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The Old Tramp.
Good mornin' "boys," and how is "biz?" I'm a
seedy-looking tramp.
You see last night my "little bed" was just a trifle
damp.
I missed the trait—that's funny too—and then I
walked the rail,
I found my bed, as I always du, when inn connec
tions fail.
Last night I dreamt a dream, and I wish I'd never
woke—
Yes, "boys," I dreamt I lived again, before I took
this yoke;
I saw the forms of other days-they've climbed the
golden hill ;
I mingled with a homely throng—l wish it were
so still.
'Twaipla banquet spread in that old home, and all
were gathered there
To crowd around the festal board,—parental bless
ings share ;
You . see I lived my life again, 0 happy days so
bright,
As I slept on my dew-damp bed, in the shadows
of last night.
A poor tramp printer has a heart beneath his rag
ged garb,
"Hard Times" is roaming through our land and we
have felt his barb;
And, strangers, when I woke this morn, with
cramps and mental pain,
May God forgive my wicked wish—to never wako
again.
I've made some "justification" in this ancient, bat
tered "form,"
And my "benzine" wash I've thrown aside, it's
brought to me such harm ;
My "proof" has been "corrected," a "revise" will
needed be,
For he that searcheth hearts will many errors see.
My tramp is almost ended now—old age will win
the race,
You see my hands are "trembly" and I cannot
"hold a ease;"
But I've made an application at the "City built of
gold,"
And I long to bear the anew "'Tie a case that
you can hold."
Clot citurp-Ctiler.
Myra Wilbur's Mistake.
Gilbert Gorham, at the age of ten, was
left orphaned and destitute, and was taken
into the tender care of his loving grand
father, and his Aunt Jane, a venerable
spinster, whose severity was a most whole
some restraint upon his grandfather's ex
treme indulgence. Old Mr. Gorham being
a man of enormous wealth, his grandson
and heir was the most favored of boys and
youths, every whim of boyish and youth
ful fancy being granted as soon as ex
pressed.
And so, when Gilbert had attained the
age of twenty-one, and blushingly an
nounced his undying love for Miss Myra
Wilbur, the belle of many watering-places
and seasons, and some five years his senior,
his grandfather only nodded and said :
"Suit yourself, my boy, suit yourself."
So a magnificent diamond was slipped
on Myra's finger, and Gilbert entered into
a fool's paradise blind to the fact that he
was the dupe of an accomplished coquette,
whose whole hard nature was incapable of
the tithe of the love laid at her feet.
For, being sensitive, poetical and over
indulged, the boy made unto himself an
idol, and calling it Myra, worshiped it.
And the actual Myra, being eminently
practical, worldly and mercenary, erected
a gold idol of unlimited indulgence ar
riches, and calling that Gilbert, worshiped it.
Mr. Gorham, although he was old and
feeble, took a carriage and drove from
Fern Nook, the family country seat, in
Poolsv.!le, the town honored by Miss Wil
bur's presence, and made a formal call.
After he was gone, Miss Wilbur, turn
ing to her mother, made a stracge speech
for a maiden just betrothed, for she said :
"After all, mamma, a rich widow is
better than a rich wife, for she can spend
the money then, uncontrolled."
"Well, my dear?"
"I was only thinking that Gilbert told
me once he was entirely dependent upon
his grandfather, having nothing while the
old man lived."
"It would be well then to keep in the
old gentleman's favor."
Evidently Myra was of that opinion.—
She worked a pair of soft quilted slippers
for the aged feet, she sent flowers and
dainty dishes to Fern Nook for dear Mr.
Gorham; she made herself a hundred fold
dearer to her infatuated lover by her deli
cate attentions to his relative.
Business connected with the settlement
of a claim of his grandfather's against the
Government called Gilbert to Washington,
early in the winter following his betrothal.
There was the usual pathetic parting, and
with assurance of Myra's undying love,
the young man left Fern Nook.
After two months' absence, when he
was preparing to return labile, a telegram
reached him :
"Wait i•n New York to see me. Will
put up at the Grand Central.
JANE GORHAM."
Of all strange experiences this was the
strangest. His Aunt Jane leaving her
home to visit the metropolis ! Gilbert
vainly tried to remember if ever she had
been absent from home before, and thor
oughly bewildered, hurried to meet her.
His first surprise was to find her gentle .
and kind, all the grim severity of her
manner gone. Her kiss upon his lips was
tender as Myra's own.
"My boy,' she said, "I have news for
you that will distress you, but before I
tell that, I want you to listen attentively
to some business details that were never
of any special interest to you before. You
have always supposed Fern Nook and the
. .vealth that sustains it to be your grand
bther's."
"And are they not ?"
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"No, my dear, they are mine. Your
grandfather holds a life lease only of the
house and half the income. The property
was all his wife's and left to me, with the
lease, as I said, to my father during life.
While we were all one family and you the
heir, it was quite unnecessary to make any
talk or fuss about the matter ; but now, it
is as wet! to understand my rights and
yours."
"Now 7"
"Your grandfather, my dear, being, I
charitably believe, in his dotage, has mar
ried—Myra Wilbur !"
It was s crushing blow. Gilbert swayed
to and fro iv his chair, and then fell in
sensible.
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His ideal poetic life was more real to
him than the actual world about him, and
he suffered acutely. But his aunt was the
best of comforters, for, while she was full
of tender sympathy, she wcs eminently
practical, and with clear, forcible words
she made him realize fully bow unworthy
was the idol he had worshiped.
With her own personal property she had
also brought Gilbert from their own home,
and she took a house in New York, where
they both soon felt at home, returning no
more to Fern Nook. Then, with true
practical kindness she persuaded Gilbert
BY DELL,
SEEM
HUNTINGDON, PA , FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1877.
to allow her to buy him a partnership in a
light business, and roused him from his
dreamy, sensitive moods, to active, natural
life.
He might have been soured and hard,
but for the love of this old maid, who had
never before let him read the tenderness
of her heart. But, while he suffered
keenly, his manhood developed, and he was
a stronger, better man for his disappoint
ment.
When Myra's name ceased to be a tor
ture, Aunt Jane made herself known to
old friends of her girlhood, and gathered
about her a pleasant, social circle, where
Gilbert was soon a favorite. There was
no hint of the spinster's hope when she
said very quietly :
"Any attention you can pay to Ella
Rayburn, will be very pleasing to me,
Gilbert. Her mother has been my warmest
friend ;n past years, and we have renewed
the old times most pleasantly. If Ella is
like her mother she is a pure, sweet, un
selfish woman."
"And Ella was like her mother, and was
soon taken into Aunt Jane's closest inti
macy...
Still smarting under the past pain, Gil
bert was merely attentive to his aunt's
young friend, and not yet realizing that a
reality filling his old idea was near him.
And while these old residents of Fern
Nook were quietly gathering up broken
threads of life, to weave a more perfect
web of content, Myra Gorham was eating
out her heart in bitterness. Instead of an
old, indulgent husband, ready to humor
every whim, to give her idolatrous de
votion, she found herself tied to a querul
ous invalid, who had been accustomed to
the unquestioning obedience and devotion
of his daughter and grandson, and who
exacted a similar care from his reluctant
wife. In place of balls, concerts and
operas, the gay life of the metropolis, Mrs.
Gorham found herself shut up in a country
house, certainly sufficiently handsome and
well appointed to meet the most fastidious
taste, but lonely beyond endurance to the
woman miles away from her UWD friends,
and coldly ignored by the friends of the
Gorhams, fully aware of her mercenery
treachery.
Yet she endured it as patiently as pos
sible, till the old man, pining for Jane and
Gilbert, sickened and failed visibly.
It was when all hope was gone, that the
young wife cautiously but very plainly
urged the necessity of making a will. It
seemed to her as if all the misery of life
concentrated in the peevish reply :
"I have nothing to will. All the
property belongs to Jane! I only hold
a life lease on my late wife's estates."
"Jane !" gasped Myra, remembering
the insulting terms in which she had in
timated to that spinster that she preferred
to reign alone at Fern Nook.
"Certainly ! If Gilbert's father had
lived be would have shared in the property,
but it all reverts to Gilbert if Jane dies
unmarried."
All Gilbert's, and might have been all
hers.
Myra felt too stunned and miserable
even to cry ! To think that all her base
scheming, her feigned devotion had led
her only to this, the beggared widow of
an old man.
But after the funeral was over Mrs. Gor
ham made a few discoveries. First, all the
deep black of her dres3, with the fine white
line of her widow's cap, the sombre crape
and soft snowy tarletan were most becom
ing to her brilliant blonde beauty. She
studied her dress to its minutest detail, and
when it was perfect, formed her new plans.
In her late husband's desk she found five
thousand dollars which she appropriated,
leaving Miss Jane and Gilbert, who came
to the funeral, to defray all the expenses.
She accepted Miss Gorham's offer of the
use of the house for a year, and when she
was left in possession unscrupulously sold
many. small but valuablo articles there.
When the year was over, and Miss Jane
Gorham once more opened her house to
her friends, she was mute with consterna
tion one day when a carriage heavily laden
with baggage, drove up to her door, from
which alighted her father's widow, who
threw herself into her arms, sobbing :
"Do not send me away, lam dying in
the gloomy seclusion of my dear husband's
home. Let me stay with you !"
She stayed, of course. Miss Jane's o'd
fashioned notions of hospitality were t )43
strong to permit her to turn a guest away,
even if uninvited and unwelcome. But
she smiled grimly to see how Gilbert's
face fell at the announcement of the visitor.
"She is my father's widow," the spinster
said gravely. "So we must endure her for
a time."
She was a most fascinating widow when
she appearEd at the late dinner, in a thin
black dress, all jet and trimming, with
some knots of black ribbon in the profu
sion of her golden curls. Her color was
softly tinted as ever, her blue eyes as baby
ish and winsome ; yet, when the first eve
ning was over she knew she had gained
nothing in her effort to recapture the heart
she had thrown aside.
:Jut she did not despair. She sang the
sor.";, that Gilbert had once heard with
av,ire. She varied her dress with laces,
:loons and jewelry, till its pretense of
mourning was a mere mockery. She put
herself in Gilbert's way with every dainty
device of feminine needlework. She en
treated permission to prepare his favorite
dishes with her own white hands. And,
as if to try his constancy, Miss Jane aided
and abetted this schemer for her nephew's
fortune, and spoke but little of Ella, never
inviting her new to the house, so that Gil
bert was forced to seek her more and more
in her own home, and found her ever more
lovely and winsome from the contrast with
the idol he bad proved to be clay. It was
six months after the arrival of Mrs. Gor
'tam in her step-daughter's house, when
Gilbert, returning from a drive with Ella,
met his aunt in the hall, and clasping her
in a close embrace,
whispered very softly :
"Ella is mine! Wish me joy !"
"From my heart," she whispered back.
Radiant with joy and hope Gilbert, of
changing his driving dress, harried to
the sitting•room, to tell Aunt Jane "all
about it." He had absolutely forgotten
about their guest, and it gave him an un•
pleasant shock when he found her, seated
in a low chair, busied about some wool
work, that showed to great advantage her
tiny white hands, glittering with jeweled
rings.
She rose to greet him, and then, to his
embarrassed surprise, she clasped her jew
elled bands, and bursting into tears, sobbed :
"Oh, Gilbert, do not look at me so cold
ly. I cannot bear it. I know I deserve
nothing from you but contempt, but if you
knew bow sorely my mother urged me,
how importunate your grandfather was.
you would forgive me. I was insane with
their persecutions, and I thought in my
misery that I could still see you, and, per
haps—some day—when I was free again—
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And here even her effrontery gave out,
and she only sobbed convulsively. Taken
by surprise, every gentlemanly instinct
urged Gilbert to comfort this woman who
was so recklessly offering him what it was
once his fondest hope to possess. But his
whole soul shrank from her; his manly,
true heart was only outraged by her unwo
manly advances,
Gravely he stood looking down upon
her as she shrank in the chair, sobbing and
covering her face, and yet furtively watch
ing him.
"Gilbert, speak one tender word to me,"
she implored ; say you do not utterly des
rise me."
But he did. He sought for words to
convey his meaning kindly, and they
would not come. Blushing like a boy in
his confusion and pain, he said, gently :
"I am very sorry, Mrs. Gorham"—
"It used to be Myra," she sobbed re
proachfully.
"True, but those were days that can nev
er be recalled."
"You are cruel."
"I do not wish to be so, but I must be
frank with you. The past is dead I Never
can we revive that love that was once so
precious to me, so very trifling to you."
"No, no, you wrong me. Alas for me,
it is my misfortune that I cannot conquer
my love."
..But mine died when it was insulted and
slighted."
Here Gilbert drew a deep sigh of relief
at the appearance of Aunt Jane, entering
the room behind Myra's chair. Mrs. Gor
ham did net hear her slight step, and sob
bed :
"Your love cannot, be dead, Gilbert. It
will live again, Pity and forgive me."
"I both pity and forgive you," said Gil-
bert, very gently.
"But"
"But," said Aunt Jane, in her hardest
torte, and with her face set in rigid lines,
"you forget, Mrs. Gorham, the law does not
permit a man to marry his grandmother."
"With a cry of rage, Mrs. Gorham sprang
to her feet, but something in the cold, grave
faces, checked the torrent of wrath upon
her lips, and she left the . room
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The next day she terminated her visit,
and loftily declined an invitation, sent three
months later, to be present at the wedding
of Gilbert Gorham, and his gentle bride—
Ella.
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Recipes.
A correspondent of the Pittsburgh Com
mercial• Gazette asked the other day for a
recipe which would assist in overcoming
the appetite for alcoholic stimulants, and
in response the following prescriptions
were sent :
Take two ounces compound tincture of
Peruvian bark, one ounce aromatic sul
phurio acid, and one ounce of tincture va
lerian—mixed, and take a table-spoonful
in water every three hours. The mixture
is a stimulant and a strong nervine. .
A mixture made up as follows and tak
en in quantities equal to an ordinary dram,
and as often as the desire ter strong drink
returns, will cure the worst case of drunk
enness : Sulphate of iron, 5 grains ; pep.
permint water, 11 drachms ; spirits of nut
meg, 1 drachm. This preparation acts as
a tonic and stimulant, and partially supplies
the place of the accustomed liquor, and
prevents the absolute physical and moral
prostration that follows from a sudden
breaking off from the use of stimulating
drinks.
This originally appeared in the Scientific
American. It came into notoriety through
the efforts of John Vine Hall, commander
of the Great Eastern Steamship. He bad
fallen into such habitual drunkenness that
his most earnest efforts to reclaim himself
proved unavailing. At length he sought
the advice of an eminent physician, who
,gave him the prescription, which he follow
ed for seven months, and at the end of
that time had lost all desire for liquor, al
though he had for many years been led
captive.
From another source we receive the fol
lowing, which are highly recommended,
and are said to be able to sustain the worst
cases of prolonged and hard drinking :
NO. 1-FOR NERVOUSNESS
R. Elix. Valerianate Ammonia 1 ioz.
Water 4foz.
Mix. Take a small winegrassful when
necessary.
NO. 2—Fort STRENGTHENING.
R. Citrate Iron and Quinine 1 dram.
Tincture Gentian Comp oz.
Simple Elixir 21 oz.
Mix. Dose, a teaspoonful twice a day.
NO. 3 -FOR SLEEPLESSNESS.
R. Bromide Sodium '• c.:z.
Pepsin
Sub-Nitrate Bismuth • 1 dram.
Tincture Capsicum 30 drops.
Simple Elixir 1 oz.
Water sufficient to make 4 oz.
Mix. Dose, a teaspoonful 3 times du
ring the day, and 2 tablespoonfuls at bed
time.
Beautiful Thoughts.
It cannot be that earth is man's abiding
place. It cannot be that our life is a bub
ble cast up by the ocean of eternity, to
float a moment upon its waves and sink
into darkness and nothingness. Else why
is it that the high and glorious aspirations,
which leap like angels from the tipple of
our hearts, are forever wandering abroad
unsatisfied ? Why is it that the rain and
cloud come over us with a beauty that is
not of earth, and then pass off, and leave
us to muse upon their faded loveliness ?
Why is it that the stars, which "hold
their festivals around the midnight throne,"
are set above our limited faculties, forever
mocking us with their unapproachable
glory ? And, finally, why is it that bright
forms of human beauty are presented to
our view and then taken from us—leaving
the thousand streams of their affection to
flow back in an Alpine torrent upon our
hearts ? We are born for a higher destiny
than that of earth. There is a realm
where the rainbow never fades, where the
stars will be spread out before us like the
islands that slumber on the ocean, and
where the beautiful beings which here pass
before us like visions, will stay in our
presence forever. Bright creature of my
dreams—in that realm I see thee again.
Even now the lost image is sometimes with
me. In the mysterious silence of mid
night, when the streams are glowing in
the light of many stars, that image comes
floating upon my pillow and stands before
me in its pale, deep loveliness, till its own
spirit sinks like an angel from heaven
upon ray thoughts, and the grief of years
is turned to dreams of blessedoess.—Geo.
D. Prentice.
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Journalism Militant.
A gentleman, a native of Mississippi,
recently died near Houston, Texas, and
one of the most remarkable circumstances
in his life, according to a local journal,
was that he had been editorially connected
with the Vicksburg Sentinel for nearly a
year without fighting a duel or taking part
in any encounter. The persons who are
acquainted with the belligerent record of
the editor of the Sentinel the circumstance
will seem almost incredible, since it used
to be said in Vicksburg that no man could
stay on the paper a month without shoot
ing or being shot at, and in three months
he was almost certain to kill or be killed.
The Sentinel no longer exists, but during
its continuance of five and thirty years
there was mere warfare among the members
of its staff than there has been among the
members of any other staff since the founda
tion of the Republic. Dr. Hagan was the
first editor to attract attention, aad con
sequently to provoke hostilities. He was
a native of the North, small, quiet man
nered, very polite and amiable in ordinary
social intercourse, but one of the fiercest
of fire•eaters. In 1838 and 1839 he had
several desperate street fights and two
duels, one with the editor of the rival
sheet, the Whig, in which be killed two
men, and was himself three times wounded.
Between that time and 1842 he had seven
more encounters, killed two men, aad re
ceived five or six pistol balls in different
parts of his body. In the spring of that
year he abandoned the habit of carrying
weapons, and the following Jane was shot
dead by Daniel W. Adams (an utter stranger
to him), who killed him, he said, on ac
-count of an article reflecting on his father,
Judge George Adams. James F. Fall,
another editor of the gun powder journal,
fought several duels and was twice severely
wounded. James M. Downs, another
editor, was badly hurt in a "chivalrous"
meeting with T. E. Robbins, a banker, who
considered himself aggrieved. Walter
Hickey, another Sentinel man, had a street
fight, mortally wounded Dr. Downs, form
erly on the paper, and was afterward killed
in an encounter in Texas. James Ryan,
still another editor of the Sentinel, was
killed by R. E. Hammet, of the Whig.—
George Jenkins, his successor, was also
killed in front of the office by H. A.
Crabbe, whom he had assailed. Many
other fights and wounds were made, given
and received by the Sentinel men. Who
can read this gory account of that warlike
sheet without longing for the return of the
good old days of journalism in the South
when every editor was a walking arsenal
and forced as a business measure to keep
his private graveyard ?
Keep your Troubles Sacred,
A worthy wife of forty years' standing,
and whose life was made up of sunshine
and peace, gave the following .;•insible
advice to a taarried pair of her acquaint-
ance. The advice is so good and so well
suited to all married people as well as those
who intend entering that state, that we
here publish it for the benefit of such per
sons : "Preserve sacred the privacies of
your own house, your married state and
your heart. Let no father or mother, sis
ter or brother, ever presume to come be
tween you two, or to share the joys and
sorrows that belong to you two alone.—
With God's help, build your own quiet
world, not allowing your dearest earthly
friend to be the confident of aught that
concerns your domestic peace. Let mo
ments of alienation, if they occur, be hesL:ed
at once. Never—no—never speak of it
outside ; but to each other confess, and all
will come out right. Never let the mor
row's sun still find you at variance. Re
view and renew your vow ; it will do you
good, and thereby your souls will grow to
gether, cemented in that love which is
stronger than death, and you will become
truly one."
Victoria's Crown.
Very few persons in America have any
idea of what Queen Victoria's head dress
is like when she appears in full regal
costume, which by the way is very seldom,
for the good lady detests display. The
crown is a crimson velvet cap with a border
of ermine, lined with white silk, and weighs
39 ounces troy. In 'front is a maltese
cross of diamonds, in the centre of which
glitters the famous ruby worn in the hem
let of Henry V. at the batle of Agincourt.
A. D, 1415. Around this ruby, in order
to form the cross, are 75 brilliant diamonds.
Three other Malteee croggee, 'coming the
two sides and back of the crow', have
emerald cepters, and contain vespeeifully
132, 124 and 130 brilliant diamonis.—
There are numerous other ornaments formed
of precious stones, but we will only men
tion the total number of jewels in the
crown. One large ruby irregalarly pol
ished, one large, broad-sprearl sapphire,
sixteen sapphires, eleven Emeralds, four
rubies, 1,363 brilliant diamonds, 1,273
rose diamonds, 147 table diamonds, four
drop shaped pearls, and 273 pearls.
Be Neat.
Young ladies, if they only knew how
disgusting to men slovenliness is, and how
attractive are displays of neatness and
taste, would array thews-lves in the sim
plicity and cleanliness of the lilies of the
field ; or, if able to indulge in costly attire,
they would study the harmonious blending
of colors which natare exhibits in all her
works. A girl of good taste and habits of
neatness, can make a more fascinating
toilet with a six cent calico dress, a few
cheap ribbons and laces, and such orna
ments as she can gather from the garden,
than a, vulgar, tawdry creature who is
worth thousands, and has the jewelry and
wardrobe of a princess.—Ex.
THE other day a son of the Emerald
Isle entered a drug store, and taking a
bottle from his pocket asked for a quart of
whisky. The salesman asked to what use
it was to be put, and the reply was to
"soak roots in." The order was filled,
and the clerk, after handinc , over the bot
tle and its contents,
inquired in a conver
sational manner : "What kind of roots are
you going to soak ?" Pocketing the bottle,
the customer said : "The roots of me
tongue, be jabers !"
SHE wouldn't stand to have a tooth
pulled for one million two hundred thous
and dollars, she said, and yet she walked
all day in tiny boots two sizes to small for
her, and thought nothing of it. But,
then, nobody saw the tooth, and several
saw the boots.
A GREEPOINT lady is so modest that she
never looks at anything with a naked eye,
and goes into convulsions over a bare
statement of facts.
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A Novel Idea.
THE COMMERCIAL VALUE OF HEALTH AND
WHAT MAY BE DONE TO SECURE IT.
Very few people can afford to be sick.
The rich man may not mind the expense,
the man in moderate circumstances can
neither afford the time nor the expense,
and the poor man has no right to be sick,
for hie sickness must be prevented or cu
red at the expense of society. The very
rich and the poor patronize the doctor at
the slightest symptoms of illness ; the one
can pay the bills, the other goes to the
free dispensary. The man in moderate
circumstances avoids the doctor as long as
possible, and permits harmless attacks of
illness to grow to formidable diseases and
I often calls in help when it is too late. In
every
,thousand men and women there is
always a certain number who are sick.
This proportion varies in different places
and seasons, but it is a known fact in the
health of cities. It may, for convenience,
be reckoned at, say, twenty-five in the
thousand. This sick rate being known, it
is easy to reckon the commercial value of
health, and this being ascertained, it is
possible to decide the actual money cost of
maintaining health.
Suppose, says the New York Times, one
thousand men and women in one neighbor.
hood paid each, ten cents a week to a fund.
In a year they would have a fund of $5,.
200. Suppose they paid $4,000 to a good
physician for his services, on demand, for
a year. A good medical man could easily
undertake to maintain the thousand people
in good health, as far as nature would per
mit, and would still have left $1.200 to
pay for collecting the money. The doctor
would hardly be expected to collect the
money, and a collector, to call each week
or month in advance, would be needed.
This would only amount to $5.20 a year
for each one, and would entitle each one
to medical attendance for the year without
extra charge. By such an arrangement
the patients would be sure of help in need;
they would call the doctor at the very first
approach of illness, and much sickness
would thus be avoided. Everything de
pends on the first attack in a disease, the
first hour is worth more than the second
week, and the doctor who is called prompt
ly is generally the most successful. If the
doctor felt secure in a good income; if he
had his patients in hand at all times, he
could do himself more justice, and save his
patients much trouble, delay and pain.
A young doctor puts out his sign and
waits weary years for decently good in
come. His patients often have the utmost
difficulty in paying his bills. And, with
all this, by proper association, they could
get good medical attendance from a man
jealous and eager to keep them well for
only a few dollars a year in advance, and
the doctor would be saved the -worrying
care and heart-sickening deferment of hope
that are his usual experience in early med
ical life. The only wonder is that some
active and honest man does not undertake
to collect ten or fifteen cents a week from
a thousand or more people and provide
them with a first class physician. An able
medial man could readily undertake the
care of fiaeen hundred patients, if he was
provided with a generous and fixed income.
The collector, picking up fifteen cents a
week, in weekly or monthly payments,
could easily pay a physician $B,OOO or
$9,000 a year for his whole time, could
guarantee to his patients the best attention
on demand, and still have a little some
thing for himself. This idea is neither
new nor visionary. It is already in active
operation in several English cities, under
what is known as the Provident Dispensa
ry system. It can be made to pay, and
might be of infinite value, both to the pa.l
tients and to the medical profession.
Little by Little.
If you are gaining little by little, every
day, be content. Are your expenses less
than your income, so that, though it be
little, yea are constantly accumulating
and groWing richer and richer every day ?
Be content; so far as concerns money, you
are doing well.
Are you gaining knowledge every day 7
Though it be little by little, the aggregate
of accumulation, where no day is permitted
to pass without adding something to the
stock wiii be surprising to yourself.
Solomon did not become the wisest man
in the world in a minute. Little by little
—never omitting to learn something, even
for a single da:--always st- dying a lttle
between the time of rising up in the morn
ing : . .nd lying down ac nigat ; this is the
way to accumulate a full storAouse of
knowledge.
are yoi daily improving in
character ? Be not discouraged because it
is little by little. The best _Alen fall far
short of what they themselves wouid with
to be. It is something, it is much, if you
keep go(,d resolutions better to-day than
you did yesterday, this week than you did
last, better this yea! than you d:d last year.
Stiive be perfect, but do not become
down hearted so long as you are approach
ing nearer and nearer to tie high standar , :
at whicl - you aim.
Little by little, fortunes are accumulated ;
little by little, knowledge is gained ; little
by little, character and reputation are
achieved.
Tact.
Love swings on little hinges. It keeps
an active little servant to do a great deal
of its fine work. The name of the little
servant is Tact Tact is nimble-footed,
and quick fingered ; tact sees without
looking, tact has always a good deal of
small change on hand ; tact carr':?.s Lc
heavy weapons can do wonders with a
sling and stone ; tar z-Jver runs his head
againot a stole wail ; tact always spies a
sycamore tree up which to climb when
things are becoming crowded and unman
ageable on the level ground ; tact has a
cunning way of availing itself of a word;
or a smile, or a gracious wave of the hand;
tact carries a branch of curious-fashioned
keys, which turn all sorts of locks ; tact
plants its monosylables wisely, for, being
a monsylable itself, it arranges its own
orders with the familiarity of friendship ;
tact—sly, versatile diving, running, flying
tact—governs the great world, yet touches
the big baby under the impression that it
has not been touched at all.
A TRAMP was arrested in New Jersey,
last week, taken before a magistrate, who
sentenced him for three months. The
justice, in explaining the sentence, re
marked that, while there was no evidence
that the prisoner had been guilty of any
crime, be thought it prudent to commit
him, as he bad the wild, haggard look of a
man about to start a newspaper.
WHY is a lady's bustle like a historical
romance ? Because it is fiction founded
upon facts.
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HOW RURAL RESIDENTS ARE EKING SWIM.
DLED-A COMPREHENSIVE SCHEME,
Information has been received of a cow
prehensive plan for swindling the residents
of rural districts, and which has already
been put in very successful operation. The
Murphy movement is made the basis of
the swindle, and owing to the deep inter
est which has been manifested in the Tem
perance cause, the parties engaged in the
swindle are able to work much more suc
cessfully. The plan of operations is to in
duce the intended victim to believe that a .
secret convention composed of prominent
temperance workers from every State-vak vi
held in Philadelphia, with Francis Mu&
phy as chairman, for the purpose orin e inis
zing a secret political temperance organize.' ,
tiow which should have its ramifications in
every State, city, ward, township and
boroue, the avowed object being to so
control the temperance converts as to in•
duce them to vote fur no candidate except
those placed in nomination by the secret.
organization. order to get the machi
nery in operation so as to concentrate the
whole force in Pennsylvania and Ohio &t
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rine: the present year, the victim is inform- •
ed that agents arc to be appointed to work
up several districts in the immediate local
ity in which he resides, and• to appoint
sub-agents in such places as he may visit.
The agent must be a property hes!der is _
his district as security for his s...,nitity,
and must be a thorough temperance man.
The swindler further informs the intended
victim that each agent must be sworn to
secrecy, must work so as not to attract at
tention in any way, the object being to
prevent the liquor men from obtaining
knowledge of the movement If the vic
tim lends a willing ear he is asked if he
is willing to accept the position of agent
fur his particular district, and if he inti
mates a willingness to accept he is inform
ed that an initiation fee of AN dollars,
(or any price which can be secured) Must
be paid in order to constitute him a mem
ber of the organization. This money is
promptly forwarded to headquarters in
Philadelphia, and in six days thereafter ,
the new agent will receive from the Exec
utive Committee, a book of instructions,
giving full information as to how he win
prosecute the work assigned hid). He •
will also receive, at i.he same , time, Iwo
thousand dollars in cash ' one thousand of
which is to be expended in payieg taxes
of those in his district who aro too poor to
pay themselves, and who will promise SO
vote the temperance ticket. The other
thousand dollars is to pay the agent for
the time and trouble expended in pushing
forward the "good cause" of temperance.
The wide field of operations is described
to the victim, the certainty of success de -N
scanted upon and the peace and prosperity
which must follow the elevation of total
abstinence men to office is pictured in
glowing colors. If the victim yields to
the blandishments of the swindler, he pays
over the $5O to the secret emissary, takes
th oath prescribed in the form, receives
the congratulations of the auceessful ras
cal, and then languishes until the six days
have lengthened into months, and yet enh
tinues to look for his cash and book of - -
instructions. •
This in brief is a summary of the
of operations. We have the names of pera
sons residing in the neighboring conotioi
who have been victimised, and others tire'*. --
constantly making themselves knowni •1
is hardly necessary to tell oz!- readers that':
Francis Murphy is hostile to tempers:l
in politics, and those who are in the Mur
phy movement hold the same view. It 111
to be hoped that the rascals who hove
vised this most plausible swindle may- Nr=
arrested and brought to punishment.— . -
Pittsburgh Chronicle. •
There is an innate principle in the ha.
man heart which causes men to love truth
and regard it as something particularly
valuable, beautiful and majestic. The im
ages of a lively fancy or the fairy forme of
the deal world may delight for a moment
the restless mind but truth alone can im-
part a spirit which partakes of its own Alig.
pity, simplieLy and eternity. Those who
are charmed with finely wrought tales, im
aginary joys ar.d woes, and are wont to feel
the immortal intellect with "airy nothing,"
feel too painfully the insufficiency of fie.
tion to - upply the necessities of the soul,
a id though such seldom become the lovers
and def-nders of truth, they are accustom
ed to regard it as a treasure which possess
es the power of imparting alsetingsstisfse-
.ion to its posst.ssor.
So spontaneously does the love of truth
spring up in the human heart, that the sys
tem of error, however studied and specious,
wou.., meet the approUation of mankicd,
did it not asscme the garb of reality, and "
present itself tc , the inquiring mind as the
object of his search.
Truth, then, may be regarded as having
au original ibsde in the human soul ; and
thai, man stood on theearth, and
held "sweet converse, and cherubim and
seraphim," saw it in full perfection, and
loveliness: But when the polluting and
desttoying influence of Bin introduced die
order and confusion into harmonious unit
verse and marred the beautiful symmetry►
of man's moral constitution, prejudice is
part „;ained the ascendency over the prin
ciple, and obtained a seat in the heart
there to defend error and counterfeit truth.
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Thoughts suggest thoughts, and theme
thoughts other thoughts, ad infinitum.
Thoughts are invisible and more until
they are clothed in language, or embodied
in words; then they can both be seen and
heard. Without thoughts to direct the
orator's speech, the author's 'pen, or the
artist's hand,no work could be accomplished,
the world would become a dreary - waste
and man would soon be annihilated.
Thoughts are like diamonds—they
sparkle,
no matter how rough and =south
their setting; and like diamonds, too, they
are valued for their brilliancy, and the
more highly they aro polished the better
they shine.
Thoughts belong to their originator un
til set free and scattered ; then they be
come public property and can never be
collected together again as at first. The
only way to keep your thoughts is not to
divulge them—not even as a secret!
Thoughts expressed, however, whilst
they do no harm, do no good. Like a
candle hid under a bushel, they burn, bat
shed no light. Therefore it is beet to di
vulge your thoughts; but let your impure
and evil ones (if any such you have) ever
remain in solitary confinement and idoe,
that they may be smothered and hermit°
extinct.
"You're a cardinal-nosed thing r is the
latest womanism.
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NO. 23.
Plausible Swindle.
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Truth.
Thoughts.
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