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S RMS. I $200 IX ADVAXCE
OLUME 8.
EBENSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1867.
NUMBER 44;
LIAM KITTKLL, Attorney at
ik Law, Ebensburg, Pa.
724, 1-Ci.
3X PENLON, Attorney at Law,
Ebensburg, Pa.
-0:uce opposite the Bank. jan24
J -
EOKGE M. KEADE, Attorney at
Law, Ebensburg, P-.
05ce in Colonnade Rv jis Dan-4
iTTlEKNEY, AtHat Law,
F.beusburir, Cambria fty, Ta.
()2ice in ColonnadeJ f rjan.4
TNSlON'&SCANL (Attorneys
at Law, Ebensbari.
UiiiCC
- riiin'J41 iC
r
TES C EASLY,
rarrolltown, C.iia
,iitCCturai i.rawiii
ie fX8. 8CA5LAN.
f at Law.
November.
Tbe leaves begin to flutter down
And scud away across the lea;
I quit awhile tbe busy town
To wander in tbe woodlands free,
And watch the sunbeama ripple o'er,
In nr.mic wares, and tint with gold,
The heather bells upon the moor,
Ere they their tender blooms unfold.
I pass along with stealthy tread,
For all around me, brown and sere,
The crispy leaves, their beauty fled,
Are sad mementoes ofVe year ;
Like human hearty once bright and fair,
So happy iu their hope and pride,
But chilled and smote by worldly care,
Like leaves unmourned, lie side by side.
L j. S HOE MAKER, Attorney at
! h Uw, Ebousburg, pa.
' -a'ar attentia' to r,llections.
' oue t'oo; -'gainloyd & Co.'s
i i
'Voiles i
V. - . I
Lruv. Ebc-usbu
!. v. cot of Foster's x
.,; jr.'.ctife in the Lou
r -
now cnivttorncv at
lo produce U5Sh
O five P,,Virifl. and
..il:r3
ttends aiso to the collection of claiai?
xinit tbe Government. Jjan4
:OUGi: V,r. 0 ATM AN, Attorney at
Law and Ciaka Agtnt, Ebensburg,
.rl.i county, I'a.
l'cnji-jcs, Back Par and Bounty, cud
' j ,- Claiias collected. R?al Eitjvte
'.'.",! -o! J, and p-yment of Tv.xcs at
"' L'.ook Accounts, Notes, Doe Hills,
. .:. io., collected. Deed;, Mortgn
te. Lptt.-r3 of Attorney, Honda,
;'(';. writtc-n, Mid all !ejal business
Vi "iiti-a-led to. Pcusluns increased,
tii'ul supply of the latter, and generally
of both. A wedding without "toddy,"
"flip," "sling," or "punch,' with rum
undisguised in abundance, woula nave
been deemed a poor, mean affair, even
among the penniless; while the more for
tunate and thrifty ot course dispensed
wine, brandy and gin iu profusion. Dan
cing almost the only pastime wherein
the sexs jointly participated was always
enlivened aud stimulated by liquor. Mili
tia trainings then rigidly - enforced at
least twice a year niually wound up with
a drinking frolic at the 'village tavern.
Election days were drinking days, as they
still too commonly are J and even funerals
were regarded aa inadequately celebrated
without the dispensing ot spirituous con
solation ; eo that I distinctly recollect the
neighborhood . talk alter the luoeral .ot a
poor man's child, that, if he had not been
mean as well as poor, he would have
cheered the hearts of his sympathizing
fiieuds by treating them to at least one
gallon of rum. 1 have heard my latner
say that he had mowed through the hay-
mg season ot thirty successive years, anj
never a day without liquor j and the ac
count of an Irishman who mowed ana
HORACE GBEELY AND TEMPERANCE, pitched throughout one h vs-d"8
rli hiiHormdl' tchilo h is associates dran
W ' W- --u - " -
rum, yet accomplished more and with less
fatigue than any ot them was received
Atto-
ahadtoberesn'AUearCRry winiercoraesapaco, , 3
TO Irignl tne oiossoms irom uie iauu,
And . all their sweets shall find a place
Where ruins crumble into sand.
Eat life shall raise ihem up egain
To bloom afresh, these tender floivcrs,
When diiisies white impearl the plain
And vroo to earth the Bummer hours.
- Horace Greely, in his LeJ'jer papers,
has the following chapter on "iemper
aoce in All Things :"
On the 2m day of January, 1824,
whi!e living in Wesihaveu, t., I ueliber
ateiy rcsoived to urmk no more spirituous
I liquors. At this time, I had heard of
persons who had made a kindred resolve,
. untv coilccieu.
jan24
i" i'EVEUEAUX, M. D., Physician
and Surgeon, Summit, Pa.
- O'llce east of Mans'on Ilouit, on Ruil
'.;ect. Night ckIIj promptly attended
:,: ,i:kc. may 23
with as much wondering incredulity as
though it had been certified that he lived
w holly on air. Nay : wo had an ordina
tion la Amherst nearly fifty years ago,
settling an able and popular youug clergy
man named Lord (L belice he :s uow the
i - .
but X Uuvj not knowu oae. I probabK I venerable ex-presiuent ot JJarttaoutu Loi-
had heard that J emperanca societies had lege) to tne bignai saiisiacnon oi inegreai
somewhere been formed, though I do not
now distinctly recollect the circumstance
1 believe the first American society that
adopted the principles of lotal Abstt
uence at least irom uistuied iiquor?
body of our people j and, according to
my recollection, strong drink was more
generally and bountifully dispensed thau
on auy previous occasion : bottles aud
glasses being set on tables in front of
had been orgaiized in a rural township of I many farmers houses as an invitation to
Saratoga count v, iN. 1 .. in 1817 : but the those who. passed on tneir way to or irom
mencan lemperance bcciety was yet the installation to stop, ana arms ireeiy
;:L. iE WITT ZElGLElt
il.-.vinp; permanently located in Ebens
. ci crs his professional services to the
of 'own and vicirity.
-iu extracted, tcithout j'aJ", with Xitrou;
: or Laii;hiv? Ga.
'-itoorol over R. U. Thomas' stor?, Hii?h
1 scpl&
unknown, and did not adopt the princi
ple of total abstinence from alcoholic
beverages until 1803.
Whiskey was the universal luxury I
might say. the poor man's. only luxury
iu Vermont, as rum hsd""teen in New
Hampshire. The apple tree flourished
luxuriantly, and bore abundantly on the
virjna soils wherein it was Kenerallv
pl&uted: auu while each bettler'n "clear
ing" was shut in by the grand old woods,
which sulteued the harsher winds aud ob-
S
) 1a undersigued, Graduate of the Bal-
a'-t- V'.'.'ge of Dtnta.1 Surgery, respectfully
'en Lis rrofeasional services to the citizens
tlcn.'uurg. lie has spared no m-ans to ; structcd the dissemination of fruit destroy-
j iug iutects. Good peaches were rown
! in southern Now Ilarupshire fifty years
ago; wnereas they can no longer btj pro-
uuoci, save rarely and cantily, m sauth
cru New York. Cider was, ucxt lo water,
the nro-t abundant and the cheapen: fluid
to be d m Nv.v llauipshu e, v. bile 1
liv-i ti.e:c oit'.u scUiog tor a dollar per
barrel. Iu many a family of nix or ei-ht
persju?, a barrel tapped or Saturday bare
ly lasted a full week. Whoever dropped
in of au evening expected to bj treated
to ci'lfr ; a mug, one a emptied, was quick
ly refilled; and eo on, until every one was
about as lull u3 he could hold. The tran
sition fioa cider to warmer and more po
(eut stimulants was easy and natural; so
that whole families died drunkards and
vagabond paupers from the itnpetu first
given by eider bwiiliug iu their rural
homes.
1 believe I was five years old when my
grandfather Wodburu's house in Lon
donderry was, one winter day, filled with
relatives, (rathercd, in good part, from
Deering, Wiudham, and from Vermont
towns originally settled from the old hive;
who, after dinner, departed in thir sleighs
to visit some' other relative, taking our
old foika with them, and leaving but three
or four Jittle boys of us to keep house till
tneir return, numoer ox nair smoked
cigars wore left on the mautel, aud some
evil genius bugtjested to u tow headed
urchins that it would be mart and clever
to indulge in a general smoke. Like
.'rculii v acquaint unnselt wita every nu-
.-.eut in his art. To many years ot per- j
il experience, he has sought to adi tbe ;
?:i:t-?d experience ot the highest authorities
lYnt.it Science. He himpiy asis that an j
-tunity may be ghca for his work to
:;s owe unki.-.e. !
- SAMUEL P. ELF Oil D, D. D. S. I
l-:ices: Prof. C. A. Harris ; T. E. 3oad,
; W. 11. iiandy; A. A. B!.muy,P. JI. Aus- j
.. of v-.f Uatiaore College. i
beat Luensburg on tne lourrli i
r.iiv ot each month, to stay one wiek. !
January 21, 1S07. j
LUl'lJ & CO., iSaiJwrs
1U LiiUNsnrau, 1 a.
"isr'J'.'M, Silver, Government Loans and
"': -turities bought and sold. Interest
''-"tJ Ou Time Deposits. Collections made
A.''.':eiaibli points in the United States,
-I General llai.king Business transacted.
r M. LLOYD !c Co., timbers
: Altoo.na. Pa.
ra.'is or. the principal cities, and Silver
Gobi for s:de. Collections made. Mon
rtceived on deposit, payable on deinund,
-'jut interest, or upon time, with interest
t i J.tes. . . " jan2 1
v. i.lovi( Jyns,ti f Jons llotd, Cashier.
UliT NATIONAL HANK
::. v. OP ALTO ON A.
GOVEnX.VEXTACLWCr, .
AS?
1 IONATED DErtMTORY OT THE UNI-
: TED STATES,
'i Corner Vfrginia and Acnio Bts., North
:j, Altoona, Pa.
Hor2ED Capital,.. $300,000 00
aVA?iTAi. Paid ix lO.vOO CO
uis i,e;s ncrtaininsr to Banking done on . . . ' . '. . "aouJ
t38 tickest mortal ou the lace of this
pianet. I caunot say as to my comrades
in thio folly; but that half-inch of cigar
fctuuso will last me all my life, though its
years fhould outnumber Methuselah's.
Fur a decade thereafter, it was often my
filial duty to fill and light my mother's
pipe, when she had lain down for her
alter dinner nap ; and she, having taken
it, would hold it and talk till the fire had
t;or.c out, so that it must agaiu be lighted
anu urawn till the tobacco was well I2M
s i.e;s pertaining to
i o
. V e U u i1
harul.
Stamps of nil denomina-
i of SfrT2!?. percent!' jre, iu
f' ps, nil: U allowed, as follows : $00 to
k 1 l. . ; iu v-vu, o vr IT.'!'..
",)w.u.3, 4 per cent. jan'24
-J aul
RES J. LLOYD,
V . n r T
successor cj A. o. Jsiinn,
Dealer ia
DRTJC' S AND MEDICINES, PAINTS,
J'W, AND DYE-STUFFS, PKUFUME
'' AND FANCY ARTICLES, PUKE
'll-F.S AND li RAND IKS FOR ' MKDI
1't'lU'OSES, PATENT MEDICINES', kc.
Al'o :
Cap, and Note Papers,
Pena, Pencile, Superior Ink,
And othtr articles kept '
. hv n
b i ian
P SUAltliETTS DVSEIIT.' limine.
f. r'.t-"' ",e,'tal 2'ainting, Grain
1 Kii ark ilnnc r ..
:tn , cuui i notice, and satis
iCCU. on on
a Hall, Ebensburg, pa.
via uoue on thurtn
. my9.Cm
CU1UEL SINGLETON, Notarv Tub-
on High itreet, west of Poster's Ho
' Man24
WAVE YOU SUBSCRIBED TOB
We have worse liquor now than we had
then, and delirium tremens, apoplexy,
palsy, &c, come sooner and otteuer to
those whouse) it; but our consumers of
strong drink are a class; whereas thy
were then the whole people. The pious
probably drank more discreetly than the
ungodly ; but tbey all drank to their own
satisfaction, and (,1 judge) more than was
consistent with their own good.
My resolve not to drink wass'only men-tionf-d
by me at-our own fireside ; but it
somehow became known in the neighbor
hood, where it excited some curiosity, and
even a stronger feeling- At tho annual
sheep-washing in Juuo following, it v.as
brought forward aud condemned, when I
was required to take a gluss oi licuor, and,
on my u-.cliui.ig, was held by two or three
you;: inters older and strouiier than 1,
ibo liquor was turned into my
mouth, and touie of it forced down my
throat. Tiiat was understood to be the
end of my foolish attempt at singularity.
it was not. however. I kept quiet, but
my resolution was unchanged ; and soon
alter my removal to Poulmey, I "assist
ed" in organizing the fiist Temperance
Society ever formed in that town per
haps the first iu the country.
it inhibited the use of dissilled liquors
ouly, so that I believe our first President
died of intemperance eome years after
ward ; but a number t-tiil live to rejoice
that they took part in that movement aud
have fciuce remained faithful to its pledge
aud purpose. I recollect a story told by
our adversaries at that time of a man who
had joined the- Temperance Society just
organized in a neighboring township, and,
dying soon alterward, had been subjected
to autopsy, which developed a cake of ice,
weighing several pounds, which had grad
ually formed and increased in his stomach,
as a result of his fanatical devotion to cold
water. Alas i that most of our facetious
critics have since died, and no autopsy
was needed to develop the cause of their
departure ! A glance at each fiery pro
boscis, that irradiated even the cerements
of the grave, was MiilicicDt.
Total Abstinence has never yet been
popular in this nor any other great city ;
and, as liquor grows unfashionable in the
couutry, it tends to becomo less and less
so. A great ci'y derives its subsistence
and its profits from its ministrations net
only to the real needs of the surrouudiug
country, but to its baser appetites, its
viccsas. well; aud, as the country be
comes less. aud less tolerant of immoral
indulgences and vicious aberrations, the
by hieing to some great city where; no
one's deeds or ways h re observed or inucb
regarded so long as he keeps out of the
hands of the. police, and there balance a
year's compelled decorum by a week's un
restrained debauchery. l?ilty years back,
a jug would readily be filled with any
designated liquor at almost any country
store; now the devotee cf alcoholic pota
tions must usually send or take his demi
john to the most convenient city, where
it will at once be filled and dispatched to
its impatient, thirsty owner; and so, as
the liquor interest grows weaker and
weaker, in tbe country, it becomes strong
er and yet stronger in the cities, whose
politics! it ' fashions, whose government it
goveriw, by virtue of its inherent strensjth
and apprehensive activity. And thus the
xjrtqi iraciq, Das greater strength and
vitality in our city to-day thau is nad
twenty, or forty years ago.! -
Sylvester Graham first appeared in New
York as a lecturer, I think, in tbe winter
of 1831-2. He had been a Presbyterian
clergyman settled in New Jersey, aud was
styled VX?r.," thrragh I do not know that
he ever studied or practiced medicine.
He had an active, inquiring mind, and a
considerable knowledge of physics, meta
physics, and theology ; he was a fluent
and forcible though diffuse and egotistical
speaker, abd he was possessed and im
pelled by definite convictions, fie vras at
home in single combat alike with Alcohol
and Atheism; but there wa3 nothing nar
row in his Temperance nor in his Ortho
doxy. . He believed, therefore taught,
that Health is the necessary result of
obedience, Disease of disobedience, to
physical laws ; that all stimulants, wheth
er alcoholic or narcotic, are pernicious,
and should be rejected, save, possibly, in
those rare cases where one poison may be
wisely employed to neutralize another; he
condemned Tea aud Coffee, as well as To
bacco, Opium, and alcoholic potables
Cider and Beer equally with Brandy and
Gin, save that the poison is more concen
trated in the latter. He disapproved of
all spices and condiments, fave grudging
ly a very little salt; and he held that
more suitable and wholesome food for
human beings than the flesh of animals
can almost always be procured, and sho'd
be preferred. The bolting of meal, to
separate its coarser from its finer parti-
soned food; whilo all the Goaghs and
JNeal Jotf i that C7erweveor can be scared -1
up will not deter the bodv rjolitie from
r
p juring down its throat a good deal more
'.'fire-water" than is sood for it. And.
while I look with interest on all attempts
to substitute American wines and malt
liquors for the more concentrated and
maddening decoctions of the still, I have
noted no such permanent triumphs in the
thousand past attempts to cast out big
devils by the incantation of little ones os
would give me reason to put faith in tho
principle or augur success for this latest
experiment.
Schuyler Colfax.
c:es
A printing office has been called ube
poor boy's college." Handling the' type
i pcrpcttral ductlcn ia. spelling and
grammar, and affords a fine chance topici
up general knowledge. Lver since Ben.
Franklin's time, it has been uoticod that
printer boys who improved their minds
and took the right tutu in life became
useful men, and some cf them famous.
Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana, Speaker
ot the United States House of llepressa
tatives, is the most shining example since
Franklin of a printer boy rising to a high
place by self-help, honesty, and perseve
rance. He was born in New York city ;
but hi9 mother being left a poor widow
there when Schuyler was a boy of thir
teen years, she took him from the public
schools and removed to the West, that
land of promise. This was iu the year
183G. The family settled in Northern
Indiana, and Schuyler began work 3 c
printer's apprentice. He was neat and
cheerful, and became a. very good work
man. His small eamiogs' wcio the main
stay ot his mother; aud he never wasted
a cent for tobacco, or strong drink, or Jow
amusements
When Schuyler wes twenty-cne 3'ears
old, some, friends set him up in a printing
office of his own, as publisher and editor
of the JSt. Joseph Valley Rejislcr at South
Bend. He had saved a little money from
his watres, and got trusted for tho remain
der,
t
pUUil-S
Iy
"forehanded." Yet he had to take all
Ecrt cf barter for his paper wood, onion?,
thousaud four' hundred and two votes
the srsailest being given in 1S62, when
many hundreds ot his warmest supporters
were in the Union errniss Sghtinz against
the rebellion, urgad so to do hy his clarion
voice, but he losing their votes thereby.
Last year he ws re-elected by two thou
sand one hundred aodK forty-eight majori
ty, in the largest rote ever cast in his dis
trict. .
MrV Colfax is now serving bis third
term as Speaker of the House; having
reachea the summit of his ambition at
forty years of age. Tn that high placo
he is" so prompt, just, fair, courteous, and
"well posted," that his political adversa
ries join in a vote of thanks for his offi
cial services. .
.asexvsnder Selkirk
Alexander Selkirk, the original Robin
son Crusoe, wa3 born' at Largo, in " th
north of Scotland, in 1676. Having gon
to sea in Iu3 youth, and in the year 1703.
being sailing-master of the Bhip Cinque
Ports, Capt. Strnding, bound for the South
Seas, he was put ou shoro on the island
of Juan Fernandez as a punishment for
mutiny. In that politude, he remained
four years and four month', when he was
rescued and taken to England by Capt.
Woods llodgcrs. He had with him oa
the isbud b's clothes and bedding, a fire
lock, some powder, bullets, and robacso, s
hatthet, kuife, kettle, his mathematical
instruments, in.d a Bible, lie built two
huts of pimetto trees, and covered them
with long grass, and in z short time lined
them with skins of goats, which he killed
with his musket sa long as his powder
lasted ; when that was spent, he oaiigbt
them by speed ot loot. Having learned
to produce fire by rubbing two pieces of
wood together, he dressed hi3 victuals in
one of hU huts, and slept in tbt otierv
A mu!tituJe of rat3 disturbed his repose
by gnawing at his feet and various patta
cf his body, which induced bin la feed a
number ot cats for bis prelection. In a
short lime, these became so tams that
they would lie about him in hundreds.
. - For more than tr?enty years hs ar' u'c7 soon aenverea Dim irom 01s en-
ned the ic-ntttert a good-sued wees- -- ju w cjt-
naoer. and raid all his debts, and sot msatwn, ne assiareu mac notning gav
he also reprobated ; teaching that ! a quarter of veal, nd a day's work tn bis
the-ripe, icuiw- berry of Wheat or Iyc, t garden, money being then fcarce in the
being ground to the requisite fineness, West. Beaver skins were not many years
should in no manner be sifted, but should ago tho small change cf the frontiers,
ted; so 1 ktiow that, if I had not been j gaius of tho cities therefore, and their
should have learned to like the soothing
weed ; but I never used, nor wuhed to
use it a3 a sedative or a luxury after my
one juvenile and thoroughly conclusive
experiment. From that hour to t hi.-, the
chewing, smoking, or snuffing of tobacco
ha3 seemed to me, if not the most perni
cious, certainly the vileat, most detestable
abu?e of bis corrupted sensual appetites
whereof depraved inau is capable.
In my childhood, there was no merry
making, there was no entertainment of
relatives or friends, there was scarcely a
casual gatheriug of two or three neighbors
for an evening' social chat, without strong
drink. Cider, always, while it remained
drinkable without severe contortions of
v'usagt, ;um at all seasons and on all occa
sions, were required and provided. No
hocw cr barn wbb raised without a booa-
cousequent interest therein, most steadily
mcrease. lime was when the young man
of means and fecial position, who Ehunned
the haunts of the gamester, the wiles of
the libertine, and never indulged in a
drunken "apree," was widely sneered at
as a "milksop," or detested as a calcula
ting hypocrite. Sheridan's Joseph Sur
face admirably reflects the once popular
appreciation of such absurd, fanatical
Puritanism ; but as the world grow wiser
and (in an important sense) better, a great
though silent change is wrought in public
sentiment, which compels the vicious to
conceal indulgences which they formerly
paraded, and maintain an exterior decen
cy which would once bavo exposed them
to ridicule- Thousands who. formerly
cratified their baser appetite without dis
guise or shame, now feel constrained, cot
to "leave aodcue, but to Jceep UnKnown,
be; made into loaves and eaten precisely as
the mill-stoues deliver it. Such is, in
brief, "the Graham system," as I heard it
expounded in successive lectures by its
author, and fortified by evidenco and
reaOwing which commanded my 'general
absent. A boarding-house was sooa es
tablished, baaed on it principle?, and I
became an inmate thereof, as well as of
others afterward ba-:ed on the same gen
eral ilea, though I never wholly rejected
the use ot meat. Tea I never cared for,
and I used none at all for a quarter of a
century ; now, I sometimes take it in
moderation, when black and very good.
Coffee had for years been my chief luxu
ry ; coffee without breakfast being far
preferable to my tato to breakfast with
out coffee. But, having drunk a cup of
it one evening at a festive board, I woke
next morning to find my hand trembling,
and I at once said, "No more coffee !'' and
have not drunk it since. My taste grad
ually changed thereafter, so .hat I soon
ceased to crave and now thoroughly dis
like the beverage. And, while I eat
meat, and deem it, when unspoiled by
decay or bad cookery, far less objection
able than hot bread, rancid butter, de
cayed fruits, wilted vegetables, and too
many other contributions to cur ordiuary
diet, I profoundly believe that there is
better food obtainable by the great body
of mankind than the butcher and the
fisherman do or can supply, and that a
diet made up of some sound grain (ground
but uubolted), ripe, undecayed fruits, aud
a variety of fresh, wholesome vegetables,
with milk, butter, and cheese, and very
little of spices or condiments, will enable
our grandchildren to live in the average
far longer and fall less frequently into the
hands of the doctors than we do.
' My wife, whose acquaintance I made at
the Graham House, and who was long a
more faithful, consistent disciple of Gra
ham than I was, in our years of extreme
poverty kept her house in 6trict accord
ance with her convictions, never even
deigning an explanation to her friends
and relatives who from time to time vis
ited and temporarily sojourned with U3 ;
and, as politeness usually repressed com
plaint or inquiry on their part, their first
experiences of a regimen which dispensed
with all they deemed most appetizing
could hardlv hi observed without a smile.
v r ,
Usually, a day, or at most two, ot oeans
and potatoes, boiled rice, puddings, bread
and butter, with no condiment but salt,
and never a pickle, was all thoy could
abide; so, bidding her a kind adieu, eaoh
in turu departed to seek elsewhere a more
congenial hospitality.
On the whole, I am satisfied, by the
observation and experience of a third of
a century, that all puDiio danger lies in
the direction opposite to that cf vegeta
rianism thai a thousand fresh Grahams
let loose eaoh year upon the publio will
not prevent the con6usjptioa, in the aver
. age, of far too adj and too bigbljr
among the hunters and pioneers, just as
bullets were among the Pilgrim Fathers.
People must have some medium for trade,
or ail business would die. Mr. Colfax
lost the tjiv tor a. cre.it many 01 h;s na
because his subscribers had no man-
h thicks as
pen,
ev. and he did not wan: ?u
they were able to barter with him
Mr. Colfax made a good newspaper for
country people. He told them first the
news of his own village and State, then of
the world abroad, and lastly gave them
hints how to improve the mind. He
lived where farmi.ig was the 'jhief pur
suit ; and the HryLter always contained a
column or two lor the farmer. Though
ho came from a great city, ho never put
0:1 city airs," or thought himself any bet
ter or wiser than men born and brought
up in rural district?. He was kind, obli
ging, and sociable with every oae, and
made friends everywhere. t is said that
tho high cjiopliment has been paid him
in North Indiana of naming over twe
huudred boy-babies after him.
From early childhood Mr. Colfax had
a single ambition, and it was to be Spea
ker of tho United States House of llep
resentatives. He practiced oratory at
school, in debating societies, aud public
meetings. While t-etting type in priuting
offices, he would commit to memory elo
quent passages which he met with in his
"copy," as he swiftly formed letters iuto
words, and words iuto sentences; and he
would declaim those passages to Lis moth
er alter his day's work was douo. lieing
a handsome youth, about medium siza,
with blight eyes and a clear voic?, he be
came an attractive fepcaker at an early
age. -To-day he is one of the inot olur
ming orators of America. He is a hard
student in gathering facts aud forming
ideas, rind an easy sneaker in telling what
j
he has learned, liis training a
made him correct and cXtct ; and his flu
ency of tongue and his kindly feeling
gave him sirong hold upon an audience.
He causes them to laugh and weep by
turns, and he never wearies them.
He learns by seinj and not alone by
reading and talking. Many persons go
through tho world with their eyes half
shut to the curious things in uature and
life, but it is not 60 with Mr. Colfax. He
has taken a journey by land to California
and back ; and his lecture, "Across the
Continent, which he has spoken to thou
sands of people, shows keen observation
of, and power to describe, the grandeur of
American scenery and tho oddities of so
ciety in tho far, far west.
At the early age of twenty-seven Mr.
Colfax was elected a member of the Con
vention to revise the Stare Constitution of
Indiana. Ho did so well in that capacity,
that foar years later he was elected a mem
ber of the United States House of Repre
sentatives by a ir&joriry of seventeen hun
dred and sixty-eix votsa. He has been
sis times re-eleoted, by majorities ranging
frcta two bnadrrl iad ttity 2123 to tarea
him so much uneasiness as the
that when he died his body would be de
voured by those very cats which he had
rfith so much care tamed and fed. To
divert his mind from such melancholy
thoughts, he would sometimes dance aud
sing among his kids and gcats, and at
other times retire to devotion. His clo
thing and shoes were poon worn out by
running through the woods. In tho want
of shoes he found little inconvenience, as
the soles of his feet becamo to hard that
he could run everywhere without difficul
ty. As to Clothes, he mado himself a
coat and a cap of goat-skins, sewed with
thongs of the same. His only needle wa
a nail. When his knife was worn to tha
back, ho made others as well as he could
out of some iron hoops that had been left
c;i the i-hure, beating them thin and then
grinding them on stone;-. By his long
seclusion from intercourse with man, ha
hid so far forgot the use of speeoh that
those oa board Capt. Rodger's ship could
hardly understand him, f.ir he seemed to
speak his words by halves. The chest
and musket which Selkirk had with him
on the island are now in possession of his
grand nephew, John Selkirk, at Largo.
The Tv?o Merchants. When trade
grew slack and notes fell dae, the mer
chant's face grew long and bine; his
dreams were troubled through the night
with sheriff's bailiffs alliu sight. At last
his wife unto him said : rise up at once,
get cut cf bed, and get your paper, ink,
aud pen, and tay these words unto all
men :
"My goods I wish to sell to you, and to
your wives and daughters, too ; my prices
they fchali be eo io;v, that each will buy
before they go V
Ho did as liia good ttifa edvised, and ia
the papers advertised. Crowds came and
bought cf all he had ; his notes were paid,
his drcani3 made glad, and he will tell
you, to this day, how well did printer'
ink repay;
lie told Us this, with a knowing wink.
s a rrinter ' bw he was saved by printer's ink.
xne Glue, iu a place- as ngni, consent
ed was the press to slight, aud did not let
the people know cf what he Lad or whtrd
to gf.
His drafts fell dae and were not paid ;
a levy od his good's was made ; the store
was cLsed until the sals, end for some
timo he was" in jail. A bankrupt now
without a cent, at leisure he can deep re
pent tliat he was foolish and unwise, and
did not freely advertise.
It is a fitting rebuke to those who have
fed and fattened on exaggerations of tho
trouble between Senator Sumner and his
wife that they will occupy during the
coming session of Congress the residence
iu which they formerly lived.
It i3 said that at a little New England
town where Sheridan stopped a few min
utes, the girls expressed their admiration
by kisse3. One iass failed to reach his
lips. "It was a miss," said Sheridan,
"but a good line shot."
A FaENOH woman whosa hair grows,
twelvo inches a year has raaiixed lenx
baadrsd dollar frcu its t
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