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THE SHEPHERDSTOWN REGISTER. $2.90 PER 1?AR, IN ADUNCE. _ JQHN H. ZITTLE, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. ~ $2,56 >ER YEAR TxTDVANfiRT" ESTABLISHED 1848. ,,,4> SHEPHERDSTOWN, JEFFERSON C0Um7WEST~ VIRGINIA, SATURDAY. OCT. W, 1 W. ? NEW V0L.'il~N0"T> BALTIMORE LOCK HOSPITAL DR. JOHNSTON, rll YSICIAX ol' this celebrated Institu tion, has discovered t lie most certain, speedy, pleasant, and effectual remedy in the world tor all DISEASES OF IMPJtUDKXCE, Weakness in the Back or Limbs, Affections of the Kidneys find Bladder, Involuntary Discharges, lmpotency, General Debilitv, Nervousness, Dyspepsia, Languor, Low ?Spirits, Contusion of Ideas, Palpitation of the 1 It-art, Titpidity, Trembling, Dimness of Sfirlil or Giddiness, Di*? Mfces oT the Head, Throat, Nost1 or Skin, Atfcetiorr* "f the Liver, Lungs, Stomach, or Bowels, those terrible disorders arising from Soli tary habits of Youth ? those secret and Military practices more fatal to their vic tims than the soug of the Svreus to t|ie mariners of l*h >ses, blighting their uioit brilliant hopes or anticipation^, render ing marriage, etc., impossible. \(H \(. .M K.N ESPECIALLY, who have become the \i(.'tim?yt Syli^ry Vice that dreadful and destructive habit which annually sweeps to an untimely grave thousands of Young Men of the most exalted talents and brilliant intellect >vb? might otherwise have entranced list ening Senates with the thunders of elo quence, or waked to ecstaev the living jvre, may call with full confidence. M ABKIAGE. l,hai,lKrr^proo"'utiv, piW ;r wiu,,H. i ?" weakucss. Nervous Debility, or "Vif,Vh.? Places 1, int8.lt nuderthe can- of i,J J ma ? religiously eoniidein his 10. - lr ;, a " . and .couajcnlly .Civ uVi;iW^kUlu.a|?l,y-.v.a..: ? ) 11(1 A NIC W E AkN E>S, i -s of l'ovver, immediately ImpoWnry. l.o ? restore I. all&tion-vv hiel. ren 1 HVmi-. ral.lfa.ul marriage t-i. ..?? I-'"1 Z ? 'eweMtJ r'"!" are t?M> apt 1 ,ireulful coiisequemo M"**?;"' '' x.' vT who that under ,|,at may deny stands tilt '? :s ],,<t#?K?lH'r thai the I".'"'.'.'1' habits than ?v those 'a ??'" deprived ?>t the pica Ui , tj\e symptoms to ?,o*t serious ami de>U u tiv > i ^ ^ ^ lK)th body ami au<iHien l peonies ' ,!l,| \o*s ot prooreative 1;l\v,"rUtN>rv??"4 Irritability- Dyspepsia, 1" ? . Heart, Indigestion,! mi I'aliatat o . tl? It; J . Waslill!t ??>> ? *>??* vr**.-*.* *? r Vl.TlMt > K K , M AK\ I- AN I . left ham* -Wj - ,n^^!!n^r!UKaii'mt to ? i>u doors iroin the loriiir. <?"- - reply. . . , -state aire, and s.roptwns. 1|H j0?n-ST,)X, ?- .ill ! ?? ?V %I. < Ol.l.WiK Of M K M KM Ul'K ?>. I ill. * UKONS, LoM'ON, , . r.f til.' lllO^t ?MHHH'llt ?rv1 V" i ' t ; mil ears when a>leep gi?. at iu ,U? h! ' lei i- alarmed at sudden U'rX7 rM n"s.and frequent blu>h "T wu WA sometimes w ith derange ^ t ot *hame . t tl se who. trum ed hhntrom I li nectabi lit V , ran alone be neation am* I i?|o the hands ot i.'norint aiul deigning pretenders, who, incapable of curing, ru.en ii is PKdMAin si hm anc k a"l.l,Ui?,! d tivel,in, With ruined ?'M l.li t? i-'li over hl? galling di-appo.nt t- nr Cello- use that deadly pois.,n, "lent. or; > . 4.ouStitutional syinp "'??"''filil , V M Illiaw ? ?iak* ?Wr touisol tin ule> rated sore throat. # 7. I the palate of the mouth, or tlu lL^ the noso full iu. and the y.rt.m ot 1)011* s of IIM I .0Ull,s ;i horrid <i>.)ect, S^gnaMsitt Tj&#s?iiv?as remedy in the world. t\kk rAK'i'irrLAR noih k. i) i addresses all those w ho have m :U1,1 mind, un tilting theui lot eilliti hua ,u -. ntudy, society, or iu:vrrai-c. Th? n> are some ol the sad and tm la i eholv elTeets produced hy early o youth, viz: Weakness ot the haek a. iiinhs. pains in the head, diuine>* ot loss of iii?M'idar power, juilpitat 1011 ot tlie .huitrt. tlysi*i?6ia, ner*ou- uritapility, ,4oi iu 'e.uei t of, the disgewive tunonon-, .'eiicral debility, remptoms of 'colteufnp tioU' MENTALLY. The fearful effects on the miiul are mueh . I Iro'ldfd* Loss of Memory .1 onfu-ion I * lot Soliiu.lr, ?rinu.lny, otc., are so,,,., u'f t he evils YOl NCJ MEN . i tiipiiisclvos bv cci tain Who have injure. U'^ CJ Vlont a liabit practice indulgrtt n .^a'panions. '"whlua uitv lhat a young man, .he hope of his country, the darling ot hi> pari nt . slutubl besnaU bed troni all pJ o.?p < i > ? * enjoyments of life, by the ^sequence of deviating from the path ot natur-, ainl in dulging in a certain secret habit. . ? iirifOiis mu-t. before coiitemplatinjj ni.W yjago. lvtlect that / "a'SoTN D "MIN'D AND RODY nre the mu-t Wcsmry r^b'i*?t<f to pro mote connubial Tiappiness. Indeed, with out those, the journey through lite he comes aweary pilgrimage; the prospect ? darkens to the view : the mind rome^hadowed with despair, and fllhMl m ith melancholy retlcetion that the iuippi \\ ,%f mother is blighted with our own. " IN 1KJRSKM ENT OF THE l'KKSS. Tlie nianv thousand* cured at this es tablishment year after year, and the nu merous important surgical operatunw \?r Sirred asain ami ap?i.? helore the |>nl li.-, besides hit standing as a gentlenuii of character and respoiisihility, isasuini nnt guarantee to the iittlieted. 1 N DISEASES SPEEDIIA CLE ED. K. Frfd'ck St., ?allo. ^Id. ?Sept. 11, 1875. ' ' * ly Helping Pupa and Uumiuu. Planting tfoe corn and potatoes. , Helping to scatter the seeds, .Feeding the-hens and the chickens. Freeing the garden froih weeds, Drjvfng the cows to pasture, Feeding the horse in the stall? We little children are busy ; Sure there is work for us all. Helping papa. Spreading the hay iti the sunshine, flaking it up when 'its dry ; f Plucking the apples and peaches, Down in thr> orchard hard b}', Picking the grapes in the vineyard Gathering tiie nuts In tiie tall?' , We little children are busy ; . > Yes, there Is work for us all, Helping papa. Sweeping, and washing the dishes, Bringing the wood from the shed, i Ironing, sewing, and knitting, Helping to make tip the bed, Taking good care of the baby, Watching her lest she should fall ? | We little children are bu.iy . Oh, there is work for us all, Helping mamma, ? Work mnkpo us cheerful and happy, ->fakes us both active and strong ; Play we enjoy fill the better * When <Ve have labored so long Gladly we help our kind parents, Quickly welcomed to their call ? j Children should love to be busy, There is work enough for u< all, Helping papa and mamma. A School C?irl Murdered . Two weeks ago, a young gill about 1 8* years old, the daughter of a farmer, living near Concord, New Hampshire, started on her way to school, distant a -little over a mile." When within hail ing distance of the school-house, she ' was brutally murdered. The circum stances are thus related by a reporter ot' the iV. Y. Sun who visited the scene ot the murder: i Josie and Waldo Langniaid, both at tended Pembroke Academy, a mile and halt* from their home! The giil was a member ot the class which graduates j next June. The principal of the acade my speaks highly of her scholarship; her sunny, unassuming nature made her tlie friend ot every one of her school mates. In short, the youth of Josio Lansmaid gave promise of admirable } womanhood. Last Monday morning Waldo started for school at S o'clock, carrying his own and his sister s luncheon. They were not in the habit of returning home until after the afternoon session. Twenty minutes later Josio, with her algebra under her arm and a large apple in her hand, said good-b'y to her mother kiss el h*r two baby s*t<rs, and sjarjed forth in the bright sunshine tu begin the studies of the week. For half a mile or more .her course la\ along the open road, bv the farm houses of Mr. Langmaid's neighbors. The girl stopped a moment at one of tlusc bouses ami was Been by the in mates of others as she passd. The last house on the road is t hat of Nicholas Hartford, within half a mile of the Acadetnv. Mr. Hartford looked up from his work as the girl walked brisk ly by and saw her tossing her apple in to the air and catching it as she went. Josie then turned into a stretch of the road lying through woods so thick that they would be gloomy were it not for autumnal colors. She passed almost through these and arrived at the foot of a steep hill. Had she surmounted this hill she would have been in full sight of the Academy building, and within a thousand feet of its doors, j THK MU1?.!>KR. At this point a man must have step ped out ot t lie thicket and confronted her. What words passed between the two may never be known; of his deeds the sad evidence is only too plain. The man carried a stout club of red oak. It was a yard long, square cor nered, an inch and a half thick, and had been recently cut and broken from some piece intended for tho rung of a hay rack or of a manger. At one end the corners had been freshly whittled away to form a rude handle. With this weapon the murderer aimed a cruel blow at the girl's head. She threw up one hand and caught the weight of the stroke, which broke her thumb and three ot the small bones of the palm. Twice more he struck, first on one side of the head and then upon the other. The last blow broke the thick club, and | must have felled her to the ground. If she gave then any sign ofconsciousness it was but for a moment, for he jump ed heavily upon her head, leaving the print of a snnll boot heel upon her cheek. After tossing the poor girl's apple, her blood-stained school book, and his broken club over a stone wall at his left, the man carried or dragged the in sensible body of his victim into the woods to the right of the road. The tangled bushes and the growth of small birch and white maple trees are here so thick that only with extreme diffi culty can an unencumbered person pen etrate them. When this muiderer flung tho girl s body ou the ground, he was as secluded as it he had been ten miles instead ot ten rods from the road. After a further hideous crime, he appears to have begun quite deliberately u work of mutilation that ended in incomprehensi- ! ble fury. With a knife or some other sharp instrument he slit her cheek, ear, and lip. Tneu? aud physicians say when the girl was stilt alive ? he proccedod to sever the liead from the body, cut ting cleanly dose to the shoulders, and carefully and even skilfully dissecting the vertebra?, separating the first aud second. Then his coldblooded deliber ations turned into freniv. He savagely tore the clothes from the headless tmnk, and ferociously gashed away at his vie- j tiiu's person. This is revolting enough, but the remainder of his work is too horrible to be told. A fiend could have gone no further. The only booty gained by the murder consisted of a plain gold ring, a bre^st l>in, a poi temonnaie containing five cents, and a few other trinkets of little value. Having secured these, the man wrapped thr head in a shawl which the girl had worn, took it a hundred rotls deeper into the woods and deposited it there. Beyond this point there is no trace of him. THE SEARCH ASP THE DISCOVERY. When Waldo returned from school at 6 o'clock that eveuing, the family first learned that Josie had not been at her desk dining the day, and he knew that ghe had not remained at home, lhe news of her disappearance spread rap idly. A call was made for help, and several hundred of Mr. Langmaid s Suncook neighbors rallied to join in the search. ' . Josie was easily traced to the point where she was last seen in the road. It was dark by this time. A line of men was formed, lanterns were lit, and by their uncertain light the searcheis, taking a broad sweep, struck into the dismal woods. Progress was difficult and slow, it was not till nearly 9 o clock that the spot was reached. A Mr. Copp, familiar with the woods and a little in advance of the line, ! stumbled over a straw hat, caught iu the twisted root a tree. Inside the hat i were great spots of blood. Tton feet ; further ou he found the mutilated body I of the girl. The limbs were crossed 1 and partially covered with torn rem | nauts of apparel. Mr. Langmaid was not ten teet ue ' hind Mr. Copp. Almost at the same instant the father caught sight ot the . body, and with a piteous cry flung himself upon the ground beside it. The men gathered round with then lanterns and learned the full extent ot this most horrible of crimes, lhe father and the brother, both frantic with grief, were led away. Some one threw a cloak over the poor, mangled body, aud it was borne from the place. The search was resumed m the morning. when the head was found a quarter of a mile or more fuithei into the wood. Josie Langmaid was buried on Wednesday in Chichester, where she had formerly lived. More tliau a thousand people attended t ie 1 1 e .? services. 'the arrest ok Avn.T.tAM DftEW. Almost every community has its scapegoat. Tn Suncook this position is 1 held by an illvisaged young man known as Bill" Drew. lie is a drunken neer do-well about twenty-two years ot age ?his father a thief, mother a l?ng, home a hovel, and connections and record ex- | ceedincly disreputable. The farmers of Suncook wore not Tftfw in gathering up tlfrir' abstract in dignation and concentrating it upon the head of the ugly ropgh who had stolen their chickens, insulted then daughters and quarrelled and fought about their streets. There was lea i ) no positive ground for suspecting tlr Bill Drew did this deed; but his bad i name alone was enough to convince I worthy people who had, indistinct I notions of evidence. There, was .a uui- , versal cry for his arrest. Tlie Boston detectives who were working up the cafe could find no circumstances point ing to Drew's guilt "No ,nattel!' cried the usually quiet and ordeilv citizens, now become a lrenzied nnjb, "lie is iust the critter to do it, and we have him dead or alive. The man that murdered Josie Langmaid knew them woods and nobody knows em bettei than Bill Drew.' , , , A rumor that Drew, who had once worked tor Mr. Langmaid, was known to have male insulting proposals to Josie, who had promptly rejected them and threatened .to inform her father ot the insult, followed by another rumor that the heel ot a gaiter boot belonging to Drew's wife and some time worn by him corresponded to the print upon the murdered girl's cheek, was e"Oug > to convince the few that still .< ou > et . Constable llildreth, constrained by the overwhelming public sentiment, started out to arrest the only man whom tin people of Suncook deemed* wicked enough to have committed the murde . Mr llildreth found Drew on the road walking toward Ilooksett, a few miles out Of town. The officer captur ed him and brought him back to hnn cook handkuffed. The excitement of the village people had meanwl lnle in creased to violence. A mob filled tin streets around the lobby, as t ic nic' jail with two cells is called, waiting the arrival of the prisoner and prepared to , take the law into its own hands. A NAJICOW ESCAPE. The oflicer drove his horse at a gallop through the crowd and up to the lock up. The people sliouted, "Lynch him! j lynch hiiu!" "Tear his heart out, " "Let us get hold of him once," and j made a rush for the frightened prisoner, 1 Had he fallen into their bands at that moment lie would have been torn liter ally to pieces. lie jumped from the buggy with an alacrity upon which his | life depended, and put the jail door be tween himself and hi? fellow townsmen. Officer Hildreth stood on the doorstep with a revolver in his hand. "Give the nnn a chance," he said, "and if he turns out to be the murderer, I'll be one of you." From the time that the key was turn ed upon William Drew and an otticer placed with him, more to protect his life than to prevent his escape, the lob by has been guarded day and night by a vigilant committee of citizens, less noisy but even more determined than the mob of Tuesday. Any attempt to | remove the prisoner to Concord would have been attended with violence. The Suncook people do not mean that this man shall be taken beyond the reach of summary vengence for the 1 crime which they assume to be his. Consecration of a Bell ? On Sun day morning last, the new bell lately placed upon the Reformed Church was solemnly consecrated to the service of the Triune God. The novelty of the I occasion attacted a very large audience, who were amply repaid by the exceed- ' ingly able sermon delivered by lie v. J. O. Miller of York, Pa. I>r. Miller was pastor cf this church twenty-five years ago, and is consequently conversant with its history, ot which he gave an interesting account. He did not hesi- : tate to denounce the action of the Fed eral troops who desecrated the church building during the war as "vandalism" of the meanest kind.- iuchester Times. 1 Pay np your does at this office. A TRRBIVLG STOKY. t,,k Folly and Fate of Three Beaitiful Sisteks? Our reauers may oossibly recollect the circumstances ot a fatal" duel, widely published at the time, which occurred on the 3rd of Anril 1ST4, on the old dueling ground on the sandy stretch of shore frouting Day St. Louis. The participants were ? Ariel le Bien venue, a broker, and An droa Philips, a lawyer of New It was on the same spot where the lata bullet of Rhett, of the Picayune sped to flight the gallant spirit oi the wtrep id Cooler; the ground on which the Shots of Badger and ^Carter ^wereex changed; where Scott and Campbell met; "where many a previous episode ; had expiated a real or imaginary fault Aside from the fatal termination of the meeting, the contest between 1 hil- I ips and Bienvenue would not have been j unusually remarkable but f..r 'be fa that it was the final scene in the tiagic i wedded lives ot three women-sisters i whose husbands fell by the hand ot vio ! See, incited by the evil courses ot ; lheBornVof reputable creole parents these sisters were inheritors ot vast wealth and a stainless name, and distin guished to personal beauty in a land Sre the loveliness of women ^ pro verbial. Tenderly reared aud bnl. ant , ly educated, with possessions that ma ed iu extent and excelled in value a German principality, it is not sm Pri* that they became the flattered belles ot I society, " and were the boast and pride of the merchant and Plant?lbea"^ all the wide coast country. 1 hat the brilliant proteges ot the hanghtie istocracv of the old regime should be . destine J to exercise the faln\u'?? they exerted on the men who loved them, and made them their wives, is in deed surprising. But they were flirts from their cradles. Born to admiration, their lives were spent trom youth to maturity in an atmosphere ot tict.t.ous sentiment and unreal passion. il ) looked upon men as merely the min ^ of pleasures, and as the mediums through which their flattered mty mi "lit grow and expand, as the flowei blooms in the warmth of the sunshiny All the aims and duties ot lite weie ! bounded by the ambitious ot society. Admiration to tbem was apprecia ou. Taught to regard their individual picas , iires?as superiors to all considerations ot , convenience to others," it is not I incr that selfishness, indifference, and . i folly, became the mainspring to their ae- . i ''"Nor is it astonishing that they cxer ' cised the fatal influence they did upon i men. Their beauty was glorious. J he | youngest was the living t) Pc. ? . V other two. As the writer saw lie. but a little over a year agoj she rises betore his vision now, a tall, gracetid, slendei woman, a lithe, willowv form ot sp leu- ; did contour and ex<piisite 8>mmeti). The oval, tinted face glows with health, and is radiant with intelligence. >eep, slumberous black eyes, unfavorable in , their depths, which a word can kindle with excitement or make aglow v\ ith passion; a queenly woman, regnant in youth, grace, and the empire ot men s hearts. The rich coils ot hair, black and intense, were wound above the l<>", broad forehead, and tormed a raven-like crown to the dusky splendor ot the dark Egyptian lace. Men paused to look at her, and women sighed with envy when she passed. What she was m her youthful bride-hood has been imperfect ly described; what her sisters were iu their matured and splendid womanhood the enthusiast's imagination alone can ( pictme. And now for the story of their lives. The oldest sister was married to Dr. Sharp, of Tuscaloosa, Ala-, a polished, <rraceful gentleman, whose love ami tie <"5 O ' votioh might have contented any wo man less prone to (he allurements of so ciety and the admiration of man. It was in the first year of the war, and the most brilliant society of the South was gathered at Mobile and New Orleans. With an appetite whetted to fever heat by a few month's abstinence from social pleasures, she plunged recklessly into a whirlpool of gaity. The married flirt wears r.o armor of innocence. Her love of admiration is pitted against man's duplicity and cunning. She stak ed and lost. From folly there is but one step to imprudence, and that step was taken, despite a husband's jealousy and sense ol honor. The end was in evitable, a challenge and a duel, and her husband fell pierced to the heart by the bullet of her seducer. Theie was uo pity for the woman like this; society repelled her, her lriends discarded her, and she fled to New Orleans to lead the life of an adventuress. The second sister shortly afterward married the son of a distinguished jour nalist in Mobile. The fate of her elder sister was no bar to a career of similar folly. Society received her with open arms. "Wealth, influential connections and alliances with a distinguishen fami ly obscured for a time the recollections of a sister's imprudence. l>ut gossip soon grew busy with her name. From one folly to another she passed with fa tal haste and seeming indifference, until in a fatal hour her husband learned that the woman he loved, the wife that he idolized, was a thing to be scosned. It broke his heart. With the downfall of his idol, his reason wavered, aud he perished by his own hand. For all his brilliant talents, and the promise of a splendid woman, he died the victim of a woman's perfidity. The youngest sister become the wife of Bienvenue, a yotiug broker of New Orleans. Kich, beautiful and accom plished, she was at once a leader in so ciety. Courted, flattered aud caressed, sh? plunged headlong into the vortex. Men lavished praises upon her ? women hated aud smiled upon her. What cared she? Beautiful, reckless, heart less, and indifferent to all alike, she cared only tor that social admiration whieh was the snnshine of her life. Her large fortune gave her an income iu her- individual right This gave wiugs to her extravagence and enabled her to contract bills in her own name. One of them ? a milliner's bill ? was overdie, suit was brought and execu tion issued which Mr. Phillips, the lawyer, had levied for satisfaction upon her carriage and horses. In an inter view suW?{nently had with the lady. regarding the settlement of the bill, words which she construed into an in sult were charged upon the attorney. Her husband resented it ? a challenge ensued ? and then the fatal duel on that sad April morning, when a hus band's life ebbed away its purple tide upon the lonely beach, the last unhappy victim of the fatal sisters' folly and ex travdgeuce.->S7. Loui * Times. The New Jersey Horror. ? The Double Child Murder. ? A coroner's in Juest was held at Hackettstown, New ersey, on Monday, on the bodies of the two children who were murdered by their father, John Hitter, a painter, on Saturday last. The testimony devel oped the fact that Hitter had been out of 'employment tor sometime past, ow ing to the dull times, and had been drinking so heavily of late that his brain become crazed. For years past, it seems, he and his wife have not lived happily together, in consequence of his vidious disposition, rendered worse by excessive drink. Until recently they had been living separate, but not long since they come to an understanding, and once more joined iheir fortunes. They had scarcely well settled down, however, when Hitter took to his old ways, and led a most dissipated life. The family lived in a house or. theout skiits of the town. On Saturday morning, while still oppressed with the effects of a violent spree, Hitter had a tierce quarrel with his wife, which end ed in her abruptly leaving the Wise. She had not gone far when she heard two pistol sliotf. Losing all fear for herself she returned toward the house, and then a terrible bight met her eyse. ller two sons, bright boys, aged re spectively four aud seven years, lay weltering in their blood. The brutal father had deliberately shot both. While the distracted mother gazed on the prostrate foimsof her darlings Hit ter leveled his revolver at her, and fired, but luckily missed his aim and then the woman fled. Hitter next shot himself in the head, but his attempt proved un successful. I lis wound is serious, but not dangerous. One of the boys died instantly, and the other lingered till evening, in great pain. The tragedy created the wildest excitcment in the country around, and but for the fact that the murderer had been arrested and was in the custody of the authori ties he would possibly have been lynch ed. After hearing the evidence the jury, being out for deliberation only a short time, returned with a verdict charging Hitter with being guilty of willful murder. He has been lodged in jail. Breaking Down. ? Men often have their hands full, are overcrowded with business aud drive hurriedly along at it, but they may not be overworked. We cannot always tell when we are over worked. A man does not always know it himself, no more than he knows the strain on the main spring of his watch that will break it But there comes a time when it breaks ? a click, a snap, and the watch stops. Men break down in this way. They go on, day after .day, the pressure bearing harder each successive day, until the vital force gives out, and the machine stops. It is a great pity that the indications of this state of things cannot be seen before hand, and if seen, regarded. It is one of the last things that men will admit to themselves, much less to others. They flatter themselves that it is only a little weariness of the flesh, which will pass off with a few hours rest, when, in fact, every nerve, power and resource are exhausted, and the system is driven by sheer force of the will. When the oil on the shaft or in the oil-box is ex hausted, every revolution of the wheel wears 011 the revolving part, and will soon ruin it. The same is true of the human body, for when it is overtaxed, every effort wears to destroy it. So MKT] 1 1 NG TO SKT Ls THINKING. ? Ninety years liencc not a single man or woman, now twenty years of age, will lie alive. Ninety years! Ala?! how many of the lively actors at present on the stage of lite will mako their exit long ere ninety years shall have rolled away! And could we be sure of ninety years, what are they? 'A tale that is told;' a dream; an empty sound, that passe th on the wings ot the wind away, and is forgotten. Years shorten as man advances in age. Like the degrees in longitude, man's life declines as he travels toward the frozen pole, until it dwindles to a point and vanishes forev er. Is it possible that life is of so short duration? Will ninety years erase all the golden names over the doors in j town and country, and substitute others in their stead? Will all the new, blooming beauties fade and disappear, all the pride and passion, the love, hoj>e 1 and joy pass away in ninety years and ! be forgotten? 'Ninety years.' says Death; 'do you think I shall wait nine ty years? Behold, today and to-morrow, and every day are mine. When ninety years are past, this generation will have mingled with the dust and be re membered not!' Govki:nm;;xt Clerks as Husbands. ? Well, he has stopped buying 15 ceut ci gars and only pays 10 cent* each, and instead of champagne, drinks whiskey or beer, and practicing strict economy in various ways, considers himself "a good fellow and a pattern husband. lie wonders why he doesn't live as well on the same money as before marriage, and concludes it must be Angelina's fault ? she "don't manage right." The baby cries, as babies have a chronic habit ot doing, and, like most men he don't like it; so he gets into the habit of dropping in to see Miss Smith, who was "sweet* on him before he married Angelina. She still rejoices in flounces, sashes, false hair and powder, and he finds it ' pleasanter ihan spending the evening home with the pale wife who hasu't had ! time, or thinks she hasn't to change her I rather soiled wrapper for a more festive dress. Angelina objects, and is foolish enough to tell hir.i so; mutual recrimi nations follow, and ? but I wont say morp, my dear; as you read this, you know vou have seen dozens ot such cas es. ? li'athiogtoo Capital. ? Ilenry M Brent, Esq., cashier of the j Bank ot Winchester, died Friday last, aged 70 years. 1 A Pica |?r 1>?p<TIIBfPi - I Ed Register We have heard since the Leetown Lucampment a pretty free discussion of the question "Do Secret organizations advance the cause of i ei.iperance. And we have heard with surprise some intelligent men, men who call themselves christian*, take the negative side of the question. They bring some such plea as tbe following to defend tlieir side. We like to see everything done openly. Why don't \ ou come out and let the world see what you are doing? Why have any secret about it any way? Others say, ou profess to found your Temperance Orders on the Bible, where can vou find foundation enough for any secret socie ty ? Again others say, "Whit good have your Temperance Orders done?" \\ e propose to answer these objections | in <i feeble way, and will try to show to ) our readers some of the grounds upon which we base our belief. In the first place we would reply to the first ques j tion (\ankee like) by asking another. IIow could we work in union, in con cord all over the world unless we worked under the same laws and rules ? Which we really do. All over the globe, where ever the English language is spoken anil u hercver civilization rules, vou will . find the same pass words, the same sig nals, and the same rules, which the Good Templars of West Virginia use. 1 he same password which will admit you into the lodge 1 >om at Leetown i will admit you to any lodge room in . tbe world. . Now, -I -isk it there were no secrct i 2"<l signals, would there be any successful organization 1 Were it not lor this common lie that biuds these men together in one great bond of I>! othei hood, would they take the same interest in it that they now do ? No. In answer to the second objection, | -we would refer those that bring that plea, to the AXX\ chapter of Jere j miah. Let them read the history of that remarkable people, the Uechabites, who swore that they wouM never more diink wine, and that will be answer enough. But even it we had no Bible platform to stand upon, Oh, does not the cry of oppressed nations who are gioaniug under this great curse call upon us to island firm 1 Temperance men of the world ? Do you want a foundation to stand upon, we reply, Take the bleaching bones of those slain in this awful contest, build up a pyra mid that shall rear its head to the skies, ami seal it with the blood of the thou sands, yes tens of thousands, who have bowed their heads in the dust, w ho have been ciushed by the wheels of the jug gernaut car, driven by the cursed ty rant?ruin. Yea, cement it with the tears that have for ages coursed down the cheeks of mourning widows, of dy ing thihlien, whose support, whose all and in all have perished by the agency of rum. Is not this a foundation broad enough for all the Temperance Orders in the world? on ask what good have we accom plished? In answer we point you to the noble band of men and women all ovt r our land steadily increasing, moving on with a steady march that must carry all before it. We point you to the thou sands of reclaimed drunkards w ho have been snatched as "brands from the burning." Wo point you to homes made to hearts made happy by the information of some loved one who was fast traveling the downward road to a drunkard s grave and a drunkard's hell. Who has done this great work? We answer the Temperance Orders throughout the land. Who can deny it ? Oh, brothers in the Temperance cause, we have done and are doing a great work. Let us not rest on our oars yet, but press on to the glorious Future which is before us when rum will have been driven from our midst and druukeuness out of the evils of the I'aet "Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Ever watching still pursuing Learn to labor and to wait." Respectfully, NEMO. A String of Pkahus ? Character is the diamond which scratches every oth er stone. All flowers will droop in the absencc of the sun that waked their sweats. The imagination is so delicate a tex ture that even words wound it. A mail's own safety is a god that sometimes makes very grim demands. The mind wears the color of the soul as the valet does those of his master. Sin is the fruitlul parent of distemper; and ill lives occasion good physicians. Prosperity seems to be scarcely tfafe unless it is mixed with a little adver?i ljr- . ... There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue ou its outward parts. lie who surpasses or eubdues man kind must look down upon the fact of those below. J Success has a great tendency to con- | coal and throw a evil over the evil deeds of men. Weariness can snore upon the flint, when restive sloth finds the downy pil low hard Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither, in a straight line. Frank sincerity, though no inviud t guest, is free to all, and brings his wel come with him. Cheerfulness makes the mind clearer, j gives tone to the thought, and adds grace and beauty to the countenance. The human soul is Hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impart iaiity. Truth is the cornerstone or? which rests our futuro wellfare. Speak the truth, no lie thrives. A man who had a spite against a neighbor, took advantage of the latter's ; death and burial to write on hi* tomb- J stone, with red chalk the following epi taph: "Here lie* his body. For his soul, YooH have to search a deeper hole!" j When a man sets his whiskey down on the table, takes you affectionately by the button -hole and cleares his throat, flee for your life; he is a candi date going to explain his position. LETTEB FRO.H LEETOm. Oct 18, 1875. Having recovered from the effect* ot the recent visits of Jack Frost, | mill acquaint you with one or two items ot* interest, of recent occurrence in this vi cinity, and I may also throw in an acci dent or two by way of varic tv.for you are aware Mr. Editor that "variety is the Jpwe ot life,' and even apple batter is better tor containing some spice. Miss Bettie Wiltshire is couducting ? a .small private school in the Brick Church, having commenced on the 4th ""t. - ' :s* w. has I, a.) some t-xpcrieni-o i" teaching, ?0 believe l.ai I ? quite .ueee,,f,,|, ?nd wo h ?1!|t >||(, may <n1<w,l this U,?u UyouJ her most sanguine exjwetations. | There > are : now ton .. hool, |? fu|| | ' " Slt<l'l!e*-t}- Jiairiot, Miik one for every 6:' youths between six and twenty-one years of age in the district, but aa scarcely two of those of sefconi ? age attend any school, forty-five to eaoh school may be considered a fair allow ance. .Mr. Fowler has completed the s^iool house lor colored folks in the Sddis triet. And with all of these primary sehools about us in progress, we think it time that we were moving in the matter of making provision lor the higher edum tiou of our young men by putting our I shoulders to the wheels of the Jeffeisin ( County Agricultural College, and push ing it forward to such a condition that j it maj at an early day !?e opened for the reception o f students, and this can l*? at i omplialu>d by the exercise of a Mnnll amount of energy on the part of the j citizens ot Jefferson county, many of whom are yearly sending their sous to other States to be educated, when tfc?t desirable end may be attained right "(it' at home, it we will only goto hoi k, petition the Legislature to give "is the necessary legislation, (and wo understand that a movement is ulieadv on foot to do this.) and then when we have accomplished this, let us lend what aid each of us can afford by taking as ; much ot the capital stock of the iunUis ; Hon as can, and get the College stalled by next summer, at the farthest. Onr College purposes to give instruction In all the different brunches of learning usually taught in Colleges, with the a<! ?fit ion ot practical insi ruction in A??H culture, something which many of our young men will highly appreciate, and I M many who have been sent else where for their education, have often ( felt the need of in following the avoca tion of farming in the days of their riti*r manhood, after having* graduated at I sot no classical school or colloge. i lie \\ hooping Cough is tickling the throats ol ?]uite a number of pei-mtus, both large and small, in this vicinity; hi tact the disease has interfered with* thvi attendance of the scholars at ouo school at least, in this district. j Kev. J. \\ Smith begun a protracted meeting at the upper school house lust I night, and preached to a crowded honse indeed the room is too small to bccomi modate the crowds that gather in Hee town, the school boose is located tdo far from the village for the convenient, o the larger pait of the congregation j that may be gathered here, of those wbo wish to attend the services of the Metli odist Kpiscopul Church, when the ol. port unity in afforded. There was a severe accident in o?r uJ-JP 3 coul.',e oi *<*** ago; ' (t^orgo U ill, aged six yearn, sou of (ieori/e D. Johnson, was badly scalded, while his parents were "making apjJe butt**" showing that even that time honored pastime has its attendant dangers. little fellow is nearly well again, al least he is well enough to walk about. "Nemo" charges me with the (heft of hi# "thn rider." 1 protest that he is mistaken, the aforesaid thunder diij no t belong to him, but wan "lying around loose when 1 appropriated it. The only time that I came near stealing bis literary electrical fluid was one night last spring, when I walked to The ??Shadsburg" school house to attend ftrte of .Nemos spelling bee, and found U?St I neither the "bees nor Nemo were these Yours, <tc.t TKMPLAIt A Warning to Otiikrm. ? A friend of ours slopped his paper (or some trifling matter, the first of the month, but came up and sulMtcribfd again laal . week. We have seen him since, ami a.tked hia experience. lie said on going home, aft<r discontinuing his Bulletin, his horses ran away, upset and bunted the wagon, bruised hifn up and injured themselves. When lie got home he found his wife scolding, the children bawling and the baby with the colic. The boys were on a ?4",ee and the cows didn't eorne home. That night it rained and played the deuce with his hay. The next day the wind laid t hie ooro flat. Things were going to the . dogs, lie had (lone something wrong, fur which he was being punished.. Tin* thought struck him that hit sin existed in slopping his Bulletin, and ere it tree too late to save bin own soul he rushed into town, came into our sanctum tery excitedly, and subscribed for I wo copies of the Bulletin. That a what's the mat ter. He returned home, his horses ?noved along as gentle aa old cow*. His wife greeted him with smile*, the children clung to his coat tails, and the baby took up ita bed (or rather cr%J!e) and walked. The boya were sober as judges, although a little the worse for wear, and the cows eatoe home with a bop, skip and jjump, and gave more milk than ever. Ilia hay had gone through a good sweat and he sold it for a first class article. The corn was standing up straight in rove, like soldiers. Every, thing was doing better than ooukJ be expected uuder the circumstances, and the Bulletin is now welcomed into thai house ? War taw Bui' fin. An experienced farmer opince that the man who can plow stumpy ground with a (Mir of lively mules vitlkMtt swearing ? prepared to go through pnrgatory with an overcoat on. A tailor was observed sitting aiom legged on the Canada shore gn>?g in- . teutly at the Horaefhcw Fa B, sriU lie thick cloud of spray, kpU up unobserved and liemrifcii Mill, ? What a place to sj*?gea coat * - 62k'-v'.