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Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-09-28
GREAT EATERS.

Great eaters never live long. \ VOraCi
Gus appetite 50 far from being sign oi
| health is certain indication of disease
Some dyspeptics are always hungry; feel
| best when they are eating, but as soon as
| they have eaten they endure torments sc
| distressing in their nature as to make their
unhappy victims wish for death. The appe-
| tite of health is that which incIines to eat
moderately, when eating time comes, and
which when satisfied leaves no unpleasant
reminders Multitudes measure their health
! by the amount they can eat, and Of any ten
persons, nine are gratltied at an increase OF
weight, as if mere bulk were an index of
health when in reality, any excess of fat
ness is, in proportion, decisive proof of ex-
listing disease, showing that the absorbants
of the system are too weak to discharge
their duty and the tendency to fatness, to
obesity, increases until existence is a bur-
den, and sudden death closes the history
Particular inquiry will almost invariably
elicit the fact that fat persons, however ru-
bicund and jolly, are never well, and yet
they are envied.
While great eaters never live to an old
age, and are never for single day without
some symptom" some feelings sufficiently
disagrceablc to attract the small eaters,
those who eat regularly of plain food,
usually have no spare flesh, are wiry and
enduring, and live to an active old age
Remarkable eXemplifcatious of these state
ments are found i'll the lives of the centen-
arians of past age. Galen, one of the
most distinguished physicians among the
ancients, lived very sparingly after the
age Of twenty-eight, all died i'll his humid
dred and fortieth year. .'
kentigern, who never tasted spirits of
wine, and had worked hard all his life,
reached l85 years. Jenkins, poor York
shire fisherman, who lived on the coarsest
diet, was one hundred and sixty-nine years
old when he died. Old Parr lived to a hun
dred and fifty-three his diet being milk,
cheese, whey, shall beer and coarse bread.
The favorite food of Henry FRANCISCO, who
lived to be one hundred and forty, was tea
bread and butter, and baked apples Eph-
ram Pratt, of Shutesburg, Mass, who died
aged one hundred and seventeen, lived
chiefly on milk, and even that in small guam
tity; his son Michael by the same means,
lived to be l03 years old.
Father Gull a Methodist clergyman, died
last year at the age OF one hundred and
five, the main diet of his life having been
salted swine's flesh (bacon) and bread
made Of Indian meal From these state
ments, nine general readers out of ten, will
Jump at the conclusion that milk is healthy
as are baked apples and bacon. These
conclusions do not legitimatey follow
The only inference that can be safely drawn
is from the only fact running through all
these cases-that plain food and life of
steady Labor tend to great age dSH 81
We must not expect to live long by do
ing any one thing which an old man did,
and omit all others, but by doing all he did,
that is work steadily as we'll as eat mainly
a particular dish.-Halps Journal of Health.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-09-28

GIVE THE CHILDREN FRESH AIR.--Some par
ents make the great mistake of keeping
their children in doors during cold weather
Such practice is pernicious in many re.
spects. 1t enfeebles the bodies of children,
and renders them peculiarly liable to be
attacked by colds and coughs A child
should have its feet we'll shod with socks
and boots. it's body we'll wrapped in warm
clothing, its head and ears securely pro-
tected from the cold and then be let loose
to play in the keen, bracing, winter air
By this means its body will become robust
and its spirits be kept bright and cheerful
whereas, if child be shut up in the house
it will become fretful and feverish land per
haps wind up with severe attack of i'll
ness.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-09-28

THE New York DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
The character and work of the Democrat
ic Convention reminds us of little illus
traton in the form Of fable. A wolf
caught skunk, and was about to slay him,
when the skunk said "Don't kill me
Fm wolf" "You wolf? Let me hear
you bark" /" / can't bark right, because
I've got bad cold" But your clothes
don't look like a VOLTS" ooh mine
were stolen these are my little COUSINS
But you havn't VOLTS ears7 Because
my ears were trimmed" The wolf, half
convinced, was about to leave, when he
suddenly stopped, snuffed the atmosphere
moment, and exclaimed You may
bark like wolf, and wear the clothes OF
wolf, and show the ears of wolf, but
no wolf ever had such a bad smell about
him as you" And SO the poor skunk died
Albany Evening Journal.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-09-28

BUToSs.-These were used in England,
by way of ornament 50 far back rs the
tenth century but it was not till the COM
mencement of the fourteenth that they were
adopted as a necessary part Of attire, rib
ands or lace having been used in their
stead. The manufacture Of buttons is not
mentioned as a separate trade till about the
middle of the seventeenth century, when
the Importation Of foreign buttons made with
the needle was prohibited Soon after this
the invention of metal buttons took place,
to encourage which, penalty of 40s was
imposed, 1900, on every dozen Of buttons
consisting merely of mould covered with
some kind of cloth as the garment and
the Importation Of metal buttons was pro
hibited
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-09-28

The JUDGE AND HIS DEAnJoHN.-A good
joke is told of a Judge in New Hampshire.
He always kept demijohn of good Jamaica
in his private Office for his particular friends
The Judge had noticed for some time that
on Monday morning his Jamaica was con-
siderable lighter than he left it on Saturday
night Another fact had established itself
in his mind His son Sam was missing
from the parental pew in church on Sundays.
One Sunday afternoon Sam came in and
went up stairs very heavily when the Judge
put the question pointedly to him!--
"Sam, where have you been~
''To church, sir" was the prompt reply,
"What church, Sam ?"
"Second Methodist, sir"
Had good sermon, Sam ?"
Very powerful, sir; it quite staggered
me-"
The next Sunday the son came home
rather earlier than usual, and apparently
not so much ''under the weather."
His father hailed him with, "well, Sam,
been to the Second Methodist" again to-
day.
Eyes, sir"
"Good sermon, my boy?"
"Fact was, father, | coulden't get in !;
the church was shut up, and ticket on the
door"
Sorry, Sam, keep going, you may get
good by it yet"
Sam says that going to the Office for his
usual refreshments, he found the "John'
was empty and bearing the following label:
''There will be no service here to-day the
church is temporarily closed"
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-09-28

shine in the light Of God,
His likeness stamps my brow,
Through the shadow of death my feet have trc
And reign in glory now
No breaking heart is here,
No keen and thrilling pain,
No wasted cheek where the frequent tear,
Hath rolled and left its stain.
No sin, no grief no PAIN,
safe in my happy home,
Nv fears all fed, my doubts all slain,
Nv hour of triumph come.
Oh friends Of my mortal years,
The trusted, and .he true,
You are walking still in the vale of tears,
But 1 wait to welcome you.
Dol forget, Oh, no!
Nor memory's golden chain,
Shall bind my heart to the hearts below,
Til they meet and touch again.
Each link IS strong and bright,
And loves electric flame.
Flows freely down the river of light,
To the world from whence l come.
have found the JOY Of heaven,
am one of an angel band,
To my heada crown is given,
4 harp is in my hand
Then why should your tears roll down,
And your hearts be sorely riyen,
For another GEMS in the Sayiours crown,
And another soul in heaven. a. P.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-09-28
GRIEF is SHORT, JOY Is LONG.

"IIast thou cast us off forever Psalm Xxi
When the tide of bliss is highest,
When we closest clasp the toy,
Then the heart feels grief is highest,
Trembles, looking on in joy;
Singing softly, signing sadly,
Joy was never made to last,
Soon the sky shall be o'ercast,
And the voices ringing gladly,
And the pulses leaping madly,
To deaths stiffness shall have passed"
When the flood Of grief is swelling,
Deep is calling unto deep,
Then the soul in darkness dwelling,
Sits apart to wall and weep;
Wailing always, weeping weary;
Says, sit is perpetual sorrow,
To-day, tomorrow, each tomorrow
Rising in the darkness dreary,
Setting on the evening dreary,
Only grief from time shall borrow"
Soft a voice is drawing nearer,
Sweet my love, why lost in woe?"
Whispering ever, whispering clearer,
Rise, my dove, and mourn not so;
Smooth again thy ruffled plume,
Thou shalt sing better song,
Gird thy spirit and be strong;
In the life beyond the tomb,
In the light beyond the gloom,
Grief is short, and joy is long"
Il am lord of land and sea,
Hide thee underneath my shield,
All my love is pledged to thee
In summer 5 sun and harvest field
And my covenant thou shalt know
Where the loving shall not sever,
Where the storm-cloud darkenS never,
Tides will neither ebb nor flow,
Wandering ships shall never go,
And rests the shining sea forever"
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-09-28

A DESIRABLE MEMENTo. In several of the
Pyrenees the mountaineers are in the habit
of training animals for the purpose of ex-
hibition. The Perfect of Pefpignan recently
passed through one of them in company
with an officer gendearmes. The latter
pointed out to the magistrate women
whose husband, a bear trainer, had been
devoured by his pupil when instinct got
the better of education.
u have nothing left" said the woman ;
81 am absolutely without roof to shelter
me and the poor animal"
Animal !" exclaimed the astonished
Prefect 'you don't mean to say that you
keep the bear that devoured your hus-
band 7"
"Alas !" she replied "it is all that is left
to me of the poor dead man."
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-09-28
DEMOCRATIC nominations, nova days, arr

DEMOCRATIC nominations, nova days, are
laughable commentaries upon the party
which, onl y year ago, solemnly resolved
in National Convention assembled, that
''the war is a failure" and which in almost
every State adopted planks opposing the
war in every possible shape Now these
same men are on the continual hunt for
Soldiers to accept nominations for the va
rious State offices. In Pennsylvania they
have just nominated a Colonel for State
Auditor By-and-by these partisans, who
used to denounce "Lincoln's hirelings, ,"wil
begin to claim that they were original wal
men, and the only true friends of the sold
iers.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-09-28

AMONG the patients which Doctor s.
had at one time, was one to whom he had
recommended diet of chicken. While he
was still under the doctors care, it chanc-
ed that he with Dr. S-and a number of
other friends, was invited to a genteman's
dinner party, given by mutual acquain-
tance. The principal dish was fowls, and
as the patient sat on the right of the host,
the plate was passed to him first The man
helped himself freely-more so than polite
ness allowed--not only to the annoyance
of the host, but of DR.. S-also, who hap
pened to sit at the farther end of the table,
and who began to think that his chance
was slim Gazing for moment at the
contents of the patients plate, the blunt
man asked, in tone Of half rebuke, half
ridicule
Halo, Jones, what are you doing ?"
"Why, Doctor, you told me must eat
chicken" the patient replied.
Yes, know | did but didn't tell you
to make hen-coop of yourself )" retorted
the man of physic amid the roars Of the
entire table. ' a- ~.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-09-28

WHY Men FAH.-Mrs. Stowe says that
people of small incomes, if they deny the
palate to please the Imagination, can adorn
their homes with many gems Of art. The
following incident may be suggestive to
many who find their incomes inadequate to
their wants.
A young merchant, who had just failed
business, having spent in four years leg
acy Of ten thousand dollars, in addition to
any profits realized, was met by thrifty
young mechanic, who had formerly been on
terms of intimacy with him During the
conversation which ensued. the merchant
said to him-"How is it, Harry, that you
have been able to live and save money on
the small sum which you have received for
your service. while Ifound it impossible to
live in my business with good round ten
thousand dollars to back me 2"
Oh, said the mechanic that is easily
understood. | have lived with reference,
mostly, for the comforts and tastes of my
self and family, while you lived mostly
with reference to opinions and tastes of
others 1t costs more to please the eye
than to keep the back warm and stomach
full"
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-09-28

SOUTHERN Poor WHITE FoIKs.--About sew
en- miles from Richmond | saw a man lay
ing under the shade of tree, assiduously
chewing tobacco. Alter saluting him, and
after several questions, to which received
lazy yeses and noes, asked him to what
churches the people of that neighborhood
usually went. Well, not much to any"
"What are their religious views ?" "Well,
not much of any" "Well, my friend, what
are your religious views ?" asked The
man answered slowly and sheepily, My
own pinion is, that them as made me III
take care of me-" .....
A BIRn that ALWAYS faces the storm-The
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-09-28

WHY is man who has just carried his
carpet bag on shore from a steamboat like
the owner of the sell? Because he is poss-
essed of landed property
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-09-28
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Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-09-28
NUMBER 1S.
A MOMENT OF HORROR.

For twenty-three years old Jake Willard
has cultivated the soilin Baldwin County, and
drawn therefrom support for himself and
wife. He is childless. Not long ago, Jake
left the house in search of a missing COW.
His route led him through an old, worn-out
patch of clay land, of about six acres in
extent, in the centre of which was a well,
twenty-five or thirty feet deep, that, at
some time, probably, had furnished the in
mates of dilapidated house near by with
water. In passing by this spot an i'll wind
drifted Jake's 'tile" from his head, and ma
and in it tumbed.
Now Jake had always praeticed the vir-
tue of economy and he Immediately set
about recovering the lost hat. He ran to
the well, and finding it was dry at the bot
| tom, he uncoiled the rope which he had
brought for the purpose of capturing the
truant COW, and after several attempts to
catch the hat with moose, he concluded to
save time by going down into the well
himself To accomplish this, he made fast
one end Of the rope to a stump hard by,and
was soon on his way down the well.
1t is fact, Of which Jake was no less OBJ
livious than the reader hereof, that Ned
Wells was in the dilapidated building
aforesaid, and that an old blind horse, with
bell on his neck, who had been turned out
to die, was lazily grazing within a short
distance Of the well.
The devil himself, or some other wicked
spirit. put it into Ned's Uranium to have a
little fun; SO he quietly slipped up to the
horse, unbuckled the strap, and approached
with slow and measured " ting-a-ling" " to
the edge of the we'll
Dang the old blind horse m said Jake
''he's comm this way, sure, and amt got
no more sense nor to fall in here Woa ,Ballw
But the continued approach of the "ting-
a-ling" said just as plainly as words, that old
Ball wouldn't whoa" Besides Jake was at
the bottom, resting before trying to ''shin"
it up the rope.
Great Jerusalemw said he, the old cuss
will be atop O. me fore | can say Jack
Robinson. Whoa dang you, whoa !"
Just then Ned drew up to the edge of the
well, and with his foot kicked little dirt
into it. .....
ooh Lord !" exclaimed Jake. falling on
his knees at the bottom of the well "Tm
gone now!--Whoa!--Now l lay me down
to sleep-Whoa! Ball pray the Lord my
soul to---Whoa! now-Oh, Lord have mercy
on me m .. ....-...
Ned could hold in no longer, and fearful
that Jake might suffer from his fright, he
revealed himself ---
Probably Ned didn't make tracks with
his heels toward that well May be Jake
wasn't up to the top of it in short order.
May be not | don't know. But do know
that if Jake finds out who sent this, it will
be the last squib you'll get from me.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-09-28

A BIRD that always faces the storm-The
weather-cock
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Original gpetrg.

For the Bradford Reporter.
A VOICE FROM HEAVEN.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-09-28
VOLUME XVI.

ers with them, and his recollections dating
back to near half century, we at las t
came to talk Of the doings of the press
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-08-03

Mr.. Editor: have arranged with Mr.. J.
w. OGDEN and Mr. GEo. w. SEAroN for half
fare by the X. & Mt. p r. B., and the Nor
thern Line of packets for persons attending
the Orphans Fair at Marshaltown, Aug. 2Sth.
These companies have been very generous to
the cause of the 'Home." Mr. Gro. Will
LIANs is absent, but will doubtless arrange in
like manner on the route of the d. NJ. V. r.
K. i speak this from observation of great
hberality on the part of this road toward the
cause, transportinafIee, articlaeof freight, as
well as persons connected with the 'iHome,"
orphan children, aud all this most cheerfulv.
The Home is in a most prosperous CON
dition. With one hundred and four children,
there has not been death. Mrs. Z. G..
PLAT, has proven herself much more capable
and better adapted to the position of matron
than is usual in such institutions The teach
ers are now preparing a class of twelve or.
phans to sing at the Fair and are succeeding
admirably. 7. p. INGALLS,.
KEoEuK, Aug. I'd, 1865.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-08-03
Come t. Grief.

A few weeks since nearly every Copper
head journalin the country was huGly engaged
in extolling President johnson as . Demo
crat, who was to unite the discordAnt fag-
ments of that organization, Apd with it play
havoc with terrible radicals who were deter
mined to rush the country into the jaws Of
ruin. The infatuated Chairman of the Ma
tional Democratic Committee" one Mason,
even went so far as to eulogize the President
as the divinely appointed agent of Providence
who should bring about this political milleni.
UNI, whereof Mason and his compeers would
be, of course, high priests. But Governor
Brownlow, Of Tennessee, has been making
arbitrary zrrests'' again, and is fully deter.
mined that both Copperheads and rebels shall
obey, if not respect, the laws of the State.
Worse than that President johnson has en-
dorsed these arrests, and directed that the
whole military force be used, if necessary, to
enforce order and obedience to the laws in
in the approaching State elections
What will Mason say now? How will he bear
this rude destruction of his beautiful castle in
the air. As for the Copperhead journals,
they will howl, singly and in concert, most
loudly and dismally for week to come, over
this new evidence Of the despotic usurpatior
which has destroyed free speech.
Loyal men everywhere, however, viii thanh
God and take courage Washington Chron
irIe
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-08-03
Emigration to the United STATES.

An article in Swedish paper contains ,
great deal of interesting matter concern;no
emigration from the continent in this century
From Germany, between 1910 and 1860. there
departed for other lands 2.646, 900. nearly All
OF whom went to America: Switzerland he
tween 1851 and 1852, lost "a, 900 of her cit;.
sens, who went to transatlantic countries
in the forty years ending 1850, not less than
zoe, 900 Frenchmen emigrated to countries m
the other side of the Atlantic, besides 100. orr
who emigrated to Algeria and Senegal The
North American States absorbed n 900 eu;.
grants from Italy and Spain In the short
period Of three years not less than a5.Oo0
Portuguese took up their residence in Rrav;I
whereas not more than Z, 900, at the onts;Ja
emigrated to America in the 40 wears. ;ncud'
ing 1850. Of Belgians, $1,000 vent to The
United States between 1851 and 1880 Fro,,'
1851 to 1863 there left Holland SO. OO0. Ho~
many have quilted Sweden and Darm.rI
there are no means Of ascertaining. bnt = IN
scIner country Is, 900 perxons were mnr,;aS
With pssports between 1861 and 1aeo' p Ys:Is
rom Denmark, from 1890 to I86p, H. rn 1919
Per OF enigrants did not exceed 8.O0o ~
etsasr nsnber Of whom wen 70 ~ ~.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-08-03
Financial anb Commercial.

New York Market.
Sss YoRx. Aug2
Cotton-Quiet and hrm at 4sc niddting
Four-Dun aud heavy and closei rather more quiet
at 65e6 IS for extra State 15as IS Tor Extra NJ H.
o, and 4ase 10 for trsie brands.
Whisky-Dull,
Wheat-0pe,ed dull but alter wsr9 advanced to Sc,
and closed quiet at suce; ~ Chicago Sprn &
4011 IS tor Nil. Cinb. IS for Amber Mi; 75,1
90 for Winter Red Western, and rs fer Amber Mich
igsn.
Rye-Dull. Western at e7c.
Barley ami Bari, Nalt-Quet and nominal
Corn-Wnhout decided change closing dull at s7des9c
for unsound SIC for sound naked Western and 0lSs
Ola for high mil Ted, nearly yellow.
0sts-Dul and heavy, with Gle offered. and 62c anoai
asked for Western.
Coffee-Quet.
sugar-Steady; Cuba and Muscovsdo at l1kDl3c;
Porto Rico at l41l6c.
Molasses-Dull.
Wooi-Dull.
Petrolsum-Quiet &c for Crude: 531ssl<c for Re-
fined In Bond, and 70lz1S725lc for 10 Free.
Pork-Open-d qniet, but closed firm, with better de-
mand at ~ 503S 50 tor closing IS cash;
coG30 90 for 1861 do; Is 90 as so for prime and
"a tO92s 20 for prime mos Also 900 bbls new
for August, sellers option, at 81 0o4o84 50.
Beef-Quiet IT 50Oi2 SO for plain mess and 10 00d6
IL TO for extra mess.
Beef Hams-Scnrce and firm
Out Meats-Sirm At 1sSDl1o for shoulders and 2oA
81 for hams.
Bacon--Duli
Lud-L Lower At 1el402414c.
ButteT-Quiet at 23&2Sc for Ohio and 2SDa5c for
State.
Chsese-Dull at 1oel5I<cf for common to prime