THE MONTROSE DEMOCRAT Is .411.11511 ED THLMSDAXS, BY A.. •. GA•eieritscark.. titticE ON prom Avystrit; THREE DOORS . ABOVE SEARLE'S HOTEL. TF.nars.—sl, so j)efAnnum in AnvANcEq ~the rwi s e $2 will be cbarged=alid fifty centaper annum added to arrtmrages, at the option of the Pobilaher,-to pa expense of collection, etc. AnvAxclt payment Anvrarni;EUkYrs . will be inserted at the rate of $1 year square, of ten lines or lea, for the fi rst three weeks, and 95 cents for each additional week—pay down. _ Merchants, and others,•whOhdvertise br the year, will be charged at the following nun, eiz.; ' /br &pare, oi tent, one year, iiith changes, ts Boot additional *quart, at Me qf crodit given except to those or . know4 responett4llty !*tical. TIM SITAZAWII 89,110 sr m3= law Lindimen tell ot the whispering Imre* And the voice Of the summer stream; . . The rutting ot the ripened grain I That is kissed by the,sun's warm Seem.; hove the sound of the whispering wives, The sewebell'a murmur Like a stream of song h a summer sea, With its dustless ebb and flow. They say that the music landstrum lore Is sweeter thin aught beside; 4 : Like a grand cathedral won's tone la the rulth of a rising tide; (hand is the storm-song of the vrindi— 'Rte boom iota breaking sea On 'a rocky shore—the sea•bird's ery l 7 These are the songs for me. landsmen sing of the landscapes roc That sleep 'neat% a southern sun, . Of the perfumed wind, with' its Pure r fresh life, That comes when the dayls done. I sing of the sunshine on the deep, The charm ota moonlit sea; 'Calm or storm. in the free Wind's briath There is life enough forme. t , I love not their goikous paiaces ; Give me a vessel's - prow, When the sun goes down and the lady moon ,• Looks out with her beaming brow.: ;On the deck are pictures (trope anif,spar— My drapery is the sail, My harp la the sweet-toned summer tweeze, .210 organ is the gale. • Flowers spring on the landsman's glive Unger the weeping tree, ik . And sculptured marble tells hie deedi— What Is such fame to met ' = Let him ileep, If he *ill. bible mon:ltalia stream, When life and its strife are o'er; • But give me a grave with the !eyed, Oke brave, On the sands 'or the ocean floor. t • Visallaneous. .ORGO*EN WORDS .. . "Havje.;Ntkexamined that 1411, -James?" i‘ Yer4 sir." \ 1 , "Anything wrong?" • i . - "I fina l two errors." [ " Ali ! let melee." % • 1 • • The lad handed his employes a long bill that had been placed on his desk for ex amination. 1 's "here is an error in the calculation of ten dollars, which they have mode against themselves; -and - anotiOr - error of ten dollars in the footing." "Also againit themseltes%"! "Yes, sir." The merchant smiled 'in 4 way .that struck the lad as peculiar. "Twenty dollars against themselves!" he remarked,_ in. a kind'O'f pleasant sur prise. "Trusty clerks they must hare!" "Shall I correct the figures ?t' asked. the lad. '4-No; let them correct their own mis takes. We don't examine bilh; for. other people's benefit," replied the,' merchant. "It will be time-enough fin-0 to rectify these errors when they find them out. All so much gain as it now stands;" • The' boy's delicate moral isense 'was shocked at so unexpected a remark. -He was the son of a poor widow, \ilia had given him good instruction and taught hiM to-be just was the duty of all Men.' Mr. Carman,•the merchant in whoso em ployment he had been for Only .a.! few months, was an old friend of his father's, and *person in wham his mother reposed the, highest confidenee. In thet, James had always looked upon 'him at-a kind of model man ; and when Mr.Carinan agreed to take him into his store' he felt that great good fortune was in his Way. "Let them correct their owltmistakes." The made a stong impression on the mind of. James Lewis.. When tfirst spoken- by Mr: Carman, and with' the meaning then' involved, fie felt, a, we have said; shocked; but as he turned them over and over again in his thciughtsj and connected their utterance 'with a person who stood so high in MS mother's estinia- Lion he began to, think. that OerhapS the thing was fair enough in business. i Mr. Canaan was hardly the man to do'w4ong. In a few days after Jame 4-, examined the bill a clerk from the housq by . vthicl it had been rendered milled for a- settle ment. The lad, who Was prestnt, waited with considerable interest to see whither Mr. Carman would speak of the grror. But he made no remark - uponlhe subject. A check 'for the amount of =the bill 'as rendered was filled, up, and ai receiit, ta ken. '"ls that right?" James asked himself this question. His moral isenSesaid [No; but the fact that Mi. Carman had so acted bewildered his mind.- • .1 • 1- "It may be the way in businessi—so he thought 'with himself—" bin it don't took honest. I wouldn't havet - belie,4d it of him!" • Mr. Carman find a hind war with' him that won upon the boy's heart, and I nat urally, tended to make him pdge -What ever he might do in the most favorable planner. ' • "I wish he had corrected that ertor," he said to himself a great many' times, when thinking, in • a pleasant Way, oil Mr. Carman and Ins own good fortune in h4ving been received into his employment. "It don't look right; but maybe-it's thetway in business." e t • One day hi went to the bank,and drew the money for a -check. In conntang it over he found that theteller hid paid him - fifty dollars too muck}. So. he went pack to the counter and told - him, of his mis take. The teller thanked ,bim, and he -turned to the store With the pleasaneconJ sciousness in- his mind of having done right._ - t-- "The teller overpaid me My dollkrei" he said to Mr. Carman, as he handed him the money. "Indeed!" replied the latter, a light breaking over his countenance: -And he' hastily counted ,the bank bills. ' • The :light faded as the last bill le* his fingers. • "There's,no mistake, James:" A tone of disappointment -was in his voice. 4 :oh I gate back the fifty, dollars. Wasn't, that right ?', "Yon simpletonl" exclaimed Mr. tar tun " don't you know. that bank takes are never eorrected ? • If the tenet= . , . . . ~ . . . . , . . . . i , . ....... , . . ' ; .. : , - - T . .. . „ . .. , . .- . . • . • . . . M I -NT 5... - iiii- -- • _. d -- j i . . .. 1 • . .'. .. . i . - 1 : 1 ? 1 I I . .1 Al RA y: . . , 1 - j . . . . . . . . . . : . . . , . . . • . - I WE JOIN THE PARTY THAT CARRIES THE FLAG,AND KEEPS STEP TO T HEINION. • VOL. Ij. c, - - , 'had payed You fifty dollars short he would I 1 . Inot have made it-right." • . - The warm b ood stained the cheeks of'. ; James, under t is reproof. It is often the 1 ease that more shame is felt for a blunder I than a crime. - In4his instance the lad felt a sense . of -fuo tification at having done What, Mr. Caan considered a silly thing; and he made p his mind if they should overpay him ,* t.ll . thousand • dollars the bank hc ,woul brin the amount to his, emPloyer, and let !nat.& as he pleased with the mone . • "Let people look after their own mis takes," said 3 . Carman. . 1 . James Lew' ponder - 0 these things in I his heart. Th impreision they made was too strong - eve to be forgotten. lemay be light," heaid to himself, but he did I not feel-ajtege her satisfied. A month or WO after the occurrenee of that bank mist, ke, as James counted over his weekly, wa4-es, just received from Mr. Carman, lie di - covered he had been paid half a dollar to much. - The first . impulse of his . mind w tb return the amount to his employer, aid it was on his lips to say: "'You have giv n me too much, sir," when .the unforgotte words, "Let people look I after their o mistakes," flashed upon. his thoughts, a d made him hesitate., To hold - a parley it%evil is, 'ill most cases, to he'overcoin , "must thi k a out this," said James, as he put the irion4 into his pocket... "If it is true in onecasle it is true in 'another. Mr. Carman don't correet mistakes that people make in' his favor and he can't com plain • when the . rule works against hirn self." - s. But the boyi l was very far from being in a comfortable state. He felt, that to keep that half dollar would be a dishonest I .act. Still he could not make up his mind I to return. it—at least .not then. He would retain it for thee -present,. and think the matter over more carefully. He could, if the ease did not prove clear. on further reflection, make all right with himself and Mr. Carman. -' ' To hold a parley with evil is, : . as we have just said im most, cases to he over come ; and it was unhappily so in the present case. - sines did not return the half dollar, but Spent ,it for his own grati fication. After ;he had done this it came suddenlyinto his thought that Mr. Carman .mightonly be ; trying tim, and lie was filled with anxiety and alarm. - Ilvw bit- 1 ferly did he regret - having spent the half dollar! For two or three days it. was as much as he-Corild do to keep from starting when Mr. Canaan spoke to him; or to look steadily , into his thee when receiving 1 from him any direction. It 'was his first sad experience in wrong-doing. But 'a. no lack of confidence was exhibited, Jame4l felt reassured iii 'a few days. fr.' :.Not long sfterwards 3if. Carman re- peated the same mistake. This time JameS ' kept the half itollar witness hesitation. " Let:, him 'correct his own mistakes," said he, resolutely; "that is the doctrine he acts on with other people, and. ie can't complain if he gets paid, in the Coin he puts into circulation. I just wanted half a 'dollar." • . , • From, this time the fine moral sense of . James Lewis -was blunted. ,He had taken an evil counsellor into his heart, who ikot only darkened his clear perceptions kof right, but stimulated a 'spirit of covetous ness—latent in 'almost. every - mind—and caused' hhii• to desire the possession of things beyond Ilia ability to obtain. • :Janies had geed business qualities, and so pleased* Mr. Carman by his intelligence, industry and tact with customers that be advariced him.rapidly and gave him, before he was eighteen years of age, the most re sponsible-Nsitien in his store. lint-Lines had learned something more from his enit plover than ho 'to do business well. He had learned tO Ibe dishonest—that is the. word. He had . never forgotten the first lesson he had received in this bad.science; and he had acted upon it not - only in two . instances; but in a hundred i , and -almost always to the , i jury of Mr. Carman. he had long sin given up waiting' for eimis takes to be ma e in his faVor, but origin ated them in • the varied-and - complicated transactions of a large business, in which he was tr i ustell implicitly; for, strange enough, it had never for . an instance oc eurred td Mr. 'Carman that his faitureto be just to the letter in dealing might prove a snare to this !young man. James grew Ishdrp; cunuinuind 'skilful; always on the alert, always bright, always • prouip4 to meet any approaches towards discovery °Chia wrong-dealing toward hiss -employer, whol held him inthe highest re-, : gard • 1 - - Thus it went on till James Lewis was in his twentieth year, when the merchant had , his suspicions aroused by a letter that spoke of .the young man as not keeping the most respectable company, and as spending Money too freely for a clerk on a moderate salarv„ Before this time James had removed his mother into a pleasant house, for 'whirl he .paid a rent of four hundred dollars. His- salary,. WaS eight hundred dollars; but he' deceived his • mother by telling her that-lie received fif teen hundred dollars. Every comfort, that - she needed; was frilly supplied, - and she was beginning! to feel that after a long and often painful struggle with the_ merld her happier da,'s had come. . . . James was at his desk when the letter • referred tojwaa receiVed by Mr. Carman. Guilt is _ever o the alert, and suspicions ' Of arifmoveme t tnai May involve betray al or exmsurc.l He looked steadily at his - employer as he opened the letter,.. and' observed him tolehange countenance sad •denly. 'He; reedit over twice, and James saWthat tht vof4ntei whatever they_ were,' produced disturbance. ; While he was vet observing him' Mr. Carman - glanced to- Wards his desk tend their eyes met ; it' was only for a no eat; but the look James received mad m e' . .'heart stop beating. • There was:B ething about the move-. Manta of Mr. ' anion for the, rest of this .day that troubl dtite - yOung man. „Itwas plain to 14m, thatsusPicion—had been i:lls aroused byoa letter.. 1 , , • Oh! . .hoW - ' terly• now did be repent,' lathe dread. o discovery and punishment, the - evil of hick . he; had been . .guilty I Exposureßio AlegraCk. and. ram .him, and bow* id of his mother, -it might •be, to the gram .: - • .. . . MONTROgi,rAi, THITRSDAY, AlTOrirsT 23,180. "You are ' hot well' this evening," said Lewis, - ; as she looked.: at her son's '.face across the . tea-table and noticed that .he did not eat. "My head aches," 1 1he replied,' as he turned partly '.away from his mother's direct gaze. "Perhaps the tea mill make you feel better." "I'll lie down oni th sofa in the 1)arlor for a short time," si id the youhg man, rising from the 1 . table,l " little quiet may give relief,"—.4ndihe went from the dining-room.. • • Mrs. Lewis followe him into the par lor in a little while, and - setting down on the sofa on which hews lying, placed her hand upon hii head. Ah! it would take more than the loving pressure of kmother'.s hand 'to ease the pain from which - he was suffering.. The touch ''of that pure hand increased the pain to agony. "Do yonfeel 'truer?? asked Mrs. Lewis, after she had remained for some time with her hand on his forehend. _ "Not inch," he relked; and rising as • he spoke, he added, ‘q think a ivalk ih the open air will do me good." "Don't go out, Jaine 4., said Mrs. Lewis, a troubled.Teelijig coming into her heart. • "Pll only walk• a• few squares." And James went from thelparlor, - and taking up his hit, passed into the street without another word. •1 . "There is something . more than , the headache the matter with him." was the thought of Mrs. Lewis, andithe slight feel ing of trouble she had experienced began deepening into a strange concern that, in volved 'a dread of coming evil. For half an hour Janies walked without any purpose in his mid beyond escape from the presence of his mother. Every phase of Mr. Carman'ii; manner towards him after the receipt of that letter was reviewed and du elt ou, in order .if.possi ble to determine whether suspicion of wrong-dealing was entertained. - At last, his . aimless • walk brought him into the neigbothood of, Mr. Caiman's store, and in passing he was suriwised at seeing a light within. "What can - this mead ?" he asked him .. self, a new fear weeping, with its shud der.ing impulses, into hiS heart. He went' near . and liatened'by the door windows, butt could hear no sound within.. i - • • "There's . something `wrong,"• he said. ".What can it he? If this thing is ,discov ed, -what will be the end: of it? Ruin ! ruin . ! "My poor moil ezi!" The wretched youngl man passed on, and-Walked" the streets, for more 'than two hours, when he returned home. His moth er met him as he etitertid, and inquired, with unconcealed anxiety,if he were better. He said yes, .but with a!Manner that only itlereasqM the trouble-she felt, and passed up hastily to his own room. In the morning, strangely altered' ace of :lames, y Met his mother at the breakfast table, struck -alarm into her heart. :He was silent, find evaded all her questions. While they still sat at the ta ble, the door-bell mg londly. The sound startled JatneS„,and he turned his ear to listen, in a i nervous way, Which did not ~escape the Aservation of his, mother. "Who isit?" asked Mrs. Lewis, as the servant came back fromithetiloOr. • ' "A gentleman wisheib see Mr. - James,'z replied the girl. -Tames arose instantly; and went into the half; sliniting'the dining-room door as he'didl_so. Mrs. 'Lewis .sat, in almost breathless expectation,awititing her son's rettirn. She heard him coming back in a few moments; but he did not enter the dining-room. Then he returned along the hall to the street door, and - she heard it shut. All was new silent. Starting up, she ran out into the p4sage, 'but James 'was not there. He had gone away with the person who had called, and without a Ward l . And, that was a sad going, away r • Mr: Carman had spent half the night in exam ining the accounts of Jaines, 'and-discover ed frauds to the amount of over six thou sand dollars. Blindly indignant, he had sent an officer to arrest 'him early 'in the 1 morning; and it was With this officer that the unhappy boy 'went away from the r home of his mother, newer again to return. The young Villain shall lie in the . bed he has for himselfr exclaimed Mr. CarinanOn his bitter indignation.: And be did not hold :hack in. anything, but made the exposure 4f the young man 'S crime complete. On. th j e-trial lie skrived an eager desire to have Mtn convicted, and presented such an array] of evidence that the jury could not give any other verdict than "4uilty." The poor mother was ; in court, and aud ible, in the silence that followed;cante her convulsed sobs upon tlui air.. . The presiding judge then addresgesl the culprit, and asked if he shad ' anything to say 'why the sentence ofthe law should not be pronounced against, him. All eyes were turned upon the pale, agitated young man, who arose with•an'effortourid leaned against the railing 'by which he. stood, as if needing the support. " Will it please your honors," he- said, " to direct Mr. Carman,my prosemitor, to come a 'little nearer, so that I can, look at him and your honors at the same time ?" Mr. Carman was directed to come for ward to where the boy. Stood. There wail a breathless silence - in the court-room as the prosecutor obeyed the order and came forward so as to be in the eye of all. James looked at hini steadily for a few moments, and then turned to . the judges : " What I have to siy,i yout honors, is this,-" 7 -he spokecalmly and distinctly— "and it may ALA a n de o oe extenuate though it cannot excuse my crime. I went into that man's store an innocent boy; and if he hadbeen an 'honest man,l would. not have stood before you to y ati a crimin al,' Mr. Carman interrupted the young man, and appealed to the court for protection against allegations of such ontragious char acter; but hewas peiemptorily ordered. to be silent: James went on in a firm voice— . " Only a few Weeks after I welt, into his employment, I examined a bill by his direction; and disoov s ered an error of twen ty dollars." The film of Mr. Carman crimsoned in stantly.:; .!, You :,,rememter, I see," ' remarked James, "'and I shall have cause 'to remem ber it while I live. • The error. *as in fav or 'of Mr. Carman, and I asked. if I should correct the figures, and he chswered 'No; let then -correct their own mistakes. We don't examine bills for other . people's ben efit. It was-my first lesson in dishoned ty, andl never forgot the words. _ I saw the-bill settleilemdlr._Ciir*ii. take twen ty dollars that was not his '! 'own. I 'felt shocked ai first . it seemed .such a wrong thing, lißut, soon after, be Called me a simpletbn for handing bank to the teller of 'a bank fifty dollars overpaid. on a' check; and then—",, • "Iday I ask the protection of the court?" said Mr. Carman, appealing to the judges. - "Is it true what the .lad says? ' asked the presidingjudge. Mr. Carman hesitated, and looked con— fused. All eyes were an , his face; and , judges, jury, lawyers and spectators felt certain that he was guilty 'of leading the unhappy young man- astray., " long afterwards," resumed young Lewis, "in receiving my wages, I found that Mr. Carman had paid me fifty cents too much. I was About giving it back to him ' -; when I remembered his remark about letting people correct- their own mistakes, and said to myself, Let him correct his own errors,' and dishonestly . kept-the money. Again the same thing• happened, and again I kept the money that did not, of right, , belong.to me. This was the beginning of evil, and here I am ! Mr. Carman has shown an eagerness to convict; hud have me punished, as the court has seen. If he had shown me any mercy, I might have kept silent. Bit now I in-, terpose the truth, and may it incline you to shoW - some consideration for the unhap piest being that is alive to•-day." , The young man covered, his face _With his hands, and sat down overpowered by his feelings. His mother, who was near him, sobbed-out aloud, and bending over; laid her hands on his head, shying, " 3ly,_poor boy ! My poor boy ! ' • . There were few eyes in the • court-room undimined.- In the silence that- followed, Mr. Carman spoke-out, • "Is my character to be thus blasted on the- word of a; criminal, your honors? - 4 this right? 'li tfiis just ? Is this the pro tection; citizen finds iu the court-room'?" "-Yon:. solemn oath that this •charge is untrue," said the Judge, "will place you all right. It was the uhappy boy's only opporttinity, and the court' felt bound, in humanity, to hear what he wiiheiPto•say." James Lewis stood up -again instantly, and turned his white face and dark pierc ing eves upon Mr. Carman:— - " f 4 i him take that oath if he- -dare !" he exelaiined. • The eorrn'Ael for the pilogcl:fittion non terfered, and called the proceeding •an outrage on all justice, and unheard of be '. ore in -fa court rooio. But the Judge commanded order, mid then said , to Mr. CaTITIEtiI .. , "The court offers you the: Only way of reparation in its power: Your oath will sciitterl the allegation of a criminal to the windii.,l .Will you swear ?" Mr. Ci,nan turned - with a distressed look, toward his counsel, while James kept his eyea filxed upon him. There was a ii, brief con .rence and the lawyer said "The woceeding is irregular, mid I have advised my client to make. no - re sponse. At the same time lie protests against all this' as an outrage upon the rights of a citizen." , -The judges hOwed, and Mr. Carfnan withdrew. After a brief conference with his associates 'the presiding Judge - said, addresSing the criminal; i -"In consideration of your youth, and the temptation to which in tender years you were unhapily subjected, the court gives you its lightest sentence—one year's impriiionment. At the same time, in pro flouncing this sentence, let me solemnly warn yOu against- any further steps in the way yo i n have taken. Crime can'haVe no valid excuse: It is evil in the sight of God and man, and leads'oudy to suffering. When you come forth , again, after your brief incarceration, may it be with the resolution to die rathei than commit a crime." - s sad scene And . the curtain fell on that sad scene In the-boy's life. • When it ..lifted again,. and he !came forth from prison a year <a terward, his mother was dead. From the day her pale faCe faded from his vision, as he passed froni the court re*, he never looked. Upon her again. ' ' • . Ten years afterward a man 'sat read ing a iiewspaper in a far western town. He had a calm, serious face, and looked like one. who had - kiio.wn _suffering and trial. I . CHAPTER • - Men said the time/4 woiddbe better, brit the prophesy was vain. -Merchants failed; brokers 'failed, banks and .linsurancei com panies failed. Business wail duller than , it had been for the last twenty Poor men lounged at the[ corners pf the;; 'streets, vainly waiting for 0 , ..j0b, while their', wives and children shivered'with the bold,} and hungered even for a crust of bread 4, IRuin and distress were the, order Of thef t ' !day, and men wondered what world the end of it all. , I • •;. Fred Cheiter's buSinessAid not pay his e s. to'say nothirig of his household,! , and when the note fell due he had not a!,: 1 dollar towards redeeming it. Ruin stared': him iir the face-and it was now ur turn;: to look sad. • . 1 ; Five hundred dollars was a small sum ,f , yet he could not raise it. Evenl thrper; ;yet he a month with "collateral" would not procure it. Something mast be done.—i 1 1!tiome friend must get him out of the scrape,; 1 1 !or he would certainly thil. j. Ills wife's_fa4 ither was wealthy, but lie marriedhisi !daughter against his wishes and theie Waal no hope that`quarter. lint Ellents' un4 Icle, a blunt, honest niastet-mason, had al.; 'ways looked kindlyupori him, and perhaps 44 lie-would open his purse-stiings. I The note was due on the following day,'; and he decided to make the application!; ,to Uncle Luke, as he was 'familiarly called:: i! In the - coutse of the afternoon; hoWever i i: he happened tO call at theatore; awl Fred: stated hi.s.position. • "EK ?" said-said the bhint old mechan, ic, "I thought things were r g,f'oing on ,swim mingly with you. time's are I "So they were; but the timeSare so deu-1 'waif hid that I Cannot niake enough to pap expenses,", replied Fred, olor i;ous expression ofcounter4ce. • • I; "Where's the tWo thousaml.dollars you Ireecived froni your father's estate?'l " I paid my debts with it." ' 1. "But didn't you tell me l that you ';owe alik•Ve two thousand dollars?" Ta".v."'s is much better than falgehood. ij"l paid off the - Mt -. " n hi#drett" " BrOught to justice at last !" he said to, himself, as the blood came into his fitce. "Convicted on the charge offraudulent in solvendy, and sent to the State's prison ! So much for the man who gave me in ten der years the first lesson in wrong-doing ! Too well, alas! did I remember his wards. But thank God, other words have been since remembered. 'Min. you comesforth again,' said the judge, 'may it be with the resolution to die rather than 'commit a crime !" and I have kept This injunction in my heart, when there seemed no way of escae, except through crime ; and, God helping me, I will keep it - to the end." RrIA SAFE' B.}.7.—Sfiveral gentlemen were riding in a car on one of the Boston roads, a few years ago, when the c,oaver. sationsturned' on the next Presidential election, and the merits- and prospects of Webster,. Filmore, Cass And others were discuss ed at ' large. After some time a solemn individual, who had listened, in 1-knee, addressed the party ;hits: "M3t friends you are all wrong. Before the election of 1852, the world will have come to an end, and Jesus Christ, will be President of the Universer • - Up started an enthusiastic gentleman from the Granite State,. who stutteringly said toithe laterite: "S -sir ' b-b-bet you t-t-ten dollars New l!ani Pshire' w-w-Woot go for him !"- A r:c c r , oflagughter greeted the exit of the S nd Adventist, as he removed to Ignother car. HARD. TIDIES, Or, the Philosopher's Stone. BY OLIVER erne. - CHATTER I. • • I • u " What makes y ou look so dull this Morning, Ella?" inguired Mr. Cheliter, a merchant in A small inig, of his wife. . i They had been married !about a year, And thus far not an ill-natured word; had emu spoken by them. At his marritige4 - . Oheiter had taken smaltbuti convenient house in the upper putt 'of the city.! He had been able to furuish it in- a plain:in:lan ' Pei; but 'since his marriage, his business had added many articles of luxury - ,to his establishment.- I . • The, "times" had begun to tighten up, [ however, and bushMss was dull. ! The Dotes were - duel -aud he. had to bestir. himself to make his pigments. Fortunate ly forltim,bowever las the! 'stringencythe money. market , began to weigh !most beavily, his father's (administrator plAced him in possession of two. thousand dollArs, which had been reserved_to await the con tingency of a law-Suit, Which bad now been satisfactorily settled. 1 , With this sum head been able to pay more preising de nands', ; and to My by A surplus of five huadred dollars to -meet A note which would} fall due some! ti.o I }uoutha hence. The receipt! of thil i sum imlueed him to , increase the luxurie4 of his house. . The Parlor had to be neuil . y furiAished, and the Old furniture placed Int thd sitting room. They had everything that !was necessary for comfort or creditable' appearance in Tht world. •- 1 "You loo' so . ver4, dull,'! continued the husband as he roseefrom the breakfast ta !He. = 1 Ellen looked at. !him with a languid !smile, but Made no feply. "What ails you?? " I was thinking how lonesome I l hould be here all day," replied she.. "Lonesome? W v don't you o 0 out land take the airl): Valk down W4hing ton street. and a — T.ond the common—it tivill . • renve your spirits. • . - " How absurd you; talk! Walk t•ound ;tbe common in the Month: of, December! :Why, I should freez‘ to - death." • " so bad as thAt," replied the ,husband, chucking his Wzfe under " Go to the Athenieum and see t Itures." • " I couldn't do thL evil , day, a !don't:know how lon6ome I "Can't . you read.? i - '&I don't want to read all the tun, "Read part of 'dm tiine, then." "But, Fred, I have bcien think something;" and a s M ilO played Up ) pretty lips of the yoing wife. ..-4 *bat, Ellen k' . "1 miss something in our house." "Do you?' •I . ,i , "0, very much . indeed.l' " Well, Ellen, what is it ?" ~ A piano; it :a-0u d belso very n practice these long d earyldays. I be as happy as a princess if I only piano:'" _ ill 1 • MN. Chester's father was in a vent I circumstances, and before: she - NV.„ mar- I ried she had , been dccustemed to many_ luxuries - which her husbands . l mited 1 means would not permit him -to. provide. 1 , "But, Ellen,-I cannot afford a ipialio. The times•have not been so Irani. for ten years.” • 7 - I .. 1 • - . "You have got fivelundred dollars in the think." - 1 -,.? -"Slit -I reserved that td pay a n*." "Don'fyou. expect - to Make enough to pay it?" - • "It is very doubtful; My,business hard ily pays mipenses." . ! • . • "Y . ou will be able to pas , that, I know," continued the petitioner. 1 "Well, my dear; iou shall have the pi ano." I 1 "You are a dear husband ! Yon Will get one of Chickerini's ?" I • •• "Any kind you please,,iny dear. 7 1 And before dinner'timelthe instimnent came home, and. Mrs. Chester was as hap- Ty as a piano, cquld make [her, albeit she had a little idea of the I significance of "three per cent. a month,'l and pro!tested 'notes. .' • . . "And the rest?" 1 . "Well, that went in iarious waya." "And your stock is all mortgaged?" " Yes, for one thousawL" "You have done a good basiness?" -" Yes" - - "Well, well, I am in a hurry just, now,. but I will go by and by and dine with You, and will . talk it over," and Uncle Luke went-out of the shop. I Writing.a hasty note, he dispatehed•lns boy to. inform his wife that Uncle Luke Would dine with them. CHAPTER', IILI Dinner came, and so Aid 'Uncle Luke. Ellen .had a, nice dinner ready, and her pretty face was covered with I smiles when she welcomed the honeBt man - to par take of the hospitalities i:of hei• hoard. Uncle Luke seated himselfitt the . table. His accustomed* smile ' had disappeared, and he looked rather stern: " Fred," said lie. suddenly, as the young merchant inserted his fork hi the breast of a nicely browned turkey, "you have-not found the philosopher's stone! yet," - • • Fred suspended the operation. of' ear vingthe turkey, and gazed With alook of astonishment and surpriSe in the face. of the speaker. *f‘ What dp You mean,. Uncle_ Luke'?" said he. 1 - I - • " You don't know What ithe philoso pher's stone is, do you ' "I found* it out' 11-hen I li-as quite a young man, and what, prosperity has crowned me, I owe to that." ; " Pray explain,,Uncld:Luke." "After dinner 'I • Somehow, in spite . of the extraordinary . preparations Ellen had nuidO, for the re ception of her uncle, the 'dinner did not pass off very pleasantly. There - was re serve on his part•that threw+ . cold , water on the whole affair. But it iwas finished .:at' last, to the relief of all. "Now; uncle, come into tli Ellen shall play you a tune o; piano," said Fred , as 14, led " On what ?" said thi old start of surprise. , 1 "On her piano, o coarse.' "Then you beep it piano?'r " Certainly, 'we could not' along without one, could wei • " Oh, no, it's such a 'ion& ." Such a luxury, you meina Uncle Luke, with a cold 811di you give for if?" " FiVe irundred." "Is it, paid for'?" "Certainly it is." '"And your note dire to-m, you cannot meet ?" ' "Fred glaneed,at Elden, 1' woe-begone as though She h, friend she had in the world. ' "It Was not his fault; uncle it out of him." • , -= - ' ... 1., "Then he is a bigger, fool] than I took'. him to be," said Uncle Luke!, contemptu ously. "And when he was lot doing bu siness to pay expenses, you ine. on roast turkey and all manner Of fa. u cy stuff." , Uncle Luke, though c9nseious that he was meddling with that which did not concern him, could not Oontil i ol his indig nation at the wanton extravnanee of the young people. De• felt kindly • towards them, as he always had arid_ though hiS words were hard and cold, he intended to do thein a kindness. . . "Yes, Ellen, and you! wear a silk gown for every day, and to crown 41 you have got a piano. Do . you sixpect to pay your notes m this manner, Fred'?'; :continued he • here is the secret of hand times—ex tra b'agaiice-- i, silk'dresses,Voast turkey, ice ._ .. , . creams and pianos. ' • , "Things- were going; On fell ' witlt- me when ! bought the . pianO," s4gesied Fred.., "No matter; you are a big fool. .Now 1 will tell you what the'philosopher'.4 stone 18." • '. ,• . i " Well, uncle, vhat is it ?" "Live within your meanS.l If you earn but one dollar, sperid...! only seventy-five cents;'. and Uncle 14uke put kn his great vat and edged towardi the door, with out even alluding to the iinportant topic 01. m which'Fred felt so much interest. ? ilut t Uncle Luke, '4:ruan.; lend me !the money "want?" asked Fred, dismay -41 at the thought of a: • N"o I cannot." ! _ " Then I mink fail." - j "You ought to have) thought of that - When you bought the piano," replied Un- Cie Luke sternly. ." DO you know :Wat ?" The carpenter." • • "_Yes. Apply to him and he Will lend y,ofi the money." • • "Bat he is almoSt a' stranger to me," sind Fred. _ "No matter—go to hirn,7 and Uncle IlAike left the house. " 0, Fred, this is all my fault," said EP len, bursting into tears..., Tired applied to Waters. • L "what security can you give?" asked t e carpenter._. "1 doil'ilinow," said ; Fred doubtingly: 'AMy Stook is mortgaged." I "Not householdturniture?" •- 64 la 7,,. , I 4‘ What.have you got ?' ; "A piano, ' • "That will do, give sue a bill of sale of that. -If not paid within thirty_ days the piano is mine. f Fred assented, and received the money. The papers were executed, and Fred got out of his difficulties. i • During the succeeding thirty days, he, tlied hard to raise the money to. redeem the pianci, without success.'. Waters took ij at the appointed time ond seemed per fictly satisfied with _ • A few days after thetrungeouple were shrprised - to receive au mvltation to dine With Uncle Luke; and to their astonish nient, when they arrived, they founds the plino in his little parlori _ . [" Did You buy tbis 1.13nt Uncle Luke would answer no ques• tiptts, yet-lui. promised AO- malts them a present of it as soon as gred had paid all his debts. • [The dinner consisted Of ton) tread and baked pOtatoea, with an epple rotor des serf.. 'Uncle Luke wasin•unispagy good spirita,landrieviir ow:ow:6028d for the angular fare he .had . Reed before hip guests, • 3 t • • .408 1113:XTINGptALL KENDS, DODiE AT THE ' OPPICX OF THE• P • NEATLY AND preoxrrix.- AND AT "LIVE AND LET LIVE" PRILI3 TUE office of the Montrose Demoorat hns.recently been supplied with a new and tholte variety of type.~ etc., and we are now prepared to print Psniptlctir - Circulars, etc., ctc : ,.in the best style, on dent notice. Handbills; Poster s , Programmes, and iltherjrindm. of work brads line, done according to order. 'Business, Wedding, and Bill CAnna , . 'Tickets, etc., printed leith nentneu and &stolen. , JUstices'. and Constables' Blanks, Notes,- Deeds, and all other Blanks, on hand; or printed to order • NO. 34. Or Job , work and Bianins, to be pold for on delivery. Butithey,niderstood the meaning of it. It Was intendedas a leison for them, Ida they profited by it. they brought home the philosopher's began to litre by an humbler ' sysi,em. The hired girl was discharged; an "Ellen had so Much to do in-attending Co lieoiousehold duties, that she had -no time to be lonesome, and they were much happier than vihn she moped all day in the:patlor ; and Fred's business prospered again. ' Ile paid off his mortgage, and the . piano was duly returned tothera, IN• PRINCE ALBERT'S FARM. • Prince Albert's farm near Windsor Cu tle;-oceupies-one thousand acres, one hun :dred abres of which is never plowed; and is At °oiled and sown in orchard grass, top 'dressed emery four years with liquid ma nure. arable land is sub soiled eve.ty, three or four years with four enormously large Seotch'horses,.diiven tandem ; rota tion oflerops much the same as our*, with !Outi.the Indian corn. He crushes , barley and - oats in a mill, l ariven by steam ; keeps eight abort horned and Aiderney cows; !the . coW stalls are made, of iron; iron trough; always full of water in each stall,' ;with waste pipe to. the gutter behind' Ahem, and thence to, the manure sheds, fropi which it.is pumped into carts, similar ,to ours, for watering streets and sprinkled over the grass; Keeps none but, Suffolk and Berkshire trefers the' Rimer on account of their taking fat; as one of the swine herds said, "a dale o' fats a dale qnieker." The pig pens are made of stone, and paved with stone, being the lowest in the centre, from which 'a ,pipe conducts the liquid to the manure - keep: In the garden tire_pe.ich, apricot and pluin trees, trained espalier, pine apples; strawberries mid grapes, in all stages of growth ; the - latter finer than in'eountries to which they are indigenous, and ripe all the year redind, Melons will not grow in the, open air, but they have very fine ones in ratnes: - There • are forty men to Attend the garden alofie.- e parlor, and two on her Erna COUSiItY INVWSPaPERS—TIIEIR Country paperslre of much more use than . people imagine. They aid in...directing public Attention to ;natters in which every citizen of the comity is more or less lute rested:', They contribute in a variety of Ways,.'fo. the.forination of publieopmion - on subjects of public interest. They aid' in giving character and importance to the . county in which they are published. They stimulate a taste for reading, and dissein- - inate, .in the course of one..year, a Vast amount of useful information 'which would not, reach a portion: 'of their readers threugh any. other Channel.- They , are of essential use in a- family in fostering a taste for reading among childien. Coun try papers enjoy an - advantage in 'thia •Sp.ect Over papers published at a distance, .becaitse many. of their items are of a local ' interest which naturally attracts s chikrii attention„ 'The advertising columns of these papers are particularly attractive to . this class of readers.- • COuntry papers, by the focal information they contain ' are Often the means of drawing,new and val uable citizens to- the county in Which they are published. To the objection we Eli quently hear urged against the support of country papers that the price charged for, them is too high, it may-be 'replied' that the price at which the paper can be Afforded depends mainly upon the num bers. The .chief , expenses in the publica, tiOn of a l paper consists in setting np the matter. One thousand, or even ten-thou -1 sand eopies.ean : be tarnished at a, very small addition to the cost over and -above that of composition.' • - man; with a potsibly get Ellen ?" ans wered "what did rrow, which ho lo . okod iu pd lost every e. I-teased . , BlBLE.—There is. no book which: may be.more. easily comprehended than the It -may be asked, why . -do so many. read it without any benefit? The fault is not • with the Bible- 3 -it is Wholly with the writer. • The Written word is a pointed . arrew,. aimed by: God himself at the heart of man; but the reason it is not felt, and: un dersteod,is because the natural man is not willing to: attain thiiknowledge. He set ;dom opens his Bible, or, if he does,. he-re :fleets not upon what he reads. 77 'None. Or its contents have power to fix hiS wander ing. thoughts,. except, perhaps, a, moral precept, or a poetical expression. He does - not.seek to be made wise Unto salvation. Sufficient light is given him, but he wil fully shuts his eyes. It ;pay be firmly as serted that anv person who-will rever ence the word of God, and read it with an himble abd.teachable disposition, holding its enntents_as sacred truths, anitsincere- ' ly desirous to Impiess them upon his mind, may easily and without difficulty, Com prehend -what lie reads. . A Goon Oim.—Two young ladies .'ot .Philadelphia were lately spending the sum r , mer in northeastern.ls.few York. During their visit they took several long rides :with - the daughter of ther host 'about the - 'eenntry. On - one .of these occasions, as they had 'been travelling some distance, 'and The day. was warm, mid as a trough water stood invitingly, by the roadside, they concluded to, - give their._ pony a,drink. One of the ladies agreed 4/ te get Out and, arrange matters for this purpose. The others, remaining in the Carriage, and deeply . engaged in conver- - shtion, for some' time paid no attention to the movements of their companion. When, at last, Surprised at the long delay, they turned to - aseestain the'eause, they dis her endeavoring to unbuckle the ertipper. In amazement they inquired, •.- - "Whatin the world are you doing that - for ?", 'fir, which she naively replied, "Why, .I , am untnickling this strap to let the horse's head down, so be can drink!" itarlf the poor house has any terrors for you, never buy what you do not need. Be tbre you pay three cents for a' jewsharp i flue if you cannot make jut -as pleasant a noise by whistling—for such nature fur nishes the machinery. And before you pay seven dollars for a figured vest, young man, find 'out whether your ' lady love would' not be just as glad' to - see ypo in a pain Nis that oost half as much. she would not, let her creek her own walnuts and buy her own- clOtbes. \ • reThe Editor sind thaloiwier; "The Pail *satisfied with thesstsyoftblifittier, but rettuiretethe OrigWifftbilatitt," •
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