111 '~ s. W. AL4ORD, Publisher. VOLUME XXXvni. Business Cards. w. J. YOUNG, . . ATTOR•SE T LAW, TOWANDA, PA;- Oftleo--Reiond door south of the Fi rs t National Lank Main St., tti, Malts. 0 D. KINNEY, • A TToRNEF-AT-LAW. (Mire—Rooms formerly oeeupledby M. A I:,ading Ejan.atim. WILLIAMS 4t, A ?TOR:COT:4 . T-L Ali.: oF PIC E,—Formerly occupied by Wm. Watkins, Et , 11. S . WILLIA.II4. (0e(.17,17) •E. J. McI'HERSON, I. ATTORNEY AND COCNSELLOR•AT-LAW, TOWANDA, .PA plx't Atry Ern.4:C9 3P SON & HEAD, ATTORNEYS-dr-LAW Towauda,ra. Orrice over Bartlett & Tracy, Maln-et lEEE F.MAsox r 4 L. lII . LL,IS, , „ . .. Lb. R ATToNty-AT-LAW. - 4 TOWANDA, pm. office with Sigith Watontanye.' thovii-75 - F. GOFF, I_4* • ATT ORNE Y-A L N• aln Strretd(4doors north of Ward {tone), Vo randa, l'n. . {April 12, 1877. VHIL TOMPSON, ATTORNEY , • AT LA w, W Y A LI: IV SI NG. PA. 111 attend ‘ to all business entrusted to his care In Bradford, tuiltran and WI - wiling Counties. Oftiej,- with Esq: eorter„ ' Vuovlo-74. EMEill Ili ATTOKNEY-AT-LAW, TOWANDA, PA itteill L. 1,,AM8, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Vitt..Kr.s-lt.outr., PA. olloctlons promptly attentletl to. JOHN W. MIX, ATTORNEY AT LAW, • ANIS IL S. COMMI,SSIONER, , TOWANDA, çA. Offlee-1 4 1011a Side Public Square. • Jan. 1418.5 DAVIES R. CARNOCIIAN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, SOUTH SI PE OF WAS 4) HOUSE. Dee 23415. . TOWANDA. PA. R. S. M. - WOODBU N, Physi cian and Surgeon. Otrice over:o, A. flack's `rockery store. Towanda. May 1, HMV'. • AIADILL CALIFF, • ATTORNEYS AT LAW, TOWANDA, PA. Office in Wood's-Block, first door sont,i of the First National bank, up-stairs. ti..l. MADILL. rjans."73l - yj .1. N.CALIFF G RIDLEV IqYNE, ATTORNEfI , i-AVLA South side-Meteor Block (rooms formerly occupied L) Parys 8 rnrpuchait), TOWANDA : PA , (1.1.77) MEE= JAMES WOOD, .ATTORN EY-A A IF, . _ Tow.% s Pi =EI CHAS. M. HALL, Attorney-at-Law and Notary, Will give careful attention to.any bdainess entrust ed to him. 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Towanda, l'a. May be consulte r d n ernniu. jAptil I^_,'76.] (IVERtON & ELSBREE, ATTOR \_/ NErs AT LAW, ToWANDA, PA. Having, en ca4l Info crpartnersidp, offer their profFfo,lunal ef ( rvireff to the puldfr, Special attention glyep to tni•Oneb: In the Orphan's and Itegisfor'h 'on rtf, E. ”1" FWD .bit. (MO I-70) N. U. ELSII I.: E. MI "C. WHIT-AKER, Bo I )F. DT R. Cr , itTER Itt - ILDI Nr.. TII I lib FLOoR,ToWANDA C S. RUSSELL'S GENERAL NSITRAXCE AGENCY Marzs- - ott __.FCSLTRANCE AGENCY. • • • The RELIABLE '4IND FIRE TRIED Compinles represented A cS,IIIIIE,PIIIENIN,IIO3IE,NIETICII ANTS, Stin.l, 16, 0. 11. ISLACC. 1S1;4. • • • 1876 rfoIVANDAINSUR ANCE AGENCY Street : oppoitte the Cotit Ilptees W.*VINCENT, M d k AG Eli. D 1 1 . T. B. JOHNSON, PIIPSICIAS AND S 11R FOX. • • Oftet• over Dr. Porto r h Sores D rug.s torn : , Towanda. ja•it-75%f. - - • V• • , 1 , 3 ,. . , K M E F L1X, fi D i z i, ;;TisT:—Opice Teeth tusertett 001, Tt ( u )w h a be tu r i . 3. :itt i j . Al :11:u1 t sae , . Teeth extracted thout palm • *D. PAYNE, Vii: T) r SUN PHYSICIAN ASP IGEON. , 4 ': 7l, e "vet' 31mitanyme'Stare. 44alre bolas from 10 i ,, 12. A. 11., and ftren 2 t. 4, 10. )4. Speciiil attention iv,,,, to (Itteaues of the Eye andlE ar.-- ..--t!ct.194":6-t.f. .. -.1-------- GERITY & .110Rkt i '.11, !I • . , [Eibvi.hed..N., ) ".3 - , 'S D -, 'ITOLESALE R I T 1 IT42I(IISTS 1 I)l:l"GuiaTa SUNDIIIE TAI iiNT .11.101CINEIS \ -I I . : II &i: &C.- . ~. 1:e, LAKE Svcs } rb. ~, •78 ~. 4 s' - Poetry. THE,DEARER DEAD You mourn for your dcad you go • Clad twyour roues of woo To the spot where they sleep ; And you weep, -- Shedding such bltter tears, and there You strew Soweb fresh and fair ; . You 'game a white stone at the head Where; craven etch the sculptor's art, • We read your fon my of heart. • And the dear ; name of your dead. But there aro dearer dead. Yon . know Not the bitterest woe , Till 300 close tae dimming eyes Of dying Heim—till mourutnl•wise Yell cross the handset Love, And sorrow.ing bend ate The ashewaud dust - W Honor and Truth and Trust, For these are the dearest dad. Ah S these other dead Who dare Itobes•t,f mourning, for dead hopes wear ? • 'W,)to bids a stone arise : • T. tell where a dead Love lies? When did ever a mourner-say, •' Help me bury these dead away?" 't feb.l'7B These funerul trains men do not see ; They more silent!) , /1 / Down to the heart whore the graVe hj made, Whsre the dead are laid. o flowers are strewn there, No moan is heard thi•re, Na ritual is said' Over the dead : Ilidden.away from sight . All ttie will years. • Only the silent night Seeth our tears.. AhTlitli IiEAD Yon are happy tt ho n o for ythirtleittl By the nide of graven kept green the lean, you Atett Who cancan Lovingly tVhere they slt.ep, Praylfor those V. lit. Ili ~.,rut The hearer den t. M4l , len, I thani: ti ny • for thy Thy sweet. shy ifl:uu•e of Fur, froth the hyautv :ma thy grave. \ly life has won a gill surprise. July 27,16 I met thee on the,,,er , ..,,ded Fee A load of care it, heart atol - And, for a moment, bright and fleet, The i Won ' made me yomlg again. And thetl 1 thenthhnght, a , 4 .11 I 'Went. And struggli:d thr!mgh II p thr"nging ways, How eVe , y • nu ydement The age that fothm-:.. ovvtlays. The yonth upon tho chttft shuts d , vti, Young manlp.,l d 0..., over youtli„ AO ripe old :1;,:e bit h.. erowsi That keep, them both In ,•hangele,.3a•talt Sn, t , vt.ry iiellecl,Pol I With brow and >hit It .I:uteri:, .1 Awl ,Imple filth and fit.llt• Find, .~tiil lit tie TIPW3II every rave :Irel rat rlr., hop, , fusty 'bout or call I hour. Th.• boy itl.to no• yning. xs an joy And ring..an echo to his cheer, • 123=11 Tha . 111./Vi'd mp Tit it lit:, a lav,zo, h t • t.. t 1,11111:11 4W Of yi,iitlCh cLtiall...ing by mottics ? I= =I 1%1111.1111g ,Iny thy r,,111311,•,. Thwi a youtll,ns,tta by, Wh , Yl rctuncc , d"th,•,•gt ra 1 r glarive. }'or alt iur youth ',still my "Wil -1;01111,1 All 1 hi• aiutne or als age Aud•breat.ll ra..i" bath 'lnt• heavy hat I, I th.• a go. . -. r Ila . • TOWANDA, I'A Irpra Guild wos the daughter of an Indian , j.eneral echo died, covered ith fanie, and left her and literally friendless in Boinbay, ssherc he breathed his last. • lli, (13ing. worls were : " Go home ny poor, ._:rl, to your Aunt ford at I ,Elmsley, near London, and stay with her until you are married to Wal t For Genera' Guild .and Colonel Cray had been friend 44 together atl• comrades in many a battle, and had long ago allian'eed their motherless children to one another, the wedding to take place :1,- , soon . as the young man had attained his majority„ So here was the orphan girl near ing the end of her long; jourm y, and gazing wistfully •at the strange and unfamiliar land of her birth. • There way one vlause in- her (kV fathers will which re, urred to Dora;s mind with ever present pain, ever sinceFhe 11 , d first heard it ; and that *as, should she, upon making the actin:lint:lqm * of Whiter Cray, re , fuse to marry him. the hulk of het' fortune should be passed over to'her cousin Penelope A rlingford. Towanda, Pa. JIW-73 That her dear father should think it necessary to coerce her 'into com pliance bad wrung from her many a tear. Wholly unversedin the strong minded ways of some English maid: ens, she had never dreamed of dis obeying him, or chi - fusing a, Mate for herself. • The kurney was oN'er.,at last. . Miss I; nil i found licrsclf in a quiet country housu, surrounthal 4by :the nost fervent as'surThwes; of welcome from her sc,le sirrviving Wlatives . , who, of course, knew all abOut her • ;Whirs, and treated her with Efie.most delicate consideration. Mr. Arlineord lwas a hlutT and luarty , rentleman farnieq....Mrs. Ar lingford a reTrved - ladY, -‘lllo, how- . ever, seemed Idminesl itself; while Penelope,. the only., daughter, and I)ora's possible rival for the fortune was a ,gentle-faced, eliestnnt;_haired girl of twenty,...who greeted Dora by winding her anus round her,and lay ing her cheeks — to hers without ty, word. TOWANDA, PA: -in the course s of the' evening of Miss Guild's arrival, while she was (riving her aunt some account of her voyage from India, she observed lar ebusin Pcnolope standing out on -the lawn talking earnestly with a gentle- Man. •It was a brilliant night in midsum mer; the muon, white and searching as. a great timelight, sh6ne on the pair.and showed Miss Arlington's companion to be not only -young and handsome, but also a lover. his naineheld hers, hind his state ly-head was-often. bent in nrimistak able adoration close to her tresses, while she leaned towards him in-all the loving affection. Very soon they entered the parlor, and Walter Cray was directly pre sented to Miss Guild.. And he the lover of Penelope!. • Dismay,. consternation ,, _ fell upon the heart of the orphan. There could be no mistake—every look, every ue tion of.the two betrayed it. ENE , + 1 i ' ' 1 A GLIMPSE OF YOUIH ET= Dora's. Delusion. _ . . 1 : .. , • : ~ -. . „., . . , . . ,---... .' 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Walter Cray was telling Mr. Arlingford and Peneloo an account of listrange murder which had lately ocerked. • "The man," said he, "was rather a.clever chemist, and accomplished his purpost in a manner savoring. more of the exploits of the Arabian Nights' epoch.than those °Lour day. lie got possession of her journal, and impregnated its leaves with a sort of volatile poison, which she of course inhaled the first time she made a rec ord in the book, the result being a mysterious death which no one could • account for." The eyes of Penelope Arlingford were fixed upon the narrator. with a pulsating eagerness which arrested the attention of OA orphan. "What could it have been ?" she almost whispered.. Don't believe it," remarked Mr. Arlingford, sententiously. The lovers, were gazing at each othkr, and there was a half snide on the features of each other. Soon After this, Dora, being con sidered weary atter her railway;jour -nev. was conducted to her bed-chain )er l hy • her . - consin, who again em,,, e:;;Clug her-in a mute, clinging fast'. ion, hoped she would rest well, and left her. • ..Nof one word had been said about her Itetrothal to - the yowlg man in the parlor; her 'claims Lad been wholly inbred. •Her cousin was like -13--not only to rob her of her inherit ance, but her husband also. The voting girl retired to bed with a feeling of desolation at her heart which may be easily imagined, and fell weeping bitterly for the old, hap py Indian life, where she was the idol of her father, and the darling of lien aytili. • She awoke—or, rather, she .strug- gled back to consciousness:-- with these • words running through her the result being a mysteri ous death,'whielr no one could ae count for." It *as a disa - Arceable remark to occur tO one in the iniddle of the night, and it roused. her to a preter natural .wakefuhiess. began to ponder: Over the ev,:nt,s of the past evening,when sud denly something struck her ear that sent the blood tingling to her:heart. It was like the trailing of a long muslin robe over the thick carpet which covered the floor, and the Cau tions rustling of paper; :the one sound following the other frith the slow and regular monotony of a ma chine. The night was at its darkest, and the head of the bed Was in a cord', so that the room could not be seen ; but: Dora diained, with a choking . .of the breath., the waning of a_ strange sound. Penelope Arlingford was in the • rOOll3. Before she retired, Dora .haul read a chapter from' a large old Bible which lay on her toilet table: . She perfectly recollected placing it on the end of the sofa near the window when she had finished-read- in: , it. She felt that her rival was on her knees before the book, impregnating its leaves with a " violatile poison " Walter Cray had spoken of, and that 'as she finished each leaf, and turned it cdowly . over, her long muslin sleeve• swept, the edge'of the hook, making the stealthy sounds which had arous ed I.er ,intended . victim. Remember, she had grown up amid scenes of passion and violence ; she had been among flee helpless ones at CtiNypore where the Sepoys massa cred &ft, victims in cold blood ; and death was not :4(3 strange a weapon in.th, , hands Ofa, young girl,like her as it would he to us; nay it . seemed the pne weapon by Whith Penelope lin: , ton would most . I`kels7' strike for love and wealth. ,) , ,b,tionless, her eyes distended, the I cold dew '6f agony dripping from every limb, the orphan girl hiy aful listened to this evidence of trench erw. ' All at),once a board - at the side of the bed creaked, as, though a weary foot -was passing 4Ker it,'Und the long swish of the garments followed. Then \the door softly burst open as if withOut'hands, a flow of air from the passUge\rushed\ across the girl's rigid face, and she heard, Multi the sutfocriting_thrObbings in her cars, . , the first crow of''some neighboring chanticleer. Her terror ended inn swoon. When 'she came to Imrself it was broad daylight. • The golden sm.shine was lying. across her pillow, and the rich per .fume of honeysuckle came in through the window and .fi}led the pretty chamber,' All seemed peace and innocence,' around her, but the soul of—the or phan girl was ' filled with astonish ment., She' could scarcely. • arrange her thoug!its at first, so terrible was the ordeal: through_ which she had pass— ed, ; but at length she saw that she must- leave the house immediately; that 'she mast relinqnish both her affianced and her fortune, if she would feel that her life was safe. " Oh, 'papa! my papa !" wept poor Fora, "'you have matte a terrible mis take !". . :When she joined • the family, in answer to the breakfast ben, she was in her travelling dress,:and her trunks were all , :repaclied. "Whys, cousin Dora, what - is the matter? - Are you ill, dear ?" exclaim ed PenelOpe, in a .soft, cooing voice, which seemed habitual to her. Dora • turned her back - :to her mid-night 'visitor, .and striving to speak calmly, said' to Mr Arlingferd, " I wish to return to London 'to-day, sir. Please allow some one to drive me -to the station." There was a pause of consterna tion, then they all with one accord began to plead with . her to change her mind, and none of the three was MI TOWANDA, \BRADFORD COUNTY, PL, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 21, MI so urgent or so teil \ c \ rly loiing about it 'as Penlope. ' • ," Just try us, dear cousin !" she pleaded. "Of course yoil\ will be lonelYat first—everything is shdiffer ent—bnt who will make you ha pier than we can ? Has anything offeno - you, dear Dora?" "No," ansirefidDora, shuddering; "but I , shall prefer to live alone." "You are so young, so ignorant of the Ivnys of our twins," said quiet Mrs,'Arlingfoid, heie cbiming in anxiously. "Itis a m ad thing for you to think of, child:" " I Must go," said th e orphan, averting her :pallid face that the "dark misery of it might not be \ seen: So when the pursnasion of him self, and the pleadings and tears Of his woman availed not, Mr. Arling ford got offended, and cried, "Le t her please herself, Pensie. Ring the order Sam to bring the carriage round." Dora swollowed a cup of tea, and choked down a morsel of bread, and then went to her room to vat on, her hat. • Locking bet' trunk took but a few momenta. She flung herself upon a chair, and wept silently, feeling herself ,to be the most desolate and friedless being on the face of the earth. What should she do in London? . Go to her father's lawyer and tell him she did not.wish to marry Wal ter Cray, then live alone in such lodgings as the remnent of her for tune could afford her. Ah! it was; indeed, alerribleMis- take,,that clause in the will + But into the midst of hei' musings stole a sound which thrilled herunce_ more with awe. The swish-of . a garment, the rustle of a paper just as it aroused her last night. , . Dora gazed abOnt her like one be re of reason. i a The large, old bible lay 'quiet t ough anti closed exactly where s' e had placed .it=rio living thing was in - the room but herself. ' ' And then she saw the whole rays. terv rj, The - window was partly open, .any a slight puff of wind had blown the crisp white curta7ns in the room, then receding, had ;sucked them out ward through the aparture, while the imprisoned air, running up the blind, had caused the tissue paper hanging at the top.to rustle. There ca-me another 'puff—the trail of the curtain over. the Carpet, the rustle of the paper hanging. Dora sat gazing at the window, hey face, in its astounding. thankfa ness, a study for an artist. • At this moment ; Penelope came hi. , She had evidently beep weeping. , "The carriage:' is ready, (dear cousin," sighed she, tremulously. Dora passed her hand over her head then, facing-her rival-, asked, in a hurried tone : "Were you up last night at any time Miss Arlingford ?" • " Yes" answered Penelope, in stir: prise. "About four odloek -I :rose and shut my window. The wind was rising." ." Did you hear a cock crow as you did so ?" ' • "Yes, I did. Why do - you ask, dear? Stay I know why! You are fisightened by hearing.a board creak beside your bed. I'-should have told you about that board; how stupid of Me i" "I heard a board creak," said Dora, scarcely btdieveing her own ears. Yes, it ought to be !fastened. down. It runs the-whole breadth of the house and when I tread on one end of it in- my room : the other end creaks in this. Listen. She ran across the passage, shut ting the door after her, and in a mo ment the vexita.ble squaking com menced, accompanied by the click ing of the door, which had so petri fied Dora. When the young lady returned, the expression of her cousin's es was so mightily altered that she exclaimed, " Why, My darling girl, I do think you wanted to leave us be cause you , thought. the house wat haunted'. "Per—perhaps,—yes," , faltered Dora; wistfully gazing at her. " You poor little darling," mur mured Penelope, in a deep voice of compas§ion, and she took .Dora's un resisting hand in hers. " Why would you not tell me? Don't you know, Dora," and. a 'smile played' around her lips," that we ought' to love each other dearly? We are both going to - marry a Walter Cray, and be the closest sort of cousins." " Are there two Walter Crays?" ejaculated Dora. " What !" cried . Penelope, her countenance slowly. crimsoning as the situation burst upon - , her; "did you—imagine—" She never completed the Sentence but; snatching upihe poor tired little orphan to her . . bosoin, strained her there, and kissed her tearful, face, which was fully -returned. gut Dora never revealed the whole of her terrible mistake. THE Mom. TimE....Reproof must "be administered gently, if at all. If You are annoyed and vexed at people jukremember it is not the right time to speak.' Close your mouth, shut your teeth together firmly, and it will save \you many a useless and un availing regret, and many a bitter enemy. If 'you luippen to feel a lit tle cross--and\ who among us does not at some time or other—do not select that season \ for reproving your noisy household flock. One word spoken in passion will \ make a- scar that a summer of smiles can hardly heal over. If you area i 4vi l fe, never tease your husband when e comes honie, weary-from his day's business. ICIS not the right time. .Do 'not ask him for expensive outlays when he has been talking about hard times. It is, most assurely, the -wrong time:, It he has entered upon an undertak ing against your adVice, do not seize on the moment of its failure to say, "I told you so r In fact, it is never" the right time for these four mon osyllables. Oh! if people only knew how to discriminate between the right and the wrong time, there would be less domestic unhappiu 'es?l, less silent sorrow s and less estrange ment of the heart. . . REGARDLESS OF DEANCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER. ITN; FACT AND PAOETIIp . Sound invpstmant--bufing a ieleithoae. Spring bonnets will be worn on the port ear. , A coon() remark—" Who won the race?", \A spanking team— a pair of dung mot re. • A stick in tin e saves nine—sometimes wben tlib . fire is low. To lard-Makers :1 If, at first Tou don't succeed, try, try agldn. , A man never uses his thumb nail for a screw driver but mice. - How do you Two Answer : Tread on be A bit of lemon bone to give lemon aid to ti How should love come , to th l / 4 Ioor? Certainly with a ring but not without a rap. A cradle hilt Connecticut family is os43r 200 year& old. 'This must be the "rock , of ages. "Earring sister, goln peace," said the jeweler to the purchaseeer the diamond pendants; Why are all games of chess of equal duration ? Because it takes Aim:knights to playa game. A, paper? at Colianhuc Ind., advias people not' to call a ulna a liar when the ground is frozen. The fourl'Alaughters of a York State man named Pinta, aro known as a half gallon o"lassea. The sarvival of the fittest is illustrated n. the case of It Leavenworth tailor, who s 101 years i ,old. • ), • When is neuralgia in the face like the ancient money-changers? When it is seated in the temple. What is that which is neither flesh nor bone, and yet has four fingers - and a thumb ? glove. - What word is that of eight letters, from which, if you take away five, ten will still remain ? Tendency. . MI A little boy being asked " What is the chief end of man" ? replied, "The end what's got the head on." It was an apprentice to a merchant tai lOr who, sponged a dollar greenback to prevent further shrinkage. Why is a htuOand like a Mississippi steamboat ? Because he never knows when he may get a blowing up. Why is a reporter like -a- piCkpoc . t ? Because ho takes notes,, land ; must have quick lingers to insure snecesa.- A man - used to say to his barber, "Thin out my hair a little." Wives wore not then invented—we mean acquired. ' " How can I leave thee?" said Adam to Eve. She made no reply, but calinly pointed to the fig tree in the distance. A glass bloweritas recently died at the age of 120 years. Ills great • ago is' an other proof of the blewglass theory. In Switzerland, donkeys have bells on their necks. In this country, it is not nit- mai to see them with belles on their arms Women are proverbially severe in their criticisms of each other's attire. It makes all the difference in the world whose dress is gored. " Silk fro covering ho instep, are thirty dollars a pair," remarks a fasgion editor. And yet pepple %louder why so many editors re main single. ' "Don't you think," said a husband in a mild form of rebuke to his wife, "that women aro possessed by the devil?" " Yes," , willi the answer, "as soon as they are married," • "Papa," said I a bright boy just home from a 1 slight-of han d entertainment, "I wide I was a chnjit r." "Why, my son?" gf I would-turn you into a rat, call up the Cat, and wouldn't I have 'fun ?" What's the difference between a inner al.and, a bar-room This will bo easy enough after we have_ told _you. At a funeral th‘e bier holds the casket, but in a bar-room the cask it hold the, beer. darkey• gives the following' reason vy the 'colored race is superior to the ite race. He reasons—that all lien are made of clay, andlike the meerschaum pipe, they a 4 more valuable when highly colored.' • • The coldest storm-wave of thesseason was experienced by a yong man from Sy mouse, Who escorted an East Rome girl home sunday night, and was detected i by, her father just as be was in the act. of put ting his moustache where it would do her the most good. Robinson went up to his room the other afternoon and noticed 'that there was one match remaining in the box. "Now, if that shouldn't \ bunt when I come in to night," soliloquized he, "what a fix I should ue in." So he tried it to see if it was 0 good one. It was. • Lord Mayo imported a female emn. While his lordshiplwas away from home She laid an egg, and his perplimed bailiff, writing to inform him of the - occurrence, began his letter as follows : "In the ab sence of your lordship, I put the egg un der the greatest goose I could find." In response to written orders, the ex pressmen of Meriden, Conn., were sent in great bade to a hotel to take the trunk of L.A. Phant to the depot. Ttio land lord/took the jolt() kindly at first, - but as express - wagon after' express*wagon drove up the joke bemme monotonous. A Frenchman, stopping at a tavern, asked for Jacob. "There is no such per son here," said the landlord. : ''Tis not any person I want, ears ; but ze \beer Make warm widze poker." "Well," , an swered‘the landloid, " That ' s 'ink" ! yes, saro, you arein ze right ; I mean Philip." Now cometh the yong man to his tailor, o saith.unto him ; " Build me an ul ster. And make me a pocket in the sleeve thereof,`of the space of three inehes wide, that a maiden's bafid may go therein. And we thou lzAd \ the pocket right over against my thnny-bone shall come to pass that she shall 14 tb, now and shall tell' rr horrid, and shall squeeze cross? la acid liately. • Aockings, will 1 lace medallions ;ORll+4sll)fic(i)gO*Vid The noble missionary Moffat tells a beautiful story. — He says:" "In 'one of my early journeys I came *lib my companions , to a heathen village on the banks of the Orange river. We had travelled far, and were hungry ; thirsty, arid fatigued; but the people of the village rather -toughly directed , us to halt at a dis tance. We' asked for water, but they would 'not surly it. I offered the three or four: bnttons left on my jacket' for a little milk and was re fused. We had the prospect of moth * hungry night, at a distance from water, though within sight of the' river. When twilight grew on, a woman approached, with a cooking vessel on her head, and a leg of mut ton in one hand and water in the' other. She sat down withont'ssaying a word, prepared the fire and put on the meat. .We asked, her a g ain and again who she was. She remained silent till affectionately entreated to give us a reason for such unlooked \ for kindness to strangers. Then the tear stole down.her sable cheek; and she \ replied, 'I love Him whose ser vants\'ou are, and surely it is my' duty to ive you a cup of cold water k gli in His n roe. My heart is full; I therefore teannot speak the joy I feel to see You in ;t4is out-of-the world place.' Sri learning a little'of her history, and ' that she was a soli tary'light burning in a dark place, I asked her how she k' pt tip with the light of 'God in her soul in the entire absence of the com,rntiniOn \ of saints. She from her bosom aopy of the Dutch New Testamentwhiel; she haP„, received from 'Mr. H elm when' in his school, some years\be fore. ' This,' said she, "is the follu r , Min whence' \ dtink ; this is the oil\ which makes my lamp to burn.' ' I looked on the precious relic, printed by the British and Foreign Bible So 4 ciety, and the reader. may conceive! my joy, while we mingled our pray ers and sympathies together at the throne of our Heavenly Father. . . A MOTIIER's IN iLUENCE.—IIt is hard fin; a young mother. who 'has not . yet - overcome the wayward tetk dencies of her own youthful nature,` to realize the influence she exerts over her little ones. She isconstantly surrounded by Critical imitators who copy her morals and manners. As the mother is, so are her sons and daughters. If a family of children are blessed with an intelligent moth er, who is dainty and refined in her manners,' and (toes not' consider it necessary to be one woman in the drawing-roim and an entirely differ ent person in her every-day life, but, who is a-true mother, and always a: tender, charming woman, you will invariably see het habits -a speech and perfect manners repeated in her 'children. 'Great, rough men, and noisy, busy boys, will, alst4s tone down their voices and step quietly, and try to be more mannerly when she stops to give them a kind word or a peasant' smile—for a true moth er will never fail to say or do all the kind, pleasant thing she can, that will in any way help to lift up and cheer those whose lives are shaded with_ care and toil. The mOther of to-day rules the world of to-sorrow. Think of it, dear sisters, and guard well your home-treasures. ft E LAUGH OF CIIILDIMOD.FOI- lo ipg is a selection from the lecture of I. Bob. Ingersoll: Tere is no day so sacred but that the laugh of a child will make it ho- Tier-still. Strike with hand of fire, 0 weird musician, .thy lyre strung with ApcilO's golden hair. Fill ,thee vast xathedral aisles with synphonies sweet and dim, deft toucher of organ keys. Blow, bugler, blow, until your silver notes do touch and kiss the coon -lit waves, and charm the lovers yandering -on the Vine-clad shore; but know your sweetest strains ate discords, all, compared with cbild hOod's happy laugh—thee, laugh that fills the eyes • with light. Oh, rip pling river of laughter, thOu the bles sed boundary line between beast and man, and every wayward wave ,of thine loth drown some fretful fiend of care. LauOter Should make . duif pies of joy enough in thecheeks of the world to. catch and hold all the tears of grief. - AN IMMENSE (EVIL AND THE REME DY.—"" An ounce. of prevention is . worth a poUnd of cure," says an old. proverb. Let us apply this to . tem perance. A long line of reeling,stag gering candidates for perdition, 150,000 in number, one after another, drop out of sight and memory. And still the death march goes on. Is 'there no way to stop it? Why, certainly. Drunkards grow froin inoderate drinkers, and wider) ate drinkers from the untaught, or wrongly educated children 'of our homes., There is a point 'where the stopyan 'be put On,'and that is in the home. Ev,pry parent is responsible for the intemperance o!: his child,- if he has not by example and precept, done_ everything to prevent it. It. parents would take as :. much pains to furm a pure, healthful taste in their children as. they now take, surely, though 'sometimes/ uncoil eiously, to form a taste for stimulants, we should see fewer entering the path that leads to a drunkai a's grave. . IT Is A mistake which many parents make, theta trying to make men out of boys, and holding them aloof from all the emotions, symphathies, pleas ures awl pursuits of youngsters. I; is not natural for boys to be so - staid, reserved, nor always well-mannered, and the discipline that, makes them so before .their time - will probably distort or cripple some of their finest qualities. The roots of a young tree must have room to spread, and if they are inexorably crammed into a bole big enough for only one-half o: them,,some are sure to be grievously damaged. As for educttion, it must 'always be remembered that what a boy learns in books is but a small, portion of his education.. That, which he gathers from : his; suraqundl ings and from his home, pleasant or repulsive, from his associations; ft Can nature, from everything he sees and boars, goes to form his mind and vbaracter, , . 878. . (Selected foe the IMPORTER.) VEHMESIG OP HOME. 1 tim.thinking of home. of my 'Father's house, _ Where the.rnany bright mansions be, Of that city whose streets are all covered with gold , And the Jasper walls, pure and fair to behold, Which the righteous alone ever see. CRIOIIIIB Oh home, sweet•boak I arrr i tltlnklng and loneng for home, Beyond the pearlY 'gates, many a mansion watts For the weary ones who journey home. • I am thinking of home, of my loved. ones there, Dearest friends who have gone before, With whom we went down to the dark river side, Audio sadly thought as we watched by lheelde Ot the thrice happy morning of yore. Churua—Oh home. etc. 'I am thinking of home, Ism homesick now, - . And my spirit doth long to he In -that far better 013 Where the saints ever slog, • Of the love of Christ, their Redeemer and King, And of mercy so costly and free. ' Chorus—Oh home, etc. I amtlituking or home, yes of home, sweet home; may we all In that home unite • With the white-covered throng, and exultingly rise - To the triune, God's twee testantbemxof praise, Singing glory and honor and might. Chorus—Oh home, etc. - I. For tho 'REPORTER.) WEARY. BY MRS. ANNA Mr. HOOD RIVER, OREGON Weary of lielpg, so weary.: • Longirig to Ite down and - dlo; To BO for my sad heart, and dreary, ' The endot life's pilgrimage nigh. Weary. suireary of wlshlng. ;For a form that Is gone from my sight, For a yoke that Is hushed to tne ever, For eyes that to me were so bright. For a hand to he laid on my forehead, For a glimpse of the dark chestnut hair— For a step that to me was sweet music; And a brow that to nio was noble and fair. Weary, so weary or waiting, Welting for sympathy sweet; For some one to love' and It ., cherish, And pleasures that are trotAtto fleet Tired, eo tired or drifting Adown the dark billows of life ; Tired of breasting the billoWs— The billows of toll and of strife Wishing,-and wat frig so satily- For love, that.Ayas sweetest and hest ; Willing to die, ,so gladly It that would bring (Inlet andrest. STANLEY'S JOURNEY DOWN THE - CONGO. \The following is tin extract from Henry M. Stanley's letter to the New York\-Berahi describing his journey down the . Congo River. I have`eMleavored to take you rap idly through \ the thousand and one experiences-As \ we struggled through the dense darkness • and mystery ,Of the unknown intoight. A few ex citing contests I haTe briefly describ ed—contests with \human • demonS who delighted 'in fiiad, ,treachery and cruelty, who regarded us much as we regarded the noble east that rove over the plains of tre4unia, as so many herds of seasoned game to beslaughtered and carved and\broil ed and eaten. They attacked us \ w4th spears, assegays poisoned arrows and muskets, and at one time they -act>. , ually surrounded our camp with hid-- den nets. They drove poisoned sticks into the ground,.so that in the charge to scatter them from the neighbor hood of the camp our , people might have their - feet . pierced with these instruments of torture. .41)n all' sktes death stared us in the face; suet eyes watched us day - and night, and a thousand bloody hands were stretch ed out to take advantage of the least carelessness. ..We defended ourselves like men who knew that puSillani, mity Would be our, ruin—that mercy was- unknoiVn to the" savages. Out of i the charity and regard for my own people, and tnyself i asivell, on whom devolyed the respOnSibility of tak, ing • this expedition through these savage regions, I wialted naturally that itnlight have been otherwise, and looked anxiously and keenly for any sign of forbearende and peace, as I saw my African cOmmdes drop one • b. 4. one from my side in the oblivion of the terrible Wilds. -We thank heaven that tho4e dark days are over. .. Yet we had sort brief intervals of pleasure even_ during that stormy period: - One pacific tribe—the day after a desperate battle with a mar tial tribe-'above who, it seemed, - had oppressed them greatly—Warn'ed by the, bilge thati sounded the approach of strangers, turned out in dense crowds along the river bank; while the boldest, of their warriors:, manned their enormous canoes , and, bore down on us ; ' taking care , how ever, to cry out the magic word "Sennene !" which caused tiS to drop our guns - and eche the -happy word with such fer;or;of lungs that' the thousands.on the balk, who might .have -been a little'diStrustful, instant• ly distinguished its hearty. sincerity, and repeated it, With equal fervor, un til fora time, :even after they had ended, the .forests across the- river 'seemed to thunder mysteriouSly "Sennene! Sennene!" We dropped our stone anchorS:abreast,- and near. enough to the vast =crowds on the' -banks, ind invited the warriors in the canoes to aPprOach. ,; . From childness shyness they would not come nearer than - fifty yards or so, and two old women—ladies, I ought to call them-"nianned" a small canoe, and, coming -straight to my boat, they b rought their tiny ves sel alongside, unit after an introduc tory laugh offered us. palm-wine and a couple of chickenS4 • PresentlY the wart ions, shained out of their. shyness —it was not fear—drew their canoes alongside—enormous things; ,twice the length of ourT i boat—and complet." ly hid, almost criiSheO, the tiny canoe Of the women; but the most pleasing sight to me, to Which - My eyes " were constantly attractedwas the faces of the two women, and *the. tiny- mes senger of peace and comfort to us in the midst of _our: days - of .trial. On looking into the great warrior canoes I observed, with pleasure, that there 'was not-one spear or bow and arrow_ in one of -them, which .cattsed - to confirm my opinion of their . tact and .delicacy—to look, more atten tive at the crowds - On the ba nk, and there was not - One 'weapon of , -war visible anywhere: Presently • ob served one huge canoe make off ,for the shore, load doinds of palm wine •and baskets - I of potatoes, and 'return, each man l itinging enthusiastically. 'The potatoes were for me, the -palm wine formy people. - • - 4, When I asked how it happened that they were so kind to. strangers, when we had fought three , times the day before, they said that though the drums above-river summoned them to fight us, some of their people 'bad been up-river' fishing among the islands the day before, and the dr • ms had caused them to hide themselvei and see what took place. They had seen us talk to the natives, offer cloths andlbeads, And had seen them refuse all proffers and fight Us. "They are always fighting us and stealing 'our people, but we-Tare not _strong enough to kill them. "This 'morning yhen you left that island where you Slept last we sent very early a canoe with 0 , 0 slaves—a boy and a woman —in it, with potatoes and palm Wine. I f yciu were bad peopleyou would have caught that canoe and made those two slaves-your own, but when you allowed saying "Sennene," we knew that , you were good people, and we did not beat our drums for war, but fOr peace. If you had taken that little canoe this . morning you would have had tofight us now. You killed our- enemies 'eSterday and yob did not injure bur two slaves this morning. You are our: friends." ' BITS OF WISDOM. The eyes of other people are the, eyes at ruin us. Never affect wisdom. Great men are most like children. Ideas are oft times iiby,of the close fur niture of words. Men are like words; when not properly aced, they lose their value. Avoid formality as you would the mea sles. A good marksman is not'a day in taking aim." r.. A man's fortune is frequently decided by his first addresS... If pleasing, others at once conclude he has merit ; but if un graceful,. they decide against him. The blessing of a,. house is piety. The onor of a house is hospitality. The or ament of a house is cleanliness. The appiness of, a house is contentment. Lost, . yesterday, somewhere, betifeen sunrise and sunset; two golden hours, each set with sixty dianuind Minutes. .7"To reward is offered, for they are gone.for- 12123 Say nothing respecting yourself; either good, had, inditferentnothing good, .for that is vanity: nothing had, for that is affectation; . .nothing.idditfprent for tha',is , silly. - _ Philosophy is to poetry what old age•is to -youth, and the stern truths of pliil6so-- phi.are as fatal to fhb oue as th&cbilling testimonies of experience are to the hopes of the other. - - - Affection - can withstand very: severe' storms of rigor, but not a long.populai frost of indifference: • Love will subsist on wonderfully little hope, but not a i l& "gether without' it. ~ - , ~ / , Contentment abides with. truth... And • \ ,you generally suffer for wishing/to appear oler than you_ are, :whethei it be the riche or more learned. Tv. mask soon become • ainstrunierit oftorture. If we m. ke mist:* s• solving the prob lem\ . ' - .. ' •/ " of life, oir verSjblundering niay teach us to eNertise-`motre care. If • ,welearn to 1 know our error and gain. a little wisdom, we shall be•b tterprePared for a higher life. I• . •,. • It is a high, - soleniu, almost ' . akful • thong t for eyery individual that his earthly influence,' which lilts had b a com mencement here, ; will never, \ through .all tige.9, were he theyerymeauest \ ef ni - 1, 'have an end. : • \ ,/..• • ' If 7c would get, We rmist.:gii.C./_,Wben the -pump will -not work, Fn pour a Bain water into it, andlhat s enabllS it to bring up more. The hind that is closed lets in nothing just as truly as it lets out nothing, •and seltishfiess 4 tbus outwits itsel6_ This is tree spiritually as; well as in temporal and pecuniary . matters. A good aim well kept to is -n good deed, ro live with,ihigh ideal is a successful life. It is/not what one does,' but what he tries that Ankes the soul strong and tit-for a noble lareer. All life is a _ . - • discipline; and if . ice are brought to take (.4.il o's will as otirkiwu; .we gain tbe high ,,est success 'that; is possible to man.-LE. P. Kenney • REST- FOR THE MlND.—While the-,daily occupation 'is monotonous and engrossing, a full supply Of excitement for the leisure hours may be desirable; but where the mental powers have been • taxed to their utmost throuAli the hours of labor, it is absolutely necessary to• health,and happi ness that they be entirely released for at least a' portion of the time that is left. " • DrunkenneSs eXPels reason, drowns the( memory, - defaces beauty, , diminishes. strength, inflames the blood,eauses;ititer nal, external, and ineurable'vvoumis ; is a devil to the soul, a • thief 'to qui purse ; the beggar's.compabion,: a wi(e's'woe and ehildien's sorrow ; Mal r ies t ti strong . nian Weak, and 4 wise:man a fool. :He iS worse than'a beast, anilis.n self-murderer, tvhi; drinks another Oodpettlth and robs him self of his oWn. • .let toward others as you - iVeuld they should act, towards yourself. It. is the, same in life / asin the midst of the sea • for everyjmNigater . there is the same sea, the same dangers to be aware of. - °AB long you are borne on a tranqUil surface, bele thoie who have. suffered 'shipwreck. / WI o can say that you will not be over= taken by a storm ?—:yOu• are not yet in port; the same conduct that you. have shown % to..the unfortunate will be shown to you by yourfellowsoyagers. r . , . , Our manner of life should be such that: we may be known as- servants of God; but we 'should not try to pass for what we are not. St. JOhn tells the Jews that he is not Elias. He who humbles himself shall‘be exalted. - Our Lord declares than he is Elias ; and if he: be not really Elias in body, We makulso'say thatthe sanctity of his 'life and theitnportanceof his mis sion' make him ,greater than Elias. He resembles Ellas in his rude, austere` way of living ;. and ins from Elias burstOorth impressive eloquence, startling, __striking as the lightning; so does it burstfrim St. John the Baptist: His mission is higher ge‘en - thair that of Elias. He is sent to announce the coming of, our Lord.--tie- Boyleive, - .s'', :=, , ; , t' , -'-', lEMI A 2 perAnnuntin.Advamie. i kith; 42. PULPILLIENT 'OUDITAKEL "Men mark.when they .hit," ob.• serves Bacon, "and never mark when they miss ;"'and to this circumstance he, attributes the belief in dreams and popular predictions. , No donbt • • anal mainr of fulfilled iprinusges and prophesies- could eaSily , be collected; There are, for instance, !few better attested facto thin the, eel.- ',tainty of his death which Nelson,en tertained before the battle of Tin" fal gar. As the captain of , the "Eurya lus " took leave of him on the morn- itig of the - 21st, of October, "God . bless you, Illackwood," - he said." I shall never See you again," . It is, however,, equally certain tbstlieLson, by wearing his full-4:km uniform, with his four orderi of, kufghthood,,° did his best to accomplish the mourn ful. foreboding wfth which he was haunted. First , esmelhe feelings of • gloom and then a recklessness conse quent upon it. The .rest followed naturally enough.- M.. Campan..re lathe, another singular presage - which occurred to I,ifarie Antoinette. The Queen, who usually went to bed very late, was sitting in her room one eve ning toward the. end of May, 1789, talking to a fewiitimate friends over: the ,events of the day, which had been a troubled one. There weie fOur candles on - her dressing table. One of these suddenly went out of itself. Madame Campen relighted it. A. second then went out of itself, and a third. The Queen shuddered, and seizing 11fadamiitampen's hand, mid: " Misfortune can make one supersti tious ;if the fourth light goes out like the others nothing will prevent me from regarding it as a sinister pressage." The fourth light went out. Her attendant, however, point: ' ed out to the • Queen that the four candles had probably been., cast in the same mould, and that a flaw in one had naturally l been repeated in • all.' In confirmation of this view-it, had been noticed that *the candles had gone out in the order in whick-i -they had been lighted. ' REMEDY FOR TROUBLE-WO k is your true remedy. If misfortune bits •ou ,hard, you hit something else hard ; pitch into something with a with , There's nothing_liye goal, sol id, exhausting work to / cure trouble. If you have met' with losses, you can't want to. lie awake and think 'about them. You/Want sleep, calm, sound sleep—and` eat your dinner ; - with appetite. /Bit you can't tffiless. • you work. Ityou say you.dton't feel - like work, get loafing all day , to • tell Tom, // lick, and Harry the story of your does, you'll lie awake and keep your wife awake by your- toss. ing,Apoil 'your'temper and your, / breakfast next morning, and begin tmorrow feeling ten times worse ban you do to-day. There are some' great. troubles that only time / can - heal, and perhaps some 'that / never - can be : healed at all; but all' can -be helped by the great panacea work. Try it, if you are afilictdd.- It is not' a patent medicine. It has piovell its . efficidncy since first/Adam and Eve left behind them, with weeping, their beautiful Eden„ ./ /lt, is an e ffi cient remeny. All good- physicians pre scribe it in. of of mental and mor al disease./It operates kindly as well, leaving no disagreeable effects, and we assure you that we halie ta ken a large quantity of it with most beneficial results. It 'will cd re . more complaints than any nost rum in the materia medica, and comes nearer to dieing a "cure all "'than any' drug or( compound,of drugs in the market. And it will not sicken you if you do not take it sugar-coated. = A You NO MAN AND MIS COMPANY. —A young man,just launching into business, should make it a.point not - to mix with -those of,whom he would , be '\ ashamed of in years to come. Thqre are many who start inlife with 7 good 'prospects and intending . to.,act in good \faith and lead honest' and upright liyes, and would' have un doubtedly done so had they associa ted with men \ of unsullied character, whose names, Were above ,reproach; but no,. the frivOlities of the other -picture, they were \ unable to under ' stand. Society can be appropriately named temptation. If.a person's in tentions were good' and he should' accidently fall into bad society, he would eventualy, from being thrown continually into - such company, ay. quite like habits, and finally. -find• himself in a position from which -it would beimpo isible to extricate him gelf. Simi' cases as these • are daily oceurruig in our m idst.. . How. _ow many of us know of men who.have bad golden , ' opportunities, men._ who lost wealth, position, and honor through the influence of immoral so ciety. Look: at the.numbers of well educated men traveling from door to door in search of foCid—men who have lost "their names and standing , in the worhl, and. have fallen so low that they have lost all shame. We think we have drawg the picture . well" enough to satify the young man that now. is the time—now is the harvest, and if they fail to take these advan tagcS, they are lost. TrxE Gnu; THav7s 4:3100n. - -The higher and more perfect the tiaining woman has received in all woman- ly essentials, the better wife and. mother she is prepared to become. She will not want for suitors "who is worthy of then]. Men are not blind.; ed by glare and glitter, by long ring lets of false hair, by mammoth pa niers, artificial insteps, , unnatural complexion, arid that long languish of the eye-lashes due to deceptive arts—not even when the soft rustle of silk is thrown over this, and is softened by draperies of, real lace, And embellished with the gleam of costly jewels. Most of them carry; deep in their hearts, a love of home and 'real womanhood. Now, it is the) business of all true woman to (All out this feeling in men ' their doing' so is . necessary foi the life - of society, for the prosperity of the world. " Men are what women make of them," it has been said. Well, be fore woman can call forth any good in man, they must themselves be good and pure, and', trueki every. law of health, mental anti physicad.—Heara and Dome. = IS ;~ -,x EMI