M S. B. ROW.
CLEARFIELD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1850.
VOL. 2.-NO. 42.
A FEW SHORT YEARS AND THEN.
A fw short ycara and then
The dream or lifo trill bo
Like rhadows of a morning cloul,
lit its reality !
A few .hort years and then
The iJol loved the beat
Will pa. in all their pride away,
As sinks the sun to rest !
A fw short years and then
Our young hearts may be reft
Of ev'ry hope, and find no gleam
Of childhood's sunshine left !
A few short years and then
Impatient of its bliss,
The weary soul shall seek on high
A Letter home than this !
AN ELOPEMENT FRUSTRATED.
Ia the last Quarterly Democratic Review, a
writer sketching social society at Baden-Baden,
communicates the following interesting
incident
A noble Hungarian lord, Count Christian
W., had come to pass the season at Baden, ac
companied by his daughter Helen. Young,
beautiful, charming, and heiress to an immense
fortune left by her mother, the young Coun
tess soon found herself surrounded by a host
of admirers. Adorers of all kinds were not
wanting rich and joor, noble and obscure,
grave and gay. It was a perpetual tournament,
of which she was queen, and where the aspi
rants contended for hei hand by exhibiting their
address, grace and seductive qualities. When
kho entered her carriage ten cavaliers were in
the saddle caracoling around her caleche. At
the ball the most elegant dancers were devoted
to her. They had neither cares, attentions,
nor sighs, but for her ; whereat many beauti
ful women French, English and Russian
were particularly mortified. Amongst those
pressing suitors, Helen selected the most worth
less. The Chevalier Gaetan M was, it is
true, a charming fellow, pale and delicate, with
line blue eyes, and long, black, wavy hair. In
the place of triie passion, he had the eloquence,
look and word, in short, he dressed with taste,
danced marvelotisly, and sang like Rubini.
But unhappily, these advantages were contras
ted by great vices.
A dissipated gambler,and unprincipled rake,
the Chevalier Gaetan had quitted Naples in
consequence of some scandalous adventure
in which he had been implicated. The Count,
after having Informed himself of these facts,
desired, but too late, to put his daughter on
her guard against a dangerous affection. He
len listened neither to the advice, the prayers,
nor the orders of her father. The man to whom
he had endeavored to destroy her esteem was
already master of her heart, and she obstinate
ly refused to believe in the disgraceful ante
cedent of the young Italian. If Gaetan had to
do with a father who lacked energy, perhaps
he would have become the happy husband of
the young Countess, and the peaceful posses
sor of the immense fortune with which he was
so frantically in love. Hut the Count knew
how to carry his point, cither by management
or force. He was an old lion. He had pre
served all the vigor of youth and all the rudo
lirmncss of an indomitable character, which
nothing but paternal tenderness hail ever soft
ened. Self-willed in his resolutions, stern in
the execution of them, he cast about for means
to put hors du combat this carpet knight, who
had undertaken to become his son-in-law in
hpite of him, when accident threw into his
hands a letter which Gaetan had written to
Helen.
The Chevalier, impatient to attain the goal
f his desires, proposed in direct terms to the
young Countess, an elopement, and proposed
a clandestine meeting at the hour when the
Count was in the habit of going out to play
his favorite game of whist with some gentle
men of his acquaintance at the Conversation
House.
A rose placed in Helen's belt was to be the
bignal of consent.
The young lady had not read the adroitly in
tercepted note. "Put this flower in your belt,"
said tho Count to her, offering a rose, and
come with me,"
Helen smilingly obeyed, and took her fa
ther's arm. In the course of their walk they
met Gaetan, who, seeing the rose, was over
joyed. Then the Count conducted his daughter to
the residence of one of their acquaintances
and requested her to wait until he came for
her. This done, he returned to the little house
in which he lived, at the outskirts of Baden on
the Lichcnthal road. He had sent away his
servants, and was alone. At the appointed
hour Gaetan arrived at the rendezvous, leaped
lightly over the wall or the garden, and find
ing the door shut he entered the house through
one of the windows. Then mounting the
btairs, filled with pleasing emotions, he direct-
' ed his steps towards, the apartment of Helen.
.There, instead of the daughter, he found the
father armed with a brace of pistols. The
Count closed the door, and said to the wretch
ed Gaetan, trembling with terror :
"I could kill you ; I have the right to do so.
You have entered my house at night. You
Lave broken into it. I could treat you as a
felon; nothing could be more natuial.".
"But, sir," replied Gaetan, inaudibly, "I
am no robber."
"And what are you then 1 You have come
to steal my daughter- to steal an heiress to
steal a fortune. Here is your letter, which un-
veiled to mc your criminal intentions. I shall
show you no mercy. But to take your life I had
no need of this trap. You know the skill of
my right arm $ a duel would long ago have rid
me of you. To avoid scaudal I did not wish
a duel, and now I will slay you only at the last
extremity, if you refuse to obey."
"What is your will, sir ?"
"You must leave Baden ; not in a few days ;
not to-morrow; but this' very instant. You
must put two hundred leagues between, it and
you, and never again come into the presence
of my daughter or myself. As the price of
your obedience, and to pay your excuses, I
will give you twenty thousand francs."
The Chevalier wished to ppeak.
"Not a word !" cried the Count, in a voice
of thunder. "You know me, understand
your life is at my mercy, and a moment's lies
Station on your part will bo punished with
death."
"I obey," stammered the trembling Chev
alier. "In good time ! Your twenty thousand
francs are in that secretary take them," said
the Count.
'Permit me to decline your offer."
An imperious gesture overcame the false
modesty, which the Chevalier expressed fee
bly, and like a man who declines merely for
form's sake.
"But," said the Chevalier, "the secretary is
locked."
"Open it."
"There is no key in it."
"Break the lock, then."
"What! you Wish me to "
"Break the lock, or I'll shoot you."
The pistol was again presented as an argu
ment which admitted ol no reply. Gaetan o
beyed. "It is well," said the Count. "Take that
package of kink notes ; they are yours. Have
you a pocket book V
"les."
"What does it contain V
"Some private papers letters addressed to
me." v
"Let your pocket-book fall in front of the
secretary."
"What." '
"I must have a proof that will convict you." j
"But" j
"But, sir, I mean to have all the evidence of
a burglary. I mean that the robber shall be
known. Robber, or death ! Choose f Ah !
your choice is made ! I was sure you would
be reasonable. Now you are about to fly.
You will go before me. I do not quit you un
til you are a league from Baden. For the rest,
make yourself easy. 1 will return late, and
will enter no complaint until to-morrow. You
may easily escape pursuit, and if my protec
tion becomes necessary, reckon on me. Be
gone !"
After this adventure, which made a great
noise, Helen could no longer doubt. Gaetcn
was banished from her heart, and she married
one of hercousinSjCaptain in a regiment of cav
alry in the service of the Emperor of Austria.
THE POWER OF ROMANISM.
We arc willing to believe that the recogni
tion of the new Nicaraguan Minister was in
duced by a returning sense of propriety, and
a conviction that injustice had heretofore been
done to the democratic sentiment of the conn
try, but still there is much truth in the remarks
of the New York JZrpress that the contrast
strikes people, that Parker H. French came
here as the Representative of Nicaragua, an
American born citizen, the government de
clined to recognize htm, upon the ground that
Walker's government was not established even
de facto. Walker then was in his strength and
plenipotcnce, and was carrying all before
him. But when Padre Vijil came the priest
whom Walker sent better understanding the
influences that prevailed in Washington the
Spanish born Priest was forthwith given the
official recognition, that was denied the Amer
ican born citizen. As French was rejected
when Walker was strong, and the Padre is
recognized when Walker is weak, the reasons
.for the difference, of course, must be personal,
and not political. But the only personal
reason there can be, is in the religious profes
sion the religous influence of the Padre Vi
jil, over the politician French. When we re
member that a Roman Catholic is a leading
member of the Cabinet, and that Democracy
now, without the Roman Catholic foreign vote,
is almost a nullity in the United States.we
have a clue to this preference given the priest
Vijil, over the American, French. As a sign
of the times the fact is one worthy of note.
It shows, at least, that when Protestantism
cannot prevail, Roman Catholicism can, and
that hence, when we proclaim this power we
but ntter demopstrable facts. Phil'a. Sun.
Peettt Close Firing. The Farmville, Vir
ginia, Journal states that Dr. Owen, of Prince
George county, had his horse killed under him
by lightning. He was about to dismount when
the fatal bolt struck his horse, which, falling
immediately, somewhat bruised and injured
the doctor. He was only slightly shocked by
the electric fluid.
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SPABROWGBASS GETS A DUMB-WAITEE.
The following amusing sketch is taken from
the "Sparrowgrass Papers," published by Der
by & Jackson, New York. It might be well
enough to state that a dumb-waiter is a sliding
cupboard, which is raised and lowered on pul
leys from a kitchen in the basement to the di
ning-room on the floor above.
"Wc have'put," says Mr. Sparrowgrass, "a
dumb-waiter in our house. A dumb-waiter is
a good thing to have in the country, on ac
count of its convenience. If you have com
pany, every thing cap be sent up from the kit
chen without any trouble ; and if tho baby gets
to be unbearable, on account of his teeth, you
can dismiss the complainant by stuffing him in
one of the shelves, and letting him down upon
the help. To provide for contingencies, we
had all our floors deafened. In consequence,
you cannot hear anything that is going on in
the story below ; and, when you are in an up
per room of the house, there might be a dem
ocratic ratification meeting in the cellar, and
you would not know it. Therefore, if any one
should break into the basement, it would not
disturb ua ; but to please Mrs. Sparrowgrass,
I put stout iron bars in all the lower windows.
Beside, Mrs. Sparrowgrass had bought a rattle
when she was in Philadelphia; such a rattle as
watchmen carry there. This is to alarm our
neighbor, who, upon the signal, is to come to
the rescue with his revolver. He is a rash
man, prone to pull trigger first, and make in
quiries afterward.
"One evening, Mrs. S. had retired, and I
was busy writing, w hen it struck me a glass of
ice-water would be palatable. So I took the
candle and a pitcher, and went down to the
pump. Our pump is in the kitchen. A coun
try pump, in the kitchen, is more convenient;
but a well with buckets is certainty most pic
turesque. Unfortunately, our well-water has
not been sweet since it was cieaned out. First
I had to open a bolted door that lets you into
the basement-hall, and then I went to the kit
chen-door, which proved to be locked. Then
I remembered that our girl always carried the
key to bed with her, and slept with it under
her pillow. Then I retraced my steps ; bolted
the basement door, and went up in the dining
room. As is always the case, I found, when I
could not get any water, I was thirstier than
supposed I was. Then I thought I would
wake our girl up. Then I concluded not to do
it. Then I thought of the well, but I gave
that up on account of its flavor. Then I open
ed the closet-doors, there was no water there ;
and then I thought of the dumb-waiter! The
novelty of the idea made rac smile ; I took
out two of the movable shelves, stood the pit?
cher on tho bottom of the dumb-waiter, got in
myself with the lamp ; let myself down, until
I supposed I was within a foot of the floor be
low, and then let go !
"Wc came down so suddenly that I was shot
out of the apparatus as if it had been a cata
pult ; it broke the pitcher, extinguished the
lamp, and landed me in the middle of the kit
chen, at midnight, with no fire, and the air not
much above tho zero point. The truth is, I
had miscalculated the distance of the descent;
instead of falling one foot, I had fallen five.
My first impulse was, to ascend by the way I
came down, but I found that impracticable.
Then I tried the kitchen door, it was locked ;
I tried to force it open; it was made of two
inch stuff, and held its own. Then I hoisted a
window, and there were the rigid iron bars.
If I ever felt angry at any body, it was at my
self, for putting up those bars to please Mrs.
Sparrowgrass. I put them up, not to keep
people in, but to keep people out.
"I laid my cheek on the ice-cold barriers
and looked out at the sky ; not a star was vis
ible ; it was as black as ink overhead. Then I
thought of Baron Trenck, and the Prisoner of
Chillon. Then I made a noise ! I shouted un
til I was hoarse, and ruined our preset ving ket
tle with the poker. That brought our dogs
out in full bark, and between us we made night
hideous. Then I thought I heard a voice, and
listened : it was Mrs. Sparrowgrass calling to
me from the top of the staircase. I tried to
make her hear me, but the infernal dogs uni
ted with howl, and growl, and bark, so as to
drown my voice, which is naturally plaintive
and tender. Beside, there were two bolted
doors and double deafened floors between us ;
how could she recognize my voice, even if she
did hear it I Mrs. Sparrowgrass called once
or twice, and then got frightened ; the next
thing I heard was a sound as if the roof had
fallen in, by which I understood that Mrs. S.
was springing the rattle ! That called out our
neighbor, already wide awake : he came to the
rescue with a bull-terrier, a Newfoundland
pup, a lantern, and a tevolver. The moment
he saw me at the window, he shot at me, but
fortunately just missed me. I threw myself
under the kitchen table and ventured to ex
postulate with him, but he would not listen to
reason. In the excitement I had forgotten his
name, and that made matters worse. It was
not until he had roused up every body around,
broken in the basement-door with an axe,
gotten into the kitchen with his cursed savage
dogs and shooting-iron, and seized me by the
collar, that he recognized me and then, he
wanted me to explain it ! But what kind of
an explanation could I make to him-? I told
him he would have to wait until my mind was
composed, and then I would let him under
stand tho whole matter fully. But he never
would have had the particulars from me, for I
do not approve of neighbors that shoot at you,
break in yourdoor, and treat you, in your own
house, as if you were a jail-bird. n knows
all about it, however: some body has told
him. Some body tells every body every thing
in our village."
nOW COAL WAS MADE.
Geology lias proved that, at one period,
there existed an enormously abundant land
vegetation, the ruins or rubbish of which, car
ried into seas, and there sunk to the bottom,
and afterwards covered by sand and mud beds,
became the substance which we now recognize
as coal. This was a natural transaction of
vast consequence to us, seeing how much util
ity we find in coal, both for warming our dwel
lings and for various Manufactories, as well as
the production of steam, by which so great a
mechanical power is generated. II may nat
urally excite surprise that the vegetable re
mains should have so completely changed their
apparent character, and become black. But
this can be explained by chemistry j and part
of the marvel becomes clear to the simplest
understanding when we recall the familiar
fact that damp hay, thrown closely into a heap,
gives out heat, and becomes of a dark color.
When a vegetable mass is excluded from
the air, and subjected to a great pressure, a
bituminous fermentation is produced and the
result is the mineral coal which Is of vari
ous characters, according as the mass has been
originally intermingled with sand, clay or oth
er earthly impurities. On account of the
change effected by mineralization, it is diffi
cult to detect in coal the traces of a vegeta
ble structure ; butr these can be made clear
in all except the highly bituminous caking
coal, by cutting or polishing it down into thin,
transparent slices, when the microscope shows
the fibre and cells very plainly.
From distinct insolated specimens found in
the sand stones amidst the coal beds, we dis
cover the nature of the plants of this era.
They are almost all of a simple cellular struc
ture, and such as exist with us in small forms
(horse tails, clubs masses and fens,) but advan
ced to an enormous magnitude. The species
are all long since extinct. The vegetation
generally is such as now grows in clusters of
tropical islands ; but it must have been tho
result of a high temperature obtained other
wise than that of the tropical regions now is,
for the coal strata are now found in the tem
perate and even the polar regions.
The conclusion, therefore, to which most
geologists have arrived is, that the earth,
originally an incadescent or highly heated
mass, gradually cooled down, in the carboni
ferous period, it fostered growth of tcrres
tial vegetation all over its surface, to which
the existing jungles of the tropics are mere
barrenness in comparison. The high and uni
form temperature, combined with great pro
portion of carbonic acid gas in the manufac
ture, could not only sustain a gigantic and
prolific vegetation but wouldalso create dense
vapors, showers and rain ; and these again gi
gantic rivers, periodical inundations, and del
tas. Thus all the conditions for extensive
deposits of wood in estuaries wo'ld arise
from this high temperature ; and every cir
cumstance connected with the coal measure
points to such conditions.
Rather Severe. As a certain member of
Congress from one of the Eastern States, was
speaking one day, on some important ques
tion, he became very much animated, and a
brother member, his opponent, sat opposite to
him smiling. This annoyed him very mnch,
and he indignantly demanded why the gentle
man from was laughing at him :
"I was smiling at your manner of making
monkey faces, sir," said he.
"Oh, I make monkey faces do 1 1 Well, sir,
you have no occasion to try the experiment,
for nature has saved you the trouble.'
The hammer was distinctly heard amid a
roar of laughter, calling the house to order.
Voltaire and Piron were mortal enemies,
and to their great embarrasment they met one
day at the country house of a mutual friend.
Piron got up early, went to Voltaire's room,
and wrote upon it the word "rogue." At break
fast timeVoltaire advanced towards Piron, and
smilingly observed "I thank you for showing
your interest in my welfare, by leaving your
card at my door this morning." '
A Dutchman's Defexce forBigamt. "You
say," said the judge, "that the squire who mar
ried yon to the first wife, authorized you to
take sixteen ? What do you mean by that 7"
"Well," said Hans, "he dold me dat I should
haf four petter, four worscr, four richer, four
boorer and in my country, four dimes four
always make sixteen."
Too Bad R eally. The rose of Florida, the
most beautiful of flowers, emits no fragrance ;
the bird of Paradise, the most beautiful of
birds, gives no song ; the cypress of Greece,
the finest of trees, yields no fruit ; dandies,
the shiniest of men, have no sense ; and ball
room belles, the loveliest of created creatures,
are very often ditto and a little more so !
There is a lady in Boston so habituated to
sleeping that her curiosity cannot be awakened
The seive through which the man "strained
every nerve," is for sale at first cost.
TOE KANSAS INVESTIGATION.
Messrs. Howard, Sherman and Oliver, the
special committee of the House of Represen
tatives to investigate the alleged frauds and
iniquities in the territorial elections in Kansas,
proceeded to Lccompton to fulfil tho object of
their appointment. A very largo number of
witnesses have been examined, all going to
show that the grossest frauds and outrages
were perpetrated. The evidence taken is too
voluminous for our columns, but a desire to
give the public an opportunity of judging for
themselves, induces us to give a synopsis of
the testimony of a few witnesses, some of
whom are Missourians.
Jordan Davidson testified that he came from
Missouri to vote in Kansas at the legislative
election, March, 1855 ; contended that he had
a right to do so ; understood that Gov. Reed
cr had brought on anti-slavery voters from the
East to make Kansas a Free State, and had
given prior and secret intelligence to the east
as to the day on which the election would be
held; witness had attended some meetings of
a secret society existing in Missouri, and he
supposed in other Slave States, intended to
plant Slavery in Kansas ; he joined this socie
ty in Cass County, Missouri, in Feb., 1855 ; it
was known as the "Sons of the South," "Blue
Lodge," and by various other names ; the
members were known to each other by secret
signs and passwords; sometimes by .a ribbon
tied in a button-hole of the coat; witness rec
ognized some twenty-five to fifty of his broth
er memlers (in Missouri) at the poll held at
Douglas for the legislative election ; know no
anti-slavery man, not an actual resident , of
Kansas, who voted at said election ; witness
was one of the Jrtdges of Election after the
original J udges left the ground. All this was
drawn out of him sorely against his will.
Much of it was corroborated by several other
witnesses.
Hammond Muggy was likewise at Douglas
at the SOth March election ; saw a large crowd
there, and many wagons; got there just as Mr.
Mace did ; he tried to vote, and when the pro
slavery party saw that his vote was a Free-
State vote they said he should not vote it ;
several men took hold of him bv the collar
and pulled him away ; he took hold of me and
wc were both pu.'led away together from the
poll ; they cried out, "Cut his throat," "tear
his d d heart out of hira ;" saw one man
draw his knife upon him, without doing any
injury ; saw a man with a lever, trying to pry
up a corner of the cabin ; others cried out,
"don't do it until you have orders j" saw El
lison come out of the cabin with the ballot
box in his hand, and cry out, "Hurrah for Mis
souri!" Ellison was one of the Judges; heard
Janes (now Sheriff) say he xcould gire the (origi
nal) Judge Jice minute to resign or die ; Jones
gave one more minute and they then, left ; these
Judges were Ramsay and Burson, both Free
State men ; was there when the other Judges
Davidson & Co. were appointed ; the crowd
then commenced voting ; saw no Free-State
man vote ; don't know whether Jones voted
that day.
William Lyons testified that over one hun
dred Missourians voted at Douglas on that
day ; saw some returning to Missouri that day
and some the day after; they told him they
were from Missouri ; one of them told him he
knew of eight hundred Missourians who would
vote in Kansas that day. Witness testified to
similar voting by Missourians at the first elec
tion of Whitfield, Nov. 1854.
Augustus Wattles corroborated this last tes
timony. George Umbargo saw the original Judges of
election driven from the poll by threats of vi
olence at Douglass about noon of the SOth of
March election ; Sheriff Jones was one of the
party, and seemed to act as leader; Ramsey
(one of the original Judges) gave witness the
poll-books and charged hira to take care of
them ; witness started for home, but was over
taken by eight or ten horsemen, surrounded,
and poll-books taken from him ; S her ill Jones
(not then Sheriff, even in pretense) was one
of the party ; forced witness to accompany
them back again ; his life was threatened ; al
so that of Benson, (another of the Judges,)
who had escaped; saw some of the voters
start for Missouri.
James R. Stewart attended the poll in the
7th district; Douglas is in the 2d; two of
the legally appointed Judges did not serve,
and their place was supplied by strangers;
many who lived in that district did not Tote ;
those who did vote were nearly all strangers;
they were encamped near the poll ; recognized
two of them as residents of Missouri ; the
strangers voted without being sworn, they were
armed ; they went east toward Missouri af
ter voting ; about 300 votes were there polled,
nearly all for the pro-slavery candidates.
I. B. Titus corroborated this testimony.
A. Horner testified to similar proceedings at
Switzer Creek ; the strangers arrived and en
camped tho night before election ; during the
election they adjourned for dinner, and took
the ballot-box down to their camp meanwhile :
they had their provisions and fodder along
with them. , -
II. Rice confirmed much of the foregoing.
Marcus II. Rose testified that there are 52
voters in the 7th district, according to the of
ficial census taken just before the SOth March
election ; of these, seventeen appear by the
poll-books to have voted at that clectiou.
Six hundred and seven votes were cast there at
Whitfield's first election (Nov. '54), and two
hundred and thirty-four in March, '55.
James R. Stewart confirmed Mr. Rose's
statement.
We could fill column after column for
weeks of testimony, all of which, so far as wo
have read it, proves clearly that fraud and vio
lence had been perpetrated, and goes to sus
tain strongly the allegations of Cot. Kccder.
THE VATICAN.
This word is often used, but there are many
who do not understand its purport. The term
refers to a collection of buildings on one of tho
seven hills of Rome, which covers a space of
1,200 feet In length and 1,000 feet in breadth.
It is built on the spot once occupied by the
garden of cruel Nero. It owes its origin to
the bishop of Rome, w ho in the early part of
the sixth century erected an humble residenco
on its site. About the year 13 GO, Pope Euge
uius rebuilt it on a magnificent scale. . Inno
cent II., a few years afterwards, gave it as a
lodging to Peter II., King of Arragon. In
1605, Clement V., at the instigation f the
King of France, removed the Papal See front
Romo to Avignon, when the Vatican remained
in a condition of obscurity aud neglect for
more than seventy years.
But soon after tho return of the pontifical
court to Rome, an event which had been so
earnestly prayed for by poor Fetrarcb, and
which finally took place in 1676, the Vatican
was put into a state of repair, again enlarged.
and it was thenceforth considered as the regu
lar palace and residence of the Popes, who,
one after the other, added fresh buildings to it,
and gradually encircled it with antiquities,
statutes, pictures and books, until it became
the richest depository in the world.
The library of the Vatican was commenced
fourteen hundred years ago.. It contains 40,
000 manuscripts, among which are some by
Pliny, St. Thomas, St. Charles, Boromeo, and
many Hebrew, Syrian, Arabian and Armenian
Bibles.
The whole of the immense buildings compo
sing the Vatican are filled with statutes found
beneath the ruins of ancient Rome, with pain
tings by the masters, and with curious medal
and autiquities of almost every description.
When it is known that there have been ex
humed more than aetenfy thousand statues
from the ruined temples aid palaces of Rome,
the reader can form some idea of the richness
of the Vatican. It will ever be held in vene
ration, by the student, the artist and the scho
lar. Raphael and Michael Angclo are enthron
ed there, and their throne will be endurable as
the love of beauty and genius ia the hearts
of their worshippers.
TKTJE NOBILITY .-A MOMENTOUS DECISION.
All work, even cotton-spinning is noble.
Work is alone noble. Be that here said and
asserted once more," so Carlyle says. But wo
must remember that there are degrees in no
bility. The highest nobility is the nobility of
beneficence. An honest man, says the poet,
is the noblest work of God. We have no hes
itation in extending the apothegm. The no
blest work of God is the man who is not only
honest, but who does the greatest good. Tho
greatest of all tcmporaL blessings is Health.
And, as the mental condition is controlled by
the physical, the effects of Health can hardly
be regarded as terminating with a mere 'tem
poral lenefit.
Then who is the greatest of all bumau ben
efactors I He obviously who enables us to re
store health that has been deteriorated, and to
preserve health that is good. The secret of
restoring and preserving health has been the
great aim of the modern philanthropist as it was
the philosopher's stone of the ancint alche
mist. The secret has been discovered, its dis
coverer proving himself thereby not only tho
greatest philosopher but the greatest philan
thropist the world ever saw. The question,
"Who Is he ?" has been asked by millions and
answered to them ; and they have rejoiced.
Professor Holloway has conferred more bles
sings on humanity than have all the "soi-di-sant"
social reformers, and psendo-philanthro-pists
the world ever saw. The fame of his
Pills and Ointment has jiencfrated to the re
motest confines of the earth, and their use has
diflfuscd health and all the happiness that fol
lows health over countless thousands. From
the ice bound capes of Lapland to the sunny
shores of the Mediterranean, from the 'hoary
summit of the Ural Mountains to the eastern
shores of thcAtlantic.there is not a city, town,
or village of any note, in which they are not
met with. The missionary takes little else in
his medicine chest ; the sailor never needs a
more varied supply for bis. They are pecu
liarly adapted to the diseases incidental to the
American climate. They have never failed
here or elsewhere ' Friends we indulge in no
exaggeration ; we defy contradiction, because
we state what we know to bo true. If you are
ill try these m'edicines, and then say whether
our statements are baseless. We are confident
of your decision. Aew Orleans Picayune.
Won't IIou Still. The Scientific Ameri
can says that a man in Orange county, N. Y.,
was found one night climbing an overshot
wheel in a fulling mill. He was asked what
he was doing. He said he was "trying to go
up to bed, but some how or ether these stairs
won't hold still."