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Tho undersigned having lately purhn?ed the BCEtfLER HOCSE " property, has already com rMMced such alterations and improvements as will •reader this kid and popular House pqunl, if not supe ,rUr. to any Hotel in the City of Harrisburg. A continuance of the public patronage is refpect frlly loik'ited. rEo BOLTOH* WALL'S HOTEL, 'r 4rE i- )U£>E, Tlll.*etlfclikieiit h >* roc. ally leAi ro„** llorsE, ELSIKA, N Y. PROPRIETOR. The MEANS HOTEL, 1-otie ofthe LARGEST aid ARKANO Eli House* in the et>untry—lt ie ftted up in the most mo '.©rn and improved style, aid no pains are spared to .make it a pleasant and ijpeeable stopping-place for all, . , n , , . . . CLARHEjKEEi'I Ef,3t fcO., HASTFACWM A!TF> WVOLKSALB DKALRRS IX LADIES', MISSES' & GENTS' ASP ■ATS, CAPS, tuns; STRAW GOODS, PARASOLS AND UMBRELLAS. , ' BtFFALO AND FANCY kOBES, BROADWAY, COHSAR Of LKOSARIL BTREKT, ! . i' B. Y. CLARK, J A. Itntt f • i' •) •> S " '""MrOILMAN, ■MTISt. .•-cat. . _ I M OILMAN, has permanently located in T.onk • Borough, and reapectfully ter.derhi profeeeional services,to the citixens of this placeand •■rreupiing ceuntry. ALL WORK WARRANTED, TO QIYE SATIT >!•*. •ee ejy atW'e Law Office near the Post f rlfft Jjhmj. A TWILIGHT WOOING It's an awful thing to lose a friend by marriage. Ta see hhn drop into your room occasionally,-always with a paper parcel under his ami suggestive of lace and ribbons, instead of having him all to yourself, day in and day out. To know that, the blue breathed evening cigar will inevitably be abbreviated by '* Oh, my wife will be anxious it I'm not at home by eight o'clock. ' To tell him abont the prttv girl wijh the pink bonnet that you met in the singe yesterday, and be generally con fidential,-and then find vour tongue sudden ly palsied by the conviction that he will tell his wife every word you have bum saying There is no use talking about the thing—its actually indescribable. Do you suppose I did'nt feel jealous wben Jack Marclyffe got married ? Do vou suppose the green-eyed mouster did ! not inspire me with all sorts of unauiiabie feelings toward the little brown-eyed beau tv who had cut hie out completely ? It took some, time to reconcile rue to the new state of things, , But when I found out th&t she did not object to my sitting on. the balcony and speaking with Jack—nay, that she ac tually lighted onr Wgars tcr us, and then brought her little footstool and sat down by the side of us—that she laughed l.ke q peal of merry bells at our bachelor chan ces and mishaps, and that she liked to liaye me come to dinner on Sundays,—then I thought Jack's wife wasn't so had an iiisti sution after all. And one day, wlit-n sin brought out her tiny wicker work basket, ! and stood on tip-toe to sew the loose but— ! tons on my coat 1 capitulated in good ear ; nest. I " Jack," I, '' your wife is ; exactly "at: angel, tor 1 don't believe in an | g Is about the bouse —but the sweetest ; little woman f ever set my eyes upon. — You won't be jealous, old fellew?" " Jealous —no !" '. said Jack, stretching his neck so as to look after the light dis appearing figure. "I 11 tell you what, Ar i tluir, you ought to -ee Mary's sister, i Sure enough, about two weeks afterward !as I came in at tie sweet-brier sliadowcd I gate, and paused to jook at the crimson j clover pinks just opening their fringed j petals, the silver tones of another voice i sounded in the low-eaved piazza, and 1- ! most before I knew it Jack Mareh flfe's I arm was through mine, and ho was intro j duciog me to a duplicate-edition of h s j wife—a scarlet lipped, arch-eved girl, in 1 white tnus'in, with a'coral bracelet on her 1 arm. From that moment I wa gone—l did | not know whether I sat in Jack's velvet | easy chair, or on top of th rail fi-r.ee. T j said, M no thank you," when Mrs. Jack * asked me how 1 was. I stirred my cup of chockolate with a penknife, and tried to put the table cloth iu mv pocket, instead of a handkerchief, and finally disgraced myptdf irrevocably by putting the match i box in the cradle, and depositing the baby on the mantlepiece. "Good gracious, Mr. Arden !" exclaim ed M.drclyffe, "what's the matter?" "I bcli.-ve —I think l've got a cold in my head?" falteied I, looking at the time straight at Agnes, who was playing with her coral bracelet, and pretending. not to laugh. .-jj " Jack," said I, that evening as he went out to the gate with me, " there's no use trying to mince matters'—if I can't win Miss Agne-, I slut 11 take arsenic." Jack squeezed mv hand; he had been through the mill himself. " Do you think she cares for me, Jack j I asked, plaintively, about a month after ward. '• I declare, honestly, I've riie greats est mind in the world to jump off the pier, or bang myself peac-a'.lv. Now what dees she mean hv fiiriiiig with that red whiskered Carew? Oh, Jack, do be mer ciful—tell rae what you really think." Poor M tclvffi* I If was about the thir tieth time he had been asked the same question. -"Why,how can I tell, Arthur? You might as well ask m" to read the ITirid-o alpha bet as to decipher the mysteries of a wo man's heart. Why dqn'.t you ask her yourself?' . "Meask her!" and the cold chill? ran through me like ice. "Jack, I dare not, for nty life 1" Jack burst into a laugh. " Well, I can't givtj any better advice," said he ; " only remember, my boy, •* faint \ heart never won fair lady.' " lie turned awav, and left me standing in the amber lbi-di pf thq crimson cluster of cinnamon roses, and the tall coronal of gleaming lillies. Up in the rosy sky the new moon hung, a r curved thread of silver, and -oOQi! bnght star bore its lance of pearl agaifyst the radiant hori zon. I looked silently up at the fair at- 1 trfopher—down atthe blooming garden of-flowers, thinking, in the midst of my perplexity,-how like the blue heavens was Agnes's eyes, and marveling that the pink roses were so near akin to the dainty color that upoq her silk soft cheek. /voi't s.. I. i Beside the low French window that opened upon the piazza floor, I saw the bow of muslin drapery through the ira grant gloom—lt was where Mrs. Mar clyffe was wont to sit with her baby. I caught the refrain of the low, delicious cradle song, warbled in the tiny .sleeper.'s ear. *A bright thought struck me —I would take woman's wit into my counsel. "Marv," gaid I, sitting down on the pj- *:r■■ © . „ "TO SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAN'S RIGHT. "—Thomas Jefferson. | ■ l | 3 | TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1866. azza'step. and leaning my head against the rose-wreathed pillar jut opposite the win dow, "I wish you'd tell me what to do—, I'm desperately in love with your sister Agnes, and—don't laugh now —I have not the courage to tell her so." I patwed atl instant, and then went on: "I love her better than life. No, that is not saying enough. I would die to malae her happy. Oh, Mary can't voft give a word ot encouragement ? T dare not tell Iter my lore, because my heart sinks so in dread from the one little word, 'No! 1 Will she speak it, do you think?" There was ao answer. "Mary will sljc break my heart ?" I spoke with trembling accents, fresh from th Jeepest recesses of my soul —the very air seemed to sob arounl me as I ceased. One instant of silence, in the soft pulsing fragrance t. i 'LShc will not —she never will! j The voice was that of .Agues Day ; } 1 held the coy, coquettish trembler to my heart. Lfc has been brimming with sweets ev )er since. Many a golden moment has ! paused to sprinkle its chalice of joy around 1 my footsteps, as it passed into the world of j the by-gone; but in all my existence, i there never came a second t rae like that, j I had been pleading; to Agnes herself; 1 ami Mary stood -oniling in the background, i the spice of roguery gleaming in 1 her hazel eyes, throng.l a quiver of joyous j tear®. i "So I'm realiy to have a brother-in-law, | she said, putting aside the roses and rom i ing fdrward, just as the wicket fastening | clicked under Jack's hand, an ! the fiery i spark of his cigar flashed through the pur j pie gloaming, slowly traveling up the gar j den walk. I ''Hailo ?" §aiu, Man t ? Why, let me see, vou own a foot of laud.in the j- vvorfd." | "Foot of land is it ?" she cried wit'; a hwnf laugh. "Oh what a hand \e be after a joke. Why, sure, I've never a peony, t let aline a foot of land." '"Your mother is dead !" "God rest he sowl, yis," replied Man* •with a touch of genuine pathos. "The Heavcps be her bed." "Your brother is still a hard case, 1 sup pose? 'Ye may well say that. Its noth ing but drink, drink, and hate his wife— the poor craykure." "Yhou have to pay your sister's hoard ?" "Sure, the hit of a cravture !. and she's a good little girl, is Jinny, tviliin' to do what ever 1 axes lifer. I don't grudge the mon rey that goes for that.'' "And you havn't niany fashionable dress.es, either ? ■% "Fash'nnble, is it ? O yis, I put a bit gf Italy ho tied n me skirt, and me calico , town spreads as big as the h'ddies. But j bin ye say tjq; I have not got but two j gowns to.pie hack, two shoes 4io me fut, and que bonnet, barrin' me quid hud.". / "You haven't any .lover /" * ~.. "Oft be ofl'yvid yc ! catch Mary Mabv ney vvid a lover these days, whin the hard t times is cum.' "What ou earth have von to make von happy ? A drunken brother, a po I foa: rt ttsi ' n .-/> • 1 "*"■■■. r.*' .-•• • all you say, rather than aay. all yon think. •■• wu Dftal febnestly. UOSTON IX TIIO (H.OI'.X II HI., A hundred years ago, on account of po litical disturbance, certain municipal iegu- : lations were made, conducive to the bet 1 . ler order of the town. Among them was] an order to '-arrest all negroes found out i after dark without a lantc n." Soon after ! it happened that an old colored man was picked up, the record says, "prowling . abont in tottl darkness." When exam ined bv the magistrate tho following day,: be re pi i 14! to the query, "Ar you guilty?" ! "No sah ! 1 has de lantern," holding up before the astonished court an old one with : with neither oil nor candle in it. He was 1 discharged, and the law amended so as to read, a lantern with a raurf/rf Old Tony, not long after, was anested a second time on the same complaint, and again pleaded "not guilty," producing a : 1 intern with a oundle. The wick, liowev- 1 er, had te-ver been dbcobdred by a flame;"! The shrewd datkey was again discharged ! with a reprimand, and the law was stil! 1 again amended sd as to require "a lantern .with a li'jhtcd candle." Old Tony never ! troubled the watch any more. He was j overheard saying, "Massa got too much j light on de subjec'." An English traveller, coming over abuul this time to sec what kind of a place these qulooies might be. says of Boston : "The buildings, like their women, are neat I and handsome, and their streets, like the j Icaits of their men, are |ved with peb—j bles. They have four churches built with j clapboards and shihgjle, and-supplied with four ministers—©one a scholar, one a gen tF man, one a dundc and one a clown.— The captain of a ship inet his wife ou the street, after a long voyage, and kissed her for which he was fined ten shillings.— What happiness, thought I, do we enjoy in Okl England, where we can not only khs-, our own wives, but other men's with out danger of penalty." Arieuius Ward Insures; His Life, 1 kum to the kopclusion lately that life was so onsartain, that the only way for me to stand a fair chance with oilier folks, was to git in) life ensured, arid so T called ou ( the agent of "Garden Angel Insurance.' Company," and answered the following questions which were put.to me from the top uv a pair uv gold specks, by a ' sleak little man, with as fat an old belly on him as eny mdn ever bad : Ist. Are you mail or fern ail? If so state liow long have you been so. 2d. Are you subject to fits, and if so do you have more than pnri at a, time? Bt. What are your fighting weight ? 4th. Did you ever have any ancestors, ■ and if so. how. much? sth. VYhh't is your legal opjnion of the ( oonstitutionalitv of the It/ commandments. GLII. DU \OB ever have any night marcs? 7th. Are voij married or single, or are you a batchelar? Bth. Du you belive in a future state ! If you du, state it. 9th. AVhat are your sentiments abont a rtt'sb on rats in a bed —can it be did successfully ? 10t!u Have you over committed suicide, and if so, haw did it s. cm to affect you ? After answering the above questions like a man in the coiifirmity,"tfie sleek little fat ! old rftnn. wrtb goh'spe'eks on,Vr?d I war? ort* birred for life, arwl Would 're tn ft in SO for a term uvhyears. ?' 1 thanked birr and smilrid one nv my most pensive smiles./ Refinement is indicated, to ext.-nt, by a delicate appreciation of the comparative merits of perfumes ; apd it is a proof .if the critical taste,of the Ameri can public in toilet luxuries, that (hey have adopted as the standard article of its class, l'halon's"NighLClooming Cereus." Sold everywhere. t " 4*V - : N Dr- Loring, a member of the Massachu setts House -of lie robentatives from Sa lem, the gentleman who nominated Mr, Breckinridge for the Presidency, in the Baltimore Convention, in l&til), has offered a series ol resolutions condemning President Johnson and " whitewashing" Mr. Sum ner The Doctor is a suitable oirson to treat so" grave'.'a subject. Boston Post Z-tT TIKI following is the way to judge the weatlier by the sky : lite colors of the sky at different times afford wonderfully good guidance. Not only' does jt at sun set presage fair weather,- Vut - ikero are' other tints which -peak with clearness and accuracy A bright yellow in the evening indicates wltjd ; a pale yellu>f wrf; .q:iiep-. try] gray color constituLee a sign in the evening—an . unfavorable in the mortiiug. The clouds are full of meaning 111 themselves. Jf they are .soft,, undefined and feathery, the >v eat hup \yili be fiueif the edges are hard, sharp and definate, it will befoilL Generally speaking, any deep unusual hues wyfij j'ain, while tliq. more quiet and delicate tints law peak fail* weather. Sun pie as these maxims are the British Boam of Trade.has thought fif. tq. publish them for the use qf, the sea-faring '■IENI„ 7JFR./. HI . A gentleman, talking to anotlier on'the subject of marriage, made the following observation : "'I first saw my wife in a stojrm ; carried her to a ball in a storm ; courted her in a storm ; married her in. storm all her life ; thank Heaven I hurried her in pleasanj weather," ~ VYOKK A BLESSING.—Many young men have l'htbers that are well off, and they have no ambition, and no particular pros pect. They scorn a trade. A man that is too well born' for a trade, is very well born t'yr a gaHuw ! Thousands of parents w'io by industry have gained a position which enables them to destroy their chil dren, take the surest means of accompli h ing their destruction, by encouraging them in idleness, and allowing them to grow up with feelings of contempt for labor. No child pught to be reared, to feel that it is disgraceful to work at whatever nmntiel labor" best suits his talents, no matter if his father is a minister, or a lawyer, or • sena tor, or the president of tho Unified States. Marty young men are looking" forward up on life with the general idea that they arc going to enjoy themselves. They are provided with needful physical comforts and they mean to Le very happy. They have no trade. They slight their profes sion. Their whole governing principle iu life is. to shirk anything like work ; and they expect to have enjoyment without in dustry. But 110 iiiuu iu this world will he happy who violates the fundamental law ot industry. You must work it* you are going to be a liappy man. I know you think it is hard ; but if God had meant .h it you shovld be[a butterfly, you would have'boon born a but'.erfly. And as you were not born a moth or a miller, bat a man, you must accept the- conditions of vc ur m anhood. And it there is one prin ciple that is more important at the very thre-liold of life tha another, it is that tu tv is bom to icvrk. At the beginning ( of the history of the race, it may have been a curse that doomed man to work-; but, | thank God, it has been changed to a bless ing now. And tho baptism of work is a I baptism of ble.-d;:g. I Lis NAME. —The-vivid sketch of edito rial character on the I'acitfc sule from Ar-, (emus Ward, who savs:'"My arrival at Virginia Citv was .signalized by the follow ing incident: I had no sooner achieved my room in the garret of the International Hotel, whuii 1 was calk-d upon by an in toxicated yian, who said he was an editor. Knowing how fate it Was for an editor to be under the blighting influence of cither spirituous or malt liquors, 1 received this statement doubtfully. But I said, "-What name V "Wait," he said, and went out.— I heard lain pacing up and down the hall outside. In teu minutes he returned, and said./TYpper !" I'epper was' indeed his .mm . lie had been out to see if he could renumber it ; and he was so flushed with Iris -access, that he repeated it over sever- 1 a! tim.es, and then, with a short laugh, he went awav. I had often heard of a man being so drunk that he didn't know what 1 town he lived itq.bnt here was a man so hideously inobiisp.qdjnat he -didn't know what his na.tne was. I saw 00 more of iiira but 1 heard from him, for hej published a notice, cf my lecture iu which he said I had a dissipated air !" —# ARTEMUS WARD, in the prospectus of his Irving Hall entertainment, tempts the public to come and see him with the fol lowing inducements r The fostivitics will' be commenced by tbe pianist, a gentleman who used to board in the same street'with Gottschnlk. The man who kept the boarding house remem | bers him distrnetly. - The overture will consist of a rnedlv of airs, including the touching new ballads,"Dear Sister, is there any Pie in the Mouse?" "_Mv Gentle Fa ther, have you any Fine Cut about vou ?" * Mother, is the batfilfe o'er, and is it safe tor me to come home from Canada?" and "(by request ot several families who have heard it) "Tramp/ Tramp. Tramp, the Boys are Munching," While the en raptured ear drinks in this sweet music. [we pay our pianist nine dollars a week attd find him,] tho eye will bo entranced ,by the magnificent green baize covering of the Panorama. This green baize cost 40 cents a yard at Stewart's store. It was bought in defence of the present populari ty -of ri'Hie Wearing of the Green." We shall keep up with the time if we spend the last dollar our fiiends have got. 'The world is governed by three boxes— cartridge-box, the ballot-box and the band box.--l?d , „ It is our opinion that .the latter governs all. - i a ■> ■ 1 .' ' • • • ' * c -X. i We would respectfully suggest. to the yotingf"people whom we sawgazing at the stars, one evening, not long since, that midnight js not quite the appropriate time for* such proceedings, . ... . f _u—...—■ i ; "llusbapd, I wish you would buy me isomo pretty foatherS " "Indeed, my dear little wife, ypu look belter without them." "o,h, no,', said she 'Coaxingly, "you always eall me'vpur little bird, and how does a bird look without feathers?" "Why, dyessed, to be sure, said he. ( . nWe bave all heard of asking for bn'ad ,a?itl receiving, a stoue ; but a young gentle man may be considered as still worse treat ed, when he asks for a young lady't hand and gets her,father's foot. I I'.ll ■ ' o , ' . • 1 tit i"— —n —T- * ■fiik . , "What will you tajte first in Canada ! asked'a quizzing Yankee of a faithful Fin ian. % ?Hot whisky punch," was the prompt reply TT 4 - TERMS, 82,00 PBH j f ODDS AN# £KDS. Industry must thrive. Wit —Wisdom masquerading. Lett**—• eowversatkni with the' p£ What suit" wears not at the pocket ?—A lawsuit. The A rtUt's AdieU to his Pictures;—* You be hanged ! , When is snow like truth ?—When' it does cot lie. How to Ruin your Constitution.—Keep tinkering at it. A dogma is defined as an opinion* laid down with a snarl. Organ-grinders' Device. —One good turn deserves another. Do right: fear not ; virtue and honesty' will be rewarded. Album—A drawing-room, man trap set by young ladies. Woman—An essay on grace, in one vol ume, elegantly bound. Oentlemon— A manual of good manners bound in cloth. Old Maid—A quiver full of arrows with no bow (bean)attached. Thft friends of labor are generally those j who like it in others. An eloquent speaker is like a river— ( greatest at the mouth. To many a poor fellow the bone of con— ! tent ion is his rib. The greatest organ in the world—The • o rgan of speech in woman. When is a wave like an array doctor ? When it is a surain\ '•Chalking the lamp-post' is the term for bribery in Philapelphia. ! Why are the girls of Missouri so sweet? i Because they are Mo. lasses. A prudent head is watchful of the tongue I that vibrates in the mouth of it. The quickest way to make eye-water is to run your nose against a lamp post' Self-conceit is about as uncomfortable a seat as a man can have for a steady thing. Death comes to a good man to relieve hi in ; it comes to a bad one to relieve 60- ciety. Every bear should be taught to dattfee, for what is the use of bruin without bops I When a man is saddled with a bad wife there is sure to he stir-ups iu the family. Why are pretty women like barking dogs ? Because they show their teeth and don't bite. * Thought at a Wedding-breakfast.—Thtf bridal reigr. (bridle rein) begins with a bii in the mouth - People who arc always sighing and groaning should be sent to a lunatic asylum as moan-maniacs. An editor fflicted with hand-organs thinks the rinderpest cannot be compared with the grimlerpest. Never tread on the tail of a cat, or tell a woman she is not handsome, nnless you are fond of music. A MisNoMr.n.—Calling a certain netbef garment, .between five and six feet in di ameter a^'/wf/y-coat." If you wish to be a saint, instruct your childien ; because all the good they do will be imputed to yOu. Bachelor—a dandy-lion rnn to seed in a garden of beautiful flowers. The in grafted crab-tree of humanity. Old Snarl says that love is a eorabina of disease—an affection of the heart, and an inflamation of the brain, 1 Mrs. .Tones declares that the only way a traveler can avoid being in railroad collis sions,now-a-days is to take the other train. Fashionable yonng lady detaching her hair before retiring : "What dreams may/ eotne when we have shuffled off this mortal (oil r All nonsense—Getting up with Jarks in the morning, when you've been up on m" lark all night. What says our fast young g men ?. . There is an old saying, and a true one that there is nrt telling what a man is worth until he is dead And his funeral expenses paid. Will the yonng gents wlio had the en counter with the lately, favor us with a short account of the affair for publi cation. ♦'Toby, what did the Israelites do when * they crossed the Red Sea ?" "I don't know ma'am, but I guess they dried themselves." A charity scholar under examination on the Psalms, beirg asked, "What is the 1 pestilence that walketh in darkness ?" re plied, "Please, sir, bed-bngs." The young lady who lost her veil, while returning from Dr. Gleason's lecture, one evening, last week, will do well to her tho old adage of "More baste, lean* Speed," " VOL. 5 NO. S9 i * v i■_ 7 * *