*tar 4* littostatitim litatuttir Sy Rozinal WHITE :vr=zatromi PUBLICK SALES. PUBLIC S) A. 1.8. TN pursuance of an Order of the Orphans' 21 - Court of Adams county, will be exposed to sale, by publick vendue or outcry. on the premises, on Saturday the 24th of Septem ber next, at 12 o'clock, 31. as part of the real estate of JOHN COWNOVER, dec'd. Tract of Patented Land, situate in Mountpleasant township, Adams county, adjoining lands of John Hornberger, Abraham Spangler, George Wolf*, the heirs of Cornelius Lott and others, contain. ing 160 ACRES, or thereabouts, with a ONE-STORY LOG HOUSE, a wrier failing Spring of good wa- "" ter near the door, a STABLE, an ORCDARD, a large quantity of MEADOW, and about 20 Acres of WOOD-LAND. lamTo be sold on the terms of one third of the purchase money to be paid on the Ist of April next, and the residue in three equal annual payments, An undisputable title will be given. WILLIAM 'COWNOVER, Administrator of John Cownovor, deed. By the Court, James R. Thompson, Clerk. August 29. 1830. is-22 - PUBLIC S • WILL be sold at publick sale,on Satyr day the 24th of September next on the premises, at 1 o'clock, P. M., A PARM, Situate in Latimore township, Adams coun ty, Pa., adjoining lands of Wm. F. Bonner, Nicholas Wierman, Geo. Myers, Sen., and others, containing about 112 Acres. THE IMPROVEMENTS ARE A Two•Szonv LOG HOUSE, with a KITCHEN attached--a 'new LOG BARN, SPRINo•HousE, a SPRING of excellent water near the house; 1::71.: an ORCHARD, a large propor tion of good MEADOW, with a suf- ficient quantity of TIMBER-LAND. The above property is in good order, and will be sold as the Estate of JACOB HERSHEY. - KY'Terms made known on the day o sale, and attendance given by GEO. DEA RbORFF, Z Assignees GEO. ROBINE'rrE, S is-'l2 29, 1836. PUBLIC SALE. WILL be exposed to publick sale on Saturday the Bth of October meat, on the premises, at .l o'clock r. M. k FIRM, Late the Estate of SA X% LaTsnAw,dec'd. situate in Menallen township, Adams coun ty, Pa„ containing 160 Acres, more or less—about 20 Acres in excellent TIMBER, and about 25 Acres of good MEADOW. THE IMPROVEMENTS ARE, A GOOD TWO-STORY STONE HOUSE, .LO7- I • rr with a Loo KITCHEN at- ono) LLTI I i. tached; a well of good water at the door, a Lou BARN, and a thriving YOUNG OR CHARD. -AL9O A TANNERY in complete order, with a sufficiency of wa ter; a TWO•STORY TENANT •••i MO , HOUSE, es e ! - wan a LARGE LOG BANIi BARN This property adjoins Joseph Dull, Simoi Becker and others. -ALSO a Tract ot Wool-Lund, Containing 6 Acres, more or less, situate one mile west of Whitestown. Any person wishing to purchase the pro. pony before the day of Sale, can call on either of the Executors. Terms of Sale wit be made known by SA M'L SLOTHOW ER, t, ra. JOHN DULL, Jr. E.c August 29, 1836. OZilf the above property is not sold on B ald day, it will be rented to the highest bidder. A VALUABLE FARM FOR SALE. T HE subscriber will sell at private sale, Chat finely situated FA ItM, belongi ng to the heirs of STEPHEN HENDRICKH, deceits. ed, situate in McMillen township, Adams county, on Conowago, 6 miles from Gettys. burgh,containing 150 or 60 Acresooljoin ing lands of Wm. Galbreath, Henry Bender: and others. The improvements are a huge TW 0 STORY 14"' 4- , HOUSE , IR, • • a ro • (weather-boarded) and STONE BACK BUILD ING; and LARGE BRICK BARN, and an ex cellent ORCHARD; a good well of water, and one spring on the place. The land is of a good quality and under good fence--containing a sufficiency ofgood MEApOW and about 40 Acres, of WOOD LAND. For Terms, apply to the subscriber living on the premises. JOEL HENDRICKS, for himself and the other Heirs. August 22, 1836. tf*-21 SCOTT% ILUSTGWOILISX OINTMENT FOlt the cure of Ringworm, there is said to be nothing equal to this Ointment—ma ny having been cured by its use. For sale at the Drug Store of Dr. J. GILBERT, PUBLICK NOTICES, &c. '' Te, ttaxer s Wanted. PROPOSALS will be received until the 17th of September next, for SEVEN TEACHERS, (Male and Female) %yell qual ified and satisfactorily recommended, to take charge of the PUBLIC SCHOOLS in Cumberland township. Proposals to be handed to the Secretary or President (Mr. Geo. Trostle,) on the above day. DANIEL WELDY, Secretary Board School Directors ofCumborland tp. August 2tl, 1830. tm-22 ALUMNI Pennsylvania College. illpHE Annual Meeting of the Alumni So ciety of this institution will be held in the College Edifice on Tuesday the 13th of September next, at 2 o'clock, r. K. All the members are requested to attend. On the evening of the same day, at 7 o'- clock, P. M. an ADDRESS will be delivered by Mr. WILLIAM H. one of its mem bers,in the German Church. All the friends of Literature are invited to attend. C. F. STOEVER. Gettysburgh, Aug. 29, 1830. tm-22 Register's Notices. Notice •is hereby Given, TO all Legatees and others concerned that the Administration Accounts of the deceased persons herein mentioned,will be presented to the Orphans' Court for con firmation and allowance, on Tuesday the 27th day of September next— The . Account of Samuel S. M'Creary, Administrator de bonis non of Andrew Noel, deceased. The Account of John Martin and John Leach, Administrators of Peter Miller, de ceased. The Account of David VVitherow, Execu tor of Nancy Shepherd, dec'd. The Account of Abraham Chronister, Executor of John Chronister, deceased. The Account of Isaac Baugher and Fred erick Baugher, Executors of Frederick ' Baugher, dec'd. The Account of Andrew Brough. and A• braham Trestle, Executors of Sophia Brough, dec'd. The Account of John Wolford, Adminis trator of John Albert, dec'd. The Account of Wm. U. Wright, Exec utor of the Estate of Sanal B. Wright, deed. The Account of Daniel Bowel sex,Execu tor of David Leppo, dec'd. The Account ofDaniel Bowersox,EXecu• tor of Adam Unger, dec'd. The Account of Daniel Burkhart, Ad ministrator of John P. Clark, dec'd. The Account of Conrad Keeladver, Ex ecutor of the Estate of Lawrence Ohler,de'• ceased. The Account of Joseph Sneeringer, jr. and Joseph Shenfelter, Executors of the Estate of John Shenfelter, dec'd. The Account of John B. M'Pherson, one of the Executors of Samuel Sloan, dec'd. The Account of Geo. Wilson,Executor of Thos. Baldwin, dec'd. The Account of Charles F. Keener, one of the Executors of Andrew Wray, dec'd. The Account of Charles F. Keener, one of the Executors ofJames W ray, dec'd. who was one of the Executors of Andrew Wray, dec'd. The Account of Joseph Sneeringer and Joseph Shenfelter, Executors ofJohnShen felter who was one of the Executors of Henry W ill, dec'd. The Account of Conrad- Keefauver and Samuel B. Epley, Administrators of Peter Epley, dec'd. The Account of George Smyser, one of the Executors of Samuel Sloan, dec'd. The Account of Henry Brinkerhoff, Esq. Executor of David Demeree, dec'd. The Account of Wm. Duttera, Adminis trator of the Estate of Leonard Riffle, dec'd. The Further Account of Jacob Arndt, Esq. and Elizabeth Harmin, Administrators of the Estate of Joseph Harmin, dec'd. The Account of Jaynes Cunningham,Esq. and Jacob Myers, Administrator of the Estate of Michael Bruner, dec'd. The Account of Quintin Armstrong, Ex. ecutor of the Estate of Isaac Armstrong, deceased. Thu Account of M ichael C. Clarkson,Ad. ministrator of Margaret M'Conaughy,dec'd. -ALSO The Guardianship account of David Dear dorff; Guardian of Eliza M. Mark. JAS. A. THOM PSON, Register. Register's Office,Gettys burg, Aug. 29,1836. NOTICE. THE subscriber being duly appointed one of the Trustees of DAVID ECKERT, (formerly of Gettysburgh,) and wishing to have the business brought to a clo.e, at, an early day as possible, would earnestly call upon all persons who stand indebted either by note, or book account, to call upon the subscriber residing ;n Gettysburgh, and die. charge the claims that may be found against them, as longer indulgence cannot nor will not be given. SAMUEL. S. FOANEY. August 29, 1830. 3t-22 ROBERT F. McOON.A.I7OBIr, ATTORNEY AT LAW. O FFICE in York Street, next door to the Public Offices, in the room lately occupied by John L. Fuller, Esq. Gettysburg, April 18, 1836 "I WISH NO OTHER HERALD, NO OTHER SPEAKER OF MT LIVING ACTIONS, TO KEEP MINE HONOR FROM CORRIIFTION."--SHAE3 arkturtwzrazrovitat,, !Rao, Givaboarbanre araabulaicatzaram tz,) auch likt expedition, I pass over unnoticed, 'lave only that these holy ware originated the establishment of the "holy Inquisition," as it was most errone ously styled—the germ of mischief,—die greatest abomination of all abominations,—a living monu ment of human indiscretion and criminal weak. MM. In addition to these causes, the exorbitant corruption alba entire system of the christian re. ligion, was another cause which contributed to hasten on this gloomy period. The then nominal christians, (I say nominal—because they retained only the form, in part, and apparently hadlost nearly all the power and substance of godliness) were engaged in perpetual broils and logomachies. This last cause of itself:together with the general u.atm (eaLILLaliviED. -"With sweetest flower's cnrich'd, From various gardens cull'd with care." FROM THE . TIOOA COUNTY PH NIX LET ME DIE. BY MARY EMILY JACKSON. LET me die—mother, let me die! ' There i• grief upon my brow, And the head thou didst nurse in my infant hours Is sick and fevered now, Lift high the curtains' hanging fold And let the free air in, I would go e'er the breath of the world has come To mark this brow with sin. Let me die, mother, let me die! Earth has no home for me— For sorrow bath haunted my wayward steps From the bowie of infancy; It has been but a weary time since first My bark to the waves was hurled, Yet deep, full deep has my spirit felt The scores of the angry world! " Let me die, mother, let me— I would linger with thee still, But my young heart pules for that better laud, Where I may not know of ill. Take far from me that cup of wine. With its fleshings deep and high— Let the warm wind's breath come in once more, Then, mother, let we die. I'VeUsboro', Pa. 1336. oa2aaLlF2alo FOR THE OETTYSDURGH STAR AND BANNER. THE DARN AGES. THE lives of other men should be regarded by us as light-houses to guide our life-bark whilst floating down the stream of time, that in avoiding the rockssofSylla,the gulph of Charybdis may not escape our vigilance; that, when good is clea:ly perceived, it may be earnestly pursued; and when evil is distinctly discerned, it may bo boldly and uncompromisingly resisted. All who have ac quired an acquaintance with history must have learned in what a deplorable condition mankind were during what has been commonly, and what may, with great propriety, be emphatically, called the dark ages. This period, strickly speaking, extended from the fifth century, when Rome was vanquished by the Goths, to the fifteenth century when Constantinople fell a prey to the arms of the cruel and merciless Turks: thus, making in toto,according to the computation of reputable his. torians, a duration of about one thousand years. Lei us notice some of tho causes- which contr buted most to bring upon mankind this universe night of ignorance and barbarism. Europe hav ing been overrun by hosts of barbarous tribes from the North, called by the comprehensive appella tion of Scandinavians, it was natural that Ignor ance should gain a prevalence in all the countries and states that fell a prey to their all-conquering arms. Those tribes were illiterate in the highest degree, and in every sense of the term,rude; more. over, they wore turbulent and possessedof a war like disposition.- Thoy pompously adorned their gods with martial robes and implements of war; and,we are told,that "even the web of future events, woven by their three Parcae, was manufactured of strings of human entrails, the shuttles being formed of arrows dipped in gore, and the weights of the sculls of gasping warriors." These hordes of barbarians not only lived m all the barbarity'of savage life, but generically entertained a spirit re pugnant to science and polite literature, as well as to the fine and mechanic arts. Some of the countries in the southern part of Asia, Arabia. Persia, and particularly that part of Arabia called Felix, had already made considerable advances in science and literature and In some of the fine arts. It is here that the art of poetry was first cultivated —and that, too, with unexampled success. But eso golden days soon vanish—sullen ignorance displays her colors—the Muse ceases to restrain the boisterous passions of the human breast and melt the soul in tender sympathy; and to use the language of her own inspiration, "the rising prayer And rapturous song are heard no longer there, Save perhaps where some mosque profane may rise, And with unhallowed praise insult the skies, Spread an Impostor's guilty fame abroad, And join the name of Mahomet with God." When the great arch impostor entered the are. no of action, ho introduced a novel eystern often. gionovhich, at this favorable juncture, spread like some moral contagion. Ho converted, or rather endeavoured to convort, poets, orators and literary characters of evory grade and order into warriors, (for this is the true spirit of his religion,) in order to gratify the designs of his unholy ambition.-- The Saracens, who embraced the Mohammedan system, promulgated and acted out, & adopted as their motto, that "to fight for the faith is an act of obedience to God;" and accordingly, the shameful depredations and bloody havoc; which they ea. crilegiously committed they distinguished by the contradictions title of "holy wars." To the mar. tial and demoniac spirit of this sect,cloaked under the falsely assumbd garb of religion, must, to the eternal disgrace of Mohammedanism, be ascribed the destruction of the Alexandrian Library, Another cause, which exerted a powerful egen. cy in bringing about the sad state ofaffairs which we aro now considering, was the crusades—a war professedly undertaken,commenced and executed for the purpoL a of rescuing Palestine out of the hands of infidels. The almost incredible number of lives lost by both parties, and all the other la. mentableconsaquencesattending this unchristian. confusion or confounding of the language of eve ry civilized nation in the world, was sufficient to stay thO proud march of science and learning.— These aro some of tho causes that exerted their influence in producing this unhuppy state of at tain., and in enveloping the human intellect in the darkness of ignorance and superstition. It is true, there were others; but those that have been mentioned, it is more than presumable, wore the chief. Thea was the mind left without the lamp of reasozi and the instruction ofrovolution as beacon. light/0o direct its course, to its own misguidance. and cinsequent aberrations from the path of rec titude; A. when "the king of terrors" throws his cold icy arms around the unscrooned victim, the blood congeals in the veins, the vital current la stupped,and the soul, submissively cosigned to the fate of mortality, quits her comfortless abode and cour s that long, untraversed and eternal road; so sy re the fair and fragrant flowers of expanding soie e withered and carried away by the first Ga . c blast that swept over the proud and vaunt • od ih t istress orthe world. Knowledgo ur intolli. ..... game, that brilliant luminary, which, a rhort time before, had stre . amed and burned and cast' afar its dazzling rays, must now bo extinguished —that star, too, the last fond hope of expiring lib erty, must nutv sot in lowering night. The arts of meehanism,us well as the fino arts, ceased to bo cultivated to any considorable extent. The pencil lost its magic, and music Its transport. ing sound and melting melody. No longer did men write books, orators speak .pooches, and yo. eta • burn what they call the midnight taper, to have, when the original was dust, a name." No longer did "Poetic fancy Scatter from her pictured urn. Thoughts that breathe and words that burn." Ah! what lover of learning, what candid ingui. rer after truth, or what admirer of unsullied virtue can road over the history that gives the details of the events and the condition of men and things during the dark or middle ages, and not feel a sort of seriousness mingled with disgust pervade his bosom, and unpleasant emotions excited in his mind. What depravity of morals! what a perversion of intellectual powers! what a sad deterioration in point of mental worth! what a retrocession in virtue! what signal and striking exemplifications of human imbecil.ty! It may be worthy of rematk, that scarcely any age or clime of the world has been so unprolific as not to produce some talented and remarkable men; accordingly we find that oven in the mid dle ages there lived some ofthe brightest geniuses. But their number was indeed "few and far be lawn." Whilst all of us admit tho truth of Mr. Addi son's remark, that "Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body;" and whilst we attest our belief in the sentiment, that "Learning elevates the mind; and renders man A being still nobler than God made him;" we repudiate ignorance as the ever-sptinging source of error, superstition, , and blood-thirsty fanaticism As the body requires to be continually fed with aliment for the sustainanco of animal life, so must the craving mind be constantly fed with useful knowledge; or instead of advancing in its march up the steep ascent to the temple of wisdom, it will degenerate, and retrograde. While I vituperate the character and conduct of the man, I admire the genius which prompted a Byron to exclaim Where is the mind of fancy so devoid, Of taste and sentiment so dull and cold, As not to feel the magic force Of Genius! VEIISI Elail?1/401340SIV0 FROM THE NEW-YORK MIRROR HOME AT LAST. A shivering child one winter's night, (The snow was deep, and cold the blast,) Hugging her ragged mother tight, "Mother!" exclaimed, "we're home at last"' Aud as she spoke, poor little one, A ruinous hut she stood before, Whence, ever since the morning sun, They strayed—to beg from door to door. Ye're home at last! Sad home is this-- All lore without, all cold within; The adder here might lurk and hiss, Her poisonous web the Spider spin— But there's no fire to warm, nor light; And crevices are yawning wide, Through which the storm, this freezing night, May lay you stiffened side by side! And yet this wayward child had been By many a gorgeous house—and past Where mirth and music cheer the scene, Nor envies—for she's home at last! Thus may the heart be trained below To love the cot wherein was cast Its fate of poverty or woe, Like her's who cried—" We're home at last!" Jan Schalkenls three Welshes. A DUTCH LEGEND. AT a small fishing village in Dutch Flan ders, thole is still shown the site of a hut, which was an object of much attention whilst it stood, on account ofa singular legend that relates to its first inhabitant, a kind-hearted fellow, who depended on his boat for subsis tence, and his own happy disposition for cheerfulness.during every hardship and pri vation. Thus the story goes: One dark and stormy night in winter, as Jan Schalken was sitting with his good-na tured buxom wire by the fire, he was awak ed from a transient doze by a knocking at the door of his hut. He started up, drew back the bolt, and a stranger entered. He was a tall man, but little could be distin guished either of his face or 'figure, as he wore a large dark cloak, which he had con trived to pull over his head after the fashion of a cowl. "1 am a poor traveller (said the stranger,) and want a night's lodging. Will you grant it?" "Aye, to be sure, (replied Schalken,) but I am afraid your cheer will be but sorry. Had you come sooner you might have fared better. Sit down,howev er, and eat of what is left." The traveller took him at his word, and in a short time afterwards retired to his humble sleeping place. In the morning as he was about to depart, he advanced towards Schalken, and giving him his hand, thus addressed him: "It is needless for you, my good friend, to know who I am; but of this be assured, that I can and will be grateful; for when the rich and the powerful turned me last night from their inhospitable-gates, you welcomed me as man ahJuld welcome man, and looked with an eye of pity on the desolate traveller in the storm. I grant you three wishes.— Be they what they may, those wishes shall be gratified." Now Schalken did not cer taint', put much faith in these promises, but still he thought it the safest plan to make trial of them; and accordingly, began to con sider how he should fix his wishis. Jan was a man who had few or no ambitious views; and was contented with the way of life in which he had been brought up. In fact. he was so well satisfied with his situa tion, that he had not the least inclination to lose a single day of his laborious existence; but, on the contrary, bad a very sincere wish to add a few years to those which he was destined to live. This gave rise to wish the first. "Let my wife and myself live (lie said) filly years longer than nature has designed:". "It shall be done," cried the stranger. Whilst Schalken was puzzling his brain for a second wish, ho bethought him that a pear-tree, which was in his little garden, had been despoiled of its fruit, to the no small detriment of the said tree, and grievousdisappointment of its owner. 'Tor my second wish, grant that whoever climbs my pear-tree shall not have power to leave it until my permission be given." This was also assented to. Sehalken was a sober man, and liked to sit down and chat with his wife of an evening; but she was a bustling body, and often jumped up in the midst ofa conversation that she had only heard ten or twelve times, to scrub the table or sot their clay platters in order.— Nothing disturbed him so much as this, and he was determined, if possible, to prevent a recurrence of the nuisance. With this ob. ject in view, he approached close to the stranger, and in a low whisper told him his third and last wish: that whoever sat it a particular chair in has hut, should not be able to move out of it until it should please him so to order. This wish was agreed to by the traveller, who, after many greetings,de parted on his way. Years passed on, and his last two wishes had been fully gratified by often detaining thieves in his tree, and his wife on her chair. The time was ap proaching . when the promise of longevity would be falsifiedor made manifest. It hap. pened that the birth-days of the fisherman and his wife were the same. They were sitting together on the evening of the day that made him 79 years and Mietje 73 years of age,when the moon that was shining thro' the window of the hut seemed suddenly to be extinguished, and the stars rushed down the dark clouds and lay glaring on the sur• face of the ocean, over which was spread an unnatural calmness, although the skies tip peered to be mastered by the winds, and were heaving onward, with their mighty waves of cloud. Birds dropped dead from the boughs, and the foliage of the trees turn ed to a pale red. All seemed to prognosti cate the approach of Death: an 4 in a few minutes afterwards sure enough he came.— He was, however, very different from all that the worthy couple had heard or fancied of him. He was certainly rather thin, and had very little colour. - but he was well dress ed, and his deportment was that of a gentle. man. Bowing very politely to the ancient pair, he told them he merely came to give notice that by right they should have belong ed to him on that day, but a fifty years' re spite was granted,and when that period had expired, he should visit them again. He then walked away, and the moon, and the CONDORCET. stars, and the waters, assumed their natural appearance. For the next fifty years every thing passed on as quietly as before; but as the time drew nigh for the appointed advent of Death, Jan be c ame thoughtful, and he fel no pleasure at the idea of the anticipated vis it. The day arrived, and Death came, pre ceded by the same horrors as on the former occasion. "Well, good folks, you now can have no objection to accompany me; for as- suredly you have hitherto been highly priv ileged, and have lived long enough." The old dame wept and clung feebly to her hus band, as if she feared they were to be divid. ed after passing away from the earth on which they had dwelt so long and so happily together. Poor Schalken also looked very downcast,and moved after Death but slowly. As they passed by Jan's garden, ho turned to take a last look at it, when a sudden tho't struck him. He called to Death and said, "Sir, allow me to propose something to you. Our, journey is a long one, and we have no provisions; I am too infirm, or I would climb yonder pear-tree, and take a stock of its best fruit with us; you are active and oblig ing, and will, I am sure, Sir, get it for us." Death, with great condescension, complied, and ascending the tree, gathered a great number of pears, which lie threw down to old Schalken and his wife. At length he determined upon descending, but to his Sur prim and apparent consternation, discovered that he was immoveable; nor would Jan al low him to leave the tree until he had given them a promise of living another balf coati. ry. They jogged on in the old way for fifty years more, and Death came to the day.— He was by no means so polite as he had for merly been, for the trick that Schalken had put upon him offended his dignity and hurt his pride not a little. "Come, Jan," said he, "you used me scurvily the other day, [Death thinks but very little of fifty years!] and 1 am now determined to lose no time-- come." Jan was sitting at his table,budily employ. ed in writing, when Death _entered. He raised his head sorrowfully, and the pen rembled in his hand as he thus addressed him, "I confess that my former conduct to. [VOL. 7--PTO. 23. wards you merits blame, but I }tile done with such knaveries now, and hove learnt to know that life is of little worth, and that I have seen enough of it.. Still, before !quit this world, I should like to do all the good. I 'ten. and was efigaged when you arrived in making a will, that a poor lad, who hasibedta always kind to us, may receive this hnt and' my boat. Suffer me but to fiuish what.l have begun, and I shall cheerfully follow Wherever you may lead. Pray sit down, in a few minutes my task will .be Death, thus appealed' to, could iefuse - no longer, and seated himself in a chair, from which ho found it as difficult to; rise as he had formerly to descend from the pear4ree: His liberation was bought at.the expeneepf an additional fifty years, at the end olvirhich period; and exactly on their birthydaY, Jan Schalkea. and his -wife died 'quietly' in their bed, alid.the salt Water flowed freely in the little village, in which, they bad lived long enough to be considered the hither and mo ther of all its inhabitants. Cheapening GoOds. There are many.persons so niggardly, so tenacious of the uttermost farthing,;or so habituated to look for 'bargains in , A t ir , ery ng thi they buy, thatif they hive btil-ti'eux- penny purchase to make, they, will travel from one end of the city to the.other cheap ening the article, and lose more time and wear out more shoe-leather than 'twenty such purchasPs are 'worth. Indeed, some persons are such prodigious sticklers at a bargain, that if the price ofan article be but a cent, they will want if for hallo. one; and if it be but half a cent, they will`want it for two millsand a half. One of these persons, who may be called a cheapener of goods par , excpllence, other day, being in want of a yard of tape, called at a store and asked the price. "One cent," was the reply. "One cent!" echoed . the bargainer— "seems to me that's rather high. Wont you take less?" •. • - "Less than a cent fora yard of tape?" "Yes, seems to me you might take half a cent. You'll make quite profit enough then." "Well take it at your own price; but you must make the chanae."' "That I can do, as r. l keep a few halfcerp about moon purpose for such occasions, that I paid a penny apiece for. But I'M in hopes on the whole I can get the tap a little low er. . is that the very lowest You'll take for "I'll take any price that you can make the even change for." • "There's the plague On't now—l haint got nothing less than a half cent piece. do wish, when they're quining eagles,' and dollars, and sich-like, theyX.quilie•a_few quarter cent pieces, mill pieces, and so downwards. Howsomever, I'll inquire at the other stores, and ill . cant, get the tape no cheaper, I'll come back and trade with you, as you seem to be a civil-like sort ofa fellow." So saying, the bargainer went about to twenty or thirty other stores, cheapening the yard of tape; until, being satisfied he could do no better, he came back to the first resolved to complete his purchase. "Well, Mister," said he, as he came in, puffing and blowing like a porpoise, "I've been most all over the city, and find you're the most reasonable dealer of any on'etri.— I'll take the yard of tape now, 4 11 a quarter of a cent, if you'll change me sixpence." "That's more than I haigained for. T told you I'd take any price that you'd make the even change for." "Yes, but consider now, you get 'a cue.' tomer by being so kind of clever and oblig ing. If you'll change me a sixpence, I'll take the tape, and perhaps trade with you ellen." "Thank you, sir"—with a profound bow, and beginning to measure the tape. • "Give me as wide as any you've got,and let me have good measure.". "It shall be done,sir"—with another bow. The tape is cut off, and wrapped up, when the purchaser, beginning to fumble for his money, exclaims— van,now,l \ don't much like to change off silver for copper. Wont you let 'me have the tape for nothing? 'Tis'nt no great thing for you to lose—and then you'll get all my custom, you see." "Any way to accommodate";—bowing more profoundly than ever. "Thank you sir," said the customer, tak ing his tape and departing, well satisfied with his bargain--'•there aint a more rea sonable dealer in New York than you, and whatever I want in your line, I'll be sure to come here fbr."--N. Y. Transcript. • -..•mss«-- PROVERBIAL POLITENESS OF THE MILT. TARY.—An officer in India, who had been just raised from the ranks for hie gallantry, being invited to the Governor's table, was invited by the Governor's lady, as a marked compliment, to take wine. "No ma'am, I thank you," replied the unsophisticated hero, "I never takes wine; but I'm a tiger at beer!" Here's a fellow to the above: "Go and buy me a Parrot," said a gentle man to his servant. An owl was brought "That thing can't talk," exclaimed . the master. "No, Sir; but he is the devil for thinking ' '". vas the reply.—Saturday News. . . • CHANGE OF BRAIITY.-•"HMI on earth.:' did you happen to be so ugly?" imbed person of a very remarkable looking friond . of his. "I, ugly?" was the reply. "Ilion - I that am ugly. I was bora beautiful; but > : my nurse swapped me when I was* little baby, for the child ofa friend of hem, WitON, mother didn't fancy him over handsome:
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