TAE MONTROSE', REmoctasx In rrntasina) 11HAD - WAYS Inv . • Gler a i s itl3 . oXL. OFFICE ON'I'L*C AF .T+&:' . t . 1 - unla: DOORS Aisovr.'grulux's • r TERM S.—s I,so.'perantnun ADVANCE other" lee St 2 will be charged--atni fifty cents perannrou n&k.l to arrcaraget, at the °Pilot' of the Publisher, to pav expeuse of collection, etc, ADVANCE payElellt preferred. .ADvEarrtsfoiE.vni - will be inserted at the rate of St,per equate , ten llneeerleei, forme dratthrei; week., and ra - cents for each talditlimal week—pay down. Merchants, !y others, who advertise by the year, WillixeCharged at the following rides, .! For one sgunr4,‘ or ferr, one year. with changer, $8 Loch additioitar aquore, or the Qr No erecht glven . :ezeeit to those of talo*n mspottlibtlity ottitai. NAircox-ir. c nci T hissl;: Hammer. fongs.and anvils ringing. • 'Wakinz echoet: all day long, Ina deep:toned voieenre singing' - Thrifty labor,'s iron song. Front 'a thottsandltly wheels hounding. From a thousand linitunihg looms, Ntght and day thd notes. are sounding ''Thrctrgh the misty Avery-rooms. t i • I .1. Listem...! Mort:men, to their paving— rhere't, advice lii .iverv.elitar; Still they're theere saving-!-, • . Whiistyoulaimr • learn to (kink."' . Think what-.power lice Within you. For what triumnlis yn arc formed, If. in aid of bone and sinew, heart,. by emulation warmed, Miahty tleatvih ye, woo and.theri.h. What 'shall hold your ,spirlta down? What hhall tunkd, your high hope:. perb•hi,' 'Why ye.mlud fortune'', frown? . Do Ton wial for ',wont. Pkaourel "lidrat at Learnt ug',. fount to drink? Vrare ye honor. fame. or treasure? Ye the germ:Oa:Lye, work and Mink!. Think! but no{ atone of living. ' Like'the horSe from - day to day; ' 'Think! but not;alone, of giving • Health for pet; or Soul Cdr.. par ! Think! Oh. be machines no lodger— Entlnes made of 11,...,4, ma wood Think t 'twill Make you fresher, stronger! Link von to the great and good! ' 'Motu: it exalts and lightens labor. . Thought forbids thu soul to sink: • Self-respect and love for neighbor. 3tarr the own who [Fork—and think: Think!—and let The 'thought new-nerve, yit Think of men who've ion!. before; Leaving "InStroll names,„to serVe•you: Your's the path fligry're pliably.* o'er! Freedom ilgitti and wins her charter With the snort' of thought—the peril , Trranv can find no quarter • in the ranks or inking men Think! for thought's &Trawl of power— Power to make oppression shrink; • , Grasp. ye then, the precidus dower!' • Poise it—work, and Mint! 'j. ,liold your heads up, tollinr brothers; I '3lon).tst DA t , It ne'er fOrgot, ' Labor, for ourselves and others. :Is for man a noble lot. - ' Nobler far. and holier. higher: - 1 Than vain limbry ran claim, If but zeal and worth inspire. . And irne gmatness be our aim. Power to rOmmiss this is -given— • ; Power that forms thug - lion:a:At link I 'Twixf an upright man and Hymen, ' Ilis•noblust power—the power to think. TEE PAT JOTS FATHEIVLAND . . What 1+ the l'atrioVa Fatherland! - 1-'1 Maryland Virginia land! . 'f lat where Putoutan's rushing tide mountain gorge duth glide? Ah! no. no. no (treater far that land:l [row! What the Ritrint's Fatherland • • Jer,e'Y land 311,ouri land t where the elantting Ica-tuna ' , cream ?I Where roll, the 3lj, , rlsslppra et ?cam Ah! uo. no. no! Greater by tar that land, I trow. • What is the i rittittiot's Fatherland ti i Eagtern land!. Is't We-tern-last'! bit Where the granite moinntains rise! la't where the tilowpry prairie lie. , s - • Ah no. no. no!• (treater by Lr that land.,l trove. What I. the Patriot'. 'Father!mid? I.'t the middle land 4,'t the border tail(! nvitere the glow 1. - tu here tIW prinawal ? . Air'. 11,1 nil. no: • ilrezter by Lir that land. I trot. What .I‘ the ratrlot's Fatherland ? Name to me. then. the glorion. land. j - Is't where the. snow;white-p:ant expandr Californlit7 zoblen ,m o le ? • mt. no. no: /Greater he tab that lam l. i trove. • J what. i !,, ri, n Fat lioil)t1,1*: •• w 11!•;(• t,n!..t. =1.1(1 a!noble -113.71t1 - 'rhe fmcdortt ;w!!!•:73”y In fzalirlv_ .011 flunk!!t!'oiltt•iwla t‘r Eulaw'r;rplaln 11reat!!: L Ltl".l3:l3:ad, 1 truly. WI .t '1..; the Fa:Leiland Name, then, het the ZiOrioM- bind, t, NVlcereer the ' , tarry flay cloth cave. • North. South.. lVe,t; that /and Ire have That it c•chonicl . be--that it tchliuld True Fatherlculd•to yOn and,roc. The.wlitile "honk . ' he our Fatherland" Fmtevercillty the traitoeta hand.. `; I'n-httlien by fanatic zeuk Where .all should reek the common weak That t-hull It he—that eltall it ht ; True Fatherland to - you and me. , THE AMATEUR MECHANIC. 'r By 4 ;,j;:(11:1.'; - • . JACK CHAwFonn was a very odil sort of a fellow. ..lje "took part icular delight in disguises, romances, mysteries and :1-Iven tures generally. Therefore he was; con tinually getting into scrapes of all kinds'l and naturally enough-there was altni)st al ways "a lady in the case." • This made him a little misoomnieal=a' Hold sort of I woman .hater. Yet, for all that, soniehoy, he A.ould ncver let the sex alone. • I A profound 10 of - nature and jolly' timesied Jack attd myself to the pretty village of St. BlosSom, one summer., We went to fish, to sketch, to See the scenery, :and perhaps, to -drink the waters cif .the springs there; .Ibr as jack remarked, "-they possessed peculiarly refresing qual ities—when mixed with a - little .cogniae." The niorning . of the third day of our sojurn found us seated upon a tlowry slope, skirted by pollard willows whose gnarled roots. -were bathed by tint clear wateri; of ! a swam. that emptied inio - fli bay. We had sought.t he spot to smoke an after breakfast cigar, and imlub4 in - a Inlet chat, with the beaufie, of maitre be fore our eyes. i ...,...., — 1 .....c.,(e0n th e' par,. il.As is pain ull) alit to be the case, when arranffed the chamber. .. .I'Wo young ineu are together, -onr talk• "S'o'inething . elegant about all this," whsall of women... - . • •I .- , mused ,Jack; ," I . lutist investigate this., sAN' - omen! what an inexhaustible subject (Here's a n . opci,;„g• for a spernlid. bit of for contemplation, feir couversatiOn, fbr r i romanee—,poor,,l,,Young carpenter, and rich writing, for oratory, !Or painting-, Ihr lovely woman, eh ! Lord bless me! there sculpture and matrimony!... •1 ' i have been_bushels of romance writteit on "It is all oainnion,"-said-jack, " Woman the same plot !" ' ,' . . .::-• • 1 . 7: .. - "don't apprecuite cultivauo.n, intellect, nor -I ..Ik gathered up the stattered, papers, goad fellOwShip.' All they lhoklfor is and, placed them beneath,a 'paper weight wealth and position, ev e r, _wb eu „t4y.. are • upon the escrithrie; then regaining his in-love. If they don't find these amiable scaffold be finished his lunch and went to I attribute.s,.they Nton't loVo ,:it all, getter- work again, a little:more -hopefully. ,than ally; and if .a fellow hasn't got them, he'd 'before. . 1 better let. the sex alone— . . Several days passed thus, and Jackgot "As you do?". • - .I • - into the:very imprudent habit-of entering "That's neither here 'nor there-it takes the chaniberalmost daily, in the hope of a gilded key to unlockiheir preeions little Inieetin& . the:rieetipMit. of so charming .a,' - hearts. 'That's so!" . 1.. temple - . he became familiar with all, the . "You' are sadly mistaken, ''Xilc4;' - and books, pictures, and music, Whistled the the worst of it is, yon•know . it.. Ybu are 'canary into convulsions' of Song, and 'drove angry-with the husband- hunters Who I = o i -himself hair Crazy With speculations . op- giv.en ' you chase sO Jong, and avenge I,cerning the fair unknown.- yourself by assailing the entire institution I He had heard her sing very-sweetlyof of dimity. You are. all wrong.: A fellow.' a morning; When ,she opened the window, 'like you, youm - r; rich; ;tad—well, yes, . I i Mid had caught a glitnpse ofthe fair-form; - think I piny say folqiii ? l, l : gor;dlooking-- , 1 but slifi, se:einglini, find -suddenly with has no chance to set women in - their true i.drawn,!and he bad been unable todiscov 4mlors,' 74 mfldest ones, l'ilio are .bOuod I er Whether:she Wrisakbeitutiful as a rose .to marry 'your hank account. in sPite. - oribud or lugly as .ii. canlQ... ',... '. ' . -yourself, and so itiay of their charms upon -I Ile fOuud ; that ler customary costume you, ad nen-veuni. ' . ' ! • I Wasya-ole blue ` and white , and *that she ...80, ;are there any artleSslonq, NOM ; was . : gtven Ito wearing coquettish little do not Irani money alioe.all things? , $.l headdiesses of faint blue. hardly think it." .I - . •,-- . Evidently the.girl_ was a blonde. •.. "That's because you. never find theta . i• He found'found'gaiters of delicate colors, ex- • crowding about yOu. - Only the brazen - 1 juisitel. shape- and , wonderful:. smallness ; • 'Owed fortinie-hinitvrs. do that, lnd• they , rloves-pf oorrespotiding . delieacy• and size, • - _ . ... . . . . . -.•..... . . .. .. , .. . ..•.. _ . . . , _. .. _.. -.-.,.., : ! :,..!... ....•., ~1 . • . , . . „.; ,; . ~,..... ~:.. , L, __ T.,... 1 . ~. ' 1 ..:',..' ..:.,..,..,..:...: .':,..-:: ' .:,:: . 1... : 1 _'-' . .: .. .... , •:......... i. : - 1f .. ..:] - 9.':,.; ..:: :' ... . ... 1.... . .0 .. • • S ..414 . •' ' _' . , ... • • ~ is .-...„. .. ... , • .. . 1 • .., ~. .1 4, . t. ... . _ . ... • . . _ - T - 7 -- 04i-PARTY - T - HAT:CARRIES THE. FLAG,AND'KEEPS •STEP.I 7 O THE ...MUSIC 0F,.-THE UNION. VOL:I7. t DinVe aCenstomed you 4.0 'being , seught. The really good airis 'require seeking ;land as that tsn t.iin your line, you never, knot . -- how. many' ... - - thereare in the nice w omt. i world." • ! ' Jack:Started up. . ,-.- • "I'll !tell you wltat,,•l'lljtio," , .eriedlie, flinging iiii ogir i end into the stream ; .- Pll test the question . ,- I'll test it here, in_this Yerfplace! I 11l ignore .my money, turn meclrinie ;ttid-mike love to the prettiest proudest ' ~i rl in .the Place, and -show you she won't have tite on any terms. Then 4'll 'come out ih my. own character, and 1 proVe that cash and family are requisite to accomplish that wbich my acquirentents ''and character can never begin to do!" - . "What; marry her?" "Not'inneh! ' Nake-her ask me to, and laugh at, her!" . I confoß I hoped that Jack would not put the.matter to such a severe test- He was - a capital fellow as rich in accomplish ments It .moneY; And j knew that St. ' BloSsoni -contained some very ehaiming girls--dung tern of retired sea-captains, bankers, &el, who, however much' they might lOve .11, journeyman mechanic; would see hint hanged,almoSt, before they would consent lii inarty lihn. .:Itt ,coatrajre, a young geitlemati of wealth and position would probably.ntove very acceptable' tp any of the niarriaeable - oues. hut Jack Was Wtermined; and when I returned:to the city, a, few days'afterward, I left hiM busily arranging a chest - of car penter tholsj and getting himself up 'ill a paper cap and a Pair of blue over-alls.. , 1 He had a Wonderful talent of doing ev rything !tolerablY well:. He played upon half a dozen different musical instruments, 1 could-survey, sketeliedairettily, in pencil o r 'water colorsk understOod short-hand, had dabbled in snrgery and Medicine, was a finished jockey, a fair gardner, had built a_stone bridge, written an epic, and half .soled a pair of bOots. . . 1 ir,liW these spmewhat varied accom- Lplishinents, he had no fear, of course, but. ' what he should be able to get on very well ;as a cartienter. .. Nobody knew hink in St. Blossom; and I 1 when be introduced himselfth the." boss "t carpenter of the. Village, he succeeded in convincing,. liiin that .he was a journey man of unusnal_talent. : . Ile reeeiviAseVeral cciunnissitins during the first 'fortnight of his experiments; but on the vliole;it was lucky that he Was 1 not compelled - to subsist on the proceeds . of his lalluis, as lie might have found sonic little difficulty,' in paying his board and minor e7xiienses—especially as he ,eont ! miisioniiit inCto send him some - five dol lars worth of cinrS every week. One fine day after he 'had nearly- efc : bausted his patience and had done no end - of plottin and pialiniiig in vain, the • ,r village car, -'-' penter asked ldth -to undeiaake the restoration of a cornice on one of the. • oldest lionses in St. Blossom. Jack agreed;- and hi a short time was I I mounted ini a scaffold about on alevel with iht.i third story windows of.the man . Sion 4,oldJud , ~e Preston, the richest, and ,• perhaps the most aristoaatie man iii the JaA did nol'fitul the task an ea Sy one. The work Was rather elaborate, and the weather: WaS warm. Two days . elapsed, and he had only got ready' tocommence . putting up the brackets that sustained— or‘ appeared to - sustain—the heavy mould ings.. 1 - 4unch time came,. and the amateur mechanic,, getting into the shade, unpack ed his little tin dinner pail,. and began a repast at once simple and nourishing,when he saw that the window nearest' him was open, and suat3 papers lying on the escritoire inside were lIY danger of getting blown -away. "I know it is a trespass," meditated-he, "but it ; is for the proprietor's good.- I'll step -into the town and save, perhaps,, sonic valuable docutnenttr little gymnastic exercise brought him doWn Thom his'scaffold, though the win dow, and into a very elegant chamber. Ina," said :Tack, " a woman's .apart ment, eyidently." •• is There were paintings, statuettes, vases, and forty other luxurious notions, such as women iof taste 'love to gather around them. A g uitar reposed -upon the bed, which stood ina:crimson curtained alcoY,e, and was strewed with books in French, Italian, and English, as if the tetular deity of the room kad been lying down and amnsing herself with music and . litera ture. There was a portfolio open apon the„lable, wit.ll- a Jury nice little_waVir :color sketch, half-finished ;. a well selected, thought Small library, in a corner, and everything in the apartment, front the 'bed, with its snowy- 'coverlet and lace em broidered pillOirs, to tie canary bird in the window, beSpoke refinement and deli cacy of taste on the" part of whoever had -7 - - ) - . I.* MONTROSE,' THURSDAY„ SEPTEMBER 13, 1860 tasteful mottling robes, and sacqueS, and 1 things, sneh.ais nice girls array themselves , in when at hole and alone. - 1 liefeasted u °utile atinosphere of the place so pure, so refined, so suggestiVe of beauty and cultivation. What will yOnsay, g matter-of-fapt rea der, when I tel you that my friend Jack Crawford, fell desperately in love with a girl he had•never seen- - -- , of Whom he knew nothing,. almost. Yet he did. :I • • . - - , , Quite naturally, the ereetion of the cor nice progressed, but sloWly. The Master carpenter wondered at it ; .but Jack assur- - efi Min; every morning, that it would take him only a day or tivo longer. . . One day he found an essay on musk, 'written in the game , iite, feminine hand - which he had go often seen and 'admired: on the marginel of books, and .other man uscripts in the chamber. This essay, un finished, and lying exposed on the portfol io could not belprNate; so Jack, grown impertinent to[the last degree, laid down the saw that he had Unconsciously brought- With him, and taking a seat in a cushioned arm chair, perused the writing carefidly. It was well. expressed and financial; but 1 the fair writer ;had made a slight mistake whieh"Jack detected at once. Suffice it, that the young lady had confused the laws 1 Which govern Melody and harmony, and !Jack wished devoUtly for an opportunity ito set her _right.,. • - . 1 Just at this jimetUre, the dooi opened, and his ticeasc incinvnti entered. - Figure to yourself a young girl, say of . nineteen or twenty, whose every lute and contour bespoke grace and health ; whose. Peach tinted cheeks; bright blue eyes, and lips, like tlre inaerfold of some tropic shell, I told of vivacity; freshness and .purity of spirit. Her- hair . was__ of that. - peculiar, rare shade 'of brow n ; bst described,- per haps, as wood eolor—a mingling of , ashy and golden tintS7--and tell in tangled mass es, half ringlet and - half. dirorders, 'on • e:teh side of a neck as white as the creamy petals of the magnolia.. '.. She did noffaint or .scream when she • saw the careen er sitting coolly in her. larm chair making himself objectionably. at -home.. - She )iietiell her large, violet eyes, hesitated ; 0 a montent,.and said,- delib '-nratelv: l . " \ell, sir ! » 1 : Jack arose,_ and bowed politely. . l • " What do yOu wish, sir; ?" Jack was put to his trumps. , I "I wished tai See what kind of-divinity inhabited so delightful a place." " 'frith- a nice speech ftir. a journeyman I carpenter to make to judge Preston's-on r. 1A . -, 3„. t a 1,, it i s . I " Well, sir, now that vou have satisfied . I that cutiosity yOll will . o . blige me by with'. I drawing. Voti are intruding, sir." " Cer - tainly,'T.said Jack, 110 W in the full enjoyment of the thing ; " I will go halite diat el v • but- y'pp most - pardon me one - , I word„—l wish to explain a trifling question lon which you'del not seem quite 'clear. Harmony in music, is that Which appeals to the intellectual ficulties-the reasoning purtion of the 4oul. Melody, on the con ; trary, appeals to the affections, or pas-s -' ions." ,1 The voung girl drew back, and looked at dad: in alarm. " No'said divining her suspicion, 1" I ant-not crazy; I have taken the liberty •of readil.- your essay, here. In it, you , . . say, "Edneatir alone can refine and in tensity our pereeption of. melody." You •-should have said - 'of harmony ;', for - that rules the brain, which organ is especially susceptible to the influence of education. Melody is lordli of the heart alone; and you mademoselle, ought to be aware that the heart cannot be taught, either in mu sic or in love."i "Sir," she stlid," . l . do not know ofyour .canduct. Yotil are very impertinent, aud your intrusion here is very—very—" "Yes, I knOW—very audacious and in-. 1 pertinent. I a l cknowfedge that; but you must pardoetne. I first entered your room to replace some papers that were lia ble to blow out of the Window. . There was no harm inthat ;lint once inside, the air ofelegance;land . cultivation exhibited here at t ract4l.lme inexpressibly. Doubt less you have observed that one's sttrround ings beCome penetrated, as it. were, with something. of s 6ues spherel—one's magne tism, OP what is it.' So, in your room, I I felt the presence ofnuameless, invisible, .but (-harming Spirit,. and-made bold to en ter often—ho Ping that if you knew my iTeelintts, you woul&pardon me." . I . A woman never ,repulses admiration, even from a (no calle)'. inferior,' if it be I delicately expressed: - Miss Preston-began - to be pleased with the carpenter, despite his - Sbirt, sleeves and papereael. I The .conversation proCeeded; Jack proved' to the fair essayist that she was.in error, as he said, andcontinually surprised I her by the depth of his thought ; the vari ety of his knoWledge, and the elegans...e of ' his, diction. 1 .• • In leaving he lull out Lis hand, almost las soft and white as her own ; -and she sti- I fling - thelast traces of a false prejudice gave it'll cordial pressure. . -" You have not worked lona. at your , . trade;"'she said. - , . ; . .my t " Since ; oybood,"` biazenly replied i Jack; "but,",-'—and he , glanced down at I 1 his hauds--" I have always ;dotte the nicer 1 • i kinds of ivork'Hoiner4., and the like. IThis exphamtion passed well enough With a girl who -had never before :been' [ - honoredwith l'the - -aCquaintance of a me- ; -j; the • ;;; : - I • The next "morning,when the -window . : 1 wanoperted, i e twain exchanged '.saluig - dons and sot ehow fell into a discussion__ ll that becant . e so interesting, that Jack was' once more coMpe lied to enter the; apart.; tnent - • -- • l' i - Alas ! , forthe progression of the new cornice! • ' • -t; - ... Foy nearly: ;l ; two weeks this, state of I 1 thin 4s continued,- until Laura Preston Was .. forced tO c'91‘14 . . .s, maugri her pride, that- She sincerely !toyed Jack -Crawford, the i joarneyinan okrpenter. . . . 1 .He would not believe it-- 7 -it contradicted his theorroflhe, nwrcenavy: ; Character, of woman.' i •-. il .' . •:. !' :; i . And, I notice, We; never believe any thing which. cOntradieblour theories. - • Finally, wben . the cornice became ridie- • . . Mons, and had to be finished whether ori teMptibletnutter in a densely °plated no, Laura petitioned her - Mier' to lave' countrV, wiih:i w neat blo, upon la shilling' sinne Wardrobei put •im-J—especially 'iiior : . i a pound, - and scarce; even at that!, 'Tor th'e naniented oneOn her chamber, with any i poorer classi , s, kil.ll it is no shell very amount of cornice work on it, Of course, ; great mystery; after all; but can pe reduc-• i Jack had the task, though the., old JUdge i ed, like most, other, things, to a f4W simple I t. , ,.rurnlileil terribly abbut employing 'so ; rules. Of these the Primary and the most I• slow a workman. • • .l . ; important. il;,. thross nothing away, hut It took .six weeks to finish . that' ward- - ; make all yourrefliseinto soup, and let the robe! . ' I I - soup-pot be the standing institution ..of By the.time it was done up, Jack's the- I your kitchen.. .Bones,-grrstle,• bits. of Old. ors was done up, `too; and sweet Lanra: I lomat, stalks] 'and. pearings Of v:egetables l!reston had promised. to become. his vife, I dry crusts ' 'ltsltbOnes, anything and everS , - in spite of her father's: pride—in ae ;of thing mokeksoup,.sO, throw tlent all into 1 jack's blue. over-ails and; paper - ca;'—in I the 'three:leged pot'—dear to SOyer, and I ; suite of the world's notions. j . await the result - with' p;ttinet trinit:•NOtli- Sensible girl! I , .j ... ing need be lwasted.! It is only ignorance There was only one thing for JaK. to , or unthought which :piles 'up tlie . dirthead do, and that-was to reveal his true Posi- lat the exp4rtse of the tureen, land cal..' tion to Laura and ber father—a taskitliat : not turn material. to double- uses. Make didn't take him so long as-patting up a i soup with Cold water, .which extracts all . . cornice... 1 1 the albumed and . fibrine ; but boil Meat in . Three months afterward, I said a JjoY- I hot water, Which instantly coagidates the fal good-bye to a newly-wedded pairoust albumen, , and. makes . a kind I of' skin, p startino• forr - Europe .on the honey-moun through while the-juices do not: escape. . . • triN. . -i .. Soup, with the addition pf frhjld bread,. .: As I shook the tiny, white gloved hand 1 supplies all {he wants of the huMan sten/- a/tie bride, and• saw her charming' tlice ! ash. llereHve have the: essencti Of meat, Beneath the gossamer tissued -veil Ithat I with the salt and albumen of 04• vegeta depended froth her " love of a bonnet," I J bles ; while; the masticatory m•oeess so turned to theproud and happy bridegrOom. ! needful for ; digeslicin,: is earriqd 'on by " Well, Jack," said . I; "if you reihein- ' Means of the fried/ bread, which hlSo gives her our conversation,, last summer on the I the starch :1111 gluten, •Otherwisti wanting t bank of the stream at St. Blossom, I per- I The French know What they 4.1. e. about Baps yon can tell me what you thhik i now i with their syrups, both ' yras' miq 'maigre,' of the sentithents pui then expreSsedl" . ! Mid wiser than we, when they Olt a small !:"Mv dear George," said the, quoridam,,l piece ofinfcrilir beef to do duty.- (The ineehank., "'there are exceptions tp all 1 pot-au-fc4 with, the ;Lmilli to :follow, is a rhles." • • I' • epitome of food of eicellent pioperties.) _ ___ - The Science of Cookery. All nations have their favorite di:shes, in which, is generally some local fitness incapable of translation to another c4titry ' but at the same time, much of the cioice Of food which we notice is owing Pn irdy to custom and ttll other , nations . turn up their collective noses at the'ehoice ofnheir brothers and sisters. The hunters oh the Mississippi have a thinous dish calledhint sical jack," nothing less than rattlesnakes stewed, fried, or . split and broiled, tbr all the world like mammoth eels ; the Effendi fricasse their fri(E.s, when, in se'ason, Ond a whole sect .prefers horseflesh to hmitiSt beef and , mutton ; tlie - - Spaniards (+pate their gastronomic paradise out of - olives, garlic, and rivers of oil ; the English 1011. - ,et roast beef full of blood red gravy, irk!), and juicy ; the . Scotch like road:-o4pkie, haggis:, and oat Real porridge ; the Cliinese delight in rats, puppies, slogs and liirds'- in4,ts : the Esquinniux grills' with plepsiuit. dy'er putrid whhle blubber, thick and l slab; :14 the Australians. finds 'caterpplers, grille:, and worms infinitely to -hisl . tast. Ask :thy one of these,-and they ivili `ail you that ifx.ir.tlish.w9a melouhtedli• the •iirst made by Eve within the circuit of the Voin• livers of Eden. -. Ahd it would be the hardest task a man could - set hl'inself,. to try and teach the more ignorant ()Them all, that the _things which they despi.,e are Positii - cly lit for tbeid, and perhaps on the Whole better than their own choice. l The 1 Sctitchnuni, with his mouth floury with bread, and his whiskers, dri Ting with the gravy of sheep's stomach, •would die before lie would eat frog, _l-n10(41:Ike, horse, milk-fed puppy, or sugar-fedi rat t the Irishman did die, and of hungeii too, ratlier'ilian touch:lndian Meal, oi/okiliver; the Spaniard, greasy with oil and stn Kling of garlic,would pick the Highlander's .oatmeal and cock-a-leekic to the cross and kites; the Fiencluinut thinks the • sJin - of. perfidous Albion a monster beca4e he eats beef whereof the, gravy • followi; the'', knife, and prefers it to a i» rely seasoned ragout of foal or filly ; and the . knglisllunan thitilicA rat, dog, snake, slug, foal, 11110, and .trog, whales, blubber and walrns flesh, • With everything else unusual _to the i place (ff his birtb, so mud) impurity MIMI God never meant tin. freeborn .13rittons to eat. So 'we go on' rejecting this and that jin no better ground than the want of custom, find suffering the pang of hunger beicause ire Will not make the trial of unacchlstom ed..-tbod. - i. Two things . are necessary to be tmight, 1 the 'me the value-Of several articles of I food now left to waste by the .w4side , 1 the other. how :to cook. Tbe English and t Americans are notoriously the worst and j Most wasteful cooks in the world; • and 1 among the most prOudieed feeders 4 Fine Wheaten bread—not half so .nutrioits, by 1 the by, as that which has the bran lift in, 1 tea in unknown quantities, the - be:4i meat . ortione at all, a celebtated • fish on two, With a score of prejudice ap•aimit -the Cheap, the unknown, or the unitsit:di con- ; Stitute their table ,of cOnifort.• A's to • any Makeshift, any saVoiiiv preparation.luit of! Unpromising material; l —not one in Ithoul sand entertains such an idea. listed tiled is , not considered respectable ; null the eflbrt td maintain their particular stand- t ard.ofrespectabilitv keeps multitude;f, poor:., Thousands of hundred weights ofi good 'ood yearly decay and' spoil becalse of I Silly tansies ofpeople. Rich, wholesome, appetizingfugi-poiSoi the air whent they 1 (night have fed the hungry, or addedigrace i and flavor to the scanty. meal ; _wet, poor 1 lauds lie laden with their harvest oI this tle-and burdock, when they night! have grown oats or other hardy crops gelid for : , man as welt - as:beast. ScFofula and s:curvy break out for want of .'greenmeat,'- •ivh,eri 1 the netles -and dandelion; . and he4s of ,l hedgerow vegetables and salads; w: itthe .pluchiroi• and odds and ends of nasta reckoned 'coarse,' get up to unpro:table iises, while their legitimate function of feeding the folks is -neglected: as tinwor- I thy and degrading., In. Ireland, daring.' the famine, thousands of *Muds ;st` ox liver Were 'dressed and .made' into; snuff While' men and women Were dying of htinger; and. emptying- ot4t on: tini . road Seeks of American corn meal, mac• than live by food. Which . they said was tti only .lbr the pigS.' With such sati astomidiug instance of prejudice as 'this before is , : we May. ell . s.ay that the wisest course :Woald . be to have do dietary dislikes at AIN Asstniiing; - then, . that all substances. I which have, certain nutrious Properttes are 'fit, for, hunian . lbod, the !text Ties* - is, l e the true art at science of etioking. I That, 1 'art which shall lake pleasant, cheap 'and 1 wholesome dist s out of 'material !whit!' at present is,only thrown away, : ,is iki eon First there ' is- soup, which:l.nm not. ex tractcml all the essence of the meat; hnt only enough 'to in:mkt:ltself, having Oil' a sufti l'ciency in the solid.; This souk is eaten rwiti bread land flatOred' with 4erbs and I vegetable4.l !ink,. tomes the :I+tilli ? 'the inferior. pi4es of meat,.stewed flown into a state of fluxuriotiS softness imot unlike marrow ; tips piece Would have been un eatable it: emfoked in.:,the plain ro:ist or boil ed thshion ;Lat present it is soft rich, mu tritium:, and with iti; garnish oficerNes or other vege ) ables, .!makes a - dish which might content the !mimst fitstid,ions. An American limborer's Vtilfe %Mild have boil ed the beef; to rags,lor have roa;sted it to a cinder, oil haply have left it 'half raw, and i l have railedi!tt the butcher all :t1 e time of dinner for ins di4%iinekty in sup lying. her with meat Which nt one could m get their teeth thr+mgh when they 1.4 l it. Of course not inferior meat fulls careful cooking ; ai l mil.that slow;emiatiou}m i : o o ki n tr which softens the fibers withMit extract.- ing the juities. is just as posilfte, to the poorest lallorer . who - has three -nicks and a kettle, edit is to time eciok oP the most m luxiirous Again another ink too ()thin negli4etea, eover thel vessel hi whirli you Joil or-stew . , so Sts lot keep in a ll the.g,,eAla e ss',' which with the steam qud mingles with the soot- iii ile chinnaiy. Cooks rarely dithis ; they d dight in tilting the lid on one side, and so letting !tile 'goodness' es!•api. , . Escape it musl soqiehow, else the cook will never be satistleil. Again, :anotherlfidlacy- in which she indulges,' is the need kA. an enor mous tire. ; - Ask a t?iend. to dinner, and Order a phtato, and your cotik will not. be l indueedl to let von otr underithrice the `:enonnt of kitchen fire absulutelk required. (The little li'renchWonnin .who Itews and `simmers hilfa doien ehoiee dishes over _ three of font. 'queer little holes 'Ailed with - charcoal, tr'-ould cook a dinner '1;n• twenty ' with less fUel than your cook' tieniands lbr two. Evetything must boil . a n gallop, and roast:t. Id.ver heat. Nothilig can .be ' done slowly; which however,.‘ the very shibboleth iof choice cooking. i All nwat ought to be done slowly. - If itiis stewed it can hardly be done with . too I much de, liberatkm, of it is Wiled, it simply boils it: self hard:ainl tasteless if it goeji too fast ; if it is •roasied, hoW often do w 4 enethmter a joint with the outside burnt th a cinder and the ins'ple deft raw ?-• ThiS ` is 0110 of the commonest forms of 'cool's 'fnisfor, tunes. The virtues of a ,sloiv - - fire are scarcely tobe-exaggerated ; th i value of cautious etioking scarcely to be iovcrrated. I;y. it you cave thel, in nuti•itioks proper ties. of food, in flavor and delicacy of taste while-the' iwild roaring' open Pre of the ordinary kitchen but rtins up. jt coal bill and spoils the family dinner,' tOr no good to any one save the butchelf aid the coal nierehant. • , i ,• • 1 • As a rule, salt meat is_ itOutritions. - . The - brine in which it swims while salting will be fotnid, Liebeg says, if (tested, to contain fibtlineand al blunt:ll,n in rit ions prop-_ erties of the meat: • Salted • rneat,, then, has always, lost part of its virtue.; but I vet it is a most valuable additum to . the • dietary table on occasions. ISalt, meat 'like salt fish, net& mirth vegetable food to. act as a,i-balance .or makewfight ; and those things , wick instinct. has;: made us adopt, as fitting garnish or sautes, 'science now . proves to' 'be things' of fall others most , required, bee use filling up -the va cant space; supplying the needful corn ; ',lenient. iTlins, eggs anil salt; fish, salt .salt flesh old lemon, bacon veal,. eggs and i andd, Stimulating. sauces, "ai mustard ! liorseriolish„with. rich waited .- beef; fruit and lice, milk and- farinatuons food-, . potatoes; and rich 'meats ; theA, and doz - - l en more of the ordinary compo Inds, have a true scientific basis, and prove on anal. j ysis i to be:complimentary substances, each ! supplying 1 what the other 'la This, too; is a mystery not . difficult ito finder stand by eommon sense, if beyond the power of Most to reason anti e.tplain. - What we really want is ngobd national school. • 'We Want .young girls taught the I value of 'certain articles.of fookwhich are, `at presentnegleeted, and mode we want them taught the best mode irf cooking these artie t les with skill'andecopomy. At present the middle classeS and the poe do neither. _ Yet the hapiness atitithe health I, of nhousehold depend, - .mtich. oii the cook ing. . Men, especially get soured and dis-, appointed ")),y neglected, .M.Stel4ss meals ; . and go off;to get lunches at this oyster sa: loons. 'AI national School opt . cookery I would be a national benefit alt cost incal -oulable in its restilts. We are not goirig t o o far. in - saying it would lessen tfidibusinesa , of the Divorce Court, andligh(en the 'la bors oft* police. magistrates.. Better .cooking in iprivatb homes Would thin the customers lit the tavern .and' th • iloon,gers . „. . tit the bar-rooms; and as this is essentially a woman's question, we ree.onimend it to the careful - consideration of our lady ers and their friends. • • • State Fairs---Getting on COmm:ft-, tees. - John Plowhandlei" of the 26;r -! orker, h:is been to the. State Fair,' thus gives his experieneothereat := As it .was not so - far but what we could go with our own team, mother and lf Con •cluded we would hitch utiandliave a week to see the sights and some cousins we had not seen for longa time.. 'Mother (tititt7s wife, von know), thought we; ought to take something to the Faiil tohr her '.to take a 'tub of her butter, -hilt she 'said she didn't think it Was. good enough, . but thought I might take sortie . :•,ef the. At4iek.' ; ;But I thought it-would be a' great 'H bother:i' However; Sam . was,pretty -strong in: I rthe. thith that we Timid beat evervt - hing I on herses,.atid lived .to take oft Na'nee-'.. She's a beast, is that old mare.; you may depetulM-.. TAKES THE MARE Well, we packed off §:Ain, for I Was -wil ling to girg the bora holiday. It does the' lioys greatgOod to attend. these kind affairs-, I do believe, after seeiii all I tirw there. DIME We got safely to town. Monday night ? and . Tuesday I went up early to the" Irair grounds to see . What was going on. I !got in•and hunted up, Sam, and folind he'd got the mare entered, and had got his :Bard on her head, mid good Stall ; ' and all things comfortable, The animal arraiige mentit-were first rate. generally, mid :du:- ring all the time of the fair - the supply •of foddeewas• good. I think that Alajor Patrick; who wag everybody in managing 'things, a trump sort.of a man. • lIEARS somrntiNt: . As I was stabdit4(up near the bus4?eSs Aice in the crowd, I heard s enuple of men talking about premiums. One said to the other:— "Are you an exhibitor?' - ' I . . • , " Yes." "So am I, and we; had: 'better • look' to the commit tees." " Why o?", ' . . - • o y on sec , the committees are never all= NI, and if yoti are - oh 'hand at- the his tent when they are called, it's 4:1..iy to slip in - h. - friend, which is a mighty -itiWthitig sometimes." " Well, I am showing. a - patent fo ' r - king cowcumbers, linil if you ecauget the it will inalal my forth And I ant showin'gri new kind of hob loms, and the premium Won t Set Me back." . -"-Can't you get me cal tii.v . intr!c,lnunit. tee, ainl 1 will try y Q n for to win Own y.in can." Thinks I, herbals, if that': the•way r t he thing leans, I may as well take care Of my self as anybody else,--everyhmly fpc liiin ~clY'seems to be the rule on tkse occa sions. So OR I streaked it to the • etittltr pens to find Smith, who is my nvit . rlibor, you know. 'Smith -is in -the !jai:ea Lull line. •[Mr. P. means •"impow vd."]' Saes I, "Smith, yotere, showing bulls and I um showing old Nance, and I guess if merit epunts we can win. An I that's talk her on papei':" . Then I 101(0.1110 what rd heard about . • • the . committee:- • • "Is that so?" • • . • " Exact ly.". "-Well I think old -Nance is the best mare in the vans:' ' • "And vott''ve the beSt oU the ;*round." . . . . Then I. told him that we must up at the tent in time. .• - -; IVell, sure enough, when the commit tee was maile up was was on Smith's Tntll committee antl he wAs - od the mart;' coin mittee. . • - THE COMMITTEE GOES OM The head Mau took the books • :oi had _die things in it; and we were all introduc ed to each other,and went thorn to look •at the hulls:. -We were. on the red bulls.. So we went along.aud looked at them, and I i didn't say much till we, ;eame to SMitys bull, and I looked at,liiin.pretif carefully, pulled his tail, punched my _fingers ;into Ihis ribs, -and went through the motions as I had. seen the others. Says I, "that's a bull that looks like,it." Smith had comb t ed hint all over with a fine toothed comb, 1 and brushed. him. Ifith a' hair brush, and lie did look slick, for he was ',ink, r.as fat as r a hi . q.' And from : all I saw, -I think fat at i fair, like what the lawyer said about elui: ' it.y, covers a multitude of sins. ..' , u, las Tilt 110UNS PoFitt.) Jit4 as I said that, thr. fellow Who had a bitlrin the next stall - conies up to:lne pretty fierce,'and says • • " What, do volt know about bulls?" , . . ." W.ell, s a y 's I,- "I think I ,no ; . what they Are used for in my section!! " May be,'' says he; "you' lire - t).n the . committee?" . I _have ibat sayB I. • But," says hc..,,that bull lutin7t *got any . pedigree." • • • Well," says .I, "he had flatter and mother, hadn't he?" . : • Oh yes, but then nobody know S-who they were," .. • . • . -`: Well, then; nobody knows, but they were just as likely as your bulls parents. I ". But sir, look at. my ball's' pedigree. _ There it is, sir. Got by imported short tail, out -Of Skinimilk`t , y Thunder4".4ke, Ad he.showed a string of names as ling ; as your arm. Well," says I to the committee;,""are we to judge the pedigree or the aniinal ?" And they said— , The animal, ofeoarse." Then, said : Ito the felloW, your bull get bet terstoek thMi this ?" ' • ".ofiiiinfse . 'says . he,"lbrhe's got.a lusligreh'tindlliat btdl hain't." "R Ol t " saysl, "your, has got somebody to brag for himond the other hasnilt, that's certain." And that sort knocked ltim.'"But," says I, "I've known people who felt grand over their pedig,ree . , and I've seen a heap of people , who Couldn't go farther than their 'father and - mother that banged them all to pieces for smartness; Handsome is that handsome does,".says . I, "and; as' the hymn book says, a man's a'man for a' that. Pedigree go to,grnss, Igo in for the animal.! • • JOB PRIZMNG 9f ALL EIND!3, DOVE AT TILE OFFICE OF TOE . 3=b C:2l C.PLAL • Tin, 0111(.4: of .the Montrose I)eniocrat. lass teceutly been nupplied with a new and choice variety I of type, etc., and we ere now prepnred to prlntrnonnhleto circular:4, cte.,tte.. In the host vu abort notice. • , I lattil l'oq.vrs, Pr. ;grammes, and. otherklntl.4 tentli fu thiv inr , done arcordlng to order. NVedditt . .2; and 13:111 (,'.inns, printed,witb heat net., nod deepatch. ' Jtlritiut_o` and . Constablf...s'-13,1:talcs, NUtes, D. onwr BLinkr, on hand, or prloted to order li 'Tub "nd,Pbulie, to to: paid fur. on ddivir y. N(). ;37: . • s ntax. wt.... 8. • When we got through!:* . iiid .looked at our. Marks, the other twohad bull second. I had him first. . -So we. talked, it ov,er, and as they didn't cur_. lunch ;bout it, they altered the figures - and !rave Smith the - first ; premintri, which I t hink• was right - - • Smith had 3 gre:if tillW-OVer old. ance. It turned out that eaelt of the other two 'committee-men had_friend s whose mares were to Im judged..and they - ..pretty soon .picked out their favorites. , So he kept still and let them talk, - -and they soon ! , ot into a quarrel, said then they appealed .to Smith, and he kinder sided with one, hut 'thought old Nance was the best mare, and' finally, - to keep the other from-getting. ;first; th - ey sided with ?din und . he went in fur both of theirs. Smith says hesuw .some queer things on thut - eotmnittee,-: • You see we got our premiums, bitryou don't ve, perhaps,. Col.; as' well .as I do, that-if wants something mOre.,thutt merit to be sure - of winning. Tim' State (ifNew Yorkjs a great. State —the itig , 4c , :t in the rnierWand the New York State Agricultural Society is a gieat inst4tition, hut ilthere ain't some of tho big humbugs-crawling around its Animal -Fair,.then I'm a teapot. Curions Book. Of .Africait Travel and :Adventure. . • Mesgrs. - Harper..l3r6thers have in preparation the long. 'expecte' d work .of Mr:Pant-B. Du ChaiHu, the, celebrated gorilla hunter :nit African explolTr,whiise rem:id:Able collection of oth- • t er _hitherto unknown luMnals, hassurprisz ed and delighted the scientific men of New York- and Boston, and the curious public for some time. Though - the 'gorilla has 4 . been known to scientific men for some ten -. years, front skulls and parts of one or two skeletons which have. been' brought to America and to En!iland, Mr,Dn' Chall lnis thefirst white man who - has had emir a!re and mum-111'1Se enough to hunt this to monster-in his 'naive flaunts. lie- . went-entirely :dune—so far a s white corn' panion - s worse concerned-L-sleyending up on the friendship of the various- negro• kitrs_and chiefs in whose' territory . he Ile - passe-limn years in a, regliin M.' Cent ral Evatorial w as never - before i:pl'Ored., and succeeded iu penetirfiting to distance. of lour hun drtal and fifty miles fr;ml the coast, 'tlis'- coc erinft a 11'.11 - 01Wr .Of new.: tcilics. ana a Vll , l' i',..4•100 of III:11(rti# nhlaunru country; Wat..` - (• i be 'lm - h . -able riVrr.r„atal ittii‘rding istipplies of elnllll.- rnillier, \Kell as le;etwaN,i' , ..(o:y,l ) :- I r. N ro o d r and 4 Tal gun). • Ilia.,....onitts of t manners anti ettstmils-of 14:,ri:arous tribes, yt‘onte of whom wOrsiiiped him as a'sttls and hi , stirrimo storh.s of gorilla, -leopard. leAlitio and ehTliant male this bun': the raost" citcrestin , and er;eit kg of the season. 31e....•••5"r5. Harper atid Bros., who laMwlotw to iln justice to • a good hook, hart• d ot the best artistic ,taleuf of the coUntry to work °Lk thC.. - ilin.stration!... so that Ave mity expect:l to see Mr. litt In's •• Explo. - ations and- Adc..itt ores in ('ent ral E. latitorial .kfric.:l, a work cred it:Wl,. I.) tite:lmbli.dmrs as,, to the brave explorer ItittiscdtH-who, liv thi• way, is 4,m -issue orl i i s ..b o ok ; t o . re turn to .1.fri.;.:1 for another three- or Toter rears n na)ro• ent . ended discovery, in N'.111(.*:1 if not killcal on the 'way, toero,, , the emitine,nt at it, Iwo:lay:4 point,' an, I tl . l its settle for site t geozraphers and . . ftw commerce the e , noliti . on of a.most itn portant lortirqi of the great" .African eon tinent,.ivhich has lithe:t o delle•I the dr..• orts iatgki - A no - o,e, with Mr. c'haillu, 4 i'ew days ag;,•abOui his in tended journey, said, "1 will take ft eohsieleralple imrt's .of . wurrv. this - tithe.?'' ; Not rat all," was the an-• swt:U.: ' , I will 11 , 4, white -man with me. Th - ey "But Why dont von die '1" "All'," ai,i the,t.raveler, "I (T,i.n't go there to die. I Rnow tl4e;, climate. 1 had lifty-liyti taeks of levei,-,.• and tnok twenty pomuls_6rquinine, id fur Now I . know all about if." To "Iraq in God•and heti!) a good supplylof s ee ms t o li e th e formula-for :11fricauLQvel. - ,_;__---re. • -' The_ atic.cdotb is exirn ted tiom tl{e . (_'"ourt, Journal: A. ...Esti-W. guished author-was recently . bvertakezkrt a-shower; and took refuge tinder a portico at the.llest 1-End.young land bLiantil ful holy. whi.) was, at tio;'paillog, windoW, afterlooking attentively at him for a_mo: inert, sent.a . servant out umbella. The To•xt day the delight ed dressor .hinult*up to his last ressat 6t the problem of wont. wait oeoluning, ,affil as the nn- Hi old on e ; 1: 1 11,1 `t, as id e , as a sonvehir. and purchasing °nu of the vir;,t, liest Oiled (Iti the lad- ti