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Business Cards
GREEN ct MACKEY.
W Green and N. C. Mackey. hare this day en
into a Medical co-Partnership, for the practice
.d Surgery, and are prepared to attend
pmmptly to all Cali! In the line of their profearicra at
I I Lucre of the day and night.
April 14.1873.—a-21.
IL D. BALD HMV, M. D.,
sohtSPATHIC PHYSICIAN, has located himself at
Ilioa onr. obere he mill attend promptly to all pro
business entrusted to his care. 121rOMee
carmairt building. second floor, front. Boards at
Ih. E. Data«a•e,
Moutrane. Ps.. March 10. ISIS.
LAW ASTI COLLECTION OFFICE,
F tt w ATSON, Attorney•at-Law. Montrone, Penn`u.
Collections Promptly Attended to.
?pedal Attention gureo to Orpbatte • Court Practice.
Obet ,ratk lion. W. J. Turret on Public Avenue, oppo
eft the Tarbell House. 1815.
nP h . W. SMITE,
ettrurr. Rooms at his dwelling, next door north of Dr.
Baleey'e. on Old Foundry stseet, where he would be
nippy to see all those In want of , Dental Work. Be
feels confident that be can please all, both In quality of
rot and In price. Office hours from 9 ►. w. to 4 C.
tlentrore, Feb. 11, 1974—tf
VALLEY HOUSE.
OCE.r Barb, pa. Situated near the Erie Railway De.
pet. le s large and commodious house, has undergone
thorough repair. Newly furnished roomellatt sleep
ulapartmentaisplendld tablea,andallthing.s compris
ing • ILI et claes hotel. HENRY ACKEIrr,
eePt. 10te.1873.-e.f. proprietor.
7/1.5 PEOPLAV'S MARKET.
Ptrantr Hann, Proprietor.
Pre.,ll and baited Meant, Hams, Pork, Bologna Sao
nit,etc.. of the best quality, constantly on hand. at
nnota to auto
Montroar, pa„ Jan. 14. 1873,-IT
111 LLINGS STRO UD
'IRE AND LIFE ENSUE.A.NCE AGENT. Me
nsthes sattended to promptly,on fate terms. 01Tic.
tlrst dour east of the bank o , Wm. U. Cooper .4 co
F•th.itArerinedglontroire, Pa. [Eng .1,1899.
0 . 17. 1572.1 Brusaas Srsorrn.
077AR1A7 M 01112.18
THE HAYTI HAMMER, has moved lila shop to the
banding occupied by E. McKenzie 4£ Co., where he is
Prepared to do all kinds of work in hisline,such as
ma
ia:ewitchee,puffs,ete. All work done on short
cod . ce and prim. low. Please cal and set. me.
EDGAR A. TUB22ELL
arrona.on AT LAW.
No. 170 Broadway, New York City
May '75.—(Feb.11.11324.-i7)
LITTLER & BLAKESLEE
ATTORNEYS AT LAW, have removed to their NM
Offia. opposite the Tarbell House.
IL B. Larn.A,
Gro. P. Ln-rmt,
linutruec.Oct. 15, 1812. E. L. BLAta.lial.Ml.
W. B. DEANS,
DEALER In Books, Stationery, Wall Paper. News is.
m. Pocket Cutlery, Stereoscopic Views, Yankee Nalone, et. Next door to the PostOtdce, Montruee,
Pa VI . S. BRANS
eeyt 3u. le•Tt.
EXCILAHGE HOTEL.
Y. 7 EIARMLNGTON wishes to inform thepnbllctilat
harm; rented the Exchange Hotel in Montrose, be
It we prepared to accommodate the trarclingpnbl.lc
flrst-claor style.
Montrore Aug. 38. inn.
H BURIHTT.
Duct: ,u Scapa. nad Fancy Da Goods, Crockery, Hard.
ace. boa. Stoves, Drugs. 01la. and Paiute. Boots
Ltd Shoo, Hats and Cape, Fun, Buffalo Robes. Oro-
PrOVilliOllP.
New-blittord.l n., Nov 6, '72—1.0
P. D. LAIED, if. li..
I . IiTSI , lAN AND StRGEON tenders cis profession
etz<lce, to tiir citizens of Great Bond sad vicinity
(tit, over the Port °face, Great Bend Village.
Ureat Bcrk<l, P.. March 11.1825.--ti
DR. D. A. LATHROP,
iacaln,ttere ELEcTILO MEMItaL Billie. a tie Foot of
et,esinut street. Call sad w=eal in t.l Chronic
Iscare,
Montrone. Jan. 17. 12.—n0..4-I.f.
DR. S. W. DAYTON,
OrSICIAN SURGEON. tenders his services to
cgirees or Great Bend and vicinity. Office at nis
-idence.opposite Barns= Hone, , Bend village.
Sept Ist. isra.—if
LEWIS KNOLL,
.s HA VINO AND EWE. DRESSING.
nog to the new Postotace building, where he will
hejoued ready to attend All who may want anything
~gh,rnoe. Montrose Pa.-Get. 1889.
i CHARLES N. STODDARD,
4teeri. Flools and tilavor., Ilataitad Caps,-Lnalher sad
Fledinge, Mean Strvet, Ist door below Boyd's Store.
Work made to order, and repairing done neatly.
V.uLtrorle Jan. 1 1870- '
DR: TV. L. Riau' 4 nDSON,
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. tendershf s professions
.•retraa to the citizens of Montrose end vicinity.—
Once. at n (eras ider ze, on tbe cora er east of Bsyre
Potaidrir (Aug. 1. 1869.
SCOVILL & DETEITT.
attornry4 at Law and Solicitors in Bankruptcy. Office
su 49 Court Street. over City National Zinn. MI:T
-h.l3ton, N. T. 11.13connt.,
Jane 19th IFTS. , Jsztoxa Dzwrrr.
M. A. LYON.
bocersior to Abel Turret!, dealer to Drugs Med Seiner
( leo:erste. Paiute, 011 e, Dyweluffs, Tet4, Spice*
Fancy thiods. Jewelry, Perilmet!, Le.
Moo:rote. May 19, 1975.
L F. FIT'CII,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW. Mont
ru,, P. Otnee went of the Court House.
Muutrox.e, January 27,1875.-4yl
A. O. WAIIIIEN,
E 1 T. LAW. Bounty. Back Pay. ?angina
and Exec,' on Claims attended to. Otlce Bret
or below Boyd's Store, Illontyore.Pa. [A0.1,'69
IV. A. CROSSMON,
Attorney nt Lag. Office at the Court notise, Sr the
conentAnionorn. Office. W.A.Cuoteutote.
Montron..Sent. . ißlt—tf.
J. C. WILEATON.
cult. ENOINErIi AND LAND SUIITZTOR,
P. 0. address. Franklia Forks.
Sasquebanal Co., Ps
W". W. 11,111271,
EIN ET .ND CLIMB ,MANUPACTURERB,—You
uf Lac street. Montrose, Pa. Ding. J. 1869.
If. a BUTTON,
•
AUCTIONEER, and LucitAxes Unit.
691.1 , Orlesidsville. PA.
•
D. W. SEAULE,-- '
ITuRNET AT LAW, office Oyer the Store 44 X
Jcituler u the Seta Slock,ldoetrole Pa. Lent
J. B. d: A. B. AfcCOLLITif,
ATroaxeze •T taW Oftleo over rho Zook. Montrale
Py llontrose,May 10, /Sn. tt
AMA ELT,
Addrass,Brooklyn, Pa
C "MOUES..
J m 11,11174.
County Business Directory.
Two lines in this Directory, one year, $1.50; each ad
dittonal line, 50 cents.
MONTROSE
WM. lIAUGIIWOUT, Slater. Wholesale and Betel
dealer In all kinds of elate roofing, slate paint, etc.
Roofs repaired with !late paint to order. Also, slat*
paint for sale by the gallon or barrel. Montrose, Pa.
BILLINGS STROUD, Genera Fire and Life OW
sues Agent* also.sell Itallroao and AccidentTickct
to New Yorkand Philadelphia. Office onedooreaet
of the Bank.
BOYD k CORWIN, Dealers In Stoves, Hardware
and Manufacturers of Tin and Sheetiron ware, corn ea
of Main and Turnpike street.
A. N. BULLARD, Dealer In Groceries, Provision,
BOOL:A,Statione - and Yankee Notions. at head of
Public Avenue..
WM. H. COOPERS CO.. Bankers, sell Foreign Pele
rage Tickets-and Drafts on England, Ireland and Scot.
WA!. L. COX, Harnees maker and dealer in all article
usually kept by the trade. opposite the Bank. •
JANES E. OARMIttoT, Attsmeoy at Law. Gfilea one
door below Tarbell House, Public Avenue. •
NEW MILFORD.
SAVINGS BANS, NEW MILFORD.—F ix per cent. is
serest Depos i neaa . - nil-If ts. Does a k ..e l e . r t l Ei lEt r ab lgc l i l f
GARRET k e pterDealers in Floor. Feed.'Mca
Salt. Lime, ement. Groceries and PrOV'SICI” '/
Main Street, opposite the Depot.
S. F. EMBER. Carnage Maker and Undertaker ou
Math Street, two doors below Hawley's Store.
• GREAT BEND.
H. P. DORAN. Merchant Tailor and dealer 1p Read)
Made Clothing, Dry Goods,Groceries and Provisions
Main Street.*
Banking, &c
BANKING HOUSE
WR 8. COOPER & CO.
b2OI3'I'IR.CDSE, PA
GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS DONE.
COLLECTIONS MADE ON ALL
ruiri rs AIN Ir YItUM ILI AI..A.)OUNI
TED FOR AS HERETOFORE.
DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN EXCHANGE FOR
Si .A. IA .E .
UNITED STATES & OTHER BONDS
BOUGHT AND SOLD.
COUPONS AND CITY AND COUNTI
BANK CHECKS CASHED AS USUAL
OCEAN STEAMER PASSAGE TICK
ETS TO AND FROM EUROPE.
INTEREST ALLOWED ON SPECIAL
TIMIXI3I DIZIPCZOISXTE3,
AS PER AGREEMENT WHEN THE
DEPOSIT IS MADE.
In the future, as in the past, we shall endeav
or to transact all money business to the satis
faction of our patrolis and correspondents.
WM. H. COOPER. & CO.,
Montrose, March 10, '75.-tf. Bankers.
Authorized Capital, - $500,000 00
Present Capital,
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
MONTROSE, PA.
WILLIAM J. TYRRELL. Presiden
D. D.,..SEARLE, Vice Presiden
N. L LENILEIII.,
Directors
Vi - M. J. TURRELL, D. D. SEARLE, A.
J. GERRITSON, M. S. DESSAUER,
ABEL TURRELL, G. V. BENTLEY,
G. B. ELDRED, Montrose, Pa.
E. A. CLARK, Binghamton. N. Y.
E. A. PRATT, New Milford, Pa.
M. B. WRIGHT, Susquehanna Depot, Pa.
L. S. LENHEIM, Gnat Bend, Pa.
DRAFTS bOLl) ON EUROPE.
COLLECTIONS MADE ON ALL POLNTS
SPECIAL DEPOSITS ~SOLICITED
Montrose, March 3, 1875.—tf
SCHNION SUES BM,
120 Wyoming Avenue,
RECEIVES MONEY ON DEPOSIT
FROM COMPANIES AND INDIVID
UALS, AND RETURNS THE SAME
ON DEMAND wirnouT PREVI
OUS NOTICE, ALLOWING INTER
EST AT SIX PER CENT. PER. AN
NUM, PAYABLE HALF YEARLY,
ON THE FIRST . DAYS OF JANU
ARY AND JULY. A SAFE AND 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 THE
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.
DIRECTORS ; JAMES BLAIR,
SANFORD GRANT, GEORGE FISH •
ER, JAS. S. SLOCUM, J." H. SUTPHRsi,
C. P. MATTHEWS, 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. M., AND ON WED
NESDAY AND SATURDAY EVE
NINGS UNTIL EIGHT O'CLOCK.
Feb. 12.1874. -
The Newest Simmation
GROVES & YOUNGS'
IitILOMNG ESTBLISHET
.1120NTNLCOE323,- Wita.
RUSH OF CUSTOMERS. All Work WARRANT-
AoL ED TO OWE SATISFACTION' IN EVERY RES
PECT. Skim:mint our prices and 3,ovous a trial.
smug- GROVES.
MMUS' YOVNO.
Montrose, February 3.1875.-tf
lilingluuntem Siltarble - Works!
. ..,.
AS kinds of lionoments; tieadstonas, and Marble
Montle*, made to 'order. also. ticotch Gmnites oz
Wind. • h SICRESII2O & Co..
j. rawantim. t-' - /26 Court Street,
o, w. armumaitati,
a. S. SWIM.
ed. 68, mi,
iotied vottrg.
ACROSS TUE STREET
do not know it if she knows
I watch her, as she cornea and goes
I wonder if she dreams of it.
Sitting and working at my rhymes,
I weave her sunny hair at times
Into my verse, or gleams of it.
Upon her window4edge is set
A box of flowering mignonette ;
Morning and night she tends to them,
The senseless flowers, that do not care
To kiss that strand of loosened hair
As prettily she bends to them.
If I could once contrive to get
Into the box of mignonette,
Some morning as she tends to them !
Dear me I I see the sweet blood rise
And bloom about her cheeks and eyes
And bosom, as she bends to them
—.Atlantic Monthly.
EPITAPH ON A WATCHMAKER
Here lies, in a horizontal position,
The outside case of
George Rougleigh, watchmaker,
Whose abilities in•that line were an honor
To his profession,
Integrity was the main-spring
And prudence the regulator
01 all the actions of his lite.
Humane, generous, and liberal,
His hand never stopped
Till he had relieved distress ;
So nicely were all his actions regulated,
That he never went wrong,
Fv"..rt when set &going
By people
Who did not know his key ;
Even then he was easily set aright again.
He had the art of disposing his time so well
That his hoots glided away
In one continual round
. Of pleasure. and delight,
Till an unlucky minute put a period to
His existence.
He departed this lite November 14, 1802,
Aged 57 ;
Wound up
In hopes of being taken in hand
By his Maker,
And of being thoroughly cleaned and repaired
And set agoing
In the world to come.
,ffitletted ffitorg.
A little time ago I read the plot of Sar
dou'e "La flame."
100,000 00
"La Haine" suggested to my memory a
cusious story of real life, which I heard
not many years since. It was no lurid
theatred story, but a history of passionate
real life. Republic of the United States,
A. D. 186—. Would yon care to read the
strangely-twisted story, I fonder ? I
take it for gra ited you would. . .
There wits a tremendous sensation in
4he Thirty-first National Bank,one morn
ing at nine ()lock. The sensation was
not a pleasant one. It was rf that sort
that makes a human being feel as though
he were suddenly strigken with a chill.—
The under clerk spoke in whispers, as
those do who are in the presence of a
dead body, and the second assistent mov
ed about with the 1 ale face and glitter—
ing eyes of one who is laboring under
intense excitement No one spoke to
him, and the lower clerks glanced ask—
ance at him under their eyebrows. •
The cashier of the bank had been ar—
rested the night before for forgery, and
the second assistant was the one who
-need the arrest.
- Cashier
Unfortunately the cashier was guilty.
He was a young man of earavagant life,
son of one of the leading stockholders or
he bank, who had put him into the,
bank to steady him down and make him
learn business habits. But the young
man was a spoiled rich man' son. Ac
cording to the rule of the survival of the
fittest, there was no place in the world
for him. Providence, however. who does
invariably work according tt Darwin rules
for reasons best known to himself, let
the youth live till he bad half ruined his
father, half broke his mother's heart, and
wholly committed a forgery ou the Thir
ty-first National Bank. The youth's
father, for the sake of the mother, fought.
desperately to get him off, to no purpose.
The second assistant, Birney Graham,
pursued him with an energy which seem•
ed almost malignity. The defaulter was
convicted and sentenced to proper. pun
ishment. It served him right. I don't
apologize for him. When a thief is caught
stealing, he ought to be punished, unless
lie is starving and steals a loaf of bread.
The president of the bank had a
daughter Alice, aged twenty, blonde,
petite, its pretty as a baby, with a will and
haughty spirit of a Lady Macbeth. That
to cad the rest. She was as pretty as it;
baby, Lsay, hut the Lady Macbeth will
andlspirit in her gave her delicate pink
and white face a look as unlike a baby's
as possible. Indeed so far from resem
bling a baby, Alice Marley, blonde and
petite as she was, had much the look of a
graceful, high-bred, high-spirited boy.—
This jaunty, boyish look, mode her all
the more , beautiful, all the more admired.
Oh, yes ! Just so. When a pretty girl of
eighteen looks boyish, that's all very fine,
when a middle aged woman looks man
nish--lhat's something very different.
But I wander from my strangely-twist
ed story. Ido not wish to do that.
This beautiful, proud Alice /Harley.,
daughter of the bank president,.was be
frothed to the defaulting cashier. On the
morning her betrothed was sent to pun
ishment, a gentleman called to see Alice
Marley. - lie was a tall, slender man,
young to be sure, but with a shary, cold
face, which wore a faintly sneering ex
pression, as though the man doubted
whether there was anything good, true or.
kindly in this life. It was ,a painfullook
for a young man to wear. lie was a
handsome man, too, only for the mock
ing, cynical look.. The man' was Birney
Gmhatn, second assistant. at the Thirty
first National .Bank, the, person who bad
pitilessly pursued the erring mho! till
`l3lngbacitori, N. Y
MONTROSE, SUSQ'A COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1785.
BY T. B. ALDRICIL
HIS ENEMY.
"Stand by the Right though.the Heavens &UV
he was convicted and sentenced. As
Birney sat there now, leaning his cheek
against his hand, gazing steadily out of
the window, he seemed a man who would
have hunted his own brother to death, so
merciless be looked. Surely this man
had had a bitaer experience of no oom—
mon sort. The faintly sneering expres
sion deepened in his face, as lie heard
light footsteps approaching: Was the
coldness of his tam the coldness of a
stone, or of a lava•bed died out on the
surface, but smouldering with violent
tires beneath ? There are two kinds of
cold faces, you know. Birney Graham
bowed profoundly as Alice Marley enter
td the room. She did not return the
'how. She laid one delicate hand on the
back al a chair, and stood looking at him
with a haughty. angry tact.. Each eyed
the other eteadily,with glittering eye, and
there was that in the look of each which
"I stand here your enemy till I the."
Neither said it in so many words,
though the girl at length spoke first, and
she said this
"What have you come here for ?"
"To see you, Miss. Alice, what .Iser?"
"If I had known you were here, I
wouldn't have came in," she said.
I think you would, Miss Marley," he
answered calmly.
She shrugged her shoulders impatient—
ly, but did not reply. What he said was
true. Birney Graham seemed to have a
strange, strong power over even them
that did not like him. The sneer deep
cued hi his loce again, and he bowed
mockingly.
"I come here to receive your expres
sion of gratitude, Miss Alice. solely. By
my own efforts alone, I have been enabled
to send a dangerous character to a just
puuisliment, and at the same time save
your lather's book no end of lose. lam
o 7 .. ...et h. 6..).11.g51y crateful to
me. To hear you say it with your oivn
lips—this is why lam here, Miss Alice,
exactly."
He was curious like a flint, cold end
hard as adamant of itself, but with the
power of striking fire into the heart of
other materials. Alice Marley flushed
and then paled again with anger.
"1 did not care much after I came to
know him, for him you have hunted
down," she said, in a low, husky voice,
-although he was an angel compared to
you. I knew of what you had done be
lore you made it public and I never would
have married him. He was but a poor
weak creature, blown about by every im
pulse. The man 'marry must be a strong
man. If you thought to wound me
deeply there, you have failed, thank God !
But 1 hate you Birney Graham, as I
thought I never could hate a human be
ing. All the world know I was betroth.
ed to that man. This one pities me, that
one laughs at me, another says it is good
enough fur me, because I thought myself
above my betters. My name is on the
tongue of every gossip, and in the news
papers. Oh 1 I could murder you !"
She covered her face and burst into
tears, not gentle, girlish tears, but pas
sionate, burning tears.
"You could murder me ?'' questioned
Birney Graham, coldly. "Du! Death at
your hands would be sweet."
Alice looked up again, her tears dry.
"But for yon it would have been hush.
ed app. What was anything that I had
eveiedone to you, that you should have
humiliated me like this ? "
"I have done nothing but my duty,"
replied the cold, sneering voice of Bir
uev G.ahan. "dy dear holy, I fear
you don't understand law. If I had con
cealed your friend's misdemeanor, know.
mg what he bad done,l should have been
held guilty as tie was. It is what the
law calls compounding a felony, Miss
Marley. lt'e really strange. but ladies
will never understand law, think."
"I never thought you were worth
minding before," sail the girl, in hot
scornful tones. "But you have caused
my name—my name, Alice Marley, to be
on the tongue of every gossip in the city.
For this, for the bitter humiliation you
have brought upon me, henceforth I pur
sue you as you pursued him. You smile
cold, wicked smile, do you ? You shall
see what a weak girl can do. Murk my
words, Birney. Graham 1 From this day
forth I shall tight you till I die !"
A faint, almost perceptible flush ruse
into his face at last. "What had you
done to deserve this, Miss Alice ? I will
tell you. Years ago, long belore that lit
tle blonde face of yours began to haunt
idiotic young men, the founder of your
race in America, an iron faced miser,
took from my ancestor a little house he
nearly made his own. This was only the
beginning. From that day down, your
race has somehow seemed to eat up mine.
Yes, from that day until the same accur
sed fate brought me across your path.
and caused me to love yoiir fair face, from
the moment I saw it. That would have
been nothing, only you smiled so sweetly
on me that it made me forget the great
gulf which the world has placed between
us. You drew me on, and laughed at
me. In one moment you changed for all
time the honey of my life to the gaul of
bitterness. Miss Marley, what have I
done to deserve this ? Was it all noth
ing, think you ? I come of Highland
blood, and a clansman never forgets. If
you had not done what you did, if you
bad nut humiliated me, and nearly bro
ken my heart, then I shoald have spared
you when my turn came. 'I have not one
regret, understand. It it were to do over
again, I would do it over again, this is
what I came' here to tell you." -
She raised her arm slowly, as if it bad
been a weapon."
"Go out of this house," she said.
Somehow Birney tiraham never pros—
pered. He was not superstitions. Heav
en knowt • but , sometimes he half con—
fessed to 'himself that Alice - Marley's
father was bis friend, hat Ur. Marley
shortly resigned his presidency of the
bank, and retired from business. He un
derstood bow it came about .when he hap
pened to remember that the new presi—
dent was the father of Alice Marley's
most intemate friend. What Lam could
Alice do him ? he bad asked mockingly.
He found out *what many another has
found out to his sorrow, that a womaa
can do a man no end of harm when the
sets her head to it. -
Birney Graham had no home worth
speaking, of. A childish, peevish old, fa—
ther who ate opium, depended -on him
fin support while a half-sister, cross and
vixenish, as only a diseapointed woman
could be, hung like a mill-stone about
his neck. These two, the peevish father
and waspish sister, constituted the guar
dian angel of Birney Graham's home.—
Truly, as he had told her once, he had
not so much peace or joy in this life,
that Alice should have thought worth
while to take that from him. He had
few friends. He repelled people by his
cynical coldness, and as time went on, he
became more dissagreeable and unmerci
ful than ever. Ho said to himself he
did not care whether he had any friends
or not. He Lola himself a falsehood. He
did care. Nhbody can say the like and
tell the truth.
He obtained another situation, not so
good a a he lost, but he was glad to get
even Then hard times came sud
denly, all the world was turned upside
down and driven out to sea, Birney Ora
ham along with it. The luckless young
man could find no work to help himself,
hie peeitish father and vixenish sister still
alive. The childish complainings of the
father. and the wiggles of his sister,drove
him nearly frantic. It was not a pleas
ant position for a gentlemanly young
man to be placed in. It had been five
years since he had the talk with Alice
Marley, but it seemed to him that her
hate persued him yet. Only for her he
would have held his place in the Thirty
first National Bank, perhaps a better
one. He felt like cursing her and him
self, too, whenever he thoacht of her.
At last, with the worry and anxiety,
the complainings and goadinge, and nag
gins, Birney Graham fell sick. As if to
insult his pride and sufferings, one day
an overseer of the pcor whom Birney
had snubbed many a time, because he
was coarse and used bad grammar, came
in and said :
"Young mail, .I think you'd better be
took to the 'orspdal."
"I'll die first 1" he said.
He sprang upon his feet and walked
about the room. Presently he informed
his peevish father and vixenish sister
that he believed he wasn't so very sick
after all. He really thought that he
would take a walk, and maybe something
would turn up. He staggered feebly down
into the street. The lamp poste seemed
doing a witches' dance. Birney was half
delirious with worry and fever. He start
ed to walk toward the fields and the
country, thinking crazily he would get
out of the city, where they could not take
him to the hospital.
"I mean to walk and walk till I fall
down and die," said Birney Graham to
himself.
The cold November air struck his
cheek and entered his lunge, and stimu
lated him unusually. He wandered on
and on, out into the country, over a
. smooth turnpike road, which led lie
knew not whither. At length when the
sun sank slowly behind the western hills,
Birney sank, too. unable to go a step far
ther.
Next morning a rich lady's coachman
told his mistress that there was a tramp
out 'in the stable, sick and not able to
move.
"The country's full o' thena tramps,
mum," said the coachman.
The mistress was a slender, petite lady,
with a delicately-beautiful, though sharp,
haughty face. It wasn't the sort of a
face a beggar or an erring sister would
have appealed to by choice.
"Hard him to the station and put him
on the train to go back to the city where
he came from," she said.
"It Il kill him, mum, for to do that to
him, he's very sick."
"But what'll we do with him here ?"
she asked, sharply.
"He's very clean, and decent mum,
and there ain't no smell of liquor on
him," said the coachman, very humbly.
"Oh !" said the mistress, sarcastically.
"I shall air the best bed-room, shall I ?
and make a fire."
The man looked at first as though he
was uncertain whether his mistress would
discharge him or give him a Whack
across the shoulder with her riding whip,
if he spoke his mind, but presently, he
did speak it, nevertheless.
If you'll excuse major saying it,mum,
be could be brought in hereon the kitch
en floor, and a bit of rug put under him.
He'll die before this dry's out, if he don't
get warm and something in his iusides.
You wouldn't want it said that you let a
human creature die when you could have
saved his life, would you, mum ?"
The lady colored faintly at this. "Where
is the fellow ?" she asked.
The man lay on the stable floor. An
old blanket was rolled up and placed un
der his head. Mice Marley followed the
coachman-silently, and stood and gazed a
moment at the seemingly dying tramp.—
For this was the country home of Alice
Marley's father, and the lady was Alice
Marley herself, lingering on in the coun—
try late in autumn. She stood and look—
ed at the unconscious tramp, as I said.—
He was very pale, with long black hair,
and. was frightfully thin and wasted. He
was entirely "clean and decent,"as the
man had said.
"Yes, have him carried into the kitch—
en, Brown, and take care of him for the
present," said the mistress. "As soon as
lie is strong enough you can send him to
the , hospital."
The tramp half opened his eyes and
muttered wanderingly:
"I mean to walk and walk till I die.—
They can't send me to the hospital when
I am Ikea.
Something familiar in the look and
voice attracted the attention of Alice
Marley. She stooped and looked at him
narrowly and almost shrieked with sur
prise. -
"Heaven be merciful!' she exclaimed.
"Last time I saw you, Birney Graham,
you laughed at me to My face, when I
spoke of vengence. New your lite de—
pends on my, word. I have only to let
you die, Birney Graham, I told. you I
would hate you and injure you your life
long." •
Something in her voice and words
seemed to rouse and fix his fluttering
faculties. He cipened his black, wonder—
ing eyes, and fixed them 'steadily on her
face, with a light in them' which was a
half-ricognition. God knows what could
have been. passing throtigh the man's
head, in his wild, weak delirium: I don't
know what he meant, and he , himself
never knew. But, with his burning black
eyes still fixed ofi the faze of Alice Mar.
ley' this is wharhe
"The hyena will open graves to obtain
The strong willed mistress of the man
sion shuddered. "Get him into the house
us quickly as you can, Brown," she cried
in a scarcely audible voice.
A low coach was brought and the man
was lifted upon it. The mistress super
intended the removal.
"Be careful there," she said in sharp
tones. "Are you lifting wood ?"
She lifted his head herself.
The man was carried in to the genial
warmth of the coal fire, and a physician
summoned immediately. Then the sharp
tongued mistress of the great house dis
appeared. She went to her own room
and locked herself in. What she thought
about during that hour there, no mortal
knows, but when she reappeared she was
pale, and the delicate, proud face looked
like the face of one who had been figta. r .
ing the fight with herself; and—lost the
battle. •
"Housekeeper, - said blies linitoley,••have
the beat bed-room prepared, it yo u
please."
"The best room ?" echoed the house
keeper, doubting if she had heard
straight.
"That is what 1 said," answered Miss
Marley.
Birney Graham lay in that best room
for weeks, "hovering between life and
death," as the people who write novels
say. One day he suddenly came to him
self and turned himself weakly on the
pillow, towards Brown, who sat beside
him and said :
"Is this the hospital ?"
"Does it look like an hospital ?" said
Brown indignantly.
Sauey Graham thotight about it two
or three minutes, before making up his
mind. "No, it dosen't," said he finally.
"Whose house is it ?"
Brown told him, also that he bad been
found sick, and was taken in and tended
like a president, by orders of Miss Mar
ley.
"What name did you say ?" said Birney
Graham feebly.
"Marley, Miss Alice Marley," said
Brown, speaking as though he thought
the patient had lost the sense of hear
ing.
"Wasn't Miss Alice Marley married
long ago ?" asked Birney Graham still
more feebly.
"No, she wasn't, and ain't," replied
Brown.
Birney Graham turned his face to the
wall again in silence. Brown went out
and announced to his mistress that her
patient had come to his senses. Miss
Marley returned with Brown, a changed
softened look on her face. She had watch
ed Birney Graham,day aster day, holding
his thin hands in hers, and bathed his
hot brow, and all ti ese days and weeks a
great conflict had been going on in her
soul.
Hate cannot last forever; though love
can.
A strange, new, intense feeling was
growing in the heart of Alice Marley. It
was not hate. Was it love ? Birney Gra.
ham seemed to be asleep when Alice Mar.
ley stepped noiselessly to is bed-side. He
seemed not to hear or to see her. But he
was not asleep. He was trying to gather
strength to open his eyes, and come face
to face with Alice. After that, when she
came in, simply a nod of recognition
passed, nothing more. He was too weak
either to thank her or to quarrel with her.
A week later, he was able to be dressed
and lie on the sofa. . Then he sent for
Miss Marley. He thought now he had
strength to look her into the face, and
while he looked thank her for all her
great kindness to him. She came in
softly, a little pale and trembling a little.
This man, Birney Graham, lying tber
helpless as a baby, so weak even that
Brown could easily have frightened him
to death, had nevertheless come to have
a strange, sweet power over her. She
eat down upon a little rooking.chair be
side his sofa. He looked at her steadi
ly with his intense black eyes.
'•I had thought—" he began. Then
he stopped. This beautiful face, now
pale with emotion, this was the face of
his old, lost, love, his first and only
love, whom he had worshiped—ah ! God
knew how wildly ! He turned him
away from her, and buried his face in
'the cushions, and broke into passionate
sobs. He was so weak, so • very weak,
yet. •
The heart of Alice Marley gave a
mighty throb, till it ached in her bosom
then it lay deathly still. She hesitated
a inomenk, a little short moment, then
she took Birney Graham's thin face be
tween her hands and turned it back to
ward her again,-and kissed him on the
month.
"Birney, dear Birney !" she whispered
in a voice ineffably sweet and tender.
He laid.one wasted arm about her, and
they both wept together a little. •It, was
very sweet to mingle happy, team.
Just because these two were so strong
and proud, and unforgetful, for that very
reason they will hove each other with' a
a mighty love, ilfich shall endure when
common loves are all forgotten ' love
which sb:111 hold them together till death
parts them, and that day has come, no
other Mortal can ever fill the pike left
vacant by either.
"The man I marry must be a strong
man," Alice Marley had said. The man
she married had bareley strength to step
from the eidevralk.to the carnage, on his
' wedding day. But he. was a strong man
for all that, =and his name was Biruey
Graham.
Alice Madera father was a practical
old gentleman, with no nonsense 'about
him, and best of all, no snobbery about
him,. either. He cared precious little
about Highland blood - and that 'rubbish,
and thought the world leas wide - enough
for every body, and one -.person was as
another, as long as
.he behaved himself.
When has daughterliehoice was announ
ced to him, ho received the new,s -in, a
fashion peculiar to hirriself.:
- -
"Why couldn't she have taken him
five years ago ?" he said. "I'm not al
ways asleep when my. eyes are shut, and
I thought she couldn't do better.. Birney
Grabam,is one of the few men I've
known in my time Who had a head on
'em. If she had married him live years
ago, she'd have saved a eight of nonsense
and.l'd have had a son to help me all this
One."
So
. you will understand the "hidden
meaning" of the: remark ' father Marley
made when his approval' was asked for
thesnatch.:. • .
TERMS :—Two Dollars Per Year in Advance. '
grouse feuding.
THE SPELDING SCHOOL
His name was Ephriam Blodgett ; not special
ly renowned,
Except as champion speller in all the country
'round.
Orthographlcal aspirants were apt to tare quite
slim
At any spelling match where they encountered
Epbriam.
The spelling hook he had by heart, and, eke
the dictionary ;
And science, at his tongue's end, laid its queer
vocabulary.
The dubious monosyllable he'd floor with per-
feet ease.
And go through words sesquipedal like light-
Yon couldn't weave a spell, with any common
alphabet,
By which to capture Ephriam, or put him in a
And his admirers frequently remarked of Epbe
that he •
Could spell the China-glyphics off from a chest
of tea.:
The people ceased to find in spelling schools
their wonted fun,
What show was there against this orthographic
Getting gun,
That mowed down all before it, with a rattling
flisthule
Of consonants and vowels punctilliously ar
rayed?
Just at the culmination'4 Ephriam's
lie took part in a spelling school In an adjoyt
ing town,
Full 60013 the sole survivors of that orthogra•
pbic war
gpliriam and a school girl, his sole coin.
petitor.
With equal ardor, 'twist these two, raged the
uncertain 9glit,
Where victory might perch at last was quite
indefinite,
With equal nerve they came to time, and accu
rately placed
The insidious Bile* letter and the dipthong,Ja
nus-faced.
in vain, the weirdly mystic spells upon that
girl were cast,
The cabalistic letters dropped from her lips so
fast,
Vain likewise for a long time was the effort to.
suppress
Ephe's airy tongue that syllabled tough words
with such success.
Ihe audience was excited. "Stick to him.
Bis r they cried,
And "Go it, Ephe I" his partisans defiantly re
plied.
But Ephriam was the hero of a hundred spell
ing schools,
And, on the whole, his prestige made him the
favorite in the pools.
In fact, though, they were laying for Ephriam.
He got
The word, at last, that dropped him as if he
had been shot;
The word that choked the Welshman when
mortar from a trowel
Confused his tongue at Babel. A word with
out a vowel.
An ashen hue crept o'er his face when Ephriam
heard her spell :
"D 31 31 R R K GG-31—D—K—LL"
"Spell-bound upon a ragged edge of conso
nants r gasped Ephe.
They buried him with a spelling book and a
feeling of relief.
THE BOY ORGANIST
Mozart's first experience of a large organ
was in a monastery of a little town on the
Danube. He was then only slit years old, and
in company with his father had left his home
in Salzburg, and started on a long course of
travel. All day long they had been sailing down
that majestic river, past crumbling ruins,frown
big castles, cloisters hidden away among the
crags, towering cliffs, quiet villages nestled in
sunny valleys, and here and there a deep gorge
that opened back from the gliding river,its hol- I
low distance blue with fathomless shadow, and
like some dim and vast cathedral. The com
pany of monks with whom they had been trim-
Ming that.day, were at supper in the refrectory
of the cloister, when Father Mozart . ook Wolf
gang into the chapel to see the organ. And
now as the boy gazed with something of awe
upon the great instrument looming up in the
shadows of the empty church, his face lit up
with serene satisfaction, and every motion and
attitude of the little figure expressed a.wontler
ing reverence. What tones must even now be
slumbering in these mighty pipes ? Tones
which, if once awakened, could give utterance
to all that voiceless beauty which the 'day's
scenes had showed - him—life and death,present
and past ; the peseeful river and the deserted
ruin ; the sunshine .unfailing and the unfailing
shadotiat its side.
"Father," Bald the boy, "explain 'to me
those'pedals at the organ's feet, and let me
play' -
..Well pleased, the father complied. Then
Wolfgang pushed aside the stool, and when
Father Mozart lied filled the great bellows, the
elfin organist stood upon the pedals, and trod
them as though be had never needed to have
their management explained. How the deep
tones 'woke the sombre stillness of :the old
church I The orgag seemed _some great, un
couth creature, roaring : for very joy at the ca
resses of the marvelous child. The toonks,eat-
ing their supper. In the, refreetory, heard the
tones, and dropped knife and folk in astonish
ment. The organist of the brotherhood. was
among them ; - but never had he played with
such power and freedom. . 1 , They listened ;
some grew, pale, others crossed themselves ;
till they all rose up, and hastened into the
c.hapel. ,
"It is the devil himself," cried the first One of
the monks; drawing closer to one of his com•
pantons,and giving a scared look over his shout=
der into the darkness of the aisle. "It is - a mir
acle, r said another. But when the oldest of
their number mounted the stairs to, the organ
front,he stood petrified with amazement. There
stood the
and
figure treading fjoin 'pedal - to
pedal, and at the same time clutching the keys
above with his little hands, gathering handfuls
of those wonderfel - chords as if they.were vio
lets, and Dinging. them. out Into the solemn
gloom behind him. lie heard nothing, saw
nothing besides; his eyes beamed like stars,and
his whole face lightened with impassioned joy.
Louder and haler rose the harmonica, stream
ing forth in' swelling billows, till at lastibey
seemed to reach a sunny shore, on. which they
broke; and then a wluspering : ripple of lOU-
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est melody lingered ft moment in the air, like
the last murmur of a wind harp, and all was
still.
TEE PHARIbEES.
At the coming of our Lord the Pharisees
were the most prominent and influential sect
or party of the Jewish people. .Respecting
their origin we have no certain knowledge.— -
They are referred to by Josephua in connection
with the priesthood of Jonathan about one
hundred and fifty years before Christ, and It is
not improbable that they may have taken their
rise soon after the Babylonia' captivity.
The word Pharisees signifies "separate*"
and seems to have been eithcr chosen by thetp
selvts, or applied to them by others as a ttesig
nation of their austere and ascetic manner of
life. They affected erect purity and sanctity
of morals, and held themselves aloof from the'
mass of the people. Vicirrtarrts.........sl..xs
ever. was Van 11111:1 li t ypocritical In I.het de ,-
gree. While they made an ostentatious display
of their piety, at heart they were grossly cor
rupt. They were ambitious of exerting a Con
trolling influence both in Church and State And
they appear to have been regarded by the mass
of their countrymen with great deference.-t--
The carefulness with which they observed the
forms of their religion gave them a reputatation
for piety.
So far as related to the teachings of the Old
Testament Scriptures their doctrinal views
were in the main correct They have been rep
resented as holding that all things were con-
- _
trolled by fate ; but they recognized the free
dom of the will, and It is probable that what
has been understood as fate was simply. the
Scriptures doctrine of the divine sovereignty- --
It appears from the New Testament that their
yiew of the resurrection and the fhture life was
• tially orthodox. Their views of the plan
of salvation, or on the question, "How shall
man be just with God r were altogether er
roneous and pernicious. It was on account of
their false notions on this subject, not lass than
the corruption of their moral character, that
they were led to reject Christ.
But, in addition to the law of ?doses, they
held to a multitude of precepts, which they
maintained had come from him by tradition.—
They regarded them no less sacred than the
written law. This was one great cause of their
erroneous views and of the corruption of their
character.
The Scribes were the official or professional
leaders of the sect of the Pharisees, not a dis
tinct body. They were , doctors or teachers of
the law. They transcribed and expounded the.
Scriptures, and taught the doctrines of the
Jewish religion. In addition to these duties,
they conducted the schools for : the instruction
of youth. Their profession, i)f course, gave
them great influence with the people—an influ
ence which they exerted to the utmost, espee
tally during the latter part of Ills in!nistry,
against Christ and his gospeL Hence the fre
quent reference made to them by all divines,
and from this has arisen the opprobrious signit.
icance applied to the teen Phisrisce.
OMNW11401:01p1:ig4
Fnendsbip is a geed deal like china. It is
very durable and bearitifhl as long as it is quite
whole ; but breaklt, and ail the cement in the
world will never quite repair the damage. '
You may stick the pieces together so , that, at -
a distance, it looks nearly as well as ever ; but_
it won't hold hot water. It is always ready to
deceive you if you trust it; and it is, on the
whole, a very worthless thing,flt only to be put
empty on a shelf, and forgotten there.
The finer and the more delicate It is,the more
utter the ruin. A mere acqualntanceship,vvhich
needs only a little ill-humor to keep it up, may
be coarsely puttied like that old yellow basin
in the store-closet ; but tenderness, and trust,
and sweet exchange of confidence, can no more'
be yours when angry words and thoughts have
broken them, than can those delicate porcelain
tea-cups which were' splintered to pieces be re
stored to their original excellence. The slight
est crack will sp!ill the true ring, and you_ had
batter searclizfor a new friend than try to mend
the old one.
And an this has nothing to do with forgive
ness. One may forgive and be forgiven, but
this deed has been done, and the word said
the flowers and tho gilding aro gone. The for
mal "making-up," especially between two WO.
men, is of no more avail than the wonderfal
cements that have made a cracked ugliness of
the china vase that you expected to be your
"joy forever."
Handled delicately, washed to purity in the
waters of truth, confided to no careless; tlasYm
patbizing hands, friendship may last two lives
out ; but it '•does not pay" to try to mend It.—
Once broken, it Is spoiled forever. •
LOCOMOTIVE CAPRICE&
It is perfectly well known , to experienced en ,!
gincers that It a dozen different locomotive en- I;
'glues were made at the same time, of the same
power, for the same purpose, of like materials,
in 'the same factory, each of these locomotive:
engines would come one with its own peculiar'.
'whims and ways, only as,eertainable by experV
ence. One engine wilitake a great meal o 4
coal and water , at once ; another wiCi not hear; !
to such a thing, but insists on being coaxed byf
spadefuls and bucketfids. One is dispOsed to{
start off when requited at tho top of his speed
another must have a little time ter warm at 1:4;
work and to get well into it. These *tau*
ties are so accurately mastered by shilifuldrivi 4.
era that only particular men can persuade en-:
gine3 to do their bit. It would seem - as. 11
some of these excellent monsters declared, on,
being brought from the stable,if it's Smith whO
Ie to drive, I won't go ; 11 it's my Mend Stokes,.
lam agreeable to any . thing. Ali locomotive', i
engines, are low spirited in_ damp , and fogg y; '
t
weather. TheThave a great satisfaction in!
their work the air is crisp and frosty. At I
sucks time they are very cheerfid and brisk
but they strongly object to haze and mists. I
HINTS FOR ENTRYBODIC
The way to set credit b to be punetual ; thei
way to preserve It is not to use it much. Settle f
often ; have short accounta. Trust no man's;
appearance; acipearances are deceithil, perhaß
assumed for the purpose of obtaining credit -.4f
BOTVOTO of gaudy exteriors; rogues usually'!
dress well"= The rich are plain ; Mat hire;
any one, who carries but little on Ida back,—!s
Never trust him who flie& into passon on he4s
hag dunne4), but make hint pay quickly it emi
ts, any virtue in the law. = Wheneyer you m*l
a man who is fond of argument, pod will meo .
one .profoundly ignorant of the operations .
the, blamer* heart. Mind your owls afraira-4 1
Let an the errora you sea in others' mituagerf
meat imagist correctness In your oirm ,
There i$ a certain decorum •eten in Ulf/ )7
for excess of sorrow is es .foolish ea proftigPQ
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