Raftsman's journal., June 15, 1870, Image 1

BY S. J. ROW.
CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 1870.
VOL. 16.-NO. 41.
A0E03S THE WAY.
jtrross the way re two windows bright.
With curtains while as snow.
Ar.d o'sr tbair folds of spotless whit
lb. deacing fiemea wi'b ruddy light,
fautasuc shadows throw ;
bhjdows that earns and go. .
fot th shadow that oftenest lingers there
As the midnight hour draws near
Jlit the graceful form of a lady fair,
With waring waist and curling bair,
Banding with listening ear
A wall-known step to hear.
Anl as the ni(rht wears on apace
Cemes anether ibadow tall,
TVi:b hasty step and manly grace,
Stooping to meet an upturned face
riajria' that waist ao small,
Iilendsd, the shadows fall.
A nKinant thus, by the cheerful light,
! the blended shadow thrown.
Th'n darkness shades those windows bright
la curtains of the gloomy night,
And I am left alone
No shadow but lny own.
TWO NEPHEWS.
At the p.irlor window of a .pretty villa,
Bear Wa!:cn OD-Thauies. sat, one evening,
t Jusk, an oU man and a young woman.
The Wot the old man might be some sev
enty ; while his companion had certainly
not reached nineteen. Her beautiful, bea
ming face, and active, light, and upright
g'jre. were in strong contrast with the worn
cotintename and bent frame of the old man;
lut ia his eye, and in the corners of bis
mouth, were indications of a gay self-confi-J..-3CC,
which age and suffering had damped
l'it not extinguished.
"No use looting any more, Mary," said
he; "neither John Meade nor Peter Finch
will be her before dark. Very bard, that,
when a sick uncle asks his two nephews to
C'lmeand see him, they cau't come at once.
The duty is simply in the extreme only to
help uf to die, and lake what I choose to
Lave them iu my will ! Pooh! When I
vs a you!:;.? man I'd have done it for my
u:ii!c with the utmost celerity. But the
b r'J's Retting most heartless !"
' !:, sir!" said Mary.
Aud what doe? 'Oh, sir !' mean?" said
I.e. '"D'ye think lelian'tuic? Iknowbet-,
ter. A little more and there'll be an end of
i,U 15i!!y Coilett. He'll have left this dirty
wur'j f.-r a cleaner to the great sorrow
land advantage) of bis affectionate relatives!
! Give me a glass cf the doctor's
SlUli.
The airl poured some medicine into a
g'.z. aiid Co'iett, after having contcinpla
t J it Lr a usuuicnt with inSoiie di-guit,
lastiaged to get it down.
"I t-:I you what, Mi.? Miry J syne," said
Lc, ' I -,i ,'u't by atjy ujeans a;p:ovc of your
'Oh. si: !' and 'Dear ir,' and the rest of it,
wLca I've told you how I hate to bo called
'jir' all. Why you could not be more re
?;"etfui if you were a charity jrirl and I a
l-ilie iu a gold leed hat. None of your
livarense, Mary Jsyne, if you please. I've
trm yoLr lawful guardian now fr six
t; .u;i:. u,d you ouht to know iny likings
ti.i thsiikiug.."
' .My poor father often told mo how you
tl.sAe 1 ceremony, eaid Mary.
"Y.iur poor father iol-J you q-.iitc right,"
f3 i Mr. Colittt. '"i'red. Jaync was a man
u'txL-ii'. a capital iellovr! His on!y fault
'.?a natural inability to keep a farthing in
hi rocket. Poor I'ied ! beloved me I'm
!" I:e Ji 1. lie Le-iuj'sthed tue hi only
'::i';aui i: in't every fiicui would do
t':at!"
"A kind and j.-encreus protector you have
l?en."
"VV,i, I don't know ; I've tried not to be
a Lrnt , lut I dure say I have been. Doa't
1 r-e; k roughly to you sometime ? Haven't
I sivvn you iiood, prudent, worldly advice
aLvti! John Me !e, and made myself q'liti
disatrtcul.ii:, and like a truardiau? Come,
eoDi' you love this penniless nephew of
liiiue."
"Penniless, indeed !" eaid Mary.
"Ah, there it is !' ' said Mr. Coilett. "And
what liiHr:e--s lias a poor devil of an artut
io ia;! ir: ! :ve with my ward? And what
l'U-.ms Las my ward to fall iu love with a
ptvr devil of eu artist? But that's Fred.
la do's daughter all over ! Haven't I two
! c;.hew? Why couldn't you fall in love
ish the discreet one the thriving one?
l'c:"r Ficch considering he's an attorney
! a worthy young man. He is industrious
the extreme, and attends to other peo
! Luinjfs, only when he's paid for it.
H: ilerj.isi-s feutiuient, and always looks to
'in; itsiii chance. Hut John Meade, my
'f-dt Mry, may spoil canvass forever, and
erow rich, lie's all for art, and truth,
social rcfotnj, and spiritual elevation,
"al the Lord knows what. Peter Finch
15 "1 rsJo 'm his carriage, and splash poor
Meade as he trudges on foot !"
Tue harangue was here interrupted by a
r "s' at the gate, and Mr. Peter Fincb was
:iti-june,.'d. lie bad scarcely taken his seat
"n- n aauther pull at the bell was beard,
cJ Mr. Juhn Meade was announced.
Mr. Coilett eyed his two nephews with
iu'er sort of a smile." whilst tbey made
speeches of sorrow at the nature of their
T:;t- At ia-t stopping theta ,
' Enough, boys, enouzh," said he, "let
Sad some better subject to discuss than
ike sute of an old man's health. I want
t-J know a little more about you both. I
hiveu't eeen much of you up to the present
time, and, for anything I know, you may
te rocucs or fools."
John Meade seemed rather to wince un
'It this address; but Mr. Finch sat calm
and eoriGdent.
"To put a case." said Mr. Coilett; "this
morning a poor wretch of a gardner came
here begging. He could get no work, it
tns. and said he was starving. Well, I
knew something about the fellow, and I
believed he only told the truth ; so I gave
him a shilling to get rid of him. .Now I'm
afraid I did wrong. What reason had I for
giving him a shilling? What claim had he
on me? What claims had he on anybody ?
The value of his labor in the market is all
that a workmau has a right to, and when
his labor is of no Talue, why, then he must
go to the devil, or wherever else he can.
Eh, Peter? That's my philosophy; what
do you think?"
"I quite agree with you, sir," said Mr.
Fiuch ; "perfectly agree with you. The
value of their labor in the market is all that
laborers can pretend to ; all that they should
have. Nothing acts more percicidusly
than the absurd extraneous support called
charity."
"Hear, hear!" said Mr. Coilett. "You
are a clever fellow, Peter. Go on, my dear
boy, go on."
'"What results from charitable aid ?" con
tinued Peter. "The value of labor i.i kept
at aa unnatural level. State charity is
state robbery ; private charity is public
wrong."
"That's it, Peter!" said Mr. Coilett.
"What do you think of our philosophy, Mr.
Meade?"
''I don't like it.; I don't believe it!" eaid
John. "You were quite right to give the
man a shilling I'd have given him a shil
ling myself."
"You would, would you?" said Mr. Coi
lett. "You're very generous with your
shillings. Would you liy iu the face of or
thodox political economy, you Vandal?"
"Yea," said John ; "a? the Vandals flew
in the face of Home, and destroyed what
had become a falsehood and a nuisance."
"Poor John," said Mr. Colictt. "We
shall never uiuke anything of htm, Peter,
lieaily, we'd better talk of omcthin else.
Mr. Meade, tell us about the last new nov
el." They conversed on ranous topics, until
the arrival of the invalid's early Led time
parted uucie and nephews for the night.
Mary Jzyne seized an opportunity, the
next morning, after breakfast, tospcak with
John Meade alone.
"John." said she, "Jo think more of your
own interest, of our interest. What occa
sion for you io be so violent iast night, and
eoutss diet Mr. Coilett so shockingly ? I saw
Mr. Fiiitrh laughing to hiniself. John, you
luu.-a be more careful or we shall never be
married."
"Well, Mary dear, I'll do my be?t," said
John 3'ea Je. "It was that confounded Mr.
Fincti, wish Lis chain of iron maxims, that
made uic Jiy out. I'm not au iceberg,
Mary."
"Thank Heaven, you're not!" said Mary
Jayne; "but an iceberg floats think of
that John Meade. Kem;:nler, every time
you offend Mr. Coilett you please Peter
Finch."
"Soldo!" said Juhn. "Yes, I'll re
member that."
"It you would only try to he a little mean
and hard hearted," said Mary ; "just a lit
tle to bcj:in with. Y'ou would only stoop
to coi quer, John, stud you deserve to con
quer. "May I gaiu my deserts, then 1" said Mr.
MtaJe. "Are you uot to be my loving
wife, Mary? And are you not to sit at
liecdiewuik iu my studio, whilst I paint my
great Lictw:ical picture? Ilow can this
come to pass if Mr. Coilett will do nothing
for us?"
' Ah, how indeed ?" said Mary Jayne.
"but here's our friend, Peter Finch, com
ing through the gate from his walk. Heave
you together." And eo saying the with
drew. "Wbaf.'Jchn Meade?" paid Peter Finch
as he entered. "Skulking in doors on a
fine morning like this 1 I've been all thro'
the villege. Not au ugly place but wanta
looking after sadly. Iioads shamefully
muddy 1 Pigs allowed to walk ou the foot
path !"
"Dreadful!" exclaimed John.
"I say you came out pretty strong last
night," said Peter. "Quite defied the old
man! Hurl like your spirit."
"I have no doubt you do," thought Mr.
Meade. '
"Oh, when I was a youth, I was a little
that way myself," eaid Peter. "But the
world the world, my dear sir soon cures
us of all romantic uotious. I recret, of
course, to sec poor people miserable ; but
what's the use of regretting? It's no part
of the busines of the superior classes to in
terfere with the laws of supply and demand;
poor people niut be miserable. What cau't
be cured must be endured."
"That is to "eay," returned Mr. John
Meade, "what we can't cure, they must en
dure?" "Exactly eo," said Peter.
Mr. Coilett this day wa too ill to leave
his bed. About uoon he requested to see
his nephews iu his bedroom. They found
h'.m proped up by pillows, lookiug very
weak, but in good spirit as usual.
"Well loys," said he, "here I am you
see ; brought to au anchor at last ! The doc
tor will be here soon, I suppose, to shake
his! heal and write recioes. Humbug,
my boys ! Patients can do as much for
them wives, I believe, aa doctors can do for
thetn ; they're all in - the dark together
tho only difference is, that the' patients
grope in English, and the doctors grope iu
Latin!"
"You are too skeptical, sir," eaid John
Meade.
"Pooh!" said Mr. Billy Coilett, "Let
us change the subject. I waut your advice,
Peter Finch and John Meade, on a matter
that concerns your interests. I m going to
make my will to-day and I don't kuo
how to act about your cousin, Emma Briggi.
Emma disgraced us by marrying an oil
mac." .. "An oilman t" exclaimed John.
"A vulgar, shocking oilman !" said Mr.
Coilett ; "a wretch who not only sold oil,
but soap, candles, turpentine, black lead,
and birch brooms. It was a dreadful blow
to the family. Her poor grandmother nev
er got over it, and a maiden aunt turned
Methodist in despair. Well, Briggs, Ithe
oilman died last week, it seems, and his
widow has written to ine, asking for assist
ance. Now, I have thought of leaving her
a hundred a year iu my will. What do you
think of it? I'm afraid she don't deserve
it. What right had she to marry against
the advice of her friends? What have I to
do with her misfortune?"
"3Iy mind is quite made up," said Mr.
Peter Finch ; "no notice ought to be taken
of her. She made an obstinate and unwor
thy match and let her abide the conse
quences." "Now for your opinion, John," said Mr.
Coilett.
"Upon my word I think I must say the
same," said John Meade, bracing himself
up boldly for the part of the worldly man.
What right had she to marry as you ob
served with great justice, sir? Let her
abide the consequence as you very prop
erly remarked, Finch. Can't she carry ou
the oilman's business?. I dare say it will
support her very well."
"Why, no," said Mr. Coilett; "Briggs
died a bankrupt, and his widow and chil
dren are destitute."
"That does not alter the question," said
Peter Finch. "Let Briggs' family do some
thing for her."
"To be sure 1" said Mr. Coilett. "Briggs'
family are the people to do something for
her. 8he mustn't expect any thins from us
must she, John?"
"Destitute, is she ?" sid John. "With
children, too! Why, this is another case,
sir. Y'ou fcurely ought to notice her to as
sist her. Confound it. I'm for letting her
have the hundred a year."
"Oh, John, John! What a breakdown !"
said Mr. Coilett. "So you were trying to
follow Peter Finch through Stony Arabia,
and turned back at the second step! Here's
a brave traveler for you, Peter ! John, John,
keep to your Arabia Felix, and leave stern
er matters to very different men. Good
bye, both of you. I've no voice to talk
any more. I'll think over all you have
eaid."
He pressed their hands, and they left the
room. The old man was too weak to speak
the next day, and, in three days after that,
he calmly breathed his last.
As soon as the funeral was over, the will
was read by the confidential man ot busi
ness, who had always attended to Mr. Col
lett'e afiairs. The group that sat around
him preserved a decorous appearance of
disinterestedness ; and the usual preamble
to the will having been listened to with
breathless attention, the uiau of business
read the following in a clear voice :
"I bequeath to my niece, Euiina Brings,
notwithstanding th.it she shocked her fami
ly by marrying au oilman, the sifiu of four
thousand pounds ; being fully persuaded
that her lost dignity, if she could even find
it agaiu, would do nothing to provide her
with food, or clothing, or shelter.".
Mr. Meade smiled, and Mr. Finch ground
his teeth but in a quiet respectable inau-
r.
The man of busiuess went on with his
reading.
"Having always held the opinion that
woman should be rendered a rational and
independent beiug and having duly con
sidered the fact that society practically de
nies her the right of earning her own living
I heaeby bequeath to Mary Jayne, ' the
only child of ni3' old friend, rred. Jayne,
the sum of ten thousand pounds, which will
enable her to marry or remain single, as
she may prefer."
John Meade gave a prodigious start upon
hearing this, and Peter Finch ground his
teeth again, but in a manner hardly respect
able. Both, however, by a violent effort,
kept silent.
The man of business went ou with his
reading. ' :
"I have paid some attention to the char
acter of my nephew, John Meade, and have
been grieved to find him much possessed
with a feeling of philanthropy, and with a
general preference for whatever is noble
and true over whatever is base and false.
As these tendencies are by no means such
as can advance him in tho world, I beqeath
him the sum of ten thouand pounds, ho
ping that he will thus be kept out of the
workhouse, and be enauled to paint ms
great historical picture, which, as yet, he
has only talked about.
"As for my other nephew, Peter Finch,
he views all things in so sagacious and sel
fish a way, and is so certain to get on in
life, that I should only insult him by offer
ing au aid which he does uot require ; yet
from au affectiouate uncle, and entirely as a
.stimonv for his mental acuteness, I ven
tured to hone that he will accept a be
quest of five hundred pouuds toward the
completion of his extensive library of law
hooks."
How Mr. Peter Finch stormed and called
names: how John Meade broke into a de
lirium of iov; how Mary Jayne cried first
and then laughed, and then cried and laugh-
A tn-ntW ! all these matters I shall not
attempt to describe. Mary Jayne is new
Mrs. John Meade ; and her husband has
actually bezun the great historical picture
Peter Finch has taken to discounting bills,
and bringing actions on them ; and drives
about in his brougham already.
THE STOLEN KISS.
"Come hither, Harry, and confess
Last night you very clumsy were ;
Ton might have heard a rustling dress,
And mother's footstep on the stair.
"She says she saw you kis me, dear ;
I really had forgotten it;
1 rowed you tried to smooth my scarf
Because there was a knot in it.
"But if you dared to steal a kiss.
Why, clearly it was wrong of you ;
And if you do not make amends,
Why, we must taae a long adieu."
lie a looped and kissad her rosy lips,
For he had set his soul on oue.
"Fergive me, dear," he lowly said,
"I thus replace the stolen one "
The Kan Who Never Expected to Own a
House.
One reason why working men never ac
quire property, or become possessors of a
home, or have a few dollars even laid up in
a Saving's Bank against sickness or dull
times, is the naked fact that they never ac
quire the habit f suciug.
In saving, "where there's a will there's a
way." This maxitn is illustrated by a case
within the personal knowledge of the writer.
In 1850, when the subject of homes for the
industrial classes was being agitated, the
writer was interested in inducing poor men
to obtain homes for themselves. Being a
mechanic with many men in his employ, he
constantly presented and pressed the sub
ject upon their attention. Four of his men
now own and live iu their owu houses who
commenced saving by one, two and three
dollars per week.
One man to whom he applied, used this
argntneut against (ten muking a trial:
"J to ever own a hnme ! Why I am a man
of forty years of age, have worked from my
boyhood up, and between the landlord and
tuy family I have never seen ten dollars in
my hands that I could call my own over a
Saturday night. Me own a house ! That's
a practical joke !"
The man was a (ypc of a large class for
whom this is written faithful, industrious,
contented to make Saturday night meet ;
had reared a family of four children (all
workers,) and had never seen ten dollars
that ho could call his own over the week,
and this simply because ha had never made
the effort in earnest to save a dollar.
Wages then (1350) was two dollars per day,
about equal to four dollars per duy now
(1870.)
His employer, who understood men and
why they could not save, nothing daunted
by his workman's want of faith, insisted
that he should make the triak He told him
that one hundred dollars would purchase the
land, and three hundred dollars build the
house; that when the land was paid for,
which could be done by siuiply saving two
dollars per week for one year, he could get
credit upon tha building, pay for it in three
years, and be his own landlord ever after.
Reluctlaiuly and faithlessly he allowed his
employer to keep back the two dollars per
week. At the end of two weeks he caine to
his employer with a smiling face, and said,
"Save out thi-ee dollars per week. I have
concluded to pinch, and the old woman and
the children are crazy at the thought of
owning a home. They are on the piuch,
too, and have saved three dollars this week.
Take this three doilars the first they have
ever saved in their lives and add it to the
fund. I am bound to have a home."
They had now ten dollars ahead in the
world, with the brightening and cheering
prospect of a home to live and die in, and
this from making a commencement to save
two dollars per week.
The result of these savings was a nice
cheerful home at Mount Vernon, twelve
miles from New York city, where my hero
lived for many years in comfortand happi
ness, proud of his cottage, endeared to his
family ; where his daughters were married,
and where his widow still resides, with a
homestead now worth, by improvements,
and the rise of property, two thousand dol
lars. .
The moral of this true story is, Save.
Make a commencement now. Put by even
fifty cents or a dollar a week commence to
pinch as all must who would become inde
pendent of circumstances. If you cannot
buy a homestead, save to start some "me-'
chauical business for yourself, or what is far
better, save two hundred dollars in two
years, then ask the government to give you
one hundred and sixty acres of land in the
West for simply the asking, (your Uncle
Sam will do it cheerfully and promptly,)
then locate your future home on the soil,
and commence lo piuch for two years, and
you will have a home where the unwelcome
landlord's agent comes uot where damp
basements, bky-parlors, buggy bed-rooms,
small-pox neighborhoods, coruer gin mills,
filthy walls, chloride-of-hme alleys, bad
neighbors and blasphemous oaths will never
reach your ears and shorten your lives.
Commence to save.
Good authorities ou the subject of riEe
shooting assert that cold weather diminish
es the expaniive force of the gasses arising
from the explosion of powder, and there
fore, with the saine charge, same elevation
of sights, and same distance, a bullet would
strike lower in cold weather than in warm
The density of the atmosphere exercises a
similar influence.
"Will you give me them pennies now?"
said a big newsboy to a little one, after giv
ins; him a severe thumping. "No, I won' t,"
rejoined the little on. "Then I'll give you
another pounding." "Pound away 1 me and
Dr. Franklin agrees. Dr. Franklin says,
take care of the pence and the pounds will
take care of themselves.
Wut do Coildrix Die ? In answer to
this question, the Medical' Recorder holds
the following language: "The reason why
children die is because they are not taken
care of. From the day of birth they are
stuffed with food, choaked with physic,
splashed with water, suffocated in hot rooms
and steamed in bed clothes. So much for
indoors. When permitted to breathe a breath
of pure air once a week in summer, and
once or twice during the colder months, on
ly the nose is permitted to peer into day
light. A little later they are sent out with
no clothes at all on the parts of the body
which most need protection.' Bare legs,
bare arms, bare necks, girted middles, with
an inverted umbrella to collect the air and
chill the other parts of the body. A stout,
strong man goes out in a cold day, with
gloves and overcoat, woolen stockingj and
hick double-soled boots, with cork between
and rubbers over. The same day, a child of
three years old, au infant of flesh and blood
and bone aud constitution goes out with
hose as thick as paper, cotton socks, legs un
covered to. the knees, neck bare, an expo
sure which would disable the nurse, kill the
mother outright, aud make the father an in
valid for weeks. And why ? To harden them
to a mode of dress which they are never ex
pected to practice. To accustom them to
exposure which a dozen years later would
be considered downright foolery. To rear
children thus for the slaughter pen, and then
ay it to the Lord, is too bad. We don't
think the Almighty has any hand in it."
A Good Word for Good Humor.
Every man should be sober sometimes. I
once knew one so unfortunate as to be sober
all the time, and yet an honest man. We
have known men that never smiied, or sel
dom, whose faces were rigid as an iron mask
and yet they were kind, simple, and really
reliable.
But such are exceptionable cases. Uni
form sobriety is presu mptively very much
against a man. He who gives no play to
the gentler feelings has something the mat
ter with him that should be looked into be
fore one trusts him.
Mirth itself is not always honest. But it
tends to openness. Mirth has better stuff
iu it to make a man of than sobriety has.
It, too, is used sometimes as a mask for
hypocrisy ; but not half so often as sobriety
is. Only consider hew many . men, quite
empty and worthless, inwardly ncitherrich
nor forceful, are kept agoing by the mere
trick of gravity.
When some men come to you it is like
sunrise, liverytinng seem. to lane pew nic,
nd shines. Other men bring night with
them. The chill chadow of their sobriety
falls upon every innocent gayety, and your
feelings, like bird3 f t evening, stop sieging
and go to their roost.
Away with these fellows who go owling
through life all the while passing for birds
of paradise.
He that cannot laugh and be gay shculd
look well to himself. He should fast and
pray until his face breaks forth into light.
Good Advice. An unmarried man of
23 years, with about $3,000 cash, and tired
of mercantile business and city life, wishes
to engage iu farming (not knowing anything
of the business), aud writes to the American
Institute Farmers' Club for information,
He gets the following answer : "Put all your
money at luterest at seven per cent., on
mortgage. Go hire yourself to a thrifty,
mouey making farmer ; work lor the first
month for your board. Then get him to
give you somethins till you can make nearly
lull wages as a farm hand.
See everything, aud remember what you
see. Head larni books and papers, lo a
year or two buy a place on which the first
installment is $1,000. Use $1,000 forstock
and tools ; keep the other $1 ,000 at interest
and go to work.( When you have been on
the farm a year marry tome young woman
who cau raise chickens and knows how to
make pantaloons."
A singular illustration of the danger of
impersonal personalities was lately afforded
iu Pottsville, Pa., when the Miners' Jour
nal inadvertantly stated that there was a man
in the place who had been drunk for thirty-
five years. The editor was thereupon called
to account by at least twenty different .per
sons, who insisted that the item was a per
sonal attack upon them. The man he real
ly referred to, the editor says, "is sharp
enough to keep his mouth shut about it, but
keeps ou drinking just as if not a word had
been said."
The advance picket of the grand army of
mosquitos has made its appearance. We
will, no doubt, soon have an attack in full
force. If the specimen we noticed is to be
taken as a guide, wo would suggest to our
readers lo procure their mosquito uets of
the finest and closest bar for he was
"stunner," and would "draw blood" every
time.
An Irish gentleman parting with a lazy
sprvnnr. was asked with respect to her in
dustry, whether she was what is termed a-
fraidofwork. "Oh, not at all!" said he,
"not at all ; she'll frequently lie down aDd
fall asleep by the side of it.
There are two reasons why some people
Inn'r mind their own business. One is
that they haven't any business and the sec
ond that they have no mind to bring to it
if they had. This kind of humanity is
common as three meals a day.
An Irish schoolmaster wrote the follow
ncr innv for one of his pupils : "Idleness
j covcrcth a man with nakedness."
r j
Silfishxess. Selfishness is the beset
ting sin of onr fallen nature. It interferes
with and adulterates the love of our neigh
bors ; it excludes from our bosoms the love
of God. Bnt self love, so far from being an
illegitimate principle, is an essential part of
the constitution of every sentinent existence,
and in the second great comuiaudmcnt is as
sumed as such, and constituted, as has just
been said, the standard of our love to oth
ers. The reasoning of the Apostle Paul is
beautifully correct when he says, "He that
loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For
this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou
shalt not kill. Thou shalt not steal, Thou
shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not
covet; and if there be any ether command
ment it is briefly comprehended in this say
ing namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbor
as thy self. Love workcth no ill to his
neighbor; therefore, love is the fulfilling of
the law." In its heart searching spirituality,
its precision and simplicity, its readiness for
application, its force of united appeal to tha
understanding and to the heart, its compre-
ensivencss, both as to the objects it em
braces and the dispositions and conduct it
inculcates towards them, this precept is di-
inely worthy of the place it holds. Tak-
ng love to God and love to our neighbor
together, well might our divine Master say
to them, "on these two commandmenU
hangs all the law and the prophets."
A week or two ago the Governor of Ohio
offered five hundred dollars reward for the
arrest of a man named John Smith. There
are one hundred and ten counties in Ohio,
and in less than two days the Sheriffs of all
these counties arrived in Columbus, each
with a man named tiotin fcinuh. Uunng
the succeeding days over two thousand de
tectives, policemen and private citizens from
Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiaua,
West Virginia, and Illinois, arrived iu Col-
mbus, every fellow bringing with him some
unhappy wreteh named John Smith; and
more arrive every day. The aggregations
of Smiths at present in Columbus is simply
awful ! And the worst of it is that every
man insists that his Smith is the particular
Smith mentioned in the proclamation, and
te is going to have that five hundred dol
lars or hash the Governor right up. The
Governor is trying to decide whether to pay
the reward to every man in the lot or to re
sign. We knew this Smith business would
get somebody into trouble some day or oth
er. It has been greatly overdone. We
have had too much of it much too much.
SMARTNESS. Ibere is haraiy a young
man that goes out into life who does not
want the reputation of being smart before
he is smart. There is hardly a tincle circle
in which you see a half a dozen young men
that you do not see them aping somethiug;
making believe ; "putting on airs," as the
saying is. lusy wisn to nave tue appear
ance of bravery, a position, or something
else, which they have not attained. They
arc not willing to creep before they walk.
The very beginning of life developes a ten
dency in men to false appearances ; to insin
cerity ; to an estimation which is radically
unmanly; to' desire to have what does not
belong to them ; what they have no right
to claim by reasou of anything they are, or
that they have been. To be without pre
tence, to desire to have only that which you
can legitimately lay claim to, of praise, of
sympathy, of reputation, of means to have
a manly pride, by which you fchall be the
factor of that which is in your own posses
sion that is thoroughly salutary. Au hon
est manhood scorns pretence and appear
ances. These are the signs of unripeness,
not only, but they are yicious, bad signs in
a child.
A Tougu Story. An old fellew who
never yielded the palm to anyone in reeling
a knotty yarn, was put to his trumps at
hearing a traveler state that once he saw a
brick house placed upon runners and drawn
up a hill to a more favorable location, some
half a mile or more distant.
"O, fudge," said the old man, "I once
saw a two-story stone uouse, down east,
drawn by oxen three miles."
A dead silence ensued. The old man ev
idently had the worst end o it, and saw it.
Gathering his energies, he bit off a huge
bit of pig tail, by way of gaining time for
thought; "they drasred the stone house,"
said the old man, ejecting a quantity of to
bacco juice towards the fire place; "but
that wasn't tho worst of the job artcr
they'd done that, they went back and draw-
ed the cellar."
The stranger gave in.
"I think," said Mr. Bronson Alcott.once
in conversation, " tnat wnen a man lives on
beef he becomes something like an oi ; if
he eats mutton he begins to look sheepish,
and if he eats pork may he not grow swi
nish?" "That may be," said Dr Walker,
of Cambridge, "but when a man lives on
nothing but vegetables, I think he is apt to
be pretty small potatoes."
In a Western town the following "drop
letter" was picked up on the sido walk :
"Dearest C, your boots are inside the gar
den fence at the south-east corner, under a
piece of old carpet. Doa't come any more,
for Heaven'a sake I The old man swears
he'll blow the top of your head off. Your
affectionate B. "
Wooden pavements are popular in the
West. A St Joseph City councilman is
reported to have delivered the following
Epeech at the last meeting ot the councu .
"Mr. Mavnr. and irentlenien of the council,
lf n a lav nnr rinarla together and make a
wooden pavement."
!u.omc$ girfrtcrtj.
AW. WALTERS, Attohhkt at Law,
. Clearfield, Pa. Ofcce in the Conn House.
Ur ALTER BARRETT, Attorney at Law, Clear
field. Pa. May 13, 1S03.
J B. GRAHAM A BOSS, Dealers in Dry-Goods,
. Groceries, Hardware, Queensware, Wooden
ware. Provisions, etc., Maraet Ht, Clearfield, Pa.
BIOLER A CO Dealers R.rt..r. .
ind manufacture of Tin and Bhsat-i ran
'" --econa otreet, Clearfield, Pa. Mar '70.
HF. NAUGLE, Waten and Cloek Maker, and
. dealer in Watches, Jewelry, Aa. Boom ia
Graham's row, Market street. Not. IS.
HBUCHER EWOOrE, Attorney at Law.Clear
. field. Pa. OlEcs inGraham's Row, fonrdoo a
west of Graham & Coy n ton's store. Nov. 10.
rpHfrs J McCULLOCGH, Atto.st-at-Law,
X Clearfield, Pa. All legal bnsinesa prompt
ly attended to. Oct. 27. 18.
ItrM. REED.
Market Street, Clearfield. Pa.,
V Fanny Dry Uoods. White Geeda.
rioiiooa.
Embroideries, Ladies' and Genu' Famishing
Hood, etc June 1,'7Q.
A I. SI! AW, Dealer in Drug. Patent Medicines,
. Fancy Articles, etc.. and Proprietor of Dr.
boyer's West Branch Bitters, Market Street,
Clearfield, l a Jan 14, 70.
F.
B READ, M. D., PsrsiriA and 6cbgos
Kyiartowa. Pa., respectful! offers his oro-
iummudbi Kervicea ;o tne citizens or tnat place ana
orroundinsr country. Apr. 2(Mlm.
CKRATZER, Dealer in Dry-Goods. Clothing,
; Hardware, Qaeensware, Groceries, Provi
sions, etc.. Market Street, nearly opposite tha
Court House, Clearfield, Pa. June, lSf.5.
JB M'EX ALLY, Attorney at Law. Clearfield
. Pa. Practicos in Clearfield and adjoining
lounties. Office in new brick building of J. Both
t m, 2d street, on door south of Lanieh's Hotel.
I TEST, Attorney at Law. Clearfield, Pa., will
. attend promptly to all Legal business entreat
ed to his care in Clearfield and adjoining coun
ties. Office on Market street. July 17, 1867.
rnliOMAS H. FOKCEY. Dealer In Eqnar and
J Sawed Lumber, Dry-Goods. Queensware, Gro
ceries. Flour. Grain, Feed, Bacon, Ao., Ao., Gra
hamton. Clearfield county, Pa. Oct 19.
HARTSWICK A IRWIN. Dealers in Drags,
Medicines. Paints. Oils. Stationary. Perfume
ry, iancy Goods, Notions, etc., etc.. Market street.
Clearfield. Pa Dee. 6. 1885.
- .
I KRATZER A EON, dealers in Dry Goods,
V J. Clothing. Hardware. Qaeensware. Groee-.
ries, Provisions, Ac, Second Street Clearfield,
Paj Dee. 27, 188S.
JOHN GUELICH. Manafaotnrer of all kinds o-Cabinet-ware,
Market street. Clearfield, Pa
Ho also makes to order Coffins, on abort notice, and
attends funerals with a hearse. AprlS,'59.
RICHARD MOSSOP, Dealer in Foreign and D
mestio Dry Goods, Groceries. Flour, Baoen,
Liquors. Ac. Room, on Market street, a few doors
west ot J ournal OJiet, Clearfield, Pa. Apr27.
"TTTALLACB A FIELDING, ATroawBTS at Lav
Clearfield, Pa. Offio in residence of W. A.
Wallace Legal business of aU ainds attended to.
with promptness and fidelity. (Jan.5,'70-yp
', A. WlLLiri. FBAia riELBIHO
W. SMITH, Atto&hbt At Law, Clearfield
Pa., will attend promptly to business en
trus'ed to bis care, umc en second Boor x Bw
building adjoining County National Bans, and.
noarly opposite the Court House. June 30, '69
FREDERICK LEITZINGER, Manufacturer ef
all kinds of Stone-war. Clearfield. Pa. Or
ders lolicited wholesale or retail. He alsokeepsi
on band and for sale an assortment of earthen
ware, of his own mannfaetnr. Jan.I,8S3
MANSION HOUSE. Clearfield, Pa This,
well known hotel, near the Court House, ia
worthy the patronas ofthepublie. The table
will be supplied with tha best in th market. Tho
best of liquors kept. JOHN DOUGHERTY.
JOHN H. FULFORD, Attorney at Law, Clear
field. Pa. Office on Market Street, over
Uartswick A Irwin's Drug Store. Prompt attention,
given to tb securingofDounty claims, Ae.,and to
all legal business. March 27, 1887.
A I THORN, M. D., Physician aktv
xx- Shroeon. having located at Kylertown,
Pa., offers his professional services to the eiti
sens ot that place and vicinity. Sep.29-ly
W ALBERT, t ERO'S..DeaIrs in Dry Goods,
, Groceries, Hard ware. Queensware. Flonr Ba
con, etc.. Woodland. Clearfield oounty. Pa. Also
extenfive dealers in all kindsof sawed lumber
shingles, and square timber. Orders solicited.
Woodland, Pi.,Aug. 19th, I8B3
.I)R83d
P. BCRCnFfELD Late Surareon of the.
83d Rog't Penn'a Vols., having returned
from the army, offers his professional services to
the citizens of Clearfield and vicinity. Profes
sional calls promptly attended to. Office on.
South-East corner of 3d and Market Streets.
Oct. 4. 1S65 6mp.
(SURVEYOR. The undersigned offersr
his services to the public, as a Surveyor.
II may b found at his residence ia Lawienc
township, when not engaged; or addressed by
lerter at Clearfield, Penn'a:
Maroh GtU, 1867.-tf. J4ME5 MITCHELL.
JEFFERSON L I T Z, M. D.,
Physician and Surgeon,
Having located at Osceola. Pa., offers his profes
sional services to th people of that place and sur
rounding, country. All calls promptly attended
to. Office and residence on Curtin Street, former
ly occupied by Dr. Klin. May 19, '89.
GEORGE C. KIRK. Justin of th Peace. Sur
veyor and Conveyancer. Luthersburg. Pa.
All business entrusted to him will be promptly at
tended to. Persona wishing to employ a Survey
or will do well to give him a call, as h flatters
himself thstt h can render satisfaction. Deeds
of conveyance, articles of agreement, and all legal
papers promptly and neatly executed JeS'70-yp
A L L A C A WALTZKB.
Rbal Estatb Acbxts ad Coittbtabcbbi,
Clarfild, Pa
- Real estate bought and sold, titles examined,
taxes paid, conveyances prepared, and insuran
ces taceu.
Office in new building, nearly opposite Conri
Hous. Jan 1870.
w. A. W M.LAC i. 1I.4XB WALTBKS.
OOLDIERS' BOUNTIES. Arecentbill
has ia.ssed both IIonesof Conrrew.and
signed by the President, giving soldiers wbe en
listed prior to 22d July. 1361. served on year r
more and war honorably discharged, a boaaty
of".
CifBonntics and Pensions sellected by at far
thosntitlcd to them.
WALTER BARRETT, Att'y at Law.
Aug. 15th, 1864. Clearfild,Pa.
T K. BOTTORF'i
PHOTOGRA PH OA LLER T,
If ABC BT STRBST, CtBABVIBtO, B!B'A.
Negatives mad in cloudy as wH as In . lsr
weather Censtantlv n hand a good assortment
of Frames. Stereoscopes and btereoeeopi VUws.
Frames from any styl of moulding, mad U
orf. 'cHKOMbS 'a SPECIALITY.
Dee, a.'68-jy- l-fi-tf- - '
RANKING A COLLECTION OFFICE
' McGIRK A PKRR9,
eeassora to FosUr. Parks, Wright A C.,
PaiLir lavas, Cbbtbb Co., Pa.
Wher aU th basin ef a Banaing Hus
will b transacted promptly and apoa th xet
fvrbl Unxta. MarA M.-tf.
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