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BObbit'.S Party.
Mrs. Pussy-cat one night

Bobbit stood on tiptoes on the top
steps before a brcwn-stOne house, lean
ing on the railing, and peering into the
brightly lighted room where there wa a
shining Christmas tree, and a crowd of
merry children dancing about it.
f. There was music in there too, and Bob
bit s poor little fiddle was hanging silent
by his side ashamed of itself that it even
tried to make pleasant sounds.
The boy was 50 much engaged in his
watch he forgot that he had come out to
earn his supper ; he w forgot the cold,
and, although his hands We're stiff and
his los very red, he almost imagined
himself warm like the merry party inside.
Suddenly an arm was thrown Over his
shoulder, and shrill voice piped in his
ear.
Hi; what you up to-"
"Juss you look, Jimmy" cried Bob
bit eagerly, without removing his eyes
from the enchanting picture.
Amt that fun, Jimmy"
Jimmy whistled dOlefully, and said,
ct looks like it, don't it now"
For a moment the two boys hung over
the railing in silence, making the best
use of their keen eyes then Bobblt
dropped back sqrarely on his feet, and
said, Lets you and me have a party"
The light from the window fell full on
Jimmy's face, but no extra bri tightening
came into it on account Of his proposal
while Bobbit's face fairly twinkled with
pleasure.
well ring this ere bell, and We'll
play 'em a tune to get the money"
Jimmy still looked doubtful but al
ready Bobbit's quick hand had pulled
the bell, and both boys proceeded tc
tune their fiddles.
It seemed a long time before the dool
was opened, and then, before they could
ask permission to enter, it was CLOSED
abruptly.
"That's queer" said Bobbit and
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Some people are born a mistake. They
say so themselves, and therefore there can
be no discourtesy in repeating the OBJ
servation. Whether different circum-
stances and different training might have
rectitied natures error, it is hard to say.
Circumstances and training have done
nothing for many, We know, and accord
ingly, a mistake they have remained to
the end. "Unstable as water, thou shalt
not excel ;" that was the pleasant pro-
gramme sketched out for them. "Un-
stable as water" they do not excel, and
they make everybody who has the mis-
fortune to be connected with them mis-
ersble in consequence. Unstable as
water" How can a man, not to be a
bad man, have more said in his dis
praise? Unstable as water, his pur-
poses flow backward and forward per-
petually. With youth, health and ample
means, fair talents, he starts at six-and-
twenty, with as fair prospects of hap
piness as need be possessed by any
Life is before him-life, with its objects,
it's pleasures, it's duties =; but the duties
he never performs, the pleasures he
never tastes, the objects he never attalns.
At twentv-six existence seemed Il vast
conception at forty it is an unfinished,
unsatisfactory, miserable failure. May
we be delivered from such a result O.,
that when The noon of our life comes it
may find some work finished, some duty
discharged, 50 that az the sorrowful sun
set draws near-as the darkening twl-
light and the darker night approach-we
may be able to look back on the bright
midday hours without the bitterest
thought humanity knows, of having lost
time, which, even with all eternity be
fore us we may never retrieve. "Un,
stable as water" the force with which
the current of such a mans feelings
hurry him along to an object one mo
ment, is only equalled by the violence OF
the flood by which he is distracted from
it the next. Over the sea of life he
tiOats-a boat without a rudder-a mar
iner without a star-tossed hither ani
thither by every wave of passion, by
every caprice of impulse. Almost con
tinually he keeps within sight of the
promised land of peace, and comfort
and content :; but never once, ah never
does he manage to reach its shores. Al
ways planning, never perfecting :; always
borrowing, neve repaylng; always
thinking, V performing he spend
the whole of his boyhood, manhood, ant
age, in sending down lost opportunities
and good intentions to that place which
is paved with the one and rooted Will
the other.
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LOVES RIDDLE.

She plucked a rose, and idly pulled
The crimson leaves apart.
1 whispered, Tell me why 1t il
That rose is like my heart"
What know 1 of your heart ?" said she
"Your riddle is too deep for me-"
Because my heart was full of hopes
AS leaves upon YOU rose:
You scatter them from day to day
As now you scatter those;
And soon my poor heart, stripped OF ali,
Forgotten, as the rose, must fall"
All, crimson cheeks ana ba6hful eyes,
Ny riddle was so plain;
She stopped and gathered from the ground
The fragrant leaves again.
"Ah, love ~ l cried, land can it be,
Sweet hopes may yet return to me?"
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quicklime in water, and, as soon IS the
water is clear, mix it with the oil and
shake it well. If the case is urgent,
use boiling water over the lime, and it
will become clear in five minutes. The
preparation may be kept ready bottled
in the house, and it will be as good six
months old as when first made.
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Duh JUVENILES.
PuSsy'S Mistake.

u JUVENILES.
Pussy's Mistake.
Mrs. Pussy-cat one night
Went abroad TO see a neIghoor,
As she really thought she might,
After days of honest labor;
Having driven every mouse
From the kitten and the house.
As for rats there wasn't one
Not 4 single saucv fellow
Left to whisk his tail and run
From the pantry 20 thu cellar:
So she thought she had q right
To divert herself tina. night.
There were kittcns, one, two. three,
To be thought of first, however;
They'll be sure to cry for me-"
Pussy thought, .if l endeavor
My escape from them to make
While they re all 80 wide awake.
And 10 wait till they're asleep,
That would be j work of patience:
Just as like as not they'd peep,
And set up their lamentations
When TO leave them l began!
I must try another plan"
20 size pondersd for awhi!',
Til 4 happy thought occurring,
Made me smile a catty smile
And she told the kittens, p,rring.
She had thought of q device
To secure some good fat mice.
There are dozens, as I've heard
In the corn-crib over yonder,
If you only say the word
1 can catch, 1 shouldn't wonder.
One apiece for you at least
How would that DO for a FEAST"
oh" the kittens cried, "how nice"
but you know I'll have to leave you
While I go to fetch the mice"
Said the cat, land that viii grieve you.
You must promise not to cry
TIL I come back b~y-and-by."
so the kittens promised her
There should be no sound Of crying,
And they'd neither fret nor stir
From the place where they were lying;
And their mother smiled to see
How The plan worked easily.
NeTy .hortly after that.
She -e:ailed the whole transaction
To he- friend, Tabitne Cat.
With serene dissatisfaction:
And they laughingly agreed
It was managed well indeed.
But the little kits grew tired
By-and-by of waiting lonely,
when the mice they so desired
Game in expectation only;
soon instead of going 70 slar.l
They began to wall and weep.
Till 1t laS they ran away,
Saying each one to the other,
What's the use for us TO stay:
Let Us go and find u mother"
But alas /, they didn't know
silly things-which way - 60.
And some boys, who CHANGED 70 lrr
Proving round for mischief. found the:
Caught the kittens, one, tive three.
And with cruel pleasure drowned them;
When the cat returned, al, me-:
Not 4 kitten could sh" see.
Then she howIed with grief and pain.
All her foolishness coufessing;
For she saw il now IN vain
She had caused their fate. distressing;
All her wretchedness and ruth
Came from tamperin3 with the truth.
NOraI-he that runs may read:
Every purpose of deceiving
Is the fructifying seed
Far q future crop Of griev:ng.
Let what will be gained or ioSt.
Tell The truth at any cost.
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PLEiSINTRIES.

PLE4S1NTRIES.
SpICER says a fireplace always reminds
him of Shakespeare, because it is a CRATE
barred.
MoRAL-If you were always to hide
wife-beaters, one would perhaps never
find them.
A MISS GILMORE was courted by a man
whose name was Haddock, who told her
that he wanted only one gill more to make
him a perfect fish.
A CHICAGO paper says that "no gen
tleman or lady will leave an opera-house
until the curtain is down and all the
audience has passed out
ANOTHER Atlantic cable has gone to the
bottom of the sea. Whales with rheu-
matism in their knotjoints can now try
the boosted benefits of electricity.
The newspapers are full of advertise
ments for plain cooks. We suppose
pretty cooks have no occas5pn to adver-
tise ut all.
LITTLE Heister Brobst, of Knoxville,
fired a bullet out OF a pistol with lis
right hand and caught it with his left.
He will be a right handy chap until he
gets his left out Of The sling.-Burting-
ton Hawk-Eye.
A BAsHFUL Connecticut drug clerk was
puzzled the other day by having one OF
the female jubilee singers ask him for a
"hesh-colored court plaster" but after
some thought he handed out black and
lodged under the counter for safety.
"YoU say" said a Judge to a witness,
"that the plaintiff resorted to all ingen-
ious use of circumstantial evidence.
State exactly what You mean by that"
"Well," said the witness, ssmy exact
meaning is, he lied"
We have no right TO judge a man
Until he's fairly tried
Should We not like his company,
We know the world : wide:
Some may have faults-and who have no.:
The old as well as young;
Perhaps we may, for aught We know.
Have fifty to their one.
He didn't tell the Young man not to
come around any more he didn't bid
his daughter reject the suit ; he didn't sit
up at night with a shotgun, or let the
fire go out in the front parlor. No, no {;
he knew a plan worth two of those he
hung out a smallpox flag every evening
at dusk, and that did the business effect
ually.
4 CLERGYMAN being applied to in less
than a year after his appointment to put
a stove in the church, asked how long his
predecessor had been there and when
answered, "Twelve years." he said
"Well, you never had a fire in the
church during his time?" "No, sir"
replied the applicant !; but We had a fire
in the pulpit then"
A NOVEL weapon of Offense and de9su9f
has recently been brought to notice in
London, where a cantankerous old mar
iner was arrested for assaulting q man
with a sword-fish. 1t seems that the an
cient salt was providing about with the
sea monster under his arm, and, getting
into difficulty with the keeper of a beer
shop, tried to impale him with the fish's
sword.
CUR revolutionary fathers used to see
tough times. An old Virginia book
tells how two of them received fifty
lashes each for being absent from roll
call, and it speaks of another who re-
ceived 100 lashes for "misbehavior."
For one months pay a soldier of the Pa
triot army received $4,000, but he had
to pay 8, 0 for cloth enough to makea
coat, and his buttons cost him 81, OOO.-
COurier-J0uTdl.
PLiY TIME.
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party proved a failure, I know YOU will
all be glad.
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nov TIE CHANGERS BIILT =
R~1IIROID,

The farmers of Salinas Valley, Califor-
MIA, says the Colorado Farmer, were ut
the mercy of the railroad corporations of
that State, and, with an enterprise that
does them much credit, they went to
work and laid down an iron pathway to
the sea, which makes them independent
for all time to come Of monopoly in II
form whatever. The port of Monterey
was only twenty miles distant, where
ships can come and load as easily and far
more cheaply than at San Francisco.
Their valley was connected with San
Francisco by long lines of railroad be-
longing to Stamford & Co.; but the
Changers did not forget that heaven
blessed them with Il seaport near by,
and they subscribed the stock for a mar
row-track railroad and built the road
themselves, and they say they can almost
save to themselves the price of the road
the present year by cheapening trans
portation by the old railroad line, if they
do not choose to use their own road.
This road, with a good narrow track,
with all the necessary %turnouts and roll
ing stock and with two large warehouses,
cost the people of Salinas Valley $3.50 0
per mile; and, as they save freight on a
million and q half bushels of wheat ut
the rate of fifteen cents a bushel, they
will make a profit for themselves.
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LIME UdTEE FOR BURNS.

A correspondent writes that the readi-
est and most useful remedy for scalds
and burns is an embrOcatiOn of lime
water and Enseed oil. These simple
agents combined form Il thick, cream
like substance, which effectually ex-
cludes the air from the injured parts,
and allays the inflammation almost in
stantly. He mentions a case where a
child fell backward into a bath-tub of
boiling water, and was nearly fayed
from her neck to below her hips. Her
agonies were indescribablc ; but her
clothing vas gently removed and the
lime and oil preparati.n thickly spread
over the injured surface she was sound
asleep in five minutes. Subsequently
the parts were carefully washed with
warm milk and water three times a day,
the oil dressing renewed, and the little
patient rapidly recovered. Though all
the scalded skin came off, she did not
have a scar. This remedy leaves no
hard coat to dry on the sores, but
softens the parts, and aids nature to re-
pair the injury in the reaiiest and most
expeditions manner. This mixture may
be procured in the drug stores !; but, il
not thus accessible, Stake a lump OF
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G. l.. WARD, of Towanda, Pa, has
given his private library of 1000 vol
umes to LAFAYETTE College.
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ITO be continued.l
Forty Days Support for a Widow, "

We find the following under this head
in the WonaGn'S Journal of September
4th, relative to the legal incapacity of
women in Massachusetts,
1t 1.-THE legal incapacity1 is strikingly
apparent in case of the death of either
husband or wife. If the wife die, leav-
ing no will, the husband has the whole
of her personal property, and, if they
have had a living child, her real estate
during his life. If she die intestate,
leaving no kindred, he takes her real es-
tate in fee. By will, as before stated,
she may deprive her husband of one
half of her personal property.
If the husband die without will, but
leaving issue, the wife is entitled to one
third of his personal property abso-
lutely, and her dover, which is a life
interest in one-third of all the real es-
tate of which he had been seized during
the coveture. Whether he leaves will
or not, she is always entitled to such all
allowance from his estate as the Probate
Court, having regard to all the circum-
stances of the case, may allow as neces-
saries for herself and the family under
her care, besides the use of his house
and furniture, and sufficient provisions
and other articles for the reasonable sus-
tenance of his family for forty days.
This provision for widows, where the
estate of the deceased is small or insolv-
ent, as is generally the case, is often
very important.
Thus it appears that wife, with a
group of children around her, suddenly
widowed, may find that the law will
only allow her food and shelter forty
days. After that time she must pay
rent for the house which perhaps she
has worked hard to build. The house
where her husband died, and where her
children were born, which is hallowed
to her by all those associations of love
and of loss, the law, which she has no
voice in making, will now sell over her
head to tsettle the estate" and, after
forty days, the woman is not only q
widow, but houseless, or if she remain
she must pay rent.
No widower is ever treated this way
by the law. The wife may die, but the
home and the property remain un-
touched by the law, for the very suffi-
cient reason that as men are law-mak-
ers they take care of themselves. A
widow needs the house and property
more than it is possible for a man tO
need it, because his opportunity to ac-
quire shelter and the means of living are
much greater than hers. Na2
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DON'T WORRY ABOUT YOURSELF.-To
retain or recover health, persons should
be relieved from anxiety concerning dis
ease. The mind has power over the
body. For person to think he has q
disease, will often produce that disease.
This we see effected when the mind is
intensely concentrated upon the disease
of another. 1t is found in hospitals that
physicians and surgeons who make a
speciality of certain diseases, are liable
to die of them themselves, and the men
tai power is so great that sometimes peo-
pie die of the diseases which they have
only in Imagination. We have seen q
person sea-sick in anticipation of vOy-
age, before reaching the vessel. We
have known people to die of cancer in
the stomach, when they had no cancer
or any other mortal disease. A blind
folded man, slightly pricked in the arm
has tainted and died from believing that
he was bleeding to death.
Therefore, we'll persons, to remain
well, should be cheerful and happy; and
sick persons should have their minds di-
rected as much as possible from them
selves. 1t is by their faith that men are
saved, and it is by their faith that they
die. AS man thinketh so is he. If he
wills not to die, he can ofteu live in spite
of disease; and if he has little or no at
tachment to life, he will slip away as
easily as child will fall asleep. Men
live by their minds as well as by their
bodies. Their bodies have no life of
themselvs; they are only receptacles of
life-tenements for their minds, and
the will has much to 90 in continuing
the physical occupancy or giving it up.
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How TO Stop A PAPER.-Do not take
your. paper to the postmaster and tell
him to send it back; in nine cases out of
ten you will fail to stop it in this way.
Do not attempt to stop it yourself, and
write on the wrapper to discontinue;
this is against the law, and lays you
open to fine. Before your subscription
expires send to the editor postal card,
saying your subscription expires on
such date; please discontinue at that
time. Sign your name, also the town
and State where your paper is sent, in
full. If the paper has been sent two
weeks or more over the time for which
it was paid, don't send postal card; it
will do no good; rather write a letter
and inclose what is due for arrearages,
always allowing that one number will
be sent before the letter reaches the
publisher and his list is corrected BY
observing these simple rules your re-
quests will always be promptly at
tended to.-PrinteTs' Circular.
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where. The maiden's Venus-like form
had ripened into womanhood, and upon
the brow of the noble youth the diadem
of manhood rested. Still, o Cupid, vast
thou with them, and they bowed before
thy binding mandates. One sad mis-
fortune troubled them. AS though the
blind god had determined that they
should suffer, he had cast the barb of a
half-charmed arrow from another source
into the vicinity of the maiden's heart.
She had bowed to what she thought was
destiny, but the slumbering other flame
broke forth anew at sight of Herbert
Goodwin, and Florence Willard yielded
to its sway"
"EIizG Crdndau! when will your
Quixotic propensities cease?" exclaimed
Herbert, half angrily, his face suffused
with tell-taie bushes.
"Just when 1 cease to find attentive
listeners, Monsieur la Herbert" she an
swered archly.
'tEncore ~ said Bartholomew Barton,
A. NJ, as he emerged from behind pill
lar, where he had been stationed, an un-
observed but attentive listener; but he
now came forward, laughing as the dig
nitary had not laughed since boyhood.
'If you have another story of that kind
on hand, would be pleased to hear it.
If not, please repeat the first one, as it
| is yet ten minutes to school time. I see
you are to have more listeners" he
added, gIancing toward his dwelling,
from which Mrs. Barton and the assist
ants were emerging.
~ should be happy to oblige you, Mr..
Barton, but really couldn't repeat it il
1 should try. Perhaps, before leave
school, 1 can find another subject; if so,
1 promise to summon you to the re-
hearsal," she replied, little confused,
but the ludicrous, comical air she as
sumed was so complete that all who
heard the story were enjoying a real
anti-dyspepsia explosion of laughter.
81 think this joke is rather more thar
equal to the one you got upon me about
my first offer.' Do you not remember
my sentimental savage p" said Effie tC
her brother, as he started to his own de
partment.
He smiled as he recalled the old scene
"Yes, I should call it considerably NOR
than equal though that was quite ;
circumstance and he passed hurried
ly on.
"Hang it ! is that girl necromancer
that she finds out the private affairs o
everybody in the school ?" he muttere,
to himself.
1t was not her first attempt of th
kind. Many had left that school an
married, who had been as ludicrousl.
exposed as Herbert had been, thougl
they thought they had been equally 81,
about their future Intentions. He ha
intended the whole affair to be an agree
able surprise to his companions at tn
exhibition, when Florence, a stranger t
the whole school, would appear in com
pany with Miss Martin. He had lii
tie conceit, too, that when he should pa
open attention to the strange beauty
, there would be some disappointment
much astonishment, and many eonjecl
ures as to where she had come from, an
: how he had become acquainted wit
, her. How Eliza could have discovere
the plot SO soon, was a mystery whic
subsequent events were destined to ur
ravel.
= ITO be continued.l
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t'Doctor," asked convalescent, team
eat bit of pork-chop or bacon this
?p "Hardlyp replied the Med
icus; t'to eat the chop would be rash,
and the bacon rasher.n
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1t is said that the water supply of Phil
adelphia will not be sufficient to serve
more than half the people who will go
to the Centennial; but a good many of
the other half will be mighty glad of
that excuse.
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There is a village in New Hampshire
that has produced twenty-six editors,
and it was in allusioD to this circum-
stance that pious old deacon there re-
marked, eyes, there were twenty-six on
'em, but as they've all left town, 1
reckon the Lord won't lay it up agin
usU
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The Milwaukee Sentinel remarks that
t'it often puzzles the doctors of this city
to tell whether they have a case of
mumps or musquito bite.h
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The Columbus Journal, describing an
Ohio politician, says: "He is an honest
man, and earns his bread by the sweat
of his jaw.n
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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the
year 1859, by Mrs. A. J. Duniway, in the Office OF
the Librarian of Congress at Washington CIty.l