THE MoNT ROSE DEMOCRAT. a. B. HAWLEY, Proprietor. guointos gads. CIIARLES N. STODDARD, bailer In Boots and tthoas. Hata and Cape. Leather and rzett i lt . ret, Ad door below Searle. Hotel. and repairing done neatly. Mostrowb Jan.).Hrllb LEWIS KNOLL. SILIEING AND HAIR DRESSING. Sher la the now Poetomce building, where he will Ite found ready to attend all who may want anything Int& Roe. ' Montrone, Pa. Oct. 13. 1569. P. REYNOLDS, ADCTIOXIMR—AeIIs Dry Goods. and Ideschanizs—eiso Mande at Vandnes. AL orders left at my bones s m realties prompt attention. [Oct. 1, 18121—ti 0. M. HAWLEY, DRALER In DRY GOODS, GROCERIES. CROCKERY RardwarB,llBo. Capp. ll,ootaKba, Wide Cloth Lug, Natal, Oil!. etc., Near Milford, Co. 8, 'GU. DB_ S. W. DAYINIIIII, PirrSICIAN" d. SURGEON. tender" hie vervicer to the citizens of GreAt Bend and Wiry. oMce at bin reddeete, oppoilre Barnum ilonve, Bend village. LAW OFFICE 1121A11111ERLIN & Me('OLLUAL Attorneys and Conn galore tt Lao. Office in the Itrick Block over the Bank. [Montrose Ang. 4.lSlrt. . J. 11. MeComret. A. & D. R. LATHROP, DEALERS in Dry Goods. Groceries, emekety and giaorware, table and pocket cutlery. Paints, olio, dye staff.. Hato. boots and oboe., nein leather. Perfumery Jtc_ Brick mock. adjoining Oa Sank, Montrone. Augnot 11, IK:9.—H ♦. LATER:or, • - • D. It. Latanor. A. 0. WARREN, ♦TTORNET A. L.W. Ikmanty, Hock Pay. Pention, add grew on Claims offended to. Otnee dr .or below Boyd'. Store. flontrooe.Ps. (An. 1,'61. WAIL A. CROSS.MON, Attarae7 at Lao. Montrose. Susy'a CO. can he retold at all reasonable basiness hours at the County Oeauatiatoncra' 001ce. [Montrose, Ant. 1. 1869. W. W. WATSON, ATTORNEY UT LAW, 14onlmse., Pa. Office with L. T. Pitch. [Rootrvoe, Aug. .1. Ma. N. C. SUTTON, Auctioneer, and Insurance Agent, Frlend•vllle, Pa. C. IL GILBERT, 49Lia.Oticsri.c.c.r. Great Bend, Pa la. EA. mitt Abt •AM! ELY, .6.li.crticszscor. Mrs , . 1„.110/1. Address, Etrootlyn, JOHN GROVES, PISMONABLII TAILOR., Itontroee, R. Shop over chandi e , , ,, su n , minedere gilled In drat-rate 0 , 1 yie. cortinn done on abort notice, and warranted to It. W. W. SMITH, c iIIINNT AND CHAIR MANVFAt,TURERB.-1•.o of Math Week Blostrose, P. }an. 1. leul9. 11. BERRITT, DEMUR In Staple and Fancy Dry Goody, Crockery. liardwara, Iron, Storer, Dra go, Olio, and _Paints, Bootsand Shoe., Rats & Cay r, Faro, Itatralo Robes. tileocogles,Proritions,,...c.., New' M!ford. Pa. DR. E. P. HINES, Mil permanently hated at Friandovifle for the pur. =tc: r r*l k i ng tnay Det t u c n t n d art d b e " JUs Y o t : all il+ Oahe bolus from 8 a. m., to 8. p. m. Tetsuo:Mettle, Pa., Aug, 1. 1888. STROUD & BROWN. FIRE AND LIFE INSUAANCE AGENTS. At' business attended to promptly. on Odr terms. Office Kest deer north of • Montrose Hotel," west side of labile Averme, Montrose. Ps- [Aug. 1. Md. IttrAntwo STROUD, - - CeanLits 4 Bnown. JOW SA UTTER, RESPECTFULLY anuoancet , that be Is it4w Wto cat all laud* of Garment, In the moo. innable Style, warranted to d t with elegance lid Mee. shop over the Pun °ince, Noutroee, iII. D. LUSK, ATTORICRY AT LAW, Motitrooc. I. o®rs app.. tn. tip TArbeft !loam near ate Court Ham.. A. 1. 18119.-11 DR. W. W. SMITH, DIMIST. Rooms over Boyd Corsrlo . • Ilan! mars Store. Ofnee hours from 9a. m. to 4p. Nostrose. Aug. 1. 1e44.-41 ABEL TERRELL, DEALER in Drugs, Patent Medicines, Chemlces Liguori, Paints, 011s,Dpe Stuffs, Varnishes, Win Maas, Groceries, Glass Ware, Wall and Window Pa, ,Busaoarara, Lamps, Kerosene, Machinery Oils. Gana, Ammunition, Knives, Spectaeles BMWs, Planc7 Goods, Jewelry, Perla ry. WWI el the mast 013.112e1.111, cIGLID. listaaldis collections of Goods in Susquehanna Co.— Established in 1848. [Montrose, 'PE D. W. SEARLE, ATTOICWILT AT LAW. office over the Stored A. Lathrop, to the Brick Block. lioetrose. Pa. tani`G9 E. L. WEEKS & CO helm in Dry Goode, Clothing. Ladles and aflame: h• Shoes. Also, agent* for the great American he and Coffee Company. [..liontroec, Pa., aug. DR. W. L. RICHARDSON, reTsiciAti & S 1 RGEON. tenders his prole:mimed Weiler to the citizens of Montrose end Mace st kistesidence, on the comer met of Sayre 41, Brea. Foundry. [Aug. 1, 1341. DR. E. L. GARDNER, TIETSIRIAN and SURGEON. Montrose. Giver ampocial attention to dinuageu of the Heart and Loris and all Surgical diretues. Orlee over W. R. Dams Beards at Searle's Hotel. [Aug. 1. PM BURNS & NICHOLS, DLt 01113 In Drugs, Medicines, Chrmicalr, Dye- Nina,. OH., Varnlete. Lique.r, !:ploy. Fancy at t les, Patent Medicines. Perfumery nod Toilet Ar tides. "Preser:pt lon. carefully compounded.- Puolle Avenue. shore Scarleo Hut• 1. Mnu A. B. Brass, Amos Stamm. Aug. 1. MA. DR. E. L. HANDRICK, PHYSICIAN • SURDErIit. respectfully tenders bi• professional services to the citizen of Friendssille Miff vicinity. or Office Intim office of Dr. Lee' Beards et J. Hosford's. Aug. 1,, IS9. SOLDIERS' BOUNTY, PENSIONa. and BACA PAT - - Thennderaignod. LICENSED AGNNT of the GOV. NNEINENT. having obtained the reoccur. tonna be.. ortitgive prompt attention to all claims (ntrasted to Waage. No charge online anceesafal. GEO. P. LITTLE. 'llllseirose. Jane ath. tau DENTISTRY AU thews to want of thlws Teeth or other dental wort okoold pad the office of the subscribers, who ma: mod to do an kWh of wort in their line on rhort Partkolar attention paid to making full and • maaqa o f teeth no ,gold, el ver. or aluminum plate ; also no Westout cast composition ; the two latter preferable to sogralloteoper substances now need for dental plates. of yonagpersons regulated. and made togrow to ordinal shape. The advantage of tuning wort done by permanently to. sated hod rospoendble puttee, tenet be apparent to all. AB watt warranted. Please call and examine sued. thents ofplate work at our office. over Boyd Co.' hard ware MOM W. W. SMITH A. BROTHER_ Montrose. Aug. .1.8. le6'!,—tf PEBBLE BPECTACLES—aIso com sal i tte aP tr. ""17411711Viutzt. Notfo foray. The Evening Hour. Sunset red is streaming O'er the mountain blue afar ; While soffly bright b beaming The that pale evening star. Darkaome clouds are hovering Above the gilded atroak ; While heavy taiga are covering Both plain, and [lmam, and lake. A softened hue is spreading Its ea' ble robe on bigb Antilles cloud-veiled Moon is heading Her pathway through the sky. Softly sweet the nightingale Warbles her Impassioned note, While, re-echoed through the axle, Back the gentle whispers float. Night slowly flings her mantle round, And hushes all with magic power ; While leaf and rill, with silver sound, Welcome once more the evening hour. —Late habits—Night-gowns. —Petroleum territory is hol-y ground. —The best friend in need is a dollar or —A lousy man is not always a man of EqlSilleSB. —Sit Hamlets appear every night in New York —The icebergs of Alaska are now in full bloom. • —The modern key to wealth—a burg lar's jitumy. —A poor way to get a thing—waiting for it to turn up. —Good places for match-making—the Sulphur springs. —The liveliest branch of trade is tht free lunch business. —The transit of Nrcnns—a pretty girl crossing Chestnut street. —Lore may be considered deformed when it is all on one side. -13rownlow is said to be low again. lie always was very low. —The latest name for drunkenness is `alcoholic sprightliness." —The bachelor's refrain is a lass! that of the maiden, all men! —A good moto for hotel servants is "learn to labor and to wait." —it is the tribe of Jessie that has con trol of things at Washington. —What should a cler&vman preach about ? About fifteen minutes. —Manna boa in tho Sandwich Istanda is smoking. So is Grant. —A man who owes for' shoes cannot fray that his sole is his own. —lf von are ambitious to be a well abused man, run for a fat office. —The number of legal votes in Alaska is 200. Noble two hundred —ln a Connecticut town a hearse is used to carry milk instead of bier. —When the doctor orders a dose of bark has the patient a right to growl? —The men of Vicksburg have a play ful way of smashing plug hats with clubs. '—When the Chinese arrived, the people of Texas got rid of all their surplus dogs. —The woman question now-amdays is— "where did you buy youi. back hair r —Pharaoh is the first ,camenter men tioned in the Bible. He ltsde Joseph ruler. --If a man wishes to ascertain his full dimensions let him go to the grave-yard. —Girls sometimes put their lips out poutingly because they are angry, and sometimes because they are inclined to meet pjlt half ways. —Why is the later R very unfortunate ? Beainse it is always in tmn ble, wretched ness and misery. is the beginning of riot and ruin, and is never found in peace, in not-en •or love. MB= —A Canadian postmaster had a keg of damaged powder, and threw a lump into the stove to see whether it was good for anything. His widow is now repairing the house. —A young lady of Urbana Illinois, who was nveutly caught smoking a cigar by the '•local" of the Gazette of that place, gave as the reason for the act: That it made it smell as though there was a man around. —Dr. Cousin having heard the famous T. Fuller repeat verses on aseulding wife, was so delighted with them as to request a copy ; but Fuller told him "a copy a - as needless, as he had the originaL^ —Dr. Johnson 'U.S one dap dinning at the house of an English lady, when she asked him if he did not think her pudd ing very good. "Yes," roweled the great moralist ; " very good for hogst." " Shall I help you to another plate full then ?" asked the polite hostess. • —The lord editor of Columbia Bliss:, paper haying recently got married, a co temporary says: "gay his father-in-law die rich, and enable poor Stevens to retire from the printing business and set up a cake shop at a railway station." —At a dame in San Fruncisco. a voting tadywho was particularly accommodating in the dressing-room about assisting other good-lookinggirls in fixing up, putting on slippers and lacing corsets, turns out to be a young man. As soon 4/3 the girls found it out they "interviewed . " him, and he now uses hair restorativeand court plaster, be sides carrying his nose in a sling. —A new comer at Niagara Falls moved into a house, where he founds bottle filled with ketchup, some of which he drank. The next thing. he did was to ketchuphia bowels in his bands and pull for a drug store. A stomack elevator extracted the bed;-bug poison • fiourautining his vitals, and be will fry and lead a different life. Say ketchup to him, and you die. lIREVITiIIeS, MONTROSE, PA.; WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1870. piocennutouo. The False Step. The New York correspondent of the Philadelphia Press tells this sad story : Though the guilty and honest must suffer, and never was the fact more dis tressingly illustrated than in the late ar rest of a New York counterfeiter. One of the best engravers in the country, if not in the world, was arrested in his office where every thing went to prove and where he unreservedly confessed his guilt —too completely broken, amazed and con fused to attempt a denial. lie was a tine gentlemanly looking man, though of late somewhat dissipated, owing, probably to the wretched business in which lie was employed. lle had worked for Tiffany & Co., and for the American Banking Cu, as a skillful, honest, engraver, and so up to within two weeks, thought his Notwithstanding his disposition, and the great crime of which he is surely guilty, he has been a kind father and husband, and never carried his sin into his home ; neither is he what may be termed a bad man, if we can reconcile these incongrui ties with the fact that he was arrested for the worst crime that an individual can practice against the government. Bad men tempted him with large profits. for his genius was invaluable to the regular counterfeiters ; profits however that he never realized, for once in their employ and power he must remain so, and take his chances of immense gains along with possible discovery, conviction, and the State Prison. After his arrest, in company with the chief of the secret service and two subor dinates, he was escorted to his homes ru ined, disgraced. guilty wretch, and the scene that ensued was indeed heart ren ding. Accustomed as were the officers to painful family griefs, brought about by their summary arrests, the usual sequence of home innocence and tears was nothing new or unhooked for; but the familv's despair touched even them, and they did not care to meet the gaze of the affrighted woman who met them at the door. A beautiful daughterof sixteen lifted a white horrified face beyond her mother's : an other of ten shrank against the wall ; a bright, intellient boy of six stood trans fixed in wonder, and a smiling infant of two confronted the miserable father and husband. The officers needed not to search the house for traces of his evil deeds. Wife and children were innocent, and the long practiced officers knew it a glance. The unhappy wife tank into a chair. Clasping her shaky hands one over the other, and swaying to and fro. she moaned the pitiful cry to Heaven '-0, (it'd I why can't I die ?" lier wet face was livid beneath its tears, and shrank and sharpened visible like a face that is dying. Tear after tear fell from her staring eves. 0.411.1 rc./ Ica Iv,. a nu rat tia ,111,1 1.•• r lap. Never once pu ti lig up her hand to wipe them away, they lay Mk and help le.l33 en her knee, and the look she turned on him was utterly heart broken. The young daughter sobbed frantically. 0, father, father, what have you done! Then turning to the chief, " Oh, don't believe it, sir ; my father could not do it." The little girl clung to the officer's knee in childish entreaty, "don't take my father to prison ; please, please don't The boy hid under the bed, and the baby crawled at his mother's feet, whimpering in his fright unheeded. The father looked upon the ruin he had wrought—the grief he had brought upon his loved ones, and sob and sob broke from his bosom. Dashing down his gra ver he said, - God cursed me in my gen ius. and I'll never lift it again !" He cov ered his face, and in his tears those who loved him hushed their cries. The poor wife found her strength and voice at the piteous sight, and came and put her hand gently on his shoulder : " My poor, poor husband ! How could you hnng us such sorrow, and yourself such dreadful misery ? It is Saturday night, and there is neither food nor fire ; and they will take you to—to—away from us, and Oh ! what shall I do for the children ? Who will pity or help us af ter this :- " I expected 8011110 money to night," said the criminal, taking from his pocket a torn half dollar, •• this is all I have; take IL and get a little bread for them to night:' Ile put it in her hand, but the trembling fingers dropped it unnoticed. " husband in jail My children star ling U God, what have I done that I must sutler so !" Here the chief stepped forward : " You shall not suffer ; see madam, that you and your children are made comfortable;' She lifted her streaming eves " I am so full of trouble I don't know how to thank you ; he is guilty guilty, but—my hus band." Yes," burst out the prisoner "I am guilty ; you have the presses, plates--ev ervtliing, and know it, but before Al mighty God they are innocent ; they know nothing of it. " I am perfectly well aware of it" mid the chief, and as it was painful to all, they departed with the prisoner, leaving the desolate home to its tears and anguish. If ever mortal grief was written on a woman's face, it was stumped on the ghastly features of the counterfeiter's wife when she looked on the weeping children; no reproach—only " bow could you, how (staid you ?" I have seen the law forced into many loving homes, where its head, by his recent crimes, brought sudden woe but never did I witness so harrowing a scene as this miserable engraver's dwel ling. She kept twisting her fingers to gether, and subbing and moaning "to morrow is Sunday ; oh, what a Sabbath for me, my children, my husband I" She was a lady by education, birth and association, and this blow struck her to the earth. She could endure and conceal poverty, but this prison crime the world must know, and the horrible grief and shame were berg to bear as best she might. The state prison surely awaits the father, and death the mother—if the face she carried to his cell that Sabbath morning was index to the sufferings with in. And the bright eyed boy, the crawl ing baby; and the beautiful girls, what will become of them ? The late counter feit uprooting tore a guiltless roman's heart asunder, and let it be a warning to other men who have a fine devoted family to peril in their disgrace and ruin. The art ofTeaching BY N. A. CALKIN3. It is well known to all who are accus tomed to observe the work of teachers, that some who appear to labor hard in their class rooms fail to produce well trained classes. And it is equally well known that many teachers who perform their work easily, and daily attend to the accomplishment of that part which is ap propriate at that time, always present thoroughly trained classes for examina tion The hard working but unsuccessful teachers frequently remark, " I don't un derstand why my class does no better, for I have worked very hard with it." And it is not an easy matter to explain to them why they do not produce better results in their classes, from the fact that they usu ally know so little of the art of good teach ing. Teachers fail, chiefly, is educating ; in not properly preparing the minds of their pupils.to receive the facts which they communicate ; therefore their work does not accomplish what they desire. The work of the teacher is two fold,— that of education and of instruction. By etlumtion, I mean that process of training by which the powers of the child are awakened, drawn out into activity, su that the mind is led to think and feel and seek to know. By instruction, I mean the giving ,of information to the mind when at hair been propared to receive it. Teachers do not etlucate enough ; they instruct too much. They give too much information without preparing the mind to take it. The art of teaching consistsin properly joining the two processes of etlii mting and instructing. But it by no means follows that these, two processes should be carried forward separately ; they should rather be most intimately blended together, while the progress of each is so carefully watched by the teach er, that neither shall receive undue atten tion. Although instructing implies the giving of information, yet giving information does not always add to the knowledge of the children to whom it is given, because it is not given properly. Committing words to memory, and reciting them, may be adding information about the subject, and vet not add any thing to the child's real knowledge of the subject. Requiring children to memorize and recite lessons may be neither education nor instruction. Both education and instruction should premde the committing to memory and reciting. Then the results of teaching will be knowledge gained by the pupils. The first thought, with reference to teaching any subjeet to the class of pupils should be, how shall I prepare me 1m ,- , Una instruction itself should be given imme diately after the preparation of the class for it, or along with the preparation, as the circumstance and the nature of the subject shall indicate most suitable. The ability to ascertain readily the con dition of a child's mind, how to prepare it to receive the instruction to be given, and how to properly adapt the information to the child, constitutes the art of teaching. Sometimes this power is called aptitude to teach, skill, experience in teaching. What name may be applied to it, matters little ; but whether teachers possess this power or not, matters much with the con dition of the class, and the future welfare of the children in the class. Cap this power be imparted to teach ers It can be imparted, with suitable ar rangements in a training school, with as much certainty as cirri the power to be a successful lawyer, physician, accountant or mechanic, by the means of training for each of these occupations. Every one cannot be made able or skilful in these departments of industry, neither can ev ery person be made a successful teacher who may chance to possess the single qualitiwtion of knowledge of the subject to he taught. There are many other qualifications of equal importace to suc cess in teaching,—the ability td commu niolte what is known: ti) illustrate it to young children : the disposition, control of temper. power to control others ; hab its of order ; to be what the children should become, so that example shall teach more than precept. These, togeth er with a knowledge and appreciation of child nature, are among the important at fain men gic.• fh•• power of success ful teaching. LEAD AND FEATLI is often askixl, in jest, which ie the betiviest—a pound of lead, or a pound or feathers ? A person who had not his wits about him might be guilty of the /iberuirisintuf an swering, " a pound of lead, to be sure !" Another a little more shrewd would say they weighed just alike Yet, under cer tain circumstances they would both be wrong. Weigh a pound of feathers while they are in au IlliCullipri.a4e4l rstat.., and then weigh them after being compreesed. and in the latter case they would weigh more than in the former ; because., when any substance has a larg.• quantity of sur face exposed to the-atmosphere, i n pro portion to its bulk, it weighs i less than the same bulk when compressed. Hence may be asserted with truth the seeming para dox, that a pound of feathers is heavier than a pound of lead. This principle is well understood by some of the wool mar chants who compress their wool as much as convenient, that the same quantity may make more weight. It is said, more over, that a wool merchant often gains the interest of his money, in the addi tional weight which the wool will acquire by remaining stored during a season, and thereby becoming compressed. Gold, the heaviest of all metals, b 7 being made in to gold leaf, which has infinitely a larger surface in proportion to its bulk than the solid gold, may be made to float in the air. According to the same principle are the clouds suspended in the atmosphere. —A sharp old gentlemen travelling ont west got a seat beside his wife in a crowd ed railway /carriage, by requesting the young man who rat by her to '"please width that woman while he went into another carriage, as she had ate," An Ezettlng Scene. The peregrinations of showmen are often beset with numerous difficulties while persuing their daily avocations in our Southern country, which with the usual winter rains ana heavy roads, make it ditlicut for the managers to make good the promises of the agents. Such was the case with John Robinson's Circus and Menagerie a few days since. While per forming in Tallahassee, Florida. it was mentioned to Mre,J. F. Robinson, Jr., that he might expect some difficulty in pass- ing through a long and dismal swamp be tween that place and Quincy, on account of the large number of alligators who in fested the ford at this particular locality, and who are ut this season of the year very ferocious, and on the watch for any unfortunate mule or horse that may be come entangled in the numerous roots, quicksands and holes which abound at the ford; but he replied, as the agent had already made the arrangements for him to go throuh, and it was not his nature to turn back, he had nothing left but to fol low, trusting to his previous good fortune in getting thus far. The result of his de cision, although anticipating some diffi culty, was far more serious than he antici pated. At three o'clock, P. m., on Tuesday, Jan uary 25, Prof. Lewis Houston, who has charge of she animals, started with the elephant Empress, the large Bactrian camel, the beautiful Arabian white camel, a tine thorough bred mare and colt, and two spotted coach dogs, to make the trip to Quincy, although repeatedly warned by Mr. J. F. Robinson, jr., not to attempt the passage of the swamp in any other than daylight. He, however, went through. Before approaching the ford, an occasion al bellow or roar was heard, betokening that the inhabitants of the locality had not retired for the night, and a sudden plunge and splash in the water would de note that the enemy was on the alert for mischief. The elephant would, every few steps, throw her trunk aloft, emitting at the same time a loud screech of defiance, the camels uttering low moans, while the horses almost refused to stir, and stood trembling with fear, while the dogs kept tip an incessant howling. Approaching the water at the ford, Houston determined upon the immediate passage through be fore the alligators had time to summon their crew. Bidding the elephant enter, she stepped ,boldly in, at the same time lashing the water furiously with her trunk ; the cam els, horses and dogs following close in the rear. He had passed two-thirds of the way. when a sharp yelp of pain from one of the dogs and his sudden disappearance denoted that the swamp fiend were at work. and before he could collect his thoughts the other dog went under with a long death howl. He now began to think of his ow•tt safety, and calling to As she did so a fearful roar was heard from the large Bactrian camel, who had at that instant been attacked. The water seemed alive with alligators. The roaring, bellowing and screeching of elephant, camels, and alligators were terrific. They would throw their pon derous jaws open and tear huge pieces of flesh from the camels, white the poor brutes would utter heart rending groans tknd cries for relief. In the meantime the elephant was not idle. Ever solicitous for the welfare of her keeper and com panions, she had, at that moment of see ing them safely landed upon the opposite shore, rushed back to the assistance of her friend, the camel, by this time was nearly gone, and by creating the greatest furore among her assailants, succeeded in bring the head of the eamel to the shore, that portion being all that remained of the poor animal. • In the confusion that ensued, Houston did not miss the colt until warned by a shrill scream or neigh, which seemed to come from several rods below. Upon rushing down ,the stream a few yards, a terrible scene was-presented to his view. It would seem that the denizens of Chat.- tahooche swamp for miles around had be come cognizant of some extra attraction at that particular point on this night, and bad started for that rendezvous, and upon reaching the scene of action had unex pectedly encountered both food and op position at the same time—for, simnita neouti with the meeting of the cult they met their pursuers, and an awful battle ensued. tiavenal times it seemed as if the colt would escape and regain the shore, so busy were the alligators in destroying one another, but just before the poor creature would reach the land, some monster more ravenous than brave, won Id leave the melee, pursue and drag it. back into deep water, until finally it became exhausted an fell an easy prey to the fear ful reptiles while Professor Houston stood looking on with blanched and terrified looks, wholly unable to render the least assistance, threatend with a terrible death should he even attempt it. As he turned to retrace his steps toward the place where he left the remaing animals, he counted the ceet, lie had made the pissage, but at a terrible sacrifice. He came out with an elephant, one camel and one horse. The camel was valued at *5,000, and very rare. 'l.'he colt Mr. Robinson had repeat edly refused 81,000 for. It will be many a long year before Mr. Houston will for get the horrors of passing through a Florida swamp at night—Fort Gainex Mirror. young man rho had come into Tios session of a large property on the death of his brother was asked how he was getting along. -Oh" said be, " I am having a dreadful time, with getting out letters of administration, and attending a probate court, and settling claims. I sometimes wish he hadn't died." —To make white wash almost equal to paint, take one peck of lime well slacked in hot water, to which add one pound of sugar, two pounds whiting ' two pounds rye flour, and one pound of dissolved glue, all Well mixed together. Then take strong brine made from rock salt to give the mass eoniiiteuce to apply with a brush. -g . "3..r A woman in Sing Sing, for biga my, writes asking Mn Beeehees prayers, saying that she got her divorce just the way lkfn. McFarland did. Finding Fault with the World. 1 There are some persons who are con tinualey in a rage against the injustice of the community. The only *jects cif their conversation are the vices and follies of this wicked world. They are con stantly snarling against their fellow men us a body. Yet if we examine into the character of these snarlers, we shall find them most generally, the very persons who contribute more than their proportional share of the very evils which they con demn. It is seldom a virtuous disappro bation of vice which leads to all this mis anthropic complaining; it is some ill-na tured resentment on account of certain public measures which have interfered with one's personal interest. Some selfish disappointment has tilled them with a bit ter spirit of ill will against all their fellow creatures: The community in their opin ion, has wronged them, and they take their revenge by libelling the whole gen eration. These snarlers are not philanthropists or reformers, as might be supposed from their doleful lamentations about the cor rupt state of society, and the selfishness and wickedness of men. They are not . desirous of any improvement in public morals. In nine cases out of ten, it is some one of these very improvements which forms the subject of their indig nation ; and often in the very midst of their harangues, they declare a wish that some great public calamity might be the final result of the offensive measures. We hear no complaints of the degeneracy of the times from those who.are actively em ployed in the cause of public improve ment- The complainers are the very ones who are doing all in their power to retard the progress of intellect and morals. They are frequently mere vagabonds, who ob tain their livelihood by pandering to oth er people's vices. A misanthrope is almost invariably a bad man, and the general cause of his bitterness is his disappointment in effect ing some selfish or wicked enterprise. One is highly indignant against the in justice of the community, because he has been thwarted in some knavish peenniqry speculation • another complains of sn4lal tyranny, because he cannot be allowed to fatten his own treasury by administering to the destructive habits of his fellow cit izens. All these people are constantly preaching about the degeneracy of the times; and you might sometimes almost believe that they were lovers of virtue. Those persons often consider themselves martyrs to the age, because they have been obliged to make a sacrifice for the promotion of the public welfare ; though that sacrifice was but a discontinuance of evil-doing. The owner of a gambling es tablishment is made a martyr of thi:de scription, when in consequence of the de generacy of the times. he is obliged' to quit. his business. .This class of individu als. how.e.r, u..tdom imssess notch or the spirit of martyrdom: they cannot bear their misfortunes with meekness and com posure, and always evince resentment in proportion to the iniquitous nature those advantages of which they have been de prived. Yet allowing that the world has done injustice to an individual, it is about as ridiculous to quarrel with it us to quarrel with the weather. A good and wise citi zen, if he has received evil from the hands of society, will immediately use his efforts to correct the source from which it pro ceeded. He endeavors to enlighten the minds of men upon those subjects upon , which they have ignorantly or unskillfully legislated; and though ho himself may , not live to reap the benefits of that light which he has distributed abroad ; his- re ward is the benevolent satisfaction which he feels in believing that he has benetitted some future generation. A Singular Occurrence. Something over a year ago a man in New Orleans left his family quite sudden ly and was gone several months. when he returned and resumed his family relations. and his wife glad of his return. "forelxire any reproaches 'regarding his long and unaccountable abtittnse. But to few weeks after his return another actor appeared upon the scene, this time a young and beautiful wonia.n. She claimed to he the the wanderer's wife. "But I am married alreadv 7 "You have married me 7 "Yon are mistaken. I never saw von before—know nothing of von!" he said in reply. and maintained his declaration so earnestly that everylsxly believed hint. The lady was regarded as an imposter. She went away. hut has come hack again. armed with a marriage certificate and proof of her husband's identity. Now for the explanation. The wander er at last, by extraneous evidence. how ever, admits thf'soft impeachment. When he went away he was suffering from tem porary insanity. While under this men tal hallucination, he wooed and won his second wife. But when his reason re turned, or rather when the cloud was rr moved from his mind. he vane hack to his first love and lawful wife. This is the case in a not shell. None of the circum stances are exaggerated. and the tale is told as it was related by one of the family. Singular as it may appear, both wives seem to be rationed - with the explanation, and all the parties are making arrange ments to go to Utah. A Smooth Shave I have met with a gambling story which is worth transcribing. Tho Spaniards are very fond of a game called monte, which is placed thins: S•ime person who a cts as banker. lave down two cards taken at haz ard from the pack, say a knave and an eight, and any number of persons may stake on either of these. The banker then turns up the pack, and takes the cards one by one from the bottom, and the first card that appears similar to eith er of the two, the knave or the eight, causes the corresponding card laid down to win, and the other to lose. A young fellow in Cadiz was acting as banker, and had laid down a king land a ten•; but be fore the skating was completed, ho was seized with a violent fit of sneezing, dur ing which be dropped his handkerchief, and in stooping to pick it up be allowed VOLUME XXVII, NUMBER -10. the bottom card, a king, to be seen. When he had recovered himself, he found the stakes much larger than before, - and all plueod on the king. Ho expressed sonic surprise, and asked for An explanation, but nobody gave it ; .he proceeded with the grime, when the first card shown proved to be a ten. He swept np the strikes, made a low bow and *tired; sn although, when the players recovered fie tn their shock, deadly vengeance was vowel against him, the story does not asp thai was ever carried into etii (Las How very few oven of the people who are doing their best to' please a particular individual give due weight to that mighty influence in obtaining the 'desired end, small attentions. The people who p , through life with vast depths of affectic:l for their relatives, and friends, smothers volcanoes of feeling which never efferves, in little acts of kindness and good will, apt to complain that their great naturee arc misunderstood, and the existence their buried treasure considered as doubt ful as those of Captain Kidd on Galves ton Island - they may or may not be there; but unt i l sometr, ing more substantial tba , . mere rumor is furnished as proof, there will continue to be skeptics. As 10n;, , , however, as human nature is human na ture, which- will probably be for some time to come, the majority of persoc s will want positive evidence of the. truth of thrir assertions. A man who declare s himself to be a great painter, or poet, or sculptor, is not likely to be believed unless his canvass, poem or group of statuary bear him out. Why, then, should one be called upon to place perfect faith in a per son who says : loVeyon devotedly, but I really can't stop to give you any evi dence of it !" Books, flowers, letters, all the pleamiit amenities of life, are certain ly unimportant in themselves, but they are evidences that ono is nnforgotten, and the compliment is none the less subtle and charming for being implied. Indeed, every one is touched and gratified by thoughtful attentions, and the use of them ; gives a certain color and glow to the every day routine of the most commonplace ex istence ; it is the fact which keeps the flame of love burning brightly, and the more intimately people are thrown togeth er the greater necessity , there is for culti vating the kindly feelings which are the result of small attentions. A French writer describes very cleverly a young girl who bad two suitors, a grave one who did little besides gape at her and another who showed her . a thousand ,courtisies daily. One day, in walking across a bridge with I them, her font slipped and she fell into the ricer. Her senons lover plunged in i and restored her, but. upon !proposing afterward, was rejected, upon the ground that she was not likely to be so near drowning again, while she would need and relish small attentions as long as she lived! " .1 good boy generally makes a good man." said the mother of Washington. " George was always a good boy." Here we see one great secret of his greatness. George Washington had a mother who made him a good boy, and instilled into his heart those principles which raised him to be the benefactor of his country, and one of the brightest ornaments of the world. The mother of Washington is en titled to a nation's gratitude. f le taught her buy the principles of obedience, and moral courage and virtue. She in a great, measure, formed the character of the he ro and the statesman. It was by her own tire side that she taught her playful boy to govern himself, and thus was he pa pared for the brilliant career of lISe/fal, ness which he afterwards pursued. We are indebted to God for the gift of Wash ington : but we are no less indebted tO Him for the gift of his estimable mottle?. Had the been a wend and indulgent and unfaithful parent, the unchecked energies of Washington might have elevated him to the throne of a tyrant, or youthful dis obedience might have prepared the way for a life of crime audit dishonored grave. Byron had a mother just the reverse of lady Washington ; and the character of the mother was transferred to the _son. We cannot wonder then at his character and conduct, fur we see them to be al most a necessary consequence of the edu cation he received, and the scenes he wit ne,tsed in his mother's pdrlor. She would at one time. allow him to disobey her with impunity ; again she would fly into it rage and beat hitn. She thus taught hint to defy authority human and divine; to indulge a ithout restraint in sin ; to give himself up to every maddening pas sion. It was th e mother of Byron who laid the foundation of his pre eminence in guilt. She taught him to plunge into the sea of profligacy and wretchedness; upon whose agitated waves he was tossed for life. If the crimes of the poet deserve the execration of the world—the world can not forget., that it was the mother, who fostered in his youthful heart, those pas sions which Made the son a curse to his fellow men. Had. Byron and Washing ton exchanged cradles during the first month of their infancy, it is very certain their characters would have been entirely changed ; and it is by no means improb able, that Washington might have been the licentious profligate, and Byron the exemplar of virtue and benefactor of na tions.—Mother at How, by Abbot. —'[he most speedy method of making cider into vineger is to not fill the Wire more than half toll, with the' Ming:left out, which will expose the largest surface to the air, and consequently will :become vinoger much sooner than if the barrel be filled fnIL GOOD liavire.—A gentleman, the other day on asking a marketman the price of eggs, was answered,.." eggs are eggs now?' I am glad to hear it, with all my heart for the last I bought of you were half chickens." ..—)lra. Alberti, a pious and accom plished Christian lady, has been laboring as a colporteur in the mouhtains of Ken tucky, distributing tracts and Bibles and establishing Sunday schools with much success. Small Attentions. Waxhington—Byron.
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