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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
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PORTRAIT, LANDSCAPE,
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OS NT MTLTTILI j
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JiV It'. Hmtß, .Artist.
Room-over the Wyoming National bsnk,in Stark s ,
Brick Block,
Tt'NKMANNOCK, I'A.
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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.
June, 3rd, 1563
MEANS' HOTEL.
TOWART3DA, T*A
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1211jv3-u.
NOTIC'F
Is hereby given, that I have placed in poession
of .Simuel Dailey Jr., on pair of steers, to be kept
by t.ai during my will and pleasure—all persona are
foroid molesting or interfering h the saiue.
DAVID PATRICK,
OverfielJ TH ,Oct. 7th 1967 v7nlotf,
S4 sipiKiu>-
tnz wnntn's GRSAT KEMEDT roa
Scrofula and Scrofulous Diseases.
From F.mery Files, a in 11-knoim merchant of Oa
/orrf, Maine.
"I have sold large quantities of vour B\nsAt*A
BII.LA, hut never yet one Isjttli- which failed of the
desired effect and full satisfaction to those who took
it. As fast our la-epic try it, they agree there has
been no medicine like it bciorc in our community."
Eruptions, Pimples, Blotches, Pustules, Ul
cers, Sores, and all Diseases of the Skin.
From Fee. llvht. Stratton, Bristol, Fnaltinil.
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1 add my testimony to that you publish of the me
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From Mrs. .lane F. Fire, a trrll known nnd mn h
estecmerl lailfiaf Dennisri/le, < 'ape May Co., S.J.
" M y daughter has suffered for a vear past with a
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From Charles P. (iiti/e, Fsif., of the triilcly knmrn
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papers in Xashuu, X, 11.
"I had for several years a very troublesome
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uutil it disfigured my features and became an intol
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Could of both advice and medicine, but without uuy
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It immediately made my face worse, as you told me
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Erysipelas —General Debility—Purify thd
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From J. F. fuiston, F'q.. Wakrnum, <thia.
"For twelve years. I had the yellow Erysipelas
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celebrated physicians I could reach, aud tijok hun
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From lion. Th nry Monro, M. P. P., of Newcastle,
III'., a leading member of the Canadian Parlies
m rut.
'• 1 have used vour SARSAPARir.i.A in my family,
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From Surrey Sirkler, Fsq., the able editor of the
Tunlhauxock Democrat, I'ennsylrauia.
" Our only child, about, three years of age, wag
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spread Met:! they formed a loathsome ana virulent
sore, whii-li envered his fitce. mid actually blinded
his eyes tor sime days. A skilful physician applied
nitrate of silver aud oilier remedies, without any
apparent effect. For lifti-en days we guard'-d his
hands, lest with them In- should tear omui the fes
tering and corrupt wound which covered his whole
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and ap,living the iodide ol potash lotion, as you
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a- ■iv other. '1 he whole o.> r iibothood predicted
til .1 tile Child must the."
Syphilis and Ktcrcuriat Disease.
From hi. f/iY. u yioi t,'ofSl. 7.o'iD, Missouri.
•'1 tin ! voir ti-AiiiLLA a more effectual
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i I.C ' rofl-SM •!! .!'• i 1.1. bled to yo.l for SOIUU Ol UlO
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Fiom I J. Hen h, M. I)., an eminent physieianof
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ploy with more certainty of success, where a power
ful alterative is required."
Me. rho*. S. Can Lietr, nfXcw Brunswick, X.
had dreadful Hirers en hi - legs, caused tjr the abuse
of mercury, or tnerimrial disease, w'liieh t' r,, w more
an l IIKHT J, r *, r r*vat'<i for yt*nrs, 111 orevrrjr
ri'iufilv or tn*utin*."it tliat ooold be <ippii^a ( until tlc
jMTHfViTiIi" Uo (f AY Kits S A KSAPAKILLA ITlirvi-d
li.in Fi*vv caw-H can Ik- found inure inrefwite and
distresMMg than this, laid It took several dozen
bottles to cure him.
Leucorrhoca, Whites, Fentale \Veakness,
arc generally prodnc- d by Internal Scrofulous t'l
ceratioii, and ::r- very often curcl by the alterative
effect of this Svi > vi'AKli.l.A. Some cases require,
however, in aid of tie- HAKBAPAKH.I.A, the skilful
application of local remtsliea.
From the in U Ist or 11 and iriddy rrtel,rated Dr.
Jacob Morrill, of Cincinnati.
" I have found your SA K SAFARI Li- A an excellent
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have vie! li d to ft, an l there are lew that do not,
wiu n its effect is proni-rly aided by localTreatim nt."
A la y, uu willing to allow the publication of her
name, writes
" Mv daughter and myself have been cured of a
vcrv .fobihlatiug Leu'-orrlnea of long standi 11 g, by
two bottles of your S Alts A i'AKILI.A. .
Rheumatisin, Gout, Liver Complaint, Dys
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AYER'S
CATHARTIC I'LLLS
pys-ess so tn any mlvantages over the other
purgatives in the market, anil their superior
v i 1 tin s are so universally kn<iwn. tlintwe need
not <lo more than to assure the publie their
quality is maintained equal to the hest it ever
lias bicn. and that they may be depended on
to do all that they have ever done.
Prepared hy J. C. AY ER, M. I)., & Co.,
Lowell. Mass., ami sold by
For sale by Bunnell A Bannatyne, and Lyman 4
Whll, i nnkbanuoi k. Sterling 4 Son, Mshop{*n,
Stevens 4 Ackley, Laceyville, Frear, lisan 4 Co ,
Eaeioryville, and ail Druggi-ta and Deulsts in tned
cincs, everywhere.
THE UK A LING POOL,
A VIT HOL'SK OF MERCY.
Howard Association Reports, for Y'Ol'NG
MEN on the CHIME OF SOLITPDE, and the ER
RORS, ABUSES a id DISEASES which destroy the
manly powers, and create impediments to MAR
RIAGE, with jure means of relief. S'ent in seaied
letter, envelopes, free of charge. Address Dr. J.
SKILLEN HOUGHTON, Howard Asso-iation,
I'hil'-leq-hia. I'a.
6n44 lyear-
THE UNION"
STRAW CUTTER,
MAMFACTDRED BY
Williaiii Flickiier,
At yt'.YAV/A.YjVOCA', -fenn'a.
Who has the exclusive right for Wyoming county, is
one of the very few Machines that will cut Hy.
Straw. Stalks, <e , better lhan the old fashioned
Cutting boxes, used by our grandfathers.
Those who value time and labor: and would avoid
a needles- loss of both, in feeding their stock, should
get one of these improved Cutters.
No man over found anything better ; or ever went
back to the old machine after u trial of it.
A Supply Constantly on Hand
and for sale.
WM. FLIC'KNER.
Tunkiiannock L>tc 2, I£77v7ulßtf
TUNKHANNOCK, WYOMING CO., PA. -WEDNESDAY, FEB. 5, 1808.
Iflftcg.
TO IKY MOTHER.
BT riNHY FORRESTER.
Give m* my old scat, Mother,
With my hand upon thy knee ;
I've pused through many changing scene,
Since thus I sat by thee.
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.
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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.
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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.'" .
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\ 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 <ur barrel, and asked her hus
band to read tbem ; 0 I C U R M T.
An old woman receutly tried in England
for feloniously takiug a pair of boots, and the
jury, to the amusemeut of the couft apd
spectators, returned the following verdict:—
"Not guilty, but admonished never to do tbo
like again."
What is more brilliant than a toper's nose?
Why, Tolca-noes, to be sure. Pat remarks
that ibe chief glow of each comes from the
"crater."
A young fellow whose sweetheart discard--
ed him the oilier night, was fourd shortly
after seated on the cuib-stone thus moraliz
ing in verses :
"Oh ! Sal was fair, her eyes were blue,
Before her glance I knock ed under ;
She koowed 1 loved her, fond and true,
Yet softly murmured 'go to thunder.'"
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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.