Huntingdon Journal

              J- he  xliintinffdon   J ournal.
VOL. 47.
HUNTINGDON, PA., JANUARY 31, 1872.
NO. 5.
The Huntingdon Journal.
J. R. DURBORROW,
I'L'ELISHF.RS
Oflice on the Co
„f Rath and tVash ington street'
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Professional Cards.
DC ALD WELL, Attorney-at-Law, • No. Ill, "„i street. Office foraierV occupied by Jlcssrs. Woods k Williamson. [apl2,71.
DR. R. R. WIESTLING, respectfully offers his professional services to tho citizens of Huntingdon and vicinity.
Office removed to No. OlSi Hill street,   (Smiths BniLUiNG.) [apr.5,'71-ly.
DR. J. C. FLEMMING respectfully offers his professional services to the citizens of Huntingdon nnd vicinity. Office second floor of Cunningham's building, on corner of 4th and Hill Street.  °"^y^^-
DR. A. B. BRUMBAUGH, offers his professional services to thc community. Office, No. 52.1 Washington street, ono door cast of tho Catholic Parsonage. [jan.4,'n.
EJ. GREENE, Dentist.    Office re- •    moved to Leister's new building. Hill street >'r-itingdon. [jan.4,'7].
L. ROBB, Dentist, office in  S. T. Brown's new building. No. 520,  TTiU St., itingdon. Pa: [apl2,'-l.
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H   GLAZIER, Notary Public,  corner •    of Washington and Smith streets, Hnn¬ tingdon, Pa. [jan.12'71.
HC.   MADDEN,   Attorney-at-Law. •    Office,  No. —, Hill  street, Huntingdon, Pa. [ap.19,'71.
J    SYLVANUS BLAIR, Attorney-at- •    Law, Huntingdon, Pa.   Offieo, Hill street, threo doors west of Smith. [jan.4 71.
JR. PATTON, Druggist and Apoth- • ecary, opposite the Exchango Hotel, Hun¬ tingdon, Pa. Prescriptions accurately compounded. Pure Liquors for Medicinal purposes,    [nov.23,'70.
HALL MUSSER, Attorney-at-Law,
>No. .119 Hill St., Huntingdon, Pa. [jan.4,'71.
JR. DURBORROW, .Utorney-at- • Law, Uuntingdon. Pa., will practice in the several Courts uf Iluutingdon county. Particular attention given to tho settlement of estates of dece¬ dents.
Oflice in he Jocrnal Bailding.        [feb.l,'71.
JW. MATTERN, Attorney-at-Law • and General Claim Agent, Huntiugdon, Pa., Soldiers' claims against tho Government for back pay, bounty, widows' and invalid pensions attend¬ ed to with great care and promptness.
Offico on HUI street. [jan.4,'71.
K ALLEN LOVELL, Attorney-at- • I<aw, Huntingdon, Pa. Special attention given to Collectioss of all kinds ; to the settle¬ ment of Estates, kc; and all other Legal Business prosecuted with fidelity and dispatch.
j/^ff" Office ill room lately occujiied by R. Milton Speer, Es'q. [jan.4,'71.
MILES ZENT5IYER, Attorney-at- Law, Huntingdon, Pa., will attend promptly to all legal business. Office in Cunningham's new¬ building. [jan.4/n.
A. AI.LISOX   MILLK
H.   BUCHANAN.
¦VriLLER ^ BUCHANAN DENTISTS,
No. 228 Hill Street, April 5, 'n-ny.
HUNTINGDON, PA.
PM, & M. S.   LYTLE,   Attorneys- •    at-Law, Iluntingdon, Pa., will attend  to all kinds of legal busineas entrusted to their care.
Office on tho soutk side of HiU street, fourth door weit of Smith. [jan.-t/"!-
KA.   ORBISON,   Attornej-at-Law, •    Office, 321 Hill street, Huntingdon. Pa. [may31,71.
JOHN   SCOTT.
S.   T.   BROWN.
J.  U.  BAILET
SCOTT, BROWN  &   BAILEY,   At- torneys-at-Law, Huntingdon, P*,    Pension?, and all claims of soldiers and soldiers' heirs againat the tl-ovemment will be promptly progocutfed. Office on Hill street. [jnn.4,'71.
TW. MYTON, Attorney-at-Law, Hua- •    tingdon. Pa.    Office with J. Sewell Stewart,
Esq.
ijan.4,'71.
WILLIAM A. FLEMING, Attorney- at-Law, Huntingdon, Pa. .Special attention given te collections, and all other bgal business attended to with care and promptness. Office, No, 229, Hill street. [apl9/71.
Miscellaneous.
EXCHANGE   HOTEL,   Huutingdon, Pa. JOHN S. MILLER, Proprietor.
January 4, 1871.
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0 TO THE JOU RNAL OFFICE
For all kinds of printing.
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EAR THE RAILROAD DEPOT,
COR. WAYNE and JUNIATA STREETT
UNITED STATES HOTEL,
HOLLIDAYSBURG, PA. M'CLAIN k CO., Proprietors. Mohl5-tf
ROBT. KINU, Merchant Tailor,  412 Washington street, Iluntingdon, Pa., a lib¬ eral share of patronage respeetfally solicited. A pril 12, ISri.
LEWISTOWN BOILER AVORKS. SNYDER, WEIDNER k CO., Manufac- urers of Locomotiveand .Stationary Boilers, Tanks, Pipes, Filling-Barrows for Furnaces, and Sheet Iron Work of every description. Works on Logan street, Lewistown, Pa.
AU   orders promptly attended  to.    Repairing done at short nol.i.'.o'. [Apr 5,'71,ly.*
AR. BECK, Fasliionablo Barber • and Hairdresser, Hill stroet, opposite tho FrankUn House. All kinds of Tonics and Pomades kept on hand and for sale. [apl"J,'71-6m
United States Laws.
COLORED  PRINTING  DONE AT the Jonmal Office, at Philadelphia prices.
[official.]
OF   THE
UNITED   STATES
PASSED  AT THE
FIRST  SESSION  OF THE FORTY- SECOND CONGRESS.
CONVENTION
BETWEEN
The General Post Office of the United States of Atnerica and the General Post Office of the Unitetl Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
The General Post Office of the United States of America, and the general post office of the United Kingdjni of Great Britain and Ireland, being desirous of es¬ tablishing an exchange of nioney orders between the two countries, the undersign¬ ed, duly authorized for that purpose, have agreed upon thc following articles : ARTICLa 1. There shall be a regular exchange of money orders between the two countries. The maximum of each order is fixed at ten pounds sterling when issued in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and when issued in the United States, at fifty dollars in the national paper currency of the latter country.
Article 2.
The British post office shall have power to fix the rates of commission on all money orders issued in the United Kingdom, and the LTnited States post office shall have tho same power in regard to all money orders issued in tho United States. Each office shall communicate to the other its tariflf of charges or rates of commission which shall bo paid in advance by the remitter, and shall not, in any event, be repayable. It is understood, moreover, that each office is authorized to suspend, temporarily, the exehange of money orders in case the course of exchange or any other circum¬ stance should give rise to abuses or cause detriment to (he postal revenue. ,    Article 3.
Each country shall keep the commission charged on all money orders issued within it, but shall pay to the other country one per cent, on the total amount of such or¬ ders.
Article 4.
No money order shall include a fraction¬ al part ofa penny or ofa cent. Article 5.
The service of the postal money-order system between the two countries shall be performed exclusively by the ageney of offices of exchange On thc part of the United Statos, the office of exchange shall be New York, and on thepart ofthe Uni¬ ted Kingdom, London.
Article 6.
Any person in the United States desi¬ ring to remit to thc United Kingdom a sum of money within the limita prescribed by article 1, may pay itintoany post office in the United States designated for such purpose from time to time, by the post¬ master general of that country. Such per¬ son shall at the same time givo the name and address of the person to whom the amount is to be paid in the Unit«d King¬ dom, and his own name and address.
Any person in the LTnited Kingdom de¬ siring to remit to the United States a sum of money, within the same limits, may pay it into any money-order office of the Uni¬ ted Kingdom, giving at the same time the name and exact address of the person to whom the amount is to be paid in the LTnited States, and his own name and ad- dre.ss.
The receiving postmaster in either country shall, in aceordance with the rules established by his postal administration, notify every such payment to the dispatch¬ ing exchange office.
The postmaster of New York, upon re¬ ceipt of every notification of that kind, shall make out and forward to the payee in the United Kingdom a money order payable in sterling at the post office in that country designated by the remitter of the order, it being understood that the money orders so remitted shall be sent, in the first instance, to the controller of the money order office in London, and shall not be subjeet to posta;;e.
Article 7.
By every mail the exchange office of each country shall send to the exchange office of the other country a certified list of sums payable in that country, and re¬ ceived since the dispatch of the previous list.
As soon as auy such list shall have reached the New York office aud been ve¬ rified, this office shall make out inland money orders in favor of the payees for the amount specified in the list, and shall promptly forward them to the payees or to the paying office, in conformity with the regulations existing in the Uuited States, for the paymeut of money orders.
The list forwarded to the LTnited King¬ dom shall be accompanied by the relative letters of advice of the orders entered therein, together with the orders them¬ selves, as already sattled in article G. Af¬ ter comparison with the list, the advices shall be dispatched to the offices drawn upon, and the letter inclosing the orders posted for delivery.
The lists, by means of which each office of exchange communicates with the other, shall be according to the Forms A and B, annexed.
Article S.
The lists dispatched from each office of exchange shall be numbered consecutively, commencing- with No. 1 at the beginning ofeach year, and the entries also in these lists shall have consecutive numbers, those in thc lists from the United Kingdom commencing oach calender month with No. 1.
Of each list dispatched from New York, a  duplicate shall be sent, which duplicate shall,   after  being verified at the British office, be returned to New York. Article 9.
Should any list fail to be received, in duo cuurse, the dispatching office shall, on receiving information to that eflfeet, trans¬ mit without delay a duplicate of the list, duly certified as such.
Article 10.
Each office of exchange shall promptly communicate to the other the correction of any simple error which it may discover in the verification of the list. When the list shall show irregularities which the re¬ ceiving office shall not be able to rectify, that office shall apply fbr an explanation from the dispatching office; and this ex¬ planation shall be afforded without delay. Article 11.
Dnplicate orders shall only be issued by
Stamp of Xctc  York Cilg.'\
Sir : I have the honor to transmit to you herewith, in duplicate, a list contain¬ ing a detailed statement of the sums re¬ ceived in the United States since my   last
dispatch   (List   No.  )  for  orders
payable in   Groat   Britain  and   Ireland, amounting in the aggregate to S .
Be pleased to examine, complete, and return to me th^riginal copy of this list, with your acknowledgment ofits receipt indorsed thereon.
I am, respectfully, yuur obedient ser¬ vant, ,
Postmaster, New York.
To the Controller Money-Order office, London.
the postal administration of the country on which the original orders' were drawn, and in conformity with thc regulations established or to be established in that country.
Article 12. At the close of each quarter three cop¬ ies of an account shall be prepared and transmitted by the office at London, ex¬ hibiting the balance fuund due on the ex¬ changes of orders during the quarter; which balance, after proper verification, shall, if due by the United States offiee, be paid at London; but if due by the British office, it shall be paid at New York, acd always in thc nioney of the country to which the payment is made. If, pending the settlement of an account, one of the two postal administrations shall ascertain that it owes the other a balance exceeding one tliousand pounds sterling, the indebted administration shall promptly remit the approximate amount of such bal¬ ance to the credit of the other. This ac¬ count, and the letters which accompany such intermediate rcmittanec, shall be in accordance with the Forma C. D, and E, annexed to this convention. Articlk 1.3. Until the two general post offices shall consent to an alteration, it is agreed that, in all matters of account relative to money orders which shall result from the execu¬ tion of the present convention, the pound sterling of Great Britain shall be consid¬ ered as equivalent to four dollars aud eigh¬ ty-six cents ofthe gold coin ofthe United States.
Article 14. Each exehange office shall certify its orders to the other in amounts designated in the denominations ofthe monoy both of the dispatching and receiving country at the rate of conversion established upon the basis of gold by article 13 of this conven¬ tion. This conversion shall be checked at the receiving office of exchange. Article 15. All payments for money ordors, whether to or by the public, if not in gold, shall be made to thc nearest practicable equivalent. Article 10. The value, in gold coin of the Uniied States, of deposits in paper money made in that country for payment in Great Bri¬ tain, shall be determined ut the exchange office of New York, according to the rate of premium on gold on the day of receipt at that office of notification of such depos¬ its. On the other hand, the value, iu United States paper currency, of money orders certified in the list sent from the exchange office of Loudon to the exchange office of New York, shall be determined (also at New York) in accordance with the premium on gold on the day of the receipt ofsuch lists.
Article 17. Orders which shall not have been paid withiu twelve calendar months from the month of issuo shall become void, and the sums received sliall accrue to, and remain at, the disposal of tho country of origin. The British office shall, therefore, enter to the credit of thc United States in the quarterly account all monoy orders entered in the lists received from the United States which remain unpaid at the end of the period specified.
On the other hand, the United States office shall, at the close of each month, transmit to the British office, for entry in the quarterly aecount, a dotailed statement of all all orders included in the list dis¬ patched from tho latter office, which, under this article, become void.
Article 18. Repayment of orders to remitters sliall not be made until an authorization for such repayment shall first have been obtained by tlie country of issuo from the country where such orders were payable, aud the amounts of tho repaid orders shall be duly credited to the former eountry in the quarterly account. It is the province of each postal administration to determine in the manner in which repayment to the re¬ mitter is to be made.
Article 11). The orders  issued by each country ou the other shall be subject, as regards pay¬ ment, to the reguiatious which govern the payment of inland orders  of the eountry on which they are drawn. Article 20. The general post offiee in each country be authorized to adopt any additional rules (if not repugnant to the foregoing) for the greater security against fraud,   or for the better working  of   the system generally. All such  additional rules, however, must be promptly communicated to the post of¬ fice of the other country.
Article 21. The present convention shall take effect on the first day of October next, and shall continue in force until twelve months after the date at which one of the contracting parties shall have notified the other its intention to terminate it.
Dono ia duplicate and signed iu London on the thirtieth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, and in Washington on tho twenty-seventh day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-oue.
[se.1l.]     jno. a. j. CRESWELL,
Postmaster General of the United States. [SE-AL.]      W. MONSELL,
Her Majesty's Postmaster General. I hereby approve the aforegoing conven¬ tion, and in testimony thereof I have caused the seal ofthe United Statos to be affixed. U. S. GRANT. By the President:
[SEAL.]     HaMILTO.N FiSII,
Secretary of Slate. Washington, .Inly S7,1871. A. *
List No. .
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Balance to credit ot British olBce	
Paid on account by the oflice of the United
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Money-Order Office,
London, , 187-.
Sm : I have examined this list of money orders from No. to No. , inclu¬ sive, for suma received in the United States for   payment   in   the United  Kingdom,
amounting in  the aggregate to S ,
and which is to be paid to the uet amonnt of £ s. —d.
The said list was found to be correct, with the following exceptions :
I am, sir, your obedient servant.
Controller. To the Postmaster
Money-Order Exchange Office,
New  York,
LIST OP
MONEY ORDERS ISSUED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
AND PAYABLE   IN THE UNITED   STATES.
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Amonnt of void orders of United States issue as per ta)>le	
Amonnt of interuationai orders repaid iu the Vnited States aa per taWe	
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Amoustts.
The within accouut exhibits a total bal¬ ance of , which, after deduction of
the payments on account as therein stated,
leaves a balance remaining of due
the office.
(Signature of proper accounting officer of the British office.)
The above statement of account is ac¬ cepted with a balance of due the
 office. ¦
Auditor ofthe Treasury for the Post Office
Department. Washington, , 187-.
The payment on account of hav¬ ing been receipted by special vouchers, the
receipt of the balance remaining of	
is hereby acknowledged.
 187-.
D.
No. —.
Money-Order Office,
London, , 187-.
Sir : The list  of international   money
orders which the exchange  office
has transmitted to the New York exehange
office from to , 187-,amount
to the sum of £ , equal to S
The list transmitted by the  New
York offiec to the office
during the same period, amount to S
Difference	
On account ofwhich the British office has already paid the follow¬ ing sums, viz :
  18—   $
  18—   §
  18—   $
  18—   S
Difference remainiug	
In accordance with the terms of article
7 of the convention -of , a bill of
exchange on   New York  for 6 is
herewith transmitted, the receipt of which you will be pleased to acknowledge in due form.
To the Postmaster General
OF THE United States,
Washington.
No.	
Post-Office Department,
Washington, D.   C, , 18—.
Sir : The list of international money orders which the exchange office of New York has transmitted to the exchange of¬ fice of from 187-, amount
to the sum of 8 , equal to £
The lists transmitted by the ex¬ change office to the
New York office during the same period, amount to £,
Difference  £
On account of which the United States office has already paid the following sums :
  18—   £
  18—   £
  18—   £
 £
Difference remaining  £
In accordance with tho terms of article
7 of the convention of , 18—-, a bill
of exchange  on   London for £ — is
herewith transmitted, the receipt ofwhich you will be pleased to acknowledge in due form.
Superintendent Money-Order Office. To the Postmaster General, &c.,
London, England.
[General NATURE—No. 11.]
AN ACT for convening the next legisla¬ tive assembly of the Territory of New Mexico, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate ami House of Representatives of tlte United States of America in Congress assembled, That the legislature ofthe Territory of New Mexi¬ co be, and is hereby, authorized to con¬ vene on the first Monday of December, A. D., eighteen hundred and seventy-one; and that an election for the members of both branches of said legislature be au¬ thorized to be held on the day of the next general election, under the existiag laws of said Territory.
Approved, April 20, 1871. [General nature—No. 15.] AN ACT to establish certain post roads. Be it enacted by tiie Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Ameriea in Congress assembled. That the following be, and are hereby, established as post roads:
INDIANA.
From Martinsville, via Oakfarmand Nash¬ ville, to Elkinsville.
From  Franklin,   via Bargersville  and Cope, to Martinsville.
Approved, April 20, 1871. [General nature—No. 8.] AN ACT for the restoration of Comman¬ der George A. Stevens,   United States navy, to the active from the retired list. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the    United   States  of America in Congress assembled.   That the President of the United States be,  and is hereby  authorized  to  nominate,  and by and with tho adviee  and  consent of the Senate appoint, George A. Stevens  to the active list of the navy,  with  the rank  of lieutenant commander. Approved, April 19, 1871.
[Resolctio.v op ge.veral satceb] A RESOLUTION  authorizing  the  ap¬ pointment of a Commissioner to an In¬ ternational   Congress  on  Penitentiary and Reformatory Discipline. Resolved by the  Senate  and  House  of Representatives  of the   United   States  of America in Congress assembled.   That  the President be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint a commissioner to attend an in¬ ternational congress  on  penitentiary and reformatory discipline, proposed to be held in  Europe;   but   the said   appointment shall not   authorize   any   expenditure of money from the treasury for expenses, and must be accepted upon this  express  con¬ dition.
Approved, March 20, 1871. [General nature—No. 12.1 AN ACT concerning the compensation of the collector of customs for the district of Willamette, in the State of Oregon. Be it enacted by the Senate  and  House of Representatives ofthe United   States of America in Congress assembled. That  sec¬ tion one of the act  approved  June  four¬ teenth, eighteen hundred and seventy, en¬ titled ''An act to establish  the collection district of Willamette, in the State of Or¬ egon," shall be,  and is  hereby,   amended as follows: Strike ont all of the  said sec¬ tion after the words  'Ho  reside at   Port¬ land," and  insert  in  lieu thereof,   "and said collector shall be  allowed a salary  at the rate of one  thousand dollars  per an¬ num, with the fees  alowed   by law, and a commission on all customs money collected and accounted for   by   him,   suoh salary, fees, and commissions not to exceed at the rate of three thousand dollars per annum." Approved, April 20, 1871.
§tuim^ fm tk pilliiaw.
The Revising of the Civil Statutes.
We have read an exceedingly able and well written article on "The Revised Stat- iitea," as published in the Legal Opinion, of this city, in its last issue. It was pre¬ pared in answer to a circular letter of a committee of the Legislature, calling on the legal profession of the Stato for sug¬ gestions and advise as to the work of the revisers. The whole work of the Com¬ missioners has incurred the vituperative animosity ofa member ofthe Philadelphia bar, who has made it the subject of a se¬ ries of communications published in aPhil- delphia paper. This writer not only op¬ poses this, but any revision. He condemns any touching of the statutes, even though it be to simply collect and collate the va¬ rious laws on the same subject, and place them in order, harmonizing their arrang¬ ment, so that it did not take a Philadelphia lawyer to tell what was the statute law of Pennsylvania on any given subject. The truth is, and it is beginning to be well and generally understood, that the old prac¬ titioners of the law. who claim that -.hey have mastered the intricacies and obscuri¬ ties of the statutes as they now exist, are hostile to any change of Purdon's Digest as it is. They are opposed to any law which would even expunge the repealing, re¬ dundant and discordant acts which go to make up the unweildy size of the Purdon of to-day. They would discontinuance any pruning as an in intolerable inovation, that would reduce the pages of that time- honored book from 1447 to 1446. They are satisfied with it the way it is. It has answered their purpose very well for very many years, and such a change would take away from them some' of the advantages they enjoy over the younger members of the profession, and, more than this, it might make the statute law of the State so plain, that many of the intricate and vex¬ atious snits continually arising as to the real meaning of a law would not arise. These old fogy lawyers are opposed to any change in the world. They prefer, in fact, the good old days of the stage coach and canal packet to the bustling, busy, sharp, noisy and quick step of the present, with our forty miles an hour railroads and light¬ ning telegraphs.
We are not of those who agree with these aneientlights oftheir profession, and, as all are interested in the law, we think it should be as plain and simple as can bo. A man should not have to fee an attorney to tell him what the statute law of the State is. No ono can read the article re¬ ferred to in the Legal Opinion, and not be satisfied that there is a neo3ssity for some revision ofour State's statute law. The writer says: "Our statutes are the accre¬ tions of one hundred and seventy years, during all which time there has been no general revision. In addition thereto we have one hundred and ninety-one English statutes, the accumulation of five centuries, which are in force in this State. Frag¬ ments of these, scattered here and there, have not been supplied by our legislation, and are yet living law. The digest of these statutes is a book of 400 pages. These fragments of living law are as a few grains of wheat hid in a bushel of chafii Pur¬ don's Digest contains over 1,600 pages, and each year adds thereto about'forty pa¬ ges. More than two-thirds ofthis bulk of nearly 2,000 closely printed pages of stat- viory law, is composed of redundant enact¬ ments, obsolete law, and superfluous ver¬ biage. Can any one doubt that it would be a vast benefit, not only to the profession, but to the public, to reduce all this in a compact digest of six or eight hundred pa¬ ges, with a complete index, and at the same time make the statute law more sim¬ ple, plain and perfect."
We would be glad to publish the whole of this article, but onr space will not afford. Whether the work of the present revisers is so done as that it should be adopted by the Legislature, aa a whole, we are not pre¬ pared to say, but we are fully convinced that some revision should be made to make the statute law ofour Commonwealth plain enough for the information of the general public. The attention of the Legislature should be directed to the accomplishment of that end.—State Journal.
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Honor your business, or your btisiness will not honor you.
Prevailing Prayer.
There was a boy at Athens, according to the old story, who used to boast that he ruled all Athens, and when they asked him how, he aaid : "Why, I rule my mother, my mother rules my father, and my father rules the city." He who knows how to be master of prayer will rule the heart of Christ, and Christ can and will do all things for his people, for the father hath committed all things into his hands. Yon can be omnipotent if you know how to pray, omnipotent in all things which glo¬ rify God. Oh, for more grace to grasp almighty love in this fashion! We want more holdfast prayer; more tugging, and gripping, and wrestlleg prayer, that saith, "I will not let Thee go." That picture of Jacob at Jabbok shall suffice for us. The covenant augel is there, and Jacob wants a blessing from him; he seems to put him off, but no put-offs will do for Jacob. Then the angel attempts to escape from him, and tugs aud strives; so he may, but no efforts shall make Jacob relax his grasp. At last the angel falls from ordinary wrestling to wounding "him in the very seat of his strength ; and Jacob will let his thigh go and all his limbs go, but he will not let the angel go. The poor man's strength shriv¬ els under the withering touch, but in his weakness he is still strong; he throws his arms about the mysterious man, and holds him as in a death grip. Then the other says, "Let me go, for the day breaketh." Mark, he did not shake him off, he only said, "Let me go;" the angel will do noth- to force him to relax his hold ; he leaves that to his voluntary will. The valiant Jacob cries, "No, I am set on it, I am re¬ solved to win an answer to my prayer. I will not let thee go except thou bless me." Now, when the church begins to pray, it may be at first the Lord will make as tho' he would have gone further, and we may think that no answer will bo given. Hold on, dear brethren. Be steadfast, unmove- able, notwithstanding all. By-and-by it may be, there will come discouragements where we had looked for a flowing success; we shall find brethren hindering, some will be slumbering, and others sintiing; back¬ sliders and impenitent souls will abound; but let ua not be turned aside. Only let us be persevering in supplication, and we shall gain a broad, far-reaching benedic¬ tion for ourselves, the churches, and the world.—Spurgeon.
Fop Whoever it Fits.
There are nearly as many bad wives as bad husbands. Many men who work hard and try to do well in life are neglected and abused by improvident women.
They are condemned to eat the poorest dinners, when they provide the beat the market afford.
On heavy bread, soggy vegetables, mud¬ dy coffee and tough pie-crust, how can a woman expect her husband to be pleasant and loving ?
Such men often drink whisky because their food distresses them—as it woidd any one who had not a east-iron stomach— and the habits of intemperance are some¬ times in this way begun, through the wife.
It costs more to cook poorly than to make food good and palatable.
If a woman runs home from a neigh¬ bor's just in time to throw a pie together, bake it, and bring it to the dinner-table hot, she commits a great offence against the health of the family.
Ifa man has only an hour to go home, get his dinner and return to business, it should be ready for him promptly on time, else he will eat very hot food in the great¬ est haste, and start off for a rapid walk, all of which is very bad, and will soon show its effects upon the strongest man.
When her husband gets peevish, low- spirited and forgetful of the little acts of love and kindness he taught her to expect in days agone, a woman who is such a housekeeper need not sit in twilight and wonder at sad changes.
Had sho acted her part with half the zeal and industry of her husband, all would have been well, and she could still sit in the sunshine of earlier days.
It is very hard for a man to caress the hand which for years haa been feeding him slow poison.
American Wonders.
The greatest cataract in the world is the Falls of Niagara, where the water from the upper lakes forms a river of three-qtwrtera of a mile in width, and then, being sud¬ denly contracted, plunges over the rocks in two columns, to the depth of one hun¬ dred and seventy feet each.
The greatest cave in the world is the Slammoth Cave, in Kentucky, whore any one can mako a voyage on the waters of a subterranean river, and catch fish without eyes.
The greatest river in the world is the Mississippi, four thotisand one hundred miles long.
The greatest valley in the world is the Valley of the Mississippi. It contains five hundred thousand square miles, and is one of the most profitable regions of the globe.
The largest lake in the world is Lake Superior, which is truly an inland sea, being four hundred and thirty miles long, and one thousand feet deep.
The longest railroad in the world is the Pacific Railroad, over three thousand miles in length.
The greatest natural bridge in the world is the Natural Bridge over Cedar Creek, in Virginia. It extends across a chasm eighty feet in width and two hun¬ dred and fifty feet in depth at the bottom of which the creek flows.
The greatest mass of solid iron in the world is the great Iron Mountain in Missouri. It is three hundred feet high, and two miles in circuit.
The largest deposits of anthracite coal in the world are in Pennsylvania, the mines of which supply the market with millions of tons annually, and appear to be  inexhaustible.
Florenci, the comedian, tells a capital story of a waiter at one of the London taverns who was sadly given to drink. A party of young men determined to re¬ form him, and one day they read an im¬ aginary paragraph from the paper relat¬ ing to a terrible accident, in which an inebriate on blowing out a candle, was kill¬ ed by the flames igniting with the fumes of his breath. Jerry pricked up his ears at this, and requested that the paragraph might be read again, which was done to the evi¬ dent horror of the poor man, who imme¬ diately went in search of the prayer-book. Returning with this, he expressed a desire to take a solemn oath upon it, bemoaned the fact that he had been a sorry tippler, and was briuging him to ruin, and then swore that never again, so long as he lived, would he attempt to blow out a can- ¦ die. I
How ;• this for H. I. H. ?
The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away. Blessed be the name of the "Lori. But the Lord cannot take away ; at least, he never has, with such glib yoltuninons volubility as do the keepers of inns, tav¬ erns caravansaries at Niagara Falls.
Witness:
Thc grand Duke Alezes, his Imperial Highness, has been traveling in this conn¬ try for some time with a view of learning ef our institutions. Among other places visited was Niagara Falls, where the water tumbles continually, but the prices never !
On the way from Toronto, or some other Canadian port, to that cirllization to be found more extensively developed in the United States than an3rwhere else, he had occasion to pass throngh Niagara Falls. Himself and suite were hungry. So they stopped at the Spencer House for dinner They found on the table plenty enough such as it was^ and good enongh what there waa ofit !
For one dinner for the Grand Duke and his suite the modest Spencer Housa price of $1,500 was charged! The Dnke looked at the bill of fare and at the fare as per the bill, at the dimensions of this second- class house and landlord, whose charges beat any thing ever heard of in the Rus¬ sian army, and said with a faint smile :
"That's the best  I've  seen  for high."
The Spencerian landlord smiled faintly »nd asked the Duke to come down. The cashier of the Graud Duke waa disposed to come down with what was reasonable, but would not consent to such an outrage ; whereupon the landlord proposed to attach tha baggage of the party, but finally con¬ sented to settle in fullon receipt of 81,000, which amount was paid, when »he royal party wended its way.
The landlord evidendly was mistaken —he thonght the Grand Duke wanted to buy his hotel instead of atopping for one meal ; but owing to not having a gj-oper interpreter, did not make himself qnite understood.
Keep  Warm in the Cold.
We hear much about the danger of "coddling," and of the hardening effects of exposure, and much that is very true; yet many people think that in order to "hard¬ en themselves" they should be clothed thinly during exposure, and that the tough¬ ening process consists in feeling cold. This is a great mistake. Between the sensation of chiUiness and the fact of being in the cold, there is the greatest difference in the world. To suffer from cold ia injurions, except when the feeling is momentary and is followed by a brisk reaction, as in the tase of the glow that a healthy person feels after a plunge into cold water. But to become cold without reaction, is always a strain upon the constitution. Persons who go thinly clad during the winter sea¬ son, or who neglect to adapt their clothing to the sudden changes of weather, put their health in risk. Thus a frequent canse of illness is the habit <ji sitting un¬ protected upon the doorsteps dnring the cool summer evenings, of which we have BO many that follow a hot day. Do not be afraid of "coddling" yonrself on such occa¬ sions by adding a light shawl or overcoat to your dress when you feel chilly. You will toughen yourself fast enongh in the winter time. But to accomplish this end you m'lst keep yourself, either by exercise or by dress, always comfortably warm.— Under these conditions you cannot expose yourself too much.—Hearth and Home.  .^_.».--^	
An Incident.
The following little story is told at the expense of a young lady school teacher in an eastern town, who is very properly anxious in regard to the preventation of small-pox in her school, and therefore strictly enforces the rule that whenever a case of sickness is reported in the family of any one of her pupils, the pupil must bring a certificate from the family physi¬ cian stating that the disease is not conta¬ gious, failing in which the pupils mnst remain away until all danger is over. A few days ago she was informed that one of her pupils, a little girl of Teutonic extrac¬ tion, had sickness in her family. On be¬ ing questioned, the girl admitted that "she had sick at her house;" that her mother was sick, and that she had "marks on her face." She was accordingly sent home. She returned in a few days, however, and reported that her "father was sick." She was again sent home, with orders not to come again without a certificate from the family physician. The next day she re¬ turned to sohool and shyly siding up to the teacher, with her finger in her mouth, and her little bonnet swinging by the  strings,
she said :    "Jliss , we've   a leetle baby
at our house, but mother told me to tell you that, i< im't catch in'." The teacher said she was very glad it wasn't "catching," and told her pupil to take her seat.
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How to Build a Life.
Ruskin, in one of his Oxford lectures, s»ys : "I pray yon with all earnestness to prove, and know within your hearts, that all things lovely and righteous are possi¬ ble for those who believe in their possi¬ bility, and who determine that, for their part, they will make every day's work con¬ tribute to them. Let every dawn of morn¬ ing be to you aa the beginning of life, and every setting sun be as its close; then let every one of these short lives leave ita re¬ cord of some kindly thing done for ohters —some goodly strength gained for yow- selves: so from day to day, and strength to strength, you shall build np indeed, by art, by thought, and by just will, an ec- ecclesia of England ofwhich it shall not be said, "See what manner of stones are here," but "See what manner of men."
Speak Kindly.
Speak kindly in the morning, it light¬ ens the cares of the day, and makes honse¬ hold and all other affairs move along more smoothly.
Speak kindly at night, for it may be that before the dawn some loved one may finish his or her space of lifefor this world, and it will be too late to ask forgiveness.
Speak kindly at all times, it encour¬ ages the downcast, cheers the sorrowing, and very likely awakens the erring to earnest resolves to do better, with strength to keep them.
Kind words are balm to the sonl. They oil up the entire machinery of life, and keep it in good running order.
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Modest.—"Never mind the obitiuiryi Judge," said a Montana culprit when the court became pathetic in pronouncing the sentence. "Let's fix the time for thc funeral."
A FL0URI8HINO business—Ornamental penmanship.