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VOLUM?, XXIII.
OA F,
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ALL MUST HAVE
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N. BEAVER. North-east corner of the Diamond.
le does business on the only successful method,
viz: by buying his goods for cash. The old fogy
idea of buying goods at high prices and on long
credits is
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Call and examine our fine stock and don't be
R-U 1-N-E
by paying 20 per cent. too much for your goods else
where. We will chalenge the community to show
forth a more complete stock of
f_the_veq_ latest styles ancl.to_suit-all,
• C. N.-BEPLVER'S.
HATS a,ll 0
BOOTS, all kirds and prims,
SHOES, of every description for Mee's, Lathes',
Misses' and Children's wear,
at C. N. BEAVER'S.
. CLOCKS, every one warranted ana sold
- by G.ItF RE - 1 VE R.
TRUNKS, of all sizes. the very hest manufacture, I
also warranted and soli
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VALISES, of every kind, also very cheap.
at C. N. BEAVER'S.
HATS, for Ladies, Misses and Children, a fresh
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NOTIONS, a full line as follows, sold
• by C. N. B E AVE R.
PAPER COLLARS, for Men and Boys wear,
the most complete and finest assortment in town,
by C. N.BEAVER.
HOSIERY, of every kind, for sale,
by C. N. BEAVER.
GLOVES, for Men and Boys wear,
at. C. N. BEAVER'S.--
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at C. N. BEAVER'S.
BROOMS AND BRUSHES, of the vety best
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TOBACCO, to, suit the taste of all,
at C. N. BEAVER'S.
CIGARS, which cannot-be-heat, for sale.
by E. N. BEAVER.
SNUFF, which we chalenge any one to excel in
quality, for sale
at
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INK and PAPER, of every description,
at C. N. BE AVER'S.
CANDIES, always fresh too, for sale,
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SPICES, for sale
CRACKERS, of every kind,
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INDIGO BLUE.
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CONCENTRATED LYE. fora
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KEROSENE, of the very beat,
at C. N.
LAMP CHININIES also,
a C. N,
And many other articles not necessary to mention.
We now hope that you will give us a share of your
j i atronage. We are indeed, thankful to you for past
atronage, and hope a continuance of the same,
and remain yours truly,
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he World Renowned
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•really used, and ao Eughly moraine nded ; ar.d do
,t allow the Druggist to induce ym to take say
ing Wee that they may say is „just the same or as
because they make a large proG u on it.
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be highest meal price will be paid for
Iron Wane deliveffd at the works ot the
ty 9P1 8 .4 1 i UQ,
September strews the woodland over,
With many a brilliant eAlor ;
The world is brighter than before—
Why should our hearts be duller ?
Senor' and the scarlet leaf,
Sad thoughts and sunny weather !
Ah me ! this glory and this grief
Agree floe together.
This is the parting season—this
The time when friends are flying ;
And lovers now, with many a kiss,
Their-long-farewells-are-sighing
Why is earth so gayly dressed ?
This pomp that autumn beareth
A,funeral seems, where every guest
A bridal garment wearetb. _
Each one of us, perchance, may here,
On some blue morn hereafter,
Return to View the gaudy year,
But 'not with buyistt laughter.
We shall then. be,wrioltled men,
- Otrr - brows - wi th—si
And thou this glen may seek again,
But nevermore a maiden.
Nature perhaps foresees tbe - Sprimy
Will touch her teeming bosom,
And that a few brief meths will bring,
The bud, the bee, the blossom ;
Ah ! these forests do net know--:-
Or would less brightly wither—
'Air virgin that attorns'them so
Will never more come hither.
AXIS 0.:11E11-3.1ra AL. INTIE".
q will show them to you now? And pro.
ceeding to where his trunk stood in his room,
be removed everything until he reached a
somewhat old-fashioned 'looking pistol ease;
he opened it, when, with a sudden exclatna -,-
tion, he let it drop back into the trunk, and
.ggering to a chair he eat down, covering
his face with his hands, and shivered as the'
his whole - lrarna was convulsed with some
powerful emotion. I picked up the ease and
saw it contained two long duelling pistols of
a peculiar fatibion, and on one I observed
ir - iWalits of blood which bad upon the
bright barrels produced deep spots of rust.
I shuddered as 1 looked, well remember
ing the many wild scenes through which he
bad passed in the last dozen years.
Carl Korrigan had in the meantime some
what recovered himself, and extending his
hands he exclaimed.
BEAVER'S.
BEAVER'S
'For heaven's sake George, put them up,..1.
had nearly forgotten the last time I used
them.'
BEAVER'S.
ale,
BEA V ER'S.
Pitts. Oil,
I obeyed him all the while wondering what
had so affected' him who I had known to be
possessed of iron nerves, secretly, wishing
that he would tell me, and I suppose my
countenance betrayed the wish, for a moment
after he sat upright and with a look that I
shall not soon forget, be asked :
'George, you saw those spots'--with a sh trd•
der at the last words. I replied by a nod,
when he continued,—
BEAVER'S.
B.NAVER'S.
'Sit down and I will tell you all about an
affair that has left deep marks upon my
heart and memory. I had never spoken to
any one about that terrible piece of business,
and if I am somewhat affected by its recital,
you will please look over it.'
He paused a moment and seemed to be ma
king a powerful effort to recover his self eon
k trol, and his strong will triumphed, for
straightening up somewhat alter his old self,
he told the following
'George, I believe that I felt for Frank
Gardner more than a brother's affection ; we
bad been thrown together in New York, both
following the bent of a restless spirit, and we
found in each other's nature something, I
can't tell what, that lead us to travel a long
time in company. So we had spent many
days together, plowing the bosom of the old
ocean, sharing its dangers, and daring them
a thousand times. Had been several months
among the pleasant Isles of the West Indies.
Had been two years together on the Plains
and Pampas of Brazil, and the Bio.de-la
platte. Had crossed South America, and
journeying up the coast until we found our
selves in Mazatlico, Mexico, all the while
thoroughly enjoying each ether's company,
and I never found anything about Frank that
I could not admire,although there was depths
in his nature that in a long intercourse I
knew I had never fathomed, and I knew him
for one fault, that he never forgave an ene•
my or one who he fancied had done him an
injury, as two or three ugly affairs in South
America and Mexico could give ample testi
mony. I had always found him a first-class,
congenial companion, some of our tastes were
similar, and both possessed spirits that would
not long remain at rest anywhere. He, I
knew to be brave, almost to fool-hardiness.
I have seen him armed with a long Spanish
knife alone, attack, single-handed, the fiercest
denizens of the forest, and in every one come
off victorious, merely laughing when I had
expressed my fears sometimes for hie safety,
and in many of these encounters be bad re
ceived scars that told it was no easy victory
at times.
In Manilla°, we remained several weeks,
and were both intimate and welcome visitors
at the residence of Senorita Prarie-I. Caste,
whose father possessed large estates close to
the village upon one of which be resided.
liottLytatik and myself paid assiduous at-
WAYNESBORO', FRANKLIN COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 29, (870.
3POMITIO.A.X.m.
SEPTEMBER.
[Written for the Village Record,
A FATAL DUEL.
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tention to the beautiful Prarie, I, never
dreaming but that it was like a dozen more
affairs of the same kind, a mere time•passing
one. Although I sometimes detected a feint
sign of uneasiness and unrest tugging at my
heart if I called upon the lovely Senorita and
found that she was enjoying a ride or a stroll
with a Mexican gallant, a near neighbor's
son; end at these times I would notice upon
Frank's fine face an expression that I had
never in my companionship observed there
before; it was something very like what ha
took on in some of his furiest and most den
; gerons encounters, either with beasts or_mext
for I had seen him in both, and it occurred
to, me more than ,uce that I should not fan.
cy crossing him in lovo.
I found myself irresistably drawn by the
charms of the old Mexican's daughter, and
I thonght that I observed in her manner to
wards me a marked degree of preference,—
One morning while seated with her, and in
_alose_con versa tion,_Fran k_ walked_in-an
notice. at pecaliir — ihade upon his coun•
tenance, and my heart bounded, for it oe
curred to me with a sudden flash that this
man who had been my near companion for
_months bad for the first_time allowed_me_a
glimpse of that peculiar trait in his charac
ter, the existence of which I had merely sus
pected heretofore. Our conversation that
morning was for the first time constrained
and uneasy. I soon took my departure.—
T hir- - circumatance - ntiused — me --- for the-first
time-'to-thoroughly-analyze my feelings. I
found that almost impereeptably, the lovely
face of Prarie•L Coate had engraved itself
upon my heart, and intuitively I learned that
this was to be the Cause of rupture of friend
ship between Frank and myself.
I overhauled the whole of our companion.
ship from its very beginning, and I could
find nothing that I could throw• into the bal
ance against my love for Ifer who I began to
suspect entertained for me a more than pass
ing_regard. 'Oh God hud_Lknown the depth
of that woman's deception, how much'would
have been saved me,' suddettly_exolaimed
Carl as he paused again. almost overcome with
his emotion. After a momentary struggle he
proceeded.
'I-could-n ot-see-why - 1 - 814u-Id-alow a frien d
ly_regard of a few year's standing to sepa
rate me from a life of happiness. I -at once
decided that if I could win Prarie, I would
do so at any cost. I was so excited by my
feelings that I felt a long ride to be necessa
ry to restore my usual equanamity, and.when_
returning from this ride I suddenly came up.
pon the object of -my love in company with
the Mexican whose name at this time I have
forgotten, but who I have mentioned as' pass
ing occasional visits in her coMpany. Her
manner towards him caused me a violent
pang, but when she came up and bowing be:
stewed upon me a heavenly smile, the feel
ing vanished, and I rode to town resolved to
know my fate before many suns bad passed
over me. Next morning I found her alone,
and I pourned out to her all the strong love
that a man can feel but once in his life.
She appeared very much agitated, and hes
itatingly asked me to wait one week for my
answer; not knotting sufficient reason for the
delay I refused to wait unless she gave me
reason to hope that her answer would be fa
vorable. After some little while she told me
I might hope. I pressed her to my heart,
kissing her rapturously, she offering no re
sistance. So engaged were we that we did
not notice the de or open and again close as
the person who intended entering saw the
situation. It wits Frank.
I !Oft that room a very happy man, and
shortly after I met Frank, and hurrying up
to him with the intention of telling him of
my happiness,
a s I was ignorant at the time
of the fact that he had witnessed our inter
view. I was chilled by the manner he as
sumed towards Inn, and could not for my life
have exchangoll more than the commonest
remarks. I bed never seen him so moody,
and my heart misgave me when I noticed
that his drinks were very frequent, and of
the strongest liquors; ho shortly left me.
When he separated from me he went di
rect to Prarie, and told her of the love that
he Mao bore her. She expressed some sor
row, but told him that she never felt for him
more than a friendly respect, and added a lit
tle haughtily that indeed she never could
love him. Frank became furiously angry.—
all the deep pr scion Jt his nature swelling up
in the words,--
No, Senoril a, you could never love me, but
let me tell you, I know who you do love, and
were 'he my brother I could never forgive
him this. Be left the house and coming di
rectly to me void,—
Cad Corrigan you know that I never swerve
from my purpose, and I now call you to for
ever renounee the love you have professed
for ?rade-L.oomo, or on your own head be
the result.
1 could see the steely glitter in his eye
and well knew that we were never as friends
to meet again. But in this matter, consider•
ing that he was totally to blame, I would not
renounce m y right to that happiness that I
considered so near. I told him so, at the same
time presenting every argument that I was
posseseed of to regain the friendship of one
who I really• loved., It was in vain, he step
ped up to . me, and said :
Wore you ten times my brother• you she'd
fight me or be branded as a coward, which I
am beginning to think you are, he fairly
biased.
I would still have'refused to fight him but
be struck me a cruel stinging blow upon my
face and with tears io my eyes I managed to
say, on th.o river bank tomorrow morning at
sunrise, pistols. I rushed out and to my own
room, locked myself io and wept, strong man
that I was I wept bitter tears,, and I firmly
resolved not to fire upon Frank, hoping there
by to Appease him and arouse him to a sense
of.justice and cause him to ask my for
givenees which would have been granted ere
the words could have left his mouth. How
vaii ithetiope was you ehall see. I wrote
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letters to be mailed to my fond old• mother
and sisters if' I ahonld fall, for well I knew
his deadly shot, summoned a young Ameri
can resident as my friend,•took out my pis
tols, those pistols, (with a glance towards the
trunk), gave them to my muchaebe to clean,
and lying down tried to rest, but I could not,
my brain was in a whirl.
How I passed the time I knew not, but
the morning came at last, bringing my friend
in an early liour, who exclaimed : Carl this
is terrible, can it not be arranged ? That is
enough L— said I, see that my pistols are
4 4 • I la I 4 I 4 1.1
Ile saw that remonstrance was useless, so
after examining the weapons, we started.
Arriving at the appointed ground we found
Frank, his friend, and a surgeon. I glanced
towards Frank with a feint hope that even
yet be might relent, but he stood with his
back to me, and instructing our seconds,
to proceed with the preliminaries we re•
Anained_silent_All-was—soon arranged,—my
second won choice of positions and would
have placed me with my back to the sun, but
I choose the other position. He looked ant
_priee_d_but_said nothing. We were eoon
_placed.
Gentlemen, is all ready We merely bowed.
You will remember to fire between the words
one and three. A moment of intense silence,
when with a clear steady voice my second
pronounced the words : fire, one, two, three.
-I—did—not-raise my weapon, but at the word
two Frank raised his pistol and fired, his ball
lodging with an intense burning pain in my
left shoulder. I manated to as sear as if I
was not hit, and stepping to my second in.
strueted him to enquire if my antagonist was
satisfied; the answer was returned, No..
The pistols were re-charged, we again took
our positions, and again he alone fired, send
ing his ball through my hair at the ear. A
gain I instructed my second to enquire if the
gentleman was satisfied, and he replied, I toll
you Rio. A third time were the pistols load-'
ed, and we resumed our positions. My see
and was_as_pale,as=deatb, sud oven ary an
tagonist's second and the surgeon were very
much surprised at the most singular proceed
ing. I glanced towards my antagonist and'
saw no sign of relenting; all of the old Frank
seemed to have gone, and there was written
the firm purpose to kill rue if he could. I
have read somewhere that there exists deep
down in the human heart, passions, uncalled
up by the ordinary circumstances of our lives
which would frighten us if we bat caught a
single glimpse of them. And I believe it.
for in that momentary glance, all my love
for the man standing before me was buried
out of sight, and I merely ea* him as one
who could cooly stand there and fire at one
who would have continued to love him thro'
life, until be saw him fall. A haze seemed
to swim before my eyes, and I scarcely heard
the sharp singing words : fire, one, two, when
straightening up my arm, I leveled my pis
tol, and with a glance along the barrel, fired.
I saw him fall throwing his pistol hand up
to his left breast, when I fainted. I recov
ered to find . myself lying some distance from
the fatal spot, and the surgeon just removing
the ball from my shoulder. I enquired for
the result of that last shot and was told that
it was fatal on the ground. Frank only lived
long enough to ask my forgiveness - and ac
knowledge he was wrong; and Senorita L
°este married her Mexican suitor before the
week was out.' •
Carl ceased and bowed his heed upon the
table, anti feoling that I could door bay noth
ing to mitigate his sorrow, I left.
Our Mistakes.
It is a heart-breaking thing to look back
on one's own life, and oouot up the mistakes
we have made by following out our own will,
perhaps in defiance of friendly advice, per
haps in accordance with flattering counsel s
The sorrows that have come to us as it were
by the will of God we can submit to with as
much or as little patient resignation as we
have the grace for ; but the sorrows which
we have wrought by our own hand—the pit
falls into which we have walked by taking
our own way—these are the sore places of
memory, which ao time can heal and no
patience salve over. did it by my own
act and deed,' and 'if I had but tistened to
advice I if I bad but taken to pieces that set
purpose of mine, what a different life I
should have had I what an infinity of trouble
I should have been spared flow many
women, think you, are sitting now by
,the
blackened ashes of a burnt-out love, heart.
sick and despairing—women fur whom there
is no to-morrow, no future summer, no rain•
bow across the dull gay sky of their endur
ing winter—all for the set purpose of a base
less love, all for the wilful following at the
heels of a visionary joy t They were warn•
ed, they were counselled,they were besought;
but they took no heed. Love, stronger than
wisdom, drew them by lines of steel, while
this had only ropes of tow; and the set pur
pose of their lives, was as the moth's when
it beats its wings into the flame—anfi with
much the same result.
An exchange tells of a young couple who
went to the city to celebrate the Fourth in
style. Puttiog up at a hotel, they were
served at dinner with ioe cream for desert.
Ructions tasted the cool confection, rolled it
from one side of his mouth to the other, and
finally ciaeulated, 'Thunder and lightning',
Mader, that's the coldest puddin' L ever et!
It would seem that the hot season intends
to remote parts of the country, as a report
comes from lowa City that the catfish come
out of the river and lie iu the shade and fan.
themselves with their tails, while the dogfish
flop out of the water and follow the ioe•wagona
all around the streets, trying to pick up a
piece of ice. Either this is true, or lowa
has some of the lyingest editors in, the world.
Happiness abounds most with the lowly ;
there are more blossoms in the valley than
there are on the hills.
CORRESPONDENCE.
TULLAHOMA, TENN.
September, 1870.
FRIEND 131.Aut.—Well, my first year's
farm operations have proved successful, rye,
good, oats, fair, corn beyond all I ever saw !
Apples, peaches, Irish and sweet potatoes
enormous ! The most delightful Summer
I haie ever experienced is now suomeded by
an Autumn that is absolutely I]den like;
the sky, balmy, radiant, heart pleasing ;
gentle breezes stirring the darkening ver
dure, like spirit-voices flowing out of Para
. ... - 1 • ie—etau
loveliness; crystal streams purling in silvery
beauty to the soft warbling% of the j-ty,
thrush, lark, mocking and other birds, whose
noise are softening with the subdued spark-
Hogs of sky and flowers. The soft repose of
Autumn pervades all things in harmony
with the satisfied feeling which pervades
humanity at the changes of the seasons.—
Well, the Yanks are, again coming; the Na
tives again starting in fresh companies for
Texas. This State will be all Yankee in a
few years. I bought another farm, and wish
a good tenant; good farmers here have au
ern-time-of-it-alter-the-first - year - or----two ;
all plowing, chopping, all hard work being
done in Winter; pastures abound all Sum
mer till frost, after which nothing is fed but
shucks, nubbins-and fodder. Prof. Koosis,
a Hungarian scholar and gentleman, bought
500 acres near here, about three years ago,
and is setting out acre after sore in grapes,
apples, peaches, pears, eta; two years hence
his_fortutte will begin to, roll in. This is
truly a grand locatioriefor . g — ripes and fruit.
In cereals, also, skillful' farming meets with
great success. No spot on this Continent
offers greater inducements !or emigrants, or
has finer prospects of a luminous future. In
healthfulness, it is unsurpassed ; hundreds
of visitors have passed the Summer here,
those afflicted with diseases arising from
hepatic irregularities, or Kidney affections,
find great relief in our splendid water
- -WeifiterlTPa. and Ohio are sendiog in large
' delegations, who are searching for homes, to
escape the rigors and trying-irreiularities of
the alimates of those States. I would like
' to bear from my old friend, especially the
Gen. Any one desiring information, may
address me as above.
Yours Rsspeo dully,
W. T. BAItNITZ.
A Western Romance•
About eight or nine months since a man
living in the northern part of Niiginia City,
Nev., went oat into the eastern part of the
State to seek his fortune in the new mines
of that section, leaving his_wife and one child
in Virginia City. Some Rives months ago
a gallant disciple of St• Crispin persuaded
the White Pine widow to take up her abode
with him in a house which he furnished for
her. The new pair--lived otherfor about
seven months, when - a few days siooe the
genuine husband returned.• Of course there
was trouble in the camp, but after some
quarreling, the two men agreed to play a
game of seven-up for the woman. The game
came off last Saturday night, and the first
husband won his wife back by just 'two
points.' The man claimed his wife, and the
man of leather could not but say that he
bad fairly won her,
The woman prefered the shoemaker, but
the husband and winner was determined to
have his own. He packed up what furni
ture they possessed, and lest Sunday even.
ing, with his household goods and gods, left
by a fast freight wagon for California.—
When the wagon started there was quite a
scene. A crowd of nearly ono hundred per
sons had collected to see the husband carry
away his 'stake,' and there was much mer
riment over the romantic affair. The wo
man cried and wanted to stay with the shoe
maker, and the shoemaker cried at parting
with the treasure he had lost by not holding
enough 'trumps.' He asked some of the
crowd if they thought. he would be arrested
if he attempted to take the woman out of
the wagon. They told him he had lost her
'on the square,' and he' must bear it like a
man; so the wagon moved on, and soon the
hir one was 'gone from his gaze.'
Responsibilities of Parents.
A pious mother, in her prayers with her
little son, was accustomed to lay her hand
upon hie head. She died while he was yet
too young to realize the loss he had sustuin.
ed. He grew up an nocurbed and wayward
boy, whom none seemed to understand, and
few to love. Yet in his most reckless and
passionate paroxisms, something seemed par.
tinily to restrain and rule him. He said it
was, a 'hand upon his bead, like the mother's
hand.° Often he yielded to its touch, and
wept bitterly. In the flush and ferver of
youth, ho traveled widely over foreign lands.
Vice tempted him, and the virtue which
should have withstood it, but had a frail
rooting. Still, something witheld him it
was the same 'hand upon his bead,'—a soft,
cool hand. He dared not utterly oast oil its
control.
In his old age be said to some children :
'A head is upon my head,—upon my few
hoary locks,—the same hand that used to
rest in prayer among the fresh sunny curls
of my infancy ; and if L am ever saved, it
will be by that mother's hand, and my Re
deemer's many;
'How heavy you walk Ixelaimed Mrs.
—, on hearing her 11 \ : -- and tumbling
up stairs the other night, 'Well, my dear,'
was the gruff teapot/11(4qt you can get a keg
of Golden's lager up stairs with less noise, I
should like to see 'you do it.'
Some one some time ago, Boeing two or
three eminent lawyers gathered together on
a spot suppof,ad , to be likely to be chosen as
the site of the new law courts, said that they
had met there 'to view the grotto 4 where.
they must shortly
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Down East Courting:
A Western paper pretends to give a fair
account of the manner in which down_past
ors do their courting. Here is an example :
Sally, the housemaid, paring apples in the
corner. Enter Obedieh; wbo seats himself
in the corner opposite Sal, without s a ying n
word for fifteen minutes, but finally scratch
ing his head, breaks the silence with :
• 'There is considerable imperceptible alter
in' in the weather since last,week '
''Taint so injudicious sad as dubitable•
cold as it was; the theruontican has lowered
up to one no. re. • agrees
zenith,' said she.
think it's likely for the birds of that
species fly a great deal higher in warmer
days than in cold ones.'
Both parties assume a grave and imposing
look, and a long pause ensues. kindly,
Obadiah gives his pate 'another harrowing
scratch and breaks the silence with . 'Well,
Sally, vie chips are going to raise a sltigh
tide, it's such inimical good sleddin' to ma
to-v. I suppose we'll have an insatiate good
time on it. I should be supernatural happy
if you would disgrace we with your coin
pany---I-should-take-it-as-degratory honor-;
besides we are cahmlatin' to treat the gals
well with raisins and black trap.'
'I should be supernatural glad to disgrace.
you, but our folks suspect company. I can't
goo.'
Obadiah sits awhile, and.at length starts
up as if a new thought had struck him
'Well, now, I know what do.
home and thrash out those beans that have
been lying in the barn for each a dittoed
lone: while.
Fait Obadiah. ,
MARRYING FOR SIIOW.—In Ititt fOnnWioF,
we find dirplayed a volume of honest and
wholesome good sense unusual to such com
modities. Put a pin here, good swains and
lovers :
To the question often asked of young men
as to why they do not marry, we sometimes
heir the reply : I am not able to support a --
wife.' In one ease in three this may be so;
but as a general thing the reply would be .
am not able to support the style in which
I think my wife ought to live.'
In this again we see a false view .of mar
riage—a looking to the appearance in the
world, instead of a union with loving woman
for her own sake. There_ar_e_v_ery_few_mtin__
of industrious habits who cannot maintain
wife, if they are willing to live economically,
and without reference - to - the opinion of the
world. The great evil is they are not con•
tent to begin life humbly, to-retire together
into - an - obscure position, and together work
their way in the world—be by industry in
his calling, and she by dispensing
. with
prudence the money be-earns. But they
must stand out and attract the attention of
others by fine houses and fine clothes.
oertaln - T — solitioal speaker
was addressing a large audience in Virginia,
and descanting vehemently against proscrip
tion of foreigners, when his eye fell upon
. a
little German Jew, a peddler of ready-made
clothing, who seemed to be very much im
pressed with the argument of the orator,
greedily swallowing everything ho uttered.
This was too good an opportunity not to
make the best of, and looking the peddler
full in the eye, ho exclaiined
'Futriner, didn't you oome to this country
to escape from the tyrannical, down•trocidon
sod oppressed Europe ? Didn't you flee to
these happy shores to live in a land of free
dom, where the great right of suffrage is
guaranteed all ; didn't you, furriaer
He paused for a reply, when tho little
peddler squeaked out t
'No, sir, I comes to die country to sell
sheep reedy made ()iodine
The astonishment of the orator, and the
shouts and roars of the multitude, cannot be
described. This finished the harrangue.
Hall's Journal of Health lays down the,
law as follows :—'.lien may live long and in
health who never taste west, but they never
can excel in anything which requites energy.
The nations which eat no meat, as to the
masses, are always inefficient or degraded.
The hundreds of millions of Japan and China
have failed in the centuries of the past in all
that makes a nation or an individual grand
in conception or magnificent in accomplish
ment. They ara tn•day what they were ages
ago, and they live mainly on rice and other
vegetables.'
'Try' is a great word, though it muatera
only three letters. It is the story of every
achievement, from great to small * that the
world has ever seen. The preseeca or ab
sence of its spirit is the mark which dis.
tingaishes the difference in men. The lad
or young man who says he will try, and
mese it, is the one who by and by will sue•
ceed. The head on his shouitters is the go•
ahead, the kind which all good tolka admire,
and which is a credit to itself,
'Sam, what do you suppose is the reason
that the sue goes toward the South in the
winter.'
'Well, I don't know, mama, unless he no
stand the climate of the Nun' and so am
'bligee to go to de Sour, where he aperienees
warmer longitude.'
Pompey,' said a good•oatnred georlemut
to his colored utaa,'•l. did not know till to
day, that you had been whipped last Week.
' Didn ' t you,, mama r' replied Pompey.—
knotted. u itet de same time it occur
red.'
What's the differeuee between) a chilly
mu and *hat dug ? Oaa *eel& s seat and
'the other peaty. •
A barber is alearls ready to ansape an ma.
mailman°.
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