UL
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EY S. J. ROW.
CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1869.
VOL. 16.tfO. 17.
detect goctrg.
CHEISTMAS CAROL.
"Little children can yea tell,
Do you know the story well,
Every girlaad every boy,
Why the angel's sing for joy.
On the Christmas morning ?
'Yes. waknow the story well ;
I.iten now and bear us tell,
Every girl and every boy,
Why the angels sing for joy
On the Christmas aorning.
'Shepherds sat upon the ground.
Fleecy flocks were scattered round.
When the brightness filled the sky,
And a song was heard on high
On tbe Christinas morning.
'Joy and peace," the angels sang;
Fur tbe pleasant echoes rang.
Peace on earth, to men good will !"
Hitrk ' the angels sing it still
On a Christmas morning
' For a little babe that day,
Christ, tbe Lord of Ange's l;iy,
I'-jrn on earth oar Lord to be ;
This he wondt ring ane:s see
On a Christmas morning.
'Let us sing the angel's song.
And the p easxnt words prolong ;
This fair Labe of Betblelieni
Children love and ble?s Liiu
On the Chritftnias morning.
Peace"' our little hearts shill fill ;
'-Peace on earth, to men good will !'
Hear us sing the angel's song.
And tbe pleasant notes prolong
On the Christmas looming.''
THE CEPHAS'S CHEIST1IAS-EYE.
It haJ been snowing heavily all day, but
towards night had cleared off, an! now a
keen, bitter was Mowing, that cut to the
very bone. It was so cold indeed, th?t but
ft-w persons weie .seen on the streets.allhough
it Christmaseve. Usually at this hour,
on the night before the great Holiday, the
pavements were crowded with people; hap
pv children going, hand in li.nid with their
parents, to buy toys ; gay lookers on ; mask
ers in grotesque garments, and boys blowing
hiirns; everything and everybody juVila:it
with joy and mcrri merit. But now the
wreet.a were almost deserted, for the s-i-ow
lay a foot deep. Ju vain the si op windows
Mazed with gas and exhibited their very
choicest :ores. Here and there a newsboy,
(topping to face the blast, cried theevenine
papers, and now and then a soli' ury cab
ilr.ive almost noiselessly through the white
streets. The wind roared through the trees
of the public .square, and the icicles rattled
i"Wii from the eaves. It was as desolate a
winter's night as 3'ou ever saw.
Suddenly a bare footed little giil, thinly
rlad, and khivcring with cold, turned a cor
ner, and came face to face with one of the
tnoM brilliantly lighted toy shops in that
iunrt'f of the town. She had evidently
been abroad to gather fad fur a scanty fire,
f ir she carried an old, torn basket on her
arm, in which were chips and other bits of
ri:fuw wood, which had beeti picked up evo-rywiu-re
and anywhere.
AtMxhtof the dazzling window and of
the glories it revealed, the poor little thing
topped. Her eyes sparkled with joy. For
a Moment she forgot the want and misery nt
Ji niie the fireicss ro.nn. the empty cup-
l.o;.ii!. ihesiek mother and could think of
ii;tliitig but the lovely things the window
contained. Oh ! thai do!!, that glorious.
gorgeous creature ; the spa rt'tv! dress that
soeiacd covered v,iih diamonds; the funny,
l'u'iny tua-ks. She had never had a Christ
tree her-elt, hut she had heard of such
ti.itigs and she gasped, breathlessly, gnsing
at the dull : ''Where will it go, I wonder 'i
To some one who lives in a beautiful houso,
I expect, and Ins everything she wanls,even
to pies and turkeys for Christmas," t-ha ad
doJ. in a longing little voice. "Oh, dear !''
That sigh reached the ear of !i tali, dark
man pawing.leaning upou the arm of auoih
fr gentleman. He looked down, at Grst in
wonder, and theu with pity, upon the swc.it
face Mid eyes; upon the little red hand. thiit
were grasping the basket, the poor lit. 1c
Lands that should have been white and dim
rV'l: upon the chips with snow nteliing
about their edges; upon the cleanly though
thin garments; upon the bare feet, and then
m:a;n into the deep wistful eye.
"What a pretty child," he though ;
' IVr little thing.'" And he asked, his
v ! softtn.d to tenderness. "What is your
tame, lit t le one?"
The httj? child, roused front her ahrorri-
t:on, looked up, startled, but seeing a kindly
she answered, dropping a courtesy,
'Lucy, sir."
L'Joy ! It was the name o( his only 6ister.
whom he had not seen for many a long year;
n 't since he had guue away, allcr the death
of their parents, and the side of the old
hmctead up in New Englard, determined
lunke his way in the world. What a traiu
1 ' tueniories it called up. He thought of
'ae happy old days, and ot sweet tlelty
M-jss, and then of the titter despair that
followed, when his father died a bankrupt,
t-l bis mother followed of a broken heart,
ad some far-away relatives came and took
kis sister out of charity, and old Deacon
Mas shut his doors against him. The shame
nd anguish of it all returned on him as
sharply as when he had first felt it, a lad of
twenty; but back alsocatae the memory of
1 sister, and he almost persuaded himself,
"r a moment that the child before him look
ed like his little Lucy had looked at her age.
There was a tremor of expectation in his
vo"'ce, as he said,
"Luch what, dear ?"
"Lucy Pettigrew."
Ah, it was a name he had never heard.
But, remembering that his sister's child
ould not bear his mother's maiden name,
" asked again,
"And have you always lived here?'
"Always. As long as I can remember.
Father was a soldier, you know, and was
kiiled in the war. Now there is uobody but
mother and me."
He looked again at tbe child. The fan
cied resemblance to hi3 sister had faded. The
little Lucy ot long ago had blue eyes and
flaxen hair ; both hair and eyes here were
brown.
There was an end of the dream, then, fie
gave a sigh at the thought But he put his
hand in his pocket, took out a greenback
and offered it to the child, saying,
"Don't yon want to buy some toys, my
dear?"
The child looked down. Her face was
very red. Suddenly she seemed to take a
resolution she looked up and said,
"Oh, sir, it's five dollars! It would buy
mamma everything. She is sick, you know,
and I ought to be home this minute ; it was
so wrong of me to stop here. If you please,
sir, I'd much rather spend it for her," she
said rapidly.
"So you shall, dear ! Hurry home now,
at any rate ; but first tell me where you
live?"
"We live in Carpenter street. No. 10.
And may I keep the five dollars may I,
sir?"
"Certainly. And you shall have a doll,
too. I will brir.g it to you myself, to-morrow
"
"Oh! will you sir?" she interrupted, her
eyes dancing.
With these words she gathered her shawl
about her and hurried away.
The ccntleiur.ti who had carried on this
conversation with Lucy took the arm of his
companion again, and said,
"How all this brings back the past to me!
You have often heard me speak of Hetty
Mos. I suppose she is dead long ago." he
added, with a sigh, "or married, which, for
me, is worse. But at sixteen she was the
lovliest creature I have ever seen. I never
shall forget the day, after my father and
mother bad been buried, that I went to see
her, intending, even then, to go away and
try my fortune, but expecting that she would
bid me God speed, and that her father, who
had always been kind to me, would do the
same. Ah, Charley, we must all, sooner.or
later, learti hard lessons ; ami I learned my
first cruel one that afternoon. The old man
met me hiinseif.- Well, I won'tlwell on it.
He decline 1 to let cie see Hetty ; called me
a beggar's brat; worse, the child of a bank
rupt, and bade me begone. Ever since then
I have had less faith in human nature."
"No, ycu haven't," answered his friend
bluntly. "Vou think you I;ae. Hut, old
fellow, you are too good to talk such non
sense, ami, please (Jo l, you'll be happy jet,
though not with Hetty."
"My first task, now that I am rich, and
home at last;" answered the other, "will be
to get on the track, if I can. of poor Lucy.
After I left America, I continued to write
for years, but never getting any answers, I
finally gave it up. Christmas onee over, I
shall start or the old homestead ; but 1 fear
that all clue to her is lost."
Meantime, Lucy was hurrving home, feel
ing herself a new being. In spite of the
snow, her bare feet, her col 1 numb fingers,
we question if there was a happier child in
the city.
"See, mother, oh, see!" she cried, when
she jrot home, with a great sobof happines,
we shall have soiiie Christmas after all ; a
gentleman gave it to me ari l said it was five
dollars. Oh, mother, mother, I'm so hap
py, five whole dollars to spend for Christ
mas! Why, I never heard of such a thing,"
and her face fairly glowed, lsn t it a a
miracle, mamma?"
"My dear child, it scerin like one," said
her mother, holding out her wasted hand,
and regarding the money.
The sad sweet face lighted up with a glow
ot thankfulness as she listened to the little
narrative.
"Oh, my darlinir," she cried, "it was sent
for shoes and stockings for your poor feet.
I cried to see you go out in the snow to-day
and I prayed in agony to the dear Lord to
help us, and this is the answer."
"But I uon't want the shoes, mamma, I
want Christmas," said Lucy, with a disap
pointed face. "lie to'd me to go in and buy
toys. We never did hare a Christmas, and
I wanted to see how it seems."
Very soon there was a loud knock at the
door, and when it was opened in came two
stout men with an enormous basket bet ween
them, which they set down ; and there it sat
looking up into the widow's faee.great round
potatoes and squashes, and bulging packa
ges that told of plenty.
"Who is this for?" asked Lucy's mother,
quite pale.
"It's for a widow by the name of Petti
grew." "But who sent it?"
"I don't know who sent it ; it's paid for,
that's all 1 care for."
The door shut, the men had vanished.
"Oh, mother, we're dreaming just as
iiro n rou live, we are dreaming," cried
the delighted child,dancing about the basket
"Why, there's everything there. The Lord
keeps workim; miracles, don't He?"
"Call Hetty Moss, child," said her moth
er, sinking back in her chair, quite over
come ; and presently Hetty camo in, a staid
sweet looking woman, not over thiity. with
soft, dewy blue eyes, and lips that always
looked smiling.
"Why, Lucy, you've been your mother's
good angel to day," said Hetty, stooping
over the basket, and lilting the packages.
"Sure enough, here's Christmas for you,"
and she took an enormous turkey from the
basket
There was another knock at the door and
a tall man entered and stood on the.thresh-
old. The sick woman looked up, and a
great cry, the cry of uncontrolled joy, rang
through the room.
"Robert! Robert!"
The man was on bis knees beside his sister,
bis arms about her, kissing her eyes, her
lips, her forehead.
Explanations came brokenly. Id spite of
his firstjdisanpointment something kept tell
ing the stranger that little Lucy might.after
all, be his sister's child. He could not rest,
therefore, until he had come to see. And
Lucy told him how she had married, but
her husband and she had always been poor,
and how her husband had been killed at An
tietam. "There is my guardian angel," said the
tearful woman, pointing to Hetty ; you may
thank her that I am jet alive."
For tbe first time thesTanger saw there
was another woman in the room. There
was silence for a moment. Hetty Moss
looked hitn straight in the eye, her color
going and coming.
"It is you, Hetty, but you do not remem
ber me," he said hesitatingly, yet appeal
ingly. "Ves, T do, Robert," came with a quick
gasp. "Obi Robert !" and as he rushed
forward her hands were in his.her head upon
his shoulder.
Then came Hetty'.- story. She had been
faithful to her love. Her father.after some
years, had died insolvent. After his death
Hetty lett lie' native village, and had come
to the great city in search of employment.
Here she had come across Robert's sister,
a widow, and almost penniless. They had
thrown in their lot together. Hetty had
some skill with the needle, besides some
taste in dress, and had set up in an humble
way as a dress maker. Sometimes she went
out by day's wurk, and sometimes she la
bored at home. In these latter cases Mrs.
Pettigrew helped her with the needle. But
lately the times had been hard, money was
scarce, and both had been near to starving.
On the Christmas-eve when little Lucy went
out to see if she could gather a few sticks
or chips, they had not a dollor between
them.
"I have more money than I know what
to do with," said the newly found brother.
"iou shall never know want again."
Need we tell the sequel ? How there was
a grand dinner in one of the most elegant
private parlors of the Continental Hotel the
next day; and how Hetty became a bride a
week or two after, or how little Lucy never
knew again the pangs of poverty, or the
longing for a Christmas do'l.
"Bang me, if I don't believe the world's
a wheelbarrow." said a jolly inebriate as he
roiled along the pavement, "and I am the
wheel revolving on a haxis now I am on
dty land,'' as he crawled on the curbstone ;
his concluding remark, as bis boots followed
his heal down an open cellar-way, was :
"now the wheel is broken, and the vehicle
is out of fix."
If God ever made a nui.-ance," said Gen.
Butler the other day to a reporter who had
called to 'interview' him, "thf interviewing
reporter is the one, and you gun make a
personal application of the statement if you
want to." 1 he reporter leit.
"Does tbe razor take ho'd well?" inquir
ed a daikey who was shaving a gentleman
from the country- "es," replied the cus
tomer with teurs in his eyes, "it takes hold
first iute,but don't let go worth a red cent."
A couple of fellows, who were pretty
thoroughly soaked with bad whisky, got in
to a gutter. After floundering about for a
few minutes, oue of them said: "Jim let's
go to another house ! this hotel leaks."
A little boy having broken his rocking
hcrso the dayitwa3 bought, his mamma
began to scold, when he silenced her by in
quiring: "What's the good of a horse till
its broke?"
A lady gave this reason for not knowing
the color of her minister's eyes : "When
he prays he shuts his own eyes, and when
he preaches he shuts mine."
When Haddok's wife kicked him out of
bed be said, "Look here, uow.if you do that
again it will be likely to cause a coldness in
the family."
The first record of EUgar-planting which
we kuow, is when Adam and Eve are spo
ken of as having raisod Cain.
"I have very little respect for the ties of
this world," as the chap said when the rope
was put around his neck.
We often omit the good we might, do, io
consequence of thinking of that which it is
out of our power to do.
He that has mere knowledge than judg
ment is made for another man' use rather
than his own.
Our hope for self is strongest and least
selfish when it is Uendea with our hope for
the world.
Misers are generally bachelors; they
seem averse to squandering even their af
feet ions.
Happiness only begins when wishes end.
and he who hankers fclwr more enjoys noth
ing.
In making our arrangements to live we
should never forget that we have a.so to die.
When the pale of ceremony is broken,
rudeness and insult soon enter the breach,
The Unexpected Son;
One summer afternoon, Mr. Malcolm An
derson arrived with his family at his native
town. Putting up at the little inn, he pro.
ceeded to dress himself in a suit of ssilor
clothes, and then walked out alone. By a
path he well knew, and through a shady
lane, dear to his young hazle-nutting days.
all strangely unchanged he approached his
mothor's cott:ige. He stopped a few mo
ments on the lawn outside, to curb down the
heart that was bounding to meet that moth
er, and to clear his eyes of a sudden mist of
happy tears. Through the open window
he caught a glimpse of her, sitting alone
at her spinnin? w!n-d. as ia the old time.
But alas, how changed !
Bowe t vas the dear form, once so erect, and
silvered the locks, ouce so brown, and dim
med the eye once so full of tender bright
ness, like dew stained violets. But the
voice with which she was crooning softly to
herself, was still sweet, and there was on
her cheek the same lovely peachblooui of
twenty years aeo.
At length he knocked, and the dear re
mrtabcred voice called to hiai in the simple,
old-fashioned way:
"Coom ben!" (come in).
The widow arose at tbe sight of a stran
gcr, an 1 courteously offered him a chair.
Thanking her in an assumed voice, couie
what gruff, he sank down as though weary,
saying that ho was a wayfarer.strar.ge to the
country, asked the way to the next town.
The twilight fat ored him in his little rnse ;
he saw that she did not recognize him, even
as one she bad ever seen. But after giving
him the information he desired, she asked
him if he was a Scotchman by birth.
"Yes, madam," he replied, "but I have
been away in foreign parts many years. I
doubt if my own mother would know me
now, thiugh she was very fond of me be
fore I went to sea."
"Ah, mon ! it's little ye ken about mith
ers, gin ye think sae. I ken tell ye there is
nae mortal memory like theirs," the widow
somewhat warmly replied ; then added : 'a-id
where litis ye been for sac long a time, that
ye hae lost a' Scotch from your spjech ?"
"In India Calcutta, madam."
"Ah, then, it's likely ye ken something o'
lny son, Mr. Malcolm Anderson ?"
"Anderson," said lie, as though striving
to remember. "There be many of that
name in Calcutta ; bat is your son a rich
merchant, ad a u;aa about my size and
age?"
"My son is a rich merchant," replied the
widow ; "but ho is younger than you by
many a year ; and beggin your pardon, sir,
far bonnier. He is tall an' straight, wi'
hands and feet like a lassie's, he had brown
curly hair, nae thick and glossy, and cheeks
like rohos, and a blow like the snaw, and
een, wi' a glint in them, like the light o'
the evening star. Na, na, ye are na like my
Malcolm, though ye are guid enough body,
I dintia doubt, and a decent woman's son."
Here the merchant mode a movement as
though to 1- avc, but the widow stopped him
saying, "Gin ye hae traveled all the way
from India, ye maun be tired and hungry.
Bide a bit, and eat and drink wi' us. Margery
Come down, and lot us set on the supper."
J he two women soon provided supper,
and Mrs. Anderson reverently asked a bless
ing; but the merchant could not eat His
hostess seeing this, p.sketl him if he could
suggest anything he would relish.
"I thank you, madam," he said; "it
does seem to me that I should like some
oatmeal porridge, such as my inother used
to make."
"Porridtre," repeated the widow, "ye
mean parritch. Yes, we have a little left
frae our dinner. Cie him it, Margery. But
mon it's caul 1.
"Never mind. I know I shall like it," he
rejoined, taking the bowl and stirring the
porridge with a spoon. Then she sank back
in her chair with a sigh, saying, "ye mind
me o' my Malcolm, then j'ist id that way
he used to stir his parritch gieingita whirl
and a flirt. Ah, giu ye were my Malcolm,
my poor laddie 1"
"Weel, then, gin I were your Malcolm,"
said the merchant, speaking in the Scottish
dialect and his own voice, "or gin yer braw
young Mi lcolm were as brown and bald, and
gray, and bent, and old as I am, could ye
welcome him to yer arnis,and love him as in
the dear old lang syne? Could yeimithcr?
All through thi touching little speech
the widow's eyes had been glistening, and
her breath came fast ; but at the word
'mither,' she fprang up with a glad try.and
tottering to her son, fell almost fainting on
his breast. He kissed her again and again,
while the big tears slid down his cheeks,
while she clung about his neck, and called
him by all the dear, old pet names, and
tried to see in him all the dear, old. young
looks. By and by th:y came back or the
ghost of them came back. Then looking
up steadily into the face of the middle-aged
man who had taken its place, she asked
"Where have you left the wife acd bairns?"
"At the inn, mother. Have you room at
the cottage for us all ?"
"Indeed I hae twa good spare rooms, wi'
linen I hae been spinning or weaving a' these
long years, for ye baith, and the weans."
"Well, mother dear,now you must rest,
said he, tenderly.
"Na, na, I dinna care to rest till ye lay
me down to tak' me lang rest There'll be
time enough between that day and the res-
urection to fold my hands in idleness. Now
'twould be unco urksome. But go, my son
and bring me the wife I hope I shall like
her and the bairns I hope will like me."
Both the good woman's hopes were reali
zed. A very happy family knelt down to
i pray that mght
Fifty Years Since.'
The New Tork Mirror contains an essay
on the manners and customs fifty years since
which is full of admonition to the present
generation. Fifty years make a great
change, not only in the condition of an indi
vidual, but in the habits and principles of
society. We make an extract for the bene
fit of our readers, male and female. The
writer says :
"When Washington was President, his
wife knit stockings in Philadelphia, and the
mother made dough nuts and cakes between
Christmas and New Years ; now the mar
ried ladies are too proud too make dough
nuts, besides they don't know how, so they
even send to Madame PomquadoTir.or some
other French cake Laker, and Lny sponge
eake for three dollars a ponnd. In those
days, New York was fill of substantial com
forts; now it is fall of splendid misery;
then there were no gray headed spinsters,
(unless they were ugly indeed,) for a man
could get married for a doll-fr, and begin
housekeeping for twenty, and washing his
clothes and in croking his victuals, the wife
saved more money than it took to support
her.
"Now, I have known a minister to get
five hundred dollars tor buckling a couple,
then wine, cake and etceteras.fivc hundred
more wedding clothes and jewelry, lhons-
and and six or seven hundred in driving to
the springs or acme deserted mountains,
then a house must be got for eight hundred
dollars per annum, and furnished at. an ex
pense of two or three thousand and when
it is all done, his pretty wife can neither
make a cake or put an apple in a dumpling.
Then a cook must be got at ten dollars per
month chambermaid, a lauudress, and
seamstress at seven dollars each, and as the
fashionable follies of the day have banished
the mistress from the kitchen, those blessed
heljs aforesaid reign supreme, and while
tnas-ter and mistress are playing cards in the
parlor, the servants are playing the devil in
the kitchen thus lighting the candle at
both ends, it soon burns out. Poverty comes
in at the door and drives love out at the
window. It is this stupid and expensive
nonsense which deters so many unhappy
old bachelors from entering the state of
blessedness; hence you fiud more deaths
than marriages."
Extra vac.asce is Dues-. You wi..h to
dress your wife better than your circumstan
ces" trill allow. She wants to have you do
so. SL.e is a woman of spirit, it is said,
aud does not m'an to be a drudge. "Why
should our neighbors," she says to her hus
band, "dress any better than we; They are
made of the same flesh and blood that we
are. See how they come out. I don't think
any uiaa of spirit would let his wite and
children go to church as you let Us go. Look
at these ehildicn. You would think they
had just come out ot some slop house ! If
I had married as I might have married, we
should have had different times I and my
children!" How many men arc stung to
the quick by such remarks from their wives !
Ofttimes their moral sense revolts, at first,
and they
indignation ; but continued
dropping wears a stoue ; and by and by the
man is dressed a little better than he can af
ford, and his wife and children are dressed
better than he can afford and somebody must
pay for this extravagance. I do not mean
that they are tempted to steal ; but I do say
that they grind. They somehow get it out
cf the milliner, out of the dress maker, or
out of tha merchant They intend to make
one hand Wash the other somehow; and they
go into petty meanness to bring it about
And this deeiro to dress better than they can
afford is taking off the very enamel of their
virtue, and taking out the very Ftamina of
their life. Unimportant as it seetns, osten
tatious vanity in dress has ruined many a
family and damned many a soul.
One of those earnest rural preachers, who
"stand no nonsense" in the house of God,
was invited one hot Sunday last summer to
officiate In one of oar fashionable city
churches and was much annoyed by the
operatic stvle of the singing. During the
prayer that followed he took occasion to re
lieve his mind on the subject by saying: "
"O Lord, th iu knowest, wichout doubt,
what is the meaning of the song which has
just been sung in Thy house; but Thou
knowest that we know nothing about it
Nevertheless, we pray that it may, in some
way, be blessed to us all. ' '
The editor of an Iowa paper called on
his Chinese washer-men and tried to Coax
them into taking hold of his under gar
ments. The rejoinder of John was : "Print-
ee man dirty shirt wash like the tbed 1,
no get cleanee, scrubee skin off hands; ink
ce dc d 1 to clean off. No want washee
foi printer; chargee two dollars dozen.cuss
"em."
A raw Jonathan who had been gazing at
a carden in the vicinitv of New 'iork. in
which were several marble statues exclaim
od '.Tut see what a waste ! Here s no
less than six scarecrows in this little Vn
foot patch, and any one on 'era would keep
the crows from a ten acre lot.
A tutor of a college.lecturing a yonng man
on his irregular conduct, added with great
pathos, "The report of your vice3 will bring
your father's grey hairs with sorrow to the
grave." "I beg your pardon, sir. replied
the pupil, "my father wears a wig."
To reprove small faults with nndne vehe
mence is as absurd as if a man should take
a great hammer, because he saw a fly on his
friend's forehead.
The Exclusion of tho Bible.
The action of the Board of Education of
the city of Cincinnati in excluding the read
ing of the Bible and the singing of religious
songs from the exercises of the public
schools is a matter which has attracted
much attention and is viewed with no little
alarm among Christian people throughout
the country. The Philadelphia Bulletin re
gards it as a backward step and hopes it will
not be fol'owed by other cities. Apart from
the pnrc-ly religious aspect of the question,
there is a consideration of nearly equal val
ue in the relation which exists between ths
Bible artid civilization. The doctrines of
the new testament form the foundation up
on which modern civilization rests ; and on
ly those notions that have built upon tint
basis are to day ruling the earth. All the
achievements of science and art which elevate
and ennoble maqkind and minister to their
demauds, are the products cf a condition of
society that is the direct result of the influ
ence of Christian doctrines. And more
than this ; precisely as a free Bible has been
given" to a people, so have they aspired to a
purer liberty. The most advanced and en
lightened nations, the freest nations in
existence, are those in which the people
have unrestrained access to Che Scriptures.
Politico! liberty and rtn open Bible go Land
in hand : and the primary act of a nation
which attains the' fust is to demand the sec
ond. The quick action of the Spaniards af
ter Isabella's dethronement illustrates this
truth. The reasons for this are evident.
The Bible proclaims the universal equality
of men before their Creator, and it teaches
principles of morality which tend to purify
and refine. and consistent practice of which,
by every body, would bring human society
to absolute perfection. It is of the highest
importance. then, that this guide book should
be read by all, but especially that ils pro
cept3 should he tausht to tbe children who
are one day to compose society. The oppo
nents of Bible instruction in public schools
ground their objections upon the theory
that simple truth, without ecclesiastical in
terpretation is dangerous. In other words,
that their construction of the Scripture the-
ones is the correct One, ana without this
they will lead to periiieiods errors. This
octriue is held by one denomination only;
11 the others are anxious to have the Bible
read in the schools, and are willing to leave
octrinal -instructions to the churches and
'inday schools where it properly belongs.
We think that untramtrieled truth need nev
er fear to run the risk of misconstruction,
and a Church frhich sincerely believes its
doctrines to be in exact accordance with the
Scripture dught not to apprehend any dan
ger from the closest familiarity of its mem
bers with the source of its existeuce. If the
Bible teaches its principles why not permit
the people to drink sometimes from the
fountain head? The public school system
itself is an offsp.riug of a free Bible. Only
he people who have enjoyed the benefits
of the largest enlightenment could devise
nd execute a method by which the avenues
to intelligence are freely opened to all man
kind. Where the principles of the oppo
nents of an open Scripture ate in general
practice, there are no free school systems,
but the people accept rcliuious teaching
without understanding. Here, we give to
every denomination perfect freedom to car
ry on its work of evangelization as it pleases,
without interference ; but we want to give our
children such education as will fit them not
onlv for the intelligent reception of religious
truth, but will make them valuable mem
bers of society, and enable tbem to compre
hend exactly the basis upon which the fabric
of society rests. The day for blind, unrea
soning belief in anything has passed away
forever, in this country. If religion will
not bear the scrutiny of keenest intelligence,
it is worthless. But we know it will ; and
we hope the day is far distant when
Christian meu will unite with atheists and
infidels in keeping the children of the land
in imoraneeof the doctrines of the Bible.
We apprehend that the struggle which has
just ended in Cincinnati is to be begun in
other cities. If it is inaugurated herd we
hope to have every citizen who recognizes
the Scriptures as the inspiration of all hu
man law, and as the guide to that moral ex
cellence without which society would emui
ble to pieces, ranged upon the side of a free
Bible, no matter whether ouc denomination
or another claims his allegiance, or whether
it is claimed by none.
The largest hog in the country, it is said,
is possessed by Mr. llober t Bevington, in
Holmes count, uiiio. Jt is turee years
old, measures nine feet iu length, lour feet
in hight.six feet and four inches around the
heart and weighs twelve hundred pounds.
Mr. Bevingtou has refused $120 for it.
A woman recently entered a store in Con
necticut, and sat down ia front of an iron
safe to warm hrr feet. After sitting some
twenty or thirty minutes, she remarked that
she "never did like them kind of stoves
they didn't throw out scarcely any heat,
those gas-burners didn't."
We go up the hill of life like a boy with
hia sled after him.and go down It like a boy
with, his sled under him.
rrenuce says man was tne chiet con
sideration at the creation. Woman waa
only a "side issue."
Quilp intimates that he believes in the
woman's movement on washing day.
God gives every bird its food but does not
throw it in the nest.
Oar grtirstet want want of funds.
jgutt'ntft Directory.
AW. WALTERS,- Arroaaar at Law,
. Clerfield, I'm. Oflee in the Ctmrt Home.
t iTALTER BARKKTT, Attorney atl.aw. Clear
V field, Pa. Mm y 13, 1863.
E1
D. W.GRAHAM, Dealer in Drv-tood. Groce
ries, Hardware, Ooeenswar. Woodenwaie.
1'ruvUiom, eto., Marcet Street, Clearfield, Pa.
D AVID Q. NIVLIXG '. Dealer In Dry-Goodi.
Ladies' Fancy Ooodi. llate and Capa. Boots,
Shoes.etc .Second Street, Clearfield, Pa. aepxi
TERRELL 4 BtQLER. Dealers io Haraware
LA and nranofactareri of Tin and Sheet-iron
fare, Second Street, Clearfield, P. Jttne Cfi.
IT F. NAUGLB. Watch and Clock Maker, and
1 X dealer in n atches. Jewelry. Ac
Graham's row, Market street.
Koom ia
Not. 16.
HBUCUBR SWWPE. Attorneyat Law.CIear
. field. Pa. Off.e intiraham'a Row, fourdoo. a
west of Graham & lt"Tnt.'f tl'.re. Nt. Iff.
h:
W, SMITH, Attorubt at Law, Clearfield.
Pa., will attend promutlT to bnsineFS en
trusted to his care. June 30. 189.
ru5t
w
Clearfield, Pa.. Lezal business of all kinds
promptly and accurately attended to.
Clearfield, Pa.. Jane Sth. 1S49.
I B M'EN ALLY. Attorneyat Law. Clearfield
J . P. Practices in Clearfield and adjoin-'ng
Miunties. OCceinnew brick building: of J. Boy n
t 'n, 2d street, one door south cf Lanich'a Hotel.
I TEST. Attorney at Law. Clearfield, Pa., will
. attend promptly to all Legal business entrust
ed to his care in Clearfield and adjoining coun
ties OtSce on Market street. July 17, 1667.
qVi'JMAS II. FORCEY, Dealer in Ffjnare and
A tawed Lumber, DrT-Good8,Queensware. Gro
ceries. Flour. Grain, Feed, Bacon, Ac, Ae., Gra-han-ton.
Clearfield county, Pa. Oct 10.
J P. KR ATZER. Dealer in Dry-Goods. Clothing,
Hardware, Queensware, Groceries. Prori
aious.eto.. Market Street, nearly opposite the
Court lloose. Clearfield, Pa. June, lhC.i.
TTRTSWrCK 4 IRWI, Dealers
in D
A 1 Medicines. Paints. Oila.Statinnarv. Prfnn,
rajs,
r . Fancy Goods, Notions, etc., etc.,. Market street,
Clearfield, Pa Dee. , 1865.
i KR ATZER A SON. dealers in Dry Goods,
V . Clothing, Hardware, Queensware, Groee,
r)es. Provisions, Ac., Second Street Cleai field.
Deo. J7.IS65.
T'lIIN Gl'ELICH. Manufacturer ofr all kinds of
l Cabinet-ware, Market street. Clearfield, Pa
Ho also makes to order Coffins, on snort notice, and
attends funerals with a hearse. Apr10,'59.
RICH Alii) MOSSOP, Dealer In Foreignand Da
mes'tic Dry Goods, Groceries, Flour, Bacoi,
Liquors. Ac. Room, on Market street, a few doors
weat ot Journal OJicr.. Clearfield, Pa. Apr27.
A T'CULLOCGn A KREBS, Attorhcys-at-LaW,
it.1. . learntia, i"a. All leeal bn:mees prompt-
ly attended to.
Consultations in r-ngliah or Ger
Oct. 27, 1869.
mail.
T. J. M'cCLLOCOn, t. L. KRBBB.
1 FREDERICK LEITZINGER," Manufacturer ef
" all kinds of Stone-ware, Clearfield, Pa. Or
ders tolicited wholesale or retail He also keep
on hand and for sale an assortment of earthens
ware, of his orn manufacture. Jan.1.lHR3
T M HOOVE R.Wholesale and Retail Doaler in
IN TOBACCO. CIO A US AND SXUFP. A
large assortment of pipes, cigar casts. Ac, Con
stantly on hand. Two doors East of the Post
Office, Clearfield, Pa, May 19,'f9.
-IT7-ESTERN HOTEL. Clearfield, Pa This
y well known hotel, near tbe Court House, ia
worthy tne patronage of the public. Tbe table
will be supplied with the bet in the market, Tha
bestofliquors kept. JOHN DOUGHERTY.
TOHS H. FLLFORD. Attorney at Law. Cleai-
J field. Pa. Ofiice on Market Street, over
Haruwick A Irwin's Drne Store. Prompt attention
given to the securicgofRonntj claims. Ac, and to
an legal easiness. March XT, 1467.
A I TIIORN,!. D., Physician and
a., offers his proff niona 1 services to the citi-
xcds ot that place and vicinity. ep.29-ly
wit. a. arhstkoxq. : : : : tiiciLLivi
ARMSTRONG t LINN. Attor.Sts-a-Law,
Williamsport. Lycoming County, Pa. All
legal business entrusted to them will be carefully
and promptly attended to, I Ang 4.69-6m.
ALRPitT. TR'V..ri-!rr Dr Hnnd.
rocci ics,.; j ware. C.uobusware IDurfca-
con, etc. Woodland. Clearfield county. Pa. Also
extensive dealers inallkindaof sawed lumber
shingles, and square timber. Orders solicited.
vtuoaiaua, fa., Aug. IV'.h, 13n3.
DU J. P. BUKCHFIELD Late Surerebn of tha
83d Reir't Pcnn'a Vols., having returned
from-tho army, offers his professional services to
tne ciuscns ot llearBeld and vicinity. Profes
sional calls promptly attended to. Office on
oouta-tasi corner or 3d and Market Streets.
Oct. 4. ISG5 6mp.
QUilVEVOIl. The undersigned offers
his services to the public, as a purveyor.
He may be found at his residence in Lawience
township, when not engaged; or addressed by
letter at Clearfield. Penn'a.
March 6th, I3S7.-tf. J iMES MITCHELL.
TEFFE11SON 1-ITZ, U.D.,
" . Physician and Surgeon, .
Uarifce located at Osceola, fa., offers hi profes
sional services to the people of that place aud sur
rounding country. All cans promptly attended
to. Office and residence on Curtin Street, former
ly occupied by Dr. Kline. May 19. '69.
T K. BOTTORF'S
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MARicct srniBT. riiARF!K!.T, p-esi'a.
N'csr.-itive' made in cloudy as well as in elcsr
weather. Constantly en band a srood assortment
of Frames, Stereoscopes and Stereoscopic Vitas.
Frames, from any style of moulding, made to
order. Idee. J.'ftS-iT. I4-6t-tf.
TUIOMAS W. MOORE, Land Surveyor
and Conveyancer. 'laving recently lo
cated in the Borough of Lcmber City, and resum
sumed tbe practice of Land Surveying, respect
fully tenders hia professional services to the own
ers and speculators in lands in Clearfield and ad
joing counties Leedsof Conveyance neatly ex
ecuted. Office and residence one door Kast of
Kirk d- Spencers Store
Lumber City. Apr! 14, 139 ly.
SOLDIERS' BOUNTIES. A recent bill
has passed both Houses ot Congress, and
signed by the President, giving soldiers who en
listed prior to 22d July, 1461, served one year or
more and were honorably discharged, s bounty
of SlOrt.
Bounties and Pension collected by at for
thoseentitled to thein.
WALTER BARRETT, Att'y at Law.
Aug. 15th, 1803. Clearfield, Pa.
D
ENTAL PARTNERSHIP.
DR. A M. HILLS desirestoinform his patiests
and the public generally, that he has associated
with him in the praoticeof Dentistry S. P.SHAW,
D. D S . who is a graduate of tbe Philadelphia
Dental College, and therefore has tha highest
attestations of his Professional skill.
All work done in the office I will hold myself
personally responsible for being dona in the most
satisfaeto'ry manner and highest order of tbe pro
fession An established practice of twenty-two years la
this plaoe enables me tospeak to my patrons with
confidence.
Engagements from a distance thoaUt to msde
by letter a few days before the patient design
eoming. I'.'lesrdcM. June . IXCH-ly.
s
urn fait, r-itcp ia paiect ! f rralecbea
attbartciacf H. MOSSOP.
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