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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
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✓. 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
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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."
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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. .
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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.
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