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REN1M.S LIST ESSAY.


Defeuso Of the wife Of Marcus AureIius.
pans. Sept IO.--The annual meeting of the
nsg9 hps 1s taken pce Be6Te Ss hSe Se
Academy of Letters NJ. Renan read charm
ing little essay upon the wife of Marcus Aure-
illus. This sketch would be delightful reading
If only on account of the style-at once transpa-
tent and ptctueresque-in which IL is written,
But certain oddly attaches TO the subject,
and to the effort of the writer to remove the
only stain from the character of Aurelius by
the rehabilitation of that of Faustlna,
Renan, by happy effort of Imagination, en- =
deavors 10 divine the reason for the dtsfavor
with which the charming empress was regarded
by the friends of her husband. "Heiress to all
the lofty prejudices that an incomparable no.
the old Roman aristocraoy" )" ne says, "Faustina
could not but have been offended by the austeTe
mien and almost monRchal dress OF the PM
losophers who surrounded Aureltus, She
doubtless treated them with much OF InaG
unjust disdain which women never know now
and dtstinc ction are iTritated," lie conIlnuSSs.-,
"Marcus Aurellus was the most benevoient
and democratic OF sovereigns, who, inspired
with an intense antipatby for rlcheS anu i the
patricians by the exceHses OF the oid arlsJo-
cracy systematically ignored birth In making
official appointments, and placed In trust only
chaTacter Bass@us, whom he chose tor chief
prefect q real rustic, Dadly DroushJ up,
he married his daughter LuciIla the widow of
VeIus, was a man without birth or attractions,
and also rather elderly. He imagined that the
women OF his household, like him, had no
thought except for the good of the common
wealth, and that because Pompeianus was the
please Faustina and Lucilla on the contrary
they revolted, and made poor Pompeianus
suffer well for his audacity In entering their
family, by all sorts of feminine affronts
"Beautiful, elegant, aristocratic, and a little
frivolous, Faustina was thus a stranger in her
husbands world. His friends, on the other
hand, would easily get, out OF humor with her,
and judge her mere follles and gayeties withun-
necessary severity. Without, therefore, being
worse than her contemporaries, Faustina could
hardly fail TO be more roughly criticized. 1t was
possible, moreover, that she was often rather
bored with her perfect husband; that his
beautiful discourses, his perpetual melan-
choly, his calmness, his resignation, his
aversion for everything that resembled
court, may have seemed austere and distaste-
ful to woman young, capricious, of an ardent
temperament, and endowed with a marvellous
beauty; she was tired of so much wisdom, and
often preferred fetes and diversions which her
husband disliked, and where she was impru-
dent enough to appear alone, and enjoy herself
with too much abandon and gayety. But, after
all, she fulfilled the first duty of a wife, she
made her husband happy, and he thanked the
gods who had given him such q spouse"
Does IL seem as IL this picture referred to a
household that existed seventeen hundred
years ago?
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THE PHILADELPHIA A N ID
GSS SOU1 HERN MAIL STEAMSHIP COM.
2S4lkhAS PANY'S REGULAR LINE
FOR SAVANNAH, GA
TOHAWAEDA. $50 tons, Captain VIM Jenntngs,
WYOMING $50 tons, Captain Jacob Teal.
The steamship WYOMING will leave for the
above port on Saturday, October 5, at o'clock A
NJ, from Pier 1e South Wharves.
Through passage tickets sold, and freight taken fo
points IN connection with the Georgia Central Rail
road. WILLIAM L. JAMES, General Agent,
CHAS, Il. DILKES, Freight Agent,
No. 3li s. Delaware avenue,
AGENTS at Savannah. Hunter g Gammell. Ala
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How to become a MnIIonaire.

John McDonough, the millionaire of New
Orleans, has engraved upon his tomb q series of
maxims he had prescribed as the rule for his
guidance through life, and TO which his success
in business is mainly attributed. They contain
30 much wisdom that we copy them:-
RULES FOR GUIDANCE OF MY LIFE, 1604.-Re-
member always that labor is one of the condi-
tions of our existence. Time is gold; throw
not one minute away, but place each one to
account. Do unto all men as you would be
done by, Never put off till tomorrow what you
can do to-day. Never bid another do what you
can do yourself Never covet what is not your
own. Never think any matter so trif1ng as not
to deserve notice. Never give out that which
does not first come in. Never spend but to
produce. Let the greatest order regulate the
transactions Of your life. Study In your course
of life to do the greatest amount OF good.
Deprive yourself of nothing necessary to your
comfort but live in an honorable simplicity.
Labor, then, to the last moment of your exist
ence. Pursue strictly the above rules, and the
Divine blessing and riches of every kind will
flow upon you to your hearts content; but first
of ALL remember that the chief and great duty
of your life should be to tend, by all means in
your power, to the honor and glory OF our
Divine Creator.
The conclusion to which 1 have arrived is,
that without temperance there is no health;
without virtue no order; without religion no
happiness and that the aim of our being is to
live wisely, soberly, and righteously.
JOHN MODoNoUGH.
New Orleans, March o. 1904.
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New Orleans, March 0, 1904.

THE OLDEST LoCoMoTIvE.-The Oldest locomo-
tive in America was broken up in a machine
shop in Bangor, Me-, the other day. 1t was the
Pioneer, a ten-ton engine, and one of the early
machines built in England, by Stephenson, the
works, at ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, in 1885, and ran
its first trip over the b. .. & NJ r. H., November
6, 1885. lis last work was done August 10, 1867
N Y. Commercial.
rica was the John Bull, in 1888, between Albany
and Schenectady. Her copper hxings were made
by Peter Smith, of Albany. The John Bull is
still alive and is keptas a curiosity at the Albany
Iron Works, near Troy Troy paper.
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EFEs- THE PHILADELPHIA AND
4xIlhl = SOUTHERN MAIL STEAMSHIP COM.
FANY's REGULAR SEMI MONTHLY LIFE,
FOR WELLINGTON, N. Cs
The steamship PIONIGER, 9l2 tons, Captain j. Ben
nett, will leave tor the above port on Thursday
October g. at s o'clock A. NJ, from Pier IL South
Wharves
Bills of lading signed at through and reduced rates
to all principal points in North Carolina.
Agents OF Wilmington, Worth Daniel
WILLIAM l.. JAMES, General Agent,
CHAS. u. DILKES Freight Agent,
4lR NO 3l4 s. DelaWare avenue,
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TIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY.-THH
IL PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANCE COM.
PANY-IncOrporated ls25-ChRrCer Perpetual-No
$40 WALNUT street, opposite Independence Square.
for over forty years. continues insure against loss
or damage by fire on Public or Private buildings,
either permR emily or for limited time. Also on
Furniture, Stocks OF Goods, and Merchandise gene
'TRer Capital, together with large Surplus Eund
ainVested in the most careful manner which enables
themt offer to the insured undoubted security In
the case of loss.
Daniel Smith, Jr.. John DevereuR,
Alexander Benson, Thomas Smith,
Isaac ii Hazlehurst Henry Lewis,
Thomas Robbins, j. Gillingbam Fell,
Daniel Haddock, Jr,
DANIEL SMITH, JR., President,
WILLIAM q. CRoWELL, Secretary. 800
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~ek&Eze. TO SHIP CAPTAINS AND OWNERS,
KAWfScs-The undersigned having lessed the KEN.
SINGTON sCREW DOCK, begs TO Inform his friends
and the patrons of the Dock that he ig prepared with
Increased facilities TO accommodate those having YES
sells 10 be raised repaired, and being q practical
ton 10 the vessels entrusted TO him for repairs.
CaptainsOr Agents, Ship Carpenters and MachiniAta
having vessels TO repair, are solicited to call.
Having the agency for the sale Of "WetterBte6tB
Patent Metallic Composition" for Copper paint, foI
the preservation of vessels bottoms foI this city am
prepared 20 furnish the same on reasonable terInA
JOHN II. HAMMITT
Remington Screw Dock,
IL DELAWARE Avenue. above Laurel street.
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1ssz PASSA TO AND FRON
SkAls9sgE GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAH}
BY STHAMSHIP AND SAILING PACKET,
Al REDUCED RATES.
DRAFTS AVAlLA ELETHR RO UGHOUT ENGLA&!
IRELAND, SCOTLAND, AND WALES.
For particulars apply 70
1APSCOTTS, BROTHERS & co.
NO. So SOUTH street, and No, % BROADWAY,
ii Or to THOS. Il. SEARLIG, No, 2H WALNUG
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FINANCIAL.

N o r 1 @ E
TO THE HOLDERS
LOANS OF THE Commonwealth
OF PENNSYLVANIA
Due After July =, 1860.
Holders of the following LOANS OF THE
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA
are requested to present them for payment
principal and Interestl at
Tho Farmers' and MechHnics' National
Bank of PhiIadelphia,
Loan of March /, 1888, due April 10, 1888
April 8, 1884, due July l, 1852.
April ID, 1885, due July l, 1866
February 9, 1885, due July 1, 1854
March 16, 1889, due July l, 1884.
June q, 1889, due June q, 1884.
January %. 1S4O due January 1, 1865
All Of the above LOANS will cease to draw
interest after September 30, 1857.
JOHN w. GEARY,
GOVERNOR
JOHN F. HARTRANFT,
AUDIToRGENERAL
WILLIAM IA. KEMBLE,
SIG fmwts3O STATE TREASURER
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SHIPPING

gkEEa. STEAM TO LIVERPOOIs-CALL
SAllAlkleR, ing at tQueenstown.-Tne lnman Line, sail
IND semi- weekly carry ing the United States Malls.
CITY OF ANTW WERP. Saturday, October
CITY OF NEW YORK-...,,.. Wednesday, October
CITY OF BOSTON Orday October "
CITY OF BABTIMORE......... Saturday, October l9
CITY OF LONDON .Satur rday. October 26
And each succeeding Saturday and "wednesday ct
noon, from Pier NO. 40, Moth River.
RATES OF PASSAGE
BY the mail steamer sailing every Saturday.
Payable I'm GOld Payable In Currency
FirAt Cabin 100 SteeraRe .~....,tO
To London. ..-........ 105 To LOndon...- 80
To Pars.......... llBl To Paris. 20
Passage by the wednesday Steamers;-First Cabin,
800; Steerage, ego. Payable In U. s. Currency.
Passengers also forwarded TO Havre Hamburg, Bre
men, etc, at moderate rates.
SteerRge passage from Liverpool or Queenstown, 90
currency Tickets be bought here by persons send
ing for their friends.
For further information apply at the Companyb
offices, JOHN q. DALE. Agent
No. Is BROADWAY, N. Yy
BW or No. all OHESNUT ST., Philadelphia. 2
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IFTEs FOR NEW YORK, VIA della
3ShEAAS ware and Raritan Canal.
k[DTess Steamboat Company Steam Propeller
leave Daily from first wharf below Market street
Through in twentyfour hours. Goods forwarded 70
ali pOnts North, East and West free Of commission.
freight received At the lowest rates.
VIM. p. CLYDE q CO., Agents,
No. IA South Wharvea
JANIS HAND, Agent,
No. lO4 Wall street, New YORK. u
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DROVIDENT LIFE AND TRUST COMPANY
OF PHILADELPHIA,
No Ill South FOURTH Street.
INCORPORATED Sd MONTH 22d, 1865
CAPITAL, $l5O,0OO PAID IN,
Insurance on Lives, by Yearly Premiums; or nv 4
10 OF 20 year Premiums, Non-tOrieture. - =
Annuities granted on favorable terms.
Term Policies, Children's Endowments
This Company while giving the insured the Security
of paid-up Capital will divide the entire profits Of
the Life business among its policy holders,
Moneys received at Interest, and paid on demand,
Authorized by charter 10 execute Trusts and to act
as Executor Administrator, Assignee or Guardian
and in other hduciary capacities under appointment
of any Court of this Commonwealth any person or
persons or bodies polite or corporate,
- DIRECTORS
SAMUEL, r. sHIPLEY, HENRY HAINES,
JOSHUA b. NORRIS, Il. WISTAR BROWN
RICHARD WOOD, w. @. LON0STRETH,
RICHARD CADBURYi IWILLIAM HACKEB
CHARLES F. COFFIN,
SAMUEL Il, BHIPLEY, ROWLAND PARRY,
President; ActuAry
VIM G. LoEGsT RETH, Vice President.
THOMAS WISTAR, Nj. D., ]. b. TOWNSEND,
7H2 Medical Examiner. Legal Adviser,
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HAVANA STEAMERS. eff

I<fE3. HAVANA STEAMERS. 4z9%Es
5EMIMONTHLY LINE
RRi ING THE UNITED STATES MAIL
The Steamships
BtNDRICK HUDSON. OA PHAIN H1yVFH
RS AND STRlPES..........CA ca PTAIN HOLMES
These Steamers VIII leave this port for Havans
The Steamship STARS AND STRIPES CHolmes,
MASTERY, will sail for Havana on TUESDAY MORN.
ING October l6, at O'Clock.
Passage TO Havana, $50 currency.
No freight received after Saturday.
For Freight or Passage apply TO
THOMAS " WATTsON & some,
81 No. I40 N. della WARE Avenn
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Hold KeguIar SaIe5 OF
REAL ESTATE, STOCKS, AND SECURITIES AT
THE PHILADELPHIA EXCHANGE.
Handbllls Of each property issued separately.
catalogues published and circulated, containing
full descriptions of property be sold as also par.
tia list of property contained In Real Estate Re-
gister, and offered at private sale.
Sales advertised daily In all the daily newNpapera
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1867-08-23
Prize Fighting.

We clip from Harper's Easy Chair
for Augest some thoughts on prize fight
ing that should have wide currency. They
are embraced in the two paragraphs follow
ing:
The cant Of muscle is the most disgust
ing Of all cant. OF what conceivable ad-
vantage TO anybody in any way was
Blondon's walking over the Niagara river
upon tight-rope trundling wheel bar
row 1t was precisely Of the same benefit
to mankind as the jumping of Sam Patch
at the Gennesee Falls: it was as noble a
spectacle as that of man eating whole
sheep at a sitting for wager. Do we
need the Benicia Boy to prove TO us that
sound physical training is desirable. Do
we wish our sons to be Tom Cribs? Such
men are as exceptional as the Belgian gi-
ant. 1t is good thing to move graceful
ly; shall we, therefore, applaud the poor
girl who devotes herself day and night TO
poison herself upon the point of her great
toe ? The Benicia Boy could deal a blow
like trip hammer; bot he was not strong
in the true sense-that of endurance. So,
little fellow acquires the peculiar agility
of " All Right by the sacrifice of every
thing most desirable in boy. A taste
for exhibition Of such wasted strength and
address is just as morbid as taste for
monsters in China, or for stimulating
drugs. 1t Shows what the human frame
is capable of; yes, but there are many ca
pabil,ties of that frame which it is better
for US not to see.
1t is painful that the newspapers still
insult the better part of the public with
the revolving details Of prize fight. The
whole business has no trace of anythin,
generous, heroic, noble or humane. 1t il
more humiliating than cock fight. 1t il
more disgusting than the shambles. 1t il
more degrading and demoralizing than ;
public hanging. The principals are brut
ish; the spectators are mostly OF the Grim
inal classes. No honorable or intelligen
man has or can have any real interest ii
such scene; yet it is as carefully report
cd as if it were of some service to society
Such reports directly panders to the mean
est and worst passions; nor is it an escus
that they are news. There are pan
events which fall under that head whic
no honorable man will reproduce. Their
are filthy details in many matters, even @
necessary publicity, for printing whic
there is no excuse. A man does not los
his moral sense nor his moral respons
bility by becoming publisher, nor la
he any more right to connive at the col
ruption of the public sentiment becaus
he is an editor than because he is pr
vate citizen.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1867-08-23
History Of Artemas Ward by Him
self.

was born in State Of Maine, of pa
rents. AS infant attracted a great
deal of attention. The nabers would
stand over my cradle for hours, and say,
How bright that little face looks! How
much it nose!" The young ladies would
carry me round in their arms, sayin' 81
was muzzer's bezzy darlin', and a swcety,
eety title ting" 1t was nice, tho wasn't
old enough to properly appreciate it. I'm
helthy old darlin' now.
have alters sustained good moral
character. was never railroad director
in my life.
Altho' in my early life l did not inva'-
bly, confne myself TO truth in my small
bills, hev bin gradooally CROWN respect
bier and respectaber ev'ry year. / luv
my children, and never mistake another
mans wife for my own. I'm not men,
Der of any meetin' house, but firmly be-
lieve in meetin' houses, and shouldn't feel
safe to take dose of laudanum and lay
down in the streets Of village that hadn't
any, with thousand dollars in my vest
pockets.
My temperament is bilious aliho' l
don't owe dollar in the world.
l am a early riser; but my wife is a
Presbyterian. | may add that 1 am also
bald-headed. 1 keep two cows.
l liv in Baldwinsville, Indiany. My
next door naber is Old Steve Billins. I'll
tell you story about old Steve that will
make you larf He jined the church last
spring, and the minister said, " You must
go home now, Brother Billins' and erect
family altar in your own house," Where
upon the egrejis old ass went home and
bilt regular pulpit in his sittin' room. He
had the jiners in his house over days.
1 am Sc (56) years of age. Time with
his relentless scythe is ever busy. The
old sexton gathers them in--he gathers
them in keep pig this year.
] don't think of anything more, Mr.. Ed
! ter.
If you should Civ my portrait in con-
nection with my Bogfry please hav me
engraved in a languishin' attitood, leanin'
on marble pillar, leavin in my back hair
as it is now. Truly yours,
ARTEMAs WARD.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1867-08-23

A man in blouse once said, 81
have no more influence than farthing
rushlight." Well,i' was the reply, ga
farthing rushlight can dc great deal it
can set hay stack on fire, it can burn
down house, yea, more, it will enable
poor creature to read a chapter in Gods
book. Go your way, friend, let your
farthing rushlight SO shine before men,
that others seeing your good works may
glorify your Father which is in Heaven"
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1867-08-23


A writer in Harpers Magazine Tor
August, in an article on the seige Of Port
Hudson, in which he makes repeated men,
ton of the 9Th VT, tells the following Gu
rious incident:
In the first attack preceding the invest
ment, the colonel Of New York regiment
pushed his way up to an apron which pro-
jected from the main works, and fought
desperately till many Of his men were kill
ed, and the rest driven to cover. The
Colonel was in dilemma, he could not adj
vance or retreat, and in this extremity he
hoisted white flag on stick, and surren-
dered to the part of the garrison immedi-
ately opposed to him.
The white Gag was seen by rebel
colonel in advance of his position, and
wholly misinterpreted. Never suspecting
that it was raised by Union officer, he
thought his comrades had been overpower-
ed, and compelled to surrender, and being
disposed to act honorably he hoisted a
white handkerchief also, stopped the fir
ing, and ordered his regiment to file out
through the sally-port, and stack their
arms outside of the intrenchments. The
Union skirmishers who mingled with them
asking in establishment what this move
ment meant, received the reply, "We sup
pose that we have surrendered"
USuckily no Union officer of in.elli-
gence and standing, was at this point to
take advantage of the mistake. The
precious moments passed, and while the
Union troops looked on with wonder, a
mounted Confederate officer rode out in
hot haste, placed the colonel that had sur
rendered under arrest, and ordered the
regiment inside the intrenchments. Had
the abandoned works been promptly seiz-
ed by our troops, it is possible that the
whole place would have surrendered. But
the golden opportunity was lost, and six
long weeks of siege and thousands of val
liable lives were the penalty of the failure
to profit by the mistake of the rebel colo
mel.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1867-08-23

= This is worth knowing, if true A
poison of any conceivable description an d
degree of potency, which has been swal-
lowed, Intentionally or by accident, may
be rendered instantly harmless by swal-
lowing two gills of sweet OIL An indi.
vidual with very strong constitution
should take twice the quantity. This oil
will neutralize every form of vegetable or
mineral poison with which physicians or
chemists are acquainted.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1867-08-23
A Whale Story.

Captain Maloy, of the whaling bark
Osceola, has had an adventure, which he
tells in private note published in the
Bedford Mercury
"About three hundred miles northwest
from St. Nicholas, we saw whales close to
the ship, lowered the boats as soon as pos
sible, and soon the second mate struck a
large whale. In few minutes the third
mate struck and got stove. The whale
then went to the second mate and knocked
the bottom out Of his boat. The first mate
then brought the third mate and his crew
to the ship. / then sent him off to bring
the second mate and his crew to the ship
as quick as possible, as saw the whale
was intending mischief. In the meantime
the whale was at work on the starboard
boat, and soon made bad boat of her.
After getting all hands on board, the first
and second mates, being anxious to try him
again, went off, but didn't get chance to
kill him. In fact, they had as much as
they could do to keep clear of him; and
seeing he was dangerous customer |
called the boats on board.
Not liking the idea of being done by a
whale, l concluded to 60 at him with the
ship; got all ready and made for him.
Getting near, he turned and came for US,
striking the ship on her port bow with his
jaw, his head coming in contact with the
cut water, knocking it off and tearing of
considerable copper and sheathing. The
shock he gave the ship was heavy, taking
some of the men off their feet, and giving
them considerable of fright. Had the
whale struck the ship fair he would have
gone through her as easily as cat would
through wet paper. About the time he
struck l gave him a bomb, but it did moi
kill him, so went at him again. This
time he did not seem to like the taste o.
the ship, and SO got out of the way as fas
as he could. As he passed l gave hin
another bomb and two lances, but thes,
failed to kill him. Again l tried him, bu
be kept clear Of us.
1t being late, sent boat off to make
the wreck of the starboard boat secured t.
the line, to act as drag, and went after
the waist boat, now five miles TO the lee
ward. After getting her on board Git be
ing then dark) worked to the windwarc
all night, and the next morning saw hin
again with the wreck Of the boat still fas
to him. At $50 A. NJ, we lowered tw,
boats well manned, and went at him. AT
ter a long russell we got him alongside
He was very large whale; the largest
think, / ever saw. But he was very poor
got one hundred and fifteen barrels gu
of him; had he been fat, he would hav,
made one hundred and fifty barrels easy
His length was sixty-eight feet; spread
the flutes, sixteen feet four inches.
found on cutting him in, that his jaw wa
badly shattered by his raid on our bow.
lost in the fight one boat entire with al
her traps, except the gun and line; in al
twelve oars, one sail, paddles, buckets
tubs, &c.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1867-08-23

The latest advice from Tennessee es-
innate Brownlow's majority at $4,000.
His own paper puts it at AZ, 900. He ran
ahead of his ticket in many places. He
received GA majority over Ethridge in
Knoxville, where he resides; 73S MAORI
ty in Greene, President Johnson's county i.
and 80 majority in the town of GreenyiIle
President Johnson's Gome.