Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1874-05-01


gone. perhaps never to return; and If he
will be any richer than when he left, and
! want to marry rich man, Oh, how |
would like to frt with Guy he could
not blame me, for it is so fashionable to
firt," could she only have known the
consequences A few weeks after, a
dashing young man came into the neigh
borhood, and it soon became rumored
around that he was rich.
Ella thought that was her chance and
resolved to set her cap for him, and inn
mediately took off Guys engagement
ring A few days after that Ella met
Mr.. Davenport Edward Davenport was
his name) at pleasant country picnic,
and Mr.. Davenport was struck with the
remarkable beauty of Ella. and when the
people were leaving the picnic grounds
for their homes Mr. Davenport procured
Elias permission to visit her After this
Mr.. Davenport's visits became quite fire.
quent at Mr.. Darc's, (Ella's father) and,
to make long story short, Mr.. Daven-
port courted the pretty country girl and
procured her hand in marriage. Let us
now see what Guy has been doing all
this time. When he arrived at st. Louis
he got position in large business
house and was doing splendidly, he was
quitea happy young man, for he saw that
his prospects were such, that in q few
years he could return, all his bright hopes
would be realized. While sitting in his
office one day, after he had been about a
year and a-half in st. Louis, thinking
how soon it would be before he would see
his parents and friends, and how glad
Ella would be to see him, for he had no
idea how she had treated him, he hap
pened to glance over his county news
paper and saw there the statement of
Ella Dare's marriage with Edward Dav-
EXPORT, he could scarcely believe it, but
there could be no mistake about it, as
there was not another Ella Dare in the
whole country His heart was broken,
it was too much for him, he tainted, aud
few hours after, one of his fellow-clerks
coming in found him lying on the floor,
corpse, the victim Of broken heart.
And, reader, that is "What came of it. 4"
st Johns College.
A SPLENDID DESCRIPTION On GER
tain occasion, one Paul Denton, Metho-
dist preacher in Texas, advertised a
barbecue, with better liquor than usually
furnished. When the people bad assem-
bled, desperate in the crowd cried out.
''Mr. Paul Denton, your reverence has
lied. You promised not only good
barbecue, but better liquor Where's
Fthe liquor
"There p answered the missionary
in tones of thunder, and pointing his
/ long, bony fingers at the matchless double
spring gushing up two strong columns,
with sound like shout of joy from the
bosom of the earth There p he re-
peated with look terrible as lightning,
while his enemy fairly trembled at his
feet, ''there is the liquor which Cod the
Eternal, brews for all his children"
"Not in the simmering still, over
smoky fires chokcd with poisonous gases,
and surrounded with the stencil of sick
ening odors and corruption, doth your
Father in Heaven prepare the precious
essence of life, pure cold water. But in
the glade and grassy dell, where the red
deer wanders and the child loves to play;
there God brews it aud down, low down,
in the deepest valleys, where the foun-
tain murmurs and the rills sing; and
high up in the mountain tops, where thu
naked granite glitters like gold in the
sun, where the storm clouds brood and
the thunder storms crash; aud out, out
on the wide, wide sea where the hurri
cane bowls music, and the big waves rol
the chorus, sweeping the march of Goo
4 there he brews it-beverage Of life
health giving water. And everywhere
it is a thing of beauty cleaning in thu
dcw-drop, singing in the summer rain
shining in the ice gem, till they seen
turned to living jewels spreading gold
en- vein over the setting sun, or whit
gauze around the midnight moon, sport
ing in the cataract; sleeping in the gla-
zier; dancing in the hail shower; folding
its bright curtains softly around the
wintry world, and weaving the many
colored iris, that seraphs zone of the air,
whose word is the rain drops Of the earth,
and checkered over with the celestial
powers Of the mystic hand of fefraction
that blessed lifc-water, no poison bub-
blcs on its brink, its foam brings moi
madness and murder no blood stains its
liquid glass; pale widows and starving
children weep not burning tears in its
depths Speak out my friends; would
you exchange it for the demons drink,
alcohol
A shout like the roar of the tempest
answered Nor
This most beautiful of all descriptions
Of water, has for many years formed the
chief beauty of Coughs Temperance
Lectures; the lecturer giving it as origi-
nal.
A Western paper announces the death
of lady celebrated for the purity Of
her character and complexion"
A burglar at Fort Smith, Ark, on
leaving house which he had robbed Of
5000, stepped into bucket Of soft soap
under the window, so that be was easily
tracked and captured.
To TELL Coon EGos.-If you desire'to
be certain that your eggs are good and
fresh, put them in water; if the butts
turn up, they are not fresh. This is an
infalIible rule TO distinguish a good egg
frotn had ono