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THE ~IONTROSE DEMOCR'
VOLUME XXX.
E. B:HAW'LEY & Co., Proprietors.
Business Card&
J. B. 41 A. H. ItcCOLLUIt,
A,l4.urrr. 1./or Odic* cM3ir tali Bank, - Montrose
Ps. Mantra., Maylo. ISII,
D. W. SHARLE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, othett over the Store of M.
Vessel:ler, In the Blink Block, Montrose, Pa. lattl Ca
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W: W.
IJABINET AND CHAIR IH lAPoo
ANHPACTIIHRR—t
or Main /amt. Mont/ben. Pa. MO.
dt. C. SUTTOAI
Auctioneer, and Insurance Agent,
sui CPU reiendsrtite. Pa.
C. S. GILBER7',
v. a. 1f ucssoacor.
anja Mitt Great Hand, Pa
AM! EL - Y,
.. /96 Bztotioaoor.
A.c. 1. ItlGB. Addre.r. Brooklyn, Pa
JOILY GROVES,
r A stIiONADLE TXIIOII, Sionloose, Pa. Shop over
CE.odler'a Store. SP orders Paled to firehrareatyk.
tins done on abort notice, and cramtntad to St.
J. F. SHOEMAKER,
attorney at Lau% 'Montrose, Pa. Oilleo next door to J
IL D e Witt'e store. opposite the bank.
M.otrosa, Jan. 11, 1611.—n0.3-17,
A. 0. WARREN;
A TTDRNEY AA' LAW. Bounty, Batt Pay, Pension
and Exam , od Claims attended to. Coldre no,
..00r below Boyd's Store. Moutroae.Pa. (Au. 1.'69
W. A. CIWSSMON,
Atteter.y et Law, Office at the Court Maw, to the
t omat test ITICeS °MCC, W. A. Cimeeaua.
lioateme. Scot. Rh. ien.—tt
aikKENZIR, & co.
D?alere In Dry Goods, Clothing, Ladles and Mimes
a• Sbona. agents fee the (Mt American
Tea and Coffee Company. (Montrose. JUIy 11. 11,)
DR. W. W. SMITH,
71.slist. Rooms at his daeUin next door cut of the
Republican printing office. Otago hones groin 11A. r.
to 4 P. N. Montztae. May 3, ini-tt
LAW OFFICE.
rim! & WATSON, Attoroeys at Latr, at the old office
of Bentley & Fitch, %name., FA
L. P. TITCO• [Jan. 11, W. WATSON.
1. 5..9 LITTER,
P.VitiIIONABLII. TAILOR. Strop over .IL DeWitt',
.tore.
:ktourrose Feb. 19th 1:413.
ABEL TrIZBELL.
Denier In DM" Madicinc.. Chemicals. Paters, Oils,
Orr studs, 'Pais, Spices, Pettey (Soots, Jewelry, Per
fiiinery, !Cr—, Met Black, Meats.•,,, Ps. Establi.herl
1.48. [Feb. t, 1673.
SCOFILL (6 DEWIT7
Attornsom at Law and Solicitor. In Bankruptcy. Office
10. Ji Cart Stroct.., over City National Bank, Banc.
twnk.sti, N. T. W nt. li. 5c.<31.1.,
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DR. W. 11. RICHARDSO-V,
paTBRIAN le SURGEON, tender. M. proteraiona
services to the citizen. of Montrose and vicinity.-
0 thee at hisnahlence, on the corner coat of Sayre £
Bros. Foondry. rAtny. I, 1862.
CHARLES N. STODDARD
)..alert. Boats and dboso, Itat• and Capi. Leather and
%aim Street, lit door below Boyd'. More.
anade order. and repatring done neatly. •
Mantal. ita. 1. Is7o.
LEWIS KNOLL,
SHAVING AND HALR DDR551: 4 10.
Shop In the new Posh:ace building, where he will
be (nand ready to attood all who may want anything
10 hie line.' Montrone Pa. Oct IS. 18[M.
DR. S. W. D. 4 STON,
SURGEON, trudern hi, ',entire, to
I he CiLiECIII or Great Bond And vicinity. Office at hie
residence, oppoult• Rare= BOWS; ,Read village.
t;opc.
DR. D. A. LATHROP,
Al aiols•ers Ct,a - rrao Tacna la. Brew., et the Foot of
Chestnut street cat and consult ID all Chronic
Diseases.
Montrose. Jan. 17, 'l3.—no.l—tf. •
G'II.IIII,EY MORRLY,
VIE HAITI BARBER. has moved his shop to the
OCCIVIed by J. It. DeWitt. where he it pre
pared to do ail Worts of work It his line, nal as ma
king swirther, pairs. ere. dtl work done on short
notice and prim low. Please call and see me.
IL BURIIITT.
Dealer in Staple and Fancy Dn. Goode, Crockery. Hard
ware, Iron. Stores, Drugs. Oils, and Nita.. Dome
and Wine*. Hata and Caps, Fors, Buttillo Sobee, Gro
ceries. Provisions. de.
Ncer-lilillord.la.. Nov. S. 12—tt.
EXCHANGE HOTEL.
D. A. MeCI - LACER'S. wishes to Inform th - Cpublle that
baring rented Use Exchange Rotel to Montrose. he
t. nea prepared so accommodate the traveling publle
Gs first-class style.
Idererese, At/g.:3,
BILLLWISBTROUD.
PIER AND LIND- iNtiIIMANCE AGENT. AC
duvinese attended to promptly, on fair terms. Office
hr. door cart of the hank nf Wm. B. Cooper & Co.
Po olle Avenue, Montrose, Pis. [Aug.1.1869.
;nly 17. Int.] BELLDNis hrnotru.
J. D. PAIL,
Ilamserarmernrstman Ann ancaromllitta permanently
Intatted himoelf to Montrose. Pa., where he will prompt
ly attend to all calla In hlo profession with which he may
rr favored. Office and residence west of the Court
near Fitch tY., Watson'► office.
Montrose- February It, 1871.
F. cHuncruu,
Ju.ttee of vbo Peace: °Mee over L. EL Leabelm'e stars,
Great bend 'borough, Bosonobnoas Ccmpty. Peon's.
Hu the set , lement of the dockets of the Late lease
R. , ekhow. deceased. Office boors from 9to 12 O'clock
a m , avd from 1 Vo 4 oteloek p. m.
Greet Bead, Oct. 2d, 11172.
BURNS & 2470H01,8,
Dia..4RB in Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals. Dye,
.; estnte.otls. Van:dn. I.lluft. Spir.l4.lrancy
Patent Medicines, Perromertyand Toilet Ar.
OrPrescrlptions catofally compouzidoiL—
Brick Block, Noutrase,Pa.
A. B. BMX/. Wires Mcnoza.
Feb. 8.1372
GE7 ALL EI7DB OF
JOB PRINTING, ETC.,
ltlritetrTZD JILT TH2
DEMOCRAT OFFICg i
Its/ BIDE 'Ol/414-tki
THE OLD DODD.
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On southern slope of terraced green,
With gabled roof and niamive door,
Calm, in the mild and trnquil scene,
The ancient home its honors bore.
Still lingering to our later day,
A sacred, peaceful vision, lent,
To soothe and cheer, with sober ray,
'rho pathway of our duscontent.
Te of a strange and distant past!
Lost from the ken of fleeting time ;
No pti:er light than thine is cast,
From the far annals of our prime I
Arland thee still, the scene is bright
With all the glories nature gave ;
Fair sleep the fields in sunset light,
Lenr murmurs In its sleep the wave.
The forest chieftain wandered here,
Till, o'er wild ocean's tossing foam,
The blue-eyed yeoman came to rear
In peace his fair New England home.
Yet not the virgin soil could gain
His willing love nr claim his pride:
True to his land of mist and rain,
"A loyal Englishinanne." he died.
Als? many times the autumn sun
Returns to pour a golden tide;
And many years the shadows dun
O'er ancient wall and gable glide.
Voices of children at their play,
Age smiling on the eareless mirth,
There vanish, and the dawning (lay
Beams on another epoch's birth.
Snell were the homes our fathers knew,
Bet in the land they died to save;
What though at last the cloutilms blue
Looks only on the field and wave?
Still. o'er the wreck of fateful time—
While empires darken, creeds decay—
Rises anew earth's morning chime,
And even smiles In primal day,
What though tha mansion's hour is sped
And low In dust its ruins lie.—
Nuts thus the founder's hope has tied,
The home he loved shall never die!
The lives, the memories lye know—
These ask no pile of stately towers,
Can earth's remotest region show
A nobler heritage :ban ours
The Story' Teller
POLISHED AND VARNISHED
Ltitiiiiix Illy sprang from the train just
as the'Jime sunshine was drooping down
the west in a flood of golden glory, and
the air was fragrant with the perfume of
new mown hay, and dewy with the ap
proaching twilight.
"Well, this is rather purer than Lon
don air," sighed Lem nox, drawing a deep
breath of delight as he hastened up the
green lane to the wide, old-fashioned
farm house, carrying his valise in his
hand. "I wonder if Mary got my note,
and is looking fer me? rialto!".
The last exclamation was drawn from
Mr. Bay's lips by a big ripe cherry, which,
descending from above him, cone into
sudden contact with his nose. Ile looked
np, and there, perched like a great bird
upon the bough of a cherry tree; and
looking down ut him with dancing eye
and brilliant cheeks, was a:yo. n o g girl.
pretty and willful enongh to set is man
crazy."
E===t
"flow dorm do, Lennox ? Come up and
have some cherries!" was the mischievonA
greeting,with saucy dimples playing about
her ripe lips.
"Mary, is it possible ?" exclaimed Len
nox, serenely.
"What ! that the cherries are ripe ? Yes,
and splendid, too. Have some ?" return
ed the nymph; cooly bolding out a great
ruby cluster.
"Mary.will you come down from there ?'.
said Mr. Ray, not seeming to notice the
cherries. '"
"Yes, to be sure, now you've come, and
I have had all the cherries I wanted."
And While Mr. looked on in stern
disapproval, tho young witch swung her
self lightly down from her perch and lit
on the grass at his feet.
"Now, don't look so serious, Lennin,
dear," she said, slapping her little hands
into his with a coaxing motion. "1 know
it's tomboyish to climb the cherry trees,
but then it's rich fun."
• "Mary, you should have lren a boy,"
said Lennox.
"I visa shad! Then I wouldn't have
everybody scolding me if I happened to
more„ No I don't either, fur then you
wouldn't have fallen in love with me.—
What made you, any way, my dear ?" she
said, with a fond glance and a caressing
movement
-Because you are a sweet darling," an
swered Mr. Ray, melted in spite of him
self. "But Ido wish, Mary, von would
leave off"these boyish ways anti be more
dignified."
"lake Miss Ishman ?" asked Mary.
"Miss Ishman is a very superior woman,
and it would not hurt yoa to copy her, in
some respects," said Lennox, Coldly. '
The tears.sprang into Mary's eyes at
his tone; she loosened her arms from his
and, dropping down neon the emerald
grass at his feet, began to braid a brace
let of the long blades in silence, with a
grieved expression around her sweet
mouth which he did not see.
"There l'".cried Len nox.pettishly. "Now
you look more like a five-near-old baby
than a well-bred young lady."
Mary . threw away her bracelet and got
up again.
"I didn't mean to vex you; shall we
go in ?" she said, sadly. - They went into
the parlor,and Mr. Ray took a•seat in the
great armchair while Mary flung open the
window and dropped down on her knees
beside it, lotting her glossy curls fall in a
great shower on the widow sill.
"Now, don't do that !" exclaimed Mr.
Ray, drawing a chair near- his own.—
"Dome here and sit down like a rational
being."
' "I wish yen would put up those fly- -
away curls,'. .said- Mr. .Ray. "And see
here, Mary, I Want to talk with you. You
know I love you, but, in truth, my dear,
wife must have some of the elegance of
refined society: Your manners need
polish, my dear.
Mary reddened and her scarlet lips curl-
ed a little, but she' said nothing.
A few weeks in fashionable circles will
be a great benefit to you, and I wish you
to hare the opportatuty. In short, dear,
Poetry.
"TRUTH AND RIGHT 1 GOD AND OUR COUNTRY."
MONTROSE, PA., WEDNESDAY, 3 . 11.14 Y 9, 1873.
I came down to tell you that my sister is
making up a party to visit some watering
place this summer, and I wish you to ac
cept the invitation, Mary."
"Are you going?" asked Mary.
"No; my practice will not allow it.—
But tithe!! see you nevem' times. You will
"Oh, Lennox, don't make me I" sobbed
nary, hiding her face on his shoulders, as
a vision of his stylish and haughty sis
ter rose before her. "I don't want to
go! I hate fashionable society! I don't
want to be polished! I'd rather stay
here is the country, and not wear any
bonnet, and climb cherry trees every
day!"
"Mary, I am surprised at this display
of childishness!" I must insist upon more
solfcontrol," be said coolly.
"But di - et send me away ! don't Len
nox !"
"I must!" be returned, but more gent
ly, softened a little hy,her agitated eager
ness. "It is for your good, and you must
consent to go.' "Will you ?"
The supper bell rang ut that instant,
and, anxious to escape before the rest of
the family came in and saw her in tears,
Mary hastily answered, "Yes, let me go,
Lennox," and ran out of the room and
up steirs to her own chamber.
They were at supper before she came
down again, with smooth curls and no
trace of tears, bet with a bright light in
her brown eyes. and a firm look on her
pretty face, and as she went through the
hall out to the vine-shaded porch, where
the tea-table was, she murmured, "Yea,
I'll go! And I'll teach you one lesson,
Mr. Lennox Ray; see if I don't."
It was Lennox Ray'a intention to join
his sister's party in July. but his law busi
ness prevented him. When Mary receiv
ed the letter expressing his regrets, she
only smiled and said to herself, "All the
better. I shall have time to learn my
lesson more thoroughly before September
Mr. Lennox Ray."
It was nearly the middle of September
before Mr. Ray, heated, dusty and weary,
entered his room at the Scarborough Ho
tel, where his sister's party was stop
ping.
"Dear little Mary," he said, as he made
a earful toilet before - going down stairs.
"I mu dying to see her, and I know shell
be glad to see me. A moment of her
sweet naturalness will be quite refreshing
after all these artificial women. They.
don't know I've come,so I'll just go down
and surprise them."
As lie entered the apartment amid the
flash of jewels and rustle of silks and
laces, he met his sister Laura.
"Lennox! you here ?" she said, giving
him two white hands.
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"She was I m the terrace talking to a
French count a moment ago. Ah ! there
she Is at the door."
"Ah !" said Lenox, dropping Lanra's
hand and making his way towards the
door.
But it was difficult even when he drew
near her to see in the stylish, stately lady,
whose hair put up over a monstrous
chignon, and whose lustrous robes swept
over the floor for a yard, his own little
Mary of the months ago.
Lennox strode np with scarcely a glance
at the bewhiskered dandy to whom she
was chatting, and held out his hand with
an eager exclamation, "Mary I"
She made a sweeping courtesy, and
languidly extended the tips of her lingers;
but not a muscle moved beyond what ac
corded with well-bred itdifference.
"Ali! good evening, Mr. Ray."
"Oh, Mary, are you glad to see me?"
said Lennox, feeling his heart chilling
within him.
"Oh, to be sore, Mr. Ray. quite glad.
Allow me to present Count delleaurepaire,
Mr. Ray, Monsieur."
Lennox hardly deigned to how to the
Frenchman, and offered his arm to her.
"Thanks, but the music is beginning,
and I promised to dance with Mr. Blair."
"But afterward ?" said Lennox, the
chill growing colder.
'Thanks again, but I am engaged to
Captain Thornton."
"When, then ?" demanded Lennox,
with a jealous pang.
'Ah, really, my card is so full that
hardly know. I will try to spare you a
waltz somewhere," with an indifferent
glance.
Lennox beat down and spoke, with
bitter reproach in his tone, "Good lieav
ens, Mary : What affectation is this ?"
She favored him with a well-bred
stare.
And taking the arm of her escort, she
walked away wish the air of an empress.
Lennox sought his sister.
"Laura, how hare you changed Mary
so ?" he demanded.
"Yes, she is changed ; greatly improved.
Isn't she perfect?"
"Perfect,? Rather ton perfect to suit
4me."
"To-morrow I shall see more of Mary,"
he thought.
Bid to-morrow, and to-morrow it was
always the same, and "that elegant Miss
Irving," as they styled her, was always in
demand. She played the role of an as
lady and gay-hearted coquette
to perfection ; and poor Lennos,from the
distance in which she kept him, looked
on almost broken hearted, varying be
tween wrath, jealousy, pride and de
spair.
"Mary, said he, ono morning, when he
found her alone, "how long is this to
last ?"
"How long is what to last?" asked
Mary, innocently.
"How long are you going to remain
the conventional creature you are?"
"I believe you wished me to come here
to improve my manners, Mr. Ray ; to ac
quire the elegance of society," she mid,
' "But Mary."
'•Your sister thinks I have been an apt
pupil,'
"Yea, too apt; too apt entirely!" eried
Lennox.
"Well, if you are not pleased with the
result of your own advice, I em not to
blame. You must excuse me, Mr. Ray. I
am going to ride With Count de Beau
repave.
And with her sweetest, hollow smile,
she made a graceful gesture of adieu,and
left him sick at heart, pusaled and die=
gusted.
That afternoon, as Laura and Mary
were about dressing for the evening; Len
nox walked, unannounced, into Laura's
little parlor, where they sat alone.
"I thought I'd drop in and say good
bye before you went down stairs," said he.
"I leave for London to-night."
Laura elevated her eyebrows a little.
"Sudden, isn't it P But since you are
going I will give you some commissions."
"You needn't. I shall may stay in town
fora day."
"Indeed 1 Where are you going ?"
"Oh, I don't know," was the savage re-
Laura gave him a look of cold stir
pri sc.
"At least you will take a note to Geo.
for me."
"Yes, iryou get it ready," said he ungm
cionly.
"Very well ; I will write it now."
Laura went to her room, Lennox. stood
moodily at a window. Presently Mary,
who had not spoken one word, came and
stood near him.
"Are yon really going away ?" she asked.
. "Yes, I am," was the short answer.
"Anil won't you tell me where ?"
"I don't know myself—neither kaow
nor care," he growled.
She slipped her hand into his arm with
the old caressing movement he remember
ed so well, and spoke so gentle, using
his name for the first time since he Caine.
"But, Lennox dear, if you go away off
somewhere, what shall I do ?"
He turned suddenly and caught her to
his heart.
"Oh, Mary, Mary!" cried he passion
ately, "if you would only come back to
me and lore me; if I could recover my
lost treasure I would not go anywhere.
Oh, my lost love, is it too late r
She laid her face down against hie
shoulder and asked :
"Lennox, dear, tell me which you love
best, the Mary you used to know, or the
fashionable young lady you found here?"
"Oh, Mary darling!" he cried, clasping
he r closer, "I wouldn't give one precious
toss of your old brown curls for all the
fashionable young ladies in the world.—
I wouldn't give one careless ring of your
merry laugh for all the'polished ladies in
society. r wouldn't."
Mary laid her arms caressingly around
his neck, and said softly, "Then I think
you will have to take your old Mary back
again, and pet her and love her as- you
used to do, for 1 am sick and tired of the
fashionable young lady :as you call be,
Lennox, dear:'
And Lennox, passionately clasped her
to 'inn, begged to be forgiven, and vowed
he would not exchange his precious little
wild rose for all the hot-house flowert in
Clirieendntn.
"Lam!" Lennox called, tapping on
Lao ni's door a Jlttle later.
"Wt . 11." ansn•ered Laura.
"Yon needn't write your note. I shan't
go to town to-night."
"Lennox. I never saw such a fellow for
fancies," cried Laura. "Are you cra
zy ?"
"No, I have .been, but I am coming to
my senses," said Lennox.
Lennox and Mary have been sedate
married people many years, but I never
heard that L•nuox complained in the
heist of his wife's want of conventionality
or even wished to pursue the acquaintance
of the fashionable lady whom he met at
Scarborough.
A TERRIBLE REAL STORY.
Nine days after a storm in the Gulf of
Mexico, a traveler, finding his way from
the salt-pans of Western Louisiana took
a little fishing craft. There was that fresh
purity in the air and the sea which fol
lows the bursting of the elements. The
numerous bays and keys that indent the
shore look fresher and brighter, and there
was that repenteut .beauty in Nature
which aims to soothe us into forgetfulness
of his recent angry passions. The white
winged sea-birds flew about, and tall wa
ter-fowl stood silently over their shadows
like a picture above and below. The wa
ter sparkled with salt freshness, and the
roving winds sat in the shoulder of the
gait, resting and riding to port.
The little bark slipped along the shores
and shadows, and in and out by key and
inlet, seeing its shadow on the pore white
sand that seemed so near its keel. The
last vestige of the storm was gone, and
the little. Gulf world seemed fresher and
gladder for it. The tropical green grasses
and water plants hang their long, linear,
hairlike sheaths in graceful curves, and
patches of willow palm and palmetto, in
many an intricate curve and involution,
made a labyrinth of verdure. The wild
loveliness of the numerous slips and chan
nels, where never a boat seemed to have
sailed since the Indian's water-logged ca
noe was tossed on the shadowy banks,was
enhanced by the vision of distant ships,
their sails even with the water, or broken
by the white buildings of a sleepy plan
tation in its bower of fig and olive and tall
moss•clustercd pines.
Suddenly the traveller fancied he beard
a cry, but the fishermen said no—it was
the scream of water-fowl or the shrill call
of an eagle far above dropping down from
the blue zenith ; and they sailed on.
Again he heard the distant cry, and was
told of the panther in the brad:l,mA wild
birds that drummed and called with al
most human intonation; and they tilled
on again. But again the mysterious,
troubled cry arose from the labyrinth of
green, and the traveler entreated them to
go in quest of it. The fishers had their
freight for the market, delay would deter
iorate its value; but the anxiaus traveler
bade them put about and be would bear
the loss.
It was well they did. There, in the
dense coverts of the sea swamps,amid the
blackish water-growths and grasses, they
found a man and woman, ragged, torn
starved. ror nine days they had had no
food but the soft pith of the palmetto,
mar s° mussels, or scant poisonous bet ,
ries, their bed tbo damp inorase,ane their
drink the brackish water; and they told
the wild and terrible story of Last Is
land.
Last Island,was the Saratoga and Long
Brand of the South of the souther&
most watering place in thesGult Situat-
ed on a fertile coral island enriched by in•
numerable flocks of wild fowl, art had
brought its wealth of fruit and flowers to
perfection. The cocoanut-palm i date
palm, and orange orchards contrasted
their rich foliage in the sun-shine with
the pine-apple, banana, and the rich soft
turf of the mesquit-giass. The air - was
fragrant with magnolia and orange blur=
the gardens glittering with the burning
beauty of tropical flowers, jessamine
thickets, and voluptuous grape arbors,the
golden winelike sun pouring an intoxica
ting balm over it; graceful white cottages
festooned with vines, with curving chalet
or Chinese roofs colored red, pinnacled
arbors and shadowy retreats of espaliers
pretty as a coral grove; and a fair shin
ing hotel in the midst, with arcades and
porches and galleries—the very dream of
ease and luxury, as delicate and Prim as
if made of cut paper in many forms of
rettishnesa Here was then the nabob's
retreat in this balmy garden of delight
all that luxury, art, and voluptuous des
ire could hint or hope for was collected;
and nothing harsh or poor or rugged
jarred the fulness of its luxurious ease.
Ten nights before, its fragrant atmos
phere was broken into beautiful ripples
by the clang and harmony of dancing
music. It was the night of the "hop."
The hotel :was crowded. Yachts and
pleasure vessels pretty as the petals of a
flower tossed en the water, or as graceful
shells banked the shores • and the steam
er at twilight came breathing short, ex
cited breath with the last relay, for it was
the height of the summer season. In
their light, airy dresses, as the music
swam and sung, bright-eyed girls floated
in graceful waltzes down the voluptuous
waves of sound, and the gleam of light
and color was like a butterfly's' balL—
The queenly, lneoustas night sank deep
er, and lovers strolled in lamp lighted
arcades, and dreamed and hoped of life
like that., the fairy existence of love and
peace ; and so till, tired of play,sleep and
rest came in the small hours.
flush 1 811 at once came the storm,
not, as in northern latitudes, with pre
monitory murmur and fretting, lathing
itself by slow degrees into white heat and
rain, but. the storm of the tropics, carry
ing the sea on its broad, angry shoulders,
till, reaching the verdurous, love-cluster
ed little isle, it flung the bulk of waters
with all its huge, brawny force right up
on the cut paper prettinesses, and broke
them into sand and splinters. Of all
those pretty children with blue and with
opalescent eyes,arrayed like flowers of the
field; of all those lovers dreaming of
love in summer dalliance,and of cottages
among figs and olives; of all he vigorous
manhood and ripe womanhood, with all
the skill and courage of successful life in
them,—nut a tithe was saved. The
ghastly maw of the waters covered them
sad swallowed them. A. few sprang
among crashing timbers, on a Oporlaiden
with impetuous water—the Many per
haps never waked at all, or woke to but
one short prayer. The few who were
saved hardly knew how they were saved
—the many who died never knew how
they were slain or drowned.
It. has twice been my fortune in life to
see such a storm, and to know its sadden
de,struction ; once, to see a low, bread,
shelving farrn house disappear to the
ground timbers before my eyes, as if its
substance had vanished into air, while
great globes of electric fire burst down
and sunk into the ground; once, to see a
pine forest of centuries' growth cut down
as grass by the mower's scythe. Ido not
think it possible.to see a third and sur
vive, and Ido not wish my soul to be
whirled away in the vortex of such a
storm.
At noon or later, after the ruin of Last
Island, a gentleman of a name renowned
in Southern story found himself clinging
to a bush in the wild waters, lashed by
the long whips of branches, half dead
with fatigue and fear. For a time the
hurly-burly blinded and hid everything,
and the long roll rocked and tore at him
in desperate endeavor to wrench loose his
bleeding fingers. Tha impulse of the
wind and storm at such a time is as of a
solid body, and there is a look of solidity
in the very appearance of the magnificent
force. But as it abated he- thought he
heard a faint cry, and looking around he
saw a poor girl in the ribbons et. her,
nightdress clinging to a branch, and alip
ping from her feeble hold. Tired as he
was, and wild and dangerous as the at
tempt might, be, he did not dare to leave
her to perish. Choosing his time in a
lull, he struck out to the bush : and reach
ed it just as her ebbing strength gave
way. He took her in his sturdy arms,
and, clinging with tooth and nail, stayed
them both to their strange ancharage.—
Faint, half conscious, disrobed as she was
in the sweet, delicate features, the curve
of, the lip, and the raven tresses clothed
in seaweed, he recognized the Creole belle
of last night's hop. He cheered and en
couraged her, pointing out that the storm
was abating. It could not be long until
search-boats came, and while he had
strength to live she should share it. It
proved true. Generous and hardy fishers
and ships had come at to the scene of dims
ter, and were busy picking up the few
spared by wind and wave. They found
the two clinging together, and to that
slight bush, and took themoff. wrapping
them in ready, rough fishermen's coats.—
The reader can see the end of that story.
A meeting so appointed had its predestin
ed end in stove match. So weleave it and
them; the rest of their lives belengs to
them, not to us.
The pair found out by our fishing
smack were a wealthy planter and hid
wife. For nine days of starvation and
danger they had Ching together. When
I think of the husband's manly care in
thus abiding by the wife, I find it hard
to reconcile it ° with the fact that he only
valued his 1 ife and her's at a feWdollars—
not enough_ to compensate tbo traveler,
for the loss incurred as demurrage to the ,
fishermen.
Mow Last Island is but a • low,sandy
reef, on which a few straggling fruit treed
try to keep the remembrance of its by
gone beauty. It is as bate and desolate
tui the bones of those who filled its balls
in the cataclysm of that dreadful night— ,
bones which no* waste to whiteness on
stet de shores or are wrought into coral in
the undemeto - '
Terms 1 ino DOULAiIIi PERMS 111 AIIllrA OE
oir PAID IN ADVANCE, So catii:
Thts
BY GEORGE A OREEYERi -D. Di
He hes some to the land, throtight Eternity's pore
tats,
Wbere Dukedoms and Kings
.ureretaernbeted
•
DO more.
Bat the /sestets cif crowns ere he 6CI,
Tants
Of Him who for sinners the crowd of thorns
Where the plead and the mighty are counted as
nothing; •
Where the Court of the boil la tuatice ar
rayed;
Where the verdict of innocence cannot be par-
chased ,
Whero the wages of character promptly are
paid.
Ho has gone where the feet of oppressors tread
never, •
Nor the prayer of the prisoned for freedom Is
heard ;
Where the flatterer's music is silent forever,
And the snare's never laid for the innocent bird.
Where the yoke of a Senate'S applause =mot
reach him,
Nor the wailing of conscripts, by oinks; mew
ed down;
Where the vote of a parliament never can
reach him.
Nor the bribes of the universe offer a crown.
Where the calm of Eternity gives him the lei
sure
To study the tempest of passion ott earth;
To ponder the pathway of glory and pleasure,
And balancer the world with the soul in Its
worah.
The strange, silent men from the fields of Ma
, gents;
The unsceptred monarch from the bloody Se
dan;
The chess-politician, whose moves are a venture
The subtlest inquisitor never could scan.
Where now is the spirit that grasped at dottin
ion ?
That rode on the whirlwind of power to a
throne?
Does It soar with the angelspn ecstacy's pinion?
Does it span, like a rainbow, the storm over
blown.
Resit gone to Inhabit, in darkened wave?
Some penal:Helena, far off on the
Or joined-the proud Ciesars of Old. World debt
siou?
Or roused the Achilles of Gaul from his grave?
Have the sides of the Pit ordered forth their
possessors
To hail the usurper with desolate stir?
Do the aisles of the Hades of acelitred codes-
•
wet
Resound the grim satire of "ylve ! Etuperour?'
0, tell as, ye forms of immortal forewarnfirr„
That watch at the gateway of morning and
night,
Was the spirit withdrawn in the' blackness of
darkness,
Or last in the splendors of infinite light ?
On Cats.
__,l)_
We are fond of cats. Unlike most
persons, it pleases us, while lying in bed
at night, to hear-three or four cats out
in the back yard spitting and -yowling
and waltzing around to their own mys
terious music. So we always keep a cat
on hand, in older to contribute our share
to the entertainment. It, is - a singular
-fact, however, that one hundred and six
ty-three successful cats which. we have
purchased have disappeared, one After
the other. We would buy a cat, and
have it around for a feir days; and we
would place it out in the yard, on a given
n 4 ght, before retiring. In the morning
' that animal would always have; disappear
ed. And none of them ever came back!
We regarded it as a somewhat singular
coincidence that the man who lives just
back of ns always had fireworks on the
very nights that our cats disappeared.—
Reflecting upon this circumstance, we
purchased our one hundred and sixty
fourth cat—a tortoise shell—and deter,
mined to watch het. Vs placed her out
in the yard a few nights ago, - and obsery
ed her from the kitchen door. The tor
toise shell frisked about for a while and
ground out a few melodious screeches.—
Then she jumped upon the fence for the
purpose of making acquaintances. While
there, we perceived the man in the rear
yard wipe that cat suddenly oft the fence
into a bag. Then that scoundrel tied a
string to the tail of the tortoise shell and.
affixed the other end ''of the coed to a
sky-rocket. Ile then lit a match, and in
about a minute that animal was shish.
ing around among the -stars without a
hair on her. body, We observed ; where
the rocket fell. We went out and climbed
that fence early next morning, and there
lay one hundred 'and elity-four 'rocket
sacks ; each with a hinged cat tied to it
with a string! Now. we know' why we
missed our pets ; and if we do not souse
down on that fire-works man with the
Society for the PreVention of Cruelty, to
Animals, it will be because that organita ,
Lion id hopelessly-demoralized.
A Barnett jury dosen't oonsider it an
act of impropriety for a sehooluiaster to
kiss a cook, it the cook dosen't object. A
Mr. Royston was recently engaged in
school in one of the southern counties of
England at a salary of $3OO a :year, and
was discharged without 'notice orally just
or reasonable cause and he sought to re
cover damages in one of the civil conga.
It was alleged in defence that one.of the
causes of the dismissal was that Mr. Roy
ston had kissed the cook. The plaintiff,
however, denied having -positively, hissed
the cook, but admitted that he tried Lode
so in the pantry,before the other servants.
There was no secret about it; but his
empleyer said "he did not think . a manof
good character wand try to Itiss a cobk,",
and thereupon he dismssedsthe poor ped
agogue. The jury, however; saw' not in
the kissing of a cook the evidence of. a
bad.character. and with - British . gallantry
gave the defendant's verdict, Saying there
was nothing to justify-his dismissal. In,
fact, they rather lookedwith 'extra feet;
lug on the dismissed tutof, for they not
only - awarded him his threenienths Bala=
ry, in lieu of totace,--lit also 015 he had
green to an agent tei obtain another situ-.
ation, , ,
Ix, olden times; an essential part of 'a
bride's Outfit wag sand for sconfidg her'
kitchen implinsents. 'Nowadays, they
don't trouble about' the sand; ail that is,
required from father is that he shall "down'
with the dust."
- .
Scat:wt. teachers in bus conntp loxd
have to agree tot to -be courte before
they can get situation& , •f,
NUMBER. 28.
• - Tor tho taullea,•• •- .
trlc --o— ,
A rot lady 'at .tarayettejlid,,lately
thrashed her itithet-hplaw. • • '.-' •
,
A i - roO'fk ots trotrigit °Mamas titio '
lately flogged a youth for toorrjibg 'het ''
daughter,
Av insane ivothan in ;iolve got all het
teeth pulled Out, and told the dentiet.tb •
send, the bill to, General Grant.. - .
Lucy Qum, of Plladelphla,. sold. het
new bonnet so that her- lover Aught pure_,
chase a ball k
ticet That's truife.
e lo -
A Di anon woman,
aged titentyttl
WAS lately niarried to het - fiftlibtiSbar2
They are all alive, and the other tour t
doing well;
A TOVNO woman at Pekin, 111 1 its• - •
tempted to leave the house by the wind-.
ow, but the sash fell upon her neck and
she Was found choked to death,
A Boston paper tells this: A lady
called at a thug, store and breathlessly re'
marked, "There! I have serenaded all the
way down hereto get a recipe prescribed,
and disremember the eombestibles.°
LADIES ere swinging at their *Mg
those old fashioned tittle bags in *bleb ,
their grandmothers need to carry., purse:
and handkerchief: TIM) , are called part.
gages now.
Womrs members of the Congtegahottai
churches of lowa propose toraise an en
dowment of $20,000 (er the female de•
partment of lowa College by contributing,
each one cent a day for the nest five
A Lint in &tiding, Pa., itEto ptit mit
several pieces of lace •on the grass
mystified by their strange disappearance/
They finally were discovered in a tree, to •
Which a robin had. carried them to !elm
into its nest,
„. .
AwasiAw in fintlingtoi, tai, 'Befog
years ago, while attending the funeral of
her first husband, heard that bet Muse
had burned down, Recently bet 'second
husband died, and while absent : at .hip„
funeral, her house was again burned. ;;
A PEORIA girt oh her martiager, sold
her inano and bought a sewing-mutates
and materials enough to make fall mitt
for het irusband•and berielfand streight+
wa went to work Making them try, Ile/
sisters are already all married.
, .
Is Indiana lately a lady gait it biil4'
liant party on the occasion of the snecess
of her application ler a &tom The •
guests who crowded her brilliant _
were enthusiastic in their congrattktiona
and on leaving at a late hour each wished.
the fair hostess many returns on the lap
py occasion, " . •
A oszaxt:itkicof uelegantlehiate, ° atat
a. bachelor at that; has been 1161118h:1g hiin , •
self - with testimonial statistics, and'rea
ports that out of 200 marriages publidte
ed in l i Vess , England journals, last week'
only two of the ladies_bad old-faslaiowd
names7—stich as Mary and Sawn ,
the others were Mollies, ,
Libbies, Tibbies, Nibbles, IlattissjPattles
Natties:
Tatiellet
Ilniamut t4jia 4 a has a can at Weill
Point,
Fun) tiomriAss' bust irt white trotrhlc4i'
ornaments the Rochester City. Hall .
J.t.Nre Siuki of Carversiille,Bticks Cog
died recently, aged 101 scoria' .
A Wondussruff -County ttutti
pair of holies forty years oil He 'calla
them 2:4o's.
. "torts to Corder i 3. itio 'ttpieseitct
*termination or a. love letter whick.wail
pot in as evidence in a. recent aiso4l A:
Ikudon court.
J. Pc Bai.c.Laluir,"former bonfederatii:
States Secretary, is in receipt . of a large •
professional income as a lawyer in' Eng.:
!and,
A VAttntorit man:whoVas bitten'
a dog, had a small quantity of Ida - blooa::
analyzed to asteflain if .he Shia free *out.,
hydrophobia.
IT is said 11114 a cloth sawn:act .wjtli
Chloroform an' l applied to the wound.haa
been, fOund effectual in *curing the Wed
ratik;suakes out West,
_.. • .
BnicitAix YOL'NO thinks die Shah of,
Peieia makes a plebeian display ivith'only .
.three vices, and proposes'to lend it
dozen that he,rday taakt , a'deeent appears
'twee.
FLomtix proposes to start doitihpa
tell; The ides la -to purchase a
larger
steamer; moorher safely in some conyen? - ,
lent, spot, and hare her fitted twin rep.)
lar hotel style,
Trtz cotten belt of the South etiibracell
an area of three hundred Millions of acre*
,—capable of raisiug cotton enough to
Make a shirt for the globe, England twee
a thousand millions,of poutri a yeat
A rinL at Columbia, Ga, was recently,
stopped by the aid or eb e ttinpague, : the
corks from the bottles of five baskets of
which were blowe Out bythe• heat; aUoira
lug the wino to ilmir , "out and dampen the
straw and thus delay the !lune& until the
arrival of outside held
Tlik death is announced at Portsinonthi.
.N, H., of ::Mrs. Levi Mrs. Woodbtry, widow of
the ex-Governotof Xew Hampshire, Tho
lady was 76 years of age, and had the re.
potation of having been ode of the belles,
of Washington,during the Presidency o 1
General Jackson, - •
A TEAcnr.ll in itockpnt recetted a notni
the other daygrom an indignant parent]
which read: "I want you to attickly tin
derstand; that yoti hant bostof my OhiD
dren if you keep multi for Witt late Ton
will haro tnible, you need not think Wee
are Blares betas wee hunt. We live in a
free land adoo; ) • , .
A LinT advertises rot "a realty plain`
but experienced , rind efficient gorernese
for three girls * eldest sixteen. - lifusiot
French and German required; hrilliancy
of cboveriation, fascination of mapper'
and symmetry of form objected to, as the
father is 'Much' at - home . and there sit
grown tip serial° . :
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