Agitator, The (Newspaper) - April 14, 1857, Wellsboro, Pennsylvania T Terms of THE TIOGA BOUNTY AGITATOR 19 pub ished every Thursday and to sub- scribers al the very reasonable price of Om pel annum w advance ed to notify every the term for which he has paid shall have the stamp Time on the margin of lUe last paper The paper will then he stopped until a farther re- be received By arrangement no man can be brought in debt to the printer THE AGITATOR is the Official pf the Conn ty with a large and steadily increasing circulation reaching info neatly every in the County It is lent fret of postage to any Post coonly limits aitd to those lining the whose may he in an adjoining County Business Cards not exceed ag 5 paper in- per year THE A of COBB STURROCK CO VOL THE AGITATION OF THOUGHT IS Of COUNTY THURSDAY MAY 14 1851 NO 42 PSALM OF LIFE H W Tell me not in mournful numbers Life is but an empty dream For the soul is dead that And things are not whit they seem Life is veal is earnest And I he grave is not Bust ibon art to dust Was not spoken oJ the seal Not enjoyment and not sorrow Is oar destined end or way But to each to-morrow Fmd us belter than lo day Art is long and time is fleeting And onr hearts though strong brave Still like muffled drums are beating Funeral marches lo the grave In the red field of In the bivouac of Life Be not dumb like driven Be- a hero in Lhc fio pleasant Let dead its dead in the Living Heart within and Lives of great men all We can make our lives sublime And behind us Footprints on Ihc sands of Time Footprints that another Sailing o'er life's solemn main A forlorn and shipwrecked brother Seeing shall take heart again Lc us then be up and With a heart for any fate Slill adi eving still pursuing Learn to labor and to wait MY LITTLE BOY quite drive away 1 him growing j stern and cold but oh I him Never had he loved us both so tenderly be- fore Weeks passed on My ryes looked intelligently mlo mine and the lilt e rosy lips smiled whenever I came little lisping utterances lhat thrill the heart deeply were silent and all my loving lessees fell on an unheeding ear The shadow on Arthur's face grew deeper as he my unceasing efforts At last the blow came I had been silting in the door way wuh little Ernest in my arms ing lo leach him to say His large blue eyes were fixed upon me wt h wishful expression but the lips were and vexed and I heaved a deep sigh and I a I'd him back in his Something I in the Ipok my husband gave me startled me went beside him and put my arms about his neck What is ft cried God help to it Mary he an- swered solemnly Our child is CHAPTER n Dumb Could it be What have I done lhat a be sent to mothers hear their voices calling but mine 38 forever It was so long a -I Had it been for weeks or months or years 1 could have borne it but to know that it could never through and manhood he could never my it was too much to c H i I was a childish mother I had nol Autumn and winter passed away and my forgotten laugh of my girlhood baby and I threw daises at each other on the they I nil my baby on mv breast and 1 lawn before the cottage while Arthur looked looked upon lijm more as a curious Smilingly from his study window 1 had not thin as a soul given into my hands to the great misfortune only accus for its training But my to it and the kisses of my child ah ho and wise enough for were almost as dear me as hfs spoken Id alike words could have been My was many years older lhan It a strange task to teach lhat soul lie Ind known many a how to expand its wings Il was strange to ruw long before I was on the learn lhat child his litlle eVening by nurse holding me a helpless sign and ye as he clasped his small hands 1 niching crowing baby to pick the and raised his sweet blue to Heaven I scs lor my he was wondered if any labored supplication ly over grave of one who had have gone more quicky lo Throne made his home happy for wife of of Grace II was strange to sit 1 is j and the mo her of his children above his playthings lo hear no sound Strange thai 1 who had no knowledge of from him except plaintive half cry sorrow vet to d spel his that he who he uttered when in pain to feel the had never upon that child's face of hinds clasping mine when something new mine wus one day to lake us owner lo ils i had puzzled him lo see the wishful observant heart as the and joy of his declining look with which he regarded every one who conversed around him Long I met my husband 1 wrong or impure thoughts could ever Knew him Hie name of Arthur Haw thai little He w is as set to me from my earliest apart to us whit an early childhood yea s and the poems he had written should be as stainless and innocent as when among the choicest of my treasures In my j the Maker's hand first sent the litlle spirit heart 1 had the and hope to meei fluttering into us earthly prison Could ask h I would sleal one look at for him happier destiny lhan this lo pass fare may be touch the hind lhat had through life shielded by my unfailing love those beautiful thoughts odd go and safely -.helieied by the snowy wings of away and remember him all my Fife while the guardian ever by his sidle he forgot Ibis was my I make idols for out of clay nt and they arp taken from us I needed We one lesson more My little boy failed slowly iMy 1 had lor a before my eyes as the summer came on It had the passion was nol so much wuh him a painful of hie and was kind and benevolent lo all the wasting away of the spring ol But when I raised my ejes to the handsome life 1 mission he lo fulfil was face and saw it wuh Imes of care accomplished j nnd 1 saw the Many days before he was taken I knew he ing hair erect and stately go I with him by day and by more than all I met glance of those night I sang him lo sleep and wet slill fire could u be an admiring golden curls tears when he was that rested upon my girlish face and ing Day by day gathered up my my own dropped my heirt beat quick and for which I knew musl stood before him timid blushing and come nnd day bv day my heart sank within like a frightened bird 1 me and the blood forsook my cheek if the I who had scarcely dreamed of love chinge took place his I who knew nothing of the great world We sat beside the bed of our boy j the be j ond my home pleased him vvho had seen languid head on my breast and i fairest women I who had no beauty the tiny transparent hands lay lillies no talent won him who had all in rhe brood palm of Arthur I Sang in a and won him too from a throng vvho were I hushaH voice the songs he loved the best and far more worthy the setting sun sank slowly in sea They were were and Cool breezes the plash of oars and the fashionable but they had grown cold and rude songs of down the bay came bird in a long apprenticeship lo in upon us My darling I ly and I gave him a heart lhat as fresh and listened I could not see lhal his breathing pure as mountain daises I had loved fa fainter and fainter and that lids of well would have given him kive the plue ejes were drooping slowly towards the could nol lavish on their diamonds and At last they closed and think gave him To he ing Hje slept I laid my weary head upon my would have been a mB he was a God husband's breal and tried lo sleep also A Did not my perfect trust strange drowsiness which was not slumber sincerity their more glittering crept over me I storied from it suddenly Perhaps 1 fell u then and here to dpy at last an instinctive feeling lhat all was when jears have made me older and the not well Tears fell from my cheeks as I world has made me wiser I believe it from lifted my head They fell Lite eyes of my heart Arthur who had sat ind thought we Our a hitle paradise beside were still j sea a small roofed brown cottage with I benl over my lillle bov The a rustic porch and latticed windows over- I had kissed seemed growing cold and wijn grown with climbing trees The low mur suspended breath I listened to hear the tner of the ocean me into a happy ing of his moved slightly As sleep each song of the called his nape and Ihen looked up low waked me 10 a happy day morning fact smile here in pleasant summer time my It failed soon as he seemed lo be eyed boy born my cup of joy some pain His lips were was full to over drawn his eyes upturned and his like all other's was beauli clinched I could lo look at him I And yet his loveliness my heart away and groaned in agony i H'S See u is all over now I said Arthur as cheek his slender form and large and pul bw around my waist and held me to his heart I looked My darling raised his feeble and prayed and as he head fell thai his life around my neck hit pale Jips met mine in an a kiss A sudden trembling seized UUB UBl could not see it Hls eyes Ilt up wuh a his cheek My very life seemed wrapped up in lhat of flashed his half opened lips seemed IQ speak mv Wuh him by me every day I for the first time Did I hear or dream I urn fading and the moaning heard the One word had vainly tried to sea could no But flow and then a leara him I Mother came over his father's brow as he I could nol For the next moment the us that pot even my rosy faded the little breast heaved with sand y r mn as h h J M wrh all a ml be nw e on I h T unwise one bat ihen I could not see t one short sigh and my little boy had in Was no lesson taught no lesson learned in thai brief year of companionship with an angel T Oh yes a lesion which the mother's heart can never forget beats with he love it has fell for the lost Dearer is earth to God for his sweel dearer lo me because he loved its beauty so 3 years passed since my little boy fe I asleep Other children play around door of my collage and kneel each night at my knee to say the prayer looked another Ernest with bright dark eyes and hair goes singing through house but slill my heart is mosl with him My children stand outside that grave and listen wuh serious faces when I tell them of the little brother who died before were born and then away silently and leave me there beside him I have grown and careworn the cheek he kissed is ihin nnd faded and sunny hair with which he used to play is streamed with silver But my child will know me when I meet him and I shall hold him to my heart he same as when he left me an infant angel freed from every taint on earth No barrier between us no weak im- perfect or look of pain or in Heaven my child will speak and the first word shall hear him utter here will be the word lhat lingered on his lips when he was dying He will call me as well as here Else I cauld have given him up through all weary and fed my heart upon the hope of hearing that word freely when I die Singular Circumstance The Sacramento Cal Age publishes tho following singular statement under the cap- tion how our first church was built The history of almost presents curious Were to say a correct history of Sectarianism in Sacramento could not be written unless it admitted lhat blers to build the first church the statement might appear wicked and absurd but this nol impair truth of an in- which occurred before the big floods and before the big fires A preacher ar- rived lere among those who unintentionally contributed toward founding a flourishing city tnd afier a while when persons were with a combination of worldly fevers as winning and losing al several lar games he concluded lhat would be so praiseworthy as an endeavor to estab lish a religious society He soon discovered lhat practical was not a feature so prominent as others which rules are supposed lo countenance But he persevered and nt a rew who approved of his plan Frequent consulta lions were held and finally were deter mined to erect a church edifice if enough be obi lined for tlie Those belonging to litlle at once subscribed all in their power to gwe but not half of the required sum received The old should have referred lo his age his paper one day and walked towards Ibe iSacTamenio whose waters were nol soiled as now by gold washers In passing a crowded noisy gamb ing house where heaps of sure in many with bags in hands a wonderful thought came to him and not allowing it permission suddenly to depart he hastened lo siand in the midst of reckless gamesters and to commence telling them how much he wished to build church and needed assistance Scarcely had he ceased speaking when large pieces of gold thrust into bis hands all donations aryl in a lew he had collected nearly a thousand Than he was about leaving when one belling at monte called to him in a loud voice Hold on old feller I'm o bet two hundred on this card and if I win by I'll give ye a clear dred The money was staked the gambler won and promised clear hundred was lo minister This is how our first church was came of evil but the sequel to this story let the present and future tell A good story is told of a tall raw-boned fellow who went into a market house al the seeing a large exhibition was mightly struck with it said he s a great hog I swear I never saw a finer looking one in my life I swear what short legs he's got I Look here said a Intile dry looking individual trotting up you must nol Swear so I swear I should like lo said hard swearer wuh nn ominous look said litile man swearing is again the law and I shall have to commit you I drawing himself up Are you a Justice of the in- quired snearer Yes was the reply Well I said the one I am more astonished at thai lhan I uas aboul hog The census of Smiles shows lhat wo have two millions and a half of ers one hundred thousand merchants four thousand masons and nearly two dred thousand carpenters We have fourteen bakers lo make our bread foir housand lawyers to sef us by ears i forly thousand doctors to kill or and fifteen hundred editors to this motley mass m order by the of public opinion controlled and manufactured through the From Putnam's Magazine of Slavery TIB Right John Henry kins D D Bishop o the Protestant pal m the diocese of Vermont has a work Pudney in stales that he thinks it wrong for citizen lo dance the polka but proper for to hold his brother in The bishop says he holds con- lo be innocent And equally so tlie selling a child from us mother says Canaan cursed and Governor Wise may dispose pC black men and I Women al the highest rales The Right Revferend John Henry has written soms four or five hundred to show that the citizens obey the law but to his pastoral advice would have been to mothers babes Iwo years of age in the loiter days of Herod of Judea He i Iso does nol find room in his prolix quis lion upon the duties of American which is the title of his book lo in- fo his pupil what he is to do when the law of i lip land contravenes plain law of God For U is evident that if a law is to be obeyed been use u is a law a regulation lo lie or to stea or o deliver up fugitive so it be gall enacted has the same authority as one to laxes But if the discretion of or his conscience are interfere in other words if there be the individual of rebellion it would be m a bishop who a book in which he finds lo discuss the propriety and morality at dancing to cate when lhat right may be asserted The singe point of interest in American s the elaborate reiteration of the ral for which is easily enot gh refuted by the younger classes of girls and which falls at this this With peculiar from the lips of a high in the i hurch of Him who said Do unlo others as would should do unto you Bish op anticipates a millennial when thai whole world shall behold the happy of slavery in the of Africa from her long bondage vf barbarism and ry If it were nol so tragical this wou df be loo ludicrous Let this gentleman cons der one if you knew that some of Africans Who should survive the of the and the compulsory labor in swamps i the gradual imbruting of human beings -as cuttle every natural right and ion out it you knew some it and attain a kind of fund ignorant feeling lhat you would call Christianity do you as a man not as a op believe Iqr one momeni that the trader vvho paid money for al single one of those vicinns was doing but an accursed act Do you think lhat nny honest tian -nan for o solitary instant ihai trader to be any belter than a a servant of Qod only as al criminals Of ourse God will brin of it God O D brings good out of everything Would reflation reconcile Bishop Hopkins to havin his ause burnt down and all that was dearest to in There It mus needs be lhal noes but woe to h m by whom offence With usual inconsequence south-side of the discussion having made ry he instrument oft le Christian of Africa bis undertakes to the inexpediency of slavery But let the take comfort If Lord has made slavery right he wi I also in view of us upon the moke it expedient And if it be Christianizing process for what his Bishop Hopkins or any other pious man 10 the due opera lion of thai process Excepting the portion volume we have indicated which at- tracts solely bv Us subject and not al al by the ability with which it is The American Citizen is like a series of a weedy lectures We do riot advise any American who wishes to improve as a man a or a patriot to leave bis South Tillotson Hooker Herbert or Jeremy Taylor and lake to kins LOVE OP CHILDREN me not of rim precisely arranged homes where then no iere aa the good Germans have it the raps hang von I ie tell mi nol of the never turbed and days the tranquil un- hearts where children I care not or these things Got sends children purpose than merely to keep up the enlarge our hearts to make us un- and full of kindly sympathies and affections to give our souts higher aims lo call out all our to extend exertion lo bring around our brig it faces and happy smiles and loving hearts My soul blosses the Great Father every day that he has gladdened the eart i with I jour neat dress jou expensive shawl or your fingers thai attention of men of sense They look beyond these It is true of your nature hat wins and continues to the affections of the heart Young s sadly miss U who labor lo Improve ihei outward looks while they nol a on Pools be won by rhe gewgaws and fashionable showy dresses but the wise and substantial are never caught bv such traps modesty be your drei Use pleasant lauguage one though you may no by the fop ind sop the good and truly lova td linger in your steps The golden sun has sank la rest His are fading the west The singing have sought repose And Hght in beauty glows hour ijs Come Tn hour with joy I greet When day with evening blends then my meet the dew descends In the pleasant twilight hour T wag at twilight when the Savior Sal in sad him O My Father Ere he died for you and me I See ant Lord iii prayer Con we like blessed Say Lord be done When the storms of lile w Can we the il One? 1 of Advertising I will be charged 81 per square of fourteen lines for one or three insertion and cents for every insertion All or less Umn fourteen lines considered 4 squaw following will be charged fir Quarterly Half-Yearly and Yearly 3 months 6 months 12 1 Square 82 50 84 50 86 00 -400 800 00 2000 1 -1800 3000 4000 All advertisements nol having the number of in marked upon wilt be kepi in until dered charged accordingly Posters Handbills and all kinds of Jobbing done in country establishments executed neatly and promptly Justices and other BLAN on band and printed to order j nails frequency become deformed and times grow inio the fhe first care will be lo preserve them pressure the next lo remedy the deformity When the grows over the the proper course to to pursue is instead of culling away the cor- ners to cut a notch in centre of the or to scrape il hm in thu micdle Nature then in her efforts lo remedy this accidental defect of in tl e central thin parts and thus extremities which ate imbedded in flash are left lo recover former position This and very ingenious has been found far more efficacious lhan removing he nail by a painful surgical operation Turning from of the toes lo the heels 1 another source of distortion and one U is feared m iy increase 1 allude to huh heels whir h are nqw worn and which attained an altitude of four and a half inches J he reason why high heels are so injurious dent We do not require to be told lhat she finished ed to forward her renl name to us not for publication but in to our rule in Fp How we Treat our Feet And we hope lor a With onr blest loved ones above Pray we then al twilight hour EO very pretty poom and the anther evident the weight of bod arches in- will ao well to tut she u us to rest m a general way equally or when in movement alternately upon both ends qf arch toes and heels By weight is equally sustained and there is BO stress upon either part in particular But when heel raised as in dancing equilibrium is dis- turbed weight of the is thrown forward upon he toes When these are thrust for a of time mlo shoes which on the inside form inclined planes especially when the inclination is great the is extremely for the Weight of the is thus made to rest on toes the muscles of the inslep nnd front of the leg are also while of the become contracted The high shoe so adopted then becomes for the wearer once accustomed to them do them Lei all of sense then abstain wh le it is vet lime from following lory absurd and unbecoming fashion The small additional height winch il communicates lo In conclusion then let those who are de- sirous of preserving perfect use of their feel and of form give serious attention to subject The dies are in own hands and the will amply repay labor attendant on suggestions I have ventured to a short time since at statue represent ng u Roman lady my was attracted lo her eel on which she wore shoes nearly those now in use They were somewhat clumsy u is irue tor shoemaker did not possess art of our sons of Crispin of moulding the upper leather to the shape of loot bui laid over wiere in a so joined in sole which was in this case at least hall an inch thick Il was easy to perceive that the Roman ladies were lo pinch feel lhan waists and were content lo let bolb shape given lo them by nature J could not help contrasting easy shoes wuh the but productions of a fashionable shoemaker Surely 1 thought corns and the does compensate for bunions must wve been unknown in those which u induces da s of And why s lould we have these Deformities and inconveniences now f Simply because the shoes art hot shape of tho feet and because we endeavor lo jailer in a case is too small lor As long as infant remains in arms the shape of Us is preserved but us as make on very subject U begins lo and he assistance ol ihu shoemaker is called in U is ry IQ he shape of the by forcing U into shots nch ore loo narrow fur U In order also to dimmish he apparent breadth of the loot shoe is made to extend in length full three-fourths ol an inch beyond toes The immediate effect of row shoe is 10 preSs iocs firm y together the ulterior 16 change the direction ol toes and occasion corns and bunions Ltl us consider the change in shapi ol foot by Ibe compression of loos When the foot is firmly planted on ground uS in walking the loes separate especially the and second and by ex loading the base of support additional firmness The line of shoe should be nearly a straight line lo allow for expansion of loes which in a is e Lei us now consider of the ol the toes small space provided for by toes are pressed by not ride on over the and mus occasion corns and nails but the direction ol the bone of the great toe is altered by the ends being forced closer logether joint becomes enlarged and a bunion wuh its pain and deformity super- venes The reader who would avoid these deformities should rigidly examine the shape of her own and Jf the direction of toe changed should lime in endeavoring lo Us former pos bm he tion In yout i or middle age when the is no excessive or ol long this may be easily by placing between the toes a lumi ol wool sufficiently thick lo toe to resume its original position By constantly keeping the wool there and attending to the shape of the shoe the toe will at last recover Us proper enlargement ol the joml will be will it increase The same ample means may bs adopted to restore other toes to their normal shape If should be most effective cure is to be felled wool or pf with 9 hole in the Hoars AMI HIGH CHURCH The Richmond Whig few Sundays a joung of our quaintance attended the morning service in one of our was kindly shown into a luxuriously cushioned pew and had himself and ken nn observation of h s nt before a beautiful lady and with a graceful vv uve of the ing our friend from r to give her a place quietly sunk mto the seal near the end a hymn was given out she skillfully found the and a sweel lhat set his heart a her neighbor book minister raised his hands in prayer and fair gnl knel and this posture perplexed her friend to know i mosl lo admire her her Presently prayer was concluded and the congregation resumed seals friend respectfully raised his ejes from ibe fair form he had been so earnestly seaming lesl when she looked up she should him staring at her a couple of seconds he darted a fugitive glance at his charmer and was io sie her sli I her knees he looked closely and saw ihal she was much affected trembling in violent agnation no from eloquent power lof er Deeply sv the watched her closely Her emotion became more violent reaching her hand behind her she would con her cloihing and as it were to rend the of her dress The was exceedingly painful to behold wuh a lady raised her face heretofore concealed in the cushion and wuh her hind made an beckon lo her friend He quickly moved along the pew towards her and inclined his ear as she evidently wished lu say something Please help me sir she whispered my dress has caught and J get up A briel examination revelled the difficulty the fair girl wore shoes knees heels of r course slue at right angles and in found in thp triplication of a circular disk of M he h h pew fg nw i-ii n in I no D skirl caught them and thus rendered it to receive the corn This may be purchased at any chemist's Il is made to adhere by brushing one surface of the wool wuh a solution of isinglass or similar pre- This relieves the corn by removing from it the pressure of the shpe and bv persevering simple treatment the corn will in time entirely disappear From these observations it will be seen that shoes which are cut very low in quarter will spoil the shape of foot They will not keep on without thel support of dals unless are and they be the joes wm and impeding the freedom of movement Those shoes arq beat for the fool which the whole of it and press equally but not excessively every part of it The piece of introduced near the instep was a valuable addition to the modern shoe It were well if it could bo all the way lo tho end of the toe fn of our mil the impossible for her la raise herself or en her limbs The struggled lighter she was bound so she was ed 10 call for help Th s was immediately i not rendered and when the next prajer made she herself upon ihn back of from she was not in ing costume me a lever long enough and with mv on a weight 1 will move the world says JDi ho would have required lo move w ilh of a cann in ball for millions of ears lo alter the of the earth a small part of an- inch This feat of is in matical tru h performed bv every man leaps from the for he kicks away from hrn whenever he rises and U again when be falls Tho nes of science are as attractive as
