11AWLEY & CRUSER, Editors and Proprietors.
VOLUME 32.
T WIEI
.11ontrose gitmocrat
le PV11L,1161., EVERT NV ' EDNEZDAT hiOrMING
It if .asquchanna (Younly, -Pa.
i iree r _iV. Side of Public Avenue
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rllnnvou. Ite•flinp.Correspond
frr a., a ri.lint , :e tint, of P. ert.ernentr.
.t 0 ertising Rates:
nil Inch npnee.l3 netkft, or less $1
n. M. , 11111.. s'2 50; 6 larlattlP. $4.50;
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FINE. Tc P7t.ENTIrEL\TC74-
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Business Cards
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x our hen hr w 11 attend promptly to all pro
le-.w.0 tnodrr-s utrcnted to his cure. rifrlS ffice
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L A II A VD COL I LECTIoN OFFICE.
A A AAI Alsornry sl Lan. Montrose, Penn . !,
, - rtion, rrorouti, Attended to.
AZIA ut,•11: glven to ~r phans• Court Practice.
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tote lbr Moos, IST:,
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t.r.r•a bra. pulls etc A,I .ttrit tibor on abort
tr . —, too pro , — lon Please all nod see nit
LITTLES d BL.iEESI.EE
Aril:l:NEl', AT LAW. hove rumored to their .rau - r.
Offot. 0pp0...11. the 1 etcht. I, Boort
It It LITTLE. t
4.3 E u LITTLY„..
P. L. BLAKE,¢E.
IF 11 DEANS.
hilA LE I. :r Febo 3}lolll ty. Wan Piper. Neat pn
tt; Strreto,, pie V tr. a. 1 autrt
• .•y• 'lt lsrat tltost to the rust Olher. Moto:tore.
MEM
ENCIELVG E HOTEL
UN 1 , 4 to Inform theyoublicthat
-t.nted tot tzcnange liolci In Montrk,m.. Lr
,r-rd ur 4ccommodste the travellngpnbEr
11 Bt.-R1:17'7
cr t ' , tapir and Fancy Urs Good!. Crockery. Hard
m.
Ira. 5t..1 , 2,, Lit ags. "11, and Paiute. 'loots
Hat, and Cap.. Far, Buffalo Hob.. Oro
dc.
Ni.. Nl.aard, a . N., G.
t. LE.lltl PilY , lt lairdale, Sang en., Pa.—
offici Lit iiicker'r Hotel. where prompt attention will
aLi •
Fnac....1..1.1.4t eh to,
A.N AND St RGEtf% tenders pis profeselon
t• - it, Do cit.zent of Grout Bond and oictnity
uSot Loo \ uLey
k , ..“ Pa.. Mulch 24. ISl73.—tf
DR. Li A. LATHROP,
ELllcittO TUEILII.I. Barns. a at Foot of
~treat Call and causal n a.l Chronic
IBMIE
DR. S. W DAYTON,
LIT , I , lAN tendert ble services to
~ real act] mid vicinity. Office at ill*
~Iyo,,lit Barnum liouee, CI% Bend village.
LA' 11" KNOLL,
NRAVING AND /pal; DRESSING.
' , v . . ttte Orti . Po.tolEce hulldlne. where be will
to attend all wilt, untyltant .nythln
ilontroee Pa ~Oct. t 8 1869.
11 .1 BLES STODDAIW,
Boots and Snow., Hats and Caps. Leatberana
Street. let door below Boyd's. Store.
tetra w in, , w order, and repairing done neatly.
11 .1.11.1 1470.
PH 61' 1.. RICHARDSON,
"Y` IA \ A a tivIDON. tender. hlo professiouu
itizebn a Montrose and o.th:tit).
Mc an the cornereast of Sayr. &
tt-o• f Aug. 1, ISO.
sc9FILL & DP; W IT'T.
r• 1 L. 11% and Solicitor* in Bankruptcy. Office
niUr, Strt . ei . over City 'National Bank. Bing.
N N WA. 11.Sc0raut,
=MEI
EIMEEZZM
Dritv :11edirtnef, Chem'call, Paints, Oils.
Spices, Fancy Goods. Jewelry, Per
Brick Block. liontroao, Pa. Eatablisbed
Var.. 1, IBT.'n
_ _
L. F. FITCII,
Arroic. , ;El AND cOUNSELLOR-AT-LAW, Mont
wen of Or Court REHM.
Iluutru.t. Juuunry trf,lEls.-4yl
A 0. WARREN,
1 . ? 1 !NE . 1 - LAW. Bounty, Back ray, ?eltion
Claims attended to. Odice 15, ,
Boyd'. Stare. Montrose...Ye. [...501.1..G9
W. A. CROSSMON,
Lese Office et the Court House, tr the
, ventelseionef ()Slice. W. A. Caoseuex.
2tontroe.e. sect . 1821.—st
J. 6 WIIEATON,
Lis 11. EtanliECU AND LAND 5171312703,
P. 0, Addrefe. Frauklio Forks,
Susquehanna Co., Pa.
IV. w. HALITH,
AgIN ANL) HANtiFACTURERB.—Vuot
.pi Matt, trtwl. Mtrittrarte. Pu. 3aug. 1.1869.
U. O. SUTTON,
A UCTIUNEELI, nod LnoutuscE ACMOIN
' °l '''t' Friendsville. Pa.
_
Jost. 6E4RLE,
" . TokNET AT 'VA*. office over the Store
cite !hick Block. Montrose Pa. Lout"
J B. ce A. H. ifcCOLLUM,
a rroaxere AT Law Oftlce uver the Bank. liontwee
Alontrose, May 111, 1871. • tf
A.lll ELY,
L ivripne.
-tak51.1474, Addresa,Brooklyn, Ya
County BusinessrDirectorsr.
Two lines In thlsEltrectory. ono year. $1.60 ; each ad
dittonsl line, 60 cents.
MONTROSE
WM. HAUGHWOUT, Slater, Wholesale and 'total
dealer in all kinds of elate roofing, elate paint, etc.
Roofs repaired with !late paint to order. Also. slate
paint for sale by the gallon or barrel. Montrose. Pa.
BILLINGS STROUD. Genera Fire and Life Om -
Inca Agents ; also, sell Itallroito and AccidentTiekt I
to Kew Yorkand Philadelphia. Office one door eaet
oftbe Bank.
BURNS R NICHOLS, the place to get Drags and Meal
eines. Cigars, Tobacco, Pipes, Pocket-Books, Specta
des Yankee Notions. Ac. Brick Block.
BOYD S. CORWIN, Dealers In Stoves, Hardwan.
and Manufacturers of Tin and Sheettron ware.corne
of Main and Pa ropfke street.
A. N. BULLARD Dealer to Groceries, Provision!
Books, Statione" and Yankee Notions, at head of
Public Avenue.•
WM. 11. COOPER ds CO.. Hankers, sell Foreign Pas
sage Tickets and Drafts on .England, Ireland and Scot,
land. •
WM. L. COT, Maness maker and dealer in all article
usually kept by the trade, opposite the Bank. •
JAMES E. CARMALT. Attorney at Law. Office one
door below Tarbell Donee. Public Avenue. •
NEW MILFORD.
SAVINGS BANE, NEW MILFORD,—Fix per cent. In
Wrest on all Deposits. Does a general Banking Bur
nem. mil-tf H. B. CHASE ib CO.
H.OARRRT ,b SON. Dealers In Flour. Feed. Nee
Salt. Line. Cement, Groceries and Proe'sic nr
Main Street. opposite the Depot.
N. F. RIBBER, Carnage Maker and Undertaker on
Main Street, two doors below ilawley's Store.
GREAT BEND.
H. Y. DORAN, Merchant Tailor and dealer in Read)
Made Clothing, Dry Goods,Groceries and Provision,
Main Street.•
lecisiaa•
)wdered Parts white (costs three'
into a bucket, and add hot wat:.l
**it the mixture is of the consistency of
`',4144 . 4,.'f Then mix the glue with,it stir it welh
zjigialt on with an ordinary whitewash brush.!
4#-Pt the most importance that the calcimin- ,
"*suture be spread smoothly, and it too
little hot water should be added. The
Attpities given above are sufficient for twO,
im sixteen feet square. To .
`wo coats should always be
120 Wyoming Avenue,
RECEIVES MONEY ON DEPOSIT
FROM COMPANIES AND INDIVID
UALS, AND RETURNS THE SAME
ON DEMAND WITHOUT PREVI
OUS NOTICE. ALLOWING INTER
EST AT SIX PER CENT. DER AN
NUM, PAYABLE HALF YEARLY,
ON THE FIRST DAYS OF JANU
ARY AND JULY. ASAFRAND RE
LIABLE PLACE OF DEPOSIT FOR
LABORING MEN, MINERS, ME
CHANICS, AND MACHINISTS, AND
FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN AS
WELL. MONEY DEPOSITED ON
OR BEFORE THE TENTH WILL
DRAW INTEREST FROM TRE
FIRST DAY OF THE MONTH., THIS
IS IN ALL RESPECTS. A HOME IN
STITUTION, AND ONE -WHICH IS
NOW RECEIVING ..THE SAVED
EARNINGS OF THOUSANDS UPON
THOUSANDS OF SCRANTON MIN
ERS AND MECHANICS:
Jzso Dzwirt
DIRECTORS ; JAMES BLAIR,
SANFORD GRANT, GEORGE FISH •
ER, JAS. S. SLOCUM, J. H. SUTPHIN,
'C. P. MATTHEW'S, DANIEL HOW
ELL, A. E. HUNT, T. F. HUNT
JAMES BLAIR. PRESIDENT ; 0. C.
MOORE, CASHIER.
OPEN DAILY FROM NINE A. M.
UNTIL FOUR P. N., AND ON WED.
NESDAY AND SATURDAY EVE
NINGS UNTIL EIGHT O'CLOCK.
Feb. 12. 1874. •
.41. W. C.70011C4111111r.
Carpenter and Builder,
21TONTII.OSEC, PA.
ONTRACTS to erect straeltires of all kinds, in any
C
section and complete them In every detail. Marble
and elate Mantles, Bash. Braids. Doors. tad Window
Frames. farnighed to order. Stair Building and build.
try paper made specialties. Employ none but viper
kneed workmen. Obey ramt Methodist Clutieb ,
-Montrose: January 20, 1872.-Byl
Binghamton INarbk, V7orkt3 !
•
AU kinds of Monument's, Bradstonso, and 'Marble
Mantles, =id° to order. Also, Scotch Granites .ou
Land. •. 1. PICKERING d: C 0..,
J. ncsannto. . KB Court Street.
Y. 7. Xnutsanziv.
-a. P. =sow.. i Binghamton. Y
Oct. ad. 1614,
NVOitK -
AT TIM 017=3,CIICAP t
.:ourt of this State has deem,
)peal from the Common Pleas
which is important as it de=
tutes the delivery of a writ to
of fieri facies against Peter•
the hands of the sheriff:. On:
execution was staid, and a
This writ was put in a pig
rothonotary'aoffice,into which
„Japers for the sheriff were usu
same day a writ which repre
tdgement was delivered to the
held that the putting of the
-hole was a legal delivery,and
lecided by Judge Dreher. Mr.
posing counsel, carried the case
Court where the decree of the
revershl. Or In other words
writ in the "Pigeon-Hole" is
very to the sheriff,-
ir whitewashing and cleaning ,
following recipe for prevent: :
from adhering to everything:
bo brushed against it, will be
st : Soa four ounces of gine'
trm water r twenty-four hours,
if water, 1/.1 ace the vessel (tin).
'arm water over the fire, and ag-:
intil it is thoroughly dissolved)
quite clear. Now put five or
children.
ildren have their health in
at school too closely.— j
Ind girls go from the coon-
I
tool ; they are coruPelled
morning and often do not
til night, passing the whole
lug to eat except cold lunch,
, of sweet cake and pie, that
motion. Is it any wonder
em lose their health and lay
fme diqPose that will carry
lley arrive at maturity ?
tat are growing need more
than grown people. Be.
ear of their bodies they Wiwi
lode to make continually.—=
tpon them besides, a greyi
flared with poor , fuod and ir,
parts of thetr organization{
often do we see the mental
at a sacrifice to the physical? .
a parent
SONS BAR',
MONTROSE, SUSQ'A COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1785.
~Welect Nottrg.
TREE TEAR
When Friendship or Love our sympathies
move,
When Truth in a glance should appear,
The lips may beguile with a dimple or smile,
But the test of erection's a Tear.
Too oft is a smile but the hypocrite's wile,
To mask detestation or fear ;
Give me the soft sigh, whilst the soul telling
eye
Is dimm'd for a time with a Tear.
Mild Charity's glow, to us mortal's below,
Shows the soul from barbarity clear ;
Compassion will melt where this virtue Is
felt,
And its dew is diffused in a Tear.
The man uoom'd to sail with the blast of the
gale,
Through billows Atlantic to steer,
As he bends o'er the wave which may soon
be his grave,
The green sparkles bright with a Tear.
The soldier braves death for is fanciful wreath
In Glory's romantic career ;
But he raises the foe when in battle laid low,
And bathes every wound with a Tear.
If with high-bounding pride he returns to
his bride,
Renouncing the gore crimson'd spear,
All his toils are repaid, when, embracing the
maid.
From her eyelid be kisses the Tear.
Sweet scone of my youth I seat or Friend-
ship and Truth !
Where love chased each fast-fleeting year,
Loth to leave thee, I mourned, for a last look
I turned,
But thy spire was scarce seen through a
Tear.
Though my vows I can pour to my Mary no
more,
My Mary to love once so dear ;
In the shade of her bower I remember the
hour
She rewarded those vows with a Tear.
By another possest, may she live ever blest !
Her name still my heart must revere ;
'',;With a sigh I resign what I once thought
1
was mine,
And forgive her deceit with a Tear.
',. e friends of my heart, ere from you I de
part,
' This hope to my breast is most near ;
If again we shall meet in this rural retreat,
May we meet, as we part, with a Tear.
When my soul wines her flight to the regions
of night,
And my come shall recline on its bier,
As ye pass by the tomb where my ashes con
sume,
Oh I moisten their dust with la Tear.
May no marble bestow the splendor of woe,
Which the children of vanity rear ;
I No fiction of fame shall blazon my name ;
All I ask—all I wish—is a Tear.
Aelectrd ffitorg.
AN OLD GIRL'S ROMANCE.
"I would not marry him," said Victorie
sauzdy, laughing and displaying her
wbite teeth.
"And I would not marry her," replied
Fred. "My wife shall be a brunette, not
one of these washy white girls, I can tell
von."
"Oh, indeed !"
The subject )f discussion was this :
Captain Abraham Crocker was to mar
ry Deborah Send on that very day. While
these sharp young critics expressed their
opinion, the following conversation oc—
cored in a comfortable white house on
the main street :
"I guess you've missed it for once,"
said Uncle Asa.
"Yes, and folks can't say that the cap
tain's lost by the bargain, either," added
mother, querulous. "Deborah's a sight
younger than you be, AbSy. You're thir
ty next July, if you are a day."
'Abby Fowler, schiol mistress, stood
before the glass in the sitting room tying
her yellow bonnet strings, but she poss
essed_sufficient dignity to make no reply.
The face reflected in the glass flushed
pinfully,yetshe said nothing. Mrs. Fowl
er, inserting work stiffened fingers into
a pair of new gloves, looked askance at
her daughter to see how she took it. She
married respectably in her youth; why
should not Abby, when a good oppertu
nity bad offered, too? Whims, fancies!
Do not talk to a New England matron
About girlish fancies. if you please.
Grandmother came in from the kitchen
—a little old woman, with a nut-brown
false front and a black cap of 'unknown
antiquity, disposed to take a gloomy view
of life since her bit of money, put in thr
bank, bad been stolen :by robbers, and
apt to consider her old age a burden ie
others unless she worked her way.
"Abby's got on her best fixkin's if she
ain't the bride?' said grandmother in her
thin, piping voice.
Poor Abby ! Even grandmother proved
a broken reed on the day of the captain's
wedding.
"You be the first old maid in our fain.
ily," putting down her spectacles from
the false front to the bridge of her sharp
old nose. "If I only had my money back
I could leave it to ye, I dare say you'll
need it yet Dear me, them thieves!"
Passing along the village street, the
school mistress ran the gauntlet of pub
lic comment.
"Abby looks mighty solemn over the
weddin: Guess she's sorry," commented
Itockybeach, with one voice.
Yes Captain Crocker was going to be
married, and the event naturally created
a sensation. Ile was burly in, form,forty
five years of age, and not 'altogether a
God fearing man ; for in his maturity he
carried out a boast of early youth not to
go to meeting three times on Sunday, and
to sail ship boats in the cove initead if
he chuise. The village confesred all this
with many shakes of the head ;' bnt then
the crptain was rich, and- returning from
his last voyage, he built a large house on
the hill, with cupola and green-house.—
Goisip raptatiouslv on the velvet
carpets, curtains and elfina therein con—
tained, wondering who would be mistress
of-the new. mansion. Lo! the captain
cast a favorable eye ou Abby Fowler, and
in his choice evinced excellent judgment,
"Stand by the Right though the Heavens WI r
as Rockybeaoh boasted not of her super
ior.
"I would rather work my fingers to
the bone, or be 3 golly slave," she said in
dignantly. "A woman cao go out to ser
vice, if everything fails, I suppose."
Then the rich man in his wrath wooed
and won pretty Deborah, the milliner's
daughter. Belie of the dry goods clerks
%as Deborah, fond of finery, and impa—
tient of the snubs of older girls,who new
er lost an opportunity of putting her
down. Might she not hold het? head us
high us Mrs. Crocker, instead of measur
ing off' ribbons for other people to wear
behind her mothers counter ?
Mrs. Serid's parlor over the shop was
opened for the grand OCCUSIOD, and th,th
er flocked the guests. The room Smelled
of varnish, being used only for funerals
and weddings. A portrait of tau late
Mr. Scrid seemed to stare down ,n round
eyed surprise at the unusual proceedings
mom the wall, and a little stove erected
tot the day blazed spitefully, blushing
red on one side, and emitting a strong
odor of blacking from the other. Flower
pots from the captain's conservatory were
disposed about a gilt looking glass. Mrs.
Scrid and the neighbors who assisted her,
skurried about with flushed faces, and
whispered nervously together in corners.
The minister came with his book ;
then the bride, conscious of her blue silk
gown ; then the bridegroom in a white
waistcoat. Talk about the worldliness of
city life ! Condemn the European mar—
riage de con venance ! Verily, a trifle of
the leaven must have crept into our coun
try homes when yonng Deborah stood
there in her blue gown, willing to wed
bottle nosed Captain Crocker for the
house on the hill. The minister made
them man and wife, and Deacon Bangs
overturned one of the flower pots by the
way of conclusion to the ceremony. Per
haps the rose of Deborah's girlhood were
crushed forever. She enjoyed her hour
of triumph. Rockybeach wai very re—
spectfull to Mrs. Alirahain Crocker.—
Uncle Asa cracked Ida jukes with the
happy couple. Cake was served, and
lumpy ice cream, congealed by Mrs. Send
in a reluctant freezer. Ruelrybeach did
not taste ice cream every day. Return.
tug bonne, the walk of the would-be spin
ster, Abby was enlivened by dolelull
sighs on the part of her mother and oc
casional sniffs from Uncle Asa, more elo
quent than words.
Grandmother piped over the dough she
was kneading. "So Deborah's gone, eh ?
and we've got our Abby again ?"
"You don't seem very grateful for the
blessing," said Abby grimly. And in
deed it is small wonder if the poor soul
was grim by that t;nie.
She sought her own chamber, and took
a bandbox from the cupboard. A faded
deguerrotype and packet of letters were
enshrined in this homely'receptacle. Ab
me ! little consolation even here. These
relics belonged to Albert Marshall, lover
of her youth, who had jilted her. At
least she could be faithful to the memory
of her dear lover.
It is unpleasant to be no longer young,
and still more unpleasant to be sharply
reminded of the Net. While the cap
tain and his bride were jaunting away in
the stage coach on their wedding journey
Abby Fowler was fighting her own bat
tle in her little room. She sat with her
elbows on the sill of the window through
which hi -r longing eves had searched
hungrily for a wider horizon many years.
She was trying to face the future bravely;
but strive as she would to paint it in yiv
id colors, she could find only pale neutral
tints on the palette of httr imagination.
It looked blank enough certainly. The
first bloom of youth, which glorifie , the
plainest face, had vanished forever. The
captain in all his rephlsive ugliness, was
tier lust cnance of haying a home and
family of her own. She was to join the
army of old girls. Tears came to her
eyes as she-pictured herself the unwilling
recruit to swell the ranks.
"God help us all r' she ejaculated.—
"Why could there not be a war for women,
to restore the balance ? I suppose there is
the heart of a robbed mate bleeding soma
where for every soldier sleeping on our
battle fields." If therte-was work for her
to do in the world, she was willing to do
it; the puzzle was to dud in which di
rection it lay. Her spirits rebelled again,
believing that the path of duty led only
to the brick school house. She longed
for a wider sphere ; there was all the 'dor
mant energy in her nature which had
carried her brothers to sea to perish in its
storms.
"They died like brave men," said Abby,
proudly.
Jane Wbite could teach the academy.
But she—what could she not do if she
tried, with enthusiasm enough to learn
Here she made a mistake. No school
marm taught the young idea,of R cky
beach as well as herself, especiall) in the
matter of geography. This was the key
of her ambition. She wished to see the
world, and so described countries geogra
phically to the children, in a way that
could not fail to interest them. To be
principal of the academy had once been
her highest aim.
At the age of tour, her small feet had
carried her up the hilt to the fountain
held sacred in all New England homes—
the school house—to receive her initia
tion into the mysteries of the alphabet.
In those- days a master ruled' over the
boys and girls—a master of the dry, re
ticent, learned type, wearing a wig and
addicted to snuff.
Litter a girl of twelve, tall, thin and
freckled with a limp sunbonnet under
her arm, stood before the table to hear
the master dissect her drat Greek trans
lation. This girl was Abby Fowler.—
How-he pierced it with little earcastna
and quotations I How ho 'revealed the
faulty construction of sentences ! With
a smile curving his thin lips, the master,
having demonstrated that a large crop of
errors could not have flourished 'on the
straggling-page, gave it back. The girl
received the paper in sciledce, but there
was a warning glitter in her eye. If
there was true metal in her, it would en
dure discouragement. the master reflected.
There was metal, although he did not
dream of the form into- which fusion,
from the fire of his severe rebuff, would
shape it. Her pride was stung by this
public exhibition
,of ignorance.
"I will learn enough to fill your place
vet—eve if I don't !" Thns spoke the
- flashing eyes as they ace ttered , rays of in
dignation on the back of the master's
wig. Night and day the-young brain
toiled, stimulated by this aim. The pag
es swam before her eyes, her dreams be
came nightmares of uticonquorable verbs
and sphinx like problems. She worried
hersell into a fever and out of it again,
thanks to a strong constitution. The
town came to speak of her as a "likely
gal." Albert Marshall, young and en
thusiastic, said, "Good for you !" Hope
tat Marshall laughed indolently, while
twining violets in her dark tresses, using
the book .f.r a mirror. "What's the use
of a woman's knowing so much ?"
The solid structure of Abby's educa—
tion, founded on a broad matl.ematical
basis, had also domes and pinnacles of
Greek; Lat;n and 'Hebrew, although she
had no fa niliarity with modern languages
or music, beyond the boundaries of com
mon psalm tunes. The old master was
superannuated, and Abby duly installed,
for Rockybeach held a unanimous opin
ion that a girl who could read the Scrip
tures in Behr' w, instead of plain Eng
lish, was capable of Nigning cver the
academy. ;tut her spirit was progressive.
She was infected with the indefinable
restlessness which stirred all the nerve cur
rent of. a nature still young, with a vnst
inherritance of territory to cultivate, and
a destiny to fulfill. Had she been a man,
she would have gone to sea, or founded a
home in the Rocky Mountains, whither
she would have taken her household
gods, her L ingtellow and Whittier, her
patent mowing machine, her faith of
brown br••ad and codfish.
A tap at her door disturbed her medi
tations. and a thin, pale woman entered.
"I am glad to see you, Desire," said
Atop,.
"Thought I'd just look in," returned
Desire.
Then there was a silence, Abby com
prehending that the other's reticence was
a de:icate expression of sympathy. A
quiet pen tle women, who did the village
dressmaking, gliding from house to house
—by sheer force of contrast, Abby's meek
"Aiipeful hai gone to live in Washing-
ton.'
"Well. she slighted us long ago."
"She is keeping house fur her cousin
Albert's wife died last year, and he is a
seriator now. you know. 4
Abby made no reply. Albert's wife
dead ! Albert a Senator ! Cruel, deceitful
base, he lied been, yet she liked to hear
of his prosperity. Her head grew con—
fused and her face flushed.
"I believe that Hopeful loved Albert
herself, and made mischief," pursued De
sire, musingly. "She married, to be
sure, and is a widow."
",'Then the mischief makers prosper,"
retorted Abby.
Albert Marshall was the love of her
youth. Over the sterner duties of the
academy had floated a rosy cloud ; flow
ers tontid.:' their way slyly between the
pages of solemn dictionaries ; brown eyes
and blue sought each other with a grow
ing, sweet intelligence. Handsome Coos
in Hopeful pouted,but Albert was Abby's
sweetheart. Never was the day to be for
gotten when the young man went to seek
his fortune in the West. She stood again
at the gate beneath the perfumed shade
of the lilac bushes, with the hot, dusty
road beyond, and Albert, looking back
wistfully. Then followed a visit, after
the lapse of a y-ar, from a sedate young
man, conscious of a beard, to a demure
maiden,mintlful that her gown was "done
up for the occasion. The visit left her
engaged, for COUSifi Hopeful no longer
watcher, haying gone to live in the West
where she lammed.
Abby's heart was blithe. She Emig as
she worked, for the future glowed with
sunset hues. Then came a stiff, ambig
noes letter,ans ered promptly with pride,
then a long, sickening silence. What
did it mean ? It meant that cousin Hope
ful, it not loved herself would poison
the mind of a lover far away. If Albert
would not marry her, he . should not wed
Abby. Thus she played with subtle touch
on many cords, and there was- growing
distrust and anger. A young woman
may not journey to the far West to ask
her lover what is seperating them, so Ab
by waited. Her healthy nature could
not hear the ordeal. She felt ill, and the
busy life became a blank. When con—
valescent, a letter was placed in her fee
ble hand—a rarsh, unjust letter, taxing
her with infidelity to her absent lover,
and stating that if she did not immedi
ately reply, clearing herself, all was over
between them. The letter was already
old, her mother naving laid it away in
the old family Bible. Abby resumed her
tasks, well aware that the crystal goblet
of happiness had slipped from her grasp,
and lay shivered to atoms on the ground.
Clear herself from false chargeS, forsooth !
If Albert Marshall did not know her
nature better. let him take his course.—
She never wrote again, and the next
thin derbolt was his marriage—a measnre
SO bast% as to suggest revenge. "flis was
all,,and the years rolled on.
"Come t ight thine with me ,dear. Do!
'Squire Scudder's sent me a mince pie,"
urged Desire.
Grandmother looked after them with
scorn. "There go them two .creetures.
comfortin' em-h other. I don't snppose
Desire ever flew in the face of Providence
as our Abby has, though."
Abby returned from her visit much
strengthened irrspirit, and retired to read
a book from the 4ockybeach Circulating
Library by the light of a private candle.
.I - know of no stonger centrast in life than
our plain heroine, seated in a rocking
chair, and the Old World people she read
about in that book. She mingled with
duchesses in velvet robes and ministers of
state; she climbed Alpine heights and
dreamed among ruins. She was aroused
by a feeble but dignified cough. Grand
mother sat on the top stair, in night cap
and shawl, waiting solemnly for thedight
to be extinguished. It was "nuts" to
the old lady to catch Abl . )y thus As
trying one's eyesight by reading- in that
hour in grandmother's Youth, it would
have ranked with witchcraft and the
Black Art. .
• 4 1 wish that I had never founded the
library„' - thought Abby, returning to re
ality with a sigh, and whiffing out the
candle. •
.' The library was kept in a closet by the
doctor's wife, who wrote for the country
paper, The giids of - Reekyheach paid
two pence a volume, and launched.reck
lessly Into the world of -rOtaance.
Down- in the little house the dress =
Maker, the most:timid .and shrinking of
Ivomanitvas guilty of a bold deed. She
wrote to. Senator Albeit Marshall 2. Her
courage oozed, pod she - _felt the _nissive
anonyomous from she er terror. It read
thus:
"If. Mr. Marshall will visit his native
place again, after so many years absence,
he will never regret it."
The little 'red, bore fruit in this wise :
A stranger came by the morning boat to
Rockybeach, a tall, dignified man, who
gazed about him as one in a trance. How
.uld he felt amtkug the scenes of child—
hood. He might have been a Rip Van
Winkle, returning after many year's
sleep, instead of a prosperous man in his
prime, who had worked his way up with
a new stare.
"Can you tell me where Captuiu Crock
er lives ?" he inquired of a small boy,und
was dircted to the house on the hill.
"Just too !ate! Ah, well;'she may be
altered, too. I only wonder she has out
married before. And now it is a rich
match, Abby has learned worldly wisdom
at lust. He smiled rather dryly at this
idea.
"Can I see Mrs. Crocker ?" he asked of
a smart servan t.
"Well I never ! Of course yon can't,"
said the smart servant, closing the door
instantly.
A gardner, wheeling his barrow along
the path. added, "The baby ain't a week
old, yon see, Sir."
The discomforted stranger flashed an—
grily. Was the letter a hoax ? Was he
brought here to play the fool ? Well, he
might discover I riends in the graveyard.
The school mistress rang her bell sharp.
ly, and in response to the summons the
tramp of small boots echoed through the
building. Shrill voices subsided to mur—
murs, which made the academy seem
like a hive of busy insects.
A pretty squirrel leaped on the floor
looking drolly around. Fun gleamed in
chubby faces ; one boy hid his face be—
hind his elate. Never had this lad evinc-
ell such industry before. The little ani
mal whisked its tail, ran nimbly up the
school mistress' chair (who screamed.)
then capered off. and nestled in the jack
et of the industrious boy. Laughter
bubbled forth ; to see their schoolmarm
screm" was altogether too much for the
gravity of the little people.
"Jean. come here."
The boy advanced slowly, with the
squirrel's nay head peeping out of his
pocket. There he stood unlike all his
companions, even to the instinct of tam—
ing wild animals. A short, squarely built
lad, with narrow head, black hair, and
bronze skin. One day the selectman had
brought two writhing victims to school—
Jean and his sister Victorie. The chil•
dren were shy, the blood of Indian and
French voyageur coursed in their veins.
The lather perished in a snow drift.—
Rockybeach brought the widow into town,
the selectman pounced on the children.—
School was a straight jacket. The girl
snbutitted ; the boy remained savage. In
vain . fie hid-in the woods, in barns and
cellars ; the pursuer hunted him out.—
Jean could no more escape from the se—
lectman's duty to have each child learned
to read and write. Rockybeach was poor
and worked hard for a living, but set the
schoolhouse on the hilltop, like a light—
house lower, and proclaimed to the world
universal education.
The course of justice was interrupted
by Victorie, who tripped on, breathless
with excitement.
"A gentleman is coining here," she
cried.
He already stood in the door,and shad
ea his eyes with an expressumi of doubt
and surprise. There was s sound of surge
rug waters in Abby's ears, the window
wavered, the great stove reeled.
"You here, Abby? I thought you had
married Captain Crocker.' He stepped
forward eagerly, glad recognition in his
smile.
But she never answered. The school—
marm had faihted. After that there was
a holiday. The academy re',oiced. All
the children saw,it was the meeting of two
sober persons, long seperated with that
beauty of true integrity which outlives—
a tall, grave man and comely. robust
woman—time. Not knowing what to
make of it, -young Rockybeach trooped
off with jubilant shouts to tell the news.
"1 believed you faithful long ago, and
now that you had married Captain Crock
er."
"Who told you so ?"
"Cousin Hopeful heard the news."
"And with Cousin Hopeful's aid yon
have thoUght ill of me all these years,"
said Milli,.
"I would rather have you think well of
me than any other woman living," he re•
plied.
This was the way they made np•
Victorie came down the hill behind
them, swinging her tin luncheon pail.—
She met Fred, flushed and elated with a
journey to Lon gport.
"Oh, Fred ! they are lovers," whispered
sixteen to eighteen, in an awkward 'man
ner.
"Guess not. They are a gi-•at deal too
old." said Fred.
Then he took from his pocket a ring
purchased at Longport—such a splendid
ring, with diamonds and rubies of an as
tounding size,
which he slipped on Vic
torie's brown finger. The little maiden
agreed to wear it, growing unaccount
ably shy and silent the while.
Rockybeach received an electric shock.
The tidings flew from house to house.—
Abby Fowler was to marry Albert Mar-
shall, who was a senator I The wooing
was short.
"We have lost much time already,"
said the suitor, during onn of those long
conversations,which were so precious and
tender, when the old horse hair sofa be—
came a throne. Gossip declared -that
there never was such a man for a hurry ;
he really gave the lady no time to decide
between flounces and puffed trimming.
Who so proud as Uncle Asa to pres•
ent the Senator to his fellow-towns pvo•
pie in the academy ? - The visitor could
make a speech, and believe me; and on
this occasion he talked in a' pleasant, easy
vein, with a manly ring to his words,
They were married in the meeting.
house, and seldom did a Sabbath bring
together each an array of wagons cover
ed with buffalo akin, rickety buggies, and
ancient carryalls as then crowded the
sheds. The pile dressmaker, Waite,
stood at the' duor, looking' wistfally to.
ward sunset, out over the sea. Perhapa
she read in the clouds of Old and crim•
eon the reward—not of this worlds
,for a
good" notion. The husband and wife
turned their faces to the Future—the
wide realm of the West. ',
TERMS :—Two Dollars Per , Year in: A.dvance.
y Motu fading.
WINTER FRIENDS
Some little sparrows on a tree
Were chatterins, together :
Said one of them4,"lt seems to me
We'll soon liev filling weather
1 wouldn't feel t , !to least surprise
If I should hear it thunder."
"Well, you're extremely weather-wise,"
An old one said, wonder
Where you were hatched,and when,my, dear,
To talk of that, this time of year.
"It's much more likely, let me say,
Although It's to my sorrow,
That you will see It snow to-day—
At all events to-morrow."
He hopped off to another twig,
When be had thus admonished
Ells neighbors not so wise and big,
And left them quite astonished.
"What does he meant and what is ariow t"
They ask each other : "Do you know r
And not-a single one could tell ;
So after lots of chatter,
They all concluded, very well,
'Twas no such mighty matter.
But in the night time came the snow,
According to his warning ;
And .311 ! what flying to and fro
And twittering, next 'morning !
"How cold it Is," they chirped —"0 dear,
How disagreeable and queer."
The old one swelled with sell conceit ;
"1 told you so," he muttered, ,
"Now see what yon will find to eat"—
And off again he fluttered.
The little sparrows, in despair,
They looked at one mother—
"Oh ! where is all the seed, and where
The bugs and worms, my brother ?
To die of hunger, that's a fate
One shudders 4) ut to contemplate."
Now, in the house behind the tree,
There was a little maiden,
Who laughekout merrily to Ago
The bmniiii:6s all snow-laden.
She broke beebread up, crumb by crumb,
Along the sill so narrow,
And called, "Dear little birdies, come I
Here's some for eery . sparrow,
I'll feed you, darlings, every day,
Because you never By away.
"The blue bird and the bobolink,
They're birds of gayer leather,
But rot so nice as you, I think,'
That stay in minter weather.
io hop along the window sill,
Them's food enough for twenty;
Come every day and eat your fill,
You'll always And a•plenty."
But after that, come frost or snow,
Be sure the bhds knew where to go
A GIRL OF STARS
The next clear evening, when the moon ie on
the other side of the sky, and oar side is toll of
stars, ask your papa or mamma, or your teach
er, to go out of doors with you and show you
some of the beautiful star-pictures that the wise
people call constellations. Very likely you
have often noticed the Great Bear, which looks
so much more like a dipper than a bear, that
ordinary folks call it the Great Dipper,and have
learned to trace the line of the pointers up to
the small glittering North Stir in the end of
the Little Bear's tail,or the Little Dipper's han
dle, whichever you please to call it. If you
have never found this star, be sure to ask your
teacher to show it to you,for you need to know
where - the North Pole is on a globe.
The sky is to us like a vast globe, only we
seem to be in the center of it, and to look up
into it. Around the North Star as a centcr.
each of the twinkling fixed stars eeem to move
in a circle ; but you will not see this unless
you watch them a long while, for it is not real
ly their motion, but that of our own little earth
that causes this appearance.
The fixed stars always keep the same relative
places with regard to each other. If one of
them is eight degrees east of another on one
night, you will always find it in the same di
rection and distance from its neighbor. In
whatever part of the sky you See them.
The heathen people who lived many hun
dreds of years ago, and who worshiped the
gods and goddess of Greece and Rome, used to
see very strange things in the starry sky. To,
them, gods and goddesses, heroes and heroines,
and animals, great and small, shone where we
see myriads of mighty worlds.
It is of one of the star heroines that I wish
to tell. you. Ask your teacher to point out to
you the constellation called Andromeda. You
would never dream, to took at it, that It was
meant for a girl, bound by cruel chains Ao
rock oil the sea-coast ; but if you will look on
an astronomical atlas,you will see. very plain
ly.-
Thera is an almost straight line of Dior bril
liant stars, beginning with every beautiful one
called Almaach, abont fifty degrees from the
North Star. (Be sure to find out about degrees.)
Almaach is in Andromeda's foot. The next
one,-Mirach; with two others north-west of, it,
makes her girdle. The third bright one of the
line marks her breast, and makes a little Irian•
gle, with two dimmer ones semi". of It, and a .
straight lino with ono of these and (Mother,
north of it. The last star 9f the four lett little
farther north than it would belt tbe line,wern
perfectly striflght ; it . is, called Alpiierstz, and hi
at the same time the chief star of AndroMeda's
head, and the corner of a beantill great square
which is clearly seen. • ": •-^
:The stars which 7 have mentioned are easily.
traced ; and,lf you look : very sharply. you may
see the triangle in her rightertn,the star of her,
right hand; the one In her left arm, and 'Many
others,—for there are sixty..etX item' which .
bright and patient eyes may see in this comae-,
'idiom. • . *-, -
• Now, 1 . strpposo you would like to.knOwwhy
poor Andromeda was left chained to arch.. -
Well, here is the story. •
She had a very vain mother; Cassiopeia;
(whose star picture, according to astronomy, Is
also in the 'sky, north of her daughter) She
was beautiNlomd foolish enough to boast of it.
That was what made ,the trouble. She began
to say that she was more beautiful than Juno
and the sea nymphs. The nymphs had no idea
of letting her talk In thatway, and they went'
straight to` Neptuni, the god of the'see,. and
told him all , about. tbe matter:. The yeti-god
.was very angry, and. determined to avenge the
insulted nymphs.
,
,Terrible was the punishment that overtook
Cassiopeia. A great flood began to pour its
tOrreuts over the fields and homes of Ethiopia,
the Itingdoniover - Whicb her teeband Cepheus
was king. - • What was the .poor-vain queen to
do_? Her pretty, fhce was distorted with - bar
for and drenched with teurs... l oe. *teat 03. the
oracle of Jupiter dmurs Pit palc o*Paselt,,
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NUMBER 16.
When the ignorant heathen people of those
old s times and lands were in trouble, they used
often to send to consult certain oraelt. There
were omelet at various places, wuere they
thought the; gods talked , with men, nod told
them of things that would came to pass. Very
unsatisfactory and obscure the answers 'Men
were, but then human creatures must pray.—
Those people heard the. voice that the dear
Heavenly Father has put into all His children's
hearts, telling them to come, to him for what
they want ; but they did not understand to
whom they were to go, sad how very near ho
is,—so, as I told you, they sent to the oracles.
It was a fearful answer that was brought
back to the waiting queen.. Neptune was not
to be satisfied unles tho Princess Andromeda
should be given up to a horrid Sei:moriater dint
bad comp with the flood..lt Seetried' very hard
that an Innocent girl must stiffer so c• net' a
death ; but as the choice - with between the lose
of ber one life and that of the Bees of many
people, she was taken to a rock by th sea, and
left chainad there, to be killed by the monster.
Just as he was about to seize her, a- gallant
youtb, named Perseus, came along through the
air, and, seeing the beautiful maiden,fell in l6ve
with her. He bad just succeeded in a very thin -
gerons experiment, which was no less than that
of killing a dreadful gorgon, who had snakes
in her hair, ancLivto had a very disagreeable
habit of turning every one that she looked at
Into stone. Perseus didn't dare to look at her
when be killed her ; be looked at her reflection
in the bright shield that he carried.
You may imagine that he felt very brave aft
er this feat. He had the gorgon's head still In
his hand when he came to the place where the
Andromeda was. lie had on winged shoes,and
this was the reason that be could go through
the air as well as on the ground.
As I said, he fell in love with the beautiful
Andromeda ; but be was a business like young
man, and he was determined to have the bar
gain clearly made before he released the lady.
He said he would Bero her if her father
would promise to give her to him for a wife.—
Of course the king said yes, for he felt badly
enough to have the princess in so piteous a
plight. Bo Perseus gave thesea-monstera good
look at the gorgon's head, which, not having
lost Its petrifying power, turned him stone
dead.
Andromeda was already engaged to her un
do Phineus, who was in a great passion when
he found that ho was to lose her. He • had a
fight with Perseus ; but what was the use of
fighting with a man who had a gore :ores head
at his service ? Phloem was turned into a
atone, too, at the sight of it.
Perseus and Andromeda were married, and
lived happy ever atter ; and when they died,
they were turned into stars and put into the
sky.
Some people don,t believe this story, blt
there are the stars.—Eliza C Durgin,in St.
Nicholas for March.
SLEEPLESSNESS
To take a hearty meal just before retiring Is,
of course, injurious, because it is very likely to
disturb one's rest, and produce nightmare.--,
However, a little food at this tone, if one is
hungry, is decidedly beneficial. it prevents the
gnawing of an empty stomach, with its attend.
ant restlessness and unpleasant dreams, to say .
nothing of probable headache, or of ,nervous
and other derangements the next inqning.—
One should no more lie down at night hungry •
than be should lie down after a full dinner ; the
consequence of either being disturbing and
harmfuL A cracker or two, a bit (4 bread and
butter, a cake, a little fruit—something to re
lieve the sense of vacuity, and so restore the
tone of the system—is all that is necessary:
WD have known persons, habitual sufferers
from restlessness at night, to experience mate
rialteneftt, even though they were nut hungry
by a very light luncheon before bed time. In
place of tossing about tor two or three hours as •
usual they would soon grow drowsy, tall asleep
and not wake more than once or twice until
surmise. This mode of treating inso:nnia has
recently been recommended by several
gaished physicians and the prescription has
generally been attended with happy mulls.--
&Tamer for Mara.
TYPHOID DISEASE
In the way of comment upon Professor Tyn
dall's hypothesis in regard to the contagion of
typhoid diseases, Dr. Alfred Carpenter shows
that typhoid disease Is contagious only in-te this-
Ited - degree.
The bedside attendant of the typhoid patient
by scrupulous care is seldom atmcked. The
rules to be Yellowed are "not to eat or drink in
the patient's room, not to eat with Unwashed
hands alter attending to the sick, and to drink - ,
only water that cannot have Been contamina
ted by the remit of excretal decoMpositions by
which the germs bearing the granules of mis
chief may have been brought into contact with
It by - thersewer gases." Where such-precau
tions am observed, Dr. Carpenter states, the
.contagious power of the typhoid poison is ren
dered comparatively harmless. He repudiates,
hirwever; the sweeping assumptkin of- Profes
sor Tyndall that typhoid can 'originate only
from the pre-eitsting germs. These germs. he
contends, may be generated from morbid Mat
.ter exposed to certain atmospheric conditions
giving , rise to typhoid, scarlatina, dysentery,
and other diseases. These germs may be coin
bated and removed through ventilation end"
i other means.
,BUSMEBB KOWNOTHINGS,
The man who groans over his poverty With
out taking o step toward bettering his condi
tion, is , justly
~regarded as a goo 4 for naltinc
dunce. Bad he' sense, the mum desperate his
fortunes, the more energetic!, would he hisat
tempts to impiove them. What is true of, in
dividuals Is true of classes. Business may be
dell just now, but the laws of supply and do
mend =lst as they always have done. They
may be operating somewhat peculiarly at pro
eut, but the lentheaded merchant or manufac
turer will stmithow they-may, be turned to his
benefit, instead of croaking about actual diffi
culties and imagining others worse to come.
Philosophy is to poetry what old age is to
paha; ; and the stern truths of•phllosopby are
as fatal to the fictions ottlie ono as the chilling
teetirnantes of experience are to
.the hopes of
the other. • ' •
, To bo to conipony with those we love, satis
fies us; It does not signify whether we speak
to them or not, whether we think On tbooror
Indifferent thlnca to no near Oman ts oIL
There are moments when the two worlds;the
earthly and Spirtintd, sweep by . near to each
other, and' when the early' day and ti6tvenly
'night touch each Odierio -
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