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 '
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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
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"Havje.;Ntkexamined that 1411, -James?"
i‘ Yer4 sir." \ 1
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"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.- •
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"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.
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"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=
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'had payed You fifty dollars short he would I
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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
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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." • . ,
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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
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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
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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.:;
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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
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"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. '
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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
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CHAPTER
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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," •