THE • MONTROSE DEMOCRAT.
E. B. HAWLEY & Co., Proprietors.
VOLUME 30.
THE DEMOCRAT
Every Wednesday Morning
t Montrw,Stsfinehanna County, Pa.,
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at • rurldencd. on the corner met of Sayre &
.. Foundry.' fAuz.l. 18S9.
CII_IIILES STODDAPJA •
• r,nn• and Shona, Hain and Cap. Leather and
M 4in Street, Iwt door Delon . Boytr• Store.
nalOc w unter. and repairing done neatly.
1 170.
LEWIS KNOLL.
5,11 \ N - Pcf.i AND HAIR DRESSING.
is. s..v• Postoffilre bonding. Where he
ready to attend .11 who may want anytmag
Montrose Ps. Oa. 19. 1869.
DR S. W. DAYTON,
SURGEON, tenders 61a renlece t 3
• 01 I;rest Bend and vicinity. Office at bin
lottroont non., GI bead vifilde
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DIL LI A. LATHROP,
, :t.te , •ag Tomas!. Rsrna, at the Foot of
,reet. Call and commit la all Chronic
.41?1,EY MORRIS,
trrl B%.,REit, bap moeed hie shop to the
open) by J It. Dew_". Pm'
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pAtta etc. All work done. CM .bolt
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EXCHANGE HOTEL.
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ti..nne, Xtentrose. Pa. .(Ajg.
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,•1 :•a•olf In Mon burr, Pa. • where he will prompt:
slice Os in bit. profession with start he tiny
sr_nd residence west of the Court
Watson'. <Knee.
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BURNS LE It7VROLS,
4 RS In n own. aliwtesres, chepariao.fiie ,
, Psia , s.olle,Vernisb. Moors. elpices..l.laney
c. Paters Medicines. Pa:Amman d Toilet 4r
:11^TE , iErIption. caralol7 compOandell
!I .k. Efoistrose,
. Beam,. tiMpa the/FAL
21,19.12.
The day, with Its sandals dipped is dew,
Ilas peened through the evening's golden
gates,
And•a single star in the cloudless blue
For the rising moon In silence waits;
While the winds that sigh to the languid hours,
A lullaby breathe o'er the folded flowers.
The !lilies nod to tlio sound of the stream,
That winds along with lulling flow;
And either awake or half in a dream ;
I pass the realms of Long Ago;
While fitces peer with many a smiles
From, the bowers of Memory's magical isle.
Therenre ashen memories, bluer pain,
And buried hopes and a bntken vow,
And an aching heart by the rotlms main,
• And the sea breeze fanning a pallid blow;
And a wanderer on the shell-lined shore
Listening for voices that speak no more. •
There are passions strong and ambitions wild,
And the fame desire to stand in the van
Or the bat ties of life—and the heart of the child
Is crushed in the breast of the straggling
man;
But abort The regrets, and few are the tears,
That fall on tho tomb of the vanished years.
There's a quiet and a peace. and domestic love,
And joys arising front faith and truth ;
And a love unquestioning, far above
The passionate dreamiugs of ardent youth i
And Eisses of children on lip and cheek,
And parents' bliss which no tongue can speak.
There arc loved ones lost! There are little
graves
In the distant dell, 'neath protecting trees,
Whe the streamlet winds and the violet wawa,
Ans the grasses sway in the sighing breeze;
And s e mourn for the pressure of tender lips,
And the light of eyes darkened in death's
eclipse.
And thus, as the glow of the daylight dies,
And the night's first lock to the earth is cast,
I gaze 'neath those beautiful summer skies,
At,the pictures that hang pn the wall of the
pas;
Oh, Sorrow and Joy, chant a mingled las%
When to Memory's wild wood we wander away I
A SPIRITUAL SONG.
GIitor•GILUACDONALD; PROM NOVALtIL
Me faith to thee I break not,
If all should taintless be,
That gratitude forsake uot
The world eterualiy.
For me sore pains did wring thee—
Thou di...4'st in al3 11 sore:
Therefore with joy I bring thee
This heart lin. evermore.
Bow oft mine eyes have streamed
That thou art dead, and, yet
A main• of thy redeemed
Thee all their life forget!
By love posse-nted and driven,
For en what haat thou done!'
Yet is thy body riven, '
And no one thinks thereon.
WWI love that's never shaken,
Thou stararst by every rasa;
And it by all forsaken,
Art still the faithful one.
Such love must win the wrestle;
At last they feel, they see;
Bitterly weep, and nestle -
Like children to thy knee.
I in my heart have known thee—
() do not let me go!
In my heart',, heart enthrone thee,
Till one with thee I grow.
My brothers, one day, will Awaken,
Look heavenward with a start ;
Then sinkirg down, love-shaken,
Will fall upon thy heart.
—Scribner's for August.
The Story Teller.
THE SURGEON'S STORY.
yon buy my body sir ?"
I, Charles Markham, a young physici•
an, was sitting alone in the dusky little
room that the sign without dignified
with the title of, "Office," when the words
upon my ears. I had just returned.
from visiting the few patients I could'
boast of, thoroughly heartsick at the want
of humanity in thu world, wet to the
skineand more than half frozen.
I never remember a worse night in all
respects. It was us cold as the Arctic,
blustering, and the sleet that rattled upon
the windows sooncovered them with a
coat of ice. It had stormed heavily all
day, the stores were closed, and the side•
walk venders driven to shelter.
MEM
"God help any one that is forced to be
abroad to-night," had been my thought
as I hurried alpng after finishing my pro
fessional duties, and breasted my way
homeward.
But scarcely had I reached tt, changed
my saturated garinents,coaxing the spark
ling anthracite into a cheerful glow,made
myself comfortable and began building
castles in Spain,of the time when I should
have a lucrative'pructiee, ride in my car
' tinge and own a brown stone front, when
the strange and heart chilling words fell
upon my ears. causing all my pleasant
fancies to drift away in an instant.
'AVM yor buy my body, sir?"
I sprang from my easy . chair, dropping
my colored meetschaum to my astonish
me;:t. and !limed to see who it was that,
!Ike Poet 3 raven, had uttered the terrible
words.
“Will . ytu buy my body sir ?"
-The question was repeated for the sec
ond titue before I had sufficiently recov
ered myself to beconie gam vinced that it
came from no ill-omened bird, but from a
form of human semblance, at teast Yet
question was so .utterly .unuautd, se
mach at variance with all preconceived
notions of barter sale,that all I could now
do was to push achair toward the intruder,
and stand in silent wonderment.
In a few moments the self command I
had learned during- my, hospital, tweet ice
came to my aid, and I saw that my visitor
was a wotiltia.--Or girl, rather, for she
could not have bees' more than nineteen
or twenty at the utmost ; and, that is if
it had not been for the eztreme pallor
of the face, the pinched-up look about the
mouth,
and the sad, sunken eyes, 'she
would hate poseessed, far more than . is
orduiary the rase, the rare gift of beau
ty.
The flickering light of the fire flashed
upon ths loft, brown hair, giving it a
more golden glory, and dissolving the
snow flakes that had lodged there,
and
made them glitter like liquid wads. This
much, and that the dress and shawl were
Poetry.
LIFE LEAVES.
crirmat AND MILXGMICT ; 43,033 ANA commt. cl icrraTmsr.
MONTROSE, SUSQUEHANNA. COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 10, 1873.
of the cheapest material, - and tut a poor
defense against the howling storm and
pitiless cold, and the strange request
darted again with lightning rapidity
through my brain.
"Draw near to the fire," I said. "You
are benumbed. Warm yourself and
"I have no time, and must not stay,"
she answered with a sigh, tlliugh ehe
dropped heavily into a cliair tufa brushed
away the snow drops from herface with
her thin hands.
Without waiting fur further remon
strance I hastened to get some reviving
medicine, of whialt t sati'alie stood mucii
in netted, and with geutle;force held it to
her lips.
"I cannot, cannot," afie gasped, halt
pushing it away.
"You must,' I insisted. "Remember
I ant a physician, that this is a prescrip
tion, and that your life may depend upou
"Life! Oh, God How long and sad
Will it give nee strength?"
"That certainly is the object I have k
urging you to taize it. What else should•
it be
"Give it to me."
Aud she swallowvd it without a munnur
save one of thankfulness.
I wheeled her chair up nearer to the fire
and stirred the coals to a more braliant
glow—hoping that the portion woulti quiet
her exchement, awake the chilled blood
to a warmer, swifter llow,;and that sleep
would follow.
And, lot a moment, I fancied I was
right. The little hands dropped nervously
into her lap ; the softly veiled lids droop
ed over the deep blue eyes; the head fell
forward upon the breast. But, alas! it
was a momentary delusion. In another
instant she sprang to her feet again.press
ed tier hands upon her temples, as tl to
still their throbbibgs, and looked wildly
around.
"0, God !" ehe exclaimed; "I here,
amid warmth cud comfort, 'and, and—•"
Convulsive subs choked any further
utterance.
"Sit down and tell me the reason of
your corning here," I almost commanded
as I placed her in the chair.
"Ali! I remember all,now. Remismber!
Is ante no such thing as forgetCulness ?
Yes, I remember all. I came here to—
to—"
"Be calm. I understand you ure in
need, and come fur u.ssistunce:"
"1 came" she replied, and looked upon
me with utter desp imand spoke so calmly
that it made my blood run cold. "I came
doctor, to sell you my body."
Was I talking to a sane woman or a
manrac? The latter was certainly my
thought; but I could detect nothing ill
tilr clear blue eyes of the wandering of
',sap ity. "Sell her hods!"_.—She !poke of
it as an every day transaction.
"Great heaven !" I exclaimed, laying
my linger upon her pul,c, with the ex p..c
tation of finding it hounding with race.
horse rapidity. but on the contrary, find
ing it far more Galan than my own.—
"Great heavens! you cannot be in earn
est r"
"I am in earnest. God alone knows
Low much in earnest. It was my last
rr
sort.. WI I tun inn- it ?"
And she reached out her hand toward
me as a miser would have dune elm heard
the dear tann i n of jingling gold.
"flow can I purchase it when you are
still alive?"
"But I will soon he done, and then
then you can claim it. Fur the love of
heaven, give me a little, just a little mon
ey." And the hitherto dry eyes were
flooded with tears.
"Why do you wish to sell it ? You can
not but understand that it is an unheard
of proceeding. Our profession never pur
chased bodies (how I shuddered us I gaz
ed in her face, while I was forcing myself
to calmly utter the words) before death,
no matter what we might, do after."
"I know IL I know it; but I must hare
money, and there is no °the-r means left
me to get it, I must hare it now—in
stantly."
And she would have risen agam, but I
resolntely held her down.
"For what purpose do you wish it ?"
"To purchase food, fire, medicine."
"For yourself?"
. . .
"Ah! no. Had that been the case I
never would have come hither. I would
have bud down in the gutter and died.
God knows how willingly. But tell me,"
she continued almost fiercely, "will you
give me some money? I must bare it—
must have it."
"It not for yourself, in the name of
heaven, for whcm would you make such
a (canal sacrifice. Is it one who is very
near and dear to you .?"
"It is—is—my little sister."
The words dropped from her tongue an
they might have dropred from that of an
angel, and her face wore as holy a light
as if she had been already star crowned,
"Then she is sick?" •
"Dying! dying! and lam sitting iely
here r'
"Why did you not tell me this before?"
"Because I had begged so long in rain,
I had no money to pay a doctor, and who
would go forth upon such a night as this
without ?"
My blood boiled so that I could not an
swer. Could there be such men ? Alas!
reason told me in a moment that her
words were but too true, and. I almost
pursed my race. Without delay I gather-
Rig. g i p such things as I thought might be
of Eosin., wrapped the delicate form in a
heavy cloak, and with a few whispered
words of comfort we sallied out together
into the night, and the merciless
storm and cold.
Fortunately tl>e distance we had to
tr,ivel was but a short one, A. few hlocks
passed, and she led me up several flights
of dismal, creaking stairs into a room.
"Florence, is that you ?" I heard ask.d
by whist my ear convinced me was a pair
of childish, almost infantile lips.
"Yea, darling, lie still for a moment."
"I am so glad; you have been so long
—so very long sway, and Irma so,sick and
cold and hungry, and it was so dark, and
I have beau so frightened at strange
noises,"
My fair guide had been making prepa,
ration to obtain a light; but when be
beard these words ehe flew to the other
side of the room, and I knew that many
warm kisses were given and returned.
' , Excuse me, sir," she said, as she turn
ed and lighted the nen naut ut a candle.
"Excuse me,but I have been so long away
from Bessie."
I answered not. Her voice had a mel•
ody in it, now upended by love, that I
wished it to linger unbroken upon my
ear, like the strains of some songs I have
heard, which have haunted me for years.
In a moment the candle shed a sickly
light around the little room. Little in
deed, and unfurnished to nothingness!
One scantily covered bed was all. But
within I saw a sweet wee face that made
me forget all else. I approached it and
laid my bands Upon the pulse of the little
su (fere r.
"Who are you ?" she asked, drawing
back in alarm.
"lie is a doctor, Bessie; a dear gond
kind friend," replied her sister, and from
that moment she became perfectly passive
in my hanii
It did not require one learned in the
science of mabria medico to see what was
required. I made the proper prescription,
saw that it was tenderly administered.told
the eldest sister that I would be back in a
few moments, and resisting all her at
tempts to light me down stairs, groped
my way into the street. I had noticed an
eating house at but a little distance as we
came along, and a statement 01 the case,
backed by the all powerful king of the
world. gold, soon procured the loan of the
disused stove, a couple of chairs, fell],
light and proper food, and in a -beet half
hour the little room wore something like
an air of comfort. Another hour the
eyes of the child were closed in slumber,
and I urged her sister to seek repose, but
in vain.
"At least, lie down and let me cover
you with my cloak," I urged.
"No, doctor," was the constant reply.
"I cannot, I ant so happy, It must have
I been God that directed my wandering
! stew to yon."
id so we eat, with the night wind
rpsring without, watching the almost an
! gelic face of the peacefully slumbering
;child—sat and talked of what I was more
than anxions to hear. But the consersa
Lion of those lung dark licurs,can be con
' dens , d into a very brief space.
She wilt. would have sold her body for
the sake of giving a little longer life to
her sister, wa.s the daughter of at least
supposed wealth. But a few years previ
ously she could have held her head as
high as the highest. Both hirth and ed
ucation fitted her for it, But mithirtunes
came—a series of disasters upon laud and
sea, against which no lin floor forethought
could goard,cumbined with treachery arid
ingratitude of the deepest dye,swept away
all. Iu their foutsieo followed the death
of the mother, leaving an infant of but a
lew mouths ofd. The fond frther strug
gled
against the tide manfully, for a brief
time, when his health gave way, and he
followed his wife through the dark valley
and beyond the shining river, leaving the
elder sister to provide for the younger.
"F. - 1r a time," continued the poor girl,
was able .to live comfortably by the Bale
of the furnitur? and articles of value that
Th , n—why should I un
bosom myself to a stranger r she asked, !
stoppitil steldenly, and looking, me full
in the free.
"Because,' I replied with a smile at her
earnestness, “because you have found a
true heart and one who can feel for yen."
"Yes, may heaven be thanked! I feel
that it is SJ. Well ; I strut Bled on—no,
fought were the better word," she conlin
to-tin-all the lines about her noble mouth
suddenly becoming hard. "I fought for
life, sometimes teaching, sometimes sew
ing', in short doing anything that my
strength permitted, until sickness came.
still I gave not away to despair. Truly I
was bound to the stake—a sweet one —mv
darling sister. Of the insults I received
while seeking work I shall never speak.—
They must remain forever locked in my
own breast;" and the pallid face was
flushed to scarlet even at the thought.
°And found no employment?'
"None! Piece by piece I parted, with
the little furniture that I was the posses
sor of, until what you see was all that re
mained."
"Aly poor child."
trne"—l saw that she was nerv
ing herself to tell me something that was
painful—very painful—and would have
stopped her, but she resolutely continued.
"It is true some money was offered me by
more than one man, but I instantly and
indignantly hurled it back in my instil
ter's face. Then, great heaven ! upon this
bitter night, with all of hope guile, I de
termined tosell my 'way to some surgeon."
"What in the name .of heaven could
have put such an idea into your head?"
"I don't know. I cannot tell. Some
where I had either read or heard of some
thing of the kind."
" Yon must have been very deeper-
"On the verge of distmetinn, I bad
but one dreatn, one desire—to save my
darling sister even a ainglz hour of
pain • '
"Hive von no relatives'?"
"Not a single one- that I know of.—
Bath of City parents were only children
wham their parents came frum foreign
lands."
She paused and turned to smooth the
hair of the shunbering Besie, and im
print a kiss upon the curl-wreathed mid
snowy brow ; and I thought what des
perate trials one like her must have pass•
ed through in order to bring her mind to
look calmly upon giving herself to the
knife and the ribald jests- of the dissect
ing room. And I thought. too, of the
sterling truth of her young heart that
could resist the ahirements of gold when
so hedged by want and pain in their most
terrible shapes, I thought, too—but she
interrupted ma with; "My kind—indeed
I might say my only friend—whom God
raieed up IoF Ulu in the hour when all was
darkness and misery, and black death
tun' a pauper's grave teas staring me in
the fare. sfy kind friend—but I am keep
ing rou from your reso
"Me ? A physician's rest is one that is
constantly broken in upon and—si ill you
parson toe? I hare Dever had my heart
so deeply touched, nor my feelings so
much Interested in all my lite,"
A faint rose blush crept up from the
exquisitely moulded throat and mantled
the soft cheeks. She took my hand and
pressed it to her lips. leaving a warm. lin
gering kiss upon it. Did I suddenly build
any castles in Spain ?
When the morning light broke again
I over the gay city the storm had ceased,
and nature smiled—coldly, it is true, but
I brilliantly. There was u peaceful break
fast served in that little room, but the
dinner was taken in far better quarters.
As I write these lines I, write slime, at
least, of my dreams of wealth and posi
tion realized, sit in a cozy study and lis
ten to the wrathful howlings of the tem
pest without. There is a beautiful,brown
haired woman sewing near, and a sprite
of a girl decorating a snow-white kitten
with a crimson ribbou,on the rug in front
of the glowinggrate. I look up sudden
ly from the tioo k I was reading at the
former, Our eyes meet, Are we both
thinking of the past? It may be so,— !
She steals softly behind my chair and
twines her arms around my neck.
"Darling, do you remember such a
night as this, scarcely a year ago?" she
asks.
"Yes. f was thinking of, it."
"And of what brought me to you £"
"Yes."
She bends still nearer to-me ; I feel her
warm breath upon my cheeks; I feel her
fervent kiss—such a one as only a young
and lovely wife ean give ; and I hear, as it
were, whispered rather by spirit than
mortal lips: "Now, my darang. I um
yours, body and soul."
flow Eine Became Green
Mr. Green was a good looking man,
very—he dressed well—was well posted
up in matter's of business, and had the
reputation of being a smart man. But Mr.
Green had lived thirty years without a
wife. It wasn't his fault, for be was fond
of the society of the fairer sex, owned a
fine house, which he rented for his board,
and there were plenty of marriageable is
dies iu the village.
How happened it, then, that Mr. Green
remained a Mate of single blessedness?
Want of coinage. Mr. Green was a cow
ard among the ladies. True,he eunbl pick
up a lady's handkerchief, hold a skein of
yarn, or give his afm in the politest man
ner to escort a lady, from church. He had
seen half a dozen mime ! ' h e would hav e
married ) or who would have married him,
but he never could muster sullicientconr
age to ask either of them whether she
would or not.
One evening he was visiting at the wid
ow Smith's—Widow Stmtb—not twenty
six years had flown over her head,and yet
sh e li e d been a widow three years, and
bed long put off her widow's weeds. She
was pretty, had placed her only child be
side her husband in the graveyard, and
sighed for a companion ; and many a time
had she remarked to her friends she won
dered why Mr. Green did not get married.
He was an occaanmal caller at her house,
and would have married her at au hour's
notice. But she did dot know it. Ile
had never a hispered to her of love.
He could talk about the crops—the
growth of the villiage—the industry of
the young men, and all the other matters
wh eh the widow did hot care fo hear
about, but the ••one thing" which would
have struck her ears us the sweetest of
sounds, he never mentioned.
On the evening in question. the widow
was excesiivelv annoyed by her domestics.
Hardly was Mr. Green seated when Brid
get made her appearance at the
Mrs. Smith, if it plate you," said the
donwstic, "wi!l you look - into Cie kitchen
fur a mintee ?"
Scarcely had Mrs. Smith returned,when
the bushy head of John, the hired man,
was thrust into the dour with:
“M re. Smith.”
•"liow 1 hate the name of Smith e said
the lady.
Mr. Green's eyes dilated for a moment
—he opened his mouth and exclaimed in
hurried accents:
"Make it Green, ma'am—make it
Green !"
And in less than a month there was no
"Widow Smith" in our village.
A Very Bud Boy.
The chief astronomer at the Wishing
ton Observatory was dreadfully sold a few
days ago. A wicked boy whose Sunday
School experience seems only to. have
made him more depraved, caught
a fire-fly, and stuck it, with the aid of
some mucillage, in the centre of di? lar
gest lens in the te!eecupe. That night
when the astronomer went to work, he
perceived a blaze of light apparently in
the heavens, and, what amazed him more
was that it would give a couple spurts
and then die out,only to burst forth again
in a second or two. He examined it care.
fully fora few moments, and then he ne.
gan to do sums to discover where in the
heavens' that extraordinary star was
placed. He thought he found the locality
and the next morning he telegraphed all
over the universe that he ha d discovered
a new and remarkable star of the third"
magnitude in Orion. In a day or two half
the astronomers in Europe and America
were studying Orion, and they gazed at it
for hours-until they were mad, and then
they began to telegraph to the man in
Washingrou to know what he meant. The'
discoverer took another look, and found
that the new star hud moved about eight,
een billion miles in twenty-four hours,and
upon examining it closely he was alarmed
to perceive that it had legal When he
went up to the dome the next morning
to polish up his glass he found the light
ning bug. People down at Alexandria
seven miles* distant beard part of the
swearing, and they , say he infused into it
much whole smiled sincerity and vigor
(Ma energy. The bills for telegraphic dis
patches amounted Po $2,000, and now the
astronomer wants to find that boy. -He
wishes to consult with him about some
thing.—Max Adder.
.4nr Iriahnion in Blidgmort,Canti„who
was told that his employer's eters had
burned down, eselaimed,-: qWell, .1 can't
see how that caw be, when I have the kay
in me pocket,"
TermsTWO DOLLARS PER VP/11MS AANCEE
IF NOT PAID IN •DVANQE. 60 Cp. DT EXTRA/
Thh Three Shier*.
DY W. L. @lt 01:MAKER.
The parliament has lately confirmed the sen
tence of death passed tut two daughters of a
gentleman of AnJnu, named 3latlallion, fur the
murder of the lover of their younger sister. It
appears that he was engaged to be married to
the eldest slater, but, deserting her, and passing
over the second, he transferred 116 addresses to
the youngest. The twoelder sisters, In revenge,
Invited him to play at blindman's buff, and,
while one In and his eyes, the other cut Lis
throat.—From tks Lersv4m , mos, 1244 put..
Wheel in London.
I tun the eldest born of three;
Three sisters—fair, they say—ere we;
One, only one, there soon will be;
For two must die to-morrow.
A gentleman of bel Anjou
Besought my love, and he seemed true,
But cbuog•d—ns nfen arc wont to du,
0 love, thou art but sorrow
He wooed me long; my heart lie gained ;
But when love'aorb in him attained
Its full, by slow degrees it waned;
And two must die to-morrow.
Ho broke me with his plighted word,
And all his passion ho transferred
To her, the fairest—her, the third.
0 love. thou art but sorrow!
But Claire, the next to me In age,
My insult felt, and shared my rage,
Which, save revenge, could naught auxins;
So we must dic to-morrow.
Nor was it long that we forbore,
Although a careless look we wore,
While I—l scorned him more and more.
0 love, thou art but sorrow
She whom he loved, loved not—'twos well
To her our mind we would not tell ;
Too dire such thought in der to dwell;
Nor must she die to-morrow.
But still, we mid, should she be nigh,
And see the fickle hearted die—
Yet not ere I hod whispered why.
I) love, thou lad but sorrow
Ah, skilfully our plot Ise laid!
At hoodmamblind a game we made,
And long and merrily we played ;
The game must end to-morrow.
At-length, when Claire the bend had placed
Abort his eyes, she clasped his waist,
And his red blood try dagger graced.
0 love, thou art but sorrow I
He tar:waled not; be made no moan ;
My whisper froze him Into stone;
We scarce knew when lilt soul had fluwa
Two more most part to-morrow.
No traitress was our trembling mate ;
But none can be more wise than fate:
Our blood for his must expiate.
0 love, thou art but sorrow !
What's done—i+ done: why need wa ugh?
But all, to youug—so soon to die !
Yet Trout oar doom we cannot tly ;
We, too, must tile tomorrow.
Then welcome, Death !--revenge was sweet,
Though thou wilt make it less complete,
Lice Madallons, our end we'll meet.
0 love, thou art but sorrow
Tile Priest atid Ills Dinner.
'An Irish pnest was standing' at the
corner or a square about the hour of din
ner, when one of his countrymen, ob
serving the worthy father in perplexity
thus addr-ssed him:
"Oh, Flther O'Leary, how Wyour riv
erenee ?"
"Mighty putout, Pat," was the reply.
"Put out! Who would put out your
riverenee ?"
"Ah, ycu don't understand, that is just
it. lum invited to dire at one of the
houses in thii square, and I have forgot
ten the nam-, and never looked at the
number.and now it is nearly one o'clock,"
"Oh, is that all ?" was the reply. ",Just
now be aisy, your riverence; settL
that for you."
So &lying, away flew the good natured
Irishman around the square, glancing at
the kitchens, and when he discovered a
fire that denoted hospitality, be thunderT
ed at the door and inquired:
"Is Father O'Leary here r
As might be expected, again and again
he was repulsed. At length an angry foot,
man exclaimed:
'No, bother on Father O'Leary ; •he is
not here, tot he was to dine here today,
and the conk is in u rage, and says the
dinner will be spoiled. All is waiting
for Father O'Leary."
Paddy, leaping from the door as if the
steps oere OU tity, rushed up to the aston
ished priest. Baling:
"All is right, your riverenee; you dine
at forte-three, and a mighty good dinner
you'll geL"
`oli, Pat," said the grateful pastor,
"the blessings of a hungry man he upon
you."
"Long life and happiness to your river
eine ; I have got your malady; I only
wish I had your care."
AN Indian told .up at Leech Lake,
Minn.. that the way he got, whisky in
Brainerd was as follows: They got up
in the rear of the bui!ding, where there
are two boles in the wall; out of one
hole au arm is thrust to receive the mon
ey and jug, and out of the other hole the
whisky—governed in quality by the
amount of money received through the
first hole referred to—Was passed by an
other arm. The face of the seller is nev
er teen,but the Indian said that generally
the One that took the money was other
than the one that passed out the whiskey,
showing two persons engaged in it.
OLD Parson Peters, who once ofkiated
professionally in Ifebrar, Connecticut,
and who was quite a considerable of a wag
withal, once happened to marry a 31r.
Partridge to a Miss Brace. When the
executive part of the Ceremony had been
concluded, the, parents of the happy bride
desired.that he would close . the perform
ance; with a brief prayer which he ;to
cordingly - 'proceeded to .do, under the
form of . a benediction, and in theft
words :. "God bless this brace of par
tridges-,-Amen 'AD old folks were quite
satislied•
•
A Dung woman kept is toll-gate,--
One foggy ally a tniveler fished:
"Modulo, liow far' is it to "
4 •Shoost a little vays." Iva the reply.
"yes, hot huw for r'agaiii pshed tpp
traveler,
"sheest a little Nays," 131Pre eroPhatir,
' 3 la4aln. is it 0ne,.,tw0 4 , three; four, or
flee miles'?" • ' •
The good woman ingeniously replied.;
'1 clinks it is.
Ntluppo s c e ,
Items or loterest.
Tata never "stays?' ThklaCCouifti fop
he great waste of time.
Ir takes four barrels of flour to covep
Pittsburgh with circus rosters.
CALitoßsze dog revealed a murder
by bringing home a human arm.
AN attempt is being made to 1180 raw
mill refuse for smelting iron in Miehia
gan•
IT is expected that Minnesota:OA
export this year 20,000,000 baisheli 'of
wheat.
Toe St. Louis Dispatch is going trs
publish au edidoy op Sunday after,
a uoselq , ju uewspispm in lhis
cobutry.
LIE proposed new constitution oP
Pennsylvania ewers silty large printed
pages, being five times as furge as the old
one.
"Ou, Ma," said a little girl who had
been to the show, "I've seen the elephank
and he walks backwards • and eats wild/
his tail."
"Miss. was the result of the trial oP
that horse-stealer?" asked giasouriai l
of his neighbor. "Olt, lut was left in ens;
pence."
SunrnlL Peorians mistake their new
letter•carriers (or book agents and light,:
nitig•rud peddlers, mid throw stones at
them.
A LOUISIANA paper states that the ins
scription "for sale" or ''for rent" is poste4
ou more than 6,000 honses and !gores iq
New Orleans.
Piton Dubuque: "In order not to nem
the reputation of Dutnique'bitainea men
the names of drunkards beforethe police
court arc suppressed by the paper."
Ir is proposed to char.ge the name of
Chicago to Edwardsville, in honor of the
Directory man, who has does for the city
what no legitimate ceosus-toker could do,
—SI. Louis Globe.
A FRENCHMAN profeszes to have dis
emered,by experiments upon himself that
cogee taken upon an ympty stotriach rem,
ders the mind•alsnormally.ylear µRd CM}
temper unusually bad. ' • •
A YOUNG lady was thrown from a car
riage in Shrewsbury. Mass., the other
day, cud had one leg bn,lien, and the ac-
cident wits still further etimidiEiteini her
falling on a wasp's 'nest. .
"Wu.t'r do yon think of Inv , organ or
speech r enquired a tipsy hitrrister- of
his "It is an orgau without stops
and the pipes are always dry," was tba
' -
answer.
SyLvEsTitti
.when adjudged not'guilty . of mtirdexr
of his wife, rose up unirsaid: • "Geiitli.
men, I think I eau stand the-soda. water.
ou this." , ....„
Tuu editor of the Fauicukee.. Gakella.
thinks fishing, as a general rule,,,don't
pay. "We stood it all clay in the riven
l a s t week," he says, "hut cnualAt 4 0 thhift
—until we got hems."
A 'DA RIMY BOY at Harksvillo, Ky . ., who,
lens looking for a squirrel *Web a
coni
l' was shalcing ant of a tree; caught
the qvarnutit" in his alouth, but lust'hii
front teeth by the . •,'
AN old Scotch woman termed Pekbaii.. -
ey ' 4 it body wi' en awful slab'
and declared, he would make grand'
preacher, although a huntle o' the Mk .
%cecina ken what he was dritiu"
• ,!' •
A rAstmous yacly ip Chipaict brdokeliii
engagement became her Im:cr . /stained hew
sash and the back breadth of her , dreg ~
suit with tobacco juice. The' diseoled
lever yaw tautita her for her •
.
17 , is said that wally thousand pounds
of trout are annually caught. a!noilg 'the ,
Adironduetts which are left to rot:siron . e.
the shore. Such s enseless barbarians:As ,
hastening the depopulatio4,:,4.ltll4
streams.
PETER KEsstEn, the mnle•stealer, vim
was imprisoned in Jeirenson .City,
has been hanged by s Mob, and the Sher;
a who had him in charge has been Poi
btilY and two cabers very seriqualy
tied,
A FATIIEI3 in Wilmington. Del., 'who -
took a great dislike to one of his eliddrew'
that was "reel footed"—having feet turn ? :
ed out—was arrested for endeavoring yi
peranade his wife to assist him Jo poison.:
mg it.
No locomotive is allowed to use 'a steiti4
whistle in Altoona. that city pf railroad* •
where:engines; trains and Shifting cars ira
almost constantly in motion by night and '
day 7 .so that if whistling is essential in, ,
any town that would begine or the places.
"Get out or my way—what am.
goal for?" said a cross old man to a lit
tle bright`:*eyed urchin who hoppened . t.4.,
stied the way.' The little fellpi,_2o,
he stepped . aside, replied very gintly;
"They make men "Ant of each things a
we are," "
•Ae4
A. urns girl, who had g 'prat kind
um of heart for all the animal creation * .
, saw, a hen preparing tu gather her clilokT,
ens - under her wings, and shouted earriesti:
ly: "0! 'don't sit down on, those beautl4 '
ful little birds, you great -ugly old roost:.
er
gouge to the Gold - 4;66a' (N. CJ'poefj
office: f•Nnthing, tir."
letter for me, you. say:?"... 4 , o .Nothing."
"Dad fetch , the luck! Say; mister, ain't,
ttinr 'outlier postoffice in town "Only ,
One." "Nell, all I've got to 4,1k;-'- It ' s aue,horse town that can't sport: but ono
pestoflice," was the comment of the coqnr
trymati as Iro strofle into the, strut..,
. .
.
'A Baptist paper in Ohio was sent nine
rears to a Subscriber who. never Paid a
cent for it. ; The other day the newspaper
was returned to the patient antl long•suf
fering publisher;with the affeptingpeacil
note on its margin i "Gone :to a:
hettet
' The editor is a vet" , pions, man,
bat it is repot ted that his faith is terribly
shalicri-in regard , to the accuracy of the
information.. , -