The Tioga Oouuty Agitator:
Br M. H. 0088.
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i as. low key & s. f. Wilson,
ArrOHNEYS & COUNSELLORS at LAW,
will attend the ■ Courts of Tioga, -Putter and
McKean counties. [Wellsboro, Jan. 1,1863.]
J()HH I. MITCHELL, ,
Attorney and counsellor at law,
Tioga Village, Tioga County, Pennla. "
Prompt attention to Collections. - ( '
March 1, 1865.-ly.
JEROME B. MILES, '
inORNBT & COUNSELLOR AT tlw, ■
Wellsboro, Tioga Coon tv, P*-,;
giving been specially licensed by the United States
for the Prosecution of, Claims for Pensions, Baob
Pay and Bounties. • / t "
Particular attention will be given to that class ol
business. ' J. B. NIDES. ,
Wellsboro, Fob. 15,i18f15-ly* # :
pfntrsYLTuriA house:*
OOHNER of main street and thb avenue.
Wdbfctrs, Pa.
j. \V. BIQONY,
THIS popular Hotel, having been re-fitted
and refurnished throughout, ie now open to the
public as a first-class house. A good hostler always
on hand.. [Jan. 1,;1865.] ■
D. HART’S HOTEL,/ -
WELLSBOBO, TIOGd CO. PENN A.
THE subscriber takerthis method to inform
his old friends and easterners that he has re
sumed the conduct of the old " Crystal fountain
Hotel,” and will hereafter give it his entire attention.
Thankful for past favors, ho solicits a renewal of the
same. ■ jDAYIB HART,
Wcilsboro, Nov. 4, 1865.-ly.
. IZAAK WALTON HOUSE,
Gaines, Tioga Comity,‘Pa, , >
H. C. VERiIILYEA,... Proprietor.
THIS is a new hotel located within easy ac
cess of the best fishing and hunting grounds in
Northern Pennsylvania. No pains will be spared for
the accommodation of pleasure seekers and the trav
elling public. [Jan.
H. W. Wiixiams,
WILLIAMS A SMITHS
ATTORNEYS AND GOV A SELOUS A % EA W,
BOUNTY & PENSION AGENCY.
Main Street. Wellaboro, PfJ
January 4, 1865-ly. ' ;
S. F- SHAIBLIN, >.
BARBER & HAIR-DRE-SSER,
Shop Oter C. L, Wilcox's StfbßE.
Wellaboro, Dec 7, 1864.
WESTERN EXCHANGE HOTEL.
KNOXVILLE, BORODGH, ,PA.
THE undersigned having leased the above Hotel
for a term of years would respectfully ',ioform
the traveling public that be bae put the HoteVin first
class order /or the reception of guests and no pains
will be spared in the accommodation of travelers and
as far as the situation will allow, he will - keen a first
class Hotel, in all things, except prices, wb*6h will
be model ate. Please try ae and judge foir yt Vselves.
Knoxville/Oct. 19, tB«4-tf. J, fl. MA .TIN.
WEl4e<SßdllO; HOTJ.SL
(Oorner Main Street and the Avenue ) ,
Wellsboeo, Pa.
B. B, HOLIDAY, Proprietor.
One of the most popular Houses in tbs county.
This Hotel is the principal Stage-house in.lVellsboro.
Stages leave daily as follows: f>
For Tioga, at Ba. m.; For Troy, at dI. tn.'; For
Jersey Shore every Tuesday and Friday;it2 p. m.;
For Coodersport, every Monday and Thursday at Z
Abbive —From Tioga, at 12 l-2;Vciock
n.m • From Troy, at 6 o’clock p. m.: Flom Jersey
Shore, Tuesday and Friday 11 a. m.: Frp n Condors
port, Monday and Thursday II a. m. ~ 1 - -
. S. B.—Jimmy Cowden, the hostler,
will be found on band, , , f*.
Wellsboro, Oct. 6, 1864-Iy. '
HIGH YOUNGi.
BOOKSELLER A STATIONER,
and dsa lkk iN
American Clocks, American, English,-and Swiss
Watches, Jewelry, Silver Plated Ware, • Spectacles,
Picture Frames, Photographic Albums, - Sh .•oosoopss,
Microscopes, Perfumery, Yankee Notiotui Fishing
laskle and Flies, and Fancy and Toilet Ancles;
pa- SCHOOL BOOKS of every kind l ted in the
County, constantly on hand and sent by *1 or oth
erwise, to order. ' *
yO. 5, UNION BLOCK , WELLSBOI V, PA .
FOR SALE.—HOUSE a LOT on srln Street,
adjoining Wright A. Bailey's Store.. ;0 ecres of
land in Delmer, between John Gray and hJernck.
House and Lot on Covington* Street. -
For terms, apply to HENRY SHERWOOD* Esq.
Wellsboro, May 81, 1865-4 L
Flour and feed, buck whea 1 !) flour,
Meal, Pork and Salt, Tea. Coffee, Sfigar, Soap,
Candles, Saleratns] Tobacco and KeroiedC.OU.
Alto, Mackerel, White Fish, and by the
package or pound. «
OHAS. A H. VA N <BURG.
Wellsboro, June 28, 1865.
JAsTtTcLoS F. E. CORBETT, W. A. -MONROE,
CoL X6th vITVoU. Of New York. Late uf War Dept.
CLOSER CORBETT & DOIfROE,
Attorneys, Claim, Patent, RecA'..Esiale,
And General Insurance Ajfejrta.
Chim§ of all all kind* against tUc Vti ]ed SiaU •
GovernmtHt or individual* collected,.
Ordnance, Quartermasters', and *U Gove nment ac
counts promptly made op and adjusted.
MONEY LOANED and ADVANCED « Claims.
Special auention given to PATENT CASa.B.
REAL ESTATE Bought and Spin. >, HOUSES
and FARMS for Sale or Bent In Wasbtn k ;ton, D. C.,
Alexandria, Ya., and surrounding coon try'. _
POLICIES granted on LIFE, FIRE, And MARINE
RISKS in some of the oldest and molt reaponable
Insurance Companies.
Office, 227 Penna. Atehue,
opposite WilUtde* Hotel,
Washington, D. C. .
July 19, 1865-3 m.
PROTECTIVE WAR CLAIM AN! PENSION
AGENCY OF THE D. 6. 6ANII ART COM
MISSION.—AII the papers and oorrel pondence re
paired to procar© Pensions, Bounty, ©rd Back Pay,
and Prise Money for discharged SOLDIERS and
SAILORS, and for the RELATIVES of Soldiers and
Sailors dying in the service of the United States,
prepared and forwarded, and the proceeds of flu
claims, when collected, remitted to the parties FREE
OP CHARGE. v^ : ' ‘ f . . vr
Office ISO 7 Chestnut STErfeet. Philadelphia.
Or for further Information or assistance, apply to
Loot Moobc Hotchkisb,'^ellsboro,
8. E. Morons, Mansfield,-.
Associate Managers tot Tioga County.
ps»«is«a d Eors sioss.
S' .« ‘
THE
VOL. XII.
A TRUMP CARD i
GREAT BARGAINS!! —I would in M
confidence say to the people of WelUboro and
surrounding country that I have just returned from'
New Yorki with , ...
A LARGE STOCK OF 1
consisting of
READY MADE CLOTHING
for Men add’ Boyi. ■
OVER AND UNDER SHIRTS. \
1 famish everything to make s man vino and
comfortable. Also,
*<A NICE .LOT, 01? CASHMERES, ,
Alto, a large stock of
BOOTS & SHOES
.Proprietor.
for MEN, WOMEN, and CHILDREN.
Hats, Caps, &c.,
too numerous to mention. AU of which
at prices calculated to carry eat my rule of basines,
Small Profit* and Quick Sales!
Please to call and exuuine my Stock. Remember
the place, ' :
TBE CHEAP GASH STORE, BO VS BUILDING.
WelUboro, Sept. 20, 1565.
It was a pretty little brown stone house, with
plate glass windows, and fancifully carved cor
nice, while the green plumes of the uilan thus
trees brushed softly agains the roof, as if tremu
lously anxious to remind people that summer
was in its golden prime. At least such was the
impression conveyed by their long unsyllabled
murmur to Adrian Morley as be came up the
steps, and deztrously fitted his night key into
the paneled rosewood door.
“■Well," quoth Allen to himself, ", it is pleas
ant to have a home to come to when the day’s
weary work is-over,”
And a home-like room it was that be entered.
And Mrs. Morley, in her delicate little swing
chair, with a rainbow hued avalanche ofßerlin
wools about her, was toying with her needle
while her thoughts were tar away.
She was a rosy, brown-eyed little creature,
with full red lips, cheeks round and smooth as
early peaches, and silky brown hair waving
over her forehead iu natural ripples—a wife of
whom a t derably reasonable man might well
But just at this moment there was
the friuged 'eyeVi’jrt” tluit &tr MofVey
too well.
“Gracie, what’s the matter?” 1
“ Matter? nothing—only I’m tired to death
of being, penned up here in the city when
everybody ohe.knows ie off having l a season of
change."
- 'Adrian Morley sat down by the window,
rather-dispirited and began funning himself
with a cover of a honk,
“ Ithought'we had "dismissed' fin'd decided
that matter long ago, Grace.”
No answer Grace's eyelids only fell a de
gree lower.
“ Grace, I say,—Jont yob hear me ?”
“Yes—l hear you.”
'• Well, then, do pay a little attention when
a fellow is speaking to you. • Adrian’s sunny
good temper was becoming a little ohilleli.
“ You remember that I told you how very in
convenient it would be for me to leave town
this seasJn—nay, almost impossible.
“ The Grangers have gone.”
“ Possibly—hut Granger is not io any busi
ness.” ......
Arid’Mrit. Erliardf.” ' ''
“ Yes ; her husband don’t care whether his
law office is open or shut, as long as he oan help
himself from her long purse.”,- ■ .
■ •‘Adrian tow oan you be so ill-natured.”
“ 1 am only speaking the truth, my dear.”
“ But it is so stupid here—and all my dress
es'are hanging useless in the wardrobe.” .
Can’t you wear dresses here as well as at ft
fashionable watering place?”
“ Afdrian—you know what I mean
perfectly well. There’s nobody in town to ap
preciate a handsome toilette, and—and—
Adrian Morely sprung to his feet and began
pacing impatiently up and down the rqoin.
“Grace—you are not ridiculous enough to
cry ovM. |Uch,an absurd grievance as this 1”
“It’s tto bad to crojnp me up here'-when —”
Grace did not say as she thought, when my.
pretty face and winning manners wonld create
such a sensation in fashionable circles—she
stopped short instead, and retreated behind her
embroideredipoeket handkerchief, in & flood of
tears.
“ But, GTaCe, arn’t we very happy here, in
onr snog little home ?” .
“ You may be, but I am miserable."
‘‘Miserable! Oh, Grace 1 when Ishould wish
no greater happiness than to sit down here by
your side, night after night, and listen to yonr
, piano anj look'into your eyes, just as I used to
Ido in the courting days. You did not think it
|so monotcnbne then. Grace—my little wife —
j are we less dear to each other now 7”
I “I am wearied to death by this humdrum
j life, Adrien." pouted. Grace, "and some change
1 I must and will have'l” •
- “ Change may not be for the better, Grace."
j “ I don’t' cate whether it is'or not."
"And you know what very disastrous oir-!
h. BOOK FOB EVEBYBQDY I— comstances may ensue from ray neglect of
■ " business just now." • .
THE HISTORY OF THE “That’s just what you men always say. I
PENNSYLVANIA RESER VE CORPS, don’t believe there’s a word of troth in it."
Compiled from Official Documents by f. R. Adrian was silent for a moment. He stood
BYPHER, Esq., * ’ , with contracted brow, evidently considering.
. (Ist* War Correspondent of the Tribune.): = " 1 ““ B °"y I haven’t made home a little
, more pleasant to you. Gracie.” ,
Sir. O. B. STOIIE, r ep ea ted Mrs. Morley petulantly,
(of the BnokUilr) is general agent for thie •• Anything but a man who is always harping
work for Tioga County. It contains all the »“ stS L -about home; I often ’ wish there wasn’t any
rolls and the military history of every.member of. , T,,’ J
that famous corps. 728 pages. With four, sngra- won word. ...
rings on Steal. ... ' " Would itreollyadd so very much to your
DISTINGUISHED ARRIVAL;,
Whj if. Smith,
Has Just returned from New York, with an enormous
Stock of •
GROCERIES & PROVISIONS,
.and Is offering them to the public for LESS mono;
than they have been sold since the WAE.
GREEN TEAS—JAPANESE OOLONG, IM
PERIAL & YOUNG hyson; ;
of Marions qualities from 75c. to $2.00 per lb.
COFFEES—JAVA, 810, LAQUIRA,
in kernel and all the varieties of ground Coffees.
SUGARS—GRANULATED, CRUST, POW
** * ’ * i)t)RED, 'i U M
mid at t au* gmaeit of j -lUtsO'H'
large and splendid assortment of ] i
cannotlaiLto please customers jff Upytvill call and
examine oar Stock, either in price or quality.
varying in price from 65c, to $1,50 per gallon. •
FISH—WHITE FISH, TROUT, CODFISH,
and various kinds of MACKEREL.
Also a good, stock of . Brooms, Market Boskets,
Corn Baskets, Axe. .Helves, Wash Boards, Scrub
Brashes, Bed Cords, Door Mats, Buggy Mats, Mop
Handles, Pails; also a nice assortment of Bird. Cages.
The Ladies will please remember that W. T. Math
ers keeps J. B. Stratton’s . * > ,
CELEBRATED YEAST CAKE,
T. Kingsford 4 Sons’ Corn Starch, Sage, Vermicella,
Tapioca, Macaroni, all kinds of . ;
SPICES, CLOVES, CINNAMON, GINGER,
NUTMEG, &o. j
Also Black Snuff, and Yellow Snuff, a good assort
ment of ; ,
FLAJORISO JSXTRA.CTS & TOILET., SOAPS.
- * r A - -c - ’ *3l '
keeps constantly oh hand the best brands of Salera
tns, Soda, Cream Tartar, Sal Soda for Washing; Also
the best grades of s - ; ~.-j ;
FAMILY, FLOUR, COEN MEAL, T
by the bairel or spck, the best quality of , ; •
Kerosene Oil and Lamp <Hl^
The last but net least to mention is,'W. T. MATH
ERS
WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD !!
Goods to be ALWAYS AS REPRESENTED or
no sal*. ' _ r
The highest market.prioe in Cash paid for Butter
andßgg*' ' W. T. MATHERS.
Wellshoro, Aug. 28, 1865. I
fJIO THE PEOPLE OP TWO A. COUNTY:—
Get the test and only authorised Life and Public
Services of ABRAHAM LINCOLN, impartial, tfulh
fal, 760 pages, with beautiful engravings, good paper
and binding—by Hon* H. J. RAYMOND, M. C.
Some, important .things, are copyrighted cannot
boused in any other work. Wait for the Agent and
see RAYMOND’S before you' subscribe.
E; R. VAN HDRNE, |£ p^Ag^t?
For Lawrencevijle, Tioga, Richmond, Chatham. Deer
field, Clymer, Wdatfleld'and other towna.l ■ ; ;
Knoxville, Aug. 2, 1865-tf.
BeboteD to tt)t ISvtcnßion of thr &rra of #rcehom awn the Sprcah of SUfovm.
WHILE THESE SHALL BE A WRONG UNRIQHTED, AND UNTIL “MAN’S INHUMANITY TO MAN” SHALL DBASE, AGITATION MUST CONTINUE
1 OFFER FOR CASH,
W. T. MATHERS
BROWN SUGARS,
SYRUP & MOLASSES,
BLUE FISH,
W. x. MATHERS
WELLSBORO, TIOGA COUNTY. PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 11, 1866.
Original Hoctvi?,
Autnmn winds are wildly sweeping
O'er thy dreamless.rest,
And the pitying clouds are weeping
- .. On tby palselesn breast
Faded leaves are slowly creeping ]
To'thy narrow bed,
- Withered flowers are sweetly sleeping
' Near thy little bead. ’ t
>' - 'I
{ Silv’ry frosts dark earth congealing, /
- 1 Hide thee from our sight; \
Only catch we him revealing, i. j
. Where thy term is light,' !
Yisfom of bands meekly folding,
Memory keeps alf;' i(
Tiny forms now darkly mouldering ‘
. 'Neath a frozen pall.
Sunny curl* eo abyly kissing
Angel brow of snow,
•Beaming ©yea we're sadly missing,
In this hopeless woe.
Antnmn wind* of grief are beating,
1 Cherished hopes of years,
Sad despair and lore are greeting.
Ah ! what weary tears.
Frosts of Death with silvery lining
Stilled the Sinless heart, . .
Withered all the twining tendrils
Left an angniahed amort. i
Stricken one; thy dower is blooming,
On the Savior's breast;
Only clay the grave's entombing— ‘
Spirit with the blest. • J. M.
G. P. CARD.
AG
[Fur the Agitator.
Lines on the Death.of a Child.
Httijscr Hang*
A FATAL MISTAKE.
ITATOR.
bappiaeßß to spend a month at Saratoga or
Newport V 9
'* Oh, Adrian, I should enjoy' it so much V*
Her eyes were sparkling now and the soft
color rase to her oiieek. “ Will you take me
there, Adrian ?"
■ “ H you insist upon it—but remember that I
don't at all approve of the arrangement/'
** Oh I'll 'assume all the responsibility,"
laughed Grace merrily. “ And when shall we
go?"
•“When yoij. please.” .
M I could beteady by Monday.”
'* You are in great )iaste to leave your pleas
ant home. Grace; I’wish I could summon up
an eqoal fervor of enthusiasm.
Grace put her hand on his shoulder, and
leaned down to peep archly into bis face.
“ What a darling old-fashioned fellow you
are, Adrian! I shall spend this summer in
trying to make a modern husband of you.”
“Do you think the'modern article would be
preferable?” smiled Adrian.
“ Oh infinitely I And now don’t talk to me ;
I must make out a list of things to be purchas
ed. Only think that Fin really equipping for a
summer at the Springs I”
And she clapped her hands so gleefully, that
Adrian had not the heart to damp her bright
anticipations with his own indefinite misgiv
ings.
• »*■»*****.
“ The prettiest woman at the Springs, by all
odds.”
Who is she?”
!“ Mrs. Morley, of New York. Nobody ever
heard of her before, bat she has flashed into
aociety like a meteor. The young fellows are
all infatuated about her, and not without good
reason.”
Grace Morley's cheek flashed with ooasciooe
triumph, as she heard these words, half spoken,
half whispered, in her stately sweep through
the long piazza from a moonlight drive with
the most stylish young cavalier at the hotel.—
And she did look very lovely in her drees of
deep blue grenadine, floating around her like
azure billows, with a fleecy white shawl droop
ing from her shoulders, and the showy plume
of a jaunty little Spanish bat banging low over
the rippled luxuriance of her golden brown
hair.
T?es, Mrs. Morly was a belle at last! and
most completely did she enjoy theintoxioating
atmosphere of flattery and adulation that sur
rounded her every footstep.
“Well, Grace, was sort of a time have you
had?”
Adrian wae-lounging under the gaslight in
tbeir ruom with a half read volume in bis lap,
4ooking,tbo very victim of hopeless ennui,
“ Ob, deligbttul! But Adrian, how bored yon
look!" .
„u _
“ I wUh you would try and enjoy yoursel f a
little.”
“How ?”
“ Play billiards—smoke—do as other gentle
men do.”
Adrian Morley opened hie book once more
with a-tremulous yawn, as Grace began to un
fasten ' her hat and brush out the disordered
masses of her heir. To him Saratoga was
nothing more nor less than vanity and vexation
of spirit; but for Grace’s sake be was patiently
willing to be bored.
“ Don’t yon think it is almost time to return
home Grace ?"
* “ Adrian, what an idea! Not for two weeks
yet. The gayest season is yet to come."
“ Two weeks 1" sighed poor Adrian. “it is
a long time.”
“No time at all,” said Grace, positively ;
“It will soon pass.”
Alas ! bad Grace Morley bat dreamed of the
years of auguieh and despair that were to binge
upon those two weeks!
As the days passed on she saw less and less
of her husband. He was no longer wearily
awaiting the - coming of her footsteps from
drive or walk—no longer leaning dreamily
against the window of the ball room, watching
her flying figure as she floated by him in walu
or polka; nor [did Mrs, Morley regret the
gradual change..
“I- am so glad be has found some way of
ohmsing himself,” she thought. “It was such
a nuisance to have him every few minutes ask
ing if I were not ready to go home."
“She WSs returning an evening Stroll, a night
or two subsequently, in her prettiest toilette of
blue silk and white opera cloak, with her little
hand resting lightly on Mr. Ardenham’e arm,
when she suddenly stopped close to the dense
wall of shrubbery that hqjf concealed the
brilliant sparkle of lighted windows and doors
of a show building just on the outskirts of the
grounds. 1
“ I have dropped my fan, Mr. Ardenham ;
I how could I be so careless?”
“ Rest yourself a moment on this ruatic seat,
Mre. Morley,” said Ardenham gallantly, "and
I will go back for it in half a minute.”
Frank Ardenham went off, rowing that Mrs.
Morley’a fan waa worth any degree of trouble
that could by any possibility be bestowed upon
it, and Grace waiting hie return, mechanically
playing with the fastening of her pale blue
glove. ,i
Suddenly the loud, discordant tumult of voU
oes struck upon her ear as a party of men is
sued from a lighted door beyond the shrubbery.
Id the moonlight sbe could see their flushed
faces quite plainly—and she involuntarily re
coiled farther back into the shadow, although
ehe was aware of being quite invisible.
“ Hush ! what's that ?” said one pausing, as
a load fierce shout rose high above the bedlam
of voices within the gambling house, for snob
Mrs. Morley knew it to be.
“ It’s only Morley," returned another, delib
erately biting off the end of a cigar.
“ I fancy ha's pretty well over the bay to
night.” ,
" Drunk, is be f”
“Just that—and playing as if there ward an
evil spirit at his elbow. The thousands. are;
slipping out of his bauds like quicksilver to-;
night.” - ' |
“ I’m very sorry, Mrs. Morley," said Mr;
Ardenham, coming to her side a second after-j
.ward; “ but I cannot find the fan any where.—
I will taka a second look for it to-morrow.”
f I
“It—it is of no consequence,” said Grace,
in a low, strange voice. ' “ Please take me
home, Mr. Ardenham.”
And Frank Ardenham obeyed, marveling
much at the sudden change that had come over
bis beautiful companion's spirits.
Her adieux in the parlor were brief enough
ere she hurried up stairs, with her feverish
blood beating like poises of fire in her veins.
She sat down, sick and trembling, Under the
whits glare of the gaslight, and tried to realize
the full horror of her situation.
Adrian, Morley, her husband, was a drunk
ard and a gambler 1 Was it all a dream, or
was, it indeed true that she had wakened to
this horrible reality of grief and shame and
shame and yet live on ?
As she bowed her bead on her band with a
low shivering groan, a new phantom of remorse
fa) agony rose solemnly up before the accusing
judgment seat of her open conscience.
“ It has been my fault—all my own fault,”
she wailed aloud. “If I had not torn him
from the home to which he was so tenderly at
tached—if I had not kept him here to gratify
my own individual vanity, this would never
have been! 0 God I the punishment is greater
than I can bear 1”
And she remembered with a sick heart the
arguments she had used to win him away from
home—the eagerness with which she bad as
sumed all the responsibility of tbs change—
the very words she had spoksn in bsr reckless
folly.
“ I told him that I was miserable at home,”
she thought, “ Miserable ! If I had known
the meaning of the word. But to-morrow I
will beg him on my bending knees to return
onoo more—l will toll him how foolish X have'
been—bow mad. And perhaps—perhaps we
may be happy In onr quiet home onoe more.—
Oh I if I had never left it I"
“ One, two, three I” \
As the little clook sharply spoke out the
hour, Grace Morley started to her feet.
“What detains him so? What can keep
him away from me ? I will go myself and
look for him."
She drew the white opera oloak round her
shoulders, and hurried with trembling limbs
towards the door.
But while her touch was on the handle, it
swung rudely open, and a group of men came
in bearing something prone and lifeless in
their midst. /
And Grace Morley, while all the blood in
her Teius seemed frozen into ice, knew that she
was looking into her dead husband's face I
“ Take oare of the lady—she’s fainted said
a rude voice. ‘‘Doctor you had better see to
her.”
But she had not fainted. White, speechless,
E2£SEI?. 8 4 ,}n
she saw and heard with agonizing distinotnw.
all that passed around her.
His wife!” said the young surgeon, pity
ingly. “ I did not know that he was a mar
ried man. She should have been prepared for
this. Poor creature—poor crashed ereatnre !
Lay down the dead man, Somers, and come
here. He is past help now. Call in the wom
en and take away that mob of staring men.”
|As the pungent breath of some powerful
restorative crossed her senses, Grace fainted in
the young surgeon's supporting arms—life and
consciousness could not uphold their domain
against the great billows of agony that were
sweeping across her sou!.
I When she came to her senses the first object
on which her eyes rested was the kindface of
the young doctor. With a convulsive effort
efae strove to etart from hfir fouch.
i“ Gently—gently,” said the young man.—
“iLie still a little longer; you are hardly strong
ehough to rise yet.” ”
| “ Tell me 1” she gasped with colorless lips,
‘‘tell me all."
I “ Not yet—you will be stronger presently.”
!“ I know it all, she moaned. “ He’s dead,
lint how.” j
: The surgeon saw that concealment would be
in vain ; be bent over her eofa with a pitying
gentleness.
j " Your husband had lost everything he pos
sessed ut the gambling table, and in a fit of
-despair, partially aggravated by the influence
of liqaor, shot himself through the temples.—
Your friends have been telegraphed for, and
will soon arrive j In the meantime, perfect
qoiot is what you. l moat need —it may avert the
symptoms of brain fever that are impending.”/
|. Contrary to the doctor’s expectations, Grace
neither screamed nor wept, bat lay silent and!
voiceless as a statue. '
! “ She takes it easily,” thought he. Ah,,
could be have seen into the depth of her bro-,
ken, crashed heart. l .'.
A few days afterwards she returned to -the
home she had been so eager to abandon, only
to mourn with the bitterest remorse that one
fatal mistake whioh.had darkened her whole
existence with its hanefnl shadow I
: Tbs Arab’s Proof. —A Frenchman who had
won a high rank among men of science, waa
crossing the great Sahara in cpmpany with an
Arab guide. He noticed with,- a sneer that at
times hijs guide, whatever obstacle might arise,
put them all aside, and kneeling on the burn
ing sands, called on hi* God.
Day after day passed, and still the Arab never
failed, till at last one evening the philosopher,
when be rose from bis knees, asked him, with a
contemptuous smile, 41 How do yon know there
is a God 7 Tbe guide fixed his horning eye on
the scoffer for a moment in wonder, and then
said solemnly, " How do I know there is a God 7”
How did I know that a mao, and not a camel,
passed my hut last night in tbe darkness?
Was it not by tbe print of bis footin the sand 7
Even so,” and he pointed to tbe sun, whose
last rays were flashing over tbe lonely desert,
“ that foot-print is not that of a man.”
Won’t Pass for an Angel. — A vagrant call
ed at a house on a Sunday and begged for
■ome cider. Tbe lady refused to give him any.
He reminded her of the oft-quoted remark that
“she might entertain an angel unawares.’'—
“Yes,” said she, “but angels don't go about
drinking cider on Sunday.”
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NO. 8.
Daring the rebellion the army demand for
pioklea was so great that the high prices they
brought were sufficient to give many persona
the pickle fever. The numerous re
specting the manner in which ououmbera were
raised on the large scale have been well an
swered by our friend Timothy Bunker-Esquire.
We new have many asking us about the man
ner of putting up ’ the piokles, and though we
have intimated to the Squire that we would
like his views on this matter, we have heard
nothing from him. Probably the heavy hay
crop around Eookertown keeps him busy, or
else he is, as Justiae of the Peace, engaged ini
looking after tbe morals or tnat nonrutung
village. In tbe absence of any thing from the
Squire, we are obliged to tell what we know
upon tbe subject, and thus answer a great
many calls for information. ‘ In the first place
it is necessary to put cucumbers into salt be
fore placing* them in vinegar, as the vinegar
penetrates much better and the salt removes a
crude and raw taste that they otherwiae have.
We have eaten pickles made by patting cu
cumbers directly into vinegar, but consider
them greatly inferior to those prepared in the
usual way. Thsre are two methods of salting;
dry salting and in brine. In dry-salting, the
cucumbers are put in a barrel or other recepta
cle and sprinkled freely with fine salt; j aloes
ex ode from the cucumbers to dissolve the salt
and thusj form a very strong brine, while tilt
fruit itecdf shrivels very much. This method
us® a great deal of salt, but more oacambers
oso’-he.pat into a barrel than when they are
put into a brine. Tbe shrinking is of no di%
advantage, as the plumpness is restored when
the piokles ore soaked. In patting down Ist
brine tbe process differs according to the scale
upon which it is carried on. Where large
quantities are raised, new barrels are filled with
cucumbers, about half a peck of salt added*
and beaded up, the barrels are then filled with
water through tbe bang holes, banged ap tight
ly and shipped. We know a gentleman at tha
West who sends off a large quantity prepared
in this way, bat how long they will keep in
such weak brine we are unable to say, bat
probably a sufficient time if tbe barrels are hill
and tight. Where additions are made as tbe
cucumbera are packed from day to day, a strong
brine is used, about a quart of salt to Hie gallon
of water, and the oacambers kept down by
means of a circular board with waighta upon
it. A great trouble is often experienced with
piokles in brine from the formation of a white
scum upon tbe surface. This improbably some
JSiorosoojiio vegetable growth of a character
eimiiaflfomonld. It has been recommended
aq the best means of managing this to pat a
cloth under tbe follower used to keep the pick-
SSSit"*" “fch time additions of
J.™ filvfc
it, and wash tbe cloth clean before replacing it,
—American Agriculturist.
Don’t Judge by Appaarancss.
Some years ago there arrived at the hotel
erected near the Niagara Falls an odd-looking
man, whose appearance and deportment wen
qnite in contrast with the crowds of well-dress
ed and polished figures which adorned the cele
brated resort. He seemed just to have sprung
from the woods ; his dress, which was made of
leather stood dreadfully in need of repair, ap
parently not having felt the touch of a needle
woman for many a long month. A worn-out
blanket, that might have served for a bed was
buckled to his shoulders; a large knife hung ca
one side, balanced by a long, rusty tin box on
the other, and his beard, uncropped, tangled,
and coarse fell down, upon his besom, as
if to counterpoise the weight of the thick darkf
locks that supported themselves on his back and
shoulders. This strange being to the spectators,
seemingly half civilized, half savage, had a
quick, glancing eye, and elastic, firm movement,
that would, no doubt, win its way through the
brakes, both of the wilderness and of society.
He poshed bis steps into the sitting room, un
strapped bis little burden, quietly looked
around for the landlord, and than modestly
asked for breakfSst. The host at first drew
back with evident repugnance at the apparition
which thus proposed to intrude its nnoonth
form among the genteel visitors, bat a few
words whispered in his ear speedily satisfied,
hie doubts ; ftbe stranger took his place in the
company, some shrugging, some staring, some
laughing Yet there was more in that
single man-than in all the rest of the throng.
He was an American woodsman, os he said ;
he was a genuine son of Nature, yet had been
entertained with distinction at the table of
princes ; learned societies, to which the like of
Cuvier belonged, bowed down to welcome his
presence; kings had been complimented when
ha spoke them ;in short, he was one whose
fame will be growing brighter when the fash
ionables who laugh at him and many much
greater than they shall be utterly perished.—
From every hilltop and deep, shady grove, the
birds, thosas blossoms of: the sir, will sing his
name. The little wren will pipe it with his
matin hymn about our bouse ; the oriole carol
it from the slender grasses of the meadows;
the turtle dove roll it through the secret forest;
the many-voiced mocking-bird pour it along the
air; and the imperial eagle, the bird of Wash
ington, as he sits far on tha blue mountains,
will scream it to the tempest and the stars.—
Ha waa the late John J. Audubon, ornitholo
gist.
Gkxat events spring trom trivial cause*. By
the disobedience of a lad in 1809, a gardes gate
inßbode Island was left open; a pig got in and
destroyed a few plants, a quarrel between the
owners of the pig and the garden grew out of
it, which spread among their friends, defeated
the Federal candidate to the Legislature, and
gave the State a Democratic Senator, by whose
vote waf was declared in 1812 with Great Brit
ain.
When our devil was told that the best ours
for palpitation of the heart waa to quit kissing
the girls, he said: “If that is the only remedy
for palpitation, I say let her palp I”
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18.75 25.00 01.00
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