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E tu d es Labels, ^ •S in g leco p A ^ '.jt'c e n ts—for sale at the officeand ROCKLAND, MAINE, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25,1880. &c., at the Bookstores. 3* V O L U M E 3 5 . N O . 52- PRINTING IN COT.ORSJANU BRONZING Z. POPE VOSE. J. B. PORTER. will receive prompt attention. had an old fashioned lira built on tile MRS. BRIGGS’S CLERK. I hadn’t got up when I did. he’d have been a Coffee Field iu Brazil, hearth. dead, lie held the bag of money tight, f a r m , Isn’t that gorgeous! ” cried the girls lie was a tall, thin, starved-looking boy, and the thief was pummelling him with a ! together, girl-fashion, as they entered the with a little jacket, the sleeves of which loaded stick; and the pluck Tie had for a A" little sl.aver-1 tell you I never saw the W,“<,‘ °Ur Brow“ for REVEILLE! room. “ Who is coining, did you ask?” crept half-way up his arms, and a hat that articles, sugije.ationa.anfl rcanlta of experience FULLER & COBB continued Katie Crafts, seating herself in was nothing blit a brim, and when she saw like." elating to Farm , Garden or Household management From a very full account of the Brazilian ADA M. E. NICHOLS. Aunt Rhoda’s big chair. him he was eating a crust out of the gut­ " ' You shan’t take granny's money from * Invited from our readers interested in such matters “ Well, Miss Winny, I’ll tell you. Two ter. She was only a poor old woman who her." says he, nnd fought like a little tiger. Coffee Industry in Scribner for December, Will not and cannot afford to be The dawn smiled through the blueness overhead, of the splendidest young men you ever kept a little shop for candy and trimmings, I f it's your money, old lady, lie's given his take tills description of the field work, The lark awoke; saw! Wo know you wilt like them—and and poor enough itself, heaven knew; but, life for it, for all I know.” w ritten from personal observation by Herbert The Potato Disease. The mists and mysteries of the night were fled, undersold in one we invited on purpose for you to fall in said she, he looked a little like what her "Oil. Dick! Dick! I knew you were II. Smith: The morning broke; love with, and vice versa." Tom might be if he had grown up and been good. I must have been crazy to doubt It is well known toscientists that the po­ And soon the crystal chalice of the air, Indeed ! How kind,” said Winny neglected, and she couldn’t stand it. She you,” and then site wrung her bands and In southern Brazil, a coffee field seldom tato rot is proilnced hy a spirit of fungus All pure and clear, laughing, “ Rut I never intend to marry, called to him : cried: “ Oil, Dick, for just a paltry bit of lastsmorc than thirty years. The plantations lmtanically known as Prrons pora infestann. Was brimming o’er with music sweet and rare so I shan't fall in love. May I ask, how ­ “ Come here, sonny,” she said; and the money." are made on the fertile hillsides, where the Tlie first word is tho Greek for boring seetl. From far and near. ever, who the youth is—what's his name, or boy came. And so she knelt beside tile pale still face forest lias been growing thick and strong Tite cause and eharacter of tlie disease is AND where's his hnmc?” Before she could speak again, he said: upon tlie pillow, and kissed it. and called it But tlie soil here is never deep—six or eiHit tripped of its mystery, or eoncealment, and It overflowed the universe with song tender names. inches of mold at the utmost. In the tropic: the theories which provoked a ion? war of So fresh and bright No. don't tell her. Sue," cried Katie a “ I didn’t do it. I’ll take my oath on stopping her companion's mouth with a anything I didn’t do it. 1 ain’t so m ean.” And Dick, never guessing her suspicions there are no long winters with mats of dead words have been disproved The life-his­ That weary faces, pale with vigils long, vegetable matter rotting under tlie snow. Suffused with light; dimpled white hand. “ Didn’t do what ? ” said the pleasant old of him, whispered: tory of the jootato fungus is now well un- Let’s hang tip a wish-bone over the woman. I was so afraid he'd get oft' with it if he The leaves fall singly’ and dry up until they dersood. CARPETINGS. And turning toward the beauteous eastern sky, killed me, granny, and you in such high break into dust: logs and decaying branches Some of tho more popular and plausible door for Winny, and then see if the right “ Break your winder,” said the boy, nod­ In glad surprise, one comes in under it first.” ding his head toward a shattered pane. hopes last n ig h t.' in the shady woods are carried awav bv white theories were, that the malady was caused Reflected half the glories front on high lint supposing it’s the wrong one—Dr. “ Why, 1 broke that myself, with my lie did not know what wa9 meant by ants and beetles; hence the mold bed: hy infusoria (microscopic insects), or that As we have one of the Largest Stocks in the County, to In happy eyes. Gray may come first—what then?” asked shutter last night,” said the old woman. begging him to forgive her. It would have crease very slowly; in twenty-five or tliirtv the weather was out of kilter, some meteor­ compete with others, we shall seli for the next 40 days And in the rosy shadows of the morn Winny. I’m not strong enough to lift ’em, that’s killed him if lie had. for he was very near years, the strong-growing coffee-trees eat it ic or electorical disturbance. Hence, the Coods at the following CREAT REDUCTIONS, viz: A tiny life, W hy, whoever it is we’ll give up our , the fact. I’m getting old to death all up. Most planters simply cut down the remedies, antidotes and nostrums devised In solemn hush of joy and love, was born interest in him. Yon shall have the first •• If I'm round here when you shut up, Rut Dick did not die. He got well at forest and leave the trees to dry in tlie sun were manifold. Thus, for vears, farmers .WOOLENS, To human strife. man who comes in under the wish-bone— ! I’ll come and do it for you,” said the boy; last, nnd came back to tholio little“shop; an,I I ,° 1' six or ”'Sllt weeks, when they are burned.h groped in darkness, tried everything, but though Granny Briggs hadad her savings, she I s 7 .* more provident, lets the Itlog accomplished nothing. CARPETINGS. A burled "heart, long cold as drift of suow, shan’t she. Sue?" nnd the ripples of laugh­ I'd just ns soon. What was that you ies" hom o■ fort on n .where they lie which they do in a v After a few years farmers came to know A job lob of Cassimere for Men and Boys’ ! ’Neath breast as white, ter reached Aunt Rhoda again, ami made wanted nte (or ? ” never went to the old ladies'homo; forlons . B R U S S E L S , (Elegant Patterns) $ 1 . 5 0 , wear GO cents, worth 75 cents. her sigh. “ I want to know what you was eating before she died Dick was one of the most *''o; ’.n *le °Pcn sunlight they are sav something of tlie character of the disease. Stirred strangely in the rapturous morning glow, prosperous merchants in the city, and his , 01,1 ll,seitS and the ground receives former price. $1 .75. A job lot of Cassimere for Men aud Boys* wear, , And throbbed with might. Such a dinner! Old Gobble in state nt one that dry crust out of the gutter for,” was They observed that when potatoes were in ROXBURY TAPESTRIES, large 75 cents, worth 90 cents. The above are ■ end, chicken pie Hint melted in one’s month tile reply. handsome home was hers, and she was very j ‘alg® accession to its strength, blossom, or jnst gone by, that if rain, o ra assortment, $ 1 . 1 0 , sold in Boston at good for Ulsters. A weary soul, unloved, alone, and old, at the other, to say nothing of Aunt Rhoda’s “ Hungry,” said lie, “ I've tried to get a happy in it. 1 Ba,'k ol ™' house there are two yards or fog “ mnll’, was succeeded by scalding And long oppressed. ______small fields, four acres, perhaps, together. $1.25. Other grades from 00 cents to $1.00. A job lot ofG 4 Ulster Cloth for 150 cents. famous canned corn and pe.a9 and beans: job nil day; I’m going to sleep in an area weather tho rot took place forthwith. They LOWELL EXTRAS, 00 cents., former Sped outward through the azure and the gold then the mince-pies and pumpkin-pies and The ground is covered with cathern pots knew that when brown spatters appeared To endless rest. over there after it gets too dark for a po­ price $1. plum-pudding. All, Aunt Rhoila knew liceman to seo, and you can't have a good NEW PUBLICATIONS. i set ciose together, only leaving little path- upon the leaves the rot had "struck.'' They A L L W O O L S at a reduction from 10 to 20 The dawn smiled through the blueness overhead, ___ i ways at intervals. Each of the two hundred did not know that the brown spots, or spat­ cents per yard. what girls liked, and helped them bounti­ night’s sleep, without some supper, if it is a The lark awoke; fully; and there wasn't a merrier table any­ little dirty. Appleto n ’s J ournal for December contains a I Hionsand pots contains a thriving youn^ ters, consisted of a fungus and that the cor­ COTTON CHAINS at a reduction of The mists and mysteries of the night were fled, novelette from the German, entitled “ A Tree in i coffee plant. The ground forms a gentle rosive action of that fungus caused the po­ frcm 5 to 10 cents per yard. where round the country that day than “ I’ll gife you some that’s cleaner," said The morning broke • Aunt Rhoda's. To be sure, when they first Odcnwald,” that is eminently readable. There is I slope, and w ater is constantly running over tato rot. H E M P , 15 cents per yard. the old woman. a briliant anecdotical paper on Alexandre Duma- • so that . . it . is always soaked. The pots —Harper's Magazine. sal down Aunt Rhoda was a trifie pale and “ Thabwill be begging," said ho. the elder, which of itself is worth the priec of the Although the potato disease had not be­ STRAW MATTINGS, all widths and C L O A K S from $3 to $17. through orifices at the bottom, draw up / prices. looked as though a very little would make “ No.’J said she, "you can sweep the number. Then we have a long review of the con­ come sufficiently wide spread and malig­ D O L M A N S all prices. her cry instead of laugh; but the girls kept cluding volumes of McCarthy’s “ History of Our enough of this water to keep the roots moist­ nant to attract attention until 1843, it does OIL CLOTHS, from 25 to 50 cents per A new lot of U L S T E R S just received. shop ancf the pavement, and put tip the shut­ yard. A Coquette. Own Times,” and a review of “ Sectional Fiction,” ened. The young plants are protected from not follow that it is a new disease, or had its We have the largest stock of C l o a k in g s in bnek tile tears, and with their happy faces ters for it.” meaning “ A Fool’s Errand,” and other recent liefore her site put sad thoughts away. the sun by mat screens stretched on poles origin in some unnatural condition of tho light and dark shades ever shown jn this She rambled through the meadows wide, “ Very well," said he. “ Thankee then. novels of its class, that is notably searching and above the ground. “ And now, girls, this is Winny’s wish- If I sweep up first 1 11 feel better.” pungent. There is a graphic sketch of “ Paris weather. On the contrary, it is believed to county. So richly gemmed with dew ; This is a costly system. Most of the he an old foe which came with and has We can show a full assortment of F r in g e s , hone, nnd we’ll hang it right over the par­ Accordingly, site brought him a broom, before the Revolution,” and a most interesting Her hair was bright an golden light, article called “fl’he Roof of the World,” descriiZ planters take root shoots at random from the clung to the potato since its first introduc­ Gimp, Buttons, Cords, &c. Her eyes were azure blue. lor door, and we'll all watch to see who en­ and lie did the work well. Afterward lie ing the adventures of Lieutenant Wood in cross­ Prints and Cottons. ters first;” nnd Kate Crafts, the tallest of old fields and set them at once into unpre­ tion, ready to work mischief when the con­ And shyly, there, the farmer lad nte his supper with a relish. That night ing the Hindoo Koosh, and exploring the hitherto pared ground. Sr. S------'s experiment has the three, mounted a chair nnd lfung old unknown regoin of the upper Oxus. A. J. Faust ditions of earth, air, and potato are favor­ One case Standard Prints for 0 cents per yard, Betrayed his love and woe; he slept, not in the area, hilt under the old cost him, probably $20,000; the pots alone able. She passed him by Gobble’s breastbone over tile parlor door. woman's counter. writes entertainingly and anecdoticallv of “ Mem­ worth 8 cents. ory;” Mr. Grant Allen discusses “ The Dog’s cost $11,000. But he will make at least Fungus is a vegetable growth, a plant, a W ith head held high, Il soon grew dark enough for lights, and He had told her his story, Ilis name One case of prints for 5 cts., worth G cents in Universe,” in an article that is both scientific and $50,000 by the operation. In the first plac true parasite plant.having neither blossoms And coldly answered, “ No ! ” they were all sitting round a warm, blazing was Hick: he was 12 years old, and his fath­ Boston. popular; Mr. Connoly reveals to many readers an he gains a good year in the start that he nor seeds. Mould, mildew, smut, rnst-dry- 3000 yards Remnants Cotton Flannel, cheap. fire, listening to Aunt Rhoda tell how Joel er, whom lie had never seen sober, was in Irish poet, Clarence Mangan; and we have some She wandered to the woodland pool, came to go to sea, when steps were heard anecdotes of English rural life. The editor eff­ gives to these young plants. Then they are rot, black knot, ergot, toad-stools, and simi­ 2000yards Remnant Unbleached Cotton, cheap. SHAWLS. By wild flowers all begirt; prison for life. not put back in the transplanting; the pots 2000 yards Remnants Bleached Cotton, 8 cents. coming up the walk nnd a knock at the door ectually defends the pubic schools against the as­ lar productions are known as fnngi. The She saw her beauty in its depth, The antecedents were not elevating, but saults of Mr. Richard Grant White, showing that are simply inverted and the roots come out Cannot be bought by the case for less than announced the arrival of some of the ex­ germ theory of disease, now accepted as Just received anew lot of Striped Cashmere And smiled—the pretty flirt; the boy seemed good. Tile next morning the evils Mr. White deplores are common to all with the earth. They are set into mold or 9 cents. pected guests. the old woman engaged a clerk for a small the cause of the epidemics to which humani­ long Shawls ranging in price from $8 to $25. And there the curate told ids love, classes and the age generally. compost which has been prepared in deep ty is exposed, is only another name for a In this lot are some new designs never befora Though hope was almost dead; “ Now, Winny. take a good look at your establishment. The terms were simple— Godey’s L ady’s B ook for D ecem ber, closes holes. The tender rootlets catch hold of fnngus which preys upon animal life. shown. But though sho sighed, future husband,” whispered Kate; and as his " living and a lied under the counter.” the one hundred and first volume. We have this at once, and in a day or two the plant is The epizootie. or cpizooty. (whichever is VELVET SHAWLS from $5 to 315. She naught replied, site spoke a tall, handsome, sunbrowned When the neighbors heard of it they noted its course through the year, and are free to growing as well as ever. Y a m s . man rushed into the room and took Aunt! were shocked. A street boy. whom no one the right word) so fata! to horses in 1872, A good U L S T E R S H A W L for $5. She only shook her head. say that its present publishers have more than The nurslings come from selected seeds of and so prevalent in 1880, is supposed to lie Rhoda in his arms and kissed her again knew. Hid Mrs. Briggs really wish to be maintained its high reputation, and have certain­ half a dozen varieties. Sr. S------has them We have a large stock which we will shall sell Slie lingered by the broad park gate, and again. ly fulfilled every promise they made in their pro­ caused by a “germ,” a species of fungus. murdered in her bed? But Mrs Briggs planted at first in small pots. A dozen slaves at the lowest prices quoted. The old lord lingered too; “ And to think it's Joel after all!” said felt quite safe. She had so much time now spectus at the beginning of the year. The litera­ Another theory is that the epizootic is caus­ G e r m a n t o w n , (to close) marked down lb He sought the maiden for his bride, Aunt Rhoda,alter the excitement of his un­ ry matter is first class;’the steel plates are excel­ are engaged transplanting the six-inch shoots ed by a too large amount of ozone (oxygen And knew, too, how to woo. that she was going to take in sewin lent, and the pattern work alone worth inure than to larger pots. Little tired looking children 20 cents. \ Dress Flannels. expected return had subsided, nnd she had in a new form) being present in the atmos­ And though he feigned love’s sad despair, Dick attended to the shop altogether, lie the price of a single number. Its low priec, $2 per carry them about on their shoulders, work­ phere. Coventry, - - - 18 cents. finished hugging and crying over her boy annum postpaid, places it within the reach of all. Her answer he could guess; kept it in fine order, and increased tlie bus­ ing on as steadily as the old ones, for the. Scotch, - - - - 20 cents. Another new lot of those 15 cent Drees Flannels ami introduced him twice over to all three We will receive subscriptions at this office, and How to check or to destroy the potato Ball Yarn, - - - 13 cent?. But could not spy iness by introducing candies and ehewin. are. well trained. Sr.------S. wants to make his just received. girls. furnish the Lady’s Book ami the Gazette for one fungus is the next achievement and to this or 2 balls for 25 cents. A large assortment of the best quality of Her triumph high. gum. Pennieseame in as they ncvercame year, postpaid, for only $3.50. This is an excel­ plants last fifty years, so he is careful and end science is working with tho utmost pa­ Twilled and Plain Dress Flannel for $1.00 She smiled, and whispered “ Yes ! ” “ Why, who else would it be, mother? in liefore, sinee he had painted signs in red lent time to subscribe. We learn that the Lady’s tender with them. The little blacks will be Surely you wouldn't welcome any other tience and care. It is discovered that dust­ and $1.10. nnd blue ink to the effect that the real old Book in 1881 will contain a complete novel in every free in 1892, so his policy is to get as much ings of sulphur will abate the ravages of A good assortment for 25 cents single, and 50 man ns warmly as yon have me!" and Joel molasses candv was to be got there, and number, atul all the oldjdepartments will be pre­ served, thus making every issue complete in itself. work as possible from them while he can. certain species of fnngus. and liming”pota­ cents double width. looked at his mother in a very natural sort that this was the place for peanut The plants are set in rows, about ten feet toes when stored, is fatal to the liingus of surprise. UNDERWEAR. And in the evening, after the shop was H a r pe r 's M agazine for December is a strik­ apart. They grow and thrive, and are happy, spores.—Ellsworth American. M cs anil Sketches. “ No—no—but old Gobble, you know— shut up, she began to take him into her ing number, presenting many novel features. It out on the hillside. Warm sunshine caresses In this department we can show a larger as­ and Winny’s breast-bone—” Aunt Rhoda confidence. Her great dream was to buy opens with twelve “ Christmas Carillons,” by An­ the leaves; generous rains feed the tender Felt Skirts, so cts, to $4,50. began, in her usual bewildering, mixed-up herself into a home fertile aged. It would nie C. Keteluim, with four excellent illustrations. sortment than has ever before been shown in roots; the ground is kept free from intruding Are Your Closets Ventilated. fashion. A new American novel, by Mrs. Constance Eeni- this city. cost her $100. She was saving for it. Sho more Woolson, is beguii and promises great inter­ weeds ami bushes, and the plauter waits for A job lot in Grey WaterProof for Skirts, &c., “ Oil, Auntie,—please!" whispered Win­ had saved tlirce years, and had $15 of it. for GO and 75 cents. WINNY’S WISH-BONE. est. The title is “ Anne ” and the early scenes are his harvest. After four years the trees are There is nothing so bandy in a bouse a3 JUST RECEIVED ny in a besecebing tone; and then Auntie But it cost so much to live, with tea twenty- laid at a military post and fur-trading station on six feet high and begin to bear. By the an abundance oflarsre, roomy closets; but au.islaml in one of the great Western lakes. There A TIIANKSOIVINn-TURKEY STOltV. laughed anil stopped short, and just then live cents a quarter, and leaves so small, sixth year, the crops are very large—three because they are bandy and extremely use­ 50 dozen of Gents', which we are selling'for GO the two gentlemen and Dr. Gray arrived, and she had linen sick, and there was tile is a very interesting illustrated descriptive article ful they are apt to be abused. There nre cents, never before sold less than 75 cents. ami Joel forgot in the introductions that concerning “ The City of Pittsburgh,” by G. F. or even four pounds per tree at times Special Bargains in Misses’ for 20 and 25 cts. The big brown turkey’s days wore num­ doctor and Mrs. Jones's Maria Jane to lie Muller; the first of a series of papers oh “ The , Meanwhile, corn and niandioea are planted many things which, as n matter of course, BLACK SILKS. followed, and the merry games that made paid for minding her anil tile shop. After English Lakes and their Genii.” by M. D. C on-1 between the rows. Often in anew plantation are always put into a closet, of which tho A Job Lot of Ladies' for 40 cents, or two for bered. For several weeks Aunt Rhoda tile evening all too short—forgot his moth­ 75 cents. bad fed him like a prince or a pacha, in this Dick took tlie greatest interest in the articles of outward wearing apparel make We have just received a new duplicate lot of er’s mysterious half explanation of her | exPenses a r e " earl-v covere'' " » '« • Sllb- A Job Lot of Ladies’ Scarlet for $1.25, worth the $1.25, $1.50 and $2,00 silks that we view of his anticipated sudden death, and savings, and tlie winter months increased a large part. There are also things which strange wonderment that it " should be him New Year’s celebration in China-town, San Fran- ! »diaiv ciops. $1.50. have had such a good trade in this season. now, ns site stood up at the kitchen table them as though he had brought a blessing. cisco, by Catherine Baldwin; “ Mrs. Flint’s M ar-1 In this month ot Novemper only a few of ought not to go into a closet’ i. e„ a closet A good assortment of Boys', Misses’, Ladies We are offering B a r g a i n s in Silks from finishing up the last touches to the pump­ after all!" One night in spring she took tlie hag lied Experience,” a characteristic old-time New the slaves are in the new fields. November adjoining or elrsrly connected with a living and Gents’, all prices. .75 to $2.50. Bring your samples and com­ kin pies that were to “ follow his remains,” “ Let us know if it comes true. Winny," from under the pillow and counted what it England story, by Rose lerry Cooke, and a va- j js |],e principal gathering month, and almost or sleeping room. Of such are all soiled cried the girls ns they hade their friends, riety of other interestiu. pare with Boston prices. she said to Winny. who sat near her,stonin held. It was $30. the whole force must be at work in the bear­ undergarments, the wasli clothes, which COLORED SILKS, all shades. good-bye, ami Winnv sltook her curls at “ And I'll begin to make kites to-mor- poems, besides the able and should tie put into a large bag used for the WHITE SHIRTS. raisins for the mince-meat: departments. ing orchards. From sunrise to sunset, men, Bargains in |BLACK SATINS from 75 •• My cup of happiness would be full if them and eelioed, “ If it comes true!" •ow, Mrs. Brigg.” said the hoy. “ and you'll women, and children are gathering the ber- purpose, or a roomy basket, and then Boys’ and Gents’ Uulaundried White Shirts, cents to $1.75. BLACK VELVETS from That night when she had gone tip to her see the custom that it will bring. If a lit­ placed in tlie wash-room or some other 75 cents to $2.00. Elegant Patterns in Brocade Joel could help eat him! ” SH’P i PSi ' r ‘CS basteU* wor^ing silently and steadilv all sizes, for the low price of 5 0 cents. room Winny thought to herself, as she tle shaver secs the kites, he'll spend all he oL K A L b . z under the overseer's eve. Everv dav, each well-aired room at some distance from the Velvets in Stripe, Polka Spot, and Figured. “ Joel eat who. Auntie?” and Winny’s brown eyes sparkled, and her red lips grew combed out her long brown ringlets, has for 'em. and then lie’ll coax his mother “ Treat woman like a splendid flower,” slave gathers on the average berries enough family. Having thus excluded one of the redder with the laugh she was struggling what an improvement the sea must be to for more to buy the dates and chewing gum. says Bob Ingersoll. “ So I do. I have • to produce fifty pounds of dried coffee, fertile sources of had odors in closets, tho to keep behind tile wnll of even, perfect, ugly boys. Here is second-cousin Joel a I know hoys.” planted mine,’’ says a widower who bad The pickings are collected in carts and next point is to see that the closets are prop­ white teeth. Aunt Rhoda had such a cu­ handsome man—and he used to be a hide­ You're a clever boy yourself," said the buried three wives. j brouglit to the mill-house, where the seeds erly ventiiated. It matters not how clean ous boy! Not so old either; he can't be rious way of saying things, continuing a old woman, and patted his hand. A Broadway engraver recently made this • must be PrePared for the market, the clothing in the closet may be. if there Tablings A Towels. more thnn twenty-seven. I was live when It was a plumper hand than it had been is no ventilation, that clothing will not lie train of thought in her own mind and ex­ m istake: “ Mr. and M rs.------respect-’ ______Special Bargains in Bleached Damask for 45 pecting everybody would know just what Ito used to take me to the barn-yard to see when it picked the crusts from the gutter. what it should he. Any garments after be­ him milk. Nine years are a big gap when an,l ho wore clean, whole garments, though fully request your presents at the marriage ! ing worn for awhilo will absorb more or less cents to $1.25. the links meant. of their daughter.’* Useful Hints, A Real German Turkey Red Damask for 58 Dress Goods. “ Why cat old Gobble, to be sure; don't one is five. W onder if be thinks I have they were very cearsc. of tjie exhalations which arise from the cents, never before sold less than 75 cents, you bear him singing his last song out in changed?” and Winny held the candle close How wrong the neighbors were," she •• Husband," said an exasperated wife, “ I body, and thus contain an amount of for­ and all others at very low prices, BLACK CASHMERE from ’fc35 cents the yard? They say swans sing a death to the glass and scrutinized her pretty, said. “That boy is tho comfort of my can t express my detestation of your con­ Keep tea in a dose chest or canister. eign—it may be hurtful—m atter which free 300 dozen Fringed Towels for 3 cents. to $1.00. dimpled, rosy fnce very closely. life.” duct." “ Well, dear. I'm very glad you Keep coffee by itself, as its odor afleets circulation of pure air can soon remove; MOMIE CLOTS, all Shades, marked song, why shouldn’t turkeys? He knows A splendid towel for 5 cents. he is to be killed shortly. Ah, me! Thanks­ Strangely enough Joel's thoughts seemed So she went to bed with the treasure un­ can’t." was the cool reply. other articles. hilt if this is excluded, as in many close A very large Fringed Damask Towel for 25 Down. to run the same way that night. der her pillow and slept. Far on in tlie closets, tlie elllnvia increases, and the cents, worth 35 cents. C O R D U R E T T S in all the new Fashion- giving and lie is to be away on the sea!— Josh Billings suggests that if a man is Bread and cake should po kept in a tin box ami lie’s so fat and nice.” “ What a pretty girl Winny lias grown night she awakened. Tlie room was uttcr- clothes, closets and adjoining rooms in time A job lot of Momie Towels, 21 by 4G, for 30 ble shades, (this is the best goods this seasoB,) into. How the years change one," he said on his way to the woods to commit suicide, or stone jar. possess an odor that any acute sense of with Satins, Velvets and Silks to match the Winny laughed now as she cried: “ Well, lv dark, there was not a ray of light—but cents. (A Bargain.) to his mother after Winny had hade them she heard a step on the floor nnd a bull suddenly gives chase, the chances Cranberries will keep all winter in a firkin smell will readily detect. Every closet in NAPKINS from 50 cents to $5.00 per dozen. same, with Cord and Spikes, Fringes, &c., Auntie, I suppose you mean Gobble is ‘ nice are that he will run for liis life. of water in a cellar. without sending away. and and fat ’ and Joel is * away on the se»;’ good-night. I “ Who is that? ” she cried. daily use in which the night clothes are but if Joel isn’t here, I think we can have “ Indeed she is—nnd as good as pretty. I I There was no answer, but she felt that A maiden lady of Johnston, for disap­ Butter that is made in September or Oc­ hung by day, and the day clothing bv night BON TON CORSETS, $1.00. just as good a time picking old Gobble’s only wish I had a daughter just like Iter,” some one was leaning over her lied. Then pointed love, has let her toe nails grow tober is the best for winter use. should have an airing as well as tho bed. liones!'’ nnd a toss of the head told very answered Aunt Rhoda warmly. a hand clasped her throat and held her seven years long. Tho only proposal she Oranges and lemons keep best wrapped in If the closet can he large enough to admit plainly that Joel, in its curly estimation, “ Would you like to have a daughter, do- in. and dragged out the bag of monev, has received since was from a man with soft paper and laid in a drawer. of a window—and it is in some cases—an KID GLOVES CHEAP. WORSTED GOODS. would not be such a desirable acquisition mother?" asked Joel, taking up Winny’s an ' she was released. H alf suffocated, she tivo wooilen legs. ample provision for sunlight and a circula­ picture that lay on the table and studying Lard shonld be hard and white, and that tion of pure air is provided in the window, A large assortment of Knitted Jackets, Hoods, to the festive board. for a moment found herself motionless and which is taken from a hog over a year old it intently. bewildered, conscious only of a draught of A reverened doctor said every blade of whicli should he left open for a short time &c., &c., Winny Welden was Aunt Rhoda’s niece’s grass was a sermon. The next day be was is the best. each day. In the case of small closets a Best Quality Spool Silk 10 cents, child. Since the death of her parents—not " Yes—one just like Winny, Joel—nnd if Jir from the open door, and some confused A good line of Scirfs, Mittens, &c. you'll look on the top of the parlor door amusing himself by clipping his lawn, ! Soft soap should be kept in a dry place in ventilator could be put over the door or even L E G G I N G S from 35 cents to $1.00. quite a vear—Winny bad come up country noises. 100 Yards to the spool. maybe you'll find one,” replied Aunt Rhoda Then she sprang to tlie door and hurried when a parishoner said: “ That’s right, a cellar, and shonld not* be used’till’ ill threi in it. In many cases such precautions for to live with her mother’s aunt.and as the old doctor. Cut your sermons short.” months old. lady was quite alone now, her only child, in her rambling, qneer mode of speecli; nnd into the shop. pure clothing are not practicable, and the Customers will please bear in mind that these are the lowest with these words site kissed her boy good next best thing is to see that the door of Joel, having gone to sea, she was very glad “ Dick! Dick! ” she cried: “ Dick! Dick! A crash is heard in the kitchen. The To select nutmegs, prick them with a pin. notations for to-day : if there are any further reductions we to have the bright-faced, merry girl as a night and went to bed. help! w akeup! I’m robbed!” head of the family calls out to tho cook: If they are good, the oil will instantly spread the closet is left open for a half boor each constant companion. Winny liad lived in “ What on earth does mother mean? Is But there was no answer; the door into ‘ What have you broken now, you black around the puncture. day. at that time when the windows are ill he one of the first to mark down, as has been our custom she crazy? Look on the top of the parlor tho street was wide open, and by the moon­ idiot?” Matildy stops singing a hymn to Meats of any kind should not be washed, thrown up nnd the large room is purified the city all her life before she came to Aunt door for a daughter! Well, I'll look! and eretol’ore. Rhoda'an orphan, and she knew very little light that poured forth through it she saw answer: “ ’Tnin’t de forf commandment, but wiped with a towel to preserve the juices with fresh air from out of doors. In this reaching up his hand, Joel found—Winny's as she peered under the counter that Dick's bress de Lord.” and quality. way: first, by keeping out clothes intended of country people nnd their ways, but she wish-boDC. for the wash; and second, daily changing Samples sent when ordered, Goods delivered to all liked them now, since site lived among the bed was empty. The boy was gone. When a cask of molasses is bought, draw Alt, alt! That is the answer to tho Gone! gone! Oh! that was worse to Tho following easy method of drilling the air, tlie closets may bo comparatively 51 good, honest-hearted folks who made the glass is given in a technical journal: Stick off a few quarts, or the fennemtation pro­ arts of the eitv. " ways ” pleasant and they all grew to love riddle, is it? I’m agreed! I'll keep it for Granny Briggs than even the loss of the pure.—American Agriculturist. a talism an;" and will) a laugh to himself at a piece of clay or putty on the part where duced by moving will burst the cask. the pleasant-faced, bright city girl. money: for she had trusted him and he had the thought, he put old Gobble's bone in his deceived her. Sho had loved him and he you wish to ipake the hole. IMake a hole in To prevent flies from injuring picture Winnny had seen very little of her aunt the putty the size you want, the hole reach- frames, boil three or four onions in a pint of W hat is Book Farmixh?—If the reader vest pocket. hail abused her love. The neighbors were knows how to milk a cow, shear a sheep, liefore she came to her for a home, nnd of Joel's ship had come homo quite unex­ to the glass of course. Into this hole water; then with a gilding brush go over FULLER &, COBB. Joel she remembered nothing, save that right; she was a fool to trust a strange or to do any other kind of farm work in the pectedly, but it staid a longer timo in port street boy, and had been served rightly pour a little molten lead, when unless it is r glasses and frames, and the flies will not when she was a very littly, short girl, he very thick glass, the piece will immediately alight on the articles so washed. best way. he is just the man to do hook lhanjhe thought it should—long enough for when lie robbed tier. was a very tall, awkward boy, who used drop out. farming—to write on tlie snhjcct. Book him to find his mother a daughter, nnd When the dawn had broken, the wise farming, with all the odium which ignor­ to bring home the cows and help milk them, himself a wife, “ on top of the pallor door PYLE’S with his great red hands, in the barn­ neighbors came into Granny's shop to find A set of wagons marked “ Hell Gate A Mountain of Salt. ance and prejudice have cast upon it, is too," he declared ever after. her crying and rocking to and fro; and they Brewery ” go through the streets of New D I E T E T I C yard. When old Gobble's sons and daughters simply the best mode of farming put in Aunt Rhoda talked incessantly of him, told her they had told her so, and she only York distributing their “ liquid damnation” print by one versed in tho business he began to run around the door yard that shook her head. Life had lost its interest along the way. Those Hell Gate men are A correspondent of the San Francisco SALERKWSS nnd Winny was tired of the sound of his spring, Winny wrote down to her girl writes upon. An ndvaneed agriculture de­ name and the list of his virtues; nnd im­ ror iter. Her “ occupation was gone,” but quite frank thus to confess their occupation- Chronicle writes: “ One mile above the mands more mind and less muscle. friends: THE BEST IN U SE. agined, besides, he must bo a middle-aged not with her savings. Money was but The farmers who raise hops for them to ferry on the Virgin river conies in ironi the SOLD BYALL GROCERS. B eau G ir l s : In olil Gobble's brenst-bonc a money, after all; he had come to lie the work up, see hero where their produce north, and on or near it is, perhaps, the IN POUND PAPERS ONLY. man by this time, instead of the “ boy” heart bent fer inc! Come sec if it has not “ come Aunt Rhonda called him. true;” for on Easter Monday a wedding will only thing site loved, and Dick had robbed goes and what business they are engaged most wonderful and extensive salt formation | DOMESTIC COOKERY. “ Homely and awkward still, no doubt,” take place at Aunt llhodn’s nnd it is altogether the Iter. in.—Advance. on the continent. The formation is in fact, result of our eating the Thanksgiving turkey nnd one of tlie mountains of salt, hard rock salt W h ipped Cream.—Take the oldest thick she thought to herself when Aunt Rhoda It was 10 o’clock. Grannv sat moaning Lord Beaconsfield and the Queen are banging up Winny’s wish-bone. ” bv tlie kitchen hearth. Good-natured Mrs. which is blasted and quarried out like quar­ sweet cream you have, beat it with a Dov­ ended her tales of his “goodness ” with her among those who endeavor to dissuade the er egg beater, having your cream ns cold as John C. Haynes & Co., usual “ and there isn’t another boy like him .Tones from the stairs was "seeing to ries of granite and marble. Commencing Baroness Burdett-Coutts Ironi marrying six miles up the Virgin river, these moun­ possible, do not beat too long, as it mny anywhere round!” things" and trying to cheer her. when sud­ Mr. Bartlett, the young man of American 33 COURT STREET, BOSTON. Postmasters have been appointed in denly there came a rap on the door and a tains of salt extend for tliirtv or more miles turn to butter, but beat until it thickens, This Thanksgiving Winny expected two Maine as follows: E. Cleveland,Embden. birth who had for some years been her aud Mu(1(, r;-.cr3 Thcrc are and then add sugar to taste, and flavor with of her girl friends from the city to come policeman looked in. nr.vate secretary and tlie almoner of her • , ” w n)adc six twent Somerset county; E. A. Clark, Harpswell opening lemon: vanilla or blanched almonds are Musical Boies in Great Variety. out and have an old-fashfoncd country din­ “ Mrs. Briggs," he said. Turkish and Irish charities. The Baroness Centre, Cumberland county; Emeline R. “ Here she is," said Mrs. Jones. up the Virgin river at different places. very nice. I-et your cake get cold before Brass Band Instruments. ner, nnd Aunt Rhoda had invited the young Abbott, Upton, Oxford county. is CC years old. and tier intended husband putting it between. Sponge cake is the doctor from the tiie village 'to call in the “ Yes. I'm that wretched critter," said From six to twelve miles these openings un­ Violins. less than half that age. rover a species of dark gray salt, ninety-two nicest to use with it. It is delicious if eat­ evening, nnd besides the two girls were to Tho small pox excitement in Gardiner Mrs. Briggs. en the same day it is made. American Guitars Warranted. have two young gentleman friends to drive the past fortnight is gradually subsiding. “ Some ono wants to see von at head­ A Springfield physician says tliat Dr. per cent, pure, presenting to the casual ob­ A very large stock of FIN E server the appearance of ronimon coarse Delicate Cake.—Whites of two eggs, OVERCOA I'd and SUITS just out in the evening and Lake them hom e; so No new c:ises are reported since Wednes­ quarters," said the officer. “ There's a boy Tanner’s abstinence has been exceeded hy Imported Guitars. received by S. A. BURPEE, the there, and some money.” a woman in Mittineague. Miss Betsey gray granite. These openings are all on the ono cup of sweet milk, one and one-half low-price clothier. that a Itogether. Winny had a pleasant day. No more deaths have occurred, and Banjos from $2.00 upwards. time in prospect without Joel, nnd was those who are sick are recovering. It is “ Dick!” cried Mrs. Briggs. "Oh. I l’atte some years since was sick and took east side of the Virgin river, from one-fourth cups of sugar, three cups of flour, one-half Violin, Violoncello, Double Bass, consequently more interested in the thought the disease has been checked. can't bear to look nt him." no other nutrition than water for 45 days. to one-half mile up from its hanks. At a cupof butter, one teaspoonful of cream of thoughts of them than in Aunt Rhoda’s But Mrs. Jones had already tied on her So site affirmed anil so the doctors believed. point twenty miles up river and on the west­ tartar, and one-half teaspoonfnl of soda. Of a million tons of ice put upon the Sho recovered and lived several yenrs af­ ern side is a mountain of pure white crystal­ Flavor with lemon if you like. A Tety Banjo, Zither and Ilarp Strings wishes for her absent son. Very selfish Kennebec and vicinity the past winter,there bonnet and wrapped her in a shawl, and and Trimmings. no doubt, but very girl-like and natural. •taken her on her arm. terward in Holyoke, with her brother, a lized salt, white as driva? :tiow and trans good cake is made by using the two yolks, now remain about five thousand tons. All well-known citizen there. parent almost as glass. It is at once t one-half cup ofsugar. one-liatf cupof milk, Accordeons aud Concertinas of all Thanksgiving morning dawned clear and of this will probably be shipped before tlie “ The wretch!” she said. “ I'm so glad cold. Poor Gobble was beginning to turn lie's caught; you’ll get your money back." A little girl six years of age, who had at ­ pleasing and interesting spectacle to see tlie one and one-fourth cups of flour, two tnble- river closes. Prices linvc ranged from $1 great masses of erystal-like salt, as thrown spooufnls of butter, teaspoonful of croam of descriptions. American and For­ a pale golden brown in the oven when to $8. The price is now about $1. And she led Mrs Briggs along—poor tended public worship in a hall, went with Mrs. Briggs, who cried all tho way. and a relative, for tlie first time, to a church, out by a three or four foot blast. These tartar, and one-half teaspoonfnl of soda. eign Sheet Music, Music Books, Winny’s friends drove up to Aunt Rhoda’s Last week Mr. Lewis Thompson of Top­ hospitable door, where Winny stood await­ cared nothing for the money. And soon nnd described it on her return to her m oth­ pure and beautiful blocks resemble somewhat Buckwheat Cakes.—One enpofsugar, Ac-, Ac., Wholesale and Uetail. sham, turned his horse into the pasture. It they were at their destination. Then, and er: “ The minister stood on'’a piano and blocks of the purest ice when they have one fourth eup of butter, and one-balf cup ing them. Such kissing and embracing appears that the animal attempted to roll and laughing and talking as there was in not before, the policeman turned to the two preached; ho read a ltynin, and all the been prepared for the iee-house.” of flour, one-half cup of milk, one aad one- Thi> establishment is one of the branch stores of in the lied of a brook, nnd was unable to women, people stood up and turned their backs on half tenspoonfnls of yeast powder, tlie the quiet old house! rise. The body in the channel made a dam OLIVF.B DlTSON Bz Co., and possesses unequalled ad­ Aunt Rhoda wiped her eyes nsshelisten- “ It's pretty had," he said. “ They’ll take iiim, and looked tip to a bedroom where whites of four eggs and bake in jelly tins. vantages for the importation of instruments from the which shortly raised the water so tliat the him to the hospital in an hour. I suppose four persons stood and sting the hymn.” The Maine Eclectic Medical Association Make a frosting of the whites of five eggs ed to the merry voices, and said to herself horse was drowned. beat manufacturers in Europe. Dly49 as she basted the turkey, “ If my boy was you nre prepared for that. He's nearly are to hold their semi-annual meeting at beaten to a stiff froth, twelve tablespoonfuls only here—and lie’s so nice and brown, In the U. S. Circuit Court at Portland beaten to death yon know." Things that will wear are not to bo had Lewiston, Dio 1st. of pulverized sugar to each egg, five table- too! ” Judge Fox recently rendered an elaborate “Did yon bent him. you cruel wretch? ’’ cheap. Whethet it be a fnbric or a prin­ spoonfuls of corn starch, then frost each Old Papers.lOQ “ Who’s coming alter yon, girls? ” asked decision in a suit involving the title to large said Mrs. Briggs. “ I wouldn't have had ciple, if it is to endure, it must cost some­ During the month of October the Ban cake, and lay over the frosting sliced figs 100: tracts of timber lands in Aroostook County gor & Piscataquis railroad carried some and raisins, put moro irosting over these, it done for half the money. Let him go thing. Glittfcr, tinsel, brilliant coloring, —F O R - Winny, when the overskirts were all pinned back tighter, and the crimps pulled in which Hon. E. C. Burleigh of August! with, it if it’s any comfortjto him.” may all box had without much expense; 450 tons of lumbermen’s supplies, for use then lay on another cake, put on more figs out “ fluffier." The three girls eame down was one of the defendants. The decisioa “ I bent him!" said the man. “ Weil, but ifi*ivo would have strength, firmness, of men in the woods near Mooseheud and raisins, frost again, until all the cakes 40 Afl stairs in the parlor, where Aunt Rhoda had WR9 in favor of tho defendants. women have the stupidest heads. 'Why. if and rermnnence, we must pay for them. Lake. are used, then frost tho top. 1 Gov. Williams, of Indiana, died on Who Shall he Governor ! Bridging ot' Rivers between Hnitie will be prosecuted. Mr. James Redpath is To-day vWednesday) is somewhat warmer Saturday. His term of oflice would have 4* contained the names of his parlshoncrs, from which that the holidays are approaching, you had better THE ROCKLAND GAZETTE. The question as to who lias been elected, and New Bninswirk. a Seolliman by birth. He was born at Ber- thau yesterday, though still cold, and the west expired with this year. The Democratic he proceeded to read the names, asking each as he have your photograph taken, and sent to your and will bo declared. Governor of Maine wiek-on-Tweed in 183 i, and went to Amer­ wind that had been blowing very strong for three Thursday, November 25,1S8O. Lieut. Governor—Isaac P. Gray—will be A special despatch to the Boston Post proceeded how much he would contribute for the friends. Mr. Morse has recently had a serein for tbe next official term is one that is like­ ica with his parents in 1848. At the age of days, has subsided. Everything presages a pleas­ support of the church, beginning with those who the chief executive until the inauguration says: Among the important matters that painted, representing a very pretty winter scene. ly to occasion some perplexity and trouble, ant day fbr Thanksgiving. paid the most. The first responses were for five Notice to Subscriber*. will com e before Congress as its coming nineteen he became connected with the This neat work of art was executed by Mr. Chas, of the new Republican Governor. This 4« In our city markets to-day chickens are sell­ dollars—some half dozen—when the sum given in and one upon which intelligent citizens session is that for making an appropriation .Vcir York Tribune, writing for it in the of­ l a Font, tonsorial artist in the employ of Anson promotion of the l.icut. Gov. complicates differ in opinion, both as to law and fact. ing at 13c. per lb., ducks and geese at 14c., and response to the names called dropped to three dol­ Bucklin. ‘ t i aid. in conjunction with an appropriation fice and ncting ns a corres|>ondent. Hu was mail) indicates "that the paper i/p u id |»litieal matters in the Senate of licit State, turkeys at 20c. There seems to be a pretty fair lars, at which figure the contributions continued Alfred C. Strout, assisted by John Hilt, is put­ t » that time, and constitutes a valid receipt. Sub- For ourselves we lielieve that there has I lor a similar amount by the government of in Kansas from 1855 to 1857 and took nn where the parties are evenly divided and he supply. In Bangor poultry is very plenty and for so long a time that the pastor finally ex­ ting up the frames for a steam yacht of 41 feet iu •bribers will pltate notice these dotes and are specially been no legal election of Governor by the active part in the free soil struggle. Dur­ requested not to let them get more than a was expected to give the casting vote in tile Dominion of Canada, in the construction chickens are selling at 8c. to 10c., turkeys at 12c. claimed, “ It seems to me that all your minds length, for Major Delano, to be built this winter, ti ar OLD. while those will merit our special thanks people: but nevertheless, since the Repub-I„t bridges across the St. John and St. Fran- ing the Civil War he was with the armies to 16c. per lb., ducks at 6oc. to 75c. per pair, and who keep them in aJrartce. are on three d o lla rs ” So it seems to your corres­ and ready to launch early in the spring. 1*. tbe organization of that body. How it will lican Legislature last winter attempted tol ejs ijjvers, geese at 75c. to 85c. per pair. W Subscribers making payments for the G azette which constitute the boundary , of Sherman and Thomas, and helped toor- pondent in looking over tiie award of pre­ Major made the model for this lioat, and when will please see that the dates are changed to corns, result now, is a matter of considerable ex­ miums at the North Knox County Fair, that p m J, mid if any subscriber receives tiro papers after a submit to tile people an amendment to the lK.tw.en the two countries. Tbe memorial "le ^ e d schools in Charleston, We learn from Hon. T. H. March that Gen. finished and the engine placed in her, she will be a citement. the minds of all the awarding committees were payment or remittance without change of date on his constitution providing for the election of of the Legislature of Maine, asking Con- f A,,erW!“ ds 1,0 ‘"-‘'unje interested in Thom’s plan for a breakwater in Rockland harlior very pretty and beantifnl yacht, very desirable for p iper, he is requested to notify us immediately, in or- on the Warren exhibitors. [For the good reason U r that such omission may be promptly corrected. Governor by plurality and for the applies has been accepted by the Board of Enginee sailing down the river and ampng thc.is»— ’’*7 gross to make an appropriation for lll!lt | ‘" ‘’dement for Ilaytien independence , , ~ V I doubtless, that the ImuI weather hail prevented the 3" Hon. George A. Bingham, ouc o( the tion of the plurality rule to the then pend­ and that work will l»e commenced soon. The 1__ ...... having steam alxxirtl, she will nJj^jjtM&efalned by purpose, was ,before c the iiHouse ... r.Committee „ and, was , one _ of the joint J commissioners „. .. sent breakwater is to extend in a northwest direction usual quota of exhibits from other towns. Ei». 1 adverse winds. 4 GT* The Kennebec river.above Richmond Justices of the Supreme Court of New ing election—although in point of fact they , on Foreign Affaim at the last session, anil ’? Washington. In from the “ South Ledge ” (on which there is a red Ice during this cold snap is making fast on the closed, by ice, to navigation, on Tuesday. Ilnmiishire. resigned his office for the pur­ bungled so that only part of the amend-1 rcfcrl.tM, t0 a subcommittee, consisting of 1,18b8 he went ,nto the agency busi- buoy) and the work, as planued, is estimated to I gr Much doubt exists as to the neccs eastern shore of Georges River. pose or being a Democratic candidate for ment was really submitted—and since a Hon. W. IV. Rice of Massachusetts, Hon. iness, and was the first man to introduce cost 8300,000. s-lty for an extra session of Congress next The draft for the frame of the ship to be built by GT Col. Darius Alden, of Augusta, is Congress, and engagiug in the canvass. plurality of the voters either cast or sup­ Samuel Watts A- Co., was finished yesterday. William D. Hill of Ohio and Hon. John C. suveral well-known lecturers and readers to Miss Callie R, Crockett, one of thc teachers Spring, unless there is a failure by the He was defeated, and, although there was John A. Patterson leaves fjr the South, to cat slowly convalescing, and it is hoped he posed they were casting their votes for the American public. At one time Mr. iu nnrH»v«n our city schools, a was married •» on— Monday after­ present Congress to pass the necessary ap- some talk of his being reappointed to the Nichols of Georgia, with instructions to tiuilier, to-day. His sons go with him. will thoroughly recover. Harris M. Plaisled, we should like to see Redpath was very friendly with General noon, to Mr. W m. II. Severance, leaving______bench, tho Governor and Council of that make their report on the subject at tbe ter the ceremony for Camden, where thev took I ProPr*al>°n hills. The Senate, as usual at There will be a dance at Counce Engine hall Gen. Plaisted declared elected if legal war­ Butler ami did a great deal towards secur­ State hist week appointed Isaac N. Blodg­ opening of tbe next session. In order that the steamer next morning for a bridal trip to the inauguration of a new President, will be Thanksgiving evening. Music by Burkett’s Quad­ H T Hon. Thomas B. Reed, in a letter to rant can be found for such declaration. ing the General's second nomination to rille Band. ett, of Franklin, to fill the vacancy. It the committee ami Congress may have all Bangor. Mrs. S. will continue to fill the position summoned to meet on the 4th of March by the Portland Press, withdraws his name When the Legislature proceeds to ex­ Congress in 18G8. Mr. Redpath has great would have been better forjudge Bingham the information and facts upon tho subject of assistant teacher in Miss Osgood's school during CAMDEN. from the list of aspirants to the V. S. Scn- amine tlte returns of the vote for Governor the winter term. President Hayes for the purpose of actin sympathy with all oppressed people. He L u nch ixo.—The schooner, Robbie L. Foster atorship. to have held on to his office and let his as­ to enable them to act intelligently upon the upon the appointments of President Gar­ they will have to determine, first, the num­ object before them, the sub-committee dur- cons'l'el!‘ the Irish race at this moment to Mr. Benj. Knowlton has purchased the old was successfully launched from II. M. Bean’s yanl pirations for Congress gone to the winds. field. But it is highly probable that the ber of legal votes which each candidate lias bo struggling against oppressors, and this building on Lime Rock street, just east of Mc­ at 11:30 o’chx k, last Thursdjty and was towed by His successor is a Democrat. ingtlie recess secured the services of G. A. matter of a business session will be left to Shoreham, Veiraont. on Lake Cham­ received, and second, whether any candi­ is probably the reason why he first went to Laughlin’s blacksmith shop, and is taking it to steamer Planet to Frye’s wharf, to finis h her plain. was the banner Republican town in Fairfield, Esq., of Maine, formerly commis­ pieces tor removal. We understand he paid only the discretion of the new President. cabin and some ether work. She will be ready date has received a sufficient number to Ireland as a correspondent for the .Veto Tort the Presidential election, giving 174 votes Capt. Nyo of the Sound steamer i elect hint. sioner of that State under tho Webster-Ash- 820 for it—a good trade. This building was oc­ for sea in a few days and is chartered to sail from Tribune, and afterwards took an active part Stonington, which ran into the steamer In determining the first point the question | burton treaty, who has pre|«ired a full and cupied bv the Post Office for a considerable time Sandy Point to Savannah, from which former for Garfield and none for Hancock. in thu agitation. Ho will have only liim- place site will take a cargo of hay. Narragansett last summer, was taken be- | whether votes which do not bear tho cor- exhaustive report, clearly showing the im­ more than twenty years ago, and before that, in so'f to blame if ho is put into an English R et.xoiovs.—There will be union services at the fore a I nited States Commissioner at Nor- rt,ej |1;ltues of tile candidates shall lie count- portance as well as necessity for the con­ its palmy days, there was a Masonic hall in the g y Gen. Weaver, at the recent election, prison. But such a prospect is the least of second story. Ip tl)e State Congregational cliureh on Thanksgiving day; ser­ wich, last Friday, charged with a violation ej for ,be candidates for whom they were struction of the proposed bridges, and mon by the pastor. Rev. W. R. Cross. There carried one county, and only one. so far as all terrors for such a restless spirit. Chas. F. Wood A Co. have just removal to of Pilot Rules, and witli manslaughter, lie intended, or for distinct persons, will have which contains a great amount of statisti­ will be a meeting at the Univcrsalist church on the spacious store in Burpee Block, four doors reported. It was the county of Walker, in cal matter relating to tile population and Eugland is too small a country to enable Twenty-two starch factories in Aroostook the evening of thc same day ; preaching by Rev. was bound over to appear for trial at the b(l considered. If these incorrect votes north of their old location. The store has been Texas, and Weaver had sixteen majority extensive experiments in ballooning to be county have used about 2,000,000 bushels C. P. Nash,—subject, “ Thc relation of Christian­ December term of the I nited Stales Dis- .,,c not given to the candidates for whom resources of Aroostook county and North- fitted up with every convenience for the proper ac­ over both Hancock and Garfield. carried to a successful issue. In a recent of potatoes this season. ity to Labor anil Capital.” triet Court at Hartford. Iiis bonds were they were intended, Gen. 1‘laisted will be eastern Maine, and showing clearly the ad­ commodation and display of their large stock of A ll Sorts.—A new office room has lieen put vantages in a national [mint of view to be colulK’t*tion between French and English clothing, furnishing goods, hats, caps, trunks, A fine colt, belonging to Edward F. Lin­ fixed at 81 000 on the latter ch arg e and defeated; if they are so counted, lie will into the comer store of P. J. Carleton’s. ty Wo learn from tho Bangor Whig, derived from their construction. Mr. Fair- aero,la"ls. ,w» air sitips were sent up from valises, umbrellas, etc. They get much more room coln, of Bath, got loose in the stable, ale 8200 on the former. Captain 5 ouug of the have a plurality of votes. In counting these List Saturday night was very stormy ami dark, that Gov. Davis has tendered the Warden- field's familiarity with the various ques- i l*le r-vsta' I’alaee. Three hours after the iu the new store, which was necessary to meet the too much grain, and died in a few hours. Narragansett. appears for trial at the same votes we believe the legislature should, yet some of our people went to Rockland to ship of the State Prison to Gustavus S. start and when at all elevation of 5,000 demands of their business. See their advertise-j The overseers of the jxxir of Bt*l last say listen to the Buffalo Bill Co. term of the Court. and we have no doubt they will, allow tho tions nrising under that treaty, ns well as ment. j that during thc past eight months there have Beau, Esq . of Bangor, in place of Col. J. feet, the English channel came in sight, and - ’ ,, n ...... v . . been fewer demands for charity than for a The apptaraniT of John J. Pratt, of Porterfield correction of any returns by the records, with the people and resources of that im­ W. Porter, who declined accepting the sit­ An establishment in Chicago lias the sailing masters had to let out gas in a * W ,11. C. Conory. of Blue Hill Falls, belong n u ln b cr o f y o ars. mine, in town brought a returning thought of min­ and do every thing which they have power portant section of the country, has enabled ing to schooner J. J. Clark, of Gloucester, was , uation. been making for more than a year, an im­ lively manner in order not to lie carried out ing interest. Work has lieen resumed on this to do, under the constitution and the opin­ him to prepare such a paper ns will bo of found drowned in the dock at Portsmouth last At est Paris two section men were re- mine and the steam drill put in motion last Mon­ itation of batter from lard, by a secret pro­ great service to the committee and Con­ to sea. Although the English balloon descen­ new treaty has beenjmndo with ions and decisions of tile Supreme Court, Sunday morning. It was at first thought he had j cently thrown, one twenty-live and the otll- day. cess. A large and prosperous business lias . ded at the rate of 3,000 feet in sixty sec­ becn the victim of foul play, but investigation e r f° r^y feet, by a locomotive of a fast train China, which will be submitted to the ive the votes the effect intended by those gress. and will enable them to net under- The sardine factory was closed last Monday, been done and considerable shipments standingly when the subject comes before onds, until within a short distance of the showed this not to have been the case and that he ' :Lq 'verc ' « cl awaiting the arrival of clams by steamer from Senate next month. Secretary Evarts re- who cast them. i .• ii • .r r.u , e »-i • . . , car off the track. G H. Brvant had both have been made abroad. Tlte manufactur- earth, its occupants only just “ saved their doubtless tell in off of thc wharf while intoxicated, ; , , , r . v ‘ , n , Boston. gardsjthe provisions of it as highly satisfac­ In determining the second point, the Leg­ them for final action. It will alto ho of ...... arms broken, and Joshua lord was badly wbo make no concealment of their bacon " as they dropped in tho mud, which as he was seen in that condition on the whart, • jjrujset| Steamer Pioneer stopped at the Boston wharf on great advantage to the people o f Aroostook Saturday night. He formerly lived in this city j r s 1 • tory, and ns covering the whole subject of islature will be met by the question. Does was uncovered by the lowness of the tide. her return trip from Bangor, Monday morning. business, except in the process of manuf.ic- lbe amenj ment of the Constitution provid- in making known the attractions »nd re­ and was the sou of Capt. H. G. Conarv. A gang of six workmen from Deering We have a literary society in Camden, but so Chinese immigration into this country. It will be interesting to learn to which bal­ ture, claim that the bogus butler is no worse inR f(jr (he eIection of Governor by a plu- sources of that valuable and extensile sec­ arc now in Belfast, cutting and shipping quiet has been their organization and career so 4- \\ e saw two persons writing postal cards on Christmas trees to New York. They aro than other products of pork. kest.iuiant. ,..,1^ instead of a majority, of votes apply tion of country—of tho resources njd ad­ loon the prize is awarded, but if the con­ far, that we have scarcely heard of its existence.'*-' E y Tho Morning .Vrtrs is the name of the window ledges in the Post Office, the other | operating on the Patterson hill on th e east test were to bo decided by foolhardiness, The cold wave of Sunday night and Monday a new onc-cent daily just started in Port­ and boarding houses are using it largely in determining the election of 1880? vantages of which but comparatively little day, the place offeaing no better facilities than sjde. The trees after being cut down arc thc English undoubtedly were the victors, was very chilling. The thermometer was at 14, and other concerns are preparing tc go into -phis ;s the question iqxin whicii the result hns hitherto been known. these. If Postmaster Kimball would place a i land by James II. Ferriss. It is a five- snugly packed in bundles and shipped by at 7 o’clock, A. M. the business. as they came live minutes nearer being writing desk, or shelf, in the northwest comer of rail. column folio, a bright and newsy sheet. Ir—1 will doubtless really turn, anil this is a ques­ Rev. Mr. Brastow, of Rockport, preached at the drowned titan their opponents, who the building (M long fts the space between the i j p c Xe;|] for g;x ,h e ae(,o |n . politics it is straight Greenback and its tion with regard to which members of the Abstract Ot tllP Report of the See- "grassed" their machine two miles further Congrcgatioualist church last Sabliath evening. The cold ave which swept over I^ gisiatllre wju undoubtedly differ. If a jriudow and the north wall will permli), it would I Ajsistant Physicbm of tlie Maine editor wields a facile pen. tho country on Saturday was not near rotary of ar. inland. E dward. be ft n,.lienal convenience to the public, especially | >Ins:ine Hogpiul. retires from that institu- ROCKPORT. majority of votes are required by the consti­ to strangers and others who have occasion to pro- jn Deccml)er> and proposes to establish severe in this section as it was in the The annual report of the Secretary of’ ------— ...... - ■ ■ '=■ Something much needed in Rockport—a new FP" The PoslOffiee Department has com­ tution to make a candidate governor at the cure and write postal cards in the office. A very , a pvivate asylum for the treatment of the liarbcr’s pole. West. In New York, on Sunday it closed War says, the expenditures for all nffairs pleted arrangements by which a fast mail election of 1880, then a candidate lacking under the control of the War Department few dollars would cover thc cost. insane. lie will probably locate near Port- Rev. John Simonton occupied the Methodist the Erie and Oswego canals, and. in that train is to run between Boston and New a majority cannot be declared elected. Our for the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1880. Lq tl|e City. A S am ple Copy of the Boston Statesman anti | land, perhaps in Gorham. pulpit last Sunday. section tlte mercury stood at fifteen de­ were $39,924,773. Congress appropriated Weekly Post, the Leading Family Paper of New; Orleans, leaving the former place at ti P. belief is that the amendment does not ap­ Dr. II. B. Eaton has greatly improved the ap­ grees below zero. At Chicago and vicinity for the service of the current fiscal year. Eugland, will sent bv mail, free of postage, to Belfast m erch an t who cam e to his store pearance of his house by painting it in colors. M., and reaching New Orleans the second ply to tile election of 1880, for two reasons. »£« Good skating. the m ercury was from one to five degrees $11.995.630. Estimates for 1882. for the anv nddre». during .he mouth of December, 5 eRrly ,one jn?nnnS recently, thnns it he The work was done by Capt. T. II. Perry & Son. morning after, which will be equivalent to In the first place, we believe that there is fiscal year ending June 30th, are $13,1527.- ►J* Thanksgiving to-morrow. weeks for 10 ete. S1.00 will pae for ft el ub of ten ne,e,<,e‘’ * SUsS ° f ch ler', On ">e below zero. At Milwaukie it was five be- „ ...... , . . . These gentlemen prove by their work, that they saving one business day. , , , r , • no power to so amend the constitution as 055,54. »J« We all have something to lie thankful for. tor live weeks. The Bortora II e e A T y c o n ta in s 1 cellar •• a quantity . . was . drawn off. but one are masters of that trade. low. Snow fell to th e d ep th o f several in , , ... , , Tlte aggregate cost of the improvement 36 long columns of the choicest matter, the cream swallow was sufficient to send the man . ,, .. ‘ . . . , to change the effect or legal consequences The Custom House will be closed to-morrow. dancing about the store. In thc darkne j G. F. Burgess is making great improvements dies in New Hampshire. I irgtnta. and va- <)f ;m act ,lone anwn(lnjent be. of the South Pass of tile Mississippi to date of the Daily. It is delivered throughout New ’ upon his kiln property. Bed pieces have been t y The wheat crop of Ohio, after a care-1 has been $4,400,000, and its permanancj Work has been discontinued for the season at he had drawn kerosene. England every Friday morning, and in its columns j placed in the lied of thc stream, so that vesftls can fnl investigation, is estimated at 52,522,794 ; rions other points, also to a great depth in me a part of the constitution. The act of ■ soenis assured, Murray Park. tl.a Dominion. In this State the cold snap ■ (||e jn votjn can lie found the latest news, 12 hours in ad- j Tlte follow ing w ere (Xistal elmnwes m ade ' load directly from the sheds at any tide. Prior bushels, ati average per acre of 18 3-10 for Governor was The report favors detailing officers from »J« Harrington has orange from Rockland was preceded liy a severe rain-storm on the retired list as professors of tactics, in rance of the New York weeklies. Address, The , in Maine during the past week I’.istmas- to this it was impossible except at high water. He bushels. This exceeds tlte crop of 1879 by done ami completed on the l:lth day of Grove, Florida. Stotesman and llee«y Post, Boston, Mass. i t,'rs ap|Kiinted—Elennor Hamilton. Che- is raising thc floors and making other needed im- Saturday afternoon and evening. But we colleges, instead of from the active list. 11.000,000 bushels, and the crop of '79 was September, all that remains being for the ►J* C. F. Kittredge advertises a closing out . , beagae Island. Cumberland county; Jesse have not heard of the mercury going lower Secretary Ramsey endorses the recom­ * h x -Alder.ua.. It.------.nine along down £ 'FrisbeP. Kittery Point. York county; ti.000,000 bushels larger than any previous Legislature to ascertain and declare llie re­ mendation of the Adjutant General relative of his entire stock ot' dry goods. street the other day, and seeing Mr. John S. Co-1 1)avilI [. par|5eri x ortb Gorham. Cumber- C. M. Knight & Son have removed their place than ten degrees above zero, and lint little crop in that State. sult of that voting. Tlie amendment pro­ to placing uniformed State militia upon the »J« A prize debate takes place at the High School burn engaged in overseeing ;and assisting tlie : |an,| county; Rasniill S. Kent. West Mount of business to their store on Main St. This is a snow fell. desirable location and well suited to their business. viding for the election of Governor by a same footing in respect to its rules and forms i this afternoon, on the woman suffrag* question. work being done on the Kimball store, at the cor- j Vernon. Kennebec county. Our P. M. has made decided improvements in r y The official vote of Massachusetts as regular forces, and calls attention to the Mr. \\\ McIntire lias bought out thc gro- ner of Lime Rock street, remarked, “ Well, Cobum, ! plurality of votes did not liecome a part of necessity of providing by legislation for or- the appearance of the office. The boxes have shows an average plurality for the Garfield t y The official vote of the State of New o f the ni,d Provision storeot k. M. Pendleton, at the how manv more times are vou going to change ' e learn that tbe will of the late Mrs. the constitution till the 9th day of Novem-! ganization, arming and disciplin this store';- “ Why, It------." re p lie d Mr. C„ "'oan>'a B- G illian, of \\ atervdle. has been lieen moved round and face the entrance. Gns. York gives Garfield 555,544: Hancock i North End. electors of 53,245. It was the heaviest her. The act of the people on the 13th of m^*^a an^ hs niaintenane** “ the fact is. I've been trying to alterjthis store as I fol,ni’' and lhat 11 S,Tes ,0 Anna k Gll,U:,n' has the largest and finest of cigars to lie found in 511; W eaver 12.373; Dow 1,517. Total The Secretary urges that our fortifications ^B uffalo Bill’s “ troupe of Cheyenne Indian vote ever thrown in that State—exceedin September gave no person a majority of The Greenback vote averaged j vote 1.103,945. Garfield's plurality. 21,033; should he strengthened with iron, and says Chiefs ” consisted of two real Indians and one 280,000. votes and under the constitution as it then you are several changes ahead of me y \nd ,9tend in Waterville, and sonic personal APPLETON, majority over all. 7,143. Majority against the United States will find itself sooner or i counterfeit. property.property, antiand to theme threetnree lioys,boys, in equal Pretty cold and windy isn’t it ? about 1.400 and the Prohibition vote about stood the duty of election devolved upon tho later at war with a foreign maritime pow- »J«The du>t was blowing vigorously yesterday, the ex-Alderman passed on his way. Hancock. 34,923. It was thc heaviest vote proportion, the rem ain d er o f h er property. people about hercjarv getting ready 700. The official vote of Oregon shows » Legislature. In the second place, we be­ er. when it will be too late to construct de- «»n some of the back streets which hadn’t been A story was put iu circulation here last week real and personal. C harles B. and F razier ; ^ivimr. for Thnnks- ever thrown in that Stale. to thc effect that a man named Charles Gray, who majority of 763 for the Garfield electors. lieve the amendment does not apply to the fcnscs. Other nations are constructing for- j watered doling the summer. Gilman are nmued as the executors. M r Cluis. Smitli has moved into Mrs. Giles's Connecticut gives Garfield a plurality of millable war vo x els and after a declaration Washington hns lived iti this city and who has recently served election of last Septemer, because no projn)- The project of (he extension of the Sandy lh ""'" >*’--• ' • > " Mass, tospend the win- EF" Tlte .Veit? York Tribun i> i oun up -j - -f should so apply was submitted of war 1...1 a short time would etapse mb * to k a, a G„ vnluick a term of imprisonment, had murdered a family 2,656, and Minnesota a majority of 40.- fore these great engines of destruction . „ x- i river Narrow Gauge railroad from Farm- : |- j on the compulsory pilotage, It says there * of several persons at Cranberry Isle, ami had 588. to the rote o f the people. The constitution would be brought to New 4 ork, Boston or 11Kt in. a a erson, since lieen arrested. The story was said to have ington to the Kennebec is being rapidly I 8. J. Gushee, has bought tlie “ Fuller are fresh complaints about the exactions of, Portland and do great damn pushed forw ard, an d is th o u g h t to be a sue- | store" of Mr. N. G. Simmons and fitted it up for I the pilots. Tugs, which have competent !,1OTid,!S lllat the Legislature may propose »I« Rev. E. G. Eastman preached at the First been brought here by a wood-coaster and was Tiie Executive Council have opened Baptist Church last .Sunday morning, for Rev. W. told in various startling versions, but as no other cess. A surveyor has been em ployed to a milliner’s shop. 1 hear’thatJMrs. Meservey is I pilots, are usually employed to bring ves- ani,,nilnlents lo llle constitution and submit map out the probable route, with which an ; to ixvupy it. the returns of the towns, cities and planta­ C. "Barrows, who was somewhat indisposed. town seems to have the news, ami as it hasn’t been [From our Regular Correspondent. endeavor will be m ade to raise a portion of M. F. llanly, Esq., has finished off a tenement tions for Presidential electors. They find sels through Hell Gate. The licensed pilots , tli‘e,‘lucstion whether such amendments repeated here from any other source, its falsity Our Europenn Letter. »J« A little daughter of Capt. Frank Gregory re the amount in Boston. It is estimated j in the Sumner block. The rooms are convenient, there is but one plantation in the state—St. board the vessels, and under the law re­ ceived a bad fracture of the ell»ow, by a fall while cannot be matter of question. that the cost will he about $ 1 .i0 ,0 0 0 . I f the and finished in a tasty manner. He has also laid in this case, although the Legislative resolve London, E ng. Nov. 9lh, 1880. Francis, m Northern Aroostook—which ceive half the regular pilotage fees for be­ at play, on Thursday afternoon of last week. »{« Caleb G. Moffitt, Jr., whose illness we men­ proposed extention is a success, nn ende stating the amendment provided also that a The changes in the weather (luring the a new floor in his office, and built a wood-house has not yet sent in its returns. A messen­ ing refused employment. It was in sup­ Capt. S. L. Keen and others, of this city, tioned two weeks sinee, died last Saturday eve­ or will he made to extend it from Phillips in the rear. plurality of votes cast in September. 1880. present month have been beyond belief. have bought a liark of 700 tons or more, now ning. His disease was at first bilious fever, and to the Ilmgelv lakes. ger hns been despatched from Caribou to port of this privileged class that the strange j Mr. Elbridge Pern* has had the inside of his should decide tho election of Governor for Four days ago we were looking upon fields building at Belfast, and to be completed before his life was not considered in peril, but last week St. Francis after the returns, as required by spectacle was lately witnessed of the issu- • house newly finished, plastered, skim-coated, 1881 and 1883. no such provision was sub- anil trees covered with winter’s mantle of spring. the disease assumed a malignant typhoid type and ' paiuteil ami papered. Those who have seen it say statnte. The Executive Council will be in ance of a solemn order of an official body white, a bitter east wind chilled us to the We are sorry to learn that Capt. Leonard terminated in the sad manner mentioned. Mr. j it looks nice. session to-morrow for the purpose of de-, against the use of a steam vessel in compe- lo l^e Peol^e» l>«t simply the que: Moffitt was an excellent and promising young tion. *• Shall the constitution he amended bone, we were wrapped in our thickest Grant, formerly of this city, died of apoplexy, la; Ii] tl]e Cfouqty j Excellent skating on the meadow now, and the claring the vote and issuing summons to the tit ion with a sailing vessel. The whole Friday, at his residence, 298 Shawmut Avenue, man and had only attained his majority a few J boys ami girls are improving it. so as to provide for the election of Govern­ great coats and warmest untierstanding and months since. He wa« a member of the Congre­ business of compulsory pilotage smacks of Boston. i Morang & Co. have changed the course of the electors. or by a plurality, instead of a majority?” went about shivering and wretched at the gational Church, of the Y. M. C. A. and of thc the middle ages, and ought to he abolished. ►I” There was an alarm of tire last night, occa­ ! brook, and uncovered a portion of the ledge, pre- This is conclusive to our mind. We do thought of winter coming so soon upon us. Masonic fraternity. His funeral took place Tues­ THOMASTON. There might as well be a compulsory law sioned by the woodwork of a kiln taking tire. paratory to mining in their mine, l3Tlt is stated that the hotel-keepers in day, Rev. Mr. Blair performing the religous offices Services to-morrow, Thanksgiving, will l»e held not see how Gen. 1’laisted can be declared To-day there is a cloudless blue sky, the The tire was extinguished with a pail or two of i Mr. Samuel Pease had changed doctors. He Washington are already refusng applica­ for thc benefit of locomotive engineers or of the occasion. at the Baptist Church at 10.30 A. M. Sermon by Governor, unless he has received a majority thermometer registers ninety degrees in the water employed one from an adjoining town; but not tions for rooms for inauguration week. Rev. A. Prince, pastor of the Methodist church. hack-drivers. »s« The Opinion acknowledges its error about proving satisfactory, he procured.thc services of Every room in some of tlie hotels is en­ of Votes, or unless the Legislature sees fit sun and a light westerly breeze just stirs ►P Remember that all orders for job printing On Thursday morning, ISth Inst., Wilmot R. the December government bonds, referred to by Dr. Stephens, who has got him upon his feet again. i to elect him. This is not at all a question the luxuriant foliage. Winter sent his left at the G azette office, or sent us by mail wifi Shibles, son’of Daniel R. Shiblcs, fell on the side­ gaged, and every available space upon Much speculation has lieen hail up- (,f .. lel.lin;,.;lIitVi- but onu of I:1W ;in(, f„ct us last week and says that if we are right it has Mrs. Nathan Haskell is sick, ST avant courier last week to warn us of his receive prompt attention, and satisfaction will be walk in front of his father’s house, striking on his which a cot bed can be placed is already on tbe course which Senator Malone of Thi;l.e js j K,.pul)Iil.an ainhority, no fault to find with the manner of taking up the j . Capt. Kellar knocks them all, about the corner, approach. Let us hope, however, that the given thc work and prices. face and knocking out his front teeJi, fracturing allotted. Tbe proprietor of the Riggs House Virginia, who was elected by thc Readjus-1...... bonds due this year, but only wishes to see those j on pigs. Jud. will have to try again. Though no however, on the side of applying tbe amend icy monarch himself will retard his steps ►-« Union Thanksgiving services will be held at due next year taken up in the same way. It then his ja , mid bruising his face liadly. On the saint i,og, :|,e capt. is a great hog man. Bin Artist has has received applications to lodge 1,700 moruin r . ro u n i i i - i iteri and Repnblicat s. will bike when lie the Congregational church at 10.30 A. M. to-mor­ asks what the Gazette thinks of the proposition of g Mr. Izroy C. Lcrmond, ot this town, the • boss ’ hog in this vicinitY. if not in the town. persons from the City of Philadelphia alone. u, .i r ment this year. Such is the Lewiston for a short time and thus enable us to enjoy • i • • i enters Biat boily on the 4th of March next., row. Rev. E. G. Eastman, of the Free Baptist thc Greenbackers to pay the debt as fast as due. while nt work pressing hay at the Silas Andrew C. 8 . 1). Returning Congressmen say that it is al- Tbe whjch is saiJ ,o be Journal, which said the other day: the Indian summer which is now with us. I place in Warren, had his right leg just below the church, will preach the sermon. We think that the government should certainly WARREN. most impossible to secure a famished house , . . . , . . , , ...... •• ‘ ------ixindent’—• of *-> the -> Portland . , A drertisrr laondon was very full, the block in the main j knee jammed in between the pawl ami lever of the owned by Inm.and which reflects his views, ihinks that whether or not the plurality amend, Mr. David C. Smith has gone to Williamantic, pay the Jebt as fast as it is ,lue, as it is done, and lnaeh,ne pre .s ,vhich prO(lncet, , unii.,.oul. The second^lecture of the course was given Nov. thoioughfares reminding one of thu height there at any price. has an ed ito rial upon tb e subject o f his al- 1111111 technically applies to the last election for Conn., where he is to spend a portion of the win­ if it can buy in its bonds for a figure at which it ]uinu|ctl fraclure o|. „ K. ,M>UC, wa, a(_ 16th, by Willi* IL Mathews, of Thomaston. Sub­ , . . , ‘ , . . . governor, cotisidenng it iras so intended and snp- of the season, but the sudden cold has driv­ ter, making also a trip to the South, it is probable, lusions in the Senate, anti say s: “ Ills ported, the Republican legislature ought to accept can save anything by borrowing tlie money at a um lnl ,)V Urs Walkfr an(, , of ject : •• ^toerican Literature.” His lecture was a en many away to Brighton and other mi^l to try the shooting in that region. A resolution was introduced in Con­ (M ahone's) D em ocracy calls earn estly for 1: ' ' * ! ‘"’j1 not evcn a?,!i I)le Supreme Court its lesser rate of interest, we have no objection what- al„, iin f(ron ,vilI ,K, ,.lve !lb very instructive one and was very well at­ gress last Spring, by Ex-Gov. Bound, Rep­ , , . . . ' r , . ' . ‘opinion in tlie matter. We have expressed sab- seaside resorts. k ►;« The schooner Frank Norton, while loading ever to its paying them 4 e/,« they are due. |fg ifpo3sil)lei a„ hough „,cre b ,,n,„ irso tended. an equal ad m in istratio n o f tile constitution stauthilly the same conclusion several times, and resentative of the 8lh Wisconsin district, for The Irish trouble grows worse instead granite at Spruce Head, grounded on a ledge, forc­ q. We have received from the Secretary of the favorable a result can !«• accomplished, lie re- Quite a serious accident happened on Thursday and law s tow ard all m en : again, his De- -«■ no reason to change our views either on this ing off her rudder, so that she had to be towed last, to Mr. Leroy Lennond, while engaged in an amendment to the Constitution to extend IKjmt, or as to the duly ot the Legislature as can- better, although the clergy pronounces Distriet Lodge, I. O. of G. T,, the following reso- inajns the Andrews homestead, and is eom- mocracv favors free education for all, and ...... s of gubernatorial votes to allow the eorree- here last Friday, to repair the damage. iutions passed at the quarterly sesssion held in ,ortai,|v cttre,i for hv those in atten.lame. The pressing “hay, at the barn of thc late Silas An­ the Presidential term to six years, mak­ against all acts of violence, and Messrs. Col. L. 1). Carver has just finished the con­ this city last week, with n request for their publi- iase 0I' Mr. i,crmonti is a sad one. lie i- an iu- drews. He caught his leg in some of the gear of ing the incumbent ineligible to a second the candidates in the returns. So long as the leg­ Fay and Biggar, at an agrarian meeting, beneficence for common benefit; a govern­ islature has the power to do this, either by statute struction of a railroad. It runs up the area steps catiou, with which we willingly comply: , ,iustrjous and honest citizen, dependent on his la- the press aud crushed it in a shocking manner. held last week, obtained the adoption of It is feared that amputation may be necessary. consecutive term . Also, to extend tbe term ment of the people, by tho peopie. for the or order, they ought not, in our opinion, to’ endeav­ of the Custom House and is intended to facilitate JteM/rerf, That the representatives of onr sev- , for a livelihood. T ao years ,-in. e he lo-t his or to avoid the responsibility by any technicality. oral Lodges can work to the advantage of the or-1 ...... , , ‘ . .. , A number of houses have lieen built this .season of members of the House to three years— resolutions condemning outrages upon land thc transportation of ashes from the basement. der. by iuducing the several ministers in their wife, and hits lus crippled mother, wuo li\c> with [ieo|)le—while Bourbonism, as cruel as it is When all such errors in returns are corrected by the and repaired at the upper part of the village, com­ half as long as those of members of the records, whoever appears to have a plurality of owners as being prejudicial to the interests Ferd. G. Singhi & Co. have just had some neighborhood, to not only join the order then*? | him, and two small children, one of whom is lame, foolish, would perpetuate ignorance and in­ monly termed, “ Sheepskin Corner.” Four new votes ought, in our judgment, to be declared by of tenants. But the ecclesiastics espouse very handsome signs fitted on the window ledge; selves, hut through public lectures, given by them, to Sllp„ort Senate. This resolution is now pending in crease it, degrade the masses of tile popula­ thc legislature elected governor.” and In interesting thc members of their congrega- ' ‘1 v..rr»n.l who rever to town for an errand. Willie wanted to go, fore consult their own interest and save money. Offers BARGAINS in Dry Goods but Mrs. Staples prevailed upon him not to do so. DENTISTRY T Placing her rnhliers over her boots, her hat on, Having been able to make in every department. Great and throwing a sleeveless circular around her, C. F. KITTKEDG-E. Large Purchases of vari­ Mark Down on many Goods. In the Same Block, and only Four which she buttoned up, she took her departure, C. H. EVANS Rockland, Nov. 24, 1680. 3w32 passing through the L into the stable, thence c at bin office, N o. 254 M ain St., near Thorn ous kinds of Goods at low Examine the Prices. dike Hotel. j suit the time: through the iwtek door out into the darkness of prices, we now offer Boors North of the Old Stand. a frightfull>dark evening, it licing the evening of T O L E T . G o o d B la c k Velvets, 70 cents, Are receiving daily, N ew GooJs in all the heavVfdow; but Mrs. Staples did not leave the A. M. A U ST IN , word) Jl.tW. Jthich we have had fitted up specially for our busi­ departments. til after it had fully subsided, DENTIST. E X T I« A. not returning between nine and ten o'clock, OFFICE OVER T. A. WEN I WURTH’S STORE, ISAAC GREGORY. M o n iie C lo th s , 46 in. wide, + 7 1 -2 c t s . ness, and shall he pleased to greet all of trc ifamily became alarmed, and as she did not rc- RERHV BLOCK. tiru when Mr. Staples came home, search Dentistry in all its branches promptly attended to 3000 yards Prints, (Job Lot) 5 a n d <» our numerous customers. at REASONABLE PRICES. rapidly instituted, lasting all night, but without Teeth extracted without pain, by the use BARGAINS. c t s . p er y a r d . .Many of these Prints discovering any trace of Mrs. Staples. When day­ Nitrous Oxide Gas. are the l> -■ Quality, ami euunot be replaced Rockland .Inn, 1, 1879. light dawned, the search was^renewed, her body for thy muni y. Dress hoods then being discovered in the mill stream, directly BOSTON POST SUITS AND OVERCOATS! it front of the house, cold and frozen in death. A small lot M iddlesex Long Shawls, The Leading Democratic Daily U r g ra Size and Best Quality at $ 5 . 5 0 , Immense Stock and Low Prices! In Great Variety. Hie was found with her face downward, her arms GEORGE W. FRENGH, These Shawls are One Dollar less than the folded and hands clenched; her countenance mani of the East. DRESS GOODS! wholesale price. Jesting clearly a firm and resolute will, showing ittow iC oB ttlliH tL ai, Also a splendid line of Gent.’s, Youth’s and Boy’s tint she intended to do just what she did. This The lh-iglitest, Spiciest and most re­ (mod Heavy Pant Cloth, 50 cents. Monties, v js only a short distance from her house and in BLACK SILKS, liable roiiiiiierciul paper in Boston. Corsets—Bon-Ton Corsets, $1.00, ful view of it. There was scarcly water enough Thomaston, Ms. 4T6m 5SJ-.75, $1, $1.25, $1.50, $2.00. Henrietta Cloths, in.the stream to drown a person, neither could A Journal for the Home Circle, the reduced fiom 81.25. A Nice Douhle Busk FURNISHING GOODS Corset, 5 0 e t s . Job Lot Corset, 2 5 c t s . M s. Staples have drowned* there, except in Ofllce, the Store and the position in which she was found. T. E. TIBBETTS, VELVET HA/TS, CAPS, TRUNKS. Corderettes, This sad and terrible act has cast a gloom over Couutiug-room. Ball Yarn, Best Quality, 12 1-2 ets., DENTIST. reduced from 17 cents. ’lie enrire community Only the evening previous All branches of dentistry faithfully attended to at A SAMPLE COPY OF THE rocade SATI UMI{RIK » Rl.tf PKTf.F< Teeth trad­ \ cry Cheap at $1.50—80 ed without pain by Nitrous Oxide Gas. Great reduc­ Scotch Yarn, Best Quality, IO e t s ., re­ met Mrs. Staples at a donation party in Law’s tion in the price of artificial teeth. Satisfaction guar­ B sells lor » - at retail N hall and at its close aided her down the outer anteed. BOSTON DAILY POST duced front 25 cents, Cashmeres, stalls, her husband being present, and when lie Cor. Main and Winter Sts. will he sent by mail, free of postage, C ovi l t r y Y a r n , Best Quality. 1 7 e t s ., BOSTON- CLOTHING STORE, last saw her by the strong light of the moon, go­ PLAIN VELVETS A SATINS rv luced from 25 cents. ing toward her home with her usual buoyant and to any address K/OCTCLJYHSTI?, Shoodas, elastic step, never for one instant indulging in the H. C. LEVENSALER, M.D., ■loli Lot Towels, 3 cents. tlpnght that in less than twenty-four hours she THOMASTON, MAINE, w ,i» i3n»> C. F. WOOD <&, CO. would lxj the victim of suicide! Devotes his attention to the PRACTICE of MEDI 3 M D M 1PS__M;,rkc'’__ SHOGDAS 420 sllilt B o s o m s , (Job Got) at io , In all s h a d e s , w ith CINE and SURGERY. Weeks for $ 1 . JIU JIID O Down. OILUDWAO 12 1-2, 15 and 17 cents. This is Ko known cause for this act has as yet lieen CT Residence and Office. Lcvensaler Block JMain nade public. It is not suggested that, at any :ily half-price for these goods. Statins, Velvets and tine during Thursday, there were any symptoms Address The wliatsoevcr of any mental disease or hallucination, The Tenant's Harbor PLAIDS & NOVELTIES IHii'.SS FLA NN EL, (Plain Colors) 1 5 e d its , have sold at 25 cents. E . B . s to M a tc h . hit on the contrary, she was nuusually attentive HASTINGS t« her work and of a cheerful mind. It will be BOSTON POST, 271 S v .Is, Bleached Cottons, » cts.; collected that her brother, Dr. E. S. Young, died CORNET BAND avc sold ut 12 1-2 cents. 3 3 5 ...... AI.VTA STR EET ...... 3 3 5 *e*yycars since of insanity. » furnish Great reduction in Prices of J^frs. Staples was 37 years of age and the only Boston, Mass. Grey Cashmere Beige Cloaks, Holmans, and Ulsters. ciild remaining t Mr. ai ! M: Young. It be­ Picnics. Excursions, Political Demonstrations, etc., All Wool, Only 25 Cents. Eureka Silk IO cts. Best silks .Y longs to another to writ am thin/ like an obituary Rockland and Vinalhaven. W arranted 1OO yards on a Spool. Black and Colored, Plain and aotice of Mrs. Maple .'lie as a true wife, at reasonable rates. For terms address, C. E. RICK MORE, Leader, nother and daughter. Ev ry n.e was her friend. FALL ARRANCEMENT! B rocade CmoMfsx Tenant’s Harbor, Me. D R Y G O O D S Site was always prominent in every good work. On and after Monday, N ov. 1 5 th , Cl a kind,amiable ami h>ving disposition, she en­ Bargains this Week in Every Department. dured herself V all i ail '• her, and now that J. P. COWL S, M. D„ STM’R PIONEER SILKS, sie has gone lien o-hi in society and at her Physician & Surgeon, j y ■' VTH LI, have Carver’s Harbor, _ Vinalhaven, daily,(Sundays In all Grades and Prices. home is left, win never lx filled. Her fun- CAMDEN - - - MAINE. excepted,) nt 7.30 A.M. RETURN- ea l took place iia>. ami was quite largely -***=«“ I NG, Will leave Rockland, (Till- DRESS GOODS, Come and Look at the SPECIAL BARGAINS in attended, though ay cold ami dreary. bob Wharf,) at 2 o’clock, P. M Fare each way, 75 cents; commutation tickets An appropriate •ached by the Ilev. fares.) S I2.00. CLOAKS. Mr. Tilley, of ' n. All the congregation B I 11 T II S G. A. SAFFORD, Agent, Rockland. ure that we call the attention oi Table Linens, BLACK were mourners. ■ tri. a a solemn and mel- BEN.T. LANE, Agent, Vinalhaven. 5 our CI.OAKS and DOLMANS, November, I860. of which we have a aicholy occash • ic <> atcst hearts could not [Notices of Births and Marriages inserted free, hut Towels, Napkins, Selling at $1,$1 $1.25, $1.50 and $2.00. ceneeal the gr wn- :«It. The family have ehen sent by mail should always be accompanied by he name of the sender, as a guarantee of authenticity. J tie sympathy < Property for Sale. SPLENDID LINE, GASEMERG O ccasional. a A subscriber offers for sale the fol- White & Colored Flannels, Colored Satins $1.00 per yd. all shades In South Thomaston, Nov. 11, to Mr. and Mrs. Arch. -L lowing property : Direct from the New York Manufacturers, and v in all shades at 37 1-2 cents. 8. Sweetl’tnd, a son. VIXAEIIAYKX. In South Thomaston,Nov. 14,to Mr.and Mrs. Elisha Dwelling House, Lot ami Two Barns, claim that of all the made Garments in the W orth 50 Cents. We have a fountain on the “ bridg Odion, a daughter. Market, our New York Cloaks Ladies’, Misses and Children's Black Satins from 05 cts. to $1. HJ. On Hurricane Isle, Nov. 22, to Mr. and Mrs. E Pen­ Near Atlantic W harf in this city: Three Lots, con­ men think the .11 - \ery uncertain in its dleton, a daughter. taining about IS acres of valuable mowing land, on the Vests and Pants, all sizes, movements. Marsh Rond, and a good barn on the premises. Will FIT THE BEST. Low Prices, Black and Colored Yelvets-all grades. Solomon wept his son; was it Ambrose? be sold together or separate! We arc glad t< iot<- that Capt. I). Carver, who MARRIAGES. Rockland, Nov. 12,1880. Black Velvet at $1.00 and $1.25. has been very si< vith t \ . iioid fever, is again np- Men's and Boys Undershirts and > BARGAINS I i afford to paxs. on his feet, atten g business, and on benevo- In this city, 22d iu*t., by Rev. (’. 1’. Nash, Mr. Wu K I L G - O R E ’S Drawers, ail sizes. A G O O D lc.it deeds inter May he live long, say the n. Severance and Miss Carrie 11. Crockett, all < citizens of V. Rockland. In this city, Oct. 27, Mr. Win. T. Richardson an Commercial College "/ G o o d s delivered prom ptly Next year, wi m ay hope to bid defiance to Miss Abbie M. Miller. to any part of the city, DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT. drought, v n our Art - .an well shall 1x5 com­ In Belfast, Nov. 1G, Mr. Wellington R. lioiiues an Miss Nealie S. Pote, both of Belfast. Next Term begins Nov. 29, ’80. BLK. VELVET, pleted. At Vinalhaven, Nov. 7, Mr. Samuel Birdcen and Mil CLOAKINGS! Extraordinary inducements offered this week in all Addle F. Lawrv, both of Vinalhaven. EBEN B. MAYO, ONLY 75 CENTS. Warren Grey, and \cral otners, returned the In Camden, Nov. 17. by Rev. W . It. Cross, Mr. Gee 16th inst. from "a week’s trip to the eastward, rpnO R O N G H instruction in Penmanship, Book- I kinds of DRESS GOODS. Large Assortm ent W . Ferguson, of Foxboro, Mass, and Miss Kate Rui 1 keeping, Commercial Law, Banking, l’lionogra* D olm ans, gunning. They report a good time and 207 sell, of Camden. pliy, etc. Expenses less than at any other Institution. 263 Main St., Rockland. birds. Perfect satisfaction guaranteed. Apply to CASHMERES, SHOODAS, 3m47* «L :iT E C rr stone, rough ami dressed. for at the rate of 5 cents a line. P •etry G cts.per line.]' STOVES STOVES i a a w i s A man wn- discharged from the works, here, COAL, WOOD, HAY, FLANNEL SUITINGS s"“ b • ami Prices. Friday, foi indulging too freely in the ardent. In this city, Nov. 2»), Caleb G. Moffitt,.11., aged 21 STOVES Pity the dr us of ' ■ -n’t discharge its rum- years, G months and 9 days. Cement, Sand, Hair, etc. In this city, Nov. IS, Violet May, daughter of Robert STOVES BLACK CASHMERES sellers ! F in is . and Flora Bowden, aged 1 vear, 5 months and IS days. OFFICE—378 Main, Foot of Pleasant St. ‘C L O A K S , In tl.is city, Nov. 17, Th'. r. sa A., daughter of Allen YARD—Snow’s Wharf, W ater St., Rockland. STOVES Ask to look at the new ARMURE GOODS in Black. Something' i •I. and Dora E. Maker, aged 1 year, 3 months and 21 STOVES Life Insurance— A Card. days. new and very desirable lor a nice Black Dress, In North Ha s, T homaston, Oct. 25th, 1880. ULSTERS! soldier in the w DOLMANS. takes pleasure in acknowledg­ 24 days. In Warren, Nov. 2.’, Mary I.., widow of Capt. Aaron C J k L L ing the reer of a check for •?.’>,1G7, being in Hathorne, of Cushing, aged 77 years. ULSTER CLOTHS. ment< a P icy lor S5000, on the life of my In San Francisco, Nov. 3, Mr. Timothy Sullivan, Cloak D epartm ent. Also, a good assortment of ,tr bus apt. Ebcn. A. Thorndike, of So. aged 75 yearn. MILLINERY. IN AND SEE THEM . i •in.-* <1 by the OW yiutual Life Li- CLOTHS’for making same. a- < nt/ of ,\>ic York, A T T H E also a check for Call and examine, whether you wish to purchase i .iuni returned for unearned sea risk, MARINE JOURNAL. rtlciuent of this claim the Company and PORT OF RO JK ^A N D . it * Agent have acted with great prompt• CLOAKINGS Flannels, Blankets, liberality, and to the entire satisfaction SKIRTS! JLWT GIVEAT VARIETY. A r r i v e d . ■ «nied, ami I hereby cordially commend Ar 18, Br sell B Franklin, Wilson, Kt Andrews, NB ; U I S & W i S a Mutual” as eminently worthy of the I* S Rev Htmr McCulloch, Dean, Eastport; schs Mary 313 Main Street, FELT SKIRTS! Skirts, Skirtings. • i f all who may want Life Insurance. Brewer, Tolman; R K Grant, Grant,Ellsworth; Web­ STORE ster, Goldthwnite, Portland; Atalautn, Bradbury, Bos­ offering a Splendid Line, at Price.1 I 1‘uilvua It. T h o r n d ik e. ton; Belle Brown, Hunt, do; Pennsylvania, Savage, i .03 cts. to S3.5O. A Special Trt In Velvet, H ym alayan and W oolen. -X*- ?joy is Agent for this Old Company. Boston; Frank Norton, Ames, Spruce Head; 19, G W Arc now prepared to fill orders for 91.00, 91.35, 91.37, 91 50. Baldwin, Lewis, N Y ; Winnie Lawry, Spear, Vinal­ haven; Win II Jewell, Wardwell, Bangor; Hume, Just Received, a new lot of Striped India Shawls, Elegant De­ Calderwood, Salem; D B Everett, McLain, Frankfort; ••u* Malt Bitters increases the flesh ami 2»», Carrie L Hix, liix, Vina’havcn; Frank Pearsons, T R IM M E D f | Cushman, do; 21, Hope, Richards, Mt Deaert; Pearl, signs. All Prices, from $20 to $35. •. m- monary or wasting diseases. Robinson, Danvers; John Bird, Smith, Windsor, NS; *. i»r c most tiiutd girls arc not frightened 23, Florida, Grant, Newburyport. 5 0 D O Z E N hv.lou -ng. SMALL WARE DEPARTMENT! Y tARNTS, \ \ ,t Mr *ltts Might have Saved Him­ S a il e d . W here can he seen all the latest patterns of self. JSld 18, sclis Golden Rule, Kent, Pembroke; Ada Ladies Vests A FUEL LINE OF Ames, Adams, Addison; 19, Lucy Amea, Adams, N Y ; G erm antow n, Scotch C oventry Mr. Jfcnry Pitts, of Kingston, N. Y., suffered Leoncssa, Cables, Rondout; Ahnon Bird, Drinkwuter, Savannah: Moses Eddy, Warren, Providence; Ameri­ 5 0 C e n t s . corsets, gloves, hosiery, trimmings, etc., Andelusia and Domestic. froig T presence of Stone in the Bladder for sev- In all the Latest Styles, at shortest notice. COOKING- & PARLOR eralyjrs. can Chief, Snow, N Y; E G Kniglit, Pratt, do; Aluo* m c l a t t i l l s H t o i ’c . Dr. Kennedy, of llondont, N. Y., re­ inak, Conary, Portsmouth; Charlev Ilunley, Arey, Always to l>e mora the foreign body by the knife. Had Mr. N Y; Trade Wind, Gray, do; 19? U S Rev stmr STOVES. Pits, aid others similarly afflicted, used Kenne­ McCulloch, Dean, cruising; 20, sells IIunte, Calder­ dy “ -avorite Remedy ” in the earlier stages of This department is in charge of MRS. H. M. P E R ­ L a flie s& C M lW s Vests Ladies’, Gent's and Children’s UNDERWEAR in great variety, wood, Salem; 21, G M Brainard, Kenuiston, Vinal­ hich arc being offered at prices that i tLdiscase, the medicine vyould have prevented the haven; Mary Brewer, Tolman, N Y; 23, John Bird, K IN S, of B o ston, who will he in attendance 2 5 C e n ts . fotaton of the calculus or stone, rendering a Smith, Alexandria. to exhibit our FINE STOCK OF BONNETS AN1) IIATS, with YARNS, all colors, in Scotch, Coventry and Domestic Cottons, Cotton Flannel, dgetous surgical operation unnecessary. Dr. ante Quality never before sold in K"< kland lest- __ , jid for DomtHtic Yur il Hose. Parties having 'Yarn or IIosc to exchange for Ke Jy gave “ Favorite Remedy” to prevent the than 37 cents. to E. B. HASTINGS. DISASTERS. FARMERS’ do the best by bringing th< Cretons, Bed Spreads rctupf the disease, and Mr. Pitts remains in per­ VELVETS, PLUSHES, •ry part of the city promptly Orders for Goods sent to E. B. HASTINGS fect Hth to this day. 2w5I and extra palm ilfbe ‘taken '* : to suit customers. Cotton Batting,Ta­ leaking badly. SATINS, SILKS, Implements anti Machines A poes asks: “ Have you lived the songs Barque Lcvanto, Bickmo you sindove? ” If lie sings “ We won’t go Gents.’ and Boys’ Bonton, put into Key West Of all kinds at BOTTOM PRICES. New Store, Comer Main and ‘Park Streets, ble Linen, Tow­ home tilloming,” no doubt he has lived at least await orders from owners. RIBBONS, FEATHERS, one of tfo. SHIRTS & DRAW ERS, els, Nap­ FLOWERS, ORNAMENTS .23, .50, .07, 87 1-2, Sl.OO, S1.23, 81.70. Nearly Opposite Lyndellotel. 5® Ibig Co’s Coca Beef Tonic. DOMESTIC PORTS. kins, \TNEYARD-H A VEN—Ar IS. Commerce, Ilodgdon, The Best Assortment « offered in Rockland, “ Is far berior to the fashionable and illusive Rockland for Norfolk; Loretta Fish, Watts, Boothbay And all NOVELTIES in the line of Don’t fail to look at them, we ure selling at last preptratig of beef, wine and iron,” says Prof. for Savannah. ■’s prices, though undei ir is higher to buy. F. W. I NT, M. IL, Honorary Member Impe­ Ticking, Sheetings, Shirt­ PORTLAND-Sld 19, seh Laura E M. sser, Greg, rial M ali Society of St. Petersburg, Russia,etc., ory, Windsor, N S, for Alexandria. HARDWARE etc. Sol»y all druggists. To the Honorable Judge o f Probate, fo r the ings, Corsets, Hosiery, It willjonstruct the most shattered and enfee­ BOSTON—Cld 19, barque Jennie Cobb, Small, T rin­ MILLINERY OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. idad; brig Abbie Clifford, Storer, Demarara; Isaac HRISTMAS filFT^ County of Knox. bled, reiigoratc the aged and infirm, and make Oberton, Crockett, Windsor. Gloves, Mittens, sickly cliren blooming and hcaltliv. fTNHE Petition of ROBERT LONG, Administrator Il is vaibie in all female complaints, remov NEW YORK—Ar 19, sch Kendrick Fish, Wail, JL de bonis non on the estate of JOHN LINEKIN, Hoods, &c. Bangor; Richmond, Hall. Rockland. GOODS! Scarlet Underwear, late of St. George, in the County of Knox, deceased, ing irregtrity, pains and exhaustion. Sid 19,ship St Joseph, for Philadelphia; barque Car­ Pumps, Sheet Lead, testate, respectfully represents, that the personal estate And itiiets restless children and infants. 151 rie L Tyler, Naples; sehs Ida Hudson, for Rockland; H m Year’s Presents o j of said deceased is not sufficient to pay the just debts Monticello, for Camhridgeport; 1) M. French, and For Ladies and Gents. and demand* against said estate by the sum of nine n r p nn, an cx-policcman of Buffalo, is Ellen Morrison, Boston. C ' hundred dollars; that said deceased died seized and Special attention is invited to our stock of Lead Pipe, Cucum­ J t for but cannot 1x5 found,” says NEW PORT—Ar 20, sch David Ellis. Torrey, Rock­ J possessed of eertaiu real estate, situate in *aid St. 1 )enis evidently thinks he is still land for Fall River (and sld ); Laconia, Crockett, Rock­ George, in said County, and described as follows Bounded on the north by lot* running from Georges RIBBONS & SMALL W E S , land for N Y. ber W o o d j river, belonging to heirs of Isaac llohinsou, Robert SALEM—Ar 20. Almon Bird, Drinkwater, for Sa­ CRAPES, And other goods suited to Mourning Wear. j Gilchrest and others; on the east by land of Z. Kinney, Humbugged Again, vannah; Olive Avery, Bishop, Rockland. SMITH’S Berry; on the south by land of Wheeler and IN GREAT VARIETY. n. h said about the merits of Hop NORFOLK—Cld 20, ship Martha Cobb, Grccnbank, WHITE COTTON SHIRTS. Pumps, the sho in the west by Robert Jones and others; :: wife who was always doctoring, Liverpool. Gent’s Unlanndnred Shirts with l inen about two hundred and sixty acres, with Iu fact everything in the nhape of HARD­ teased inc so urgently to get her PHILADELPHIA—Cld 20, sch C Hanrahan, Whit- Bosoms, 50 Cents. dings thereon. That a part of said real estate I iu» to be be humbugged again ; and more, Boston. WARE we keep. Music&Variety Store S S ssold without injury to the remainder; and OUR ASSORTMENT OF Boy’s Shirt’s—Nos. 12, 12 1-2. 13, 1-2, dministrator requests that lie may be em­ i glad I al, for-.jess than two months use A r at Delawaae Breakwater 20, sch Emma F Hart. powered, agreeably to law, to sell and convey all the m;. v. :!> v. :.* ,.,y and she has re- SAVANNAH—Sld 20, brig C K Packard, for Balti­ with Linen Bosoms, Cents I above described real estate, together with the reversion i* o fur eighteen mom. b-,U(T. j uke bUcll more; sch Irene E Meservey, Brunswick. UNDERWEAR bugging.—H. T., St. Pau Pioneer Press. RICHMOND—Ar 18, sch Corvo, Tyler, frm Rock =!FANCY! !GOODS|= Bracket Saws, A m ong o u r m o st valu ab le gifts i ^ s dowcr ,hercin’ S'II t* 2 wo I land. Contains many NEW STYLES in a re P iano F o rte s a n d O rgans I ----- For Ladies, Gentlemen, Boys ilv a short time after sAceston politician Sld 18, sch E Arcularius, Montgomery, New York. r» T E I t TV S , with a large assortment to kxox countr-incourt of Probate, hcia Rock­ and Children, ated be was in the handsIs ______bis friends,_ __ he Ruchings, Collars, Ties, Fich- select from. We assure pur-' land, '""J on the third Tuesday of 'November, 1880. i escorting two policemen n the direction YARNS. On the petition aforesaid, Ord erep, That notice be All C ra d e s a n d P ric e s. t lock-up. ues, Chemisettes, Laces chasers bargains much be- given by publishing a copy of said petition with this Midnight Germantown, 24 cts "W O O T >, •rdcr thereon,three weeks successively,prior to the third EOOD NEWS FOR TRAVELERS TO OR FROM EUROPE. and Jet Coods. low current prices. Instru­ Tuesday of December next, in the Ilocklnnd Gazettet P eckham & Saxony, 30 cts ments W arranted. a newspaper printed at Rockland, that all persons inter­ and everything relating to SCROLL SAWING ested may attend at a Court of Probate then to be held at __ » drum player m akes more u»ise than Allan Line Royal Mail Steamers C oventry, 20 cts can be found here. Piano Stools, Covers, M usic R o o k s , Rockland, and show cause, if any, why the prayer o Ljy else, bat “he dosen’t Jead tkc band, Will, on and after TVetlncsdav, December 1st, SPECIALTIES. said petition should not be granted. jis a moral to this. SAIL FROM' Job Lot, 15 cts anil the smaller ilusieal Instru­ BOSTON,every W E D N ’SDA Y.for LIVERPOOL E. M. WOOD, Judge. Ladies’ Cotton Underwear, Not damaged by fire, smoke > : w m ents ami W ares in great variety. A true copy of the petition and order thereon. Carpetings. he Voltaic Belt Co., Marshall. Mich, via Londonderry, offering superb accommodation te Children’s Corded Waists, 3w52 A ttest:—T. P. P ierce, Register. send their celebrated Electro-Voltaic Bdte to Cabin Passengers, at moderate rates. Kind treatment Bird Cages& Fixtures. A REMINGTON SEWING MA fcteC upon 30 days trial. Speedycures gturan- and comfort for Steerage Passengers is made a specialty Woven Underwear. Corsets, CHINE will make a valuable anil •fb-y mean what they say. Write to them by this Line. Outward and Prepaid Tickets as low as useful GIFT. Oil C loths, S traw M a ttin g , •lay. 3y51 by any -her first-class Line. The facilities of this Line Hoop Skirts, Bustles, If you intcud to use any PAINT, buy are un< qualcd. For Outward and Prepaid Tickets ap­ Carpet Sweepers, Curtains, (Vegetable Ambrosia restores gray lioir to ply to B. J. WEEKS, Agent at Rockland, or to LEVE Worsted Hoods, Feathers, Rugs, Mats Ac. ^ J k o lo r, prevents the hair from falling out, .v ALDE.V, General Passenger Agents, 5 State St., Jackets and Nubias' Look atom 3 K Button M s Our Variety Department oncof the finest dressings for the hair in the Boston, and 207 Broadway, New York. R24w52 . Pa-sons, Bangs & Co.. Wholesale Drug'U. Iy28 In Black and Colors, for $1.00 and $1.25. W . M . L . Embraces I’ortcmouuaies, Pocket 5T In fact all goods generally found in Ord erep, That notice thereof be given, three weeks as compared with any other Gloves in tile Ivnivcs, Fam ily & Pocket Bibles, a llrst-class store, which will be sold ♦GENTS AND CANVASSERS A Full Line of ZEPHYRS, SHETLAND ANIJ successively, in the liockland Gazette, printed in 935 to 850 per week selling goods for market, these Gloves are PI KE PAINTS Account Books, Albums. Station­ Rockland, in said County, that nil persons interested TEOUT & CO., 10 Barclay Street, New York. Special Offer I ^ 5 ° ^ GERMANTOWN YARN, CANVAS PAT­ ery, Vases, Toilet Sets, W riting1 may attend at a Probate Court to be held nt Iloekhuid.on - ’heir Catalogue and terms. Iy38 only 50 ctx. S, nJ 50 cents and subscribe for the TERNS, EMBROIDERY AND Desks, W ork Boxes, Sleds, Skates the third Tuesday of December next, and show cause, AT LOWEST PRICES. KNITTING SILKS, will be Always Under Price. l'ronounccd by nil Painters as THE VERY BEST if any they have, why the said account should not «««, »-».«.* MONTHLY MUSICAL REVIEW " for Diaries and Alm anacs for 1 SKI. he nllowcd. one year.L.afli number contains 91 worth ofNew Music received this week. L'SEI). W o w a r r a n t it. Call for circular* ami snmplca of colors. . 3w52 E. M. WOOD, Judge. nplaints, etc. Pain- (vocal «ndli>trninental). Also musical reading matter D olls—large assortm ent—Toys and A true copy,—A t t e s t T . P. PIERCE, Register. ► any address, tsetn W . F< and musical v >ssip. < lurnext issue will bo a ‘•C h rist­ If you want any article in our line call and see other articles too numerous to mas Numh< r,” and wiil contain some beautiful us and you will save money. TRY US. ChristmasMu- SPECIAL OFFER. FREE ’ m e n t io n . sta r ’s Balsam of Wild Cherry al All those that Subscribe immediately will receive our id. It cures Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis, Christmas Number Free,(receiving thirteen numbers for A. R. MORSE & CO., W .O. HEWETT & CO Gall and satisfy yourselves “that ACHORN &W IGGIN, lugh, Croup, Influenza, Consumption, ami 50 ets.) The circulation of the “ REVIEW ” is now over J. P. WISE & SON, these things are so.” Lung Complaints. 50 cents and $1 s 25,000 coph-8 monthly! What musical journal enu show 272 M ain Street, OR P rinting ly39 a better record in le»« than one year. Send your name 313 Main Street, 251 Main Street, witli 50 eta. at once,'and receive the extra number. ROCKLAND, MAINE, 212 & 214, Main St. .. ALBERT SMITH, Address RICHARDS s; CO., Pt-Bi ish ers, E ast Fox­ ROOKBAND. ROCKLAND, ME. boro, Mass. 52 289 Main Street. Prompt anil Neat, At this Office. ------=!! O c florist. AWARTS Hat I roads » Isieamboa ts HAPPY CHILDREN. A School Boy’s Vacation. Maine Central Railroad. Q uestions, suggestions, infornintion, records of ex­ 1 1 U l i o r s A Cambridge boy, after a week's absence perience, notes or articles on any department of flori- COAL! COAL! LIEBIG CO’S How to Make Them so. Keep Them in Health in the country’ wrote to his mother: “ I got c ulture, are cordially invited fi\»m all cultivators and Commencing Oct. 17,1880. and They will Take Care of the Rest. lovers of flowers. All such should be addressed to here all right and I forgot to write before: it •• Editor of Floral Department,’’ at this office. D. N. B IR D & CO. J ASSENGER trains Lave Bath at 11.05 a. m.. alter is a very nice place to have fun. A teller COCA BEEF TONIC? “rriia. of train bavin,; Rockland at 8.15 a. m., con. The joy of every well-regulated household P *L.Ut Brunswick for Lewiston, Farmington, Au- and I went out in a boat and the boat tipped pisia, Skowhegan and Bangor; at Yarmouth with G.T. comes chiefly from the children. Thousands of over and a man got me out and I was so full ARE SELLING a y^; at W estbrook with 1*. & R., at B. fc M. Junction of water I didn’t know nothin' for a good FLOWERS AN1) INSECTS. w’Ah train on Boston & M aine,...... Portland with affectionate parents do not take care of their trains on Eastern Railroad, arriving iu Boston 5.30 p.m. children. Through ignorance more than through long while. The other boy has got to be CLOTHES. SZFLZEZTZDIID Afternoon train leaves Bath 4.0u p. in., (after arrival Sprengel the Germnn lmtanist, t-ppenn culpable neglect they sutler them to fall sick and buried after they find him. His mother came of train leaving Rockland 1.20 p. m.,) connecting at from Chelsea and she cries all the time. A to have Item the first to ' )Ki ccive the-in­ Brunswick for Lewistou, Augusta, and Portland. die, when knowledge might have saved them to timate relations which exists between White Asli Egg and Broken, Morning Train leaves Portland 7.00; arrives at Bath A Loss kicked me over and I have got to W arranted Good in all Respects 8.35 a. m., connecting to Rockland. love and home. Dr. David Kennedy otters his have some money to pay a doctor for fixing phiiit^ntul insects. In tile year 1787 lie White Ash Stove, and Highest Medals. Indorsed and Prescribed by" Through Trains leave Portland, 12.40 p. m., after ar­ ottsereeJ on the corolla of the Gerantnm Medical Men of all Schools. rival of trains from Boston; arrive at Bath, 2.25 p. m. “ Favorite Remedy ” as emphatically a medicine my head. We are going to set an old bam sylvaticitin a number of delicate hairs. He . . xweivijmciire in nl 1 forms of Nervous Dcbil Splendid Line of Franklin Coni for the children—gentle in its action, containing on tire tonight and I should smile if we itv, Broken-down Constitutions Heart Affection?,. Professor Duncan Camp* iy dally didn’t have bully fun. I lost my watch and endeavored to ascertain the use of these Vertigo, Weakness of Kidneys, Bladder, and b e ll, I aI a. D . , President Royal PAYSON TUCKER, Supt. no harmful ingredients whatever, going straight hairs, and concluded that they served to Urinary Organs.l'emalc Weakness, restoring Ex- AT TUE VERY LOWEST l'UICES. College o f P hysicia n s a n d Surgeons, etc., etc., am very sorry. I shall bring home some lasted Vitality, Vigorous Heal tit and Manhood. says: “ It has more than realized my expec­ to the Blood, which, when impure, is the seat and mud turkles and I shall bring home a tame protect the honey from rain. But why ('IIU E S all diseases arising from Alcohol, U NDERCLOTHIN G $ 8 • Orders promptly filled, and coal delivered. tations.” source of disease. “ Favorite Remedy ” is the should the honey be protected? What Tolwcco. Opium, Ac. A ll f o r n w o f Ken-ou.« SANFORD STEAMSHIP CO. woodchuck if I can get ‘ em in my trunk. ” and Brain Diseases, m eh as Lapse of Memory. AT BLACKINGTON’S. Rankin Block, Main St. P r o f e s s o r J . Nl. f'arnoehnn, friend of childhood and should lie found in every service were the insects to the flower that Dizziness. Paralysis. Neuralgia, Nervous Head­ IV .D ., Professor o f Surgery Few York Medi­ it should nourish them? Sprengel was ache, llvsteria. Chorea, Tremeus. Jfce.. &c. cal College, says; “ ATy ]>atients derive marked nursery in the land. Keep it in your house for Be Gentlemen at Home. SHANNON «Sc M ARW ICK, and decided benefit from it.” BOSTON & BANGOR. your children’s sake, as well as for your own. thus led to make numerous examinations, Chemists and Apothecaries, ORDERS BY TELEPHONE and was surprised to find how many of the No. 143 TRUMBULL STREET, Hartford. Conn. “Lineiie” Reversible P r o f e s s o r II. G o u l l o n , THREE TRIPS A W EEK Try it and you will be glad you saw this article. There are few fanufiea, we imagine, Sold by ail Druggists. Send 'or Pamphlet. May be li ft nt the .tore of W . II. IIA...... K R IX G T O t, M.D., Physician to the Grand Puke of peculiarities of flowers could be explained Make no mistakes. The medicine is “ F avorite where, in which love is not abused as bv their relations to insects. The impor­ Spofford Block, 257 Main St.,and1 iwill ’be prom p- Saxony; Knight of the Roly Q-o.m , etc., says: Collar Iy filled. If you want to order or talkIk about Coal or I “ It gives more tono than anytmug I have ever R em edy ” and the proprietor’s name and address: ing a license for impoliteness. A husband 01^ tance of tile visits of insects to plants is in Wood, step in and use the Telephone prescribed.” father, or brother will speak harsh words to the' fact that they t ransfer t he pollen from Dr. David Kennedy, Rondout, N. Y. One dollar Supplied to the Trade at Boston Sir Itol>ert Christison, M.D., a bottle. those that he loves the best, and to those that the stamens to the pistil. In many plants I aI j.D., P .K .S ., Physician to her Majesty love him the best, simply because the security the stamens anil pistil are in different Prices, at the Queen; President Royal British Associa­ Parties living at a distance, (except in surgical tion, etc., etc.,says: “ Tho properties of the of love and family pride keeps him from, get­ flowers, and even in those in which the Coca are tho most remarkable of any known to cases,) by sending a statement of their case can ting his head broken. It is a shame that a stamens ami pistil are found together they B l a c k i n g t o n ’s . tho medical world. From repoated personal be treated at home. Nov. man will speak more impolitely at times to his are so placed, that self-fertilization is diffi­ PERMANENTLY CURES , ! H.H.GRIE&CO. trials I am convinced that its uso is highly beneficial and tonic.” wife or sister than he would dare to any other cult or impossible. Again, self-fertiliza­ f?male except a low and vicious one. It is tion is sometimes rendered impossible by [KIDNEY PiSEASES. M Valuable in malaria; aguo; malarial debility; STEAMER STEAMER CUSTOM MADE dumb ague; low fever; marasmus; paralytic; thus that the holiest affections of a man’s na­ the fact of the stamens and pistils nut ma­ LIVER CORfiPLAf TS,'\ LOWEST PRICES! spinal and nervous affections: female weak­ CAMBRIDGE, KATAHDIN, ture prove to be a weaker protection to a wo­ turing at the same time. The pollen is nesses; bilious and liver affections;- weak Capt. Otis Ingraham. ' O pt. W. K. BolX. man in the family circle than the restraints of thc-n transferred in different ways from the Constipation and Piles. L; throats; palpitation and other affections of tho heart; epilepsy or falling sickness; weakness Until January 10, 1881, one of the CompanyL society, and that a woman is usually indebted .-tiinensto the pistils. In some eases the! un.n.ii. <-la» k. 1 BLKCK DRESS COATS VERY BEST PLACE to buy Steamers will lea Lincoln’s Wharf, foot lof Battery for the kindest politeness of life to those not poll.-n is carried by the w ind; in a few | ‘•I.,<■«... or KWXKY tit.it :::.: • (,:■»>• 5 of thovoico of actors, singers, public speakers w u n v v J n » a- acted like a charm. It lic.scarcJ Ksorv \ cry u • AT BLACKINGTON’S. and clergymen; colic; flatulency; seasickness; belonging to her own household. Things cases by birds, but mostly by insects. bad cate* of PILES, and huh net cr 1 P.cd ie / ; IRON 4 STEEL, Chains and Anchors, falling out of the hair; asthma; shortness of ought not to be so. The man who, because Sprengel. though he saw that " Nature does j id Bangor. act cIBclently.*’ B L A C K S M IT H S ’ Stock and Tools, breath; wasting diseases; etc., etc. It is grate­ it will not be resented, inflicts his spleen and not wisli that tiny complete liower should fully refreshing and restorative after prolonged RETURNING, Will leave Bangor for Boston even NEI M >\ ! IISHKU), cf R. \U yttis Vt.. fr J MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, and FRIDAY, at 11 A M had temper upon those of his hearthstone, is be fertilized by its own jwllen,” did not : say*. “ It Is o f i rlc. is vn’.ac. A ...: sixteen j-.- - CORDAGE and Ship Chandlery, mental and physical strain. It i a pleasant and agreeable, and is roadily retained oy ‘ touching at above-named places. a small coward and a mean man. Kind words perceive that to transfer I his pulh-ri was the J CARRIAGE BUILDERS’ Supplies, delicate stomach. Dr. McBean (British Medi­ KXCURRTO5T TICKV.TR are the circulation medium between true gem office of insects. He saw that stamens and cal Journal) found it of great service in con­ Rockland or Camden to Boston and return, $4.00 tleinen and ladies at home, and no polish ex­ pistils did not mature together, hut sup-1 CARRIAGE Trimmers’ and Painters’ Goods, sumption. Baron von Humboldt says ho Belfast or Searsport to Boston and return, 5.00 hibited in society can atone for the narsh lan­ packa^rhaidonc v.-;:..:- B est Place ii’llie County has n over known a case of oonsumjition or Fort Point to Boston and return, 5.00 posed that the visit of the insect was to plctclr curing u sever. at of goods in this line. SH IP Spikes, Oakum, Paints, asthma among thoso accustomed to its uso, Bucksport or Winterport to Boston and return, guage ami disrespectful treatment so often in­ Complaint.” Bangor to Boston uud Return, 6.00 transfer the pollen front the stamen to the FISHERMENS' Fittings, and that they live to a great age, retaining their dulged in between those bound together bv pistil of the same flower. If this tiad been | ~ i 0 . 1 mental nnd physical faculties to tho last State Rooms may be secured by communicating with God’s own ties of blood, and the still more ST H A S the Agent at the place from which passage is tile whole use of insects, the contrivance QUARRYMEN’S Stock and Tools, Powder, etc., (Cosmos). taken. sacred bonds of conjugal love.—M o th ers's WONDERFUL SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. would appear to he a very elaborate ami' 5» I s a s N A IL S, GLASS, Paper, l’aiuts, 45" Horse Cars run directly to Lincoln’s Wharf, A ssista n t. unneessary one. It was strange that two POWER. H S ^ '^ 3 8 < tly opposite Rockland Ga­ Price One Dollar Per Bottle. leaving there every scTen miuutes for all parts of Bos­ y zette Office, GUNS, REVOLVERS, Cartridges, etc., *7- PREPARED ONLY BY -T< ton, including East Boston. sets of arrangements, one to effect and BECAUSE IT ACTS ON T U E other to preclude self-fertilization. shorJT1 G A L V A N IZ E D Spikes, Nalls, Blocks, Row Locks The Liebig Laboratory ’1 B26w44 4^- Agent’s office at the Depot on Tillson’s Wharf. CARI’ET WEAVERS* Twine and Warp, CANTERBURY SHAKERS’ llic officers of the coast survey announce was put in the flower to attract the insect thcpoleonoue humors that tJcvclcoe JA8. LITTLEFIELD, the discovery of a submarine plateau under to transfer the pollen from the stamens to j In Kidney and Urinary tilG caoL • ; SAILORS* Oil Clothes, Hats and Bedding, Gen’l Pass’r and Trans. Agent, Bangor. BLOOD-PURIFYING lousno&G, Ja u n d ice, Ccr.sC:>.:' .a , s Rockland, Ost., IS SO. 6 the Gulfstream oil Charleston, the existence the pistil, when a slight change in tlte struc- i Piles, or In Rheumatism, Leuraigla c G R O C E R IE S , Sugar, Pork, Beef, Molasses and SARSAPARILLA. of which had not been suspected, but which ture of the flower might have produced tlte and Female disorders. Flour, must exert an important influence on the Gulf same result! The visits of insects are KIDNEY.WORT I* a dry vegetable Stream temperature and also on the climate pound nnd euu bo sent by moll prepaid. really useful because it is intended tiiat tlte REMOVAL! —AT— Prescribed by Physicians and of our Southern seaboard. In running a liite pistil of one flower shall be fertilized by the | One packagovlHtarkagcwi.im make aM Mxqts M xqtsm T medicine.; en.cine. * 7-r -•* •? APOTHECARIES. Fall Arrangement. of deep-sea dredgings oil' Charleston. ConiN pollen of another. The principle first X T K T O W I M Druggists for nearly ■ rT a C r s ? r 205 Main Street, ITITTKKDGE W. H., Druggist and Dealer in Tho Favorite Steamer mander Bartlett was recently surprised to jiointed out bv Darwin, is now well estab- • Bayr It at the Dmcclwtn. Price, >?!.OO. I V Patent medicines. 331 Main St. find in the axis of the great stream depths of fished, that if a flower he fertilized by pol­ Fifty Years. Burilasto ' *" ' ’ ’ ' H. H. CR1E & CO. City of Richmond, from lido to 1000 fathoms. This “ swell of len from a different plant tlte, seedlings so I f E R R I L L , E D W A R D , Wholesale and Retoil CAPT. W. E. DENNISON, land’’ rising from, the Atlantic bottom was atJL Druggist, Cor. Main and Lime Rock Sts. produced arc much stronger than if tlte a HE Shakers’ Sarsaparilla is just what it purports found stretching eastward lot) miles between to be,— D ili Crosby. M. P . 1 have long prescribed plant be fertilized by its own pollen. Six D E A L E R S IN XE\V AI) V ERTISEMEN I S. and FRIDAY cveningH at 11.15 T the parallels of :’>2 anil tfci 1-2 degrees, at the crossed and six self-fertilized seeds of Ipo- o’clock, or on arrival of Pullman it, and think it a most valuable medicine.—Jeremiahnortheastern terminus of which the depth of Iihtra purpurea were grown in pairs on op­ S30 TO S1.000 ; 2 t<> 32 Stops. BOOTS & SHOES. Express trains from Boston, for Rockland. Castine, Blake, M. 1)., Gilmanton, X . If. Have known it for water suddenly increased from about 450 to Coal, Wood, llay, Straw, Deer Isle, Sedgwick, Mt. Desert, (So. West Harbor, posite sides of tit* same spot. The former PIAH0S,S125up. Paper fre e . Ad. nearly half a century. Our confidence in it is in no l.isii fathoms. The submerged ridge project­ ORGANS dr«— DAN’L F. BEATTY, W a sh in g Z^fOLSON A RHOADES, Boots,Shoes,Hats.Caps, Bar Harbor,) Millbridgc, Joncsport and MachiaHport. way impaired.— Carlton A I fore y. Druggists, f.mcell. reached a lieiyd! of seven feet, while the Liquid Lime, Hair, Cement, Saw­ Rktursxnc, Leave Machiasport every MONDAY and ing from the Carolina coa t must obviously V y and Men’s Furnishing Goods. 351 Main street. latter reached an average of five feet four In response to the urgent requests of great I THURSDAY morning at 4.30, touching at intermedi- I speak with confidence of it, having prescribed it for serve as a fender or bar to deflect from our I numbers of people who prefer to purclmsc a landings, arriving at Rockland about 5 o’clock, ami eighteen years.—N. M. Dinsmore, M. D. Francestoicn, inches. ?he former also grew tlte more dust, Charcoal, &e. cure a case of C ATA R RU in each Y ir E S T W fiR T I I ,T . A ..Boots, Shoes,nats, Caps, Portland same evening, connecting with Pullman night Southern seaboard the underflow of arctic wa­ Kidney-Wort already prepared, the pro- I vith Dr. Kai sner’s Remedy, to In- fY Furs and Furnishing Goods. 243 Main street. lin for Boston. X . 11. Give me the Shakers* Sarsaparilla in preft renc profasid.'- prietorsofthis celebrated remedy now pre­ Have Removed their Office to troduc. nple free. OLE TILTON, Pittsburg, l’u. ter coming trom Newfoundland, and, bv forc­ Sir John I-ubbock has treated this sub­ onooooooooooooooooooooo Passengers will not be disturbed until morning, to all others.—C. J G'tilmette, M. D., Boston. 1 hav pare It in liquid form os well as dry. It is unless wishing to take Pullman Train. Trains leave the most unbounded confidence in its healing and renc ing the glacial stream far to the eastward, it ject in an attractive and lucid manner in a very ooneentrated, is put up in large bottles, ©3 Ao. 4. Park St., near Main, © © next day for Boston at 6.15 and 8.45 a. in. and 1 p. m. i thus allows the great “ river in the sea” to little book, inst issued by McMillan & Co.. and is oqually efficient as that put up dry in ^oooooooooooooooooooo0 AGENTS WANTED CLOTHING. Steamers leave for Boston at 7 p. m. daily. vating properties.—JF»i. A’. Preston, Druggist, Ports­ tin cans. It saves the necessity of preparing, I ing 2,000 engravings. I he greatest educator of the nge. The (TTY OF RICHMOND, connects at Rockland mouth, X. 11. I consider it the best preparation made. j retain its troqieal heat, unreduced bv eom- X. A’., on "B rii isli Wild Flowers in Dela­ is always ready, and is more easily taken by J Where they are prepared to fill orders for any of the Every family should have one. A beautiful and useful with SANFORD S. S. CO. STEAMERS for Bangor | mixture with the polar undercurrent, all the ! above attic es at bottom prices. AU our wood is kept holiday present. And other attractive works. 1>LACKINGTON O. E., Clothing, Hats, Caps and —A. G. Wilbor, Druggist, Boston. tion to Insects.” Not only does lie point most people. Price, 81 per bottle. I Y Furnishing Goods. 215 Main street, Frye’s Block and River landings, every WEDNESDAY ami SAT­ J way from the Gulf to Charleston. This in- ! uuder cover, and anyone wanting good div wood c; 4w51 P ark P ublishing Co., Hartford, Conn. URDAY mornings. Going West connects MONDAYS Do not fail to make a trial of tills great Blood Puri­ out the necessity of insects to the existence I LIQUID AND DRY SOLD BY DRUGGISTS. | he supplied at short notice. and Thursdays for Boston. | ferenec from the recent coast survey sound- FRED R. SPEAR & CO. fier, Appetizer, and Tonic, the first and best of all of flowers. Inn he shows that flowers and B EI.I.S. RICHARDSON A CO., Prop’n AGENTS FOR THE Steamer LEWISTON is withdrawn until further no­ j ings is confirmed lie the temperature of the. N i l lot of CROCKERY, tice. • medicines called Sarsaparilla, which is prepared from insects modify and change each other. ! Hartington, WANTED D E T E C T IV E S OF CROCKERY. ' t lull’ Stream on the Admiralty chart, which GLA>S WARE, CHANDELIERS, FLOWER For further information applv to J . I’. W ISE & SON, selected Sh a k er Roots, H errs, and Berries by Especially do flowers undergo changes from PO TS, e tc ., which will he sold regardless of cost 1 shows a decided cooling o f the stream after 214 Main Street, or O. A. IvALLOCII. the Canterbury Society o f Sha k ers, and is be­ the influence of insects. Insects arc at- i Europe and America. A iy ELKS. A. ROSS, Crockery and Glass Ware, Rockland, Sept. 10,18S0. 31 25 years experience in the Secret Ser yV Gas Fixtures, etc, 250 Main street. yond all comparison the purest, safest, and it passes north of Charleston, and also, what attracted by colors, perfume anil honey. ■ Detectives, in all parts of the world. is more remarkable, that in September (when 40 full page engravings. Also in pr If it bean advantage to flowers to be visit­ T homas Co r b ett, id sold by drug- j the ocean is at its wannest) the stream is ed by insects, it is evident those flowers gists generally. CONFECTIONERY M ANF’S- ELECTRICITY j wanner between Charleston ami the Florida whieli are the brightest, sweetest in per- Shaker V illa g e, N. II., Ja 1, 1SS0. Channel than it is even in the Gttlf itself. futne nnd fullest in honey, will be most vis­ 4 N D K K SO X . J . W ., Manufacturer of Corn Cakes The peculiar topography of the AAtlantic bot- x V and Confectionery,-Gregory Block—North End. amp far Shaker Manual. ited. will thrive the most and will be most CORN, FLOUR ■ such induce- | tom oil the ( ’arolina coast, it wiwould seem. likely to perpetuate themselves. Insects WE WANTs ts t h a t no - J explains also the fact, which has lately excited agent can fail to make money fast. Went H e a d q u a r- A Self Care. are thus tlte agents of a constant natural —AND— ters for Mouldings, Frame-Make s’ Supplies, FHRNITHRE. ! much surprise, that the immense June How of selection among flowers. Sir John I.nb- etc. Our new Catalogue explains the bin i ice bearing water from Newfoundland made it. It will pav you. Outfit free. Addrt A Marvelous Remedy. licck himself experimented upon tlte sit-j OXFORDlib riCTUHPICTURE FRAME CO, 1 Jl'ltPEE, S. A. Jt 8. H „ Parlor and Chamber Effecting Cures w hen all ! no impression on the temperature of the tractions of colors, for insects. He place 1 ' thnt y o u r systc 1 > Furniture, Caskets and Coffins. 290 Main street. others Fail. needs cleansing, ti --- liable rem­ Southern seaboard. The summer ot 1875, slips of glass witlt honey on paper of va­ ing or stimulatu FEED STORE. Attractive Styles are now read edy for the like that of 18.$0, opened with an exeeption- without in tarlcatr, BEST CABINET OR PARLOR OL TSE OKI? GENUINE 0AI.T rious colors accustoming different bees to CURE j ally large number of ice-bergs moving off the H o p MASON 'GANS IN THE WORLD, winners, GROCERIES. Electro Voltaic an UN FERMENTED visit special colors, and when they had highest distinction at every great Magnetic Appliance t coast southward: but, contrary to popular made a few visits to honey on paper of a Have you AND world’s exhirtiox tor thirteen i 'tGBB, WIGHT NORTON, Groceries and 1 the World- Nervous Debility, I opinion, these ice masses ami the swollen po- jxjmu'o, Iddney A KARS.Prices, $51. $57, $66, $s4. $10$ V J 61 Mlc-jt is aa absolute FOGLEB & CONANT M A M I IN to $500 ai“l ul,wnrd- Kor easy pay r sis, Sciatica, Kbeu- plaint, diseai_ anti irresista- H r\IV I L I IN mcuts, $6.38 a quarter and upward lowering the air temperatures from Nautucket were transposed the bees followed the color. of the stomach, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in I71ARKAND A SPEAR, Flour, Corn. Groceries mutlsm. Kidney C«m- than MALT BITTERS, prepared by the MALT BIT bowels, b lo o d , hlo c u r ...... M ASON X-HAMLIN , plaints, linputeney, This and kindred topics are pursued through . 154 Tr. , BO; I_ Paints, Oil, Corduge, etc., 121 Main street. FRAUDS.- TERS COMPANY from Unfermented M altand lloj.s to Florida. Could the icy water have surged liver or turves t HOP use of Weakness, uud rhysk-ul the volume with much diversity of anee-! You will b Our Prostration. It is a Perfect Renovator of feeble and exhausted con­ up against the shore, a different result would tobacia e c o , or Corn, Flour, Meal, Oats QAFFORD, G. A.. Flour, Corn, Feed, Family _ xt does not require vinegar, dote.—Floral Mnulhly. cured if you use narcotics. Pamphlets acids, or other preparations, stitutions. It enriches the blood, solidifies the bones, hive been felt. We may therefore conclude Hop Bitters aiid Feed, KD Groceries, etc., 211 Main St., A t the Brook. explain r but its action Is continuous. Sold by drup- The current Is evolved by aid of hardens the muscles, »[uiets the nervs, perfects diges­ that not only oil” Charleston, but possibly . ists. Send for the heat an.l moisture of the body. tion, cheers the mind, and vitalizes with new life every off* I 'ape Cod also, there exists a submarine Tow spirited, try NEVER Ciivular. DR. HERRICK’S It gives lleulth and Strength Farwell Block, 210 Main St. fluid of the body. It is so, because it strikes at the barrier projecting out into the Atlantic, inter­ Japanese Gardens. it! I t m a y HOr BIITKRS HARDWARE. o the waning, and new life to those jufferlnz from Premature Deeny. root of all debility—ENFEEBLED DIGESTION ami cepting the volume of heavy glacial water S'PG CO., Inform the public that they have formed a partnership C a p s i c u m r It will recuperate the system when In­ The love of flowers, shrubs nnd trees, is FAIL for the purpose of carrying on the above-named busi­ TT'A .M ILTO X , A. C., Stoves, [Ranges, Tinware jured by imprudence, excesses, sickness, IMPOVERISH ED BLOOD. Sold everywhere. I moving southwestwanlly over the sea bed. saved hun­ Roehektrr, Si. V. OR ir old age. .F o r Circulars, address widely spread in Japan even in the busy dreds. ness, and that having ample facilities, they are I T House Furnishing Goods, etc,, 28 Main street. I and thus securing throughout summer the ex- pared to till all orders for Meal and Corn. Yellow ? MALT AND HOPS ! traordinarily high temperature of eighty de- commercial quarters of the large towns al­ .Mixed, with prompt despatch and at the Lowest Red Pepper TI^ISE, J. r. & SON, Hardware, Stoves, Fur most every house has its garden spot with Wholesale Prices. Flour and Feed also supplied naces'& Agricultural Tools. 212 & 214 Main St j grees, which is observed in the western edge its tiny dwarf shrubs. These dwarf shrubs at whol.-a e. in lots to suit. PLASTERS j of the Gulf Stream all the way from Cape We also invite the attention of retail purchaseri Circulars may bo had of W . H. KIT­ i Hatteras up to Nantucket Shoals. As these and irees probably owe their origin to the ... .. ______, Meal. ( lats and Feed, alw_. Afford quick relief when applied n TREDGE, Druggist, Rockland. best etroruu •, and the per illustration. For Still Neck, i invisible features of the ocean floor off our narrow limits of space, and their produc- The main point in law is good evidence, insiorc. promising our IRON AND STEEL. Iy23 tion is carried on to such a ridiculous de- MR. FRED BURPEE is constantly receiving undls- wwe’* ' ar ,x 1 tc8- Quinzy, Sore Throat, Rheumatism, coasts have an important bearing on the sea uperiority Neuralgia, P l e u r i s y , Lumbago, S. ee that a Dutch merchant was shown a P"«a«-WeDceofthe.apci1orttyof Sharp Pains in the t best, Side oi Z > R IE & CO., Carriage Goods, Ship Chandl^y - , temperature and climate of the numerous box three inches deep, and with a sqnare , NELSON THOMAS’AMERICAN CAN Rockland, May 29, Back, Sudden Colds, Kidney Com V ? and Fishermen’s Outfits. 205 Main street. I seaside resorts from Cape Cod to Cape Ilat- K E R S Y R U P , plaints, etc. In these and similar ALWAVa SELECT TSE BEST. I teras, their accurate exploration is of grow­ inch of surface, in which a Bamboo, a Fir. 1for Scrofula, Salt Rheum, Cane r and Canker and all and a Plum tree, the hitter in full bloom humors of blood or stomach. Young ladies and gents., pSWom™nxioN ing interest ami should be made complete.— were growing and thriving. The price as well as persons more advanced in years give their SMALL WARES. X. 1’. Herald. (|iialilied approval to this remarkable blood puri: S5OO Reward I asked for this botanical curiosity was about rhich is de. all : We will pay the above reward for any case of Liver $300. The method of dwarfing is by ! lousehold x ( 'omplaint,Dyspepsia,Sick Headache, Indiget-tion.Con- T Y ’YDE, W . H ., Small Wares, Fancy Goods ant A Meeting of tho Executive Comuiitta stipatiou nr c<»stivencss we cannot cure with W est’s 1 1 , Millinery. 239 Main street. cheeking the circulation of the sap. cramp- | Vegetable Liver Fills, when the directions are strictly of the Association of Maine Soldiers an/! ing the extension of the branches, chilling j eoniplied with. They are purely Vegetable,and never F h,during Fall and W | Sailors organized in 1876, was held at tbj the roots in flat porus pots, which are kept i fail io give satisfaction. Sugar Coated. Large boxes, ting and valuable information, with full j Faltuonth Hotel, Monday evening, and A containing JO f ills ,c e n ts . For sale by all Druggists. particulars, .free. Address, at once, D4w49 TAILORS. constantly cold and wet. Many dwarf : Beware of counterfeits and imitations. The genuine J . C. McCurdy & l i was decided to request Gen. ChamberlafJ plants have striped or variegated leaves, ' manufacture.! only by JOHN <’. W EST & CO.. “ The J the President, to call a meeting of thelii ’ POND’S Pill M tk. r s ’’ 181 x 183 W. Madison St.,Chicago. F 757 BRO’DWAY.N.Y A C K E R M A N , B ., Merchant Tailor. Cutting to and the production of such varieties, both ' trial package seut by mail prepaid on receipt of a 3-cent publisher of First-class 2 V order. Shirt Patterns Cut. 302 Main street. i Association early in December for the elee dwarfed and iu the natural size, is a fa­ stamp. Subscription Books,gives PAD tion of officers and to consider the expedi E.B.TREAT9 HEADY DOR IMIttEDIATB USD. vorite? hobby with Japanese gardeners. In ' steady employmentr ______to Ageo—ts and all seeking a change T_>OTTLE J . G., Merchant Tailor, 256 Main street IS STRONGLY endorsed. •ney of a general reunion in 1881. iu business Illustrated circulars of new Books and proof 1. Work done promptly and in the best of style. 1 H I - Write.— the portion of the garden immediatelysur- i THE GREAT VEGETABLE Health is W ealth I that $150 per month is made, sent on application. 4w49 OOVSSING ______iudnev.whlcir;11 “ “ reXSf’ot’SS rounding the house no trees or shrub is al- I EXCEED ANY KNOWN PA IN T. Buildings Floy J, the Portland direr has becn=«wrh Vain Destroyer and Specific for Iiiliam- D r. E. C. W kst’s N erve and Brain T reatment Painted with our Prepared Paints, if not satisfac­ lowed to retain its natural size, but within j a sp. rilic f.wHy«tt ria,DizzinesH,Convulsions. Nerve tory, will be Repainted at our Expense. I was tfaauy advised t° go abroad and seek tho in^ Lake Annabascook for the bodiesof tin matiou and Hemorrhages. Headache,Mental Depression, Loss of Memory, Sper EM PTY PO CKETS.^o»:s'{ C- G. MOFFITT, climate of xny youth. In Germany and Switzerland. one sees fans, ships in full sail, round t Is it not to your interest to buy our P ure Prepared r nJV afScrclo‘le e^mlnatlon..leclanS msn drowned on the 6th. He found S ort atorrhte.i, Impotoncy, Involuntary Emissions, Pren Paint, which, when mixed with equal parts of oil will Lies, candelabra, lar; crescents and Still*' BHETMATISM, NEURALGIA. No other prepara- ture caused by over-exertion, self-abuse, DR. DIO LEWIS. my sufferings to arise from disease of the Kidneys, erant near the island in 30 feet of filler t ion has ured so many cases of these distress­ old ge, Thousands interested. Extraordinary discounts I cover wood better, and prove more durable than any of long standing, and could do me no good. I was! rectangular walls. A soft velvet-like turf j ing complaints as the Extract. Our Plaster is , over-indulgence, which leads to misery, decay a Life and Fire Insurance Agent Morrow’s body was found Tuesday, j J death. One box will cure recent cases. Each box c, agents. Send for circular to EASTERN BOOK CO other mixed Paint in the market? The comparison is by the climate and consequently covers the ground, and the clean gravel | invaluable in these diseases, Plumbago. Pain Boston, Mass. D4w49 Represents Thirty-nine MIIUob D ollars. a« follows: returned. No sooner had 1 been back and resumed in the Back or Side, «£c. Pond’s Extrar' : tains one month'.' treatmeut. One dollar a box, or t my pastoral work, when the old troublo grew again A two and a half story wooden hullji paths are bordered with sray stones, dwarf • Ointment i5Ocents) for use when removal , boxes for live dollars; sent by mail prepaid on receipt $5“ Losses adjusted at this office, 1 Gull, of other Mixed Paint, 81.75 so Intense i»« »o mjv» n/o o BARNES’ POPULAR S G all. W. M. & L. P ain t.<82.00, is l.OO. trees, and flower vases. From the ponds, clothing is convenient, is a great help ii» of price. We guarantee six boxes to cure an and *he e? ect3 w,crc ’ruly wonderful Tho in Portland, corner of Center and Fuji lieving inflammatory cases. W ith each order received by us for six boxes, No. 287 Union Block S G all. Linseed O il, .5O.—1.5O in which gold fish swim, and from the ar I ptinied with five dollars, we will send the purchaser HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. pains at once grew less and are now, after wearing streets, was considerably damaged by t tificial rivulets rise mossy little rocks, to IIEMORRHAGES. Bleeding from the Lung'- .tom- ««ur written guarantee to return the money if the treat­ Beautifully illustrated with nearly 300 engravings. In 5 ROCKLAND, MAIN . Difference in favor of our Paint, .25 the second Pad. entirely gone, and there can be no Sunday 4night. Sereqtl of the occd^c ach, Nose, or from any cause, is >eedily one large volume, handsomely bound; also, doubt that I am entirely cured, as I write this soma which, tiny bridges of every conceivable controlled and stopped. OurNasa’ .yringvs ment does not effect a cure. Guarantees issued by W e g u a ra n tee th is fact. The t e s t is sim p le weeks after Its use, and am strong and look again were considerably damaged in property WM. 11. KITTREDGE, sole authorized agent for LYMAM ABBOTT’S NEW TESTAMENT COMMENTARY, l^ J _ e.ry_ J fctur9 ° f health. I write this perfect!’ shape lead. Such spots require too much (25 cents) an.l Inhalers (50 cents) >re great Rockland, Me. J. W. l’ERKINS, wholesale agent, Our P ure P repared Paints have been sold during *nly by truth J5 care and attention to admit of wide exten­ aids in arresting internal bleeding. Portland, Maiue. 3y47 for Sunday-school Teachers, Bible Students and all the past Eight years. Our price has always been and itltude. Indeed, I consider the .Day KKidney - Pail “ I Don’t W ant\a Plaster DIPTHEUIA AND SORE THROAT. Use the Extract Christian Workers. Delivered to subscribers complete, JOHN LOVEJOY, will continue to be in exact accord with the price of «d benefactors of man- sion, and so they generally occupy but a promptly. It is a sun* cure. Delay is danger- on the instalment plan. Descriptive circulars, with tea- (Successor to J. G. Lovejoy,) Strictly Pure White Lead and Pure Linseed Oil, and it Rind. May all the suflerlng be helped aa l have been said a sick man to a druggi.4& “ cau’L' ri^ivv id comparatively small space in front of the timonials and terms of paviuent, mailed on applica­ is impossible for us to compete in price with inferior Is my earnest wish.” r “ something to cure me ? His symps were The following is tho sworn statement to the tion. A. 8. BARNES x CO., Publishers, Paints any more than Pure White Lead can be sold in lame hack and disordered urine, *antb re a sm mansion. High pruned hedges enclose I CATARItlL The Extract- is the only specific for A gents W a n te d . 252 Washington St., Boston. this disease. Cold in Head. «.tc. Our “ Catarrh Insurance Commissioner of Massachusetts of competition with adulterated brands of eo-cnlled White 7 usea UAY 8 MDXBY Pad thirty days, indication of Kidney disease. The cggisttoJ these green boudoirs where nature is dis- I ture,” specially prepared to meet serious he financial condition of the. Fire and Life Insurance Lead are plentifully offered 2c. per lb. less than have ever trie d ',niC morc E° o. ( i tarrli ifor which it is a sncc/^cl. Cliil- 1 Loans on Collateral...... 113,700 00 B ra in , an d I-I. N . K EENE, blair? Frosted Feet. Stings of Inserts, Mos­ DEALER IN W. U. KITTREDGE, Agent, KociUaud. Flowers anti their Cultivation. quitos, Me. Chapped Hands. Face,and indeed $15,131,240 65 GEO C. GOODWIN & CO., Gen’l Agfa., Boston A W orld o f Good. LIABILITIES. all uia^uer of Skin Diseases. -----CURES----- Nov One of the most popular medicines0^ Give cacti no water from this time until FARMERS. Stock Breeders anti Livery Men should Reserve at 4 per cent. In BOOTS, SHOES, RUBBERS, the American public is Hop Bitters.ton sm always have it. Leading livery a ml st reet-car compliance with the stat­ Dyspepsia, Nervous Affections, Gen­ Moccasins, Sole Leather, Wax Leather, French everywhere. People take itjw b lw e ffe c t^ February. While in growth, water moilcr stables .a New York and elsewhere always utes of Massachusetts. ..$12,917,119 03 eral Debility, Neuralgia, Fever aud Amerio&n Calf Skins, Machine Belting, builds them up. It j-w?«M<*Tflcasfcnt to the Ly use it. Sprains. Harness aud Saddle dialings, Distributions unpaid...... 187,170 56 Linings and Shoe Findings, ately. They bloom from May to August Death losses unpaid...... 96,755 00 and Ague, Paralysis, Chronic as some other Bitters *s not a rhiskey d.cf ' tu ts , Scratches, Swellings. Stiffness. Bleeding, Corner M a in a n d Any style ot Single or Double Team famished It is more like the o! reset tea etc., are all controlled by it. fS ^ O n account Matured Endowments unpaid 51,028 00 Diarrhoea, Boils, Dropsy, L in d s e y S tre e ts, NO PATENT NOPAY A dormant bulb of the calla should be of the expense of tho Extract, as adapted for ------$13,252,078 I short notice and at reasonable rates. has done a world ofJ°o ROCKLAND, ME. and less cost, than otlicr patent altornqis,whn arc at a will not even allow a dog to look into the di| fully and naturally afforded by the gentler Losses Adjusted and Paid at this Office. distance from Washington, and who have, therefore, Deatifrlee ...... 50 Plaster...... 25 Supplies the blood with its V ital P rin c ip le , o r All work will be faithfally and promptly attended room will have catsup on the fable. L ip S siv e...... 25 | lulialer(Glass,50c.)100 Life E lem en t, IR O N , infusing S tre n g th , 249 MAIN STREET, ROCKLAND. ta employ ” associate a t t o r n e y p r e l i m ­ acx. to. inary examinations and furnish igdnit)ii9 as to pat­ rant PEARL _ , » Toilet Soapt8cakesi 50 I Nasal Syrinee £5 Acres of Land V igor and New Life into all parts of the system. Rockland, Oct. 14, 1880. 28 In a number of conservatories in the Ointm ent.... 50 ! Medicated Paper. 2d IN WISCONSIN, BEING FREE FROM ALCOHOL, its energiz­ t&- Orders may be left or bundles sent to the entability, free gf charpe, and all who are interested The market Is fall of imtutw Azore Islands, it has been noticed that the ing effects are not followed by corresponding reac­ Eastern Exoress Office. 31 in new invetUiau* ond patents are invited to send for tvnuine Is niauufaebirctl only by J ames Htx Any of these preparations will be sent car­ 500,000 ON THE LINE OF THE a copy of our “ Guido for obtaining Patents," which York. tion, but arc permanent. development of rosebuds and other flowers riage’ free at above prices, in lots of worth, on The best boards In the city. u sent free to any address, and contains complete in­ receipt of money or P. O. order. Noah ’made sure of getting something I appear to be hastened |by allowing smoke Wisconsin Central Railroad SETH W. FOWLE & SONS, Proprietors, 86 structions hoio to obtain Patents, and other valuable Our New P amphlet with H istory of our i For full particulars address NOTICE. mattfr. We rtfer to the German-American N qHimoI when he took Ham into the ark with him. J to have access to them. P reparations, Sent FREE on Application to Harrison Avenue, Boston. Sold by all Druggists. Bank, Washington. D. C.; the Royal Swedish, Nor- CHARLES L. COLBY, HE Joint Standing Committee on Acoounls and EPH. PERRY’S wegian, and Danish L ----- * ”...... Rlyeow39 Claims of the City Council of the City of Rock­ Dr. Kennedy POND’S EX TR A CT C O ., 1 4w51R L a n d C om m issioner, M ilw au k ee, W is, ____ r____ E. T. Hodge, of Edgeoomb, was jammed Tland, will be In session nt the City Treasurer's Ofllce, to Ihe omciats gf the If, s. Patent Off Would have it understood that, while bet ween Jim cars, Saturday, and seriously MASONIC BLOCK, on the lir s t M o n d ay E v e n in g tors and Members g f Cmgress from every State. _ gaged in the introduction of his mcdicinj ■A‘N ‘‘»S MWI ‘M VI ON IEW SPAPEK AGENT1 of e a c h m o n th , from 7 1-2 till 9 o’clock, for the pur­ STEAM DYE HOUSE, 9 ld d rc ss: I.OUIS BAGGER AcCo.,SolicUort ite Remedv), he still continues the praci injured. ■ Wanted in all nans of the country, to enn-fl pose of examining Claims against the City. AU bills ■ vaRsfnrtlie CHEAPEST AND BEST AG-1 TRUE P. PIERCE, Crockett Building, North End. gf Patents and Attorneys at Law, Le Pro* BvjffcaQ* profession, but confines himself exett must be approved by the party contracting them. Office practice. He treats all diseases of) I KICVLTI RAL PAPER in ttie United 1 G. M. BRA IN ERD ,) Committee THE BEST IN THE STATE. We arc Dyeing Washington, D. C. A house in Aina, owned and occupied by I States. LIBERAL CASH COMMISSIONS. 1 Attorney and Counsellor at Law and Finishing by the character, and performs all the minor George Davis, wns destroyed by fire Mou- Thorndike Hotel, I Address with 3 cent stamp for samples. etc.,B A. D. BIRD, 5 on operations of Snrgcrv, PHELPS. SANDERSON A CO., I II. T.BEVERAGE, ) Acct'e A Claims. NEW PROCESS, day morning, together with $1426 in bank R O C K L A N D , - M A I N E . I Pub|l#hera FARM AND HOME. " Office in New Court House, Springfield, J Satisfaction guaranteed every time. All work prompt- T a g s T a g s cases), by sending a statement *ol notes nnd greenbacks concealed in the J. C. WHITE, Proprietor. RCKIKI.ANI), I MAINE. ly done. Down-town Office at GREELEY «fc KAL- be treated at l*ome. Athlresi house. Insurance on house $300; defec- GILT EDGE Visiting Cards, in a neat L O C H ’S, foot of Lime Rock Street. 211143* Ite, D- KEN: Dr Berry^Brothcra’ Livery Stableie connected with AGENTS.—C apt. C. H. Sanborn, 'Packet ••Her- Shipping Tng» Printed at thJ^ j 7 7 cate, printed and sold at this office V|na|havpn; Mrs. E..J. Russ, Gryen’a Landing. SINGLE COPIES. 60 cts. a Year, Postpaid ) With Premium Chromo 75 cts J Z. PO PE VOSE. PUBLISHER. (CLUB TERMS - . ocop.es $500. 20 cop f ivs, S900; 50 copies, $2000. v < > r ,. 1. ROCKLASTP, M AINE. I )E< iEM B ER , 1877. ______N O . 1 . eortirtoftljusanatoctoUl “ Yes” said Hal a little scornfully, Vo tljcr Co oh. that 11 do for girls. But we bovsare going into the science, o f the thing I can tell you.” For Young People's Comrade. Right, or Wrong. “ 011 can't learn any art, or trade, or JOSEPHINE POLI.AKD. profession without using technical terms,” T here’s a way that leads up to goodness, -aid Will, with all the dignity of his thir­ To bights that are most sublime. teen \ ears. “ / think it is real jolly, and I Away from the Helds of darkness. like it. Now you see how ease it is. The sorrowful haunts of crime; And as you begin life’s journey, fluMinanha stands for camels, goats, A pause you’re compelled to make, sheep, all the hooded quadrupeds which For there an- two roads before you. .•hew the cud, and have, no teeth in the Ami which are you going to take ? front upper jaw. Lepidoptera includes all There are comrades waiting to join you. the various kinds of but tertlies, millers or The noble, the good, the true, moths, or all with scaly wings and a spiral The false, the worthless, the vicious, The evil ones not a few; tongue and whose young appear in the And how can you choose among them ? form of caterpillars.” Ilow can you stand up strong, •• I don’t care about 'em any how,” said Without a God to help you, Alice, with feminine pertinacity. “ What Decide betweeu Right and Wrong ? else did you catch?” One st«p in the way of evil, “ Butterflies,” said Hal, “ splendid May fasten the tempter’s spell; Once taste of a proffered pleasure fellows ! One with a silver comma in the Ami the thirst you may never quell. middle of his hind wing that I’ve wanted With liberty, life, and manhood. All *- state, “ Tell you what, Alice,” said Will, There are two roads open before you, Ami which are you going to take ? “ over in Deacon Green’s pasture we found the handsomest ledge o f rose quartz you Halt at the narrow crossing, ever saw. You shall go with us and see Whisper an earnest prayer, Heed not those mocking voices, us blow it up someday! And see here! The enemy’s touch beware. I believe this is a geode. I’m going to Pledged to the cause of virtue. break it and see.” Sustained by a Savior’s might, When two roads open before you, It was a large, oval, milky-white pebble, You will surely turn to the Right ! a very common looking stone indeed. dutch Gretchen!” “ WHY, IT IS LITTLE “ You’ll get your labor for your pains,” For Young People’s Comrade. Alice standing on the shore. They all “ That was too bad,” said Alice; her said Hal. “ It is no more a geode than I RARE GOOD TIMES; lifted their straw hats to her as respect fully face clouded and downcast, now. “ But— am.” But Will poked round among the Or, Boys and Girls at Bonnidell. as if she had been a queen, joined in the I—I couldnt! Didnt you catch a single stones till he found one large enough and chorus with a will and came to land, thing, hoys?” MRS. CLARA A. SYLVESTER. then giving his pebble a skillful stroke, he directly, in line style. AU this time Frank and Henry had been broke it near the middle. The two pieces Chapter I. •• You're a pretty girl,*’ began Harry, taking out sundry queer looking traps from fell apart showing a hollow center, full of Small Beginnings. while Will made fast the boat, scolding all the locker, whicli Alice was eyeing with irregular crystals, clear cut, pure white, and CAN shut my eyes and see it now. The the while about the “ clumsy, leaky, old curious glances. very beautiful. I quiet little village with its one church hulk” and declaring lie would build one j “ Yes,, indeed,” said Will, “ quite a “ There sir,” said Will, with sparkling spire showing white and clear against the himself before another summer, if lie lived ( beginning for our collection, I can tell eves, “ What do you think of that?” blue of the sky, be greenest of summer and breathed. Frank and Henry, both together said fields lying about, and the everlasting bills “ A proper pretty girl. Miss Benjamin!’* “ Bugs,” said Frank, “ beauties, too! See ••Hurrah!” and turning a summersault, encircling it. It was in a valley, and it “ Benjamin” was the boys’ pet name for] here Alice!” and he opened, carefully, a came right side up quicker than you could was very “ bunny,” ami so it got its pretty Alice, when they were especially moved broad shallow box. lined with cork, on say Jack Robinson! name, this pleasant little Sleepy-hollow. upon to free their minds. Will began it a which were pinned all sorts of creepin “ You’re a lucky ch ap ; it w a g eo d e! ” The stupid map-makers have not put it good while ago, for Will and Alice were tilings, the sight of whicli would have sent said Hal. And he wouldn’t have been a down aright, so you will never know when often having good-natured little tills. In many a girl screaming away. mortal boy, if there had not been just a you find it on the map, but the town is return she had nicknamed him “ Isabella.” But Alice looked at them with interest, shade of envy in his tones. there, in plain black and white. A tidal “ Thank you, Hal,” she said, making an touched one big, brown fellow with the “ There’s plenty more, p’rhaps, where river flows through the valley, where you odd little courtesy, “ that’s the first com­ tips of her rosy fingers, and said, “ How that came from,” said Frank. “ You -an sail out to sea in an hour. pliment you ever gave me.” beautifully his coat is striped and spotted : shall have the next one, Hal, old fellow!’ On a certain bright and cool September Her eyes were bright, her cheeks aglow I wouldn’t mind having a dress just like it tor Frank and Will were brothers and had dav, you might have heard the sound of and the boys looking at the fair little Beetle, isn’t it ? ” all tilings common in what was to be their young voices and merry laughter floating maiden, thought she deserved the compli­ “ Tiger-Beetle,” said Henry, quite read} famous museum. up from this river, and there they are, ment. but they had the good sense not to to show his little sister some of his newly “ There are several thingsto we've got three boys tugging away at their oars, say it. acquired knowledge. “ Belongs to the have before we can do much at collecting rowing against the tide, which was fast “ Well, I didn’t mean it,now,” said Harry sub-order, Coleoptera, and I guess it is insects,” said Frank thoughtfully. going out. Suddenly they beard above laughingly, “ I meant you treated us real the genus Omophron; we’U look it up their own elatter, a voice clear as a silver shabby, not to go with us in the boat. We , Packard, when we get home.” “ Nets and, as soon as we can get money bell singing , waited so long that the tide was up too i “ I shall skip all your horrid names,” enough,” replied Hal. “ some fine brass “ Row, boatmen, row, for the night comes on.” | high for dinners and we didn’t get a single ; said Alice. “ A beetle T shall call a beetle. forceps, and wide-mouthed bottles lotsand Looking up, they saw Harry's sister I bite. Girls are no good anyhow.” ■ That’s name enough.” of pill-boxes and vials.” SINGLE COPIES, to cts a Year, Postpa.d. ) With Premium Chromo. 75 cts j Z. PO PE VOSE, PUBLISHER. V O L . I. R O C K I. \ M >. M \I \ E . 1 > I ;< JEM 1:E I ?, 1877. N O . 1. C o nit tout) u s an il toe hid I “ Yes,” said Hal a little scornfully, iro tijrr (K ooir. ‘ that 11 do for girls. But we boys are going into the science of the thing I can tell you.” For Young People's Comrade. Right, or Wrong. “ on can’t learn any art, or trade, or profession without using technical terms,” JOSEPHINE POLLARD. said \\ ill, with all the dignity of his thir­ T here’s a way that leads up to goodness, To higlits that are most sublime. teen years. “ / think it is real jolly, ami I Away from the tields of darkness, like it. Now you see how easv it is. The sorrowful haunts of crime; liiiniiiiaiifia stands for camels, goats, And as you begin life’s journey, A pause you’re compelled to make, sheep, all the hoofled quadrupeds which For there are two roads before you. chew tin* cud, and have no teeth in the And which are you going to take ? front upper jaw. Lepidoptera includes all There are comrades waiting to join you. the various kinds of butterflies, millers or The noble, the good, the true, moths, or all with scaly wings and a spiral The false, the worthless, the vicious, The evil ones not a few; tongue ami whose young appear in the And how 1 m you choose among them ? form o f caterpillars.” you stand up 6trong, I don’t care about ’em any how,” said Without a (Jod to help you, Alice, with feminine pertinacity. “ What Decide be tween Eight and Wrong ? •lse did you catch?” One step in the way of evil, “ Butterflies,” said Hal, “ splendid May fasten the tempter’s spell; fellows ! One with a silver comma in the Once taste of a proffered pleasure And the thirst you may never quell. middle ol his hind wing that I’ve wanted W ith liberty, life, and manftood. AU i- stake, Fell you what, Alice,” said Will, There are two roads open before you, Ctr in Deacon Green’s pasture we found And which are you going to take ? the handsomest ledge of rose quartz you Halt at the narrow crossing, ever saw. You shall go with us and see Whisper an earnest prayer, us blow it up some day! And see here! Heed not those mocking voices, The enemy’s touch beware. I believe this is a geode. I’m going to Pledged to the cause of virtue, break it and see.” Sustained by a Savior’s might. It was a large, oval, milky-white pebble, W hen two roads open before you, You will surely turn to the Right ! a very common looking stone indeed. “ WHY, IT IS LITTI.E DUTCH GRETCHEN ’. ” “ You’ll get your labor for your pains,” For Young People’s Comrade. Alice standing on the shore. 1 hey all “ That was too bad,” said Alice; her said Hal. “ It is no more a geode than I RARE GOOD TIMES; lifted their straw hats to her as respectfully face clouded and downcast, now. “ I>ut am.” But Will poked round among the Or, Boys and Girls at Bonnidell. as if she hail been a queen, joined in the I—I vouldnt! Didnt you catch a single stones till he found one large enough and chorus with a will and came to land, ■ thing, boys?” then giving his pebble a skillful stroke, he MRS. CLARA A. SYLVESTER. directly, in line style. All this time Frank and Henry had been broke it near the middle. The two pieces Charter I. ••Y o u 're a pretty girl,” began Harry, taking out sundry queer looking traps from fell apart showing a hollow center, full of Small Beginnings. while Will made fast the boat, scolding all I the locker, which Alice was eyeing with irregular crystals, dear cut, pure white, and CAN slim niy eyes anil seeitnow. The the while about the “ eluiusy. leaky, old I curious glances. very beautiful. I quiet little village with its one church hulk” and declaring he would build one ••Yes,, indeed,” said Will, “ quite a “ There sir,” said Will, with sparkling spin* 1 showing white and clear against the himself before another summer, if he lived beginning for our collection, I can tell eyes, “ What do you think of that?” blue of till' sky, lie greenest ot summer and breathed. Frank and Henry, both together said fields lying about, and the everlasting hills •• A proper pretty girl. Miss Benjamin!” i “ Bugs,” said Frank, “ beauties, too! Se here Alice!” and he opened, carefully, a ■•Ilurrali!” and turning a summersault, encircling it. It was in a valley, and it “ Benjainin” was the boys’ pet name for came right side up quicker than you could was verv ••bonny," and so it got its pretty Alice, when they were especially moved broad shallow box. lined with cork, on which were pinned all sorts of creepin say Jack Robinson! name, this pleasant little Sleepy-hollow. upon to free their minds. \\ ill began it a “ You’re a lucky chap; it is a geode! ” The stupid map-makers have not put it mod while ago, for Will and Alice were things, the sight of which would have sent said Hal. Ami he wouldn’t have been a down aright, so you will never know when often having good-natured little tills. In . many a girl screaming away. mortal boy, if there had not been just a von find it on the map, but the town is return she had nicknamed him “ Isabella. But Alice looked at them with interest, touched one big, brown fellow with the shade of envy in his tones. there, in plain black and white. A tidal “ Thank you, Hal,” she said, making an “ There’s plenty more, p’rhaps, where river flows through the valley, where you odd little courtesy, “ that's the first com- j tips of her rosy fingers, and said, “ How beautifully bis coat is striped and spotted ; that came from,” said Frank. “ You • an sail out to sea in an hour. pliment you ever gave me.” shall have the next one, Hal, old fellow! ’’ Her eyes were bright, her cheeks aglow I wouldn’t mind having a dress just like it. On a certain bright and cool September for Frank and Will were brothers and had Beetle, isn’t it? ” day, you might have heard the sound of and the boys looking at the fair little all things common in what was to be their voung voices and merry laughter floating maiden, thought she deserved the cornpli- ‘•Tiger-Beetle,” said Henry,quite ready famous museum. up from this river, and there they are, /ment, but they had the good sense not to to show his little sister some of his newly acquired knowledge. “ Belongs to the “ There are several thingsto we’ve got three boys tugging away at their oars, say it. have before we can do much at collecting rowing against the tide, which was fast “ Well, T didn’t mean it,now,” said Harry sub-order, Coleoptera, and I guess it is insects,” said Frauk thoughtfully. going out. Suddenly they heard above laughingly, “ I meant you treated us real ; the genus Omophrciv, we’ll look it up in “ Xets and, as soon as we can get money their own clatter, a voice clear as a silver shabby, not to go with us in the boat. W e , Packard, when we get home.” enough,” replied Hal, “ some fine brass hell singing waited so long that the tide was up too j “ / shall skip all your horrid names,” forceps, and wide-mouthed bottles lotsand •• Row, boatmen, row, for the night conies on." high for dinners and we didn’t get a single , said Alice. “ A beetle T shall call a beetle. ol pill-boxes and vials.” Looking up, they saw Harry's sister | bite. Girls are no good anyhow.” That’s name enough.” THE YOUNG PEOPLE’S COMRADE. [Dec.. 1877.

I’lte matter considered as settled, Madge J low to go and help your mother in your •• Father’ll give us pill-boxes,” said \ \ ill, For the Young People’s Comrade. was doing extra work to make things easier j place, if that is the trouble, and pay her and he said he’d lend us some forceps that To N ellie. for her mother while she should be away, i myself, rather than give you up.” will do for the present.” r.I.lAX 0. HAMNETT. when a new thought was presented to her | “ O. it isn t that at all, but you must ex­ ••I’ll make the nets for you,” said Alice. T iioi art young and happy. Nellie, mind. ' euse me» really.” ••B ut. boys, don’t it hurt the poor things Life seelin' bright before thee, now. Mirth and love have twined their blossoms Madge’s home was not far from a famous Madge spoke very decidedly, but some- to stick 'em through with pins?” Gaily ’round thy youthful brow. battle-ground. and as in these centennial thing in voice or face made Mr. Symonds “ We put ’em to sleep first,” replied Aspiiatioiis, high and noble. times celebrations of the victories of our j curious to know the reasons ot her refusal, Will. “ Asphyxiate ’em with chloroform l)«-eds of love and words of truth, ancestors are in order, the sixth o f August. J and so persistent was he, that at last Madge and they forget to wake up alter they’re Mark the path that thou hast ehosiii |s77. was a gala day. There was such a! said: well stuck.” In the freshness of thy youth. militarv pageant as would delight the heart “ Well, Mr. Symonds, I am not at all •* Let's go up under the willows,” said Life seems bright before thee, Nellie, of anv American bov. and such speeches as ' afraid to tell you the real reason why I can- Alice, directly, “ 1 want to show you I hoii may'st make it pure, sub'iuie, If thou wilt but tread with caution, woulil thrill the soul of the patriotic citi- | not help pick your hops. The simple truth something.” All the path thou hast to clflnb. z.en. and music to entrance those unmoved ' is. I do not think it right. “ Specimens ? ” asked Hal. for Alice Then he ever faithful, Nellie. bv parade or oratory. Alas! that there) “ Ah! that’s it?” and Mr. Symonds had already caught the collecting fever ami Let thy truth ami love endure. should have been a dark spot upon the | turned away, muttering, “ fanaticism.” ha ! that upon that field where blood was a verv convenient word that is fora certain For Young People’s Comrade. triumphing face. “ Something you bins, mi freelv shed one hundred years ago, class of people ? Madge Brayton’s Sacrifice. there should, upon that centennial anniver­ like full as well as bugs and butterflies.” Mr. Symonds’ handsome son leaned over It was cool and pleasant up there and j I AYE H IM lXGTuX. sary. have been poured out freely, that the fence, and as the father walked away, under a low-drooping willow Alice had ! AlHiE Bra'ton sat in the door-way ot which i> more destructive and more to be he said, “ Madgie. aren't you growing a 31 tin- ph-iisaut old l:inii-ln>ii>v, stripping spread a white cloth and laid thereon the feared than cannon ball or ritle shot! little over-nice ? ” dailitest lunch that ever met the eyes of bright red currants from the long stems, Madge Brayton, staunch little temper- j “ Nut a bit,” she answered brightly, three hungry boys. letting the fruit fall into the glass dish ance woman, would not drink a glass of) “ You see. Paul, the manor woman who •• Was that what you stayed away for?” i which she held in her lap. It was the lemonade ove ■ the counter from which was aids or abets in any way is just as guilty as said Henry, rather shame-faced, as lie • companv ” preserve dish, but Madge had dispensed “ i cold lager” or “ Koelies- the one who commits the crime. L never remembered he had said “ girls w'erc no aid as she came from the garden, “ le t’s ter lager.” though her patriotic little heart thought that hop-picking had anything to lave the glass dish, to-night, because the was dismayed at being thus driven a wav do with drunkenness until 1 saw the horrid, “ Not exactly," said Alice. “ Now all currants look so liamlsbineliandsbme tnrougiithrough it.”it. ironifrom “ General '«cn Herkimer’s Headquarters." I sickening sights at Oriskany, and now 1 see we want is some cold water. Here’s a pail Ami her mother made answer. Driving ho the cool of the evening. that I should be one of those upon whom the curse is pronounced, ‘ \\ oe unto him and who will go up to the spring and get •• Do ? on suppose they will taste anv bet- indignation burst forth in a torrent ter?” But she brought the dish lbr all 'vol'ds’ that putteth the bottle to his neighbor’s • Hold on Madge! not so last!” said a lips,’ if I help on by picking hops, as much “ I'll go.” said Will. “ M\ legs are the that : and then the two fell to talking ot a teasing brother, “ it won't do for you to as if I made or sold the liquor.” longest. I’ll cut across the grave-yard and mailer that was uppermost in Madge’s talk that way ! ” “ That’s plain talk,” said the young be back in a jilly.” And he started o ff on thoughts in those bright June days. •• W hy not ? ” man. with a tlusli on his cheek. the run. Mrs. lira'ton "assaying. “ 1 don’t know, “ It isn’t consistent." •• I know it, she answered : “ but your lie slackened his pace when he reached the dear, how ii can lie brought about : 1 sup­ grave-yard, and picked his way reverently •• What do \ou an ? 1 am su re 1 am ! father wouhl make m e say it: and oh! pose, with the dried apples ami the chickens, thing that intoxicates | Paul, if you would only see it as I do ! ” among the graves. \\ ill was not a coward we might• , manage the i clothes, i .i ibut . .i the .tui- • l»><• doim on . . as I possibly be.” “Well, what if I did? What good or superstitious, but he was startled to tiou ami the books would cost so much: •• But like all the rest, you are willing to would it d o ? ” hear a shrill little \nice calling from some ami your lather can do nothing for you just “ ueerie i »Ocror ISny; sto p a make a little money out ot the trallie. “ Why. if you and 1 were true, why lakes all we can raise to pay the uiteivsroYi minute! Shust while I gif you s o m e iin g !” ‘ «^“-*diat it would make two more j the mortgage.” “ George ! whatever in the world do you to light against the evil." He looked around and saw a little girl “ Yes. I know.” said Madge sadly, add- ? “ Yes, 1 see: ami for me, it would be sitting on the ground, at the foot of a iiig vehemently. “ I wish we weren’t so ” Nothing, only I was thinking and won- fighting against my own father.” nameless grave. Her lap was full of poor! I think it is dreadful! ” dering just how the responsibility would be “ I know, but if it is w ro n g ?” flowers, and her bright black eyes fixed •• Mon- dreadful than not to Ac?” said »I» aiming the wholesale and the re- 1 And leaving that seed of truth to genni- upon a beautiful butterfly which had Mrs. Brayton, smiling. Madge returned 1:1,1 ,,‘‘aler-’ die brewers, the pickers, and j nate in the heart of Paul Symonds, Madge alighted on her hand. I her mother's smile, and her own face took 1 Suppose now. there should went on her way, her own heart strangely She made a pretty picture, with the • •ii a little of the look of content that was a •*it>’ike among tin* hop-pickers ?” j lightened, and a hope springing up that sunshine shimmering on her golden hair ' so noticeably written on e'er' line of the Madge was utterly silent during the rest ' “ •'i‘»newa>' all would yet be well, and changing her quaint and somewhat mother’s countenance. This daughter was i n * that ride home. A perfect tumult of shabby bodice and gown to silver sheen : learning from that mother to be thankful thought had been aroused by her brother’s ! HOW to be a Gentleman, and it must be a beautiful face that was just for the gift of life. half earnest ami half joking words. She. I " e want a few private words with the not positively homely in such an outlandish “ 1 have thought of something.” said Madge Brayton, helping so much as by the j boys. The truth is we have a great idea head-covering. Madge, after a pause: “ if you could spare tips of her dainty fingers, to carry on an ; ”f boys. We used to think men were Some such thought as that passed me,—it comes right in the busy time.—but infernal business ! “ 'I'liat ends it!” she ! made of boys. We begin to think now through the boy’s mind as he approached. I I could get the work all done up before- sa’d to herself that night. that those were old-fashioned notions, that Then he said to himself. “ Why. it is hand. I might—1 thought—don’t you think It was the end of her brightest dream! ; are :l*1 out datc- " ’e look around little Dutch Gretchen?” I could earn enough at hop-picking to carry That term at the seminary was to be but a i an<1 5ee a •1*Teal man.v persons grown up. To be Continued. me through? Madge blumlerud through stepping-stone towards the height of lier "’ith men’s clothes on, who are called men. her proposition, her voice fairly trembling ambition to study and teach, and studv liut the.v act and behave so that we f«el T he Daughter at Home.— Do not I with anxiety. again: these were her plans, and now the certain that they never were made out of think that because there comes no opportu­ “ Oh Madge! how could I let you go j very foundation of her bright castle had hoys. If they had been, they would know nity of perfomiing a wonderful work, you into a hop-yard ! turned to nothingness before her sense of how to behave better. Where they came will let the thousand little ones pass vou “ I was afraid you would not like it, but right. I wish I had space to write out the from we do not know. But what we wish unimproved. It is no small thing to be Mr. Symonds asked me to pick for him, and arguments which Satan used in that short, to put into the ears of the boys is this—be the joy of the domestic circle, the one he says that he is going to have only real fierce contest: and yet, they were the same gentlemen. In this country even- bov whose soft touch and whose gentle, fitlv nice girls, all tanner s daughters, whom he that in one form or another he uses with may grow up a gentleman if he will. It is spoken woril averts disturbance and dis­ knows, and that you, that no mother need 1 every one of us when he would have us do not necessary that he should become rich agreement, conciliates the offended. and hesitate to let her daughter come, for fear his work. Weary and worn, but not de- —though most boys think it is—nor is it makes alien natures understand each other. ot improper associates. And mother, he feated, Madge took up her burden of dis- necessary that he should become a great It is no small thing to possess the happv says that 1 could earn a dollar a day. just appointment, and the next day. on her wav scholar, nor that he should become a dis­ tact which makes people pleased with as easy, and come home nights! and if the I to the village, she stopped for a moment to tinguished man. themselves and which insensibly urges picking lasts three weeks, why I might earn tell Mr. Symonds of her change of pur- But some impatient ones are asking. people to appear at their best. The y oung • as much as twenty dollars ! Anna M right | pose. He was in the hop-yard near the , how can we become gentlemen? How can woman who is gifted with this grace of and May Parker, and the Bennett girls arc street, directing the men who were setting | a boy go about making himself one? Can touch, this swiftness of sympathy, and this going there: ii you could only think it up some ot the poles which had been drawn j he work for it? Yes he can. And the beautifulness, may not have a fair face, nor 1 best.” over by the weight of the vines. harder he works in the right wav the bet- a trim figure, but she will be endowed The result of this and other talks which “ Why Madge! I’m sorrv: I’ve de- ter. Can he study for it ? Yes he can. with a dignity more winning than either.— followed was that Mrs. Brayton gave a hes- pended on you : I won’t have anv but the But he must study with his eyes and ears. Mrs. I f . E. Songster, in S. S. Times. itating consent to Madge’s plan for earning nicest girls, this year, and they are none Reading books and newspapers is not money towards defraying the expenses of a too many about here. What in the world enough. He must think and feel as well Show the Comrade to all vour friends. term at a first-class school for young ladies, j is the matter? I’ll get a girl from the Hol­ as speak and act. Can he buy it? No, he Dec.? 1877.] THE YOUNG PEOPLE’S COMRADE.

cannot. Money can buy a great manv sm other things, but it will not buy what makes a a laugh, while professing tlr greatest gentleman. If yon have money you can ympathy. A very severe case of rheumatic go to a shop ami buy clothes. But hat. pneumonia, very, ma’am,” said Charlie coats, pants, ami boots do not make a shaking his head dubiously. •• How long gentlemen. J hey make a lop, and some­ has she been in this condition?” times they come near making a fool. “ All the morning, doctor, and Miss Money will buy dogs and horses, but how W ills came in and said it was worms, or many dogs ami horses do you think it will paralysis, she couldn’t decide which, they take to make a gentleman ? Let no boy, QUR LITTLE PEOPLE j were so much alike. She sai’l. too, that I therefore, think he is to be made a gentle­ must give her ale every live m inutes, a man by the clothes he wears, the horse he Were I a Man. tablespoonful at first and double the dose rides, the stick he carries, the dog that each time till she gc. well. I’ve used all I G o o d evening my love, hope I’m not trots after him, the house he lives in, or had in the house and al, I could get at the intruding. I see you have finished vour the money he spemls. Xot one of all An honor to thin land. , neighbor/, and she just grows worse and Indies for to-night and put away vour these things do it—and yet every boy can I would be good and true. I would not smoke and chew, worse. Can’t you save her doctor? Oh books. When-? hi that little desk! be a gentleman. He may wear an old hat, A h many grown men do. do say that you can! ” Isn t that cozy? There you have all your ••heap clothes, have no horses, live in a Tobacco ifi foul stuff. ••W ell, yes, I think so; in fact there’s lass books and drawing materials, and I»oor house, and still be a gentlem an. But Hoys root it from the trough. And serve it right enough. not much danger if yon onlv use ale painting; no you do not take painting vet how ? By being true, manly, and honora­ I wish I’d every Heed enough," replied Charlie gravely, “ ’tis a and when you do, this will not be just the ble. By keeping himself neat and respect­ And plant of that bad weed, sovereign remedv lor all diseases ol this place to keep your paints, unless thev are able. By respecting himself and respect­ I'd make a fire indeed ! class.” •imply w ater colors. ing others. By doing the best he knows And these two lips of mine Should never taste ot'wine, •• But, doctor,” said Xcttie carncstlv, Vour brother made this desk for you, how. And finally, and above all, bv fear­ Though it may glow ami shine. “ you will drown her: she has taken too 'h • W ell. it is a pretty piece of workman- ing God and keeping his commandments.— Xo wine, no beer, no gin, much already. Can’t vou give somethin' hip l’or one so young, and last Christmas, Pariah Visitor. Xo ale, no ruin,—within Each drink lurk ahauic and sin. else?” too. And what did you make for him? “ People shouldn't meddle with what is And I ’d not swear. A h ! when A study gown! The two things couldn’t F or Show . n e boys grow into men, above their comprehension. Miss Xcttie. h:tve been more appropriate ami I dare sav 1 ou'll see true manhood then. “ I wonder what makes your mother I am perfectly competent to manage this lie enjoys his gown as much as you do vour and you be always running down into Kav For we shall he ami do case; ami Mrs. Sadie, I should advise vou. •lust what I’ve said; and vou desk. And did he know you were making Street, among all those horrid low people Had better try it too. as a friend, to send that young ladv awav it for him? Of course not! Leave vou —Drops o f W a te r. at once. She belongs to the I empcraucc there,” said Ella Haymond to Emily alone Ibr keeping such a secret! Bovs are Vincent. not so apt to think ol presents and contrive “ Mhy, don’t you know,” said Emilv. class that is spoiling them as girls; that was why I asked. But innocently, “ it’s mother's district in the all our custom.” you have a rare good brother. Well, yes, society for the relict ot the sick poor, and Gramlma laughed I think I have found a good manv such there is always a case there.” now. “ Yes. that is gooil boys lately. Perhaps they are not “ But it must be so unpleasant, and so,” she said. •• ('har­ rare any longer. 1 accept your correction. then nothing that you ever do makes anv lie is right. I f peo­ Ami then, too, boys are beginning to find show.” ple would only let all • mt what wonderful things they can do Emily opened her eyes very wide, for kinds of spirituous li­ with their nice tool chests ami bracket she was a simple-minded little thing and quors alone, the doc­ saws. I hey are learning how to make had been brought up in a very unworldly tors. quacks especial,\ presents. Even you couldn't do much fashion, and taught to l.»->- — *»—• - “ much custom. I’ve ’rlnw is it i rtfiu'Yott I...... H reality than the appearance of things. at this hour? I expected to find you deep in seen a great ileal of “ Make a show,” she said. “ Why should problem, or perhaps writing a com­ sickness among all we make a show ? ” position, when you would have hardly a classes of people, in “ O, well, when one does good you lance of recognition for your loving mv dav. but never know one likes to have something to show (’o m i:a d e , instead of this cheery welcome. any caused by total for it,” said Ella. Have you finished all your lessons for to­ abstinence from all “ To show where?” asked Emily. morrow? \ on never study alter halt-past that can intoxicate.” “ O, you know,” said Ella, rather at a lit! How is that? So many girls and For Young People’s Comrade. —-*♦> loss; “ to show the people, of course.” boys, too, study till ten. or half-past! F<»r Young People's < '<»nira«l<-. “ What people?” The Doll’s Medicine. I see. you are going to keep your rosy A Mother's World, “ Emily, I never can make out whether A. V. B. checks and cherry lips and sparkling eyes. r. u. CHAMPi.rx. Why shouldn’t you ? And there’s nothing you are a little simpleton, or only deeper U/'^KAXDMA. please lend m« your In the trees winds arc heard— lades them quicker than late hours, under than the rest ot us. Now when you go V J glasses a little while, won’t you ?” And Io ! the leaves earthward are whirled. the gas or over the study lamps. 1 haven’t poking about in those horrid places, “ My glasses, Charlie, how can I spare If love should be torn from the nest,” a doubt tlmt on the whole you stand higher wouldn’t you like to know that some one them?” asked grandmother, at the same Sings the glad mother-bird, Her little ones prest to her breast, in your classes, and what is more, you worth while was admiring you ami calling time, taking olf the heavy-bowed, old- “ Then love would be torn from the world ! ” understand what you are studying about you sel f-sacri I i ci ng ? ” fashioned spectacles that had come down to much better, than if you studied until late “ I dare say 1 should. I like to be her from a former generation, but which L exdixi; a Pie.-----“ M other,” said in the night. You arc fresher in mind as praised; but, Ella, don’t you think it would now fitted her own eyes so well. be ever so mean to do one’s duty just for Johnny, “ haven’t you a pie that you would well as body Ibr a good long night's rest, “ 1 want to make a professional call.” the sake of praise ?’’ like to lend to the Lord?” begun in good season. And when do you explained Cliarlic. “ Oh, I don’t know. It would be “ Why, Johnny, what Brooklyn. New York. will try to help you about. And so. where- good Mrs. O’Donnell says, and she ought them to the man, took possession of the PROF. S. K. WHITING, Musical Editor. W a rre n s b u rg . M o. Contributions of original ever we go, we will look for the best things. lo know, for she is the lady Superintendent beast, and marched off, the proud possessor music, and words for music, should be sent to bis those that are pure. true, lovely ami of of them all. Ami then they are scattered address. of a horse. F or T erms, etc., see Publisher’s Department, on good report, those that will help us to learn all through the country and away in foreign He led the animal round to the front of page 8. our life-lessons rightly ami perfectly, so lands. There are twenty Temples in South the Grammar School. His schoolmates ROCKLAND, Me., DECEMBER, 1ST that they will not need to be unlearned Africa, some o f them in the diamond fields, looked at him with surprise, and expressed nor learned over again. \\ hatsoever is where their bright purity will be worth Our Id eas. their wonder to each other bv means of likely to thwart our plans and make our more than diamonds of the first water, We have an idea— sundry grimaces which had more meaning lives a failure, we will study to slum. The most of them are in the United States. 1. That it is easier to prevent drunkards than beauty. Presently one of them cried Whatever will bring happiness ami make and the one State which has more than anv : out, titan to reform them. other is Wisconsin. There they number • • Hillo, Jonathan, whose horse hev ye 2. That it is eheaper to educate our our lives a success lor this world and the no less than 9,000 members. That is be- gOj there?” future legislators while young, than alter next, that we will seek for. asking the aid whiskey votes have sent them to legislature. of One who is able to help. \\ hat think cause dear, good sister Robinson lias •• He’s mine," replied the bov very 3. That it is better for our girls to learn you? Will not such a comrade be worth worked so hard to get them started. Dur- proudly. to hate the wine cup, before they are having? Will you take us for that Com­ ing one three months of last year, she! “ An’ it’s y o u rs.it is, is i t ? ” said a big tempted to smile on the wine drinker. rade? started 100 Temples. And here in New , burly fellow. “ Faith, the beggarly baste York, dear sister Parks is starting Temples ;sn’t worth a silver sixpence.” 4. That the best temperance model for Will You See the Comrade Again? our boys’ is the man who can say he necer right ami left, so fast we can hardly keep Upon this the hoys set up a loud hooting, Many and many a pair of bright young has partaken of intoxicating drinks. track ot them. We shall have a good deal Some of them laughed, some shouted, some eyes will look upon this number of our lit­ 5. That it is a very desirable thing to to tell you about what the Temples are threw stones at the bare-boned horse, tle paper lovingly, and wish that they had make temperance studies and temperance doing, and that is another reason why we while others went up to little Jonathan with the money already in their pockets that they work attractive to young people. shall expect to hear from you. Mr. Nose vcrv sage faces and said enough to con- could send at once to the publisher lor it. 6. That in order to make temperance is going to send your Temples each a speci- vinee him that his horse was old, sick ami Bui if they stop right there, of course spread and prevail. tin* people must become men number, if he can find your address, dying, that it was on it’s way to the knock- intelligent concerning the real nature and they’ll not get it. anti also to all the Juvenile Unions, Cadets. er\s sln*d when he bought it, and that lie Wishing is all very well, if you are only effects of alcohol and conscientious enough of Temperance, and Bands of Hope, so |iad been badly cheated by the scurvy tel- . w flcir i»ie o e st e u u e a te u ano ^MM^MMLunuUidlllbQUt it. T he most success- { h ty p ^ p cjjn alHicar from each other, and 1 loW to whom lie had given all his pocket most refined families realize what temper­ earncstly for certain things, and then the ance can do for us. as we hope to show in set on foot some way to get them; and ' \\ hen Jonathan was made to believe all Write to Us. our future columns, they will be among its that s what makes them successful. Now, this, he was very much chop fallen. His most earnest and persistent advocates. which do you propose to be, the success­ \ \ HETHER you expect to take the Com­ pride changed to shame, and he was very ful men and women or the unsuccessful ? rade or not, write to us. If this should glad to rid himself of the useless horse by The Comrade’s Greeting. \\ ill you allow yourselves to goon eontinu- be the only copy of the paper you liojn* to letting the boys drive it to the knocker’s see, then write tous all the more, and write shed. H ave you yet been through that crisis o lally wishing for good things and not getting now. ’fell us what you think about the pa- This humiliated boy afterwards became a your life, going away from home to school? them? Then your life will he a failure. t and iH’r' a,,<* us !’•' • o ur a<^' *ce» because When you are stretching up so last that \ on will see other people goon and celebrated writer, ami Dean of St. Patrick’s you are interested about Temperance. Cathedral in Dublin. His name was J on­ you cannot go away from home to spend a enjoy the very things you wish, while you Everybody is interested about that. You winter at the academy, without seeming will be lazily miserable over your bad luck, athan Swift. Among his writings was a are all temperance people, and you want book which you have, no doubt, heard almost to bid adieu to your boyhood, and a or whatever else you may take a notion to this thing to be done up right. named, anti may one day read. It is gen­ shy feeling comes over you in view ol the call it. Suppose, then, you just make up But, wliat Z.s- right ? We are just start­ erally known as “ Gulliver’s Travels.” coming strangers and the outside world, your mind to have the good tilings, and not ing out, ami we would like to start right. By thinking a little about his purchase of what a relief it is to find that a dear old rest until you have succeeded in getting 1’here’s our Young Crusader, spoiling for a horse, you will perceive that Jonathan schoolmate, who has been a term at the them. Now about the money to pay for this pa­ a fight, ami he lias a great mind to fight was a daring, ambitious, proud boy. Was Academy has concluded to go with you. per. 1 can’t tell huic you’ll get it, that’s eider, (seepage 7). Now, do you think it not buying a horse a bold thing for a little How joyously you now inarch along to for you to devise. Perhaps by shoveling is best for him to fight eider? Some peo­ boy to do? Was not his motive in doing the depot, seeing the vanishing things as snow, or killing rats or mice, or knitting ple. and some hoys, especially, think that it, a desire to shine among his companions ? though you would soon see them again, mittens, or doing without butter, or better eider i> all right, while others say it does a Did not his heart swell with silly pride when for you have some one with you to keep still, by getting subscribers enough to se­ great deal of harm. We do not wish to lie led the poor old horse in front of the alive their memory : seeing the new, strange cure a copy for yourself. Look at the offers tight a good thing ami we shall not condemn School-yard ? things as not so strange after all. tor you have in the premium list, and you may find you eider unheard. Will not you just write and Pride, ambition, boldness ! These were with you one who has seen them before and can do even more than that. Perhaps this tell us what you know about it? If you not gootl traits. They were, in fact, grave can tell you all about them. Even as you sit will be a better step in life than any you know any good or any harm that it has faults. Nor were they Jonathan’s only down beside each other in the same seat in have taken yet. by showing you how perse­ done, tell us carefully all about it and we’ll had qualities. He had a bitter, discontent­ the ear. you feel delightfully secure that no verance succeeds. If you can do that, we decide according to the farts in the ease, ed mind, brought on by a fancy that his stranger will come to crowd himself in be­ shall be ever so glad to number you among and tell you about it in Comrade No. 2. uncle, who was bringing him up, was a side you. Already you enter the new life our subscribers. We like to help those Direct your letters to the editor, whose stingy fellow. The fact was, that his uncle cheerily; you talk together ol the school, that help themselves. Can you do that? name and address you will find under the was poor and was doing all he could for its surroundings, and of the studies you Then you will see the Comrade again, and editorial heading in the first column on this the poor boy whose father had died before will pursue. So all the winter through you we hope you will like each succeeding number page. he was born, and who was so poor that find a gladsome comrade in this friend, very better and better. he did not leave money enough to pay fo* much such a Comrade as we hope to be in •• Rare Good T imes.”—We are going the collin in which his hotly was buried. all your studies, your plans, your amuse­ to have our serial story about the young W e propose to have sketches ami stories Jonathan ought to have been grateful to his ments and your dreams of the future. folks in Bonnidell, and you will have “ rare about boys who have become successful uncle, but for whose kindly care he would To the shy maiden sitting in the school­ go o d times’’ reading about their atl ventures business men, showing the principles and and explorations. Dear Mrs. Sylvester is have been brought up in an almshouse. room, alone among strangers, we would practices which led to the best kind of a good warm 'I'einperame friend to us all. But, as I have said, instead of being come like the well-remembered face of a sucevsss. We have alrea.lv two stories ot s "",e "f us have been to her BonniilcU, and grateful, he was bitter against him. This friend; we will share her seat, we will read „ , * . ,. seen the beautiful collections,—but we’ll that kind Iron, well known waters. One te„ you abQut We ,1;lve bitter spirit grew with his growth and together out of the same book, we will lis­ of them is on file for the second number ol h e r to do that, and she will do it bewiteh- strengthened with his strength. It became ten to secrets that are never to be repeated, the Comrade. inglv. like poison in the veins. It soured his Dec., 1877.] THE YOUNG PEOPLE’S COMRADE. soul. It made him hard, cold, selfish,~cy Kor Young People’s Comrade. cal, and, of course, unhappy. It led him, “ A Bird in the Hand, Worth Two i take anyt«l,,-»g that belongs to you. You're You might pick up dry limbs and pine just like v ’hr father, always talking about a little farther on in life, to neglect his th e B u sh .” cones to make fires, if you couldn't do bad luck, i don’t know as you've begun studies at college, because they were not MARY DWIXELI. CHELI.LS. anything else. Kiah's got heaps of cones on liquor and tobacco, but 1 expect even- suited to his taste. It made him lals* ALLOO ! Kiah, where now?” and limbs, but likely, when winter comes, day when you will. He made great plans, his friends, tyrannical toward those beneath H we shall be burning green wood if we have Off for berries.” and let the fences rot down; and told what him, and fawning toward his superiors a fire at all. We shan't, unless the town “ Stop! I know something worth two of he was going to do, when there was enough God had endowed this young man with provides it.” that. Leave your pails here, and go trout- to be done all the time. So we grew poor­ great talents. Hence, in spite of his faults, ing with me. I know where there's lots of “ I ain't going to be a town pauper. er and poorer, till the farm went, and then he became a power among men. lie wrote You may count on ’that. I’ll show you them, and I'm just going for trout. The he drinked himself to death, ami I don’t political pamphlets of such marked ability what I can do.’’ man up to Oak Grove House wants all he know as 'twas much matter. I wasn't any that the leaders of public opinion paid This was said very decidedly, but no can get, and I want money. I don't mean iconic off. I couldn't be. There's the court to him, and, after he became Dean of allusion was made to the fortune expected to let anybody else know a thing about it, widow Green, as chipper as can be, always from trouting. The boy grew less confi­ St. Patricks, in Dublin, the Irish people but you may go shares with me. Meant to telling how much she has to be thaukful for, dent of his boasted success. He ate his adored him. Yet lie wrote for reward, not go yesterday, but there was chores to do, though everybody knows she lost as good a from principle, and used his pen for those and I didn’t find my line till most noon. husband as woman ever had. Kiah’s al­ meager breakfast in silence ami then hurried from the table. His mother looked who paid him best. The Deanery ol St. Then 'twas all in knots, and 'twas such aw­ ways busy. If lie can't do one thing, he'll after him until she could no longer see him Patrick was given him as a reward for his ful hot weather, I thought I'd wait." do another. He helps his mother: but I and then sat down with her face to the services. “ I can't stop, for hot weather ripens the never had anybody to help me.” J hree excellent ladies loved this strange berries first-rate. Hope you'll make a pile wall. “ But you used to have enough, mother. “ Good morning,” said a cheerful voice, man, but he so trifled with their feelings, of m oney.” I’ve heard you say so.” and she turned to see Mrs. Green, who that two of them died with broken hearts; Hold on. Don't you want money?” “ Yes, when we were married, your fa­ added quickly; “ I've got more ironing to and the other was made unhappy for life Yes, that’s what I work for. I can ther had a good farm, but a man can let do to-day than I can get through with. Swift had a heart which was hard and cold I’ve got some fine starching, and I remem­ as a stone. lie cared only for himself. bered that, when you was a girl, you could His life was a long misery. He lived beat us all starching. I came over to see nearly seventy-eight years. H e was if you'd help me to day.” iliac during the latter years of his life. “ Yes and be glad to,” replied Mrs. The last sentence but one which he uttered Harris, “ 1 don't know but I've lost my was, “ I am a fool.” His last words were kill, but I'll do the best I can.’’ addressed to his servant who was breaking “ Then come right over; 1< a coal in the grate : “ That is a stone, you •an't stop a minute,” and away went the bus; blockhead!” said Swift. He never spoke woman, followed soon by her less prosperous again. leighbor. I am a fool,'* was a fitting confession The door of the old fashioned kitchen for such a man to make in his last hours. lo u d invitingly open. Tin* windows were He began life foolishly by building up a o draped with vines that the heat of the bitter temper on a false foundation. That sun was excluded, while huge bouquets of temper became his tyrant, spoiled the ferns and wild flowers made the beauty of his character, and made him mis­ room doubly attractive. M erable. Had he been a loving and grate­ Harris glann-d around as she entered, and then sighed ful boy, his life would have been a blessing heavilv. to himself and to the world. Let young readers learn from Ins sad example, to Tie- •• Kiah was up early this morning to change ware of falsely judging their relatives ami the water in all his pitchers. He al wavs guardians, to keep bitter feeling out of wants something green round the room." their souls, and to cherish love, truth and “ It looks nice, but we can't have any­ honor in them. thing. I've been hoping we could when James gets ohler, but I don't know. I'm Take Care of Your Habits. discouraged.” Horace B. Claflin, a prominent merchant BIRD IX THE HAND WORTH TWO IX THE B IS H .” “ Take what comes now, neighbor. of New York, is as quaint ami humorous iell my berries after they're well-dried, if 1 things go to ruin easy, and he can't help it, There's always something, and there's a as he is keen-witted ami rich. They tell •an't before. I'm sure of them, and 1 when he spends his time smoking and drink­ good deal of comfort that don't cost a the following good story about him: ain’t sure of trout. Good luck to you.” ing. That’s what makes bad luck. I cent of money. It rests me to look at On the lo th of F ebruary, about five So saying, Kiah Green turned from the never expected to come to this; living in pictures and flowers. Ours are cheap o’clock, Clatlin was sitting alone in his boy who had detained him, and who now such a poor house. The miserablest fami­ ones, but they help Kiah ami me too.*’ private office, when a young man, pale and made another effort to change his plans for ly in town always used to live here, and I “ Kiah's a good boy. I didn't know care-worn, timidly knocked and entered. the day. guess they do now. I wish you'd took up but he'd calculated on getting a fortune “ Mr. Claflin,” said he, “ I have been Hold on a minute. ’Taint often a fel­ with Mr. Sawyer's offer: you’d had your from the old uncle he was named lor. unable to meet certain payments because low has such a chance. You can make board and some more. Now I don't know Some boys would, and not want to work as certain parties have not done as they more money going with me, than you can but we shall both starve unless I apply to he does.’’ agreed by me, and I would like to have picking berries a mouth. There don't any­ the town.” “ He won't wait for that. Il he did, he $10,000. 1 come to you because you body else know where them trout are, and “ It aint so bad as that, is it?” ex­ would be as foolish as the boy in the were a friend to my father, and might be after we've caught them, all we've got to do claimed Jim in an excited tone. “ I aint picture, who loses the bird in hand while a friend to me.” to go to the Oak Grove House and sell to blame. I thought I could earn a good lie's trying to catch two in the bush. Yon “ Come in,” said Claflin, “ come in ami them.” And Jim Harris yawned lazily, as deal more than Mr. Sawyer offered, and I see they are just ready to fly, and leave liave a glass of wine.” “ No,” said the he pushed back the tangled hair from his mean to now. You get breakfast, and I'll him without any. Uncle Kiah sent that to young man, “ I don't drink.” “ Have a forehead, half surprised that Kiah Green start right off. Il 1 can get a good string my boy on his tenth birthday.” cigar, then?” “ No—I never smoke.” failed to appreciate the magnanimity of his of trout, they'll bring some money.’’ “ Ami that was all.” “ Yes, ami we think a great deal of it. “ Well,” said the joker, “ I would like to offer. “ Just my luck,” lie muttered, after “ You ain’t sure of the trout. You Now here's your part of the ironing in accommodate you, but I don't think I can.'* being left alone. might pick berries. You'd be sure of them, this basket. There's a good fire in the “ Very well,” said the young man, as he What’s the matter now?” asked Jim’s and Widow Green says, “ a bird in the back kitchen, and you'll find starch in the was about to leave the room, “ I thought mother, a faded-out looking woman, who hand is worth two in the bush." cupboard. I ain't going to do much for perhaps you might. Good day, Sir.” ame to the kitchen door, and who seemed “ Kiah's always saying that, but 1 never dinner. I've got most everything cooked, “ Hold on,” said Mr. Clatlin; “ you don’t too thoroughly discouraged to smile. thought, till now, what it means. His ber­ drink?” “No.” “Nor smoke, nor She had been watching Kiah and wishing ries are the bird in the hand, and my trout so we can iron right along.” The morning passed quickly. Mrs. gamble, nor anything of the kind?” “ No, Jim was like him. thinking how comfort­ are the two in the bush. But perhaps I Harris had not forgotten her skill, as sir! I am superintendent of the ------Sun­ ably they could live, and how poorly they shall catch two. How soon can I have breakfast ? ” glossy linen ami dainty crimping testified. day School.” d id live. At noon she rested for an hour, then re­ “ Well,” said Claflin, with tears in his “ Matter enough,” replied Jim fretfully, “ Any time. There ain't anything but sumed work, ami had just finished when voice and his eyes, too, “ you shall have and then proceeded to state his grievances, corn cake and boiled potatoes and salt. If Kiah came in flushed and happy. it, ami three times the amount, if you which simply amounted to the fact that we had some berries, there'd be so much “ Seen Jim ?” she asked after he had wish. Your father let me have $5,000 another liad refused to accede to his pro­ once, and asked me the same questions. posal. “ I can get somethin; better than talked with his mother. No thanks—I owe it to you for your You liav’n't anything to complain of,” berries.” “ Yes, ma'am.” father’s trust. said his mother. “ There don't any bod v “ I hope you will But I’d rather see it. “ Did he get any fish?” THE YOUNG PEOPLE’S COMRADE. [Dec., 1877.

“ Not one. He. lost the bird in hand For Young People’s Comrade. th at?” She could not imagine, but when she in white, which means to tell no tales, yet it’s arose and went to the wash stand site found it like her dainty self and the happy heart may and didn’t catch the two in the. bush. The Latest Device of Santa, Claus. JULIA COI.MAX. on the top of the pitcher (jV«, “ over the water,” either mine or hers. People can be very happy, There are lots of berries, and I can sell as she laughed,) a pretty paper ship with sails even though poor, if only the heart is right. T WAS the 18th of December, anti some of tis many up to Oak Grove House as I can spread, and in the little hull were two little We have lost money but we have not lost our _ had our minds full of knotty Christmas pick. It’s a long tramp up there, but it slips of paper, curiously folded to fill it up. happy hearts;” and her thoughts ran off in a problems;Z how to make a little go a good won’t hurt me. I'm going again to­ She opened them and found printed out in glad reverie. At last she started up thinking, ways, how to make presents acceptable and yet capitals in child’s hand — “ I cannot spend all the morning thus; what morrow have them eost little or nothing. It was hard “ So am I, if you'll let m e/’ rejoined Jim, I LOVE YOU, MAMMA. time is it?” Oh! there it was! her faithful ork for us. time-piece hung itt a dainty slipper of a watch who now appeared at tl>e door. “ I've got We sat down to breakfast, a little absent I LOVE YOU, PAPA. That was the load of love, a simple thing, but case—“ of course,” she said, “ watch and done with my old ways, mother and I ain’t minded, I fear, but just as grace was finished slipper were catch words enough, ifl had ot there came a long bright ray of sunshine more previous to her than gold ami jewelry. going to call on the town for something to been srnpid.” streaming into the breakfast room, and right “ Hard times can’t take away love,” she mur­ eat while I beat the bush for birds. I haven’t room to tell you half the doings of across the table, brightening up everything, so mured, and the tears came to her eyes, but There’s berries and there's trout, but I that we exchanged delighted glances, ami they were such tears ns soon disappear ami leave that pleasant day, nor of half the presents made almost without money—of the sled and didn’t get the trout. 1 always thought, if 1 Herman exclaimed, “ That’s a prophecy of light a happy face behind them. the bat and the ball and the mufflers and the was in your place, Kiah. I should be expect­ ahead! ’’ You may awell believe that was the busiest ing a pile of money irom that old uncle/’ Let us hope so,” said his papa, “ but what’s house in Squirrel Glen that morning, full of mittens which the boys and girls had made for mystery, fun and frolic. If Santa Claus was some boys and girls poorer than themselves and “ Ami it I did I should be likely to get this r ” and we all looked. Right there under his plate, as he turned’it over, was a^lmge red not there, his spirit was. and it seemed to the pleasant walk they had before dinner to disappointed. Any way, I’m not going envelope almost big enough for a napkin. possess the very house. Notes of all shade; bestow them, nor of the “ squirrel’s nest in the wood house ” turning out to be a hag of nuts to starve till Uncle Kiah gets ready to feed ‘ Oh, oh, what is i t : ” echoed two or three little and colors were put under breakfast plates, which Santa Claus badehim that found me. I'll take the bird in hand, and work voices, while the other young people looked and pinned up on door posts, or stuck in the the best I can.’’ their questions. looking glass, some with envelopes and some “ Not in selfishness to eat, “ So will I," responded Jim, bringing “ Past Thanksgiving and too soon for Christ­ without ami some merely little slips ot paper, But give them sill to crown the feast.” id-ntly pentied on the spur of the moment, his hand down heavily upon the table. as,” continued papa, opening the envelope, This meant that they were to save them for as if Santa Claus had just thought of something the dessert at dinner, according to a good old “ I’ve been thinking it all over to-day, and but we’ll find out what’s in it,” and he glanced over the red sheet he took out, “ Well else and scrawled it down at once. There was rule in the family, that all dainties were to be 1 don’t see why, if a boy lets liquor and it’s not for me after all, only that I’m to read it a mystery in the different eolors of the notes; kept until meal time and shared with the rest tobacco alone, he can’t get a good living. to you I suppose. It purports to be a letter and each one knew his own, but he did of the family, thus doing away both with He can earn something, or save something from Santa Claus, so listen,” and he read as not know to whom the others belonged. Sister greediness and with eating between meals. even’ day.” follows: Mabel had managed that. Oh, yes, and there was papa’s pad of beautiful But the greatest fun was to see how each one “ Yes he can, if it isn’t any more than a Christmas P alace, Dec. 17th, 1876. paper, which he never found until he went to To all the good boys and girls in Squirrel Glen. after reading a note would go off peering into bed, although he was hid “ to make a pillow of basket of kindlings, ami they’re convenient D ear Ch il d r e n : I am not coming around all sorts of odd places, and then look at his note it to keep his thoughts in, so that they need things to have a cold winter morning. If to see you next Christmas, so you need not hang up your stockings. Like all the rest ot again with a puzzled air, and sometimes there not keep him awake.” And Sammy, who wrote you don’t believe it, try it. As for the you, I feel the hard times and so I propose to were whispered consultations, especially with it,had supposed he would go direct to his pillow liquor and tobacco—I don’t see how any save traveling expenses and let the postman and mamma and Aunt Rose, and though the latter and look. In the afternoon the Dowells all the expressman do some of it for me. Yes, it boy who wants to be clean and decent can does cost me something for traveling expenses, did not seem to help them in the least, but she went to the Sunday school Christmas celebra­ think of them without scowling. Jim, let’! if I do keep my own team. The country is enjoyed it ever so much. tion, outwardly to thank God for his great getting to be so large and there arc so many At the breakfast table, each of the three boys Christmas gift to us all, even his dear Son, take a pledge against them.’’ good boys and girls to visit. But you’ll not had found a blue note under his plate. Bertie's through whom alone all real happiness is “ Agreed,” was answered heartily, and mind, so long as I send something to every one of you, and I think I can manage it.for I have a told him that he could find $10, if he would go possible. vears after, when the two friends met in good many bright young folks to help me, and out to walk. Sammy learned from his that In the evening, at the Christmas games in active business life, .lames Harris, Esq., I’ll send you all letters to tell you where you there was a piece of silver for hitn in the book their own parlor, each one wore a paper rose in can find your gift-. If you all fall in with the referred to that summer day as the turning notion you’ll have the pleasantest Christmas case, and Herman was informed that by looking hair or buttonhole of the shade he or she had point in a life which proved eminently you ever spent. So with merriest wishes, I am in high places he might secure ten cents. used for notes during the day, so that all could still your old friend, S anta Claus. They all had their thoughts nbont the matte tell whence their gifts had come. But no one «ujwp.xsfuL aniLirirljS around the table looked «JJ^jc s<»{ne of^them were spoken out ami som wore white, at which several were disappointed. travagant anticipations of the future, at Sue broke out dolorously, “ Oh dear! So old —u.. — ndpji.” Mabel replied, when anybody should make presents of money i illuminated motto reminded him that “ a Santa Claus feels the hard times ! ” questioned. that way, unless to very poor people, and then bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Then we all burst out laughing and the talk At the last they voted a hearty approval of it was so queerly distributed. Little Bertie, went on. After some vague wondering whether this latest device of Santa Claus and hoped he only five years old, to get $10 and himself Find a Way, or Make It. the letters would come through the post office would he “ both as wise and as witty next almost sixteen, to get only ten cents! and the parcels be found nt the expressman’s, By MARY E. LAMBERT. Sammy found his first, though he looked into Lucy brought us all back to our senses by Ambition sleeps, lad, in your brain, all the drawers and took down all the book! saying simply, “ I do not see how we are all The Man and the Still. Bright hopes may soon awake it_ and put them back again before he noticed that goiug to get on without the stockings.” You see the goal, but ne’er a path, there was a pretty new hook among them called I remember the time when those that were able, Then tiud a way, or make it. “ That’s so,” said Herman, who was thinking “ A Piece of Silver,” and that his own name Had whiskey to drink, and it stood on the table; about some nuts he had stored up for Sammy. They would say “ Help yourself,” and the glasses To get the cocoanut’s rieh meat, was in it. When he found that it was a tem­ Sammy opened his month to speak and then would ring, The shell is hard—you break it; perance book, he was sure that it came fro: The fragrant leaf its odor holds closed it again in silence, fearing he should As they stirred up the black-strap and rye-whiskey Aunt Rose, for she was one of the Christis sling. Until you bruise or shake it. betray his long cherished secret. Temperance women and had a good deal to do It was bought at the house that stood on the hill, “ I imagine,” said Aunt Rose, who had been Untrodden is the path you choose— with books. An old stone house, aud they called it “ The Still.” watching all this with much amusement, “ that You may be wise to take it; Immediately the other two hoys supposed Santa Claus is getting wise in his old age. > old r But look ahead, all danger see, that theirs were books also, and Herman went he begged on the street, And then you may escape it. Heretofore he has just stuffed your gifts into His clothing was rags, with no shoes on his feet, aiound looking on high shelves and on the tops your stockings, as if you were all babies, and His friends were all gone, he had nowhere to go, A mountain, far too steep to climb; of closets, though he was careful not to disturb now it seems he is going to write you letters It was brandy and whiskey that brought him so low; Well, then, don’t try and do it. things that belonged to others, because of He had been to the house that stood on the ldll, about them ; nothing very elaborate, I presume, You may be able to go round, course they would not expect him to do so. Where drunkards were made, and they called it it he is going to have boys and giris to do it. Or patiently dig through it. Then it occurred to him that he ought to search “ The Still.” I erhaps he wants some ol you to help him ; who A fence, you say, but ne’er a gate ! his own room first, but on his way thither in knows ? ” I remember a woman, her form bowed with years, hat can you do ? you wonder. the upper hall, on the top of the step ladder The hint was sufficient. In the days that Her heart filled with sorrow, her eyes dim with Ju st scale the wall; mount, if you can, leading up to the roof, he saw a package direct­ tears; followed there were a great many private con­ She was shivering with cold, and had rags on her And if you can’t, crawl under. ed to him—well it was in a “ high place,” the sultations with Aunt Rose, and toward the last highest in the house. IIow easy all these She said she was hungry, but had nothing to eat; Your way is muddy ? Wait a while— the young folks surprised each other peering Her husband had gone to the house on the hill, Let winds and sunshine dry it. problems worked when solved. He opened a about in out of the way places, and yet trying Where drunkards were made, and they called ii Still, wait not for another rain, handsome temperance book by Miss Chellis, “ The still.” to look very innocent. To see some comrade try it. called “ Ten Cents.” He had read some of her Early Christmas morning there was a bustlin" . have seen a young man, in the vigor of youth, hooks before, so lie expected a treat. And Who fell from the summit of honor and truth; A river deep, you caimot swim ? about and before mamma was up, she heard a He was caught in a suare, there was no one to save No steamer there, you know it ? now for Bertie’s $10. It that were a book out a little kuock at her door, and Bertie, the pet And in Alcohol's chains he was henceforth a slave. ’ Well, if there is no other way, of doors in the snow, it might get wet, so they He had been to the house that stood on the hill, of the household, begged permission to come in. drunkards were made, and they called it Build your own boat and row it. all proposed to go and look for it together. “ The spress man has come for you, mamma, The still.” And when they took down their caps, out fell Nay, lad, we know the way is hard— first thing, and here’s the letter,” and he felt from Bertie’s gaily printed envelope containing - - child who was crying for bread, Down hill and up steep mountain; around in the dark to put it into her hand. Of She told me her father aud mother were dead And oft you’ll drink from muddy stream, $10, in “ toy money,” cut out off stiff paper, Drunk at home aud what could she do, course he got a hug and a kiss and then he ethlng to eat, and the poor baby too; For want of some clear fountain. with which Bertie could “ play store.” Her­ went to get a light so that his mamma could Her father was then at the house on the hill man concluded he preferred his “ Ten Cents/* Where drunkards were made, and they called it Go down, and you’ll have many a kick; lead the letter, though he took good care not to “ The Still.” Go up, and some will push you ; After enjoying the sport for a while, Aunt stay to see her read it, and it was not till some­ But win your way and praise will come Rose went to her room and on the door was a I remembered the man who owned the “ old Still.” rrom those who tried to crush you. time nftcr that he remembered that he had not And made widows and orphans his pockets to fill; note, in white, which read thus:— His money and land, all, all had to go False praise is but a phosphorous gleam— wished her a “ Merry Christmas.” Jo pay off the debts—and he was brought low; For fame we oft mistake it; And she turned to get the light on that “ If Aunt Rose will watch particularly when And so was the house that stood oil the hill, Still, for a while it lights our way, she goes to her room she may hear the tapping They both fell together—the man and “ The Still.” Until we overtake it. previous pink note and opening it she rend th u s: of a little slipper, beating time to the music of a D ea r M amma and P apa : There is for you happy heart. Santa C laus. It says in the Bible, plainly, “ Woe be Don’t hide your talent through a fear, Unto him that makes drunken,” or causeth to be. But bravely go and stake it. a ship load ot love-coming in full sail over*the When in her room she listened but heard Let all of the sober ones united be, n ear out, don’t rust—to reach your goal. Santa Claus. nothing, she queried the uote again. “ That’s And help the poor drunkard to make himself free; Lad, find a way, or make it. “ Over the water” she repeated, “ Where’s Let those that sell whiskey by the pint or the gill, my niece Mabel’s hand writing, and though it’s Beware 1 and remember the man and “ The sSlI.” Dec., 1877.] THE YOUNG PEOPLE’S COMRADE.

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A mens girls, from Maine to Calitornia, with whom for ten years we held intercourse through the columns of NTII. the “ Youth's Temperance Visitor," and the enlarged outgrowth of that paper, the “ Young People's Helper." We wish that through the initial number of the Comrade we could find all those boys and girls again. But hold! the children of fifteen years ••—This is a no magazine i ago are children no longer, but are in the midst of elcoine for the Make of our younj the activities of life, and even the boys and girls j who wish to work please them. It is filled wit’ from whom we parted comjwiny six years ago are *es for the day school, Sunday school, now, many of them, young men and women. But Clubbing with Other Publications.—Now is <1 Temperance entertainments, Dia­ whether they are still young enough to desire the the time when people will be renewing their sub­ logues, colloquies, addresses, songs and tableaux in Comrade for their own special reading, or whether scriptions for the various newspapers and magazines great variety, and in excellent taste. It is edited by they now have children of their own for whom they ami deciding what they will take next year. Such Mrs. M. B. C. Slade and published by T. W. Bick­ will take pleasure in procuring it, we hope to will save money hv sending their subscriptions and nell, 16 Hawley street, Boston, Mass. Terms $1.0e find among these readers of our former pajter renewals to us. We will send both the COMRADE, per year; single copies 15 cents. hundreds (perhaps thousands) of with Premium Chromo, and any $4 magazine or pa- “ Ol' r Coffee Room.—This is a charming book, supporters in the pri rprise. And * l>vr’ for ,l,v Price of the latter alone. We can do the reads like a story full of interest and pathos. It is to all these old friend, n th ep i case of some publications of less price indeed a story of faith work for the poor and th drinker, an English story not in all respects simih. umber of the Comrade shall come, I in all eases we can send the Comrade with any rdial hand and send a hearty greeting. other publication for much less than the price of both. to our coffee room work, hut full of valuable hints. Sen,I for our Clubbing List and see. It was brought from Englaud by Mrs- Mary C. John son and republished here by the National Temp O u r P re m iu m L ist.—The list of more than 100 T e m p e ra n c e L e c tu re rs.—We solicit the’co-op­ ance Society, 58 Reade street. Price $1.00. Premiums which we offer, on the 7th page, for ob- i eration of all reputable temperance lecturers and or­ mining subscribers to the Comrade has scarcely | “Alcohol as a Food and Medicine.”—'*" ganizers in extending the circulation of the Comrade been excelled in attractiveness by any ever offered is the first medical treatise of any size on the sub and have a plan to propose to them which will ena­ which lias been produced by the Medical Associa by a publisher, and is certainly unsurpassed in the ble them to aid us effectually, will afford them a a, and it is a hook to be proud of. Ii pensation which it offers to canvass- proper soinpeneution, will take very little of their Cross Words. it comprehensively and completely all *'"• Thew premium, .re not given Io indue- any- \ tirae lnterfere at wJth ,hl.ir h.,,iu objections ami fallacies urged by the apologists body I., uOcr.te. for the paper, hut to p„y our male work. All »ueh are invited to .end u» theit 1. A river and a town In Connecticut set down. alcohol, forming an excellent hand book of a~ ,idx fo r the time and labor expended by them in 1 names and 1’. 0 . address. 2. A liver ’tis that drains ment and statement. Its style is clear and er dug the paper to non-subscribers, explaining its Part of the Czar’s domains. making pleasant reading for every body. Pric- • ■ iving and forwarding aub.eriptlona. | \ V r lear n that Mrs. M. L. Kent 3. An isle in Western seas, covers, 25 cents. Cloth 60 Therefore no person is entitled to a premium for Fanned by the tropic’s breeze. is, publisher, 58 Reade street, New Y sending his oum subscription. We hope hun­ Buffalo, has be leetetl Grand Superin­ 4. One of the chain of lakes dreds who see this copy of our paper will go to work tendent of Juvenile Templars for the State Whose waters Lawrence takes. 5. Where Alpine monntains rise . for us, and at the same time that they do good by of New York. We have pleasant memories The fifth will greet your eyes. circulating the Comrade, earn for themselves some Florentine. of these beautiful premiums. Every one designing of Mrs. Kenyon and wish her much success to c anvass should send for our “ Illustrated and De­ among the young people. scriptive Premium List,” with full particulars. As, A $75 Sewing Machine for on! " of course, we can offer much more in premiums W ashington Correspondence.-Among Anagram s. than in cash (owing to the large discounts we are the many treats in prospect for our readers I. A torn rag. 2. Al>e’s altar. In order to induce the ladies to aid Us v 3. Give Satan. 4. Last open, etc. abletoobtain) many could doa good business by earn­ is a series of letters from that charming xtending the circulation of the Comradf ing premiums and then selling them for cash. There 4 / a j . he extraordinary and unparalleled offer-; ■ writer, Mrs. Nellie II. Bradley, in which ______person sending us a club of ten suhscri! is room for at least 40,003 persons to canvass for the [ single rate, or a club of twenty at thill paper, and then average but one to each post-office in she will give us some glimpses of what is 4-. ($9.00) and send us only $15 ineash besic the country. How many will enter upon this pleasant ~ .. _ . . . . send a Victor Shuttle Sewing Machine,'- going on in Washington. Enigmas for tile Little Ones. covit and four drawer., the former pri.-. - and profitable work within the next three months? Composed of 9 letters, and being much talked was S75. The Victor is a thoroughly fir- I f you wish to reward or ourace of in the course of the Turco-Russian war. chine, equal to the best, with all th.- late I TLo i a o q " fi R 7 i ments. The machines will be sent n c, some young friend make him a Christina: The 1 3 is a bovine. The Now is the T im e.—The first numhe of the j ' divides ____lay.. ___ The 1, 5, 6, 8, 4,7 9 7 R* Q factory and warranted perfect. This a lx Comrade being issued two months in adva a of its i present of a year’s subscription to the Com -» i » V j for and affords the best opportunity to g will produce brains 'tis said. sewing machine ever offered. Send us yoi. date, affords ample opportunity for canvi »eing be« I HADE. Kittle, | and direct how you will have the machines •<- Z. POPE VOSE, PUBLISHER, 1 CtL'J B TERMS —io copies. $5 00; 20 cop- } ies, $900; 50 copies, $2000. L . I . UiiCKIANH. M VINE, DECEM BER, 1877. X ( >. 1 . h it toftlj u s an ti toe tof U “ Aes,” said Hal a little scornfully, F tro tljre CJooti. “ tlmt'lldo for girls. But we boys are going into the science of the thing I can tell you.” For Young t ’cop'.Fs Comrade. “ ’l on can’t learn any art, or trade, or • Right or Wrong. profession without using technical terms,” JOSEPHINE POLLARD. said \\ ill. with all the dignity of his thir­ T here’s a way that leads up to goodness, To bights that are most sublime. teen years. “ I think it is real jolly, ami I ( Away from the fields of darkness, like it. Now you see how easy it is. The sorrowful haunts of crime; ftuminantia stands for camels, goats, Ami as you begin life’wpiurney, sheep, all the hootfed quadrupeds which A pause you’re conffivlled to make, chew the cud, and have no teeth in the 1 For there art* two roads before you, Iront upper jaw. Bqpiduptera includes all ( . And which are you going to take ? the various kinds of butterflies, millers or t* There are comrades waiting to join you. moths, or all with scaly wings and a spiral c r The noble, the good, the true, The false, the worthless, the vicious, tongue ami whose young appear in the The evil ones not a few ; form of caterpillars.” .Ami how can you choose among them ? •• I don’t care about ’em any how/’ said How can you stand up strong, Alice, with feminine pertinacity. “ What ' Without a God to help you, Decide between Right and Wrong ? else did you catch?” “ Butterflies,” said Hal, “ splendid One step in the way of evil, May Listen the tempter’s spell; fellows!” One with a silver comma in the Once taste of a proffered pleasure middle of his hind wing that I’ve wanted And the thirst you may never quell. for a good while. Will got “ rocks With liberty, life, ami manhood, All that is goodat “ Tell you what, Alice, saiu m « , There are two roads open before you, “ over in Deacon Green’s pasture we found And which are you going t*» take ? the handsomest ledge of rose quartz you Halt at the narrow cm' it.g, ever saw. You shall go with us and see Whisper an earner ■ ray» Heed not those mocking voices, us blow it up someday! And see here! The enemy’s touch beware. I believe this is a geode. I’m going to , Fledged to the cause of virtue, break it and see.” « Sustained by a Savior’s might, When two mads open before you, It was a large, oval, milky-white pebble, You will surely turn to the Right ! a very common looking stone indeed. “ WHY, IT IS LITTLE DUTCH GRETCHEN! “ You’ll get your labor for your pains,” For Young People’s Comrade. Alice standing on the shore. They all “ That was too bad,” said Alice: her said Hal. “ It is no more a geode than I RARE GOOD TIMES; lifted their straw bats to her as respectfully face clouded and downcast, now. “ But— am.” But Will poked round among the Or, Boys and Girls at Bonnidell. as if she bad been a queen, joined in the 1—I couldnt! l)idnt you catch a single stones till he found one large enough ami chorus with a will and came to land, thing, boys?” MRS. CLARA A. SYLVESTER. then giving his pebble a skillful stroke, he directly, in fine style. All this time Frank and Henry liad been broke it near the middle. The two pieces Chapter I. “ You’re a pretty girl,” began Harry, taking out sundry queer looking traps from fell apart showing a hollow center, full of Small Beginnings. while Will made fast the boat, scolding all the locker, which Alice was eyeing with irregular crystals, clear cut, pure white, and CAN shut my eyes and see it now. The I the while, about the “ clumsy, leaky, old curious glances. very beautiful. quiet little village with its one church lmlk” and declaring he would build one “ Yes, indeed,” said Will, “ quite a “ There sir,” said Will, with sparkling ppire showing white and clear against the himself before another summer, if be lived beginning for our collection, I can tell eyes, “ What do you think of that?” tdtie of the sky, he greenest of summer and breathed. Frank and Ilenrv, both together said fields lving about, and the everlasting bills “ A proper pretty girl. Miss Benjamin !” “ Bugs,” said Frank. “ beauties, too! See “ H urrah!” and turning a summersault, jeneireling it. It was in a valley, and it “ Benjamin” was the boys’ pet name for here Alice!” ami be opened, carefully, a came right side up quicker than you could was very “ bonny,” and so it got its pretty Alice, when they wen* especially moved broad shallow box, lined with cork, on ‘'name, this pleasant little Sleepy-hollow. upon to free their minds. \\ ill began it a which were pinned all sorts of creeping say Jack Robinson! “ You’re a lucky chap; it is a geode! ” 'T he stupid map-makers have not put it good while ago. for Will and Alice were things, the sight of which would have sent said Hal. And he wouldn’t have been a ; wn aright, so you will never know when often having good-natured little tiffs. In i many a girl screaming away. mortal boy, if there had not been just a m find it on the map, but the town is return she bad nicknamed him “ Isabella.” But Alice looked at them with interest, shade of envy in his tones. \ re, in plain black and white. A tidal “ Thank you, Hal,” she said, making an touched one big. brown fellow with the “ There’s plenty more, p’rhaps, where, . er flows through the valley, where you odd little courtesy, “ that’s the first com­ 'tips of her rosy fingers, and said, “ How that came from,” said Frank. “ You r.n sail out to sea in an hour. pliment you ever gave me.” I beautifully his eoat is striped and spotted : shall have the next one, Hal, old fellow!' • )n a certain bright and cool September Her eyes were bright, her cheeks aglow 1 wouldn’t mind having a dress just like it. for Frank and Will were brothers and had . you might have heard the sound of and the boys looking at the fair little Beetle, isn't it? ” all things common in what was to be their «• ng voices ami merry laughter floating maiden, thought she deserved the compli­ I “ Tiger-Beetle,” said Henry, quite ready “ ■3 from this river, and there they are, ment, but they bad the good sense not to to show his little sister some of his newly , famous museum. “ There are several thingsto we've got mg, .1 • boys tugging away at their oars, say it. I acquired knowledge. “ Belongs to the came ig against the tide, which was fast “ Well, I didn’t mean it,now,” said Harry j sub-order, Coleoptera, and I guess it is have before we can do much at collecting insects,” said Frank thoughtfully. though V out. Suddenly they heard above laughingly, “ I meant you treated us real | the genus Omophron; we’ll look it up in kno*r • own clatter, a voice clear as a silver shabby, not to go with us in the boat. We Packard, when we get home.” “ Nets and, as soon as we can get money singing waited so long that the tide was up too “ / shall skip all your horrid names,” enough,” replied Hal, “ some fine brass tow, boatmen, row, for the night comes on.” high for dinners and we didn't get a single said Alice. “ A beetle I shall callabeetlp. forceps, and wide-mouthed bottles lotsand ooking up, they saw Harry’s sister bite. Girls are no good anyhow.” : That’s name enough.” of pill-boxes and vials.” 2 THE YOUNG -PEOPLE’S COMRADE. [Dec., 1877,

•• Father'll give us pill-boxes.’’ said Will, For the Young People’s Comrade. l’ltc matter considered as settled, Madge 1 low to go and help your mother in your and he said he'd lend ns some forceps that To N ellie. was doing extra work to make things easier i place, if that is the trouble, ami pay bet­ will do lbr the present." 1J.L.EN C. HAKXr.TT. tor her mother while she should he away, myself, rather than give you up.” •• I’ll make the nets for you?’/aid Alice. Tiioi art young and happy, Nellie, when a new thought was presented to her “ 0 , it isn’t that at all, but you must ex •• But. boys, don’t it hurt the poor things Life seenif bright before llive, now. mind. • cuse me, really." Mirth ami love have twined their l>l<,M*uuia Mai I go’s hoim- was not far from a famous 1 Madge spoke very decidedly, but some- to stick ’em through with pins?" Gaily ’round thy youthful brow. •• We put ’em to sleep first," replied hat tle-grounll, and as in these centennial thing in voice or face made Mr. Symonds Ampliations, high and noble. times celebrations of the victories of our curious to knoyy the reasons of her refusal, Will. “ Asphyxiate ’em with chloroform Deeds of love and words ot truth. and they forget to wake up after they’re Mark the path that thou hast chosen ancestors arc in order, the sixth of August, and so persistent was he, that at last Madge well stuck.” In the frexhueso of thy youth. 18.77. was a gala day. There was such a said : “ Let’s go up under the willows,” said Lite seeium bright before tliee, Nellie, military pageant as would delight the heart “ W ell. M r. Symonds, I am not at all Alice, directly, “ 1 want to show you Thou may’st make it pure, sublime, of any American boy. ami such speeches as afraid to tell you the real reason yvhy I can­ If thou wilt but tread with caution, something?’ would thrill the soul of the patriotic citi­ not help pick your hops. The simple truth All the path thou hast to elimb. ••Specimens?" asked Hal, for Alice zen. and music to entra those unmoved I is, I do not think it right." Then he ever faithful, Nellie. had already caught the collecting fever ami by parade or oratory. Alas! that then- | •• Ah! that’s it?" and Mr. Svmonds Let thy truth and love endure. should have been a dark spot upon the aivay, muttering, ••fanaticism." had added several pretty things to the Till at last, thou’lt sing with rapture, boys* small beginnings. •• Life was sweet and beaten is sure.*’ glory of that day of retrospective glances ! j \,,(| ,)V t|le way, ,li,l you ever notice what •• You’ll s e e !” said the little girl, with a Alas ! that upon that field where blood was a very convenient word that is for a certain For Young People’s Comrade. triumphing face. “ Something you boys so freely shed one hundred years ago. class of people ? 1 Madge Brayton’s Sacrifice. like full as well as bugs am, butter,lies." there should, upon that centennial anniver­ Mr. Symonds* handsome son leaned over., It was cool ami pleasant up then- am, I AYE HUNTINGTON. sary. have been poured out freely, that the fence, and as the father walked away, under a low-droopiilg willow Alice had M ADGE Bravlmi sat in ,lie door-wav of which is more destructive and more to be he said, “ Madgie, aren’t you growing a spread a white doth and laid thereon the tin- pleasant old f:i i-housc. stripping feared than cannon ball or ritle shot . little over-nice ? " daintest lunch that ever met the eyes ot bright red currants fn the long stem>. Madge Brayton, staunch little temper- “ Not a hit," she answered brightly. three hungry boys. letting the fruit fall into the glass dish ame woman, would not drink a glass of j “ You see, Paul, the manor woman who “ Was that what you stayed away for?” ; which she held in her lap. It was *t lie lemonade over the counter from which was | aids or abets in any way is just as guilty as said Henry, rather shame-faced, as he •• company ” preserve dish, but Madge had dispensed “ ice cold lager" or “ Koches- the one who commits the crime. 1 never remembered he hail said “ girls were no j said a> she came from the garden, “ let’s ter lager.” though her patriotic little hear, thought that hop-picking had anything to have the Hass dish, to-night, because the was dismayed at being thus driven away | with drunkenness until I saw the horrid, “ Not exactly,” said Alice. “ Now all currants look so handsome through it.” ,rom “ General Herkimer s Headquarters. sickening sights at Oriskany, and now I see we want is some cold water. Here’s a pail Atid her mother made answer. Driving home, in the cool of the evening, that I should btXme of those upon whom and who will go up to the spring and get - Do you suppose they will taste any bet- »‘er indignation burst forth in a torrent of the curse is pronounced, ‘ Woe unto him some ? " t e r ? ” But she brought the dish for all ■ words.. that putteth the bottle to his neighbor’s “ I'll go?’ said Will. - My legs are the that : and then the two fell to talking of Hold on Madge ! not so fast!” said a lips? if 1 help on by picking hops, as much longest. I’ll cut across the grave-yard and ; matter that yvas uppermost it Madge teasing brother. “ it won’t do for you to as if I made or sold the liquor." be back in a jilly.” And he started otfon thoughts in those bright June days. talk that way ! ** “That’s plain talk?’ said the young W hy not ? ” man, with a Hush on his cheek. the run. M rs. Brayton yvas saying. “ I don’t know, “ It isn’t consistent.” •• I know it. she answered: “but your He* slackened his pace when he reached the dear, how it ran be brought about : I sup­ ••What do you mean ? lam sure 1 am ! father wouhl make me say it: and oh! grave-yard, and picked his way reverently pose. with the dried apples ami the chickens, just as dmrn on every thing that intoxicates • Paul, if you would only see it as I do ! ” among the graves. \\ ill was not a coward yve might manage the clothes, but the tui­ as I can possibly be?’ j “ Well, what if I did? What good or superstitious, but he was startled to tion and the books yvouhl cos, so m uch: “ But like all the rest. you are willing to . would it do?" hear a shrill little voice calling from some i and your father can do nothing for you just make a little money out of the trallie,” wa> “ Why, if you and I were true, why where behind him. noyy : you knoyy that in these close times i, • • I.eetle 1 > < ? &VM/.mcting! the quiet re>pini>e. don’t you see that it would make two more llu------tin. evil.” He looked around ami saw a little girl •• Yes, 1 know,” said Madge sadly, add- ,m‘an • “ cs, 1 see: and for me, it uld be sitting on the ground, a, the foot of a ing vehemently. “ 1 yvisli we weren’t so ” Nothing, only I yvas thinking and won- lighting against my oyvn father." nameless grave. Her lap was full o, poor! 1 think it is dreadful ! ” deling just how the responsibility yvouhl he ! ” I know, but if it is yvrong?” Bowers, and her bright black eyes fixed • More dreadful than not to be ?” sail, ’ ‘*'v’(*<*‘* UP a,»“’l,g the wholesale and the re- > And leaving that seed of truth to gt upon a beautiful butterfly which had Mr... Bravlon. smiling. Madge let.nned lail ^‘‘aler., the l.re . the pickers, and j mite in the heart of Paul Symonds, Madge alighted oil her hand. her mol her'. smile, ami her own fare look ! ,1"' Sl'l>ll,M' ■>»"'. there should went on her way, her own heart strangely She made a pretty picture, with the on a little of the look of eonteut that was I b‘‘ a gra,“l >lrikv “"‘"“e lll,‘ 1‘ol1-|'ivkcrs?” lightened, ami a hope springing up that sunshine shimmering on her golden hair so noticeably yvritten on every line of the Madge was utterly silenuduriug the rest •• someway ” all would vet be well. ami changing her quaint and somewhat mother’s countenance. This daughter was r*de koine. A perfect tumult of shabby bodice and gown to silver sheen : learning from that mother to be thankful •hough, had been aroused by her brother’s HOW to be a Gentleman, and it must be a beautiful face that was just for the gif, of life. half earnest and half joking yvords. S h e,; want a feyv private yvords yvith the not positively homely in such an outlandish “ I have thought of something,” said Madge Brayton, helping so much as by the ['’oys. The truth is we have a great idea head-covering. Madge, after a pause: “ if vou could spare tips of her dainty fingers, to carry on an °f boys. We used to think men were Some such thought as that passed m e,— it comes right in the Intsy time,__but infernal business ’ “ That ends it!" she j made of boys. We begin to think now through the boy’s mind as he approached. I could get the work all done up before- sa’‘l to herself that night. ! that those were old-fashioned notions, that Then he said to himself. “ W hy. it is hand. I might—I thought—don’t you think It yvas the end of her brightest dream! j ^ie' are a^ 01,1 ^ate- M e look around little Dutch Gretchen?” 1 i-ould earn enough at hop-picking to carry That term at the seminary yvas to be but a i andan<^ see!'ee a .^reat n,an? persons groyvn up. To he 1 'wittimed. me through?" Madge blundered through j stepping-stone towards the height of her with " ith men s clothes on, who are called men. her proposition, her voice fairly trembling ambition to study and teach, and study But they act and behave so that yve feel T iik Daughter at Home.— Do no, yvith anxiety. again: these yvere her plans, and now the certain that they never yvere made out of think that because there comes no opportu­ “ Oh Madge! how could 1 let you go j very foundation of her bright castle had boys. If they had been, they yvouhl knoyv nity of performing a wonderful work, von into a hop-yard ! ” turned to nothingness before her sense of how to behave better. Where they came will let the thousand little ones pass vou “ I was afraid you would not like it, but right. I wish I had space to write out the from yve do not knoyv. But what we wish unimproved. It is no small thing to be Mr. Symonds asked me to pick for him, and arguments which Satan used in that short, to put into the ears of the boys is this—be the joy of the domestic circle, the one he says that he is going to have only real fierce contest: and yet. they yvere the same gentlemen. In this country every boy- whose soft touch and whose gentle, fitly nice girls,— all farm er’s daughters, yvhom he that in one form or another he uses yvith may grow up a gentleman if he will. It is spoken word averts disturbance ami dis­ knows,—and that you. that no mother need ' every one of us when he would have us do not necessary that he should become rich agreement, conciliates the offended, and hesitate to let her daughter come, for fear his work. Weary and yvorn, but not de- —though most boys think it is—nor is it makes alien natures understand each other. of improper associates. And mother, he i leated, Madge took up her burden of dis- necessary that he should become a great It is no small thing to possess the happy says that I could earn a dollar a day, just appointment, and the next day. on her wav scholar, nor that he should become a dis­ tact which makes people pleased with as easy, and come home nights! and if the to the village, she stopped for a moment to tinguished man. themselves and which insensible urges picking lasts three weeks, yvhy I might earn tell Mr. Symonds of her change of pur- But some impatient ones are asking, people to appear at their best. The young as much as twenty dollars! Anna Wright pose. He was in the hop-yard near the how can yve become gentlemen? How can woman who is gifted with this grace of and May Parker, and the Bennett girls are street, directing the men yvho yvere setting a boy go about making himself one? C. touch, this syviftness of sympathy, and this going there: if you could only think it up some of the poles which had been drawn he work for it? Yes he can. And th beautifulness, may not have a lair face, nor best.” over by the weight of the vines. harder he works in the right way the bet a trim figure, but she will be endoyved The result of this and other talks which “ Why Madge! I’m sorry: I’ve de- ter. Can he study for it ? Yes he c-a* yvith a dignity more yvinning than either.— folloyved yvas that Mrs. Brayton gave a hes- pended on you: I won’t have any but the But he must study yvith his eyes and eai. Mrs. AT. E. Songster, in S. S. Times. itating consent to Madge’s plan for earning nicest girls, this year, and thev are none Reading books and newspapers is r jnoney towards defraying the expenses of a too many about here. What in the world enough. He must think and feel as yve Show the Comrade to all vour friends. term at a first-class school for young ladies, j is the matter? I’ll get a girl from the Hol- as speak and act. Can he buy it? No, h» D ee., 1877.1 THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S COMRADE. 3 cannot. Money can buy a great many smother a laugh, while professing tin* things, but it will not buy what makes a greatest sympathy. gentleman. If you have money you can ’’ A very severe ease of rheumatic go to a shop ami buy clothes. But hat, pneumonia, very, ma’am," said Charlie coats, pants, ami boots do not make a shaking his head dubiously. “ How long gentlemen. They make a top, ami some­ has she been in this condition?” times they come near making a fool. •• AU the morning, doctor, ami Miss Money will buy dogs and horses, but how Wills came in and said it was worms, or many dogs and horses do you think it will paralysi.-. she couldn’t decide which, they take to make a gentleman ? Let no boy, were so much alike. She saitl. too, that I therefore, think he is to be made a gentle­ must give her ale ev en live m inutes, a man by the clothes lie wears, the horse he Were I a Man. tablespoonful at first ami double the dose rides, the stiek he carries, the dog that Goon evening my love, hope I’m not Were I a ninn grown, I’«I otaiul each time till she gc. well. I’ve used all I trots after him, the house he lives in. or With a clean heart, noiiI and hand, intruding. I see you have finished your An honor to thin land. had in tin* house ami all I could get at the the money he spends. N ot one o f all , neighbors’, ami she just grows worse ami studies for to-night and put away your I would be good ami true. hooks. W h en * ? In that little desk! hese things do it—and yet every boy can i 1 would not smoke and »-hew, yvorse. Can’t you save her doctor? Oil A* many grown men do. e a gentleman. lie may wear an old hat. I do sav that vou can!" Isu t that cozy ? There you have all your heap clothes, have no horses, live in a Tobacco ia foul atuff. • Well, yes, I think so; in fact there's class hooks and dm wing materials, ami root It from the trough. oor house, ami still be a gentleman. But l And serve it right enough. not much danger if you only use ale painting: no you do not take painting yet and when you do, this yvill not Ik* just tin* iow ? By being true, manly, ami honora- j I wi»h I’d every seed enough.’’ replied Charlie gravely, “ ’tis a ble. By keeping himself neat and respect- And plant of that had weed, sovereign remedy for all diseases ol this place to keep your paints, unless they are I’d make a lire indeed ! able. By respecting himself and respect­ class.” simply water colors. And these two lips of mine \ our brother made this desk tor you, ing others. By doing the best In* knows Should never taste of wine. “ But, doctor," said Nettie earnestly, how. And finally, and above all, by fear­ Though it may glow and shine. “ you yvill drown her: she has taken too •*h! W ell, it is a pretty piece o f workman­ ing God and keeping his commandments.— No wine, no liver, no gin, much already. Can’t you give something ship for one so young, ami last Christmas, No ale, no m m ,—within too. Ami what did you make for him? Parish Visitor. Eaeh drink lurk shame and sin. else?” “ People shouldn't meddle yvitli yvhat is A study gown! The. two things couldn't And I’d not swear. Ahi when For Show . We boys grow into men, above their comprehension. Miss Nettie. have been more appropriate and I dare say You'll see true manhood then. I am perfectly competent to manage this “ I wonder what make.-y/your mother he enjoys his goyvn as much as you do vonr For we shall 1m* and do case: ami Mrs. Sadie. 1 should advise you. and you be always running down into Kay desk. Ami did In* know you yvere making dust what I’ve said; and von as a friend, to sem i that young lady away Street, among all those horrid low people llad better try it t«M». it fbr him? Of course not! Leave vou —Drops of Water. at once. Sin* belongs to the Temperance there," said Ella Raymond to Einih alone for keeping such a secret! Boys are league, a dangerous Vincent. not so apt tn think of presents ami contrive class that is spoiling “ Why, don’t you know," said Emily, them as girls: that was win I asked. But all our custom.” innocently. “ it’s mother’s district in the you have a rare good brother. Well. ves. Grandma laughed I think I have found a good many such society for the relief of the sick poor, and good hoys lately. Perhaps they are not there is always a case then*." now. “ Yes. that is rare any longer. I accept youreorreetion. “ But it must be so unpleasant, am! so,” she said, “ ( ’bar- Ami then, too, hoys arc beginning to find then nothing that you ever do makes am lie is right. If peo­ show.” ple yvould only let all out what yvoiiderful things they can do with their nice tool chests and bracket Emily opened her eyes very wide, for kinds of spirituous li­ saw s. They arc learning hoyy to make she was a simple-minded little thing and quors alone, the doc- without your thiiiible’and’yVrff’k-Aas^Vi hami:ai>e, instead of this cheery welcome. any caused by total for it," said Ella. Have you finished all your lessons for to­ abstinence from all “ To show where?" asked Emily. morrow? You never -tinly alter hall-past that can intoxicate." “ O. you know,” said Ella, rather at a > eight! How is that? So many girls and Fur Young Pcoplr’i* Comrade. «♦» loss; “ to show the people, of course.” hoy s, too, study till ten. or half-past ! F«>r Young People’* Comrade. “ What people?" The Doll’s Medicine. I see. you are going to keep your rosy A Mother's World. y. y. n. checks and cherry lips ami sparkling eyes. “ Emily, 1 never can make out whether | r. li. cu yyin.rx. you are a little simpleton, or only deeper W by shouldn't you? Am, there’s nothing 1 RANDM A. please lend m» your In the trees winds arc heard— fades them quicker than late hours, under than the rest of us. Now when you go I \T glasses a little yvliilc, won't you?” Ami lo ! the leaves earthward are whirled. the ga< or over the study lamps. I haven’t poking about in those horrid places. ; “ My glasses, Charlie, how can I span* “ If love should Ik* torn from the nest,” a doubt tlmt on the whole you stand higher wouldn’t you like to knoyv that some one them?" asked grandmother, at the same Sings die glad mother-bird, Her little ones prest to her breast, in your classes, and what is more, you yvorth while yvas admiring you ami calling time taking otf the heavy-boyved, old- *’ Then love yvouhl he torn from the world ! ” understand what you are studying about you self-sacrificing ? ’’ fashioned spectacles that had come doyvn to much better, than if you studied until late “ I dare say 1 should. I like to be her from a funner generation, but yvhich in the night. You arc fresher in miml as p raised ; but. Ella, don’t you think it would now fitted her oyvn eyes so yvell. L ending a Pie .— “ Mother,” said be ever so mean to do one’s duty just for Johnny, “ haven’t you a pic that you would well as body for a good long night’s rest, “ I want to make a professional call," begun in good season. And when do you the sak e o f praise ?" like to lend to the Lord?” explained Charlie. “ Oh, 1 don’t know. It would be! “ Why. Johnny, what «h» you mean?” retin*, at ’J ? There, is a wonderful value Grandma smiled, as she tied the black natural.” she asked, for sin* thought at* lirst it was a in this early retiring. I have knoyvn sick silk ribbon over his soft curly hair. “ I “ Things that an* natural may also be joke. ami yvorn-oiit women get yvell ami strong, knoyv you yvill be careful dear, ami don’t simply by going to bed at eight o'clock am, mean.” “ Don’t you remember,” he said, “ that hurt your eyes looking through them." giving themselves a chance to sleep soundly. “ Ella," said Mrs. Vincent, who yvas the Bible says, • H»» that givetli to the poor, “ Thank you." replied ('harlie. hasten­ I have known invalid girls go to school ami sitting by, “ Emily has never thought j lendeth to the Lord?’ I don’t believe old study daily, so long as they would insist on much about her motives in helping me. ■ ing away, yvliilc gramhna boyved yvitli the Betsey has had a pic for a long time, and I going to bed at eight o'clock. 1 know a My daughter helps me liecause she wishes , weight of three-score years, moved her thought perhaps you would like to have young lady in high life who never lets even to be of use to others, and for love of chair to the other window that she might me take one over to her: then you yvouhl company in her own father's house keep Christ and of m e.— Christian at IForA*. look upon the group without. he lending to the Lord, you know.” her up after half-past nine. Your health is What did she see? One of m other’s best pies went Io old one of your best legacies. Go on guarding A little boy, in W. came in to his j Little Sadie Hale holding a sick doll ami Betsey: only she was sorry she had not it thus carefully, and you will he free from mother one day, saying : looking anxiously up to Hr. Charlie. At thought of sending her one before. Bui endless headaches and colds and nervous­ “ Mother, the boys out there are swear- ! her feet sat tender-hearted, rosy-cheeked it she had she yvould have lost Johnny’s ing, and I would not play with them, but , nesses, and life will he a joy to you and Eva West, whose plump lingers never yvay of “ putting it."—Moravian. came right into the house.” not a misery. And noyv I’ll not keep you harmed a fly and whose mild blue eyes “ Swearing!” said the mother, who up. Finish your good-night hymn. I see thought her child was perhaps too young to were even now filling with tears at Sadie’s A young scapegrace, notorious for his your hook open to it. May angels keep knoyv what profanity yvas. “ W hat is evident distress about poor dollie. Then pranks and practical jokes, yvho came of swearing my child ? ’’ age the other day, awoke the family at “ Why, it is saying ‘ Cod' outside of there yvas Nettie Lane, a tall, dark-eyed their prayers," yvas the ready and original brunette, with sense of the ludicrous so midnight by loud cries of “ Man in the All young ladies should send for our pub­ answer. keen that she was vainly endeavoring to house ! ” lisher’s unparalleled seyving machine offer. [Dec., 1877. 4 THE YOUNG PEOPLE’S COMRADE.

ami keep them, too; we will counsel her Juvenile Templars, For Young People’s Comrad e. The Author of Gulliver’s Travels. against those she cannot trust, we will coni- W e expect that this goodly band ot mime with her in her chamber, walk by her Temperance champions will be among our DANIEL WISE, D. D. side to church and to Sunday-school, and : host friends. We hope to get a basketful PEARLY two hundred years ago, in the not forsake her when she goes into society. of letters from them, not the waste basket, N town of Kilkenny, Ireland, an odd­ To the boys and girls at home ami at nor our work basket, but a big clothes looking, but clear-eyed boy met a man who liool, the skating pond ami on the basketful; though we neither expect was leading a poor old horse through the ground, we will have a thousand and wish them all at once, because then we village street. The boy stood with his one sayings and suggestions: we will help amid neither read nor print them all, and hands in his trowsers pockets looking so Lewis study his Philosophy ami History, we would like to do both. intently at the horse, that the man stopped Eddie make his garden, ami Lulu feed her W e expect this, first because they arc such and began a friendly talk with the little birds, besides now and then a song for lit­ staunch Temperance folks that they ought to Miss JULIA OOLMAN, - - EDITOR. fellow. What they said to each other I do tle Tot with her dollies. Ami if there is- •a»ly to answer the questions of our not know, but the result of the conversa­ anyone grievance that is just a little too Young Crusader.and next, because there tion was, that the boy emptied his pockets dreai much to be borne, that is the very thing wc so many of them,more than 200,000 ; so dear, ' of few sixpences thev contained, gave enue, Brooklyn. New York. PROF. S. K. WHITING. Musical Editor, will try to help you about. And so. where- gOtMj Mrs. O’Donnell says, and she ought ti,em to tjle Iliailt tooj- possession of the W a rre n s b u rg , M o. Contribution* of original ever we go, wc will look tor tliebcM thing.'-. know, tor she is the lady Superintendent i boast, and marched off, the proud possessor music, and words for music, should be sent to ' ' address. those that are pure, true, lovely and of of them all. Ami then they are scattered of a ^orse. For T erms, etc., see Publisher’s Department, page S. ___ good report, those that will help us to learn through the country ami away in foreign , j[e je(j tin* animal round to the front of our lite-lessons rightly and perfectly, so lands. 1 here are twenty leinples in South J Grammar School. llis schoolmates ROCKLAND, Me., DECEMBER. 187 that they wdl not need to be unlearned Alrica.soine ot them in the diamond fields, i looked at him with surprise, and expressed Our Ideas. nor learned over again. \\ hatsoever is where their bright purity will be worth ( their wonder to each other by means of We have an idea— likely to thwart our plans ami make our more than diamonds ot the first water, j sundVv grimaces which had more meaning 1. That it is easier to prevent drunkard lives a failure, we will study to shun. The most ot them arc in the I nited States, than beauty. Presently one of them cried than to reform them. Whatever will bring happiness ami make and the one State which has more than any i out> 2. That it is cheaper to educate our our lives a success for this world and the other is Wisconsin. I licit* they number “ Hillo, .Jonathan, whose horse hev ye future legislators while young, than after next, that wc will seek for, asking the aid no less than 9,000 members. That is he- got there?” whiskey votes have sent them to legislature. of One who is able to help. \\ hat think cause dear, good sister Robinson has • • He’s m utr," replied the boy very 3. That it is better for our girls to learn vou? Will not such a comrade be worth worked so hard to get them started. Dur-; proudly. A to hate the wine cup, before they are having? Will you take us for that Com­ ing one three months ot last year, she 1 “ An* it’s vours, it is, is it?” said a big tempted to smile on the wine drinker. rade? started 100 Temples. And here in New j burly fellow. “ Faith, the beggarly baste 4. That the best temperance model for A ork, dear sister Parks is starting leinples J isn’t worth a silver sixpence.” Will You See the Comrade Again? our boys is the man who can say he never right and left, so last we can hardly keep Upon this the hoys set up a loud hooting, has partaken of intoxicating drinks. Many and many a pair of bright young track ot them. \\ e shall have a good deal Some of them laughed, some shouted, some 5. That it is a very desirable thing to yes will look upon this number of our lit­ to tell you about what the Temples are threw stones at the hare-honed horse, make temperance studies and temperance tle paper lovingly, and Irish that they had doing, and that is another reason why we j while others went up to little Jonathan with the money already in their pockets that they work attractive to young people. shall expert to hear train you. Air. \ ose : very sage faces and said enough to con- 6. That in order to make temperance could semi at once to the publisher for it. is going to send your Temples each a speei- vinee him that his horse was old, sick and spread and prevail, the people must become But if they stop right there, of course men number, if lie can find your address. dying, that it was on it’s way to the knock- intelligent concerning the real nature and they’ll not get it. ami also to all the Juvenile Unions, Cadets .el-’s shed when he bought it, and that lie Wishing is all very well, if you are only effects of alcohol and conscientious enough of Temperance, and Bands of Hope, so I had been badly cheated bv the scurvy fel- .. , .—1—u ..u it ,_The most suceess- 7. lliat when the best educated ami tul men ami women begin by wishing ven • right? W e are just start­ erally known as “ Gulliver’s Travels.” coming strangers and the outside world, your mind to hare the good things, ami not ing out, ami we would like to start right. By thinking a little about his purchase of what a relief it is to find that a dear old rest until you have succeeded in getting There’s our Young Crusader, spoiling for a horse, you will perceive that .Jonathan schoolmate, who has been a term at the them. Now about the money to pay for this pa­ a fight, and he has a great mind to fight was a daring, ambitious, proud boy. Was Academy has concluded to go with you. per. 1 can’t tell koto you'll get it. that’s eider, (seepage 7). Now, do you think it not buying a horse a buhl thing for a little j How joyously you now march along to for you to devise. Perhaps by shoveling is best for him to tight eider? Some peo- bov to do? Was not his motive in doing the depot, seeing the vanishing things as snow, or killing rats or mice, or knitting pie, and some boy.-, especially, think that 1 it, a desire to shine among his companions though you would soon see them again, mittens, or doing without butter, or better cider is all right, while others say it does a Did not his heart swell with silly pride when for you have some one with you to keep still, by getting subscribers enough to se­ great deal of harm. We do not wish to he led the poor old horse in front of the alive their memory ; seeing the new. strange cure a copy for yourself. Look at the oilers fight agood thing and wc shall nut condemn School-yard ? things as not so strange after all. for vou have in the premium list, and you may find you cider unheard. Will not you just write and Pride, ambition, boldness ’ These were with you one who has seen them before and van do even more than that. Perhaps this tell us what you know about it? If you not good traits. They were, in fact, grave can tell you all about them. Even as vou will be a better step in life than any you know any good or any harm that it has faults. N or wen* they .Jonathan's only down beside each other in the same seat in have taken yet, by showing you how perse­ done, tell us carefully all about it and we’ll bad qualities. He had a bitter, discontent­ the car, you feci delightfully secure that no verance succeeds. If you can do that, wc decide according to the facts in the case, ed mind, brought on by a lanev that his stranger will come to crowd himself in be­ shall be ever so glad to number you among and tell you about it in Comrade N o. 2. uncle, who was bringing him up, was a side you. Already you enter the new life our subscribers. We like to help those Direct your letters to the editor, whose stingy fellow. The fact was, that his uncle cheerily; you talk together of the school, that help themselves. Can you do that? name and address you will find under the was poor ami was doing all he could for its surroundings, and of the studies you Then you will see the Comrade again, and editorial heading in the first column on this the poor boy whose father had died before will pursue. So all the winter through you we hope you will like each succeeding num ber page. he was born, and who was so poor that find a gladsome comrade in this friend, very better and better. he did not leave money enough to pay fo* much such a Comrade as we hope to be “Rare Good T imes.”—We are going the coflin in which his body was buried. all your studies, your plans, your amuse­ to have our serial story about the young W e propose to have sketches and stories .Jonathan ought to have been grateful to his ments and vour dreams of the future. folks in Bonnidcll, ami you will have “ rare about boys who have become successful uncle, but for whose kindly care he would To the shy maiden sitting in the school­ good times” reading about their adventures business men, showing the principles and and explorations. Dear Mrs. Sylvester is have been brought up in an almshouse. room, alone among strangers, we would practices which led to the best kind of a good warm Temperance friend to us all. But, as I have said, instead of being come like the well-remembered face of a suecesss. We have already two stories of Some of us have been toher Bonnidcll, ami grateful, he was bitter against him. This friend; we will share her seat, we will read seen the beautiful collections,—but we’ll that kind from well known writers. One bitter spirit grew with his growth and together out of the same book, we will lis­ not tell you about them. We have asked of them is on file for the second num ber of her to do that, and she will do it bewiteh- strengthened with his strength. It became ten to secrets that are never to be repeated, the Comrade. inglv. like poison in the veins. It soured his Dec., 1877.] THE YOUNG PEOPLE’S COMRADE. soul. It made him hard, cold, selfish, cyni­ Fur Young People’s Comrade. take anything that belongs to you. You’re 1 ou might pick up dry limbs and pine cal, and, of course, unhappy. It led him, “ A Bird in the Hand, Worth Two in just like your father, always talking about cones to make fires, if you couldn't do a little farther on in life, to neglect his th e B u sh .” bad luck. I don't know as you've begun anything else. Kiah's got heaps of cones studies at college, because they were not MARY DWINELL CHELI.LS. on liquor and tobacco, but I expect everv and limbs, but likely, when winter comes, suited to his taste. It made him false to ALLOO ! Kiah, where now?” day when you will. He made great plans, we shall be burning green wood if we have his friends, tyrannical toward those beneath “ Oil for berries.” and let the fences rot down: and told what a fire at all. \\ e shan't, unless the town him, and fawning toward his superiors. “ Stop! I know something worth two ol he was going to do, when there was enou'di provides it.” God had endowed this young man with that. Leave your pails here, and go trout- to be done all the time. So we grew poor­ “ I airi t going to be a town pauper. great talents. Hence, in spite of his faults, ing with me. I know where there’s lots ol er and poorer, till the farm went, and then You may count on that. I'll show vou he became a power among men. lie wrote them, and I’m just going for trout. The he drinked himself to death, and I don't what I can do.” political pamphlets of such marked ability man up to Oak Grove House wants all he know as 'twas much matter. I wasn't anv 1 his was said very decidedly, but no that the leaders of public opinion paid can get, and I want money. I don't mean worse oft’. I couldn't be. There’s the allusion was made to the fortune expected court to him, and, after he became Dean of to let anybody else know a thing about it, widow Green, as chipper as can be, always from t routing. The boy grew less confi­ telling how much she has to be thankful for. St. Patricks, in Dublin, the Irish people but you may go shares with me. Meant to dent of his boasted success. He ate his though everybody knows she lost as good a adored him. Yet he wrote for reward, not go yesterday, but there was chores to do, meager breakfast in silence and then husband as woman ever had. Kiah's al­ from principle, and used his pen for those and I didn’t find my line till most noon. hurried from the table. His mother looked who paid him best. The Deanery of St. I hen twas all in knots, ami 'twas such aw­ ways busy. If he can't do one thing, he'll after him until she could no longer see him do another. He helps his mother; but 1 Patrick was given him as a reward for his ful hot weather, I thought I’d wait.” and then sat down with her face to the sendees. “ I can’t stop, for hot weather ripens the never had anybody to help me.'1 wall. Three excellent ladies loved this strange berries first-rate. Hope you'll make a pile “ But you used to have enough, mother. “ Good morning,” said a cheerful voice, man, but he so trifled with their feelings, o f m oney.” I've heard you say so.” and she turned to see Mrs. Green, who that two of them died with broken hearts; “ Hold on. Don’t you want money?” “ Yes, when we were married, your fa­ added quickly; “ I ve got more ironing to and the other was made unhappy for life. “ Yes, that’s what I work lor. I can ther had a good farm, but a man can let do to-day than I can get through with. Swift had a heart which was hard and cold I've got some fine starching, and I remem­ as a stone. lie cared only for himself. bered that, when you was a girl, vou could His life was a long misery. He lived beat us all starching. I came over to see nearly seventy-eight years. He was a ma­ if you'd help me to day.’’ niac during the latter years of his life. “ es and be. glad to," replied Mrs. The last sentence but one which he uttered Harris, “ 1 don't know but I've lost iuv was, “ I am a fool.” Ilis last words were skill, but 1 II do the best 1 can." addressed to his senant who was breaking “ Then come right over; I can't stop a a coal in the grate: “ That is a stone, you minute,” and away went the busy woman, blockhead!” said Swift. He never spoke followed soon by her less prosperous again. neighbor. “ I am a fool,’* was a fitting confession I lie door ol the old fashioned kitchen for such a man to make in his last hours. stood invitingly open. The windows were He began life foolishly by building up a so draped with vines that the heat of the bitter temper on a false foundation. That sun was excluded, while huge bouquets of temper became his tyrant, spoiled the lei ns and wild flowers made the room beauty of his character, and made him mis­ doubly attractive. Mrs. Harris glanced erable. Had he been a loving and grate­ around as she entered, and then sighed ful boy. his life would have been a blessing heavily. “ It's a warm morning, but it's pretty to himself and to the world. Let young *~“l. .”' Mrs. Green. readers learn from his sad example, to be­ “ Kiah was up early this morning to change ware of falsely judging their relatives and the water in all his pitchers. He always guardians, to keep bitter feeling out ol wants something green round the room.” their souls, anil to cherish love, truth and “ It looks nice, but we can't have any­ honor in them. thing. I’ve been hoping we could when Janies gets older, but I don't know. I'm Take Care of Your Habits. discouraged.’’ Horace B. Claflin, a prominent merchant “ A BIRD IN THE HAND WORTH TWO IN THE lU’SlI.” “ Take what comes now, neighbor. of New York, is as quaint and humorous sell my berries after they’re well-dried, if I things go to ruin easy, ami he can't help it, There's always something, and there's a as he is keen-witted and rich. They tell can't belore. I'm sure of them, and 1 when he spends his time smoking and drink­ good deal of comfort that don't cost a the following good story about him: ain’t sure of trout. Good luck to you.” ing. That’s what makes bad luck. I cent of money. It rests me to look at On the lo th of February, about five So saying, Kiah Green turned from the never expeeted to come to this; living in pictures and flowers. Ours are cheap o’clock, Clatlin was sitting alone in his boy who hail detained him, ami who now such a poor house. The miserablest fami­ ones, but they help Kiah and me too.’’ private office, when a young man, pale and made another effort to change his plans for ly in town always used to live here, and I “ Kiah's a good boy. I didn't know care-worn, timidly knocked and entered. the day. guess they do now. I wish you’d took up but he'd calculated on getting a fortune “ Mr. Clatlin,’’ said he, “ I have been “ Hold on a minute. ’Taint often a fel­ with Mr. Sawyer's oiler; you'd had your from the old uncle he was named lor. unable to meet certain payments because low has such a chance. You can make board and tome more. Now I don't know Some boys would, and not want to work as certain parties have not done as they more money going with me. than you can but we shall both starve unless I apply to he does.’’ agreed by me, and I would like to have picking berries a month. There don’t any­ the town.” “ He won't wait for that. It he did, he $10,000. I come to you because you body else know where them trout are, and “ It aint so bad as that, is it?” ex­ would be as foolish as the boy in the were a friend to my father, and might be after we've caught them, all we've got to do claimed Jim in an excited tone. “ I aint picture, who loses the bird in hand while a friend to me.” is to go to the Oak Grove House and sell to blame. I thought I could earn a good he’s trying to catch two in the bush. You “ Come in,” said Clatlin, “ come in and them.” And Jim Harris yawned lazily, as deal more than Mr. Sawyer offered, and 1 see they are just ready to fly, and leave have a glass of wine.” “ No,” said the he pushed back the tangled hair from his mean to now. You get breakfast, ami I'll him without any. I nch* Kiah sent that to young man, “ I don’t drink.” “ Have a forehead, half surprised that Kiah Green start right oil’. It I can get a good string my boy on his tenth birthday." cigar, then?” “ No—I never smoke.” failed to appreciate the magnanimity of his of trout, they'll bring some money.” “ And that was all.” “ Well,” said the joker, “ I would like to offer. “ Just my luck,” he muttered, after “ You ain't sure of the trout. You “ Yes, and we think a great deal ol it. accommodate you, but I don’t think I can.” being left alone. might pick berries. You’d be sure of them, Now here’s your part of the ironing in “ Very well,” said the young man, as he “ What's the matter now?” asked Jim's and Widow Green says, “ a bird in the this basket. There's a good fire in the was about to leave the room, “ I thought mother, a faded-out looking woman, who hand is worth two in the bush." back kitchen, and you'll find starch in the perhaps you might. Good day, Sir.” came to the kitchen door, and who seemed “ Kiah’s always saying that, but I never •upboard. I ain't going to do much for “ Hold on,” said Mr. Clatlin; “ you don’t too thoroughly discouraged to smile. thought, till now, what it means. His ber­ dinner. I've got most everything cooked, drink?” “No.” “Nor smoke, nor She had been watching Kiah and wishing ries are the bird in the hand, and my trout so we can iron right along.” gamble, nor anything of the kind?” “ No, Jim was like him, thinking how comfort­ arc the two in the bush. But perhaps 1 The morning passed quickly. Mrs. sir! lam superintendent of the ------Sun­ ably they could live, and how poorly they shall catch two. How soon can 1 have Harris had not forgotten her skill, as day School.” did live. breakfast ? ” glossy linen and dainty crimping testified. “ Well,” said Claflin, with tears in his “ Matter enough,” replied Jim fretfully, “ Any time. There ain't anything but At noon she rested for an hour, then re­ voice and his eyes, too, “ you shall have and then proceeded to state his grievances, corn cake and boiled potatoes and salt. If sumed work, and had just finished when it, and three times the amount, if you which simply amounted to the fact that we hail some berries, there'll be so much Kiah came in flushed and happy. wish. Your father let me have $5,000 another had refused to accede to his pro­ m ore.” “ Seen Jim ?” she asked after he had once, and asked me the same questions. posal. “ I can get something better than talked with his mother. No thanks—I owe it to you for your “ You luiv'n't anything to complain of,” berries.” Yes, ma'am.” father’s trust. said his mother. “ There don't anybody “ I hope you will. But I’d rather see it. Did he get any fish?” THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S COMRADE. [Dec., 1877.

“ Not one. He lost the bird in hand For Young People’s Comrade. th at?” She could not imagine, but when she in white, which means to tell no tales, yet it’s and didn't catch the two in the bush. The Latest Device of Santa Claus. arose and went to the wash stand she found it like her dainty self and the happy heart may on the top of the pitcher (yes, “ over the water,” either mine or hers. People can 1 >e very happy, There art4 lots of berries, and I can sell as JULIA COLMAN. T WAS the 18tli of December, and some of us she laughed.) a pretty paper ship with sails even though poor, if only the heart is right. many up to Oak Grove House as I can We have lost money bur we have not lost our had our minds full of knotty Christmas spread, and in the little hull were two little pick. It’s a long tramp up there, but it slips of paper, curiously folded to till it up. happy hearts;” and her thoughts ran ott’ in a Lproblems; how to make a little go a good won’t hurt me. I’m going again to­ ways, how to make presents acceptable and yet She opened them and found printed out in | glad reverie. At last she starteil up thinking, m orrow .’’ have them cost little or nothing. It was hard capitals in child’s hand — “ I cannot spend all the morning thus; what “ So am I. if you’ll let me.” rejoined Jim, work for us. I LOVE YOU, MAMMA. time is it ?” O h! there it was! her faithful time-piece hung in a dainty slipper of a watch who now appeared at the door. “ I’ve got We sat down to breakfast, a little absent 1 LOVE YOU, PAPA. case—“ of course,” she said, “ watch and done with my old ways, mother and I ain’t minded, I fear, but just as grace was finished That was the load of love, a simple thing, but slipper were catch words enough, ifl had ot going to call on the town for something to there came a long bright my of sunshine more precious to her than gold and jewelry, j “ Hard times can’t take away love,” she mur- j been stupid.” eat while I beat the bush for birds. streaming into the breakfast room, and right across the table, brightening up everything, so mured, and the tears came to her eyes, but I haven’t room to tell you half the doings of There’s berries and there’s trout, but 1 that we exchanged delighted glances, and they were such tears ns soon disappear and leave that pleasant day, nor of half the presents didn’t get the trout. I always thought, if 1 Herman exclaimed, “ That’s a prophecy of light a happy face behind them. made almost without money—of the sled and was in your place. Kiali. I should be ex act­ ahead ’. ’’ You may .well Itelieve that was the busiest the Itat and the ball and the inuffiers and the ing a pile of money from that old uncle.” “ Let us hope so,” said his papa, “ but what’s house in Squirrel Glen that morning, full of mittens which the boys and girls had made for some boys and girls poorer than themselves and “ And it 1 did I should be likely to get this?” and we all looked. Right there under mystery, fun and frolic. If Santa Claus was not there, his spirit was. and it seemed to the pleasant walk they had before dinner to disappointed. Any way, I’m not going his plate, as he turnedjit over, was a’hnge red envelope almost big enough for a napkin. possess the very house. Notes of all shades bestow them, norof the “ squirrel’s nest in the to starve till Uncle Kiali gets ready to feed “ Oh, oh, what is it ? ” echoed two or three little and colors were put under breakfast plates, . wood house" turning out to be a hag of nuts me. I’ll take the binl in hand, and work voices, while the other young people looked j and pinned up on door posts, or stuck in the which Santa Claus badehim that found the best I can.” their questions. looking glass, some with envelopes and some i “ Xot in selfishness to vat, “ So will I,” responded Jim, bringing “ Past Thanksgiving and too soon for Christ­ without and some merely little slips of paper, j But give them all to crown the feast.” his hand down heavily upon the table. mas,” continued papa, opening the envelope, i evidently penned on the spur of the moment, This meant that they were to save them for as if Santa Claus had just thought of something “ I’ve been thinking it all over to-day, and t we’ll tind out what’s in it,” and he j the dessert at dinner, according to a good old glanced over the red sheet he took out, “ Well | else and scrawled it down at once. There was rule in the family, that all dainties were to be 1 don't see why, if a boy lets liquor and it’s not for me after all, only that I ’m to read it j a inysten- in the different colors of the notes; kept until meal time and shared with the rest tobacco alone, he can’t get a good living. to you I suppose. It purports to be a letter and each one knew his own, but he did of the family, thus doing away both with H e can earti something, or save something from Santa Claus, so listen,” and he read as not know to whom the other* ltelonged. Sister greediness and with eating between meals. every day.” follows: Mabel had managed that. Oh, yes, and there was papa's pad of beautiful “ Yes he can, if it isn’t any m ore than a Christmas P alace, Dee. 17tli, 1S76. But the greatest fun was to see how each one paper, which he never found until he went to To all the good boys and girls in Squirrel Glen. after reading a note would go oft" peering into bed, although he was bill “ to make a pillow ot basket of kindlings, and they're convenient D ear Ch il d r e n : I am not coining around all sorts of odd places, and then look at his note it to keep his thoughts in, so that they need things to have a cold winter morning. If to see you next Christmas, so you need not hang up your stockings. Like all the rest ot again with a puzzled air, and sometimes there not keep him awake.” And Sammy, who wrote you dou’t believe it. try it. As for the you, I feel the hard times and so I propose to were whispered consultations, especially with it,had supposed he would go direct to his pillow liquor and tobacco—I don’t see how any save traveling expenses and let the postman and mamma and Aunt Rose, and though the latter the expressman do some of it for me. Yes, it and look. In the afternoon the Dowells all boy who wants to be clean and decent can does cost me something for traveling expenses, did not seem to help them in the least, but she went to the Sunday school Christmas celebra­ think ol them without scowling. Jim, let’s if I do keep my own team. The country is enjoyed it ever so much. tion, outwardly to thank God for his great getting to be so large and there are so many At the breakfast table, each of the three Intys Christmas girt to us all, even his dear Son, take a pledge against them." good boys and girls to visit. But you’ll not had found a bine note under his plate. Bertie’s through whom alone all real happiness is “ Agreed,” was answered heartily, and mind, so long as I send something to" every one of you, and I think I ran manage it,for I have a told him that he could tind §10, if he would go possible. vears after, when the two friends met in good many bright young folks to help me, and out to walk. Sammy learned from his that In the evening, at the Christmas games in active business life, James Harris, Esq., I’ll send you all letters to tell you where you there was a piece of silver for him in the book can tind your gift*. If you all fall in with"the their own parlor, each one wore a paper rose in referred to that summer day as the turning notion you’ll have the pleasantest Christinas case, and Herman was informed that by looking hair or buttonhole of the shade he or she had point in a life which proved eminently you ever spent. So witti merriest wishes, I am in high places he might secure ten cents. used for notes during the day, so that all could still your old friend, S anta Claus. successful. They all had their thoughts about the matter tell whence their gifts had come. But no one The boys and girls around the table looked and some of them were spoken out and some If tempted to forget the present in ex#, wore white, at which several were disappointed. wens not. Herman nionglit It strange that “ W hite tells no tales,” Mattel replied, when u c o a g a u i anticipations of the future, an Sue broke out dolorously, “ Oh dear • So old anybody should make presents of money in questioned. illuminated motto reminded him that “ a Santa Claus feels the hard times! ” that way, unless to very poor people, and then At the last they voted a hearty approval of binl in the hand is worth two in the bush.” Then we all burst out laughing and the talk it was so queerly distributed. Little Bertie, this latest device of Santa Clans and hoped he went on. After some vague wondering whether only five years old, to get §10 and himself, would l>e “ lioth as wise and as wittv next Find a Way, or Make It. the letters would come through the post office almost sixteen, to get only ten cents! BY MARY E. LAMBERT. and the parcels lie found at the expressman’s, Sammy found his first, though he looked into Lucy brought us all back to our senses by Ambition sleeps, lad. In your brain, all the drawers and took down all the books The Man and the Still. Bright hopes may soon awake it— saying simply, “ I do not see how we are all and put them back again before be noticed that I remember the time when those that were able, You.aee the goal, but ne’er a path, going to get on without the stockings.” there was a pretty new book among them called Had whiskey to drink, and it stood on the table; Then tind a way, or make it. “ That’s so,” said Herman, who was thinking “ A Piece of Silver,” and that his own name They would say “ Help yourself,’’ and the glasses about some nuts he had stored up for Sammy. To get the cocoanut’s rich meat, j was in it. When he found that it was a tein- would ring, The shell is hard—you break it; Sammy opened his mouth to speak and then ■ perance book, he was sure that it came from As they stirred up the black-strap and rye-whiskey The fragrant leaf its odor holds closed it again in silence, fearing he should ! Aunt Rose, for she was one of the Christian sling. Until you bruise or shake it. betray his long cherished secret. ' Temperanee women and had a good deal to do It was bought at the house that stood on the hili, “ I imagine,” said Aunt Rose, who lunl been An old stone house, and they called it “ The Still." Untrodden is the path you choose— ! with books. You may be wise to take it; watching all this with much amusement, •• that j Immediately the other two boys supposed Santa Claus is getting wise in his old age. I have seen an old man, as lie begged on the street, But look ahead, all danger see, ! that theirs were Itooks also, and Herman went His clothing was rags, with no shoes on his feet, And then you may escape it. Heretofore he has just stuffed your gifts into • mound looking on high shelves and on the tops His friends were all gone, he had nowhere to go, your stockings, as if you were all 1 tallies, and I of closets, though he was careful not to disturl It was brandy and whiskey that brought him so low; A mountain, far too steep to climb; now it seems he is going to write you letters He had been to the house that stood on the hill, Well, then, don’t try and do it. , things that belonged to others, Iiecause ol about them ; nothing very elaborate, I presume, Where drunkards were made, and they called it You may be able to go round, ! course they would not expect him to do so. " The Still.’’ Or patiently dig through it. if he is going to have boys and giris to do it. • Then it occurred to him that he ought to search Perhaps he wants some of you to help him ; who his own room first, but on his way thither in A fence, you say, but ne’er a gate .’ knows ? ” i bowed with ye What can you do ? you wonder. the upper hall, on the top of the step ladder The hint was sufficient. In the days that Just scale the wall; mount, if you can, leading up to the roof, he saw a package direct­ shivering with cold, aud had rags on hei And if you can’t, crawl under. followed there were a great many private con­ ed to him—well it teas in a “ high place,” the sultations with Aunt Rose, and toward the last highest in the house. How easy all the: Your way Is muddy ? Wait a wldle— the young folks surprised each other peering problems worked when solved. He opened a ade, and they called ij Let winds and sunshine dry it. about in out of the way places, and yet trying Still, wait uot for another rain, handsome temperance book by Miss Chclli to look very innocent. To see some comrade try it. called “ Ten Cents.” lie had read some of her I have seen a young man, in the vigor of youth, Early Christmas morning there was a bustling books before, so he expected a treat. And Who fell from the summit of honor and truth; A river deep, you caunot swim ? He was caught in a snare, there was no one to save, about and before mamma was up, she heard a now for Bertie’s §10. If that were a book out And in Alcohol’s chains he was henceforth a slave. Xo steamer there, you know it ? a little knock at her door, and Bertie, the pet He had been to the house that stood on the hili. Well, if there is no other way, of doors in the snow, it might get wet, so they Where drunkards were made, and they called it of the household, begged permission tocoine in. Build your own boat and row it. all proposed to go and look for it together. “ The still.” “ I he ’spress man has come for you, mamma, And when they took down their caps, out fell Nay, lad, we know the way is hard— I met a poor child who was crying for bread. first thing, and here’s the letter,” and he felt from Bertie’s gaily printed envelope containing She told me her father aud mother were dead Down hill and up steep mountain; around in the dark to put it into her hand. Of §10, in “ toy money,” cut out off stiff paper, Drunk at home and what could she do, And oft you’ll drink from muddy stream, course he got a hug and a kiss and then he For something to eat, and the poor baby I For want of some clear fountain. with which Bertie could “ play store.” Her­ went to get a light so that his mamma could man concluded he preferred his •• Ten Cent Go down, and you’ll have many a kick; read the letter, thongh he took good rare not to “ The Still.” Go up, and some will push vou; After enjoying the sport for a while, Aunt stay to see her read it, and it was not till some­ I remembered the man who owned the “ old Still.” But wiu your wav and praise will come Rose went to her room and on the door « And made widows aud orphans liis pockets to fill; From those who tried to crush you. time after that he remembered that he had not note, in white, which read thus:— Ilis money and land, all, all had to go wished her a “ Merry Christmas.” To nay on the debts—aud lie was brought low; False praise is but a phosphorous gleam— “ If Aunt Rose will watch particularly when For fame we oft mistake i t ; ! And she turned to get the light on that And so was the house that stood on the hill, Still, for a while it lights our wav, she goes to her room she may hear the tapping They both fell together—the man and “ The Still.” Until we overtake it. ' precious pink note and opening it she read thus : of a little slipper, Itcating time to the music of a happy heart. Santa C laus. Its i the Bible, plainly, “ Wo : be D ear M amma and P apa : There is for vou Don’t hide your talent through a fear. Unto himl tthat makes drunken,” o causeth to he. But bravely go and stake it. a ship load of love coining in full sail over the When in her room she listened but heard Let all of the sober ones united be, W ear out, don’t rust—to reach your goal, water. Santa Claus. nothing, she queried the note again. “ That’i And help the poor drunkard to make himself fret Lad, find a way, or make it. Let those that sell whiskey by the pint or the gill, “ Over the water” sherepeated, “ Where’s my niece Mabel’s hand writing, and though it’s Beware! and remember the man and " The Still.” Dec., 1877.] THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S COMRADE.

these gifts—they are for those who do the most 48 Any Book of the value of work for us, up to a given point. The number of 49 Air Pistol, with Darts and Target, names that will secure any of these gifts cannot, of 5 0 Globe Microscope, magnifies 10,000 course, be kuown till the 20,000 names are received AN ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY times, 51 Five-bladed Pocket Knife (Meriden and it is seen, what each worker for the COMK ade Cutlerv Co.), has accomplished. For All Our Young Folks. 52 Square Magic Peneil (Ludden & Tay- The extra Premium Gifts will be awarded when lor). 53 Four inch Terrestial Globe (E. 20,u00 names shall have been received, bnt not The Comrade will be especially designed for Steiger). before April 1, 1877, at which time, should more 1 young masti r- and misses in school Ufc and just be- 54 Misses' or Ladles’ Breast Pin, best , voiid, while the younger ones will not be neglected than that number have been received, the number gold plate, 10 and value of the Gifts will be proportionally in- hi Its pages. It will bring entertainment and in- 55 Excelsior Microscope (Bausch & OUR YOUNG CRUSADER) : struct ion i f-periallv for those who are just beginning Louih). 11 creased, and they will be awarded and the names of to feel that the world i- all before them where to 56 Sewell’s Stationery < nsket, fitted up I choose, and its aim will be to help them to choose the 25 fortunate subscribers published. with paper, envelppes. pens, «te., 10 Any person or organization that is a sruacKiBER i wisely. One of the great lessons it will keep eon- 5 7 XcPlus I ltra Pocket Knife (Meriden j stantlv in view will he iheiutluence of Intemperance Cutlery Co.), 14 to the Comrade, may compete for these Gifts, but r worthy of desire, ave 58 Six-inch Terrestial Globe (E. Steiger' 14 wen* person competing will take notice that he H you ever heard oi the great cru­ . . n, .lay life how of. 5 9 Ladies Case • f Scissors, 3 pairs, jj. must subscribe himself, as well as obtain subscribers, sade? the crusade the dear women made l the din and discord of this evil mingle with and (Meriden Cutlery Co.). ovvqmwer all the music of life. The Comr ade will 00 Ladies' . r Misses’ Se’t of Jewelry, beat in order to be included in the offer. help its readers to become good and reliable mem­ against the nun shops, and how many of gold plate, 15 The First Grand Gift will be presented te the bers of society, by guarding them especially against 01 Tortoise Shell Earrings (to match the rum-sellers gave up their had business this vice which does more titan all other causes to Ns. 63), j- Subscriber who sends the largest number of imines, destroy such. Therefore it will inculcate TEM PER- 02 Gold Pen X Pencil, telescopic case in accordance with the above conditions; the second and shut up their rum shops because the ANCL by every genial and effective method, and (Ludden & Tavior, Gift to the person sending l he next largest number, while the paper will by no means be all about tem­ 03 Tortoise Shell Brotk-h (choice of style), women prayed and wept over them and perance, what is devoted to that topic will be so 6 4 Tortoise Shell Sleeve Buttons (oval), “4' and so on through the list of 25 Gifts. fresh and racy and effective that its young readers showed them the wrong they were doing? 6 5 Gents’ Tortoise Shell Chain, .tJ LIST OF PRESENTS. will find the subject of greater interest than ever he­ 66 Queen's Household Microscope. i sure you have, and you know how 6 7 Set of Jewelry verv best gold plate, 27 1. F IR S T G RA N D G I FT, the choice of Our first volu ft ill i 68 Undies Tortoi’se Shell Necklace, 35 either J. Estey & Co.'s “ Chapel O r- earnestly these dear good women an* now 69 Pair new style strap Skates, 7 t a n . ” 8 stops, or their Niue Stop it work for temperance. will have for its main attraction the investigations 70 Pair New Yoik Club Skates. “Gem of the Parlor” organ, ami experiences of a party of young naturalists and I 71 Child's Cup. best triple-plate, 19 each $240 00 their marvelous adventures in pursuit of this be- • tint the first great crusade happened in 72 Set Table Croquet No. 5, (E. 1. 2. SECOND GR AND G IFT, Four Oc- witching branch of knowledge. We shall have short Horsinan), 12 tave Estey C o ttag e O rg a n , four Surope, some centuries ago, ami 1 am stories by various favorite writers and pleasant little i 73 Table Croquet No. 6, better style, (K. stops, M 00 sketches of the early lives or notable doings of men 1. Horsinan), 13 3. THIRD GRAND GIFT—choice of trry to say it did not-have so worthy an and women of whom vou have heard or whose books 1 74 Combination Ten Pin Alley (E. 1. W ilso n Sewing Machine. No. 6, you have read. There will be a -Maiden’s Boudoir,” I hjeet. A man called Peter the Hermit Horsinan), 74 with cover, or Elegant Triple-plate T ea In which the editor will talk with tin- older girls , 7 5 New Game i f “ Pitch-a-lUng,” No. 1, 14 Set of 6 pieces, each 50 00 rent all through the countries then*, urging about many entertaining and useful things: a corner ! 76 Set of Field Croquet (D. B. Brooks 4. F o u rth G ift—Elegant Silver plated Ice for “ Our Little People.” in which there will b e 1 10 I people to go to dcnisaleiu and rescue charming little stories.talks and verses for our uonna- I 7 7 Selected Bock Maple (D. B. Brooks 5. F ifth G ift—Choice of one dozen best est folks; a “ Young Crusader.” who asks all the i X Co.), 74 i triple-plate T ea Spoons, or one dozen at city from the Turk*, who then held young folks to write to him and help him “ fight tin- 78 Set of •• Le Cerele," polished maple T able Forks, each t in tludr possession. He said it was the good fight;” Washington correspondence, which (D. B. Brooks X Co.), 30 6. Sixth Gift—Choice of Revolving Bi t - will tell us of life m the capital: a “ Puzzler’s 79 Crandall's Heavy Artillery, 73 ter Cooler, New Climax Clothes where Christ lived and died and Drawer." in which many hard nuts will In- cracked, 80 Centennial Bracket Saw. wooden W ringer, or $8 worth or Books, and a Musical Department, in which a fresh sone or frame. (Shipman X Binder), 74 i each Christians were very wicked to have it in other piece of music will be printed everv month. 81 Centennial Bracket Saw, iron frame, 7. Seventh Gift—Choice of Queen’s Besides these, there will be editorials, p.Jetry and the hands of “ infidels.’* as the Turks were (Shipman X Binder), 77 Household Microscope, o r6 Spoons plenty of new things coming along all the time. 82 Turning Lathe (Shipman X Binder), 9 or Forks, or T ortoise Shell called. So thousands and thousands of Of course no reader of the Comrade will wish to 83 Knife. Fork X Spoon, in ease, 76 Brooch, each keep these good things all to himself, but will show 84 Boy’- Wagon, 26 inch body, (C. W. 8. E ig h th i.ift—Choice of Gold P en and men got together a great artn\ and inarched the paper- to Ats comrade-, tell them all about it and 20 : P encil in Tebscope Case, Centenni. procure for it a monthly welcome in a- many homes al Bracket Saw, or Set or Lawn Palestine and fought, but it did not as possible, by seeking’to add new names to’its sub­ 24 Croquet, each nount to much. They did not manage to scription list. To stimulate onr readers to such ef­ 9 . Ninth Gift—Choice cf Square Magic forts in our behalf, we otier the following splendid (C. W. F. Dare), 79 P encil, or Set of L awn or I arle ep the Holy City ami a great many of List of Premiums for obtaining subscribers to the 87 Girl's Sleigh, upholstered bodv, (C. Croquet, each W. F. Dare'. 24 10. Tenth to Thirteenth Gifts—Each i died by the way. It would have 88 Three-wheeled Velocipede (C. W. to one G lobe Microscope, $2.50 i a great deal better il they had all TABLE OF PREMIUMS. F. Dar 30 13. each 89 l’at •led Two-Seat Pro- 14. Fourteenth to Seventeeth Gifts— abb- is given the name and price j 40 to Each gift, choice of Lady’s or Gen- »d together to do some good at home. ir Premium List, with the nuin- peller. (C. W. F. Dare), 90 Magic Lantern, 28 17. tlemcn’s four-bladed 1'OCKET KNIFE, required to get it. at the single I 33 each $2 00 But a very curious thing was that the sing for premiums give everv j 91 Kuby Printing Office. jldren took it into their heads that the). subscriber tin- choh 92 Caxt'on Press. seif-iuking. 38 4 .9 - the |iaper our pr. § 4 One doz' Tea-spoons (Lucius Hart 2 1. Microscope, each $1.50, Friends,” or to ,my The must go. And they got together, Mfg. Co.). 22. Twenty-second to Twenty»flfth ne premium lor obtaining ’ to G ifts—Each gift choice of triple- thousands of them, ami marched oil' subscribers in cither case. 95 Revolving Butter Dish, (Lucius Hart Mfg. Co.), 25. plated N apkin Ring, or Gorham's ard the Holy Land, but they almost all very premium article is new and of the 5 96 Elegant Caster es, etc. 103 Eleg-ant Tea Set. 6 pieces (Lucius 5 Si l of 12 Motto Cards. 4 ,x2 . in.. Hart Mfg. »•). O U R U N IO N . And you can begin at home, for lie 6 Box of Stationery (Morgan Enveloja* Co,) Organ of the Woman's National and ;fights for the right must first be right 7 Combination Pen-Holder. 106 Victor Sewing Machine, No S Illuminated Floral Cross. 11x14. 107 Four Octave Estey Organ. 90 00 1 » International Christian Temper­ elf. Our fight will not be with I 9 Crayon Lithograph. 22x28 inches 108 Five Octave Estey Organ, 175 00 J and spear, but with argument and ’ (choice of six subjects'. 109 Estev - Chapel Organ,” new 240 00 4 ance Unions. 10 Choice of Games. “ Authors Im­ 1 10 A $10 Library, choice. 10 00 non sense. So you see Our Y oung proved.” “ American History ” 111 A $20 Library, choice, 20 00 T he T emperance Woman’s own P aper, pub­ or “ Kobin*on Crusoe,” 112 A $30 Library, choice, 30 00 lished and managed by a Committee appointed by >ader has laid aside his sword for pen and 113 A $50 Library, choice. 50 00 1 the Christian Temperance Union, and devoted, in : 11 Box of Jack Straws. , God’s name and strength, to the work of helping to He thinks the “ right makes might ” , 12 Anv Book on our list of value of 13 Dissected Map of U. S.. : make the Home pure and good, the Life noble and so he means to find out what the 14 Box of Decaleomanic (J. L. Patten I strong, the Land free from all iniquity. Edited by X Co.), is. He knows that if the boys 15 Napkin King, best triple plate, I girls never begin to drink, then 16 Dover Egg Beater. Each number will contain carefully prepared Tem­ 17 Any Book of value of FOR OUR FIRST SERIES OF perance Lessons, which will be an invaluable aid to i will be no more drunkenness, and that 18 Truntph Linen Marker and Card Teacher* nnd Parents in their instruction of the Printer, of the best ways in which they can J 19 Box of Wax Flower Materials and young. This department is under the editorial charge of Miss J ulia Colman. (this great crusade. He looks inst 1 00 20,000 Subscribers. 20 Pocket Tool Holder and tools (Mill An Engraving of some prominent temperance Fall.- Co.), worker, with Biographical Sketch written by F ran­ rst to find out what the boys and ces E. W illa r d , will be presented each month. (n on. Is it mostly wine, or lager, 21 Set of Caning Tools Millers Falls C o). 1 Oo TERMS :—1 Copy, one year, $0.60; 10 Copies, one 22 Moore's Floral Set (Moore Mfg. Co.), 1 00 $ 4 6 4 . 0 0 year. $5.00; W Copies, one year, $9.00. He thinks it’s cider; what do you 23 Anv Book of value of 1 00 24 Abbott’s Pocket Microscope, 1 50 Any one obtaining ten subscriptions will please lout it? Will not you boys and 25 Abbott’s Gem Microscope, 1 50 IN VALUABLE and USEFUL PRESENTS send us five dollars, retaining one dollar for time 26 Bracket Saw, with 50 designs, etc.. 1 25 spent in canvassing. Anyone obtaining twenty sub­ | Our Young Crusader on what the 27 Three Bladed Pocket Knife (Meriden Given Away Outright for the scriptions will please send nine dollars, retaining Cutlery Co.), three dollars. gin to drink in the part of the 28 Bell Head’ Magic Pencil (Ludden X 43* Sample Copies sent free. 1 50 25 Largest Lists of Names Address. MARY T. BURT. Publisher. -where you live, and the drink that Taylor). Cor. Fulton St. and Gallatin Place, Brooklyn. N. Y. 29 Ladies’ Magic Charm Pencil (Ludden ller rived up

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The beginning of an era. girls, from Maine to California, with whom for ten sions rather than for the inducements offered in our all who are interested in puzzles. J ia 1 years we held intercourse through the columns of Premium List. We do not give exefustreright to can­ ANSWERS NEXT MONTH. « th e ” Youth's Temperance Visitor," and the enlarged vass, because we can not shut out anywhere those ------outgrowth of that paper, the “ Young People's who choose to work for our premiums, but we do Helper." We wish that through the initial number give exclusive right to the extent that we will author­ Notices of Publications of the Comrade we could find ail those boys and ize no other person to work in any agent’s territory I “ Good T imes.”—Thia is a new inagnz girls again. But bold! the children of fifteen years under the Agency System, which will offer special we are glad to welcome for the sake of ji. ago are children no longer, but are in the midst of advantages. Full particulars furnished free to all people. It is sure to please them. It is fill the activities of life, and even the boys and girls who wish to work under this plan. j original exercises for the day school, Sunda* from whom we parted company six years ago are j Missionary and Temperance entertainmei Clubbing with O th e r P u b lic a tio n s .—Now is now, many of them, young men and women. But | logucs, colloquies, addresses, songs and tai the time when people will be renewing their sub­ whether they arc still young enough to desire the i great variety, and in excellent taste. It ja ■ Comrade for their own special reading, or whether scriptions for the various newspapers and magazines | Mrs. M. B. C. Slade and published by T and deciding what they will take next year. Such tln\v now have children of their own for whom they ncll, lf» Hawley street, Boston, Mass. n will save money by sending their subscriptions and will take pleasure in procuring it, we hope to per year; single copies 15 cents. renewals to us. We will send both the Comrade, find among these readers of our former paper “ Ocr Coffee Room.—This is a chai with Premium Chromo, and any $4 magazine or pa­ hundreds (|>erhaps thousands) of our most earn­ reads like a story full of interest ami p:^,'n per, for the price of the latter alone. We can do the est supporters in the present enterprise. Ami indeed a story of faith work for the po< . same in case of some publications of less price, and so, to all these old friends to whom the present drinker, an English story not in all respont number of the Comrade shall come, we extend a in all coses we can send the Comrade with any to our coffee room work, but full of valij -I j other publication for much less than the price of both. cordial hand and send a hearty greeting. Double Acrostic. It was brought from England by Mrs- Mari