Bradford reporter. (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, November 11, 1880, Image 1
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Tito R eponym& having a larger circulation than ,1) . Other paper in the county. makes it 145 b elt 3LIT, rtletng medium In Northern Penturyttrania: J tit HUNTING of every kind, in pilau and fancy catom, done with neatness and tifitpatch. scabill!'. Blanks , Cards. raciphlets, s At dulcet!. kc., of every variety and - style, printed at the shortest notice. The - Itarowrita once is )ce)l sappllear olth power presses,* good Assert ri ut of new type, and everything in the printing ue can be executed to the- moat artistie immix and at the lowest rates.. TERNS INYARTABLY "Xusist6s 'lads. . . ATAbILLIcINNEY . I .....Tll • ATTORNETS-AT4.I.W. 'ollire—Rooms tormleiiy occupied by T. Y. C. A. Reading Room. ik: 4. u.Coti.L. 1418,80 O. D. KINNEY. Ai RS. E. J..P ERRIGO, TA_ TEACIIin OF PIANO AND DUGAN. T.e l / 4 , ..us given hi Thorough Bass and Harmony. ult hat 1..11 of theapice a specialty. Located at A. Mi.in St. }Reference: Tiohnes & Passage. 'f anda, Pa, liateb Ip.O. J oIIN CODDING, • . ATTOLX ST-AT -LAW, TOWANDA, PA. '""tee over Klrbra Drug Store. 1- THOIAAS E. MYER i _-_-, ' 421 . 0.E.1t I.:-AZ-LAW, '. , . TOVTIANDA, PA. "•:ace with Patrick-htid Foyle. • Sep :5,"19 pECK.-& 0 , RTON Arrob,74lE.Vs-AT 1. ASP, • TOWANDA. "A, • D'A. OVERTON, MOLL M. p cot RODNEY A. MEItetTR, ATTORNEY /CT-LAW, 'TOWAIC PA., Solicitor of Patents. Particular attention r.ion•lncss In the Orphans Court and to the settle ment or estates. - .01hco in Montanyes Block, OVERTON A,- SANDERSON, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, • TOWANDA, PA. E. - (MERTON% Jrt, JOHN F. SANDEASCILN N. . . • ~ 11. JESSIJP, .c. • .. . . ... , • , . . A'rIQII.NBY AN D couxsELL9tt-Ai-LAW, ,• ' MONTROSE. IPA. . . Judge .Tesaup having resumed the practice of t'le law to Northern Pennsylvania, will attend to any legal hushieas Intrusted to Mtn lu Bradford county. Persona wishing to coniult hits, can call on IT. Streeter, Esq., Towand,a, Pa., when au appointment can he made.l 1 - ' • HENRY STREETER„ . ATTORNEY AND COOCSELLOR-AT-LAW, TOWANDA, PA .9 I L. HILLIS, H • • • H 44, A TTOR NEY -A T-L A*, TOWAN:DA, YA'. '' tu0v11775 EF. GOFF , • A TT011,1;:11Y-;AT-LAwi'- PA. Ageney fret le sale and' purehatte of all kinds of Ltcenritlett and for making Many on Real Estate. All business will receive careful and prompt attention. • r,,11 uue 4. 1879. VTH. THOMP- SON ,.ArrmiNET v • 'kT LAW, WVALV:iiNG, l'A. attend to all tiii-anes, entrusted to hle care in iiratlford, Sullivan and Wyoming COntaltni. (Hike with Ebit. Porter. • • [nul9-74... A.M BVIAL SURVEYOR. s 47: I NNt NO, S11071E:VI 1(i. AND. )111 G. F. Ma , on. over PA.tell & Tracy, 31 al u !.treet, Towanda. Ps: • GEb. W,'KI.MBE!tLI,4;Y, ,ATTORN EY-AT-LAW, TosrANDA, PA 0 ire—S:cond door wultt of First .National Bank. .A ngust 12. I tirid. 1 - 4 1 LSBREE SION, , f ATTrittNEVA•AT-LAW, 4 . OWA DA, PA. N. C. McPIIBRSON, 01 AiTTutiN EV-AT-LAW, lOWAN DA. rA. PLC dtt y Brad. Co FIRE INSURANCE. iTal,ltlz accepted the agency of the •- I..I\t;ASUIRE INSURANCE CtIMPANV, • (Assets over 513,000.000 00.) I wn prepared to %rite policies at current rates. I). SwAnTs, Agent. ti:litte with Wm, -. Vincent, Towanda. Pa. Iyr. / URN W. MIX, r • ATTORNEY-AT-LAW AND U. S....COMMTSSIONED., TOWANDA, PA. • . 4 vt.ice—Nonli Sitku Public Squarer" Jan . 1, 1-575. SAM w. BUCK, A TMILVE T-. 4 T-LA Ir, SVANDA;TPENird itii*•r—South side Poplar street, .opposite Ward (N0v.13. 18:9. IIA VIES . &ICA/INOCHAN,' • I_l l ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, • ! SOUTII SIPE OF WARD HOUSE. TOWANDA. PA. ANDREW WHIT, ATTOIINN.Y-AT-LAW. OtliCe--;• . Means . Block, Nlaln:sf-over J. L. Nent`s store, Towanda. May be consulted In German.. [April 12,16.3 lIYOUNG, I : ~!!:TTOItNEY- A T- L ,'"OWANT)A., PA. 011ee—second' door south of the First Nat.'nut Rau' Main St.,:up stairs. \\TM MAXWELL, , ArrhexitT-AT.T.Aer. ANITA, PA. nftlea ocer-Dylon's store. Aprlll2, 1876. • I' IR . . S. N. WOODBURN, Physi s. Om find SurgPon. Office at residence, on, * t; ' ir Strzel. East or Main. TIP , F. au la, nay 1, 172 ty• tvr B. K.ELLt - T iwer Al. L. Rosenfield's, Towanda, Pa. 'reetit inserted on Gold, Rubber, and Al nm base. Teeth extracted without :41n. Oct. 31-72. . 1 - 2 •D. PAY NE, M. D. . . • A. ' PllTutClAlv AND SURGEON. Ul'icr over Moutanye.• . :3lore. 'Othee hours !ruin 10 to 12 m„ and from?. to dP. It.. Special attOntloTglvexi la I.)!SE ASKS . - I IitSEASES or . 1 • and - ur THE EYE Tire. EAR aW...RYAN • COUNTY SVPEIIIINTENDE Mee last Saturday of eachinouin, over Turner a Gordon's Drug Store, Towanda, Pa. Towanda, J une 20. 1878. • S. RUSSELL'S Lie GENERAL INSURANCE AGENCY gAT'2A-70tf. TOWANDA.PA. FIRST NATIONAL BANK, TOWANDA. PA. C P4ID IN $123,000 14111 FLUS FUND • 46400 'rhlp. Rant offers nOstial tians action at a general banltiug baslpeas.. .1 OS. t'ONV ELL, President. Ar 111.187.9 i , Its. 11;PEET, • - ''' ''-'..,-' rt•Cilitt OF PIANO M.1711:16, TERMS.--41.0peiterm. (Residence Third 'treat, Ist ward.) Towanda. Jan. 11;19-13r. . ( . itT YOUR JOT PRJNTING Mite at.tnq,UXPORTER Olt VIC& . o Pliettte the Coort;Ilonso, Towanda. Coktred molt a opootalty NOTIOR .IN , PARTITION. - State of Pennsylvania, County of Bradford, as : To SarahAun Lawrence. Josephlirhtgtm. Cyrus G. Wheaton. Emily F. Elbley • Chario M._ Rogers. Hoary W. Wheaton, 'Mellon .Anti - 11. .11002 . 3—p1ea% take notice: - - Whereas, at an Orpharts , Court, told at Tediande In and for said County of - Bradford,' on the . 17th day of April, - A. IL IBA before -the lion. P. D: Morrow, President Judge of said Court. in ti e matter of • the estate of -John Wheaton, derealled , the petition of Melissa Ann M. Itegeia, Wife .of James Rogers and daughter of John Wheaton; late of the township_of Warren, to said County, do- ceased. was pre*nted, - setting forth that the said John Wheaton died March gd, 1899, dutestate, seized in Ids demesne as of fee of and Inn certain metduage and tract of land situate In said township of Warren, bounded uorth by Lands. of George Pendleton and Benedict Arnold, east I.y lands of Benjamin Buffington, and south and-west by lauds of Samuel Wheaton ; containing about italarres,— and leaving to survive him * . wldow„ • Sails' Whea ton,. and eight children, Sarah Ann Lawrence, Joseph F: Wheaton, Cyrus G. Wheaton. Frederick T.., Wheaton (shim deceased), Emily P. Shiley, Charlotte M. Rogers, Henry W. - Wheaton and Me lissa Ann Si. Rogers; that the widow, Sally When. ton. died March 12th, 1860 ; that the said Frederick F. Wit. aton died September 17th 143, leaving to survive him a widow. Susan Wheaton (since mar • tied to Major Darling), and- one'-son,Seymour . Wheaton ; that .no guardians were ap pointed for any of themi nor children of said John Wheaton, deceased; t hat-under and by virtue of the Intestate lairs of this Commonwealth, it belongs to the said Melissa Ann 14. It'gers to have an equal one-eighth part of said teal estate. No.partition of said real estate having been had, the petitioner prays'; the Court to award an inquest to make ?argil° of the said real estate to and among the aforesaid parties according to their respective rights, and she will everyprsy, etc. Whereupon the said Court grant a rule on .014 heirs and .legal representatives of said decedent to show cause why partition of _the _above described real estate shall not-he niade. And now to wit. May tab 1880. the Court continue this rule mail SeptetuberTerm next., I And now to wit, September 24d, 1880, rule made - abr.olute, and the'said Court, on due proof and con stderatlon of. the premises, awarded an inquest to mute Data:hitt as prayed for. We therefore com mand ye ti that, 'taking with you seven good and lawf.d Men of your tlatliwiek.. y 9: go to and upon the premises aforesaid, and -there, in the presence of all pa, ties aforesaid by you to be warned Of tip. on being warned they will be present). and having. respect to the true ,valuatiou thereof, nod upon the oaths aid a ff irmations of the said seven good and lawful men, you make partition to and among the heirs anti legal representatives of the said intestate in such manner and In such proportions as, by the laws of thisCommanwealth is directed If the same• can he sophrteVand divided without prejuiltee to or spoillug the "ode ; and If such partition cannot be wade thereof without prejudice toot, spoiling the whole, that then Lade cense th said inquest to Inquire and ascertain whether the same will con veniently accommodate more than one of the said heirs and legal repteseutatives of the Said Intestate without prejudice to or spoiling the whole . ; and if - so, - how many it will as Wort-laid aecommodate.; describing each part by metes and bounds, and re turning a just salutation of the same. Rut If the said inquest by yen to Ito summoned as aforesaid tutunake the said partition or valuation shall he of opinion that the premises aforesaid, with thtt ap purtellances, can not be so parted and divided as to aecommoulate more than one of the said heirs anti legal representateresof theSild intestate, ittatl then you cause the inquest to.value the whole oil the said real estate, with the appurtenances. lug resin ct to the tnie vainatit u th roof agreekidy . tolaw ; and that the part Mon 'et valuation to made ;vowtstinetly and /peaks - hare before our said udge at Towarnia.. at an Orphans' tlourt.there to he held on the regularday of sessions thereof, after such inquest shall be made under your hand and seal, and raider the hands and %eats ofT-those by whose friths or affirmation- you shall make such partition ()evaluative, aud have you then and there this writ. ; Wlrie-ss: 'P. D. Morrow. President Judge of our said Court at Ton ands{ afur.lsalti. the 7th (lay of April. A. D. A. C. PIZISIIIE. Stay 1,'79 Feb ; 1 7. ';9 •In conformity ‘Vith the. above order, I hereby give notice to the ulneee natnvd belts ned all Wier persons Interested, that an Wittiest still he held on. the above estate. on the prrnsiees, on rRIDAy, the 21iTit d.iy. tif N°YEaftlEß, A. D. i eso, at • 2 o'clock, I. 11. ri 4 XECUTORS' NOTICE.-- Let .:•--. tees testalneutary - basing been granted to the utricrslgintit..under the last will' :and testamenset l'elly Ctiatifeltute of New Albany.• deceased all persons inci.thr,q to the estate of said tlivedent are lit-rehy nottned • to make linntedlaie pay ment, and all baying claims against said estate must present the'smutt duly anthentlicated to the undersigned f.tr settlemenr.,i • s. W. Cif AP'Sl,l,'N', , . . C. W. C lAA l'llik.N; N ow , Albany, Oct. 7.18U*. Erecutors„ L. ELSBIZ EY efeb.r7B N. N. BETTS, Cashier • • " ~; - GOODRICH & HiToHeQelite Publishers. VOLUME - - .-iii. :: :::' -'''' ::: ':- : 1 - ''' ' : -'2'-':': biat. ClOrk of Orphans' (hurt PETER J. I)EAN, Sheriff. Towanda. Orthlier TO RiP NO TI CE.—Not,i6e _A Is hereby Oven Oat .11 person* indebted to the estate of A. U. Bowman, !pre of Leßoy. de ,rdsed. inu.t make Immediate tutrnielft. and on persors hay fog elstims akalust said estate most pre sent thew duly at ttu.ntteated T , ..r sett iemunt. LUCY MAUI 'BOWMAN, JOSEPH B. B 11 110141. ti, fletdllll-rar'.*•.. VAtonstnra. IDMINISTRATOR'SgoTicE. Letters of utiminisliation haling been grant. ed to the undersigned. upon the estate or ow. B. Beater. late of. Tuscarora - township, deceased. notice is hereby given that all persons indebted to the , said estate ate ,requested 'to make inimedlate . pSytnent, 'end all • pvs,ns• having cialtus against said estate must present the same duly authenti cated•to the undersigned for settlement. NOW.!: C. D FX TER, Administrator. Tusearora, Ott. gt. BiStl.un. • . • • • A DMINISTRATOR'S •NOTICE.- rx,—Letteis of administration .hayink been granted to the undersigned, upon itia *State of L. M. Mundell, late of Malin:tom' derevcd.' notice Is hereby given that all persons Ettdebted to said estate are requested to mate binned.t,afePak mew, and all pe.m . m.s ha,ing legal claltnii agninst .the 83111 A will prssent theta without delay;ln pro per o der far settlement to 11. M. RUN DELL. Administrator... Luthers Mills, Oct. 'ZS, 1t u RG. f , V i XEC OIUTt'S NOTICE. 4'Let . . . . . . ir ~ tf, r s. t esratnentary baring be granted to the undersigned. under the last will anti testament of James (. irbidgway.lateurFratiklin tvip:i &Ceased. Ali permatiOndelited to the e- tate of t•ald. decedent ate hereby 'notified to make immediate payment, and all having claims against riald estate' enwtt pre sent the - same duly autbent cated- to the under: signed for settlement. - . .. • _ SEMANTIIA 8. IttIMWAY, Muntoet:ijn, Oct. 28, 1850. Executor. UDITOR'S - NOTICE.4.In re A the estate or Charles S. Fox; dectilaetl. .i . llO undersigned, •ien Angkor appointed by the Orphans' Conrt Bradford County to dh•tribitte thisi.haisnce of fends of s:1,1 estate In the hands of nie administrator of Paid cstam. will attend to til‘ , ilutles'of hie appointment at his (Mee it. the Bor ough of Towanda. on SATUILOAY, the day of NO VI:3II3KE, lssa, at .10 o*,cMclr, A. rd.. when acid where all persons having claims on ealit fund must ptesent them or he forever debarred from coining In upon the same. .1. P. KEENEr, Nudity'" Ivand,a, Oetober. 21, 1630-w4. - A SSIGNEE',S NOTICE.—In the Matter of thf. ILeAgnment of M. F. Ranront for tho tu•nrf.t of pc, .bredltorn. In ttle el.urt of common I.';eas of Bradford County, No. 704, May Term, 1877. The final account of G. H. Vant`tyke. Aluditnee lii t caw. filed Sepltlnber 22. isso: and said aeeount will 'ho presented to said Court tortilla! ronti ls tnation and allowance. na Thursday, Deeeel.„ is O. unless cause r shown' wby said account hhoild not be Maally confirmed and allowed by the Court: G EORGH NV. 'IL ACKIIICS. Tvicanda, Oct. 21. 18S6-w4. Trethohotary. VDITOR'S NOTICE. -S. B. rl Tnipor's nse vs. 1-. 0. and D. Taylor. in Couit of Common Pleaiot; Bradford county, Sc. 1160. 31nYTerin, 1E79. . • The undersigned, an Auditor apknted by the Codrt to ,li.trltotto the fund arising from the Sher iff's rale of defendants persoinl property, will attend to the duties of his appolutruent at bigot:Vett . In- Toreanda, on MONDAY, INovgmllE it 22n. 1160, at 10 o'clock, A. M all persons having c slut, Ilpoll bald fund whit present - them or be forever debarred from coming m upon tbe'sante. THOS. E. 'MYER; Auditor, Towanda, Oct. 13W-et: AI I PLICATION IN DIVORCE. —To Julia E. lltineff. In the Court of Corn. WWI Pleas Of `Bradford county.. Ea 668. LidayiiT ltdiO. You are hereby notified that George. pia husband. has -appited to' the Court of equation Pleas of Bradford County for a divorce from the bond% of matrimony. and 'the said Court has ap pointed Monday.. Deceinbtr 6,, IMO, in the Rouse in Tewanda, fOr hearing the sald tieorge„ to the nrornlaes. at which time and place you'may at tend If you think proper. • 4-4 w. r PETER J. DEAN, Sheriff. PPLICATION IN DIVORCE. Hetetlah Chamberlain. In the Court of. common Pleas of Bradford county. No. 114. Nay Term. trio: You are hereby notified that Estelle:J., vour,stlfe, hia applied to the. Court or Common incmsof Bradford County for a dirt:wee from the bonds of matrimony, and the said Court has ap• pointed Monday; the 6th day of December in the Court, (loose in Towanda; for hearing t e said Estella, In the premises, at which time d plate you thsy attend if yon thing proper. • 44w.- - PETStt J. DEAN, B,eriff. A PPLICATION IN ..DIVORCE. ..EX. —To Albert Cur - kende% In the Court of Common Pleas of Bradford county. No. tCt. De remise! Term, Sao.. You are berebrilonfted that 7 YOUr Wife;.! has- applied :to :the Cetrt of Cumtni'm PiCas of Br adford County. for - a .diy er ce. from the bonds of uttrlinony„ and the. said Court has appoltited Monday, December 6th; 1880, In the •cour , Hooke in Towanda, for hearing .the. - td _Ent*, In thtt..„promlaes. -at which tluseand pace 100 may attend If you think proper. • • 4.4 w. • PETER J. DEAN. llhetiff.; :ANTED-=BUSINESS MRS. TiT . —A ilrat-class tegnlar Life Inaurabee Com pany desires to employ a few. men to devote their. ehtire time to their interests in Pennsylvania, to -Whom liberal compausathos trHI he paid. 3lnat pt good character and possess tact, energy and per , ',S,eirerance , past experience tn the. buttlactatenot ,ttecessars..„. Addreas.liatintear;Past occupation; tatld NO, receti*od and eapeotod, with raterrsciur f LOct. MANAGES.' 13 Alder House Omces, New 'fork City. -..' - What are the wild winds saying • As they sweep through the stormy sky i Or moan *sold the leafless branches, • With a witund like a human MOT, Theylam telling in mournful whispers Of the beautiful summer dead, Of May and bet faded garlands. Of - June and hernias Clad; . , Of the - shining days of August, And the sweet Sepeemborglow, Of the regally•crowned October, With footsteps silent and 510 w..., They are telling of harvests garnered, Of ripened and gathered sheaves, Of empty nests in the forests Anti ander the homestead eaves: ,They tire telliog,of stranded vettelr, And wieeks upon stormy waves, , Of sigaalgems an a midnight sea, Of cruel and watery graves:- -And of leaves that drift in the valleys, And mentidawhere no grass has grown. Of beautiful idyls vanished, Aud beautiful visions flown. Of a year with its joys and sorrow That Time like a sheaf bath bound, Leaving no fruit far the gleoer On all the desolat eground. Oh. wind of wlld'Sovember, . _ • , A sorrowful voice Is thine— A requiem of the dying year, • Of the showy shroud a sign - Atilt harvest days that are over, ll:ben we gathered golden grain, And !Inks that ere broken fcrever And lost from Love's mai:leaf chain. D. Y. Jordan; Roseindry Leave*. RUTH DUN'S 'tSIT. '"." In this world it. is best not to think too much of pleasant possibili ties; that we may not be out othumor with present. insipids l ; . yet despite this lamb-like maxim, if ever .one planned, ecOnontizedi . making old gowns last -twice their, usual'span, that she might have one long, cool holiday in. new gowns and. free from care, it was Ruth Dean, the cheeriest, .of b eings, with the. whitest teeth and brownest hair that . ,ever adorned a mortal woman near her fortietlibirth davr-ani age when many other sisters lave . loit youth, health and comeli ness, send begin to have' a dim Con-, seiousness that' they ought 'to have died when they were young and 0)1- eratle. Wben.Ruth first planned this Visit to her relatives away among Maine hills, she was . thin. , in a large West ern city with a ne'aklo-,well husband, and a graceless young nephew, upon whom she lavished all, the . pent-up. motherhood that she- had never been called to expend upon children of her own. - Why Ruth, the .fairest and most. loVable of the five Worthing girls,- should have hottnaherself fortuitous- otherwis4 to such acbundle of obstinacy and incapacity John Dean, while ail of her plain, ordinary 'minded sisters married' capable, ae,pri'sing. men,-is a luestion for phi losophers and biologists. • keturali Ann ILo:wera, an angular down-east woman, ;living with Mrs. Lane, Ruth's nearineighbor, .ity. the capacity, of unpaid ; -phikiSopher and paid nurse, - guiltless ' of Darwinian theories in regard to.Mitaral selection, and having positive ideas of her own about Matters in general; "{lowed,' t 4 use tier expressive language, "as ' well a she wanted to,just why Ruth throwed herself away mer ryib' bat skilless - John Dean." . ".Ef anybody knows Ruth an' all her fainly an' all,ttieiriyays. it's me." keturali was trotting,' quite gently for her, a two-weeks-old baby 'on lier lap, and said this in answer to some .question of Mra. 'Lane in, regard ,to Mrs.,Deate. --- " Vow - see, i dived with_ . Deacon Worthin's ((Aka, off an' on, most of the time after I was fourteen.. When I went there Ruth an' Robert —they were both twine—was jest tittle tots in Pinafores , . MiSs Worth; in's other children was a sight older, an' Ruth an' Robert groomed up all to theirsel...es like'; 'for the older ones merried an' went away afore the twins was ten ,ears old. Sich-happy critters as . them two twins! A play in' or S plannirr c a study in' or a work in', they was alwus together. Robert was master smart about lardin', and Ruth w'an't a bit ahind him, of she was a womankind. . , The Deacon kalkerlated to send him to college, an' 'Robert took to studyin' 4;lreek an' Latun an' rich. an' Rutir kap right along with hin4 an', I' guess, she helped him' more' Iddid her. ' " But this college notion didn't last long afore he got in a desperit to so'to sea. The Deacon thought he might go jest once, to sicken hith of sich a life." It didn't, though, an' he kep' on goin', as boys mostly do down there on the' coast of Maine— it's born in 'ern. .- 1 "When Ruth was nigh twenty' year.old, Miss Worthin' took a stroke an' . wen t off suddenly. The Deaion never ,got over. this blow, an': next year. when the laYlocks was a-blowin', we laid him side of '.mother,' as he always called her. They was all pie father an' mother I ever knowed.') To bide a touch of feeling in her voice, Keturah Anrigave the baby's clothes a vigorous pull downwards, observing in her usual Stridulous tone : . u The Masterfullest baby to be alwus a hunchin' its clothes A ever see". . • " Where was Robert when Insfpt. rents died 7," asked Mrs. Lane. • * 4 I was going to say he was off on a long. trip, an' came home a fGvfi monthri afterwards. What should he bring with him though but a _ queer kind of a furrin' wife, a German, that he took off a wrack with other talf starved 'critters. - How on airth they contrived to get acquainted an' fall in love with one 'nother, it beats me;. for when she comes to us she couldn't speak scnrse a word . except ' nine' that I. could make out, an' that alms put; i n rich onspected places that I used ,to laugh when I oughtn't—she a. poor funiner an' all, her family drownded. - " But as soon as .I.tuth set eyes on this. Bertha'Rubinstein, she took to her an' all her outlandish ways as of she'd been a born sister." "But," suggested ;Mrs. Lane,," thought, you --;were to tell me, hove r Binh happened to marry John Dean. She had no bean, no lover pp to this timel"- - . _ Babes alive l_ w .Venty of them,sieh OA they. was.- -There as the schcal , -1 —,- .i. , .. - . , -,.i,,,',7%. ',,- -4 : , :`,.',;.:,. - • ,, , - .; 4 .71 . :'.-.:-." ':,','L1.1,7 -.:';',1:j7"..'",--:-2.-, pi,''.:',-,;_i:-:.,,L7.1-4:gi-;;N;5.1:47,'7' ; ! . , ,s, !!‘.:::.-... - ,1. , ' .. . : - : !, ,-:':, _ . . :,,,?..:....,,.F:.. ..--. , --,-: IMPI f f TOWANDA,' .BRADFOBD COUNTY,, I P4 - TkoIISDAT MORNING, NOVEMBER .11, 1880. -NOVEMBER. WM mister that,Buth never got sight on but she'd ,e'n a'most' laugh in his face, he *was that queer and stiff in his ways; an' there was a neighbor's, son•with a soft spot in his head where, for he writ poems And things for the papers—believe he came to be editor afterwards--Rutlt couldn't bear' bim. Then there *as the tics eapting, a eight older'n her. forever a askin' of her to' go a ridin' or a walkire with him, an' she a g ‘ nakin! excuses an' never a goin'. Ruth nicknamed : him, in her funny way, Laird Dutnbiedikes, an' said he'd, think biaieby, she - .ought. to marry him she'd . knovinhim so long. Then there was Robert's friend Dick;' real likely he was, too, ad' he was-at the Deacon's a sight; but I didn't call him a beau then, for he an' Ruth *as alwaus a sparrin' hiV a argyfyin', an! never seemed to agree about nothin'. 'They was the oppositest bein's I ever see—Ruth so quick an' techy, an' Dick as cool as a, cucumber. , I " Ruth was kind of independunt an' svomatrightsly, and was minded to say that women didn't never have more'n ball a chance, men was so Sel. fish .ads treated 'em as of they was doll•babies. An' Dick believed, or purtended to, that the hull kit-of female kind needed masters an' per tectors as much as the nigger slaves down South. Thitewould set Ruth right tip, for she didn't b'licve in slavery, nohow. "It was soon, after the Deacon died that there was a picnic off to one of the islands, in' Ruth an' Dick both went., When Ruth came back she looked awfill cut up about acme- thin' or 'nother,an' went right to her root:a. • I heerd her, tramPin'• up an' doWn half-the night. I never'kndwed what %as up for three years. an' then she was married'to John ;Dean an' moved out, -West, an' it was only an i aggravation.": , ; , i At, this juncture the bab y , like Pp brought up by handonade; an outcry. Keturah Ann satis fi ed its ;demans and put it, in its crib, saying with a little chuckle : I . 1 . . "There, you're . a blessed good specitnin - of the male sect in gineral, as peaceful as a lamb when you're l a stutiln',.sOrnethin' into you that suits you anti for jest a little 'while after wa s." - ! 1 - rt . . A Ketursh took her sewing Mrs Lane remarked, smilingly: "You have not made it clear yet why your friend married John Dean." " I Why it's plain• as ;day ; that . she took him because he ihoosed t'i'er an' seemet to *usshap the ground she stood on ; .ihme's manya woman thas' merried when she did not git the one she'd sot her heart on, an' didn't keer about flying in the face of Proiidenee an' not,„marry at ' , all. Ws clear'as, can be that she'd a drawin' towards Dick all the time, for all her inde pendence; an' his goin' right off to- California after that picnic; an' never _suite of her, made her kind of reck less' like.' One day when I was at Ruth's old home, takin' keer of , Ber tha's baby, while she - an' Robert was off to sea; Dick walked right in where J was. They said -h_e,'d got rich a "ininln', but didn't , look, no ways' cheery ef be had. Ile kep talkin' of Buth,,an' asked ef I •thought John Dean would ,make her happy, an' all sich' questions. •Ile said little Ru l 7 binstein'lookcd more like. Ruth tlepo Robert, and then he kissed him an' looked so down-hearted, I. jest up an' asked h im.w hat had happened to that picnic. It all come ontthen that he'd been-lovin' Ruth -eight - along; an' that day, when they were alone among the etititg, he'd told her lie was goin' otr to be gone'a long spell, an' he wanted to have a aerie, talk 'long of her; - an' Rath never stopped to hear what he was gout' to,say„ but turned an' walked off, sayin' kind o' scornful, she belied he'd .haVe . inore sense about • women folks when he. came back. An' he went 'off, thidkin . ' she'didn't care forl , him • but seein' That she was still RuthNrorthin' the last time his folks writ •him. An' . here was Ruth another man's wife out in•lllinoy I. , "I . • declare it,was awful provokin' to see how them two belies, both on l e 'em,„ a sp akin' the same tongue, an' / knawin' ne 'notber all their days, went on to blind their eyes an' make sich a mess, a upsettin' all their hap purness for L life like two nateral born 'jets; when there 'was Robert and Bertha,. only knowed one %other six weeks, or better, .an' one's talk all gibberish to • t'other, an' they found out they were meant for one 'pother. I read a novel once all through, itia' I'm blessed ef Ruth's an' , Dick's en s msible doin's want jest of ,a' piece with the two foyers in that story, for they went on actin' coetraryfthrough two vollems an' at last come togeth er by aeOerdent. But_ that's a sight better'n 'Muth an! Dick come opt. It's , all for the best though', an' I'M nbt I, findiefault with Proyerdedee." " I am glad that you are no pessi mist,''laughed- Mrs. Lane: " I bogie Ruth lived happily with John Dean." . , •' Why, yes, leastwise as fur as folks knowed ; for a woman like . Ruth, with a head full of ideas : an' t ai i 3 common 'sense, don't go a ,tellin' li the world she's made a mistake a ' got the wrong man4—she'd be " pull in•tatters before she,'d , own It. -. Its mostly them couples" its is both link , one as weak.as 'troubles that brings their little mean afore . th world' an' law coutts,ln' git,diverce as of them was a penalty for all their miserableness... John bean wasn't - a bad roan, but kind of hard for wo mankind, to deal - with, for he was monster conterary, an' hadn't 'much guniptiOn about business, an' lost his property as keerless 'as a child. Ruth couldn't do 'nothin, to better things, for them kind o' men, an' the weaker they be the wais they_ be; . is ererlast in' afeared they'll be ruled -by women folks.. Little Stein, as. Ruth calls him, l was with me at home when Robertran' Bertha was lost at sea, an' Ruth sent for me to fetch him to he; , . It nigh u pon broke her heart to lose 'em bot all of a sudden . . but %was a conifer; she said, to ' have Robert's boy. 1 , . " I've bad la town with Ruth - ever sense; of a .Inady evei is at home in this shirlesa out Weilt." ...,- •.. '._ ;king a *lie of Kettirith's swrd- M a, : - ,-. ' .:.:: -:- - - '--•- '- - . :„ -- - 1 , ;-; .\ - _ • - -(' , , '-.. ~.„...\,...‘,,..(., ~.. ,:._,....,.....,.._,...._...:4_,:_. BsGABDiEss or inctrumuilo* num lint (atrium - ed ," out ,West 4.7 Mts. Lane - hid a smile is' her queStlim : "Nis Mrs. Dail . never been East tsa see her yelatlves In all this time?" - leturah beesWazed tier thread and gave 'hee l peculiar chuckling laugh before-she spoke. ‘ , f: It's fanny of disappintments ever Is, but she hasn't *vet been. When Stein was' , ten year old,, or tipwar4s, Bath platned in her heart some way to take wall on a good long pleas urin' tower East;F and - John. Dean 1 111 seemed to need a change more% of us, for he'd been i failin' all t at sprink.. Ruth,she teached in a.frien 's school an' colored photograps that it mightn't comel hard on. John for the outlay; and we was all ready, trunks, packed, ang the airly roses a blowin% an' the black dust, a-cholin' us, when poor John was took down helptess With a shock of, p'ralysis. Instead of a hollerday amongst them blessed Maine hills; we 'staid in that hot city all thatlive-long summer a tendin' on , that poor sick mortal . P.uth wasn',t a angel; but ahe was better'n one of 'em, a Doppia', their wings around in a sick rosam,lor she was a human with human hands au'. cheer words, an' be 'was 'a childish,' onrestful \ inverlid. , . , " 'Twaii along in the winter he died; an' wh;enrthe sound of , them--frozen clods at failin'.. on his: Coffin struck Ituth'd ears,' she fainted away in my arms. P'raps you don't believe it; 'tisn't thein we've loved most an'. been happiest with that we weep bit terest tears - for when 'they're gone; it's sorrow fur happerness we never had cut deepest. " After awhile : we. moved. doWn here to this village, the decentest place I ever see out Rest, for it has a 'few - . litilnroelia in the road; ant ft little risin' ; ground: An', Ruth with her Oho! -for little'ehildren,an' her otudyiie an' her eddicatin' of • Stein, bas•bee_n kind of , peaceful-and con tent. •She'S minded all alongt.hOugh to make that .visit East, and twice ;Sped John' died we've' been e'n-a' most' started l , aut. someth i nglts„sOrn 7 ed up to hinder; but I g . essiwe shall go for sure• this, time;•seeire Stein's off . to Coloiady an' there's only me an' Ritth to,go .An' too, I'm iin 7 pressed, - as them Spiritualists say, that:we'll- be.disappinted." "..oh, I hope not; but it is unfor tunate that Stein. is • not ,here to ac• company his • aunt," remarked MrS. Lane, sympathizingly. • • "You see, Stein wasn't any 'Fuss, as I.knows - on, 'than_ other boys,:-is. Dimly is alwus in hot water that li4s no one 'em round: Ile took to bodk learnin' 'as his father afore' him ; an' he was a master hand to pick things to pieces to see what was in 'em, an' was forever a bringin's_ home weeds and insOts; an' ail 'sorts of .crawlin' things, a clutteriptuP the house with An'• many's the time he's:nigh blowed us all up. with the chemical 'sneriuients,'`• 'Muth seemed 'to think him all' right as long as he kept on studyin' for eollege. but-when her cousin, Mr, Leonard, irdm Massachusetts, came, along last year,. Stein, a great boy of sevgnteen, took a notion to . go 'an"_ help him on his sheep ranch in Col orady... Ef you'll mind this baby a mink, I'll run over an' see of , Ruth has heerd from Keturah found Ruth in her sitting ! room. strewed with various signs of speedy departure, seated on the cor-_ ner of a half packedgopen trunk with a w erushed letter in her hand, and with a dazed, tearful look in her eyes. ": 0 Ketnrali," she exclaimed as that worthy spinster appeared before her - "Stein's letter came half an hour ago '4 and I hs*e sat like one stunned ever sihee. He has been thrown from t horse, broken one arm, sprained an ankle and , brniSed himself terribly. 'He hopes we have not'started on our jourireyi - for hi wishes to Come home as soon as his, condition' will permit 'him to do 56.1 He will take up his studies again and behave himself, he writes. The dear boy-I Am so glad its no worse, and, that I'shall have htm at home_ again .' -.How fate 'bust 'eloy upsetting our plans," and Ruth, laughed hyiterically - until the tears rolled down'over r the htilf-folded gar ment on her lap.. ," Butyou ngo Ketur.sh, and we will'come on 1 er," she said, when she had comp.'sherself. , "Not a step wi I budge until you go, of . I have td w it till I'mpld as. Methusleh. l've felit all along -that boy! so would h pen to that t \l , boy-l-so pernickity an' ‘enturesome no good comes offraiiing upraces." . 4 ' You need not. say that , for see how Stein's Yankee proclivitie send' him roaming after adventure a d to see the; world, while-the German Id of him brings lira home to quit study and duty.l - Rut lielp me put thin torturing, qurik out of oght;” and Ruth robe from: her cramped pa sition- with regained cheerfulness. • .As she shut the truck - out of sight in n dark closet she broke\Out afresh: "To think how many pietnres of cliff, mountain nod sea I've biidled into that trunk with every pac, age; and now-mo d " . "'Preps you packed in a picter of a great broad-shouldered feller stand in' ag l in a- rock, an' of a little woman a.streakin' through the bushes alook in' back kind of scornful." . Having deliirered herself iif.this un expected speech, which for a moment quite suspended her (With's) breath, Keturah's face disappeared in the pasteboard tunnel of, her calico sun-. bonnet, and, in spite of her' "disap pointment," she went milling back if.) her duties. , The marlplot nephew's. letter was. answered with due apeed, and two weeks later Ruth sat one afternoon in her cosy parlor. The light from a nearly-shaded window played over her wavy brown hair and•little gray- . 'clad. figure, the soinberness of -the dress only relieved bya little knot of tiny, ferns and, scOt geranium blos soms at her throa t and lit , up the pages of the book She was vainly en deavoring.to read . "It is useless," she murmured, can neither read nor work. It is that foolish dream of last night which brings so vividly to my. Mind all .thiose by-gone scenes-- fatherpnother, Robert and- Dick.= dead - end living, all mingled together after the fashion of dreams.; Keturah !•z;;:;:,:1 - ::. : ',; . ;:.;.%g :'-*;': , F - ii;PI 1 `, - 7''Z' .- :',' . .'' 'f j -' - r.,;6 . : ; - .7" • , :,--:'..-7:,, „ ._ .. .--,-,.-.'e'f'.l.,%':';',:sil• '' _.,,.,-... ESI=IBEI ME Mil MEM is so sure that he went away heart broken ! - I imagine, ,:though,' . that away in o that "wild Vancouvel with his coal mines, his wealth; and with that doctor's widow that he Married, he .has quite forgotten ILittla Ruth.' / was all "to blame. What'ldiots women are; saying - and doingln pire caprice what they would 01,4 worlds in a moment to unsay and undo. But oh, it's the afterthought, thdlintCr gedanke, that makes onr.bitternessP! Coverin o ct her face with bath hands Ruth lost all thought 0f... alb present in °a reverie of the past. The sound of an arriving train at the near de pot aroused her, and brushing away an impertinent tear, she 'exclaimed aloud: "What a sentimental• old . thing you' are Ruth Dean; _why, yo'u ' ought to be wrinkled and gray-head ed and sensible—ou are only one of thousands—only one Whose ovisrhiity, tinpulse drove:Min Nat eartbtrjoys 4e might eecure4 " She arose and opeped a bliad that, had tempered the hot June dun. Pulling towards her an overhanging vine, she gathered - a handful of roses, and as she turned away from the window felt herself half lifted 'from the floor in the clasp or some intrud er's arm:. 4 Stein, dear little Stein, you great frightful darling!" she exclaimed, s her blonde•haired, Teutonic nephew releadd her from his close embrace. "I crept ins by the _ back way to surpise you—see these confounded splints, how they bother me, and my ankle gives Me a twinge at every step. But, Aunt Ruth, I have not come alone—here's sombody that knowsl father—Mr. Say*ood.:—Aunt: Ruth—why—what is the matter ?" For as Stein uttered his companion's name ' Ruth gave a slight shriek, and stood pale and trembling as wild], bronzed,- heavily•beanied man came forivard to greet , her. - May I coupe in, Ittith !" asked her guest, with meek - in hi tone. si " Diek—Richard Say wood! is i possible ?" ," It is pOi'sible—it Is the same Dick' who used, to have so little sense about women—one woman particu larly," he Said, taking her hands in .his and leading her to a. sent: " I came i lronrVictoria to place my stepsen in school at San Francisco ; while there I learned that my frield Leonard was in Coloradp. I dropped in to. 'See him •for old acquaintance sake, and there I met Roberts son, and the poor, 'bruised rascal needing -an escort I have guided him safe to your arms. Could I do less for his father's son ?" "1 am: grateful,but Di—Mr. Say- Wood," blundered Ruth, half. bewil dered by his, steady gaze and 1,14 e close clasp o r her unreleased hands, ';your family—yonr wile—why have.' you not brought her with you PY "I 'have no family save niisoiing . l stepsen, Maynard. His tallier yeas 'the wife'of my dearest fries in that rude land. Ile died, leaving his wife . And son' in. my care. She was An •valid when_ I muried 'her; and two years tig6 she died, and now MaS:. nand is my sole comforter. Are you 'still pitiless, Ruth—my Ruth?'-' he asked in a voide•gOky with emotion,' as Ruth's tearful, joyful eyes. looked up into his . questioning face, giving himthe full assurance of that love he had once doubted.., ' - • • Keturah Anti' was'somewhat span= dalized at, the brevity of the plepht:s tie* for the 'wedding which-followed thiS,meetirig of those two onserisk ble'bein.'s•," and she was 1 card to de clare : Ef !the ways Of Providence isn't the 'onsetriterblist ; hems that ',visit dOwn East that's been upsot so many times come to' be weddin' toler.after all." . ' • Three years after Ruth's second marriage Mrs. Lane visiting frieniis in Maine met Keturith Alui and made some inqpiries in regard to her for mer neighbor. • "it's equal to a novel how things. have come round," answered ktu yah.' " Here's, Dick - and Ruth li in' on the old,pkee, all fixediup beauti ful, right in sight of mountains :an' the sea; an' there's littlt Robert a toddlin' round, justi the, Oicter of, Dick. An' Stein's away 4 c,ollege— :is fond of weeds and crawlin things .as ever—he'll come to lbe 'one of them nateralists , bimeby.l An' that sober Maynard, as stiddy, is a dea con a learnin' to' be a farmer, an' all, of 'em is as busy an' hay us mor tals can be in this oncertita world:" ;--Sophia Emery, in Bostqn Travel ' .:A Living Express Package. All sorts of queer things are car- viedby the railroad - companies now adays, but the oddest piece of freight hat has been seen in Pittsburg for a 14 pg time passed through on Satur daYl A chubby, round-faced, bright lookingboy.eleven years old ; named Casey\femmel, arrived in this city 'on Saturday evening in the care' of the Baltinkoreqt Ohio Express Com pany. He bad traileled as a piece of express mattefrom some place in far-away Texas \ He had a paper tag tied to him lust\as though he was a bag of pOtaKgs, and 'oh the t g was written, the address \ of the con ignee . He was entered on the waybi Is and. manifests just like anybther reight; and as' he passed from\he.band of one expresS messenger tit' anetber he Whs duly receipted for. This living express bundle left Texas ott\Taes day and has, been well taken. cat:c \ of. With Caisey was a package contaT in: money, a baggage'cheek and a ticket. over the Pennsylvania Rail; road from Pittsburg to' Philadelphia. . When the boy wanted anything 'to eat. or desired some other reasonable_ object . the messenger took , eikificlent money from the package to 'pay fOr it and charged iton a bill which Ras with it. Casey was' pired'an bland a passenger.traiti on th,e • PennsylVii nia-Railroad on Sundak and? is now probably safe in . the hands of his filends.--Pillsbn s "Post. L+ • 41 Atts, you last; Y little fellow?" ask ed'a gentleman of : our-year-old. A. NoT be eoblasd, b•butimy'roother ix" . A TWELvnlrear-okf West Chester boy can show 4,700 warbles of all kinds, °bar new and description,. as the stun total of bis winnings dining the , ent • season: ; '1;1 E== • i '-," I t HOW , CAN -A WOMAN TELL? Ile told _ meDli 104 e tbtalnarnlng, R:ttti his dear'boad doped lb mini, And be told, " pod speed ti ealmrotoig What, darling, all thee tahm.,i o Bat my had ImattillanglOned Though loviag Alm One awl well; Win Ids love outlast all change*? Wu I !tow' can a woman tell P When the years shall bring their trials, And the cues and the pains outweigh The joys In the little household. 7 • - As clouds might obseui% the day— WIII the bend Mit has held mine 'fondly,• , When maidenly Ills befell,, • , At earnestly ehledd from sorrow? Ales ! bow cnn a woman Letts- Wb4n the inters threads are cm! 14nie Through my Witeses one by one; 'Whin I lose my Youth end, beauty, As man); a wife has. done; ° Will ble heart be mine as truly. As when In the flowery Ife gas* me his (fisted promise?. All t bow can a WOMaU,tell ? Islanee at my sweptheakWaltlng, Ills eyes they arirelear and true : "I win love hlm,” my heart inys gladly, "I will Oust him the wide workl through, I irlli be to blur Jny and comfort, I will othcrWitrei exeell I Will keep with love's sweet . Z3le much Lazy a wean tell It was one otthe by-laWs of Heart ache's Heavenly Raiser that it be used liberally before retiring, rub bing it well' into the scalp. Just be fore he went to bed that man bolted the back door, Vut the cat in the woodrshed, came in whist: !ling the " Fatmitza " waltz, danced up to the clock shelf, and pouring oat what he supposed to be his hair fer tilizer he mopped it alt over his scalp and stirred it well in around the root 0( the little hedge of hair at the back of his neck. 'The glue' bottle, by an unearthly coincidence, was nearly, the- 'same shape and size as the hair:sap bottle. He went to bed. - '" George," said his wife, turning her face tnthe wall, "that 'stun you're putting' on your hair smells like a pan of soap-grease." , " Perhaps I had bef,ter co up stairs and sleep," snarled George. "You're m'ghty. sensitive ! You wouldn't ex pect that a man cap put stuff on his head that will make . his, hair grow and have it smell like essence of win tergreen, would you ?" They went to sleep mad as Turks. This particular bald-headed man , like, a good many other baldleaded men, had to get up and build the fires.- When. lie arose next morning the sun peeped in at the window and the pillow clung to the back of his head like a great chigon. At first he did not realize his position . ; ' he thought•/t must• have caught on a pin or a Shirt button. 'lt looked 'ri diculous, and he would throw it back on - the bed before his . wife saw it, so he caught it quickly by one-end and " yanked." "011! \ Oh! Darn:Wan to fish-hooks, "what's been going on here? Thunder lightnin'," and he began to claw at his scalp like a lunatic: His wife sprang up fiom her couch and Vegan t to sob hysterically.. "Oh don% George! What is it? What's the.matter ?" George . was dancing about the room, theyillow noviiiangling by a feW . heirs, scalp covered with something that looked like sheet Copper, while the. air_ was reiTlolent,o warlike expletives, as if a dietiOnary had exploded. With a woman's 'in stinct the poor wife took in the 'situ °Lion at a'glance, and exclaimed :\, • " Itis the glue I" „ The hdld-lketuledAnan sat down in' a cliair.and looked At her a moment in contemptuous silence, and then, uttered :the one expressive word: • " Glub NOW began .a series of procesies and experiments unheard•of in the t annals of chemistry. " Jane, you must soak it off with warm li'ater.: gi:ktAo go to Utica toAay.", - • . "I can't, George," she rethrned in •• ti guilty tone,." it's waterprool:"' ' • " . might have known it and I suppose . it's, Are-proof,. too, ain't it ?". , He scratched 'over '.the smooth plaiting withlis finger-nails. . I "It's hard as iron," be said. • ",!Ye&-- , lie said it was good glue Pr replied e, innocently. " Can't yOu skin it oft with your razor, George?" . "Don't bc"a: bigger fool than you are,.Jant. Get Hie that coarse file in the woodshed." • It may be imagined.what folloWed, and now las the bs r ld-headed, man sits in his office he .'nei'er removes his hat, for.his entire skull is.a hoWling waste of blistered . deSert,yelieved here and there by oases of Mack coUrt•plaster, Sunday • Times. A Revived Art of Conversation Is there no great principal which can be laid down as a basis of a re- . vived art of conversation ? We think there is, and le will proceed to de. ielopit with the modesty that should ever grace the announcement of a new discovery, however important. And, .first of all, it is hopleless to en deavor to revive the Past. If, conver sation everlourished„ and we almost doubt, it, the conditions which pro- duced this vigorous growth - .hate passed away. 'What success it had was certainly- owing ,to the men of genius who devoted their lives to i%. Now-a-days men; of, genius have other things to do. There are never very many of them, and they are not al lowed to *slate their time. , If talk is tote revived at all; it must popular .4edi like eveything else, and, brought w Now the capacity 'of. commonplace people.. ow there is one way by , whieh i ren the most stupid of us-may make hie utterances invariably inter esting and often amusing, it is—here. conies the\great discovery.. by tell ing the truth. The reasOnhat the conversation of the fool is eoVarren ,is that it is never their own Ot is the repetition of what they have heard or read last and always spoilt in\ the'rgtelling. If they -would only tell\ i i i is their own minds, their real ; thong ts and. opin :ions, their likes and dislikes, their principles and their wealettems we skouldsnot be -left. in such horieless ignorance of whither.the world is 1 - -' Rising Hair. =I IMEE itimo poi Annuin In Advance. tending; - for • after all, the fools are the most importankclass; :the clever men may preach and write and work, but with 'all their effort they can only slightly divert the course " of the great solid block Of ignorance and' prejedice that rolls on sO steadily throughout the ages. If ' the•wise could only understinid the- foolish they might make th world go their mita way; but the foolish echo the words of the wise and keep their thoughts to themielves.- And,bow good a thing would • it be if women would only speak their minds. There is nothing that hon est men desire tune than to under stand that mysterious. race that is so like__ them and yet so unlike, who share their , homes but not their thoughts, who are so shrewd, so practical and so irrational. The poor men yearn to break down the invisi ble barrier and see into the real life of those they love so well ; but the loved - Ones smile and chatter and say pretty things, and ingenious things, and things they have borrowed from men and improved them in the bor rowing, but never one word of the real thoughts that are working in their busy brains. 'So i l *, men gat ter and lie because - t ey'think the women like it ; and the !omen accept it because they think it is a man's nature •; and the men think women Pre empty-headed angels ; andi the 'women think men are fine, intelligent brutes; ,and the two classes go on loving and despising one another ac cordingly;and-all for the want of a . little truthfulness in'conversation. Stockings. 'Few of the ancients had any cloth. ing' for the lower- 'part of the rj . Ddy, and must have bad extreme difficulty in sheltering themselves from the severity of the season. The North ern nations first had a hose or trous ers ; their stockings were made of pieces of cloth sewed together. We eaanot-say with a' certainty-in what country the art of knitting originat ed. France, England, Spain and Scotland respectively claim this use fßl discovery. _Some believed it-orig inated' in ' Scotland in the sixteenth' century, because when the French litocking-kintters' guild made charm of a patron want they 'selected - St. ll acre, a` native of Scotland On the other liand;the invelition is attribut ed-to a,Spßibard, on the strength of Mezeral, whp asserts that silk stock ings were ~worn - by Henry 11. of France at the marriage of his sister in 1559 ;• but before that Edward VI ,had graciously- ac'eeptel‘ a pair from. the merchant prince, Sir T,homas Oresharn, who imported them ,from Spain; the land where they were first Manufactured. The story goes•that a loyal grandee, the happy voisesors of one of the first pair made in Spain, thought he could do no better than present the novelties -'to his .Queen, and to that end placed them in the hands of the first minister of the crown, 'greatly to the diseomfiture . of that modest man, who astonished the innocent-meaning noble by returning hid the stockings and bidding him itlnernbet• that " the Queen of Spain had no. legs." Queen Elizabeth of England, not ashamed- to own that she had legs, received, a similar gift , in livery different manner. In third year of .her reign (1561) her silk woman, Miss Montague,...tendered her as a. New Year's gift a pair of -hlack silk s kings—the. first pair of -the ' kind m de in England. Eliza beth lost no t me' in putting the gift son her . ." limb ," and was so pleased kith the resnl that she sent for Miss l c Montague an inquired where she procured suc comfortable foot-gear, .and if\she 'c uld get any more of them. ' 44 \ I m de them very carefully of purpose- nly, for you majesty," replied the \ silk woman ; "'and,. see ing - these please .you so well, I . will presently set \more in the hank." "Do so," said this queen; "for indeed, [ 'I like silk stOckings so well, because they are pleasant, fine and so delicate, Ithat henceforth I will wear no more cloth stockings." , \ - A ' c.• \ ' • 4 4.1 , ' - s ' j 1 Children's Faticies and Sayings. A-fishing Master Freddie went. Against tr We wishes and consent, As usual to such cases. he - Yell In. When be came hems to tca Ma laid her !dipper where It would Do.Malder Fred a world of good. 'A playmate asked of Fred next day : "Did you strike bottom to the bay?" agtrite bottom 't• Nort' 8214 1 , NaughtY Fred, s• But Ma did 'Rim I got to ima., -• • A voun.year-old Sunday School girl did the best she could with a question that was asked of the infant :class. Said •the teacher : "'`And it came to pass when King. Hezekiali heard it,. that he rent his clothes.' Now, what does that 'Mean, children, he • rent his - , clothes?' " went a little hand. "Will, if yOu know,- tell OP." . " Please,i ma'am," said the child, timidly, 'II pine he hired . 'em out;' ' - ,Constx Exit.'" (whose young man sits opposite in . dreamy contemplation .Of his inamorata): "Do you like your new doll, Bertha ?" .tHertha : " Et, tuzzin ; I loves it weal loth, all but one-fiug." Cousin Emily': " Why. _What is that, Ber tha?" Bertha : " hair will come tt ; but tuzzin she isn't a truly lady, oo know, 'cause .her teofins won't come out all in a bunch, like ;mne floes, oo Which was more than Emily's young idan ever dreamed of. 1 JOHNNY'S father is a professional jury man and talks about his businesi at the family table. Johnny goes to Sunday. School. Last Sanday the teacher, asked him° What - Cain did when God accused him of being his • brother'* murderer. "He didn't do !lain' but tit it with the jury," was the startling reply which struck the tmeher'a ear. . • • , My baby boy eat on the floor. . . Hie, big blue eyes were ful) of wonder, For he had never thought Oefore, • That baby by the mirror ddor, What kept the two, so near, molder. He leaned toward that golden head, • That mirror border framed Until twin Oleo* like roses red. • Lay Me by aide, then ratty Bald: • • ' 4 l :eau% get out ; can Yotteomw - Pitnivv.Pluttler !—(After the wedding breakfast ; departorOof the happy pair.) Child—" Why do they throw things at the pretty ladi_in the ca y" Young lady—" For luck, dear." Obild—" And Why doesn't she throw Ahem back?" Young lady--" Oh, that would be rude." Child-. (promptly) . —" No,' it wouldn't. Ma does." [Pleasant for Ma—, and Pa— Who overheard, and ktiow tbat' others Overhear also.—,Funny - Fake: i II MI = NUMBER 24 ■ Tabbs Fork& . _ It is not grally brown• tbat we are indebtal to • the Chinese for the use of tbe fork - -; *filet not only that, but these - riesPised barbarians have taught us the art of• printing and the use of inoVestibil vpesitheurizhreei cOmpass, 'the use of Anse% chsiri bridges, pectades, India ink, chain .- pump; winnowing maiiine, wooden baEs t ete. •It was ` not an the butt • pa of the sixteenth century • that to forks were introduced hp° po lite society in Emland. • . They were part y known In Italy-. in the tenth century, for in a letter of Peter Dataiani, who died in 1073 - mention is made of a lady from Con utsatinople, wbo was inariied.trithe Doge of. Venice, and who was so fas tidious respecting her food to use a fork to takerter meat. 'They are mentioned in a charter of Ferdinand I, of Spsin, 1101, and - l inthe Ward robe accounts of Edward I. of Eng ' land are specified a pair of knives of, siler'and forks of crystal. _ Forks were common in Italy in the - fifteenth - century, although nearly un-, known in Frince and England in the following one. At close of the sixteenth century they were noticed, _- is a luinry in France, in fact so late . as 1641 they were not universal in - Paris. :In a , representation of__ ft great feast held by the cobblers in that year no forks were on the table. The carver held a leg of mutton with one hand, while with - the other he cut slices off for the gnests. In 1611 an Englishman was ridiculed for using one. In a Manual of Cookery published in 1684 we- - find the following: "A gentlewoman being at the table, abroad or at home, must obierve to keeto, her body straight and lean riot by any- means ; upon her elbows, nor . by.ravenous gesture discoVeru vora- • dons appetite:. Talk not when' you have ni - eat- in your , monthe, and do not =lecke like a pig, nor ear !Toone meat so hot that the tears stand in your eyes. .It is very uncourtly to drinks so large , a 'draught that your breath is almost gone, and you are forced 6o blow strongly to recover yourselfe. Throwing down , your li quoc.as into a funnel is an action fit ,.ter,for a juggler than 'a gentlewoman. In carving at your table, distribute the best pieces first, and it will ap peare very decent 'and comely -to use a foike, so touch no piece of meat. without it." • \ PAPER BARRELs.—Barrels made of pulp are among the latestinventions. They area Michigan invention, and as described by the Detroit Tri bune, seem likely to become an important rticle ofi commerce. It is a barrel .made of pulp, subject to an enor mous pressure. The advantages claim ed for the invention are its lightnessi durability and cheapnek - ' , " The body of the barrel is ail made in one piece, from coarse wood pulp. Tbe press ure to which it is subjected is four hundred tons. 'The ot the barrels are made of one_piece in the same way, and when'put together are extremely light, strong and satisfac tory'.in every way' apparently. There are two kinds, One for fruit, flour and other substances, the other for, oil, lard, and liquids of all kinds. It k haid'that a barrel of flour made in this way and filled, can be dropped from a wagon-without injury. Fruit packed +in these receptacles keeps longer thau , when putrtip in the ordi • nary way being and excluded from the air. The barrels for liquid sul. s' antes are , made by subjecting the first form, to a simple process, and oil can be kept in 'them without any leakage. The saving in cost is about .fifty per cent. Steps are being taken for the formation 'of a company to manufacture banels, tilbs,_ etc., by this new process. IN London an- American gentle- ' man was one day invited to dine at . the .house •of an -eminent solicitor. Tbe daughter - of the host sat next to him at table:- -Some questioh arose respecting our national currency, and he took from his .pocket some specimens of our hank notes, among which was one bearing the portrait of , General Washington. The note pass ed from hand to hand around the table, and finilly came to the yonng lady above mentioned. 4 Who's portrait is thatrP she asked. - Gen eral Washington,' be answered. And who was her she asked. 'One' of- our Presidents,' cautiously re- 4..; marked the gentleman, who was rath er anxious to See, how fathis fair neighbor's ignorace woul d extend. ' One Of your Presidents—ah, indeed! Did he come before or after Mr. Lin coln ?1: Fun, Fact and Facetite. Tnniheu, like the amateur at billiards, depends principally upon the scrata.. FAM4Y jewels stick to .some - Air many yea* but the old clod longer. "THAT'S . where your head is le the Indian said when he pulled • Wny is au omitted i like being Wellone reason is that it makes mad. • . - KY burden is light," rernai little man carrying a big torch in cession. Who was it that said to a Doctor vinity found playing on the violin 'file D. Di?" WHE":4 the cook returned from'__ etery she said she had been to see her marma-laid: Auznous are spoken of as dwelling in attics becsolue so few of them are lable to live on their first story. Tut beauty of a man's parting his hair in the middle appears to be that .it , gives both ems a chance to Sap.. A THIEF, who lately broke OVER lb gro cer's warehouse, excused himself on - the plea that he only went to take tea. -AN imbecile who wished to Make him self agreeable to Longfellow said : "Sir, every night of 'm y: life I all asleep over - One of your walls !" • AN exchange says that thirty ,persons in a small town in Michigan were recent-. , iy poisoned by eating sausages. This' comes from having hems Dollars On dogs. DAUGHTER' :" 44 Lee' , ma, look 'at that heaNle !" : Vy, you hignorant gal, it's a bowl !" Showman' (0014(4): "Axes your pardon, mum, hot it's a ' 'awk I" "I SUPPOSF " said a quack, while feel ing the pulse of a patient, "that you .think me a buinbug. - " - "Sir," replied the sick man, " I perceive you can discov er a man's thoughts by his pulse." BETWEER two horse-or conductors :. " What a pretty watch, Billy?" " you buy it of me ?" "Is it guodr . ' "I believe you ! and not lazy, either ; why . that watch will make her hour every time in . forty-five minutes." Tnz - pupils bad got as fir si the word " hypocrite." None of the children could explain what it meant. (Inc guessed - that it meant "big feeling," and another thought a " hypocrite " was a "bit:ani mal that wallets in the mud." tla the teacher explained : " k hboarite, chil dren, is a person who pretends to be what he is not ; such a one may be plealant to your face, but - steaks ill- behind your back." ' "Please, maim," 'ma a little boy eagerly, raising his band, _.f'then my .pa ain't n hypocrite, 'came Ims .naid you was a confounded old mid.' and he'd *4 lives tell.yer so to yot awe r I II 1 II