The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1857-11-13
GOOD ADVICE.

Judge Strong is the very magistrate who
made his mark, when quite youthful lawyer,
| bv the ingenious counsel which he gave client,
and cleared him entirely and very Unexpectedly.
He practised in Jefferson County, and a pris-
oner being arraigned for theft, who had no
counsel, the Court appointed young Strong 10
that service, directing him TO confer with the
prisoner, and give him the best advice he could
under the circumstances. He retired with bis
client to an adjacent room for consultation, and
when an officer was sent to inform them that
the Court was waiting Strong, was found alone,
and returned with the officer into the Court
room.
"Where is your client ~ demanded the Judge
''He has left the place." replied the lawyer.
cleft the place !" cried the judge. "What
do you mean, Mr.. Strong?"
"Why, your honor directed me 10 give him
the best advice could under the circumstances.
He told me he was guilty, and so l opened the
window, and advised him TO jump out and
run. He took my advice, as in duty bound, and
by this time he is more than two miles of.
THE SESSION DIDx'T MEEr.-The Sandy
Hill Herald tells the following as happening in
that neighborhood last fall: A clergyman of
our acquaintance was called ubon by an elder
in his church, who urged upon the D. D. the
Importance of his Introducing the subject of
politics into bis pulpit--telling him that there
were great moral question involved in the then
coming election, SC. After patiently listening
to the argument of the Fremont elder, the min
ister asked,
'Do YOU, as an elder OF the church, advise
me to introduce politics into my sermons?'
q do was the reply.
'Let meeting ofthe session be called, and
ifa majority decide that it is my duty to preach
politics, l will commence next Sunday said
the Minister.
1T shall be done said the elated elder: but
as he was hurrying away to give the required
notice preparatory to the assembling of the
session, the minister called out: Remember,
to preach politics, I shall advise my bretheren
to vote for Buchanan.
1t is unnecessary to say that the session was
not called upon to decide the question.
sI GUESS YOU CAN CoME."-We heard
good story day or two ago, which we tell,
mauger the risk of its being second-handed; and
it is too good story to offend even those whose
sect it hits. Some good lady, at the outset of
UniversaIism, conceived a holy horror at the
blasphemy of its bold supporters in pretending
that all would be saved. It was preposterous,
outrageous; in the spirit that filled her, she
wouldn't have man in her house who believed
in the abominable doctrine. She kept boarding
house, and applied test of belief to all who
sought to obtain board. The first who offered
was sea captain, and she began with
''Do YOU believe that all the world will be
savedl7
'"No madam said be.
CHOW many do 20 think will be damned?"
continued she.
"Ohl" said he, 81 don't know-perhaps
Million
"Wel, the old lady remarked, in tone Of
content, "weI that's better than none at all;
guess you can come. ."-Lynn's Reporter.
POPULAR DELusIoN.-It is an error TO sup
pose that man belongs to himself. No man
does. He belongs to bis wife, or his children,
or bis relations or his creditors, or TO society in
some form or other. 1t is for their especial
good and behalf that he lives and works, and
they kindly allow him to retain certain per-
centage of his gains to administer to his own
pleasure or wants He has his body and that
is all, and even for that he is answerable to
society. In short society Is the master, and
man is the servant; and il is entirely according
as society proves a good or bad master whether
the man turns out a good or bad servant
Punch.