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,MBERSON. BENEDICT & CO. have just
received their first supply of Fall and Winter
Goods, to which they invite the attention of their
customers_and all who wish_to_buy good and cheap_
goods. We have a hill assortment of
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Ladies and Gents Goods of, all kinds A
large lot of CHAMBERSBTJRG FACTOR Y
GOODS, for wens' wear. Also a full line of
Groceries, Notions,
Queensware, Hardware,
Carpetings, battings.
Oil Cloths,
IBoots and Shoes,
'Window Paper, 1 Nsils, &c.
We are also agents for the sale of the well known
Bowe Lock Stitch Sewing Machine. We have an
experienced Sewing Machine operator, who gives
all necessary instruction in sewing whon required.
AMBERSON, BENEDICT & CO.
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NEW STORE.
NEW GOODS! NEW GOODS!
COIN &.STONEHOUSE
WOULD respectfully inform the public - that
they have now opened at their new room,on
the southwest corner of the Diamond, in Waynes
boro', a largo and well selected stock of
Dry Goods,
Groceries,
Hardware
and Cu ery,
Iron, Steel, Nails, Coach-makers Goods of every
description, queensware, Cedarware, Shoes Car
pets, Oil Cloths, Paints, Glass, Oils, Varnish Brush
es, Fish, Salt, and all kind of Goods kept in a well
regulated ) store Our goods are all new and fresh
and hatre been bought for cash It the late decline
in prices.
We f ms that from our long experi
ence in 1 a determination to sell g« Ids
at small ;hall he able to otTer unusual
inducer( uyers who desire to save mon
ey. Please mill and see for you'rselves.
We have a large and well assorted stock of eta
de and fancy Dry Goods, embracing
Cloths, Cassimeres,
Sattinetts; Jeans, Tweeds, Cotton odes, CMrds, Den
ims, Stripes, Checks, Gingham's, Linin and Cotton
Table D;apers, Crash for Towels, Calicoes, Delains,
A Ipaccas,
FINCY DRESS GOODS ,
Trimings, Shawls, Brown and Bleached Sheotinge
and Shutings, Pickings, Linens, Flannels. White
Goods, Gloves, Hosiery and Notions. We nre re
ceiving new goods every week and will supply any
article wanted that we have not on hand in a few
days.
We pay the highest market price for all' kinds of
country produce such as Bacon, Lard, Butter, Egge
Dried Fruit, Rags, &c,
May 29,1868.
NEW GOODS! NEW GOODS!
MITE subscriber announces to his customers and
the public that he has just opened out a full
stock of new fall and winter goods, among whic h
he enumerates the following :
-tlaßaca luster,
.Striped poplin,
Mohair lustre,
Wool delains,
Hosiery,
White goods,
Shaws,
Notions,
Cloths,
Cassimeres
Domestic goods,
Carpet Matting,
Oil Cloths, lor Table and Floor
Groceries,
Queensware,
Cederware,
Glassware,
Cutlery,
&o. &o.
My assortment in every department is more corn . -
ptete-thaa-usual, and I am offering extraordioaty
inducements to tetrithesers,et the very lowest prices.
I tender my thanks to the, community for their
liberal patronage. and hope to merit a continuance
of the same.
Becon,.Lanl, Butter, Eggs and Rags taken in ex
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REMINISCENCE OF THADDE
US STEVENS•
EARLY LIFE OF THE "GREAT COMMONER:7
Snugly nestled among the mountains of
northern Vermont lies the good farming town
of Pcacham Some years since, the writer,
while passing a few months in that billy
country, with the pastor of the villiage, called
one day on an aged parisboner, who lived in
a small red house in the outskirts of the town.
It was during the war, and the wrinkled
bands of the gond woman were employed in
knitting socks for the soldiers. Of course
the conversation turned naturally upon the
affairs of the country Willie talking of the
army, the President and Congress, the name
of Stevens was mentioned. Instantly the
large, black eyes of our hostess brightened,
and she said : It was over there, on that
farm, Thaddeus Stevens was born,' and she
pointed to a gray farm house, in sight,.a mile
or more across the hills.
'You knew him, then ?' I asked.
'lndeed I did, ma'am !' was the enthusias.
tic reply. 'We used to sit on the same seat,
in the old school house down in the hollow
yonder.'
It required a little questioning to draw
from the willing and garrulous old soul, the
story of the early life of her former school
mate.
'The family were poor,' she said, 'and Mrs.
Stevens was one of those hard- working moth
ers who toil from morning till night, week
it and week out. She would have worked
her fingers to the bone that her boy might
get book learning. Thaddeus was a sickly
boy, and very lame. Folks never supposed
they'd be able to raise him. But they did !
Why, I remember him as though I had seen
him yesterday. He was still and quick like,
different from the rest of boys— and some
times they'd laugh at him, boy like, and
mimic his limping walk They didn't mean
any harm, but Thaddeus was a sensitive lit
tle fellow, and it rankled. I've always
thought perhaps that's the reason he has
never been back to the old homestead.'
'Are any of the family left here P
ed.
'No, not any near kio. The old folks died
many years ago, of course; for I'm an old
woman note,' and she stopped to heave a sigh
over the dead and buried years 'But, deary
how plain I can see that old school
house. Swath Jones, she was our teacher,
and I remember she used to go round and
tap us on the heed with her thimblcd finger
to make us sit still. 'Pears to me, to this
day, chat I can feel the dent of Senath
Jones's thimble on my head. I wonder if
Thaddeus Stevens ever remembers the old
times. JTaio't at all likely. lie's bad so
many other things to think of. I've heard
that he's got to be a great man amongst 'em
there at Washington.'
As 1 said, four years have passed - since
the story was told me, and some items of the
account have escaped my memory. But I
WAYNESBORO', FRANKLIN COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 13, 1868.
3PCI3MTICJAtILL.
AUTUMN LEAVES.
BY ELLA.
Out in the sighing forest,
rustle.'neatb our tread,
Like the half-smothered wailings
Of mourners for the dead ;
Or, like some wandering spirit,
Thr - --- Adand -
..at, sad and restless, grieves
O'er all its bright days w asted—
Moan the sad autumn leaves.
Like them our lives are changing;
n e no must fade
When pass our few brief seasons,
Of sunshine and of shade ;
And though, perhaps, our
Some home our hearts bereaves,
We're soon riO more remembere
Than withered autumn leaves
Oh, moaning leaves of Autumn !
As sad were earthly life,
Were there no gcrWitius uture
Undironed by grief ard strife,
Where heartstrings are unbroken ,
And no sad spirit grieves
Where are no faded flowers,
Or withered Ajoio"- - •
NOT THE ACED.
Forget not the aged !
_—
Young maiden. I pray ! - -
'Though thine eye is now sparkling.,
Yet time never tarries,
And thy portion may be
To stand by life's wayside
A blossomless tree.
Forgot not the aged !
Young man in thy pride !
For the sake of thy mother,
Thy sister, thy bride—
Give heed to their sorrows,
Lest thy loves be ,left,
Amid tempest and trial,
Of succor bereft.
Forget not the agad !
When sickness and woe
O'ershadow thy dwelling,
Thy spirit shall know
That our Father in mercy
Hiniself watcheth o'er
Their couch who forget not
The sick and the poor !.
liactorport clexk.t 1V" = - - a
think I shall never lose the impression of
that sad, silent boy, plodding wearily and
haltingly over those Vermont hills,—smart
ing under ridicule, and battling with pover.
ty—but full of high resolve in spite of all.
Who can tell bow much of the power which
is felt throughout the nation to-day, may
have been wrought into the character of
Thaddeus Stevens by the cruel struggle of
that early warfare ? 'The strength of the
hills,' I thought as I stood that night on the
steps of the low-farm house, and saw the sun
set behind the Green Mountains, forty miles
to the westward, while the crimson flush of
the afterglow reddened the white hills whose
pyramid peaks are sharply defined against
the sky as many miles to the east. how
may men who, a
,generatiotiheoce, are 1O
stand se giants among their kind, are to-day
concealed among these towering hills ? In
how many obscure homes a patient woman
labors, ready to coin her very life's blood
that the bo , of her pride may rise and shine,
when her own eyes are c ode', an for own
toil.hardened hands folded in their last—l
almost said their first,—long rest i'—Spring_ i
Cling Close to the Rook
A long train of cars, fourteen or fifteen,
were recently passing over the Allegheny
Mountains on their way eastward. They
-were-crowded-with-passengers. As the iron
horsesnorted and rushed on, tb , ..1- began to
descend, and needn't f'ver but t he
ble r. ,..,.,.avitution to send them down
swiftness. Just as the pasren
gers began to realize their situation, they
came to a short curve cut out of the- solid
rock, a wall of rock lying on each side
Suddenly the steam whistle screamed as if
in agony, 'Put on the brakes, put on the
brakes, but with no apparent slackening of
the cars. Every window- flew—open, -and
ever • head - thar -- •
see - what - the - dano - b er - wataird-eviiry-orre-Tose
up in their places,fearing sudden destruction.
What was the trouble 7
Just as the engine began to turn in the
curve the engineer saw a little girl and her
baby brother playing on the track. I n a
moment the oars would be upon them. The
shriek_of the whistle- startled the_httle girl,
and every one looked over that could see
them. Close to the track in upright rock
was a little niche, out of which a piece of
rook had been blasted. In an instant the
baby was thrust into this niche, and as the
cars came thundering by, the passengers,
bolding their breath, heard the clear voice
of the little sister, on the other.side of the
cars ring out, 'Cling close to the rock, John
ny, cling close to the rock And the little
creature struggled in, and put his head as
close to the corner of the rook as possible,
while the heavy cars whirled past him. And
many were the moist eyes that gazed, and a
silent tVaiksgivitig wont up to heaven.
" Pluck that beautiful flower', look at it a
long time. Become conscious that it is the
expression of a beautiful thought of some
mind. This is the magi° key that will un
lock'the reason of all nature. All the flow
ere are thoughts realized. pass from the
flowers to the trees The rounded maple,
the graceful elm, the straight poplar, th-e
-bending willow—every tree is the thought of
some mind. Pass from tree to mountains.
How mighty those realized thoughts ! Look
at the sea. What an undivided thought !
Ponder the whole earth. A world of some
creating mind. Gaze at the stare. Thoughts
line the firmament.. Now great, bow wise,
how lovely, how potent, how incomprehensi
ble the spirit whose thoughts are thus put
forth ! “The heavens declare the glory of
God, and the firmament showeth his handi
work. Day unto day uttered) speech, and
night unto night showeth knowledge. There
is no speech nor language where their voice
is not heard." lie that built all things is
God. We walk upon and in the midst of
his realized thoughts. how carefully and
lovingly toward him we should walk.
How NEAR Is HEAVEN.—Christians somo•
times look far away to Heaven; but that rest
is not far 'off. The clouds that hide their
shining worlds are thin, they are transient,
and soon will obscure no more ; the journey
may end this hour; one short step may place
the Christian in a ray of light; one dark
hour may hang upon him : but the morning
comes and shade behind it. Day,, bright,
peaceful and eternal, succeeds it. A pang
may be left for a moment, and flies away lcr
ever. A conflict, sharp and painful, may
continuo for a night, but victory, eternal vic
tory, ensue.; How soon, oh ! how soon the
Christian's cares are over, his eyes no more
suffused with tears. Near at hand is the
land of his pursuit. Hope cheers hits. Flow
glorious the object that hope embraces ! How
holy its spirit! Who can contemplate the
home that our Heavenly Father is fit ting for
His children, and not feel in his soul a thirst
for its enjoyment! Well, these delights, the
happy clime, those ever verdant plains, are
not far distant,
WITH THE TIDE —A correspondent of the
New Haven Journal contributes the follow
ing to the column's of tbat paper: 'Some
time since, I read in-one of your papers an
article in substance that a great majority of
the human species die at night, or rather be
tween the hours of midnight and ('our, A.
M., or daylight. Such', probably, is the
fact; but it did not seem to occur to the au
thor of that article that during such inter
val the tido was then ebbing at the demise
of such persons, bo its locality where it may.
Lot any person losing a relative or friend,
note the time, and such will find that eight
out of ten depart this life at ebbing or turn
of the tide, most cenerally at the first quar
ter of ebb-tide'
Slight of hand—ltefuFing an offer of mar.
Providence of God Vindicated.
DESPERATE CONFLICT DETWEE'N A TIGER
AND AN ALLIGATOR.
Capt Davenport, of the sloop Diana, in a
letter to a friend, r.lates the following dead
ly encounter in the waters of the Congo
river,
— lt - was aalm hot day, and 'Campbell, who
had made too free U9O of liquor, was bent on
going overboard; and although we used every
means to prevent him, he dashed into the
watery element. He had swam but a short
distance when an alligator spied him from
behind a rock and ado for him. Ills escape
seemed impossible. - Johnson proposed to
sohiit — tbio poor fellow to 811V,0
jaws of the monster. I would not consent to
this, and waited with horror the anticipated
tragedy.
Anxious to do what we could.to save him
or to delay the anticipated destruction, we
wed two shots at the alligator ; but the bee
-
glided over his scaly covering like hailstones
over a tiled penthouse and his progress was
iv DO Monna ingrulapa
The report of our guns and the yells of
the Llacks on board the vessel who saw the
peril of Campbell roused him to the reality
of his fearful position as be saw the voracious
monster making_for him, and with all his
strength atuLskill_he_swam-for the shore,-----,
nil now a scene is presented beyond the
power of description. On his approaching
to within a short distance of the shore among
some canes and shrubs which grew along the
banks of the stream, and his terrible_ enemy
with wide-extended jaws just ready to swal
low him up, a fierce and furious tiger with
glaring eye balls sprang from the thicket
upon him.
The desperate spring of the tiger caused
him to overleap his prey, and—he landed in
A—ti es perate-s tr ug ele-no w-ens ued—for—th e
mastery. The water was reddened with the
blood of the tiger, who was held as in a vice
by the death grip of the alligator; and while
the tiger made terrible but unavailing efforts
to tear the scaly covering of his antagonist,
found that the latter had still the advantage
in being able to keep him under the water,
by which the victory would be more easily
gained.
At last they both sank to the bottom, and,
while we saw no mare of the tiger or his ter
rible foe, we lost no time nor efforts in rea
ouing from his perilous condition.
On reaching the vessel he spoke not a
word, though his adventure had perfectly
sobered him.
From that moment Campbell was never
known to be intoxicatetror to_utter an
oath.
If ever there was a perfectly reformed
being in the universe, Campbell was the
man.
Indian Cunning.
A Mexican traveller met an Indian in the
desert; they were both on horseback. Ths
Mexican fearing that his horse, which was
none of the best, would not hold out to the
end of his journey, asked the Indian, whose
horse . was young and spirited, to exchange
with him. This the Indian refused to do.
The Mexican therefore began to quarrel with
him ; from words they proceeded to blows;
and the aggressor,
being well armed, proved
to powerful for the native. So he seized the
poor Indian's horse, and haiing mounted him
pursued his journey. The Indian closely
followed him to the nearest town and im
mediately mado complaint to a justice. The
Mexican was summoned to appear and bring
the horse with him. He, however, treated
the rightful owner of the animal as an im
poster, affirmed that the horse was his prop
erty, and be had always had him in his pos
session, and brought him up from a colt.—
There being no proof to the contrary, the
justice was about to dismiss the parties, when
the Indian cried out 'The horse is mine, and
I'll prove it !'
He took off his blanket, and with it in
stantly covered the animal's. head; then ad
dressing the justice cried I .
'Since this man affirms that he has raised
this horse from a colt, command him to tell
in which of his eyes he is blind.'
The Mexican who would not seem to hes
itate, instantly answered, 'ln the right eye.'
'He is neither blind io the right eye, nor
the left,' replied the Indian.
The justice was fullyconvinced by the ingen
ious and decisive proof, that he decreed to
the Indian his horse, and the Mexican to be
punished as a robber.
SAGACITY OF A HORSE.—The Madison,
Ohio Courier tells this story:
'An old family horse that had been run
ning at will through the streets and com
mons, lost one of his shoes yesterday, and
with the intelligence of a human being, the
old horse walked up to the blacksmith shop
where ho had been shod for the last twenty
years, and to the best of his ability asked the
blacksmith to shoo him, by raising his foot
and stamping the ground.
The smith being busy, drove him away
several times during yesterday, and thought
nothing of it. .This morning on going to the
shop, he found the old horse at the door
again ho drove him off, but tho horse came
back, and entering the shop, walked up to
the anvil, and there he raised his foot., thus
attracting the particular notice of thn smith,
who examined the foot, and finding it worn
off to the 'quick,' kindly piokod up an old
horse shoe, and fitting it on his foot, nailed
it on ; when the greatful, animal frisked his
tail by way of thanks, and . trotted off con
tentedly.
A 'Cultivator' was espied by a party of
Nashville neg roes, when one said : 'A man
can jig sit on dat ting an' ride while 'he's
plowing.' Golly,' said another, 'de molls
was too sharp to think o' dat 'fore de Diggers
was sot free.'
A Genuine Love Stoz y.
On the whole,"pleasant trains and diame
ters are not common in the oars. This opin
ion I expressed to my friend Summers the
other day.
'I was escorting home the lovely Charlotte
D- to whom I was at The time quite
devoted. Charlotte could ocareely find room
to. spread her crinoline and arrange her vol
uminous flounces. I stood up near her there
being no vacant seat.
'After a few minutes, there came in a poor
woman, who deposited a basket of clothes on
the first platforqi, and hold in her arms a
small child, while a little girl hun , b to her
dress. She looked tired and weary, but there
was no vacant seat • to be sure, Charlotte
might have condensed her flounces, but she
did not Beside her, however, sat it very
lovely and elegant young'woman, who seemed
by moving down closer to others, to make
space enough for the stranger between her
self and Miss D ----. At last she sue
eeed-el, and with - the sweetest blush — - -
saw, she invited the poor woman to be seated.
"harlot te ll— drew her dra I er_ _araund_
her and blushed too, but it was not a pretty
blush at all, and she looked annoyed at" the
proximity of the•now comer, who was, how•
ever, cleanly and decently, though thinly
clad.
'The unknown 'tidy drew the little - girl
...
u pa. er_ •—cv-rappe — d er—ve yet—ma n—'
tle around the half-clad form, and put her
muff over the half-frozen little blue hands.
'So great was the crowd that I alone seemed
to observe. The child shivered--the keen
wind-from-the-door blew - on - her - unprotooted
neck. I saw the young lady. quietly draw
from under her cloak a little woolen shawl,
which she sottly put on the shoulders of the
little one; the • mother looked in confused
wonder. After a short time she arose to
leave the cars, and would have removed the
-.:.
taws — butt e - uvi trown soil y yr i ispere 1,
‘N - o - keep - it - tor - he - r 7-- Tlre — wom - an — did — n - 0 -
answer, the conductor hurried her out, but
her eyes swam with tears. I notioed her as
she descended to the .basement, and I haat'
ly marked the house.
- 'Soon_ after, my_unknown rose also to d •
part. I was in despair, for I wanted to fo
low and discover her residence, but oould
not leave Miss D---.
How glad, then, was I to see her bowing,
as she passed, to a mutual acquaintance, who
was standing•in the doorway. From him ere
many minutes, I learned her name and ad
dros3.
'To shorten the story as much as possible,
the lady is now my wile._ In the small inci
dent which introduced her to me she showed
her real character. A few days after our
marriage I showed her the blessed crimson
shawl, which I redeemed from the owner,
and kept as a memento, There are some
times pleasant things to be found in unex•
pected places; certainly-I may bo said to
have picked out my wife in the oars.'
A BEAUTIFUL FIOURE.—Life is like a
fountain fed by a thousand streams that per
ish if one be dried. It is a silver cord twisted
with a thousand strings, that part asunder if
one be broken. Thoughtless mortals are
surrounded by innumerable dangers, which
make it more strange that they escape so
long, than that almost all perish suddenly at
last. We are encompassed with accidents
every day to crush the decaying tenements
we inhabit. The seeds of disease are plant"-
ed in our constitution by nature. The earth
and atmosphere whence we draw the breath
of hie aro impregnated with death ; health is
made to operate its own destruction. The
food that nourishes contains the elements of
decay, the soul that animates it by vivifying
first tend to wear it oat by its own action,
Death larks in ambush along the path. Not
withstanding this truth is so palpably con
firmed by the daily example before your eyes,
how little do we lay it to heart. We see our
friends and neighbors die; but how seldom
does it occur to us our knoll may give the
next warning to the world.
DOMESTIC FAULTS.—HOZICS are more often
darkened by the continual recurrence of small
faults than by the actual presence of any de
cided vice. Those evils are apparently of very
dissimilar magnitude : yet it is easier to grap.
ple with the one than the other. The east
ern traveller can combine his force and hunt
down the tiger that prowls upon his path ;
but he Can scarcely escape the musquitoes
that infest the air he breathes, or, the flees
that swarm the earth he treads. The drunk
ard has been known to renounce his darling
vice ; tho slave to dress and extravagance,
ho bessetting sin , but the waspish temper,
e irritating tone, rude, dogmatic manners,
and the hundred nameless negligences that
spoil the beauty of association, have rarely
done other than proceed till the action of dis
gust and gradual alienation has turned all the
currents of affection from their course, leav
ing nothing but a baron track, over which
the mere skeleton of the companionship stalks
along.
ADVANTAGE OF BEING POOR —A poor
man never has any taxes to pay. He can sit
down and laugh the assessors to Boron, and
road off the big appropriations made by eoun
ells with a feeling of indiscrible exhilara
tion.
A poor man can enjoy life; lie lives in a
rented house, and it needn't worry him to see
it abused, and his equanimity need not bo dis
turbed if it burns down.
A poor man can repose in the bosom of his
family and know that there is no avaricious
young man prowling around after any rich
daughters.
Nobody wants the poor man to die; no
body is laying around in misery and impa
tience waiting for him to die.; so as to absorb
h!s funds.
Another thing--no poor man is ever wor
ried by debt; for nobody will ever trust him,
awl when ho does see a greenback he heartily
,evpys it.
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Tell Your Mother
I wonder how many girls tell their moth
ers everything., Not those 'young ladies'
who, going to and from school, smiley_bow
and exchange notes and carte de visites with
young men, who make fun of them and their
pictures, speaking in a way that would make
their checks burn with shame if they heard
it. All this, mostinerednlo.us and romantic
young ladies, they will do, altbongh_they
gaze at.your fresh young faces admiringly
and send or h ive you charming verses and
bouquets. N o matter what 'other girls do,'
don't you do it. School girl flirtations may
end disastrously, as many a foolish, wretched,
young girl could toll you. Your yearning
for konte_one_to_los_e_is_a_grea timel_oLev_ery
woman's heart. But there is a time for ev
erything. •Don' let tho bloom and freshness
of your hear bo brushed off in silly flirta
tions. Render yourself truly intelligent.—
And, above all, tell your mother everything , .
Never be ashamed to tell her, who should he
our best friend and confident, all you think
and feel. It is so very strange that so many
yettng_girls-will-tell-ever-y-person-but-moth
er that which is most important that she
should know. It is very sad that indifferent
persons should know More about her own
fair daughter than she does herself,—Fan•
v.7j Fern.
0-1' AT RAP. • ester ay at r
.oon some workmen in the repair shops of
he Louisville and Nashville railroad were
•ngaged in repairing the end eau old box
.r freight car, when one of them, Mr. John
Veely, - discovered a - 'rat's nest' in - the - lining
if the oar. Upon stirring up the 'nest,' he
• iscovered and pooketed five wlO6 bills, three
if whioh were interest-bearing notes. It was
tither a costly bed for rats, and they had
.een living high at somebody's expense,
or the most of it was mutilated to some. ex•
-en .
• ow - t amo - ney go t ere - is a mystery.--
The ear was used during the war over the
road, and the general supposition is that
some officer so soldier, perhaps 'sutler. hap
pened to be in• that oar whoa the train was
attacked by guerrillas, and in a moment of
'temporary fright,' slipped the money bo
tvveen the lining snd'the outside of the car,
and forgot it, or where he put, it.
Mr. Veeley has forwarded tho money to
Washington for redemption in gold and in.
terest on the 'legal tenders' and told.beav
era' Mr. Veeley, or Mr. Anybody else,
don't find rat nests made of one-hundred del.
lar greenbacks every day, and_as he is a so
ber, hard-working man, we may, hope by this
streak of good lux& he 'may be happy yet.'—
.Losiscille Democrat.
Not long einee a green•looking Vermonter
walked into the offlos of Dt., 0. T, Jackson,
the chemist.
'Dr. Jackson, I presume?' said he
'Yes sir.'
'Axe you alone?'
•May F look the door 7' and he did so; and
having looked behind the sofa and satisfied
himself that no one else was in the room, ho
placed a large bundle, done up in a yellow
bandanna, on the table, and opened-it.
'There, Doctor, look at that.'
'WoII, said the doctor, see IL'
'What do you oall that, Dootor 1'
call it iron pyrites.'
'What!' said the man, 'is'nt that stuff
gold ?'
'No,' said the doctor, 'it's good for noth•
ing; it's pyrites;' and putting some over
the fire in a shovel it evaporated up the
chimney.
'Wel, said the poor fellow, with a woe
begone look, 'there's a widder woman up
our town has a whole hill full of that, and
rye been and married her P
LENGTHY SEPARATION AND RETURNS—.
In 1845 John Elliot left his home and his
wife, who had borne him eleven children, in
Putnam county, Indiana, suddenly and in
passion of some slight misunderstanding that
bad occurred between them. After he bad
been gone about two years his wife, suppos
ing him dead, married again. Recently Mr.
Eiliot returned, after au absence of twenty
six years. He had an interview with his
wife, and she, without hesitation, returned to
her first choice. Mr. Elliot had been to Cal
ifornia during his absence, and acquired a
fortune.
YOUNG Gums.— When will parents learn
the useful lesson, that it is quite as impor
tant for the young girl to rove about and
breathe tho free air, and stir the young blood,
as it is for the boy; and that the result of
their negligence will be seen in the faded
forms, tottering gait, and withered roses of
those who ought to be the light of life and
as healthful as the daisy that springs beside
the mountain path.
As a reverend doctor once passed thre
a region of very poor land, he said to,a far
mer
'Sir, I sea your land is not very produc
tive.'
'No, sir,' said the honest , brow, our land
is just like son-righteoubuess.'
‘Ah, how is that?'
"Why, the more a man has of it the poorer
ho •
A mountain of magnetic iron has been dis
covered in Lapland. It is sufficient to sup•
ply tho world with magnets.
• .
Why is a hen seated on a fence like.a cent ?
Because the Load is on ono side,and the tail
on the other.'
What is that animal which has the bawl
of a eat, tho tail of a eat and the ways of a
cat, and yet which isn't a . cat ? A kitten.
How to please a lady—Lot her do
pleases.
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