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JUST THE THING
WIIICEI ALL MUST 111118 I
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OW is the time to ecintoinize when money is
scarce. You should study your 'interest by
supplying your wants at the first class store of (3.-
N. BEAVER. North-east corner of the Diamond.
lie does business on the only successful methods
_viz:_by buyina_his_goods for _cash, The old fogy
idea of buying goods at high prices and on Ingo
credits is
EXPLODED.
Call and examine our fine stock and don't be
RUINED
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
HATS, all of itte very Tateet styles aticr to sultan,
at C, N. BEAVER'S
BOOTS. ell kinde - and prices,
at - C. N. BEAVER'S,
L-3111.0"EST6reior-y—d-thicription—for-INera'erhadieeli
,, ' . ' and CM!fa — M - 3 wear,
CLOCKS, every one warranted anti sold
NM /Eh ME VE R
TRUN e vs y best-marrufacturer
also warranted and soil
by C. N. BAEVER.•
VALISES, of every kind, also very cheap.
at C. N. BEAVER'S.
HATS, for Ladies, Misses and Children, a fresh
supply received every week and sold
by C. N. BEAVER.,
NOTIONS, a full line as follows, sold
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PAPERE COLLARS: for Men and Boys wear,
— lllo — Most complete and finest assortment in_town,
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HOSIERY, of every kind, for - sale,
by C. N. BEAVER.
GLOVES, far Men ar.ll Boys wear,
Si C. N. BEAVER'S.
hUsPENDERS, for Men and Boys wear,
at C. N. BEAVER'S,
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BROOMS AN D . BRUSHEs, of the very best
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TOBACCO, to suit the taste of all, .
- at C. N. BEAVER'S.
CIGARS, which cannot be beat, for sale.
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q tahty, for sal.
at
INK and PAPER, of every description,
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CANDIES, always fresh ton, for sale,
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CRACKERS; of every ki V.N.C. BEAVER'S
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KEROSENE, of the veilLeat.— P
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at
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And many other articles not necessary to mention.
We now hope that you will give us kahale of your
patronage. We are indeed, thankful to you for past
patronage, and hope a continuance of the same,
and remain youn truly,
(.:I.AItENCE N. BEATER.
Waynesboro', June 2.,1870.
D.S.SMITH
Has a complete assortment of
Ladies,
Gentlemen's,
Misses ,
Children's
BOOTS, HOBS AIM GUMS.
Call and see goods and wit. prices.
TIIO3.ISON'a c , GLOVE FITTING COR
80S; at ,
SCHOOL BOOKS
and
SCHOOL STATIONERY
of all kinds at Szerntie Tows Ball Store.
H A ,AND ' CAPS ,
fell 'stock new fasalyeousisting of all the
Utast styles, at
PAiRR COLLARS,
Ties; Suspenders, Gloves, everithing in That
Hot at SMITH'S
' ' • Town Hall Store.
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M.II 4 I 4 INERY GOOD
' TO THE Lawitst
itilf.t.' L. ROLLIN DERWR bag. iffr re
.ceitad, a. popplY of Bar. Millinery goods
areirmitea 44) cell and eininine bir
, .
Tha highest *east price will be rola for
Cost iron &rope 4clivered atiko mike of kb.
t Poi • . GEWER.M.CO.
WO 2
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want to ask °be laver of you, Aubrey,
before 1 die.
The speaker was a young man who was fast
nearing the other world, and the chills of
death were creeping through his veins Ile
wore a soldier's uniform and lay , upon a pal
let of straw with no one lozbid him good-hi*,
and
• sea his last struggle,' but Lt. Aubrey
.Morton knelt beside him and took his hand
within his own. '
'Anything you ask, William, I will de, if
!flied) in my. power.'
'f.Threif years ago,' said the dying man,'l
Uret . sed loved - H*lgs Marston . • 1 worip•
ped her, and she-favored my attention, and
at last I proposed to her, and Although she
did not formally eogege, herself to me, yet
she gat/Glee all reason to hope that one day
she would be my wife, • Those days' were
blissful• ones to me, but they were of short
duration..:.Ethylia hlerston was false, she
told one at leagth that Abe did not love , me.
Theiliettod in My heart was deep ead.litating;
for weeks I tasted little food and knew little
sleep. • Life for me lost all its obartue,Aod
oaring little what become - of 'me' I enlisted
in the. army, and now the sod of my exits
tines is almost here. Aubrey, I 'ion to be
evened. I desire her to feel elf the agony
I base felt, and I Wantsyoulb sweet - to me
.that, if possible, you will gale her . affeetious,
sad then east her off is she east me Off, and
made me a ruined heartbroken man.'
SHIT H'S.
The young Lieutenant hesitated. Should
he swear to deceive a womaa and, Perhaps
blight her yang life -
The dying mantaw thsOis emends hesi
tated, and be rapped his band with.nmigh
ty effort while a glean' el'aextene light shone
his eyes. •
'.,'Aubrey, yen' line me,' he said' almost
'fiercely; 'promise me that if 'itlietb 1* your•
poweryon will avenge toe. Place your band
on this bible azi swear to it. lam going.
WAYNESBORO', FRANIUN COUNTI, PENNSfLV,AIsIIA, TRURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUAKY 284871..
rpOurrlCAza.
:8)111 R ET
BY AtICE CARL
Py friend:, Bets': await
By which you may thrive;
I em fifty years old,
And my site's Orty-fiieL—
A queen among beauties.
The wedding-guests 'old,
When we went to the church e
With the priest, end were wed.
'That's thirty long yeast pest ;
A r.d I can aVow,
She was no more a beauty
To ma, then, than now.
For never the eceth of s
Petulent frown
Jiss ploughed with furrows
Her young roses down.
And still, like a girl, when
Her praises I speak,
iler heart I fairly,blu.has
. 4 Itself throughiker cheek.
Herwmitelormore - tender
I •
e tit •
And - th - e - httle - birpowder
That makes her hair white.
Arid all the soft - patience
That shows through her tele,
In my (yea, are only
Like grace upon grace.
Ferstill we are lovers,
As I am alive,
Thongth A, sir, am fifty
And she's forty.6ve !
And s here'a half ne secret -
I meant to unfold,
Bfue.donh know, my friend,
Not the least, how to scald!
Nor does she7get pettish,
And sulk to epelst,
So, sinee_svefell in love,
Wr never fed out !
And here's the folk secret
That savesu a from itrifa
I kept het a sweetheart,
In making her Wife !
And if yon but wad on
My pattern, you'll thrive,
For I, air, am fifty,
My wife, orty-fivo!
TIM BIGHT SPIRIT.
Should you feel inclined to censure
Faults you may in others view,
Ask your own life, ere you venture,
If that has, not failings, too,
Let not friendly vow• be broken ;
Rather strive a friend to gain ;
Many a nerd in:anger spoken.
Findd its passage back again.
Do pet; then, in idle pleasure,
Trills with a brother's fame ;
Guard it d■ a valued trresure—
barred as your own good name.
Do not form opinims
Hastiness to trouble tents;
Those of whozi;we thought unkindly,
Oft become our warmest friends.•
• =,
A SINGULAR VOW.
A. XixclejpreazdLeirttp , Araaksll:7" NeovViatie‘lioeir.
With sites almost as white as tbat of the
dying man. Aubrey placed' his trembling
hand ern thcettured.book sag made the re
quired vo*.„. A look of eatisfsetien shone on
the dying sOldiar'e face.
'Thank you,' he said feehly, 'there is so
one who will sled a tear for me bat you, old
comrade. Tell Ethelyn. when you have bra
hes her heart, that 'William Ilaskiss is a ,
venged. O, Ethelyn, lithelyn, you will nev
er suffer more than 1 have—Etkelyn Sam
toe, of Mystic 'Valley. Find hir Astbiey,
if you have is look the world over. I ,am
going- • —kiss me, Aubrey—l. love yea. Good
bye,
Morton Bert over the dying man, kissed
his cold brow, while team gathered in his
eyes and his voice choked, with etantioa.—
William Haskins was dead . ; lie closed his
sightless eyes and with a sad heart pilipaied
the body of his, friend for burial,
A year passed . by, and peace hovered ogee
more over our bleeding, country, and Aubrey
Morton, clothed in oitiretis' dress and crows•
ed with a hero's glory, was spending. the win
ter in New York city. He had eot par sought
for Ethelya Mantua, but had' promised lim•
self that ie the spring be would ge to Mystic
Valley, and do what his heart had_already
dts —gaiirthe-Friffojticrminf-a-wcimma-on
to cast them off. Hie only hopes was that
she might not love him, although be had
promised to do all in his power to gait 'her
love. One gloriosa night in mid winter, Au
brey Medoff entered' the spacious drawing
room el Nis. Dana, which iris already filled
- with-the - eclat - of New York. Ile was grow
in: tired of all - this show nod affectstionea-d
disgusted with fasitienehle-ii e— e saw
pretty Mn.s Davis et the upper end of the
room—s -WOO:to- et—ltelee II • - et
was something about her ehartninxly original,
and Aubrey Morton admired her and eajoy
ed her society more than any other woman
Eke knew in the room. They had ebsttered
together but a few minutes, when Mrs. Davis
said:
'Time a coati,' from the 'country here
thii evening, aid you mast set 'ter. Yon
surely will not complaitrof her being affected,
you—will—ltke — herT--She—is—a
guilele i ss creature.'
Jest then the cousin mentioned made her
appearance.
'Oh, here she is Mr. Mortara,' said Mrs.
Davis, taking the hand of a beautiful young
girl, while she infra - oldest them in a familiar
way. Ethelyn Marstos, he Galled the pret
i-ty-cousin, and at the sound of -that name
Aubrey Mortod turned pals,"and gave a ht—
tle nervous start, bat ere he was aware, Baia.
lyn Marston's white hand lay upon his arm,
and they were walking among the rare flow
ers in the conservatory. This beautiful
young girl was from Mystic Valley, Mrs. Da
vis had told him, and be knew it was the
same Ethelyn Marston whom he had 'promi
sed to deceive. She was a rare, beautiful crea
toter and as he gazed on her loveliness he
did not wonder that William Ilaskin's heart
hid broken for her. lint her greatest charms
was not in personal beauty. Iler 'conversa
tion showed rare intellect, simplicity aid in.
nocenee. Ile could not discover a sign of
coquetry is her notions.' She wits frank, yet
a little shy, and the hour be spent with her
was the happiest he had known for weeks.—
At the hour of departure ho planed the rich
mantle about her shoulders, and aisisted her
to the carrage, while strange emotions filled
his heats. Ile went to his room in the .ho•
tcl, but the light of her eyes followed him,
and all eight he tossed restlessly upon his
couch, sometimes calling upon William Has.
kiss to make him free from that awful vow.
In the morning he,called upon her at Mrs.
Davis' and found her more beautiful and
charming than ever, and io the days that fol.
lowed ha became a constant visitor there, and
learned to love her with the fervor and ear
nestness of his heart, and he •knew by the
flashing cheek at his approach, and the tea
der light in Ler eyi, that he was as well loved.
It wee the evening beford Ethelyo's return
to her home in the Mystio Valley, and oho
was 'sitting with a book at Aubrey Morton's
feet reading 4 Alaud'in a low, mellow voice.
Suddenly she threw her book aside, and look.
ing into het eumpanioa's face, she said eager-
Is: 'How glad my mother will be to see me!'
'And how sorry I shall be to loose 'you!
0, Ethe, bow can 1 live when you are gone?'
The maiden's face greiv red, and she hid
it on his knee while she laid lief soft *bite
band on his_ arm in a tenderomiesaing way.
,The young man's heart brat temultuoisly
at he gathered the bright Hato form to his
bosom, and pouredin her ear tCpassionate
tale of love. ,
•Anniter, me, • Ethe,' be said, 'So you love
me?'
She looked into bia eyes while a Moisture,
was in her owe. . .
. .
'Aubrey,', she said, 'words tapiot tell, yea
bow dear you are to me.
At these welds her lover'S facie grew pale;
for the first.titip siooe'sbe sat at Ole knees
readiog 'Nand,. he thought of hill row to
Wm. Haitians.
Passionately he kiiised the rosy mouth
crying painfully, my darling may
God bless and sustain you. • Would you
mourn if I should prove false to you
There was a frightened look in. the beau
tiful brown eyes liaised beseechingly to. his.
• 'lt would kill me,' slit tali,. while her lips
quivered and a -tear rolled down her cheek.
'Oh Beane° l''said• the ambeppy Morton
yet I have Made m vow that it • should be so. -
•We must part %raver.'
The beautiful fame uplifted to ,his. grew
deathly white, the • blue voined•. • eyelids
drooped, the long lashes swept •the
•oheek,amblifelass the beautiful form ley up-
Ow his bosom His. kisses and tender-wards
brought.her batik to lifetigaisi, but the color
came'nor back to, her cheeks. ,She•dieeogeg
ed herself from his arms, and wi,b one. re
.prneektui glance eke turned to,,lescre -him.—
lie aptangfarward and caught her :hawk--
.Ethelya.' ho said. promised o avenge
William TI askine.
he looked bewildered William Haskins
she cried, never saw him ot,y should he
seek to injure tob •
'You never saw him ?' said Kortrio, ex
eitsd, 'Who ars you, then ?
Ethelyn smiled.' There was another
Ethelyn Marston,' she said, 'aid I was eam•
ed for her., William Haskinewes her lover
but she is married to Henry' , Dalton 'sow;
your, la the first *Vowel or love I hat , * ever
heard.
The storm hgpsese,,'and Ethelyo*Marl•
tbo promised t marry Orel Morton, and
the next day ascompi d hor to Mystic Val
ley, feeling mere like free sad honest 'man
than he had felt before since the death of
William Haskins. He met with Mre Dal-
ton, with whom he talked concerning hie
old comrade,•while she confessed her error,
and wept that he had died unforgiving.
Thus they became good friends, and be
soon claimed Ethelyo Marston for his wife
and happily they lived together ill the days
of their lives.
A Woeful Tale.
A Nerth German paper receives directly
from a relative of the young lineman et
, -eriojqueotimoTairiEfillovving FoTicliWreo*
tal : The *mummy to which the young officer
belonged captured twenty-five Frane-tireurs,
and upon iatimirieg at headquarters as to
their disposal, received orders that they be
immediately shot. The duty devolved upon
biol. The-young-man -though no -coward '
hesitated in the execution of such a terrible
but dMt_wcaeitp peari - tooTive_eltil
-10f4COs . m con
dueled to a" neighboring - woadorbere, upon-1
-a-liatle-ele-vatiotere_te—meet—their_l
fate. Among them was a youth of hardly I
eighteen years, witEe gentle and almost mai- '
den•like lace, in which culture was plainly
to be traced. This peer unfortunate had not
.courage to die. .fle trembled is all hie body,
and a stream of tears coursed down his death.
ly pale' cheeks. ' Baddebly fear seized him is
a terrible wily, and before the guard could
prsyeet him be had throws himself at the
foot of the German officer, sad convulsivel ,
Id his kip- ld -ed
clespeL dIS knees any regged inutteroble - woe
for his life. Fear gave him meet touching
words of prayer, he besought the deeply
grieved officer by his own parents not to rub
him of their only MIL It would have moved
a stone. The heart of the poling German
swain in tears) still he dared not disobey his
military duty. It was the most fearful mo
ment of his life. The path — iv - II led bask
to' the fatal spot, and in another moment his
misery was at an ead--=the balls riddled his
heart. The feelings of pity however, googol..
came the young German that he fell into a
swoon. Ile awoke a madman, and is to-day
in an asylnin in Germany.
Fatalism Illustrated.
A Hard-shell Baptist minister, living some
where on the frontier of Missouri, was in the
habit of saying (0 his family and to his
church: 'Friends, you need sot take any us
usual care about, your lives; the moment of
your death wait written before the founda—
tion of the world, and you cannot alter it!--
His wife observed when be left on Saturday
to meet ,one of his frontier missionary engage
ments, that he dressed the flint of his rifle
witb unusual care, put in dry powder, fresh
tow, and took every pains to make sure that
the gun would ge off in ease he came upon
an Indian.
It struck nor one day as she SAW him in
tke saddle, with his rifle oa his shoulder,
that hie conduct eostradieted his teaching,
and she said to him 'My dear why do you
take this rifle with yen? if it was 'writ' be
fore the foundation of the world that you
were to be killed during this trip by an Lodi.
ea, that rifle won't prevent it; and if yeu are
not to be killed of (worse the rifle is none—
comfy; so why take it with you at all?'
'Yes,' he replied, 'to be sure, my dear, of
course you are all very right, and that is a
very proper view; bat, see here, my dear—
now—really--but then, you see, my dear—
suppose I should meet an Indian while 1 am
gone, and his time.had come, and I hadn't
my tifla with me what would he do?, Yes,
my dear, we must all contribute our part to.
card the fulfillment of the decrees of Provi.
deuce.?
Shun evil speakers. -Vaal tenderly with
the absent, say nothing to infliet a wound no
their reputation. They may bit wiong and
'rioted, yet your ituouledge of It does, not
oblige you to disclose their ebersoter, except
to-save others from injury. Then do it in a
way that bespeaks 4 *pick of kiodoess to the
absent offender. Be sot hasty to credit evil
reports. They are often the result of Wien
deretanding, or evil design, or they proceed
from ao exaggerated , or partial disclosure of
facts. Wait mullein. the whole history be
feral** decide., then believe what evidence
compels you to, and no more. Bat, even then,
take beecl not to iod'elge the least unkind—
ness', else you dissipate-ill the spirit cf your
prayer 'for them, and alseerve youraell for do
.ing them good. .„
The microscope reveals the feet dist a
speck of pdtatto , rot the eine of- s' pin head
contsios about two hundred • ferocious little
animals, biting sod ehowiegasetk other say
agely, sod mierotatopists fled ia • every, tea ,
spoonful of raw sugar *boat a thousand 'of
iheigliest little *retches' wriggling iboit,
with borne sad daggers ready to poke them
through oar vitals at say, mommat o sod with
out tie , slightest commotion iu fact, they
tatbei . like it. -•
I_l
4
'A clergyman *as reproving a parishioner
forlis habits of intemperance, and
. told ,him ;
that IT bloke, was , the greatest onomy t ' , Are
we not told is Scripture to love our ofiensiear
Cald tho irreverent top% "Yes, John; re•
plied the mioister; 'but it is not said we .are
to swallow them.
How the Money Gem
Not long. niece, osoupyiog a 'chair in *
erber shop, says the ILrie . Republic/my, wq
verheard a gentleman, whore we knew to
e rather a free-and easy liver, Mid- 'Welter
00, for that matter, thongi hi tievarget the
aid get the better of him, relate his expo
autos of keeping an MOUS of,the amount
t had cost ,him to 'stud treat' far the ye;r
870. He said be knew his creeper of filo
was a ea&•draw on 'hie' Misuse,' and on the,
rat' of the put year he determieed 'to' del
•ow mach he really wasted id 'crooking his
(bows; and other similar anuaiemeota i,and
o that end he put down every night the a.
snot he had spent during the day. On
the first of Jim., 1871, he footed np his so.
•east, writ amounted to betweeo seven
od eight hundred dollar& These figures
tattled him, and he has concluded duriog
he year 1871 to allow 'all his friend' to
"mod treat.' The moral is obviate; 'Co
~ sob so that *tether gentian:lle of our. so.
• Waterloo to whoa we related the 'Arenas.
canoe, and who fir year; hai beau io the
abit of Malting is his lager; thought he
wo would try thiexperiment and see if he.
, bold not stop the leak is his finances, Cod
leo en almost, chromic headache and n bed,
ernperoe_he haseyt_m up his lager, sad,
it-the-placiol--tt-takes-tate,--justfl •
.oat of six glasses of the beverage, sad eare
ully lays it away. When the nom this tak
e ',are amorists to fire dollars he depu
te it in the Savior Bank. He hu been
ryiag this experiment far a mouth -nod fled'
t works well, and - kola falifieternsiiiid to
eep this thing going.; Ali hi says
wiratith.ui• •• . • , , bil;
drop meet him with - .miles — arid: , earesm,
lad-whew- i qi a - eoeiee
" Never Say Die.
Young lawyers sometimes despair of 4e
,fences which give - no eiceuragemest, bet old
practitioners—mere especially when the fees
are remuestative and cdtais : .-can , set
diseouragoments held forth by, the evidence,
'net to be isOutiterbalineed and overetimi hi
Traditional !leftmost and sagacity well paid.
' A prisoper was esee arraigned in Kent
eounty,, bitoh.,, for stealing poik. He retain
ed a young, talented, sad inseam member
of the profession for his defense.
Having Maned to the prisoner's owe story
and beard from him what, is all probability,
the people's witnessess would swear to, he
candidly informed his client that it was use•
less to outs money whie'defeecte._
'Nerd wird,' was the eosfident 'reply;
you argue my ease good and strong, just as
'if you believed me s permitted rum, and
here is $2O for you.'
The lawyer worked up to the eontraet, and
before he had half summed up he had the
jury in tears at the hare ides of datobing
such a bright example of domestic' end soctiel
worth from the bosom of his family and the
society of his neighbors, to be thrust among
felons is,a common jail.
To his astosiehmeet his appail — war effect
tive—the prisoner was acquitted.
Closeted together after the earliest and
discharge of the culprit, and the $2O having
been paid orer t _the lawyer said:
• 'By the by, B ,
that was a mod eau
prising verdict, considering what the Gov
ernment proved"
Ifot at all,' was the cool reply: set' xof aunt
jurymen liad some of the pork,
The mercury in that lawyer's bump of self-
esteem fell to dro.—Rufus Ramer. '
OLD AGE AND GOOD HEALTII.-..Dr. Dio
Lewis, who is good authority on the subject,
says :
Fiery person of remarkable longevity,
whose habits I have studied, retired to rest
at an early hour ; but I have beard of oolong
liver who habitually eat up till a late boar,
and I may add that, among them ail, I have
never heard of a large 'eater.
Eat right aid sleep iigbt, and yen have
the two fundamental conditions of health and
long life. * * But eit np is a forum,-
heated room till 11 o'clock and eat the quo.
thy and quality Of food consumed by people
who believe in abort life and a . merry ono,
and you. may rest assured, that the yearly
trip to the mountains, a mouth's mole of
Saratoga waters, and the attendance of a
fashionable lector—all put together—will
fail to save you from early wrinkle!, early
loss of eight, premature gray hair, and a
short life.
Then, do yon ask me; how you o*a reaeb
85 in the enjoyment of all your fsoulties2-
_I reply, go to bed at .9 o'clock, and: eat
twice a day a moderate quantity of plebs
food.
Tux SEXTON AND' TIM DOCTOR.- A &Doi
Massachusetts doctor meta 4,exton tkra the
Arcot one day. Attar the usual ealutatiee,
the doctor berm to cough.
4 Why, doctor,' said the /*Volt 'you bats
got .a cold. Bow Jong bare you h ad that?'
, 'Look h •blr Sexton,' Raid thef : dontor,
with a ahoy of iailiawatiati, 'What your
charge for interment?'
'Oes doliar,''wits the reply.
Well,' continued be, 'jut come into my
offtoe,aril I. will pay it. I don% want to
have you round, and ao 'axiom aboat my
health.'
The eeztoo vies soon /tea with' big, bow ,
setts. Turning rotted to the doctor,' he. .re.
r , • , -
. •Ab,,doetor, osonot afford to, bury you
yet. Bueioeu has,oover„heen,so good as it
has peso goo° you begao,to pratitipit!
fir"
They toll of a p nter in fientatilti who
Wail 80i Ins that who wint,telsoct trim
Le worked BO skirl* th ho abide' or his
broad.biirted bat killed he Pleat; '"
•
it?llre is a lupe tweeted with every
Fan the-'Waters. try which is very
refreshing- In 'lows, *nataace, there ie a,
hay &Id that conapris 5,000 acres. -I
02:00 Maar Tomo
),, r "I
' 'Bam4 lifaitallwity Mtn •
he hist iree'ry'bomes from Note , ;lir: ,
say. ' bi'telyin the 'interior of that State, a
tnildlooking oaretryman entered , a• railroad
car. bearing a bundle tie(t• up in a .haudkee.
he irieed under hia•seat at the
end'of the oar. • Alter traveling alouvlor
bout half as hOlif b allay •eittinglia front of
theirtoontryqoaa was obatrvedAto move Unsaid.
ly its Iterseat, lind,to oast savage glances• at
aleetaingly tespeotsble man sitting by bet
aide, :1 II
Io a few momentsrafterwards another lea
ay, still further to the front, teasel° uneasy,'
'and 'arlset riding le her seat, requested that
some gentleman io the oar would proteet 'bar
from an elderly•looking gentleman by her
side, sod whom she
,stated bad insulted her.
A dozes personi•off4red their sesistanos
and 'before' the sensed could speak io his
owo.defeecsi his hat-was jammed over his
,eyes, spd ha was dragged to the rear of the
oar.
While there, sad ruffling an with the e.
'angora a war of awls as to what the Lodi'.
uity •meant, soother lady rose, also seated fur.
'her up the oar, and amused s gentleman sit.
sing behind her with improper waded. A
rub *h. Made for imatltant cumber two, bat
that gestleman vigorously defended himself
with a walki , stick which be happened to
have , (and winch, y t e way, was ooe e'suse
of the last troubles, his ansuser stating that
be bad iodeoorouslY been rapping her ankles
nadir the seat with the same), and while the
struggle to get at him was stilt in progress,
somebody in the iroeCof tin ear shunted
there's a 'snake on the floor.' A - iroone then
ensued--TheAndiesin_the_oar elamberin u
onto tbs seats, and many got on the arms
ed to stood oo the backs of ' two east',
li-ttre - -best-eireuiituanner-poset e-ne • er-t e—
circiumetanees,,while a young mother threw
her baby into a-pareel rack, and then hang
couvUlsivelx to,e ventilator.
The confusiob swoki the entintryman, who,
being tad of the snake, first felt in his
bundle, nod *ewe:flamed, blamed if •
• that, old eel ain't get loess.' started for the
hoot,. and soon returned grasping firmly an
immense cal, which he bad first caught, while
-out fisitiag, but-whick when brought late
the oar, had &staged to get oat of the boo
dle, end had weeded its way to the front, lov
iogly caressing the different varieties of le
l dies' garters which he eneonotered on the
gay. Apologies given sod received etraigh•
tened everything in that oar but the hat that
was jammed dodo, sod the countryman hay.
- iogit tbi next - statien, se bloo-d-wardrawo7----
THE PRIDE OP ANOEBTRY.—What a silly
boast it is to boast of oar ancestry when we
reflect that, choice or noble as it may be, it
bee become very much diluted before de
mending very far. A writer who seems to
have had the curiosity, as he has the tints,
nays that every human being on the facie of
the globe is compelled; by the demand of us
tare; to have two parents, fourgrandparents,
eight great•graadparents, sixteen ancestors in
the fourth generation back, thirty-two in the
fifth, two hundred a■d fifty.six in the eighth,
thirty-two thoussod Mal hundred and eigb•
ty-six ii the fifteiiith, almost a million and
fifty. thousand' is the twentieth, and nearly
one thousand and sevesty-three millions in
the thirtieth,. The whole number of one's
ancestors io the fiftieth generation is 5,362,-
794:914,214,048, a number which no man
can mother and - ne mind conceive. The blood
of this vast host• is running through the veins
of every mutat on earth, and that reckoning
back only fifty generations.
AN . EDlrottrAL
,BRIITIIS —Hear us for
our debts,' and get ready, that you may pay;
trust us, we' have ,need, as you have lung boon
trusted; acknowledge your indebtedness, and
diie into your pockets that yen may prompt..
ly fork out. if there be.any among you—
one single patron—that don't owe us some
thing, then to biro we say, step aside, consid
er.yourself a. gentleman. if the rest wish
to knoerwhy:we ciao them , this is oar arks
wer: Not ttuAt we care about ourselves b u t
oar creditors do. Would you rather that we
wool to goal,"and you go free, then pay your
debts and keep us moving? As we agreed,
we bare worked for you; as we contracted,
we have furnished the paper to you; but as
you don't pay us, we dun you Here are a
greemente for job work, contracts for sub
eeripsion, remises Jot long credits, and doss
for deferred payment.
• ,
Who is there so ignorant that be don't take •
paper? •
If any, he need not speak, for we don't mean him.
Whir is there so given that don't advertise?
If in,f,let him elide, ha ain't the chap either.
Who is there, so.nicvn that he don't pay the printer!
if any.. let him speak, for he's tho man were after.
'Cottustie wltt. Wist.—=Ones a keeper of
an sapiens had osouion to go upon the roof
of the ,bnilding--a very high one. A patient
unobserved, quickly mounted the ladder af
ter; him, and confronting the' keeper at the
top; told him if he (the keeper) did not
jump ;down, be (the heostio) would throw
hint slowa.. There was no mistaking the
menaoiog look and sotto. Escape was impos
sible. • Budeely happy thought amok the
'keeper.
• ,fiar said he, with an sir of euy cold
•denoo,,itojamp down would be no great fest.
I, toll you whet— I'll go down and jemp up.
The madman was off the Boost et once.
The notion pleased • hits:imiiessely. Both
ileseended the ladder, and the keeper sav
ed his life by this InOky stratagem.
.1 -, rheiti is Msebise :opetation is Ent
Sewer, Maim% which , a-an make tbirteee
thonsanci.toothoielts in a minute; yet the
demand is greater than the supply.
`).- 'Aqwy mill' is' ix' 'yew be like last l' teems
leelo
0 Peretell 1870, sot next year .will bet
-1/3744!) •., -..,, . ..
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