Jefferson Crescent from Grasshopper Falls, Kansas • 1

mwm i-CRESCEN nn i son- fe-- ttM swrn hmh aktUf if l. 3 ftm i 4 r-j Sjraiinj cr rami of wfti. NO. TGRASSHOPkRFALtS, KANSAS': SATURDAY tarHBWMMTAVflkrBVDBMnflUBVHHPt of tha pastor's bouse. "4 There was quail whistling in the field uear byti ani t-ick boy smiled as the sharp, clear note ot bird, came at, the window, which was slightly ofen to ict in the 6oft The old gate creaked on its hinges as the, hired man opened it to drive the cow into the atreel.

nnd down to the pasture, and creaked again as it back, antj the woid' latch rattled into its place. "The.TM''",buie-jay in the wood near the bouse, and his shrill scream rang in thfr still air with painful VOLI. THE CRESCENT. ii PUBLISUED EVKRY SATURDAY MOBNIKO BY D. W.

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eSucrnsey, ATTORNEY AT LAW. AUD NOTARY PUBLIC. Gnisshopper Falls, Jeffeison County, KnnsAs Terriuiry. J. A.

"ciY" 'Attorney and Counsellor at Law- Will atteiK' trt all buiines entrusted to His care with Hdi'lily and promptness .4 K-T. J. ITSPEER. ATTORNEY AT LAW. Will attend to all Uislness entrusted to hi care hk4lcoa.

T. John C. Rvivkv V. alikh N. Allen Spivey it Allen.

ATTORNEY'S AT LA W. Oskalnnsa, Jefferson t'OJnly, Kansas, no t-ly. COMMISSIONER FOR OHIO Grasshopper Falls, Kansas. Land for Sale! A. H.

DEAVER, M. B. OFFERS his professional services to the afflicted of Grasshopper ans ana me surroununig mumi jr iiin aumita are all vegetable. Experience and com. mon sense has long since taught him to disi-ard from his list of curative medicines, all noxious arm aeio.

terious drugs, especially that poisonous drug Calo niel, which has destroyed more jawbones than Sam son did Philistines with a jawbone. Residence at home on the top of a bill, near Jelier. on City July 24-tl Dr. S. Cooper, FIIVSICfAK ANO UAVtxn nermanenttv located at Grasshopper -Falls, would tender his professional services to the citizens of the surrounding country) will attend to calls at all hours, uay or mgni.

Orrrcit At his residence, on Sycamore street. on. jor.i in f. obi.k. Ecleetic Physician and Surgeon.

HAS removed his office from Grasshopper Falls to the residence ot I'Ayktth r. CreeK, five miles from the 7111886, where he will hoTdb mself in readiness to promptly "twer the calls of those who desire his professional services. Hispastsuceessin the practice of medicine s.nce he tame to this Territory, is a sufficient guarantee to the public of his skill. Dr. A.

R. Cantwell. Physician 6t Surgeon. Tenders his Professional services lo the people or the surrounding country. Office at his residence in the town of mcherter.

December IS, 863. DR. SICKLES. PHYSICIAN AD SURGEON. Resnectfully offer hts Professional services to al the atTlicted.

Special attention devoted to the dis eases of women and ehildrer. Office at his residence in the town of inchester, Jefferson K.T. no8-tf :JANUA11Y.15, 1859. but when she did she was admired and lpved. But she did not marry.

She grew to bo an old maid, but she never lost her beauty. I will not pause here, as I might, to say a word for old maids. I never see one without remembering Alice. It was wiuler The sun had left a cold world. The sound of passiDg feet on the pavement was sharp and tb tread of tha thousands hastening homeward rang with distinctness in the room of the dying old maid.

It was a richly-furnished room, in a large house on a stately avonuo. Heavy curtains of satinlined damask were on the windows; the carpets were velvet, the furniture crimson and rosewood. All was plain, but rich and costly. The stand near the bed was worth ten times all the furniture in the old parsonage, and the heavy plate that was on it would have purchased the parsonage and grounds. A soft light was in the room from a lamp standing in a in a rble vase, through whiob it shed a dim glow, but just sufficient to enable persons to move to and fro.

i The heavy roar of passing stages shook the house constantly. Somewhere, not many blocks distant, a factory, that had discharged its workmen at six o'clock, was now discharging its principal laborer, Bteatrj, and the shrill sound of the escape pipe united with tho noise of the street to disturb tho dying woman. But as the night passed on, the sounds had less effect on her cars as they grew more dull to earthly sensations, and the voices of the other world bejan to fill Atmidiilgit she "died. Tm good, true heart found warmth In death such warmth ds It never known since i the sad morning in the country so long ago. Tho welcomes of that other world who can describe! The coming in, cm jta glad scenes, of dear old facos long loved, long waited for, to bless the very blessings of Heaven.

She died; and as she folded her hands across her breast, and looked Heaven, and saw the glory, and entered into it, and as the peace of death fell camly, on her white brow, the roar of passing carriages grew louder, and a ringing laugh of drunken revelers came up into the room from the pavement, and tho bell of the neighboring church tolled and paused, and all went on as before- The great city, ceasless, iri its succession of work and pain, and revel and agony, ceased not one moment be cause one heart loss beat in its There were many other hearts ceased to beat about that time, and far no one of them all did the passing bell sound. But the morning dawned with cold gray light, and the streets were thronged and all was as before. But I do not think all was tho same up yonder where they met.for I think I trust I believe that the old maid was young. and fair, and radient again, and that the boy dying vision of angel eyes was at icugiu gmu i ea in jr. 'See here, my friend, are you drunk? 'Drunk! to be sure lam, and have been for the last three jears.

You see my brother and I are on the temperance musion. 1 Ha lectures, while I set a frightful example book is a thing formerly put aside to be read, and now read to be put aside. Clear writers, like clear fountains do not seem so deep as they are the turbid look the most profound. 3T'How do you like your new preacher: -uu, do urni-imc, uu the Devil the moft awful lick, he knocks the old fellow's horns clear Annie of tho Wabash, DT ALICE CART. On the banks of the Wabash, Lighting up their shades, Lives mybeiiutious Annie, Sweet maids of maids, Cheeks as red as roses Clouds of amber hair; 1 On the banks of the Wrtbasb.

None are half so fair! Annie was my sweetheart Long years away, But working in the summer -j We fell out, one day. Sol lost my Annie, ylnd for her sweet I'm dying by the rirer wave That murmurs at her feet. Woody banks of Wabash, 1 I'm jealous of your That kiss the face of Annie, When she's calling her I hale ye, winds of Wabash, For every day you steal, And whisper love to Annie, As she's Bitting at her wheeh Prairie banks of Wabash; 'Tis not your sunny days That set your grassy reaches -i'i With blossoms all a blaze. Dim and dewy dinp-les, 'Tis not your birds at all That make the air one warble, From rainy spring till fall 1 Oh, haughty heart of Annie 1 You will never molt I know, And be kind and sweet to me, 1 As in the long ago; 1 Ere we fell out a working ia The summer corn one mon the banks of tho Wabash I must sigh my soul away. 1 1 Social ConrturTios at Washington.

-rW cMityf kipjfyfi nrtws! more than one quarter, that something' should be done towards reforming the1 social abuses of the city of The city has been for years so without' law, ond abounds so temptations to the grossest and vileet dissipation, that it is high time that the matter were taken in hand by the press. Those familiar with' vice in all the capitals of Europe say' that in none of them does it assume ro coarso and cynical a form, with mon of the same social standing, as in Washing-' ton. Among public men, or public de-' puties gathered together for the winter; there will be unavoidably much indulgence, or much license But the degrading and vulgar form which vice assumes at the capital of this country is almost Anyone who hears frequent anecdotes of the bon companionship of certain gay Senators and Representatives, has heard enough in all conscience to revolt him, and to convince him of the outrageous impropriety-of sending such persons to our national Bulletin. We like to see a beautiful girl of that captivating cast, sometimes invidiously called a squint. Like a bowl, it is very bias makes it sure of hitting the mark, while it seems to be running out of the course; and it has moreover the invalu-( able propriety of doing execution without exciting suspicion, like, the Irish guns with crooked barrels, made for shooting around a corner.

"Haven't I an organ or said a fellow, protruding his head toward a phrenologist. 'If you own one I guess it must be a jTA woman with no friends can't be expected to sit down and enjoy a Btnok, for she hasn't 'any to bae XrSmiles are ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon them. What is the dawn without its dew? JC3rMen behind the age should fed on catchup. i i SELECT' From'the Leavenworth LADIES' BOOTS.11 i A little glove 6tirs uy my As L'des stir up the And white muslin, when it fits, Wakes many a curious notion; All sorts of lady fixins thrill. My fpelinjs as they'd orter, But liitle female rnit'T boots A'ro denih and uothiu hhotW.

And just to put you c-u your guard, I'll give vou, short and brief, Last Summer, at the Clarendon, i a I stopped a week or 'And marked two bootees every morn before my neighbor's door. Two boots with pateut leather tips Two boots which seemed to say, An angel trots around in us, They stole my heart away. -I saw the servant take them off, With those of other brutes His soul was all in sixpences, But mine were in the boots. ylnd often in in my nightly dryrns, ept efore my )wing out of them, Tbev swe As flowers grow from a vase. But, ah! one morning I saw a sight, Which struck me like a stone; Some other uame was on the1 books, Those boots were not alone rJ A great tall pair of other boCts1 Were standing by their side! And off they walked that afternoon, And with them walked a bride I Enough, enough: my song in sung Love's tree bears bitter fruits; of bemty, reader mine; But, ware of boots! i nil A.

lnrliY. rr HA ti' I. remember the radient beauty of Al ice Mcdonald ver, many years ago, when I was a meie boy. She was the daughter of one of the wealthy nien of the city, who had also country," residence ner thu oid plate of my boyhood, and she passed the "earlier" part of her life entirely in the country. She had grown up to womanhood w'uh a heart full of all the beautiful adornments of a good, true woman's heart, and it' was not to be feared that contact with society would produce any of the chilling or searing effect that it has on 'bo many for too many young hearts are frozen to ice by worldliness, or seared to callousness by burning experiences in the contacts of this t.

ri i Year have passed now, and the story of her youtn may be told, though in her lifetime it was unknown. a Fredrick Winter was the eon of the pastor of the old church, Winter was not wealthy, but educated his children, and they were noble men. Fred was a great favorite, and deservedly so. Where he met. Miss Mcdonald I do" not know, but I take it' they had grown up together from childhood.

No one, however, suspected them of any attach. ment, and, though often together, they displayed no special affection for each other- But love thrives in secret, and I must pass on to two scenes I intended to sketch. I did not and do not intend ary history of this affection or of these persons. It is my desighn only to sketch a country and a citv scene. Fredrick Winter was not well when he returned from college after gradua ting, and after a few weeks of struggling he gave up entirely, and lay down in his father's house to die.

It was a terrible blow to the old man and the family, but far more terrible to Alice, who was alone in her She could net approach him, nor hear from him directly, tor to one knew of her love, not even Fredrick himself, though he had wooed her for years with earnest devotion. It was a soft November morning. The sun shone pleasantly down through the leafless tranches of the tress in front distinctness: and pastsing flight of crows went over the forest with monotonous voices. .511 these sounds came into the room with musical clearness. Musical, for they wore the familiar sounds now heard for the last time, unless in the resurrec-tion we may return to our old homes, In the r'm was deep lilence.

It was a large old room, with low cealing and uneven floor. The bed stood in the rrvner. a ne cnairs were piam wooaen-t seated cnairs, withy arms 01 nicnory, or 6ome other There was a rag carpet on the floor, covering only part of it; the remainder was but white and clean. 1 The windows were filled with small, old fashioned panes of glass, and the sunshine stole pleasantly in, and fell on the floor with a soft radiance that seemed to speak of Heaven. The light Of life was going out of the eyes of the sick boy.

I call him boy, for his father'and mother could not yet think him other tlpin cherished lit tie one. The world Inishing; the tost words were -Jiing ago. and love still remained. Visions of the fading present flitted before him, and the radiant features of his boy -love be gan to assume the angelic beauty of the new country info which he was passing. Slowlyi slowly, from the fair, country iide from the old parsonage, from the low room, from the dear 'arms' of his beloved mother, from the creaking gate, and screaming jay, and whistling quail, he passed away into the dark and unknown.

4 I i cilice Mcdonald sat in the room where she had often received Fredrick Winter. It was the library of her fathers coun try residence, and its windows opened toward the yilliage. She had not elept that night, and sho wrapped herself in the folds of a magriiDcort shall as she eat there, for though the air was warm like 6ummer, she was shivering. The window was open. She would have it so, and she looked toward the" spire of (he church, and saw the xlock hands to half past ten, when the stroke of the bell ori her 'ears She trembled like a leaf, pd sprang to the window, holding the siil in her grasp with fingers that clung like the fingers of a drowning person to a wreck while she counted ten stroke, and a pause.

Oh, tnat it would not strike again! It does not. The in terval is long longer; a hope ha time to spring, to grow, to blossom in that in stanti and to die as the bell resume its heavy atory, and then each stroke des troys a hope that has risen since the last" Would that the bell might cease I Sev-enteen, eighteen, it goes-on with the terrible, with the deadly voice. Nine-teent twenty, and it pauses but. an in-staut, an adds one. She was pale and white as if dead, and, hurrying her face in the folds of her shawl, she sank feebly on her knees before the window, where she remained motionless for nearly an hur.

After that she arose, and her face and her heart were alike calm. Many jrears have passed since that 1 will not number them. Miss Mcdonald returned to the city with her father in the course of the next winter. She did not go much into society; Drussand Groceries. DR.

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