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Drlek Mack; Ito Mose. Pa. A. 8. Balms. ;„,.. Aim, it!iptiaso. gob, Shtina Inas IF,44:ts 00313711410111. Plirts PASTORAL. It was a peace commissioner, And his garb was sober drab; His - hair was long and white, and he • Ectmomised his gab, In short, he was a reticent And inoffensive slab. Ma style was philantroplc, And be bore.a carpet-bag, In which be Mitred his oasts and soap, And other peaceflil swag, Which Indians patronize when was And rattle-stealing lag. Lone tlikt satin scant council, • . Tian agent - arid the red, . ' • Dilldl talking flabby, virtne;'-' Till the sachem shook his bead, As with doubt and dim suspicion ; Then he grunted luw and said— • Nat with eloquence of nature, Not in metaphoric style, But in simple fmnwr lingo, Mingled slang and grammar vile— , "Na-ree-trow-zis; want sums whiskey; Injun empty ; . • - driek a pile.". Then that meek and lowly Quaker Remonstrated with a tear; Spoke of tire-water sod ruin - With eloquence Severe; Said, quite feelingly, that whiskey Was a foe most insincere. Spake once more the child of nature Keeping down his growing bile; "Has my brother brought tobacco? Is there powder in his pile?' But the an agent answered, - With an uniuspecting smile: "Bad my variegated brother Ever studied dlt. Trask, lie would never, I am certain, Such a foolish question ask, Read these pamphlets; they will teach you In the light of truth to bask. Powder I have none—nor whisky, Nor the brain dtstroying leaf But of moral trails and stories hav;e many for tile chief." Then the Indian, weeping sadly Said it cost him bitter grief. That his moral tense compelled him To extra% his brothels hale; Which he did with nix precision, And a sadden stricken air; And that hoperul peace commission Terminated then and there. 7. • —The Capital. MISCELLANEOUS READING “BLUE EYES AND BLACK ONES:, Lenore Le Jour stood leaning against one of the pillars of the piazza of her lather's suburban residence. The ni..ou wee shilinii.g very brightly, bu• she heed ed not the beauty of the scene around het. fur tier Lee was in such a storm of emo tion'that one could p;uinly perceive that her mind was rely far from surrounding objects. Suddenly she murmured these - - Tell me, 0 loving heart Dumont Eby mind oil see The love that is thy life Turn albgitly.frum thee," ''Tell met, 0, ossion: warm ; That doth my being all, Why will a doubt creep in, And turn my heart to chill r IL ff bcovgLL, /nowt Dvorrr. AF she repeated the List four lines, a shudder passed over her slender formand her voice trembled from uncontrollable emotion. "Yes, why will this torturing doubt creep in and so nearly freeze my heart? Tell me, 0 Father in Heaven, why ? One Sear ago to night, he left me, and how perfect was my confidence in him I Did think that fond faith could be shaken ? Ah, if this be true. I will indeed pray to find rest on that distant shore, where the wicked cease from troubling, and the "weary are at rest !" She turned suddenly, and walked into the house and up to herown iniora,Where, throwing on a wr.tpper, she seated herself before the dressing table, and began to take the fastenings from her lung black hair. What-a magnificent creature she was, with her black eyes flashing and sparkling for a liniment, and suddenly • filling with teunk The French blood that flowed in ler•yiiiiis - was surging Over the beautifully minded-cheeks, and - prod:mined her a very queen of lore. Taitiyeals before our story opens,' Le -note, while visiting a fashionable place, met a young ger demon of very promlsseas • ing appearance, wine* name was Roy Ellison. She was bathing one morning, and, going out too far fur her strength and esperh nee in swimming, was on the point of drowning, when she was happily rescued by a certain brave young, who, bei n g near. Midifearing atilitan's Try for lielp.vlunged.inouldbrought her safely in his strong arms to shore. when"- herlinother was waiting in agonizing sus pense to receive her. This was how she became lb be introduced to Roy Raison, and the incident placed theta at once on a familiar footing. -'AY tile suinthei'eassed ;on; their -ac quaintance drifted - into %a very pleasant fnendship. Lenore teturned to her home and in three weeks was followed by Roy Ellison who asked her lather's consent to pay his addresses in Lenore. This was treelsi given, for. Mr. Le Jour knew Roy's family, and _considered him in every way worthy of Lentire, if he could Will firr. , Roy commen t add idemestiit task with u zeal quite'worthy of hihi hive; and after visiting Lenore fora' mon'h. she promis ed, with many becoming blushes, to be his wife. - - Oue year from the time they first met, they parted with many sweet assurances of undying affliction 'and etrofidencsei lb'y to go andlike hilt List course at a cele- Pingo/IllediPui *id -Lenore to - Stay iit s heme and - wait patiently "until the time should come fur her betrothed to claim : his bride. The last letter she received from him told her that he was coming to her soot, and might he expected a week or two. She bud gone into the garden to watch the glorious sunset, and to read this same letter for about the twentieth time, whe.3 lying dfrectly in her path she espied a part of another letter, and, like a true daughter of Eve, picked it up and bettan to read. It proved to he a letter to her brother, from one of. the students of the college that Boy was attending.— MONTROSE, SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY, PA.. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 17, 1873. POETRY. CIE AMER I TROTS 4 %,z73:1# 'az Graz...l. # aroma ILNI3 /113'1 , 11. CaIDTITTrt."37%. She read on until a deathly pallor settled on her Mee, and her eyes dilated and looked as though they would burn them selves into the paper. This is a portion of what she read : "Our mutual friewl,Roy E— is play ing a lofty hand with a certain little blue eyed beauty, who seems created especially for his bride. You should see them to gether, my deur fellow, they suit each other precisely. Madam Gruhdy says he is engaged to a girl in some distant city but, I Wnnut vouch for the truth of this report. Blue eyes has the donuts, which, I suppose, makes her doubly precious in Buy a estimation, for, although he has plenty of his own, you know the more one has the wore one wante I will ant attempt to describe Lenore's feelittga as she finished reading ; I think my pen is quite inadequate b portray them. To careless observers she would have app,..ared quite calm as she entered the house and passed on to the pizza where we first saw her; but there was a restleashre in her eyes that told what a tide of emotions was aurgmg in her soul. After combing out her beautiful hair, end pushing carolessly back into a silken net, she seated herself before her desk and begun to write. Hour after hour were spent in writing letter after letter, only to be discarded one after another, until she produced one that she thought would snit the occastou. It read as follows: "Ma. ELUSON : Circumeantial eviden c• 8 conies within my reach to prove that you are no longer worthy of my regard or respect, your character being that of a heartless flirt. This letter, therefore, to intended to rend asunder all bonds that heretofore united us. I suppose no further explanation is necessary, as you know how fur blue eyes have usurped the place of black ores in your mind, for the past few months. I send tour letters to you and must ask you to destroy mine as anon as this one '5 re crived. Last= LE Jogu." She sealed and directed this epistle, and. binding it with the letters that a few hours ago were so precious to her,she prepared them for the post. Falling on her knees she thanked God for the strength that had been given her to do whet cite considered her duty, and prayed that woidd help her to b ar this great trial patiently. When she arose it was with that calm feeling' that always fol lows an earnest prayer, and, though she still felt her trouble 6on•ly, all that bitter ness was gone, and she wept softly to her sell, until exhausted nature was at lust overcnme by sleep. When she entered the breakfast room next morning, her moth - r acid father were already there, bu she felt the ab sence of her brother Paul, who had gone the day before on a hunting excursion with some frieuds,to be gone two or three weeks. Fier mother noticed her haggard looks and pale face, and with the natural anxiety of a loving mother, inquired the Calm. - Lenore only said,as an answer, that she had suffered through the night with a se vere headache; she might have said a se vere heartache, which would have been more strictly true, but she tdo't wish to disclose the fact for the present. "My little girl, why bare you been so sad for the last few days ?" Mr. Le Jour asked one day, soon after the above event. 'llus Roy written that he will not be home so soon as he expected ?" "No, father," she replied _calmly. "I think I shall not receive another letter from him; our engaizentent is ended." "Why, my daughter, how is that?" "Please don't ask me, father; rest as sured there was a sufficient reason" `Being accustomed to give her her own wav,the indulgent parrot didn't preps her fur the cause of what was a mystery to him. but only expressed a regret that she should have Ort , uble that he could not help her to bear. Two weeks from the time she sent the letter, Lenore saw Roy Ellison's name among the list of passengers aboard the "St. Cloud," bound fur the distant shore of the old world. The weeks came &rid passed as usual ; the birds sang their gay songs just. as gaily as ever, and. to all outward appear ances. Lenore's life was just as It had always been. Spring gave tir her sweet reign to her warmer sister, Sumner, and still Paul Le Jour remained away from home. His huntit g excursion had been but the beginning of other such follies, and the he,atititul leaves hail all turned to scarlet and brown before he thought himself of the wend and the lit le sister who might be oting anxious to.see him. and somewhat uneasy at his long absence. So he concluded to quit his sport and gay companions, and report himself to them. CHAPTER IL Four years had pissed since the day that Roy. Ellison. rescued Lenore Le Jour from the cruel waire that tried au hard to take away her sweet young life. Long eitice'ehre . had, .made a confident of her brother, and rfaiwtt him the letter that. hail_ been the cause of her hasty condtict. Paul had erplained the mistake she made (feir by "Roy - was meant Roy antithertnetlimilatiident.now hap. pity marrile to .the blue eyed beauty,) and although he sympathized with her deeply ; he blamed her lot' tier want of confidence, and for being so !tasty. . Many changes-had. taken place in the family of to Jour in the past two years. Air. tie Jour bad lost the fourtune lie had, accutritittted by his hard labor in the days yo tth. Not being very- strong minded, the trial proved too much for him ; and only stew Weeks elapsed after the hiss of his fortnne before - - a broken hearted widen and two fatherless children w44e2thrown upon , their own resources fur their support. , . • -.Thus Lenore is again in trodneed- to the reader,!‘plying'her. and thread" fori meagre subsiitence. Paul was in a city iiot far away, work iug with a willing ; heart, but with hands idlstirely unused :to &nil:— The devoted mother, had long, since: ft mid rest up o n that — dietaiit tibure: - where Lenore - once :pro* Iti. go, - ' - . * * * "Cousin Roy, will yon take this money down to the back parlorfor me ?" I want to finish this letter for the next mail, and have only ten minutes more. You will find my dressmaker there, to whew I owe it fur the making of this dress. Look ut it, isn't it lovely'! ' The speaker was a tall girl with gray eyes, a profusion of blonde curls, arid a generous, good-natured face. As she turned toward a gentleman whom the reader has already recognized as Boy 'Yes, Jessie, it's beautiful, I think," and u slight mist came oefiire his eyes, as he remembered a ball that he had attend ed once with Lenore, when she wore a dress very nearly like this one. "Give me the money and I will go and do your errand fur you. Shall I tell her how much you are pleased with the dress P" "Oh, yes, certainly. Tell her I have another'one for her to make next week. Now don't say any more—oae minute's *me already.' Roy entered the parlor with a polite "god morning, madam." on his lips; but before he had taken more than two or three steps into the room, a slight gigue,. turned from one of the windows, and he recognized the said, sweet face as taut of his long-lost Lenore. "31y darling Lenore!" was all he could say, as he cough( her in her arms, and ~'most smothered ho with his passionate kisses. Then he suddenly released her. as he thought of the explanation that might be necessary before such words and actions would he acceptable. "Roy, can you ever forgive my cruel doubts, and take me back to your heart again ?" Roy had no idea of what she meant, but he really thought he could do as, she asked him ; so, clasped iu • his arms, she told him why she wrote that dreadful let ter, begged him to forgive her, and pour ed into his sympathizing ear the story of all the tron!ites she had suffered in those three years while they were separated. He, in turn, explained to her how he had read her letter over several times, without in the least comprehending.ter innueedo about "blue eyes and black ones;" how his wounded pride at last got the better of his love, and how, after roaming about in his misery for a year,he saw how foolishly he had acted, and at once set out for home. Imagine his con sternatiou 'Orr' he Caine to her old home and found her not there! He inquired for her, And heard of the father's losses and death, and since then, he had never ceased to search for her in every conceivable place. "And now, my Inche darling," he cot.- tinued, "for fear I might lose you again. von must consent for us to be married to-night. WI you, Sweet ?" The only answer he received wus a gen tle pressure of the arms around his heck. for at that moment Jessie entered the room. on seeing them she drewback,but Roy called her to them, and told her all tha! was neees.ary to make her throw he. arms around Lenore, and through her sympathetic tears, sysure her that she would always lore her as Cousin Ray's wtfe. The next day Paul Le Jour received the following telegraph : DEMI. Pout: Your sister and my self were married last evening, and will pass through your city next 'furs. clay, on our way to Europe. • Meet on a t th e National Hotel at 3 o'clock P . 11., on that day. Your brother, Rot Rttasott. Too Sociable. -_o_ A Nashville man had occasion to go to Memphis ov.r the Northwestern road last week. There was but few pas senger,: at)oard, and during the night the conductor came nod sat down by him. . - "Mighty rough road, ain't it f" queered the condnctor, with a Yawn. "Very," was the reply. "last time I went over the road this ear were in now was upset: and a man was killed all to small." said the corn• municative ticket puncher with another yawn. Then he udded: "I've got the most reckless engineer on the road with me to-..ight, too, but I hope we won't have an v um:dents." "I e •itainly hope. we will not," resrpon d.•d the passvnger with a feeling of on etpiness. "Well, I don't know as it would make any difference to yon," said the enedue tor cheerfully; "you'll die anyhow if you're goin' to Itlemphig." PANIC TAUB ...-it scrap of cony •reAtioll in this %vier- was overheard in a Now York office a h•+ dap ago : ‘•ll,iw's btitth•e:,:" / "Dull 1 Awfally dull!" "Doing any advertising?" "No; took 'em all out a month ago." "How long since business got dull ?" "0, three or four weeks ago." . .. "That is--aboo t the lime you Warped advert is;ng." .. . . _ (Merchant ruminates and cane:mar hioks innocent.) A Tot - No genthman in Wadetown late lv made un evening call on a young 1114 and got rather shabbily treated. It was getting along toward nine o'clock when the young lady inquired the time of even ing. "Five minutes to nine," was the reply. "How long will It take you to 0) home.?" " Five mirditee, judge." - "Then." said the rung lady , "if you irurf Ho w you'll be twine at' just nine o'clock." Ite went. A man at Princeton CAloge.believes to having "a place for everything and every thing snits pace. lie hails hie elippent nn the wail, four feet up, and then ult he has to do of an evening ns to wheel up hie easy chair iu trout of them. A postal card was received at P . ortland, Me., reeently.liaeing a dollar bill Pewed'oil one side of it, aluillirectle above Vie bill was written ; qf this is stolen; it 'will be after it laves the Kittery poet office." 3ARTII'3 4.DIGELI3. Imever maw an angel Sxoept the one ha books; 1 don't believe a mortal .Knows how un angel looks. We guess at something misty, With trailing wings of white With amber tress lloatmg. And garments strangely bright. But !believe earth's angels Walk here in mortal guise, Though we discern but faintly Through heavy lidded eyes. I can remember angels Who seemed like common folks, Who wore old fashioned Imnets And (ailed winter olonice; Who came when dire disaster Crowned lesser home - mishaps Or tired young claimants crowded The dear Maternal lap ; With curving arms wide t.pen To take the weary in, With patient love to listen To childish want or ells— What boner thing could angels ^ For children shiners do Than listen to their story. And bid them promise news I think of fireside angels Upon whose laded hair There shone no crown of glory, And yet the crown was there; When tender love, true.hearted. Forgave the wrongs it knew, And patient voles gave answer Th. days of trial through. Ah me I the chllobb angel, Who beckons as I write! Perchance I should not know bins In mystic robes or white. . He wears a school boy's Janke,. And caps. and bouts, to me; And *lien we talk et twilight His head 'lnman my knee. • There are dear mother angels— We each, perchance, know ono Whose robes of better glory Are daily being spun. With loving bands to guide us, With loving speech to cheer, Say I not well, earth's angels %Valk daily with us here ? THANE.SO.I7IIYO SERMON. Delivered in the N. B. Church, is Ilentrose, llce • venkbe 21. 111711. by Par. J. O. Nina; it the Presbyterian Minna, [Publithad b ropiatj "Happy is that people that is in Inch a rase." 144:15, first part. We greet the light of another Thanksgiving day, and it is fit that we now enter the Courts of the Lord, and with praise recognise Bi 3 be nignant care for another year. A survey of the nation may now also be taken, that we may dis cover what arils within it should be arrested. what reforms should be inaugurated, as well as notice the tokens of Cieri's munificent goodness. And, cloribthss, many will on - this oomelan take such a survey. From many a pulpit, on this. day, the fearful corruption of the times will be plainly rebuked; the moral aspects of great po litical questions will be fisithlially exhibited; and the virtue of the nation will hear appeals to rise to 11 nobler hi.eht. And.lt Adis within the pro vince' of the ministry not only so enumerate the reasons for annual thanksgiving, but also to ex pine, tied, so far as in them Huth. to exterminate every nom of wrong that May be vitiating so cial life, be regnant in the sphere of businets,and be interwoven with question at politics. But while claiming the right to take this wide sur rey, we purpose on this occasion to , limit our view, exclusively, to-our own neighborhood and •ctreamstances. We select she condition of oar ;wives—meaning by ourselves both the inhatil. tants of this village and of the adjacent mam— as the theme of discourse. When penning the text, the Prshnist caught ttglowing vision o: a prosperous people. *. He saw the worthy sons and daughters, the abund ant garners, the exemption Born war, the inter n tl general and joymis spirits at con tentment. And, stirred by the delectable tun, be exclaimed, "Happy is that people that is ha inch a case." Bat we have the reality of the animating Titian of David; hetx. d r we *Pro' print° the text, as pertinent to ourselves. 1. Bemis cf the martin which we lea The condithna of a people is very materially affected by the region in which .they dwell. According to Its fertility are the contents of their store-houses end the provisions for their , physi cal wants. According to the eissots lathe health of a people. E 0 essential is health to a people, that without it,all other temporal possessions are impotent to minister to their well being. The declaration, "All that s man bath, will ha- give for his life," applies with almost equal force to his health. Man's nature, moreover, is permea ted with sensibilities, through which he may be the recipient of rich enjoyment. These sensi bilities ere as the chords of a harp, which tate: melodious notes at the performer's touch.• Front the sensibilities spring emotions of beauty, of sublimity, of grandeur, and of corresponding delight. And these sensibilities, contribute • very precious element to the work of life. But the play of the sensibilities, and the !ma turns born of -them, depend very . mach 'upon the external world. They are awakened by the bean tY of valleys, the undulation of hills, and the majesty of mountains. The acts now null ed ha"e a very important bearing upbn the relation we sustain to the-re gion In which we dwell. Some complain of our region. The winters, exclaim they, are long; the climate severe;-- and much of the land rug , god. They would exchange thole !momfor abodes In a more fertile and genial _ tiot this complaint Is not just. An ledelllgent atin: vey of our region will discover muilithat stioUld evoke our attachment and praise. Heri are arcked compensations for whateier Is deemed undesirable. The broad pnriries. of the Went, we own, yield richer harvests , of wheat sod corn In this regard; Our'itatyisle Arabino ' mewls stinted. The tardier can, alkiadtie Care. secure hte bread. But what prairies Are adorned with such luxuriant gmsis as that which over: spreads, like royal. tapestry, our bills and -val leys? As in. summer we look upon bur fields, they morning by morning ; appear a have im hthed new'vigor and .fre's.hpess tram de* and shower. All the prOdurts indlgemous to our soil are ample, and also fair equivalents to the productS of other regions. Our golden erLd de licions better is sprpeseed by the far-Anted Orange county brand.. And than we may chat% lenge- our whole cointevr-save where, speerai Pains hive been taken —to exhibit such fineks and herds es feed 'dont. fat matures,- ' And so wt say that our region; .n its Way, Is produc.' We.: Agriculture may. be remuneratlve,"and so the haele fir the priaperity within reasonable 11 nits of every other legitimate btisinesatlone, then, amongst us, who lid w ork, need be in want; none who will Do easel, Med be pool Terms { 1:7,::1 1 11.110 .173111.4 all may secure a competence, and the bleuimpi of competence. But nail th, as we nave Intimated, as well as material prosperity, has a value. Disease turns the gold of prosperity Into dross. And how common for many regions termed lair and fer tile to be unhealthillth - Over nearly every prairie the miasma broods. Many a constitution that gave prunihe of lasting vigor Is assailed by 'the malaria and pertuaturely shattered. The ague Li nearly as prevalent as the air the pen. ple breathe. Or, turn we to older portions of our Land, where years of culture seem to lave .renroduced the lost Eden. Now often the Oath nate fever sweeps there like devastating fire.— Or does disease assume the terrific form of the pestilence? It not unfrequently makes the Edon places it first resort. But how signal inir vamp- Con from the malaria, the fever, the plague. True, metn, women; and children here sicken and die; but tar less frequent the solemn toll of the bell, announcing the , departure of the young and of the middle-aged, than we have heard in other communities ti? the same number of in habitants. We have, pre-eminently, a salubri ous climate. Call our winters long and severe; I still, we have a tonic atmospaere that nerves the body with vigor and cootributes to the length of days. Few are the places where a large par ty could gather, as awhile ago was gathered here, of which the average age was three score and ten. Strangers whia chance to enter our Sabbath assemblies are impressed with the number of aged people meeting with us. And then of what summers we can boas , . Meet days that may be fitly called Elysian. Bow we really compress, Ina single day. the mere joy or existenc e , which in many another place weeks only can milord. Verily. judging of the length of slimmers by the wealth of enjoyment they minwter.we may call ours as !nag as , the hrait and sweltering summers of the prairies of the West, or of the plains of oar own' State. No wonder that, when the dog star begins to grow fleece, many who have heard of these: healthful bights gladly hasten hither. But further, we have spoken of the pleasures affordeny central scenery; pleasures when source we do nut always recognise, yet which we learn to appreciate when we are separated from them. it is said that certain Sole% sire are forbidden in European armies, in which Ssel- WM have enlisted. The Instant those airs salute the ear the !tedious of their valleys and grand eur of their Alps are arrayed before the (magi nation of the Swiss soldiers, and then an ener vating homesickness follows that unfits for mil itary duties,- Now this exemplifies the feelings of all persons whose iseusilillities have not been dulled by worldliness or vie* when separated from the beautiful and luspiring scenery amidst which they Were reared. And. admittih that Muse pleasures do contribute materially to the charm and worth of life, we affirm that free are the regionsso opulent in means to yield them as ours. :Believing that the external world is a 'volume expressive of divine ideas and semi meats, we claim ,that our Lord has uttered himself in poetry in his works about us. Stand upon any eminence,, wander where we will, and we greet poetry itatheltarled. forma or hills and vales. Yes, and fu certain moods we are quiek 7 ened, thrilled eves, aa when perauing • genuine noble poem. As elOquent divine, when settles forth his peculiar views of tie millennium, de clared that he had beheld regions where -lie would willingly spend thousands of years. Now we may not choose to pass so protected s time here. Yet, viewed in rwipeot of their !meaty :and grandeur, we would doubtlese be pleased to' pass a long life amidst these racemes. T thing, then, mar region,,with all Its characteristic., its fertility, its salubrity, sad its beauty, and we may justly say, Happy are we because, of ti.e mien in which we dwell. 9. Ws may deem ourass s AapAy Smuts of our ;Ispitaiya qj good re wised from worthy eve Wait 'ociety is organic. In the first place Itsmern- hers are unikslty the bones of common Mite lion, sympathy. and interest ; and In the next place. it transmits ha peculiar chi ranterist No tact) are more certainly Yerided, than that the sentiments and example of pirenia deter mine materially the characters and condition of their children. 'When a member of a school hoard Bald of a young man, "I know he will make a good teacher because his mother be tittered a conviction that witnessed to the intimate end momentous relation between par ent and otrapring. Not► grave facts. analogous to these strikingly exhibited in the relation of parents snd children, bold equality true in the history ut communities. As really as the acorn holds the future of the oak, so rellly td) the lists of the founders of any community Involve. In a large measure, the wear, or the 111, of their pos terity._ If virtue, order, add all kindred paid havecharacterised the founders - ol a comment. ray, to their posterity will, all that "peel be trantoaitted as a ..heritage ut blessing., But if vice. diitorder, and kindred 'ivit have character- Red thoie . foundeni, to their posterity will tie I transmitted nil that evil as a baleful heritage. Permit me to adduce 'examples of ihe'grave i point before us. ' I once 'Tossed' a Sabbath' in' a village located beside a beautiful like. - fair. er ceglon can scarcely be found. But, oh! the Hideous Incongruity between the mass probe People and their beautiful Lind. A. few devot ed- oneigatbered nitniiat Stealthily into their contracted places of svmaitip.: They ieetird to be In fear, as ifenvlioned by Impious and taunt; leg of the • mass • of - the .People saute arrested their ordinary. work; but it, was only to desecrate the Sabbath with wicked frol ic. cOntincitri their secular toll es vigorously as ever. Really, the butte of the workshop and the ring of the anvil seem Aim. usually loud, as it determined - to inakathe'sala bath a nulity„and lomat* the Lord of the Snit. bath. But across the tette, and cowering a no- hie bill,ennther 'village was IR sight. At the darielng of 'the` lablinth morning,' its:tpires gleamed, IS if toncheti:bieilestial been* , All secular affairs were'put aside, end 'a snered.qel et reigned in the streets.- .coiicorelant bells like Jubilant heralds, proclaimed. to 'all the re- Ali g) Oi l ed that holy rime had ...Foam. the peo ple thronged their.ennctnaries. indeed, the plate and the time Because symbolic .the better laud :anti its'eternal Sabbath, . And' now. bow ♦setae veil de solemn the commit bet wPen those two Ybingesl - And . bow. necoont I the cost net ?, Ab, the selbets; of the one village were yeiy tlifferent from the settlers of the oth er.. Of the tires, they were wittier anti rough. FOr'weithYrentirnenti they Led no afilnity ; to ;moral ()tilers, they were avene't to the sat). bath, they were tool to theiOdaker, enemies, As 4 their ,Impinus tral is anti, ,eue mew Wean by the law of tranunisslon and the Jew of er T . ample, the dire heritage of their descendants.— Thus It was that a eodata fusocial beciugs a NUMBER 51. Bodomsn perpetuated. But the founders of the village crowning the hill across the like,brought with them the fear of God, and the virtues that are bons of that tear. And at- once their new 'miaow's% took its worthy form froM heir no. hie sentiments. And their descendants accept- •1, with appreciative sympathy,.the heritage of good from their ancestors. The sturdy virtues and . mistoery of the latter were, reproduced amongst their descendents, and cherished, tts In tagtlia of honor, And so it came to peas- that a Bethany founded, wt S a Bethany . perpettutt ad. The bearing of the examples before us Open ourselves is very manifest. The ploneersWho settled In this rerion were men and Women of the noblest style They were descended from the best Puritan stock. In their - veins Bowed the blood of heroic ancestors Who had been Self exiles to en uokhown land for righteousness' sake And as tendencies are transmitted whit grand tendencies were vital hs their souls. The high sentiments they. cherished, the righteous customs they inaugurated, and the solid-under they established, - were the marked signals and the rich fruitage of those v2ndancies. Of course 'lt Would be invidious to specify names, where so many should receive honorable mention:, and so I repeat, that more noble and brave men and women never founded a community; than were the fouuders of clam Bet fleetly . 1111 of those founders are dead. They are, however, as the dead that lira. They live in our remem brance of their luminous elan:mil/4 they live in the strong bias to social virtue end order which we have Inherited from them; they live - in the acute' social Virtue and order which are solinn ly established - amongst us.. And are not these more precious than legacies of sliver and gold 1 1 ' Is it not &choice privilege to dwell where the reign of virtue end of order is more stable than mandates of Kings; where Security encircles us as the walls of a citadel; where generally neighbor meets nelghbor 09 if they were kin dred; where, on the Sabbath, temporal husinto is suspended, and a holy .quiet rests upon the place like • benediction tram the Lord t We may have somewhat • meddled the good 'be queathed by our pioneer ancestors- Accepting it, we may have enlarged it. Stlii we am to day the possessors of rare social and coal blow ins', because of who: the illustrious tounders of our community were. Likening our social fab ric to a mageiticient temple, we must confess ithat its stability and grandeur are very much I what they are because our fathers and mothers laid the foundations well, drew the plan with sacred care, and wrought taithtully upon. the structure. They labored scaleusly and right eously. and we have entered abundantly into their labors nappy, therefore, are we, betmusti of our heritage from good-worthy ancestors, & • We ars a happy pecib &mum of the eupaisp sesicA Aare erre Item enjoyd Acre, Go mull:tau; as isaillsgra eminent:4. Man possesses both Intellect and "beast. end both should receive a generous culture. And white spiritual culture Is We crown of man's dignity. Intellectual culture is a very important part at .bis vesture of honor: It is by a true ilevelopement of both heart and mind that man proves that he was "created a little lower than the angels." But retetving far the •preiriet what we 'mire to'