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
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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.