Sfte geplator'g (Totomn.
rpHE BEDFORD REGULATOR,
No. 2 ANDERSON'S ROW.
IRVINE A STATLER
Are again in the field battling against the imposi
tion of high prices and would respectfully inform
their friends and the public generally that they
have just received a large and varied assortment
of goods, consisting of
Boots and Shoes,
Muslins and Tickings,
Notions and Perfumery,
Groceries and Spices,
Queensware and Glassware,
Tobacco and Segars,
White A Colored Shirts,
Cotton A Woolen Yarns,
Trunks A Valises,
Brooms A Twines,
Ac., Ac.
Call at No. 2 ANDEBSON'S ROW.
If you want a goodp'r Boots, go to the Regulator.
QUII STOCK OF BOOTS & SHOES
are full and complete.
BOOTS, SHOES, BALMORALS, GAITERS and
SLIPPERS, Ac.,
to fit any man, woman and child in the county.
Measures taken for Ladies and Gentlemen
and neat and complete fits warranted or no sale.
At IRVINE A STATLER'S, No. 2 A.'sßow.
If you want a good p'r Shoes, go to the Regulator.
Q. R O C ERIES.—
Prime Rio Coffee, - 25 to 30 cents per lb.
do La Guayra, - 25 to 30 " " "
White Sugar, ... 18 " '• "
Light Brown Sugars, - 12i to 15 " " "
Teas, - - - - $1 50 to 2.00 per lb.
Spices, all kinds, cheap and good.
Best quality Syrups and Molasses, at the lowest
market prices, at '"The Regulator's,'" No. 2 A. R.
If you want good Toilet Soap or Perfumery, go to
the Regulator.
JJNBLEACHED and BLEACHED
MUSLINS,
From the best Manufactories in the country.
Bleached and Unbleached Muslins from 12ic up.
Sheeting, ..... from 18c up.
Tickings, all grades and prices, at
IRVINE A STATLER'S.
If you want a good Shirt, go to the Regulator.
r\UR NOTIONS ARE AT ALL
TIMES FULL AND COMPLETE in
Shirts, Collars,
Neck-Ties, Soaps,
Gloves, Hosiery,
Perfumery,
Suspenders,
Combs, Threads,
Buttons, Wallets,
Brushes, Thimbles,
Pins,
Needles,
Sewing Silk,
Linen and Cotton Handkerchiefs,
Shaving Cream,
&e., &c., Ac.
At No. 2 Anderson's Row
If you want a variety of Notions, go to the Reg'r.
QTATIONERY and PERFUMERY.
Jfote, Letter and Fools-cap Paper, Envelopes,
Perfumery, all kinds of Toilet Soap, Tooth Brush
es, Ac., At THE REGULATOR'S.
If you want Queensware er Glassware, go to the
Regulator.
QUEENS WABE & GLASSWARE.
We have a large and magnificent selection of
Queensware and Glassware, of the latest and most
fashionable patterns, and will be sold at the most
reasonable prices, by
IRVINE A STATLER.
If you want good Spices of any kind, go to the
Regulator.
rpOBACCO AND SEGARS of the
best brands and manufacture :
Gravely,
bronoke Twist,
Century Fine-cut,
Cavendish,
Baltimore Twist,
Natural Leaf,
Congress,
Ac.. Ac.
Smoking Tobaeco, all kinds.
Segars from a Cheroot to the finest article.
Also, a large assortment of Pipes,
jgp Call at No. 2 Anderson's Row.
If you want good Hosiery, Gloves, Neck-ties col- I
lars, Ac., go to the Regulator.
HAVE EVERYTHING that
Is usually kept in a No. 1 country store.
MARKETING of all kinds taken in ex
change FOR GOODS, and the highest prices paid.
Any goods desired will be ordered from the Eas
tern cities
ty Country merchants supplied with goods at
a small advance. No trouble to show goods. All
we ask is a cal', and we feel satisfied we can please
ALL. Thankful for past favors, we solicit a con
tinuance of the same.
apr26,'67. IRVINE A STATLER.
If you want anything in our line go to the Becb
ferd Regulator, ho. 2, Anderson's Qow.
BY MEYERS & MENGEL.
sn-<sooas, &t.
HAVE YOUR GREENBACKS !!
You can SA VE 25 per cent, by purchasing your
GOODS at the CHEAP BARGAIN S TORE of
G. R. A W. OSTER,
BEDFORD, PA.
They are now opening a large and handsome as
sortment of NEW and CHEAP DRY-GOODS,
Ready-Made Clothing, Carpet, Cotton Yarns,
Hats, Boots and Shoes, Sun-Umbrellas, Para
sols, Groceries, Queensware, Tobaccos and Ci
gars, Wall Papers, Wooden-ware, Brooms, tfC.
LOOK AT SOME OF THEIR PRICES :
Best styles DELAiNES, 22J and 25 cts.
CALICOES, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20 cts.
GINGHA MS, 12, 15, 20, 25 cts.
MUSLINS. 9, 10, 12, 15, 18, 20, 22, 25 cts.
CASS IME RES. 75, 85, 115, 125, 150, 165 cts.
LADIES' 6-4 SACKING, $1.65, 1.75, 2.00,
all wool.
DRILLING and PANTALOON STUFFS,
20, 25, 30,35 cts
GENTS' lIALF-lIOSE, 10,12, 15, 20, 25, 30,
35 cts.
LADIES' HOSE, 12i, 18, 20, 25, 30, 35 cts.
LADIES' SHOES as low as 90 cts.
Good Rio COFFEE, 25 cts.; better, 28 cts.;
best, 30 cts.
Extra fine OOLONG, JAPAN, IMPERIAL
and YOUNG HYSON TEAS.
SUGARS and SYRUPS , a choice assort
ment.
MACKEREL and HERRING, late caught,
fat fish.
ty We invite all to call and see for themselves.
A busy store and increasing trade, is a telling
fact that their prices are popular.
Terms CASH, unless otherwise specified.
may24m3.
OPLENDID
OPENING of
CHEAP
SPRING and
SUMMER
GOODS,
AT
FARQUHAR'S
New Bargain Store,
REED'S BUILDING.
CALICOES, (good) - 12ic.
do (best) - - 18c.
MUSLINS, brown, - - 10c.
do (best) - - 20c.
do bleached, - 10c.
do (best) - - 25c.
DELAINES, best styles, - 25c.
DRESS GOODS
of all kinds
VERY CHEAP.
MEN'S and BOYS'
COTTONADES,
GOOD and CHEAP.
A large stock of
FANCY
ALL WOOL
CASS I MERES
ASTONISH
INGLY
CHEAP.
BOOTS
AND
SHOES.
MEN'S
AND
BOYS'
HATS.
GROCERIES:
Best COFFEE, - - 30c
Brown SUGAR - from 10 to 150
FISH :
Mackerel and Potomac Herring.
QUEENS W ARE
and a general variety of
NOTIONS.
Buyers are invited to examine
our stock as we are determined to
to sell cheaper than the cheapest.
J. B. FARQUHAR.
mayl7
GOODS!! NEW GOODS!!
The undersigned has just received from the East a
large and varied stock of New Goods,
which are now open for
examination, at
MILL-TOWN,
two miles West of Bedford, comprising everything
usually found in a first-class country store,
consisting, in part, of
Dry-Goods,
Delaines,
Calicoes,
Muslins,
Cassimers,
Boots and Shoes,
Groceries,
Notions,
Ac., Ac.
All of which will be sold at the most reasonable
prices.
iy Thankful for past favors, we solicit a con
tinuance ot the public patronage.
|y Call and examine our goods.
may24,'#7. YEAGER
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FANCY JOB PRINTING, done with neatnesi
and despatch, atTHE GAZETTE office.
TERMS OF PUBLICATION.
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months. All subscription accounts MUST be
settled annually. No paper will be sent out of
the State unless paid for IN ADVANCE, and all such
subscriptions will invariably be discontinued at
the expiration of the time for which they arc
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All ADVERTISEMENTS for a less term than
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ertion. Special notices one-half additional All
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All legal Notices of every kind, and Orphans' 1
Court and Judicial Sales, are. required by law
to he published in both papers published in this
place.
All advertising due after first insertion.
A liberal discount is made to persons advertising
by the quarter, half year, or year, as follows :
3 months. 6 months. 1 year.
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Two squares ... 600 900 16 00
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Quarter column - - 14 00 20 00 35 00
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JOB PRINTING, of every kind, done with
neatness and dispatch. THE GAZETTE OFFICE has
just been refitted with a Power Press and new type,
and everything in the Printing line can be execu
ted in the most artistic manner and at the lowest
rates.—TERMS CASH.
All letters should be addressd to
MEYERS & MENGEL,
Publishers.
lII* latitat
THE CROOKED FOOT-PATH.
BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
Ah ! here it is, the sliding rail
That marks the old remembered spot—
The gap that struck our school-boy trail,
I he crooked path across the lot.
It left the road by school and church,
A penciled shadow, nothing more,
That parted from the silver birch,
And ended at the farm-house door.
No line or compass placed its plan ;
With frequent bends to left or right,
In aimless, wayward curves it ran,
But always kept the door in sight.
The gabled porch, the woodbine green,
The broken millstone at the mill,
Though many a road may stretch between
The truant child can see them still.
No rocks across the pathway lie,
No fallen trunk is o'er it thrown,
And yet it winds, we know not why,
And turns as if for tree or stone.
Perhaps some lover trod the way,
With shaking knee or leaping heart—
And so, it often runs astray
With sinuous sweep or sudden start.
Or one, perchance, with clouded brain,
From some unholy banquet reeled,
And since, our devious steps maintain
His track across the trodden field.
Nay, deem not thus—no earth born will
Could ever traeo a faultless line;
Our truest steps are human still,
To walk unswerving were divine !
Truants from love, we dream of wrath ;
Oh, rather let us trust the more!
Through all the wanderings of the path,
We still can see our Father's door.
A CALL FOR ENTERPRISING MEN.
HOPEWELL, BEDFORD CO., Pa.,
June, 26, 1867.
Editors Journal of Mining :
GENTLEMEN :—I have frequently
been requested by a number of my
friends to call public attention to this
interesting portion ofour State, through
the medium of your valuable journal,
which has, doubtless, been the instru
ment through which more true and
valuable information has been impart
ed to the American public, than perhaps
any other source. Owing, however, to
the rapid and startling events which
have followed each other during the
last five or six years, I have, up to this
time, deferred doing so, believing that
the public mind was not in a situation
to calmly look into and examine the
peculiar advantages of any particular
locality of our great mineral State, un
til the important issues in which we
were involved were properly adjusted.
That time having arrived when the su
premacy of our government has been
fully established, and the indefatigable
energy, that is characteristic of this
great nation in peace or war, is now
ready to be directed, and is anxiously
inquiring for information as to where
capital and industry can be the most
advantageously employed in develop
ing the hidden resources of our vast
country. It is to this class of our citi
zens that I wish particularly to call at
tention to this hitherto neglected por
tion ofour State, as having all the nat
ural advantages and resources that can
be desired to open up a great field of
enterprise, and which must eventually
become one of the most extensive iron
manufacturing districts in the State.
It has been said "that a prophet has no
honor in his own country," the same
may be applied with equal truth to sec
tions of this country, which really
possesses more wealth than the same
breadth of territory, embracing the
richest gold mines of California. But,
for some unexplained cause, the peculiar
advantages that nature has deposited at
our own doors are overlooked, and the
glittering gold fields of distant sections
ofour country are selected by our en
terprising youug men, as the field of
their future operations, and, in their
haste to make money, they blunder
over the seemingly more humble de
posits of nature, to which, if they could
be attracted, and infuse the same a
mount of energy in developing, would
most assuredly, in a majority of instan
ces, find themselves more comfortable
in a pecuniary point of view, and have
the satisfaction of knowing that they
contributed more to the interests of
their fellow-men and their country by
BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 16, 1867.
I helping to build up our manufacturing
interests at home, than they possibly
could have done had they followed the
"ignis fatuus" contemplated by so
many. This peculiar section of coun
try, possessing all the advantages to
which I allude, lies principally along
the valley from Huntingdon, in Hun
tingdon county, beyond Bedford, in
Bedford county, to the Maryland line,
and even beyond that. Immense beds
of brown hematite and also fossilifer
ous ores run through the entire valley,
a distance of, perhaps, more than eigh
ty miles. It has been estimated by sci
entific geologists that there is most cer
tainly a sufficient amount of ore lying
between these points mentioned to
keep 100 furnaces in operation that
many years; and, strange as it may ap
pear, up to this time there is but one
furnace in the whole valley, and that
is situated at this place. In order to
give some idea of the quality is only
necessary to state that the principal
part of the metal made here the last
year, has been used in the manufacture
of steel, for which purpose it is said to
be peculiarly adapted. As another ev
idence ot the estimation in which this
ore is held by those who have tested it,
1 would say that a company from Dan
ville, Montour county, Pennsylvania,
are now mining and shipping it from
this region a distance of 200 miles, and
we believe the transportation is alto
gether by railroad. If they can ship
ore advantageously, which they cer
tainly do, that distance, you can readi
ly perceive the advantage there would
be in the manufacture of the raw ma
terial on the ground where we have
the very best of coal, limestone, water
power, and the all-important ore; in
deed, all the facilities and requisites to
insure a superior as well as cheap iron.
And last, but not least by any means,
we have the Huntingdon and Broad
Top Railroad, traversing, as it were,
the heart of this valley, containing all
these mineral resources a distance of
43 miles. I might, indeed, fill columns
of your paper with this important sub
ject, but I have now transcended the
limits I intended. Hoping this may
find favor with that class of enterpris
ing men, for whom it is more particu
larly intended, and they may avail
themselves of those golden opportuni
ties to enrich themselves, and their
country with them, in developing by
their energy this rich field of deposits;
and in the future, watching these im
portant developments which must and
certainly will take place, I may, per
haps, be enabled to give you a more
detailed account of this region of coun
try in regard to this important subject.
I would respectfully refer persons de
sirous of having: iiny .iirther infOrina
tion in relation to this region to John
Fulton, Esq., Resident and Mining En
gineer atSaxton, Bedford county Penn
sylvania. JOHN F. LOWRY.
WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE
MORTALITY AT AXIERSON VILLE?
There are two sides io every ques
tion, and it does not often happen that
all the law and the testimony are on
one side.—The Laucaster Intelligencer,
says, an immense amount of noise has
been made about the great mortality
among the Union p.isoners at Ander
son ville, and a vast deal of indignation
against the rebels has been thereby ex
cited. One of the consequences of the
calmer condition of our country is the
opportunity which is given for hearing
both sides of different questions. Just
now the subject of the Exchange of
Prisoners during the war is exciting at
tention. We published a letter from
Gen. Robert Ould a few days since on
that subject. Below we give another
still more explicit and decided. The
responsibility for the great destruction
of human life in the Southern prison
ers will soon be placed where it be
longs. Stanton and Butler are guilty,
before God, and inan, of having deliber
ately sacrificed multitudes of our men
who might have been saved. The time
will speedily come when this whole sub
ject will we fully investigated, and then
the people will justly decide the blame
between the different parties who are re
sponsible.
THE EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS —AN-
OTHER LETTER FROM EX-COMMIS
SION r R OULD.
Gen. Robert Ould has written the fol
lowing letter to one of the editors ot
The National Intelligencer:
RICHMOND, July 18, 1807.
My Dear Sir:— l have read the re
markable discussion in the House. Mr.
Eld ridge is substantially right in what
he said. I offered early in August all
the sick and wounded prisoners wc had
withoutrequiringequivalentsforth< m. i
I would have made the offer earlier, '
but for the fact that some considerable
time before I had made an offer of ex-1
change, man for man, to which I could
get no response. I waited for a response
until early in August, and failing to
receive one, 1 then made the ofier a
bove named, at the same time urging
haste on the part of the United .States
Government, as the mortality among
the Federal prisoners was very great.
During the Fall I again and again
urged haste, giving the same reason.
I informed the Federal authorities
that if they would send transportation
for 15,000 men to the mouth of the Sa
vannah river I would furnish that
number of sick and wounded, and that
I would fill up the deficiency with well
prisoners. 1 did not require a corres
ponding delivery of our prisoners,
though I expressed the desire that they
might be sent. From early in August
we were not only ready, but anxious
to make this delivery.—lt was our
purpose, as well as our offer, to contin
ue the delivery of the sick and woun
ded at all the depots of prisoners, and
upon the terms mentioned; that is,
without requiring equivalents. Trans
portation was not sent until December.
The United States authorities brought
in that month some 3,000 prisoners to
the mouth of the Savannah River, and
received over 13,000 in return, many ot
whom were well men. The 3,000 de
livered presented as melancholy a spec
tacle as Andersonville ever disclosed.
Most, if not all of them, had been
brought from Elmira. Some died be
tween Elmira and Baltimore —many
between Baltimore and Savannah. I
do not believe ten per cent, of the num
ber are alive now. All these facts are
known to Federal officers. Rebels may
lie, but yet the fact is fully established
by other evidence that the Federal au
thorities sent 3,000 and received 13,000.
They would have received more if there
had been accommodation. Why was
transportation sent to Savannah for the
prisoners unless I had agreed to deliv
er them? Why were 13,000 delivered
and only 3,000 received if I insisted on
receiving equivalents ? There is noth
ing in the published correspondence re
ferred to by Gen. Butler which, in any
manner, contests any one of the facts
I have mentioned. General Mulford
will sustain everything I have herein
written. He is a man of honor and
courage, and, I do not think, will hesi
tate to tell the truth. I think it would
be well for you to make an appeal to
him, as it has become a question of ve
racity. Gen. Butler says the proposi
tion was made in the Fall, and that
7,000 prisoners were delivered. It was
in August, and over 13,000 were de
livered. If you will get Pollard's
"Lost Cause," and refer to the chapter
on exchange, there you will find the
whole question accurately stated. Ev
ery word of the chapter is true, so far
as it pretends to give facts. The book
was published by subscription, by
Treat & Co., of New York. You can
make public any portion of this letter.
I defy contradiction as to any state
ment I have made, and challenge scru
tiny. I will prove every word by
Federal testimony. Who, then, is re
sponsible for the suffering of Ander
sonville during the period of its most
deadly mortality, from August to Jan
uary? Yours, truly,
Ro. OULD.
A LOBSTER'S REVENGE.— "An a
musing, but no doubt painful incident,
called 'The Lobster's Revenge,' found
among the trials before the Paris Tribu
nal of Correctional Police, in 1852, was
that against a dealer in fish, who was
summoned by a Madame Grebuchet,
who claimed thirty frat.ces damages
for the injury caused to her nose by
one of the defendant's lobsters. The
plaintiff, wishing to regale her husband
with a delicacy for his dinner, went to
the market and was bargaining for a
lobster, which she took up in her hand,
but threw it down again, saying it was'
not fresh. The fishwife protested that
it was alive, but Madame Grebuchet
asserted the contrary. To satisfy her
self that such was the case, she a sec
ond time applied her nose to it, when
the lobster, as if in defense of its owner's
veracity, seized hold of Madame Gre
buehet's nose with its claw, and stuck
fast. She screamed for assistance, but
instead of immediately rendering it the
dealer and her companions around
burst out into a laugh, and it was some
minutes before the nose of the lady
could be released. The fishwoman, in
her defense maintained that she was
not to blame and that the mischief
was solely caused by the imprudence
of Madame Grebuchet in applying her
prominent feature so closely to the
lobster's claw when she had been told
that it was alive; and the Tribunal,
taking the same view of the case, dis
missed the complaint, and the plaintiff
ordered to pay costs."
GREAT MORAL IDEAS.— Sending
drunkards to the Legislature to pass
prohibitory laws.
Punishing sober men to get good ex
amples for drunkards.
Destroying the property of tax-pay
ers to gratify the destructive propen- j
sities of those who pay no taxes.
Enfranchising negroes to keep a mi- j
nority party in power against the will j
of the people.
Obtaining men and money by false
pretences, to preserve the Union and
using the same to destroy it.
Keeping thieves and Robbers in office
and honest men in Prisons.
Procuring false witnesses to convict
and cause an innocent christian woman
to be executed.
Destroying the Union to preserve
the Radical party.
Substituting the teachings of the!
Devil for the word of God.
———• ———-
CATTLE for fattening next fall should
have the advantage of good pasture
during the summer, that they may
have a good start. Good, pure water,
with access thereto, is highly import
ant, as is also a regular allowance of
salt, or, what is better, constant access
to it—no need to fear of their eating
too much, as instinct will guide them
in their wants. Milch cows should be
cared for not to let them fall oft"in their
milk late in the month. A feed of cut
grass, clover, corn, millet, Ac., morning
and evening will tend to keep up a
generous flow.
VOL. 62.—WHOLE No. 5,405.
A VORNB MINISTER LLL'OGF.D A(J AIX.ST
HIS WILL.
-V most ludicrous scene transpired in
a place not a thousand miles from the
city of Louisville, one night recently,
which, though a little annoying to the
parties immediately concerned, was
yet so innocent and funny that we c n
not refrain from giving the general out
lines, suppressing names of course.
Two sprightly and beautiful young
ladies were visiting their cousin, anoth
er sprightly and beautiful young lady,
who, like her guests, was of that hap
py age which turns everything into
fun and merriment. If the truth were
told we fear that we would have to re
cord the fact that these three young
misses were just a little bit fast. They
were fond of practical jokes, and were
continually playing all sorts of mad
pranks with each other. All three oc
cupied a room on the g.ound floor, and
cuddled up together in one bed.
Two of the young ladies attended a
party on the night in question, and did
not get honietil! half past twelveo'cldck
at night. As it was late they concluded
not to disturb the household, so they
quietly stepped into their room through
the low open window.
In about half an hour after they had
left for the party a young Methodist
minister called at the house where they
were staying and craved a night's lodg
ing, which of course was cheerfully
granted. As ministers always have
the best of everything, the old lady put
him to sleep in the best room, and the
young lady (Fannie) who had not gone
to the party was entrusted to the duty
of sitting up for the absent ones and of
informing them of thechange of rooms.
She took up her post in the parlor, and
as the night was sultry, sleep overcame
her, and she departed on an excursion
to the land of dreams.
We will not return to the young la
dies who had gone into their room
through the window. By the dim light
of the moon-beams as they struggled
through the curtains, the young ladies
were enabled to descry the outline of
Fannie (as they supposed) ensconced in
the middle of the bed. They saw more,
to-wit — a pair of boots. The truth
flashed upon them both at once. They
saw it all. Fannie had set them in the
room to give them a good scare. They
put their heads together and determin
ed to turn the tables on her. Present
ly they disrobed, and stealthily as cats
they took their position at each side of
the bed. At thegiven sign both jump
ed into bed, one on each side of the un
conscious parson, screaming, "Oh what
a man!" They gave the bewildered
minister such a promiscuous hugging
and tousling as few persons are able to
brag of in the course of a lifetime.
The noise of this proceeding awoke
the old lady, who was sleeping in an
adjoining room. She comprehended
the situation at once, and rushing to
the room she opened the <!oor and ex
claimed ! "My God, garls, it is a man!
it is a man sure enough !"
There was one prolonged, consolida
ted scream ; a flash of muslin through
the door, and all was over.
The bestthingof the joke is the min
ister took the whole thing in earnest.
He would listen to no apologies the old
lady could make for the girls. He
would hear no excuse, but he solemnly
folded his clerical robes around him
and silently stole away.
Query—was he mad at the girls, or
—at the old woman ?
JOSH 151M.IXGS OX CiOXGS.
Josh Billings relateth his first exper
ience with the gongthusly: I never
can eradicate holi from mi memory the
sound ov the furst gong I rver herd.
I was sitting on the front step ova tav
ern in the eitty of Bufferlo, pensively
smokin. The sun wasgoin to bed, and
the hevins for an hour was blushin at
the performance. The Ery Kanal,
with its golden waters, was on its way
to Albany, and I was perusin the line
botes a flotin by, and thinken ov Italy
(where I use to liv) and her gondolers
and gallus wimmin. My entire sole
was as it were, in a swot. I wanted to |
klime, I felt grate, I ac ually grew.—
There are things in this life tu big tu
be trifled with ; there are times whena
man brakes luce from hisself, when he
sees sperrets, when he kin almos tuch
the inune, and feels as tho he kud fill
both hands with the stars of heven,
and almost sware he was a bank presi
dent. That's what ailed me. But the
Korse ov tru luv never did run
smoothe, (this is Shaksper's opinyun
too). Just as I was duing my best—
durnmer, dummer, spat, bang, heller,
crash, roar, ram dummer, dummer,
whang, rip, rare rally, dummer, dum
mer, dum—with a tremenjus jump I
struck the center ov the sidewalk with
anuther I kleared the gutter and with
anutherl stood in the middle of the
street, snorting like an Indian pony at
a band of music. I gazed in wild des
pare at the tavern stand, mi hart swell
ed up big as a outdoor oven, mi
teeth was as 1 uce as a string of bedes. I
thot all ov thecrokery in the the tavern
had fell down. I thot of Gabrel and his
horn. I wosjest on the pint of thinken
of somethin else when the landlord
kum out of the frunt stupe ov the tav
ern, holden by a string the bottom ova
old brass kittle. He kawled me gently
with his hand. I wentslolaandslolaup
tu him, he kammed mi feres, he said it
was a gong, I saw the kussecl thing, he
said supper was reddy, he axed me ef
I wud hav black or green tee, andlsed
I wud.
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••WAKE UP, SOLOMOS!"
"Wake up, Solomon. It's time to
get up," shouted young Harry to his
! sluggish brother one fine July morning,
at he jumped gaily out of bed, and be
gan dressing.
"What time is it ?" yawned Solo
mon.
"Nearly six," replied his brother;
"and mind, Sol., we start at seven."
"It's too early to get up yet," said
Solomon. "I'll snooze till a quarter to
seven."
So the lazy fellow turned round, and
was soon fast asleep again. When he
awoke his room looked very full of
sunshine. Tne house was very quiet,
too, and rubbing his eyes, he mutter
ed,—
"1 wonder if it is seven o'eloek yet?"
Crawling out of bed, he dressed him
self and went down stairs. There was
nobody in the parlor, nobody in the
sitting room, nobody in the dining
room.
"Whatcan be the matter?" thought
Solomon, as he rang the bell for the
maid to bring him his breakfast.
"Where are they all ?" he asked, as
soon as she appeared.
"(lone to the city," replied the maid
en, "They started two hours ago."
"Why, what timeisit?"
"Nine o'clock."
"Nine o'clock! But why didn't they
call me?"
"You were called at six o'clock, and
wouldn't got up. Your father would'nt
have you called again. He said he
would teach you a lesson."
"It's too bad!" cried Solomon, drop
ping his head upon the table and burst
ing into tears.
It was too bad that the lazy boy did
not learn the lesson of that morning so
as to turn over a new leaf in the book
of life. lam sorry to say he did not.
He loved sleep. He hated work. He
was the slave of lazy habits, and is to
this day.
What sort of a man will Solomon
Slowcoach be? Well, if he don't die
of idleness before he becomes a man,
he will be a shiftless good-for-nothing
fellow. He won't have any knowledge,
because he is too lazy to study ; norany
money, because he is too lazy to work ;
nor any good character, because he is
too lazy to conquer himself.
Wake up, Solomon ! Wake up, my
dear boy ! Shake off the chains that are
upon you ! If you don't wake up you
will soon be a lost boy. Wake up, Sol
omon, wake up! If you don't, you
will make shipwreck of your life.
THE DILIGENT WOMAN.—Sheriseth
in the morning betimes, and as the
lark singeth to his mate, so she maketh
a joyful noise in all her house.
She maketh up her bed; and beat
eth the pillows thereof; and like as an
eagle stirreth up her nest, so she stir
reth up the feathers, and spreadeth out
the sheets, and layeth the blankets a
part.
She layeth her hand to the wash-tub,
rubbeth upon the board, making clean
the tine linen; her hands take fast
hold of the wringer, and by the turning
tho crank the water thereof is pressed
out.
She clotheth her family with pure
garments, when she has made them
smooth with a hot iron, and by reason
thereof her husband is made comely
when he sitteth among the chief men,
or walketh in the market-places.
She kneadeth up her dough and ba
keth a goodly cake for her household,
and to every one she giveth a piece of
bread and butter of kine.
She provideth her dinner indue sea
son, supper faileth not when the good
man returneth at the end of the day,
weary with his labors and the strife of
men.
She looketh well to the ways of her
house, and scorneth the idle woman,
with her delicate hands, who lieth in
bed and calleth a servant.
Xo two nations could differ more
widely than do the English and the
Scotch with regard to the choice of
days of the week for marriage. The
Scottish report slates that the favorite
day for marriage in Scotland is the last
day of the year, provided it does not
fall on Saturday or Sunday.
Xo marriages are celebrated on Sun
day in Scotland, while in England it
is the favorite day of the week for
marriage, thirty-two percent, of the
marriages being contracted on that day.
Monday is a favorite day of the week
in both countries, Saturday, in England,
is the third day of the week in order
of selection ol marriage, seventeen per
cent occurring on that day; but in Scot
land no true Scot will marry on Satur
day, nor, indeed, begin any work of im
portance. With the Scot, Saturday is an
unlucky day for marriage, and he is
impressed with a superstitious belief
that if he married on Saturday one ol
the parties would die before theyearex
pires, or that, if both survived, the mar
riage would [trove unfruitful. Hence
it ha pens that Sunday and Saturday,
the two favorite days for marriage in
England, are blank days for marriage
in Scotland. Friday is the day on
which the English do not m trry, but
in Scotland it is one of the favorite
days.
LITTLE NEGLECTS DESTKOY FARM
PROFITS.—By neglecting to lock the
stable door, the horse was stolen ; by
leaving a lot of old rubbish in the barn
yard, one colt broke his leg, and anoth
er got a nail in his foot; in neglecting
to spend half an hour in battening up
the sheepfold, a pair of twin lambs
froze to death ; by carelessly tying the
bull, the ox was gored and died; by
neglecting to kill the ticks on thesheep,
and lice on the cattle, thesheep became
poor, shed their wool, gave no milk,
and the lambs died, and a tine stock ot
cattle in high condition when they
came to stall, lost ali their flesh before
spring came, were helped up by the
tail and survived, while others were
snaked <>lf by theueck,asort of retribu
tive justice to their owuers, always at
tached in some way to human trans
gression.