4onto ading. THE LOST BABIES. Come " m y wife, put: down tlie Lay •Your-glOses on ' thcfiook, 1 , , • ' Bob of Us are bent And'aget.l-4 ,\ Backward, mother, let us-look, 'This is•still the,same ohi huffiest d Where I brought yonhing ag( , • • , When the hair Was bright With bunshine" That is„now like winter's snow, Lek tis talk about the hahice, As we. sit here all alone,z; ; Such 4 merry _troop of youngsters; , liOw we lost them: one hrone. ' Jack, the , first of , all the party, Caine to us one win fer's•oight, 1• Jack,,you said, should be a,parson, 'Long helare, thd'fight, ' •Do you see that great cathedral, --,' Filled the transept arid the nave, Hear the organ grandli p . caling,i Watch_ the silken hangings wage ; • , Sec the;.prieSt in robes.of 'office; With the altar lit his back— , Would you think ,that- gifted preacher. Could be your own little Jack ? Then a girl with curly tresses. • • . . Used to climb upon my knee,: -., • . Like a little tairy princess , ~ .Huling at the age of three'. With the years there came a Wedding—'' How your fond heart swelled with pride , When the lord of all thocountry .1 ,- Chose - your baby for his bride I':, Watch that stately carriage coming; And the form reclining , there--,. _ . Would you think thathrilliant lady •,' ..' Could be your own little Clare ? Then'the l ast ,a a blue-eyed youngster-r- I can - . - hear him prattling now— , , Such it strong and sturdy fellow, - , With his broad and honest bro , Ho* he used to love his mother li - ' I Ahl I see your trembling lip I .- He is far oft on the water, • , Captain of a rival ship. See the bronze upon his foreheild, • -11.earile‘yoice of stern command--.-, , That the boy who clung so fondly ; - , Thy his ' mcit ber 'a gentle hand ?. . t.,‘ , , Ah ! my wife, we've lost the babies, . . . • Ours so long and ours alone ; ' . ~ What'are we to [these great people; . Stately men and women, grown ? • Seldom do we •ever sce them ; . ' Fes, a bitter teardrop starts, . As we sit here in the - fire-110 , , . Lonely hearths and lonely eart.s. , .: i All their lives are full withou us They'll stop long enough one.day Just to lay us in the church yard, i , " :Then they'll each go On their way.' - . A BITTER -C4RISTMAS7 Amid the scenes of a city on, Obristmasi the New York Sun tells the following sad story In a little smoky room in the rtar basement of a Mott street tenement a iittl girl lay dy ing- The room w.aa gloomy with the vanish ing, light of the dreary afternoon, and . upon the walls the mold and 'sickly damp lay thick- ly. A wan and %i+orn little figure; whose was ed form mid shadotry face s blue veined and' gray with the approach of death, speaki,bf the past dreary, dreary strugele of lite, and of the welcome oncoming of dissolution. She is only twelve years 'old, but the creel experience of her lite has doubled her years in their fruits.—; A patched and ragged, bed-quilt covers the din gy bed frirrie,and Over its edges exleuds a Skel eton hand. 'At the saes of the epticli: is the father, smothering his emotion, and :the : mother and sisters, whose 'tears fall Tail es, they 'watch' the fttcltering of the eandle,slowly golly out in.., the gloem of the day. "There is no- - Chilitirms this year Ic•r us," groans 'the. father as beholds, _his hands to his face, and the motber ,replielf \ with her fast falling tears. Deeper and deeper, grows theshadow Upon the..wall, the fOotiteps in the street are less frequent . ; . and ' aithe last \ gleain of, daylight' lades from the oom the child raises herhead feebly and claspsthe hand: of her inother. Her eyes shine i wit : an tin earthly brilliancy for it moment, land she ,fytiS, ,looking upward . "Oh I m.....ther, what makes the room so light ? it was so dailt a little while ago, and now the sun is shining N everything is bright,. There is . a ' great path of .sunshine, and there is' 110 darkness, and everybod3i - is ley fut. We shall have S, ChristmaS dinner atter all," she added, in a moment on .twe, "and you and papa will net have to pay for it, for they are bringing it in shining silver dishes. \ Oh, 1 see lots of people, and they all have . bright clothes, and there is •no want, and no cold and no hunger arid dirt. And I. am not cold tiny, more; and everything is _so happy, antit is al ways' Christmas. Oh, why can't_ you go, too, mother, for all ahead are faces Calling tolls." The little'. face on the ragged quilt grew brighter, and, the hands struggled if agnAy'at the laded figures us the dying girl 01 back up on the pillow and looked' •with brightening eyes upward. There was a faint _choking for - ft inement, a clasping and Unclasping; of, 'the hands, a dying-. away ( the, breath, and then the child face Was turned' toward the wall, and , only the radiant smile` and . the 00z 1 v3T.i.1 e.x. pression remained of the earthly 1 body. Her last 'words were of Christmas—of the gOod tid ings that never came to her on earth—and her mother,turning4tway from the bed with stream= ing eyes, said with_ the reisignatfon of despair: "Poor IsTelly,- she's happy now." "Yes," ; re-, ' plied the father, as he - folded, the little lands across the faded and , warn frock, "Shs better Off than we could makn her. But, Oh, rd give what little 1 have to eall her back. 1 God pity , , the poor I" The gloolifof twilight I deepened - into -the darkness of .night and in there little' _ moldy room parents Sit weeping, and there was no sound . , in the 'whole cheerless tenement „ that was like the "tidings of great joy?". "It's a hitter Christmas 'tor us," 'said the father and mother,. as they sat.' in. the darkness,' ftn they' were too po)r'even to 'buy candleS to light up the room by which Oily might see , th, turnip' . their deadphild. .: 1 ' ' _,-~-~ ss W13.41' IN The Chemia Red* , sta7 at in a 4 rqpof water cht:ained - ,fronx a ain l th e stagw:4tawaud . magnified @ve, hundred titnei,wereintinid Pieces of coaii fragraents of cloth, grains :of starch, sandy , matter, aud an immense - variety of , , , other substance*, riot fragmentrof •which , eIE ceeded.hi diameter ,the three 7 thousanielfh of au inch. • • : 111 PUBLIC LIBRARIES AND THEIR USES. ~ Charles :Fraricii 'Adams . , Jr., has written a letter 4;tb.A, Quidel (Mass.).Pairiat,.on the sub j ect of the education derived froth the reading of miscellaneous 'beeks. Mr. Adams whit is onesof .the trustees: of the public library of the lown; says that four-fiiihs.of the book educa: ri We alliiiive is acquired from MiScellaueOus' reading. ' '2ho't , 'lls' "and "school -teliciiers - have - 'n_ tbitiglo'do with 'it '; 'but it is hiMie abquired. .fl'e chnsiderS the' reading of books, in itself,' the poor iiiii Ws university: , ' IP' 'ref erring to' dr ,Milatingind 'public . , libraries: and the kir4l of literainfuin twit demiind; he' says that three= Oitirtlia of the deMand is always fir the' iiiot vapid sensational books.' - In'eleaing his letterhe says, i'-' 4 kOst a'sSuredlYidients ought not to turn their children' looie in any library. 'ln , Oni libtery there is now' no excuse for their , so dbini2 - before the' catalogue" watt published they might hive "excused themselves on the ground that:; they had' , tioi'meins of selection ;. and 'the catalogue 'Was prepared ;with that. very 'consideration in vie*. It was intended to lay open to any person sitting 'in lids 'own hottse the whOle' contents of -the llbrarYklor'hisown use and that of. his'.family ;' it in fact Part!, the ;disposal ' of every'resident of .Quincy an almost complete collection of the standard works in the lattinage, Mr all' practical -purposes jitst as much.atehis disposal as if he owned them: It put the library in the dwelling-bouses. 'Under theseicirCumstances, it was hoped that iv great improvement would be noticed in the charac- ter of the books called for. How far this hope has-been justified; I; cannot say ; but there is certainly' great room for improvement. The i . great majority ot the books lx•rrOwed • are bor rowed by young people; and still, apparently unassisted by any one in' their choice. lam very - contldent i that- a competent 'trustee, who . would give his whole time to the library, and do nothing but "examine and purchase pew books, and advise those ;who come there, es pecially the young, both what to' read and how to read it,:could do much more for the higher education of lairincy : than. is done through' the whole agency of our high school; nor in say ing. this do I mean to say anything dkrogatory to the high school either. . This we cannot ex pect. We ought,. however, to be IfairlY able ' - 'o expect now. the : parents and those engaged the \ rnre ves In the work of education, 'should l ' realize what 'a large part, in . that work iniscel r laneoue reading 'lays, and so try to give so e • direction to it." \ ' ' , . FALIANG OFF IN MARRIAGES. Withinthulast lew years the marriages in the, lower classes have become fewer, and hi theupper comparatively rare, owing to ; the de pression,in ,business and the expensiveness of housekeeping.. ; The man, would like to be Mar- ried, but be cannot, see his way, financially,ancl is ohliged to restrain . , his matrimonial tenden cies. The imprudent or much loving man does, it, and the chanees are two to one that he gets into difficulty.; Ttie general abstention in the way ;of _marrit.ge naturally has a corrupting in fluenco, for man's passions are, strong and, the fiesli,is weak. Attractions and forceabring the man and woman together in spite of them selves,,and consequences result therefrom not necessary to describe. In a well regulated so ciety, arriage should be within easy reach of :those u want to. marry ; that is, the wants of the c uple should be easily supplied in the money they possess or in the work which they. , can perform with their , own heads and hands. If they have neither . capital nor , capacity for 'Work, the union ,sanctioned: by law is denied them. Inpassive; this . citse the nature of, the • . woman may contain itself within the ,bounds 1 of.a. *elf ordered life in accordance With the .-- - - 1 principles she had .I)epri taught. . ~ The positive nature of the man is not so easily curbed and held in subjection, and it asserts itself in a way that tends to increase the number of that body - , of diasolute A-mien which marches. close in the rear of every civilization. Ills lawlesi legion,. in a word. grows in the same ratio as the, num: -beret marriages . decrease, and recruits are be ing constantly added to it through love, Misery, and the passions of men without marital ties. • ._ VALUABLE INSTRUCTION'S. A medical authority gives the following ad-- vice, -which no-doubt- would prove beneficial to - invalids :. To regain or recoyer‘health persons shoUld be relieved from all anxiety concerning diseases. The mind has power over the body. Fora person to think he has disease will often prodiice that disease. This we see effected when the mind is intensely concentrated upon the diicase of another. It is tound'in the hos pitals that surgeons s i‘lid physicians who Matte a specidt3r of certain diseiiiies are liable' to die of it themselves ;. and the mental •power is so great, that sometimes people die. of disease' which they only have in imagination. yl e. have seena person seasick .anticipation - of a voyage befOre reaching the ;vessel., We have known a person to die ofseancerhin the atom ealt when he liad" 130 eancer or any other mor -1 disease. „ Ahlindfolded man, slightly prick \ed in the arm, has fainted and died from believ ing - that he was- bleeding to death. Therefore. well persona', to remain :well, should he cheer- - ful and happy, and sick,: persons shOuld have their.attention drawn as much, as possible trona themselves,' It is by their faith men are saved, .and it is by.f,hoir tath men die. If he wills not so die he can often live in, spite •of,disease ; and if helms little rec • 4 . ~: •. Are notified that their ACCOUNTSMUST'BESMLEII' X eciiat ' ely~,= of tbe*will be c,olleced:b,ybi, : • ~,cisoliti,tATait6,i September2o, 1875. . READ' THIS.! .. ~\~~. ._ S ys ~ Welis;e3tisttetttriied, fro . = the Citi of New Yolk with a spisndid stock of goods; consisting of 'Djjllo.o.Zia, G ROCERIES, ROOM SHOES, DRUGS, MEDICINES, CROCE BHT, HARDWARE,. ac„ ac. And all other goods usually.. kept in a 'country store. Come one and ali and satisfy yourselves that are selling stcheap ai the cheapest. We are always wit ling to show mg goods.• • , - W. & P. INDICRLIED. Brackney. Pa.. May 12th 1875.—tf. 'Ladies' FeltZkirta, at Cheap John's A NEW STOCK OF Circoolre..eraw, net received and for Bale by iiii lIPRRFINE L FL 0 U For sale by ALSO, ALL KINDS OF GROCERIES; At the store of - Cl.resaasess, , • For sale by • • WEBS:' Montrose, Argrll2l 18715. ' , , - 'Buy yout.BaSs, Ciioitp. Jain*: PUY . YOUR WAGONS,... ItIAGES AND SLEIGHS, , • . • W..OUSTERTIOI:3I I , HARFORD, PA. , PRICE List • Repairing done on short notice. 'Cheaper -than th4i cheapest. _ , Flrst-class Plus - tons- - - • - $230 ' ISa :Wes • - • - , - ,' ' $l3O •``• Lumber Wagons • • • ; 114 4. Platforms from $l4O to' - • - 160 4 6 k Swell Body - Sleight! - • - 3314ac1zasznIt12,1xis. To shoe per, span o new, !< • - • - SIR 5 0 ." cork and'eet - - - - - - ' $1.40 • " get per Span - . - $l.OO All Work warrantecr. Call and, l ixamine my stock ' fore purchasing elsewhere. • • • ' • . OUBTERII9I3T. Harford, Ostobet 20th, ltnh.—tf. • riuNiry BROTHERS,- , .• SGRANTOIts PA Wholesale & Retail Lenient n HARDWARE`, IRON; STEELi, NAILS, - SPIRES, kIOyELS :IUILDER'S HARDWARE;. MINE BALL,'COUNTERSUNE fer .11AlLSPIE,b..*, ,. RAILROAD 4t .111N1NG SUPPLIES. CARRIAGE SPRINGS. AXLES. SKEINS aly;) BOXES; BOLTS, NUTS and WA2BNRS, 7 PLATED B.ANJAN. AIiALLA'AisLE IRONS, lIUBS,SPORES, FELL'OES,MAT SPINDLES, BOWS, dz. . ANVILS, 'VICES, STOCKS and DIES, BELLOWS HAMMERS, SLEDGES. FILES, &c. &c. ' CIRCULAR AND MILL SAWS, BELTING. PACEnici TACKLE BLOCKS, PLASTER PARTR CEMENT, HAIR & GRrNDSTONES FRENCH WINI7OW GLASS,LEATHER 44.F1.1101NG PAIRB K'S BOALES. Binghamton 'Warble Works - All kinds of Monuments, Headstones, and Marble Mantles, made to order. Also, Scotch Gtauttes on band. I. PICKERING & CO., J. PICKERING. 12G.Court Street. o. N. siansenzeu, li.:P. BROWN. Oct. 2R. IRV. Ilatldsotne Triptned, Huts, at Cilitp , , Real .Estate for Sale. VALUABLE Farm For Sale. The entaterlbar offers for pale the valuable( farm • Miiim.zia.e•railaic! Said farm is ono of the most desirable farina. to •the county, and is beautifully situated , in the Village 'Ol I Stunmersville. Sasquehanna ; there is a good store, flouring mill, saw , mill, . plaster mill, and blacksmith aid wavon shop In said village: The farm is situated directlyen the /) L. W. one mils and a hall from the depot at New Milford, and lour miles from the depot at Great Bend N. Y. & Erie R. R.: contains 11)0 acres of land, 180 acres improved,,is well , wat4red, having a lasting stream of Water running through, it and water conveyed in pipes to the house. barn and- rattle yards, it is well fenced, and under good cultivation; It is well Adapted to growing grain, and is fitted for stock or dairying ; there Is a large and convenient dwelling and wood house, well painted, and beautiful lawn, with shrubbery, a Argo horse barn, car rtsge house 'cattle barn, with two cattleyards and sheds and stables for feeding stock or stalling - cows, and two orchards of grafted fruits. Terms of payment math) easy. R. L. SUTPHIN. . NewStara Co. f Pa, sei.teloei:o;o7s,4a D EBIRABLE lIOUSE,AND LOT , FOR SALE. • sit;ialid tit tho Tiorongtrot Montrose. very irablerePerty, Flue. largo Bowie,' go4d.Bara,6ardeoi Fruit Tr.ees, .in bearing gnOd• VIPII, and other con =donde& For partleal6. enquire cni the premises, ' W. O. BAILEY, October 6, fB7 Montrose, Pa. . . MONTROSEt VILLAGE' LOTS nal town lots, ot,. I .1 - offer Fir axle six ' 'riL 27, 22; IA VI; on . -tho :sestthwest.' , side 'et* street, near the Deptist ehuren-rono, square from pm Pubik Vienne. '; ' ',` - • - - • .... ,- MAiTKL.SZT Ad 3 BR, .' , o - Jan. 6,1876-4 W x ~ ~, p { ~.t . . t :, ~7: i'S; r$ =MEM rf' , .).1.i . 1 ....., H'. J. WEBB. • H. X. WEBB.. H.J. WEBB. Binghamton. r; as the 5 1 MEE t `,.._