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VOL. 30.
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., OCTOBER 10, 1872.
NO. 23.
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Published by Theodore Schocli.
TEHVH -Two doll ir n yc irin advance anil Idiot
pai l before the end of the year, two dollars unci fifty
cents will be charged.
N n.i!eriisi:oniimifiil until all arrearages are paid,
except i the option nl the Editor.
iH7"-V Wen dements of one square of (eight lines) or
tiieriioti, ju cenw. monger ones In proportion.
JOB PRINTINGS,
OF ALL KIND?,
jeru'fed in Ihr highest si yie of the Art, and on the
mum reasoM.tuiC! tennis.
Yahablc Property
in OR SALE.
The Sllhsfriltfrs nfior fnr
ithoir residence in Stroudsburg. '
1 he Ixt has a front of 145 ft.
iS2Siin Main Street, with a denth of
tect.
The buildings consist of a convenient dwell
ing house, store house, barn and other out
buildings.
Th ere is an abundance of choice apples,
pear., plums, grapes and small fruits, with
11"11C1II. lYillt-T.
May 10, '72. A. M. & It. STOKES
DR. J.LANTZ,
Surgeon ami Mechanical Dentist,
SUM h is his office on Main Street, in the second
Morv f lr. S. Walton's brick buildine. neailv onno-
me ttie Stroiidslmrg IIone, and lie flutters himself
tliat by eipritcen year constant practii-e and the most
earnest and careful altentK'ii to all mailers ertaining
t: his pioffSMon, thai he is fully able to perforin all
operation. ill the dental line m the most careful, taste-
t'li ana Mtiui'ii manner.
Special attention given to saving the Natural Teeth ;
also, to the insertion of Artificial reel h on Rubber,
UM. Silver or Continuous Uums, and pcrlect fits In
Mil ca.-es insured.
M-st persons know the re:it folly :ind danger of en
iruMing their uorWtuthe inexperienceil. or to iliose
livin" at oitance. April 13, lbTI.-ly
D
It. GEO. W. JACKSOX
PHYSICIAN, SURGEON & ACCOUCHER.
In the old office of Dr. A. Beeves Jackson,
residence nt vcKoa s miliums:.
STROUDSBURG-, PA.
August 8, 1872-ttl
JU. E2. J. 1MTTEI6SO.V,
CiTRATlAG AND MCHAMCJL DEMIST,
Having located in East Stroudsburg, Pa., an
nounces that he is now prepared to insert arti
ficial teeth in the most beautiful and life-like
manner. Also, great attention given to tilling
and preserving the natural tettli. Teeth ex
tracted without pain by use of Citrous Oxide
(ia. All other work incident to the profession
done in the raot skillful and approved style.
AH work attended to promptly and warranted.
Charges reaonablc. Patronage oC the public
solicited.
(Hike in A. W. Iodrr' new building, op
posite Aualomink llou.-e, Eat Strmidsburg.
V. July 11, 1872 ly.
DR. N. L. PECK,
Surgeon Dentist,
Announces lint bavin? just returned from
Deutal Collegs, he is fully prepared to make
nificial teeth in the most beautiful and life
like manner, and to fill' decayed teeth ac
cording to the most inprcved method.
Teeifi extracted without pain, when de
tired, by the use of Nitrous Oxide Gas,
which is entirely harmless. Repairing of
'l kinds neatly done. All work warranted.
Chnrjea reasonable.
OiSce in J. ti. Keller's new Brick build
inj. Main S'reet, Stroudsburg, Pa.
au 31-tf
D!t. C. O. MOFFJIAX, M. 13.
Would respectfully announce to the
pnV.io that he has removed his office from
Oai.atd to Canadensis, Monroe Count-, Pa.
Triminsr that many years of consecutive
fraatice of Medicine and Surgery will be a
rafi-ieut guarantee for the public confidence.
Februarys.1, 1870. tf.
J A "ICS 53. W.4LTO.Y,
Aitorjicy sil L.iMV,
f'Ti -o i!i the building formerly occupied
by L. M. B tirson, and opposite the Strouds
Iniiy I5.ii, k. Main .street, Stroudcburg, l'a.
jan l:j-tf
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ACEiAWASkWA SlOt'.SC.
J OI'I'OSITE THE DEPOT.
Kast Stroudsburg, Pa.'
13. J. VAN COTT, Proprietor.
The bar containi the choiest Lbptors and
the taule it4 Bupplied with the best the market
3ord.. Charges moderate. may 3 1872-tf.
rATo.s
iount Vct'iiuti House,
117 and 119 North Second St.
ABOVE ABC J I,
PHILADELPHIA.
May 30, 1872- ly.
SELLERS VILLE HOTEL.
.jfhc undersigned having purchased the
Wve well known and popular Hotel Proper
V. would reiqjcctfully inform the traveling
ul,li. that he has reiuruished and fitted up
the lintel iu tlie liest style. A handsme
r; with choice Liquors and Segars, polite
Wtoudauts and moderate charges.
... CHARLKS MANAL,
vct l'j 1871. tf. j l'roprictor.
iUTOASVIfE IIOTEI,
his old efitx'blihed Hotel, having recently
changed haiids, s)id been throughly overhauled
'd repaired, will reopen, for the reception of
l Pjifc.su m Tuemlay, May 27th.
. "e public ill aiwayH tind this houfte a de
""able place of retort. Kvery department wi.ll
J managed in the best pontile manner. . The
j iI 6guPl,'e with the beft the Mairket
fcod cnnobiyre will always find none
t'u' tb Ut wines and liquors at the bar.
Uood stabling belonlng to tiie IloteJ, will be
und at all times under the care of cartful aud
"''"gin!? attandanta.
23, 1S72, ANTHONY II. ROEMEIi.
THE LATE PETER CARTWRIGHT.
Reminiscences of the Great Preacher.
A writer of the Cincinnati Commerical
sajs of the late Rev. Peter Cartwright.
rrotn his own account it seems that
the first religious impressions besides
those of a pious mother were made at a
Presbyterian camp meeting. This was
the hrst camp meeting ever held in the
United States. It took olace at Cane
Ridge, Kentucky, in the iall of 1800.
In many respects this was the most re
markable religious gathering that ever
toot place, and the revival one of the
most powerful on record. Taking its rise
among the Presbyterians it spread amon"
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uiuci ucuumiuanous until it reacned all
classes, and aroused the attention and en
gaged almost the whole conversation of
the people of the three large States. It
was attended with many extravagancies
in religious enthusiasm, beside strange
ana well attested mysterious mannifesta
tion of the Spirit.
Hundreds would fall insensible, while
multitudes were seized with what has
ever since received the name of "jerks."
People came on foot and horseback a dis
tance of over a hundred miles, and re
mained for weeks engaged in this meet
ing. Much evil, indeed, grew out of this
state of things, for "Satan himself came
also," but the good accomplished and the
beneficial influences resulting, far out
weighed all else.
From that revival, in the language of
Scripture, went forth streams that have
ever since made glad the City of God.
Duiing this revival Peter Cartwright was
converted. In his biography, speaking
of this meeting, he says : "I suppose that
since the day of Pentecost there was hard
ly ever a greater revival than that of Cane
Ridge."
He has been a member of the Illinois
Conference for forty eijtht years, and has
never been absent from a regular session
but once. He has held the office of Pre
siding Elder for upwards of fifty years
lie said nut long since that this was long
er than any man bad ever held the office
before, or ever would again. He was an
earnest opponent of all radical charges in
the polity of the Methodist church. He
set himself agaiust by representation, and
prophesied that its adoption would splite
the church. He was an old-line Demo
crat, but during the war stood by the
government, and vigorously oppesed seces
sion. For the last few rears he has sustained
the relation of conference missionary, and
has been chiefly occupied in dedicating
churches and delivering lectures on the
remiuiscences of his eventful life. Not
long since he met a lady on a railroad,
train, who remainded him that be bad
baptized her wheu a child, and requested
him to baptize her whole family, which
was with her in the cars. As they were
moving to a new country, Cartwright ob
taioed permission of the conductor, and
while they were running at the rate of
thirty miles an hoar he baptized the en
tire family.
In brief, Cartwright was a man of tact,
that which, more than talent, genuis or
wealth, enables a man to brave the ex
tremities of life. That he had faults all
will acknowledge. Rut he was a prophet
sent from God, thousands will bear wit
ness. Until withiu the last few months
it could be said of him, as of Moses,
"His eye was not-dim, neither was his
natural strength abated." Rut we spend
our years as a tale that is told, and even
the hardy old pioneer, who had endured
the frost of eighty-seven waiters, who had
braved so much, and dared the age in
which he lived, was at last compelled to
hang out a truce to time. The silver
cord is loosed, the golden bowl is broken;
the pitcher broken at the fountain, and
the wheel at the cistern. The dust has
returned to the earth as it was. and the
spirit to God who gave it. Humanity
has lost a brother, aud a great man in
Israel has falleu to day.
Peter Cartwright is dead.
How they Shave in China.
A fellow who has been shaved iu China
6ays that his barber first stropped the
razor on his leg, add thcu did the shav
ing without any lather. The customer
remonstrated, but was told that the lather
was cutirely useless, aud had a tendency
to make the hair stiff aud tough, and was,
therefore, uever used by persons who had
any knowledge of the lace and its ap
pendages. After the beard had been taken off
and it was done in a very short time
the barber took a long, sharp, needle
shaped spoon, and begau to explore his
customer's ears. He brought up from
numerous little crevices bils of wax aud
dirt, that had been accumulating since
his childhood. The barber suddenly
twisted his subject's neck to one side iu
such a manner that it cracked as if the
vertebras had been dislocated.
"Hold on I" shouted the party, alarm
ed for the safety of his Deck.
"All right." replied the tonsor, "me
no hurt you," and he continued to jerk
and twist the neck until it was as limber
us au old laJy'b dish rag. He then fell
to beatiog the back, breast, arms aqd
sides with bis fists, then he pummeled
the musclee until they fairly glowed with
the beatiog they received. He theo dash
ed a bucket of cold water over his tuaa,
dried the skin with towels, and declared
that bia work was done. Price two cents.
TO PENNA. SUNDAY SCHOOLS.
. The Committee of the London Sunday
ocnooi union has recently issued the fol
lowing call to Prayer :
UNIVERSAL PRAYER FOR OUR SUNDAY
SCHOOLS.
"Arise, cry out in the niyht : in the
beginning of the watches pour our thine
heart like water before the face of the
Liord : Uft up thy hands towards Him
for the life of thy young children, that
faint for hunger in the top of every street "
Lamentations ii. 19.
It has been thought by the Committee
of the Sunday School Union, that in
view of the solemn and increasing re
sponsibilities of their work, their fellow
laborers would gladly welcome the pro
posal to appoint a day on which Teachers
throughout the land might offer Special
Prayer, both unitedly and privately, on
behalf of those committed to their charge.
In answer to such prayer, a new bless
ing might be confidently expected ; while
the effect of the hallowed fellowship would
be felt by both the Teacher and the
taught; the former being stimulated to
more fervid piety and zeal, and the lat
ter being led to a more thoughtful con
cern for their immortal interests.
The Committee therefore propose that
Lord's-Day, the 20th of October, and
Monday, the 21st of October, should be
set apart lor the above purpose, and sug
gest that the following order should be as
possible observed.
That on Lord's-Day morninrr. October
20th, beteen 7 and 8, all teachers should
otter special prayer, in private, lor God's
blessing upon their work ; especially in
the conversion of their scholars to Him
self. That the usual services of the dav
should be varied, and each school gather
ed for prayer, the proceedings being in-
terspersea by suitable address.
That in the evening of the dav the
Teachers meet for prayer either before or
after Public Worship.
That on Monday, October 21st, between
7 and 8 A. M., all Teachers should aeain
offer special prayer in private, for God's
blessing upon Ineir work.
lhat in tho course of the dav the fa
male teachers of each school hold a pray
er meeting.
That in the evening a SDecial nraver
meeting should be held by every Church
on behalf of the Sunday School, suitable
and slurring addresses being interming
led with the prayers.
Appropriate topics for supplication and
intercession will present themselves to
all. Above everything, the pravers
should be for a special outpouring of the
lloly spirit, imparting to the Teachers
heavenly wisdom, to the Scholars docilitv
i - j
and seriousness ; enkindling the deeper
interest of the Churches in the work ; and
leading, as the happy result, to a large
ingathering of the young into the fold of
Christ.
It is intended to call upon Teachers in
every part of the worl to blend their sup
plications, so that the poet s thought may
be realized in a glorious sense, and
"The whole round world be every wav
Bound with gold chains above the feet of God."
William Groser,
Augusts It en ham.
Fountain John Hartley,
John Edward Tresidder,
56, Old Railey, London, E. C,
July, 1872.
Immense Wheat Farms.
The San Francisco (Cal ) Bulletin says
there are three wheat farms in the San
Joaquin Valley with areas respectively
of 30,000 acres, 23,000 and 17,000 acres.
On the largest of these farms the wheat
crop this year is reputed to be equal to
an average of 40 bushels to the acre, the
yield running up on some parts of the
farm to GO bushels. The product of this
farm for the present year is 1,440.000
bushels. The boundary on one side of
this farm is about 17 miles long. At the
season of plowing, ten four horse teams
were attached to ten gang-plows, each
gang having four plows or forty horses
with as many plows were started at the
same time the teams following in close
succession, .bunch or dinner was served
at a midway station, and supper at the
terminus of the field, 17 miles distant
from the starting poiut. The teams re
turned on the following day. I he wheat
in this immense field was cut with twenty
of the largest reapers, and we believe has
now all been threshed aud put in sacks.
It would require over forty ships of
mediun size to transport the wheat raised
on this farm to a foreign market. Even
the sacks required would make a large
hole in the surplus money of most farmers
We have not the figures touching the
product of the other two farms; but
presume that the average is not much be
low that of the first. There ars thousands
of tons of wheat which cannot be taken
out of the valley this season, and must
remain over as dead capital, or, what is
nearly as undesirable, will only command
advances at heavy rates of interest.
In Maple Grove, Harry county, Mich.,
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is a white oak tree twenty seven leet in
circumference, claimed to be the largest
tree in the world of that particular spe-
cies
warf
, This tree is three feet larger than
the Charter Oak, and eighteen in
ches larger thau the big oah of Genesee.
A YEAR WITHOUT A SUMMER.
A correspondent of the Boston Globe
writes : While every one is speakiug of
the present season as being remarkable
in its characteristics, I have gathered for
your readers some reliable facts of the
year 1816 known as "the without a sum
mer." Few persons now living can re
collect it, but it was the coldest ever
known through Europe and America.
The following is a brief abstract of the
weather duriug each month of the year :
January was inijd, so much so at to ren
der fire almost needless in parlors. Decern
ber previous was very cold.
February was not very cold ; with
exceptions of a few days it was mild like
its predecessor.
March was cold and boisterous during
the first part of it; the remainder was
mild. A great freshet in the Ohio aud
Kentucky rivers caused great loss of pro
perty. April began warm, but grew colder as
the month advanced, aud ended with
snow and ice and a temperature more like
winter than spring.
May was more remarkable for frowns
thau smiles Rudsand fruits were frozen ;
corn killed and the fields agaiu and aain
replanted uutil deemed too late.
June was the coldest ever known in
this latitude. Frost, ice and suow were
common. Almost every green thing kill
ed. Fruit nearly all destroyed. Snow
fell to the depth of ten inches in Vermont,
several in Maine, three in the interior of
New York, and also in Massachusetts.
Considerable damage was done at New
Orleans in consequence of the rapid rise
of the river. The suburbs were covered
with water, and the roads were only pas
sable with boats.
July was accompanied by frost and ice.
On the 5th ice was formed of the thick
ness of a common window glass through
out New England, New York and some
parts of Pennsylvania. Indian corn was
nearly all destroyed ; some favorably situ
ated fields escaped. This was true of
some of the hill farms of Massachusetts.
August wast more cheerless, if possible,
than the summer months already passed
Ice was formed half an inch thick. Indiau
corn was so frozen that the greater part
was cut down and dried for fodder.
Almost every green thing was destroyed,
also in Europe. Papers received from
Eaglaud stated "that it would be re
membered by the present generation that
the year 181G was the year in which their
was no summer." Very little corn ripon
ed in the New England and Middle
States. Farmers supplied themselves
from the corn produced in 1815 for the
seed of the spring of 1817. It sold at
from 1 to 5 per bushel.
A PITIFUL STORY.
Sucide of an American Girl in London
Heartless Conduct of her Employer.
From the Pall Mall Gazette, Sept. 10.
It was stated a day or two ago that the
body of the young woman who drowned
herself at the Waterloo bridge a few
evenings since had been identified. Her
name, it appears, was Alice RIanche Os
wald, and she was within a few days of
completing her twentieth year. At the
inquest last night before Mr. Langham,
the following letter was put in aud read :
No. 178 High Street, Shadwoll, Lon
don, Sept. 3, 1872. The crime that I
am about to commit, and what I must
suffer hereafter, is nothing compared to
my present mystery. Alone in Loudon,
not a penny or a friend to advise or lend
a helping hand, tired and weary with
looking for something to do, failing in
every way, foot-sore and heartweary, I
prefer death to the dawning of another
wretched morning. I have only been in
Rritain nine weeks. I came as a nur
sery governess with a lady from America
to Wick, iu Scotland, where she diseharg
ed me, refusing to pay my passage back,
iving me uiv wages, '6 10s. After my
expenses to London I found myself iu
this city with only 5s. What was I to
do ? I sold my watch. The paltry sum
I obtained for that soon went in paying
for my board aud in looking for a situa
tion. Now I am destitute; every day is
a misery to me. No friend, no hope, no
money; what is left ? Oh, God of heav
en, have mercy on a poor helpless sinner;
thou knowest how I have striven against
this, but fate is against me. I cannot
tread the path of sin, for my dead mother
will be watching me. Fatherless, mother
less, home I have none. Oh, for the
rarity of Christian hearts. I am now
mad ; for days I have foreseen th it this
would be the end. May all who hear of
my death forgive me, aud may God Al
mighty do so, before whoso bar I must
soon appear. iareweu to an, to this
beautiful and yet wretched world. Alice
Blanche Oswald. I am twenty years of
a;e the 14th of this month.
The jury returned a verdict of "Suicide
while in a state of temporary instanity."
Different Kinds of Wood.
The varieties of wood produced in dif
ferent parts of the wood are far more
numerous than most people are aware of.
At the Paris Exposition of 18G7 there
were, from forty five different oouuties,
no lest thau 3,7G'J different kinds of wood
exhibited, 205 coming from Europe, 252
from Africa, 8C8 from Asia, i)G1 from
Occanica, and 1,203 from America.
Woman What She Did for
Her Imprisoned Husband.
Jame3 Austiu, alias George Williams,
captured by the police authorities of
Elizabeth, N. J., ia May last, charged
with wagon stealing, was identified by
several of his victims, and sent to the
County Jail, at New Rruuswick to await
trial. Monday the Grand Jury of Mid
dlesex County brought iu four indict
ments against him.
On Tuesday a lady appeared at the
prison and told Deputy Sheriff Applegate
she was the wife of Austin, and would
like au interview with her husband. She
was permitted to enter his jvell. which is
on the ground floor, where she remained
with her husbuud ten minutes, and then
departed. A search of the cell afterward
brought to light three files of peculiar
design, a saw of the finest steel, and steel
wire for picking locks, which were secre
ted in the walls of the apartment. She
affair was husband up in anticipations of
further results.
Oa Friday morning the lady re appear
ed and was allowed to enter the prison,
but before she proceeded far she was stop-'
ped and searched. Upon ber person was
found a roll of butter. Upon perforating
the butter something hard was struck,
which, upon examination, proved to be a
vial of aquafortis. This, uudoubatedly,
was intended to aid Austiu in his eu
dcavors to. cut the iron bars of his cell.
X phatograph case of most artistic work
manship and almost as thin as a water
was also found. It was examined, and
under the thin covering of paper on the
reverse side a small steel blade filed like
a saw, a steel spring of a watch shaped
likewise, a coil of copper wire with a
magnet attached and three long needles
were found. This was sufficient evidence
of her complicity in liberating her hus
band, and she was immediately arrested
and imprisond. Austin, alias Williams,
has been recognized by the detectives of
Trenton, Harrisburg, Lancaster and Phil
adelphia as the leader of one of the most
notorious gang of horse and wagon thieves
that has infested the Middle States for
years. He escaped from Moyamensing
Prison in 1871, aud still has three years
to serve.
A Bear Story.
Mr. Richard Dyas, with the wholesale
grocery firm of Warriuer & Co., Delaware
street, met with quite au adveuture
while ou an excursion to Colorado, a short
time since. He went up into the moun
tains to fish, and found a nice little nook
hemmed in on all sides but one by the
creek or bluffs, where he sat down and
soon pulled out of the mountain stream a
fine string of trout. As he got up to re
turn home, he saw a young bear, prob
ably about half grown, coming towards
him, aud occupying the only path by
which he could leave the place. The
bear didn't seem very savage, and Dyas
thought by giving him the fish he would
be satisfied, aud thus afford an opportun
ity to escape. He threw the fish, but
there's where he made a mistake. Bruin
mistook this act of kiudncss for an as
sault, and ct ouco advanced upon the foe.
Man and bear then grappled, the bear by
some meaus getting Dyas' arm in his
mouth, both tumbled to the grouud, and
after a short struggle, both hugging each
other closely, rolled into the creek. This
had the effect of separating them, and
Dyas hastily climbed out of the stream
and rau for dear life. The water doubt
less cooled the bear's wrath, for he did
not follow his enemy, going away iu a
differeut direction. Dyas lost his hat
and fishing tackle, and reached his friends
in a rather sorry plight, his clothes be
ing thoroughly soaked. Gmaha De
spatch. It is said that milk can be kept a year
or more as sweet as wheu taken from the
cow, by the followiug method : Procure
bottles, which must be perfectly clean,
sweet, and dry; draw the milk from the
cow into the battles, and as they are fill
ed, immediately coik them well, and fas
ten the cork with packthread or wire.
Then spread a little straw in the bottom
of a boiler, on which place tha bottles,
with slraw between them, until the boiler
contains a sufficieut quantity. Fill it up
with cold waler, heat the water, and as
soon as it begins to boil, draw the fire,
aud let the whole gradually cool. Wheu
quite coll, take out the bottles aud pack
them iu sawdust iu hampers, and stow
them away iu the coolest part of the
house.
A correspondent of the Mural A'ct?
Yorker says that last year on a piece of
ground ID by 20 feet, ho raised teu bush
els of ouious from black seed. He raised
onions on the same, piece of ground the
year before, and they did not pay for the
seed ; they were destroyed by maggots
aud wiro wroms. He procured three
bushels of salt aud two barrels of fish aud
pork briue and top dressed his garden
(about one fourth of an acre) with it, af
ter he hud gathered all his vegetables.
Last spring he ploughed tho garden and
put on three ox cart loads of well rotted
how and chip manure, and such vegeta
bles he never raised before.
Maples, lirgo enough to make three
ten feet rails each, with 4,100 trees to
the acre, have been raised from tho seed
in seven pears, ia Monroe county, Iowa
A Daring
Remarkable Presentiment.
A young lady from New York has been
visiting relatives in this city during tho
past two weeks, and had made arragements
to return home last Friday night, having
a storng impression upon her mind that
she must go home without delay..-! For
the sake of the company of her relative
on her journey home, however, 6he was
induced to postpone her departure until
Monday evening last. On Sunday morn-,
ing, after a quiet night's rest, she waa
suddenly awakened between three and
four o'clock and saw a figure distinctly,
or was convinced she did, standing in her.
room, near the door, lookiug toward her,
Tho figure bore an exact resemblance to
a sister she left at home in New York iu
her usual health. The young lady got
up aud went toward the appaiitiou, aud
it disappeared. : ) , ;
She then opened a window and looked,
out, but seeing nothing more of the figure
or anything else unusual, she returned to
her room and fell asleep again. In a
short time she was awakened, and saw the
apparition of her sister again, with the
same life-like appearance and iu the same
position as before. She got up again, and
as she advaced toward it receded form
her approach and disappered as before,
Agaiu, she looked about from room to room
and out of tho window, but saw nothing
more of it. Being now too much excited
to sleep longer, she dressed herself and
remained sitting up in her chamber wait
ing for day-light. Her uncle, who is an.
early riser, heard her moving about the
room, and on his inquiring why she waa
up so early she related her experience as
stated above, and when the family had all
risen it was the subject of general remark
and comment. On Sunday noon the
young lady received a despatch from
New York informing her that her sister
had died sudenly at the very hour tho
apparition appeared in her chamber.
Providence Journal.
"Give Thy Horse His Head."
A few weeks ago, two horses wer.e
drawing each a load of coal up a rising
ground in the suburbs of the city.T-i
The hinder horse had the bearing rein
swung loosely on his neck, and the ani
mal was hanging his head forwards, and
by throwiug his weight into the collar,
was dragging his load steadily ;.and with
out ' andue strain on his muscles and
joints. The foremost horse, with his too
of coals, was braced up with a tight bear
ing rciu, his head cramped and raised,
his mouth fretted, and every joint and
muscle starting aud straining at each step
he took. The two men were talking to
each other, and the carter of the hinder
horse was heard by the writer to say,
"Bill, go aud give thy horse his head j
he'll pnll that load easier." Bill went
and gave him all he wanted. The horse
immediately did his work in a way which
conveyed the relief ho felt as clearly as
if he had said, "There, thank you ; I'm
all right now." We would commend to,
every one who has charge of a draught
horse when he is at work, tho advice Bill
received and follewed, "Bill, give thy
horse his head j he'll pull that load.
Daniel Webster's Advice.
Other young people may find the ad.
vice of Daniel Webster to his grandson
of- value for themselves. He wrote it
about four years before his death : Two
or three things I wish now to impress on
your mind. First, you caunot learn with
out your own egorts. All the teachers in
the world ean never made a scholar of
you, if you do not apply yourself with all
your might. Iu the second place, be of
good character and good behavior ; a boy
of strict truth, and honor, and couscionco
in all things. Have but oue rule, aud
let that be always to act right, and fear
nothing but wrongdoing. Finally, "re
member you Creator in the day of your
youth." You are old enough to know
that God has made you and given you a
miud aud faculties ; and will surely call
you to account. Honor and obey your
parents ; love your sister aud brother ; be
gentle and kind to all ; avoid pcevishuess
and fretfulness be patient under rest,
raint. Look forward constontly to your
approaching mauhood, and put off every
day more and wore all that is Mvoloua
and childish.
Effect of Colors upon Health.
A correspondent of 77i; Builder states
that he had occasion for several years to
examiue rooms ocoupied by young women
for manufacturing purposes, and he has
observed that while tho workers in ono
room would be very cheerful and healthy,
tho occupants of a similar room, who
were employed on the same kind of busi
ness, were all inclined to be melancholy,
and complained of a pain iu the forehead
and eyes and were often ill and uuable to
work. The only difference he could dis
cover iu the rooms was that the one oc
cupied by the healthy workers was whol
ly whitewashed, and that occupied by tho
melancholy workers was colored with yel
low ochre. As soon as the difference
struck him he had the yellow ochrj wash
ed oil the walls and then whitened. At
ouee uu improvement took place in tho
health and spirits of the occupants.
Mrs. W. II. Wherritt, of Lancaster,
from 7 pints of milk, from aa AlJeruey
cow, made 1J pounds of butter.
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