The Blairsville Press (Newspaper) - March 26, 1869, Blairsville, Pennsylvania VOLUME MARCH NUMBER 12. Site K M 6 00 Per Annum VIM able in l Job Work o won tod at tht following m ten 50 A nod 2 Road por square J subsequent ou Dissolutions and per throe 1 30 or j 20 or J 30 or SO or 8 00 for 50 of cacti of the in Professional und 00 Local per first insertion in ia tho on or tho moon of at 7 1-4 r. a. By of tho so. A J 0. at tf in their in and third Thursday's of l J 0. at tho M. P. I. 0. of 0. F in evoo at 6 K. 0. 133, I. O. ol 133, I. O. Q T meets every Tum 7 o'clock V M. W. CT. -i co VA. Tha arc Man of Tomb and for WOIK and in any purt this extra LA 5 Westmoreland Vs. Thu in Foreign and ou Land uvid Tomb Marble Posts for h r tha od our and w thtl M of at prices In JuJ ly 1 35 a a T PA. The yoar is divided into two o Sro FALLi hrst ends January 31st. T KRM opous lust of c H A n E s for Tor of day higher 20 T 10 41 iu urfe of piano 2i J. A. PHY and Pa. 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No. 50 A OLD Who shall judge a inau from manners Who shall shall know him by his may be fit lor Pinions ht for something Crumpled and dirty jacket May tho golden ore Of the deepest thoughts and vesta cau do uo There are springs of Eyer Helling out of There are purple and crushed who by not LOTOS and you and While ho values Bui in the upraised above his Olt his remember That youa meanest lunda are Men by men by Men by und men by Claiming rights to in a man's ennobling Thoro aru little There lire There are cedars on the who counts not Lovea and prospers you and to all Aru as in the Toiling hands ire builders 01 A nation's wealth or 1 tiled 1-iiir.cas IH Fed nnd fattened on the the of Living only to Whilo tbn poor man's outraged Vainly lifted up its Truth and witn and Secret shall never While theie a. sunny whoso voice is tinging Boundless love to yon and mo. oppression with its tho pebbles of the Education as it Should In contrast with Massey's requiem over his it might be well to consider the following picture from the pen of tho deepest ers and most forcible writers iu our Henry is the benevolent Mr. or Mr. whose heart is touched by let him glance at the nile faces that about noonday fill the porches and windows of the great if he be a let him ask himself how he would like to seo a son of his own enrolled in that decrepit How still they and how patiently they upon the monotonous Are they they smoke they they in all the offices of automatic By-and-by they will rise and saunter toward the or they will go to the and chase tho weary hours around the table ti 1 when night will doubtless galvanize them into some more feverish However terrible and revolting this I do not think it Listen now to the moral which the thor You devoutly pray God to exempt your darling boy from such a fate as he grows But God's pity is infinite towards these faded and your blooming offspring can claim no exceptional regard By no coaxing or adulation can we persuade Him to remit eternal laws in our if we bring up our children to covet a life of pleasure as tho summum bonum or to anticipate a career of inglorious or passive not all ths powers of heaven eau prevent their falling into tho hands of the harpies who lire by their Of it is en- tirely right that tho enterprise of our business men should be richly that industry and fidelity to one's cations should even be stimulated by the chance of attaining at last to abounding Butat the same time let us all remember that ivc belong to ciety before we belong to and that we have no to over- for a the paramount claims of society in the education of our We have in the words of Gerald quoted in my former and those of of Mr. given a fair indication of the Scylla and P. O 4 Ji tho Urge anil Known m lie corner of tho and refitted refurnished is now prepared fo public uith either or transient and lodging at reasonable livery and room u I 11 the K. A Graff hai hand tho Urgent oi choice fruit trees tu Lo found in Ii would bo to of all bo iu to lino IH of ibo ia o moral of our rich young men Where the bold and wise who shall probe this deadly and deepening tell us what soundness remains The time is the urgency One can as he goes along our lordly so many homes in which the father site robbed of tho sons ho should have been the and prop of his declining years or the sleepless heart of the mother counts the weary hours till in her gal's And one can also on tho other as he goes along so many princely houses where neli lies in and tombs of promising youth are nightly up to the gigantic Moloch of I am on good that fifteen between Bleecker and Barclay on Broadway are daily und nightly open for tilted oi with extreme luxury rendered attractive by every artifice which can inflame the senses and captivate an imagination devoted to and some of as to thu mere necessary ut an outlay of between twenty and thirty thousand dollars a Who support these glittering palaces of death for do the proprietors of the most luxurious of hells get the twenty or thirty dollars per annum which ble them to maintain the house they cupy between Prince street and und set a and day and night which eclipse every table in and are free to every man's so n in town They get them out of the pockets of our business The industry and enterprise of our com- classes are incessantly sapped to fatten these bloated ulcers of vice and For it is not the sons of our mcrs and mechanics that are to be found in these but only the sons of those who have large and ex. peel to leave their children enough to maintain them without It is tho children of our rich men who keep up the army uf and ind that infest the Find a young me 11 who has no or having has no desire to get rid of it and you will find a soil upon which roguery cannot Who feed our in the long pay tho expenses of their and train them for some It of our rich It is those having amassed a mint uf carelessly and bly tho active girs of their children in tho love of purely passive Tho mud of our streets owes half its parentage to the dust the and half to the rains of So the vice and which disfigure society to grow out of tho alliance of ex- treme wealth with extreme It IB chiefly in the very lowett or in the very highest of the social edifice that we encounter and the various forma of which still CUMO our Ae the Charybdis of our modern civilization the opposite perils against which a true Education of the destined to guard our He who is so or that his whole mature life is likely to be a precarious and humiliating struggle for he must inevitably cringe for plead for beg for iu order that he may satisfy his physical needs without man is foredoomed by false or defective training to a life of ing and a dishonored He may possibly escape this if he it will be through some unusual felicity of some accident or stroke of by any means whick do credit to his parents and lie was educated for a beggar or a but has been caught in his fall down the precipice by some casual bush or on which he had no right to A should jump into the sea to drown and be fished up from the bottom not quite with a priceless pearl adhering to his might as justly take pride in tho as So of tho hoir of educated for a career of sumptuous It is possible that he may nevertheless become a exemplary if his training deserves no part of the That would have made him a sensualist and a cumberer of the had it not been counteracted and For all practical poses his is mainly a clog and a Let mo vindicate this fundamental statement from the implication of I do not hold that alj men should be equally endowed with capacity or Variety is Nature's base of and a strict equality or uniformity of social conditions is tho dream of and the derision of practical There will always be richer and but there need not be a dering a starving nor a sturdy The problem I would submit the diverse ties of some millions of human beings constituting a so to develop and adapt these that every one shall con- tribute adequately and cheerfully to the general while securing a com- to And this problem is to be solved mainly through a more more I have often given at once surprise and offence to an inquiring who appealed to me for aid or in his efforts to gain what is called a Liberal in order to qualify himself for the or some other I tell him very in that J do not wish to forward W any and if I could make him a lawyer by turning my hand I would not do it. is not the Law a useful and noble it but there are quite pursuing it YOU are nqt wanted more strictly the race has greater need of your services in some other We hare lawyers to until wo shall have planted moio chained more sheltered of our people in more comfortable and reduced the price of flour below ten dollars a When we shall have brought these and many other good things forward a it will be in ample season to grind out another batch of My inquiring friends are somewhat surprised by of do not appear to see just how to take they seem often to suspect me of or intent to insult when in fact I was never more in in A ruminating who spent a portion of the late hot summer in ting drains through the marshes indited thereupon some on wherein he propounds the suggestion that the world needs ing more than and that half the labor and effort now expended on the latter might better be devoted to the I do not think the a happy I rather suggest that the world not less by any but more of a sort of Preaching that will Set plo to of that sort I mean to do my Our current that which costs the many things which need not be and leaves undone far the doing of which is urgently We leam too considering how much we are we learn very much that wo might easily dis- pense or wait while wo arc left in ignorance of far more that we urgently need to Our youth are laboriously taught to conjugate Greek that will never read nor hear after they shall have left the halls of learning behind but are sent out into the world ignorant of the nature and composition even of the soil beneath their It under- stood but they might at once ceed to lighten the labors while ing the gains of their frugal fathers while their Greek for the few months that they fainly ger in the are ornamental And au education that has cost a thousand dollars often leaves its recipient even earn an ent and tolerable and the most and helpless saue and sinewy men I have most certain to live and die objects of clArity received a good Had one tenth the cost of the schooling been expended in buying each of them an a a a jack chisel and au and in teaching them how to use dextrously these while the residue was devoted to their mental they might all have lived in useful and died full of years and of honors while they arenow doomed to hang about thu cheap purlieus of this or that city severally beseeching some one for employment as or con- capacity that will shield them temporally from the pangs of Can language be more perverted than in calling the youthful experience of such men Kate Blake was the only daughter of Jacob the old miser of West She was unaccountably and her frank and engaging manner en- hanced the charms of rosy den pearly and eyes like the blue of her father's death she would be heiress to the nice little sum of seventy though men in general profess not bo influenced by pecuniary matters in affairs of it is to be reasonably supposed that the prospective wealth by no means lessened the number of her Among those most most was Will with a heart larger than his and very little thought of care and Fortunately old Jacob never suspected the partiality of his daughter for Will ho would have put her on her bread and water before he would have con- sented to the slightest intimacy with Will Jacob Blake was not in favor of Those who knew his circum- stances were not surprised at for to use a more expressive than elegant Mrs. Blake was a Tartar with enough temper for two Old Jacob had to walk for tho most or suffer the which usually descended on his in the shape of any domestic utensil which happened to be lying around A maiden sister of Mr. Blake resided in the whose principal business seemed to be to act as a sort of echo to her brother and his Whatever they she thought She regarded it as a primary sin for Kate to associate with the young and this doctrine was perseveringly drilled into her though she never had her own idea on the Mr. Blake went to to attend a and Miss Peggy being absent at a friend's Kate was left Will in some the condition of and early afternoon came over to keep Kate com- As her parents were not expected home till Will felt perfectly secure in stopping a while after tea and he and Kate were having a jolly time popping corn iu the old-fashioned frying over the huge wood when there was a sound of voices at the cried turning white with Aunt what shall we scold me to and father would be Get under the for my Will could not withstand the ing in Kate's and he deposited himself in the designated Kate put out the and darting into an adjacent in a moment was apparently Peggy's voice was heard in the Mr. there is a loose board and I do not want to dis- turb my it may where are re- the squeaking voice of Esquire the widower of a I cannot tell which way you have be Good ens Daniel I and a report fell on the air like tho ing of a champaign cried Aunt would brother Jacob say I declare I been kissed by a man Jake mind his own retorted the and I can take care of ourselves without his and then followed a report similar to the only more of it. be and let me get a Set right down there afore tho and make yourself perfectly at A light was soon and divesting herself of her and blushing like a girl in her sat down the ia a very fine said by way of opening replied the drawing his arm over her good don't set quite so nigh mo. I don't consider it strictly what was Both listened was tho wind rattling tho I said the be to getting so thought it was Kate waking and if she I would never hear the last of There is a It's the It's Jake and marm coming What shall I do We're 'taint right for us to bo nothing to one Do help What shall I me where to Say the I'll go for your if it's up the the delay a single The Squire obeyed but the place was so well filled that it was with difficulty he could squeeze himself into so small a he had Mr. Blake and his wife entered the floundering along in the for Peggy had deemed it to guish the Jake made fertile which still glowed red with stumbled over the and fell long against who was standing bolt trying to collect nor tered cried or you'll bo down over me. It's as dark as a pocket and I've fell over the the or the I can't tell what's reaching out his hand to feel his and coming in contact with the bearded face of the It's got Whore are you? and where is and what the deuce is The Squire did not like tho assault on his by way of he gave a series of vigorous which hit Will Dartmouth in the region of the and stirred his old exclaimed perfectly willing to share my quarters seeing we are both in for but you had better not under- take that ejaculated voice is iu the deuce is here? That's what I want to cried struggling for an upright who's foil over my let you know who's up and who's said the voice of Mrs. and the old lady scrambled only to go instantly down again over a where arc you? Get up this instant and get or I'll shake the breath out of you get to my foet Jake started to and just then the watch hearing the had managed to break loose from his rushed upon the and set up his best The Squire had a mortal horror of and neither fear nor lovo waa strong enough to koep him quiet Ho sprung to his feet with a Will full of- alarm for her hopped out of bed and appeared Peggy flung her arms around the Squire's and Jake was silenced with Blake was the only one who sessed her She seized the and laid it about her with Her aim wai not always in she smashed the ing glass in to a thousand and knocked down the clock from the and demolished two that were quietly reposing on the The Squire broke from Peggy's em- and dashed out of the Will followed and Mrs. Blake would have pursued them by the same but she was a little too large to get through with A dreadful council was Jake stormed Mrs. Blake threatened and at last Kate and Peggy and Jaka and his wife were so rejoiced at the prospect of getting rid of Peggy that they forgave their and took Will Dartmouth home at the end of the In due time Peggy and the Squire were made one The Destroyer and His On a hoc summer day gentleman sat to think over a subject on which his mind was greatly He was wondering how it was that so many of the young men of his acquaintance has yielded to temptation and been He was wondering how the great Tempter could so soon get them entangled in his and never them loose again till they were While he was thinking over the subject he saw a worm softly along in the He moved without said the gentleman to poor worm can go though it has no reason to guide There liea in wait no destroyer to entangle while our young with reason and cor- are destroyed by Just thou he saw a spider dart across the path about a foot in front of the She did not appear to be ing of the worm nor did tho worm of she got quite across the she stopped and stood The warm kept but soon was brought to stand by a small too small for our eyes to which tho spider had spun before Finding himself the worm turned to go The instant he back the spinning a new cord behind Tho worm was now brought up a second and twisted and turned every way to He seemed now to suspect some for he ran this way and that and every time he the spider darte d around him weaving another Then gradually was no space loft for except in the direction of the hole of tho spider That was left but on all other by darting across and space was growing II was to that evory time the worm turned toward the hole oC the he was instantly hemmed in so that he could not get back quite as be- So his every agony continually brought him nearer the place of death It took a full hour to do all this and by that time the worm was close to tho hole of his He now seemed to feel that he was and if he could have he doubtless would have done so. And now the spider eyed him a moment as if enjoying his and laughing at her own and then on and struck him with Instantly the life began to flow Again she struck and the poor thing rolled over in agony and Mrs. Spider now hitched one of her little ropes to her and drew him to her she at her perhaps counting over the number of poor victims whom she had destroyed in the same way When I sec a boy who goes with bad end who to their profane and licentious I think of the spider and her When I see a boy breaking the bath by going off to to swim or to When I see one disregarding his father and and doing what he knows will grieve thorn When I see one occasionally going to the oyster cellar and to the drinking saloon in When I see one going to tho where nothing but all evil is dis- played When I have reason to suspect that he takes money from his father or em- which is none of but which he hopes to replace I always think of the spider and her and mourn that tho great is weaving his meshes every and is drawing him to ward his home I The dead arc Paris letter writer saya that the French people are under the impression that has a Chinaman to all intents and a very old folks complain about the but I am. very when I wako up in the morning to find any weather at Tho Louisiana Legislature has taken a step It has passed a authorizing the licensing of bling the price of the license being fixed at one hundred New York cotemporary thinks it remarkable that the authorities there cannot arrest for gambling any one of more mature age than boys ten to two ve years of London correspondent writes that there is a great influx of American in that who astonish and amuse the public by their correspondent asks the phia is the crowning glory of Andy and getting Mudd out of the Dry is asserted that the skin of tho salmon will make leather as tough as and about the thickness of dog The scale marks give a very neat pattern to the thousand and forty dollars in gold pieces of the year 1795, or were recently disposed of In N. after having been hoarded for 74 The loss of interest ill that was somewhat over the place where the traveler either loses or cne day in the A person going eastwardly around the world gains the day which is by the one who goes to the and Sitka is the point at which tHe two reckonings The Russians who have journeyed toward it eastward through celebrate their while the who has reached it by a westward ney across finds the shops shut and business suspended on his miniature perfect in all carved out of with no other tools than an ax and a was lately exhibited at The work was executed by a colored hardly fifteen years of a late young farmer named Andrew living near Erie has hung himself because a young Welsh woman refuted to marry He was tho of seventy-five of and was m very comfortable editorial chap's experience with the velocipede is thus The first pass it headed for tho next it ran against a it down with When be rides now he generally goes the organ of the at In a late makes the following order may have a day of a real which can be observed by all we propose to adopt that day which is set apart by hundreds of the whole civilized for physical rest and the worship of New York Commercial makes the startling statement that one- half the income tax of tho country is and as an example and says that it knows of one house in New York where twenty-one gentlemen and only one has ever trade an income or paid an in. come or ever been asked so to Executive Council of the delphia Board of Trade estimate tho product in and of iron and oil of this for the last ThU is n greater sum than la produced by all the gold-bearing States and and yet it is thp yield of only the mineral product of tho leaving the vast agricultural and othar sources of her wealth out of are more valuable than as tho feathers of one are said to be worth a In they have tried the experiment of fencing in ten thousand acres of ground and ping a flock of these strange and It might be woith tho trouble for some of our rural to try the while besides being from their petite for a solve the question what is to he done with old oyster cans by persons who are unjustly deprived of back alleys into which to very remarkable feature in tho topography of the country presents it- self in Wise At or near the Pound on the Kentucky is a mountain about four miles iu at its iu this tain head four flowing in ferent nearly corresponding with tho four cardinal points of ths The four springs can be at one view from the top of this and they nro nearly from each wiy rivers tho' Guest ing south into Clinch the fork of the the Cumberland Pond river into ill vv through aro to the Ohio
