B. F. SCHWEIER, THX C05STITDTIOH TH1 TOWS AHD IH1 K9Y0KCIHZKT OF IH1 LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXIX. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA., DECEMBER 15. 1875. NO. 50. AKGELUS. bt trui gooupor. Softly drops th crimson sun ; Softly dawn from overhead. Prop the bell note ooe bj oue. Melting in the melting red. Call to angel ears unsleeping. "Day is done ; the nujht is dread ; Take the world in care aod keeping. "Set the white robed sentries dose, Wrap our want and weariness In the surety of re puoe ; . Let the ahiuing Preaen::-. Bearing fragrance on their wingn. Stand about our beds to blcas. Fright away all evil thing. ' "Bays of Hun whose shadow pour Through dark Uvea a brimming glorr. Float oer lonesome woods and rooms ! ' Float above the pillows hoary ! Sbine through niht and storm and sin. Tangh-d fate and bitter atorr. Guide the lout and wandering in." Kow the last red ray is gone, Now the twilight shadows hie ; Still the bell notes, one by one. Drop and spread and seek the sky. Praying, as with hnman hp ; "Angels, hearken ! Night is nigh ! Take as to thy guardianship." After Many. Years. "Well, darling,"" I Said, catching her two hands in mine, as we met under the trees in the loveliest corner of the square. 1 had no other words, and she did not need any. "The old story," looking up at me, just a glance that showed her pretty eyes had been crying. "I I'm here, Shirley." Do you guess what those three words meaut ? That Edna Vedery, before the tirst star looked out of the opal sky aliove us, would lie my wile. It was the old story, you s-e a pen- niless lover, a true-hearted little woman clinging to her faith, and a iareiital I curse impending over both our heads, 1 drew her hand tight through my arm, and we walked away very quietly, ' for she was tired, and the little hand trembled against my side. She only told uie that she was not afraid, that she loved me, and she would le glad to rest when it was all over, and we two safe and far away together. And so we went on, and were married. Then 1 took home my wife. It was a jtoor home, but she was not afraid to sweeten it with herself, and she had said that she was glad to come. She never sike of her lather and mother, and never seemed to miss them or re gret that 6he had lost them. I never should have known it was a grief to her, but for one day. She met me when I came home at night, with her face all sparkling and her voice unsteady from excitement, and even before she kissed me, cried out : I've seen my mother!" "Y'our mother! Has shebeen here?" t asked. "Yes! Only think how glad I was how surprised'. She came and put her arms around my neck and kissed me, and forgave me," putting her arms around my neck and beginuing to cry in her gladness, "and forgave you too; and she said she couldn't live and lose her only daughter. Oh. Shirley, it was the only thiug more 1 wauled on earth ! I'm so happy, darling." "And your father?" "He couldn't le as kind as she was," said mv little wife, with her cheek on mine. Fillers never are; but she thought she was sure, she said that he'd forgive it all, and that she loved me just the same all the time, and that it would be all right at las?, Shirley. th! aren't you happy too? Look glad ! tell me you're glad, dear; you don't know how I want:-d it!' I was glad, for her sake, God knows; for my own I would never have cared to look on their faces again. But all that was changed now. Mrs. Yedery's carriage rattled day after day down the dull street and stood at Mr. Icompte's door, and Edna I-ecompte was pardoned and Jtetted as if Edna Yedery had never disoleyed. And then we were asked to dine "at home," she and I; and the old man greeted us Imth kindly, and kissed his daughter with two tears in his cold eyes, and seemed to bury our old enmity, as he shook my hand"; and alter that night it was all sunshine between us. But I never ceased to feel an odd chill in my heart like a prophecy or some thing hitter coming between ns. Per hapsit was ltccause instead of growing richer, since I married a wile, I only grew jioorer, and the world outside our little room grew dark and threatening overhead, aud seemed only a cold place for my unborn child to inherit. He came to test Its tender mercies just with the early winter, and, as he came, Edna was very nigh going out forever. She was a delicate little thing and needed so much petting and nurs ing, and tender care my heart ached as many a poor man's has done before me, when I looked in the white little face which had been so rosy when I first took from her home. And instead of growing stronger, she only drooped more, like a flower in the first frost; and the child was as pale as she. There was a season of heavy failures and business losses; firm after firm pve way, and men went home idle, and iny turn came with the rest. And I knelt down by my wife's lied, and looked into her eyes, and told her, and asked her to forgive me the wrong 1 had done in loving her. "IXm't feel so badly, Shirley she whispered. movinr her head on my shoulder. "I know I'm a burden to you, darling; but 11 can't wish it un done; we are so happy still we've got eaeh other and bait v. anil such a loug life yet for all these little troubles to pass awav iu! And it can't last long; you'll get something better than what you lout. lYrliaiw it will be the very liest thing for us, after all, that you should lose this place, aud so be forced to make a change." "Perhaps it's all a chance," I said bitterlv, "and I must sit liere with my hands tied, and vou Edna, they were right! I was a selfish brute to draw you down to this." She clasped her arms around my neck and kissed me and stopped my mouth, and we were silent lor a while, aud the room grew dark in the twilight, "Shirley," she said softly, at last, "would you let my father help you?" "What do vou mean ?" Mamma asked me a month ago if you would leave New Orleans and take a position in my uncle's house in Xew Y'ork. I never told you, because she wanted me to go home theu, Shirley, ami let you go alone, and I couldn't." "Go home!" 1 gathered her closer, the baby in her arms, too. "Child, has it come to that?" "Xo," she whispered softly. It never will; I'll go with you there, or anywhere else on earth, Shirley." "Is it too late to take the oflvr now?' 1 asked, starting up. "Why do you ask if I'll let him help me, Edna? Better that than taking his alms, God knows and I've done that m long. What is this place? Child, I'd almost beg atthe street corner for you, if that ww all !" 44 Will you go and aee papa?" she cried, lighting up all over her wasted little face. "I don't know about It, only that mamma said there might be an opening for you, and it would be much better than your old place, and papa would ne hU influence lor you. Will you go, Shirley?" "Yes, 1 will," I said, stooping down to kiss her. Something was dragging me back all the while holding me fast to the bed side, wi'hiu touch of her little hot hand, and hearing of my baby's sleepy-soft I rent h but I didn't heed it. 1 was desperate, nd her eyes drove me out Into the world, to struggle with it, and win for her sake and I went. So the end of it was that letters went back and forth, and in two weeks from the day that 1 was discharged from my clerkship, I was engaged by the Jiew York house, of which Mr. Vedery's brother was head, at a salary that mould keep Edna safe all the v inter. Only it was a desperate man's undertaking, you know she must be In Xew Or leans, while I was In Xew York. A winter at the north, they said, would kill her, and 1 must not dream of taking her away until she was thor oughly well again. Tli is was the way it happened. They were so glad to take her back they had "forgiven" her so entirely and wanted her so, and they were so fond of little Shirley, 1 ought to have been willing and glad to leave them both in such temlur care. 1 was neither; but I knew it was my duty to give her up, and I did it. I kissed her good-bye at the last. and dragged myself away from her arms that tried to hold me back even then, and the last glimpse I had of wife or child was a little, slender figure at an open window, half buried in white, soft wrappings, holding up a baby, who laughed and sprang in ber arms, and whose little hand she tried to wave to me. Then came the lotielv winter at the north the silent starvation of mv heart through nights and davs. the lon-rins impatience, hope. It only lasted a little while. I knew I should have her in the spring, in a home of our own 1 had planned already. It was in March when her letters, hich had come faithfully all winter on their stated days, failed suddenly. A week went bv without a message from Xew Orleans; and when it came at last it was written in another hand. It was a long letter, but I never read it through. I only read three lines; that told me she was dead, that my baby was buried in her arms, the yeliow fever had broken out in the city, and my two were among the first to go. Her tarents had left Xew Orleans, and be ore their letter reached me would have sailed for England. So I never saw the little, white wrap ped figure and the laughing baby any more. I never saw cither of their parents again. It was ltetter for us all, Mr. Vedery had said that the intercourse should cease with Edna's aud the child's death; and, God knows, I felt so, too. So I lived on in Xew Y'ork alone, and rose in the firm, traveled, and made ! money; and wandered from city to citv . . I . 1 .I.... at lasi, successiui in evcryming mai. i touched, without a trouble or auxiety in life only the burden oi my empty heart. 1 was thirty years old when my darlings died; I had plenty more years to live, and death was still a long way on". People called me a young man still, after my hair was very gray, and I seemed to have grown old and tired down to mv heart's core. And the years went by wearily; and I was forty eight, and my hair white. It was at Fleming's house that I met Harriet Stanhope. She was a cousin of his wife's and an attractive womau not a girl the sort of woman whom every one calls interesting; clever, and culti vated to the utmost, sweet uatured, and adapted and good, with even more than a woman s share oi tact. I had not known her very longbefore I could talk to her of the story that she knew already, and tell her about the day when 1 looked Pack ana saw me little figure in the window holding up mv child for me to see. "Well, you have guessed already, I supitose, at tne ena oi mis oegiiiiiuix. I never loved Harriet Stanhope never. Rut it came to me, slowly at first, and very reluctantly, and then with a great shock, that this woman cared lor me, And I began to think of the possinility of her taking in men's eyes, at least, and to outward seeming Edna's empty place. She was lonely, too, as I was, with no near relatives, no home, and a sorrowlnl outlook Itel'ore her. I never could bear the sight of a solitary and uncared-for woman, and this woman touched an my nitv and sympathy. I save her that and mv friendship most freely and sin- ..r.-lv mid that was all. But I began to think that even without love life might be sweetened a little, and so 1 said to myself that I would marry Her, I diil not resolve hastily. I had known her for two years before I hail thought of it at all, and then it was long before the idea took a definite shape. I was traveling in the West, ami one of the letters which reached me at a large town in Ohio, decided the last doubt that was in mv mind. 1 read it twice, and then walked the floor all night, and lived mv life over In memory, and bed "far into the future to plan out what it would be what it must be if God preserved it and then I sat down to write to Harriet. It was onlv natural that I should dream that night of Edna, She came to me at dawn and stood by the bedside with the child my son, who bore my name and was so like me. And she told me that she had never died at all, but had been waiting for me all these years, and God hail kept her young, and the Itahv was a baby vet only he would call me "father," and the word was ringing In my ears when I woke. I thought of her while dressing, and I went down stairs at last, the letter in my breast pocket, sealed and directed to Harriet, anu was dreaming vi "" older and fairer than she. when into my dream stole a voice, and the sound of inr own name. ""Is everything ready, Shirley dear?" I looked'up. There were two people at the little round table nearest mine a ladv, quietly dressed, as if for travel ing, ill black, without a toucn oi coior, ami a tall, straight, broad-shouldered stripling, with a young face and eyes like hers. I knew they were mother and son before he answered her. "All ready. The train starts in an hour. Y'ou've got nothing at all to do, Mxljme Mere, but to sit anu reaa novel, or look out of the window till I And then thev laughed together. She had a girlish face and jet it was a sor rowful one too. iter eyes were ui l looked into them, and all my youth- time looked back again; and 1 saw the old house, in the old street in Xew Or louns and the face in the window, and heard the baby-hands patting on the window nanes. OlUV two "row a c cs, and a sweet voice, and a man's name spoken softly to call op all that witch ery ' She arose from the table almost that minute. "I don't want the strawberries. Shir ley, I'm going up to my room, and, if you want to read a novel, you must run out and get me one. I've packed every thing, aud I want some light reading for the cars." Her dress was sweeping by my chair as she spoke, and stirred my senses fast asleep for so long came a soft, violet scent. I was going mad, I believe. As if no woman but Edna Lecompte had ever uttered that faint, subtle perfume! 1 started up and strode out of the dining-room, following those two, and saw the mother go up the stair case a slight, daintily moving little figure, witn a touch or girlish grace. in it still while the son passed on before me to the office of the hotel. He went and leaned over the desk anil spoke to the clerk, in lus cheery, fresh voice; and 1 stood near him, turning the leaves of the hotel register. "Mrs. Shirley Iecompte." "Shirley Lecompte, Xew York City." I turned aud put my two hands on his shoulders. I could have taken him to my heart and kissed the child likeness n his face, but 1 did not say one word for a minute, while he flashed his brown eyes round on me with a half angry unie irown. 'Are you Shirley Lecompte's son? Where where is your father?" 'My father Is dead, that was his name," looking straight into my face. And then I dropped my hands. I wag your father's friend, my ooy. I I can see his looks in you; and your mother. Will you take me to your mother, Shirley?" Well, I have forgiven him the man who stole the sweetness out of life for me; he is dead and buried, and Edna is alive. Twenty years ago a forged letter told her that she was a widow, and the old man and his wife had their daughter back again ; twenty years she kept her life sacred to my memory, and loved me in her child, and waited for another world to five her into my arms airain. She told it all to me that day a iong, long story; but this was the sura of it. was dead ana was alive again was lost and was found. And mv life bad its aim and crown, even so late; my love blossomed new, and my heart warmed, freshed with the old dead fires we were happy, Edna and I. Out of the baby's grave rose up my strong, manly son to carry my name in honor aud pride; it will have a nobler meaning when 1 am gone than it ever had in the past. ratefleal Faddeva. The world has witnessed many strange epidemics. Some have been disorders of the mind, some have af fected only the body. Sneezing, danc ing, and fasting have beeu diseases as Virulent aud as infectious as small-pox or scarlatina. Those who are learned in such matters observe bow sometimes without any apparent cause, one mal ady breaks out with peculiar force, and sometimes another. Xow it Is cholera, now it is suicidal mania. At one con juncture influenza, at another, infanti cide, regulates the increase oi tne pop ulation, sometimes miiuer symptoms prevail. Influenza becomes cold in the head. Murder Is mitigated into wife-beating, and the man who at oue jicriod would give way to fits of uncon trollable ferocity at another sighs forth his soul in doggerel. e appear to oe passing through a visitation of the scribbling mania. It has frequently at tacked the world before. Swift and Pope noticed its prevalence in their day. A. violent form of the complaint is mentioned by the classic poets, nut never, probably, in the world's history has it assumed such alarming propor tions as at present. Hecker's German method would be needed to do it full justice. A man who recently commit ted murder and has Deen reprieved was pronounced to have suffered from the "madness ot conceits;,' and it may oe worth while to point to this melan choly example as showing what, if not nipped in the bud, even tne most inno cent of valentine writers may eventu ally reach. The man who would make a pun would, as everybody has heard on high authority, pick a pocket; and the man who once discovers the affini ties existing between love and dove, rove and above, may. If not treated with sufficient promptitude, finally owe his forfeited life to the turning of a medical phrase. The editors of maga- aines incur a serious responsioi.ity when they admit such poetry as that hich now abounds in tneir pages. They minister encouragement to minds diseased, A large number of other wise estimable people seem to lauor un der the necessity of putting their thoughts into metre. Perhaps we should not say their thoughts, llioughts are what their compositions most want. They put nonsense into rhyme, It they can. or else into blank verse, and, not content with this fatal step, further in sist on rushing into print. It is a ract that many people who cannot write in telligible prose are able to make verse, intelligible or not. and their mania for seeing it in type is such, that long and repeated applications oi coonng sen tences like "Declined with thanks" will not appease the fever in their blood. Saturday Rerirw. Bellctoa mm H aa Hatare. TO, TntmirMii nhiloAonherft. as reli gion waned, threw themselves Into the study or natural pnenomena. i ney ue lieved that as man became acquainted with the nhvsical laws of the universe. sunerstition would disappear, and a code ol practical ruies couiu oe creaieu on theories of expediency. Science n.t,K nl ii m a Itoolf nn Ita anlendid dift- III I A, " . coverles ; but human nature was stronger . . : . i. 1 1 than science, anu in spite tn ik, buu uj the side of it, witchcraft, magic, necro- n.nov with their attendant abomina tions, developed out of the putrescent corpse oi I aganisiu, liiicnuui wuuiu not have selected the sacrifice of Iphi genia as an illustration of the atrocities whicn couiu oe proTOKeu oy reugiun, unless tne spirit wnicn nau presiueu si Aulis had been still alive and active. Those who would draw the horoscope of the spiritual future of mankind from the progress of knowledge will find tliuir fnreeaata defeated hv forces which they disdain to recognise. Far as they A-v-toiid th eonrines of discovery. the shoreless infinite of the unknown will .till Ytiil hevnnil them, and the hopes and fears of what may lie in that itrtfiAUAtrahl reirion must ever have an influence stronger than reason on the sniritual convictions Of numanuv. Lu cretius boasted that he had trampled hi i ,r,nn nnnor nia leer, anil mai naiurai philosophy would sit henceforth tri umphant on the throne from which God had been deposed. The especial aspect f nlidiui whii-h had been chosen to illustrate its hateful ness was on the eve of becoming the soul or a creed waich was to remodel human society and open r.av bm Th lvtrin of kuillin sacrifice, which bad exerted so strange and growing a fascination, waa to lose its horrors while retaining its ennobling influence. J. a. rmme. A rosTOFTiCK in Michigan is called Headache. Teaman at atrat. Tk Proridrw Journal says : Just how much fresh air shall be admitted to sleeping apartments during the night through open windows, seems to be a question whose practical solution In volves a wide range of different opin ions. There are those who carefully exclude every breath of "night air," and depend for their pure oxygen upon the air already Imprisoned within their dwellings. There those who, following the other extreme, sleep with open windows when the thermometer is among the eighties, and when it sinks below zero. As usual, a happy medium between these two extremes involves the best conditions for physical well being. A supply of pure air is as es sential during the day as during the night. All sensible people who under stand the principles of respiration will agree to this assertion. At the same time great care should be taken that the fresh air admitted should be as free from dampness as possible, that it should not be allowed to enter in such quantities as to produce a suddeu and great differ ence in the temperature of the sleeplng rooin, and that no draughts formed by its ingress should disturb the repose of the sleeper. If these conditions are faithfully observed there will be few nights during the year when It is not perfectly safe as well as essential to health to sleep with an opened w indow. Common sense and sound judgment must regulate the quantity of outside air required, whether the inlet shall be the crack formed by raising the sash above a board fitted to the lower part of the window frame, whether the upper sash shall be let down a few inches, or whether the outer air shall have full play through the wide-opened window. There may be a system of ventilation that will fully answer the required purpose to carry off all the Impure, and bring in a fresh supply of pure air ris ing to the required temperature. We have never seen any ventilating system or action that would produce anything but partial results, and the old-fashioned way of regulating the supply of pure air by a judicious use of windows is about as efiectuai as any that has since been invented. We would not advocate the absolute fashion of sleep ing in cold rooms on feather-beds undr a mass of bed-clothes that keeps the body overheated and Irritated with per spiration, while the lungs are drawing in the vital air at a temperature that makes one shiver to think of. Even this contrast in temperature is not half so enervating and disease-provoking as the modern fashion of sleeping in furnace-heated houses, where a blanket is superfluous in cold winter weather, and every avenue for the entrance of fresh air is almost hermetically sealed. The Westminster Seriew quotes from Miss Xightingale some very seusible re marks on the subject of night air. Her accomplishments as a scholar, and her experience as a nurse, give great weight to her views on this important subject. She says the dread of night air is an extraordinary fallacy. What air can we breath at night but night air? Our only choice lies between pure night air from without, or foul air from within. It is unaccountable that most people prefer the latter. What would they say if it is proved to be true that one half the disease that we uffer from Is occa sioned by people sleeping with their windows stiuir An opeueu . w umow during most nighis In the year can never hurt any one. In great cities, night air is often the purest and best that can be obtained during the twenty four hours. Therefore in town It would he better if either must be done, to shut the windows during the day than dur ing the night, for the sake oi tne sick. The absence of smoke and the quiet of the streets make the night the best time for airing the patients. A physician, considered as high medical authority on consumption and climate, asserts that the air of London is never so pure as after 10 o'clock at night. An Immense amount of fresh air Is required for healing respiration. The average respiration oi a man is esti mated at twenty-four cubic inches and the average number of respirations a minute is twenty. Therefore, four hundred cubic feet of air pass through the lungs of an ordinary man In twenty- four hours. Anu yet. Knowing mew facts, we shut iid our houses and go to sleep without a thought or the supply of the life-producing oxygen, as neces sary ror the well-oeing oi me oencaie tissues of the lungs as food is for the renewal of the tissues of the body. If we bad to buy pure air as we do pre- cieus stones, we should soan appreciate its worth. Because it is "tree as air, - we are unwilline to take the pains and care to regulate our windows for its judicious supply, and carelessly breathe the tainted atmospiiere w men uruiga disease and the- thousand ills to which flesh is heir as the penalty for the tran- gressions of physical laws. The ParHaaea af Paaet- Jfaaew. r f. nMwtwtr heiiiQ ro1d and silver money is so real ; because, being real, it is excessively expensive; because it is risky to move about; because it wears away, and may be lost; because, In fact. It nas ail tne inconvenieuces ui tK,t if ! hon found necessary to re place it, as much as possible, by a coun terfeit, TD18 IS, inueeu, piwi curioua logic. The economists first preve to ns, by glowing and triumphant arguments, that money ought to be, must be, is bound to be, reality; anu men mcj go on, glowingly anu tnumpnanuy as Before, to demonstrate that a fiction must necessarily be employed to replace that reality. Of course their arguments are convincing; of course it is Imperti nent to discuss them ; of course it is i ii ln him uwmIhi heeanse 1 1 VJ 1 II f- n I w - they are genuine money; and of course It is consequently inuispeuaamc w mic h.nk nrUaa heeaiiaft thev are fictitious I of course reality is the essential parent, . - i 1 . V. - IHA1.K1A ana OI course a siiain is tiro cviwuic ohlM r oniirao a hank note is the necessary product of a sovereign, and of . 1 1 i i i. .... course sovereigns wuuiu iw wiwacmci . iVi . i 1, an IIWlll'l' v n . . this is without doubt quite true, and yet it does not look like either truth or jwimmm, BAno. hut the wvtnomists re- niilnt ii. tn helieve it- so we bow down our heads and meekly believe. But raitn does not imply comprencusiuu , f., I Vi Im Mnanll lliniMWNl tA h A ftfO- i m bi i j --j t I I cess by which we admit what we cannot understand, ana mat uenniuon oi u nnliM miaat fHrtA.n.V tn thlS rA4 OUT weak Intellect might have groped the a i - a !a. I a.,.,1 logic OI ine fjcwiwiuiow 14 mvy umu w- aArtfrwl .KoniaaallTM With fft Vtrfl 1 fl V thflt. KUlwU a aa-- mm. a w vm " -- w as we have not got enough metallic money for our wants, we have therefore .nnnlimuintail wh.t W IllTA of it hw a simulated representative, to which, for the sake of convenience and facility, we have attriouteo a ceruuu numiuai ttuc. Va 1. 1 hiv nnntiMtionahlw agreed with them if they had asserted that, as i . , real money is a cosiiy anu wwieiui 1..w..-v ..'in Vntrlanri Anlr An Oil r ann- posed A'TO.OOO.OtiO of circulating coin, we are paying uut? uu hi cent, per annum, about 1.000,000 a year arA -aaas J2at mnA laWfi It l)M faftaVI. IUI Ta , wAaaa a aaaiaa - found practical to replace it by a cheap ...KatStiirA Rut thAV fin nnt PAntent BU itom ",y w ---- themselves with elementary considera tions like these; simplicity is good enough for the unlettered public, but is totally unworthy of economists; so, scorning facts, they mount to principles, and assure us, without inquiring whether we understand them, that, according to those principles, money is governed by two fundamental laws the first, that it cannot be money unless it is intrinsically worth what it pretends to represent; the second, that money which has an intrinsic value Is so full of disadvantages, defects, and incon veniences, that it is indispensable to re place it by paper, because the latter has no value at all. Blnckvywxl. a Star alarta INa AaMkrr la Jlary." Tills declaration of Paul has a deeper and broader meaning than has been attributed to it by many extounders of the Scriptures. Science has developed the fact, that each elementary body has its own specific velocity of combustion, and consequently produces a corres ponding velocity of molecular undula tion. The velocity of combustion also determines the length of undulations and their amplitude. The color of light is different, according to the length of the nndulations producing the light, and in intensity varies with the ampli tude of the undulations. I!y burning different elementary bodies in the elec tric light the velocity of their combus tion aud the length ami amplitude of their undulations have been measured by the spectroscope, and thus the factors of the different colored lights have been accurately determined. A red light is due to a comparatively long undulation, while a violet light is due to a short un dulation, aud white light is due to the coexistence of undulations of all possible lengths. With these facts it may be conceived that by intercepting the rays of the sun and tlie stars, that the velocity of their combustion aud the length and ampli tude of their undulation may be accur ately determined. When this is done, theelements being consumed are known, and the color of the light produced. Modern astronomy has determined that some ot the stars are suns that shine with a pink, or emerald, or amber light. And hence the planets around these suns are bathed in a flood of pink, or gold, or amber; while we are bathed in white. How great and glorious is the universe of the Lord God Almighty ! He hatii endowed the ultimate atoms with their inherent forces, enabling them to form the structures of material life, with all their various shapes and sensations, of usefulness and beauty. The deeter science delves beneath the known, the more infinite do His works appear. Every unfolding fact adds new lustre to the inspired revelation of His Word. How truthful the Psalmist's declaration, "The heavens declare the glory of Gixl, and the firmament showeth forth His handiwork." raraaer Treataaat t I anally. While men believed that madness meant nosaeesion by a demon, it is not ditlicnlt, perhaps, to account for the su perstitious aud brutal treatment shown to those possesseu ; out me rea der wil be amazed by the. details of the details of the scientific devices, happily of a past age, planned for the cure of the unsound. One of these was to en tice the sufferer to walk across a floor, which suddenly giving way, dropped him into a bath, where he was half drowned. Another mode of torture was to let the patients dawn well, in which the water, made gradually to rise, frightened them with the pros pect of an awful death. Within the memory of men still living, the patients of Itethlehem Hospital, (Iledlam.) chained to the wall like wild beasts. were shown to the public on certain davs of the week at the charge of two pence a visitor ; and here were to be found in their cells, crouching nn straw, women with nothing bit a blan ket for clothing. George 111. in liW waa subjected to a uselessly severe treat meut, being constantly tortured with the strait-waistcoat, and denied the society of his wife aud children, lie recovered a few weeks after the substitution of kindness for seveiify. A Parliamentary committee, which elic ited the horrors of mad-houses in 11 1. struck the tirst blow agaiust the sys tem of mechanical restraint of the in sane ; but it was not before the early years of the present reign that the old order of things finally yielded to the benevolent treatment set ou foot by Drs. Gardner Hill aud Conolly. Cham- brr't Journal. Waraala f the Dad. Facts already named show how sacri fices to the man recently dead pass into sacrifices to his preserved body. We have seen that to the corpse of a Tahi tian chief daily offerings were made on an altar by a priest; and the ancient Contral Americans performed kindred rites before bodies dried tty artinciai heat. That, along with a developed system of embalming, this grew into mummv-worship, Peruvians and Egyp tians have furnished proof. Here the thing to be observed is that, while be lieving the ghost of the dead man to have gone away, these peoples bad con tused notions, eiuier mai it was iiitkiii in the mummy, or that the mummy was itself coiiscious. Among the Egyptians, this was clearly Implied by the practice of sometimes placing their embalmed dead at table. The Peruvians, who by a parallel custom betrayed a like belief, also betrayed it in other way. By some of them the dried corpse of a parent was carried round the fields that he might see the state of the crops. How the an cestor, thus recognized as present, was also recognized as exercising authority, we see in this story given oy oania vruz. When his second sister refused to marry him'HuaynaCapac went with preseuu and offerings to the body of his father, praying him to give ber for his wife, but the dead body gave no answer, while fearful signs appeared in the heavens." The primitive Idea that any property characterizing an aggregate inheres in all parts of it, implies a corollary from this belief. The soul, present in the body of the dead man preserved entire, is also present in preserved parts of his body. Hence the faith in relics. Ellis tells us that, in the Sandwich Islands, bones of the legs, arms, and sometimes the skulls, of kings and principal chiefs, are carried about by their descendants, under the belief that the spirits exercise guardianship over them. The Crees carry bones and hair of dead persons about for three years. The Caribs, and several Guiana tnbes, have their cleaned bones "distributed among the relatives after death." The Tasinanians show anxiety to possess themselves of a bone from the skull or the arms of their de ceased relatives." The Andamanese "widows may be seen with the skulls of their deceased partners suspended from - their necks." Popular ,vmf JaWAly. Cart ataaaa Featlvttiea. From an article in Apple ton Amrn - cnn Cgrlopadia," revised edition, entitled "Christmas," we select as follows: The common custom of decking the houses and churches at Christmas iwith evergreens is derived from ancient Druid practices. It was an old belief that liberty, she should never lie free. Thus sylvan spirits might flock to the ever- wjth our pernicious habits ; each sin greens, and remain annipped by frost Kle act of a habit, what is easier to till a milder season. The holly, ivy, I overcomo f But it is the constant anc rosemary, bay, laurel, and mistletoe, ! cession of them, one after another, furnished the favorite trimmings, which which overcomes us. were not removed till Candlemas. In old church calendars Christmas eve is marked, Templa txtmantur (the temples are adorned). Holly and ivy still remaiu in England the most esteemed Christ mas evergreens, though at the two uni versities tlie windows of the college chapels are decked with laurel. It was en old English superstition, that on Christmas eve the oxen were always found on their knees, as iu an attitude of devotion, and that after the change from old to new style, they continued to do this only on the eve of old Christ mas day. This was derived from a prevalent medieval notion that an ox and an ass, which were present at the nativity, fell on their knees in a sup pliant tosture, as appears from numer ous prints, and from the I-atin poem of Sannaaaro, in the sixteenth century. It was an ancient tradition, alluded to by Shakespeare, that midnight spirits for sake the earth and go to their own con fines at the crowing of the cock. The Christmas celebrations In England have lost their primitive boisterous character, the gam I tols anil carols are nearly gone by, and family reunions and evergreen trimmings rre nearly all that remain of the various rough merriments which used to mark the festival. The last memorable appointmentof a lord of mis rule was in ltJ7, when he had come to be denominated "a grand raptaine of mischiefe." Taw B liver Vase. What is the peculiar spell and fascina tion, it is asked with amazement, which old china exercises upon many persons who are by no means deficient either in intelligence or common sense? Atthe present time there seems to be a perfect mania for collecting china which has any stamp of antiquity upon it; and not only fashionable society, but even the sober good sense of the middle classes appear to have caught the infection ; in fact the prices given at auction rooms for any rare specimens are really so astounding and unprecedented, that out siders stand with uplifted hand and eye brows of amazement, while 6,0011 for example Is being given for a couple of vases, which are to be put away in the collector's cabinet, aud shrouded from the common gaze thenceforth, like the beauties of Oriental harem. This is, of course, au extremely fancy" price for old china ; but it was given last year for a pair of Sevres vases at Christie's. Two noblemen or their agents rather were bidding against each other, and the price was run up to i6,0O0, which in twenty-eight years, it must be re membered, at compound interest, is equivalent to 24,000. It will be curious to trace the history of these vases in the year of grace l'.KTJ, if they are in ex istence then. A story is current that one of the persons to whom they formerly belonged was completely thrown off his balance by the unprecedented price given for them. He was heard exclaim ing, "Am I alive, or am I dead? Pinch me that I may know whether I am in my senses or not! I Itousrht them for 70, and sold them for XoOO, aud now, gracious heavens! I have been done out of a fortuue!" Framr's Magazine. Haaealr. We have somehow learned to make a difference between those obligations which we owe to one another as men, and those which we owe to the Govern ment and to corporations. These ideas are not a whit more prevalent among office-holders and directors than they are among voters and stock-holders. Men are not materially changed by be ing clothed with ollieeand power. The radically honest man is just as honest in otlice as he is out of it. Corrupt men are the offspring of a corrupt society. We all need straightening np. The lines of our morality all need to be drawn tighter. There is not a man who is willing to smuggle, and to see customs ollicers betray their trust while he does it; willing to receive the results of the sharp practice of directors of cor porations in which he has an interest; willing to receive the patronage of the Government in the execution of scheme not based in absolute necessity; willing to take an exorbitant price for a piece of property sold to the Government or to a orporation, who is fit to lie trusted with otlice. When we have said this, we have given the explanation of all our public and corporate corruption, aud shown why it is so dillicult to get any great trust managed honestly. All this olllcial corruption is based on popular corruption loose ideas of honesty as they are held by the popular mind: and w e can hote for no reform until we are bt :ter based as a people in the everlast ing principles of equity and right-doing. If we would have the stream clear, we must cleanse the fountaiu. Serihnrr't MmtliUj. Hww Piwbhiu Peare la a Faaaliy. 1. Kememlter that your will is likely to be crossed every day; so prepare for it. 2. Iteineinlier everybody in the house has an evil nature as well as yourself. and, therefore, you are not to exjiect too much. 3. Kememlter to learn the different temper and disitosition of each indi vidual. 4. Kemeinlier to look on each memlter of the family as one for whom you should have a care. 5. Kemeinber when any good happens to any one to rejoice at it. 6. Kemember when inclined to give au angry answer, to overcome evil with good. 7. Remember if from sickness, pain or infirmity you feel irritable, to keep a strict watch over yourself. 8. Kemember to observe w hen others are suffering, and drop a word of kind ness and sympathy suited to them. 9. Remember to watch the little op portunities of pleasing, and to put little annoyances out or tne way. 10. Remember to take a cheerful view of everything; even of the weather, and encourage hoite. 11. Kemember to speak kindly to the servants to praise them for little things when you ran. 12. Keraemtier in all little pleasures which may occur, to put yourself hist. 13. Remember to try for the soft an swer that turneth away wrath. IliwacH ateel. Small babita have been compared with the spider welts which kept the nriucesa of fairy story imprisoned. She was shut up iu a strong castle. from whicn she must escape or die, The door of the castle was taken away, one day, and she joyfully hastened down to the gate that she might pass and be free. But stop; in the gate a spi der web was hanging from top to bot tom. She swept it away in a moment. and was going on : when behold 1 another aniiier'a web waa liefore her. It l . AiAJit dt . ti.;,.i ....I j he tht rmove,i - follrth . a,l i m. . r,. nrineeaa ..t .I. .ml .m bit- tery, and felt that though there waa onlv a sDider'a web Itetween her and TOCTBS' coixn. Anecdote of AmJtrmn.K friend of mine, who was qnite an old boy when this happened, once came very near losing his eye-sight. He was brought to the hospital, where nobody knew him, and the room was darkened, so that he could see nothing, not even bis own hand when he held it up be fore bis eyes. He bail lain in this way for a whole week, and almost wished he waa dead, when one evening there came a gentle tap on the door, and a man entered and sat down on the bed side. My friend did not know tlie man: and even if he had known him, it would have been too dark to see his fare. -1 am Hans Christian Andersen." said the man. "I heard that you were sick, and I have been sick mvself. and know what it is. Would you allow me to sit down and talk to you. and tell yon some stories f My friend, naturally enough, was very grateful, and did not object to being entertained. And almost every night for two wet k Andersen re turned. When the thick curtains could be drawn aside from the win dows, he read aloud, mostly his ow n writings, for he liked better to read his own stories and poems than those of others. This is only one of a hun dred incidents of the same kind which the people in Copenhagen tell of him ; and no one will wonder that, with all his peculiarities and odd habits, they could not help loving him. He was a dear and beloved friend in every house hold ; from the King down to the poor est artisan, every oue knew and hon ored linn. Every door aud every heart was open to him. They no longer lec tured and criticised him ; every pace that he wrote was eagerly erasped by yonng and old, and re ail with pleasure and gratitude. St. u-hola. . The rear Trte. Old Knpert sat, at the close of day, in the shade of a beau tiful pear tree which stood before his house, while his grandson ate of the pears, and could not cease praising the sweet fruit. Then said the grandfather, ."1 must tell you how this tree came here. Oue eveniuir, more thau fifty years ngn, I stood here, when there waa empty space, but where now this pear tree stands, aud complaiued to a rich neighbor of my poverty. "Oil," said I, "how perfectly conteuted should I be if I could only possess one hundred dollars!" "The neighbor, who was a wise man, said : "'That von can easily do if you only set about it. See,' saiiL 'there iu the soil, wlfere you stand, are more than a hundred dollars, if you can only get them.' "At that time I was only a foolish young man, and so on the following night I dug in the ground on that spot, and to my great mortiticatiou found not a single dollar. In the morning the neighbor saw where I hail been digging, aud laughed heartily at my simplicity. "'I see,' said he, 'that you did not understand me. I will send you a young pear tree : set that in the hole which you have dug. and after a year the dollars will liegin to appear.' "I set out the young tree. It grew, and became what you now see it. The luscious fruit which it has borue year after year has brought nie far more than a hundred dollars, and it is yet a capital which yearly brings in a good interest." Ih-ieii up Animals Coming to Lift. Well. Wonders never reaw. ott'II excuse my bringing forward a dried up old adage, my chicks, as I wish to apply it strictly to something the birds told me which is, that certaiu crea tures of the worm and small fry order ran be dried np completely, kept in that state for years, and then be brought to life 'again ! Now it's bail enough to lie a worm auy way, but just conceive the state of mind a worm must, oe in WIIO is urougui iu uie auer having been dried tip fora dozen years ! The pretty schoolmistress aud iH-acon Green were talking on this subject in the twilight last evening. Speaking of a minute sort of worms known as vinegar eels, she said that It was known to the botanist Linmeus that these worms could lie dried np and then revived. Also, that she had read that somebody named Baker, inl..rt. found that the young of AikjhiUuIh tritiri, inclined in diseased gram of wheat, could he revived, even altera desiccation of twenty seven-years, by Iteiug moistened with water; and other naturalists observed the same fact for shorter periods. Ah ! the school-mistress is a wonder ful little woman. She brought out AnnuUlula tritiri so plil.lv that if made Deacon Green fairly blink. 'f. - olM. A Japannr Isgrntl. A certain white fox ot high degree, and without black hair npon him, songht and ob tained the band of a young female fox who was renowned for her personal beaury and her noble connections. The wedding was to lie a grand affair : but, unhappily, the familiesof the betrothed pair could not agree npon the kind of weather to be ordered for the occasion. The parents of the bride thought it good luck that a shower should fall on a bridal procession. The bridegroom and his friend objected to having their good clothes spoiled thus, and to the dumper which a lain would put upon their merriment. There waa danger tlii'.t the match should be broken off, when a very astute old fox suggested a compromise. They might have sun shine and rain together. This happy thought was received with acclama tions, and the order was given accord ingly ; the bride's palanquin or uorimou was borne to the house of her future hnsband with blissful satisfaction on all sides. In Japan, a sun-shower is called "The Foxes' Wedding." In Xew England, the natives mysteriously re mark: "The devil is whipping his wife with a "cod-fish tail." Si-ribner for Drrember. A boy war asked which was the great est evil, hurting another's feeliugs or his finger. "The feelings." he said. "Kighf, my dear child." said the grati fied questioner; "anil why is it worse to hurt the feelings f "Becanse yon can't tie a rag around thetn,"expiained tlie child. Thirst at ate. Thirst on laud is bad enough, but thirst at sea, with water everywhere. hut not a drop to drink, it is ten times worse, t f tiie agony which it occasions we may form some conception when we read, as in the case of a late shipw reck, of the survivors of a float's crew greedily drinking the blotsl of their dead com rades. Xo one knows what his evil for tune may one day bring hi in to endure. For the benefit of the reader, therefore, we make a note of the following ques tion put by the board of trade examiners to the candidates for certificates of com petency a mats in Oie English mer chant service: "What would you do In orJer to nllay thirt. with nothing but sea water at hand?" I he answer is. "Keep the clothes, especially the shirt, soaked with sea water."' Drinking salt water to allay thirst drives the sufferer mad; but an external application of it gives relief, if it does not satisfy the l mandsof craving nature. It is a piry that this simple yet trviely scientific. reiucoy I s a in w 11 uu, icw " m.. who tempt the treacherous main. 1. I . K... flf ll,nj. SXWS TJf BRUT Chicago has a lecture course with an admission of ten cents. Gen. McClellan thinks of making Baltimore bis permanent home. Minnesota's population has in creased 33 per cent in four years. A druggist at Rock fort, Indiana, in one day sold $12o worth of quinine. The owner of the London Time made half a million dollars last year. A Pennsylvanlan has a stove which has withstood the profanity of one hun dred and five years. Mrs. Butts, of Hudson, Mich., over seventy years old. has woven 4.'kl yards of rag carpeting this season. A Swedish school house, for exhi bition at the Centennial, has been shipped from that country to Philadel phia. It is estimated that o.oOO Steeches were made in Ohio during the canvass. Wiud euough wa expended to drive the windmills of Holland for a century. A South Carolina grocer publicly praises a memlter of the Legislature of that State for not stealing ajar of lard w hen he had a first-rate chance to do So. The length of deep sea cable laid in the world is 70,tHJ miles. The world telegraphic lines extend over 400,000 miles and tliere are HiO.OOO miles of railroad. Janette Parker, a Delta (Michigan) township girl, who weighs four hun dred touiiils, picks np a barrel of Hour by the chimes and tlays w ith it over her head. Xew York has a man dressmaker who bid fair to become a distinguished as Worth. His uame is Eanonctte, and they say his dresses are marvelus of lit ami taste. The original hemlock log founda tions of long wharf at Boston were un earthed a few days ago, and found to lie .is solid as when tirst put down, ltt-t years ago. Feminine thrift, A Kansas wife with the help of three daughters made more money raising silk than her hus band with three boys made with a farm raising wheat. A Pennsylvania man left a will w hich bequeathed $20,000 to a hospital for friendless dogs, and a jury has de cided that his children are legally en titled to the money. The Xew York Postofflce building has already cost $3,400,000 aud Mr. Pot- . ter the architect calls for $1,000,000 more, and yet this is called a frugal, economical government, Apples are only 10 cents a bushel in some parts of Pennsylvania, and a man of midest means can sit down and eat four or five bushels and not rob hi family of any of tlie necessaries of life. Louisiana's last orange" crop num bered Ii,2."i0,0ii0 ami brought a net profit of $SI0,000. The custom there is to sell the fruit on the trees. $10 a thou sand, aud have the shipper to do the picking. Mrs. Gen. Hendrick Van Rensse lear recently celebrated her one hun dredth birthday at the residence of her son Dr. D. S. Van Kenclear (who is in his eightieth year) at Randolph, Cat taraugus county, X. Y. Tne coinage of the new trade dol lar in silver from July, 173, to June, 1875, amounted to $!,2ST.,40i, while the entire coinage of the old silver dollar, from the organisation of the mint in 171 until the appearance of its succes sor, was only $s,iU.,x;ss. One year ago a Vermont breeder sold a thorough bred shorthorn row and calf to a party in Kentucky for fJ.YJO. A few days ago the Kentucky party sold them at auction, the cow for $ lis"), and the calf for $ lir.5. I. Henri Burch, the colored Sena tor from Louisiana, will soon marry the w idow of the late Lieutenant Gov ernor of that State. She is at present an inspector of ladies' baggage in the Xew Oi lcans Custoui-House. Three cadets have been dismissed from the Naval Academy at Aiinatolis for hazing. The colored cadet, Henry E. Baker, Jr.. from Mississippi, has also Itecn dismissed at the reipie-t of the superintendent of the school. Maine has ten ex-Governors living, and all residing in the State. Their names are Crosltv, Kent, A. P. Morrill, Hamlin, William. I. M. Morrill, Wah biirn. Cobtirii, Ch hcrlaiu. and Per- ham. Four are over seventy year old. A man's toe cut off by the car hereafter will have an adjudged value if one hundred dollar er piece. A voting man in Brooklyn thus Inst five. which In- valued at $1.hi0 each, but the court said that one hundred each would answer. The superintendent of the Canas- tota, X. Y., knife factory has a pair of hutlalo horns which weigh twenty-five pounds, are 1! 1-2 inches in circumfer ence at the butt, and ."! inches iu length. They are eight times a large a those of the American bison. Ihr. Peters, of Hamilton College, Clinton, X. Y.. ha just presenti d to the mnseiiiii of that institu tion several rare specimens of birds, shells, and mineral from Japan whii h he obtained w hile with the expeditn n to oltserve the transit of Venus. There are irreverent ribald in Dudley, Ma. Two old crows are iu the hahit of perching on a tree there every afternoon, and cawing until they have called hundreds of other crow about them; and the Dudleyites call those two old crows Moody and Sankey. Crawford county Pa., has tn oper ation 5S factories, producing 6,310,000 pound of cheee; Erie County 22 fac tories, producing 2,t'ln,ooo pound of cheese; Mercer and Venango counties 11, producing 617,iOO pounds of cheese; the aggregate in the four northwest counties of Pennsylvania is 101 facfc- ne. producing y,..n,i0O pounds of cheese. At Logansport, Ind. an interesting hog case ha just been decided by the Circuit Court. The title to two hog wa disputed bv two neighbors. The jury after being thirty-six hours out. rendered a verdict In lavor of tne origi nal claimant. The costs of the case are already $2,00O, or $1 a pound for the whole amount of pork; ami the case may yet fie appealed. The original "I'nclP Sam" wa Sam Wilson, of Trov. Xew York, who used to brand hi fish brrrels, in filling army contract iu 1812, "C S.," a he said for t'nele Sam. hi soubriquet. The site of the old packing-house I still remembered, and a nephew of I'ucle Sain, Joseph A. Wilson ha fint removed to Newburyport, Maachu setts, after a long life in Troy, The old "John Bull." tlie first lo comotive ever run on the Cam len and Amboy road, which ha been laid np at the Bordciitown shop for m.i iy years, is being put in running ord -r again, and will be sent to the Centennial next year. It was built by Robert Stephen son, over forty years ago: h twelve by twentv-incb cylinders, one pair four aiid-a-half feet drivers, and weighs about twelve tons. 2 t ' t f 1! i I ! f r i 'I II , I ! aV h r U ii a t J
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