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s.. W. ALVORD, Publisher.
VOLUME XXXVIII.
Business Cents.
IDA.INTINGS.
PORTRAITS AND INDSCAPF.I3
Painted to order at any part from to OM.
on Paltalngslle-raliatedi Re-Touched , or changes
wade as desired.
AU work done In the highest style of the Art.
JOHANN F. BENDER.
Towanda: Pa.. Aprll 18, 1878.
T ROGALSKI,
Employed with - )f. Bendalmlit for the past four
years, begs leave to announce to his friends and
the, puplic generally that he has rumored to the
Boston 99-Cedt Store, one door moth of the First.
National Bank. and opened a shop for the repair
or Watches, Clocks. Jewelry. &c. All work war
ranted to give-entire satisfaction.
W • J. YOUNG,
.4 TTORNE Y-A T LAW,
TOPtAICDA, PA
Olfice—seeond door south of the First National
Bank Main St., up stairs.
(1' D. KINNEY;
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A TTORNEY-.4 74.4 TV.
' Office—Rooms formerly occupied by Y. Di. C. A
Reading Room. ljan.:W7n.
r T7 I IL SWISHER,
- DENTIST.
IfliCO met Mrs. \pngos` store, Tracey & Noble's
4 1 ;leek, Treatment it diseased teeth a specialty.
'llas and ether administered when deslred.-Inett.ilt.
WILLIAMS & ANGLE,
ATTORNEYS-AT--L-4W
OFFlCE,—Formoly occupied by Win. Watkins,
(oct. 17. '77)
11. C. WILLIAM'S
McPHERSON,
h ,
ATTORNEY iND Cou.N.r.LlAnt-AT-LAW,
TOWANDA, PA
Cy Brod. Co'
MASON
.&
A r TORSI: rs-A r-LAw
Tow:anda,.Pa. ORlce over Bartlett Q Tracy, Maln-et.
rar77)
0. F,MASON.
E . L. lIILLIS,
,ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
TOWANDA, PA.
Office with Smith & Moltatt se. (nova-75
E , F. GOFF,
AT.T ORNE Y-.4T-L A W.
Mn Street (I doors north of- Ward 1-lonst!). To
wanda, Po, tAprltt2, 1877.
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WH. TIIONIT'SON, ATTORNEY
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AT LAW, WYALESING, PA. •:Pfill attend
Soali business entrusted to his care Bratlr F ord,
tuillirati and Wyoming Counties. 01
ea with
Porter. tnoei9.74.
FiLSBREE, . •
ATTOUXE V-A T-VA
To A i.'lD A, r A
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c j i . L. LAMB,
ATTOWNEY-A.T-TAIN_,..
fr.rris-BA Mit, PA;
ciollections prompt'y attended to;'
July 27,16,
JOHN --si,-.lmi:ci.:
ATTORNEY At LAW,*
AND
Er. S. commissiownt,
TOWA_NDA, PA.
Orec6—Norin Side rublic Square.
Jan. 11;18745,
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DA.VIES & CAANOCIIAN :
-- ATTORNEYS AT 'LAW,
' §oll...rti SIPE OF WAED
Sled-:S. - Tow ANDA.
p . _ ..
FL S. M. WOODBURN, Physi—
clan and Surgeon. Mike over 0, A. Black's,
'rockery store. . , .
Towanda, May I, 18721y*. •
ADILL & CAL — IFF,
--,, ATTonNEYS AT I, AW, •
• TOWANDA, PA.
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°Mee in Wood's Block, first door south of the First
,National hank, up-stairs. -
11. J. MADU.L. (]ant -731y] J. N. CALIFF.
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GmpLEy s .PAYNE,
.4 TXOR E TS-A
bouth side 3lerrur litoeU (moms formerlyisecupted
by Davies az C.arnochanT;
TONIANDA, -PA
C. a RIDE:FA'
04'77)
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MES W.OOD,
ATToRNEY-AT-LAW.
T-F
' TOWANDA. PA
MEM
CHAS. M. HALL,
Attorney-at-Law and Notary,
Will give carotid attention to any linsiness entrust
ed to hint' office with Patrick at Foyle. (over
Journal Office), Towanda, Pa. C.lrtitier77.
JOHN F. SANDERgON,
ATTORNEY-AT.I.A,W,
OFFICB.—Meins Building (over Powell'o Store)
mclls-76 TOWANDA, PA.
OORGE D. STROUD, ;
A T TOR .NE T AND CO.DXSELVIR-A T-1. A 19
Mee —Maln-st...four doors North of Ward !louse
Pracpres Ut Supieme. Court
of l'entvqh - anta and United TOWANDA, PA-
States Courts.—[ Dee7.'76.
STREETER,,
LAW OFFICE, s
• IrovrADA,PA
sug2o
nVERTON & MERCUR,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW, :
• ToNVAN DA PA.
1 Office over siontanyes S . Mre., rmay67s
iv A. OVERTON. . RODNEY A.St ERC UR
WM. MA.XIY.FIfi,
ATTORNEr-AT-LAW
OFFICE. OVNII DAN - MX . 4 STORE, TOWANDA, rA
Aval tft7l6. -
ipAI I RICK A; FOYLE,
..4 Y.TORNE 78,1 7-.L.4 W.
Office, In Meteues Block
t(• ANDREW \ WILT,
ATTORNEY h COUNSELLOR-.4ILLA
Im re over crow 'took store, two doors north of
;havens A Long. Towanda, f's. May be consulted
n Gramm. (April 12:
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ten,' Intu copartnership , offer their prstessfol
services to•thu pub3le. Specfal,ittention given to
basitio , s In tho Orphan's and Itegipter's Courts.
tiViiICTON, (spri t-79) K. U. ELSBREY”
S. RUSSILL'S•
- GENERAL
iNSURAN'CE AGENCY
TOWANDA, PA.
MaylB-700
TiNSU i RA:NCE AGENCY.
The following •
R.I I MI4D.IeE AND FIRE TRIED
i Compinies repretenteo;
ANCsIitRF.,PMENIX,ROME.itERCHANTS,
Mart.., tcll4 0 H. BLACK.
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1864. 1876.
TrOANDA. INSUI4Nef AGENCY.
) Matta Styeet oppnat4 the Cont; /1 0 2 6 8 8 .
. W.. S. Y INCEN7,
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MANAGER. - •
Dj t. T. B: JOHNSON,
i'nYSICIAS ASZ SuRqtRON.
Office Geer Dr. Porter & Soles I)rug Store, Towanda.
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Teeth inserted on Gold, Silver, Rubber, and Air
urnriturn Lase. Teeth extracted without pato. •
• Oct. 34-71.
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.J PAYNE, M.'D.,. E . \ . . .
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,PHYSICtAN AND SURGEON.
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Orncedter ilontanyes , Store. ;trelealanarttrotit JO
to tt. A. It., and from 3 to 4. r. X. Special Wintl°t l
given to dlreaata of the Era and Zar.-04.19,184.r.
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Says a Heston phyrdeliut. •bas nirequal as a blood
purifier., nearing of Its many wonderful cures,
liter aUotber remedies hare failed. I visited the
Labratory and convinced myself of \ Its genuine
merit. Ilt Is prepared from harks, root sup herbs,
each of: which Is highly effective ' 'and \ they are
compounded In such a Alaimo' as toprodtic c astun
'thing result-AO'
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VEGiIETINE
Will cure the worst cue of Scrofula
VEGrETINE
Is recommende,d by physiclans and t apothecarlvt.
YgGETINE,
Has effected seine marvellous cures In cages of Can
VEGETINE•
Meets with wonderful success In Mercurial diseases
ATEG ETINE
Will eradicate Salt Rheum twin the system.
YEGETANE
Cures the most inveterate eases of Erysipelas.
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Removes Pimples and humors from the faces
VEGETINE
Cures Constipation andregulates tho bowels.
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VEGETINE
Ca a valuable remedy for Headache
AISTMUIt HEAD
VEGETINE
Restores the eutlrksystelo to a healthy condition-
VEGEAINE
EHectu•.lly cumi Kidney Coinplslnt
VEGETINE
Ineffective In its cure of Female We4kness.
VEGETINE
Is the great retnedy for General Ucgllily
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VEGETINE
is acknowledged by all elassex el people to : be the
beat and nest' reliable blood puriner.ln the-world
EG ETIN Di, SOLD' BY ALT. DRUGGISTS
THE
STILL TAKES THE LEAD
Carriages CHEAPER THAN EVER. and Pia
torn Wagons at aGREAT REDUCTION:'
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Proprietor of the. Old Carriage Manufactory, cor.
Main and Elizabeth streets, would call the special
attention of FARMERS and others to his large
and complete assortnl •tit of •
OPEN ND TOP BUGGIES
,IND PLATFORM WAGONS,
All of his own manufacture, :Inft warranted •ID
every particular to be equal to the most espensire
city work.
NOW IS YOUR TIME.TO BUY
Look at the figures, and remember that every
vehicle is warranted :
PLATFORM WAGONS
OPEN lit GOIES -
TOP BIJUGIES
The prices are far below the cost of maw:fracture
n.I will not be maintained after the present stock
a disposed of, so you must make selections NOW.
f)on•t be Itupoeed,,,stpoii by Interior work and
poor materials, but - purchaseat the establishment
which has been lu operation for nearly half a cen
tury and - ls permanently located. _
REPAIRING PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO
Ottlee arid Factory coy. Main and Elisabeth streets.
,TowPuda, Pa.
ilyl7-73
Towatda, June 2t. 1877
NEW CARRIAGE FACTORY
•
Respectfully announce to the public that they are
prepared to build alt kinds! of
PHAETON 3 PLATFORM SPRING WAGONS
TROTTING'IILKIES 8 SKELETONS,
Made of the best material and la the beet ityle
I.llirork warranted. to Live perfect 1.. a tistaetion.
We have ono of the best Carriage Painters In the
country, awl de all work In this flue ,at the lowest
rates.
Neatly and promptly done at rodatrd pier%
Making new - sprlnp .and repairing _old ones
appetalty. All work guaranteed. :Please glue usa
Itgranda. APril te.
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VEGETINE • •
Is the great Blood rudder
VSGETINE
Cnrea the Went ease or Canker
VE.GRTINE
`EGETINE
WM cure Ilitspepsta.
VEGETINE
CLITCb palls In tht skit
VEGETINa
Removes the cause of dizziness
VEGETINE •
Relieves Faintness at the Stomach
VEGETINE
Cures pains la.ttic flack
Wagons and Carriages.
OLD_ ESTABLISHMENT
I T I=El
JAMES BRYANT
East of the Reporter Office
Mclntyre & Spencer
FAMILY CARRIAGES,
TOP AND OPEN? IMGGIES,
PAINTING A. SPECIALTY
MI kinds of
ItEP - AIBING
*WINTYRZ * SPENCER.
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,!oritg.
A BPI3I/i0 NORNINCi
When sparrows In the frighteningsnit
Chirped blithe of stunner half begun
And awn to prosper—over bold
With rifted stores of crocus gold—
When lilacs fresh with morning . fain "
Tapped laitgiting nt my 'window pane,
Anti soft with coming warmth and good,
Mild breezes shook the leafs wood ;
Then ere the drat delight was spent,
Adown the sonny slope I went, -
I.intil the narTowing path across,
ti \ oft shadows flickered on the moss •
Oftmechen buds that burst their shepth,
Attdi t taing tendrils, While beneath,
Where wlsted roots made hollows meet
Grew butling primrose at tny feet.
There all the r iddles of a Me ,
Which vexes me with aimless strife;
The broken thoughts; that not with pain
Nor patience eer‘Will meet again,
Were laid aside, naY seemed to drop '
As when Pond Jarrinivoices stop,
The waves of Idlence rise,and spread,
And meet in circles overhead.
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How life uilglit grow 1 seeinekl to guess ;
Life knowing uu uneasy stress\
Of partial Increase; strong in gSarth,
Yeteyer perfect; dawning truth \
Which swayed each hour that took Its flight
And added eintilry of light, •
That neither cloud nor tan ;night stay,`.,
Slow hitghtening to the perfect day.
Though autumn hours will come again,
And leafless branches drip with rain
(in sodden moss, yet having seer%
I keep my faith :each spring-tide green—
When drooping life pubs olf Its gloom,
And burned roots bear bveuted bloom—
With /coder prophecy makes sure
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My heart to labor and endure.
Cho mbere Journal. '
IN i'HE SHADOWED WAYS.
Tteloced;ph pease tip uphratd me,
Though;p - rlng and wayward I he
The frlends whom I loved have ItetrayOd
In sorrow I conic unto thee.
Siwak not-of the houndle,s forever,
ty sonrcannOt cuter the
The end of Ilfe's toll and endeavor
sorrow and On.
What wodder that conrage Is falling?
What wonder t ea tataut believe,
With: night and Its darkness prevailing,
With nothing my doubts to relieve `r
Beloved, then pray cease to chide tno
yof 'errors I vainly pursue ;
The wayror the blessed are denied nie.
And nothing 1, true,
say, nothing is true, save the Ming
Of doubts .. Nl, we canhotexp*.ain.
And.the l'e2;teless and sorrowful fleeing
'From burden; 'lee cannot sustain. .
When the shadows of night lio about us,
Many our burdens will share?
lot one! 'E'en our dearest one doubts us,
And mock our despair.
You tell me the sun shlneth brightly„
:E'en though ft be hidden, twin me,
But the darkness of heavens unstghtly
"ln all that my vision ran Bee ;
Audlvlth night and IM gloom Intervening
'Tnlxt me and the light et my (Ife,
What an empty and demdate meaning
Has all of my al
Ileloved, Oh cease to upbraid me •
What wonder I cannot believe
-The Mewl's' wham I loved hare betrayed me,
netrayed lee and left nie to grleve:;
The shadows of night Ile about me,,
Life's burden's are heavy to bear,
The world and its followers doubt me,
And mock my despair.
Ji~c llaueoi:2.
Aunt Ann.
Sibyl Greene came across lots fiom
the red honk on the hill to where,
in the Antisses' back porch, Miss
Anh was shelling - peas. Her greet
ing was; " La, Ann; you . sion't say
that's you! but then I .might a'
knowed. As I was tellin' Hester
yesterday. 'lf Ann is visitin,
smell measles to hum and come tear
in' back; Ann allus was a Tittle an
gel of charity, - round.' "
To relish compliments is human;
probably Miss Antiss' appreciated
her's, but her manner of receiving it
was characteristic. She said ; " Well,
I had to come hum sometime, so it
was .as well one time as another.
Hannah needed somebody bad
enough. How's the folks?"
• " Our folks is all smart ; and I was
up to Ruth's day aline yisterday.
Ruth's layin'. down lots of butter,
and the farm lOoks beautiful. They're
all well, too, only it seems to me
nie looks ruther peakid: She allus
had so much color, and used to be so ,
full.of her talk, bnt she jest set and
sewed, and hardly said a word.
zy's groivin dreadful fast; she's a
reglar tomboy. Ruth allus was
slack with lier children. We, Hester
and me, had a real good time ; and
when we come alonl down we stopped
at Miss Hadden's, and there Wits her
Lize and Harry jackson a-settin on
the sloop: Miss Madden she, hinted
mini about his comln' there so of
but-you needn't tell me, Harry
Jackson don't Want Lize an' her gig
gles and her eye-rollin's. But, la me,
how 'I be runnin' on 1 I
.suppose you
couldn't let met have just a tiny cup
of yeast ? ourn's worked, and Hes
ter's dreadful partic'lar about yeast."
" Somethin's to pay," Miss Antiss
said to the peas, as she resumed work
after watching :Miss Grenee's yellow
sun-bonnet bob through the hole in
the fence. " Annie ain't growin' thin
and quiet, and Harry Jackson ain't
sparkin' Lize Haden for nothin'.
Ruth, she'd ticker see nothin' was
the matter till Annie had fretted her
self to death, and then she'd call it a
order-in' of Providence. Jacob's too
busy, and „Annie is Antiss clean thrO'.
She'd never say nothin' to nobody.
But I'll find out. When the children
Bits over the heft of the Measles, I'll
go over."
4100 to $llO
BO " 100
125 " 150
A week later and Annie was seated
in the east door, trying to read, and
not succeeding. at all in banishing
her sad thoughts, when Jabez clumped
through the hall, and tiptoed careful
ly over the scraps of carpet scattered
on the freshly-painted floor,
"There's a wfunan asettin' in a
shay at the gate, but she won't' git
ont till she knows if Miss Ford's to
hum."
Who is it, Jabez ?" •
" I dunno. A little L chitter-faced
woman, gitin' on in years. I'll step
out an' call Miss Eon) "—escaping
out through the open door, for a wo
mankind-of any age was Jabez' terror.
Annie foupd a small figure sur
mounted by a green calash seated
bolt upright
.in an old chaise drawn
by t. sleepy-looking "wake horse,
whose every tail whisk seemed to
disturb the driver, as she always fol
lowed it with a "So, Jennie !"
"O Aunt Ann, is that yonY How
TOWANDA, BRADFORD - COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 16, 1878.
glad lam to see you! Mother's at
home ; she was down in the garden.
Wont you get out ?"
" toi es, if you'll go to the horse's
heact. Be keerful, child "—as Annie
took hold of the bridal—" she's
dreadful skittish. But who's nein'.
to take mk things ??'
" Lizzie! Lizzie! where are year
"Here—swinging."
"Come down to the front gate.
Aunt Ann is here." ' •
"oh, what fun•l" and a 'merry
looking,.-sun-turned girl of , fifteen
jumped \ from the swing and ran
around the house 'through the.large,,
shady_ yard, to the' gate,
"How dosyou do,. Aunt Anti? 'lt's
so - long since you've - been here I have
almost forgotten how you look. But
R hy - don't you get out ?" - •
" 'Llz'beth, you'is.tongue runs-fast
er'n ever. Take \ them' things "
handing out a bandbo, a.work-bag,
a basket, large cotton'umbrella and
camphor bottle. Then the `descent
was accomplished. Safe\on - * terra
firvia, Miss Antiss breathed., a sigh
of relief, greeted' her great-niece - 8
brietly,, and turned to the• horse.
' 6 Jennie must be put Op. Where's
that slab-sided boy that was rakin'
the door-yard ?" ••
"_ Oh, I'll put her in thel3arn, aun
tie. Here, Annie, ,take these things."
Tumbling them unceremoniously in
arms, .Lizzie• sprang into
and, chirruping to the fat
iched her sharply with the
miShing the, animal into a
,aliop.,
• _ _ •
y Patience abide me! 'Liz'.
beth wilLbe \ killed. It's a real riskin'
of:Providence to:drive so fast," said
Aunt Arm. Jut the chaise rumbled
and rolled into -, 'oe- lane in safety,
notwithstanding lies/ears, and disap
peared in the barn. Mrs. Ford was
hurrying to the gate as they turned
,—a broad, motherly_ figure, whose
81m-bonnet strings, fluttered in the
little breeze such a large body creat
ed in walking so fast
" Why, Aunt Ann, I'm properglad
to see : you! Come right in. I was
down in the garden and had to wash
my hands. Hwy did you come-to get
away, and. all. Hannah's five down
with the measles ?"
" Hannah's tip ain't mine, thank
.the Lord, and I'm free to come and
goes I please. I wanted to see Ja
cob; and they're 'all through the heft
on 'ern."
"We're dreadful glad to see-you,
anyway: IVO: right into the keep.!
in' room. Annie,- take your aunt's
bonnet,'' said Mrs. 'Ford, who was a
most hopitable woman, bustling, into
the house before them to open the
Aar of a pleasant room. . A bright
carpet was on the floor; the rocking
chairs and lounge were•covered with
freshichintz ; several pretty pictures
hungon the wall, and Annie's books
covered the tableaud hanging Shelves.
Mr. Ford .was a well-to-do fanner,
and Annie had spent two years away
froth home at school, which account
ed for the tasteful arrangement rof
flowers and trifles about the room.
The - green calash removed, Miss,
Antiss proved to be an 'exceedingly
sthall„spare person, with a face yel
lowed by time and lined with inum
erable wrinkles, a sharp nose -and
faded blue eyes. Taking her patch-.
work from her bag, she at once. be
gan taking small; even stitches, sit
ting bolt upright in her chair, cast
ing sharp glances meanwhile out. of
the window and about the room,
where no movement of her favorite
Annie escaped her. Mrs. Ford took
a rocking-chair and
_tier , knitting.
Then the conversation began.
t-" Be the boys and Jacob well?"' .
"Usually well. Jaeob gits pretty
tired by night, but the boys. go ahead
and do nicely. Sibyl said you'd been
away ?"
" Yes, I've been clean a matter of
twenty miles to the Union ; but it
didn't look very nat'ral, and I warn?t,
sorry to crime away.' There's hardly
anybody' , left that I'knowed, either."
What is it like, Aunt AO?"
said Lizzie who had ,come in and
Rented herself on the window-sill be
side her.
" Oh, farms. now, much as it looks
here. 'When we used to live, there,
on Greene's Patent, between there
and Peru village the 'pine-trees stood
so thick on each side of the road a
twkear-old heifer couldn't crowd
between them, and the sun never
touched the road in the longest sum
mer days. It was dreadful wild there
then."
Aunt Ann paused to take up a
fresh bloCk of patchwork, and cast -a
sharp glance at the slight figure of
Attlaie in the-south window, bending
over her sewing, with a sad, far-away
-look in the blue eyes, and a mournfid
droop
,at the corners of, the pretty
mouth. Something was the matter,
Miss Aotiss made up her mind then
and there. Annie had not heard one
word of the conversation- going on
around her, that was plain to be seen.
What was the matter ? that -was the i
question Miss Ann went over and
over in her mind,. while her League
kept time with her needle.
"Do tell some more about it.
Wasn't that a very wild place ?" -
" Wild ? I guess it was !• Why,
when I was little, if any of the men
folks didn't come in 'at dark, big fires
would be lit, and all the tin pans and
tin horns would be banged and blo*-
cd all through the woods,.everybody
-carryiu' a torch, till they found 'em
or what'was left on 'em.
" Oar folks was Quakers. My
mother was a dreadful harsh, strict
woman, though father used to wink
at our havin'- good times. -.Many's
the time me and 'Liz'beth's throwed
our white dresses in a bandbox oat
the winder, to our cousins,-the Greene
boys, and dim out arter them v to run
away- to a dance, : footin' .it four or
perhaps six miles to it. When . we'd
be comin' homO, tho'; through them
pine woOds, 'twirn't no laughin'
matter—the-- wolves on' each side of
us among the trees. First ona would'
yelp and lurl-=- - -make , your hair
stand up straight—and then a dozen
would jine.in, till it - seemed as of
they was close to our heels. How
we would clip it a-goin' ! 4ometiMes
when the moon was bright, we -could
see the wolves a-skulkin' along 'be
•tween the trees; if we had a torch,
thb boys allus waved'it, and we alias
kep' a-talkngi'. But MY ! we was glad
to get home safe."
" Aunt Ana,' you.: - must have, been
. I . :01•,. • s : . M I : , ](ANT qtr TZR.
such a wildgirl 1 and now you think
I'm wild'. W hy, I'd ran ten milei if
I thought there was a wolf anywhere
near me."
• ." Times is' 'changed since - them
days," said Aunt Ann, guardedly.
" I don't suppose I was so dreadful
wild for them days.. Mercy to me !
is it five o'clocIF I T"
' For Annie 1/48 sitting the table,
with the same j listless air and- far-
away look MiailAntisa had watched
all the afternoon.
"Ruth, don't Annie look rather
spindlin' ?" BUS! Antiiss said. during
one of Annie's frequent excursions
from the room. ,
" Why, do yogi think so ?
been sewing hard, harder than I
wanted her to.- Perhaps you see her
so seldom that you see a 'change
more'd than Md. Do you think she
ooks sick ?"
"No; only kinder hollr-eyed and
pimp:n. I brung over some o'
root-beer; you'd, better See that she
drinks it, and don't set i ndoors too
steady. Make her putter% the flow
er-bedsi or somethin' o' that , kind,"
Miss Antiss hastened to say, for, if
Annie's trouble. was a heart-ache, her
mother's bustle and worry about
health awl loss of appetite wuuld be
more th.n she could endUre ' • so she
spoke carelessly, but; 'being the fam-
ily and general oracle of the neigh
borhood, ,her words'received the at
tention they deserved.
"My hair used to curt when I was
young," Mis - s Antiss went on. "My
mother, couldn't abide'it, but . fathar
thought it wasyretty ; so be user to
let me wear it hangin' down some*,
'times, and I'd curl itthen. One night,
when I was asleep;motber took the,
shears and just skived' it all off.
Didn't I feel bad when I woke up!"
" Why, what a horrid woman she
mist have been!" said Lizzie, jump
ing, down from ' the svrindow•sill
to set the chairs around the table.
" Don't speak disrespectful of your
gre't-grandmother, 'Liz'beth. , She
was a proper smart woman, and did
more weavin' and spinnin' than 'any
other woman in the country a'most,
but she didn't believe in dancin' and
curlin' hair, and she: fit the world's
ways allus." I
" Tea's ready," said Annie, bring
ng in the teapot, "and father's coin
kng."
Farmer Ford was a stalwart, ann.
burned man, whose kindly brown
eyes beamed a much warmer welcome
than his quiet : "I hope I see you
well, Aunt Ann."
Supper passed. off in a more gener
al converaltion, in which Miss. An
ties took her own large share ; and, as
farmers retire early, the night was
not very old when Annie and Aunt
Ann were shut up in the spare room
together. To have a quiet, talk with
Annie had been Miss ..kntiss' chief
reason for riding seven miles in, the
hot sun that day, but she made her
self ready for bed in an unusually
silent mood, nor did she speak' until,
awful and wonderful in a three-stor-
led night cap and a frill on her night
gown collar that reached to the end
of her shouldemq she perched herself
on a chair by the bed where. Annie
was lying with her pretty hair spread
over the pillows.
" Visitin' at the Union and talkin'
about old times makes me feel so ,
lonesome like. What a wild thing 1
was when I was a girl 1 . It don't
seem as if anybody could sober down
as, I have.sence. Did you ever wond
er, niece, when you've heerd me tell
how many beaus I've bad, how I
came to be an ole maid ? Well, some
how, 'I feel just like tellin' about it
tan ightf
"When I was eighteen I kep com
pany with Joe - Edwards—that's
'Squire Edwards down to the 'Caro
ners,' him that owns the saw-mill. I
was real good lookin' in them days.
You favor me, Annie ; but then there
is nothin' like havin' to fight your
own way in this world to dry up a
womans blood. My what a dance
I led , that feller! I set gre't store
by him, too. He was a real good
lookin' feller in them days 4 dreadful
pleasent and free hearted; but he
was awful easy mad, and turrible
proud. He sparked me 'most A year
to all the stngintschools and buskin's
and dances that 1- could run away
ter. Gals is so My ; sometimes they
bite their 'own noses off, with their
eyes wide open, too. Sich a dance
as I led hind .
Just think on it,
A"
up t
ie—one night, when he asked to
see e hum from singin'-schooi, I
tol' im yes, if he would walk behind
jest where did ;it had been a-rainin'
and was dreadful muddy. hum I
went, welkin' through the middle of
every puddle an' the deepest mud
holes I could find, an'' he arter me,
ready to follow me anywheres.
" We was a-talkin' of bein' married
in the fall ; the day warn't Set ; but
I was a-spinnin and weaven' an'
bleechen' my pillar-burs and she •,, 1!
I've got 'em laid away yit. ThelY
was another feller used ter hang
ronnd me in them days; he's dead
and gone now,. but it made Joe
dreadful provoked to have mii,notipe
him, because he warn't very stiddy,
and, besides,'Joe wanted to
himself. Sometimes, to plague him,
I used to laugh and talk - '„with him,
though I never thought he :could hol'
a candle to Joe. One night we went
to an apple bee at Peru village. We
all went in chases, because it was
a-rainile. All the way Joe , was
a-tryin' ter make me promise not to
have nothin' to say ter. Prank Brod
man that night but I Was like 'some
other gals, silly and giddy; and
a reg'lar spitfire inter the barg'in.
So I fired up, and sez I': 'Joe Bd
wards, I ain't bound yit, and
talk to jest who I please.' `‘
"' Very well; Ann,' he sez, talkin'
slow like, 'jest as yoiplease, butiny
wife shan't make so free with Brod
man.' Better wait till you git your
wife,' I spit ont, and lumped out of
the shay, and run inter the house
e'en'a'niost afore he,Could draw *up.
All therevetiing was dreadful :cool
to him, aid amilin' to Brodman; and
the eixiler Jot looked and thesternei
he set his mouth, the more I laughed
and carried-on. He .didn't come-a
nigh me only once, and then to ask
was I ready to go hum. I said 'yes,'
keerless like ; but I meant to make
it all up goin' hum. When the wag
ins come to the door, I • started "on
ahead, end , jumped intoli shay stand:
in' there, Joe ,bati drove a black
boss, so I was sure it was lis'n ; but
pretty soon I heerd a wagin drive Off
as if the ole•boy and all was arter it.
Somebody come and jumped into my
wagin; and who should it .he but
Frank BrodmanY I guess I. was
pretty still-all the way hum. I was
scarf' most to death, but kep' a-say
id' to myself I - would tell Joe how I
had.made a mistake, as, I had tole
Broadinan as soon as, ho sot foot in,
the shay. -
" - I had forgot how proud Joe was.
He never come a-nigh the house
agin, though 1 sot and watched and
waited and listened nights together,
thinkin' I heerd- his. steps in the
wind, and was all in a tillable every
time the door-latch rattled, till father
would rake up the fire and send us
all; to bed. I oughter have gone
right up to him the very next time I
see him at meetin' and said ; 'Joe I
made a mistake,' and he was -good
enough, headed to made all up; but
no, I let ,him pass, tryin' to look
keerless like, and by spring I • heard
he was keepin' company with Sarah
Hitchcock, at Peru. Well, they was
• merried the next summer. I duhno
hhw happy they be, though.
"I didn't`have much time to think
of my troubles. People worked in
them days. What'with churnin'
quiltin' an' weavin,! an' doin',up the
Call an' spring sewin,' besides the
housework there warn't much time
t;o cry, but somehow 1 'never found
nobody to take Joe's place, and I
dropped out of the frolics and dan
ces._ Arter my sisters was all mer
ried, folks begun to call me an ole
maid. I might have goCuierried, to
good providers, too, but they warn't
Joe. So you see what I've come to
—jest livin' round from pillar to post,
a-tendin' other, folks' children, when
I might 'a had sons and daughters of
my own.. Dear, dear ! gals is dread
ful foolish. If they would only learn
by other folks' trogbles! But • they
don't, and they won't as long as the
Lord keeps one On them on the foot
stool. Annie be you asleep ?"
", No, indeed, auntie. I have heard
every word. I guess every one
almost has days they wish they could
live over."
" Likely ; but go to sleep. You'll
be white as skim milk in the . more-
Miss Antiss put outthe light, got
into bed,tind, lying motionless,
breathing h and reguarly, soon
.was not surprised to hear a low sob
bing and feel the shaking of the bed
by the effort Annie madteto suppress
her teat*.
guess! can see through 's. mill
stone ef there's a hole in it," said
Aunt Ann to herself. "Now ef I
can only ketch that air Harry Jack
son !"
" now is your hay, Jacob ?" Miss
Antiss inquired, as her nephew was
stowing her bundles away under the
chaise seat the next morning.
" Only middlin.' I must go up to
Jackson's and lind opt something
more about that new grass-seed when
I hare time. To-day mother and me
are going down to the
.ferry: Come
`again, Aunt Ann, soon. This ain't
nothing but a
Sitting very erect, holding. the
reins high and wide apart. while
keeping a sharp eye on. the old horse,
Miss, Antiss jogged hOvieward.Pres
ently she saw, coming down the
road toward her, a broad-shouldered,
handsome young
. man e riding his
black horse Very carelessly, . for the
reins lay loose on his neck, and • the
rider Was :apparently in a brown
study,,A sudden impulse made
Miss ntiss ".Whoa 1" and
Jennie, always ready for. hat request,
stood still. She was in for it now,
sl3e thought, as the young man raised
his hat and checked his horse.
"Good-day, Henry. How's your
mother?"
" Very wall, Miss Antiss. She
was wondering the other day why
you have not been to see us in so
long.".
"I've. been away"—brielly.
you pressed for time?"—suddenly.
4,4 No, not at all. •Can I be of any
service?"
"I dunno about service, but I wish
you would ride on to Ford's to see
him. He's dreadful worried 'bout his
hay, and was a-comin' over to' see
you . 'bout that new-fangled grass
seed, but I don't believe he'll git
round to it to-day. It would ease .
his miiul wonderful."
" will go, Miss Antiss"—looking
a little graver than before. "Good
morning," and he rode on.
" There, Ann Antiss,',do, you sup
pose the lord will ever forgive you
this lie ? Jacob's 'most to the Ferry
by s this time. But resk this one.
If they'll only happen' to 'git a-talkin,
Annie% remember what I tol' her
last night. She's a good, • forgivin'
gal, too: When I git home I'll look
up that receipt for weddin' cake. I
feel it in my,bones like enough we'll
be a-wantin' it afore long."
Meanwhilegarry Jackson rode on,
but sir slowly that it was nearly noon
before he tied his horse in front of
the Fords' gate. Knocking on the
door with hiS whip, he stood thinking,
half in pain, half in anger,-of the last
time he had stood there with Annie;
but he was a proud fellow, and, biting,
his lip; looked stern and indifferent
enough when the door was, opened,
abd her hands, 'full of roses,
stood before him. They both cart
ed; and Annie' dropped. half tier
flowers.
" Good-morning, igisi Ford. Is
your father at home?" ,
Harry wondered at the formal tone
and sound of his voice when his heart
was beating so' wildly in his throat
at the eight of Annie's sweet face,
now crimson- with blushes.
"Yes. , Will you walk in?-that is
to say, No. -I mean—" But. Annie
could go no farther. She covered her
face with her trembling fingers,, and
burst into tears.
"Why, what does this mean ?"
Coming into the hall and shutting
the \ Harry stood before Annie
in the gloom of the hall. "I am
very sorry if the sight of me is'ao un
pleasent it forces you to cry so Ft
terly. Sit down here "--drawing a
chair lap,
,and --
.leaning danggrously
near the pretty rippling hair and
slight, trembling figure,
" Harry—l mean -Mr. Jackson—l
must explain something now while
ha!e the oportnni y. 'never re-
ceived your note inviting me to the
picnic till a whole week , afterward.
Sam carried it in his pocket all that
time." -
"A whole week! And`that was the
reason you we t with Morgan, and,
never sent me word as an excuse.
It made me thi k very bard' of you,
Annie. But why did'nt you tell me
when we met at the lanes' party?"
"Becauie you looked and acted as
if you did not care, and I did =not
want you to think that I did."
"Ab, hut I did care, and I have
not had a real happy moment since,
I have been so miserable. Annie,
dear one, will you forgive me ?" kneel
ing down to draw the little fingers
away from the tear-stained face. Look
at Lae, love, and tell me you3vill take
me back again, and I'll bless every
wrinkle in' Aunt Ann's face the long
est ddy I live." - ,
Young Mrs. Jackson, with a very
becoming flush on her :bright face,
was entertaining Miss Ann Antiss
`!or the first time in her new home.
All the glory of paint and paper the
old homestead had received, all the
new furniture, had been exhibited
and adthired before the two sat down
in the pretty east room, gay with the
tasteful arrangement of wedding pros =
ents that Annie called her own, when
suddenly young Mrs. Jackson start
led-Miss Antiss into dropping a whole
row of knitting by saying :
- " Aunt,A:nn, how did it happen
that Harry came to the farm that
morning just after you had . gone
away, and how did it happen. that he
had you. .to bless for sending .him
there ?"
Oh as for that," said Aunt. Ann,
leaning back and heginning to rock
very hard—" he tol' you, did he ?
Well he might have kep' it to himself,
I think. But I ain't a mite sorry.l
sent him and I don't believe you are
neither."
And she did pot,look so at all when
she put. her arms around Miss Antiss'
neck and pressed soft, thankful kisses
on her withered cheek.,--ilarper's
Bazar.
• A WARNUNO TO MOTIIER s.— A
writer-says," Whatever you do don't
punish any sit of omission or- com
mission by refusing the ',pod...night
kiss.? Take ' any other method of
correcting than that. If you have
once seen a little creature sighing
and sobbing in its sleep for lack of
the accustomed caress you sternly
refused—which to the tender little
heart was a grief your world callous
ed nature . could comprehend—yon
will never.do it again. We knew a
mourning mother whose once sunny
hair is at thirty-five as white as three-' 1
score - years ankten should. make it,
whose life is a perpetual sorrow and
who repeats with .remorseful tears.
the story of her - little boy's last night
on earth ; how, in punishment fo'r
series of mischievous pranks and
small . disObedienees (which she
knows were-born of a fretfulness and
nervousness of incipient disease), she
reftised the good night kiss and sent
'the little culprit supperlcss to bed -an
hour before T his time ; how he begged
and entreated-for but one little kiss
and. at last sobbed himself disconso
late, to sleep--she stealing her heart
against hini, as-, she fancied, for his
good ; how assthe fever spot reddened
and glowed upOn his cheeks, he toss
ed, upon his pillow, calling -continual
ly 'in his dreams, 'kiss me mamma!'
Kiss me, mamma?' Just one little
kiss, mamma!' Just one!' How,-
later in the night, when the physi
cian pronounce() the sudden disease
diphtheria, in its most malignant.
form; s. e pressed a thousand frantic
kisses upOn unconscious lips that
Still raved 'ceaselessly for I one little
kiss!' • And how, before' the next
bed-time came, the crib was tenant
less, and a small corpse in the parlor
below, like-an avenging Nemesis, had
banished happiness forever from that
mother's heart."—.E.r. -
A RELIAB,LE, MAN WANTED.-" A.
reliable Man wanted/ to take charge
of a farm"—" A reliable man wanted
in .a counting house"—" reliable
man wanted to superintend a mill"
—" A reliable man wanted as teller
in a bank "—so the- advertisements
read. What -a- demand there is for
reliable men. Young women want
them for husband fathers and, ,
moth
ers want them for. sons-in -Ir. Peo
pie in trouble inquire anxiously for
a reliable lawyer who they can consult;
the : sick want a reliable physician ;
the churches want a reliable man for
a minister, although they do not ad
vertise their want in a newspaper.
There seems to be no end to 'the
demand for reliable men. Are re
liable men so scarce that so - much
. t _oint is macle , of getting them ?
We apprehend they are not so
plenty as they should be.. Reliable
architecti and contaactors and engin
eers are not to be found in every
place, or there would not be so many
,railway and bridge, accidents; cash
iers and bank officers are not always
reliable. or there would be no defalca
tions. The same may be said of
_trustees and insurance officers.' In
truth, reliable o men.do . not crowd One
another in any . clan •occupation.
Young man, it is for you to, de
termine whether you will be a re
liable than : or not. It all depends
upon yourself: Nothing is easier,
only resolves that you will be a re
liable man, and stick to it through
every temptation.
There has been some criticism .on
the word reliable as not being good
English. But the word will answer
very well, if we can only have_ the
quality which it describes.
W net iron is in the material articles
with which we surround us, paticilee
is among the graces of the soul.
Other gifts are made showy, but none
are more useful. We lend a listen
ing car to him, who has the gift of
utterance; but we give our life-long
friendship to him who bears in pa
tience our mistakes. Faith may
bring to our aid, a marvelous power,
and seem to open up the future to
our enraptured vision ; but patience
enables us to plod through the les
sons which Jesus gives us, from day
to day, until we become in the knowl
edge of the ways of God. -
Y
THE cam GARDEN.
Beyond the quiet homestead's lawn, • -
In drowsy pence It lies; '
Well tiara the passing gaze withdrawn,
, Its matted hedges rise.
Through solenui area that cell the light
To reach its gate we press, -
Ere softly breaks upon onr sight
Its halcyon loveliness I•
lieep-rltunteg the box, the paths we take
Through Xealnis of plenty range,
When fletnnierlf mellowing ferrois wake
Perpetual charms of change;
And tender sounds, not told in words,
• forever haunt the breeze,
A sense of eptcarean lads
And bacchanalian bees!
rOr bloom and fruit, It blended way,
Here 1 rightly gleam by limns.; - '
fleshly the currants erlinnota spray -
The tiger-Illy tiorns'; . •
Or roses raise their balmy lips •
Near purple plumbs ; or yet
The gooseberry's rounded amber slips
Among the mignonette
Wesee the ancient arbor lams,
That bounteouk vines enwrap.
And hear, within Its fragrant glooin.
Pale.glinchig foliage flap;
Or when the wind of Autumn grieves
Round pompA her e n ter shall strew, •
We watch the grapes from tarnhfied
hang dusty and dark.hlue
Shrewd waips: in yonder Jungle, haunt
The blackberry beaded glass;'
litgh stalks or Costae in vigor taunt
breen flags and silken lists; -
And here broad apple-boughs once more
Ilesperian wealth - untold,
Whose dragOn Is the worm at core
_ That revels on their gold
Noweinerald melons wax immense;
Or now with grandenr glows
The pumpSin'Syelleiv corpulence
In imoutlt rowed repose;:
Here, ton, an tonne Her life occurs
ThsChousehold alms can please,
From les of pimpled curnmiwis
To bow la of tangled pease
80, thronged by growthS of many a grade,
The calm old g4rdeit
Half mantled witlLmonastle sbade;
'Half bared to_alterlng.skles,
While sleepy spells are 'round It. cast,
That gently brood and mese--
Dead songs 31/4/ sunbeams of the jxast, ,
And Innaemorial dews
WHAT IS MAHHAI?
What is,manner - `„?.__ Manner is the
deportment of one individual to lan
other ; : which is : as ranch is to say, the
outward and phenemenal relation of
one individual to another.. ev
ery person-L if we - make exception of
monarchs--can -stand towardl other
people in three distinct ,
,Social rela
tions. You-maybe the 'suerior of
the person you are 'speaking to, you
may be 'his equal, or yon-may be his
inferior; and venture to affirm that_
your -manner Will be goodor bad ac
cording as it 'recognizes pr .fails to
observe the fact in each case respect
. ively. I-am . riot addressing myself
to those perSOns who avow .them
selves insensible - to subtle distinc
tions, and only notion of distinction
between one, manner and another is
that it is , vulgar or the reverse,polite
or the opposite. .
I address .myself. to thole who
make the complaint, that fine man-.
ners. have suffered decay, and who
are „alive to all the infinite shades
and gradations of which a really fine,
manner is susceptible. And, firstly,"
as regards the deportMent of a per
son of fine manners to his superior.
In this there will. be a standing- (le
ference,-but :never a shade Of servili
ty; and the inclination of tone, ges
ture and language will be--As
as natural, as graceful, but as \per
ceptible -to an observant eye-and ear.
as the movement say, of
,a weeping
willow in a. light breeze. guppose
the two persons are• Conversing and
a third enters. The third.ought to
be able to tell at once which is the
superior, and -which the inferior, sup
posing the distinction to exist, and
though the distinction be
_by no
means a strongly- marked one.. Ask
hiin how he_knows ; and he • can no
more tell you how, than one can say
why one face is beautiful and,nnoth
er is not, Or that-a neuralgic subject
can say, save by his own impressions,
that there -is brewing a thunder
storm. .
The superiority I speak of may be
one either of rank,
,age, or acquired
distinction; but a well bred. -person, -
a person of manners, never. fails
to give recognition. A man of thir
ty, who comports himself to a man
man of seventy as he would to a per
son of his own age, is wanting-in this
instinct and' is as much a clown as
one.who addressed a woman with the
fardiliarity he employs toward aman.
What constitutes gmid manners in
this, case - is, I lave observed, the
Maintenance of a just proportion, in
plainer lanimage of a proper iistanee,
between the two people; in other.
words, the preservation of harmony.
The neglect of a just relation makes
impropriety or discord. quite as sub
tle but quite as certain a line will
mark' off the superior from the infe,ri
or; though;-perhaps the distance is
crea ed rather by the inferior 'than
by the superior„And by the 'obliga
tion the latter fOls himself under to
accept the situation laid down by the
other. Here again an absolute aran-
ger ought to find quick indications
of the relative positions of the two,
though he might . be sorely put to, it
to give an Recount of the faith which
is in ,him.—=The Cornhill- Magazine.
I . a L g i 1 E 2 ' a ' L . n , . . i . 2
, .
Cullen -"Bryant ,once gave
the folloling sensible advice A to
young maivwbo -had offered him, an
article for the E!.. , ening, , Post ; .
young friend, I orve yon
have used several FrenCh expressions
in your letter. I think, if you will
study the English language• that'you
will find it Capable of _expressing, all
the ideas - that you may have. 1 have
always - found it so; in. all that I have,
written I do not recall an instance
where . ' was tempted to use a foreign
word, but: that, on searching, I found,
a better one in my one language.
Be simple, unaffected ; be honest
in your speaking and writing,- Never
use a -long. word when ti
.short oite
will do as Well.
Call a. spade by its name, not a
well known oblong instrument of
manual labor; let a 'house be a home,
and not a residence; a place not a
locality, and so on of tile rust. When.
a short word will do, you always lose
by a long one. You lose in clearness
you loose in honest expression of
meaning; and in the estimation of
all men'yylio are capaltle of judging
152 per Annum in Advent*.
you loose in reputation for ability.
• The - only true way to shine, eye*
in this false world, is to be modest.f
and unassuming.- Falsehood may be
a thick crust, but in the course of
time. truth will find a plaCe to break
through. Elegance of language may.
not be in the power of -us all, but
simplicity and straightfowardness
are.
CAST Apiliz FOR Yocaszi.v.—A
young ma stood „listlessly watching
some angleKs on the bridge. He was
poor and dejected. At last approach
ing, a basket ',filled with wholes ome
looing fish he sighed. ,
4 '1(1 had these I' woul d be happy.
should sell them at a fair, price,
and buy me food and lodgings."
"I will give you just as many, and
just as good fish," said the owner,
.who- had ejtaliced to overhear his
'words, "if you will do me a
.trifling
favor." .
" And what is that?" asked the
other.
“ Only tend to this line till I come
back; I wish to go on a ihort er
rand.” , •
The proposal . was gladly accepted.
The old man was gone so long that
the young man begin to be impa
tient. -*panwhile the hungry fish
snapped greedily at the baited - hook,
and the young man install depression
in the excitement of pulling them in;
and when the owner of the line re
turnd, he had caught a large number,
Counting out from them as many as
were in the basket; and presenting
them to the . young man, the old fish=
erman said: •
"I, wilrfulfill my promise from the
fish you have caught, -to
,teach you
whenever, you see, others earning .
what you need, to waste: - ho time in.
fruitless wishing,'but cast a line for
yoursel&
—Evilpr. Fawcett
"Beautiful Bo of the Sea"--Whale
Rousing time—just before breakfast.
To - tailors—Don't measure your cus
tomers with your eye. Ihie - a tape-meas
ure.
A quarrelsome man and a beefsteak are
alike in one. respect Both are always
ready for a broil. , - • -
Kanias is settling up. Go thou and do
likewise.
The most', popular man to-day. Mr.
Fairweather.
The hard times - are short ;- even' life is
" short." •
A barber in Lockport became 'dumb
He is now immensely wealthy.
- Talents are best matured in solitttdey
character is best- formed in the :Storm t.
'billows of the world;
Dare to change your mind, confess your
error, and alter your conduct, when you
are convinced you aro wrong.
Every oue looking downward becomes,
impressed with -his own greatness, but
looking upward, feels his_own littleness.
As time pisses memory silently records
your deeds, which conscience will impres
sively read-to you in after life.,
There's many a man who hai been
dined out of his religion, and his politics,
and his manhood, almost..
The Limes are hard—everybody says so
_but the - wages of sin have not been cut
down.—Christian at Work.
One Swallow doesn't make , a summer,
bat one robin . makes a spring.' - Watc h
him and see if lie doesn't. -
, Prayers may not make the 'Deity more
willing to give, but they make the suppli=
ant more worthy to receive. ,
Slightly equivocal : To ask a man how
yeti look, and.havis him answer, you look
Twell enough as far as you can see.
\ \The Burlington Ilawkeye thinks Homer -
was, a. Methodist minister, because he
lived in so many cities.
The`days of knighthOod - have passed
away,. yet every tramp you meet is incas
ed in-a coat of alms.
,-
if money could be borrowed as .easily .
.as trouble, heir roand-shonklered• some
naen wOuld soon become. - .
England has a \ good standing army,
" And the stiller it stands," says the Czar,
"the better it will be for it:"
There are over eight . thousand. distinct
lifiguages, and yet the man who smashes
his nose on the edge of a-dooi in the dark,
finds difficulty in. expressing himself
The vicious,. notwithstandirig the
sweetness of their words, and the honey
of their tongues, have a whole storehouse
of poison within their hearts. • -
The first item in a recent-column in the
Graphic - "About Worben,", was about
corsets. Of course, 'they vr
. are about o•
m• - .ln. We don't know whether they are
-the first item or not. .
A laiy boy,-near gtanwrix, has conquer
ed the kindling wood business. lie just
backs his father's best mule against the
woodpile, and throws the milking stool
atit.
A Yankee humorist was giving "an ac
count of his experience as a hotel-keeper.
"Did you clear anything by it?" asked a
listener. "I cleared a six rail'• fence in
getting away from the Sheriff," was the
answer.
They are passing the radishes and an
amiable guest •empties them all on his
plate. "Hi, there, you!" cries another
guest ; " some of us like radishea, too." .
"Not half so much as I do," philosophi- -
eally replies the first guest.
"It was simply an informal affair,"
wrote the editor, referring to a party at a
neighbor's house. "It was simply 'an
infernal affair," read the compositor and /
the editor will receive no thorn invitations
from that quarter.
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A country damsel, describing her first
kiss, told her female friend that shenever
knew how it happened, but the last thing
she remembered, Was a sensation of fight
ing for her breath in a hot-house full. of
violets with the -ventilation choked by
blush-roses and to-lips.
What a beautiful example of simplicity
in dreSs is shown Rohe of We followers of
fashion by that domestic animal,tthe cat,
which rises in the morning, -washes its
face with its right hand, gives, its tail
three jerks, and is ready dressed 'fOr the
day. -
A pretty and stylish young lady called
in a store the other day and requested to
see some lavender kids. • She was shown
a variety of shades ; but unable to choose
from so many different shades of color
she asked, " Which of these pair are the
lavenderest?" •
Snipkins refused to get his wife a now
hat, and soon after his little girl came in
and said : 31anl1a i won't you buy me a
monkey to play with when. you go down
town?" "No, darling; wait till you are
older, and then marry one, sa I did," ro•
plied -the grief-stricken wife, Ler tears
bursting forth afresh. •
This is spring, We know it and feel it.
When the pretty spring time comes we
always got the symptoms. We have got
them now. One of them is an- - intense
longing,
a Something that , gnaws at the
very vitals of our inner man, a something,
to conclude, thatonly s new suit ofclothes
can - satisfy. We expect to hate`- ; these
symptoms all summer.-
NUMBER 50.
FUN, FAUF AND r4orna
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