SAW LEY & CRUSER, Edit Ors and Proprietors. VOLUME 32. .ficriltrose ptmotrat I. PrPt ISTILD Evznr CDNESDAT MOWITACI, r j1,411,5e, Susquehanna County, Pa. k Went Side of Public Avenne. , v l i ter LocalaritlGencralNews,Poetry.l3to - kLerdote, 1411, , ceIlancone Reading,Corretpond ,..lno a rdiable then of acivertivernente. Advertising Rates: ofan Inch spacej3 weeks, or lest , , $1 „,t, $1 ; 3 months, $l-50; 6 months, $4.60 ; I sti. AI i horst diftconnt un aavertipementa ol a ;.7t It !Wein LW" Locals,lo eta. a line for first . and 5 ct, a line each anbsequent Insertion.- - o . tad deathr.frect obltuarics,lo Ws. a line. FLUTE JOB A SPECIALTY s. - Oar* Work. - Try . (JR HAWLEY, - WIL C. CRUSER. Business Cards GREEN ct MAC KEY. W N Green and N. C. Mackey, bare tide day en 'croa into a Medical co-Partnership, for the practice of Modicine and Surgery, and are prepared to attend oenoill to all calls in the line of their profession at tour: of the day and night, Pa., April 14, IST5.—a-21. 11. D. DALDu - Ls, .If. D.. v.Er 3ocated himself 1! 4., I ,k.e. where he will "attend promptly to all pro . -. hudneis entrusted to hi* owe. Efir Office building. second door, front. Boards at F. Baldwin's. ,d vuar,rofe. Pa.. March 10;1675. LAW (SD hOLI.ECTION OFFICE. cV WATSON, Attorney-at-Law. Montrose, Penn's Collections Promptly Attended to. vs,al Attention given to Orphans' Court Practice. • with Bon. W. J. Torrell. on Public Avenue, oppo site the Tarbell Boos e. 1875. DR h . 117. Room:, at his dwelling, next door north of Dr. on Old Foundry Areal., where he would be • no 'Ler all those In want of Dental It ork. Ile thleut that he can please all, both in quality of .11. J in price. Oftlec hours from 9 a. at. to 4 P. M. VALLEY HOUSE. ❑t]p. P. Situated near the Ede Railway De large and commodious house, has undergone repair. Newly furnished rooms and sleep • „,rtments.splendid tables,and al Ithings compris. •1 close , hotel. HENRY ACKERT, ,cll. Proprietor. TVA PEOPLE'S MARKET. Pan-tar Rails, Proprietor. and hallod ?dente, Llama, Pork, Bologna San , cn 01 :he best quality, constantly on hand, at • vail v Ps„ Jan. 14. 1873.-1 T BILLIA GS STROUD. nil. AND LIFE INSURANCE AGENT. Ale ~,,:tt,ontlenden to promptly, on fair terms Offle. tr•t t•or cast of the bank or Wm. E. Cooper A Co rzz zr Avenue,Montroae, Pa. [Ang.1.1869. BILLINGS STII.OI7D. CHARLEY MORRIS HE U a YTI BARBER, tine moved hie gimp to the occupied by E. McKenzie & Co.. where he la to do all kinds of work in his line,ench 50 ma re: •witches, puffe, etc All work done on short Le:lre nod prim,. tow. Pitmen. call and see me. EDG.AL: A. TURRELL ..LLLOR AT LAW. No. 170 Broadway, New York City V.,1 I'4 '7s.—(Feb.ll. LITTLES A BLAKESLEE iTT•• RN EN'S &T LAW, have removed tu their New • F upporite the Tarbell Bone,•. B. B. LITTLE, Gra. P. LITTLE, ;:rote. Oct. 15, ISM B. L. BI.L.E.ZELEE. , LALER iu Boots, Ptattonery. WO Paper, News ta •,, Pocket Cutlery, Stereoecopie Views, Yankee etc. Next door to the Post Office, Montrose, . B. BEANS. E-VCILLYGE lIGTEL V .' HARRINGTON wiehee to inform thepublicthat rcnted the Exchange Hotel In Idontrore, he prrpured to accommodate the trarelingpnbEc • Er-I,lw, ntyle. ‘l,lrot , Aug. R 4, 1F73. IL BURR.ITT. •n staple and Fancy Drs Goode, Crockery, Hard- Iron. MuveS, Drugs. Oils, and Paints, Boots lists and Caps, Fare, Butrato Robes, Gro er c• Pror &C. a M Nov 6, '7l-1.1. ?HY s lAN AND SURGEON, tenders nis inofessiou I[Ct to the citizens of Great Bend and vicinity over we Post Office, Great Bend i•ie, Been, Pn, Barth 44, ifiri DR. D. A. LATHROP, 2,-ra.L:strre Elnerlin TREIIItAL BATHE, a the Foot of trees. Call and consul to a_l Cbronlc o J 411. DR. S. W DAYTON, JL N lc SURGEON, tenders his services to • izeus of Great Bend and vicintty. Office at tie ••••1.1., e. opposite Barnum House, Gil. Bend village. LEWIS KNOLL, •IH.AVING AND HAIR DRESSING. L tne new Postai:Bee banding., where he will L L d ready to attend all who may want anything Idol/true Pa. Oct. 18 1869. CHARLES, 11". STODDARD, D•:: r. Boots sod Shoes, Batt:tad Caps, Leather end Bath Street, Ist door below Boyd's Store. ruv.li, to order, and repairing done neatly. Jan. 1 1670. TV. L. RICHARDSON, lAN & SURGEON', tenders hie proressiona -v• ,,, , , , to the citizen. of Montrose and vicinity.— n ••hlt , r,eldente, ea the cornereast of Sayre 4t F °emit, - (Aug. I. 1669. M'OT7LL 41: DEWITT. • ai Law and Solicitors In Bankruptcy. Office t'ocirt Strcet,occr City National Bank, Sin t N. Y. Ws. 11. Secrrirs, 1.73 • 4,1M01L DEwirT. EAGLE DRUG STORE. •k i 3 13:*IiN.S. the place to get Dregs aid Itedetnee. tobacco. Plpee . ,'Xbcke,t-Booke, Spamles, NOtiOLIE. ite. Brick Block 8.:1 - 0.e, Pa.. May sth. 1d75. 18 YON., "•'• • .••••,t Abel Turret], dealer In Drue Medicines Pewit., OUR, Dyn•stalifs, Teat, Spices F..ur. Good, Jewelry, Perfumery. &x -it,,lornee, May 19, 1619. L. F. FTTCEr, %NET AND COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW, Mont - P.. Ufnee writ °rale CoUrt Hone. Jcums.r.y. Y 7, 1tr.1,43,1. 1. 0. W. E LAW. Bounty, Back Pay, Pension Ann En•ms on claims attended to. Om en lirtl below Boyd's Store. Montrose.Ps. jAti.l.'69 ll'. A. CROSS,MON, 4 ' l "rml at Lava, Office at the Court Home, le the ( .d.a. , alouor'll Office. W. A. ("Eastman. ; kovtroec. beDt. . 1871.--tf. J. C. WIJEATON. um'. ENGINEER AIM L42a SCRTZTOR, P. O. address. Franklin Yorke.. Eio mortar= Co., Pa w. w. BVtTll ABINET AND CILAIE I,I4.3iIPACTIMERS,—Yoo lum six,: et. Muntrute, Pa. Sang• 3 • 1569' AL C. BUTTION, A T I ONEER , and biStlCitaitZ, ACIIM .ci tot! Erlendosllls. D. W. BEAtt • IT O T LAW.. oflicolorer the Store of M Detrer.tt. the Brick Block,Stontrose PA. Ifigle 9 E. OVVR/L.L, Amor: LT Um. °Mee l over J. X. XeWitt'l. Skaarota, Pa. (June 9,7, J. B. 11. '044.U111;' . . 4.Trur.t.zre OSUO OT ‘r the44 l : l lc; M° 2 .° " 1 r l icaltrOdO.':3lsl, 1U,1071.'7 4 , AMJ EL Y, 103 :70NER R hat 14, lts74 Addrega,Brooklga, Pa. . County Business Directory. Two l Wes I n tide Directory, one year, $1.60; each ad dltional line, 60 cents MONTROSE WM. 11AUGEWOUT, Slater, Wholesale and itetal dealer in all kinds of elate roofing, elate paint, etc. Roofs repaired with slate paint to order. Also. slats. paint for sale by the gallon or barrel. Montrosc. Pa. BILLINGS STROUD, Genera Fire Ind Life (nan• ante Agents also,sell Hallman and AccidentTickt I to New York and Philadelphia. OM ee one dooreast of the Bank. BOYD .t CORWIN. Dealers In Stoves, Hardware and Manufacturers of Tin and Sheetiron ware,corn of Slain and Tarn plke street. A. N. BULLARD. Dealer in tvroeorlee. Provision, Books, Statlone' and Yankee Notions, at head of Public Avenue.• WM. IL COOPER CO.. Bankers, sell Foreign Pas. sage Tickets and Drafts on England, Ireland and Scot. land.:• Wlt. L. COX, Harness 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 Bente. Public Avenue. • NEW MILFORD. SAVINGS BANE, NEW M ILFORD.—F ix per cent. In terert on all Deposits Does a general Banking Bur nem. -nll-tf 8. B. CHASE & CO. H.GARRET SON. Dealers in Flour. Feed. Idea Salt, Ltme, Cement. Groceries and Prortszens n MainStrect, opposite the Depot. kr . F. EMBER. Carriage Maker and Undertaker on Main Street, two doors below Hawley's Store. GREAT BEND. R. Y. DORAN, Merchant Tailor and dealer in Ready Made Clothing, Dry Goods,Grocerien and Provisions Main Street.* Banking, &c BANKING HOUSE OP H. H. COOPER & CO., MONTELOSM, PA GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS DONE. COLLECTIONS MADE ON ALL POINTS AND PROMPTLY ACCOUN TED FOR AS HERETOFORE. DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN EXCHANGE FOR Si .dfl. I-a M . UNITED STATES & OTHER BONDS BOUGHT AND SOLD. COUPONS AND CITY AND COUNTY BANK CHECKS CASHED AS USUAL. OCEAN STEAMER PASSAGE TICK ETS TO AND FROM EUROPE. INTEREST ALLOWED ON SPECIAL TIMIACEI 3a.M.P09XT19, 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 patrons and correspondents. WM. El. COMP= & CO., Montrose, March 10, '7s.—te Bankers. Authorized Capital, - $500,000 00. Present Capital, - - 100,000 00. FIRST NATIONAL BANK, MONTROSE, PA. WILLIAM J. TURRELL, Pre.itknt. D. D. SEARLE, rice President N. L. LENHEIM, - - Cashier Directors. WM. J. TURRELL, D. D. SEA,RT..E, G.' B. ELDRED, M. S. DESSATJER, ABEL TURRELL, G. V. BENTLEY, A. J. GERRITSON. Montrose, Pa. E. A. CLARK 4 Binghamton. N. Y. E. A. PRATT, New Milford, Pa. M. B. WRIGHT, Susquehanna Depot, Pa. L S. LENHEIM, Cirt at Bend, Pa. DRAFTS SOLD ON EUROPE. COLLECTIONS 314 OE ON ALL POINTS SPECIAL DEPOSITS SOLICITED Montrose, March 3, 1875.—tf SCRANTON SAYINGS BANK, 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. 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. a SLOCUM, J. H. SUTPHIN, C. P. MATI'HEWS, 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'CLOC.K. Feb. 12. 1874. The Newest Sensation JOHN GROVES' pPli)Utfitlyiaollsoili .tittC,DrinatAali ' PM, A RUSII OF CUSTOMERS. Att Work WARRANT /IL ED TO GIVE SATISFACTION IN EVERY RES- I'ECT. Examine our prices and give us a trlal. _JOHN GROVES. Montrose, Febroarj Binglain tor rff . trblo- . Works I All kinds of Monuments, lieadstor.es, and Marble Mantles, :made to order. also; Scotch Granites .on hand. - J. PICKERING & CO., .t. ricsintrscr, ' l2O Court Btreer. rkir , sitnannnat!, - - a. P. DROWN. ' ' " ' Mout =ton •- NY • Oct. 28, LIM MONTROSE, SUSQ'A COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 1875. *led Wahl. AN ANNIVERSARY In a chamber old and oaken, In a faint and faltering way, Half a dozen words were spoken, Just eleven years to-day. What was bound and what was broken, Let a woman's conscience say. Halt a dozen words excited, Whispered by a lover's aide ; Half delighted, half affrighted, Half in pleasure, half in pride, And a maiden's troth is plighted, And a false love knot is tied. Has a maiden not a feeling That can swell, sad sing, and soar? Came not o'er her spirit stealing Thoughts of things that were before ? In her heart did no revealing Tell her love was something more Barely half a dozen glances, Half in earnest, half in mirth— Five, or six, orseven dances-- What is such a wooing worth ? Courtship in which no romance is, Cannot give a true love !Aral) Passion is a pain and power Sl4wly growing unto might By long vigils, not the hour ; Real love Is not at sight ; 'Tis a weed ; 'tis not a flower That arises in a night. Lightly is the promise spoken. Lightly is the love knot tied ; And the maid redeems the token, Living at her husband's side ; And her heart—it is not broken, But it is not in its pride., With the years shall come a feeling, Never, may be, felt before ; She shall find her heart concealing Wants it did not know of yore ; Silently the truth revealing, Real love is something more. ,vlrcted ,tart'. FROM THE WAYSIDE. Mr. Silas Walsh one day sat in his of— fice readicg a very interesting book. It was a part of his business, this leading, for the book was of a science within the scope of his profession, He was compar atively a young man, aad had the repu tation of , being an excellent physician.— While he heard someone ring at hisia— fice bell. He laid aside his book and to the door, and when lie saw what was upon the stepping stone be was indig— nant. It was a ragged, dirty bov known in Ernsworth as 'Hammer Jim'—ragged and dirty, and with. the vileness of the slum upon him—a boy vicious and profane, against whom every other boy was warn ed—a bov who was called a thief and a villain, whcnt no efforts of the Overseers had been able to rec4ann, and who seem ed to care for nothing but to make peo ple afraid of him. His true name as the Overseers had it, was James Ammerton. About his father nobody had ever known. His mother bad died an inmate of the poorhouse. On this present occasion, Jim's face was not only dirty, but was bloody ; and there was blood upon his grimmed and tat:ered garments. "Please sir, won't you fix my head ? I've got a hurt." "What kind of a hrrt ?" asked the doc- "I'm alraid It's bad, sir," said the boy sobbingly. One of Mr. Dunn's men hit me with a rock." "What did be bit you for ?" "I dunu, sir." "Yes you do know. What did he throw the stone at you for ?" "Why, sir, I was picking up an apple under one of his trees." Dr. Walsh would not touch the boy's head with his fingers. The-e was no need of it, he could see that there was only a scalp wound, and that the blood had ceased to flow. "Go home and let your folks wash your head and put on a clean bandage." "I han't got no home and I ban t got , no folks." • "You stop somewhere, don't you ?" "I stop at the poorhouse when they don't kick me out." , "Well boy. you are ;not going to die from this. Go and geesomebody to wash your head, or wash it yourself—and tie your handkerchief on." "Please sir, I han't got no—" "Hold up boy. I haven't get time to spare. You won't suffei it you are as you are." „ And with this Dr. Walsh closed the door and returned to his book. He had not meant to be unkind ; but really he had not thought there was any need of professional service on his part ; and cer tainly he did not want that bad boy in his ("ace. But Dr. Walsh had not alone been 1 cognizant of the boy's visit. There had been a witness at an upper window. The doctor's wife bad seen and heard. She was a woman. She was not strong, and resolute, and dignified like her husband. Her heart was not only tender, but it was used to aching. She .bad no children living, but there were two mounds in the church -yard which told her it two angels in •heaven that could call her mother ! Acting upon her impulse; as_ she was very apt to act, she . slipped down and called the boy in by the back way, to the wash roan. He came in -dirt. rags and all, wondering what was wanting. The sweet voice that _bad called hiin had not frightened him. He came in and stood looking at Mary Walsh; and as he looked his sobbing ceased. "Sit down my ,boy." • - He sat down. . , "If I'll help you, . will you try to be good ?" "I can't i.e gond." . ' "Why not ?" - - "Cause I can't. \Taint in me. Every body saytt so." .„ _ • • - "But-can't_yon tryl?" .' , .- "I dunoo." "If I should help you, would you be wilting to try to please me P "Yestem—l should certiin." - Mrs. Walsh brought, a basin of water . and a soft sponge. and With tender bands she washed his handl and face. Then, with a pair of 'scissors, she' clipped the hair away from the wound—handsome „ _ ' , Stand by the Right though tho Heavens fh11:" curling hair—and found ienot a oad one, She brought a piece of sticking plaster, which she 6sed upon it, and then she blushed the hair hack from his lull brow and looked into the boy's face—nut a bad face—not an evil face. Shutting out the rags and dirt, it was really a handsome face. "What is your name my boy ?" she asked. "Hammer Jim, ma'am, and sometimes rugged Jim." "I mean how were you christened ?" "Which'm ?" "Don't you know what name your pa pa gave you ?" "o—ye-es. It's down on the 'seers' hooks as James Ammerton." "Well James, th,. hurt on your head is not a bad one, and if you are careful hot to rub off the plaster, it will very soon heal up. Are you hungry ?" "Please mum, I haven't eat nothing to day." "Mrs. Walsh brought out some bread and butter, and a cup of milk, and al lowed the boy to sit there in the wash room and eat. And while be ate she watched him norrowly, scanning every feature. Surely if the science of physiology, whiTh her husband studied so much, and with so much faith, was reliable, this boy ought to have grand capacities. Once more shutting out the rags and filth, and only observing the hair now glossing and war big, from her dexterous manipulations, ever a shapely head, and marking the face, with its eyes of lusterous gray, and derfect nose, and mooth like a cupids how, and the chin strong, without being unseemly—seeing this without the dregs, and the boy was handsome. M. Walsh thinking of the little mounds in the churchyard, 'prayed God that she might he a happy mother, and if a boy was hies sed to her matertnity, she would ask that he should be handsomer than she believed she could make this boy. Jim finished eating and stood up. James," said the little woman—lor she was a little woman,aed a perfect pic ture of a loving and a lovable little wo "James, when you are hungry, and 'nye nothing to eat, if you will come to this door, I will feed yon. Ido not want you to go hungry." soould like to come, ma'am," "And if I feed you when yon are hun gry, will you not try to be good for my sake ?'' The boy hung his bead and considered. Some might have wondered that he did not answer at once, as a grateful boy ought ; but Mrs. Walsh saw deeper than that. The lad was considering how he might answer safely and truth— fully. "If they'd let me, hut they won't," he answered. "Will you try all you can ?" "Yes'ru—l'll try all I can," "Mrs. Walsh gave him a small parcel of food in a paper, and patted hie curly head. The boy had not shed a tear 13111C12 the pain of the wound - hid been assuaged. Some might have thought that he was not grateful, but the little woman could see the gratitude in the dee* light of the eye. The old crust was not broken enough vet for tears. Afterwards Mrs. Walsh told her hus band what she had done, and he laughed at her. "Do you think, Mary, that your kind— ness can help that ragged waif ?' "I do not think it will hurt him any, Silas." It was not the first time hire. Walsh hail delivered answers to the eradiate doc tor which had effectually stopped discus- After that Jim came often to the wash room door, and was fed; and -he came cleaner and more orderly, with each suc ceeding visit. At length Mrs. Walsh was informed that a friend was going away. into the far Western country to take up land, and make a frontier farm. The thought occured to her that this might be a good oppertunity for James Ammer ton. She saw her friend, and brought Jim to her notice, and the result was that the boy went away with the emigrant ad venturer. She heard from her friend a ' year later, that she liked the boy very much. Two years later the emigrant wrote that Jim was a treasure. And she showed the letter to her husband ; he smiled and kissed his little wife and waa glad. And he had another source of delight. Upon her bosom his little wife bore a ro— bust, healthy boy—their own son--who gave promise of life and happiness in the time to come. The years sped on and James Ammer ton dropped out of the life which Mary Walsh knew. The last she beard was five %ears after he went away from Erns worth, and Jim had then started out for the golden moun'ains on his own account to commence iu earnest his own life bat— tle. But there was a joy and alpride in the lisle woman's life which held its place and grew and strengthened. Her boy. whom they called Philip, grew to be a youth of great pro.nise—a bright, kind hearted, good boy, whom everybody loved —and none loved him more than did his parents. In fact, they worshiped him. or at least, his mother did, At the age of seventeen Philip . Walsh entered col lege and at the age of twenty-one he graduat-d with honor; but the long and severe study had taxed his system, and he entered upon the stage of manhood not quite so strong in body ati he should have been. His mother saw it and was anxious. His father ,saw it, and decided that he should have recreation and recti peration before he entered into active business. Dr. Walsh was not pecuniarly able to send his eon off on an expensive travel, hut he found opportunity for his engagement upon a staff of an exploring expedition, which would combine health ful:recreation _with . an equally healthful occupation. The expedition was bound for the weateru iblidernuss and we, need not tell of the parting between mother and be r hived son. She kissed - him - and blessed him, and then hung about his neck with more kisses and then went away to her chamber and cried. hilip wrote home often on his way out`; and he wrote after he had.reached thelwilderness. His accounts were glow ing, and his health was improveing.— Three months of forest life and forest la bor; of which Philip wrote in a letter that bad to •be borne more than a hundred Miles to the nearest post, and then fel— lowed months of silence. Where was Philip ? Why did he not write ? One day Dr. Walsh came home pale and faint, with a newspaper crumpled and crushed in his hand. Not immedi— ately, but by and by, he was forced to let his wile read what he had seen in that paper. She read and felt like one mor— tally stricken. It was a paper from a far Western c;ty and it told of tile sad fate of the explor— ing party under the charge of Colonel John Beauchampe, how they had been attacked by an overpow'ring party of In- dians, and how those not massacred had been carried away captives. Poor little woman ! Poor Dr. Walsh ! Vat the mother en tfered most. Her head already taken on its crown of silver, was bowed in blinding agony, and he heart was well nigh broken. The joy was gone out from her life, and thick darkness was r(;und about her. And so- gassed half a year. One day the postman left a letter at the door. The hand or the superscription was familiar. Mrs. Walsh tore it .open, and glanced her eyes over it contents. 0 joy! 0 rapture! Her boy lived ! was well, and was on his way to her. When Dr. Walsh entered the room he found his wife fainting, with the letter clutched in her nerveress grasp. By and by, when the first great surge had passed, husband and wife sat down and read the letter understandingly. “Thank God ! I found a true frior,d,or I should say a true friend found me,' wrote Philip, lab r he had told of his safety, and of his whereabouts. "But for the coming of this friend I should have died ere this. He heard of me by my name, and learned I came, and when he knew I. came from Ernsworth, and was the sun of Mary and Silas Walsh, he bent all his energies to my release. He spent thousands of dollars in enlisting and i.popping men for the work, and with his own hand lie struck down my savage captor, and took me thenceforth under his care and protection. God bless him ! And be you ready both to bless him, for he is comin2 home with me.” Upon their bended knees that night, t h.- rejoicing parents thanked God for all His goodness, and called down blessings upon the head of their unknown preserv er of tneir darling. And, in time, radient and strong, their Philip came home to them —came home a hold and educated man, fitted fur the battle of Itfe—•came home knowing enough of life's vicissitudes and prepared to ap— preciate its blessings And with hint came a man of middle age—a strong, frank•faced handsome man, with gray eyes anti curly hair. "this,' Lid - the son, when he was re— leased from his mothi•r's rapturous em brace' "is my preserver. Do you know The doctor looked, and shook his LINA He did not know. But the lade woman hioked more keenly. Upon hrr the light broke over puweringly. "It is," she whispered, patting forth her hands—"it is—James Ammerton." "Yes," said the man, a stranger now no more—" lam James Ammerton ! And I thank God who has given me opportunity thus to show how gra'efully I remember ed all your kindness to me, my more than mother !" And he held her hands, and pressed them to his lips. and blessing her again and again, telling her with streaming eves. that she of all the world, had lifted up and saved him. That evening, Mrs. Walsh sitting by her husband's side, and holding one of his hands. said to him : "Once upon a time a pebble was kick— ed about in the waste of sand. A lap. (Mie saw it to:d picked it up, and when he had brushed away the dirt from its suffice, he applied his chisel and broke through the crust, and behold—a dia— mond pure and bright!" The Young Man Who Was "Shook., 'What I want to know,' said a white headed young man or twenty, as he stood before the sergeant in charge of the Cen• tral Stati'm yesterday, 'what I came here for was to get some advice.' `Proceed,' said the sergeant. 'You know Nancy Tompson, don't you ?' 'Nevor heard of her.' 'Well, she's a widder, over !forty years old, and I've been hoarding there, said he. 'Yes.' -And we were engaged to be married.' `Whew !' whistled the officer. I don't blame you,' continued the young man in a broken voice. 'l'm oily twenty and she's forty, but a mau can't always tell when he's going to make a fool 01 himself.' 'And you fell in love ?' I did that, and as soon as I get thro' talking I'm going out to hire some one to kick me over to Canada aid back ! Yes, sir, fell dead in love—loved &wo— man of over forty.' 'And what followed ?' 'What followed? Why, what tillers rollers ? I'm hnman same's anyone else, and when I love I love like a loceinotive going down grade. What do yon think in just six weeks by the watch ? Went to the theatre sixteen times, out sleigh riding twelve times, had three parties, went to three lectures and took her out to eat oysters ten or eleven times. Fact, sir—cost ine durn near $2OO. 'But it was all for love.' replied the sergeant. - 'I thought so,.and what else did I do? Bought her a $4O watch, *lO bracelet, a $5 ring, a $7 set of jewelery, a new dress, and gave her a $5 gold piece with a hole in it! Yes, sir, I drew $5OO from the bank—eyery red I bad—and used .it all up on her 'And then ?' 'She portended to love back, and when I sqnoze her hand she smiled and looked heaps of love at me. She'd lean 9n my arm, talk about Cupids, and get oft' poet ry by the rod and it was plainly . under— stood that we to be married in Jnne. Oh,she knew her biz, and she slid around me as the Bengal tiger does around the lamb.!' . 'Did she break the eagagement ?':- 'Last night,' said the young men,swal lowing the lump in his throat,"sho told me she!tl been trilling with me all along. 1 tie, said she was engaged to -another Iman, and she could never bet:niore than a . sister to me! I tell you, Sergearikyo4 OMAN could have knocked me down with a straw. I braced up after awhile and call. ed her a hypocrit, when she called me a white•headed idiot, and the boarders kicked me out of doors. Five hundred dollars gone, and I'm a wretched man.' He blew his nose and` wiped his eyes, and continued : 'I don't want to drown mysell;the wa ter's awful cold, and perhaps I can get over this• I want them presents back, and I'll go to Muskegon aMtry and for get her. Its wretched me all to pieces, and I can never love again. Were you ever shook. sergeant ?' 'No, never.' 'Then you don't know the anguish— the griping around the heart. It cuts like a knife, and all I can think of is be ing laid out in a coffin, my right hand holding a bunch of roses, and my left resting OD 111) breast: 'You are young, you may outgrow it in time.' 'I may—l may, but it's so awful sud den, and hits so hard, that I feel as it I'd fallen from a house. Go to the house, sergeant, and see if you can get them things back. If I'm alive I'll be around again to-morrow, and if I don't come you may keep them things for your kindness. I'm white-headed, but I'm tender heart— ed, and I want to retire behind some barn and sit down and think.' lie retired. Red Cloud's; View of WhLskey And Water Reporter—Have you visited our water works ? They are an interesting sight. Mr. Red Cloud—No your whiskey is good enough for me. Reporter—But we have a tunnel tinder the lake fur two miles, through which we get our water supply. Mr. Red Cloud—White man, Red Cloud hates the man who tells him a lie. Du the people of this great city go two miles for water when they needn't go two rods any way for whisky ? Reporter—lint. some people use water for other purpcses than drinking. But few drink it as a constant beverage. Mr. Red Cloud—l thought not. It will do for the white winged ships bnt not for the red man's drink. Ugh Drink water when there's, whisky. Would Red Cloud slay the gopher or the chip— munk when he could kill the deer or the buffalo? Reporter—We have had quite a whis ky seizure here lately. Distilleries were seized because their owners failed to pay the Governmen t. Mr. Red Cloud-11am sorry for that.— Would the red man( slay the friend that feeds him • Oh nor Reporter—lt wai some of Washburn's doings. Mr. Red Cloud—Go and tell the tali Hemlock of the Orient that it won't do. Tell him. pde face that Rol Cloud-has said so: Reporter—l think it is a vile conspiracy to force people to drink Waukegan spring water. Several of the Govelatnent of finials live in that city. Mr. Red Cloud—But the white braves will not submit. Your people are not cowards. They are swift as the west wind to avenge a wrung. Their armies are as muwy as the snow flakes which break the branches of the pine tree. Truth and Falsehood. -Willie, why were . you gone so long for water ' askedl the teacher of a little boy. "We spilt it, and had to ga beck and till the bucket again," was the prompt re ply ; but the bright, noble face wore a shade less bright, less noble, than usual, and the eyes dropped beneath the teach er's gaze. The teacher crossed the room and stood by another, who had been Willie's com panion. "Freddy, were you not gone for the water longer than was necessary ?" For an instant Freddy's eyes were fix ed on the floor, and his face wore a troubled look. But it was only for an . instant—he looked frankly up to his teacher's face. -"Yes, ma'am," he bravely said ; we met Harry Barden, and stopped to play with him, and then we spilled the water on purpose and had to go back." Little friends, what was the difference between the answers of the two boy's ? Neither of them told anything that was not true. Which of them do you think the teacher trusted more fully after that? Aod wh:eb• was the happier of the two? Fact' not Generally Known. Melons were found originally in Asia. The cantalope is a native of Amorica.and is so. calkl from tne name of a place near Rome, where it was first cultivated in Europe. The nectarine is amid to hare received its name from nectar,the particulni-dritik ot the gods. Peas were originally brought from the East by the Romans. The grernegage is called after the Gage family, who first took it into England from a monastery iii Paris. Filberts originally came frOm Greece. The walnut is a native of Persia, the Caucasus and China. , ' The Greeks called butter bouiuroe— cow cheese. Before the middle of the seventeenth century tea was not need. in Edgiandiand was entirely unknown to the; Greeksand Romans. The bean is said to be native„of Egypt. • The cucumber was originally a trapi, cal vegetable. _ The pea is a' native of South Europe. Spinach is a Persian.plant. The tomato - is'a native if S • outhAiner, ice, and takes its 'Milne from an ;Indian word. The turnip came originally from Rome. - Sweet marjoram la a niative , of Fortin l Ba • - ()or/ander teed finni the East. , • The clover is a native of, the " Iltolueca felands,as also is the nub:neg. t. Capers originally,graw fit' Greece and NortherniAfrica.. . An exchange says that the' best , &tees for bOye to' piny marbles is at the store where they don't advertise,. the' only drawback belni that the players feel kind of lonesome. TERMS .—Two Dollars Per Year in. Advance. gome %leading. BE HAPPY AS. YOU CAN This life is not all sunshine, Nay is it yet all Showers, But calms and storms alternate, Ai thorns among the flowers ; And while we seek the roses, The thorns fell oft we scan ; Still let us, though they wound us, Be happy as we can. This lile haS heavy crosses, As well as joys to share, And griefs and disappointments, Which you and i must hear ; Yet, it misfortune's lava - Entombs Hope's dearest plan, Let us with what is Left ue Be happy as we can The sum of our enjoyment Is made of little things, As oft the broadest rivers Are made from smaller springs ; By treasuring small waters The nvers reach their span ; As we increase our pleasures, Injoying what we can. There may be burning deserts Through which our feet may go, But there are given oasis Where pleasant palm-trees grow ; As if we may not follow The path our hearts would plan, Let us make all around us As happy as we can. Perchance we may not climb with Ambition to its goal, Still let us answer present Where duty calls the roll; And whatever our appointment, Be nothing less than man ; And cheerful in submission, Be happy as we can. @ffl Sherry proper is a white wine, the produce of a district the whole of which lies within six teen miles of th e bay of cadiz. It takes its name from an English corruption (sherries, or sberris) of the name or the town (Jarez) which is most central in this district. Jerez de la Fronterajas its full name runs. and Puerto de Santa Maria (Port St. Mary's, as we have it) form between them the native sherry wine;mar ket, just as Beaver street and Broad street do with regard to the general wine market in New York. All the Shippers of legitimate sherry haw, thew headquarters in one or the other of these two towns. The term sherry, however, has of late years acquired outside of Spain a more general sig- nification, and has come to be applied to all white wine, from whatever district, shipit'ici from the bay of Cadiz. and hence under name there has been introduced here, shipped ; but certainly not by any firms in the towns we have mentionea, frUur , possibly whohoute, but with very littte more resemblana to the real thing than those other mixtures of potato spirit, Elbe water, and flav oring essences, shipped from a town of more northern latitude, whose name we have corrup ted into "humbug.' With neither of these abominations need we at present trouble our selves, except to say this: They have caused, from time to time, some confusion in the minds of our custom house ()Mauls by the apparently low values put upon them for duty, and the consequent exposure of their true nature has led theunthinking- portion of the community to suppose that Maltase they were shipped un der the name of sherry all sherry is of the same nature. But the officials have pretty well satis fied themselves that • the aforesaid values were rather ovor than under estimated, and even av- erage humanity has now recovered from the scare about shcrry,just as it recovered from that about champagne caused by the statement that some ingenious Belgian had learned how to make that seductive drink from petroleum So no great harm had been done, and all along the thoughtful citizen has known that if he wanted the real thing, whether in sherry,cham pagne, tea, or what not, and went to a decent ss‘m, and pidd a decent price for it, he would get the real thing, and of a quality correspond ing with its once So let us turn to the real thing. Unlike port wine, which is stopped when hs fermentation is half through by the addition of brandy, and which has a great portion of the sweetness of the grape thus retained in it, sherry.is a. hilly fermented wine. sew, i. e. dry, free !rein sweet ness. Hence the name, eherris sack, by which it was known in the days of Queen Elizabeth. At that time, and, we apprehend, up ,to the hlethneti treaty, any exceptionally sweet. tooth ed Falstaff bad to please his taste for himseff by putting...sugar-in his sherries That treaty,. how ever, which forced strong, sweet port down the throat, and gout into, the foot, of the patient Briton, changed also in the course of years his taste for sherry. There came when he no long er called for sherds sack, but for 'sherds sweet; and (need we'say f) the shipper politely com plied ;•t. e., he added to his natural dry wine such proportions orswcat wine anti wino,hrati dy as, lie found were required by the altered tastes of his chief customer., . This continued slid increased, so that in the 'days of the later Georges the average Briton's 'sherry had' come to be almost as provocative of gout as his port. • • • • • • - After the death of "the •first gentleman:: of Europe;! however,' - educated Englishnien, „at least, began to look fylion wine not so much ,as. a liquid on Which !Io get drunk as one, to be, moderately and intellectually • enjoYed,aild con sequently' the profforticin of 'sweet Ohio added toiholiigher grades Of sherry began tind con- . 'Biala to diminish tip• to the time-of "the Glad= stone act,7,which, levying , as it does duty on, wises according to their alcoholic strengtlli has led to the shipment to Englaild hi their natural slide of many of the white "vinos del pals" of the middle and south of Spain, and has' further' minced the sweetness .and strength of the av •ertige sherry of ,c,onamerce , . Whht we'. have said about the Englishmar ket must not be regarded as a, digression. : . It has a distinct bearing our Subject from' an American point of Our taste in' white wines; it is true, has riot been formed tin •a' taste for.'a 'red wine which may be -said to he it liqucir.-- It is true; also,that when we wilder wine we mean simply fermen-. tell juice of the grape, and that- When . we ru glike Something:stioriger We prefer cognac or bourbon: 'But it - must he borne in- mind that, the shipmentuf SherrY: being. in the bands of Englishmen, or Spaniards who Make the. Eng lish 'taste their _standard, It B. not -Unnatural. that these should have taken our .taste to be identical with that of - tar , cousins ituross' the, water, and that it iholild tate theta some time to &cover their eritir. 'Thip, has In elk et Wei • • _, ~,,, ' NUMBER 26. the case, and the consequence has been that tie .lately the lower grades of sherry-has been gen erally shipped to us, with the same proportion of sweet wine and brandy added to them es in the case of those shipped to the English mar ket, and that the consumption of average sher-. ry here has beensroportionately retarded. The' mistake, however, appears to have 'been dia. covered, and in some instances rectified. It is possible, even with our present rates of 44 , 40 get the smaller wines of "sherris" (as well as those nines fines and Amontglados. which, have always been obtainable by the rich connoisseur) in their dry, natural state at between two and . three dollars per gallon ; and, should a more moderate wine tariff be adopted,:we anticipate not only a very large increase In the consump lion of these and other genuine Andalusian wines of all grades, but the shouldering out of the Imitations of which we have spoken,wheth er they hail from Cadiz or Hamburg. PHANTOM INHERITANCES Thousands who have been duped into long and exhaustive haunts for phantom fortunes 'Remit) haye had little influence in deterring others from similar useless experiments- There is still some one in every village and city who Is ready to start, on the shortest notice, in put. suit of the pot of gold which is said to lie bur led at one end of the rainbow's arch, and who firmly believes that it has , been placed there by some supernatural power for his or her especial benefit. Everywhere one finds the credulous wight who is ready to sacrifice all his present resources in striving to discover some legenda ry title to a fabled estate, or in digging about the genealogical tree in the hope ,of finding some family record which shall prove a pass port to wealth and luxury. The fool-killer has not yet arrived in the world. Here is a little story which may eerye as an illustration. The other day a police constable, in a small English town, saw a German beg ging, and arrested him. The man seemed res pectable. and well educated ; so, when he 'was brought before the magistrate, a member of the "Charity Organization Society" appeared for his defence. The court was considerably as tonished to find that the beggar was in search of an Inheritance amounting to nine or ten mil ' lion dollars. that he was perfectly sane,. and that his act of beggary was caused by the mis erable circumstances to which he had been, re-. duced by his mad hunt alter the problematic fortune. The German, who had evidently be gun to despair of laying hands on the milUons which he considered' rightfully his, explained himself as follows : His name was Anton Haig mann, and he was horn In the province of. Cleves, in Germany. When a child, he hid heard a hope expressed by his pump that a large inheritance would soon cane to the fami ly. A dead and gone relative; who bad ACCIII3III - marvelous possessions in Surinam, who had owned a castle, and fields where cocoa and coffee grew, had visited London and Amster; dam shortly before his death ; and after be was ,I,na _it was. announced.thatbe_batcompltt!ed a will to his "confidential friend," bestowing 411 his money, save burial expenses, and ; alms lbr the poor, on his lawful relatiyes, Subsequently, a document was found among• the dead man's papers announcing that a sum of forty-five million francs had been deposited in London, and of this the poor German has been endeavoring for years to find some trace. Ho besieged the Queen of England with letters concerning the mysterious forty-five millions, but her Majesty's secretary manly advised him in reply to employ a respectable soliditor.= He spent the greater part of his little fortune In making careful researches in Holland and in Belgium, where, from time to time, SAY fleeting fortune was heard of under some new dis- • guise. He besieged the Dutch Colonial !litigators for intelligence of this mythical dead uncle's Hari nam estates. He starved in garrets while he employed law yers to investigate the case. 'Ho undertook long journeys, gave mp all other business, and became totally absorbed In the futile search:— But be never heard from the- "confidential irked" to whom tie will had been given. , ,The g overnment autlAiriticS in Holland assured him that no will such as the mysterious uncle wae supposed to have made could be found ; and that the Surinam estates had long ago been di vided among persons whose title to them was undisputed. This news. reached poor .Hall mann just as he had got to tbetottom of his parse in London., . So be began a painful- limey on foot to the sea cost, hoping there to find a chance to work his passage back to Germany, to-hide the ruin wrought by his illusions. Hunger finally drove him to beggary, and carried hum before' the magistrate, who wti kind enough, however, to-. give him some money,and Send him on his way , with a little wholesome advice as to the fool ishness of chasing will-o'-the-wisps in general, and supposed fortunes in particular. • • Many clever but unscrupulous men, in. Ger many. England, and America make handgun:to , livings by ( bbing the ,ears el the easily duped with sucli,stolies as that which. the unlucky. • Balffmann toliari believed. A mysteriously worded advcitinent In a corner of the country paper ; an interview with hail a dozen witnesses, each ot whom has. been In structed to tell some wonderful tale ; a little Appeal to family pride ; these are the baits or dinarily uicd,and the victims are siieedily hook a: Golden dreams make therorliappy, while . they are Spending the money Which they have • hi hopes of receiving, but which they will nev er get. Agents • make Jolly foreign tours at • rheir expense, but usually come ,home with nothing more tangible than fresh evidence, by means of which money Is drawn ken the ex 'pectantheirs., * , Strangely enough, the misguided - people who one* bavnbeen persuaded that they are to gain e fortune which has long anralted them •hy , some swift and process, rarely diseover- that they have been deceived. They but take it - very, much to heart that their couniel has failed to make goUti their 'claims, or that:the mach!. nations of setae unknown villians bite pprilik ed against them. - . Truth is always col:plat-eat with itself, and needs nothing to help it out; it is always near nt hand,and sits upon ear - lips, and liready to drop out before we' are aware; 'whereas a lie is troublesome, sets .a man's invention upon the rack ; and one trick needs a great many morn to make it good, . ,• ' . - - The modest deportinpt of those who ale _truly wise, when eontraited With - the assuming alr t of the young and ignorant,Aky be . conspar. ed to the diqempt appeauseces of Wheet,which, While Ile ear is empty, !midi up its head proud ly, but as soon as - it is tilled with - V(6, Wan modestly ddwn, and. Aid/draws itoni °burp tian,' ' • - 7 . ~, , ,
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