THE NIONTROSE DEMOCRAT.:
E. B. HAWLEY, Proprietor.
@whim • Onto.
CYCLES & BLAKESLEE,
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law. Office the one
heretofore (recopied by R. B. & O. P. Little. on Main
street. Montrose, Pa. (Aptil 01
LITTLE. OEO. P. LITTLIL C. L. SLEEVELET..
E. 31cFmczni. C. C. Pamirs, W. 11. McCann.
IffeKENZIE, FAURO'r & CO.
Dealers in Dry floods, Clothing, Ladles and Minims
doe Shoes. Mao. agents for the great AUleriello
Tea and Coffee Company. [Montrose, Pa , ap.
CII ARLES N. STODDARD,
Dealer in Bontr and Shots, Bata and Cap., Leather and
Finding•, Main Stn.ret. :Id door below Bearies Hotel.
Work made to order, and repairing done neatly.
liontrose, Jan. t, ISM
LEWIS KNOLL,
SHAVING AND HAIR DRESSING.
Shop In the new Postoince building, where he will
be found ready to attend all who may want anything
in his line. Montrose, Pa. Oct. IS, IVO.
P. REYNOLDS.
AUCTIONEER Sells Dry Goods. and Verchanize—alta,
attends at Ventlnca. All orders left at my house will
receive prompt attention. [Oct. I, Inta--tf
0. 31. UAWLEY,
DEALER In DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, CROCKERY
Hardware, Hats, Cap., Boote. Shoes, Read, Made Cloth
log, Paint., 0118, etc., New Milford, Pa 'Sept. 8, 'CJ.
DR. S. W. DAYTON,
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. tenders tits services to
the S
citizens of Great Bend and vicinity. Office at his
reoideuce, oppocite Barnum Hone; G't. Bend rills
Sept. Ist, 1841.—tf
LAW OFFICE
CHAMBERLIN k McCOLLCM, Attorneys and Collo
r-14101Y at Law. Office in tan Brick Block over the
Bank. (Moutrose Ang. 4. Haig.
A. enaxamum.a. - J. B. MeCoLl.rw.
A. & D. R. LATHROP,
DEALERS in Dry Goods. Groceries,
crockery and glassware, table and pocket callers.
Paints, our, dye ruff.. Bab. boots and shoes, Bola
leather. Perfumery dc. Brick Block, adjoining the
Bank, Montrose. August tl, lista —tf
A. Lessor, - - • 0.11. 11—turtuor.
A. 0. WARREN,
ATTORNEY A. LAW. Bounty, Back Pay. Penalon,
and Excin on Claims •attended to. Ofllue Er
nor Anima Boyd'. Store, liontroer. Pa. [Au. I,
WM. A. CROSSMON,
Attore;.) - nt Tan% Montrone. Sung 's Co. Pa_ tan be
found at all retteonable bentners boure at the County
('unto i.,tionern • °Mee. Ctlontrosc, Aug. 1.
W. W. WATSON.
ATTORNEY IIT LAW. Montrone. P. Order with L
F. Fact. [Montrose, Aug. .1,115131.
M. C. SUTTON;
Auctioneer, and Insurance Agent,
Friendaville, M.
C. S. GILBERT,
..a.alatitar:Le3ex . .
Great Bend, Pa
TT. ISt.
angl 01(
ANII ELT,
V. 9. .41.L.1.2.4ct - Los2.eox - .
Aug. 1, ISO. Addreen, lirooclyn, Pa
JOHN GROVES,
F i sIIIONATILE TABOR, Montrose. N. Shop over
Chandler's Store. AP orders tilled In drst-raie style.
uttine done on short notion. and warranted to
W. W. SMITH,
CABINET AND CHAIR MANDFACTUTDOIB.-1 ,
•I Main street., Montrose, Ps. )stir. 1. 1869.
11. BIIIIRITT,
DEALER in Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, Crockery
Hardware, Iron, Stoves, Drn gra 011 a, and Paint.
Boors and Shoe., Hate Zt Caps, Furs, Buffalo Robre
°roc-erica. Prow talons, New Milford, Pa.
DR. IE. P. lIL%ES,
Etas permanently located at Friendsville for the pur
pose of practicing medicine and surgery to eel IL.
branches. He may be found at the Jackson House.
Office hours from S a. m., to S. p. m-
Pravudsville, Pa., Aug, 1. 1569.
siruoun it. BROWN,
FIRE AND LIFE I:I97aANCE AGENTS. Al:
business attended to promptly, on fair tonne. Office
first door north of . Montrose Hotel," west *ids o ,
Public Avenue, Montrose, Pa. [Aug. 1.1869.
DELI-malt Ssnoun, Csaimas L. Iluoint.
JOHN SAITIVEII,
RESPECTFULLY announces that he Is MAI pf
pared to cut all Undo of Garments In the EllOl.,
fashionable Style, warranted to Lt with elegance
nd ease. Shop over the Post Otte, Montrose, Pa.
WM. D. LUSK,
ATTOLLNEY AT LAW. MOUITOFC, Office oppo•
eke the Tarbell House, neat the Court lloane.
lota—tf
DR. W. W. SMITH,
DENTIST. Roome over Boyd & Corarth'e hard
mare Store. Ottlee hours trom9 a. m. to 4 p. m.
)doutrose, Aug. 1, IS69.—tf
ABEL TERRELL,
DEALER In Dm:a, Patent Medicines. Chemicals
Liquor., Pamta, OUe.Dye Stud . .. Varnishes. Win
Glass. Groceries. Glass Ware, Wall and Window Pa,
per. Stone ware. Lamps, Heroekne, Machinery Oils.
Trusses, Guns, Ammunition, Knives, Spectacles
Brushes. Fancy Goods, Jewelry, Perfa ', re. B,c.
being Pone of the most namerous, extensive, and
',within collections of Goods in Snsctriehanna Co.—
Established in 1848. [Montrose,
D. W. SEABEE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW. office over the Store of A.
Lathrop, to the brick Block, Moutrosc, Pa. [aul'69
DR. W. L. RICHARDSON,
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, tenders o his professional
services to the citizens of Montrose and vicinity.—
Office at hie residence, on the corner east of Sayre
Bros. Foundry. [Aug. 1, ISCB.
DR. E. L. GARDNER,
TRYSICIAN and SURGEON. Montrose. Pa. Gives
e•peclal attention to dieinges of the Menet end
Lange end all Surgical di•eaaes. 0111ce over g". 11.
D.n.a Ramie at Searle's Hutch [Aug.
BURNS & NICHOLS,
.r,RB in Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals, Dye.
• et ..ne, Paints, oth, Varnish. Liquors. Spices. Fancy
ar r les, Patent Priedleinert, Perfnmery and Toilet Ar
tico.s. rs — Prescriptions carefally compounded.—
. Penile Avenue, above nearle's Hotel, Montrose, Pa
A. D. Buns, - . Mina Plicnots.
Aug. 1, 18G9.
DR. E. L. HANDUICK,
PiIYSICIA.N & SURGEON, respectfully tenders hi
professional services .to the citizen of Friend's'lie
and vicinity. re- Office lutho °Shoe of Dr. Leto
Roarde at J. llonford's. Ang.1.15C9.
PROF. RIORRIS,
The Hayti Barber, returns Ills thanks for the kind py
ronage that has enabled him to get the hest rest—ha
ha ! I hat`rd time to tell the whole story. but come
wad see for sourseves aras, the Old Stand. No loud
laughing allowed in the shop. (April 13, 1870.
D ENTISTRY
All those to want of false Teeth or other dental work
should call at the office of the subscribers, who are peo.
pared to do all kinds of work in their linear shortnake.
Particular attention paid to making full and imolai
setts of teeth on gold.' ellrer, or alaniserm plate ; also on
Weston'a cast composition ; the two latter preferable to
any of thlcbeeper substances now used for dental plates.
Teoth yonngpersons regulated, and nude togrow in
nattwal shape.
The advantage of having work done by permanently
C 111441 and responsible particles mart be eppirmt to all.
All work warranted. Please call and. =Mine' 1 34 0 4 ,
mere of plate work at oar GOWN one Boyd a Co's oar&
ware store.
W, Wi loess e tionamt:
Montrose. Ana. le, 188.—M
g'otro Corm.
OVER THE WAY.
Gone In her childish purity,
Out from the golden day ;
Fading away In the light so sweet,
Where the silver stars and the sunbeams meet,
Paving the path of her silent feet,
Over the silent way.
Over her bosom tenderly
The pearl-white hands are pressed ;
The lashes lie on her cheek so thin,
Where the soft blush of the rose has been,.
Shutting the blueof her eyes within, •
The pure lids closed In rest.
Over the Sweet brom lovingly
Twineth her sunny hair;
She was so fragile that love sent clown
From his heavenly gems that soft bright crown,
To shade her brow; with its waves so brown,
Light as the dimpling air.
Gone to sleep with a tender smile
Froze on her tender lips,
By the farewell kiss of her dewy breath,
Cold in the clasp of the angel death—
Like the last fair bud of the fading wreath,
Whose bloom the white frost nips.
Robin, hushed In your downy bed,
Over the swinging bough,
Do you miss her voice from the glad duct,
When the dew In the heart of the rose is set,
Till the velvet lips with the essence meet
In orient crimson glow
Rosebud, under your shady leaf,
Hid from the sunny day,
Do you miss the glance of the eynt so bright,
Whose blue was heaven in your timid sight
It is beaming now in the world of light,
Over the starry way.
Deana, %vbere the darling head bath lain,
ileld by love's shining ray,
l)o von know that the touch of her gentle baud
Doth brighten the harp in the unknown land
Oh ! she waits for its with the angel band,
Over the slant. tray.
A NEW SPUENG.
Yesterday, or so it seems,
Rude and bitter winds did blow ;
Muffled tinkle of hid streams
Under the ice and snow.
By the bleak edge of the wood
Late the less'ning snowdrift lay
Trickling to the tawny flood,
It bath alipt away.
Hardy flowers, In sheltered spots,
Show their scarlet hoods again,
Laughing up from crowded knots,
Through the dripping rain.
From the sunny slopes of hills
Comes the helpless blest of lambs,
Wailing unregarded ills
To their gadding dams.
Day by day, in their broad'ningures,
Climbs the aim to middle May
Brighter lights and deeper darks
Fill the night and day.
Sudden Hush of orchard-bloom,
Murmurous with toiling bees,
Weaves its color in the loom
Of the patient trees.
0, the long, sweet pleasure hours!
0 the young wind, fresh and bland
Spring with all its birds and flowers—
Spring is in the land!
—Hearth and Home
Varieties.
—Corn is tasseling oat in Florida.
—An Irishman, writing from tho West
to a friend, remarked : " Pork is so plenty
here that every third man you meet is a
hog."
—The chap who remarked, `Still I
Love Thee," changed his tune after mar
riage to " I love thee still"—but she would
not be still.
—A little boy being asked if he knew
where liars went, replied that £hey went
to New York to write for the papers.
—`• Woman is a delusion, madam," ex
claimed a crusty old bachelor to a witty
young lady. " And man is always hur , -
ging some. delusion or other," was the
quick retort.
—A prosperous revival in a Wisconsin
town was demoralized and broken up by
the conversion of two Liners and one ed
itor. The good people couldn't stand all
that at once.
—The devil of an lowa paper called on
his Chinese washwoman, and tried to coax
her to take hold of his garments. " Prin
tee man flirty shirt like ; no get
cleanee ; scrubbee skin off hands ; inkee
d-1 to clean off. No want washee for
rrintee charge two'aollar dozen ; cuss
em."
—A soldier was wounded by a shell
from Fort Wagner. He was going to the
rear. " Wounded by a shell ?" some one
asked. - " Yes," he coolly answered; " I
was right under the darned thing when
the bottom dropped out."
—A French fair one wrote to her lover
begging him to send her some money.—
She added, by way of postscript, am
so ashamed of the request I have made in
this letter, that I sent after the postman
to get it bath, but the servant could not
overtake him."
- certain literary society, the other
night, discussed the character of Wash
ington as a statesman. " Hellas a great
man," said one of the speakers, " whose
mind had a powerful grasp of the future ;
if ever a man was non campus menus he
was that man." It is dangerous some
times to handle tools one is not acquaint
ed with.
—At Ottnmwa, lona,a nice yonngman
pnt a sheet around him to scare a Dutch
man. The Teutonic gentleman Bays:
shad „lumped my wagon out, and vip der
ghost all de time.. . I you'd vip-him if he
vas a -whole grave yard.", Some asked the
young man what ailed his Mach. eye, and
he mid he hid reaetred bad' ;ma ham
MONTROSE, PA., WEDNESDAY, •MAY 11, 1870.
Piot'!mom
The Eleventh Commandment.
T. S. Arthur tells a .good story about a
loving couple in New Jersey, who belong
to a Methodist Church.. A new Presiding
Elder, Mr. N., was expected in that dis
trict, and as the ministers all stopped with
Mr. W. and his wife, every preparation
was made to give him a cordial reception.
The honest couple thought that religion
consisted in part in making some parade,
and therefore the parlor was put in order,
a nice fire was made and the kitchen re
plenished
with cake, chickens, and every
delicacy preparatory to cooking.
While Mr. W. was out to the woodpile,
a plain coarsely dressed, but quiet likepe
destrian came along, and inquired the dis
tance to the next town. He was told that
it was three miles. Being very cold, he
asked permission to enter and warm him
self. Assent was given very grudgingly
and both wilt into the kitchen. 'l he
wife looked daggers at this untimely in
trnsiou for the stranger had on cow-hide
boots, an old hat, and a thread-bare, but
neatly patched coat. At length she gave
him a seat beside a Dutch oven which was
baking nice cakes for the Presiding Elder.
who was momentarily expected, as he it as
to preach the next day, at the church a
mile or two beyond.
The stranger, after warming himself
prepared to leave, but the weather became
inclement, and as his appetite was roused
by the viands abOut the tire, he asked for
sonic little refreshment ere he set out for
a cold walk to the town. Mrs. W. was
displeased but on consultation with her
husband, some cold bacon and bread was
set on an old table, and he was then
gruffly told to eat. It was growing dark,
and hints were thrown out, that the stran
ger had better depart, as it was three long
miles to town. The wife grew petulant,
us the husband eat whistling the air of
-Auld Lang Syne," while ho thought of
the words of the hymn—" When can I
read my title clear," and felt as if he could
order off, without any further ado.
The homely meal was at last concluded
—the man thanked him kindly for the
hospitality he had received, and opened
the door to go. But it was quite dark.
and the clouds denoting a storm, filled the
heavens.
"You say it is full three miles to I)."
"1 do," said Mr. W. coldly ; "I said so
when you first stopped, and you had
ought to push on, like a prudent man.
You could hare reached there before it
was dark."
-But I was so cold and hungry, and
might nave fainted on my way."
The manner of saying this touched the
farmer's feelings a little.
-You hare warmed and ftal me, for
a bleb 1 sat tt,aulAnnt. Wilt you u. 4 b<
stow another act of kindness upon one In
a strange place. and if he goes out in the
darkness may lose himself and perish in
the cold ?"
The particular form in which this re
quest was made, and tone in which it was
tittered, put it out of the fanner to say
-110.
"Go in there and sit down," he answer
ed, pointing to the kitchen, "and P will I
see my wife and hear what she says."
And Mr. W. went into the parlor, where
the supper table stood, covered with snow
white cloth, and displaying his wife's set
of sprigged china, that was only brought
out on special occasions.
The tall mold candles were bearing
thereon, and on the hearth blazed a cheer-
ful tire.
"Hasn't that old fellow gone yet ?" '
asked Mrs. W. She heard his voice as he
returned from the door.
"No, and what do you suppose ? lle
wants us to let him stay all night."
• "Indeed, well do no such thing. We
can't have the likes of him in the house
now. Where should he sleep ?"
"Not in the best room, even if Mr. N.
should not come."
"Ne, indeed!"
"But really I don't see, Jane, how we
can turn hint out of doors. Ile doesn't
look like a very strong man, and its dark
and cold, and 'full three miles to II"
"It's too much ; he ought to have gone
on while he had daylight, and not lingered
here, as he (lid, till it got dark."
"We can't turn him out of doors. Jane,
and its no use to think of it. he'll have
to stay, somehow."
"But what can we do with him?"
"He seems like a decent man at least;
and doesn't look as if he had anything ,
bad about him. We might make him al
bed on the floor somewhere."
"1 wish he had been at Guinea, before
he came here!" said Mrs. W. fretfully.
The disappointment, the conviction that
Mr. N. would not arrive, occasioned her
to feel, and the intrusion of so unwelcome
a visitor as the stranger, completely un
hinged her mind.
"Oh, well," replied her husbaud, never
mind we must make the most of it. Ile
came to us tired and hungry, and we
warmed and fed him. He now seeks shel
ter fur the night and we mast not refuse
him, no, grant his request in a complain
ing and reluctant style. You know what
the Bible says about entertaining angels
unawares."
"Angels! did you ever see au angel
look like him." •
"Having never seen an angel," said the
farmer smiling, "I am unable to speak
as to their appearance."
This had the effect to call an answering
smile from Mrs. W. and a better feeling
at her heart. It was finally agreed be
tween them, that the man, as he seemed
like a decent person, should be permit
ted to occupy the minister's room, if that
individual - did not arrive, an event to
which they both looked with but little
expectancy. If he did come, why the
man would have to put up with little as
When Mr. W. returned to the kitchen,
where the stranger had seated himself be
fore the fire, be informed him that they
had decided to let him stay all night, The
man expressed in a few words, his grate
ful sense of their kindness, and then be
came silent and thoughtful Soon after,
the farmer's wife, giving up all hope of
Mr. N.'a arrival had supper taken up,
which cormisisd of wofScei warns abort
' iwke. # sahrolkl Oil n& Jifirrall srM
on the table, a short conference was held
ns to whether it would do to invite the
stranger to take supper. It was true that
they had given him as much bread and
bacon as he could eat, but then, as long
us be was going to stay all night, it looked
too inhospitable to sit down to the table
and'uot ask him to join them. So mak-
lug a virtue of necessity, he was kindly
asked to come to supper—an invitation
which he did not decline. Grace was
said over the meal by Mr. W., and the
coffee poured out, the bread helped, and
the meat served.
There was a tine little boy, six years old,
at the table who had been brightened up
and dressed in his best, in order to grace
the minister's reception. Charles was full
of talk, and his parents felt a mutual
pride in showing him off, even before their
humble guest, who noticed hint 'particu
larly, though he had not much to say.
"Come, Charley," said Mr. W., after the
meal was over, and he tat leaning in his
chair, "can't yon repeat the pretty hymn
mamma learned you last Sunday ?"
Charley started off without any further
invitation, and repeated very accurately,
two orithree verses of a new camp-meet
ing hymn, that was .just then very popu
lar.
"Now let us hear you say the command
ments, Charley," spoke up the mother,
well pleased at her child's performance.
And Charley repeated them with the
aid of a little prompting.
"Clow many commandmentsare there?"
asked the father.
The child hesitated, and then, looking
up ut the stranger, near who he sat, said
innocently—
"llow many are there ?"
The man thought for some moments,
and then said as if in doubt.
Eleven, are there not ?"
Eleven !" ejaculated Mrs. W. in un-
feigned surprise.
"Eleven !" said the husband, with more
rebuke than astonishment in his voice.
••Is it possible, sir, that you do not know
how many commandments there are'
How many are there, Charter:' Come,
tell me—you know, of course."
"Ten," replied the child.
"Right, my son," returned Mr. W., look
ing with a smile of approval on the child.
"right" There isn't a child of his age
in ten miles, that can tell you there are
ten comniandtnents
"I)id yon ever read the Bible sir ?" ad
dressing the stranger.
"When I was a little boy I used to read
it sometimes. But lam sure I thought
there were eleven commandments. Are
you nut mistaken about there being, only
teu ?"
Sister \V. lifted her hands in utter as
tonishmnt and exclaimed—
"Could any one believe there was such
ignorance of the Bible."
w aid nob but rose, and go
ing to oIIC corner of the ,m,lll %111,sc
good hook lay upon a small stand, he put
it on the table before liim, and opened at
that portion in which the commandmen ts
are recorded.
-There," he said. placing his finger up
on the proof of the stranger's error.
—There! look fur roursvlf."
Mr. W. came round from his side of the
table and looked over the stranger's shoul
der.
'There! ten d'ye see r
"Yes, i` does sliy so," replied the man :
"and yet there seems to me there are elev
en, I'm sure I always thought so."
"Doesn't it say ten here?" with marked
impatience in his voice.
••It does certainly."
what more do von want? Can't
you believe the Bible ?" -
"Oh yes, 1 believe the Bible; and yet it
strikes me somehow there must be eleven
commandments. Hasn't one been added
somewhere etse?"
Now this was too much for brother and
sister W. to hear. Such ignorance of sa
cred matters they felt to be unpardonable.
A long lecture followed. in which the
man was scolded, admonished and threat
ened with divine indignation. At its
close lie modestly asked if he might not
have the Bible to read an hour or two be
fore retiring for the night. This request
was granted with more pleasure than any
of the preceding ones.
Shortly after supper the man was con
ducted to a small square room, accompa
nied by the Bible. Before leaving hint
alone Mr. W. found it to be his duty to
exhort him to spiritual things, and he did
so most earnestly for the next fifteen min
utes. But he could not see that his words
made much impression, and lie finally left
his guest, lamenting his obduracy and
ig
norauce.
In the morning be came down,. and
meeting Mr. W. asked if he would be so
kind as to lend him a razor, that he
might remove his beard, which did not
give his face a very attractive appearance.
His request was complied with.
"We will have prayer in about ten min
utes," said Mr. W. as he handed him the
razor and shaving box.
The man appeared and behaved with
due propriety at, family worship. After
breakfast he thanked the farmer and his
wife for their hospitality, and parting,
went on his journey.
Ten o'clock came, but Mr. N. had not
arrived. So Mr. and Mrs. W. started for
the meeting house, not doubting that they
would find him there. But they were
disappointed. A goodly number of peo
ple were inside the meeting house, and a
good number outside, but the minister
had not arrived.
"Where is Mr. N.?" inquired a dozen
voices, as a crowd gathered around the
farmer.
."Ile hasn't come yet. Something has
detained him. But I still look for him—
indeed, I fully expected to find him here."
The day was cold, and Mr. W., after be
coming thoroughly•chilled, concluded to
beep a good look out for the minister from
the window near which he usually sat
(others, from the same cause, followed his
example, and the little meeting house was
soon filled, and one after another came
dropping in. The farmer, who turned to
wards the door each time it was opened,
was a little surprised to see his guest of
the previous night enter, and come slowly
down the isle, looking on either side as if
searching for.a vacant seat, very few of
which were newieft. Still advaneing2 he
finally ilot within thalittle , erielowd alter,
and ascending to the pulpit, took off his How to Write Letters.
old gray overcoat and sat down. The subject ofreducing letter postage
By this time Mr. NV.' was by his side, to a uniform rate of one cent is in agita
and had his hand upon his arm. Lion, and the discussion makes itprobable
"You musn't sit here. Come down and I that the change'will be accomplished one
I will show you a sent," he said. in - an ex- of these days. And when this is effected,
cited tone. the last plea for the frankling privilege
"Thank you," replied the man in a will be abolished. A letter that is "not
composed voice. "It's very comfortable worth a cent," need not be franked, cer
here. And the man remained, immov- thinly. Meanwhile it occurs to us to ques
able. tion whether the mails are used half so
Mr. W. feeling embarrassed, went down
intending to get a brother "official" to as
sist him in making a forcible ejection of
the man from the place he was desecrat
ing, immediately upon his doing so, how
ever, the man rose, and standing up at
the desk, opened the hymn book. His
voice thrilled to the fin g er ends of brother
W., as in a distinct and impressive man
ner he gave out the hymn beginning—
" Help us to help each other, Lord,
Each other's cross to bear ;
Let each his friendly aid afford,
And feel a brother's care"
The congregatien rose after the stran
ger had'read the entire hymn, and had
repeated the first two lines for them to
sing. Brother W. usually started the
tunes. He tried this time, but went off
with a lung metre tune. Discovering his
mistake at the second word, he balked
and tried it again, but now he stumbled
on a short metre. A musical brother
came to his aid, and led off with the tnne
that suited the measure in which the
hymn was written. •
After singing, the congregation kneeled,
and the minister—for no one doubted his
real character—addressed the Throne of
Grace with much fervor and eloquence.
The reading of a chapter in
~the Bible
succeeded. Then there was a deep pause
throughout the room in anticipation of
the text, which the preacher prepared to
announce.
Brother W. looked pale, and his hands
and his knees trembled. Sister \V.'s face
looked like crimson, and her heart was
beating so loud that she wondered wheth
er, the sound was not heard by the sister
who sat beside her. There was a breath
less silence. The dropping of a pin might
have been heard. Then the fine emphat
ic tones of the preacher filled the crowd
ed room :
"A new commandment I give unto you,
that ye lore one another."
Brother W. had bent forward to listen, I
hut now he had sunk back in his seat.'
This was the Eleventh Commandment.
'File sermon was deep, searching, yet
affectionate and impressive. The preach
cr uttered nothing that could in the least
wound the brother and sister of whose'
hospitality he had partaken, but he said
much that smote upon their hearts, and
made them painfully conscious that they
had not shown as much kindness to the
stranger as he had been, entitled. to reeei Ye
pnncipies of humanityd
on the prowl
suffered most from mortification
of feeling. To think that they had treat
ed
the Presiding Elder of the District;
after such a fashion was deeply humiliat i.
-
ing; and the idea of the whole affair get
ting
abroad, interfered sadly with their!
devorkinal feeling, throughout the whole
period of service.
At last the sermon was over, the ordi
nance administered, and the benediction
pronounced. Brother NV. did not know
what it was best for him to do. Ile nev
er was more at a loss in his life. When
Mr. N. descended from the pulpit, he did
not step forward to meet him, for how
could he do that ? Others gathered
around and shook hands with him, but
still he lingered and held back.
"Where is brother W—?" he at length
heard asked. It was the voice of the
minister.
"Here lie is," said one or A l b, opening
the way to where the farmer stood.
The preacher advanced, and catching
his hand, said:
"How do you do, brother W., lam glad
to see you. And where is sister W.?
Sister W. was brought forward, and the
preacher shook hands with her heartily,
while his face was lit up with smiles.
"I believe I am to find a home with
. you," he said, as if it was settled.
Before the still embarrassed brother
and sister could make a reply, some one
asked :
"How came you to be detained so late?
You were expected last night. And where
is brother IL ?"
"Brother IL is sick," replied Mr. N.,
"and I have come alone. Five miles from
this my horse gave out, and I had. to come
the rest of the way on foot. But I be
came so cold and Weary that I found it
necessary to ask a farmer not far from
here to give me a night's lodging, which
he was kind enough to do. I thought
was still three miles off, but it happened
that I was very much nearer my jour
ney's end than I supposed."
This explanation was satisfactory to all
parties and in due time the congregation
dispersed, and the Presiding, Elder went
home with brother and sister W. One
thing is certain, however; the story never
g - ot out until some years after the worthy
brother and sister had passed from their
labors, and it was dien related by Mr. N.
himself, who was rather eccentric in his
character, and, like numbers of his min
isterial brethren, fond of jokes and much
given to relating good stories.
" Mrs. 11—," exclaimed a little urchin,
running into a neighbor's house, "moth
er wanted me to ask would you please
lend'er yor candle moulds?"
The moulds were given him and he ran
home. In a few minutes he returned with
this query :
" Mother wants to know if ye'd be kind
enough to lender some wickin ?"
The wicking was measured out and he
went home with it, but soon reappeared
and said :
" Mother would be, so thankful if ye'd
lend'er a little taller ?"
-
Mrs. R. good naturedly produced the
desired article, and as till) boy started for
the door, she dded
" Wouldn't your mother like to have
me come over and mould the candles for
her ?"
" Wal, yes," replied the boy. "I'd reck
on she'd like it fast rate, cos she said did
not understand if very well; bat she don't
like to be troublin bee neighbors, • sowbe
wouldn't sek,-ye."
VOLUME XXVII; NUMBER 19.
freely is they should be.—Are there not
thousands of people who might write, and
ought to do it, but neglect it. A Single
line from an absent friend or connexion
would often save anxiety, if not pain and
unhappiness, But with many persons
writing is a dreaded task; and here are
others who invest the. act of pennnig a
letter with such au air of formality' that '
they dislike to touch pCii to paper. Writ
ing should be as easy as talking in'a land
of cheap postage and free schools. But it
is - very well after all to be more careful
bow you write than how you speak: and
the habit of writing letters reacts on ex
pression in conversation, making speech
more guarded and correct. A good letter
writer is generally a good talker. 3lany
letters are - very unsatisfactory, from the
neglect of a few obvious rules. Parhaps
our readers will tolerate the recapitulation
or a few simple hints upon matters small,
but really important. Nobody now heeds
all the minor rules that should be ob
' served, though everbody's letter would be
more satisfhctory for attention even to
minute particulars.
First, then, as to date. If you live where
streets are numbered, give street and num
ber as well as the town, and if in the
country give post-office, county and State.
The day of the week, as well as the day of
the month and the year should be speci
fied. Much may depend on a date, and
the day of the week often serves to verify
or correct a careless figure. Write your
signature carefully, legibly and fully.
Form the habit, and care is as easy as
carelessness. To a friend who knows your
wsiting no signature is necessary. But a
stranger is ofter puzzled by the hopeless
ambiguity of the marks which are sup
posed to represent a man's name. Be par
ticular about the direction also, giving in
writing exact and easily read the resident
of your correspondent. And next as to
subject matter. If business, let it he clear
ly expressed. If yours is the opening let
ter, state intellig,bly what you wish to pro
pose; anticipating such inquiries as your
correspondent will probably desire to have
answered. If your letter is a reply to
another, let your correspondent see what
is your understanding of his letter: In
the careful times of our forefathers, a let
usually commenced with a recapitulation
of the points to be replied to. We can
hardly expect such exactness in these days
of hurry; ba,t whero there is any chance to
understand a thing in two ways, your cor
capots.lcut eh-tn. Id tie aitIVISOCI wilier way
you apprehend his words. Do not travel
out of the record to say nn necessary things,
which you may be called upon to substan- '
tiate. And while paper, envelopes, and
postage are so cheap, do not mix business
and gossip.
Apropos, of gossip. In writing friend.
ly letters, time permitting say all the pleas
ant
things you can of persons mntally
known to you and your correspondent
But whatever gall is in your ink chemi
! cally, metaphorically keep all bitterness !
out. Never scold by post, for the bitter !
! letter may be the last you will write, or
your friend may die, before von have the
oppertunity by personal magnetism to re
move the cruel effect of unkind words
written.—Harsh writting has a horrid
look; and things which you may speak
without offence, when written, seems nu
pardonable. Above all except in cases of
absolute necessity, do not write ill of a
third persons, or put your hand to a • let
ter which may make mischief past remedy.
It is unsafe to talk badly about people,
much more to write about them in that
style. The letter is the vow place for
egotism. If you think a person wishes to
hear from you, yon may justly conclude
that he desire to hear and to know all
about you. Show yonre interest in your
correspondent by inquires and comments
concerning him and his; but do yourself
the justice to suppose that he is interested
in you also. ConTey information about
wh‘atever concerns yon, if the subject be a
proper one to write about at all, talk on
paper as you talk by word of month.
But remember always that there are some
things which never should be written,
though they may be spoken. Words are
forgotten, but the written lerter remains.
The art of letter-writing should receive
more attention than it nsually obtains in
schools. What is milled "composition" is
often the merest waste of time. The un
lucky pupil does not know what to say, or
how to say it Let him or her he required,
instead, to write a letter to somebody, once
a week, and a facility and correctness will
be acquired which will be useful through
life. An object is before the writer of a
letter definite and distinct; while in too
many cases a school "composition" is a
dreary waste of words, or a childish bur
lesque upon authorship. Few compara
tively, write for the press. All should
write letters. And whoever can succeed
in epirtolary writing, can also turn his
mind to any other style of composition.
For a good letter has in it the best ele
ments of-every other form of writing.—
Philn. Ledger.
The Realities of a Battle
The sights and sounds of a battle are
well-nigh indescribable. Noise, tumult,
danger, excitment, all blend together to
make a scene which I think can have no
parallel on either side of the infernal re-'
von& During his first battle, perhaps
the novelty of the thing may till the recruit
with genuine enthusiasm, and pat fear in
the back ground; but after that be will
find the poetry of the battle-fiejd some
what overdone in "Hohenlinden," and
fighting itself rather a prosaic and danger
one butcheiL There is nothing less like
a pageant, I verily believe than a battle.
The awns are not polished and shiny now,
for the dew of last night's bivouac in the
grass has - tarnished , them; very plain
blouse have ta4eu the place of straight
bodied; oeisetlixiats ; belts are: *limed,
or in . the fury of the4lghtare throw *side
AltogethtiVihmilderi*B i ad 1506sta
pre 0* iesarpsi,out of wholsome'itgerdlir
the enemy's sharpshooters; and after the
fight has progressed an hoar, yon will find
those who are still fighting, dirty, grimy,
and laboring to kill the enemy with about
as hard manual labor as you wood-saner
employs on your wood-pile :
'%A.ed like smiths at their form
Labored the red BalmGeorgo's cannonnegre
—Lippineotes Magazine.
THE LITTLE FLOWER'S DEATH.
DT UNCLE - EDIVARD.
ThPre teas bom; in the morn,
A pretty little Hower;
It was weary—night was dreary
•
In the stifled room,
Where-Sa day of doom
Seemed but to dawn with the day of Its birth ;
0, but it felt it would give all of earth .
Just for the dash of a shower.
Then there came—'twas a shame—
A man with a whisky breath ;
O'er its dimples, he with pimples,
Placed his poison nose,
And the pretty rose
Under his breath, that was fevered and hot,
Folded its petals and sank in its pot,
Struck with the palsy of death.
The Cherokee Rose.
The legend of the Cherokee Rose Is as
pretty as the flower itself. An Indian
chief, of the Seminole tribe, was taken
prisoner by his enemies, the Cherokees,
and doomed to torture, but fell so serious
ly ill that it became necessary to wait for
his restoration to health before oommiting
him to the fire. And as he lay prostrated
by disease in the cabin of the Cherokee
warrior, the daughter of the latter, a
young, dark faced maiden, was his nurse.
She tell in love with the young chieftain,
and, wishing to save his life, urged him
to escaped; but he would not do so unless
she would flee with htm, She consented.
Yet before she had gone far, impelled by
soft regret at leaving home, she asked per
mission of her lover to return, for the pur
pose of bearing away some memento of it.
So retracing her footsteps, she broke a
sprig from the white rose which climbed
1 -up the poles of her father's tent, and pre
serving it during her flight through the
wilderness, planted it.hy the door of her
new home in the land" ef the Seminoles.
And from that day this beautiful flower
has always be en known, between the capes
of Florida and throughout the Southern
States, by the name of the Cherokee 'rose.
Our Public Domain
The public domain of the United States
since the purchase of Alaska, embraces 1,-
4-16,716,072 acres, or more than 2,837,882
square miles. There have been granted
out of this last domain 412,688,262 acres
to purchasers and homestead settler's, for
military rarvi..,e, agricultural colleges,
11io1 atol in Lenin improvements,
schools. Indians. public buildings, &c.—
, There remained unsold on the 30th of
June, 18I;S, 1,405,3613,678 acres, or more
than 2,195,000 square mile& Since that
j time large "rants have been made to the
different Pacific Railroad Companies and
others, to the extent ofabout 100,000,000
acres.
extraordinary incident has
just occurred at Lerida, Spain. The bank
er, Jose Nunez, had two strong rooms,one
in ordinary use, and the other which was
only had recourse to when heavy pay
ments in gold had to be made. Original
ly two keys were provided for the latter
but some time ago one of them was lost.
A few days ago a necessity" existed to vis
it this reserved safe, and to the intense as
tonishment of the cashier he found a key
in the lock. He immediately informed
his employer, and the two' together open
! ed the door, when they found insidelbe
corpse of a man who had formerly been
I employed in the bank. He had probably
stolen the key, and visited the depository
with, the intention of robbery, but ihe,
door had accidentally closed, and as it fas
tened with a spring he had died misera
bly in the midst of the wealth he had de
sired to appropriate.
—A gentleman was chiding his son for
staving out late at night, and said : - "Why,
when I was of your age, my father would
not allow me to go out of the house after
dark." "Then you hud a deuce of a fa
ther, you had," sneered the young profli
gate. The father vociferated, "I had a
confounded si , rht better one than you, yon
young rascal!?
—" John Pliceuix" once hailed a Ger.!'
man who was driving a baker's wagon on
Montgomery streat, San Francisco, with
"Iloilo ! Tit take one." "Vat you take ?"
Said Teuton, pulling up. "A baked ea
gle," said Plicenix, pointing to "Eagle
Bakery" painted on the wagon. The Ger
man preserved his reason by swearing in
English, and driving ou quick.
—A Nashville reporter,rapturously
asks. "What heart has not thrilled to
the silvery silence which succeeds sweet.
music when the delicate harmonies that
had ceased to vibrate on the car were re
peated, and each share of melodious mean
ing translated to the inner sense l" A
hand organ was the provocation.
—The modern girl of itio period lives
in Layfazette, Ind. She wears with pride
—and a just pride too, a dress made up of
material woven by her own fair hands.
She is still unmarried.
—An Irishman attending a Quaker
meeting, heard a young Friend make the
following announcement: "Brethern And
sisters, ISm going to marry a daughter
of the Lord." "The devil ve are" said
Pat; "faith and be jabers and it will be a
long time before yell' see yer
law 1"
A Slight misunderstanding.4t a tem
perance meeting number of ladies who
desired to throw their influence on the
right side, came up to sign the pledge
when aeon of Erin exclaimed : "Be ger
ml who would think so many fine lopk
ing.Yankee women drink?"
—Hopes and cares, anxieties and fears
divida Aar; life.
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