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ATTORNEY AND 'COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
Coudersport. - Pa., will attend the several
Courts in Potter anti M'Kean Counties. All
tusiaess entrusted in hie care s will receive
.prompt attention. Office on Main st.., oppo-
Me the Court House. 10:1
F. W. KNOX,
irroRKE7 - - A'r LAW, Coudersport. Ps., will
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Se adjoining, Counties. 10:1
ARTHUR a. OLMSTED, ,
ITTORSEY ,d; COUNSE[LOR AT LAW,
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tetruted to his care, with promptues and
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IrTOII:CRY AT LAW. Coudersport, Pa.. 171':i
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.11'1011NEY AT LAW. Well:4boro', Tioga Co.
• PA.. Will atteud the Courts in Potter ant
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w. K. KING,
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J. °LUSTED -S D KELLY.
QLMSTED & KELLY,
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4, - .. ER IN STOVES, TIN & SHEET IRON
' I 4E, Xola st., - nearly opposite the Court
}louse. Coudersport, P. Tin and Sheet
Ina are tr.ade to order, in good style, on
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COUDEITSPORT HOTEL,
r. CILASSMIItE, Proprietor, Corner of
Lit and Second ,Street:, Coudersport,' Pot
ter co., Pa. 9:44
ALLEGANY HOUSE,
EA IL 31 MILLS, proprietor, Coleshnrg
Putter Co., Pa., sevea miles north of Cou
41Wirt, ou tlte. WellaTillo Road. 2:44
OLEAN HOUSE,
J A 3 IES . HUMPHREY, Proprietor, corner of
Non and North St's, Olean,N. Y. liorA
C/ rriage runs to and from all the Passenger
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But some of us have hearts and minds 7
So much the worse for us and,,kou;
For grant we seek a better life, -
What can we do?
1 LO
We can not build and sail your ships.
Or drive your engines: we are weak,
And ignorant of the tricks of Trade;
To think, And speak,
Or write some earnest, stammering words,
?lone is ours. and that you hate;
So forced within our , e!res again,
IN sigh and wait.•
Ali! who can tell the hitter hours,
The dreary days that women ;pool? .
Their thoughts unshii.red, their lives un
known,
Without a friend!
Without a friend ? And what is he,
Who, like a shadow:day trzci night,
Follows the woman he prefers?
Lives in her sight?
Her lover, he: a pliant mart.
Devoted to her every whim ;
He vows to die for her. _o she
Must live for h:ro
We should be very grateful. Sir,
That. when you've nothing else to do, -,
You waste your idle hours on
So kind of you!
Profuse is studied compliments, •
Your manners, !our clothes are fine,
Though both, nt times, are somewhat strong
Of smoke and wine !
Whilt . enn we hope to know of you?
Or yon of ug? We act oar parts
We love iu jest: it is the play .
Of hands. not hearts I
You grant my bit tP i r worth , . nre true
01 1.1'11.-1-3, nut a you and me:
Your love steady as a star;
But we shall see.
You - icay'you love me: have you thought
How much these little words contains?
Alas l n world of happiness,
And worlds of pain
• You know. or should. your miture now t
Its needs end passions. Can Ibe
What you desire me ? Do you find
Your all in me?
You do. But have you thought that r
• May have, my -.ay :: and r.neies. too?
You love me but have you thought
If I love vou ? ' • .
But think again. You know me not:
I. ton, may be a bultertly,
A costly parlor doll. on show
For yOu-to buy!
You trust me wholly? One word more.
You see me young: they call me fair
I think I have a pleasant face, ."
And pretty hair!
E. A. JONES
But, by-and-by, mnftee will fadt;;-
It must with time; it may with care
What say you to a wrinkled wife,
With thin, gray hair?
You care not, you: in youth, or age, •
Your heart is mine. while life endures
Is't so! Then, Arthur, here's my hand,
Idv heart is yours.
eimitt
Not long since, I had occasion to visit
one of our courts, and while conversing
wi h a legal friend, I heard tlfe name of
John Anderson called. "There is a hard
case," remarked my friend. I looked up
on the man in the prisoner's dock. ' He
was standing up, and he pleaded gefilty
to the crime of theft. He was a tall wan,
but bent and infirm, though not old. • His
garb was torn, spare and filthy ; . .his, face
all bloatied and bloodshut; his hair mat..
I ted with dirt; and bis-bent forth quiver
ed with delirium. Certainly I never saw
a more pitiable object. Surely that wan
was not born a villain. I moved from'
my place to obtain a fairer view of his
face. He saw my movements and turn- ,
ed his head. Ile gazed upon the a single
instant, and then covering his face with
his bands, 'he sank powerless into his seat,
' " Good God 1" 'I involuntarily .ejaciilat.
ed, starting forward. "Will—'
I had half spoken his name, wher(he
quickly raised his head, and cast upan me
a look of such imploring agony, that my
Debotzd fo
for February
POEM'.
Id you lay
e at my feet
it my heart,
sweet.
Life stand wide;
o woman 1 She
t beside.
herein you move . ;
or coarse, or fine;
;iste your gold
d wine !
ke that too !)
four blank walls
t light is there?
.ow fulls ?;
vel out,
,d till it ends:
col -girl notes,
our friends.
notes,
the tortured keys
end we
please
.end our flowers
sickly bloom!),
n our glove,
the room.
DOWN MILL.
A PICTURE OF LIFE
i'l'hloiOes of -57i-tp qq() tile; 3lisseli)4los . ert go.
tongue' was at once tied. Then he cov
ered his face with his bands.' asked my
legal companion if the prisoner had coun
sel. 116 said no. I told hiui to do all in
his- power for the- poor fcllow,s benefit,
and I would pay him. 'He promiSed, and
I left: Leonid not remain and . see the
man tried. Tears came into my eyes as
I gazed upon him, and it was net until I
had gained the street and Hulked some
distance that I could breathe freely.
John Anderson Alas! be was asham
ed to be known as his mother's son. 'That
was not his name, but you shall know nu
other. I will call him-by the name that
stands on the records of the ceurr,
• John Anderson was my_ school mate,
and it' as not many years ago—not over
twenty, that We. left our academy togeth
er—he to return to the home of his wealthy
parents, and Ito sit down in the dingy
sanctum of a newspaper office for a few
Years, and,
then wander. across the (mean.
I Ras gone some four years, and when •I
returned I found John a married man.—
His father was dead, and bad left John a
princely Fortuna. ,
" Alt C—," faid he to me, as he met
me•at.the railroad station, "you shall see
what a bird I have.eaged. My Ellen is
a perfect lark—a robin, a very princess of
all bircds that ever looked beautiful or sung
sweetly:'
He was an enthusiast, but not mistak
en, for I found his wife all he had said,
simpry omitting the poetry. , She was
truly one of the most bountiful women I
ever saw. And so good, too, so loyin: ,
and so kind. • Aye, she so loved John,
that she really loved all his friends. What
a lucky follow to find such a wife. And
what a lucky woman to find such a hus
band.; for John Anderson wa. as hand
some as she was. Straight, tall, manly,
and a face as faultlessly noble and beau
tiful as ever an artist copied. And he
was .good, too, and kind, generous and
true.
spent a week with them; and was hap
py all the time. John's imother lived
with them, a fine old lady as ever lived,
and making herself constani joy and pride
in boasting of her son, "dailirg buy," as
she, called him.. I gave her an account
of tny adventures by sea and laud in for
eign climes, and she kissed me when I
left: She said she" kisse&tne because I
loved her darling.
-I did not see John again for four years.
I arrived at his house late in the evening.
Lie was not at - home ; 'but ;his wife and'
/Luther were there to receive tee; and two ,
curly headed buys were at play about El
ko's. chair. I knew at once they were
my friend's children. Everything seemed
pfeasant until the little 011C3 were in bed
and asleep,' and happy, and then I could
plainly see that Ellen was troubled. She
tried to hide it, but a face so used to the
sunshine cy,uld not wear sorrow concealtid
At length John Caine. flits face was
flushed, and his eyes luokedinflaincd. lie
grasped my hand with a hearty laugh—
called the "old fellow, old dog," and I
must come and live with him, and many
other extravagant things. His wife tried
to hide her tears, while his mother shook
her head and said—
" sow his wild oat's soon. My
darling can never he.a bad man "
God 12:rant it," said I to myself.; and
I welt knew that the s..tne prayer was on
Ellen's lips.
It was late when I retired, andl might
not have dune so even then had not John
fallen asleep ih his chair.
Om the following naorning I walked
out with my friend. I told him I was
sorry to ace him as I saw him the night,
before.
- "Oh," Said lie, "that Was nothing.—
Only a little party. We had a glorious
time. I only wish you liqd been there."
At first I thought I would say no more,
but was it.not my duty? I I knew his na
ture better than lie did himself. His ap
petite and pleasures bounded his own vis
. inns,' I knew • how kind- and gentle be
--was—alas ! too kind, too generous ! '
"John, could you haii,e seen Ellen's
face lastevening, you would have trem
bled. Can you awake het': unhappy i"—
fie stopped me with,
" Don't be a fooL Why should she be
unhappy?"
" Because She fears you are going down
hill ; " I' said.
• "Did she- say so?" he asked, with a
flushed face.
" No . ; I read it in her face."
"Perhaps a reflection of your own ;
thoughts," he added.
'" I . surely thought so when you came
home last night," I replied.
I can - never forget t he !look he gave me
then—so full of reproof surprise and pain.
" I forgive yoii, for I know that
Voti are my friend, but never speak to me
wain like that: I going down hill. You
know' better. That can never be. I know
my power. I know my Own wants. My
mother knows me better than Ellen does.
Ah. had that mother" been as wise as
she was loving, she would have seen that
the wild oats, which her son was sowing
Would surely grow up add ripen, only to
furnish seed for sorrowing. But she lov
ed ahnOst too slitnaldv
say; too blindly.
But I could say, nO:more. I only pray=
ed that God would guard hiin, and. we'
conversed upon other sukjects, could
spend but one day with hitu, but we prom
ised to correspond .often.,
Three years more passed, during which
John Anderson wrote to we at least once:
a month, arid sometimes 'oftener; bdt at.
the end of that time, his letters ceased
cowing, and ; I received no more for two
years, when I again found myself in his
native town. It was early in the after-:
noon when I arrived, :Mid I took dinner
at the hotel.
I had finished my.nleal,-and was lonng
mg, in front of the -hotel ; ; when I saw #.
funeral procession . Ninding its way into a ,
aistant churchyard. Tasked the laa& .
lord whose funeral, it
Mrs. Anderson's' he said, and.as he
spalieluoticed a slight di-opping of thPL
head, as 010101 it cut him to say so.
What—John AbdeNon's wife?"
Nij," be said, "it is his mother." and
as be said this he turned away; but a gen=
tleman who was near overheard our con
versation, immediately took the thine
himself.
." Our host does not seem inclined to
converse on that subject," he remarkett
with w shrna of the shoulders. Did you
know John Anderson ?"
He was any school mate in boyhood,
and my bosom friend in youth..
He led me to one side and then spoke
as follows:
"Poor John ! He was the pride of
this town two years ago. This man open
ed a hotel at that time, and sought cus
tom by giving wine suppers. John
present at the most ot them—the gayest
of the gait, and the most generous of the
party. in fact. he paid for nearly every
on of them. Then he began to ;.t.o down
hill, and he has been going down ever
since. At times •true •friends have pre
vailed upon him to stop,. but his - stops
were of short duration.. A short season
of sunshine would gleam upon his home,
and then - the night came more dark and
dreary than before.. He said he never
would pet drunk any more, yet he would
'take a glass of wine with a friend.' That
glass of wine was the gate to let in the
H o od. Six year ago he was worth sixty
thousand dollars. Yesterday he borrowed
fifty dollars to pay his mother's fun'eral
expenses ! That poor mother bore up as
lon , as she could. She saw her son—her
'darling boy' sho always called hitu—
rrour-ht home drunk many times, and
she even bore blows from hint I But she's
at rest now Her 'darling' wore her life .
away, and latonght down her gray hairs
i n sorr o w to the grave ! Oh, I hope and
trust this may reform him."
" But his wife? ",
" Her heavenly love has held her up
thus far. but she is only the shadow of
that wife . that blessed his home six years
ago."
My informant was deeply affected, and
so was I, and so I asked him no more.
During the remainder of the afternoon
I debated with Myself whether to call up
on John at all. But finally I resolved to
go, altho' I waited till after tea. I found
John and his, wife alone. They bad both
been weeping, though I could sae at, a
glance that Ellen's - face was beaming With
hope and love. But oh, she was changed
—sadly, painfully so. Thdy Were gladto
s'ee toe, and my hand was shaken warmly.
" Dear C---, don't say a Word of the
past," John urged, taking my hand a sec
ond time. "I knew you spoke the truth
to me five years ago, I was going down
hill. But I have got as tar as I can. I
stop here at the foot. Everything is gone 1
but wife. I have sworn, and - my oath.
shall be kept. Ellen and I are pink to
be happy now." - • 1
The poorfellow burst into tears. lis
wife followed sult,,,and I kept them cdm
pany. 1., could not l help crying like a child.
My God, what a sight ! The once noble ;
true man, so fallen—become a mere bridi
-on glass, the last fragment only reflecting,
i ' 1
the image It once bore, a pone suppl leant
iat the feet of hope, begging a graint oil
warmth for the hearts of himself :int.! w}fe.
1 And how I had honored and loved that i
I man„and how I loved hint still: 61, I!
' hoped, aye, more than hdped, I beliefed
he would be saved: .A.nd, as I gazed up.
on that, wife—so kiting, so trusting so
true, .so hopeful still,- and. even in the
midst of living death—J prayed more kei..
vently than ever that . God Would , hold
him up, and lead him'back to thei.topof
the hill. , '
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In the morning I. saw the child i
en;
now grown up to intelligent boys, . nd
thought they looked pale and wan,. t ey
r
smiled and"seemed happy When tbei - i l
i fa
therl kissed them. When I went away
;John took me by the hand and said, I .
"Trust mc. BelieVe Me now. : I will
be a man henceforth, while life lasts'
L A little wore than two years moro.bad
passed, when I read in a newspaper4the
death of Filen Anderson. I started; . for
the town where they had lived as soon as
possible, for I might help some sue. l, A
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n fe ii a n r d fu . l . : , !_elentitne l t bad.pass L essed my ,
'I stopped _ at the" stately hasp' wbera
they had &vett., but strangers occupied it.
t. Where'is 'Joh ni Atidersoa r" I asked.
Don' now, -Val.-sure.. fle's-.been .
gone these three tribriths. , .• His ;wife died
in the mad lacpuselast weeh." -• ' . •
"And the children ?" •••• • -.
"'Oh . ; they died-Before shedid."
-.lStaggered back.and hurried from the
place. • • •: : . .• • '
I, hardly knew which_ wart:went, but
instinct led rue -to• the-churchyard.
found four 'graves which had been- made
in three•years:' The mother, the -wife,
and , two children iirthen. • • • •
" What has done this.? I asked my
self: And a. voice answered :
"The Demon of the Wine table!" .
But thisl was not all the work. . No,
no! - The'hext:day. I.saw-,--oli God ! tilt;
far" more terrible I I, saw-him in; the
court room. But this was not the last.
I saw ray legal •friend on- the .day
theltrial. - He said John Ander
son was in prison. I hastened to see biro.
The turnkey conducted we tolls
the key turned in the huge lock—the pon
derous door swung npou its huge :hinges
with a sharp creak--and I saw a:dead
body suspended by:the neck froni.a grat
ing of the window I looked at the hor
rible face—l Could see nothing of J. An
derson there,- 'but the face. I had'seen in.
the court ilyasl sufficient to Connect the
two, and I knew that this was•all left on
- earth of huu-b had loved So well.
' And.-this Was the last of the dernon'
work ; the, list act in the terrible drataa!
Oh, fronn'the first sparkle ofthexed wifre,
it had been down, down—down until the
foot of the hill had filially been reached
When I turned away from the cell, and
once mem walked amid the flashing sa
loons- and revel halls;1 wished that my
voice had powercto thunder the life story
of which I had been a witness, into the
cars of living men
“A. Sudden Deatb.”
Of all incidents which it is the daily
duty of ajournalist to record, none so t're
fluently attracts his attention as that of
"A. Sudden Death." Other incidents
may be more frequent; assaults and bat
tery and municipal quarrels are perhaps
:oftener among, the items; but in the way
of short, prompt tragedy, of a dire event
in duodecimo, of a sensation story in six
lines, there is nothing more marked than
a sudden death.
"There's a woman just dropped dead
in the Sixth Ward "This
.morning
one of our most .respectable citizens was
found dead iu his bed." "A. gentleman,
while walking in the street, was seized
with sudden sickness and expired." One
is found at his table; papers strewed
around, a half finished: letter before him,
One, in delicate health, plunges into a
cold bath—arid - had he been' hurled into
the middle of the Atlantic and left there,
it could not have hurt him more—for an
hofir or two after: people hearing tio sound,
break open 'the door and find him killed
as• effectually by a few gallons as 'though
a few bayonets hadbeen employed. Talk
of a bombshell exploding in the midst of
a small tea party—of roaring gunpowder
and riving., tearing iron masses, blood and
smoke and shattered limbs, where au in
stant before all was tea-spoons and small
talk—why what is such a bit of-abrupt
ness, compared to steppine out of Life in
to Death ? :
. .
We are told that on New Year's day
the Emperpr af the French surprised Eu
g,euie by ,opening a door in her bed-eham
her. No wonder that, he surprised her;
fee - what. she had always supposed was
simply the entrance to a shallow closet,
revealed a beautiful roolu,l of . exquisite
oriential architecture, filled - . with thou
sands 'of costly ornaments cud gifts,. all
in the same style; all appropriate to the•
new ,rooni. : • The Emperor had observed
a great. fondness in his , wife for a•pecul=
iar• style, of art; and- gratified it in. this
manner. 'Furniture,lpictures,ornaineuts,
jewelry, 'columns and carpet's .were.all. in
her favorite "otder." • How much - a sud
den death seems like , stepping •• at,' once
from a familiar room; ; when, weJeast ex
pect it, through . an ,ixnknow.n door into a
mystic,landi into all : that is most differ
ent...-Yearful. change,- tremendous trans
ition I—..what. simile 'of Teems,, what Jig,
urn: of doors, gives •the . .. faintest ! approach
to tli.; dreetest .of all;cbanges to . which
the ertiOdlis liable-- 7 auct,this . ehange in,
the twinklinof atieye.!
... , . • '
- It has been kfayorite Cindy of philos
opherS; :fond of -educing, the. unknown
from the tinown,-that the:future life would
correspond ,to our, tastes,_and tendencies
in 04; in Ifact to return to the Imperial
anecdote—Oat an Oriental hall Would be
Lopened to ,these 'of Oriental tastes,! and
the . gled or bad choice he its own reward
or p iisliment. • All
,speoplation - 7 . ail
~t
idle.... Yet one thing is Still_ true-- - ---there
is. a tenicedoits °transition, an awful
chap c—aad all the catastrophes; plots
and - - oaderfa metos ever devis:
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. ph es
ed ininovul, poem or pliy, ihrivel up into
NMI
FQTT:'OENTEI t
'paltry peverty,' before the Marvellous ex-
perienee - of the lady or gent:email just'.
fallerr dead audit may be, just ehronielea
in the ; ,;
guratititat.
• Ibr4ePo.lter
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LetterS on Phonetics.--No:17.- 1•: -
The Beitpfits iviiichiwiNdd result froth; • .
' adopting the .1 - ?h,o4tib..Afethe#d.
lire have only to-reverie the oensuietr.
passed-upon the-ordinary spelling- to
rive: at an: estimate of themew....A.chllt --
once instructed in the_eletocntary.sounde'
and the method of conibining *tem, ,to.;
, Yether with the ; characier.4 by,whiehltheY •
are conv entionally represented, will knot?...
instantly, as soon asi he .'sepit ;a• written
symbol, what sound to*,otter, and as_
soon as he hears a Speten• -sound, . whet-
symbol he is to trace. j_ Within three : ,
months may . this knowledge be - atquired
'by a child,of ,four years, ,!or an- adult ; of
forty. The gate of knenledge,wonid he,
thrown- °Peri with both its valves:, To.
read, would be to hear; jto write would:.
be to speak. •
Other - . nations wohld bp readilyable
comprehend our language—the casiestio: .
the world Ito acquire, but 4 for its. present,
'orthography, and destined to be carried .
lover the whole globe, by , the energy of
'its speakers. 'The .Years ;now wasted .by,
learning a, dull catalegric could be saving,
A. small portion:Of the, time 79Uld,be
• pleaSantly spent at the commenceineat of ..
a child's schooling, or
,before. he goes,
school, under the care Of his mother,, in : -
acquiring: the true 'Sounds or language,.
putting - them- together, .'!and *meeting
them with the- symbUls for writing; thus_
'giving Win a practiealaequaintance Witit
analysis and sythesis, and a feeling for
s-unuetr'y y and law. also 'learn
the advantage of knowledge and.its, test; -
he will find that he knows , because , by.
lapplyinr , th e simple rules ie has learnt,:
can discover new results. He" . will
.thus be able to understand (vaguely of .
course, at first, as all child
the use ofg
taught,- 1 .--tho use of 'go,
lug to school. - Heisvill see the.value of
teacher's 'instruction, and will: yield. him'
not a blind; but an intelligent obedie nce
_:: Hence, we may look forward to Boat'
change as a national blessing, to be earn
estly striven for with heart and hand.
Mr. Editor; in lOoking averyonr - paper
I untieed,ja report of a_ tTeitehers'
eiation;" vervintetesting.
The ResCdutions.adopted I heartily sup
port. The Rusoluton - offered by Xi.- J.
Bird,!; "(.‘ Resolved; That the word
method 'fis the best Method' of • teaching
pupils to Iread,") shmild like tusay ,
few words on. lam glad it is accepted,
'and as .1 . ,)0f course"; cannot be thereat the
Red School House in Roulet," - Tastititne
the righq or privilege; to say a few words
on it. Iltake the negative of the-Rego
lution--4t -is tot the.best method of teach
ing pupile to read-- In.:one of my former
-letters I ;have. adverted to this .system, -
which is ! !also known as the i" look and.
say!' method: The teacher , points
word. and utters the soun4nd , proceeds
in this w. 4. with - every; - word, -.until
the child _recognizes iorlien shown 'again..:
lii this *ay the child learns to read-with % .-
out learning a. single elementary sound,
'as such, : Or.the• letters, which are the rep-'
resentat4 , es of sounds.• . ••• •
, . .
But this method doeS not fail to display
the System of our orthography itt..
native ugliness.. Sooner or later spelliv
must be,"studied".find.then contradictions,
absurdities, inconsistencies, - ambiguities,.
and a long train of evils present them
selves tO the learner., The test method - -;
of teaching a child to read is theOtonetif.
method. i I speak • adviSedly when I say ; it
is .the best
. nrethed a/sO of . teaching. the , . l
present 2471pAilosophicrAl, cumberisotneeod :i
difficult system._ ,The. transition .front
Phonetic. toßomanie Made. ‘.
Dr. Ston e , Of
_BostOn,, a true' philat . ,t -
thropist; institutedaniezperitnent in .or
der to qhildt the. valfre of :the, phenetie.
sysom,':of which he publiShed,thefelloW
aecdunt
Fifty children , , of froin tWeinda;halt,
to seveti. years of age, have been, *tight
to readiat a private , phonetic seheel,;by
Enima L. Lathrop, - in :the,. \\*ten...
street ch.ipcl, wheiv-persoes:inferested
are :invited to attend on any .weekday::
fro Mien to eleven O'clock only, The first'.
dais is eompoSed 'of twelve children
commenced the study Of. thephenetie
tear in September lest, (about six, ttienths .
past,) since; Which- tinto IEO I ,I*CA - eon
absent from Selieel on the average,Ahree:
tuanthsleach,in editskuenci of sickness. . :
Whets- in . the schbol,they:havii 'recelie
about- hOuiscti§tiaetion:o4ily,itiOad.'
ing and the an4lyzatiOti o of iverdsl
inainder of the tithe having beeit'deVoted:
to other exereisea,'anid'te the rest' of the
schobl..l . 'ln . September titro‘tif.;the chid=`
tired - knew - their' letters,
and could spelt"
out' a - few' easy word'; ; but the • majority '
and the Se. who are new - the . bist'sehelitia,"
conid',Mx, then read at All, and (lid., lot'
even know their lettere. - .76,141 'of di
ekildre4l, frog titree•Und-a-ltaV to, fotir:ii:,
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