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OF
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OTICE TO LAND OWNERSI
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NOTICE.
rTItimf" i?,er,I,lf'ined ,nere,)y, Klv Public notice,
Ma, 3, 1870-r.t ' JOUN "AMBAUGH.
JOHN CUTT'S SECRET.
t6TS Mr. Cutt'i in?" asked a gcntlc
X nmn, who, liuving knocked ut a
door, was saluted by a woman from an
upper window, with " Well, what's want
in' naow?'
" Yes, he's in, or about somewhere, I
suppose," she replied; "but I'm Mr.
Cutts, when any business is to be done.
He's Mr. Cutts eutin' an' driukin', sleep
in' sometimes!"
" Well, my good woman," said the gen
tleman, " I think he will be Mr. Cutts for
my business, too. I wish to see him."
" What do you want of him ?" asked
the shrew, thrusting her head still fur
ther out of the window.
" To do something for me. But I must
see himself," was the reply.
" Is it raal business, for pay, or only
favor you want; I can let your hoss have
a peck of oats, or I can direct you to the
shortest road to the Four Corners, or I
can t can why, I can do anything for
you that he could; and a good deal more !
I take the money and write receipts, and
pay the men, and I take off the produce !
I'm as good a judge of stock as he is,
and I can't bo beat on horse flesh."
"But," said the gentleman, drawing
down his face solemnly, " you can't take
his place now. Find him for mo at
once."
The shrew was baffled. " Look-a-liere,
mister," she continued, " may be you do
not know tho circumstances of the case.
This here farm is mine, and it was my
father's afore me ; and Cutts, he hain't
no more claim to it than that hen down
there has. And besides, I'm seven years
older than he is, a foot higher, and weigh
twenty pounds more ! What's your busi
ness on my place, if I may make so bold!"'
" To see and talk with your husband,"
replied the rrcntleuian. rrottin.r ne i,;a
Ichaise and hitching his horse to a post, as
if Via vi,Ai..,f M 1. . .1 1 . .
nv uivuuu w outjr uutn niyjia see mm.
" Bo you a doctor? Cause there ain't
a living thing the matter with Cutts.
He's the wellest man in the town, and so
be I," said this ' woman for the times.' "
" No, my good woman, I'm not a doc
tor. Do you think your husband will be
in soon ? Send that boy to find him I"
said the stranger.
The boy looked up in his mother's face
but ho knew his own interests too well
to start without orders.
" Then you're a minister I suppose, by
your blackcoat. I may as well tell you
and save you time, that we don't go to
meeting, and don't want to. It ain't no
use for you to leave no tracks nor nothing
for I've got a big dairy, and hain't no
time to idle away readin', and I keep him
about it so early and late, that when he's
done work he's glad to go to bed and
rest !"
" I'm no minister, madam ; I wish 1
was though, for your sake," said the gen
tleman. " Send for your husband ; I cannot wait
much longer I must see him at once."
The boy itarted to his feet again, and
looked in his mother's eye ; but it gave
no marching orders.
" Look here, mister," now appearing at
the door, and looking defiantly at him,
"you're a school-master huntin' up a dis
trict school ; and you think he's a com
mittee man ; but he ain't, this year."
' Ma'am Cutts,' as the neighbors called
her, dropped her hands at her side and
heaved a groan. She had found a man
she couldn't manage.
" Sec here, now, mister," she said, " I
can read a body right through, and I
knew what you was the blessed minute I
clapped my eyes on you. I can tell by
your everlastin' arguin' that you are a
lawyer. We hain't got no quarrels ; don't
want no deeds drawed nor wills made; so
if you're huntin' a job out of my hus
band, you may as well onhitch your horse
and drive on. We know enough to make
a little money, and I know enough to hold
on to it."
" My good woman, you entirely misun
derstand my errand. I can tell no per
son but himself what it is, and must tell
him in conGdence alone. If ho chooses
he may break it to you in tho best way he
can."
" 0, My goodness sakes alive I Brother
Life blnwed up in the Mississippi boat, I
bet ! 0, la me, the poor fellow. He left
a little something, didn't he?"
" I never beard of him, and nobody's
' blowed up' that I know of," replied tho
gentleman.
" O, now I know ! You're the man
that wants to go to Congress, ha, and have
come here huntin' after votes. He shall
not vote for you I 1 hate politicians, es
pecially them that goes agin women, i id
thinks they were made to drudge, and
nothin' else I I go in for free and equal
..p .... .. ...iui men uuu women
-for Scriptur says, there isn't neither
men or women ; but all's one in politics.'
I believe the day's a comin' when such as
you and me will have to bow the knee to
women, afore you can get the big places
and high pay that's a eatin' us up with
taxes 1 You can't sea mv hush.-i nil f Wa
are goin' to the polls on the way to the
ill l itn . 4
mm, unu x u promise you that he votes
right."
" I'm no candidate, and I don't know
who you're to talking about. Ah, there
comes the man I want!" And tho stran
ger went towards Mr. Cutts, who had just
leaped a pair of bars which led from the
potato patch into the lane.
Mr. Cutts flew into the house for her
sunbonnct, to follow them ; but by the
time she got to the bars, her mysterious
visitor and Cuts were driving rapidly
down the road.
The stronsr-minded woman nhmitorl nf.
ter her husband, " You'd better come
duck, i tell you I" but the wind was the
wron" way, and carried her words i ntn
the potato patch.
feir, said the gentleman to honest
Cutts. " I have a Verv Rlinnlo nnnatmn fn
ask you, but I shall have to ask you in
commence, i will give you hve dollars
if you will promise not to rpnnnt. mv
words until to-morrow."
"Well, sir," replied Cutts, "Ishouldn't
like to answer any questions that would
make trouble among my neighbors. I
have my hands full, I can tell you, to
keep out of scrapes now ; but I've done
it, and hain't an enemy in the world, as
I know."
" But. sir. VOU needn't ronlv tn mv
. , -TV "V
question, unless you are perfectly wil
ling, saiu me stranger.
" Ask your question," said Cutts, "and
I will not repeat it."
" Well, Mr. Cutts, I am laying fence
on the Brislev place, that I've inst hono-lit.
and I was directed to inquire of you
wncre i coum Duy cedar posts. A fel
low in the store said ' Cutts can tell you
if his wife will let him ; but she won't.
She'll insist on telling you herself, and
perhaps offer to drive with you wher
ever you go to order them."
" I told them I would see you, 'and
ask you only ; and tho fellows bet on it.
They are to give you ten dollars, and to
two or three widows in town a cord of
wood each, if I succeed in asking you
this question alone, and making sure your
wife does not know my business until
after breakfast to-morrow morning."
Cutts knew his wife's "standing" too
well to feel very sensitive, and taking
the bill from the stranger, he smiled and
said
" I'll go with you to look out cedar
posts and keep dark, for the joke's sake ;
but I don't know as she'll let me stay in
the house to-night, for I don't own it,"
replied tho good-natured Cutts.
" Suppose you go to my place and see
to setting the posts. I will send a boy
to tell her you had to go off suddenly on
a little business, and will bo back in the
morning," said the stranger.
"I'll do that," replied Cutts, "fori
never quarrel with her, but let her have
her own way. I don't want to worry
myself about trifles."
" Good man," said the stranger, " there
are no trifles in this life. Tho Kmnllpxr.
act is important, and the easy good na-
mre oi yours win ruin your Jannly. liaf
flo that spirit to-day, and next Sunday
take your boys and go tho house of God,
whatever she says, and be a real man
at the head of your own house and
family."
" It is rather late to begin," said Cutts
shaking his head iu away that would
have warned others from tho trap in
which his feet were fast.
" You see the purse is hers," ho added
" and that has been a cruder fetter than
her will to me. But I will try to begin
anew, for her good as well as the chil
dren's." The boy was sent with the message,
but the boy wasn't sharp enough
Ma'am Cutts discovered tho whereabouts
of her lord, tackled up and went after him.
All the way home and far into tho
night she used her eloquence, both in
pleading and threatenings, to find out the
mysterious errand .of " that hateful town
nabob that had come into the town to
seperate happy families."
But Cutts yielded himself up to a
" dumb spirit" for the night ; and no
measure could induce him to talk on any
subject, lost she should pry the mighty
secret out of him.
About midnight she wore herself out
and went to sleep ; but at break of day
she began again. He then ventured to
say, "as soon as breakfast is over, I'll
break the news to you."
" You'll never eat a mnrsol inn,. !,.,
I can tell you," cried Zuntippe, "till
you've told me what that man wanted of
you 1"
"Then you'll wait a good while to
hear it," said Cutts, " for I've vow'd I'd
never tell it, till I had first eaten my
breakfast !" and with these words he
went out.
Ma'am Cutts endured the torture as
long as possible, and then got breakfast.
She called to the door to no one in par
ticular, " come !"
But Cutts didn't come. After a while
she went out to the barn and found him
seated on an up-turned half-bushel
measure, calmly peeling and eating a raw
turnip.
" It does seem as if this here man had
possessed you !" Your breakfast is coolin ;
do come in !"
Hero was a point gained.
Cutts went in as requested, and ate
his( breakfast. Wheu that was over,
ma'am settled herself back in her chair,
with her faco full of eager expectation,
and said :
" Now, begin. What did that ere man
want?"
" He wanted some cedar posts," re
plied Cutts, calmly, without looking up .
" and that was all !"
If an arrow had struck Ma'am Cutts
she could not have manifested more sur
prise and shame.
" I am tho laughingstock of this town,"
added Cutts, " and from this hour I turn
over a new leaf. I'm henceforth head of
my family, and unless this house is made
mine, I shall finish off a room in the barn
which is mine and you will be wel
come to share it with me. If not, I'll
live there with the boys, and you will
find me a civil neighbor."
Ma'am Cutts' power was broken. Since
then the farm has been called "John
Cutts' place," and he is the head of the
house.
A Ride With Her Beau.
MISS KM MA HALMAN had been
sent by her parents to a boarding
school, quite a distance from home, with
instructions to Miss Waldron, the teach
er, to keep a strict watch over her.
Emma had a beau, however, whom she
managed to keep up a correspondence
with, and it was at last arranged that ho
should come and pass off for her cousin,
and take her out carriago riding, under
pretence that he was taking her to his
father's, a few miles out in the country.
Well, he came according to appointment,
and introducing himself as Emma's cous
in, asked to take her home to spend tho
afternoon. Miss Waldron said she had
not the slightest objection ; asked how
far it was, and in what direction ; and
told Emma to get ready to go. But
when Emma was dressed and ready to
start. Miss Waldron also came down ready
and dressed, and said that as their car
riage was large enough for three, she
would go along part of tho way with
them, and stop at a friend's, who lived a
short distance from the uncle that Emma
was going to see, and they might stop for
her when they came back at "night. Of
course they could do no better than tell
her they would be glad to have her go
with them although they would have a
dull time with her as a companion. But
they thought to make up for it by having
a nice sociable ride after Miss Waldron
stopped at her friend's. So off they start
ed in fine spirits ; and when they got two
or three miles, they began to expect that
every house they came to would bo the
one that Miss Waldron would stop at.
But she didn't stop at any. Finally,
when they had gone some five or six
miles, M iss Waldron said she must have
passed the house by some mistake, for
they had certainly travelled twice as far
as her friend's house was from town.
But, since they had passed it, she would
not trouble them to turn back with her,
but would go on with Emma to her un
cle's, and just stop one minute at her
friend's as they came back. There was
what you might call a fix ! And Emma
and her beau could do nothing but drive
on. So on they drove ; but driving on
didn't drive the trouble away. At last
when they had gone eight or ten miles,
Emma's beau said that the road must
have been changed in some way, for he
had undoubtedly gone astray, and, as
they had gono so far and it was drawing
late, they would not have time to find the
right way. So they went back to town ;
and when Miss Waldron pot out of the
carriago, she told Emma's beau that when
he ascertained how the road had been
changed, she would be very happy to go
along with Emma any Saturday to speud
an afternoon at her uncle's !
SUNDAY HEADING.
ta? A thousand wishes that we were
glorified saints are less in God's eye than
one manly grapple with a worldly passion.
BST Religion is not mere sentiment.
It is a vital experience of the heart, &
resolute exorcise of the will, n heroic ser
vice of the life.
! The Bible, so little in bulk, like
the five barley loaves and two fishes'
what thousands in every ago it has fed!
And what multitudes it will feed in every
land of Christendom, till the end of time.
A Gem.
It has been eloquently said that if
Christianity, was compelled to flee from
the mansions of the great, the academies
of the philosopher, the halls of the legis
lators, the throng of busy men, we should
find her last retreat with woman at the
firesido. Her last audience would be the
children gathered around the mother'
knee, the last sacrifice the secret prayer,
escaping in silence from her lips, and
heard, perhaps, ouly at the throne of God.
J8S?Iti8 said that once in the company
of a literary gentleman, Mr. Webster wa
asked if he could comprehend how Jesus
Christ could be both God and man.
" No sir," he replied, and added, " I
should bo ashamed to acknowledge Him
as my Savior if I could comprehend Him.
If I could comprehend Him he could
not be greater than myself, such is my
sense of sin and consciousness of my ina
bility to save myself, that I feel I need
a super-human Saviour, one so great and
glorious that I cannot comprehend Him."
Effects of Sin.
Penalties are often so long delayed,
that men think they shall escape them;
but at some time they are certain to fol
low. When the whirlwind sweeps
through the forest, at its first breath that
giant tree, with all its boughs, falls crash
ing to the ground. But it had been pre
paring to fall twenty years. Twenty years
before it had received a gash. Twenty
years before the water began to settle in
at that notch, and from thence decay be
gan to reach with silent fingers toward
the heart of the tree. Every year the
work of death progressed, till at length it
stood, all rottenness, and the first gale
felled it to the ground. Now there are
men who for twenty years have shamed
the day and wearied the night with their
debaucheries, but who yet seem strong
and vigorous and exclaim : " You need
not talk of penalties ! Look at me ! I
am as hale and hearty to-day as ever."
But, in reality, they are full of weakness
and decay. They have been preparing
to fall for twenty years, and the first dis
ease strikes them down in a moment. .
W. Beeclier.
All Smiles.
During a revival of religion, Willie E
,a boy of tender years, was moved
with others to seek the place of prayer
and here learned that though young, he
was a sinner. He saw that daily, and in
many ways, he had done what God would
not approve. A dark clond seemed to be
frowning upon him, and his in heart was
heard a sweet voice, in kindly invitation,
saying, " Come unto me."
Willie's heart responded, "Dear Sa
viour, I come." At onco through the
rift of clouds, the glad sunshine beamed
and ho ran to his mother with the wel
come words, " Mother, I have found the
Saviour, and I feel as though it was all
smiles."
And so it was, not only in Willie's
heart but in heaven, there is joy " over
one sinner that repenteth." How sweet
to feel that when a soul gives itself to
Christ, in heaven it is all smilea."
Which Is the Happiest Season I
At a festal party oi' old and young,
tho question was asked V Which reason
of life is the most haypy ?" After being
freely discused by the guests, it was re
ferred for answer to the host, upon whom
was the burden of fourscore years. He
a6ked if they had noticed a grove of
trees before the dwelling, and said
" When'the spring comes, and in tho soft
air the buds are breaking on the trees,
and they are covered with blossoms, I
think IIow beautiful is Spring I And
when the summer comes, and covers the
trees with its heavy foliage, and singing
birds ore among the branches I think
How heautiful is Summer! When the
autumn loads them with golden fruit, and
their leaves bear the gorgeous tint of frost
I think Horn leavtiful is Autumn!
And when it is sere winter, and there is
neither foliage nor fruit, then I look up
through the leafloss branches, as I never
I could until now, and see the stars shine !"