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COr:RTY SL rERINTENDENT
Office day last Saturday of each month, over Turner
Gordon'sdt Drug Store, Towanda, Pa.
Towanda, June 20, 1578.
EI i SBREE & SON,
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,
TOWANPA, PA.
C. Et.snnzt.
TIA.IN-'TIGS. •
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PORTRAITS AND LANDSCAPES
Pali!tett to order at anv price front tzi to VOO.
oil Parings Rk,l'aluted, Re-Touched, or changes
paile Wi desired.
AB murk (lone In the highest style of the Art..
- JOHANN F. BENDER.
To- l itell; Pa.. April IF:. 1878.
T ROGALSKI,
1. •
Employed with 3f. Ilendelman for the past four
_ y . ears, begs leave to announce to hi friends and
the puplie ,getterally ,that he has rumored to the
Boston 99-Codt store,: one door youth of the First
National Bank, nod - opeoed a shop •for the repair
.0 : of NVatehos. Clocks. Jewelry. ac. All work war=
a ranted to give entire, satisfaction. (Apr47s,
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J. YOUNG,
A.TrollN I.'N-IT-I . A W,
. . TOWANI)A. PA.
Office—second door e•outh tit the First Natlcinal
Balk' Main St., tip stairs.
.D KI\NEY,
• ATTC•r.StiI -AT-1....V.. '.
OP3ce—Room, f,,rrnerly occupied by Y. - M . C. A
Reading 11 ,, (nu. .• Zjall.lfl's.
WILLI.A7SIS. A:CGLE,
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OFFICX..-zFormAly occupli.,ll.3* Watkin:
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Towanda, Pa. Office. flyer Barth , tt &T. ;try, aln-at.
l'a`.l -4 77; Anti! vr t ItLap..
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ATTOirN EY-ATI.A NV,
TOW AND A, A'A.
E. F. QOFF,
Ey-AT-L:ov
Main Street (4 doors burth , of Ward Hous,..). To
iranda, Pa, ;April 12, 1877.
.IkV H. TTIOTP.SON.- ATTORNEY
V V • AT LAW, WT , At.U , Ivr:. WIIt atter.d
t buslue,s entro-t'ed to 6i, care to Bradford,
Sullivan,and W3'011114 Counties. Ottice with F.N.
Tarter. inesl944.
Cri L. LAMB,
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. A TTOTC.VET•AT4.,Avr,
WII.IIES-BARRE,
Collicgons promptly attended to.
TWIN W. MIX,
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ATTORNSY-.17-LAW AND 1.7. S. cO.ll-NIZAADNXII.,
Toy,' A NIIA, rA.
Office—Nona Stile rubiic
D AVIES & CARSOCITAN,
ATTORNISE-AT-LAW,
SOUGH SIPE Sq , WALD 1101 SE.
Dec,23-73. • TOW,AND.A., PA.
Tilt. . M., WOODBURN, Phys
- Jur thin and Surkeon. 011 Ice over 0. A. Black's
cr , :rlkery store.
Towanda, May 1,18721 y..
: 71‘1 , ADILL JIFF,
ATTOR 'N EY F -AT-L ANC',
TOWANDA. PA.
Drace In Wood's Block, first doorsouth of the First
National bank. wk.'s:airs. -
H. J. MADILL. rjarts-731y) J. N. CA LIPP.
GRIDLEY & PAYNE,
AT - 1 - 4,Er,—.lT-L Ave.
..South slae3loreitr Block (rourns formerly occupied
by Davies 3; Car:lot-Ilan),
TOWANDA. PA.
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ARIES 'WOOD,
ATTORNEY-AT-I. ANC,
TowAND A, PA.
133153
CFI A 5.. M. HAIL,
ATTOUN EY...AT-L .
AW AND NOTARY,
Wl3 Ore etrefill attention to any tirisitie‘setittuft
eLI D , him. Office with •Patricki it Foyle, .toser
.7-nrna2 Office), Totramt!, Pa. cJune7,77.
GEORGE D. STROLTD,
ATTORNEY-AT-L AW
4loorA North of Ward House:
Pra , tlces hi s'ilprelLe Court
of I'enn.yiraula 31/41 TOWANI)A, PA
Status Courts.—;hee:.•;a. •
fL STREETER,
ATTOIINEV-AT-L
ToW.k.l'ilt A. PA..
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OVERTON & MERCtR,
./LTTOTIN TTF...AT-L A Tr,
TOWANDA, P.
Once Of er 3iontanyes Store. [MaY 67S .
D'A. OVERTON. ROD].IF:T A. MERCUR.
WM. MAXWELL,
At - veil:ET-AT-LAW
TOWANE/A,
Office over Da) ton's Store.
April 12. 1576.
PATRICK. FOYLE,
• ATTOWNEYS-AT.LAW,
• • TOWANDA, PA.
OtsCe, In Merv:l.ra Block.
JA.NDREW WILT,
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ATTOILICILY.AT-LA4
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Otee - oterOm' Book store, two doors north of
teeolis k Long : Towanda, Pa. May be consulted
n German. taprll Ta.) I •
C S. RUSSELL'S
GENERAL
7NSITRANCE AGENCY
Itists.7ott. . TOWANDA, r.A.
INSURANCE AGENCY.
The !ollowitkg
RELIABLE AND FIRE TRIED
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• Comp:mit:4 representel;
Alie3lllll . E,III I .ENIX,IIO3I.4,_ItERCHAITTS,
Match 16, 74 . ' 0: If BLACK.
OVERTON & SANDERSON,
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E. Orsitrox, JR. ionsy.4lArimutsox
VTB. KELLY, DEsiisr.--,Ofilee
. o..r.][. E. Solenttold's, Towanda, P.
Teeth Inserted on Gold, Sliver, Rubber, and Al.
esanlnzo tem Tee th extracted wi th out pitti.
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A. . 1 " D. PAYNE, M. D.,
'Pint - SIC/1N AND StrUGIOX
Once over Montanyer store. Once hours tram 10
th 12, ♦. L, and from 2 to 4, P. x. Special attention
Ornate diereses of the Eye and Ear.-0cca11,,764f.
D\' \T. B. JOHNSON; -
, PIITSICIAIg AND Spnoso yr.
Ocoee over, Dr. Porter k Sou% Drug Store, Towanda.
lattUrStf. , • '
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1864. . • - 1876
r WANI)A. INSURANCE AGENCY
/ Val* fitted,
opposite tile Coot HOUIC
W. W S. INCEN T,
MANAGER.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK,
CAPITAL .PAID
SURPLUS FUND..:...
.... . . 60,000
This Bank offers, monst facllities forth° traria.
action of a general banking bnsiness
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JOS. POWELL, President
EA.GLE HOTEL; •
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(so sivr. RrIILIC SQUARE.) \\,,
Tbls well-known house has been thoroughly ren\
not - abed and repaired throughout. and the proprte-'
tor Is now prepared to offer first-class accommoda
tions to the publie,'.on the_ most reasonable terms.
E. A. JENNINGS.
Towanda, Pa, Slay 2.. ISZS.
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EINRY HOUSE,
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L. Etsßnir.g.
(ON THE EUROPEAN PLAY.)
CORNER MAIN & 'WASHINGTON STREETS
This large, commodious and elegantly-furnished
house has just been opened to the traveling public.
The proprietor has spared neither pains nor expense
hl making his hotel first-class in all its appoint
ments, and respeetf Tally solicits a share of public
patronage. MEALS AT ALL HOURS.
.Terms
To suit the times. Large stable attache&
WM. TinSll.Y, PI3OI . RIZTOR.
Towanda, June 7, .77-tf.
V 4 LIVELL HOUSE, TOWANDA,
PA, •
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- JOHN SULLIVAN
Haring leased this bonse, is now ready to accorn
mcilate the travelling public., No pains nor expense
will be spared to give satisfaction to those who may
give him a call.
sir North side of Public Sy are, east of kfercurs
new block..
T HE CENTRAL - HOTEL,
171;STri. PA.
The undersigned haying taken P4)69%25.5i011
of the ahovehOtel, respect fatly solicits the patron.
age of hie old friends and the Wine generally.
auglG4t. • M. A. FORIWST.
-QEELEY'S OYSTER BAT AND'
F.T.'IIt)PEAN 116USE:—A fcer doors sontbor
t:ie Mean, ifouse. I:4ard hr the day or week on
reasonal , le terms. Warm roosts served at 'all hours ,
Oysters at whole ate and - telyll7.
rtel).l'79
EMOIEI
[novll-75
SUMMER
July 27,16
CASH PRICES !
.Tin. 1, 1875
I HAVE NOW ON HAND A
FULL LINE OF
Figured Lawns,
Figured Lawns,
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White .Goods,„ .
White Goods,
Buntings.
Fans and P arasols
Ilyl7-73
IN GREAT VARIETY. AT
REDUCED PRICES.
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TOWANtp.k, PA
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N. N. BETTS, Cashier
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iFor ;be Itlyorrie..3
TO TEE WEARY RESTIS SWEET. • _
To the weary rest is sweet.
They who felt the terient heat -
Of the morning snn, wbobent
Underneath the harvest sent ;
Who amidst theripentsg gr.in
7 'Patient tolled, till drops of pain •
Gathered on their brows; whose .sore
And aching hands the sickle bore
Tlll the shades of evening (elf
And the 'welcome. curfew
Miring softly o'er the lea,
called to home, and memory.
Of days well'spent, and rest'
Well earned, and bread Ws Justly vim, •
(Yew, they heti stood the Masters test.
And gulped Ills plead well done:
311N.1:2 C. BALLARD
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;roe the ittroltistt.r
ALCOHOL'S OONFESSION.
Cti:me Alcohol, now answer ant
The!t. queAlivhs I shall put to thee:
What Is thy age' What Is thy aim?
What is thy.trade ? What LA thy name?
3fy age It N teti thousand years;
My aim to 1311 the world with tears:
trade to kid and snake exiteuse;
My name It It! Inhinperanee.
Long dace I ruled Tarpon the earth,
To every crime have given birth ;
pa rattler to all grief and woe,
3 spread distress-where ere I go.
My abiding place In at the bar;
My customers ate near and for ;
My pleasureis to gender strle,
And put asunder tr.and wife,
GOOD NIGriT-
The clock ktrlkes ten : its warning sound
Reproves me long delay :
Yet who from scenes where bliss Is found
ivb.h. to' aste away? •
And tt ho would stop and count the hours
\Where every path is strewed with flowers,
And.b , autcous prospects charm the Aght
Porglve my fault Good'uight I gOod night
And eh.: if other WIITIS than these •
A warmer wish convey.
My heart the welcome phrase would seize.
its feelings to Frtray.:
Whatever comfort nature know's..
Whatever, blessing heaven hes t tous.,
May these thy peat:Jul heat t !tithe
To constant joy. (:,nod night ilgood night
is.weet and refre,hing he thy
And.all thy visions Lest
Angelqtrlo . ir watchful guard 'sitatt
Nor evils dare
And In the silent tuld::ight
When fancy with h..r magic poiver
Paints distant forms In colors blight,.
Remember me. (4: - .K4 night grid night
Miranda Belden's Wedding.
The for the extensive erection
of grave stone over the .body of Be
hemoth Belden had been presented
to, and paid by, his sole heirs and ex
ecutors: 31 iranda and Beulah Belden.
Every. little claim had been punctu
ally and pleasantly met. The funer
al sermop—preached the Sunday sue
ceedino• the -sad 'event—had be e n
printed and circulated in black-bor
dered binding by the suffering sisters,
and now, such mortuary duties over,
the two sat down to confront the
sp*cetacle of their future lives and the
spectre of their past. The day was
lona aolie when beauty (suck as youth
had bestowed) had Gparted, Miran
da was ! , rin and: gray enough in all
- conseience, without the added gravi
ty of bombazine and English crepe.
Poor' Beulah contemplating the
spectacle from across the heath, this
'sight—seven weeks, Bitting from the
.great event—thougt her stern sister
had never seemed so dark. and cold
and forbidding,
There was not so much difference
in their ages. but nature, endowing
the yo.finzt:r sister with pale blue eyes
anal a brindle sort
,of chore/ ore, had
placed a sci.mingly great disparity
between them.
The dominee'riiT spirit of Miranda
added aged lines to her hard features,
and the olde.t friend of thefamily
hardly remembered : Miranda Baden
as a young woman. Behemoth, the
lately deceased, had given his . lead.
ing traits to. this his,eldest girl—and
to those characteristics the great
wealth -which ' unincumbered, had
been 'divided between them at.the old
man's death, was largely due. 'Even
the equality of that division had
been a source great trouble to the
grently.troublld.elder sister.
To share mail share.alike. with that
foolish, improvident creature—Rho
bad never had the bandlingOf money,
who bad no respect for it when she .
(lid touch it—was a : sore cross to Mi.
randa And it seemed asthough old
Deacon Harris and Squire RoWe.de-.
lighted in angering the sour spinster,
so soon did they. rush through .their
duties and hand over her balfihe es
tate to the hitherto impecunious Beu
lah. From her (earliest years, the
sorrel-topped secjind born had been
under the supervisipn Of the elder
sister,; her food bad !-been porthOaed
out, her clothes. bought and cut, her
whole life fashioned and arranged by
the staid. Miranda.. k_
Therefore Was Beulah crushing
down the 'evidences of great. joy
which now
. oceupied her soul—for
with the possession Of this wealthar
rived a train of blissful anticipations
—the principal one-being an immedi
ate emancipation from the. iron rule
of the oppressor. . Tlie curtains had
been sharply drawn„tbe fire venom
ously prodded by the angular arm of
: ,the despotic ruler, who had sat down
with an air of determinatimi:and
fronted round upon the exultant Beu
lah.
"What did the Squire's raan . come .
about to-day ?" -
The ball was opened,-and the weak
er female slowly folded tip her, cro
chet work, feeling no waste of forces
could be allowed just now.
" He:carne in reference to the stone
cottage over the hill."
-" What's the matter with that?"
"I am thinking about buying it."
"You?" ;Miranda sat bolt - upright
and ceased rocking. , •.•
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"And what on earth for ?"••
" To liVe in."
- " Beulah Belden, you must be in
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sane."
-It was in an altogether newlight
the weak sister stood before the otk.
er, as she made her first more in open
rebellion.
"To live in repeated Miranda,
half comprehending; "I havo;no
earthly intention of leaving thebome
stead."
TOWAND.A I BRADFORD 00pNTY, PL, =MAT MOBITING; SEPTEMBER 12, 1878,
" But I haye l " quietly replied Beu
lah.
" Yon don't mean to take the stone
°cottage, to occupy it alone 1 1 " almost
shrieked Miranda. ___
. "I have taken it ; Loomis is 'fur
nishing it, and I shall occupy it, in
company with a servint and
_,' Nurse
Adams next week thiatime." • . •
"In the • memory of Beulah there
lived mauy 'stormy scenes between
herself and the irascible Miranda,
but they all faded into insignificant
outlines beside the convulsions of the
next few hours. It ended by Beulah's
hasty retreat.with a small Bethel to
the-house of Squire Rowe, and to an
earlier itistallinent of the poor maid
en lady in her new home, the "stone
cottage." • The gossip-loving village
had work enough.to discuss the sud
den separation of the sisters, and the
two old crones—the -peripatetic 'pz
etteers of this partiCular town—jog
ged back and forth from the Belden
villa to the stone .cottage with. un
flagging industry for weeks. But
events of this magnitude have their
boundaries - of interest, and after a
while it settled into an old story:
• Miranda, stern and dignified, weed
ed her flower-beds in black kid gloves
andra- huge sunbonnet loaded with
slats of pasteboard, as much like bar
rel staves as possible, while', Beulah,
in a straw hat, barehanded, tied up
the struggling • honeysuckle that
clambered in endless profusion about
the porticoes . of the : . stone Cottage..
The village paper reproduced the fa
mous trials. of the day, and in those
days will trials were as frequent as
in the•present. Therefrom, the elder.
Maidcn
.Belden imbibed 'certain wild
ideas of breaking her. father's .
wised -division . of his 'property, and
rescuing the portion of Beulah and
recovering command of her reason,
As she dwelt on this scheme she
suddenly resolved to engage the ser
vices of a lawyer in a neighboring
city, then conducting a notable will
case, and to that end Miranda wrote
a note and stated her plans and wish
es. In due time Ephraim Sheppard
arrived—a legal light . in the judicial
circles of Boston—a sharp, eager man
of 40 years-25 of nein lived in the
polishing precinct of a law. oflice—an
immaculate man, a man for all the
world like a new, sheep-bound •voI,
lune of criminal practice, so clean
and, orderly without, so palidly
proper the way of sheep-skin, so
heat - injt.,crap of black leather and
crimson letteting, so nicely marble-.
white and .smooth about the edges,
and so.chuck full of villainy inside.
Friend Sheppard passed an hour in
the villa, became possessed - of the
facts in the case, and then accepted
the'undertaking, and undertook alit,
tie something for himself. Miranda;
ta11,., skinny, lank, and' bloodless—
hollow of chest awl sunken of eyes—
holding- unineumbered an estate .of
$500,000;- was not a party to he dis
pised. Ephraim went direct to the'
house Of the village doctor, and un;
der pretest of making some inquiries
concerning the health of Beulah's
Mind, learned a good deal of Miran
da's physical condition.
. " Going to try and break old Be
bernoth's will, is sh'e ?" chuckled_ D.
Blake. "Why; I don't know Sir,
just•how she can. Little Beulah is
not over and above wise, - but she isn't
out of her head by a long way."
" She is surrounding_ herself Stith
unfit associates,
according - to her sis
ter'," remarked Mr. Sheppard.
" She's going according to scrip.
Lure. The stone cottage is a-;big
rambling place on the seashore, and
from time to time the sick ani netly
have been taken in - ; to-day, I lielieye,
she. has a dozen poor dependdits
around her, and she enjoys her Self
among 'cm, and it's nobody's busi
ness-is it ?" •
"_Miss Miranda argues therefrom
an unfitness-to manage the large for
tune left by her fqther, - And is pre
pared .to show her weakness of intel
lect from her youth up,,and the fail
ing of her parent's faculties •before
making this will;" tetorted the astute
Sheppard.
"Nothing will come of it, be iissur.: .
ed, and the very accusation argues
something not quite right in Miranda
Belden."
" b!" exclaimed the . . lawyer, "is
anything amiss with that lady ; she is
not, yen; stout, and still she seems
rugged—is there any trouble with
'her health'?"
. .
The doctor eyed the speaker in a
suspicious matter as he -trade an
swer :
" Yes, she's got a' fatal malady, an
incurable disease;" or, he added to
himself, " got a temper the devil
couldn't cure her of, but which won't
be the death of her in 40 years."
"An - incurable disease?" echoed
the lawyer. "-What is it?"
" I am not at liberty to disclose.
A physician is
~as safe a repository
fot_secrets, Mr:Sheppard; as a priest
a lawyer."
" I understand ; yes, thank, you;
the confidence of a patient should be
respected. ' Poor woman, poor Wo
man!" lAnd very much encouraged
by a diagnosis of this case, the legal
gentlemiln departed—to. appear and
reappear in the village from time to
time—gfadually dropping the char
acter of. solicitor and adopting that
of -suitor.
. .
All this while Beulah pursued her
pleasant life with an old nurse, who
had been in the family from the Bel
den girl's childhood. Wit an ener
getic country "'help," the.li tie house
hold at the stone cottage i passed a
quiet, peaceful existence. 1
The various ailing mortals, to be
fon, d in all places, had discovered
in the rich Miss Beulah a sympathiz
ing friend and cheerful, ready helper.
What wonder, then,if the, lady bad
become the Lady. ountiful of the
killage, and was wasting her patri
mony (according to Miranda)in red
flannels for rheumatisin and quinine
for. Chills and fever.
The deep-laid schemes of the elder
sister had not been, as yet, made pub
lic. Lawyer Sheppard saw less .
,ad
vantages accruing to himself in con
ducting Miranda's lawsuit than in
conducting his own courtship, and
was bearing his whole influence in
the latter direction.
The "stone . cottage," as has been
said, fronted on the sea; and many
ordinary fishermen's houses stood
about on the low leyel lands lying be
low., FrOul one of them onentonny
REGARDLESS OF xastawLILTIONFROM ANY
_QUARTER.
night, late in Autumn, a poor woman
kl.d come for Miss Beulah's aid and
advice. '
"It's a bard cue, dear lady," said
the woman, standing on the porch of
the stone . cottage. "My old roan,
coming in from a day's fishing, found
her wandering uncertain like among
the rocks. What's REMAIN', pays be.
'All the world,' says she, and going
on for. to speak, he comes . to the
truth. She's *Tong in her head, and
was straying about with murder in
her mind." .
" urder ?"
"Murder to herself, Miss Beulah,
and she only 17 years old'; it's, piti
ful ; so pretty and young. 1 She
lays beyond at the boathouse, where
the men fetched her."
• "The men fetched her to the boat
house and not to you?"
"Why, lady dear," rejoined the
simple-minded creature, I'm not tell
ing my story at all. After she spoke
with my old man she turned and
,walked • away toward the town, and
John just pulled in his nets and was
coming comfortable toward his sup.
per, when he see something whitish
flutter on the big rock we calls the
Pulpit, and in a moment he thinks of
the woman, and just then something
was alight on the water off the rock,
like a-wild duck, and -in goes my old
man, and the wild duck was ashoie
in, no time, for he's a strong arm, has
,
John an d poor young creature
don't weigh more'n eighty pounds." .
" This poor girl attempted sui
cide ?"
• "That's what I'm trying, to get at,
ma'am. I'v not the wherewit h to
do if I had t e whereby," ratheram
biguously e idained the boatman's
Rife. "The efore every one . said,
' There's Miss Beulah, go ask her;'
and here I am."
Beulah Belden made answer very
directly.
"Bring her up. to the cottage at
once ;• it's a raw night. A delicate
young girl wet and miserable will
perish in that drafty old boat-house."
"I knew it would ue so. Miss Beu
lah. God bless you. You'll have
your. reward in heaven, dear, lady."
Beulah interrupted her humble
friend and hurried her away. Then
blankets were heated, a hot bath,got
ready a cup of tea prepared, and the
charitable . .soul awaited her newly-as
sniped charge.-
- Not fur long. - Through' the early
evening two or three rough men pre
ceded.a dozen-of the fishing colony,'
bearing a slight, dripping figure un
an improvised litter, steadily up
the porch and into the attic sitting
room, Beulah walking - beside it the
last few steps, and laying her hand
on-the covered hand. At last, as the
burden was tenderly laid on the
lounge, and the lamp turned up, the
men fell back, and Beulah looked at
the face- of the would-be suicide. .
She almost exclaimed at the palid
marble beauty disclosed—it was the •
face of an entire stranger. She had
expected to see the familiar features
of some unhappy village girl, but the
large, sitet blue eyes; the small plead
inginouth, the dripping masses of
yellowish hair had never. met her
gaze before.
" One of you go for Dr. Blake,"
said the mistress of the cottage. "I
hardly know what is to he done in
such a case." The object of their
solieitude moved, reached out a fee
ble hand, and murmured weakly,
" No, no; please do not send for a
doctOr ; I: do not need one."
She appeared so distressed that
Beulah-yielded,
- "At all events, you must get dry
things on, and have a bowl of hot.
tea and some warm supper.; it's
•enough to give one their death to
siAp in your condition."
And then, recollecting that her pa
tient had been seeking death, Beulah
abruptly turned and dispersed the
curious crowd, still hanging about
the place, and then followed the ser
„vant and the strange woman into the
room. prepared for her. ,
" I will not ask you what dreadful
strait you are in, my poor girl," said
Beulah, in her kindest vein, ‘, 4 to do
so desperate thing but. you can
set your mind at rest; you are with
friends, who will , assist you, if need
be. You, have
,nfr reason to give way .
Ito such grief. Your Wants will be
provided for. You can return to
•youliome,without this fearful heel
dent` ever being knOwn." • •
• The weeping girl buried her lace
in hefhands.
" I have no friends or home," she
sobbed.
" Well. then," returned Beulah,
" stay here ; there's' . always a place
for an industrious girl in my family."
."Alas ! that also is impossible.
You can't help me lady. There is
nothing for thei--no escape *oil my
trouble but in "death."
BeUlati began to think of strait
jackets, and.escaped lunatics, but the
*wild lights were missing , in the eyes,
and only settled misery possessed the
-sad face.
With sobthing words and kindly
touch the good woman sought, to
comfort the stranger; the wet bright
hair was carefully pinned up, and
Beulah - unfastened the clinging gar
ments and laid out the dry ones.—
Suddenly the great sorrow which
brought the stranger to think, of
ig e death n ce.
a llshed on the•old maid's intel-
I You poor.young thing," she;stud
" have you come far ?"
" No, madam, not'very."
"And you have no friends?"
".10, madam."
" But there is—tht person who is
your husband—or should be—per
haps you are a widow?"
No, no, only a wretched, deeeiv
ed woman. Oh, madam, do not ask
my wretched story. :You are good,
and kird, and rich. Shelter me for
to-night. Tomorrow I will go away.
I will never seek_ to take l imy life
again, but bear my fate without a
murmur."' The halfArowaed girl
i
s'bbbed as f..her heart would break..
Beulah inwardly determined that the
acquaintance should not end thus ab
ruptly, and long after the worn-out
girl slept, she cogitated a prOblem
which was solved for her before, morn
ing. -
The family at the stone cottage
were tearlfastir with unusual excite
ment; into their midst, Unexpected
ly and unhidden, had dropped a wee
blue-eyed angel. l'oor Beulah was
at her wi 's end.., A baby, s, real live
helpless baby ; for the first time in
her life she touched one of the new.
comers, - and her wonder grew as she
viewed the tender mite. '
"Of course;" said • Dr. Blake,
"you'll send mother and child to
the, Home, " (as '
the poor-house
was designa ted.)
"Of course I shall do no such
thing," retorted Beulah; " why
should] I ?"
"Because Christian people -
pland your efforts among our deserv
ing poor, but this miserable stranger
it seems rash- to succor- who shall
say what her part his be en I"
"Who cannot say what her future
I.
will surely be, if we desert her ?"
warmly defended Miss Beulah. "No,
Dr. Blake, that girl and her baby
are sent to me for a wise purpose—if
the Lord hadn't ;designed her spec
laity for my care, strength would
have been given her to pass my
door."
"And the baby ?"
"The, baby is the gift of God."
Therefore the gift of God and the
medium of its gift . remained ht the
stone _cottage. Miranda raved :
" What court in the land could refuse
such evidence of incompetence and
imbecility ?" sbe asked i)fevery one,
and of Lawyer Shepperd in particu
lar,,but the wily Ephraim °alined the
pertubed spirit and whispered words
to advance his own case, but for
reasons best known to himself Mir
anda's lunatico inquirendo made no
headway.
The waif born in the stone cottage
grew and thrived, and the benevol
ent mistress of the place can* to
love little Alice Mann as one of her
own blood.
"'And it's no disgrace itself as
some think; it's born in wedock,"
bridled Miss Beulah. " Marion Mann
has her marriage lines and Was mar
ried in holy Church ; more the shame
to those who deserted her."
"'then she has a husband ?" queri
ed the gossips. .
:" That she has, such as he is, to
desert a sweet young thing, alone in
the world but' for him."
And then Mis Beulah would re
count the tale of her protage'deser
tion. The tether of little Alice had
been at a;watering place where r Poor
friendless Marion had been employ.
ed as a seamstress: He had:met and
professed an ardent love for her, and
what could she do 'but believe? He
ins not a young - adventurer, but a
man staid, proper, and `respectable.
. So respectable,he bad insisted on
A -silence respecting his relation with
.her till such time as his !dab connec
tions would be won over to counta
ance his foolishness.
But Marion had rightly held out
against protestations, and Horace
Mann had been infatuated enough to
pursue the girl to a neighboring
town and there marry, her;
There, -- - after six months' rural
felicity, bis artier had, cooled,. and
Marion received a note one day from
her absent husband, was told that he
had lrfkber forever—that is was use
less to search for him, be had yield
ed to the solicitations of his relations
and gone with them to his patriarch
ial acres.in Europe.
. Her slender stock of _money soon
exhausted, broken in health and
spirit, it seemed to the suffering girl
as though no peace but that of the
grave remained for her - on earth.
She had wandered on from place to
place, until surden sight of the sea
impelled her to make an end, and in
its . hidden.depths seek rest and oh-
livion. Bnt here, she was; the day
bright with the.sun and flowers and
smiling earth gladdening the - month
of .tune; her baby, a chuckling, roly
poly bit of humanity, lying on a rug
on the broad piazza; herself belovid,
contentOind busy, sewing, reading,
working continually for her patron
saint, Beulah * Belden. .
Mrs. Mann had by degrees won
the regard of all 'who had met her.
" She's a sensible fine- young
, -wom
an," said Dr. Blake and Dr. Blake's
opinion was echoed by them all.
Dr. Blake arrived one day all excite
inept: the news he bore was so im
,portaut for his dear friend.. for of
sudden—although talked of, stilt
surprise—Miranda Belden was to
'marry Epbriam Sheppard the next
night.
• For all •the world;" gagped Beu
11h, "and she 45 years old." • •
" Of course it's for her money—.we
all know that," said the doctor.
" Still,Pni sorry she's so Silly.",
•" I hope he may treat the poor
thing well, sighed the sister.
" it's hardly to be expected ; he's
not a gentle-looking person by any
means:"
"I'd like to see him, my fuiure
brother-in-law," said Beulah.
" He—that is, they are to be mar
ried in the little chapel. Why don't
you go ?" suggested Dr. Blake:
" I will," responded Beulah. "I'm
sure I wish Miranda all happinness.
I will go, though not a bidden wed-.
ding guest. And Marion, put Alice
early to - sleep. We'll over the
hill to the ; chapel ; the first time I
have been
.there in over a year." -
Did I say the seperation of- the
sisters woke the echoes .of.eonsterna
tion in that sleepy town ?, - Well, the
marriage of Miranda filled the entire
public mind--- 7 nothing else was
thought of or talked about; and
when, with a beatin g heart, poor Ben
lah approached the chapel . on the
eventful evening, she found-the whole
population, - to a woman gathered
within and without.' Dr. Blake was
on the outlook. He - was bound his
friend, the - "sensible Belden girl,
after all," should see the performance.
Through the - crowd he bore the two
ladies, for Beulah was supported by
her protege, Marion Mann.. , '
The organist made a great .ado over
his small choir and. parlor organ.
The " Wedding March " swelled out
arid the choir piped np, and Miranda
clad in a pearl-colored silk with white
veil d and white glovesl ar.d bouquet,
leaning on the arm of , the Boston
lawyer, cameslowly up the aisle.
Dr. Blake's pew wat well up front.
;Beulah did not turn- her head as the
'murmur went round of " here:they
Come." When the brigsl party were
abreast of the seat she occupied, her
eyes met her sister's for the first time
in the many. months of their separa- -
tion. There was a 'giitu smile of
'satisfaction on Miranda's hard face,
but poor little Beulah, try as she did
could not keep the - tears back.
Dr. Blake controlled a smile, for
the angular spinister was a spect
cale in the low-cut, short-sleeved pearl
silk, and surmounting the veil sat a
stiff crown of white dead flowers,
which contrasted with the saffron
colored brow deneath in a ridiculous
way,
'fhen,Miranda was square and tall
and ha horribly - red, sharp elbows,
which protruded Several inches be
hind, as trussed like a chicken for
roasting. she pressed her wings close
to her sides and clutched Ephraim's
arm with one hand and her bouquet
with the other.
"The poor old thing," thought
Beulah; "how could she think of
such a dress at her age."
"The confounded old fool,"
thought most of those gathered," to
make so public a display of her fol
ly." _
And that's your sister," whisper
ed Marion as they passed. " How
very unlike you are•Hwhy, I should
think---,"
But we' shall never know what
Mation was .about to think, for the
pair arrived at the altar rail, and the
occupants of Dr.. Blake's pew for the
first time got a view of the husband
elect.
Marion's 'remarks.• fainted out on
her lips; she turned whiter - than the
flowers which crowned the bride's
head; she sprang one moment to her
feet,.and then, before - Beulah or the
Poctor could detain her, she stopd
in - the aisle, pale and determined..
The.
The Crowd arose . simultaneously.
Amazement sat - on evezy face!
" Stop!" cried - Marion, in a clear
unshaken voice, " stop!" "rhe offi
ciating minister looked horrified.
Miranda shook from the top flower
of her chaplet •to her weak knees.
Beulah ntarly fainted with dismay,
but it was afterward remarked' that
Ephraim Sheppard was the most
truly horrified : of the party.:
"That man canna marry that
.woman," spOke . the voice of the icon
oclastic Marion_ •
"Yon must not disturb the eere:
mony;' murmured some, officious
Deacon, pkireking at her sleeve.
Marion c4mly put bis hanil away,
walked up to the - astonished, - pair,
slightly motioned. the bride aside
stepping in between 'them, and said,
in a voice' heard - by the listening
crowd in the galleries:
.‘ This man cannot marry you since
he is my husband. We were .tharried.
by Rev. Chauncey Homer in St.
'John's Church, Montreal, the : . ?lst of
August onast year. He was married
to me under a false name, but he is
none the less my lawful husband ;
let him deny it if be dare. Ask him.,7,1
she said bitrerly turning.to the gasp:
ing Miranda ; "if he passed two !
months two years ago at St. Cather- .
ine's.Wells. Let him prove he did
not.' Let him disprove, if he can,
his marriage with me, but let him do
that before you marry him." •
There are some scenes which defy.
description, Miss Belden's wedding
was one of those. The minister clos
ed the book•with a slap. as if he felt
there was no further use for it that
day. - The lawyer's syes protruded
with 'horror, and yet he could sum
mon no Word in defense or denial,
while, as for
. Miranda, she, gave one .
despairing look .at the stern fake of
the young wife and the guilty dum
founded Sheppard, and she straight
ened ont'and fell like a stick across
the. altar step. Beulah had her in
her arms in a moment, and 'amid the
confusion ensuing, the poor! woman
was carried to•the vestry, and Shep
pard turned suddenly and was lost
in the Ifandering crowd.
Perhaps Marion would net - er have
been believed had he staid and faced
her out in her .accusation, but Eph
raim- was a wily but weak scoundrel:.
his flight and his continued absence
were confirmation of the wronged
woman's story. •
Thee-barrier which long months of
coldness and estrangement had raised,
between the. sisters was not thus
lightly to be tlfrown down. After
the first excitement; Beulah and her
protege went mornfully back to
. the
stone cottage, - while Miranda, more .
dead 'than alive, was conveyed by
curious fiiends to the decorated
mansion, destined never to receive a
bride. All night, within the big par
lor, surrounded by her wedding trap
pings, Miranda paced up and down.
Through all the dreadful details of
that never-to-be-forgotton secne came
the remembrance of Beulah bending,
over her. '
Poor old Miranda ; she clutched at
her gray hair cursed the hour of her
birth. An object of ridicule thence
forth foi her neighbors, what had she
the miserable dupe, to live for'
Some way the question was answer
ed by the image of little Beulah, her
pale-blue eyes moist with sympathy,
and the pour old woman sobbed out
the dispised • sister's
,name, and in
contrite spirit knelt • and asked that
heaven would grant one consolation
in her miseryher sister's love.
And Beulah. Late into the night
she sat and talked with Marion Mann
of the strange way in which she had
avenged her wrongs. Then, when
left alone, her warm heart turned . hp
that desolate creature, stricken down
in the hour : of triumph. The loner
she dwelt on the unfoAnnate Mir
anda's troubles then smaller seemed
the cause of offense between them.
liermind Was : made up ,:- as the day
broke she. silently and cautiously
crept out the front door, and took
her way up the road toward her old
home.. At the head of the hill divid
ing the old town from the newer set
dement - by the sea; Beulah beheld
advancing to . meet her. a tall, warlike
figure, striding on in the early morn
ing, now and then fishing up a large
handkerchief and Wiping her aching
red eyes. As they approached each
other—Beulah sturdily trudging un
der a huge sun-umbrella, - the sec
ond•matunial pedestrian , So occupied ,
with her woe and hef haerlkerehief-:-,
neither saw the othem till Close to
gether;. then came a cry of delight
and the Belden girls were united,
heart and . hand. It was many years
before Miranda recovered the-shock .
of that awful day, and it made an
other woman of her, a gentler and -a
better. one, Poor Beulah' was all
the world to her, and Marion and
tho.little Abet. - shared the new and
, -
friendly emotions 'which sprang,ap
In the braised-heart of the spinister.
Shepperd wa never heard of again.
This time he really fled to Europe,
and the sisters became models of
family devotion. -
The stone cottage by the sea' is the
Summer-home of all, but beside the
the hearth of the homestead every
Winter sitthere united "Beldengirls, ll
their constant companions the de
serted ivife and her child ; and not a
stranger gets within the gates ofhat
town but hears - the strange story of
that dreadful time at Miranda's wed
ding. , M. IL F.
NY LITTLE LOVE.
Thine is a little hand—
A tiny, tittle hand; •
- Yet if Itclasp
- With timid grasp
Mine own, ah me I I'well can understand
The pressure of thatiittle hand
Thine is a !IBM mouth
- A very little mouth 7,
But, ah I what bliss
• To steal a kiss,
Sweqt as the honeyed zephyrs of the South,
Front that same rosy little. uicutb :
Thingis a little heart—
.
A little, fluttering heart ;
'Yet It h . :rearm'
And pure and calm,
Aial !ores me n•fttr its whole, untutored art—
That fend" and faithful little 'heart
Thou art alittle girl— ,
Only a little girl; •
•
• Tel, art thou worth
The wealth of eartti=.; •••
plarantsl and ruby, sapphire, gold, and pearl--
To me, thou blessia little girt: • - •
FUN, FACT AND FACETIM
• MALI. due The miller's toil. • ,
F't,,N}: talk : "$25 and costs." •
To:: dowers for young fathers--The
PoPPY , - •
THE best style of . ties for business men
—Advertise.
You - cannot set the river on fire with a
rowing match.
THE carrier-pigeon never . tthvels - vith
his cote on his arm
lIE who loses Ws temper in an arg,u...
ment, los.e3 . the argument also . t:' I.
Goo)) place' for chirpodists— Among
Corn-ish men. •
- Wnvr a dressmaker can' boast- 7 ---'q'm
engaged to 'Sew and sea•."
TlrEir :ire very' - few 'men so . brilliant
that they can be looked at through smok
ed glass. .
LITTLE services are willingly apprecia
ted. for tbeyare not worth the trouble of
ingratitude.
TitiNd condc.mns more' powerfully
the riolence of 'the wicked than the mod
eration of the good.
A mAN is called selfish, not for finrsn
ing his own good, but for negfeeting that
of his neighbor. •
• EvIL ministers of good...things are as
torches—a light W . others, a waste to .none
bnt themselves Only. •
• 'tiftot - .1 - Ett .isin a hurry shows that the
thing he isaboutis too big for him. - Haste
- aria hurry are two different things. • • •
• Fur this in incubator.' The question
is asked whether poaching eggs can be
, considered sportsmanlike behavior..
I RAVE played the gross fool to believe
the bosom of - a friend wouldbold•a secret
mine own could not. contain.—lftmoi;ger.
Z. RIETIZSOMIEIt has likened our exist.:
ence to colffe, but omitted to say whether
Le roastik; -process is included in the
•
smile, •
en n YSOSTOU says that fire is not quench
ed with fire, but with Water ; nor is wrong
and hate - with 'retaliation, but with .gen
thmess and humility.-
ALL deception ija the course of life is in
deednothing else than a lie reduced .to
prailtiee,
.and falsehood passing . from
•
words into things. '
D1T1:17. 4 3T isstlic death of the soul. 'be
lief is its life. The just shall live by faith.
Infidelity A the • abandonment ofi life, a
suicide of the spirit
~ IF religion be • your • vineyard to labor
in, eternity shall be your bed tarest Upon.
Every grace that is here exercised, shall
there be glorified.
THE More .destitute we are of „human
aid, the - more we ought
_to trust that
providence which (loci is pleased to dis
play, in our necessities;
r we toiled, as listlesslzpver the thingi
of the world as over the thing,s of heaven,
the merchant, would become-a bankrupt,
and the busineSs man a beggar.
' II E , 'ItET uot.a Vdden a-,i7',e'tlia , . is behind.
There is one before, and it beckons you,
_Tts reward are not for the, idle, but for
the brave hearts disciplined to toil.
•
A s - ikit,On who jumped overboard to
save another, Was asked if he was fit to
die. "1 eviild : not be more he re
plied, "b)' declining to do my duty"
Tut: first duty of a man 'whip founds' a
town. according to the Detroit-Free Frew
is to name one of the .principal,streets Af
ter IVashington and another affer himself.
An•old soldier states . that during the
late war, -a six-inch shell , was -lodged in
him while - defending the Old flag, and lie
lives in constant fear of an explosion.. lle
drinks merely
- to keep the fuse wet.
N exchange says: " his just awfully
discouraging .Just about the- time wa
ier-melons hegira to come in, the i.oor
man has to scrape together every cent-he
can r:ti e to pas' the tax on his dogs. Wily
cant this do;;;•tax:1;e. collected some time
in the whiter?" •
IssunoranNATtox—Englisb diner (sus
piciously): " AMI do Voustick to the tee
to-t,d principles yoursxlf,•waiter ?" Wait
er: "Jit business, yes, sir, always, sir.!
In business I am subordinate ti my prin
cipals; Mit out of business, s ir r it :is (Wee
ent —my pri - neiples are subordinate tome."
Civit.iTv 7 is to
.man what beauty is to
roman. -It creates an instantaneous im
, ressionln his behalf,' white' the, opposite
quality e:- . x:ites as quick a prejudice against .
•Itim. . It is a real ornament, the most
beautiful dress that a woman - can wear,
and worth more as a means of winning
favor than the finest; clothes and jewels
ever worn. -
HOME OF DISEASES
Logan, in his work on the '" Phys,
ies of ieTt. !pus Diseases . ," cites the
follow in; as the original' soureis 'ot
infeetious . diseases:
The cholera--Ilas its home in In 7
The small-pox—ln theesgt : known
in Chind nearly 1,200
_years before
Chfist. - •
The Plague.:—An Oriental disease ;
as a distinct geograPhient range.
The Typus Fever—lreland is its
irtkplace. - •
. .
The Typhoid and Relapsing Fe
vers---.Have.fixed centreTs . in' Ireland,-
Galicia,'Upper Silesa awl some prov
inces of Northern Italy.' -
The Military- Fever—ls' epidemic
in a few provinces of -Franee. Germ
any rnd Italy.
- Searlatina,Probably .' native to
Arabia.
' Epidemic Dysentery---ilume . in
the'tropics.
The. 'Dengue— In Southern intl.
itudes; with sharp geological limits.
The Yellow Fever—Distinctly tra
c*d to Antilles.
/ The ChaboloUgo—:Chili.
The. Versuga—l'etu.
$2 per Antinm in Advance.
NUMBER,
COLORAD(I,B MOSS-AGATE FIELD
The agate covers large areas of the
middle: park, scattered over the stir:
face in chips 'and laiger fragments,
and occurring, also, in massive ledges.'
Only a' very small petientage of it,
however, contains the curious and
delicate crystalization of iron known
as moss: Curious notions prevail re
lative to this substance. Formerly
it was a common opinion that the
" moss " was fixed in the stone .by a
photographic process, and 1 have
be. tn.
often
the finders, • ed contains faithful
pictures of -lui ups of bushes, groVes
, ___
of trees an extended landscape
visible - from the point where.' they
were picked up. The -agate is hard;
tough and susceptible of a high pol
ish. Specimens are valued according"
to the perfection and beauty of the
moss cluster . ; contained and the
clearness Ot the stone apart from the
moss. •
_The great agate is south of
the Grand and west of Williams-RiV;:
er, on a high sage plain.. It is.sis or
eight miles -in length, and neatly as
great in width, though agates are
not found all over this area. It has
been culled and - picked over by hun
dreds of :people, and thousands . of
jewels worn to-day. all over the Uni
ted States bear settings froth this'
"agate patch.". Some -agates are
found north of the, Grand directly
Opposite, and the largest . and finest
specimen I ever saw 'was picked -up
there- in
. 1863. There is an agate
patch—or several of. them, small in
exteht—on the divide between Trou
blesome,,River and Corral Creek,
north — of the Grand. b Two or three . "
years ago a small deposit 'of than,
was found near Fraser River, in the
eastern edge of the park, not - far
from where the Berthoud .pass. and
` , Rollins wagon roads come together.
, In all the 'localities .thus far de
scribed the " moss" is black of dark
brown—the usual Color. Near Grand
River, on the north side, and about
tliree miles west of Hot Sulphur
Springs, is a small area where - red
moss agates are I found—that , is, the
" - moss'' is red, or reddish brown, in:
stead of black. Nearly opposite,-
acrois the river,near Beaver (Creek,
is another " patch 7 ? of the same-kind:
Red -moss agates Are very rtirt and
curious. NO search has . .ever been
made in any of these localities .
- neath 'the' natural surface of the
ground for valuable' agates. , Those
gathered have-been, picked up on the
surface, generally In broken • frag
inents.of stone that showed the Moss
naturally.— Cor;•csponderice :of the
• Ic, ,irer s.
BE, Wu T.'ING TO LEARN.
: A man progresses just as long as
he is willing to learn, but progression
ceases whenever he reaches that.point
where he places his knoWleilge in the
balance.against that of all other men..
Strange as it may appear, there area,
good many just such men in the
world. Some, cannot be taught any,
no - inatter -.to what. branch of
knowledge it. belongs.. And others
are perfect only in one- thing, and
that relates to the busintss they fol
low.
.It is here that egotistical im,
portance does the most mischief, for
it.al ways cripples - a manVusefulness
in life.
There is another class •of persons
who' will accept knowledge only from,
_those whom. they acknowledge as su ,
periorS. They must first know
,the r
source of every itein of - inforrnatton,
and it is accepted_ns truth or reject
jected as error, accordingly., They
never think; reason or experiment
for themselves, and hence their belief' -
- and practice - exhibit a strange-Mix
t-u.re_ of the impracticability of - truth --
and error. ..
The truly progreSsive class accept
truth wherever they -find it, and re
ject pOtiiirtg because of its source. A -
hint dropped.from the beggar's lips
is just as valuable as though it came
froM royalty' itself. ! These are the -
men who do think, ri, 4 ason and exper
iinent foritlieniselves, :Like the- min-:
.er„ , it is gold they, are hunting for,
and-like him ttey - never reject 'it be
cause it is associated with dross and
dirt, but go • resolutely., to • work to
separate the pure from . the impure,
retaining only the former.
.. man, witlr broad, liberal views
of his occupation, and whose eyes and
ears are always open, and willing to
accept and use every fact that comes
to him, no matter from what source,
'is a man to he admired and.reSpepted
; 'wherever you find' - him., stands
in cleli?htftil contrast to the.min who
I. blindly reffiseS` all aid, and scoffs at
all authority whic:ll - contradicts - his
lopinions. • -
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THE I2iItITENGE OF .N.EWSPAPEBS.
A 'school teacher, who had :been a
long time engaged in IfiS professioh,
anti witnessed the influence of. a
newspaper upon the minds of a fam
ily of children, write's ss folloirs - ;
.•
I have found it to .be a universal
fact, without exception,. that those
scholars of both sexes, and of all
zees, who have access to newspapers'
at'home, when compared with those
who have, not, are : -
1. Better readers, excellent inpro
nunciation, and consequently read
more and understandingly. -
• 2.. They are better' spellers, .aid'
.
define Words with case and accuracy,
They obtain practical knowl
edge Of geography in almost half the
time it requires •of others, as the
'newspapers hasernade them acquaint
ed with the location of the important
places, of : nations, their government
-and doings on the globe. ,
4. They are better 4rammaritina
for having become so familiar With,
every variety of style in the news:
papers, from the common-place ad
vertisement-to the .finished and etas:
shad oration of the statesthen,_ they
more-readily. comprehend the mean
ing of the text and constantly analyze
its construction with, accuracy.
5.- They write- better compositionf‘
using - better language, con ng
more - thoughts, more dead and •
correctly expressed.
• 6. Those yomer.men who haVc or
years been 'readers of newspapers are
always taking the 'lead in, debating
societies, exhibiting ; a more exten
sive knowledge upon a greatei..varie
ty of snbjectS,and expressing their
views With greater fluency, dearness
and correctness. •
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