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Music AT MIDNIGHT.-It is related
of the sanity George Herbert, the
quaint old English church poet, that
once in a walk to Salisbury to join a
musical party, he saw poor man and
a poor horse that had fallen under the
load. They were both in distress, and
needed present help, which Mr.. Her
bert perceiving, put off his canonical
coat and helped the poor man to un-
load his horse. The poor man blessed
him for it, and he blessed the poor
man, and was SO like the good Sama-
ritan that he gave him money to re-
fresh himself and horse. Thus he left
the poor man; and at his coming to
his musical friends at Salisbury, they
began to wonder that Mr.. George
Herbert, who used to be so trim and
clean, came into that company so
soiled and discomposed. But he told
them the occasion; and when one of
the company told him he had dispar-
aged himself by so dirty employment,
his answer was that what he had done
would prove music to him at midnight,
and that the omission of it would have
upbraided and made discord in his
conscience whensoever he should pass
by that place. O, how many might
have the anxious thoughts which often
infest their midnight hours changed
into music, if they would only be more
frequently seen, with full hands and
friendly words, in the abodes of pow
erty and suffering! These are the
places in which to attune ones con.
science to midnight harmonies.-Chris-
tian Standard.
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A BUG SToRY.-The other evening,
il our "private crib" there was
learned dissertation on the subject of
Bed bugs and their remarkable te-
nacity of life." One asserted of his
own knowledge that they could be boil
ed and then come to life. Some had
soaked them for hours in turpentine
without any fatal consequences. Old
Hanks, who had been listening as an
outsider, here gave his experience in
corroboration of the fact. Says he,
Some years ago took a bedbug to
an iron foundry and dropped it into
the ladle where the melted iron was
and had it run into skillet. Well,
my old woman used that skillet for
the last six years, and here the other
day she broke it all to smash; and
what do you think, gentleman? that
ere insect just walked out of his hole,
where he'd heen laying like frog in
a rock, and made tracks for his old
roost up stairsl But" added he, by
way OF parenthasis, by George, gen.
tlemen, he looked mighty palep'
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wilcox & GIBBS
SEWING MACHINES
FOR
FORTY-FIyE DOLLARS.

ID 0 N T BE .SCA r Z d
About Factory worn" single threaders, "adver-
tsed by other parties" (see Express for no mer
chant tailor, or any other tailor ever uses loop
stitch machine, but double threaders only.
Why don't tailors use the Wilcox & Gibbs
Machine; Answer-because it makes the loop
stitch and lift gets unlooped at the end of the
seam, the seam will pull open without breaking
the thread. Try it, and then you will know why
taiors don't use them.
But the Wilcox & Gibbs agent told us it made
the twisted loop" stitch, and "fast seam," and
that it was "first cass'' machine, and run vary
still. and it cost SO with small cover and Bar
mum self seam.
Did the agent make you believe it made fast
seam? Yes; and he proved it by cutting off
part of the stitches on the right side and then it
would hold to pail hard upon, straight across the
seam.
So will the seam of any of the little cheap loop
stitch machines if managed Just in that way, but
that does not hinder the seam pulling open, if it
happens to get unloOped, neither does the high
price that you paid for it, nor its running still,
nor its twisted loop, make it any safer than the
work of machine that costs but SIS. The twist
is only to twist S25 or $50 more out of your
pocket than you ought to pay for them, thinking
that you are getting fast stitch machine, when
in fact ii Is only loop stitch, as is well known
is liable to let your garments part asunder at
times when you would choose to be clothed rath-
er than naked.
Husband" said Mrs. G. "what kind of q ma
chine did Mrs. D. stitch my dress on :"
"Why, on her new Wilcox & Gibbs"
"Wel, the first time wore it, one of the bias
ing seams in the waist pulled open. One stitch
broke, and then cne side pulled off. leaving the
| loops of thread in the other side Now. 1 will
never have another stitch of work done on it,
nor any other loop stitch machie, and when you
get me sewing machine, You may order me fast
stitch machine from F. P. CHENEY-either q
"GOLD MEDAL" or "NEW AMERICAN
! COMBlNb TION." He will furnish them with
hemmers to turn the hem up or down, and they
will fell, braid bind, tuck, and embroider, and
run from twenty thicknesses of heaAy cotton
cloth on TO one thickness of fine muslin, without
changing thread, needle or tension, and the New
American will make nice, strong button holes,
and d o oyerseaming, making the over edge
stitch, and it runs much stiller than any of the
| old style shuttle machines, and the shuttle is
very easily threaded and regulated. 1t costs
only a triie more than the Wilcox & Gibbs, and
would sooner buy it if it cost siz times much
! for, as Governor Hartman of N. H. said in his
letter to Judge Ba rrett, ~ regard it far ahead
of any other sewing machine in existence" and
certainly think it very silly to pay great price
for small, single thread loop stitch machine.
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Theodore Parker's grand charac-

Theodore Parker's grand charac-
teristic was character. Not learning,
though few were so learned as he
not eloquence, though SO few had his
power of speech; not intellectual
range, though his was SO wide; but
singleness of purpose and steadiness
of will. Such men are always misun.
derstood. This earnestness, turned
directly on instant ends, is a terrible
bull in the China shop of society.
Idleness, weakness, cowardice, efem-
macy, always protest against it. Its
course is obstinacy; its independence
is insolence; its self-assertion is brag !;
its persistency is fanaticism. 1t is q
lazy world and hates alarm-bells. It
calls the doctor nuisance, the school.
master knave, the reformer rufian
and, the saint devil. 1t nails its con.
solers on cross for intimating that
it needs consolation; and it hangs its
deliverer on gallows for limiting that
its well is not well enough.-O. b.
rockingham.
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MASTER ScRMp's CoxposIrToS.-M

MASTER SCRDP's COMPOsITIoN.-Ma
is mother. | am her son. Mas name
is Mrs. Scrimp; she is the wife of Mr.
Scrimp, and Mr.. Scrimp is her hus-
band. Pa is my husband. My name is
John Washington Scrimp. Pas name
is Scrimp too, and so is Mas.
My ma has a ma. She is my grand
ma. She is mother,in-law to pa. My
pa says mOther,in laws ought to be
vetoed. | like my grandma better
than pa does. She brings me ten cents
stamps and bolivars. She don't bring
any to pa. Maybe that's why he don't
like her.
Aunt Jerusha is my aunt. When pa
was little boy she was his sister. |
like little sisters. Dickey Mopps has
a little sister. Her name is Rose.
take her out riding on my sled. Aunt
Jerusha don't like her. She calls her
that Mopps girl" l think Aunt Je-
rusha ought to be ashamed of herself.
Aunt Jerush lives with US. Some
times | think ma had rather have her
live with somebody else. | asked Aunt
Jerusha once why she did not marry
somebody and set up for herself. She
said that many and many a man had
wanted to marry her, but while her
poor Susan Jane was in such a state
Of health she couldn't think of leaving
Besides she said. what would become
of your poor pa?
Aunt Jerusha sometimes has a state
Of health too. On washing days she
has the headache, and does ner head
up in brown paper and vinegar, and ]
have to make toast for her at the
kitchen fire; and | make some fol
myself: too.
Aunt Jerusha says that nobody
knows what she has done for that boy
That boys me again. told pa what
she said. He said it was just so; no
body did know. Ma said that Aunt Je
rusha means well, and that she's pa:
dear sister. | don't see why tha'
any reason she should always scolC
me when | eat cabbage with knife
While Thad Stevens was a young
lawyer, he once had case before ;
bad tempered Judge of an obscur,
Pennsylvania Court. Under what h'
considered a very erroneous ruling
it was decided against him; where
upon he threw down his books ant
picked up his hat in high state ol
indignation, and was about to leav
the court room, scattering impreca
tions all around him. The Judg
Strengthened himself to his full height
assumed an air of offended majesty
aad asked Thad. if he meant " to ez
press his contempt for this Court :?
Thad. turned to him very defcrential
ly, made a respectful bow, and r(
piled, in amazement; HErpress m
contempt for this Court No, sir
am trying to conceal it, your Honor,
adding as he turned to leave, but
find it id hard to do it.
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Ripe Wheat.

We bent to-day o'er cofined form,
And our tears fell softly down;
We looked our last on the aged face,
With its look of peace, its patient grace,
And hair like a silver crown.
We touched our own to the clay-cold hands.
From life's long labor at rest;
And among the blossoms, white and sweet.
We noted bunch of golden wheat,
Clasped close to the silent breast.
The blossoms whispered of fadeless bloom,
OF land where fall no tears,
The ripe wheat told of toll and care.
The patient waiting. the trusting prayer.
The garnered good of the years.
We knew not what work her hands had found,
What rugged places her feet;
What cross was hers, what blackness of night
We saw but the peace, the blossoms white,
And the bunch of ripened wheat.
As each goes up from the fields of earth,
Bearing the treasures of life,
God looks for some gathered grain of good,
From the lipe harvest that shining stood,
But waiting the reaper's knife.
Then labor well, that in death you go
Not only with blossoms sweet
Not bent with doubt, but burdened with fears.
And dead, dry husks of the wasted years.
But laden with golden wheat.
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Mr.. G. was in the habit of asking
the children to repeat the text on their
return from church, to prove that they
gave attention. One Sabbath the text
was, " Why stand ye here all the day
idle? Go into my vineyard and work
and whatsoever is right | will pay
thee" Charley came and was asked
to repeat the text. He hesitated a
moment,apd then,as if it had just come
to him after much thought, he said =
" What are you standing about doing
nothing for? Go into my barnyard
and 60 to work, and I'll make it al
right with you"
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Your admirable needle woman is the only
seamstress that defies extortionate men. They
cannot cheat it, nor starve it, nor deprive it of
sleep, nor tire it out, nor make its hands weary.
1t is a worker that is a match for the most un-
wearied and avaricious manufacturer. At last
l am thankful that there is a machine woman
that cannot be oppressed nor kept in suffering.
-Rer. Henry Ward Beecher.
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How tenaciously woman clings to
hope of accomplishing what she has
once set her mind upon is well Illus
trated in a homely manner by the fol.
lowing anecdote "a kind physician
living near Boston, wishing to soothe
the last hours of a poor woman whom
he was attending, asked her if there
was anything that he could do for her
before she died. The poor soul, look
ing up, replied, Doctor, have al
ways thought l should like to have a
glass butter dish before | died y"
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Notice below the opinions of several emincn:-
ly popular, as well as practical and discerning
men in regard to the utility of sewing machines
There is not an invention of fthis inventive age
which honors American genius more than the
sewing machine. No family ought to be depriv-
ed of its benefits.--Ne,o York Independent
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An Irishwoman who has kept lit
tie grocery shop was brought to her
death bed, and was on the point Of
breathing her last, when she called
her husband to her bedside. Jamie" !"
she family said, /" there's Missus Null
ony-she owes me six shillings." -
"Och r exclaimed her husband; @Bid-
dy, darlint, ye'er sinsible to the last r
Yes, dear; an there's Missus M.
Crawl owe her half sovereign"
"Och! be jabbers, an, ye'er foolish
as ever"
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is seven feet under water by this
timer
"And Miss Chaloner 2" shrieked
Mrs. Elton.
"The Lord have mercy onher soul"
solemnly uttered the old man, taking
off his cap. 3There is no use in bur-
rying, ma am; but I'll get up my boat.
We may perhaps bring off her body,
if i. hasn't drifted too far out"
"Oh, Juliet! Juliet!' gasped Mrs.
Elton, wringing her hands, @what shall
l say to my brother when he asks tor
you? You gave your own life to save
ours And l dared to call you cow
ard p
The soft light of shaded lamp fell
across Juliet Chaloner's eyes, as she
opened them, with vague sense of
having passed through wild, troub-
led dream, and dim remembrance
of laundering tides, and the dizzy rise
and fall of the waves.
"Where am Ir' she murmured.
You, Clarence. Have we crossed
the River of Death, and is this heav-
en?"
my own love-" tenderly responded
the deep, well-known tones, "take
courage; there are years of love and
happiness before US yet. You would
have given your life to save others,
but God would not accept the sacri-
fee"
"But how came here ?" she asked,
shuddering, as she remembered the
slippery sands and the sounds of many
waters.
And then Clarence told her how,
coming from the nearest railway sta
tion by boat, instead of the usual ster-
eotyped stage route, he had caught
sight of white object on the sands at
Blyden's Point, where the raging tides
were fast circling round the eyelet of
ground. Bidding the boatmen, row
up to it with all possible speed, he
found himself just in time to rescue
Juliet Chaloner from a death more
horrible than one could we'll imagine +!
Goods hand guided me there, dear
est" he said impressively. "My noble
girl! were it possible to love you
better than | did before, this act of
self-sacrifce would move me to do so."
From that hour Mrs. Elton cherish
ed and reverenced Miss Chaloner as
if she had been saint; for to her
there seemed something more than
human in the noble self abnegation OF
Juliet's courage!
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They will force the industry of women into a
thousand new channels, and emancipate her
from the cramped posture and slow starvation
of needle work. Ultimately nearly every COM
Portable household will have its serving machine.
--Neto York Tribune.
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A country sculptor in England was
ordered to engrave upon stone: :" A
virtuous woman is a crown to hel
husband; "but being cramped for
room, it was contracted thus: I" A yir
tuous woman is IS to her husband.
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woMAN's GREATEST BooN.-We would ad-
wise man to forego thresher, and thresh wheat
with a fail, rather than see wife wear her
health, vigor, and life away in the everlasting
"stitch, stitch, STITCH" when a sewing machine
can be obtained.-American Agricultmist.
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The Utica Observer says: There
are Observation-Disclosures
l37 more flies this year than last by
actual count,
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''Click, click, click,
Merry, tireless and free
Click, click, click,
Is a merry sound to me.
With bodice trim and neat,
seam, and gusset, and band,
With my daintily slippered feet,
And small, white fingered hand.
Stitch to the click of the steel,
And never an aching head,
While turn the gliding wheel,
With the silver cleaning thread.
o Woman no more a slave,
To gusset, and seam, and band,
Shall beautiful grow, and brave
In the light of this happy land"
New Americana "GOld Medal"
"weed, ,"s.Home Shuttle," Chart
lett" "Globe,'' s'Wilcox g.
Gibbs" Sewing Ma
chimes son
hand
and the
Foot Power
Knitting Macchins
for sale and all warranted.
Superior Cabinet Organs and Me-
Iodians. manf,d by the Boston Organ CO
F.. p. CHENEY,
Barton or Glover.
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QUESTIONS

l. Are you mail or female? If so,
stait how long you hev been so.
2. Are you subject tew fits, and if
so, do yu hev more than one at a time ?
3. What IL yure prcsice fteing
waite?
4. Did yu ever hev emmy ansisters,
and if so, how mutch?
5. What IL yure legal opinion ov
the konstitutionality ov the ten kom-
mandments?
6. Du yu ever hev emmy nitemare ?
7. Are yu married and liv single,
or are you a batchelor?
s. Du yu believe in a future state
If va du state it.
9. What are yure private senti.
ments about rush ov rats tew the
hed-kan it be did successfully?
10. Did yu ever kommit suiside,
and if so, how duz it seem tew effect
yu?
IL. Did yu ever have the mcezcls,
if so, how menny!
After ansiring the abuve questions
like q man onto the conformation, the
slick, little fat old fellow, with gold
specks on, ced | wuz insured for life,
and probably wud remain so for a
term ov years. | thanked him and
smiled one Nv mi most penSive smiles.
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JOSH BILLINGS INsURES HIS LIFE
| KUN tew the konklushun laitly that
life wuz so unsartin that the only way
for me to stand fair chance with
other folks wuz tew git my life insur.
ed, and SO called onto the agent of
the Garden Angel Life Insurance
Company, and answered the following
questions which were put to me over
top of pair of gold specks, by a
slick, little, round, fat, old fellow, with
little, round, gray head, and az pret-
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T'HE MAGIC COMB will change any colored
II hair or beard to permanent black or brown.
One Comb sent hy mail for 81. For sale by
Merchants aud Druggists generally. Address
Magic Comb Co., Springfield Mass
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A W FABER's LEAD PENCILS

T
"a. Grand Geld Medal and Cross of the Legion
Of Honor at the Exhibition in Paris, 1867.
A. W. Faber's new pencils of Siberian lead in
10 grades are superior to any pencil ever made.
A. W. Faber's Stenographic, being hard and
durable, writing, black and clean, is the best
pencil for Architects, Engineers, and Accoun-
tants. 4. FABER, 1888 Wm-st., N. Y, Sole
Agent OF all A. w. FABER's Pencils Crayons,
States, sc.
Sold by Stationers and Dealers everywhere.
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Clark's Indelible Pencils.
FOR MARKING CLOTHING, ETC

"More convenient than nk."-Ana Agrlcultuyist.
Invaluable to housekeepers = GodeyS Book.
"A very useful article."-ADl HlSte Report. 1867.
Sole Agent, +. FABER, 1873 William St, n. Y.
Sold by StatiOners and dealers eYerYwhere.
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A GENTS! READ THIS!
"a We will pay agents a salary of $50 per week
and expenses, or allow large commission, to
sell our new and wonderful inventions. Address
NJ. WAGNER & Co., Marshall, Michigan.
OIL I10 How made it in six months. Sc
W GtO cret and sample mailed free. A. J.
FULLAM, N. Y.
Il TSE B. A. FAHNEsToCK's VERMIFUGE
A SIX your Doctor or Druggist for Sweet Qui-
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Of all sizes cheap, picture Cord and Knobs
OF all kinds. An6 everything pertaining TO the
picture business.
J. N. WEBSTER.
Barton, June s, 1869. %
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-03-22
A Card from Kr. Mitehall-No. 2.

EDITOR LEDGER: After three days
writhing under his disgrace, Mr.. L. j.
Dapre, editor Of the Sun, has attempted
q reply to my recent card" You will
find, on reading it, that be admits every
charge made IN regard to the motive OF
his base personal attacks on me, to-wit ;:
that he was trying to drive me out Of the
Mississippi River railroad in order to
put that work under the control Of Col.
Sam. Tate and the lessees Of the Missis
sippi Central. So much is settled.
In regard to the personal aspects Of
this controversy, Dupre replies ss fol-
lows:
"As for friendship for Mitchell, we
never imagined the sentiment TO exist or
that of personal enmiiy. he charges ne
with ingrattude upon state Of facts, OF
mixed truth and falsehood iageniously
interviewer. We paid him fees. defined
in amount by his superior officer, in in
stsllments, aud the whole within three
or four days he never loaned the writer
dollar in his life, and was only asked
to wait day or two. Il was his palpa-
bic interest 10 wait His fees might be
enlarged, and could not be lessened. II
he intends 10 say that the writer ever
borrowed dollar from him. be speaks
falsely.
FOR bankruptcy the writer WAS greatly
indebted TO the peculiar humanitarisuism
and political philosophy Of which
Mitchell is q perfect exponent. Countless
thousands in the South we're ruined By
the same cause. Il so happened that
ninety per cent. Of our creditors we're Of
Mitchells sort, dwelling beyond the Ohio.
They eau still efori to be pleased by
the losses they begsi. As for the ten per
cent Of creditors 10 this vicinity, ihey
will be paid sooner OF later"