:'TIIE :'UONTROSE • .DEMOCRAT. • 4, • HAWLEY; Proprietor. texEko , l4 itloittco Cub. CHARLES N. STODDARD, Dreary In Boots ard Shot.. lists and Ceps. Leather and Findings, Main Street, Ll door below Searle's Hotel. Woek made to order, and repalrlng done neatly. Montrose, Jan. I, MO. LEWIS KNOLL, SHAVING AND RAM DRS:S.9MS'. Shop In the now Polito:flee building, where he will he found ready to attend all who may want anyebing In hla line. Montrose, Pa. Oct- 13, P. REYNOLDS, stUCTIONEETI--Sells Pry Goods, end Merelantro—alsel attends at Vendnes. Al orders left at my bourn will receive prompt attention. [Oct. 1. Ind9—tt 0. M. HAWLEY, DEALER. la DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, CROCKERY Hardware. Bats, Capr, Bootp,Shoet., Ready Made Cloth lag, Palace, Oil*, etc., New Milford, I . SepL A '69. DR. S. W. DAYTON, PHYSICIAN • S. SURGEON, tenders his services to the citizens of Great Bend and vianity. Odlce at his residence. opposite Barnum Howe. GI., Bend village. Sept. Ist, 180.— tf LAW OFFICE MrCOLLI:111, Attorneys and Coun sellors at Law. Office In the Brick Block over the Bank. (Mentroee Aug. 4. A. Cassusnua. . - • J. B. McCouxn. A. t D. R. LATHROP, DEALERS iii I)ry Goods. Groceries, crockery and glaarware;table and pocket cutlery. Paiute. oils, dye metro. Hate. boots oud ohne*, bole leather. Perfumery Sc. Brick Block. adjolnlog the Dank. Mont/vac. [Auguet A. LATIIIIOP, - - D. D. LALMUIP. A. 0. WARREN, ATTORNEY A. LAW. Bounty, Back Pay. Pension and &vein on Claims attended to. Office nr oor below Bilyd's Store, 11 ontrose.Pa. [Au. 1.'69. W3l. A. CROSSMON, Attorney at Law, Montro,e.*sea Co. Pa., can be found at all rca•onahlc busito,e hour, at the County Commtsstnners' Office. [Montrose, :tug. 1, Inn% W. W. W'ATSON, ATTORNEY Ill' LAW, Moot Pa. 0111te 1111 h L. F. Filch. Dlontro,e, Aog. 1, 184'1— M. C. SUTTON, Auctioneer, and Insurance Agent, ant artf Friend.ville, Pa. C. S. GILBERT, Bmatic>33.cor. Great Bend, Pa V. El. aogt bglf A 1511 ELY, TY. S. .A.lta.otico3a.c>.oz-. Aar. 1, 1...R9. Addre3e, Brooalyn. Po JOHN GROVES, F 0110 ABLE TA I. :JR. Mot.troae. l'a. Shop ovel Chandler's Store. Au t•rucr° fib in uret•rstc uttnn, dont. on abort uotite, and Warranted to tat. W. W. SMITH, CABINET AND CHAIR 11ANUFAC7URERS.-1,01 of Main etreet, Ituntruse, P. )71 ug . 1. 1.90. H. BUR HITT, DEALERin Staple and Fancy Jlr) Goode. Crocker . ) Ilud ware, Iron, Stover. liru gr. Oils. and Paint, Booteand Shoes, flat I SCape, Ilellato R u b, Oracerfes.Provilione,e-e., Sru Milford. ra. DR. E. P. DINES, Has permanyntly located ut Friend..llle for the par pun. of pmcticing medlc:ne And elsrter In n:1 It. braembea. Re may be f"nnd at the Jackron Ranee_ Office boars from Ba. m., to tl p. m. Priendsville, Pa., ang, 1. .154,9. NTROUD it BROWN, FIRE AND LIFE I:IS NCE ACENT.ti. Al' httoineea attended to prurnplly, on fair terms. Office first door north of • Montroee hotel," seem aide o' PablicArcnne, Montrone, Pa. (Aug. I, ISM. Ihr..usas tinfotr., - - ertaat-ze L. littalra. JOHN SAUTTER, RESPECTFULLY anithences that be le Mtn. p, pared to eta all kinds of Garments in the mos, faahlottahle Style. warranted to tit with elerance rid eriee. Shop over the Peor4 Otarer , ,Montrner, Pa. WM. D. LCSK, ATTORNIES AT LAW, Thottro,,,, ofg, oppc ,_ Ate the Torboll tloc4e. totter the Court lltxtrc. . Aug. I. 1210.-0 DR. W. W. SMITH, DENTIST. Rooms over Roy.l 6 Corwin's ILs.rd ware Store. OEMs boors from 9a. m. to 4p. m. Montrose, An:. I, 1469.—tf ABEL TERRELL, DEALER In Drugs, Patent Medicines, Chemicals Liquor., Paints, Oiis.trye ' , tugs. Varnishes, WI. s. Glass, Groceries, Glees Ware, Wall and Window Ps, Stone.ware, Lumps, Kerosene. Machinery Oils. tees, Guns, Ammunition, Knives. Spectacles rushes. Fancy Goods, Jewelry, Perin rr, etc...— being your of the most numerous. i xtenslre, and valuable collections of Goods in Susquehanna Co.— Established in le4a. [Montrose, Pa. D. SEAULF., •, ATTORNEY AT LAW. oftlee user the Store ot, A. .Llthrop, to the Brick Bthik. Montrose, Pn. Gotha IL L. WEEKS E. L. liirEEKS & CO Dealers In Dry Goods, Clothing, Ladies and Mipens Ann Shoes. &leo, agents for the great American Tea and Coffee Company. [Montrose, Pa „ wag. 1.0. DR. W. L. RICHARDSON, PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. tenders his professional services to the citizens of Montrose and vicinity.— °Mee at his residence, on the corner east of Sayre Bros. Foundry. [Aug. 1, 18119. DR. E. L. GAUDIITEIL PUYSICIAN and SURGEON, Montrose. Pa. Gives especial attention Lo diseases of the Heart and Lange and all Surgical diseases. Office over W. B. Deans Baud. at Searle'e hotel. [Aug.]. BURNS & NICHOLS, DEA. aRS In Drop. Medicine..., Cbemicnio, faint.. Oite, VxrniKll, num) c.es, Patent Medic:nee, Pe:fele...7 and 'relict Au. Win*. fir'Prescr:ptiono caret:illy compounded. Punlle Avenne, above nearle's ilotel. Mon trope. tennis. Aug. 1, ISGa DR. E. L. HANDRICK, PUYBICIAN S SURGEON. respectfully tender, hi• professioluti services to the ciocen of Friendewille and etclnity. Ur Office Oahe °dice of Dr. Lex , Bouts at J. lictford'e. Aug. 1.1819. S;tOLDIERS' BOUNTY, PENSIONS, And BACH PAY The anderrigned, LICEtiBED A GENT of the GOV. EREMENT, having obtained the neceseary forma. inc.. will gfve prompt attention to all dittos Entrant& to his care. !to charge unless .occe,ghl. GEO. P. LITTLE.. Eontrore. Jun.Bol. lst4 DENTISTRY. AB those to want of false Teeth or other dental work should call at the once of the subscribers, who arc pre pared to do all kinds of work in their line on *bort notice. Particular attention paid to making full and 'partial setts of teeth on gold, silver, or aluminum plate ; elan on Weston's cast composition : the two latter preferable to anieo a rl4theapersiabalances now used for dental plates. ofyoungpersons regulated, and made togrow in natant shape. The advantage of having work done by permanently cased and rosponslble parties, mart be apparvnt in all. All work warranted. Picnic call and - examine. speci mens ofplate work at our Malec, over Boyd & Ccelt hard ware Enc. W. W. SMITH. k BROTHER. Montrose, Aug, IP, leo.— a • PEBBLE SPECTACLES— also corn men Spectacles. s new sepply A raP4 A b ir. E X Ontr o e Nov. 10. 1889, goefor forum TILE LOST SUMMER. The swallows all have taken flight Across the dreary sea ; The flowers that made the summer bright Are dying on the lea, And in October's darker gloomy The robins sit and sing, Where late among the apple blooms The blackbird plumed his wing. And sadly sighilig through the wood, The breezes come to aay, " Oh, golden Bummer, bright and good, You make too short a stay ; For had you lingered yet, Our breath would still be mild ; But stern old Winter makes us fret To tempests fierce and wild." So it had been with thee, poor heart— If Summer had but stayed, If thine had been that pleasant part For which thy youth time pray'd— If Winter had not fallen on thee Ere June's sweet hours were run— God knows it may have kept thee free From much that thou hast done. But in the frosts that Winter bronght The violets could not bloom, And never more will earth be fraught For thee with such perfume. Yet far beyond the silver track Of countless stars, they say, Our earth-lust Summers will come back To make a longer say. Wedded Love. And if the husband or the wife In home's strong light discovers Such slight defaults as thiled to meet The blended eves of loverk-1;'-'. Why need we care to ask ? who dreams Without their thorns, of roses, Of wonders that the truest steel The readiest spark discloses! For still in mutual sufferance lies The secret of true living; Love scarce is love that'never knows The swtxtness or forgiving. —Russia will engage extensively in railroading, this year. —Delegate Hooper is making an effort to hare I tah made a State. Lord" Ainsley is tending bar in au ob tenre saluon near nuston. —Boston hna onlarnel tt.. If Po. I. nrar of it existence. —,Tli•-• King of Sweden ha written a letter discouraging further Aortic explo rations. —The English House of Commons, numbers G5B members. The French leg islative body numbers 292 members. —A St. Lords court has decided that the guardian of an orphan must be of the same faith as the child. —Alinost any good-looking man will sit for his picture, but very few like to be drawn as Jurors. —One hundred millions of people in the world speak English, or words to that effect. —A young Kentuckian has literally gone back on his family by marrying his grandmother's sister. Nearly 10.009 teachers are employed in the public schools of Mighigan,olwhom four-fifths are women. —Wisconsin has 626 persons who draw pensions from the United States. The amount paid them is $575,649 66. —ln Liverpool, England, over 5,000 women were punished last year for drunk en H ess. —A. M. Griswold, the " Fat Contribu tor," is un his way to deliver his lecture on '• Indian Meal.' —The number of immigrants who ar rivetl in Boston in 1869 - 4-aras 34,784. against 20,384 in 1868, and 16,013 in 1867. C. C. FAuncrr —The Queen of Holland refuses to live any longer with her royal husband. Jeal ousy ut the bottom of the trouble. —Bull Run Russell calculates that the Bishops of the Ecumenical Council will die at the rate of one a fortnight. —The 'Police Justices of Warsaw, Po land, last year ordered 1,007 men and 118 women to be flogged. —An exchange says that Dr. Living stone is to be knighted for having found himself after being so long lost. —The price of three-cent cigars has fal. len in llayti to two hundred and fifty dol lars. —The city fathers of Boston propose to spend ten millions of their children s mon ey in public improvements this year. —Rev. D. W. Thurston has been ex pelled from the Free Methodists for hay mg taught that "women mar wear rib bons and flowers on their hats. l ' —Sinco the asylum fur ins►ue was started at Burlington, VG, in 1836, 4,387 patients have been treated, and 1,033 have recovered. --Glowx.ster, Mass, caught and sold three millions dollars' worth of fish iq . 186 g. Five hundred and ten vessels and 6,000 Men have been employed. Ristori is said to have made *70,000 in Buenos Ayres. She is about to visit the west coast of South America, by way of Magellan. —ln Chicago, last year, the number of deaths was 6,464; deaths by violence 2st ; number of births registered, 7,633; build ings erected during the year' 3,810. —The Bishops in attendance at the council in Borne receive &daily allowance of eight francs from the Pope, and are al so lodged gratis. BY JOIDI G. WIIITTIEB. BREVITIES MONTROSE, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEB. 9, 1870. piocellantouo. The Secret Let OuL The Lodge of I. 0. 0. F., at M-, determine(' to have their Lodge room done up clean and nice, and it was resolved unanimously that Mrs. K. should be hired to do the )ob. After the Lodge adjourned, the guardi an, who knew the inquisitive character of Mrs. K. procured a billey goat and placed him in a closet. He then infored the la dy of the wishes of the Lodge, and said he wished her to come early, as he would then be at leisure to show her what was and what not to be done. Morning came and brought with it Mrs. K. with her brooms, brushes, pails, tubs, etc., prepared and armed for the job, and the guardian waiting for her arnval. " Now, madam, I'll tell you what we want done. and how we came to employ you. The Brothers said it was difficult togct any one to do the job who wouldn't meddle with the secrets in that little clos et, pointing to the goat's prison.) We have lost the key, and can't find it to lock the door. I assured them that you could be depended upon." " Depended on r said she, " I guess I can. My poor dead and gone husband, who belonged to the Free anti Masons, used to tell me all the secrets of the con cern, and showed me the marks of the gridiron made when he was initiated, and told me how they fixed poor Morgan, and I have never told a living soul to this day. If nobody troubles your closet until I do, they will lay there till they rot, so they will." " I thought so" answered the guardian, " and now I want you to commence in that corner and give the room a decent cleaning, and I have pledged my word and honor for the fidelity of your promise ; so don't go into that,closet, and all will be well" and he left, the lady to herself. No sooner had she heard the sound of his foot on the last step of the stairs, then she exclaimed, " Don't go into that clos et. I'll warrant there's a pesky gridiron or two, and some other nonsense in there, just like them Anti Masons for all the world. I'll he bound. I'll see any way ! I can take a little rep, and noboddy will be any wiser. I can keep a secret." uniting the action to the word, think ing all the while what a glorious secret she would have to tell Mollie Trump, her next door neighbor, she stepped lightly and cautiously to the door, peeped myste riously about to see if any one could see her, and then suddenly opened the door. What was her horror to see - coming from a far corner of the closet a real bona tide billy goat, with a perfect torrent of wrath flashing out of his eyes. Making a tre mendous rush for his liberty he.reached ilia thee.liol,l of his prison almost oy time the old lady had sufficiently recover ed to served' murder and fire without getting chocked, and mime near upsetting the dame at the door. Both made a rush for the head of the stairs, but the door was full of implements for house cleaning ; and all were swept clear from tneir posi tion down to the bottom of the steps. The noise and confusion occasioned by such unceremonious coming down stairs, drew half the town to witness Mrs. K's efforts to get from the pile of roils, tube, brooms and brushes into the street Who should be first to the spot but the rascally guardian, who, after releasing the goat. which was crippled for life, and up lifting the rubbish that bound the 4 00 woman to the earth, anxiously inquired, if she had been taking the degrees. " Takin' the degrees !" exclaimed the now irate lady, "you fetch-taked hateful. you. If you call tumbling from the top to the bottom of the stairs, and being scared to death, takin' the degrees, why I have them. And if you frighten and hurt other folks as you have me, 11l war= rant they'll make as much noise as I did, and ntebby more." " pope you did not open the closet, madam ?" said the guardian. " Open the closet I Didn't Fre eat the apple when she was told not to ? If you wan't a woman to do any thing, tell her not to and shell do it for certain. I could not see any thing through the key hole, and I wanted to know what was in that closet, so I opined the door and the tar nal critter popped right out at me, I tho't I was a goner, and started for the stairs, with Satan butting at me every jump. I fell over the tnh, and got down stairs all in a heap—ugh ! that hateful thing." •• But madam," said the guardian, a as you are in possession of the great secret of the order, you must now go back and be initiated in the regular way." Regular way!" exclaimed she "and coo you suppose I am going in that tarnal place again, and ride that critter without bridle or saddle ? No sir! never! I do'nt want nothin' to do with the man who rides it nuther. Yd look nice on a billy goat, now, wouldn't I now ? No, sir, never go nigh it again nor into your hall nuth, r ; and if I can help it, no lady shall ever join the Odd Fellows. Why, I should rather join the Free Masons and be fried on .a gridiron as song as fire could be kept under me: and be pulled from the garret, to the cellar with a halter round my neck just as my poor dead and gone husband was, for he lived over it, but I never could outlive another ride as I took to day. You don't ketch the back in there." WORK AN D Wa rr.—There is wo things that always pay, even in this not over re munerative existence. They are working and waiting. Either is useless without the other. Both united are invincible, and inevitably triumphant. Ile who waits without working is simply a man yielding to sloth and despair. Ile who works without waiting is fitful in his•atri vings, and misses results by impatience. Ile who works steadily and waits patient ly, may have a loud journey before him, but at Its close he will find its reward. • To RESTORE OLD BLACK SlLL—Bonen old black kid glove in a pint. of water un til all the black is extracted. Then sponge the silk with the glove dipped in the wa ter. The black from the glove will re store the lustre of the silk. Or cold coffee may.,lie used instead, Silk should never be dipped in water butspread out smooth ly and sponged carefully. VOICES Far before the eyes, or the month or the habitual gesture, as a revelation of character, is the quality of the voice and manner of using it. It is the first thing that strikes us in a new acquaintance, and it is one of the most unerring tests of breeding and education. There are voices which have a certain truthful ring about them—a certain something, un forced and spontaneous, that no training can give. Training can do much in the way of making a voice, but it can never compass more than a bad limitation of this quality : for the very fact of its being an imitation, however accurate, betrays itself like rouge on a woman's cheeks, or a wig, or dyed hair. On the other hand, are voices which have the jar of falsehood in every tone, and that are.as full of warn ing as the croak or the hiss of the serpent. There are in general the naturally hard voice which make themselves caressing, thinking by that to appear sympathetic ; but the fundamental quality strikes through the overlay, and a psrson must be very dull indeed who cannot detect the pretense in that slow, drawling, would-be affectionate voice, with its harsh undertone and sharp accent Nvhenever it forgets itself. Cut, without being false or hypoeritical,there are voices which puzzle as well us disappoint us, becasse so en tirely inharmonious with the sppearance of the speaker. For instance, there, is that thin, treble squeak, we sometimes hear from a well-grown, portly man, when we expected the fine rolling utterance which would have been in unison with his outward seeming; and on the other side of the scale, where we looked for a ; shrill, herd voice, or a tender musical en- j deuce, we get that hoarse, chest voice, I with which young and pretty girls sonie- j times startle us. In fact, it is one of the I characteristics of the modern girl of a . certain type ; just as the habitual use of ; slang is characteristic of tier, or that peen har rounding of the elbows and turning ; out of the wrists, which are gestures that, I like the chest voices, instinctively belong to men only, and have to be learnt and practiced by women. Nothing betrays so much as the voice, I save perhaps the eyes, and they can be lowered, and so far their expression hid den. In moments of emotion no skill i can hide the fact of disturbed feeling, though :a strong will and the habit of! self control tan steady the voice when else it would be failing and tremulous.' But not the strongest will, nor the largest I amount of self-control, can keep it' natu ral us well as steady. It is deadened, veiled, compressed, like a wild creature , tightly bound add unnaturally still. One feels that it is dune by an effort, and that if the strains were relaxed for a moment rage or despair, and the voice would break ent into the screams of passion or quiver to% uy into the fuller of polies. And this very effort is as eloquent as if there had been no holding down at all, and the voice had been left to its own impulse unchecked. Again. in fun and humor, is it not the voice that is expressive, even more than the face ? The twinkle of the eye, the hollow in the under lip, the dim ples about the month, the play of the eye- brow, are all aids certainly ; but the voice! The mellow tone that comes into the ut terance of one man, the surprise accents of another, the fatnous simplicity of a I third, the philosophical acquiescence of a fourth when relating the most outrageous impossibilities—a voice and manner pecul iarly transatlantic,indeed oue of the Yan kee forms of fun—do not we know all these varieties by heart ? Have we not seen veteran actors whose main point lies in one or the other of these varieties? And what would be the drollest anecdote if told in a voice which had neither play nor significance ? Pathos too—who feels it, however beautifully expressed, so far as words may go, if uttered in a dead and wooden voice, without sympathy ? But the poorest attempts at pathos will strike home to the heart if given tenderly and harmoniously. And just as certain popu lar airs of mean associations can be made into church music by slow time and state ly modulation, so can dead-lever literature be little into passion or softeued into sen timent by the voice alone. We all know the effect. irritating or soothing, which certain voices have over us; and we have all experienced that I strange impulse of attraction or repulsion which comes from the voice alone. And generally, if not absolutely always, the impulse is a true one, and a modifica tion which increased knowledge may produce is never quite satisfactory. Cer tain voice grate on our nerves and set our teeth on edge ; and others are just as calming as these are iritating, quieting us like a composing draught, and setting vague images of beauty and pleasantness afloat in our brains. A goal voice, calm in tone aad musical in quality, is one of the essentials fora physician ; the " bed side voice," which is iwthing if it is not sympitthetic by conatitutiot. Not false, not made up, not sickly, but tender in it self, of a rather low pitch, yell modulated. and distinctly harmonious in its notes, it is the very opposite of the orator's voice, which is artilical in management and a made voice. Whatever its original qual ity may be, the orator's voice h ears th e immistakehle stamp of art and becomes artificiality ; its such it may be admira ble—telling in a crowd, impressive in an address, but overwhelming and chilling at home, partly because it is always con scious and never selcforgttting. An ora tor's voice, with its careful intonation and accurate accent, would be as much out of place by a sick- bed as court trains and brocaded silk for the nurse. There are certain men who do a good deal by a hearty, jovial, fox-hunting kind of voice a vo i ce a littl e thr o wn nue for all that it is r chest voice; a voice with a certain un defined rollick and devil-May-care sound in it, and eloquent of u large volume of vitality and physical health. That, too, is a . good property for a medical man. It givet.the sick a certain fillip, and -re minds them pleasantly of health and vig or it maY' have a mesmeric kind of effect upon them (who knows?) and induce in theni somithing Of its own state, provid ed it its not overpowering, But a a voice of this kind has a tendency to become in solent in its assertion of vigor, swaggering and boisterous; and them it is too much for invalided nerves, just as mountain winds or sea breezes would be too much, and the scent of flowers or a hay field op pressive. The clerical voice, again, is a class voice; that neat, careful, precise voice, neither wholly made nor yet quite natural; a voice which never strikes one as hearty or as having a really genuine utterance, but which yet is not unpleas ant if one does not moire too much spontaneity. The clerical voice, with its mixture of familiarity and oratory, as that of one used to talk to old women in pri vate and to hold fourth to a congregation in public, is as distinct in its own way as the mathematician's handwrititng; and ally one can pick out blindfold his man from a knot of talkers, without waiting to see the square-rut collar and close white tie. The legal voice is different again ; but this is rather a variety of the orators than a distinct species—a variety stand ing midway between that and the cleri cal, and affording more scope than either. The voice is much more indicative of the state of the mind than many people know or allow. One of the first symp toms of falling brain power is in the in distinct or confused utterance ; no idiots has a clear or melodious voice; the harsh scream of mania is proverbial; and no person of prompt and decisive thought was ever known to hesitate or to stutter. A thick, loose, huffy voice ; too, does not belong to the crisp character of mind which does the best active work ; and when we meet with a keen witted man who drawls, and lets his words drip in stead of bringing them out in the sharp incisive way that would be natural to him, we may be sure there is a flaw somewhere and that he is not what the Americans call "clear grit" and whole smiled" all through. We all have our company voi ces, as we all have our company manners, and we get. to know the company voices of our friends after atime,and to understand them as we understand their best dresses and state service. The person whose voice ebsolutety refuses to put itself in compa ny tone startles nsas much if he came to a state dinner in a shooting jacket This is a different thing from the insincere and flattering voice, which is power laid aside while it has its object to gain, and which effects to be one thing when it means an other. The company voice is only a little bit of finery, quite in its place if not carried into the home, where, however, silly men and women think they can impose on their house mates by assumptions which can not stand the test of domestic ease. The lover's voice is of course sui geueris but there is another kind of voice which one hears sometimes that is quite as enchant ing—the rich, full, melodious voice which ittial4; . t i C l y"ritUrnes of purple grapes, and a wealth Of physbed beauty at all four corners. Such a voice is Alboni's ; such I a voice we eau coneeinc Anacreon's to t have been with less luciousness and more stateliness, such a voice was Walter Sav age Landor's. His was not an - English voice ; it was too rich and accurate ; and vet it was clear and apparently thorough ly unstudied. Ars Aire ?trim, perhaps; three was no greater treat of its kind than to hear Lantror read Milton or Ilomer. Though one of the essentials of a good voice is its clearness, there are certain lisps and catches which an. very pretty. though never dignified ; hut most, of them are exceedingly painful to the ear. It is the same with accents. A dash of brogue, the faintest suspicion of the Scotch, rwang, even a very little American accent—but very little, like red pepper, to be sparingly used, as indeed we may say with the others—gives a certain piquancy to the voice. So does a conti nental accent generally, few of us being able to distinguish the French accent from the German, the Polish from the Italians or the Russian from the Spanish, but jumpini them altogether as "a for eign accent; broadly. Of all the Europe. an voices, the French is perhaps the most unpleasant in its quality, and the Italian the most delightful. The Italian voice is a song in itself, not the sing song voice of an English parish schtml boy. hut an tin ot ed hit of harmony. The French voice is thin, apt to become wiry and metulic ; a head voice for the most part, and emi nently unsympathetic ; a nervous, irrita ble voice, that seems more tit for com plaint than for love making; and yet how laughing. how bewitching it can make it self:—neverwith the Italian roundness, but edinallt in its own half Pettis way, provoking, enticing. arousing. There are some voices that send you to sleep. and others that stir you up ; and the French voice! is of the latter kind when setting it self to do mischief and work its own will. Of all the differences lying between Calais and Dover, perhaps nothing strikes the traveler more than the difference in the national voice and the manner of speech. The sharp, high pitched stridulous voice of the French, with its clear accent and neat intonation, is axehanged for the loose huffy utterance of England where clear enunciation is considered pedantic; where brave men cultivate a drawl, and pretty women a deep chest voice ; where well educated people think it no shame to run all their words into each other, and to let consonants and vowels drip out like so many drops of water, with not much more distinction between them ; and where no one knows how to educate his organ ar tistically, without going into artificiality and affectation. And yet the cultivation of the voice is an art, and ought to be made as much a matter of education as a good carriage for a legible hand writing. We teach our children •to sing, but we never teach them to speak, beyond correct ing a glaring piece of mispronunciation or so, in consequence of which we have all sorts of old voices among us—short yelp ing voices like dogs, purring voices like cats, croakings, and lispings and quack ings, and chatterings ; a very menal,terie in Let to be beard in a room ten feet square, where a little rational cultivation wonld have reduced the whole of that vo cal chaos to order and harmony . , and made what is now painful and distasteful, beau tiful and seductive. —There aro eighteen Catholice in the new legielature of binEeschusetts. Wild Pigeons of California. It is almost a misnomer to speak of the wild pigeon as a California bird, and yet there are certain peculiarities of habit which distinguish it in this State from the birds of its species to be found else where. The wild pigeon is a native of nearly every part of the world, excepting only the frigid zones. Its favorite haunts, how ever, are in Southern Asia and the Indian Archipelago. Some thirty different spe cies arc known to exist on the face of the globe. - It is a ravenous feeder, and exacts a tribute from the seeds of the ground, the grainfields, berries and acorns. The wild pigeon is classified as rasorial, to scratch; as gallinaceous, to crow; and as insessorial, to perch. Its life is spent among trees. In the breeding season it is monogamous, having but one wife and with her dividing the cares of the family. After the eggs are laid by the female, in a rude nest constructed in the branches of a tree, the solicitude of the male becomes noticeable. He assists the incubation, and when the young birds are hatched— never more than two in number—all the pride of parentage characterizes his ac tions. In the fall season wild pigeons become not only gregarious, lint migratory—mov ing about in flocks from place to place, according to the dictates of instinct, in order to procure food. Their pinions are long, and their flight long, rapid and sustained. As a general thing the voice of the wild pigeon is ex pressed in gutteral cooings: but in Cali fornia it is more of a croak, approaching to a moan. The author of this article, who is some thing of %sportsman, and who has hunt ed in Orogon, Washington territory, and every county of California. from HO junc tion of the Gila and Colorado rivers to the highest peak of the Scott Mountains, has found wild pigeons, like must other birds, to be rare on the Pacific coast.— This arises, he is disposed to think, from the scarcity of insect life and mast." Acorns, a favorite food with wild pig eons, are to be met with only in certain wide apart districts. Grain fields offer no temptation unless situated near to oak forests ; and dogwood berries, of which they are also Rid, are unknown to the State, For these reasons, when wild pig eons are found at all, it is only in the re gion of nut-bearing oaks, and then in docks of not more than forty or a hund red birds. The author hat met them on the beach of the Gulf of Georgia, on the Coast Range of mountains, in Amador county, Nevada county, in Trinity, Shasta and San Mateo counties—a proof that they tire coast aiiri4lAtiiiiseainnslL-Son Pea tolgoo Journal. • Car Scene. " I say, conductor, do you know that good-looking lady there with a book:'" " Yes, I hate seen her a few times." By Jove! She's splendid." " Yes, I think she is." " Where does she live ?" " In Chicago, 1 believe." I would like to„oecupy triat seat with " Why don't vo ask her ?" " I did not know but it would be ont of order." " It would not be if she was willing to have you occupy it. of course you claim to be a gentleman." "0, certainly. If •iin are acquainted with r her, give me an introduction ; that is, if you have no objections." " Certainly not." . "How far is she going , do you know'' " Rochester, I believe." Fprin,,7 his hair, moustache and whis kers in becoming style, he followed the conductor, who on reaching the seat where the lady sat, said, with a peculiar twinkle of the eye— "My wife, Mr.—, of New York, who assures me that he will die before reach ing Detroit if he does not form your ac quaintance." The gentleman stammered. stuttered, grew red in the face, faltered out some ex cuse, and returned to his seat, leaving the lady in company with her husband to en joy the joke. •••••• .IMlb ... TRUE WAKING UP TUE WRONG PAssEsciEn.— The following good 'un, related by our Philosopher, Is new to us:Tom l'—, an unsophisticated sun of Erin, wished to take the stage for a journey, and put up at a tavern from whence it was to start, where he was pot iu a room With a colored man. He of course took a parting glass with his friends, and was put to bed some what mellow; as soon as he fell ailecp, his jovial friend, blacked his thee all over, like the ace of clubs. Before daylight, he was called in a hurry, and took his seat in the stage without paying his miming respects to his mirror. In a couple of hours the stage arrived at the stopping place fur breakfast, and Tom, ou account of his col or, was shown into a different room from the other pat. - singers, and left there alone. In a few minutes, however, he discovered his sooty phiz in the glass, and then the whole house was alarnuid by his shouts— " What is the matter man; F exclaimed the people whweame rushing into the room. " Maim it is? 0 muriber—murther— they have woke up the wrong passenger. It's the Hagar they woked and not me ; and there I am asimp at the tavern when I ought to be half the way on my jour ney. Och honey—och honey}—how much will it stand me, to have the driver go back and correct his blunder:" POTATO YEAST.—BoiI eight potatoes, mash them line; add to them n pint of sifted flour, two tablespoonsful of brown sugar, half a teaspoonful of salt, three pints of boiling water. When cold. add a tea cup full of hop yeast. When fermen ted, put in a jar and cork tight. • CORN BATTER CAKE.I.—One quart sweet milk, tbreeeggs salt, and as much sifted corn meal as will make a thin bat ter ; beat well together, with one table spoonful of wheat flour; bake in iron pane and serve not. VOLUME XXVII, NUMBER Why do young men leave the farm and workshop to engage in counter jumping, mixing liquors, cleaning spittoons, and lounging around stables and liquor sa loons ? It is because they do not know any better, cannot realize where it leads to, or because they are perverted and will fully wieked. Many farmers are to blame fur nut supplying their sons .with, urkfal and entertaining books—with the means of improvement and amusement at home. They fail to realize that boys are boys, and that they love variety. It is observed by young Robert Corncob that young Mr. Yardstick dress.es nicely, goes into com pany, and is popular with young ladies. This gives It. C. a desire to' change his rougher but much healthier punrcut and become a clerk. Or, failing in this, it would be a good thing, in the way of pro motion, to learn to smoke drink, tell sto ries, and get eentiaintea with barroom life and bar room lions. Strong talkri:lftin ity and vnlgarity—strong liver, and strung tobacco jr1:1 together and may be found there. e begins by holding hor ses, holding . spittoons, and doing much menial service as his low ambition and coarse nature suggests or • permits.' He usually " fetches up" in the poor house, in the gutter, or in the prison. Parents cannot be too careful in im pressing their sons with right ideas as to the must desirable callings in life, and to cultivate in them a love for rural-life. Who is there more noble, more indepen dent, than the intelligent farmer, who owns his homestead stocked with horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, poultry, fruit trees, vines and shrubs y The farmer who is thrifty, and well to do, what cares be for the finetuations in the price of stocks or dry goods? He wil, gather his crops, lay in a store of good things for tile winter, and sell the surplus. his time is his own, and his crops grow white lie eleeptu The life of a farmer is, or shonld be .the first choice of many more Of our young men. Next to this importance to the common wealth is the mechanic and manufacturer.. After the farmer—or rather juxtoposition with him—comes the mechanic, the in veutor. lie makes the labor saving ma chinery. By his contrivance wetranspert our productions and ourselves across con tinents and seas by means of the stone engines. It is the engineer—not the pol itician—who is prominent in buildin_g up a nation and making it a power. Then let us encourage our sons to become in ventors, engineers, machinists, architects, builders, manufacturers, rather than - to fritter away their precious livers in doing nothing, becoming nobodies, and in ma king lite a failure. " Work, work, more work, is what is wanted to give health, and power for good in the world. Roast yourself before a lire, go out sud denly into the freezing air, tell your friends the next day that you "wonder" how you have caught the cold, and then sat down and—wonder. Wash your hands in hot and cold wa ter, neglect to wipe them dry, complain that you have terrible chapped hands, and then you and your friends sit down and " terrible" it a while. Stop np every crevice for - fresh air in your bed-room, and then be astonished 'if you should wake up every morning with the headache. Persist in this practice, and in the eourie of time you . will have the " hen dach iest headache" you have ev er experienced. habituate yourself to setting at home over a rOmAing fire, because it happens to be a Mustering cold day ont of doors, and your cry a ill always be that you are per ished" in going from one room to arto;h er. 'The pastor of one of the chnichea in the city of Syracuse, was catechising the pupils of the Sabbath School, and ask ed, among other questions, "Ili'her! is God ?" Various answers were returned by the children, after which the minister pro ceeded to speak of the omnipresence of the Deity, concluding nanarits with the admonition : Remember, dear children, that Godia everywhere." The words had hardly escapcd , his lips when a roguish little fellow rose up and :aid : " Please, sir, did you gay that God was pvervwhere?" . , Yes, my eon, everywhere." " Is he in my pocket?" " Yes, he is in you pocket." " Well, I guess I've got you there," was the triumphant retort; "'muse I ain't. got any pocket." - _ :IV — We would advise all young people to actptire in earl• life the habit of cor rect speaking and writing, and to aban don as soon us possible the use of slang words and phrases. The longer you live, the more difficult the acquirement of cor rect language will be ; and if the golden age of youth, the proper season for the ae quisition of language, be passed in its abuse,.the unfortunate victim, if neglec ted, is very properly doomed to talk slang for life. A man has merely to use the language which he reads, instead of the slang which he hears ; to form his•taste from the best speakers and poets in the country ; to treasure up choice phrases in memory, and habituate himself to their use, avoiding at the samelime thkt pedan tic precision and bombast, which shows the weak 'less of vain ambition, rather than the polish of an educated' mind.- CILEA 31 PIE;-010 pint of, good sweet cream, one egg, ono table spoonful of flour one p, nc•h of salt ; flavor and sweeten to taste. Beat the cggs light, then add, the flour anti stir in the cream: How ,TO REMD.VE OLD Pt:M.-11106a , XllO haVa idant Valises, frame, dia.,,ltnow how difficult, it is to remove old puttyirom sashes without injuring the sash. We have seen it stated in some jourialAhat it could beretnoved very easily by_apitlying A bot iron to it. . Wa. tried.theexp*rat few days ago, and were emrtsd to fi d. how easily the most itutnroX 03d putty could be cut out. after beiniwell warmed bythe _apptication of,:s - - sabot iron. Try it. Farm Work. - v.
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