SAW LEY & CRUSER, Edit Ors and Proprietors.
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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;' . .
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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
• •
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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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