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E. B. HAWLEY, Proprietor.
§usintso Carib.
LITTLES & 111LAIKESLEB,
m=orrt dame at TAW. Ocoee the one
ceelligeft by U.B. O. P. Little, on Ilieln
Week liestabee, Pa. (April 10.
I. &Lem& " 610. r. MILL B. a IILAWMIUM
B. ICKINTLI. C. C. Facreoe, W. 11. McCann.
i11ie1k1632113, rAusar ac CO.
Dealers In Dry Goods, Clothing, Ladles and Misses
Ise Mines. Mao, agents for the great American
..renew Cadres Onapsuy. [Montrose. Pa., ap.1:76,
CHARLES N. STODDARD,
Dealer In,Boota and Shoal. Hata and Capt. Leather and
?Wings Wain Street. VI door below Searle'. Hotel.
Work lathe to order, and repairing done neatly.
Maktaosa. Jan, I. MO.
LEWIS KNOLL,
BRAVING -AND HAIR DRESSING.
Obey In the new Postale., building, where he will
be karat ready to attend ail who may saint anything
In Ids Rms. Montrose, Pa. Oct. IS, ISM
P. REVNOILDS,
AUCTIONEER--SelleDry Goods, and Iterebas
Meads at Vendlin. MI olden left at my home will
maitre preempt attention. bet. 1, Itall—tf
0. N. HAWLEY,
DEALER In DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, CROCKERY
Broderare, Hate, Cap, Boota.Khoes, Reedy Made Cloth
tag, Paints, Oar, ere., New Milford, Pa. Pent. 8, 'GO
DR. 8. W. DAYTON,
IPAYSIMAN - 1. BURGEON, tenders ht. Perelees to
the enlaces of Great Beod and vicinity. Office at bin
residence, oppoalte Barman House, 0 . 1 Bend Tillage.
Sept. ISt. t ,'—ti
LAW OFFICE
rnalangatnir a moCOLLILTM. Attorneys and Cnon•
senors at. Law. Orace In the Brick Block over the
Bank. [Montrose Ang. 4. it
•. Ltuaaasu.ttt. . - J. B. McCot.t.ca.
A. & D. R. LATHROP,
DEALERS in Dry Goods, Groceries,
crockery and glassware, table and pocket enticev.
Patois, oils, dye stak►, Hate. boots and shoes, eolr
leather. Perfumery be. Brick Block, adjoining the
Bank. Montrose. Magnet a, ha39.—lf
A. Lannon, - D. H. Laumor.
A. 0. WARREN,
ATTOILIWET A . LAW. Bounty, Back Pay. Pewter,.
and Brew on Claim. attended to. 0111 re d
oer below Boyd'', Store, Montrore.Pa. [Au. 1,'69.
W. W. WATSON,
ATTORNEY UT LAW, Montrose, Pa. Other with L
P. Pitch. [Montrose, Aug. ,I, IS/Z.
31. C. SUTTON,
Auctioneer, and Insurance Agent,
sal MI Pelendevtlle, P..
E. S. GILBERT,
41..ta.coldlerarttsez".
Great. Bend, Pa.
171. Ig.
sale Pitt
AMA ELV,
Q. MI. ..A.111.13410131.002".
Ayr. I. JIM. Address, IBTooklyn, Pa
3011% GROVES,
11SMONABLE TAROS, Montrose, Ps. shop over
Chandler's Store. Ali orders tilled In first-rale style.
a amine done on short noUrt. and warranted to
W. W. SMITH,
cwaltrurr AND CHAIR MANUFACTIMERI3.—IrnoI
wr Ilali area. / 1 1.!Arose. PL. law. 1. MS.
B. BURRITT,
DILLLEIttn Staple and Fancy Dry Good.. Crockery
laardware, Iron, Stoves, Dra VI. 01Is.and !Paints,
Bootrand Shoes. Hato & Caw , . Fury, Buffalo Robes.
areardei , Provisions. GA., New Yilford, Pa.
DU. E. P. HINES.
lac permanently located at !Mandeville for the par
PON of practicing medicine and moray in all its
brandies. He rimy be bland at the Jackson Bonne.
Wild hour. tram a a_ as., to tt p. m.
PrlitadarWa. Aug. 1. 1169.
fiTROUD It BROWN,
TIRE AND LIFE I:7I3:JAA SCE AGENTS. Al!
business attended to prompti), on fair terms. Of.
d rst door north of • Moran.. Hotel," west
l oldo
rablle Aryan., Montrose, Pa.
• surnos srtonn. - - ILlturctits L. Drumm
JOEL'S SAIITTEII,
sursrearruLLY anoonnees that he is 0.,w pit
pared to eat all kinds of Garments In the zoos.
bahlonable Style, warranted to St with elegance
Ed seas. Shop over the Post Orem. Montrose. Pa.
WM D. LUSH,
•TTO&ABY AT LAW, Montrose. I's. ,Oftleo oppo.
stveltio Sobel' House, nom the Court if se.
An=. 1. 11169.—tf
DD. W. W. SMITH.
DENTIST. Dooms over Boyd i Corvrin's Bard
ware Stem Ocoee boars from ll a. go. to 4 o.m.
Montrose, Ang. 1, 1659.-11 _
ABEL TERRELL,
D RALIK In Drugs, Patent Dedicines„ Chemicals
Liquors, Mute. Giin. o lv Studs. Tsrnh'he.• Win '
Glass, Groceries, Glass Ware, Wall and Window Pa,
per,Eitoneurare, Lamps. Kerosene. lisebintir Olio,
Gunk Ammunition, Knives, Spectacles
Drashes, Finer Goods, Jewelry, Perin ,• -r,
La.—
being tone orate molt nomerods, extensive, and
valuable collections of Goods In Susquehanna
Zstabllshed In 160. [Montrose, Pa.
D. W. SEABLF,
ATTOMMET AT LAW. office over the Store of A.
Lathrop, to the Beek Block, Montrose, Pa. [aurG9
DU. W. L. RICiIARDSON,
PISTSICL&N & BURGEON, tesulers his profession.]
ferried to the eltistrus of lionnose and vicinity.-
015ce u his resitlenee, coo the corner east of Sayre &
Brow. laundry. (Aug. 1. 1e69.
DR. E. L. GAD.DICER,
PIITSICLUir and BIIIIGEON. Montrose., Pa. Miser
.*pedal attention to disease* of the Heart and
Lamas and all itnegical diseases. °Moe over W. B.
Dun., Batas at tleatle's Hotel. [Aug. 1. IBM
DITIONS & NICHOLS,
Das. 4RB A a Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals. Dye
s! ads. Pa Oils, Varnish. Liquors, Spices. Fancy
set.crea, Pate Medicines, Perfumery and Toilet Ar
ticles. gsrPreareptleas carotally compounded.—
Pantie Aventie,above tlearle`a Motel, Montrose. Ps
A. B. Bawls, .. Amos Mimosa.
Aug. 1, ISO.
DR. E. L. HANDRICIE,
PETIIICIAN & SURGEON. respectfully tender* hi
professional services to the citizen of Priendoelll.
and eictutty. israllee lothe office of Dr. Lee ,
Boards at J. llosford's. Aug. I, UM.
PROF. MORRIS,
The Hayti Barbee. returns hie thanks for the kind pat
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mane thralls, enabled hlat to pet the best ma—ft !
ba I hwy . 's& time to tell the whole stony. bat tome
and see Ow news tOdrlst the Old Stand. Ito toad
Isadditp In the shop. [April ta. 11370.
DENTISTRY.
those in want of false Teeth or other dental work
sheen! lan at the Mike of the retweribens. who are pre
pared todo all kinds af work Meets line on abort o•
Pertkitler *lteration paid to making foil and l
setts el teeth we gold. s&er, or aluminum plate ;
Westaa's etc companies' ; the two latter reeDnable to
an of limerbewer sabslanoes now used for dental prates.
seramentglatnettel regalred. and made Moon to
nattall slap&
The adweetags t wans e itt, 7 ,k. dorm by Perwilorrollio•
ailed and eurpcsalides must be appareled to
All went Plane call and examine coed.
maw aphis wort at air tam. over Boyd* Co's bard
oars Mote.
W. W. SMITH BBOTHEIL
Hontram, ura.—tr
GOLD JEWTF;LEY.
• IStormal
_lagspfiapstly.
aoatronltow. ft, Rim. ABEL TVERELL.
fort', foram
0,114414211• I,
WomtemaPit Eiftilsla
DX G. V. LTOX.
Why b all this ceaselea clamor,
Swelling (mild through tan Wad ?
Why was raised that atarlees banner,
Flaunting by bustle hand?
Behold! what means, so bold haeribed,
That " Woman's Rights," Immndifled I
Listen the Interpretation,
Outflowing from Sorosis, dread :
" Woman would Improve her station,
By assuming man's Instead.
Not only equal, but excel
As would prove the sequel well."
" Doctor, Lawyer, Judge ar Jury,
AU offices perfbrm with grace ;
Politics, harangue with fkrr3r,
Aspire to Congress—no disgrace—
In brief, dethrone fell terror's reign,
And the world redeem again."
And each this creed, its test and tenor,
From viragos, who lead the van
In wild crusade,•and saint and sinner,
The chastest white, and black, and tan
May Join all with magic wand,
And flying colors—happy land ?
Woman, pure angelic woman,
how expressive is the word,
Something more divine than human,
Language sweeter who has heard?
Woman, beautithi, lovely, true—
Woman, wise, and as mcdest too,
He for valor, contemplation,
She for sweet, attractive grace."
England's bard thus on relation
Of man and woman, and the place
Assigned to each by Nature's God,
Which disobey and feel His rod.
Woman, not that thou art lower,
And in creation less than man,
Do I thus thy rightful power
Deny, to change the present plan,
For I would give all their due,
When profit would thereby accrue
But sure, because far more relined
And delicate thou an, than he,
Endowed like him with noble mind,
But different in quality ;
Bence, "Womanaßighta" would thee abuse,
Ulyases' bow thou couldat not are,
Oh ! woman, them heed no appeal,
TWA would thee turn from home, sweet
home,
ILO heaven designed It for thy weal,
Nor spurn it and unsheltered roam.
Remember Eden's fruit and fa!l,
And touch not this, nor ruin all.
Nearer Home.
One sweetly solemn thought,
('ome to me o'er and o'er—
I'm neartw home to-day
Than ever I've been before.
Naves' my &thee' home,
Where the mansions be;
Nearer the great white Throne—
Nearer the Jasper sea.
Nearer the bounds of life,
Where we lay our burdens down ;
Nearer leaving the MU,
Nearer gaining the crown.
But lying darkly between,
Winding down through the night.
In the dim and unknown stream
That leads me at last to light.
Closet, &we: my steps
Come to the dark abysm.
Closer . death to my lips
Posses the awful chrism.
Father, perfect my trust,
Strengthen the night of my faith ;
Let me feel as I would when I Mad
On the rock of the shore of death.
Feel as I would when my het
Are slipping on the brink ;
For it may be Fm nearer home,
Nearer now than I think•
VARIETIES.
—The back door bell--a pretty kitch
en maid.
—Calico scrap books are a young fern
ine freak.
—Working on the Duca—running a
medical college.
Blunderbuss—kissing the wrong wo
man.
—A good role—back your friends, and
face your enemies.
—lron is a tonic when 2,400 lbs. of it
are taken at once.
—Yun (=not preserve happy domestic
pairs in family jars.
—Song for the herring fishermen : 'Roe
brothers, Roe.'
—A son of a gun is supposed to be one
of the old stock.
—Does a large mouth constitute an
open countenance.
—The man who carries everything be
fore him—the waiter.
—The two kings that rule in America ,
jo-king and smo-king.
—One that an importunate office beg
gar am always get—" get out."
The most useful thing after all in the
lung run—breath.
—When are some comic papers sharp
est ?—w h en they are filed.
—Paper moslin—any attempt to re
strain the freedom of the press.
—Of all the laws of trade none find
greater WI:1r than the buy-laws
—The dearest on earth—the store
where they do not advertise.
—Why have widows the right to flirt ?
Because the Bible says the widow's mite.
—Justifiable atingirudging a
friend the right to laugh at our expense.
MONTROSE, PA., WEANESPAX, . NOV.:
_.9,
Pistelintous.
Murk Toren on the new Crime.
This country, during the last thirty or
forty years, has produced some of the
Most remarkable cases of insanity of
which there is any mention in history.
For instance, there was the Baldwin case,
in Ohio, twenty-two years ago. Baldwin
from boyhood up, had been of a vindictive,
malignant, quarrelsome nature. He put
a boy's eye out once, and never was heard
upon any occasion to utter a regret for it.
Ile did many such things. Rift at last
he did something that was serious. He
called at a house, just after dark, one
evening, knocked, and when the occupant
came to the door, shot him dead, and
then tried to escape, but was captured.
Two days before, he had wantonly insult
ed a helpless cripple, and the man he af
terwards took sweet vengence upon, and
with an assassin bullet knocked him
down. Such was the Baldwin case. The
trial was long and exciting; the com
munity was fearfully wrought up. Men
said this spritful, bad-hearted villain had
caused grief enough in his time and now
he should satisfy the law. But they were
mistaken. Baldwin was insane when he
did the deed—they bad not thought of
that. By the arguments of counsel it was
shown that at IWO in the morning on
the day of the murder, Baldwin became
insane and remained so for eleven hours
and a half exactly. This just covered the'
case comfortably, and be was acquitted.
Thus, if an unthinking and excited corn-
munity had been listened to instead of
the arguments or counsel, a poor, crazy
creature would have been held to a fearful
responsibility for a mere freak of mad
ness. Baldwin went clear, and although
his relatives and friends were naturally
incensed against the community for their
injurious suspicions and remarks, they
said let us go for this time, and cense
sequently did not pnnsocuto. Tlso
Hold
wme were very wealthy. The same Bald
win had momentary fits of insanity twice
afterward, and on both occaasions killed
People he had grudges against. And on
both these occasions the circumstances of
killing were so aggravated, and the murd
ers so seemingly heartless and treacherous,
that if Baldwin had not been insane he
would have been hanged without the
shadow of a doubt. As it was, it requir
ed all his political and family influence
to get him clear in one of the awes, and
cost him not less than 81,000 to get clear
in the other. One of these men he had
notoriously been threatening to kill for
twelve years. The poor creature, hap
pened, by the merest piece of ill-fortune,
to come. along a dark alley at the very
moment that Baldwiu's insanity came up
on him, so he was shot in the back with a
gun loaded with slugs. It was exceeding
ly fortunate for Baldwin that his insanity
came on him Just when it did.
Take the case of Lynch Hackett, of
Pennsylvania. Twice, in public, he at
tacked a German butcher by the name of
Bemis Fiddlier, with a cane and both
times Feldner whipped him with his fists.
Hackett was a vain, wealthy, violent, gen
tleman, holding blood and family in high
esteem and believed that a reverent respect
was due his great riches. He brooded
over the shame of his chastisement for
two weeks, and then, in a momentary fit
of insanity, armed himself to the teeth,
rode into town, waited a couple of hours
until he saw Feldner coming down the
street with his wife on his arm, and then,
as the coupleparaed the doorway in which
he had partially concealed himself, he
drove a knife into Feldner's neck killing
him instantly The widow caught the
limp form and eased it to the earth.
Both were drenched with blood. Hack
ettjocosely remarked to her that as a
professional butcher's recent wife, she
could appreciate the artistic neatness of
the job that left her in a condition to
marry again, in case she wanted to.
This remark, and another, which he made
to a friend, that his position in society
made the killing of an obscure citizen
simply an "eccentrcity" instead of a crime,
were shown to be evidence of instanity
and Hackett escaped punishment. The
jury were hardly inclined to accept these
as proofs, at first, inasmuch as the prison
er had never been insane before the mur
der and under the tranquilizing effect of
the butcherin g had immediately regained
his right min d—but when the defense
came to show that a third cousin of
Hackett's wife's step-father was insane,
and not only insane, but had a nose the
very counterpart of Hackett's it was plain
that insanity was hereditary in the family
and that Racket had come by it by legiti
matel inheritance. Of course the jury
1 then acquitted him. But it was a merci
ful providence that Mrs. Hackett's peo
ple bad been afflicted as shown, else
Hackett would certainly have been hang
ed.
However, it is not possible to account
for all the marvellous cases of insanity
that have come under the public apace
iu the last thirty or forty years. There
was the Durgin case, in Is ew Jersey, three
years ago. The servant girl, Bridget
Durgin, at dead of night, invaded her
mistress bedroom and carved the lady
literally to pieces with a knife. Then she
dragged the body to the middle of the
floor and beat and banged it with chairs
and such things. Nest she opened the
feather beds and strewed the contents
around, saturated everything with kero
sence and set fire to the general wreck.
She now took the young child of the
murdered woman in her blood smeared
hands and walked off through the snow,
with no shoes on, to a neighbor's house,
a quarter of a mile off, and told a string
of wild, incoherent stories about some
men coming and setting fire to the house;
and then she cried piteously, and without
seeming to think there was anything sug
gestive about the blood upon her hands,
her clothing and the baby, volunteered
the remark that she wag afraidthese men
had murdered her mistress! Afterward,
by her own confession and other testi
mony, it was proved- that the mistress
had always been kind to the girl ; Conse
quently there was no revenge in the
murder, and it was also shown that the
girl took nothing away from the burning
house, not even her own shoes, and con
sequently robbery was not the motive.
NoW the reader says, "Here comes that
same old plea of insanity again." But
theseaderhas deceived himself this time.
No arch plea was offered in her defence.
The judge sentenced her, nobody per
secuted the Governor with petitions for
her pardon, and she was promptly hang
ed.
There was that youth in Pennsylvania,
whose curious confession was published a
year ago. It was simply ts conglomeration
of incoherent drivel from beginning to
end—and so was his lengthy speech on
the scaffold afterward. For a whole year
he was haunted with a desire to disfigure
a certain young woman so that no one
would marry her. He did not love her
himself, and he did not want to marry
her, and yet was opposed to anybody else's
escorting her.' On one occasion he de
clined to go to a wedding with her and
when she got other company, lay in wait
for the couple by the road, intending to
make them go buck or kill the escort.
After spending sleepless nights over his
rulling desire for a full year, he at last
attempted its execution—that is attempt
ed to disfigure the young woman. It was
a success. It was permanent. In trying
to shoot her cheek (as she sat at the sup
per table with her parents and brother
and sister)in such a manner as to mar:its
comeliness, one of his bullets wandered a
little out of the course, and she dropped
dead. The very last moment of his life
he bewailed the ill luck that made her
move at the critical moment. And so he
died apparently half persuaded that some
how it was chiefly her own fault that she
got killed. This indict was hanged.
The plea of insanity was not offered.
The recent case of Lady Mordannt, in
England, had proved beyond cavil that
the thing we call common prostitution in
America, is only insanity in Great Britian.
Her husband wanted a divorce, but as her
cheerful peculfaritirs were the offspring of
lunaey, and consequently she could not
be held responsible for them, he had to
take iscr :wain. it is sad to
think of a dozen or two English iJorus
taking advantage of a poor crazy woman.
In this country, if history be worth any
thing to judge by, the husband would
have rented a graveyard and stocked it.
and then brought the divorce suit after
ward. In which case the jury would
have brought him in insane, not his wife.
Insanity is certainly on the increase in
the world, and crime is dying out. There
are no longer any murders—none worth
mentioning, at any rate. Formerly, if
you killed a man, it was possi
ble that you were insane; but now,
if you kill a man, it is evidence that you
are a lunatic. In these days, too, if a per
son of good family and high social stand
ing steals anything, they call itkleptoman
ia and send him to the lunatic asylum.
If a person of high standing squanders
his fortune in dissipation, and closes his
career with strychnine or a bullet, "tem
porary aberration" is what was the mat
ter with him. And finally, as before not
ed, the list is capped with a new and
curious madness iu the shape of whole
sale adultry.
Is not this insanity plea becoming
rather common ? Is it not so common
that the reader cotfidently expects to
see it offered in every criminal case that
comes before the courts ? And is it not
so cheap, and so common, and often 80
trivial, that the reader smiles derision
when the newspapers mention it? And
is it not curious to note bow very often
it wins acquittal for the prisoner? TAtte
ly it does not seem possible for a man to
so conduct himself, before killing another
man, as not to be manifestly insane. If
he talks about the stars, he is insane. If
he appears nervous and uneasy an hour
before the killing, he is insane. If he
weeps over a great grief, his friends shake
their heads fear that he is "not right." If,
an hour after the murder, he seems ill at
ease, preoccupied and excited, he is un
questionably insane.
Really, what we want now is not a law
against crime, but a law against insanity.
There is where the true evil lies.
And the penalty attached should be
imprisonment, not hanging. Then it
might be worth the trouble and expense
of trying the General Coleses and the
General Sickleses, becamev juries might
lock them tip for brief terms, in deference
to the majesty of the law • but it is not
likely that any of us will live to see the
murderer of a sedceer hanged. Perhaps.
if the truth was confessed, not many of
ns wish to live that long. If I seem to
have wandered from my snhjeet and
thrown in some surplusage, what do I
care ? With these evidences of a wander
ing mind present to be debarred from of
fering to customary plea of insanity?
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Patting up Stoves.
We do not remember the exact date of
the invention of stoves, hut it was some
years ago. Since then mankind have
been tormented once a year by the dif
ficulties that beset the task of putting
them up, and getting the pipes fixed.
With all our Yankee ingenuity no Ameri
can has invented any method by which
the labor of putting up stoves can be
lessened. The job is as severe and vexa
tious as humanity can endure, and gets
more so every year.
Men always put up their stoves on a
rainy day. Why, we not know • never
heard of any exception to this rule. The
first step to be taken is to put on a very
old and ragged carat, under the impression
that when he gets his mouth full of
plaster it will keep his shirt bosom clean.
Next, the operator gets his hand inside
the place where the pipe ought to go, and
blacks his linger, and then he carefully
makes a black mark down the aide of
his nose. Having his face properly
the victim is ready to begin. the ceremony.
The head of the family—who is the big
goose of the sacrifice—grasps one side of
the bottom of the stove and his ••wife
and hired girl take bold of the other side.
In this way the load is started from the
woodshed toward the parlor. Going
through the door the head of the family
will carefully swing the door around • and
jam his thumb against the doorpost.
This part of the ceremony is never othit
ed. Having got the family comfort in
place, the next thing is to .find the legs.
Two of these are left inside the stove
since the spring before. The other must
be hunted after twenty-fire. Aninntea.
They are usually found under the coal.
Then the head of the family holds up the
other while other two am fixed, and one
of the first two falls. oat. By the -time
the. store is °nits legs he is reckkow, and
takes off his old coat regardless' of his
linen.
Then he goes for the pipe and gets two
cinders in his eye. It .don't make ' any
difference bow well the pipe was put .up
last year, it will always be found. a little
too short or a little too long. The. bead
of the family jams his bat over hiss eyes
and taking a pipe under each arm, goes
to the tin shop to have it fixed. When
he comes back he steps on one of the best
parlor chairs to see if the pipe tits and
his wife makes him get down for fear he
will scratch the varnish off the chair
with the nails in his boot heels. In get
ting down he will surely step on. the cat,
and he may thank his stars that it is not
the baby. Then he gets ECU old chair and
climbs up the chimney again, to find that
in cutting the pipe off, the end has been
left too big fur the hole in the chimney.
So lie goes to the woodshed and splits one
side of the end of the stove pipe with an
old axe and squeezes it in his hands to
make it smaller.
Finally he gets the pipe in shape and
finds the stove does not stand true. Then
himself and wife and hired girl move to
the left and the legs fall out again.
Nest it is to move to the right More
difficulty now with the legs. Move to the
front a little. Elbow not even with the
hole in the chimney, and the bead of the
family goes again to the woodshed after
sonic little blocks. While putting the
blocks under the legs, the pipe comes out
of the chimney. That remedied, the el
bow keeps tipping over to the great alarm
of the wife. Head of the family gets the
dinner table out, puts the old chair on it,
get his wife to hold the chair, and bal
ances himself on it to drive some nails in
the ceiling. At last he gets the nails in
to the ceiling. Drops the hammer on his
woe 6 neaa. dt lan lac gcto bhe
driven, make a wire swing to hold the
pipe, hammers a little here, pulls a little
there, takes a long breath and announ..cii
the ceremony finished.
Job never put up any stove& It would
have ruined his reputation if he bad.
The above programme, with unimportant
variations, has been carried out in many
respectable families during the last season
—Mark Twain.
Our Mother.
Round the idea of one's mother, the
mind of a man clings with fond affection.
It is the first deep thought stamped upon
our infant hearts when yet soft and capa
ble of receiving the moat profound im
pressions, anti the after feelings of the
world are more or less light in compari
son. Even in our old age we look back
to that feeling as the sweetest we have
through life. Our passions and our will
fullness may lead us fur from the object
of our filial love; we learn even to pain
her heart, to oppose her wishes, to violate
her commands ; we may become wild,
headstrong and angry at her counsels or
opposition ; but when death bas stilled
her monitory voice, and nothing but still
memory remains to receapitulate her vir
tues and good deeds, affection, like a
flower beaten to the ground by a past
storm, raises up her head and smiles
among her tears. Round that idea, as
we have said, the mind clings with fond
affection; and even when the early period
of our loss, forces memory to be silent,
fancy takes the place of rememberance
and twines the image of our dead parent
with a garland of graces and beauties,
and virtues, which we doubt not she poss
essed.
Advice to Young Dien.
Seize every moment for improving your
mind.
Be careful in choosing your compan
ona
To whatever occupation you may be
called as a means of obtaining a liveli
hood, determine to understand it well
and work heartily at it.
Accustom yourself to act kindly and
courteously toward every one.
Carefully avoid all extravagant habits.
Determine to possess a character for
honesty.
Cultivate a strict regard for truth.
If your parents are living do your ut
most to promote their comfort and happi
ness.
Recollect your success in life must de
pend upon your own exertion&
Respect religion, and do unto others as
you would they should do unto you.
Shim the tippling shop, the billiard
room, and other vile dens of vice and ob
soen it v.
Be ie m pera te in all things..
Be specially regardful of the Sabbath,
and on no account desecrate it.
Make yourself useful.
Above all things preserve a clear con
science. Unless already hardened by
crime its gentle proinptings will guide
you aright iu the paths of duty and hon
or.
.W - Lost wealth may be restored by
industry, the wreck of health May be re
gained by temperance ; fommiten knowl
edTe by study; alienated friendship
smoothed into forgetfulness; even for
feited reputation won' by penitence and
virtue; but who ever again looked upon
his vanished hours? Whoever recalled
slighted years, stamped them with wis
dom, or erased from heaven's record the
fearful blot or wasted time ?
—According to the recent statistics the
average Englishman measures between
five feet six inches and five feet seven in
ches, and weighs 145 pounds; the Irish
man is about - the mine height, but 'Weighs
only 138 pounds, while the Scotchman is
an inch taller, and weighs 155 pounds.
—At an agricultural hone trot in
Scctuton, Pa., last week, the driver of one
of the horses was thrown from his . sulky,
while his horse kept on: his wa y. Be
gathered himself up,' 'took a short' p,ut
across the ground, intercepted his horse,
remounted the sulky, and 'won 'the treat
and the race.
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DIUMBER, '44
07, .. • - i
IncF, Es-
—why i s a wor4 out Aboel like ancient
; Greet:et ~.Icceinse it MICE' had a Solon.
Lavere are goods iteantetr,'' for etteu 'ID
the eteriniest:areather they *teatime" otrtau
meek& ' :
—A bill-iiostei inayllo. described as a
man who dicks to' trisirles4 and whose
businesd it le, to atibk:
—A Western graveyard yields cucum
ber& Its occupants both cumber and
cumber the ground.
—Why cannot a gentleman legally p 0.7-
sess a short walking stick ? Because it
can never be-long tohinl.
—The World says ;. "liaving iniceess
fully invaded all, branches, woman now
wants to take the stump...
—The Bonartes were originallypoOr,
but the first Napoleon- eve each of his
brothers a crontespiecestoitart with.
—Wh,y are buries in cold. weatherlike
medial some gossips ? Because they are
the bearers of idle tails.
—To prevent beer from going sour—
introduce two cabmen into your cellar,
and give them the key to your cask.
—Sheridan says that the Prussians
treated him Ithidly. Any one that treats
Sheridan comprehends his weakness.
—The Press—lt ex-presses truth, re
dresses error, de-presses tyranny, and op-
presses none.
—What is the difference between a
church organist and the influenza ? One
stops the nose, and the other knows the
stops.
—" We know a girt' says some one,
"so industrious that when she has noth
ing else to do she sits and knits her brow.
—Thera are many important opera
tions on foot of which the public knows
nothing—those of the chiropodists, for
instance.
—A literary man on retiring into pri,
vale life said that his connection with the
press had thawed, and resolved itself into
adieu!
—Mrs. Partiugton says that since the
invention of the needle gun, there is no
reason why the women shouldn't fight as
well as the men.
—lt is reasonable to suppose beer was
made in the ark. The kangaroo was seen
to go in with hops, and the bear was al
ways bruin.
Volage, who is a single man, la gen
really considered honest, but says there
are times when hie fingers itch to hook a
dress.
—A young lady lately dismissed her
sweetheart for wearing a superfluity of
beard. She said he was a great deal too
hirsute to suit her.-
—A young man in Indian, wbile out
hunting a few days ago, succeeded iu
bagging his mother-in-law, whom he mis
took perhaps for a deep!
—Censure is the tai a tnan pays to . the
pablie for being eminent.
—Mrs. Partington says she gets up ev
ery morning at the shrill crow of the
chandelier.
—A happy wedded couple in Indiana
weighed just 1,000 lbs.
—A sagacious philosopher has discov
ered that if the earth really ho hollow, we
all hve upon a mere crust.
—ln English hotels the women ser
vants carry up the luggage, while the men
carry up cards and ninon errands.
—A revenue collector in Missouri re
cently tried to collect fifty cents a head in
a ball room—the tax on hops.
—Miss Kate Field is ahead of most
young ladies. She has 101 engagements
on band ; 100 to lecture, and one to get
married.
—A person who is too nice an observer
of the business of others, like one who is
too curious in observing the movement of
bees, will often get stung for his curiosi
ty.
—Carpenters and masons get fifty-four
cents a day in the cities of Sweden, but
fifty cents will buy more in Sweden than
five times that sum would in this coun-
—The young men in Cincinnati are
greatly interested in the orphans since
the uncle of a young and beautiful girl in
the asylum has died and left her $50,000.
—A date young wife says "When I
want a nice snug day fill to!myself, I tell
George mother is coming, and then I see
nothing more of him until one in the
morning." •
—None enjoy life so little as those who
have nothing to do. The active only have
the true relish of life. He who does not
know what it is to labor knows not what
it is to enjoy:
—A Philadelphia woman earns her liv
ing by fainting -in front :of -large ktores
and hotels, into which she is carried. A
hpurse is made up for her, and she is sent
ome in a hack.
--Crebillion the younger once said that
a really flue woman never reaches her
trne loveliness until she is at least thirty.
There is encouragement for women to
tell the truth about their ages.
—The following epitaph may -ho aeon
on a tombstone in a cemetery in Kittery,
Maine :
" I lost my life on tle raging sera ;
A sovereign God does as he please—
The Kittery friends they did appear,
And my remains they buried hero."
—lf a man sleeps soundly, has a good
appetite, with no unpleasant reminders
after meals the bodily habits being 'rep.
lar every day, be bad better let blinself
Edon, whether be is big as w, hogshead or
thin ow u fence MIL
—k 'philanthropist at Albany boa two
ceeded in, reducing the priee.of ,cabbages
in•that city f0i41.1,12: to sBFler, hundred
:by the discovery of a i)bisonoms w_orm:up.
'on the leaves of some speebbens selected
from the suburban gardens.
Qpg,sf the most. brutal auldegrnding
kinds of punishment is that : Aftieted by
tbe' A WM bet - 14,1101in head
After itntiiisonment, bat Aloes
rakafteraloggitig. • The' faith' liavilt a
kiting tehind . !which sunlit; tmeilly. YOu
may heal thelacerated.flesir,linkdie scars
remain., I have seen meg. 4sg4. but I
niker saw anysoo44 res:ult . fr9m.f.h 4 , E 1 ; 1 4"
ishment. 'OW the contrAry; hirdens
the man, makes him.gloomrand 'morose,
closes his heart to every`. kindly •feeling,
destrays his faith—if he ever bad any—in
the goodness of his fellow man, and ulti
mately sends him to bis'graire to hide his
sears there.
We were mustered oneevening to wit
ness corporal punishment which was to
be inflicted on a private soldier for habi
tual drunkenness„ and making_away with
his regimental necessaries. He was a
stout tine looking fellow 01-er six feet in
height, broad shouldered midtMuscular.
He was stripped hare from the waist up
ward, and his hands were fastened Up to
the gratings in front of him. Nearly
eight hundred men were drawn up in a
hollow square. The commanding officer
gave the word.
- "One !" said the drum major.
The cat descended, and nine small Pur
ee streaks on the prisoner's back showed
its effect.
"Two !"
"Three!"
At the fourth stroke the blood spurted
out and ran down the prisoner's back in
little puddles. After twenty-flee lashes
had been given, a man with fresh cat pre
pared to inflict the other half.
"T wen ty-six !"
The cat descended with fearful force.
Pica of skin stuck to the lash, the blood
flowed in strwms, and the pristiner's
back looked like a piece of raw bleeding
flesh.
At the forty-fifth 'stroke the prisoner
fainted. The assistant snrgeim adminis
tered a Stimulant. which revived hirmand
the remaining five were given. During
the trying ordeal the prisoner uttered
neither cry or groan, but his face was
deathly pale, and his eyes dull and heavy.
As his guards lead him away to prison
to undergo the remaining portion of his
sentence—eighty-four day's imprison
ment with hard inbor—he raised his eyes
to the thee of the commanding officer,and
muttered, "If ever -I have the good for
tune of going into action, antler your
command, I'll shoot you or be shot.—
Three years in the British army.
Tho following article from the
Syracuse Courier in reference to balloons
and carrier pigeons is quite interesting :
The siege of Paris, strangely revives
olden times, by suggestion. Since the
fall of semimythic Babylon, the annals of
war show no bombardment of such a city
on Paris. 'the gay and - splendid capital
of the world to day reproduces the scenes
of old feudal days and the harsher exper
iences of the middle ages. We are re
minded by the spectacle now presented at
Paris, of King Richard's war upon the
fortified cities of the Saracens, and the
endless sieges of medineval cities and ba
ronial castles. Paris to day seeks to de
fend itself on the inside of its surround
ing line of exterior forts. The mortar
and cannon 'are substituted, by modern
warfare for the old battering rams. The
besieged. meanwhile, seem to be pretty
effectually shut out from the rest of the
world. Balloons and carrier pigeons con
stitute their only means of communica
tion with the outside world—the one
thing of modern growth, the other dat
ing from remote antiquity. - The carrier
doves owe their value' as messengers to
their strong preception of locality, and
their still stronger love of home. Very
rarely is one found so dull as not to find.
his way home by a direct line. Thrown
np from places hundreds of miles away
these "winged messengers" circle two or
three times around the immediate point
of departure, then dart away. impelled
by the airy pinions which the Psalmist
longed for, "the wings of a dove," and fly
like an arrow to its - mark, straight
through the pathless fields of air, to the
spot from whence they were taken,
Car
rier pigeons in Europe have been known
to fly ninety miles in an hour! In our
own country, pigeons from the rice fields
of' Georgia have been killed in this State
with the fresh rice still awaiting digest
ion in their crops; showing that they
must come that great distance within
eight or ten hours. The art of pigeon
training is carried to the highest perfect
ion in Belgium, unless we except Turkey.
flow opportune for General Bernina, if
ho had but a few carries pigeons bred in
Paris, to let loose to the air to convey to
the belea"ured capital intelligence of his
wishes! Such a precaution, which the be
sieged in the old Roman wars and in the
middle ages were sure to take, would _
have been of countless value to France to
day, The balloon is at the sport of the
winds. The carrier pigeon seeks always
his home. Modern strategists might well
derive a saving lesson from antiquity, in
cultivating the carrier pigeon,
Common Phrase In the Far West.
In a mining camp in California when a
man tenders you asuile 'or invites you
to take a "blister," it is etiquette to say,
'Here's hoping your dirt'll pan out gay.'
In Washoe. when you am requested' to,
'put in a blast,' or invited to take your
regular 'poison' etiquette admonishes you
touch glasses and says "Here's hoping
you'll strike it rich In 'the lower level!
And in Honolulu, wheif your - Melia rho
whaler asks you to take a 'lid' with him,
it is simply etiquette to say; ilfert.4 eigh
teen bewared barrelk 'OlO ut
'drink hearty' is universaL "This 'is the
orthodox reply the world - over.,
On the Missi!seppi river they taii ,
,very Oradea] view of the ceremony, and
say to their friends, 'won't you come and
'wood up thus implying that strong po-
Wiond supply the toed of life. In eh&
eta times, a false notion prevailed that
inibitions would prevent one from taking
that disease, and a mailer style of lulu
'
Cation was, Tot's disinfect! 'This may 1111
voll be offset by a mention: k ori the' illes
tern bar room salute you, 'won't you histe
in some pizen ?'—Ezehaxge.