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A Family Companion, Devoted to Literature, Miscellany, News, Agriculture, Markets, &c. Vol. XH. WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 30, 1876. No. 35. T HE HERALD IS PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY 31ORNING, At ifewberryt Se C, BY T1108* P. GIENEKER Wdtor and Proprietor. Terms, $9.50.per .ehssum, Invarlably-in Advance -. tim e fo a p s ope at the expiration of UP The 04 mark denotes expiration Of Sub Feription. WE CANMAKE HOMEHAPY Though we my not chang the cottage For a juansion tall and grand,. Or excbmpge & l grass plat For a boundless s tretcb of land Yet theres something brigh ter, dearer,. Than thewealth we!d thus commAnd& Thowgh we have no mneans to purehmse Costly pkctures rich and rare ThovChv64Weimosilkenubangings For thewlss cold and. bare We can hang them e'er with garlands, VFor flowers bloom everywhere. We can always make home cheerful, If the-right course we begin; We can make its inmates happy, And their truest blessings win; It wij* make the small room brighter, It will let the -sunshine in. Wfe can gather round the fireside -When the evening hours are long; We can blend our hearts and voices In the happy social song; We can guide the erring brother, Lead him from the path of wrong. We may fill otir homes with music, And with sunshine brimming.'oer. If against all.dark intruders . We will firmly close the door-. ifl5tS. His preachin~r touched my the mercy of God. I am free now, because he that is "free in Christ, is free indeed." He sat down,. and there came forward a young man with a fair face, and an abundance of brown, curly hair. His story was a sad one of prolonged struggle and re peated failure, and the bitter an guish of remorse. He began to drink at the age of fifteen; at twenty-one he was a hopeless drunkard. His father and mother never ceased to pray for him. His wife, after he had one, never would give him up, bat these were his only friends. And he did all a man could do to break their loving hearts. -In the army all his evil habits became confirmed, and he had been enslaved by them il his life, except one interval of two years and seven months. And this period of reformation was brought to an end by the advice of a physician, at whose sugges tion he resorted again to the use of stimulants. Soon he could not live without them, yet such was his anguish of spirit at finding himself again under the dominion of the tyrant, that be took every vow, joined every society, even took an oath to abstain before a magistrate. All was of no avail. He broke them all when he saw the cup-nothing could restrain him in the presence of temptation. Twice he would have taken his own life, but that his wife had stayed his band when the knife had almost touched his throat. He said: I need not dwell on what was. Let me hasten to tell whence came my deliverance. On Thankqgiving day I went out in the morning, and by dinner time had had so many as six or-seven drinks. Went home in a condi iion in which I could only eat, and fter eating, sleep. I slept on the ofa till toward evening, then aauntered forth. After a short visit at the house of my brother in-law, I went out, not knowing yr caring whither, having no lefinite purpose, except to drink it every corner on my way home. At one place the bartender said : Fill up the glass, its Thanksgiving lay, you know." And I filled it 2p, and went staggering on. An inaccountable impulse turned me back several times that night when I would have taken a cer ain direction, and my steps wan lered on and on, until I came to ~he great building where Moody mnd Sankey iwere holding their neetings, Idrew riearer and nearer A great conflict was going on in my nind, and it seemed as if God and satan fought together for my soul. [ could not go away ; I could not mter. And when at last I was snabled to rush to the .entrance, t was more- as a maniac might ave gone there than like a rea sonable man. Once inside, the .ights, the throng, the chorus of a 2mn- they wer-e singing-all 2elped to sober me. And when the hymn ceased, md Mr. Moody called out : "Is here in all this throng any poor sinner who is so lost that he can 2t help himself ? Let him come orward here and we will ask 3od to help him." I said: "That's e ; that message is for me"-and lown the long aisle, pushing my way through the crowd standing here, I almost ran to the foot of ,he platform and seated myself. When the invitation rang forth again I tried to rise, but-the peo pIe near. me, seeing my condition, ook me by the arms and held mie lown, whispering : "Sit still; sit till, you're drunk." Drunk ! Yes, [ knew it, but I had heard the oice of God, and when the invi ;ation came again I1 couldn't sit still, and I broke away from those who held me, and rose. Ah, what n hour followed ! What prayers mnd tears and struggles ! And at ts close, some one asked me if I would pray an hour after my re turn home, for, if I would do so, [ might know that at the same boar many hearts were praying [n their own homes for me. As we were about to separate, one ood Christian said: "Why go bome to pray for this soul? Let ais pray now and here." And we stayed, and they prayed for me ndl T prayed for myself, anid I was able to come to Christ, an d just as I was-yes, drunk as I was, he took me. And from that glad hour when I went- home to my %i ife with the good news of my sins forgiven, He has kept me; He has shown in me His power to save "to the uttermost." When he had closed. a young man arose and said: 1 was a drunkard from my boyhood-a wreck before I reached the age of twenty-one. My mother never ceased to pray for me, and to urge me to reform. When I was under the influence of drink, I would get as far away from home as possible, and stay away until my money was all gone, and sick, broken and helpless, I would seek my father's house. During these absences, my mother's letters would follow me, whenever she knew where I was; and when I returned. she always welcomed me and nursed me back to health. Here is one of her let ters, said he (and he drew from his pocket and read to the au dience a tender letter from his mother to her dear boy, begging him to come home, telling him how she loved him and waited for bim, and wanted to see him begin agair.). In answer to some such appeal, he did seek his home one night, after having been on a debauch of weeks, in which he had fallen as low as intemperance could bring him. He 'ame at night; he watched the windows till the lights were out; he ap proached and rang and waited, and soon a step on the stair and the door was opened; and his mother 'held him in her arms "close to her heart, as if I had never gone astray." That night, he continued, with a voice husky and broken, she nurse* me as she had nursed me many ,times before.; but on. the morrow she was not at rmy bed side. When I asked for her, they said that she was ill; and when I rept -from my chamber and con fronted. the physicians, and beg ged them to tell me that I had not murdered her, they replied : "There is not ashadow of hope." Then my heapt broke, and I pleaded with Godi, with. many tears, to spare her only until her boy could repent. And God was merciful to me. He did spare her, and He did teach m# repen tance. 1 knew the way. I had been well taught. I knew that help was in Christ and Christ alone. And I sought and found that help, and have lived to see my mother's heart made glad by the answer to her prayers. He called upon the mothers1 whose tearful eyes were lifted to is face to work on and love on, ntil their wandering boys should ome back. BIRas AT HoM.-Mrs. John Ramage, Windsor Street, between Fifth and Sixth, has been feed-. ~ng hundreds of birds each winter, ~nd even thousands during the ~ everest weather. During very ~ old snaps she has given up near- 1 y the whole of the second story e f her house to the birds. She e ikes them and they like her. They come flying around her t when she calls. She has no chil- i Iren to frighten them, and the r bree cats never try to catch any f f them, but walk right through a heir midst while they are hop. r ing around on the ground. The I ig old dog also used to step over E he little birds if any were in his lI athway, but he is dead now. Mr. t nd Mrs. Ramage own two acres e f land which are estimated to be E worth $20,000, and the birds oc- d upy this tract. Mrs. Ramage re- E narked to an Eagle reporter that i no one has hardly an idea what it I osts to feed so many birds during ' a whole winter. However, they t equired less feeding last winter .1 ban usual, on account of the mild- e ess of the weather. The Eng- 5 [ish sparrows keep many other s inds -of little birds away, but e here are some kinds that come t ach spring and stay. There are t nore robins on the premises this a ear than at any time heretofore. t (Reading (Pa.) Eagle. i The great gift of preaching nowing when to stop. gIiseellanene. A ragged, sad-eyed boy, aged nine or ten, stopped me on the street the other day and said: "I haven't had anything to eat this whole day ! Won't you please give me ten cents?" I gave it to him. I'd have given him the money if it bad been necessary to pawn my hat. "Do you let im postors~ swindle you in that man aer !" inquired an acquaintance. A journalist who has knocked aronfid for a daily paper a dozen years has seen every phase of hu man life. Men, women and chil dren have swiadled him, or sought to; people have lied to him ;.his money has been given to whining, lying vagrants who told direful tales of distress, and he ought to be able to correctly read human nature. "I'll bet that boy is a professional beggar," continued my friend chuckling at the idea - of my being swindled. None of us care for the loss of a shinplaster on the street, while every one feels vexed and annoyed at the idea of being s% indled out of a single penny. I could not say that the boy was not a swindler, and yet I would have divided my last shilling with him. "Why ?" I. told my friend why, and I will ell you. One day last year when he wild wind blew the snow over he house-roofs and around the orners in blinding clouds, and he frosty air cut one's face like a knife, a boy of ten came up to ne s I waited for the car. He was hinly clad, his face betrayed hun er and suffering, and in a mourn a l voice he pleaded: "I'm hun ry and cold!" "Why don't you o home ?" I asked. "I haven't ny!" "Haven't you any rela Ives?" "Not one !" "How long ave you been here?" "Three reeks." The boy spoke in that l.rawl which professional beggars ssume. I believed, too, that I ad seen his face on the streets ime and again. I hardened my eart and said : "Boy ! I know. ou, and if I catch you asking '3 ny one for money again PIl have ou arrested !" He moved awayI uickly.. I argued that this proved is guilt, forgetting that a home ess, friendless waif might evince ear when entirely innocent. Five ours later, when night had ~ome and the wind had grown to Sfierce gale, the boy halted me gain as I plunged through the ~now-drifts. I did not see him ntil he called out: "Mister ! I'm lnost starved, and PIll freeze to leath if I can't get some place to ~leep !" The same thin, ragged lothes, hardly comfortable enough1 r June weather, the same whine 0 his voice. I felt like giving uim money, but the fear that he ad been sent out by his parents 0 beg restrained me and angered e. Catching him by the arm, I elled out: "See here, boy ! if on don't own up that you are ing 'to me Il-* take you to the ~ tation !" Through the blinding - torm I saw his white face grow aler, and he cried back : "Don't ' ke me-don't ! Yes, I was ly ag !" I released him and he hur ied away, while I walked on, attering myself that I had played ~ sharp game and done the gene-. us public a good turn. An hour J ,ter, when the night had grown 1 till wilder and colder some one 1: nocked at my door. It was a imid knock, and I wondered who ' ould have sent a child abroad on ch a night. When I opened the ~ oor that same boy was on the C tep, his face was blue with cold, a s whole form shivering, and a V ok of desperation in his eyes. P Please, mister -!" he began, I ut stopped when recogniring me. was puzzled to know why het ould have followed me home hy he had selected me for a 'ictim and trailed me so persist- a ntly. 1 might have argued that ~ e storm had. driven people off bJ e streets and that the freezing, tarving boy had, in his despera ion, called at the house, but I si idn't. Had it been any other h oy, or any other person, asking harity I would haver given mrmply and fraey BuRt I wa V angry at his trailing me-angered that he thought he could swindle me-and I grabbed at him and in quired : "Boy, what is your name ?" He leaped back, and standing where the furious storm almost buried him from sight, he answered. "Gil!" "I know you, sir!" I shouted, 'and he moved away without another word. May the Lord forgive me for that night's work l But you might have acted the same. When morning came, after a night so bitter that policemen were frozen on their beats, I opened the front door to find that boy dead on the steps, frozen to death ! I knew, as the dead, white face looked up at ine through the snow, that I had wronged-him with my suspicibns, but it was too late then-the an gels had opened to him a gate leading to a place where the hu man heart and unworthy thoughts 3An never enter. Poor Gil! A warm meal or a shilling would have saved his life, and I drove bim out to his death. This is why I give when I am asked 3ow. I know that I sometimes rive to the unworthy, but it would Je better, to give all I possessed to in impostor than to have another iomeless waif creep back to die )n the spot where I had unjustly wceused him. [M. Quad, in N. Y. Graphic. LDVICE TO YOUNG WIVES. "Young wife and mother, make rour home a place of beaut&," etc. Do, my dear. Kiss your hus )and the minute he comes home, md turn the cat out of the easy 4bair. Run for the two S's (spit ;oon and slippers), and let the )aby squall. 'Giv6 him the best )f the pudding and eat the burned 1prt yourself. Put the mealy )otatoes on his plate, and tell him rou prefer.the water soaked. Be iappy while he sits on two chairs mnd reads the paper to himself. injoy the smoke of his strong obacco, and if you cough tell him hat you left the~yard gate open .nd caught cold. Smile when he erks off his shirt buttons, and >retend you think the washer voman did it. Smile more sweet y when he ".wonders if you will 'ver cook as mother did." Talk a ~reat deal about mother. Smile weetest of all when he comes iome .from the lodge, walking ideways to keep the floor from triking him. Listen with a >eaming countenance while he iraises the best looking girl of rour' acquaintance, and~asks you thy you do not do up your back 1 iair like hers. Shed all your ears in' secret, when, after having ~ Lelped him into his best white ~ [nen suit, you see him go off-to he picnic with widow Smith, who dresses so well, by Jove!" t f he offers you fifty cents when 'ou tell him Jimmy's shoes are rorn out remember that he al iays smokes the best cigars, and -bless him. Keep blessing him, nd when you die you shall be -as quickly forgotten as you de erve to be. Amen. P. S.-His name ought to be Thommy my love." . IF YOU ARE ENGAGED TO A )RINKING MAN BREAK IT OFF.-- We ender Qur thanks to the Vermont idge who the other day, in ronouncing upon a divorce suit, did down the opinion that when 0 woman marries a man of known itemperate habits, she takes her appiness, prosperity, and wel tre in her own hands, and has no laim for riddance of him there fter. We have great.pity for the rife who is joined to an intem erate husband, but we trembler >r the fate of the woman who iarries an intemperate rgan. If aese words reach the eye of.any roman under engagement of xarriage to such a man, we most alemnly appeal to her to pause L efore she imperil her well-being ~ y accepting any such risk. Gentility-Eating meat with a lver fork when the butcher's bill as not be0n paid.b A wise man makes more oppor mnities than he finds.t HOW INDIANS CURE HEAT. When her lord has killed a buffalo the woman's work begins. She has to skin it, the meat to secure, and all t pack upon ponies or mules, and carry to camp, where the meat must be cured. This is done by cutting it into thin sheets, and hanging it over poles in the hot sunshine, where it is soon dried thoroughly; then it is packed fresh in packages of about one hundred pounds each,and inclosed in a nice folding sack of thick buffalo skin, prepared espe cially for the purpose. This is not dressed down thin after being fleshed, but well tanned, and of the fall thickness of the skin; the hair side nicely ornamented with paint, for the outside of the sack. This is cut out like a huge envelope, so that the ends and sides will fold over whatever is put in them, and secured by strong buckskin strings. By being thick it retains its form, and is very useful for carrying other things besides meat and tallow. After the meat is taken care of the skin must be looked after. Those taken at this season of. the year are mostly dressed for lodges. They are first staked on a smooth spot of ground, and water put upon them, when they are ready for fleshing. This consists in removing the fesh with an instrument made Df a straight bar of iron, about a root in length, flattened at one ond and filed to an edge. This being grasped in the hand, and a uccession of quick blows given, ;he work slowly proceeds. The I ikin is then dried, after which ;he hair is removed in a dry state, i wd the skin reduced to the proper I ;hickness by dressing down on I ;he hair side. This is done with Ln instrument made by firmly < ;yjng a. flat piece of steel, filed to i i beveled edge at one end, and i vith the corners rounded, to a arge prong of a doer's born. This< s so trimmed, in connection with ,he body of the horn, as to form 1 in elbow, and is used a little as a ~arpenter uses his adze. This < vork is usually done in the cool< >f the morning. The brains of 1he animal, having been properly aken care of for the purpose, are1 iow soaked and squeezed by the iand until reduced to a paste, andi ipplied to both sides of the skin,< rihich .is afterwards worked and -ubbed until flexible. The prep ration of robes is from winter ? kins, and differs from the fore ~oing only in being dressed down ] nthe flesh side, so a~s to leave he wool and hair upon the robe,; ~nd is more thoroughly worked, I ~nd scoured by means of a sharp ~ritted stone. A drag driven by an elegantly c ttired lady, and with a trim and ~ ieatly dressed colored boy perched a in the footman's seat behind, was t iassing through the streets, when I t was espied by an old. negro I roman. "Bress de Lord," she ex- I laimed, raising her hands as she c poke, "Bress de Lord, I never a ~pected to see dat. Wonder what t at cullud young gemman pays I at young white 'oman fur drivin' rj at kerridge ? I know'd it'd come, a rut never 'epected to lib to see it. t )is nigga's ready to go 'way n ow." Somebody once wrote a song about c ne P. H. Sheridan being "twenty c iiles away." His present conduct b -ould suggest the propriety of setting a >rth in rhywe that Philip is a thous- y~ rd miles away-from the seat of war -and evidently intends to remain 'here he is if it takes all summer. ti 'he Chicago papers hint that the n ~ason Phil doesn't go to the front is p ot that he is afraid, but that "with c ieut. Col. Grant, of my staff," he is o iastering the devious mysteries~ of ta 1e noble game of croquet. 1 Susan B. Anthony carries a irge family umbrella at the Cen- s annial capable of stampeding as n iany as five hundred men at a tme. p A court is an assemblage of no- T le and distinguished beggars. If you would be happy do not s ry to be miserable. v FRIGHTFUL DEATH. The unnatural habit of kissin, dogs has been the cause of a hoi rible death of a young lady. Lad; M., a Berlin paper tells us, hal for some timo been afflicted wit] periodical indisposition, frequen ti: becoming so serious as to pro duce swelling of the abdomeE The medicines prescribed by phy sicians availed nothing, 'and a little benefit did the patient re ceive from visiting, several yearE watering places of establishei reputation. On the contrary, thi -malady grew to be so intolerabli that upon conference held, physi cians called in Privy Counselo: Wilms for a consuitation.. Thi physician, observing the sick lad3 for some -time, and after having propounded several questions, sud denly asked: "Has this lady perhaps, a dog?' Surprised at such a question her friends shook their heads neg atively. "But did she ever have one?' the physician continued. "Yes, some three years ago, was the answer. "And the lady certainly allowed the dog to. kiss her once in s while?" Mr. Wilms asked. It. too, had to be admitted, when the doctor felt fully satisfied Df the cause of the indisposition. He concluded that in' kissing the log bladder worms-infinitesimal inimais with which none but sick logs are troubled, as usually were made to pass into the liver )f the patient. The operation performed by Mr. Wilms, shortly ifterward, fully established the ,orrectness of the diagnosis. The irer of the patient was peopled )y innumerable worms, which it was patent had passed from the log. The lady was operated on hree times, and the fourth she lied. We are of the opinion thut this ~ase should be read far and near. Ve add another medical observa ion in regard. to calf's liver, so )opular in most families. The ~onsumption of this article ever ~alls for -great care, and it should iever be used except when in its -aw state it is of one color. Calf's iver is also frequently full of vorms. A mere speck lighter or larker than the rest is enough to ~ause suspicion. A Boy's IDEAs oF' HEADs. 'Heads are of different shapes and izes. They are full of notions. ilarge heads do not always hold the nost. Some persons can tell just vhat a man is by the shape of his lead. High heads are the best kind. Tery 'knowing people are called ong-headed. A fellow that won't top for anything or anybody is alled hot-headed. If he isn't uite so bright they call him oft-headed ; if he won't be coaxed or turned they call him pig eaded. Animals have very small eads. The heads of fools slant ack. When your head is cut if you are beheaded. Our heads re all covered with hair, except 'aid heads.. There are other :inds of heads besides our heads. 'here are barrel heads, heads of ermons-and some ministers used a have fifteen heads to one ser ion ; pin heads, heads of cattle, s the farmer calls his cows and xen; head winds, drum heads, abbage heads, at loggerheads, ame to a head, heads of chapters, ead him off, hea.d of the family, nd go-ahead-but first be sure ou are right.'.-Young Amnerican. Professor Abel has ascertained hat the speed with which deto ation travels-as that of gun owder,gun cotton and fulminating ampounds-is higher than that f any known agent except elec ricity and light, being from 8,000 to 21,000 feet per second. It is not the starch on the front a much as the heart that is be eath. It is fourteen years since speci.e syments were stopped in the rnited States. We often hate for one little rea >n, when there are a thousand rhy we ahnnld love. ADVERTISINC RATES* Advertisements inserted at the rate of $1 .00 per square--one inch-for first insertion, and 75c. for each subsequent insertion. Double colamn advertisements ten per cent on above Notices of meetings, obituaries and tribrJ( 3 of respect, same rates per square as ordingiy advertisemen cts. Special notices in local'column 15 ceufs perline, Advertdsemeit not marked with the num ber of insertiows vMl be kept. In til forbid and charged acrigy Special contract.Ma&~ vi& .la adver tsr,with 'Mad eduows on above rates Done with Neatness nd-Divpatch Terms Cash. SHE THOUGHT SHE KNEW. The passengers in the sleeping coach were just dozing off when F something howled out: 'low-wow-wow.' "Great dragons, is there'a younv Sone aboard!I" growled a fatmn from his upper berth. . ' Pll ,beta hundred dollars none of us can get -a wink of sleep to-night." "Wow-wow I" whined theehild. 'There he goes again 12" growled the fat man. "I never travel but what I run across some oneai off. spring." "Who's that talking?" 'callid the mother of the child in aload r' voice. "Me!" answered the fat--Main. " tWhy didn't vou either leave that Schild at home -or stay at JfdmiD yourself ?" I'Ar6 you talking- to me?". de manded the woman.. 'Yes, Ma'am, I am; I sayi tS a shame to bring a sick abildiinto6 a sleeping car to disturb twenty.,or thirty PonPe." him. -. I