gamg gtadino. -"LEr,S:PLAY" , 'Oh 1 the blei3seo 'and wise little children, What sensible thino they say '1" When ,they can't have the things they wish • tor, , They;take others and cry "LeVs pltiyP "Let's play" that the chairs are big coaches And the sofa a, railroad ear, .And that we are all taking journeys And traveling ever so far. "Let's play" that, this broken old ?Anna, • Is a dinner set rare and fine, • And our tea cups filled with water, • Are goblets of milk, and wine. "Let's play" every one of our dollies,, Is alive and can go to walk, And - keep up long conversations With uS, if we want to talk. "Let's play" that we live in 'a palace ; And that ,we are, the queens and kings "Let's play", we are birds in a tree top, • And can fly about on wings. "Let's play that , we are school-keepers, And grown people come to onr school And punish them all; most soundly • It they break but a single rule. 'Oh 1' the blessed and wise little children, ' ;What sensible things they say ;- Aid we might be happy as they are, • • If we would be happAbeir way. • What odds 'twlat not having and having, When we have lived out our,day Let's borrow the-ehildien's watchword— The magical watchword; "Let's. • play." Alt:stirly, March you've come again, With *et and snow, and hail and rain Cold earth beneath, dark sky Above you, What have you,. pray, to make us love you ? No month is halt so rough as you. ',December winds less harshly blew What churlish ways I what storm-tossed tresses ! ' Your presence every one. distresses I .Haste, haste away ! We longing wait To greet fair April• at our gate. . Cold earth beneath, dark sky above you, Surely you've naught to make us love you ? • "Ah, see these blossoms !" he replied, Tossitig his hail-torn cloak aside,:— "Though other months have flowers a-many, • Say, are not mine as fair as any ? See, peeping from each dusky fold, The crocus with its cup of gold ; Artoiets, snowdrops. white and stilly, Sweeter than any summer lily ; ' And underneath the old oak-leaves 2 Her !Vagrant wreath the arbutus weaves,— Whatever sky may be above me, Surely tor Map all hearts will love me !" '—kit.'-14lichoras for ifareA. YOUNG MEN7S'MISTAKES BY-REV. JOHN, HALL, D. D„ N. Y. "The times, are hard." Employment is less abundant and less remunerative than it - has been. - That has come which was often predict ' ed; and men. finding, their means a third less thin 'they passed , for, are , contracting - outlays, and the consequent disturbance in the money centres is great, and is widely felt. Toung men -having been drawn in great. 'numbers to theie money-centres by the hope of, rapid money-making, feet, the stringency more than some other classes .; and among them the most helpless are those ivho tan "take anything," They have no specialty. Being possessed of a "good common eduCation," in times when labor was much wanted they: were borne with. But there LS no one thing in which 'they are ex- perts. and the supply is large, consequently tkex are left R ithout employment'. This condition of things suggests . a frank, and at least well hosed who intended wor, to t . ao_coming into the ranks of ruing men. • .1; Do not trust to generuZittes. You bad bet ter have a specialty. Learn something that you can do —and , profess. Something distinct matter what- r -is hotter than an ordinary general capacity. to.."turn a hand to anything." It' is a great pity that well-paid trades are at' a _discount with A meri6an young men. French and German skilled workmen get often - twice thops.y that clerks and salesmin are obtaining. have not harder work, and have just es good a chance to rise to betn, empjoyers and mas teri, at the last: Every employer knows:bow hard it is to get good workmen ; every house . holder knows how "jobs" are poorly done, and how often they have to lament the detective ability of the carpenter, plumber, or upholiter. It is possible to niakeway in these departmenta by thoroughness, and the cost of living is not made so great by social requirPtionts to the gond tradesman , as to the poor clerk., -Dress alone makes a wide di ff erence in their respec tive outlays. - '.2. Do not rush to the great : cities, , The town next You, if you wish'to -go- forward, may be the, testforyou. It is your •Parent's'market town, perhaps. Some of the people know YOU or them and living among"theM - yea have in ducement and encouragement to well-doing in that, fact. Poor bumtui nature is so weak that t needs to be "shored up" to the utmost, and a youth is strongly tempted in a great city where hedeen say, to / himself:`. "l' may dol as I . like here=nohody -knows me." Hardly any - suc cess`;isgreatervormore real and satisfying, than the success of , s. man Who- begins in his own , ceinity,'krows with the growth of, a town or a village and who has thousands 'of People— . neighbors—who are, proud of him - And of his success, and shares the, joy of it, as they say 'to fine another "We knew him trom the start,. 'and hedeserved to sUcOeed." Such alum can bp great in a county,,when if in . New York you wbuldnot know his house from ten thousand other-houses, nor himself, as he squeezes into' a street car, from. ten, thousand other Men. can n.tiy ping be Auer than the life of a man who makes `his: steady, honest way 4E1164 those whont he alWays' knew, and Who always knew hini,end who can Say like the woman in the Bible who - declined any . reCotamendaiions • • at teurt, with the 'noble utterance : "I dwell au o ut oine °vi s a people." Professional men - have to go where therore , winted and that -- 1. 11 q*:" , is 4)l * 44 l l .*lr - 4rimb-acks. • - youivefr. You know r? 11 enoug i iyhat-it'is . 'when iiinApieee ot:property hut- 41* kesiviirtnort. aged: There are Man3i , tine g 044 Marcia. lull et promise by thenuelves--blut eneunther ed. Some are hampered by precious and [pre mature engagement!! made *hen they knew little,and which they are tempted to break out of, or they ,make good:: at a disadvantage. Some are encumbered by habits. Little things trifling as snow - fiactes were done, and done, so often, that they have become habitspi like . snow-banks, and their removal is no easy: mat ter. They smoke, or chew, or take a glass, or have a pission for cards, or they talk slang. or worse, and they can:' no more get rid of it than i the simpleton who gets 'hii hand tatooed with crosses and anchors when, a boy. and when he is a man and a gentleman, cannot get r , id of theni and is alwaysatraid of being taken fur an escape convict or a deserter' from before the mast.: Some are encumbered pith debt. They wanted finer clothes or so thing else; and borrowed ; and they never saw how to repay,. and innumerable subterfuges, and "white lies," and very blaelt lies lie in their way, and they cannot look their creditor in the faded Go forth, if you are to go, free. i ' But it, may be the bravest thing not to . go. "I get two , and a half a day," said a young man. to the writer. "And do you save some thing ?" "No : I have a tather and a moth& ,—father is over seventy, and can't do anything and it takes it all to keep the house." ,That was his modest, manly way of saying that he stayed at home, worked fifteen hours 'a day, and supported them. They sic, not encumbrances such as are mentioned above. When Godgives young men suchdinties and they become heroes in the doing of thern, ' be sure they get it all back in time from, Him—in kind or kindnass: 4. Never fall bad on "I did not ,think of it." For what ia your mind, pray ?You go to the city, with 'an' introduction to a clergyman, or other friend, which you carry -in your pocket for nine months, when its age is proclaimed by other tokens than its date. Is he likely . ..to think well of you ? "Why, he might have been in i r state's. prison since this was given. He C red nothing for up, and only comes now wh, ' he 1 Is in some trouble." Is not that the ne t al reflection' in the 'clergyman, or in . any ;man. When poor mothers want to tell the truth about their sons, but not harshly, instead of :1 "He never goes to church ; he drinks ; he is 'never home in the evenings," they say he ia"thotight leis." Do not be "thoughtless'in this sense. A young luau in a great city who doeS "not "keep SuLday," is nearly sure to be ruined. He has twelve hours with nothing to do but what the devil oilers him. His room perhaps' is dill'. So is the society of his boarding house., There are places , of. which he soon ,heara. that `are "joll y;" his conscience is torpid; and he, goes; .alas ! for the tears of sisters and the bro ken heart of a mother : he goes ' to ruin 1 : ' Be thoughtful. Why, my, dear fellow, how much is there to think of—your home lesSonsL— the examples you saw—the hopes for yon—the , holies you have had for yourself—the duties you undertook—the dangers of 'which ,you were warned—the , God =who made yon--the SaViour : who died ' for yOu—who loves you— but who, if you' spurn his love,will resent it all the more because ybu once knew bettei—the future before you—here, and the illimitable be , . yond—oh I think of all these, and, if yon will; keen as,is the competition,, ,and hard and long as the struggle may be, there , is no fear 44 your failing' in the end. , EXCELLENT INTEREST RULES, For finding the interest on dny principal for any of days. The answer in each case being in cents, separate the two right hand figures of the answer , to express it in dollars and cents : . Four per cent—Multipy by the nuniber of days, and divide by seventy-two. • Six per " cent —Multiply by the number of days, separate the right hand figure, and divide by sit. -- Eight per cent. l ---Multiply by the nurnbor of days, and diVido by - forty five. •i , • Nine per cent—Multiply by the nuinber Of days; separate the right hand figUre, and divide by four. • Ten per cent—Multiply by the ninnber days, and divide by thirty-five.. Twelve per cent —Multiply by the number of days, separate the right and figUre, and divide by three. • • . . . Fifteen per emit --Multiply by the number of days, - and divide by twenty-fonr; Eighteen, per cent—Multiply by the 'number of days; separate the right hand figure, and divide by two. Twenty per . cent: Multiply by the 'number of days, and divide by eighteen,. ' " • WHY RICHMOND WAS BURNED. Nevi light seems to be thie*nupoh,the old controversy as , to the responsibility for the par:- tial destruction of Richmond at its evacuation. by the Confederate forces 'at the doge of the war. 'lda suit pending id the Circuit 'courf,!:ti Richmond, entitled Grahain against the .12atual assurance Society of Richmond, this 'question has deen raised. The company sets tip the de. tense that the., .burning of the city Was an. act of war, and that it is not, therefOre, ;` liable to pay the amount;: which would otherwise be dile Upon its policies'. Numerous attempts biye I "liefepifOie been made to, proved that Ittchuiond was bur ned , oFder of the 9oefederate Gen. Ewell _a Confederate officer • having !already testified that he fired the city by direct' orders Peen. Ewell. Ewell has always refused to , giVe any, evidence on. this = point. But in - the case now pending the - attorneys have entered into a stipulation, which Is filed as ft part Of the record, in which this tact is admitted ; and it is further asserted that Gen. twell caused • the burning of the - city, in obedienee, to a stat • ute of the Confederate Congress: requiring the -the 011icer in command at - Richmond to •Set .lire tothe city whenever it should all into the hands of the 'Union forces.- • Heroine~ is perhaps, all. peculiar ;a word Ss any ,in our !engage° ; the two first letters of it area male, the three first fgpale, the ibur. first . a•_ brave maN and-.the whole;e brava Vpoman.' 'lt rant 'thus : jfeiher, hero, heroine,: VEGETINE Strikes at the root of disease by purifying the blood restoring the liver and kidneys to healthy action. in vigorating the nervous system. VEGETINE is not a vile,nausepus compound,whichsimplyPurges the bowels, but a safe. ple?sant remedy whlch is sure to purify the blood, and thereby restore the health. VEGETINE Is now prescribed incases_of Scrofula and- other dis eases of the blood, by many of the best physicians tow ing to its great success in curing all diseases of thib nature. VEGETINE Does not deceive invalids into , false hopes by purging and creating a fictitious appetite, but assists nature in clearing aed purifying the whole system. , leading the patient gradually to perfect health. VEGETINE Wan looked upon as en experiment for some time by some of oar best physicians, but thosemost incredu lous in regard to its merit are now its most ardent friends and supporters. • VEGETINE Says a Boston Physician, "has no equal as a blood pu rifier. Hearing of its many wonderful cares, after all other remedies had railed, I visited the laboratory and Convinced myself of its genuine merit; It is prepared from barks, roots and herbs. each of which is highly effective. and they are compounded in such a manner as to produce astonishing results." VEGETINE • • , Is acknowledged and recommended by physicians and apothecaries to ho the best purifier and cleanser of the blood yet. discovered, and thousands speak in its praise who have been restored to health. ' IS:NEEpEM. , , 1 • . Berton, Feb. 18,1871. Mr. 11. R. STEVENS :, Dear Sir—About one year since 1 folind myself in a feeble condition from general debility. VkGRTINE was strongly recommenced to me by a friend who bad been much benefited by its nee. I procured•the article, and after using several , bottles, was restored to health and discontinued its use. I feel quite confident that there is - no medicine superior to it for those complaints for which it is especially prepared, •Ind wou.d cheerful ly-re mmend it to those who leeltLat they need some thing restore them to perfect health. ' • • Respectfully yours, 'U. L. DETTINGILL. Firm of S. M. Fettingill & C0.,10 State Street Boston. MR. El. R. STEVENS ;- - Dear Sir—The two bottles of VEGETINE furnished me by your ugert, my wife has used with great benefit. For a long time she has been troubled with dizziness and costiveness;these troubles are now entirely re moved by the trre'ot VEGETINE. ' She was also troubled with dyspepsia and general de bility, and has been greatly benefited. TILOS. GILMORE, 2293 Walnut Street. FEEL MYSELF A NEW MAN. Natick, knee., June 1,1872.- MR. H. R. STEVENS : - Dear Sip—Through the advice am:reamed persuasion of Rev. E. S. Best s of this place, I have been taking VEGETINE for dyspepsia, of which . I have suffered for years. I have used only two bottles and already feel myself anew min. Respectinlly. • . Dn. J. W. CARTER. REPORT OF A. PRACTICAL` CHEMIST . - AND APOTHECARY. Boston, Jan. 1,187 L Dear Sir—This is to certify that I have sold at retail 154 X dozen (1852 bottles) of your VEGETINE since April 12. MO,• and can truly say that it has given the best, satisfaction of any temedy for 'the complainti for : which it is recommended that I ever sold. Scarcely a day passes without genie of my customers testifying to its merits on themselves or their friends• I araparfeet: ly cognizant of several cases of Scrofulous Tumors be ing cured by Vegetino alone in this vicinity. Very respectfully yours, AI GILMAN, 468 Broadway. To 11. R. &WENN , Prepared by H. R.STEVENS,Boston. VEGETINE IS SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. pERSONAL PROPERTY PUBLIC SALE. Famiers and others who are about to have a Public Sale of their Farms, Stock, Farm Implements, House hold Goods, &c., .should not forget that a large number of bidders always make a snecerefnl sale 'IIIIE DEM OCRAT is a desirable advertising medium, and one good bidder at a sale more than pays the Oat of an ad vertisement in this papar, Large or small, printed on " short notice, ands at•VEItY ...OW PRICES. Parties calling at this oflice when they come into town,and leaving their order, can usually have their bills printed by the time they are ready to go home. Bills pht, up in the. hotels of our, Borough. Ofr All orders by mail addressed HAWLEY & CRUSER, Montrose, Pa.. Will receive _ promPt attention. Handbills can be sent to any Post Office in the country. ALUABLE REAL ESTATE FOR SA.LE. The unders!gned. offers, upon reasonable , terraid, a fine fann to - t ' AUBURN .TOWNSHIP, about 'IX miles from the 4 'Corners. containing if& acres, with good buildings and' orchard upon it and all improved.. For particubus _enquire of LYMAN BLAKESLBE, . . , Foster. Susquehanna County, Pa. WM, 8.-LINABERRY /4urn 4 ' Corne . r ‘ s, Susquehanna County:'PA. . Assignees of Jas. D. Linaberry. Jan.lo,4BTltf. „ A DIALNISTRATOR'S NOTICE. In 31- the est of Martha M. Vance late or Liberty twp. doe'd. Letteri of Administration in the said estate having been granted to the undersigned ail persons 6w ing,s,i.id estate, are requested to make immediate pay ment. and all persons having claims against said estate are requested to present them without delay. D, A. 'NORDEN, Administrator. 4w6 Jan. 24,1877. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. In the estate of- 0. P. Washburn, late of Liberty, Letters of Admintstration in the said estate having been granted to the undersigned.all persons ow in said estate are, :Attested - to make immediate pay« ment, and all persons having claims' against said estate are r,:quesi.ed to present them withoutdelay. D. A. W ORDEN . Administrator,. De Bonis Non. Jan. 24, 1877. • ,4esr6 VXECUTOR'S NOTlOE.—Whereas, • Letters testamentary to the estate ot-Rufes Smith late of Franklin, twp. dee'd, having been granted to the undersigned. all persons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment, and aU per son hexing chinas against the same, are requestea to preeent them without delay. , W. C. SIIITH, Executor. 4w6. ' 314. 24, isr. VALUABLE EARN FOR BALE. • The subscriber offers WS farm for sale, in 811-, ver Leke, containing 200 acres: and as Ono a &lin' or stock farts an_ there in the county—tmsurpassed fertility and productiveness of soil either for grate. or as. Good buildings and - line' fruit- Call on ornd thOs - ' • H. 11. VIDTNICR. or - AUL 17, —5.532 $ W. H.•COOPBR Montrose Pa Cincinnati, Not. 26,1872. -AT HAND BILLS, “AVERTIgE• FACTS TO SUCCEED.” DRY GOODS, "CLOTHING; BOOTS .AND SHOES; HATS AND OAPS, NOTIONS, &A GEO. L. : , --jZ..N.ITEeIIIyI'S.,. i.q1,04:_,..0)-.4;;:,'T.,6,-.-rii-, _ We buy , for CASH only—and take adiantage of the. market whenever it can be done—caber in large or ernall.lote. . Our whole,store 'is filled : Fith...PARGAINS bti;iiioe We', always want them,'and have first opportunity to seoure . such. NEW .GOODS - , EVERY DAY. WPriota Lower ;fan at any . Binghainton Store. "Uniterataud We do not :my at LO t. LESS." "WE MEAN. WHAT WE. SAY." [ln If tick Block] Great Beiidc No ii. 29, 1876. D issoLuTioN OF PARTNERSHIP. • The co-partnership heretofore existing under the fine name of Guttenberg, Roienbaum & Co., Montrose; Pa.. Is this daY dissolved by mutual consent. All accounts, due .bills, notes, judge. ments, contracts, &c. ' or any obligation, due said firm, or contracted witiksaid fimt,at their former place of business at . Montrose, Susquehanna county, Pa., are assigned to M. S. Dessauer, and will have to be paid to him, who is authorized to receipt or cancel the same. All claims against said firm of Guttenberg, Rosenbauq & Co., Montrose, Pa., are assumed and'\ will be paid by Said bl. b. Dessauer. . • Montrose, February Ist, 1177. 4 GUTTE . NBERG; Montrose, Pa., will continue, the business as heretofore. "Thanking, the public for past liberal favors, he hopes by - strict attention to business ' and the wants of trade, to rctain the pat ronage and confidence of the public placed in him as managing partner of the lat firm. 'Retaining all former bnsiness advantages E he hopes to be_ able to please and satisfy the trading public. Montrose, February 14,1877: WE ARE ~SELLING . , • OVERCOATS,. IN ,;AT.,14 STYLES, BUSINESS SUITS, FINE :DIAGONAL, (Dress Suite,} DRESS GO. DS, LADIES' CLOAKS,- MEN'S AND ;BOYS'' BOOTS AND SHOES, of all kinds, a,;%.1)1E5, MISSES AND CHILDREN'S .1 FINE and', COARSE .SHOES, • I • 'RUBBER BOOTS • • 'AND . , SHOES'of all kinds • ' 4 MEN'S and BOYS' HATS and CAPS, • , BUFFALO -ROBES; LAP ROBES, HORSE BLANKETS, At bottom prices, "Binghamton not excepted.* - $, Nov. 8,1876. • WHOLESALE DEALER IN. • • BRONZE LAMPS; OPAL LAMPS, ALL GLASS LAMPS, HAND LAMPS, BURNERS, WICKS, SHADES, SHADE HOLDERS, !cc., &c. .OEItY: - .. - SitYtE:ioP::= -- FLINTssIINII. COMMONINNEVE. r ai:Nx) was.riALIVIVZILID - Prices , Guaranteed as Lois as any .Froitss iii,Eknaliern, Now York. Address by.nall Promptii Attended To. BEST JOB PitiNTIOTO We are ao y addiUg . lnetv material I to our Ofilee' , and Wlt tour Larga Stook of 408.'TEPE and , FOUR Printiag`Prennee'wellofy Competition Both in Yrice and qualityioithei im= Plaki Black or.Colorcir Work. OHOICE F.RITITS AND VEGETA:- 1y BUIS AT c- ; • , , „ • VIE WAD, OP , iriViOATION, PEACHES, ORaGES, TALONS, PEARS, PINEAPPLES; PLUMS, QUINCES, ONIONS, TOMA TOES, APPLES, OAB • ' BA GE% ;BANANAS, • , CA.NTELOPES, GRAPES, SWEET _=:. Parkrogs, WHOATIE BE4RIES,, 444 All* 104 m Prjcivt by 4.2.1314'LARD* NOW" AsCleilll:l44, Tug LARGEST STOCK. LIT TIRE COINTY M. 1. ...551j.'. - -_TZP.WIISISI/.11.73EXti, . :A:LSM,INER, E.INGH.AWITON; SPECIAL' INDUCEMENTS Siichits ' • `,.' ~-AT-- M. GUTTENBERG, L, ROSENBA.UM, , :. Comprising the , JOSEPH WITTENBER, o I rmer firm o f M. EISMAN, L. HOLZHEIMER, Ciluttenberg.t enbaum & Co. MRS. R. WITTENBER9, i . • M. S. DESSAUER; j , SUCCESSOR TO _4,.05-E . Nl;l•A: l lcim - _...4 . - . . -. 0 : 4 - ;, WEEKS, MET.IttrISH & CO. ALSO, , M./kIiUrA,c`TUREI.I.!, CORRECTION , . . . .Ramor.bas it thathavlng , besot elected County Treas urer for thetuthing three year I am . to discontinue tut Insurance Canines. Said _RUMOR , is UNTRUE, an without foundation, and while thanking you for kind• news; and upprociation of good Insurance in the past. I ask a continuance of your ps,tronage, promising that all brininess entrusted to me shall be promiptly attended to. My Companlesare all sound and reliable, as all can tes tify Who have met with Wesel' du:ing the past ten pearl at my Agency. Read the List North British and Mercant ile, Capital. $10,000,000 Queens London, _ 4 g 2 . 000,0 Ohl Franklin, PhiladelAhia, Agents, 3,509,000 Old Continfttai, N. Y„ 6 ! nearly , 8,000,0C' 3 Old Phoenix :of Har tford.: " 2,000,000 Old Hanover, N..Y., . 6 64 1,600,001 Old Fanners, York; .1 1.000,030 slso represent ttie ivieleArorig Mutest Lire Inv rocs of over 40 years standing:and assets over $30.000,000. Aleo,theltasouie Dititnel Benefit AssOdstion of Penn. sylvaniso "L , OrEletati Accidental POIIO7 sovering ail accidents, in the Hartford ',Aeztdent co. Policies wriltell from Miedo to one year. Only'23 out* for a WOO Polley. Please eallur aead watt, when you take a triP VeY7 loll P,ectrP ll 7. - • - — IIIINRY 0. TYLER. **PAW- GEO.. L. LLVHEIM. CsDESSAUER. Dfarch 31,1875. AT. TnEynizsT RATES ~ . A. S. 111.1ri1 a. HAVIZT CRIIKIER.