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The Miller's Romance.

The miller leaned over the oaken door,
Quaint shadows swung on the dusty floor
And the spider toiled above his head
With restles labor, and neisless speed
AS one who toiled in deepest need
Like one who toiled for daily bread.
"Ha"' said the miller, "does he pause to
bark?
Hank! harkl hark
To what say the waters deep down in the
dark
Dark. dark! dark!
Turning the numbering, grumbling wheel,
Which means and groans like things that
can feel.'
"Har' smiled tho miller, "he pauses not,
and why
In the sunshine idly pausing L?
While the spiteful waves will but repeat
Repeat! repeat! repeat!
To me the hateful word deceit
Deceit. deceit. dcceitn'
"Nay," said the miller, ether ceaseless
drip,
Drip. drip! drip.
Is like to naught but the noiseless trip,
Trip! trip! trip!
In the dance of her fairy feet,
Or only her laughter cool and sweet.
X
Once more the miller leaned over the door,
Once more the shadows swung on the floor,
Again the truthful waves repeat
Their burthen old, decit! deceit!
Since the red lips unto me have lied,
The spell has lost its power,
For never false heart brings my bride,
Whatever else her dover.
In tlocks of down, the leaves float down
And the floods in the wild March weather;
The mill, the miller, and the miller's lone
dream,
All growing old together. A.A.C.
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helping each the other, are accomplished
only by proper and needed gymnastic exer-
cises. In this we are but imitators of the
wisdom of the Greeks in giving civic hon
ors to skillful ball players; and of the
Romans, in making athletic games popular
for all ranks of the people, from emperor
to slave. Do not then let the Devil cheat
us out Of our priced and religious outdoor
amusements of croquet, base ball, marbles,
boating, ETC., by the hypocritical whine
that they are infested with betting, and
ought therefore to be turned over altogether
to professionals. The cry has no force in
it, for man bent on gambling can lay
stakes upon the fall of sparrow, or the
shock of an earthquake. Thus only can
we attain the realization of the nervous
wisdom of the old Latin axiom,
"Men's Sana in corpore sano'
We also need all this for our mental
health. Then pure literature, such as
we have in the Bible, and in the writings
of Milton, Shakespeare, and others of like
fame, rather than in the blood and buster
trash served up by certain ten cent tracts
and weekly lin more senses than one) peri
odicals, for the amusement of love-lorn
maidens and idle, shallow-brained corner
loungers.
Superadded to all this we must have an
evangelical christianity to permeate our
views and activities, as the Archimedean
screw by which the world is to be lifted
God-ward.
We are glad to believe that Delaware
College, under its new dispensation, man.
aged by such men as constitute its present
Faculty, will fully meet these important
demands, and send out alumni that will
grandly exemplify the prophecy, in all the
walks of life to which, in the Providence
of God, they may be assigned.
There is a singular propriety in holding
these College festivities on tho anniversary
of our national independence. This nation
has done more in single decade than the
world beside has effected in its entire his
tory, in popularizing universal education
among the common brotherhood of man,
and in placing all the marvellous possibili-
ties of scholastic accomplishments within
easy reach of the humblest children of the
race.
1t is also encouraging that you should
have the approving and sympathetic pres
ence of SO many ladies, who have never
failed, since the world began, to illustrate,
through the Gospel, the glory of their
nature-neverc ceased to manifest the Divine
in the human With the regal Esther,
yearning to bless her enslaved kindred, and
the noble daughters of to-day, there have
not been found wanting parallels, in all
ages, to prove that the angels of God still
wandered on earth, to remind mai of Eden,
and give him foretaste of Heaven.
And now, gentleman of the Faculty,
thanking you for your very flattering invi-
tation to speak on this occasion, and the
considerate audience for their patient hear
ing of SO dull an orator, we utter the hearty
and sincere prayer that the Divine hand
may lead Delaware College into the green
pastures, and beside the still waters of
deserved renown: scarcely more than
matched by any institutions of learning in
the land.
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"A wife who had been lecturing her
husband on coming home intoxicated, be-
came inccnsed at his indifference, and ex-
claimed, oh, that could wiring tears of
anguish from your eyes" to which the
hardened wrech hiccupped Tar tai
faint no use, old woman, to-bo-bore fol
water here
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s, {. Cor, Ninth & Market Sis,

COOPER 8. CON1RD
Have Hernanies and Alpacas.
COOPER j. COWARD
Have POplins and POngees.
COOPER & COWARD
Have Black Silks, SI.OO up.
COOPER 8 COWARD
Have White Goods. Hosiery,
Notions.
COOPER g. COWARD
Have Lawns, Piques, sc.
COOPER & COWARD ..-
Have Percales, Ginghams, Prints
COOPER & COWARD
Have Quilts, Linens, Towels.
COOPER & COWARD
Have Cloths, Cassimeres,vestings
COOPER & COWARD
Have Ladies' Suits and ShaWIs.
COOPER & COWARD
Have Boys Clothing.
s. e Cor. Ninth and Market Streets,
June -, ls7l-3m PHILADELPHIA
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| Arkansas is a pleasant State to live in,
because difference of opinion is tolerated
there with such sweet temper and Chris
tian resignation. James Harris, ut Hemp
stead in a recent conversation with friend
said he thought Frank Barnes plantation
poorly cultivated. Barnes believed other
wise, and, to show the earnestness of his
belief, armed himself with double-bar-
relied shot gun and revolver, sought out
Harris killed him at the first fire, and
then riddled the corpse with bullets.
Letters received at the Postoffice De-
partment from DR.. G. Macdonald, Super
intendent of the Postal Money Order Sys-
tenn of the United States, who is now in
London for the purpose of arranging a
money order system between this country
and Great Britain, state that he is meeting
with success, and will probably conclude
his business satisfactorily in few days,
when he will leave for Berlin to make sim
liar arrangements with the postal author
tiles of the German Empire.
Jules Ferry, who continues to be
named in the French papers as about to be
appointed as ambassador to this country
is a member of the Paris bar, and was Il
resolute political opponent of Napoleon III.
| He has written some important political
pamphlets, and been contributor to the
Paris press. In 1869 he was elected to the
Corps Legislatif.
HAsTY CoNCLUsIoN.-Jeremy Taylor
said "Hasty conclusions are the mark of
fool wise man doubteth a fool rageth,
and is confident the novice saith, am sure
it is so; the better learned answers, perad-
venture it may be, so, but, Iprithee, inquire.
Some men are drunk with fancy and mad
with opinion. 1t is little learning and
but little, which makes men conclude
hastily.
The sale of internal revenue stamps
for the fiscal year ended June So 1871, for
tobacco, snuff and cigars shows an increase
of one million five hundred thousand dol
lars i'll receipts over the previos fiscal year.
From the sale of whiskey stamps there
will be falling off in receipts.
Negotiations pending between the United
States and Great Britain for the reduction
of postage were delayed by the attendance
of Minister Shenck upon the sessions of
the Joint High Commission at Washington.
1t is now announced from London that
this important subject will be at once
taken into consideration.
The New York Ecening Post publishes
rumor from Washington that company
of New York capitalists have advanced
the purchase money demanded for the Bay
of SANTANA $500, 900 in consequence of tho
failure Of the United States Senate to rat
ify the treaty and provide for the payment
of the sum demanded by President Baez.
"A notorious gambler who had ruined
his constitution by high living and hard
drinking, said to his physician, the other
day, "Doctor, | suffer the pains of the
damned" "You may think SO now,''
grimly replied the physician, "but you
inst hold on little while, and you'll find
out the difference"
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WILTBERCER'S

from the fruits and will be found much better than
many of tho Extracts that sold. Ask your Grocer
or Druggist for Wiltberger's Extracts. BARL0W'S
INDIGO BLUE is without doubt the best article in the
market, for blueing clothes. 1t will color more water
than four times the weight of indigo, and much
than any other rdsh blue in the market. Tho
only genuine is that put up at ALFRED WILTBERGER's
DRUG STORE, No 233 North Second Street Philadelphia,
Pa The LABELS have both WILrBERGER's and BARLow's
name on them-al others are counterfeit For sale by
most Grocers and Druggists.
WILTBERGER INDELIBLE INK will be found
on trial to be a superior article. Always hand for
sale at reasonable prices. Pure Ground SPICES
Genuine Medicines, Chanois Skins, SpOnges Tapoca,
Pearl, Sago and all articles in the drug line, at
ALFRED WILTBERGER'S DRUG STORE,
No. 233 North Second St., Philadelphia Pa.
July l. 1S7l-1y
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BALTIMORE.
BONE DUST!

The subscriber has just erected at his farm near the
city the most improved machinery for making BONE
DUST and is ready to fill orders for any quantity
which Will be delivered at the shortest notice.
The BONE DUST will lie finer than any heretofore
made by him tno chemical process resoted toy enabling
the Farmer or Planter to sow il with the Drill.
MIR. SAMUE Ell SANDS. well known to the Farmers
and Planters OF the United States the former Editor
of the American Farmer and Rural Register will have
charge of his office, No. 63 SOUTH GAY STREET near
Pratt and will he happy receive the visits or orders
of his old friends.
$40 per ton, put in new bags. No charge for bags.
Farmers and Others invited to visit my works,
have nothing to conceal.
Ny men have nothing nice to perform therefore
have no mon admittance signs on my premises
Persons free to examine my factory, and the odus
operdndi of Dust making.
cannot afford to pay D. 10 90 per commits
sion merchants, my profits do exceed 10 per
Bone Dust, as manufactured by me, is A simple and
IS quality cannot be made to conform to the price,
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LAUGHING WITHOUT GAS!

Over 100 ladies and gentleman Of Cecil county are
now laughing without gas lay reading the AUTO
BIOGRAPHY OF JOHN b. COUGH. tho Great Lee
turer. For sale 10y SAMUEL IOiiAN,
June -, lS1l-:1m Churlestuwn Cecil county Nd.
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GERMAN PRovERBs.-To change and to
better are two different things.-Every
body knows good counsel except him that
hath need Of Poverty is the sixth
sense.-Better free in foreign land that
serf at kome.-Better 60 supperless to
bed than run in dcbt.-There is no good
in preaching to the hungry.-Charity
gives itself rich, but covetousness boards
itself poor.-It is not enough to aim, you
must hit.-The end of wrath is the begin
ming of repentance.-The sun-dial counts
only the bright hours Piety, prudence,
wit and cvility are the elements of true
nobility. mill goes slowly, but it
grinds well.-High houses are mostly
empty in the upper-story.-A hundred
years of wrong do not make an hour of
right arc drowned in the bowl
than in the sea.
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1t is related that soon after war was
declared, one of Bismark's friends said to
him :-"But. my dear Count, only think of
the fearful loss of life this war is going to
superinduce." "Ah, my boy, the world,
though many thousand years old, has not
yet discovered the art of making an omelet
without breaking eggs"
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Letters from San Domingo to the Goth
ult. announce the arrival at Aqua of Pres t
Baez, and confirm his defeat of Cabral.
During the recent engagements between
the Dominicans and Cabrafs forces the
town of San Juan was almost entirely de-
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There are ninety-nine societies for the
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An important question soon to come
before the Secretary of the Interior will
necessitate a decision whether, in the esti-
nation of the laws granting lands and bonds
to railroad companies, a narrow gauge
road with light rolling stock is a ''frst-class
railroad" such as those laws reduire to be
built. The Secretary will probably refer
the matter to special commission CON-
posed of some of the leading railroad men
of the country. The indications are that
the narrow gauge, two feet six inches or
three feet, will be largely adopted in future.
1t has many elements of economy, speed
and salty.
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A Sermon Preached out of Hollow Tree
BY A LOVER OF MALT.

Beloved, let me call your attention, for
am a little man come out at short warning,
to preach a brief sermon upon a small sub
ject to thin congregation in an unworthy
pulpit. And now, my beloved, my text is
"Malt," which 1 cannot divide into SEN
fences, because there are none nor into
words, it being but one nor into syllables,
because upon the whole matter it is but a
mono syllable therefore must, of neces-
sity, divide it into letters, which find in
my text to be on these four, viz Mall
T-Malt. NJ, my beloved, is moral. A is
allegorical. L is literal, and 7 is theolog
cal. The moral is well set forth to teach
you drunkards good manners, wherefore,
NJ, my masters A, all of you; L, listen ::
T, to my text. The allegorical is when
one thing is spoken and another thing is
meant. The meant is strong beer, which
you rustics make. NJ, meat; A, apparel !;
l., liberty; T, treasure. The literal is ac-
cording to the letter. M, much A, ale !;
l., little T, theft. The theological is &C
cording to the effect which it works, which
l find in my text of two kinds first. in
this world second, in the world to come.
In this world the effects which it works are
in some-M, murder in others, A, adultery
in some, L, looseness of life in Others T,
treasure. In the world to come, NJ, misery;
in others, A, anguish in some, l., Ian
gushing in others, T, torment. where
fore, my first shall be by way of exhorta-
tion-M, my masters ; A, all of you L,
leave ; T, tippling Or else, secondly. by
way of communication, say, NJ, my mas
tiers A, all of you; L, look for, T, tor
ment. So much for this time and text :;
only by way of canton take this. A drunk
ard is an annoyance of modesty, the trou-
BILE of civility, the spoil of wealth, the de-
struction Of reason, the Brewers agent,
the ale-house benefactor, the beggar's COM
panion, the censtable's trouble, the wife S
woe and children's sorrow, his neighbors
scott, his own shame, walking swill tub,
the picture of a beast, the monster of man.
Say we'll and do we'll are both of letter,
Say we'll is good, but do we'll is better
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Fifty feet of the bottom of the Wyom-
ing Canal, near Wilkesbarre, sank sudden
ly on recently. draining the whole level.
The canal was constructed over deserted
chambers of a coal mine, and the accident
was caused by the falling in of their roof
The water which washed through filled
adjoining chambers, and had the disaster
not occurred on holiday, there would
have been terrible loss of life. Moral you
can't have coal mines and canals on the
same piece of land.
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THE TREATY MYsTERY.-Who struck
Billy Patterson, was a momentous question
once with the aforesaid Hiberian and his
Immediate friends. The guess was not
successful as history relates, but William
learned to keep his aching cocoanut more
carefully. The United States Senate is
pressing an enquiry Of about equal i'm.
portance and with no more fattering pros
pect of success. 1t may learn from this
little story, useful moral, and save its
endangered dignity.
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oFFICE--No. MARSHALL BUILDING,
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