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PIATT, ATTORN BY AY LAW 0 ; t,-e in Stark's Liiitk Block Tioga St., Tunk , tnnock, l'a rp .1. CHASE. ATTORNEY AND COUNSEL j 1 , 1.0 K AT LAW, Nicholson, Wyoming Co-, l'.t ; K- e -iai attention givjn to settlement ol dece , dent's estates. _ ; Nicholson, Pa. Dec. 5 l a 6' V -C's-' *1 - --- X V ; - •• h) / ' >v jr>"' OR. I. T. BI'RNS has permanently located in | TunkhantmcK Borough, and re-poettally tenders . his professional services, to its citizens ! < iffi -e on second floor, formerly oecUpie } • oilman v6n3otf. PORTRAIT, LANDSCAPE, A*l> OS NT MTLTTILI j TIWGr. JiV It'. Hmtß, .Artist. Room-over the Wyoming National bsnk,in Stark s , Brick Block, Tt'NKMANNOCK, I'A. ! ife--ize Portraits painted from Amb'otypes or j J'hotograi'hs— ('holograph* Painted in OilC. lors All orders for paintings executed zcoording to or- j der,or nocharge made. j (fK Instructions given in Drawing. Sketching, Portrait an i Landscape Painting, in Oil or water C lore, and in all branches of the art, l ut.k . July 31, '6' -vgnoO-tf. BOLTON HOUSE. ||.\Rl!lSHl If (f, l'l-A'NA. The undersigned having lately purchased the ' LI'Kill.KB HOI'SK " property, has already com- j men i -u- ti alterations and improvements as will ! ret ier thi- .dd and popular House equal, if not supe- j ri-'r to an* Hotel in the Ctt.v of lUrnsburg. | \ continuance of the public patronage is refpeet full, su.icited. GEO J BOLTON WALL'S HOTEL, LATE AMERICAN HOUSE, TIJ N KHAN MKK. WYOMING CO.. I'A. TUTS establishment has recently been refitted an furnished in the latest style Every attention will h given to the courfort and convenience ol those who patronize the Hone T. B WALL, Owner and Proprietor . Tunkhannock, September 11. 1361. NORTH BRANCH HOTEL, MESHOPPEN, WYOMING COl NTY, PA Wnr. H. tOUTRIGHT. Prc-p'r HAVING resumed the proprietorship of the atx.ve Hotel, the undersigned will "pare no efforts er l<-r the house an agreeable place ol sojourn to all who may favor it with their custom. Win. H COKTRIGHT. 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Oh ! let me look into thine eyes— Theit meek, soft, loving light Falls, like a gleam of holiness, Upon my heart to-night. I've not been long away, mother ; Few suns have rose and set, Since last the tear drop on thy oheek My Hps in kisses met. 'Tis but a little time I know, But very long it seems ; Though every night I eome to thee. Dear Mother, in my dream*, The world has kindly dealt, Mother, By thy child thou lov'et so wall ; Tby prayers have circled round her path ; And 'twas their holy spell Which made that path ao dearly bright; Which strewed the roses there ; Which gave the light, and cast the helm On every breath of air. 11 ear a happy heart, Mother 5 A happier never beat ; And, even now, new buds of hope Are bursting at my feet. Ob ! Mvdbcr ! life may be a dream ; But if such dreams are given, While at the portal thus we stand, What are the truths of Heaven ! I bear a happy heart, Mother ; Yet, when fund eyes I see, And bear o!t tones or winning words, I ever think of tbee And then the tear my spirit weeps Unbidden fills iny eye ; And, like a homeless dove, I long Unto thy breast to fly. Then lam very sad, Mother, I'm very sad and lone ; Oh ! there's no heart whose inmost fold Opens to me like thino own ! Tho' sunny emiles wreathe blooming lips, While love tones meet my ear : My Mother, one fond glance of thine YVere thousand times more dear. Then with a closer clasp, Mother, Now hold me to thy heart ; I'd feel it beating'gainst my own, Once more before vve j-art. And Mother to this love lit spot, When I am far away, * Come oft — 100 oft thou canst not com# And for thy darling pray. THE LIGHT IN THE WINDOW. BY ca.IKT-ns MACKAT, L. L. P. Late or early lemie returning, In the starlight oftlie ram, I beheld that lonely ean-ile Miming trom his window pane. Ever o'er his tattered curtain, Nightly looking, I could scun, Aye inditing. Writing—writing, The pule figure of a man ; Still discern behind bim fall The same shadow on the wall. Far beyond the murky midnight, By dim burning of my oil, Filling aye his rapid leaflets, I hare watched him at bis toil j M atched his broad and seamy forehead, Watched his white industrious hand, Ever paf-ing. And repassing ; Watched and strove to understand What impelled it—gold or fame— Bread, or bubble of a name. Oft I've asked debating vainly In tho sitence of my mind, YVhat the services he rendered To his oouotry or his kind ; Whether tones of ancient music, Or the sound of modern gong, Wisdom holy, Humors lowly, Sermon, essay, novel, song, Or philosophy sublime, Filled the measure of his time. Of the miehty world of London, He was portion unto me— Portion of my life's experience, Fused into my memory. Twilight saw bim at'his folios ; Morning saw his fingers run, Laboring ever. Wearying never Of the task he had bogun ; Placid and content be seemed, Like a man that toiled and dreamed. No one sought him, no one knew him, Undistinguished was his name ; Nexer bad his praise been uttered By the oracles of fame, gennty fare and decent raiment, Humble lodging and a fire— These he sought for, These be wrought for, And he gained his meek desire ; Teaching men hy written word, Clinging to a hope deferred. So be lived. At last I missed him, Still might evening twilight fall, But no ta|er lit his Inttice— Lay no shadow on the wall, In the wioter 01 his seasons, In the midnight of bis day, 'Mid his writing, And inditing, Death had beckoned him away, Ere the sentence he had planned Found completion at his hand. Bnt this old man so old and nameless, Left behind I tm projects large, Schemes of progress undeveloped, Worthy of a nations charge ; Noble actions uncompleted, Germs of beauty immatured, Only needing, Kindly feeding, To have flourished and endured ; Met reward in golden store, To have lived forevermore. Who shall tell what schemes majestio Parish tn the active brain I What humanity is robbed of, Ne'er to be restored again T What we luse, because we honor Over much the mighty dead, Aud dispirit Living merit, Heaping scorn upon its bead ? Or perchance, when kinder grown, Leaving it to die -alone ? " To Speak his Thoughts is Every Freeman's Right. " BEGGARS AND BORROWERS. BT HORACE GBEELKT, I hate to say anything that is calculated to steel others against the prayers of the unfortunate and necessitous; yet an exten sive, protracted experience has led me to the conclusion that nine-tenths of those who solicit loane of strangers or casual ac quaintances are thriftless vagabonds who will never be better off than at present, or scoundrels who would never pay if they were able. In scores, if not hundreds of cases, I have been importuned to lend from Si up to $lO, to help a stranger who bad come to the city on .some errand or other, had here fallen among thieves, (who are far more abundant herg than they ev er were on the road from Jerusalem to Jericho), been made drunk, and plundered of his last cent, and w ho asked only enough to take him home, when the money would be surely and promptly returned. Some times, I have lent the sum required; in other cases, I have refused it; but I can not remember a birtyle instance in which the promise to repay was made good. I recollect a case wherein a capable, intel ligent New England mechanic, on his way from an Eastern city to work two hundred miles up the Erie Railroad, borrowed of me,the means of saving his children from famine on the way, promising to pay it out of bis first months wages; which he took care never to do. This case differs from many others only in that the swindler was clearly of a better class than that from which the great army of borrowers is so steadily and bountifully recruited. In one instance, a young man came, with the usual request, and was asked to state his case. "I am a clerk from New , Hampshire." he began, "aud have been j for three years employed in Georgia. At length, a severe sickness prostrated me; I 1 lost my place : my money was exhausted; and here am 1, with my wife, without a cent; and I want to borrow enough to take trie home to my father's house, when I will surely repay it" "Stranger," was the re sponse, " you evidently cannot stay here, and I must help you to get away ; but why say anything about paying me ? You know, and J know you will never pay a cent." My visitor protested and remon strated ; but I convinced, if I did not con vert bim " Don't you see," I rejoined, "that you cannot have been three years a clerk in a leading mercantile house in Geor gia without muking the acquaintance of merchants doing business in this city ? Now, if you were a person likelv to pa v. | yoti would apply to and obtain help liom those mere 1 - - '■"•- I*" *"'7' 7 uu. ...I utter stranger. He did not ad mit the for nof my demonstration; but of course tli s, quei proved it correct, I consider it all but au axiom that he who a stranger to lend him money will never pnv it; yet I have known an j exception. Once, when I was exceedingly pour and needy, in a season of cormneiciul j revulsion or " panic," I opened a letter from Utica and found therein $", which the writer asked tne to receive in satisfaction of a loan of that sum which I Lad made him—a needy stranger—on an occasion which he recalled to my remembrance.— Perplexed by so unusual a message and es pecially by receiving it at such a time, when every one was seeking to borrow— no one condescending to pay—l scanned the letter more closely, and at length achieved a solution of the prublem The writer was a patient io the State Lunatic Asylum. A gushing youth once wrote me to this effect: "DEAR SIR: Among your literary treasures you have doubtless preserved several autographs of our country's late lamented poet, Edgar A. Poe. If so, and you can spate one, please enclose it to me, and receive the thanks of yours, truly." I respondt d as follows ; " DEAR SIR : Among my literary treas ures theie happens to be exactly one auto graph of our country's late lamented poet, Edgar A. Poe. It is his note of hand for SSO, with my endorsement across the back. It cost tne just SSO 75 (inc udi<>g protest), and you may have it for half that amount. Yours, respectfully." That autograph, I regret to say. re mains on iny hands, and is still for sale at the original price, despite the lapse of time and lite depreciation of our currency. 1 once received a letter from an utter stranger, living two hnndred miles away, asking me to lend bim a large sum on a mortgage of his farm, and closing thus : "P. S.— My religious views are radical ly antagonist to yours; fcnt I know no member of tuy own church of whom I could so readily, and with such confidence, ask stich a favor, as of you." This postcript impelled me, instead of dropping the letter quietly into the waste basket, as usual, and turning to the next business in order, to answer httn as fol lows : "SIR: I have neither the money you ask for, nor the inclination to lend it on the' security yon proffer. And your P. S. prompts tlie suggestion that whenever I shall be moved to seek favors of tiio mem bers of some other churelt rather than of that to which I have hitherto adhered, I shall make haste to join that other church " I trust I have said nothing calculated to stay the hand or chill the spirit of heaven born Charity. The world is toll of needy, suffering ones, who richly deserve compas sion ; not to speak of the vagrants, who, though undeserving, must not be allowed to starve or fieeze. I was struck with the response of a man last from St. Lviuis, who recently insisted on being helped on to Boston, which be said was his early home. and to whom I roughly made answar — "You need not pretend to me that the universe is bankrupt. I know better know that a man of yonr natural abilities, if he only behaved himself, need not be reduced to beggary 4" "Well, sir," he quickly rejoined, " I don't pretend that I have always done tbe right thing—if I did you would know better—all I say is, that I am hungry and penniless, and that, it I can only get back to Boston, I can there make a living. That's my whole story." I felt that he had the better reason on his side. "Then you condemn borrowing and lending entirely 1" " No, I do nut. Many a man knows how to use, wisely and beneficently, means that be does not, while others do, possess; lending to snch, under proper safeguards, is most commendable. Ten thousand {oung farmers, who by work'ißg for others iave earned SIOOO, aud saved a good part of it, are now prepaied to work farms of their own. lie who lends a youth SI,OOO to $2,000 wherewith to purchase a farm, taking a mortgage thereon for the amount, and leaving to the young farmer his own well-earoed means wherewith to buy 6tock and seed, provisions and implements, will often enable him to work his way into modest independence, surrounded and l lessed by a wife and children—himself a useful member of society, and a true pillar of the State—when he must, but for that loan, have remained years longer, sing e aud a hireling. So, a young mechanic may often be wisely and safely aided to estab lish himself in business by a timely and well secured loan; but ibis should nover be accorded bim till, by years of patient, frugal industry, he has qualified himself for masteiy, aud proved himself worthy of trust. (Of traders there will always be too many, though none should ever be able to borrow a dollar ) But improvi dent borrowing and lending ate among our most prevalent and baneful errors; aud I, would gladly conduce to their reformation. THE MYSTERY OF EDITING. The world at large do not understand the mysteries of a newspaper; and as in a watch, the hands that are seen are but passive instruments of the spring, which is never seen ; so, in a newspaper, the most worthy causes of its prosperity are often least observed or known. Who suspects the benefit which the paper derives from the cntei prise, the vigilance and the watch ful fidel.ty of the publishers? Who paus es to think how much of the pleasure of reading is d rived from the skill and care of the printer. We feel the blemishes of tiie excellencies. We eat a hearty dinner,but do not think of the farmer that raises the material there of. or the cook that prepared them with infinite pains and skill. But a cook of vegetables, meat, pastries and infinite bon bons has a paradisical office in comparison with an editor I Before him pass in re view all the exchange newspapers He is to know all their contents, to mark for other eyes the matter that requires atten tion. {lis scissors are to be alert, and clip with incessant industry all the little items that together form so large an interest in the news department. He passes in re view, each week, every State in the Union through the newspaper lens. He looks actoss the ocean* and sees 6trange lands, and following the sun he searches all around the world for material. It will te quire but one second's time for the readers to take in what two hours' search produc ed. By him are read the mannscnpts that swarm the office like flies in July. It is bis frown that dooms them. It is his hand that condenses a whole page into a line. It is his discreet sternness that re stricts sentimental obituaries that gave po ets a twig on which to sit and sing their first lays. And the power behind tbe throne, in newspapers as in higher places, is some times important as the throne itself. Cor respondents, occasional or regular, stand in awe at that silent power which has the last glance at an article, and my 6end it forth in glory or humility. And, in short as the body d- pends upon a good digestion, so tbe health of a paper depends upon that vigorous digestion wtiicb goes on by means of the editor. Ought they not to be honored ? And since little fame attends them, they should at least have their creature comforts mul tiplied. From that dark and dismal den residence, they are at length translated ! Henry Ward Beecher. BEAUTIFUL THOUGHT.— I The same (xod who moulded the sun and kindled ttie j stats, watches the flight of an iDsect. He who balances the clouds ttnd hung the world on nothing, notices the fall of a spar row. He who gave Saturn his rings and placed the moon, like a ball of silver, in the broad arch of heaven, gives the rose leaf its delicate tint, and made the distant sun to nourish the violet. And the same being notices tbe praises of tbe cherubim aud the prayers of aliUle child, THERE is an organization in a Western village called the John Club. The cardinal doctrine of the John Club is that no one whose name is John can become a mem ber. Nothing is said about demi-johns. A QUACK doctor has recently started, who says in bis advertisement: "I can bring living witnesses to show the efficiency of my pills, whicn is more than any one else in my line can do. A farmer, when flagellating his two old est boys, was asked what be was doing. ! "Threshing wild oats, was the reply, A VALLEY ONE MILE DEEP. W W. Thomas, late United States Cou sul at Gothenburg, Sweden, in a letter on Norway, gives the following description of that remote country and one of its phenom ! enas ! Imagine a bilge table land, rising 3, 000 to 6,000 feet sheer above tbe sea—one vast I rock, in fact, bleak and barren, covered 1 with snow, swept with rain, frozen in win i ter, sod lcn in summer—the home of a few reindeer and Lapps, and you bate Norway proper, nine tenths of the Norway that is shown on the map. But the rock is not whole, it is cracked apart here and there, ; and fissures show like slender veins over the country. The sides of these ravines are as steep as the cleft of an axe, and their depths are always filled by a foaming brook or river tumbling from the drenched table land above the sea. I havo looked from the bottom of one of these valleys and seen the perpendicular rock rise 5,000 feet on either side, and the heavens show like a strip of blue ribbon. Wherever in these dales there lies a bit of earth 'wixt rock and river, there the Norwegian peasant has built his cot ; and it is on such bits of earth that inhabited Norway is situated, and here live her 1,200,000 people. The land just around his door gives the Nor weg.an potatoes, rye, barley, and oats ; his cattle climb the steep above forever) stray blade : for the rest hedepeuds upon the sea and river. R'ere it not lor the excellent fisheries along this northern shore, Norway would bo uninhabitable. One night in July, 1865, Hon J, H. Campbell, late Mia ister at Stockholm, tbe two Messrs Buckley of Birmingham, and myself, landed OD the shore of a northern fiord in latitude 60 degrees north. We ascended a cliff which rose 1,000 feet above the level of the sea. It was late, but still sunlight. The Arctic Ocean stretched away in silent vastness at our feet. The sound of its waves scarcely ■ reached our airy lookout. Away in the north tbe huge old sun swung low along the horizon, like tbe slow beat of tbe pend- ■ tilnm in the tall ciock in our grand-father's I parlor corner. Wc ail stood silent, looking j at our watches. When both hands came together at 12 midnight, the lull round orb j bung triumphantly above tbe ware—a bridge of gold running due north spanned i the waters between us and him. There he ' shone in silent majesty, which knew no set- I ting. We involuntarily took off our hats; j no word was saiJ. Combine if you can, i tb 1 most brilliant sunrise and sunset you ! ever saw, aud its beauties will pale before ! the most gorgeous colurirg wnicli now lit j up the ocean, heaven and mountain. Ju \ tbly on its beat, the colors changed to those of the morning, a fresh breeze rippled over the fiord, one songster after another piped t up in tb grove behind us—we had slid j into another day. „ A WESTERN JUDGE.— The Hon. Ben jamin Tappan, once a Senator front Ohio, was on the bench when the Buckeye State was admitted into the Union. lie was famous in bis time for being very uglv, very talented, and veiy cross eyed, crahbed and sarcastic. On one occasion he was holding court in tbe wilderness, when one log cabin had to be used for court bouse, tavern and bar-room. The stable near by was used for a jail. The judge had just given some malefactors a very severe sen tence. when a rough backwooJsmau, who had been practicing at the other bar, ex claimed : "That's right; give urn thunder old, gimh't eyes." "Who is thrt ?" screamed the irate and indifftiant judge. "It's this old hoss," answered the pioneer giving his breast an approving slap. "Mr. Sheriff," retorted Tappan, "put that old boss in the stable, and keep him a week on bread and water." Two Dutchmen lived close together and they had been fast friends, but they fell out and hated each other like Indians.— One of them got sick and sent for bis neigh bor, saying : "Huns, lam going to die, will you for give me and be ft tends." "Yes, if you die, I will," said Hans, "bul if you gets well again, der old grudge will stand good." An editor wrote an article on the fair sex in the course of which he said : "Girls of seventeen or eighteen are fond of beaux." — When the paper was issued he was shock ed to discover that an unfortunate typo graphical error had made him sav : "(Jir Is of seventeen or eighteen are fond of beans AARON BUHR'S SARCVSM.—When Aaron Butr returocd to New Yory city to practice Law, after his voluntary exile in Europe, he found the late liev. Jedediah Rurchard, then a celebrated revivalist hold ing a series of protracted meetings in his family church. lie attended from habit, always went late, and disturbed the services by attracting to himself tbe attention of the audience on account of his infamous notori ety as the man who shot Alexander Hamil ton, and who had been tried for treason.— Mr. Bmchard resolved to rebuke him open ly. The next Sabbath, when he came in and got about half way up the aile. the clergy man paused in his discourse, and pointing to Colonel Burr, said, in the most scathing manner : "You hoary headed old sinner, I'll appear against you at tbe day of judg ment !' The proud defiant old man stand ing erect as ever,with that perfect compos ! ure that never deserted him, and fixing his fine grey eyes on the occupant of the pulpit replied : "Mr. Burchard, I have observed through a long course of professional ex perience, that tbe very meanest class of i criminals are those who turn State's evi i dence !" TERMS, $2.00 Per. ANNUM, in Advance. gjisr anil JJtjfit&iur. - ■. . •.*' 1T" RETROSPECTIVE. ; J In a wagon make of willow Wheeled I onoe a little maiden, Ringlets shining on the pillow, Rolling homeward treasure-laden, Like a boat upon the billow. Ten pears fled, oh ! how I missed her When she left the village school ; t' But she said ahe'd be my slater, As we lingered by the pool, f And I passionately kissed her. *.ti Ten more hopeful years renew it ; , - Little wagon made of willow— Loving ones are bent to view it Loving hinds adjust the pillow. And we've fitted rockers to it. , . 1 ( I . . , After successfully popping the <}aostioti,the next thing is to question the pop. Esteem is the mother of love, but tba daughter is often older than the mother. When a rogue means in utter a worse lie than usual, he generally prefaces it wtihrSv : tell you the truth.'" . •* , , tii \ The tongues and hands of the radicals #f Congress are equally busy—the former o de manding the savings of the public wad the latter busy in grabbing it. . Some men keep cross dogs around their houses, so that the hungry poof who atop ''to got a bite"' may get it outsidejhe^door. The telegraph announces the melancholy intelligence that Brownlow's health is im proving. He is named lor Fire President on the ticket with Grant. There is vice enough |in the old wretch to make him ion well for that office on the Mongrel ticket. A ladj' fixed the following letters in the bottom of ati < j[ ti So I aot me down in thought profound, Thia maxim wise I drew : It'a easier to love a gal," Than to make a gal love yon." Here hi# music broke down, and he aoon joined a band of red nosed patriot!, who | "took sugar in theii'u.' " LETTEB Anna ESS. —The following address was lately fouud on alettermailed at the Fust Office in Stroudsburg : Bust Master blea-e send him strait, Bennsylvany is der Staight, Oil Venango dat's der County, Vere Oil b >urs out mit h> Ln's pounty, Franklin is der Gounty Seat, Der Bust office on liberty street, SharlytDaylar is der uian, Send dis just so quick you can. A greenhorn sat a long time, very atten tive, musing upon a cane-bottom chair. At length be said : "I wonder what fellow took the trouble to find ail them ar holes, mdput straws around 'em." V Why are babies like cigar stumps 1 Be cause they are thrown away in New York. Argument for short skirts.—They give i plain girls a chance. What nature has de | nicd the face, she often gives to the under | standing. Louie.—As a specimen of the utility of logic, we give the following : A sharp student was called up by the worthy professor of a celebrated college and asked the question. "Can a man see without eyes ?" "Yes sir," was the prompt answer. "H w, sir," cried the amazed professor, "can a man see without eyes ? Pray, air how do you make that out 1" "He can see with one, sir," replied tie ready-witted youth ; and the whole class shouted with delight at his triumph ever metaphysics. "A man who'll maliciously set Are to a shed," said Mr. Slow, ' and burn up twenty cows, ought to be kicked to death by a don key—and I'd like to do it myseit!" Siow is very severe sometimes. , * S*ek salvation now. NO. 26.