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In Itnt anth it ren.onl,llle of any establishment II aka ci alnu my stock. • I .1. . 11104110. N. Towanda. Pa., Aprll \ S, Ih7;. • Zar,i4are.— - • riE CHEAPEST \ • •. July 27;76 IMMO IN TOWANDA ToW.k!ct:A. PA SCYTHES, FORKS, FIXTURES, •ROPES, &c., &G., &c., Chcapei• Than of Aory Other Place! N. (' A' T. F 11," I have always on hand Repairs for the Yntlxq NV Altltlo It and c i p A ?di' Rowing Machlaes. =I 'ERRIGOS; SIDE HILL PLOWS, All kinds of TINWARE on haul, and Tin work of all kiwis Some at lowert pukes. TOW.% %. PA Towanula, June . 2R. I's 76 'WIEST AW-A - RDS! - ' C ETEN NW; EX 111 BITION Northwest corner rtilirrrENTll ANTI FILI)ETtT STS:. PIMA, Mannfaetnren4 of patented WR G yq-.1134)N - TIG ; • • , ILEA'TEns,- .111.11 Shaking' and f•lfnkrr-NrinPng ❑rates. for tithriteitiAtr 111(11.1'111011s eta!: WROUGHT-It:UV IIEATERS. WROUGHT-LEON IIEATERS, Tl.W.Lncla, Pa. l'ooklng I,,.w.Tforu f+ . t... 5. Etc. Deverlialve • I;•,T- s Xu EV,4u'a uy p.(l.lres..s 11:11a61 itia, April 2e...77-13- Gr ItEATLY ItEDt:CED Pitlc.!E§! The ilTlers , gned 15 doing PLANING: MATCIj.ING, SASH ASD DOolt.."`' - WWII ' ram selling at priresio snit nip time ToWAN.DA, PA 51%41e promptly to eriler,:at a low price. for CASIi Lumber brought here to I, milled. will i.e kept ttn;lor cover and le-rfeetly- dry until taken aWay. Good, sheds for your hones, and a dry pace to load. EIII NEW STOCK • , .GROCERIES! • ChOi(P.,!• , !leCtlni!S of FINE TEAS COFFEES! Cash paid for all kinds o. \ 0013.NTsRY PROD • •. „ _ Merchant Tailor., ,‘>\ SPRING SUITS MaAe Co *der, J. L. MOVIAMON, Bias Just rpCelred a 1 , NEW AND COMPLF. - TE:iTOCK OF &c, &c., itc lIARDWARE STORE IS. IN MERCUR BLOCK! Farmer:: can buy their GRINDSTONES, Best in Use T. JUNE Ecalol.z, \ J. REYNOLDS &. SON, =I For 11It'll-ikons Coal EYsToN EXAMINE •ItErloßE sEtAxIING - Pla_.n3, c. And all kind:: AWAY Dow::: DOR•\ ::'.a 1. 4 ,0 far yoi cau'i\see It: I . • \ 4 • \at. I have also ini . hatot a large sloe W I N L IN US IF YOUIVANT To GET HICII QUICK, CalPaml see my 60.414 and Prices I=IIMIZIMEE For sale etrear E At the old stand of C. B. Patch. 4' • W. 11. PECKEII,"Jit.)\ niwanda, April 5; 1877 OF THE PUBLIC! \ . • -, ... \. . . 'During the past five yesr.sthe public have care fully `observed the wonderful cures accomplished [coin UM use of V EC: ETIN E. From lie use many an antlered sittlere.r has be 'n restored to e perfert health. after , having esomided a ihnall fortune in procuring medical advice and obtaining poisonous mineral inedicines Its medical s prop.rt les are All`erative Tonic; Sol vent and Dlttretke. There is no disease of the hit mairsystenvfor which the VEGETINE natinotke used with perfect of y, as It does hot contain any ?octane. or p , d.Nimons compound. It is couiposed eschnively of barks,\r...ts nod herbs; It Is very pleasant to take • every child likes it: It is safe and reliable, as the full sing evidence will.show : - VALItAIiILE .E\-7IDENCE. • The ((Mowing tinsiiiiriteil testis' Mtnial fromit„.•v. 0.1. I)., fiirimrty pAct , o^of, Bowlloin Square execntion., As.the don here'4,greed upon would have virtually delfrit the,Ottaman "goy, im imebt of dontr over its Christian Trovibees. they wee pereniptorily .rejected by the Port 44 which exprbss -0(1 itself resolute eaablish, of its own accord nearly all. the proposed measures, bat declined to be intimi dated by foreign gOikrnments in the internal Management of its own country. 'The reply ended by saying, that strong in -the justice of her cause . , Turkey Was determined . to what had been decided without her \ and against her. hitherto Russia had - apparently sought to I bring about a joint interference by the other Powirs,.but as these declined to take fietiOu, the Czar, resolved to - act independently, and having complet ed the 'military preparations, which had been forlfienths . .in active pro 'gress on' the 24th of last April, he issued a dechtratiOn of war. The 'Russian pla4 of operations embraced two' distinct movements— one-against the Ottoman voyinces in Asia, for which-an airily, under the Grand Duice Michael and Oeneral' Melillott, had been collected ,on ,the emit,of the Black &Ili . and the other , against those in Europe by . an army concentrated on the fiont,iers tf Ron mania. lmufeilittiely.'on the 'leelara tion of war, both these armies. ad vanced rapidly,. and / within, a fort night, that ,in. Europei hati taken pos session of the chief strategical points in Rotimania,that,government having at once formed au alliance With Rus sia, and soon' afterwards placed .an auxiliary army-;in 'the field. • Here, (thrill , : the first two or three weeks the Military operations were confined to-the march forward of the Mus covites towards the Danube, which separates Bulgaria froM Roumania. The Rus,siah Asiatic 'army, number ing 130,000 troops atid 300 guns first met the Tinics at Alexanderpol, on the' con fines'4 Georgia, and although' they suffered a loss of 800 men, theY forced the enemy - to retreat and /on the lfth of May achieved a deciiied success by the capture of the striping:ly fortified town of A Mahan. which opened the way to them to "ars and Erzeroum further • to the A est.. At the outset they carried -,erything fo bere them, as the f roes under Monklitar Pasha, tile 7 urkish com munder; . ivere ' far ikf ior in num bers. While .one d' -ision of their . army laid vigorou: siege to Kars,. another advanced gainstßatoum on the- lllakk Sea, a d a third pushed' fdirwarti toward :rzerumn, gradually Schein , * back : ouklitar Pasha, and defeating hit on. his attempting to w:ithstuiti t em in the Soghatili Pass. l'iltese mo emeuts necessitated that: their farces should be spread over. so Izi.re - e an extent of territory that the ditterent sections were..;hot, within sttipOrting dit nc oficach. other.' 'f is gave the 'l'prks akoppartunity 4concentrating their forces against each division and on the 23d of June liervisch Pasha completely routed the right wing. in the neietboritood of 11.1tonm. On the 21st of the same month Monklaar ' Pasha, having re ceival considerable reinforcements, began a i forward mai-eine:lt from Erzerouin, mid afterobtaining several sttecesses, inflicted upon Gen. Meli kinf a decisive defeat at Zewin on the 25th of June. -' Advancing still fur ther to the east, he opened communi cation with Kars, into which he tiirew 4,000 men,- and thi-lly forced the Russians to raise the siege and retreat intd, their own territory. There they were- heavily reinforced' and the subsequent moveiuents of 1 both armies, ending in. the recent overwhelming defeat of Mouklitar Pasha, and the reinvestment-of Kars, have been daily recorded in our con densed telegrams. . In Europe, the Russians having occupied Roumania, began prepar.t tions for crossing the Danub,.., mean while increasing their forces by fresh levies and reinforcements drawn from all. -parts 'of their vast empire. It wasrtht until the night of the 10th of .1 one that they at last tiegan to cross the river by-a bridge„whielt the Turks had, by gross negligence, al lowed them to constitict unopposed . at Galatz. Their passage 'then and -during the next two days was' but feebly resisted by a Turkish force in the neighborhood. On the 2:th another division crossed -in boats at - Sininitza, whereupon- the,Tnrks has tily retreated fron' the neighboring town of Sistova, which was inimedi ately seizeil upon by the Russians Therat once constructed aeross the -river a' Woollen byitige; over which nearly all their enormous reinforce montsimve since crossed into Bul mai So feeble rat the roistanee offer ed them by the Turkish ommander- Ard.. % el-Kerim, that they • soon-took possession of-Tirnovtf, the capital of the province, of Bella— another town capable of strong (le..' liaise :but which was. thandoned without a b10w.,-and of • which offered only -a brief resistance: Here they captured 6,000 men and 40 grins, and Secured an. excellent position for another' bridge across. the Danube.' The* Sultan, alarmed by the Musuoyite success and the un accountable inactivity, of . his own forces, transferred. the chief com mand, early in August, from Abil , el- Cerlin to Meheraent Ali Pasha. At the same time Suleiman Pasha, who had lieen successfully operating against, the MomenegriA, once more in rehellion, was sent to oppose a Russian division which had crossed the Balkans under command of'the dashing Gen. Gourka. • The tide of fortune now turned decidedly in fav or of tho Turks, who beat the iota- tiers back from nearly every advanc ed position they had attained. ThO. RuSsians were speedily forced to re treat to the Bdkaus,iind there only Asana..,cred :to hold the now, fatuous shipka Pass. Their numerous -de-- MEI feats - at Plevnn, on the Lom and else where, lfave they not been 'duly chronicled for the benefit of our ren ders, as *ell an the successes which they.. have (Awe • ,more he ,, un• . - 63 • achieve ? The Uncertainties- of war are.pto verbial,'but even among these un- - ; certainties, it is difficult:to imagine g' final triumph for the 'Ttirkish arnis. 'Tis an old; though somewhat in.& verent saying. that the God of ar mies is, in Modern times, rattiest:in variably'', on the side of the greatest numbers; and while the population of Turkey and her available depen dencies only numbers about forty five millionE4 oul§, , that Of the Rus sian empire -tanounts -to about eighty eour millions. More Over, the power ,of the Muscovite has for . generations been steadily increasing, while that of the Ottoman 'has beenpersistently waning; and since -for the last cen tury the latter has been unable, sin- - gle,handed, to cope with the former, even the frantic energy of despair is hardly likely, at the pre'sent day, to \rol'erse the issue of former strug - - -al New rorker. - . 1118 OF PROGRESS. At poet of to-dad is dish his 9WII books. publisher will con- _ lielves, even with his name. It matters little how, many dreams Tennyson, may write in these latter flays, or hoW,muclx he .may at: tempt to. give •thent‘tie ancient form andlavOr—they will always lack one element—that of in4licacy. He leaves coarseness, indkqicy, the dciubb; e!ptendre t forever belit l kht. They belonged- to.winother age, \and all. these shoW• that we have made a great advanee. • .• Owing mainly to the wretehed\lks smuptions of dogniatic'theOlogy• the: assumptions of priestly . poker,', the literary men and women of for mer .days • were , seeders—open, ag gressive, defiant enemies of christi aility. Nok, although there .is la mentation on every side that our, greatest-literary producers are want liig in. faith—that, they withhold their affectionate and . truStful, alle giance to the Christian religion:and ~. regard the church as a conservator u ; a great mass of superstitions, the c6ffers are few. We do not believe there was ever a time when the great majority of literary men and women held so kindly an attitude- toward the Christian faith as they hold to day: They are recognizing the fact thr there is something in 4,—a very powerful something in it, somewhere —and something in it. for them, if they could but clear ' it of its husks, and findthe divine .naeat and mean ing Of it: They Teel their lack of faith tube a misfortune. Nowi the difference between • this attitude anti that' of sucl! a man, say, as Voltaire, or Thomas Paine, marks a great ad ranee. We still pace BradlaughS, it is true, but, theugh,'wetolerate , them, and listen to them, they have-a very shabby following., • The changes that have occurred in the church itself are very remark. able evidences of progress. For the last three hundred Years the world has carped on au organized - rebellion a g ainst • priesteraft, and has teen slOady but _ surely releasing itself from Slayery. The superstition of witchcraft has departed frOm it. It is true that we still try men fbr heresy, and tie their legs..with creed's, hut the followers of Calvin do ffot• - burn the -desnentlents of 7t.zervetus. They "suspend" them "from the min istry,"—a mullic of hanging which is not only quite harmless, but, rather honorable than otherwise: The pre judices between sects have notably been broken 'down ..within the last, fifty „years, a result Which inevitably followed the decline of !belief in the 'oveti-shadowing anti all-subordinat ing importance of -theological DI. mune. Men are trying to get at the center and tessence of Christianity as Viey never were . tryint! before; and they find that the more closely they approach the centre, the more closely they ~g et together.' ; In the world's polities,' we still have war, but how moditi&l is even this awful retie of barbarism.' how jealous of it has the Christian world become. 116 w it questions it. llow it. strives in a thousand ways to miti gate its. horrors and inhumanities. What a shout it sends up when two neat nations meet and calmly set tle by arbitration a question which in any previous age would have been. a cause of war. - The'duel too, is in disgrace. Slavery. is abolished near ly everywhere on the face of the ,globe. . Prisons have been reformed.. The insane, formerly forsaken of man, and supposed, to be forsaken of God, are tenderly cared for by every Christian state. - A thousand chari ties reach outtheir helpful bawls to the unfortunate on every side: The Rations are brought every day-near er to one another, in the interchanges of commerce, and-in the knowledge of, and respect for; one another. Popular education- is augmenting its triumphs and enlarging its area every day. And this record of improve ment's sealed by. vital 'statistics' which s ow the avertige "duration - of human li e has been slowly: but indis putablyincreasing from decade to decade. The r.orld • imProves, but it im proves as thb tree grows, "without J observation."'• The Work of one man's life is small when applied to twelve hundred millions of people, but it tells in 'the grand result. We, discover a !Treat Rest.. of corruption in our government, and are tempted to despair, but we Break it , up. There are so many vicious men. around 'us that we feel as ,if the world were ping to the dogs, yet the recoil and outerrand protest we mate show that we are inore sensitive to the ap prehension of what is bad than we were formerly. The world itnprove , :,j and the man who .cannot see it; and will not see it, has n very - pod- rea `son for suspecting that there is soMe j thinemorally at fault in himself.-L-J. G. Holland: Sc-riiO• for Nov. • j • "ITO. many children have you?" asked oud friend of an old actinaintance. • "Well, I had 'five, but they were eating cimum berawhen I left and they may have doub- - led Alp since." , Aix born to command isn't much different from one made to order,. , ' ,- ' . • ' •-/ . •' . - • I ' / - :• , ~. , 1 II It t . • I t 6 I r „,,.....,.H.,,/ ~. . ~.. Pisoicrinamp, Or Whati Know About Fish and Fishing.' • „ • I !lb:ye been, from early boyhood, a devoted ' disciple of; Walton, and even now in the ninetieth Year of my age, I can make fishing a real reerea . . 'Fish — has been my !favorite food from my early recollection, and is so still, f heartily endOrse Agazzi's setiment, that 'fish is not only luxur:y. but a - necessity; fof they not only excite the brain th activity, but being'easy of digestion they build up the waste. tissue and lgive strength and elasticity to the the frame.... `llly.first. worlCon the .Susquelianna River was. fishing for shad =in the Spring of 18(4, 1 when every family had to halt down bad enotigh.in the season of fishing to last the whole year, or they would halt to eat their johnny-cake by itself, for Coin was then the chief article fn this ;section —now Bradford. CoPntyin - that early.day. Now, whilst writing about shad, I am reminded ,bout what our lish commissioner said - in his' report on this subject, that considerable sums of money had , been spent in constructing, ii,sh ladders or other contrivances, to eiiiable shad to get over the dams:in the river, and that it: had as yet been.nearly a failure. 1 thinlk-oti tll whole, George Lau- - dun'isuggetion would have been the Ile proposed to consult the sir.(l first and see,..if they would •try to come uLi before goitp&to ails other expense.• - Shad are a Very fitst swimming fish, but a very tender' fish ; they will bear butzvery little bruising, and this tierhaps makes them shy of every ob-: struction -that,, may Come their way; they can' be- turned froni one channel of the river to another by anchoring a few white shingles across the channel, and; this was frequently qQIIC bylishermen to bring them to tibest ground for drawingthe seine. But notwithstanding all these difil, eultles, shad tai t be ecintinuallY bred in sue 4 nunibel and in the river \ at any pnint year aft4r year, .(ther would fink their way to the bay), .so that the Clitsapeake acid that part of the river lkow• theleolumbia data might grow shad enotigh to: supply Pennsylvania and - Mapland for all time, and all: the 4ense• would be breeding aqd catching. And if some such plarf is not adt:l4d , they will everitual/v become extit, in the bay, for it is their 'nature - to itseerrd the' river to spawn, and the yonng fry. disc. nds'in.the'fall, and do mit make, their appearance 'again until they are grown—and this they 'do iii\the :spring of the year for purpose Qt' ,breeding in flesh pat', r. • :&ow, in ,regard ted breeding and transferring fish froin one water to another: Of the breeding of. fish I have but little experience ' although it has become an established science. I have transferred'theui With various • successes. I have taken the common catfish from the river and put them. in a mill pond ;- they bred and soon became very •plenty,l'btit never at tained half the size cif •the originals. I have 'taken, pickerel. from the river to a large pond, ainfknoWn them to increase and beconq plenty,* and attain a much iargesize than.. the same kind in the riVerf 1 took perch at the same time; tlMy'-'s(!ibia became. numerous, but 'nevergrew to half the sizes of th 6 river perch, and were of a different shale; they were longer according to their size, and irnder, but they have since IsVindled;,,down to a very diminutive 'size so as to be worthless.. • - The . wall-y(A bass,] or pike as they • are called:at the the lakes, are, said 'to have been taken from one ot,,the northern lakes and put into; the Sus quehanna.river at anjearly day; in deed, I reeotlect ! When• they were! scarce, but theyXbvt'ine plenty and a .very important, tis , Mid grew to dou ble the siie of the j'originals. But since the construction of the dams ii the river they have x itecOme very scaree 4 , so with all the tiAive Ash— they have alsy grown scare , . • Leaving the whole river \S introductionOf the black bass, by being bred'and pin in all the y per, branches, by anthorii.y of State of New York, and at the sami\. time in the Main ri+ by Pennsylva nia, and.being,a lake tish,• they are now found in all the deep .water along the streams, and' if .the. breed-' ing and supplies aril . continued with . proper.protection ó law, they !ut - i doubtedly will became a complete success. ! ' i . .. . There' is no better 'flesh water fish j than the black bass, j and 'they *grow to a large size, say five or six poundil, I and might be made Plenty in all-our I ponds, and if the estimation of the I • men who arc skilled! in raising fish is! correct, " That each surface acre of ! all the ponds can - bentade as protita- ! hie foe the production of human food 1 ras,so many acres ofjthe best farming hunt, then it in the' duty. of the Leg- 1 iSlators to make an • appropriation sufficient. to 'enable { our 'Fish Com inissioners to stock. r ill our 'ponds at once, and in doing, So they would be s considered renli benefactors , ,.t,o the race. especially - 1p the loversof fish. i. Other fish ~ c an be !bred as well as Cs h! I u and bass • .the common brook 1 ' , trout, when st.)• managed; grow very fast- and become '.ery large; they lose some of their tine flavor for . eat ing, that is '- not in con Sequence o their size, but froml the food Upon 'which they are, ed ;I, such establiSo ments require a great dial of fixtures and a large quantity of water, so they. Cannot be expected !to become COM- mon. , azlini n fhuuno iotf.md .c.i.ma loft spring.ean constru4..a sniall pond and p:.'oenye the stiiitll fry as they are called, and raisekheir own trout_ if not for profit orl for amusement, :for they become vely tame and afford igreat- pleasure 'to lehildrea to feed them and . see them ;swim. .-:.• . Ponds and streani4 cannot he stOck ed.with eels ohly h capturinglheir young, for how thee; propagate . " T their species is yet a my4ery.to all , Unto ralists. And yet their progedy,lS in .numerable; common-observatinh can d isting uishno Seim:4 di 'Terence *tong them. ;Thenost of them go'down 'the streams to tidewater in the i fall - of the year, and a !certain xrade. of the small ones burrow together mi.. ! der whatever loOk ri imateal theycan And, and are often (speared in .such ' / MEI or tLe hiell, up $2 Anny In -Advance: . . places, in great quantities . ome.time in June their young Ones' : end the fresh water streains inquanti.'es in numerable— I have seen them . .ore thanithicty miles from tide orate in . such quantities that they. could - . te estimated better by imeasure than by count; at such places they might be caught and made profitable for stock ing ponds, and even small streams: JAMES ELLIOTT. WHAT I'B FAITH. t' It was •a dark night; a high' wind was blowing without ; while' the lam illy of Mr. li. were tying ,quietly in their bedS, breathing calmly iu L he soundest slumbers. • ,All at once was roused by the terrible cry .of fire. He was not suilltientlY waked at first, to under stand• the cause,; Soon many weie gathered under his windows.." Fire: fire! your house is :on fire!' they shouted, as they pounded heavily upon the. doors: - • Throwing a • few clothes around. him - Mr. H. -rushed to the .door, and.: what Was his sur prise and fear ,to discover that his own dwelling was in flatnesrile has tily" returned, called up histerriiied wife, and takin , r..pe.'bitbe and tie nest eder child, they quickly sought a shelter.in an adjoining house: His eldest. son, about ten years of age, slept, in--a.chamber in another part of the house, near-the room of the ser vant-maid' Who lived in the family.. • Immediately the tlither hastened to rescue him,, feeling but little anx iety for his'property, if his TanailY only might all be•saved. On his way he met the .-maid. " Whege ; is Charles P.' said Mr. li., surprised to see her alone. •, " Crying in his yoom," answered . the frightened. "I have but just escaped,, and the stairs are now 411' in tlames."• • The fire had broken_ out in that part of ~the house, and the flames were now spreading with fearful ra pidity.. Almost :distracted Mr. .rushed - out, and hastened to fthe part of the house beneath the window of his son's sleeping °room. ' The window Was thrown tip. • The terrified boy was standing -there, cry ing ont in agony,,"Tather fathee how• shall geL sot r Ile could: be seen by the glare of the fire in- . the rodtn • but he could gee no one, beneath was so dark—althougli he, - hjard many voices. , " Here I am, my son," cried,ont the deeply moved father. " Here'; lam ; fear not. Lay hold of the sill Of,the window, and drop yourself—down: I will certainly catch you." • * Charles crept Out of the window, ! `11(1 clinging with the g.rasp of a 'drowning person, he hung, trembling, a! ' - t to.let go. ro, my son," •cricd•the father. 't see you; father.". . • • am here, my: son." ‘‘ I'm afraid, father, . that I. shall' - • " Let go; , you • need not fear," again shouted the 'father. • . The flames began to approach the `window—the easement grew liot—if he stayed there he A' otaTt be Nailed:: He recollected that his , father was strong; that • he .lOved lim, and would not. tell him to do.' 14 -thing that would injure him. _drew in his breath, unclasped hiSlingers, and in a ,mometit waS in his, father's arms,,overirovieVed, and weeping for joy at his wonderfufeseape. • Now• 'notice, .little friend, that Charles first felt his hopeless situa tion. He yould not escape any tither . Way save by the window. He could not see his•father, but heard his voice. In the second place, he thought with his Mind that his _father was 'strong, and able to catch, him.' And, third • ly, he believed, or trusted, with his heart, that his father would save him. and-then. dropped treMbling, into his • arms. So when we: feel that we. are Sin 4ers, there is only one vav to escape the punishment. .Nre cannot, save ourselves. ' We do net see ..lesuSS, but we hear His voice in the Bible; and know He is here. !We believe Ills word : we.-fear no longer"; .lesu3 will not •deeeive us and we fall: intoll.is antis.—The tra . y to FUN, FACT. AND TAUTLY., TII never need.bu in a •hurry, Lut•a keep all the time on the jump Lohn tires itself out, and ends in Titi \ I „lie tit; Hazy lip % \ confusion. L. CHILDREN I Obey know at ~, mote remaikable . they don't know. THE higbestrpoin bring its to is the 1 .mind, with which no es z. without which all estates . able.. - . - ' THE blessing of a house is piety. The honor of a house is hospitality ' The or: 1 namept of a house is cie,thbn 'S. - The happiness of a bouse is contentment.: . IT I was .an - American who said:- '•«'e , . use two stones to gt-iud the dour of libellY. The lowec is the. schoo upperh el, the o is the' Bible." ' - ' . . . hat are reiliarkable for wbat \ lye old are generally at twenty-Jive . for what Mokr persons are particularly spiteful against,those foibleS in others which they theinseives have. They remind •us of a monkey scratching, and. grinning at the mimic monkey in the glass. NE*Elt seek to he entrusted . ' With your friend's'secret; foi 'no Matter how• faith fully you may.keep it, you may be habit . - in a thousand contingencies to the stasPi. cion of having bittrayed it. "FaTnEn, did - i - on ever have another wife beSikles mother?" •" No, my brig ; what possesseillou to ask - such a ones. "Because 1 saw in the ohl.fami ly Bible where you married . Anny Dinni iny, in 1835, and, that. isn't another, for her name was Sally Salida:" - . • WnEs all is over, and our feet will rims no more, and-Our hands are helpless, and. we have scarcely. strength to fliurrinu last prayer, then.,we shall see that, instead of needing a largertield, wetave left un filled many corners of our acre, and-that hone of it is lit for the ,Igaster's eye were it not for the _softening shadows of the • '• A:v'American engineer who examined the defense of Plevoaa says they ate sim - inlar in desi:r . ik but . weaker. than :the works which surrounded Rfchmoud 'or Washington duriikg . the rebellion. • .. A FAlimra heing4poorly proVided with materials of susanance for his men, fed taem with pork cooked with the rind tip on it. ' A young man of the company, not liking that outer portion of the foodTiwas observed by the host to be carefully .re riioviniz the outside covering, whereupon the latter said, !'Young, man. we eat the rind and all here." 4 To h the youth replied; " All right, I'm cutting it off for ,your At last . the toll;enffstribeted dva are vier, And :are otneon:ira mellow as the morn; The blooms arebrowu upon . the seedlK Meter, And brown, the silks that - 'plume the ilpantug corn. • • • • .• . . A ll . 8411:161111 Bre pnitted of reaping and of. ranking; . Tha winds are low,; too watera'lle uncitrlc4; 'Nor t4fatlgalowh nor posit:nor fa flowing.. sotpira 1n languid indoiento'the world. And ilneyards iwldeand tams along the vain*, Are MUM aml4 the vintage'and the sheaves, Sive rpstol the Liras the nobe of rout and ialiy Among the teem:it Masons of the eaves.. . . . . Afar tlle , neland' , glades are flNAnd.lts avp:e4 By pocks nf iambs o-gmulbol Irian , the fold ; ' , And orchard" nond-hen, ath thoir trefglit of apples, And groreaare bright, In searfrt and Inge',,. ABER 24. hark ! I !war toe tOng, , The.inrtle's murmur front a distant A ilrowq bee la many taliglt,t hum ininz i ; • • ThO far, faint, tinkling t-tcor of - a twit: And lolly from.yond .. ..,r bee. , ll-triink thter Itnrl:*' The ral,lat tliO'yellow bill.Chu tharp siscratO harking of .tbe. squirrel, 4r.pping onG anii :al again t, stftt. —,&.'re,,nerfor • • A DGET OF HOME:MADE.-OHRIST - - . • .11A5:GIFtS. • • • Who ..: vents the I pretty thiuw was-trees, anu . stoekin•as ? wise 41 watch's capacities .of .little lastes-of bigger one : ~ eac t, planning for tin -, almost - nothing in. then for fat wallets stuffed with . 1. an:l suggesting-something -t he ina(.le,accepted and -euji ve„ ybody, large and small, l a I wide world over . ? Who' On .. that possesSes this ineshausiible • .r . tility of invention and kindness o". heart? No ordinary Inuinindieiiig,: you may be sure. Not Father Santa., Claus ! lie has enough to do• With' f- '.i distriLuting the prescnts after they. are made; besides, fancy-work is n0t..., . :.. in a man's line,:--not even a.saintts! '. But what o. likely as that he should , have a - matt - , and that: is 'to her we -; are indebted for all this? - - What an .' immense W ork ,li 4 ..* e t'Mothd Saiita Claus's Must be! " What .a !dancing thimble and swiftneedle and Elrod! 1 __, Can't you imagine her t i•oiV:fig aside her 4ciss'ori: and sp - oul hr. to \ help the dear saint "tackle- u - )4' and load the sledge ? And who knows but 'she sits behind as he:driv s over the roofs of the universe ontl e Wess, •'--- ed,eve, -nid holds the reit.,'while _ Santa! .Claus digpenses to- favored - chimneys the innum6i4tble Ipretr,y - things .which he and she:haVecJbuckl- . • -. ed over together niathSritild'nonths • . before the rest of ifs knew anything about them ? • . . This .is not a 'fact. It Can't be ploved hi any way, for none of knows anything abelut the Santa Clauses o r their alkidbi • Then.; is no telegraphing, or writing Cu I be select, men of their town 7 tkillltitiirC About theta ; they even a ..post , - - i office: address: But admitting it_to be-;. a fiction, it _. - 15 surely. 'a pleasant • one ; SO, as 'the ehildielPsfiy, play_ that it is true," : and proceed - to • . what- Mother Santa 0;1114' has iii her 'basket fur us this year. We will tirst - - pull out' Siolne easy thinus •for• . the bentsa I•ttle beginners who .are not yet up to all the triers Of the • needle; then some a little,harilei for -• more advane6•l class; and, at bottont ,of all, big girls MA : afraid to dive will timid f)kiity of elaborate designs- suited to their taste and powers. This is 'something which : quite.a little boy , could . make. • ent out three pieces of thin. wood, a foot long by six inches wide ;: -smooth and 6:10- paper . two of them, bore hole in each corner and in the middle of one side, and. fasten them toether tine wire / cord . ; ribbon or the brass pitnk which are, u,- , etl for:hohl ine.:nmnusi:ripts: The pi.:ees should be held a little apart. •Cut one end the,third. piece into - some orna—i mental shape, glue it firmly to the j baelt 'Of one of - the others, anti sus-1 pend it-from the wall by a hole bOreV .in the top. It will be found d:ust-fullr. thing to hold letter's or. painphlefs. A clever boy: could make this-much. handsomer by enttin:r a pattern over the -front, or'ari initial; or monogram; or.naine in the middle. The uutl should be oiled or--shellacked. These cases are Mani for 1::ke tlu the pliie - e,of paper 'when shoe , are to lic wrapped up to 'go in a trunk. They are Iliade i); brown- crash.. i ;wind ' with red -wo rstet I braid. thie end is pointed so as to- turn over aud button down; or The top has Aringes over Ithe bri-iid to tit: the„rrupitli up. Tinu.e should he thrt,. , e or four niade 'at a time; as each' holds- but ot 11 :. lair of I , hoes;s and you trill lindaiiat luanione or your unmarried - auks will ldc.e them very Hutch. - • smy KIND OF CyISTMAS-11,Y. I N l othing:iqn be iL Iler than to, bang 1.11) Stiwkill•!S o ai:(l nothin: , p.ratiet or More full of Christmas-tree.. But for . -ome•pf you who may like to. make a novelt'v in these; time-hOnored ways, we will ..jiist mention that it is good : fun. to make a •• • Christnis-pie " in an eifor-.. mous tin dish•lmn, with a Ina-lie-be .lieve crust of yellow cartridge- piper, ornamented with twirls and ilain ish es of the same,-held - down with phis, and . ,have it served •on Christ-Inas Eve, full Of4pr6tty tlengs and - sugar • pltinj+s and jolly•little rhymes Tastenedlc4he parcels. The (giant: , shOubl be done befurehand;idul hid= den by the twirls of paper;' hat the carver can pretend. to use his kilife mid fork, anti spoonin: , ont the paCk agestwill insure a merry tritru- for all at Gable. Anil one more slig,,estion.: - Lit* - articles wrapped' in White `paper can. be put inside eakes. baked ---- • and iced, and thus furnish. another 'amusing surprise for -thtT" . , pie" or the Christunts tree.—A,St. Sicht)fim NAT outward things can \-czntebtment of the t ate can he poor, \will be miser- TILE following story is told of the Rev: BackuS, who was the first ple , filen Hamilton. College, Clinton..N.l", It apycars that while he was preaching in.a country-village before he became -presi dent, his salary was" '..`00 and his tir;!- w00d,17 Inn 'during one cold. period his wood run out, - and Le bought: a: cord of a neiglibinie- Who recommended; his ,tuel . highly. "'File Ductur made up a fire and nut ow the : new . wood to- find thataffer . the tilt.k aad spitttereit . Inriouslyt ; o l d inickly 'burned out,-1 be nth w6 - I,d, but? hu more than so much iron.y 31 c hastened to Lis tleighbor and " want twenty cords more of that w00d.",-- Tw6dy coals, doelor can cull 110 'With ti 4) ." Smother the thrioes. of hell ; that's alt it's good I'4 !" AccrsTo.mp•)nrself to think vigorously; Mental capital;.) like pecuniary, to bd 7 worth anythmg, must b.: well itiveste4l—. must, he rightly adjustetl autl appiteci. and to this clad careful, dee? anti ink t.O thought is. neeeSisary 'if great results at-) looked for. Thine is rui such thing as 'standing still iu this wvltL • Change is the eternal law of onturele-7 • THE path of -duty is:etinies thorny; yet many a thorn do we escape . liy walk-, INDIAN SUMNER. s it ;that_ eery"yeat•••-in t,housand-and one new :n . O • which hang on Christ-. the - toes oCCiirist io is it' that has 89 an , eye for the • polite, and the uirnvidieg, for `v purses with as hich can ved :by ' the be A WALL LETTER-110)1.IIElt SIIOE-CssEs. ■ , \ L \