gime fading.
UPON EACH OTHER WE MUST LEAN:
Upon each other we must lean,
Each help each other on,
Por t aitefall;stieceSe is p'ei
A triumph mutruilly won..
Here we're placed to work for good,
To r. do , thebpst . I car, ",
•
To i l lustrate by brotierbOOd '
The usefulness of man. ' •
WhO stands alone and daresdespise
_
Th' assistance of his race,
Who ',gainsV all manly; Sympathy
And friendship turns his face.
Virlto Says, !Tin independent,'
-Can do, my worlt alone,
31y triumph. Malone can witi;
It shall be all my own."
Who thus may speak, ahall,surely
Some day how hard , and'cald-
Within his heart will be the faith
Which there dares to,hold.
NO'mind, howeyer great its powers
TO build up and to plant, 1"'-.
Can work success= without the aid,t
The aid of' brother man.
He's but a boaster Who dare say,
• "I build my own success,
And ask no aid from ans , one
T o bring me happiness."'
Upon each other we must - lean,'
To mutual faith hold fabt, _
And do our best, and we shall find
Our triumph won at last.
WEIGHT OF THE HUMAN BODY.
.There are few people but like to be weighed
occasionally ; some do it regularly at certain
hours, before and after meals, or taking a bath,
etc. Yet there are, few things so changeable as .
the weight of the body_; indeed, it is rarely the
same tor a f4w minutes together ,;/ and if a man
were to sit 9n one' of the plates for a whole
day; the other plate would be constantly' oscil
lating within certain ' limits. The state of the
weather and time of the year influence ,our
weight. In eummei we grow fatter than we
are in winter. such , is the general rule ; yet
most people believed that hot weather makes
us leaner. It is true we eat 'ail and perspire
more; 'these are certitinly two causes of loss,but
on the other hand, ive expend less .tO keep_ np
the temperature of the body, and mereoyer we
drink . ' more, and our J l beverages possess ,the
curious property of increasing our fat. Beer.,
and even pure cold 'water, are great fattening
agents: Cattle reared tor slaughter get a great
deal to drink, which increases • their *ilk con
siderably ;Abe tissues are'gOrged with
and so the weight increases, but the system is
weakened. In winter, the Organism has to be
provided with heat ; we eat 'more, but also ex
pend more to .keep up the temperature of the
body ; then also we drink less, so that, on the
whole, the lois is greater than the gain, and we
grow. lean: In short, -we fatten when 'tinder
ordinary circumstances, we burn more of the
food, we have taken, and we 'therefore, in
breathing exhale;eatbonic acid in propOrtioi. ,
We begin to emit less of the latter in April, its ,
amount diminishes considerably in July, August'
and Septegiber; and attains ita MiDiMUM about
thelutumnal, equinox. It then toes On in
creasing from October, and we' begin to lose
the substiinee, Wiled during the summer.
Frbm December , to March we remain neatly
stationary., 'To conclude, as we consume less
in aummei than in liintef, 'all other circum
stances remainingthe same, we are heavier in
hot weathar than we are in winter.
REMEDY FOR TROUBLE.
Work is your true remedy. It misfortune
hits yolVhard, you tut something else hard
pitch into something A with a will.--
There's 'nothing like good, solid, exhaustive
work to cure trouble. 4t you have met with
losses, you don't want to lie awake and think
about them. You . want sleep —calm, sound
Bleep—and to .est your dinner with appetite.
But you can't unless you work. If yoU say
you don't feel like work, and go loafing all day
to tell Tom, Dick and Harry the story of your
woes, you'll lie awake, and keep yotir
awake by your tossing, spoil,your temper and
your breakfasi next inorning, cid begin to
._ morrow feeling ten times\ worse than you do
to-day. There are some great troubles that
only time cant heal, and perhaps some that
never can be healed at all ; but all can be help
•ed by the great panacea, work. Try it; you
who are afflicted. It_lB-'not a patent medicine.
It has proved its efficiency since Adam and Eve
left behind.them, with weeping, their beautiful
E ien. It is an efficient remedy..- . All good
p'iysicians in regular 2 standing prescribe it in
&nes of mental' and moral sickness. It operates
kindly,. as. well, ,leaving no disagreeable
sequelo,. and we 'esatire you that we have
taken a I large quantity of it with most
beneficial results. ;It will cure more complaints
than any nostrum in•materia medka and comes
nearer to being a "cure all" than any ding or
compound of drugs in the market, and it will
not sicken you if you do . not take it sugar coat
ed.
BOYS 1N COAL MINES.
rase& Correspondence Ms&lphis Tine...—
Several miles from this place, near a little min
ing town of St. Clair, is the-Hickory Colliery,
oae of the olaest mines in the old . Schlylkill
region. The entrance to 'the, mine is from the
top of , tbe precipitous bill, which,, covered with
the black refuse of scores of years, bears the
semblance of 'a mountain 'of coal dust. From
the doors -and open iindows of the Colliery
buildings a great cloud of black dust is ever
a:reaming, settling , on everything 1111 ;tot as
coAect in the neig,hhorhood _but is black as
the blackpamond itself. The interior of the
buildings lee cloud of hazy -blackness; and
the black, silent Die t SS they appear and dia.
appear in the dust,, seem like so many evil genii
floating in dark storm-clouds.'
The buildings at one time were evidentl,y
well kept, with some attention to the comfort
of the men who worked in them, but , now they
are going to rack and ruin. The rickety,wood
en stairs, leading, over depths that make the
head sly im to 'look into than, are so shaky and
,unsafe that it is only with the greatest care that
one,,who is unaccustomed can make his way
over them. The doorways are open . and bare,
and there is nothing to prevent the wind from
whistling through t4O old: rookery.
•
With these sombre surroundings it is no
wonder that the men are silent and lowering.
In these wOrks 300 men Like employed '; and
when I went through the buildings and through
the mine 1 saw all: Ameing all these . 300, al
thoegh I was with,' them for hours, I did not
hear a -laugh or even see a smile. Each on e
had his routine to go through', and he went
through it .just ai a steam engine or a clock.!---
And when quitting-time came each one went
beck to his home in the regular groove, Just as
the steam goes but of the boiler when its work
is done, and dropped oft into sleep, his
only pleasure.' 1 have seen far. mere cheeriul
bodies of men in prisons. It may be their black
and dreary surroundings ; it may be their
knowledge of constant and terrible danger; it
may be'the strain of great physical labor—l
know not what lit is, but something there is
about these mines that wears' the life and soul
oat of the men, leaving only the weary black
ened shell.
;' i
Ina little room in this big; black shell-L.a
TOM not twenty feet square—where a broken
stove, red hot, tries vainly to warm the cold air
that comes in through the open windows, forty
boys are picking their lives away:: The floor
of the room is an inclined plane ; mid a stream
of coal pours constantly in from some unseen
place above, crosses the room, and pours out
again Into some unseen place below. Rough
board seats stretch across the room, five or six
rows of them, very low and very dirty, and on
these, the boys and seperate the slate from
the coal as it runs down the incline plane. It
is a painful sight:ro.see thb men going silently
and gloomily about their work, but it is a thou
sand times worse to see these boys. They
work here, in this little black hole, all day and
every day, trying to keep cool in summer, try
ing to keep warm in winter, picking away
among the black coals, bending over till their
little spines are curved, never saying a word
all the livelong day. •
I stood and watched these boys
.for a long
time, without being seen by them, for their
backs were turned toward the entrance door,
and the coal makes such a racket that they
cannot hear anything a foot from their ears.
They were muffled up in , old coats and old
shawls and old scarfs, ,and ragged mittens to
keep their hands from l freezing; and ad they
sat and picked and picked,gathcring little heaps
of blackened, slate by their sides,' they looked
more like so many dwarfs than like a party of
fresh young boys. The air was cold' enough
and the work Was lively enough to paint any
boy's cheeks In rosy colors; but:if there was a
red cheek in the room It was well 'bidden un
der the coating of black dust that covered ey-'
erything. These little fellows 'go to work in
this cold, dreary room at 7 o'clock in thSmorn
ing and work till it is too dark to work 'any
longer. For this they get'irom $1 to $3 a week.
One; Tesult of their work is the clean, free C'oal,
thatburns away to ashes in the grate another
resultl found in a little miners' graveyb.rd,
be
side apretty little church, where more than ev
' ery other stone bears the name of some little
fellow under fifteen years. -
The boys are f all sizes and ages, from little
fellows scarce i ig enough to be wearing pahta
loons up to youths of fifteen and sixteen. After ,
they reach this age , they go . tO work In the
mine, for there they can make the most money.
.Not three boys in all.this roomful could read or
write. Shut in from everything that is pleasant
with no chance; ° learn, with no knowledge of
what is going on about them, with' nothing to
do .butt work, work, grinding their little lives
away in this - dusty room, they are no more
than the wire .screens that separate the great
lumps of coal the small. They have no
games ; when their day's work is done ,they
are too tired for that. They know nothing but
the differencebetween slate and coal. • •
The smallest of the boys do not get more
than - $1 a week; and from this the pay goes up
to $2 and $3. Some of them live several miles
from the colliery, and are carried to the mines
every`morning in the cars and back agOn every
night, the company charging them 10 cents for
each-; trip and deducting the fares from their
wages at the -end 'of the month. Some times,
atter the boys have got to the mine, they find
that some accident has stopped the work , then
they: have nothing to do for the day and get no
pay. In this !‘vay, lam told, it is no unusual
thing for a boy to find, at the end of . the Month
that_ his indebtedness to the company for rail
road fares is some dollars more than the com
pany's indebtedness to hini for labor : so that
.he has worked all the month for a few dollars
less than nothing. •
The coefficient of conduction for heat, of
various building materials has been investigat
ed with much care by,Lang, who, in his studies
has endeavored to exclude the influence of
radiation, and has made some interesting and
valuable measurements by means of the ther
mo-electzic multiplier. He finds that the stones
considered by him, in these experiments, are
much better conductors of heat when wet than
when dry, and that various classes of stones;
such . ,as marble, sandstone, granite, &c., have
approximately the same coefficients of conduc
tion;while bricks of all kinds are really much
worse conductors than the natural stones.
Water, though well warmed, would quench,
nevertheless; the fire that warmed it. Thus
may the character , °ea treacherous person be
described.
It is tot good fora 'man to ite alone. He
should buy a dog.
'HREE POINTS FOR CONSIDER.
AT lON -
During the past five years Vegetine has been stead
ily
_working itself into public favor, and Those who
were at first most incredulous. in regard to its merits
are now its most ardent friends and supporters.
There are three essential causes for those having such
a horror of patent medi elute. changing their opinion
and lending their Influence toward the advancement of
Vegetine. let—lt is an 'honestly prepared medicine
from barks. roots and herbs. 2d—lt honestly accom
plishes all that is. claimed for it, without leavine any
bad - effects in the syetem. sd—lt presents honest
vouchers in testimonials from honest. well-known Cit
izens, whose signatures are a sufficient guarantee of
their earnestness in the matter. Taking into consid
eration the vast quantity of medicine brought con
spicuously before the public through the flaming ad.
vertisemente in the newspaper colamna. with no proof
-of merit or genuine vouchers of what it has done, we
should be pardoned for manifesting a small degree of
pride in presenting , the following testimonial from Rev
J. S. Dickerson, D. D.. the popular and ever genial
pastor of the South Baptist Church, Boston.
THE TIRED BODY SUES FOR SLEEP. •
H. R.Stevens. esq.
Dear Sir—lt is as much from a sense of duty as of
gratitude that I write to say that your Vegetine—even
if it is a patent medicine—has been of great help to
me when nothing else seemed to avail which I could
safely use. lither excessive mental .work or unusual
care brings upon me a nervous exhaustion thatdesper
ately needs sleep, but as desperately defies it. Night
after night the poor, tired body sues for sleep until the
diy dawn is welcomed back. and we begin oar work
tired out with an almost fruitless chase after rest. Now
I have founcithat a little.Vpgetine taken jnet beforci
retire gives me sweet and immedtate sleep, and with
out any of the evil effects of the. usual narcotics. I
think two thins would tend to make brain-workers
sleep. Ist—A• little less work. 2d A little more Veg
etine, This prescription has helped me. •
_ Nowt have a particular horror of Patent Medicine,
but I have a greater horror of being afratd to tell the
straight. onttnith. The Vegetine has helpedme and I
own it np, Yours. &c.. •
• J. S. DICKERSON.
VALUABLE EVIDENCE
The following nneolicttdd testimoinal from Rev. O.T.
Walker D. D. formerly pastor of Bowdoin Square
Church, Boston, and at present settled in Providence,
R. 1., must be deemed as reliable evidence. No one
should fail to observe that this testimonial is the result
of two yeors' experience in the use of Vegetine in the
Rev. Mr. Walker's family, who now pronounce it in/l
iable
Providence. R. 1., 164 Transit Street.
H. R.Btevens esq. :
I feel bound to express with my signature the hißb
value I. place upon your Vegetine. My family have
used it, for the ?alit two years. In nervous debility it
is invaluable, and I recommend it to all who may need
an invigorating, renovating tonic.
O. T. WALKER,
Formerly Pastor of Bowdoin Square Church, Boston.
THE BEST EVIDENCE
The following letter from E. S. Best, Pastor of the
M. E. chnrch. Natick be read with interest
by many physicians ; also those suffering from the
same disease as amicted the son of the Rev. E.B.Best.
No person can doubt this testimony, as there is no
doubt about the curative power of Vegetine.•
• Natick, Mass:, Jan: 1, MC
Mr. H. R. Etevens :
Dear Sir—We have a good reason fo'r regarding your
Vegetine. a medicine of the greatest value. We feel
assured that It has been the means of saving our son's
life. He is - now- seventeen years of age; for the last
two years he has suffered from necrosis of his leg,caus
ed by scrofulous affection, and was so far reduced that
nearly all whet saw him thought his recovery impossi
ble. A council of able physicians coula give as but the
faintest hope of his everrallying ; two of the number
declaring that he was beyond the reach of human rem
edits, that even amputation could not save him, as he
had not vigor enoubh to endure the operation. Just
then we commenced giving him•Vegetine and from that
time to the present he has been continuously'improv
ing. He has lately restimm studies, thrown away his
crutches and cane, and walks about cheerfully and
strong.
Though there is still some discharge from the open
ing where his limb was lanced, we have the fullest con
fidence that in a little time he will be perfectly cured.
`He has taken about three dozen bottles of Yegettne.
but lately uses but little, as he declares he is too well
to be taking medicine.
Respectfully yours. ,'
•IL S. ZEST.
RELL&BLE EVIDENCE.
' .178 Baltic St., Brooklyn, N. Y., Nov. 14.187 e.
H. E. Stevens, esq. :
Dear Sir—From personal benefit received by its use,
as well as from personal knowledge o 1 those w hose
cures thereby have seemed almost miraenlons ; I can
mostteartily and sincerely' recommend the Vegetine
for the complaints for which it Is claimed to cure.
JAMBS, P LUDLOW.
Late Pastor Calvary Bap. Church, Sacramento, Cal.
VEGETINE is sold by all Druggists.
W. SMITH & SON,
I • 4
Manufacturers and Dealers in till kinds of
.Witurrtitivi.re
PARLOR SUITES, .
CHAMBER SUITES, •
COSTLY & CHEAP - PURNITIME,
ALL KINDS OF MATTRESSEO,
SPRING BOTTOMS, &c., &c.
' - • • .
Firniture Repaired,Bottoms put in Chairs,
Upholstering done, Covering Chairs
. and Lounges,- Mattresses v
. done over. -
UNDERTAKING, &C.
The Subscribers will make Undertaking a
specialty in their business. Having one of
the most elegant HEARSES in the State,
• all needing their services will be at
tended to promptly sid at sat
' isfactory charges.
W. W. SMITH SON.
Montrose, Jan. 10, 1877tf.
VALUABLE
, • -
• ' 'REAL ESTATE FOR BALE.
The undersigned 'offers, upon . 'reasonable ternii,'s
fine farm in ' •
AUBURN TOWNSHIP,
about 1K miles from the 4. Corzteri. containing 150
acres, with good buildings and orchard span It and all
improved. For particulartat i re S t
suzi,
Foster4l t sv i eldit i n a t ß Counti, Pa. •
Auburn 4 Corners. Susquehanna County; Pa.
• Assigeees of Jas. . D. Lineberry.
Jan. 10, 18Titf.
COACH & CARRIAGE
PAINTING! .
ThenOdereigned wiehee to storm the public thwthe
I prepared to do all kinds of
•
COACH, CARRIAGE, WAGON . J 6 outwit
PAINTING !
on short notice, in. the best style, amidst reasonable
prices.
lAtlof f e i fl'farseeFm
techletque sgo pa
Atkmvaoniupirese
A.-H. HICK.
kontrose, Sept. SCUM -17.
PIMPLES.
I will mail (Free) the recipe for preparing a simple
Vegetable Balm . that will remove mis t FRECKLES,
PIMPLES ana ilLoircues, leaving the skin obit, clear
and beautiful; aid also instructions for producing a
luxuriant growth of hair on a bald head or smooth face.
Address Bin. Vanden' k Co„ Box 5121, No. t; Woostor
St„ N. Y. 2w21
Boston, - March 16,1674
“ADVERTISE FACTS TO SUCCB,
•
DRY f3OODS t CLOTEIDTG,. BOOTS AND STU,' HATS ',AND CAPS .'NOTIONS ,
. " ,
G EO ••
L LENEE.IIIIB Great Bendt Pa.
We buy for gAsg only—And take al
can be . done--;either in
Qui whole store ie filled .with. BARGAIX
hare first oliportunity . to
era Prices Lower than it any Bingbamton St
LOW bnt LEss." "WE -KEA
[ln Brick Block.]
I -
Great Bend,; Pa., N0v..29; 1876.
CLOSING OUT BALE
H. '-',&.-:'.. :W. ::T.- :DIdKERMAN
Will offer for. sale on SATURDAY;'NOVEMBIR 25th, their entire stook of ,
We will offer OVER 14111',1'FiEN THOUSAND DOLLARS'. WORTH at Panic
Prices regardless of Profit , or Cost. . intend. to close •out
► the entire Stock in SIXTY DAIS. We mean
• -
what we say,- and say just alit 'we mean.'
Oar Stook , -is unusually large and ~attzaotive, consisting.Of the modern styles
of DRESS' GOODS AM) TRIMMING, DOMESTICS, etc.
- Our ,Stock of Over Ooati is unusually ' •
. - sad we do not -ititeid to keep
NOT. 22d, 1876.---Ini.
WE. ARE SZLLING
' - -
OVERCOATS, IN ,ALL STYLES, BUSINESS SUITS, PIM DIAGONAL,
(Dreis Snits,) DRESS. GOODS. LADIES' CLOAKS' minvq,,,
AND BOYS' BOOTS. AND SHOES, of all
LADIES, MISSES AND CHILDREN'S i
FINE and , COARSE SHOES, I
t RUBBER BOOTS
• AND
SHOS of all kinda, .1
and BOYS' .HATS and, CAPS,'
BUFFALO , ROBES, LAP ROBES, HORSE BLAN,KETS,
At bottom prices, "Binghamton not fixoepted.”
Nov. 8,1876.
A. S. MINER, BINGHAMT N,
- . WHOLESALE DEALER .IN i
BRONZE LAMPS, OPAL LAMPS, ALL GLASS LAMPS, HAND -LAMPS,
BURNERS, WICKS, SHADES, SHADE HOLDRS, JVC.; . &C. •
SPECIAL "IIiTIVICEMENTS •
EVERY , STYLE OP FLINT AM) COM N CHRINEYS.
. .ALSO , MANUFACTURER OF _
Grim 416'mcrro ALmtim.
Prisei Guaranteed as Los' as any House in Southern New York. -
Addrees s by Man Promptly Attended To. March3l,lBll. ' it A, 111. MINER.
AT THE .OWEIST RATES
We are continually adding new material.to our office, I;id with our. -
BEST JOB PRINTING
Large Stoik of JOB TYPE and FOUR Printing Presses we Defy Oornpetition
Both in Price and quality, either is Plain Black or Colored Work.
CHOICE FRUITS AND VEGETA
BLES AT.
• 1
TEE HEAD OF NAVIGATION,
Michas •
PEACHES, ORANGES, LEMONS,
PEARS, PINE APPLES, PLUMS,
QUINCES, 'ONIONS, TOMA
TOES, APPLES, CAB
BAGES, BANANAS,
()ANTELOPES,
GRAPES,
SWEET POTATOES, WHORTLE
BERRIES, /cc., Az,
all at bottom prices, by
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111Irstrole, Moat l*N. i* Agdilig°
TUE LARGEST' liTOCri 11V THE covitrrY r
. .
IN NEW MILFORD, PA.
Dams a
ED."
::, ~',. .
~.-a ,
IM!ni
antage of. the taarkei whenever it
rge or stud! lote:
becato.l we always want them; and
SEW GOODS EVERY DAY.
e. Jf‘Undeistand ire do not say : . u
WIJAT WE , BAY"
ODDS AND COTHING.
them over.
WEEKS,
CORRECTION 1
Rumor has it that having been elected County Trims
virer far the ensuing three years. I am to discontinue my
Insurance Mashies. Said RUMOR is UNTRUE, and
without foundation, and while thanking you for kind
ness, and appreciation of good Insurance in the past, I
ask a continuance of yourpatronage, promising that all
business entrusted to me shall be promptly attended to.
My Companies are all sound and reliable, as all can tes
tify who have met with losses during the past ten years
at my Agency. Read the List !
North British and Mercantile, Capital , $10,000,040
Queesm of London, 3,000404
Old Franklin. Philadelphia, Assets, 8,600,001
Old Contindatal t N4 Y., • 44 nearly 3,000,009.
Old Phienix of Hartford, it " 11.000,190
Old Hanover, N. Y. .. 1.000,009
Old Farmers, York, *I tOOOlOOO
I also represent tne New York Mutual Life Hon rums
et over 80 years standing. and assets over $30.000,_000.
Also,the Masonic. Rutin' Benefit Association of Penn
sylvania.
'Braaten Accidental Policy covering allaccidente,
in the Hartford Accident Ins. Co. Policies written
froze one day to one year. Onlv II cents fora WOOS
Policy. Please call or send word, when you take a trip
Vary resPenifullY•
arnatToge,Pa.pran ß —ttURT C . TTLIER.
GEO. L. LENELEIM.
it W. T. IQOBEBII~Ii.
RAWLS? ORUBI2.
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& CO.