The Democratic Watchman. BY P GRAY MEEK Terms, $2, per Annum, In Advance BELtEFONT'E, PA Morling , Aprl 73, me • The Ballot-Box Subverted The present position of those who are opposed to negro suffrage in•thin country is a proof, an well bf the, craft and unecrupolottn cunning of the rev. elutionary party 'in power, an of the weakneea and cowardice of the mnjori• ty out of power. From the time of the inauguration of Ltxciatv, in March 1861, up to the present moment, every movement of the party which elected Dim has been a revolutionary one, rind the cunning use of the torms °flaw which our fathers I lovined for the pro tection of liberty has been allowed to protect the inveterate foes of our form of government in their ansttulta upon it. The mighty weapons which were intended to be used in our defel7ce are Iteing, wielded for our destruction, and those whe (idly realize thin tact go into elections with the foe, and play into their hands, by keeping up the delu sion in the minds of the people that all things are moving 'lathe framers of the government meant they should, and that if n had measure in the result, it is the fault of the fimilamental prinri plea of the government itself. The time in at hand whim this sort of cow. ardly work must cease or else we may es well fold ourarmn tind let the enemy do his will, without pretending to offer resistance. Things have arrived at such n pass that nothing can save us but fumble revolution. We do not write this ivlrd without consideration of us full import. We must revolutionize. not the sjsteni of government devise i by our fa t hers— the grand and beneficient system which gave us the greatness anti happiness we enjoyed for so many years—but the foul, pernicious, and tjtannic l at v tein which holds its place by atmn, sad which gave us the I'llll4l - 0141h 10'1, the hate and bitterness, Ore green gra - es, the broken hearts, the cr;11 , ;(41 men, the blood and tears, the miser% and crushing taxation of the past eight terrible years. We say vi e most olcr. turn this system by force. There 111 one other thing, we do. \V. cur, Windy submit to de.spousto, but %%e Can ne•,er, never restore the cnbritrj to its lost liberty and linppiness at the ballot-boa, rind e'-cr election we assist the tyrants to hold onlj inchea , ca their power, without the remotest hop. of accomplishing any good This 'mist be plain tn,eser) reflecting mail. But some who do not think as deeply as they should upon the Trent rillestionp, they must assist to solve, may say that this is a strange positior for a Demo cratic journal to assume. For their benefit we will try to make it h ore plain. It inn faN °rite rat int!, of the revolt'. tiotiary litulicnln that the "majority ought to Jule," and this cry bait delu ded many. is the enemics of I•Tnel used to take nth ntitnge oldie regard the re,ml4-iif nod had for the S:11,11(11 to make their nttotrkh•on that dal, no the enemies of Democratic institutions have taken tvhantageofthe 10% e of the people for the forms of law established by the fathers to use those %cry forms themselves to overturn the institutions they were:meant to presene. In the fiest. place, it never was a Democratic maxim that the majority should otherwise than in sigh pax Amity with (he omstiltition, and certainly never with thy declared or pose of subverting the very instrument by which alone they attained a right to rule at all. In the next place, Mon grelistn never have had a ntajorily of the people to support it, and in the very sense that they themselves use this well worn maxim of the "tnajority •rule," they are now bolding their po sition of power by usurpation. But we can best illustrate what we mean when we say that elections can do no good in our present situation by a brief glance at the steps which have taken the Rad• heals to, the position they now occupy. They first attacked the ties which held the union together and snapped.. them asunder. They then secured, the' election of a half baboon to the cacti of President by the voted of one of the . fragments of the broken union. They next inaugurated a terrible and bloody war, succeeded irrengaging the people 1 in it, and worked unceasingly while it raged to perfect a system by which they might perpetuate their own power by destroying the citadel by which -the forms under :which they acted were, only the sentinels. When the din of arms ceased - the work was done. When the patriots under Les laid down their arras at Appomattox, there was at)Orgenired force on earth cont. far Pamocratic principles. New Eng. land In' means eftlie war had adenneed far heyountdall other parts °Ville Form• try• and held in her hands the moans of maim:Link g her posit:am. • The S:ntes or the South were erwto I into thspotiams hiltl placed In the hands of negities. Senators anil Represetoa tires %%etc elected to Congress by ne• gro ‘otes while white• men were 4lriN ca 7•i ow tlm polls. Money was wrung from the people by taNntion to be w-eil carrying the Northern Sta tee iv& :Ist them. A Congress thus elected, sag. gusts no atneuilment, to then comititu lion mrdthig eurrage unkersal and Legislattirei clocte I by negroes,• hue nets map iat'' i tre to fire it through against the known wishes of a vast majority, of the rem le. If it goes t?itough, all is tier, them eminent is subverted from its foundation, end we must degenerate to the condition of Me‘ico. To talk of meeting this measure at the ballot•Irox is perfect folly. The ballot-lox itself, the noes great protector of the people's rights is wholly in the hen Is of the foe. They k low they dare not consult thew ill of the people and they do not mean to. The helmet ofsteel, which in its prop er place could be an ample defence arairw, sword or tine or spear ; if held in the hands of the foe would *serve as 11 fearful weapon to beat open the head from which it land been torn. duet so it is now with the hallot.box. The llntlicsls hold it by force and use it against those who ns yet employ no for m% Let us arise nt once, rtvrorting to Ora other right eo denr to lovers of freedom, which our fathers nice em ;Moved to giro us n. free go‘ciiiiiient, and wrerrt from the toe %Odell now trninples it underfoot, the hei Hoge the) left us. \Vc ate not writing merely to nee %lint ‘‘e ran say, not to fill roluntits, but are stating our deliberate eon% to lions upon a went nail import:wit ques tion with which the American peop:e ha% e to grapple- Let all who read consider tt ealnil). Let them make tip ,. their minds like men, nail when the people litllr tinder Fiatitl the position and tlieir duh, and go to woik like freemen to do it, the usurpers will find themselves in so aenk a position, confronted by so post erful a foe, that there will be no work for soldiers, hut ants fur hangmen. Epitaph of Lonpatreat Could anything more reproachfill, etrwil inzeinet wan than tine epitaph of LutGerentr by the Southern Optnion "8..,%ia in recantation and swifter "still in search of the spoils of office, "that wait upon npostarv, he l o ne sold "his birthright aril turned to the flesh "pole of E„.;ypt. To po‘erty and 1111- "mortality he ham prelerted ostracism "and wealth ; he has accepted the "snide of his enetutes to court the "troen of his late Cintedcratem. Let "him go. By the star of Lee, and over "thy gra‘c of Jackeon, alongside of "Davis and Breckinridge and early, he "becomes mini, to invisibility, end for. ' felts the paiiL Like Peter, ho bath "denied the Caine which he espoused "sword in hand, and in a hose andtca "Lion Ile leti hie serried oolumn. on "But unlike Peter, he will nut• repent "and weep bitterly. Like Judam, Ice -has been paid the bribe that rewarded -his treachery ; tint unlike Judas, he "%cill not go out annul kill hittoelf." A Little too Soon The apathy with which the people regard the progress of events threaten• ing their future peace and liberties is truly f aural and alarming. It rein rile nn of the.npathy of an old vagrant who once lived in Hotaliorn Kentucky, and we can but hope that they may yet a'suke to a realization such as lie awoke to on one occasion, and to make the same answer to the buzzards at. Washington which he made to the bur.- zarde that picked at his eye balls. Old Joe was a notorious drunkard, and had nollorne to call his ow n. Having got his hide full of mean whiihey at Madisonville, he essayed to walk to Henderson, but becoming entangled, and being.eaceedingly drowsy, be fell by the wayside and went to sleep. Here he remained it is said for two days, when an Sild buzzard who had been soaring above him all of the sec ond day, alit upon J 01 1 .3 head, and commenced pecking away at his eye*, supposing him to be carrion. This awoke the old toper to a realization of the truth, but it did not alarm him. On the contrary, he took it as unwise. quenee, and waving his arm inajesti cally,'lnerely said : 8414*w I 8-1-e.ve, old bu z7y ; you're fist alittle too sows 1 Oh I that Ae apathetic matinee may yet awake to realize that the buzzards are preparing to feast upon their heart . strings, and -that there will thbn be life enough in the old land to tell then: quietly, but earnestly': You're just a ;ill', to soon, ye buzzards! "q o to ii ---n." It may he that some of our renders haNa heard this most intelligent ex pression ofcontemplated deflanee=--it is probable, nt nll events. There are those who have belies ed that the sale• Intimu belongs to a viers of men no bet. ter than they should he morally; but n late circumstance proves that it is used also in the most elevated society. The telegraph anti IVaolti ngton privere record that, at a late fete a lee beta can a noble Senator and Ilia Tnr• !Trial LOWTIMS Ur Y:avt 1, the Senator being insulted by the uords, lone and manner of the-ruling entrap, he in : forme 1 his moat unroyal excellence that be could, or probably uoulil i or tillould "(in \V hereupon, if is said, Lli.rtst. , , not liking any reference to the foot% uhich promises lit/11 each warm (pun , 'ere, Wormed the noble Senator that Ilia presence would not longer be tole rate,l at the Barn of the late Preto , dents "Go to 11-11 - is tlionght by niant heretofore, to be an impolite request to make, hut we are not s,lincke . :l to i-ce that the quettto f is he'n4thiieussed hi tho-tc moat deeply interested. If any act of men, Ity , the way, hate et er snceeedol In going to WI, we a l e florally sure that they carried with them in their over coat pockets the Black Rcpuhliran platform end moral rode, and it any more conclude to go, we hope they will not fail to take along with them their eredeluials, to MT. Li • cm\ and hin warm natured friends. But what n reunion there Will be, some day (or nignt) when the tarn ing memlters of the Marty m's party all get home! And in the inenntimg, that our rob• bed country may ultimately be resent,' rout their tnndnlirm and urcn.t ue (band to them till, nilei•nonatel. the ins itation or one or the!: rich Sen• ntors told Repte, , entathes—"Co to and go flint ! A Vic tory for Butler! Rejoice and lie glad Oh, ye of little faith! Shout aloud for joy yc nuLc Levers! Blow your trumpets ye fob lon ere of the bravo ! beat your hew. gagi—rattle your linzly•giizzy's, and sing for joy, for Ileri.sa, BrYtra the the Beast. BstsiturN • BUTT IR the Beast with the blear eye, has won a victory —a victory such am could be won only by It chieftain such m BeNsAni% has primed himself to lie. Ile has no need of glory tarther. Laurels will en twine themselves about Lis noble: brow and gallantry will henceforth lie vrit• ten upon every feature. A few days ago a young girl, whose labor at the (leek, earned bread for an aged mother and clothing for a sick sister, noticing the doughty Knight in the same Street ear with herself in the city of Washington, remarked quietly to the gentleman accompanying her to —watch his spoons." BLNJ AMIN heard the remark. He has a a enkness for spoons--a kind of a natural inclination to "go for them," when they lie in his way, and the advice of the young lady might, as he thought, have some ref ference to himself. So, noble man that ho is, pure, brave, gallant an he is known to be, he said nothing in return, but quietly followed her to her house, ascertained her name and that she was a clerk in one of the departments, and with all the nobility of his nature—his great eyes sparkling with generous manhood, and with a feeling, such as few great men have been allowed to possess, had her removed and a ne f p-o wench appointed in her place. W i ko now aill dare to Bay that Bu? LEI( in not n man I Where is your 13GONSPSIIT'S, your WELLINGTON'S. your WASISINOTCN'S, or helve„ of the present day. Who but 1140 hero of New Orleans, Dutch Uap .0t Futt Fisher could win aucli a victory. Went is Laboring Man Beware I Let the toiling masses, who are those who ought to feel most deeply interes ted in the preservation of Democratic government and popular liberty, boar ever in mind, that strong governments are the sort of governments against which poor men have rebelled ever since creation. Aooortlingly as a goy- ernment is strong it protects capital and oppresses labor. It were better that every politician In America had his lying throat cut flour ear to ear, than that i lhey should live to delude the mosses ott.to their greater slavery, that the aristocracy of wealth may reap a future harvest froin the sufferings of the poor I It is the poor man's misfortune to be poor, but it is his crime,to be de luded. —lf any one can beat the follow• ing for depth of pathos end eoubittir , ring eentiment, we would like In cive the ellbrt a pliw4. iu die WATCHMAN : "Lifers Pisa and kalton mid Bier 'I soli. And Ulettws stood a In the shell, And Iliad nuns tow for them that niwee, And with tilspoteb black bait and shows." Responsibilites of the ROublloan Partx,. The Republican party has been in power in this country about ten years, and') et in that biiellintc It has achicv• cd more inptnoun and damnable ce• sults than may' other political organi• zation which has exinted ui tiny g uar. ter or the globe since the kat flash of light reel athwart creation. What are the results of Republican rule, and for which the Republican party is respon• sit& to history and mankind? We haco not the F.:atee to gi% et more than n %cry kid n: d meagre ()Willie of the principal wrongs, and darker deeds %%Inch ha% e been committed against (iii I and man. ' Ten sears ago, the poople of the tinned F 4 tates were united, happy and prosperous tinder a govern !lent of wis dom and intelligence. 'f o day the pea ide are di% idol in bent intent and P yin. pathy, Ulielincil in debt, and are neith er happy nor prosperous. This is the cork of the Iteptiblican•parh. 'fen years n,;-o, the standard of pub lic inorjthi in this country, was the Ii of any people—the masses acre God tearing, and lan—tespecting, tirtucnastheisle, tucthe exception, the religion of the poople w. 13 C I rusr•s sot mon on the Mount, and the preach er talked of the coming milleminn with hope:old assurance. To day ti e a hole land IN iecking ait6 Crime, prostitution murder, rape, suicide, mayhem, higa the ‘ilcuosti nfit depth below below the lowest depth—tills oar-once happy land in mourning, and the cln.htuut's heart turns unity trom the «intern plation in sadness unutterable. This is the n ork of the liepubheati party It has caused a gnat and useless loss 01 hie aid treasure. ha% e had the IS finite at .heir throats, huge had their hooves burned inier their heads, their lands detastated their families outraged, and a reign of hell set tip in lieu ol pence—nil this that nail men might get power, and ha% int; secured lower, that they :night hold it tore% er—all this that intelli gence, and übsloni, and nobility might. be deli/roiled to male room Ito bigots. agitators:, fanatics, dev Ile. For all of this the Republican party in reponsiblc. It has Wined looBc upon the country a horde of paupers and vagrants It has tlostroyed the usefulness of n race, amp made four millions of it% ilized la borers, tour imilluns or laz), pro illcFP, aimless an% ages. It hats robbed :due people of the South of ten thousand millions sf dolbirs in absoltite property —all this that it might re‘ivige the death of the murderer and tbiEt, .louts Baows, and rill the hind 'cult mists ns much lesser than J,to. Bttovev, as Oils wild I:cast uan below a elms:Jan Fur all or these grievous wrongs—these unparalletl crimes—these unprecedent ed felonies, the Republican party in solely responsible. has torn the written chnrt of the liliettiem of the people into a thousand Irsgmems, thrown them to the winds, and with arms in its impious hands is now menacing the people with it new form of government. It has defied the will of the people, where it could not corrupt the nineeee with brihe2ior drive them by threats. It has r.tkeA the. bottomless pits for moral lepers'spd slimy creatures to make statesmen '4‘f, and the lower the standard of a tool' character the higher the rewards that arc his. We have said that no other party of politiciane or combination of men has ever yet been formed which line done eo ranch evil and eo little good, as the rotten, corrupt, infamous, bloody, and .lam table 1188()Clati011 known as the Republican party. Compared with its achie%ements the Jacobins of the French revolution were as hopeless imbeciles.; :•Conipared with it, the bands of corsairs and piratical combi nations of southern Europe, the archi pelago, the monthern and Asiatic coasts and eetssi,omay assume a decency and claiM a moml character on the pageA of die worlds history. It. fact, the whole movement of Black Republicanism, from im incipiency to the present hour, has been one of mon• strolls piracy—the piracy and over throw of rights, liberties, and the Iran. chisee of the people. And this afflicted land of Washington is not yet rid of it, or likely to be rid of it. The last act, however, which is to provethe beginning of its end, itisapparent, is now maturing. Theltepublic of the United States is to . be overthrown, and the empire set up. Scrutinize every act which has marked the 39th, the 40th and which has. so fir, marked the 41at Congress. Ceti. tralization, the obliteration of State rights and lines, Federal railroad and telegi-aph schemes, the usurpation of the right to grant the elective fran• chile, and the bonding of the robber debt, ileg.rndstion of Kittfrage by +int" it to ttagrues and the ;finding duwn or the poor, absorption of barge Inntlod ee. tales by the wealthier elmeam, the com• hinatlon of enpital agait et labor, and the thousand other powers at work, all betoken a preparation fur the cm Aire. Then no have a man placed in the eectiti%e chair, who has never yet uttered one syllable favorable to the llmweratic idea of go% ernment, Who line the army - and navy at his bacs ; the treaftury in his hands, and a dement]. ized white end black populaticu to draw upon. The end is coining. G )1) grant that, hen the hottr coin" the people will lie able to sustain their liberties, their Country, and themselves I -Or course all that Id lOU is 1101. Ile, but nny one who has eter lived in the country nail knows the "ban kerin" that Ira% elltig preachers have after chickens, and the evident horror chickens 4in‘e of any ono nearing a white cravat and n sanctified appear ance, can vouch far the truth of die follon ing : When - cemreronoe assemb)P4 In Dantllle res 111011111 M !turn. ui the last day of the 1.0-• ni, a lad, w linen fatlal had 1•1111.1111ined YOU., hall I dezeti preachers, entered thn pain wham the millil4ol,/ a CIA, um Mad, In n Lerrtlllo mute alt r 1111.111,11.. • • Whortt tho molter Nolte r naked ono. 'you neew PlChed. ' I x'tuvl ! I Will I'm mad all • What ore von mad about, Tem . . , 7 Don't you Wow It's wrong to stiller )ouruelf to I • Iweoano angered ," • thong or no wrong• It's enough In make ontlasly nuul but a wencher. !lore's es en• ebitht•u on the pbu•o rat up, esatpt the old lowiter, tint Mat uow ho In Noe fellows awl P.ong out. •"Aud moat lhl• 1/•••1•It• tool) y dte o, and dropped over atone dead." State News —The Leglkdoture ndpon ucd on Ft - kitty last The people fuel telleved —(:tumble. county lo troubled pith house Wet er —Altnonn lost over Sin,noo by tire on Thur■ clay rrglit —finrrlplnitg I. la isme t h e DOZI fitate Fair had Rellefauta the Don one. --Colombia ontinty bona of a four logged chloken —There nro in lblr While R 7 lodge" of Gond Templar', ith n tnemheia hl pof 44,000. —The office of the Vali./ Setts nal and Rhlp ponxbn Nenrs wore both destroyed by dre on datardey night Iron —John Loos hr, founder owl Nenlor editor r f the Iliilndelph la Sunday Deopotch, died OD Sun day loot. —There to some talk now of building a rail road from R.-chnotot, Now York, to Jerooy litinre In this Strue, —Tho hill to prevent the sole ',Mount th the hnrongh et l'illon woe defeated In the llootte —Mr Blatl Ina Steward of thw Perry County Ponr Ilo,he, d Ind atlas 4 abort illness, on Sat urday 'art —ltoware of inquisitive people; s wonderful mirinelt♦ to know All I. generally accompanied with n. greet An Itch to tell It Again. —Tbe 'wenn emoted In the Went Tiraneh haat fall at Jersey Rhnro gave arov, the other day, and ren4lterred it entirely uselerter —Pennxvlvenin hne 4 nfflee hniderii In Washlngtem and twain) , time+ that number •hn .01111 like to he • --Jnhn If ughns, of Monne', was run Over by freight car a few days age, and an badly cut up as to cause lila death —The honse of Thomas Rodgers, litoild Top torroshlp. Bedford eounty, with All Its coo lants, was reoently destroyed by fire. —C IT Stinson. Rad. w,N e I POtl,l at interim Speaker of the Hennte The Democrats voted for IV W Randall —Daring tho veer Airs, there were 121 per alp+ killed and 730 wounded on tho railroads of Penneyl•anle. female pickpocket who has been plying her vocation In Danville (or some time M ss ar rrated in that plane a few days ago, while In the art of pinking a pork et —At I lie Empire Hollse, in Titusville, a dlr. Mushy ormirrei between Jnhnhem and Jan Austin, when Gilson stabbed Austin E ve times. —The old Slocum !louse, built in in, and the first frame dersillng erected within the present elty limit. of Scranton, Pa., was de stroyed by fire last Saturday evening. young fellow over in Fulton county Wed to Core a love 11l by taking a doe. of strych nine, and wnoLl frAshly have sneceeded had Dot a plon , wlno I.non nano.' to Ida rallef. —Lyenn,l,g nottnty Is n j i licini dlettlnt rod tlu• Jottgr. Peter Herdic ljant-y2doMdlernntl li,,firnllarnp - tterrillytntbr contrary not Alt —Moe Annie Dii kinson lectured In Lock Haven. the other night. Tt.e Republican le aa much In love with her as he wee with Olive Logan. —A If Strayer la &candidate for re-election to the County Superintendency in Clinton county. Mr. Strayer Is a competent teacher and a gentleman. —The °Skews of the Northumberland Coun ty Agricultural Society have fixed upon the 29th day of SeptonC"er next, for the corn monnorment of their Fair at Turbtitvllle, to COD tioun [brit! days. —Franklin B. Gowan, Esq., of Philadelphia, formerly of Pottsville, wu on Thursday elec ted Provident of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company, in plane of Charles E. Smith, Esq., realigned. —Th ) Clarion Dennocrat says but little plough ing hu IS yet been done to that county. We gnus It don't matter much whether they plough any out there—they can raise o ltut little anyway. —A ootemporary lays the bill giving the Oorernor the power to commute the death penalty was rushed throbgh the -Leal re ulth lightning speed. "Jerery 114bt log," probably. . —An Old Postenaster.--Itir. lams, Reed. Postmaster at rottagrine, has held that peel..., tion oosPononsly WINO the adminittrallon of pen .Jacknon In 1163—a period of neatly forty years. We doubt if therm are many older olh dale in the United etaten—NUtonfart. —The libel stilt of one.Boweer against W. W. Keenan of the Greensburg Democrat, has been squelched by the queening of the indictment. end poor Bowser is no better off in -character nr cash than, Ito "wed to was." —A doubly !rock ID nqw being laid oa the r orthern Central Itatthroy botwoon Ilarrloburg and nuobury.. Moot orf she road bed for the wooond tra4l/1" Varopkde4 . and It la thnvgbt the rails wsil lw by neat toll. • - Thu Trete:trey of the Anphfctynnie Lyelum In Huntingdon. , bwonded with the fund% of the society, and Invosteti Omni In Ovate' I,r himself And a coup e co: young attoineya it meet have beau as-doily" treanary. —.Jo Igo norblen of 31um s )10. on pity ea, found dead In the recent hi. mill nn Thom ky of last weok• 'rho wonade about him fiend hard led te. the ettoplefoa that ho IV4 foully dealt wl th. large for°e of work men•nre now Ongami on the railroad between the towns of Loll toon and Manholni, and It .e the Intention of the ni floors 4,f the rood to oomplete it at na duly a day, a possible. —Wee Tllllo Wotan, adrees•makor of Lock 'Joyce, bed $2 L. money colon from h., trunk on tfaturday ovenlug, the 13th Inwoot She bed lekou the Toney front thu heel( loth° morning end depoelied It In bur trunk ooh the knowledge of only owe or tlirou fnold, titeppleg onto few monieutt, the found ou Inn return that the Money woo gone. —somo scoundrel entered the Unlou chinch it) roottuvillo, Flanknonentity, on Satunth night allot week. and arumplutoly tlum.ditshed the ahendoliera and lamps, eith It single vx copuon awns Wn p. Thu Bible, n Itirgo tithl costly one, was thrown down end tiacylN Upon. —The Phihut,' phin Air says : wlutt etrsnue was ouns nine , ' by tho who fornlebetl poison to Tw lull an ewer, that to furobeh poison lenity one win, the purpose of enabling him to cent nth sun 'do, or fotodllo. l to become an a:emisory hofora Lhe taut to n murder In the that degree Thu 01 (rune Is puulalutble with tlantlt itt l'ru osyh., ula." Simon Short's Son Samuel Shrewd Simon Short sewed shoo , Se% enteen suiraners, spread lig Hit , shille,(speeding storms, su cL e,.. ol‘ „I ) ,„ Situou's small, shabby shop still stain! cog staunch, sow 61111011 • Ii squeaking sign still swinging, silenM '4;.eechif) mg "Simon Shull., t 4 ioali tieltf s sole sun it i iig sh °emu ker. Mmes ,wwed, soled superfine!)." spry, soltdous spouse, Sally sewed shirts, stitched sheets, shitted so las. tiimou's six dlOlll, bturdy sow— Seth, Setiattet, titeplien, Soul, Shad :itch, Silas—sold 811ildrieti. Sober Seth ' , sold sugar, starch, spice: simple Sinn sold saddles, stirrups, screw s i eugaciouF Stephen sold ai I km, sati iis, mks w Id; skel ties' Saul sold siker ea h ers; selush Shadraeli sold salves, shoe•st rings, snap, salvo, skates ; Black Silas sold Sally Shores stuffed sofas. Some PC% en summers since Simon e second son Samuel saw Sophia Sol ii. 11;u Spriggs somewhere. Sweet, refl., ble,.smart Sophia Sophronia SpriggF Sam soon showed strong° 1) Sum seldom stayed storing; Palling fad dies. Sam sighed eorruwliilly, sutig,lit Sophia Es . .)plirotia's society, sung scier al serenades, slyly. Simon kill/11116i, scolded re% erely, said Sam seems{ ck, silly singing such shameful, spneeti,l songs. Strange Sam should Might fuel splendid summer sales! • Struiiii,r spendthrift 1 "Shatter brained simple tun I" "Softly, softly, sire," said Sally Slim. "Sap's smitten. Sam's' spied sow( sweetheart." "Sentimental school-boy," snar;el Simon. "Smitten ! atop such still' Simon Font Seth's snutiliax seized Sally's scissors, smnshed spectacles, a rid Pea t t eiTtl se'. era I spoolf "Siienhing scoundrel! Sam's Elhock ing silliness shall surcease!" Soowlu,4 Simon stopped mpeakim;., startmgswiltly shopwird. Sally highed sadly. Summoning Stun mhe spnla sweet sympathy. "Sam," maid she, "sire scents hittp.• lady muappy ; so, sunny stop mticeik, stop smoking vegan, spending, hpecT superfluously • stop sprucing en, singing sem:ides—stop short. Sell Fad riles, sourly, sell saddles iscneible, see Sophia Suplironia Spriggs soon; she sprightly, slie'e stable, so solicit, N EA.1.11/C SOIIIIIII speedily, Sum." "Su soon ? EC) soon ?" said Sam,sta 1,1 ins stock still. moon, surely" Sally mmillq, "speeittlfs , since sire elbows much Flap its." So Sam, somewhat scarod, sauuterol slowly, shaking stupendously. Sam soliloquizes : "Sophia Sopbroniu Short, Samuel Short's spouse--sounds splendid ! Sut pose she should- sny--sho elm .hunt' the ' , hunt I" Soon finnt f.pied 11111g1 fig Hortly. ticr•ing S2l !flit "` ) lq'd Ptark'hing, p , stluted Sam, .nit F;tm Hnryimereti "hid -p rICII did Hummer phia. ' "Somewhat sultry," suggentril So phis. ";-,tr martin, Sophia," maid Sam. (SI h lit e Ecventeen meconds.) "Selling saddler still, Sam." "Sar-surtain," said Sam, ,starting suddenly. "Season's sofnewhat sub ric," said Sam, stealthily staunching streaming sweat, shaking sensibly. "Sartin," said Sophia, smiling ig nifloantly. "Sip some sweet !Melba. Sam." (Silence sixty seconds.) "sire shot sixty shelldrakce, Sttt"r day," said Sophia. "Sixty 1 shot' said Sam. (Silence siventy : seven seconds.) "See sister Susan!e sunflowers," Paid Sophia, sociably scattering such stilt silence. Sqphia's nprightly sauciness stimil la ted Sam strangelyi so Sam suddenly spoke sentimentally. "130phia, Susan's sunflowers seem saying, "Samuel Sbort,Bopb la Sophro na Spriggs, stroll serenely, seek son sequeitered spot, some sylvan shnde Sparkling springs shall sing roul-sooth ing attains; sweet sonpters shall HI. lance secret sighings; super angelic sylphs shall"—Sophia snickered, 8° Sam stopped. "Sophia," said Sam, solemnly. "Sam" said Sophia. "Sophia, stop smiling. Sam Short's sincere. Sam's, seeking soma sweet spouse, Sophia." So hie stood silent. "Speak, Sophia, speak I such Mlle pease npeoltjut6i sorrow 1". "Sock !fire, Sam, seek Ore." "So Sam sought sire Spriggi a ir" Sprigg s aid "Martin."
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