THE ~:MONTROSE • DEMOCRAM VOLUME XXX. E. B. HAWLEY: Business •Cards. J.B. & 11. MeCOLL UM, AROIIIIETII •T Lvir Mace orcr the Ruth, Montroso Ps. Montrose,,Nny 10, 111:1. tf D. W. SEARLE. A TTORNEY AT LAW, °Coo over the Store of X. Dttoaaer, la the Clic: Work, Illontroee, Pa. Dna C) w. w. imurfr, CABINET AND CHAIR MANUPA(.TERERS.—}roo. of Male meet s Montrose. Pa. )aug. 1. 1569. .11. C. SUTTON, Auctioneer, and Insurance Agent, aul eliltr Frlaudarille. Pa. C. S. GILBERT, . a ..A.vicaticarvockr. ott areal: Bead. Pa. All 7 EL T. 11. O. .421maciticossocor. Aug. I, tero. Addrows. Brooklyn. Pa ✓OILN GROVES, TASIIIONABLE TAILOR, Xontrose. A. Shay over Chindlcrer Store. !divide» gilled In tirst•rateetylt.. Catthas done on abort nottea. and warranted to at. J. F. SHOI33IAKER, Attorney at Law, llonttosa. Pa. Odlces pact door to J liviVltt'r store, opposite Lae dusk. ilootrose, Jam. IL 15T.1.—003-Iy. B. L BALDWIN, •noaser Se LAW, Montreaa, Pa Office with James E. earmalt, Esq. Anguat 30, Int. 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CIE4 RLET MORTIDI, TIM IlarTl ntkeen, has moved .hop to the belldlng occupied br.l. It. DeWitt. wbrre be le pre. pared to do e.I kinds et work in We liar. such e• kin ...Kr:be...Vlft. etc_ All work Alune.was stoat notice and priers low. Please call and pee me. IL BITRBIrn bale, .1 Staple and ram DIT Goods, Crockery, Rud y.... Iran, Storm Druz'. Ont. awl Paiute, Boot. as! %no% Ilataand Cep., Fars, DaSalo llvLas, Gro "oerion. Prarisloni tr. NOW,1111:ortl, I s.. Nor. O. •i3.—tf. EXCHANGE HOTEL. D. A. IieCRACEEN. , wishes to Interco thspnblle that \ming mated the Exobao:e Hotel la Alrmtrese j he Is now prepared onee.rmmedste the Myelin: publte In Onto's** style Montrose. AU:. BILLINGBRTBO VD. r IRS AND LIPS INVJaANCIC Al: buslom attouded to promptly. on par Um*. Office 4d door env of the. hunk 0 , Wm. rt. Cooper 2 Co. ecttie Avenste,Moutrose, Pa. (A0f..1.1560. .1, IT. lerat.j 811.11,010111 STIAACD. J. D. VAIL, DOVIAPATTRC PHINICIAN AND SCNOLDN. lIDA perwlenenily Located himself in Montrose, Pa., where he will prompt- I, attend to all calls lu his profession with which homey h. (Aram& 011lir,e end wothlence wean of the court [louse, near Pitch S Wiitsen'e *Mee. . Montrose. February &PM F. CHURCHILL. Je.taea of the Peace: bon am L. 8. Lenhetee .tore. Groat flood borough; Suaquehanna County. Penn . .. the get lemma of the dockets of the late Imum Itnkleokr. deceased. Offiee boars from St° 12 o'clock a. m , aed from 1 to 4 o'clock p. m. Gnat Head. Oct. W. Int BURNS NICHOLs, L . - sat ati lo Drugs. Medicine., Ctictoltabo."Tryo: o: leo. Palma, 0110, Varnish. Lloconi, Spicee.Vaney trt.clos. Patent Medicine.. Perfnmeryand Toilet An errreterlptlekc earcfally co=pootuted.— %rick Block. Illoatrore,Pa. . B. 110•1“. ger ALL KEATS OF jor, ritiNTING, ETC., pECCTIR AV MB DEMOCRAT OFFICE, Vircor Son or PUBLIC AVENUE. the gates oarutr. TEACHIPHi PUBLIC SCHOOL. —o— little urchins Coming through the door„ Pushing, crowding, making, A tremendous roar. l i nty don't you I eep quiet? Can't you mind the role ? Bless me I this is pleasant, Keeping public school. Eighty little pilgrims? On the road to fame! If they fall to reach it, Who will be to blame? nigh and lowly etationt, Birds of every leather, On a common level, • Here are brought together. Dirty little faces, Luring little Mewls. Dyes brituNl of mischief, Skilled In all the arta,. That's a precioas darling! What arc you about? "Miyl piss the water?" "Please may I go out r. Boots 11111111110 ell ans shuffling, Slates and books are rattling And in the corner yonder • Two pugilists are battling! ()tilers cutting didoes, ' What a bothenttlon Nu wonder we grow crusty Front such association. Anxious parent dmps in, Merely to inquire Why his olive branches Do not shoot up higher? Says he wantslits children To mind their p's and q's, And hopes their brilliant talents Will net be abused. Institute attending. Making our reports, Giving object lessons. Class drills of all aorta; Reading dissertations Feeling like a fool—. 0 the untold blessing Of keeping public schooL Ehe ffitorg THE PHILOSOPHT OF LOVE In the last instalment of Mr. Ilerbert Spencer's exposition of the phdosophiiml system which is to give us un ex plait. non—so far as an explanat wn can he given—of the whole universe, we meet with an interesting passage upon the pas sions of love. The advocates of the evo lution hypothesis are sometimes ca led materialists. That word is too often t sed as "atheist" is used in theological, or a good roand oath in popn'ar dismission, simply to indicate disagreemmt coupled with moral disapproval. The fallacy which it involves in this ease might be easily exhibited. The gin Mite material ists of the last century, were in tact game to main Mining Oast onrhiftiest sentiments were in •rely modifications of the most earthly instincts. Ltistlansursumo =talc& stns' nest well reeved Is g awk, ucciatdin,ta-Popa; and some very equi vocal salamis lisve been preached uent his tell. Sup:rtiehtl read,rs ha e fancied that, because Mr..lsarwin or Mr. Herbert helieves-thitt' man has Wen en volved by incoiMt..iv.ifily minute chaiiir. s from some inferior organism, therd - ate our emotions and thouelits are nothing but transformations of the blind see:a te:ins of the lowest forms of I.fe. misconception is pat pahle. Seine= might conceivably thaw under what conditions intellect first manifested itself, but it would not be one step the nearer to dis covering a hat was the essence of intel • lect. It might explain the how, hut can throw no light upon the whit. Thus We Mid that Mr. Herbert Splqicer's descrip tion of the passion called love has noth ing in it c.slculitted to shock the must ep ritual philosopher. It is, he says, an emotion of the highest complexity and consequently of the greatest strength.— Around the purely physical elements ; gather all varieties Of powerlul emotions I which blend and unite in the closest harmony. First come all the impressions which are. produced by the beautiful, the explanation of which would involve a l u ng and most difficult analysis. Then we have the sentiment of affection, which ay exist between persons of the same sex, but which undergoes a special exal tatien when existing between lovers.— ' Next come the sentiments of admiration or reference; and, beyond them again, the love of approbation, which is keenly excited by the knowledge that we are preferred to all the world, and preferred 14 one *Lem we admire beyond all others Allied to this is the sentiment of self-ap proial, when- we are flattered by the sense of the great merit to which we owe so great a triumph. Beyond this is the "proprietary feeling," or the pleasure of mutual possession. And, finally, there is an exaltation. of the sympathies when our pleasures are heightened by the close participation' of another person in all our enjoyments, We need not ingoire whether the analysis is complete or cc curate; at any rate it illustrates pretty fairly the amaziu,g complexity .et a pas sion which. we are apt to describe" as sim ple. When a young gentleman at a ball sees the young lady WIIO is above all other young ladies that enter the room, he is conscious only of a keen thrill of emo tion, so vivid and powerful as to displace every other sentiment for the time, If Mr. Herbert Spencer were standing by • him and were to propose to give him a lecture on the constituent elements of his pits slop, we fear, though we mean no dare sited to Mr. Spencer, that he would con sider the philosopher to be a bore. But perhaps a few years afterward, or possi bly on the next_ day, if his suit should hate come to an untimely catastrophe, he might be _inclined to to take his pas• sinen - to pieces, and he would recognize the justice of the most of, the moar.ks which we have summarized. In that case he Would perhaps find the oxplana, Lion ofsome phenomena which are a littiolmating to bystanders, tharighthe loverAtimseif . hai not the leisure. to at. tend to them. ITl:3==! Thus, fiw, example; everybody is finA , sled . by the extraordinary caprices of love. making. 'rue ladies who say in 'novels that tbeyr 'cannot. understand "what he conld see in her" are generally held- up "TRUTH AND RIGHT : GOD AND OUR COUNTRY." MONTROSE, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1873. to ridicule as obviously blinded by jeal ousy. And yet their want of perception is not only sincere, but is shared by per fectly impartial spectators. When we see the way in which marriages are brought about in the world, we wonder that fife pursuit of matchmaking should be found so interesting by amiable per sons. Of course match-making as a varie ty of fortune-hunting is only too intel ligible; but there is a match-making of a much less sordid variety. All amiable women take the keenest delight in. at tempting to pair off their friends and relations according to their own views of the fitness of things. And yet they are always meeting with the strangest, and, at first sight, the most unaccountable disappointments. The man of intellect has ar. extraordinary taste for stupid wo men ; the handsome man of fashion is carried off by a poor, ugly. and common ptacewoman ten years older than him self; the pompous prig secures the bright est and liveliest of her sex; fox-bunters attract poetesses, and poets marry wives who can do nothing but mend their shirts, Such strange contrasts have led to the developement of the plausible theory that people are attracted rather by quali ties complementary than by qualittes simi lar to their own. This doctrine, how ever, fails by being too comprehensive.— We must often admit that like often at tracts like; and if we add that like also attracts unlike, we have a theory which explains nothing, because it explains ev erything. Every match that ever was or ever will be made may be brought under one category or the other; but until we can give some reason for telling before. hand which set of closes is likely to be operative in a given case, we are no near er an explanation than we were before-- The only general rule at which we have been enabled to arrive by experience is the rather discouraging one that people whom we like always marry people whom we dislike. Friends seem to have a per verse delight in forming new combina tions which may be as discordant as pos sible with their ancient ties. We do not, however, see our way to erecting any philosophical theory upon this,exaerience, unless as it goes to tis trati Artemus Ward's doctrine of the "cussedness," of things in general. Mr. Herbert Spencer's analysis may parhaps help us to understand some of the conditions of the problem, though the philosopher has yet to arise who will be able to tell us from the inspection of a young lady or gen:lemon what. will be the character of his or her future part ner. In the first Owe, it is to be remark ed than some of the elements which he describes du not cutter into the passion in many cases, or at least do not en er into it; earlier stages. Self-est-em, for exam. pie, is the reward for ancceesful love-mak ing. and strengthens the passion when it has once been formed; but it can not b• the primary cause. Mere contiguity is very often a sufficient explanation of the phenomenon. A man and woman brought together is Robinson Crusoe's is!and would almost inevitably tall in love, how ever unpromising their characters might be. And, though London is very unlike a desert island, there are freqpently El 1.11:1, tions, even in the most crowckd societies, where conditions subitant ially are repro duced. There are cirenuPtances tinder which it would he almost a breach of good manners not to indulge in a little flirta tion. A human being has such a variety of strtng feelings in a state of solution that any object will be sufficient to d e ter. mine their crystalization. This is, indeed, .he primary axiom on the subject. We have all a vast amount of disposable emu lion ; we all tong to admire am) be ad mired; we are grateful for compliments; we wish to have something to tall our own ; we want our sentiments to be con firmed by sympathy; and therefore, when once any accident has, so to Speak, drawn the slnicer,a whole torrent of emo tion rushes into the channel provided for it, and we attribute to the one externid and assignable cause what really results from our state of feeling. Besides a par ticular match has exploded the magazine we absurdly argue that nn other match would have time eqnally well. We set up the first idol that comes to hand,nnd sup pose that its perfections are the sole cause of our worship something has prepared us to prostrate oniselyes before uny other shrine that offers itself. Love being a compound of sa many forces, any one which is set in action draws all the rest after it by the principle of association. But all this does not answer the question as to how our choice is first determined. Ayoung gentlemen in London may see some hundreds of young ladies before he is brought down by one who •is perhaps amongst the least apparently attractive of the whole number. That is the pnzzle which is constantly reclining; and a so lution of it would be of immense value to all match makers, whether of the loft ier or .the baser variety. What is the' most promishig method of attack? Which of all vanies that may precipitate the passion is the most generally -availa ble? If philosophers could tell us that, they would have taken the first step to wards placing an occupation ; now pur sued on purely empirical principles, - upon true scientific grounds. • Iu such•a question we can of course give no satisfactory answer. It they be observed, however, that it has been very much obscured by the 4a bore of novelists. Novels are supposed. to be the• embodiment of the author's knowledge of human nature; a suppo sition to which there is the trifling objec tion that very few novelists know ;any thing at humane nature, and that at most they are familiar with particular in stances and not with general. principles. They of course go upon the general as sumption that their hero.andleroine are to be a3•attmctive as possible. and ; they lay particular stress upon the meritmost easily described—that of personal beauty. "June Bryon for a time set the fashion of ugly heroines, but we have long since re verted to the old system, Accordingly an exaggerated estimate is placed upon the charms of beauty, and upon the emir able gallitica of plod and person which form paet.oP- theordinary ideal of remit* the merit The error involved in this doctrine is that itlortfar too moot ere= on the objective as distinguished from the sullied( ive causes of falling in love.— It assumes that the passion is determined by the external rather than by the inter nal Impulses ; that a person falls in love because an attractive object is presented to him or het, and not because he 6r she is' prepared lor• a passion of some kind. When the true principle is firmly grasped, it is obvious that the most successful match-makers must be those who adopt a different line of attack. Amongst the passions, for example, which go to form the aggregate, is the desire for sympathy. Suppose then, that a young gentleman; has a taste for political economy, or pig eon shooting. tie may be assailed more effectively by a plain young woman who will submit to hear him lecturing on the theory of rent and the incidence of taxa tion, or wbo will applaud his successful slaughter of birds, than by the most beautiful girl who will not condescend to take an interest in his pursuits.' The great art of flattery provides the most ef ficient instruments for bringing down game of this kind. A clever man often prefers a fool to a clever woman, because the fool has the one talent of listening, and the clever woman may have the van ity to keep opinions of her own. The brilliant man of fashion is attracted by the apparently uninteresting old maid, because nothing is more flattering than that humble adoration which other wo men are too proud to bestow. Almost alt cases of perverse matches may be explain ed after the event by the skill or the acci dental felicity with which a commerce of reciprocal flattery has been established. Once put two people in that minden, and all the associated emotions may easily be introduced. It is as easy to produce an aesthetic admiration by working upon the desire for sympathy as to proceed iu the inverse method; and the assumption that we should always begin with what is sup posed to tie the natural beginning is the cause of half our perplexities. But though these seem to be the first princi ples of the science, we admit that its complexity baffles all attempts at a syste matic deduction of its remoter doctrines. Luckily or otherwise. some people bave developed so much practical skill in ap plying the most efficient methods that a philosophy of the art seems to be super fluous us well as chimercial. Florence's Promise. ——o— On a Saturday morning„ about the mid dle of last December, might have been seen getting into a second-class carriage at Oxford a num with a bag, a gun-ease. and a bull-terrior. That was myself, Claude Henniker. Use of my guardians was my nncle, Guy Henniker, my father's younger and only brother, who had inherited all the family prverty, to tho exclusion of my fat her. My uncle Guy was childless.; acid dur ing the four and a half years I had been at Oxford he had continually written to me, asking about my peognosa, and ad ding each time that,if I did well, I should never have cause to regret it. A fort• night Ir fore I went in form lust examina tion, 1 had the following laconic epistle from the old man : "My DEAR 13Jr: Write and. tell me when you can come to me. House near ly full. I have kept some presents for you. Mrs. lietterton and her daughters are h.-re. Don't forget to do well in your examination to please your old Dane) L at getting aw.ty from examina tion rooms and examiners, sorrow at leaving Oxford, were mingled with anx ious thoughts of Florence Betterton and surmises us to the terms ou which we should meet. During my first long vacation I had met Florence Betterton down in Devon shire, at a lovely seaside place near the Chase, where uncle Guy lived. The Bet terton family had since that time struck up an acquaintenance with my uncie,and how they were living with him. Flor ence and I had gone through all the stages of s rigorous flirtation in that happy month at the seaside, when I came down avowedly to study Thucydides, but really to read Tennyson aloud to my goldenhaired beauty. When we partifi there was a clear understanding between us that we were all in all to each other, backed by a distinct promise of mutual eons'ancy. Six months afterward I re ceived a verbal message through a mutu al friend that she had ceased to care for me. , So much for the cause of my troub led looks when I stepped into the train at Oxford. At Exeter I got out, I strolled to the refreshment saloon. Hardly had I enter ed the room when my attention was at tracted by two strangers, one of whom was telling the other that he knew the way horn Broadbeach 'to Chase quite well. Tlearuig the. man speaking of go ing to my uncle's place, I yentnred to ask if ho knew my relative. He said that he did, and immediately introduced himself to me as Clement Vinning. His companion was a brother officer, Charles Dawkins. During the journey I had 'established myself on a, tolerably intimate footing with my no w acquaintancSs. Vinning told me that there were to be dances and dinners. shooting parties and other gaie ties at the Chase, and that he intended to enjoy himself immensely, "especially as those derive girls, the Bettertons, are go ing to be in the home' No sooner had the train stopped ut the station of Broad beach, than we saw my uncle ou the plat form with Mrs. Betterton and all thegirls —Florence, Mary and Milly. Mary was the eldest—a fine, handsome .woman •of 25. She always had been a great friend in the old days when f had been infatuated about Flo. Next came Milly ; she was a sweet-tempered, pretty little thing, aul as unlike her handsome elder sister as possible. Last, bnt not least, was my Florence. I used to think her• perfect in those &:p, and young men's impressions often last them till old age. Golden hair, dark.eye-lashes, and a divine figure. Sunday was an aneventicul day. Flor ence kept her room all day, and Mary stayed with her. ,Monday wasthe day for commencing, the.serions - work of the day doing". We—that Is, the mea—were to ellook After diluter ere were 01 to gb to a dance given by a Mrs. Hughes, at Broadinach, in honor of our party. 1 shot badly all the morning, and so did Vinning. We ccmpared, and each con fessed to being a little down In the month. He brightened up about lunch time, when the girls were expected to come. Then it flushed across me for the first time—Florence threw me over for Vinning. Ho certainly looked ,pleased when the girls arrived. We walked home with the ladies. Again I failed to get au opportunity of speaking to Mary or Florence by themselves. Vin ning took off the latter, and I had to walk with Mary and ?Silly. In the evening, however, I was deter mined that I would speak and find out from Mary, or even from Florence herself, the mystery of her sudden change of mind toward me. How lovely the three eisters looked as they came into the rooml lint Florence, despite an air of sadness which had hardly left her face since I had been at the Chase, was the handsomest picture I ever saw. I naked her for the lirst waltz and got it. My first words to her, after we had ,retired to that lovely conservatory were : "Florence, have you forgotton four years ago ?" She never answered me, and I thought I would not press the subleet then. The next dunce was a quadrille, nod I was too sad to do anything; so I went up to Mary and asked her if she would not sit it out with me. I did not hesitate a moment when we were mono to ask her if she knew anything of Florence's reason for throwing me over so coldly and so sud denly. She said no; it so remained a mystery to her es to me—the only pos sible clue she could give being that she might have i heardthat I bad been flirt ing with somebody else. "No, Mary," I said, "you know me too well for that." I then asked Mary it Vinning was not engaged to Florence, and it the did not care for him. "Why," said she, "don't you know that he is engaged to Milly, and is only wait ing for his father's consent to get mar. tied at once ?—only they bad a little miff to-day, because be thought you were pay ing attention to Milly—that's all" The next dance I had with Florence was the seventh. The very words she said to me were: "Mr. Henniker, I am sorry for your disappointment." I answered nothing to this, but in a moment I said to her: "Florence, why did yon send me that cruel message?" She looked at me with her frank blue eyes and said : "Claude, I heard that you were engaged to Mary." Then I said : "-Now it is too late; you seem to hare ceased to care fur me." The blue eyes tilled with tears; the lips said nothing. As bad luck would have it, the music struck up fur another dance, and I saw Charles Dawkins coming out of the den• vine room to look for Florence.his partner. "Don't leave me Florence ;I am so very wretched." "What for? Why are you wretched?' "Because yen bate me. Then the blue eyes looked bright again, and she said : "Tlwri you'd better he happy." She was wearing a white midis in her dross, and I said : "Give it to me." "I will only give it to the one I love." Charles Dawkins came up, claimed her hand, and left me in misery. to walk up and down.ou the'lawn distractedly till it was time for mo to claim the next dance with her. time came at last. I went into the room. Charles Dawkins was again talking to ber,with the white came ha n Ins hand. Ther whole thing was plain enough now—she loved him. I was in agony, and without a word•l turned on my heel and strode out o! thb room. - To put on my hat and coat was bat the work of a moment; and then, scarcely know ing what I was abour, I started to walk home to the_Chase, three miles off.- I slept for 'an hour or two, then rose, packed all my things, and at daybreak got a fly to take all my things down to the station. A note on my dressing-table told my uncle the reason of my going, and adding that I had sustained a fearful disappointment about my class. I meant that my hard-won honors wens nothing to me without Florence's love to spread a halo of sunlight over them; bat try words were ambiguous. The train was just starting that was go ing to take me to London en route for anywhere, when the little pony carriage drove up,Florenceind my uncle inside "Stop him! Stop him!" exclaimed the good natured old, gentleman, all radiant with smiles. I turned apanild in surprise at seeing Florence holding in her hand the white camilia of the preceding evening, and uncle'Gny, with a sly grin, said "I know all about it, you young rascal; yon made a precious mistake.". I !air that I had, but couldn't help it. "Now, my boy," said uncle Guy, "you two can walk home by the ktues together and I ' ll drive the carriage by the road." What a happy walk that was! Flor ence told me that it was all a mistake about the camelia. "Mr. Dawkins wanted to exchange his for mine; but, you know, I wanted mine for a particular purpose." When we reached home—looking very guilty, but very happy—everything was satisfactorily'explained; but luncheon had been wailing for some time. Uncle Guy forgave us, and told me I wasn't such a fool after all, and added that he thought far more of my sense in getting Florence to promise to:be my wife. One thing he stipulated for with Mrs. Better ton was that he should have a wedding breakfast at his Own old Chase, and that he should put "that rascal of a nephew of mine" in a position to mary the love ly Florence. 1 have the white camelia still, and before long. I shall be . going down to Broadbeach b claim the fulfill. merit of the promisif T reedited with it.— MillY is going out to India with 'her hui band Vinhingi but we—Florence and myself are to live In the old phase, and take care of Orq twee Guy. • Terms IF POT DOLLAfI PER rs t 4117.aritcra. EPIGRAMS BY HERALD MASSEY. • (MOWER° OLD The stream of Life that brimmed its banks of old, We drain to gather Wisdom's grans of gold ; And u often as we count the . richet's o'er, Half wish our wealth were drown'd In it once more t Ab, never is tho Almighty Artist's plan Crown'd and completed in the life of man At least a broken fragment we up-rear Over the tomb, that like • visible prayer Pleads on and ever. with the Infinite Poi angel hands to reach and finish it, And far the eternal temple make it fit, About my feet, with all your thorns, you cling, Poor gala! It Is that wben I WI tha wing Toward Mayen, It may uplift the creeping thing. Neu the warm been of God's own brooding blue ? But Heaven is only to be grown Into By upward living! • True, the very dust May climb the euubeam—ride the wind; yet mud Fall back to earth agalu,•and oust to duet, And where you are rooted you must rot Adieu. I prick you out, I shake you oft! I acorn To carry you with me, even a tangle thorn l But tho you clutched and could not hold me last, Poor Briar! there's my Grave to embrace at but NIGHTINGALE AND CTICZOO. The Nightingale and Cuckoo° sang their best; A Jackass was the judge-7 addressed Himself to listen—said that Pkulorael, Though Somewhat wildly, warhled pretty well, Bat, far a good plain song, In a single word— Like what himself might sing—why, be preferred The Cuckoo! such a common-sense like bird. H 0 Ng E. --o When daily tasks are Alone, end tired hands' Lle still and folded on the resting knee, When loving thoughts have lmve to loose their buds, And wonder over past and future tree; When visions bright of love and hope fulfilled, Bring weary eyes a spark of olden fire; One mile fairer than thereat we build, One blessing more than others we desire; A home, our home, wherein all waiting past, We two may stand together, alone; Our Patient task work finished, and at last Love's perfect blessedness and peace our own. Some little nest of safety and delight, guarded by God's angels day and night We canna' guess if this dear home shad lie In some green* spot embowered with arching trees,. Where birds notesjoined with brook notes glid ing by, " Shall make ns MU* as .we sit at ease, Or if amid the city's bury din Is built the rest for which we took and long, No - sound without shall mar the, peace within, The calm of love that time has proved rosining Or if--eh, Edema thought I—this home of owe Doth lie beyond the world's confusing noise And if the nest be hat in Eden's bowers, What do we still, but silently rejoice? We nave a borne, but of its happy state We *now not yet. We are content to wail Accetter 01 the Stove Pipe Sat. --o The ancestor from which oar present thimney-pot but +tikes most of its characteristics is the broad brimmed, low-crowned bat, with an immense plume falling, down on to the shoulder, which was worn during the reign of Charles 11. At the end of the seventeenth, and during the eighteenb century,this hat was varied by the onstnision of the plume, and by giving the brim variona 4 cocks." That these "cocks"•were , formerly merely tem temporary is shown by Howarth's picture or fludibtai beating Sidropbel acid his man Whaoum, where there 'is a hat the brim of which is buttoned- up in front to the crown with three buttons. This would be a hat of the- seventeenth cen tury.. Afterwards, during the eighteenth century,.the brim was bent np in two or three places. and, notwithstanding" that these "cocks" became permanent, yet the hate still retain the marks of their origin in the button and strap on the right. side. The cockade, I imagine, took its name from its being a badge worn ou one of the "cocks." The modern cocked bat, apparently of such an anomalous shape,' proves, on ex amination, to be merely a hat of the shape above referred to; it appears, fur ther, that the right side was bent up at an earlier date than the left, for the hat is not symmetrical, and the ' , cock" on the right side forms a straight, crease in the (quondam) brim and that on the left is bent rather over the crown,lhns mak ing the - right side of the hat rather straighter that the left. The hat-bend here remains in the shape of two 'gold tassels which are just visible within the two points of the' cocked hat. A bishop's bat shows the transition from the three-cocked bat to our present chimney-pots, and because sixty years ago beaver fur . was the • fashionable material for hats, •we must now needs wear a silken imitation; which could deceive no one into thinking it fur, and which is bad 'to resist, the effecte.of weather. .Even in- a..ladfs bonnet the element of brim, a• Crown and hat band mhy be traced.—Popular &fence Monthly for It-overnlier. War Against Railroads. The Illinois fanners are wagicg a fierce war againit" the railroads in that State.— They have established. an orgunization known as the "Sons of Husbandry," uud. in one, case 'have called Upon the Judges or the Supreme Court, who rendered a recent'decision denying the validity of the Freight Tariff law, to resign .at once. What will be their; doom in default of noncompliance does not appear; butit is time some steps were taken to check the enormous strides our railroad coirrat ions are takine to rule ur ruin the entire inter nal trade—commerce,. agricultural and otherwise—of the oonntry. It would not be surprising if other Interests he. sides these 'represented by the "Sons of Husbandry" should adopt , similar meas ures to 'secure the reform demanded. 7 Nolo York Herald. Row bard it is to feel that the power of life is to be found inside, not outside; in the heart and,thonghte t not in the vii. ibis tuitions and show; in the living , seed. not in the plant which has no root! now often do men cultivate the garden of their slink just the other,way SrourtiTail.the man for the:times, .He has disposed Or fon," mothers in•law, and isbnos Toe the scalp of the fifth. • Re lectfor 450 6 6181/t4' NUMBER 1 5. VarleUes. A stionizr has been traveling in.Sen tucky, announcipg the destruction of , the world in 1878, lie pays his' own expen ses and seeks for no contribritations. A PASIILY consists of man and wish and two daughters,' all of whom •traffer from an obliquity of visions, are popu larly known as the "squin4tte." THE word of God is the foundation and standard of all true whidoni;itis the pearl of great priee, and prcelons in the Christian's eyes. • A youxo man in Salem, Ohio.. lately killed himself because big ladylove 110C.IIs. ed him of writing her a vile letter, which proved to have been sent by some young rascal who considered it a funny thing to A anstr,boy New . Haven made. a sensation fora short time boqiiietly trans• ferring a card bearing, the words • "Take one," from a lot of hand-bills - in front of a store, to a basket of oranges. A FAMILY Or: flee persons residing at Reedsbnrg Wisconsin, were at tacked by the small-pox a few weeks since, and through cowardly , neglect and inhumanity of the people of that vicinity were allowed to be frozen to death. AN honest, hard working,man in New port started on a "spree" the. other day, and, to obtain material, went to tbe,sav ings bank and withdrew $1,500; the earnings of years. The spree came to an end simultaneously with the money. TN Upper Sandusky, 0, ti few. days ago, a young man tried to urea balky horse by tying his whiplash to the hmee's tongue. The horse- reared ands !melted, and the tongue.was torn from its :dots.— The horse was then killed to end his mis ery. 'Neoax* kept at Muscatine show that during the last thirty-eight years the av erne length of time for which the , siseippi has been closed'hy the ice at that point is sixty-seven days. This winter it has already been closed more than eigh ty days. ONE of the most celebrated phyalciana of Philadelphia, it is said, eats two saw apples every evening before. he t'etires to rest, and thinks they not only. supply food to his brain, but keeplfie - whiale sys tern in a healthy-condition. IN TAZEWELL COt,rET, Ill.,'great dam age has been done to ' frnit trees hi the hard freezing, particularly patch and pear trees; it is feared that the wood Of both, if not killed is severely injured.).; Apple trees in some localities hare bursted so that yon can see through them,others have split the length of the trunkcin OM, aide. A Non fir Housekeeper* Whin poultry is fresh the eyes are' full Mad bright, the feet are moist and liinber.— When it is stale the eyes are sunken; and the feet and legs dry and stilL When the flesh is part colored it is not ft to ept,-. ? Stale poultry is often "made ov,erl by be- ing soaked in alum water. nit ,will restore the flesh to a comparatively fresh color. A Drrnorr fornitura dealer recently found among a mass of old papers' iti. a desk a will bequeathing property 'Worth nearly 1130,000 to a . lady in Missouri.— He wrote to the lady, • and subserenrtly sent ber the will, which was admitted - to probate, and the lad! 'put irk p9ssesslon of the property. Tlie will wait nine years old, and the furniture deateislaa no idea how it oima into his pusseasion. IT was a good thing oarvintri • a menage rie went.to ashes. The other mailer in stitutions should go the same way,: HO; mar it has long enough been shocked. by the wilted 'specimens of anhnallt.,;the store beasts—that have so long, trilitersed the country, with their bald 'angles,. de cayed teeth, sunken eyes,' end' slinking tails. An old fashioned hair-trunk with a paint-brush tuit and a braett-eye wculd put the whole to ignominious fight. • A WOOD famine in Vermont. would bea most novel event, but thero..ja a, strong possibility that many villages will, stiffer, / as the supply is effectually cut off ,fjtba deep snow. Many farmers are alsolhort; and-some are cutting down •aliade-.,trees and others burning fence rails. There, IS five Irk of snow in the woods, with..wp frost in-the ground. A Privet: min man who ,turspeCted servant girl of using kerevietie oil dle the fire with, thought •ho 'Weald try her, ono night, so he oral the oil tout and tilled the can with water. 'When hts landed iii the diningloom next nrorni4g there was no breakfaskand no fire to cook it with—nothing - but a stove full of Soak ed wood and a very foolish 'looking- girt A Ltrnn ROCK, Ark.; girl died a few' days ago, of -what was supposed to. .be, cerebra spinal meningitis. The -Gazette says: "Dr. Gni tor, doubting . the eanse of her death, obtained permission to 'make a post enortent examination. •The: ex. aminatioli'disclosed the: fact .that little girl's stomach was loaded with boiled. cabbage, which had worked itself intoont hard solid mass, distending - the gotta* and ceasing death, the victim dying-pi' , convulsions... • „..- Tntirrar.N . years ago thts winter, Lewis Mason and Sainuel , Clarnes ought a large' gray rox.• near Lowell, iu Washingtocti county, 0.; they tied 'him with,a tupe l o first having placed a leather strap 4itiuno4 his luck. This rope, the fox gpawed'Ot and made hi& escape: This- winter the same parties recaptured Reyuard and, strange, to state, he hail -on , his nick the. same identical strap which they placed there'thirterM ears before! They slaugh tered their gams this time 'to mesa: suz of him: IL nor 7 tears odd arrited in Rarrishiirgv the other day, from Northern Texas, him ing traveled the entire distance by him: self. His' mother had died, and hisfather wanted to vlacz him with some friends. hitt coda not came with him, so ha par. chased•r2 throngh ticket, -pinned it to the tappel.othls eoat. and started him 'Mills bong journey. ' The - Torino condnotOra , took asreat tuterert , in .hint, whoa_ at the end, of tbOr. t roPte idol - over to tha)fext °VP., ge "Tea sound,watil' tuici 144 bOa tilinftrVak • . ; _
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