THE POTTER JOURNAL -A-INTD ITEM. jno. S. Mann, Proprietor. VOLUME XXIV, NO. 29. be POTTER JOUMAL AM) ITE3I. PUBLISHED EVKRT FR!IAT AT L ori>KRSIORT, PA. Mr 1 ill OlutSUd Mock.) b ujis. * 1.75 Pek VKAH IS ADVANCE. Lao. >. Mann, S. F. Hamilton, Proprietor. J*xiblisher. C. J. CURTIS. Attorney at law and District Attorney, <>n .V.4 IS St., (nrrr thf P<x< < >J>ire, COUDERSPORT, PA., p.; :<s.ill KuUne-va pretaininß to his }roft->*ii>n. Srwviai attention fireu toco!locti<>iis. L , ,*. AATHrB E KIS.T JOHN S. MANN A SON, AttorufTs at Un and Conveyancers, f(H"DKKSPuKT. l'A., h •<:: mpr mptly to. Arthur B. Mann, hi-nmnrr A Notary Public. S. S. GREENMAN, I ATTORNEY AT LAW, rr 1 I. fl E<'lS7is\iTOt(,) COIDKILSPOKT, 1A. ■ C X OLMCt" P. C. LARKASRR OLMSTED 4 LARRASEE, la:: i-"- v \M COUNSELORS AT LAW in f>!ni,ted Bb<k. t ! KRSPOTtT. PENN'A. SCTH LEWIS, irtomcr at law and Insurance Agent, LEWISYILLE. PA. K M.REYNOLDS, Dentist, orri'.x is OLHSTKP Loe*,i 'DERSPOKT. PKNN'A. Baker House, tows A KII.UT. 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' 'UTHHIXQ LK MACHI Slit 10 * PCh^L . lim iad General Culm VUIII I" iMS-tf J:hn Qrom, I House, Sift M i, lkrorntirr lkrorntirr & .irfsro l'A I NTER, COUDERSPORT, PA. | ,,Ru M\t; , i PAPER HANULXG done Ah neatness and disjiatch. I : •> I n guaranteed. I' o. ; r ~~ with It "AKER HOUSE M'h attended to. I> B. NEEFE, ARRIAGE FACTORY, I <' '' "L-EHSPOI.T, PESS A. I'-. • ' ' w *<r B< "rsiaiibJu^, ■"*-* R: TTIBI mi * -. • ■ , r.->* Jou.? ■ j. £ :-! d-tt "■ ; U&. if c. BREI'KLE, IVOHHKH, COUDERfcAORT, ?A. I. r . . r" '*•# m s "• * wrtwr * • W.' Ar P " ~* * .! A V,T ' : ARTHUR B, MANN, General Insurance ! -AO-IEItTT, KKSPSITFCLI.T announces that hy I, tne r?i>r ■wntittive for COUDERSPORT and YN IMTI O( the followiui; named ISSI KAWCK t'O Ml* A NIBs. ' 18SI KANC !-: COMPANY OF NOKKH AMF.It IK .V—l hi rrliahlo old t'oni|HUiv was in cor|s rated in 1701. and for more than wvcntj {Ktst lias done a <ife and rcmuiieraiivc husiue-s. and to-da> rank", .s one of the **.\o. 1"" i 'onipanics n'f. America.—(t a,-21*2.17 .99 FRANKLIN FIR P. INST'KANCE COMPANY —lncorpor.it,- 1 in 1H29 Aim I iJiman 1. U72, ft pt After jk Sit9.hvs.w-, PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSt'KANCE COM PANY.—lnstituted IN2". Assets. M 1.124.396.37 WILLIAM-PORT FIRE INSI RANCH CoM PAN\.—Cash Capital #lw.Oue.ua ' ' CoNNECTK I T Mt Tl AL LIFE INS. CO.. and the MUiCIIANTs LIFE INS. CO. of New York. -J _ | Policies issued in any of the above named reliable Companies at ■♦othlq t-<1 rateg, IKTHIK B. MANX. ' J. GLASE & SON, | Carpenters & Joiners, | Coticlerrspoi't, Penn'a. CONTRA, TS taken for all KIUIIW <>f BI'ILOINC— and materials furnished. !H ORS. BLINDS and SASH kept constantly on ha'.i i or manufactured to onler. i . CASH paid for PINE U MBER. J. GLASE A SOX. OYSTERS. N i A. y. PESRCE, Wholt9nle aiwl llflail OYSTER DEALER, f COUDERSPORT. PA. <>>str hy the Can. Quart. Oallon. Hundred and Thousand received daily. Faniiii- % Parlies and Festita,, supplied on short notice. Tim Trrvle furnished at reasonable rates. ' i tlive me a trial and I ran suit yon. A. H. PEERCE. k ; John V. Brown, PROI'RIKTOR OF 3 LINE OF STAGES B*rwrnt ' Coudersport&Wellsyille (Tvt OSTTAFO, PA.) Persons to Osvat by stage, and to return same day, wi'.l he aeecictnodntaa &. Wage -Mcv * reach anv of the nelghNor n? t- was - nil he aoiiTeyed by l.irery at ra-ca. ■ A *aod ry rift kept eoaatanCy on han-1 for psussccgers by r_ rree. j O.wa.'O Houfe, (Joaj 7. Bns, Prcpr.,) OBWAYO, PA. 1 UU-* I COUDERSPORT, PA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1873. Hunting Eggs. ■ LTT A M. WALSH. - sVho want* to liunt egK-f" shouted Charley the bold. *' Who wants to go climb on the liay?" . "O. I!" "Yes. and I!" clamored Fannie and Will. " And inc. too!" pleaded three-year-old May. So they rushed to the liarn helter-skelter, aud I soon Were driving about with a zest. At the corners and rafters, the mangers and liay. To see who could find the first nest. " And who gets the most egg- shall beg grandma to tcike A cake we can share all around f So Fannie suggested : the boys cried "Hurrah! Well have every' egg can 1* found!" Nimble Charley went clambering about like a cat. And soon counted "Oiie, t wo, three, four!" And then with the pearly-white eggs in his hat. Slid carefully down to the door. "There * a nest!" Fannie cried, from far upon the mow. " Right here iu the hay! < >ne, two. three!" And in her white apron she gathered thaw up. As happy and glad as eould !e. "Old Speckle's on iuin:" -limited WiU, lint just then With a cackle away the hen fb-w; " I>ear me!" said ioor Will, " I was sure I would , beat— And here I have only got two!" " Where's May?" they all questioned, "O, where has she gone?" " Here, here I ts! I's fotin'a ties'!" And lier curly brown head from the manger P>Pi>l up. Just under the nose of Black Bess. ">! •>: sit still, May, or the hor*ie may bite!" But she counted "One. two, fee. four, five?" And they rusiied to her rescue with Uugh and with shout. "She's got the most—sure as you live!" But there shf was -ittinir In sweetest content. And down in her -nug little lap Five soft Utile kitties lay rolled into lulls. I Contentedly taking a n.-xju WPyrrUtUir. Over a Cabin Table. 4 In the siinnner of 1--G —. Frank Manly ' and I were hoincward-lioinKl. from China to Boston, in the splendid elijijier , ship Sunset. We were children together, and had , followed many a butterfly in company. • In later years, wr had often run after; those tnaivelous butterflies in pink sun lxinnots —those M'ill-o'-the-Wisps in ; dimity—in other fields: rather as rival-, though, than side-by-side coiniKinions. to confess it. This was Frank's first voyapens mas tor. lie was now. at two-and-twenty. every inch a sailor and a man. 1 was his only passenger, ntnning home after some years" truancy, in a period between a closing clerkshi| and an ojicning )>art-; nership at Canton. These were to n< delicious days—care-free, and every ' hour with my old playfellow was com munion of a ran* order, i We were chatting one evening ojienly —for then* was now nothing I*l ween us but the cabin table. Tin* light burned ; just low enough for the quiet dreamy j hour that Frank ret letl off to me the | -mall-talk of the dear old town, of which 11is memory h< Id an unreckonable cargo. Tlicrc was May who had marrit d January , and tlu* -quire who had dnink i himself from atflneiicetothe poor-house. He told of young Skinnem. who in Ih>\ - hood won marbles, and sold them again to the loseis at a hundred }H*r cent, advance ujkmi regular rates —who never • played on the " Fourth." but oj*nefl a curb-stone bazar of jwp-lx-cr—of his i own brewing.—firo-enickers, peanuts, and a full line of dried apple tarts —of a low grade. Now he was piously loaning money Saturday afternoons to gain Sun day. at two i*-r cent a month, and won ! during what this world would I** with . out interest. He had ljought a lxxik. t '•Business in Heaven," which proved to hint that the occupations of earth are continued al>ve. He dwelt with miserly unction u|on the life to come. The steward now appeared with our evening coffee. Then came tlie usual cigar, and we swung apart in medita tion as lightly as two vessels parting ; conijiany after exchanging sea-courte sies. "Captain." said I, suddenly, as if something had just come to mind. ! though the question had been balancing | on my tongue for an hour — ; "Hal," interrupted my companion. i "don't Captain me off-deck, here under the cabin-light, if you love me.'* "Well then, my modest old desk-mate, how is that little Amy Woodson whom 1 you used to endow so bountifully in j school-days with pickleu limes and ; cliewing-gum?"' ZD- captain—the splendid fellow—to ' show LIS unconcern, breathed a couple of smoke-wreaths out of his mouth, and j replied with counterfeited sadness: ; " Hal. I shall never have faith again in j the power of rickles with school-girls and j, am a doubter forever of the vir tue of spruce gum. So, so. my sly boy, ycu were on that tack. too. were yoj' But you may wCJ emulate the ex ample of your foiefa,' ers and throw that chest of breakfast-tea overboard, j for father Woodson has gone wiiere tea drinking is neither a blessing nc * a J s.n. No, no, Hal. Roy Ei'vell weathered jus all. By Jove, to think of it I The | I little toed that 1 nursed through vulgar ( fractions and the rule of three —who never had spunk enough to kiss a girl under four eyes—to marry Amy! But ■ the ways of women are wonderous. Ilal. The Siawtt is my choice. Isn't she a beauty? lam wedded to her." Then he laughed, drew himself up. and I thought, how could a woman resist you. my handsome captain? "I'oor puss, she had a confounded rough way of it." he continued. "What do you mean?" "Why, haven't you heard of it?" "Vague rumors only. Her father, cashier of the bank. Wasn't there j trouble? Was it all true? Proud old man. His heart broke. I fancy. For Heaven's sake. Frank, tell me what you know." I demanded. "Well, well, old quill-driver, don't , rough up so. Ido know about it. and. though I say it. more than any but a very few in the old town. I never was any hand at a yarn, but if you will have I it, maybe 'twill harrow you some, see i ing you were a little sweet on Amy." i "Come, come, captain—there, chum my, then —begin. But. by George, if you exaggerate one iota. I'll call the Sicisft— a clumsy old noofcer." i "Well, I needn't ask if you rememlx r | Amy," began my vin-a-vi#, torrneiitingly, | "nor tell you of her step in the dance, of the color of her hair and eyes, nor ■ what a woman she has grown. I>et me see. you left home in forty—'' : "Eight." " And you rememU r General Woodson, then, as a cheerful, elastic old gentle man. who. at the lank-counter, told ofF the notes with rt celerity little less than magic, to our unaccustomed eyes. He was a favorite every where, you know. With a lad's help he iierfonued all the lak>r in the bunk, except when Amy would come down once in aw hile to give him a lift on the books. Amy was i.„,- fit tier's housekeeper, too; her mother dud. jiTST aitei i 1 guess. Yon see tlie young girl had tish enough to fry. For all, she always i had a spare hour and some knicknack of her needlework for us saih>r-loys w hen j about leaving home. And theoldGcn -1 eral would say, "Luck to you, my lad," {in a mighty go**! manner that won us. | "But 1 never could see that she favored one much almve another. < >nc< I had bidden her good-by, I rtinendier. ami afterward seeing Ben Bnltrtq*.' call at her house. I stood out of s-glit and timed him—you laugh—watch in lamd, and I had the better of him some odd minutes, or it may have leen seconds. I always think of it when I meet Ben s widow in the street. Ben married the milliner's daughter. Melis-a Bliss, whose name we young sea-doge ( hanged •to M'lissj Blissy. He went off to >ii - : gajHire a month after, second mate of the kirk and was never heard , from. Her widowhood k-gan. you see. soon as her honeymoon endtd. Mi lis<:i wears mourning for him now and | always will. And Ben was worthy of jail her tears —as good a fellow ;<-> ever ' learned a rope. Go and see her. Ha . But where am 1 running? Let's tack ship. " You know the Woodson homestead l on the corner of India street. \ es- but you don't know—as we young f' llow> never think of such things—t at the grand-looking place had ken in the Woodson family for some generations, and that the General's father l :t it to him ncumliered. The mortgage was never lifted by the latter. The General '. lived pretty well, thinking his p>sition required it. "Then in an evil time all Br.nnble head nm wild with a land fever —" sjiec ulation that promised to make the poor rich, and the rich happy. All t cold stockings in all tbedark corners ii town were emptied of their shillings to buy land in Roost,H-k. Why, people, old jieople. took money out of their bibles that they had laid away to bury them, to invest, exjH-eting it to return them a hundred-fold lxfore it would lie needed. Burial day always seems so distant to us. esj>ecially if there is a cliance to make any money to-morrow. " Amy's father was bitten by t e go ing madness. He gathered the little he could together. lie drew his salary reg ularly. and let his household bills run. lie sold wrongfully a few kink -hares that he held in trust for Amy. wl ich an uncle had willed to her. and it vested the money in the golden land, secretly, in the name of a brother in < )hio. " The voyage turned out mighty poor. The land was well timbered. but a hun dred mile 3 away from river or tide-wa ter. The bubble burst. So the rich i liecame poor, and the poor became hap-, . py. thinking how their betters had come down. They were sure of a bur.al, for • nobody was ever too poor for that. " The old gentleman aged. He grew • fretful and absent-minded. The gro cer and the butcher called again and again for their dues —at the front door, too. The mdk-boy vas even more ma- j licious. He chalked on the garden gate, 4 Warnin', pay up, ol* hoss." and chuck led to himself around the corner, as he j>eeped and saw Betty Floyd the old domestic, spend many ruin res spelling out, and many more in scouring off the i words, and shaking he; cloth a: th°, f empty street. Thrift had abandoned j i the uouoehoal. I "Amy knew but little of the truth. He said he had only the amount of two or three quarters' salary in the lament ed land-slide, bhe saw the falling step, ai d that lie did not like to have her note it. lie was glad, though, of her In lp at the kink, which was needed now oftener than ever. The toil begun to tell oil little Amy. She didn't lose her lieauty, though. 1 don't believe she will ever lose that. My boy, am 1 tedious? " "Very. Goon." "Don't blow your smoke in my eyes, then, or you'll swear I'm crying." " Well, well; forward!" " \\ here was I? This went on awhile, the old man keeping the ship on the old tack, close-hauled, flag at the j>eak. and pumps a-going. But there came a day when the world could do little for Abrarn Woodson, and he could do less for the world. One morning, when Amy was helping him on with his coat to go to bank, he staggered and fell upon tin sofa. The doctor came and said ' Par alysis.' lie revived somewhat, but the old General was a wreck of the saddest kind. lie couldn't speak an intelligent word. Amy became his hands, eyes and .mind. Boy El well was apjsinted act ing cashier, for the directors would not supersede him at once. He lingered for months with his faculties at sixes and sevens. ()ne day he said something that sounded like' May tenth.'and soon af ter dropp-d anchor for the last time, j "The bunk officers, when examining his cash and accounts, discovered a de ficiency of lx-tween one and two thou sand dollars. And they who had held the okl General as incorruptible said. •There is none true under the sun.' His bondsmen were called iqm. and the few. which finally means the many, thought they knew the cashier had used the funds in his keeping. "Amy. living secluded with her old domestic. Betty Floyd, was ignorant "i the affair at the kink. She knitted worsreu , rttrui kill dress,-s for her schoolmates of old days. Young Skimu in offered l:er what he called bis heart. By Jove, twenty young fellows would have come forward for her hand. • but there was something in her way that wouldn't let a man with a decent heart offer it. Skinneiu thought lis magnanimity twenty jx r cent, al>ove par. He had inherited from his father I the mortgage on the Woodson liotne- I stead, which he threatened to foreclose. Troubles came in troops. " Looking over her father's pai rs ; ul "' day. Amy discovered a note ad- , dressed to her. It Wits in the neat baud of the General. It told her that lie wrote this for L< r in case anything should hapjien to him—that the world, after he was gone, might judge him amiss. That he had. it was true, wronged her. his sweet, loving daugh ter; that lie had been false to his trus teeship; that their means were all g> ne with the broken land-bubble; that his heart and thought were long sick with the secret of it; that May the tenth of such a year he bad found his cash un- j accnntablv slant, and no man yet knew it. If he lived long enough he s'< u'.d make it up —yes. make it up, every cent; but Amy must wait for hers; jx rhaps he could never make that up, and it lu did not would his darling daughter for give liiiu? "Amy lowed beneath this blow. Now appear* d the reason of the unpaid bills and the ill-supplied household. Anil the thought came to tire sti ickdi girl, how once she had promised to sell a share of her bank stock and buy a gold watch and chain, and on New Year's illuming she found them under her breakfast cup. a present from lier father. I get all this from sister Nell, of whom she made a confidant. Yes. Ilal, Amy k>wed as the lily lows when blown upon. She was lily without and rock within. She sent for Ib>y Klwvll. -die pressed Boy until she drew from the reluctant fellow tlie affair a > viewed >v the directors. It was a plain case to luni. A laud enterprise—an op; ortu l ity for making money —and the cashier yielded to temptation, borrowed the fluids of the bank, thinking to enrich himself and return the money. They were all the more ready to look on the dark side for him. as many of their dol lars had gone the way of his. The fiver had been among them. too. " This iHiint of view was not plain to Amy. Through El well, who had kin made cashier after the death of the General, she obtained permission froui the officers to make a personal examina tion of the books, to be aided by Boy. Her knowledge of bank routine was now serviceable. "About this time I returned from an India voyage. 1 served as IK>V in the bank awhile, you jemember. and Hoy, with her consent, invited ine to lend them a hand* I was giad for her sake, not to say my own. "Hal, are you yawning?" "Spiu away, spin away, my old boy." "Well, we met and made our plans, agreeing u make researches after Ei i weir hail finished his day 's v,\rt By George. Hal, you i ight to ha >e sea tut girl. Her perceptions were ill qui keu ed by pride and love for tli ? honor o: the ' : old mar.. The theory of the director 3 • j wsa net the theory of the naughtier, j She admitted nothing bat ine existence of an error that might yet l>e revealed. Roy and 1 followed her with a low as sent. We liegau. We turned to that May the 10th, which he mentioned in the note and named in the night of his sjieechlessness. We took the first entry of the deposits : we analyzed it. If bills, it Mas not so noted; if checks, we fol lowed them to their final entry . And so through each and all. Amy surpris ed us by her thoroughnrss. Items that Roy and I were willing to check as lc --yond question, she looked to again and again lefore dismissing. The General had been too much harrowed by the trouble to make any systematic analysis of tbat day's transactions at the time. Who knows but the error, if one, would have been detected had he called his quicker-eyed daughter into his confi dence? "We finally arrived at the end of that day's lalor, and summing up* the fig ures. w< found the balance on hand was two thousand dollars less than the amount required. Ilere now was a chance for sjieculation. What liecame of the sum? Anty was not lone in de ciding that its equivalent had been mis laid—some check misplaced; but this was merely guess-work. "Her proposition, at the next meet ing. was to search thoroughly the pa pers in the safe. Not succeeding there, 1 looks and papers in the safe. Not suc ceeding there, luniks and pajiers in the vault were taken, one by one. and turn ed. leaf by leaf. Thorough? 1 think so. It was a slow, laborious process. Her patience was astonishing. Her glance seemed as though 'twould burn the jiajiers it fell on. But they could not reveal a secret not in their keeping. "Where was tin waste paper put? In a basket. And emptied where? Roy couldn't say. The old woman who swept the rooms was called. She emptied it. when full, into the dark closet. Sometimes when out of shavings she used a little of it to start the fire. Amy turned pale. The search among tlie contents of the closet was assigned for the next day. Was it narrowed to this, the chance of finding a valuable pajier in the rubbish? She would have had more heart, but for the knowledge of these occasional liandfuls taken for kin dling- Piece by piece we w tit through this accumulated heap of dusty, gone-by }iapers, and without success. "Roy and I had not foreseen the end —failure. We didn't anticipate having to see that noble girl sit down disconso . late, xx itli the tears falling upon her fallen hands. By Jove, I wouldn't have begun the work. Ii was joy for me to lalior with l.i-r all the way. but when that labor was brought to the bitb r end —to six* hope go out of her heart by her blessed blue eyes I Roy attended her home. "The next day he and 1 were seated in the bank, talking over the affair. •Roy." said I, 'the Horn to, Charlie Lane, is due: can't we see, frotn the skylight in the garret, if she is in (he bay?" "lie proposal going up to see. Roy went ahead and opened the skylight. The place was dusty as a grave, and just as jolly. There was no Mo neo in >ight. Account books and bundles of pain-is lay here and there, with dust upon them nearly an inch deep. And over these things, that had one day a meaning and a value, and neither now, the spiders had wov< n their homes, and were hav ing in turn their little est res. We look ed aliout us curiously. Roy remarking a lx- k on top of a pile, less dusty than the others, proposed to me to take it down stairs as a curiosity. I did. The skylight was lowered, and two.sunbeams, that had vanished as we opened the light, came back again, and lay athwart one another like bars of dusty gold. Down stairs we sat and examined our prize. It was not a bank book, but a ledger evidently belonging to the < lener al. and filled with records of dealings long yeai*s l**fore. when in the wood and coal 1 usiness. The writing was neatness itself, itarely a blot or eras ure did we sec. as Roy sat nit her indif ferently turning the leavt >. Occasion ally there remained an unbalanced ac count. Tne fuel had ljeeome smoke and ashes longago, and the debtor dust, nuty le. Here was one Job Jones, charged with a cord of wood a generation ago. ! Out of this scanty material we imagined a history for this later Job. We in vented for him little pleas for his delin quency; that he had married a wife: that lie had left the town ; that he nev er had it; that it was only half a cotd; that he paid for it at tie time. etc. Nevertheless, it LS a sluune. Job Jones, for you to owe for the fuel that boiled your kettle, and blessed your hearth stone. and. perchance, warmed to life one of the innumerable little Joneses, wc concluded. Didn't his ears burn? "While we were laughing over this, the door softly opened, and Amy Wood son appeared. I had almost expected 'twas the ghost of said Jones. "She wished again to see the ltook containing those entries <>f the 10th of May. Roy brought it. Amy sat at one side of the table; Flwell and I at the other. She pored over the page, as her father had, doubtless, done lief ore her, with dreamy, mist., eyes. We men tioned the cause of our mirth. I took ! the book, cereleasiy, and opened it. Roy . S, F. Hamilton, $1.75 ft YEAR and Amy looking on as I turned now one leaf, then three or four together; when "My heavens!'l exclaimed. They started. Amy leaned over the table. Her breath went and came quickly. By Jove, I can feel it now, on my cheek. Xevei awind can blow that way. There, staring us all in the face, were two one thousand dollar bank bills. I swear I saw joy go into her eyes. "It was pretty clear to her. Tl—re was fresh writing <>n the credit side of the account. The old general had had the book from the garret and upon his table the inth of May. Exchanging the hills for some customer, he had laid them on the open book and absently closed it. It was then returned to its old place in the garret. Hia mind being distracted by his pecuniary troubles, the transaction of the bills had made no mark upon his memory. This was our theory. "Amy had dreamed, singularly, that she was greatly comforted by a book, and this was the reason of her coming and calling for the one we had first ex amined.'' "And you say Amy married Roj." "Ay. ay; and their boy they've named Frank Manly ElwelL Turn in, Ilal. I must look after my girl, the Sunset." I obeyed; and in a moment inure I I thought I landed on a wharf in Bram blehead. and the first sign that met my eye was "Job Jones. Dealer in Coal, Wood and llark. For Cash Only." A beak-nosed, fiery-eyed little old man leaned over au old-fashioned door that was divided in the middle, half shut and half open. "Job Jones." said I, "Frank Manly and Boy Elwell have judged you unjust ly.. That cord <-f wood they thought you owed for." 1 continued, as his glassy eyes seemed to demand axi explanation. The little man was silent, but ne gave me a look which said plainly enough, -What is human justice to me, or in justice?" And Job Jones, for I could not think of him as any other being, became in stantly a statue of ice. a tear trickled from each eye. and another trembled splendidly from its nose, and in the sun shine they became — I awoke, and instead of Job Jones, my eyes fell upon Jim the steward, who was setting the breakfast in the cabin of the Sun.<*t, on the table over which this .ale was toh'i to me as I tell it to yo .— only that drowsy gleam of the cabin-light falls not upon the paier and never will. —From the ,lk/ie. " M auiuaok is a lotten ." the saying goes. :ui.i there are plenty who believe it. and who act accordingly, and for such it is well if they do no worse than draw a blank, if they do not draw a life j long misery and pain. But marriage is not necessarily a lottery, either in the initial choice or 111 the in atlis and years after the marriage day. One can shut his eyes and dn?r, or one can open them and '7,e#w. One can choose with the outward eye alone or wiMi the eye of intellect and conscience, .-ays Jeremy Taylor, sjeakiug of mar. Ages where physical beauty is the on''- l-md: "It is an ill band of affections > tie two hearts together with tie tt read of red and white," But let os choose ever so wisely, ever so deeply, and not we ourselves, nor the minister, can mairy us completely on tluj wedding day. " A happy wedlock is a long fgllifigiii Ibvc " Marriage is very gradual, a fraction •f us at a time. And the real ministers that marry j>eople are the slow years, the joys and sorrows which they briug, our children on earth and the angels they are transfigured int<> in heaven, the toils and burdens' rn" in company. Tlmse are the minis'.< rs that really mar ry us. and, compared with these-, the ministers who go tin 'gfi a form of , words some day, whai heaven and seem to draw near 1 Lisa each >ther. are of suui'l acCt ml. And the real marriage ser. celan't.ui thing printed or said; it is the true heart service v hich ; each yields to the other, year in and year out, when the bridal wreath has long since faded, and even the marriage ring is getting sadly voni. let this service 1*- performed, and e.i it the marriage was a lottery to u," i wit this would go far to redeem it ami cake it .car riage of co-equal liearts and minds, — Christ inn Virion. Earthquake Fun. The Oregon papers are making fun of the last earthquake in that legion, for it affected pei-sons in < t a.te different ways. A young gentleman aid lady were out walking at the time. About half an hour after, they return <i irorn their promenade and then leanirrf. for tle first time, that anything unusual hail occurred. People rushed into the street scantily clad. One loving hus band. who had "just stejqied out to see a man on business." rushed home with a billiard-cue that he had forgotten to re place. in his hand. His wife has vetoed all businnes engagements after Bo'elock, p.m. Tie next little item we take as we find it. One irascible gentieman jumped from Ixd scantily attired, pos sessed himself of the cowhide and made for the room of his t>oys up stairs, and rushed into it exclaiming, "I'll show you how to be fighting at this tame of night."
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