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Year: 1870

Now Aunt Sally, do please tell us
why you never got married. You know
you said once that when you were girl
you wero engaged TO u minister, and
promised you would tell Us about it some
time. Now Aunt, please do"


well, il | ever did see such girls in
my born days. It's tease, tease. from
morning till night; you must know all
about anything you haven't no business
to know anything about. Such inquisi-
tive questeferous critters as you are!
When was young, girls were different;
they minded their business, and didn't go
sailing around with whole string OF
beaux, getting their heads filled with all
kinds of nonsense Never dared 10 ask
my aunts, married or single, about any OF
their affairs. Pretty muss Id have got in
if had. When they offered TO tell me
anything of their own accord, kept my
mouth shut and listened. Everything is
different nowadays; young iolks have
no respect for their elders. But rs I'm
not going 10 have any peace till do tell
you, why just listen, and don't let me
hear n word out OF one Of your mouths till
get through"


That's right. Aunt Sally; go right
ahead, do, and we will keep perfectly
STILL


well, you see, when / was about
seventeen years old, was living in
Utica, in the State of New York. Though
l say it myself, | was quite good look
ing girl, then, and had several bcaux.
The one that took my fancy most was
young minister. Il very promising young
man, and remarkably pious and steady.
lie thought good deal ofme, and kind
of took a fancy to him, and things ran on
till we were engaged. One evening he
came to me-I remember it rs well as if
it were yesterday. When he came into
the parlor where was alone. he came up
to me and-but now, pshaw! girls, don't
like to tell the rest"


..Olr, Aunt Sally, for mercy sake don't
stop; tell us what he did"


"Well, rs l said, he came up to me,
and put his arms around me. and rather
hugged me, when got excited and some
frustrated; it was long time ago, and
don't know but what might have hugged
him back little. Then | felt-but just
now clear out every one of you, | shant
tell you any more"


Goodness gracious. no Aunt Sally.
Tell us how you felt. Didn't you feel
good? And what did he do next?"


"Oh such tormcnts rs you arc! l was
like any other girl. and pretty soon
pretended to be mad about it. and pushed
him away, though l wasn't mad a bit.
You must know that the house where
lived was on one of the back streets OF the
town. There were glass doors in the
parlor, which opened right out over the
street, and no balcony or anything of the
kind in front OF the house. AS it was in
the summer season, these doors were
open and the shutters drawn to. step
ped back little from him, and whom he
Year: 1870

edged up close pushed him back again.
l pushed harder than intended to, and
don't you think girls, the poor fellcr lost
his balance and fell out of the door into
the street. Yes, it's so. As he fell / gave
scream and caught him-but declare ]
won't tell anything more. I'm going to
leave the ROOM"


"No, no, Aunt Sally. How did you
catch him' Did it hurt him much?"


"Wcll, if must. must. He fell head
first, and as he was going | caught him
by the legs of his trowsers. | held on for
a minute and tried to pull him back, but
his suspenders gave way, and the poor
young man fell clear out of his pantaloons
into whole parcel of ladies and gentle
men passing along the street"


"Oh. Aunty, Aunty, Lordy. Lordy!"


There, that's right, squall and giggle
rs much rs you want TO. Girls that can't
hear n little thing like that without tear
ing around the room, and he-he-ing in
such way. don't know enough TO come
home when it rains. A nice time the
man who marries one OF you will have,
won't he? Catch me telling you any
thing again?"


mo; the moment he touched the
ground he got up and left that place in n
terrible hurry. / tell you it was sight
to be remembered TO see how that man
did run. Father happened to be coming
up the street at the time, and he said he
never saw such \ sight in his whole lie.
heard others say he did the fastest run.
ming ever known in that part Of the
country. and that he never stopped nor
looked around him until he was two miles
out Of town. He sent me = note q few
days afterwards, saying that the engage
mcnt must be broken off, rs he could
never look me in the face again after
what had happened. He went out West,
and believe he is preaching in Illinois.
But he never married He was very
modest, and suppose he was so badly
frightened that time that he never dared
TO trust himself near n woman again.
That girls is the reason never married,
| felt very bad about it for long time, for
he was q very good man, and I've often
thought to myself that we should always
have been happy fhis s"spenders hadnt
giUen dDdy'
Year: 1870

1t is not your neat dress, your ex-
pensive shawl, or your pretty figure,
that attracts men Of sense. They look
beyond these. It's the true Ioveliness
Of your nature that wins and cOntin-
ue5 to retain the affections of the heart.
Young ladies sadly miss it who labor
to improve the outward looks, while
they 6estOw not thought on thu ir
minds. Fools may be won by gew-
gaWs and fashionable snowy dresses,
but the wise and substantial are never
caught in such traps. Let modesty
be your dress. Use pleasant and agree
able language, and you may not be
cOurted by the fop and sot, but the
good and truly great will love to lin
ger in your steps The result will be
your infinite gain.
Year: 1870

Many a man is rich without money
Thousands of men with nothing in their
pockets are rich. A man born with good
heart and good limbs, and pretty good
head piece, is rich. Good bones are better
than gold, tough muscles than silver, and
nerves that flash fire and carry energy to
every function are better than houses and
land. Ii is better than landed estate to
have had the right kind Of father and
mother. Good breeds and bad breeds ex-
ist among men as really as among herds
and horses. Education may do much to
check the evil tendencies, or to inherit the
right proportion of faculties to start with.
Year: 1870

A carriage was passing a wayside
hut in rural New York, when the
driver heard screams within as if some
one was being murdered. The driver
jumped down and pushed open the
door and asked what was the matter
The wife brushed the tangled hair out
Of her eyes, and looking savagcly at
him, said: owe are having a little
hell of our own, and we've got devils
enough to run it. We don't need your
help" The carriage passed on.
Year: 1870

Henry Ward Beecher says: "When
I hear some persons praying think
one of two thing, either they are a
thousand times nj amer than thought
them to be, or they think God is hard
er than he is. They pray to Him as
if He was the hardest kind of a jailer
and they were le:ging this cruel,
hard-Le rted jailer to let up on them"
Year: 1870

There is many a rose in the road OF life
II we would but stop to take IT.
And many tone from the better land,
II the querulOus heart would make it.
To the sunny soul that is full OF hope,
And whose beautiful trust ne er taieth,
The grass Is green and the flowers are bright,
Though the winter storm prevalent.
Better to hope, though clouds hang low,
And to keep the eye still lifted,
For the sweet blue sky Will still peep through
When the ominOus clouds are rifted.
There never was a night without day,
Or an evening without morning.
And the darkest hour-so the pruverh goes
Is the hour before the dawniug.
There is many a gem in the path Of life.


Which We pass in our idle pleasure,
That Is richer lar than the Je Seled crown
OR the mIser = boarded treasure
II may be the love OF a little child,


or mother prayer to heaven,
or only a beggar'z grateful thanks


For cup OF water gwen.
Better TO weave the web OF life


bright and golden filling;
A d 90 tod = work with ready heart


And hands that are prompt and willing
Than TO snap the delicate minute threads


OF our curious lives assuuder,
And then blame heaven for the tangled ends
And sit and -rleyc and wonder.
Year: 1870

If but breathe one passing breath
Thy violet-perfumed garments bear,
fragrant dream my soul enfOlds,
And violets haunt the common air
If from thy bright and laughing eye
one stray bean shoots into my own.
keep the glance with miser care.
To light the hours when I'm alone.
If / but touch thy careless hand
such sudden sweetness nils my heart
All thro' the long and busy day
Its tender spell viii not depart
And-oh, the thOught-so sweet so wild
If but dared thy lips to kiss,
Ny soul were stamped with royal seal,
And all my lifetime thrilled with bliss


MIGNoNETTE.
Year: 1870

PROSPECTS OF CHANGE ABOUT LAUREL
pEAou CROP IN DANaER-NKw pEpo,
WANTED.


Our peach growers have been somewhat


nervous during tine recent mild winter, fol


fear that 1t would result In serious injury tc


their crop, and since the recent cold snap,
In many minds the fear has changed to q
certainty.


Thousands of peach trees around Laurel
are in condition to bear this year, and
thousands of others are being planted every
year. If hard times and high freights do
not interfere, there is nothing TO prevent
this part of Sussex County being universal
ly planted with peach, apple and pear trees,
as well as with grapes, berries, and other
small fruits.


The farmers, as far as l have conversed
with them, appear fully convinced that the
raising of grain here is unremunerative, as
this portion of the country is unable to cope
with the great West in the production of
corn. They have been engaged in this un-
profitable way of farming until their land
has become destitute of the elements ne
cessary to the production of corn, and they
must necessarily resort to some new mode
OF farming, or allow their property to be
sold to pay the taxes (now very heavy) on
1t. The prospect of revolution in our me-
thods of farming is good, and this station is
likely to be one of the largest depots for the
shipment of fruit on the railroad between
Wilmington and Crisfield. We hope, by
the time this prospect Is realized, that the
Company will decide to erect Depot build
ings here, equal to the necessities of the sta
tion. This town has 1900 Inhabitants, does
large mercantile and lumber business,
and is entirely dependant on the ra
road for shipment and supplies, yet we
have one of the meanest and most misera-
BILE depots along the whole line, insufficient
for the proper transaction of the business
of the town, much less for any large ship
ment of fruit. Travellers, too, are poorly
accommodated, and daylight may be seen
through the roof OF the waiting room, which,
of course, affords but slight protection
against rain. AS Lumber can he purchased
here cheaper than at almost ony other place
on the Peninsula, we think we ought to have
new buildings. p


LAUREL, SUSSEX Co., March 3.
Year: 1870

lT is PRETENDED that In Delaware nobody 3
vote will be accepted for Democratic can
didate but those of white men. Will that
make the leaders Of the Democratic party
any more honest? Will it stop the leaks
in the public treasury2 Will it give back
the peoples taxes, filched from them by all
sorts of corrupt jobs


Suppose none but white mtn vote for the
Saulsburys, will that make them fair men ?
Win they act decently toward their own
party? Will they givea share of power to
others than their own family2


Suppose none but white men vote the
present ofiice-holders Of Sussex county int o
their places again, will that reduce the taxes2
Will 1t pay off the county debt? Will |: take
up the unpaid orders, floating around to be
shaved?
Year: 1870

A Washington special to the St. Louis
Democrat, dated the twenty y.second instant,
says:


There is getting to be a good deal Of feel.
ing here about the San Domingo treaty, and
the discussion this afternoon in the secret
session OF the Senate, will probably be some
what warm. The President has twice
visited the Capitol to talk with Senators
about its ratification, and yesterday he in
vited considerable number of them to call
on him at the White House. Half dozen
waited on him last evening: and several
went this morning, and quite a party is
there tonight. He presses ratification
vigorously, and has undoubtedly won
several gentlemen over to his side. In
some quarters there is severe condemnation
of what is called his lobbying. 1t Is not
likely tnat the consideration of the treaty
can be finished tomorrow; but if vote is
then reached, it will probably be defeated.
Some Senators want postponement of
action. till commissioners can be sent down
to make an investigation. The time expires
next week, Tuesday.
Year: 1870

Oh, the Spring hath less of brightness


Every Year,
And the snow ghastlier whiteness


Every Year.
Nor do Summer blossoms quicken,
Nor does Autumn's fruitage thicken
AS it did the seasons sicken


Every Year.
1t is growing colder, colder


Every Year,
And l feel that am older


Every Year;
And my limbs are less elastic,
And my fancy not so plastic,
Yes, my habits grow monastic


Every Year.
'Tis becoming bleak and bleaker


Every Year,
And my hopes are waxing weaker


Every Year.
Care | now for merry dancing?
Or for eyes with passion glancing?
Love is less and less enhancing
Every Year.
Oh, the days that have squandered


Every Y ear.
And the friendships rudely sundered


Every Year;
Oh the ties that might have twined me
Until Time to Death resigned me
My infirmities remind me


Every fear
Sad, and sad, to look before US


Every Year.
With heavier shadow O. er us


Every Year.
TO behold each blossom faded,
And to know we might have made it
An immortal garland braided


Round the Year.
Many spectral beckoning finger


Year by Year
Chides me that so long / linger


Year by Year.
Every early comrade sleeping,
In the CHURCH yard, whittier, weeping,
!, alone, unwept, am creeping


Every Year.
Year: 1870

There's music I know
In the measured flow
Of words to the light guitar,
And magic spell


Hath the gentle swell
Of Eolian notes afar.


And l love the roar


Of waves on the shore,
Of the dark and sonorous sea,
And my spirit bounds


When | hear the sounds
Of natures glad symphony.
Yet sweeter by far,
Than harp or guitar,
Or song the nightingale sings,
Are the tones that start
From a kindred heart
When love breathes over the strings.
Year: 1870

LIVING BY THE DAY. compare, says John
Newton, the troubles which we have to under
go in the course of the year to great bundle
OF faggots, far too large for us to lift But God
does not require US to carry the whole at once.


He merclfully unites the bundle, and gives US
first Que stick, which we are to carry to-day, any
then another which we are to carry Tomorrow,
and so on This We might easily manage, if
we would only taAu tue burden appointed for
US each day; but we choose to increase our
troubles by carrying yesterday stick over again
to-day, and adding to-morrow's burden to our
load before we are required to bear it. Will
liam Jay puts the same truth in another way.


We may consider the year before US desk con-
raining three hundred and sixty-6ve letters ad-
dressed to us--one forsevery day, announcing
It's trials, and prescribing its employments, with
order to open daily no letter but the letter
for the day. Now we may be strongly tempted
To unsea beforehand some of the remainder.
This however, would only serve to embarrass
Us, While we should violate the rule which our
Owner and Master has laid down for us, "Take
therefore no thought for the morrow, for the
'anFrow shall take thought for. the things of it.
Year: 1870

A BACHELORS S DEFENCE. Who is petted to
death by ladies with manageable daughters !?
The bachelor


Who is invited to tea and evening parties.
an and told to drop in just when it is convenient
The bachelor.


Who lives in clover all his days, and when
he dies has flowers strewn on his grave by the
girls who could not entrap him. The bachelor.


Who goes to bed early because time drags
heavily with him? The married man.


Who gets a scolding for picking out the soft
est part of the bed, and for waking up the ba-
by in the morning? The married man.
Who has wood to split and marketing to do,
the young ones to wash and the lazy servants
to look after. The married man.
~, Who is taken up for whipping his wife p
The married man.


Who gets divorces? The married man.
Year: 1870

The st. Louis Democrat hits the nail exactly
on the head, when it says: ''As rule, it may
De said that if a husband and wife have once
lived happily together, there can never be q
separation without misconduct by three persons,
tn the husband, the wife, and somebody else. =
The husband who never neglects his wife will
rot, as rule ever have to buy pistol to shoot
her seducer. The wife who never fails in her
duty to her husband, will not as a rule, have
to seek protection from some other man. And
the man who never interferes between husband
and wife, who never makes himself to the wife
nearer friend than her husband, who never
seeks her love on the one hand, or draws too
near If she invites, on the other, will never, as
rule, get shot by an ''infuriated husband"
Year: 1870

Ig, An exchange says, we are anxious to obtain
the sarvlces of a very large man to attend to
the following kind of persons


The uneasy cuss who wants to know sswhat'
the politics Of the paper" and is ''afraid it is
getting a little wrong.
circulation?''


The benevolent gentleman who in burst of
generosity wants to tell us how to make the pa
per success"


The mean indictive and cowardly sneak who
wants to abuse some citizen editorially. to
crafty his own personal spite.


Ihe sly and stlngy sneak who wants to get
halt column puff on his business inserted as an
item of general interest,"


The sanctum bore who takes liberties with all
loose manuscrints and can't take a hint to leave.


The fellow who wants to know whether we
are candidate for several Offices.


The patent medicine agent who exhibits
spurious contracts from other papers when he
wants to "Jew down prices. "


Other miscellaneous fools will have to be
used up as they present them selves
Year: 1870

Error in last article ''The Messy Greek route
will involve the crossing it at or near the Falls
just above the village, where the channel is
narrow and solid stone ahutment will be had
on the South side. The Long Glade route will
cross on the Island just below where two short
spans will be necessary and shor. and cheap
bridges, one here aud one oyer Middle River
will be all that are required.
Year: 1870




There are those who, with kind of noble,
but mistaken aspiration, are asking for life
which shall In It's form and outward course be
more spiritual and divine than that which they
are obliged to live. They think that if they
could devote themselves entirely to what are
called labors of philanthropy, to visiting the
poor and sick, that would be well and worthy
and SO it would be. They think that if it could
be inscribed on their tombstones that they had
visited o million of couches of disease, and car
RED balm and soothing to them, that would be
glorious record-and so it would be. But let
me tell you, that the million occasions will come.
-ay, and In the ordinary paths of life In your
homes and by your fresides-wherein you NAV
act as nobly as if your long life you visited beds
OF sickness and pain Yes, [ say, the million
occasions will come, varying every hour, in
which you may restrain your passions, subdue
your hearts to gentleness aud patience, resign
your own interest for another's advantage. sneak
words OF kindness and wisdom raise the fallen.
and cheer the fainting and sick In spirit. and
soften and assuage the WEAKNESS and bitterness
OF the mortal lot. These cannot, indeed. be
written on your tombs, for they are not one
series OF specific actions, like those technical.
y denomlnated philanthrophy. Butin them,
say, you may discharge Offices not less glori-
Gus for yourselves than the self denials of the
tar-famed Sisters of Charity, than the labors of
Howard of Obelin, or than the suffering, mar
tyred host of Gods elect. They shall not be
written On your tonbs but they are written
deep In the hearts of men-of friends, of chill
dren, OF kindred all around you !; they are writ
ten In the secret book OF the great account!
Year: 1870

KINDLY WORDS FOR THE HOME CIRCLE


In his discourse in the Spring Street Pres


byterlan Church, on sunday, Rev Dr. Aikman
thus delivered Lesson 10 Wives ~ 1.-The
Bible understands human nature full as well as
we ct this late generation do. What it requires
OF the wife is that she shall love her husband
supremey, which cannot be done unless she re-
spects and puts her entire confidence In him.
So far as other men are concerned, she must
hold him supremely above them In her mind"
The preacher then considered the various minor
duties OF the wife toward her husband He
touched upon the too common practice of max
Ing conhdants OF some particular friends, when
the husband alone should be her confdant
There Is also tendency in the household after
marriage to neglect to keep up those evidences
OF affection which first drew husband and wife
together. Greater diligence is necessary to keep
their love warm when they have entered upon
the realities of life than when they lived in the
dreams OF courtship and early happiness. A
mong the things to be preserved from first to
last Is that modesty, grace and purity which
first won the husband. Then, there are all the
personal attractions to be continued. Nothing
IS more coveted by a hightoned man than a
charming wfe-One who can converse with him
lntelllgently, and appear to advantage In So
clety; one who always looks beautiful in her
happy face, and attractive in person one who
ls not sovenly who keeps the home neat and
cheerful who is full of delicate attentions, and
is absorbed in her husband S and her family's
interests. All these charms can be maintained
by the wife through life by a little attention
every day to what she knows will please her
husband.-N 7. Commercial AOrertiser.
Year: 1870

Indeeisiou is that slatternly housewife by
whose fault chiefly the moth and the rust are
allowed to make such dull work life, corrupt
ing all the gleam and gloss Of earth perishable
treasures.
Year: 1870

A strange story is reported by a cor
respondent relating to duel at Ber-
lin. A ballet dancer of the name of
R, belonging to the Royal opera OF
Berlin, had got into a quarrel with the
Graf von s., an officer In the Royal
Guard, and had insulted his adversary
In presence of several Of the officers of
the guard. But the officer was much
too fine q gentlemen to fight man so
much beneath him In social standing
rs ballet dancer. a duel, If 1t can
be so called, was accordingly agreed
on, by the terms Of which the first OF
the two opponents who was seen with.
out glove on his left hand was to kill
himself. 1t may be imagined that for
several days neither Count Won $
nor R. took of his left hand glove
either by night or day. At last the
unfortunate r., having gone out fol
Il walk with q young lady to whom he
was engaged to be married, his COM
panion teased him so much about his
obstinacy In keeping his glove on, that
In a fatal moment he barred his hand,
Just then Count Won s. passed, ac-
companied by two friends, and imme-
diately called attention to the fact that
R had forfeited his life. The same
evening the unfortunate dancer shot
himself through the heart, in accord
ance with the condition agreed upon.
Year: 1870

A person who is sick enough to need
night watchers needs rest, and quiet, and
all the undsturbed repose he can get. If
one or more persons are in the room read
ing, talking, or whispering as is often the
case, this is impossible. There should be
no l!-ht burning in the room unless 1t be q
very dim one, so placed as to be out OF
sight of the patent. Kerosene oil should
never be used in the slck,room. The at
,endant should quietly sit or lie in the same
room, or, what is usually better, in al
adjoining room, so as to be within call il
anything is wanted. In extreme cases, the
attendant can frequently step quietlJ tC
the bedside to see if the patient is doing
we'll, bat all noise and light should be care
fully excluded. 1t is a common practice
to awaken patients occasionally for fes,
they will sleep too soundly. This should
never be done Sleep is ore of the great
est needs OF the sick, and there is no dan
ger OF their getting too much of it. Her
aid Of Health.