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DOIltr• more. .4 B.V, TURRE/./.. jikeywr M..theines. Cb. micils. Paints. Oil., Dy. Cuff., Patory G.. 44., Jewelry, Per rower]. Iht., Prtrk !Pock, Montt...se, Pa. E.tabat•brd [Feb. 1, Itll.. SCOVILLnEurrT Arteries" •I Law and Solicitors in nankrnivicy. Ottlire Sits 119 Court street. orwr city National Kann. Plug asrlitol . N. T. ti Ilcovtu, DIL Ir. L. RICHARDSON, PHYSICIAN A ItLIitGEON. tenders bi•prones•fons services to the citizens of Montrose end vicinity.— Office at hi•Cnonience. on the corner east of say, d Bro•.Pottittiri• I An: 1. Inn. eILiBLES N. STODDARD. )ealerin 111/1/4end gloats. Rot, and Cape. Leather end Fi othoge. Vain Sten.n. lot door below nu)d'► Store. Work made to order. and repairing done neatly. El °hulas, Jan. I. tern. LE IVIS ENO EL, SHAVING AND HAIR DIIESSIND:" fihop in the nc. Postorrice whrro he will be (bond ready to attendoll rho mayAroat Onyrbio,t; In hi• line, Montrone Pa. Oct. 18. MM. DR S. W. DA YTON, rtiTmciAN d bpi/Imo:I, tenders Ids services to tne citizens of 'Great Bend and vleinity. 001ce at Ms , sssdanee. opposite Barnum House, (Pt Bend village. sent. Ist. tf DR. D. 4. LATHROP, AEI ninisters Euserun Tutu.' tt. Sate., abthe Foot of Vbestnnt street. Call Allad COYLillit to all CarOUIC Montrose. Jan. .I.2.—nob—tf. CILIIRLEY 2110IIRLS THE HILTTI tllttfiltlt. has moved his shop to the en Odin: occupied by J. R. DeWitt, 'stows- bb to pro• P rod to do 511 kinds of work is his line. sack no ntn• king .wltrhe•. puff+. OLC. All work doue 'On abort notice /Bud prices low. Melee nail and ece me. IL 11(111107T. Dealer ,a Stara* and Fart y Dry Goode, Crorkery; Bard les., Iron, Stoves,- Oita, awllota.-Doota and S'.k.se.., nat. and Cape, Fore, Buffalo Hobe", Gro ceries. T•rualelotta..ke. New-IL:hoed, i a., Nor, EXCHANGE HOTEL. X J. nAnntscrrot nriFhili to Inform thepnilletilat baring rented the ESCI11111:IC hotel In Monirom he ;. now nretttred to aminnaJdate the traveling public In (Inn Cla.4 , olyle ttntn rope. An:. Si, 1613. BILLINGS STRO,LTD., RETIE AND UPS . ..•!tenNT. 'AF.! na g loud attendad to orlon:W.l7. orbit :P Tdcs drat d .or east nt the bank o , Wm. It. Cooper &IC.. ”nhlly AVeIIIC, MODIZOISC, Pa. [Ang.l.lBo. .1y 17. 1872.1 • ziaOCD. • „ • J. D, V.AIL. • . • . . Ile enrernic reran:lan Ann Sueottist. flu tiennanently leeeted nint•eff In Montrose, Pa., where he will prompt.. I) attend to an calla in nle profewilon With which he tray be favored. Office and reeldense west of the. Court fleece, near Plink in Watenn's office. ltoutroeet. Febmary tt. Int. VALLEY 110U8P4 Gaga, 11;;u. 67taatedeleartbfNeuliallWayDer pot. I. a large aril CtISUMAIWIS house. tuts uudergooe a tttoroorla ',par. Newly Sonvalled rooms au& sleep toe apartalcate.splawlldtables.and all ciao:no uomprls bit a f.pot class hotel. , /141 , 111.1 i ACK KRT. Spot. !Nu t z rruprletor. F. Cif CIRCILEL Jaattcs of the Penee 7 ornoe over L.'S. Upbeat's store. Groat Bowl boruqgh, tittOquohointol ltonnty." Ponh'o. Ilsatho ect . lo.noot of the dotaera of the latelsaae- Reek-bow, deceased. Waco hours from 9to 12 tieloci a. m . and from 1 to 4 &facet. p; at; . Great Bead. Oct. 271..1979. BURNS 4 NICHOLS, DEALeRS to Drays, Cheittealis; Dye; Rafts, P 2140.01111, Varatob. ,Optees: ropey . an.clao, Patent flatlet nos; Perfottielg and Toilet At ti,leo. Peescrlptioas cuarcklly aooiponado . Brick ntoek, Motaroacj.a... k. B. Bouts. • IitCUALII• . feb. 21, lea WHEN I ARV -OLD. When I am old—and oh, how soon Will tiles sweet morning yield to noon, 'And noon's broad, fervid, earnest light, Beabrowded In the gloom of night I Till like a story well nigh told, Will seem my life—when I am old. When I ant old—thls breezy earth Will luso the ate its voice of mirth --The streams will have an undertone of sadness—not by right their own; And spring's sweet flowers in vain unfold In rosy charms—when 1 am old. When I fun old I shall not carc To deck with tloweis my faded hair ; 'Twill be no vain desire of ntine„ In rich and costly robes to shine; Bright . ..jewels and the brightest gold Will charm me naught—when lan) old When 1 urn old—tny friends will be Old and infirm and bowed hke me; Or else their hodiel' neath the NHL Their apirits dwelling safe with God, The old church hell will long have toiled Abov,e their rest—when I tun old. When I am old—rd rather bend Thom sadly o'er cacti buried friend, Then see them lose the earnest truth That marks the friendship of our youth; 'Twill be en such to have them cold, Or dump to me—when I ant old. When I am old—oh how It stems Like the wild lunacy of dreams To picture in prophetic rhyme, That dint, far distant, shadowy time; So distant that it seems o'er bold Even to say—when I ant old. When I am old—perhaps ere then, I shall be missed tram the haunts of men ; Perhaps my dwelling will be fimmi Beneath the green and quiet mound; My name by strangers' hands enrolled Among the dead—ere I am old. Ere I am uld—th.• time is now, For youth fins lightly on my brow; My limbs are firm, and strong, and free, Life has a thousand charms for me; Charms that will long their influence hold Within my heart—ere I mu old. Ere I am old—oh let me give My We to le:intim; how to 'Nen shall I met, with willing heart. An early summons to depart. Or find my lengthened days consoled By Omni sweet peace—when I am oh. The Story Teller TILL OLD MAN'S DARLING. Margery Hilton's fortnite was made. ;20 she cobgrai ti ts (I Its sae-If as she gas ed upssts the (hansom] solitaire a hich,bui all hour hefore, Col. Leslie had placed cup on her linger. Ills worth of love still vi• heated ill her ears,litit stramze to say.there teas no responsive, mel o dy' In her heart. Al it •ugh her hps had promised that she would lw his wife. Stir wits a young girl not yet out of her teens, poor, beatitifti; -00 l ambitious, Colonel Leslie urns fifty, hale, eentivinailly and rich. He had gone to the little Ulabillacticring village of S--Jspon, business, had, accidently met with Margery, and having been en raptured with her beauty, address , d Let after a short acyraintaner. Aid so whilst ite as s rapidly being borne to his city clinic', thinking of the loveliness of the bade hr haul Tut.n.uusui ItiNullutim6ht means of making her halTy, 31sigery Fat in her tittle clamber dreaming bright dreams to be realize din the future. Her fortune was made. What did it matter now if there had been poverty and privation in the past ? Was riot the future bright with wealth and splendor? "I shall bar: di.intoutis and laces, and society to my heart's content," she mus ed, gazing from the window into the cloudless east, where the round, rising Mt On looked softly into her glittering '-yea. "I shall purchase them dearly, per haps, but I shall be an 'old man's dar ling.' Colonel Leslie said so to-night as lie placed the seal of our betrothal upon my flogs r. It is true that titers is a great disparity of years between us, hut 1 am satisfied with the contract I have made. I shall be 'clothed in purple-and fine linen every-day.' and if lam not happy, there is no one to blame but myself. I shall no longer be dePendent upon those „who grudge even the little morsel I eat." The wedding seas a quiet one. The village had never seen a lovelier bride nor a happier groom, and when after a month's travel, the couple took possession of their luxuriant home, Margery con gratulated herself upon the brilliancy of her fortune. Her brightest dreams met with fallffllment. She entered into her new life with all the zest of her fresh, young spirit. glorying in the beauty that had purchased her - pleasures, and leasing nothing undone that could encharce her loveliness. M== Colonel Liebe accompanied her every where she wished to go. too young, too inexperienced Jur me to allow her freedom,' he said 'eare:ssitigly. '•She will doubtless tire of this frivolity after a while, and will set tle down in the happy home 1 have so often Pict urid to myself." But time wore on and not even a shad ow of such a Weariness - appeared to cloud the young wife's spirits. No gayety was proposed which did• not tempt her paitt cipatitar and no temptation met" with re sistance.' . . . After a yearofnatient waiting,the fris nlithis in which she. indnlged became so distasteful.to him that he could .not re strain his iMpatienee. ' But'frirads inter posed, declaring that the loy.Ply airs: sboald..not make a recluse -of herself, and offering to accompany 'her wherever she wish~tf to go.' He transferred' her, as it were - to:their protection, - .and,day after day and Odd. after night lie was left alone as merciless as though he had. been but a hired-attendant of the house- . . Devoted as lie bed once been to, hit wife, thestrength -of his ardor began to abate, and -beginning to believe that she had married him for his 'wealth,. he_ de termined to restrict her. - gayeties in a measure. 1e would make overtures to her reason and. judgment, -and, if they , failed he would assert theauthority . which. centred` in himself; and.:whieft ,she had . so seemingly igatired. Ile waa in Op :library _awiitint Mar.. gery's coming,as usual, upon the evening of the Most ontestaulmout of IMINII2I MONTROSE, SUSQUEHANNA. COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCT. 22,1873. Poetry, TR. Cler3EC 421.14=0 PLIC3r3Wr G1.C113 ALT\73:I COTT.R. 4=10172471=1:4. the season. An hour after midnight she entered, radiant in velvet and diamonds. He arose and offered to remove her wrap pings. . . "Thank yon," she returned icily, still standing, "but I shall more immediately and there is no need of uzwrepping here." "Just as you please,'" he answered hau- Lily, resuming his seat and gazing fur a moment into the beautiful face for him ; "brit I have something to say to you which must he heard here and now." Margery gathered he cloak more close ly about her shoulders, and resting both hands upon the back of the chair by which she was standing, said, almost de finitely : "If you have anything to say, p'ease say it as quickly as possible. Lam tired and have need of rest; my demands for to morrow are pressing." "And mine, Margery, you will find. are still more so. I have been trifled with, and my expressed desire neglected long enough. You will remember hereafter that I stand first in this household, and that any wishes are entitled to ennui con sideration." "Perhaps ynu had better explain," she said enntemptotisly; "I do not know that I have the tonor of comprehending your remarks." "I shall certainly be more esplicit,then," he said mildly, still determined not to ap• pear irritated by her indifference. "We hare been married almost three years, Margery, and in all thr t time I have been u slave to your bidding. It is true that I am more than twice your own age, hut I became your husband, fondly believing that in your love my heart would regain its youthfulcess and that you would find comfort and happiness in being an 'old man's dar ing."l'llat I have been disap pointed I freely acknowledge; that you hare I can but infer. I realize now the vanity of the hope which b-d me to unite old age with youth, since our tastes are so dissimilar. What I have to say to you. however. is this; that I desire you to re linquish in a measure, those frivolities a Inch are separating us so surely mud so utterly." Margery looked for a moment into his face and said : "Suppose I do not desirr to moolince those pleasure, which yciu condemn so heartily ?" ••ThCn I shall resort to that authority which, as your husband, is vested in "And it I do not choose to cubmit to that ;xothorit v - That is not a gio-stion to he discwsed between us. - he exclaimed, empliatieal , y. now thoroughly aroused and irate. "I am master of this house, as you will find to your c.n.t. That y o u bare never earl for me except LA the represettative of the .•••alth which purchases tour pleasure, is h.. plain a ease to admit of argument.— But there is one thing of which von may rest a•sured, whilst yon bear my name it most remain as unsullied as when von received it. Ido not wish you to regard me as a brute, tow yet 33 a tyrant, but this continued dissipation must cease. I ant too old to be dragged front one scene of gayety to another, Laid us it were. to the wheels of your triumphaut chariot. and since 1 cannot alt. nd you, v. u must eooline yours.•lf more a t hom e , I' mu em , ret ite now if you pleas. but remember that I expect your compliance with my wishes." "Thank you for the privilege!" she re turned sarcastically. "I shall not retire. however, until the irstion is definitely settled." Iler eyes glowed like midnight stare, and upon her white forhead heads of perspiration sparkhd like diamonds in the full blaze of the chandelier, beneath which she stood. "That Ido bnt lore you, Colonel Leslie, you seem to be well snare I married yon because I was dazzled by those visions of splendor which yon plan ed before my eyes, and I sighed for them ae these who travel in the sandy deserts thirst for water. Fashion and society are my idols, and disconnected from them I would no! turn over my hand to live another hour. I shall not give them up without a struggle you may rest assured. but the victory is not always witb the strong. Good nicht!" she added, turn. ing from him and leaving the room with an air of an empr. ss. Colonel Leslie, stunned and mortified by her confession buried his face in his hands. This was the bitter ending of his pleasant _dream; this cold, calculating woman: the wife who presided over his home. "She shall have her own way," he sud denly, stoically resolved. "If she married me, us she says for my wealth, she shall not he cheated in the bargain. She shall enjoy her freedom unmolested while I live, and my wishes hereafter remain un told." Two—four years passed away, and then the end of it all came. Margery was sit ting alone in her elegant drawing room whence an hundred guests had just do. parted, when Cal. Leslie entered hastily and drew a chair to-her side. She gather ed her trailieg ro'oes of amber satin more closely around her, as if fearing contami nation. lie noticed this movement and exclaimed apologetically: vowed years ago, Margery. that I never would again l y word or look de tract from your b sppiness, and faithfully until now I kept that vow. This, howev. er, is a perilous moment for both of as. and mast account for this intrusion. have a communication to snake which will startle yon, but von must bear Are you listening? I" am a bankrupt,liar gery. a bankrupt!" . "A bankrupt!" she exclaimed, hoarsely. "Are you in earnest?" "Yes, in terribly earnest as to morrow's Proceedings will show. I have not-a dol lar in the world, which I can honestly call my own. For your sakel regret.— You worship wealth and position, yoit told .me once, and I nave-never forgotten God knows I pity you." "What are we to do?" she asked brok enly, for try as, shemight, the tears would not be, repressed. 4 , 1 do not know," he answered vaguely. "The tidings reached me but a feW hOursf ago and - .since ,then I hare ; thought of nothing but shall-tell-you without breaking your•heark I MO'net:itio Old to - work for but how wilt pi will endure on: misfortune? You doubt less reproach me fur not having provided against this contingency when we were married, but I did nut know then that you sold vonrself to me. • I ihonght that you loved me a little notwithstanding the disparity of rears between us." • Hr ceased speaking, and abruptly left the room. For a moment Margery's heart softened towards him, bat the next she rose ne, and sweeping her eyes over the magnifi cent apartment. said bitterly: "No, no, I cannot live without them." She ascended to her chamber, where her maid was awaiting her coming. She wearily submitted herself to her skillful hands and bath% submitted a morning wrapper for the parry robes, she dismised her sleepy attendant and sank into an easy chair which stood before the fire.— She folded her white jeweled hands in her lap, and thought over the events of the past few rears. "What a vain, profitless life I have liv ed !" she murmured regretfully. "Who has been profitted by it ? Not even my self. And with the abundant means I have wasted. how much good I might have done. Have I, indeed, been happier than I was when I sat in my little charm ber, the ornaments I possessed, a white rose for my hair, and my moth"r's old fashioned wedding ring fur my finger ?" And with her mother's memory came hack a tenderness, a softness to the heart of Margery Leslie which had not visited it for years. "It is not too late to retiieve myself,and I will," she added resolutely. "I can not recall the past, lint I cau at lea t prove to my husband that I am not dead to all sense of honor and shame." Margery descended to the breakfast room a different person. The elements of true womanhood had so long alnmber• ed in her breast that only the rudest shock could have liroused them. With their awakening' came the conviction of their unworthiness, and a (hitt ruination to re- gain the esteem she had lost. Col. Leslie •was not present at the table. and to the servant who summoned him, he said: "Excuse me to your mistress, and bring me a cup of coffee. 1 wish nothing else." "1 will carry it to him myself," said Margery. a hen she received the menage, and in a few m•oneuts more she entered the library where he was silting,. "Caw I as,ist yt a?" she said softly. us she d posited the unique- silver breakfast service at his side. He had not not.ced her presence before. He glanced hastily into her face and the tear.; good in Isis e%ei. I du not 'know whether yon can or not." he replied alniust wi:d y. "Mv bruin is in u whirl. "Thes:e IL.Lpers,' pointing to the heaps upon hit eal•er hand, —repre sent all 1 possessed. I hate been here all night, Margery, and tn) conviction, Liner .1 thur.on 4 h 11, vestigati is that we are hl ggi r `Yon HMO rrft fOtr, II! rat,.." she sa -and wliety you • hare drab k your c...tti.e, irr will talk- of uur mirror. Whdst lie partook of his breaktast.she tot ded heizelf in Arrangin ,, the disorded apartment. u ne off the gatAmtlich ull ourned hrilnanty, and throwing :male the heavy curtains, admitted the •indight into the room. Nut until then did die oh erve the change that bad take en place in her husband's appearance.— lls was worn and haggard, and his whole frame trembled as with an ague. Marge ry sat down near him. and leaning her arms upon the table, looking into his face. "You are easily discouraged, Col. Les lie," she said u ith emotion. "1 comprehend our situation much more clearly than yon do," he answered gloomily. "01 the business details, I am of course ignorant," she answered; "but they do not alter or affect the fact which so inti matelv concerns tie." "You realize it all, then, and yet your heart is not broken!" lie gasped, rather than asked. "You refer to the conversation that passed between 'us years ago ?" she inquir ed, the red flush mantling her cheek, and the tears gathering in her. eyes. Yes. You told isle that you would not care to live bereft of society and wealth. That remembrance has been the bitter.s - drop in the hitter, bitter cut)." "Forget it!" she exclaimed passionate ly. "Forget that I was ever so unwo manly, so ungrateful. Our married life so fur has proven a failure, but there, is time enough to redeem it." Colonel Leslie. could scarcely believe that he heard aright. "You are not jes ting with me, Margery ?" ••Indeed, indeed I am not," aheexclalm ed earnestly. "Althougk I hare proved teeresnt to the trust you once reposed in me, I am worthier to day to be your wife than I was upon our bridal morning. If you will only esteem me again es you once did, you shall never have cause to regret it." Colonel Leslie gathered her to his heart, and• pressed hie lips to her fore herd. "There is light ahead fur us. Margery," he end, its soon as he . corild trust him self 'to speak. "It is not at all sti dark AS it was awhile ago. I have education. talent, too, my ftiends used •fo sup, and old as I am, they must be brought into requisition. In my early manhood, I read and Practiced liv.and a low mouths' 'study will tit me - for the profession again. There was but a thousands left of all of Colonel Leslie's vast estate. Hut when Margery left the spacious residence which had been the scene of so many so cial triumphs, she felt but one sincere:re gret, utd that was that so many oppor tunitieforiloitig'gocid had'bren wasted,. Thengitthe borne site entered was hum ble. in ionmarismi; she realized , . that . mestinamitentruent which otherwise she never would have! known. . . With the Vigor , find energy which had always heen . ,proMinent traits. in Colonel Leslie's character, . he , eutered, inte..birt profession and became distinguished as a lauler. Once in the right path Margery never faltered, and being constantly - m thersoelety . of her hisband t she learned to loVe hini,...deveteary..„.. Although. his-hair is irb ite,with .age..his f,irm stately, and his step still firm,while. by his side, whether in his library poring over, his ponderous books, or in his parlor en tertaining his friends, is the elegant fizain and beautiful face of Ntutgeryi- 'the old . mau's darling." His Sunday Pants. Mr. O'Clurence purchased a new * pair of pants, Saturday. When he got home his wife was' mixing bread. She Wiped her hands on her apron, and made a Care ful examination-of the pants. First she pinched one leg of them, and asked him if he did't think it was too much. After that he stood off sways so she could get a look at the fit, so to burnt a right 'opinion of it.. Then she asked him if he couldn't draw them up higher, us they touched the floor. Ile said he couldn't without split ting himself in two,Which there appeared no urgent necessity for his doing. She pinched them again, taking •up his leg and eyeing it thoughtfully while he clutched the table with his hund,agd hop ped around on the other leg to rei3t him self:7E4%i was not doLfident they were all cothin4those clothing people do lie so'— but she was .1)t quite sure. However, she could tell better at the window, and drew him over,there to the iminent dag ger of tippling hint over, and breaking his spine. She rubbed them again, and turned up the leg so to see the other side, and all the while her Mind gathered' doubts and forebodings. If he had only said he was going to buy a pair of pants she would have went with hint herself, and picked them out. But tailors know that a man can't tell one kind of cloth from another, and will put off anything on hint. Then she abruptly dropped his kg, and went to the back, door and called Mrs. Mugent. Mrs. Mugent came in, and being made acquainted with the particulars, pinched Mr. O'Clarence's legs herself, and asked him why he didn't buy the cloth and have his pants made at home. Mr. O'Clarence didn't like the bother, and Mrs. O'Clarence explained that he always would have his ow i way. Mrs. Mugent said an uncle of Mr. Mugent, who lived is Bridgeport, got a pair of all wool pants last April for tive dollars, and you (Mr. and Mrs O'Clarence) would have thought they cost ten dollars if a cent; the cloth .was just as .tine. and firm as anything could be. Mr. Mugent would sometimes get the impression that he must have his pants ready made, lint he always .got cheated. - tibe - was "rttaitive there was not u lotto(' w.Ol in these,paptis and if they Were Mr. rugea's have them taken back. That is exactly what Mrs. O'clarence thought, end in spite of Mr. O'Clarence's proteations he t ok !hem back and got another pair.— The other pair was a little short in one leg, and pinched his stomach, but there was wool in them, Mrs. Nugent said. Mr. Loomis and the Brakeman. 3for:imer J. Loomis is one of the most violent- of the denunciators Of railroad monotones. - Since his last advent re on the cars he hates a ruijruad worse than an Arapahoe Indian hates a baldheaded Pres- Syternan. Loomis has tits of somnambul ism occasionally,and at such- times he has an uncontrollable tendency to wander in to dangerous places. More than once be has been surprised, upon waking, to find himself roosting on the comb of the roof, or hanging head foremost down the well, with one leg around the bite•ket handle. He went out to Pittsburg a few days ego, and when he entered the sieeping car the thou ,, lit struck him that he might .get to prowlitg about during the night - While asleep, and walk off the platform into a better world. So he went to the brakeman and gave him a dollar, with strict instruc tions that if he saw Mortimer J. Loordis walking around that car in his sleep to seize him and force him back at all has. zards. Then Loomis turned in, and soon his reverberating snore echoed the screech of th- locomotive. About two o'clock Loomis awoke, and as the air of the cur seemed stifling, he determined to go out on the platform fora fresh breath or two. Jest as he got to the door, that vigilant brakeman saw him, grabbed him, floored him and held him down. - When Loomis recovered his breath, he indgnautly ex claimed: "You immortal ass! What d'you mean ? Lem'me get up, I tell you ; I'm as wide awake as you.are." But•that cur m.don of a grasping corporation put another knee ou Loomis' breast and insis ted that Loomis was asleep ; and then he called another brakeman, and after a ter rific struggles during which Loomis re ceived bumps and blows enough to wake an Egyptian mummy that had been dead for six thousand sears, the railroad man jammed hint into a berth, put a trunk and eight carpet-bags on him, and then sat on him to hold him down until morn ing. The first thing . Mr. Loomis asked for when he arrived iii Pittsburg was a re spectable hospital where they cured. the temporarily insane. Ile thinks his reason was partially dethroned by his efforts to comprehend how the brakeman' conk hare the face to ask him for another dol lar because of the trouble Loomis gave him during the night.- 7 -Max Adder. - nig following corr4pondence it Said to have taken place between a merahain, and one of his debtors: "Sir, your. count has been standing for two vears;"l - have it settled innnedtately:" An. ewer : "Sir, tidifitrusitally settle by, stand• ing: I regret that my account is an- ea ,ception.'• 'lf it. is standing too long,-sup pose you let it run a little.". •••• AN Irish priest, stariding - upon a teaf• . fold, bestowed the following coniolition upon a murderer about to be hanged; "May, ye nivel.; forget the melancholy ; teaching of the lisson before ye, an' -May,. the mimery of this interesting mousier) last ye long as ye inhabit this world.". A L4*Tnn. hung ant „Ills atonglc.;-in Goiranue, for two years ;' and ,thok Mt; dB: iio had only one ca.fa in all that time, and that Wag Inflummatoryldieurow: Vaal, and it:rwarly, BVROLARE itcel their- hearts. Irish Coquetry. Sap Patrick to Biddy : "Good mornite modestl lea a bit av a secret I've got for yerear-: • • It's pruner that Is iikin'so-charmin' the day That the - heart .14 ma bream Is fast slippin' away 1" • "'Tit ybu that kin Mather," Miss Biddy replies, dud throws hint s glance from her merry blue. "Anahl thin," cried Patrick, 'fie thlnkin' av you That's. toskin' me bean sick, me darlint that's throe Shure I've waited a long while to tell you this ;same, • • ' And Biddyllaloney 'll.lm sicb a Mine 'name!" Cries Biddy : "Have done 'aid yer telkln , .I pray, Shure me Lean's not tne own for this many a !day. "I gave It away to a good•lnokln' boy, Who thinks there iv no one like Biddy 3lolloy ; So don't bother me, Pat jist he alsy save she. "Indade, If ye•Il let me, 1 will that r , Busby. "Ws a bit of a ttirt that ye are on the sly; lll.not trouble ye more, but I'll bid ye bye r' "Arrah Patrick," cries Biddy; 'fan' where are ye . goin' Shure it isn't the best av good marmeraye're • showin' TO lave me so suddint I" "Cchl Biddy" cries Pat, 'Y9P have, khocked the cock feathers Jist out av me bat?' "Come hark; Pat?' Bays she. "What for, thin ?' says he. "Bekase I meant you all the time, Pat I" says she. ; • In Sherman, Texas, says a correspon dent, we saw for the first time an ior'grinding bheat into flour. It was a great novelty, and reminded ns of the (lop:burn days of boyhoixl, when faith ful old "Watch," the I aine-liono.vd .house dog. u•id the writer berrof used to tramp togethi:r_on the tread, to make the wheel go aroutid, that the churn dasher might be sent up and down till [Miter was inade. That was years ago, but the memory of those days liogers like an eventful dream. Here we found un old brown building. In it was the machinery of grist mill com plete. Just outside the main Purtian,litit tinder cover. Were the motive power--sevui long horned, subdued Vexed steers, chew ing their ends us they lazily climbed a great wheel fifty feet across, and ground out. three thousand pounds of superfine Libor every day of the year. ' These ox-mills are quite nnmerous in Ihesouth; and are profitable institutions; by the .way. • about. half. a. dozen oxen twill keep.the great. a heel in: motion, and turn out av fine an article of flour as can be prddiMed by water of steam power.— Jost outside the Mill in an enclosure were several other taittle waiting, but in no hurry furthe hoar when theywere to go ntarchingg • on, while their fellows should rest. We caw the engineer of this swab liShmetit as he was woe:dint 'up with a fork full of new " mown tiny, and when we asked it his engines ever blew up he gazed apiiu us with a look of admiration a less observant man_ Might have takeii for disgust.' IConey-Ilakerv. There are men born with a - genius for money-making—with:the initiuct of ac cumulation., The talent and the inclina tiori to convert dollars into duubluona by bargains or shrewd investments ore in them just as strongly marked and us on. controllable as were the abilities and the inclination of Shakespeare to produce a Hamlet and an. Othello, of Raphael to' paint his cartoons, of Beethoven to coax pose his symphonies, or Mork. to invent an electric teiegrapk; As it would have been a gros,s dereliction ofduty. a shame ful perversion,of gifts, had , these latter disregaid.ul theinstincts of their genius and etigaguil in the scramble for wealth so would a Rothschild, an 'Astor, and a Peabody; have sinned had they dune via. lence to their natural, mid thrown their energies into channels, where they would have proved dwarls, and not gmutt 'The Poor Boy. Don't be ashamed. my. lad, if yon have a patch on your elbow., it is normarir of 'disgrace. It speaks .well fur your trions mother. For our part, we would nithe? see a. dozen Patches on your jacket than hear one profane' or vulgar word es cape your lips. No good *boy- will shun you, because yon cannot dress as well. as your ctmi pain mu k.and if , a bad boy some times laughs at your appearance,, say nothing, my good lad, hut walk on. We knovi many a rich' and' giiod 'man who once as poor wiyOu. , There is your next door neighbor in particular—now of the. wealthiest men—who told us a short time since; that when a child lie was glad to receive the cold potatoes from neighbor's table. -'136 good, my boy, 'and if yon are poor - You will be respected a great deal more thou if you were the.son of, a rich man and .were adclictedto,bad BBranch.. Wbere Our Go►d: goes. to. . It is estimated that liftreif pe r cent. of our gold' product is melted down 'for manufacture, thirty•tive per cent; gives to Europe directly, taco ty-tire per cent. goes tro • .enho. fiftero per cent. goes ; to ,Bruzil, cent.;tochinit,"Japan and India: ,letirtng five o*cent:for .domestic 'Fifty per cent'of that which goes to. Cu ba - and Brazitultimately goes Eo Europe, frorp..whence .fourtiftns of their frhole, supply.goes to,lmiia,..where it , is absorb ed and diSuppeari from sight iu a mystfi. liontinianno:• For`raany years this tilf 'sorption'of cOin.has- been' :going •on this manner. --•- -The grand essentials of ,human Amp. piness pre said to bo something to do, something to love, and Something to hope for. Slander ie owing to the •tront of men of culture, nud hunilv nnythiutpruduues , greatertutsery, where !L . extennituly, vaife. TEirr. working populatiowpf the United Sbilesik ftiiinute4 at'''I8;000,000=. 0no• third of - lbet Tioprantion.' ' T LtAisvicreiriimre mov J. Ilirni§itif NC% ADVANCE. !WC'S. UTUA. An Ox 21111. NUMBER 42. Varieties. Wbat is the most becoming dress for the.earth ? The skirt of a wood. - • Labor is the original purchase mon.; ey for all. things haying exchangeable value. . , . What is it that has three feet and cannot walk, sixteen mills and einnot, scratch ? A yardstick. People seldom improye when they hisys no other model but themielies to Copy after.—Goldsmith. - • From grave to gay is not much a great transition after ull. in both tutsies.'s mau may be equally amusing: Om shoes are thrown after newly Mat.' vied people to try and convince them that' they have nut been sold. . •~ A Newton county (Georgia,). Widower' advertises for a wife, and fastithouslyadde: "no school girl need apply," ' • • ,. E A sea captain explained to an.inquisi Live lady that : they, used shroucla 09ardi ships to bury dead cairns at sea., An industrious and virtuous education of children is, u: better inheritance for them than a great estate.—Addison. It has been eaid that woman never does anything wrong in her life, except witeti, permitted to have her own way. An Oregon editor alludes to the par chase of a tante by a brother journaliit j as a rernsrkable case of sell-possession. "`„.,. "Oh, Jennie ! What a beautiful suit of, hair, Plimbe Simkins has," said Mrs. In-, noceuce. 1 1.:jti false'," replied:Jennie,' ,' 'One of the best toast ever givent"Wo rmiu—the,last words on' our lips, because ; it comes from the bottom of oar, hearti.' What air does a young mouse eing, to, the old mouse when biting his way, through the scenery at the opera P'"lfittr me gnaw me." - - "Gentlemen," said ' n publican tolsia guest at midnight; -I non% know *both ! er you have talked enough, or not; ; ' . l4o as fur myself, I.rm going to shut ;,: When you see a man with a mat deal' of religion disphiya in his shop window,_ you limy be.sure helms tiiveryamallstock of it inside. A grace digger who had burled a Mr. ) Button, stmt the following, curious bill to his widoir : "To making a 'Button hole,' two shillings." • •'• • A crusty old bachelor says that "love' ui a wretched business, consisting 'or. a littla sighing, a little crying, a little dying, and' a greaL deal of .lying." . . -A Chinaman who- lied his nose bit off in a fight itt;t2aa, Frut,cidoc,. he. Wears- . fully packed and sent back home to shnllr his friends one of the American customs. .".1. have a great love for old bypas," mid . pretty girl to, it. maisotiliue companjoe. "1. um much fouder of .the yo . nitg:hertiP, n ay-the-reply. - - • • • • • • They latve'discocered a method of thin-. ning out the over-nl)n admit . population's:3f Japan. Kerosene lump 'have been intro duced into that country.. Sallie Fay, of Elmira, 0., is learning to be a carpenter, and it -is said , that, fiver young man of the locality is, anxious ,to be a carpenter and join 'er. An exchange informs os that divorces are obtained by husbindi, in Marylands. without pnblicity. They take their wives out - fishing and lighten the blitit: -"' ' "Owing to 'the sodden dealk . of' - t, he' editor, there won't be 'any lender' Tues. day," says a Wisconsin weekly,-"but look out for an old. rippevt Weduesday.7 Jo b Billings says: "I have often been told that the best way is to tuke &bull by the, herr • , but, pianothink, in piano 'oaten c6s, I should prefer the tail "Look at that monkey," said ,Smith; , "think of its being an . 'undevelOped hu man." "Human ! said Jones, contempt,' nonsly i "it's no more human than hint.'' Dandy (to shoemaker :) say can you; cure a deject in my boot here'?" Shoal ' maker: "I won't promise a cure, but I'll" agree to them." • • - An e'litor says that'the only'reason he knows of mil * his house was not blown ! . away the other day, during a severe, gale, : was because there was a heave mortgage, , upon it. 'Nel;raika's new law imposes , finfi „for pmfanio swearing done by "any person of the age of fourteen and npWards."'Thil:i then under fourteen may blaspheme gra. tuitonsly : as before,t A Western.man ata "prayer meeting" said, somewhat enviously: "Brother Law 7: , son 'eau sing bettei than I can, but the grave of Heaven I can fiddle ' 61d' shirt. off." • -'A Dutch Justice gives the follicatine oath tow it erases t ' , You do awfully 'swore" you will.told.the truth, the whole;truth, , and noting but,the truth, the, .best you ; omit?' A. lady, wishing the, services of a, dyer, Was referred to an f!xcellent rorkroan.— The lady asked: "Ara you tbo dying" man r "No, ma'm, I'm 'a livint man— Mit I'll dye for •you." 4, . Au frielinian, /swearing before'a magie. tntte, agsinsthielbree sons,- time rennin- ' •ded his affidavit; "And' , this- deponent. , • further etuth,ttliat the only one of ',hitu,-1,) children,tvlio,ehowed,linn eny, real filial.. , ;affection ' was his youngest sou Larry, fbr he "never struck him %then he ivai' down • . . . it,idle.younglitian leas complaining ,to .4 proskrous friend that although he had triil`bie luck in all .iorta•of fairs and lot•• 'ferias, lie had never been :able to. draw ' anything. l!' aaid big • friend i`twell..auppoie - .you.. try a handcart; • 1., ;tires yon, can draw that.". • 'What alcohol does for loon; opium •is • :doing fur-Iron:en. The Bureatt, of 4141. •tlities reports 315,000 pounds of pre opium as ed' apiu' being ', imported ' into this 'co tio try during the year 1874 16 lily. the demand of the unfortnnate va—c
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