E. B. Hawley, • • Wm. CI Moser
E. B. HAWLEY & CO.,
PUBLISIIESS'Or
VIONTROSII DEMOCRAT,
AND GENERAL JOB PRINTERS, .
Montrose, Su,aguehanna County, Pa.
rw
Orner.—West Side of Public /mune.
linsineas Canis.
BURNS it ~h7CIIOLS,.
6.k,-,568 to Dregs, Medtclnee; Dyn•
.tans; Patnts,olle, Varnish, L12202*. 412.2.F412117
.rt.cles.ratont Sledlciace.rerfnisesysnd ToiletAr•
cies..lrPrescriptlons Malay componisdep.—
Sack Clock, Mocurosc.f l a. .•
is, IL Bccsss,. dioiNsolsoLs.
sob, 21. 1272
S. P. ItiNES,II. D.
Gntance of the Onireral.y of 111.11 2 1,44 Ann tArbol.
ISZ, and .Iso or 4clrerson Medical toll. le of Phil,
delobls, 13:4, has retnrned to torlendwv 'ree. there
vrl.ll.l%eacl‘to all cAI• lnhts profession a.- rmust.—
Ititsldeuee to Jessie Noma s !loose. Ottles the sane
a, hcre:o;Ore. ' • -
MMIIIiN=V=O
a~oeaA. rratamL,
No. r.O Broadway, Now To/ k.
Attend.. Wall Wilds or A“oracy Business,
ducts causes 'a all .oe Courts of both the State arta be
Halted Stales.
Peb 111..1614
DR. tl. W. SIL&B,
0. nt hie derailing, next door north o: 13 .
Lip , e" • on ole Foundry *tract, where he won't: 1
anon o see tit ihara Inurant of Denial %wt. tie
lame to older test be can fact Beall. no.lll[llo/111 .•0
watt ant; in th Office hours Muni) A. X. 4
41 oz• • °lke. Feb. 1t 1544—ti
ile. - • Caro.PA. Situated near the Eric Rana, y Do,
pa . I .4 I. 4e aoo coaimodloas house, bio. , no de.• u.ne
e 00-4 ti repair. Newly ramified mama and L
egi,
viacuieupleudid tables.aodallthiuga edam f.
di Di clone bocci.
s e a . ah 1b11..-if. Prundetor.
B.: d E. 11. C.eiRE,
AOA SS. MAKERS. Mal: Harness, light and henry,
gt luw¢et cash prices. Alao,lllankete, Breast Blau
rin, Whips. and everything pertaining to :be line,
mica ;ter than the cheapest. Repairing done prompt
.. and in good style.
plus: uec, Pa., Oct. ,1811.
PEE PEOPLE'S MALI ET.
Prair.rr Ram, Proprfetoa.
brett road halted Meats, llama, Pork, Cologne Sao ,
pt,e.e.e., of the best queltry, constantly on band, at
, it-er I o Halt.
31entr..e, Pa„ Jan. 14. lerdt-ly
BILLINGSSTROUD.
lit d AND LIFE I:IB7rIANCh: AGENT. Al:
~aei nese atteorteu to promptlyon LOS terms. WIGS
lest door east of the batik co Wm. U. Cooper AC..
Peelle Avenoe,Sioalrore, Pe. [Aug.l.lB6B.
e.y 16 - 4.] BILLINGS STROUD.
0114RLET MORRIS
"rrE HAFT! tialtßEß, has moved his bop to I lie
eei Id Altt occupied by E. alettenate & Co., where he ts
prepared to du nil kinds of worsin bialloe,sneb as
clog switches, puss. etc. All work done on sbott
no lc, and per.. low. Please esti and see
LITTLES ct BLAXESLEE
ATTORNEYS AT I t AW, have otolovet: lit theft Ned/
opposite the Torben Houto.
R. B. Lrrrus.
Geo. P. Lrreta,
E. L.l3LAReoms.
mod .0,90, Oct. 1501313.
W. 8. ANIS.%
onesy, Wall !",4 per. News. a
s Vit V.. Yankee
vuo .0 .Be Pos. Ofare,lilonuse.
Bkallit,
DE•ALEr Boot •
pare, ke 1'
: , 4otiona, ea.
dept. 03, 1L,.•
EXCHANGE HOTEL
M. J. HAREM:OTOS wishes to inform thepabllettutt
haring rented the Exchange Rotel In Montrose, he
le now prepared to accommodate the ttareEngpubltr
111 flrettlase rtylo
Montrose, Acg. 29.
H BURRITT.
Dealer ,n Staple and Fancy Da Goods, Crockery, Gard.
wale. bon, stoves, Drugs. 014, and Paints, Boots
and Stioce, lists and Caps, Furs, Buffalo Gabes, Gro
ceries. Provision', 6e.
Now•bDilurd, t a.. Nov. o.
DR. D. A. LATHROP,
fathulnlsters Eticruo Tuanstat. DAVIS, a the
Chestnut street. Call and causal 111 al C hron ic
Diseases.
Montrose. Jan. It
DR. S. W. DAYTON,
IMYSICLAN R daI:MEWS% tenders his services to
the citizens. of Great Bend and vicinity. Oillee at his
residence. apposite Bannon House, GI Bend village.
Sept. Ist. isso.-11
LEIVIS:OVOLL,
SHAVING AND HAIR DRESSING.
shop in the new Postoillee baildinc, where he will
be found ready to attend all who may want airythLoy
In his line- Montrose Pa. Oet. 113 1819.
CHARLES N. STODDARp,
)ealeria Boots and Snots, Bats and Caps, Leather and
Findings,-Main Street, let door below Bolds Store.
Work made to order, and repairing done neatly.
Montrose Jan. 1 18:0.
DR. W. L. RICILARD.SON,
PEISSICI&N & AURGEON, tenders hie professions
services to the citizens of Montrose and vicinity.-
0 &Cad t hien:elder on the corner eset
ang. lof Sayr 9. e &
Bro.. Foundry- fs 186
SCOVTLL 6: DEWITT.
Attorney , at Law and Solicitor. In Bankruptcy. Office
49 Court Strect.orcr City
amton, i W on m. t L i B -S n c k o , r n ß s in ,
;-
bouotst N. N.Y.Y.
Treoxe USWITT. J b, 1573.
1173=51
Dealer In Dregs Medicine*, Chemicals. Paint*. 011*,
.e-a. r Qe. Teas, Spleen, Fancy Goods, Jewelry, Per.
in] y, Sc, Brick Block, Moncruae, Pa. Entabliabed
[Feb. 1, _
LAW OFFICE.
rITCEI & WATSON, Attorneys at Law, at the old office
of lie ntley k Fltch, Xontsose. Pa.
1... P. PITCO. [Jai:L. 11. '71..(
d.O. WARREN,
.TTOII.NSY LAW. Bounty, Back ray. Pension
and Exam-..0n CisUna attended to. Olden dr..
,nor belOW Boyd'a.Store. Iklontroac.ra. [An. 1.469
W. A. CROSSMON,
tatoraey at Law, Office at the Court House, ir the
Commiseloner's 019ce. W. A. Citowntaa.
Mentroee. Seat.
J. C. 1571NATON.
CIVIL ESOISEEE Am) FrankCE,
P. 0. address, BD Forks.
osquehansta Co., Pa
JOSH GROVES,
PISMOMABLETAILOR, Montrose, Pa. Stop over
Chandler's Store. Ail orders faledin first-ratestylt.
Jotting done on short notice. and vratranted to tit.
W. W. SHIM
.;M:IIIIST AND CHADI MANUFACTIIEKRI3,—Iroo
of Xain street. Montrose: Pa. latig. 1. 1669.
• M. C SUTTON,
AUGTIONEHat, sad lastausca Acme. :
Friendsvilie. Pa.
•
D. W. SEARLE,
• •
&TT (111.2131 . AT LAM, Mate over the Store of M.
DeOaner,ta the Heels Block. Montrose ,Ps. Leal 69
J. B. & A. IL MeC0.1.,LU.31,
ATTOBtalll &T LAW OMee over the Bank, Mastro/a
Ps.. BiOlalrolse,M,Sy 10, 1871. tt"
AAfl ELY,
AAdmos. BroWdyn.Pa
AUCTIONEER.
June 1.1e74,
•;,"
JOB PRINTING
Itasealiztect
Ta ,(OFIFICE. enzAr._
'.::::.,--:ii:;: - -.ONTROSE '''''.-DEM-0•C:R-AT.
TWO DOLLARS PER YEAR IN ADVANCE.
VOLUME 31.
THE AMP OF THE JAUES.
Who, In this isir
Where life sweeps on in mighty tides,
Or into pleasant homes subsides,
Or eddies through a hall like this,
Can feel the pulses of his heart
Throb with the Joy of being one
Still breathing underneath the sun,
And of the waves a vital part
Nor tutu with tender thought to those -
Who weary of the rough
Ormuitten la the deadly flay,
Lay down to sleep, and never rose I
&levy not we who paler hue,
• nom toil's and pleasure's round and range
To Nestle. id social Isteichanne,
The gm ue.ed memories of a yeas!
We poise ;bet r deeds, we birsa their names,
Who 0 vely fought and nobly fell;
And love and eutemoe: well .
The venished
,A: my of the James.
Toey sleep, but only fu: a nt:, , ht ;
The et:Lti wss groaning when they died,
The tt..m let soundiug tar mid wide,
And all ti:e spneies were dim vial blight.
So, whea the milt Puebadgelq call—
The quaking cr.:lb—the slam—
Shall wake ;beta, ;leafed of all their scum,
The moke that ;nags ifs ghostly pall
O'er ali things,it will only seem
That they have slept timoog their deeds,
And ties to War's familiar deeds
From test so sweet It could not dreamt
They sleep in peace! The summer bells
Tam guider perfume from the duet,
The winter', , mow, the euMmo rust,
And all lore's lavished humortelles,
tbiog,a es beyood the! need
As all ode 6:tife3 of band and bend,
As all our grie.e above .'oe dead,
And all .tie of our need.
They steep;, peace! Whit Lever at rife
Iley chafe the Mad for which they fought,
Each for himself flitted what be sought—
Peace, at. toe ~',chase of Lis lite
PAysicA :or :"Mod la happy rest;
QUegeOit :01 ginaiode for psia ;
For life's gram. lnss. ibe p.iccleKs gale
Of name and deed forever blest I
No team fo- them! The bra, tis cold
That does 00. ti. ill will' joy to think
Tbrt Lbey who o•svely leaped the brink
OF baide's fie; y caasm, and sold
Tbeir.iises 4ot Pao i.eB increase,
Found w no an Jul bolocsust
wbich living land bad lost—
The boon of resi.—the balm of peace!
.c..rirs foe [hem wiro boo e the proof
or tierom, Is their ;omen's seal
Of blia;ag bLaa.,aaci blasted sieel,
Audr.ampi.rg clier.,; . e,'e (mediae hoof 1
Fee Loal the de .3- o a Ipeoth,
Kwat sense o. woe and ware of wrong,
Tdey rleca. PS NV Itecls .he wo,ld along,
lo the sweet dignity of death !
No te?.s for .oem P Team, Una, for whom t
Tears for ou.seires, whose lh,le lives—
Loom. to oar eailt..en and oar wires—
Or fasteaed to some luecioas tomb
Eace:ls an idol; ;lases sill.
Tied ;o onr lucre and our Wet,
Bellew eacb 'Jou; tbeamied Lust
Leit es by be , oes to ,ul3lll
TOUR rOl .be thieves who lob the dead,
Io tobbtag i.nose ;ilCie dea.b be:eft,
And waste :lie gold that love bps left
By gambling with the na:ion's balk' I
Tears foc4he demagogues who trade
in fends of party and of lace
And seek for &nide: and for place
In strife their own vile hands have made
Tears for the Kip of perjured souls
That plod the rich end poor puke,
And seal the grist f.om which they strike.
For those they serve, be stingy toils!
Tears for the realm that blindly s helves
Its men of nohlest,sin and brawn,
And crowds Sts councils with the spawn
Of little men who choose themselves!
Tears for the men who basely hold
The nation in its paper lies,
Against the wisdom of the wise,
And shame the eagles on their gold!
01:2112=2
Tcare for the land that builds of rags
Its edifice of power and wealth, •
And holds the happiness and health
Of soveretan states In carpet-bugs!
Aye, teals for those who, slued and shorn-
Not blameless, yet our brothers silll
In common lot and God's good will—
Are bleeding, tainting, tossed and torn,
By jarring policits and feuds
Of race with 'ace, till fain to fiy,
Form their ancesti at homes or die
In silent, hopeless multitudes!
Tiara for the bootless sacrifice
Wrought by the ball and bayonet!
Tears that the best of us forget
That we are purcba.ed with a price
That they who perished at out side
Are void of victory till We
A just and gen , ions rule decree,
And livc as nobly as they died I
0, brothers of the gun and glove I
o,llvinz Army of the .7=11.%
How shall we answer to the claims
Of the loved and baited brave?
By pledging now our good right hand,
Bypledging now our royal word,
That, selfish lust to love deterred,
And gala to God and native land,
We here declare eternal strre,
Ay—battle to the hilt--with those
Who traffic In the nation's woes,
And lire upon the nation's Ilfe.
O Peaco—!a shame, and hanishnient
o industry = -with folded arms I •
0 Land of beauty from whose charms
flare fled the graces of content,—
There is no ctue for feud and schism
fn law that is not born of, love,
Or party strike •thaVviseabove
-The holy claims of perilotism.
0 stately shapes of Mittred men
Who mark our Afetty'erids and 'obis,
Warin ni with your diviner flames,
And save your Country once &pia
POETRY.
MONTROSE, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1874.
STORY TELLER.
TUE NISSING FINOEB JOINT.
---o--
It was my first visit to London since I
had taken up my abode and entered on
the practice of my profession as a solic
itor in Southampton.
Iu Loudon I had a very dear friend,
my old friend, my old college chum, Geo.
Dickson ; and as he was the only person
1 knew in the great metropolis, of course
I lost no time in looking him up.
Three years bad passed since our last
meeting ; but ten coold scarcely have
produced, a change more marked than
had taken place in the appearance and
manner of my friend.
Our first greeting and friendly inquir
ies over, I lunged, yet forebore, to ask the
cause of iny. triend's melancholy. I felt
sure, in dun time, of tkiing mad', the con
fidant of the secret, provided no motive
of delicacy prompted its concealment.
That evening. iu my room at the hotel,
George told mo his story. He had lam
ed au attachment for a young lady,
whose paces of mind and person he por
taped with all the fervor of a lover's elo
quence. She had returned his affection,
but her father had opposed his suit, hav
ing set his heart on the marriage of his
daughter to a nephew of his. This neph
ew was a surgeon, of profligate character
my f.iend assured me—hut that may
have been prejudice—who had long. but
unsuccesafelv, wooed his cousin, to whom
his offerings were as repugnant as to her
father they were acceptable.
Some mouths siuce, Mr. Parsons, the
young lady's, father, had gone into Hump
shire ou hilliness, accompanied by his'
nephe a. At Southampton he had been
seized by a sudden illness, which termi
nated fatally in three days.
On the day precedinglinacath he had
executed his will (which had since been
duly proved by the depositions of the at
testiag witnesses,) containing a solemn
request that his daughter, to whom he
had left all of his estate, should accept
the hand of his nephew in marriage.
coupled with the provisiou that, in case
the latter offered, and she refused, within
a-specified period, to enter into the pro
posed union, the entire estate devised to
the daughter should be forfeited to the
nephew.
To sacrifice her fortune to her heart's
ch o ice would net have cost Julia Parsons
a moment's hesitation • and nothing
could have more delighted George Dick
I son than so fair an opportunity of show
ing how superior his devotion wan to all
considerations of personal advantage.—
But her father's dying request, in Julia's
eyes, was sacred. It had surprised and
stunned her, it is tree; for, in their ma
ny oanferences on the subject, he had
never gone beyond the most kindly re
monatrances, and had never even hinted
at any thing like coercion.
Young Parsons, the nephew, had not
the magnanimity to forego his ungener
ous advantage, He might have been con
tent with his cousin's fortune alone, hat
his right to that depended on his offer
and ins rejection of an alliance which
she felt in conscience bound to accept.—
The brief season of grace, which she had
been compelled to beg even with Ultra,
had almost passed, and a few more days
would witness the condemnation of two
lives to hopeless misery.
At the conclusion of my friends nar
rative, in which, for reasons that may
hereafter be developed, I felt a peculiar
interest, I prevailed on him to accompany
me to a place of amusement, to which I
had previously practiced tickets.
When we had reached the theatre the
performance had already begun ; out we I
succeeded in finding seats which com
mended a fair view both of the stage and
the and inn ce.
In a few minutes George touched my
elbow, "Observe the gentleman nearly
opposite, in the front row, seated next
column. leaning his arm on his cane," he
whispered.
I looked in the direction indicaied,aed
saw a face whose striking resemblance to
one I had seen before, caused rue to start
with surprise.
"Who is it ?" I asked.
"Eldred Parsons," was the reply.
"The nephew of whom you spoke ?"
. • .
"The same," My friend answered.
"Doea he resemble his uncle ?" I was
on the point of inquiring; but just then
the stranger drew his glove from his right
hand, and I saw that the first joint or the
middle finger was wanting, a circum‘
stance which, for , sufficient reason,absorb
ed ray attention.
"Do you know the esact date of Mr.
Parsons' death ?" I asked, when we had
gained the street at the close of the per
formance.
"Yes, it was the 23d day of November.
His daughter received a telegram from
her cousin announcing the fact the same
day. But , why, do you ark t"
"I have a reason which may or may
not prove a good one," I returned ; and
stating that I had business engagements
for the whole of the nest day, I parted
with my . friend promising to meet him
on the following evening,
Next afternoon, found me at the abode
of Mr. Parsons the nephew.
"Mr. - Parsons„ I presume ?" were the
words with which I accosted the gentle.
man I had seen at the theater.
"Yes, sir."
"You may not remember Mr. Parsons,
but I believe we have met before."
"I beg your Tardon t , air, for not recol
lecting the occasion."
"Were you not in Southampton, last
winter ?" - -
"I was." •
"I am the Solicitor on whom you call
ed to make a draft of a will"-
lie turned pale,but made no reply.
"I saw' a record of that will at Doctors
Commons this morning," I, resumed,
"and—,''
- "You speak of my unule's will," he
hastily interrupted.
"And yet," I continued, "you said it
was yours when , you tipplVd to have, it
written. Yon represented yonrself
ions of executing such , a document pre
paratory to embarking on a peFilons voy
age. The paper. was drawn in accord
ance with your tnstractions, leaving the
date to be tilled out at the time of ,sign-
Devoted to the Interests of oar Town and oounty.
ing. Your looks were gray then, and
you certainly look etli old enough to have
a marriageable daufthter ; but your dis
guise was not perfect." And I pointed
to the mutilated finger.
"What do you mean ?"
be shouted in
a daflant tone.
"Sinrply that your uncle's signature to
that will is a forgery 1" 1 answered, rising
and confronting him. "He died on the
23d of December. Your own telegram
to that effect is in esistence. It was on
the 24th, the day before Christmas, that
you called on me to prepare the docu
ment now on record as , his will The
inference is plain ; you undertook to
manufacture this spurious testimony af
ter your uncle's 'death, acid wishing to
clothe your villainy in legal form,yon pro
cured from me the required draft, You,
or some one at your instigation, simula
ted the signature of the deceased. The
witresses, who have since perjured them
selves in their depositions, weir procured
in some manner best known to yourself
"Enough, sir," he ejaculated, placing
his back agai•tst the door; "you have
shown yourself in possession of a seci et
the custody of which proves dangerous 1"
"I am not unprepared for your threat.
In the Brat place, I did not come here
unarme.:; in the nest, I have prepared a
full written. statement of the fucs to
which I have alluded, with information,
besides, of my present visit to yourself.—
This paper will be delivered to the friend
to whom it is directed, unless within an
hour! reclaim it, from 'the messenger,
who has been instructed for that length
for that to retain it."
Hie face grew livid. His frame quiver
ed with mingled rage, and his eye gleam
ed like a wild beast at bay.
"What is your pnrpoee I ) " he said in
a voice hO3. Es with suppress d passion.
"To keep your secret while you live, on
oae condition."
"Name it."
"T; at you write intently to Mi t t
Niloas,.enovuoing all preient oue to her
Mimi, and absolutely withdrawing your
proposal of miirriage."
/tiler a moment's pause, he hastily
peoued a !wet note, wbicb be euhmilied
to my iimpection ; it was quite satisfuc•
tor y.
Be so good as to seal and addre►a it,'
I said.
He did so.
"I. will see that it is delivered." I re
maeked, Ls king ic up, and bowing myself
Wow) J met George Dickson that
evening his old college look came back.
He had great news to tell me. The next
thing With to take me to see Julia and
it is reedleas to tell what a happy even
ing we three spent together, and what a
happy marriage followed soon after.
Eld:idge Parsons, I have just learoed,
emigrated for Anst.vilia, on hoarl the
"London," and went down in that ill
faked sVp.
Mr. loUnson.
_o__
Mar Adeler tells the foPowing bears
rendmg story :
Mr. Alexander Johnson of Towanda
is dead. He was billions—Mr. Alexander
Johnson was—and he saw the following
pmagraph front ibe pen of Dr. Hall ;
"If a billions man wants to get well and
is in no special harry, all he has to do is
to lie down out doors between two broad
boat s, and slay tnere until he gets rev
enoosly hungry."
lit,. Jminson followed this advice, and
calmly fell asleep wiib a booed board on
top of him.
.Ijunder oidinary circum
sqinces there would have been no tronele
but the..e was a Fat Men's Ball in the
lager !Jeer saloon ne. - t door that day, and
4ue two champion fat men got over the
fenee, and sat down with a jerk on top
of Mr. Mela.tder Johnson's upper boar)
m. Won t knowing be was them. It El oe
ed the breath out of him at toe Son
blow. And the fat men, they sat there,
and discussed polities, and the Alabama
Maims, and the weathe , , and mumans
righis, and the glacial theory, and meta
physics ; and they kept on drinking glass
after glass of beer, and getting heavier
and heavier. until one of i hem happened
to look under the board, and there was
Mr. Alexander Johnson as dead as Neb
uchadnezzar, and smashed out so thin
that they could pass him under a closet
door without scrapping his vest bottom..
He dues not suffer from bile now,but Mrs.
Johnson is roaming over the country
hunting for Dr. Ball, She will probably
make a lasting impression on him if she
meets him.
A Dry Time.
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An honest old Kentucky farmer from
the country gave his recollections of the
late hot spell as follows :
'‘lt was so dry that we couldn't spare
water toput in our whiskey. The grass
was so dry that every time the wind blew
it flew around like so much ashes. There
wasn't a tear shed at a funeral for it
month._ The son dried up all the cattle,
and burned et? all the hair till they look•
ed like Mexican dogs, and the sheep all
like poodle puppies, they shrank up so.—
We had to soak all our hogs to make 'em
hold swill, and if any cattle were killed
in the morning they were dried beef at
dark.- The woods dried tsp so that the
farmers chopped seasoned timber all
through Lingua, and there ain't a 'match
through all the country--in fact no wed-
ding since the widow Glenn married old
Baker, three months ago. What few
grasshoppers are left are all akin and legs
and I didn't hear a teakettle sing for six
months."
Nivried people live longer than un
married ones, and a tall man is likely to
live longer than a short one. Vail the
fiftieth year, women have a better chance
of life than , nlen 1 but beyond that peri
od the chances are equal.
Sixty-five persons out of one thousand
marry. The Months of June Land De
cember are those in which matriages are
moat frequent.- .`
Re who through intention or neg'ec
throws temptation before another le,
he, fails, equally guilty.
The Solemn Book Agent.
—ico.—.
He was tall and solemn and dignified.
One would have thought him a Roman
Senator on his way to make a speech or.
finances, but he wasn't—singularly en
ough be wasn't. He was a book agent.
He wore a linen duster, arid his brow
was furrowed with many care lines, sa if
he had been obliged to tumble ont of bed
every other, night of his life to dose a
sick child. He called into a tailor shop
on Randolph street, removed his hat,
took his "Lives of Eminent Philosoph
ers" trom his canibrio bag and apprcach
ed the tailor with :
.I'd like to have you look at this rare
work.'
'I bar no time,' replied the tailor.
'lt is a work which every thinking man
should peruse,' he continyed.
?' said the tailor.
'lt is a work on which a great deal of
deep thought has been expended, and it
is pronounced by such men as Wendell
Philips to be a work without a rival in
modern. literature.'
• 'Makes anybody laugh when he zees
it ?' asked the tailor.
'No my friend, this is a deep, profound
work, as I have already said. It deals
with such characters as Thencrites. Soc
rates and Plaro and Ralph Waldo Emer
son. If you desire a work on which the
most eminent author of our dot has
spent years of study and research, you
can find nothing to compare with this.'
'Does it speak about how to glean
gloze' asked the man of the goose.
'My frieud, this is no receipt book, but
an eminent work on philosophy, ae I have
told you. Years were consumed in pre
paring this volume for the press,and none
but the deems: mind could have grasped
the subject herein contained. If you .le
sire food for deep meditation you have it
here.
'Does die book say ' someting about d•
Prussian war ?' asked the tailor as he
threaded his needle.
'My friend, this is not an veryday
book, but a work on philosophy—a work
which will soon be in the bands of every
profound thinker in the country. What
is the art of philosophy? This book tells
you. Who were end who are our philos
ophers ? Turn to these pages for a reply.
As I said before, I don't see how you can
do without it.'
6 1Jnil be don't say anytiagabout some
fun, eh ?' inquired the tailor as the book
was held out to him.
'My friend, I again inform you that
this Is not a book of ephemeral work—
not a collection of nauseous trash, but a
rare, deep work on philosophy, Ifere,see
the name of the author. That uarne
alone should be proof enough to your
[flied that the work cannot he an..paaa?d
fur profundity of thought. Why, sir.
Gerrit Smith testifies to the greatness of
this volume
not knows Schmidt—l make no
oze mit him: returned the tailor in a
•oubtiug vo;ce.
•Then yon will let me leave your place
without having snared your name to this
volume. I cannot believe it! Behold
what research ? Turn these leaves and
see these gems of richest thought Ah !
if we had only such minds and could
wield such peas ! But we can• read, and
in ame Isom we can be like him. Every
family should have this noble wont. Let
me put your name down ; the book is
only sl2,'
•
`Zwelve dollars for du. gook! Zwelce
dollars and lie has noddings about der
war. and no fun in him, and Fay nodding
how to glean glaze! What you take ma
for, misi ? Go right avay mit dbt book
or I call der bolice and haf you lucked
up pooty (pick.
Electioneering.
The courts ana the husking frolics of
a frontier State usually furnished abund
ant ma.erial for story and tun. Judge
It, formerly of the Western circuit, Fla.,
cuivas,d that circuit in 1844, as a can
didate for the senate, and was cheered by
the promise of a little Frenchman, living
in one of the cotniti4t of the senatorial
district, to do 'all he could' for him.' Not
a solitary vote, however, was cast for the
Judge in that county, and he seized the
first opportunity thereafter to tat his
backer wit.:l false promise. 'Sir' said the
Fienchman, very much offrnded, tell
you no lie; I travel over this county
three, four, five days, and I say to every
man, vtl you vote for my friend ze Judge
and he say no, I vill be darned if I do.'
'But' said the Judge, 'you did not vote
for me yourself. "No, Judge ; when " I
come back, I shut myself np in my own
room, and I •lectioneared myself two day
—but I no get my consent to vote for
you.'
There is a man in Jersey City who
owns an elevator. The other night he
was asleep, and his wife was awake.
dreamed and be uttered wo.da In bis
sleep, She listened. He said: "Dear Ella
—darling Ella—sweetest Ella!" She
would hear no more. She grabed him
by the shoulder. shook him till he awoke
and then shrieked: "Who is dear Ella?"
"W he pa dear what ?" -he asked, 'with
a supprised look. "The deer Ella you've
been calling devil and sweetest in your
dreams." "Oh ! suppose I must have
been thinking of the dear elevator which
has coat me so much thought and trouble
for the past two months. It's all been
outgo and no incom' with it." The wife
subsided. She may be fully convinced
that he was wholly truthful, but she
keeps a very suspicious eye•qau him. He
chuckles when he's alone and says;, "TV.
George ! that elevator was' a lucky
thought, Ii she only. knew !" • Then ho
'Chuckles a little more snd eoes and ele
vates his elbow'. -
"Sam, why don't you talk to your ;mus•
ter and tell him to- lay -up treasures in
heaven ?" "What's de use of him to lay
up treasures dar I' . He never see um
again.
Said man to the Mayor of New Lou.
don, whom he met at the State Fair. ".I
bar seen beets in California as big as I
am," "I beg your pardon,"taid the Mayor,
"but I think that you deceive yourself."
FIFTY MS. EXTRA IF NOT IN ADVANCE.
MISCELLANEOUS READING.
THE SUN AND THE STARS.
One day, when the atm was going down,
He said to a star hard by
"Sparkle your bent; for you see, my Mend,
I am going out of the sty." '
Now, the little star was old as the sun,
Though rather small of his age,
So be kept qulta still in the yellow light,
And looked as wise as a sage.
"I am going, you sear' cried the sun again,
"Going right ont of the aky r
And he slid away; but not out of sight
Of that little star bard by.
The little star, peening, saw him. go
On his gorgeous western`way;
And twinkled with fan, as he said, "0 steal
You're in for another day I"
And as for going out of the sky,
Your majesty known you can't
You are shining somewhere, tall and strong,
In spite of your rays salant.
No answer. Tuen the star grew bright,
And sparkled as neighbors came;
Ho told the joke to the twinkling crowd,
And they laughed the tam to shame.
One merry star was so amused,
He shot across the sky ;
And all the others bobbed and blinked
To see him speeding by,
But ailer a whl:e, a iruy light
Appeased ottthe Essient side;
A n n, one, by one, the stars grew shy,
And isied in the shy fo bide.
"Bo' ho r the sou Woke foribi"Hot ho l '
Jos. stay where you me, my dears,
And shine away, :or you ma's be sews
Wbeo ell of my light appes,s.
The neople below wt.t say you are goae,
Though you'le shlulog. Think of that !
/Veil, they tilooght all night I had lea, the
sky,
So We ()Div tit for tat.
FORTY-FIVE.
The man of forty-five, or thereby, says
Alex. Smith, is compelled to ciao, if he
sits down to think shoat it, and exisi e der
is very different from what it was tweoty
years previously. He tal.ke - oas who has
spent $750 of his original psi ;moil of
$l,OOO. Then from his life there has de-
parted that wild freshness of morning.
which Tom Moore sang about. In his
onward j 'Laney be is not likely to en
counter anything absolutely new. He
has already unjugated eve, y tense of the
verb To Be. He has been an love twice
or thrice. He has been married—enly
ouce, let tts trust: In all probability tie
is the father or ts,thie fami lyof children;
he has beep ill, and he has experienced
triumph and failure; he has known what
it is to want money in his purse. Some
times be has been a debtor,sometimes he
has been a creditor.. He has stood by the
brink of half a dozen gayes t and heard
the clod falling on tae coffin-lid. All this
be has e , .perienced; the only new thing
before him is deatb,"aad even to that he
has at various times approi'mated. Life
has lust most of iid utiexpectednees, its
seat, its. novelty, and has become like a
worn shoe or a ttheadhare dou'alet. To
him there is nothing under the sun. But
then his grow:og old is a gradual pro
cess; and zest, sparkle and novelty are
not, ssential to happtness. The man who
has reached lorty- rive has learned what a
pleasure there is in cnetoinariness, and
ase, and want—in having everything
econnd hitq familiar, tried, confidential.
Life may have become humdlitn ; but his
tastes have bec..me humdrum too. Nov:
elty annoys him, the intrueion of. an un
familiar object puts him out. A pair of
newly embroidered slippers would be more
ornamental than the well-worn articles
which lie warming for him before the li
_
brary fire, but then he cannot get hie fret
into them, so easily, Eft .is . contented
wirh his old friends—a new friend wool,
break the charm of the old familiar faces
He loves the hedgerows, and the brook.
and the bridge, which he sees every day,
mild he won id'uot exchange them for the
Alps and Glaciers. By the time a man
has reached .4.5 he lies as comfortable in
his habits as the silk worm in its cocoon.
On the whole, f take it that middle age
is a happier period than youth. In the
entire circle of the year there are no days
so deligbtrul as those of a fine October,
when the trftes'are bare to the mild. heat,.
ens, and the red leases bestrew the road.
and you can feel the breath of winter
morning and evening—no days so calm,
so tenderly solemn. and with such a rev
erent meekness is the air. The lyrical
upburst of the litek . utsuch a time would
ho incongruous. The only sounds suita
ble to the season are the rusty oaw of the
homeward eliding rook—the creaking of,
tne waiu returning empty from the farm I
yard. There is an unrest which men mis
call delight, and of that unrest youth is
for the most part composed. From that
middle age is free. The setting anus of
youth are crimson. and gold; the setting,
sans of middle age,
Do take a sober coloring from a n eye
That has kept watch o'er. man'o immostailty.
Youth is a slave of beautiful faces,and
flue ere, and ,silver-sweet voices—they
distract, madden, alarm. To middle age
they are but time graceful statutes, the
lemelitetpoems. They - delight, but burn
not. They awake no passion, they height
en no pulse. And the inaeginattve man
of middle age,, possesses, after a - fashion,
all the passionate turbulence; all the keen
delights of his earlier days. They are,
not dead—they are dwelling in the ante.
m
chamber of his meory,awititing hill call;
and when they 'are called, they wear - an
ethereal something_ which .'are not their
owu. The muses are .the danghters of,
memory ; youth is the time, to love, but
middle age is the period at 'which the
beat love poetry is written, And middle
age, too—the , early period of. when a
man is master of his , instruments 'and
knows what be can do=is the best sea
son of intellectual activity. . The playful,
capering flames of a newl,v. kindled tfre is
'n pretty sight :.bat nor:nearly so effect
ive—any bauaewife will tell von—as when
the flames are, all gone and the whole
mass of. fuel has become caked into OSO•
tier redness that emits steady g10W..-
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NUMBER 48.
There is nothing good in this world
which time does not improve, 9 si'ver
wedding is better than the voice of the
Epithalamium. And the moat beautiful
face that ever was made is yet more beau
tiful wh.•n there is laid upon it the rev
erence of silver hairs.
As the semi annual bridal season is at
hand, it is the time to plead fir a reform
in weddings. Every year •this sacredest
of all occasions is turned more and more
into an opportunity for display, and for
replying to some fancied social obligation,''
Instead of the time when a few Of the
closest friends gather to witness the sol
emnest compact human beings can frame
it isehosen as the moment for bringing
together the largest part of a familt's so
cial circle, to show the,bride in ber bridal
garments; to prove how many flowers
and refreshments the family can afford ;
and with shame be it said, to eshibii, to
eritienim and light comment the plecions
tokens that should base come with ten
der regard to.the , maid on the eve of her
new life.
A wedding must not be nucheerful ;
but it must certainly be solemn to all
who realize what it ia. On the one side
it is renouncing old ties promising to be- •
gin with faith, and hope, and love a new
and wl:olly untried existence. On the
other it is the acceptance of ,a sacred
trnst,t h e covenant to order life anew in
such ways as shall make the happiness of
two instead of one. (tan such an occas
ion be fitting fox reve:ry? Is it not wig-. -
er.more delicate, to .bid only the nearest
of friends to a marriage ceremony, and
leave the leasting and frolic fur a sobse
quent time? We are sure there are few
girls who, if they reflect on the serious
ness of the step they are about to take,
will not choose to make their vow merely
within the losing limits of their home
circle. All our best instincts point to the
absolute simplicity and privacy of wed
ding services ; only a perversion of deli
cacy could contemplate the asking of .
crowds of half sympathetia or wholly co-
..
:ions people to attend the fulfillment - of
the most solemn of contracts. Let there
be as much party making, rejoicing and
pleasure taking afterwards as harts des
sire ; but let the solemn vows he male -.
in the presence only of those riearest and •
dearest,
One great cause of the poverty of the
present day is a failure or our common
people to appreciate small things. They
do not,realize how a daily, addition, be it
ever so small, will soon make a large pile.,
if the young men and young women of
to-day will only begin, and begin now, to
save'a little from their earnings and plant
it in the soil of some pod savings bank
and Weekly or monthly add tneir mite,
they will wear a happy smile of compe
tence when they reach middle life. Not
only the desire bat ability to increase it
will also grow.
Let clerk and tradesmen, laborer and
artisan, make LOW and at once a begin
ning. Store up some of 'your youthful
force and vigor for fut Are contingeney.—
Let parents teach their children - to begin
early to save. Begin at the fountain head
. to control the stream of extraragaece
choose between poverty and riches. -Let
our youths go on in habits of extrava
gance for filty years to come as theyThave
for fifty years past. and we shall have a
nation of beggars with a, moneyed aris
tocracy. Let a generation of such us save
in small sums be reared, andi. we ("hall be
free from all want. Do nut he ambitions
for extravagant fortunes bat do seek
that which is the duty of everyone to ob
tain—independence and a comfortable
home. 4ealth, and enough of it. is with
in the reach of all. It is obtained by one
process, and by one only--saving.
Is PINIUVAID Ems WTDXICIVIeI IOiCIII3O
Advortidna nate,:
WEDDING&
SAVING IS WEALTH.
OLD LONDON AT NIGHT.
-If stringent .regulations of a pategial
order could insure everybgdy's good be-
haviour, the denizens of .old London
ought to have betaken themselveit to their
nightly rest sure of slumbering undisturb
ed. To blow a horn or to whistle a tune
out of doors, after, nips
.o'cl,ck at night,
entailed *imprisonment fur the iitfeeder,
and any man so lost to decency as to beat
his wife or servant,cauaing thereby a sud
den outcry in the still of the night, was
liable to be fined-3s. 4d. for Indulging in
that amusement, at an unreasonable
time. Decent people , who rose at dawn, '•
dined at ninein the morning, end -sup
ped at tive in the afternoon, were expect.
ed to go to. bed at curfew ;- so, while ev
ery hon:st citizen was required to hung
Outside his house a lantern with a candle
in it—dishonest ones being by implicit.
--
non allowed to seep their &mini dark—
his liability that way, only 'lasted - from.
six to nine. After that , hour -.t he streets
were surrendered to darkness, with :the
natural consequence of making London a
somewhat unpleasant abiding -place for
folks who had ai4thit,g to lese-tunce their
houses Were in danger of - being plunder
ed by ruffian bands, it hundred strong.
there being no. pAice - to say them nay;
these Minions of the - moon finding their,
vocation so
. profitable that. when One of
them happened to be caught he Was ahle
to bid five hundred pounds of t aker - foe
his life. Thinking the midnight. triantu
dent bad had noir own way long enough . ,
King Henry 111, in 1253. nrderedthe es
tablishment of a regular., night, watch to
guard the- eity's streets front sunset to
sunrise; and ordained_ that any rnan'who
was damnified by a thief should, he fully
compensated by, a hosoever -was 'oharged,
with the keeping of outer in the ward in'
which the robbery was conimitled,-
Each word of kininekt, whenbe
it may, it welcome to the poor.
So long as you are innocent fear noth
ing. 1 4 . 1 p one can harm you.
If .thou hopes for ,rnerof -in Ifelivep,
show justipe on earth.... ' • •
Man, who man would he; must: rule - the
empire of himself.
A w escape --Tell,