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Urge and coantodloas hu ondergone thorooth rupdr. Nevriy famished footas and Weep opartmentsopitnillduttpies.andalltblaneotepte ihre Ila.t eau hoteL 111LtiltY ACKERT, • eta. tom, tra.-tt, Ptostrtetoz. F. CIMECIIILL, 7.•tme of the Two: office quits L B. Lenlituesitore. terust Itutd borough, natquellsons County, Penn's. list tit., eeV leteeet of the dockets of the Cato base Rtelthow. deuced. Ogle* Aooreftom®lolSt dtaact • to, and fromt to 4 o'clock " Gre a newt, Mt. 1611. -11118-V8 4 NICHOLS. kL ARS In Drugs. Ned(does, Chemietho. .t ags, rat ate, Oil+, Vevisb.'l4oloto..epleearsaa 4,....,,..,??....Aatileditices,Pertumerysiut Toilet Ay. lalrTrocriptiont cardally compoiandaL -I.Th4ikP Illoatso 4 *.ra• V• or' " IL 2.lnt Poetry. EPDVUASICIEL --0- D* WARY LOWZ DICIINOWL -0- ?Or dapthsof human suitring or Joy no entlllh • are Into our hearts ere given ; We cannot know our brother's lob or trews ure. Hb anguish or lab heaven. Oft times the snowy sharpness of a sorrow, Piercing life's common calm, Smiles hidden rocks of comfort, which to-mor row .o'erilow with healing balm. Oft-times we calmest find griers turbid river Who trembled on lta brink ; Pull oft the cup at which our blanched lips quiver Holds wine of hope to drink. Wealth burdens that we staggered in the tat Ing We walk erect at length; The bitter blows that bow us e'en to breaking Reveal our secret strength. The turbulent tide at tangible despairing Rents never uneunsoled Not so the long, low swell of anguish bearing Dumb sorrow manifold. The common grids of common souls, Whose level Is mortal's low estate, Whose voices—deadened by some loud woe. In sobbing silence walk Whit for one anreeering cry of recognition, One star athwart their sky, One promise of a far off fruition For hopes that waiting dl.. And, dying, walk again in ghostly starkness, Peopling the gloomy gray That makes their heaven murkier than de/t -iII:EN And farther ftom the day. For thesewhere is the light! Shafilhat bright postal Which, soon or late, swings wide rorweery soul, reveal a Joy immorta l, Secured the other side. Shall we our crosses lift, till light upon them Transfigures all below ! And wear our crown so long em we have won them :That all their glory knew ? And those who; bending, drag a cross to sad- Their faces to the dust, Not carry palms at Jut nr know the gladness, Of souls that rest and trust ? It it slow slipping beds, or patient folding Of stained hands In prayer, That makes them purer!. Or the faithful hold ing Of what God gives to bear! Nor all the gathered wisdom of the sages Can guess Gods hidden ways, And yet the slow unfolding of the ages Must still dhow his praise. And all this mystery of palls, our spirits Can neither bear nor break, •My not the mystery to souls who bear it For love and for love's sake. The Story Teller. NISIIITAILISN IN THE PERSON." BY MARY RAgnoLru "My dear. you'll be very particular about the dinner," said Isaiah South tasted, toasting his coat tails before the ruddy breakfaiit fire. ••And I beg and entreat yon, don't let Peggy spoil the wild duck." N., Mrs. Southmaved rubbed her forehead in a sort of bewildered perplexity. She was a plump, over-drea,vd little matron with round, blue eyes and a pug nose, not unlike a Dutch doll lanais Southmay. ed had married her for the fire thousand dollars that scented boundless wealth to him when he was u _struggling clerk at three hundred per annum—therefore it is rather unreasonable that Isaiah South mayed should be annoyed at the absence of brain under her pink cap ribbons.— He had not bargained for brains—what right had he to expect them ? But men have been unreamuable since the world began, and Isaiah was no exception to the ordinary rule. "Yes, dear," said Mrs. Southmayed, nervously chattering among the china cups and saucers. "The soup ala Julien neorith plenty of pepper—and the fish stewed in wine—and—and the best silver and the cloth with a silver border, and the blue silk coverlet on the bed—and—" "There, there, that will do," said Mr. Southmayed, petul.•ntly. "You never will have a spark of system, if you live to be a hundred years old. It's strange I can't accustom you to a more methodical way of thinking." "I am sorry, dear," said the lady meek. ly, "but you know just as you was telling me, yesterday, Charley's wife came to ask kir some plain sewing and really my pour head got so confused that"— "Charley's wile!' roared Isaiah, .whirl ing around so rapidly that his coat tails narrowly escaped a conflagration. "There you go again, Mrs. Southmayed. Didn't I expreuly charge you not to mention Charley ur his wife ? 'Sdeath, madam ! you'll have 'em out before your Cousin Remington, as sure as you are alive." ' I don't think, Isaiah.-I'm very sor r9.' "Yon have cause to be sorry," enuncia ated Isaiah. growing very red in the face. "I don't want Raymond Remington to know anything about Charley. Let him suppose that Charley is sule in Calloinia where he ought to be. Confound the lazy idle fellow, I don't believe he's a bit sicker than f am. I think that when a man gets to that stage of life when. he's bothering all his relations for money, he ought to be shat np in some public in:. stitution—l do upon my word." "Re's your brother, dear," mildly sug gested the Dutch doll.of awife, who evi dently had a little heart somewhere in her internal mechanism, "and poor Fanny wears such shabby . bonnets." "My brother! is that any reason he should pester my life out of me. with his everlasting begging notes and letters.— And his old white - hat bobbing about among the clerks in my office?.: at a litoplo it, once for. all—l will - Mrs. Sontbivaved." - " "But Fanny tells toe 'be only wants a little work to keep them from 'starvation. Their am little *nee; 4840, AO= a = = - MONTROSE, SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCT. 29, 1873.- "Fanny tells you the moon is made of groen cheese, and you'll believe it 1" irate ly interrupted her husband. "Charley's coming to my office this afternoon and it will be for the last time. The idea of his asking me to employ that tall starving girl of his as governess to my cbildreu. " Mrs. SouthmaYed was silent. In her own secret heart she would much have, preferred gentle Clara Bouthmayed to the French mademoiselle, who domineered over'the whole family and wore green spectacles and false curls, but she had tong since learned that her wilt must bend Wore that of her imperative lord and master. "What time will-you have dinner ?" she asked quietly. "Well—six will probably be sufficient ly. The Iberia comes in ut four—and of course Mr. Remington will send for me immediately. Now don't forget the port wine =fee for the ducks—nor the fresh current jelly—and see to selecting the raisins wild almonds yourself, my dear.— That's all I remember just now, and it any improvement should suggest itself to me, I can send up a note from the office." And Isaiah Southmayed loftily put on his hat and went out, a portly and well to do specimen of the New York merchant. Nor need he have taken to himself so much inward credit of serene good humor with the world at large. Now men are good ttnmored who come from a bright tire, after a breakfast of real old Java cof fee with broiled chicken and hot rolls. Breakfast at Charles Southmased's was a different affair. I 'Mamma, can -I •have a little more mo lasses with my bread ?" "Hush 'Forrimy," said Clara, with aju dicious warning, "mamma has 110 more molasses for you." '•lf Toutuiv don'tlike his bread with- out molasses, l ' chimed ,in a hungry eyed little elf apposite, "I would eat it." "Why don't you have milk and water this morning ?" asked Charley junior. eyeing his cup of cold water rather dis tastefully. "Beciiuse," promptly responded Tom my, "the milk man said he wouldn't leave any more milk, till the old hill was set tled. Oh, mamma, wouldn't it be nice to have luta of money ?" "Hush, children," said Mrs. Southmay ed. deftly transferring her own portion of bread to the plate of her hungry eyed elf before mentioned. "Surely, Charles, you won't think of going out this cold morn ing with that cough ?" "1 think the fresh tir will do me good. my hive," answered the pallid, gray hair ed man, a-hose sunken eves and colorless lips plainly hetoket ed the prett&nee of some wearing disease— pr.bahly consump. tion— "and hyalites, you know 1 must see !swab to-day." "Isaiah. indeed," repeated his wifo.with a t.•ss of her head. "Mitch good it Will do to appeal to Isaiah. A hard-h• urtrd. 0.1.1 t«+.. •. ..." --I "PP 7 ng "My dear—d.•ar ;vile." interrupted the poor invalid. "he is my brother." ••I eau% h.-Ip sohlwd Mrs. Soul h mayed, he hug no more heart than n block of stone. Clara, bring we the rolls of work, dear." "Are they the soldier's clothes, mam ma?" questioned carious little I'..mmy. "An- yiin going to dew on that pretty yellow braid ?" But Mrs. Sontlimayed did not answer. She knew she must sew diligently nit the hours of the short winter day. to earn forty cents which were to feed the hungry child mouths around her. "Carriage, sir? earrit4e, sir?;,. Hare a nice hack. sir —take you all way up to Broadway fur two dollars ? Carriage. sir ? the best house?" "Now, then, sir—here's your man." Now Iberia had filially moored her ponderous length in the blue sparkler of the Bay, and the little steamboat had just brought the eager passengers ashore.— Amid the tumult of the piers, the rattle of stages and distant roar of Broadway, old Raymond Remington stalked through the crowed, with his hat slouched over his eyes, and his hands clasped behind his hack, as placidly as if he were still amorg the palms and leathery acacias of the far East. "No use pestrin' the old cove, Jim!" ejaculated a hackman to his persistent partner, who had followed the saffron faced stranger. with vehement praises of some particular equipage. "I ain't sure that sort o' fellow puts money iu our pockets." Raymond Remington smiled grimly to himself, as he mentally acknowledged the truth of the man's inference. Yet, the rich old East Indian could probably have bought up half the passengers of the Iberia. Re sat down by Cie hastily kindled smoky Ore of the hotel parlor, uncoil. sciously shivering in the wintery draught. And this is what I've looked forward to for thirty years," mused Raymond Rem ington, with a cold thrill of disappoint ment at his heart. "There's no use die. guisiag the fact that this is not just what I used to dream about when I first went out to India. They say money can do anything—can it buy me a welcome?" Ile sat motionless a moment,then start ed up with a sudden impulse. "I'll go out and see Isaiah Fonthmayed —lsaiah and I were boys together, and Charley, poor Charley t Isaiah writes• me he is in California, doing very well. I wish he could have been here to shake his friend's hand—l used to be fond of Char ley. Isaiah's welt enough, but somehow I can't divest myself of the idea that it's my money he's courting. Perhaps I've grown distrustful and doubting—it's very possible—but Charley used to be my fa vorite cousin." Raymond Remington, walking through, the surging current of BrOadway, in his old accustomed way, with his eyes bent on the pavement, and his hands clasped in one another behind him felt more and more lonely and disheartened as the dusk closed drearily over the great Babylon of eight and sound, the gas lamps begun to glimmer like yellow stars through the twilight. The city had changed almost magically—the splendid streets of his boy hood were dingy and deserbld now,, and new thoroughfares bad risen in.glistening sows of marble and brown stope. "It don't eeem like bome,'. pondered the yellow faced East Indian, more disap. pointed than be was willing to confers to himself. There was but one shaded light burn ing in the little back office, dedicated to Isaiah Souibmayed's special use and ben lit, and the clerks in the counting house beyond whispered to one soother various private opinions respecting the "asqu I had temper" of their chief, on tbis particular evening. Isaiah Southmayed was cross—and per haps nut without reason. Six o'clock wus approaching and no note had been receiv ed from the rich East Indian, summoning his obsequious relative to attend his lei sure—moreover, he had too good reasons to believe that the ducks were spoiling, and the fish stewed in wine would be a total failure. "It's very singular—it's positively un accountable," said Isaiah Soutitmayed to himself, f,,r at least the ninth time within the half hour. 'Now then, sir, what's svanting?" For a pale faced clerk with a quill pen behind his ear had insinuated his head meekly through a half open door., "If you please, sir,a gentle—l—l mean a man, wants to speak to vou.' "A man. Haven't I said I wouldn't see any one to-night, yon r idiot?" "Please sir, he says'he's a=--relation of yours, sir." Isaiah caught up his big office ruler vindictively, but restrained his incline. tion to throw it at the offender's head, luckily remembering in time, that Mich ael Arnott was a new clerk, and couse (leen tly not an experienced one. "It's that begging rascal, Charley," roared Isaiah, losing all sell restraint in his towering passion. "n 1 settle his bus iness for him. Send him in, Arnott." The spare, bowed figure, wearing by sotre curions-lnjncidence, just such a white hat Isaiah had anathematized as belonging to poor broken down Charley, had scarcely crossed the threshholdof the darkened oiliee before the indignant nier chant gave vent to his feelings: "Don't come a step nearer, sir. Arn't von a4iumed of yourself, coming here in that absurd dress, to degrade me before all my clerks? I won't give you a cent nor I wouldn't if you were starving in the glitters! Now tau have my ultimo. 'um. Charles Sontlimayed, and I hope you are sztiAed %Hi it. I am not bound to provide for iny poor relations,, and tell you so once for all. I haven't opened your last I..gging letter—Michael, hand that letter to the person—a n d I return it to you, as a proof that I want no more of And 1 want you to distinctly under stand that the next time you come here, I s h a ll b a nd y.. 0 over to the police. Mi elmet show him on[!" Atoll Isaiah Sinnlimaved plunged his head in am ing n wilderness of mammoth ledgers nod day hooks, as a signal that the inierrirw had terminated. , C 1... houtod ..h‘sr tv, without a word. a d glided through the rounting-him.e, where the clerks were already turning down the gas-lights and nstentatiOusly preparing for departure, into the open stret& ••A singular welcome—a strangely wor ded nelcome." muttered Raymond Rem ington 11l himself, as he mirchanicaill% panse,l beneath the glare of !mops with "tit, and ,pelold the unsealed envelope that had been gtri. n into his tiervlrss timers by the officious Arnott. "Poor 'Charley ! Poor Charley!" h. murmured. "And here is Charley's ad dress at the bottom. Starving, suffering wifeand littleones,in want of thecommon. est necessaries of Ills, eh P I think mill on Charley. His own brother has repulsed him from hie door. Perhaps hell be glad to see old Raymond Rem• in ton !" Mrs. Southmayed was still stitching la boriously away at the soldier's clothes; and poor Clan►, who had been out all day answering advertisements for "a gover ness," was setting the table for a scanty evening meal; while the little ones play ed quietly in the corner; arid Charles Soutlimayed lay upon the worn sofa,with closed eyes, thinking son-owtully of what future lay before his beloved ones, when he should be removed beyond all cam and trial. "Mother," ejaculated Clam, "some one is knocking at the door. If it should be that cross old grocer with his bill. And we have no money!' "But it isn't the cross old grocer!" said a hearty voice. And in walked a tall, yellow-faced man, with his hands behind bis back,and two little black eyes sparkling genially bewail shaggy erbrows. "Its Raymond Ilemington:—your cons in—Charley Soothmayedl My boy, I'm glad to see, yon I" The East Indian had no reason to com plain of the welcome accorded to him in this humble household ; for in less than five minutes every child was clinging about his knee—pretty Clara crying on his kind shoulder, and Charley and his wife scarcely more self-constrained. "I've come to the right house at last,,' thought old Raymond Remington, with a new happiness in his heart. And when, the next day. Isaiah South mayed's elegant carriage stopped at the hotel to convey Idr. Remington to his own residence, the yellow-faced old gen tleman overwhelmed his relative with contrition,by reminding him of the office scene the night before., "Sly dear Raymond," ejaculated Isaiah; turning white and red,"how could I have made such a mistake." "It was• au awkward mistake—very," assented Remington:curtly. "But you will accompany mo home now ?" "No ; I'm going to set up house keep ing with my"causin Charley." "But, my dear Remington,"spafimodi gaily urged Sontlimaretl,surely—" "I've made up my - mild," shortly an swered Mr. Remington; "I don't fancy the general style in which you address your relations, Isaiah. Poor Charley al wave teal my favorite; and you know," added Raymond with a gleam of grim humor irradiating his ,face, "I am not bound to provide for 4111 my poor reht tim." . And Isaiah Southmayeil retreated con vinced.that one little mi4take lid forfeit= ed him the golden gleam of those East Indian hoards. He did not reflect that his whole life was "a mistake." A THRILLING INCIDENT. -0- The following incident is extracted from a very interesting paper in Bent!fa Miscellany, entitled "Hours iu Hindos tan." The corba de capello is - said to be one of the venomous serpents in the East, his bite being attended with almost ,instant death. We had been playing all the evening at whist. Our stakes had been gold mohur points, and twenty on the rubber. Max ey, who was always lucl , y, had won five consecutive bumpers, which lent a self satisfied smile to his countenance, and made us losers anything but pleasant. when he suddenly changed countenance, and hesitated to play. This the more sur prised as, since he was one who seldom pondered, being so perfectly 'luster of the game that he deemed long et)nsideration superfluous. "Play away- Maxey, what are you do• ing ?" impatiently demanded Churchill, one of the most impetuous youths that ever wore the uniform of the body-guard. "Hush," replied Maxey, in a tone that thrilled through us. at the same time turning deadly pale. "Are you unwell ?" said another, about to start up. for he believed our friend bad been taken suddenly 111. "For the love of God eit quiet," replied the other, in a tone denoting extreme fear or pain, and be laid down hie cards with a countenance of horror. tlf yuu value my lite, move not." "What can he mean ? Has he taken leave of 4iis senses ?" demanded Churchill appealing to myself. "Don't start—don't move; I tell you," in a sort of whisper I can never forget, uttered Maxey. "If yon make any sudden motion Fur a dead man!" lie exclaimed. We exchanged looks. He continued: "Remain quiet and all may yet be well. I've a cobra de capello around my leg." Our first impulse was to draw back our chairs; hut an appealing look from the victim induced us to remuin,olthouc!h we were aware that should the reptile trans fer hnt one fold, and attach himself to any other of the party, that individual might already be counted a dead man, so tatal is the bite of that.dreadful monster. Poor M.tsev was dressed as many old residents still dress in India, namely, silk stockings and breeches. Therefore he more plainly felt every movement of the h idenuthrepti le. Ills countenance assumed a livid hue ; the words seemed to leave his mouth witholit the features altering their posi tion, so rigid was the look, so fearful was the li g io,ez, uniwuleif muvew,,,e should alarm the serpent and hasten the fatal bite. We were in agony little less than his own during the scene. "Lie is coiling ronud," muttered ey. feel him, cold, cold to my limb; and twu, he thickens. For the love of heaven call lot- some milk. I dare not speak loud; let some be placed near me ; let some he placed on the floor." Churchill cautiously gave the order, and a servant quietly slipped out of the room. "Don't stir I Northcote you moved your head. By everything sacred I con ure you not to do so again. It cannot be long ere my fate is decided. I've a wife and two children in Europe; tell them died blessing them—that my last prayers for them. The snake is winding round my calf— I leave them all I possess. I can almost fancy I feel his breath. Great God I to die in such a macner l" The milk was brought and carefully put down : a few drops were sprinkled on the floor, and the affirighted servant drew back. Again Maxey spoke: "No, it has no effect! I dare not look down, but I am sure he is about to draw back, to give the bite of death with more than fatal precision. Receive me,O Lord. and pardon met My last hour has comet" Again he pauses. • ' "I die firm! Bat this is past endur ance! Ah, no! He has undone another fold. and loosens himself! eau he be go ing to some one else ?" We involuntarily started. '•For the lore o! heaven, stir not! I'm. a dead man ; bbt bear with me. Ile still losens—he is about to dart. Move not, but beware! Churohill,,he falls off that way. Oh, this agony is too much 6o bear. Another pressure, and I um dead! No..he relaxes." At that moment poor Maxev •ventured to look down ; the snake had unwound himself ; the last coil had fallen, , and the reptile was making for the milk. "I bm saved 1 I am saved f r ' and Maxey bounded from his chair and fell senseless into the arms of one. of the servants. In another instant, need it be added.we were all dispersed—the snake was killed, and our poor friend curried, more 'dead than alive, to his room. Nine States In a Day. —o— "Is it statue ?" said an Irishman: ; "bother me, but it's a mighty great thing, intirely, fur &Mu' things—puts me through nine states a day'; (Brit a- word of lie in it." ".Vine States!" exclaimed a dozen in astonishmet.t. "Yes nine of them,bejabers,as May u a cat 'tul lick her ear. 151!ye see ; now; I gut :married in New York in the manila', end wint wid my 'wife Biddy to Baltimore the same day; hould your wist now and conntthe stales. There was the state of matrimony which I entered in from a single state.in a sober state, in the state of New York, and I whit through New Jersey,Piusylrany and Delawur into Maryland, where I arrived in a moat beautiful state of jollification. An' that's nine ; count 'em if yes like. Och, but gene's a ecrotiger." , 'The llts7sachosetta papers deserite ghost which Srequente c hotel in entfolk. It is probably only the liquor inb•speatre. Terms{l77 ,,i 4 D alin t : iIwA Y N E C A E R .N I ADVANT%. Blt TUE lIIIVIEEC . . I am sitting alone by the river, And the willows are sweeping its brink The shadows of twilightnre tailing, And I sit by the river and think. The shadows of twilight grow deeper, The river is fading frem sight; 1 can see the gray willows no longer, And I sin sham with thawed. In darkness and gloom, noble river, Thou art noiselessly floating away In darkness and gloom 1 am floating, And whither, oh I say; do I atray The learning of Plato and Piuteal Is madly at work hi my brain I am satisfied [shwa nothing— I feel and rreasou In vain. Does justlee'exlst Y Ob, where is it? SUB the bean id the tyiant is stone, Still his victims are toiling, despairing; Still he heeds not, he hears not, their moan 'Tis rain that you tell me, hereafter These things are Dot to be so; We are only able to reason - Frdm that which we see and we know. For centuries long have the curses ' Of the heart-broken pierced the skies; For eenturies long has no answer Returned to their desolate cries. It I call upon Nature for comfort, It is silent and grim as the grave; The winds will nut stop at my question— No reply from the long sounding wave. And the slam, as they glitter above me, Pure and calm as the flakes of the snow, Look Os cold on the sorrows of mortals. As they looked in the years long ago. Oh, give me! oh, give me my childhood, The unqr.estioning faith that were there, When I knelt at the fiat of my mother. And gently she taught me my prayer. I am Bitting shine by the river, And the willows' are sweeping its brink ; The twilight has deepened to midnight, And loft by the river and think. The Old Fashioned Soother. —o— Thank God! some of us have an old fashioned mother. Not a woman of the period, enameled and painted, with her chignon, her curls and bustle, whose white jeweled hands have never felt the claip of baby fingers; but a dear, old fashioned sweet-voiced mother, with eyes in which the love light shone and brown hair threaded with silver, lying smooth upon her faded cheek. Those dear hands worn with toil gently guided our tottering steps in childhood and smoothed our pil low in sickness, even reaching hi us in yearning tenderness when the sweet spir it was baptised in the pearly spirit:of the river, Blessed is the spirit of an old fashioned mother. It floats to na now like the bean tiful perfome of some woodland blossoms. The music of other voices may be lost, but the entrancing memory of her's will echo in our souls forever. Other faces will fade away and be forgotten, but her • will shine on until the light from Heaven's portals shall glorify our own. When in the fitful pauses of busy life our feet wan der Emote co the_ol4„httpleStelidflind cross: ing the well-worn threshold, stand once more in the low, quiet room, ito.hallowed by.her presence, 110 W the feeling of child. hood. innocence and independence conies over us,and we kneel down in tha moltkm sunshine, streaming through the western window—jest, where, long years ago, -we knelt by our mother's knee lisping 'Our Father." How many times -when no. tempter lured, as on has the memory of t'iose sacred. hours, that mothers words, her faith and prayers, saved ,us from plunging into the deep abyss, of sin! Years have filled great dints between her and us, but they have not hidden from our sight the glory of her pure, unselfish love. Better than Capital. The man "whose statements May always be ham without question, 'whose prom ises are made never to go ortfaltilled,Whose verbal agreements are as good as _written contracte,whose integrity is of more value in his own eyes than app mere fortune which he could barter it for, will be as tonished -to find, in his hour of heed, with what •fitrength be is braced on every aide, and how often he will stand firm as a rock when other then trembloand fall. Five'j-ears of , such ' consistent rectitude will be worth,itt credit,mtire than a (Noble capital without the confidence:which such character inspires. kis is a-good rule.in building up such a credit, _whin -.a pay ment is o n ce due, never to _suffer ,one's, self to beitiked for it twice. Every man who aspires to honorable sacces in Inuti• neva should remember that - he must-hold to his promise as a ship holds to her an chor' and that inoment he breaks it be is iii danger of disuiter to his fortune and wreck to his character. Mow to Break off Bad, Baldls. 17nderainna.the reason, and find the habit is injumus. Study the subject till there is no lingering doubt in,your mind. Avoid the places; the 'persons, Old, the thoughts that lead to the temptati on.— Frequent the places, associate with the persons, indulge the thoughts that lead away . from. temptation. 'Keep 'ausy ;Idle ness is the strength or bad habits.._ not give up the struggle wheti you have broken your resolutions once,twice,it then sands tune.. That duty shotSs hour ninch need there itto.strive,.. .. • . When you have broken yoor resolution, knit think' the Matter over, and endeavor to understand why h is that you failed, so that 'you may be ori. your guard .:egainst tbe.recurrence of the same circumstance: Do,not.think it au elpy, thing, that you have undertaken.lt la folly .to attempt to•hrealc'eff u habitia a day' which may have'been gathering strength in yon' for .Ouri pFincipl!.a to, Pie qprinkB of our ictions;.oar notions the springs of our , happiness or tnibery. 'Ten much 'cure, therefore, cannot be talceti' foriaingour principles. " ' Oiriwnurs nothitigbtit tidierely do for utt ,We.need to bi stripped of er >ip, earthly portion, that We' may • eek•en tirelystur portion Jtliottat ; I `, We need to be turned ofit,of a. hove on' earth,that wertatipteck 'home in beareix, NUMBER 43. VoileUm The Engliali papers are busy making fun of the Widow &Hare. ' '1" The richest man in Denier is a Mkt. , can 'mitt' an Indian wife, and' she :leads thfishions. A sufferer euggests an' inipro — Yeinen — lin the orthography of the'word panic: He thinks it would be better to'spell it •pip "Be fell dead and expired in two min lutear' says a (kepis , paper of: the death i of a negro. A man at the circus in BrusseLs7lifta barrel of flour with hid feed) while bang ing by ilia feet from a lair suspended from the ceiling. They say that kissing a: lady :with' an ,Elizabethan ruffle on, is about ws, much fun as einhracing a circular saw: in - ftill motion. . , In on advertisement of a- baker's: btdi cess for ettle,tbe following appears: "Death the cole roman for leaving . It would be difficult tolitol a better. • " "My man, what is your charge for tugFoy me across the Frith ?" Boatpari-, was - jist thinkite cannot break break the &what!' clay for . nd - then fifteen ehulliin'ar - ,! - •.' . . , . -; . An Indiana man humbugged the pota te huge nicely. He planted a, grain of corn in each potato hill, and as the',.6.orsi came rap Brat the bnga thought it Ilia a corn field, and started Mr other scenes. A sea captain, Invited to tiled thrConi mittee of a society for the evatielitiatioa of Africa, when raked, "Do the aubjects of I he. King of Dahomy. keep Sundae r aphed, "Yes. and everything else, •ihey can lay their hands on." . A mournful story is told by e'• Maine editor: "The winds of .autatan wilt soou whistle shrilly ; the goose flies southward; ereryilling betokens thtit in, a few weeks more the fall season will hare endeCand eireasses and snake eiIOWS will 'lie Lu more I" Not long - .sine* a young KenitielCian . paid his undivided utteation to one OEOO fair sex, and concluded"to pop the ques tion. much stammering'' and hesi tation the young lady exclaimed, "I. am pal tiully engaged, but my mother ,wanta to marry !"' As a Yankee so euteamiPaddyquitesly were riding to town, they a gallows lass ed by. Said the Yankee to Pat; `lf ,I don't make too free; gve the gidloves due, and where would you he." Said. Pat to the Yankee, "Sure, that's easy knowii; I'd be riding to wwn, by myself • all A witneea in a meet murder rase -in Fielle,Cal., had c,ll9,tcrturity.,io l dscigro itiider oath had lived in Caliierniis 1559. and in Pitaio . . t ueary: mon ths,an d • have !layer Eeen uman kill df Ho was justly reearded -by thti "Jtidgi jury, prosteut jag attorney, aud audience_ with suspicion. . A Parisian lady.recently called on: b milliner to inqoiro the. character ofn tics, vast. The morality of thelatter,iviio9 l yond questiOning. "But is she nonest,?:.! asked the lady. "I aril 'not • ceilidh' of that," replied the millitleei"q Gale 4,e14 her to you with my bill: u dozeii: times; and she has never yet given me the mewl A good joke on a; youbgeatyfellow who , bought a farm lust winter has just leaked: out. He had a tine orchard ofuhont trOb hundred apple trees,and a few weeks agv he tapped every one or them Air As it didn't ran vt•ry -well; be intitiite&Of a neighbor what the -matter wus, and gave him Anew hat 'nbt rto . tell'hilibody else. A minister traveling . throtigh. , the;., West in a missionary. capacity several. , years ago, vas holding an unimatsd thee-. logical conversation with an old lady. upon whom helnid called, in the tour e` of which he asked her: what IdeiV'shei' had formed of total depravity. - sui4 she, 'I think ,it is a geed doctrine: , i t - people would, only live up, to,..,it'' .".Little Tommy . , -disobey 'him mamma and go in swinuniug he ?" "No, mamma, Jimmy Brown and, the reartiethe-bays went id,' bit t re:.: membered and wouldn't disobey - yon."' "And Tommy never tells lies,. does fieVi "No mamma. or I could'ut go to beaten.l. "Then bow does Tommy happen to havoa: on Jimmy Brown's ahifk?", A inairiage. occured in ~th.e Clinton ; county prison the other dav, of two .per eons Who-had years before faied each er. :.(....tne had been convicted ' 'cif- lareen . Y . ,‘' and the other or receiving . stolen - .geoids:l The lady had.been given the privilege ; of! the corridOr,and while'ivalking along one,' day Was ' overjoyed . at: Seeing, her, lint Charles Augustus'-peering"'throligh the' 'bars. The recognition was mutual, tale two; resolved on' immediate matrimony: and are now man and. wife.. . A suit foribreach orproinise hail' been' brought by it nity,iiiramat.. u , iroman 7 inT EITI4iPI• giES•JerlDie ..lopkineon posetl to ,61r. : I Smith nudi,engaged two yotr , men to act us grOpirtsmen. .That was tar ns the tratter wits allotted gO: She 'Smith.'' When 'the 'irrit• was' eilved on her eho said,, 91'11 Antirty him it he makes me, and tvnen rye married hits: I'll make him lire like „a toad .under Intirow."' Smith is a lucky fellow to hae, • The BainttsilW 0.,. En/eV:Tim. Itit obfgentlecivan;a4litly froth Penn-, sylrania are visiting:6hr fair, ribose lifd` history is somewhat' singular: It apOeara that a widow. lady took an orphan boy. to raise, and when „he arrived at the age; of eightit.ii she' inarried hint, she then. being in her fiftieth" year: `Tei.yeara ago' they tea Aiphith girl tO =se: 'This summer the old ladrdied,•"being , six yearn or agv, tind•in artka after.: the old man married,the_girl _they raised; lie being sixty •eight years old, and, tbe eighteen." . ' • t . f
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