- win. C armor w. O. nazi/leg, E. B. HAWLEY & CO., THE MONTROSE DEMOCRAT, AND GENERAL JOB PRINTERS, Montrose, Susquehanna County, Pa Business Cards J. B. ,k A. 11. .11WOLL UM, 1,011.6 , 9 At Law Office over the Rank, Moptroso rn Montrose, May 10, IS7I. D. W SEARLE, tI roI NE Y AT LAW office over the sture of M. llv.sztuer, In the Brick Block. klontruse .Pk. Dna tJ IF W. SMITII, "IL ET AND Cllllll 11ANUFACTUR1111b.—.4.41 .1 '!ill, tltrtal. Slontmac, Pa. :lan. 1. 15(10. At. C. SUTTON, I'4'TIONEI3.II, and IneunAxcE AUT.?, 1111 'WI Prlend•vllle, Pa. AM] ELT Address, Brooklyn, Pa 111= MT= ✓. G. 11-BEATON, ENGINEER •NO LAND :SURVEYOR, P. 0. addrea, Franklin Pork., Susquehanna Cu., Pa JOll Gli'u VE6', • o Los MILE TA.ll.Jit, Stuntman, Pa. Shop over handler's Store. Ah orders filled In tlrst-ratestylt. tilt, none on short notice. and warranted to fit. A. 0, 11'.,,ULRE.24; Y 1 u UNI r . LAW. Bounty, Back ray, Pension Escul . on Claims attended to. Utlice Orsi r bttiolv Boyd's Store, liontrosc.Pa. 1,'69 W. A. CROSSMOS, .k..toroey al LUIS', °Glee at the Court [louse, Ie the elanitbs%ouer'e 0111ce. W. A. ettoestioh. litplit rot, Sent. 1871.—tf. LAW OFFICE. S WATSON, Attorneys at Low, st the obi °race o! 11..utley S Fitch. Montrose, Pa. L. r PIMA/. ILL w. W. WATSON. ABEL 4 TIIRR.ELL Dreier to Drugs Medicines, Chemicals, Pelota, Oils. 1.v.. +tufts. Tex, Spices, Fancy Goods, Jewelry Per. I n"inery. S.c., Brick Block, Montrose , Ps. Established 131, [Feb. 1. BM._ .SCO VILE d DEWITT. A{ tomer. at Law and Solicitors in Bankruptcy. Office No. 49 Court Strect.over City National Bank, Bing intintun N. Y. Ws. B.Scovras, June 'nth, 1873. J limas Dawrrr. DIL W. L. ILWILARDSON, I'IIV4Ik:IAN & 3111tORON, tender. hie profeeeiona ry I cee to the dn.. of Montrose and vicinity.- 0 thee at hisrusider:e, on the corner east of Sayre & Bros. Foundre fAng. I. 1869. CHARLES N. STODDARD, ...ter la Deets and Shoes. Hats and Caps. Leather and P udiuv, Main Street, let door below Boyd's Score. Work wade to order. and repairing done neatly. Ilularoee Jan. 1 DM. LEWIS KNOLL, SHAVING AND FLAIR DRESSING. uop In the now Postogice baildinn, where he will found ready to attend all who may want anything hie line. Montrose Pa. Oct. 13 1569. DR. S. W DA YTO.N, LI sICIAN R. SURGEON. tenders his services to citizens of Great Bend and vicinity. °Mee at nit Th.ldeuce. opposite Barnum House, G't Bend village. Sept. let, lotW.—tf DR. D, A. LATHROP, s 4 ilitilf[Olll R 1201410 TI/LILIIAL F.. 711,, • I/O Foot of Cnc.toot •treet. Call and consul to s.l Chronic diseases. Montrose. Jan. It '72.--1303--.f. II BURRITT. Dealer .n DUO* and Fancy Dry Doody, Crockery, Bard wage. Iron, Stores, Drugs. Oils, and Paints. Bouts and Shoes, fiats and Caps, Furs, Burnt° Robes. G re. csrlen, Provisions, dc. Veor-blaltord, I L. Nor, 6, EXCHANGE HOTEL . J IiAttaINOTON wtstkes to Inform tbe public that baring rented Mu gzehatige Hotel in Montrose. be In now prepared to occotionodate the tra•elingpabl!c to Brat-classinyle X.:arose. Aug. 1613. LITTLES ,t BLAKESLEE ATTORNEYS AT LAW. have removed to their Stu , Oft.a. apposite the Tarbell House. It. B. LITTLE, Gao. P. LITTLE., E. L. Ba.mr.e.saxe. BILLINGS STROUD I de. AND LIFE INSO4IANCE AGENT. Al' oO•theo•Ottended to promptly, On fair term.. Orllce 1 r.t door alit of the book o , Wm. H. Cooper t Co. eu Aroma. Montrose. Pa. [An...l.lBmb. oly 17.1871.1 3cLy..mros STSOVD. MN:ffM ✓iIT,,ICIAN 6 SIMGEON, tenders his professional ,vices w toe citizens of Dimock, Fa. Oftle at the ureka House. will attend to nil calls m his profess slon with which he is favored. Ana. B. 7'. d E. U. CASE BARNESS-MAK.ERS. Oak flarnese,lizht and heavy, at luyeest mei prices. Also, Blanket., Breast 131an k.t.. Whips. and evei7thing pertaining w the line. 'cheaper than the cheapest. Repairing done prompt ly and in gnat style. uut..oec. Pa.. Oct. J. turd. CHARLEY MORRIS LIATTI I.IIItBEII. has moved hilt •hop to the 5 : , 14 nu occupied by IL Mcliessle d. Co., wbere be Is "NI to du all kluds of work to his Itoe.sOCk so ma- Nes, poll's, etc. All work done on short out ice nod prig.-. low. Please mil nod see me. THE PEOPL: B N' IRKEr * Pniu.ar HAW!. Pri.,7 6 " ° ' Fresh and be lted Rama. Por-, SW/. . tar of !he best goaltty, constantly ' 4l "Dd. at pro,. to soft Montrse, Pa„ Jan. 14.11%3.-1, VALLEY HOUSE. GBY AT Beau. P. Situated neer the Erie Railway De pot. LI a large and coroupallo. house, has undergon e thorough Newly furotaned rooms and sleep. aparunents.aplendid usbieraandulithiegs compels log a Gist class hotel. ItY At:RS.II7. Sept. iuts, Proprietor. DA P . IV. SMITH, Deurtsr. Dooms et Ids dweilfny, aext door north of Dr. Hanley's, on Old PoUndo' etrect, where he would be happy to see all those In wont or Dental Work. Re cvntleut that he OW yleute &IL both In quality of v, tot and d m price. Waco hours from 9A.M. to 4 p. Montrma, Yeb. 11, 1119—tf EDGAR A. TERBALL eutrNVELLOB Si Low. No. 17U Broadway, New York City. Attends to all kinds of Attorney Cuelnes., and con darts causes to all the Courts of both the State and the l'ulted Stale, Feb 1. 104.-,y. H., P. MISES. M. D. t,raduate of the Onteereity of Michigan, Ann Attar. tttoS. aud al. of Jcifereon Medical College of Phila. udpalu, lea. Lae retnrued to Yrienalsvillee, where Le wllt atteod to all calLe in Ma profeattion ne 111111Ili.- It.laeuct fo Jeasiu lioeford`e how.. Oface the name hurecutore. Frirodovtlit. Pa., April =At* 1874.-6.• B L`IL'TS d .211C1fOLS, in Drugs, Medicines, Chen:dealt. Dye - -ds Varnish, Lignors, tiptcee.Fancy r..c.c.,Yatent Medicines, Pert emery and Toil et 6 grerescrlptions carefully compounded-- Brick dlock,lfontrose,Ps. 1. B, Beaks. .cb. 21.1172 NM.1 1 4713 of o . o PREINTIAG' 223SOCISZALOCL WI . Twat OFT/CE. CEIEAP. Try aVIOTROSE e rl. -Nr• TWO DOLLARS PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. VOLUME- 31.-- LIFE AND DEATH -0— Doth Life survive the touch of Death Death's hand alone the secret holds, Which as to each one he unfolds, We press to know with bated breath. A whisper there, a whisper here, Confirms the hope to which we cling; But still we grasp at anything, And sometimes hope and sometimes tear. Some whisper that the dead we knew Hover around us while we pray, Anxious to speak. We cannot say : "We only wish It may be tine." I know a Stoic who has thought, As healthy blood flows through his veins And Joy his present life sustains, And all this good has come unsought. For more he cannot lightly pray, Life may extend, or life may cease ; He bides the issue, sure of peace, Sure of the best in God's own way. Perfection waits the race of man ; It, working out this great design, God cuts us off, we must resign To be the refuse of His plan. But I, for one, fed no such peace; I dare to think I have in me That which had better never be, It lost before it can increase. And ob.! the ruined piles of man, Daily discovered;everywhere, Built but to crumble in despair dare not think him so unkind. The rudest workman would not fling The fragments of his work away, If ev'ry useless bit of clay Ho trod on were a sentinent thing. And does the Wisest worker take Quick human hearts instead of stone, And how and carve them one by one, Nor heed the pangs with which they break ? And more; if but creation's waste, Would He have given us sense to yearn For the perfection none can earn, And hope the inner lile to taste I think, if we must masa to be, It is a cruelty refined, T 3 make the instincts of our mind Stretch out toward eternity. Wherefore I welcome nature's cry, As earnest of a life again, Where thought shall never be in vain, And doubt before the light shall tly. itagatho, THE STORY TELLER HOW SHE WON HI) "Minnie: Minnie is my chocolate near ly ready '" "In a minute, grandmammil." It was scrupulously neat uud dainty in all its appointments, the little parlor where Miss. Breighton sat, although the carpet seas a tissue of darus,the furniture faded, and the hearthrug skillfully eked out by a piece of quite another fabric tnse•ted in the spot most worn. A few flowers, in a slender-throated vase stood on the antique, claw-legged table, the fenber-irons glittered like gold, and the thin muslin curtains, artistically mended here and there, were white as snow ; and Mrs. Breighton herself looked like Cin derella's god-moth r, in her dress of an cient brocade, Mt yellow thread-lace,and the rings glittered n her small, shriveled hand& Eighty years oldie That was sometilinF though paralysis 1. use of those dainty though the grand 14 as a bride was now One room in a secoU two other families a ' hold altars—she will nimbi boast that she herself to common "Our menus are 1 Breigtitun, with the ess : nut the pensior nel—who, as von pi her, was killed on tit is sufficient to main twa granddaughters Minnie Breighton ,with her little choco covered tray and ttvt gins:rely browned ui Wafer. "1 hope you hay• ing, grLstidmumma ?' d eu e—what — , 41 :km nation "Oh, I am so sorrr and I had to run in cf Mra. Tucker's atov late. and--" Mrs. Breighton co, brows. "The Breigh tons race, Minnie?' "Shall I get you a "No, not if the ft And grandmamm with her breakfast,w while Minnie went room, where sat her ing. Annie Breighton nie, but In quite a was dark, with meltit eyes, and elive.skima: granete flower, so p richly red,; while slender, and fair as Annie laid down a as Minnie ent-red. "It's the grocers What shall we do ?" Minnie sank into "And the gas yeste lord not paid, and th —Mother Hubbard' shall we do r ."That's the questio flectively arching be only can keep it fro _"We ulna," retor decisive nod. "It w were men now, Anni of wood-sawing, or It "And why can't w "Why ? Because P Mrs. Baker's wood We can't climb hula over our shoulders," Amos Nicnots POETRY. "What then ? We have neither wine nor jelly, nor yet crisp bank-notes to he. stow upon her." "And s he ean,t keep up to her engage ments. There are two swiss muslin ball do-sees, fluted and puffed beautifully, ly ing in her basket, waiting to be done up, at the pr.•seut rhorneut. Five dollars apiece she has fur them. "Weil ?" "I shall do them up." "Nancy You ? "Well, why not ? Think what a gol- den stream of pactolus teu dollars would be in our empty coffers l Ask yourself bow on earth you or I could earn ten dollars any other way. And after all, a swiss muslin dress is a pretty poetical sort of Calories to wash and iron ; and into the borgin, poor Mrs. Bakes keeps her customers." "Oh, Natalie! have you come to that?" "Now you look and talk like dear old grandmamma I Don't be a goose, Nin ie 1 Just you invent some story about my being promenading in the park, or taking lessons in wax-Ilowe-r making, to delude her erebulotts soul, while I go up stairs and coin money." "But may I help you ?" "By-and by, perhaps, if my wrists get tired, Not now ; some one must stay with grandmamma." "It is very strange," said Miss Georg iette Appleton, "that my dresses havu' come home! Positively, I shall have noth tug to wear to night!" She was lounging before the sea-coal fire, in a blue silk negligee, trimmed with ewansdowa and a little French tangle of blue ribbons and lace pinned among her yellow tresses, with a pearl-headed javlin, while a novel lay in her lap. What an awful fate l" observed her brother carelessly. "Where's the ame thyst silk ?" "Oh, I wore that at their last reception tTAcd the pink crape?" "I look like an owl in pink. I was a goose ever to buy taut silk." "The Nile green silk with the white flon aces ?" "Sarah Howard has one, just a shade lighter, that she'll be sure to wear, and I believe the spiteful thing got it on pur pose takill mine. No, I must have the swiss muslin, with knots of blue corn flowers, and a Roman sash figured with gold. And you'll go around to the laundress, and hurry her up a little, won't you, George ?—that's a duck of a brother l--m-and you know per fectly well you've been yawning your jaws zdf the last three-quarters of an hour." "Where is it ?" "Only in Mendenhall Street—just a pleasant walk. And give Mrs. Baker a scolding, and ask her if she don't know better than to keg-p her customers waiting, although, of course, I know you'll do nothing of the surt. Men have no mor al courage. There's the address on a card. It'll be such a relief to my mina" M a jor George Appleton was an army office!, home on a furlough, and rather at a loss to know what to do with so much extra time. and a lady to the last ! g to be proud of. What ,ad robbed her of all skippered feet—what ionse she had entered narrowed down to this rate building, where ilso set up their house 0 a lady still, and she had never degraded place toil. was another source of perplexity —handsome, which wasn't os puzzling ! And so he sauntered along, his hands in his pockets and a cigar balanced he. tweet' his lips, unconsciously advancing to met hie fate. Rap! rap ! rap! The Major played a tattoo with hie ouekles on the door. "Dear, me, what a noise !" said a voice inside. "Come in :"—a little louder The Major walked In, to confront, not a wrinkled old hag of a washerwoulan,in a halo of soap and steam, hut a beautiful young lady dark and brilliant as an Ara bian dream, with jetty curies pinned back in a silken cascade at the back of her head, and a pair of fluting scissors in her hand. inked," said old Mrs lofty air of a duch of my eon, the cola 'abably may remem e Florida frontier i tain myself and my lan dwe are ladies.' presently came tn, utiere on a napkin . pliers of toast, es• • 1 cut as thin us a Major Appleton started hack, all his wits momentarily deserted him. it is a curious fact, that the more embarassed one party in a tete•a-fete bi-comes, the greater'the composure of the other. An nie Breighton should have colored and stuttered, at being caught thus, but she ti't beeu kept wait- she said. n air of mild resig :tomed to wait." "What is your business,sir ?" she asked with the greatest calmness. "It's—lt's about my sister's gown—Miss Appleton's, you know !" "Ah I" said Anna, "I hope to have them ready very soon. If you'll wait ten minutes you may carry it home." And she took the second pair of flut ing scissors from the stop, testing its heat by holding in dangerously neer her velvet cheek. Major Appleton, not being posted in etiquette and general decorum, saw no harm in carrying home a basket of newly laundried clothes. So he sat down and waited, while honest Mrs. Baker stated from the other room, where she lay upon her bed—a captive of rheumatic pains. "She's in a hurry, you know," said the major, twirling his thumbs, and thinking how very pretty the girl was. "So am I," said Anna, making the fluting sciesoss glide in and out in a most marvelous manner among the clouds of sunny muslin. "She wants to wear it, added the ma jor. "But I say—you know—you're not a regular washerwomen ?" Anna slightly straightened herself up. "My father was a colonel in the Reg. War Army, Ms , grandfather was Hyde 'Breighton, of Breighton Manor, on the Hudson. But we are reduced now, and we need money; and lam not ashamed to work." "By Jove you're a trump I" said Major Appleton, starting up. "Much obliged to you," retorted Anna, with sparkling eyes. "Would you mind holding the end of that Bath for me— just a second while I finish this loop ?" 1 But our fire is out, 414 borrow the use • to boil the °hoe°. Otracted her silvery re not a borrow.ng egg , grundEneumr is out, my dear," I Breighton went , on laring an injured air (back to the other win sister, cogitat- as us pretty us Min iiferent style. She lig, alumni' shaped bps like a porno. erfectly shaped, so afinnie was tall and daisy. • slip of greasy paper bill, again, sister, day, and the land purse is empty as cupboard. What ~" said Minnie, re jetty brows. "If we gruudrnamma r ed Minnie, with a nid 10)1 her. It we , we Gould get a job or—" nOw ?" t O'Neil has get ull saw, and because s, with paini pots MONTROSE, PA., WEDNESDAY; SEPTEMBER 9, 1874 "But we can do something else, I sup pose. Listen Minnie—money we must have r '•lf we go out into the highways and ask it ut the point of the bayonet !" in terjeotrd Minnie, gravely. "There is no poverty like genteel pov erty," her sister sighed. "But you hay eu't heard my plan. Mrs. Baker, the laundress in our top story, is sick-." Devoted to the Interests of our Town and County And when Minnie came up to see how her sister was getting on, she found her aided and abetted by the mayor of caval ry, who was heating the alternate pairs of fluting scissors after a must scientific fashion. "Dear me," mud MISS Appleton. when at lust her rother wade his appearance "how long You have been I" "Yes," said the major, rubbing his hands, "it took us quite a while to finish those last thirteen flounces." "Us I you don't mean to say you help ed the washerwomen ?" -1 "Yes, I did," said the major; and the frocks are down stairs, and I'm going up for a game of billiards." And as he went, he murmured to himself. "I thought all girls were alike, but I believe rye discov ered une independent—one at last!" ***** • • "Grandrnamme, I'm going to be mar ried." Yuu, Nanny? Why you are but a child ?" Auna Breigbton was kneeling beside her grandmother's chair, and the fairy godmother was stroking her curls with oue tremulous white hand, when the an tique jewels shone like drops of blood and scintillating of green fire. "I'm eighteen grandmamma." "So you are! How the time Hies! Eighteen years old I But who is the hap py man ? We see no society worthy of ourselves, Nanny and—" I'm sure you will like him, grand mamma. He is coming to pay his repects to you to-night Elio name is major George Appleton. He is the—the OhlV airy, and he owns a 'hchis's on Madison Avenue, and—and he loves me grand mamma !" Nanny held her black tressed head on the oid lady's shoulder as she spoke the last words, "All natural enough, my dear; but do you love him ?' "Yes, grandmamma." "And where did you meet him ? When were you introduced ?" "I wasn't introduced at a!l," returned Nanny,"with mischievous elves of flame coming and going in her eyes. "I was fluting muslin up in Mrs. Bakers room, when he came in on a errand ; and—On grandmamma, you have always thought it so dreadful to work ! But if I hadn't been working, I never should have met him. And I love him so much, grand mamma I" -Well, well," said the old lady, rather reluctantly. "things seem to be altered from what they were when I was a girl." "Rut you shall always,live with us gran ny dear, and Minnie, too, and we shall all be so happy I" And Anna Breighton's tears were of perfect joy. A WOMAN'S CMOICE. "I wish I knew what to do 1" Kate Warfield, sitting on a knoll in the cool, shady orchard, on a warm pleas ant summers afternoon, gave utterance to the wish. She was in a quandary. She had two lovers, and she wondered which it was best to choose, John Raynsford was young, and had a life fill' of prornsie, and great possibili ties before him. But he was poor. Kate Warfield knew that he loved as a strong man can love, but could she, used to the luxuries of life,give up that which seemed necessary to her comfort, and marry a poor man. Philip Leigh, was old and rich. And he, in this letter which she bad just bean reading, made her an offer oI his heart— supposing such an organ to be in exis• tence—and baud. He could give her all things she longrd tor, the glitter and show she coveted. She heard someone whistling down the road, and looking down that way saw John coming. Something seemed to tell her that she must decide between her lovers now, and in a swift way she looked the matter over. Ou one side wealth and fashion, and all that heart could wish for in the gratification of its selfish, worldly enjoyments. Ou the other hand, an humble life, and struggling to climb to that position where wealth could place her at once. But then ? Did she—could she love Philip Leigh, a man old enough to be her father ? Would his wealth make up fur what ber life would have if love was in it? As she asked herself that question she felt a twinge which told her that, after all, she cared for John Rainsford as she bad never cared for any other man, and for a moment she wondered if life with him would be preferable to life with Phil ip Leigh and all his wealth. But a glitter of gold blinded her, and she shut her eyes to the pare vision which passed before them for a moment. and in that resolute crushing down pf the bet ter impulses of her nature, John Rains ford's answer to his wooing was macie,be fore be asked for IL He came up the orchard path, and sat down upon the knoll beside her. He had learned, in the summer gone by, to love this woman as he thought - he could never love another one. She was all that was pure and true and womanly In woman to him. "I have a letter from the city," she said. "I am going back next week." "So soon ?" he said, slowly, and look ing oil to the blue bilk She knew well enough what ho was thinking about. "Yes ; I have lingered here too long already. The summer has been a very pleasant one to me. One of the pleas antest summers of my life, I think." •"Can non guess what it has been to me? he asked suddenly: ",1 have learned lesson in it that I have never tried to learn before. I have learned to love—to love you I" His earnest eyes were on her face. His words were hillier passionate strength and firmness. Beneath his gaze, she felt bow unworthy she was of such a love as he gave her. - "I am sorry," she said slowly. - He started, growing pale. "Why not ?" he asked, "Because—this letter is from the man I am to marry I" ' l. lle answered not a word, but his eps were on her face in a strange, half.donbt ing gaze. Could these words of hers be true ? Could it be that the woman he bad thought to be so true and womanly, and who had let him go on learning to love her, knowing all the while to what he was drifting. was the promised wife of another ? How be had been deceived in his estimate of her. I think that shock which John Raynsford's faith in woman's strength received was, at that moment, full as strong as that which her answer gave the love he held for her. To him she was the ideal woman : the type of wo mankind, and, prosing her untrue, he doubted all, because he had been so cru elly deceived in her. She saw the lines of pain about his mouth. "I am sorry," site began. But he stopped her. "Don't i" he said. "Leave the matter as it is. It is better so. No words of yours are needed to soften the blow. I shall get over it in time, I think, without them." 'if I bad kuown—" she said, but again he interrupted her. "I am going now. I hope you will he happy and never regret what you have done, but some day I think you will see what a pitiful amusement it is to win a man's love just for tne sake of winning it. Good bye." And John Raiusford was gone. Eight years passed, bringing strange changes with them. Kate War Geld, in the years gone by since that summer afternoon when she had made her choice between the man who loved her, and become a wife and a widow. In all those years she had not succeed ed in forgetting John Raynsford—she had tried to do so. Her husband had been Kind to her. He had lavished his wealth upon her. But she could not love him. She had been a true faithful wife to him, that is, if a woman cau he with out love, but all the while a memory lurked in her heart of a summer time that ha been strangely sweet and pleas• ant be use of the love that had come to her in it; Ten years had also brought changes to John Ransford. He had become a suc cessful u4n. People began to point him out as on of the, most promising men of the politkal world. One night there was a party at one of the Senator's houses in Washington. The beauty and talent of the season were there. The scene was like one from en chantment. Light shone on gay, bright faces lull of the glad excitement of youth and, life, and on older and sob.-rer faces for whom the novelty and fr,sliness of such gatherings had worn off. Jewels flashed and sparkled, and lent an added brilliancy to the scene. The air was full of strange and sweet perfumes. The soft and mellow music prom an unseen band_ made the air liberate with exquisite mel ody. Kate Leigh, in a dress of some rich fabric, that set off the beauty of her face to perfection,looked out upon the scene with a hope stirring to her heart that was very sweet and tender. The man who loved her is the years gone by was there. She was free now, and she knew that she loved him. If in all these years, he had not forgotten her! And then women b new c stirred with a feeling that was inexpressibly tender Her litiMintl lacked something that gold could not purchase. It was love that she had needed to make her life what the life of every woman ought to be. A swift color flashed into her cheeks. He was coming toward her, with a sweet faced woman leaning on his arm, He saw her, and came fowaid with outstretched hand. "I am happy to meet you once more," he eaid. tier eyes drooped under her gaze, and a soft, Nappy light came and went in them. She gave him her hand with an eagerness that told how glad she was to see him. "Allow me to present my wife. Lois, his is an old friend of mine, Mrs. eigh.' Every trace of color fuded from the woman's face. But she gave his wife her hand 'n a smiling welcome, and mur mured a few words congratulation, while her heart was covering iv a sweet hope that had met a swift and sudden death. So true it is that smiles hide au aching heart ! They Never bet. ——o— They never made a bet, but a Califor nia paper tells the story. A coupple of pious ladies were traveling out there re cently. They had with them a basket filled with nice little Bibles, and with these they were going about doing good and making money. While looking for customers, they mu across a gen teel.look. hag fellow who offered to give the ladies a little game, just to while away time and keep them quiet. lie threw the cards and then asked them to pick out the Jack, which be had previously shown They did so once, twice, three times.— Then threw them again, and ono of the innocents cried, "There it is; you can't tool me, if you did throw 'em quick." "So madam, 'you are mistaken,', he re plied, and drawing ont of his pocket a ten and two twenty-dollar pieces, he said "I'll bet you $5O you don't know which is Jack.' "Oh, we never bet, said one of them: And there they stood and eyed those gold pieces and thought how little the possessor, apparently, appreciated their worth. .Watching for a favorable moment, the reckless young 'man said, "Well, I don't care seeing its you. I'll bet you this 850 against that basket of hooks —hallo, dem-me, they're Bibles.; but everything goes as It lays—you pan't - find the Jack. The winner marched thron' the train and distributed the bibles among the passengers. What became of the women is not known to the passen gers. Of a housemaid who slipped from a table on which she was standing and fell head foramost into a barrel of flour, it was said that her head became white in a single night. A man advertised in a New • York pa. per for a bar-keeper, "who must be rec• ommended by ins pastor." FIFTY CTS. EXTRA IF NOT IN ADVANCE MISCELLANEOUS READING TILE SEACH IN SCHOOL A district school, not far sway, "Mid Berkshire hills, one winter's day, Was humming with its wonted noise Of threescore mingled girls and boys ; Some few upon their tasks intent, But more on furtive mischief cent. The while the master's downward look Was fiistened on a copy -book ; When suddenly, behind his back, Rose sharp and clear a rousing smack ! As 'twcre a battery of bliss Left off in one tremenduotts kiss I "What's that ?" the startled master cries ; "That's thir," a little imp replies, "Wath William Willith, If you pleatbe— I saw him kith Thuthanna Penile With froivn to make a statue thrill, The master thundered, "hither Will r' Like wretch o'ertaken in his track, With stolen chattels on his back, Will hung his head In fear and shame, And to the awful presence came— A great, green, bashful simpleton, The butt of sll good-natured fun. With smile suppressed, and birch upraised, The threatener faltered—"l'm amazed That you, my biggest pupils should Be guilty of an act so mac I Before the whole set school to boot— What evil genius put you to't - Twas she, herself, sir," sobbed the lad ; "I did not mean to be so bad ?` But when Susanna Shockley carts And whispered, I was afraid of girls, And duren't kiss a baby's doll, I couldn't stand it, sir, at all, Butli p and kissed her on the spot I I know—boo hoo—l ought to not, But somehow from her lookoz-bod,hoo— I thought she kind of wished me to . I" 8110 W YOU RAVE A HEART. In this dull world we cheat ourselves and one another of innocent pleasures by the score, through very carelessness and apathy ; courted day after day by happy memories, we rudely brush them off with this indiscriminating bosom, the stern mate' ial present; invited to help in ren dering joyful many a painful heart, we neglect the little nord that might have done it, and conticually defraud creation of its share of kindness from us. The child is made merrier by your Interest in its toy ; the old domestic flattered by our seeing him look so well ; the poor better helped by your blessing tban your penny (though give the penny too ;) the laborer cheered on his toil by a timely word of praise; the humble friend en couraged by your frankness ; equals made to love you by the expression of your love oud superiors gratified by attention and I respect, and looking out to benefit the kindly—how many- pleasures here for one band to gather k how many :blessings for one heart to give! Instead 'of these, what have we rife about the world ? frig• id compliment—for warmth is vulgar ; reserve of tongue—for it's folly to be talkative ; composure never at fault—for that looks wise ; coolness—for other men are cold ; selfishness—for every ono is struggling for his own. This is all false, all bad ; the slavery chain of custom, riveted by the foolishness of fashion ; be cause there is ever a band of men and women who have nothing to reccomend them but externals—their looks and their dresses, their ranks are their wealth—and in order to exhult the honor of these,they agree to set a compact seal of silence in the heart and on the mind, lest the flood of humbler men's affections, or wise men's intelligence, should pule their tin sel-praise ; and the warm and the wise too softly acquiesce in this injury done to heartiness, shamed by the effrontery of cold claim fools, and the shallow dignity of an empty presence. Tura the table on them, ye truer gentry, truer nobility, truer royalty of heart and of mind: speak freely, love warmly, laugh cheerfully, ex plain frankly, exhort• zealously, admire liberally, advise earnestly—be not afraid to show you have a heart ; and as some cold-blooded simpleton greets your social efforts with a sneer, repay him (for you can well afford a richer gift than his whole treasury possesses) with a kind good-humored smile. PARTING FRO' d FRIE.S'D. 'Tie sad to part from one with whom we have associated for years, who during the whole period of time that we may have been thrown together, has proved him self s true, devoted friend. Such friends are few in this world ; but when the time of parting comes—when ho is about to leave for come distant city where he may make new acquaintrnces, move in anoth er circle, far away from us, perhaps for. get us as time intervenes and we never meet. It seems so sad that we must part perhaps never to meet. We can well say with the poet, "Oh I it fills my heart with grief to lisp the word farewelL"—There is an old, tree saying which says : "The best of friends must part." Row often have we proven the truth of this saying by our own experience. As we see the cars move away which contains our best and truest friend,it seems as if the world were all black to us ; we look back upon the past as a pleasant dream, faded and gone. But oh. we would pray that God might watch over and protect him while he is traveling guard him in years to come from all temptations that may beset his path, lead -him safely' through all troubles and trials in this world ; and may he never foigq" the friend whom he has left twhind; hut 'always cherish their memory 'as they . cherish his ; for they will never forget he last hand-shake in the cars, or the last, good-bye as they parted from their best and truest friend. Our best wishes go with them. Darwin acknowledged himself sold when his little nice asked him, seriously, what a cat has that no other animal has, He gave it up,'after mature deliberation, and be sly little puss answered "Kittens." Tight lacing is said to ho coming Info fashion again for the eorivenie of short•armed lovers. . When is an ox *like a bullet ? When t grazes. Contains all the Local and Central Newt, Poell7.Ble , les, Anecdotes, Miscellaneous Reading, Corresper C enca, and a reliable class of advettleements. One square. otan inch Floted.)3weekcor leis, $1 1 month, $1.25; I months. $250; months. $4.50; 1 year. $6.50 . A Metal discount on advertisements ot• greater length. - Balinese Locate 10 ets. a line forting Insertion, and 5 cis . aline each enbseqnent insertion— Marriages andlleathe, free ; obituaries, 10 etc, n Hue., NUMBER 36; We know of conrse,tbat Ireland is call ed the Emerald Isle, and that the color of emerald is green, but never had it en tered into oar imagination that there was anywhere in this world to be seen such verdure as it charmed our 'eyes . to look upon in the rural districts of Ireland. The slopes, the knolls, the dells,the fields of young grain,: over which the breezes creep like the playful spirits of the beau tiful, the pastures dotted over with sheep of purest wool ; the hill-sides rising up into mist•shrouded mountains, are 'all covered with thick carpets of smooth vel vet green. But Ireland should also be called the Flowery Isle. There is not a spot in Ireland, I believe, where blessed nature can find an excuse for putting a flower, that she hay not put one—not on ly in the gardens and in the meadows, but upon the very walls and the crags of the sea, from the great blooming rhodo dendron, down to the smallest flowerett that modestly peeps forth from its grassy cover. The Irish furze, so richly yellow, covers all places that might otherwise be bare or barren ; the silk-worm delight, everywhere, from thousands of trees, to drop its web of gold. The Mooching hawthorn, w:th the sweet scented pink, and especially the. white variety, adorns the landscape and 'gardens ; wall flowers of every line it'd variety, clamber to hide the harshness of the mural supports; the beetlecheliffs of the North Sea are fringed and softened 'With loVely flowers ; and if you kneel anywhere on the yielding vel vet carpet, you will find well nigh invisi ble floweretts, red, white, blue, and yel low, wrouglip into the very woof and tex ture. Ireland ought to be called the Beautiful Isle. The spirit of the beauti ful hovers over and touches to living lovelinesi every point—London Pall Mall Gazette. A writer on the Chinese says : "Death in China is regarded as the punishment for the most trivial offences, and frequently for none at all, except be ing in somebody's way. A story was told me for a fact that, during the visit of one of the royal princes, a thief was committed tea chain or watch belonging to the royal guest. The unfortunate at tendant was caught with the property upon him, an d,wi tho u t farther ceremony, his bead was chopped of The mandarin in attendance immediately announced the tidings to the prince as a delicate at tention, showing how devoted he was in his service. To his astonishment the prince expressed his great regret Oct the man's head hag been taken off. 'Your highness; cried the obsequeous mandarin, bowing to the .ground, 'it shall immedi ately be put on again I' so little did he understand that the regret was for the WI taken, and not the severed head. M. A. Iluet, a French engineer, .holds it to be a mistake to make ships force their bulk through the water, meeting thereby the large opposing endue of wa- ' ter and a sliding friction over the whole of their immersed surface. This M. filet holds, is as great a mistake as if we were to dismount our railway carriages from their wheels and drag them like sledges - along the rails. Re puts forward the theory that vessels should be mounted on rolling drums ; that these drums should give principally the power of flo tation, and that they should be driveh round as paddles to move the ship fore ward. We should in this way:have a floating locomotive, mounted on its . sup porting -wheels or rollers. The vessel would offer no resistance but a rollingone to motion, and the whole of the support ed weight of the ship would be used as a pressure to give adhesive firictional effect to the rollers. In this way M. linet af firms that a velocity equal to that of our riilroad trains might be attained at sea. In Paris there are now nine mantua makers and six milliners of the masci.line persuasion, each of whom is at the head of a large establishment. They are all gentlemen of unusually refined manners and luxurious habits. They never go abroad without a carriage, and.. are al ways attired in -faultless costume. By nutting taste and tact with a bnainess faculty, they are rapidly building up en viable reputations and fortunes. le there hot a lesson for ladies in their career ? It is a little curious that, while /women are venturing into vocations hitutAo mo nopolized by the stronger sex, men should turn the tables upon them, and, taking up trades which have been deem. ed their exclusive kerogatiCes, quickly coin wealth and fame out of the under. taking. Does this not tend to show that there is not much difference between _the masculine and the feminine •intellect ; that the great disparity noted in their inclinations, pursuits, and achieve ments, is more the result of education " than of Nature ? No observant At.' non can have Tailed to note the alarm itig — frs - ase,of latter years, among children in the -number of star ers from shortsightedness and other kin dred diseases of the eye. In Clirmany, complaints of this characterhave become so general as to attract to the subject the attention of the press and the most distinguished pculists. Investigation in to the cause is said to show that the evil is, in a great measure, due to. the unnat ural position children aro compelled to assume, by reason of the awkward con struction of school desks and seats, and of the imperfect light.of school buildings. In England, a- similar increase bow been observed mall schools, not excepting the great universities, and the IMMO result is reported in Sweden, Denmark rnd Swit-, zerland, in all of which eonutries steps aro now being taken to discover the cause and apply the remedy. It is time. some thought is given to this subject with us also. Nothing begets coafidenco sooner than panoturihty t - . • : Advertising Rates: THE EMERALD ISLE. THE'CIDNESE IDEA OF DE.eiTIL VESSELS ON ROLLERS. .ArA LE MILLINERS.
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