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Gibson' Champion Washing Machine ; John Rid dleaberger'e Patent Lifting Jab's. Tag PROPRIETORS OF THE WAYNESBO 0' SASH AND FMTAI ing. furnished 'their shops with the latest ira te,' Machinery - for this Branch of Business, they now prepared td unatufacttue and furnish all ds of - mNia MATERIAL!, ch as Sash, Doors, Frames, rs. Winds, ouldings, some Eighteen DitFerent tityka ; Cor ea, ranking, Porticoes, are. dtc., 1' louring, Weath boarding, and - - ALL KINDS LUMBER, furnished &teflon notice We tender our thanks to the community for their rnl patronage bestowed upon us and hope by tet eldmtron to Otisinces to writ a conuuu•rnce the game. Also *cents for the sale of Dodge a!it ISt evemon's- Irby. Valley Chief, and World Combined Reap. g and M wing Machines, end the odel rated lipper Mower • may 7,•11M9] TOE ABEL UR STK" ` - WAYNESBORO', PA., fIUL ; GUAM§ 4,1318M1N0R1 PROPRIETOR C 3) 2LNT Ala.--Auld Lang Syne. - k r nit true love wae . eica heath, Tra la, tra la Ira I'd tell her at her latent breath Tra.' lora h, trala, Her race of life could not he run, Tea tra-la, tra-la, I'd buy some Dream of AffilPrson ' At the Drug Store oh the eorner. If I was bald without a hair, Tra la, tra la, tra la, rd laugh at that. I would not care, Tra la, tea la, tra la, Pd bring them hick, yes, every one, Tra la. tra tra la, By Drugs I bought of Atnherson At the Drug Store on the Corner. If I was tanned to diatom dye, Tra la. tr. la, tra la. I would not care, I would not cry, Trak', tra la tra In. For soon a bleaching would be done Tr, In, tra la, tra By Drugs f'd buy of Atnlierson At the Drug Store on tbe Corner. • Then three time three and tiger to, Vra la, tra Ia tra la. For what we know that they can do, 'Pea Is. Ira la. tra la, Witlf chore* lea!, the vict'ry won Tra is, Ire la Ira la, By Druas. I bought of Amberson At the Drag Store on the Corner. DRUGSL.THE BEST AND PUREST! Ate araye-tOn' bond at • P4 -IN TS • CHEMICAL AND MINERAL Feint, White Leaf) and Colon, the nest Wort petit in town at E ROSE NE, OILS, VARNISHES. DYES kinds at "DRUSH Es, P vr, VARNISH, SASH, HAIR 438nd Tooth dirthbee at TRUSSES AND SUPPORTERS AT BRANDY, WHISKY, WINES AND RUM for Medicinal nee ontt lAToNT ME' oICINES—ALL THE STAND. I aid Patent Medicine* el the day at ENTRAOTt'. FOR FLAVORING, FERFU. awry and, toilet artigles generally -at )HYSIC/ ANS FRESCRIPTII INS CAIj E— .l- fully compoundedav•The Corner Drug Stole jnly 16 FIRST "PALL MiltiVial" UrZlAlli has just received a full assortment of TV. Goods, in his lino of business. His stock consists in part, f all the latest styles of Nei:Nand • . . .IEALTS , AND CAPS ' Women's. Mime"a, Boy's, and Children's :Moats,:gAiTEßS ! -SHOES a lba filinnints or isdka and *sees - .V4: 4 Zt. - cLika as 0 . poww:ripif lox, Trim win, bulldog:ma end Hat, •Vreli Triumainix; Mop 4Skiers, litairiters; Hair thos e ifourrry, Moves, Parasols, iiiin UtabsreUae. - ipshool: Blank and licisaellineou* Braski,StitiOn• tat ailin Notiene end Fancy Goods. ! No ,w44tigigid gimp** Our 1 1 ,141 34 ,:, ' s • So' WALNIt atrintlP D. 0. BUBEILL. LIDY, PRICK & CO Poor woman said the newly elected president when I asked him it he tine* her. 'Hers has been a hard, sad fate, Onee she . was: the fairest nod must blithsome of all the maidens of Woociturd. She marred Tom Morrison, a brave, impel nous, handsome fel low, a sailor upon the take, and for a time she was the happiest of the happy But the demon came, and peace and joy were gone. One child—a boy had been born to them: born to shame and misery. Tom sank lower and lower, until he filially dropped into a drunkard's grave. Her min i fon away and wont to sea ; and when abe: i fest beard of him he was on shore, in a rib:til:4, city, 7:roaming a wild race of riot and dissipation. She , :juis put forth every exertion in her power to save hie) ; but thus for he bee avoided her, .and she has not been able even to see him Still, he is not entirely evil. Ho hoe sent her money several times Once he wet a man in plea , York, who was coming to Wood ford, and by him he sent to his mother the la.t shilling he possessed, antTahen Went and shipped for a voyage to luaito3), The presitiji told , would have me more, but his attee 13 was called to business, and I was left to' tectupon what 'l. hail' beard Oar last meeting was oti, , Stiturdo evea ing, as the close of' which te . eons:olio° was taken up for thN, idt of the Society. I had been waitatiii • poor widow, and I was still loukio t way when the edritri button box was •ed dogyk i the slip in which she sat. She spoke to thecollector, and I sat her drop a picas of money When the box was brought to the desk I asked the man what Bertha Matso n had said to him ''She told me,' , he rep lied, with moistening eyes and quilip, 'that she gave the last mite she pee in the world, and she hoped God•would bless it. She bad kept it because her sun had sent it to her. It was an Hoglish shilllog and her boy bad sent it when it was the sum of all he bad in Ins purse.' ' , ' I asked the man if be Mild distinguish the piece. He said he cons, because it was the only piece of the kind in the box; and directly• afterward he brought it to we It was bright, with the stamp fresh and no worn', and upon the side healing the crown I noticed the letters'!. M eut,in, as though with the point of a knife. ,1 gave the col. lector a silver Aollur, and kept the widow's mire. I,not only prized it for its touehitur associations, but I thetiot to make it a syMbol of devotion in my appeals in the future. to my fellows. This was in the winter. During the not' mama I was in Hakim's°, where I visited the renitentiary for the purpose' of Conver sing with those poor unfortunates whom love of strong drink had- drigged ?flown to those prison depths. ' ~ .iThereli.ahout, the.. totighesi :pis,: 'we've itet' said the wardett,, vtiat log. to. a man !Ph* sat °pews few .betigh,init corner engaged in nitaki tag tilmit bait ' , • ' I gifioed . ,ii poeition where I could me the tuatee Ape.; , ... 41.e*kii)1044iiitl;lore than • two or three add wenty,--eod_ the tat& 4 Walr age that .attritated. met ire 'bad Woe' tt swath i 4 ttto ittetitlatioN:444 the Moe 'of VCiIiItV.TCPAMh. ,• -;. • • - • V/ a Tsszt'z l . 74. • " YU DAYS UM US NO keg& • , . Oh, memories of green and plhaaant places,' Where nappy Birds their irooii-noter, twitter low Oh, love that lit the dear familiar face 3 ' We outlet) long ogo, ' itibirirTniiiiWeWsWeirlgega - J And backward gaze with rabiful, yearning eYeal As beans regret. 'mid snow drifts of December The eammer's sunny skies. ' G a 1 hours that 'See med their rainbow tints to borrow From some illnmine I page of fairy lore ight dap; never lacked a bright tomorrow, Days that return no more. Fair gardens with their manybloasoined alleys, And rod.ripo roses breathing out perfume; Dim violet nooks in green requtetered valleys; Empurpled o'er wi.h bloom. e 4 insets that lighted up the brOwn leaved beeches. -Turning-their-dusk-y gloom& to-slommoring—gold— Moonlight that on the river's fern-fringed reachea Streamed. white rayed, silver, cold. O'er moorlands bleak we wander weary hotted, Through many a tangled wild and thorny maw Rettembering as in dreams the days departed, _ . l he bygone happy days- • Xo:2ol43r—aA6Zaittrlr. THE WIDOW'S VII rE During the winter of 1846 1 went with John H W Hawkins and Dr Charles Jew ett, to Woodfiird. where we were both to hold temperance meetings, and organize a Washingtonian Society. The weather was favorable, the sleighing excellent, and the meetings were larl►e and of the most enthusi astic character. People came how many miles around, and we had the pleasure of seeing a large and vigorous society springing info exivenre. On ins first dii; while Hawkins was tell. ing tits esperietina of sorroW and misfortune from the iutostoating cup, I. noticed a poor ly mad, Clliddiengad woman. Who wept and sobbed as thotkit her bosom was buistilip, At the close of the meeting, that woman was among-the first to place her, name to the pledge When - she had laid down the pen, and returned to her seat, I looked-1n see whafshe had !ilium It Was a tremulous hand; but.delioate and ease jingly 111 foim. ed ; and the came she had written was 1368T11A MORRISON • die demon was goae;And the tinetit 'health had come its, place.; ,I moild'',lo:46 that be was self-willed, and - nof fo bb &lien but there was native, goodness beneath Itie' stir" face, and I could hoer) itworg',Ont; in hie bbsone was throbblug.a greet' and gOnernits heart 4 I feitstraimoi3 dram) toward that' young-mom, and at length I aslted`tha Werden it be, would_sentl him, to his cell, aud.perinit me to be alone with himtioniebt was s cheerfully given, and the turnkey wait balled' and directed - to conduct the prisoner away. Meantime I had been inforMed that the OM'S name was John Thompson, and•he ulue • a Bailor. He had been imprisoned as a oom- I I enterea the orlsoiei t sierl ado e ‘oor Was closed and looked behind ins. I took a seat, at the same time etteuding a cheerful salutation. Look, bore, Mate.' be said. resoltitelnbut with not a particle of impudence, 'lf you've came here to preach, you're an the wrong track I don't want to bear a word—not a word !' I told him I was not a preacher— that 1 once toliowed the sea, and had been a poor unfortunate victim clistrong drink. At first his face grew bright with sympathy, and then it darkened again 'So you've come to talk temperance tp me ? e said, somewhat bittern. • 'Not if you object.'• I replied 'But I come tome if you do not think them is something in you of good Worth saving You've been drifted upon a lee shore that's all Why not down helm, brace up sharp, go about and statakoff ? There's plenty of sea. room left.° Aud then I told him a story of a narrow CPC ipe I ,once bad from a let. shore lb a gale of wind, off the coast .of Sicily. Finally I led him to tell me Wale of his adventures, and it thus came out that I found him to possess not only rare intelligence, but a rich fund of sense and humor • By and by-I-ventured - re eat him concern• log his friends and relatives,• and after much effort I gained •froth him that all his near re latives weto dead save his Mother. 'Auld she--alie— may be dead before this r he said fißut, if she still lives, she has for gotten me.' Ho tried to speak inlay, god as one who feels but little concern ; but his heart was too initial) for him. and his . speed faltered, end he ratted hie brow upon Me Land .Ah.' said I ,'yon little heed a mother's love when you, say.that: And then, as exactly and peculiarly fitted for the oceitaituvl•toid him the story of the poor wido* and her mite. I told it feeling ly and with cattiest zeal Be buried hie taco in his bands, cud, and I saw the tears trickle down between his fioliero. , His frame shook, and once be was so mightily consuls'. ed that 1 stopped, but he recovered and I went on. ' 'Where was it V he salted in' a broken whi.per, when I had concluded. ilu the town of Woodford,' I told • him., 'And the widow s name V 'Berihu Morrison. • 'Did you say that yin bad that piece of money uow ?' - He looked up, bd his face Was like warble. The tide of tile seemed to have all settled back into his heart, I tole him I had it; and I took it from my purse, and bawled it to him. He looked at It—turned it over and enatuined ;where the letters had been cut in with• a knife,— old then his heart swelled, and the surging burst forth. He wept and sobbed, and called-- 'mother I mother mother Final ly. in broken, chosen accepts, he said. •1 sent her this I It was my last shilling ! And when I sent it I prayed that God would turn it to some blessitig' tor my poor mother. lam hero under a fah° name lam Donald niarieun ' Again he sobbed until his heart seemed ready to burst its borrow bonds, and when he next looked up be stretched forth his bands imploringly 'leave me I Oh. go away for a time, and leave um to myself l Duel speak, but go. Go sow..—leave me a little while—and then come back. Let me keep We r 1 called the turnkey, sod went out. and to him and the warden I told what had transpired. They were both kind hearted wee, and were deeply affected. In half an bout I went back, and found the the prisoner 'upon his knees, with has head bowed upon the eden of hie cot, Ile arose at I ectered and extended his hand• 'Please don't talk to me now,' be said. can't bear it, I ow too full!, . 'But,' I ventured—for I bad received en couracemeot from the warder'. 'suppose I could got you out from here, could let you 'breathe beaveos tree air, with liberty to go where you plerised4' Lie grasped my arm, and o bow glory was ou his handsome face. 'Oll, it you could do that 1 should be saved I—You would give to my mother 800 r That evening I went with the warden. end bat, the Judge who bad pawed Itia anateuae, and with him we visited the mayor. I. told my start!, and in a few hours Morriena - Imo tree and jubilabt. After a time he took tuy band and raid . • . '1 kuuw they have given 'me into your Awe. The warden told we so. I want to go alone. I don't most thew to know of ibis uniil 1 have proved to theru,whot I can be. You WOW giveu toe back to my UMW -hoed, anti I now ask you to trust it. 1 wits wine to you—l will write of everythiog its it ia. WM you trust tne? I•trusted ; and I was gliul to do .it; for it Would have -taken a week of: toy shoe to twee actoutopsaied uiw low% PO toy Po. •floggtOcats werg just be , Five year! bad passed before I visited Woodtord. I took diiitier'at the lintet, and; thee satin , te'red'forth io quest' of oly friends. 4t the - first corner I intpAre¢ or a geCtqffloptf if ,lie could tell cue : where Ile, 40,4 ehe lived , about Ulf A A%) away In a Cottage by the lake shore:': Bute he edded,clon need vet go so, far 'to-see her. .She went into that store but few moments shoos. And he pointed to a dry goods store aorois the way; befell) Which stoad.ti new had handsome , earriage. 'iikb; there ebe comes 4 • I looked and saw a woman, bat net the Woman I had ,known • This woman ,wah' blooming and handsaw, abd seemed yet young 'I spoke of Mrs. Bertha. Morriseorleaid. 'IAEA that's she,' pursued the gentleman. •Aye—and there in.her sow Perhaps you haven't , beard— kloskthe reef erne _ f sentence. the lady from the store—one of the grand est looking men I bad ever seen. Our eyes met, and he recognized me,For an instant he was like one transfixed, ut he 'quickly recovered himself •He handed the lady in-. to the carriage, and then came over to me. 'God bless you ?he ejaculated, am glad you have some at last. But my mother must not see you bere.' It would* be too much for her. Go to the hotel—wait there. I will come for you very Boob.' , As I walked baek, the gentleman whom I bad met Upon the corder walked with me. 1 abked him if he was acquainted with Dont aH fitortison. He said be was. Could be tell me what Mr Morrison was doing? 'Lle'a making a new town of Woodford exelaitned my eompaoion, enthusiastically. 'Five years ago he hired a little schooner, and used to run down to Erie, and Cleveland, and so on up to , the 'Michigan shore, By and by be bought the schooner; and beioie the year was out be paid for it, and lonk an other. To day he Owns three .'of the best steamboats on the lake. In less than as hour Donald Morrison drove up to the door of the hotel, , and ,I, vent home with him. The next ho ur - was chaos of joy and blessing •" I cannot retnetn ber clearly vthat. transpired. only know that we wept together like children, and that both mother nod son clung to .me as to the source of their salva tion and happiness . I spent almost a month at the lake shore cottage. They would not let me go sooner, nor would they let me go, even then, 'until I bad promised that •'I Would come tb see them every summer. and oftener if I could. 1 still kept the Widow's Mite, and. the, blei-siegs of God rests upon it., eny a poor wanderer in the'way of sin end shame has been turnedback into tbe path of honor and true manhood through the influence o f ;its sitige and totiebing " r A Country Without Trees. „ ;The set York Sun . hinks there it! dan r th at bufore tinny yeare iiiivls4bssed , tbe get States will become a country without trees. And this probability,is a danger io; the full sense -of the word, for a treeless country ie , the equivalent of .an arid desert land, in which agriculture is an impossibili ty. Stin says f "Throughout the Union timber is being' out in order to supply the.enortuous demand, without any regard to, the,efleot of thus de nuding the country. ,This is particularly true of the Atlantic States.' 'As trees dis appear, especially from thd heady of the great water courses, ' whence much of our lumber comes, the rivers lessen involuate, i the annual fell of rain throu g hout the clear ed districts diminishes, sod as a 6114N - time° the agricultural produot is reduced -' ' Per featly accurate statistics show such results as these in European countries, from large porgy thins of which the standing wood has been swept away. Should the destruction of timber in this country continue with its present rapidity. and no provision be trade for the planting of forests to replace the loss, all the states will probably become a rainless region le Ati ems, 'where crops Cm be grown only by = aid of expeosivetartifieial irrigation of the sJil The present consumption of wood in the United States is commons. One hun dred and fifty thonsand acres of the best timber is out every year to, supply the de mind for railway deepen alone. Pot rail road buildings, repairs and eats, the annual , expenditure in wood is thirty-gight millions, of dollars. In a single year the !Scotto:Alves io the Uoiled States consume fifty-stz. boa dollars' worth of wood. There 'are iu the whole country more than four hundred thousand artiz4ns in wet d, and it the aver ago value of their labor is one thousand dol hire a years, the wood industry of the code '_ try represents an automat of nearly fi500,. 000,000 per annum. .It will be seen, there fore. how extensive are the interests depen dent upon the production of lumber'. Proba bly laws will have eventually to be emoted by State Legislatures to prevent such de infliction of the forests'as will be iikely,,to result io Nunnl injury, to the country, and it way be accessary to encourage ,be, iug of forests to meet, the detuands el 'the futine.'s A 31onap Taar.-4 teacher ,orgi trona- . try tiehoUlitad'a very 'inifoliieVons papil,"whit was somewhat given'to swearing. '.'Having uttered ma oath in violation of' the teacher's rules, he war ordertd to-takelhe tongs .00d go the is career of the recta, there to, .watob l a hole the Suer be 'could oati3b, a mouse, the teacher Oliimaitp , it atoiiid be a groat pumahwoot. • The urchin, eased steadfastly at tbo spor tive, While the telotrei witb - his fail/tinned from hitt), was engaged ' with•the other sabot ara,, At, last ,ho ,heard the old wage go bang 1,, Be turned hie `egos quickly upon ; the youth, who yelled, exaltiogily;as ad a manse to his , view': Idaoteri 3..v0, got tba do rued . /Rae make .••; •:, ~• Let your erotil;•183 bolvt,itt they m ap, never 110,9 die. Lartoto gritfai bits aevor,sayatkiet. •. , Ikizet, be a Baelielor ming man'don't live a °rusty, bachelor. It is '661 pia itirldti. 'lt Will nalthet ,prove your morale, your health, ,borl - your : beauty. Marry as soon u you can make , it convenient} and as ion emi (+hap° yOur do support aimife." .mbea 'you ; totutry v don't fall in love with a, lace instead of a woman. Remember that cowthoisensti la* r're virtue, much better than • &mere, and gold, and fashion. Don't.eourt and marry orinoline and gold in plenty r but look' for the sound practical sense of a woman first • that is the tonal atone to try the other quit: ties by; when you have that; t4I olAe 00111 fit ., Your wife that is to bo, if she it full of eat:- ATe t• : 14: t T o=your--4T. Wn ME ing, and make you grow to here. A women that has womanly love killer heart crill'fltitt a way to make your love towards,•bei grow as the years grow ,over you both. And another thing needs to be heeded, and that is—a common sense woman is not to 'be, found where fashion insists upon dragging your females into a whirl, Where there is Simple, idle gossip and tattle. Youog told, don't swan looking afteithatrung WOMIta with the distinguished !tit, the reputation Of a flirt and belle, and whilse father hits Heaps of cask; for it is not iniFossible, that while mitre_ straining _your_eyea-that-way, -you may be turning your book upon some ;mob trubiye damßel, whom nature has but for yodt better half, end who - may be just that pleas ant-faced, placid-tempered, . loveable ,little creature who will think enough of you to gb with you to the end of the world, and stay by and domfort you when you get'graphaitt ad and fidgetty Mhtry, young 'gentletneo, and keep yourselves out of. scrapes-. Rave Something to live for. mantlloue,in „the world isn't •more than half a :man,. anti tha world wants entire men• •So mea d • yourool• l y es l and be happy. And you shall have good reason to rap that if was a 'OM you resolved to merry; and refused to he'l l soli tary beer-drinking pipe-smoking .bachefor-- if yonriebeed as well io your effort as be who, once a young man like you, is now sim ply the old contented, and comfortable uncle Benjamin, Death' and the GIELVI3; 4 1 am hungry,' said the Grave. 'Give hie food . Death answered,: 'I wilt send forth minister of destruction and ; yon Shall kiti'Sa f t: isfied.' "il' 1' :'Whdt minister pill yob acid 7' -"` 'I trill eand.alaohol. , ,lie shall ga in the gnise,ol,,lood.itod, medicine, pleasure,, boo , pitality. _The pcppleihall drink and die.' Akd tiiC Grave abswersid coutent?.. And now tbe`Ctinibb bells 'negitn' id'. WI ana the, tridurnful prone:Won to advance. ~ 'And solid are tbe„f 'Winging nevi 7' the Grave: -`" ;'' said , Dearth•- 4 thisy are• briagiog a household. , , The, droaken father ,aimed a blow at his pile., He killed the *thee and her child togeth er, add' thud dashdd out his owl) life.' • 'And wbb i ' said the Grave, 'come , liezti followed by a train of weeping ebidrenV , 'This is a broken hearted wouian,who, ias long pined Acay in want while her hqsband has wasted his substance at the tavern. And he too is borne behind, killed by the' hands of • violence.' , 'And Who neat I" • 'A yonag'than'olgottercitis'impulties,ivhd; step by step, became dissipated and squand ered his all. My agent ;urged. him opt •,to be frozen in the,street.' 'Hush rsaid the Grave, 'cow I hear a' wail of anguish that willsnot be silenced.' `Yes, the widoW's'ory. It is the only sot, of his mother, Ainitpurned her love r reviled her' rud, and a bloated, corpse ,he comes, ,to, thee., And thus they come 7 fuither than the eye coo reach; the procession eruivo — thY dark tibodde: And still hired by the "66% obanting'cup eve ingled, the snit' o crowd' the paths, ortis: Vainly they dream of escape, but I elkut hind them the invincible door of deitini— Therknow it not, and with song and dance and riot they baste to thee, 0 (Irave I Then I throw my fatal spell upon new thro ngs i of youth and soon they; too, will be thine. The Portinuct Argus tells• the following story, of a young tatty who is a pupil at. poe of the salmis to that otiy, and who has" el •ready, it seems, beaten her father at loathe. unties : . She utodestly•ptopased that if her: father Would giv6 her eubb,oue cent on one day ! anddoublo the aniuuut oa each successive day fotjUst 'one in into, she Would pledge herself 'starer to ark ' ofbito another emit of money as long as bhe lived • katerigamilisii s not stopping to run over the figures in his bead,.and out ouppuelog it would amount to a 14rge,eum, Was gii.d to accept the 'oft r iii 'at once, thinking it atm, a favorable opportunity to inciude . potoittto marring() dowry in the future. At tite tar;liily fifth to . became 'greatly alarmed; teat it lie cotaptied with-his own acceptance be 'fight be. obliged. to be 'declared a hauktupt un his own But at the thirttoth day the ring girl demandcd'only tlie pretty auto of o,3titlitt* 12T The altonistied merchant was only too happy to concel the cloud by advancing a handsome cash paymetst for his folly, in al lort,ing himself to give a boed—or, his viola .heeoasidesed as good as ,a . btind—stirliour, noticing the ‘oll6lll6tatiOD therein exprcesed,, and by promising tir return to the old custom of advancing smaller MODS daily 'utitil.other wise ordered. -Qui. arithmetic reporter bas been 'figuring on to it: and says. that Willa aid, gentleman , had ittiftiled his irOtaiii;blB gutshio g tiatigb7 ter- would: haite bat Upon the retieipt"4 tbe thirtieth , payment,, thel l nug, :aunt "mot 610,7 1 37,41814.. , „, , . Whit; •is giledifforunse.betikesq a, biked dila, awl ;cam Qum ? ..Igiutpeatat ;A Rash Promise. W o Ppm Mat HOS% irtpittita V."'" „,••." Thkfe i licwing,Fight diti s kootur re mired ic • hart 4 token' fitieettc abet imiditiiitT cities.. 'IC 7- , -471 •"i' r •f ! ',E;; ' : Ditbetibetinity Hitten nig Met..yeeett.. , -,-, by: elteeper of, a• hest. ealoon,, who Fps' ' 4iptin g uodet consider:Ole .eppaient.;eltatte: - :'"'" meat. Reeogillaio . bisiipited'Atis:J. to Ida: with the e;olamatioi: : , • 'Whip peel: af36o liot , * on calla; inoiii'•4lC-t tote r ..r -'Thek pick tip items,'' said , the;.ol6ool't Mead into ehowc. eto4 .) ; 1 . 'DPY items 1 tint:, To geld wateites items!' Is sitty toile, itechs 7.•• ; fiejt'l"' He was salad toe he tueB b ft - .1 , 1 a • - - ' 'Dia morning .was •dOokip'..;lagqiitnet , min" friends all der wile in mine selooo, : a4 • in gomee a pint* dear dare beVat'*o 7 . `r• Already—and ptilla out a little sheepskin , : poi* and a lead bawd!, and be. says be peae,,'-i local editors end wants me .to tell' , him. a 11 , :,, vot dere was pout de row 'Pit mine peer sti l'oon Jest , n t. ' •41 askil Niro wot kind o' bniinees' trim" to tbat row, by tam, wot kind If • 'Grid he says bo Topeka um in de papers , • , So I tell him all wot I don,i,ilinow rout the irewa vot some tam rowilks kick tint if_ mine saltion-lag-tlightind-terbeard era gets around and tells more,itinge mot,J, 7 recolleots, and de nice young man, be sticks em down in hitrabeeifiakip peek mit blefeed benitif Den .he trinlie glass 10$er,,Whiiih' be don't let himself, pay. for, by is 't • l snre,as never, was belie one litilo l neliibhlier' fellow whoa, he didte (iialit. pay ger; but dat makes potting . tiffeyeadit nii,htioolpfe in den he , gitetr eat, 'and ,I.don't Seca him agtrie,ell'ile . •Den one of tny, stolen away froth his gold Fatah, pit dem l ; nudneighboiSehtuitt, he bend silty tellar 'Wat he hadn't got.' lbe nice young man, who pretended 'to, be a lotial editor, was a pickpocket,' Sitid nt h 'who took that moans ,to car i rt',On ; trade, and he succeeded pretty' got a gold watch and sixty 'I tints be succeeded pretty' well, 'tnitife'' 7 ;i, Got 1 De next thus a man gimes my sa loon, mit, his tom sheepskin pelicit and leu'd , poilk,.nod says he is a local editors;' by , be don't 0011i0 in.' Bow HE STOPPED THEM.—A .preaoher in„Kentuoky, who was often annoyed,by t144,, T habit ef people, leaving ,church before the conclusion of the service, di3idtlthiiied - tit" brdak. ihe'irtictide'rrp: So day IdraWing hislbow'at a vonture,' - trhen.,re nide 'young, man.started out. But A 7 --r.,„tvitlt,r,, l oat r faperiug his; voice, cried out : with yea l, youngalike. YOU shall o f ot 'nag rtifii the colgreg,iliiin by going entire litne of attrvice.'' Then, pausing tooment l said : 'Nowt remetnbir, I took a .ruttp r. tu , task over et Shawnee Run for going'out nod brethern what do you think he . turned, out,, to "be ? What they called a lunatic 1,. So g 9 ,1 , on , young man, may bo you are one,of, sort). After a while two or three young. t women started out, and 'he let out at thusly i ,*Yonng ladies, it ain't good manner to!walk ,out while preaching is going en But.pausing , a.moment, he exclaimed. -do . on, i t, forgot at the moment, that it was , water, ., melenitime ,iTbere was no more going out that day.!ti 'r • • . io a dry goods store at Kan sas tidy, M0.,.th0 other day, observed a pole il attenuated, and apparently sorrow-etrickon womau concealing a bundle of laces under her shawl. Very quietly. and without at-, ttioting the atteetwo of a single eye, in, the , store, the salesman said to her, em, not, able to pay ,for the lice ! under ,your,shaW),.. i or you might keep it and, welcome, Please put it back while t walk, to the other end of" F the coutitor,l, Large tears came into the .iwoutata',o haggard oyes, hot whole face ez preesed,gratitade, and withotit a word she . put the lace back. 'A friend remarked to us the Other day that when be travels he always goes with , a 'sulk„,' that is, ho goes with his' wife, who; . k\ contrives to be oat of humor from the they leave home till they get where Sheir am going to. The only time she , ever be says, was when he broke his ankle. There is nothing like courage . ifi misfor• facie , Best to faith in God, and Elia over: rultuktrovidence. a wati'.s faith in . hiru.'leif ii his salvation. It is the secret of, all,povi er and success. It wakes a wan awing •as the pillared iron; or s clastio as the springing' steel. • • 2 • A trettobinan tested his wife's' afield's' by luilipibg trout a New York ferry boat. re. seatiyi sad in now perfectly satisfied. He affection stood the teat without a uturmar.,' qod bbe said '-Lei the old sluiler go—who keen 7" , 'So you are goio. , to keep school?' said a young laity , to her o ld r anat. 'Well, for my part, doouer shwa do that, I would • marry a widower with Mori olailcirea."l should pre• ter that myself,' was the quiet' reply; 'butt Clare is the-widower ?' • If aril, man thinks rebellbn a nico thing, ettiris get married. , Good Advice—Header, did you ever enjoy the ecstatic bliss of courting 1' If not, then get a little gat air try. The gentleman who went the very edge of propriety pearly tumbled-off. - A frienisl4 eboubilzeter be so wane ea - to nuke you drop IVio fle who lea= froth file± W kit in beauty withoutooap? .•..- ~w.,a~m ,iJ,~e~.td ,~~~ 11,,* , , r 1,11 limit/ i; r 8411!;0'1,,. MEE=