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0 1.. PACim, ATIORXEV AT LAW
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DENTISTRY. .
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DR. L T. BURNS has permanently located in
Tunkhar.uo.-s Borough, and respectfully tenders
his professional services to its citizens.
Office on second floor, formerly occupied by Dr.
Oilman
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X 3 A.IDJTTDS Gr.
fiy W. 'JtCGB'Jt, Artist.
Rooms over thu Wyoming National bank,in Stark'• 1
Brick Block,
TUNKHANNOCK, PA.
Life-size Portraits painted from Ain hrntypes or
Pi. ■! .gr:>|flis Photograjhs Painted in Oil Ci lers
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Portrait an 1 Landscape Painting, in Oil or water
Colors, and in all branches of the art,
Tuuk , July 3', *67 -vgoso-tf.
BOLTON HOLJSE.
HAKItIS'UIKOf I'KNNA.
Th" undersigned having I itely purrhased the
"BI EHLER HOUSE " property, has already eom
mcn e I su- h alterations and improvements its will
render this old and populsr House equal, if not supe
rior, to anv Hotel in the City of H.irrisburg.
A continuance of the public patronage is refpect
fully solicited.
GEO. J. BOLTON
WALL'S HOTEL,"
1.A.T1: AMERICAN HOUSE,
TIT NKIIANNOCK, W YO.UISG CO., I'A.
Till 5 e.tablishment has recently been refitted an
furnished in the latest style Every attention
■will he given to the comfort and convenience ol those
•ho patronize the House
T. B. W ALL, Owner and Proprietor .
Tunkhannock, September 11. IS6I.
NORTH BRANCH HOTEL,
MESHOPPEN, WYOMING COUNTY, PA
Wm. 11. ('OUTRIGHT, Irop'r
HAVING resumed the oroprietorship of the above
Hotel, the undersigned will spare no efforts
lender the house an agreeable place ol sojourn to
•11 who may favor it with their custom.
Wm 11 CORTRIGIIT.
June, 3rd, 1663
MEANS' HOTEL*.
TOWANDA, RA
„ D. 15. BARTI.KT,
|Lateotv_ ''BRAISAKO IIOCSK, ELMIKA, N. Y.
PKUI'K IUTOK.
The MEANS HOTEL, i one of toe LARGEST
and BK.>I AKHAMiKD Houses in the country—lt
is fitted up in the most inode.ru and unproved style,
end no pains are sp.red to make it a pleasant and
•greeab e stoppugi p ( ace tor all,
v3-ti'3lly.
IIOUHE LOTN FOR PALE,
TIIE subscriber offers for sale on reasonable terms
a uuuiU r of
lil-'ILDINO LOTS,
situate at the west end of Tu kbanmck Borrngh.
lor particulars as to prices and terms inquire of
_ ELlfcliA CHURCUILL.
Tunkhannock, F., Jan. i.lSeavYn'Jlm?.
TUNKHANNOCK, WYOMING CO., PA. -WEDNESDAY, JAN. 1868.
ins WORLD'S f.RSAT REMEDY roa
Scrofula and Scrofulous Diseases.
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Eruptions, Pimples, Blotches, Pustules, Ul
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from Tier. ttobt. Etrathm, llristol, England.
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From Mr*, .lane E. Hire, a well known and much
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From J. E. Johnston, Esq., JYakeman, Ohio,
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From Tlnrrry Sickler, Esq., the able editor of the
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"Our only child, about three years of age, was
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Mr. Chtis. S. fan Liern, of S'ew Jlrunsnirk, X.J.,
had dreadful illeers 011 his legs, caused by the abuse
of mereurr, or mercurial disease, wbi' h grew more
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persevering use of A Villi's SAIts\PAKILLA relieved
f k im. Kfw cawii be found nioro iuvctcrate nnd
distressing than this, and it took several dozen
bottles to cure hint,
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when its effect is properly aided by local treatment."
A lasiy, unwilling to allow the publication of her
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AYER'S
CATHARTIC TILLS
possess so many advantages over the other
purgatives in the market, and their superior
virtue# are so universally known, that we need
not do more than to a--ure the public their
quality is maintained equal to the best it ever
lists been, and that they may be depended on
to do ail that they have ever done.
Prepared hy J. C. AVER, M. D., & Co.,
Lowell, Mass., and sold hy
For sale byßunnell A Bannatyne, and Lymsn A
Whlls, iunkhauooik. 3teilng A Sun, Mesboppen,
Stevens A Aekley, Laceyville, Frear, Dsan A Co ,
Factoryville, and ail Druggists aud Denials in ined
cinea, everywhere.
TIIE HEALING POOL,
AND HOUSE OF MF.RCV.
Howard A#oc*'toii Reports, for YOUNG
MEN 00 the CRIME OF SOLITUDE, and the ER
RORS, ABUSES id DISEASES which destroy tbe
manly powers, and create inqieditncnts to MAR
RIAGE, with sure means of relief. Sent in sealed
letter, enelopc. free of charge. Address Dr. J.
SKILLEN HOUGHTON, Howard Association,
Philadelphia. Pa.
6u44-lyear
THE TTTXTIOTST
STRAW CUTTER,
MANUFACTURED BY
William Flickner,
At 71 A"A J/A A"A'O CA \ Tenn'a.
Who has the exclusive right for Wyoming county, i
on# of the very tew Mmhines that will cut Hay.
Straw. Stalks, c. f better than the old fashioned
Cutting boxes, used by our grandfathers.
Those who value time nod labor: and would avoid
a needles' loss of both, in feeding their stock, should
get one of these improved Cutters.
N< man ever found anythiug better ; or ever went
back to the old machine alter a trial of it.
A Supply Constantly ou Hand
and for sale. WM FLICKNER.
Tunkhannock, Dec. 3, 1877v7nlStf-
jgtfeS-
A BEAUTIFUL. POEM.
Poets live among us—not exercising the "calling"
they were elected ro by nature—but poets still
The suthor of the following is a clergyman, and we
have no doubt, a good nnd able one, bat he was
bom to be a poet, and might have taught as valua
ble lessons with his pen as he teaches from the pul
pit ; for the bard's vocation is, or ought to be, as
high nnd sacred. We beg our readers to appreciate
this chance tbrowing-off of inspiration by a man in
whom the fire is suppressed :
A Rural Sketch.
Br REV. R. HOTT.
By the wny-side, on a mossy stona,
Sat a hoary pilgrim sadly musing ;
Oft I marked him sitting there alone,
AH the landscape like a page perusing ;
Poor unknown,
By the way-side, on a mossy stone.
Buckled knee and shoe, and broad-rimmed hat,
Coat as ancient as the form 'twas folding,
Silver buttons, queue, and crimtled cravat,
Oaken staff, his feebly hind upholding,
There be sat!
Buckled knee and shoe, and broad-rimmed hat.
Seemed it pitiful he should ait there,
No one sympathizing, no one heeding,
None to love him for his thin grey hair,
And the furrows all so mutely pleading,
Age, and care ;
Seemed it pitiful he should sit there.
It was summer, and wo went to school,
Dspper country lads and little maidens.
Taught the motto of the "Dunce's Stool,"
Its grave import still mv fancy ladens,
"Here's a fool J"
It wss summer and we went to school.
Still, in sooth..our tnsks we seldom tried ;
Sportive pastime oDly worth our learning ;
But we listened when the old man sighed.
And that lesson to our hearts went burning—
And we cried !
Still, in sooth, oui tasks we seldom tried.
When the stranger seemed to mark our play,
(Some of us were joyous, some sad-bearted,)
I remember, well—too well—that day !
Oftentimes the tears unbidden started —
lVould not stay !
When the sttanger seomed to mark our play.
Whea we cautiously adventured nigb,
We could see his lip with anguish quiyer ;
Yet no word he uttered, but his eye
Seemed in mournful converse with tha river
Murmuring by,
When we cautiously adventured nigh.
One sweet spirit broke the silent spell—
Ah ! to me her name was always Heaven !
She besought him all his grief to tell—
(I was thirteen, and she eleven,)
Isabel !
One sweet spirit broke the silent spell.
Softly asked she with a voice divins,
Wby so lonely hast thou wandered hither ;
Hast no mother 7—come with me to mine ;
There's our cottage, let me lead the (hither ;
IV hy repine,
Softly asked she with a voice divine.
Angel, said he sally, I am old ;
Earthly h<q>c no longer hath a morrow,
Yet why I sit here tbou shalt be told,
Then his eye betrayed a pearl of sorrow-
Down it rolled !
Angel, said he sadly, I am old !
I have tottered here to look once mora
On the pleasant scene where I delighted
In the careless happy days of vore,
Ere the garden of my heart was blighted
To the core !
I have tottered here to look once more !
All the picture now to me how dear !
E'en this grey old rock where I am seated,
Seems a jewel worth my journey here ;
Ab, that such a scene must be completed
With a tear I
All the picture now to me how dear !
Old stone School -house !—it is still the same,
There's the very step so oft I mounted ;
There's the window cresking in it's frame,
And the notches that I cut and counted
For the game !
Old stone School-house I—it is still the same !
In the cottage, yonder, I was born ;
Ding my hippy houie—that humble dwelling!
There the fields of clover, wheat and corn,
There the stream with limpid nectar swelling
Ah, forlorn !
In the cottage, yonder, I was born.
Those two gate-way sycamore# yon see.
Thsn were planted, just so far asunder
That long well-pole from the path to free.
And the wagon to pass safely under j
Ninety-three !
Those two gate-way sycamores you see !
There's the orchard where we us;d to climb
When my mates and I were boys together,
Thinking nothing of the fliizht of time,
Fearing nought but work and rainy weather ;
Past its prime !
There's the orchard where we used to climb !
There, the rude three cornered chestnut mils,
Round the held where the flocks were grazing
Where so ly I used to watch for quails,
In the crops of buckwheat we were raising—
Traps and trails-
There the rude three cornered chestnut raili.
How in summer have I traced that stream,
There thro' tneadand woodland sweetly gliding
Luring simple trout with many a scheme
From nooks where I hive found tbem hiding;
All a dream ;
How in summer have 1 traced that stream.
There's the mill that ground onr yellow grain ;
Pond and river still serenely flowing ;
Cot, there nestling in the shaded lane.
Where the iilly of my heart was blowing-
Mary Jane !
There's the mill that ground our yellow grain !
There's the gate on which I used to swing.
Brook and bridge,and barn and old red stable
Bnt alas ! the mrn no more shall bring
That dear group around a father's table ;
Taken wing !
There's the gate on which I used to swing !
I am fleeing ! all I loved are fled ;
Yon green meadow was our place for playing;
That old tree can tell of sweet things said,
When around it Jane and I were straying ;
She is dead !
I am fleeing ! —all I loved are fled !
Yon white spire—a pencil on the sky,
Tracing silently life's changeful story,
So familiar to my dun old eye,
Points me to seven that are now in glory
lhere on high !
Yon white spire, a pencil on the sky.
Oft the aisle of that old church we trod,
Guided thither hy an angel mother,
Now she sleeps beneath its sacred sod —
Sire and sisters, and my little brother-
Gone to God !
Oft the aisle of that old church we trod !
There I beard of Wisdom's pleasant waye,
Bless the holy lesson !—but, ah, never
Shall I hear again those song* of praiaa—
" To Speak his Thouphts is Every Freeman's Riprht. "
Those sweet voices, silent now forever !
Peaceful days !
There I beard of Wisdom's pleasant waye.
There my Mary blest me with her hand,
When oar souls Irank in the nuptial blessing
Ere sh* hastened to the spirit land ;
Yonder turf her gentle bosom pressing :
Broken Band!
There my Mary blest me with her hand,
THEIR NEW TEMPLE.
At a cost of five years labor and three
quarters of a million of dollars a Masonic
Hall is about to be erected in Philadelphia,
savs the North American. The foundation
will be begun in a few weeks. The lo
cation is Broad and F'llbert streets, and the
plans for the structure have been fully ac
cepted by the Grand Lodge. For nearly
a year past plans have been invited, and
the committee in charge have examined
many sent from all sections of the country.
The successful competitor is Mr. J. H.
Windrin, who has agreed to so far pro
gress with the work that on St. John's day
next, June 24th, the corner stone shalfbe
laid by the Order.
The lot is a very-large one, 150 by 250
feet in area, and the new temple is to cov
er the wtiole of it. The present temple
has outlived its usefulness, and is terribly
defective in what is indispensable in a
building of the kind—ventilation. It was
dedicated in 1855.
\V'e have received a description of the
new building, as thus: It is to be of gran
ite, and in the Norman style, the massive
character of this order of architecture, how
ever, being well relieved by the arrange
ment <>f the to we Is, buttresses, balconies,
balustrades and graceful pinnactls, which
form part >f the design. The four sides
of the building will be of granite, the ouly
difference in the design being in the front
on Broad street, which will present one of
the most magnificent features of this grand
thoroughfare. The building will be thiee
stories in height. The front on Broad st
will present two towers, one at each corn
er, the intei veiling space being composed
of a handsome portico, running to the sec
ond story, and above which will be two
niches for statues (one of Silence.) the
whole surmounted at the apex of the roof
with a small tower, at the summit of which
will be a statue of Charity. On the face
of this main front, in addition to the orna
mental windows, will be (in relief) em
blems of the Order —the square and com
pass, ice.
The tower at the southwest corner of
the building will be the great feature. It
will be 300 feet from the ground to the
top of the spire, or 104 feet higher than
Christ Church steeple. The four corners
of this tower will be surmounted By piuna
cles, while tin buttresses extending up a
consideiable distance, tlie balconies st the
windows and the balustrades and general
ornamentation of this portion ot the struc
ture wil add greatly to the beauty of the
whole design. The tower, although seem
ingly connected with the main building,
will be constructed separate, in order to
insure greater security. A solid founda
tion of fifteen feet will form the base upon
which it will rest. The tower at the north
east corner of the front will be much less
in height, but will contain in its ornamen
tation the same general features. The re
maining three sides of the building will be
relieved bv buttresses between the win
dows, and the whole effect of the exterior
will be at once massive and graceful. The
portico at the front being 20 feet in ad
vance of the line of the building, will still
further addlo the beauty of the design.
On lite first floor, raised eight feet from
the ground, a hall tweuty feel in width will
mn the entire length of the building from
east to west, and from this will start two
stairwavs. which it is asserted will exceed
in magnificence anything of the kind in
the United States. Under the northwest
tower will be the office of the Grand Mas
ter, and in the rear of this will be the
grand banqueting room, with kitchen,store
rooms, pantries, <kc., attached. The ban
queting room will be 105 feet by 55 feet,
and will be fitted up in a style to corre
spond with the character of the building.
On the other side of the hall, and in frout
on Broad street, will be the office of the
Grand Secretary and Grand Treasurer,
and in the rear of these will be the library
and committee rooms. The second story,
or principal floor, will contain the Gratid
Lodire room, three rooms for Blue Lodges,
one Grand Chanter room and the retiring
rooms required for the transaction of the
business.
The Grand Lodge Room will be 105
feet by 53 feet C inehes, and in the deco
ration and furnishing of this apartment the
prevailing color will be blue relieved by
gold, and the intention is to m ike it one
of the most magnificent rooms in the worid
The rooms for the Blue Lodges will each
be 50 by 43 feet, and handsomely decorat
ed The Grand Chapter Room will be 81
by 53 feet. Parlors fronting on Broad-st
for the Grand Lodge and Grand C hapter
will adjoin the rooms set apart for the
meeting of these bodies. The third story
will contain rooms for the Encampment
and other purposes, and all will be fitted
up in magnificent style.
The building throughout will be fire
proof, iron girders being used at all the
stories, and other precautinns are being
adopted to guard against the destruction
of the edifice. Ventilation of the most
ample kind has been provided, the steam
apparatus to be used for heating the bu Id
ing being also designed to drive a fan to
keep up a circulation of fresh air in all of
the rooms. Provision has also been made
for a bountiful supply of water at every
story. The entire building will be devoted
to Masonic purposes, and there will be no
residence connected with the hall, as here
tofore. i
ONLY A DOLLAR.
44 She sews very nicely," said Mrs. Whar
ton, 4< really, very nicely, indeed. And if
you have any work you wish done well
and cheaply, I would advise you to employ
her."
Mrs. Wharton was sitting before the
bright fire of anthracite coal, in her crim
son silk morning wrapper, with her glossy
hair smooth aa satin, and her pretty bands
loaded with rich rings, lying in her lap—
She felt that she was doing a charitable
deed in employing this poor and deserving
soldier's widow, and a still greater one in
recommending ber to her friends.
It is so easy to be a good 4 cbfistian, un
der some circumstances!
44 Well, I shall certainly send for her,"
said Mrs Marvin. 44 What did you tell
me her name and address was ?"
44 Ob, she is called Mrs. Leggett, and
she lives in one of those horrid musty ten
ement houses, No—, street, the back room
in the third story."
Mrs Marvin entered the details in her
little pearl boupd tablets, and took her
leave, internally convinced that Mrs.Whar
ton was a "good Samaritan" of the very
highest class.
Meanwhile, the latter lady was gazing
dreamily into the fire, and wondering what
toilets would be most appropriate for the
morrow evening's soiree.
44 There's my pea-green satin," mused
Mrs. Wharton, checking off the various
garments on the tips of her white fingers ;
" but I've worn it there already. And
there's my Marie Lnise blue silk, if the
skirt was only gored a little more. The
lemon colored brocade is not becoming to
me. I'm sorry I bought it. And the
white grenadine not worn at Mrs. Armyn's.
My wine-colored silk, with the ruby set,
would loook veil, if the odious Fanny
Palmer hadn't got one just like it. And
purple velvet don't light up well at night.
Ob, dear! I really think I must have
something new. A rose colored tissue,
perhaps, or a white India muslin. My
wardrobe is getting dreadfully behind
hand Dear me ! who's that? How you
startled me, Mrs. Leggett I"
44 1 beg your pardon ma'am, lam sure,"
said the slender, ineek-looking little seam
stress, rustling softly forward, in her gar
ments of shabby, well worn black ; 44 but I
knocked twice, and you did not answer."
44 Then you should knock louder, next
time," said the irritable, fine lady. How
ever, now that you are here, you may as
well sit dovvii. Good gracious, how wet
you are—positively dripping 1'
" Yes, mt'am ; it lains very hard, and I
have no umbrella."
• 4 No urSbrella? Dear me, how shock
ing ! Well, did you bring home those
things f'
44 Yes, ma'am; here they are."
And the seamstress produced a Deat
packet from beneath her shawl.
44 1 hope to goodness you didn't get them
wet? No; they seem tolerably dry,—
What is the bill ?"
44 Six dollars, ma'am,"
• 4 Six dollars! Isn't that high, Mrs.Leg
gett?'said Mrs. Wharton, discontentedly.
" I worked eleven days faithfully on
them, ma'am.
44 Well, I suppose I must pay what you
ask?" said Mrs, Wharton, opening her
purse, and slowly examining its apartments.
"Dear me! I have only a fire dollar bill.
I suppose you eoul'dn't change a twenty ?"
Mrs. Leggett smiled bitterly :
44 No, ma'am, I could not."
"Well, then, we'll call it five dollars,
won't we? A dollar isn't much any way,
and the five is al] I've got."
41 A dollar is a great deal to me, Mrs,
Wharton."
The lady's smooth brow contracted : "I
have given you a great deal of work, Mrs.
Leggett."
" I know it ma'am, and 1 am very much
obliged to you for all your kindness."
" And I should be sorry to have so tri
fling a thing as a dollar part us, now "
Mrs. Leggett was silent ; she did not
know what to say.
44 Call it five dollars." said Mrs. Whar
ton, tossing the bill into tbe lap of the sol
dier's widow ; '• a dollar don't signify much
and I recommended tsy friend, Mrs. Mar
vin, to employ you only this morning."
44 Thank you, madam," said the poor
woman, faintly! as she took the money,
feeling inwardly that she had been de
frauded, yet perfectly aware that she had
no means of redress.
And she once mure went forth into the
rain and tempest of the dismal November
morning."
44 Ma'am, if vou please," said Mary, the
waitress, 44 here's the newspaper boy —he
says master told him you would pay the
bill this week.
44 flow much is it, Mary !"
44 A dollar, ma'am."
44 How provoking, I haven't a dollar in
tbe house."
44 He says he has orders not to leave the
house until it is paid."
"He is very impertinent," said the la
dav, coloring up, and, for the first time in
her |iettPd life, feeling the want of a dollar.
Mrs. Clarence Fitzgerald was the next
person announced—a lady of the utmost
style, whose acquaintance Mrs. Wharton
had just succeeded in making.
" You will stare at my being ont in this
storm, my dear," floating gracefully into
the apartment, " but I am raising a dollar
subscription for a poor miniciau who has
just broken bis arm. Of course I may de
pend on you V'
44 Mrs. Wharton colored : 44 1 will send
it round in the morning."
44 That won't do," said Mrs. Fitzgerald,
tbruggiog br shoulder** "I am deter
mined to settle the business to-day."
" I afri very sorry," said our mortified
heroine, " but I have not a dollar."
Mrs. Fitzgerald bowed coldly —evident-
ly she did not believe the protestation —
and Mrs. Wharton saw her enter her coupe
and drive away, with the comfortable con
sciousness that she would be invited to no
more of Mrs. Clarence Fitzgerald's de
lightfully exclusive parlies.
" Mrs. Wharton," said the cook, there's
a boy at the door from the fruiteries—he
has an illegant pine apple Mrs. Pepper
sent round."
" It will be the very thing I want for a
dessert," said Mrs. Wharton; • how much
is it ?"
" A dellar, ma'am."
Once more the everlasting dollar ! Mrs.
Wharton bit her lip with vexation.
44 Tell him to leave it, Bridget, and I'll
call and settle to morrow,'
44 He says, tna'am; Mrs. Dalton wants
it, if you don't happen to have the money
bandy. Pine apples doesn't go beggiu's
this season of the year."
44 Let Mrs. Dalton have it, then ; I will
never buy another article of Pepper.
Mrs. Wharton was considerably annoy
ed : 44 To think a dollar should be such a
useful thing !" she muttered to herself, tak
iug up the portfolio.
A half finished letter lay there—one to
her sister, who was the wife of a clergyman
out West, with a flock of little children
round her. The last words she had written
were "I send you a dollar to buy a doll for
the baby, my little namesake."
' 4 llow provoking!" she exclaimed. 44 1
can't even finish the letter, for lack of the
everlasting dollar!"
She leaned back in the velvet cushion of
her chair, and, drowsily watching the blaze
and listening to the patter of the rain
against the window, ft 11 fast asleep.
Where was she ? in the spectre-boat of
Charon, gliding across the river Styx—and,
as the bark touched the shores of the other
world, the ghastly toll gatherer extended
his hand, relentlessly : 41 Your fare, if you
please, ma'am."
Mrs. Wharton had her fare ready—she
handed it up, eager to pass through the
Gates where she could see the musical wave
of palm trees arid the sparkle of glittering
tides that flowed beneath their shadow.
"Short, hy a dollar, ma'am—short by the
single dollar that you cheated the poor
seamstress out of. You car.not enter !"
Mrs. Wharton drew a hundred dollar bill
out. The grim Ceberus shook bis bead
4 'lf you had ten thousand, it wouldn't do !
Nothing will serve our purpose but that one
dollar !"
Charon turned the boat briskly round—
Mrs. Warton was just opening her lips to
utter aw ild cry ol anguished pleading—
when she woke up !
"I have been dreaming" said Mrs. Whar
ton, looking round the cozy room : "but
dear m<, what a very frightful dream it
was. That one dollar I will the recording
angel 9 really set it down agaiust me, in the
latter day accounts ?"
She shuddered; somehow the dollar had
assumed preti'rnaimally large dimensions !
''Charles! Charles!" How welcome were
the footsteps of her husband, upon the
stairs.
"Well, what is it ?"
"Have you a dollar?"
"Half a dozen of 'erti, if you want."
"But I only want one—aqne dollar bill."
He gave it to her—she rang the bell.
"John, I want you to put on your India
rubber cloak, and take this bill 'round to
Mrs. Leggett ! Tell her it is what I oWe
her!"
John departed, and Mrs. Wharton
breathed more easily.
"Pel haps they will let me into the Gates
now !" she said, dreamily.
"My dear what do you mean ?" demand
ed her astonished husband.
And Mrs. wharton told him the storv of
her day's adventures, and the dream that
had closed them.
"Helen," said her husband, gravely
"let this be a lesson to you never to neglect
the just dues of the poor. A dollar is not
much, to us—to tliein it may be the last
frail bulwark between them and starvation
Butjthere was no danger of Mrs. Whar
ton's forgetting the lesson she bad received.
BEAUTIFUL AND TRUE.— In an article in
Eraser's Magazine this brief but beautiful
extract occurs :
"Education does not commence with the
alphabet. It begins with a mother's look,
with a father's smile of approbation, or sign
of reproof—with a sister's gentle pressure
of the hand, of a brother's noble act of for
bearance — with a handful of flowers in
green and daisy meadows—with bird's nests
admired but not touched—with creeping
ants, and almost impossible emmets—with
humming bees and glass bee-hives, with
pleasant walks and shady lanes, and with
thoughts directed in sweet aud kindly tones
and woids to mature to acts of benevolence
to deeds of virtue, and to the source of all
good — to God himselt."
.
During the cross-examination of a false
witness at the Tombs, in New York city
the other day, the District Attorney asked
him where his father was: to which the
witness replied, with a very melancholy air
"Dead, sir ; dropped off" suddenly !"
"How came he to drop off suddenly ?"
was the next question.
"Foul play, sir; the sheriff imposed upon
his unsuspicious nature, sir, and getting
him on a platform to take a look at a select
audieuce, suddenly knocked a trap door
from under him, sir."
''MATCHLESS misery" has been de
fined to be to have a cigar aod nothiDg to
light it with.
TERMS, $2.00 Per. ANNUM, in Advance.
DJist anti ot|frfoise.
Marriages fnay be made in heaven, but
they are often continued in the other place.
It has been said to strike children about
the head.ia barbarou,unchriat!an and brutal.
This should never be done, especially as na
ture has provided a good deal better place.
A woman *?eing about to sign a deed,the la#-
yer asked her whether her husband had com
pelled hfer to sign it. "He compel trie .
said the lady ; "no, air, nor ten like him."
A young lady out West is so modest that
she left the dinner table blushing, the other
day, because the servant put some bear meat
before her.
i
When is a flea like a locomotive ? WheU
it goes over the sleepers. . „
"What Would you take," said a chap lately
to a waggish friend, "to read the speeches
which have been delivered in Congress darl
ing the past winter 1"
"What would I take ?" responded the
wag.
"Yes." t
"I'd take about two years.'*
The latest improvement in stock is a new
breed of cats in Vermont,'which have tails
only an inch long. The advantage claimed
for such tails is, that they cannot get under
a rocking chair or be stepped upon, and that
the door can be closed quicker when they go
out.
Joe Bla'm says : "It is my bpltilon that a
man oughtent to have nary confident. People
can come near enough a fiudiu' outyure bizi
ness by pure guessin'."
Sally," said a lover to his intended, "give
us a kiss, will you ?"
"No, I shan't," said Sal, "help yourselfi"
"Marm, may Igo a fishing 7" said a littffi
flaxen-haired urchin. "Yes,sonny, but don't
go neat the water. And remember, if you're
drowned I shall skin you, as sure a9 yooVe
alive."
A newspaper says : "A child was run over
by a wagon three years old and cross-eyed
with pantaletts on which never spoke after
wards."
"A woman is at the bottom of all mischief,"
said Joe.
"Yes," said Frank, "and when I used to
get into mischief my mother was at the bot
torn of me."
Stirrin' times.—When a mad bull rushes
into your house.
When your first-born is about cotnin' irito
totvn, and you've to foot it about three miles
through a deep snow at midnight,for the doo
tor.
When a fire breaks out in your house, and
your only escape is through the window of
chimney.
When your wife hangs her day's wash out
to dry, and it begins to sprinkle rain.
CONUNDRUMS.
What is the first thing a boy does whetl
he falls into the water 1 lie gets wet.
What was the diflereuce between Joan of
Arc ind Noah's ark. One was Maid of Or*
lean, and the other was made of gopher
wood.
When does a farmer act with rudeness to
wards his corn ? When he pulls its ears.
When is a hen most likely to hatch 7
When she sets in earncSt (her nest.)
Why is a kiss like a rumor 7 Because it
goes from mouth to mouth.
Why was Eve not afraid of the measles 7
Because she'd Adam (had 'em.)
What grows tho less tired the more it
works 7 A wagon wheel.
What is the difference between a spider
and a duck 7 The one has feet always on a
web, and the other has a web always on its
feet.
Why are hogs the most intelligent things
living 7 Because they nose everything.
A sporting Quaker puts his bets thus
"Friend Edward, thee thinks thy borse w
faste" than mine. I value my opinion at
twent) dollars. Now, if thee values thy
opinion at the same rate, we will put the
money together and asu our horses what
they think of it, and leave the conclusion to
them."
Cross lIfSBASr "Jladam, yott fieref
seem to appreciate any point which I present
to you on any subject."
Affectionate Wife.— "My dear, how unjust
you are. Do I not always appreciate poia*
lace 7"
*
Mrs. II a young mother, was ex
hibiting with commendable pride to a num j
ber of admiring friends her first baby. Fi
nally, approaching little Dan, a boy of five
years, the happy parent said, "Dan, isn't this
a dear I Ittle baby ?" Dan hesitated a mo
ment, turned up his eyes and answered*
'•Yes, but it's bald-headed."
NO. 24.