4 ?ri,,KK' EdItor and Publisher. HE IS A FREEMAN WHOM THE TRUTH MARES FREE, AND ALL ARE SLAVES BESIDE. Terms, $2 per year lu advance. OLUME 4. 'Cambria Freeman WILL BE niSLioutu VEKV THURSDAY MOHNING, At Ebeasburg, Cambria Co., ?a. ,; ilaviciiij rates, payable within 0ire "Ihsfrom date of subscribing : ,Lh cue year, 2 00 ;ir,x monthi. - - . - 100 " J'v thiec months, - - 60 - who fail to pay their subscriptions ; ;M'r'.t.(l at the rate of $2.50 ptr year, '.'w who fili to pay uutil after the ex ;;'3 (,l twelve months will be charged at vei! $i .0') per year. Vve cumbers constitute a quarter; five, six months; and fifty uumbers, V-? RATES OF ADYEKTISJJfW. -r:.ire, 12 lint's, cue insertion. ,';,;v,.equer.t insertion, .r' Notices, each, -iistrat'r ' Notices, each, '-W Notices, each, Jl 00 25 2 00 2 50 2 60 1 60 1 yr. $6 00 12 00 15 00 25 00 28 00 85 00 GO 00 6 00 jv Nt.ices. each 3 mos 6 mos. $ 4 00 8 00 10 00 14 00 16 00 25 00 ire. 12 lines, $ 2 50 5 00 7 00 9 50 11 00 14 CO ;irc,-t lii'es. nre, 30 hues, r.tr C'.'iiitiin, : column. C.luwn 25 00 35 00 'rs;i iul or Business Cards, Dot JiwlCZ C nues, win ya-yi, ,iiiury Notices, over sis lines, tea cents lilt?- jejal and uuiae3s Notices eight cents 'tt ht first insertion, and four cents for inW-'jueut insertion. teJutions of Societies, or communica- s ol a personal tature must be paid for ivertueaients. J'JB rRISTIKQ. '.'e have made arrangements by which :miIk or have done all kinds of plain fancy Job Printing, such as 1ooks, ihets. Show Cards. Bill and Letter u Is, lUndbills. Circulars, Sec, in the best ; of the art and at the most moderate s. Aisii. all kinds of Ruling. Blank 'ii, B'.'k Minting, &c, executed to order : as the lest and as cheap as the .ifest. lENSBURC FOUNDRY Vt.UV 1 1 1 I I. IJLAST! f.VFO, NEW BUILDINGS, dtc. f AVJNG run Imped the well known EB- E.NsilL'KG FOl NDRY from Mr. Edw. ', slJ leijtiiit and eularpel it almost en . vsups rtHt".Uig it with new machinery, crib3 :tVow TreprcJ to furnish IPAhLUR 4- JIEATIXO S7V VES, ( 1'iet and most approved patterns :;i:iNG 11 A Oil NFS. MILL GEAR- IX'iE arid W ATEJt WH EELS of everv -ion. IRON FENCING. PLOITRTfS rlCUGH CASTINGS, and in fact all e ct article manufactured iu u first class 'rt. Jub Work of all kind atteiided to !'y t::J done cheaply. spe"ul aiteution of Farmers i invited k1t patented PLOUGHS which we mc si.e right to manufacture and sell : county, auc which are admitted to be W everiLtroduceJ to the public. w?e!ies capable of performing '' iu o-jr lire in the most satislaetory M.d kiiown that we can do work at tl PIT tV I I . . . . turn uate ucen cnarpea in tins v M-titerttofore weconfi.lentlv hope that flV r , oucl worthy ol liberal r'atronape. w:iors made to wholesale dealers. ""fiRtpiices paid in cash for old M, Or ca-inips given in exchan-e. r.. ?Y,v,"ilc" CAfi" ,,a COUNTST eSur. ?-UkYV1XU0E&C0- w- ; - t v. UU. -mmtmJ LJ-k l, f I it. .t'.'Jr.l ln rent!y enlarged our stock e are cow nrn..i tV tr r f T' n aia p-reai jf I. X m?T Prices- "ot-k con- SLX'T, f; ,ciM9' Perfumery, Fancy ' I1" AHen'sIlair Kestor- -"""'ems. rasters. Liniments, ""iW Fir"te Ess Jamaica s'.n cli,v,r,r,nJ.' Extracts, E-gences, Soothiuj: S vrup. Spiced Sjrup, I1''. IRS JYn rrir im.c r"1-, CUC. : C'i' yM-'8nd Bonds; Cap. ,,-c aland all kind of Note Paper! i ens, 1 pnnila 4 nr:.- . iJ ar-L- j t7 aiiiuiu i ruing M,4-, ri'k, Pocket and Pass :.U' i7ef.,.:s Papers, Novels, His - "'- i'i"t?s.l'rayeraud Toy Books, V v. iJtVK'Ttv,,Jed tO0ur 6tock "i..u orVi i'Tt01wh'th we woi OTo. rl' i! ladies. !'foiw L'M.S at lower prices I -J Lipurs sold either whnlU r. J " oireei, .oenanurg. J MtJ ' a By' Wear. tWFiwnA . r" B1or (jualitv. from '&trl.l .m boot9 to the coarsest 'StU. a! modeiate tiricts an lik lhVh.r 'ne,J ""'where. f' tbHshmr,rn 1?ot3 and Shoes made irQuam' fneeJ no trance as to 1 it it i W,,r ,u yr ork- ,her8 can J?, at'd be convinced. illhl r 1Q a Workmai.liUo lrk Prices a-" 1 eel confident that con e-seeoftlie same. kTe. Apr;. 28 i 1 HOAS lOl-vrTTr- 'pi TAB. i;;, "S CO- Prop.r. "dlays surr,1 1?. and u 18 EUPPlie(i with tine!. u tlie Stt?tw n j.j i lerg. rp . micuueu dv ti f acd boarder T? Tlsitf,r8 accm- reasonabla terra rim' J?ARMERS, Look to Your Interests, AND BOY ONI OF SPROUT'S COMBINED III Foil Hi THE BSST AND OXY PERFECTLY COMBINED Hay Fork and Knife Manufactured. EVERY FORK "WARRANTED, As only a limited number can be supplied for this count v, orders for tHs celebrated Hay Fork and Kuife should be sent iu early to Tmnn m Sule Agent for Cambria County, Who can also supply WOODEN PULLEYS, which are far superior to Iron Pullevs. Also, STEEL GRAPPLES for fasteDir.if.g Pulleys to Beams or R-tfters the most convenient fas tenirgs yet introduced, as they can be put up or taken down without the use of ladders. Ebensburg, Dec. 9, 16C9. Cm. GEO. C.K. ZAIIM. .. .JAS. B. ZAHM. ZAHM 8l SON, DEALERS IK DRY GOODS, GROCERIES. HARDWARE QUEENSWARE, Hats,Caps, Boots,Shoes, AND ALL OTHER ARTICLES Usually Kept In a Count rj Store. WOOL AND COUNTRY PRODUCE TAK.ES TN EXCUAXGE FOR GOODS ? STORE ON MAIN STREET, Next Door to the Post Office, June 10, 1SC9. EBENSBURG, FA. n TIIE 4. SLATE COMPANY Are prepared to furnish to Builder3 or Slaters their VERY DABK BLUE C01.0BED BCTEBIOB R0OG SLATE ! From their own Quarries, located in Northamp ton county, Penn'a, AT QUARRY PRICES. Samples may be seen, and communications addressed to E. L. GOODWIN, Agent. J. X. SIIALLEXBERUEB, PreVI. Olfice : BaEWBB's Bciluino, Dtquesxe Way, Cor. Eighth St., Pittsburgh, Pa. myS-tim. EVERE TIIE J1E3IORY OF FMENDS DEPARTED ! MONUMENTS, TOMBSTONES, &c. The subscriber still continues to manufacture of the best material and in the most workmanlike manner, at the Loretto Marble Works, all kind of MONUMENTS AND TOMB STONES, as well as TABLE and BUREAU TOPS, and all other work in his line. None but the best American and Italian Marble used, and perfect satisfaction guaranteed to all cases at prices as low as like work can be obtained in the cities or elsewhere. Call and see specimei.e and judge for yourselves as to tbe merits cheapness of my work. . JAMES WILKINSON. Loretto, March 12, 1868. ly. FOR. Gumming a:ws IS TIIE BEST SAW GUMHER ! IX TIIE WORLD! FOR SALE BY GEORGE HUNTLEY, Ebensburgr, Pa. 1 " I J w m-r t-w T-n r" FARMERS AND umitcs SHOULD NOT 'FAIL TO GET ONE OF THE JUSTLY CELEBRATED Lima Double-Geared WOOD-SAWING MACHINES, FOB WHICH GEOEGE HUNTLEY, EDDXSBURG, PA., Is Sole AgeiriyojCamtoCojB2ty 14 RANK D. STORM, Practical Sur ? vetok, Eebsbitro. Pa. Othce on Cen tre ttreet, pyosite Coloaad So. i my J T1IK TAMTi: EBENSBURG, jjt part's gtpnrlmtnt. THE GOLDEX SIDE. There is many a rose in the road of life. If we would but stop to Uke it, And many a tone from the better land, If the querulous heart would make it ; To the euuuy soul that is full of hope, And whose beautiful trust r.e:er faileth. The grass is gre.-n and the flowers are bright, Though the winter storm prevaileth. Bet'ter to hope, though clouds hang low, And keep the eyes still lifted, For the sweet blue sky will etill peep through When the ominous clouds are rifted. There was never a night without a day, Or an evening without a morning, And the darkest hour, so the proverb g6cs. Is the hour before the dawning. There is many a gem in the path of life, Which we pass in rur idle pleasure. Which is richer far than the jeweled crown Or the miser's hoarded treasure ; It may be the love of a little child Or a mother's prayer to he-iven, Or only a beggar's grateful thanks For a cup of water given. Better to weave in the web of life A bright and golden filling, And do God's work with a ready heart And hacd3 that are prompt and willing, Than to snap the delicate minute threads Lnd then blame heaven for the tangled And sit and grieve and wonder. ui our curious lives asunder, endi, alts, Shtfcjjts, lucbofts, c. AT A C II Alt IT Y FAIR. Tribulations of a Mxlest Murrletl Jlan. The ladies of our church held a fair last week to raise funds to send mission aries and schoolmasters to the savages in England, and as I had never attended one before, I had my wife darn a rent in the back of my vest, and polish all the brass buttons that were left on the coat I wore at our marriage, and borrowing w hat little change he had, I went. I paid a dime at the door, and thought the fair was very cheap. I went in, and found the room was very full and noisy, and was quite taken aback by the extraordinary civility with which two young ladies welcomed me at the door; but thinking that they could tell genius on fight, I lelt quite llut tered, when one of them usked me if 1 wouldn't take a chance in a raffle for a tooth-pick. I asked her what the tooth pick was valued at ; she said twenty-five cents. I told her to put my name down for one ; she did so, and said the chances were fifty cents each. I paid it, and thought, eomehow, that in running a chance to get a tooth-pick, I had got my pocket picked, and just as I turned round I was grabbed by a poor young woman who hadn't clothes enough to cover her shoulders, and who wanted me to take a chance at a sett of toilet-service. I tried to beg oil, but she held on, and a good many people were looking at me at the time, 1 wa3 compelled to take a chance, and pay one dollar. I afterward learned the toilet-piece was a piece of soap. Then I thought if 1 could get in the thickest part of the crowd, I would be free for a while. 1 got in the jam, and had seven teen females poke their books and pencils in my face at once ; and then as I stood a fair chance of being killed, I thought I would take their chances, which were not so 6ure, and subscribed my name on each book. But, as I didn't draw anything, I never knew what I put my name down for. In fact, I found out afterward, that about the only article I had drawn was my pocket-book, and that a good many times. I noticed one fellow who made it a pi act ice to tell each fair in-sister that he liad been putting his name down to all of them and he thereby managed to get off ; but I had watched him from the moment he entered, and heard him. tell the same thing to the first lady who petitioned him, and regretted that I had not commenced with a similar policy. Still, I admit the ladies have a great influence over me ; ray wife's a woman, and that influence began at home. I was prevailed on to take a chance at a set of bedroom furniture, and drew a blank or a blanket, I don't koqw which, as I never got either. I paid a dollar toward a watch, which was to be presented to the most respected man on the floor, and then took a chance on a chain, thinking the watch would do me no good without that ; but there was a fearful oversight somewhere, for I got neither watch or chain. I was asked to take a-chance at a sack of flour by a very homely old maid. In pity for her I paid for a ticket, and, strange to say, got the flour, which I put on my shoulder to carry out, and find some way to send it borne ; but the fellow who helped it on my shoulder the rascal ! punched a hole in the sack, and every step I took that in fernal flour puffed out all over the back of my coat, and created a great uproar, which I joined in myself, knowing nothing about it. My wife took pretty much all that flour out of my coat, when I got home that night, with the reverse end of the broom. At the postoffice, in another part of the hall, I paid a dime, and asked if there was a letter for me. The la9s who ran that letter shop smiled as she handed me a dainty envelope, which I took over in one corner by myself and opened. Here is the letter : "Dear sweetneps. oh you essence of peaches and cream double refined extract of maple molasses and buckwheat cakes 1 Your noble voice is like honev in my ears, and your fond kiss would be like the aforesaid uiolasses all ovor my &ce. Your eyes are 4s bright as PA., THURSDAY liquid gum drops, and your nose is like straw berries without the cream. I love you like a paper ol candy. Oh hasten to Yours, candiedly, . Etta Lozexgeb." This to me, and I a married man I I never saw bo much sweetness in any of my wife's letters. "And that poor girl," I thought, "knowing not roy connubial situ uation has seen me and fallen in lore with' me at once !" I put the letter in toy pocket, and went round inquiring for Etta Lozenger, hoping to find her and apologize; but I didn't discover her ; and as my "bad luck would have it, my wife found the letter the next morning, in my pocket, be fore I got up and then began a scene which I took a prominent part in, but which I can't describe. I couldn't get her to believe the real facts of the letter, though 'I ex plained them with all the eloquence of de spair. I pleaded my entire innocence, as I shrunk under the bed-clothes with the loss of some of my hair and with some added lines of latitude acruss my face, where the skin was missing. I didn't get up till the next day. While sleeping, I dreamed I was at the fair, and had. a lottery of my own, with Mrs. Wbitehorn for the capital prize, and the tickets ten cents each ; these were all sold but one, and when the lot tery went off, I was the lucky one, for I drew her. Then I woke up to the conclusion that ladies' fairs are all fleeting shows for man's confusion given, designed to make money, and they succeed in their designation. I confess that I have been drawn in, but can't laugh at the joke. Tltfe "Fat Confributer" In tbe Gymnasium. I have got gymnastics very bad now. The gentleman in attendance says it is the worst case of gymnastics he has ever known. I work hard every afternoon and try my best to follow the directions. I read somewhere that when weaiy with one kind of exercise a person should change it for another. Climbing the bid der the other day I got tired when near the top and let go so as to try something else. Falling thirty-two feet or so and striking the floor in a sitting posture tired it rather severely. I am progressing finely in the art cf jumping. I would nevpr set up a claim as champion jumpist, however, for fear some one would come along and "jump" my claim I attempted to throw a som ersault. Succeeded in throwing half of it and then stuck fast, when a friend kindly stepped forward and threw the other half for me. It is hard on the back where you only throw half a somersault, and it was well for me there was some one by to take the job off my hands, or I might never got over it. The gymnasts in the circus who per form on the horizontal bar have always challenged my admiration, and I have greatly envied them their triumphs of mingled strength and agility. Whether thy hung by their toes, swung themselves up by their eyebrows and held themselves straight out in the air by the little finger, or revolved round the bar like a grind stone handle in hay time, the man or the bar has never failed to excite my warm est enthusiasm. I secretly determined when I joined the gymnasts, to add the horizontal bar to my acpiirements at the earliest possible moment. Tvre was a bar to get credit at I So I hurried through the minor apparatus to get at the bar. I partook sparingly of the dumb-bells, dined lightly on the clubs, and merely tasted of the weights and pullies, so great was my impatience to get at the practice. One day I found myself sole occupant of the gymnasium. I didn't want any one to witness my first efforts on the bar, and this was the moment I had been looking for. ! First I thought I would try revolving around the bar, with a grand finale in which I would stand on my head on the bar and then throw a double back sum mersault to the floor. Rejected that as too difficult for a firet attempt, and con cluded to undertake the simple feat of hanging by the legs to begin with. Found it the easiest thing in the world to hang by the legs. Wondered people didn't try it oftener instead of hanging by the neck, it is so much plcasanter. Regretted that so much of my life had been spent with out learning to hang by the legs. Hung there long enough to get the hang of it, as you might say, and then essayed to get back again. No go. I had seen how gymnasts hung to the bar, head down, but I had neglected1 to observe how they regained their "as you were,"' as we say in military. I tried to wriggle around so as to get hold of tbe bar with my band, but found I couldn't wriggle to any effect whatever. I had a faint idea that the circus fellows let go with their legs and came down on their feet in some way, but felt morally certain if I let go I would come down on my head and go about all the rest of my life with my neck in two pieces. The blood was running down into my head, and the whole room was swimming. Dumb-bells were waltzing madly with clubs, and inverted apparatus of all de scriptions went whirling around in the most bewildered manner. Then I felt the strength giving way in my legs, and I was satisfied I could not depend on them much longer. I realized how foolish I was to attempt gymnastic novelties when no one is by. I tried to cry aloud fur help, in violation of the rule against loud talking, but I Coulda't get the voice out JUNE 16, 1870. of my throat it stuck fast. Fact is, not anticipating such a dilem ma, I hadn't practiced hollering with my head down. How I repented ever wanting to go and be a gymnast at my time of life. A shoit time before, watching for an opportunity when no one was in, .how fervently I now prayed thr.t somebody would come It was a ridiculous position to be found in, to be sure, but no matter for that, if they found me before I was done for. I felt my legs gradually relaxing and slipping off the bar; objects grew more and more indistinct, and then my over strained muscles gave way, and I fainted quite away, which I advise my readers to do when they can't get away in any other manner. When I recovered I was stretch ed on a spring board and two veteran members, of forty-six years' standing, were fanning'rae with a glass of brandy ! and water. I bey haa happened in just at the critical moment and saved me from further gymnastics. "C?m" in Cin. Times. Tlic Landlord's Mistake. A fat, burly English landlord was sit ting one afternoon at the door of his inn, in a provincial town not a hundred miles from London, when a person entered the house, and after complimenting its clean liness and snug appearance, ordered a good dinner and a bottle of wine. The dinner, when ready, was laid in an upper apartment looking out upon the pleasant garden ; and after it had been thoroughly discussed, and the wine sipped luxuriously to the bottom of the bottle, the satisfied guest sent for his host, and when he en tered tbe room, thus addressed him : "You have a very fine inn here, landlord, everything is particularly nice in fact what I call comfortable." The landlord expressed his gratification. "I shall have great pleasure," continued the guest, "in recommending your house to my friends in town. There remains only one more thing to "mention, and as the subject is one which I have reason to think will be as unpleasant to you as to myself, I will express it in a few words. I have not at present any money ; but I will be here again in--" "A"o mony ?' exclaimed the landlord, in a voice husky with anger. "No money 1 then why did you come to the 'Hen and Chickens' to run up a bill that you can't pay ? Get out of my house this instant ! Gol Walk!" "I expected this," said the guest rising ; "I anticipated this treatment, nor can I blame you much, landlord, to tell you the truth, for you don't know me. Because 3-ou sometimes meet with deception, you think I am deceiving you : but I pledge you my honor, that a fortnight from this day I will be with you again, and you will confess yourself to be ashamed of your suspicions." -"Bali! you are a swindler!'- ejaculated Boniface; "this will be the last of you ; take that !" and with a vigorous coup Je pied, was "sped the parting guest." "You will live to re gret this, landlord, I am sure; but I do not blame you, for you are ignorant of my character," was the meek reply l this gross indignity. Just two weeks from that day, the same ill used gentle man (with a traveling friend) was, with many apologies and protestations, shown into the best room of the celebrated 'lien and Chickens' inn. The landlord's profile apologies were accepted, he was forgiven ; and even invited to dine with the two friends upon the best dinner,, fl inked by the very choicest wines his house alfjrded. When all was finished, and while the landlord, who had become exceedingly mellow, , was protesting that he should never be so suspicious of a "real gentle man" again, he was interrupted by his first guest with "But, landlord, there is one thing which I do not happen to have, at this moment, a single penny ; and I grieve to say, that my companion who is a good man, but in a worldly point of view, very poor, i not a whit better off. Under these unpleasant cir cumstances, it becomes, as it were, a ne cessity, to bid you a cood evening !" "Done, twice! the 'Ilen-and-Chickens' 'done twice ! and both times exactly alike !" said the landlord, as he went down to set the swindle to the account of "Profit and Loss." Good Rdles to Follow. First, be honest and truthful. All depend upon this. If you have work to do, do it cheerfully. If you go out on business, attend to the matter promptly, and then as promptly go about your own business. Don't stop to tell 6tories. If you have a place of business be there during business hours. No one can get rich by sitting around stores and sa loons. If you have to labor for a living, re member that one hour in the morning is better than two at night. Do not meddle with any business you know nothing about. A good business habit and reputation is always money. Be valiant. Keep ahead rather than behind time, for it is easier to keep ahead than to catch up. Help yuorself, and others will help you. Be obliging. Do not be in too great baste to get rich. Do not spend time in idleness. Be kind. Iarn to think and act for yourself. Help others when you Can. DESCRIPITOX OF FLORIDA. a sentknck kigiit hun deed words roso. Last week we informed our readers j the age of thirteen and seventeen. One that an article in L'ppmeotCs Magaeitte i who does not know an "cm quad" from contained one of the loi.gcst sentences on ! a "shooting stick? preferred. Willing record, consisting of over eight hundred j ness to play second fiddle to the foreman, words. The sentence in question is found as well as to ourselves, for a few years, in a well written article on Florida, we an indispensible qualification. He is not append it: to have more than threo sweethearts, nor "I propose, thon, to give my readers ! more than ten corner lounging associates, some description of this old yet still strange j No objections to his useing tobacco, cigars and wild country, that has been settled i or P'Pe provided the "old soldiers" and for three hundred years, and is not jet inhabited a land of shifting sand and of deep mud a land of noble rivers, that rise in swamps, and consist merely of cuains or shallow lakes, some of them twenly miles across and only twelve feet deep of wido, sandy plains, covered with solemn sounding pines of spots so barren that nothing can be made to grow upon them, and yet with a soil so feitile that if you "tickle it with a hoe, it will laugh with an abundant harvest" of sugar, cot ton, rice and fruit a land cf oranges, lemons, pomegranates, pineapples, fis, and bananas, whose rivers teem with fish, its forests with game, and its very air with fowl ; where everything will "grow except wheat and apples ; where every thing can be found except ice ; vet where the people, with a productive hoil, a mild j climate, and bountiful natute affording every table luxury, live on corn prist sweet potatoes, and molasses, where many men possessing torty thousand head of cattle never saw a glass of milk in their lives, using only the impr.rtcd article when used at all, and then calling it consecrated milk ; where the very effort to milk a cow would probably scare her to death, as well as frighten a whole neighborhood by the unheard of phenomenon ; w here cab bages grow on the tops of trees, and you may dig bread out of the ground ; w here below the frost-line the caster-oil plant becomes a large tree of several years' growth, and a pumpkin or bean vine will take root from its trailing branches, and thus spread and live year after year; where cattle do not know what hay is, and refuse it when cifered, so that the purchase of a yoke of oxen is not consid ered valid if tne animals will not eat in a stable; and where in the mild winter, when the land grass is dried up horses and cattle may be seen wading and swim ming in the ponds and streams, plunging their heads deep under the surface to bite the water grasses and moss ; where many lakes have holes in the bottom an 1 under ground communication, so that they will sometimes shrink away to a mere cupful, leaving man' square miles of surface un covered, and then again fill up fiom below and spread out over their former area ; where some of them have outlets in the ocean far from shore, and bursting up a perpetual spring of fresh water in the very midst of the briny saltness of the sea; where in times of low water, during a long exhaustive, -dry seasons, men have gone under ground in one of these sub terranean rivers, from lake to lake, a dis tance of eiht miles ; where the ground will sometimes sink and the cavity fill with water, until tall trees, that had stood anil sunk upright, will have their topmost branches deeply covered ; where rivers will disappear in the earlh and rise again, thus forming natural bridges, some of them a mile in breadth ; where, instead of spring, summer, autumn and winter, there are two seasons only eight months summer, and four months warm weather; where the winter is the dry season, and the summer almost a daily raiti ; where in order to take a walk, you first wade through a light sand ankle deep, and then get into a mud puddle, and some of these mud puddles cover a whole "country ; where no clav is found fit for brick mak- ing, and people build houses without chimneys; where to make a living is so easy a task, that every one possesses the laziness of ten ordinary men, and every one you wish to employ in labor says that he is tired, and would seem to have been born so ; where agues would prevail if the people would take the trouble to shake ; where a large orange-tree will bear seven thousand oranges leaves, buds, blossoms, half-grown, full grown fruit, all at once and every twenty-five feet square of sand will sustain such a tree ; where, in many parts, cold weather is an impossibility and perpetual verdure reigns ; where t-he Ever glades are found, covering many large counties with water from one to six feet deep, with a bottom mudcovered, 3-et underneath solid and firm, from which grasses grow opto the surface a sea of green, and with islands large and small scattered over the surface, covered with live oaks and dense vegetation ; where alligators, or 'gators, as they are called in Florida parlance, possess undoubted ab original rights of citizenship ; and mos quitoes pay constant visits, and are in trusive and even penetrating in their attentions to strangers." There must be accorded to the writer of this passage considerable skill in the phraseology; as in no instance is the sensj rendered ambiguous by the prolongation of the sentence. The phrases are short, apt, and disentangled, New York Meth odist. A Sunday School teacher asked a little fellow if he had learned anything during the week "Yes.'' said he "What is i; you have lewmed !" "Never to truop your partner's ace." NUMBER 21 AFFItEXTICE VTAX1LU. We want a young man to learn the nrJnlinrr lniiiif.. mii.t h lpfwppn ashes are kept off our table and out of the cases. If consistent with his finer feel ings, wo would respectfully venture the suggestion that be leaves us at least one third of our exchanges, that we may look j over them when at leisure. Must not j ute more than one quire of letter paper or I a package of envelopes weekly in corres- I Pending with his friends and acquaintance. Will be reqiired to furnish his own post age stamps. We furnish water, soap and towels. Will be expected to be at the otfice in time to get hungry before dinner. To return and be ditto before supper. If we entrust him with a key to the olnca door, it is hoped he will spare our feelings' and those of the tenants who occupy the room beneath us, by bringing only a dozen of his associates into the composing room at any one time after niht. Some re- ?aiJ should be also paid to the number of gs jets which are lighted on such occa- ! s'ons- admit that the R-publicum ollice presents an attractive appearance when under a a full head of light, and at the same time we are painfully aware of the fact that the indices of the meter at tract the attention of the gas company even to a greater extent than the. light attracts custom. Loafing in the office on the Sabbath is positively prohibited, lf ten hours a day lor six days in a week is not sufficient length of time fur our new comer to remain iu the office, we will accomodate him with a few hours extra work at night. Printers' ink is not poi sonous when applied outwardly j there fore, the candidate for typographical honors need not feel the least uneasiness should he, during a brief stay, soil his h:mds with it. Emery paper, cotton waste and oil are excellent for cleaning the-pohhed parts of a printing press, as we shall show our apprentice at brief in tervals. A sponge saturated with benzine is capital for removing ink from the roll ers, as will be discovered from time to time A broom is used in our olrice at half-past five o'clock each afternoon. Type dropped on the rl jot must be picked up at oncp. Twenty stoops frequently saves twenty cents. We have in our em ploy an experienced job printer, who will attend to all orders in that line. It will be entirely unnecessary, therefore, for our novice to undertake that branch at first and more particularly the printing of his own name and that of his trio of sweet hearts, for which pun-pose the ornamental type and gold bronze are generally made to surfer. If there is a young man any where in the city or out of it either who is willing to conform to these rules, can read manuscript and write a fair hand, and who is reslly desirous of acqui ring a first-class trade one at which he can secure employment in every city and nearly every town on the continent wa shall be much pleased to confer with him. Maysville (Ky) Republican. The following has a smack ' of Mark Twain about it. We find it drifting un known through the. exchanges: "A friend of ours, who took a trip to Califor nia, said that he was not afraid of Indi ans, because he belonged to the benevo lent Order of Red Men, and knew all the pass words and winks, and the figurative language and things, and no savage was going to touch him, inuiated and fixed up as be was in regalia. He hadn't gone more than a hundred miles from Omaha before a band of Indians came at him and scooped him up. He took the chnf asida and whispered the password in his ear, and gave him the grip twenty-six times on both hands, and made some observas tions about fifth moons' and 'happy hunting grounds." The chief replied in a friendly manner by tomahawking him and jabbing his butcher knife into his vitals. Our friend remarked that these cercmoniea were not observed in his lodge ; but " the chief wanted to show him all the peculi arities of the estern system, so he scalp ed him and chopped off his nose, and was about to build a bondlire on his stomach, when some soldiers arrived and rescued him. lie is now the bald-hcadedest Red Man this side of the Pacific Ocean, and vou never saw a person more disgusted with secret societies and Indian poetry. He is going to sue his lodge for passing a counterfeit grip on him, and for damago done by loss of his hair." Sestimkntal. The bull dog barks on the top of the hill, and the iambs are skipping in glee ; but I'm sad as the dick ens I am, my gal gave the mitten to me. Ah, where will I go, and what will I do ? I feel like a crazy burulebbee; by thunder, I'll fight! I'll kick any boy that says tha word mitten to me I I'm really mad be dogged if I ain't ! I swear I w ill kill any she ; I'll slander and slash I'll murder; that gal by thunder she shan't mitten ni ! No I won't do il;t I'll -pile her 1 a li ! 1M b n m - It l-ic irei y and Ihe.i she Will ory it Uso it) ro morse for giving the umteu to UJ9. - if
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