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C;) ' 4 2" , sl,uo xtit auuuru in advanee. • B ITES or Al) r • BTISING. ---- Itu • 2 111 . t 3 la. 4111.: 3111. 10 in. , 201 n. t , I-1- 1 --- 310 $1 I'J ti.l3 0 $4 OTS 011 1 ” oU $l2 00 15) 303 4 00 5 00 6 00111 01.1 16 Ou 00 it 53 5 ult 600 7 00 13 00 13 00 :350, i Ito 6 00 7 tIO 8 101 1 15 ou 20 00 4 Goi 0 t)t) 4 00110 00 0 1`2 Ctit 20 00 20 00 5 001 0 00;1! oil to I .0I 15 u 0 20 01) 13 00 s toll , 01'08 0012. 1 00121 Ou 35 00 ttU 00 11) 001'101111 .H24010'1300 30 00 100 00 ______ arezalcolat,d by the inch in lougth . and any 1.11.dul it a f ullrich. .r. ad,eollrtlAcwoith t 101 . before in. :s , evt • Acts, iten iv - Of-yearly V, oL, NAL Noti.L.r.s. 11,0 line each insertion,. nwste.llo: kas 010.1 SuitcrAgln cric.l:ll( coluniem, Op the 15,7,-ntn : 1 oil © for ie turn 01 NeircEsin :t) Hits per line if in rive:We/ 4 ; and 50 Leiliti for a notice AfflVe N:Eittifs of 3Lirnuare and DUATYISI , I3OrtP.d uot:cts will be ch&rged IA) (.Icl:its N0rcr.9.30 per alit above regular rates ;CALIIDASIInes or less, $5,00 por year. Business Cards. ,Stifl.DEU• V. A. 3011,M0N. jateheltler & Johnson, .11Q1111111eRt.i, Tombstones, Table &c. Call and see. Shop, Wain st.; ~pary, Wolldboro, YD.—July 3, 1872. A. Redfield, A ND t;ouNsEr-Lon. AT LAW.—Collect ;v.l aLcata9,cito.—Lawreucavtilo, Tsoga an'n., kyr. 1,1873-91 u. C. 11. Seymour; tkga ra. w:.lpr4/ 11, Pt tab:FL/4101: Geo. NV. lirt)rriek, t L-OV.—,W..llsborQ, Pa. omee 1310,:k, 31a1r, atreet; aecona toot., '1•40:41Al W/i 02104. Mitchell AL , C.auteron;# a laic, Cislna anti Insurance Agen.ta: Couvorsa 64 AiUmbra brkck block. over (wood's apro, We Ya...-Jan. 1, NVLifiara A. tone, AT LAW, o'er O. B. Nullay'n Dry Goon gbt t I.:Ano•it 810 k on Alain great. ,20. 1, Ibl2. J. C. Strang, „ AT LAW & DIaTRICT ATTORNEr.- 1,11.N1ie4, Lag., k% Dartt, .NE'N 1N1111.0V.6.31LNT. ,ce Witt/ S tI 1L Ctivll tIJ uLj t.1111.1,g eitiu UZ:r ttl WrlgLit S oaliv)'n block, 0 elui. /bl 2, J. B. Niles, • po.roptly to bile ittrattd w Las .so - . to u.n t.ouut.,,-.8 Tiod,a (.12740 011 . 1140 k Ouro;YA., Jno. W. Adams, Vi kr LAW IlaLtaehl, Tioga oount7, pit ♦ prainytl ticttLa<l.l tc.).--J au. 1, 1d72. C, L, Peek, AT LA W. Ail ot.lms promptly collected ati W. 13. Tiuga Co., Yu. C. B. Kelly. Chtua aad u„itsa warn, Table Cut and WCLe. AA.,) lime n U tiouee Fur )la.—Weibibufu, 1:. 17, lel% ,:knustruug Lama, AT LAW, Willurwspui C, Li/Z(37oa. Wm. B. Smith( TIORNEY, Bounty and Dleurar.co Agertt .onti sent to tun abvv, , re ap: atteullon. Text,. muderut.e.—litiox. 1, In7tl Barnes it - IZoy, IRS—AIi kinds of Job Printing done on aod to the 14,,t. n~un_r. Utlice BOW 's 1, 181:2. Sabinsvi lo . i_-Louse. Loa f! a.—Flenu PropriatOre is has been therenghl:s• renovated and le .:icoudnion-tu steeonnslite the traveling s saiscsnn in snuer.—Jan. 1,1.873. D. Bacon, M. D.,. ...ND SURGEON-2day be found at hts door East of Mao I'odd'a-31ain street. Promptly to all ealla.—Wollattopo, J. Petroleum Ilouse, Geo. Close, Proprietor.—Good an. far both man and beset. Chargee reit -2.,1 .2. geed attention given to guests, W. W. Burley, LER 01' all styles of light and heavy Carriage* kept co :stani le on hand. All anted. Corner Cass - and fluffedo Streets, le, 1.:.•Y. Orders left *with C. 13. Kelley, .er L. it. ilurley, Chatham, will receive :ention.—June 3, 1873.-0 moe. M. L. Stickily', 2abfutt Ware of all ltleas wlttob will be than the lowest, Re luvltes nil to tale rit goods before purohasiug elsewhere.— the place—opposite Dar tt's Wagou Shop, itrsot, Wellshoro. Feb. '23, 11.73-1 y: Mrs. Mary E. I,amb. IV—Vial:Le:it° inform her friends ',heftiest. .venally that she hat 3 large stock of millmit iaoy 600149 suitable for the seaon. which 1 ,1 at reatonable prig ea. Mr: E. E. Rim. urge a the making and tramming de and, will 'lice her attention, exclusi‘e,l3 - to d oor to th e cogverse wittiax. 13, -tf. Yale & Van Horn. acturing several brands of choloe (Agars will sell at prices that cannot but pleaae nottias, We use none but the beat Conneid• ;antillicl Tara Tobaccos. We make our own ad for that 'reason can warrant thorn. We *sacral assortment of good Chewing nod Tobaocoe, Snuffs. Piped from clay to the terschatun. Tobacco .douches, Whole -2.1, 1872. Iku R. Anderson, Agt. ESr. RETAIL. D.E.I_LER IN 11.VRDWARE. Vn, Sinai. Nails, "luau , Rs. Mo. Twis, kirleulturalletuente, eArr:asv ties, dpnnge, 1:1 n& Lc.. PC,eiret cud tate 'lat.:l Ware, Guns and . mu:wilt:on, W 11, 1 ,4, ;0(xl and Irou—tho befit in us,. I'da)/u;,:c , dealer In Tin, Copper, and Slie , 2t-iron t - deaug in Tin and Iron. An work wanaut- I, 1,073. WILTON HOUSE, Gai-n.es, )Pie Q. Merrick, Proprietor, Formerly kept by li. C, Vermii ea. First Class Hotel 'sect coalition for tlio acconamaa.ition of Oct. 14, 1873. 'ST ; ,RGE STJCK OF BEAVER, I.I.ILOAD ,CiaSLIIERE. VESTINIis, .still TRIM. -eh I will sell very nbeap Full C.ISH. Lu assartnient or (i-LLI (1 6 1er of cartons xitylos." Phut :se call and lual: tuts, Overcoats, and Itepalring ylonenitb Ise cheap as the obeapcet. o.Euitt.+L WAGS :n, Creator.) Street, Wellaboro, Pa, 1231 Ark. Geo. C tuapbeil I ttarned to Wellaboro, nud having, &filth trilde In the manulacture of kirrinci&L li4la WORK . , u allsay to her old friends that eho to a'ae all who would fari or: her with ' l O can be found at the llouiw of J. Ili tbar. atq • - " fi ber "and iol. ,Sae. wilota offers for ,fiale MCP hlitztirt+l '',.L..s fiLi a<crta of timber land about eight miles A GE Welitligaro. Tbere is a large quantity of ~,.,_-4cozaktcrableabeetnut uport it. A pot tion. -- ' 5 1,.._.. 24, 1 %ruling lauds. Is will be 1100 'Nulty of ' WSL A. IiTONE, - 'IS, e W 01.1,001, i'a; General rinsurance Agency, Leif e, Eire, and Accidental. MEM • - Alumnae', of Cleveland. Ohio '438,039.44 . Nev: York Life and Fire Ins. 00... 1.. ..21.000,000 Royal Ins. Co., of Liverpool * 10,51.5.501 Lancashire, of 3lttnehester, Capital,. 10.000,000 ii,g. Co., of North America, Pa : 13,030,633 60 'Franklin Fire Ins. Co. of Phila. Pa .2,087,462 26 Reutiblie Ins. Co. of N. Y., Capital, $760,000 Niagara Fire Ins, C0..0f N. Y -.-. - LOOO,OOO - Farmers MuL Fire 105,..C0. yOrk Pa ` 909.880 . 16 Phoenix Mut. Life Ins. Co. of /Isrffora Ct.. 6,081,970 30 Pi3l.llCe Cattle Ins. Co. of Pottsville ... , ...600,003 00 Total .. . ,I.„ , , .$56,431,481 V 4 Insurance promptly effected by mail or otherwise, en all kings of Property. All losses promptly aditlilted arui paid at my office,' • All communications promptly attended to--Office on 1111.11 Street 2d door ?Min Main at., Knoxville Pa. • • - VIBL B. SMITH Jen. 1. 187 -ff. General Insurance Agency, NnLaos, Tioaa CO., PA. az.l; I). CAMPBELL , t RE {Wining Policies in the following Companies AL against lirr and, lightning ,In Tiog. and Potter count:ea QUEEN, ...Assets,.slo,oo6,ooo.oo CON EINENT AL of New York,.., —9,509,528.27 HANOV ER. of New York 988,581,00 GERMAN AMERICAN, New 'Vol.! 1,272,000.00 WYOMING, of Wllkeabarre, Pa ..........,?19,098.13 WILLIAMSPORT, of Wikaport 118,0a4.00 All business promptly attended to by mall or Othar• WiSe. LOSSCA adjusted and paid at our office. Nelaon,, Dec. 10, 1672.-Iy. • LOOK L2OO3Ei eT \ HASTINGS & COLE'S DRUGS, MEDICINES,', PATZATT Paints, Oils, Glass, Putty, Bruchas, Trueaol, Stipporifra, and #forgi cal instruments, 13018VE & CATTLE' r POWDZRS,. 4.rtls9's Goods drao Tariety, Liquors, '&13404 Aiss, - E - littra,,Toilsccro, Bung; dts:;, arA., Groceries, Sugars, Teas, CANNED AND 'DRIED FRUIT, i Shot, Lead. Powder and Calm, Lama, Chinutoya, Whips, Laahao, 4to, BLANK & MISCELLANEOUS MI School Books In ,nse, Envelopes, Stattortir' y, Bill and Cap Paper, Initial paper,' Memorandums, large ,cud small Dictionaries , Legal paper, School Cards and Primer T Writin .1 Fluid, Chess and Backgammon Boards, Picture Frames, Cords and Tassels, Mirrors, Albums, Paper Collaro and Cuffs. Croqueiti, LiMle Balls, parlor games, at Wholesale and retail. Wallets, port monies, combo, pine Rua neemen, scissors, shears, kuiyea. violin strings, bird cages , A great variety of pipes, dells, inkstands, measures tapes, rules, FiFiring Tackle, bat trout flies, 1ine4,40118, baskets and rode. Special attention Pala to this line in the season. TOILET AND FANCY ARTICLES, , AGENTS FOR AMERICAN STEAM SAFES. Jan. 1, 1872. VILLAGE LOTS for tale 14 the ceritiAl Part of the Borg. Mare125..13-tt HASTINGS & COLES. MRS, C. P. SMITH, . t y AS just return from New TO/ k with the largest 1.11 assortment of MILLINERY AND FANCY GOODS ever brouo,ht into Wellsboro, and will give her custom ers reduced prices. She bas a splendid assortment of ladies suits, Parasols, Gloves, Faus, real and Mat- Milne hair goods, and a full line of ready made white goods. 'Prices to suit all. Surveyor's Noliee. TIDIVARD DRYDEN offers his serrloo to the pubilo .12A ap a Surveyor. lie„will be ready to attend prompt ly t 3 all calls. He may ))43 found at the Isw - office at Sherwood t Son, in I'Vellshoro, or at his deuce on East Avenue. Wellsboro, Pa.,- ,, May Is, 1875.—tf. LIVERY STABLE.' ITETCIFfiIf & COT.ES proprletora. First-olsae Iles furritsliked it reasonable' rates. Pearl street,. tip posit(' Wheeler's wagon shop. A PUBLIC .HACK 4 Ibe on the street at all reasonable hours. Pass engers to and from the depot to anypart of the town will be charged twenty-five. cents._ For fainiLlea or small parties forpleasure, one dollar per hour. Well:sboro, July 15, Ism ELTCRA.III & COLBI3. NEW DRUG FIRM I TAYLOR 81. SPALDING, WlLlasala Anti Retail Dealer' in DRUGS. CHEMICALS, , PAINTS. OILS, P A TEiYT MED S PEI 1712ME_Vr, Having made special arraagelhents with the Blosta hurt; Giasa Company. we can turidsh Glass at loweNt rutPs to partied winking to limy, i.r4 Large QUAntttles, sduppwl direct llota'the factory. I%liciani' Avecolptions and Family IleciAl,:itceuratir ...1" -- 11.r. Spalding has bad several years oxPeriones' in the drug business. and is thoroughly posted in all Ito brmaches. Ta•YLOB ct SPALDWG. Welisboro, Pa., Jtuie 24, 1873-tr. . . . a .. CA.NCEIRI WEND! if you are :ailitctrid with CANCER, cOLQa iturnedistely to the Cancer Infirmary of Dr. J. m. crane, Addison. N. 1%, where yon will bu paomptly treated anti cured, if you come in time. When reach, ing the It. R. Depot - nt this pla4e, ask for the Amer', •ean Hotel orunibua; 'it wilt take yon- direct to . the In frmary. If you wish for raildiesicea, sand for Om -lar without delay. Oh inn :yke yaraamouable. atittio 2141878i0,1* . . _ . ~ p. COU4I'-‘ ... • ~,,.. .• _._ . r . .. i - ..k• . k . , . . , b ~ , . .. . ...::: . 1 , ,• 11 1 ,,, 'l.. .... , • . ...„ .....- - - Xt.put Ak :; i - 40.,,,: - :::.. g,,..,, - . : - ,- k .s. : i . " --, :- ...; :... : 1 : '4' .. . #. 4 . :t.., . 4 te"U .: l / 4: ,' z ;,.. .A: k.. I L \ t.::: 1 2, 14:i5,. , t 1 "1:= : • , 4 , . , ' -'- ' ' •V ' ' -.': . .. 4 1. :: ; -1. .1, 4e , 41 , .. ? f : • , • s* ,,L . . -;1 --:' , l ''Z ' - 0 . .1 -- .., ' 1, . • 1.. , . _ • • 3 P .., ~, . it 1X ... 1 . ... 0 ' ....),,: ''''' t ' i _th a n P\ . Vt 4, ,e l il , . . . - I - 4...V 'l A: i iik;:ti t• ,, k , .-' • . , - - 4 / . ..,..4 ' . ~....,, .. „ ~,..i ~ ....1 0 , . 'oi,: tL . t, ' : ..., 10 .44., A • • , —__..z.,-- _ ._ rr 440 , -,0_,...,,,,i7,,,.. , . . SNOXVILLS, TIOOA CO., PA ASSETS OVER $55.000,000 • :- A$5E - re pr COMPANIEU. FOR mao,rag, NOTIOYS. - NEW GOODS : • R - F4 R O,SE NE , LAMPS, FANCY ARTICLE% &to. ly Compounded HVGIf YOTING'S. losurance,Real Estate" Steamship . _ No I, Bowen's Block. 'Drafts Arad payable In any city or town in Europe. gc*".Cabin, Second Cabin. or Steerage Passage tickets to or from any town in Europa from or to WeLlabore. by the Anchor Line, or the Whits Star Line of Doan, Stammers: Estate bought and sold on Commission. ita-I desire to cell particular attention to the Insur4 ance facilities afforded by the old and well known Wellsboro Insurance Agency. --ESTABLISHED IN 1880.- FIRE, LIFE & ACCIDENT. Capital Represeig $10,000,000. • iETNA, of Hartford, Conn. HOME, of New Yolk. . - FRANKLIN, of Philadelphia. INS. CO. OF NORTH AMERICA, of Phit'n. PENNSYLVANIA of Philadelphia. WILLIAMSPORT,FIRE. ALEMANNIA, of Cleveland, Ohio. _PHENIX, of Brooklyn, NY. . LYCOMING Mi. CO.. Munoy. Pa. TRAVELERS L FE & ACCIDEN . A. Hartford. Polloiea written in any of the above leading com panies at standard rates. LO9IIOB promptly plod at my office, No, / Bowen's Block. LIUGIi YOUNG. • Nov. 19. 1879, We have Shed the Shanty ! T IBit IN 8 1 / 4 CO 2/IX.tA, R And now have but time t 9 pay o our &l ands and tnaistomori that we havd good BARGAINS FO.ll THEM. Our Elegant New Store . Le 111301 full of DESIRABLE GOODS OE= Cali and you will Enow how At Is yourselves. Out U. WM. JOHN FISHLER H AS the largest and beet seleoted stsolc.of• pIiBOM I S AND SHOES over brought Into Welisborb, consisting of Lollies'\ Sid and cloth Balmor- ale and Gaiters,. Ladies, Misses, GWAlren and Baby's Shus, Gents' Cloth Boots,and Shoes, Prince Albert Calf Boots, Boys' Calf & Kip Boots, Youths' Boots. In feet. all kinds of Mena' and Women's wear kept in a itrst.oiass iihoe Store. The best sewed Woman's Shoes ever offered in this market. I defy the world CUSTOM WORK. If yma don't believe it, try me, I buy only the best stock, and hare ae good Cordirainers as money oan hire. iIEPAThEtia none neatly, and with ditißatoh Leath& and. FVndings of i all kinds constantly on halit:L.' mat PAID FOR HIDES, DEACON SKIES, PELTS AND XIIBS. Having just filled up my shelves with a choice stock, personally selected for this market. I respect fully solicit a fair share of trade. ••Small profits and quick returns," I believe to be a good business max im ; and Iho ti the best goods to be the cheapest.' I keep no shoddy. - My assortment is sufficient to meet all sizes anti tastes. I invite our patrons and the public generally to call and examine my stock. No trouble to Show goods. Always to be found. one door north of O. B. Batley's store, Main street, Wellsboro, Pa. , JOHN PISHI.P.B. Feb. i.1.578.41'. TORERO BRO'S & STAITH BANKERS, '..BLQBI3BURG, Tioga County, Ponn'a BUSINESS PAPER NEGOTIATED poaamstot 121,so's .13Axsusus, W. IL 8312TH. Th y, Pa. Bloasburg, Pa, Bub. 7ELLSBORO,' TIOGA CO., PA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1873 T. L. BALDWIN .11 CO Meb.etabel I= Nettetabel's knittlog lies loose in - her bend; She watches the gold or a broken red brand That glitters and flashes, and tulle into ashes. - • The flame that Illumines her face From the cavernous, black fireplace, .-- ISrlnge ever new wonders of color and shade To flicker about her, aid shimmer. and rade. - • Does any one tpUse 01 this maid's loveliness, That the lonesome and smoky old room seems to Weiss ? hishetabel's mother calls out of the gloom, From a stutter of shoval and kettle and broom, From her flurry and worry Of work- a•day hurry: "Our Hotly site there toe dreatui With her needles ball round to the seem; With nothing to vox her, and nothing to try her; hut never will th e ket tho river afire. • And. bank to the din (Jr iron and tin Oze eltadow Alle out, while another Mea) in. - Mebetsbel's lover through now fallen snow tio softly has come that the maid does not know He is standing behind ha, to barmy to find her Mane, that he hardly can speak. .A. whisper ;—a flush on her cheek More lovely thanlannuet's reflection by far. "0 Hotta," he nriarrours, .the white evening star And Me beacon-light* swim On the ocean's blue rim, But I see your sweet eyes, and they tunic tbs stars dim." Mehetabel's wooer is stalwart and tall: Ws figure looms dark ou the tame lighted wail. Outside in pale shadow Lie pariure and meadow; Dim roselight Is on the white hill; The sea glarinuers purple and chill. 4. 0 Hotta, be mine for the calm and the storm; Though cold ti be the wide world, my heart's /ore is warza. e. Knit me into your dream, ritkniy.ritie fife will seem Me a boxuttful laudeLtire, to June's golden beam." Tdehetabel's forehead has gathered a cloud; thousand new thoughts to her young bosom crowd; Hsr knitting' drops lower; No lover can show bar • • The way through her mind's lonely maze. lie reads no response In her gum. Her heart is a enow•drllt where foot never rod; Love's sun tine not wakened a bud on its sed; AS 1.11410 ac the glow i s 1 Of the stars on the anew m Ara the glances that up through her long lashes go. Mahetabal'a future, an unnarlored. Spreads vaguely before her, unkaopled and grand, Its wild paths wait lonely For her footsteps duly; She most weave out the web of her dream, Thoughfilmsy and worthless It seem To her mother's eye, tilled with the dust.motee of °are. Thou gh ere it bar up her path from the heart that beats th Pa the gathering gloom, Breathing odor and bloom AAA sweat sense of life through the dusk Otte room. Alehetibel's dream,—you will guess it in vain; Only to herself Is unwound the bright skein. I She is put a woman, As gentle as human; Yet rooted. in hearts fresh . as here le the hope that the universe stirs; And broad be her thought as life's measureless zone, Or narrow as self Is, it 'lilt la her own; ‘i And alone she may dare ; What she never would share, - With friendehlp the dearest, or love the most rare. Mehetabel's answer—it has not been told. i To ashes Las fallen the firelight's red gold. No mo r, no lover, For , the world over, The vi, .a-day Jangle is sull. an e pt house stands on the hill. The rafters e bwebbed. the ceiling is bare; But always Taith haunts the saved oaken chair; A d early cud late here's a creak at the gate, Atoi a, wind th ugh the room like a soft sigh of "Wait ! Mehetabel—Hetta—the dream of a dream, The film of a snow-4eutl, a atar's broken beam, Were a tangible story To here; but the glory Of ages dims down to a spark, And dies out at last in the dark, Among questions unansv,ered, unrealized dreams. Still ttie beautiful cheat of what may be and seems, Flashes up an night's Where the live embers blink, An& the tales that they mutter, we dreain that we I think. , Sallie's Betrothal A TALE OF FORTY YEARS AGO. We were all glad enough to gather around the glowing grate and listen to . Aunt Sallie's story, for the storm was too furious for any fun ih a sleigh ride that day. She was a splendid-looking old lady; and must have been very handsome wheayoung. She sat looking into the fire for a rnoMent with her spectacled eyes, but she was look ing into the past, "Things were somewhat different when I was young," said she, " but we loved a sleigh ride as well as you do, and I will tell you-the story of a ride we had ever *6 many years ago. "I was independent enough to help take care of myself, and I was teaching school in S that winter. It's a city now, but it was only a hirge village then, "I oarded with the °livers, and Hattie Oliver'andl were great friends. ' and of all the - born coquettes I ever saw, she was one of the-prettiest and most inveterate. ;She lled plenty of _admirers, or course, and seemed to fairly delight in teasing thein.— Therewere two in particular, and I always wondered holy John Forbes and Charlie Simmons could be such confidential inti mates under the circumstances. "John was the richest, and he was a tall, black-haired, handsome fellow, but not very popular. He was kind enough, arid full of life and spirits; but Hattie used to say that `he seemed all the while to be standin,g up behind himself and studying you, and she hated that.' For my own part I liked John Forbes amazingly, though he was always shy and quiet in my company—perhaps be. cause I teased him so unmerciful about Hattie. • "Charlie Simmons was also an excellent felloW, but ho hadn't a very glib tongue, and Hattie led him a most •uncomfortable sort of a dance. Beaux of my own, did yov say!' Of course I had. Don't interrupt me. " Now, the joy and pride of John Forbes's heart were his.black team' and red' sleigh, and they were really the best turn-out in the village in those days. Every day or so' that sleigh would pull up in front of otfr hOuse; but I was too closely confined at my sehool to be in Hattie's way much. John and Charlie made an appointment for one Saturday, however, when /we .were both at liberty, for a grand trip „out on the old South road. The sleighing' was splen did, only, if anything, there /W)3B too knueh snow. #' When they came for ,us Jolla had his own team, and Charlie had procured a very good one somehow. - Hattie, as a majter of course, tool: her sentlu the red sleigh, and I told Charlie how , much I pitied ;him for having to be contented with only!nief but he laughed merrily, and seemed so ;cheerful about it tbat,l didn't feel at all awkward. "Oft we/ started, all sibothered up in furs, and, , ourled down in the (kelp, com fortable' cutters, as warm as toast. The horses wore a perfect jingle of bells, and were so full of life that I almost felt nerv ours about them. "Hattie was in a gale of spirits that morning, and her merry peals of laughter came back to us with the music of the bells, while from something iu John's manner I had a sort of instinct that he had not invi ted her oit that sleigh ride for nothing; and I was right about it, AS I will tell you. "They had driven three or four Miles, and were 'a good distance ahead of our slower,team, but John seemed to be getting more silent all the time, and Hattie rallied him about it, " I may as well be a little sober, Hat tie,' he said, for I think that to-day may have an influence for good or ev t li on my wkole, life.' ' _ "'.Why Mr. Forbes,' said Hattie, 4 are you afraid that your horses -will run away and Mash up your wonderful red sleigh?' ` ' No, they know too much for that; but Im going to ask a question of greeter itu pi rtenee, said he. '" Why don't you ask it of Sallie, then? She is theNehoulmistress, and knows every thing,' said Hattie. 1" ' Oh, I guess you know quite enough to answer what I Want to learn, and you must answer me truly and frankly, for my happi ;alas of life depends on the result.' " 'lt must be.a wonderful question,' said Hattie. ' What can it bet' . " ' Will you tell me if I ask you?' "Hattie was beginning to be a little flush trated, as she told me afterward; but her inborn love of mischief and coquetry cane upon her too strong to be resisted. ~ `They were just then passing a small . house by the side of the road that had Once been a sort of tavern, The - family had moved outi of it a few days before, and Hat tie knew it, bitt John didn't. _ " 'Mr. Forbes,'. said Hattie, ' won't you tie kind enough to stop and - get ma a drink 9f water? 1 cat 4014 Uie %wives.' ." John looked more than a little Tfixed, but lie handed her the reins andjutnPed out. She gathered-them firmly in lien plump little)muds, anti - just as he was - lib - oat to knock' at the door ..uf the empty hoitse she celled out to - t'Porbis, I must take it little, tittle to cobsider your question_ before.. I answer it.- I will drive on -al Mile or so. When emne back pelimps I will tell yon:' -" And; with a gay little laugh, Hattie drove carelessly away, leaving poor John looking very much like a tool as he leaned against the door post. - ' " The saucy- minx!' -Said' he. — `lt's too WI I wonder If she can manage th6se horses. They may 'break her neck before she gets back. Then the others will be bete in a moment, and won't they laugh!' "A new idea got into his head jnst then, for he was a hard man to ~ .catch, and when we came up pie wit§ quite ready for us.. "`iiallua, exclaimed Charlie Sim mons, where's your team? ' Haven't had a quarrel, have you?' " Oh, no, not exactly; only gattle wants a change of drivers. She will be back after you in a minute, and I am to drive Miss Morris. ' Hattie has something of great im portance to say to you,' said John. " Ohl I sec,' said Charlie. You asked'—:- " But John put his finger on his lip, -and Charlie stopped short. It was- all a mystery to me; but-Charlie got out and John got in, and on we whirled, leaving our-friend to kick his heels to keep them warm, and look ing einxiously for the return of the red sleigh. - - " ' And so,' said I, 'Hattie Oliver save you the mitten, did she?' "I was looking him straight in the face, and he turned as red as his sleigh at first, as if with'vexation; but then he put on a sort of roguish expression, and said: " She tiled a rather chilly sort of a. Joke on me, that's all, and I've turned it over to Charlie. Maybe it won't be at my expense, now, after all.' "I thought I saW througlit it, and we both laughed heartily; but John soon became quite serious and sober again. I thought, though, that I had never seen him look so well as he did just then. " Morris,' said he pretty quickly, as we spun along over the pure snow, I have got a very important question to ask you.' " ' Is it the sarnift one Charlie Simmons was speaking about? and have you Asked it of Hattie?' said-I mischievously.' • " ' It Is the same, and yet it isn't, and she ran away from me before I could ask her. It affects my happiness very deeply, and I must have an answer to-day. " Somehow I did not want him to say an- other word just then, and he hinisclf was silent, as if hesitating what to say. We bad been driving fast, and had got some dis tance from where we had left Charlie, and just then we heard the swift jingle of bells coming up the road:* It was Hattie in the red sleigh. She had matli.feil- to turn the 'horses arottud, but as sea as tiley.;tvere headed for home they started off at a Ire mendous pace, and she had not strength en• ough to rein them in, though they were not exactly running away. .she shotM. e turned aside to let her pass, and she shot a- quick glance of surprise and vexa tion as she passed hy us. John was a little scared about her, tut he almost laughed as he - saw that look. 4 " ' She will need help, I am afraid,' said l a he. 'We must turn and foll w her. Her joke on me is not so very good after all.' ".He was'really alarmed, an put the bor rowed team to its best speed, but they were no match for his own blacks. Hattie did her best, but, all in vain; until she came near whefe Charlie was standing, lie had been getting impatient, but he saw at once what was the trouble, and ran out toward her, There was a deep snow -bank a little further on, and he pointed to it and shouted for her to turn her horses into. it: -4 flaraio Monthly "She understood his gestures better than his words, and in a Moment Moro the black team, after a littlel plunging that only. sent them in more jdeeply, stood snorting and tremblin7, and almost covered up it4the snow. 'Hattie lwas nearly buried; but she was a brave girl, and she.clung to the reins until Charlie came up; and we were there, too, very quickly. "The two gentlemen went to work, un hitched the sleigh and pulled it back into the road, and then the horses were got out tvitpout much trouble and hitched in again. "John was afraid to let anriane else drive his horses after such an occurrence, and he and I transferred our elves to the red sleigh, while Hattie and Charlie got into the other. • " Hattie was as mute as a mouse; and I almost pitied her, but I had no need to do so. John , was not silent long, but returned to his interrupted question. He was begirt ning, in the same style as before, when I. in- terrupted him again with— . " Really - , Mr. Forbes, you had better2A your answer from Hattie. I assure you it Is out of my power ,to give yuu any informa• lion,' " ' But that cannot be,' said he. " Well; then, I insist upon it that you get your answer directly from her. She is the only one who will tell• you anything,' said I, He looked exceedingly annoyed, and for a moment he was quite severe t his horses. " It must be all true, then!' helnutt red to himself, and then he was silent for apme tithe. What he said when he did opent his mouth I will tell you by away, tut it would spoil the story to tell you now. Meantime Charlie and Hattie were following us as best they could, .and it wasn't long before he fOund tongue . to any: " 'Welly - Miss Oliver, JOhn tells me that you have/something of •importance to ask of melt `,I! That's onlrone'Of his jokes. He Just' did it to get out of the serape I put lihn in.' "Charlie looked a trifle crestfallen for 'a moment; but his mind hod been made up that day, and ho said: "' Well, if you have nothing of impor tance to say to me, I have something of im portance to.say to you. First, though, did not John himself ask you a question to-day? He told me he was going to do so.' "Hattie looked at him in utter, astonish ment, but she knew how intimate the two men were, and she quietly said: " Yes; or he tried to.' " 'And what did you tell him?' " I have given him no answer as yet; and if I had, I do nut see that you have a right to know what my answer was.' And her eyes flashed a little, for it was an awkward question to answer. , Perhaps k have no right; but he 13 my best friend, and it is of the utmost impor tance to him. And now I must ask you my question.' "He tried to do so several times, while Hat tie sat there coloring and almost crying un deer the buffalo robes, but at last it jumped from his lips all at once: . " Will you be my wifc "It was too bad, Hattie thought, now ing, as he (lid, all about , John Forbes, for him to Persecute her just then, and she told him ab. " said he, I don't see chat John has got to do with it. My question is my own, not his.' " ' But how can I answer you until I have answered him? You must give me time to consider; and now you must drive me di rectly home.' "Hattie bad made abed mess of it. that morning, and she was now fairly beginning to cry, Charlie Simmons was at his wit's end, but he bit his lips and drove home as rapidly as his horses could travel. "-„Nif eot home before them, of course, and splendid ride we had of it, I have never seen anything since that took my fan cy NH so much as that red sleigh Whea I turned and looked at it from the door as I went in. John crime in with me to warm himself, and when Charlie and Hattie en tered the parlor we were chatting away co zily enough before the great, old-fashioned fireplace.. - "Hattie blushed crimson, and Charlie seemed wonderfully uneasy. • I thought I could detect a vexed and 'anxious expres sion on John's face, but he said, in his off hand way: " Ahl Miss Hattie Oliver, I'm ahea of you this time.- I got an answer to my nes lion in spite of you.' • "I looked daggers at him, and tried to stop him, but he went on: " Miss Morris tells me that the story of the engagement must be one. of the Widow Stone's own invention; only there's uo need Of any-more such invention hereafter.' "Hattie blushed worse than ever, and 01 0 10 . 0.104 train . ans di $ 10 tiro in I pin' zied sort of way, but could not help laugh kug. --" What can youiroll mean?' cried she. " turan'that if iyon hnd let me finish my question this mining yon wouldo'thave been run away mitt[; but a s s all right now.' " ' Is` I', old joy said Charire; 'Alen wi:3ll. you joy f km- the bottom of my heart; only 1 haven't been so lucky.' - .".HAttie gave him one look, and inn out of the rooms; but he—followed ber, end when they came back it was Clear that he had made her give him en anOver. I sup. pose that it was about such a . one as I had given John during my ride in the red sleigh." That was the end of Aunt Sallie's story; but it puzzled us a little, and one of the girls spoke it " " Itc Aunt Sallie, were you engaged t Mr. rorhes?" " Ye. 3," said Aunt Sallie, " that is the old judge's ,middle name; and there were so teeny other Drown , ' in town that he mostly went by.it until he became judge, and that was years after we were married. Some- times I wish I was young again, and was back With Jahn in the red sleigh, for life is not all as merry and comfortable as a sleigh ride." Wordsworth and Cooper's Helpmeets. In this day of matrimimisl infelicities, when the Joaquin Millers deliberately de sert their wives and families for the muse— and worse still, -attempt to justify them selves for so doing—it is refreshing to look back upon such aoscene of domestic blisa.as this. We quote from James T. Fields's de scription of , hs visit to the home of the poet Wordsworth: "It was true. Lake country weather when I knocked at. Word sworth's cottage door, three years before he died, and found myself shaking hands with the poet a r t the threshold. Mrs. Words worth sat knitting at the fireside, and she arose with a sweet expression of courtesy and welcome as we entered the apartment. As I had just left- Paris, which was in a state of commotion, Wordsworth' was ea ger in his inquiries about the state of things over the Channel. As our talk ran in the di rection of French revolutions ; he soon be came eloquent and vehement, as one easily can imagine, on such a theme, "I noticed that'Mrs. Wordsworth listened as if she was hearing him speak for the first time in her life, and the work on which she was engaged lay idle In her lap while she watched intently every movement of her husband's face. * * * Now and then I stole a glance at the gentle lady—the poet's wife—as she sat knitting silently by the fireside. This, then, was the Mary whom in 1802' he had brought home to he his loving companion through so many years. I could not help remembering, too, as we all sat together, that when children they had practiced reading and spelling un der the same old dome at Penrith, and that, they had always been lovers. There sat the woman, now gray-haired and bent, to whom the' poet had addressed those undy ing poems: She' Was a phantom of de light;' Yes, thoU art fair!' and, 'O, dear c er far than life and light are dear.' I ret,. called, too, the Lines Written after Thirty six Years of Wedded Life,' commemorating her whose ' Morn Into noon did pass, noon into eve, And the old day was welcome as the young, As salcoine stains beautiful—in soothe, More be.antifal, tus being a thing mous holy. When she taised her eyes to, his, which I noticed frequently, they seemed overflow ing with tenderness. * , As we moved about the apartment, -Mrs.;Words worth- quietly followed us, and listened as eagerly us I. did to everything her husband had, to say. Her fair little figure flitted about noiselessly, pausing as we paused, and always walking slowly behind us as we went from object to' object in the room." And here is a sketch of another litora ieure's deVoted. wife, which we find in the December Harper: "A lovely, accomplish ed woman, Mrs. Fennimore Cooper was blessed with the unchanging, tender devo tion of her husband through forty lobg years; and even in death they were not sep arated—for. within four months after the husband's departure ids gentle wife follow ed him; a tit resident for that heaven for which her whole life had been one constant preparation. Mrs. Cooper'was retiring and feminine iu every movement, word ; and ac tion. Fier strong, impetuous husband— massive and vigorous in frame; decided and independent in action—yielded to her a chivalrous devotion most beautiful and rare. She was his preferred companion above, all others, and in his daily drives to his nian lain farm, called the Chalet, he always wanted her by his side, while in the evening his favcirite tunusement was a game of chess with his wife as antagonist. Although chil dren grew up around them, although the hospitable mansion was often filled with distinguished and delightful guests, alt ho' time passed and they grew old, the husband and wile never sank- into the mere father and mother, but to the last they cherished for each other that fresh affection which is so seldom seen after the bloom of youth and the'charm of novelty have passed The fair, gentle women who hover over Cooper's pages were patterned after his be loved wife, who, happily occupied in her own quiet sphere, was content to follow the old-fashioned 'rule of the Bible, that 'the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the Church/ in every thing.'" Death of Albreoht Von Griefs. . 1 1 Possessed, of an indomitable and devour ing soul, he ended by being devoured. him self. The end came on the 20th 'of July, 1870. " Draw the curtains," he exclaimed at the supreme moment, "and let me, look upon the sun once more," and died with the calm of the sage and the peace of the Chris than. Brief as had been his- scatter, the measure of his greatness and his fame was full. Most of the medical and scientific societies of the world bad chosen him an honorary member, and many sovereigns had conferred upon him their decorations—the Czar of Russia, among others, the " Grand Cordon of the! Order of Stanislaus;" the men of his oWn profession throughout the, world held hint'as their prince or master.— He advanced the knowledge of the eye and of its proper treatment under the manifold grievous ills tip which it is subject,.froui the obscurity in 'which it had rested from the foundation of the world to the light and certainty of a comprehensive science, while the blessings of tens of thousands who were ready to perish were after all his highest 'need of honor. When one reflects that Al b echt-von Graefe passed from earth at a li tie more than forty-two years of ago, and a at his scientific and practical career lasted s•arcely - twenty years, his manifold amid r ighty works create an astonishment which b ggars words. When Graefe breathed his 1 st Europe tteinbled•under the tretid bf eta b tiled hosts. - Father William i was going f rth at the head of his armies to engage in t e death-grapple with his Fre. cisadverse ii r . The flower of Gerinany , as with him, a d many a mall on either eid of the ftiay stowed himself a hero,lbutt no one of them e : hibited higher qualities or deserves a more Dating and ilMstrious commemoration than h who was looking on the sun for the last Tme when the armed strife began. Half t e population of Berlin` escorted his coffin to the tomb and buried it under roses and p lets. The poor wept because their bene f•eter was gone; and the great felt in grief t ! at the brightest and most _beneficent light o' Modern science was quenehed.—Plit. W. IfiOurn in Harpor's. Royalty and Genius Such was Albreeht von Graefe's estimate o the value of time and his delicate sense of responsibility to the crowd of patients who daily waited upou his mieistrations that-he could hardly be induced to attend any_sine, no matter how high'the rank, save in his own hospital. The Czarina of Rus sia; then at Nice, sent an imperial summons for him to wait uponher there. He declined to go on the ground of injustice to his pa tients. The Czar Was obliged to seek the in tercession of King_William, the son of Von Graefe's aoclfuther.',_ At his urgent solicita tion the professor consented to make the journey, traveling by express. Entering the imperial-presence, be made a brief ex amination of , the Czarina's eyes, t}ssured her that the course pursued by her own physi. Cian_WflS quite correct, and without an hour's halt set out for Berlin. / •The Queen Dowager of Prveala, who la said tg have been a peculiar petaon, insisted Mot You Wogs AMU ipti to rotKhm, WY declined on the ground that he could not spate the time, anti suggested that she should come to the KUM This she abso lutely refused to do, and wing William was 'obliged to mediate once more. At his re. quest the .professor promised to give the Queen one hour; A royal train waste wait inrattim'station, nthich bore him and his attendants --with lightning speed to Pots , dam, where carriages . were ready to carry them,to the palace. ,A lady in waiting. in. •formed the professor that her majesty was not yet up, hut - would receive - him in an hour. Pulling out his watch, he...answered, " In forty minutes from this time I will be at my Klin!it."/ The Queen made her arpearance in_ftve. minutes; the operation was pertormed; the -professor returned to his hospital, and had ten minutes' .to spare. Thus must'i2yalty sometimes bow to getting —Re.. burn in Harpor's. Ncitional Eduvation, - 1 I -- President Eliot holds that the theory' that a good government should provide an elab orate organization for teaching, as it main tains an army, a navy, and a post office, is wholly European, and a legitimate corolla , ry of government by divine right.. But our government is not the guardian of the na tional niorals, and is not responsible for the national character., ‘,` First of all, we want to breed a race of independent, self-reliant freemen, capable of helping, guiding, and governing themselves." The habit, of be ing helped by governtrient is fatal - tb this freedom., The doctrine that the govern ment is to do nothing, which any private agency can perforce as well- is the founda tion Of our public liberty. 'The vast sums of money that we spent in thetwar were spent to secure a government NY/licit iiii..the guaranty of this public freedom. It is not instruction, nor railroads, nor telegraphs,_ with the hand of the government; sustain inglhe I, that can perpetuate thisstreedom ended its blessings. Its only adequate se curities are the national habits, traditions, and character, acquired and accumulated in thEt practice of liberty and self-control; and tlise, while they show us the vital impor ta 1' of eduoaupn, also show us the true , t Eliot sub w i r u r t t to s a u r s e t a the in views inedwdsiffor President i t ide. stantially In his own Words; and he closes his report by an earnest appal 'to maintain the American method of public instruction: local taxes voted by the citizens themselves for universal elementary education; local elective boards to spent the money and con trol the schools; and, for the higher educa tion, permanent enduwments-administered by incorporate bodies of trustees. This is the method that breeds freemen, provided, we may add, that with equal care they_ for bid ecclesiastical control of the schoola. The report of Mr. Eliot, if not unanswer able, is certainly worthy of most careful -thought. Like all sincere and thorough treatment of great questions, it is a signal pbile, service. It serves indirectly as well i l. as dirt;ctly. The satisfaction with witieh it beenhs received .shows tiat simple and g. honest speakin may be as popular as the . 1. mbst agile' evasion, while Is methot) and spirit, carefully studied by honorable gen tlemen in Congress, may stimulate them to scrutinize the magnificently masked bills Which are constantly brought before them: Aid, again, good-natured gentlemen who are.appointed upon committees in conven tions and institutes and associations will see, as' they read this repott, that they must ei ther decline '• the responsibility laid upon tiem or bear their share of it. When one o the bills,was presented in Congress the C mmissioner of , Education said, "It is the ) ore, as I understand the facts, which was • fT,rored by the committee appointed by the National - Education Assoeiation." It was not favored by that committee, nor by any responsible body, and it would seem that. the Senator who presented it should have known that fact. Of course there are many god men who think that the governthent o ght to found and sustain a great national university. They honestly argue for it. In reply Mr. Eliot's report questions no mo ti'es, but it gives the honest filet:ids of such a plan very much to consider.: The gods help those who help themselves. -The prov lbd- glows with the eternal yorith of ,old wis rn. Hercules, says sFsSop, lelped the car tar who put his own shoulder to the wheel. One speaking bus-relief (if the fable iu et ch house of Congress would be worth all ii-e decorations of the Capitol.—Oss. W?n. ci rtes in Harrel a,- • Concerning George Washington's Nose, In is our pleasant duty to inform pur read ers that, thanks to the in 4 fittigable efforts of Secretary, Belknap, -411 mysterious -prob 16:n is about 'to be shlved, al vexing question td be decided. c.ilumon!with others, our thoughtful Secretary of War has for some dime been .of the opinion that Gen. Wash-.' hi g ton's num was not so flabby as it is rep-' I*.euted to have been iu Stuart's portrait yf the Father of his Country . He ha's vindi cated this prominent and important feature of a hero, ,and Americans can now face the k, rld lu the , proud belief that Mr. Stuart,, induced probably by Bfitish.golcl—for coin Was very scarce in those days—did oblite-, rite from the hero's nose that shatpness of . ohtline which - is naturally associated with; the noses of the great,. So says the delphia Tdeßreph, which is authority for the, ory. • Mr. Belknap proves thit_yery easily.— *bile on_a visit to Mount Vernon a short t me ago he - discovered, it is said, a plaster Model of Washington's' face, In which the pose is sharp and beak-like, and expresse.4 the great elements, moral und intellectual, Which together made our Washington. It would be_assuring to knW - tiomething of orighiof this cast; taut, equrge, if it roperly presents the nose; thatßquestion is nimpormut. The new discoveries in Egipt / will add plausibility to Wendell Phillips's lecture on the "Lost Arts." It now appears that the sMeltinir of iron was carried on in Egypt from the very earliest,period. ; Mr. Charles yihcent, in an English scientific journal, sets forth some new ftl4 - 47' in reference to this subject: ' "In the sepulchers of Thebes may be found delineations of butchers sharpening their knives on round bars of i l •on attached to their aprons. The blade! (if the knives are painted blue, which faCt proves that they were of steel, for in the tomb of RatitesVs 111. this color is used to it(licate steel, : bronze tieing represented by ied. An English gentleman has recently teovered the wells of Moses, by the eir Sea, the remains of iron works so -- vast lhat they must have employed thousands of workmen. Near the workq fire to be found the-ruins of a temple and 'of-A barrack for the soldiers protecting or keeping in order the workmen. These . works are supposed to be at least, threethouSand years old." Old Timothy Pickering was a pretty smart man in his day, and they could not take him in when they oliped to work on his farm. To one. of - tho* chaps who think they know everything be put the question if he knew how to build a stone wall.— " Yes," said he, " any fool ought to know that." " Well, how is it done?" said the Colonel. " Whyyby putting one stone on another," replied the man. " No, not by any means," rejoined the Colonel; "you know nothihg about wall buildin g ." "Well, him then, sirl' I would like to know how you would have it done." "By p4tting one stone on two stones, .so as to break joints and have a wall that any foollike you could not push over. Good tuorning." The one SerViceable, safe, certain, rem • nerative, attainab;e quality in ~ :very study and in every pursuit is the quality of attn thn. My °Nil invention or imagination would never have served me as it has 'but for the habit of commonplace, humble, pa tient, daily, toiling, drudging attention. , Never put much confidence in such as put no ontidence in others. A. man prone to susect evil is rabstly looking in his neighbor for .what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are Impure. • Every act of sin is More injurious to him who commits it•than it can possibly be 'to any other who suffers by it; It will' surely return into the conscience and perforM a strange work there. God is the source and fountain of love, and which may-be diiided into- three parts —the receiving from Him, the conforming to 1314 u, and - the reposing and irusti44 .14 WM. • - " ip.u73 vv I OLE NO 1 , 031:1. 'I I. Bache i . lARM, GARDEN, AND Roussoia A Curious Prophylactic Against Smile Pox.' 7 f ' -----4-. ., , , At a recent meeting of theltiabananatate lifolical Society, Dr. G. D. Norris, iot Untsville, stated that, during,a reeentlille - Ration of small-pox at that place, a nu of families used a tea made of dm' ~ raccnioaa, and that in no Case:did anyi,ot these peftsons take the small-por: -Dr. Zfett ris was unable to learn 'Lat when instate. this-Ay - vice was adopted. He stated full*, that, durtzit the time these fatfullies usedthe - tee, he attempted to vaccinate'a numbeijef the members of the families, Rind that Wat ery instanco'he failed, but 'kat after the teit_ was discontinued he succeeded with VACCU• ation In the cases where he had failed while ther were under the' influence of the tea: • The e imicipiga rocsmosos is known as the black snake root, or cohosh. It `should be used in moderation, becauselat edosespre• duco impaired vision, vertigonausea Sad vomiting. Its medicinal p operties US highly esteemed by maoremin nt menibelit t r of the medical profession. In the traria actions of the American Medical Assoels• tion, vol. 1., 852, Dr. F. N. JohnsOri report ed extraordinhry success with it in . casesef acute rheumatism. In chorea,; a; &sem often allied with rheumatism, the uidiallus has been very successfully used. i .t One ounce of the root may be boiled far, a short time in one pint of water, and ft half a pint to a pint may be used in, twat four hours. The fluid extract is probtAZ F. superior to any other preparation. 1 , should be made by some able pharmaceutist- The dosd of the fluid extract is about a tea spoonful three or four times a day. The facts stated by Dr. Norris go to con firm the truth of Jenner's discovery, that vaccination is small-pox. Another =Jolts fact is worth remembering in this 'connetti tion. The cimicifuga racernosa is called the black snake root, and is supposed to her* received that name from its assumed effica cy in curing the bite of -the rattlesnake.-* Here is.atiother curious thing: Prof. Hen ry, of Manchester, England, discoVered that a beat Neal to lea - degrees of Fahrenheit's scale entirely destroysthe poisoh of atrial), pox, of, the rattlesnake, and of the cobra di cap'ello. This important truth should be prophylactic_against Ithe senseless destruc tion of bed clothing and personal clothing of victims of small-pox. Boiling water is 212 degrees of Ribrenheit!s scale, and will utterly clet,rroy small-pbx poison. —The Lox incills Courier-Jou enal. - 1 :- , CURE or ta'AMILERING.—Very gratifying results h#e been obtained by - M. Chemin, a physiaianiof Lyons, in treating the vielont habit of istammering. A. commission, ap pointed tb investigate the working of Dr. Chervin's, 'system, ptit under his care 4,14 patients • varying in age froth ten to twenty . - nine year* all of ;whom stammered-in their speech to: a most painful degree. Some of the patients had been stammerers from early infancy, while others owed the habit to ner- • vous shock. In ten days after they were first placed under the care of M. Chervlii they were; all able to speak without stamp mering, and at the end of three weeks were discharged perfectly cured. The mode ot treatment is as foijows: The patient a taught by meaffirof a large number of exx.- ercise9, to pronounce with distinctness VOW-, els, consonants, syllabics and "sentences.- - , Great atteht ion _i. , :, paid to the regulation of the act of inspirillion. l':. slow but normal inspiration k lakvn at certain'jntervals, and. - - tills is succeeded by an even, continuous and loud expiration ) during which pronun ciation is elfect-d. I' wenty days are devol ted to the eat) 'tilt, the time being divided into three peri ds: 4.)nu of silence, to break up the old habit; on,b, in which the ps.tiegt is taught to speak slowly end deliberatelf and a third, wheteid lie acquires the prat' ' lice of speaking - tinently and without clip?. ping his words. • I'P.OPEn CAMP. OS IMPLEMZIATEL—III many cases the wooden part of btu imnplement will outlast the metallic. .No.one would think to - paint or use any special means to krve a spade or rake pantile; but it is diferent with many things, and as a general thing much more attention might be given to the proper preservation of farm impleinents than they receive. Many l persons use paint fur this purpose: but this is costly, and some,. times it would not_pay to preserve . wood at the cost of paint. It is not generally known that it is only the oil, 'or at ~least chiefly the , oil, that is in i the paint, which is the preaer- I r .the eletned . 4 the other in'aterial being ad ded mole for • the "looks"than any other reason. A. Piece of wood, well oiled; will last nearly or quite as long as though paint ed in the best manner. The American Ag rioulturist says that crude petroleum is quite its good as lac best linseed oil for this pur pose; and if so, it is of course much cheap er, and withku the reach of every . one.i, We often see wheelbarrows and other things rottervter worn out long before the wheel. Indeed; one wheelbarrow ,wheel will generally last two or three bodies. It would he as well for those who have no mote, money, than they want, and who•catt not afford Itt be buying a new wheelbarrow': every few years, to try the virtue of a little petroleum. PTIESEISTEIG CELI RY.—The following hi - the plan we now pursue, and which presery% ed our last year's crop of celery better thaw ever before, and enabled us ,to, eat a good article the forepart of May : A trench is ,dtig from twelve to fifteen inches in depth, and As long as may be suitable; 'the roots are placed in this singly side bytide, at an an gle, that is, leaning somewhat; three inches of soil, are packed against them; then an• other line of stalks, until the bed is as large as 11:6 'ne convenient for covering, and an other if i.ccluired can lie made. Soil should then be Acted until within six inches of the top of the stalks; then • a layer of straw, then a layer of dry leaves; the whole to i t have a yood board co t )19 to keep tout water. Of course rather big] ground for the tied or beds should be se • ec.ted,' and a trench shOuld be dug around the bed dacper thEitt the' L bn_ttom of the celery trenches, so made as to be sue to carry off all the water. I; at? , fiar , i's foil, !cl ' - 1 11 other. -- pis plan 11i followed stricuy all others mak c be abandoned, as the , elery : will keep' ttol . Only till spring, but ai long in the spring aK may be desired and it i not all eaten before hand.—Germantouw7lAval,h. Isortowixo Na.its.—Dr. J. Todd, ofNew Orleans, sends to a scientific journal the fol io-wing note: "In your h\st numlser yoU giye a mode of curing ingrowing ,toe, wils., Allow me to say that preyeation'ta better their cure, The cause of nails,ither on. the li fnuers or toes, growing into epesh la that liie,nails•are cut toward to WI; In stead e ft' from it. To pare the nail, cut from the l ,corner, to the center of ;it; and if any ingrowth has already begun, cut the center of the nail a little hollow. By this means nature hastens to fIA the yacaut space,, and the growth is immediately directed fromthe Beall, and in a short time the nail will alit-, sume a much : better form, growing from, 'instead of into, thellesh. Thenurseryman in pruning trees - always cute outward, nev , er inward; otherwise. be would make a shapeless, unprofitable tree. Crifut FQR Bo t a,s.---Dr. Simon-, ii7-IPhysi clan of - Lof — ar ine, elves a new cure for bolls by treating them with camphorate alcohol. As soon as the culminating point of a boil makes it appearance ho puts a little of the liquid in a saucer, and dipping the ends of his middle fingeis with it,-rubs the "Itlamed surface, especially the central part, eepeat ing the operation ei •2ltt„ or ten times for about a half a minute. He -then allows the sur face to dry, placing over it a,slight coating. of camphorated olive oil. ; :lie says that four such applications will;, hi almost all cases, cause boils to dry Up and disapPeat. The application shoUld be made at morning, noon and in the 01 euiu g. 110Vr TO 'IISI3T4tT &REV'S t Prdirarkrai WALLS.—It often' becomes desirable to in% seit screws in plastered walls without at taching them to any Woodwork; but' when we turn them in the plaster' gives way anti, our effort is vain. And yet a screw may 'be inserted in plaster so as.to hold light pic- tures, etc., ,very firmly. The best plan is to enlarge the hole to about tWico the diame ter of the screws, fill it with plaster Of par- Is, such as is used • for fastening the told of lamps, et o ._ i and bed the screw in the soft plaster. Wllian tile plaster ttas sat the Berm vtllll4a WA volt ottogly, I
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