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Year: 1873

ONLY ONE CUsToMER.-It was only one
customer that the surly man snubted.
The customer asked for ten cents worth of
wire. The sury y man said something to
him about the trouble of cutting off so
small piece, and sneered at him for being
such a small Gus omer. He cut it off from
the roll, and the customer, who had intend
ed to buy some hinges and bolts, and two
or three locks, which might have amounted
in all to five dollars, concluded be would
deal at some other store for the rest. He
paid for his ten cents worth of wire, and
pushed on to the next hardware store
The surly man did not even bid him good
day. That one customer seemed a very
small affair to the dealer, because he want
ed to purchase such limited amount of
merchandise. He forgot that man does
not ask in one breath for all that he wants.
He forgot that the small customer of to-
day may be the larger customer Of to-
morrow. He forgot that the man who is
treated shabbily at store s,ldom returns
to it except for something which cannot
be purchased elsewhere. He forgot the
influence which each customer carries with
him for good or i'll.


Courtesy brings custom, and if custom
brings success in business, courtesy must
not be neglected. A man who is politely
treated at store is very apt to come
again, and to mention his experience to
bis friends. A man who is rudely dealt
with is still more apt to tell his friends Of
it, and to warn them against the place
Some men have built up large business
aud have made money, in spite of thei,
uncivil treatment of people with whom
they dealt. How much more they might
have made if they had been polite. it il
d ficut to calcnlate. But let every young
man understand that, all things being
equal, the courteous business man will
make much better success of bis work
than the crusty and ill-natured one.
Year: 1873

Talk about Northern literature as We
may, in certain important particulars the
writers of the sunny South excel their cold
er-blooded brethren of the land of east
winds and snow drifts. There is certain
warmth of description, a luxury of adjec-
tives, in the treatment of the most simple
subject, which clothes it with peculiar
interest and makes even the cursory reader
stop and wish he could do it. For instance,
one of our best New Orleans exchanges
chronicles in enthusiastic language the
triumphal entry into that city, after an alb.
sence of four months, of" Colonel Moody,
the renowned shirt merchant" Says our
exchange d" He comes crowned as before,
with the coronet of loyalty, the great Shirt
King Of the South" and, after detailing
his travels in search of new patterns, adds
+" This market is already distinguished by
his regal selections, and catching the spirit
of the times as they now exist, he marks
them down at prices almost as fabulously
cheap as the rich gifts given away in by
gone days by the Magi of the East, to those
who won their favor and esteem" Ger.
tainly, the South has attractions beyond
its climate.
Year: 1873

Alfred Wallace, in his travels in the
Malay Archipelago, encountered in Bor-
neo tree frog to which he considers the
term flying may fairly be applied. Of
this animal he gives the following account;


lone of the most curious aud interest
ing creatures which 1 met with in Borneo
was large tree frog which was brought
me by one of the Chinese workmen. He
assured me that he had seen it come down,
in slanting direction, from high tree as
if it few. On examining it | found the
toes very long and fully webbed to their
extremity, so that when expanded, they
offered a surface much larger than the
body. The forelegs were also bordered BY
membrane, and the body was capable of
considerable initiation"
Year: 1873

should give. 81 shall call for more next
Sunday, and righ: along every Sunday,
till l get what We ought to give" said the
pastor; " it costs something to be men
and women, but We don't want to be less
than men and women, do we?"


The Sacrament of the Lords Supper
was kept at Bethel in the usual manner of
the Methodist denomination, and the aban-
don OF the old men and the old women as
they sang the quaint songs of the church
was something to be long remembered.
Sing. breth en- and sisters, sing from the
heart" said the pastor on one occasion :;
=" the Lord made US poor in some respects,
out be blessed us more than kings aad
queens in giving US love of song and the
power to sing. Sing unto him glad song
wh'le We ca: and drink the tokens of his
triumphant death and resurrection.
There was no room for mistake as to his
feeling IN relation to the Sacrament he
knew 1t to be good for the souI,-a royal
blessing full OF life and warmth and all
cheerful consultations.


During the Spring months the Sunday
evening services frequently closed with the
admission OF persons to the church on
trial. ln this ceremony the character of
the pastor again manifested itself most
notlceabIy. One easily saw that the
church was to him the court Of heaven ::
there he found his greatest delight and his
highest happiness and the rest and CON-
tort and Inspiration it gave him te ardent
ly desired every other soul to have in the
same measure. Harriet johnson: SAYS
sne hasn't religion, but wishes to come in
among the Lords people. Hearing no
objection, We receive her. Harriet,"-
taking her hand, -" we are CLAN to have
you here. The Lord isn't such task
master as you ran away from in old Vr-
ginia. He'll be delighted to serve you, if
you'll only let him. Well do you all the
good We can; but if you love the Lord
Jesus, he'll do more for you in an hour
than We can in year." Passing to the
next of those who stood in front of him ::
james Green: has lately Joined the
army of the Lord, he says. We welcome
you to the rauks, James, and will try to
help you fight the good fight like man


Brother Brown, we shall put him in your
class,-Wednesday evening, James,-and
we want you to show him how we drill
and do the Lords work" So he went
through the whole list Of applicants With
a special word of encouragement for each,
coming at last to good looking fellow of
about thirty five. Grasping his hand very
heartily: John, we are very CAD to see
you here. I've been waiting all winter for
you. felt sure you would get in after a
while. Not one of US has anything against
this brother. John We expect you to do
good service in the church. You must
train with Brother Jones for few weeks,
but shall soon put you over class of
young men, every one Of whom | am anx


lous to save for the r .deemer The Lord
bless you, bless you abuodantIy


Stepping to the pulpit stairway Now
let Us close this season Of refreshing with
the glorious Praise God doxology, and
then may the good Lord of love go with
you all, and abide with you till you reach
the grave, and then may We all abide
with him and the saints in his kingdom
for ever and ever !"-Sidaey Andre1cS an
atlantic Monthly for December.
Year: 1873

A STRAPPING JoKE.-A French musi-
elan has been creating considerable social
and public disturbance by his inveterate
disposition to play practical jokes. His
chief object in life seems to be to worry
custom house officials. Arriving at a
place on the frontier, provided with
quantity of luggage, he would pretend to
conceal huge trunk and smaller one
from the eyes of the officials, only the
more to excite their curiosity. At last
the larger trunk would be opened. 1t
would be found to contain thousands of
secondhand trouser straps-an appendix
of trousers now perfectly obsolete-which
had evidently been packed by hydraulic
pressure, for the most frantic efforts of the
employees could not put them back again


into the trunk. In the mean time hun
dreds of passengers storm at the detention
while the practical joker calmly looks on
atthe bother he is causing. But the Sec
amlned and the custom-house people hope
there to find him in default. They ask
for the keys. The practical joker draws
punches of ponderous keys from every one
of his pockets none will fit, until, at last,
their patience exhausted, the custom m-house
officer threatens to burst the trunk open.
Then the possessor of the trunk calmly
asks the angry officer if he is married.
"What business is that of yours ? is the
surly reply. "Only this that before you
omen that trunk | would advise YOU to &C
home, shake hands with your wife, kiss
your little children, write your will and
call at an undertak er's as you come back
There are rattle-snakes in that trunk.
never travel without them" OF course
the man leaves the trunk instantly, and a
messenger has to be sent to the head di


rector, Who is shrewd enough to be aware
that he has to deal with some practica
joker. Presently the official returns anc
asks pompously, " How many snakes have
you, sir?" "Only six" is the rep y
:. look for Yourself" "Oh only six
The head of the department says six snake:
can pass, but that seven would have to pay
duty. | am also directed to state to yor


that if you do not leave this ofice-trou
ser straps, snakes and all-in five minutes
you will be torclbly elected" "And wh'
is to repack my precious straps, collec
tion unequaled in the history of the world


The law entities me to all my goods. Yol
took them out put them back again
The best period of my life is being devoted
to finding pairs for these straps,
Year: 1873

A MEDICAL observation-disclosures with
an aggravated case of mumps, or who may
be suffering from severe attack of brain
fever would do we'll to try mode of treat
ment which seems to have been adopted
with very considerable success in the case
of two individuals living in the neighbor-
hood of Pittsburg. 1t appears that
gentleman with mumps and gentleman
with brain fever were lying in one room,
very sick. So much so, indeed, that
watchers were neede d every night, and it
was thought by no means impossible that
the brain-fever gentleman might, at any
moment, and without much ado, 60 out Of
the world. A man was engaged to watch
the patients and to wake nurse whenever
it became necessary to administer medi-
cine. As some people will do on occa-
sions of the kind, in still room and by a
sick bed, both watcher and nurse tell
asleep. The gentleman with mumps, who
seems to have been person Of some de-
termination and considerable sympathy,
lay awake watching the clock which gave
notice of it's beng time for his friend with
brain fever to have dose of medicine.
Mumps being a disease which makes it
exceedingly disagreeable even to open the
mouth, let alone speak, the mumps patient
found it difficult to call aloud, and not
finding it desirable to jump out of bed
probably the room was cold on the fever
mans account-was for the moment In a
difficulty; but it was only for an instant
BE seized hold of pillow, and apparently
with great deal of vigor struck the
watcher in the face with it. This seems
to have had the desired effect, for it not
only awoke the watcher but knocked him
down, awakening also the nurse and the
man with fever. The position Of affairs
and the scene sent the mumps man into
fits of laughter so uncomfortable that Il
threatened not only to crack his sides bu
his cheeks. The fever man saw the joke
and had just sufficient reason left in him
to enjoy it. He laughed, too. Then nurse
and watcher joined, and there was quar-
tet of laughers, who, " for fifteen or twenty
minutes" literally brought down the house
in their night-shirts, to find what all thi
row could be about in the dead of night
To follow the account given in the Pitts
burg Gazette " When the doctor came il
the mornlng he found his patients vastl.
improved said he never knew SO sudden s
turn for the better and now both are VI
and WELL" We commend this medical dis
covery to the special attention of earnes
workers in the profession, in the hope tina
doctors will henceforth find it desirable t.


recommend a proper supply of pillows an
sleepy watchers to be always at hand il


cases of mumps and brain fever.
Year: 1873

MICE IN A BIRp's NRsT-Under this
tree are again to be seen the footprints of
the mice. Last summer blue-jay built
her nest of small sticks and roots on one
of its branches; and, when fall came,
these little mice made their winter homes
in it, lining and roofing it over with soft
green moss and strips of cedar-bark, using
pine for the inside, and coarser strips out
side; the whole making a structure about
the size of small football. The en-
trance was small hole in the side leading
on the branch, most perfectly concealed.


These timid little creatures dare not
trust themselves away from home in
the daytime, so we shall probably now find
them in this nest. The first time we
shake the branch, it only brings down
shower of snow but these little mice. SO
costly housed, know the movement was
caused by no breath of wind hurrying by,
tor, the second time, out they scramble,
wild with fear. They cling to the limbs
trembling and gazing auxiously about
them, not daring to move forward or back
again. As we pull the limb to look at
them more closely, all the three terror
stricken creatures jump to the snow be-
low, and quickly disappear in little en-
try way leading down beside birch stump.
The fur of this mouse is dark-brown on
the back, fawn colored on the sides, and
white on the under parts. The eyes are
very large for so small creature, with
the same deep liquid beauty deer's eye
possesses.


One popularity with these mice. and
the same is true of a red SQUIRREL, is that
as a rule. they approach their nest by the
way of some tree other than the one they
have their nest in. You will see then
run up a tree at some little distance, ane
then jump from branch to branch and tre'
to tree, often making long leaps, until they
finally reach home.


One season these mice built mes
against an uninhabited gray squirrel
nest, using some of the overhanging oak
branches of which it was largely built, a
material for their roof. The nest was in
pine; but the mice approached home b.
way of small oak standing near, the bari
on this being worn off by the marks o
their tiny claws. Frequently these mic
use the nest of the cat-bird as a store
house, filling it with hazel nnts, and the
covering it over with strips ST cedar-bar
leaving only small entrance on the side
Miss Hsnckley in Old and Neso 70
December.
Year: 1873

The bridge to be constructed over the
Firth of Forth will be by far the largest
in the world. According to the London
Builder, its height will be one hundred and
fifty feet, and the number of spans nearly
one hundred. The smaller span will be
one hundred and fifty feet wide, which is
beyond the average width of the largest
spans in ordinary bridges; but the crown
ing marvel in the whole structure is the
great span in the center, which is to be
fifteen hundred, or nearly one third of a
mile in width-an extent unparalleled in
any existing structure of the kind. The
entire cost of the bridge will be at least
ten millions of dollars.
Year: 1873

A New ENGLAND WoMAN.-As if one
could mistake a New England woman
How can you know her? First, by her
wardrobe. She will own waterproof
and India-rubbers, and nice umbrella.
before thinking about diamond ring, Or
the last style of dress, hat or gold brace
let. She always dresses with a view to
the thermometer, and perfers blanket
shawl of the best fabric, under doubtful
skies, to silk velvet dress and paper
soled boots.


Before deciding on her Spring outfit
she looks at the capabilities of the dresse:
already on hand. Over one that bas q
spot upon it she places bow or rntie
Year: 1873

The " Pharmaceutical Journal" quotes
from Heisch very simple and important
test for determining the quality of drink
ing water, and especially as to its freedom
from sewerage contamination. This con-
sists in placing few grains of the best
white lump-sugar in half pint of the
water in perfectly clean, colorless, glass
bottle, freely exposed to day.
light in the window of warm room. If
the water be perfectly free from sewage
contami nation it should not become turbid,
even after an exposure of week or ten
days, in which case it is almost certainly
safe, otherwise not.
Year: 1873

A Bratteboro printer, who is genius
with pencil as well as the L" stick" was
" out of work I" last week, supposed to be on
account of the panic. He therefore carica-
tured himself in true Mast style with satehel
and staff in hand. passing the printing Office
in state of overwhelming dependency and
duly labeled panic struck" His sufferings
may be regarded as Ger however. for this
week he started for Capitol land where spec
iaI attractions will cheer and panics are no
more,-Times
Year: 1873

What will not most people do,
All for money ?
Friend will turn his back on friend;
Anything. 'twxt me and you,
All for money.
Naughty people have to bend,
Love some to old Henry send,
All for money.
As you travel on through life.
You will ever find it So
Nothing like the ready cash,
For money makes the mare go.
Some will swear that black is white
All for money.
Do wrong and say it's right,
ALI for money
Moses he will swear to you
His old clothes are good as new:
Don't he make them ft you too?
All for money.
Pretty girls can love old men,
All for money.
Even wed three-score and ten,
All for money.
Ills but a fool who ever dreams
That anything is what it seems;
The world is full of mocking schemes,
All for rnoney.
Many people go to law
All for money;
Iradesmen give you unjust weight.
Beggars tease you. early and late,
Garroters kindly on you wait,
All for money.
Lawyers plead the felon's cause,
All for money;
Vow he has not broke the laws,
All for money;
Had ha been Oh t'other side,
What a d dffrrence, and how wide,
To make him guilty he have tried,
All for money.
Don't the doctors physic you,
All for money?
Give black draughts and blue pills,
All for money
What their patients all endure
Any Saint won't try. am sure
They are good to kill or cure,
Ali for money.
Chalk and water milkmen sell.
All for money
Something else, perhaps, as well,
All for money.
Thus will conclude my strain
With a sentence short and plain
Everything is done for gain
All for money.
Year: 1873

eral Lee conferred with Colonel Marshall, who
wrote his brief note of acceptance of the terms
of surrender offered, General Lee striking out
the sentence II have the honor to reply to your
Communication, and substituted II have re-
ceived your letter of this date.


This terminated the interview, and General
Lee rode back to his headquarters, which were
three quarters Of mile northeast of the Court
house.
Year: 1873

Editor Spectator:


Il may look "bold" 10 a poor
lone woman. who has no rights the stuck up"
men feel bound to respect, but I've been so ag-
gravated by the ways that are dark and the
tricks that are vain OF soue OF these same
LORDS of CREATION so-called, that Gao help
saying my say to save my life, aud hope, tho
you are Dau, you will be gallant enough to
give me hearing. Eeery paper see has long
articles on wv Womens Extravaganza Ruinlpg
the Country, &c., and every time the men get
together this is the subject OF their excuses for
not working harder and building our poor old
ate up laser.


Now, all I've got to say is, that nine-tenths
of them don know the cost Of what one Wo-
man in hundred wears, and when you hear
"hobbledehoy," with his hair parted 10 the
middle, and his little voice pitched to squeak
talking SO, and giving our "eztrayagance as
the reason ''he didn't marry" (asi any woman
would support such thiDg) mark my words |!
some decent girl has seen clean through the
part 10 the middle Of his hair and let him know
there was no foundation there to justify his as
pirations to her heart and hand. And when
ever you hear married man going on the same
way, you may know he has spent more than 1t
would cost to support his wife, On extra cigars,
Gne suppers, aud liquor.


Decent, hardWorking honest men know the
value Of q true helpmate 100 we'll, and respect
their own mothers aod sisters too much to in
dulge in the slang" talk so common With the
classes [ allude 10, and with some would be
funny editors They know that no man that
ever lived is worthy Of good, pure woman S
love and sacrifices tor them, aud they do their
utmost to grauty every reasonable desire Of their
better halves and sweeth hears and the women
respect and love them for it, and if women do
ar busries furb Flows aud flounces, they
have hearts under them and it IS to please their
liege lords they fix up so any way But I've
said my say and only intended to let the men
know we have an eye On them, and that they
can go on forever making us the seapegoats
for their idleness aud folly


"Compounding for the sins they are inclined to,
By damning those they have no mind to-
as some men do, who have made their living by
marrying wel-to-do women, whose property the
unjust law of Virginia puts into their hands.
Tney spend it on themselves OF other people s
children, while their poor wives want. And
the barefaced impudencs of this latter class in
saying word about their property beats all the
rest. But enough for this time from
Cousin SALLY ANN.
Year: 1873

CONTINUED FROM YEsrERpAYi


The young man had slept soundly on
his bed of straw. Dreaming Beech,
dream, and all he had said to the land
lords daughter were alike forgotten. He
stood at the door OF the tap-room. and
was just shaking the landlords hand, and
wishing him goodbye when the Girl en-
tered. On seeing him ready to start. an
indescribable feeling came over her. and
she could not let him 90.


Father" she said, 1.-The beer has not
yet been tapped, and the young man has
nothing to do; couldn't he STAY a day
longer, and earn his board and lodging,
and get something beside for the Journey
home ?"


The landlord had no objection to make
to this proposal, as he had just had his
morning draught, and was in the best of
humor.


Somehow the beer tapping progressed
but slowly. Then came bottling the
wine, and when the cask was empty and
the bottles full, then the girl thought lie
could help in the field-work, and when
that was finished there were so many
things to be done in the garden that no
one ever thought of before. So week
after week slipped by, and every night
she dreamed of him. In the evenings She
sat with him in the arbor by the house,
and when he told her how roughly stran-
gers had treated him, and what hardships
he had gone through, it was really very
singular, but a gnat or hair was sure to
get into her eyes, so that she was obliged
to wipe them with the corner of her apron


And so it came to pass that at the end OF
the Year the young man was still in the
house. And then the floors were well
secured, and white sand and fir-twigs
strewn in all the rooms, and the whole
village had holiday. 1t was the wedding
day OF the young journeyman and the
innkeepers daughter; and everybody re-
ljoiced at it except just the few who sulked
because they were jealous or pretended to
be so.


Not long after, the landlord of the Crown
Inn was decidedly once more in happy
t frame of mind. lie had been eating and
drinking to his hearts content, and sat in
his armchair with his snuff-box on his
knee. Long he slept, and when they tried
to awake him, they found he was dead!


SO the young .iourneyinan became,
really landlord Of the Crown, as he said
he would in joke. And indeed, all that
he had dreamt under the beech tree came
true. for soon he had two lovely children,





knees, and fed with Il spoon. and, posi-
bly,, blew upon the food when it was hot.
Perhaps, too, the other boy ran about the
room with the carrot; but the person who
told me this tale did not happen to mention
the fact and forgot to ask him about it.
But it must have happened so, because
whatever one dreamt under the beech tree
always did come true to the very letter


One day about five Years later. the
young landlord, for such he now was, had
come in and was sitting in the tap-room,
when his wife ran in and said to him:


'Only fancy yesterday at noon one of
our mowers fell asleep under the Dream
ing Beech. without knowing it, and what
do you think he dreamt! Why, that he
was immensely rich! and only think who
it was-Caspar, old Caspar, who is half
witted. and everybody keeps only for


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