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WISHING TO BE YoUNG.-"Give me back
my youth again"' did you say? Friend,
It's mistake. Ten to one you wouldn't
have it again if you could. If old Time
were to come bodily to you to-day, saying,
"Take back, o wise middle-age Noodle,
these twenty past years of your life, with
all the pains and disappontments which
have made you clear-sightcd and sound
headed, with all the silly actions you per-
petrated in those days, and all the occasions
on which you made a long cared donkey of
yourself; worry through second time all
the tight boots and tribulations, all the
toothaches and heartaches of your youth !;
do, be and suffer it all again; be in short,
once more just the soft young Noodle you
were twenty years ago, ten of manhood S
hearty hopes to one dolorous wall for
your lost youth, that you answer, Pass
on Father Time! And you may as well tip
those twenty golden sand grains back into
the lo,cer half of your hour-glass. l 60
not want thcm!'
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1871-07-01

Not long since an Irish employee at
the Walker House, Portland, adopted tho
following ingenious method to atone for
mistake. 1t seems he had been in the
habit of calling up a boarder at precisely
half past five o'clock in the morning but
one morning. he called him at five o'clock.
So when the boarder came down Pat called
out to him: '1ndade Sir, and faith called
you little arely this morning 1t is only
five o'clock" "Ah.' said the boarder;
"Why did you call me so early?" "Why,
and because, and be jabers, l missed my
man, and called him half an hour too late;
SO, to make it up, called you half an hour
too arely ~
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A Magnificent Description.

We lay leaning over the bows, now looking
up at the mist blown in never-ending vol
umed sheets, now at the sail swelling in
the wind before which it fled, and again
down at the water through which our boat
was ploughing its evancscent furrow. We
could see very little. Portions of the shore
would now and then appear, dim, like re-
Elections from furnished mirror, and then
fade back into the depths of cloudy dis
solution. Still it was growing lighter, and
the man who was on the outlook became
less anxious in his forward gaze, and less
frequent in his calls to the helmsman.-
I was lying half over the gunwale, looking,
into the strango-colored water, blue dim
med with undissolved white, when cry
from Charles made me start and look up.
1t was indeed a God-like vision. The mist
yet rolled thick below, but away up, far
away and far up, yet as if close at hand,
the clouds were broken into mighty win
dow, through which looked in upon us
huge mountain peak, swathed in snow
One great level band Of darker clouds cross
cd its breast, above which rose the peak,
triumphant in calmness, and stood unutter-
ably solemn and grand, in clouds as white
as it's own whiteness. 1t had been there
all the time 1 sank on my knees in the
boat and gazed up. With a sudden sweep
the clouds curtained the mighty window,
and the Junsfrau withdrew into its Holy
of HOLES. am painfully conscious of the
helplessness of my speech. The vision
vanishes from the words as it vanished
from the bewildered eyes. But from the
mind it glorified it has never vanished
| have been more ever since that sight
To have beheld a truth is an opotheosis.-
What the truth was l could not tell but
| had seen something which raised me
above my former self and made me long to
rise higher yet. 1t awoke worship, and a
belief in the iucomprehensiblo divine but
admitted of being analysed no more than,
in that transient vision, my intellect could
ere drawing it vaEished-analyze it into
the deserts of rock, the CULTS of green ice
and flowing water, the savage solitudes of
Snow, the mysterious miles of draperied
mist that went to make up the vision. each
and all essential thereto.-From "WilfrM
Cumbsrmede," By George Mcdonald, in
Seridner's Monthly for March.
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CoNsCIENCF.-A tender conscience is like
the apple of a mans eyes the least dust
that gathers in it affects it. There is no
surer and better way to know whether our
consciences are dead and stupid than to
observe what impression small sins has
upon us. If we are not careful to avoid all
appearances of evil, and to shun what looks
like sin; if We arc not so much troubled at
the rising up Of sinful desires in us, as we
have been formerly, we may then conclude
that our hearts are hardened and our con-
sciences are Supplying, for tender con-
science will no more allow of small sins
than great ones.
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"A splendid illustration of DR.. Darwin's
theory has turned up in Vienna. There is
girl there, aged thirteen, native of Pal
ermo, Therese Gambardela, who is liter
ally covered with hair so thickly that the
Vienna papers pronounce her skin more
like fur than anything else. The famous
Julia Pastrana is described as perfectly
smooth compared with the new claimant
to celebrity, whose hairy covering extends
from head to foot, even the forehead, which
in similar cases is said to have been invari-
ably found bare, being entirely overgrown.
The head closely resembles that Of mon
key, and several abnormities in the build
of tho body still further complete the
resemblance. We do not hear whether the
young lady is graced with tail, but the
shape of her jaws and teeth, tho pliability
of her tongue-which she can roll up COM
pletely in her mouth-her excellent appe-
tite, her restlessness, etc., strikingly remind
one of the agile and amusing animals in
the Geological Gardens. Signorina Gam
bardella's intellectual capacity is said to
correspond with her prepossessing exterior.
She is great favorite with the public,
medical and otherwise, and appears to have
achieved conquest over the photogra-
piers, who are quarreling for the honor Of
taking her likeness.
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How TO BRING LOVER BAcK.-Beforo
war had closed the gates, and life was still
going on in Paris, a young and pretty
woman presented herself at the gallery of
a celebrated Paris photographer, and ex-
pressed wish to have her picture taken.
AS the artist was adjusting the camera, the
lady proceeded to pose herself by drawing
pistol and placing it to her temple
"What are you doing, madam ?" cried the
astonished photographer. 81 really can.
not permit you to blow your brains out
here }; it would ruin my business 4; besides,
it is shame to spoil so pretty face."-
81 don't intend to do anything of the sort"
answered the lady. "My lover has left
me, and 1 wish to send my photograph
taken in this position, with word that if
he does not soon return to my feet this will
be the result" The photographer bowed,
aud executed the portrait, which it may be
hoped duly reached its destination.
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How TO BE M1sERABLE.-Sit by the win
dow and look over the way to your neigh
boris excellent mansion which he has re-
Gently built and paid for, and sigh out: go
that 1 were rich MANI
Get angry with your neighbor and think
you have not friend in the world. Shed
a tear or two and take walk in the burial
ground, continually saying to yourself:
"When shall be buried here?''
Sign note for a friend, and never for
get your kindness, and every hour in the
day whisper to yourself: wonder if he
will ever pay that note?
Think every body means to cheat you.-
Closely examine every bill you take, doubt
its being genuine till you have put the
owner to great deal of trouble.
Put confidence in nobody, and believe
every man you trade with to be rogue.
Never accommodate if you can possibly
help it. Never visit the sick or afflicted,
and never give farthing to assist tho
poor.
Buy as cheap as you can; screw down to
tho lowest mill. Grind the faces and
hearts of the unfortunate.
Brood over your misfortunes, your lack
of talents, and believe that at no distant
day you will come to want. Let the work
house be ever in your mind, with all the
horrors of distress and poverty.
Follow these recipes strictly, and you
will be miserable to your hearts content
if we may SO speak, sick at heart and at
variance with all the world. Nothing will
cheer or encourage you-nothing throw
CLEAN of sunshine or ray of light into
your heart.
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-" hab hearn," said colored preach
er, while enforcing the duty of liberality
on his congregation, cob many church
what hab died bekase it glib away too
much. Eff any one oh you know OBJ any
church OBJ dis kind, what died from lib
erality, jos tell me where it is, and l will
make pilgrimage to it, and by de soft
light of de pale moon, l will craw upon
it's moss-cobered roof and write upon its
topmost shingle: Blessed am de dead
what died in dc Lord.
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We find in late number of Hearth and
Home, tho following poem by Emma Alice
Browne. She sings as sweetly as ever,
with depth and maturity of feeling which
her early writings, when a little girl trip
ping about the banks of the Susquehanna
and Big Elk, did not posscss.-Ed.]
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Agents! Read This !

WE WILL PAY AGENTS A SALARY
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largo commission to sell and wonderful nyen-
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DIV Address A. 4. GRAHAM. Springfield, Vt
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- all classes of Chronic and Acute Diseases. Send
stamp for circular containing particulars and tcsti
Inonials Address Box 5120 New York. 62
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Never chew your words. Open the
mouth and let the words come out. A
student once asked :" Can vrdhu, forti-
chude, gratichude, or qniechude dwell
with that man who is a stranger to recti-
chude?
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FRAGRANT SAPOLIENE

Cleans Kid Gloves and all kinds Of Cloths and Clothing
removes Paint Grease Tar &c. instantly, without the
Fancy Goods Dealers. FRAGRANT sAPOLIENE CO.,
IS Barclay St, New York. 40 La Sale st. Chicago.
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5000 on tho late S. II. Lewis, r., Of ST. Albans
Vt. All these accidents occurred, and tho insurance
paid within three months-cach claim being paid about
sixty days before due by the Of the policy
The TRAVELLERS has paid SEVEN HUNDRED
DOLLARS A DAY in benefits to its policy
holders for death injury by accident for every work
ing day during the past seven years.
The TRAVELLERS LIPR AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE. Con-
rAsr of Hartford, Conn., grants all the usual forms of
LIFE and ENDOWMENT Policies on exceed
ingly favorable terms AMrLE SECURITY and Low RATES
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ROOT BEER,

ROOT BEER s; :';:1: ::s: ssi Is
be very easily made in every family n Of about
Five or Six Cents per Gallon, by using
AscHrNBACk MHLERs Roor BEER EXTRACT. If your
store does not sell this send twenty-five Cents to
Aschenback Miller No. 400 North Third Street Phila
depia for Ono Bottle, which will make whole barrel
of Beer. Five Bottles for One Dollar. Full instructions
sent with each lot.
GET illustrated Circular Of SettActing Gates from
" American Gate Co., Baltimore Nd.
"IANTED.-Th attention of Manufacturers,
w Coal and other Dealers Mechanics and Specnla-
tors, to Delaware City, Delaware promising bust
point where important railroad interests
centratng. For information address GEORGE B.
MONEY, Secretary, Land Association.
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Benny'S Christmas Box.

All in the shrill December,
When the sunsets pallid gold
Wrapt with chilly splcndor
The hill-tops, far and cold,
My winsome, brown-eyed Benny,
Flushed with frolic and play,
Leaned Oh my lap, in the freight,
To talk Of the Christmas day.
His eager face uplifted,
His rosy lips apart,
And the tumbled gold of his curly hair
Lying against my heart,
Mamma, do you think Kiss Tinklo
Will bring us Christmas-tree
lie lisped, "and will he remember
A little boy like me?''
And I answered softly clasping
The small hands never at rest:
Yes, dear, for the good Saint Nicholas
Loveth the wee ones best.
And what would my darling wish for,
To hang on the wonderful tree?''
GA Christmas-box," he whispered,
"That locks with tiny key J
"And in it my prettiest playthings,
And the picture of Baby Nan,
I'd lock away-with 4 curl of your hair
10 Keep I'LL grew man J!
And 1 stopped and kissed him, battling
With the sorrow of long ago,
AS thought of the little hillside grave,
And the bright head under the snow.
Twas Christmas eve, and softly
The sunsets purple sheen
Folded the far bleak hill-slopes,
And the quiet wales between;
And shadow-not of the twilight
Over the household fell,
AS there smote on the evening silence
The boom of passing bell
Four silvery chimes, that numbered
The sum of his sinless years,
Struck slow on the arid heart that pent
The wrestling fount of tears
And hid from the hooking glory
Of the chill night, rising fair,
The frozen mask of face that yelled
A childless loves despair!
All day bad held my darling,
His faint red lips apart, [curl:
And the tumbled gold of his death damn
Lying against my heart;
And once, when the wintry sunshine
Streamed over his forehead white,
He smiled and whispered: Mamma,
Will the Christ Child come tonight?
"Sing to me, dearest mamma,
The hymn that love the best,
How Jesus loveth the little ones,
And gathers them to his breast
And l sang, till, sweet and sanity,
The light that is never shed
On sea or land, fell upon him,
The smile of the sinless dead!
In the hush of the holy dawning,
And glimmer of rosy flame,
Over the bluShing hill-tops
The radiant Christmas camo
And our beautiful boy lay sleeping,
In spotless garments dressed,
His fair hands softly clasping
The white cross on his breast
In dainty, rose-lined casket,
With lilies at head and feet,
And the morning sunshine falling
Around him, hushed and sweet;
And hidden under tho blossoms,
The locket he used to wear,
With the picture of Baby Nanny,
And a curl of his mothers hair.
Far out on the dreary hillside
The wind of the winter raves,
And the brooding moonlight covers
Two little lonely graves;
And think with pang of Gods sweet gif
Tenderly laid away
In the Christmas box he wished for
And the narrow house of clay!
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The Vice of our ace is Fraud!

Nevertheless there five honest Patent Agents even
at the Capital of whom is tho undersigned. Patents
for II years obtained at reasonable rates. Agents
wanted. Send for circulars. GEO. Z. BROWN, Coun-.
sellorat-Iaw SIT Street 9th, Washington. d. C.
Apple Parer, COrer and SIicer. Price 81.
Docs all at once Warranted satisfactory
ID. II. WIIITTEMoRE, Worcester Mass.
UHEAP INTERESTINGLY will insert
an advertisement in Eight Hundred Ameri-
can Newspapers for Six Dollars per line per
week. One line week will cost Six Dollars Two
lines will cost Twelve Dollars and Ten lines will cost
Sixty Dollars. Send for Printed List Address CO.
P. HOWELL CO., Advertising Agents, No. Il Park
Row New York.
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WITHOUT AN ENEMY.-IIeaven help the
man who imagines he can dodge enemies
by trying to please everybody If such an
individual ever succeeded, we should be
glad of it-not that one should be going
through the world trying to find beams to
knock and thump his head against, dis
putting every mans opinions, fighting and
elbowing, and crowding all who differ from
him. That, again, is another EXTREME
Other people have their opinions-so have
you don't fall into the error of supposing
they will respect you more for turning your
coat every day to match the color of theirs.
Wear yor own colors in spite of wind and
weather, storm and sunshine. 1t costs the
vacilating and irresolute ten times the
trouble to wind and shuttle and twist than
it does honest, manly independence to
stand its ground.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
HIRTY THOUSAND

DOLLARS PAID.-The TRAVELLERS
LIPE AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE COMPANY.
of Hartford, Connecticut, paid $4,000
on W. IL. Forbush aid William C. Curry,
victims Of the New IIampburgh railroad
accident; $1,000 on the lato james X
Blake, Mayor OF Worcester, Mass; and
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milk cans. Flies, morally considered, are
like other human beings. Their principal

milk cans. Flies, morally considered, are
like other human beings. Their principal
food is everything. They have remarka-
BILE memory for forgetting things. Ibelievo
they are of temperate habits. They arc
the first ones at the dinner table, and see
great deal of good society. A fly is per-
feet gentleman.
The lecturer, in conclusion, read short
essays on cats and Goldfish.
The cat, he said, is domestic animal
They are as meek as Moses, but as full of
uncertainties as Judas Iscariot. All there
is about a cat that is domestic is that you
can't lose one. The most wonderful thing
about cat is death. You may kill one as
much as you please, and he is as good as
ever. They are very reasonable and very
plenty.
The Goldfish is the fruit of the ocean,
which accounts for their sadness. They
want good deal of freshening before and
after they are eaten. They have been
called the salt of the earth. The Goldfish
is said to be an aristocrat, and claims to be
a relation with the whale, but this is rather
fshy.
In conclusion, have always advised
short sermons, particularly on hot Sun
day. If man is boring for oil for forty
minutes and can't strike it, he(pust either
have dull gimlet or is boring ihthe wrong
place.
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THE WEEKLY, but with a greater variety OF
miscellaneous reading, aad furnishing thc(-ws
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It comes twice week instead of once only.
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T IsT of Traverse Jurors drawn for October
Il Term, 1871.
Wheatheld- George Jacobs, John G. Rose.
Newport-F. A. Hummel, Jno. w. Kouch.
Howe-David Moretz.
Miller-Henry ID. Smith, Isaac Klinger
Greenwood-John Wright.
savillc-Darius Klinepeter, John Roush, JAS.
Irwin, Jacob Hench.
Watts-Wm. Finnicle, Jacob c. Snyder
Howe-Jacob Clay.
Jackson-Wm. B. stambaugh, James B.
Moreland.
Liverpool B.--John Williamson, John w.
Murray, John Keagle, Jacob Shoemaker
Penn-Wm. Leedy, James Moore.
Carroll-Jos. Ensmlnger, Jacob Sloop, Geo,
Smelgh, John Fair, Dr., VIM. stoutier, g. W.
Souder,
Madlson--H. D. Kopenheiier, Geoegc Me-
Millen.
Rye--Wm. Mayall, VIM. Ensmingcr.
0liver---John Wertz.
Liverpool I. .--Jonathan Burlington, Daniel
L. Kline, Daniel Zelgler.
Center--David X, Clouser, VIM. BrIuer.
Marysvllle--Michael g. Schruer. f
sprlng--Jacob Kistler. H.f
Tyrone David Morrison, Jr. a'I
ButIalo-Leyi Hunter.
Jnniata--James p. Latchford
Duncannon-Samuel sheller.
Landisburg--John A. Wilson.
Bloomfeld-George Snyder, John Wagoner.
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Newport Items.--0ur correspondent at
Newport sends us the following
On Wednesday last the remains of John
Meyers q former resident Of tlis county,
were brought home from Parkton, Md
Friends and relations who had not seen
each other for years were brought together
on this occasion. The body was buried by
the Odd Fellows of this place and Parkton,
at the Markelville cemetery.
Last Sabbath some young scamps enter
ed the vineyard of Mr., Rider, and cut down
vines to reach the grapes. | will omit
their names, though they are well known.
Capt linn, our postmaster, has secured
an arrangement for IN Eastern mail in the
evening. The Captain works hard FOR the
accommodation of the public.
James Rider met with an accident at the
furnace on Monday last, but is now doing
well.
A number of boys make it a point to be
at the depot ON the arrival of every train,
and by their actions make themselves n
nuisance. They may soon find the railroad
police after them, when they will share the
fate of those sent to Jail last week.
The water in the Juniata is remarkably
low.
On Thursday, while out cunning, John
Rough met with an accident which might
have proved serious, but he fortunately
escaped with slight bruise on the left arm.
Last Friday Mr.. Gardner's oldest son,
aged about 10 years, met with an accident
at the new Tannery, that resulted in the
breaking of one arm and a leg. In COM
pany with other boys, he was playing on
the cars while in motion and fell between
the cars and bark with the above result
There is paper in circulation to obtain
aid for the relief of the family as this is
the fifth accident to him and family, since
he came to town. Mr.. G. is working with
one haud in order to support his family.