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A Family Companion, Devoted to Literature, Miscellany, News, Agriculture, Mkets &c Vol. X. WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 22, 1874. No. 16 T HE HER1PIALD IS PU13LISUED BErffI WEDN~ESDAY MIORNNG, It 'Newberry C. Iff, -BY TPHOS, F. GREMMEKRt Editor and Proprietor. Tei-mi $2j per JnuuJMU,I Iuivarlably in Advance. The paper is tMe at the expiratioii of time for whicitspcd 27- The >4 mark denotes expiration of sub w.ciptiou. THE *CLOSING SCENE. * 31r r. BUCHAN I READ. [The followineg is announced by the West miw~ser Review the finest American poem exjjvqxittenu:j Within the sober realms of leafless trees, The russet year inhaled the dreamy air, Like some lanued reaper in bhis hour of ease; Wher. all the fields are lying brown and bare. Th. gray barns, looking from their hazy, hills, O'er the dun waters widening in the vales' Sent-down the air a greeting to the mills;, On the dull thunder of alternate falls. All si4bls were mellowed, and all sounds sub dured, The bills seemed further and the streams smig low, At 4dramz, the distant vroodman hewed ~is wint'er log with many a muffled blow. The embattled foresti, erewhile armed with Their banners bright with every martial hae, Now stood like some sad beaten hosts of old, WVifthtfafrin Time's remotest blue. On sombre wings the vulture tried his flight: The dove scarceheard his sighin.- mate's AE~ikt*.sr'5t)Wdrowning in thoUlght, The village Church vane seemed to pale Whe-morst tbe jay within the cin's- tall crest, Mkde garrulous trouble round her nufledged ful horror, "Heaven help us, sir." he exclaimed, "how you have suf fered already ! Your sight, sir, would not last six months longer. This must not be." Before I could say a word or lift a finger to stop him, he rapid ly glided past me to the table on which the lamp stood. With a nimbleness which rooted me to the spot in apprehension, he wbip ped off the shade, then the old burner. In one minute the lamp was a ruin. "It is a mercy of Pro vidence, sir, that I have happened to call." "Stop !" I c:illed. "Replace ev erything as it was instantly." "The number of cases of prema t ire blindness," he calmly proceed ed, "that I have had the gratifica-, tion of preventing, makes my I. bor a most pleasant one." "Thinking he might be deaf, I bawled. "I don't want your burn er; I won't have it. Take it off." For he was twirling the new one in its place. ,;There, sir, you will feel thank ful to me as long as you live! The only thing that troubles me in the matter is I know I am ruining the spectacle-makers." "Do 'you bear?" I asked, "I shall not pay you for it." He struck a very effective atti tune. "Payment! Of' what con sequence is that? I could not remove that inestimable burner for any amount of money, when the alternative is the ruin of your valuable eyesight. No, sir; your eyes are worth many v,aluable burners. I make you a present of it willingly. I am a poor man. under heavy travelling expenses, and I have a family in want." He sighed. "But duty shall be done. The price is twenty cents. I know you will regret this momen tary harshness in the long years to come, when you are enjoying the benefits of that burner. But that is not my affair, though I am sorry to think of it. Good morning, sir. If at any time, no matter af ter how long an interval, by some inconceivable accident anything should b3come out of order in it, you will find the name of the Be good enough to drop a line to their well known house at Phila delphia, and a man will instantlI; be sent to attead to it." "I was beaten. This offer to send a man from Philadelphia to New York, after the lapse of years, to put a gratuitously bestowed gas-burner to rights, was too much for me. Ibhad to make a purchase. Your experience of visitors in an office, however, is not always so light a character as this. In my younger datys I had one of quite a different sort. It was past the dusk of agloomy winter's day. The inner door somehow abruptly op e ned; I thought by the wind. But in a moment I was undeceived. A ghastly-looking elderly man ap peared in the ap3rture. What I had thought was the noise of a gust of wind, was a heavy groan that had burst from his laboring bosom. It was repeated, as he stood there. "Don't disturb yourself, sir," he faltered. "This is a liberty, I know, but necessity has no choice. I have found this world too hard a place ; I can bear it no longer. In a perfect stranger such as I am, this may seem presumptuous ; but every one has a privilege in his last moments. 1 regret to dis turb one who evidently has a feel ing heart." He staggered a pace aside laying hold of the mantel piece to steady himself, "Fifty cents would have postponed it in definitely, but I find that even so small a sum is hopeless.-- I have ventured to come here, sir, to die" looking from one to another of two chairs to see which would best suit his purpose. He select ed the one to the left hand, sink ing slowly into it, becoming paler every second. I was horrified. No doubt the man had taken poison. A view of the coroner's inquest started before me ; the body wo.uld most likely havec to remain there upon my premises till the inquiry was held. It was awful. "Rally yourself," I said ; "a doelor shall be sent for." His voiegre w fainter. "At No. 13 Mechanics' alley you will find four small children ; I commind them to you. They have no mo ther; I wish they wore more grown up fo:- your sake." In a still weaker tone he murmured. "Fif ty cents would have saved all this." My hair stood on end. Four small children added to the cor oner's inquest overwhelmed me. "Don't die," I frantically urged ; "I will see what can be done for .1 you." "I knew you wore a man ot a feeling heart," he softly muttered; "but it is too late. I only hope. that my sudden departure here, under mysterious circumstances, may Dot bring you into suspicion, The world judges harshly." A cold sweat bedewed me. In addition to a coroner's inquest and four orphan children a charge of murder was possible! "Hero is the money," I gasped, thrusting fifty cents into his hand. He re vived a little. Opening the cor ner of one eye he said: "Could you make it seventy-five cents, ad earn (ny life-long graatitude ?" About nine months afterward. no doubt led astray by the fact of my humble premises being ap proachable by passages leading out of two different streets, the same visitor came there to die again. I heard his preliminary state ment, then I said: "By all means. I have a friend, a doctor, who wishes for a subject on which to try a new surgical experiment. It is very fortunate. Pray, proceed and don't linger." He did not. Hastily replacing his hat, he reached the door in two of the most vigrorous strides I ever wit nessed; but in the doorway he paused. "It is the last favor I shall ask of you," he tremblingly said, with solemn earnestness gleaming in his eyes; "but will you kindly tell me whether I have operated on you before ?" I as sured him that he had. He bright ened instantly as he replied : "You have relieved my heart, sir. The thing has never yet failed, but I thought it had at last. In that case I should have been a ruined man." He re spectfully bowed and vanished from the doorway. IFoR THE HERALD. PROSPECTS OF PROTEST ANTISM. (Condensed from the Southern Beview.) BY MIss G. The term "Protestant" was frst applied to those reformers who, pro testing against a decree of the im perial Diet, held at Spires in 1529, appealed to a General Council. From this circumstance the follow ers of Luther were called Protest ants, and the name afterwards came to be applied to all bodies of Chris tians not within the pale of the Greek or Roman Catholic Church. As a system of positive doctrine, Protestantism is as old as the wri tings of St. Paul. In the year 606, when the supremacy of the Roman Bishop was first acknowledged by the other Bishops of the West, there were those who, obscure and without influence, perhaps, protest ed against this arrogant and unwar rantable claim of the Roman Bish op. Small and feeble was the Prot estant army at that early age, but it hesitated not to begin that war with alpowerful Rome, which, every year assuming greater proportions, has continued even down to the present day. From a Protestant stand-point, chief amorig the enemies of his Lord, rises the blood-stained fabric of the Roman Hierarchy, in which he beholds the beast drunk with the blood of the saints, the apoca lyptic Babylon, and the mother of Harlots. Next among these ene nies there rises the many headed form of Infidelity, whose aims tend to subvert society, and to pul down all governments, and then reduce man to his savage state, extinguish the light of 2,000 years, and cutting the world loose from its ancient moorings, send it a forsaken and fa therless orb drifting through the dark abyss of eternity. * In order to understand rightly the position of Popery in this con tes;t we must have -some idea of what it is, especially some knowl edge of its distinguishing dogmas. The Infallibility of the Roman Church has long been one of its fun damental tenets; but whether this privilege rested solely in the Pope, or in a General Council, has always been an unsettled question among Papists themselves. The Vatican Council, however, assembled in 1870, decreed that this wonderful function rested in the Pope. Now, if the present Pope be infallible, all his predecessors must have been; therefore the Council had the ef frontery to stand up before the civ ilized world and proclaim that men whom all the world know to have been sensualists and murderers, were guided in all their judgments and decisions by the unerring Spirit of God. We might have expected nothing else from Spanish, Italian or Aus tra-ahlc, u hnw a 1,4.2 runn-n. hnt whan wa aaw Englishmen and Americans-men whose very instincts ought to have told them better-aiding the cun ning Jesuit in promulgating a de cree, the tendency of which is to subvert all liberty, whether civil or religious, we had a feeling very much akin to that which must have agitated the breastsf the comrades of Arnold when they first learned his treachery. Another essential doctrine of Po pery is the supremacy of the Pope, which means that the Bishop of Rome has power and jurisdiction over all Christians. The Church of Rome also anathe matizes all who deny the doctrine of merits, which is, that the good works of justified persons are in themselves meritorious, and deser ving of eternal life. The Papists distinguish between venial and mor tal sin; the first to be expiated by the pains of purgatory, while the second they regard as unpardona ble, unless confessed to a priest, and the penance which he imposes be performed for them. The celibacy of the clergy is ano ther article which has been authori tatively enjoined by the Church of Rome since about the year 1074. Again it was decreed by the coim cil of Trent that "all bishops and pastors do diligently instruct their flocks that it is good and profitable to desire the intercession of saints reigning with Christ'in Heaven." Lastly, the Church of Rome maintains that unwritten traditions ought to be added to the Scriptures, in order to supply what defects they may contain, and, of course, to be regarded as of equal authority. Protestants and Romanists are again separated as wide as the poles, by the Spirit which animates each. Protestantism desires to extend.its empire only by moral or spiitual forces; Romanism has ever sought, and still seeks, to advance its inter ests by any and all means at its command. The spirit of persecu tion has been the spirit of Papal Rome since its rise to the preseni time. For the accomplishment of its ends, it has employed the power o: kings, the cruel sword of the mer cenary, the dagger of the assassin, the cup of the poisoner, the axe and faggot of the executioner, and all the hell-contrived maehinery of the Inquisition. Is this church still animated by'the same spirit? Lei the following speech made not long since by Bishop Martin, of Pander hom, answer: "I am Bishop not on ly of the Catholics, but also over the Protestants of my diocese. The Catholic Church has the right te visit with the severest corporal pun ishment the Christians who trans gress the Catholic laws, namelyk,th4 schismatics and heretics, that is tc say, the Greeks and Protestants, for the Church is a spiritual but al so an earthly kingdom." In the face of this declaration (and there are many others of similar import, every sane man must believe that if it had the power, the Catholi< Church to-day would visit with the 'severest corporal punishment' al who dissent from its teaching; ani that the revolting scenes of the six teenth and seventeenth centuries would be reenacted in the nine teenth. Although the genius of Protest antism opposes its making conquest by other than spiritual weapons, ye there-is, of necessity, a political al well as a moral side to this conquest And although the day has long past when the governments o: Christendom make treaties and po litical alliances based upon consid erations for the interest of any par ticula.r church polity, yet it will as sist us in arriving at an accurate es timate of the success of Protestant ism to contrast the political powe: of Protestant with that of Catholii nations. At the present day there are bu three great European powers; tw< of which, England and Prussia, ar< Protestant, while the third, Russia adheres to tlie Greek faith. C these three powers, England is stil first; Austria since Sadorva, an< France since Sedan have ceased ti be what they were before. On th continent of Europe, Prussia an< Russia are the only aggressive poiw ers; the latter is expanding East ward and South eastward over th almost limitless regions of Siberia and central Asia; but the former surrounded as she is by old and civilized communities, can expand only by annexing smaller and weak er states, such as Denmark, Ho land, Belgium, and Switzerland, o by taking from the territories of he once formidable neighbors, Franc and Austria. Thus we see that i1 Europe the controlling powers, o those exercising the greatest influ ence in that quarter of the wonl are Protestant. Again, turning our eyes to tb Weste.n world, we find in the UTn ted States, which stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and with a population of 40,000,000, of this number only 4,000,000 Catholics, or about one Cotholic to ten Protest ants. The United States then is decidedly a Protestant nation. That she is far more powerful and influential than the whole of Catho lic America united admits of ne ,doubt. And if she will but pre serve her faith in the Bible-that friend to liberty and foe to priest craft-there is not the shadow ol doubt in our mind that a hun dred years hence she will be more powerful than the whole Catholic world united. Besides the United States Protestant America is in creased by Canada, a growing na tion, whose population already num bers four millions. Neither France nor Spain now possesses one foot of North American soil, although the Pope in the sixteenth century graciously divided the whole of it between them. Thus, has all of this immense territory, except Central America and Mexico, been gained to Protestantism. At the same time, these two Catholic communities, with all the South American States, have been, in a measure, lost to Rome. Glancing at Africa we see that where, in 1600; Catholic powers .were most influehtial, a Protestant power, England, now rules almost without a rival- We refer more particularly to Western and South ern Africa; but even on the eastern coast, where the Portuguese still claim possessions, the English ex ert a controlling influence. The fact that in the temperate ,regions of Southern Africa there is a grow ing English colony is one full of promise to the future of Protestant ism in that quarter of the world. In Southern Asia, England, through her extensive possessions, of course, possesses a prepondera ting influence. Although but few, comparatively,of the natives of India have become coiverts to the doc trine of the Bible, yet tlie' whole people have been benefited by the promulgation of Protestant princi ples amiong them. In Burmah, however, missionary efforts have met with such a degree of success that that country now may almost be considered as Christian. Passing to Eastern Asia, China, Iand Japan, we .find there two large empires hitherto so impervious to foreign influence of every kind,grad. ually being penetrated by Protest ant ideas, and impressed with Pro testant civilization, 'through their growing relation with England and the United States. Passing now South to Australia, we aind a continent, which,. with Tasmania4and N,ew Zealand, com prises a territory as large as Eu. rope, and which has been gained to Protestantism--directly from hea. thenism, but indirec.tly from Cath olicism. These distant possessions of Great Britain contain at present two millions of population, already constituting a very influential pow. er in that region of the world. Con. tinning to grow in wealth and pop. Iulation, and holding fast to the Bi ble, their influence will widen until it extends, not only over the adja. cent islands, but passing even across the broad Pacific, will let fall rays of Protestant light upon the dark and dull shores of 'South America. bThus, in whatever part of the Shabitable world we look we find Protestant nations exerting greater Spower, whether physical or mental, fthan those which are Catholi. -And more, wherever we find a Pro -testant nation; we find her full of -activity, growing in wealth and in telligence, and wherever there is an -outlet extending her borders. And -the borders of Protestantism are be. ing every day extended. Yet Ma. Scaulay said, that during the last two hundred and fity years Pro ttestantism has made no conquest 'worth speaking of. Can any one Sto-day, looking as we have done, al ,North America,South Africa,British fIndia, Australia, and many and val 1uable islands, make the same decla. Iration? ,But besides these historical facts, there are others which reveal to onw Imind yet more clearly the superio2 nature of Protestantism, and at the -same time clearly show the nature eof its success. We allude to the Swide dissemination of certain ideas ~which, if not born of the Reforma tion, received new life from its ideas Iwhich have grown with Protestani growth, which have becomeessen -tially Protestant, and which every rnation must accept before it cat rhope for either religious or politica freedom. aThe great central idea frorr r which has resulted religious tolera -tion and a more perfect form a: t civil liberty as has been developei in Protestant countries is .i'eedon eof Conscience. Unbind the con .- ence of men and yon place than at once-in a position most favorable w to the attainment of freedom, and la with freedom all things are possi- Is ble. It-is true that among the nations ti at different times there appeared oi such men as Waldo, Wickliffe, and ti Gallileo, who thought for* them- ti selves. But not until the time of ai the Reformation do we witness the ti grand spectacle of entire nations si breaking loose from the servitude ai of centuries, and claiming this, la their inherent right. Rome suc- gi ceeded for many hundred' years in p] binding the consciences of men to V the ruthless wheels of the Papal is Juggernaut, and she dared to lay vi her presumptuous hand upon the is human mind, and say to it "thus g far shalt thou go." I But the time has now come when the Car of Infallibility, as it lies de- tI caying in the midst of its ancient g and effete paraphernalia, is laughed il at by every passer-by, save the stupid ti and the knave; while the hand that b essayed to" stay the progress of b mind has been fatally palsied in the li attempt. ti But Rome did not yield her cher- b ished policy without a hard strug- ti gle. After the Lutheran separa ti tion these nations which adhered to her were made to experience ful. C ly the destructive workings of that i] policy- d The Inquisition was established n to extirpate heresy, that the author- e ity of Rome might be maintained v inviolate. In all these countries v where this tribunal was firmly t] planted, the will of Rome became tj the highest law. 9 It was her first will that her au- t] thorities and d6gms be unqestion- ii ed ; in other words, that the pople o believe, think, and spek just as she s dictated to them. This policy was t to be maintained, let the cost be t what it might. She well knew that t for its maintainance education must t be fettered, and freedom of the s press and of speech be denied. It f: was then, to make automatons of v these beings whom God had'made a to be earnest, thinking men, or to Y convert those whom their Creator t intended to be free andenlightened c men into fearful and ignorant slaves, y that the aid of the Inquisition was t And it did well itsework, but in a extirpating heresy, it crushed out manliness, and in destroying reli- I gious freedom, it struck a death y blow at political liberty. It sue- e ceeded in shutting out for several 1 hundred years from all Catholic e States of Europe, except France, and is the Spanish American States, those .' grand ideas which gave to Protest- a ant communities a new and vigo- a rous life, and which enabled them e to lead the van in the march of civ- c ilization. It also reared a Chinese a wall around Catholic Christendom n to keep out Protestantism. This wall was seemingly impassable, and lj impregnable, but, like that of Jeri cho, it has fallen to the ground be- e fore the shouts of the Protestant .a host. This wall has fallen not be- a fore the artillery of some mighty a army, lead by skillful and scientific a generals, but it has been laid pros- e trate before the all-potent voice of 1: Truth, as it was loudly and inces- t santly proclaimed from the belea a guering ranks of Protestantism.- 1 Those great Protestant ideas which i~ have resulted in religious freedom, ( and which are essential to the fall development of human liberties, t passing the boundaries of Protest- ] ant countries, and working their a way into the minds and hearts of 1 men, have effected such a revolu i tion in Catholic countries both in c Europe and America, that we do r not claim it as the work of man, e but are constrained to cry out a~ "what hath God wrought?" i It is awell known fact that edu I cation is more generally diffused in Protestant than in Catholic coun- t tries. If it were necessary to prove that it is so, we have only to com pare England and Germany with t Spain, Italy, and Austria in the Old c World, and in the New, the United .J States, and Canada with Mexico r and the South American communi- 1 ties. France may be pointed to ast opposing this assumption, but sta- i tistics will show that education is t less general in France than either r in Great Britain or Germany. We i are, therefore, compelled to believe t that Protestantism fosters educa- < tion, and thg it, in turn, strength ens and promotes Protestantism. t bBut there is another agency at 4 work yet more full of promise to f this cause so dear to every Protest e ant. We refer to the work of the a Bible Societies, There is no foe to e Popery more formidable than the 1 Word of God. This is afact which 1 Papists have always known, and i hence their care toileep the Bible a 1 -sealed book to the ma'sses.. They i saw thie danger when the art of -printing was invented, ad again] .wtmrceryta eoe -a-r it ---- -1--21. than hafma. a hen the Reformers began to trans te the. Scriptures into the spoken nguage of Europe. This grand work of disseminating e Word of God has been carried i of late years by the Bible Socie es., By far the most promintof Lese are the "Britishand Foreign," id "American." These two Socie es constituting, perhaps, the most upondous ebarities in the world e successfully engaged in trans ting the Scriptures into all Ian iages, and circulating them among 1 people. The.magnitude of this ork and the success with which it prosecuted strikingly reveal the gorous life there is in Protestant m, and, at the. same time are sug 3stive of imminent peril to the Ro an Hierarchy. The love of liberty, however much Le history of some nations may uinsay it, is a universal principle the human -heart. -Whatever, ten, will promote that liberty will - sought for, and highly esteemed r man. It ils a fact which no intel gent and candid mind can deny, uat political liberty has nowhere nen firmly established and main sined save in Protestant communi es. The promulgation by the Vatican ouncil, in 1870, of the doctrine of ifallibility may be regarded as a irect assault upon te liberties of Lankind. This will be apparent to very candid and refledting mind, hich will take the trouble-to in .stigate the.subject, and to follow ie bearings' and implications of iis dogma to their legitimate re :ts. Such a -mind will surely see mt this doctrine means simply, in s last analysis, the foot of the Pope a the neck of the world. The Rus lan government has not been slow ) see the inevitable tendency of is decree; inee its present hog le attitude toward the Papal par . And it were well if every con bittional governiment, and- all iends of human liberty everywhere, rouldlikewise pexpeive the.1rking anger and guard against its ap roaches. The priest-ridden condi ~on of Catholic countries is due hiefly to the authority of this dog a;, as inthe past so will it bein Ee future, every nation that accepts must submit to the same degra ation. - But the wide-spread diffusion of rotestant civiliztion, and more es eially, of Protestant ideas-of Jib rty; has render-ed it impossible, we ope, that any *civilised State may er again comeiwiderithe dekradng ifuences of. a corrupt priesthood. 'his is ourt hope, because we see mong all the nations of Christen om and earnest reaching after lib rty; not the spasmodic outburst f enthusiasts, but the continued ad systematie'dforts of thnkig ien, to secure for themselves the riceless boon of civil and religious erty. This d'eire is one result of a in rease of knowledge; knowledge ill continue to increase, l?rotest at ideas willeontinue to be diffused, d with their now extended diffu ion will the desire for liberty be rtended and deepened, until, final 7, it shalbecome a fliae so in ense in its energy that if will con tme every obstacle obstructing its ray, even though it be the decay ag structure of the once puissant ihurch of Rome. Thus do we see Protestanrtism riumphing over its ancient enemy, toman Catholicism. And now in Iliance, as it is, with knowledge rith all the arts of enlightened civ izatbn, and with every influence r agency that can elevate or bless iankid, but, more than all be ause it was directed by Him whose rork it is, it is destined to continue be triumphant course, until it saves behind it as things of the ast, not only Pdpery, but In.fideli y, Mahometanism, and Paganism. HEAT oF THE SUN.-The heat of he sun nowhere penetrates the cean more than six hundred feet. Lt a depth of from one to two alles the temperature is every vhere about four degrees below he freezing point, caulsedI, proba ily, by the ice water poured into be ocean from the arctic regions, orhernl and southern. This, be ng heavier than the surface wa er, sinks to the bottom and forms arrents ever flowing toward the qu,tor, to take the place of the wa er which, there heated and render d lighter, rises to- the surface and os the Gulf and other warm treams. -As these flow again to !ard the arctic regions, it will be een that a perpetual circuit is :ept up, the arctic waters eontin ally lessening the -heat of the ropial waters, and th'ese, in their 'urn, giving out their - heat as hey flow away from the tropics" England is warmer :than Green. and only,because of 'the warmth iveda from the Gulf stream. THOUGHTS FOR SATURDAY NiGHT. The soul is strong that trusts in goodness. Humanity, like darkness, reveals the heavenlylights. There is nothing on eti divine besides humanity. A good man enlarges the term of his own existence. To have ideas is:to gather. To think is-to weave them into gar Iands It is easy fo look down on oth ers; to look down on ourselves-is the difficulty. What we need nist is' not so much to realize the ideal as to ideal ize the reaL Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never seen that clever men have bee i ungratefd [(Giothe. God gives manhood but one clew to success-utter and exact justice; that he guarantees shall be always expediency. The only way to make the mass of mankind see the beauty of jus tice is by showing them in pretty plain terms the consequence of in justice. I had rather never receive a kind ness than nevr behtowdiixe. Not to rtuir ;abeeis *.' the ter sin, but nAlto confer it is the ear-. lier.-Seneca. What has surprised me most- r history is t6read of so few kings who have abdicated their thrones not above a dozen or -two at,the msi-tene. There is .a perennial nobleness and even sacredness in work Were he ever so benighted, forgetful of his high callin there"is always hope in a-man that actually and earnestly works. The happiness. 'of life may be greatly increased by.small courte sies, in which there is no parade. whose voice is too still to tee and which manifest themselves by tea der and affectionate looks and little kind acts of atteniion. THE VAGABOND SAGE. in old man of ,very active physiognomy,. answering to the name of- Jacob Witrmot, was brought. to the Police Court. Hist clothes Jooked as though they might have been bought second hand inhis youthfrt prime, for they had suffered more froin the rubs of the world than th e pro. prietor bimnself. "What business?" "None; I'm a traveler." "A vagabond, perhaps?" "You are nee~ far wrong. Trav elers and vagabonds are about the same thing. The' difference' is that the latter travel without mon ey and the former. without brains?" "Where have you. traveled ?" "All over the Continent." "For:what purpose ?" "Observation." "What have you observed ?" "A little to commend, much to censure, and a great deal to laugh at." "Humph !what do you com mend?" "A handsome woman that will stay' at home, an eIo quen't preacher who will preach short sermons, a good writer that will not write .too much, and a fool that has sense enough~ to hokd his tongue." "What do you censure?" "A.man tha& marries a girl for her fine clothing, a, youth who studies medicine while he has the use of his hands, and the people who will elect adrunkard to office." "What <do you laugh at?" "1 laugh at a man who expects his position to command tbat re spect which his personal qualifida tions and qualities do not merit." He was dismissed. "Pomp, was you ever drunk2" "No, I 'toxicated wid ardent spirits once, and dat's 'nuff for dis dar kie. De Lord 'bless you Casar, my head felt as if it was an out house, while all de niggers in de world appeared to be splittin' wood in it." Irascible old party.-"Conductor, why didn't you wake me as 1 asked yout Here I am miles beyond my station.'' Conductor.-"I did try, sir, but alllI could get out of you was 'all right, Maria; get the chil dren their breakat, and I'll be down in a minute." "Guilty orot-guilty?" asked a Dutch Justide. "Not guilty." "Den jobde tyful do you heret Go about mit your pizness " -sle -nan4dtr'.----t igt Wap no enditor' bhned loabt nig A n etot anctmed tha eitor' And Isa thougtor s I ;ld hte.to' nut, How emily editors U.. ADVERTISINC RATESS Advertsements inserted at the z2ft of $1.-00 prsquare-one inch_4ftrfim-tnhm&don, and M5c fo~r each subsequent InseWon. Double colmu advertisements teoper ceaiou abovee' Ofteft4_v8~Ekaeti*VSqUr# wsordinavY SPOdutee I0 ies C-COIU 20 cents W!4ne, Ad, 'ou~!f the mnum ber. of tfR forbid AZI CO7RTMMP. MANZVAOY. 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