:'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.
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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.
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