The Democratic Watchman. BELLEFONTE, PA. ROBIN, THE REAPER, IS COURTING ME. Rich is the grain to the summer yield On the sunniest aide of the hill, Brown eyed Jes■ has left the field, And holding her hat her eyes to shield she Is looking over the style. She to building those castles sd frail tid stair, Where maidens delight to dwell; You eon tell by the roses she wears in hor hair, And the song that she sings, to the old, old air, That she "wished her true heart well." The son of the Mayor from the neighooring town, On his horse's speed has slackened the rein ; Ills eyes are black lip the raven's down, And ho changes hir fnce to a smile from a frown, And nun* , earreases his horse'. mane "By the light of my eyes, fair mold," quoth he As to on the horse's neck he bent, "No other but thou My bride shall be, Bo give me the roses from your hair, prithee, As a token of love's consent." She looked at his eyes so bold and free, And sho dropped him a curtesy low— "YouJavor me much, good sir," said she, "But Robin the Reaper is courting me," And sadly he turned him to go. Gravely the Judge is wending hi• way, Slowly along from the neighboriug fair— The Judge and kis farorlte dappled grey, Drinking the scent from the new mown hny, And sipping the sweets of the summer air "Riches and honor and fair renown Are dear to the heart of man," thought he, " Bute face so fair and an eye so brown. Night porches° the right to e queenly crown— ! wonder if ■he my wife would be " d o the riches of "Ind and of Araby," To the pride of his home, at her feet ho lay "You favor me much. good sir," said she, "But Robin the Reaper Is eour.ing me And the Judge rode sully away. Then over the hill-alde and down through the grain, Faso, then the Judge or fklulre could tide— While tue black-bird marbled its aweeteet strain, Lod the Dun looked on (corn the cloud again— Robin, the Reaper was at her aide. ETHEL ROMER'B MISTAKE I=l Valentine's day I as soft and sweet a day as any birds could wish for mating in promise of ea:detain its breath—prom ise of roses in iti sunshine Though, to be sure, the boughs were bare as yet, and there were no groan things grassing, save in the pots which Ethel Rouser had been putting out upon the brood window to catch the sunshins6 The thing that savored most of spring was Ethel Rouser herself, as beautiful a woman as ever artist painted or poet sang of. Within, near the fire, sat 'Ralph Romer himself' Spring had left him long -be fore. If winter frosts were not upon his head, autumn had totalled itwith bY gT. Ethel's musings was interrupted. The postman's rap did it Ethel opened the floor Am envelope with a pretty bor der and fanciful seal, and her name upon ft, was put into her hand At the eight she blushed rosy red, knowing well what lay within. and went buck to the fire side with the thing in her hand "For ins 9 " naked Ralph "No," she said ; "for me '' If he had only shown some curiosity then—if he had only looked et her Jeal ously ; 'had there been sonic shadosis of .}he lover in his face or mien, all might bave been different, but he Well ton with his book, arid she carried her valentine to her own room to read it there in quiet. Yes, it Was a Valentine. Thcretivies had that day returned since she mariged Ralph Romer, and each time had it liro't Just such an envelope, with Just sub passionate lines within, written in the slime feigned hand Again and again !fie read it over—again and again—just as she had the others, and thought, oh, how bitterly I what a beautiful thing life might have been to her, blest with such glowing love as this—life that must always be cold and wintry, having only the calm, quiet commonplace affee bon which her grey-haired husband gave her for all the wealth of golden springtime flail thilt she felt within her soul till the beauty that ninny nn ardent youth had cos eted in her girl hood Could it be the fair-haired student, who ant near them ehureli 9 or the dark-eyell saddler, with an empty ,b•eve who panned their garden so often Un whom she had made such an imprei.siim? while he who,“ ..liared„a aw us her only a good hole wuu,au , who hail pflly ideas tin ah , tract subject , , and needed m tic b sage ndvh•e and counael. Her poor heart Relied; as her head ,did. She Mt wicked and nidiamed, and Tory, very ; and forgot how atm; wax fl3ing, and how her hou,ewife duties presiud upon her, until the ',ink ing sun reminded her of thorn, 'Even then she took one look in the gllass, and thought, if The (lid not say it, that a great deal of beauty had been rant away on quiet, unromantic Ralph Romer. After ten they walked together, and stood beside the pond in the garden ; and slaw the gold-fish in its depths ; and he told her of the general habits of gold- Ash. The writer of the valentine would have spoken—so thought lithe)—of her golden hair The stars came out, and he spoke of them, not of her bright eyes. She wanted to turn upon him, luid say, "What are all these things worth, compared with warm arid living love 1" She longed to ask him why he had given het that wwful fate—why ho had caged the heart ho did not care for. "Any woman could have made your ten, and stitched your shirt bosoms, and listened to your talk of astronomy and natural history," were the words on her lips. "I was made to love, and to be loved again." But she saidnothing. He saw her beside him, a little paler and a little stiller than of yore, that was all. But from this time ferth the likle happiness that had stililingfired in Nth el'a life was at an end. She grew der, perate, and seized upon the only possi ble relief to the monotony of her life. Very beautiful, very lively, much cour ted by the village cofei-ie, she found ny difficulty in becoming ehat most detes table of creatures, a manried Hirt. Ralph Romer never bought ,to keep her at home, hut he seldom went out with her. More than once the goltien haired student or the dark-eyed roldicr had f l ound ft the most ;littoral thing iris the world to act as escort homo sifter some'social rheetisgr, mittenolartri was done—no harm, cridrse, 044 there wore too many/ hltishet tutiln3t smiles; too lingering o t sldas parting bands, when one remembered: If Etbelßcitaer was a wife, Home was neglected ; but Ralph did not complain, So the long year rolled round, And Valentines day came again. Ethel had watched and waited for its coining—not quite the sumo pure Ethel. Thoughts she dared not utter had crept ,into her soul. The soldier with thereat black eyes and soft voice s who made his emp ty sleeve only another charm to win hearts—who had told tier all he ShMed with his tongue, and more with glance and sigh—must, she had long ago du tided, be the writer of those Valentines, so full of love and pathos, so tender, so different from anything that Ralph Ro pier ever felt or uttered. She had given Lima hint, and" If it were she would surely know it this day. And if it wore ho, then Ethel Romer knew that it had been better fur her never to have been born ; for, the sake of him who wrote those love poems, she was willing to forsake home and hus band, and wifely name and fame, and be the scorn and flaunt of all the village. To be loved fur a little while, and then die, was all she asked. "It it comes to that," she said answer ing her own thoughts, "how my name will ring —I shall be blacker Orin Sa tan. 1)o they know—those proper, fro zen village women, who will scorn mo .su , —what it is for a loving woman to lead a loveless life ? It withers one as neglect and cold have withered those poor flowers there ' For Ethel had set forth nu flower-pots in the sun to-day, nor for many days. That morning she had watched her husband ride away on his great brown horse—thinking how grave and serious he was—how ,old in all h`ls ways—how old mantsh was his gray over -coat, and his broad-brimmed hat; saying to' herself, "If I were to leave him, and he were to find the house empty, he would go on reading, or com fort himself with a new bug or plant. No need to wonder how he would take it." And since then she hail watched at the window guiy and miserably for theNVelentinp so pore, she th o ught, -would come. At last, she saw a flgnre coining straight, and fast towards the house, and the blood flew to her cheek, and her b'art beat fast, but it was not the post man—only a neighbor with blanched face and frightened eyes, that told bad news before his lips uttered it. She went out to meet him, and they stood there looking at each other for a moment. Over the hill a little crowd wan coming slowly; something in the midst. "Don't be too frightened, Mr' f. Romer," gasped the roan at the last "It may not he ns bud RS they think. The borne shied, just before the post-office, and the doctor was thrown Ile hasn't come too, yet Oh no, no—" for she had thrown herself on her knees, and cried out that he was Not dead --'n o t dead, not dead yet, Mrs Romer " Out the wretched woman knew that death was very near, and the flood of agony that swept across her heart told tier that she had not sensed to love her quiet hus band They brought into to—and from that moment, for long days an I nights, she kept watch beside lot lied, thinking of no other thing on earth, prus•tng only that he might be spared to ner She suffered agonies, of rumor, En iry false thought pursued her with a reveng ful stab The gray overcoat WAS hanging on the wall, which she had thought old menial' and like him, ai he rode away, seemed to taunt her, with the thmTht that it would never he worn again It seemed like making this sure to put it away, but she not Lear the nigh of it longer, so one day she took It softly in her Mind to hang it in a (Trot n closet As she lifted it, something , fell from owe of the poekeDi—a letter or a paper. Stir stooped to recover it, and saw a farieitul envelope, with a bright seal, and her name upon it Such were the Valen tines that woe to her Tin 4 way surely one of them What did it mean? 11, 1 1 her husband discovered the writer 7 Had there been some yaw.e fn the itc,dont, or which she knew nothing? She ea at the valentine again It bail never been limited Ethel began to tremble violentl from tired in feet sunk (town open her knee,, t lapsed the valen tine h i tweim l o gh maim, and held it thus awhile Could it Iti.? —could it be , —oh, could it be' She opened i t The same- glowing verse, but toulder unil more hopeless, tilling of love unreturn cd The -sue in -astute ni the same feigned hand, yet not hit all unknown Had she never seen before that little flourish—that peculiar formatoin of a letter? "Oh, Maven I malice no• sobbed Ethel, and found fir way' some how to her limband's old broj/M desk and °pound It. Within lay envalopes Id, those upon the valentine, a little box of such gay seals and fragments of vor.o—the proofs that the writor of those passionale poems of those wild protestations of love, was o other than Ita , ph Romer. She crept back to the bedside, and kissed his face and his unconscious oyes She prayed God to give him buck to her. She prayed to be forgiven, with a sense of remorse and Rhamo such as she might have felt had she been much more wicked, and God listened to her. The eyes opened on a fitee pallid with grief and worn with watching, but beau tiful with holy love and constenc3tl When one day, her head upon his bo som, she told him all, ho also had a tale to tell. _ "I am old and gray, you see," he said, "and such love seems only to belong to youth. I could not speak it, but I felt it, and put my thoUghts into verse—and I sent them to you, my darling, with a hope that you would know wince they came some time, though hardly with a hope that you could give me more than it child's respect and duty." • • But she gave him more—she Istdgiv en,him all's woman might, and this she told him. They are together still. I think they have forgotten that one is young and the other is old, iu the immortal ' , man of both their hearts. After that one long talk they said little more, but their love was an assured thing. H tells her, RS of yore, nil his scholar's dreams, and talks of the stars and the flowers rather than of themselves. But lithel is con- - taxa. She has but to' rentembeitilose *ensured Valentines wiiieh le bound to gether with blues ribbon' in her most ea ceed hiding pimp, to fool aseurod , Of ber happiness. Thert*l no empty nook in het w'atm,heart, a the angels of ihve avid duty clasp handsb elide their hearth stone. Gemblure—Their Superstitions General A. L. S., of Kentucky, per haps one of the be st . card players in that state, would Trever play in hand or risk a dollar if there witoko, black cat in the room I Ex-Governor 8., from, one of the Western States, an inveterate gamester, would never sit down to a table-in a room where there was a look ing glass. Some gamblers refuse to play if, on entering the room, the left foot crosses the threshold first, and no persuasion can induce them to do so, until they leave and return with the right foot foremost. To put your foot on the chair of a player is a sure premo nition of bad luck. Some men will never play on Friday. In 1849, I was a passenger on the steamer Star Spangled Banner, from New Orleans to Louisville! She was crowded with people, and an hour after leaving New Orleans, found twenty card tables drawn out and three or four score of passengers deeply absorbed in the mystery of "old sledge," euchre arid po ker. All that night and tho next day the game went on. As fortune, however, soon singled out and made victims of the poorer and less skilled players, so the number gradually decreased until the fourth day out, when only one table was running. Old Nib Brasher, a TlC gro trader, young Ben Sanford, a horse trader, and two planters from La FOur che, still kept on. Although they had played almost incessantly fur four days and nights, yet luck had favored neither pasty, and they were within a few dol am; of even. The "buckling" had been principally between Brasher and San• ford, but heretofore they had kept them• selves within the "gentleman's limit " five hundred dollars. After leaving Memphis the game was renewed, and the tinsLrrlders observed "that big play was on the tapir'," as young Sanford was considerably under the influence of liquor, and when in that condition lie was known to be a heavy player, Late at night the two traders came together ; both had "backing hands," and .Lon :triana and Kentucky banknotegi soon almost covered the table. — The margin of fire hundred dollars hay' bees forgot ten, arid uric, two, three, five hundred better ! rapidly passed between them. At last Brasher leaning back from the table, unbattoned his vest, and took from around his body a belt filled with gold pieces. Laying it down main the bank notes he exclaimed, aThree thous and better!" Sanford beeame speech less ; his lace turned deadly pale ; lie calksi fur it glass of liquor, which he drank, never once taking his eyes from the belt of gold. Ile had exhausted his means in the former bets ; all his mom cv lay upon the table. At last a thought strock "ISen here sir ?" he exclaimed "Yes, nias.a," and San ford'q hod v servant, a fine athletic pure blood, came to his aide. "Get upon the table, sir !" Not dartng to disobey—tut he knew well in that moment of frenzy his young master would s en d a bull e t through his brain, did lie refuse--the slayetremblingly stepped on the table, crushing the bank notes and gold be neath his feet. "For the good Lord's sake, ninFlAll pen, don't bet die nigger off I What will the nld mi , tanti say when you go h ome ? 16 tuasiui Ben, please don't, groaned the boy but in vain. "Call you, sir," shrieked Sanford, at the carne time laying down (our queens and an (We. "An invincible, sir," said Brasher, with a sneer ; four kings and an ace !" And, nn Brasher reached for his bag of cold, young Sanford fell to the floor, the blood gushing from his month, nose and ears. With one spring the slave started from the table, dashing through the thin rOldltlg (11/ONI of the "Social out on the holler deck, arid, with a half uttered prayer for the "old mis airs," he threw himself mut the dark w.tters of the Mleo4lB`3lpl/1, and %,11/1 seta no more. Death tit e,ented firrodier from claiming lily srd Santord ha. weeks lingered on a sick lash hilt lit last reco‘ered, and forever reimuneed t h e gaiumg table. lie "made good,' lio'N ever, the money worth of the negro to I OW %%moot- SZIIMON sermon h as 1,,,n spun out to an hour's length that di I twt c..ntnnp V. tithe et the sound moral iu:trie to be found in the following brief and pithy 'sermon from the pen of that good man and -racy writer, ? Hey, John Total . I"uu are UM architects your own fortune, Rely upon your (rWli religth Of body and sold. 'rake fur pair motto Self-reliance, Honesty, and Industry ; for your star, Faith, l'erteverance, and Pluck, and inscribe on your banner, just and fear not." Don't take to o much :id vire ; etny at the helm and steer your own ship. Strike out. Think well of yourselves. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Assume your pogition. Don't practice excessive humility. You can't get above your level—water don't run up hill—put potatoes in a cart over row , h rand, and the small potatoes P will go to , lho bottom. Energy, invin cible determination, with u right mo tion, are the levers that move the world. • The great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the world Civility costs nothings and buys everything. Don't drink ; don't smoke; don't swear , dual, gamble; don't lie; don't deceive or ideal ; don't tattle ; h polite; be gen erous; be Self-reliant; read good books; love your fellow man u well at God ; love your country and obey the laws ; love truth ; love honor. Always do what your consoienve tells you is your duty, acid leave the consequences hi tied —Tho mint startling nutty of man— woman attempting to marry WHO LOVED HER BEST? Quiet end pale find sweet and fair They elrftuded her for rent, "Wreathing the 111111 ea 'round Mr heir, And the violate ore, her breast, Puree's We roes or the mllk•whlto flower • Wee thibeart of that maiden dead; Penneful and Milli its the funeral hour Was the soul that utter had fled. Into the room where the maiden lay, Three men drew softly near, Three-Men who had loved her, alt, well-a.day For many and many a year. And one, whose am were black as night, Mode wildly a desolate moan • " Nerer to me shall the sklee ho bright, Or peace to my wont be known l" And ono whose eyes were brigYst end blue As the clouds in the sprlng.thle air, Stooped lowly the pale, still lips unto, And lovingly kissed them then.. And ono whose forehead was white and wan Whose eyes were stern and gray, Oozed long and sadly her face upon, Then silently turnsslaway. They burled het deep where the gross grows And the birds singe bllthsorne mong, (green, Where over I he headstone bright blossoms Cr,' Nodding the whole day. long. (neon Nn iding, still nodding when the Hon In the summer with shimmering glow. For the mdden died and the wail whs done Many long yeah' Ago. s The days were dimmed with tho dark-eyed Ina tempest of misery and strife, titian And wild with sin were the years that ran The course of his stormy life And the blue-eyed one, his pulses heat Quirk, when he heard her Elaine, Lltull to his heart with rapture sweet A new lot e softly mune But the wan•lsrowned man went forth that day With a new tern light In tile aunt, Tu guide lit, fodtatera over his way ' 'lhe shadow of death ithould toll to Ids Ilpicante Amite. again Nor yet to Ida eyes a tear, But never thereafter or guile or emit, To the Pad strong heart corns near The Gray Friars' Dog In the city of Edinburgh the old chap el of the (fray Friar Monks stands in the churchyard where some of Scot land's noblest eons and daughters are buried. Nearly seven years ago aman was buried is the old churchyard. Among - the mourners was a small ter. rier dug. lie laid himself down on the grave of his master, and did not retire when the funeral procession moved out of the yard. The sexton saw (lie dog, and left him to eleepon the newly•niade grave till morning. Morning came, and the dog was in his place. .inWlien people walked around his master's rent ing place he paid no attention to them. But if one visitor attempted to trend on the sod, to him so sacred, the growl of the dog indicated his displeasure. Ile would at once tic at the throat of a person who did IA heed his growl. More than Mil years, in cold and rain, in snow and storm, this afTectionate an anal has slept in Gray Friar's church yard on .the grate of his master. All attempts to seduce him from his chosen bed have failed. On dark and mtormr nights the kind sexton has tried to coax the dog from his cold couch, at least until the storm had passed ; but in vain. Once or twice the dug has been fastened up in the vestry when the rain beat Violently, but, on each occasion, the little fellow had broken through the indows and made his escape. At One time he wan tied up ; but be moaned no plteollpir, and howled 80 terril,!y ,t hat he wan allowed to go out into the tem pest and he down over - tioT spot where the friend he loved rested in Ii liar row toed. N v one knew , where the , log came from, tior who his master was The name go yen to him is "Gray Friars' Bob- Mans. things abouttbrs tt iinderful dog ire quite as marvelous as his remark able atrectl'ori. The manner in which he lives, how he counts time and mon berm days, is really quite marvelous lie goes out for his breakfast at a giv en hollir cull morning. lie ha s h is morning meal at the same place. A kind linker has fed hint earls morning for many years. At noon his dinner comes front another place. Bobby re mains Oil the grave till the great gun or the castle booms out the hour of noon. lie then gets up and walks out of the churchyard. liegoes some blocks awns At the restaurant of Mr. Joh Trend the ihsg finds his dinner. Mr. Trael iotti green Bobby a good meld it nudJal for six ears, and will as long its he has a cram to spare, or the dog neeils one. 'rise dog knows the hour of twelve as vt ell as any man In tioutlawl. Bobby hoc t pantry near the grate, in it !Lich he places tvliat he does not wish to eat at once. Ile hides his t'ttial under a tombstone. (hi Friday Ile Hari, a part of 1114 dinner and hides it in .the pantry. On Saturday he also saves a part ot his dinner. Bobby can count. lie kritms u heir Friday and Satin day anise. Ile timer tiiinetaints. (tidy on tltt..e two days does he put away a part of ills tool. Ile knows that Sutulltv is coming. Ile knows that Mr. 'Tract, his good fri.entl, it. also a friend of the Sabbath, and mill not keep open on that day, evetr to give hint at dinner. Me doe:4110( sate sonic thing to eat, he will hate to gee hungry. O n Sunday Bobby does not leave the grate of his master. The Castle gun sounds out the midday hour on theSab bath as it does on otherdaysolthe week, but Bobby does riot stir. He hears it, ate he always does, but lie knows that it is the Lord's day. Ile does not go forth to seek food. lie eats his frugal meal that he laid up on Friday and Saturday, arid keeps quiet all clay on the lonely grave of his toaster."' A CuItIOXIM Smay.—Michigan paimm state aut. young man namedDenslow, living at Romp Centre, in that State, dreamed on 'the night of March i3th that he A% /1.41 deaf and dumb, and on awaking wats horrified to llnd that ho could neither speak nor hoar. Vrom_ that time till the 4th of May, b3daye, ho remained totally deaf and dumb. On the evPning of that day, while returniug, from the Held whore he had been work. log, an oda feeling came over him and Me was obliged to lean against the fence for nuppirt. Presently he heard a bird sing, and'he found also that his voice had returned to him. During this sus pension of voice and hearing he had en joyed uncommonly good health Two Women ,010 Int one Me In 1866 Adam. Xinsmati, being then about to leave his native land, to seek his fortune in the new world, deeming the trip across the ocean would be flat, stale and unprofitable, concluded to en ter the holy bonds of wedlock with Miss Maria F. 'Fenner. The lady WAS Also on the point of seeking life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness beneath the broad pinions of our national buzzard. The twain went before the United States Consul at Altsaitt r Germany, and there beneath the stairpanglial banner, oh; long mai it i oraveVWere made one flesh. ' A rri ve(d in this country Adam pro posed Pittsburgh as his tutors residence, arid the bone °fills bone said, as a du tiful wife ought, "I don't care A—dnin, where we go. Where thou go'st I'll go'st," &e. Shortly after moving to Pittsburgh a child was born to them and Adam became tired of her he had sworn to love, cherish and prof ect, and one bright morning his Paradise was made a wilderness, for there was . no Adam there. Ile had "lit out." • The base kinsman came to Wheeling tool mhortly after r+ettlt•d in Ititrhietown. lie wart not happy. Ice had violently mnapped the tier' that bound loin to him anirehild and could not be happy. - Daring a trip to We.t Alexandria, Waqhington county, l'a , he raw Mar garelta Puttip:• tel him the lawr. of Ilod and man, be determined to make her hw oily. • And k did. the 27th ttliV ot . NE arch last he led her, emiliilteg :toil limbed in to the altar. Initimiltately after lie brought Ins bride to the shad . ) boners of Ritehietown. S'iime then lie hash% ed in N11( . 11 tear and trembling man. man 111114 t %%kit the ktouvleilin. 011 his tlOlll that lII' hail committed bigamy. Yesterday Mrs. Kirtionan the First appeared before Squire Johnston and demanded a warrant ft,r the arrest of die faithless, Brigham Youngienl Ad nun. Iter prayer was granted, Adam wile arrested by officer Sevring, aiii compattied by Mrs. Kinsman the Seri (mil, he appeared before the Squire. There he eat, n Wile on either stile or hint, undoubtedly thinking of the poet's words—if he knew them. "Moor happy eot%ld be with either t'Other dear ettartner away " rlllllllO to give bad in thy p. tt i n ol Adaniolerimed oldiet.ociety ul both his Eves, is locked in J .l an -Iver a charge of bigamy before the next term of the Circuit Court.— Wheeling Rryipter, May IN. A Champion Duelist Nett thleatiN to the home of a re tnarkahle character in the person of a f:iiropean Spaniard named Pepe Lhilla, ttho pnbli.diev a card "to the Cuban relngeem and tho.n ttl n nvnipat4i7e a iii them, setting forth that he in de mirou, of r espondinv on the field of hon or, and in any wa3 the) that indicate, to those who, in their nieetingm and proeemnionn in that city, hate dionted "De a th to Spain," "Dnath to the Span ! A renpotise to I.ltilldh pia cat h 'eh aa. petit about the mt repttt, and i %en upon the door of one of the ie r of t f meeting, wan reeeiied on ThltrNtiay of 'net lint . L, Tile nail.. wan Carlon dr ' 4\1:1441, 4 . 4,1 ( . 111 , 41. wen puny agreed 'Ton •r - , tend the terinq Here that the 111,1:111 , e s h ou ld be twenty to, p 111•1,1, the principals tic tire at alit The preliminaries lia, log been ar rlingc.l, the purtten repatrisl to Carrot ton on the following_ Sundae mttriting anti Act(led thetlltheuits I,lulln, ttuh his Collt buttoned up, and hit. liat aril pulled over hit. V) es. %111:. unreel N%lth bark tin the rit er, and Mayer at twentt 'five pares dimtaiit. The terms of the cartel were the-capon explained to the principala --each to advance he cite-e and lire at still The second , hat rug further ttilotlattsl that thevitt cipals t 14,111,1 Ito ris.l),,nwil,!e to them if either livi d behire the e•ntlituttritl, the word, were prmlottiteetl, "Are ton remit' 7—tire." For inure than a min ute alter, Pr ither port) unite one ttitme merit, hut mtood with trio raNeil, watch ing what the other would do ~Nt the expiration of that trine the Cuban, afro had been i.danding in the attitude lire ocrd.ed by the u,de, made IL step for ward .1, b lii o-. 1 rujon• I,ltilliCe+ las tot oh t h:11;•eil MIIVer halted. made „i, rane hi, pi , tol, and hl- liki• hi, had ;c eelle,l a 11,11..1 1%‘ , 111141, ti It lh, Lackw aid The b.tll upon pro% ed to 11,tve mile( rated the breast upon the right aide, arid to hate cone out the back. Pepella is a gentleman fifty rears of age, who has been resoling in New Orleans Sro the last twent•five yearS. For the last ten years he has enjoyed the reputation of a quiet nii.l prosperous citizen. lEs previous his tory was, hose, Cr, of not so quiet a character. The last of hull fights ever given in that city came under his auspices. At one time he titueht fencing, and has' the reputation of ha - llig tle ,tiongust wrist ot any man in the itruh-ssien. Ills skill in fencing, or with the "white weapons," Is, however, no greater thah with firearms. lie has been knaiin to shoot the pipe ma of a man's mouth it dozen yards off, and frequently shot nickles out of the hands of his friends. fie has received BOOM half a dozen challenges, of one sort and another, since his combat of Stinday. One of the challengers pro posed that two pills should he prepared, one of them containing poison, and thaChe should take one ant? ins antago nist the other t another proposition was that bosh of the pills should contain poison ; a third was that pistols should he the wet:trona find tint) abut of them to be loaded—the parties to stand so near that death would inevitably result to one or the other. It is not yet known which of tile challenging parties has re ceived the preference, and what arc the terms. —Truth in Iniglity, and will prevail. So goeth the ancient MM. But it in mighty Mow aometinien in prevailing. Thts, That and the Other. ' _flan dealers in roam fabrics ever be said to do a fine tapiocas. —Esteem is the mother of love, het the daugEter is often older than the mother. 11/4 IlfieiCSA to roast a pig of lead. It can never be cooked so as to make a light diet. —The men who made a note di'Vass ing events could not get it discounted at the Bank. —Age before beauty." That h Why in these latter times children are ahead of their parents., —Hoops surround two things which are now commanding great itttentim girls and whiskey. positivo in judgment to-day in no proof that wo shall not.he of differ ent opinion to-morrow. —Blue lookn much better on n person than on Iter face. It tld9 genre to contour but not to countenance. --Wicked men-stumble nt n straw in the way to heaven, and climb over great mountnina id their way to hell —Mr. Ju+hun Billings says, "0110 of the funniest seenes' I ever see, wiz two old maids wititin on one sick widow, r "I spy, Pat, tire you (+slime ?" "Blvd the „star." "Thin be +tither lend++) in, +Finder " ..I'm War, be jobber,' • v ot, would make yonrr.rlf ago on. blr wimrever nu go, !Won to ft,. krievane . e4 of otber4, but never nt,n , you own gentlenitia Who ,treti•hel Li, lane). hits hal a feeling of since, and hag gone freely int,, the h r „. inent like —Which ry the cheaper i n bade , 1 bridegroom 7 The bride, i.81w1131 given Away, the bridegroom otten rezu tarty sold. 4 1 -Mr Short says the only thing le , c:iti make Jay these times is his addr.,, to the ladies and these he never allows 1,) get overdue. --"llow long did Adam rellllllll n. Paradise?" asked a vixen of her I l,nt; hushnnd a he got n wife,'' smAer ed the husband. , —A dancer once said to Socratt 4 cannot stand on one log so long a c. ran " True," replied the iiinlovoninir "but a goose can." —A beggar wituan coming into a bows where Nellie war sitting alone, noted for charity "Charity I" said Nell guess we are most out." - -The man who got wise by era's; sage cheese has n brother who pmvo, to become skillful in the fashmaohlo dances by dieting on hops. , —"ls your home n warm ono, I,mi• lord 7" Raked a goltleman in search ~f house e ought to be," wag the trylv the faunter gave it two roots, rereath Thr peenliarihrs of tbn gußtv, rwrmit us to state that; n ox standing in NCU ark may at the time make a speech on the road —Wherr shall I put these parr , so as to be sure of seeing them to-enor- Tom "'" inquired Mary of Iv.r hr dht• "On the 1. Riking ' th.. brother's reply - - % man who wag arre , ted for ing goods at a Are, plead in 1.1 , 11.. f, extrninttion of hwennilliet, that he he n in the place but a few day, ar hadn't learned thr rub --Little Johnny wa , h , inz cate, Ii by his brother, who a.ked him of whet Ile was made. Johnny replied, ' 10 , and me an papa are do t, ml, momma nallt sister are mode of mpu • Ve I -- A part) of young rellnu,foun.l Lr Ith thr butter au ble " NVi.nt it 4 the matter it' • 91ir1.11 the mi4tre.4. ".1 \Ft %(m 114 k ;t .ilid ~ne, "its •,1(1 1 t•clf ' -- A shrewd hat unenlittlitened ler, out West, used to say, en et cadnlate for the post of t ,,, ct , er, "We all know that a. b c , are ,OW els, but we want to know itiby iiwy a" v 1101.6." --Little three year oid Mary wi Idnrin eery roughly %ail die hill' , carrying, it by the tail. Her motl,r toll her that tate would hurt pu•' - Why 110 I W011 ' 1.., ” .Flllll mire, "1111431 rying it by tire handle.- --At ii. young .•niuinr P' el , during t rv, ,)f the ningttitirmii , -in-, I"I was interrogated °Marv, did natural (I,;itli .`;" " 11 ' the relly, witg ex,urtlruunl ,, tt ,. bv•ii bull ' -- "Don't thinl: rii . v . ) es In.. killing this morning V .11. k Band, to a smart girl, and lin twiAted his leadoro vi , i.maries in the im4 cruel and fa. fl uting manner. "They remind in".' sung thin damsel, "cif n 00(.1114hd}iniOrm —illyHmem the Firat complama thin the people who don't want oflicejllt merely to pay their respect, at t'm him, anti that lientends to rlrcie doors to the public. lie wants pear , : but don't want to be bothered w common people. --There is nothing parr than how' ty ; nothingsweeter than charity ; n" t"' ing.warmer than love ; nothing bright. r than virtue, and writhing morn sten(' fa 4 than faith. Thew united in one rims. firm '(he purest, the fiweetest, the rirle the brightest, and most steadfast nC/34. • -- "IN my fnco dirty remarked t. young lady to her aunt, while witted et the (hillier table an a steambret !lumina fronl - Cairo to New Orleam. No. Why do you ask ' Because that. insulting waiter intiatti upon potting a towel hesidln my plate. I've throw three under tho table, and yet CS frY dine he (tomes 11Pottml.hu puts linother before me," , —At. Peekskill, New York, a man'" in jail for murdering his little datnll, ter. Ile attempted to clam-tire his wile with the poker when the dal inter Ileded and he hurled the weapon at lir It stuck in her head, and rhe ran screaming into the ntreet,where :a rat' ing Mall pulled it out. the dud, few (lays afierwards.
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