. • . . . . . . , T. "le i ° ,zl"ntltrilo. ~..._, ...., oeff,7,__ . ..,., motta,<,„ E. B. HAWLEY, Proprietor. Business Oards. .1. B. ttA.!l, - ;'..VeC01.1.C 7 Armarnr. AT LIM 011 ,, neer the Rank, Montrone Ps. Montrose, May 10, Mtn, tt D. TV. SEARLE, A TTORNEY AT LAW. mice ftter the Store of A. Lathrop, to the Erick Itmck. 11 ontroee, Pa. Irani GO A! CABINIrr AND CIIAiR IdASUPACTVRYITS.—Vrat of Main stmt.. Ilentraw.. Ps. lan. 1. 13119. If. C. SUTTO2I", Asctionser, and Insurance Agent, ~u 1 rAtf Priendertlle. Po. • C. S (“iDERT, Cr. 19. t 1 Cs ZI.OOI - . rstf Great Bead, Pa A .If r Er, Y, 11. 19. ELl.3.otlcoxi.ear. Aar. i, 1F69„ .Addros, .Brooklyn. ?* ✓OILY GROVES, ra.4?iftr.VA4LTSTUI.OR., Montnnae. Pa. 813qp over Chandler'. Store. All orders tilled In Cutting dame 6irshort nattcm.iunt warranted to M.. J. F. 8110EifAKEN, attnroe• at L. Nfontrosa:Pa. Office licit door toi n. DeWtte• .torr. orpu.lto the boot. Nontrorc. Jaz, 17. Vat B. 1.. BALDWIN, Arreacav it L.Q. Montrose, Pa Mho. with James IL Can.lt. F..q. a1.tr0.e,4.a ZO, 1371. U. A. 0. WARREN; A TTORNEY A C LAW .4.lounty„ Back Pay. PenPlOn •nd them on (Mtn." attendid to. Otrlce fir .00rbalOw Boyd • s Store, Montroae. . [A11.1,164 IV. A. CROSS.IIO..V, Attorney et Lew. Office et the Conrt UMW. In the fenuntseioneen Ocoee. W A. CISUSSIOT. Neutron... sent &h. Is I.—tr. 31cKENZIE. & CO. .Aier, In Dry Good., Clothing, Ladle. and MIAs.. gne Stinex, ‘l.n, events for the crept American Too And Coffee Company. [Montrose, Joly 17, '7t DR. W. TV. &urn!, DI•TUT Ttonms M his ;terellim2, next door eoot of the hepnbileao priming °Mee. 010cv of from 0 A. at. to 4r. Mom ro c s. May 3,1971—1 f LAW OFFICE.. JI A WATSON. Atttonaya at 14.. et the old older at Bewley a Fitch.. moargi.e. Pa r. rtrcn. [Jan. IL ILL SA UTTER, FARIIIONADLR TAILOR. Sboy aver.. R. DcWitr• .11.111. 31•1.1".».. Teti. 19th IS:3. ABEL T CRI: AI. f. Boller la Brno. Mei en..rnlcals. Paint., Ma, Bre *tag.. Trir.. nincy Jewelry. Pet, ramerj, sc., Brick Block, Boutt...a, Pa F..tanit.beti till. iFcb. 1. It4l. DIL W. L. RICUARDSOS orxlcf %! , I a UURGEON. tenth,. nl. prafe..lons .ervlras Ilte eaten. of Mantra., and %lee at hlsrualdsnen, an the corner eam of Sayr. d troa. Foundry. [Au:. 1. InGS. cm TILES N. STODD. nr) .Mar to Dom• and %hem, Dato and Capa. Lea.her and, Pladttrt. Mohr street, IM door bolus 5.t y.l'• Store. Work undo to order. and ropainug dont orally. lbautrose. Jan. 1,1770. LF.IPL KNO L 1.. • invrrsq AND HAIR D11E31411.M. rho, la the taw Poatodlee buntline. ichern h• all: ot found ready to Mond all who may Want anynony in all no*. Doutroar Pa. Oct. 13. Intis. Da S W. DA TTO3 ruts CI & !trIIGEON. under hl. ooroloo• U.< ti oall of arest Rena and oh lolly (Moe nt It% rodkolowel opptiolto ll4ritottt House, 6%.• Bend otih c. Rips- 1544 - tt DR. D. A LATHROP, A 4 aislaterantkacran TVLllfta. R•rna. at the Poo: of Ctiastaat streat Call and canaali In all Chndule Rig, Ilaatrosa. Jan. I. 'll.—no3—lf. TIM BARBER— Ila ! Ha ! tfa! ! •t rig YdrMa lle the blame, wbo can shave door face to *MR: Cola 13,011 p ... the g rizzler ball, in My ortiOust aft ititti. niece you will dud him, over 43•14 . • Core. below licgicuzles-30-t our dorit, lliktroot. Jura 1.1321.—tf V. MORRIS. If :73 VRIRITT. Dealer a Staple ARA Fanny Dry Goods. i`rorterv. Hari ow*. [roil. Mono, Drar,s. 01 sod Pits. Ilnot• sad Shoos. nets Ina Caps, Furs, Duffels Bebts. Oro ...ries Provisions. dt. 7eir.lllll.nl, ra.:Nov. 0, 11-41. .R 16714 IGP HOTEL D k.3IcCRACKEN., trishea to Inform the pehllc that Meier rented atm Exchange Uwe! In 'Montrose. ho non ntepared toucan:lo.4sta the travel tag pabEc la era -Ow style Mumtrose. Avg. ltd, tat BILLINGS MO UR FIRE AND LIPS 1:i17/ANCIC AC Alf %sane.* Allen dell to proem pi ly. nn fait tem, reface P.M door met of the hack Wm. 11 , Con v, L Co. eolith Avetae, t/Laff.t./h6ll. JOY tEI 3 at :ra.... J. D. I'AIL lloareorertno rUTSICI CM asp SCllarni. US permanently kwaterl hitn•ell In Montrose. Pa, where hesrlltpreerpt. 1. attend to all esti. In his DramPhgn with which haunt! be farmed. °Sky and riNidence west of the Oetrt ire, near Fitch in Watson'S Mice. • Montrose.. February 8, 103.. P. tiruiwirmi., J..ttce of the Peace! orrice oTer.L. S. 1 , 2he 122., ntlt fkod baronlh. 4 4zotquehatton County. Peon's 11‘. the .at lament Of the dockets of the late Lane Re<pow. dereatted.'rtftlee tour* from 9 to 12 u'eoct to and from Ito 4 o'dock.p. to. Gout Bend. (Mt. 9.11;1919, BCE.V.S.O.IIrICHOLS, ti dile ha Drop, illedition, Chemical.. Dye. n+O la, Paints. Ohs. %%anthill. blquon, 9plcra, noel ,90.1.411, Patent IladleleM, Perfumery and Toilet Ar clo., iarProzeripttorul earofalli COMPOun4e 6-- try tlast, Nootruit.Ps. _• =Ea &sr 444 11111D8 OF JOB PRINTING, ETC., FLEVIITSD AT Till DEMOCRAT OFFICE, 'eel Nei or P veacc AvUct //Ai . gixtro gorutr. TILE ROSS GROWN BRIDGE -0— . Mt:MUM A. DEIIISO. —o— a wild, rude spot, vet just the place Where poets love to . dremp, • In the deep, deep shade, milithe moss grown bridge That spans the mountain streim. On either hide the cmggr rocks Like sentries stand abreast, While on the top of their tawny brows The eagle builds her nest. "rig a wild, will spot, yet I love to stray Alone by the winding stream, And, sitting down by the mossy bridge, Of othee days to dream. Here fan g weaves her fairy web, Of every shade and hue, While a golden thread of the buried past Like a sunbeam wanders through. Here tired nature seeks repose Within the rocky glade: And sweet content unfolds her robes, To sport. beneath the shade And perfumed dowers, rich and rare, Lend beauty to the scene, While from the rocks the mossy wreaths Hang graceibily between. When evening weaves her mystic charms To . deck the twilight hour, With plesaants thoughts I hie me there, To the bride in the shady bower; And there with happy heart I sing, Of future blis.%l dream, While laughing echoes Tmm the eaves Dune dancing down the stream. And oft methinks I hear a voice. Among the bending trees The rustling of an angel's wing Born on the evening breeze. And countless voices scent to rise Around me everywhere, While Friends I loved long, long ago, CAnne back to meet me there. And this is why 1 love the spot; It ever brings to me The happy by-gones of my youth Enrohed in purity ; And fancy weaves her fairy web, And thus I sit and dream In the quiet shade on the moss zrown bridge That spans the mountain stre.un. The Lord's Prayer In Verse. Onr Fnther who in Heaven art, Thv name most Hallowed be ; Thy kingdom come and neer depart, 'llll we go home to Thee. Tin• will on eArtit be fully done, As done in Ilencen it is; And nil rmbrne.,. Thy only NOn. Alld share with Him Thy bliss. Our daily bread. give us this day; Our trespasses forgive ; As we to others th , and &AY. The same may we Pi:dive. Help u. temptatierit's path to shun From evil, u. leaver : alhn• he to the Fnther, Sot, And Holy Ghost forever. Amen. "4he ffitor.g 7,eller. LOTE TO TINE COOK HS EMILY IL SWANDER "Hero you I wIl tint Ix• trifled any liinger." . _ "You surely would not 81X11 ,4 e me of trithog ; I hoc, simply avoid. d you be amN• your add ressys wire dista.gyful to MO. " -Oh! Only two words, but his manner spoke! such whim, s of reproach, as he turned to leave, her, that she tins touched, and einicklv grasped his arm to prevent hit de • partnri, saying earnestiv: "No, not distasteful, Mr. Sark, but out of place. You are utterly ignorant re garding myself or connections. Yon are a gentleman of wealth and position ; while I am, as volt see, a poor lone wom an, without friends, earning my daily bread and sliel•er by cooking the victuals for yoor lady mother and her most re spectable family." "And vet, Minna, I want you for my wife. Yon have education and refine ment, and how you came to occupy so sin golar a position is certainly puzzling; but I fed assured you have chosen. it fur no mean motive. I do not desire to pry into the secret; I do want to raise you out of it, and place you where your heart and mind will be at home." For answer she hid her face in her hands and sobbed bitterly, while he en deavored to scioth her with all the endear ing names at his command. "I do not doubt your good intentions, Mr. Sark, and get, would you take the advantage of your_ mothers absence to make love to her cook, as a compliment to me! I cannot view it as such, how• ever; you may not believe a person in my positiou capable of propriety semi ! ples." 'You are talking like a woman now, your words come only from the tongue.— Your heart tells you when a man loves as purely and earnestly as I yon, lie does not stop to question 'proper hours,' es pecially when the occasions arc eo rare, that are blessed with your piesence, when can see you." AvOI ZigMOUS "Oh ! what a pretty speech ; that is too much for the cook's head to bear. I fear if I do not leave you on the instant, sour muffins will season the compliment for your to-morrow's breakfast. Good-night." "Not so fast, you aggravating, but •ehan,:'ng creature: said be, bolding h erby tlte, hands and compelling her to look u t bi ns , by the magnetism of his earnest ness and . feritor. Drop this hatiteriag. Minna, shine your true self once more, like the sweet woman that lighted and brightened the sick room during those weary weeks tg my suffer ins. Aft, Minna, while mother was doz ing' In her big chair, and you were reading to me. I was reading another story far more interesting, and studying the beauties that flashed around your assumed character, and proved you to me a gem that I longed to possess; tell me Minus, did,your heart remain Untouched, did no tenderness for the sufferer help you bear the vigils that made you the dearestirtisaan on earth to me r "Of course I felt very sorry for you." "Really? how good of you ; probably you.wouid have condescended as much 1 for a dog had. he been brought to you ma a broken-leg. Good night." • 3. "e„.„, "Ile patient a little longer. Mr. t;arle. and the time may come when we can meet, as friends. awl your seciciY will not place me in a doubtful light should others see us together. The necessity for labor is past—but enough for this evening ; re tire now, and believe me, when I tell you, were it not fot your good opinion and to show you how sincerely I appreciate your j noble heart,l should ere this have gone as I came." The next day mother and sin were holding an animated conversation. where in Minna's name and merits were discuss ed, Madam Public-opinion, as usual, add ing her weighty influence iu favor of the mother. "My son, what will people say ? yon cannot have it in your heart to himpli. ate me so. If she is of good fan:ily, why does she not teach ? Who with any pride of serf-respect would d. grade herself to the position of a c ok ?' Just then so elegant private carriage stopperbefore the door. Twoladica and -an old gentleman alighted. "May I bring them in here? they seem so—so gentle; I do not like to take them in the dinning-room they want Minna," she added hesitatingly. "In here, and call Minna," command ed Mr. Sada before the frowning mother could reply. Qne moment, and with a cry of joy ton happy for any but tears, Myrna rested in the close en braee:of the waiting oucs. Murmured expresiions of endearment; German pet names and kisses fell goi the tearful girl, while mother and soft look• ed on in silent astbuishmeut and enjoyed the scene with sympathetic eyes. "Oh ! Mrs. Sark, they have conic.. my dear ones! and:: I hold my loved mother again to my heart, and my father and sister.— Oh! God! I feel too happy after crushing the hungry longing iii my heart so long, Mr. Sark." said she, blushing th rough her tears as she looked at him. "My parents cannot thank you in your tongue and language, but their daughter will hear yon in her soul to the Most High in grati tude for having found one man that is worthy of ht.:lring the name as it should be horn." 4 "You must dispense with your cook this very day, Mrs. Sark ; had 1 known my deur ones wonld hase hero here so soon I should have given prorr notice," she added. hinghing, -lint I hope to see ton at our house. alv father tells me he has settled here; his agent has made all artangements; and our home is ready, and they wait to :ake me with them." • Sans further ceremony, the es•cook departed in her cult conveyance. 'lbis exp'atiatiou arrived early nest day : "A little less than three years ago,: there lives), in a beautiful villa on the th, oie , a h a ppy German family consisting of father, mother 3111 two daughters, the youngest not sixteen. my,dr and sister tao tsar_ older. Our too rar e its loved its too tb•ariy to send no. Its is generally the custom, to 14,k1110 eotubliih- Ment for the (-Meat ion of girls. We had teitehees ai-itome; we were taught music. latignagi s an 1 everything, to lit us lor the :palm vin which we motes!. At the same titre, My good mother was one of those pramical and sensible lierman ladies that do, s not consider any girl educated un less is one of her accom plishments. We were permitted to choose that part which suited us beet alien .inite young. I, you can imagine, spent many hours out of regular study with the head cook of our family, taking a de light in every new intention for the pal ate, and often preparn g some delicate dish to surprise the go at mother." "We had a teacher of French who vis ited the house twice a week. lie was a young man of decided beauty and lovable manners; at least the suseeptilde girl of sixteen thought him so; in short he won my fancy. I will not ssy my heart, fur what child of sixteen, brought np as I had been, knew the value of such a pos session ? "In romantic fervor I appealed to my parents to receive my lover as their son. ['hey understood the cowardly creature and endeavored to make me see his un manly conduct; lint will hilly blind, I cast myself into his arms when next we met, Jetermined to leave mother and home for his sake. "I packed everything of rains I posses sed, and left home one dark night to meet him and hecome his wife. We were mar ried and sailed for Ameri c a immediately. My husband requested me to send my cer tificate and address of some New York lintel to father before we left. This I did, also a tear-blotted" letter, begging them write me, and relieve my heart of the , reproach it deserved fur this step, without their sanction. "I was as happy during the trip to New York as my conscience and the loving at tentions of my husband permitted. Ex pecting to bear soon aft-r me arrival, I smothered the horde-sicknes that of course would come. Being left alone so much amid the hum of a thousand voices and not one familiar face in a great hotel, my husband absent, seeking as he told me some remunerative employment, I did not question in the silence of my heavy heart what should detain -him into late hours of the night when the days were so long—so very long—to poor solitary me. "Two months went slowly by, and - no news from home, when one evening my husband came to me in a state bordering on madness, wild with drink, no longer cloaking his natural self for purposes known only to Lim. "'Write to your Dutch relations and make them disgorge some of their money for I'm not going to support you!' His words were spiced with oaths and adjec tives that were like whiplashes to my soul. They drove youth and love out of my childish nature, and developed a defi ant womanhood, scarcely sae' for my ig norance. ".1 had made a friend of the housekeep er ; that is, she had frequently been in my room while I was not well when we first came to the hotel. I went to her and told her my situation; she advised me to re main quiet, my husband would wake np, filled with remorse, for his conduct had been a. little excited with wine. "Oh! I felt the truth of his words; he was, tired of me. It was not me he wanted . unless money.ketit the charm over him. MONTROSE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1873. "But what could I do w:thout money or friend; so utterly n stranger in a strange land. I went back to the man I had learned to scorn in a little short hour, but he' did not censider it. worthy of a word of regret. I was silent: he became I brutal, when one day I found a torn letter.; that he had carelessly dropped. It was from dear father. The portion still readable proved that he had sent me a check on some bank for my benefit, and urging me to come home; if I needed more money to write, with ex. pressions of warmest love and regret for my ill health ; also expressed a desire to hear from me in future. So my hus band was a villian out and out. He had written to my parents, received money, and yet let me wear my heart out in longings for one dear word from them. "One whole year this man had thus deceived me ; do you wonder that my na ture rebelled and my tongue uttered. the scorn I felt. Ills words passed over me harm!. ss ; I decided to act fn. myself. Again I appealed to the housekeeper, who i-roxed my friend since the first trouble. "I was fortunate; she gave Ina a letter to her sister here in your village, with the advice: There you can live, and after a time become free from the persecutions of Your husband. 'if came, was kindly recieved, and soon after was engaged with your mother as cook. Tho first news I had from home told me of their troubles. My father had meddled with politics, and our home had become unsafe shglter. They were about to sail for America, and waited but for news from me. "1 wrote without delay. and the result waA, the best of parents had sold all their possessions in the old country, and are now settled in this beautiful village. "My father's agent bought Judge Nel son's lovely place, where I anxiously await a ereeting from thee to thine. "Married ?" Mr. Sane seemed to feel that this one wind was more to keep them apart than time or distance. "Oh, why did she not tell me, for I love her, moth er? 4 feel as if life had not one gift to make it valuable now." "She will not have any difficulty in freeing herself from the man, and then, if she is so necessary to your happiness, you can renew your proposal." •tlLarry u dic . oreed woman :" "And aby not,mv son? Their natures were divorced by a law higher than hu man. God never sanctionei so unsuita ble a marriage; and it were a crime to force the least blamable of two mistaken ones to wear the chains, nor should it ex ile her from ihe affections that beautify noman's nature, or condemn her to it lovtless existence." "Tit not the divorce itself I look at : but the thought that another man toes that onee claimed the same relation to my would nli nsst drive me to fat at hail' through his brain if .1 should ever meet him." "Not at all prohalde that you will ever be put to the test." 1 ‘rill see her once mote. You Hill go with mid; drat mother, and if she does eur.• for m•, I shall wait and help to free her—and then—" Jnilr„e Nelson's place, now the home of Minna, was a mu-t comfortable and ele gant mansion. and there attired in but gmet her blonde be a my e n baneed by her surroundibge, Minna re- i%ed her guests. Tt.c romantic story of t h e ex.-cook only added to the admiration Minna created, but her sly pretecence fur Mr. Sark con y:need him that ho mightsome day claim "Minna have yon taken no step tow ard your fre . edom ?" he asked her one day as they wandered through the extensive grounds around her home. "You tell me nothing and still you must see that I am all impatience'" “I am divorced; do you think I would permit myself the happiness df your dai ly society as the wife of another? Or should I admit the mockery of crape over the heart that cau but rejoice over its freedom ? The man is dead. I can say it calmly and without feeling, fbr his vi ces led him to his death, in the haunts where congenial spirits charmed him. Shall I tell the reader more? Those who have not experienced the sweetest rai.mmis of life, the consummation of :he rights of true love, have not yet lived at all. A Sr. 1.01 - 15 dentist when he visits an entertainment, always carries a jar of laughing gas. 1 t works successfully, but queerly. In his lint experience he took a whiff whenever a joke was let off, but it failed to operate Until every one was through laughing, then the smile 'would chase one another over his face and final ly develope into a full grown hearty laugh generally in a pathetic portion of the show. Now he attempts to anticipate a joke and inhales his hilarious mixture a moment before the joke is expected.— Sometimes he hits it nicely, but more frequently the joke don't come anti the langh does. A GEM!. ~1* expressman called at a house in Clinton street, Brooklyn.recent ly, to deliver a box. Ile rang the bell,and a servant girl opened the door, when the expressman said: "I've got a schmall pox and if yon likes I vill carry it up stairs.' , The girl looked horror-stricken,- and not relishing the idea of admitting a man with small pox,slammed,liolted add barr ed the door in the astonisho expressman's face. . - -"Stint your eyes and listen mit mee."— said 'Uncle Van , Ileyde. "Veil. de first night, 1 opens store I counts de monies and finds him nix right. I counts and dere be tree dollars gone; apd vat does der.." "1 can't say.' `NY, - I did not count him any more, and, he Comes out shoost right ever since." An exchange informs us that an intel ligent foreigner recently wrote his home friends that "when a great man dies in the United States, the first thing done is .to propose a fine statue in his honor;-- next, to forget to order any statue ; and last, to wonder what became of the men . •- ey." 4 Locked Out --0— It's all very well to laugh at, now it's all over, but if you wish to know what a pleasant effect the wrong side of a door has, at hall-past two in the morning, lose your key and•try it. . I arrived at my apartments,some ten to twelve miles oat of town, at half-past two un last Thursday morning, and looking np smilingly at my windows. I felt for my key. • Tho . se who carry latch keys can readily realize my sensations when I found I'd left it in town. To wake the inmates was a matter of disturbing the whole neighborhood, I de termined, therefore; (after waiting thirty minutes for a policeman) to affect an en trance by the staircase. I mnst mention that my house is one of u short row, in which there live a ba ker, butcher and chemists —each of whom keeps a dog or dogs, more or loss vicious according to the amiableness of its owner. Having determined to attempt the great window Pat, I went around to the back of the house and looked over .he paling. Starcely had I raised my bead than "80-woo- woo" went a dor , ' with whom I had some slight acquaintance. I addressed it soothingly by its Christian name "Gip." At the sound of my voice set the re mainder of the dog off, and in less than a minute there was a row only equalled by a pack in full cry. This naturally woke some of the nobler animals; and one gentle female with a shrieky voice put ncr head out of a win dow and risked, in a hysterical tone, who was theft. The ever ready answer, forth, regardless of grammar, "Where are the police ?" continued the screech. "Precisely what I have been asking myself for the last thirty minutes," an swered I. At this junctnre I attempted a langli, and nearly overbalanced myself, and in regaining my position, I kicked the pal ing on which I was seated, so vigorously that off went the (lop louder than before and several more windows went up. At the chemist's appeared something that looked like Robinson Crusoe, ably supported by La Sonuaambula in a night tatp. "What's the matter ?" sensibly asked a third wiltdow. "Matter?" shrieked all the windows to gether; but their explanatian was lost in the general howl of dogs. "You shall hear of this in the morn ing;" cried one irrepressible female. Et strikes mu I am hearing of it—very much of it—in the morning; you mean later in the day. Call it lunch," said I, -am., 10:4 have it out." The windows went down with a bang, and 1 went off the palings with another, falling within a yard of a beautiful bull mastiff who showed Inc the perfect order in which he kept his teeth i; fter a very saiisractory inspection thereof. I deserib int -n-nirel, almond him, and orrivna: at the wash hioise. One foot. on the window•st]l and one hand on the leaden spent, I pre pared for the great feat, but at that in stant, owing to the dog's violent effort.to strangle itself, the staple holding the chain gave way, and without a word of apology. he seized me by that portion of nn• clothes unknown to angels. I held on to the spout, the dog held on to me, cue deristioe laugh rang through the air. A lapse of several seconds, which each seemed an hour. Every momen - I expected would be my last, wheb, within reach. I saw a broom hand!e ; to seize it and deal myself a ter rible blow, was the work of an instant. [fermi.: The spout is giving way! A second fearful blow proves more fortunate —1 broke the wash house window. One more, and I lauded the stick on his none in a way that sounded like cracking an egg-shell. A dreadful howl followed and he let go. Windows again tip—gensplowling and shouting and a rally„ . alf:44l4' 7 , During the melee I disappeimalik titllw window and peeped round 01'4 014: "..:How grad ually subsided. An interval of five minutes. Every thing quiet. An interval of five more minutes. A policeman Composed. unruffled, digni fied. MAnic Twain lies been troubled with a lightning-rod man, and to get red of him addressed him as follows: "Let us have peace! Put some on the kitchen I Put a dozen on the barn I Put a couple on the cow! Scatter them all over the persecuted place till it looks like a zinc-plated, spiral twisted, silver mounted cane-brake.— Move! use up all the material you can get your hand on, and when you run out of lightning-rods, put np ram rods, cam rods, stair rods, piston rods—anything that will panier to your dismal appear ance for artificil scenery, and bring re spite to my raging brain and heal my lacerated heart. IMAGINE the surprise that was maim ble in the face of the wife of a good dea con of Cony, the other day, when .her husband, on taking his knife from his pocket, brought forth a lady's shoe but toner, that didn't belong to her or any of her family. lie had been up at Erie at tending "court, " and if such things don't stop he will probably have to go there again soon. TUE editor of the London 'limes once said, "I can find any number of men to write to me, but very seldom one man of common sense." To write for a paper is one thing, to edit it is another. Hiker.' inns, poets, rovelists, essayists write well, but papers need men who can select, al ter, combine and fashion matter to snit an audience composed of varied elements. Ax old lady slightly blind, who en gaged in a futile attempt to sew buttons on young Augustus' jacket, remarked— 'Drat these buttons, I can't find the hules, and they split all to pieces every time I stick the needle into 'em: To which,replind the ydung . Augustus--Now, look 'ers, G ranny! you psi let• my pep- Perm in t drops alone. Ton'To split more'n ball' of 'em already. . Country Children. —o— fresh violets, Born in the wild wood, Sweetly illustrating Innocent childhood ; Shy as the antelope— Ilmwn as a berry— Free as the mountain air, Romping and merry. Bloc eyes and hazel eyes Peep front the hedges, Shaded by sun-bonnets, Frayed at the wires, tp in the apple trees; Heedless of danger, lilaulmod in embryo Stares at the stranger. Out In the hilly patch Seeking the.berrics— Under the orchard tires, Feasting on cherries; Trampling the blossomy, Down among the grassa, No voice to bin.".er them, Dear lads and lasses. No grim pmpricty— No interdiction Free as the birldllng From city restriction Coining the purest blood, Streegth'ning each muscle, Donning health armor Against life's coming bustle Dear littleinnocents I Born in the wild wood ; Oh, that all little ones Dad such a childhood ! God's blue spread over them, God's garden beneath them No sweeter heritage Cold we bequeth them I About Postal Curds. ——o— A CONPANY known as the Morgan En velope Company, of Springfield, Mass.; has eucceeded in seenring the contract for the manufacture of the new postal cards at 81.48} per thousand. The con tract is to run fonr years, and calls for the delivery of one hundred millions of cards the first year, though the number may be ' increased at the option of the depart- ment. Four millions of the cards are to be made by the Ist of May, when the con tract takes effect. They are to be three by five and one-eighth inches in size, made from bond paper, and the card board must weigh six pounds per thou sand cards. Thus the Government will pay 8138,000 for the first year's install ment of postal cards. A question arises whether, if the Pest-Office Department can afford to pay out this amount for the cards and deliver them to any address for one cent, it would not be just so much more profitable to carry a sealed letter at the same price, the paper and envelope be ing furnished by the sender. It is antici pated that a greatly increased number of these cards will be enclosed in a sealed envelope at the same rate of postage, would not the number sent be still great er? "me," burst The First Thousand Dollars The first thousand dollars that a young man honestly earns, and saves over and above his expenses. while earning it will ordinarily stamp npon his mind and char acter two of the most important condi tions of success in after fife—industry and economy. It is far better for him that he should earn the first thousand dollars than it should he given him. If be earns it he knows what it is worth, since it represents to aim a very consider, able amount of effort If ho saves it, while earning a larger sum, lie acquires thereby the habit of economy. Neither of these valuable lessons is taught by a pare gift. On the whole, it is no serious disadvantage to a young man to begin life poor. Most persons who become rich in this country were once poor, and in their poverty they gained habits from the stern necessity of their condition; which in the sequel msulted in riches. Those who are horn with "silver spoons in their mouths," and spends their early yeani in idleness and prodigality, seldom amount to much as men in the practical business of life. Poison for Hanging. TIIE newspapers are discussing the proposition attributed to the 11ev. 0. B. Frothingliam of N. York, to substitute for ;the public execution of criminals condemned to death, the plan of putting , them to death privately by poison without I their expecting it, in ways known only to the officers charged with the duty of killing. The motive of this proposition appears to be humane; Mid it reminds us of en idea conceived years ago by Mr. Jules Lechevalier, a French socialist. Ms plan was to substitute for the guillotine or the gallows what he called electric fulgura lion. The criminal was to be taken and life extinguished by as immense shock of electricity which would overcome him with such inconceivable rapidity that he would not be conscious of tlps process.— lAvhevalier advocated this reform wish much eloquence; but we do not think he made many converts; and. it is=not like ly that Mi.. Frolhingham's method—if indeed it be his—is any more likely to be ' adopted. .We are touching our fellow beings on altsides. They are affected for good or for evil, by what we are, by what wo say and do, even by what we think and feel. May flowers in the varier breath their fragrance through the atmosphere. We i ate each of us silently saturating the at mosphere about us with the stiletilo aro ma of our character. In tho fatally cir cle besides and beyond all the teaching, the daily life of each permit and child mysteriously inodlies the life of ,eiery personsof the household. The same pro-, cm, on a wider scale, is going on through the community. No mail lives to himself, and no man theth to himself. Others are built up : and straightened by Out uncoil scions dileils; and others may be wrench ed out of their place, and thrown by our nucnscions influence. • ; THE workingmen have recently pe ti tinned the Bishop . of London to preach against 'tilibatlr breaking by ebnrchloers who compel their coachmen to drive thinn to prayers. The Bishop 4 7:#10,inti *poi it." - t VOLUME XXX, NUMBER 13: Silent Influence. Various Items. - —_o— Tutus luta opened her first railway., PEOPLE who sell hay do business on a "large scale." Wuvr a man's necktie is untied how untidy it looks! A BELLE doeseu't always giv.a the best "tone" to society. TECE latest editidd to chatelaine:l is a Mlle gold and ivory calendar. ) Pius is doing:the quiet and borne-like style of entertainment this wintet. • "Tut. books in the running 'brooks" were probably . "volumes of. water." ' A COrPLE who itad been divorced thir teen years were lately remarried, at Term Haute. Two Eriglish sisters named Pratt havo just put up their shiagfrs as dcutists is SCASDAI.OI:B !—The frieudelqp . pf. two young ladies is alway . s . a Put against tike third one., ISABELLA of Spain, at the age of for -ty-three, is reported to look k.i.n . trngtir, healthier, and happier;' tlilitrever before THE dearest object to a man shotrldba his wife, but it is not unfrequentry her clothes. • - NEARLY all the principal the.atmit,i4 Europe, outside of England, receive sub sidies from the Government. • I A ureic in Omaha Was violantly.titiaok et/ by a rat white asleep. The" "vaitiiii" took him by the nose. Flammmax with drarneta are baring remarkably. good luck , at Dayton, °hid, w corpse being fislird'out nearly every week, Sl' hundred ears of luniber are-away ting shipment from St, Paul over tha'St.-. Paul and Sioux City Railroad.- • • Two reasons why some persons don't' mind their own busiaisa One js, they. havent'any business,tli,e other,t hey havpit i .k any mind. SPECLUENS of raisin's; of 'very lair quil lip raised in Kane eounti,Tjtah, have been meived at the Agricultural Bureau,,in Washington. RICHARD SPENCER, Who was lately, bung for murder int England, was born mrjair, and his father was hung fondle murder of his mother. "0, PA 1 there goes an editort":"Hush,' son," said the father, ."don't make fun of . the poor man—God only knows isliaqott may come to yet." ' _ .• A LO'cit option bill, omitting. anaft liquors from the schedule of interdiC;e4 , drinks, has been reported favorabli'lis the Legislature of New Jersey. • 3IANY ladies in Washington'liold - t4r receptions in the morning, when dancing is-introduced. There aro none toaose by this but the physicians. - Tut Shakers of New lebanon. tueog—• nizo the rizlits of the fair sex. by: Cluing- t ,•, Ing the name of their newspapers, tkie "Shaer," to the "Shaker and - SlOketelw." Tut enterprising individual' ,Who organizing a brass band o: twentrwom'an says that it they learn hal rIIS many"airtro,s, they, put on, the experiment cannot faiitaf being a sticrees. . • • ,1 Awn twenty-three. yeara- of ereddet . 1. life IN 1111 CV K.le, of. ; Itithlletovia,_Co - iin., , sues her husband fur yages us bentae.keep er, a month. for the lull period. TITE 3TildoC Oregon, who lately defeated the U. K. Irony* in it se vere have finally a ,, rved'to surren der thetneelcrd.prition,rs of 'cr.ir;to.be.re-T moved to a southern and wanner.clLauito and provided" tor. . •. A scnoot-boy's toast: t•Tliegirls--11filyrE they add cbairity to beatityi sobstract vy fro m iiit•lois!.ip, multiply genial, ofrecf • tions, divide thine by indfistry,aud A.c,te: L tion, 'red nee scandal to itslowestdeti6ml- nations. and raise , virtue' to its 'higlied .power." „ • - - . . An amiable spinster of ripe age nit:- • -- derstunding la dissatisfied with thesort of PeoPie she meets, at , parties now 7 a-days. She thinks that at, most parties ."onci might imagine' oneself' in a big ntiiiriT or foundling asylum, or something of that sort, from the age of most of ithegmetite THE young man with piesdrice of :atria resides in Detroit.. ,- Just at he was lit it his hat to a conpli of. yenng ladies tn. Woodward avilue r , ahoy run :a sled against his lege..and the fashionableyciung matt turned half a dozen :pigeon-wings, and came down on all-lburs. Picking n p his bat Withotit dirtizuch frown, he remarked to the .ladies, "I 7 arn always subject to these dizzy spells la wintet." THE head of that philosopher is levet who remarked that the newspaper is just as necessary to fit a man for his tree pos ition in life as food or raiment: ',Show tit a : ragged, tiarefoot. toy 'tallier ihati - an ignorant one.• ilia head • will '''''''' his. feet in after life if he is well snpplitid:with newspapers. Show us - a ehilir2ilist ie . eager for •nswspapeis. He will Make the man 'of mark in. afterlife yinigratify.. that' esire for knowledge.' Other • things being equal, it is a rule that 'never Give the children - newspapers. ', f• Tate Greenville (Ky.,). Independent has, the following: "Why. the workmen were engaged in quarrying the. stone'foilook No. 2..0n Green river, a petrified rattle snake,ribont three feet six inches in, length, liming on it eight rattles; was 'found imlmided in the solid stone. Thee snake was broken in two by' thworerk; , .; men in quarrying; bat the . pieces' were. • efetrwaril•fastened together in . suph. , : .n. tnittiner as hht disidose the , brealc,„ • • • A young .Briton lately lost a large sum by betting on molders. He wagered thrt a spider which he would produce would cross a plate quicker than n spider to bo produced by a friend. Eaciit spider wes to hare its own , plate. His opponents spider, however, on, liiing;startAlrould not stir, .whilst its rival i raol,withialtaeate , spetti, , The. bet was vonscOmititolOst4 d>ltl the foatiti etat ,440 Imantp.44 tad bad i‘ldiflite. rinuttatrutrrs, ; 11,11orw)Ips that. !re friate:
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