B F. SCHWEIER, ' i :
THE CONSTITUTION THE CXIOX AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XXVIII. , MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA., JUNE 10, 1S74. NO. 23.
Poetry.
lOIX. IO THE WELL.
.V'russ i-2 dewy green she stept,
I:i U12 sweet frc.-l:iierwj of tlie morn,
,VL:!e '"it lie Uars that uight had wept
;;:-t.'iieJ ou Knas and hede-row thuru,
Si fairy mi: J is sha. whose treaJ
The y:c-M:uir clover dij not stir;
Ni t:ny fewii-t rained its head,
V.'hcti t!ie hal passed, to lock on her.
i Ijc Dix ai i( Hpring was on her cheek,
Tlie ll.;lit of m iruiuj in her eye;
I'.n I':'- haif parted, as to speak,
a rj.j wreathed with maiden witchery.
YV.h lyiick. elastic dancing feet
t'h': rtept alons the dewy grass :
"fuM wake the dullest pulse to meet
1 'liia l-rotty, blithesome farmer's laas.
An.! many a rustic lad she met.
Ail J .Tected with a pleasant smile.
7!. u ,h well she knew, the arch coquette.
V. ho waited for her at the stile
,v:. j waited for her at the stile,
I'.mu in the treen. secluded dell;
A:. J y t to each she rave a smile,
A- s'.ie st.-pt lii'UUy towarJ the well.
V-t x r :st:c lovers, as ehe passed.
stayed their own stops to look at her.
An 1 at ea h sid'-Ions glance she east,
IV.t their yoiin',' p-.ilse beat quickher;
Tin p!easaiit foolinp. eaih one knew;
Tor each oue knew (and sighed ! ) full well
I", iu waitcj at the ren Jezvous
i'.ria ii'.ar the well -side in the di.IV
liseellanv
1 he Fate of fwo Lovers.
There are fine caverns and recesses
:i!:i'iiiD--'t the rocks ; one particularly,
v.;;kii we took the opportunity of visit
i1:? recently, as it can only be entered
at the ebb of the spring tides. It is
very spacious, beautifully arched, and
0. nuped of granite rocks finely veined
cith u!dbater, which the imagination
iiry easily form into a semblance of a
f -:i; iie figure, aud is, of coarse, the
X. rei 1 oi the grotto. We wished to
.-;.iy luiicT, but onr friend Lurried us
i.iv.v, lest the tide should rush in,
v, !:: -!i it is supposed to do from sabter
r ..sn'iius eavt'rus, as it fills before the
t..!c covers the saud of the adjacent
l .-.n-'i. 1 w:is particularly affected with
t:.c f.-te of two lovers (a yonng gentle-
1. n:i a:;d la.ly from Clifton), whose
! -:. mis wore here for the sake of sea
hath'.rg. They stole ont early one
Lioruii.); by themselves, and strolled
ji'.n tlie beach till they came to this
pr tto, which, being then empty, they
Ltiti ml. They admired the btrata of
ri-ks lending in different directions,
'ii.cy admired the incrustation which
cavers part of the tides, exactly re
setubliLg honeycomb ; various shells
hjii.-.l.ied in the rock ; the sea anemone
s; readiu its purple fringe1 an animal
ilowir clinging to the rocks. They ad
m red the first efforts of vegetation in
tii? purple and green tints occasioned
by the Lichens and other mosses creep
ing over the bare stone. They admired
these together ; they loved each other
the more for having the same tastes ;
and they taught the echoes of the cavern
to repeat the vows which they made of
eternal constancy, la the meantime
the tide was coming in ; of this they
were aware, as they now and then
f lanced their eye on the waves, which
tuey saw advancing at a distance ; but,
not knowing the peculiar nature of the
overn, they thought themselves safe ;
when on a sudden, as they were in the
farthest part of it, the waters rushed in
from the fissures in the rock with terri
ble roaring. They climbed from ledge
to ledge of the rocks, but in vain ; the
waters rosa impetuously, and at length
filled the whole grotto. Their bodies
were found the next day, when the tide
was ont, reclining on a shelf of rock ;
he in the tender attitude of supporting
her in the very highest accessible part,
and leaning his own head in her lap, so
that he must have died first, Poor
lovers! Mr. JlarbaulJ ' Life and
Works.
Kuleslor Vbit I'laylujr.
The following rules for whist playing
are for the benefit of the members of
the Anti-Calviuistie club :
1. In opening always lead from a
'Sneak ;" if yon have no "sneak," renig.
2. When you have four more trumps,
hoid on to them as yon would a twenty
per cent, bank stock ; they are too vain
able to be iuvefcted in the early part of
the game.
3. Never under any circumstances
whatever return your partner's trump
lead. This ia called "strengthening
play."
4. If, holding the ace, king, queen,
knave aula small one of trumps, lead
tin- sm ill one to keep your king from
i cing "ketched."
5. Holding king and queen of any
nut, lead queen to fjree jonr partner's
ace if he holds it.
6. It is a good rule to inquire every
seventeen seconds, "What's trumps?"
7. If you should by chance bold all
the trumps or nearly all, and your op
ponent bhonld win the trick, say iMvas
txciuse you held a "carious hand."
S. Think at least seven times before
vmi make a play say ten to fifteen min
utes to each card ; this will give the
ethers ample time to take nap or any
thing else that is handy.
1'. II dd your cards bo that all the
I layers can we them, as it assists them
very materially in remembering, and
may give them a Lint when in a "quan
dnm." n. Always claim at least half the
honors.
Meu anI HnifB.
I'lovidt tue has so made the sexes
that women, like children, elm? to
mm; ltati u;on theiu for protection,
cave and h.ve; look up to them as
t:n t-h t!u v were their superior in mind
:i!i.l boilv." Th. v make the suus of
t'lcir svstem, and they and their chil-ii-cu
revolve around theru. Women,
therefore, w ho have good minds and
I'ttiv hearts, want men to lean upon,
i liitik of their reverencing a drunkard,
a tool, a liar or liliertine. If a man
would have a woman do him honiaw,
he must le inanlv in every sense;a true
J."eiitlcm:in. not after the t'hesterheld
school, but polite lecause his heart is
full of kindness to all; one who treats
her with respect, even deference, be
cause she is a woman: w ho never con
'I -sc iids to sav sillv things to hen who
t'l iii-s Ju.r ,o his level if his niuid is
"hove her; w ho is ambitious to make
his mark iu the world, whether she en
cimni -c him or not; and w ho is always
considerate, but alwavs keeps his place
s the man at the heud,and never losing
it. Such deM)itnient with noble pnn
cij.lcs, a jtimm! mind, energy and indus
try, will win any womrtu iu the land
Lu is worth winning.
A kind expression of countenance can
make the most homely pleasing; an
honest heart and friendly acts make the
dullest lovable.
POrPlXG THE QIESTIO
Swift, who had no more tenderness
than one of his own Taboos, indited the
most brutal proposal we know of. Tired
of his chilly-ehailying. Miss Warying
seemed to have insisted upon his speak
ing out, and Swift spoke out with a
vengeance. After professing he is just
to stand in the way of her accepting a
more advantageous offer, he says he
must ask her a few questions, questions
he had long since resolved to ask of the
woman with whom he meant to spend
his Life: "Are you in a condition to
manage domestic affairs with an income
of less than three hundred pounds a
year ? Have you such an inclination to
my person and honor as to comply with
my desire and way of living, and en
deavor to make ns both as happy as
you can ? Will you be ready to engage
in those methods I shall direct for the
improvement of your mind, so as to
make ns entertaining company for each
other, without being miserable when
we are neither vifciting or visited ? Can
you bend your love, esteem, and indiff
erence to others the same way 1 do
mine t Have you so much good nature
as to endeavor by soft words to smooth
any rugged humor occasioned by the
cross accidents of life ? Shall the place
wherein your husband is thrown be
more welcome than courts and cities
without him." Surely never was a lady
so catechised by a suitor for her han
When J ane Warying felt able to answer
every question in the affirmative, then,
and not till then, her lover soys, "I
shall be blessed to have vou in mv
i arms, without regarding whether your
person be beautiful, or your fortune
I large. Cleanliness in the first, and
competency in the second, is all I look
for!" This unique epistle ends "I
singled you out at first from the rest of
women, and I expect not to be used Like
a common lover." Swift was evidently
enough a very uncommon one. There
is a world of difference between the love-making-making
of morbid self-loving
Swift, and that cheery-hearted Richard
Steele ; the raven's croak and the lark's
song are not more unlike. The Chris
tian hero made love like a lover and a
gentleman. He never dreamed of ply
ing his mistress with doubting ques
tion upon question. Believing his lVue
to be as beautiful, witty, prudent, and
good humored as a woman could be,
Steele was contented to know she loved
him, and took the rest upon trust.
"Instead of saying I shall die for you,
I profess I should be glad to lead my
life with yon." That is the way he
popped the question ; then, when as
sured that the dearest being on earth is
his own, ''6 asks her to name the day.
Can anything be more charming in its
way than this? "I have not a minutes
quiet ont of your sight ; aul when I
am with you, you use me with so much
distance, that I am still in a state of
absence, heightened with a view of the
charms which I am denied to approach.
In word, you must give me either e fan,
a mask, or a glove you have worn, or X
cannot live ; otherwise you must expect
I will kiss your hand, or, when I next
sit by you, steal jour handkerchief.
You yourself are too great a bounty to
be received at once ; therefore I must
be prepared by degrees, lest the mighty
gift distract me with joy. Dear Mrs.
dcurlock, I am tired with calling you
by that name ; therefore say the day in
which you will take that off, madam,
yonr most obedient, most devoted,
humble servant." A Frenchman, smit
ten with the charms of fair Lydia Sterne,
instead of trying to secure her good
will, wrote to her father, desiring to he
informed what he was prepared to give
her upon her marriage, and how much
lie intended to bequeath her. But
Sterne was not so eager to get rid of his
girl as was Signor Paptista, and replied
"Sir, I shall give my daughter ten
thousand pounds on the dav of her mar
riage. 31y calculation is as follows:
She is not eighteen, you are sixty-two
there goes five thousand pounds. Then
sir, you, at least, think her not ugly,
she has many accomplishments, speaks
Italian and French, plays upon the gui
tar ; and as I fear you play upon no in
strument whatever, I think you will be
happy to take her on my terms, for here
finishes the account of the ten thousand
pounds." Whitfield asked the hand of
a young American lady, of her parents,
without troubling to ascertain her incli
nations and was good enough to let
them know they need cot be afraid of
offending him by declining the honor,
since he blessed God he was free from
the passion called love. Next to ignor
ing the laxly altogether, the worst way
of making a declaration is to do it by
deputy. Capid is no friend to faint
hearted lovers. If a damsel be worth
the wooing, it is odds upon the proxy
suitor proving false, and suing on his
own account When those inseparable
brothers, William and Jacob Grimm,
were pursnaded of the necesf ity of one
of them taking a wife, they had a
friendly cortention as to which should
be the victim, and after some days'
argument, Jacob decided that he, being
the elder, was bound to sacrifice him
self. They had previously fixed upon
the lady, a beautiful girl of twenty-two,
but when it came to the push, Jacob's
courage failed him, and William under
took to pursnada the maiden to love
his brother. After week's acquaint
ance poor William was horrified at dis
covering he had lost his own heart, and
now, fully alive to the excellence of the
fair one, was miserable, at the thought
of losing her. while he felt that to rob
his brother of such a prize, would be
an unpardonable treachery. Fortunately
for everybodv, Grimm's aunt, shrewd
old ladv, saw how things were, and told
Jacob what had come of William s
efforts in his behalf. Jacob was de
lighted to think he had escaped matri
monial bondage, and celebrated his
good fortune by roaming over the
countrv a free man, until the honeymoon
was over the cross coursthip ending
more pleasantly for all concerned than
such things commonly do. Convinced
by kind Mrs. Churchman that he wanted
a wife to look after him, the judicious
Hooker escaped the bother of courting
and popping the question by leaving
his adviser to find him a mate, and ar
range all preliminaries. Happening to
have one upon her hands, the disinter
ested matron soon executed her com
mission, and the great churchman was
speedily married,as per contract Shaks
peare's heroines are remarkably ready to
take the initiative, popularly supposed
to be the ladies' right only m Leap Year.
Helena demands the hand of Bertram aa
the price of her wonder-working pre
scription. Desdemona gives Othello
the broadest of hints
had for asking. Miranda tells her pa
tient Igomansheishis wife if he wiU
marry her. One Englishwoman of h gh
before set ner sisi V. -
oeiore ei uci - . i
Tudor, thinking, not b.
loveless marriage sufficient for Lfa,
determined not to be sacrificed to state
policy again; and Charles Brandon had
KSy hours in France ere Mary
tearfully told him that, unless he wed-
have second chance. Brandon was
not the man to say nay to such an appeal
from the fairest princess in Christendom
let what might come of it, and, at the
risk of his head, accepted the proffered
hand. The pair married in haste ; but
it is not recorded that they repented at
leisure. Had the daughter of Gaston
d'Orleana been as wise as the English
princes, she would have taken Louis
XIV. at his word when he consented to
her marrying the Gascon De Lanzun.
Mademoiselle was proud ; and, if love
had impelled her to offer her hand, with
her heart in it, to an inferior, she could
not brook the idea of being married in
a manner unbecoming to a princess of
the blood royaL The king had time to
Listen to the remonstrances of his coun
sellors, and when she besought him on
her knees not to withdraw his consent,
only reproach her with not having pro
fitted by it while she could. Louise de
Savoie, sometime Queen Begent of
France, was equally unfortunate when
she usurped the masculine privileges,
and proposed to the famous Constable
de Bourbon. Louise and Bourbon were
at variance respecting the disposition
of his dead wife's property. Talking
over the business one day together, the
Queen Regent observed that there were
more ways than one of accommodating
a law suit Queen Anne, for example,
had saved Brittany from a civil war in
a manner worthy of imitation. "True,"
answered Bourbon ; "but I know not
what princess would enable me to settle
your highness suit in such an agreeable
manner." "You forgot, duke, I am a
widow," said Louise, allowing her hand
to rest upon that of the Constable.
Bourbon's face darkened as he rose to
his feet, saying, "Your highness mis
takes me. The respect I owe his Ma
jesty, the disparity of our years, my
own feelings, all render such a union
impossible. If the king goes to law, I
will right him, madam, that's all !" Had
not Louise de Savoie challenged that
rebuff, Bourbon had not lived to lead
his country's foes to victory, and the
sack of Borne would not be a matter of
history. Miss Kenrick, the beautiful
heiress celebrated in the ballad of "The
Berkshire Lady's Garland," adopted a
singular method of winning the hand
some young attorney, Benjamin Child,
with whom she had fallen in love at
sight She sent him an anonymous
letter, demanding satisfaction for inju
ries received. After vainly puzzling
himself to guess whom his challenger
might be, and how he had offended.
Child betook himself, duly provided
with a second, to the place of meeting,
near a pleasant crystal fountain. There
he saw no fierce gallant, only a masked
lady, who asked him his business there,
lie told it ; whereupon his fair ques
tioner, flashing a rapier she carried for
her security, said:
It is T that did Invite Ton ;
Y.iu shail wed me, it I'll Wtat you,
l uilerncatu tltetfe ppreaduiit tree.
1 Ut-relun cboum fruiii wliica wu uleaae !
Bather taken aback by such a sum
mons to surrender, Benjamin asked to
see his challenger's face ere he decided.
This was denied, she would not unmask
until the knot was tied, but generously
accorded him an hour's (Trace to turn
the matter iu his mind. His friend ad
vised him, as he could lose nothing, to
take the lady ; and the three went off in
her gilded coach to church, where the
lady gay and her attorney were made
one without delay. He did not repent
the leap in the dark, when he found his
summer morning's adventure had
brought "beauty, honor, riches, stores;"
but, taking his place among the gentry
of the country, lived happy ever after
wards. The hero of this romance was,
in 1714. hi);h sheriff of Berkshire. Xot
in such warlike fashion did Margaret
Charlton attack Richard Baxter. She
sought to attain her end by negotiation ;
and never was a bachelor of forty-five
more astonished than the worthy minis
ter when Margaret's ambassadress
opened her mind to him. He was des
tined to an additional shock. While he
was vehemently declaring the idea pre
posterous, Margaret was listening at
the study-door, and, losing all self-control,
burst into the room, threw herself
at her idol's feet crying, "Dear Mr.
Baxter, I protest with a sincere heart, I
do not make a tender of myself to you
upon any worldly or carnal account, but
to have a more perfect converse with so
holy and prudent a yoke-fellow to assist
me on the way to heaven, and to keep
me steadfast in my perseverance which
I design to God's glory and my soul's
good 1" Margaret Charlton was very
pretty ; Baxter was mortal and suc
cumbed. So might Robert Leighton,
Bishop of Dumblane, have done too,
had be been wooed by a maiden as
young and fair as Baxter's assailant, but
the would be Mrs. Leighton was a
spinster of mature age, who called to
tell the bishop she had received a reve
lation from heaven that he was to be
come her husband. The prelate, thongh
somewhat startled, was equal to the
emergency. He assured his visitor that
such an intimation was not to be des
pised ; but, as yet, the designs of heaven
were imperfectly explained, seeing they
had only been revealed to one of the
parties. He would wait to see if a simi
lar communication were vouchsafed to
himself and, whenever that happened,
would be sure to let her know, it were
hardly fair to reckon pretty Elizabeth
Simpson among proposing ladies ; al
though answering Mr' Inchbald'a sug
geation that she should marry, with
who would marry me?" was tanta
mount to seeking the reply, "I will, if
you will have me." The actor was not
so unready as Dean Ramsay's Scotch
beadle, who could hit upon no better
way of popping the question than by
taking the object of his affection to the
churchvard-gate and Baying, "Mary, my
folk Lie there ; would you like to lie
there, Mary ?" Being, bke Barkis, wil
ling, Mary was indifferent as to how the
question was put as the Galloway girl,
who, when her uncouth swain carelessly
remarked, "I think I'll marry thee,
Jean," responded, "Man Jock, I would
be muckle obliged to ye, if ye would 1"
TUeodore Fariter'a Married Life.
Theodore Parker married, in April,
1S3G, Miss Lydia 1. Cabot, only
daughter of John Cabot, of Xewton,
with whom he had plighted troth five
years previously. The following reso
lution are entered in his journal on his
wedding day.
1. Never except for the best of causes,
to oppose my wife's will.
2. To discharge all services, for her
sake, freely.
3. Never to scold.
4. Never to look cross at her.
5. Never to weary her with com
mands. 6. To promote her piety.
7. To bear her burdens.
& To overlook her foibles.
9. To love, cherish, and defend her.
10. To remember her always most af
fectionately in my prayers ; thns, God
willing, we shall be blessed.
The private secretary and interpreter
of tke shah is a Frenchman, M. Jules
Richard, who has lived in Persia since
1341
A Nad Story.
On April 26, Octave Tassaert, an ar
tist who has had his quart cTheure of
celebrity, was found dead in his garret
Worn out at length by his weary strug
gle for existence in old age, the painter
resolved to take bis own life and com
mitted suicide. Octave Tassaert first
won fame as a portrait painter, two of
his pictures having been admitted to
the art exhibition of 1331. He then
began upon historical compositions,
and painted several pictures for the
gallery of Versailles. "The Funeral of
Dagobert," at St Denis, was a work of
great merit, and is now held at a very
high price. After this success the
State gave him several orders. From
1831 to 1353 Tassaert did not miss a
single talon, and every year had one or
more of his pictures admitted. His
"Mort da Correge," "Diane an Bain,"
"Vieux Musioien," "Famille Mal
heureuse," and "Marchand d'EscIaves,"
with some six or seven more of his pic
tures.have been made popular through
out the world by the engravings made
of them. More than twenty of his
compositions were engraved for the
journal V Artiste. In 1833 he won the
first prize for composition, and took
another medal in 1819. A third medal
was given him at the universal exposi
tion of 1S53, when he exhibited his
"Sommeil de l'lnfant Jesus," the "Fils
de Louis XVL dans sa Prison," the
"Triste Nouvelle," and "Sarah la Bai
gueuse." Since that time nothing has
been heard of Octave Tassaert in the
world of art
But during this period of silence the
painter was growing old, and infirmi
ties were falling upon him. His eye
sight began to fail him, and his work
became slow and difficult He had
used up his savings just as the war
came on, and when the moment came
for asking help there was no patron
government to whom he could apply.
As want came upon him he gave np his
studio for a smaller one in a cheap
quarter, and a few months later had to
content himself with a modest garret
As atrocious misery crept upon him he
managed to sell a "few sketches to the
brocanteurs, who paid him little, as
can be imagined, and at last kept life
in his body by painting signs. He
went without shoes for a long time be
cause a cobbler hal agreed to give him
a pair for painting a sign and had not
kept his contract. One day he bad no
money to buy canvas and paints, and
owed '20 francs to a dealer, who refused
him further credit All this time the
only companion the painter had was an
ugly little dog, and the friendship be
tween the two was very strong, Just
as the bread gave out the dog was lost
or stolen. The loss affected Tassaert
seriously. He painted a small sketch
upon a board, and on trying to sell it
to a dealer was beaten down until he
finally consented to let it go for ten
sous. It is now worth a hundred lonis.
Instead of satisfying his hunger Tas
saert bought charcoal with his remain
ing ten-sou piece, shut himself up in
his room and passed away stifled by
the fumes of the coal which he had
voluntarily lighted. The grand painter
had liecome the "Pere Tassaert" in his
quarter, and no one dreamed, who
daily saw him taking his walks, that
he had once enjoyed so much celeb
rity. It seems strange that Tassaert did
not once more apply for and to his old
friends or the minister; but it seems
that he never had friends, and the
minister had already repulsed him.
Tassaert had never Lived in society.
He was never known to have a dress
coat, even, and was never seen on pub
lic occasions. He was not one to "so
licit and to serve," according to Mr.
Disraeli's expression; he had always
neglected his social duties; he did not
respond to letters or notice the cards of
friends, and this neglect was paid back
when be had need of friends. He had
turned his back upon society, and so
ciety dropped him and forgot him. The
indifference of society to his fate was
summed up in a single remark. When
his death was announced a Jiancur
cried: "What luck! I have one of his
pictures, which I bought for fifty francs;
it will now letcn its weight in gold.
When a man scorns society and its
forms he should be rich and above all
chances of want, for the day may come
when he will bitterly regret having re
pulsed the companionship of his fel
lows, and his own folly in not being
something of a courtier, if he has to
make his own way in the world, some
years ago Tassaert had reason to regret
his past liie. iieing in need oi money,
he took a few of his sketches to a min
ister of fine arts, and after a world of
trouble and many visits he managed to
gain admittance.
"I have come to ask your excellency
to eive me an order." he said.modestly.
and at the same time he laid out his
sketches.
"But I have no authority no fund,
said the minister.
"Oh ? I beg you do something for
me; I am in great want Y'ou see what
I can do."
In an indifferent way the minister
had picked np a sketch, and after
glancing at it looked sternly into the
face of the applicant.
"My good fellow," he said, "this is
not your work at all. I know that very
well indeed; it is by Tassaert"
But, your excellency, I am Tas
saert" 'You?" And the painter had to
show his papers before the minister
could be convinced. After some wait
ing a little help was given him and an
important picture ordered for the State.
But when Tassaert was again in want
he failed to reach the minister. His
hand had lost its cunning; he had no
clothes; his shoes were out at the toes;
hunger had taken away all his courage,
and he was no longer anybody but the
Pere Tassaert He was ashamed to
ask his brother artists for money, for
he had shamefully neglected them in
his days of his property, and when he
could no longer work there was nothing
left but despair. To-day Tassaert's
pictures will command almost any price,
and from this time forward they will be
quoted at high rates at the public sales.
A small lion, by Delacroix a very poor
daub, about a foot square, evidently a
mere rough sketch by this painter
was sold at the Hotel des Yentes for
the enormous sum of 32,000 francs. In
ten years' time the pictures of Tassaert
will bring quite as fantastio prices,
if only signed in full "Octave Tas
saert" Laughter as a Medicine.
A short time since, says a writer in
the Sanitarian, two individuals were
lying in one room very sick, one with
brain fever and the other wtih an ag
gravated case of the mumps. They
were so low that watchers were naeded
every night, and it was thought doubt
ful if the one sick of fever could recover.
A gentleman was engaged to watch over
night, hit duty being to wake the nurse
whenever it became necessary to admin
ister medicine. In the course of the
night both watcher and nurse fell asleep.
The man with the mumps lay watching
the clock, and saw that it was time to
give the fever patient his potion. He
was unable to speak aloud or to move
any portion of his body except his arms,
but seizing a pillow he managed to
strike the watcher in the face with it
Thus suddenly awakened, the watcher
sprang from his seat, falling to the
noor, and awakened both the nurse and
the fever patient The incident struck
the sick men as very ludicrous, and they
laughed heartily at it for some hfteen
or twenty minntes. When the doctor
came in the morning he found his pa
tient vastly improved ; said he never
knew so sudden a turn for the oetter.
and now both are np and welL Who
says laughter is not the best of medi
cines ? And this reminds the writer of
another case. A gentleman was suffer
ing from an ulceration of the throat,
which at length became so swollen that
his life was despaired of. His house
hold came to his bedside to bid him
farewell. Each individual shook hands
with the dying man, and then went away
weeping. Last of all came a pet ape,
and shaking the man's hands, went away
also with its hands over its eyes. It
was so ludicrous a sight that the patient
was forced to laugh, and laughed so
heartily that the ulcer broke, and his
life was saved.
lie. She, or It?
Thirty years ago there was born to
Mr. and Mrs. John Nostrand, then
living at Esnearance-Schoharie, a fair
faced child. Acting on the suggestion
of the old family physician, the child
was dressed in girl's clothes, although
whether this was appropriate or not
was a matter of some doubt to the per
plexed parents. This little one was
named Ada. When Ada was about two
years old her parents moved to this
county, settling then or soon afterward
close by the old Pine tavern, on the
Oswego stage road, and about one mile
from Blossvale. As the years passed
Ada grew strong and rather tall; she
wore her hair long, but as she reached
maturity an nnmistakeable beard began
to show itself on her face, and her
voice became quite masculine. She
also manifested a decided and unusual
love for other girls, while she seemed
to care but little for the company or
admiration of the sterner sex.
Five years ago she went to Cleveland,
Ohio, and secured a position as a do
mestic at a boarding-house, and before
she left them her masculine appearance
was so noticeable that she was arrested,
charged with being a man and dressed
in woman's clothes; nor was sha able to
prove this untrue, but fortunately the
proprietor of the house was also a
physician and had prescribed for her
shortly before that Hearing of the
case, he secured her release. Ada also
worked for Simon Isabel', of West
moreland, doing much outdoor work.
Indeed, her father, who does not look
at all ailing, physically, says she can
chop about as much as he can, and that
she is "man enough to handle lots of
the boys who are talking so much."
About two years ago Ada bonght of one
of the Messrs. Searles the old William
Sykes farm, close to the Pine Tavern.
The house had been burned, and Ada,
who has worked there since, went to
live at the house of Amos June, who
lived near. June is not altogether as
placid as the sweet summer time, and
he does not live at all times harmo
niously with his family. Some time
since his son died, and soon June mar
ried his son's widow. The younger left
a daughter, Lottie, who is well spoken
of by those who know her. By this
wedding Lottie found herself the step
daughter of her grandfather, the grand
daughter of her mother, and generally
unable to establish the exact degree of
consanguinity of her relatives with any
degree of satisfaction. Other reasons
combined to make her life at home not
altogether pleasant When Ada went
to live at the Jane house she formed
quite an attachment for Lottie, then
about 15 years of age, and, as the at
tachment ripened, she became more
and more impatient at the disguise of
her dress. Indeed, she had frequently
before this upbraided her parents for
dressing her in girl's clothes, insisting
that she had no business to wear them.
The love between Ada and Lottie
reached its culmination on Thursday,
April 2. On the evening of that day a
well-dressed young man, who gave his
name as Edward Nostrand, with a
blushing and pretty maiden, who was
Lottie June, called at the residence of
Rev. S. W. Simpson, of Taberg, where
they were made one flesh. This step
had been decided upon at least a year
before, we are told. Edward Nostrand,
who is now raising quite a beard, is 30
years of age. The charming Mrs. Nos
trand is 17. They live at what is known
as Weaver's, about two miles from
Blossvale, and seem happy. This is all
we know about it
'IobH.
A writer says : "Don't marry the
worthy young man.' The worthy young
man is the pet of old ladies and the
salvation of wall-flowers. He comes to
an evening party in thick boots and a
frock coat, is overwhelmed with con
fusion, and sticks in the doorway for
an hour, where everybody stumbles
over him. Finally, having summoned
up cenrage to ask you to dance, and you
have been foolishly good-natured
enough to consent, he either treads on
your toes at every lunge, or lands you
neatly on the back of your head before
the eyes of some triumphant rival. He
fetches you a coffee ice, which you ab
hor, when von have asked for a vanilla
one, and upsets it over your new ball
dress, from Worth s. rde comes to see
yon the next afternoon, to renew his
apologies,and spills his cup oi tea over
your sofa and carpet He treads on
the paws of your leverette and sits
down in the lap of the person behind
hiin. He has the most intense fear oi
the ordeal of leave-taking, and sits five
mortal hours in your drawing room
from sheer timidity. He models bis
opinions on yours, and, like the love
smitten baronet in 'Middlemarch,'
says, Yes.precisely, to every word you
utter till yon long to say that the earth
goes round ths moon, or that potatoes
grow on cherry trees, to oblige him to
dissent from you. tie is awiuny good
and meek and humble, so you pity him
too much to make fun of him, but don't
let pity carry you too far. How you
would blush for his gaucheries, and be
ready to sink into the earth at his faux
pas, if you were responsible for him in
any way. As rule, the worthy young
man remains a bachelor, not being able
to get any one to take him, or else he
marries in remote country places."
Near Rochester there ia an eccentric
old fellow who lives alongside a grave
yard. He was asked if it was not an
unpleasant location. "No,1 said he ;
"I never jined places in all my life with
a set of neighbors that minded their
own business so stiddy as they do."
Modern Appliaaeea In Fishing.
Steam power has reached the fish
eries, the seal and menliudeu depart
ment, and ere long it will include the
mackerel fishery. It is a new state of
things, and what its effect will be is a
matter of conjecture. The menhaden
fleet for the current year will have
thirty steamboats, earryinjr some fortv
seines and about 3ot) men. They attack
the fish and sweep tip vast schools
within five to thirty miles from the in
shore, and with these swift-sailing
steamers convey them to their factories,
where the oil and meat and bones are
separated by a steaming process, and
they are sent to market. In former
years plenty of this bait fish of the
rejrular fisherman could le found close
into the shore, w hile now none can be
hail, by reason of Iieing driven off into
a wide sea by the introduction of steam
power to aid the fishermen in their de
struction. What is to lie the end of
this method of fishing fin former years
none but snilinir vessels were nsed by
the sealers of Newfoundland; but at
present these have Int-n made to pive
way to steamers, and the result is that,
to all apiiearances, steam will exter
minate the seals and rail down a final
loss on the capitalist who has iu vested
so largelv in steamers. We lcaru from
good authority that during the past
four years two millions of seals have
liecn brought into the port of St. Johns,
X. F., and the indiscriminate slaughter
afforded in an especial manner by the
use of steamers has occasioned the loss
of twenty million of seals, at least, by
the destruction of the breeding ones.
Our mackerel fishery is niiiler'-'oiii a
great change in the methods of captur
ing them. Steam hits not quite reached
them yet, but the day may not lie dis
tant when it will. The rhanire iu
mackerel nshingconsistg in substituting
the seine for the hook and line. It is
almost impossible to find a crew that
will accept a position on board of a
"mackerclmaii ' njion our own coast
with no means but hook and line to de
pend on for a fare.but are free to if the
vessel "swings twine." Within the
next few days, there will be a tteet of
two hundred vessels, each with a seine
one thousand feet lonir and one hun
dred and fifty deep.w ith a skilled crew,
stationed from Nantucket to the capes
of Virginia, watching with the vision
of eagles for the appearance of mack
erel as they emerge from their wintry
iM-ds, the motlier hsii lull ot spawn,
following its instincts for suited local-
. . . ''.I till I
Hies to dciiosit it to lie gobbled up in ,
immense masses before that .important
service has lieeii rendered upon the l
nurturing beds of the sea. We allude !
to these matters, as they are new np-
iiliauces lor prosecuting iniHrtaut
branches of industry; and it they are
attended with the results vtry many
apprehend, namely, the perceptible de- j
crease of these valuable fisheries, a
little attention to this matter mav con
tribute to their preservation,
GooI-Xa(ured I'eople.
The specially social quality is good
rmtnre. amiahilitv th to iwp
the kindness of heart that avoids giving i purpose it ia finished with a little gland
offence, and cannot bear to hurt any j from which IIjws a watery fluid (Wars),
one's feelings. A good-natured person ! uit'h spread over the eye by the lid,
may frankly disagree with yon, but he 1 "J 14 13 afterward swept off by it, and
never offends. He quarrels good-na- i 10119 through a hole in the bone to the
tnredly. He boxes with gloves on ! under surface of the nose, while the
when he fences ever so deftly, there is ! warm air, passing over it while breath
a great soft bottom on the end of his ! evaporates it. It is remarkable
foil. He may satirize, ridicule, open j no filanJ ,!un 00 '"""d in tne
up all your weaknesses and absurdities, eyes of fish, as the element in which
but so kindly that you cannot help lov- j tuT ve answers the same purpose. If
ing him. He cannot say a harsh, hard, j tlie eye had not been furnished with a
liimid to wash it. and a lid to sweep it
he has no hardness and no contempt. I
This is simple, natural goodness, like ! wl'en TOU 1 turonh a dusty glass.
x r. ' .1.1 . i r l i .i: i .i
the goodness of fond and friendly ani
mals. It may not be a high moral vir
tue ; there is no particular merit in it ;
any more than in beauty or any natural I
gift ; but it is a very delightful quality,
,., i , . -.1 . .
anu inose wuo au not possess 11 suouiu
imitate those who do. Just as we avoid
in person, dress, or maimers, anything
that may give disgust or pain, so must
we do iu onr conversation. We must
no more use vulgar expressions than we
would wear vulgar garments. Our talk
should be as clean as onr fingers. We
should no more bite one with onr words
than our teeth. An angry word is as
bad as a blow, and a satirical word is
like a sting. If we are never to say any
thing to a person which will give him
disgust or pain, we must be even more j
careful not to say anything of any one
which willmjurehimintheestimationof i
others. Playful, good-natured criticism!
nnon tliA lir.tln foihlpa nn.l rwwiIinritiM
of others mav h no harm, anil even i
useful, but it ceases to be good-natured
when it gives pain. Slander is a sin
much worse than theft Cnanty for
bids that we should even tell the truth,
when that truth can wound and injure.
TVia Ho&r. rntn ta trt mv all f liA trnrul VA
can of every one, and to refrain from
ever saving eviL unless it becomes a I
clear mat ter of duty to to warn some
one against him.
Ciood-Xatared Taxpajera.
The Tuscans take credit to themselves
as being the gentlest and most amiable
people in the world, but they certainly
claim no more than they are fairly en
titled to. They are, says the London
limes, decidedly the most patient.
The Florentines pay a house property
tax amounting to thirty-nine per cent 1
of the nominal rent of the nominal rent
of their tenements, and Signor Digny,
in reporting on the municipal budget,
throws out very clear hints that even
that burden is not sufficiently heavy,
but that his townsmen must further
execute themselves Dy voting an audi-!
tional ten per cent, when laouse prop-:
erty will pay the city very nearly on-
half of its income. On the other hand,
me revenue wuicu uic city couevto uuui 1
the octroi, or duty on consumption at
the town gates, has raised the price of
a halfpenny loaf to one penny, and the
cost of all the necessaries of life in the
same proportion, so that a Florentine
must manage to make half his former
1 . 1. .1. : : I 1 . 1. . .
w eaiLU meet lud ciicui n a ui 1.11.0 m., j
former expenditures, llow the miracle ;
is achieved and the difficulty is got over '
is not easily explained, but this is cer- j
tain, that there the people not only do ,
not complain of the hardship, but even i
do not mention it ; that many of them !
seem not to know to what extent they
are mnlcted, or stoutly deny that the
charge is as great as it really is ; so that
a stranger who wishes to ascertain the !
truth of the matter must be at some j
pains to institute an inquiry, and 1
wrench, as it were, the evidence from
their unwilling Lips. The fact is that j
the brief promotion of Florence to the 1 Of what deity do six footers retnind you?
rank of an Italian capital and the too , What goddess do you think of when in
sudden removal of the court and gov- j debt ?
ernment from it have been like a tile j Which of tlie gods ia necessary ia bread
falling on the head of the fair city, and i making ?
that, in spite of all the efforts of her j rt icn goddess make honey ?
sanguine and optimist citizens to deny Wbat deity is like a sulky parrot ?
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mnnh frrttTi th iniPTiwtfN. caI am it v
rTotwlthstandnf aU the endeavors Vt
the municipality and of the most con-
spicuous citizens to repair its losses,
and to relieve its distress.
Tt nTf liaa auVo.1 wit a f iaaiaainnl
Legislature to change his name, a. he
has married a Miss Breew, and is afraid
nf uiiniii
"Voiitlis Column.
Table MannersFor Little Folks.
in ilene 1 mnt tnke bit Beat,
A !.il tpve (ii it Uiaua briar 1 eat ;
Must my f.-d m i alienee wait,
'111 I am mekr.1 lo baliil my plate.
I in isit not no bit whine, uor pout,
N .r m vr my euair or plale alsmt.
W.ta knife, ur fork, or nupkin nug.
1 in ut un play, uor miut 1 lu.
1 loust not prk a aieletw wuril.
For cuiljrn ma-1 be.ra. not aeanL
1 mu-t not talk about mv fin.
Nr fret if 1 d u't tuiuk it r-hmL
My mouth with food 1 aisi not crowd,
N.ir while I'm eatirn? sMak aloud.
Mu.it turn my lieaii to eouitU or ueeae.
And wheu I ask, aav, lf you pleaae.
1'hr LiMe clotu 1 must not spoil.
Nor witii my food my ttuireni soil.
Md-t ken my Heat Vueu t am doue.
Nor round the UbJ, sport or run.
W Urn t Id to nae, Uleu 1 must put
M y chair away witU noiselesa fouc ;
Aud alt my urart to eod above,
lii i tmis l'rali hi woutlr ua mre.
Eoys oo Home. Ah, boys ! you who
have gone out from the old homesteads
into the rush and bnstle of life, do yon
ever think of the patient mothers who
are ttrctehing ont to you arms powerless
to draw yon back to the old home-nest ?
Arms that were strong to carry you
once, pressed closely to hearts that love
you now as then. No matter though
your hair is "silver-streaked," and Dot
in the cradle calls you "lirandpa," you
are only "the boys" so long as mother
lives. You are the children of the old
home. Nothing can crowd you out of
mother's heart You may have failed in
the battle of Life, and your manhood
may have been crushed out against the
wall of circnnHtanees ; you may have
been prosperous and gained wealth and
fame ; but mother's love has followed
you always. Many a "boy" has not
been home for live, ten, or even twenty
years. Andall this time mother has
been waiting, waiting, waiting. Ah,
who does not know the agony expressed
by that word ? She may be even now
saving, "I dreamt of John last night
May be he will come home to-day. He
may drop in for dinner ;" and the poor,
trembling hands prepare some favorite
dish for him. Dinner comes and goes,
but John comes not with it. Thus, day
after day, month after month, and year
after year, passes, till at last, "Hope
deferred muketh the heart sick," ay,
sick unto death, the feeble arms are
stretched out no longer. The dim eyes
are closed, the gray hairs smoothed for
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f , j d , evcriasting Kst and mother
m ,th for on who
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me" u" K " ""V
ye to Wiut " ""'y " coming in
uca"M'
Ouee more I say unto you boys, go
home, if only for a day. Let mother
know you have not forgotten her. Her
davs mav be numbered. "Next winter"
may cover her grave with snow.
How the Ere ts Swept asd Washed.
For us to be able to see objects clearly
and distinctly, it is necessary that the
eye should lie kept clean, tor this
u. things would appear as they do
Along the edges of the eyelids there are
a great nuruU r of utile tuties or glamls,
from which flows au oily substance
wb'-'b spreads over the surface of the l
ftin. "1 thus prevents the edges from ;
It... i r a i.ii .i i. ,4DtA, an.l 1 oliui li I mm I
oeing sore or irruaieu, anu . aiso uc,ps
vo keep tears wiinin me nu. .mere are
also bix little muscles attached to the
eye which enable us to move it in every
direction ; and when we consider the
different motions they are capable of
giving to the eye, we cannot but admire
the goodness of Him w ho formed them,
and thns saved us the trouble of turning
onr heads every time we wishvid to view
an oliject
Johnsv's Confe-siix. At night
J'-hnuy climbed up into his mother's
'"P. u,i la.vinS head ou her shoulder,
". """" :
"i took that glass marole, mamma.
"Took It from whom ? asked his
mother.
I took it from the ground," said
Johnny.
"Did it belong to the ground ?" asked
his mother ; "did the gronnd go to the
shop and bny it '!"
Johnny tried to laugh at such a fanny
thought, but he could not
"i S1w u the ground, said he.
"What little boy had it before?
"Asa May's it is, I guess," whispered
Johnny.
"When you put yonr hand out to
take it, did you forget, -Thou Ood sees
me ?' asked his mother. "Did you not
hear a voice, saying, 'Don't, Johnny,
don't, Johnny?' "
"I didn't hear it," said the little boy,
sobbing. "I grabbed quick !" Youth's
Companion.
Concealed Cities. We went North
m August, and stayed until fall.
I saw a veritable Faust in Germany.
See Louisa cram entomology.
I-Ratc on cordwood is pood authority.
The river has fal'.cn ; Mr. Hart forded
to-day.
Can old or new portray the feelings
0f m hero'
father told Louisa Lem was an Odd
I Fellow.
j jjjj jon gjTe waking to Nancy ?
Anrr Xurmshi - Anstin : Sicra-
mento; Concord; Hertford ; ewport;!a eanu are you lauguiuK at; eatu
ialeni ; Washington.
DlAMO.VD PCZZLB.
A vowel.
A small insect
A tree.
One of the Unite 1 St ttes.
A bird.
A girl's name.
A voweL
Answer :
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N
D
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A
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A
A
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D
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A
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Hove Deittes.
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. T IU UIltnirU3 111 IlaO iUft V wUIUKlO ;
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A Parisian musical dictionary defines
I Sail Si Tit. tit Ka 'i,Ta Tl nnleaiunt noise nro-
i duced by overstraining the throat, for
i which great singers are well paid, and
i small children weu punisneu.
"Varietiefs.
The spendthrift's prayer "Leave me
a loan, will you V
A straight line is the shortest in
morals as in geometry.
The early bird has arrived, and is
hopping from tig to twig.
If a Bedouin should loe Lis teeth,
would he talk gum Arabic
A visit must be returned in like
manner; even thongh no intimacy is
intended.
Worth's fancy for cutting the ede of
skirts in blocks and showing pleating
between is also shown again.
Mr. Galten intimates that where lovely
woman is, the attention of male youths
is diverted from science to art
Valedictory of His Honor, the Mayor
of Denver: '"Thank God, its over with !
I wouldn't take it again for a kingdom,
not if I know it"
Bobbs complains that his wife is an
inflationist She blows him up every
day, aud makes him circulate until he
actually feels that he is beyond re
demption. The farmer should sow his P's, keep
his L"s warm, hive his B's, kill off the
J's, remember what he C's, take cure of
the Y's, pay all he O's, teach his wife
not to Ts, and tike his E's.
A Boston millionaire offered a man
two dollars and a half the other day for
stopping a runaway team and earing
the life of his dangnter. The extrava
gance of these millionaires is disgrace
ful. Certainly a man cannot expect to
be a millionaire long if he squanders Lis
money in that reckless manner.
A lady, well known iu the f tsliionable
world of Paris, it is said, has for years
been in the habit of seeing her physician
daily. The physician always took his
fee, but never had occasion to prescribe
for his patient He called recently,
however, and was denied admittance.
Monsieur le Dootor," said the servant.
I'Madame cannot receive to-day, she is
indisposed."
' A weary looking stranger threw him
self into a chair oi:e evnicg, and ab
ruptly remarked, "If you are ia a hurry,
never travel on a Mississippi river
steamboat I've been three weeks ou
the way up from New Orleans. The
boat stops on the slightest provocation
A white horse switching his tail on the
bank is taken as a signal by the pilot,
and the boat is rounded to."
Sydney Smith said : "Whatever you
are from nature, keep to it ; nrver de
sert your own line of talent. If Provi
dence only intended you to write posits
for rings, or mottoes for twelfth cakes,
keep to posies and mottoes, a good
motto for twelfth Cake is more respecta
ble than a villainous epic poem in
twelve books. l)-j wli.it uaturo luWnded
you for, and you will suoctvd.
A correspondent of a Newburg paper
writes : "We were reminded a few
days since while digging about the yard
that this is to be the locust year. Im
mense numbers of these little fellows,
nearly full grown, are now making their
way upward, aud are within eight to ten
inches of the surface of the ground.
They will probably put in their apiwar
ance some time time in June. They
come every seventeen years."
They tell a qneer story about tlm
doctors in a certain Texas town, who
were all away last summer to attend a
medical convention, luey were absent
abont tw(J months aml ou" tlieir retnru
fouaJ their Uaa rej,
1
drn tores h j cl(se(, tLa miTe
u i . 1 .1 ,..; ..i,.,i i, .,
UOU VICUCU UJLIl 1111 .T 111" Ill,' 1 lilt
tery was cut up into bui'diog lots, ta
undertakers had gone to making fiddles
and the hearse had been painted up and
sold for a circus wagon.
A surgeon, after a sanguinary batt!-,
was going his rounds, examining hit
patients. He came at length to a ser
geant who had beeu struck by a bulict
in the left breast, directly over the
region of the heart The doctor, sur
prised at the narrow escape of thj m iti,
exclaimed, "Why, my mm, where in
the name of goodness ould your heart
have been V" 'I guess it must have
been in my mouth just then, doctor,"
replied the poor fellow, with a faint
smile.
A young man iu Pittsburgh, Pa.,
was directed to signal an approaching
train. While proceeding to comply
with these orders ho fed upon the track
aud was run over by five cars aud the
caboose. Ilia legi wem completely cnt
off just above the kue, imt remember
ing his orders he cleared the track of
the dismembered portions of his own
body, and taking a fiig from his pocket
waved it until he had stopped the train,
which was fast approaching. But for
this heroism other lives must certainly
have been lost, as a collision was inevi
table. A lady in Portland, Ma., halted in
front of a garden the other day and
accosted a man at work od some trees
with : What are you doing to those
trees?" "tiirding thetn, mjdanj, with
printei's ink and cotton to prevent
canker worms from ascending." "How
much does it cost ?" inqtired the ludr.
"About twenty-five cents," was the an
swer. "What's your name ?"' was the
lady's next question. "Hill," said the
man. ''Well, I wish yon would come
and girdle ours." The man gave an
evasive answer, and the lady weiit home
and told her husband, who went it-to
1 convulsions f.f laughter. "Why, what
she ; and as soon as the amused husband
caught his breath he told his wife that
the man she had asked to girdle her
trees was no less than the Ilev. Dr. Hill,
late President of Harvard C'jllege.
A letter from Japan in the t'o!one
Gazette sajs that the religious question,
which is an increasing topio of discus
sion among the Japanese, has again
been brought before tli9 public by a
memorandum issued by two oCV'ials of
the religions department. The memo
randum begins by pointing out that
Japan has made such immense progress
that her civilization and commerce are
equal to those of Eorope, but that in
religions matters she still hesitates be
tween Buddhism and Christianity. It
therefore proposes that public disputa
tions should be) organized between
Buddhist and Shinto priests on one
side, and Christian preachers ota the
other. ach of these uisputations wouui
I take place on a specified subject, to be
! agreed upon beforehand by the cou
i tending parties. The speeches would
be taken down by short -nana writer,
f .
and pnbiiflhed iq several iangnacra ,
and an interval of ten days would elapse
t between one disputation and the next.
Br these means, the memorandum con
tinues, the world would be able to de-
( cide which religion is the true one, ana
i make its choice accordingly.
The ex-
j penses of the proposed Jat'on
would b covered by the proceeds of
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