Decatur Democrat, Volume 25, Number 23, Decatur, Adams County, 9 September 1881 — Page 1

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The Democrat. Official Paper of Adams County. Published by the Democrat Printing Co. Terms : One Dollar amp Fifty Cents Per Year in Advace; and Two Dollars per Year, if not Paid in Advance. the ukmockats a<;e.vtm. AnTrnl rm MsitiMfaetor) nrraniremrnf s ran ho made w e will have n 11 A sent tor The ilrniocrHf al each poNtwtlirc iit the ( oiiatj, the UH m<*N of " limn will be kept Maud hi« in the paper. \5 e<l<» t liin lor the eonvenienre T our NubacriberM. and triiNt the, « i!I appreciate It. SubMrribrrM can pa? their MiibMcription, or am part tliereol. or anj Mum ol money, to onrnKvtitM, who will receipt tor the Mime, mill w ho a Imo will take the ininirM and eaub ol new MibMcriberw. The loliowiiuc are the nnmrN ot ajrentM already a ppointrd, and our pniroiiM nt tin- M*verai olßceti will do uh a arent favor by remitthia to them a *‘lit—lc ihiiiuo on U . HO< K Etl Monroe JOHN l». HALE . . Leiievn E|T<;ENE MOK ROSV Linn (.rove J. T. BAILEY, ATT Y AT LAW <s• J. I’., I>L ATUR, INDIANA. Bill Practice in Adams and adjoining Counties. Collections a specialty. v24n29tf ~~S. (L HASTINGS, B. HOMOEOPATIIIST PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, DECATUR, INDIANA. All cal’s day or night promptly attended to. Office in Studabaker's building, first door Eotrh of Court House Square. Vol. 25 No. 14.

A. G. HOLLOWAY. M. D., PHYSICIAN & SURGEOX, DECATUR, INDIANA. Office in Houston's Block, up stairs. Will attend to all professional calls promptly, night or day. Charges reasonable. Resi <ience €tt north side of Monroe street, 4th Louse east of Hart's Mill. 25jy79tf 41 B. ALLISON. Preset. W. H Niki.ick .Cashier. D. Stvj>abakkh, Vice Preet. THE ADAMS COUNTY BANK, DECATUR, INDIANA, This Bank is now open for the transaction of a general hanking business. We buy sod sell Town, Township and County Orders. 25jy79tf PETERSON & HUFFMAN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. DECATUR, INDIANA. Will practice in Adams and adjoining •counties. Especial attention given io collections nn l titles to real estate. Are No lai ies Public and draw deeds and mortgages Beal estate bought, sold and tented on leasoiiabl- terms Office, rooms 1 and 2,1. O. <). F. building. 25jy7'Jtf FRANCE & KING. ATTORNEYS AT LAW., DKCaTVR»INDIANA. ■A n E notice l<> Fathers, Mothers, listers, Brothers, Lillies, Hurts, anti all Kelatives. Secure Certificates en your relative's lives in the PIONEER .MUTUAL ASSOCIATION of UNION CITY, INDIANA,The cheapest Relief offered by any Assccialien in the United States. Cirtificates given on all males and females that are of sane mind and good health from 20 to 85 years of age at the | following low rates: $6 fur a SI,OOO Ceriificate. SlO for $2,000; sls fur $3,000 $25 for $5,000: or a total of $lO to secure Certificates for $3,000 in the First Division ; SSO to secure Certificates tor SIO,OOO ‘ in the Second Division; $56 tu secure Certificates for SIO,OOO in the Ti.iid Division; | ssoto secure Certificates fur SIO,OOO in the j Fourth Division; Yearly thereafter only $1 on each one thousand during life, with the following j >..‘ses ments in e *ch class and division:; At the death of amber, $1.25 on $1,000; 152.30 on s2,< 4 K) _ nn $3,000; and $>5.50 on All males and rem«*.~3 f ’ r Hi 05 tv 85 years ot age, are respectfully requested to secure cert.ficates. Regular stock Insurance Companies do not insure over 65 jears. Tberefoie, as this is your only <-hance for relief we advise you to accept this great osier at once, a? it is dangerous to delay. Remember, you have no risk to become a member of this association, as its officers have each given bond to the amount of ten thousand dollars for the faithful performance of their duties. Call on or address France & King, Agents, 4tnfi. Decatur, Ind. tf»ray’M Specific IK edict isc. TRADE MARK The G beat TRADE MARK English RemEb y a n un fa i 1"9 ST ing cure for zJ seminal weak Jy ness, Sperma- xi torrlici,l tency.' iud a! WOtt TAKI«6.' list '‘ 6 G thmftnEß TAKIK. follow as a consequence us Self-abuse; as loss cf memory, Universal i Lassitude, Pain in the Back, Dimness of j Vision, Premature Old Age, and many oth- ■ er diseases that lead to Insanity, Consurap- ! lion and a premature grave. £@"Full particular* iu our pamphlet, I which we desire to send free by mail to ev- • ery one. The Specific Medicine is sold by all druggists at $1 per package, or 6 pack- ;• ages for $5, or will be sent free by mail or receipt of the money by addressing THE GRAY MEDICINE CO., ’ No. 106 Main strcot, Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by Dorwin & Holthouse. YM’lication FOR LICENSES. Tu the Citizens of the town of Geneva, I Adams County, Indiana. Notice is hereby given that we, the undersigned, Thos. McKee and J. W. MeDon I aid, will make application to the Board of Commissioners of Adams County, Indi ma, j nt their next regular session, for a license ■ io sell spirituous, vinus and malt liquors I in less quantities than a quart at a time iu and at our place of business, situated on the following described premises, towit: In-Lot No. one hundred and eighty (180), in the town of Geneva, Adams County, Indiana. as the same is recorded and designated ou the recorded plat of said town. i Tuos. McKee, J. W. McDonald. August I, 1881. '

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Dissolution or Co-Partnership. By mutual agreement we the undersigned have this day dissolved partnership. All parties knowing themselves indebted to us will please call at the Treasurer’s office and settle by cash or note. Thanking our friends who have in the past favored us with their patronage, we remain yours very truly. CoNTEtt & Holtiiouse. Decatur, June 13, 1881. New Firm. The undersigned having this day formed a co-partnership in the boot and shoe trade respectfully invite the leading public to call and examine their large and varied stock. Good goods at the lowest living prices will be their motto. VOGLEWEDE <fc CoNTER. Decatur. Ind., June 13, 1881. To the Public. Having this day formed a co-part-ner ship to be known as Yoglewedeand Conter, I request all parties knowing themselves indebted to me to call and settle by cash or note. Thanking my friends for past patronage and soliciting your favors in the future, I remain yours, J. 11. VOGLEM'EDE.

To Whom it May Concern. Notice is hereby given that my wife, Hattie Luckabill, left my bed and board on the 27th day of June last without cause or provocation, and that I will not be responsible for any debts contracted by her. Daniel Luckabill. | August 11, 1881. application foii license. To the citizens of the town of Decatur, Adams county, Indiana. Notice is hereby given that we, the undersigned. J. J. Tonnellier & Son, will make application to the Board of commissioners ot Adams county, at their next regular session, fora license to sell spirituous, vinus and malt liquors in less quantities than a quart at a time in and at our place of business, situate! on the following described premises to wi‘; commencing at a point on the north side of Moilroe street in the town of Decatur, sixty-six (66) feet west of the southwest ‘comer of in-lot 250 in the original plat o r the town of Decatur, thence running north at right angles with said Monroe street 132. feet, thence west parallel with said Monroe stieet 06 teet to the alley, thence south along the alley 82 feet to a stake, thence east parallel with said Monroe st. 41 feet to a stake, thence south fifty feet to the said north side of Monroe street, thence east 21 teet to the place of beginning J. J.Tonnellier & Son. Aug. 11, 1881. PFO . >4 ADMINISTRATOR. Notice is hereby given, that the undersigned has beeu appointed administrator ot the estate of Frederick Cook, late of Adams county, deceased. The estate is probably solvent. COAT COOK, Administrator. Aug. 11, 1881. Heller & Hooper, Atty's.

Y ITLICATION FOR LICENSE. To the citizens of Hartford township, Adams county, Indiana: Notice is hereby given that I, Jacob Brenneman, will make application to the board of commissioners of Adams county, Indiana, at tbeir regular session in September, 1881, for a license fcr one year, to sell vinous ond malt liquors iu less quantities than a quart nt a time, at my place of business iu and at the building situated on in-lot No. 7, in the town of Buna Vista, Adams county, Indiana, as the same is designated on the recorded plat of said town. JACOB BKANNEMANN. Aug. 11, 1881. a bplication for license. To the citizens of the town of Decatur, Adams county, Indiana. Notice is hereby given, that I, the undersigned, John ll'- Voglewede, will make application to theßoatd of Cotnmiesioners of Adams county, date of Indiana, at their next regular session for a license to sell spirituous, vinus and malt liquors iu less quantities than a quart at a time, at my place of business iu aud at the building situated pu the following described premises to-wit: Thirty-three (33) feet off the west end of in-10l number two hundred and seveuty-four (274), in lhe town of Decatur, as the same is designated on rhe records in the Recorders Office of said Adams coun- • JOHN W. VOGLEWEDE. Aug .4, 1881. pE ni'ION TO SELL KEaL ESi aTL? The state of Indiana, Adams county, S 3. Notice is hereby given, that Catharine Tonnellier, administratrix of the estate of John Tonnellier. deceased, has filed her petjtien to sell the real estate of the decedent, his personal estate being insufficient to pay his debts; and that sai 1 petition will be heard at the next, term of the circuit court of said county. Witness, my hand and the Seal of said court, this 10th day of August. 1881. N. BLACKBURN, clerk. Aug. 11,1881.

Application for License. To the citizens of the town of Geneva, Adam* county, Indiana. Notice is hereby given that I, the undersigned, Alexander Robinson, will apply to the Board of Commissioners of Adams county, Indiana, at their next regular session, for a license to sell spirituous, vinus and malt liquors, in lees quantities than a quart at a time, at my place of business, in and at the building situated on the following described premises in the town of Geneva, Adams county, in the State of Indiana, to-wii: In-lot number one hundred and nineteen (119), in the town of Geneva, as the same is iccordcd and designated on the recorded pIM of said town. ALEXANDER ROBINSON. Aug. 4, 1881. p LECTION NOTICE. A Stockholders meeting cf the Chicago & Atlantic Railway Company, is called to meet at the office of said company, in Huntington, Indiana, on Thursday, the l«f. of September, 1881, at 1 o’clock p. in., to elect new Directors and transact such other business as may properly be brought before the meeting. Ry order of the Board of Directors. L. P. MILLIGAN, Joly 28, 1881; —w 3. Secretary.

A Seared Confederate. • I think. Vest,’’ said Senator Butler the other day, “that the story you tell about that f'ellcw in Richmond who went to have his picture taken, is about the best you can get off: lei’s have it.” “Well, said the humorous little Senotor from Mi ssouri, “we had a man by the name of Peter Wikes, who was elected to the Confederate congress from the Springfield (Mo.) district, and he came down to the seat of government with the air of a M ebster about him, and looked and talked for all the world as if the responsibility of the cause rested upon his individual shoulders. I knew him at home, and hence was spared the anxiety of being disturbed about his greatness. It was not long before the close of the war, when Garland and I was walking down Grace street, and Peter ran into us. He had a benign smile on his face and I knew he had been engaged tn some agreeable sport. Coming up to us he said: ‘Vest, I've been down street here to a photographer’s. Got a card from him the other day. asking me to call and sit for a picture. He wants to get up the whole Confederate Congress—something historic, eh?’—and Peter’s waistband streched perceptibly at the thought of being embalmed for prosperity. Tipping a wink at Garland, I said: “What shop do you mean, Peter?’’ “Oh, down there on Main street.” giving a certain number. Just then I turned to Garland, with alarm painted on my face, and said: “Why, Peter, you big ass, where have you been the last two weeks? Haven't you heard anything about that fellow down there pretending to take historic pictures? He is a spy in the employ of the Federal Government. We have just about proved it on him, and he s come to Richmond to photograph all us members for the federal gallery ; and when this thing blows up, the other side will have all our pictures to aid them iu the prosecutiou. Fact, Garland, ain't it? “So I’ve heard, Vest,' he said.

“Well, Peter didn't stop any longer than it took him to say “My God! ’ and in two minutes he was just out of sight. That evening he came rushing into my room with: ‘Vest, you have done me a great favor, and I'll remem- , ber it to my dying day.’ ‘Find your man. Peter?’ ‘You bet I did. The <1 —d rascal had that machine of his in the back room and was oiling me up. I just went up to him with this trusty six-shooter (it was about a yard long) and put it to his ear. and says I, ‘shell out! Mell he shelled kind o’ lively like, and I mashed it into a thousand pieces. No federal gallery in mine!’ •Well, when the surrender came, Peter was under the conviction that the whole federal government had combined to capture him, and he set out for California on foot. Yes, he’s out there yet, waiting for the animosity against him to cool down.’

The Old or the New. Just as the church bells were ringing their nine o’clock chime yesterday Mr. Smiley remarked to Hannah, ■•Pass me the book. “Which will you have, Ichabod, the old or the new version,” and she brushed the crumbs from her apron and reached for the mantle piece. “Hannah, as long as I live I shall read from that old leather bible. The first thing I remember about my grandfather was his reading the parable of the foolish virgins from that very book. I was a wee little boy then; but I remember I cried and asked grandma if she couldn't spare some oil for those who were left outside. And then, Hannah, I’ve heard my father read from that very same book thousands of times. That book,” and he patted the open pages lovingly, “that book is old, the leaves are yellow with time, but it is sacred in this house. It lias been in service at every wedding and birth and funeral in the family for nigh on to a hundred years, and every morning and every evening has some great truth been read from it. No, Hannah, the new version may do for the young folks, but you and I, with the gates of heaven just turning theirhinges for us, have no time to fool with it. I will read this morning the last chapter of Revelation, aud let the glory of the future shine upon us and do our hearts good,” and as he turned his eyes to the printed page there was a thick mist on his glasses.—-Vein Haven Register.

The Right Sort of General.— Jacob Smith, Clinton street, Buffalo, says he has used Spring Blossom in hjs family as a general medicine for cases of indigestion, billiousness, bowel aud kidney complaints, and disorders arising from impurities of the blood; he speaks highly of its efficacy.

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, SEPTEMBER 9, 1881.

School and Church. T he Roman Catholics have a church on the site of old Carthage. Gen. Hawthorn has organized 270 mission stations at Texas since August of last year. The Japanese people are reported as expending annually $5,304,870 for public schools. So little is said of the Chinese children that one can hardly realize that there are 585 booked in the San Francisco public schools.

A recommendation of President Steele, of the Philadelphia Board of Education, that a department be established in the Normal school to teach girls dressmaking, is about to be adopted. The popularity of lhe Presbyterian school for girls at Tripoli is so great that the Moslems have opened an institution copying its methods, and the Greek have opened a convent to a similar purpose. The old Swede's Church, at Wilmington, Del., recently celebrated its one hundred and eighty-third anniversary. The chalice and paten used in the service are one hundred and eighty-three years old. The number of Bishops to be elected by the next General Conferance of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, is being canvassed. The Holsten Methodist thinks two more will be sufficient. There would be then four really effective men, who ought to be able to hold the thirty-nine conferences with such assistance as the older Bishops could afford. . The General Conference of the United Brethren in Christ finally voted to be represented in the Encumcnical Methodist Conference, and President Thomson and Rev. J. W. Hott were appointed as delegates? It was claimed that the church was not historically or organically Methodist, but it resembles the Methodists more closely than it does any otner church The action of the Presbyterian General Assembly in regard to employed j ministers and vacant churches will, if carried into practical effect, revolutionize the relation which has long existed between these two important elements of religious existence. The present fashion is for vacant churches to supply themselves with preachers in any way that happens to suit them. As for the ministers who have no churches, they preach as they have a chance, either in the churches of the Presbytery to which they belong or elsewhere, without regard to denominations. The rule now decided on is that the vacant churches of a Presbytery shall procure their supplies as far as possible from the unemployed ministers of that Presbytery. They are not to ask these brethren to preach without compensation, but are to pay them a stipulated price. The price is to be fixed by the Presbytery, according to the ability of the church.

The income of the Free Church of Scotland last year was $3,000,000. The Association of Atlanta Preachers have signed a respeeful protest against 'the issuing of Sunday papers. George I. Seney, of New York, has given $20,000 more to the Wesleyan Female College at Macon. Ga., where the finest college building in the South will be erected. Bishop Wiley has appointed the Rev. L. N. Wheeler to open the proposed new Methodist mission in West China. He will be accompanied by the Rev. Spencer Lewis. The mission will be in the province of Szehuen. The missionaries will sail about the Ist of September. Mexico is becoming the favorite field for missionary enterprise. The Methodist Church South appropriates SB2, 500 this year, and other denominations are showing increased energy in that direction. Mexico will, at this rate, soon outrank China ani Africa in missionary estimation. The London “Institution for the Daughters of Missionaries" opens its doors to the daughters of all Christian missionaries and provides them with an education and a home. It was founded forty-two years ago by some ladies who sympathize with missionaries. “In the great trial of necessary seperation from their children while carrying on their work in heathen lands. The United States has double the number of school children of any other country in the world. The number is stated by the Bureau of Education to be 9,424,086. The nearest approach of this figure is made by France which has 4.716,935. Prussia follows , with 4,007,176, and England and Wales | 3.710,883. Os the total population, the school children of the United! States form nearly twenty per cent.; of Frame, twelve per cent.; of Prussia,

sixteen per cent : and of England and Wales about thirteen per cent. After all it appears that the Revising Committee of the New Testament in substituting “love” for “charity” have only returned to the old rendering. In the edition printed by Rob- , ert Barker, of London, in 1810, “love” . appears throughout the thirteenth chapter of the First of Corinthians, thus: “Though I speak with tlui tongue of men and angels and have not love, I am as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.” Again in the fourth verse, “Love suffereth long,” etc., and in the thirteenth, “And now abideth faith, hope and love, even these three: but the chiefest of these is love.” ” Iceburgs and Walruses. On the third day out, in latitude i J about 60 degrees north, we encountered floating ice—great fields, with oecassional bergs slowly moving southward and gradually going to pieces under the combined influence of wind and waves. These were avoided by bear- • ing to the eastward. Once we saw > half a mile away on the port side a • herd of walrus, numbering more than a I hundred of these ungainly brutes crowded together on the ice, leisurely traveling toward warmer regions. Some were monsters and would weigh, I should think, as much as a ton each, and when they lazily tumbled themselves off into the sea, they made the water splash visibly. They appeared to be going to and fro between the icefield and water, lifting themselves out by hooking their powerful tusks into the rough cakes. The walrus fleet passed by without saluting, and we steamed on into the night. When near the ice, with the wind blowing off the broad, black field, it was intensely cold, and io the uncertain light on the bergs practiced shameless frauds upon eyes, looming up into exaggerated proportions, and assuming multiform and fantastic shapes. We saw, or thought we saw. buildings of every conceivable style of architecture—huts, palaces, forts palisades, cathedrals with lofty spires, castellated ramparts and crumbling : towers.—San Francisco Chronicle.

Managing Husbands. Young women are very skillful in managing their lovers, hut many of them too frequently lose their skill when they come to manage their husbands. It is the lack of tact on the part of the women that sets clique against clique in congregations and in church societies of all kinds, that causes almost all associations organized by women to break in differences, that keep so many people in hot wjtcr in families and hotels and boarding houses, or wherever lovely women predominates. It is a lack of tact that we owe the traditional mother in-law. Father-in-laws have no bad reputations anywhere. May we not say this because they have too much tact to interfere, too much tact to take notice of trifles, too much tact to be fussy and irritating in matters that would be wisely left alone? It has been shrewdly doubted whether clubs could be possible with ladies—not merely because they have not the club disposition, but because they cannot abide together without getting into hostile divisions. It takes a good deal of tact to meet daily on familiar and equal terms with numerous persons and keep all irritating things out of sight. The club is possibly iu the highest civilization only because nothing but the self-repres-sion that comes of the highest social training permits men of divers interests and tastes to come together harmonously. The club affords an excellent test of tact, and if men are better adapted than women for club life, if they can live togetner in this way without collisions, they have established the possession of tact more effectually than anything establishes it for women.—Appleton s Magazine.

A Camp in a Cloudburst. During the prevalence of the late storm what is known as Mason’s Camp, located about a mile southeast of IVatcrvale, was totally swept away by a cloudburst. The Nugget's informant. Mr. Wilson, states that about 5 o’clock Sunday afternoon the residents of the camp were appalled by the sight of a volume of water from fifty to seventyfive feet wide and at least six feet deep coming down the sandy wash with the velocity of a whirlwind. They had scarcely time to reacit the high ground ; when the torrent of foaming water struck the camp, carrying away every cabin in it, though some of the structures were of stone and adobe.—Tombstone. Arizona, Nugget. If bis hair is singed, and bis eyebrows have disappeared, and bis linen duster has holes burnt all over it, lie's from St. Louis. The weather did it.— Louisville Courier-Journal.

Gems of Thought. Reaction is the law of life. The unfortunate arc always egotisti cal. Hope is a dream of those who arc awake. Friendship is woven fast by interwoven benefits. Those who have known real grief seldom seem sad. The failure of one man is the opportunity of another. What all men should avoid is the “shabby genteel.” If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving. Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius. Moral courage is the rarest of qualities, and often maligned. It’s easy finding reasons why other people should be patient. What appears to be calamities are often the sources of fortune.

Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man’s life. The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history. Ambition hath but two steps; the lowest, blood; the highest, envy. The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than all the sympathy of prosperity. Many have lived for a pedestial, who will never have a statute when dead. Anger causes us often to condemn in ono what we approve of in another. It is not sufficient for desires to be good; it is necessary that they be regulated. The happiness or unhappiness of age is often nothing but the extract of a past life. Norcord or cablecan draw so forcibly, or binds so fast, as love can do with a single thread. Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience. The prejudices of men, and tbeir failure to understand each other, are the principal causes of their bitterness and ill-temper. Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges. We let our blessings get moldy, and then call ’em eurses

Conquor thyself. Till thou hast done that, thou art a slave; for it is almost as well to be in subjection to another's appetite as thy own. Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand. With her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain. “Better be alone than in bad company.” True; but, unfortunately, many persons arc never in so bad company as when they are alone. Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us when we are sufficiently under affliction, only serves to increase our pain and to render our grief more poignant. Wealth in this world is just so much baggage to be taken care of, but a cultivated brain is easy to carry, and is a never failing source of profit and pleasure. Life is so complicated a game that the devices of skill are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances, incalculable as the descent of thistle down. Government cannot make a law; it can only pronounce that which was the law before its organization; namely, the moral result of the imperishable relations of things. Round dealing is the honor of man’s nature, and a mixture of fasehood is like alloy in gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it.

The best dowry to advance the marriage of a young lady is when she has in her countenance mildness, in her speech wisdom, in her behavior modesty, and her life virtues. The granite statute, rough hewn though it be, is far more imposing in its simple and stern, though rude proportions, than the plaster cast, hew. ever elaborately wrought and gilded. Surely, says a pithy writer. Shakspeare must have had a prophetic visof the nineteeh century, when he threw off that exquisite description of “purblind Argus," alleyesand no sight. That which is the truth teaches the doctrine of love to all persons, but by virtue of that love it teaches also to hate the errors which mislead, and the delusions which blind them. The truth therefore is necessarily exclusive of its opposite; and to propose a peace between them is simply a disguised mode of proposing to truth suicide, and obtaining for falsehood victory. How coarse is our use of words; of such at least as belongs to spiritual matters. I’ridc and vanity are forever spoken of side by side: and many sup-

pose that they are merely different shades of the same feeling. Yet. si> far are they from being akin, they can hardly find room in the same breast. A proud man will not stoop to be vain: a vain man is so busy in bowing and wriggling to catch fair words from others that be can never lift up bis head to pride. Excess of Modesty. Many truly great fben have been diffident in company, or have broken down in attempting to speak. Robert Hall made an utter failure the first time he attempted to preach. The great Pitt was exceedingly shy in his private intercourse with men, and even with the children was not quite at ease. When Daniel Webster was a schoolboy, he tells us, “Many a piece did I commit to memory and rehearse it over and over again in my room; but when the day came, when the school collected, when my name was called, and I saw all eyes turned upon my seat, I could not raise myself from it.” Cowper’s friends procured him a place as Clerk in the House of Lords, where his duties only required him to stand up and read parlimentiary notices and documents. The thought of standing up before such an audience was so terrible to him, that as the time drew on he was in an agony of apprehension, and tried to hang himself. So there is hope for all who are afflicted with shyness. Making Girls Straight. o o

The Hindoo girls are gracefully and exquisitely formed. From their earliest childhood they arc accustomed to carry burdens on their heads. The water for family use is always brought by the girls in earthen jars, carefully poised in this way. The exercise is said to strengthen the muscles of the back, while the chest is thrown forward. No crooked backs are seen in Hindostan. Dr. 11. Spray says this exercise of carrying small vessels of water on the head might be advantageous]? introduced into boarding-schools and private families, and that it might entirely supercede the present machinery of dumb-bells, black-boards, skippingropes, etc. The young ladies ought to be taught to carry the jars as the Hindoo women do, without eter touching it with their "hands. The same practice of carrying water leads precisely to the same results in the south of Italy as iu India. A Neaptflitian female peasant will carry on her head a vessel full of water to the brim over a rough road and not spill a drop of it, aud acquisition of this art or knack gives her the same erect and elastic gait.

Womaniy Modesty. Man loves the mysterious. A cloudless sky and a full blown rose leave him unmoved; but that violet which hides its blushing beauties behind the bush, and the moon when emerging from behind a cloud, are to him a source of inspiration and pleasure Modesty is tc merit, what shade is to a figure in painting—lt gives boldness and prominence. Nothing adds more to female beauty than modesty. It sheds around the countenance a halo of light which is borrowed from virtue. Botanists have given the rosy hue which tinges the cup of the white roses the name of the ‘maiden blush., This pure and delicate hue is the only paint which Christian virtue should use. It is the richest ornament. A woman without modesty is like a fade*, flower diffusing an unwholesome odor, which the prudent gardner will throw from him. Iler destiny is melancholy for it terminates in shame and repentance. Beauty passes like the flower of the albe, which bloom and die in a few hours; but modesty gives the female charms which supply the place of the transitory freshness of youth. Extracted With a Magnet. Dr. George Rueiing, the well known oculist, a few days since performed a new and interesting surgical operation upon the eye of a boy about fourteen years of age, a resident of Cambria county, Pa. The operation consisted of the removal of a piece of steel from the posterior chamber of the eye by the use of a powerful magnet, similar in appearannee to a small Gatling gun The eye being full of blood, and the foreign body being invisible, the oculist enlarged the wound created by the steel and introduced the apex of the magnet between its lips. The piece of steel was attracted to the magnet ! and successfully removed. The ababsorptiun of blood took place very rapidly, and the wound healed in a few days. Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. Be wise in time. All baneful infectious are promptly removed by this unequalled alterative. It is the most potent blood pnriuer, and a fountain of health I and strength,

Saying Hateful Things. What a strange disposition is that which leads people to say ‘hateful' things for the mere pleasure of saying them. You are never safe with such a person. When you have done your best to please, and are feeling very kindly and pleasantly, out will pop some underhanded stab, which you alofie can understand—a sneer which is masked, but too well aimed to be misunderstood. It may be at your person, or your mental feelings your foolish habit or thought on some little secret opinion confessed in a moment of genuine confidence. It mattersnot how sacred it may be to you, he will have his fling at it; and, since, the wish is to make you suffer, he is all the happier the nearer he touches your heart. Just half a dozen words, only for the pleasure of seeing a cheek flush or an eye lose its brightness, only spoken because he is afraid you are too happy or too conceited. Yet they are worse loan that many blows. How many sleepless nights Lave such mean attacks caused tender hearted men! How, after them oue awakens with aching eyes and head, to remember that speech before everything—that bright, sharp, well aimed needle of a speech that probed Ibe very centre of your soul!

Very Modest. The other night a policeman observed a man hanging around the entrance of the Pythian hall in a queer sort of away, and he asked him if he belonged to the order then in session up stairs. The man replied that be did, and the officer inquired: •Then why don't you go up?’ ‘Well, I was thinking of it.’ ‘Haven’t been expelled, have you?’ ‘Oh, no.’ ‘Aren’t afraid of anybody?’ ‘No.’ ‘And you haven't lost your interest?’ ‘I might as well tell you,” said the man, after beating around awhile longer, ‘I went down to Toledo a fews ago, and somehow the story came back here that I was drowned. -My lodge thereupon passed resolutions to the effect that I was honest, upright and liberal, and a shining ornament, and that what was its loss was my gain. I wasn't drowned, as you see, but I kind o’ hate to walk in on 'em and bust them resolutions. I've tried it three times, and I can't get higher than the fifth stair before I weaken.’

Indiana Wonders. Terre Haute Express. Our State has generally been considered topographically and scenically as a very tame and uninteresting affair; but her remarbably interesting natural features are beginning to be appreciated. Ths lakes and prairies of the northern counties; the gorges and glens of Parke a>ndl Jfontgoniory: the rocky ranges of Owen, Monroe, Law renee and Washington: the mineral springs of Martin, Orange, Pike and Warrick: the remarkable Wilson’s springs of Harrison; tlie wonderful Wyandotte cave of Crawford; the great rapids of the Ohio between Jeffersonville and New Albany; Lost river and Jug rock in Orange and Martin counties respectively—these and many other curiosities and wonders reader our beautiful State much more interesting than even her own people imagine.

Morsels for Contemplation. There are men whose friends are more to be pitied than their worst enemies. A weak man will say more than he docs, a strong will do more than he says. Tt costs more to avenge than to Argive. An obstinate man does not hold opinions, they hold him. If slander be a snake it is a waged one: it flies as well as it creeps. Tt often happens that those whom we speck least of on earth are best known in Heaven. Fortune docs not change men, it only unmasks them. Remembrance is the only paradise out of which we cannot be driven. An Unprophetic Soul. Dr. Franklin's mother-in-law hesitated about permitting her daughter to marry a printer, as there were already two printing offices in the United States, and she was uncertain whether the country could support a third, if we only knew the present address of . this prudent but unprophetic soul it j would be a great pleasure to mail her a copy of the census reports for IsSO on the newspaper and printing business of America daring the past decal c.— Bv/fate Cummrrcial.

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