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DR. W. W. SMITII,
Ditirrirr. Rooms at his dwellln¢ noltdoor east of the
liepablimn printing °Mee. 01lice hours from 9A. a.
`' to AP. 7t. Montrose, May 3, 1891-11
THE BARBER-11a: Ha! Ma !!
Chart Irohiti t the barber, who can share your tate to
. ; Cats brown, black and mizsley hair. In his
offlcejust op stairs. There „you will Ond him, ova
Moro 's, steora. below MeKenzies—jtist one door.
dlontrosti, June 7, ttra.—tf C. „MORRIS.
4.13. & A. H. 31cCOLLI:1111,
Arratuarrs At. Law Ofßoo over Mao Bank, Montrose
Pa. Montrose, May 10, 1571.. tt
DR. D. A. LATIIROP.
Zan opened an otlice, at the font of Chestnut street, near
the Catholic Church, where he can be consulted at all
thrift.
Montrone, APril 22. limp. ly
CROSSIION & BALDWIN,
ATTORSEYS AT LAW.--Office over the store o( Wm
btuPorn, on Public Menne, Montroeo Pa.
W. A. CIIO4BIION. 11. L. HAI-norm.
Itontrosn, March 1, 1871. tf.
J. D. VAIL,
HO NTOPATMC rIrrAICIAR AND SPEOCCI7I. Has permanently
located hianclr In Montrose, u here he will prompt
ittend to, all calls in hisprobasion with which he may
+le the/lied. ' Once - and residence west of the Court
House, tear Fitch .h Watson's office.
.11ontrose, February 8,18:1.
LAW OFFICE•,
ram a WATSON, Attorneys et Lsw,st the old °face
of Bentley & Fitch, Identrtwe, Pa.
.. P. WITCO, •71.[ w. w. w areoa.
CIIARLES X.:STODDARD,
Dealer In Boot s and Shoes, Bats and Caps. Leather and
Findlay, Main Street. Ist door below Boyd 's Store.
. Work made to order. and,repslrlng dune neatly.
Troutroac, Jan. I, lalo.
LITTLES & BLAKESLEE,
Attornete and Counsellors at Lam. Office the one
beretofore occupied by R. B. S. O. P. Little, on Mato
street, Mentrose. Pa. f.eprtl.M.
'IL B. LITTLE, GEO. V. LITTLE. E. L. EIL/OLFZLET.
E....llcSrezia. C. C. PAuitoe, W. 11. McCall.
IIIeKENZIE, FAUROT & CO.
Duelers In Dry Goode.,...Clothlnc, Ladies and Mlreee
(Inc Shoe,. nc,nts for the great 4tmerlean
Tea and Coffee Company. [Montrose, Pa ,np. 1,10.
LEWIS KNOLL,
SHAVING A'l) HAIR PRESSING
Shop In the new Postoilice hnildinn, where he will
be found ready to nttend MI who may want anything
, to his line. . Identroae, Ps. Oct. IS. 1669.
0. M. 111AWLET,
DEALETI in TRY (MODS. OROCERTES. PPOOKNitr.
.I.laniu - see, MLA, Cnps,llow.,,Shm., Itmicly Made Clntb
- PaintA, Oils, etc., New 3111(erd, Pa. [Sept_ 8,
DR. S. W. DAYTON,
riirSICIAN S SILIMEON. ta.ndero hle oorriets to
' - ttle . a• ft irons of Great 'tend nnol vi. initp Ofllre nt Me
opposite Bartinirn (rt. Bend villazo.
Sept. 1,1, 1,n9 —,t f
A. 0. WARREN,
ATTORNEY A a LAW. Bounty. Beet Par. Penslon
and teem on elnims attended to. Office tl
" oor beton' BoyiPiStore, 31ontrone.Ps. [Au. I, •C)
M. C. SICTTON,
Auctioneer, and Insurance Agent,
ul Cat: Prlendsvillo, Pa.
C. S. GILBERT,
.. 19. tioaoo r.
Augl Great. Rend, Pa
:VII EL V,
17. SI. 41. - u.9tLizon.e.c,3r.
Aor. I, 1156.9. Address, - Brooklyn, Pa
JOEL% GROVES,
PAS:IIIONAI3I,E TAtz , ..•_Ponigt•—• shoo r".•
-yummi e r. st o ,,, AI , orners 13 I o•el nrw-tate style.
Lug done on short notice. and warranted to at.
• NV. SMUT, -
CABINET AND CHAIR MANDFACTUREDIA—Yo.
of Male stiret, Aionuose, Pa. 'Jury,. I. IM.
H. BURRITT,
DEALER) n Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, Croekery
Mardware, Iron, Stoves, Drn ge, 011s,and Paints
Root sand Shoop, Rite S. Cope. Fore, Dont o Robes
GPOCeriCB.PrOVieiOI:I6. New Milford. I.
DR. E. P. HUMES,
flan permanently locat. nt eriendSVl (IC for tbe pnr
pone of lir:truth:lg medicine anitsitsrt, •ry to all Ito
hratithes. Ale may be found at the Jackson titian.
Orrice bolts from 8 to 8. p. m.
Frimulmilim - Pa., Aug. 1. 1860.
STROUD & BROWN,
AND LIVE •EISUA.ANCH AGENTS. Al
Ifaidnesetottonded to promptly, on Lair terns. OtAur
fliisk door north of ' ilontrofo Huta, veld side o•
Pdfiric Avenue, -Idontrose, Fn. (A0g.1.1869.
BEISitIMS STROM - Crum= L Swim.
WM. D. LUSK,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Montrose. Pa. Offlee oppo.
liC the Tarbell Ranee, near 'he Court Loess.
Any. 1. 19.M.—tf
AB - EL TURIZELI.,,
• - - -
D :ALER in Drugo, Patent Medicines; Chmolcala
Liquors, Paiute, Olia,Dye e•triffs. Varnishes, Win
tiles.. Groceries, Glass Ware, Wall and Window Pa,
per. Stone-crare, Lamps. Kerosene, Ilachinet7 011 a.
Trusses. Guns, Ammunition, Knives. Spectacles
Brasile...Fancy Goods, Jewelm t Perin r ie—
bein,g, sone of the most unmerons, eztenolve. and
valuable collections of Goods in Snsqnebanna Co.—
Established in 184.5. [lllontrose, Pa.
D. W. SE ABLE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, office over the Store of A.
Lattlrep.l l3 the Drink Diock. Montrose, Pa. fau7'o3
DR. W. L RICHARDSON,
PIITSICIAN 6 itURGEON. tenders his tirofeasionn
services to the citizens-of bloutrose and vicinity.—
°Mee at his residence, on the corner
N ett or Sayre &
Bros. Foundry. [g. 1, 1869.
L. GABDIVER,
• - -
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON, Idontroee, Pa. Gives
attention to disc-neea of the Heart and
I.nnze and all Stir:deal diaeasea. Office over V. B.
Dean.. Boards at Sear)e • a Hotel. (Ang.l. 18W.
TIVRNS•& NICHOLS,
Dn.,,RS In Medlctoes, Chemicals, Dye.
P'..ale:YAlnts, 01Is, Varnish, Liquors, Spices, Fancy
r: tcs, r i dent Medicines, Perfumery and TollesAr
tine, ar'Prescr:ptions carefully com.poundedL—
Pualle Avenuc,above Mamie's Hotel, Montrose, Pa
A. 11. Buns's, . Astos
Aug. 1,
1r DR. E. L. lIANDRICK,
rarsiclAN s. SURGEON, respccthally tenders
professional cervices to.the citizen of Priendsville
stid vicinity. rgr Office lathe owes of Dr. Levi.—
Boards at J. Elosford's, Aug. 1,180.
ipngT BROTKERS,
SCRANTON, PA
. Wholeasle & Aetall Dcalersin
HARDWARE, IRON, STEEL,
NAILS, SPIKES, SHOVELS,
BUILDER'S HARDWARE;
BINS RAIL. CoUN TERSUNE @ T BAIL SPIKES
RAILROAD A . MINING SUPPLIES. •
CARRIAGE SPRINGS, AXLES. SKEINS • AND
BOXES, BOLTS, NUTS and WASHERS,
PLATED BANDS. DALLEABLE
IRONS,* HUBS. SPOKES,
nakozs. BEAT SPINDLES, ROWS. Sc.
VICO, STOCKS and DIES, BHLLOWI3
••ahmugus. - 8 - I,l3oGze. PILES, /be. ite,
r3pEwp3asa-ASII) MILL SAM'S. BOLTING, PACKING
TACELE BLOCKS, PLASTER PARIS
• CEMENT:IIAM & GB.INDSTORES.
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Notro forum
pracro.6-2:Lop o= 313Ceozbiroza,_
, No sleknes there,
No weary wasting of the frame away,
No fearful shAnking item the midnight air—
No dread of summer's bright and fervid ray.
No bidden grief,
No wild and cheerless vision of despair!
No vain petition for a swift relief—
No tearfbi eyes, no broken hearts are there.
Care has no home
Within the ratio's of ceaseless praise and song;
Its billows break and melt away in foam,
Far from the mansions of the spirit throng.
The storm's black wing
Ls never spread athwart celestial skies!
Its wailinga blend not with the voice of spring,
As some too tender dowret fades and dies.
No night distils
Its chilling dews upon the tender frame;
No moon is needed there! The light which fills
The land of glory from Its Maker came.
No parted friends
O'er mournful recollections have to weep!
No bed of death enduring love attends,
To watch the coming of a pulseless sleep.
No blasted flower
Or withered, the celotial garden know I
No scorching blast or fierce descending shower
Scatters destruction like a ruthless foe!
No battle word
!Ranks the sacred host with fear and dread I
The song of peace creation's monainetcard
Is sung wherever angel minstrels tread,
Let us depart,
If home like this awaits the weary soul !
Look up, thou stricken one! thy wounded heart
Shall bleed no more at sorrow's stern control.
With faith our guide,
White-robed and innocent to lead the way,
Why fear to plunge in Jordan's rolling lido,
And find the ocean of eternal day !
. 014 A Maa•® 3=l ream
DT °LITER WENDEL LIOLMES.
Oh for an boor of youthful joy!
Give me back my twentieth spring;
Td rather laugh a bright-haired boy
Than reign a gray-haired king.
Off with the wrinkled spoils of ago;
Away with learning's crown ;
Tear out lire's written wisdom page,
And cas: its trophies down.
One moment let my 'life-blood stream
From boyhood's fount of flame;
Give me oue giddy, reeling dream
Of life and love and fame.
My listening angel heard the prayer,
And calmly smiling said,
" If I brit touch thy silvered hair,
Thy hasty wish had sned."
"But there Is noiling in thy track
To bid thee fondly stay.
while the swift seasons hurry back
To find the wished-for day I"
Ah, truest soul of woman-kind I
Without thee what were lile ?
One bliss I cannot leave behind--
ru take my precious wife.
The angel took a sapphire pen,
An 4 wrote in rainbow hue:
"The man woad be a boy again,
And be a husband too!"
Is there nothing yet unsaid
Before the change appears?
Remember all their gifts have fled
With those dissolving years!
" Why, yes, I would one furor more—
My fond ixttemal joys—
I could not bear to lose them all
111 take my girls and boys r
The smiling angel dapped his pen—
" Why, this would never do,
The man would be a boy again,
And be a father too r
And so I laughed—my laughter woke
The household with its noise,
I wrote my dream - when morning broke,
To please my fair-haired boys.
Clattotsstlozaes or the =crams.
[Marian, Six Tears Old.)
SIT Tax /Lemon OF " a WOMAN'S remise
" Do angels wear white dresses, say ?
Always, or only in the summer? Do
Teir birth-days have to come like mine, in May?
Do they have seralet sashes then, or blue?.
"'Wen little Jessie died last night,
How could she walk to Heaven—lt is fa &r
flOw did she find the way without a light?
There wasn't even any moon or star.
" WM she have red or golden wings?
Then will she have to be a bird and fly?
Do they take men like presidents and kings
In herses with black plumes dear to the sky?
" How old is God? Has He gray hair?
Can He see yet ? Where did He have to stay
Before—you know—he had made—anywhere?
Who does He pray to—when he has to pray?
" licnv many drops are in the sea?
How many stars I—well, then, you ought to
know
How many flowers are on an apple tree!
How does the wind look when It doesn't blow?
" Where does the rainbow end? And why
Did—Captain Kidd-bury the gold there? When
Will this world burn? And will the firemen try
To put the fire out With their engines then?
" If you should ever die, may we
Have pumpkins grow in the garden, so
My fairy god mother can come for me,
When there's $ prince's ball, and let me gol
4, 0 4 ejudercua just pace more
metra-rmea's other. wirim—so nom?
• I itnuW
VALI Was tind, it Quay tercraw. before
lOW the Painted book for bar la 40,
liours later, from 4 child's white bed
I beard the timid; Jut queer question 'nark
4 !ltitumus.,, are you—my etepmotherr it said,
Tlteingi!eriseproof crept to my' Ileum -.
nVfpOtliss vie or her children
who was ter colerM 10 114 0
real i - 1
nehei reed Dear dii trih:caux US/WO ilirt
Mal
MONTROSE, PA., WEDNESIMIE AII4IIST 16, 1871,
piscellancouo.
TUE STOLEN NOTE.
Except that he indulged too freely in
the use of the inkxicating cup, John
Wallace was au houEit, high-minded and
extraordinary man. His one great fault
hung like a dark sdadow over his many
virtues. He meant well, and when he
was, sober he did well
M . was a hatter by trade, and by in
dustry and thrift he had secured money
enough to buy the house in which he
lived. He had purchased it several years
before, for three thousand dollars, paying
one thousand down and securing the
balance by mortgage to the seller.
The mortgage note was almost duo at
the time circumstances made me acquaint
ed with the affairs of the family. Bnt
Wallace was ready for the day; ho had
saved np the money ; there seemed to be
no possibility of an accident. I was well
acquainted with Wallace, having done
some little collecting, and drawn up legal
documents fur him. One day his daught
er Annie came to my office in great dis
tress, declaring that her father wus ruined,
and that they should be turned out Of the
house in which they lived.
"Perhaps not, Miss Wallace," said I,
trying to console her, and give the affair,
whatever it was, a bright aspect. "What
has. happened ?"
"My father," she r.plied, "had the
money to pay the mortgage on the house
in which we live, but it is all gone now."
"Has he lost it?"
"1 don't know; I suppose so. Last
week be drew two thousand dollars from
the bank, and lent it to Mr. Bryce for ten
days.'
" Who is Mr. Bryce ?"
"lle is a broker. My father got ac
quainted with him through Mr. Chandler
who boards with us, and who is Mr. Bryce's
clerk."
" Does Mr. Bryce refuse to pay it."
" He says he had paid it."
" Well, what is the trouble ?"
" Father says he bus not paid it.."
" Indeed! _But the note will prove that
ho has not paid it. Of eouise yen have
he note ?"
"No. Mr. 80 - ce has it." '
"Then, of cohrse, he has paid it."
" I suppose be has, or he could not have
he note."
" What does your father say ?"
"lie is positive that he never received
the money. The mortgage, he says, roust
he paid to-morrow."
" Very singular. Was your father—"
I hesitated to use the unpleasant word
which must have grated harshly on the
ear of the devoted girl.
" Mr. Bryce says father was not quite
right when ho paid him, but not very
had."
" I will see your father."
"Ile is coining ti) here in a few
moments: thoortbt .refulld
"I do not see how ryee could have ooy
taiwc(l the note, unless he paid the money.
Where did your father keep it ?"
"He gave it to me, and I put- it in
the secretary•"
" Who was in the room when you put
it in the secretary r
7,• "Mr. Bryce, George Chandler, my fa
ther and myself."
The cpnversation was here interrupted
by the entrance of Wallace. Ile looked
pale and haggard, as much from the ef
fects of abstety as from the debauch from
which he was recovering.
" She has told y - ou'ilbout it, I suppose,"
said he, in a very low tone.
"She has."
I pitied him, poor fellow, for two thous
and dollars was a large sum for him to
accumulate, in his little business. The
loss of it would make the future look like
a desert to him. It would he a misfortune
which one must undergo to appreciate it.
" What passed between you on that
day ?"
Well, I merely stepped into his office
—it was only the day before yesterday—
to tell him not to forget to have the mon
ey for me by to-morrow. lie took me
into the office, and as I sat there he said
lie would get the money ready the next
day. lie then left me and went into the
office, where I heard him send George out
to the hank, to draw a check for two
thousand dollars; so I supposed he was
going to pay me then."
" What does the clerk Say about it ?"
"Ile says Mr. Bryce remarked, when he
sent him, that he was going to pay me the
money."
'" Just so."
" And when George came in he went
into the front °film .again and took the
money. Then he came to mo again, and
did not offer to pay me the mone,y."
" - Had you the note with you.
" No ; now I remember, he said he sup
posed I had not the note with me, or he
would pay it. I told him too come on
the next day and I would have it ready—
that was yesterday. When I came ,to
look for the note it could not be found ;
Annie and I have hunted the house all
over."
" You told Bryce so ?"
" I did. He laughed, and showed me
his note, with his signature crossed over
with ink, and a hole panelled through it."
"It is plain, Mr. Wallace, that he paid
you the money, as alleged, or has obtained
fraudulent possession of the note; and in
tends to cheat you out of the amount".
" He never paid me,' be replied
",Then he has fraudulently obtained
possession of the note. What sort of
person is that Chandler, who boards with
you ?"
"I‘t fine young man. Bless you, he
would not do anything of that kind."
"I . am sure he would not," repeated
Annie, earnestly."
" !levy efse.could, Ty co 'obtain the note
but through bitti? What. time does be
come et night?" , •
Always at tea, time . . He Beyer goes
out inthe evening." •
" But, father, be did not come home till
ten o'clock:the night before you wee, to.
Brtas, lie had m stay in the office to
post batiks, or somptbing_cf kind.".
a Bow: did he get in r ,
a.w"hit's a nightkey" -
siiiebUndfer ' " t•
""No harm fn 'seeing him," added mr.
INPAre)"i win go NE liim;'
In a kw moments ho returned with the
young man, Chandler, who, in the con
versation I had with him, manifested a
vary lively interest in the isolation of the
mystery, and professed himself ready to
do anything to forward my views.
" When did you return to the house on
Thursday night?"
"About twelve'
" Twdve r said Annie; "it was not
more thip ten when I heard you."
"The dock struck twelve as I turned
the comer of the street," replied Chandler,
positively.
" I certainly heard some one in the
front mom at ten," said Annie, looking
with astonishment of those around her.
" We're getting at something," said L
"How did you get in ?"
The young man smiled, as he glanced
at Annie, and mid
"On arriving at the door, I found I had
lost my night key. At that moment a
watchman happened along, and I told him
my situation. He knew me, and taking a
ladder from au unfinished house opposite,
placed it against one of the second. story
windows, and I entered in that way."
" Good I Now who was it that was in
the parlor at ten, unless it was Bryce or
one of his accomplices? He must have
taken the key from your pocket Mr. Chan
dler, and stolen the note from the secreta
ry. At any rate I will charge him with
the crime, let what may happen. Per
haps ho will confess when hardtpushed."
Acting upon this thought., I wrote a
lawyer's letter—"demanded ag,ainst you,"
&c.—which wasimmediatelysent to Bryce.
Cautioning the parties not to speak of the
affair, I dismissed them.
Bryce came.
" Well, sir, what hare you to say against
me ?" he asked, stiffly.
"A claim on the part of John Wallace
for two thousand dollars," I replied, pok
ing over my papers, and appearing su
premly indifferent.
" Paid it," he said, short as pie crust.
" Have you ?" said I looking him sharp
ly in the eye.
The rascal quailed. I saw that he was
a villain.
"Nevertheless, if within an hour you
do not pay me two thousand dollars, and
one hundred dollars for the trouble and
anxiety you have caused my client, at the
end of the next hour you will be lodged
in jail to answer a criminal charge."
•• What do you mean, sir ?"
"I mean what I say. Puy, or take the
consequences.'
It was a bold charge, and if he had
looked like au honest man I should not
have dared to make it.
" I have paid the money, I tell yon,"
said he; "I have the note iu my posses
sion."
" Where did you get it ?"
"I
_got it when I paid the—"
" When you feloniously entered the
house of John Wallace, on Thursday
nighlAt n ,tsit, feclpr,k,,citLttcla, Se n sn4
a chair for support
" That is my lookout. I have no time
to waste. Will you pay or go to jail?"
He saw that the evidence I had was too
strong for his denial, and he drew his
check on the spot for twenty-one hun
dred dollars, and after begging me not to
mention the affair, ho sneaked off.
I aished the check, and hastened to
Wallace's house. The reader may judge
with what satisfaction he received it, and
how rejoiced was Annie and her lover.
Wallace insisted that I should take the
one hundred dollars for my trouble; but
I was mag_nanimous enough to keep only
twenty. Wallace signed the pledge, and
was ever after a temperate man. He died
a few years ago, leaving a handsome
property to Chandler and his wife, the
marriage between him and Annie having
taken place shortly after the above narrat
ed circumstances occurred.
Faithful to Employers.
There is no greater mistake a young man
can commit than that of being indifferent
to the interest of his employer. It must
be admitted that there are circumstances
under which it woulthirem to be impossible
to feel an interest in en employer's busi
ness; but for all of that, it is worth a trial.
Be faithful in small things, be "attentive
in your duties, shirk no employment that
is not dishonorable, feel that your employ
er is fairly entitled to every minute of the
time which you have agreed to give him
for a stipulated remuneration. The wages
may be small—too small but if you have
contracted to work for a dollar a week,
when your work would be worth ten,
stick to your bargain like a man until
your term of service has expired. It may
seem very hard but it will instill the great
principlP of being true to your work.
Such faithfulness will not fail to impress
your employer favorably, and when that
point is reached your reward is almost
certain to follow, for the master who finds
that he has an apprentice who is honest
and capable, will not readily dispense
with his services. The misfortune with
too many boys is, that their ambition is
not to try how well they can perform a
work assigned them, and how much of it
they can do, but to do no more and no
better than the pay they are to receive for
it will justify. It is wrong also on the
part of an employer to withhold a fair
e quivalent for service rendered. In such
a system there is generally poor work as
well as poor pay. We have found, as the
result of many years of practical experi
ence, that the best paid employees are
those whose labor is most profitable to
their employers, and this factean be de
monstrated iu a dozen establishments
within five minutes walk of our office.
.
On the other hand, the .employer who
tries to secure the largest anitintit of good
work from poorly paid hands, generally
fails of his object. The .trap.method is,
for the young man
.ktiarc ambition
.enough , to make '
himsefft, a competent,
Workman; and then to prove his iibility,
and quality' of work ho taros out. This
done,,there is little reason to apprehend
that he will not receive a fair compensa
tion for hie services.
The pitable plea of the defendant in
i},breach of promise case in lowa, is that
lie "was in earnest about marry the girl
wtil he got the rheumatism.'
An Ancient Mariner.
"Did you my you served you apprentice
ship in the Aretbusa?"
"Yes, I served my time in the Arethu-
" What age were you when you went to
sea ?"
" I WILS BIX tken."
"Put down sixteen Bill."
The scene of the present dialo,gue, was
the fore-castle of a collier brig at anchor
in the Thames, the speakers, an old sea
man, and three others scarcely arrived at
middle age, one of whom, behind the old
man, acted as clerk, with a piece of chalk,
using the lid of his own chest as a desk.
"Put down sixteen, Bill," whispered
one, and the number was put down.
"Then, how long. were yon in the
Arethusa ?"
"I served five years," said the old man ;
"then I stopped by her .ariother)three; I
was eight years in,her altogether. I liked
the ship very well, but I did not like the
owner:
Bill, who was all attention, put down
an eight below the sixteen.
" But you would. be a young fellow
then ; I should think you would not be
long out of a ship."
" I got a ship directly, and sailed for
North America. Well, as it happened,
wo were water-logged as we were ou our
passage home; all hands took to the rig
ging, where we remained. days without a
bite of anything, or as much as a drink.
On the fourth day, got hold of a dead
bird of some kind thst was floating past—
ate it feathers and all: Well, I have not
yet told you, all hands..died but myself,
and the only way I could keep myself
alive was by sucking the grease out of the
ropes. I knocked about upon the rigging
for a month. At las:. I was picked up by
an American vessel, and taken to America.
The Americans used mu very well ; so I
traded buck and forwardamong the Ameri
can ports fur a long time."
" How long do you suppose you were in
America altogether ?"
" I was away ten years from leaving
home."
"Didn't you go into the Greenland
rade after that?'
"No; it was not till some time after
I was on board of a man-of-war before 1
was in the Greenland trade. Somehow or
other the press-gang got went of me; a
good run we had; I was ,nimble on my
feet then ; if I had not slipped and fallen
souse into an as-midden, I believe they
never would have taken me; but take me
they aid. Well, I was seien years in his
majesty's service, and I liked the service
very well; but one day the captain and I
had a few words, and said 1 to myself,
'The sooner we part company the better,
old fellow.' So I ran away—it was in the
West Indies. I knew they would all be
after me; so I got myself stowe
hogshead of . sur , ar,
at way li an d e w off
uf.e.rcJ;kan txuaw-man-ot- war put
years."
," Then did you get home all right
" Yes ; and then I went to Greenland.
p
My eyes! what sa we had there the first
ten years I was in the trade! I was there
that year when there wasn't a whale to
tn t
be seen, and we loaded the ship with seals.
A weary job we had; the ice was short
and hummocky, and the seals us shy as
foxes. Somehow we always found one or
two fellows, who'd , been, fuddled maybe
the night before, that forgot the way into
the water. When the brutes make a dive,
they are out of sight in a minute."
" How long were you in the Greenland
trade ?"
" I was nineteen years altogether. Then
I fancied I would like to be iu a warmer
climate; so I got into an East Indiaman,
and traded to the East Indies for a long
time."
" How long do you suppose ?"
" About thirteen years. At last the
ship was taken by pirates, and most of
the crew had to walk the plank; only
three of us saved our lives by consenting
to be pirates with the rest. I never liked
a pirate's life; so one day when we were
ashore on a large island watching; I took
leg-bail and ran away. I'd been with
them three years, which was quite enough.
Well, I got among the natives of the
place, who were mighty kind in their
way; and as I was a brisk young fellow,
I wasn't long in finding a wife among
them, so I lived here just like a savage
for sixteen years; for there was no chance
of getting away,
and it was just as well
to make myself happy. But at last an
English ship put in for water, and thel
longing came over me to get back to my
native land; so I smuggled myself ou
board just as she was ready for sea, and
and glad I was that my wife didn't follow
me."
"Did you get home all right and tight ?"
"All right and tight, boy!"
"Then I suppose you would not lie up
any time at home?"
"I didn't lie np at all. When I got
home I found my brother had gone to
America; so nothing would serve me but
I would go to seek him, as I had not seen
him in a long, time. So I got a ship, and
off I went; but I never saw him from
that day to this, although I wandered
through America for five years seeking
him. I turned tired of wandering, and
got into a little vessel trading between
Prince Edward's Island and the mainland ;
and I traded, in her for ten years—ten
long years I can assure you."
"Haven't you been a long time in the
coal trade ?"
"I was thirty years in the coal t'r'ade
before I went to China."
"How did you like the China trade?"
"I liked it very well. I was only in it
about five years. After that I got 'into
the Baltic trade. I was seven years Mir;
but I tired of it, so kgot it ship and wept
dna the West Indies, 'where I was pat
. ashore sick, and lay in the hospital for
three years., When I did gel betterj was'
a better man than 'ever, sea started.negro
i ,driver on aidantation,, where I 'whipped
the.poor•fellows on for nine years, till at
last the old lit eante , on, and I Would be
off tw sea - again."
" Was that you were captain . of
the:old Clinker ?" •
" Yes; thafwasiust before I got . 0' Ire
captain' ot the Clinker."
Weren't you a Itmg time -optain of
the Clinker r
voLumE xxvm; ritMl3Rt.
" I was captain of the Clinker for nine
teen years. I was captain of her till she
was lost in the Gunth..et Sound, it was as
much as we could do to save our lives
that time."
. " What ship was it yon lost in the Swin-
Ter ?" •
"That was Peggy. I was a long time
in her both mate and master. I was four
years mate and eight years master."
" How long is it since the Peggy was
lost ?"
" Let me see ;. it will he fourteen years
this next month ; just fourteen exactly."
• "Then you must be a good old fellow
now ?"
" Aye ; I'm a good age now, you may
depend."
"See what age he is there, Bill, will
you P"
Bill, who had been listening in the
back-ground, and taking notes on the lid
of' his chest, proceeded to rend the follow
ing items :
Went to sea In the Arethusa, when.. ..... . 16
In the Arethusa 8
In America ... 10
On board man-of-war. ...... ......... ..... 7
In Greenland.... 10
In East India trade 18
Among the pirates 3
Among the savages 16
Traveled in America 0.
Traded In Prince Edward's Island.... 10
In the coal trade— 30
In the China trade.. 5
In the Baltic trade 7
In the hospital. 3
Negro-driver.... .... . .. 0
Captain of the Clinker .......... ... ........ 19
In the Peggv.. ... 5........ ..... ', ........... 12
Since the Peggy was let, 14
• •
Total . • 200
"Then you'll be two hundred and six
years old!" said Bill, with a chuckle.
"Bravo !" said Tom. "There's not a
man like him in the fleet!"
Story of o Lotter) Ticket.
In the intervals of his professional pur
suits my father walked about London
with his little girl in his hands ;• and one
day .(ii was my birthday, and I was ten
years old) he took me in a very not temp
ting-looking'place, which was, as I speed
ily found, a lottery office. An Irish lot
tery was upon the point of being drawn,
and he desired me to choose one out of
several bits of printed paper, (I did not
then know their significance) that lay up
on the counter.
"Choose which one you like best," said
the dear papa, "and that shall be your
birth-day present."
I immediately selected one and put it
into his hand; No. 2,221.
" Ah," said my father, examining it,
"you mast choose again. I want to buy
a whole ticket, and this is only a quarter.
Choose main, my pet."
ist Ere is the next number, interposed
the lottery office keeper, No. 2,223."
" Ah," said my father, " that will do
just as well. Will it not, Mary r We'll
tabu tb ma.),
" No," returned I, obstinately ; " that
won't do. This is my birth-day, you know,
papa, and I am ten years old. Cast up
my number, and you'll find that makes
ten. The other is only nine."
My father, superstitions, like all specu
lators, struck with my pertinency, and
with the reason I gave, which he like none
the less because the ground of preference
was tolerably unreasonable, resisted the
attempt of the office-keeper to tempt me
by different tickets, and we had nearly
left the shop without a purchase, when
the clerk, who had been examining differ
desks and drawers, said to his principal:
A correspondent of the Pittplitiri..Leakt
er furnishes that excellent,papei 'with the"
following on kistiing:' Your.kissing edi
tor, with a number of like sympathetic
souls, has given. vent to'llieir prisoned
feelings on kissing, which t.hey,• ; in their.
disordered imagination, seem to believe the
ecstasy of human bliss. I leek at it in
I an altogether different light, and from a
different point of view. Kissing . is the
precursor of love, and love is a frightful
malady that bus afflicted the human
fami
ly since the entrance of sin hail the world. ,
Physicians of the highest eminence have
failed to discover a panacea whose powers
I possess a healing virtue. I will speak of..
a few of its causes, symptoms and. effects..
Its causes are various and more nunierons
than the colors iu the oriental Joieph'el:
-coat, which was presented him. by his:pa
ternal sire. Love is in many easescansed
by the personal possession of a bank ,bal
mice of respectable averdupois, a red brick.
or iron front or a highly-burnished turn
out. These, combined with a • handsorne,
or homely appearance, as the case maybe,
are often the cause of the pestilence:el' :
Some few isolated cases have been known :•
to emanate from sound principles, 'noble
nesi of soul, integrity, &e. The symp;.
toms of the incipient stage are shown by
CoLou OF 'um Eves AT Burru.—The long solitary walks by moonlight,: on the':•
eyes, says Aristotle, of all newly born in- banks of some stream or some other lono
flints are light blue, but at a later period
ly place. A great desire to adern,theperl k ,
change their color, assuming what to son with cheap LijOukrie, and the:/a
be their proper line. This phenomenon pattern of dress—this is - atthe -expei at'
ssi'.'
does not occur in marked degrees in any of. tailors or dressmakers, if the peckete' ,
other animal than man. A light blue book is not in a plethoric condition.:: , 1:-
color is iilsign of weakness, and it is be- The patient is also possessed with a era-
cause the parts of infants are weak that Ting nppetite for the object of
.biB loss.
their eyes are invariably of this color and 'Mien the malady:Pdvances to a martini
never of any other."' Some time ago I lign au t form, they afflict their friends with"
took the trouble of examining into the their amateur poetic production; attempt'
accuracy of this statement, and foetid it to fight the tiger, open banks on the
so far true, at any rate, as to hold good in Prov,ed Plan with crow-bars. When thew.,
the case of such l ow patient arrives at this stage , hopes Sor. babies as I observed,-.--
Dr. Aubert however,' states that infants recovery are doubtful in the extreme.
are sometimes, though rarely, born with When the disease first makes a stubborn'
brown eyes. lie dues not state whether location, its characteristic peoilitirity is
he has himself seen such a ease, or if not, that instead of driving away these afflict.:
what his authority. I should point out ed it actually draws with a magnetio cer•
that it is not only the eye which in in. tainty its hapless and devoted victims to
fants is comparatively destitute of pip their doomed fate. With a choleric eimi, •
meat, but the same deficiency extends in larity, no obstacle impedes its progr . sa sn e
that age to other parts of the body. This no barrier checks its speed, and i e
t . game
is the case with the skin and hair, as also time against wjnd and tide s „ -4,lB; ; ltet
with the olfactory region of the nasal cay. only epidemic in its - Character,
but' paq-
demic and highly "contagious.: C g otabiti.
ities. Very probably" it is the case with
all pigmented pure. As regards other ing these qualities, wci'can surely'aceonnt
animals than man, Aristotle seems, to al- for its ravages and italutinber
of 'Yibtifos:'
low that a similar darkening of the eye 'Ney, Mr.. Editor, if this should.prove
may occur, though in an inferior degree. counterbalan ce
It is, however; certain that' it dot:i some. citect Which Abe gditor_ "..has tr .
times occur in them in as striking man.
produced in contaminating the — Otihlie
tier. as in man. , Thus kittens are. always ,mind, I shall feel highly compousatediiiid
born with blue'eyes„ and usually deVelnpe duly repaid fur the effort.' • r •
ti dark pig,ment m the iris at a * liittei jig- .
riod. In an instance recorded,' 'by. the —An , old lady from one of. the...rung ,
Richel this change of color commenced districts, astonished a clerk in one of the.:
Tour months a ft er birth. Curiously enough stores a few days ago by inquiring if be ''
the medical gentleman whose remarks we b - pd any "yeller developments rich as they
have quoted is named " Ogle!" d id up letters in."
"I think, sir, the matter may be man
aged if the gentleman does not mind pay
ing a few shillings more. That ticket,
2,224, only tame yesterday, and we have
still all the shares ; one half, one quarter,
one eighth, two sixteenths. It will he
just the same, if the young lady is set up
on it."
The young lady was set upon it, and
the slums were purchased.
The whole affair was a secret between
ns, and my father, whenever he got me to
himself, talked over our future twenty'
thousand pounds, just like Alimschar over
his basket of eggs.
Meanwhile, time passed on; and one
Sunday morning we were all preparing to
go to church, when a face that 1 had for
gotten, brit my father had not, made its
appearance. It was the clerk of the lot
tery office. An express had just arrived
from Dublin, announcing that No. 2,224
had been drawn a prize of twenty thous
and pounds, and he had hastened to com
municate the good news.—Mary Russell
Milford.
" An Editor In Heaven :9
Sneh is the caption of an article which
has been going the rounds of the papers
for some time, and which- appears: to 1)i)
something new "under the , EMU" just
as if editors were not in the - habit ot'J go
ing to Heaven. Well venture to saytbat
a greater proportion. of them-go : to. the
home. of those who have performed their
mission of mercy on earth, than any_oth
er profession or calling that poor Mortals
fill. ".Au editor in Heaven!' There's
nothing stran oe „ about that, at all. It's
almost a moral as well as professional im
possibility for them to go anywhere else.
Once upon a time, after the demise' of a
member of the "corps editorial” he pre
sented himself at-the gate of the'Velclen
City," and requested admission. The
door-keeper asked him what had been the
occupation while on Terra Firma r lie
replied he was an editor.
" Well," said the watchman, "we harp a
crowd of your kind here now, and they
all came in as 'dead heads: , .:,If you pay
your passage you can come in, if not, you
must place yourself under the control of
a personage you `ruled, tyrannically down
below,'—meaning the 'devil'
Not having the "wherewith" , to go in,
our brother of the "Raiff and scissors"
posted off and presented himself at the
entrance of Clootie's dark domains:: A
very dark-complexional gentleman stood
sentry, and asked in a gruff voice, "Who
comes?"
"An humble disciple of Fanat," was q
the calm reply: '„
~ .
"Then hold on, you can't be admitted,”
exclaimed the gentleman , lia black, evhati
ing considerable agitation,,, and, fiercely' '
scowling upon him.
" Why not ?" 'demanded the "tvpo,"
who began to get "sorawhat hufliisit"and
looked around fora "sheep's foot" with
which to force an entrance.
" Well, sir," replied his sable majesty,
"we let ono of your profession irt.,hgro
many years ago, and he kept up a. contirt- ;
,
cal row with his former delinquent. 6,0.-
1 scribers, and as we. have more , of. that '
class of persons here than any other, we
have passed a law prohibiting the admis- .
sion of editors, only those who have ad...
ranted our interest in their :papers ; on
earth, and oven those whO keep in O.K.p.
crate room by themselves. Yon-. have
published many things operating against
us, and always blamed the Devil alth
everything that went wrong, so yens-unit
come in. We enforce this rule 'without
,
' respect to persons' for our own peacound
I safety. Now travel.",
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~- -..[ .
Casting a droll leer at the. outside NAT
tine], our typographical friend Started "4:iff
aain, determined to get "up .atkove.l,
' P his time he, took With him-au old file of
his paper and presenting it 0 the,, ar,
•. , LE
free ticket. In the due courseet - tirs4..„,,a
conductor came along arid:tenlF:hitti in - ,
1 telling him that he had been a myrtar tar.
the cause of human , improVenienty and
char. resolutions had been pame, :to,admit" .
all members of the "art ...pre,servative h
who had abused the `Dvvir whilebelour.r
lie added that as they were punished
enough by their being with the Neill" ,
all their futurepunishment.is ceMia_Mtett
He further stated that not oue delingtient . :
newspaper subscriber could- be found in
Heaven. :
Kissing.