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An Incident for School Children.

The Easton (Pa.) Free Press publishes
the following incident, remarking that it
is pleased to record acts so we'll illustrat-
ing the noblor part Of human nature:
In one of our schools there is a young
girl who is cripple. 1t is the custom of
the teachers to allow her, when the schol-
ars are dismissed, always to pass out first,
in order that she may escape from the con-
fusion attendant upon the dismissal of so
many children. On Monday last, when
the alarm of fire was sounded, ALT school
rooms were at once emptied of their con-
tents, While in all of them they rushed
out in dismay and fright, in some cases
leaving everything behind, in tho ono
where the lame girl was there was perfect
quiotnoss and order. All the scholars,
Notwithstanding tho noise and the appar-
cnt danger, remained quietly in theirseats
until their champion had got safely out,
aud was secure from the rush, when they,
with bound cleared the room. They
thought of her safety before their own,
neither fright nor solfshness inducing them
to provide for themselves until they saw
her secure from peril. Such display Of
consideration and kindness we have not
heard formany days, and when we romen.
Der that it came from children, it becomes
all the more touching and beautiful.
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-03-17
Cheerful People,

God bless the cheeful person-man, wo-
man or child, old or young, illiterate or
educated, handsome or homely. Over
and above every other social trait stands
cheerfulness. What the sun is to nature
what God ia to the stricken heart which
knows how to lean upon Him, are cheer
full persons in the house and by the way
side. They go unobtrusively, unconscious
ly about their silent mission, Frightening
up society around them with the happiness
beaming from their faces. We love to sit
near them; we love the nature of their
eye, the tone of their voice. Little chill
dren find them out, O! SO quickly, amid
the donsest crowd, and, passing by the
knitted brow and compressed lip, glide
near, and laying confding little hand on
their knee, lift their clear young eyes to
those loving faces.
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-03-17
Hen who win Women.

Nature has so mado the sexes that wo-
men, like children, cling to tue men; lean
upon them as though they were superior
in mind and body. They make them the
suns of systems, and their children reYolve
around them. Men are gods, if they but
knew it, and women arc burning incense
at these shrines. Women, therefore, who
have good minds and pure hearts, want
men to lean upon. Think Of their rovor-
oncing a drunkard, liar, fool, or a lib
ertine If man would have a woman to
do him homage, hemust be manly in every
sense; true gentleman, not after the
Chesterfield school, but polite, because his
heart is full of kindness TO all; one who
treats her with respect, even Difference,
because she is y woman whenever con-
doscends to say silly things to her; who
brings her up to his level, if his mind is
above hers; who is ever over anxious to
do right; who has no time to be frivolous
with her, Always dignifed in speech and
act; who never spends too much upon her,
never yields to temptation, even if she puts
it in his way; ambitious to make his mark
in the world, whether she encourages him
or not; who is never familiar with her to
the extent of being an adopted brother or
cousin, who is not oyer-careful about dress;
always pleasant and cOnsidorate, but al
ways keeping his place of man, the head,
and never losing it. Such department,
with noble principles, good mind, energy
and industry, will win any woman in the
Mnrll who is mnrLh winning
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-03-17

The successful management of farm,
especially in this age of progress, requires
thought not less than hard work. Some
thing more needs to be done than scatter
the seed and reap the harvest. What to
plant, in order to be tolerably certain to
obtain good price for the product; in
what soil, as to quality and rotation Of
crops; and just when to cultivate, and with
what implements, to secure the best results
all these things need to be considered
The comparative leisure of winter is the
best time to think of these questions
Now is the time to lay out the spring cam.
paign, and to prepare the means for pros.
ecuting itsVigorously.
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-03-17

A countryman in the depths of dispep-
tic despair called on physician. Tho
doctor gave him some plain advice as to
his food, making thorough change, and
ended by writing prescription for some
tonic, saying. "Take that, and come back
in fortnight" In ten days Giles re-
turned, blooming and happy, the picture
of health. The doctor was delighted, and
proud of his skill, He asked to see what
he had given him. Giles said he had not
got it. "What have you done with 1t l'
II ate it, sir! You told me to take it."
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-03-17
A contemporary records a "melancholv

A contemporary records "melancholy
event." at time when his head was rath-
er heavy, after the following manner:
Yesterday morning, at A o'clock, p. M, q
man with heel in the hole of his stock.
ing, committed arsenic, by swallowing o
dose of suicide. The inquest of the YER
dict returned by the jury was that tho
deceased came to the facts in accordance
with his death. He leaves child with
six small wives to lament to the end his
untimcly loss. In death we arc in the
midst of life."
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-03-17
No Times Like the Old Times.

Occasionally we read of some of the
customs of the days of the Puritans, which
are interesting. At Dunstable, Mass,
in 1851, dancing at weddings was forbid
ded in 1860 William Walker was i'm
prisoned month for courting maid with
out the leave of her parents in 1915,
"beeause there is manifest pride appearing
on our Streets" the wearing of long hair
Or poriwigs and "suporstitious ribbons
was forbidden also, men were forbidden
to "keep Christmas, as it was Popish
costom." In 1877 "cage" was erected
near the mootinghOuse for the confinement
of Sabbath breakers, and John Atherton,
soldier, was fined forty shillings for cut.
ting piece of an old hat to put into his
shoes, which chafed his feet while march
ing. "No times like the old times p
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-03-17

One of the most humanizing sights in
the world--One that rouses our Sociabili-
ties and makes us feel like we love our
fellOw-men, is family gathered around
the supper table on winters evening.
We love to look in through the unobstruct-
ed window upon such scene. Every thing
looks so cheerful, and friendly, and home
like. Did you ever notice that when a
hungry man eats there is an expression of
humble thankfulness in his countenancel-
a something which makes you feel kind
towards him, and causes you to forget any
ilI-will or malice that you may have felt
for him? In some instances this expression
is truly affecting, and it is hard to keep
from shedding tears while looking upon it.
We do not speak jestingiy-it almost
makes us cry to see some people eat--they
look so humble aud SO thankful-and il
they were our worst enemies we could not
do otherwise than wish we might embrace
them aad forget our differences.
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-03-17
An Awful Story,

There was once an awful little girl who
had an awful way of saying "awful" to
everything. She lived in an awful house,
in an awful street, in an awful village,
which was an awful distance from any
other awful place. She went to an awful
school, where she had an awful teacher,
who gave her awful lessons out of awful
books. Every day she was so awful hun
cry that she eat an awful amount of food,
so that she looked awful healthy. Her
hat was awful small, and her feet were aw-
full large. She went to an awful church
and her minister was an awful preacher.
When she took an awful walk she climed
awful hills, and when she got awful tired
she sat down under an awful tree to rest
herself. In summer she found the wealth
er awful hot, and in winter, awful cold
When it didn't rain there was an awful
drought, and when the awful drought wal
an awful rain, so that this awful girl was
all the time in an awful state, and if she
don't get over saying "awful" about every.
thing, am afraid she will, by and BY
come to an awful end.
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-03-17

The Pail Mall Gazette, says: "Mr.
johnson has often referred with some pride
to his humble origin, and there may still
be seen over door in Greenvillo the sign,
"a. johnson, Tailor" When he was
Governor of Tennessee he made with his
own hands suit of clothes, and sent them
to Mr.. Moorhead, Governor of the neigh
bouring State of Kentucky. Governor
Moorhead, who had originally been a
blacksmith, as return gift presented a
shovel and tongs made by his own hands.
The only other Presidents who began life
as working men were Abraham Lincoln,
who seved on an Ohio flat boat, and was
afterwards rail-splitter, and the present
President who was a tanner. 1t will be re-
membered that both of the surviving ex-
President were originally elected as vice.
Presidents"
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-03-17

In the debate in the House on the reso-
luton for the expulsion of Whittemoro,
Gen. Butler said that it was an old and
true principle in law that he who is his
own counsel has an ass for client and
that he (Butler) appeared as the attorney
of Whittemore. The opinion seemed to
prevail among the members that in secur-
ing Butler as counsel, that gentleman
not only had an ass for client, but Whit
tomoro had an ass for his attorney.
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-03-17

North Carolina has the champion old
man. He has reached l43 years by dint
of living on purely vegetable diet and
drinking spring water, and is likely to 1.-Two
as much longer, from all appearances. He
has survived seven wives, and as tho last
one died sixty years ago, he is beginning
to feel lonesome, and talks about going
eourting again. 9
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-03-17

The attachment of some ladies to their
lap-dogs amounts, in some instances, to in
fatuation. An ill-tempered lap-dog, bit=
ing piece out of male visitors leg, his
mistress thus expressed her compassion
"Poor little dear creaturaI ] hope it will
not make him sick %
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-03-17

Bradley, the negro fellow who was ex-
PEELED from the Senate of Georgia for
crimes committed, has been re-admitted
to that body under the recent law of Con.
gress. Tho United States flag protecting
negro felons, and officers of the United
States army forcing them into legislative
bodies, is humiliAting spectacle for an
American to face.
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-03-17

The local editor of Columbus (Miss.)
papor, having recently got married, con,
temporary says: "May his father-in-law
die rich, and enable poor Steven to re-
tire from the printing business and sob up
a cake shop at railroad station"
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-03-17

He only merits rewards who would have
done his duty in the face of persecution
and he deserves punishment who has alb.
stained from evil merely to avoid pain, but
owns the intention of it in his heart.
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-03-17
Song Of the Broken Heart.

Memory faithful friend
Leave, oh leave me here to rest;
Lctmy earnest ycarnings end,
And slumbcr unexpresSed.
Sweep away the happy past
In obliyion's endless deepj
Let all thoughts and cares bc cast
Into endless sleep.
Memory-constant, lasting friend,
Guardian of.my joys and woes
Let no more than treasures rend
My heart with bitter blows.
Gently rob the pining brain,
Crushed by grief, and hopes destroyed
And let vacant darkness reign,
Thoughtlcss, unannoycd.
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-03-17
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Renew you Subscription,
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NEW YORK HOTELS.
From the N. Y. World.

From the ". y. World.
The transformation which has Just been
effected of the Astor House, long the recog-
nized paragon of strictly american" hotels,
into hotel son the European plan," is an
event in New York life not unworthy of atten-
ton. The very name of this famous hostelry
is rich with memories and associations. The
Astor House was the wonder of foreigners
who visited our shores at a time when upper
Broadway was an experiment, and beyond
Madison square the British tourist sought with
tremulous eye-glass to discover the tracks of
the herded bison and the moccasined Della
ware. From its imposing portal Captain
Msrryat surveyed the new world
which the Yankee had made in
but little more than six days,
and pronounced it "very bad. It's parlors
have witnessed the weaving of many a mar
vellous web of political intrigue the unweav-
ing, too, of many web so woven. Its walls
are haunted with the echoes of voices once
all potent on the forum and in the councils of
the nation-silent now forever. 1t was the
favorite resort of the ''planets of past days"
of Webster and of Clay, and of the busy
lights which circled, cleaning, twinkling,
flashing, about those STEADY fires" What
the old Oock-Tavern of Fleet street was to
London, ere times impartial foot had spurned
it to the ground, the Astor House still is to
Broadway, preserving for Americans, as did
Inat lot EnBllSnmen, some genlal fecollec'
ton of
"The tavern hours of mighty wits
Our elders and our betters."
And now the Astor House, the grand old
American model from which so many hun
dreds of other hotels throughout both conti-
nents have borrowed hints and takenssugges-
tions, ceases, not to be indeed but to be an
American hotel. It's table d'hote gives way
to the dinner q la carte; and, reversing what
the poet sings of the progress of the world,
within its walls the family henceforth withers,
the individual is more and more This
change bears striking witness to the upward
flow of New York life. The enormous con.
centration of business interests around and
below the City Hall and the Post Office yet
to be, for long years still, no doubt, will
make it necessary that a sotel of the first
class should exist where the Astor House now
stands. But it must exist for the travellers
of business chiefly rather than for the travel
lers of pleasure-for them who fit through
the great metropolis upon their occasions
rather than for them who sojourn in it for
their amusement.
Meanwhile it is to be noted that even with
our uptown hotels, and for the classes which
supply permanent rather than transient
guests for our caraVansaries, the question
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monarchy populations which have long been
kept apart against her will, it is not in the
province of congress to say that the new
national union shall be broken up. II
Austria has possibilities of development
in her Eastern provinces, what business
have the representatives of England,
France, Spain, and Prussia to say thus
far shalt thou set thy foot, and no
farther ? If congress indeed could qua
rsntee to the people of the weaker powers
an immunity from lawless conquest, it would
do a noble and humane work; but guarantees
of this sort have little meaning now that wars
for supporting the balance of power have
fallen into disrepute. The plenipotentisries
in London may facilitate the resurrection of
France by intervening between the con-
quered and the conqueror, and may quiet
uneasy minds by demanding pledges of mod
Grafton from the Car; but its real work will
only be to ratify established facts. and no
agreement which it may make for the future
is likely to impede the inevitable march of
events, to save the tottering empire of
Turkey, or to embarrass for a single decade
the two great powers whose progress now
alarms the whole of Europe. Compacts like
the Paris Treaty of 1856 are only made to he
broken.
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between the two systems-the European, a.
we not quite correctly call it, and the Ameri-
can-bas by no means been settled. That
the table dhote or American system is best
adapted, if ony it be judiciously and grace
Iully administered to the tastes aud temper
of our people, may be held, we suppose, to
be proved by the unrivalled popularity aud
reputation of such hotels as the Astor House
in its palmy days, or of "Cozzens, at
West Point when the gigantic
commander of the American
armies dispensed decorum and the
laws of whist with autocratic grandeur on its
ample piazza, or of the New York HOTEL when
'Mr. Cranston's salads found their way to
Immortality through the pages of Black
wood'S pMosGsine. But this system depends
for its permanent success, and for any sue
cess at all of the higest grade upon the per-
sonal qualities of the host. IL is given to but
few men to hit the precise tone which shall
preserve the self-respect of the host and con-
ciate the friendly goodwill of the guest
and by so doing infuse into the atmosphere
of modern hotel all that made Shenstone
say, century ago, of the road-life of his
own day
"He that has travelled life's dull round,
Whereer his journey may have been,
Must sigh to mink he still has found
his warmest welcome at an inn."
Until some manageable transition can be
effected from the wasteful and costly single
house life of our more prosperous classes into
brighter and more economical way of house.
keeping, this question of hotels and how to
keep them will hold a foremost place among
our social problems. The European plan"
hits the need of the hour in one direction,
and subordinates the question of who keeps
the house to the question of how it is kept.
The American plan" can only hit the need
of the hour in the other direction, when the
question of how the house is kept is co-ordi-
mated with the question of who keeps it,
From the business point of view that favorite
popular character, 1.-THE man who knows how
to keep hotel, may not seldom be found
From the social point of view he is more rare.
For from that point of view the only man
who really ''knows how to keep hotel is
the man who knows how to make other men
really willing to live in hotel
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THE VATICAN, No. 1910 Chestnut sTREET.l
Il -Statuary, Bronzes, Clocks, Vases, Pedestals,I
and elegant articles OF taste for the adornment of
the parlor, dnng-room, library ball, and boudoir,
and for bridal presents purchased in Europe pre- !
yious to the war at great sacrifice, and will now be
soki, retail at correspondingly low prices We in,
yite an inspection at spacious store and show
rooms, up stairs. The price OF all articles marked
in plain ngures. Goods packed an shipped free ofl
charge. 10 70 2RIp
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N. THOMAS 4 SONS, AnctlOneers,
1880 Nos. l39 and 141 S. FOURTH Street.
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nksSn NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN
application will be made at the next meeting
of the.General Assembly OF the commonwealth OF
Pennsylvania for the incorporation of Bank, in
cordance with the laws OF the Commonwealth, to be
entitled THE BULLS HEAD BANK, to be located
at Philadelphia, with capital or one hundred thou
sand dollars with the right to increase the same
i've hundred thousand dotlars-
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Y PER CENT. GOLD
First Mortgage Bonds,
Coupon or Registered and free OF U. s. Tax,
PRlNCIPAL;AND INTEREST PAYABLE IN GOLD,
ISSUED By THB
BurItBg on. cedar Rapids, and
NBiA sofa R. R. 90.
The small remaining balance OF the Loan for sale
At DO and Accrued Interest iva
Currency.
Interest payable May and November.
J. EDGAR THOMSON. ! Trustees
CHARLES l.. FROST, { AiuS'ooo'

j. EDGAR THOMSON, ! ,,-,..oo,
CHARLES l.. FROST, AiU''0''
The bonds are issued at s2OOc0 per mile against
the portion only OF the line fully completed and
equipped.
The greater part OF the road is already in opera
ton, and the present earnings largely in
OF The operating expenses and interest the bonds
The balance OF the work necessary To establish
through connections thereby shortening the dis
tance between ST. Paul and Chicago as mil 8, and 30
miles to st. Louis s rapidly progressing in time for
the movement OF the coming grain crops, which, it
is estimated, will double the present income OF the
road.
The established character OF this road, running as
it does through the heart of the most thicky settled
and richest portion Of the great state OF Iowa, to-
gether with its present advanced condition and large
earnings, warrant us 10 unhesitatlngly recommend
ing these bonds to investors as in every respect
undoubted security small quantity OF the issue
only remains unsold and when the enterprise is
completed which will be this fall, immediate ad-
vance over subscription price may be looked for.
The bonds have fifty years to rum are convertible
at the option of the holder into the stock of the Com
pany at par and the payment OF the principal pro-
vided for by a sinking fund. The convertibity
privilege attached to these bonds cannot fail to
them, at an early day, to command a market price
considerably above par. U. 5. Five-twenties pre-
sent prices return only ~ per cent currency inte
rest, while these bonds pay % per cent, and we
regard them to be as safe and fully equal security
to any Railroad Bond issued; and until they are
placed upon the New York Stock Exchange, the
rules Of which require the road to be completed we
oegate ourselves to rebuy at any time any OF these
bonds sold by after this date at the price as
realized by US on their sale.
All marketable securities taken In payment free OF
commission and express charges
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

F6Fn NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, IN ACCORD
ance with the provisions OF the Act Of Incorpo-
ration and the BYLAWS adopted Tor the govern
ment OF the Company, tbat special meeting of the
stockholders OF the CITY SEWAGE UTILIZATION
COMPANY will be held at the Ofllce OF the Com
pany, Room No. S-No. $40 WALNUT Street, in the
city OF Philadelphia, at 70 O'Clock noon, on WED.
NESDAY, December T. 1870, for the purpose of con-
sideration Of business OF Importance to the inte-
rests OF the corporation, viz, proposition TO place
the company in Immediate working order. gene
raj attendance OF all stockholders is earnestly re-
qsested who will be required to exhibit their GER
tihcaes of stock for the purpose OF registration at
that time or previous thereto.
BY order OF the Board OF Directors.
S. J. MEGARGEE, President.
Attest-J. NJ HARDING, Secretary pro tempore.
Philadelphia, NOV. %. IL 26 lot
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