THE POTTER JOURNAL
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jno. S. Mann,
Proprietor.
VOLUME XXIV, NO. 29.
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PUBLISHED EVKRT FR!IAT AT
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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.
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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,
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COIDKILSPOKT, 1A.
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OLMSTED 4 LARRASEE,
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! KRSPOTtT. PENN'A.
SCTH LEWIS,
irtomcr at law and Insurance Agent,
LEWISYILLE. PA.
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Dentist,
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B*rwrnt
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(Tvt OSTTAFO, PA.)
Persons to Osvat by stage, and
to return same day, wi'.l he aeecictnodntaa
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ra-ca.
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psussccgers by r_ rree.
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OBWAYO, PA.
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COUDERSPORT, PA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1873.
Hunting Eggs.
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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."