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BUSIXU8S OAltD-S.
Bowen & Strickland,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Real Estate,
City Lots and Claims bought and sold.
Purchasers will do well to call at our office
and examine our list of City Lots, &c. before
urchasinp elsewhere. Oifice In Cook's new
uilding, corner of Fifth and Main streets.
L. L. Bowen. '
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT
LAW, Bellcvue, N. T. 1-tf
S.A.Strickland,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT
I'AW,JBeHevjH,N. T. 1-tf
C. T. Ilolloway,
A-TTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT
. LAW, ilellevue, N. T. , 1-tf
. W. IL Cook.
GENERAL LAND AND REAL ESTATE
AOENT, ISellevue City, Nebraska. 1-tf
T"" " B. P. Rankin, '
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT
LAW, La PI itte, N. T. 1-tf
S. W. Cozzens,
ATTORNEY AT LAW and General Land
AGENT, Omaha city, N. T. Office in
Henry k Root's new lirick Block, Farnham
street. no 16-6m.
John W. Pattison. '
N
OTARY PUBLIC AND REAL ESTATE
AGENT, Foutenelle, N. T. 1-tf
James S. Izard St Co.
AND AGENTS, Omaha, Douglas County,
Nebraska Territory. 1-tf
Dra. Malcomb St Peck,
OMAHA CITY. Office1 on Harney street,
opposite the Post Office. Particular at
tention (riven to Surgery.
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' P. E. Shannon, '
REAL ESTATE AGENCY, Cerro Gordo
Post Office, St. Mary, Mills Co., Iowa. 2
P.E.Shannon, f
COMMISSION & FORWARDING MER
CHANT, St. Mary's Landing Mills Co.,
Jowa. . . 2-ti
Peter A. Sarpy, .
I FORWARDING k COMMISSION MER.
: CHANT, Bellevue, N. T., Wholesale
Dealer in Indian Goods, Horses, Mules, and
'Cattle. tf
' ' D. J. Sullivan. M. p.. v
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Office
Head of Broadway, Council Bluffs, Iowa,
nov. 13 1-tf.
T. B. CUMING.
JOHN C. TOBK.
Cumins & Turk,
Attorneys at Law and Real Eslult Agents.
OMAHA CITY, N. T.,
WILL attend faithfully and promptly to
all business entrusted to them, iu the
'Territorial or Iowa courts, to the purchase of
u aim mnus, entries and pre-emptions, col
lections, fce. -
lemons, at.
Office in the second etory of Henry It '.
new fcuildine, nearly opposite the Wi
i Kxjhanpe Bank, Farnham street.
. Roots
i estern
. ; rapers in the Territory, Council Bluff's Bu
fle, and Keokuk Times, please opy and
eharps-Kebraskian office. . , ,
Job Printing.
NEATLY iP.d expeditiously eieeutsd, on
(tasoBiblt terms, at this Offiee.
BELLEVUE,
iiL'sir.s8 CAitns.
D. II. Solomon,
ATTORNEY and COUNSELLOR AT
LAW, Glenwnod, Mills Co., Iowa, prac
tices in all the Courts of western Iowa and
Nebraska, and the Supreme Court of Iowa.
Land Agency not in the Programme, no 4-tf
C. T.
HOLI.OWT. C. D. KLI.B
Holloway & Keller,
GENERAL LAND AGENTS, Bellevue
city, N. T., will promptly attend to the
collecting and investing money, locating Land
Warrants, buying and selling city lots, tc
Office at the Bellevue House.
Gustar Soeger,
TOPOGRAPHIC AND CIVIL ENGI
NEER. Executes Drawing and Paintinr
of every style and description. Also, all
business In his line. Office on Gregory street,
St. Mary, Mills county, Iowa. 1-tf
Greene, Wearo & Benton,
BANKERS AND LAW AGENTS, Council
Bliills, Potowattainie comity, Iowa.
Greene k Weare, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. .
Greene, Weaie k. Rice, Fort Des Moines, la.
Collections made j Taxes paid and Lands
purchased and sold, in any part of Iowa. 1-tf
' W. W. Harvey,
COUNTY SURVEYOR OK SARPY CO.,
will attend to all business of Surveying,
laying out and dividing lands, surveying and
platting towns and roads. Office on Main
street, Bellevue, N. T. 2H-tf
GEO. SNYDEB.
JOHN H. SHERMAN.
Snyder St Sherman,
A TTORNEYS and COUNSELLORS AT
J- LAW, and NOTARIES PUBLIC, Coun
cil Bluff's, Iowa, will practice their profeesion
In all the Courts of Iowa and Nebraska. .
' All collections entrusted to their care, at
tended to promptly.
i Especial attention given to buying and sell
Inc real estate, and making pre-emptions in
Nebraska.
Deeds, Mortages, and other instruments of
writing drawn with dispatch j acknowledg
ments taken, &c, &c.
fiV Olfice west nids of Madison street,
just above Broadway.
nov 13 1-tf.
WM. R. SMITH. J. H. SMITH
Smith & Brother,
ATTORNEYS k. COUNSELLORS at LAW
and Dealers iu Real Estate, Bellevue,
Nebraska Territory, will attend faithfully and
promptly to buying and selling Real Estate,
Citv Lots. Claims, and Land Warrants. Office
at the Benton House. 21-fim
j. it imoiv.v,
ATTOUXEY AM) ( OlMELOU AT LAW
GENERAL LAND AGENT,
AND NOTARY PUBLIC,
. Plaitsinovlh, Cos Co. A. T.
ATTENDS to business In any of the Courts
of this Territory. Particular attention paid
to obtaining and locating Land Warrants, col
lection of debts, nne taxes paid. Letters of
inquiry relative to any parts of the Territory
answered, it accompanied with a fee.
REFERENCES:
Hon. Lyman Trumbull, U. S. S. from Ills.;
Hon. James Knox, M. C. " "
Hon. O. H. Browning, Quincy, "
Hon. James W. Grimes, Governor of Iowa,
Hon. H. P. BeHiiett, Del to C. from N. T.
. Green, Weare k, Benton, Council Bluffs, I.
Nuckolls t Co., Glcnwood, Iowa. L23tf
Ira A. W. Buck,
J" AND and General Agent. Pre-F.mptlon
.J Papers prepared, Land Warrants bought
and sold. Office in the Old State House, over
the U. S. Land Office.
REFER TO
Hon. A, R. Gillmore, Receiver, Omaha,
Hon. Knos Lowe, "
Hon. R. A. Strickland, Bellevue.
Hon. John Finney, "
Hon. J. Sterling Morton, Nebraska Ci'v.
Omaha, Jnne 20, 1X57. 35 x
11. T. CLA'nKE.
A. M. CLARKE.
CLARKE & BRO
1 1.
FORWARDING akd COMMISSION
MERCHANTS.
3TEMBOAT AND COLLECTING
AOCNTN, . .
BELLEVUE, NEBRASKA.
Dealen inP'ne Lumber, Doors, Sash,
Flour, Meal, Bacon, &c, &c.
CV Direct Goods care Clarke & llro.
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FOM'CXELLE BAK OF EFLLLVIF.
Ilellevu, Xebraitka. . , ,
IS prepared to transact the general busintss
of Banking, will receive deposits, Discount
short paper, buy Bills of Exchange, on all
parts of the Country, and sell on tit. Iouis,
Chicago and New York; make collections in
the vicinity' and remit for the same at Current
rates of Exchange.
237 Interest allowed on special Deposits.
JOHN WKARE, President.
Tuos. H. Benton, V. Pres.
John J. Town, Cashier. . 1-tf
Banking Hours From 9 to 12, A. M., and
1 to 3, P, M.
W. II. Longsdorf, M. D.,
PHYSlCfAN AND SCRGF.O.V. Office on
Main, between Twenty-Fifth audTwenty
Sixth streets, BeUevus City. 33tf -
THOS. MACON. ACtt. MACON.
Macon & Brother,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW t L AND ACTS.,
Omaha City, Nebraska. Office on cor
ner of Faruham and Fourteenth Streets. 4itf
50
Sacks G.
sold, by
A. Ealt in Store and mnst be
CLARKE k, BRO.
i;31tf.
BOOTS and SHOES Twenty cases U
Boots and Shoes, all sizes, at ths
BELLEVUE STORE.
NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1857.
P. A. SARPY.
FORWARDING & COMMISSION
MKRCItANT,
Still continues the above business at
ST. MARYS, IOWA, it BELLEVUE,
N. T.
Merchants and Emigrants will find their
goods promptly and can-fully attended to,
P. S. I have the only WAREHOUSE for
storage at the above lia mod landings.
St. Marys, Feb. 20ih,18D7. 21-tM
Tootle & Greene,
WHOLESALE & RETAIL DEALERS,
Glenwnod, Iowa. We beg leave to
call the attention of the Good People of Mills,
Pottawattamie, Montgomery and Cass conn
ties, Iowa; ulso, Douglas and Cass counties,
Nobraska, to our larire and late supply of every
kind of MERCHANDISE, usually kept In
Western Iowa. Our stock of Groceries is
large and complete, having been bought and
shipped a little lower than our neighbors.
Our stock of Hardware, Qiiernsware, Wood
enware, Hoots and Shoes, Hats and Caps and
Ready-Made Clothlng,hnveall been purchased
in the Eastern cities, at the lowest cash prices.
Give us a call before you purchase, and if
we do not sell you cheap goods, we will make
our neighbors do so.
Remember the cheapest house In town.
TOOTLE t GREENE.
Glenwood, Iowa, Oct. 23, 1850. 1-tf
Tootle St Jackson,
I FORWARDING k. COMMISSION MER
. CHANTS, Council Bluff's city, Iowa.
Having a Large and Commodious Warehouse
on the Levee at the Council Bluffs landing,
are now prepared to receive and store, all
kinds of merchandise and produce, will receive
and pay charges on all kinds of freigths so
that Steam Boats will not be detained as they
have been heretofore, in getting some one to
receive freight, when the consignees are absent.
Ripesf.nces .' Llvcrinoore & Coolev, S. C.
Davis k Co. and Humphrey. Putt k Tory, St.
I.ouis, Mo. i Tootle fc'Faiiieigh, St. Joseph,
Mo. , J. S. Chcneworth k Co., Cincinnati Ohiot
W, F. Coulbouzh, Burlincton, Iowa.
FRANK I.. KEMP,
WILLIAM TROOSHAM.
New York
OUN AND JEWELRY STORE.
KEMP k FRODSIIAM,
DEALERS in Clocks, Watches, Jewelry,
Musical Instruments, Kiflcs, Shot Guns,
and Pistols.
CLOCKS.
Thirty hour and eight day clocks of the two
best manufactories in the Union j steamboat
and office spring clocks.
GUN'S.
Single and double shot Guns, from five to
fifty dollars; Rides, of our own make also,
Eastern make; Pistols of all kinds; pistol
flasks, shot bags, wadding and wad cutters;
common and water-proof caps; colt's caps,
and numerous other articles suitable for the
Western trade, which neither time nor space
will allow to enumerate.
(V All of the above articles sold on the
most reasonable terms. Repairing done to
order at abort notice. . no U-tf
Omaha Citv, N. T.
NEW GOODS! NEW STORE!!
FT1HE undersigned have opened, ai their new
JL store on Douglas street, opposite the
banks, a new and splendid assortment of
DRY GOODS.
: CLOTHING,
BOOTS and SHOES.
- i t, BOO KS, STATION ERY.fce. '
Our stock of Dry Goods comprises all kinds of
LADIES', GENTLEMEN'S nnd CHILD
WREN'S DRESS GOODS,
ALL KINDS OP DOMESTICS
and everything that is requisite to make up a
complete assortment of Dry Goods.
We have large lot of Clothing that is wol
and fashionably made, and out of the best
material. Our stock consist of all kinds of
Gents' Furnishing Goods.
BOOTS and SHOES.
" Our stock of Boots and Shoes is the largest
ever offered to the citizens of Nebraska. They
are purchased directly from the manufac
turers, and are of the very best quality.
Our goods are all new, and recently pur
chased in the Eastern cities, nnd we intend
scllii.i them at astonishing low prices. All
the clrizens of Omaha and vicinity are re
quested to call and examine our stock, as they
will find it to their interest to do so.
JV We study to please,
no. 10-tf PATRICK k CO.
BELLEVUE HOUSE.
THE PROPRIETOR OF THE ABOVE
LARGE AND POPULAR
H O T E L ,
OFFERS EVERY
To the Public, and will reader
ASSIDl'Ol'S ATTKXTIOX
To tht vaidt of HIS GUESTS.
J. T. ALLEN.
Bellevue, Oct. 23, 1S5. 1-tf
TEA, TEA, TEA A tip-top article or
Y eurp l vson, at C5 cts. per pound, tt the
BFLLEVUE STORE.
POETRY.
"Hoc Out lour llow."
One day a laay farmer's boy
Was hoeing out the rum,
And moodily had listnd long
To hear the dinnorhorn.
The welcome blast was heard at last,
And down he dropped his hoe ;
But the good man shouted In his ear,
" My boy, hoe out your row P
Although it " hard onert was the row,
To use a plowman's phrase,
And the lid, us suilois havs it,
Beginning well to ' ha.ev
" I ran," said he, and manfully
He seized again his hoe;
And then the good man smiled to see
Tho boy " hoe out bis jow."
The lad the text remembered long,
And proved tho moral well,
That perseverance to the end
At last will nobly tell.
Take courage, man 1 rosolve you can,
And strike a vigorous blow;
In life's great field of varied toil,
Always " hoe out your row."
MISCELLANEOUS.
John Filch, His Works und Ia.
John Filch, thooi igiuul inventor of tho
steomboat, was a unlive of New lluven,
and at nn tnrly age wns apprenticed to a
wnlch-maker. At the breaking out of the
war of the revolution, ho espoused tho
cause of his country, was token prisoner
ty the Indians, and carried to the then
western frontier. After various hard
shins, he succeeded in effecting his escape,
and joined the American forces in the ca
pacity of armorer, occupying his position
until the conclusion of peace. lie next
projected a mup of the west, the materials
having been furnished by his own obser
vations during his captivity, and was re
warded for tho service by a grant of land
from the state of Virginia, situated in the
then county of Kentucky, in the vicinity
of the present Uurdstown.
, It was while he was in tho hands of tho
Indians, rurried from point to point along
the batiks of tho Ohio, that the idea of ap
plying steam power to river navigation
entered his mind; a purpose which ho
long nnd fondly cherished, nnd odly reliu
q iished at last, when it became apparent
that all hop.js of pecuniary assistance in
the undertaking were futile, owing to the
idea being generally set down as the wild
dream of un enthusiast. There were a
few, however, who were not influenced by
the general scepticism, and to them he de
monstrated the practicability of his plan by
running a boat by steam on the river Del
aware from Philadelphia to Trenton.
This event took place in the year 1785,
twenty years before Fuhons experimen
tal trip on the Hudson. Although on this
occasion he eucceded in making six miles
an hour; tho whole thing was ranked
among those curiosities of scientific contri
vance which are never destined to come
into useful effect; and, discouraged by the
want of appreciation iu his own country,
he accepted the invitation of Louis XVI.
to visit France, which he reached near the
dose of 1788, just when the French revo
lution was commencing, when Louis was
occupied with far other thoughts than the
fostering of pracful arts. Destitute of
means, and ignorant of th3 langurge of
the country, he made his way back to
America, taking England in his routo,
where he visited the engine manufactory
of Watts, then the greatest in the world.
After his return home he tried lu inte
rest his friends in tho enterprise of build
ing a steam vessel large enough to be
available for mercantile purposes. He
constructed a small working model to run
on Collect pond, iu the city of Is'ew York,
where the "tombs" now stand. His model
performed admirably, but its working
failed to carry conviction of the practical
value of tho invention.
As a last resort he next went to Ken
tucky, where he hoped he might sell the
land granted to him by Virginia, in order
to appropriate the proceeds to the accom
plishment of his project. On his arrival
at I'ardstown, disappointment again await
ed him; land was then of tittle value; pur
chasers were,few, and with a heavy heart
he took up his resiJence with the father of
the late Judge Rowen, working at his
trade whwi he could get any thing to do,
yet still cherishing his favorite scheme,
and occupying hi spare time in the con
struction of models. Of these he made
two; one was large enough, to carry two
men on tho river; and the other was a
mall working model of the engine ap
plied to the paddle wheel. The first was
destroyed by fir, and the second sold to
Col. Kilbtirn, cf Worthington, Ohio, who
had it stored in his garret where it was
soon forgotten. On the dead of the in
ventor this t.iolel fell into the possesion
of his grnnd-daughtcr, Mrs. Isnao N.
Whiting. ly this lady it wns lent to Mr.
Chnrles M. Scott, and by him brought to
St. Louis and deposited in tho MecanHe
Library, subject to tho orders of Mrs. W.
Mr. Fitch contin led in tho family of
Mr, Kowen until his death, which occurred
in 17DS. His last resijuext was thnt he
might be buried on the bnnks of tho Ohio,
thnt the song tf the hoatmnn and tho or-gun-music
of the stcnin engine might hour
by hour, iloat over his gruvu.
Fit h left behind hint thrco small man
uscript volumes, which ho di retted lo bo
sent to (ho Franklin library in Philadel
phia, with the injunction that they should
nut bo opened until thirty years after his
death, iney were deposited accordingly
in the archives of that institution, and were
accidentally discovered at the time when
ocean Menm navigation was inaugurated.
In them he gives a graphic nnrutive of
Ins lilc-strugglo to realize Ins darling idea;
states with great lucidnoss the whole pro
cess of tho application of steam ns a motor;
and in pursuing ilioui, one can hardly cred
it the fact, that they wcro written prior to
the triumph of thnt principle over the winds
and waves of old ocean.
After his experiment of tho Delaware,
and during his absence in France, there
were several experimenters in sieamboat
iug, tho most successful of, whom was
Juines Humsey, of Virginia, against
whom, as against Filch, the popular im
pression that the thing could be turned to
no ptolitablu account, operated as a fatal
discouragement.
The next projector was Robert Fulton,
who traveling in France on an art tour,
happened to stop at the house of Mr. Vail,
U. S Consul at- Chergurgh, which Fitch
had previously visited, and whero he had
left certain drawings illustrating hii
scheme. Fulton saw these drawings and
plans, copied many of them, and on his re
turn to New York, retained a lively mem
ory of the rest. Fulton now made the ac
quaintance of Robert J. Livingston, who
had witnessed the experiments of Fitch on
the Delaware and Collect pond. Mean
time the commerce of the Hudson had
ruentoa vast importance, and the fortune
of any one would be made, should he suc
ceed in improving upon the tedious and
imperfect system of navigation then ex
clusively in vogue. Fulton and Livings
ton took measures to secure a patent from
the government, built the Cleurmont, and
reached Albany amid tho resounding
shouts of the nations, who attributed this
great revolution in river locomotion to the
inventive genius of ruhon. In quite
another direction would have tolled the
tide of praise, had John Fitch met with the
encouragement in his early effort which
was Ins due. His name would have been
ranked with those of Galileo, Rewlon,
Columbus and Franklin, instead u need
ing now to be rescued from almost total
oblivion. Surely one of the vacant niches
of the new capitol could not be more wor
thily occupied, than by a statue of John
Fitch, the pioneer of that steam naviga
tion which in so marked and radical a man
ner has revolutionized the world.
Missouri Democrat.
Westward.
It is something of a marvel that, though
Cod arrayed His glorious courier, the Sun,
in armor, till "far his coming shone," and
nd him westward take his way, man
Lou I1 only have taken the hint a duy or
two ago and followed after him.
Hut the pioneer has become a multitude
nnd the multitude numberless, and the
drowsy East awakening, seeks the West.
There is but one grand cardinal point to
day, though the poor ignorant needle is
slow to learn it.
Like 'he dawning of morning has this
progress been. The "Genesee," a little
while ago, was a name to conjure with;
to conjure visions of wilderness, and noise
less foot falls and dimmest threads of trails,
and rifle-notes, and tho red light of camp
fires among the trees. A little while
since, to set forth thither was a good deal
like dying a piece of business to be done
solemnly and alone, und when long, dull
intervals of time yawned between the pi
oneer of the Genesee and the home he
left behind him.
Those will read these paragraphs who
rememlcr it, and they are not so very old
after all.
Then Lake Krie was wonderfully dim
in the blue distance, and he who had seen
it and he who had paddied a canoe upon
its waters, was a traveled soul, and had
tales to tell, and a world of ears to hear
them.
Hy-and-by somebody set foot npon God's
great meadows, that were wailing to be
fenced, and a plow-share cut the tod as
gaily as a ship's bows, the parting water,
and smoke went up from new hearths, and
sonsrs from new homes.
Now anJ then, some il!y Canute or
other would throw a chain upon the ad
vancing wave, and uttr his edict of ' thus
NO. 4G.
far and no," and ihe disobedient tide
would wash him imprudently up, and tum
ble him nenrer sunset, withihe word "far
ther" just finished on his lips.
And this last has been in our day and
here; iu Um time when round thn laks
floated the craft lo our port, and over the
rnnnielod sod came tho prairie schooners.
Then tho East sired lied forth its hand
to tho West, with a brace of iron bora
therein, and tho west looked away to the
Mississippi, Tho old coaches lumbered
and lurched, and went down and over, and
under sometimes; then they waited at tho
terminus of the pioneer rail-road, the Ga
lena, ten miles out. fiftoen miles out, twen
ty miles out, whero, liko the White Nile,
it seemed to looso itself upon the prairie,
and had a depot and a passenger hou-.o on
a grand soalo a depot and a passenger
house with a blue roof, end circelnr walls
precisoly as hirgo ns the horizon, a glori
ous ventilation and abundance of room,
and all that. And the Canutes came about '
again, with their chains and their injunc
tions, but the Sun, that bright exemplar,
kent on his way to the West, and tho roads
followed after, und the world brought up
tho rear.
And wo hero, away here, on the hiiher
shore of Lake Michigan caught ourselves
looking on beyend for strangely enough,
wo aro no longer at tho West the West
has slipped by almost without our knowing
it slipped by on the rail road, and by the
rivers, and in tho cuuvass-covcred wagons,
and on foot with packs, and even in wheel
barrows. But tho West was all abroad,
unfenced and upclaiined, and cheap as tho
great Uncle of us all, in the generosity of 1
his heart could make iu
A while ago, as we wailed here, won
dering who would come next, end how
many moro there wero lo come, the note
of a "Hugle" came to us fuint and low
a Nebraska Uugle, and very strange it
sounded to us from away in the . wilder
ness, on the frontier, tho outer rim of the
Wrest. ('
And tho West! There it is dimly beck-'
oning in the distance. Chicago Journal.
A 1'n tiAOM est. Phragrnent of an
Owed to a Phreemont Poll, What Was
A Jlein Cut Doun For Stove Would. 1
Woodman I spare them poles,' ;'
Touch not a single wun,
Last fall they cheered our souls, ; : u !
Just let them stand for pliun. 1
It was our Phreemont Clubb ' ' '
That first did place them there. '
Oh I plese, sur. lot 'em stand, .
Or else you'll beer us swaro.
Quake Meetino. A vounir rirl
from th country, lately on a visits to a
inr. a. a Quaker, was prevailed on to
accompany him to meeting. It happened
to be a silent one ; none of the brethren
being moved by the spirit to utter a sylla-'
ble. When Mr. A. left the meeting
house with his young friend, he asked her
" how dost thee like the meeting !" to
which she pettishly replied: ''I
"Like it! why I con sea no sense in
it, to go and sit for whole hours together
without saying a word, it U enough to kill ,
the devil!" .
" Yea, my dear," rejoined the Quaker
that is just what wo want." '
A hopeful youth, who was the owner of
a bull terrier, was one day training the
animal in the art of being ferocious, and
wanting some animated object lo set the
dog on, bis daddy after considerable per
suasion consented to get down on all fours,
and make a fight with Mr. Bull.
Young America began to urge on the
dog, with "seek him seire him,- &e.
At last the dog "made a nip,'. and got .
good hole upon the old man's prob.u,
aod shake the dog off he could not. Si
he began to cry out with the pain caused
by the fangs of the dog.
"Grin and bear it, old man!" shouted
the young scapegrace. "Grin and ber
it 'twill be fht makin of the pup!" .
Coxrsa. Dutchman ' Coot moryer '
Patrick, how you lus f" . . . . ,
Irishman " Good iiioinin lo ye Die
rich. Think ye we will get any rain to
day." Djtclunan " I guess not ve never
ha much rain in ferry try time."
Irishman " Faith an ve're riu-ht there.
Dierioh, and thin, whenever it gets in. the
way o raining, the devil the Lit o dhry
wither will we get, as long as the wet'
spell howl's." , i i
" Oh, yes, Joe ; my father is u old
mariner a regular salt."
" Why. I never knew that. What er-'.
vice was he in ?"
" The whailing service. lie goes cruis
ing around all night, and ia the morning,
when he comes home, he goes a wh tiling
the whole family, from the old 'omati '
down, and boxes the compass about the
hired girl's ears."
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