The Montrose Democrat. (Montrose, Pa.) 1849-1876, June 04, 1873, Image 1
:. T F . .: E . . . , . : .111,, ~ , ~, 1 ,N• • : . ' • _,:.: ,• .• . .... ~.. . ...._ . _ VOLUME XXX. E. B. HAW LEY & 'Co., Proprietors. Business Cards. J. B. & A. M. MeCOLLBM, •i70111(ITS 211 . Lav 001 or over the Beek, MOOtrose Pv. Montrose, May 10, 1871. It D. W. SEARLE, A rTORNEY AT LAW. ofllce over the Store of W. le the Brick Meet, lifootrcrae, Pa. leal W. W. 5.1f17.11; CABINET AND CH onAIR MeNDEACTIITtERS...-Peo. di . Mans street. Mtrose, Pa. hag. 1. ISM ..v. C. surTo.y, electioneer, and Insurance Agent, , Rol MU Felaud.Tlll•. Pa. C. S. GILBER7', 17. es. A.u.ce.t0ri.45.32.. ..ci Ott Great Bend, Pa Alf! EL Y, ' Addrese, Brooklyn, Pa JARS GROVE'S, F A , VII ON ABLE TAILOR, Montrose, Pa. Shop over Chandler's Store. Allotters lined ill first-rate style. •e‘ting done ou &tort notice. and warranted to at. J. F. SHOEMAKER, Attorney at Law. Montroto. Pa. Otrice next door to J H 14W KV+ store, opposite the book. Moutrose, Jan. 14, 1612.—n03-41. A. 0. IV:IRRE-V, A TTORN EY A i LAW. Bounty, Back Pay. Pension end Exem • on Claims attended to, Office 5: ..00r belay Boyd's Store. hiontrose.Ps. [An. 1,.6.9 N. A. CROSS.VON, Attorney st lA¢, Office at the Caart 110321., 1U the t ornnassionee. Office. W d. CWISSIIOII. Iluntruse, Soot. GU, 1871.-41 MCKENZIE. d Co. le Dry Goode, Clothlug. Ladle. and Misses fine Shoe. \leo, *gents for the great American Tee sad Coffee Company. [Montrose, July 17, 'll.l DR W. W. SMITH, Dre-rwr. Reams at bte derellin!„ next door evet of the hopubilain print log oak,. °Oleo hours from 3t a. to 4 IP. IL Montrose, Ma). 3, LA W OFFICE. P [Tiff .t WATSON. Attorneys et Loa. at tlae old office of Peuttey &Fitch. Mantriaae, i. r VIM!. (Jan. U. ILL lc J. S.ILITTEI:, FASHIONABLE TAILOU. Strop ore: J. 1 DoWltt's ABEL TURRELL Deslsr Drsits. Mr" Paints, 01It, stars. T. Spices, Pitney Good.. Jewelry, Per. turnery. As., Brick Slunk, Yantis's, Pa- ristaiitished ista. Web. 1, teal Da W. L, RICHARDSON riTillrlAN riunalcoN. tender• his prefessiena or-vices to the citizens of Montrose and eicluity.= tticc at his r“tdeacc, ()alba corner east of dayr. Brus. Fasedrs. (Att.:. I, !ban. CIIARLKS N. STODDARD kesterts Boot• and Shot., UAL* and Caps. Lesotho, snot Tioodus, Maio Street. Ist door helots Bn7d• Store. Work mule to order. and repulriug door neatly. Moo.trose. Jan. I. 11M. LEivisrsoLL, SHAVING AND HAIR narssrso. shn,„ In the now I'onodLw' bnildine. where he will f4a ad ready to attend dl wito luny want nuyibizg In co line. Iloutrzoo Po. Oct. 13. 1.369. 1)R. a. W. DA-ITO.Y. rirrstruNS StllGEON!tetiffern pet...lees to tn. otizen• of Great Berta aed (Mrs at his rssitt•uea. opposite Barna= florae, tit I.lcad village. Sept. Ist. lat.M.—tf DR 1) A. 1„iTIIROP, ♦ antnSete-• Et.syrita Tatars u. Barns, at the Foot of Chwavat wee,. Call sad commit In all Chronic ltitu•ee. Montrose. Jan. 11. C VAT:I-ET MORRIS, TTIB TISTTI BA lIKUIt. has sticersd his shop to the b• I or, ncsaarea by J. DeWitt. where he J. pre pared td do all kinds of work to hi. Am. mach as coo kie: mitekes, puffs.. ate. All wink done on short noctce and prices low. Plans. mil and nee sae. H BURRITT. Dealer at Staple and Panty Ors Gonda, Crar-8.7, Hard ..tn. Bon, Stoves, Druz*. Oils. and Paits. Boot• ani Shoe% Mita and Caps, Fors, Banlo Robes. Bro. ,ries. Provisions. Re- Ne Iv-Millard. t a., Sas. 4 '72-tt EXCHANGE HOTEL • • D. luringitAClg orlehes to inform thepublle that rented the Eachanne Hotel In 'Montrose. he in no prepared to accommodate the traveling pabDc is nrat-cleee style. Maturate. Ann. U. 1611 BILLEMS 57710 UL. ruts AND LIFE ris7aescis AGENT. AI: bush:lea. attended toprempily. on fair terms. Office drat door east of the bulk or Wm. IL Cooper A Co. Pa.blic Avenue, Unnerve e, Pa. fAn.l.lBO. C. Ifflt.l Stinnina Sgenotrn. J. D. rAn, 11 rm. or aTine PUTelet aN .01D Srcarser. Hae permanently located hlmxlf In Montrone. Pa., whom he prompt attend to all calls to hls pearl:anion with ankh he may he (altered_ Oface and resttleces - west of the Coon donee, near Fitch in Walnon'a ofrice. • Mosuzuse. IFebruar:ll.lB7l. CIII7I2CHILL, Jo•ttee of the Pelee: otHee offer L. IL Lenhelm's Mom Great bend boroucti, Susquehanna County. Prltn's. Ilu ohs set lenient of the decteocof the hoe lease lieckhoer. der...zee& Office boon. from 91.012 o'clock • ca... $O4 from 1 to 4 o'clock p. W. Great Rood, Oct. td, me. 13 URNS .1 , MOHO LS. to Strop. Modicloes, Chemicals, Dye• st itle. Paiute. Oils, Varnish. Liquors. Spiess. Fancy .c les. Ystent Medicines. Perfumery and Toilet Ar ticles. tv-rresertptioas carcfully compounded.— Uri ck Block. IllontrosO. Ps. A. K. Rows, Feb. 21.1372. 444 HINDS OF JOB PRINTING, ETC., lel7/1:1) !kr Tux DEMOCRAT OFFICE, vigh twn itiian tzhe Naafi fatur. PUECE FT& UT TEDO . X46 BAl' D9l . . rn, 1630. Me Thomas Randolph who wrote the fol lowing "precepts^ AU a wit, poet and play wright in the early portion of the lICTerIteCIIIII century, and a great favorite with "Ben Jon sou." tie was a prolific, but Ls now en almost forgotten writer. From his own history we judge that he keenly felt the worth of the"Fre canal . Fist worship God; he that forgets to pray, Bids not himself good morrow nor good day; Let the first labor be :o purge thy . sin, And terse Him first whence AU things did Honor thy parents to prolong thine end; With them, though fnr a truth, do not contend; Whoever makes hia father's heart to bleed, Shallhave a child tint shalt avenge the deed. Think that b just ; 7 tts not enough to do, Unless thy very thoughts are upright Lou, Defend the trrth ; for that who.will not die eoward is, and.giees hluiself the lie. Take Well what&er shall chance, though bad frit be.. - Take It for good, andAsill be good to thew: First think; and If thy thoughts approve thy will, Then speak, and after, that thou speakest ful fill. So live With men as it Geiffs curious eye Did everywhere into thine actions pry, For never yet was Sin so void or sense, So fully faced with brazen impudence, As that it durst before men's eyes commit Their brutal lusts, lust they should witness it How dare they offend when God shall see, Thai must, alone both judge and jury be ? Would'at thou lire lung the only means arc these, 'Bove Galen's diet nr Hippocrates.; Strive to live well; tread Lit the'npright ways, And rather count thine actions than thy days, Then thou has lived enouth amongst us here; For every flay well spent I count a year. Live veil, and then; how soon weer thou die, Thou art of age to claim eternity ; But, he that outlives Nestor, and appears To have passed the date of gray Methusalem's yews, If he his life to alurii and sin doth give I say he only wia—lie did not live. Ely ffitorg Zeller. ADALIDFLIDGE'S GOLD Mr. Adam Flidge, of Muddy-brook, U. S., returned from California, after an ab sence, of-two years, bringing home with him seven thousand dollars in gold. Th is snug sum was considered a fortune iu Muddybrook, autt-Muddybrook ueiord ingly exteltded its arms to rec;;ive the amiable Adam; although-1 ant sorry to say—the Flit* family being poor, the young adventurer had never been appre ciated hyalite townspeople, until the news that hell:al : made hts fortune in Cal.for n la, opened their eyes to his ex t rao rd merits. AlLMack, and bearded, and uncouth in his n o nereie., at Adam U . sll cnrw Sell by the first people of Mudilybrook people gay and proud, who had formerly noticed Adaw no more than if lie hail been a dog. But Adam, fresh from the society of barbarians, and although un accustomed to the smiles of the tender sem was flattered, bewildered, mid' dazz'ed. by the bright eyes which beamed loudly on him now. Woman's smiles to him were welcome as the breath of Spring to the, bleak hills and' tempest rendered trees, With a heart , hungry for love, it is no wander that he betrayed the most am table of human weaknesses, no wond.-r that even beautiful Matilda Moore led him a willing captiie; lyre eold and co. ! quettish Matilda, towboin Adam bad of- fered himself in the days of his poverty, and been flatly; Contemptuously rejected. Seen through gold bound glasses, how ever; Adam appeared no more the worth lass wretch Matilda formerly considered him. As the youngest of five unmarried daughters, in whose maiden foozeteps she was following fast, the proud Matilda was ! ! pretty well qualified to judge of Adam's newly discovered merits. She judged in ! deed; and when the stupid fellow, tteliec -1 ing every woman tare, once inure offered her his hand, she graciously accepted it. Adam almost believed himself to be the most fortunate fellow in the world. Bat while Adam was so .happy, some body was very miserable. To every laugh of his somebody echoed a sigh. While the balanceof his happiness was full.that of another kicked-the beam. That other was his fester sister—the fair_ Ruse, who lied -hived him ever. from his youth up ward with an unaltered affection. She was a gentle, winning creature and it is one'of tbe!:weindens cupid : Amt. Adam bud never fallen in love with her. She Was fairer than - Matilda MaorC, and it must have Seen a ally pride which caus ed Adam to prefer the position of the. latter to the character of Rose. Adam, in effect, did not apprniate Rose. He did not understand her.— Could be have known bow well she lov ed him, the startling - truth might have . broughti him table senses. But he was once!' .Cupid's bate; he Could not see the light." Often, after his return, he disedivered tears in the soft eyes of Rose. "My dear sister," he would say, "what is the matter?" kissing het friendly, and playfully blowing the tears off from her lung lashes. "What is the matter ?" Fool net-to : keel fool not to discover, in.her evasive answer, the grief which was breaking her heart! Blind, indeed! he appeared to. see nothing bat the charms of Matilda. and the glitter of his gold, .whidh lie kept locked up in a stout oaken chest. previously to investing it in a farm for "self and wife." Note! Adambadmany old friends who I warned him.against Matilda; • and whose - conned Was despised. His father and elder brother begged him to make a dif ferent- choice, endeavoring to convince, hind thit - it was only his money that Ma tilda loved.- 'Do think Tot ,baby?". cried Adanc,onee, iq Itose's presence. "Can't I read a womau's heart ?.. If Matilda didn't laire me. do you anpeose I would be enont not to see it. 'She'd, have me for ' a.bna if ./. hadn't a penny in the . world." -'rr! ' - 4'She *Wain look at yott," exclaimed tothet.;" . tfron,.vbiobbotb. left the bogie In ars Aires 7scuois "TRUTH AND RIGHT : GOD AND OUR COUNTRY?. MONTROSE, PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1873. different directions. Rose, trembling and weeping, remained alone. It is rather a singular coincidence, that on the very next morning Adam opened his eyes considerably wider than usual on first getting up, at the strange, startling sight, which made him trenNe and grow faint. The lid of the oak eget was. lift ed. The'gold wai gone. Add in its place lay his bowie knife and revolver, which he always placed under kis pillow on go ing to bed, as security against thieves. Speechless and pale as death, Adam stood gazing with a look of despair and rage at the rifled chest. It was evident that the °robbers on entering the room had first taken possession of his weapons and left them in place of the gold. At all events the gold was gone ; Adam was penniless! The fruit of many months of painful toil had vanquished in a night time. The truth was too terrible to be realized, the misfortune too great to bear. In a hoarse voice Adam called his fath er, and communicated to him the fear- fill intelligence. It,is hard ti say which was the most angry of the two. They discovered how the robber might have entered and left, the house, and they raised the alarm at once. la an hour all Muddybrook rang with the report of the robbery, and officers were in pursuit of the thieves. In vain! N 1 gold was to be recovered—no thieves were caught. The fever of excitement into which Adam was thrown by his misfortune canoed him a fit of illness. For a week he laid groaning on a bed of pain and de spair. All this time his affianced, the Case Matilda, never visited him. But Rose, the faithful, devoted Use. was al ways by . his side to soothe and console hint, aura picture happier time. Immediately on his recovery Adam be took hiMself to Mr. Moore's !noise. Still unwilling to believe Matilda faithless, he went to pour out his sorrow in her sympa thizing ear and to assure her of his un changing affection. Matilda 's forbidding aspect chilled his heart; she c garden! hint as tf he had bet n some unfortunate person whom she had seen siimewhere. and of whom she retained remarkably disagreeable recollections. Adam's eves were opened to his folly,and he reproach ed her bitterly. “Not un , flier word, sir!” cried Nfatilda haughtily. interrupting lib complaint "If yon have been deceived in me— I have been deceived in you. It is best fur ua never to meet again. Good liye." Adam staggered home. Ile threw him self groaning upon at seat. Poor Rose— scarcely less all! cted than himself—knelt down I.)y his side, and b. gged taint to tell his "sister" what had happened. Adam pressed her hand to his bosun], and his tears fell on her glossy tresses. while to that one svmpatliizing heart lie oirered his own, and laid bar... all his grief. Meaii tim,, pour Rose Wilt, but she conld not aleck, and witlulr.tu hag herself front his embrace-, she hasteatal to her chamber. :rmst 'sight Adam slept somidly. and awoke in the morning. more nearlv mem, cited to his lot than he bad been before. ; Ile rubbed his eyes; he smiled, ns. a dream he had hail, lie ;nude a reio. Intim' to regret his gold no more, to tor- ; get the false Matilda, and nmreover. to be a man again. He rubb. d his ..yes. we wet•: but as soon us he Liot them fairly open. the smile vanished from his lips, and he stared ut astonishment nt some object on the lid of his chest. Eager. trembling he sprung forward ; he seized it—he press ed it—he laughed hvsterieallv—his won tenance gleamed wild with joy—for his I gold was in hi. grasp. And pinned to the precious bag was a; slir of paper, on whi-h, in a well known hand, were written the following words: "Forgive me, dear Adam—my dear ' brother! I am the cause of your sorrow— twok the gold. I thought I was acting solely for your good. Now it von wish to marry Matilda, you can, for she will ac cept you. I know I have anted unwisely —wrongly—but forgive your poor sister, whom you will never see again I" Adam was t.•o much overjoyed to read more than half the note. •Torgive you—von darling !" he cried, almost out of his senses. Forgive you— 'my guardian angel ! Yes. and bless you too ..^' he muttered, rushing from the room. '•siVhere's Rose!" he demanded of the old housekeeper. Rose bad not yet appeared. Burning with' impatience, Adam sent the old It dr to ctll•ber. In a minute she came back, pate with consternation, declaring that Hose was gone!" Adam, recovering from the shock this intelligence bad occasioned him, flew back to his room, locked np his gold. and set out immediately in pursuit of Rose, who he felt sure, had taken ref uge with some friends of the fami'y in Maplegrove. On the way, also, Adam had plenty of time to reflect, and on arriving at Maplegrove, his mind was fully 'nude up with regard to what he ought to do. Rose's friends could not deny that she had that day arrived at their house.— Adam demanded to, see her, amid his re quest was not to be refused. And poor Rose, with swollen eves, and a face that was deathly pale,,at length made her ap pearance, trembling with apprehension. "Say you are not angry with me! " she faltered, raising her eyes timidly to Adam's face—"say you are not angry I" "Angry, with you. my angel? No, in- , deed !" cried Adam, folding her in his arms. "And yet it is my duty to make you a prisoner—now don't tremble—a prisoner for life, I mean I Not fur steal ing. my gold, you rogne. but fdr stealing your Stupid Adam's heart!" And. Rose—poor, silly, blushing Rosa =Yielded herself without a struggle, and Adam took her home in triumph. And not long after - he took her to an other home, and prepared for the dear est little wife in the world a happy home, whiehjsras the envy of all Muddybrook and: - rtii, eyesore to Miss Matilda Moors for eveiand ever. A gIUILER having sold a . llne•looking but blind horse, asked the purchaser: "Well, my friend, dost thou see any fault in him?' "No," was the response." "Neiler will be see any fault iu thee," said old-Broadbrins. Don 'it butts loke to meek ? You Haven't Asked He To. ---o It was a cloudy afternoon in July.— The early morning had been prophetic of a pleasant day; but, like a great many prophecies of the present time,. had proved utterly false. Yet a. Sunday school had determinedly shut its eyes to the threatening look of the sky, and gone on a picnic thirty miles from home. But the heavy drops of rain, which fell about the middle of the day, ?rove them from their original place of destination, the famous Lon Creek Bridge gorge, and sent them on some five miles more to the pleasant town of Horwich. The excellent music discoursed by the band which accompanied the excursion ist, as well us the inherent curiosity of man to look upon strangers, attracted many of the residents of Norwich "down to the grove," where the picnickers were. Jack Hartland was one of the many who could not resist the temptation— Jack and his friend Marion. Down they went to the grove, with ono umbrella be tween them. Can any one hope to describe the feel ings of a lonesome young man who wan ders through a bevy of young girls, any one and every one of whom ho desir:s to know, yet none of whom he can know ? Jack way overflowing with that inexpr2s bible feeling. And who can blame him or who would expect _him to feel other wise? He had been shut up for sir long months, poring, over "Parscris on Con tracts"--a book so suggestive of love d reams—" Ken t's Commentaries," a "Law Glossary," and "Tomlin's Law Diction ary." till his nightly dreams presented a ghostly troublesome phalanx of agents and principals, of persons who could and who would not make contracts of cesini gas trust and non comps mantis, while above them all towered Hugo Grotius, conversing in stately Latin jure belli el lithe, and of the lawn of nations. Can any one censure Jack for feeling along ing desire for a little humua sympathy and linnian contact? He listlessly leaned against a pine tree and looked around... Just then two young ladiescame into the held of his vision. One Jack kuew, the other was a stranger. and the other was the one Jack immediately began to admire. She was of medium height, dre , :wii simply, vet tastefully; a white Gan wniat—l believe Jack found out afterward that was the name of it— belted in by broad ribbon, a barred skirt; o‘er which was looped another striped black and white, and out from under which peeped two pretty feet, incased in thick bet neat boots, a classical head— though Jack confessed to me, that if her tiger, -head which formed the frontispiece of his Iliad, and which was held out to innocent freshmen as that of blind -N„ld man eloquent," is classical, why, he didn't think hers was—with a mass of hair, rem, brown, li.ing hair, twisted in to a grand Coil behind, but not so firmly but that stray little curls had managed to Cire themselves ad airing as the fluttered around her face; audit was such a sweet, comely race. withal, that Jack most heartily !envied the wind; and, crowning all, was a tasteful hit of heal. gear, such Ili is worn now-a-days. Jack stooj under the pine tree Bud last his heart. But he might just us well hate loot it the will-o'-the-wiep, a sprite, or s ,, tne other tearful deception, for what pu.•sibility was there of his getting ac quainted with his suddenly set np divin ity, much less of —well, Jack hadn't as vet exactly defined it in his own mind. But nature is a match-maker. A rather broad statement, do you say, my gentle readers ? Does nut the old. coup let, "There's is a divinity that 'hopes our ends, Rough-hew them as we will," apply to match-making as mach as to any other course of life? And do you want ally better authority? Just then it began to rain. Jock lied his friend's umbrella. It would not do to let her get wet, so without a word Jack opened the umbrella, stalked over to where she stood, and held it over her. He did it in such an honest, earnest way she could not take offence. She looked up into his face and smiled. Jack smell-d. She laughed a low, rippling laugh Jack a hysterically short one. "It's too bad it rains," said she, with the accent oa the "too bad," just as girls always speak. "I don't know," blundered Jack, in reply. She looked at him curiously, and said, "Well," in a self interrogatory way, as though she might have said, "What sort of au oddity are you ?'' and then laughed again. With that Jack also laughed, and came to himself. Then he began to talk, and thiiv got on gradually. The rain not ceasing, Jack walked home with her, for he fimnd out that she lived in town. When they had arrived at her door, and she had thanked him for the use of the umbrella, Jack knew he ought to' go; but—every young man knows how it is—he wasn't quite ready, "My name." stammered he, "is Jack —Jeck Haciland." "And mine is Clio Stanley." "And—and I'm studying law hem in town." "And I am stoPpiiii here for the sum mer with papa. I shonld:be happy to re ceive a call from you," Then Jack went home: ' - The , Itext. day :Jact thought it all over. The one moment he celled himself a fool the nextichnekled'Overc.the - ;adthio,,and decide - ire/Mt all the-acninew,,of,.4'co:nP try judge, toward whicliPositiOn•Whad aspirations, that it was rather "onte,"and if cute, why he., DS the perpetrater, must be somewhat sharp. Now he was inclin ed to feel sorry and °Awned over -it'; then, with -en appeal to the -principal heathen deity of his.vocabulary,Jack-ex presited "denced_glad." - li bap penetli So,he went on irt - spirit alterna ting up and down, like a boy on a 60,7 Saw, provided the boy could rblo both ends or the eie:sow at once, which,l sup pose, is an" impossibility; but when even-. tog came be went and called on the young lady. She invited, him .to call , again. Jack did so. In fact, he went several Conseentive Three leers Weed any. lack bid studied diligently, and now for six months had been d practicing lawyer, with ever, poospect of success: An this time his devoted attentions had been paid to Clio; vet in all that time not a word of love had passel between them. Jack' could not and ifOuld not ask her to love him until he could offer her something more tangible than possibilities. But now that he had won his first case and hadattain ed a settled business, he felt his time had come ; yet how could it be done ? The very thought distressed him. Could he —dare he ask her? Could she know how much her answer would mean to him? If she said "yes," what happiness, success; how much to live for I If she said "no—" he didn't dare to think.— The more he thought of it, the more he hesitated, and 'the more he delayed the harder it became. At last he determined it should be done. Clio met him as usul with a pleasant smile. Jack tried to smile, biatit ebbed off over his countenance, and was lost in his "solemn expression," just as a little wave is often lost iu a larger. Clio flaw something was going to happen, and, weinan like, divined intuitively what it was. But he had kept her waiting in suspense and uncertainty so long that now, when it was about to come, she determined she would not help him in the least. At length Jack began : "Clio, I'm having considerable busi ness now." "Yes," said she, very demurely, with a quiet little nod; then relapsed into silence without another word. Jack fidgeted and thought, "Why don't she say something and keep a fellow or, ?" ••I've got So now I eau support myself, and—" "I'm right glad to hear it," said Clio. Jack telt that somehow she was sport ing with him, and flashed up. "Yon never heard that I didn't support myself, did you ?" "No! But then—" "But then ? Yon know, Clio, that ever since I was fifteen—" "Never mind," said Clio, "for it seems as th•mgh I have bawd a story commenc ing like that before. Jack." W,th that Clio smiled, and Jack's mo mentary displeasure vanished; yet there was left on his mind the undefined itn pression that, after all, he had bden sold. list the ice of reserve was broken. “To lye plain, Chu, I Came down to tell you that I love you.” Here came a long pause. Jack looked at everything in the room except Clio.— It was getting, exceedingly embarrassing to Jack,when there came a quiet "Well ?" from Cho. -And to say." went on Jack,as though no interruption had occurred, "that I am in a condition to get married." "That's a very desirable situation for any young man, lam sure," said Clio; and then she laughed that same low, rip pling laugh he loved so. Poor fellow? why couldn't be have interpreted the 1.... A., him which. rounde and mellow ed' that laugh r •Dat no; he grew des perate, and, with the thought that she was snorting with him, just a little angry. might have known how it would end. &ily fellow is a fool to dangle round any &I f,r three, years." And be strode toward the door. his hand was upsu- it. "I might have known you wouldn't have married me." "But Jack"- asked me too." "Haven't asked yon - to ?" Jack caught the look in her eyes. The next she moment was in his arms, and her arms was round his neck, and—well, the fact is, Jack never did ask the question. After the first happy moments had passed, and the ecstasies of the acknowl edged mutual love had effervescut—that wdrd seems to express the idea about as well as any—Jack began: "Darling, I have loved yon ever since the first day in the grove. How long have you cared for me ?" • • "Since I saw you standing so lonely and looking so downhearted under that pine tree." I think after that reply Jack kissed her. I know I should had I been he. The other day I visited Jack and his wife. I saw a small pine tree, which they tend with the greatest care. I asked Jack where be found it. A smile and a look of peculiar significance passed be tween him and his wife, as he answered, "In the grove." '—ho turned—"yon haven't. Couldn't Stgn Away His Liberty. —o A Missouri planter, having allowed his swine to range in the woods, at one time missed several or. them. Suspicion at once rested upon a certain neighbor, and the planter resolved to watch the actions or his pork-loving neighbor. One tiny, while riding through the woods,tho plan ter came upon the man in the act of lift ing a fine young porker to his saddle, in order to bike it home. "Now," said the planter, "I have caught you at last." "Yea, mans, you 's ketched me sure dis time." "Well I shall have to send you to pria• on." "Oh, no, mama, you ain't gwinetoseud me to prison. Just., yon think of my poor wife and children,"and the poor man put in such un earnest plea for his wile and children that the planter's heart relen red. 'Well,' said the planter, "I'll tell you what I'll do. Yon pay me for one half the number of swine yon have killed and sign a paper not to kill any more, and I will let you go." "No," said the lover of his neighbors pork, "no, massa, I'll pay for all I have stolen, but, as for signing away my-liber ties, I can't do it." A mums editor of a paper wrote that white piquLoostumes are now popular, and was gravely informed by the proof nest morning that "white pine,collios are not popular." On the same paper, anoth er editor describing . a prominent member of the city council, spoke of the. Hon. Mr. so and so as "a noble old burgher, proudly loving his native state." , It ap peared in print as "a nubby' old burglar ~Srbutpi in wad dile)! Terms ..Turvitit Ea FUOIN DAWN TILL DARK. • Of morning-s when I tlraw my blind, And 1111 the chamber with the sky ; Through welcoming roses conies a what rye known for many a year gone by, "Un and away r' it seems' to say .161 s world is full or joy .arof Wit; And I'll attend you all the day s TM night.' Of evenings, when the new moon. beams Above the garden's sycamore tree, A bird, awakened from leafydrauna, Begins its whispering song to me. Notes that, like crystal bell Beating in the airydeep, Seems to say, "Sleep," Us wen. Sleep—sleep. • Such are the mnses who inspire The happiest hours existence brings; The wind of morning wastes-my lyre, The blid of evening stills Its strings. Brie! Is the hour we have to live, Soothing our cares onliature's breast With song, and weiting.desth to give Us rest. Tom Illoores Cottage. —o— In a recent number of your paper one of your exchange paragraphs reads: "A local correspondent of a Philadel phia paper "explodes" the story told in Appleron's Journal about a cottage on the Schuylkill river which Tom Moore occunied for a time. The pleasant tra dition is proved tt, be wholly unfounded. Moore's stay at Philadelphia was brief: he was a society man, and n:ver a re cluse; and the story that be hid him self away in an old hut ou the banks of the Schuykill was an invention of an imaginative guidebook maker." The correspondent only attempted to "explode" the story of Tom Ifoore's hav ing lived for some Years in a hip-roofed cottage on the banks of the Schuylkill river. The writer has seen the dwelling, and knows from trustworthy persons, who are thoroughly acquainted with the history and tradition of the place (which is midway between the city entrance to the .New Park and Laurel Falls), that Tom Moore did make the same hip-roof- - ed, crooked-gabled, five-windowed , little cottage his home fur more than three years. It was while staying there that be composed that beautiful poem entitled "Thoughts by the Schuylkill," which be gins with the line: "As Mena by the banks of the Schuylkill I stray ed," the idea of which, after being read, will immediately suggest to the mind that he lived like a"recluse"—at least in a very soliloquizing mood—near the scene of his memorable song. The . story is believed by all who know anything. of the district, 1 and cannot be exploiled bribe moat stead fast opposition of doubting correspon dents. —Ex. A Singular Cure. —o—. Breach of promise eases are fairly kal edioseopic in their variety, and here is one from the Norwich assizes, in Eng land, which is notable for its novelty.— A ship captain put into Yarmouth for repairs, anu ammo juvi, iu LW. In, Ivry a. fight. During the progress of the fracas he expressed an opinion as to its merits which was echoed•by a girl at his side. Turning to her instantly he asked if she was engaged, and when she replied iu the negettie he proposed at once and was accepted. Subsequently, he called upon the girl's mother and secured her consent, when he started for South Shields.to pre pare for thelvedding. There his friends reminded him of the trifling circumstance that he was already man ied , and would not let him return to, execute his rash and bigamous purpose, but instead sent a message to the girl at Ysimprith stat ing that lie watt ; dead. The bereaved female thought it only proper that she should attend the funeral, and according ly proceeded to South Shields. Finding him alive, sho brunght snit for her dis appolutment, and the jury gave her a. verdict of !WOO. Tins, suggests., among other things, the question whe , ber a married man can be mulcted for fail ing to keep a promise to commit _biga my. Tat White Star steamer Oceanic, which sailed for Liverpool on Saturday after noon had just left Sandy Hook when the chieiengineer discovered that there was a large break in , one of the cylinders, which allowed the steam to escape. The crack gradually enlarged, and the Cap tain thought it expedient to return. At six o'clock in , the evening, to the surprise of those on land, the Oceanic threw out her anchor in the North River, opposite the wharf. The passengers were alarmed when the vessel turned about, but the Captain explained the difficulty, and every fear was quieted. The Oceanic was crowded with passengers, and among them was Miss Emily Faithful; • who en gaged passug,e on 'the ill-fated Atlantic and wasobliged to, postpone her departure. THAT is a singular View- which is tit ken by, a Baltimore lawyer , of a *maniri for poisoning. He thinks, that when a man or woman poisons a huniiin being without detection, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, tho poisoners 'hecOme - insane. His reasoning is that One suc cessful crime,Of this sort begets such . , a sense of power and of, ability to remove at will.every human obstacle,. so blunt ing, at the same time the sympathies "that in neally . evera Me the mind be comes wartied,andibe prisoner is ready with the deadly dranglit to aven_ge the most trifling disrespect or wrong. Let tkplise who think of poisoning -anybody fiike warning. - * THE WOrfa is.piverned by three things wisdom, authority and appearinces.--- Wisdom for, the thoughtful peopk, nu thorkr`for rough people, and toe:wannest for tho mutest mass of sopekficial peo ple, Who ean"look only at; the ontside,and who judge exteg nul thutters.. • • ,•.. Ltr not 'a desire ta+be thought *r!11 of lead yon to exhibit talents upon all occasions ;.for ,greistness and worth are always clothed in a modest ' exterior._ 'lt is the Tice,of little minds to go abroad guadily attired, like the butterfly.: ' Ir lon ars eanrting a girl stiok.to Inatitt li6* big Vat TAWS C*1146,1 rtuo I DI zw.141 • iro,2llsUoi. THE premed inereoee of the Capitol grounds at Harrisburg teat $.49,700: • Tint financial editor of a weeern pa. per quotes 4 4Legialators easy and in UM demand at $lOO. A PARTI hearing of a dog after /Amt. waute4 to know what. he was a - him for. As Illinois milknian owns a itagaclonit horse, which has learned - to turn the. we. ter faucet with bit teeth. SADINA the great Italian tragedian !MI engaged with Mr. (draw to give one hun dred performances in the. United' States ' commencing in September next. Jos says: "Sam, I have lost My witch overboard, it lies here in twenty feet of, water. Is there any- -way to get it?" "Yes," me Sam, "there aro diver'/ ways." BlEssoxisiza, the French artist, • brated (minter of ,bsittle scenes, recently , sold a new picture on which he *as en• gaged for 860,000.1 t is teatitled , (Marge of the Cuirrassiere • - • A blima.visza girl, with a morbid crating forger-tinge, has been supplying herself by stopping ladies in the street to tell them that their pendants were com ing out, and while pretending to adjuit them, taking them oat in reality and making oft - - MANY ingenious devices are used by • saloon keepers, to hint in the most. . cate way possible, that their business is conducted on a strictly cash basis.. The latest,used by &saloon keeper in Washing ton rea.ds:'"Public trust is dead ; back pay killed him."' . . IT is data that a sword' belonging to , - the late General Meade,'presenMd to hint' by the United States for hta service in ' Mexito.was,picked op by a eonfederate.at Charlottesville, Va.„ during the war, and - word his 'last hien sent to ' the family of the Lite Geneial that itlia at theirdispoa• • al. • , Tan publicity given to messages Writtea' on postal cards may be avoidedby the use •• of invisible ink, the direction to "hold tre - i. the fire" being written with common ink..-- This checks the inquisitiveness of post-of- , flee clerks. who not the time to tualte„ the application. In 'France invisible is sold for this purpose. ' • - • A ostru.sustr was warmly eirloging the constancy of an absent husband, 'in'- the presence of his - loving wife. yes,' assented she, "he writes lettslrs fall of the agony of affection, bat he dere/ ra. mits me env money." "I cad conceive of , that" said the other, •lor I knciw tiolove to be unremitting."• . A STRANGER, a . young man livid" Mt cottritry, after hevtng gazed at the ba s . T . antis ht an eating house in ti railway' sta. , ' Lion, wanted to know "what, them - .'ard sweet potatoes were, *nth, übd "why --!P._ much pains were taken to . imiitthrtsee Uxitt he was urns, when: I the crowd laughed. • • • c.' Tunlsliit York Mailsays ;'" Two yOti , tig q I fellows, well known in soctetY;lisgriced" themselves by- coming to blows iwthes , ' parlors of a lady at a large zeceptiOn the other evening. The, liosteress, with rare. ; spirit; sentibem' a' request to leave bet' house at once, and • has 'since • cut 'theta b o th .° _ 4:7 • • :. . • „. : Tns N. Y. Bail Of the 20t11;' Bonner's mare *Pochonias on' Monday trotted half a rude, Fleetrrood: Park, in the extraordinary time of_ 1:04. DOG E iktlie fastest half mile ever trotted: Deis!. ter incl Startle litive both trotted id 1 Noll': lint PoiMboutas has beaten• tbefitittiivby one quarter of a' second. plug hat is generally goes, too carry with it, wherever it goes, evidences of the presence of civilization discloses; for ever Captain Jack is described as wearing an old stove pipe over hil..statlp.' In the Sandwhien Islands the plc% baths,: used to measure potatoes, .while Semi c , Domingo it serves as a nest foi - setting bens. NATIoNAL Conu•ntiOn arthe . rane of the Mexican War is to be held' in,` Washington, D. C., January, 1874,' , 40.: prepare a memorial to Congress for! pension at the samer rate, as that allowed the Veterans ist• 1812, and also to adapt measures for, a general assemblage or the., veterans on the- Centennial anmveritarr of the nation's birthday at Philadelphiiii: in 1874. . , Our in Ohio there is a hen which • haw subjected herself to the penalties . of, that; civi rights bill for znalcuic"distinctioA, on account of race, ,or previous; conditions."' Thenther day, after heteh. ing a brood of eight chickens; four black. and four white, she deliberately.' went to, work and picked of the headset the dor keys, while she continued to msnitest of,. all a mother's care and tenderness forthe white ones. . - ' _ ~ MANY persons—besides echcol b ops and college ' students—rise the , phis's*. ' "lie is a brick" without ' the' least- •ides that it is supposed to be of classisorig,in. • 'lt is said that King Agesilas, being asked by an embassador treat Bolus why _they had no walls for sparta, replied, "We havi." Pointing tolls' marshaled' army he said, &Thera are the walls of-Sparta; ' every man you see is a brick." ~ , -r • „f . ' As some lady Visitors werelecently gii.' ing through a penitentiary, under the et. 'T. cork of ; the superintendent, they came to a sown in which three woman; were , saw?- ing. "Dear me 1" one of the visitors 'wbis. pered, "whet, vicious looking .creatures f Pray, what are'they here for?" sullicansir; they havi no other-home. This ia our sitting room; and they are. my wife And two daughters," blandly Answered the se. periotendent._ hal, teem tric Pe nbeylvan lan was Atm. ied last week in accordance with the di. section rif his will, in. the ,centre" of ek large Said on his farm. ' There , were ao services held, nano clergyman i present,' as he expressively .onjoined.. ITherel is to be a fence around the : , greys,. but Whet kind of: a fence is lift to the deere; Ition of thelelatites. Being a'gentletriars of wealth it is expected faid he well IS*