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BEYOND THE GEAVE.
Lights J now the lenei of Antumn
31 irk another vanished year ;
Think how many thus beside us,
Silsnt lie od sorrow's bier ;
Cold and valiant arms are willing,
Coca so fond, so strong to save ;
Eyes are red with midnight weeping,
Hope looas up beyond the grave.
There are hearth-stones ed and lonely,
There are'mouods of freemen a!ain
Those once loved, and love returning,
Sever more shall meet again.
TboM whose lost words, spoken kindly,
Asked our tho'ts for tho'tg they gave,
Praying for a brighter season.
Whisper now. beyond the grave.
Fsia would we once noro emLraco them,
'.Neath the storm cloud on the sea,
(living tear for tear, of so. row.
Giving smile for smile, of glee.
Thus our ryes seek out that haven,
Far acre each surging wave,
Where in beauty and in gladness,
We may meet beyond the grave.
God wa'.eh o'er ns through the shadows,
I'.e?tii:g on tby brow and mine;
More of joy and less of doubting,
Fills the land of light divine
Fills the land where orystal water
.Shores of greenest verdure lave;
There for thee, and there lore only,
Hore looks up beyond the grave.
JAMIE'S STRUGGLE.
Where's Jamie?" asked Madge, timMly,
coming into the room, cheery with its pret
ty criniKiu coal fire, and bright yellow jets
of pan light.
Lier cousin lroed up coldly at the ques
tion, Uncle Gould frowned ominously over
Lis pacer, and Aunt Gould just eaid, verv
dryly:
"In bis room,"
Madga looked uaeavily from one to the
other, but no single pair of eyes turned up
on her with FinpaIy or explanation, and
after a few momenta of irresolution, site
UiJ Juwn her .school books, and wont from
tbe room. Iu the hail she Diet the house
r.iaid.
"Oh ! Betty, please tell me, has anything
happened, and why didn't Jamie come to
school to-day '!"
J3etty shook ber hood.
"Weil, Mi, I don't like to grieve you,
but your brother hr.s done a horrible thing,
atid if lie v.as a poor boy now, 1 suppose he
wuuld be looking through iron bars in the
county jail !"
"Betty, wbnt do you moan ?" sid Madge
tarniog pal.
"Well, Mi.-s," said IJftry, sinking hrr
voice to a whisper, "you'd have to know it
som-titn:?, I tupposc, and the fact is, he's
just been Mcalir.;; money out of muster's
drawer a hundred dullard, may bo more or
W."
"It isn't .-o!:" cried Madge, in aloud, shurp
tone.
"What ! Jamie etoal! It's a wicker! lie!"
and she burst iuto tears.
"Very we!!," said the offended Betty,
'"you'll soon 2nd out whether I lie or not,
for I believe he's none too good to be a thief,
nor you either, with allyoui mincing, saint
ly ways."
Hut Madge was out of hearing two
itps at a time up the broad stairs, till she
n-ached a little room at the farther end of
the. third itory eorrider. She burst in with
out any ceremony, but all was still in the
fold winter twilight,exeept the dismal da-Ji-ini;
of sleet against the window panes. ''Ja
niie." she called.
At first there was no reply, and then a
little movement behind the dingy brown
niriaios lt rayed hiui, and Madge was at
li' tide, with her aims flu tic around hi
n?,-k.
"I knew you had heard all about it the
tninnte ,a culled me," faltered Jamie, try
ing to iniilc. "I heard the 'tears in your
voice,' you know ; but you don"t believe it,
no yoa?"
"Never!"' cried Madte. vehemently, "now
tell uie all about it. How could any one
dare to .-ay so?"
"I hardly know where to begin," said
Janiie, nith a great effort at self control.
I have to tell you something I've been
kei pmj a secret ever since last summer.
a ee when Cousin Bell l.ad her birthday
rty !a t June, and a'! the girls swept
around in such pretty tdiiuing silks, or else
ire-ses half clouds and half cobwebs, and
y'U only had that pink calico it hurt mc, 1
Jon t know why. You looked just as sweet
as any yes, th prettiest of all I thought ;
1 ut wl,t.n Fisdu-r K-iiht said : "Just look
at my i.-u-r! Isn't .-he pretty, and doesu't
her dress l.Kik as if she had iMiuht three or
fur yard of sunset, and had the moon up
ail tiU-ht sewing star, on it?' Then the boys
kueLi-d, and I .-aid 'And isn't my sister
Jr"y, too '?' for you did look a- sweet as a
T,e. I thought; but that proud Hsher
Ki.-ht laughed just tike a knife I mean it
teau'd to cut right into me, and he said
'O. yes, and how kind Betty was to lend her
that drsa. Some of the boys said, 'too
bad!' but that only hurt me more, and I
cret't away pretty soon, and lay behind the
fk snow-ball bushss, and looked up iu
tbe great, still sky, and wondered why God
couldn't have taken you and me too, when
father and mother died, and not left us to
fottie to this proud, rich unele, who "does
not luve us, and 4reau us just like little beg
Srs." 'Oh, don't say S3, Jamie," said Madge;
I m sure he's been very kind to us some
times." "I don't remember many times iust now."
e'Khed Jamie.
"Well," he cont'aued "a little while af
ter that I heard Lutio bay that when her
birth-day came, in the winter, she meant to
bave a jrrand time, and invite every boy and
girl she had ever seen. Then I thought to
myself '"o they will want te dress Madge
iu tome utrly brown merino, but I am de
termined she shall look the prettiest or them
all. So I began to work after school, doing
all kinds of little jobs for auybody that
would hire me, and I never spent anything
for candy or marbles, you know, so that all
the boys began to call me raiser. But I did
not mind that, lecu-e thought my pleas
ure was coming by and by. The money
came very slowly. But when Aunt gave
me money 1o buy mittens, I just went with
out and kept my hands in my pockets. Their
I got considerable on Christmas, you know,
and altogether, yesterday I found I had just
enough to buy what I wanted. So Mr.
Green, who is always so kind to tne, excus
ed me from my le.-sons this morning, and
I walked all the way to B , because I
thought I could get nicer things there, and
Madge, I bought you the prettiest green
silk! It made me think of the woods in
spring, and I thought when you had it on,
with your sweet, white face, you would look
just like a lily coming up out of a Led of
moss."
"Jlear little Jamie!" saidMafge! "did
you d) all that for me? I aui sorry. You
know that J don't care what I wear."
"Ves, I knoy it," said Jamie, "and you
are always loveiy fo inc. I suppose it is be
cause, as Mr. Green says, you always wear
tho jewels which are of prcat price in the
sight of God. I haven't a dtiubt, Madge,
but the angels thiuk you're the prettiest
girl in the world, but some way, I know its
foolish I waated to have the boys thiuk so
too."
"Well, when I camo back, just as I got to
the hall door with uiy bundle, leeling so
proud that I had earned it all myself, out
came Undo, looking very red, and storming
about tome money about twenty dollars I
think that he said he had left in his desk
and forgot to lock it last night. Nobody
knew anything about it, and I was just go
ing, on tip-toe, to my room, when he called
very suddenly : 'What have you got iu that
bundle?' 'A dress for Madge.' 'A dress
for Madge?' said he, louder yet. 'let me
see it.' So I opeasd it, trying to teli him
that I earned all the money myself, but as
soon as h saw the pretty siik he caught
hold of my arm so I almost screamed, and
said : ' ou earned money enough to buy
such a drc?s as that? You are telling me a
falsehood. Confess now that you took my
money.' Then out came Aunt Gould, and
Uille and Lutie, aud they held up their
Lauds, and looked so thocked, and wouliu't
believe a word I said. Then Uncle seemed
to try Jo be kind, and told me that if I con
fessed, and asked his pardon he would for
give me. But I couldu't tell a lie, and only
said that I did not, could not do such a
thing, till he called me a hardened, obsti
nate boy, and ordered me up to my room.
And as for the dress, MaJjjo, that I've Leeu
thinking about uiore than six months," Ja
mie coughed violently, "I heard Aunt say
that it was not quite a loss, for with a yard
or two more it would make a dresa for Lu
tie." Madge tried to comfort him, but broke
down.
"Never mind," said he at last, patting
her tear stained cheek, "I am determined
you shall have something nice after a!!. To
morrow is the skating tuatcli, you know, and
I thiiik I am sure of the second prize, at
least, and whatever I get bhall be given to
darling Madge."
"You will be snre to get it," cried Madge,
with eager sympathy. "You've skated ev
ersince you could walk," and she remem
bered with a glow of pride that no one had
ever yet caught Jamie in a race, and often
when you only thought bitu playing, he'd
be writing his name with this rather clum
sy steel pen, on the great white page of ice,
as handsomely as on a leaf of his writing
book.
"Yes,you'll be sure of the prize, Jamie,"
she said, exttltingly, "and I know it will all
come right with uncle too. I'm going to
tell him all about it now."
But to her great grief.angry Uncle Gould
would not hear a word. "No, child," said
he, "no one can make mc believe that a boy
would go without marbles and candies half
a year to buy his sister a dress. And if he
did, he never could have saved enough for
such a handsome silk. Besides, what set
tles the matter, Betty saw him in the libra
ry at my desk very early this atoning, before
any one was up. It is a clear case, thougtt
it grieves me to say so."
The text morning, as, after a sleepless
night, Jamie stole down stairs with his skates
his unele met him iu the hall.
"You cannot skate to-day James," said
he, almost kindly, as he looked at ths boy's
flushed, worn face. "I feel it but right
that you should have some punishment for
sueh a great fault."
"But I did not do it sir," said James,
imploringly.
Uncle Gould grew quite stern. "Remem
ber that Betty saw you, my child. Either
confess and ask pardon, or go back to your
room."
"Yes, Jamie," said Aunt Gould, appear
ing from the parlor, "you love Madge dear
ly, and no doubt the temptation was very
great. We have been talking it over, and
we wish to be as kind as your own father
and mother. Confess your fault, and, as it
ia the first time, we are willing to forgive
you, and trust you once more. And indeed,
since it would make you so very happy, I
even promise to give the dress to Madge."
"Don't be a prig, Jiiii," said Lutie ; just
say you did it, and have it done with."
What a terrible struggle went on in Ja
mie's breast. If he told a lie, there was love
and forgiveness the skating prize and the
pretty dress ; if he told the truth, nothing
but coldness and silent contempt, aud soli
tude in his dreary room. What a struggle?
The hot passions raged, and the terrible
fire burned through his cheeks. He hesi
tated. Ahl is he going to love the praise
of man more than the praise of God? A
moment more of silence, and he says firmly
"I did not do it, Uncle. I cannot tell i
lie."
Poor Jamie spent the day in his room, at
tended by Madge, his faithful shadow. They
heard Belle and Lutie go away merrily with
their skates, but, strange to say, they did
not feel so very miserable, and even smiled
as their eyes met.
"In't it queer I can be so happy?" said
Jamie. "If it wasn't for this headache I
should feel light as a feather."
"Do you remember that strange verse
that mother used to say?" said Madge.
"Behold we count them happy which en
dure.' I believe I understand it better now,
Jamie; and what is the rest of it? 'Ye
have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord
is very pitiful and of tendered inerey." Iam
so glad that you endured it all, Jamie and
who knows what the end will be? I am
quite certain that it will all come right at
last."
Jamie tried to smile hopefully, and when
ever a vivid lcmcmbance of bis heavy dis
apnointmeut came over him, he repeated
softly to himself, "Very pitiful, and of ten
der mercy."
It is a week after.andthe night of Lutie's
birth-day, Madge cau it be possible is
standing by the piano in that identical green
silk, though with that happy flush on her
cheeks, she looks more like a moss rose than
a liliy. Aud Janiie was there ever such a
radient face ? WTiat can have happened?
But here is Madge, eager to tell you all :
how "Aunt Gould found the missing roll of
bills caught behind the Jitfle drawer, and
how proud Uncle Gould had actually asked
Jamie's pardon, and since had trea'ed him
almost as respectfully as if be hd be?n a
grown man, and everybody wa? so kind, and
she (Madge) was so proud ! Oh! she could
n't begin to tell all she felt.
But whocanexpres Jamie's happiness!
happiness not only that again he is respeet
ed and loved that Madge is acknowledged
sweeter than any other boy's sister that
Uucla Las already f-hakeii hands with hiai
twice that evening but there is a deeper
joy the sweet peace the consciousness of
victory over great temptation. A nd this it
is which makes one tarn from the merry
sparkling faces to the sweeter light in Ja
mie's great earnest eyes, and whisper soft
ly: "we count them happy which, endure !"
Cast a Line for Yourself. A young
man stood listlessly watching boiue anglers
on a bridge. He was poor and dejected.
At last, approaching a basket filled with
wholesome looking fish, he sighed :
"If now I bad thexe.I would b happy. I
could sell them at a fair price and buy uie
food and lodging."
"I will give you just as many and just as
(oodCsh," said the owner, who chanced to
hear his words, "if you will do uie a trifling
favor."
"And what is that," a-ikid tho other ea
gerly. "Only to tend this line till I comeback ;
I wish to go a short errand."
The proposal was gladly accepted. The
old fisherman was gone so long that the
young man began to be impatient. Mean
while the hungry fish snapped greedily at
the baited hook, and the young man lost all
his depression in the excitement of pulling
them in ; and when tho owner of the line
returned, he had caught a large number.
Counting out from them as many as were
in the basket, and presenting them to the
young man the old fisherman said :
"I fulfill my promise from the fish you
have caught to teach you whenever you see
others earning what you need, to waste no
time in fruitless wishing, but to cast a line
for yourself."
A Fact. The choice of a proper pursuit
in life is of lasting importance. The failure
of many men is not because they do not
possess ability.but because they do not know
how to use it. The choice of business in
life in nine cases in ten is left to chance or
caprice, or anything but what it should be.
As a result, very many occupy places which
they never fill, are loaded with tasks they
never accomplish, and are in pursuit of ob
jects they never reach. This explains the
disjointed, eccentric, irregular state of things
seen in almost every community. If we all
knew our guage, started right, and never
ran off the track, the working force of so
ciety would be far greater than now, and its
results of far more consequence. How im
portant, therefore, to determine the proper
puisuit. -
A darkey returning from church was ask
ed to give an account of the speakers ser
mon. "Well sah, do summcn was upon de
loaves and de fishes. De minister said dar
was seven fousand loaves and five fousand
fishes, divided 'nior.g de twelve 'postles."
"Well what miracle is there about that."
"Why sah, de mer'cle was dey didn't
bust!" '
After a clergyman had cnitod a happy
pair, not long ago, an awful silence ensued,
which was broken by an important youth,
who exclaimed : "Don't be so unspeakably
happy."
A running spring of salt water, nearly as
strong as that obtained at a depth of eight
hundred feet, was discovered near the works
of the Western Salt Company, Milwaukie,
Michigan, a short timo since.
The Phenomena of Death.
Dr. Richardsou says that by the strict or
dinance of nature death is not intended to
be cruel or physically painful to the body.
The natural rule is that the natural man
should know no more concerning his own
death than his own birth. Born without
the consciousness of suffering, and yet sub
jected at the time to what in after life would
be extreme suffering, he would die, if the
perfect law be fulfilled in him, in like man
ner oblivious to all pain, mental and physi
cal. At his entrance into the world, he
sleeps into existence and awakens into knowl
edge ; at his exit from the world, his phy
sical cycle completed, he dozes into sleep
and sleeps into death.
The true euthanasia, or purely painless,
purely natural physical death, is described
in its perfection, as among the most won
derful of natural phenomena. The faculties
of mind which have been intellectual, with
out pain, or anger, or sorrow.We their sway,
retire, rest. Ideas of time and place are
gradually lost ; ambitioB ceases; repose is
the one thing asked for, and t-leep day by
day gently and genially wiles away the hours.
The wakings are short, careless, painless,
happy awakenings to a busy world, to hear
sounds of children at pray, to hear, just au
dibly, gentle voices offering aid and comfort,
to taik a little on simple things, aud by the
merest weariness, to be enticed once again
into that soothing sleep which, day by day,
with more frequent repetition, overpowers
all. At last, the intellectual man reduced
to the instructive, tbs consummation is de
sirable; and without pain or struggle or
knowledge of the coming event, the deep
sleep that falls so often ia the sleep perpet
ualeuthanasia. This as it is described, is
the death by nature; aud when mankind
has learned the truth, when, as will be, tbe
time shall come "that there shall be no
more an infant of days, nor an old man who
has not filled his days," the act of death
shall be as mercifully accomplished as any
operation which, on the living body steeped
in deep oblivion, the modern surgeon pain
lessly performs.
From tbe process of the purely natural
death there are some exceptions. The su
preme organizing mind has exposed us to
natural accideuts, ia which the death, sud
den, unexpected, inevitable, is paiulcs al.no.
Lightniug stroke, sou stroke, crash of mat
ter, swift burial in treat waters these are
common acts of nature that kill, and so
quickly that the body hath not time to know
or to feel. To experience pleasure or pain.
we have to receive tbe impression, and it
has to be transmitted to tbe organ of the
mind ; here it has to be fixed or registered ;
lastly, that the mind has to become aware
that the impression is registered, which last
act is ia truth tbe conscious act. Time ia
required for tl-.is, aitbeugh almost inappre
ciable. Destruction by lightning stroke is so
swift that the impression conveyed to the
body is not registered, and therefore is not
known or felt.
It is the same with sudden immersion in
water, consequent insensibility, and restora
tion. The experience of some who have
undergone this isjCnt ire loss of all conscious
ness of all that took place from and after
the immersion. Nature is kind even in her
determined, unrelenting action.
And eveu in death caused by tbe action of
the spirit of free will in man, which ren
ders the world practically a chamber of sui
cides for, by want, by pleasure, by care, by
strife, by sloth, by labor, by indolence, by
courage, by cowardice, by lust, by unnatural
chastity, by debasement, by ambition, by
generosity, by avarice, by pride, by servili
ty, by love, by bate, and by all tbe hundred
opposed aud opposing passions in their ex
cess, we die, we kill it is on the whole not
cruel or painful. In all the pestilences, the
brain of the stricken usually loses its func
tions long before dissolution, and to the suf
ferer the last act is a restless sleep. In ex
tremely violent death from human causes,
the railway collision, the crush in battle.iife
is extinguished in a moment without the
consciousness of pain. In consumption, al
though painful to behold, how many of its
victims live to their final Lour in happy
planningsof tbe future and die in the dream.
The points in this subject are simply these:
Nature, which id to us tho visible manifes
tation of the Supreme Intelligencers benef
icent in the infliction of the act of death ;
that thwarted in her ways.she is still benef
icent, and that she may be trusted by her
children.
The great law and intention of nature, is
that in death there should be no suffering
whatever.
Whateyer there is in death of pain, of
terror, of unsubdued sorrow to the liviog,is
made pain, made terror, made sorrow; and
that to attempt the removal of these is the
noblest and holiest task the spirit of man
can set itself to carry out and to perfect It
is to give euthanasia to the individual, niil
lenium to the world.
A mounted officer was riding through a
field in which there were some apple trees
laden with early fruit, and some straggling
persimmon trees covered with green persim
mons, lie saw some soldiers attempting to
hide, at once suspected that they were rob.
bing the orchard. So he halted and the
following colloquy took place:
"Hallo, what are you doing there?" said
the officer.
"We come to get some 'simmons."
"Apples, I expect; why the persimmons
are green enough to pucker your mouths all
up."
"That's just what we want with 'em ; we
want to make our mouths small enough to
suit the sue of our rations.
A Good Word for Winter.
I think the old fellow has hitherto had
scant justice done him in the main. We
make him the symbol of old age or death, and
think we have settled the matter. As if old
age were never frosty, but kindly too; as if
it had no reverend graces of its own as good
in their way as the ceisy impertinence of
childhood, the elbowing self-conceit of youth
or the pompous mediocrity of middle life.
As if there were anything discreditable in
death, or nobody had ever longed for it.
Suppose we grant that winter ra the sleep of
the year. I take it upon me to say that bia
dreams are fiuer thaa the best reality of his
waking rivals.
"Sleep, silence, child, the father of soft re?t,"
is a very agreeable acquaintance, and most
of us are better employed in his compauy
than anywhere else. For my part I think
winter a pretty wide awake old boy, and his
bluff sincerity and hearty ways are more
congenial to my mood, and more wholesome
for me, than any charms of which his rivals
are capable. Spring is a fickle mistress, who
either does not know ber own mind, or is so
long in making it up, whether you shall
have her or not have her, that one gets tired
at last of her pretty miffs anil reconciliations.
You go to her to be cheered up a bit, and
ten to one catch her in the sulks, expecting
you to find enough good humor for both.
After she has become Mrs. Summer she
grows a little more staid in her demeanor,
and her abundant table, where you are sure
to get the earliest fruits and vegetables of
the season, is a good foundation for steady
frienship; but she has lost that delicious
aroma of maidenhood, and what was deli
cately rounded grace ia the girl, gives more
that hiots of something like redund.-inee in
the matron. Autumn is the poet of the
family. He gets you up a splendor that
you would say was made out of real sun
set; but is nothing more than a few hec
tic leaves when all is done. He is but a sen
timentalist after all ; a kind ot Lauiartine,
whining along the ancestral avenues he has
made bare timber of, and begging a contri
bution of spirits from your own savings to
keep him in countenance. But winter has
his delicate sensibilities, too, only he does
not make them as good as indelicate by
thrusting them forever in your face. He is
a better poet than Autumn when he has a
mind, but, like a truly great one as he is, he
brings you down to your bare manhood, and
bids you understand him nut of that, with
no adventitious helps of association, or he
will none of you. He does not too :h those
melancholy chords on which Autuiua ia as
great a master as Heine. Well, is there no
such thing as tbrumming on them and maun
dering over them till they get out of tunc,
and you wish some manly hand would crash
through them aud leave them dangling bro
ken forever?
Take Winter as yon find him, and be turns
out to be a thoroughly honest fellow, with
no nonse in him, and tolerating none in you,
which is a great comfort in the lotigrun. He
is not what they call a genial critic, but
bring a real man along with you, and you
will find there is a crabbed generosity about
the old cynic that you would not exchauge
for all tbe creamy concessions of Autumn.
"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,"
quoth? That's just it ; Winter soon blows
your head clear of fog and makes you see
things as they are ; I thank hiui for it. The
truth is, between ourselves, I have a very
good opinion of the whole family, who al
ways welcome me without making tne feel as
if I were much of a poor relation. There
ought to be some kind of distance, never so
littie you know, to give true relish. They
are as good company, the worst of them, as
any I know, and I am not a little flattered
by a condescension from any one of them,
but I happen to hold Winter's retainer this
time, and, like an honestadvocat,am bound
to make as good a showing as I can for him.
even if it cost a few slurs upon tho rest of
the household. Moreover, Winter is com
ing, and one would like to get on the blind
sides of him. J. llvsxcl Lowell.
Unanswerablk Arguments. A statis
tical genius declares that "more money is
expended in the United States for cigars
than for all the common schools in the coun
try." A wag, undoubtedly a lover of the
weed, seeing the statement going through
the papers, gets off the following :
"It has been estimated that the cost of
washing linen that might just a? well be
worn two days longer amounts to enough in
this country to more than defray the expen
ses ot the American Board of Foreign Mis
sions. The expenses of buttons on the
backs of our coats, where they are of no
earthly use, is equal to the support of all
our orphan asylums. It is estimated tbat
the value of old boots thrown aside, which
might have beeu worn at least a day longer,
is more than enough to buy flannel night
gowns for every baby in the land. Also,
that the cost of every inch on tho full shirt
collars of our young men is equal to the sum
necessary to put a Bible in the hands of
every Patagonian giant.
A little fellow was beins instructed in
morals by his mother. She told him that
such terms as "by golly," "by jingo," "by
thunder," ic., were only minced oaths,and
but little better than other profanity. In
fact, she said, he could tell a profane oath
by the prefix "by" all such were oaths.
"Well, then, mother," said the little
hopeful, "there's a bis oath in the newspa
pers 'By Telegra ph. " '
The lady gave it up, and the boy is be
wildered on morals.
Montana has five thousand bachelors who
want marriageable young ladies to travel out
that way.
The Smartest Girl ia Michigan.
While, says the Milwaukee Wisconsin,
our steamer Norman lay wooding up at Poi t
Oneida, on the Michigan shore, there came
on board a pleasant, barefooted German girL
with a pail of berries. She wore a cheap
calice dress, minus the hoops, with a littie
gingham shaker nearly hiding her face, and
hu air ui uiouesi assurance tnat denoted a
girl of genuine stamp, but that told the
boys to keep out of her way. All the men
about the deck seemed to know her. The
steward bought her berries at her own price.
The clerk at the office touched his hat to
her as if in the presence of a duchess.
"That's the smartest girl in Michigan," said
the engineer, as she passed out of the gang
way. The girl gave no heed to the admir
ing glances and compliments that followed
her, but straightway sought her little fish
cabin, where she was mending nets, by the
shore. On inquiry of the old dock man, we
learned that our little barefooted maiden,
though only seventeen, was tbe oldest of a
family of an even dozen who lived io a little
double log cabin, on the high bauk above
the shore. Her father came here from Buf
falo some twelve years ago, went co clearing
timber, nelling wood to steamboats, and
raising stuff on his land. Lanie, tbe oldest
girl, was the "little captain" from the start
and showed pluck beyond her years. In
winter she would get on her boots and be
out among the wood choppers before she
could hardly waddle through the snow. In
summer she would wander off berrying, or
be down among the nets of fishing boats. It
washer greatest delight to get on the water
to rock and tons upon the waves. At
ten she was a trim little sailor herself,
and would coast off for miles alone. At
twelve she would allow no boy to pass her
with sail or oar. For the last three years
Lanie has been master of a handsome fishing
craft and a set ot "gill nets." She put
them out early in April, and continues them
till late in the fall She is out every morn
ing at daylight, and again in the evening,
except in the roughest of weather. She
takes a younger sister along to help bet and
draw the nets. She often brings in a couple
hundred fine lake trout at a haul. She
dresses them, fres out the oil, packs and
seuds them away to' market. Her Autrst
aud September catch amounted to over three
hundred dollars. Besides her fishing re
ceipts she has taken in over one hundred and
seventy de.llars this season for berries, pick
ed at odd hours by herself and sister. All
her money goes to ber father, and she is
said to have earned him over $3,000. Of
course tho old man is proud of his giri, and
tells of ber exploits with the liveliest twin
kle of satisfaction. Danger and hardship
seem uu known to her. She will eo out in a
blow and come in with full sails. Her white
mast and blue pennon is known by people
far aloiy? the coast. Boats salute her in
passing, boys swing their hats in proud rec
ognition. Without knowing it, Lanis Bor
feiu is a heroine.
Le.vrn all You Can'. Never omit any
opportunity to learn all you can. Sir Wal
ter Scott said that even in a stage coach he
always could find somebody who could tell
him something he did not know before.
Conversation is frequently more useful thaa
books for purpose of knowledge. It is there
fore, a mistake to be morose and silent among
persons whom we thiuk to be ignorant, for
a little sociability on your part will draw
them out, and they will be able to teach you
something, no matter how ordinary their
employment. Indeed some of tbe most sa
gacious remarks are aiade by persons of
this kind, respecting their particular pur
suit. Hugh Miller, the geologist, owes not
a little of his fame to observations made
when he was a journeyman stone mason at
work in a quarry. Socrates well said there
was but one good, which is knowledge, and
one evil, which is ienorance. Every grain
of sand goes to make up the heap. A gold
digger takes the smallest nuggets, and is
not fool enough to throw them away because
he hopes to find a larger lump some time.
So, in acquiring knowledge, wo should never
despise an opportunity, however unpromis
ing. -" If there is a moment's leisure, spend
it over good or instructive talking with the
first person you meet.
It te reported ot Horace Greeley that,
having had some experience with various
birds just pin-featbered and helped out ot
college, he "cut the combs" of the entire
clas one day in conversation with a friend
who wished to get a place on the Tribune
for a highly educated young ufac. "What
is he?" asked Horace, hanging one of the
legs of his trowsers to a corner of his wri
ting table. "He U very smart," replied
his friend, unctiously ; "he graduated last
week from college, with all the honors."
Horace looked at the friend indignantly. and
then brought his trowsers down and struck
the table with his vigorous band. "Of all
h-o-r-n-e-d cattle," he remarked, "deliver
ree from a college graduate."
A Sunday school teacher was giving a les
son on Ruth. She wanted to bring out the
kindness of Boaz in commanding the reap
ers to drop larger handful of wheat. "Now,
children," she said, "Boaz did another nice
thing for Ruth ; can you tell me what it
was?" "Married Iter!" said one of the boys.
A man being awakened by the captain of
a passenger boat with the announcement
that he must not occupy his berth with his
Loots on, very considerately replied, 'Ob,
it won't hurt 'em ; they're an old pair."
Ablowatrsal estate when men are en
gaged iu breaking ground.
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W. WALTERS. ArroR.T at Law.
Clearfield, Pa Office in tbe Coart Bouse.
w
T ALTER BARRBTT, Attorney at Law. Clew
f field. Pa. May 13. le,6S.
JJX. W. GRAHAM, Dealer a Dry-Goods; Orce
ries, Hardware, (Jaeenswarw, W oodenware,
Provisions, ate.. Mart el Street. Clearfield. P.
DAVID ti. SlVUSft, Dealer in Dry-Goes.
Ladies' Fancy Goods. Hals and Caps, iteots,
Shoes. e to ,&ooond Street, Clearfield. Pa. sepli
TERRELL A BIOLKR,
Dealer in Hardware
IU and manufacturers of Tin aad Bheet-irom
tare, second atreet. Clearfield, Pa. Jane "6.
HF. ft AVGLK. -Watch and Clock Maker, aei
. dealer in Watches, Jewelry, A. Koom in
Graham's row, Market street. Sot. 10.
HBCCHEK SWOOPE, Attorney at Law.Clee.r
. field. Pn. Offct in Graham's Row, fonrdoo-
west of Graham A JBoynton's store. fcov. It.
HW. SMITH. Arronsar at Law, Clea-rfiald,
. Pa., will attend promptly to basinets en
trasted te his care. Jon JO, 1869.
WILLIAM A.WALLACE. Attorney at Law,
Clearfield. Pa.. Legal business of all kind
promptly and accnratelv attended to.
Clearfield, Pa.,Juneb. lS.
J.
B M EN ALLY. Atternevat Law. Clr.T ?
Pa. Prcttoea in Clearfield and adioia nr
Tuunnes. -jraee in new ones: ba if ding ef J . Boyn
t n. W street, one doer sooth of Lanieh's Hotel.
Tf EST, Attorney at Law. Clearfield, Pa., will
. attend promptly to all Legal bosiness entrast
ed to bis care in, Clearfield and adjoining eoan
ties Ogee on Market street. Jely 17, 1687.
rpUOVAS H. FORCE?. Dealer in Square aad
J tawed Lumber, Dry-Ucods.Queenswaro, Gro
ceries. Flour. Grain, Feed, Bacon, Ae , Ae., Gra
liamtoo, Clearfield coenty, Pa. Oet 1.
T P. KKATZER. Dealer in Dry-Goods. Clothier,
J m Hardware. Queensware, Groeeriea. Provi
sions, etc., Market Street, neatly opposite the
Court House. Clearfield. Pa. Jane, 18t5.
H ARTSWICK A IRWIX. Dealers in Drna-s,
Medicines. Paints. Oils, Stationary, Perfume
ry. Fancy Goods, Notions, etc., eto.. Market street,
Clearfield. Pa Dee. S, 18S&.
(t KRATZER A SOX, dealers in Dry Goods,
. Clothinsr, Hardware. Queensware, Groce
ries, Provisions, ia., Second Street Clearfield,
r' Dee. 37. 1SB5.
JOHN Gl'ELICH, Manufacturer of all kinds ol
Cabinet-ware, Market street. Clearfield, Pa
He also makes to order Coffins, on short notice, and
attends funerals with a hearse. AprltVSt.
I 1CHARD MOPSOP, Dealer in Foreign and Dw
IV mestic Dry Goods. Groceries. Floor, Bacen,
Liquors. Ac. Room, on Market street, a few doors
west ot JaurnatOfirt. Clearfield. Pa. Apr27.
M'CrLLOCGH A KRKBS.Attoret8-at-Law,
Clearfield. Pa. All legal business prompt
ly attended to. Consultatiocs in English or Ger
man. Oet. ST, 1869.
t. j. st'ert-t-orow. ' p l. issts,
TjVREDERICK LEITZINGER, Manufacturer ef
X? all kinds of tone-ware. Clearfield. Pn. Or
dere solicited wholesale or retail tie also keep
on hand and for sale an assortment of earthen
ware, of his own manafactoro. Jan. I.1SK3
T M. HOOVER.Wbolesale and Betail Dealer in
X . TOBACCO. CIGAR AXD SNUFF. A
large assortment of pipes, eigar emtes. Ae., con
stantly on band. Two doer East of the Post
Offii-e, Clearfield, Pa. May 1. '6.
"ITT'ESTERX HOTEL, CInoeld. P TkU
yi well known hotel, near the Conrt Bans. I
worthy the patronage of thepubllo. The table
will be supplied witn the hett in tte market. The
bostof liquors kept. JOHX DO I'GHk'KTT'.
JOHN H. FULFORD, Attorney at l aw. Clear
field, Pa. Office on Market Street, ever
Uartjwick A Irwin's Drugstore. Prompt attention
given to the securingofilounty claims, Ac. and te
all legal businesj. March IT, lioT.
W ALBERT, A BRO'S..Dea!ers in Dry Goods,
,Urocries, Hardwire Queensware FlourBa
cou. eto.. Woodland. Clearfield eonnty. Pa. Also
extensive dealers in ail kinds or sawed lumber
shingles, and square timber. Orders solicited.
Woodland. Pa., Aug. 19th. 196J.
DR J. P. ECRCHFIELD Late Surgeon of the
8,'id Reg't Penn'a Vols., having returned
from the army, offers his professional services to
the citizens of Clearfield and vicinity. Profes
sional calls promptly attended to. Ofijee on
&outh-East corner of Sd and Market Streets.
Oct. 4. 1865 6m p.
QUllVEYOR. The undersigned offer
his services to the public, as a Surveyor.
He tnav be found t hi r;4j, i r .
tnwruhip. when not engaged; or addressed by
oitci m i vtwurneiu, rsDD n,
March 6th. 1867.-tf. J AMES MITCHELL.
JEFFERSON LITZ, H.D.,
w Physician and Surgeon,
Having located at Osceola, Pa., offers hit prefef
sional services to the people of that place and sur
rounding country. AH calls promptly attended
to. Office and residence on Cartin Street, former
ly occupied by Dr. Kline. May 19. '69.
rp NOMAS W. MOOKE, Land fenrveyof
and Conveyaocer. Having recently lo
cated in the Borough of Lumber City, and resnm
sumed tbe practice of Land Surveying, rcspeot
fully tenders bis professional services to tbe own
ers and speculators in lands in Clearfield and ad-
Joing counties Deed of Conveyance neatly ei-
ecuted. Office and residence one door last ef
Kirk 6r Spencers store
Lumber City. April 14, 1S69 ly.
SOLDIERS' BOUNTIES. -A recent bill
has liaised both Hrn-c-, tVmrru. ...J
signed by the President, giving soldiers who en-
ueicu prior iu an juty. iri. served one year or
more and were honorablv dichr,l k...(.
ofilOO. ' f
I W Bounties and Panalnna nl!.t.l W m
. vua.vvw wj mm lr
thoseentitled to them.
WALTER BARRETT, Att'y at Law.
Aug. mh, IS66. Clearfield, P.
QLKARFIELD HOU81,
FKOTT STREBT, PHILIPSBL'RG, PA.
I will impeach any one who says I fait to give
directand personal attention to all oar customers
or fail to cause them to rejoice over a well fur
nished table, with clean rooms and new beds,
wbere all may feel at home and the weary be i
Philipsbnrg. Sep. S.'flS.
JAS. H.wAtBR.
T? XC II A N O E HOTEL,
Huntingdon, Penn'a.
This old establishment having been leaded by
J. Morrison, formorly Proprietor of the "Morrison
House.'' has been thoroughly renovated and re
furnished, and supplied with all fh modern Im
provements and eonveniencies necessary to a first
elasa Hotel. The dining room has been removed
to tbe first " floor, and is new spacioas and airy.
The chambers are all well ventilated, and the
Proprietor will endeavor to make his guests nei
feetly at home. J MOKR1.SON.
Huntingdon. Jane IT.1S6B. Proprietor.
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ENTAL PARTNERSHIP,
DR. A.M. HILLS desires te Inform his psHeaks
an4 the public generally, tbat he has aseoeiaftl
with him iu the practice of Dentistry. 8. t. 6H A Y.
D. D S . who it a graduate of the Philadelphia
Dental College, and there'ire has tbe high
atto'tations of his ProfesstoSial skill.
AH work done in the omce I will beM myse'.f
personally responsible for being dene in the uses
satisfactory manner aad highest order ef the re
fusion An established praetiee ef twenty-two years In
this place enables me to speak W ay patrons witfc
confidence.
Engagements from a distance should ate a ado
by letter a few days before the patient det(e
earning. tCleerfieild. Jane I, WM tif .
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