- or Pan= , ....., 1 _ air% 4 militia . ; iaallatasseaelastre d sabeerfp. Ilona to the Dy oT er. SPECIAL hTONSlnsertedat errnisti:ctraTs ear line, for the first Insertion, eral Ms Cures Ter line ao stoseatniat lasertloos. \ - GOCA I. NOTICES , alms "le as r eading mat ter, ?warn cart • TAAL. • AD SIMMS NTS eitd toe Inserted alaxMliall to .the following Is le of Wee 4 ' • .---- Time 1 ler aw 1 int I aml 6to I lyr. I &no Fri) o io.oo zinetiet "zsio ( 6.69f.00 Piro 10:00 - i laitties7:7l- s: - aori.ool 10. 1 is.oo 110.00111000 4.00 (1):oo I moo i iEao cimoo 20,00 ISOM I eir.o - 0 16%00 l 7a.00 WOC/107X11i. - liell/o.ool,lo7Xrni: *ADMINISTRATOR* and Extenteirs Notion, V. 00; Aeditort notices:: Otto ; Bruiteen Cards, ate mai. (per year) WOO, additional lines. SLAG m. TEMILY Advattleettents aro entitled Levitt. ' toriv THANEIIiCIVP . aantrusements /Mit In pad ter IK AllyAN9l6. . : Att. 'iiesoiaTiona or AssociatiOns. Ceninanica t!ons of limited or individual interest. and notices &Merriment and Deaths. exeer4lint line% are e lamed TRW CENTS PER LINE. . SOB PRINTING, of every 'kind, In plain and fancy cokes. done with neatness and d= Haidbills. Wants. Cards. rarapliletsol pub...manta, or every yariety_ and #004'114.4 al the shortest notice.. Tun Nitiromacegios w. n supp lied with power presses.* !mod aaanict ment ar new type. and evinything In the Printielr lion can be executed 11 the mcd artistic manner and at the iciest Wes. Tr.llllB INVAIOARLY CASH. Profentonal and lissitilis Cards. °". HALL, •1 . Attorney-sit-Law and Niqa4, t . • Will give eAretul attention to any bnalnirsa entrust ed to. Mm. Office with Patrick k Foyle, (wrer Zestrava Office), Towanda. Pa. (JanW7'7T. • JAMES WPOD, ATTORNEY-AT -Lk*, mch4.74 TWA* DA. PA. %. -TORN P. S'ANDERSON, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, • OTlP,lelt,—Beans Building ( . nierPowelrulitors). mchtl46 , TOWANDA,PA. Q W. 41: , Wm. LITTLt;„ ' Lis A rroairsTS-AT-L4W. POW.VIDA. PA . Office over Decker's Prartslon Store, Mile street, Towanda, Pa„ Aprft As: 76., STp.OUD; TOR YE AirD eq_ussistios-4?-LAW,, Ogles —Mainitt., foie dodrs Worth of Ward - Uonse: • practices In Sopt,erne. Court • et Pennsylvania and United TOWANDA. TA. States Courts.--t Dee.T.ltt. STREEtEit, LAW 01P110)L sae*. ' TOWANDA, PA OVgRTON MERCUR, ATT!)!INEYS AT LAW, TOWANDA. PA. 91661oTerliontanyes Stare. — Imayl7s. TPA. OIiERTON. rionrny . A. ItEaCIIR. TM.' MAXWELL, ATTORNSP-Ar-z4 W. I Orries base DATt'Ciira SIVAS, TOWANDA, PA A r iir 12, 1871. PATRICK & FOYLE, AVTORICE ris-A 7- I, A W Office, hi 'Anew , / 'Block _4. ANGLE, 7 F A TTORNET-AT-LA TV. Office with, Darter & Carnorhan, Towanda, Pa. jan4,TY. • G. F: MASON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, • TOWANDA PA. °Me s e Orsi door south of C. B. Fetch, Esq. sec cind.ffoor. , ' ; :Ney.lß, 75. E Ti AILLI. S , - • ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. TOWAXDA, PA. °Mee, with Smith INpatanye.- rnoril4s ANDREW WILT, • ATTORNri & COCA'S . ELLOR-AILZAW Office firer Cross' Book Store, two doors . north of gtevons'& Long. Towanda. Pa. May be 'consulted In German. (April 12. j AV PHE#O - N KINNEY,' A rroRNE rs-A-T-LA , TOWANDA, LA. Office to Trtcy & Noble's Block Totrawls, Ts.,,4an. 10, 1870;1 .V . F. .GOFF, . . 41, , . ATTORNEY-A2l-LAW. _ , . . • [ , iistu Street 3 2 1 doors north 21 H"ard House): To •wands, rn. ~,, - •• I I , (Aydin, ICI." 4. - 7 V re H. THO M PSON , :Arroasat 0 AT Lar, WTALUSING, PA. ilVill attend . :'. Wall business. entrusted to his care In Bradford, '''-= Sullivan and Wyoming Counties. Office with Esq. i 'Porter. - i . En0v.15.74. DI ELSBREE, LITORN CT-AT-LAW,. .TOWAND - A, PA, =MO C L. L AMB, • . . ; ,•• ATTORNEY-AT -LAW, . .—. Wit.xES-Battab, P. . - , '• * Collections promptly attended to. ' July 27,76, OVEIMON .t ELSBREE, irron ': NET 4 AT LAW. TOWAr.TDA, PA.Rating en tered- Intojerepartnership. - otter their 'professional services to' the public. Special attention given to bilsifiPS3 in the Orphan'' , and Register's Courts. B. OVERTON, 'gilt. . (aprlt-TO) '.• N. C. Et.SBREE. N ADILL & CALIFF, Arroumrars AV LAW. TOWANDA. PA. °lnce In Wood's Block, first door sontlt of the prat Netionsi bank., H. 4. 3IADILL. ' [Jane-731y1, c. J. N. CALIF?. G.IpDLEY Sr, PAYNE, AT ; tORSE TS-.4 T-LAW, NO. I, TitikeT & NpULE's BLOCK'3 . tAi7 STAZET TOWANDA, Pik (j 417) .c. auIDLEt JOHN W. MIX, ATTORNEY AT LAW, AND 8. COMMISSIONER, TtIVANDA, PA. OMes—Norse Side Public Nasals.; Jan. 1, 1875 DAVIES & CARNOCHAN, ATTOIINZTS AT 'Ave, MERCUR BLOCK' ;Dee =-75. (II PEET, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. .a la prepared to practiceall branches of lda protraslon. Mice, Id I.: KC ILTIt BLOCS, (entrance on south aid) TOWANDA. PA. PR. S. M. WOODBURN,. Physi ewi and Surgeon. Office over 0. A. itlactli ekery attire. 'Towanda, MO 1, 18721y°. T 1 PAYE 3f: D., _Li P. N J. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON °Miro over 31optanyee Store. 011 tee hours from 10 A. )11,., and from 2 to 4, P.M. Special atteettott giv,n to tll4eases of the Eye and Ear.-0et.11176-tf. DR.: T. B. JOHNSON, - PHYMML4N AND ISURGNON (Vico over Dr. Porter SOWS Drug Store; Veranda. I~T D. L. DODSON,. Da sr. .on and after Sept. 21.„ may be foend:Jß.tbe •It•gaut new rooms on Rud door of Dr. Pratt'anew onire on State Street; Business solicited. • s..pt: " 13. • r i VE l . 4 l lY :in ” „d E v, s7 T i g l 4. 7 4sta, 9 , l 4L e6 T , "eth Inserted on 401 d. Sliver, Ruldmer, and Al uminum hae. Teeth extracted wlthottt pain. 0.1, 3442. • • , M . _D It i i.a. Pt n . e - n ~1 1 a . . m T h A i 0 N I a Dental. l ' DENTIST,of nc e lnto A Moorr's new block, aver-OiCsal-Af Miss• store, if imw prepared to do' all klads , of dental ;work. Hs Las also, put in a new gaisiparsetMcr..... - , 1n5y1375. . WHITAKER, • .BOOK BINDER. , 111 . 0wras But Lin tio, THIeD FLOon.TowAxta C S. RUSSELL'S, GENERAL.. 1 Y 2 011.AN, - CE AGENCY marmlott. TOWANDA. PA. 1864.1876: , •, TOWANDA INSURANCE AGENCY. Yates Strict, oppo eUe the Cattri i 10114141. a , • NOBLE &VINCENT, MANAGE I NSITitAN.CE AGENCY." • The fathoming' • RELIAIILE .ANI)• FIRE TRIED • Complinia repreirritad • . LAV esilll It ft. r114.E NiXdIUMX •ERCHANTSI Maid! 'l, 741[. • 0. A. BLACK. . • • 11. w. AI.VORD, Publisher. \ VOLUME XXXVM. - - WARRANTED TO: _FITI f _ _ _ MERCHANT' I . 4" . A 0 R OPVI/SITE COURT, 11,19 USS SQUARE, PEW AIM OOKI!LEPVTOOK OP .CLOTHS, - GENTS' FURNISHING. GOODS, . HATS, CAPS, &43 , • '• • • lie is prepared So • tarnish to outer, made to •ineaesire, SPRING AND SUMMER SUITS, • • *T , Q,IIALITY & LATEST STYLES, \ • At rives the moot reasonable of any establishment lisTowands. • Call and examine toy stock. • • rte, Apeks, 1877. THE 2 CHEAPEST HARDWARE STORE IN TOWANDA! IS IN .MERCUR - BOCK I SCYTHES, FORKS, FIXTURES, .R.OPES, -tic., Am, Amt . \ • • Cheaper .Than at Any -Other Place ! - • \ I barn aliraytinn hand Brpairs for rho Toured WARMS' and CVlAiiriox Mowing Machines, PEREIGOS SIDE HILL PLOWS, • Best in Use. kindiVf TINWbRE on hand l sad Tln work 01411 Om done ot lowest Flees. 'Towanda. Juno 2S; 187 s. HIGHEST AWARDS ! TDDiTEICNTII AND 11 0 11.33ERT STA., PULA., •1\ Manufacturenoot-patented WR)OI74 I‘ HT-IRON .AIR-TIGIIT HEATERS, With Sbalilog sad Cllnker•GriCiellng Ghia* for - buristntArithrietto or Illtumtnocia Coal. . , \ r , C ENTENNIAL ' WROUGH -IRON HEATERS. For Bsitrimf O:iR. PAT:CZ. _ Krrirxir, - WROIIGHT-TRON HEATERS, Cooking Ranges, Low-Do s ie s n'arates, Etc. • . \ • - Descrlptpre circulars SENT riesic,to any address 'TOWANDA, PA Aprll ZS ? '77-ly G REATLY REDUCED PRICES ! PLANING MATCIIING AND BE-SAWING Which I ata selling at prices to atilt the.times. Made promptly to enter, at a low price, for CASH IV YOU. WANT TO. O,RT RICH QUICK, Lumber brougbt bete to mined, be kept under over and perfertlVdry until taken away. Good shot; for your horses, and a dry place to toad. • - • i Tow'ands. Jan. iB, 1877, NEW STOCK • OF GROCERIES! choir stettott!of FINE TEAS AND COFFEES! Carib paid tor all kinds of COUNTRY PRODUCE! Talmud*. errs S, ten. . „ . . ' . . . . . . . , . - - • ' - . . .., - . , . . . - • - ..., . . , ::: .: - ''', - "'''`, 1 :7;.''. --:" ' , 1,1 •":.;''' : . . , . .. 1 :.. :5: .:: . :„.....:::-.. 1. : '.: 1. _ . .1 V . . ~.. ~ . ' Kathie, 'bib* IS WAY FOR SPRING 'SU ITS Mildwtw.oMpr o Has Fmk2 . 4aelvial a . . J. L. MaMjHON. Itardirare. • \ 7111112812 ean tigY their \ • :BNATIIS, GRINDSTONEp, H. T. JUN. Heston , :CETENNIAL EXHIBIT:Oi J.REYNOLDS & SON. N orthwest corner tams Coal. EXAMINE-BEFOUE BEI.ECTIItO. ke. \ The undersigned is doing id all kinds of :Planing-mlllNorkti AWNY DOWN! DOWN!! DOWN!!! So tar yon_ean•t see Ith I hate also on band 'a largo stork of .8 ASII,AND 'WINDOW-BLINDS Call and see my Goid,sind Pikes. L. IL 110150 E-RS.. Groceries. FM sale cheap At the old etand of C. B. Path. AV. ii. pEcKE!t, JR. U 13=12 T -i, KENT .7 u • . • . Kens,* Ms). • . t. • • = WILL OFFER FOR THE - 1 / NEST:THIR TY DAYS HIS ENTIBE STOOK OF ,DJUISS QOODS, WHITE GOODS; GOODS,4v., Oci &e., &b., REDUCED PRICES. NM GLOVES, - lIOSIEBY, LACES, AND EMBROIDERIBSIN GREAT VARIETY. A :LARGE STOCK OF BMX & WORSTED FRINt7EB JUST I REUEITED. BARGAINS•7N TALE LINEN,: NAPKINS, , tOWELINCis &c., 1 El . OUB STOC.ft OF \ • - C..LOTHS AND. , .(J t A811111E1?Eg r _ z j, _l, . IS UNEQUOED, • \ AND HAVIIM SEpURED THE SEAvlcx§:or' BARRIS\ THE' TAILOR WD". ARE PREPARED TO CLOTHE ALL WHOMAY FAVOR "T \ HEIR k1.T.R01440.. \ • \ Towanda, June 21, 1877. ;J. L 0. Trostl.2 Saar. NFiV,V9ODI3 FOR THE WE ARE NOW READY WITH A FULL STOCK OF FURNI TURE AT PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES, OF OUR OWN MANUFACTURE, WHICH WE 4NVITE ; YOU TO CALL AND kXAMINE. . EE GO PA OTT GO / • • WHEN IN WAN OF ANY THINE! IN OUR LINE, OWE DS A. CALL. REMEMBER THE PLACE, ; AT THE OLD STAND OF MAIN STREET. - I a. 0. FAOST,S'i34S. Towanda, Pa, Alin 1, IC7 MU e 4. L. XENT'i -` ' . SPRING TRADE 1 ?- ' ;:: TOWANDA . 4 \ IMNORD - eqpTti - j•A n i : pipßsp i l .t...MORNING,,. AUGUST 16, 18'I7 Vogetiss. FOR - IPAOTS FOR rfRE - PEOPtE .11: Iris an undeniable fset that no 1 artfele\was over -before tbepoblto retth so stub *Mews of fts Vat isiedleia Wert as VEGETINE. . . „ Iry every comptaint ler which ifiettattra V. He cesnmentkel, mant tiellmoilats of what Mum done M turniihed to the patine at: large, and• no one ,altoold tall to observe that nearly all of the testi- Vonlais are from people tight at , beam, where the . 'UOZTINE Is premed. and am the:streets and netesheie are eves, there can be no possible doubt %the mattes._ . , .. - . . ' t itotrfoll, Dee. IV 11111. It. li. , Rai.--beer RinAtiSll 'tisk the fawn of %Mate my eve Panne? '‘ , In 11111:Vile an jiteketalitty ta the,arnre. I was taken with fit, wbtek listed‘all night:- Was tak en tato eater/and tladell frith whisky and quinine. After this kairtifit view day. and was taken to 'Nowbstfli tiofidteN-and there treated by the attend ing physicians. 4 greic*verse and was sent home. Remained in pearl:mann for four• years, treating with many physlltenkes and trying many remedies. 'finally licerdttlaV** its appearance on dititereut Parts of IllYleaff.,My head was so diseased as to be trightral to look*, and painfully beyond en. dunnee. After trill:4[4M most eminent physi cists* Mats:id , without improvement, $ change of climate Hive been to the - Hot lipngif in ArkabiAa Wee. eaten env giving their treatirunt a thorough trial. !Finally came back to Meter. discouraged, With no have of help. Lift was a burden to one in my sit- MitiOn. Hy disease. and the effVt of so much pow erful medicine, had so Amsted tpy system that the action of my ettmaclawas apparently deatllaY_M, mid my head was covered with nice 'which had in place*The eaten Into the skill bone, ,„' best physicians "melt ytroat so fall of til i poison they could do no more tor me. hout, this .times friend who had herb an 'invalid \tad . . me Vzotrusta hatt restated hint to perfect heal so and through Lis persUadon I commenced tatting n- TINS. /Mats tune I was havlngille almost very Asy. 1 notteell the first good effects of VltatT p re in fro digestive organs. Ify food, sat better 1 0 tny verencit grew stronger. I began to feel en togniateitL for I coots see my health - slowly and \ ignotualle improving, With renewed hope I con. umlaut taking the .Viotri its, petit. It bad corn. peetely driven ditease out of my, body. It cured the/t, sensate good, pore blood: and matured me I to perfect health which I had not 'enjoyed before 'for ten years. Hundreds of people in the city of Boston can Touch for the above facts. \ VIGILTINIt has saved coy life. and you are anti. arty to make such use of this statement as pleases you best, and I.betof you to make 8 known that other sneerer* mar and relief with leo. tr ouble and expense than I tlid. - It win *ford me great pleasure to show 251 marks of my disease or give any further tutor tion relative to my case to all who desire It. _ •• I am, sir, very gratefully, JOHN PICK, Nu, SO Sawyerstreet, norm, Mass. ,I • • ! TWENTY-SEVEN' . YEADS AGO. 14•'x• STbigNIS, F.01.--Dertr Sir: This Is to cer tlfY that. my daughter : was taken sick when she was three years old, and got so low that we were allied to keep her on a pillow, without moving, to' keep the little thing together. She was attended by several physicians—the regular attending one being old Dr. John Stevens, They all pronounced her case then:able. She hid been sick about a p.m , wken bearing of the greMi-ftlood Remedy, TIME. nag, 'commenced giving her that, and continued It regularly till she was. about seven years old, whettl. T 3 l was pronouneed perfectly cured. During !mole els three pieces of bone were takes from :ter right arm above the elbow, one of them being very low \ Several small pieces were also taken from her left leg. She Is now fwentymtven sear old. and la enjoying good health. and bssever since she was save year old, with zo signs of Scrofula wary other load disease. , Ifer arm is. a little crooked. but sh can use It almost as well as the other. Her kegs of equal length. and'she is not In the lewd Mute. tier case was Scrofula, Inherited lin the blood; and jvcaild recommend alt dime Scrofula Humor es , t uber blood disease. if-hey' wish to have a pfrfee re. to try VaCIETIIM, the reliable blood remedy. bleb does not weaken the system Ilkossanylother partitions recommend. ed. but, eathe contrar , nourishing and strengthening. My daugh r's case will:fully tea. tify this. for I never saw no curd of &worse form of Scrofula. IfI7I,DA 8M ITlf, , 19 Monument street, 41 arlestown. Mos. Mitail. SARA M. JONES, - 89 Sullivan - street, Ch stown, Mass, April 100870. The above statement shows s. . Scrofula In SS worst term, Wboai Stoll able, of a child four years. of Ike, a years ago. The lady, now twenty-seven t enjoying perfect health. Prepared by A. R. STEVENS, Roston, VEOF.TINE IS•SOLO BY ALL DRUGGIbYk REE=MI \ OLD ESTABLISHMENT STILL. TAKES THE LEAD! • \ Carriages 47114 APER THAN EVElt.' and Plat fond yfigolus at a GRUNT REDUCTION. \, . - . . ...: _., . . 1, \ • , _ , J A hiEs, itgrAxr. .\ , .: • . Preptietow of the 014 Carriage idAnnisolory, cor. Main and Elisabeth ,streett4, would \van the special attention ot 11PAItlitERS and others to his large and complete assorttn.nt of \ \ OPEN AND TOP'BUGOTE4\ .• \ , \ ON AND PLATFORM\ W-AOF3, . \r . .... . All of his own m \ , anntartnre, and warr,nnted, In <l4olb every partfenlar to be want turtle Ino:itzireliSl!e ilitt. . \ ‘ ~ • .. • \ , .. NOW IS rputt TIME. TO lIUY I tooirsit the figures, and . rernember that.erery vehicle is marrant9l t .PLATFCiRM WAG 8 ... OPEN BUGGIES TOP BUGGIES • The prices are Jar thcoiost or minnfactere, and will not be maintainsel atterrhe present stork Is disposed of, so you must mate selections NOW. .., •., , Don't be Imposed upon by Inferiar work and poor material's,' but purehaie at the establishment which has been In operatlon for nearly halt a cert• tory and ts permanently located.. RtPAWNG.TROMPTL* ATrEN6tD TO Odic° and Factory cor. Igraln and Eilzabotii l, itroetp Towatoda, June 21, 1827 NEW C A RRIAGE FACTORY lost of thilteporter Ornco. Malntyro a. Spencer , Respectfully ontumnec to the public thlt they are prepsfed to bullo alllttnds of t. FAMILY - CARRIAGES, TO AND BUGGIES, , P/lAE N4)PLATIPOB SPBING'IVAGONS; TROTTING ~SULKIES h SKELETONS, Made of the best material and In the best style. All work warranted to pro perfect Latisfaetlon. . . . . , kk REGARDLE6B•;OF DAN \ UN9ATION MO ANY QUARTER,'. ireund this loVel7 sailer the The purple hills of Paradise. • • • Sergi on yen bank of base . • Het rosy face the summer lap I Betidmed shine the's:use-sky • The witisies of elandlend He, ' - Whose Chores, with many a shining rift, Par off thhir pearl-White perks uplift:" a. Through all the lengsnidstinuiter day ' . The meadow sides* sweet with hay. - I seek the coole s Slslieltereil Seat, Just Waite the field and remit meet i Where yeti the pine trees till and Mild, The sitelent oafs Sestets and grand,' - The Bine= and tiebtdintltilt • The ripples of the ktrilltit. • • • ' ( -1 trildi the theirerais theygo • time; the,tall grass. a white-sleeved row; lib even strokes their seytheey swat& •In tune their inerrywhetvibnes Ing. Behind the nlelble Pungstets run,, . And tost4the thick swaths In the sow s The cattle graze; white, warm Sad Slopes the brbad pasture, basks the ' 'And bright, ythen summer breezes break,, The green wheat clink fi like a lake. The butterfly and bajrile-bee . .Come to the Omen woods with ma t• Qiiickly.beforeperuns the quail, . The thicken skulks be and the rail, Iligh'up the lone wood pigeon sits, And the woodpecker peeks isnd.flits. • Sweet woodland music slnks - and swans. . \ The brooklet rings its tinkling bolls. . = \The swarming insects drone and hum, - T he partridge teats his throbbing drum, - The squirrel leaps among the boughs, - And \ chetters to his leafy louse, The oriole flashes by; 10, look \ Whenitae cafe blue bird, trims his coat, • Two tiny s, feathers tali and float. \• • As silently, as tenderly,' . - The dawn of`pmee descends on me. 0, this Is peacel hare no -need - Of friend to talk, of bOok to read ;, . , - - S. dear eompauientere abides - -Close to my thrlithig ‘ heart he lades; The holy silence is ilia voice ; I lie, and listen, and rejoice. afiktllanios4. Ethl's • It was only a`scanty coal fire, but seen through the open grate it looked bright and cheery, and danced and sparkled on after ri\ fashion of its own, as if trying to put on a broad smile in spite of fate.; The robin was plain and sombre enough in 'other . respects ; the door or covered with strips of cheap tig, the furniture awl belong of tle simplest charactek-I nmond sat` -sewing busily, her darlehair half in shad Ow. The Bight just glancing upon her fac4 shhwed it pale Atid r /rae, 4he lips ; beautiful in their eu ed falling wearily apart, and the long black lashes. almost tOuching 'the rounded cheeks. (tot enter of ^need Incur. +nq•tbree !ears old, . .:The faint rustle of li f er work and he. occasional dropping of a coal \ w re the only sounds that broke the sit Ce. • It was so still that Rote, , snu,, led" down by the fire with her Purls ropping• over her shoulders; gradua lost .all consciousness or her posit'en, and was in some danger : of finding said curls caught and int prisoned by ,little .tongue of ffame,• saucier than i a fellows. . She sighed . h 'nifty. Ethers dark lashes were ale - raised, repealing wondrous, lOyelics eyes of Clearest brown. "What is the mat • , pet?" "Oh, Ethie,"—with ' - npther - sigh —"l' have been thinkin bow differ ent everything is from w at it used . to be. When .we lited in 'our old home, I mean, and father and .. other were alive; and Robert. was , lore; and we wereall so happy togetteil I Don't you rernemher, what dear g. •d times we used'' to hive in the larg, parlor, before Rob•went off? And `now he is gone, and father and meth er,7—she , stopped a moment, but ,soconvresnmed.-- . .."•and you have to lvork \ so hard all the time, and—oh, Apar, everything -is dull At-lonely? We. never seem to have any good titres now. I think even: Jip• fOls the differerfee,"' looking fondly down at.thelittlelarOwn spaniel in her lap. . She was Just lifting herlead when Ethel spoke again. . ' ' ' 1 •"Aose, hew shenld you like to go away from here into a. large house all oar own, with handsome furniture such as we used have? i ,And.go to a good school, andshavetiiee clothes and, new playthings;. Wouldn't it. be pleasq.nt?". - \.. ; \ ~ \- I \ . ! "AnAllob?" , Ethel ,made a quick gesture:\ - "Rob wouldn't, have anything do withit . lie is away." - • \ " But isn't he coming home to .bring us all these things f I thought that was what you meant, Ethie. DoWt youlnow themight before .he went away, how he told what hand some presents he was going to bring home, and • the gay times we would have?" • - - .100 to 4110 • I . 100 125 . 150 JAMES 1311YA?..7T. " Rush, ch i p!" interrupted Ethel, suddenly, growing Very pale. "That was a, long time aeo. Robert must have forgotten \ alr about us before" this, or he would have-written." ;i " I don't believe it," retorted Rose, indignantly. • Ethel's eyes grew still more trou bled, and she put her hand 'on her heart, with a sudden, quirk. gasp: "If I could! if I etitildl" she said herself. " Who is going. to give, us' ,these things;, Ethie?" she said at last. " Have any of the men father owed been good and let us have the money Mr. Rowe said one of the debts would have been enough for us to live on; only the man wanted every 'Pent." ." And I wanted heohould have it. 'oor father's name never should suffer, though it left us poorer than we are now. No Rose, that is not it, but-- you know Mr. Woodward."4-She hes itated, and in spite of 'herself, the scarlet blOod mounted to)her Wow. "Re is rich, 'and he hns.asked me to marry MM." "I don't think it would be. right toe you to give np Rob and - marry that old, homely looking man, Ethel:, To save ; her life Ethel could not have met the reproachful gaze 'of those great, serious eyes. - She looked down as she said.: "Yes, Rose, .I am 'going-.to be mar ried to Mr. Woodward, and this is my engag,enient ring."' Rosee - did lot speak a- word, but' for the first time sum their double Stoltz ~ 4~1~1! ~ ET a►L!A WALDO SY/ iiii BIM OPligi t tigey i$ i e &Red: to rat* . her . iister's. good-night Idsa. . . • ''lt was a bright June day when the. . sisters - entered the' new ',home /of which Ethel wail' henceforth, to 'ibe mistress. If anything conk have made her thoroughly happy, it would have been the tender anxiety which Mr. Woodward had shown 'that all Rose's childish dad* should be , gratified. . - Six, months of her wedding life went by,-and .found .her at the close' . • Awful, content, growing daily more thilled , With - her life ,and its. duties. he winter holidays drew -nintr. R telettied froin athool discipline, *wan i a bird set free.- - She went dannin and singing 'about the house, working artily at odd moments on various tip nufactures of het- own In tended for nrprise presents. "It Is soon e to-he richi.and give soinany people , "Merry Christmas," Rose said', delig ) led: Ethel never for: of one incident of all that bright, jo . us, happy time. For ere the New te. r's day she had welcomed in so gayly ‘,. me to a close, Rose lay feverish and , stless on her couch with the . -first B mptons of what proved to- be , a malt , . tlever. She, had probably caught It . , ' some onC, of the poor neighbOrhe • . , they had visited. . Night and day Ethel watch - by her side) one , tear ever in her hen one prayer ever oa her lips: - a.Sav , her, spare ' her. , 0h..G0d." .A Vain prayer, for I it. There.came a morning v A saw her dar ling's face w 're light of day resting on it c eyes' closed, and the lips a she.. pressed Wild kisses, cold ano . nreathless. - Nor was that' all. \Mr. Wr, ward who bad watched utiremitti gly in o r the room, Was himself - t own wieh the disease the very \ day that Rose was buried.. Ethel came home from .the grave where her sweetest hopes perished to take her place. as watcher by another sick bed. - \Not i for long ;the fever made More raid progress here. In less than a week, the strong man was 'a corpse, and"i Ethel, utterly crushed by this new' blow, was-left alone in the ivorld. • Alone to meet poverty no les4 thin sorrow. Mr. Woodward had made no will since his inarriage. Au old - one dated some years back 'len his. .property all to distant relatives who were not - slow in taking posses sion. lEtard;,money making people, Mine tee , Well pleased with themar-, tinge in the first place, they had no scruplesin . taking from the young Widow all that the law allowed, even though it left, her nearly penniless. , So from the elegant house with its luxurleas ap pointments, Ethel went back to one small room, simply (urn- i ished with what 'little she could honestly call her own. Here, alone, ,desparing, she took up the burden of life again,' and -recommenced her old routine of daily labor., . ' - She came home one evening More thanlustrally weary. It, was a cold, wet. 'night and She was s chilled through from a long walk, carrying home her work.- _ .*- ' ~' " She.grows \ more lovely everyolay with that little, sWeet, grieved smile; said Mrs. Rill .to - .herself as she enter ed to announce a caller, "n strange gentleman who's been \ liere twice be fore since you went out t * - - , " Some one lo , See 'bout work probably. Will yon h im up, please ?" She rose' languidly,took . F her things; and just smothed her \hair without looking in the ' -glass. She was hanging tip her cloak, whenNi step in the doorway made her turn, and look round. 'A , gentleman,' tall, brown and heavily beardei, stood there looking resting on his shoulder. "Thank hea'en, darling I have 'found „you at last !" was Robert's first exclamation. "I had begun to, think you were 'lost to me forever." -Ethel Hammond's trials were over then. \,I • THE LUXURY Of ;OLD. W,ATER. The plague of winter is cold, and the plague of summer is heat, but we can do a great' deal to, lessen the mis eries-of both seasons. Now that we are approaching the doh days, it may be well to point out that by means of a *era' use of water - one may pass thaingb the summer furnace withqut suffering any serious _ discomfort. Water is good for other things be sides the allaying of thirst. It has a pennar.ent determination to evatio rate, and as it cannot evaporate with out,heat, it consequently diininishes in the process the heat of our rooms. Pana of water, the cooler the better, stationed shout a bedroom will posi tively redo not only the sensation of heat, bu the heat itself : Should 1 any one d' . bt this, let him have a tub, withlts shallow depth and ivide i surfaCe, filled with spring water, or water with a\good block Of ice in i lt, and Once in the bed-room, arid mark in half,in hour \how many degrees the thermodieter, \ has fallen. It ought to be six degrees, atleast,aud will be eight if he is hot stingy with his ice, and this impray s ement in the temperature will last for, hours. If the heat stilt remainstoo great, thriaw up the bedroom nindows,`faaten a blanket or traveling rag' aerba the spacc,,and drench that welt \with water. `\ ,In five miniitisii , the \air . in the roam - will be reduced to tliitt water's teraperature. Ne.veic 7 :mingt the breeze. - • . :! • 1 ALL'I I sloe - * SIML Some time agO Iferr Stolba pub-' lished a method of platinelron and Steel by the simple , immersion/sr°• cess, and the following plan has -re cently been put forward' by him as an improvement: To a dilute solo, Ikm (5 to 10 per cent.) of as - pure chloride of zinc as possible, there la c , added - enough sulphate of nickel to color it strongly green. This Is heat ed to ebullition in a percelain vessel. The objecti, being completely clean ed of grease, are. then suspended in the liquid so • that they touch each other as little .is 'may be; and the boiling is 'kept tip,- for from half 'an hour to an hour,Water being froth time added in p lace of that evaporat ed. The nickel Is precipitated in a brilliant white layer wherever the surface of the object is not greasy of rusty. The operation can be contin ued for several hours if desired; but the plating will not thus be - rendered much thicker. After removing the objects, they are washed with water holding chalk in suspension, - , and carefully dried. They . may, -after wards bey - cleaned with chalk, imd they take a line yellowish-toned pol ish. The ehloride of Zinc used shotild contain no metal perceptible by iron. When it cannot be obtained of suffi cient purity, it may l?e made by , dis solving zinc scraps in hydrochloric' acid, and allowing the solution, con , taining l an excess of metallic zinc, to: est, in order that the metals - precip . le by the tine: may separates Pit ter t \ the end of twenty 7 four hour, and he solution is ready for use ; each rtion of zinc diasoived corres ponds about 2.1 parts of chloride of zinc: The 'sulphate or nickel should al be as pure as passible, and the col lution should not pre cipitate when a plate of iron is plunged In it,a would happen,. for \ example,- if it contained copper. When, during the o ration the liquid becomes a pale g owing to; the precipitation of nicks `more sulphate must be added until the intense, green -is retained. Wh the used liquid is' xposed to.the se tenor air, it deposits hydrated oxide of coming from the dissolved m .It should be filtered, and more chloride of zinc and sulphate added, whin it may be . again used. In ,the sa t. e. Rai polished iron and steel . objet may be covered with a brilliant plat ing of cobalt, by using a sulphate of cobalt solution. ,The appearance of this plating diiTers 'very -little from that of polished; 'steel. The distiri guiihing characteristic, is the light rose-colored tint. 'The author states that the plating wears. BUSINESS It is astonishing htiv ninny people are unpunetual. T ousandS \ bate failed in life from this cause alone. It is not only a serious vice in itself, but the fitiitful parent ,of numerous other vices, so that he who becomeS, its victim is soon involved in toils from which it is almost impassibleto escape. It 'makes the Merchant wasteful of tune ; saps the business reputation of the lawyerond injures the prospects of mechanics whcfnight otherwise rise to fortune;;in axword, there is not 'a profession nor, station in life which is not liable to the can ker of this destructive habit. Many of Napoleon's great victories were wpn by infusing into' his subor dinates the / necessity of punctuality to the minute. It wail Ads plan to, manoeuvre over large spaces of coun try, to render the enemy uncertain where 'he was about to strike, and theni suddenly concentrate his forces 'and Tall with- irresistible force upon sOmc weak point of the extended linea of the foe. Execution of this system deraaided that each division i 'of the`arroy should arrive at a speci fied spotomnetu t ally, for if any part failed tocrie up, the battit was lost. It was by imitating this plan that the allies finally 3ucceeded in ioierthrow ing the EmperOr. The whole Water loo campaign tUrned upon these tac- tieri. Mt.. St. Jelin, •Blucher was punctual, while (Mouthy was not, and the result was, Napoleon fell and' Wellington triumphed , mercantile "affairs \ye:nett:silty is quite as important as in, military. IMany are the instances in Which neg led to renew tin insurance \policy, punctually, has led to serious, loss. Hundreds of city, merchants "and, manufacturers and publishers are now, suffering in consequence of want, of punctuality among their ...country customers in paying up - acconnts. It is sound policy which moves .the nks to insist, under penalty of pect •:-t, upon the - punctual payment of. no , •s ; tfor, were -they to do other-, wise, `Commercial transactions would' fall ". to inextricable confusion: Many a 'rne.has the, failure ,of / one man, to meet obligations. brought: abOut the ruin of a score of others, just as)the toppling down of he first in a line of bricks causes the fall of all the rest. 1, Tux New Bedford ifereurst relates. that, not long since a gentleman traveling by rail froin a - neighboring city to Boston, puicuased a glass safz, soda• at a refreshment stand'in a way , ,, station_ and : gave the attendant quarter. The/latter apparentljr pur posely delayed making change, and, his customer was obliged to hurry 'op board/the train with a feeling, of having been cheated, and conse-• quently'" out " fifteen cents. At the next stopping place he 'rushed to-the windOw of the telegraph office atictl dictated a message to be sent to the`l sOila. water man, and paid for by the ,recipient. It was follows: " Dal you sell foam at 25 cents &glass P?' At every station where'there \ was chanc?_ he repeated this' message. Upon re.sel.ing Boston, having thus revenged biloself five times he glided out of 'the depot and Off about his , business, with's quiet smile of satis- 1 factiOn irradiating his placid features that was refreshing to lOok upon. As for the soda water man that - wght after shutting up he drew up a little balance sheet on the fly leaf Of his, diary as follows: Expenses •of tele graphy, $1.25; extra peofit an, sod's, 15; out, $1,10." Patrons,hici es tablishment won't have ''to wait so long for their change after thin ; as they did. T- 12 per Annum In ichrcse.. NUMPER -11.1 AS 111111711111JITATION.- . • lit foresT t olden, • - We ainxii saki!, - - Idly roamed ope itatgmitrar : r S..` 840 bilishl4 sbyly, ' , a • Wol:lni# 13,iineest4horIui4,t I post sky i - Thenbl•litniironlng, - With pisfflotislowtnit, clasped her forni n.ll but dirty!. / And cited, lippealting 1 1 in,tender.feellag, “Q pretty Pet, won't on be mine r ins enraptured ! • . yor she had en:trued rety pool-.tune on the .111 rt i'ret go my lIT. I O II I . (How that-tone linger's), , tollltirhitsbanort—oh ! you halt !" • . • - In retest , Ationset golden, ' l'soasn alias :tat" - *titan= day: , • ; The wind Is sighing • , , Mid leaves *dying,:. io4—l feel spit, o• queer semetrai t • • W. It, Paesall. LIVE FOB soiMare Live forsoinethlng; be not Idle, • Looiabout you tor employ Oltylot down to Wi . elesi d!eatoing— ,Pabor tithe sw e etest joy. Folded handiale ever WearZ, Selfish hearts are ever gay. Ltte tor yon has many duties— Active be, then, !while you may. Ratter. blessings in your pathway, Gentle zrordsland cheering smiles tiekt s er ire than wild and silver, With #teligriet4Uspelling tallel.rs- As the bleat:it annsidne fMI tb . • Eirer on the grateful earth,. So let elinpatbj and lataleette' ' • ' ditdden well the darkened earth. . Matte that aripppresee4 andirearr. Drop the tear of sympa,thy ' Whliper *mill of hope mid comfort, Give and pout' nlinard shalt 60.4- , 'Joy nnio thy sob! retanapr From this p?rfeet foutitaltphesol. Freely,4% thou freely gliest Shall the grateful tight be thel. TOIL THEW= nouT DRUM. An article in the Ga/azyon dreams; 'by Mr. Lewis, presents some' novel theories. The results of a great number of experiments are. held to sustain the following facts.: Speak ing in a low, 'monotonous torie close to the ear of a sleeper will almost invariably cause him to dream- of terrible adventures on water, such as shipwrecks and drowning. Singing, or playing on, musical instruments induces dreams of dead friends, fit , erals, , and the like. Worrisome * eams'are often caused by sleePlit wi i` the -aims over the head: -‘ Mr. Le - does not'believe that somnam- MIMI o ft en canoed by weight - of trouble ii the mind, and he combats the idea hat any great propertionot dreains are he result of making trou ble. He Ottescribes, experiments !bowing tha t.they are. but • dashes , 4\ across the bmi •-" While one watch ed a sleeper an another the eloek, a third loudlY s 1 med the blind about ten feet away. The - effect was almost' instantaneo , The , man sprang _up at the und, looked around in alarm, and then\cxelaimed : -' Tharik God that it wan only - a dream." He had dreamed of being on\a crowded street' in' front of a budding which the crowd pronoa ced unsafe,„ but still lingered near it. The dreamer tried 'to elbow 'his 'w y along ) 'bat the people jeered and\ linghed .at him and held him there. He \ begged ntid entreated,, ,epased and threatenea, but they held , hiin there, and the building topPled over on him',,, the shock - breaking ' his dream. It, seemed certain 't4:3 us that he had dreamed the entire dream in a second, white the time seemed a long half hour`to him ; bat , to place the question, beynd 'dispute we in dulged in seven or eight experiments. Sometimes welet a . weight fall, to the floor, Or struck a chair with a stick, I and again we sjammed the blind.- In every instance .the sleeper dreamed of Some startling adventure,' and awoke with a start ; - and no dream -lasted' over a minute: - ' TEE NAXED At noon yesterday a policeman found .a -- boy hathin c .,o - in a slip near the foot of Randolph street,' and he called to tke lad to come out and:be arrested like's man for breaking - the ordinanee. ' • "Is it Agin the orjuninee fora boy to fall into the river? " queried the bather. sir; but you are naked:" " Does the law say , that a boy has got to have his clothes.on, when he falls in ?" ." The. ordinance prohibits bathing here, and now you come . out: l ft,- . •.lo it bathing when a feller cuts his foot on a piece of tin; knockoffs leadagin a beam, and swallows - four catfish and a-gob of mud I" " want you called the'..offieer. " What for ?" 2 sisked the ivy'', •- ' I coinMana you to come out!" "I can't come," 'sorrowfully an- . swered tbe batt ' "The real truth is, I jumfied to rcamm drowning fema 7,l!air pulled off, and she's at lora. have no witness 4) to trial." "I'jj bring you out Ins--krroVrleil the officer as he 'made for, afoot, but the boy difsappeared and wtisseen, `no -more. While the officer was lcioking under the wharf the. half of a\g .)od sized sand pile suddenly slid doWn the back of his neck and into his foots, and it musical,. familiar voie`o wilfl'heard saying : , "My 'shirt's on- hind side afore, breeches turned around and this vest' is wrong end up, but I- feel as, clean as a new stamp from the postoffiee, and Lot. ,what an appetite I've. -got for - pop -corn balls:---Detroit Press. nosPirmarv.—Hcispitality. ,is good deal 'a matter .of latitude, , suspect. 'fhe sbade Of a palm tree serves an A frbini - for a lint, his' well ing bs altdoor and 110 wills; -every body can coma in.'s To-make a mom mg-call on an , Esquimau.% Aimee, one - must creep through along , tunnel; his house is all walls and no door. Onc might probably trace,a regulargmduation, between these two extremes. In cities where the evenings are 'warm,, the people tame porches at their doors, and \this' is, of course, a provocative to thOin terchano of clvilities. -A gofxl , deal I which in ' , colder, regions is ascribed, to a mean dispoSition, belonga really to &Met& tempeniture.: - _ • LEGS IMMO TM! TlO2ll MI New-Hampshire conssixondent of the lifsincheater Mirror =mem his views on the deserted farm.queis tion thus bluntly: , • • "If the farms have run down thei - people who occupy them are . along way ahead in the race. We have got • 'on our Dams to-day a chits of people who can cipher through the algebra,.. play itionO, and boast of an ao- quithitince with the fine arta, but they,can't work; 'They have got fine minds, ,hut their d boes sichly,, ritiay and weak To talk the matter , plainly, we - have 'bred the bone sand muscle out of our families until ,we got a kind of dereep, , fine boned; mild-eyed, and nice to look at, l and pet, and put on exhibition, but ao tender and weals, tluit they are no longer fit for bur climate- Our re: there worked twelve or fourteen hours a day and never thought of getting tired. We are used up when-we-have worked four hours. • Our mothens - , made butter and cheese, fed the'pigs_ and thickens, did the milking, ridsdd a dozen children, made the clothing for the-family, and whelk a shower was coming could -rake or load hay. 'Our-wives want a maid to tend the baby and another to do the house; work, alioy to do the chorea, and if wewant more thais one cowo cheese,: l factory to -prevent- the milk fivia spoiling. It is. Sae to sap that ten' fanners' wives today can't do as pinch hard-work as would - two fifty years ago.; Asa farming people we are played out., If the young New-lramp- shire farmer - who wants a wife to hells him get a living instead of emje to hang ribbons en and pour patent medicines into, would just go down to your city and find a goodotrong, vigorous, industrious and frugal Irisho; flennan girl, he would find his fares would Tay better Quin it does now, and his children - would be likely to be worth ten times as much as farmers as ivilfhe any of thanext generation of pure-bred Yankee-a" =ME MEI BM ; CoafeAriv."—What a ceremoni ; 0118 affair we make of .entertaining company I 'Too inany of us lose all sense of being at` home the moment - a 'stranger 'crosses our threshold . ; - and heinsfantly feels himself to be a mere visitor—nothing pore—and acts accordingly. , The man who knows how t "drop.in ", on an eve ning, tivaw.up his chair to your hesArth as if it, were his own, and fall into the usual evening routine of the ' household .as if he ; vere a-member of it--how welcome he always is ! • The man who conies t 6 stay under your roof for. a season, 'itnd. - who, without being intrusive or . familiar, • makes, you feel that he is "at home " with` you and is content in his usual lash ion of occupation—how' delightful a guest he is! And the houses•-414 how few of them I-L-into which one can go for a .day . or a week and feel sure that - the family routine is in'no . wise altered, the family. comfort in, no wise lessened, but, on the contra ry,. increased by one's presence' --- what joy it is to cross the threiholds! What harbors of refuge they arito weary 'wanderers I What'sweet rein , iniscenses-they bring to the' lOfiely and homeless ! ' - Tar, Szqarr.—Tvr • nty clerks in a warehouse—twenty hinds ,in a printing oillce--twenty young `men in a. village. , All want to get along in the world, and all expent to' do 'so. One otthe clerks willyise to be a partner, and make a krtyne. One, of the compositors will --. 64fn a newspaper, and become a prosperous azul influential citizen. One .of thu apprentices will become a 'master builder. One of the ''Villagers get a handsome farm, and live Bye a patriarch.. 'But which is destined to be the lucky _individual? Lucky! There' is no luck about it. The thing IL almost as certain as a fule of three: 1, e young fellow who will distance '• ' his ompetiters is he who masterehis i . , basin ss,, who preserves his integrity, who li\to t i .. ; clearly and purely, who ,- never ge s in debt, who gains friends by dese g them, and puts his money in a vings' bank. There are some ways to ortune that look short er than this old dusty highway; but the staunch men of the community; , the- - men . who a hieve something ,s. really worth havinl, good 'fortune s good name,.-and ase nc i old w, alt , go this road. . , - • ~ • - -4 1411114. 4. ' How Xlermr.s ASE Man —There is -something very ingeniou in - the nianufacture.of marbles. Th eat. ti4i. or part of them are made of-n\hard stone found - near Coburg, in riaxony „ .... 4 , -The shine is first broken yvith a hatu:-. . mer into , small, cubical fragmentrV and about a hundred or a hundred \\ and fifty of these are ground et one, time in a mill , something like a-flour mill. The lower stone, which remains at rest. has several coneentrie•circu lar grooves.; the upper stone is of . the -same diameter as the lower, and is' made to revolve by water or wind-, power. Minute streams of water are directed into the furrows of the low. or stone.. The little pieces tirtoren'ade to roll about/in all directions, and in a linarter of an hour the wh le of the rough traprents are aced into nearly accurate spheres. • • . BE FRANK—Never deceive for t sake of a foolfsh jest or, to excite the laughter of a few companions at the; . • expense of a friend. , Be anxious when you relate anything to" tell it just as it occurred. sever vary, hi' the j least degree. The reason why our ears are so often saluted by false reports is because people in telling real things add alittle to-them, and as they pass - through a dozen inouths .the 'original stories are turned into :something entirely different: , So when you attempt to tell anything that-you have seen with your own eyes relate it correctly in every particular, a _ n& as you grow Older pea will reap: - the 'advintages of this course. • Tom CZAR'S DAILY Len....--The Eta , :Perot of Russia has been leading a' very simple life at Ploiesti. Ile work without ceasing, signing hundred:4 f documents daily. Every dom. meat must be read over to him; for •he will give no signature which is merely. mechanieed. to the entrea ties of. Via servant" to take things. more easily he , has allays. the same. ; answer : lam neither old enough; nor, ill enough to relieve niyielf from my obligations." The Czar reached his fifty-ninth Year on the tWenty third of June. - His dinner is served regurarly at ' twelve o'clock noon, after which he takes a drive usually • with the crown prince. Lirisii•is like Mlle"' to hide me fog! if yon nose . about pin are in ,a nge ref bun:loA* your lnaut against, the truth ansl,afr soon as the - fog 37911 ore ono *whim; MEI
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