El ic JBED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING «te KBISt'ITRnDY", icE ..soutb babhkt square; . Two Dollars por year If pftld Btrlot|£ - ! "Ttwo llollars.and Plflyjponts If paid ( ln imVintha; altar whloh Three Dollar* .1. Ttie*p. : rerniH will he rlaldly ad °ol?vorv Inataiite. Noanhnorlpllou du -11 , nnSl all arrearages are paid, nulcss at S me tfaros. I *“• u - ‘‘ A i‘KEH [jIBICH & PABKEB, ATTORNEYS a TLA W.. on Main dtieet. in Murlon Hall, Car- il ISB- i« E. MaGLAUGHLIN, Attor t at Law. Office Id Bulldlug formerly d by Voluatoer, u few doors South of Wot* IIA/ 11X65 (TED STATES CLAIM [. AND ] AI ESTATE A GENCY! M. B. BUTLER, attorney at law, i 2d Story of InholTs Building, No. 8 South sr street, Carlisle, Cumberland county ias, bonntloa, Bact Pay, &0., promptly itloDa by mall, rocolvo Immediate otor attention given to the Belling or rent ed Eh late, In town or country, in all iet uaalry, please enclose postage stamp. U«fl7-tf ' „ bejltziioovuk, iTIORFEr-A T-LA W, CAKLiaLK JPa. (fflce on South Hanover Street, opposite \ dry goods sloro. IHrti . HERMAN, Attobnby at Law jfflceln Bheem’e HaUßalMlng, In the jie Court House, next dbor-'to the M Her- Ice. Carlisle, Penna. '' l ’■ 1K63.’ : ; ■ M. J. BREAKER, Attokney and fcouKSBLLOB at Law, has removed bis b tbe hitherto unoccupied room In the East corner of the Conn House. Rfe-iv ‘ ' . . IKESNEDY, Attorney at Law Carlisle, Penna. Office same as that of neiiesD Volunteer,” MSCfI L. dSRYOUK. Justice of the eaco. Office No 8, Irvin’s Row, Carlisle. 3. IsO-ly GEORGE 8. BEARIQHT, Den- T. From the BaUiviore OoUeue qf Dental Office at the residence of ais mother lulher Street, three doors below Bedford ), Penna. i m: I J. 8. BENDER, Homoeopathic musician, Office No. fi, South Hanover st», \ly occupied by John Lee. Esq. IU8«0-ly. 'B. B. HiBOXVS, Attorney and COUNSELOR AT /. A W, FIFTH STREET, BELOW CHESTNUT. Cor. Library, ' •PHILADELPHIA, M, 1109—ly ;EBT OWENS, 111 ATE ROOFER. ) DE iL E R IN til ATE LANCASTER, PA. All Wrrrk Guaranteed, Orders Left at this Office will receive llollroilon. October 14. IKo9—ly. &ats anfr (laps. |£MH dUMMKKAiiBIVAIi iV-JBIK STYLES - OP ATS AND CAPS, fifworlber has just opened at No, 16 North j&eet, a few doors worth of the Carlisle Bask, one of the largest and bestStooks sand CAPS over offered In Carlisle... Uis.Cassimere of all styles and qualities, colors, and every desorlp* (Soft Hats now made. .. • ; ■ • hraDtercr and oiu- FaShiohea Bru*h,con fon band and made to order, all warrant ee satisfaction. ■ • A mil assortment of . MEN’S, , BOY’S, AND . CHILDREN’S, Hats also added to my Stock, notions of differ-, hds, consisting of S’ AND GENTLEMEN’S STOCKINGS, o. Suspenders, Mim, Gloves, ■ Pencils, Thread, Sewing Bilk, Umbrellas, do [ME SEGAEB AND TOBACCO ALWAYS ON HAND, rue a call, and examine ray stock os I feel 'Qt of pleasing all, besides saving you mo- JOHN A. KELLER, Agent, . No. 16 North Hanover Street, TS AND CAPS I YOU WANT A NICE HAT OR CAP ? * If so, Don't Fail to Call ok J.G.OAIiLIO, ■Ifl). 29. WESI MAIN STB&ET, Lean be seen Uie fluent assortment of hats and caps , te&S 5 * oassimere HATS,- M.W* eas . v ¥ la \R<tf Hate aud Qapi o “Ml stylo, ail ol which ne wUi sell at th *w« Prices. Also, his own momifactor ißalways on hand, and Jaw manufactured to order. piutbb best arrangemenlXor coloring Hats Wimlsof Woolen Goods, Overcoats, Ac., a! |ortest notice (as he colors every week) and i most reasonable terms. Also, a fine lot ol J brands of . I tobacco and cigars '* hand, lie desires to call theattontio have COUNTBYPURS -aa lie pays the highest cosh prices for he call,at the above number, his ild UO feels confident of giving entire sp .is- T.ISW, tooota aufc ioijoea. IVID STKOiIM, W. D. SPONSLER, JOHN W. STKOHM, EIV ASIU p OPULA IS yE ’ HAT w. 13, SODTU HANOV&ii STREET, r tlrtn*-*. o PENW’A. ibiiofl'a building. Jubtupeueu tUe ibrgeulaau best stock ND hHOES >, and continue aluioe mlh lu our line ait every souulute m all km da ami Childrens’ strong Leather ' and Childrens' Lusting Kid, Turney uud French ovu' Calf, Uufl and Kid CuU and Kulf Congress t>y<t Lasting (iultersund ys Cuif uuu Butt uxrord luipu&s and Overshoes; iK Welv and Carpet Blip* cuudrsnu’ For and Bax- and prices; Traveling its, togeiuer witn a dim 'Ui tieil to suit Uio limes, „il ALLS tKOvITa.» v in issuing uur card, it lui invitation to-ail m /ODgb our stock Without os lu buy unless suited io j shall always try to dual oraigbt forward manner, «r a full eumvaiaul lor his vlii avail themselves oi t cull and set* Uu. .’UOfcLM A ttVOJNaLEIR. iCHANT TAILOR, - 3or Rheem'a Hull, Car* Jv urued from th» Kusleru uiiifwHJlJ® Bl uu d most WAU*la*fy AttauKTAlfiJST OP V ’ lNa ' J2B GOODS, |W CLOTHS. 7 ' fei . OABaMEi n B -TINGB. _ I uftUQlibiog Goods, ao. over brough* L/-K 4u* ouuai ooinpr Ibo Pi, gHAHQH | tt [ Dd T „ AN uAunPACTUHES, r W T«^ tleaoe » is prepared t*> warrant pe tes \erompl filling ol orders. Don ., m “ y “ d, ° r * A«g. M. 1W»- olunucr BY BRATTON & KENNEDY. IE scrllancoUEt. rp h E FIRST MORTGAGE BONDI Chicago, Danville & Vincen RAILROAD Total amount to be leaned. Capital Blocs paid in. Intimated Cost of Hoad (UO miles), Estimated Earnings per annum, Met Ear..lugs per unuum. Interest on tbe l»uu per annum. Amount of Bonds per mile ot Koad, Amount ot interest per mile, Amount of Is el Earnings per mile, The Bonds follow the completion of the Road —have, the Union Trust Company of fv, Y, os their Official Register and 'transfer A«ent—and are soul at present at 95 and accrued Interest. They bear examination au>> coiupa’ison, bet* ter, it Is believed (ban any other now before the public, lu the fixed and unchangeable elements of {safety , decxtritu and J*rojlt. The> bear good interest—aovon percent. Gold for lorty years-and are secured by a {Jinking Fund, and First Mortgage upon the road, Its out* ht, and net Income, the Franchises, and all pies* cm ana future acquired property of the Compa ny, ■ .they depend upon no new or half-settled ter ritory lor business to pay their Interest, but upon an old, well settlenL and productive coun try; assuming that a railroad built through the heart of such a region offers better euurity for both interest and / rmcipal than a road to be bttill through,the moat highly extolled, wilderness or s- arseiy settled temtory, . This iiailroud possesses special advantages, In running -Into and «ut of the City of Chicago, an important Railroad and Cornu.erclal Corner; lu running through a lino of villages and old farm ing settlements in the richest portion of the atalo of Illinois; In running near to deposits of Iron Ore. of great extent ana value, and ov*r broadßeids 01 the best ooai in the* State—which mining interests are Us monopoly. And besides the local and other business thus assured, there will be attracted to this road the considerable traffic already springing up “From the Lakes to the Gmi;” us with us Southern Connections it forms a Trunk i.lno 45 miles shorter than any oluer route irom chlaagoto .Nashville. . These Bonds are therefore based upon a Real ty and a Business that a low years must Inevi tably double—and competent Judges say treble —in value. - . Governments selling while the price is high pay well if put into these Bonds, and Trust or Estate Funds can be put Into nothing bettoi. Pamphlets, with Maps, <fco., on bund lor dis tribution. Bonds may be had directly of us, or of bnr Agent in Carlisle. A. L. SPONSLEH. . No.—, West Main St. . W. BAILEY LANG & CO., Merchants. 51 CHlTStreet, New'YorJc, Agents for the sate of theßunds. Jan. 27,1870—2 m . CITIZENS OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. We have now on hand and Just received from „the<cltles, and-from man ulactuiers, the largest stock of new, cheap, and good goods to be found id any two stores in the valley. We havo the best ussoitmont of CLOTHS, CABBI.M BUS, SATINETTS. JKA 8. FLANNELS. TICKINGS, GINGHAMS, POINTS, MUSLINS. D R 8.8 B GOODS, BHkB, Merinoes, “Repps. Delaines, Alpacas. Coburgs, Plaids hnd Stripes. RIBBONS, HOSIERY, GLOVES, Zephyrs, Towels, Yarns, Linen and Cotton Table Diapers, CTjOAKINGS. low prices and line , HANDKERCHIEFS, COLLARS and CUFFS. Velvets,. 'trimmings and more notions than can be ronnd anywhere under one roof. • FURS AND CARPETS, Oil Cloths. Druggets, Blinds, Coverlets,' Quilts Hoop and Balmoral Skirts,. SHAWLS, of every description. In fact a splendid assort ment of goods, and more given for the dollar, than anywhere else. WOOL. at the highest price taken In exchange. Give ns a call Oct. 28.18C9. n ROOERIES. &o. The subscriber begs leave to Inform the citi zens of Carlisle and vicinity that be bos pur chased the Grocery Store of x). V, Keeny, No. 7K south Hanover Street. .Carlisle, where he will carry on the Grocery Business as usual. His as sort ment is varied, and consists In part of QUEENSWARE, GLASSWARE, STONE and EARTHEN WARE, CEDAR and WILLOW WARE TEAS. •COFFEES, SYRUPS. SPICES. fancy SOAPS, ROPES. TOBACCO, FISH. OHS, HALTERS, BEGARS, BALT, POTATOES. DRIED AND CANNED FRUIT, CORN MEAL, BUCKWHEAT, FLOUR. FEED, and a fall assortment of articles usually kept in a flrat-classjOrocery store. Give him acull, and satisfaction will be guaranteed. Oct. 10, IWtO. JOHN HECKMAN. QHEAP COAL! CHEAP COAL!! The subscriber is prepared to deliver, by the car load, to Llmelmrners and other consumers along the line of the Cumberland Valley Rail road, the celebrated MOM S U\IP GOAL! LOWEST POSSIBLE RATER FOR CASH Tins Coal Is of very superior quality, and will he furnished at prices whldh will defy all compe tition. The subscriber will deliver Coal at Carlisle, during the current month, at the following prices per ton uf 2.000 lbs.: .83 16 ... -I 65 ... 5 65 5 55 And to othor point* of the road, be will dellv e it. adding or deducting the expense In freights. The above rates will be subject to the rise or fall of prices, each month at. me mines. GEOhGE ZINN, Office cor. Main and Pitt Bts., Carlisle, Pa. Deo. 23, iW>9. PEA , NUT, STOVEf. EGG 1 A AAA Agents wanted for the Priest J.V/j UU v and Non. This most exciting and interesting book, by a popular authoress, Is now ready, unu thoso who wish to canvass for It Should apply Immediately for circular, (with stamp enclosed,) stating territory desired, expe rience, ao. Agents wanted everywhere for this and other flrsi-cl -ss books and engravings, by ORITTK.nDEN * MoJONJSEY, ABo»Chestnutßt„ Phllodelphiu, Pa. Dot. ill, HW&Hjra AMERICAN ALE.—The American Ale Brewery, formerly Qebhart's, has been ie-upeued by (J. U. Faber, who Is now ready to supply this Justly celebruted‘braud ol Ale to Ho tels. saloous and Private Families, at low rates. Ale delivered in all parts of Cumberland, Ad amsor Perry counties. U 0. FABEH, Nv, IS, l*C9~Biu.* CONSUMPTION CAN BE CURED byDr. C. U.’Harrison's tfew JProcua of 'treat menu Call or address Dr. O. C. Harrison. lUI AoujA JStgtUh Street, Philadelphia, jix, L.P. ej. —ripeoluiutttleuon given to THROAT and U>QDittEAMEtt f March 4, IM» ly (r>l CCA month made by agents eolliug OUVE LuGAN’b great work, JJh.- tUUE THE FOOTLIGHTS and BEHIND TUB SCENES. Tho must spicy, rapid Belling book out. 10,oou ordered the llret month. Agents can secure held and a 82.UU out-lit iree by cutting this out and addressing FAHMELEE&CU., Publish' era, Phila., Fa. and Middletown, Conn. Kill the demon of Pniu. woi colt’s Fain Paint removes pain instantly, i heals old Ulcers. Wolcott’s Anulhllator I N Bronchitis and Cold in the bead. I j an. Wl Druggists, and lux Chatham tiquare, >f 1 \T INEUAb.' ' i_ iH V without drugs. I ha(lE. Vinegar Works, r—nde In ten hours ' 6 jan. Si isTV—firr *ars, address L, -an. the American Balnntccr OP THE $2 500 000 2-100 000 4 800 000 2 039 80t< 870 76c* 175 OOP 18 000 1 6 284 BENTZ & GO. times the selfish question filled her, 'Why must all this come upon m*f I would rather be bioted out than live so! Why, i wasuH mad© tor this!' tne in dignant nature would add,, till she re membered that the servant Is not better than her lord; and believing herself over-brooded by love, this devout little woman would turn back from rebellion, confident that her being would yetreuQp its symmetry, and find its answers. God never made a germ to grow hideous for want of Its proper food. One ’hot July morning, she stood churning her butter In - the shed, and soothing her mother in the house. The churn gave forth a pleasant sound, but Mrs; Amyriills uttered most dolorous ones. She lay in a rocking chair, fan ning herself with one languid hand. ‘Oh I 1 can't stand this,'said the poor lady; ‘these things are wearing ray life out. I wouder what your father ever in tends to do. My health hss been sacri ficed ; all your prospects have been sacri ficed. I do not see. how any worse things can befall us. It would be well If we could all die in a heap now Marga ret you are growing to look like a milk* at tlio maid I.’ ‘Do you really chink it Is not worth our while to live, since no worse things can befall us, my mother?' ‘You seem to enjoy degradation ! Ido wish, Margaret, you would remember you are a lady. How iarue your bauds are becoming!’ ‘They ate not so large as to be un wieldy, dear mother,' laughed Margaret. ‘I do think,'she added softly, with em phasis in her lambent eyes, /that there is no degradation in my trying to com fort my father ami mother.’ It’s poor com fort,' fretted Mrs. Amy rlllls, ‘to see t ur daughter toiling and coarsening, with no hopes before her.'— Margaret had 'hopes,' but her mother would have regarded them as simply ‘religious feelings,' which were made for use in the temple, like the precious vessels thereof, and with reverence only to he spoken of elsewhere. . The cream had not y* t yielded its rich secret, but was foaming and swelling therewith. Mrs. Amyriills, crying be hind her nervous Pends, was not like ly ever to yield a secret that would en rich anybody. Margaret applied herself more energetically to both cases. She* hastened to show her mother an amus ing article In the one newspaper they af forded ; she kissed the lady’s heated tern-, pies, and,crooned a pretty air to give her reading « pleasant uudertonej Theushe dashed the phurp-handlo ..with-firmer bands. In her neat’ dress, whUelyband ed at neck and wrists, wlthberbalr smoothly arranged, and her noble eyes shining, she did not look like a coarsen ing woman* The paper dropped, by upd by, Into Mrs. Amyrlllis's lap, and. she slept through thejlunguld hours till Margaret's band was laid ou her forehead at noon. EINE ‘Dliiuer Is ready, you see, mother dear. I Imvtaosrrled yours up into my room.— The men are coming from their thresh ing to tho table. Will you go up stairs uow - * * ‘Yes. Ugh 1 those dreadful wretches 1 What customs danot the Americans have! And you have to serve them. Margaret?’.. ‘Yes. Father would be buta bungling waller, you know.' . ‘Your father, or you either, serving a Ribreffaftemn. CROWNS FOR TOUR brows. CHAPTER T. A great many women (I am thankful to know) have earned halos in their time Home we have heard of, and pome we know nothlmr abou*. Women’s fa cea with 'he aureole shine out of history, but oflener-they shine out of human hearts, wherein they were photograph ed long after their materiality bad passed away. There are men who profess they “do not believe In women.” And they do not lack sentimental Imitators, devoid of their vices because, devoid of (heir fibre, to cry the fallen sentiment The two hands of a man’s spiritual body seem to me to he faith In God and faith in wo men. If he Is maimed of these, where-, with shall he work stronply and worthi ly through his duration ? I know some women are course, hui I know (and again render that.Us for It) that some rise up and earn halos—women of Warm blood, and tned flesh, and many faults, whose aureoles were visible within the doors of their homes before they were set to shine on the doors of their, tombs. Margaret Amyrlllls d'd not know,she was earning one—it is a remarkable fact that those who are thus Illuminated sel dom know It—she was so occupied with doing her duty and prowinp lovely there at. T° grow lovely at duty, to: make our actions rebound upon ourselves. Is the hardest, but the pohlest part of all. The western wind mew. arid the west tern sun shone upon her prairie home: hut potent ns are such wind and sun, they never could spoil her f ce that ee itself bravely to them as it set itself brave-. •y to life. She had been born in En gland. Mr. Amyrillls was a gentleman- He could trace hack’his ancestry through generations. Marparet had been an heir ess. But Mr. Amyriliis was weak. He bowed under misfortunes, and the tide swept him. almost d°st!tute, to. America. He brought bis delicate wife and daughter to the prairies; and rearing such a home as he could afford, and which he would not have considered fit for* tenant in England, he began— not to toll manfully, like many Bomber mined foreigner, up the free terraces of Amerlcan promotion,* but—to vegetate. And beside him, a wo man who refused to lie comforted, like Rachel, for the loss of.ber first-born am bitions, vegetated also. He grew like poor man, breathing and'nour ishing himself, but always signing; while Mrs. Amyriliis, like Ivy, c.lunp te naciously to nil the ugly and disagreea ble pnrts of their situation, and luxuria ted solemnly,over the whole. >#Between two such, parents, with her tastes put. behind her and her fate to face, Margaret Amyriliis lived and toiled. Khe often had-.uuiy thoughts in that clos et which Mrs. Stowe places behind the human Intellect, and which she says is often filled with mean guests, while the brain’s front parlor is more properly oc cupied. But the.soul who can keep these lhe closet. There is more hope of expelling them by the way they came In. The Amyriliis home was a' wooden building, with one room below and tv loft above- These Margaret wrought skilful ly with. They could not afford ‘‘help besides “help*’ was not easily found.— The : Irl studied to become a clever. Mule housekeeper, . She’ made the moms as pretty and convenient as possible. Rbe planned and helped her fivher to make a folding screen which at qight separated her bed corner into a chamber by itself. She curtained the walls with some old ,tapestry, and hung hef own pictures here and there, am in o little shed behind their hut, she did Che mean* er drudging, with hands you would have shuddered to see In relations to dishwater and soapsuds though you read In the placid forehead above them a conviction that this was appointed, and, therefore, consecrating work* .. Margaret was .not a beauty. She had shapely handsand bright hair;, her eyes were blue and clear; she was.amah, and had a sweet dignity. In the sphere to which she was led, she became a saluted presence. You and I might develop thus through otir vexations, sister. We have Just as much capital to begin with as bad Margaret AinyrllUs, And she Is not a phantom of the bruin, but to day exists a living soul among God's millions. Her winters were cold,, and her summers hot, and her toil wearying, like ours.— She hungered for society, and received a stone : she thirsted for tenderness, and had vinegar to drink from her ferment lug parents. She almost suffocated in her life, and used to look through ther loft window at the stars, her bosom bursting with its throes. And some CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 3, 1870. ■of of reekin'* boors at our own table! Oh ! what is the world coming to?* *To dinner, my mother. At least, a sufficient part of (be world to demand wv attention at once. Ido not mind It, and father does not serve., He sits down with them, you. know.’• *Yes, he sirs down with them/ fumed Mrs. Arinyrillls. ‘The representative of a house who no more allowed their de pendants to sit above the suit than they allowed the dogs I* ’‘But these men are not dependants, t mother. They are free born American citizens.’ Mrs. Amyrlllla put out her band in scorn to repel the free-born American citizens: Her daughter arranged her seat, and found a little shawl to keep her from the draught. ■ ‘I will bring your dessert as soon as they have begun eating.’then promised the girl, turning to go down stairs. *1 suppose,’ queried the mother, with some indefinite qualms’ ‘I hope they are —not insolent—toward you ? I ought to stay down Ihere^’ *Oh! no,’ replied Margaret, her sweet dignity . becoming apparent,’ they are very respectful; they could not be other wise.’ The threshers crowded from out door world upon her white floor, just as her own foot, descending from the last step, pressed It. FhenoddedquietJy tojtbose whom she knew. Thejf all recognized her presence. Some ot them were hulk ing fellows, who had never before been so courteous to a woman. Thus .imper ceptibly she broke the ice between them and a sex they dreaded. For having greeted a woman properly once, they would exp°rieuce less terror at the next trial. Their burnished faces, just puri fied from Margaret's bowel of cool water and fresh towels, encircled the table.— Mr Amyrijlls sat piteously at the head, trying to assimilate himself to bis com panions. His face was a comical mix ture of horror, at western freedom and a servile desire to conciliate, shudder ed, cypresa-llke, to bear Ills old and gen tle name maimed until it was ‘Armless.' And lie was obliged lo feed the very backlog lips that maimed it! He look ed stupidly at the men taking their cups of coffee from bis .dauvtei's high-bred hands, and . wondered if they knew she cutne of a line three times as old as their monstrous government! Poor man; there was less beef and wine, and more pastry and bile, in bis make-up than for merly; he could not'become healthfully Americanized. He,could not see, as his daughter aiiw, ‘men and brothers* in these stalwart specimens. ‘Men and hi others’ they did indeed prove; them selves not long after in the war against the Rebellion. ‘ls Miss Armless cm well to day !’ asked one neighbor, handing back bis cup for the fourth lime. ‘X don't see her knockin' round.' Mr. Amyi'illis stared fiercely, but re covered himself lu u piteous.grin. ‘The lady—my , wife—yes, she is quite well, thank you. Her health bos never been poor.' ‘The heat oppresses ray mother,* put in Margaret quietly n over her father s blond-, ei*. *J am afraid she wi 1 have fever.' -Hhol' said the neighbor, gurgling at his cup. ‘Now this here's sluppiu- cof fee!' be.exclaimed gallantly. ‘X reckon you learned td f 'make it Jn'. the old coun try, d du.t you, Marge ?’ ‘No. I have only learned to work since! came to America.' ‘Wurth your while to come, then. — Glria allays ort to know, how lo work.— prteu’t they, Armless?* . , Mr. Amyrlllls whimpered, but finally came out with triumph iu hie sickly grin. ‘Exercise was healthy,* he couced ed. . ‘To be sure it is,’ said the stolid farmer. ‘Have you had any agur feelin’u sence you come here ?' tie inquired. The broken-down gentleman hesitated. He was almost tempted to a solemn pun. ‘Give me hot poverty,' hud often been' in his mind,4but ‘Give me’nnt rfchea/ never. He thought his agur feelins’ had only been partial. True to his cypress development, however, bo sighed and. answered literally that he had one or two chilis. * • • . Margaret's eyes were drawn up during a jargon 61 talk to hud one man rever- ently watching her* He was large and. bronzed. ISne remembered to have heard him culled Jack Warren. The-e was. some breeding beneath his roughness.— Weeing hhfegaze was noticed, he .begged; her for another glass of mile:. She gave, it, and finding a gap in her occupation,! hastened to carry up her mother’s desert, innocent of having made an irnpn ssion,. so completefy had duty taken the place of self-consciousness in her. As she returned, a merry oath burst from this man’s lips. He met her eyes and colored, exclaiming at once with western frankness, ‘I beg your pardon, Miss Margaret. 1 am ashamed ot that, aud I’ll try.novor to do it &K»iQ. ’Thank yen,’ said the girl gratefully. Her look, he told'the men afterward—' ‘ti-ht look of her ey es went deeper into him than any sermon that any preacher ever pounded out of a pulpit ’ Thenceforward Jack Warren, western farmer, loved the little English lady, and begun to see the halo round her head, which is yet to him a star leading upward. CHAPTER XI. In this community, Sabbath was. a mere day of pause—a period at the end ol the week, which they often ran over and rendered quite as busy os any comma preceding it. There was no church to attend* Once in three months an itine rant minister called a few worshippers together in the school-house. Margaret missed so sorely the chime of bel'a, her seat in the old church, and the beautiful lessons and service; she missed the light falling from stained windows, he? father’s tenants with their respectful looks, tne sweet thrills of the organ; she missed everything but the spirit of devotion in her own heart. — This she carried up to her chamber after the Sunday morning work was done after the hou*e was made trim, and lie” mother comfortably settled In the easy chair, with Bible, Prayer-book, smelling bottle, fan and George Herbert’s hymns; ami her .father brushed and. tidied like the Infant that ho was. And having cairled it up, she turned the attic into a little chapel and worshipped. .She had curtained In one side ol the attic, and garnished it as prettily as she could,— Without the folds the family stores were arranged ; within was the maiden’s bow er. Her cot stood* by the square hole known as the window, which she cover ed with musqudo baraiu the summer,— Pictures in fanciful fra'tnesof leaves or burs bung about. Here Margaret sat on {Sabbath morning, and tried to belleye berm If In the old church. She read the .prayers ahd the Psalter* and bummed the old organ notes, till all the former Seace would come and encompass her.— lore, also,, on this day, she opened a lucked drawer, and looked at tb* pictur ed face of a young man. She was care ful on every such occasion to admonish hereelf concerning the owner of the face. She never kissed It and fondled upon it, os most girls do, but her lips and bauds trembled. 'Now, Margaret Amyrlilis,’ ran bar sermon, ‘look at Mr* WalterCbeyelier If you mußt, but remember lie no longer cures for you. He will come back from India to marry imma beautiful woman, and live in London. He i» ricb, and tal ented and gaud. You are apoorfurmei’s daughter in the United States, wltb nothing to distinguish you, and are olleu exceeding slnlul. But there can be no harm in your trying to become such a woman as he would approve of, careful however, that y»u da not .make an image of this little miniature, and play tbs papist, for then It will have to be destroyed, and you will see the friend who helps you so mm-h no more. The Amyrlilis family were not trou bled with Babbath visitors, though all their neighbors ’went visiting on that day.. Early In their sojourn, Mrs. Amy rllllßhadset the neighborhood on flro by her ejection of a good wife and brood who came to spend the day with her.— Disturbed and exasperated, she resented the iutrualqn ; energetically, to the dis trees of her daughter and the horror of her husband, giving ‘my good woman' quite as sound a piece of advice .os if *my good woman' had been one of tier cotta gers, instead of her-American equal.— Margaret followed theirind gnant neigh bor out, and begged she would ’dot be deeply offended at what Mrs. Amyrllll* . had said, and that she would let her lit tle children come sometime.to be formed into a Sabbath class. Jiuc,^’without a word, the neighbor drove off, and until :loug after, the Amyrlllisses were not troubhd with visitors on any day. ‘I think you were a little sharp, my dear,'remonstrated Mr. Amyrillis. ‘To be sure, we respect old and time-honored jcustoms, but we ought to try to concili ate- ' , . ‘Yes; yes, Mr: Amyrillis,' replied the acid lady, nodding, ‘that’s your policy, I know. It really seems to be your mis sion in ibis world to make way with old and time-honored things I* I Upon which Mr. Amyrillis looked around for bis bat and sun-umbrella, re marking—‘l believe I will go out among the sheep, my dear;* which very appro priate thing he did. CHAPTER 111. : So they, lived on, a dull, same life, its •only break being an occasional visit to the nearest village forsuppMes. Margaret ; seized on little things, and drew joy from them. A bird 'sofag 'would make her happy for a day. Some'pleakant tidings in the newspaperfromthe old land would unlock volumes of sweet thoughts for I her. She saw all the tints of the land scape. Amt when Jack Warren brought | her rare wild flowe’s, she was so delight ed.with them, that he never afterwards saw their delicate faces without being reminded of her delicate face. , This seemed the most languid summer Margaret had ever known. Her outer weariness was wearing in, uiW her inner weakness was wearing out; so the two were likely to strike bands and lorm an alliance over her slight body. But she was young and brave, She fought dis ease off herself, and fought hard to east itoutof the house. Early rains on lux uriant vegetation made the autumn a sickly one. Mr.-Arayrills took the fever, and his wife groaned beside him in ague fils* The sloughs, whose growth of tall. dark grass bad been the only thing to distinguish them during August days, turned' to noisome ponds, ami. through them the doctor’s horse often splashed. ■ Mr. Amyriilu.sighed audmeeklv nour ished oh his sick bed c as he had slelied and meekly flourished in health and cow hide boots. But Mrs. Amyrills, shaking through all her ivy leaves, became such a doleful reminder of church yards and grave stores, was so querulous and ex acting, that she wearied her patient child more thau any other trial. Many neighbors, who had less sickness at home, came and ottered their services to Margaret—Western people do notearry their hearts in u tough pericardium—and she was grateful. Margaret’s bead grew large and her neck thin ; her eyes look vivid lights : time became to her a long drawn crisis. The sky and earth looked so solemn that "autumn. Her'cat- stalked about with £ gaunt and.aolemn air; the verycocks in the barn yard crowed with a solemn cad ence. She had a fancy of calling herself the “ Ancient but shuddered lest he? father and mother should become the dead .upon the deck of her motionless Ship on tout motion less prairie sea.. Mhe told the quaint story to Jack War ren one October morning, as be drove her from the village with her monthly 'supplies. Economy wus.tben sc impor tant, hi the family, that she could not trust this mission to another. ’ Ah! If father and mother should die!” she trembled. ’.That Image of the- ‘An cient ,tyUriuer’ would not be u more deso late thing than I. And I have com mi (.ted woise sins in my life than killing an albatross. . ••Hg prnyeth heat who loveth best, All things, both great and small. For the God who loveth-us,* Ho made and loveth all." rm afraid it has always been my fault to love some persons and things very much, to'he exclusion of others.” Jack shook the lines and whistled softly. He could not tell her in delicate sentences all that was /“burning in his contained bosom, but he by and by brought forth the product of that com motion in a compact and manly proposal. ‘I don’t :thlnk there’s any danger of your father and motherdyiug; but ii they do, iftt family on this prairie will ever see you shelterless, Margaret Amyrillis. And there’s more , boys than this one would I be glad to offer you a home of your own whenever you’d take it.* * Margaret recoiled, as women are apt to I do wi\Qn au unwelcome hand .comes { knocking at the Inner guest-chamber, and her recoil was greater because the man who bad spoken for a place already occupied, was of what her English sense still denominated *• the people.” She bud always placed him beneath her, and regarded him with touch the same confidence and affection that she hud ’ given to the respectful laborers among her father’s tenantry. But ‘a man’s a man for a’ that,’ and when he comes wit b his heart in his band is not to be despised, though he were meaner than a landholding American voter, with the way to American king ship open before him. * I know I'm notyourequal,’continued Jack. * I haven't the education and the mantffera, b it I’ll take care of you as the apple of my eye. I'm well oft’, and like ly to be rich ; and you could make such a man of me us a woman ueedu’t be asbam* ' ed of.* As Margaret looked at bis glowing face and clear, simple eyes, her heart was moved toward him. 4 1 can’t marry you Jack,’she said with kind directness* * 1 love you a great deal for your goodness ’ 4 My goodness 1 I Imvo’t any, except ing what you taught me. Margaret Amy rillis,’ he attested. 'I never saw another woman like you 1’ ‘But I cannot be your wife. Some one better adapted will till the place you offer me. And lama! * ayg your Irlend.’ ‘Which is about as much as a fellow like me ought to ask,’ resigned Jack sad ly; 'but I’d rather have you for ray friend than many another one I’ve seen for my wife,’ he concluded, unconsciously re peating a compliment that men have often paid to excellent women. As they rode on through the blacken ing twilight, he looked at her by turns (hough more iu reverence than regret. Au earnestly good woman is not. lost to every man excepting the oue that wins her to wedlock. When I think of those two, drawn through the sunless prairie air together —Margaret's pale face looking on and at the stars, Jack‘s turned aside to hers—and remembered the struggle set before each, I wonder how any soul can imagine w*» came into this life for ease, and can . evade our tasks like cruel children. ' CHAPTER IV. In the late October days, Margaret fell ap»k.' When Mre.'Amyrillis grew con scious of the fact—and she hud to glow Jiiio consciousness of It—great was her rustling and wailing. In vain Margaret assured her she was not very 111—that bho was only tired, and must rest. The louv felt sure the time bad come for thenr * to die in a heap,’ and, from her manner, it did not seem the bust thing that could happen after all. Margaret saw, through her loft window the sere grown prairies; no amber, and 'gold, and crimson frost bitten leaves re lieved their dullness; and her brain grew dull as the prospect. Bay and day went rapidly by, leaving her weak and spiritless. put oue afternoon, In a time when Oc tober was about to give over hlsgleunings. to the bauds of November, Margaret staggered from her cot, dressed and wrapped herself, and sat down in her l«>w rocker. The woman whom it had required both love anti money to pro cure as her substitute housekeeper,, came up, and lifted her hands in astonishment. *lf you wanted anything, why didn’t you call me?’ cried this Martha repioaoh fully. ‘I do not want anything,’ replied Mar garet weakly, ‘except to escape from that monotonous bed ’ 'f’ll lt up,’ said Martha, going at It vigorously. *lf your bed was uncom fortable, you orto have told me.’ *OhI don’t mind It,* pleaded Margaret, ‘I do not need any attention now at all, find you must be tired.’ 'And when I’ve done It,’ proceeded Martha, who worked all the harder for being a ked not to, and wds secretly phased with Margaret’s solicitude, *l’m goin* to brlngyou upsomechicken broih; yo«»r mother’s had some, and she likes it. It’s prairie chicken, and the broth’s good, and I’ll fry you some of the meat, if you’ll eat it ’ ‘I know your broth isgood,’ smiled the sick girl, ‘and I shall like a little, but I do not want the fry; and, Martjm, when come back, I am going to make you sit down In that chair and not move un til I have finished eating.’ ‘He! ho!’ tittered. Martha, ter pleasure I outshining the good nature in her face, *aud I expectyou’d take all thenfternoou 1 to eat it. No, you don't ketch me restin’ J till my work’s done. I ain’t tired!’ Ro Martha clattered down stairs, with light heart, though heavy shoes, and the invalid turned her face to watch the dull square of prairie her window gave her. Suddenly a horse neighed, and directly across the dull square he carried Ids rider, a large man. with abundant whiskers. ‘Dear mel’ thought Margaret wearily, ‘T hope It Isn’t one of those cuttle buyers acoin. He will certainly work father up into a high fever.’ She heard the stranger, after a little apace, knock at the door; but she heard also her mother utter a little cry that Shot throuuh her nerves, and shook her hral n s from its lethargy to the keenest sensibility. Rbe bent forward and listened, living a longer time In that suspense, so far as activity of the mind, is concerned, than the last three months had seemed; She was not trembling with surprise, therefore, but rather with the effort of self-control, when through the gap in the curtains that her handmaid bad left, she saw Walter Chevelier’s head and shoul ders appearing up the stairs. Margaret tried to rise, but he put her gently back, and kissed reverently the while fingers si e gave him. He then placed a chair for himself near by. ’ • ‘You do not know how it pains m© to find.you thus,’ he said, turning bis dark, 1 tender eyes upon her. Margaret curtained herown from their glance. ‘I must not let him see how ut terly weak I am,’she thought ‘Though if he knew, he woutd be too generous to use his power- He was always noble.’ .‘I shall noon be ,well again,’ she replied ‘You see I am obliged to make .baste in my recovery, for father and niother need me so rnfich. You are makfbg the tour of America?' ‘Yes, and Icould not forbear intruding on my old friends,’ ‘You are heartily,welcome, Mr..Gheve* Her, as m\ mother has no doubt assured you.’ ( l i will give him my room, and I will go down to the settee,’ decided the provident little maiden, noieelfsuiy.) ‘And now, what tidings for exiles do you bring from England?’ •I have not seen England since I last saw you ?’ replied the gentleman. . Margaret looked up in astonishment. ‘Circumstances were such that I hove not found It necessary to visit England for nearly three years.* ‘lt was nearly three years ago that father - was obliged to emigrate,’ said Margaretiuhnceutly. ‘lam afraid these years have told on my parents.’ *T do not think,’said Mr. Chevalier, ‘that Mrs. Amyrills Is nearly as much changed as you are, Margaret.’ The woman in her overmastere'd the .woman. Pain at th£ loss of his admira tion throttled fear that he should learn her secret : she lifted her suffering eyes with a look that made the men's next words decided. 4 T have*&omething to confide to you, ray old playmate. I have found a wife.’ 'laßhebeaufifut? 1 assed Margaret, with brilliant spots springing to her cheeks ; ‘and will you return to England after your marriage ? 7 .j ‘She la very beautiful, 7 replied the gen tleman reverently; ‘and whether we re turn to England will, of course, depend entirely upon herself. 7 « *Oh f she is an Eastern lady, then I And of high rank, Is she not I 7 4 Yes, she wears*a coronet. 7 * Ah ! i am glad you will have such a position, 7 said Margaret, her eyes spark ling softly. ‘lt. will be a fine thing for me, who have three great brothers between nays'*! f, and the paternal estates, 7 laughed Mr. CbeveHer. * I am glad It pleases you, too. Everybody loves the Judy I have chosen. 7 But you haven 7 t told me her name, 7 said the youngsufferer, leaning her wea ry cheek against her chair. ‘Ti Is—my li’tle lamb! my Marguerite! my little patient saint, whom I have sought so 'ar and found so, worthy I 7 ‘But you said, 7 trembled Margaret, al most absorbed into him. so closely did the ardent lover hold his little saint, ‘that she—had—a coronetl 7 ‘And no she has, 1 replied W%Jter, resl ing one hand around her bright head.— ‘1 have learned that every eye on this prairie sees a halo of goodness around her fjrehead, 7 ‘But they love me—they are partial— they are my friends, 1 sobbed Margaret, quivering whh excitement. "‘And whom do we want to have partial to us but friends we love? 7 asked Wal ter, with a great deal of accompaniment of look and lip pressure. Murtba’e head appeared on the stairs at that instant, and was suddenly bobbed almost into the bowl she carried. The careful and busy damsel went tittering down. ‘Tliat 7 a 7 nuff sight better for her than chicken broth, 7 she announced 'to the slighted bowl, Uttering over Us very face as she set It on a cupboard shelf. Do you see the picture? Do you imag ine the rupture < t heart melting purely into heart? But! say reverently that this is not worthy to be a figure of the joy that ahull crown (nose who do we/1 fa faith, when they are passed behind the Veil! Tbo Oldest City In the World. Damascus Is the oldest city In the wor d. Tyte and Bidon have crumbled on the shore; Balbec is a ruin ; Palmyra to burled in tbe desert; Ninevnh and Babylon have disappeared from the Ti gris and tbe Euphrates. Damascus re mains what It was before the days of Abraham—a centre of trade and travel— uu island of verdure in tbe desert; “a presidential capital, 77 with martial and sacred associ&tioDa extending through -thirty centuries. It was near Damascus that Saul of Tarsus saw the light above tbe brightness of the sun ; tbe street which is called Strait, In which it was said “be prayed, 77 still tuns tbrot gh the city. The caravan comes and go«n as it did a thousand years ago; there is still the sheik, the ess and the waterwheel; tbe merchants of the Euphrates ai d the Mediterranean still * occupy 7 these * with the multitude of their wares. 7 The city which Mahomet surveyed from u neigh boring height, and was afraid to enter, ‘ because it was given to man to hove but' one paradise, and for his part, ho was resolved not to have It In this world, 7 is to-day what Julian called tbe 'eye of the East, 7 os It was, in the time of Isaiah, * tbe head of Syria. 7 From Damascus came the dafn&on, our blue plums, and the delicious upi lent of Portugal, called damascu ; dunia k, our beautiful fabric of cotton and alb-, with vines and dowers raised up on a t-mootb, bright.ground ; the damask rose, intro duced into England In the time of Henry VIII.; tbe Damascus blade, an famous VOL. 56.—N0. 34, I the world over foT-lfs keen edge and won derful elasticity, the secret of whose manufacture wns lost when Tamerlane carried the arllst Into Persia; and that beautiful art of inlaying wood and steel , with gold and sliver, a kind of mosaic I engraving and. sculpture united—failed I damaskeening—with which boxes, bu- I reuus and swords are ornamented. It is still a.cily of flowers and bright waters; the streams of Lebanon and the ‘silk of gold’ still murmur and sparkle in the wilderness of the Syrian gardens. (From the Johnstown (Pa.) Tribune.] PENNSYLVANIA GEUMANS. Mauv of the early settlers of Penn sylvania and Maryland were Germans, Hollanders, and Swiss, wbo were driven by, religious intolerance in their -own lands to seek new homes in free Ameri ca. William Penn, the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania, and George Calvert, the Catholic founder of Maryland, having secured guarantees of civil ai d religious liberty in the charters of thelf respective provinces, the shores of the Delawur*and Chesapeake naturally offered an asylum, to all who preferred tolerance to luloler. ance In matters or religion. During the .closing years of the seventeenth century, and up to the'commenceineufof the Ame ricanßevo’uUo-itdri the succeeding cen tury, many thousands of the people we have mentioned crossed the ocean and settled in Eastern Pennsylvania, and In Maryland. Some of them pushed Into the Shenandoah Valley In Virginia. The Rhenish Provinces of Germany seem to have furnished a large proportion of the •German settlers, and Rirquish Bavaria (Pfalz), Wurtzemburg, apd Baden sent large numbers of emigrants. Switzer land sent many thousands. ‘There never •whs a very large emigration of Hollanders to Pennsylvania, the prows of their ves sels being generally diiected’toward.New York. In a brief time the representatives of the three nationalities became so tho roughly intermingled, hy reason of reli gious ties, intermarriages, similarity of customs and language, and general har mony of interests, that they formed one homogeneous class, by some called Penn sylvania Germans, and by others Penn sylvania'Dutch. The.Swlas settlers soon ceased entirely to be called Schwelzersor Swiss. With the perfect union thus establish ed, and familiar Inte course with the English speaking settlers, came a, nea cnllonu al and written language, also call* . ed Pennsylvania German, or Pennsylva nia Dutch, which is still largely spoken, but not much written, in some sections of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virgin la, and In some poitlona of the Western States to which the descendants ol the Pennsylvania Germans emigrated. As a‘•language, It must in time yield at ail points to the pure English and German tongues. Few now speak it who do not also sp*ak English. It Is mainly a com pound of the Bavarian and Swiss dialects of the German language, with many English and afewDutch (Holland) words added. It is doubtful If a .Pennsylvania German could make himself understood in any part of Holland, Germany or Switzerland to-day. u ' J The religious belief of ‘the early Penn sylvania GermaDß#rns. that of the Men non lies and German Baptists or Tunkers., The Mennonltes were the first tb'come. Their firstsettlement in this.country was made at Germantown, in 1683, the year after Penn commenced his settlement at Philadelphia. Those who settled at Ger mantown were Hollanders.. The Men nnnites who followed them came from Holland, Germany and Switzerland.— The first colony of the Brethren or Tank ers also settled at Germantown and in its vicinity, in 1719—thirty-six years after the first, Mepnonite settlement. They were Germans who had taken refuge from religious persecution hi Holland. Other Tunkers followed In 1729, and dur ing succeeding years. America soon be came thestronghold of the new religion. Altho I ,lts adherents spread into various parts of Germany, Holland, and Switzer land, our researches lend us to conclude that the mosj of them finally found their way to this country. The Mennonltes. on the other-hand, ore still more numer ous in Europe than in America, Holland being their stronghold. “Here thelrfoun der, Menno Simon, was born in 1505. — Jacob Amen, the, leading spirit of the Amish branchof the Mennonito sect, was a native of Switzerland. • Strictly speaking, the Tunker jind the MennonUe faiths were almost Identical at the lime of which we are writing, dif fering only in minor particulars. Both sects recognized and still recognize the Dortr#»cht Confession of 1632 us their standard theological belief. The points of difference relate chiefly fo church gov ernment and other outward observances; hut, even in these there is great simifarity of practice. The Mennonltes were In existence long anterior to the Tunkers. Menno Slmon. thelr founder, w«is a con temporary of Loftier In the slx'esnth eentury, while the Tunkers diil not have a denominational existence until the be ginning of the eighteenth century, their find, church having been organized in 1708. at Bwarlzenau, in the province of Witgensteln. It ia proper to add that both the Tunkers and Mennonites claim to have received their religious faith In great part from the Walrien-es and AI hlgenßes, and through them from the primitive Ohriatianp, It may he of interest to the render to learn that Witeenateln was formerly a small Slate of about twenty-five German square miles, governed hv a count, and the half of it subsequently belnneed to the Duchy of Nassau, and half to Rhen ish Prussia; Now; since Nassau was ab sorbed hy Prussia, in 18fif, it ail belongs to the Kingdom of Prussia. Nlnetv-nine out of every hundred of the Mennonites and Tunkers are farthers. Their mode of life is simple In the ex treme. They dress plainly live frugally and practice a very strict code of morals. Their honesty, truthfuneas and Industry are proverbial. They do not mingle much with the world, but are stayers at home; minding their own business,' and minding It well. Poverty ia almost un known among them. They a o slow to abandon the customs of their fathers, and do not readily adopt modern innovations’ of any kind. They were originally op posed to the common school system, but now almost unanimously favor it. They are opposed to war, and generally settle all disputes among themselves without going to law. We have said that the Mennonites and Tunters were the first of the German settlers of our State, and to this wo now add that they constitute to-day a very large portion of our old Pennsylvania German population, especially in the rural districts. Lutheruus, Moravians, and representatives of oilier religious denominations followed them from Ger many, lut did not precede them. Whole sections of our Slate are inhabited by them. They early spread into the ferli e Cumberland Va ley, and thence pushed into Bedford, Somerset, and Cambria counties. A few of them dossed the ‘Chestnut Ridge and Laurel Hill into Westmoreland, Indiana, and other wes tern counties of tile State. Their settle ment in Cambriacounty wasmadeduring the oloslng year of the last century,, and around .Johnstown, in what was then called the “ Conemaugh country.” The portion of Cambria county thus settled by them was embraced in Somerset county up to 1807. A very large majority of all t lie farmers in the neighborhood of Johns town are to this day Mennonites and Tunkers, the latter largely predominat ing. A majority of the whole are believ ed to be of Swiss origin. “ I.am willing to spilt hairs with my opponent all day, if ho Insists on it,” siiid a very distinguished lawyer, in a speech at the bar. “Split that then," said ihe opponent, pulling a coarse spi cimo i from his own head, “ May it please (hecourt, 1 uldnutsay bristles.'' Eoteg for ADvmmaKsnijTTH win m* inserted at Ten cam per line for the Oral insertion and five cents per tine for mob enbßeqaeni insertion, tinar* crly half-yearly, and voariy adventsemoiila in serted at a Mhoral reduction on the above rates Advertisements stannld bo accompanied by tho Oarh. When sent without any length of thno specified for pnblloAtlon. they will he continue until ordered out and ouanted accordingly. JOB PRINTING. Gauds, HANBRrLLa. CrHcui.AHS, and every otb er or for. end Pari. Prlntlnc. (Berne o{ mteratute. I —Unredeemable Bonds—Vagabonds. f —ls a dog’s whine Intoxicating? —A Friendly suit —A Quaker’s dress. —The Auctioneer’s Motto-—Buy and buy. Why are rheumatic twinges like co securities? Because they are joint-con tractors. You oan always find a sheet of water on the bed of the ocean. The moat appropriate lining for a la dy’s bonnet Is a smiling countenance; ■ f? Why la an ugly girl like a blacksmith’s apron ? Because she keeps oifthe sparks! The man who took Time by the fore lock was a hair cutter in the early part of his life. A Boston paper reports a cook tight under the bead of ‘‘an ornithological dis cussion.” ty? you observe a gentleman with his artu around the waist of a Indy it is niorally certain that they are not married. A aeunmr brWoPr»rt Hcwla. Canada married the groomsman because the bridegroom was too drunk to stand up. The latest phase of "-altob hops” is a hired, girl jumping -of a two story wliidow to run, a way with a “fellah.” The man who took things ns they came employed a large team, to carry them home. “ A, laugh,” says Charles Lamb, " is worth a hundred groans In any state of the' market.” Over what, bridge do the greavst num ber of heads go? The bridge of lie noee. There is a word of five letters, and If you take away two of them six will re main. What is it? Sixty. Wkat is the difference in capacity be tween twenty-four quart bottles and twenty four-quart bottles? What word is- always pronounced faster hy adding two tetters to it ? The word fast. Wh/t letter is it that has never been but twice in America. It Isa. When Patrick first tried peaches he ssfd he liked the flavor, but tho seeds lay heavy on hia stomach. Why Is a landlord’s warrant like a fathers’ love ? Because it is If pay rent al! attachment. As ordinary men ors proverbially fickle the Indies should secure shoemakers, as they are true to the last. A CORRESPONDENT in anxious t« know whether the slock holders go to corpora tion elections chiefly to vote-for directors or to get their lunch,. The lady wh6 caught the inspiration *)f (he moment Intends to catch an as •sortmenlof butterflies next season. It was a laconic letter from a Indy to her husband—“l write you because I i-ave nothing to do, and I conclude be cause 1 have nothing to say.” ■ iN.our travels through many lands we have noticed, on taveroslgns, horses and ca'tle of all kinds and colors, but we have failed to discover the Ural jackass. Take away my first letter, take away my second letter, take away ail my let ters, and 1 am always tho same. Can you guess that 7 Itds the mail carrier. A yodno man wants a situation where the only heavy thing is the salary. He is willing to dispense with any amount of work if this can be guaranteed. There Is one word of only live letters, and if you take away two of them ten will remain. What word is that ? It is often. A story is told of a young man who was going West to open a jewelry store. When asked what capital he had, he re plied, “A crowbar.” We have beard of a man who is so tall that his pantaloons have to be wove in a rope walk. He folds up like a two foot rule, and has to get on his knees to put bis bauds in his pockets. A. Ht. Lours paper, speaking of a fam ily in New York that made a fortune out of whisky, says they live on Twenty third street, in a perfect delirium tremens of splendor. Thebe is a word which, if you change the place of one of its letters, means ex- , actly the tipposite from what it did at first. What is the woid ? It ie united. Pisco the i after the f, and It becomes un-' tied. What is the word of one syllable which. If you take away two letters from it, will become a word of two syllables ? It is plague; take away pi and it becomes ague. Jokes met Smith as he was going on b-ard a steamer on the Mississippi, and asked: ‘Which wy. Smith, up or down?’ ‘That depends upon circumstances,’ re marked the latter: ‘ if I get a berth over tlie boiler, I shall probably go up; if In the cabin, down.' ■ A Physician stopped at the door of a country apothecary, and inquired for o pharmacopoeia. ‘Sir,’ said the apothe cary, ‘I know of no such farmer living bbout these parts!' ‘Ah!’ said a conceited young parson, * I have tills afternoon been preaching to a congregation of asses ’ ‘ That was the reason you always called them behoved brethren,’ replied a strong-minded lady. An old lady, who pretends to ‘.know all about it,’ says the only way to prevent steamboat explosions. Is to make the en gineers ‘bile their water on shore.' In her opinion; * all the bustin’ is done by cooking the steam on board the boat! An officer in the English army, who wrote to this country recently, making inquiries concerning the estate of his de ceased brother said he did not know Just, where the property was situated, but it was ’near the seat i f war.’ Two Irishmen caught in a storm took refuge under a tree. One was very well dressed, the other had an old suit. The well dressed Hibernian said to bis com rade, ‘Put, let us change coats. Mine is a bran new one, and I don’t want it to be harmed by the fain. Yours Is an old one, and the rain won’t hurt it.’ , - BnowN, who was in love with a young lady, asked permission to call tier by the explicit name of some animal, which was granted on condition that she should have the same privilege. On leaving. Brown sold, ‘Good night, deer’ 'Good night, bore,’ said she. Brown Is disgust ed with figurative courtship. A HOOVE, while obafTeaing In a store, abstracted a pair of silk stockings. The clera perceived It, and when he was go ing out complaining of the high prices, called after him, 4 1 cannot let you hove those stockings so cheap.’ The thief calmly laid them on the counter, saying, 1 Very well, I cannot take them at a higher price,’ and quickly departed. A otEnayjiAN offered consolation to a dying New Orleans alderman, telling him that it was nature’s decree that,moo should die; that resignation was a Chris tian virtue, and that it was sweet to die. 1 VVhatl’ screamed the alderman, ‘ sweet to die?’ ‘Yes, my dear friend, it is sweet to die? Don't you think so?’ ‘Yes, slr,- but I ain't fond of sweet things!’ They reach astounding arltbmetlo at North Hadley, Massachusetts, Judglug from a recent Illustration in Postmaster Cooley’e store. A twelve ytjarsold pupil in u school there tried a pair of skates worth 07 cents, for a day, and liked them so well that bo otiered to buy them, poy lug Cooley the six cents and then the seven In a few days. When he found that Or cents were nor. made up tout way, tho premising student inis quite taken aback. *
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