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The Merouriers having a larger circulation than , any other paper to the county. makes It 'the best ' advertising medium in Northern Pennsylvrals. \ dolt PRINTING of every kind. In plain and , fancy colors, done with neatness and dispatch. Handbills, Blanks: Cards. Pamphlets, - Hilibeads.- Statements, se., of every variety and style. primed at the shortest notice. The IRxrosprxtt .ornee s Well supplied with . power presses, a: good assort 4 meta of hew type, and everything In the printing „Hue can be executed In the meat artistic wanner and at the lowest rates. TERMS INVARIABLY CASH. titstiess Cuts. b W. RYAN, • lut • • COL'SrTY PERINTENOVIT. Office day last Saturday of each tnonth,•twer Turner & Gordon's' Drug Store, Towanda, Pa. • ;Towanda, June 1578. ELSBREE & SON, • • ATTORNISIT-1. - TOWANDA, PA. , N. C. ELsanirm. . L. EtßiinEs. . PORTRAITS AND LANTISP,APES Painted to order at any price from ea to ei00: Oil Paintings It Ite-Touched, or changes made as desired. . . AU work donq 1u the highest style of the Art. JDUANN - F. BENDER. Towanda; Pa.. April 18, 1878. ' T ROGALSKI, - Employed with N. Ifendelman for the past four years, begs leave to announce to his friends and the pnplie generally. that he has rirmoved to the Boston 99-Cedt Store. one door routh of the First liittonal Bank, and opened a shop for the repair or Watches. Clocks. JeWelry. he. All work war ranted to glove entire satisfaction. (Apr4l%, W J. YOUNG, 11 • - . • TOWANDA, PA. -- 0111ce--serond door south of the First National Dank Main St., up stairs. n D. KINNEY, ATTORNEX-AT-T.A1 4 7.. • Office—Rooms formerly occupied by T.M. C. A. eaditngleunm. fjan.3l7B. NVILLIAMS k ANGLE, ATTORNEY S-AT•L AIV OF FICE.--Former:y .x.cupled ley Wm. Witking, V.sq. • H. WILLT ANS. (Oet. 17. 17Y E. J. A,NGLX. T 311cPHERSON, A TTORN LT•AT-L A W, TOWANDA, PA.. DIV Airy Brad. Co MASON at, HEAD, ATTOWNSTS-AT-LAW, , Towanda, Pa. Office over Bartlett & Tracy, Main-at G. F,.3lasoN. 1n9113 ARTHUR lIKAD. E - v • L limas All) TOWANDA. PA. -.T I F. GOFF, ATTORN ET-A T -L Air, 3laln Street (4 doers north of Ward fimme). To. v:anda, Pa. (Aprll 12, 1877, WH. THOMPSON, ATTORNET e AT I;AW,WYALUBING, PA. Will attend all business entrusted to his care in Bradford, Sullivan and Wyoming Countios. Once wttb Esq. Porter. [n0v1944. fIL, LAMB, ATTORNEV•AT-L Aw, WILK.E.S.BAPZItE, PA Collections promptly attended to. July 27,`76. tTsOHN W. lIIX A T TORNICY.AT-L ACV AND U. S. CO3I.IIISSIONEIf, TOWANDA. PA. Office—Norm Side Public Skidare DAVIES & -Ariosxmys-AT-LAW, soirra SIDE OF WAED Dec 7.:1'75. TOWASDA. PA. TAR. S. M. WOODI3TJAN, Physi clan and Surgeon. Ogled over4o.A. Black's trockery store, • Towanda, Slay 1,11177.1 y.. m ADILL '&CALIFF, • AI-Tommy S-A+4. ASP;., I TOW ANIIA, PA. Office In WOOWs Block, drat door Bonn of the 'First National bank, up4teirs. a. J. ADILL. • tjanB-731y) ei.ILIDLEY & 'PAYNE, ATTOit kW, South 4 I slde Illereur Block (rooms formerly oecuplifd by pacts - TOWAisi'DA, PA. (1117) 13=33 , 3 AMES WOOD, ArroinitT-AT.LAW, TOWA NDA, PA; r.,rti , }-76 C IIAS. M. FULL, ATTOTIN ST-AT-LAW AND ti3OTAItT, It'll' ghe erreful attention to any tolainessentrixt ed to him. 01lice with Patrick k Foyle, (over Journal Odice), Towanda. Pa. 01=0717. GEORGE D.. STROUD, ATTOUNET.AT•LAIS".• , \ Office—Mtn-st.. four doors North of 'Ward House. Practices In Suprerae - Conrt of Pennsylvania and United TOWANDA, PA. States'Courts..-11)ec7:76. I - ", IT STREETER, ATIO,AIi AY-AT-LAW, TOWANDA. PA. I angn OVEitTON k MERpitn, - - ATTOUNEYS.AT•LAW, TOWANDA, P. Oflke over Montanres Store.laYtall• D'A. OVERTON. RODNEY A. MERCER. AVM. IttAXWELL, ' 1 ATTORSZT-AT•LAW. ',TOWANDA. PA. OfZee over Dayton's Storp. April 12, 18741. I PATRICK & FOYLE, ArtoTtlitys-iTjLAw, TOW ANDA, PA. . , 02eit.; to Metcur's Block. I - ANDREW WILT, keioistir•ks•Lkw. "Office over Cross , Boot 'Store, tiro doors sort], of terens i Lonsg.:Torranda., Po. May be consulted n German. CA pr1.1'76.3 - -• , • 11 . S.! RUSSELL'S GENERAL 'NEIITRANCE At ENCY / TOWANDA, PA. T NSU RANCE AGENCY. _ - The **awing RELIABLE AND FIRE TRIED Companies represented; VATCSKIBB,PBCZNIX,BOWLittaeIIawra, Notch 16, ni • O. B. BLACK. OVERTON A; SANDERSON, ATTOIQEY-AT-LAW, TOWAlcriA. PA. • - E. Ovinvrox, JOUR'F. SA.NDETION, W: B. KELLY, DENTlsT,Office y • over M. E. Rosenfield's, Tcrnandai Teeth Inserted on Gold, Silver, Rubber, and utenkun base. Teeth extracted without pain. Oct. 3442. • - - - E._ D. PAYNE , M . D 6l - rIIYSICIAN .I"ND SURGEON. . Office laver Montanyea , Store. Oface boors from 10 to 12, A. 11„ and from 2 to 1, P.M. Special attendee% Itlren to dlrestaes of the Ego and Ear.-0ct.19:14141. EIZZI 15:25 125.00 R. T. B. JOHNSON, • ID . AXD PHYSICIAN' X SIII:0110X. °Mee over Dr. Porter it Sotee Drug Store, TOwand a. atamtl. 1864. 1876. r IVANDA INSITRANCE'AGENCY. Main til9 eet opposite the Cott Mots's*. W. S. VINCENT, . • . mAN.burEit. L • IRST NATIONAL BANK, .I•IT \ AL, PAID IN 5t171.7 FUND Bank oilers unwind facilities tertbe traar. rl a general banking-business. • 'N. N.,TIETTS„Ca.sider. roWT.LL, !resident. \ Feb. 14;1879. netton EAGLE Ii ED \_ • • (SOUTH EIDE Ptnt.tt.: SQVARE.) N., . \ . • Title welhAnown.tluse MIR Ivenllioroughly ren nucated and repaired throiThout.,N,and'tbe proprie tor Is now ptrpared to offer \first-elags•arrommoda tiona to the publie, on .the rnost re'ssonable terms. 1 , 1 A. lENNINUS. , Towanda, Pa, May 2, IS2B CORNER 31.11 N h WASIIINGT6N This large, commodious and elegantly-furnished \ house has 3ust been opens:d to the traveling public. The proprietor has sparod neither pains nor expense In making his hotel" tlrst-class in all its appolpt ments, and respectfully solicits a share of pnldte pati onager. WEALS AT ALL HOURS. TernlS In suit the times. Large stable attached; Ili:\lt]',PaolluETOe. Toutuela, June 7, 17-tf. l it li t tgLL HOUSE, TOWANDA Having leased this house. is now toady to accom modate the travelling public. No pains nor expimse will be spared to give satisfaction to those who may give him a call. 'North side of Public Sqt are, east of Mercues now block. , . T UE CENTRAL HOTEL, ' ULSTER. PA. The nuderstgned having taken possession of the above hotel, respertfei ly solicits the patron age of Ms old ffi1.1.1.13 and the public generally. augiGtf. M. A. FOREEST. QEETIEY'S OYSTER BAY AND ECROPEZCS IBAYS4.—A few doors solithof the Means Houk?. Board by the day or week on reasooahlc terms. Warm corals served at all hours Oysters at wholesale and retail. tebraf. Creb.llB . • A. IMITOR'S_I NOTICE.— Hiram Eishree vs James F.:113 and E. W. Ent,. In the Court of Common Plea, of Bradford Co. No. 1157. S4teinte. Term, 187 S: The undersigned an Auditor appointed by the Court to distz !bete the fund aching from 'he Slier- Ira sate of defendants rent estate. Will attend to the dotard of his appointment at T h e of OVERTON k Mk:net:V. in the Boroogh7 of To wanda, en 310 N DAY. the 21. st day of CieTonFte A.. 1).. 1878, at IA7B. at 10 o'clock at., when and where all person, !erring clalths again-r said fend must present them, or be forever deletrre4 I rum eptoing in on said fund. It. A. MEltCl_7,lt, Towand.t, Sept. 17;75-sr-I. . Auditor. [ncirll4s IN BANKRUPTCY.-In the I)hii . filet COnrt of the rotted State A. for the West ern I.lstriet of P. nmylvanla In tle• matter ..1 Kugene Underhill, Chari , s t , I. Noble and Thomas U. Smt% bald:llllqt , , in bankrnptev. ,TAKE Noll'lCE, Thai a m..-eting of the credi tor.: of the aloNkr notnl,l bank rupts: 17111 he ,brld at the °thee or nvez too a: Ile' ear, in the liwitorGll Or TOW AN It A:. before the underidgm4l. a Regis - in ilanl:rnpnly., on the 9th day Of OCTOIII.It. A. It. 1 , 47 , , at i c.',.loci: A. M.., for - the _potro. , of . ronsblerittg a propo,ition for etatithred i leu of their debts. It. A. 1%1 F.ICCI; It, TN BANKRUPTCY. District Cr.nr: of the. United Staten, for the 'Nesteru Pistrlet of reangylvanla. Jan. 1, 1873 This Is to give no' tee that on the 2d darof Sept.. A. I), 187$. a warrant' in bankriiptey was ht , it..(l against the estate Isr E. W. I:111f. of A%:•lffin in the county of lima f. ad and State of l'ennsylva via, who lift 4 been adjudged a batihrup: upon Lis oroi petition t Ihat the payment of any debts tad the delivery of any pruporty belonging to such I,ATlkilllit to hi to or for Id: (1,,. and the transfer of any property by hint are forbidden by laiv: that a newlibg of the ereilltors of iyak runt to prove their debts. and elio,e one or more n..sig.ieeti. of his estate. will be held at a Cori: of Rank - miter, to be hold.ti nt tho olltoe of OVERTON' & 3IER (It It. In the bor., of Towanda. Pa.. before It. A. MERCER'. Eot.. Register, on the 11:11 day or (tC TOSSER, A. I). 'SSTs. at SO A. M. 10IIN 11 ALL. - S. Nlart-hal, Messenger. Pittsitto g. Sept. 6, InS. ISv.2. N BANKRUPTCY.— District I Court of the ITolt , ft States, for the Western litmrlet of Pefinsy;vaut.t. J. N. CALIFF BEli TM,. is to Ore 11131 on 1110 2I day of Sept.. A. U.. 187 a. a tearrant is Itankrtivtey ..V3l/1 11111111S1 tbe ciftate of .tared S. Manley. of (tauten taw°, lit Mo./roan, V of fired ford and State of Peon- Itylvanla, who has been roljtalgettit bankrupt npolt his 0 91 petition: that the payment of any debts and delivery of any propel!) . belonging to - such bankrupt to him-or for his use. 3111.1 the transfer of any property by him are forbidden toy law; :hat a ruseting of thenreUltors of satitt I;l4;dtruin to prove their debts, and choose, one or more toeognees of his estate. will be het/tat a Court of Danktuptey, to be holden at the office of J. N. -SIIA W. In the bnro of Canton, Pa.. before It. A. 311 , :ilerit, F:sq„ Iteglster, on the 10th day of OCT6IIEIt, A.D. le7S, at 11 o'clock A. at MEMO! ORPITA:NS' COURT SA,LE.IIy virtue of en order Issued out of the Orphans' Court of 'Bradford County, the undersigned, exec. ntor of the estate of James Fleetly, tate of 7.4 . 0rth Towanda. deceased, will eipose to public sale on the premises, on WEI4.IOEsitAY. the 2341 day of ocroilEß, mu. at 10 o'clock A. X.. the followlog described real estate In said township: • Bouuderlon the north by lands of Elijah Gran ger, east by lands formerly owned by the estate of Depots 3teMahon, and TIONV owned I,y E. I'. lox, `eouth ny the lands of Mrs. Catherine X. Brady. West by lands of John Devine and the public high way leading from Towanda to luster; contains about 40 aer•s more or less, with a framed h o use, I framed barn, and an orchard of fruit trees thereon, TF.ILMS'Off SALE.-4200 acwa. en confir mation, balance In two equal annual payments, with Interest from 'cottartnation. 111=1:=1 ilyl7-71. Sininess Cards. TOWANDA, -PA \ Notels. EN RY • 11. Ci S to TIIB EVISOCEAN PIA TOAVAND., PA JOIIII SULLIVAN EMI Itf•rzi,tri In Itankrnplcy Towanda. Pa." Sept. 14, I$ 8. trim JOHN H ALI.. S. Marshal, as 31r.o:qtger, Pittsburgh, Sept. i. Ik7B. Totran.la, Sept. 19, 1979-5 w ORPHANS' COURT .SA virtue of an order limed bat of the Orphans' Court of Bradford Ciointy, the undersigned. ad ministrator bf the'estate of George Herten, date of Sheshequin orp, deceased. will expose to public sale ondhe premises, on SATURDAY, the 19th day of OCTOBER, 1870, at 1 o'clitcli, P. Y. the follow. lug described real estate in said township: Bounded on the north by lands of Thomas Tiar. sey,east by lands of John Horton and;ll S Vanelse. smith by lands of Martin Horton, west by lands of Martin Horton and Isaac Heston ; contains 50 acres mom or less, about 40 imp aced, With I framed hoarse. ',fronted barn, 1 framed,sragen house,- and an orchard of fruit trees thereon. TERM OF BALE.--0 down, $950 on colltirtnn• tion or ale, and Met:manes April I, leg. with ap proved security. REUBEN YOUNG. Shestiequin, Sept. Jit,..ins. Administrator. liM A INISTEATORS' NOTICE. A Is hereby given that all persons In. debted to the estateof Joseph Atkins, late of Telma rota twp., deceased, are requested to.make Imme diate payment, end all persona having claims against said estate mast present them duly authuti- Heated for setttrment. • 34)13X / " 7a En ' Administrators.• EMMA. ATKINS, Tuscarora, Pa., Aug. a, ADMINISTRATORS' NOTICE. —Nottee istereny given that all !imam , in debted to the estate at Ebenezer Rogers, late of Ulster twp., deed, are requested to make Immed iate payment, and all persons having claims tan%t salt* estatemust present tbesu dal autrien gai ted tot setttement.- . . OF.OROZ B, ROCKWELL, Administrator. Vbter, Psy Aug. It, U7ll. . . /life 1-' ._ . - _ t ,.:4 . ,:. - .., :,...•;., ~ --- -' • ..,:!---.._,.... r '-':•.- :' . ..?:- . , ~, .. . , . • . . . „ ' - • '- ~ ,- .'s s' . ''' ...l '-, _ . 1.„*".. ' - ::,-. 7. \)) ::: -' ' ' - ' \ \ ,"' - - - , ..,. . . , .. . . ~ ...----- . , . , . . , Bursting from earth la idr of early spring,„ I fotind a Illygrowlng sweet and wild ; And plucked the blossom, snowy:fali, to bring, Aa typo of resurrectioa, to my child; _ With It to show . _ now out of death divinest life might,grow. • I told her then what Easter meant, and wby There seemed such gladness In the World to reign; Why clear.voleed theirs sang so exultantly The, joyful anthem "Christ is risen again r`. That, dying, Ile hied taken from the grave Its victory. BeCanse 'He died and rose again,"" I said, The dirk and shadowy valley none need fear; The little brother that to you . seemed dead Was only on Christ's hosed' heavenly - near;. There is no tomb Can prison or hide the soul's immortal bloom:" O : Impotence of words: Who can explain This wondrous mystery? Anil yet, perchance, Thwaigh one white Mimi 0od•a alti.r xain 3ty child may grasp the towers algulticanco, And, kneeling, say, "A little child 'loth yield her heart to-day —lira. L. C. Whitoni Be ryttlet, restless heart The loug i'ght lies In gleams or lingering sunshine on the 11111; The mtne•bound swallow, twittering as he flies, Makes silence seem more still. ....8125m00 .sa,ooo The shadow's deeper grow, and In the steals The atr latent sweetness holds lu tee ; An odor faint of yet nohlosrotued buds— So like, dear heart, to thee I Far distant ir the soft, cerulean deep, Where Me l horizon hounds the nether world, Great ohips4aecahned, like brooding birds asleep, • Llb with white. tads lame furled'. In Ise ,ee the day Is ended, and tips night Falleth as dues a yell upon the sea; Along its bosom come with svtltt , moinged ttght The gray mists, silen'iy. Q num!. ns heart, how. Natives/K.:lts! Tier power flow leistirely she uses: Ilen* Intense The Infinite pence of her most fruitful honr _ how soft her Infleenee: Time Lath she for herathrtus to sweep the main To rock the tree-top; Wlih her winds ot . wri r ;h; To bring forth (regrew...l to the summer raid; Aild time for show she Lath L'aßEE'l'S • aear 'for all thy, eager soul tles!res, She keeps sweet times and svaseas, In her metal Is Ltld for thee all passlea's subtle tires Tn r..4gd thy womanhood , • Ce)i.se, then MIA dewy twilight more ose who astia not Wilt i‘t r, caros not why ; Thl sgy , t for all holds still the Eternal Love— \t,ilsioendle.s by and by. -75rtna7 Aftein non. • • facv ylf in Love NI ith this.' lairdadr n ed , little yourself shop girl'?" — .. Mr. Meredith, t tall nobleteatured I . man of fifty,look rat her sadily at . Ne . ' his enthusiastic yonng nephew. " Fitney, uncle? Plus is, hard y an appropriate Word to nse. 1 .. au] quite certain of the s ' i \ \/ \ . I suppose sou will consder melt very bad judge of liuman\ehala s eter,f if I tell you that I like lier little cousin's demure fiee bust.\Relieve me, Harry', there is more real sthrnina in Ruth Purr than in her prettis l cousin R a el 2 l." " Tht.r , 2. sir," answered Harry, r % s- olutely, ' is where -I must beg leav6 \ 'to differ from you," - . "'Well, my boy, you must choose . for yourself. : Rernemlier, it is no question of a partner fur a waltz, or a pa,ii of bright eyes whose glitter is to amuse you for ode or two even ings. The woman Whom you how select for your wife must necessarily exert a more or 104 potent influence ,over your whole life." " I know it sir,".and Harry's mirth ful face became ,for the moment almost grave. • . 1 ~ "That she earns her own living be hind the counter of a fancy .store— that they both. do, is no drawback in my eyes. Independ-nee and self re liance arc to me cardinal virtues and even though your wife will be raised inui an atmosphere of comparative wealth, a few les-ons - taken before hand in the impartial school of world ly experience will be of incalculable use Harry' Meredith sat long ; that night, before the snug bright fire in his snug little baelotto'r npartmene, musing over his uncle's words. He bid met the two cousins. Ra ehel and Ruth Purr, at a quiet little birthday gathering at the house of a• Iriend, and had instantaneously telt drawn toward the elder one, elder by eighteen months. She was nbeauti ful blonde, while the other was rather of the brunette type. • . During the three months which had followed upon his first introduction; "Harry Meredith had contrived to see the cousins several times a week and consequently fell dteper in love - with the golden-haired lassie even, while he was quite conscious -of Ruth's deeper character and stronger Intel , Sometimes he was almost tempted to waver in his allegiance toward the elder and - then betook himself _ With very unnecessary sterness to talk. • Tooight, however, be passed the whole of the last kW weeks in review before his memory. and decided that inaction was the `very worst policy in the world. .." This suspense must be put an end to," • ejaculated our hero half aloud, and then he smiled- •mischiev ously to himself,•as an idea came into his head. "I"ll do it," be thought-biting his "Of course it's merely for the fnn of the thing. I have not . the shadow of a. doubt that she is all she seems, but, Ile was silent for a few minutes, and then arose to prepare, for slum-' her. • • "They are polite. enough to me as the favored child of luxury. Now I will take measures to learn whether this courtesy is genuinely .from the heart, or merely rn of empty form and adulatiOn to wealth." So our hero, laying his head on his pillow dreamed of private mas querade parties all night long. • • Rachel Purr and her cousin Ruth were . •shop-girls iu Savory & St. Clair's great fancy store. " Oh, dear!" sighed Rachel, one morning as she took off , her bonnet in- the little dressing-room at the back-of the store antt .shook down her- golden . shower of curler,. "how. tired I am of. this borrid , , drudgery: How l wieh -*ereditttl•WOuld PEoPose bOi golngUi; E. T. FOX. Executor EM fort!. AN NANTES POEN BY AID BY neord. ANTII3G. TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., TIMISDAY MOBBING, SEPTEMBER 26, 1878. 'Ruth laughed as , she smoothed ciown her satin-brown hair, and 'tied the bow of crimson ribbon at her throat. "And.what do you think of me, Rachel? I who have no such bril liant hopes of matrimony to light up the monotony of My daily toil " Rachel shrugged her shoulders. "I don't see how you bear it so patientlY, I should die with vexation and 'ennui' if did not hope for something better." " Hush !"said Ruth," there is Mrs. Wickes the forewoman callincus." "How I hate the old . .vixen!" Rachel *levitated, slowly following Ruth intothe store. . . - Really, - Miss Rachel . Durr.. you must be a little more . punetrral," said MrS. Wickes, pursing up her mouth, primly. " You arc full five minutes behind time, and it was just so, yesterday." Rachel pouted, and Went - to work labeling a box . of newly-arrived rit bons. . She and Mrs. Wickes had never agreed veri harmonionily, nor did she affiliate with the shop : girls., " A stuck . .up impertinent `. thing," they called her;. while - she; from the serene. heights of 'the possibility of one day becoming. Mrs: Harry Mere dith, -treated , them with a disdain which was anything in the world hut agreeable: , - ' • In vain were Ruth's remonstrances. Raehel,had alwayti: been 'willful and ' inclined to Superciliousness, nor 'would she listen to her cousin's m - ild- - ly proffered advice now. • " It's all very well for you, Ruth, you've mat to spend all your days • here, but," e she said cuflingliet ,. pret ty lips, "but I shall soon be lifted outof t 1,14 groveling atmosphere:" "ilt is by no means a ecroirity." "Yes it is," laughingly, answered Rachel blushhig like a damask rose. And Ruth would sigh softly, and think how brightly the future was' unrolling its vast map before her • pretty little cousin. • , Ilathel Durr waited.rather languid. ly upon one er.two customers that Morning. Evidently ,her heart was not in her work, and Mrs. ; Wickes, from her lurking •place behind,: the cash box. cast several . envenomed glances toward her, premonitory to a' coming storm. rrescntly a new customer bobbing iti 'bent. and crooked, and .made his way directly to the. counter where Rachel and Ruth were standing. A huge cotton umbrella .protruded in:a warlike manner from beneath his arms,' and •mended cotton gloves covered his hands, while a rusty red wig was half concealed . by his bent and battered hat. "My goodness! Ruth what a fig ure!" ejaculated Rachel,, in a very audible voice. " What can that old . bundle ,of second-hand clothes want here?" Hush !" said Ruth, almost stern -13, "he will hear you." " And what if he does! What dO,I care ?" " He is old and infirm, Rachel and his age shAuld render him sacred in , ypur \Rachel tossed her head sneering- 13'.\ \\..."Buth you are too abused for any thina . .\ I won't wait on him." . lit the old men steered resolutely, for ftcliel \ herself. • " I 'want to buy. some gloves Miss,' , he said a \ feeble, creaking voice. " You ''d better go somewhere else,", said the 3'ount:,l\ lady, supereilionsly,; "our story dosen't keep .cheap goods." " Please let e see the articles." 'Rachel tosicka box 'down on the taunter; the old\man \ bent his spec tacled eyes down to.:\survey the (roods. . • "How much are the a?" " A dollar a pair." • " But lam a poor man Miss have you nothing cheaper?" \ "\o!"• .snappediliachel. "I told you to go elsewhere, I've no p tienee with paupers:" 1 • • • " I beg your pardon 31iss,"said the Old map; " ram not a pauper," \ " Well," observed the girl, scorn fully, "you look like one!" "Appearances are often deceitful: Did you tell me you .had cheaper (doves ?" • "I didn't . saYanY such thing?" "Rachel! Rachel !" remonstrated her cousin./"Lk me show you what you want,Sir," she said, softly turn ing to the old customer. Wehave some very nice gloves at seventy-five centa." "Seventy-five cents is a great den' of money to pay fora pair of gloves,' said' the old man, looking sorrowfully down upon . the mended fingers of these he wore. " but the weather is getting very frosty, and I am not so young as I was." " I should 'think that was quite evident,". said Rachel with a heart- - less titter. Ruth bent toward the old man, saying in a low, sweet voice, "'fake the warm worsted, gloves sir'. The price is seventy-five cents, but you shill have them for fifty. .1 myself will make up the difference to the store. You ,are an old gentleman, and I'am young and able to work." "But I am nothing" to you, Miss." With folded the gloves neatly in. a piece of paper and handed them to him. " For the sake of :the dear father who died a year ago, old as can never be nothing to me, sir. Please don't thank ma, indeed I .deserve no aratitude." And Ruth drew blushingly back; while. Rachel burst into a laugh. " Upon .my word, . Ruth; you are the greatest fool I ever saw!" she cried, - while the old gentleman hob bled out of the 'store. "I would have. seenthe - old beggar.in Jericho before I would have ;given him. anything. Why' dosen't he go to' 'the. poor house?" . _ - • The ,days crept on andyone day Mr.. Harry .Meredith, astonished little'. Ruth Durr very much by asking her to bee - his wife. , It was if the gates of Paradise had been suddenly opened to her—tbe modest little girl, secretly worship. ins Marry Meredith in her- heart. of hearts, had never - dreamed of the possibility. f such good luck being in stwe for her.. —• . _ That even she told ber comiki; Rachel- listened in aihome. ~• . • A REGARDLESS OP DENUNCIATION PROM ANY iatIARTIOL had•been Very near her grasp once, but.somehow it had slipped away. ".1 think you must •be mistaken Ruth," she said acrimoniously. I think Mr. Meredith never would—" She checked herself, for at that' in sant- the door opened, and Harry Meredith was announced. " Well, Rachel." he said pleasant ly, "are you ready to congratulate tee upon the sweet little wife I have won,?', s, Rachel 'muttered one or two for mal sentences but she was very pale. Meredith observed her with a sufile. " Ruth," he said, turning with smile, "-I have something, to shoini' you." - lie put a tiny puce] in her band. She opened it, and out fell a pair of worsted gloves. - She looked wistfully' into his ficP, 'and then. the_whole tide of memory came back upon - her Wirt. " Harry ! were you the old man ?" " I was the old' man - my dearest?" And eaten Rachel knew why it was. thus ;he ship 'freighted with all her hopea had drifted away, when it was so near to haven. THE ICE SUPPLY OF NEW YORK*, The Catskill Recorder says : Trav elers on the Hudson frequently see tows made upiof huge white ; barges, solidly bi t tilt 'and. inclosed, each with a wind-mill 4' work pumping out the hold. These fleets are-nfet,daily and, are the. barges of the Knickerbocker lee'CoMpany, which run with clock work regularity, and deliver in the Metropolis the quantity Of' ice to meet the ever-Varying demand:. As the wastage , : on ice is very rapid after it is taken from the' houses, the demand has to. be closely calculated and, the transportation gnaged to•ex aetlt Ineetit, and have no surplus for I ss. This branch of the business is quite a science in itself, and is un der the charge of Superintendent Conklin, a gentleman well known here, who . fins, the general superintendence iu winter. of the stocking of the contany's houses from• ltrondont nort fir. % Conk- Tin's freighting fleet , cOmprises six powerful propeller steamers, of which, the Saxton and Proniethens ,are thl largest, and seventy baraeS,,With car rying capacity ranging from 410: to 1,- 3(:0 tons each,all in charge of first-class men. ,Ewm 5,000 to 10,000 tons of ice are thin daily arriving in the 'city or on the way. The principal dis tributing , stations are at the foot of Twentieth street, North river, and at -the foot of Canal street, although Carges ape towed to Brooklyn, Jer..ey ity, Staten Island, and other local .stations. - We visited these .wo sta tionsn Saturday—the • liVeliest places itown—to witness the mode of operations. The delivery wharf at_Canal street - is nearly 1000 feet in length, With 'moils, for four barges to unload At, once if' necessary.. Hoist ing engines and shaftino , stipply power at any point. Hundreds of wagons were crowding to the plat -form and gangs 4 f men were rattling the huge ice-eAkes out of .tlid barges at a rapid rate. At the fos Of Twen: tieth street is the repair shop and stables of the Knickerbocker COm pany, which occupies an entire block. On Saturday nine forges were in full blast in the shop -principally on re pairs to steamboata, ?tools, wagons, etc. - A large engine supplies power for the machines in the repair shop. tihrace Bennett is in charge of the machine Shop, and Orrin Bennett, vicepresident, is superintendent of the stables and the delivery to ens tomerst The business of the Knick erbocker Company has rapidly grown to mammoth proportions; it employes a small army of men, and.is managed .apparently with a judgment and ener gyllof which few corporations eau, beast. Between fojtir and' aye mil liens of dollarsare inivesied. and the concern is as sold as the Bank of England °tithe , United States govern ment, 'and bids fair to keep Its busi llessinereAing with the rapidly grow ilkr demands of New York and neighboring cities. It expends many `hundreds of thousands of dollars in this section every winter When the \ ... moneyos, of great advantage to la - boret.t, and pays a large sum fur local ____\_____:......___ _., • I,XOI. . Just pow- here\are to . Je found in the suburbs oiour`e c ities and at va rious places were Water and :wood are plenty, ramp of those curidus tramps known sui gloms. People visit such encampments 'to gratify their curiosity' about `a strange and mysterious • people, ',or t‘o have their fortune told : by some t a hered . old hag of the 'and, and co i r e \ ctiy as l wise as they' went. lf you .sk the 1 Men who a e engaged in :t `ding horses, or.the women. who ;:are cook ing pr idling . around,.they wll pre b ablY tell you that theirkef. the came originally froM Egypt or Ethi opia, generally the latter ' as Egypt seems to'have fallen into disfavor. The t gipsies seem to - have been driven from Indiant the time of the invaiion'of Timm, the Tartar, and to have journeyed to European Tur key and Transylvania, from Whenee porticins.of them Spread, -, during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, to . other palts of Europe. A fewt words in their argon betray the route they. took., Tiirkey . and Ifungary aitotbeir, central abode even non: : They. are there numbered is a distinct race, and though thpusands 'have melted into other races,- their nuMbers; as I ascertained by - the most recent , een-, !sus, amount _to .25(4000 in Turkey and about Iso,ooo in Hungary. They are a 'fecund race, marrying at an early age, and were it not for their. habit 'of dropping off .into civilized habits, where ;their identity is soon lost, would haie increased enormous- i ly.ii If . we take those who-nre ehor re (half - blood) into account, - .the gi y race inthe aggregate ..counts lia millions, d probably,Outnum - - bets the Jews through the world, not as mulch as it does in Turkey, where . .it has four to one, _bat appreciably. The European idvent.-was by way of Germitty. and Italy, and.in the for, mer cow try with some. preteneion. When they came to &Wand., and Ireland , Is ,not pd.* aritin,. :bat. the llelielbrta f ir*7 aidendAtt*l . , '-...F ,,, ::A - :-.4Eiz' 4 3 1r.44;:iteij;•4* - L - ... ~,,,-,a4gto. g s-...A,7, - -_iwr:sv-N:,;•*r.zvtkzi?lkt ;,-' CI onrof Bomb*. in the beginning of fifteenth 'century, for having slain tvalitain•of. a , •band of a wandering Saracens,". had probably ,killed a glpsy raja. ' But they. managed to impose on people of. authority there as they.dial before in Gertnany.. • In England the gipsios came later:' Neither Henry 111. nor his unprinci pled and cruel .dnughters, Elizabeth and Mary, were ever deceived by gipsy; pretensions. They fulminated fierce 'edicts againeti, the rovers, who increaied . in spite of them., 'They set the laW at defiance or evaded it, con cealed their origin. as mitekas poSsi and.beto.ok themselves to tinker-_ ing and Oddling earthenware, min" gled with a little fortune-tellinrand, a deal Of petty ticeft. • There are communities in the United States all of gipsy blood,and have net men'and women in the moun tains of Virginia whom I now believe to be g;psies,althongh then I did not know it. • Since I. have become ac quainted with their patter,• I • have ,discovered thein by that several time's... They did not always. reply, a.slhey inight hive done had they picked it' up like myself, but they mostly showed that they knew what .it meant, though they denied under- Siandinfr it. • • "How many gitisies are there in the. United States ? They are estimated variously from 500 to 50,000, but thefe is no mode of getting a , census Which shall approach, accuracy. Of the tent dwellers there are' probably I,otlo-, ,divided into twenty bands Or moee. But. of alt who claim gipsy' blond, including the choordes or half breeds, I should think 20,000 would be " an Under-estimate. "New York city has severarthousand. The'de sc~ndhnts or Rothrnanies ate found everywhere—in trades and• profes sions—notably among hoMe jockeys, thimble-riggers; . Peter Funks, and the confidence men ; or the bar (on both sides of it), en the bench, at the sick man's bedside, on the prairies of the West, .and in the geld diggings.' At least:one; if not two, of the Vice- I'residents of the United 'States:have had gipsy blood in their veins. There are some names that suggest gipsy, at once ' • but as these are borne by many of Greek stock; they need not be given. But about them ail— Ore blood or half-blood—there is d tendency, to the nomad life. The race ;is wild and tameless, place it lo7v,you GOOD I'AIE92 There can be no doubt that,.as each person now', living- has had• a father and mother, graiidfathers and grandinothers, and so on, every' one really : comes of as old a family 24 every one else. Moreover -every living eldestson is the heirmaleOf either the senior or a junior branch, not only of the family of the man wild first bore his name, b►it of progenitors hidden still deeper in the mists of antiquity. We so often hear, of-families either dy - -ing out altogether or ending in females that we coins to think that •such a fate is the eventual end of all fathilies; but this is far from being the case. Every man living; could, if he only knew where to find, the data, count up from soul to father; from father to' grandfather, from generation • to generation, until he came to Adam himself. And this is the great di&rence between good families and 'families of all other kinds •' theinetubers of a good family' can tell who their forefathers were, where they lived, and whoinrtlicy, married ; while thoie who belong to no families in particular are classed in a body as those! who don't know their own grandfather, or who per haPi never had any to know.. The goodness of a family depends much more/bn **number of the known gett6.atilans than on any other condi tion. (liven two families in which the unmbers of recorded generations are 'equal, doubtless the family" whose member ha •e been the more illustri ous would . e; reckoned the bet of the. two: but a family of Only tiWO three generations, however, ill ustri ons their Members might ha - ve- been, would certainly not constitute what is known us a good family: As- in the case of many 'popular ideiis, there is some little substratum or reason in this belief. If to be educated unit cultivated is an :object of . amhition, and if there is any i in the doctrine of heredity, it may be supposed, that the tuembeys of a ;family who,have been of iitiportance enough to leave their names scattered on. the -bank of the river of .time have •.lid a bet ter chance of being polished, and of handing dosin their god qualities to their Posperity than thoe. Who were 'swept away by the tide with out : leaving any markta. JOHN . AMPHLETT, P9pitlar . St.'lintee fur September. TIIE - Goon . AND TREE MAN. _ " Blessed is the man," says David. " who walks in -the way .of, the Lord \ and 'in 1.1 . 6 law bath delight" There la no excitement here, only duty. This, we take it, is . the. portrait of the - I.rue and good man, as distin guislied from those w.lio are alwayS talking\ahout religion and doing no thing of sit. The truelove of God is a moral sentiment, faunded on a clear percep tion of His m>Ectal perfections. Thus it clearly me co with i thelOve of \r virtue, rectitude d. goodneia.. In judging thestire iind decisive sons of piety, we lay no sires onexcitements; We esteem hilt4 - and • tip only, a -pi ons man who practicall • conforms to • God's moral perfections and govern ment ; who shows his deligh - in God's benevolence. by . serving an `loxlng his'neighbor ;- his delight in God's justice by tieing resolutely upright ; his sense of.Goil's purity by keep 7 his . thatights and desire: in subje - don ; whose' thought, conversation, bnsinesi and domestic life are swayed by God'S presence and authority; In all things, else, • men . may , . deceive, theinselves. The question is, "Do they love God's cOmmandti in which His character is fully expressed, and give lop to these their habits of pas sion?"' - This 'is 'the. truo teat, and they Who -will no . t - eonsent to be tried .by its'a;e buv.wretebed.aelrdecnivnin and connt.ertnitn.-:.:. . • .; -;Jurnes - "onitais-bildpkg ne ',44&414,4, NM THE urnmsiso ORA= fihe picked a little daisy dower - iyith , frltige of snow and heart of gold ; AU pure wtthout and warm within— l'And Mood to have her fortune told. /1 "Ile loves me," low, she musing said, / And plucked the border teat by Waft, • "A little—too much—not at ail— With truest heart—beyond belief.. little—too mush—not at all rang the changes o'er and o'er; The tiny leallets notteted down, And strewed the meadow's grassy floor. "A, little—too much—;not it all— With truest beast ”—oh, magic Wet: An, hiollahtask, to measure out Love•e.aatuo on a dalay teat For as sho pulled the latest leaf With "ant at ail," I heard her say, " much you know, you silly flower, He'll lore me till his dying day." —]fart' Ainge.de l'ere. IF WE WOULD If we would but check the speaker When lie eriligl his neighbor's fame; It we would but help the erring • Ere we utter words of blame; If sic would, how ninny might we Trop from paths or Mu and titanic. Ah, the wrongahat might be lighted If we would bat ;fee the way: All, the pains that might be lightened Every hour and every day, If we would but hear the pleadings Of the hearts that go atitray. • Let us step outside tlie sttoughold Of our selfiblinets and pride; Let us lift our fainting brothers, Let 11:4 strengthen ere we chide; Let uS, ere we hluine the fallen, ' Reid a light to cheer and guide. Ah, how blessed—ab,.Lior blessed . Earth would belt ae•d but try • . Thus to ald and right the itt , aker; Thus to:check.eaell i.rothers sigh, Thus to talk of duty•„ pathway, To our better life on high. In eaelilife. however lowly, • . There :we seeds of 'nighty good ; Still we shrink from appealing timid "II we rwild:— But aOod, who I tulwe..l all tings, .KnoWs the truth le, "11 we -Would.." " ASHAMED OF you." Among the siords which, by daily use,. have almost lost their sense, T Are those . of common reproach, as weWas those of portimon comfort. But there, may be found in them; upon consid-', eration, .a great deal' of meaning, es pecially for instance, in the three words at the head of this article. . . Motheri have theM .pat for their un ruly children, amt the look of the maternal countenance proves ithat the speaker means what she says, whether 'the young transgressors ree •ognize the weight of the reproof or not, And , often the vexed and wor- ricil face renders words unnecessary to establish the fact that the parent is heartily and truly, ashamed of her offspring. In the saloon of an•txeur sion steamer, for instance, a troop of unefirbed boys (tzirl-a- behave better) Will . I)ounce:on the ottomans, upset the chairs, and damage the uphols tery generally, make a race course of the carpet, slide down the liana-rail of the balusters, and whoop like In.: dians, while the company of passen gers are annoyed beyond expression, and •the mothers feel guilty of their breach of the perice Nyhich they are powerless to 'prevent. The "excur sion " for them IS penance, and they inwardly resolve thatit shall noV be repeated. But it is repeated again and again. The charitable sentence which some bachelor essayist has. passed upon boys, that they ought to be hung up by the waistbands 'to kick and grow until they reach years of discretion, cannot—be carried. out. And it is, moreover, too sweeping. ' There are - very many proper boys • who are not troublesome, and there are More who annoy nobody bd - their own parents. This isn thing. of -coat - se, and need not be 'talked about. ' The sensible dvfinitipit of children is that they are " troublesOme comforts," and the trouble is forgotten in the comfort. The parental instinct. is *stronger than the natural\ aversion to racket, and the Sensible mart or woman finds more to like than to dislike in the little roq.bes, who cling•. around their elders with tendrils somewhat rou , ' , ll land sometimes even thorny: Bat in operative upon children, the reproof " I .am'asliamecl of you" ought to have more force than it has with young men, and even with the mid dle-aged and the elder. _ Of course, it will be understood that the person who feels ashamed ,of another is in most cases the aggrieved mother, sister or wife. The mother is used to it. So is the sister. • The boy: cannot be expected to care, even if his mother does, what Mrs. Grundy mil say. Nor can he feel the im portance of substantiating his sister's ` description of hiMself, given to her schoolmate and most intimate of in— timate- friends, Laura Matilda. Ile will offend the properties., and all the more . that . he sees by. the twinkle of Laura Matilda's eyes that she really enjoys his sister's discomfiture. Lau ra has an uncouth brother ofher own, of whom she is ashamed upon state occasions, and she is not-displeased to find a . companion in misfortune. -But after all,:' brothers might conde seend to leave off the bear, when they know that the hearts of mother and sister are set upon their making a good repreSentation of themselves. -These may be matters of - small, moment, it is true, but not so, very small,. either. "Just as the twig is bent," AC. The young man who dee's not - care if his mother or sister is - asharried of him, puts on a ranch more pleasing deportinent when he gravitates toward his fate in - the :per son,of the young woman he is about to marry'. Gradually he becomes humanized. It will not do for her to. be ashamed of him. In her - presence he can even be studiedly courteous to his sister, and his lips 'avoid Um expressions of pitying depreciation of which' he is not ashtured usually. to speak of women. The soft dream lasts till the words are spoken Which `r.enilet - disguise on hiii part, - and on he rS too, no longer necessary. Aud the)k- she is ashamed - of the husband p r 7 who \ refers low'aisociates over his own fa' ily, who disregards the cour tesies o i ife when no outside specta tors are ptent,and . WbO even proves s iii his friefitish' . - for intimates by permitting - - em. to -sec him as 4 his - .wife sees him ways: .I He feels .no shami l 4tft she \She has ceased to. , thifik_ j aW- - it4as . lieefizatiii, habit tif "d4iiiik*Whiii; - ',Tt;4:,.:',.7 1it .*'..-;.]-]:1 . .fl***l4lol 4 o - tf: qjbiaAilt* WAtild, ,,-- 1.41e.:4X , _ letareisg:LLini - sr ` . , • . -,-- , r .-- .'. • • . 'r i '.7. - • ' ' .. . - ,..i - , •:•::,:-,--•.''. :!--..'-• .:' '--= .. . . ..._. , . , . . . . .. .- • ..., - •.. _ . . , - , . .. . . ~ . , . -... • , , . . • ... . . . . . • _ . . . , ..• - . , . . . . . , ~..... . . , . . .. .. , . overdrawn ? For all except the ,worst; cases, it is. But it would de tract nothing from the friendship with which boys are tre4ed, and the dignity which: manhood claims, if the words ftem women "I am usliamed of your were more heeded. In the small courtesies of life—in language deportment, dressthere are thou: sands of good men whose women friends tire ashamed of them. Why 'is it that the women must so often speak of their men in a tone'of apol ogy. and almost in words and quite in manner beseeCh Hot to thinktliey are as bad as they seem ? In the wretched audience of, the police the heart-broken wife persists - in saying that her husband would ba the best OT men—if he would not drink ! This, to be sure, is one of the last points on thes down-hill read. But are there not other g rades at which a true man may stop to think wheth er his wife is ashamed of him or not —and if ,so, Ashy ? And also whether be could - not, if the Would, make 'her proud of him? '‘, FACTS WORTH KNOWING. • . • As . flies are said to eat , animal-: cules in impurnair, thus removing the seeds of disease, leanness 'lns fly is priina facie evidence of purnair in a house, while corpulency indicates ford wall-paper and bad ventilation., _Talking of n foul and freshi'atmos phere, - there bas-lately been adopted in India .a novel method of giving change of air to people who , cannot afn,rd'fo !Cave home. Patients go up in'a })aloon,•which asCenda to a cer tain.'hcicht, .and there made cap- tive..4 seems that a few days passed in this atmosphere, .Which is. quite different from that on the plains-be neath, temporarily braces up. the most languid of invalids. - The im portance to health of free -perspira tion no leSs than of fresh. air, .and . what dangers arise from perspiration being' suddenly checked, has been proved by the fact that a person cov ered completely with a ,compound, Impervious to moisture, will not live over six,,hours.. - On the occasion of some *papateeremonies a poor child was, once gilded all over with varnish and gold-leaf to-represent the Golden Age.. No wonder- that it died in a few .hours, when we consider that the amount of liquid matter which passes through the pores of the skin in twenV-four hours in an adult - person of sound. • health, is- about sixteen fluid . minces, or ,one pint. Beside thiS,. a large - amount of Carbonic acid —a. gaseous body—pasSei through the tubes; so we-cannot fail to see the importance of keeping them in perfect working order. by frequent ablutions or other means. It has ofteit been stated that, oen lay weakness and dise4es in.various forms appear to have been rapidly increasing in recent times. Dr. Lor ing, in discussing before the .New York 'County Medical Society. the seriOus'question, o'ls tie human eye gradually changing its form under the hifluenceof modern civilization?" confirms the,opinion, so-kr at least as . short-sightedness is .concerned. Constant study, now incidental to the lives of. so many, has, he says, a tendency to engender this derange ment, of the.eye, and it - is often trans mitted to descendants. In his opin ion, near-sightedness . .is a disease of childhood;:and rately . derelops itself after-the fifteenth.or eighteenth year. On e±amining the eye; of - over two thousand scholars in the Neir York public'ichools, Pr. Loring.found that the . propOrtion of those in a healthy condition We \ re eighty-seven per cent. among children under seven years, while betweeit \ that age and twenty one the proportlon:of normal t eyes was but sixty-One* rwhich shows,. he thin.ks, that near-sightedness increas es" directly with -the, age to' which schoolina is extended.:• In Konigs, berg.; Germany, • he fourid considcra- . bly more than half the 'poPulation were short-sighted ,• and iti,Ameriea it is More commonly met with among the. older 'Eastern cities than the new ones - of-the West. Among the 'most prominent causes of the ,disease are, in his opinion, a c sedentary life, poor food, 'bad ventilation, and general' dis:reg.aril of hygienic requirements— all: conducing, to a laxity of - tissue. of which near-sightedness is an in dication: AU • unexpected friend to man, bai been digeovered in a kind of animal cute . engendered . by sewage, which prevents the decomposing'' matter from becoming a dangerous nuisance. Mr. Angell, the public analyst for Hampshire, having examined the sewage-polluted fluid. in Southamp to'n Water, has discovered 'that where the suspended matters are thickest there is going on a silent destruction_ of foul matters, through the agency :of millions of the, minute creatures, by some held to be -- ef animal, but by Mr: Angell believed to be of vegeta , ble origin. - On examining the muddy fluid. through a microscope, it was -found ._to contain mNriads of little brawn organisms; surrounded with a gelatinous substance. Each, speci men was found to be active in its mOvernents' and of peculiar shape, lain!? furnishedivith a belt of ,cilia round the, centre of the body, and watt. a long transparent and.. very flexible hail. After death, these tiny atoms give off an odor similar to that of7sea:weed and . change - to a sgreen color. During life they-evolve bubbles of otygen.gas; which serve to :parity the water from the effects of the deCompoSing-maitcr on which they themselves feed. It:- is. a pity, however, that- man, by polluting riv ers with sewage, should stand so much _in need of these necessary scavengers. . Wiisi• we want is Work and pay° for doing it," said the tramp. "What kind of work?" said abyStaraler. " I,Tuload inf.; -schooners." replied the incipient' -Communist—"beer schooners.". 11 Vitrre boy met a colored lad the otts'Oe day and asked him what he had such a short nose for:? " I %wets so's it won't poko itself into other people's business." "PAPEn,. sir?" asked the- newsboy. " I never readi" was the blunt an-. Imes. " lli, boys, come here,".. called out the gamin ; "here's a map as is practisin' for_the jury !" • - $2 per Annum In Advance. NUMBER 17. FUN, FACT AND TACCBTLY. I REA:n my winless that confidence is man is utter folly, rand brings sorrow to the soul ; but I am more than ever certain that confidence in God is always wise, never leads to disappointment, and never causes regret. Tun love of glory, the fear of shame, the design of making, a - fortune, the de. sire Cif renderineßfe easy• and agreeable, and the hnmor of pulling down - other pea: ple are often the cause of that valor -so celebrated among men. CARRY the .radiance of your sold In your face. • Let the world have the benefit of it. Let your cheerfulness be felt for good wherever you 'are, and let -your smiles be created like sunbeams "on the just as well as on the unjust" • TilEltE is novowee like that of oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by - captivating their affec tions and swaying their passions. Thie In fluence of one perished with its-author ; that of the other continues to this day. Taunt is tough. It will not break like a bubble, at a teach ; nay, you may kick it about all day , like a foot ball, and it will be round and full at evening. Did 'not Mr. Bryant say that truth gets well if she is run over by ti locombtiire, while error dies of lockjaw, if she scratches her fin ger? - Tim financial wrecks of our times, the miseries endured by so-called -"sucoeasful men," the ups and downs of commercial life and the general unhappiness of the very rich, ought to teaCh the Philosophy of contentment to those who enjoy a - in). spectable and modest income, without cares or harassments. Gen before and above all things ! Such is the command, such is the law, and our very reason acknowledges: it. Every in threat should be sacrificed, every obliga-, tion cancelled; for the furtherance of this = supreme duty. You seek Jesus, you look r consolation and joy of the sonV; serve . God, pray to Him, end you will this come face to face with Jesus ; you will find con solation Of spiritual joy. Gor; ever sees not only our outward ac- . tions, but the inmost thoughts of our hearts. And not only so, but he is . con- stantly watehing ns with more 'than a - father s solicitude ; net to blame, and re-' buke, and overcome, and condemn, but to . prompt, and help, and encourage us in ev ery rightleeling, end every struggling ef fort. to please him. What an incentive to diligeneel What amotive to live so as to • honor him THF. Christiadmnst stand in a postale to. receive every message whieh God shall scud, whether it be by his Word. spoken - through the preacher, or+ . any other. lie must be so prepared as to be like one who is called to,set out on a sudden journey, and has nothing to do but to set out at a moment's notice, or like a merchant who has goods to.send abroad, and has" them all packed up;and in reailiness for the first sail.: I THERE is no place oti earth where hu man feet stand so burdened with fearful responsibilities to God and to man, as the pulpit of salvation. " Put off thy shoes from oft thy feet," said God to Moses in the presence of the burning bush "for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground." " Keep thy foot when thou p eat to to the ffeuse of God," said Solomon. Invisible angels stand around every pul pit, and the Son of God is 'there looking on, and sees and.hears". REST. Many:, _a woman who cannot afford plenty 'of help, wears hersclf out when she need not do sod by adding unnecessary work. I ilike pretty things ; tucks, mines and embroidely are great additions to garments; and so are pies, pudding and preserves to the table ; but if the day is full); oc eupted in Making plain garmentsand preparing plain meals, the hours that are needed for rest should not be en croached' upOrk by the useless trim mina of the dress, and often unwhole some extras of the repast.. Work is good for 'every-healthy person,- but rest is good also ; and we have minds' as well as bodies.. We- . may make .slaves of ourselves, and that is 'no 1 , more right than to make slaves ,of others. To be clean and whole is, a' duty ; to be wholesomely fed is, also a duty; but I sifould like to preach to some women I have known until they really feel that the body is more than raiment, that to keep strong eyes, a straight _back and a sweet tem per, is better for one-ilin is a mother than to have her children clad in elaborate earments, which it 'takes hours and hours to ,iron and flute. Good material, perfect Oletinliness, and plain hems, or straight, flat biro- , 'Dings of some kind will make any children—look - well-dreised; and in their season a dessert of fruit tastes -I?etter and does more good than all the - pies and puddings that can' be inanufactured. Make your 'work as eakir,us - consistent with utter cleanli ness and tidiness, and save some hours for walking with your children, for readintr; talking with your has= band, and\even for sitting utterly idle in the 'twilight of -a summer's *day, or before,the firelight of a win; ter's evaling. .- „ PTEIE E IDEMIC 01' 'DRUNKENNESS.-- Drunkenness has been by many be lieved to be on the increase, at any rate in higher circles. It is curious to note that , just 150 years ago an epidemic of drunkenness seemed to -- break out in England. The passion for gin drinking had got hold of the masses, and the result - was, in Lon don at least, that increase in the pop ulation was almost wholly checked. Before gin became popular- the con sumption of beer was enormous. Almost a third of the aifible land in • the country was devoted to barley. in 1688 with a population of 5,000,- 000, very nearly 12,000,000 barrels - of beer Were brewed. I.IP to this time-our distilleries were very insig nificant, and French brandies were far too dear for the - masses. • But hatred to France led to the:encour agement of horne ; the trade was thrown open, and in 1689 the importation of foreign spirits was absolutely prohibited. Then gin drinking began, and in 1735 the British distillers manufactured near ly 5,000,000 gallons. Gin cellars where men could, get ";drank for a - • penny, lend drunk for twopence,and have a straw for nothing,” abounded. Hogarth's "Beer Street" 'is ' . -bad' enough, bnt his "Gin Lime" is so horrible that, .but for ethiteraporary descriptions, we slordd deem it an exaggeration.. Legislation endeav ored Lb check the evil, brit la rug on a beery duty merely produced a great deal of illicit distilling. T 1 0 .3 consumption arose to more than 1 1 ,- 000,000 gallons, and Fielding prOpk-' eeied that, "if the drinking ot this _ _ I II ~~~ f 1
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