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VOLUME _ XL.
Ala! bow sad to took before us ,
Every year;
Whlle,tbe - cloud grows darker o'er us
Every year;
When we see the blossoms laded.
That to bloom we might have aided,
And Immortal gartattds braided
Every year.
To the past go more dead /aces
Every year,
As the bred lean 'vanilla peaces ,
Every year;
Everywhere the Sad eyes meet us,
In the eventur dusk they greet us,
And to come 0 them entreat us
„Every year
Feb 27, •79
"You eau wtn no new affection,
"You tlat•e only recollection,
Deeper sorrow and dejection,
"Every,yene,"
[novt•7-76
Yes! the shores of life are shifting
And we are seawar I drifting .
Every yea
Old places, changing„fret
The living more forkt us,
There are fewer to regret us
Every year.
But the truer life Artave ulglwr
Every year.
And Its morning-star climbs taklier
'Every year. '
Earth's hold on us'grows . sllgh ' ter,
And the heavy burden lightnr,,
And the Dawii Immortal brighter,
• Every year. —Albert POE
L. Et.stutze.
" Get in, gentlemen and ladies
get in! get - in !"
The conductor's hoars.e shout was
followed by a general - rush and a
pell-mell scramble all along the lines;
first, second, third class were filled in
the twinkling of 4or eye , the doors
shut and locked with a bang, and the
train, prancing and curveting among
-walls and buildings, picked its way
in and out, holding breath'
-prepara
tory to settling into its long, Steady
swing over miles of open country.
Inside there were.preparations go
ing on, too; a munching of iiand-
Wiches, a changilig, of stiff hatsland
bonnets,, a tucking up of rugs! and
shawls, indicated that the passengers
generally were makiffg themselves
comfortable for Ali- night.. But in
the first-class compartment, No. 31,
nothing of this sort; was taking place.
On the rack above were two travel
ing'-bags, two packets of wraps, while
on -the • cushion below was only =one
very quiet and •bewildered-looking
young damsel. This -was the situa
tion in a nutshell : the damsel's trav
eling companion had been left behind.
It was an excessively-stupid pro- ceeding on ids part, certainly ; bat if
there was one. thing harder than
another for Jack' Davenant to resist,
it was di crowd. So When, at this
station, just . oast, he riaw ,a very
tempting crowd indeed pressing and
gesticulating under the lamps on the
other side of the -line; it seemed: to
hint thal the few Minutes' halt coal('
not lie better employed than in in
vestigating it. This . was easily
enough done,-but, like the Avernian:
descent, recocare gradnin - was quite
another thing. By a dexterous flank
movement his beloved crowd got him
into its very midmost, where lie was
struggling when the door of his car-,
. e,
riage closed with that sudden bang
aforesaid; and while .his-sister, was
anxiously watching Air him from the
opposite window.
-- Miss Florence Davenant sat 'still
4nd reviewed.lhe situation. • here
a girl of - eighteen, utterly
unused to travel (aerie embarked on
jporney among strangers, in
a strange land, whose uncouth speech
as it still seemed to her—Was
equally difficult to her ear.and tongue
it; as she believed, the train went
straight through to Berlin, she had'
only to sit quiet and go with lit—
t twos the least of all her troubles;
but whit to do then ?—where to'go ?
She did not know to which hotel
..John had meant to go '• did not think
he knew hiteself; and how were they
to find each other when the next
train - brought him ?—for that the
next train wonht bring him an right
she had not doubted, after the first
natural anxiety.• remembering that
the crowd had seemed rather'eurious .
than threatening,., and that nobody
had shown :lily excitement about it.
No, the °elk question was; what
should she do t—what could she:do . ?
" Ten Minutes' stop !" The *or
was, flung open, and the words,ihrown
in by,a flying conductor;already'out
of sight down the. line, and Miss
Florence roused herself out of , the
musings which had completeliab. ,
sorbed her to the perception ithat
they were halting . in a large statiOn;'
and that she was intolerably thirsty.
her brother Jack,. just before his
crowning achievement of•-gettitig
himself left, had teased her into
'drinking a glass of beer, which firey
beverage, to an. unaccustomed palate,
had .parched her lips rod 'throat, to
heat that give her some- idea of
the desert thirst she bad - read about:
Fortunately she was not in a desert.
She looked out eagerly, but at this
lime of night no small purveyors to
thepublie were jingling their trays
up and down ; scarcely a figure was
to be seen all - along the.platform 'A.
few, lamps glimmered through - the
darkness, some outside, some behind
dim window-panes,-one of .the latter
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Jan. 1, 1.175
MDMI
E. J. ANG,LIt
TOWANDA, PA
-6125,000
... 66,000
Ar 111.187.0
Mita
Soeir.
EVERT YEAR.
Thi spring h a s IcesOr brightneu
Every yrar ;
And the mow &ghastlier whiteness
Every year .
Nor do summer cowers quicken,
Nor autumn fruitage thicken,
43 they once did, fur we sicken
Ertl year.
It is growing darker, colder
Every fear; -
'As the heart and soul gro v" Older
Every year;
reare not now for dancing,
Or for eyes with passion glancing—
Love Is Iceland leas ontnanclog •
Every year
Ot the loves and sorrows blended
Every year ;
Of.rtfte charm■ of, ftlerlship
Every year; '
Of the ties that still might Moll me, ~
Until Time to Death resigned tue,-
My Intirmitiort remind inn • •
Every year• .
• You are growing old,'• they tell us,
Evety year ;
Lou are more alone,'• they tell us,
Ever) year
Every year,
- - _
ael rted e,ale
•
T,F.FT BEHIND.
NM
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tantalizing her with glimpses of a
ghostly array of bottles, and glasses
about the presiding genins•who lean
ed among them, with a moathi.so ex
pressively open that one could almost
see the melody that must be issuing
from, it. Florence sat debating with
herself a minute or two, till, in des
peration, she jumped out and made
her way to the lighted window. It
was a shabby sort of place inside—
in fact, though she did not know it,
the . third-class waiting - room—and
she half stopped, doubtfully, but, the
disreputable-looking sleeper, waking
up with that suddenness peculiar to
such public functionaries, demanded
her pleasure, first, yawning and then
staring in her face while he served
her. She set the glass down in
nervous hurry, and asked what as
to pay.
" A kiss, my pretty Fraulein;" an
swered the man, laying his grimy
hand, on her arm. She screamed, and
just then a neat, blow frinn some.:
where sent the grinning head spin
ning down among its own bottles,
with a great crash of glais. Florence
started round to find herself face to
face with a young man of very gen
tlemanly appearance, who addressed,
her first in liernian, and_then, ap she
looked bewildered, in excellent En
glish.
" You . have missed your way, I
think," Said he. ." Can I be of any
assistance ?"
" Oh; thank yoU," said she, rather
confusedly,. If I were only-back in
the carriage—"
, " I will take you there_ if you per
mit. These are not the most delight
ful sort of people for a young lady to
encounter alone," said the new
comer, glancing contemptuously to
ward the fallen
. hero, who by this
time had picked himself out of the
bottles, and was feeling himself gin
gerly, as If to make, sure there 'was:
'igithing worse than glass broken,
evidently not -quite understanding
what had happened to him. The
stranger did not . wait for Lim to
make sure, but hastened Miss Flor
ence away and put, her back • in N.
31. Then hesitating, with his hand
on the door, he said, with a smile :
"' 1 beg pardon—l was not aware
put my things in here ; but, if
you wish, I can locik for another car.
riage."
Miss I/avenant did not know ea- .
actly what she ought ( to Say ;
,but,
partly because it occurred to her
that he had an equal right with her
self there, and partly that her loneli
ness made her rather reluctant to
lose this friend in need, she begged
him not to inconvenience himself on
her account. So he sat down oppo
site, in Jack's place, and just under
.lack's. pile of traps. .
" Bylthe-way," said' he, lightly, as
he settled himself. "First punish
and then hear! What was that,
blackguard saying to you ?"
" I think he meant to—to kiss me,"
answered Florence,,litartled by the
. suddenness of. the question into a
more direct reply than she, would
otherwise have given.
" Is it possible !"- said the young
man, with n quick glance and smile,
instantly suppressed, however.
There are minnvarieties of mouth
in the world—good, had and indiffer
ent---some which seem tit only to drop
pearls and diamonds, and otherStaads
and snakes, like the .rival princesses
of the fairy tale. Nowt Florence Da-,
venant's mouth' happebed to be an
eminently
,kissable one. It would
have been diffieultfor any masculine
observer, at least c to look at its sweet
rosy arch without remembering that,'
as the old song has it, " lips - were not
made for speech alone." So the
young lady's 2linimpion,at this mo
ment -was conscious of a s certain guil
ty sympathy with the fellow •he had
knocked down, which cased him to
bite his own lips lest they' should be
tray his amusement and its cause. to
the dark eyes opposite. He need not
have feared ; those dark eyes, were
utterly innocent of any such suspi.
Lion, and were only speculating, as
they furtivelretudied his face, as to
the propriety 'of asking advice froin,
this good-looking, good-natured Get-
Man, who was so very gentlemanly„
and spoke English so remarkably
well. That last consideration weigh--
ed down the scale, and she confided'
to him the diflicul ties in which care.
Jess orother John had involved her.
, The stranger, who had
,rather. won-•
*red to see so young and pretty
igirl taking such a journey by herself,
listened• with interest, and begged to
offer his services, in that missing
gentletimn?place. " And ae I know
Berlin very well," he added, with a
-smile, "you have no occasion to feel
the slightest anxiety. We will go /,4,:•
the Hotel du Nord, the best in the
city, where you will be perfectly quiet
andrcomfortable. Very likely that; is
.wber& your brother will go, too ;
any rate, you cannot be Icing in find
ing one another, as the papers pub
lish a daily list of all the hotel arri
vals. And then there is your bank
er's register, you know."
Florence was greatly relieved by
these suggestions, which she was ton
yoting a traveler to have thought of.
Hitherto she 'had not been able to'
sleep for worriment, but. now
~ she
closed her eyes, and dozed off peace
fully in her corner with an agreeable
sense of freedom from responsibility.
It was daylight when she woke.
The • morning sunbeams were giving
a cheerful aspect even to the desolate
little station, about which some of
'the hungrier passengers were prowl..
ing in search of something to break
their fast with.
" I think ; I'll go and forage, too,"
said her neighbor. " I have some
curiosity to see what can be unearth.
ed in such a . place." s_
But be came back directly, shat
ing his head. " Can' you make /
breakfast off beer and forty differ'
kinds of sausages?" he asked,
ly. "if not, I'm afraid yor
content yourself with a roll.
your appetite for the Mine
It won't be Delmonico's
a
e ent
ve
) must
mi save
.1, en buffet.
?Italy, but
i few York ?"
A • ; delightedly.
America?"is
ti s sorer immediately; -
.: too busy with his
.. the disposition of
.i• to give him some tron
a _ your pardon," he said
. ,
" Why, you know
interrupted Florene
"You have.been
lie did not ar
being just ther
traveling-sack
which seem,
ble. " I
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TOWANDA, s BitADFORD `COUNTY; , PL) : .DAY' MO G, „EMBER 28; '1879.
then, turning ronal,,and reiniming his
his seat oppositellet., Been in' 'Amer
ica? Oh, yes ! certainly I have been
there." -• • • •
" hav i e incased' so muchi
You speak English so well yoft Might
almost be taken for one of us." -
•" Do you think so, really,? But
stopped short, smil
ing to himself. ' .
14 You have had -a great deal of
practice, 1 suppose," suppleinented
Floren t ee.
" Well, yes ; I began very young."
"Yes, that makes a. great differ
ence. And then, you know, English
is not nearly so difficult as German."
"I did not find it diflieult,pertain
ly," answered the young man.
The discovery that he had some
knowledge of the things and places
with which she' was most familiar
made the new'acquaintance seen like
*quite an old friend, with whom she
could chat at , ease, and,indeed, 'it
was a very animated disenssioo,that
was interrupted by the•whistle of the
train .nearing Minden stationi,,scat
tering a picturesqe.group of peasant
women, decked •out for their ,visit. to
the town in holiday ectstume.,,-short
striped petticoats, wide white . ruffs
and caps, and scarlet cloaks finely
set off by the young green of
,the
springing grain fields.
" Confess," ,;said' Miss Davenant's
vis-a-vis, ."you see noth;ng like that
in America." -
" No," admitted Florence, " nor
like that, either," pointing to another
group of women; prematitrely bent
and withered, sunburned and wind
blown out of all feminine likeness,
labor ing like so many beasts of bur.
..den ' , by' the road-side.,
" l i fhe medal has its reverse, cer
tainly." said he, smiling at the , retort.
" But here we are. Now to try if the
land :flows with something besides
beer and sausages."
4 must have done so. judging from
the smooth; satisfied faces which the
train took away, so different
,from
the sharp, hungry visages it had
brought half an !our Before. Miss
Florence settled herself comfortably
in her corner again, and took out her
novel, whose - heroine she had left in
-difficulties just as Jack bad left her,
but finding by-and-by that, by those
ingenins 'arts which 'it is the novel
ist's privilege to exercise. page after
page flowed on without seeming to
bring the crisis any nearer, tired, too,
of seeing the letters waltzing madly
together, she tossed the book aside
with a little impatient jerk that sent
it from the cushions , to the floor.
Her vis-a-vis picked it up and-kept. it
in his bawl, instead of returning to
the. paper be had been reading. May
I he permitted ?" lie - said, turning
over the leaves. Florence saw him
smile and raise his eyebrows ever so
little—at her taste for,sentiment, she
thought, with -girlish sensitive
ness on such points. •
4 "Of course that seems pure waste
Of time to you," she said, aggressive.
ly. "I suppose you never read any
thing lighter than Fichte and Mint."
"Now why should you suppose
any thing so hOrrible ?", said he,
meeting her eyes with a suppressed
- gleam of fun in his own;
"-It is the way with Germans," , she
answered, sententiously.
" Indeed l'; said he,-looking more
and more amused. " But, you see,
that, is your error in considering me
a representative German."
• "And aren't you?"
" I ' fear I can't elaini the honor.
There are black sheep, you kno*,'-in
1 1,3
every .11oek. - Jut as for thinking .
novel-readin g a, waste of time=,ori
the contrary, I was just regretting
that it should be time gone by,with
me; I do so envy you the power of
weeping over a distressed .heroinein
three voluines !-or latighingover her,
which I used to find quite as good
fan. You don't believe, I . see i, but
to prOve. that , I 'know what X am talk.
ing about, shall
_I tell _ you the dark
young man's secret in, this very hook,
and how helurns out?"
" No, pray, don't," interrupted
Florence. ("You have read it!" .
" Upon my word, I. have not read
it; but'i have read its'hiothera and
sisters, uncles; aunts, and
and recognize -the family likeness.
You believe in the dark young than
at present; but when you. ind him a
delusion anti a snarein the third vol
ume4--as you will—remember, please,
that I told you 50.."
He was certainly laughing at her,
thought Florefice,.recalling his look
and smile, and haVing no notion Or
quietly submitting to
.be . langlied -at,
she returned to the charge valiantly;
and A the battle-ground *as contin
uallY changing, ,by the time they
reached their journey's end each had .
learned the other's opinions on
good manypoints.
Had jack come? That was n, -
urally his sister's waking thought e
next morning. lf.he bad, it wa: not;
at any rate, to the Hotel du ' onl I.
so her German friend infor • d her,
and offered to accompany I • r to the
banker's,on the chance of i nding, her,.
brother's-name on the 1 • ilt. -,. - - - • •
It was a beautiful uay morning,
all fresh and.stirring., he long rows
of linden-trees untie whose shadows
they walked—the glorious lindens
that, a little late „would be fuli of
and f ro and frac , ance. , --,were nodding
their t leary he . sJogether, whispering
myriad-km°. ed, secrets, .. which the.
knavish 'Wi d 'caught up and carried
down tb whole line!, and tossed
across ckand forth through all the
green a ley; only as, fortunately,
tiles secrets , were in, the tree ;kin
gua e, they were lost on any but leaf
es. The magnificent street was full
A* color and movement, coming and.
going, like an army passed, in review
by-the 'great; Frederick mounted high
up yonder on his . bronze war-horse.
-Florence's eyes wondered from, soulp
tured to_ living form,,and thence •to
tree and garden,.fountain and statue.
and palace, with ever renewed enjoy
ment. • The . hum -of the iiiiying
crowd, the fresh toilettes, the bright,
healthy faces, all were'. in
. pleasant
harmony.with the season's brisk air
and springing verdure. --lt would be
perfect--if only Jack were there... -
But Jack was not there ; at le ast
his name nowhere appeared on the
banker's register, though :Florence,
in her anxiety to make sure, began
her search at a'date of several-days
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before It Could by infPoisibility be,
titer& . Mit 'at list eVert she hair tti
givnit up,snd the itince listening
rather diseowlately, tp, bet compan
ion!s.attempts at comfort. And yet,
had she but .know,n it, the missing
Jick 'himself was' at that moment
pursuing -bete almig the Friedfieh
Strassei causing more ,than'one•head
to turn curiously after the " verruck
tCr Engbuiderl'...x.ho _went bowling
along- a• crowded .pavement -in that
Thifortimately'jick
was not of a build for this sort Of
thing', and after a few 'paces felt him
self completely blown ; so, pulling up
at a street corner, he beckoned one
•nf the omnipresent ."'commission
nairesP 'waiting for a "job,',' and
panted,dut, in very broken• German
See the young lady—with
tali man—white jacket and red rose
--catch 'em--give you a tbaler!"
A tinder for, half ft minute's , run
The lean s tong-i4ged
.varlet set oil'
at speed, Miss,. Darenant's escort
felt a touch on his.: shoulder, and
faced round on a fellow who touched
his conitnisidonnaire's cap with a
grip; While said,in a nixed jar
gen, helPoid Out by signs t aEntschul-
S'l The dicke• Heir till mit
speak.
""Jack I" cried 11Prence, in an ec T
stasf, flSdng baek tO meet the rotund,
figure toiling after Mil light-heeled
Mercury.
"Well, Flo." said he, catching
'fiOth her hands, "a pretty race you
have run me! Who-=-.Van Rnysen!"
he interrupted himself, quitting his.
sister and grasping the , new-corner in
tura. "Of all 'people in the world !
Where did you drop from? -
"You know Lim!" involuntarily
exclaimed Florence, in her astonish
ment..
" Know him!" repeated Jack, star c.
lag at her.;
," know him! Well, I
should think so-:—eli, Van ?"
" A little," answered Van, with a
Then "turning to Florence :
" I must apologiie for not telling you
before, - but I did not myself know
until I .saw the name in your "novel;
and then, after that compliment to
my English, really had not the
Mart—: The fact is; Jack," as Jack's
beWildered face called for an 'expla
nation, " Your sister tgok me for a
German."
" For a German—you !" and Jack
burst out laugking. " What on earth
put. such a ridiculous idea 'into your
head, Floy ?"
.-
," Now ',think it is very natural,",
hastily interposed Van 11u2,-seni au
guring 41,0 hlmSelf from the young
lady's silence and heightened :color.
" One naturally looks for Germans in
Germany. , Besides, 1 spoke to her
'first in Akrman."
"That reminds me," put in Jack.
4 ' What stroke of good luck brougli:
you to myeister's belp?l'.
I should 'think it was time,.YOu
remembered to ask," .said FloreAc4
'with a little toss of -the' head. She
;was a , good-deal provoked with her.
'self forber stupid mistake, and - a - lit-
Ale with its pobject. Him. he must
have 'laughed I Nay, how he hdd
laughed under ler. very. eyes, she
thought, .recalling smiles and tones
which had puzzled her at the time.
But what right bad he to lank and
speak so like a real German and yet
not be one at all? She felt the need
Of visiting her vexation on somebody,
and jack offered bimself; so it was
in.a perceptibly ill-osed tone that she
said, "I should 'think it was time !
I might
.have beer. half-way to the
world's end for any thing you could
•
•. "Don't harp oif unpleasant facts,
Miss Ploy.. 'Think of it, Van. I take
this young woman froth echool, make
a :martyr of myself among outside
barbarians in •order to put the lasi
finishing •vatniahl on her education,
and .in.return she seizes the - very first
opportunity to dieappear i leaving me
to worry : myself .to skin and bone
".41i . s! wecsee,,!' laughed , Van, lo •
ing down at friend Jack's proi)ort4 pa.
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• ", I was just un my way," l p tsiied
Jack, gravely, " to. the Ob -what
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you-call-7em,chief of. police .re with
yourphcr,ograpli, Floy. . I hadn't
met you qnitepromiscuo s herd, you
' might have haft the Plea ure of recog
nizing your face on a yellow poster,.
with a reward attach d, which would
have served you HET t for leaf ing me
in the hinds of t g Philistines.'"
" By-the-way, ack," said Florence,
" what did the cro wd turn out to be.?"
I
Jack's face assumed a - look - of deep
disgust. " beggarly swierile l A .
t t he
bind fiddl r scraping away for le pair
01 grow ns.. I never sawairch 'peo
ple as* vie," went on Jack, looking
•roun im with a superior air; "they
are• he most 'curious race under .
he en. If a Gerinan - baby cuts - its
fi ger, the whole neighborhood •turns
.•ut to see it - hem:Rl up." •
- "Fello.wed,by, Yankee inquisitive
ness'in the personnfJolin,Devenant,
Esquire," added Vaollnyeen. •
" Yankee to yourself, sir! I hap
pen to be a New Yorker. with a New
:Yorker's inquiring • Mind, which'," 1
take it. is a wholly different thing.
But have the' goodness to-inform me
where we are
.bound for at present*?
Where are. you .staying? Oh, the
Hotel. , di&l.Nord,llnter den Linden,
eh ?,-.-.7arnoug the kings and kaisers ?
All very fine if one goes in for gran
deur, which I don't. Shall I not take
mine ease in
. my inn?. My . lucky
stars sent me up there in the Koenig.
graetzer Straw," said Jack,.vaguely
nodding his head backward, to indi
cate the direction, -" the Hotel West
End—Or Vest End, as these German
fellowe say—regular cockneys; aren't,
they ?-a place where they make a
lobster-mayonnaise! By Jove !" said
JiiekooleranlY, "it's almost worth
while being a lobster, to - have such
an apothesis I" •:- ' - .••' - ' '. i
"For shame, Jacky" laughed 'Flor
ence, her little cloud tow quite Over,
"to prefer a lohster-salad to that
beautiful•Under•den Linden 1"
" 'Fine words butter no parsnips,'
as, the poet says,. meaning that . one
can't lunch oil a row, of. Lindens. nor
an emperor's palace • though. as for
that, I wish you to ilistinctly under
stand that the Vest End has got its
palace too, exactly Opposite, in a big
garden, at present white with—
with—"
The-snowy buds of spring," sug
gested Van, encouragingly. •
"Jiist so! Or the royal washing,
nob pfepared to S3St whiCh. But
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you van come and see. forlourselves."
~A pd. as, Iff,facti,Jselt could riot ,
torn fram,the mayonnaise artist, the
Other two, . on the 'Mohammed-Mid !
mountain print iple;did come to take
up their.abode opposite" Prince Al.
bert's garden, of..which the wall )
overhung with , white - acacias
snowbalts 11111 2 1196 M,, •bounded
thebreakfalit table vie* verysgreea
bly under the *arm May sulashine t
That month—Which wofild• seem to
be sent ! pri ncipally, for the ; confound !
log of, poets-, and. almatiffe-makers—
can. matte ittelf on occasions unutter
ably odious In Berlin. 'But this sea
sonlvan a happy ' exception:. 1 There
were nscold, , sour looks; the ',cheery
Es'Ll rose, and , retired in unvarying
'good huMiit, and the blini Gernian
skies•smiled benign approial on the
trio-of Sight 4eers • Who went forth
day, after day with a perseverance
worthy, so Jack opined at, last, of a
better,cause. ' ln spite of, thelascini,
tionsaf the West End; he was the
one to get restleSs first: It 'was One
morning in the garden 'aforesaid_
where Florence - and - Vaswere given
to ,4 mooning "about in-a way .rather
trying to a sociable third person—
in that pleasant, shady, rose-embow
ered spot where the old hound,
"moit faithful and regretted of
friends,"_ lies buried; that, after
frightful suceesSion of yawns,
en't we had, abctut enough of this?" .
demanded Jack, suddenly. "What
say to making; a move, You two?"
-They two, with Suspicious una-,
Minify, intimated that they were well
(enough contented where they were.
"Strange," said Jack, with an air
of prcifound reflection, "how little
we ktiow ourselves! lf,you remem
ber, Floy, you were so sure of dislik
ing Berlin, and now you seem rather
to have a notion for ending your
days here like that old beggar
there," poking at the tablet at' his
feet. •
" Perhaps," , retorted , Van Huy sen,
- on behalf of Flore nce, who, -for some
reason or other, ' had. colored very
much at Jack's remark, "your sister
doesn't like to make any Wove, for
.you'll get yourself behind again. 7
"'Humph!" said Jack, who may
not have been as blind as some peo
'pie seemed to.thiuk. '‘‘ Maybe 'tweuld
be my best plan too. I've an idea,
you know, that abotit the most oblig
ing tbingl ever did in . rgy life was
that. same getting myself left behind.
Eh, Floy, what Bayou think ?" -
" I'm sure I don't knoci what you
mean; Jack," answered Flore Ace,
with a face on fire. • • •
Jack looked hard.at, her, and was
impolite enough„slowly and deliber
ately to wink his right eye. "Then
let's go get some lunch," said he.
Which she did:
The omelette .soulllee was - tender,
swept, ethereal as a dream of spring;
the mayonnaise composer- had silt..
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pi. man
Monday raorning—"Jack" Whitmore;
a sturdy laborer, wbo reships in
Chester. Jack went to his task at
seven o'clock in the morning. Ire'
used an ordinary potato fork, taking'
two rims at a time, throwing out a
hill on one side and then the other.
Three men, and a, portion of the
time four, were kCpt busy picking up
the potatoes: Whitmore stopped
about an hour at noontime, and
when lie quit work, at 5:15.P. f.. he
had turned out of the ground 135
measured bushels of potatoes. During
the day Whitmore aid not take a
drop of stimulating liquors of any
kind. .
LAME AND SMALL POPULATIONS.
—The question arise* hoW far the
existence of the 'large population of
the earth is necessary to the action
of, those forces which serve to carry
-man onward ? To thii question it is
impossible to give wfull answer ; nev
ertheless, there are many practical
experiments in the use' of •numbers
which serve to throw some light on
the matter. In the first place,. it 'is
clear that the great success of . this
world has not been' in dense' or nu
merous populations. • fly whatever
standard we measure the success—
by the generall elevation of the mass
es, by the number of able intellects,
by the physical well being of success
sive generations, or by the combina
tion .of these various elements e-f
greatness—it is clear, that the victo
ries have been won by the non-nu;
merouspeople,s. lf, 'with the condi
tions that gave England the 'Eliza
bethan age, tve could. have had the
population ofthina and llindoostan
and other _massive aggregations of
men show us that an intensified
struggle for mere existence cannot
help man to the • higher' life of bOdy
or mind; the controlling intellects,
the perfect' bodies, have come from
small societies, where ,the average
estate is bigh, where there is time
and room Mr 'culture; 'Judging - by,
their: - fruits, we must' prmicunce
against the massive; States, and give
the,palat to the' smaller, thoroughly
vitalized communities. • A multitude
does not necessarily brini:greatness
into the world.' It will - compel us
to the opinion that it is better to
take a city of thousands, or a State
with a few hundred thousands, and
lavish on their people the wealth we
might vainly. waste on • hundreds of
millions without helping the cause
of human ad vance.—Allantic Monthly.
" BUT I will not:linger upon this point;"
As the preacher said when he sat dtiwu ter
the carpet tack.
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l!eve thought leallorer„ the Nerds 1. let fall .
In that moment of passion 1 cannot
But steno with toy thbughta and my bitter regret,
1 pray you (emir, if .1012 111{0; forget.
I Oro tßouglit it AU our. atud tried bard to find,
In some act q1 -pgru a relief , to my
look or pi iiord tkiiii-aould'eaten regret;
But in vain; so . PirltPahltleu
You Inerw Oud my frloodsblp and deep 'lore for
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you
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Were loyal and fervent, unseMsh and true; '
Then stbjr did hod try me, when deep It. ytmedebt ?
For God's sake forgive, If you mumot forget.' '
God knowiall my thoughts, that they're centred
you,
And that in thiamine World Mete are but &foie .
Whose friendship, if,severed, would cause &regret;
Then I pray you forgive, It you cannot forget. —
Let the past be forgotten, and bury'.lt deep
In the depths-of oblivion, and then, let It sleep,
And our future shall um/ be cursed by regret;
'Ofice more, tinin, forgive, If you cannot forget.
The Calhotic Standard, speaking
of the ruin wrought among many
young people by devouring . the de
moralizing reading matter so freely
spread before them at low price says :
"'ls.it not time for parents to look
into ,this matter? The - countr3i is
.flooded with trash published espee.
,ially for the young . much of it •wilt
ten by authors who wish to be con
sidered respectable, and bearing the
imprint of - respectable publishing
houses. The most dangerous por
tion, too, of this trash seems, toll
superficial examiner, harmless, to be
at the Worst only silly exaggerated
and highly colored. But in these
seemingly. innocent exaggerations
and high colorings lies a subtle poi
son. It• dissatisfies its-readers With
their commonplace routine of ,youth
ful duties, with subordination . % the
authority' of- parents and teachers.
It causes them to long to be ,ipde
pendent, to . strike' out . in life' for
them s6lves.to becom - e men and women
at once, though they have not yet out
grown the garb of childhood. It
stiniulates precociously their imagina
tions and passions and prepares them
for vice and crime. Many r a„ father
and mother who mourn in agony,
hopes blasted in a. ruined daughter
or son might fin I the cause, if disc
posed to review 'the past, in his or
her own neglect to supervise and di
rect what that daughter or son habit
ually read when a child. There is a
responsibility here which few parents,
it"!s greatly ibe feared, fully real
ize or faith ally ,'discharge. There
are parents who dar`aully endeavor
to guard eir children against form=
ins inti acies with other children by
wriomeir morals might be corrupt
ed, b t who exercise no care as to
wh books and papers their children
i t
re id. Yet in this age of universal
r ading, the latter is a danger alinost,
of quite as serious as the former,
and one that should be diligently
guarded against. .
, IN. the Southern parts of Ireland a
curious custom prevails which is call
ed" Slirafting." A sort of fair is
held and all the "likely boys and
girls ":ia the parish. are'
-on - yiew,.and
all the " ; matches" in the year . are
made. For days before there is quite
a stir in the meighborhood; • and a
twitter runs • through the entire. fe-
male population. There is a iiniver
kd stitching and a buying of
.rib
bens •'
every girl . , you meet en, the
'road holds out her hand for sixpence,
arid you can not speak to a .domestic
servant without her harming oat sig
.nals_of distress. . On...tre day of the
Shrafting" the girls stand Ana row
on the village green. There is every
eipression 'on their faces=anxiety,
cariosity, timidity, dull stupidity,
slcorp shrewish interests; rind here
and there you come On such a. pretty
'country beauty with - that indescriba-'
ble half-arch, half sly look in the eyes
which ;,..Nlaclise has caught in
.perfec
tion. At alittle distance are dun•
tered together a lot . .of shame4aced
looking men-." the boys " as they
are ealled-all in their_ Sunday suits,-
and evidently ill at ease, eyeing. with.
distrust the superior attraetions of
the coastguards, who are, like the
red-coats; favorites acaorig. the ladies.
But.that in reality matters little, as
the real conduct of the affair is in
the hands of " the powers that be".
the fathers and mothers, who 'haggle
- and' quarrel over • their' respective
children, sometimes breaking up the
negotiations abruptly, and carrying
off either
.son or daughter, as the ease
may be, as- they would an unsaleable
beast from the fair.' Of course little
'bits of romance cropap here as else
where ; cases, of money rersus• .lOve,
and young hearts sold to the highest
bidder just, as they are in a fashiona
ble drawing.rootn. '
A REVOLUTIOIVAILY
famous. Tory, Colonel Ferguson;
dressed in a new and dashing unt
form .whicih . Cornwallis had given
him, rode up tiz his brother's houSe
during the Revolutionary war, and
was endelioring to win him to the
royal cause. " See how the noble
earl has treated me," he urged;
" look at my rank and, clothes.
may be I shall be made lord, and
how should I •feel then to hear it said
my brother was rebel!" His last
word brought the sturdy young wife
to the. door. " I nm a rebel!". she'
cried ; " . my brothers are, all rebplsi
. and the little dog Trip is a :rebel,,tOol
I 'would iather - sed you with Olteep
on your back 'than tricked out in all
those find clothes! Rebel/and be
'free, that is ,my, motto I" Then she,
turned to her husband, whose patri
otism was beginning/ to waver:
" Now,. Samuel, in the. presence . of
the whole, British armY, I tell, ; you, if
you,gn with them: yOu can stn( whh
them. for 4 - am no/longer yotie Wife!"
• And Samuel was t a firm, pat"riot after
that. - - •;/ •
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: - . - SeimoL Inspector , ”Now, youngster,.
can you uatueme a mild winter ?"
: " The4inter of Then our teach
-3r was sick for six .weeks."—Rome Senti
nel.
WE Stover yet saw a —wOrkingman who
hated kings and queens bad enough net
th take a couple fmni, the bottom-of the,
p2ck if an opportunity offered.—Argo
nt -
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THE New York Comineriial Advertiser
iR pleased to learn that the State dam. la
to be' repaired. Tile' Statate dam ban
been in'a very profane condition ` for' 'a
long time.' .
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TABLE Or • ELEVATIONS- 131"
STLVANLL' - .
Seward Con
,ThO Villagi'Ret:brdve liPped an item
from - the Ledger to the effect that
Potter County had "the highest land;
east of - the Rcicky 'Mountains," and
the 'Ledger took the Record to task'
in' a vigorous denial. For the benefit
of both jonrnals we desire to state'
that Elk Rill, a short, distance from .
Carbondale,. attains to, the highest .
altitude above --- theircsa - itigel in Penn.'
Sylvania.—Scranton' Repdbltecrn.
We have not - been out with our
tape line to measure these elevations
personally, but we have culled the
following latitudes froth the tables ot
elevation found in the rePort of the
Geological •survey. of • PenOsylvania :
Summit smith of Weilsbovir. Tinge C 0...
.. '1862 It.
Head of Planer No. s,"abote Varbondala.... 10311 0.
Point between. 'Tobjhanns and . Lehigh
Summit 1140 ft.
Summit of Carbon Run, Bradford 2014 ft.'
Summit south of CFAs-toed, Seadrift! Co:. 2140 ft.
Conde at Summit ot tunnel El miles from
.
• Coudersport, Pottered • =29 ft.
11111, etude( Long Pond, North Mountain,
SuMiran county - = SE ft.
Crest of Allegheny mountains, Clearfield
county • • 2614 ft.
We are under the in3pression that
the highest altitude in Pennsylvania
is found in Somerset county, near
the southern liae.of the State. Negro
'Mountain is Ta4a feet, butits highest
point may be, a little south 'of• the
line. .•
The above are the highest altitudes
recorded near the several' points
Ranted. The, following may be of
Interest' •
. .
Carbondale 1015 ft.
Honesdale ••-' ' 1003 ft.
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'
beranten , 713 ft:'
Tonkhannoek • • 611 ft.
'
Mont nom . .
.. 1634 ft,
Towanda. ' • 7 30 ft.
Barclay Railroad, foot of Marie.; 1271 ft.
Head of Plane , 1750 ft.
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Vitellsborte 1319 ft.
. The highest point' east of the Miss-issippi river' is Mt, buckley, North.
Carolina, 6775 feet.. In Potter county
is found. one Of . the' most remarkable
Water sheds in the world. Streams
flow toward the Gulf of Mexi cO,towa rd
the, St. Lawreree, and toward the
Chesapeake, all hare, their sources
within a very small area.' A knowl
edge of this fact convey r s to some
minds the erroneous impression that
the highest land east of the Missisi
sippi must necessarily be found here.
TIIE Burlington Haickeye preaches
the following short, but very, appro
priate' and forcible sermon to the
gents who have, just graduated from
college and propose to go forth to
seek their 'fortunes, enlighten man
kind,
,and make things hum general
ly '
And then remember, son, that the
World is older than you are by sev
eral years; _that for thousands of
years it has, been so full of smarter
and better young men than yourself
that their feet stuck out of the dot-,
mer windows; that when they died
the - old globe went whirling on, and
not-one in 10,000,000 went -to their
funeral or even heard of •their death.
Be as smart se you can, of course.
Know as much as you can without
blowing the packinwout of your cyl
- 'Eider - head ; shed the light of your
wisdom abroad in the world ; but
don't, dazzle people With 'it. And
don't imagine a thing is so simple
because you say it is. . Don't •be too
-Sorry for your father because he
knows so much less than_ you do;
remember, the reply of Dr.,Wayland
to the student of Brown University,
who said' -it, was an easy enough
thng td! make proverbs such as Sol
oman wrote, "Make a feW,"
replied the old man.. And we never
heard:that the young man made - any.
Not more than two l or three, anyhow.
The world has great need of young
men, but no greater need than .young
men hare of it. Tour clothes fit you
better today than your father's fit
him ; they cost more money ; they
are more stylish; your mustache is
neater, the cut of your hair is better,
and• You are prettier, oh, far prettier,
than ," pa."' But, young man, the
old gentleman gets the biggest sal
ary, and his homely , 'scrambling sig
nature on
- the business end of a check
will 'drain more money out of the
bank in five minutes than you could
getout with a ream of paper and a
copper plate signature in six months;
Young men are useful, son, and they
are ornamental, and we , couldn't en
gineer a picnic successfully without
them. But they're not novelties, son.
Oh, no, nothing of the kind. They
have been here before. Don't be so
modest as to shut yourself clear Out ;
but don't he SO fresh you will have to
,be:put away in the cool to keep from
spoiling.;., Do not be afraid that your
merits will not be discovered. Peo
ple all over thd world arc hunting
for you. and if you are worth finaing
they_ will find you. A diamond isn't
so easily found as a quartz pebble,
but search for It-all the more intent
ly. . -
THE STORY,OF THE SEA.—T4ere is
a °sadly rottiantic story connected
With Far ItOckaway, which. any one
can verify"; as • the poor sufferer is
still alive. Years and years, ag o a
woman / watched with agonizing read
the - fate of a vessel tossed upon the
breakers, and which depended upon
the' turn of the tide for its chance of
safety. Her - husband' was on board,
and • the tide
,dfd tarn ; and the
schooner came' safely into •port, but
the horror, of suspense and anxiety.
were too much' for the faithful wife,
and she died in giving birth to a little
girl, even as-its father clashed it in
MB arms. - The child, however, now
and Jur
,many years a woman, has
always lived in - a state of half idiocy,
half -insanity, her sufferings fright
fully, augmented by each recurring
flowing-in of
,the tide. There 'are
times when sheis com - paratively quiet,
and only moans, like the sound of
the sea, but the tidal. change wakes
in her the intensest-agony.' The then
paces the beach wringing her, hands,
and eau: hardly be restrained from
throwing herself into the waves, un
til the'titne is•past, and she subsides
into sad, wistful, weary apathy again.
Probably it was 'gain these self-same
Shoals that the hapless ship contain
ing Vargaret•Fuller, her husband and
child, was stranded, and it would.not
be' a had idea to have a grotto, sacred
to the memory of one of the most
truly representative of American wo
men, -ati an. Ornament of the new
parkh'eir-Tork Excharrge.
An old pioneer was huggin g the
. hisitoriastone in-Judge Kn owscourt
room butt evening,and,as isnsual 'with
the old-timers who visit that temple
ot, luatice t was in a, reminiscent frame
"of Mind. Though poor. noir i lie had,
inFaTinattel.:rof course, been once .
rich. - - •
=
Wits a leadin' citizen of - Muck
slimy Hill in, '52," he said. "In
thim days.' was in the dust-buyin'
buiiiness.. -I had my sign out,-S.
Cc,finpra TOrs,,Aqui—gp stairs, you.
know, and ill : thaCsort of thing. I
tell ye,- Makes a - smart man to get
along in - that 'ere trade. • Jenkins &
Co. was the boss at it when I first
went into it at Mucludlainy Hill, but
it wasn'tniA months afore
. A'd stook
half their trade away.. I had to: rus
tle to doit, You see the boys aqua
anxious-toallns do well, an' the first
that oft'ered the coin made the raffle.
Jenkins '& Co. was pretty high-toned,
an! used to wait every night fur_their
man to go down the hill to the ex
press office an' bring up their money
in a hUndeart. I saw me change an'
used to be on hand when the stage
came in, and fist shouldered my Own
coin when - the driver throwed it off.
Nick Monkins was the driver inthem
days. He - was afterwards killed' by
the road agents. Many's the time
Nick's, throwed
.me down my sack
with a clean $400,000 in-gold coin jn •
it, an'- I've, chucked her across my
shoulder an' trotted up that there
old hill and had every bit o' dust
bought up afore Jenkins & -Co.'s
handcart arrived." - •
" How much.did you say you pack
ed up the hilt on your shoulder ?"
asked Judge Knox's clerk. _
" Four hundred. thousand, oftener
than less," 'replied the . pioneer with
melancholy pride. •
"84g here, "
said the eerk; figuring
rapidly," gold's worth $lB an ounce,
and there's twelve ounces to the_
pound worth $516, into 40 . 0,000
leaves something over 1851 pounds,—
pretty nearly a ton. How far up the
hill did you carry that, did you
say?"
The old pioneer looked at the
clerk with-fixed . contempt for.,a mo
ment, and then merely saying:
" You're a plagney. Johny-Come-
Lately, that's what you - are !" arose
and left the court-room.
How TILE JAPANESE: KEEP MEAT
Fassii--The 'Japanese , method of
keeping meat fresh in hot weathqr
consists in- llacing the raw flesh in $
porcelain vessels and pouring on it
boiling water, whereby- the albumen
on the surface is quickly coagulated,
and forms a protection against the
further aptiori of the water. Oil is
then' poured on the surface of the
water so as to prevent the access of
air and' consequent putrefaction of
the meat : , 4 The system of protecting
animal substances by seeuring coag--
ulationsi. , of their - albumen, /And the
exclusion of air is of course no nov
elty;' - and it - can hardly be supposed
that we are indebted to the Japanese
for its original adoption. It is, how-.
ever, far preferable to our own method.
CnAn.cider and " medicated lemon
ade " are cautiously creeping into the ice
cream talcums of the anti-license towns in
lowa.
Yes, Agnes, I'm going to hare a
creaui.colored summer silk, provided la -
doesn't veto. the appropriation. ma has
passed." .
A CONDEMED man, preparatory to his.
execution, being requested, by the Sheriff .
to step upon the scaffold, said he'd "be
hanged if he would." .
"Por," asked a small boy,. "why do
those folks doivn in ; Third street call •
themselves brokers?" "Because so many
people, get broke there, my. son."
A MAN who visited the Grand Opera • •
House this week; wanted his money re
funded because he expected to see Mary . -
aniiher son play, when it was only Mary
Anderson.
kwoNiAs died in New York . 'Wednes
day from swalloWing • a piu. •Yet how
many-a gaping crowd has sat and *swal
lowed- a Pinafore - without fatal conse
quences.
Now the irin - ds softly breathe,- and the
flowers that garlands wreathe, a gentle
hint of summer in the mind implants •
and so do the beetles and „the spiders ami.
the ants.
'Arms• (struggling with Ancient fowl at
a Venetian restaurant) a When I. was a
kid they used to say -there. was only ono
'en in Venice, and blest if I don't believe
as this is the very bird.
Ammoros. of- the discovery that Miss
Williams, of this city, sat for the girl on
the daddy dollar, a man writes' to the
Newark Advertiser to inquire z.,2.!' who sat
for the thing on the other side."
AT a London book sale a copy - of DreNes
"Essay on Souls" was knoCked down to
a shoemaker, who, 'to the great „amuse
ment of the assembly,innoceutly asked the
auctioneer if he bad "any more books uu
shoeinaking to sell."
A WEARIED and their:ern Stranger .ar
rived on the"wharf at Nantucket the other
day, and said to a small boy : ""Do they
play 'Pinafore' here ?" . "No," ,replied
the lad, "but there's a billiard-room, up
yonder." •
Wnpr. a man pies out of a theatre be
tween-41th acts and comes in and takes
out- of.hiS vest pocket a lead fish line Sink
er and-chews it, thinking-it is a clove, he
-is a good subject to be visited by those
self-sacri&ing temperance- who 'go about
doing good.
TUE tomato is masquerading about the
market-stalls ,under niore aliases than you
can shake a stick at. There are tornay
tomarters, tommytoes, tomattuses, • •
tommattoes, and the other day. we heard
'a womattlitquire, "Bow d'ye sell yer tor-
nadoes."—Ncte Ilareyißegister... _
PIOSEERII BIG MT.
MN, FACT AND FAOETIA.
A I,lmq:in boy was out in the back-yard
pounding oni a tin-pan. The father came
inlired and sullen, and being disturbed
by the noise,...erled out : ".What ix turned
loose in the back-yard, a wild animal ?"
The little fellow replied : "Y,eth, thir ;
it's a pan thir." • •
"Tun ceed of a Demon, Act of a
Worse than Brute," is the heading of the.
Cleveland Plaindealer puts Direr, a news
column. The first mention made of any
body in particular in the column is the
leading dispatch from Columbus, which
readt : "Ewing and Rice will come here
to:morrow from Steubenville, visit the
State Fair, and make certain necessary
campaign arrangements." ,
• Tux following is said to be the trukre
port- of General Grant's speech "to the
Viceroy of China, stripped of John Rus
sell 'Young's embellishments : "Me thank
ee miichee muchee ; me no wantee place°
igainee. Topside manee one- timee two
two timee. Three timee me no wantee,
me no likee. Too mucbee Many maneo
placee muohee belongee. Pacee, me too
hardee meioungee.! Now me eldee."—
Boston Ile ld.
•
' ".K.Eszs shirts !" exclaimed a drunken
countryman as he affectionately caressed
au awning-post and looked into the - win
dow of a furnishing, goods store. "Of
course be keeps shirts. Furnishinggoodi
tore man's -store inan's fool 're tinz'n'
keep shirts,`Whatr t ye givin' us?.,' And
celluloid collars! N'o, you won't sell me
loid collars, either. I.lly old woman (hic)
makes my cellars: l i on can sell somebody
elk your durned pldiloid collars." -
Trim isa personal that recently appear
ed in the New York _Herald: " Boston—
Confabulate and •composure . veracious.
Room and determine proof undivided and
hornpipe maze dispraise armature."' We
trust this explanation will be satisfactory
to Mr.. Field. It shows that Mr: Tilden
really didn't mean anything wrong, and,
anyhow,.that he will never do it again;
and the apology presented - in the. sweet
4 ‘,bornpipp, maze dispraise armature" cer
appeals'to the finest emotions of
the-human heart.—Bulalo Express. ,
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