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The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1858-07-16
VERMIN RADIANCE.

Halra ounce OF soap boiled in pint Of
water, and put on with brush while boiling
hot, inialibly destroys the bugs and their eggs.
Flies are driven out of a room by hanging up
a bunch of the Plantain or Fleawort plant, after
it has been dipped in milk.
Rats and mice speedily disappear by mixing
equal quantities of strong cheese and powdered
squlls. They devour this mixture with great
greedinrss. while it is innocuous to man.
When it is remembered how many persons
have lost their lives BY swallowing IN mistake
mixtures OF srychnrne, ratsbane, corrosive
subimate, which are commonly employed for
this purpose, il becomes matter OF humanity
to publish these items
House ants ravenously devour the kernels OF
walnuts, and shellbarks or hickory nuts. Crack
some OF these, and place them on plate near
the infested places and when the plate IS iuil
of The ants, throw the contents in The ire.
Cockroaches, as well as ants, are driven away
by strewing eIderberry leaves on the shelves
and other places irequeRted by the troublesome
insecls.-H4lFs Journal.
R5=A lady al Mobile, having lost her teeth,
found them in the craw ofa turkey, after Kill
ing seven turkeys not guilty.
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E' n.
THE TWO ARMIES.

FE Wo ARMIES.
AS i-ife's nnending column pours,
Two marshalIed hosts are SEEN
Two armies on the tramp}ed shores
That Death flows black between.
One marches to the drum-beat's roll,
The wide mouthed clarion bray,
And bears upon a crimson scroll,
<'0ur glory is TO slay."
one moves in silence by the stream,
With sad, vel watrh(ul eyes,
Calm as the patient planets gleam
That walks the clouded skies.
Along its front no sabres shine,
No blood red pennons wave
Us banner bears the single line,
''Onr duty IS 10 save
Forthosc no death beds lingering shade;
At Honor's truqpet call,
With knitted brow and lifted blade
ia GIory's arms they fall
For these no cIashlng falchions bright,
No stirring battIe-cry
The bIoodIess stabber calls by night,-
Each answers, ''Here am 1 -
For those the sculPtor's laureled bust,
The builders marble piles,
/ ne anthems pealmg o'er their dust,
Through long cathedral aisles.
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II they take them from tie post office whether they
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EEHard times produce one good thing -
they check gossipIng. Ms. Clacker has only
''had company" once since last summer. The
consequence is, that the neigbbors' characters
stand higher than they have for the last FIVE
years.
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VOL. |, NO. 50.

service the people were requested 10 meet early
IN the week to bear the report. All came again.
After thanks had been returned to God for his
safe return, Father Smiley rose and told his
story That the Lord had prospared bis mis-
SION; that he bad sold bis -four for twenty-seven
dollars barrel, and then got safely back. He
then drew large purse and poured upon the
table larger pile of gold than most Of the spec
tatoFs had ever seen before. The young men
were Pad each one hundred dollars. Father
Smiley was asked his charge He meekIy re-
Piled, that nc ought 10 have the same an one Of
the young men, though he had not done quite
as much work. 1t was Immediately proposed
TO pay him three hundred dollars. This he re-
fused tlIi The pastor was paid. Upon counting
The money II was found there was enough TO
pay what was due Mr.. Smith, TO advance his
salary for The year TO come, TO reward Father
Smiley with three hundred dollars, and then
have large dividend for each contributor
Thus their debts were paid, their pastor relieved,
and while life lasted he broke for them The
bread of life. The bones oil both pastor and ell
der rePose in The same churchyard, but CRATE
inl posterity still tells this pleasing story Of the
past"
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1858-07-16

GT"PIaze sir,' said an Irishman 10 tray
elier, ''would yez be so obliging as 10 take nv
great coat from here to Boston - HYes,' said
the traveller, ''but how will you get it again a''
''Och easy enough though" said Pat, .slor shure
an I'll remain in it,
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NTMr. SInglestick mystifed tea-party the
other day by remarking, that women are facts
When pressed TO explain his meaning, he said
''FactS are stubborn things"
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% In story of the courtship of loving
couple, after al had been arranged, and matters
''hXed up" the narrator says "Here their lips
came together, and the report which followed
was like pulling horses hoof out of the
a1ire 20
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1858-07-16

q Alta county court, witness was asked
il be was husbandman, when he replied, e'No,
sir, I'se not married"
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u Doctor Charles Wilson has written 4
volume ofsome hundred pages, to explain the
pathology Of drunkenness Diogenes defines il
in two syIables-eig-sart
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1858-07-16

GA queer genius being asked why he did
not attend the funsral of his wife, replied
'qhat he could not leave his shop, and that it
WAS always better TO attend 10 business before
pleasure"
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1858-07-16

GA lady said TO gentleman who was suf-
fering with influenza ''My dear sir, what do
you take for your cold ~ "Five pocket-hand-
kerthiefs day madam
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1858-07-16

|A lady asked physician whether snuff
was injurious 10 the brains.
''No,' said he. ''for no body who has any
brains ever takes snuff
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1858-07-16

Tr7@Casb helms alonr cnurfinr. amazingly
Glove Of bonnet" suburban rides and pic-nics,
will do towards expanding the feminine heart,
and getting into the fathers house.
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GgPunch has portrait of ''the next ambassa-
dor TO Naples" Ii is seventy-four FOUNDER,
behind which stands an English tar, with his
hand on the fuse. Gunpowder diplomacy,
that
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1858-07-16

UT is said that man who is bung does
not pay the debt OF nature, but simply gets an
extension.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1858-07-16

O-'I love the silent watches of The night"
as the nocturnal thief said when he robbed the
jeweiry shop.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1858-07-16

A CASE OF wINE.-A Kentucky lawyer on
circuit {, was asked 10 dine with the Judge. At
l6e table, the Judge, as is his custom, asked a
blessing, and shortly afterwards rose from his
seat and took from the sdeboard bottle Of Old
Bourbon, Of which he invited his guest 10 par
take, partaking freely himself, as is his custom.
After dinner was over, the lawyer said:
"Jadge, will you permit me 10 ask YOU 4
question -
,.Oh, certainly" replied the Judge, "what
81 Observed" SAID The lawyer, "that after
you asked blessing, you set on the bottle
Now l wish to know whether YOU were asba-
med 10 ask blessing on the liquor, OF whether
you thought it was good enough without -
The Judge took the case under adyisement.
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GT"This is net gain," as the spider said
when he caught the fy.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1858-07-16

ga lady, complaining that her husband
was dead TO fashionable amusements, he repli-
ed
''But, then, my dear, you make me alive 10
The EXPENSE.
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''No, | think not" said the husband.
"Well,'' Jerroid inierposed, 81 think The
lady who always wears them, ought to know"
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1858-07-16

THE Best JUDGE.-A lady said TO her hus-
band, in Jerrold's presence:
"My dear, you certainly want some hew
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-12-01

fearful odds, have been known manfully to
breast up against wind and tide so long as
words of kindness and sobriety fell from q
mothers lips. But what direful calamity
from Pandemonium's be4 could equal the
wretchedness and ruin which falls upon
that family where both father and mother
drink of the accursed beverage 2 Better
far for such children e they had been or
phans from infancy. Better they bad died
in infancy, SO that they had never looked
on their wretchedness. What legacy of
shame, rsproach and seorR, drunken pa
rent transmits to his children How many
bright and sunny prospects have gone
down behind the dark clouds of despair be-
cause of the drunkard's home? Were it
not for this vice, most Of the families would
be able to surround themselves with the
comforts and conveniences of life. Were
it not for this fell destroyer, habits of in
dustry, thrift and cleanliness would be es-
tablished health and happiness would en-
ter those dwellings where now dleness,
prodigality, disease and misery sbound.-
Had it not been for this vice, these parents
might have lived to enjoy the society Of
their children. The drunkenness of the pa
rents has driven many of these children
forth from their own homes to be a scourge
to mankind
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-12-01
For the Spirit of the Age.

Mr.. EDITOR VIII you allow me space
in your columns to inform the public gen
orally, that the Trustees and Teachers of
Rutherford Academy, in Burke county,
deem it necessary to close the present ses-
sion on Friday, before the 25th Of Decem-
Der 1858. This arrangement is made with
a view of commencing the Spring session
with the beginning of the year, so that our
annual examinations can come off earlier,
and not fall, as heretofore, in the middle
of the harvest season. Each Spring ses-
sion, hereafter, will open on the second
Wednesday of January annually, and close
on the same day of the month in the fol-
lowing June.
A vacation of one and a half months
will be given during parts of June and July,
during which, students can visit the lofty
mountains with which our Institution is
environed, and recuperate their tagging en-
ergies upon the balmy breezes and crystal
streams that fan and wash those dizzy
heights.
Our Fall sessions will commence near
the close of July, and end little before
Christmas, when winter vacation of one
half month will be given, allowing the stu
dents the enjoyments of those much-longed-
for holidays.
| am happy in saying to our friends and
patrons, that our next session will open on
the second Wednesday of January 1859
in our LARGE NEW ACADEMY, and with an
increased quantity of select Philosophical
Apparatus so that all who may now favor
rs with their patronage will have double
advantage over those of any previous ses
sion.
Our course of study, as may be seen il
our Catalogues which will be issued soon
is ertensive, popular, and thorough. Ou1
discipline is that which has been extracted
from the wisdom and experience of the
Christian world and the execution Of tha
discipline is unwaUering, though always
with christian prudence. A parental ey'
is always kept upon all those who are pu
under our charge; and while Denomina
tionalism is strictly avoided, and any thing
tending to conflict with the peculiar reli
gious opinions of any student is most abso
lutely forbidden, yet deep religious tom
marks all the proceedings of this school
and incurable immortality of any kind, vii
ultimately lead to disgraceful expulsion
Give US fair trial, friends, is all that W
ask. R. L. ALTERNATELY.
Happy Home, Burke CO., N. G.
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Sons Of Temperance,

The cause of temperance is the cause of
God. ] have more than once beard it OBJ
served that If the members Of this and 9th
er orders fos the promotion Of the cause
of temperance, had simply done their dn-
ty, there would not be grog shop in the
land. It is quite probable that this is so.
The members of the different orders at
one time numbered hundreds Of thousands,
aye, millions. Who can calculate the ex-
tent or the amount of the influence that
might and would have been exercised for
good, had these millions performed their
duty The influence Of one good, pure,
consistent Son Of Temperance cannot be
estimated, and we may we'll despair of cal
culating the extent or the amount of use
fnlness that might have been accomplish.
ed had all these performed their plain and
simple duty.
Where now is this great cold water ar
my that once estimated its numbers BY the
milliona Where! Scattered to the four
winds. Whyi Because of the non-per-
formance Of d1ty. Their influence was
once unbounded. Thousands of poor in
ebriates-thousands of heart-brOken wives
and mothers, and tens Of thousands of or
phaned children, were wont in the times
that are now gone, to bless the Sons of
Temperance, and thousands of earnest,
pure, heartfelt prayers have asceaded to
| the widows God and the father of the
fatherless. for blessings upon the heads Of
Sous of Temperance, and those blessing.
did tall thick and fast upon them, for theil
usefulness increased, and would have con
tinued to increase, until the causo becam,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-12-01
Causes of Juvenile Deprayity.

Mr.. Nichols, the superintendent of the
Reform School, In his annual report just
published, has given his views as to the
causes of crime in our city, and he places
that of intemperance among the chief ones.
Will not all of the better class of citizens
unite their efforts to prevent these devas-
tating effects upon the youth and children
of this city He says:
"Let me turn your attention to another
most fruitful cause of evil, cause which
is yearly growing more destructive in It's
effects. | refer to the large number of
families who are annually ruined by the in
toxicating cup. For family of children
to he cursed with a drunken father is
enough to blight all their fair prospects for
the future-enough to dampen every youth
full aspiration to rise in the world. What
wretchedness could fall on the family cir
Gle more to be dreaded than to have a
father, after spending the day and larger
portion of the night at drinking saloons,
come home to curse and destroy those to
whom he has pledged his honor to bless
and save. Yet, terrible as the calamity is
to be cursed with drunken father, chill.
dren have been known courageously to rise
superior to difficulty SO insurmountable
Children have been saved from ruin. who's,
father had made himself q curse to th,
world by Intoxicating drink, through th
Influence Of an industrious and pious moth
er. Children, even though they struggle
i with the waves of adversely, contcnding 0
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-12-01

Let me now ask the conductors Of the
Press, both religious and secular, whether
you have not too often kept back articles
in favor Of the Temperance movement, not
because you thought they were untrue or
calculated to impair public morals, but
simply because you were afraid some of
your patrons might stop their papers If
this is the fact, and if large proportion
of the readers of the various newspapers
of the day would withdraw their patron
age from the Press, because editors gener-
ally were advocates Of Temperance, |
would ask, how long it will be before the
religious Press would have to 60 down p
Can religion flourish when the love of
strong drink prevails? Or can men be
found half century from now SHOULD in
temperance progress as it has done for the
last so years. i'll whom we can repose con-
fidence to manage the affairs of either
Church or State This 10 an important
question, and we hope every man who
reads this article will ponder it well. My
honest conviction is, that there is greater
cause of alarm from the prevalence of in
temperance than from the Abolitionists.-
Let the time come (which may God forbid)
when none but mere dcmagogues can be
elected to fill our important Offices, and
men who love strong drink can carry all
our elections orelect the veriest demagogue
that offers himself as candidate for the
suffrages Of the people, and what think
you will be the issue?
Can any man love his neighbor as him
self or his country either, who is willing to
sacrifice not only himself, but every thing
else that is valuable, son the altar of strong
drink 2" Are there not cases of murders
the most atrocious, occurring somewhere
in our country every day, caused by strong
drink and are there not cases innumera-
ble, in which the peace and happiness of
families are destroyed by strong drink, and
thousands of other evils which are the di-
rect results of drunkenness-and still there
are thousands of men who look on these
things with perfect Indifference; can these
men love either their God, their neighbor,
or their country? K.
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omniPotent for good, had they continued
faithful to the cause of God.
Few and far between are now the Wild
ows and the orphans prayer, for the Son
Of Temperance is cold and dead. He has
become callous and calculating, and self
righteous-a very Pharisee. @I am ho-
her than thour He will not soil his hand
BY contact with the poor unfortunate drunk
ard. He viii pass by on the other side.
The poor inebriate may die the death Of
the drunkard, and hll drunkard's grave,
and go to the drunkard's he'll, while he,
the Son of Temperance, looks eeldly on,
without an effort to save or rescue the un-
fortunate.
On that great and final day, for which
all other days were made, Son Of Temper
ance, when he that died = druukaYd, whom
you saw staggering and rceliug through
your streets, when you might have saved,
for aught you know, had yon done your
duty-wheD he IS doomed to endless de-
spair by the Judge of quick and dead, and
you are standing near, will you not expect
to meet your doom, "Inasmuch as We have
not done il unto the least of these, ye AeKe
not done it unto me-"
Son Of Temperance, yeu have dutv to
perform to the poor despised drunkard,
and yea perform it not, yoa are guilty
Of his blood, and the loss of that sonl,
through your neglect, will subject you to
doom as fearfri as that Of the poor
dTunkard. lam.
BddeSboro' Argus.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-12-01
From the Times.
An Old Mans Lesson.
BY NJ. w. c.

When I was very small boy, was
sent to school-my first school. l was,
perhaps, five or six years old. At that
school | became acquainted with another
boy, about my own age. We soon became
friends-our friendship ripened into sin
cere love and affection for each other
growing with our growth and strengthen
ing with our strength, as was said of David
and Jonathan. Nor did our friendship
ever know any abatement. Years rolled
away. We were delighted in each others
company, at all times, when an opportuni-
ty offered for us to enjoy 1t; but it was
our misfortune to meet with sad reverse.
When we were about twelve or thirteen
years old, the father of my young friend
sold off his estate in North Carolina, and
removed to the far West. Our parting
was painful in the extreme. | mourneG
for him as for the dead and in my chill
dish thoughts concluded l never agair
would have particular friend"
But, the old hackneyed adage, 'seldon
seen is soon forgotten" proved true in thi
case. True, we did keep up sort of cor
respondence, for time, having learned tc
write little; but that soon tagged, anc
I, in short time, lost sight of the frienc
of my first school. Years seemed to pas
in quick succession, and the name of Hen
ry was almost forgotten. | sometime
heard of him,-that he was living. wa
married, &C., but that was all. But ther
|, is another period, which brings us topetbe
/ again under far different circumstances
Painful as the recital may be, will try t
! come to it at once.
In the year lS-, when travelling in tn
! State of Georgia, l stopped for the nigh
! at small village, and was there informe
! that was only sixteen miles from tn
house of my friend Henry. No soone
! than had received the information tha
. resolution was formed and plans laid, /
pay him visit. All things prepared, ca
), ly the next morning was vending nv W;
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-12-01
True Love.

Thy wisdom speaks to me and bids me dare
Beacon the rocks on which high hearts are
wreck'd
| never was attached to that great sect
Whose doctrine is, that each one should
select
Out of the crowd mistress or friend
To cold oblivion, though it is in the code
OF modern morals, and the beaten road
Which those poor slaves with weary foot
steps tread,
Who travel to their home among the dead
With one chained friend, perhaps . jealous
foe,
The dresricst and the longest journey so.
SMILEY.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-12-01
For the Spirit of the Age.

Mr.. EDITOR In stray No. of the
Greensboro Times, l have come across the
following graphic picture of the doings of
ignorance and intemperance, which l will
be obliged if you will give place in the
Age. am told by the author (who by
the-bye, tho he has seen good deal of
the world, does not look like he yet merits
the honorable" appellation of ''old,'') that
it is no fancy sketch, but an ''o'er true tale'
AN unyarnished statement of real incl
dent in his life. 1t was originally intended,
he says, as prelude to an article on edu-
cation and temperance combined, in which
he designed showing the minute bearing
of the one subject upon the other. May
we not hope that he will yet carry out bis
first intentions, and continue the subject
E. ORVILLE.
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RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA

pernicious traffic, seriously to reflect upon
the wrong they have done, and are daily
doing. May God enable them to see their
errors, and turn away from them, and may
He enable them to press forward the cause
of Temperance and religion, instead of vice
and intemperance. Now is it right for a
professed follower of Christ, or sworn JUS
tice of the Peace, to grant license to destroy
both the soul and BODY of their fellow-be-
ings! O! TEMPORA, O! MORES.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-12-01
Elegant. Extracts.

FOLLY OF ArHEIsa.-I had rather be-
iieve all the fables in the Legend, the Tai
mud and the Koran, than that this univer-
sal frame IS witheus mind. God never
wrought miracles TO convince Atheists, be-
cause His ordinary works src sufficient to
convince them. 1t is true that little phi
losophy inchneth mems minds to Atheism
but depth in philosophy bringcth them
back to religion for while the mind of
man looketh upon second causes scattered
IT may sometimes rest on them, and 90 no
further; bat when it bchSElesh the chain
of them confederate and Eaked together.
It must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Lord Bacon.