Uv. ®|y. I®: [SSST&V,; jjfmPSs:' pafe mk* • i 3 - - P'* s •*-| i cd&ftv-. . 3?..-p*r *S* a g|l i S iJ jf? ■Si t*V -m “*6 8-6 Mlt: §teu 3£fi_ll WiSiRKS T(» ods; •*, mot iTPRRNS; or good., >VpiONS J B * w **fcaw*» fur Rtosr :OjiEK. rMii&KD CADIES gjAfPLES, ORDER, i» tl* mi. j Id ,£TM Will «ad etife^h»r*'. 1 W are. 'ML'-. t OridNL'Mb''9MfKW< Pr -jraß.^y^^^^nwna >/ r». dM( Aw ihwygeen***- » inJDalr county '.CffjER ra to toijipwii . butcher *rth.« KBpUPOCTIJW, tarw zmw, i s&Krt DNAHP* ;GS@O, ftAjUETY ?, i*A, V' «i- v ) ■’ ■ tfCftF.vL u: jpfftwtkMw EO^L (wjjjlfw m VIeCEOM & tfEBN, \'OL 8. NEW G( »OI >S. fpHE undebigncd would respectfully in- JL formthe citizens of,Alto..oaand Mirroundinr cmin ry, tint h» bajlnimturiwdfrom the EsaLwtershe ha» or.' 1 ! ' FALL AJSj) WINTER GOODS, uMiicli, forand price, canoot tx> •nrpamed in i'o* nack'of country. fife stock- i* much ! larger than Mid i» lit Is quite an object, in liiflMe exciting *,.r tiiuC«, for every 00*5 to )<qrcheee where they c«n get The BesfGoods and at the Lowest Prices, .‘if- would iay that ha can and will sell u- low, if not a nrf le-lowar chan any other house in this place. He wishes ,lt lo call and eeehis stock before ipurchasiug elsewhere, ■ ■ lie feels confident he can offer inducements w hich will ’defy competition. His stock 1 consists of LADIES’ DRESS GOODS of every description, MEN AND DOTS’ WINTER WEAR,' LADIES AND. HISSES’ DRESS SHOES, MEN AND BOYS’BOOTS AND SHOES, MEN’S HOSE WOMEN’S AND ; HISSES’ WOOL HOSE, MATS AND CAPS,' BLEACHED AND.DNBLEACHED MCSLIN, OINHBAHS AND HEAVY DRILLINGS, lie will sell Ladles Sewed, Heeled Hootecw at *1A0@1.76 KipPeigad ;... 1.37@1A0 'len s Boots ..+ ; ; »T6®3 80 HALMOKAL SKIKTSy Tery low. ~ ’ GROCERIES. White and Brown Sugar, Rio Ooffeee, Byraps. Teas, Ac.‘ ,nd everythin*: that is .usually kept in a Dry Goode Store ! ,nd »> cheap as the cheapest. J. A. BPRANKLK - I Altoona, Oct. 7.1863. AVOID THE NEXT DRAFT! 'piIEKK IS A. PREVAILING EX *■ CITEMKN'T among the people of Altoona and vi ,‘inity about THE SECOND DRAET—not so much about I lie Draft .as for making the Three Hundred to pay exemp irm. All patriotic 1 .Lnt chooae rather to stay at home with their beloved ones, for their support, than to risk Iheir Jives in this bloody .war; Now, to bring the matter a close, we will inform the pnhlic; that bv buying their ..-.Kids at the GREEN STORE, Corner of Branch ind Annie •treat. East Altoona, kept by OBIS A CO., they will SAVE THE THREE HUNDRED ~i « short lime. They have Jn.*t received a large and well •elected stock of DRY GOODS AND GROCERIES, which ihi-y are selling for Cash at the lowest living price#. A laige assortment of LADIES' COATS AND CJRCC- I.ARS, ranging in prjre from $4 SO to $12.00. The attention of t!ie public is particularly drawn to the fact that they are soiling Brown ami White Muslin from 1 ' to 4o cents; Calicoes IVom 12 1 f. to 2n eta.: Delaines inim IS to 3o bents per yard. kviTwnva> e /w?wJS4?J“£‘ t H large a ™rtment of MEN AND BOYS’ OLOTHIftO, HATS, CAPS, BOOTS. SHOES. Kiel, la met, everything kept in a firat-ciaas Sieve Altoona pet. T, 1888. Victory: Won! 'pHis ; Subscribers would respectfully € fcooouoce to tha‘ citizen* of Altooua and vicinitv rtuii they have Just returned from the Kn«t with their FALL AND WINTEK STOCK OF HATS & CAPS, BOOTS Sc SHOES, Si'.fll. HArr S & CAPS hiivp been at :lwl with great care, and with the view of suiting all vho may byor them with their patronage. Their line ..f K-iot-H and Shoes i« complete. Their LJLpJES’ MISSES' and CHIEDJIEX'S SHOES .0-of City make, and warranted. Their Balmoral Shoes •i Ladies rand Bisgee, are Just tin thing f.,r wet «‘either and saying health thankful to tjie public for their Very liberal patronage ■“.letnfore, they hope to merit a continuance of the Name. Store sn MAHt ST. ■ next door to Bowman’s Exchange «*f- SMITH * Manx. Altoona, May 12. 1883. SATE THE PER CENT AGE BY rftTYING YOUK CLOTHING FROM FIRST HANDS. I7TTINGER & TUCK, Manufacturers —-*■ of andWholeeale and Retail dealers in Ready-made <i->tmng, would reepectftilly invite the attention of the ' ,u » JS *&®«Wlowto|t;|hcte In reference to their stock. let We manufacture our own goods. They are made up ip our own Store, in Philadelphia, under immediate supervision, and we know they are well made and can be **» (ranted EQUAL TO THE BEST, :»nd superior to the largest quantity of Ready-made cloth mg in the market. 2nd. We buy our Cloths directly from the Importers and Manufacturers* consequently we save the per c*nt&ire uut >n by middle men. ' r * 3rd. We sell our Clothing at a reasonable percentage ‘•verths cost of our Cloths* thereby earing the purchasers m.Clotbing the percentage which must be added by those i who buy from second bands to sell again. We retail oui i Uotblng at the same price which other merchants pay u* theirs at wholesale, 'consequently those who buy from I n- get their goods at tW same price which other Clothiers' 3 ; I 11 *? ftir thefrt In.th© dty. thereby earing said Clothiers’ P**r rentage. We have branch Stores In - ALTOONA AND JOHNSTOWN, »lwr« goods may be had at the mm. figure, ut which we •>■ll them herein the cltv. If any person has beat told, or imagines, that Tuck’s '•ore. In Altoona, is “ played out” let such person drop . hto his establishment. On Main Street and examine his goods and prices. Wholesale House. No, Market Street. Philadelphia Pec, 2,1863.—tf. CITY DJIUG STORE. DK. E. fl. EEI(JABT would respect fully announce to the citizen* of Altoona and sur rounding country, that 1 be has recently purchased the i>rog.?fore of .Berlin A Co.* on Virginia Street, oprvwite * nee' Hard ware Store. His Drugs are Fresh and .Pure, end bo ihopea by strict attention to hneim-w. to merit a -! ,re of public patronage. •-all and examine bis stock. lie has constantly on band, DRUGS, MEDICINES and CHEMICALS, f/.YE TOILET SOAPS, PERFUMES Y. BRUSHES, GLASS, PUTTY, PAINTS OILS, VARNISHES. CARBON OIL AND LAMPS ' NOTIONS CIGARS, 4«d every hrlicle auuallylcept m a Eirat-dau Drug Sim. PUgE WIN&S AND LIQUORS (or medicinal use. DOMWSOC OB.APM WINIt—PURE—WARKAKTKII. PkXSJCTANS’ PRESCRIPTIONS eompondded. at all hours of the day or night. Ajtteoa, Beff. 80, 1563; ? 'PEAS ! TEAS! TEAS!—FIUTCHEY A ia eellingTew enperior to shy over offered in Al couna. They are free of adulteration, coloring, Or mix nreofanyklnd- : Rostov cb^ceebs—a labge enpply af these delicious knackers j net received indtorenleby : ntITCgKY. LTARDWABE OF ALL DESCEIT -11 Uonejaet received knd for sale by '•ct IMf] ; J.B. HIUSMA.v 7XTBA FAMILY FLOUB, EBOM the ,CoT«y *iwajo on hand sad for sale as low the loirovt bjr FRITCHKY. j;ew stock of boots & shoes ’ tor Hon and Boys, Badies and Mlseee. Just rac’d at ■ ■ y.' j LAUOHMAN’ NOTffIBB LABGE LOT OF THE .OELEBK ArKD JEtor H AMS j net received and 18 rt ~ ,j ■ BRITCHKY’S A BDOMINAL SEPPOBTEKS, Xrus iLL waiMl BMiliirßrfieM lor ■ jl’illi ALTOONA TRIBUNE K. f. MenairM. - - - B. C. DUKA. EIxiJOKH AXtl f»R OPR lIJTOKfi. IVr KTinua*, (vpAynbU* iiiT*rit»,ly n\ advance,);..-... $1 50 pastor**™ at *1»« expiration of the time TKItMX rtp ADTKRtISiSO „ J.. , ’ I insertion • 2 do, a do. Four lines or less e 05 t 3-w . „ Ono Square. (R lines) * w. * % A '[* SL Ji? " > 1 00 1 id 2 no Tl *i. * 24 “ } 1 • 2 00 2 60 Ojr*r three weeks end less tlian three months. 26 cents . square for insertion* ... ~ . S mooths; «months. 1 year. i St* Mn« or Ism * 140 * 3 00 * 5 00 Que.square . 2 So 4 00 Too ?.*■’ “ ■ * W- 3 00 10 00 5 OO 8 00 12 00 , - « 00; 10 00 14 00 H«lf a column io oo 14 00 20 00 One column 14 00 25 uu 40 00 Administrators iod Executant Notices 1 7* Merchants advertising by tbs year, three squares, i w(th liberty to change ....... Professional or Business Cards, date.reeedinir’s lines jwper. per year 5 00 of 11 pou*** 1 character or individual ?ni£iMt, will be charged according to the.above rates. ■ ActvertMiementsnot marked with ||ie number of inser tions desired, will be continued tllljforWd and charged according to the above terms. ' * - Business notices Are cenU per line for every insertion . Ohitnary notice* exceeding ten lines, fifty cents asquare ®W« ! From the 'JrUgraph. pllßB. SHODDY’S SOLILOQUY. X Uriah I could do amnetbing to help the suffering poor; I tremble when I count the ill. which for them nrc in store. ? What scores of untold horrors, this winter’s blast, will I bring— Oh dijar! there’s some one coming, 1 hear the door hell rinp. The widows and orphans ofonr country's martyred dead, ’Twonld he a burning shame if they sbonld ever want for I bread. While we enjoy the comforts they always used to have. And revel In the blessings Weir I >ved ones died to save. OH, had I bat the money, with wlmt a willing hand I’d lighten op the darkened homes which shadow all our ,iaud, And think no sacrifice too great, no toil too mnch to bear. If 1 ccmld make an orphan smile, or dry a widow s tear. My bonnet’s eonin? Quick, bring it in. Oh ’ does’nt it .look HWeet f I guess ITI tie Hie envy of half tin- girl* I meet. This plume’s a real pstricji. and the velvet—what a pink : The hijll.jast twenty dollars ' .It.is very cheap, 1 think. Anothpr ring! My cloaks I hope. Jai ( e, bring the package here : . • • ‘ | c *■. How fortunate I am tegday, fa no* I iiotii can wear. I felt quite Shabby wjien out on promenade. To wetjr that which a year ago was made, i Tki* cloak is snlendld.' ain't in jane ? and what a perfect - : i ■ : I don’j think fifty dollars was one cent too mnch for it. m ° *rmght i 0 Outt embroidery} Yonng Mr«. Marlin Huff: Ppor tljing t she lost her husband at the battle of Ball’s Bluff: . She fretted night and day. f beard, still hoping he’d come home. And when she took in sewing, of course j gave her some, She only charged two dollars ibr all that mass of work ; l&tve jt. glad, at any price, the irksome job to shirk. But don’t it look magnificent». At iladajne Frisby’s store I’d have to pay. for such a job.’twelve ihdlarai maybe OQoro. The Hints are hard, and ffood.- ! Its tru*. ami many a form Will bend with silent wrrow, or break beneath thentorm. Why. aflks atone, which once I bought at hfteen dimes Pfr yaitf. Are trifjje that, *»h f yes, indeed, the times are dreadful hard. . Yon wonder what the poor will da? In trnth. Jane, so Jo 1; With thinking of their .daily wants, I suffer terribly. I trust that JJe who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb Will move with purest piety the foll’wera of his name. I’d empty out my purse with joy, but fnrs are on the rise; Unless I get a new'set now, the war may end supplies. This cruel war! this dreadful war! what tuis'ry it has wrought, T ; No tongue can tell the horror* which in its track are brought; ; / ; I with I could do temcOUng for the poor of our town. It’s almost time lor dinner, Jane (j Sow roust that turkey hrjown. Harrisburg. 1863. 1!. JpW ■ Igliscrilauj!. CHRISTMAS: Oljl, THE GOQjb FAIRY. BY MBS. H. B, STOWB. O, dear! Christmas is coming in a tort-night, and I have got to look up pres ents fop everybody!” said yoimg Eleanor Stuarg as she leaned languidly hack in her chair, j “Dear me! it is so tedious! Every body has got everything that can be thought of.” “ O no • ’ sgid l*cr confidential adviser, Miss Lester, in a sooth tone. “ You have means of buying everything yog can fancy, and, when every shop and store is glitter ing with all manger of splendors, you can not surely be at a loss.” % <f W|ell now, just listen. Tobegin with, there’s mamma! what can I get for her ? I havethought of ever so magy things.—■ She has three card cases, four gold thim bles, two or three gold chains, two writing desks of- different patterns; aid then, as to rings, brooches, boxes, an|j all other things, I should think she might be sick of the . sight of them. lam sure I am,” said she languidly gazing on! her white and jeweled fingers. j view of the case seemedjrather puz zling to the adviser, and there were-silence for a few moments, when Eleanor, yawn ing, resumed'— “And then there’s cousins!Ellen and Mary—J suppose they will be coming down oo me with a whole load of presents; agd Mrg. B. will send me something—she did last year; and there’s cousins William and Tom—| must get them something, and I would like to do it wellenough. if 1 only knew what to get!” } , 1 “ Well,” said Eleanor’s aunt, who had 1 ALTOONA, PA., WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 30. 1863 mtfangqmetjv - rattling her kn.tung with JkUin- sight and trembling hand* , dl ? ng r W T ' ' ,tf ' : l pit - v ,<>Uerin g a,JO « t - her duly helper; and they you bad no such a subject to practice on ; are entirely dependent on charity ” ’ * fI WU V V '‘• n ****& girl—presents did ; “Can’t they do anything » Can’t they not fly about in those days as they do now. I knit,” said Eleanor ” ' I remember when I was ten yearn old. ray - You are young and strong Eleanor father gave sister Mary and me a most i and have quick eves and nimble fingers • marvelous ugly sugar dog lor a Christmas j how long would it take you to! knit a ? pair gift, and we were perfectly delighted with of stockings ?” ’ P the Ver? ’ idea of a P™*" 4 was ” ew »" “1 r «tid Eleanor, “what lan idea ! I : " tr , I ~ev« *P tried. but I think I could get a pair •i ear aunt ' how delighted 1 should be, j done in a week, |>erhaps it I had any such fresh, unsophisticated j ’’And if somebody gave youtwcnty-five body to get prints, tor! but to get ami ; cents tor them, and out of this you had to get for people that have more than they j get food, and pay room rent, ami buv coal know what fa do with now to add pictures, | tor yoitr lire, and oil for your Jamp-1” books, and gddtng, when the centre-tables I “Btbp, aunt, for pity’s sake »’ are loaded with them now—and rings and j Well. I will stop, but they can’t: they jewels when they are a perfect drug! I; must pay so much every month for that and' 1 f 8” not Blek and Batod i »»*-‘Pable shell they Jive in, or be turned wid’ 1 ed ." !,th f*™? cv «'.Vlnng in the into the street. The meal and flour that “ -a ■ K ' nd P erson seflds Soes off for them v..n ~!lt said , lu ' r aunt ’ «* i( does for others, and they must ‘ d ? want unsophisticated sub- , get more or starve ; and coal is now scarce jecis to practice on, I can put you in the j and high priced.” way °f U. I can show you more than one i "O, aunt, I’m convinced, I’m sure: tanalv to whom you might seem to be a, ; don’t run me down and annihilate me with vet y good fairy, and sueh gifts as you * those terrible realities. What shall 1 do could give with all ease, would seem like ; to play the good fairy to these poor old a magic dream.” women '” ‘ M hy \ ’ ,,i " " ° Uld mdiv b “ " or,h "O, certainly 1 will. Let me see if I ™ ttU , nt ’. . can’t think of something myself.” «nnt sv^ 1 ' “T 088 " ay ’’ Said her I ‘■ Wel1 ’ Elea “or, suppose then, some fifty ••'n . .•"ft that budding." or sixty years hence, if you were old. and 1 hat miserable combination ofslianties? ! your lather and mother, and aunts, and , uncle,-, now so thick around you, laid cold ne t t nave several acquaintances i and silent in so many graves, you have jere, who have not been tired of Christmas | somehow got away off to a straVe city ?ou you C mid any k ki, ' (i 1 awure i Wb °r > ou were ncver known-yon live in over there ” W ’ , “ t * “ N?nSat,wn a . m,w? «* ble garret, where snow blows at "Well wl • „ . , , | night through the cracks, apd the fire is .. • h " ls l u ‘‘'C; L ''’ know V j apt to go out in the old cracked -«>v.- • make voir . r T e “ ber °' V ‘‘ d - "-at used to I you s.t crouching over the dying embers •■YU i .. { the evening before, Christmas—nobody to .. ” .remember something about j speak to you, nobody to care lot you, ex cept another poor old soul who lies moan ing in the bed—now, what would you like to have sent you ?" : ■ „ dJ, aunt, what a dismal picture !" “And yet, Ella, all poor, forsaken wo men are made of young girls, who expected it in their youth as little as you do, per haps ” in 00 him. V\ ell, he has hitlen into a consumption, and cannot work anjr more, qnd he and Ins wife and three little children live in one of the rooms over there.” “How do they get along >" “ His wife fakes in sewing sometimes, and sometimes goes out'washing. Poor Owen ! I was over there yesterday : he looks thin and wistful, and his Wife was saying tuat he was parched with constant lever, and had very little appetite. She had, with great sell-denial, and by restrict ing herselt, almost of necessary food, got him two or three oranges, and the poor fellow seemed so eager after them.” “Poor fellow'!” said Eleanor, involun tarily. “Now,’ said her aunt, “suppose Owen’s wife should get up on Christmas morning, and find on the door a couple dozen of oranges, and some of those nice white grapes, such as you had at your party last week, don’t you think it would make a sensfltion ?” “ Why, yes, j think very likely it might. But who else, aunt ? You spoke of a m-eat many.” “ Well, on the lower floor there is a neat little room, that is always kept pcr fectly trim and tidy: if belongs to a younn couple who ha ve nothing but the husband’s day’s wages to live oh. They are, never theless, as cheerful and chipper as a couple ot wrens, and she-is up and down half a dozen times a day to help poor Mrs. Owen. She has a baby of her ’ own, about five months’ old, and ironing lor herself and husband ; and yet, when Mrs. Owen goes out to wash, she takes her baby and keeps it. whole days for her-” .“lain sure that she deserves that the good fairies should smile on her,” said Eleanor ; “ one; baby exhausts my stock of virtue very rapidly." “ But you ought to see her baby,” said aunt E., “so plump, so rosy and good nafured, and always as clean as a lily. This baby is a sort of household shrine; nothing is too sacred and too good for it; and I believe the little, thrifty woman feels only one 'temptation to be extrava gant, and that is to get some ornaments to adorn this little dignity.” “ Why, did she ever tell you so?” “ No, but one day I was coming down the door of their room was partly open and I savy a pedler there with an open box. John, tliehusband, wasstanding with a little purple cap in his hand, which he was regarding with mystified, admiring air, as if lie didn’t quite comprehend it. and trim little Mary gazing at if with longing eyes.” , “ I think we' might get it,” said John. “ O no,” said she, regretfully ; “yet I wish we could, jt’s so pretty}" “Say no more, aunt. 1 see the good fairy must pop a cap into the wdndow on Christmas morning. Indeed, it shall be dope. How they will wonder where it capae from, and talk about it for months to come!” , ♦ “ Well, then,” continued her aunt, “in the next street to ours there is a miserable building, that looks as if it was just gSing to topple over; and away up in the third story, in a little room just under the eaves, lives two poor, lonely old women; they are both nearly on to ninety. I was in there day before yesterday. One of them is. constantly confined to her bed with rheumatism: the other, weak and feeble, [xvnEPF.\-|>FVT IN EVERYTHING.] ■Sav no more; aunt. I'll buy—let me see—a comfortable warm shawl for each of these poor women ; and I’ll send them --let me see —O! some tea—nothing "oes down witlt old women' like tea • make John wheel some coal over to them; apd aunt, it would not be a very had thought to send them a new stove. ' I re member, the other day,; when mamma was pricing stoves, I saw some nice ones tor two or three dollars.” •’For a new hand, Ella, you work up the idea very well,” said her aunt. "But how much ought I to give, for any one case, to these women, say ?” “How much did you gjve last year for any single Christmas present.” “ Why, six or seven dollars for some : those elegant souvenirs were seven dollars: that ring I gave Mrs. B was ten.” And do you suppose Mrs. B- was any happier for it ?” No, really, 1 don’t think she cared much about it; but_ I had to give her something because she had sSht me some thing the year before, and I did not want to send a paltry present to any one in her circumstance.” ” Ihen, Ella, give ten to any poor dis tressed suffering creature who really needs it, and see in how . many forms of good such a sum will appear. That one hard, cold glitering ring, that you gave because you must, and she takes because she must, might if broken into smaller sums, send real warm and heartfelt gladness through many a cold and cheerless dwelling many an aching heart.” ° “ ou are getting to bean orator, aunt. But don t you approve of Christmas pres ents, among friends and equals ?” Yeg, indeed, I do,'? said her aunt, fondly stroking her head, “ I have had some Christmas presents that did me » world of good—a little book-mark, for instance, that a certain niece of mine worked for me. with a wonderful secrcy, three years agp, when she was not a young lady with a purse full of money— that book-mark was a true Christmas present. And my young couple across the way are plotting a profound surprise to each other on Christmas mornibg. John has contrived by an hour of; extra work every night, to lay by enough to .get Mary a hew calico dress; and she, poor soul, j has bargained away the only! thing in the jewelry line she ever possessed, to be laid put on a new hat for him. I know, too, a washerwoman who has a poo? lame boy —a patient, gentle little fellow—who has lain quietly for weeks and mouths in his little crib, and his mother is going: to give him a splendid Christmas present.” “ What is it, pray >” “ A whole orange! Don’t laugh. She will pay ten whole cents for it: for it shall be none of your common''oranges, but a picked one of the very best going! She has put, by the money, a Pent at °a time, for a Whole month: and nobody knows which will be the happiest for it, Willie or his mother. These are such Christmas presents as I like to think of— gifts coming from love, and tendering to produce love; these »re. the appropriate gifts of the day.” “iJnt don’t yon think that it is right for those who have money to give expensive presents, supposing always as you say, they arc given from real affection ?” * ■ “Sometimes, undoubtedly. The Sa viour did not condemn her who broke an alabaster box of ointment—very precious —simply as a proof of love, even al though the suggestion was made, ‘this might have beep sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor.' I have thought he would regard with sympathy the fond efforts Which human love some times makes to express itself by gifts, the rarest and most costly. How 1 rejoiced with all my heart when Charles Elton gave his poor mother that splendid Chi nese shawl and gold watch—because I knew they came Irom the very fullness of his heart to a mother that he could not do too much for—a mother that has done and suffered everything for him. In. some such case, when resourses are ample, a costly gift seems to have a graceful ap propriateness ; but 1 cannot approve ot it, if it exhausts all the means of doing for the poor ; it is better then, to give a simple ottering, and to do something for those who really need it. Eleanor looked thoughtful ; her aunt laid down her knitting, and said in a tone of gentle seriousness ; “Whose birth does Christmas com memorate, Ella !" “ Onr Saviour’s certainly, aunt.” “ Vcs," said her aunt. “And when and how was he born ! In a stable ! laid in a manger-; thus born, that in all ages that he might be known as the brother and friend of the poor. And surely it seems but appropriate to commemorate His birthday by an especial remembrance ot the lowly, the poor, the outcast, and distressed; and if Christ should come back to out city on a Christmas day, where should we think it most appropriate to his character to find him ? Would he be carrying splendid gifts to splendid - dwel lings, or would he be gliding about in the cheerless haunts of the desolate, the poor, the forsaken, and the sorrowful ?” And here the conversation ended. f * » * * « What sort of Christmas presents is Ella buying ?’’ said Cousin Tom, as the waiter handed in a portentious looking package, which had just been rung in at the door. “ Let’s open it,” said saucy Will.- “ u P°n W word > two great gray blanket shawls I Those must be for you and me, Tom. And what’s this ? A great bolt of cotton flannel, and gray yarn stockings!” The door-bell rang again, and the wai ter brought in another bukly parcel, and deposited it on the marble-topped centre-table. “ What’s here ?” said Will, cutting the cord. “ Whew ! a perfect nest of pack ages! Oolong tda! oranges! graphs! white sugar! Bless mo, Ella must be go ing to housekeeping!” “Or going crazy !” said Tom ; “ and on my word,” said he, looking out of the window, *• there’s a drayman ringing at our door, with a stove with a tea-kettle set in the top of it.” “ Ella’s cook-stove: of course’” said Will; and just at this moment the young j lady entered, with her purse bangin" gracefully over her hand. ° I “ Now, boys, you are too bad!” she ex claimed, as each of the mischievous young sters were gravely marching up and down attired in a gray,shawl; “Didn’t you get them for us? We thought you did,” said both. “ Ella, I want some of that cotton flan nel to make me a pair' of pantaloons;” said Tom. • “ I say,” said Will, “ when are you go ing to housekeeping? Your cooking stove is standing down in the street;' ,pon my word, John is .loading some coal on the dray with it.” “ Elia isn’t that going to be sent to my office?” said Tom? “Do you know Ido so languish fora new stove with a tea kettle in the top, to heat a feller’s shaving water ?” - Just then, another ring at the door, and the grinning waiter handed in a small brown paper parcle for Miss Ella. Tom made a dive at it, and staving off title brown paper, developed a jaunty little purple cap, with silver tassels. “My smoking cap, a« I live,” said he:; “ only I shall have to wear it on iny thumb, instead of my ; head—too small, entirely,’ said he, faking his . head gravely. “ Come, you saucy boys,” said Aunt E —, entering briskly, “ what are you teasing Ella for ?” “ Why do you see this lot of things, aunt- What in the world is Ella going to dp with theta ?” “O ! I know!” “ You know? then I can guess, aunt. It is some of your charitable works. You are going to make a juvenile Ladyßoun tiful of Ella, eh ?” “ Ella, who had colered to the roots of her hair at tbe exposure of her very m~ fashionable Christmas preparations,; qo.W took heart, and bestowed a very genthi EDITORS AND RROPMETOR that still wore the purple c»p, hastened to gather tip her vgjiouspui ehases. '- rt ">■■■> --i‘ • I.a ugh away,’’said she gaily-; “and a good many others will laugh* too, over these things. I got them to make people lau{*h —people that are not in tlw u | laughing!" ' " Well, well, I see into it,” said Will: “ and I tell yon I think right wett of the idea, too. There are trorkb. of money wasted at this time of the year in getting things that nobody wants and nobod v cares for after they are got; and I am glad, lor my part, that yon are going to get iip a variety in this line ; in fact, 1 should like to give you one of these strav leaves to help on,” said ho* droppiug a ten dollav note into her paper. “ I like to encon rage girls to think of something be sides' breastpins and Sugar candy ” Bin our story spins on too v long. II anybody wants to know the results of Ella'S first attempts at goad Jairgittn, they should have called at the doors' of two or three old buildings on Christmas morning, and they would there have heard all about it. Autemus, Toastkxh xhb Lames. While attending a county fair recently, the omnipresent “moral showman* was a guest at a banquet, where he found occasion to drink a toast to the “ phair sects,*’ which he thus reports; Ladies,’’ sez I, turning to the butetul femails, whose presents was perfumin’ the fore grounds, “ I hope you’re enjoyin' yonrselvs on this occasion, and the lemiii and iso water, ov which you air drinfcin-’ may not go agin you. May you alius bte as tail- as the son, and brite as the moon, and as butetul as an army of Union flags —also plenty of good close to wear. •" lo your sex—commonly cawled the phair sex—we are indebted for hornin’ and men ny other blessings in these low growns ov son-o w. Some poor sperrited fools blame your sex for the diflikilty in the gardin ; but I know men are a deseetiul set, and when the apple had becnme ripe, I hev no dowt Adam would hev rigged a cider press and like as not went into .a big bust, an’ been driven or! anyway. Yure Ist muther was a lady and all her dawters is ditto, and none but a loafin cuss will sa a word agin yoq. Hopin’ that no wave oi trouble may ever ride akross yure peaceful breasts, and I kon klude the remarks with the foliarin’ centymint: Woman—phe is a good egg.” Five Deaths at a Time.—A French man resolved b get rid of life, went a little before high tide, to a post set by the seaside. He had provided himself with a ladder, a rope, a pistol, a bundle of match es and a vial of poison. Ascending the ladder, he tied one end of the rope' to the post, and the other end around his neck, then he took the poison, set his clothes on fire, pat the muzzle of, the pistol to his head, and kicked away the ladder. In kicking down the ladder, he snapped the pistol so that the bail missed his head and cut the- rope by which he was sus pended , he fell into the sea, thus extin guishing the flames of his clothes, and the sea-water, which he involuntarily swal lowed, counteracted the , poison, and a wave washed him ashore; thus, in spite of his precautions, he remained unhanged unshot, unpoisoned, unburned, and un drowned! ' Mickey’s Cctksess.—Nickey takes care of the horses at one of our hotels- Tes terday a dashing establishment droveup the owner of which said to Mickey, with his blandest smile: “ Take good care of the horses, Mickey. Rub’em down well, qlean, and give’em plenty- of oats. TU see you before I go away.” , 'r' “Yes’ yer honor,” said Mickey, “ Rfo/ill get whatever they need, and more too, be sides. But in case your honor and miself should’nt mate again, woold’ntjyou begood enough to look at me now.” " P The look' was given; our traveller “ saw it,” and a nice fifty-cent postal warmedthe palm of Mickey’s hand directly thereafter. Boys begin in early life to gather a library of your own. Begin with a single book, and when you find or hear of a first rate book, obtain it if you can. Jkfter awhile, sis you are able, another one, and be sure to read it. Take the brat care of your books, and in this way, When' you are men, you will have good libraries in your head, as well as on your shelves. A. countryman walking along New York, found his progress stoppedlffia ’ ricade of lumber, and'asked h was that’s to stop the yellow fever,” 1 was the reply. > ? ' r , “ Aye, I have often heard of the houd of health, but 1 never saw owb^ia' . W When a young lady ofiiws to bwn a cambric . she to gow ijo^U) JP" mwi may snuleand bea^iiliawr SttH. •■'•'■:• .f" V' ••» am* Ifjr T 3 • NO. 45 >Wt
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