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Middletown transcript., 1877-06-16
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Once when travelling on stage
coach, says a writer in a contemporary
l met with a young lady who seemed
to be upon the constant lookout fol
something laughable. Every old barn
was made the subject of joke, while
the cows and sheep looked demurely al
US, little dreaming that folks could be
merry at their expense.
All this was, perhaps, harmless
enough. Animals are not sensitive in
that respect. They are not likely to
have their feelings injured because
people make fun Of them but when
we come to human beings, that is quite
another thing.
So it seemed to me; for after a while
an aged woman came running across
the fields, lifting up her hand to the
coachman, and in a shrill voice beg
ging him to stop. The good-natured
coachman drew up his horses, and the
old lady, coming to the fence by the
roadside, squeezed herself out between
two posts which were very near to-
gether.
The young lady in the stage-coach
made some ludicrous remark, and the
passengers laughed. It seemed very
exeusable; for in getting through the
fence, the poor woman made sad work
with her old black bonnet; and now,
taking a seat beside well-dressed
lady, really looked as if she had been
blown there by whirlwind.
This was a new piece of fun, and the
girl made the most of it. She carica-
tured the old lady upon card; pre-
tended to make a pattern of her bon
net; and in various other ways sought
to raise a laugh at her.
At length the poor woman turned
pale face toward her and said
"My dear girl, you are now young,
and healthy, and happy. l have been
so too, but that time is past. l am
now old and forlorn. The coach is
taking me to the death bed of my only
child, and then, my dear, / shall be a
poor old woman, ali alone in the world,
where merry girls will think me very
amusing object. They will laugh at
my old-fashioned clothes and sad ap-
pearance, forgetting that the old wo-
man has loved and suffered, and will
live forever"
The coach now stopped before a poor
looking house, and the old lady feebly
descended the steps.
sHow is she?" was the first tremb-
ling inquiry Of the mother
just alive" said the man who was
leading her into the house.
The driver mounted his box, and we
were upon the road again. Our merry
young friend had placed the card in
her pocket. She was leaning her head
upon her hand; and you may be sure
that | was not sorry to see a tear upon
her fair young cheek. 1t was a good
lesson, and one which we greatly hoped
would do her good.
Middletown transcript., 1877-06-16

didate, and, it is alleged, under the
supervision Of Mr.. Murray, the over
seer. It will be seen at once that this
vote is very valuable in close con-
test, and, consequently, would, if the
person directing it was sordidly in
clined, bring a good price. Probably
some Of the paupers had gone out on a
summer tour at the time Of the com
mittee's visit. Their names, it is hint
ed, may be kept on the books until
they return next winter to the warm
atmosphere and lazy life Of the aims
house. In that way their residence
would be kept good from one election
to another and for time indefinite
But what becomes Of the money APP
propriated to support the tourists? Is
it sent to them to help defray the sum-
mer's travelling expenses? And, if so
does Kings county know how kind it
is?-N Y. Herald.
Middletown transcript., 1877-06-16
M1mrAI ArrEcrIoN.-It would be

MUTUAL AFFECTIoN.-It would be
vain to attempt to deny that one Of
the chief desires Of our sex is to beweH
married, and it is a desire which none
can blame; for, if matrimony has its
cares, it has its pleasure, also and
much, very much of its unpleasantness
has its rise in the want of conduct
either in the wife or in the husband.
There seems to be more importance In
affection, as means to matrimonial
happiness, than in anything else. So
long as there is a real and great affec-
ton existing between the parties, scarce
ly any evil-not even that terrible one
excessive poverty-can infict upon
either of them a pang more than he or
she would feel if enduring the same evil
in an unmarried state. 1t is, there
fore, most important that those who
marry from affection should keep it un-
impaired. As to those who marry
without feeling affection, and merely
for gain OF convenience, it is not to be
wondered at, and is not at all to be re-
GREETED, that in perpetual broils and
unavailing discontents, they receive
the just punishment of their dissirnula-
ton and hypocrisy.
But those who have been affection
ate, sometimes cease to be so, When
the novelty of ardor and youthful love
has passed away, and given place to do
nestle and everyday realities when
the faults, to which love was blind, be-
come apparent and disagreeable in the
husband, it is but too commonly the
case that we throw off that affection,
both in fact and in appearance, which
is at once the best safeguard of our CON
jugal virtue, and the surest pledge of
our connubial happiness.
It is from this that much domestic
unhappiness springs, and it is from an
erroneous notion of our own rights. We
think the affection of our husbands an
arbitrary tribute due to US, forgetting
all the while that the duty of affection
is reciprocal. We cannot be deceived
as to the reality of our feelings, and if
he finds himself despised by us, or even
Indifferent to us, he viii speedily enter
tain like feeling for us and from the
that he does so, our sway over
his heart is lost forever, and should cir
prevent him venting his
rage in violence still we shall become
of our error, when it is too
late to repair it.
Middletown transcript., 1877-06-16

IMPORTANCE OF DEcIsIoN.-A great
deal of talent is lost to the world for
the want of little courage. Every
day sends to their graves number Of
obscure men, who have only remained
in obscurity because their timidity has
prevented them from making a first
effort, and who, if they only had been
induced to begin, would, in all proba-
bility, have got great lengths in the
career of fame. The fact is that, in
doing anything in the world worth do
ing, we must not stand shivering on the
bank thinking of the cold and danger,
but jump in and scramble through as
we can. 1t will not do to be perpetu-
ally calculating risks and adjusting nice
chances; it did all very well before the
food, when a man could consult his
friends upon an extended publication
for hundred and fifty years, and live
to see its success for seven centuries af-
terward; but at present man waits
and doubts, and consults his brothers
and his particular friends, till one day
he finds that he is sixty-fve years Of
age, so that he has lost so much in con-
sulting first cousins and particular
friends, that he has no more time for
over-squeamishness at present, and the
opportunity slips away. The very pc
riod of life at which man choose to ven
ture, if ever, is so confined that it is no
bad rule to preach up the necessity, in
such instances, of a little violence done
to the feelings and efforts made in de-
fanee of strict and sober calculation.
Middletown transcript., 1877-06-16
Srlett Aottrp.
BLEssrSes OF TO-DAY.

five knew the woe and heartache
Waiting for us down the road,
flour lips could taste the wormwood,
If our backs could feel the load
Would we waste the day in wishing
For a time that meier can be;
Would we wait in such impatienee
For our ships to come from sea
If we knew the baby fingers
Pressed against the window-pane
Would be cold and stiff tomorrow,
Never trouble us again
Would the bright eyes Of our darling
Catch the frown upon our brow2
Would the prints Of rosy fingers
Yex us then as they do now?
All, those little ice-cold fingers,
How they point our memories back
To the hasty words and actions
Strewn along our dusty track
How those little hands remind u.s.
AS in snowy grace they lie,
Not to scatter thorns-but roses
For our reaping BY and by
Strange we never prize the music
Till the sweet-voiced bird has flown,
Strange that we should slight the Yiolets
Till the lovely flowers are gone;
Strange that summer skies and sunshine
Never seem one-half so fair
As when winters snowy pinions
Shake the white down in the air.
Lips from which the seal of silence
None but God can roll away,
Never blossomed in such beauty
As adorned the mouth to-day;
And sweet words that freight our memory
With their beautiful perfume,
Come to us in sweeter accents
Through the portals of the tomb.
Let us gather up the sunbeams
Lying all along our path
Let us keep the wheat and roses,
Casting out the thorns and chaff;
Let us find our sweetest comfort
In the blessings Of to-day
With patient hand removing
All the briers from our way.
Middletown transcript., 1877-06-16

1t were better to have no opinion of
God at all, than to have such an opin-
ion as is unworthy Of him, for the one
if unbelief and the other is contumely,
and certainly superstition is the re-
proach of the Deity.-Bacon.
Deceit and falsehood, whatever con
venience they may for time promise,
are, in the sum of life, obstacles to hap
piness. Those who profit by the cheat,
distrust the deceiver; and the act by
which kindness was sought puts an end
to confidence.
Middletown transcript., 1877-06-16

OLD AGE.-A vain and heartless
woman shrinks from becoming old as
she shrinks from the grave. 81 hope
that I shall not outlive my beauty, ("
we once heard a charming lady say I;
q should be wretched if / lost my
power ofpleasing." As though beauty
alone were necessary to render a wo-
man attractiveI But this is the popu-
lar idea-or error, nowadays. Our
young people think that the old folk,
particularly "old maids" must, of ne
cessity, be disagreeable and trouble
some-and that from these peculiarities
there is no escape. On the contrary,
our daughters should be taught that it
rests almost entirely with ones self,
whether, if living in "single blessed
ness, one shall be the bugbear of the
family or its sweetness, its crown, and
its glory. These latter blessed ones
have no hesitation in speaking of their
age under the proper circumstances.
But there is class of ladies who en-
deavor to hide their age even at the
expense of truth-the mothers who love
dress and fashionable life more than
their. homes and children-who, to Sc
cure the compliments and attentions
usually given to the young, keep their
daughters in boarding schools away
from home as long as possible, looking
forward to their children's vacation
with dread, and see their little girls
shoot up into beautiful and graceful
women with dismay, dreading to be
rivaled even by their own daughters.
Such women dread old age, and with
reason, and will not acknowledge it so
long as by every known rejuyenator or
cosmetic, even at the risk of health or
life, they can ward off the dreaded foe.
Their daughters, just entering upon the
unnatural and unhealthy excitements
and dissipation of fashionable life, will
not give up their own qualification to
soothe the declining years of mothers
who are made prematurely old and
helpless by former dissipation. How
different the lot of those mothers who
have made home and home duties their
pleasure, and, having tried to do their
whole duty, shrink not from wrinkles,
gray hairs, or old agel"
Middletown transcript., 1877-06-16

THE Loss OF A WIFE.-In COM
parison with the loss of wife, all other
bereayements are trifing. The wife !
she who fills so large space in the do
nestle heaven; she who busted herself
so unweariedly for the precious ones
around her; bitter is the tear which
falls on her cold clay. You stand be-
side her coffin and think of the past.
1t seems an amber-colored pathway,
where the sun shone upon beautiful
flowers, or the stars hung glitteringly
overhead. Fain would the soul linger
there. No thorns are remembered save
those your hands have unwillingly
planted. Her noble, tender heart lies
open to your inmost sight. You think
other now as all gentleness, all purity,
all beauty. The hands that have min
istered SO untiringly are folded beneath
the gloomy portal. The heart whose
every beat measured an eternity Of
love lies under your feet. The flowers
she bent over with smiles, bend now
over her with tears, shaking the dew
from their petals, that the verdure
around her may be kept green and
beautiful. There is no white arm over
your shoulder, no speaking face to look
up into the eye of love, no trembling
lips to murmur, "0h, it is too sad p
There is so strange a hush in every
room; nolght footsteps passing around;
no smile to greet you at nightfall. And
the old clock ticks and strikes-it was
such music when she could hear it.
Now it seems to knell on the hours
through which you watched the shadow
Of death gathering on her sweet face.
Ana every day the clock repeats that
old story. Many another tale it teIioth,
too-of beautiful words and deeds that
are registered above. You feel-oh,
how often-that the grave cannot keep
her-that she will live again.
Middletown transcript., 1877-06-16

WoMAE's AFFEcTIoN.-Washi
ton Irving wrote: As thedove viii clap
its wings to its sides and cover and con-
ceal the arrow that is preying on its
vitals, so it is the nature of woman to
hide from the world the pangs of
wounded affection. With her the de-
sire of the heart has failed. The great
charm of existence is at an end. She
neglects all the cheerful exercises that
gladden. the spirits, quicken the pulse
and send the tide of life In healthful
currents through the veins. Her rest
is broken, the sweet refreshment of sleep
is poisoned by melancholy dreams,
"dry sorrow drinks her blood" until
her feeble frame sinks under the last
external assailant. Look for her after
a little while and you find friendship
weeping over her untimely grave, won
dering that one who had so lately
glowed with all the radiance of health
and beauty should now be brought
down to darkness and the worm"
You will be told of some wintry chill,
some slight indisposition that laid her
low; but no one knows the mental
malady that previously sapped her
strength and made her so easy a prey
to the spoiler.
Middletown transcript., 1877-06-16

Tear from woman's life all else that
she holds dear and leave her love, and
she is rich; load her with jewels, clothe
her in costly stuff, let slaves wait upon
her and courtiers bow, and she is but a
pauper if no one loves her.
Middletown transcript., 1877-06-16

ENEMIEs.-Have you enemies ? Go
straight on, and mind them not. If
they block up your path, walk around
them, and do your duty, regardless Of
their spite. A man who has no enc
mics is seldom good for anything; he
is made of that kind of material which
is so easily worked, that every one has
hand in it. A sterling character
one who thinks for himself, and speaks
what he thinks-is always sure to have
enemies. They are as necessary to him
as fresh air; they keep him alive and
active. A celebrated character, who
was surrounded with enemies, used to
remark: "They are sparks which, if
you do not blow, will go out of them
selves" Let this be your feeling while
endeavoring to live down the scandal
of those who are bitter against you. If
you stop to dispute, you do but as they
desire, and open the way for more
abuse. Letthepoorfellows talk there
will be reaction if you perform but
your duty, and hundreds who were
once alienated from you will flock to
you and acknowledge their error.
Middletown transcript., 1877-06-16

Anger is blood, poured and perplex-
ed into froth but malice is the wis
dom of our wrath.
Middletown transcript., 1877-06-16
Select Storp.
TRAMPS.

some Account OF their Organizations and
PersonneI-The "Army'' and s.Trades
UniOn'' Tramps-BIysterlous signs
and Symbols with which theym
Mark Houses-The Tramp In
Pnlifica.
Middletown transcript., 1877-06-16
Agricultural Implements,
AT THE
MIDDLBToWN STOVE HOUSE,
MiddletOWn, Delaware.
Hardware Department.

Hardware Department.
iron.and Steel, Horse and Mules Shoes, Horse
Nails, Blacksmith Supplies, Chain Traces,
Hsmes, Trovsls, Nails, Spikes, Locks, Hinges,
Bolts, Files, ohisels, Levels, Planes, Bevels,
wrenehes, Picks, MattOcks, Hubs, Rims,
spokss, Shafts, Long and Short Arms, Clips,
Springs, Enamsled Cloth, Gum Canvass, &c.
A complete stock of-TooLs and Supplies
for Carpenters, Builders, MasOns, sAdlerS,
shOemakers and others, with many House
furnishing articles. We invite the public to
call and examine our prices.
Middletown transcript., 1877-06-16
TRAMPs AS VOTERS.

Some idea of the power of tramps
as an organized body may be gained
from the following facts published in
the Herald Of April 23d, and the fact
may explain why it was so difficult to
obtain an enactment against vagrants.
A Herald reporter was sent to inyesti-
gate the Kings County Poor House
and his report Of the investigation,
which was subsequent to that of a
white-washing commission, contains the
following paragraph:
It is rumored about the township
that a certain gentleman now at Albany
owed his election to the pauper vote.
It was ascertained, after diligent in
quiry, that paupers were marched
down to the polls and voted in body,
all, of course, voting for the same can
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-02-06
A Case in HonesdaIe, Pa.

was attacked with the liver complaint,
which apparently brought me to the brink
of the grave. During my sickness l was
attended by three physicians in our place,
but received no help. l also tried the
various remedies recommended for such
complaints, but they afforded me no relief.
AS last resort, was persuaded to try
DR.. WIsTAR's BALsAM OF WILD CHERRY,
and by using four bottles was restored to
better health than l have enjoyed before
for ten years. This statement may be re-
lied upon as strictly true, BETsEY PERRIN.
The above certificate was given in the
presence of DIR. a. Strong, of Honesdale,
who is well known it the vicinity as sue
cessful practitioner.
50 cents and 81 bottle. Sold by all
druggists.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-02-06
Is He Married or Not2

Two people are in court at Lockport, N.
Y, trying TO decide whether they are man
and wife, and what puzzles the gossips is
that both parties are perfectly respectable,
one being Caussius D. Worrill, Lockport
farmer, and the other Miss Annie Bourne,
of Cory, Penna., both being about 30
years of age. The lady with her sisters
husband, Williams by name, visited at the
Womill homestead, somewhat over a year
ago, where Worril was living with his
widowed mother, and while there Miss
Bourne nursed Mrs. Worrill in her last
sickness. During this visit a marriage
was arranged between the parties, to which
Worrill said he agreed only when wearied
out by the opportunities of Mr.. and Mrs.
Williams, and on condition that year
would elapse before the wedding took place..
The lady claims he made protestations of
love, and agreed to marry her then, but
wished to have it kept secret for ia year,
that he might settle up the estate Of which
he had become owner. The party of four
went to Rochester, September %, 1915, and
the parties differ as to what happened
there. He says he was slightly under the
influence of liquor for the first time in his
life, and lay down on sofa in hotel.
When he awoke Miss Bourne was in the
room, and Mr.. and Mrs. Williams were
Just entering the door; they separatedlthat
afternoon without further occurrence. Her
story is that they were married that morn
ing, and then went their ways, that he
wrote her several affectionate letters during
the year, and it was only when she went to
his home at the end of the year, after he
had failed to keep his promise to meet her
at Philadelphia and be publicly married,
that she learned that he would not recog-
nize the marriage. Certain it is, that OH
the day mentioned, couple we'll dressed
and apparently happy in the possession of
each other called at the Office of a Ro-
chester clergyman with license, and were
married under the names of Cassius d.
Worrill and Annie Bourne, and the papers
were witnessed by IA gentleman who came
with the couple, but Worrill insists that
the bridegroom was some other man. The
acknowledge respectablity of the parties
makes the affair particularly perplexing.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-02-06
Bad Times in England.

A London dispatch says: never rec
ollect the time when the domestic trade
of England was in so depressed and
wretched state as it is now. Go where
you will and ask whom you will, and you
will hear the same thing. "There is moth
ing doing we think ourselves lucky if we
can pay our expenses" AS for the demand
from the United States for English goods,
it seems to be almost thing of the past.
The great steamers go out from Liverpool
or London in ballast, week after week.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-02-06
Robbers and Train Wreckers.

st. Louis, February 1.-Information
from Williamson county, Ills, is to the
effect that band of desperadoes organized
for the purpose of robbing and murder, if
necessary to carry out their plans, has been
discovered during the past week, and James
Moss, the leader and James jackson, Frank
Palmer and another man have been ar
rested.
A band Of train wreckers have been oper-
ating for some time past Oh the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas railroad and several
trains have been thrown from the track and
robbed. The operations of the band have
been in very thinly settled parts of south
ern Kansas and the Indian Territory, and
the task of capturing any of them has been
exceedingly difficult until Saturday last
when two of them named Meadows and
Meade were arrested by Deputy United
States Marshal Stevenson, heavily ironed
and taken to Fort Smith, Ark, where they
will be tried.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-02-06
A Certain Headacha Cure.

A harmless vegetable preparation, and the
discovery OF a physician, the Victor Headache
Powder has been proven positively sure cure
for the most distressing cases of Sick or Nervous
Headache, Morning sickness and Neuralgia,
when all other means fail. We have had a won
dertul experience with it, and the ten cent trial
pack can be had by addressing the proprietors,
j. II. HEISLEY u CO., Salem N. j., who will
cheerfully mail them postpaid, and of Druggists
everywhere and 1t is with well merited confidence
they are offered as a thorough cure for all dis.
tresses of the head 9-ly
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-02-06

DOMESTIC" including
andS and ~
THIS STATENiENT AND MACHINE ITSELF
We invite the attention those
skill observation B. Machines uly
New
LADIES, sDoMEsTiC"
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-02-06

CB- The Burlington, VT, Free Press
says: A Woodstock lady the other day
took her little one to a gallery for its pict-
ure. "fibiie the artist was busy she was fix
ing up the child by wetting its face and
hair with what she supposed was clear
water, but what was solution of nitrate of
silver. Afterexposure to the air for short
time the appearance of the child can be
imagined. 1t would be jet black.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-02-06
THE TIMES, NEW BLOOMFIELD, PA, FEBRUARY 6, 1877
SPECIAL NOTICES.
ERRORS OF YOUTH.

A GENTLEMAN who suffered for years from
IA Nervous Debility, Premature Decay. and all
the effects OF youthful lndiscretion will for the
sake Of suffering humanity. send free TO all who
need II, the recipe and direction for making the
simple remedy BY which he was cured Sufferers
wishing to profit by the advertisers experience
can do SO by addressing in perfect confidence.
JOHN B. OGDEN, i2 Cedar ST., New York
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-02-06

tB A supervisor of Delaware county
was fined 5000 last week for non attendance
to the duties of the position. Any unlaw-
full condition of the public highways,
causing delay, injury or loss may result in
recovery of damages, to say nothing Of the
imposition Of fines.