•they told the people was'sent by the gods from heaven lin answer to .their prayers. -- The acc ounts - of old writers still pieservcd iiiii'dating ack to three huridred years before lOst, describe, a " siilpliurous and inthtmable substance," utistakably. like \r .gunpowder.• Th re was .a certiti4lace called "Ora cle of pa phi," on ' . e, visited. by Alexander the Great, wii re this kind .9f fire was produced, b ',the priests, 'and .it is slid -that)th • Druids, the, ancient Iprlests o f Brit. in, also used &Ole thing of ibis so \in-their prietiees,. for' they not only reduced sudden fire; •but 'they also i 'h ated thunder .and lightning, to ter fy the 'people wit their power.. Thi rnuat. have ben more than two tho and years ag It is known that the Chinese,; on on :he other side of the wo (1, had gut powder'nbout the Same ti ei x but they used it chiefly for fire-wdrkt., which then, as now, formed. the in in feature of all 'their festivals and ce emOn•tes. In India it was earlyUSed in riar ' for a writer who lived about A:P.244 says: " When the towns of India are attacked their enemies . 'orp ! You don't music ithe old take your' . the pebple not . rush into battle, but put them- to flight by thunder and lightning." It, 'said, too, that one, of the Roman - emperors, who liccd just after the crucifixion df Phrist; "had' Machine's Which imitat ed thunder and lightning; and at the same time emitted stones." Then, about A. D. 220, there was written a recipe "for au ingenious composition to be thrown on an enemy," which very nearly -corresponds ' to our. gun powder. .During the many hundred years that follow, little-is recorded until about the ninth century, when there appears in an old bovic,"now in a Parig" library, an exact recipe:, for 'gunpowder, and a. degeription of a rocket. It fs.said:that in 1099 the Saracens. in • defendincr ''' Jerusalem, "threw abundance of pots of , .lire and shot fire-darts,"—no'doubt some kind of bombs and war-rockets. llis tory affords accounts of other wars about, this time,-in which gunpowder was undoubtedly used . in some form.- But in 1216 a .monk, Friar Roger Bacon, made gunpowder; and it is asserted 'be discovred it independ ently, knowing nothing of its ez . i fence elsewhere.. It, is not unreason able to believc - this,for.in those days .people kept their inventions. to them selves-if_ they could, and news trav eled slowly:, Some authors .say a German named Schwartz discovereil. it in 1320, and Iperhaps he did, too, and as honestly:and independently. as did Friar Bacon. or the East In dians, or,the Chinese. .Others insist that it was indented originally in In dia, and brought by tihe• -Saracens from Africa to the Europeans, who Unproved it. At any. rate, an En-- glish gentleman who has made a translation of- some -of the laws 'of India, supposed to have been estab lished 1,500 years before the Chris tian era,' or over 3,300 years 'ago, makes one, of them read thus: - "The magistrate shall not make war with any.deceitful machine, or with poi- soiled weapons, or with cannon and guns, or any kind -of jEre-arnts.--St. Nicholas.. The Hartford Piaci publishes tt, suggestive' letter, headed ""Distin guished!.e. Drunkards,' from its Wash ington correspondent, f" Mae," who Obtained the material for it during a ramble through - the Washington poor House.. One of the first men he ma there had been. af one, time Attorney aen . enil'of Virginia; In his office a number of now' distinguished. law yers 'were students, and they .owe much to his . advice. His father had been .Attorney General of the United .States,-and left his-son wealth: , But . he-drank- amt_ sacrificed distinction, fortune,- and everything for -his love for ' drink. Another distinguished . pauper was an ex-. Judge of the Su preme Court of California,. and had ,been estOmed one of the ropst. elo quent men of his time. He came to AWashington to g et an office . , - was dis.. appointed, took .to drink, and drank himsclf . 7:cmt of pocket mind,. and friends, into the poor house. In his company the correspondent fonnd.a , once wealthy newspaper editor and Prowietor of New: York—a man of great ability 'and political influence. this man also sunk all he- possessed in.whiskey and has -been for' three years in the almshouse. Sometimes his friendst-take him out_ but,Tsays the correspondent, "he . drinks so mtieh that he lies about the streets And is returned by the police. A fourth pauper bad b een only - a -few years ago a political power, special, - agent of the Post .01ilee,D,cp!trtment, 'And owner of ' much . property ..in ,Washington and - Arkansail. At one tithe be - w:sti,a United States detect DISITNGUISH.f,D DIWAKARDS. ~_ . t \ , ~.1 k '% \ \ )', N 'N, :-.1 t r. - t'S -. i ~ 1 ' 1 - -,_- k ..:-. :. * , ME ive, but `while drunk he " gave away"' the detailc a case that would have resulted. in \ the -capture of or three hundred, thousand dollars in counterfeit thkiey, presses, %plates, &v. For this hii\was retired. When sober he was capde of doing re. murkable Work. In tact, fortune and , fame were his if he had not allowed the taste for liquor to grow on him.. In another 'branch of the\institutron the correspondent -found an ex• A ttorney General of North ertrolina. .He made many friends, drank\mucb whiskey, neglected his bitsinessand everything else, drifted to the prior house. Says - the correspondent:, " The prinelpal reason for his being put where he now is , that he store a friend's vest and sold it for whisky. To such depths. of degradation will whisky' bring the strongest and, ablest of us. A man who was Ste: phen A. Douglass's intimate friend, and who used .to speak° from the same plhtform with him, is a Wash ington pauper. When fortune smiled on hid,' ihe used liquor 10 a relish, and 'when hqr.: smilesi turned to frowns,lre took it as an! antidote for sorrow. it :ought him teMporary relief, but permanent ruin. Coming into the dbrishouse in the "Black) Maria," as the correspondent left it; was_an old, white-haired man, '" whd was at one time one of the leading men ..of. the Michigan bar. He is th man irho backed Zach Chandler, and pude lum politically speaking, what he is to-day." And this man of great legal ability, p iliticaLintluence sufficient to make and nnrakkemen, and-much wealth, is now a pauper. Why ? Because he allowed whisky.to obtain the mastery over him, as did all the other herein referred to? Do not you, young man, find this record very suggestive ? Tali AGENT AND THE DITTCHMAN It is.a smart agent's business to kuOw. (and be able to give very glibly) all the reasons why a • customer should buy ; but the smartest agent some. , times meet hard heads, who can an- swer as fast as be can argue-: A 'young than, whose hrisiness it was .to sell railroad guides to any one who would buy them,- found . a Jefferson Ayenue clothing dealer sit ting in an arm chair 'in front of his door, and after a kindly salUte the agent handed out one of his, guides and said—• . "There is the handiest little book in , the World ; • it . contains the name; timeltablemnd route of every-rail 02d this ,country." ' 1 - neifer \puys no shell kind of -- lplied, the dealer, :as lie' •ough‘it... .. want' the book, my dear 'eller can get along with- . leie . guides." .are to guide no railroad,"- .., er, shakina his head'and ',\ .... , , , \ , 0 turning awa \ - ~-. 2* " Hold -ori.ne \ —just look through it once. SuppoS ,)r instal:fee, that you. want .to. go -to . 'ew Orleano" - : " I shall neller go there so long - as lam born." • , " Well, suppose yen alit -to 'go to, ()Mahn ?" , , 41 Den I dorqt go."q i \ - • " What do you do ell (oil *ant to go to Chicago ?" as - ed the ` ersii , ‘. tent agent. ,\ • "I shtays at home." " Well, suppose you had to. - ,-g, • :;, wouldn't. you have to look at'ajtail road time-table- then ?" ' _ "No, sir.- should go down by der depot, get. on der train, puy some appleamtf der poy, and ',should step off in Cliieago, •and minds my own business. 7 The agent had, no further, argu meta to advance.—D. (roil Free Press. • A BEAUTIFUL SENTlMENT.—Sllort ly.before his-'departure fOr India, the lamented ileber preached a serinOn,• which contained this beantiftil senti-. meat: . . , "Life bearS.tis on like the stream . of a. mighty — Aver. Our -bbaVgibles, down the narrow channel—through the playful .murmuring - of 'the_ -little . brook, and the winding of-lts grassy borders. The trees shed !their blos, sours over our young heads, the flow- i ers•nn the brink seem to offer,them- selves to our young hands; we are I happy in hope, and grasp,' eagerly at the' ' beauties , around .us-brit the. streamhurried 'on, and ourhanda , are • 'empty. Our course in ybuth' and: manhood is _along% .a- wilder flood, 'amid objects more striking and mag nificent. We are animated . S. the . moving pictures 'of. enjayment.and industry passing us, -we . are excited. t i t . s Me short- The Cream us on, and our jOYs and' riefs are alike left behind us. .We' ay ,be ship-wrecked we cannot be delayed ; whether lough , or', ,smooth, the river hastens ~ t o its' home,•till the roar of the; ocean'is:in Our ears, and the tossing Of___ ; the Waves is beneath our. feet, and , the land lessens from our eyes, and'illc floods are lifted around us, and-twe take our leave of the earth and its -inhabitants, until of our further voy age them is no witness, save the lii finite -and Eternal." . . ~ . . .STARTING 'THE Wout.-3fany an unwise, parent labors hard 'and lives sparingly all his, life'.for the purpose of leaving enough cio ' give his children a.start in the world, as it is called. Setting a young man afloat with money ..eh hin by hii relatives 'is like tying bladders tinder the arms 'of one who cannot swim ; ten chances to one he ;will lose his bladders and go -to the bottom. Teach , him to swim and he will never need ,bladders. Give your' child a sound education-and you ,have done enough for him. See to it that his mor. als are pute, his mind cultivated, and his whole nature made subservient, to lawS which_ govern man and you' have given what will:be of more val ue than thie wealth ,of the Indies-- .411ktr.ruli. Iv Noraay drunkards are compell ed to sw - eep the streets. When a motion ,wan.)made in Chicago com mon council to adopt the Norwegian practice, seventeen red-nosed alder men arose, simultaneously, and want- Id to know if this glorious republic was - going to be dictated to by. , the efrcte despotisms of Europe. 11111 `Ol2 periAnnum In Advance. ■ "PDT 401/118E14` 11 HI; PLAOE." • , • ~.......- , I • ' .' s , 'n! irucran gassy., _, 0, men who are good, who am !mitered and bolt; lie kin ds• yntirhtothers of Jowly Mali t; •-•: -4 .- , ---; • " If ,masters \ thon be not in.taiking sereret , " . If rulers, then rule Men In love and not fear; And If ye be father*, wise, learned; and strong; Lead the little ones tenderly; alcrs4 along; - - Em you sneer at itT humble, or punish the base, • • Pause and think :for. awhile, "Tat yourselves:in r their place V ;: • - , , . - . \ rect Fair lady, so haughty , so haste, and so cold, Kept safely from birm In re 's sheltering told . Em you turn from : your f drying sister with scorn, - ri t \ Think how rho was temptoo t ho she was born; Her ruin may-date from a smile orskind word; . • Tho first that her poor huy heart \ 7er hoard; Then pause, era you taunt her with stn and dia _ • . grace— ' fro if you had buil tried! , " Put yourself In her \, • . \place :" . ' ' - \ "Put yOnrselfin,thei ,i r place !" Fe4hate Moreton • . all, .'- . - • . - ,-" Who through love or through hate, good or eill, shall 111411 ' - •. . . - Who knows in bo lightof a, pidgin's's!. Milne. W 41 6 . 4 ,0411 shall be whitest; the - sinner's or Fear to judgcl, lest you stand at the. heavenly door, To sea harlots and publicans go Inillefore; :-, . _ _ Whpo you cover with etOty contusion ypit, And cry; when todLste.:to, be put In their pike 114:14:1 • 4z(044:84 ,113411 . • One day, three or four:weeks ago, a gamin, who , Seemed •tn\have. no friends jn the world, wa.s..imiover by a vehicle on Gatriot avenue and fa tally injured. And after he had en in the: hospital for a week a bey about . own age and size, and look ing as friendless and forlorn, ended\ to ask about him and leave an orange.- He' - seemed very much embarrassed, and, would answer no questions. Af -ter that he came daily, always bring: ing something, if no more than nn apple. Last, week, when the 'nurse told him that Billy had no chance to get well, the. strange' boy Waited, around longer thatt•lisuakand finally. asked if he couldz go *in. He, had been invited litany times. before, ' but' . had always refused. • Billy, pale And weak - and emaciated, opened his eyes in wonder at sight of the boy, and before' he realized whO it was, ,the stranger, bent Close to the face and sobbed:' is • "Billy, can ye' forgive a Yeller? We - was allui fighting and I was lug toAnuch for-ye, but I'm ,sopy l'Ore ye die won't ye tell me ' hate'nt any grucll,Te agin me?" 1' he •young lad, then in the Shadow iof •death, reached up his thin white arms, clasped them around the other's neck, and replied: - • • ' 64 Don't^ cry, Bob-don't feel bail! I:, was ugly and? Mean,' and T WWI :heaving a stone at ye when thevagon hit tee. If ye'll forgive me• I'll• for. giTe you, and I'll pray for both of us !" .Bob was half an hour late: the morningegilly died. When the took him to the shrouded corpse he kiised the pale face tenderly, and -- "D-41id he say.,ajtythng ,about:— about'me?" "Re spoke of you just 'before - he died—asked-if you Were- - here," - re plied the nurse. - ' "And may. -1 - go to the inwcal ? 7 "Yon may." . y And. he .did. lie. vas' the -only Mourner: Ms :heart wag the only one„that _ached: No tears were shedl by Others, and they left him' sitting by tbeyew-made grave with heart so big that - he could not speak. If,. under the crust of and ig ,norance, there are : such springs - of imie feeling and - true nobility, who 614 _grow. .weary of. doiiig!good,-- Det~ it Free • • ~TX 2 AT.NIGHT.. . . . . '..-." His faqker don't - allow hith to-be in - the stre‘ at night:" sail, Will Carson in a ocking tone,;- . "hette.r tie,the baby ,tole bedpost \ with his 'mother's apron,Stigi." - -. ':‘, . Jolth Mellen'.s fik.Olughed at..these taunts. No boy litre Ito be ridiculed, esPecially when a erotd of hiS play fellows are standing by \ \, •. • ~.;\, " Be a man and •come\ \along with' uS "- said - Harry' Jones. :," \ You are \ old enough to 'think and a for your.: self.". " Come,- John, come with us,,said another.. "'We shall. have. a - gla.nd time. It Won't hurt you, just for (mice to have a little fun." ' ... , \ 1 • .t' N,ti," • said' -John, ".-I .shall mind my father. :, The Bible . says, "Honor thy-father and thy mother," . .and . r shall (lo' it." , .' 7 . ' • .:' " Corun,ou, : beys-," said Will, start ing off; . " don't. .stand listening to his preaching." , John went home, and in ,preparing his lesionafei the-next day and join ing in the home pleasure he _had for.; gottekall about the hoys. The next morning on his way •to schoOl; he heard that - the boys had •been,arrest-: ed and-dent to jail for being, drunk and disorderly.' Think hew ansioiia their parents. 'must have been all ;through the• night;, and. then to be tOld-that•they were in jail! how. it . _.must have surprised and:pained them, • Pont be wandering in the streets at night, boys. It is a bad habit, and nothing but harM can come of it, Hundreds of boys are ruined thrOngit being in the streets at . night. • • John Mellen' made a happy, :and prosperotis.min: And so will every boy Who thais G . Od; stauds up for the right, and• honors lihOfather and mother. 4 . . • • =I AREMARSABLETA, IN ENGLAND. --RecentlY, Mr. CharlesEdwardsof Hugmore Farm, near. •Wrexham, commenced to sink a well within a couple of yards of his house. ..After :inking through the surface still he got into a solid bed of clay, through ,which he sank over ten yards; and while the man was still at • workthe water burst in abont four yards aliove" his had, and- he had to escape as rapidly as possible. ~The well filled in a verYsshort space- of time, and then ran over -in A ;regular _stream, bringing with it a 'large quantity of quicksand. "Every .etfort. has Win made to stop iii„but hitherto without avail. The removal of thynuid has caused a, subsiden of the ground, on which the house and part of the outbuildings stand; rendering them' uninhabitable, and they \will .have to be•rebuilt. A large staff of men have been engaged in filling thwell with large stones embedded in hydraulic cement, but this proved of no, avail .and the torrent still makes on. , ■ NUNEZ 0: ' WWIIII% . IO%rfIG, • A Sharp bey on Twenty-fifth street: received, hot-Tuesday morning; thei - intimation:Abet he would have to! easy it het& from, school to assist in : the inoving with a resignation plat. seemed suanicimis to Ids parentkbeiC he worked-hard aliday and at nightr ldit•llithertare him a•nickel and said - he, would - let him off that licking for fringing 'the eat, from the ears to the tail witlo:-Titent 'clothes:pins, while. - hie metheir said, " Charley, when I am , old; you fill workbardforyonr pees mother Niiiyou did today, ` won't - ru?”.and. he said he would. And yet he had' that 'day : played the part. • of a -heartless and, superfluous midt. - dlemarf. ' He by proclamation bad as- = . sembled a mob of his- playmate, round, he nearest 'corner and *lien.- ever one Of his parents Intrusted , t&_ his care some new article 'to be cart lied over to the new house,. he 9.110.- tioned off the privilege of carrying it to the mob. There was an almost. N frenzied competition ,for the right of carrying a looking-glass that Ton. could cast a flash with that would. • make a man six blocks oft think . was struck by lightning or had heart bad news , from home, and it was final ly knocked down for tin undivided half -interest in a sick woodchuck: A kitchen clock, the hinds of which. could be moved around at will, pro. yoked lively bidding, and finally went. for twenty-seien pins, a• sewing-mip chine needle, and the frame of a ran Irv. Indeed, 'one boy (whose par , - had owned the house he had lived ins for nineteen years) became so infatu •ated that after spendifiglhe contents• of his pockets, and running-'in debt. 'for most of the playthings he bad at' . Nitric consented to drew the lainart boy and a basket of tools over to : the 'new house, and allow the _ smart boy to hit him On , the leg* when he didn't go fast enough, for - tlie d eheer privilege of assisting iu mting. Ti at boy will live to be in dicted after failing for a million or '- two,andeome.Regiater'of the futurep will about Chicago Trihune? , . WIIAT CAUSED of . 0111‘ dry good clerks called ;rotnd Ito see his girt the Other evening. She 4)b-, • 4e\ryed that he appeared very restless, - and* he had been paying her pretty iihirp attention, she sniffed a propo sal. She determined to assist _ the yopng man. ; George, dear," she said, in a sweet vowe, "what's the matter with you this evening ?" , .."There ain't. , nothing the matter;" replied George, twisting-uneasily in his chair. I „think there fs," she said, - with great interest. " - Oh, no, ,there ain't," returned George ; "what makea you think so V! - " You' appear so restless," she ex plained ; "you act• as if there was something on ycluemind. "It ain't on. my mind," observed George, and then he sir& denly caught himself and stopped. " What it it-:-where-is ? ". entreated the young miss; "won't : You tell your darling ?',' " It's - oniny. back," blurted Geote, with an. effort... • "On your back'?" repeated the yonng miss in astonishment. 4 Yes," said' George, desperatelf, "it's a porting plaster, •and it itches so I can't keep still." . The young lady faiffied.—.Roek land Courier. JUDGE WHO SENTENCED HIS OWN Soar.—Lit hasn't often hattpened sines theslays of BrutnS,,that::a rather has sat injudgment and passed sentence ou ont Of his sons, Thee mention of an old . Canadian Judge's - name in a: newspaper now mealls to me this cident,iii his life. The son , was ad- • dieteri e *to liquor, and for drunkenness T. F . . -was sent home froni Upper Canada College. At home he continued his.. " career- of worthlesiness, and. one night, out of sheer drunken folly, picked. a friend's_ pocket of hiS hand kerchief, ana thought - it,, Would be a ,nrre piece of fun 'to .also take , 1116 watch. Accordingly he knocked him down, tied his hands arid, deprived , him of his watch. The 'f riend' had theh:umorist; 'arrested... for highway.. robbery . , and-in-tine course the young - fellow . came• before his own father, ' who sent him to the penitentidry,for five years and cut his namu, oqt of the family Bible. I would like to b.• able to say tha t the young man re- , formed..' • Historical accuracy, "ever, compels me to declare that; he. married, was suspected of a railroait, robhery,:ando started a livery stabl4 awl drank himself to death.----Chida go Times. : • . • Hg_, WANTED PIE.—A great 'big burty \ fellow, who from all - outward appearancea--was certainly able to work, rang the bell a a residence of • East. Baltimore the other day, send 41emanded of the lady who came to • the door, something to eat. He was - ftirnished some bread and butter, a • piece lof meat\ arid chaese,' and, a pickle, nicely wrapped in a piece of. paper. He wanted, to. know if_they - had any pie in the \house, and • was told there was Certainly none for him if there was any,. whereupon this beg . gar Ihrew the luncheon in the street, and in language, more fOrcible and . ' coarse than gentle ears shoUld Haters to, turned away. He rang he bell at the next door, but a ladY.had r overheard him at her neighboris honie, and looking out the window bade him be gone. - Then the tramp ; took up one end of a string of abuse\ and in the idlest language spoke his \ feelings. A courageous little boy \\,_ . overheard him,' and' - Said he would -call the police. Then the tramp ran away.-- • I: "A CURIOUS sCALCULATION.—It is / asserted .by scientific writers; says an Dish newspaper, tli s at theliumber of persons who have existed on our globe since: the beginning of time amounts to 65,237,074,255. These figures divided .by 3.095,000 the number •of square leagues en the globe—leaves 11,320,989,732 square miles of land which being divided as before - gives .1,424,626,015 persons to each square • mile., if we reduce these square miles to rods,the number will be 1;853 1 184,600,000, Which di.. vided in like menet, will give 1,373 inhabitants to each square rood, and. _these being reduced' teten feet .wilt give about five persons to each square Nit of terra firma. It will .thus. be_ perceived that our earth is a vasfr cemetery. On each rood of it 1,283 , human beings' lie buried, , each mit being barely4fficient for ten graves with each grave containing 128 ,peri.- 8Q11.9. The whole surface ofont glebe, therefore, hiss., been dug over 128• limes to - bury its, dead. A. BADIC it; a Western town • em ploys' detectives to See who of the.. townsmen are in the habit of lamb-• ling.'-It guides its t.Yommodations by their repott.3; The policy is wise IS
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