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FANNY FERN ON EDITORS.


Fanny Fern thinks it a great pity that
editors, in reviewing the books written by
woman, so often fall into the error of review
ing the woman instead of the book After
having her say on this subject, she talks Of
editors in general terms, thus:
1t is pity that an editor should not be a
gentleman, for his own sake, and because
no position can be more honorable than his,
if he choose to make it so, nor more inhuen-
tial for good or evil Think of the multi
tude he addresses-the thinking men and
women who pass his columns under critical
review. Surely, this is a career not to be
lightly esteemed, not to be slurred over
bunglingly. Surely, thismessenger crossing
the sacred threshold of home, might well
step carefully, revereDtially, disereetly, and
discuss fairly, justly, all topics especially
connected with home duties and home Ie-
sponsibilities. Surely, his advertising list,
if he have one, should be clean one, such
as any frank -browed, hitherto innocent
young boy, might read. Surely, the maid
en-, whose horizon is not bounded by strip
of ribbon or silk, or even the marriage altar,
should have thu great questions OF the day,
relating to the future OF her sex, not
brushed asidewith a eontemptuous sniff, or
treated with fippant ridicule, because this
is the shortest and easiest way of disposing
of that which requires thought and fair de-
liberation 1t seems so strange to me, who
hold in such exalted estimation an editor 6
calling that one should ever be found will
ing to belittle it; it is also great comfort to
know that there are those who hold this
their position, for honor and interest second
to none, and In this light consclentiously
conduct their paper, so far as their strength
and means allow. This would be a very
stupid world, I grant, if individuality were
not allowed in the editorial chair as we'll as
elsewhere; but leaving a wide margin for
this, is there not still room in many newspa-
pers for more justice, manliness, courtesy,
and above all, respectful mention of woman
even though the exigeneies of her life may
compel her to address the public?
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-06-05
BEEcHER ON THE BIRCH.

Henry Ward Beecher thinks that the
punishment of children has not been studied
scientifically, and that it is questionable
whether children are not really whipped too
much rather than too little. He, like all
Others who have written on the subject,
finds it difficult to define exactly IN what
consists the science of corporeal punishment
and admits that after all parents will have
to Judge for themselves as to the degree and
mode of punishment. The following re-
marks are sensible, and worth remembering
by every parent:
We would net be understood as reprOba-
ting corporeal punishment. Grateful for
our own youthful enjoyment OF such
means of grace, we advocate due measure
oft, But not upon all; some children are
better without it. Whipping should not be-
como common and vulgar 1t should be
reserved as q luxury, and served up IN
striking manner, so as to tire the magma
ton. while it stirs up the flesh. Only for
grave offenses, for bestial sins, for brutal
conduct, for most dishonOrable and mean
offenses. should it be employed. 1t IS a sin
and shame to slap and pinch, rap and snap
for every peccadillo. Shall child be un-
covered for breaking a plate, for tearing his
clothes, for a moments temper, for sinking
some disagreeabe work, for running OF
skating, for playing truant on the dazzlingest
afternoon of the year, when the militia are
parading and the drums beating, aud the
whole air full of the very delirium of temp
tation? We shall not venture anyadyice on
this matter. which, after all, must be settled
in every house for itself But, if We should
ever venture to express ourselves, we think
it would be in about this wise: Govern by
rational and moral motives, and govern your
selffrst; use the rod rarely, but when you
take it, make jubilee of it. so that such an
elect hour will stand up like a monument IL
the child memory; and never use it except
as kind Of exorcism to expel some anima
demon.
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-06-05

DoyEsTrc Happiness. While travelling,
few wears since | was detained some days
IN one OF our Western cities. 9ly room
overlooked a lane or alley-Eay, IN which
several houses occupied pY the, Deltff class
Of artigans. and [ became mach interested
in one Of these. NO much that 70 sooner eld
I hear a clad shout from little voice tllan
l,ra,,, Il was r1eaI time, and Daddy was
coming. and took mp my point q obser-
,.,,iop IN harmless and adnliring scrutiny Of
tbe weU-rgycrned house. On the way IN
tbe father raised the rejoicing chlid III has
arms. and gave it two or three resounding
smacks: another one had erept to the dooT-
siil. and this was lifted also, and Its httle
cheek laid tenderly upon the shoulder, Which
was hunched TO bring it close 70 that o. me
fathers By this time the VIE had Dro
a bowl Of water, and white coarse towel
then she took the children down, applying
also sundry pats now ON the sh0utteTs gi
the little ones. and now On the broad iatI-
erly ones; and while the htsband gave Z
last rub OF the hard, rough hands he sireteitt-
ed out his neck aud kissed the preltys &I44-
ish wife who would be lowering near hlin
They said grace, they dined q the pialH;
wholesome board and more than once
found myself waiting them q benedictioll
with the tears in my eyes IL ls 30 bFutlsa
to pass without a word Of recognition Of the
Great Giyer. The husband was a grave
man. and the wife a lively. eheery one, neat
rs pin. and very chatty. ! thought them
wonderfully well matched, for there was no
uioroseness IN the man nor leyty m the
woman, and when Sunday came ana the
little household. dressed IN their tnefy, baby
and all went out to church, It was SIGHT
to behold.-N.s. T. 0ates SntiA, IL he
Herald Of Health.
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-06-05
MODERN SCIENCE.

One of the most notable things about the
development of modern science is the man
ner in which discoveries or inventions in
one branch of inquiry are of immediate and
signal service in calculating other and ap-
parently uneonnected matters. Of such in
vcntons the Spectr0sc0pe is one likely to be
of inca4culable advantage, as by means Of
its refracting prisms it is enabled to separate
and exhibit the spectTa or rays of light
which different substances reflect, each in its
own characteristic system of bands and lines
of color. By this means several new metals
have been discovered, the atmospheres of
the sun and other heavenly bodies analysed,
and discoveries are opening up to its powers
on every hand It has been put to practi-
cal use in analyzing the fame of a furnace
during the process of making Bessemer steel,
so that the exact moment when the process
is complete is instantly shown by the change
in the spectrum most delicate point OF
metalurgy not otherwise determinable.
The latest use to which it has been put will
give it fame in the annals of medicine
and of law, as it furnishes a means Of an
alyzing and recognizing human blood,
whether in abnormal secretions of disease
or in dried stains upon other material. The
hamatine, or coloring matter of the blood,
shows a spectrum entirely different from
other substances with all its general appear
ance and color; so that where even the
microscope fails, the spectroscope will in
stantly detect so small matter as the one
thousandth of grain of dried human blood.
Thus all sciences gain from each ones pro-
eress.
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-06-05
mIsTREssEs AND SERVANTS

Complaints lnnumerable are heard In al
most every household of the land about the
lncapacity of servant girls They are indif-
terent or worthless, dishonest or dirty.
Granting that these complaints be true, an
examination Of them will afford interesting
study. A candid observer will be surprised
at how much their tone or even their sub
stance depends upon the taste of their en-
ployer. One lady of refinement will find
IN some unfortunate Bridget the most yexa-
tious Incidence, whilst another viii be will
ing to give her a certificate for laudable at
tention to business. One lady viii find her
cook sloyenly and dirty, another will recon-
mend her as model of cleanliness One
lady Will cry careless nurse" another care
tul nurse. One worthless huzzy;" an
other indispensable help. Thus the un-
complaining servant becomes a woman or
brute, paragon or hoyden, clean or dirty,
neat or siovenly, honest or thievish, skillful
or awkward, capable or incapable as the
propensity of the mistress may happen to
run. This is no fancy picture. The ser
wants themselves are living witnesses to its
truth And what does it proye2 Simply
this, that there Is emptiness in the general
complaints of servant girls. That the de-
fects IN the households which they are ex-
pected TO remedy are more the faults OF the
superior than of the subordinate. The wo-
man, the lady if you please, who allows her
charge to devolve upon the shoulders of
domestics, deserve to find confusion creep
ing into the kitchen and dining room. The
province of servant girls is to man the ship,
but the pilot, the mistress herself, should
never let go the helm. Just so soon as she
does, every servant will become her superior,
and they viii feel 1t and act upon it, and viii
become untidy, careless or dishonest in pro
portion to their degree of responsibility
Bridget in her proper place in the hands
of Mrs. A, viii be dutiful and faithful,
and valuable servant; while Bridget out of
her proper place, and outside of the author
ity Of Mrs. B., viii be vinenous and spiteful,
domineering and insolent, extravagant and
careless, inefficient and worthless, The
fault is in the goyerness more than in the
subject.
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-06-05

TITS a curious circumstance that since the
invention of the present form of violin, about
two hundred and fifty years ago, the instru-
ment has undergone no improvement. Nome
of the changes which successive makers
have attempted to introduce have proved Of
the least value. The old are still the best,
and for once the general law of progress
seems to have been set aside. When VIC
Inns we're first brought into the concert-room
as substitutes for the old vlol with tretss,
they were ridiculed as mere toys, incapable
of ever producing effects equal to those of
the instruments they were Intended to su~
persede; yet in the course Of a single gener-
alton the violin had not only been Tecogniz-
ed as the first and most important OF the
| c1mponeuts of the orchestra, but had attain
ed its fullest development ofform and tone.
The Instruments manufactured during the
first half of the seventeenth century by the
Amati family at Cremona, and somewhat
later by their celebrated pupil Anthony
Stadivarius, have never been excelled, and
there is no reason to supposeth they ever
viii be.
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-06-05

CURE FOR WHooPING CoUGH.-Physi-
clans In Hartford, Connecticut have adop-.
ted with marked success a new method of
treatment for curing children afflicted with
whooping cough. The juvenile patients are
taken on tour of inspection to the city gas
works, and while intently engaged in wit
Messing the various processes employed IN
manufacturing their evening artifcial-illu-
mination supply, they breathe the not very
pleasant air of the gas house: In some
way, not very clearly understood, the inha-
ling of this air is found to cure or greatly
alleviate the complaint. This ingenious;
method of beneftting the youthful mind
and body simultaneously has become i'm.
mensely popular in the place, the people al
the gas works asserting that during the last
twelve months no less than three hundred
cases have been experimental upon, the re-
suits, generally, being of most favorable
character. -- Scientific AmRrtsaa,
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-06-05

THE LOVE OF THE BEAUTIFUL:--Place
a young girl under the care Of q kindheartd,
graceful woman, and she uneonscioqsly to
herself grows into graceful lady. Place
boy in the establishment Of thoroughgo-
ing, straightforward business man; and. the
boy becomes a self-reliant; pratical business
man. Children are susceptible creatures,
and circumstances, scenes and actions al
ways impress them. As you influence them.
not by arbitrary rules, not By stern example
alone but in the thousand other ways that
speak through beautiful forms, through
bright scenes, soft utterances and pretty
pictures, so viii they grow, Give them
corner in the garden for flowers, encourage
them to put in shape the hanging baskets,
allow them to have their favorite trees, lead
them to wander in the prettiest woods,
show them where they can best view the
sunset; buy for them pretty pictures and
encourage them to decorate their rooms, each
in his OF her childish way The instinct Is
in them. Give them an inch and they will
go a mile. Allow them the privilege and
they viii make your home beautiful.
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-06-05
PHYSICIANS.
I'm. W. JA1fIsoN, N. D,

WIN. W. JAMESON, N. D.,
BLooDY Run, Pa
Respectfully tenders bis professional services to
the people ofthat place and vicinity. Ldees;lyr
DR. B. f. HARRY,
Respectfully tenders his professional ser
vices to the citizens of Bedford and vicinity.
Office and residence on Pitt Street. in the building
formerly occupied by Dr.. J. II. Hofus. [Ap'l 1,64.
nR. S. G. STATLER, near Schellsburg. and
u DR.. J. j. CLARKE, formerly Of Cumberland
county having associated themselves in the prac-
tee Of Medicine, respectfully offer their profess
siona services 10 the citizens of Schellsburg and
vicinity. DR.. Clarke's Office and residence same
as formerly occupied by J. White, ESQ, decd.
S. 6. STATLER,
soheilsbuFg, Apriu2Iy. J. J. CLARKE.
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-06-05

:. r, DURBoRRow LUrZ.
DURBoRRow 4 LUTz,
l. ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
BEDFORD, PA,
VIII attend promptly to all business intrusted to
their care. Collections made on the shortest
tice.
They are, also, regularly licensed Claim Agents
and viii give special attention 70 the prosecution
Of claims against the Government for Pensions,
Back Pay, Bounty, Bounty Lands, &c.
Office on Juiana street, one door South Of the
Inquirer Office, and nearly opposite the 'Mengel
House" April 2s, lS65:t
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-06-05

DANIEL BORDER,
u PITT STREET, TWO DOORS WEST OF THE BED
FoRD HOTEL, BEBFoRD, PA.
MATCHMAKER AND DEALER IN JEWEL
RY. SPECTACLES. &C.
lie keeps on hand a stock Of fine Gold and Sill
yer Watches, Spectacles of Brilliant Double Rein
el Glasses, also Scotch Pebble Glasses. Gold
ateh Chains, Breast Pins Finger Rings, best
quality Of Gold Pens. He viii supply 20 order
any thing in his line not on hand. [apr.2s, '65.
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-06-05

Or the Southern freedmen the Chicago
Post SAYS: We look for new literature and
a new music from this impassioned, although
hitherto dumb race. They are possessed
by nature of the finest social and moral IA
culties. They are an inherently loyal race,
warm hearted, mirthful, initiative, dramatic
and musical 1t is true, that at present we
have but the rough outline, so to speak,
of these latter abilities-but they are all
there, and only require cultivation TO, give
them distinctive character and high ex-
preston. Already, and even whilst they
were slaves, they struck the key notes t, an
original music, that will one day be develop
cd and elaborated int u Ecjance,
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-06-05

4 WEATHER ToY.-A Bostoniau, says the
Commercial Adrertiser, has toy barometer
on exhibition, which consists of miniature
cottage, with two doors. At one OF these
stands man, clad in such purple aud fine
linen as constitute a Sunday go-to meeting
rarb in New England, while at the other ap-
pears female arrayed in Ike apparel. These
twain seem to watch the impending weather.
If there are signs Of rain, the man, with no
ble bravery worthy of better fate, steps
boldly out of doors, while the woman shrinks
into the cottage. But If the signs are tavora-
bic, the woman goes forth to shop and gossip
while the man stays at home and tends house
aud baby. A thermometer forms part of the
household furniture of this insttution.-Sci-
entjfc american.
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-06-05

A BEAUTIFUL THoUGHT, Dickens wrote:
'There is nothing--no, nothing beautiful
and good, that dies and is forgotten. An
infant, prattling child, dying in its cradle
viii live again in the better thoughts of
those who loved it, play its part though its
body be burned to ashes or drowned In the
keepest sea. There is not an angel added to
the hosts of heaven but does its blessed
work on earth in those that loved it here.
Deeds! oh, if the good deeds Of human
creatures could be traced to their source,
how beautiful would even death appear; for
how much charity, mercy, purified affection
would be seen to have their growth in dusky
graves"
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-06-05

AGRICULTURAL INvENTIoNs.-The re,
port of the acting Commissioner of Agricul-
ture for the present year relates the interest
ing fact that the number Of agricultural IN
yentious now annually perfected is more
than forty-iold greater than it was twenty
years ago. These improvements are rapid
ly revolutionizing the agriculture Of the
West, reducing to the lowest minimum ever
attained the proportion Of manual labor
employed in its operations. As a single
illustration the reaper is mentioned, which,
while doing the work Of ten men, was first
supplemented with a selfraker aud now,
still further to facilitate and cononize the
harvest work, is furnished with an apparatus
for the instantaneous binding Of the sheayes.
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-06-05

TRIBUTE TO AMERICA London
Spectator has the sollowing tribute to Geo.
Peabody, the great London banker: mo
country contains so many milllonares as
this. No country gives them so much IN
the shape of security, of social difference,
and of opportunities of exertion; and no
country receives so little from them. There
are at this time a hundred enterprises of
national importance which could be set go
ing by single gifts quite within the power of
scores, not to say hundreds of rich men, and
no one expects that any of them would OBJ
tain any such gifts. In America they are
common enough. Gifts of princely amounts,
amounts which would yield fortunes in mere
interest, have been repeatedly made to
American cities, to colleges, to libraries, and
this during the lifetime of the donors; but
we can scarcely recall an instance Of the Kind
in Great Britain. Mr.. Peabody was an
American, and we can recall no other single
gift of quarter of million. Nobody has
ever given million, or half million, to
ANYTHING, and there are many who could.
An English millionaire would think pro-
posal to give away years income in SIN
cle check the suggestion of insanity. Men
with much money keep it.
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-06-05

In moral story, by the younger Du-
mas, a married woman is represented as
writing to her lover, explaining why she
will not follow him. i am not free, she
saws; my family, society, public opinion,
and-must | say it?--my husband, too,
have claim on me. The nonchalanee and
careless indifference with which the husband
is slipped in among the things which pre-
vent her elopement find no parallel out of
French novel
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-06-05

EFFECT OF EXPOSURE ON Prof
Rockwell, has called attention to the
deterioration which coal suffers from expo
sure to the weather, snd to the importance
ofkeeping it as dry as possible. Anthracite
suffers the least; bitumiuous the most. Ac
cording to the experiments of Grundmann,
in Germany, coal exposed to the weather in
heaps lost during period Of nine months
so per cent of its value as fuel, and about as
much as gas making material; 1t under
goes a process of slow combustion, taking
up oxygen, and giving off the volatile pro-
ducts of oxidation, and moisture play
ing the principal part, and warmth promo
ting it; the valuable combustible ingredi
ents are lost, and the injurious ones, as sui
phur, oxygen, and ash, are relatively in,
creased. Coke from weathered coal is of
inferior quality, losing its conference. -
Scientific 1meJjcdR.
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-06-05

"JonN," said Quaker to a young friend,
Il hear thou art going to be married.
Eyes, replied John. swell, - replied the
man of drab, 81 have one little Bit of ad
vice to give thee, and that is, never marry
a woman worth more than thon art When
| married my vile I was just worth nifty
dollars, and she was worth sixty-two, and
whenever any difficulty occurred between us
sirce, she always threw the odd twelve dol
lars in my face.
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-06-05

Don't keep a solitary parlor, into which
you go but once month. with your parson
or sewing society. Hang round your wall
pictures which shall tell stories Of mercy,
hope, courage, faith and charity Make
your living room the house. Let the place
be such that when your boy has gone to dis
tant lands, or even when, perhaps he clings
to single plank in the waters Of the wide
ocean, the thought Of the old homestead
shall come to him in his desolation, bring
ing always light, hope and love. Have no
dungeons about your house-no room you
never opcn-no blinds that are always shut.
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-06-05

LITTLE WoMEY.-The woman is irrepressi-
bic. Too fragile to come into the fighting
section of humanity, puny creature whom
one blow from a mans huge first could ami
hilate, absolutely fearless, and insolent with
the insolence which only those dare show
who know that retributiou cannot follow
what can be done with her? She is afraid OF
nothing, and to be controlled by no one
Sheltered behind her weakness as behind a
triple shield of brass, the angrIest man dare
not tcuch her, while she proYokes him to a
combat in which his hands are tied. She
Gets her own way in everything and every
where. At home and abroad she is equally
dominant and irrepressible, equally free
from obedience and from fear.
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-06-05

''No1sY CHILDREN. We'll, how doyou
like your stupid, quiet blockheads, that
never make a noise only when some one
pushes them out of the way? Il cannot
bear the noise of children" Then go and
shut yourself up in some quiet nook. where
the music of childhood Is never heard.
Shut yourself away from the world, and
thus stihe the little music stirring in your
heart Ifyou wish to crush the life aud
spirit from the souls of children, stop their
noise, instruct them to play carefully, avoid
ing all outbursts of JOY. We like the noise
Of children. Not that rude, wicked, wild
noise that is heard in the eretreats of the pro
fame and uncultivated, but natural out
bursts of childhood S innocence and mirth.
AS well may you command the spring
brooklet, swelled by recent showers, to
run over its rocky bed without making
any noise, as to expect children, full of the
springs of human life, to play and make no
noise. Do not Danish your children out OF
hearing that you may not be troubled with
their noise Let them feel that you love to
see them happy and cheerful, and then they
viii not seek to avoid your presence to find
enjoyment
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-06-05

SOME folks are prodigiously pepitent oyer
other peoples sins, and seem to think tney
have a special call to confess them before
the whole world. They VIII geuge thelr
brothers 5 eyes out rather than leave a single
mote in them. At the same time they are il
singularly blind respecting their own iali-
fDOg
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-06-05

DELICATE persons often outlive by half a
life time the robust and the strong, because
their ill-fsSinss, and habitaRIy avoid them,