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'A,DDISON
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532 Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
PLANS, DESIGNS, PERSPF:CTIVE
VI W 3.
SPECIFICATIONS, Atilt' WORRING DRAWINGS,
For' Cottages, Farm Maass. Vlllso, Court Howe',
HAN, Church., Sellout Room, FRENCH ROOFS.
2:1)so7oly
W. A. ATWOOD. ISAAC W. RANCH,
ATWOOD, BANCK & CO.,
COMMISSION MIIRCIIANTS,
1% bolosalo dealers in nil kinds of
PICKLED .kND BALI'
No. 210 North WiIIOTOS,
AINv.. Race street,
PHILADELPHIA
CHAPMAN
AKES FINK •,110 TAIALIt Al' II S
At 21 West Main Street,
NEFF'S BUILDINP
6Jan7a.'w
DENTISTRY !
DIL. J. IL ZINN,
No. 68 Edst iffitin. street,
to tow doors vast or Ilardnor's Machine shop,)
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Carlisle, Penn's,
s',ll pot. in torch from - S v to i,20 prr ;,t,(7 as the
may require. All work otw.vott.d.
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D R. GEORGE SEARIGIVr,
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DENTIST,
hum the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery., 011 ice
at the reeltlunee of his [outlier, Earl Lootho stiet,
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boo Boors below Ileilltatl. IlDeno
D R. 1. Y. REED,
1•11Y•IAAN
11, lot rated w Cu,Hula 011 ire next 41. or to I , '
Paola Ittungulle 11 null I,t.uther oat
Pullouts Irons a thota.,re pleusoiu the 105,10015
D R. J S. BENDER,
IIONIIIIOPATIIIe PHYSICIAN.
When lo Hs. room . bonwrly ovrttpied by Col. John
bhii.llB
DR. EDWARD SCHILLING,
V,f111,./ I) ul 1/1,101..11 litthill.l.lll,t.ei,:etol
or 1.r.7.1tv.er. 10 111611111 til” V 1117,1 1, 01
Atod thitt I 5. lati pt•rninnontly lu
mt,cl w Its. plimeo.
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:mob
sußyocK,
.wsTicE 01 1 Tun PEACE
031 co, Nu. 3 I rvinu'eyßow
13ELTZ1100'VE 12 ,
-ArronNEY AT LAW.
10199. in South linnovor strevt, 099.110 I.utv.'s dry
g..cls 10.69
• DENTIST.
Irate Demonstrator of Operative Dentistry of the
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thnort. College of Dental 'Surgery: Ofnee at his resi
dence, oppusit%Mariun Hall, \Vast Naln,st reel, Car
lisle, Pa.
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HULL,
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4011 N A.-ASV/41:Kr- V. \S. II git , IAG I H.
T_TOLL, WHITEMN & CO:,
11 wgoLEsA LI: DEALERS IN
MANUFACTURED. TOBACCO,
N. E. Cor: - ,Tltirsl and. Iflarlcet streets,
WIAL . B. PARKER
C. P. TIUMItICII
& PARKER,.
0.0 on-siza-teOfiVowifiltv,„,,,,,,_4...
14 -- A - VERSTIGK . -BROTHERS,
° DIICUF, PERFUMIIe.Y. FANCY (;0,01,C.
AND PATENT MEDICINES
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H . IJYTON & AIcCONNELL,
FURNITURE IVAItI4tUONI
No: SO9 Market Street,
N milt ,tclt,
PIIILADELN,IIA
Parlor, Dining Room, and Chainbur
U it NITuR 1.; ,
thet taxi xtyl. “..41 111,11111fJOUIP: A'.
FEATIIEII BEDS AI)N . .IATTRE , 'SES
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ISAAC K. STAUI'FER
IV A 1 Gil AS and JETELItY,
,18.,„pl ()Wm SECOND STREET,
ear ,or of Quarry,
Au alleortutunt of {Valeta, .lowelry, Hiker and
Plated Ware runetantly on hand.
ol Watches and a lewetry promptly
atlendlal to.
. A 7 5 , 1 4 . 6 .0 IY
JAMES IL GRAHAM,
Afr u NEY AT t, Aw,
No. 14 South Hanover 'street,
CARF,ISLE, PA
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yOIIN CORNAIAN,
ATTUILNEY AT LAW. •
cn:llun In buil .ng Mt...100t tho Frauktlu MAO, op
pumite Ow Court Rouen.
T OSEPH RITNER,
Arroway AT LAW AND SURVEYOR, ,
Mrchantegburg, Ps. Office on ItnUrond eltrpot, too
.1,004 north of the Bank.
prosoptly - al6qa - R tO,
T R. MILLER, ' '
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cy • ATTORNEY Al' LAW. •
.01Hco, Nu.lB South Ihmuver taTerl. opporßo . Coylris
tituru.. . 10,RRO
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C.
HERMAN, •
ilk ArroitriitY , AT LAW,
CarUlan, Nn. No. 9 lihnom n 113111.
" H. SHAIMI T A.RGER, •
• J OF TILL
I'll , llllod, 11"vntileiv•sborti 10w1,1,111.
• Cumberlnnd County, Pots Wit,
All buslitexs, ..ntrrotell to him er 111 remlru promp•
!alma I' • ltiot t7o
SHIRK & BRO
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wlicilr.lo 1101110r3. in . Country Produ,..
ronpuitfully xollelted. Itrot Korerotitm gluon
No. 16:35 la:tricot greet, •
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QPANGLER 5.,. WILSON, •
IJ CAIIPANTIMS AND STAIR Bulvisite.
, • . .cororr North ttod Pitt ittreets,, ,2 c
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CARLISLE, PA
W ITCHES '4,)icic
CHARLES M. ROGERS,
T. 56, South Hanover St., Carliala, Pa
Ke;TX ronstmilly on hand a full . . , i;:1 , 10141111011. 0
NS ATCI(IO3,
CLOCKS',
JEIVELnY,
At the lowest CABII pricer. Paillentsr uttention pu
to tha t rep tiring Pf IVutehes, Clocks mid Je,xult,x,7
N. It.— , IIIINT 31‘:131Cpownintly en Lund. -
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J. M. whionx,x. N. zr. SkELLI2.,
WDA.KLEY: SAMIDR;
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
0111 co, 22 South Itanoyer stroot, u 024 too Goa Will
Ilogo Rotted, 10,060
TATILLum ICENNEDYi
VV ATTORNEY AT LAW..
Offico in Volunteer building, Carlinla..,
NXT J-; SHEARER, K"
V T • ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Office lu northoast corner of tile Court Homo. lffirelffi
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ATTQRNYIY:ANDCOUNpILLOR AT LAIY,
trifthlitroot bolo - w - CheEitttiii;
Car. Library,
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NATIONAL HOTEL
CARLISLE PA .
•Tha—undersiened having Mime end entirely're.
fitted and furnished td
betel. is prepared to furnish
good accommodations td all who dem•re to make it
Chair home. A shire of }hg piVronage of the WT.
Mending 'country lrevelliu3 public solielted
Items large and comfortable: Table aiways Pup.
plied with the heat
T'
"BENTZHOUSE,"
(Ifornier/y 1 7orntan „House.) •
No. 17 . AND 19 EAST MAIN ST.,
Tho undersigned haylug purchased and nntirelv
.fittod, ana furniahod anew throughout with flint ,
ago furniture, this woll•known and old establinhed
otel. solicits lb 0 custom of the community and
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travelling public. He Is well prepared to fornivb
tirat-einss accommodations to all whu desire to matte
a Hotel their Home. or pl.toinnt t•'mnnrar'y abed,.
The custom from the surtoandiag country is re
spm•uully solicited. 1 1'nu teoux nod attentive tier.
v ants are engaged at this popular 'hotel, .. • ...
- GEO. Z :BENTZ. Pc,orpet
R. H. A . first class L:ivery Ie i•onnt Cted .11.1) the
II ot.l tliouutuagerokut . of Mr. JO,B. L. Z^.4ItNEIL
MO.
10apri1 09 ly
TRAVELERS' GUM E.
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD
SUM 1•313 TIM 1 , 3 TA 13 . •
Eight Trains (Daily) to and from Phila
delphia and_ Pittsburg,' and Two
Trains Daily to and front Erie
(Sundays excepted),
(I N and after Sdnday, May•l,
V 137'0, Pas eng, Trainsof tho lb.untllvattis
30iip and 111111 11.14 Ocpart fi Ifitrrisburg and
Al . I/ /It I'uiladrlp ra ant Pittsburg a Ottawa:
2 le--Philadelphia lixpress 11,..a llsirisliorg
daily (exe lit )littels3) at 2 10 a. at.. and urrit es at
Ili ft at 6 50 n. in.
5 2,--/lint I.lnalrnie Ilarrediarg hill (except
Meant)) at 5 2 1n...111., and ills Ire. la. Wes
villa a 9 35 a to.
71111 rte. tea.. Alt stlit hilly (except Sitielsy)
at 300 p. ni. and arrhes at Ilarrisherg o I , lp. in.
11 12—Vieille Express leaves Flan latter,: dally
dxrept 9 'inila39 ut 11 10 p et., and relives at Oh nit
at 2 p. nu.
10 45 lei inttail lit pro , . leaves Ilan isberg daily
at 10 45 I, 111 , and tllrlyits at' West I'lltlatletpltla st
3 111 a. at
250 600 born 1 1 :xertetllentrx it Isburgi 0.115
(saeopt Miiitilnyl at 2 50 p.m., itt.d ars It es et West
Ittlalittplon tit 7 00 p in.
Ilarrister g AcColll.ll.ltiaii,lll 11.1,4 Iltoreai
dtlly
(Sunday excepted, at 7 10 id ni., sell arrives arliart
rise erg at 1 as p. tn.
55-111trrwtotrg teeittilatl n leaves Ilsrrix-•
iverr nro-sttep,ter3—dutl--nrrir it at
0 50 p in.
0 —l,O et aster 'redo, via Nleunt Joy, 'saves
iterislatra .1101 y (except -Iteilay) at B au a. in, tv - iti
arrives at 12'55 p. w.
BEM
4 15--Elio Fait 1,111. 1 r Erie, Iron,,
daiiy vxrept Sunday; at 4 12 p. m , urrivhu
al Brio at 10 a. in
11 1 —eincin nal f 118prusii lea, as Harrlio urg daily
(except Sunday') et 12 10 a. ,as rivra at A itioinat at
4 5l a tin. it ad ai tiara at irlttoburu tat 0 2.0 a. tn.
2, 40—Piltalaird pro,/ A , iori a hat risburg. daily
Oixi opt Sunday) at 0 411 1.1. 111., IlrriVf`g Altunna at
d 11l 111 . , take/ arrival ut l'ltt,burg
t is p.
4 10—riteillo Hyp , roaa liatodo Ilarriaburg dailu sf
4 10 I m.. mayor at Altai nit at S Tit, in. it, ,takes
breakfabt and arrived at Pittaburr nt 1 50 p.
— Fast 1100 Ito, rldlairg'dally (one , pt - asudsy-)
itt 4 Id V. 111., army. at Altoona at 8 12 p. to , taken
iiiipper and 314 ilvds at Pitt , urg nl lS 12 it at.
iiall 1r.., Harrisburg dilly(ecropt Sun
day) at 1 12 p - id., arrive,. al Altoona at 7 15 p. at.,
takr , xi., per and nrr ve. at Piltal . lll g at 1 :al a m.
Way Pa.sen2or train 11,11 . 1,13 H11.1.1111.111,;', 50
pi yilinday) lit 7 45 a. An., itralvtia at Alt. ono at
20 5.0 y. nail lit Pitt laird at. 10 30 p. m.
SAMUEL 'A. 111. I Eli,
Supt 111,11 Ir Dlv. Pry nu: .
Hartjalotirg 2511130, 18;0.
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' DEADING R \IL ROAD.
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• summEit AKRANdEmEN - T.
Monday, Apra IS, 'lB7O
liTlecrTlTUNlC — T , TN7rrattt -- ttarsc , Tur - m - a
North West for Phlladeipb.a, New T.•rk. Reading,
Pott ovine, Tannntit. Aabland, Sham,*ln, Lebanon,
Allentown, Easton, Ephrata, lAtle, Lancaster, On.
robin, &c., se.
'rrnlkß loner flarrlKburg for N. York an follow.:
5.35 x.lO A.ll , I con, and 205 P. SI ronuect.
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log with similar tralan 010.ylva01A tl Ail Road.
and arrithik at New York at 13.15 noun, 3AO. 0.50
ttnil 1000 P 8.. rePperli•ely. aleeplog Caro accom
pany the 5 01. , oil. 12.3 a nom ,traina wit horit
change.
11,1nrii1021 Ica vu Now York at a.. 00, a at, 11.00
noun. and 5.00 I' 0., Philadelphia at 815 1. 33 .
nod 0.110 1. 31. Sh•opin g corn accompany the 0.00
8. . 0.1 0.00 r [valor hoot New Vora.
13411001 n e1 , out,
liarrialtar3 Per Itlindittgi, Pottsville, Inlinai
qua. 11ittetiv Ile. Aala laud, slutinonlit, Pi. a Grove.
Allentown mud P.hiladelphin, at 0.10 A. 3(., 05
nod 4.10. r. siiippino at Lebanon and pr, lclpal
any .4/111011S: the 4.10 P U ttatii ..004,01.11.g . 100
PlidadAlpl.lol, And (101,utublA duly. Flo,
novo. and auburn, •38
Stibuyikillitind Susquehanna llnliro id, lenve Harris
buro at 34'1 P. 31.
Way Paenonger leaven nt 7 30
0, At., Corint;ct.lTA .1111 vididar train 00 Foal Penn.
nylvattia recuroirur from [Wading at 6.36 P.
14..ntitpping at nil Ration/L.
loinvePottnrille nt 610 and 1.1.0 A 31., rod 245 P,
lierittlon at 9 30.,. /1.. Shautoltht at 6.40, and 10,
10.3..114'A111111110 trt. 7,06 A. .3i , and 11.30 . noon, Ts.
madam nt 0,33. A Al .11 , 111 2.30 P x , for Philniltd9loB
sod Now York.
1.01100 ilotteville via Schuylkill au dflusquehanna
Roll Itond al a 15 A. II for ilinirlaburg r and 11.30 A2m.
for flue rorr and 'riots). nt.
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Reading areeininodaLit n 'Credo, !wives Pottsville
L h. 42 A 2.1 . pn6xnx itUtilin.' itt 7.30 A id., nrl iving
it Philadelphia al. 10.20 A. n IL-turning, irarer
Iphir al 5.1 h P Al . pasxinr Itterlln • nt 8.1.0
al, arriving ah Phttsville at 9.01 r
I•oltatotru AC,0(11111.9,1031011_ AMON,
corn at 0.2,1
,a 31 returnltig
00 P. N.
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Oulu°lbla Itall , Road Train,. leave 14.10113g - 1a 7.15
A. 51., and 6.16 P M. for Ephrata, ',1115,. JAhra stet
Columbia. .te.
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Perkloutele hall Rond Tr:lll.ll,vp Perk Junc
o:l tit 9.110 A M, 00 11 I,d 6.:30 P. urn-
196 15,v,1r chwookevillo o 1 e." 5 A 11 . 12.45 13 ,
alol 4.15 r m„ Con lot. ring a th nhu dui trains on
Rending dell Road.
Colubrool:dale Railroad truly, lease Putt •town At
40 A at., ono 6 20 P. 11.10 Ur. 16g. leave Olt. I'
ant at ri oan 11:25 A. a.. ,connestlog with similar
Intim on htrollog Rail It , ad.
cherter Valley Railroad [rains lento Bridgeport a'
8.30 A a.. and 2.05 and 5.02 P. 11., returning, Janie
Dooningtown at 6.20 A. 34., 12.45 not,ll, Bt.,
Clonnenilig With rimilar trains on lloadomr Rail Read.
vlu r•ltudnyx lAnt vu New •York_ at 5.18.1 P.
a. 00.0. At. and 3.15 r. v. (111 C 0.04
A. salts, only J.n Iteirlinn•) 1.1,0 Pol.lr
villa al N.Oll A a.. (larrishurg at 5 81, A. Illand
410 P. m., and Reading at, 7.15 0.11 And 10U5 r. a.
for rleburg. at 1.23 A. AI . lie NomYorA,anM'at
9,49 A. And 4.25 Pa. furrPhil.alelphla, •
Canim tt Bunion, 801100 Aid Eneur.
Niou Tickets, lo and from all poluts.at re lured tutor
Ilaggagu checked through; lOU pound' , allowed tooth
Passenger.
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O. A. N 'CULLS, , lon up't
Reading, Pa.,.Aprll 18, 1870.
tJ BERLANI) V,ALI.;EY R. R
~ QP HOURS. ' -
SUMMLIt ARRANGEMENT.
On and ;alt' Monday, Mny 2. 1870, Poesongnr
Truing will rot, dully, nn follows,(Hinlays epTilttni):
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ACCOMMODATION TRAIN leaves llarrisborg
tl:On A. NI, Meclutulrsburg 8:35,C...114°9:1 t, Nowvllln
9;47, Sitlppelislonrg Clialuberaburg 10,44, (Deem.
castle 11:10, arriving at Hagerstown 11:49, A. M
MAU, Ti AIN. leaVea`Hasrlsborp. 1::15..p 11 ~‘lO
ulintilemblirg Carlisle Nrwvillo 3: , 5, Ship!
plunibui.g- ;H9. Cluinilanitinirg 4:20, Greencastle 4:50,
.nrrblu r at hr:s, p M.
EXPRESS. 1:1tAIN loaves Harrisburg; 4:15 r
Mechanicsburg 4:17, Carlisle 9(17, Nowville 9:90, Blilp
. punalnirg 6:17, .rrivlii.‘ at I ljami.ursbu 4 g 0:45, r M.
A ii XED"rItAIN loaves Chttlaborslatrg SM. A 1,1
aril:l4lo4lu 1 1 :16. arriving at Ilageraown 10;00. A X.
AN..O .1 N MAY
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A COOSISIODATIO9 TRAIN leaven Chan& rnburg
5100 A a, Siiippensburg saO. Ness villa C:Ou, Carllnle
0:83. Mechanicsburg 7:1.2 arriving at 7hirrinburg ,
7:30,A M. •
MAIL - TRAIN I .avers 117go,stawn 7:00 A u, (insult
ensile 7:35, Chambetsburg 0:10, Shlnpetinluirg 8,40,
Ntiwsillo 0:10, Carlille 0.40, Mechanicsburg 10.22
arriving nt litiriinburglo:ss, A. et.. ' • '
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EXITEBS TRAIN, leavna Ilogora:own 12:00 t. 4,
CI runt:matte Chninlieralinri I:05. fillippcon:4l , g
Is37,Nuwvilla 2:10. Carlini:: 2:60, filechanicobnig
striving nt Ilnr,l2Gurg 8:80,n x., , •
A MIXED TEAM lc:avem Hagerstown 3:06 r
Cirennenatio 4:12, arriving nt Cloonbara burg 6:05. p
Xr?" Making aloe co:lnactions at liar. intinrg r with
train. to and Dom Philndtdpkin, York, Waal:Dig •
tit, llaltimoro, Dittabdrg,lnnd'nll points Writ .!
0. N. LULL. 8051.
Buporlotendont'd 011140, Chainleg: April 30, 1870.
SP i.ISVdCLES; do.
1 1P''URE LIQUOR', TVIIVLo,g tfc
,NPwA4Qtr,O4
N. E..p/F Patii?yeT Ityd'Pomfrot fltradff
• a taw doors south of lionteo wtord.)' •
1011009
tur'e Rye Wllleky,
Beet COmmon Whisky,
Pam Holland (Be,
Ginger prainly,
, Port Wino,
Blierry Wino,
Jarpnleti Rum,
Ohampdgne.
MIBIILER'B BITTHItiI• ,INHOPR'O , and HLABB'S
' .141:70 tarrhitii,
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N. W. WOODS,
Prorfutur.
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- • •DY BEV.. B. r 4 'SAMPLEd
Sltedowe o'er the Yale aro crooning, ...; •
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• And the son 'Moho to h's reit; '• • •
Twtliglit ihaweiler Curtitne 't'oftly,!
" Golden clouds hang In the west.. . r ,
Rushed the nolto of buoy labor,. -
Toll Lee sought Its wcltqdroat;:•' , •
Whitspetinitreeo nod murmuring ntroontioto: ,
Sweetly'ooothe .each troublvd breent. . •
Valens :looting, and I'm drawing
Near tbor i nnoot of mY.'llfer;
Soon will and my weary Journey,
Soon will ceaso all, toll andatrito
Sbadow.Vor my patltarntedllng.
" Xjartlily visions fade away;
:Valeta, roll and oiikai,aia telling
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Of on oodlum, orient day.
Wei.,the nitetymonntaine biodenn
13ni i'vo,Walteyi long to 000
Soft its night do* &lie on meadowe,
life kind bidding, "Cente to Ma
Lot the porpio light (levelling,
Stealing gontly up the sky,
Beefs me on Its wings to meet him,
le tilln death i "fit riweet to ilia:
Jesum call, UM, Ond Cm going
ll'hore the shadow. never come
Now the thoart tel behind me,
And I Lester!' to my home—
To my Lome beyond. the menaet,
Far beyond the day's decline,
Where the glory is un'adlog,
Where.the.golden portal.; abide
THE AZTECS.
EARLY IaSTORY. OF MEXICO
Prescott, in his "Conquest of Mexico,"
has given us a most fascinating account
of these people, and of their ancient em
pire in the West. The degree of civili
zation they had acquired seems Scarcely
less' marvelous to the historical student
now than to the Spanish invader in the
sixteenth century. It has furidshed
fruitful field for donjecture, and sur
rounded their history with ,a peculiar
interest. •
This Aztec race was found in Mexico
when it was first 'discovered by the
Spaniards. Of their previous history but
little is known, and that little bothWague
and unsatisfactory, gleaned. partly from
- oral traditions and pArtly from " picture
- writing" - (hieroglypirics) ----- Theyure - sup
posed to have emigrated from the'north
to the Valley of Mexico, and to have,
acquired many of their arth and-customs
FrOin the Toltecs, a race who preceded
them in the possession of the country.
Tradition assorts that, having halted on
the borders of the lake of Tezcuco, they
beheld an eagle With a serpent in his
talons, and. his wings outspread to the
'rising sun, perched upon the stem of a
prickly pear, that grew front' the crevice
of a rock. This circumstance they hailed
as a_favorable..omen, "inOicating,the site
of their future city. .-Nor were they dis
couraged by the filet that the rock was
surrounded by low marshes, half buried
in water.. They erected' their dwellings
of reeds and .inslics. upon piles sunk in
the shallows, and' thus wars the founda-
Owls of Mexico laid, the " Venice of the
West." , Its ancient name was Tonoch
titlam-but-it,was-afterwards.called..Mex,
ice, in 11911 or of ihoir mar.god;
From this small beginning they rap
u_strpngtkand resources,
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until, atthe time of the Spanishinva- .
sion, their dominions extended from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, and southwardly
far into the remote corners of Guatemala
and Nicaraug,a. • Substantial edifices of
stone and lime' replaced titer first rude
tenements, and upon the toyal hill of
Chapultepec arose the palace of their
monarchs, surrounded by vast gardens
filled with fragrant shrubs and flowers
Prescott describes, in glowing language,
this beautiful Valley of Mexico when it
first met European eyes.
"Like a vision," he, says, "it broke
on the eyes of the Spanish conquerors,
with the picturesque assemblage of wa
ter, woodland, and its cultivated plains,
shining , cities, anti shadowy hills.
Stretching far away at their feet were
- seen noble forests of oak, sycamore and
cedar, and beyond yellow fields of maize
and the towering maguey, intermingled
with orchards and blooming gardens ;
for flowers, in such denihnd for their
religious festivals, were even more abun
dant, in this populous valley than in
otfit;riiirta'firrctiMitilid - . --- Itt — the — centre •
of the . greatbashr wore beheld the lakes,
occupying then a much larger portion of
its surface than at present, their borders
thickly studded with toWns and hamlets,
and in the midst, like some finnan em
press, with her corona of pearls, the
fair City of Mexico, With her white tow
ors and pyrainid temples, reposing, as it'
were, on the bosom of the waters, the
far famed Venice of the Aztecs.' In
the distance beyond the blue waters of
the lake, and nearly screened ,by inter
yening foliage, was seem a.shining speck,
the rival capital of Tezcuco, and, still
farther on, the dark 'belt of porphyry
girdled the valley around like a rich set
ting which nature hail devised for the
fairest'of her jewels."
No wonder the Spaniards wM•e struck
with awe and admiration by the .evidence
of a civilization in this new world, so
closely resinabag that of the old Nor
was this amasbinent loSsened whem,in
their progress' toward the capital, they
passed through , ho towns and citie. ad
joining, and beheld the general aspect of
-wealth and' prosperity that prevailed.
The, Aztec 'Empire way at the zenith - of
its glory. But alas! the - spoiler had'
cane, the white man had enterod.this.
terrestrial paradise..„..7al::#ll - gbt, -- Mtin: -
tekumn, on 'the throne of his Tndiam
ancestors, tremble with apprehension. ;
' At that time the City of MeXico was
' - supposed to contain,. at thelorintst esti
mate, three thuhdred, thousand inbabb.
tants._ Its well , constructed - Streets, in
tersected by numerous canals, its temples
and 'palaces, its,,totraced::gardens," and
'gloaming fountains—all betrayed' the
'existence of a race far advanced in civili
zation, beyond any that' had hitherto
been found in - America. And yet, what
a idatheoMe blot stained that national
.... ----
escutcheon; Their - altars were red with
the blood:of human beinFs,; sacrificed in
; mad superstition tolho'sauguMary,idols
they, wprshipped.,,,, Worse than Idle; the
body , of the • *intim • afterwards'
dressed, andservednp in banquet. - True,
'they Itere'ililinni,tO this 'oahriiliS'l repa4
Uy tho commands _of their religion,
'ruthor ; thnn the hightail of their
But its effects not,, on that
Recount,. the lose faifil. Tho shadorr'ef:
superstition rested upon their haute and
%homes, wrapping in its soinbre'Volii4 .
Peasant and emperor alike ; the whole
nation:grcnitiad'innientlf ;that' *cora bf
tyrantly-i blind fanatiohiM:. • '
to
ref/biting 'Wake ivitli an rdegroolof
CARLISLE; PENN'A. - , THURSDAY, MAY 19, IS7O.
zatioo Yet this. Aitce race was.yOsed
in agricultural and mechanical pursuits,
Understood mathematics and astronomy,.
and even displayed a cortaip amount of
social refinement. ' Tho Spaniards were
;amazed. at their akill 'irmvorking metals,
and Ptescatt u states, that some of their
'vasessilver wore ; so large that a man
could hot encircle them with -his . arms.
They were hot . acquaint9d, however, in
the u§o of iron, but its place was sup
plied with an- al4 of tin and copper;
-and tools made from this subetAnce, with
the aid of - siliciolfrdta;'W - mld cut the
- hard substances,' e/en -
,amethysts and
emeralds. A. dark, transparent mineral,
„called obsidian, furnished them with the
'material for swords, knives, and razors,
and was also formed into tools, with
Which they wrought the stones and ala
,basters employed in theirarchitecture.
Soul*tired images wore• so Mnnerous
that they aro said to compose the entire
foundations of WO chthedral'in the great
square of Mexico. •
• A most remarkable curiosity was dis
interred in 1700, the great, calendar stone,
whose original weight is supposed to
'have been. , nearly fifty tons. It was
'transported by tate AzteeS over many
leagues
'eagues of broken country, intersected
by canals and water courses ; and, when
we remember that they liad no animals
of draught, such a feat evinced an unu
sual degree of mechanical skill. Its in
scriptions prove conclusively that this
nation had the means of accurately de
termining the hours of the clay, and the
periods of the' solstices and of the equi
noxes. Their mathematical and astro
nomical knowledge was truly wonderful.
They fixed the length of the tropical year
with a precision unknown 'to the philos
ophers of antiquity,sand many of their
festivals were adjusted by the Movements
of the heavenly bodies. .
Their literature wasembodieffin hiero
glyphical paintings, somewhat similar
to those of the Egyptians, but far infe
rior in.execution. By this means their
laws,' their tribute their_retigionk
rituals and traditions,' and even their
political annals, were recorded. Some of
tire symbols 'they used were highly
amusing; for instance, "a man sitting
on the ground" denoted- an earthquake.
ThO manuscripts usually presented a
grotesque appearance, covered over as
they were with caricatut•es of the human
figure, for the Aztecs wore - as 'ignorant
of the perspective as the Chinese. .It
was almo4 impossible for theunitiatt#
to interpret their meaning, -as.the-leaS
change in, the form or liosition of a tigurC
- • -
Of their agriculture we have not spoken,
but it was an occupation held in the
highest esteem. With 'the exception of
theik-Soldiors-and. powerful-nobles, all of
the inhabitants including those of the
cities, cultivated the soil. Its dryness
was obviated by numerous canals, and
She Jpstruction_2l the woods that
-ered-the country-was - forbidden - mrthat
account.' The city of Mexico,- with its
environs, where every-available spot was
co-Cered-With-giry-arid—lninidant vag,etriii
tion; presented a bearitiful appearance.
The Spaniards were particularly de
lighted by the floating gardens, "fairy
island of flowers," that rose and fell with
the goirtle undulations of the billows.
Prescott thus describes their forratcon :
" These gardens hail their origin in
the detached masses of earth, which,
loosening from the shores,, were still laid
together by the fibrous roots with which
they were penetrated. The Aztecs, in
their pOverty of land, availed themselves
of the hint thus afforded by nature.
They constructed rafts of reeds, rushes,
and other fibrous materials, which, - tightly
knit together, formed a sufficient basis
for the ,sediment that they drew up front
the bottom of the lake. Gradually,
islands were formed. two or three hun
dred feet in length, and three or four feet
in depth, with a rich stimulated soil, on
which the economical Indian raised friji
vegetables and flowers for the markets of
Tenochtitlan. Someti'mes they were
even firm enough to allow the growth of
small trees, and to Anshan a hut for the,
residence of the person thal hatl, charge
of it, who, with a long pole,: resting on
the sides pr the bottom of the shallow,
basin, could change the positiOrY of htis
little territory at Pleasure, which, with
Itsfreight pf vegetable stores was seen
moving like some enchanted i,land over
the water."
In their' domestic intercourse the Az
tecs displayed an athmint'of kindly feel
ing hardly to he expected from the cruel
nature of their religion. PolygaMy was
permitted, although seldom'• practiced;
except by the higher' classes. • The Obli
gations of 'marriage were as binding upon
the parties as in any ChiiStiakeou'utry.
Both Sdie'S • participated in their social
festivities, which were often conducted
on a. scalp of :Oriental magnificence.
gold and silver vases,' spoons, and drink;
hug cups, ornamented their walls, htet
mingled with 's profusion of flowers.
Nor were thou deficient in culinary skill'.
Costly viands were elaborately'preparOd,
aucl even confection s c and pastry.' Prdm :
immtamong theirtnoats was the turkey,
which was. Originally, found. inn kosice,
and not O in Enuipe,,. name would,
imply:. The repast • was - followed by ,
datioing to the, sound , of several Metre
monts,.their MoiromontS being aceortipa,
nied with: . pleasing, yet melancholy,
chants.
_the entertainment was.: con
cluded by a distribution of costly:lms
, • .
outs among the, guests.
In reflecting upon the Aztoo character,.
wo are struck by its strangd inconsistini- 1
Mos : Wi th, a passionate loVo' for 'flowers
was united a thirst for carnage truly
helical; withthe
,arts and customs of,n,
civilized poople, . the ..dobasing practices.'
;of a savage: ' :the only' eXplanatiOn to be
found inthatroligiouS Saporstition which
so blunts the nioul fucrilties ne to reoo l3, '
'MTh to, What )V'oftlil 'Othersviso 'pe'vieWed
with horror. - • . . :' '
As to the, origin, of, their eivilizatio'n,"
'many theories. have • been formed and
ably, discussed: The . mat 'plansiblo trace,
fountainhead back
,to, Asia:; whhe
others claim for it an 'Egyptian, and
eveMa liebroWerigin. ; hut ;in Nyhatever
light we view it," this AzteMrace is "cor
tainly..onm oir'the Most remarkable of
;Whom history hno kepi's; re'ep r rd, 'and, in
!spite pi'. theit' biooily !religion, invested
witli•'a: !nom men' attraetion; • fi:(im the
desPeratO liereisM'wlol!,'whiol) . ,the'y de
fended their country, and 'the humilio ,
'tiMilithat - afterWariliVreSbed their proud
sPitits ' —,'
• - 1 , '417
TVS BASTILE.
- BigtitY:-One years-ago the ,Bastile -Was'
destrtlYedby the people of Paris; -and its
horrors laid opeirto the sunlight. • It had
then-been standing nearly four hundred"
years; though it bad been enlarged by
frequent additions in the meantime.
The Basal° was, a citadel or fortress,
°reeled to defend the principal -gate of
Paris, and the palace of. Charles the
Fifth. It atterWards became a prison,
where criminals of rank were confined,
as well as innocent persons who were
merely suspected of being enemies to the
State. Strange to say, 'the very architect
who planned the building, and who ex
erted all his powers to make it the strong
est fortress of his century, was the first
State prisoner received into its horrid
vaults. For years ho -lay in a damp' dun- ,
geon, where the sunlight never entered ;
but he escaped at last, during 'a public
insurrection, when tho Bastile was forced
open by. he people, There were eight
towers to'tho building. They were one
hundred and,.twenty-nine feet . high, and
had very hoayy double iron doors. Th 9.
walls were twelve feet thick at •the-topi
arid-nearly forty feet thick at the base ;
All the towers contained cells, an4;tho
windows of these were merely - slits:near
the top, opening through the solid ma
sonry, and guarded by three heavy iron
'gratings. There were five different
kinds of, cells, but the dungeons in the
vaults, under the towers, Were the most
dreadful of all. They were dark, and
swarmed with toads, spiders, and hungry
rats.
The floor, a' mass of slime .and mud,
sentnp the most c'listrMisingi,. odors ;
rough iron both' fa4Vire ' d`to the wall, and
coveted with a few iron planks, was the
only furniture ; and the entrance vas by
two iron doors, each , inny„
'IOUkS, bolts. The
other cells were not muclibTittATVT some ,
ware, eight-sided, or octagon in shape ;
some were small, and so arched that the
prisoner could stand only in theoniddle ;
some_haddloors_thet were rouuded_in all
directions toward the centre;; and all
were wretched and gloomy, suffocating
in summer, and told in winter.
The. Governor of .the Bastile had full
control ol;Vi: its management., _Under
him were a major, an assistant major, - a
lieutenant and two hundred soldiers,
whose muskets were always kept louded
The jailors and turnkeys, the roughest
and most barbarous men that could be
found, were tools in the hands of their
superiors ° . They cleaned the : rooms,
:brought the prisoners their, food,' at-
Tcinienheniin — a766, wore spies of
the Governor, gild carried out his wishes.
Each wore a huge bunch of keys in his
girdle. Each cell had five keys.
41 prisoner would -genernlliarrive at
the Bastile in a coach, surrounded by
dragoons. Then they would lead _him
into a room to - be ecaiched, and take
from him every loose article he carried—
papem, knives, or Whatar - ertini37
might bc—befure conducting ]lint 'to bis
ect]. Three or four heavy.lituns arrN
.opencrd,,hnis - pusherl•ini-the""tioors "9l ittt
behind him, and the prisoner is buried in
his dungeon, perhaps forever. If be
should be tortured, or put to death there,
no human being, .outside the prison,
would ever know his fate:
At first -- tho,prisoners wore suffered to
have neither books, or writing materials,
but afterwards these-were allowed them
There were two meals a day of the most
wretched kind, yet even 'for those the
Prisoners were charged high prices.
'Woo to the poor wretch who ma le any ,
complaint He would have to suffer
heavy punishment for the offence, and,
perhaps, oven be cut off from his few
minutes' daily walk in the courts, and
Passages' of the Bastile. These walks
were always closely' witched, and the
guard had orders to tiro at once, on any
Who were - seen making the faintest at
tempt to .cscapo.
one day a mysterious prisoner ap
peared, whose name was kept a profound
secret. To this 'day it never has been
found out who -he was, or why he • was
- put there. No man, except the Gover
nor,-so-far-as is known ever saw his face,
or heard his voice. lie always wore a
mask of black, velvet, fastened at , the
back of his head with steel springs. *No
one ytai r ted upon him but the Governor,
who attended when he ate, and when he
dressed. When his linen was changed
it was destroyed by the Governor as soon
as it was taken off.. lie never removed ,
his mask for an instant,'and when he
went to hear mass, which was-heard in
the prison, 'the
,armed men avho wore
present, were instructed 'to kill hint in
stantly, in case of his speaking, or shoW
ing.his face: For years - he remained in
-the taiitilei;itiul altritySlore_ the „mask.-
He died in the pri'son, and was buried at
St.,PauPs. llti was evidently a person
of high rank, 'probahly av,i-elative of the
royal faniily, but - the mystCry - has never
been solved. He was always attended
by the Governor and major alone, was
Areated 'with great consideration; died
„very stuldenly,-(ind after his death, all
his furniturO,paperS, etc., were burned,
-and'his money and jewels molted down.
When the Bastilo was destroyed by the
infuriated mob in the French Revolution,
it was hoped .',hat somothihg would be
,flisecivered in regard to this Man Silti7
-Iron Mask,..as he was called. • lint no.
Not even the carefully kept - records
. of
:the prison which were discovered threw
any light upon the mystery. lle was.
merely mentio n ed as an unknown pries
ones; but the fact is set down'that Ile
was obliged, always,' to wear a mask of
black velvet. •
,When the l3astilo was thrown open
'tunt ransacked onthat terrible June day,
only seven prisonera wore found' in' its
cells and dungeons. Ono, the Count do
Solage,lad bean there, 'a close caPtive,'
Over sine ei ho was n, little boy of eleven.
Another, `named Tavernier; had passed
'tllty years in the_:Bastile, and when ho
fou the doors of the prison open, and
his follow-creatures, crowding. 'ln, eager
to welcome IM was like ono making'
‘froM a thirty years',sloop. His mind was'
dulled; 4,lMsuni3hino frightened and be
wildered him ; he' sciircely knew what
freedom meant. ' • • •
.Thoy 'found records there of. one poor
old man named'Lobat, ivliO had boon ar
rested 'whim twenty-six , years old, and.
!lad died in : ono of its vaulte r at theage
'of ninety. . ,
~Dreadful &Sods wore done during the
French Revolution;; hut ono bright spot'
in:its *OW. is•tir ,. dostruotion of the'
Anstßo. "No more shalt brolton•hoarted
prisoners languish in its gloomy towers..
The place :whereAt stood so long is now
ono, of the gayest and brightest in the
city of Paris, and the famous
cruel
col
umn marks the spot where the ernel old
walls fell 'down.
SlNEtar
BY AMIE SIIIIN,BII.
Simeon Sikes, silver-seller, sallying
solitary southward, steadily seeking sat
isfactOry sales, sauntered soberly, swing
ing satchel, systematically showing solid
silver spoons, sugar sjlovels, small-sized
salvers, superior spectacles, sharp scis
sors, snuffers, sowing shields. Sombre
skies, sent soft showers, soaking Simeon's
satchel, shoes, stockings, shirts, skin.
Suddenly ' something seemed saying
softly: "Sweet Sally Slater Simeon
soon shall see." So-Simeon straight
way • strode stupendous strides, seeking
Sallie Slater's snug shelter; Roan saw
sundry stately sycamores; standing sen
tinel, shading said spinster's socidded.
shelter; spied Sally sitting 'Bolus, sewing
stockinet, slyly snuffing sweet-scented
Scoicii - Tainfti------Stidden surprise seized
Sally's sedate soui, seen noon's swift
strides, Sally's sanctity somelmz: skedad
dled shamefully. She, soniewhiirsensi
tive„ shrank suspiciously, started sud
denly, spilled some snuff, soiled stock
inet; stuttered, stammered, said,: "Seat
sir?" Simeon shivered, shook, said:
"Smart shower 1" Sally said, "Slightly
so." Siincon's shins seemed sore; so
Sally sought some soothing salve; sup
plied some soft-soled slippers. .Square. , .
shouldered? slab-sided, spindle , 4lAed .. .
-Simeon seemed sentrtnentally-1404
Soon "Sally - said Sold somertilVer;since
Sunday, Simeon, ." Simeon scowled sav
agely. Sally suggc,%l supper. " Sar-.
saidr•Simatil; "something
sufficiently strengthening ; some -strong
stimulant 1" So Sally sent sirloin steak,
sausages, sonic) soothing sangareo. Si
mcon's stomach soon seamed satisfied.
So Simeon smoked several sugars . ; sat
-stupidly ;--soon-slept ;--snored- sonorously:
Sally sitting, solemnly stitching, stocki
.net shirts, suddenly sneezed. Simeon
started, stared, seemed seared ; suspie,-.
surveyed surrounding space.
Shutters, shades seemed secure. Sally;
stVing -sowing, said softly . : "-Some
boilk slyly sneaking, sneaking Sinmon's
silver ?"' Simeon, slightly susceptible,
seemed suddenly smitten; sought
side-; sacrilegiously sUrrounded, sancti•
monious Sally Slater's slight symmetry !
She seemed somewhat suspicious, said :
"sickish, soft !" Simeon, staving.. Big =
nifleantlyoain : " Sweetest, surely soli
tary souls slmpuld sympathize I" . Sally
slipped Simeon, Sim. Scented- subdued.
She seemed sorry; showed some -soften- .
ing symptoms ; supinely sought Sim's
sturdy shoulder. So Sim smacked Sally I
So straightway surrounding she smacked
Sim. Simeon said : "Set some suit
able season." S.allysaid;. "Septemb,ur,r,
Sim - , - shrugging Sim's shoulders, - said ;
-"-scioner!"' Seripture surely Sanctions
,M U lt-stremsympathy "Say Snnday..?'2,
To
succuMtied I Several supernal
seasons slipped softly, sweetly, some
where. Seven small scions sprung suc
cessfully, shedding sunshine—shouting,
singing, soldom sick; squalling some
times ; still sweetening Sally's solitude.
So succeeding, summers serenely ,sped.
Shneon still sells silver, supplying sub
stantial subsistence. ,
I=2
tslCAintoucit moot; urn
Woodsad:et Patriot.
ArtEcnoTP. we THE, LATE GENERAL
Trtotts.—Since The Cincinnati En
quirer has seen fit to speak of the dig::
pity and decorum of the negroes who
voted at the recent election in that city,
we' are prepared for almost anything.
It is passing strange, - however, that the
Enquirer should publish .the following
anecdote .of the late Major General
Thomas. Has it not read the Demo
cratic article on General -Thomas in
Tic Yew Orleans Picayune?
The press is teeming ‘skaiv4 . C949 _
Qfl, tile late c39ral 110111a8i 4 811Virirr,
his remarkable coolness and braver -
upon the battle field. There is no doubt
that he was a wonderful man in that
respect, and that few, if any, military
heroes in the past have deservedly left
'greater reputations. ' A friend of ours
whO somyed under the General, vouches
for the authunticity of the following
anecdote, the scehe of which occurred
upon the dreadful and sanguinary field
of Chickamauga, which.. was Bared by
the gallantry and courage of Generals
Thomas and Steadman: A United
States regular regiment was subjected to
Such:a fire that-it,brolce .its - ranks' and
. fled—onicers and men iii wild confusion,
In their rapid flight to the rear two'of
the officers met General Thomas. He
arrested their stampede at once, remark
ing, "Gentlemen; your regiment is there,
or ought to be there"—dosignnting,
point in the line of battle in which the .
dentlict was fiercest—"aml you will
rejoin your commands instantly," and
!the bravo-old soldier, in the midst of the
deadly storm of iron and of lend, neither
Moving to the right nor the left, sur
, rounded by the dead and dying heroes,
saw the odder Obeyed' to the letter.
Throughout_the whole, - battle he- was
constantly under fire and in the thickest
. of the 'tight. - He was a man who would
have been distinguished as a Marshal of
the great Napoleon.
EXTEMPORANEOUS PREAMING.-11l OHO
of thelower counties of Maryland there
flourished, in the palmy days of the "pecu
liar institution," au old &whey preacher,
who used no notes, and , prided hinisolf
On his exteinporanebus effortS. His
white neighbors called him " Doctor" . —
,p,titiO Which ho accepted, of course,
with :ludierons gravity. • dt a camp
Meeting . - which the "Doak" was hold
ing, one, of the friends 'gave . liim,
.as a
t,V, this passage in the Psalms •of
•periltry and harp'; I
Myself 'will arise right early." ' The
•"Doctor" adjusted his epeotacles,Lnnd
read:
•
",Wakg, I)oh:sic trtjo and harpl ; my
arouo right airly. ;
;;
-; ho Doctor ,wont on to .oxplain
that Moms was a very darly ?leer; that
he ;had araslo tree which grqwnegrino
'Window; aad ho was .wont . toylsO.inighty
Oily and , hang:kid , ' harp on do peaslo
troo,•lcK psalme.--Editer's'-Dratpoi.,- ire
Harpers' MagOttiiivr Nay.‘, •
JIM smlLErs FR 0 G
MAIM TNiAIN'S MABTERVIECE
• lie cotched a frog one day and took
him home, and said, ho u calilated - to edu
cate him ; and so he never done nothing
for three months but sit-in his back yard
and learn the frog liow to jump: And
you bet he did learn him too. ',He'd give
him a little punch behind, and the next
minute you'd see that frog Whirling-in
tip air like a doughnut—see him turn
a summerset, and maybe a couple, if he
got agood start, and come down flat
footed and all right like a cat. .Ho got
him up so hi-the matter of catching flies,
and kept him in practice so constant,
that he'd nail a fly every time as far as
he could see him.
.Smiley said that all' the frog wanted
was education, and ho could do almost
anything, and I believe him. Why I've
soon him set Danief.Webster down hero
on the floor—Daniel Webster - was the'
name of the frog—and sing out : "Flies,
.Dan'l,, flies," and quickeen you could
wink he'd spiing up and shako a fly off
the counter there, and 110 down on the
floor again as solid as a gob 5,f laud, and
fall to scratching the` side 'of his head
with his hind foot as indilforet as if ho
hadn't no idea he'd done any mor'n any
frog, might do. You never ' seed a. frog
so modest and straightfor'ard as lie was,
for all he was so gifted. And when it
came to• a square jumping on a dead
level, lie could get over more ground at
ono Straddle than anyanimal of his breed
you ever see. Jumping on a dead level
was liiistrong suit you unders'tand' and
'When it came to that Smiley would ante
up money to him as long aS he had a red.
'Smiley was monstrous proud of his frog,
1 and well ho 'night be, for fellers that
had traveled and been everywhere all
saicl,that lie laid over every frog they
seed,.
" Well, Smiley kept the beast in a lig
tle lattice box, and-lie used to fetch it
down town sometimes, and lay for a bet.
Once a rollep4-41, stranger in camp, ho was
came-aeross-him-Witb-his box-old-says-:
"What miglit-:ihie you'vo got in the
Uox 9 "
And Smiley, sorter indifferent like :
"It miglff, be a parrot, or it might-be
a canary, may be : but it ain't it's only
just a frog."
And the feller took it and looked at it
careful, and turned it around this way
and that, and says, :
"H'm--$o 'tis. Wonlie . . oed
for ?"
"Well," Smilely says, easy,, and care
less,__" he's good_ enough_forAune_.thing,,
I should judge he can otitjtimp any frbg
in Calaveras county.".
The follow. took the box again and took
another long and particular look and
gives it back to Siniley again, and says
Very deliberate :
".Well; I don't see nu pointsabout
that frog that's better than any 'other,
"Maybe you . don' t," Sm iloy said. May
-be you understandings; -and - maybe - you
- RIVIPrStand..IO.M.;-.lxm,y-bo.-yon-ain!t.
only a amateur, as it were. Anyways,
I've got my opinion, and I'll risk forty
dollars that ho. can .outjump any frog in
Calaveras county."
And the feller studied a minute or two,
and then says, kinder sad like—" Well,
I'm only a stranger here, and I ain't got
uo frog, but if I had a frog I'd bet you.'
And thou Smiley says : " That's all
right. That's all right. If you'll hold
my box a minute, go and got you a
frog," and so the feller took the box and
put up his forty dollars along with Sini
ley's and told him to wait.
So ho'sat there a good while, thinking
to hisself, and tuk the frog out and pried
open hir mouth and took a teaspoon and
filled him-full of quail shot—filled him
pretty near up to the chin, and set him
on the floor. Smiley, he wont out to the
swamp and slopped around in the mud
fot it long time, and finally ho keiched'
frog and fetolted him in, and give him to
.the feller, and says :
"Now, if you are ready, set him along
side of Datil with his forepaws just oven
an't's, and I'll give you the word."
Then heArgiAtleituit
Nib fifi i t ` ud the fi;ller . touched up the
frogs from behind, and thetiew frog hop
ped off lively, but Dan 4 f gave a heave,
histed up his shoulder—so like a French
man., but it wasn't no use ; he couldn't
budge ; ha' was planted as solid es an
anvil and he couldn't :to :more stir than
if ho was anchored out. Smiley was a
good deal surpris3d, and he w,ts dis
gusted, too, but he didn't have no idea
what, the matter was; of cohrse.
The feller took the money and started
away ; and wheil he was going out of the ,
door he sOrterjerkedbis thumb over his.
shoulder-this—way—at ljauiel, and says
again, very deliberate, don't
see no points about that frog th:it's any
better'n' any other frog."
Smiley stood scratching hisl&id and
looking .down ou ,Daniel a long • time,
,and'at last he says: 'LI do wonder what
in the nation that f:rtig throwed•eff for ;
I wonder if there' ain't 'something the
matter with him ; he 'pears to look
mighty baggy somehow ;" and he kotohed
Dan'l by the nape of the neck, and lifted
him up and says "Why, blame my oat,
if he don't weigh five pounds," and
turned hint upside down and he belched
`out mdouble landful:of- shot,- and- them
he soon how it was, and he was the mad
oat Man 1 Ile sot the frog down rind took
after that feller ) but - he never • }retched
k him.
A WOUI.D.BE-AGILWAIA, taking his
sent between Madame do She], and the
reigning heauty of „the day, said
"How happy I am to be thus seatedpihe
tween rg wit and a beauty I" "Iris,"
replied Madame do Stael, "and without
possessing dither."
LADY .teaohor, addressing ono of the
boys : do.you study very hard?"
"I don't hurt, myself, very
much I" " But do , you know you will
Twat ho' President Milos you study Aard
at something?" "You got 'oat I ain't I
learning to smoke as hard as I eau ?"
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Tins boy-avho, When asked to what
trado' - he would wish to he brought up,
replied -9. will he a trustee, because
ever since papa has boon a trustee we
- have had pUdding atdinnor," waS a•wilpf
child . iu his zeneratiou. -The .greateet
sueeesies now-a-days are these
. concocted
with be dealing with- ether:ripple's
OUR '0
R A .NDMO T.TIERS.
• Gail Hamilton is writing a eerie
of vivacious papers in. Harper's Pazar,
called "Blotting Papers." She criti
cises the grandmothers of the past in a
very sprightly and justliishion i . •
"It is simply impodsilble—listen lio - w,
I. pray, all knights of high and lOW de
gree, marching along thousand . scoria
strong- great hearted gentlemen singing- ~
this song of woman's sphericity—it is
simply impossible for any woman to db
the whole Work of her household, and
make her life what a woman's life
ought to be. This is a rule that admits
of no exception and no modification.
The machinery of the family is so. com
plicated and so'exacting that one woman
cannot have the solo charge of it without
neglecting other and equally important '
matters. The duties which, a woman
owes to society, and to "the moral and
.spiritual part of her household, are just
as imperative as those Aich she owes
to its pliyisical comfort. And if she alone
ministers to the latter, the former must
be neglected, and the latter will hardly
be tharaughly accomplished. '
." I know all about our noble grand
mothers. I have heard of them before
I think we could- run a - race with them
any day. But if we cannot whose fault
is it? If tho women of-to-day are puny,
fragile, degenerate, are they
_not the
grandchildren of their grandmothers—
bearing such constitutions as their grand
mothers could transmit? It was the.
duty of those. venerable ladies not only
to be strong themselves, but to seo to it
that their children were ' strong. A
sturdy race should leaye a sturdy race.
It . was far more their duty to give to
their children ' vigorous minds, stalwart
bodies, healthy. norves, firm principles,
thaMit was to spin and weave and make
butter and cheese all day. Wo should
hate got along just as well with less
linen laid up in lavender ; and if our
grandmothers could only have waited,
we would have woven them more cloth
in a-day- than - their .hand--looms would
turn out in a lifetime. But there is no
royal road to a healthy manhood and
womanhood. Nothing less costly than
human life goes into the construction of
human life.
" Wo should have more reason to be
gratefUl
,po our ancestors if they would
have given up their superfluous
indus
tries, called off their energy front its per- .
ishable objects, mullet more-of their soul
and strength flow leisurely in tobuili up
the soul and strength of the generations
that were to come after them. Nobody__
is to blame for being born 'creak. If this
generation of women is feeble, compared
with its hardy and laborious grandmoth
ers, it is simply Menus° the grandmeth
ors put-so much of their vitality, their
physical nerve and moral fibre, into their
work that they had but an insufficient
quantity left wherewithal to endow their
_children ; and solhey wrotigkt us evil._
his grandmothers. All agree in award ,-
inj,t them._praisc for ,hcroic_qualities.-
They fought a good fight—perhaps the
! -_best they could under the .circumstauces .
with their light. We would gladly over-
look all in their lives that was defective
and fasten our, eyes only on that which
was noble. But when their fault is dis-
tinctly pointed out as their virtue, w
their necessity is 'exalted into our o
.sample, when their narrowness is held
up to our ambition, we must say that it
Was fault and greed and, narrowness,
grandmother or no grandmother. In
deed, those excollent gentlewomen no
doubt long before this have seen the er
ror of their gays, and if they could
find voice wthild be the first to avow
that
, they did set most too great
store by chests of sheets, and bu
reaus of blankets, and pillow cases of
stockings, and stacks of provisions', and
that, if it were. given then to live their
lives over again, they would endeavor
rather to lay up treasure in the bodies
and brains and hearts of their children,
where moth end mildew do not corrupt,'
which time does not dissipate nor use
.destroy, and whereof we stand in sorer
need than of purple or scarlet or fine
1113IN0 IN THE WORLD.—Yon should
bear constantly in mind that nine-tenths
of uware, from tho very nature and ne
cessities of the, world, born to earn our
livelihood by the sweat of the brow.
What reason have we' tlien to pressime'
that our children are not to do the same ?
'lf they be--as now and then ime
will be-- , endowed with extraordinary
pourers of mind; those powers may have
an opportunity of developing themselves;
and if they novorlad thatopportunity, the
barns is not very groat to us.or to_thom.
Nor does it hence follow that the descend
ants of laborers aro always to be labor
ers. Tho path upward is steep auttloog
to be sure. Industry, cares, skill, excel
lence in the present parents lay the foun
dation of, a rise under moro favorablo
circumstances for the children. ..Tho
children of these take another rise ; and
by and by the descendants of the present
laborer become gentlemen. • This is the
natural progress. It is by attempting,
to reach the top at a singlo leap that, so
much misery is produced in the world ;
and the propensity to mako such attempt
has been" Oltorcsled and oppouragekbY
tho, strange projects that,we have wit
'nessed of late years for . making the la
borers virtuous and hapy, by giving
thorn what is -galled education. The
education I speak: of consists in bring
ing up children to labor with steadiness,
with, care, and with skill ; to show thorn
how to do as many useful things as pos
sible ; to teach them how to do them all
in the best manner; to set them an ox
ample of industry, sobriety, cleanliness,
and neatness; to make alithese habitual
to them, so that they shall never be
into the contrary practices ; to
lot them alivayksee a goild livingprocood
froni labor, and thus to remove from
thomtho temptation to, got at the goods
of others by violent to fraudnlont mettns,
and to keep far from their, minds all the
inducements to hypocrisy ,and
I '. Wilma, Cobbett.
. -
Two couutrpnen wont into a Latterly
to buy one of- thorn a lint. They were
delighted with the samplo, inside of thb
crown of 'whieir inserted.a lookleg
glaia !' What is this: glass for ?" said
ono of.tho men, Themther . inepationt at
sueli a display of rural ignoratioeox
elaiMod "What for? . .why r foi• the than.
'Who buys the het to see how it-ilts him."
GM
ITOW ABOtTT ELAYAIT.
A Methodist minister was on his tram,
els through the west of Illinois, • twenty
years ago.
,Illinois was a wild placO
71,
then. He trave ed twenty mileS one day
before coding .to a farmhouse. But
there ho was re eived with hospitality.
Chicken potpie ,nd corn dodgers com
posed his supper; but to a hungry 'man
-these aro as a truffled turkey.
An old grandmother of the house was
most profuse in her hospitality. Sh e
pressed the potpie upon the holy man's
plate until ho could oat no more. And,
then when the family was gathdied
around the great log chimney and its
blazing fire, the venerable dame opened
her mouth and thus spake— ,
"Al), well-a-day I it's rather a corn
. fort to have a minister of the Gospel in
these parts. •,It's twenty years agO now
since I have seen ono on 'em.. rye - been
reading o' my Bible all that time, and a
waiter to see a minister to ask him a
question about something I don't rightly
understand".
"Madam," answered the cautious min
ister, "I am so tired with my long ride
that I could notenter into a serious ques
tion till have slept but if you will auk
me to-morrow morning, before I set out,
I will answer it- to the best of my
The old thcly expressed herself satin- j.
fled, and the cunning minister secived a "
soft couch for the night. The next
morning grandruawas up early, and hard
at work frying slapjacks for the min
ister's breakfast. The - last being dis
patched, the old lady was Still in n ner
vous fidget about her question, while the
holy man's horse -Was. saddled and
brought to the door.
After adjusting his saddle bags, and
shaking hands with - the family, he
mounted his horse, and turning to her,
asked : "And now, madame, what is
your question?
" Well, minister," said she, " yor
know.how it says in the Bible, that arter
Elisha-was made a ploplint; flre - fifiiVen
opehod, and Elijah was taken up to
I eaven in a chariot and , "horses . o' fire.
.
It's better , nor twenty years sin' I seed
that ore in the Bible, and I have puz-led
over it over since; and there ain't a soul
round these diggins knows any more nor -
I: But you're a minister o' the gospel,
and ought to know all thorn things.
Now,' what I Want to know is this :
Did Die Lord take up Elijah right
straight to heaven, or didu'll he go kinder
slantendicaar ?"
_ Histgyylias..notrecorded
tlio-miuiet-ei
reply.
'WANTED—A CHARACETIL—John Quill,
who is rapidly making a reputation as a
very funny-and quaint . writer,- ~tells, the
folloWing story in The Sunday despa t ch :
We recently discharged a servant girl
named Emeline, and she wanted a cer
tificate of good character. As she
souldn t vead, -and we—desired to-bedion
ost,--iiii-li&erliCri:lnr,following:---Ellie
JriA, have skomed iltditer_brother,- - be
cause there has been an Irishman sitting
on our front doorsteps with a discourag
ing,elub fora week past, and we have
gone in and out through,the alley gate:
Einelino is a native of Ireland. She
has black eyes and black hair. When
ever she comes home from a wake her
eyes are blacker, and she has less hair by
three or four handsful. Emeline is en
gaged, and her young mauls the most
successful assimilator of butter and sugar
and milk that ever emigrated from Ire
land. He is equal to any demand of this"
kind upon his stomach. EMoline Ims
been vaccinated, but it didn't take.
' This is the only .thing about Emelino
that we know of that non't. take,'
Spoons take, and hem stitched .haudker•
cltiefs take; and she can nail more pillow
cases awl forks within a given time than
any other girl of the - SlllllO size and
weight in this :land of the free. Her
"Sunday out" comes twice a week, and
she can wash stockings in the tea kettle
more efficiently than any liviqg
iler way of taking oars of 'a baby is to
hold it upside down by the leg until it
litirsts a blood vessel; and if she washes
windoNiis she never sluices water down
on the pavement unless min is going'
by with a new ,high hat, on; then she
slings &around by the tina - upful.
line's most unpleasant pbculiarity is that
,she always b lotad the gas out when she
goes, to bed ; but it will be better to
this practice, in the hope that
she will suffocate herself some
She would be much more efficient as a
gOdd quiet, docile 'corpse:- than 'as 'a
servant girl.
MAKE Sun.—What for?'Because
if you do not you will never accomplish
anything. Life is a fold into which har
viist hands in great, numbers have been
sent. - Make a stir! Swing -- your
,soythe'
and cut down the grain. Use your
hands, binding into bundles uli that is
ready for the garner. Male a - stir
The ground needs plowing for other seed.
There is no room for idlers, and busy
plo are sure to l 'inake a stir. Make a
stir 1 Cut down the weeds that grow
rank between the corn. , .
Life isa battle field. Mahe, a stir or
you'll never win a victory. :Only the ig
noble, the cowardly and bate are afraid
in this hottest of strifes.. -49etan and.
.his hosts_ are ou the alert. .They prosy _
sore upon the poor 'earth soldier. Con.
test, eagerly, every inch of ground over
which you pass, prover ,yielfi. 6ccope in
death.. •6o shell the Lord, Who I'vatnes
each battle, crown you with victory'
laurel. - •
"Still waters run de pest," many Say,.
"fl l . quieti don't make a stir t The
oceans aro deep enough,. are., tliOy not ?
They are never still, 'Wave after Wave
disturbs the surface. They aro always
making a stir. - Deep minds, pure and
earnest hearts, will make a stir ; 'one,
too, that the senses can appreciate. '
➢iris. •J. S. WArianoit.
Irish'officer, on seeing a beautiful
picture.Aetched upon a wall, exclaimed,
Itqa,tilne painting, but it was never
done in America." "Oh, says
friend,. "don't yen see it le on a Solid
wall, and therefore must have been Clone
thie country?" "Ah," replies ho, "I
see that plain enough, but I only 'meant
ilia man• who did' 'it was never 'in•'
Ainerloa."
Ttu oldest impq in tho world is said
tobo printed at' Japan, China. • n hap
made Its appearance weekly for ono thon 7
aand,:years; noatly-printed-_oa. a--largo
shoot of silk. . • ,
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