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BAGGAGE.

That seat is. occupied, said a bright
eyed girl to a man who was about to take it.
Occupied !" he groWled; where's his
baggage2' With a saucy upward look at
him, I'm his baggage, she said. Ana
this brings me to say that if you are going
a long Journey inthe region where it is first
come, first served, the most desirable piece
of baggage you can take with you is not
hat box or a blanket, but a woman. If you
have none, then marry one. for you are not
thoroughly equipped for the road till you
do. When dinner is ready you follow in
her blessed wake, and are snugly seated be-
side her, and exactly opposite the platter Of
chickens, before the hirsute crowd, woman
less as Adam was tillhe fell into deep sleep,
are let IN at ALL
There you are, and there they are. You
tWaIn-one, With The t.yo best 0hairs IA tI.a
house, served and smiled on. Look down
the table at the unhappy fellows, some of
them actually bottoming the chairs they
occupy, and arms and hands reaching across
the table in every direction ike the tenta-
cule of gigantic polypus. When night
comes, and with it border tavern, it is not
you that shift uneasily from side to side on
the bar room floor. If there is any best bed
she gets it and you shareit You follow her
into the best car she first in the stage coach
anu you are TOO. more bDdI JtidE, woman
keeps you upon your honor" you are
pretty sure to behave yourself all the
way.
The conclusion is as strong as a lariat, that
travelling bachelors have forgotten some of
their baggage, and that if woman hears a
man sneer about her troublesome sex and
their inevitable, inseparable bandbox, and
then In some weak mOmcnt he says to her,
win you z" and she be wise, she will be
cautious Men are not a 1.-THE Of the help
to women on a journey that the latter in
their modesty and their igBorance-We beg
pardon, which ?-are always conceding
Blessed be nothing 4 lone woman can
make the transit of the American continent
ike Y enus crossing the sun, without either
danger or insult She can emulate the Irish
Norah, who, in some fabulous time, decked
with jewels and beauty, made the tour of
Ireland alone, and not soul harmed her as
she went
erich and rare were the jewels she wore,
And bright gold ring Oh her wand she bore,
But, ali, her beauty was far beyond
Her sparkling gems and her snow white wand.
On she went. and her maiden
In safety lighted her round the green Isle.
B. +. TAYLOR.
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81 DON'T CARE.s

Yes you do, and there no use in trying
to deceive yourself thesophistry of these
words.
The best and nobIest, the truest and most
generous part Of your nature does care for the
unkind, cutting words you have uttered to
one you loved, in moments of pique.
You may carry yourself ever so proud and
detantly, you may never drop by word or
look the dew of sweet healing on the wound
you have made in a nature as proud, as SEN
sltlve, and exacting as your own; but to
your honor be it said, you are better than
your words, and away down in your heart
Turk shame, and repentance, and sorrow for
them.
You may carefully hide them both, and
in little while they viii be gone, for oh !
1t Is very easy to make one S self bitter, and
proud, and cold-very hard to keep one
selt9sBsato me l95aK, an97a charitable: but there
fore you can do mean ungenerous thing to
one who loves you, and have your heart en-
dOrse your 1 don't care -
And how often these words are uttered.
when conscience sternly refutes them and
how often they harden the heart and keen
the feet in the way of evil
Be careful, reader, when you say, Il don't
care.
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1866-11-23

who was engaged in gigantic scheme to
rend my tetrarchy in pieces and blot out the
stars from the imperial banner They was
a utterly powerless band Of infuriated mad
men, and the fact that they was only two
years old and under, made their crime more
heinous and abominable. 1t was well
known that | had forbid playing in the mar
ket place, and yet these innoeents came into
the market place with penny whistles and
flags a flying, and with such defyin airs.
that il could not be stood, and their mothers
actually had the brass to laugh at EN- and
cheer en- on. Who, my friends, has suff-
cred more from these babes than have?
sounded all the depths Of honor, I have set
in the CUB
at this moment, continues the manuscript
a scene of terrible confusion occurred. The
people refused to hear the tetrarch any more
and began to curse him up and down with
out ceremony, to jeer him aud insult him la
every way. The air was darkened with a
shower Of sticks and stones, eggs of every
degree Of staleness added their perfume to
the violet of his imperial robes, while the
dead bodies Of the smaller animals aud YER
min Of the district were hurled without ces-
sation, and with the most unerring aim at
his venerable head. One young Jew hurled
dead duck at him, another made missile
of coney, a creature which, though it is
expressly stated in the Bible to belong to a
feeble folk, proved on this occasion unpleas-
antly strong It is not recorded that a
tetrarch was ever so abused before. Herod
seems to have been utterly unable to defend
himself against the storm, and at last gave
1t up, retreatlDg from the platform amid a
WhlrlWlnd of ieeTs threats derisiVe cries and
voices that repeated uncessingly How
about the babiesI' until the Wretched
tetrarch was nearly mad with rage and
terror Not long after his return to Jerusa-
lem-and his friends hustled him back to
the capitol without ceremony-he was so
weighed upon with remorse and mortifica-
ton that he is actually said to have held his
tongue for q month, whereas he had always
been remarkable for the profuseness Of his
speech, and had never been known to 90
more than twenty hours without talk
Ing about himself But the sequel was,
that the Innoeents we're well avenged
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1866-11-23

DELAYS in THE Road TO WEALTH.
Those who envy the merchantsof New York
little think how slow a progress they make
from the olerk 3 desk to the stately parlor of
the concern. The new house Of Grinnell,
Minturn & Co. has just been remodeled, and
two ofits former clerks are made partners
Both of these were fifty years of age and up
wards, and one Of them had been in the
house for more than quarter of century.
Both had been elevated over the heads of
other clerks, out of whom, numbering more
than one hundred employed at differen'
times,) only two have reached the pinnacle
of success. Such is the dubious prospect
held out to youthful ambition. A life of
drudgery, perhaps, to bring success when
age and habit have rendered it of little value.
And yet so great is the rush to obtain situa-
tions in such houses that clerks receive no
pay the first year, and but little even after
that. Hence many become wearied and
drop off, and only the tenacious hang on,
and of these not one in ten reaches the
prize.
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1866-11-23

RECOVERY OF Mr.. PRENTICE. George
D. Prentice, senior editor of the Louisville
Journal, acknowledges the sympathy of the
press during his recent Illness, in the follow
ing felicitious manner;
''0ur heartfelt thanks are due to very ma.
ny Of our brethren OF the press for their kind
notices of US during our late illness. Their
sympathy soothed and cheered and strength
ened us. 1t seemed to throw calm and love
ly light upon the world, and make US wish to
linger still among our fellow men. There is
much that is beautiful and holy and hallowing
in sickness. Its influences are purer and
better than those of health. Indeed the fee
bleness of the body is often the health of the
soul. We see and hear what we may not in
the season of physical strength. Myriad spir-
its of the air hutter over the dividing fine
between two worlds, uttering to mortal be-
iDgs the tones they have learned in heaven.
As we move downward upon the sombre and
mysterious pathway that leads to the door of
the tomb, we behold, as from the depths of
a shadowy we'll and cavern, the pale sereni-
ties of floating stars, allinyisible IN the glare
and sunshine of the upper air, and their sa-
cred and blessed light need never fade from
the spirit.
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AGREEABLE RECOMMENDATION.

A writer-a physician-in the Agricultu-
ITSt, says apples are the most healthy fruit
producedin this country. He cites a good
many instances to prove the truth of this
system. And we suspect that he is very
nearly-f not quite-right. He says, in
substance, that there are but few articles of
vegetable food more widely useful and more
universally liked than the apple. Why
every farmer in the country has not an apple
orchard where the trees viii grow at all, is
one of the mysteries. Let every house
keeper lay in good supply Of apples, and it
will be one Of the most economical invest
ments in the whole range Of culinaries A
raw, mellow apple is digested in an hour and
a half, while boiled cabbage requires five
hours The most healthy dessert that can
be placed on the table is a baked apple If
eaten frequently at breakfast, with coarse
bread and butter, without meat or flesh of
aHy kind, it has an admirable effect on the
general system, often removing constipation,
correcting acidities, and cooling off febrile
conditions more effectually than the most
approved medicines If families could be
induced to substitute apples, sound and ripe
for pies, cakes and sweetmeats, with which
their children are too frequently stuffed,
there would be diminution in the sum
total Of Doctors bills, in single year, sufi-
cieEt to lay In a stock of this delicious fruit
for the whole season. use.
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1866-11-23

"a RADICAL" sends to the Harrisbur
Telegraph the following impeachment Cd
Warren Hastings by Edmund Burke, and
asks What would Burke have said if he hag
been called upon TO impeach Andrew John
son?i'
| impeach Warren Hastings, ESQUIRE, of
high crimes and misdemeanors.
impeach him in the name of the Com.
mons of Great Britain, in Parliament assem-
bled, whose parliamentary trust he has be-
traysd.
impeach him in the name of all the Com
mons Of Great Britain, whose national charac-
ter he has dishonored.
lmpeaeh him IN the name Of the people of
India, whose laws, rights and liberties he has
subYerted; whose properties he has destroyed
whose country he has laid waste and desolate
l impescb him in the name aud by the vir-
tue Of those eternal laws of justice which he
has violated.
- 4iFmpeaeh him in the name of hrrnpr nature
Itself, which he has cruelty outraged, injured
and oppressed, in both sexes, in every age,
rank, situation and condition oflife.
Says the correspondent of the Tegeqrapt:
Warren Hastings never attempted to sub
vert the government of his native land; he
never publicly travelled round the country he
ruled over in the character of drunken buff
foon; ne never chose for his friends prize
fighters and the keepers of faro banks: he
never encouraged rebel rufians to murder the
friends of the Government; he never egged on
villains and cut throats to burn down school
houses for the poor.
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1866-11-23

EDITORIAL SLAVERY. Every editor of a
newspaper will appreciate the truth of the
following passage from some Of the writings
ofCapt. Marryatt:
1t is not the writing Of the leading article
itself, but the obligation to write that article
every day, Tor week, whether inclined or
not, in sickness or in health in affiction,
after year; tied down to the task; remaining
in one spot It is something ike the walk
ing ola thousand hours. | have a fellow
feeling, for [ know how a periodical viii
wear down one's 5 existence. Initself it ap-
pears nothing; but the labor is notmapifest:
nor is it the labor, but it is the continued
attention which it requires. Your life be-
comes, as it were, the publication. One
days, Tor week 81 paper is no sooner correc-
ted and printed, than on comes another. IL
is the stone Of Eysephus; an endless repe-
tition of toll, constant weight upon the in
tellect and spirits, demanding all the exer-
ton Of your faculties, at the same time that
you are compelled to do the severest kind of
drudgery. To write for newspaper is very
well, but to edit one is to condemn yourself
to slavery All of which is as true as
predching.
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JEW ELER. DC.

A BSALOM GARLICK,
"A Clock s. Matchmaker and JeweIIer.
BLOODY RUN, PA
Clocks Watches, JeTelry. &C.. promptly re-
paired. All work entrusted to his care warranted
20 give satisfaction.
lie also keeps on hand and for sale WATCH
ES CLOCKS, and JE VELRY.
RgTs- 0Aice with Dr.. J. A. Mann. my4
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Sorghum jokes are so rare that when
one transpires, even if ifit is not so funny,
we fell ike preserving it. A cane grower
ting and sluggish growth of sorghum in its
early stages, says: Cane don't grow one bit
till its foot high. y
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1866-11-23

PASSING AwAY-One of our cotem-
poraries goes off as follows over the depart
ure of the mosquitoes
The mosquitoes are gone. Only one
visited our pillow last night His hum Che
didn't seem to feel at huna) was mournful
sound. 1t spoke of other days-we mean
nights-when. surrounded by his gaily
puncturing companions, he struck his light
guitar. We felt for him-but didn't find
him. We turned on the gas and there sat
the little devil on the head board, wiping his
eyes with corner Of the musquito bar
The eloquence of his silent grief made us
sad also. We picked up a copyof g Young's
Night Thoughts with melancholy abstrac-
ton. Slowly and silently we approached
him 50 that we should not disturb his medi-
tation or intrude upon his grief. He was
weeping for those who had gone before. Al
most reverently did we elevate "Young's
Night Thoughts, we poised it a momentum
the air to hear again that plaintiye wall
and then we 40 dled him
He is gone; he the last of the muSque-
gans.
Lightly they'll speak of the ''skeetero that's
gone,
And Ger his cold carcass upbraid him
But little he'll bite if they let him sleep on
On the head board where s'Young's Night
Thoughts" laid him.
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1866-11-23

naA-A manin New Hampshire had the
misfortune to lose hiswife. Over the grave
he caused a stone to be raised, on which, in
the depth of his grief. he ordered to be IN
scribed. Tears cannot restore her, there
fore | weep.
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nENTTsTRY.

/ f4N lIfoI IA J.
- I. n. B0WSER, RESIDENT DEyTsr W00D-
BERRY, Pa, visits Bloody Run three days Of each
month, commencing with The second Tuesday Of
the month. Prepared to perform all Dental oPcr-
ations with which lie may be favored Te,7as
special contract. Work TO be sent by mail or 9th
wise, must be paid for when impressions are taken
aug5, '64:tf.
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nANIEL BORDER.
- PITT STREET, TWO DOORS WEST OF THE BED
FORD HOTEL, BEEFoRD, PA
MATCHMAKER AND DEALER IN JEWEL
RY. sPECTACLEs. &C.
He keeps on hand stock Of fine Gold and sill
yer Watches, Spectacles Of Brilliant Double Rein
ed Glasses, also Scotch Pebble Glasses. Gold
Watch Chains, Breast Pins, Finger Rings. best
quality Of Gold Pens. He viii supply to order
any thing in his line not on hand.
apr. rs, 1s65-zz.
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DENTISTS.

C. \. C. MISSIeH JE.
nFNTISTS, BEDFORD, Pa.
j. office a. The BaR% Buildiug, JHlioao Street,
All operations pertaining to Surgical or Ne
chanical Dentistry carefully and faithfully per
formed and warranted. TERMS CASH.
Tooth Powders and Mouth Wash, excellent ar
ticlcs, always on hand.
jan665Iy.
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WHEN a gentleman stares at lady, and she
stares at him, they are apt to mount to the
region Of love by pair ofstares.
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LIFE.

LIFE.
The stream is calmest when it nears the tide,
And flowers the sweetest at the eyentide,
And birds most musical at close Of day,
And saints diyinest when they pass away.
Morning is lovely but holicr charm
Lies folded close in evenings robes Of balm;
And weary man must ever love her best,
For Morning calls to toll, but Night to rest
She comes from Heaven, and on her wirgs doth
bear
A holy fragrance, like the breath of prayer;
Footsteps Of angels follow in her trace,
To shut the weary eye Of Day in peace.
An tmngs are nusHea bvN14e her os aHe shrore
ter earth and sky her manIe Of repose;
There is a calm, beauty and a power
That Morning know not, in the Evening hour.
Until the Evening, we must weep and toll,
Plow LIES stern fuTrow, dig the weedy soil,
Tread with sad feet ourrough and thorny way
And bear the heat and burden Of the Day.
Oh when our sun is setting, may we glide,
Like Summer Evening down the golden tide;
And leave behind us as we pass away
Sweet, starry twilight round our sleeping clay.
LONELY.
Sitting lonely, ever lonely,
Waiting, waiting for one only,
Thus I count the weary moments passing by;
And the heavy evening gloom
Gathers slowly in the room,
And the chill November darkness dims the sky.
Now the countless busy feet
Cross each other in the street,
And I watch the faces lifting past my door,
But the step that fingered nightly,
And the hand that tapped so lightly,
And the face that beamed so brightly,
Comes no more.
BY the freght's ftlul cleaning
l am dreaming ever dreaming,
And the rain is slowly falling all around;
And the voice that are nearest,
0ffriends the best and dearest,
Appear to have strange and distant sound.
Now the weary wind is signing,
And The murky day is dying,
And the Withered leaves lie scatter drOund my door,
But that voice whose gentle greeting
Set this heart so wildly beating
At each fond and frequent meeting,
Comes no more.
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SINFUL habits are the channels of sinful
thoughts, IF we would have the thoughts to
cease to flow, we must close up the channels.
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1866-11-23

A new style of bonnet has made its appear
ance in Paris. 1t is twine string with
diamond set in the top.
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1866-11-23

ADVICE TO YoUNG MEN.-A young lady,
the other day, in the course of lecture,
latter the manner Of Miss Anna E. Dickin-
son) said
Get married, young man, and be quick
about it too. on'twait for the millennium,
hoping that the girls may turn to angels be-
fore you trust yourself with one of them. A
pretty thing you'd be alongside an angel,
wouldn you-you brute? Don't wait an
other day. bat right now-this very night
ask some nice, industrious girl to go into
partnership with you, to clear your pathway
of thorns and plant it with flowers.
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PHYSICIANS.
DR.. GEO. G. DOUGLAS

IJRespecttully tenders his professional services
10 the people Of Bedford and vicinity.
5zE- Residence at Maj. Washabaggh's
Ezs- Office two doors west Of Bedford Hotel, up
stairs. aulT.tf
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SEVERE Madame, your boy can't pas
for half fare, he is too large, said the conn
ductor Of a slow railway train. He may be
too large now,' replied the matron, ''but he
was small enough when we started.
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VINO IS OLD.-A wise man viii never rust.
out As long as he can move and breathe,
he will do something for himself for his pos
terity. Almost the last hour Of his life Vel
lington was at work. So we're Newton,
Bacon, Milton and Franklin. The yigor Of
their lives never decayed. No rust marred
thei- spirits. 1t is a foolish idea that we
must lie down because we are old. Who is
old2 Not the man of energy; not the day la
borer in science, art or beneyolence; but he
only who suffers his energies to run to waste,
and the spring Of life to become motionless,
on whose hands the hours drag heavily.
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1866-11-23

FEMALE clerks and folders are employed is
the Dead Letter Office at Washington. What
q paradise of enjoyment for curious women!
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I II. .LONGENECKER,
J . ATTORNEY AT Law, BEDFORD, PA,
All business entrusted to his care viii receive
prompt attention.
ess-orr1cE with s. L. Russell, Esq, nearly
Oct l6, '66.-6m.
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ADvE.Rrr rrSTNn

RATES OF ADVERTISING.
All advertisements for less than months 10
cents Per line for each insertion. Special notices
onehalf additional. All resolutions Of Aesocis-
ton, communications Of limited or individ,,al
interets and notices Of marriages and deaths. eT
eeeding i've lines 10 cts. per line All legal ,oti-
ees OF every kind, and all Orphans Court and
other Judicial sales, are required by law to be rub
hshed ID ootn papers. Editorial Notices Is cents
per line. All Advertising due after first jpsertia
liberal discount made to yearly advertisers.
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WEAVING FRUIT BLOSSOMS.

A little girl had young cherry tree which
bore beautiful blossoms one spring. She
wanted flowers for garland one day, and
thinking the cherry tree blossoms very beau
tiful she plucked and wove them into gar
land. But wlIen tho tinlO of cherries came
the tree bore none. How could it? Cher
ries come from blossoms, and she had pluck
ed the blossoms and made them into gar
lands She could not use both blossoms
and cherries.
1t is Just so with the hours of young lives.
Hours are blossoms from which come the
fruit of success and happiness in after years.
Spend them in study, and they viii grow
into the fruit of scholarship by and by.
Spend them in useful industry, and they
viii grow into the fruit of prosperity when
you are older Spend them in prayer and
reading G DDS word, and they viii grow into
the fruit of ripe and manly piety. But if
you weave them into garlands for idle sport
they viii bring forth no fruit. Your life
will be a barren tree. Do you understand?
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LITERARY NOTES.
A London correspondent Of the independ-
ent gives the following gossip about well
known English lady writer's
8EOBGE ELIOT.

GEORGE ELIOT.
Having an intense desireto see the author
Of Adam Bede, " | drove to the Priory
Que Sunday hoping that peep might be
vouchsafed me. TO my great disappoint-
mont, however, Ms. Lewes was too feeble
to see a stranger. As we drove home [ as
serted my Yankee privilege of asking ques-
tion5 and, as the facts | then learned are
no secret. I repeat them here Mr. Lewes,
having forgiven and taken back an unfaithful
wife, cannot according to English law obtain
a divorce, although the wife had twice de-
serted him. Miss Evans is considered his
wife. and called Msr. Lewcs BY their friends,
~ spite q gossln 2nd seaaeial. Owing 10
her necullar po7Iilloi;' '--s ewes seldom
though every one is anxious to meet her.
and many Of her warmest friends are among
the wise and good. All whom | saw loved,
respected and defended her some upon the
plea that, if genius. ike charity, covers a
multitude Of sins in men, why not in wo-
men?
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A NTI-DUST PARE0R STOVES, (spear,.
6APatent) at B. Nc. BLYMYER & CO.'S
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EETM. ". JAMlSON, v. D.,
w BLOODY RUN, PA.
Respectfully tenders his professional services to
the people Of that place and vicinity. [decS:lyr
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TOHN REIMUND.
y CLOCK AND 'ATCH- MAKER,

in the United States Telegraph Office
BEDFORD, Pa.
Clocks, watches, and all kinds Of jewe.ry
promptly repaired. An work entrusted to his care
warranted to give entire satisfaetion. [nov3-1yr