Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 2, Number 34, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 17 February 1872 — Page 2

[OorrayMdeDoe of the N. T. AdV«rti*t.J PA YJSK IN GEORGIA. I WM to see your article, under the head of

Editorial Notes," in the

Advertiser of the 10th, in relation to the tour of John Howard Payne in Georgia, in 1837, because it reminds me of a circumstance which occurred during the lime when the excitement against the abolitionist was at its height throughout the United States. ?, I tbitik it was in 1835 or '36 that the incident occurred, though you name 1837

MI he year when he stopped at Toloola Springs. ilowever, John Howard Payne made an I'XioiiiiwI tour of the Southern country witen it was a very hazardous proceeding fur a UJHU from the North to attempt the thing without some written per* in his fiossession like a "free pa*s." Weil. Payne was in some wild oi Georgia. where the appearance of a tu with pen, ink and paper constantly in u»« caused considerable curiosity, and he was seen iu wild aud lone•ouie places, while he was sketching scenery, he was suspected of being au abolitionist, and of holding communion with 1113 confederates iu the woods and r.tvcun.

Aeeordingly he was seized, and as the loc-ilny W'.IH some miles from any Justice ol tun Peace, he was placed on a burnt', hit hands were tied behind bun, anil lii* feet made fast together under the horse. He was th cointied to tlie charge of a Yahoo, to whom a per was given, containing the line ol the prisoner, and stating th.) ofl'nse of which he w.ts suspected, and his custodian had orders to conduct him lo the nearest Justice of the Peace lor examination, while the witsses bliouid start soon after and procoed bv another routed

On the -y to the seat of justice, the jonrnev leiiig a tedious one, Payne's conductor began to sing "Home, Sweet rnu," and said to Payne, Tuar' where I

want

to be stranger out it's

over ii hundred miles

ofl,

and I reckon

I won't get there to-night. That ar song gives me some comfort, tnough, anynow. You've hearn that song, I der say, stranger, and mebbe you know il us well as 1 do."

Yes, my friend," suid Payne, "I knem it beioro any man on earth ever hear it sung."

Wnat?—you don't mean to say that you made it—that you acierly writ it yorielf, do yer, stranger? I've got the bonk that it's printed in right here in iuj overcoat pocket, and tlie name is tliar, right over the song."

VV. II," s.ud Payne, "before you open ilie book, just look at the paper yoii ve in your pocket, and read tlie line idi'i' which 1 have been made a prisoner."

TIID conductor did HO and then he opened iiio uook ol songs at a well worn plaeo and read .iloud. "Home, Sweet lloui", by.loliii Howard Payne." l'tiar's no mistake aiiou- it, Strang er," said the conductor, "you are I he

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in and you tell the

ll'lllll."

II Hu di"in Iunled and drew a botvie, ..ii 1, approaching Payne, dd "Siraiig1'!', ui 'biie you don't know wliat I'm gwino to do, but you shall -ee." Thereupon lie cut the cords that bound his mils and feet, and tola Payne to dismount ind take his ease—w ilk as long as ho pie used, and mount when lie ,iw lb. Poor Payne, who was silt luring severely from his fetters, th inked him with all his heart, and pledged his honor th.it he would not attempt to BfcCipe.

I know th it, stranger, said the conductor "the man that writ that ar' *mg is tit to be trusted as a man of honor, and, stranger, I'm yer last friend, which if yer should swear to it on a stack of Bibles as big as a house, yer wouldn't commit porjury. You'll •i see bluioby."

So they jogged along th® road in pleasant conversation until they reuched the Justices Court, hen the exainin ttion took place, and Payne was honorably acquitted, the most important 1 witness in his behalf being the condactor, who testified that there was nothing against him, that some fools

id ai rested him on suspicion, aiul put hint iu Ins charge, and that there would be trouble in that village if anybody undertook to harm him. Then Payne soon became a lion, and that night the tavern and many other houses in the village rang with the vocal ui.u*ic of "Home, Sweet Home!"

Ooon'nv.—It is a hard word to spe.ik. S nne may laugh that It should be, but let them.* Icy hearts are never klad. It is a word that has choked many an nUermce, and started many a tear. The hand is clasped, the word spoken, we pirt and are out upon theocean^ ol l|,ne—«vo goto meet ug. In when? l»od only* knows. It iy be soon it may

never. Tike care that your goodbv be not a cold one—It may be the last li.it yon cm give.

Ere you

can meet

y.«u,r friend again death's cold hand in »v have closed his eyes and chained his lips forever. Ah! he may have died in thinking you loved nlm not. .Wain, it in iv be a

long

separation.

Friend* crowd onward and give you th dr ti »nd. llmv do you detect In each good by" th*» love that lingers there an I how you may bear away with you f«i u'.o.nory of"these parting words ui:.iiy, many days. We must often separate. Tear not yourself away with careless boldness that deties all love, Hit make your last words linger—give the heart its full utterance—and if tears dh, what of it Tears are not unmanly.

TAPTIM. THOUUHT.—When the *u'ti ii m- of youth is slowly wasting .iwivm the niirhtfall of age, and the si* I ecomes deeper and deeper, and life wear* to its cl»se,it is pleasant to •oo through the vista of time upon the *torrnwa and felicities oi our earlier •.-fir*. If we have a home to shelter r8d 'arts to rejoice with us and have been gathered aiound our |i», the rough {daces warfaring uill )i ve smoothed away, in the vbight of lit--', wn.ie many dsrk spots h«ve passed through will grow

Igti'er and more b^autif I. Happy ,1 are those whose inuromrse with ih.- rld has not changed the tone of holler leeling*. or broken those nn.veil chord* «f the heart, whose viI it M'tiM are so HI-•{»ii-«, t'.-ud©r,so touching in the eveningmJ. Life.

tiiiow Fiu tr WITHOCT SrosKa.— \i% Jgr cuHwrist e«y* that i.e -ri- -•without stfui-s by turning thiipto/lhe trt^e down, mit'ingotr tn® !., ing li-iii into th' c.f©i 1 it I

tr »r two them tops will take root W II rooted, cut off the branches. o»n iitig these reversed and rooted itr*i" he* with the tree proper, and th a tvv* pearfi tree Will juroduce tine jn-.i. !i without atones. The wimfi exjwrii sit way le tried with plums, durraiatidcormn^

ui in who was driving a cow through to* at root of Waupun, wis., ~o mirh bustered by a sudden bow front liuiy that in return he made a bow to thi cow and threw a atone at the luly.

[From the Luui-svuie Courier-Journal.] AARON UltlTS WIDO W.

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The Story of the Jumcl Estate—A Pretty Law Suit. The fight over the pretty little estate of the late Madame Jumel,began several years since, is still going on in tbo Courts of New York, and the amount involved is about four million dollars. There iB no telling how long it may continue to go on. If it pans out for the lawyers as handsomely as a squabble of such magnitude usually does, tbey will or course cause the end of it to protrude into the future and make the thing smell as stiouglyof eternity as possible. A great many ye«rs ago a fair and fast young woman of Providence* Rhode Island, named Betsy Bowen played the dickens with the heart of an old French gentleman named Jumel snd married him. The old French gentleman was rich, which was iiiOst probably the reason why Betsy laid aside her maiden gladness and became Madame Jumel. Any experienced miner, whether of California, Australia or anv other auriferous region, will tell you* that when a gay and festive young girl consents to marry a man old enough to be her grandfather, it is the best surface indication in the world that there is a rich placer somewhere in the immediate neighborhood. After a wh-.le old man Jiunel was gently gathered to his fathers, and Betsy was turned loose upon an unfriendly world with all the money she knew what to do with, and with nobody to help her spend it. Luckily, the Hon. Aaron Burr, an ex-Vice President of the United States, and the slayer of Alexander imilton, came along in search of some visible means of support one day during the widowhood ol Betsy, and being still a naudsome and courtly gentleman, albeit a littl inclined to oldi^hness in point of years, no sooner offered the rich widow his heart and hand in exchange for a supply of victuals and clothes than he was laken in out of thecold of impecunious womanhood, and Madame Jumel, fothe time being, became Madame Burr. The old lady died a few years ago, leaving a niece, married to her heart's idol named Nelson Chase, and the voung couple lived with Aunt Betsey up to the auspicious period at which she glided into t..e silent tomb. At her death Mr. Chase took possession of her papers and property, there being, seemingly, nobody else around to undertake the disagreeable task, and still holds them as a lateral In ir and the husband of her adopted daughter.

Chase would have had a good thing of it always if he had been let alone but lie wiis not let alone for any very considerable length of lime. Somewhere in the State of Rhode Island there tabernacled a gentleman ol the name ol liowen, called, in honor ot the Fattier of his Country, George Washion Bowen, and in the midst of the serene felicity with which the possession of the old 1 tdy's 1 Tire estate suffused the heart and mind of Mr. Nelson Chase, this Mr. George W ishiugton' Bowen emerged from the tangled wilds of his native State, dropped over into the city of New York, and confronted Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Chase as tbo true ami only heir to their Aunt Betsy's property. A lawsuit immediately followed, and when the case came into court Mr. George Washington Bowen declared, and produced a number of venerable Khode Island witnesses to prove that he was the illegitimate son of Betsey Bowen, the dan liter of John aud Phebe Bowen, later Madame' Jumel, and, still liter, Mrs. Aaron Burr, by Major Reuben Ballou, of Revolutionary fame, and as such ciaioied the Jumel property, consisting ot one Hundred aud twenty-six acres ot land on Washington Hights, two lots

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SAVING WAOKS.

I11 an address delivered last week, Horace Greeley said he thought th worst thing about workinguicn was th too many of them felt impelled to spend what they might save because

saving h«»ir money.

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special reason was brought home to them for saving. If all the young workingnien would save two dollars a week from the time they were twentyone until they were twenty-five years old, which is about the age most ol them get married at, they would soon find themselves in comfortable circumstances. It was not by strikes nor high wages that the workinginan's condition could be improved. What is the good of one body of men organising for a strike, when, for each man who demanded higher pay and declined to work if it was ret used him, there were a dozen ready and willing to work for anv price the employer might name? Aiid as to high wages, the very fact that wages were increased was an indication that the expenses of living would also be increased. Every mau should own a piece of ground thai was the first start. Except where they found a final resting place, too few workinguicn owned any now yet there were five hundred places about New York where land might be bought at such moderate price as it would bring lor raising potatoes alone. In these places the woikiuginen uiight buy and plant their shade mid fruit trees, and in tinvi raise up villages. He would gla Ity see tif organisations of workinguicn bawled together for such a

tor they would have an

object

QNB hundred and ten suit# have been commenced against the St Uen Island Ferrv on uvy in conse«|u-. no'ot the \Vesiflcld explosion. Tie- tlrs *eh»» decided against the Company, ieh 11 'S apped to A higher urt. *1at-re was criminal cir a:ssue»s somev. here, and the Company should id responsible for the necler! oj ii». 4. nts. Our only ngret in th ,t the damages are not s*** at $Ja,000—w hich i# Sessth Ul half thesniuMr, Bonner would lake for MK x'er,' m-tea of a paltrv which would hardly buy a HTKKI troUiriK-nag. The life of* man nil*:hi to be worth an much as itwt of a horse.—[Uolden Age.

SMITH thomrht it WAS cuor«llv wrong to take th» animals frr food, and he resolved to quit it and live on veg^tablea. But one morning he gave way to teiutation and walked into ^a beaWeak. "I don't know," said he, **th»t it a any bartn to eat apiece of this cow, ainc® it« deadend the matter can't be M'Ped but I'll he hanged if I'll ®*cr kill on**,!"

ABU.

We have all along tried to put the beet features we could upon the obstructions and difficulties which have been encountered in running truns upon the U. P. R. R- winter, but we find that the press east and west, aided by tne argns-eyed associated

ross aud ubiquitous WcBtorn telegraph lines, are bound the whole history of the affair shall leak out anyhow so we have concluded to give some light upon it in the Sentinel.

For eight weeks past passenger trains have been standing on side tracks all along the wilderness country wherever there was no station, each of these trains loaded with hundreds of human beings, aud the horrors through which they have passed can never be fully described. There are some thirty of these trains strung along in this way. There is one now up near Lookout which has been there for about five weeks. It had originally some tour hundred passengers on it, and we sup pose there are over fify left alive yet. Of course they have had nothing to eat during that time. The citizens of Laramie have kindly contributed about twenty car loads of provisions to relieve the sufferers, but the company refuse toship 1 he food unless the Ireighl is paid in advance, which we are determined not to do. Of course these passengers are very much demoralized now.. When at fiist they were driven to cannibalism, they conducted the business with some lit He degree of fairness, and cast lots equitably, to see who should be the victims, and in some cases lean and tough old men were spared, when they drew unlucky numbers, though this may have been on account of the scarcitv of fuel. So also were some infants allowed to live for fear their mothers would suffer for want of their services. The Presideut and other officers of the road are near there, having shoveled through snow drifts nearly to the train some weeks ago, but the passengers have become so desperate thai nobody dares to approach them so the employes daily crawl up and peer over the bill and speculate Irom the looks of the piles ot bones how long the balance can hold out. The few remaining passengers have held an indignation meeting and unanimously resolved to tear up a mile of track each way, and set the cars on fire soon, il something is not done for their relief. Trains pass and re-pass them at all hours of the day and night, but thev rush rapidly by so as not to let the facts become known to the traveling public. And this is ihe history of only one of the thirty trains before referred to, as will be proved by the larjje piles of human bones found bleaching on the side tracks, when the snows thaw away in the spring.

As we remarked, we have tried to cover these thinu's up, but the reports ol the associated press and the tales of travelers are bringing them to light and representing them to be so much worse than tl ey really are that we are sure the company will thank us for stating the exact facts in the matter.— [Laramie (Wyoming Per.) Sentinel.

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northwest corner of Seventh Avenue and Forty-second street, and a lot on the corner of Liberty street and Broadway, valued in all at $4,000,000. As we have already said, Mr. Chase holds possession of the property, and this suit was brougiit to eject him from it. The case was first tried in the State courts of New York, but was removed to the United States District Court, becape Bowen was a cilizen of another Stale. If Bowen should succeed in proving to the entire satisfaction of the jury that he is really a son of Madame Jumel, he will make a handsome thiim ot it. in spite of me lact that Betsy ought not lo havo acted so.

The manner of imparting the artificial gloss has, like all other details of the weaving art, undergone certain changes in the course _ot years. At present, it is done in this wise: Two rollers revolving on their axes are set up a tew feet from the ground, and at ten yards, in a straight fine, Irom each other. Round the first ot these rollers is wound the piece of silk, of 20, 40, or 100 yards in length, as the case may be. Ten yards of the silk are then unwound, and fixed by means of a brass rod in a groove on the second roller, care being taken to stretch the silk between the two cylinders as tightly as possible. A workman with a thin blade of metal in his hand, daintily covers the uppermost side of the silk— that which will form the inside ot the piece—with a coating ot gum. On the Hoor under the outstretched silk is a small tramway, upon which runs a sort of tender filled wiih «lo wing coals. As fast as one man covers the silk with gum, another works the tender up and down, so as to dry the mucilage before it has had time to permeate the texture.

This is a verv delicate operation for tf, on one hand, the gum is allowed to run through the silk, or it, on the oth er, the coals are kept too long under one place, the piece is spoiled. In the first instance, it would be stained be yond all power of cleaning, and in the second, it would be burned. None but trusty workmen are confided with this task and even with the most proved Iruuis there is sometimes damage. When ten yards of the niece have *#eeu gummod and dried, tnoy Arc rolled around the second cylinder and ten more are unwound, 'i'his is repeated to the end. But the silk, with its coating of dry guin. is then stiff to the touch and cracks like cream-laid notepaper when folded. To make it soft and pliant again, it is rolled anew, some six or seven tiinfs under two different cylinders, on« of which is been warmetf bv introduction of hot coals inside, and'this is sufficient to give it I hat bright new look which we a.l so much admire in fre*h silk,

TUKRK is hr.PO fbr TI? ick*.' *It WA* only last week,while Gai it Davis was burring the senate with «»n« of his cuaracteristic effusions, that at Louisville, a colored lawyer, George «rper by name, made bis first speech in court, inakiiiu a favor sfolfe impression even upon K«ntueki uis, and colored wit HCWSCS were also admit''"d in the trial, which was 1 hat of a whiieman. Nasby will have to emigrate, and poor Garrett Divls, like ludi S rague *0 pa1 betie»llv d*.--i us re ng his doom in

tie setting sun, may see his soceeafor 'n soiii" rising negro attorney.— [Gulden Ag J-

GKS. RONKXCRAMt ha* promptlr denied thai b« is eoneerued in a filUbust®ring expedition against Mexico, and o«ind mna all such sehrmt» as both •ill D'UAaai unwis. We knew h* was too much ot a gentleman and patriot to to take stock in a venture so hostile to the policy of our government and the spirit of our institution*. The viper spirit which which woul creep and wriggle into a nation with which we are at peace, and sacrifice honor for the sake of plunder, deserves to have its head bruised off.—[Golden Age.

LOT.

Lot is a word whioh. In lw application to land, is unknown in England and univeraal in th6 United States. It had its rise in an old Puritan custom. The first settlers in the seaboard plantations of New England owned the extensive gait marshes, which produce such excellent salt hay in common, and every man cut and cocked, saved and salted, as much ot the latter as he wanted. When however, the population increased and the first simplicity and harmony was no longer maintained, it was agreed to divide out these lots in equal parts to all these families. This was done after the Biblical precedent in the election of a twelfth apostle, by lot, and the choice of every man, as his name was drawn and he became entitled to select bis piece of land was known as bis lot. The firm belief of the Puritans in a special Providence watching over them and their interests made them contiuually resort to this manner of distributing lands or other articles o« value, held therefore in common, and the term "lots" soon came to designate any great quantity. Cotton Mather in his "Magnalia' speaks, hence, grimly, of "the great lot of evil spirits" that possessed a poor woman iu Beverl}', aud stories of "lots upon lots killed by old huuter in the White Mountains are heard to this day at the fireside," says N. S. Dodge. By such means the word "lot" obt lined geueral currency iu the new country, and every generation added new applications to its meaning. Not only every kind ot lands, from a town lot in the city of New York to a water lot on the prairie iu the far West, was thus designated, but the banker in Wall Street has his nice lot of stocks for sale, and the drover Missouri his lot of hogs, and one man has lots of friends, while another is troubled with lots of debts. But the extreme freedom with which such terms are used here is, perhaps, best shown in the lact that even cemeteries are laid out in lots, and quite recently a case came up in a New York court of a man who had mortgaged such a piece of properly, in which the judge held •'tint, though the conveyance of a cemetery lot was allowable, it was not within the range of financial or commercial affairs to suppose that a man designated to transfer the remains of any member of his family, even conditionally, which must be the effect of the mortgage of the cemetery lot."

PROFESSOR TYNDALL AND THE BUYS. Professor 'fyndall—the best of all living savans tor making the truths ot science lainiliar to the meanest understanding—s gnalized the Christmas anniversary in London by a talk to the boys. A corn sp indent says ot him:

I)r. Tvndall,

talkinn

SILK. '"A-

The method of giving an artificial gloss to the woven pieces of silk was invented in Tue discovery of the method was purely accidental. Octavia Mey, a merchant of Lyons, being one day deep in meditation, mechanically put a small bunch of silk tnreads into his mouth and began to chew them. On taking them ou again in bis hands he was struck by the peculiar luster they had acquired, and was not a little astonished to find that this luster continued to adhere to the threads even after they had become dry. Ho at once saw that in this fact there was a secret worth unraveling, and being a man of ingenuity, he applied himself to the study of the question. The result of his experiments was the "glossing method."

to the boys, is

an older and better informed

boy than the others, chatting with them, than I thought it possible for a Professor to be while his illustrations and asides take his address completely out

the dull and dry category, and

put tiis young audience completely at their ease. Why, he lit a cigar in one of his experiments, and positively smoked it for a second or two telling uwall that when he did the same thing some years ago at Cambridge, he astonished the dons there verv much. "I don't suppes any one had veiitured to linht a cigar in the Cambridge Senate house before," i$marked the Professor, "and the great people assembled in it looked as if they thought I oughtn't to have taken the liberty." This, said while a cigar is being lit, and as a preiude to its being placed between the professional lips and puffed, delighted ed the boys and girls. One professor outranging the conventional susceptibilities of other professors, and telling the story as a good joke, is just the thing to hit boy nature, and if Dr. Tvndall had wanted volunteers for a desperately forlorn hope, my opinion is that he might have counted on half the lads present.

Again, when explaining the process by which frost and snow had been produced on one of the vessels before him, and scraping the snow from its sides, the lecturer won all hearts. "There's more snow than I expected to find enough, you see, to make a snowball and ifi were very wicked, I could actually (doing it) make a snowball out of what is here, and pelt Mr. Blank (the lecturer's assistant) with it." Professor Tyndall suited the action to the words, "and having compressed the snow until it was hard and compact, took elaborate aim at the gentleman assisting him (whose back was turned) and sent the ball spinning past him and within a foot of his head. It may be imagined how the boys roared at this and though these illustrations were exceptional, the pleasant, friendly and familiar manner and speech maintained throughout were equally noteworthy, as were the surprising pains taken to follow each chain ot rea^onine fairly out. The boys or girls who fail to master the principles of what is being put be lore them at the Royal Institution must be singularly obtube.

BOOTH BEHIND THE SCENES.

On the first night of this season's II unlet" there was a hot dispute among the waiting-room flaneurs and critics on this very sword question. It was maintained bv the romantic school of admirers that Booth had copied the business Irom Fechter, while the realistic school as firmly insisted thut he had always held up the cross as he followed the sp rit out others asserting that it was formerly his habit to trail It after him.

It suddenly struck me that I would go and ask Booth himself about it. I found him after the third act iu his elegant dressing room. He was sitting in an easv chair, in his Danish robes, smokinjt a meerschaum pipe, and his little wife was bustling about over a steaming tea kettle and gas-stove, preparing him a cup ot tea. Anything more utterly opposed to the prevail,ng notion of "behind the scenes" thau this cozv and home-like apartment could not be Imagined.

He told met hat his manner or holding the sword was the result of nne of those accidental suggestions common enough on the stage. He is Instructing 1 subordinate one evening, just previous to the act, li"W to use his weapon, and in pulling It from she sheai'i for this purp*e it slipped fiuin uis fa. nd, -!»d he caught it in the air wi:h the hit uppermost. Win! lie h' Hit in ti..~ maimer, the cross L'-f ire id- 1 s, it a-curr^l to him for the first time*that this WAS the proper thing to do when following the ghost.

While we were conversing, the little wife bustled about, and the kettle

rured

Its odorous steam into the ntora. wanted to ask her If she would not play "Dot" some time and delight the world, but 1 dared not.

Prwent ly, when be was called forthe act. he asked me to excuse him for a moment, and went out as If he were going to see how the wind set or if the evening papers were on the front stoop.

I saw hiin five minutes afterward holding the two thousand spell-boo nd.

[From the Scientific American.] RELIGION AND SCIENCEf Genuine truth being uncontrovertible, the truths taught by religion and by science must agree In the end. where discrepancy appears to exist, it Is only becausa either the theologian takes the individual opinions of a certain class of scientists for the teachings ot science itself, or the scientist, in his turn, takes the individual opinions of certain theologians for the teachings of religion. In this way a kind of antagonism is cultivated, which would not exist if the training of those destined for religious teachers were less onesided, and if, In place of confining their their preparation chiefly to literary pursuits, they were also trained in the knowledge ot those scientific principles, the application ot which, during the last hall century, has produced the most stupendous changes in the relations ol uian to his fellow inan.

On the other hand, the training of many prominent investigators oi science of the preseut day has been not less one-sided the unwise antagonism displayed by many religious teachers against scientific pursuits, has reacted on several of the prominent leaders of science, and in their writings and teachings, they accordingly ignore religion thus a class of scientific scholars has sprung up, chiefly in Germany and France, who, to speak mildly, do not consider religious traiuiug to nave any importaut value.

Herbert Spencer, whatever opinions many have of him, has the merit of having clearly pointed out the demarcation line between the knowable aud unknowable, between that which science can demonstrate, and that which is beyond the field of scionce.and which pure science can never reach. Certain minds appear to be constituted in such a uianuer that they can be satisfied with adhering to the k-nowable, to only that which science teaches, keeping that which science cannot determine out of their thoughts. But such a condition of uiind is only temporary sooner or later there grows iu them a desire for light in this direction aud happy are those who obtain it—happier in proportion that their work iu obtaining it was more laborious. A simple Uiind may feel happy with a faith accepted without mental labor but such an individual has 110 conception ot the enjoyment and supreme happiness of the cultivated mind, that finus the truth by searching and working, and whose cares and doubts at last come to rest in the consciousness of having found that precious gem which all intelligent beings are interested in searching for—Truth.

For many ages the teachers and priests of religion consti tiled the most influential class of human society. With the progress of knowledge, how ever, this influence has grown less and less, and at the present day, it is only verv prominent where civilization is least a Ivance I. This undeniable fact, however, must not bo construed to mean that civilization is antagonistic to religion. We

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but it nas been caused by the neglect01 the priests of religion to remain at the head of civilization and in the vanguard ot the searchers alter positive knowledge, as was the case with the ancient Egyptian priesthood. Those men, supposing that the knowledge of truth, by the mass of the people, would be dangerous to the maintenance of the existing order of affairs, instituted secret rites, to guard jealously, for the benefit of the few initiated, their precious knowledge ot these rites, certain degrees ol the Masonic order of the present day are the degenerate descendants. In proportion as the influence of abstract religious dogmatic teachings, on the mass ot the people was growing less the influence of the discoveries of science, of tho increase of positive knowledge, concerning the material universe, grew stronger and stronger. The invention of printing has, for more than four ceuturies, been flooding the world with books, so that now almost every man may possess his own library, at a less cost than in ancient times a single book could be obtained for to this is added, in our day, an unpar «lleled development of journalism, seieutiflc, political, and religious. Not only our stock of knowledge has increased its diffusion has incre »sed in a still greater ratio and, if our religious teachers and leaders only take this into account,and piovide such measures as will cause their profession to be at the head ol civilization, as well scientifically as in other aspects, as was the case with the ancient Egyptian priesthood, there is no doubt that their useful and necessary influence will become greater than ever before, for the simple reason ol the immense moral power which must be the necessary result ol the combination of scientific knowledge with a religious mission anil strict morality.

THE THREE COACHMEN. I oeard the story along time ago, and think it good enough to tell,—and not only good, but pointing a life lesson which the wise may heed.

A certain gentleman advertised for a coachman, and among tlie numerous applicants who answered the call he found three who evinced a sullicient knowledge of their business to suit him and from these three he would select his man. For the final test I10 took them to a point 011 his premises where a broad table of rock overlooked a deep chasm. "How near." said ho to Sawny McLean, "could you drive a coach-and-lour to the edge of that precipice without the danger of going off?

S iwny

measured the table with his

(•ye, and looked down into the deep chasm undaiintc d. I eould drive within afoot of it,

after due

sir,

was his emphatic answer. He next put the same question to John York.

John looked, and answered, with prompt assurauce: "I could drive within ten inches of it, sir."

Next came B-irney O'Toole, and he WHS asked how near he could drive a ste dy double span to the edge ot the precipice with as*urancu of safety. lie-lad, your honor." said li«rney,

bite me enihir ly. I should kape me b'lrsrs aa tar from such a place as pos-

It inav be needless to add that Barney O'Toole w«*s the chosen coachman. 0

A O W I *t 'wi-d.e* a reliable ,1.. ,„m' of :h llffoi iitomtt) Paine. )M -tin lard U-urarhy "f Paine Is undoubtedly that by Chat ham, bu- it is a vulgar arid scnrriloti* work and unite unworthy of trust. The sketch of Piine In \ppl^lons' New American Cyclopaedia is vry carefully written after a thorouch an»i exhaustive study of

original

Mark 7Vm«'a History of the Fouiyfar tj the Family and his De$cendant+ When Noah disembarked at Ararat he had scarcely touched the pier when he proceeded to tolly hie passengers. He had just checked his last item in ths list—a Mr. and Mrs. Bedbug—when th# cringing figure of a quadruped came snealting down the gangplank with his tail between his legs. "Drat it, if there ain't that yaller dog I" saya Nosh, aiming a vicious kick with his brogan at the brute. But, with a facility born of long and bitter experience, the brute dodged the projectile, and ejaculating

,4ki-yi."

which ia Syriac tor 'declined

with thanks," or "not for Jo"—he disappeared, while Noah, who had his sealegs on, was unable to recover his equilibrium,and sat down with euiphasis on the back of bis head.

Noah arose, and in accordance with the style prevalent among the patriarchs, proceeded to soothe his affro. ted dignitv by pronouncing a variegated anathema upon the yaller dog, which had characteristically sneaked unobserved on board, in the" confusion of putting to sea, aud capsized the captain at th first port. He cursed that dog in body, liuib, bark, hair, hide, tail aud wag, and all his generations, relation* and kindred, by consanguinity or aflinity. and his heirs and assigns. He cursed hiiu with eudless hunger, with perpetual fear, with perennial laziness, with hopeless inange, with incessant fleas, and with his tail between his legs. He closed his stock of maledictions by a sparkling display of pyrotechnics from the demoralizing effects ol which ,.- the yaller dog lias never recovered.

With this curse sticking to huu likea revenue stamp, the yaller dog can't help being "cussed." He don't try .to help it. He followsNeah'sprogramme with sneaking fidelity. He is an Ishuiaelile among dogs. He receives the most oppressive courtesies in the form, of brickbats, boots anu hot water,, which makes his life an anjmated tar-: get excursion.

He boards around like a district school teacher, and it is meal time with him twenty-four hours iu the day. The rest of the time he hankers after & something to eat. He is too oinuiver-i ous for

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epicure. Cram him at Del- ,:

inouico's, aud he would hunger fordes-, sert from an Albany boarding house. He can't be utilized. He is too tired. As a swill-cart locomotive, a hunter, or a sentinel, he is an ignominious failure. The dog churn was a strategeJc attempt to employ his waste energies,, but he hadn't any waste energies, and butter had too much self-respet to "come" at his persuasion. So the dog, churn was dropped.

No sausage maker dare foreclose his lien on the" yaller dog, lest his cust0111-

110 longer "soothed anil sustaim d!:. by an

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(altering trust"—transler their,

patronage to some lessaudacious vloaler., The savages, who admire baked dog,, and who can even attack tripe and explore the mysteries of hash, without dismay, acknowledged the yaller dog: to be too much for their gastric iutrep-j id ity.

He always manages to belong to ragged,to bacco-chewing, whisky-drill k-!,.-:ng master, whose business is swapping? dogs and evading the dog tax. The. yaller dog is acquainted with himself,( and he enjoys the intimacy with edify« ing contempt. He slinks along throughi life on a diagonal dog-trot, as if in doubt which end of him is entitled to the preference. He is always pervaded, by a hang-dog sense of guilt, and whan retributive tinware is lastened to his, tail, be "flies from the wrath to come," with a terrified celerity which ought to be very suggestive tc two-legged sinners who have a similar ordeal iii store for them. ,,

flSAY YES!

ironsiileratioii, "them fillers

author!!ir*, and present* a

different view of his character from thst of the enrrent traditions. It is so independent and satisfactory, and withalso finelv done, that weatispect it was written by Mr. Ripley himself. Bat there is a good deal of very poor Paine lving about loose in modern literature which the truth-seeking reader would do well to shun.—[Golden Age.

The yaller dog is—well, to speak in italics, he is a slouch.

PILGRIMS BATHING IN THE JORDAN. In descending the Jordan, I encountered the crowds

pilgrims who me

annually to bathe in that of the river, which tradition declares to have beem. the same ol the labors ol St. John the Baptist. The bathing of such a crowd was an extraordinary spectacle. In ail the wild haste of a disorderly rout, Copts aud Russians, Poles, Aruienians, Greek and Syrians, from all parts, of Asia, from Europe, from Africa, audi from far-distant America, on they^ oauie men, and women, and children* of every nge and hue, and in every known language under the sun. Mounted as variously as those who had pro-r ceded them, many of the women audi children were suspended in baskets, or confined

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cages and, with their eyes

strained toward the river, heedless of all intervening obstacles, they hurried eagerly forward, and dismounted in. haste, and disrobing with precipitation^ rushed dowu the bank and threw themselves into the stream. Thev seemed t* be absorbed in one impulsive feeling,?. and perfectly regardless of the observation ol otheiS. Each one plunged him-! self, or wus dipped by another, threes times below the surface, in honor ol ihofc Trinity,and then filled a bottle,or somo other utiusil, from the rivor. Tne: bathing-dress of many of the pilgrims was a white gown with a black cross upon it. Most of them, when theys were dressed, cut branches ot the angas cams, or willow, and dipping them? iu th© consecrated stream, bore away as memorials ol their visit. In an hour they began to disappear and in less than three hours the trodden surface of the lately crowded bank reflected no shado v. The pageant disappeared as rapidly i'S it had ap-. proached, and left LO US once more the silence and solitude of the wilderness.^ It was liko a dro nn—[Lynch,

CoLKKiom tolls us of a man who Bad such an overwhelming self-esteem that he never spokoot hirnsell without taking off bis hat.

TUB Bulky Attachment ali)w a plowman to ride, and do :ood work, either In wxi or old r*«ind, ATNJ so reduces the dralt hat the homes do no more woi k.

It oati rx? u.«el with nny plow.

... 'ift Hamilton Plow* for the --nfl AY .•..-(foil of 1S7 •£. Hamilton Plows I 1 wni 1 1

irt.jtmi

a Hmde iowei tlmu any

II YFQI I -ther, and very much better. I uw.vf I,r«-of M.Y one who Is UJ

1 using

Bvr l"f- .'V und der more yon llfder ion.: «.w tne! It oat, I'm ts'i•('•• nil my Hamilton Plow, It nil.i» me Ih ji-'U arid id, You know ynir«rif, how Isitand how Hann»'««ler matter mltda*. It cost me no more as noting now high up dat wax?

A BOY or a gin, an old man,

AY ev»-n a man with one hit wn

wnl

I I do Rood work with a is 1 ilk)/ AlvrCI Slachmrnt. Any plow, wxl or oid ILW'yfground, can be used with it.. He* it at Jo*

E8 & JOXtJt'.

Ir buying the Ifi.u'ert lot, (rev paying Ing tli* el. are j,, JONKS

ought to ell the Hamilton Plow "a little 1 lower" than any one.