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for some years, feeling the great Inconvenience un
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the first Bank ever established In Perry county, we
hope we will be sustained In our efforts, by all the
business men, farmers and mechanics.
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B. F. .Tunkin, " " "
Wm. H. Miller, Carlisle,
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The Doctor's Prescription.
)ETER PATTERSON was ill at least
be thought so, and depressed, he had
hoadaches, and he hated the dusty street,
in whtoh tho summer heat burnt and the
summer sun shone before the green loaves
had draped the trees, aud tho squares of
grass and wisteria vines and potted gera
niums which had come so blessedly popular
in New York, had lent its summer fresh
ness. ,
" What shall I do, doctor," he said to
tho white-headed physician. "You say
nothing ails me, but I can toll my feelings
bettor than you can. I know I shall be
down with somothing soon. I rode in tho
car with half a dozen boys the other day,
going to the small-pox hospital very red
and nasty-looking, all of them; and wbilo I
was buying something in a store the other
day, a horrid old woman begged of me be
cause her husband was sick of typhoid.
No doubt I have caught both diseases, and
it's the complication that puzzles you.
Couldn't relish my coffee this morning;
loft my milk toast untouched. Hateful
life, that of a bachelor at a hotel. Oh,
doar me 1" '1
" Why don't you marry?" said the doo
tor. "They need so much courting," said
Mr. Patterson. " You spend six months
or so, at least, dangling at a woman's
apron Btrings. You must go to the theatre
and opera if she is gay, and to church
meeting if she is pious. At fifty a man
likes his slippers and dressing gown and
easy chair evenings. If it was just step
ping over to the clergyman's and getting
married put a ring on hor finger, and
saying or nodding 'yes' two or three
timos, why, I wouldn't mind it, you
know."
" Well, courting is the fuu of it all, in
my opinion," said the old doctor, "but
every one to his taste. And my advice to
you is to go into tho country."
" To another hotel and more mercenary
waiters?" said Mr. Patterson.
" No,' said the doctor, " go to a nice
private house. I know ono a motherly
widow lady who cooks a dinner fit for a
king. River before tho house, woods be
hind it, orchard to the left, kitchen garden
to the right; no fever and ague; no mosqui
toes. Hoavonly ! I am going up there to
morrow, and 1 11 800 if she 11 tako you."
"Very welt," said Mr. Patterson, "I
think I'll try it."
"And you must drink plenty of milk,
and eat plenty of nice home-made bread,"
said the doctor.
"Yes, I will," said Mr. Patterson, over
joyed at last, at hearing something that
sounded like a prescription. " And you
would advise milk ?"
" Quart of it every day," said the doc
tor. ; . '
" I'll make a note of it," said Mr, Pat
terson. !. '
" And if I should be very ill she'll nurse
me?"
" Splendidly," said the doctor, and wont
his way.
Mr. Patterson thought the matter over,
and thought better of it every day, and
when the little note, informing him that
the widow would " take him in and do for
him" reached him, ho had his trunk and
portmanteau already packed, and was all
ready to start that afternoon. As for her
boarder's peculiarities, thus: "Nice follow;
plonty of money ; thinks himself ill but
isn't; ought to bo marripd; told him so, but
bates the idea of courting; marry off some
day, ' no doubt; " Will you have me ?"
" Yes." Call in clergyman. Over. Very
peculiar old bachelor; but then old bach
elors are peculiar generally."
The widow was what Yankees call an
amazingly smart woman. She had mar
ried at sixteen, and bad never failed to
have washing over when other people were
hanging out theirs. Her bread always
rose, her cake was alwavs good, and her
butter was always sweet. At forty-five
she had married off nil her daughters, and
was well to do buxom and happy.
Hor son and his wife boarded with her,
and she added to her plentiful savings by
taking a summer boarder or two if they
happened to oiler.
" Fifty and a bacholor,"-, said Mrs. Mim
tie, looking in the glass. " Well it seems
to be a pity; but then when elderly gentle
men marry, it is generally some hitytity
girl that leads thorn a terrible life, and
likely it's for the host.
Then sbo looked in the glass again, for
the widow was but a woman after all.
Mr. Patterson came to the widow's and
obeyed the doctor's prescription carefully,
He ato bread and drank milk, robbed the
orchards like schoolboys, and declaimed
over the strawberry short-cake after a
fashion that would have mado his reputa
tion at the bar. Then, too, Mrs. Muntle
did not smile at bis aches and pains, and
insist that he must be perpetually well be
cause he had a fresh complexion and dim
plos in his cheeks. She bad savory herb
teas aud potions, which she produced when
he complained of feeling miserable, and
she had that blessing to hypochondriacs, a
bomojopatlilo box and book In the house.
There were remedies in that box for
everything; and it was pleasant to find that
wheu there was a crawling sensation in
your flesh, orjiny kind of uneasy feeling in
your legs, there were dear little globules to
be had just suited for the symptoms; that
to find yourself angry for nothing indica
ted Pulsatilla, and that even for unrequited
love there was a medicine. . . "
For two months or more Mr. Pattorson
boarded with Mrs. Muntle, and happier
months he had never went through. Then
he went back to the city for a few weeks,
returned in urgent need of more pellots
from the medicine chest, and stayed until
the last pink chrysanthemum was bloom
ing on its wilted branches.
He had grown so fond of his little room
with its white curtains and fresh grass
bleached linen, of the country good things,
and of the cosy nursing of Mrs. Muntle,
that he could scarcely bear thofthought of
parting with them altogether.
After all, why could he not buy a nice
house, and try to got Mrs. Muntle to keep
it for him? . Perhaps she would. He
would offer her a high salary, and she
would have plenty of servants. Then,
indeed, be might have friends dine with
him and bo as happy as possible.
If only he could approach his hostess ;
showing her as he did so that ho con
sidered her his equal and a lady, and all
that, as she cortainly was, a little con ni tri
fied, of course, but a clergyman's daughter
and the widow of a doctor.
After much consideration be finally
mustered up courage for the effort, and
walking into the parlor, sent a small ser
vant to ask Mrs. Muntle to stop there for
a moment, if she pleased.
" Gracious," thought Mrs. Muntlo,
" what can he want ?"
Then she blushed brightly, settled her
necktie, took off her apron and walked in.
"Be seated ma'ma." said Mr. Patter
son. " 1'lease sit here. Allow me to sit
near you. I have something to say which
may require some consideration."
."Oh, dear, what is coming?" thought
Mrs. Muntle.
" I suppose you know I'm a man of somo
little means, ma'ma," said the old bachelor,
" able to buy a nice house, furnish it well
and live in it comfortable."
"So I've understood, Mr. Patterson,"
said the widow.
" And of courso it is plcasantor to live
that way than in bachelor lodgings, or at
a hotel," said Mr. Pattorson.
" I should judge it might be," said Mrs,
Muntlo, cautiously. ,
"You judge rightly," said Mr. Patter
son, "but you know a bachelor must be
in the hands of servants if be keops house.
A geutleman don't want that ; he wants a
lady to superintend things for him some
one of taste and refinement. Common
people don't understand his feelings, and
mercenary servants are a poor depend
ence."
" I know that," said Mrs. Muntle.
" You aro almost as much alone as I,
aren't you, Mrs. Muntle, ?" said Patterson.
"The doctor knew him. He is going to do
it, just as he said he would if he ever did,"
said the lady to herself. Aloud she an
swered : " Well, I am pretty free, it is
true. All my children are married."
" I know money would bo no object to
you," said Mr. Tatterson. , "You have
enough. But if I were to tell you that I
hated boardiug-houses and wanted a home,
I think you would pity me. I'll buy a
beautiful house, and you shall have com
plcto control of everything ; only to moke
my strawberry short-cake for me all my
life."
He paused and looked at the lady.
1 "That was delicately put," bethought.
" Nor will you hire out for a housekeeper
in that, I fancy." ,
" It ain't romantic, though," said Mrs.
Muntle; "but,still,we ain't young, neither
of us, and it gets to be just that with the
most sentimental after a while."
" Don't refuse me," pleaded Mr. Patter.
son.
"Well, Mr. Patterson, I won't," said
Mrs. Muntle. "I'm my own mistress, and
though I've never thought of a second
marriage, why I think I'm warranted in
making one. And no doubt I shall never
repent, for I think yon've a lino disposition,
and I understand your ways and tastes."
Mr. Patterson listened. He saw what he
bad done proposed and was accepted
without having any idea what he was
about.
He looked at Mr. Muntlo ; she was very
nice and fresh and comely, and ton years
his junior, at least, if she was forty. He
could not have done a better thing, aud
he would be married without any troub
lesome courting. So he put his arm around
Mrs. Muntle's waist, and said ; 1
" Thank you, my dear, I consider myself
very lucky."
He wrote to his good doctor in about a
fortnight's time, to tell hira that he bad
taken both of his prescriptions, was a mar
ried man, and intended to bring his wife
home about Christmas.
tW A young man who was vain of his
personal appearance and genealogy, was
telling how he got his nose from a celebra
ted grandfather, his mouth from an equal
ly distinguished uncle, his head from bis
intellectual father, his eyes from his beau-
tiful mother, etc., when a fellow exclaim
ed, " Yes, yes, my dear fellow, that la all
plain ; but what puzzles us is to discover
where you got your unoqualod cheek "
Travelling In Japan.
Of all the modes of travelling in Japan,
the jin-riki-sha is the most pleasant. The
kago is excruciating. It is a flat basket,
swung on a pole and carried on the shoul
ders of two mon. If your neck does not
break, your feet go hopelossly to sleep.
Headaohes seem to lodge somewhere in the
bamboos, to afflict every victim entrapped
in it. To ride in a kago is as pleasant as
riding in a wash-tub or a coffin slung on a
polo. In some mountain-passes, stout na
tive porters carry you pickapack. Cross
ing the shallow rivers, you may sit upon a
platform borne on men's shoulders as they
wade. Saddle-horses are not to be pub
licly hired, but pack-horses are pleasant
means of locomotion. These animals and
their leaders deserve a whole chapter of
description for themselves. Fancy a brass
bound peaked pack-saddle rising a foot
above the animal's back, with the crupper-
strap slanting down to clasp the tail. The
oft-bandied slur, that in Japan everything
goes by contraries, has a varnish of truth
on it when, we notice that the most gor
geous piece of Japanese saddlery is the crup
per, which, even on a pack-horse, is paint
ed crimson and gilded gloriously. Tho
man who leads the horse is an animal that,
by long contact nnd companionship with
the quadruped, has grown to rosemblo him
in disposition and ejaculation at least, the
equine and tho human seems to harmonize
well together. This man is called, in Ja
panese, "horse-sido.' He is dressed in straw
sandals and the universally worn kimono,
or blue cotton wrapper-like dross, which is
totally unfitted for work of any kind, aud
which makes the slovens of Japan a rath
er numerous class always look as if they
had just got out of bed. At his waist is
the usual girdle, from which hangs the in
evitable bamboo-and-brass pipe, the bowl
of which holds but a pellet of the mild fine
cut tobacco of tho country. Tho pipe-case
is connected with a tobacco-pouch, in which
are also flint, steel, and tinder. All these
are suspended by a cord, fastened to a
wooden or ivory button, which is tucked
up through the belt. On his head, cover
ing his shaven mid-scalp and right-angled
top-knot, is a blue cotton rag not hand.
kerchief, since such an articlo iu Japan is
always made of paper. Tho head-gear is
usually fastenod over the head by twisting
tho ends undor the nose. With a rope six
feot long he loads his horse, which trusts so
implicitly to its master's guidanco that we
suspect the prevalence of blindness among
Japanese pack-horses arises from shcor
lackof the exercise of their eyesight. Thcso
unkempt brutes are strangers to currycombs
and brushes, though a semi-monthly scrub
bing in hot wator keeps them tolerably
clean. Their shoes are a curiosity ; the
hoofs are not shod with iron, but with straw
sandals, tied on thrice or oftener, daily,
Grass is scarce in Japan, and oats are un
known. Tho nags live on beans, barley,
and the stalks,loavcs, and tops of succulent
plants, with only au occasional wisp of hay
or grass.
A Strange Case.
Some time ago a minister in Philadelphia
told us of a most remarkable dream, that
had its verification in a few hours. Ho
was preaching by special invitation to a
rural congregation in Maryland, and after
dinner retired to rest, but soon joined his
friends in the parlor, looking sad aud care
worn, and in answer to thoir inquires, told
them he had just dreamed that a ministe
rial brothor who was that morning holding
services some six miles distant, appeared
to him remarking, " I am just two hours
dead." Scarcely had he finished the nar.
ration of his dream, and while those pres
ent were discussing its probable import, a
horseman stopped at the gate inquiring for
the minister, and on his appearing inform
ed him that the brother of whom he had
just dreamed had died about noon, and his
dying request was that his ministerial friend
should conduct his funeral obsequlos.
We offer no comments on those strange
occurrences, and attempt no explanation,
We leave the psychologist to do that. Facts
like these are stubborn things, and fre
quently upset our philosophy and put our
reason to shame. It will not do for us to
say we don't believe these things ever trans
pired, for we might multiply instances by
thousands of a similar character, that are
as well attested as any historical fact. We
nniBt seek some other solution of the prob
lem.
Minnesota is an awfid cold place.
There was a friend of mine out there last
winter ; he went out to chase a bear, but
the boar chased him. He wasn't afraid,
only ho climbed a tree to get out of the way,
leaving his gun on the ground ; the bear
longed for a savory mess, aud not knowing
that he chewed tobacco and drank rum he
did pickot duty around that tree until my
friend drew forth his whiskey flask from
his breast, and poured it dowu on the gun
The whiskey froze in one solid streak from
the flask to the gun, and my friend took
hold of the froze u streak of whiskey, and
drew his gun up hand over hand, and shot
the bear. For the truth of this I refer you
to St. Paul St. Paul, Minnesota.
tW The mystery of the milk in the co
conut has been eclipsed by that of the
hair on the outside.
SUNDAY READING.
Prny with the Children.
11IIE pastor of a young mother who had
. recently joined the church, was talk
ing to her about her ' material responsibil
ities, and urged the duty of constant and
believing prayer for the early conversion of
her children. She assured him that it was
her daily practice to carry ' hef little ones
in supplication to the throne of grace, yet
complained of a want of faith and ofdeii
niteness in, asking for 'them the special
influence of the Holy Spirit. .
" Do you pray for each child separately,
and by name?" inquired the pastor.
" No, that has never been my habit,"
was the reply.
" I think it of much importance, Mrs.
Huston, especially as a help to our faith,
and to the clearness and intonsity of our
desires on their behalf. You pray with
them, I trust, as well as for them ?"
" Sometimes I do, but not often. They
seem a little restless, and inclined to whis
per together when my eyes are closed 1 and
so I have felt loss embarrassment and more
freodom in supplication, to be alone at such
seasons."
" Let me persuade you, dear Mrs. Hus
ton to try a different plan. Take your
little son and daughter each separately to
tho place of prayor, and kneeling with
them before the Lord, tell him the name,
the daily history, the special want of each,
and see if your heart is not opened to plead
for them as you have never done before."
Tears were in tho eyes of the young
mother as bIio said with trembling lips,
" I'll try."
As the evening' came she bad not forgot
ten her promise, but as she saw that Sarah,
her daughter, was unusually peevish, she
thought best to take her littlo son to her
chamber. Willie was a bright and pleas
ant boy of five years, and when his mother
whispered her wish to pray with him, he
gladly put his hand in hers and knelt by
her side. As he heard his name mentioned
before the Lord, a tender hush fell upon
his young spirit, and he clasped his moth
er's fingers more tightly as each petition
for his special need was breathed into the
ear of the Father in Heaven. And did
not tho clasp of that little hand warm her
heart to new and more fervent desires as
she poured forth hor supplication to the
Answerer of prayers ?
When the mother and child rose from
their knees, Willie's face was like a rain
bow, smiling through tears. "Mamma,
mamma," said ho, "I'm glad you told
Jesus my name ; now he'll know me when
I get to Heaven. And when kind angels
that carry little children to the Saviour,
take me and lay me in His arms, Jesus
will look at me so pleasant, and say,
" Why, this is Willie Huston, his mother
told me about him ; bow happy I am to see
you Willie." Won't that be nice mamma?"
Mrs. Huston never forgot that scene.
And when she was permitted to see not
only her dear Willie and Sarah, but the
children afterwards added to her family
circle, each successively consecrating the
dew of their youth to God, she did indeed
feel that her pastor's plan was " the mora
excellent way." So she resolved to rec
ommend it to praying mothers by telling
them this touching incident. When we
meet our children at the last great day,
may Jesus own as His,those whom we have
"told Ilim about" on earth.
Enjoy the Present.
It conduces muoh to our content if we
pass-by those things which happen to our
troublo, and consider what is pleasing and
prosperous, that by the representation of
the better, the worse may be blotted out.
If I be overthrown in my suit at law, yet
my house is left me still and my land, or I
have a virtuous wife, or hopeful children,
or kind friends, or good hopes. If I have
lost one child, it may be I have two or three
still left mo. Enjoy the present whatsoev
er it may be, and be not solicitous for the
future ; for if you take your foot from the
present standing and thrust it forward to
to-morrow's event, you are in a restless
condition ; it is liko rofusiug to quench
your thirst by feariug you will want drink
the next day. If to-morrow you should
want, your sorrow would come soon enough,
though you do not hasten it; let your
trouble tarry till its own day comes. En
joy the blessings of this day, if God sends
them, and the evils of it bear patiently and
sweetly, for this day is ours. We are dead
to yesterday, and not yet born to the mor
row. , Dancing.
A man took his minister to task because
ho had understood he was opposed to danc
ing. But his minister replied : " I am
not so much opposed to people dancing as
I am in favor of people attending to 'the
most important matters first, Secure the
salvation of your soul ; become an earnest
devoted christian, and then dauoe as much
as you like."
This reminds us of the answer of a pious
Calvinist to an Arminian ; who objected to
the perseverance of the saints. " If I be
lieved that doctrine," said he, "and were
sure I were a converted man, I would take
my fill of sin." " How much sin," replied
the other, "do you think it would take to
fill a true christian to his own satisfaction?"