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rrici nr Bonninoi 4 Bonnr.a'8 snitsiiro,
ELM BTBXET, TtOSBSTA, PA.
TERMS, (2.00 A YEAR,
H 8borlptton recolvod ftr a sherter
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f the eonntry. No nolle will I taken pf
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TIONESTA, PA., MARCH 25, 187 1.
$2 PER ANNUM.
a
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
TI05E3TA LODGE
I. O.ofO. TP.
MEETS everv Friday evening, at 7
o'clock. In th Hall formerly oocupled
tor th Uood Templars.
J AS. WOODINQTON, N. O.
' A. B. KELLY, See'y. 27-tf.
Samuel D. Irwin,
ATTORNEY, COT7NSKLLOR AT LAW
and HEAL ESTATE AQKNT. Legal
tusin promptly attended to. Tionesta,
Pa. 40-ly.
, w wtoit mm.
XILtH W. TATB.
PKTTIS A TAT X,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Mimftrt. TIOXKSTA , PA .
W.W.Ksssa, &wrpi.lk,
tak T. awl .
Mason, aV JerKSi
ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Ofllee en Elm
Street, aboreValnut, Tiooeata, Pa.
K. W.Hays,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, and Notawt
Pvlic, Remold Iluklll A Co.'
JJloek, Beneoa St.", Oil City, Pa.- tf-ly
r, xiwinAa.
V, B. 1MILKY.
Jt IXXBJ tt A) SMILE?,
iMwuri at Law, ... Franklin, Pa.
PRACTICE In the aeTeral Court of Ve
nango, Crawford, Forest, and adjoin
ing eoaiilie. 39-ly.
. SARBII, . D. FABSBrT,
HARltlS A TAS8ETT,
Mruri at Law, TitusvUle Penn'a.
PRACTICE In all the Court of Warren,
Crawford, Forest aud Venango Conn
Wee. -tf
J. H. Helvly,
SUROKOX DENTIST, In Schonblom'a
Buildinr, between Centre aud Syoa
.mora Hi., Oil City, I'a.
All operations done In a careful manner
and warranted. Chloroform and ether ad
ministered when required If tho oase will
permit.
CENTRAL HOUSE,
BONNKitAAriNKWltLOCK. W. A.
UiLAKOs, Lcs-iee. This is a new
bouse, and has Just been fitted up for the
accommodation of the public. A portion
ef the patronage of the public Is solicited.
-ly
Lawrrc House,
TIONMTA, PA.. O. O. BUTTER
FIELD, PioraitTOH. This house
la eentrallv located. Everything new and
weU famished Superior accommoda
tions and slriet attention given to guesta.
Vegetablea and Fruits of all kinds served
a their season. Sample room for Cora
aerelal Agents.
FOIEST HOUSE,
T BLACK PROPRIETOR. Opposite
iJ. Court House, Tionoata, Pa. Just
pencil. Everything now and clean and
fre'h. The best of liquors kept constantly
n band. A portion of the public patron
age Is respectfully eolioitod. 4-17-lT
Tloneta House.
GT. LATIMER I.eseo, Elm 9t? Tlo-
nesla. Pa., at the mouth of t ho creek,
Mr. L. has thoroughly renovated tho
Tioaosta House, and re-fiimished It coin-
. I -. -I All .inlpil.il.fi ltlm Will hfl
fiOVfll T. ll !. ......w ...... - - "
svell e'riUrtained at rensonablo rates. 87-ly
National Hotel,
rniD10lTTE, PA., Benl. Elliott, pronrle
X tor. This house has been newly furn
ished and la kept in .good style. Quests
will be made comfortable here at reasona
ble rates. t Jy,
Dr. J. L. Acoirb,
nilYSIC'IAN AND SUROKOX.whohae
A had tiftecn yeare' -experience in a large
and auccessful practice, will auena an
t'rofessional Calls. Olllce in hla Drug and
tirooery'Ntore, located in Tidioute, near
lldioute iiouse.
IN IIIS STORK WILL BE FOUND
A full assortment of Medicines, Liquors
Oils. Cutlery, all of the best quality, and
will be aoi.t si reasonable raus.
1)K. CUAS. O. DAY, an experienced
Phvsieiau and Druggist from New York,
haa' charge of the Store. All prescriptions
put np accurately.
a. a. air. o. r. nm. . a uttr.
MAT, PAKK Jt CO.,
B .A. sC E 12 S
' Corner of Elnt.it Walnut Sta. Tionesta.
Bank of Discount aud Deposit.
Interest allowed on Time Deposits.
illeniens madeon all tbe Prineipal point
of the U. 8.
Colleotion soiloited.
18-ly.
'NEW BILLIARD ROOMS!
J DJOININO tho Tionesta House, at the
-TV mouth of Tionesta Creek. Tho tables
and room are new, and everything kept in
order. To lovers of the uino a cordial
Invitation is extended to com aud play
in (he new room.
;;7lf. i. T. LATl.M ICR, Lessee.
' io. W. CLARK,
(oOMMISSIONtlt b I'l.KRIi, FOnKST CO., TA.)
REAL ESTATE AGENT.
OL SES and LoU forSuleand RENr
r.
Wild Lands lor Sale.
I have Mipcrlor facilities for ascertaining
the condition of taxes and tax deeds, Ac,
and am therefore, qualinori to m-t inU'lli
courly as Hrcot of those living at a die
t:ur'n', owning lands in the County.
. oni'V) ui i inui'fsioiicra loom, Coui't
'H '!, Tionesta, Vb. . t
U -lv. W. CU1ft K.
Dr. J. E. Blaine,
o
FFIcn and residence opposite the
L.awrenee House, unlce dav Wotlnea-
dayi and Saturdays. 80-tf.
f. wests,
Una established a
new and complete LIVERY STABLE In
the barn In the rearnf the Lawrence House
and ia prepared to furnish rig of all kinds
on short notice. Orders left at the Law
rnnoe House will roceive prompt atten
tion. 88-ly.
THE BOOT & SHOE STORE
OIF1 TIZDIOTTTIT! I
NE. STEVENS. Proprietor. Parties
. in want of FINS Boots and Shoes will
always find a (rood assortment atNtovens'.
When you call, Just say " From Tionesta"
and you will be liberally dealt with.
0-Gin N. K. STEVENS.
FINE GROCERIES,
CHOICE CIGARS, TOBACCO, CANNE6
FRUITS, STATIONERY,
AND NOTIONS,
for sale at J. B. Ajrnew' Store Room, In
Bonner A Agnew's Block.
' .AJLSO.
FRESH OYSTERS, by the oan or serrcd
to order. ' 29 tf.
Frank Kobblnn,
PHOTOGRAPHER,
(SCCCKSSOR TO DKMISO.)
TPIatiAes in everr stvleof the art. View
of the oil region for sole or taken to or
der. ,
CENTRE STREET, near R, R. croaslng.
tJYCAMORE STREET, near Union De
pot, oil City, i'a. ttj-ir
WM. F. BLUM,
BLACKSMITH
)
AND
WAGON-MAKER.
, Corner of Church and Elm Streets,
TIONESTA 3? A.
This firm Is prepared to do all work In
Its line, and vvUl warrant everything done
at their shpa to give satisfaction. Par
ticular attention given to
JIOItSE-SHOElXG,
fcive them a trial, and yon will not re
gret It. 13-ly.
PHOTOGRAPH. ALLERY.
' , Wttir Strttt,
OVER IIILBRONNER A CO.' STORE,
Tionesta, Fa.,
M. CARPENTER, ... Proprietor.
Picture taken in all tho latest stvlea
the art. 20-t'
i:. ul Eirv,
TtorouTK, Pa.
Dealer in
Fin. Watches,
Clocks,
Jewelry,
Bpectaelts, eto.
All repairing in
this line ni'atlv d?ne
and warranted. Par
ticular attention paid
to the repairing of
Watches.
A-TTEISTTIOIST !
A REMOVAL.
We will remove our stock of
IIAIIDWARU, M TOY JEN,
TINWARE, IRON, NAILS,
FILES, BELTING, AND
ON THE FIRST DAY OF APRIL,
TO THE
Reynolds, Hukill & Co. Block,
SENECA STREET,
until which lime w will sell at
COST FOlt CAM II.
H. Ci. TINKER fc CO..OILCITY.'
BUILDING FELT
f No Tar used), for outtdde work and in
side, iuMteud of plaster. Felt Curpcliugs,
A':, frVnd t o .'l-ccnt stsmps for l irculsr
and i-ai"jl(".. t ', .1. J'A Y, 'indcH, N. iJ..
BATTLE BY .-HOONLIKIIT.
At the Camp Fire ia the Odd Fel
lows' Hall, on the 21st lilt., Maj. Nor
ris delivered what we pronounce the
best description of a night attack we
ever heard. Numbers of our brave
boy will recall that moon-lit May
night so richly and truthfully pictured
by the eloquent Norris, and we are
happy that we can now redeem our
promise tnade last week to give it to
our readers. It will rank high among !
the poetry and literature of our civil j
war:
Many of you, fellow-soldiers, re
member those terrible nights when
Hooker was contending with Lea in
the wilds of Chanccllorsville. How
full of peril and slaughter were those
nights, and hqw beautiful, too,' they
were! Even yet I can see the tremu
lous shimmering beams of the moon
stealing down through the boughs of
the trees, affording, hero and there, a
glimpse of the anxious, expectant f.iccs
gathered beneath their shadows, and
peering into the night for a sight of
the foe, while out upon the open field
in front, where the moon's pale Tight
lays in silvery silence, its rays glance
from the glisteuing arms of that foe
kefping the same quiet watch. Our
Major it at my elbow, and asks if I
observe how peaceful and calm it is.
Lying side by side, we commune to
gether in whispers, afraid to hear the
sound of our voices now pointing to
the delicious light as it trembles on
the leaves ; now startled by the shrill
cry of the whippnorwill as it breaks
upon the death like stillness, tud now
watching the shadows as they wierdly
dance over the ground to the music of
the breeze singing in the trees overhead
It is a lovely, peaceful sceue, where all
nature seems in sweet repose, and yet
here are gathered two mighty armies,
with all their cruel enginery of jvar
shotted and ready, standing like two
huge mastiffs, with nerves strung, teeth
set, and the eyes glariug into the un
certain light, waiting fur a chanco to
grapple with each other in death strug
gle. Suddenly the sharp report of a
musket awakens the echoes around. A
strange quiver thrills our frame; the
'poorwill stills its notes ; the shadows
seem to cease their play, and the winds
to be bushed ; and then there busts o,i
tho night a wild, demonio yell. Hi!
bit hi! until it deepens into a monot
onous refrain. "Heavens, you know
what that is," almost hisses the Major
into our ear, "the enemv are moviug
on us ; it is their tcrribfe battle cry.
Hi ! hi ! hi ! the earth seems to have
opened to let forth a legion of fiends,
so unearthly is that cry and, to ac
company it with a fitting chorus, a
score of cannon join the tumult and
shell the awful din. Shooting nod
yelling, we hear them coining, while
the earth shakes beneath their hurried
tramp. At this iuitant the moon
peeps from beneath a passing cioud,
aud a IlooU ot light reveals the gray
lines sweeping, madly over the held,
their eyes ablate, their bayonets poised,
aud their hands on the fatal trigger.
"Steady, men; ready, but reserve your
fire," shouts tho little Major, as we
spring toourfeet; and the sharp click,
click of the guulock is the quick re
sponse. "Lie low," rings from behind,
ai.d, a we hug the earth again, a lurid
blaze lights up the woods and field,
and from six iron throats is hurled,
screeching over our heads, a storm
of shot and shell that, plunging,
ploughing along, open great, bloody
gashes in the coming columns. Still
the hi! hi! hi! rings, unbroken and
defiant, upon the night; but then the
raised muskets are leveled, a gleam of
light flashes aloug our prostrate lines,
the grey ranks melt before the wither
ing fire, und, with loud cheers, regi
ment after regiment leaps from its cov
er and flings itself, in solid lines, upon
the foe. There is a short, sharp bloody
struggle, and the yell is heard uo more
and all is still again. The moonbeams
flit about as if naught had disturbed
their play, while the melancholy sigh
ing of the wind sounds more sadly
still as the musiu of its plaint mingles
with the groans and melting cries of
the wounded and dyiug.
Three times in one night did that
dreadful yell herald the coming of the
foe ; three times did they sweep over
that field; and three times, like as
phantoms at the approach of day, did
they waste awsy before the Bcathiog,
consuming fire of our guns. How
many young dead heroes were strewn
iu that field and woods on that fatal
night, lying thick together, with the
moon's cold light tenderly kissing
their pale, ghastly faces, upturned Co
the sky; and as each succeeding May
moon darts its penetrating rays through
the thick foliage of the same wilds,
and summons the shadows to their sel
fish sport, they hold their Dililukrlit
revels over the strait, green, graves of
scores ot those, dead heroes, w ho, un
known aud forgotten, qiretly sleep,
awaiting the final iiuislci' oil High.
i'vlfiinbiit ( lt.) Sjii.
A HANl'TlMOMOr POKKR N.AYEII.
About two years ago a Missouri riv
er seamhoat left for Fort BeDton with
a party of rough and well-to-do miners
on board. Among the passengers Were
also three or four "brace-men," and
before arriving at Sionx Cfly they had,
generally, cleaned out the pockets of
the miners. The boat stopped atWioux
City to wood up, ad fouud among
others waiting to get on board, a min
isterial looking, personage, with the
longest and most solemn countenance
on him' you can well imagine. He
was dressed in a suit ot black, wore a
white stovepipe hat and choker collar,
ornamented with a bluck neck hand
kerchief.
Well, he got on board, and the boat
started down tho stream. For two
day8 he was unuoticed by the passen
gers, but one of the sports at last
thought he saw a chance to make some
thing out of the sad and melancholy
individual. The latter would once or
twice a day step up to the bar, and,
with a voice that was as mild and gen
tle as a maiden's ask for "A glass of
soda, if you pleac," and then he
would pull out a roll of bills frem his
pocket and take out a quarter from
their interior layers. Then he would
say to the bai keeper, as if under a
thousand obligations. "Thank you
sir," and walk aft again as if about to
commit suicide.
This thing had gone far enough, and
the gambler I have spokeu of at last
approached him.
"VVould you like a game of seven
up, sir ?" -
"Seven up J What is seven-tip?
Please tell me, my good friend?"
"Why, game of cards, you know,
just to pass away tho time. Let ' us
play a game."
"My good friend, I do. not know
anything concerning cards ; I canuot
play them."
"Well, come along, we'll show you
how to do it." And the mild gentle
man in black after some further pro
tests, at length consented.
They showed bow 'twas done, and
they played several games. The gen
tleman in black was delighted. Gam
blers want to know if he plays poker,
five cent ante, iust for the fun of the
thing. Gentleman in black says he
can't play the game, but they explain
again, and the poker commences. Tho
gentleman iu black loses every time.
There are six men in the game. Each
one deals before the gentleman in
black, and ante bas been raised to a
dollar. Gent iu black deals awkward
ly and looks at his hand. Next man
to dealer bets five goes around, and
bets are raised to one hundred dollars.
Gent in black sees it and makes it one
hundred better. Gamblers look stir
prised, but will not be bluffed. The
bet had reached five hundred dollars
a thousand. All draw out except a
Pike's Peak miner, w ho sses and culls
biro: "What have you?" "Wall," an
swers the gent in black, "I havo let
me see. let me see waal, I have four
ones."
The gamblers, who have suspicioned
so mo time before, now look wild, and
the light begins to dawn in the miner's
mind. He leaned across the table
aud saii iu the most sarcastic tones he
could command.
"Oh, you heave, heave yer? You
d d sanctimonious shutlter."
. The gent got up from the table and
handed one of the gamblers his card.
It read, "Bill Walker, New Orleans"
one of the most successful sharpers
in the country. St. Louis Journal.
If we could only read each others'
hearts we should be kinder to each
other. If we knew the woes cd bit
terness and physical annoyance of our
neighbors, we should make allowances
for tbem which we do not now. We
go hiding our beart-pangs and our
head aches as carefully as we can ; and
yet we wonder that others do not dis
cover them by intuition. We cover
our best fecliugs from the light; we
do not so conceal our resentments and
our dislikes, of which we are prone to
be proud. Often two people sit close
together with "I love you" in either
heart, and neither knows it. Each
thiuk "I could be fond, but what is
the use of wasting fondness on one
who does not care for it?" and so they
part and go their way alone. Life is
a masquerade at which few uumask
even to their very dearest. And
though there is ueed of much mask
iug, it would be well if we dared show
plainly our real faces from birth to
death, for then so mo few at least,
would truly love each other.
Tho pupils of a girls' school in Pitts
burgh, out for their daily promeuade,
were recently mistaken for an ap
proaching band of temperance reform
ers, and their appearance was the sig
nal for a general closing upb!'t!ie sa
loons. .
Said a great Congregational preacher
To a ben i "You ro a bt-autilul creature!"
The hen Juxt for that
Laid two egg iu his hat
And thus did tho lleii-re-ward Beecher !
- H'l'lUH Adl f lli'ri-.
A t'AVJJ AM A COItPWK. j
Buckingham county has a sensation.
A wonderful cave has been discovered
there, which a writer in the Farmvillo
Mnrcury tells about. After describing
several chambers, the nccouut con t i ti -aes
: ""
"We had satisfied our curiosity and
were about to leave the cave, when
behind a large rock, or rather a spur
of the main rock which formed the
bottom, my son discovered a larger
passage than any we bnu before seen.
This we entered, an 1 after following it
for some seven feet, entered iuto an
apartment of immense size. --The light
of our torchev fulliug upon the
stalactitics, revealed a scene of beau
ty which was fairly dazzling. The
size of this apartment I cannot tell, as
the roof and sides were lost iu dark
ness. We penetrated to a considera
ble distance, keeping close to one of
the sides so that we might easily fiud
our way back, and would have gone
further but lor finding in a recess,
some seventy feet from where we en
tered, lying directly under a shelving
rock, the body of a man wrapped in
some dingy cloth-like substance. We
did not know it was the body of a man
at first, and were, not positive that it
was until we had gotten it outside the
cave.
"Mr. Boyd discovered the body,
and when we moved it from under the
rock, my sou found several large r.nd
beautiful pebbles where the body
had lain, and a small round vessel
somo four inches in diameter and
about two inches in height, shaped
very much like an inkstand with n
handle ; this and the stones or pebbles
he put in his pocket. We look the
the body at once and went out of the
cave. The cloths with which it was
wrapped were very rotten, and when
we laid the body down after leaving
the cave they had nearly all been rub
bed from it. What were left crumbled
like burnt paper.
"We brushed the body clean and
found it to be the dried-up remains of
a man who had evidently been of more
than ordinary size, for I found it to be
by actual measurement five feet nine
inches in length. It is dried and with
ered something like dried meat,1 only
the skin is tightly drawn over it. It
is hard to t lie touch, and wherever
there is a wrinkle it is bard like parch
ment. "It is impossible to form any idea
of what color the man was or what his
features were like. The body now is
a sort of smoky color, and the hair,
though there is little of it, is intense
ly black. On the second finger of
each hand and on the thumb of the
right were large square xiugs, . rouud
on the inside to fit the finger. These
rings and the small vessels I have re
ferred to were evidently of gold, with
a large quantity of some kind of alloy
bioh gave thcra a very peculiar ap
pea ranee.
" We took the body to my house,
where it is now. When we arrived
with it there, my son bethought him
of the pebbles he had found aud
showed them to us. There are seven iu
all ; five are richly colored and unlike
anything else I have ever seen. The
other two, I thiuk are diamonds; they
possess in a very bigh degree the pow
ers of reflection and refraction, and
are about the size of a cornfield pea."
Lynchburg Virginian.
A Lucky Hit. A French noble
man, observing bis tenant about to de
stroy a fine, thrifty pear tree, inquired
the cause. He was told that it was a
chance seedling, and had borne no
fruit iu twenty-five years. He had
already cut its roots' preparatory to
the first stroke, but was ordered to let
it remain. He did so, aud in the fol
lowing year it was loaded with superb
fruit of an entirely unknown variety,
which at once became celebrated. The
root pruning the gardener had given
it worked like a charm. Not many
years afterward the Duchess d'Au
gouleme waB passing through tho city
of Lyuus, and its inhabitants sent to
her their hospitalities. JNioe tuir
maidens presented the Duchess with
golden salvers, on which lay heaped
this precious fruit, and begged tier to
bestow on it her name ; aud the pear
now recognized as the crowuing glory
of all fruits was thenceforward known
as tho Duchess d'Augouleuie.
We met with this witty nr.d unan
swerable retort iu the sketch of a short
trip through a portion of Ireland. The
writer In convetsing with his ear-driver
asked him: "You are a Catholic, Jim
my r "Yes, yer honor." "An J you
pray to the Virgin Mary?" "I do,
yer honor." "Well, there is uo doubt
she was a good woman; tbe Bible
says so. But she may have been no
belter than your mother or mi no."
"That's true, yer honor; but then
you'll allow there's a mighty difference
in their children."
An organ grinder, with usUtve pipe
bat ami kid gloves, created a sensation
iu Bo.ston i weiil I v.
MAW MUX.
The operation of sawing by hand is
simplo but very laborious, and men
must at an early period have songht
for some means of setting machinery
to work for the purpose. According
to Beckmaiin, saw mills, driven by
water power, were erected so early as
the fourth century in Germany on the
small river Itoer or liuer. Saw mills
do not appear to have been common
until about the fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries. After noticing their erec
tion in certain parts of Europe' tho
learned writer says: "In England saw
Hiiills bad at first the ame fate that
printing had in Turkey, the ribbon
loom in the dominions of the church,
and thexrane at Straasburg. When
attempt? were made to introduce them,
they were violently opposed, because
is was apprehended that tbe sawyers
would be deprived "by them of their
means of getting a subsistence. For
this reason it was found necessary to
abandon a saw mill erected by a
Dutchman near London in 1663 and
in the year 1700, when one Houghton
laid before the nation the advantages
of such a mill he expressed his appre
hension that it might excite tho rage
of the populace.. What he dreaded
was actually the case ia 1767 or 1768,
when au oppulent timber merchant, by
the desire and approbation of the So.
cicty of Arts, caused a saw mill driven
by wind, to be erected at Linnbouse
under the direction of James Stans
field, who had learned iu Holland and
Norway tb,e art of constructing and
mati'.igiug machines of that kind. A
mob assembled aud pulled the mill to
pieces; but. the damage was fliade
good by the nation, and some .of the
rioters were punished. A. new mill
was afterward erected, which was . uf
fered to work without molestation,aud
which gave occasion to the erection of
others. It appears, howevtr, that this
was not the only mill of the kind lu
Britain, for one driven nhof by wind
had been built atLeith, iu Scotland,
some years before ' '
Old Deacon Meekful, of New Bed
ford, is a passiouato roan, even if he ia
pious and good. Somo months since
the deacon was attacked ' with rheu
matic fever and suffered terribly for
some weeks. As soon as ho could get
out he hobbled to the bank where bo'
kept au account, and was greeted by
the cashier, with a friendly smile.
"Why, deacon," said . the cashier,
"Where have you been for some weeks?"
"Sick, sir," growled the deacon, who
supposed the questioner shook! have
known that he had beeu sick.:. "What
was tho matter, deucon," the cashier
asked, not seeing the savage frown on
the old fellow's face. "Rheumatic
fever, sir," was the short answer, "In
deed 1 Now tell me deacon is the rheu
matic fever a paiuless disease?"
"Painless I" roared the deacon; "yes
sir, damnod painless. It is one of the
most pleasaut diseases I ever had io my
life, von cursed, etorual fool." Tbe
cashier asked uo more questions that
uiorciog.
A courtier of Alexander the Great
paid a visit to the studio of Apelles
the celebrated painter, and was receiv
ed with the consideration duo to his
rank. This excited his vanity, and"
unhappily he talked about the art of
painting, exposing his Ignorance in a
variety of questions and criticisms.
Apelles interrupted him at length in
a low voice : "Do you see those boys
that are grinding my colors? While
you were silent, they admired you, daz
zled -with the splendor of the purplo
and gold with which your habit glit
ters; but evei siuce you began to talk
about what you do not understand,
they have done nothing but laugh at
you."
Rowland Hill when preaching ou
tho government of the temper said:
"I once took tea with an old lady who
was very particular about her china.
The servant uufortunately, broke tbe
best bread and butter plate; but her
mistress took little notice of the cir
cumstance at tho time, only remark
ing, 'Never mind, Mary; accidents
cannot be avoided.' 'My word, but
I shall have it by and by,' said the
girl when she gut out of the room.
Aud so it turned out. The old lady's
temper was corked up for a season,
but it camo out with a terrible venge
ance when the oompany retired." ,
An old farmer employed a sou of
Ei iu to work for him ou his farm. Put
wus coustautly misplacing the end
boards in the cart the front board be
hiud and the tail board in fronhich
made the old gentleman very irritable.
To prevent bluuders he painted on both
boards a large 'JV then calling Pat to
him and showing him tho boards, said,
"Now, you blockhead, you need make
no mistake, as they are now both mar
ked. This (pointing to one board)
is 'li' for befuro, and that (indicating
tho tail board) is 'IV for bchind'wherc
upon tho old gentleman marched oft'
with great dignity.