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VQL. 26.
Published by Theodore Schoch.
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JOIJ PRIXTIXG,
OF ALL KINDS,
SteCGtrd inthe highest style of the Art.and ontbe
most reasor. tble terms.
C. It. KEIjIjEES, .
DEALER IN
Boots, Shoes, Leather,
AND FINDINGS,
STROUDSBURG, Pa.
March 23, 1967.
S. HOLMES, Jr.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, AND GENERAL
CLAIM AGENT.
STROUDSBURG, PA.
Office tcith S. S. Dnher, Esq.
All claims against the Government prose
cuted with dispatch at reduced rates.
OCT An additional bounty of 100 and of
$50 procured for Soldiers in the late War,
THEE OF EXTRA CHARGE.
August 2, 1S66.
Furniture! Furniture!
McCarfy's Hew Furniture Slore,
DREHER'S NEW BUILDING, two
doors below the Post-office, Strouds
fcurg, Pa. He is selling his Furniture 10
per cent, less than Easton or Washington
prices, to say nothing about freight or break
age. May 17, lSGG.-tf.
IF YOU WANT A GOOD MELODEON,
from one of the best makers in the Uni
ted States, solid Rosewooil Cape, warranted
5 years, call at McCARTY'S, he would es
pecially invite all who are good judges of
Music to come and test them. lie will sell
jou from any maker you wish, 10 less than
Jhose who sell on commission. . The reason
is he buys for cash and sells for the same,
vrith less than one-half the usual per centage
that agents want. J. II. McCARTY.
May 17, ISG6.-tf.
UNDERTAKING IN ALL ITS BRAN-ches.
Particular attention will be gben to this ! Of choice Tales, Poetry, Biography and gen
branch of the subscriber's business. He will ; eral Miscellany, makes the Farm and Fire
always study to please and .consolt the ' side a welco.nc visitor to every home in the
vrants ond wishes of those who rmploy him. ' United Slates.
From the number of years experience he has j No expense is spared to make a journal
had in this branch of business he cannot and i
-will not not be excelled either in city or
country. Prices one-'.hird less than is usual
ly charged, from oO to 73 finished Coffins al
ways oa hand. Trimmings to suit the best
Ilearse in the countrv. Funerals attended '
at one "hour's notice. J. H. McCARTY.
May 17, lSC6.-tf.
MT. VERNON HOTEL,
M. &. T. P. WATSON, Proprietors.
No.'s 117 & 119 North SECOND Street,
(Between Arch and Rice,)
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
Close proximity lo the business center of
the city, excellent accommodation?, and cjre
ful attention to the comfort and wants of
guests are characteristics of the Mount Ver
non. TheIIai.se has been thoroughly ren
ovated and new-furnished. The patronage
of the public is respectfully solicited.
October 11, lSSG.-tf.
LOOK THIS WAY!
MEAD! HEAD !
Chas. Schaefer & Co.
FRENCH & GERMAN
STEA3I DY1XU ESTABLISHMENT.
EASTON,' PENN'A.
Will dye Woolen, Silk and Cotten
Goods of Every Description, in any
Color desired.
Orders can be left with II. S. Wagner,
STROUDSBURG, Pa
June 21, 16G6.-lyr.
Saddle and Harness
Manufactory.
The undersigned respectfully informs
he citizens of Stroudsburg, and surroun
ding country, that he has commenced the
above business ia ' Fowler's" building, on
Elizabeth street, and is fully prepared to
furnish any article iu his line of business,
at short notice. Oa hand at all times, a
large stock of
Harness, Whips, Trunks, Yaliccs, Car
pet Enns, Ilorzz-lilanhcls, Eclls,
Skates, Oil Cloths, dc.
Carriage Trimming promptly attended
to. joiin o.jSaylor.
troudsburg, Dec. 14, 180-3.
olhic flail Drug Store.
Wholesale and Retail Druggist.
STROUDSBURG, Pa.
pgr Constantly on baud and for
VZ Bae cbeap for cash, a fresh eup
fj0i I'ly of Drugs, Medicines, Paints,
--- Oil, Glass, Putty, Varnish Ker
osene Oil, Perfumery and Fancy Goods;
also
&tfc!i, .hiitKiM and IJocrs.
Pure Wines and Liquors for Medicinal
purpose.
P S. Physiciaus Prescriptions care
fully compounded.
Stroudsburg, July 7, 18GL
Drs. JACKSON & BEDLACK
PUYSU'IAXS A3D SVUGEOXS.
D
US. JACKSON & BIDLACK, are
prepared to attend promptly to all calls
of a Professional character. OJJice Op
posite the Strouckburg Bank.
' April S3, l&67.-t
BLANK LEASES
For Sale at this Oflicc.
TERRIBLE EXCITEMENT!!!
Ho for Slroiidsbwrg !
ALL ABOARD FOR THE
NEW STORE WITH NEW GOODS,
MESSRSTDETRICK & WILLIAMS
re opened a New Store for the sale of
hav
DRUGS,
MED1CIXES,
' WATCHES,
CLOCKS,
and JEWELRY.
on Main-street, in Stroudsburfl, next door to
the Post-office, where thev have on hand
w a m V - W uuwa u
the largest and best assortment of
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Drugs, Paints,
Oils, Varnishes, Glass, Sash, Doors,
Blinds, Brushes of all kinds. Per
fumery, Spices and Station
cry, ever offered for sale
in this County.
Call and be Convinced.
1st. That we have the largest and best as
sortment of choice goods in the market.
2d. We have all NEW GOODS.
3d. We are determined to please all who
favor us with their patronage.
4th. We will sell lower than any other
house in the Boroush.
Country Merchants and Physicians orders
will be filled at the lowest wholcsale-prices.
i iease can oeiore purcnasning elsewhere.
NO CHARGE FOR SHOWING GOODS.
v-t-r .u.
' pairing of Watches. Clocks and Jewelrv. tc.
V-V iuimuicn a lieu 1 iuii yu IU IU lliC re -
and oil work warranted.
C. S. DETRICK,
P. S. WILLIAMS.
Stroudsbnrg, May 10, 1SGG.
II - 1 Al-M 111
A Journal of Agriculture, HorM wc
Literature and Art, Lct 2DJ man scraTiDize the vote re-
Published Cfery Saturday, in quarto form, ; corded during the late session of our Le
eight pages, on fine paper and new type. ; cjslaturc. 0Q b;na commonl rPTnrfP(l fn
It is illustrated with engravings of
LIVE STOCK,
FRUIT AND ORNAMENTAL TREES,
r AK.il liUILJJIAUS.
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, &c.
OCT A corps of practical and well-known
writers contribute regularlv to its columns.
A LITERARY DEPARTMENT
worthy the patronage of an intelligent pub
lic. It will advocate the Lett interests ol a
Rural Life.
Its Market Reports arc full and reliable.
Terms --Ja Year, invariably in advance.
Sold at all News axd Periodical Of
fices. Specimen copy cent to any address
on receipt of five cents.
S.S. t'OS.S, Inblilicr,
No. 402 Prune Street, Philadelphia.
March 14, 16G7.-3m.
PIIOMIX MIW STORE.
DREHER & BROTHER,
(Opposite the " Jeffersonian" Office,)
ELIZABETH-STREET,
STROUDSBURG, PA.
Dealers in
DRUGS, MEDICINES', PERFUMERY,
WINES and LIQUORS for medi
cinal purpose?, SASH,
DOORS and BLINDS.
All kind of
Painting Materials,
Lamps and Lanterns
Burning and Lubricating Oils.
If 1- I'lircioianc1 '
re.-criptions carefully
compounded.
g. 11. dkeher:
October 4, 1SGG.
E. B. DREHER.
Important to Everybody.
The subscribers would inform the public
very respectfully, that they are carrying on
the
Soot c Shoe Business
f i.at their
old stand, one door above the
Express Office, on Elizabeth St, Strouds
bnrg, Pa., where they will be happy to
wait on their old customers, and as many
new ones as can make it convenient to call.
They have on hand a good arrortmenl of
BOOTS & SHOES,
for men, women, misses and childrens wear,
I Gum over Shoes and Sandals for men, youth
j and misses. A general assortment of Lasts
j and Boot-Trees, shoe Thread, Wax, Heel
Nails, Pincers, Punches, Eyclcttsand Eye
lett Setts, Pegs and Peg-Cutters, Shoe Ham
mers, Crimping Boards and Screws, also, li-
. f
ealc at small advance upon cost. Give us a
call, no charges for showing goods.
P. S. Boots and Shoes made to order and
warranted.
CHARLES WATERS & SON.
Stroudslurg, Jan. 18, 1&G6.
j7h7marty
HAS just returned from New-York with
a pplen Jid assortment of PARLOR
and CHAMBER FURNITURE. Call at
his Ware-Rooms. May 31, 18GG.-tf.
.1
ning and binding skins, a gootl articic o , , v""" J"unu, iuis,
Tampico Boot Morocco, French Morocco and I Toby hanua, and Jackson townships, Mon
French Calfskins, Lasting and all kinds ofjToe couuty.
Shofmaker tool?, Ink Powder and Shoe, Richard Wilson, Experiment Mills, for
Blacking, and Frank Miller's water-proof j Middle Smithfield, Sinithfield, Price,
oil blacking. All of which thev offer for ! nd 1 turret lnwnnhin M
J UST RECEIVED. 5,000 leet of Ro8e;ucr Kl? P"vcs W1 erfuI'" was miowu
and Gilt Picture Frame Moulding, from f evcral. different shades of that color. Be-
1 inch to a inches wide. Also 500 feet of.
Black Walnut.
August 2, lbGG.
J. II. McCARTY.
N
O EXTRA CHARGE for HEARSE in
attending Funerals within 5 miles
of Stroudtburg.
May 31, 16GG.-tf.
J. II. McCARTY.
DON'T p,y 3.50 for a WASH STAND, W(
when you can get them at McCaetv's 10
tar superior for $2.50.
August 2, 16G0
BLANK MORTGAGES
For sale ai this OfTicr,
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., MAY
Bribery and Corruption.
In Pennsylvania and New York cer
tain Republican journals have spoken
with great plainness in reference to the
dishonest practices which abound in and
i0"1 th?, Lesl.aturf of those States.
1 ,e 8lof doiDS l,,8ir Prtj some dam
age mey nave snown a disposition to do
the public a service. The Democrats, in
stead of seconding their endeavors, seek
to turn these inculpations to their advan
tage. With a sactimonious assurance
thej exclaim : Turn these disreputable
a . H --
, fellows out, and put us, in, and see how
incorjuptibly we will behave. What thev
- for is not the rectification of abuses,
i hut to get back into power.
xNow we doubt not there is a fair pro
portioa of honest men among.the demo
crats, and we have said, and now repeat,
that we prefer such to the dishonest mem
bers of our own party. But we do not
suspect that in proportion to numbers the
democrats have anything to boast of in
point of integrity. They have been tried
both at Ilarrisburg and Washington, and
have turned out a full average of scamps
in all departments. Indeed, as Ions? ao
,as when General Jackson was President,
; it was held to be wisdom- to retain
rnr;nn, ltinro-; a- .1
I ft" ,G , 7 I" t dflst,nct,J ?
ithe ground that his pockets were full.
a no-
pockets were full.
1 1. 1 , tt i - '
I w"ereas . anouia De put out, and an-
1 an-
i other substituted, the neiv democrat would
fill his pockets likewise. The correspoud-
ence on tins Lead was laid before Con
gress, and by its order spread before the
country. No attempt was erer made to
deny this record or to explain it away.
That was in the early day when democracy
was comparatively young and pure. That
if Vila nmwn (inn t.Alln. .?r.m 1 1.
have "money in them." and he will not
- I J
come out of the investigation with the idea
that the democratic members were care
ful to "avoid the appearance of evil."
Take the Free Railroad Uill as one, and
the Connellsville Railroad bill as another.
Take all the bills of this class, and see if
the democrats did not dirty themselves as
freely and entirely as the republicans.
We do not make these suggestions to
exculpate or extenuate the conduct of re
publicans; but to show that legislative
corruption, which has grown to appalling
magnitude, is not to be combatted effect
ually in this way. Uoth parties are too
deeply involved in it, for either to make
capital against the other, among intelli
gent people, by claiming exemption, cither
comparative or absolute, from the conta
gion. In view of established facts, all
boastings of immaculativeness by any par
ty, may rather be taken as indicative of a
willingness to wink and connive at the
debauchery. The truth is a remedy of
most searching character must be applied,
or all legislation will soon become pur
chasable by the highest bidder, except
such as political parties may desire for
their own ends as organizations. The peo
ple must take hold of the subject in earn
est, resolved that the laws regulating judi
cial preceedings shall be so altered as to
promote inquiry, not to suppress it; to
bring the guilty to punishment, not to of
fer them immunity. Pittsburg Gazette.
The Annual Assessments.
Assessor Mutchler has made the fol
lowing appointments of Additional As
sistant Assessors to assess the annual in
come and special taxes. In the town
ships not mentioned the regular Assessors
will act :
Poter Uellis, Portland, for Upper Mt.
Bethel, Lower Mt. Bethel and Plainfield
townships.
Thomas W. Lynn, Freemansburg, for
Bethlehem and Lower Saucon townships
and Freemansburg borough.
Wm. Kester, Cherry ville, for Bath and
Chapman boroughs, and Allen, East Al
len, Lehigh and Moore townships.
Henry Schug, Easton, for Williams,
Forks and Palmer townships.
Abel Hewitt, Nesquehoning, for Nes
quehoniog, Lausanne, Packer, Banks,
Kidder, and Penn Forest townships, Car
bon couuty.
Peter Uruvcr, Saylorsburg, for Hamil-
Irtn I IIACftlltr I I III Ka li I .A mm ,m IV-. IT-
II . TT11 -mn ...
Charles L. Heller. Bushkill. for Mil-
ford borough, and Milford, Westfall,
Dingmari, Delaware, Lehman, and Porter
townships, Pike county.
Warren Kemble, Field Bend, for Lack
awaxen, Shohola, Blooming, Grove, Pal
myra, and Green townships, Pike connty.
A clerk in Iowa City says : "A very
pretty young lady called iu the store the
other day and requested to see our Javen-
l. l .1 I 1 - -I
ng overcome wun so great a van
ety she a.skcdf."which of these pairs are
the lavendcrest I
Among the advertisod letters at Fall
River is one "to the best hotel in the city,"
and the post-master is boarding round a
week with each to decid to v. horn it be-
B2S.
j Six hundred and twenty-Feven thous
and dollars iu specie were taken out by
;the European steamers on Saturday.'
Proceedings of Presbytery.
The Presbytery of Newton met, on
Tuesdav. Anril 23rd. in the Preshvterian
Church of this borough, and was opened
;ft -n XT t e
with sermon by Rev. Wm. Laurie, of
Stewartsville, N. J. After service, the
Presbytery was called to order by Rer.
B. S. Everitt, the last Moderator present.
The roll was called and about forty mem
bers were found present. Rev. R. Kerr
Freeman, of Harmony, N. J., was elected
Moderator, and Rev. E. Clark Cline was
elected Clerk. The Pastoral relation be
tween Rev. Fphraim Simonton, of the
church of Danville, N. J., was dissolved.
The church of Phillipsburg, N. J., pros
ecuted a call for the services of Rev. II.
B. Townsend, which, after discussion, was
retained in hands of Presbytery, and Mr.
Townsend appointed stated supply of
that church for six months. On Tues
day evening, Rev. A. II. Hand, D.D., of
Greenwich, N. J., preached an excellent
sermon. On Wednesday morning, the
narratives of the state of religion in the
several churches, were heard, which show
ed that all the churches were progress
ing, in things spiritual and temporal, to
an extent quite up to ordinary prosperity,
while the churches of Washington, Ox
ford Furnace, Stillwater, Shawnee, Mid
dle Smithfield, and Stroudsburg, had
been specially revived, and had received
large and encouragiug accessions to their
numbers. The Sessional Records of the
several churches were examined and ap
proved. The Rev. B. S. Everitt and Rev.
J. Kerr Freeman, ministers, and Mr.
John Malvin, Mr. Sclden Scranton, el
ders, were appointed commissioners from
this Presbytery to the General Assembly,
which is to meet in Cincinnati, Ohio, on
May lGth. In the afternoon a Sabbath
school meeting was held, at which inte
resting addresses were made bj Rev. Mr.
Condit, of Stillwater, N. J., and Dr. Ech
art of Lafayette College. The Presbyte
rial prayer-meeting was held on Wednes
day evening, at which addresses were
made by Rev. David Tullj, of Belvi
dere, Rev. Dr. Echart, of Easton, and
Rev. Myron Barrett, of Newton. The
congregations were large at the public
services, and a very delightful spirit was
manifested in all the proceedings. The
Presbytery adjourned on Wednesday
evening, to hold their next Stated Meet
ing at 2nd Church of Oxford, N. J.
Croup.
We copy an article on this disease
which we commend to the special consid
eration of. mothers. It is from UalPs
Journal of Health, and may be read with
advantage : Croup seldom comes on sud
denly. Generally it has at first no other
symptoms than those of a common, cold,
but the very moment the child is seen to
carry his hands toward his throat, indicat
ing discomfort there, it should be con
sidered an attack of croup, and should be
treated accordingly. When a child is
sick of anything, no physician can tell
where that sickness will end. So it ii
with a cold ; it appear to be very slight
one indeed, still it may end fatally in
croup, putrid sore throat or diptheria.
The moment a mother observes croupy
symptoms in a child from two to eight
years, the especially croupy age, she
should keep the child in her owu room,
by here own side, day and night, not al
lowing it for a moment to go outside of
the door, keeping it comfortably warm, so
that no chilliness or draft of air shall
come over it. Light food should be eaten !
no meats, hot bread or berries. The
whole body, the feet especially, should be
kept warm all the time. Rubbing twenty
drops of sweet oil into the skin over the
left breast patiently with the hand, two
or three times, or mora times a day, often
gives the most marked relief in a cold,
thus preventing croup. Such a course
prmptly pursued will promptly cure al
most any cold a child will take, and sel
dom, fails to ward off effectually iu a day
or two what would otherwise have-beeu
a fatal attack of croup, with its ringing,
hissing, barking sound, its uneasy, op
pressive aud labored breathing, nono of j
which can ever be mistaken wheh once
heard. Many a sweet child is lost thus;
The parents are aroused at the dead of
night with a cough that suggests croup ;
but it seems to pass off, and in the morn
ing they wake up with a feeling of thank
ful deliverance from boding ill. The
child runs about all day as if perfectly
well; but the next night the symptoms
arc more decided, and on the next night
the child dies; but this would have been
averted with certainty if from the first
night the child had been kept in a warm
room, warmly clad ; the bowels had been
kept free and nothing had beeu eaten but
toast with tea or gruel, or stewed fruits.
A poor fellow as a last resort for more
drink fetched his Bible to awn for li
ouar. but tLa landladv refused to take it.
" Well," said he, " if she will not take
be huncr in Cincinuti.
My word nor God's word it's time to give e iot ni.i sun. ne was conuoieu uj -up."
And he went and signed the ' native, who said to him : "Why 'n hll
pledge, and kept it faithfully" didn't you let me know you.was counn 7
1 . Knox," (the other lawyer), "ho come on
A murderer only fifteen vears old ii to here a week ago. and had his pick of tut-
9, 1867.
A Promising Missourian Juvenile.
They have sonic promising children
around Ironton
Not long since a bis
'. JPPeared in school one morning, when
the f"owS dialogue occurred between
hioi and the teaciier:
" Can you read?"
" Don't know," was the reply.
" Can't you spell easy words?"
" Don't know."
' Do you know the alphabet?"
.'Yes:"
" Try this word."
" II o r s c."
" What does that spell?"
" Don't know."
" What do you ride at home?"
" Mules."
" Try this word."
- "Urea d."
What does that spell?"
" Don't know."
" What do you eat at home?"
" Acorns."
" Try this short word."
" B e d."
" What does that spell?"
" Don't know."
" What do you sleep on at night?"
" Sheepskins."
" Try another."
" G lan s."
" What doss that spell?"
" Don't know."
" What do you put in the windows at
home?"
" Pap's old hats."
u Try a,gain."
Water." '
"What does that spell?"
"Don't know."
" What do you drink?"
" Whiskey."
" You can take your seat and study
your lesson."
" Mister, I reckon you could't give a
feller a chaw terbacker, could yer?"
" Take your seat."
" Now, look here, you needn't put on
any style; you're a nabolitionist, and I
ain't goin' to this ere school any more.
Mam told me if you sassed me to come
home, and I'm goiu'."
The youthful Missourian then and
there finished his education, and has not
been to school since. No doubt he will
in a few years be up for Congress on the
Democratic ticket.
Early Risin
The following remarks by Hall, on
early rising, may be interesting to our
readers :
One of the very worst economies of
time is that filched from necessary sleep.
The wholesale, but blind, commendation
of early rising is mischievous in practice
as it is arrant folly in theory. Early ris
ing is a crime against the noblest part of
our physical nature, unless it is preceded
by an early retiring. We caution par
ents particularly not to allow their chil
dren to be waked up in the morning; let
nature wake them up, she will not do it
prematurely; but have a care that they
go to bed at an early nour; let it be ear
lier and earlier, until it is found that
they wake up themselves in full time for
breakfast. Being waked up early, and
allowed to engage in difficult or any stud
ies late and just before retiring, has giv
en many a beautiful and promising child
brain fever, or determined organary ail
ments to the production of water on the
brain."
During the summer of 1SG4, while the
hospitals in Richmond were crowded
with wounded, the ladies of the city
visited them daily, carrying with them
delicacies of every kind, and vied with
each other to comfort and cheer up the
wounded. On one occasion a bright-eyed
damsel of about seventeen summers was
distributing flowers and speakiug tender
words of encouragement to those around
her, when she overheard a young officer
who was suffering from his wounds ex
claim, "Oh, my Lord!" Approaching
timidly in order to rebuke Iff! profanity
she said, " I think I heard you call upon
the name of the Lord. I am one of his
daughters. Is there anything I can ask
him for you?" Glancing hastily upon
her lovely face and perfect form, he re
plied, " Yes, please ask hisa to make me
his son in-law I"
IIow Russian Sables are Caught
Provided with a pitcher of water, the
hunter stations himself iu a tree over the
hol3 leading to the habitation of the ani
mal, aud when tho latter pomes out, and
stands loyking about, the hunter pours
some water ou the crcaturo's tail, which
almost instantly becomes frozen to the
ground. The hunter then descends, and
with his knife slashes the sable's face.
The frightened animal struggles to get a-
way and finally escapes through the open-
,n maue in us countenance iy the nun-
i l?r ' krn,e' .ie",0S 1 8"k!n ,D ine P095!9'
i?10" of tho .butor hllf eturna to Us
'? awai tb Srowfh of a Dw klQ'
jUu n ch a n st t's A'ei rra t ices.
Under the head of "country witnesses,"
the Venango Republican tells us that not
long since a lawyer friend of ours had 03
casion to abitrate a cause, on the east fork
of the Sinnemahoning, in Potter County.
Tho tough swearing of the witnesses oa
the other side prevailed against him, and
nesses.
NO. 7.
WtatDoWe Work For?
The above question is ably discussed
in the Scientific American, as follows:
The question we desire briefly to ask i
not"Why do we work ?" buf'Whatdo we
work for ?" Some may answer at oncry
"For money wages or salaries." We
do not think this is a correct and full re
ply to the question. Labor may be the
Adamite cause, but if so, the innate de
sires of man and his restlessnes and ambi
tion for improvementJiave changed' the
eurse to a positive blessing and made the
earth thorn thistle cursed to bloom ami
blossom as the rose. Wc work partly be
cause we need it. We need it for healtlv
of mind as well as body. Idleness leads
to decay to death. He who through years
of active exertion leaves his employment'
and retires from business usually, signs
his death warrant. He vegetates for a
while in idleness and dies, unless he has
sense enough to discover his mistake ia
time and return to the paths of active use
fulness. There are few more pitiable ob
jects than the man who after many years
of active service in business is deluded
into a belief that happiness and a reward,
for his labors are to be found in with
drawing from all participation ia the work
of life. Old age is an excuse for idleness,
but the possession of money is not. We
do not work for moaey alone. The me
chanic who would be content to do the
work of an apprentice, merely because he
could earn more wages, would be hardly
worth the name of a mechanic. The
amount of wages or salary is a recognition,
of ability and value for services perform--ed,
but not the only incentive to exertion.
A workman feels a pride in his work in
the results of his skill entirely uncon
nected with the amount of money receiv
ed for it. If he did not, one very strong
motive of improvement would be lacking.
Almost every mechanic will agree with
us, that he has .done jobs which afforded,
him more gratification iu their success'
than he derived from the possession of
the pecuniary compensation therefore.
llow often a man will undertake a job
which he knows beforehand will not "pay"
in cash what it costs, but mainly for the
pride of performing successfully. It is
true that "the laborer is worthy of his
hire," but to agree that the hire is the
only, or even the principal incentive is
unreasonable, not sustained by facts, aud
derogatory to the "dignity of labor," a
phrase often naisued, but a perfectly cor
rect one. To be sure, if the efforts of the
workman and by this term we mean all
who do are not appreciated by adequate
compensation he seeks other employers,
who have a proper appreciation his
value.
We work for progress ; for progress in
dividually and for the progress of the race.
One means to that progress is the pay
ment for services rendered, as it wilt en
able the skillful workman and the inven
tive mechanic to carry forward their plans
of improvement in manual labor or in la
bor saving machines. e work for the
godlike pride of creation. Tho machine
which is an offspring of the brain of the
mechanic is as much, and more, his than
that of his loins. If he i3 illy paid for
his labor, mental or physicial, he has the
compensation of a satisfaction in his suc
cess which cannot be assured by money
only, but which must be felt in the know
ledge that he has succeeded where others
failed, and has secured an' impregnable
position as one of the pioneers iu the
grand march of improvement.
There are few pursuits which detaanJT
more hard work of the brain than that
of the mechanic. In no sense can he be
considered an exempler of Bunyans
"Muckrake." He must live in order to
work, but he does not work merely that he
may live. He is always striving that he
may mount the next step on the ladder,
and never does he mount but that he car
ries with him the living, moving world.
It is his pride to exel ; never satisfied
with mediocrity, but always striving for
superiority. From the workman to tho
inventor is but a step a long step it may
be yet not beyond his powers if he em
ploys them properly ; and the inventor,
not a mechanic, is often dependent on the
mechauic for the success of his improve
ment. A Beautifol Extmct.
We clip the following from a sermon
preached by the Rev. Chas. A. Hump
hreys, and reported for the "Liberal Chris
tian,' a very able journal published in
New York.
"Show me the vilest pander, the mean
est assassin that walks the earth, and I
will find in his soul some germs of good
that, if nourished, will grow into trees
that would gladden the gardens of God,
smd soma aspirations whose blind gro
pings and vain smugglings would make
an angel weep. This human soul is s
breath of God's spirit, and though at times
it is almost smothered under our ruined
and wasted lives it ouly nerds to have its
earthly incrustation broken to soar up
ward to its native air. Religion is love
to God and man. It U a growth, not a.
spasm ; a life, not a transient experience;
not sad depressing, but bright and in
spiring. It does not come like the light
ning, flashing in a moment from east
through all the spreading heavens, but
like the rising sun, piercing first the gath
ered mists with many an ineffectual ray,.
ihen struggling slowly into twilight aud
at last climbing into perfect day."
A government train was destroyed re
cently in Colorado, and two men wero
drowned by a sudden flood rushii. dowa
the. dt.Ie iu which they weio c-iucfd.
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