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Business Oards.
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Ps. Montrose, May 10, Mtn, tt
D. TV. SEARLE,
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of Main stmt.. Ilentraw.. Ps. lan. 1. 13119.
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Asctionser, and Insurance Agent,
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Cutting dame 6irshort nattcm.iunt warranted to M..
J. F. 8110EifAKEN,
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n. DeWtte• .torr. orpu.lto the boot.
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B. 1.. BALDWIN,
Arreacav it L.Q. Montrose, Pa Mho. with James
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A. 0. WARREN;
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•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!,
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LAW OFFICE..
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FARIIIONADLR TAILOR. Sboy aver.. R. DcWitr•
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Bre *tag.. Trir.. nincy Jewelry. Pet,
ramerj, sc., Brick Block, Boutt...a, Pa F..tanit.beti
till. iFcb. 1. It4l.
DIL W. L. RICUARDSOS
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.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.
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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
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rodkolowel opptiolto ll4ritottt House, 6%.• Bend otih c.
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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
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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
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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
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TILE ROSS GROWN BRIDGE
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. Mt:MUM A. DEIIISO.
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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
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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: