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VOL. 46.
HUNTINGDON, PA., FEBHUARY 22, 1871.
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SHERIFFS SALE.
O By virtue nf a writ of Vend. Exp., to me di¬ rected, i will expose to public sale, at the Court House, in Huntingdon, on Saturdn.v, the 20th day of Fcbmar.v, 1671, at 2 oclock. p. m., the follow¬ ing real estate, to wit :
.\ll that certain tract of land situate iu Tod town.-hip, adjoining lands of John Wcist, W. E. M'Murtrie, heirs of Conrad Suarc, dec'd., contain¬ ing 21 j acres more or less, having   thereon erected
a iiig house and barn, now in possession  of	
Fisher, formerly occupied by Thomas L. Hall, Siiii..in Morningstar. et. al., part of which   is clear¬
ed.
1 Hope f Jacol of Wm
other tract of land, situate well township, adjoining lands of heir.s Russell, deed., Leonard Weaver, be Stone, dec'd., et al., containing 580 acres more or less, and now in possession of Henry Clapper, -Amos Myers, et. ul., having thcrcou erected a dKclling house and other out buildings, including Rough and Ready Furnace, ic, part of said tract is cleared.
Seized, taken in execution, and to be sold as tho property of Jamea Entrikin. with notice to all terre-tenants.
D. n. I'. NEELY, Sheriff'.
Feb. 1, 1871.
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To One in Heaven.
(ieorge D. Prentice—him.self one of the most gifted of American bards—IhougH that no living poet could surpass the gractfulness and beauty of the following lines fnm the muse of Amelia. They are cxccedinglv fcciu- tiful !— Pale star, that with ihy soft sad light
Came out upon my ijridul eve ! I have a sung to sing to-uight, j     Before ihou lak'st thy- mournful leavt. i Since then so softly time has stirred.
That months have almost seemed like hours. And I am like a little bird
That's slept loo long among the flowers, And wakiug, sit with w-avclcss w-ings,
Soft singing 'mid the shades of even j But oh ! with sadder heart '. sang—
I sing of one w-ho dwells in heaven.
The winds are soft, the clouds are few.
And teudcrcst thought.s my hreat beguile, -As flonting up through nijst and dew.
The pvle youngmoon comes out and smiles ; And to ihe green resounding shore
In silvery troops Ihe ripples crowd. Till all the ocean, dimpled o'er,
Lifts up his voice and laughs aloud; And star on star, all soft and calm.
Floats up yon arch serenely blue ; And, lo.=t lo earth and steeped in balm,
.My spirit floats in ether loo.
Loved oue ! though lost lo huiuan sight,
I feel thy spirit lingering near, As softly ns I feci the-light
Thai trembles through the atmosphere; .As in some temple's holy shade-.
Though   mule   tlic hyiun and hushed   tlie prayer, -\s solemn awe the soul pervades.
Which tells that worship  has been  there— .\ breath of incense, left alone.
Where many a center swung around. Will thrill the wanderer, like a tone.
Who treads on consecrated ground.
I know-thy soul, from worlds of bliss
That stoops awhile lo dwell wit!i  me, U..lh caught the prayer I breathed in thi?,
Tliat I at least may dwell with llice. I hear a murmur from the seas,
Th.at thrills mc like tli.y spirit's sighs; I hear a voice on every breeze.
That makes to mine its low replies— A voice all low and sw-eet, like thine.
It gives an answer lo my prayer. And brings ray soul from licavcu a sign
Tlial I shall know and meet llice there. I'll know theo tlicr.: by I hat sweet face,
'Round which a lender hallow plays. Still touched n-ilh that expressive grace
That made thee lovely all thy days. By that sweet smile that o'er it shed
A beauty like the light of even. Whose soft expression never fied.
Even when his soul had fled to heaven. I'll know thee there by that starry crown
That glitters iu thy raven hair : Oh ! by these blessed signs .".lone
I'll know thee there—I'll kuow theo there.
For all I thine eye, within wliosc sphere
The sweets of youth and beauty met. That sw-ain in love and softness here.
Must swiai in love luid softuess yet. For ah ! its dark and liquid beam.:.
Though saddened by a thousand sigh.j. Were holier than the light that streams
Uowii from the gates of Paradise— Were bright and raidant like the morn.
Yet soft and dewy as the eve ; Too sad for e.vcs, where smiles are horn.
Too young for ears that learn lo grieve.
I wonder if this cold, sweet breeze
Hath touchcl thy lips aud fann'd tliy brow. For all my spirit bear.« an 1 .'^ees
Recall thee to my memory now : For every liuur we breathe apart.
Will but increase, if Dial ean be. The love that fills my heart.
Already tilled so full of thee. Yet many a tear those eyes must w ecp.
And many a sin must bo forgiven. Ere these pale lids sliall sink to sleep—
Ere thou nnd I ;-hall lacct iu heaven.
THE BROKEN ENGAGEMENT.
•'I'm so glad he's |,cone." saiil Mable Delmont with a long bretilh, as t-he came dancing into the room where her mother sat picking fat blue plums, witli an eye to the preserve kettle, which Dorciis Nun, the hired help, wa.s then hoisting on to the fire, in the kitchen at the end of the long passage.
"A'ou ought to be ashamed of yourself, Mtible," said Mrs. Dehnont, reprovingly, "and you engaged to bo his wife."
"Oh, thal'sall at an end," said Mtible, standing close to the glass to rei'astcn the bhie ribbon bov,'at her throat, and hall smiling at the dimpled little apple blossom ofa iaco that the old fa.«hioned mirror re¬ flected.
"AV hat do you mean, liable?' asked Mrs. Helmont. slojiping abruptly in her work.
"I mean 1    have   broken    the   engage¬ ment I" . -'Mable!"
••I have mamma, sure and certain I" as¬ serted the little beauty, noddinu her head until tho blue violets -he had twisted into her hair fell out in a little fragant shower.
".¦Vnd for what reason?" gravely de- mandeil her motlier.
"Oh, I don't know, I believe I was get¬ ting tired of him He's so pro.sy, you know—so wearisomely sensible:"
"1 understand," said her mother dryly. '•Since Mr. Fernandez came to town you girls have all been bewitched over his for¬ eign air and graces."
Mable blushed to vivid scarlet, but she tried to laugh iinconeernedly.
'•'Veil, mamma, he is delightful," she owned, anil of course one likes a littlcstyle in one's gentleman attendant. He has written such an exijuisite gem for my al¬ bum ; and Sarah 1'ray and Helen Da!ejon both say they never read such poetry as he writes.'"
Mrs. Delmont shook her sage, motherly head.
"3Iy dear," she said warmly, "you had better not let this pienicing, waltzing and album writing go too far ; renieuiber you don't even know who this Fernandez is."
"Indeed, mamma, but I do !" cried lia¬ ble triumphantly. "He is the only son of .St. (ieorge Fernandez, of tho AA^est Indies; who ow-iis nobody knows how many slaves, and plantations, and silver mines; and, mamma, you won't be vexed now, will you? but ho has sent me the lovelii>st littlo dia¬ mond cross in the world."
.•Vnd the little coquette drew the spark¬ ling ornament from her bosom.
"You must send it back at once." said Mrs. Delmont, resolutely.
"Oh, mamma, please let me keep it," pleaded Mible. almost crying. "It would be so rude to send it back, and it was only a philopena present after all, and I've nearly worked a pair of slippers to send to him by w.ay of acknowledgment of his po¬ liteness. Oh, mamma, dear, darling mam¬ ma, don't compel mc to return it."
Mrs. Delmont's maternal heart melted at the sight of the pretty little creature's distress.
"AA''ell, then," she said, nlmost grudg¬ ingly, "it must be the last gift j-oii accept from a stranger like this."
And Mable promised anything, except to summon back her dismissed lover AVylde Emerson.
"Child," you do not know what a treas¬ ure you are sending away from you. AVylde Emerson is worth a score of sweet-tongucd
foreigners."
"But mamma, he is so uncultivated, and he never wrote a line of poetry in his life," pouted JIabel.
"Poetry won't make the pot boil, Ma¬ bel."
"No, mamma, but silver mines and rose¬ wood plantations will," !M;ibel answered gleefully, as she ran away up stairs to get the slippers. Nor did she deem it necessa¬ ry to confessjthis blue-eyed little flirt, that they were the very identical slippers she had commenced three months ago for AA'ylde Emerson, before the star of St. George Fer¬ nandez had dawned on the village horizon. Mr. Fernandez was the lion in Eskdale society that winter. The marriageable girls raved about him ; the widows plumed themselves for fresh conquests, and the gentlemen all pronounced him a "confoun¬ ded humbug." a very suicsign of popular¬ ity in the feminine world. And Mabel, as the prettiest of all the pretty girls in Eskdale, dre.amed of a wedding ring, hosts of black servitors, and rustic arbors, con¬ structed ander the spice trees of far-off isles in tLe west.
Meanwhile the slippers progressed with laudiible rapidity.
"Of course, I must have them made up," 3Iabel said to Sarah Pray, asshe displayed the gorgeous rose-buds of the embroidery, -'and how on earth shall I get the right size?"
"Ask him what number he wean ?" sug¬ gested Sarah.
"That would be an end to all secrecy," esclaimeJ Mabel. No, that would never do.' "I'll tell you how you can manage it," cried Sattih, who being herself on the very brink of matrimony with a thriving young lawyer of Eskdale. had no twinges of jeal¬ ousy on the subject, "I know Mrs A^ernon, the landlady of the hotel—and we can wait till he goes out to-morrow morning, and then slip in at the back door, and she will let us go to his room and we can measure his slippers for ourselves."
"AVould that be proper ?" hesitated Ma¬ bel, a little dubiously.
"Of eo'jr.ie it would; where would be the impropriety, I'd like to know," said Sarah authoritatively. "I'm as good as married, an'l I think I ought tobe a judge in that case."
"To be sure," said Mabel. "But re¬ member it is a great secret."
"Oh, ot course," .said Sarah, and the small conspiracy was settled.
Notwitlistaniling Miss Pr.ay was so posi¬ tive Oil the subject, M.ible could not help feeling somewhat timid and remorseful, as Mrs. Vernon, the landlady admitted them lo Mr. Feinindez's apartment about twelve the next day.
•'Come along," said .Sarah, gi\ ing her friend's wrist a pull; "there is no harm in it ?"
"No harm in the world, Jliss, I am sure," said -Mrs. A'ernon, courte.sying and smoothing down her white apron.
.Vnd thus encouraged JIabel ventured to glance doubtfully around.
The room was very dirty, and smelt very sti-oiig of stale tobacco smoke, while a flat black bottle on the table labelled "Holland Gin," suggested anything rather than the lelined accomplishments of a gentleman's study-table
"AVhy!" cried Sarali, "there's your al¬ bum Mabel."
' Vcs." said Mabel, slyly ; "I asked him fur anuther of his sweot poems, and he promised it to me to-night. s.i—it is half finished."
The open album lay on the desk, and clase beside it was the pen. while the half- finished poem was still incomplete, and a volume of ".Selections from English I'oet- ry" l:iy beside it.
"How beautiful I" murmured Mabel, reading the musical Verses.
"A'es," said Sarah Pray; "but how fun¬ ny—here's the same thing exactly—in this bojk, with Tjord Byron's name signed to it.    Mabel, he has copied it out ?"
"?o he has."" admitted Mabel indiguiint- ly; and here is the poetry he wrote for -\litV Suiythe—and the little thing about 'Twilight' that we admired so much in Helen Daleson's album. Oh. Sarah, how he has deceived us."
"And I suspect that isn't the w.)rst of it," said Sarah, .shrewdly. "Look here. Mabel."
She pointed toward a letter which lay open beyond—a dunning epistle from suae unfortunate ti'tidesman. emRiig with these words :
"I am tired waiting for the money, and I don't believe a word about your marry¬ ing rich down in Kskdale; and if the funds are not immcdititely forthcoming, I shall come down there myself, and let the peo¬ ple know that you are no wealthy AVcst Iii- diamaii, b'lt mere Iligginson Jones, with nothing to fall back upon but your own consummate stock of impudence. A'oiir other creditors, too, aro getting out of pa¬ tience, and if some arrangement isn't made at once. I w-ill not answer for the con.se- quences."
Slabel looked at Sarah, and Siirah look¬ ed at JIabcl—both bewildered and indig¬ nant.
"AA'ell, upon my word, if he hasn't hoodwinked its all bi^autifuUy ?" cried Sarah I'rtiy. --.Vnd we never would have found out his hypoci'i.s3' if it hadn't boon ibr your slippers, Mtibol."
"Let us leave this place," said Mabel, who had grown pale and resolute. "I feel its if every bre.itli I draw polluted my lungs."
She .stopped at a jeweler's i.n her way home.
"AA'hat are yon going in here for. Ma¬ bel ?" questioned Sarah Pray.
But Mabel, instead of answering her, walked straight up to the counter, and threw down the little .sparkling cro.ss.
"Are those diamonds ?" she asked of the man behind the counter.
He took out his mtignifying gla.ss, and examined them closely.
"Jlere pastel" he said with a contemtpu- oiis smile.    "X'nt worth  carrying  home I" Hut Mabel took up the   trinket   agtiiu, notwithstanding.
"I shtdl .sent! it b:v-k to him," she said, quietly. Oh, Sarah, what idiotic fools we have been—and I was all but engaged to him."
-'.\ lucky escape for you," said Sarah, laughing. '•AA'^hat will AA'ylde Emerson say?" •-It would serve me right if he never spoke to me again," said Mabel dejectedly. The next d.ay the villiige of Eskdale was ringing with the nen-s that Mr. St. George Fernandez had been arrested for debt by a gentleman from New York ; and thus en¬ ded that hero''s brief career.
AVhilc JIabel owned that she had been wrong so frankly, AA'yldc Emerson took courage to ask her to renew the bro¬ ken engagement once more—and she is to be married just as soon as AA''ylde hits fur¬ nished the gothic cottage on the hill to suit their mutual tastes.
And so the wayward little btirk of her heart avoided the perils of a final ship- w-reck.
\Mm^ fm the pliUl^u.
Amusing Children.
As the cold weather is with us, and the little ones are obliged more and more to seek amusement in-doors, the mother looks around for ample scources of entertain¬ ment to keep the busy fingers employed, yet out of mischief. If she can have her family room in perfect order, with four or five children playing around and happy all the time, she is a very remarkable woman, and the secret of her management would be worth knowing. It seems to be neces¬ sary, in order to keep the tempers of the little ones unruffled, that chairs should stand upside down, toys be scattered hither and yonder, and offerings continually made to the Goddess of disorder or laid on the shrine of chaos. The smashing of cups, plates, window-panes, playthings, lamps and dolls heads is also essential to their perfect felicity, .\llowanee should be made for all these things just as is made for their growth when new clothes are cat out for them. One corner of the sitting room or kitchen should be given up to the children, where they may have liberty to do everything not absolutely sinful. A peck of clean sand in a tight box, with a funnel and tin cups, is captible of giving some children a great deal of pleasure. Hammer and tacks, with a bar of soap in¬ stead of wood, are also good things for boys. An ounce of parti-colored beads, doled out a few.ac a time, with needle and thread to string them, will amuse most lit¬ tle girls or boys for many hours. Slate and pencil, or paper and pencil, with a set of cheap drawing cards for models, are very fascinating to children four or five years old. \ set of building blocks, cost- from one to three dollars, is an excellent investment for a bevy of juveniles.
Investment of some sort there must be, if peace and quiet are to be preserved, either of money in the purchase of toys, or of time in making them, or, greater than all. of patience and good temper iu bearing the penalties that the parent must suffer who makes no adequiite provision for keeping idle hands out of the mischief Satan will surely find for them to do. Dolls, tea setts, hobby horses, picture books—these arc as indispensable in the nursery as are milk, cribs and flannels. There must also be a proportion of finger marks on the doors, thumps on little heads, scratches and bruises on little bodies, to keep up the perfect round of child life.
The mother may fancy that she will be happier when her boys and girls are grown from under her constant watchfulness; but the general testimony is that the pe¬ riod of playthings, of measles and whoop¬ ing cough, of walking stick horses and tongs and poker ponies is happiest for the mother and often for the child. AA'hen her offspring are all about her, their noise may distract, their incessant wants weary the mother; but she does not weary over them as when, later in life, they go, she knows not where, and they do she knows not what. It is best, therefore, to enjoy the period of infancy and childhood as it passes, numbering only its joys and forget¬ ting its jinnoyanees, smoothing rugged paths for tender feet and helping young hearts to choose the good, and growing minds to seek and love true wisdom.
Never too Late.
How often do we see men around us who, having been discouraged by financial re¬ verses, are broken in spirit, declare that it is no use to make any further efforts—that fortune is against them I How often do we meet with people addicted to bad habits w-ho affirm that tlicj' are too old to break off, that after so many years of indulgence it would be impossible to give up this or that pleasure I How often do we encounter individuals who earnestly desire this or that accomplishment, bnt who urge that they are too far along in years to acquire I If they were only a little youngerthey would lay hold and master it. And yet all history afi'ords illustrations of the old adage that "it is never too late to mend." It is never too late to make a beginning. Smiles tells us that Sir Henry Spelman did not begin the study of science until he was between fifty and sixty years of age. Franklin was fifty before he fully entered upon the study of natural philosophy. Dryden and Scott were not known as authors until each was in his fortieth yetir. Boccaccio was thirty- five when he commenced his literary ca¬ reer. Alfieri was forty-six when he began the study of Greek. Dr. Arnold learned German at an adviinced age for the purpose of reading Neibuhr in the original, and in like manner, .lamess AVatt, when about forty, while working at his trade as instru¬ ment maker in Glasgow, learned French, German and Italian, t,) enable him to po- ruse the valuable works on mechanical phi¬ losophy which existed in those languages Thomas Scott was fifty-six before he began to learn Hebrew. Robert Hall was once found lying upon the floor racked by pain, learning Italian in his old age to enable him to judge of the parallel drawn by Ma- cauly between Milton and Dante. ILmdel was forty-eight before he published any of his grciit works. Indeed hundred of in¬ stances might be given of men who struck out in au entirely different path, success¬ fully entered on new studies at a compara¬ tively advanced time of life.
How Rain is Formed.
To understand the philo.sophy of this phenomenon, essential to the veijy exis¬ tence of plants and animals, a few facts, derived from observation and a long train of experiments, must be remembered.— AVere the atmosphere, tit all times, of a uniform temperature, we should never have rain, hail or snow. The water absorbed by- it in evaporation from the sea and the earth's surface would descend iu an imper¬ ceptible vapor, or cease to be absorbed by the air. when it was fully saturated. The absorbing power of the atmosphere, and consequently its capability to retain humi¬ dity, is proportionably greater iu cold than in warm air. The air near the surface of the earth is warmer than it is in the region of the clouds.
The higher we .ascend from the earth the colder we find the atmosphere. Hence the perpetual snow on very high mountains in the very hottest climates. Now, when, from evaporation, the air is highly satura¬ ted with vajior—though it be invisible—if its temperature is suddenly reduced by cold currents descending from above, or, rush¬ ing from a higher to a lower latitude, its capacity to retain moisture is diminished, clouds are formed, and the result is rain. Air condenses as it cools, and, like a sponge filled with water and compressed, pours out fhe w.ater which ita diminished capacity cannot hold. How singular, yet how sim¬ ple, an arrangement for watering the earth.  —*—»—^—	
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Tit-Bits—Taken on the Ply.
Ohio boasts of a bank directress.
Girl clerks are getting common out AVest.
.\ Boston lady's pins, when she is fully dressed, number 300.
Miss Kellogsr, when she sings now wears 828,000 worth^of diamonds.
A bride twelve years of age is the proud boast of North Cornwall, Conn.
At a recent vote in Congress, one of the colored members voted for woman suffrage and one against.
The Watchman and Reflector thinks women physicians are pre-eminently needed at our female seminaries.
The Lafaj-ette ladies are organizing a club for the suppression of late staying out among husbands.
Gettysburg, Ohio, ean boast a good ho¬ tel kept by a lady. Its quietness, cozy fire¬ places aud good coffee are a rare treat.
A lady poet of Buffalo asserts that she has buried her love "on the stormy strand of the deep dark ocean of mad despair."
James Potts has been appointed repre¬ sentative delegate to the State Convention by the Republican Convention of Fulton county.
Mrs. Inghtim, of Iowa, Will live in his¬ tory as the woman who delivered a Thanks¬ giving sermon while her husband proudly sat back of the pulpit holding the baby.
To talk of women neglecting babies for politics is trash. AVhat man gets political eminence before forty ? By that age a woman's babies are grown.
A woman in Terre Haute glues her hus¬ band's eyelids together when he gets drunk, and when he promises better things .she soaks them in warm water and restores his vision.
The House Committee has reported a bill to repeal the Income Tax Law, "in spite of lamentations here or elsewhere." and the prospect for it to pass is good, though auy exultation now might be prema¬ ture.
Another terrible accident is reported at New Orleans on Saturday on the .lackson Railrotid, two sleeping cars of the northern- bound train having been thrown from the track and badly smashed. A large number of pa.ssengers are reported injured.
yia]. Eugene Cramar, of Chattanooga, has invented a rifle which entirely eclipses former inventions. No powder is used, but only a percussion cap, making no noise whatever, yet sending a ball with such a force that it wiil penetrate a two-inch plank.
Sister Stanislaus, a member of the Order of Carmelite nuns, died at her convent, Baltimore, on Friday, aged seventy j-ears. She was one of the original members of the Order in Maryland, established nearly sixty years ago, and has been active and useful throughout her life.
Only one hundred and six Chinese ar¬ rived on the steamer America at San Fran¬ cisco—a fact which bespeaks the continued diminution of .-Vsiatic immigration. The number of deaths alone are now much in excess of the arrivals, and the departures by sea and land are even more numerous.
On the morning of the 7th inst. a terrible conflagration broke out in South Pittsburg, causing tremendous loss and rendering dozens of families homeless. The fire broke out about five o'clock, iu a stable belonging to Mr. Richards, Sr., locatea on Chestnut alley, between Third and Fourth streets.
The Missouri State Senate has passed a concurrent resolution instructing Senators and Representittives to Congress to vote against further appropriations to the na¬ tional capital at Washington, and also re¬ questing them to urge a removal of the capital to some more central and conven¬ ient location.
One of the results of the (Jermau Are- tic exploring expedition is the discovery of immense eoal beds in the north of Greenland. Mountains exceeding Mont Blanc in height were discovered, and the botanical specimens found indicate that Greeniand must have been covered at on* time with a rich vegetation.
"Let theie be no test but Republican¬ ism—no leader but Grant," is the advice given by the New York Standard to the Republicans of 'hat State. And very good advice it is; applicable here and in other States as well as in New York. Adopted and licnestly followed by the party it will insure present harmony and future victory.
One of those terrible scenes of shipwreck and suffering ocrcurred during the late storm on the New Jersey coast, near Egg Harbor. The British bark Kate Smith was driven ashore and beaten to pieces by the waves. Four person only were saved. The capt.iin, five seamen, the steward and his wife and a New York pilot were lost.
'the celebrated elephant Romeo, it will be remembered, killed his keeper about two years ago. In order to secure him at that time it was found necessary to throw him off of his feet. This w.is done with grate diffi¬ culty. The fall caused aisevere bruise on the side of the .inimal whieh increased in size until it got as large as a man's head, and endangered the life of Romeo. A veterinary surgeon »as then called in, and last week he succeeded in removing the tumor. The operation was performed at the winter quar¬ ters of Romeo, on Ridge avenue, above Jeff¬ erson street, Philadelphia, and the animal was securely fastened by four log chains. The elephant is now doing well.
Fastidiousness has committed so many forgeries on the firm of delicaej', that this poor virtue is nearly reduced to a state of btuikruptcy. Familiarity inevitably de¬ stroys delicacy. Perhaps this is the rea¬ son why the society of strangers is gome- times more agreeable than that of most intimate relatives. Delicacy rt>spects the feelings of everybody. It not only abstains from wounding the sensibilities of a mod¬ est woman, but even from trifling with the fancies of a nervous hypochondriac. Hu¬ man life is full of so many grossnesses, each of which gives a fresh wound to deli¬ cacy, that at length she expires under re¬ peated blows. At fifteen, our feelings arc in their most sensitive state ; at thirty, we reward with indifference things which is younger and purer years, would have an¬ noyed us exceedingly ; at fifty, our beauty .and our delicacy are both withering to¬ gether—it is but paint for the former, and affectation for the latter ; and in old age, to find those emotions of the sonl would be as wonderful ss to meet a smooth and rosy complexion. To a certain degree delicacy is a vcrtue; let it get a step beyond, and it becomes the most childish imbecility.
W&t §0m^ iiwii.
"Shut Your Ash Pan."
Going into New York city on the Erie Railroad, the traveler will see, in crossing the Haekensack River, near the road track, a large sign, bearing the inscription, "Stmt Your Ash Pan." _ At first the wordi look enigmatical and the traveler wonders what they mean. But in-the midst of the in¬ quiry to know theii import, the train en¬ ters a low, wooden bridge, and the truth flasliea acroas the mind in a moment. The signal board is an official commtind to all the engineers on the road, and is ona of great significance and propriety. For burn¬ ing coals, dropping from the ash-pan of the locomotive might not only destroy the bridge, but put human life in jeopardy, and cause numberless confusions and disas¬ ters. Hence the sign-guard iu bold letters fir every engineer. However well he may understand his engine and the peculiarities of the track from the lake to the sea, he must heed the order at the Haekensack j bridge, " Shut your ash-pan !"
And its the engineers of locomotives that draw trains of passengers along need to be reminded of their duty here and there by the way, so do the leaders of classes and congregations netd the injunction of the apostle James, who says "the tongue is a flre." There are many places in the jour¬ ney of life where there are inflammable materials, and, to make sure crossings, it is well for Christians to heed the railroad warning, "Shutyour ash-pan!"
How many a bridge on the heavenly way has been set on fire and companies of trav¬ elers detained, bewildered and discouraged, simply because some open-mouthed profes¬ sor, perhaps a guide and leader, too, has dropped a fiery word, and set everything in a blaze I 'There are sensitive natures, •ouls dry as tinder and touchy as powder, and, however well a preacher may under¬ stand theology, church government and all that; however well he may kiK»w the track of heavenly bound pilgrims from the altar of penitence to the throne of glory, he must heed the Scripture command to put aw.iy from him a forward mouth and perverse lips, and to ponder the path of his feet.— Or in the plain railroad dialect of the Haek¬ ensack bridge, to get forward safely and well, preacher or kiynian, man or woman, •¦Shut your ash-jyan !"
-\ man may have been a very vile sinner; mtiy have been down in the dark depths of infamy and disgrace; may have been an out-law, a shame, and a public nuisance.— But the grace of God may reach hiui still. And if he turn from his evil ways, and cjme into the fellowship of the saints, if he be converted, and cleansed in the blood of Christ, and started heavenward in the new life and strength of his divine blaster, then. Christian, be careful of your treat¬ ment of him. If God has forgiven him aud faced him toward immortality, even though his company be not congenial, al¬ together, even if he show the scars of his former fierce conflicts and defeats, help him, love him. cheer him on. Don't go back of his conversion to find a charge or excite suspicion.    ••Shut your ash-pan !"
X Christian brother may blunder in dis- cipleship. He may be overcome by some besetting sin far onward in his homeward march. Some peculiar combination of cir¬ cumstances may thwart his pious purposes, and he may stumble and fall by the way. Then, in such c-lsc, get your fellow travel¬ er on foot again by a brotherly lift accord¬ ing to the Gospel of Jesus Christ; let him have your prayers, your sympathy, your tears. Get him going on again "without alarming all creation with the tidings of his misfortune. Between you and him alone let there be openness, frank-dealing and Christiy approach and trust. If you have any religion to boast of in class meet¬ ing, any holiness to announce as perfect and beyond the tempter's sweep, then for his poor soul's sake, who suffers, lend him your aid, share with him your grace and bestow upon him your joy and peace. Be never so well acquainted with the highway of holiness and with the approaches to the celestial city, but remember when you come to the bridge across any spiritual Haeken¬ sack—'-Shut your ash-pan !"—Recorder.
Our Homes.
How truly blest are they who enjoy the possession of a happy home. That is, in the fullest sense of the term. Not a home of wealth and ease, where pride and folly have set up their painted idols; but a home where religion is the prevailing element, where peace sits upon a throne, and sways her sceptre of love, and from whence arises the sweet incense of prayer to the Jlercy Seat of God.
How sweet the rest, within the true Christian home, to the world-weary sonl.— Here it may for awhile forget its sorrow aud teai-s. Here, in the atmosphere of love and faith, it may gain fresh courage to meet its trials—to stem the tide of adversity. But what are all the comforts and bless¬ ings of the happiest, here, to compare with that home in the house not made with hands, in the city with the beautiful gates ! Ah I home, dear home, how oft we sigh for thy sweet rest'.
Our d :;-.r Saviour just before his death, comforts his disciples with these cheering promises: "Iu my Father's house are many mansions : I go to prepare a place for you, ' and if I go and prepare a place for yon I will come again, and receive you unto my¬ self; that, where I am there ye may be also." Glorious promise; hles.sed assu¬ rance ; home for us, but, also, that we shall be with Him, always beholding His face, and in lUm find our everlasting rest. Here storms and tempests rage, and betimes al¬ most ov .'rwhelm our souls, bnt there we shall forever dwell in fhe sunshine of Re¬ deeming love. Here, we are despised for our poverty, ourrcalling; there, we shall wear the royal robe—the glittering diadem of the sons and daughters of the King of Kings.
Here we sigh and weep over faded joys and perished hopes, "but there all tears shall be wiped from our eyes, and there shall be no more sorrow there, crying, neither dying."
"Here is the sorrow, the sighing.
Here are the clouds, and the night. Here is the sickness, the dying.
There is the life and light. "Here is the longing, the vision,
The hopes that bo swiftly renove; There is the blessed fruition.
The feast and the fullness of love." AVeary pilgrim look up I    There is  the light, there is the life,  and  there  is  the Father—and God .'    AVell mayest thou ex¬ ultantly sing
"Now I can read my title clear,
To a mansion in the skies." Yea, has not Jesus purchased it on the cross, and sealed it with His precious blood? No earthly power can wrest this little title deed from thee. It is registered in the courts of heaven, in the Lamb's Book of Life.