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With a testi monial circular, presenting a great mass of evidence as to tue superiority or luose in struments, to any one sending his address to MASON A llAMl.IN ORGAN CO., 151 Tremont Street, Boston, os CM Broad way, N. Y. 30-H mmm li y Kev. T. Dk Witt Tai.maok, Tho most Popular Preacher iu America. Agents wanted everywhere, mule or fe male, to sell this great work, is better than Murk Twain, ami no trouble to sell. Big Profits. Send lor terms and illustrated I page circular, Evans, Stoddurt A Co., Pub lishers, No. 710 Sausoui 1st., Philadelphia. 4t EST that Right inakos Might ; and TIONESTA, Belle Alden's Traveling Bag. A train bound for St. Louis lind just left the depot of Belleibntine, when a gentleman entered the smoking car and laid his hand upon the shoulder of his traveling companion a tall, hand some man of thirty, who eat musingly blowing rings ol smoke into the air. "Marcy," 8nid the new comer, "if you want to see at once the sweetest and saddest sight you ever beheld, go into the last car hut one tho train. There's an emigrant German woman , with four children, and during the af-. The mother and the other children are inconsolable." "I tan understand." interrupted tlio smoker, "sudness of euch a scene, but where is tho sweetness you spoke of? "I'm coming to that. The whole party havo been taktn in charge by a young lady. Such a beauty 1 She dried the mother's tears and wiped the chil dren's noses. She's a divinity! She only needs a few feathers on her shoulder-blade to make a full-fledged angel of her. If I was not a married man, I'd never leave her till I'd made Mrs. Angelica Townsend of her." "That's a speech which I shall faith fully report to Mrs. Agnes Townsend," said the gentleman addressed as Mar cy, rising. "I shall go hack and feast my eyes on this beautiful 'Sister of Charity,' and," ho added, taking his traveling satchel and shawl from the rack, "as we stop at the next station, which is due in ten minutes, I may as well take my traps through with me, anil join you on the platform." Thus saying, Richard Marcy threw his shawl over his sholder, and saun tered leisurly through the long train rushing blindly and and calmly to his fate. For, as lie entered the last but one car, he became a witness and an actor in the scene that influenced his whole future life. . The poor, grief-stricken German, of whom his companion, lit. lownsend, had spoken, with the dead infant in her arms, sat silently weeping over the little dead face. ' Tho three sturdy children grouped in childish sorrow about their little dead brother, was indeed a touching spectacle. But standing beside them was the divinity of Dr. Townsend's admiration, and she who was most cer tainty to "share ends" with the unhap py Richard. She was a tall, slender girl of eighteen, with magnificent eyes and hair. Ass he entered the car she was speaking, her lovely fuce flushed, and the small rosy mouth disclosing a beautiful set of teeth, turned Lew i tell ingly toward thet all stranger at the door. "Ladles and gentlemen," said the sweet voice, "this poor woman, frieud- less, speaking no English, with four little children, was expecting tu find work in St. Louis to support them. If everything had gone well with her, it would have been hard : but with her ' little dead bnhy and sorrowing heart, ( she is certainly a deserving object of charity ; and 1 propose that such as fuel willing will contribute their mite toward a little purse for her immediate wants and the burial of he. poor baby. And," she added, with a bewitching smile, "if any gentleman will leud me a hat, I will go rouud and take up a collection." In an instant the gallant Richard pulled his (ravelling cap from his blonde curls aud offered it to the augcl of mercy, t ho accepted it with a smile, this time all his own, and commenced gathering the reudily forthcoming dol lars' her generous, graceful appeal brought from tho purses of all iu the car. Richard watched the slender figure in gray gather the money, and, looking st tlie plaid cap in white jeweled fingers, he bethought him of his dona tion, and stepping to the neat she had just occupied, he laid his satchel and shawl upon a family of iu kind, be longing to the angel in gray, and took from his pocket a ten dollar bill, which he placed in the little hand that re turned him hi cap. Further damage the poor fellow received, when a smile and warmly-worded thanks for his con tributiou were dealt from the beautiful mouth. Dick was in the midst of an elabo rate reply, when the cars stopped. He lingered yet anot'ier moment, seized his satchel and shawl with his eyes on the face of his charmer, aud then, even as the cars were atraiu in motion, he bethought himself of the doctor, and hurriedly left the car and joined his friends on the platform. "Well," ejaculated the worthy, "I began to believe you'd concluded to go and bury the dead baby, and make the protecting beauty Mrs. Angelica Marcy. Dii't she a stunner?" "Townsend," returned his friend, "don't use slang in speaking of the no ble creuture." He looked after the train just disappearing in the distance,. "I wish to heaven," he continued, "I d remained aboard. How stupid I Hits to leave it. I micht have learned her I name ami residence. And now " I ' Now, iu all probability," broke in the doctor, "you II never meet her i it this vale, of tears. But you'll know her in heaven, if you behave yoursulf -Republican. in. that Faith let us t tho end, dare do our duty as wo understand PA., TUESDAY, MAY i3, 1871. well enough to get there by her wings; she'll have the biggest o them all see ing they've commenced :o sprout on earth." Aud thus rallying hi thoroughly captivated friend, the tw made their way to the house of an Acquaintance, with whom the were tol remain that night, and go on next dw to their des tination St. Louis. j After the first salntattin, our hern went of his room to relove some nf tho evidences of his hiig ride from New York. He had removed his coat and vest collar; he had Splashed aud washed, till his damp cu Is clung close to his shapely head, when he made a startling dijeovery. Flusbod oi.d breathless, lie burst in to the next room upon his friend. "lownsend, cried he, "what upon earth do you suppose? I've got the wrong bag; I ve changed bnggage with the angel of mercy. Look at the slipper. See that thimble. Contem plate that glove I" "It's evident you've got the lady's satchel. Aud what was there in yours ?" "Don't bring up that dreadful idea," said Dick. "Cigars and a lmir-htush, a pack, of cards, pocket-flask and a tooth-brush everything disreputable. If I am judged by that bag, I'tri a lost man." "Aud this I took for a clean shirt," and Dick held up a frilled and fluted sack, such as do duty for more exten sive nignt dresses with ladies when traveling. "I'd like to see Angelica when she opens my satchel." Aud Dick fell to musing, with the slipper perched on two fingers, and the frilled white laces pread out tender ly on his knees. Iu the upper apnrtmeut of a hand some mansion in St. Louis, on the evening of the day our heroine first made the readers acquaintance, beau tiful Belle Alden, the petted and only daughter of the house, sat contemplat ing the various articles ber confiden tial maid was disposing upon the ta ble articles taken trom no less a re' ceptacle than Dick Marcy's traveling bag. The cards and cigar case lay side by side, and a highly scented party they were. "What's in the little silver flask, Rosa, said the the fair mistress. "Brandy, ma'am," replied the maid. "He can t be very dissipated to trav el with such a little bottle. That's in case of sickness, I suppose," returned Helle. "It's my belief," said Rosa, who was a shrewd girl, "that the geutleman was a mighty nice one. else you'd not so readily excuse the cards and the but tle." "For shame, Rosa. All gentlemen play euchre, traveling, and even cler gyineu take a little brandy in case of sickness, answered iielle. "Aud this man is a gentleman, and a liberal one, too, for he gave th i poor emigrant wo mail ten dollars. What's that, Rosa?" For at that moment Rosa held be tween her fingers a letter. Whether it was wroug to read a stranger's letter vexed Belle for a mo ment, as her eye glanced at the super scriptiou and haudwri'ing. "Why, of all things!" exclaimed the delighted girl, seizing the letter. "Why-, Rosa, this is Jenny Marcy' writing, and addressed to Xtichard Marcy her only darling brother who was in Europe when vt two grau tiated at Maduru Kit tor's, ia Brook lyn." Belle r.nd rapidly till she reached the middle of the letter, when she burst into A ;nt rrr lauirh. "Hear this, Uosa," she said, and she read from the letter: "Above all things, Dick, dear, don't fuil while in St. Louis to see my best 1 1 lend and schoolmate, Utile Allien ! know you' will fall in love with her, fur, besides being the best girl in the world, she s a beauty and an heiress, and father's choice above nil others for his son's wife. He useJ to talk it over nt home, un I hoped Belle wjuld not marry before you came homo from Kuropo. She is full as anxious to know you, and wears your hair and mine in a locket futher gave her lust year. Give her lots of love, and beg her to overlook your many tmperfec tions for the sake of her old school fel low. Jennv." "Then this gentleman is, of course, MiS3 Jeunv brother, said Kosa, aud what will she say when she hears nf your having met in a romantic way r "I don't intend to tell her of it till I go to New York this Fall," said Belle. "IVrhups her brother will call." But in this supposition Belle war wrong. The month passed, and she sav no moreof the golden haded inch ard. She carefully separated tho yellow lock in the little kcepuke from the dark tress of Jenny's, and put it hack into it's place alone, whillo another locket held a piece of Jenny's. And somehow, Belle looked very, very often at the wee, golden curl, mid alio never iliil so but the rent of the handsome head sprung up beside the locket; and ; she would sit und contemplate the pic j tore her fancy had wrought for her.lit ' tie dreatiiing tLa interest fcbo was al lowing to grow in her bosom for Jen ny's brother. In the rail, lclle nnj her father went to New York, and the first dav after her arrival foucd her sitting with her old friend, who, after the evasivi meeting, sat down to empty her soul 1 am so clad you are here this month," Jenny said, "because I'm to be married in October, and I have al ways been crazy to have you for'hrides roaid, and Dick is to be Harry's best man." Belle blushed. But Dick has fallen hopelessly, madly in love." Belle turned pale. "Yes, I was dreadfully provoke! when he passed through &t. Louis, and never went near vou. But be went wild over some lady be met on that fa tal trip. "lie will talk to me by hours of Angelica. And when 1 have spoken of you he has been positively rude, and tsked me to have done bothering him about my freckled school friends you kuow your picture shows freckles: but bless me, you haven't any now. And your picture don't look any more like yofl than it does me, not a bit." But tell me, asked Belle, "is your brother engaged to this lady?" "Engaged 1 V hy, dear heart, he don't know her name. He just found some of her old clothes somewhere. He's got her old slippers under a glass case; he's got her gloves stuffed uuder another, he's got her nightgown done up in lavender; lies got ber gold thimble hung on his watch-chain ; and I do believe lie's got a hair-brush and aud some hair-pins next his heart ! Oh, it's folly to interfere! He's beyond all hope! I did think the excitement of my wedding would wean him from it, but not a bit of it. He looked at niv uew things as calmlv as an oyster. and only said it is not kind of me to repeat it, though, broke off Jenny. "What was it lie said? inquired Belle, laughing now heartily, "Don't lear tor my leelings. "Why," lie said, "I'll stand up with yoiir friend Belle, and see you safely married ; and then I'm off to winter iu Paris. I m done with love on my ow account, it s positively awful. And so Belle thought, as she look ed at her on slipper and glove lying beneath a globe on either side of the faithful Richard s mantle. ' "Aud," said Belle "since ho desires only to meet me on the morning of the wedding, so it shall be. I will be in troduced only as we are leaving the house, and he can do as he pleases about continuing the acquaintance af terwards. Bello was radiant with happiness when she returned to her father, and delighted his fond heart by the change, for she had been very quiet of lafe: Jenny and Belle shopped and talked and visited together for tho next few days, aud when the eventful morning arrived, and amid a bevy of beautiful girls, Belle shone like a queen, the bride was eclipsed, and delightfully acknowledged it. "Oh, Belle!" she said, "I long to have old stoical Dick see you. Hark ! there's his step. Come into the next room now ami be introduced. Don't wait till the carringes come it is au hour yet. And Belle, with a beating heart, swept through the door and stood even as Dick first saw her, only in the place of the gray traveling dress, a magnifi cent white satin fell in rich folds about her, .and upon her lovely white throat lay the turquous locket that held Dick's golden curl. Upon the beautiful head, crowned by its chest nut hair, a coronal of pearls added to that grace and beauty of a:i image that, shrined in Dick's heart, was ai re? dy an angel. Belle did not look up, but she felt the presence, as Richard Marcy came up and was iatroduced to little Jenny's old schoolmate. Then, as he held out his hand, she raised her eyes, and laid her tiny hand in his, and said : "I think we had better rectify that mistake about the traveling bags, Mr. Marcy !,' "Good heavens, Jenny !" said Dick Marcy. "Why didn't you tell me that your friend Belle was my angel of mercy?" "Because I didu't kuow it till last night, and then Belle made me promise not to tell. And, besides, you didn't want to meet the freckled school girl till it was positively necessary," returned Jenny inischieviously. It would be hard to say which of the four that made Jenny's bridal party was the happiest that day. Dick did not go to l'a r is that winter. He found that St. Louis contained more attraction than any foreign city. But the next fall will see Dick aud Belle on their wedding tour, and be vows he will have the two romantic traveling bugs brushed up for the occa sion. Dr. Townsend, who is to be along, says be knew the minute he saw the girl she would one day bo Augeli ca, as he "felt it in the air." I A good story is told of a German shoemaker who having mudu a pair of boots for a gentleman of whose finan cial integrity he hud considerable doubt, made the following reply to him whi u he culled for the ui'ticles: "Der pool ih not quight doue, but dur bill I ish made out.' if--LINCOLN. $2 PER ANNUM. DRUNK. Drnnk ! Young man, did vou ever stop to think how terrible that word sounds? Did you ever thank what misery and woe you brought upon your friends when you degraded your manhood by getting drunk? loung man, did you ever for a moment stop and think how you looked in the tyca of respectable people and christians, when drunk? Hear lam as he reels along the street, asking God to damn his soul. Suppose they should have their drunken words heard aud an swered? How ninny thousand would daily have their souls damned? Oh! it is a fearful thing to trample tinder foot the high claims that Und and man have upon you. Drunk! Haw it rings iu the enr of a loving wife! How it makes the heart of a fond mother bleed! How it crushes out the hopes of a doting father, nnd brings reproach and shame upon loving sisters! See htm as he leans against some friendly house. Drunk! He stands ready to fall "into the open jaws of hell, uneoti ecious as lo his approaching fate! The young wife, witlLtcarlul eyes and ach ing heart, sits at the window to hear her husband a footsteps, but alas! they come not. He is drunk ! The husband the parent, is drunk, spending his time and money wheu he should beat horn t-njnying the p'.asures and comforts of the family circle. Drunk ! He is spending the means of support for liquor, while his family is starving for bread, and his childien sutlenng lor clothing. Drunk! His reputation is going, gone! His friends, one by one, are reluctantly leaving him to his miserable, late. He goes down to his giave "unhonored and unsung." No oue cares when he dies; he is nothing but a drunkard. Drunk I Ood have pity on the drunkard. Drunk! young man, think of the lite which you are now leading, and turn from it before you become a confirmed drunkard, scorned nnd scoffed at by all respecta ble people. Drunk! Drunk!! A letter written by tho Hon. Horace Greeley to the Iowa Press Association has beeu variously interpreted. The generally accepted translation runs as follows: I "Tribune Office, N. Y.( April 18, '71. Dear Sirs: I have wondeied all long whether any d n squirt had denied the scandal about the Pres't meeting Jane in the woods oil Saturday. 1 have hominy, carrots and R. It. ties more than I could move with eight steers. If eels are blighted dig them early. Any insinuation that brick ovens are dangerous to hams gives me the horrors, ureclcy. But an Iowa editor who has worked many years as a type-setter in the New York Tribune oflice, contends that the proper readiug is this : "1 have waited till longer waiting would seem discourteous, and now de cide that I cannot attend your Press meeting next June, as I would gladly do. 1 find so many cares and duties pressing upon me, that with the weight of years, I feel obliged to decline nearly every invitation that takes me over a day's journey from home, youn among them. Horace Greeloy." At last accounts the controversy on the subject was very warm. An English Court Reception. Of late a concession on the score of costume has been made in favor of the gentlemen ; ihcy can go to Court now without putting on silk stockings ami knee-breeches, All they have to do is to turn up the collar of their coats and put a littlesilver braid round it, and another bund of silver down the seams of their best bluck trowsers, and thou they are in full dress for Court. But tor the ladies, full dress still means the undress of eveuings, and it is impossible to conceive any thing more melancholy than tho long string of carriages in St. James' Park, on a drawing-room day in spring, fill ed with half-naked women, with pallid waxen cheeks and red noses, half awake from last night's ball, shivering in the bleak wind aud wailing the slow advance of the procession, amid the cynical scrutiny and hrtitit! jeers id' the street luds: "Oh, my, here's a fat 'un," c'ics one ; "Lo'.Jack, ain't sho a bag o' bones," exclaims an'otlier, us the fine ladies are passed in review. Courts of justice in Havana have a low standard of decorum. In the Sit- fireme Court at Ilavumi, two Judges ad a squabble in the entrance hull, in the course of which one slapped the face of the other. With a disregard of the requirement ef their oflice char acteristically Spanish, these judicial swaggerers proceeded early iu the mor ning, to etui the dillcrence. by a duel with swords. We have the gratifying intelligence that neither was hurt, nnd that they breakfasted together after obtaining the "honorable i-atisfactioti." It is added that other duels are ou the Utjii. It is highly probable that such ev juts will becomu the rage nficr re ceiving tho indorsement of the Bench. The Indies who will gufl for hours upon statuary and puintin;r, whi h represent iiature, and then lui it at the mention of a leg, do what hi gencr.tlly called "stvulbw a cauuS und choko :t . g:i!,t." Rates of Advcrtisia?. rneSqiinr(t Inch,) one insertion... f I 'n One Square " one in"iit h i l" OiieMnnnro " iinrcc iuoihls... " One Square " oin year.. Two Sqnnrr.One year.... OtinrterC"!. " :vt co V-0 f Half " " Olio " " Business Cnrdfl, not exceeding one laoh In length, $10 per your. Legal notices at established raid. These rates are low, and no dovin'.ini vill be made, or discrimination a:n r.g pntrnnn. Tlio rates otlcrrd r such, will make it to the advnntngnof mu d r business in the limits of tlio circulalk'i of tlie imi'cr to advertise liberally. Labor Conducive to Long Lifs. In view of tho short daraiic:! c( life entailed by some occupation.-, it must be regarded as a consoling, '"-. a sublime fact, that labor in genfral does not tend to shorten life; but, on the contrary, by strengthening hei.lt ii, lengthens life; while, ou the oihcr hand, idleness and luxury aro produc tive of the results as the most un healthy occupations. Dr. Guy, uu Englishman, in calculating the avor ago duration of life of the weul'l.y classes, arrived at tho very surpi.,i:!0' result, with regard to adults, that tlm higher positions in the social scale, t.'m more unlimited their means, tho Usa also the probability of a long life. We have so long been accustomed to consider the poscssion of riches as the best guarantee for physical welfare that many will be surprised to bear from Guy that "tlie probability of the duration of life lessens, with regard to the adults in each class of the popula tion, in the same degrees as tho b- ;.e ficial impulse of occupation is lacking. If a person who for a long time has lived an active life, retires from busi ness, it may be taken for granted, witi; a probability to ten to otic, that he had seized the most effective means to short en his life." AVe mny smile at tho soap-maker, who, after having for mally retired from business, went, nev ertheless, on each day of soap-boiling in his workshop ; but it must also bo acknowledged that his instinct did net mislead him. Of all conditions of life, idleness is hardest for nntuie to combat; and this is especially true of persons who havo accustomed their, selves t busy life. A California editor warned by re cent events, turns over a new social leaf in these words: "All men's wives who have hither to enjoyed the advantage of our ac quaintance, are hereby notified th:tt this ceases to-day never to be renewed. Somebody porishes ingloriously every day for being on speaking terra3 wita married women, and we do not care to have our turn come round. Deeply gratified for tho past forbearance of aggrieved husbands, we make our bow and retire. Hereafter our nods aud smiles will be lavished upon girls and widows exclusively; and no otherj need apply. Whoever shall attempt to introduce bis own wife, or any man's will be regarded as a conspirator against our precious life, and subjected to abuso iu the columns of this jour nal." A Boston trader called at a house in Maine some time ago to buy cheese, but when he came to look at the lot, he concluded not lo take it, as it w:n so full of skippers. As he was goiig off, the farmer said to him: "Loci; here, how can I get my cheeso to Boston the cheapest?" The track r, took another look at the cheese, nii.l seeing more and more evidence of Ho being alive, replied : "Well, let -it be for a day or two longer, and I guesj you can drive it down." Boys will bo boys, any way you can mix'em up. At Altoona, Pennsylva nia a youth had his pocket full of gun powder, and as he was smoking a cigar stump he saw his mother coming, eo he hastily thrust the cigar into his pocket. The old lady couldn't find , enough of her Johuny for the coroner to hold an inquest over. She says she never believed iu spirits until she saw her boy disapperso sudden from before her face and eyes. A disguised bully nt New Pal tz, N. Y., taking offense at something he had seen in the Times, of that placo, recent ly entered the sanctum to bounce the editor. He made known his errand, aggregated his forces for an attack, moved with vehemence upon the editor and after a short but very entertaining skirmish, waj most effectually stood on his littlo head, then wafted out of the oflice in advance of a No. 8 boot pitch ed to the key of Oh! A young British office in Iudia, who was shockingly mutilated and disfig ured iu battle, after mature reflection., requested a comrade to writo tu Ins be trothed in England, and releasa her from tho bridal engagement. Her uo bio reply was worthy of a true womau : "Tell him if there is enough of his body left to contain his soul, I shall hold him to his engagement." An ins.mco woman rushed into o school-rom in Richmond, Ya., a few days ngo, and told tho affrighted teach er that she hud been sent to teach tlio children gymnastics, and tho teacher bein' nfiuid to object, she put tho children through a series of tlm most extravagant antics, afur which sho quietly departed. A Pcekskill man writes t'ue editor of the local sheet that "youl pit yur lied punched if vou print in yur paper that my yf h:ni twins." Tlio lVel: skid man has our sympathy. To be mudo a plural father at ono fell swoop is enough to give utiy man a "Lad spell." A gentleman in this Stale had a re cept'ou at his linitso the other cwuin. an I when the gtiets went awr.y, it t k tlio host all night to w ish the t.tr uik: puk tV' f.'r.'-.r.-