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VOL. 48.
HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, FBRUAEY 12, 1873.
NO. 7.
The Huntingdoii Journal.
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DENTIST.
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R. F. 0. ALLEMjVN ean  be con¬ sulted at his oflice, at all hours, Mapleton, [march6,72.
D     CALDWELL, Attorney-at-Law, • No. Ill, 3d street. I by Messrs. Woods & Willi;
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DR. A. B. BRU.MBAUGH, offers his j professional services to tho eommunity. j
Office. No. .'i2.1 Washington street, ono door cast | of tbn Catholic Parsonage. [jan.4,'71.
¦f. GREENE, Dentiiit.    Office re¬ moved to Leister'snewbuilding, HiUstreet I'r-itingdon. [jan.4,'71.
f^     L. ROBB, Dentist, oface in S. T.
\jr»    Brown's new building. No. .i20,  Biii St., Huntingdon, Pa. [apl2,'71.
H   GLAZIER, Notary Public,  corner •    of Washington and Smith streets, Hun¬ tingdon, Pa. [jan.12'71.
0.   MADDEN,   Attorney-at-Ltiw I Office.  No. —, Hill  street, Huntingdoc, [ap.l9,'71.
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dialiect  doogxkel.
Well, souny, it pays to be boucst.
And run your shebang on the square : ¦Wliec a chum of mine forgets it,
Wo soparate.s then and there. I kept telling Jim Smith thi.s,—
Ha allowed tho remark T.'as just : But be wout his own gait ail tho same,
His tune was—"Go il, or bust!''
We wero out in Kansas together,—
Jim and me,—in the year Fifty-eight ; They bad made it so bot iu .Missouri,
Wo concluded not to wait. So we put, beinj peaceable uien,
Even Jim soon sow that we must ; I had ouly my oxen and cart.
And Jim not a red, being liEst.
We put, a^i aforesaid, to Kansas, Aud scarce bad been there a week
When wo stumbled across an old miner
Who had recent returned from Pike's Peak.
He dropped tbere was gold tbere, one night,
¦   And showed us a bag full of dust.
Said Jim, "Le's be offi'    Said I, "Wait." '•Nay wait," said be, "Pike's Peak, or bust!''
I sot and thought over the matter,
-•Vnd made up my mind thet neit iay I would see about Jim and me going :—
Ilii'd turned in, and was snooziiag away I judged, from the smile that ho wore.
He was sharing the sleep of tbo ju.'ii. Wbcn I woke I observed it was late.
And I wa.s alono there—r.nd bust 1
Unbeknown be had doctored my whisky.
And gone back on lae ihn3  from tb* start ; He had got np aad got before morning.
And stolen my o.ien and cart ! You had better believe I was riled,
I've .1 sort of idee tbat [ cussed : "I'm going to go for you, Jim,—
We'll see before loug '.vbo is bust.''
Why thc doggonad cuss had absconded Was inquired, and the miner he told ; ! So tbe uext day thore started a party j     To go for Jim—and the gold. ; Those oxen of mine wore our guides, 1      Wo got cn their track from tho fust : j And W8 foUowed 'cm, two days behind- Determined to ketch up—or bust '.
'Twas a mighty rough country to travel—
All sand to the foot of the Peak— Vegetation about as abundant
.\3 tliat yellow fnz on your cbeek. Not a tree pr .i shrub,—withered grasa.
And never a stream you could trust ;— There was alkali something in all—
Hut no Peak, and no Jim—was lie bust ?
The track of the wagon wo fallowed
Would be lost for a time, and then fonii:d,— Like tho rivers that sink in that desert,
-iind as suddenly rise froi» the ground. 'Twas hotter t'aan tiiunUer oae b»ur,
And the next there would conic a cold gust •Slap down from the snows on tho Peak;—
Four'days, aud uo Jim I—bad he btist?
The next day we sighted tho wagou.
"You have got iiim at last now,' they said; But he's halted!—There's something the mat¬ ter—
And. what tire those birds overhead'? Not buzzards ! A ox, too, is down,—
And a leg through the grass there is thrust. Halt, help! There's murder beon dono !
•¦Hullo, Yank!" .Silcuce men,—Jim is bnst!
Poor Jim I At hii feet lay liis rifle.
Close by it his whip and a boot ; There were marks all round of a tussle
Witb some treacherous dog ofa Uio;— A tomahawk sp.ittered with blood,—
And Jim lying scalped in the dust,— And daubed, by himself, on the cftrt,
V.'as his epitaph—"Pikk's Peak, ob Bust !" —From ihe February Aldine.
JFRANKLIN SCHOCK, Attorney- i • at-Law, IIuntingdoB, Pa. Prompt attention I given to all legal business. Office 229 Hill 8tr.«et, corner of Court Houso Square. [dec.4,'72 I
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J    SYLVANUS BLAIR, Attorney-at- •    Law, Huntingdon, Pa.   Office, Hill street, loors west of Smith. [jall.4'71.
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J    CHALMERS   .TACKSON,  Attor- •    nev at Law.    Office with Wm. Dorris, Ksq., No. -lO.l. Hill strcot, Huntingdon, P.^.•
All legal business promptly attouded to.   [janl5
JR. DURBORROW, Attorney-at- • Liiw, Huntiugdon, Pa., will praotico in the .^eve^al Courts of lluntingdon oounty. Particular attention given to thc settlement of estates of dece¬ dents.
t.Ulice iu he .Jopuxai. I'-uilding.        [fob.l,'71-
JW. MATTERN, Attorney-.it-Laiv • and Oencral Claim -Agent, lluntin'gdon. Pa., .Soldiers' claims against tho Government for back pay, bounty, widows' .and invalid pensions attend¬ ed to with great care and promptness.
O«ioe on Hill atrcot. [jan.4,'71.
Timms' Strategy.
A STORY OF  CALIFORNIA  LIFE.
LS.   GEISSINGER,   Attorney-at- • Law, Huntingdon, Pa.   Office with Brown A Bailey. r]'eb..')-ly
K. Ai.LKX Lovell.
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LOVBLL i MUSSER, AiUtrnegs-at-I.aic, HtjsTiXMPOx, Pa. Special attontion giveu to COLLECTIONS of all kinds;  ta the settlement of ESTATES, ic.:  and all other legal business prosecuted with fidelity and dispatch. inovtj,'72
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>RTREKIN. MASSEY &  M'NEIL,
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J3    -M. k -M. S.   LYTLE,   .\ttoraeys- -   •    at-Law, Huntingdon, Pa., will attend to .11 kinds of legal business entrusted to their earo.
Otficf! on tho sonth side of Hill street, fourth door nst of Smith. [jan.4,'71.
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A.   ORBISON,   Attorney-at-Law,
Oflice, .'121 Hill street, Huntingdon, Pa. [may31,'71.
UCOTT, BROWN k  B.AILEY,   At-
^^    torneys-at-Law, Huntingdon, Pa.    Pensions, and all claims of soldiers and soldiers' heirs against tin. (jovcrnment will lie promptly prosecutuil. liSce on llill street. [jftn.-l,'71.
ILLIAM A. FLEMING, Attorniay- at-Law, iluutingdon, Pa. .Special attention n If e.illectiuns. ii.id all otber bgal hnsiiicss ii.le.i u, Viith cave ;ind prolnptn.i.ss. Office, No. llill -^tri.et. [a.plt>,'7!.
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Miscellaneous.
HROBLEY, Merchant Tailor, near • Broad Top Comer,(second floor,) Hunting¬ don, Pa., respectfnlly solicits a sharo of public patronage from town and eountry. [octl6,72.
RA. BECK, Fashionable Barber • and Hairdresser, Hill street, opposite fhe Franklin ilouse. All kinds of Tonics and Pomades kept on handand for sale. [apli),'71-t>m
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MAPES was chivalrous by n'jture; he believed in "seeking tho bauble reputation, even in the cannon's mouth.'' His en¬ thusiasm TVtLs arovised by the. recital of stories of deeds of desperate daring; while he had nothing but contempt for even suc¬ eess won by crooked and indifferent mean.s. Timms, ©u thc contrary, believed there waspoliey in war, andthat theendjustified the means, particularly if tho end was at- ! tained. Companions from infancy, their I lives had been spent iti competition for j scholastic and such other honors as the lo¬ cality afforded, without a momentary break in their friendship. But now, in early ! manhood, they struggled tbi' a prize of in- I calcuable value, with an -drdor that threat- I enod a complete rupture of friendly rela¬ tions. The heart and hand of Elizti Reed, the aeighborhood belle, wei'e to be won ; and to these none others might a.spire in the face ofsnch formidable competition as that of 31apes and Timms. They alone— each by virtue of his own perfonality and position—hnd a right to Lay siege t.i the liearl of that variable, irritable imperious beauty, and for months riic strii'e betweeii them had gone on. liTaoh ono had called into play al! his personal anil social re¬ sources ; ior the local sooiety had taktin sucli an interest that it wan divided into two factions, known .'is the Mapesites and the Timmsite.s. .^.nd yet Miss Eliza could j not he brought to express a preference. If s!;e rode with one to-day, she was careful to walk with the rival to-morrow.
Coqtiettery is delicious to a woman; and Eli.'.a woold not h.ivc been feminine hail she been in haste to have made the elec¬ tion. Nevertheless, she did not intend to mi.ss her opportunity. She knew well thn Wiir conid not always last, and feared thac when one of tho a.spirants for her favor Ttithdraw from the contest, the love of tho other, wanting the stimuins of oouipetition, would grow cold ; lience she had made up her mind, that, upon the first iiivorahle op¬ portunity, she would signify to Mapes that ilis snit, .'0 often prossed, was ;it last ac¬ cepted. The opportunity, it seemed, was not long wanting; for invitations were given out for an apple-bee in the neigh¬ borhood, and Eliza found meaus to convey j an intimation to Mapes that she expected to meet him there, and counted on his es- ! cort home at tho conclusion of the frolic.
The appointed evcninjj looked for  with I such nervous anticipation by Mape.s, came ; at last.    He felt that it was the most  im¬ portant   moment of his life, and arrayed himself as only a rustic  dandy ean.    His way lay across a meadow, through  which rau, or rather loitered, a. deep, but narrow strctm, spanned by a siugle log.    It was so dark when ho reached this primitive bridge that he waa compelled to feel his way siowly  across.    jVs he progressed it commenced   to swing lightly—something i very unusual—until ho reached the  eea- j tre, when, to his utter confusion,  it gave I way. and ho was launched into the  water. I He scrambled out, then suddenly the night ; became luminoas with the lurid light to ' which peoplo refer when they say, in speak- j ing  of some profane wretch, "He swore j until all was blue."    AVhatever  iilumiua- j ting qualities this lurid light possessed, it I had no drying oaes, aud Mapes was forced ! to bid adieu for the night to  all* hopes of i plighting his troth to his beloved Eliza. ;      III the  niril    districts down    Kast. in
early times, the good people had such hab¬ its of industry and rigid economy that they seldom gavt^ or attended parties, unless such as were cloaked under the names of raisings, quiltings,iiuskitig3, or apple-bees; thus, the apple-bee, fraught with moniei- tous t^ousequencesto JIapcs and Timms, was but a social party in disguise—a few apples being pared, quartered, cored, and strung in the early evening merely for appearance sake.
As usual, Eliza wag tho belle of the occasion. Good looks, entire self-posses¬ sion, and a keen, satirical wit always as¬ sured her that position; and this night she shone with unusual brilli.auey, until, as the hours wore away, aud Mapes came not, she began to lose herself in wondering why, and at length she inquired of Timms : "Is your friend, Jlapcs, ailing?" "I guess not," replied Timms; "I saw him to-day.    He was not complaining."
"He denies himself much pleasure in not coaiBg here to-night, for this is the place where we always have a good time. Aunt Judy knows how to give an apple- bno."
"You let JLapes alone,"answered Timms; "he knows what he is about."
"What do you mean ?" a.sked Eliza.
"Oh, I  mean," replied   Timms,   "that
Mapes is the prince of good  fellows, and
gets invitations wherothereat of usdon't."
"Vt'hero is Mapes to-night?" asked I.li-
za. now fully tiroused.
"I don't know for sure," answered Timais. "He told me to-day there were speeial reasons for his coming here, but that he had an invitation to the rich and aristocratic Squire Hufftoon's who is cele¬ brating his daughter's birthday, and that he did'nt know which way he would go ;" and Timms turned away to taik to the next prettiest girl in the room.
Petted young women are seldom logical or patient. When the p.arty broke up, Eliza accepted Timms' escort to her home, and before they arrived there, she had consented to become, with the least possi¬ ble delay, Mrs. Timms. The next morn¬ ing the engagement was announced and preparations for the wedding commenced. Timms was exultant—happy Timms.
For a few days Timms waa not much seeu in public—perhaps for want of cour¬ age to wear his blushing honors openly ; perhaps for want of courage t<i meet other contingencies—who knows? But a man cannot make arrangements for his own wedding from a fixed standpoint, and he was compelled to venture out. In a ijuiet and secluded by-way he met Mapes. The meeting to him w.as a surprise; he smiled feebly, and extended his hand. But Mapes, intent on business, strode squnrely up to Timms and plauted a vigorous blow ou one of his eyes, which caused the gentleman to measure his length in the dust. Timms sprang to his feet, and showed fight: but another blow on the other eye sent him again to grass, where he continuetl to lie. "Gei up," said JIapes. "You'll knock me down again," said Timms.
"Yes, I will," returned Mapes. "Then I won't get up," said Timms.
burst the words, "Mapes—Timme." .\fter a moment of mute surprise, Jlapes, spur¬ ring his mustang, drew nearei  Timms.
"So—we meet at Ixst. I havo been wanting to see you this many a year."
The moment .seemed ominous to Timms, and he cried out : "Dou't shoot I I have no weapons. Besides, T have kept my oath —at least, as well as I eould. 1 never told th* reason why you did'nt attend tbe ap¬ ple-bee, nor even breathed a syllable about the saw log—upon my solemn oath 1"
"I wasn't thinkingof thc ducking." said Mapes.
"Don't come any nearer," returned Timms. "I have always tried to use that woman woll ; but sho would'nt bo used well. I have done my best to treat her kindlv; but she would'nt be treated kina-
¦'Its no use to go ovor tho grounds to me, Timms."
"But." replied Timin=, --you have no idea what that woman is ; you would'nt blame me ifyou only knew. She's brow¬ beat mo till I ain't half a man."
"So I see," said Mapes.
•'No you don't see," replied Timms. "i^ou don't see half. Look at this scar,"— taking off his hat, and showing a long seam on tho scalp; -'that was done with the skillet."
"You have suffered," said Mapes.
"Suffered 1' returned Timms. "You ought to have sworn her too. If you only knew how I have thought of you, and of my oath to you : and how I have borne blows, and been quiet—how I h-ave been called brute, fool, and kept silent—how I have endured taunts and sneers, and hun¬ ger and discomfort, without a word of re¬ proach—you would forgive mo; y^ou would'nt harbor thou^fhts of revenge."
"Thoughts ol" revenge I" answered Mapes. "Let us dismount and have a set¬ tlement ; for I "-ec! ray chance has come at last-"
"Mapes, would you take the life of an unarmf-d mnn ?"
"Timms you're crazy ! Let me explain. I have no wrongs to avenge. It isn't for vengeance that I have wanted to see you. I have heard about you often, know all your life and experiences; and I only wanted to meet you to oft'er you a home and friend¬ ship, employment and opportunities for prosperity, here in California. I owe 3'OU' no debt but one of gratitude, for the ines¬ timable service you did me bj' that little job of carpenter work: and that I mean to pay. Oome with me." He took Timms' horae 'oy the bridle, turned him tibout with¬ out renionstr,"!iice, and thej' traveled on in silence.
After awhile, Timms raised his eyes timidly from the ground, and said:
"Mapes. she's the devil!"—Overland Monthly.
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Public Opinion.
Public opin ion i.s the aggregate opinion
You're   an   infernal  scoundrel," said j of individuals iu a community, and every
Mapes. individual   contributiss to its formation iu
I can't help you're saying so,'' answered i proportion to the infiuence which he exerts
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"You sawed the log," said Mapes.
"What log ?" asked Timms.
"You sawed the log," repeated 3Iapes, advancing a step.
"Yes—stop. I sawed the log," said Timms.
*'Well, you need'nt think," said Mapes, "that after your marriage you're goiug to tell that story, and make me a laughing stock."
"I'll never speak of it," whined Timms.
"Perhaps you won't," said Mapes, "bnt I'm going to swear you before 1 get througb. There's another thing; you won the woman by yonr trickery and I know it is in you to abuse her; so I'm going to swear you to treat her kindly."
"I'll swear," said Timms.
"Hold up your hand," said Mapes.
Timms held up his hand.
•'Now, repeat after me: 'I, Silas Timms, solemnly swear that I will never bring to the knowledge ofany human being that I sawed the log whereby Daniel Mapes fell into the creet and lost a wife; and, furth¬ er, that I will, she consenting, marry Eliza Reed, and always treat her kindly ; so help me God.'''
Timms repeated tho oatli verbatim.
"Now get up and go home," said Mape.s. "I don't think you'll be married till your eyes get out of mourning, and by thattinie I'll be lar enough away. But don't think I'll lose sight of yoH; and if you don't keep your oath you'll see me."
Timms arose from the ground, shook off the dust, and walked away ; but when he had secured a safe distance he shouted exultingly:
".Mapes, she's an angel''
In twenty years Daniel Mapes had learned many things, and among them this: Life is very much as we make it. In other words, the world is like a mirror, and looks at us with the I'aco wo present. It returns scowl for scowl, and smile for smile. It echoes our sobs and our laughter! To tho cold, it is as icy as the northern sens ; to the loving it is as balmy as the isles of the tropic.s. He had learned a stiil harder lesson ; which was tin forget the griefs, the sorrows, the wrongs, and the hates of the past. The effect of this lesson was to make it appear that the lines to him, had fallen in pleasant places. His rotund form and firm muscle bespoke'a good digestion, while a cheerful countenance told of mental peace. A fair woman called him husband, and children otiUeJ him father. JV beautiful home in the Santa Clara "\''alley was theirs; bcsittes whieh, Mapes had many broad acres of land, as well as many head of stock running nearly wild in the counties ol Monterey and San Luis Obispo.
Once in a yetir the cattle thtit graze on California's thousand hills tire gathered in bands at convenient places to be claimed and branded by their owners—such tissem- blages being called rodeos. Mapes had been down across the .Salinas Plains, in attendance uptm a -rodeo; and beiug ou his return, jogging along ou his mustang, he saw. far in the distance, but ncaring him, an equally lone traveler. Slowly the distance between them decreased; and as they apprioached, Mapes—with   California
on society. That it has a very great power for either good or evil is abundantly man¬ ifest whether we consider its influence on governments or in the various ramifications of society. It frequently sets up emperors and kings, and it suddenly hurls them from their high position. In our own govern¬ ment it frequently elevates tho ambitious, unprincipled political demagogue, and al other times it justly makes him the object of public scorn and derision. .Vt one time it shouts "Hosauuah to the Son of David,' and at another time it cries ''crucify him, crucify hira." At one time it rivets the schackles of tho slave, and at another time it bursts those manacles a.ssnnderandsays to the weary captive "thou art free." in the world of fashion it reigns over both sexes with a tyrant's sway. Of the ex¬ travagance ami follies of the votaries of fashion it is not my purpose nov; to speak, but will simply say that in this sphere public opinion frequently outrages good taste and common sense, destroys health and happiness, and .sends its victims to untimely graves.
In our Publio School System it elects intelligent, liberal-minded, progressive school directors, who build good houses and furnish them with suitable furniture and apparatus, and who employ good teach¬ ers and pay them for their labor, and good teachers make good schools, and we do not need a tyrannical law to drag children to Echool, or it just docs tho reverse of all this ; it elects narrow-minded, selfish men for directors who coop the children iu poorly-constructed, badly-ventilated and in¬ differently furnished houses, and who em¬ ploy uneducated teachers because sueh can be obtained for low wages, and who oppose every measure calculated to advance the interests of our sehools. These directors c.ire but very little whether a propcsed measure will benefit tho schools or not; what concerns theui most is how it will affect their pocket-books, and you may rest assured if it costs money they will defeat it if it is in their po-iver to do so.
Public Opinion is not a safe guide either in estimating the eharacter of other.s or in shaping our own course of couduct through life. God has placed a faithful monitor within every breast, and if we deal fairly with it wc need not fear to follow its die- t.ates even though the world should array itself against us, bat it is ouly aconscience enlighted 'oy (jod's word and spirit that we may safely follow. Noah waa a very unpopular preacher, yet ho was saved, with a few others, and a guilty world perished. Lot could not find even ten persons to save those cities whose wickedness caused God to rain fire and brimstone from heaveu to destroy them.
Popular meu and popular measures aro not alwajs worthy of our esteem or sup¬ port. The great (jucstiou for every honest man to decide is whether a thing is right or not. If it is right, it should receivo his earnest support, .and if wrong, ho should not hesitate to condemn and oppose it, even though it shouid cost both money and friends to do so.
The question to which I wish to direot particular attention in this discussion Who are responsible ?    I said in the
prudence—slipped his revolver upon the commencement that every individual con- belt which sustained it, from his back j tributes to the formation of publie opinion round to his left side, bringing tho hilt | in proportion to tho influence which he under the shadow oi his bridle-arm, and i exerts upon society, but our individual within easy reach of his right hand.    A | responsibility extends umch further than
near look a.ssured 3Iapes that he had no occasion for weapons; the coming man v.'as of laiddlc age, but his look was worn, weary, dejected, and hopeless—-in local phrase, his manner was that of a person who has -'lost his grip;" and those who have met that terrible misfortune are nev¬ er highway robbers "grip" being thc very quality wanted in that hazardous pursuit. Tho travelers met, with a long, inquiring ,saze, when from their !ip«   giniultaneously
thi.s. God has placed us in this world not to be mere spectators of what is transacting arouad us, but to take an active part in thc great battle of life. Some individuals cx- ciLSo themselves from taking part iu the political issues of tha day on the plea that these issues are controlled by unprincipled men; but why, I ask, are a few contempt¬ ible political tricksters permitted to con¬ trol the vitjil issues of the day to suit their own   selfish, wicked piirpnses.     Ignorance
or indifference, or perhaps both of these combined, on the part of the masses must be the cause. The true idea of a republi¬ can government is based on the intelli¬ gence and virtue .jf the people, but an in¬ telligent and virtuous peoplo will not, can¬ not, remain indifferent to those great so¬ cial, moral and political questions which affect not ouly the progress and prosperity of our country, 'out the very existence of our nationality. It would be a waste of tima to argue that ignorant men are unfit to decide the many intricate questions and to perform the responsible duties of citi¬ zens of a government so extensive, so grand in conception, so powerful in opera¬ tion, and so interwoven with the dearest interests of humanity, as the one under whose benisn influenoe we are permitted to live. Tho man, therefore, to whom God has given children and tho means to educate them, but who permits them to grow up in ignorance, is .an enemy to his country and robs his childreu of one of life's choicest Wessiogs. The parent who neglects to provide the necessary food to sustain the lives of his children is regarded as destitute of the common feelings of hu¬ manity, but is ho loss guilty who wilfully starves their immortal minds ?
We seem to have fallen upoti evil timw. Charges of fraud, bribsry, and corruption are continually being made against public officers in every station from the lowest io the highest, and it becumes every good cit¬ izen to inquire into the ciuse and .also the remedt- for this wide-spread evil. I think it may ail be attributed to a vitiated pub¬ lic sentiment. It need not be thought strange if frauds are committed in a city in which a noted prize fighter and gam¬ bler is elected to represent them in the halls of Congress, or in whieh ono of its most conspicuous defaulters, as a reward for his villainy, is elected to a seat in the State Legislature. We need not, however, travel tl) a neighboring State for examples of corrupt public sentiment, i'or with shame be it confessed, we have thsm much nearer home. If some poor, unfortunate wretch, pinched by want, commits a petty larceny, the finger of scorn is pointed at him—I do not say unjustly—but when public ofiicers prove defaulters, by stealing thousands of the pnblic money, able couusel v/ill almost volunteer to defend them by every artifice that a depraved heart can suggest, and even men iu high standing-—professed fol¬ lowers of the Saviour—have no words of condemnation, but they will take the vil¬ lains by the haml ;us cordially, and smile npon them as graciously, as though they were honest men, .and they will even ap¬ plaud them for their shrewdne.ss, when ia their hearts they know that in the sight of a just God they whom, from selfish mo¬ tives, they would shield from public odium, are bnt whitewashed thiev_es. The man who undertakes 19 screen the guilty is a partaker of his crimes, and society cannot hold him guiltless, for God has declared that "him that saith to the guilty thou art righteous; him shall the peoplo curse and nations shall abhor him, but to them that rebuke him shall we delight and a good blessing shall come upon them."
Not long since I heard a gentleman, in good standing in a Christian church, re¬ mark that he did uot think the poor man is much to blame for selling his vote for what he gets, for it is about all he need expect. But can the poor man afford to sacrifice his manhood tmd betray his coun¬ try for the paltry sum of a Kitvi! dollars, or for any price? Are not chtiracter and country things of priceles.* value ? Must the patriot sacrifice lite to procure the blessings of free institutions and those bo bartered for a. mcis of pottage ? It is re¬ lated ofa gentleman, who ouce stood high in the estimation of the American people, but at the time referred to not a citizen, that on being asked for letters of credit to some of his friends in the United States he made tho humiliating confession':— "Alas ! I am the only American who can gay I have no friends in America." On being asked his name he replied, "Bene¬ dict Arnold." Yes it was he who, for po¬ sition in the British army and ior British gold, attempted to betr.ay his country, and whose name is execrated in every olinio by every patriot. .-Vud is uot the man. who will saerifice his manhood to .secure a nom¬ ination by bribery and corruption and his election by the same dishonorable means, a traitor to tho best interests of his coun¬ try and deserving of the contempt and scorn ofall good men ? There can be uo surer means taken to destroy any govern¬ ment than to corrupt the morals ef the people, and happy will it be for us as a nation if we learn tiie lesson so emphati¬ cally taught us in t'ne extinction of so mti- ny powerful nations, that there is no secu¬ rity for any government bnt in tbe maiii- tenanco of those principl'-s of integrity, truth and ju. tieo whieh lie at the founda¬ tion of all good government und which have (iod himself fur their author.
It is frc(]uently said that it is of little eonscquenco how honost a man is when you elect hira to office, for he will .soon become corrupt, but this is a ba.-ie libel upon the Christian religiou, for there are plenty of Christian men who wonld scorn to barter their manhood and their hopes of eternal happine.=s for anv thing that sa- tan has to offer.
I will now notiee briefly the influence whicii tfiiehers exert upon society. Wc i'rcqneutly hear coniplaints m.ade that teachers are poorly ptiid for their labor, and not ;is much respected as they should be. Admitting that there is snme truth in these statements, with whom does thc fault lie ? With the people or with tho teachers ? I maintain that it lies chiefly with the latter. Sehool teachers, from lhe position they occupj', must necessarily ex¬ ert a very great influence in forming pub¬ lic sentiment, and, if we except tiiothors, they have more tu do in moulding the character of ths rising generation th.in any^ other class. But they who would \v,isi, thc youth of our country to be intelligent and virtuous, must themselves be intelli¬ gent and virtuous. They whu woukl im¬ plant within the youthful mind the broad and comprehensive principles of a ju.'st policy must not possess contracted minds. They who wonld inspire chiklren with a thirst for useful knowledge must first drink deep from the same crystal fountain. In short, if the business of teaching is ever to be elevated to a profession which shall bo duly honored and respected, it must be done by teachers setting earnestly .ibout the work of self-improvement. There are me;) of thorough culture, of warm and generous hearts, tmd high and noble pur¬ poses engaged in teaching, and who woald honor any profession and grace any society, and whose memories are I'findly enthroned iu the hearts of those whose delightful [¦rivilege it has been to sit at their feet as barners. It is a lamentable fact though diat many are engaged in teaching who lave not even the rudiments of an educa- ton, tmd who have no adequate ceneeption ff the responsibility they incur in assu- ning  to  train  immortal   mind«.     Their
highest ambition appears to be to put in the required time and secure the stipula¬ ted wages. Teachers, to be truly success¬ ful, must be men of liberal culture, and their hearts must be so thoroughly in their work, that they are willing to devote their best energies to secure tho sweetest of all earthly reward—the consciousness of h.iv- ing lived fir a noble purpose—the good of mankind.
It is urged, though, that teachers cannot afl'ord to educate themselves because they are not sufficiently remunerated for their labor, but while this is true in some cases, ES already intimated, it is not generally true, for many teachers arc paid more than they deserve; in truth they are dear at any price, and it is perpetrating a fraud upon defenceless children to employ them. It is not true that many parents, whom God has given abundance of means, cannot af¬ ford to educate thoir children. It is not true t'uat young men and women canuot afford to educate themselves sufficiently to teach school with credit, for we live iu au age of most glorious privileges, and where much is given much will be required. Wo live at il time when the dearest interests of humanity demand the development of all the noble powers of intellect. We live at a time when no young man or woman can afford to bo ignorant, for ignorance b.tts every avenue to true suci-oss in life—it is the soil in which error and superstition flourish raost luxuriantly. Hence the im¬ perative command of our Creator is: To get knowledge, and with all our getting to get understanding.
§aUI«3 'Ut %\\t pilH0«.
A Wonderful Clock.
-\ German of Cincinnati has invented a clock which, though much smaller than the celebrated one at Strashurg, is, from its description, mueh more complicated. It ia now on exhibition at the windows of a jewelry store, and attracts much attention. The inventor calls it "Die Labensnhr"— clock of life. The elaborateness of its me¬ chanism may bo imagined from the follow¬ ing description of the wonder : .
We ses a gla.ss case, a threij story steeple- shaped clock, four foet wide at the first story and nine feet high. The movement placed in the first story, on four delicate columns, within which swings the unti¬ ring pendulum, which is in the significant form of a bee hive. Behind thc pendu¬ lum thero is a picture representing mature manhood—a countryman behind his plough. The four corners are carved, and repre.sent the four periods of life—infancy, youth, manhood and age. The spaces to the right and left of the clock are ornamented with two oil paintings, representing the spring time of life (c'nildren playing in a garden,) and the autumn or cud of lifo (grave dig¬ gers in a cemetery.)
The second, story consists of two towcr- likc palaces, on the doors of which thtrc are two pictures that represent boyhood and early manhood. In the one a boy is just pushing his little bark away frcm the shore. Hs stands upright in the boat, and points to the distance ; he is a'oout to begin life—-'to paddle his own canoe." In the other a young man, w'ao lias already made some progress in the journey of lifj, enters a room in whicli there is an hour glass, that reminds him of tho fleotness of time. On this story there aro three guar¬ dian angels.
.\ majestic tower crowns, as third story, tho ingenious structure. A cock, .is a symbol of watchfulness, stands on the top, directly over the portal, whieh opens the tower in front. On this portal there is a painting which represents the perishable- \ ness of earthly^ things.    The entire struc- k
The Mind in Sickness.
In whatever state the mind is, in almost every case the health will be in a corres¬ ponding condition. If the mind is de¬ pressed, the body will be ailing. On the contrary, it is almost invariably the case that a jovial person is remarkably free from ills.
The mind is the best curative agency in sickness , not that it is -warranted to be a specific cure in all cases, but the phar¬ macologist can prepare no medicine that is susceptible of such a variety of uses as this is.
Physicians prescribe travel and sanita¬ ria ; they send one mstn to Minnesota and another to Brazil, and the temperament of the man is not taken into account. If a man can be fully impressed that in a cer¬ tain country and under those climatic in¬ flueuces he will be almost entirely exempt from tho pains that are. now racking his frame, and if he succeeds m getting to that place witheut having his opinion refuted, lie will ninety-nine times in a hundred, have those glorious expectations realized ; on the contrary, if you can succeed in get¬ ting just the opposite opinion thoroughly impressed on his mind, tha most invigo¬ rating climate under the broad heavens will work nc desirable changes in his condition, even if lie should tarry there half of four score years and tan.
\Ye will make another statement and opine it will stand the test of atrial. Take a healthy person possessing a nervous tem¬ perament ; let five of his most esteemed friends separately and seriously tell him daily for one week, that his health is failing, the bloom on his cheek is depart¬ ing, the vigor ofhis youth is wasting away, aad already the seeds of his final disease are being sown in his coastitution, and he will soon commence to be alarmed con¬ cerning his condition ; once alarmed, he begins t3 waste away, till the idea is erad¬ icated from his mind, or death is the re¬ sult.
I'rom these uncolored pictures, it wiil be seen that we can almost entirely will sick¬ ness or health. That we can, by control of the will, but disregarding the sanitary laws, be free from illness, I do not assert, but observing these and keeping the mind properly directed, no person can fail to add teu years to his life. Ifyou are an invalid, arr.mgo your life so that you can enjoy it, nnd you can do it by being restful and happy. Wherever you go. you are not ben¬ efitted by a climate,when you stay an hour in a plaee that is not enjoyed by you.
Whatever is true of health, is true of happiness. We can be happy and materi¬ ally advance thc comfort of those around us if we so incline, or we can bring jiLst the opposite upon us and others. If our business amuses us, and we are succeed¬ ing, and we can keep our tempers happy, then we can spurn the offer of medicine. On thn other hand, ifwc have a distasteful business and havo not thewill or the power to adapt ourselves to it, theu we aro an ex¬ cellent subject for pity. Il' wo lookou the dark side of overy obstacle and search not for the other, then we are more deserving subjects f'or sympathy. If our tooting fails and our eyesightgrows dim, we shoald endeavor to regain the solid foundation without manifesting any excitement or alarm ; direct our ej'es above the smoke, and "victory will be emblazoned on our every banner." Yot by getting flurried we can more easily lose forever our foot¬ ing and get smothered in tho dust of de¬ feat.—Exchimcfe
Scolding Women.
SWEETBai.vr..
It's a  dreadful   thing for   a woman to
ture is, iu   appearance, very much liko an Pr:i''.'A"' '''" '''''"' '".^e forever scolding old Cothic Ciistlc ' I And if I were a   married   man, aud must
' Now, let us\see if we can describe the i P^^^."^" between swearing and scolding hab- | mechanical action of the clock. When it j ''^ in my wife, I shtiuld choose an occasion- ¦ marks the first quarter, tho .Joor of thc | «• ^;^«"f'''.•''•^.^"''""^^l ^•^'¦''•'} , ^ ^ I left piece of the second story opens, and i .But 'I'e pity is the men don^t get the wo seo a child issue from the background, \ P"^^!^f ..l.'^J!'":';!'' come forward to a little bell, aad give it ono   blow,   and theu   disappear.    At tha
second quarter a youth appears, strikes the bell twice, and then disappears ; at the third thero comes a man in his prime ; at thc fourth   we have a  tutleriiig  old man,
Instead of this nine married women out of evcry ten are habit¬ ual scolds.
It isn't the cares of wifehood, nor tho trials of motherhood that steal the roses from the cheeks. Q^h, no ! It's the habit of seoldiuK and fretting   that   nine out of
leaning   on a staff',   who strikes   thc bell I every ten wives indulge in
four tiojes. Each time the %ior close itself When the hours are full, the door of ths right piece ofthe second story opens, and Death, as a skeleton, scythe in baud, appears, aud marks the hour by striking a bell. But it is at the twelfth hour that wo have tha grand spectacle in the repre¬ sentation of the day of judgment. Then, when Death has struck three blows ou tho little bell, the cock on the top of the tower suddenly flaps his wings tind crows in a shrill tone; and after Death has marked t'ne twelfth hour with his hammer, he crows agaiti twici'. Immediately three angels, who stand as guardians in a central position, raise their trumpets with their right hands (in the left they hold swords), and blow a blast toward each of the four quarters of the earth. At the blast the door of the tower opens, and tho resurrected children of earth appear, while tho tlostroying an¬ gel sinks out of sight.
The multitude stand tor a moment full of awe and wonder, when suddenly, Christ, in all his majesty, descends, surrounded by angols. On his left there is an angel irho holds the scales of jusliee ; on his right another carries the Book of Life, v/hieh opens to show the: alpha and omega—the beginning and the end. l.'hrist waves his hand, and instantly tha -^ood among the resurrected are separated from the wicked, the former going to the right and the lat¬ ter to the laft. The Archangel Jlichael salutes the good, while, on the other sida, stands tbe devil, radiant with fiendish de¬ light—he can h.irdly wait for the final sentence of thos* who fall to him, but, in obedience to the command ofthe central figure, he v/ithdraw3. The figure of Christ raises its hand again, with a threatening meiu, and the accursed sink down to the realms of his santanic majesty. Then Christ blesses the choseu fow, who draw near him. Finally, we hear a cheerful chime of hells, during which Christ rises, surrounded by his angels, until he disap¬ pears, and the portal closes.
.We look with amazement on this exhi¬ bition of the mechanic's ingenuity ; a complete drama is here represented, with¬ out the aid ofa human hand. And what excites our admiration still more is the pe'i- fection of all the movements ; they are steady, calm und noiseless, with the xe- ception ofthe threateuing gestures ofthe figure of Christ and the movements of Lucifer, who darts across the scene with lightning rapidity. Of course, the pecu¬ liar action of these two figures is intention¬ al on thc part of the artist, and adds great¬ ly to tho effect.
It is an evidence of great hardness to be more concerned abnut our sufferings than our sins.
Of course you'll all say this is a mon¬ strous falsehood, and call me a sonr old maid, envious and jealous of my more for¬ tunate married sisters.
I'll not deny that I'd rather be a mar¬ ried wouian than a single ono, but as heav¬ eu is luy v;itiiess I'd rather live an old maid to the end of ray days than do .is so many of my sisters do, marry and become fretful, scolding wives.
No wonder the inen learn lo forsake } their homos, and gradually grow indiffer- | ent to the c'narms that won them, when so j many wives ibrget to be charming, and i fret and scold whenever they can secure a | listener.
There's care enough, and vexation enough iu the business lifo ofany man to maku him long for rest and quiet at home.
But to meet with :i fretful complaint of his Mary Ann'.* daily trials every time he steps into hi.-i comfortable home is enough to drive any reasonable maa to distraction. \
Oh! of course 1 know there's another j side to this question, but it's not my pur- ; pose to present it at this time. j
And iu conclusion I've only   to declare it to b* the result   of careful  observation i that i have discovered this truth. ]
The chief cause of so many married men ceasing to devote their spare moments to wife and home, is that the wives /7rsi cease to bo attractive, arid actually drive their husbands froin their sides by their own unlovely behavior.
And scolding or fretting at little things is the most common and the most unlovelv ofall.
Manners.
"I make it a point of morality," says a writer, "never to find fault with another for his manners. They may ho awkward or graceful, blunt or polite, polished or rustic. I care not what they are if the man means well, and acts from honest in¬ tentions without eccentricity or affection. All men have not the advantages of 'good j society,' as it 'a called, to school them¬ selves in all its fantastic rules and cere- | monies, and if there is any standard of manners, it is well founded on reason aud good sense, and not upon these artificial regulations. Manners, like conversation, should be extemporaneous and not studied."
"I always suspect the man that meets mo with the same perpetual smilo on his face, the bending of the body, and the samo premeditated shake of the hand. Give uie the hearty—it may be tho rough—grip of the hand, tho careless nod of recogni¬ tion, and when occasion requires, the homely but welcome silntation—'How are TO", old friend?'"
Take Care of Your Health.
Quinine should not be eaten after a hearty meal of India rubber; the sperma¬ ceti contained in the former will unite with the oxalic acid of the latter, and wagon grease will be evolved with disas¬ trous results.
Before taking a bath the entire body should be carefully washed. Then lay on a coating of tar and get into the water. It can't touch anywhere.
It is not so fashionable as it was to chop a cord of wood before breakfast; none but very old men, who. cling to the traditions of youth, like a lean leach to a stuffed trog, ever do it, and they commonly perish at it.
Getting out of bed in a perspiration is to be avoided—always lie in bed as long a3 you can find any excuse for it.
Notliing is more injurious than thc or¬ dinary method of going up stairs; it causes alkaline in the blood to settle in the corns, producing aneurism and strangulation. The proper way is to lie on your stomaeh and get up feet first.
Bathing, as intimated above, is conduct¬ ed on a wrong principle. It is probable that the custom might be advantageously abolished altogether. Bath houses and bath rooms in dwellings are a thing of recent growth. Our grandfathers seldom or never bathed; and it i.s conceded that they lived to be several hundred years old.
Never sleep with yonr eyes shut; it is a degenerate habit.
Potatoes should always be eaten with the skins on. Skins contain bicarbonate of mucilage, whieh is just what the liver requires. When the custom of giving the gkins to the poor originated, science was almost wholly unknown.
There are more things it would be well to know, but a strict compliance with the rules already given will enable you to live as long as you will wish to. Further in¬ structions would hut prolong your misery. —N. Y. Evening Post.
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The Winter ofthe Heart.
Let it never come unto you. Live so that the good angel will protect you from that terrible evi!—the winter ofthe heart. Let no chilling influence fref ze the foun¬ tain of sympathy and happiness in its very blasted hopes, like snow on withered depths ; no moro blasts of discontentedness moan and shriek through its desolate chambers.
Your path-way may lead you among trials which, for a time, seeoi.^i utterly to impede your progress, and shut out the very light of heaven from your anxious gaze. Poverty may take the place of ease and plenty; your luxurious home may be ex¬ changed for a single lowly room—the soft couch for the pallet of straw—rich viands for the coarse food of the poor. Snmmer friends m.iy forsake you, with scarcely a passing word or look of compassion. You may be forced to toll wearily, steadily on, to earn a livelihood; you may encounter fraud and the base avarice which would extort the last farthing, till you well nigh turn in disgust from your fellow beings.
Death may sever thc dear ties that bind you to earth, and leave you in fearful darkness. That noble, manly boy, the sole hope ofyour declining years, may betaken from you while your spirit clings to him with a wild tenacity whieh even the shad¬ ows of the tomb cannot wholly subdue. But still look upward—put faith in prov¬ idence—and the winter of the he.irt will not come to you.
Dat ish Goot.
As a gentloman from New York was taking a glass of wino at the St. Louis, corner of Freeman and Hopkins street, iu Cincinnati, about threo weeks ago, he ob¬ served :it another table, seated with others, a German who seemed uneasy and anxious, as there might have been Franeo-Prussian dc-iigreement between his beer and him¬ self Presently in ran a little girl, her face radiant with smiles exclaiming :
"Oh, father we've got ti little boy at home !
"Dat is goot," said the Dutchman, as the anxiety disappeared from his counte¬ nance ; "fill up der glasses."
Not many minutes elapsed before in rushed the little girl again with the an¬ nouncement :
"Oh, father, we've got two little boys at home!"
The Dutchman looked a good deal as¬ tonished and not altosicther satisfied at this little family redundascy, bnt rising at at lengtii to the magnitude of the occasion, he said:
"Veil, den, dat is al.no good. Fill up der glasses.''
Iu a few minutes again appeared the ra¬ diant messenger, witli the a.stounding proclamation :
"Oh, fiithet, we'vd gol three little bovs at home I"
This was too much even i'ur Teutonii- impassibility. There was' no Carthar call for glasses.
"Veil den," .'says he, ''i goes u[> dei'u and stops ter whole tani business 1"
Fun at Home.
Don't bo afraid of a little fuu at home, good people.
Don't shut up your house lest the sun sheuld fade your carpets, and your hearty iiuigh le.^t you should shake down somo of the cobwebs.
If ynu want to ruin your sous, let theni think that all mirth and social enjoyment must be left on ths thresbhold without, when the\- come home at night. W hen once a home is regarded as a place only to eat. sleep and drink in, the work is begun whieb ends in gismbling bouses and de¬ gradation.
Youu"- people must have fun and re¬ laxation somewhere; if they do not find it at their own homes, it will bo sought for in other places.
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What is an Editor?
One of our exchanges answers the above question thus:
"Why, he is the man who reads news¬ papers, writes articles on almost an3' sub¬ ject, sets type, reads proofs, works presses, folds mails, runs on errands, saws wood, draws water, works in the garden, talks to all who call, is blamed for a hnndred things which are nobody's business but his own^ helps people to get into office, (who forget all abeut it 'afterwards,)and fre¬ quently gets cheated out of half his earn¬ ings. He puffs and does more to build up a town thau anybody, aud the miser and fogy aro benefittw.1 thereby; and yet they will say his paper is of no account, but will borrow it.    Who wouldn't be an edit-
Nkver buy an article you do ni:* need simply because it is cheap, and the man who selh it will take it out in trade-