{ title: 'The Amateur courier. volume (Cuba, N.Y.) 1877-1878, October 01, 1877, Page 1, Image 1', download_links: [ { link: 'http://www.loc.gov/rss/ndnp/ndnp.xml', label: 'application/rss+xml', meta: 'News about NYS Historic Newspapers - RSS Feed', }, { link: '/lccn/sn84031542/1877-10-01/ed-1/seq-1/png/', label: 'image/png', meta: '', }, { link: '/lccn/sn84031542/1877-10-01/ed-1/seq-1.pdf', label: 'application/pdf', meta: '', }, { link: '/lccn/sn84031542/1877-10-01/ed-1/seq-1/ocr.xml', label: 'application/xml', meta: '', }, { link: '/lccn/sn84031542/1877-10-01/ed-1/seq-1/ocr.txt', label: 'text/plain', meta: '', }, ] }
Image provided by: Cuba Circulating Library
| no 202 f £005 C [a Co &C # I.. Whe Amelmr CUBA N. Y., OCTOBER,51877 OME my bo r ..... . a B m l i _ THE PRESENT, Thmk not 'of the past or future; \The present is all thou hast; Future will soon be present; Present w ill soon be the past. del.. £0. Regret can never avail thee; , Longing!Uwill only be waste, Cheerful work in the present - W111 bring thy wishes with haste . This is life's only seer et; . 'Love and work and belfeve. The worker soon ceases regretting; The loved soon cease to grieve. ADVENTURES OE A PRINTER a~ vice j L“ (LS gloom staltlmg a little dt the nght of : lAi'tbout to reply, s 6r three bloclfl and then eaet four or iwe meehn plenty of p ople,,buf giv- * ing them no heed I tfrought that I . getting along . \ely when «L 4hedud shouts behmd H and. knew .- 3 <> that my pursuers were on my trafk. I was then near a cHurch, Le iping - lthc ferice, I hade a short cut ifito a street: mnmnrr south, rain about a block 'And theufdae’hed into the open door of. a private dwelhno' There was no - <one in the room, which was the parlor land I tossed my hat. into a corner, iscized a magazine from thé table and - sat down on the sofa. 'I had not yet Ll got over puffing and blowing when a . ittlé boy came fu from { the bther me. k A i% \Bub 1§your father at home?\ I i1 in-. , muted giving him a pleasant smile. We 111101 med me thit his mothet was a widow, and weit off to eill her. Sh came in directly, when I introduged - myself as.*Mr. Jones,\ and informed - her that , I was soliciting Bibles, tracts, hymn-books and other proper xl‘eddlll‘f\ matter for the benefit of the ungodly rebels languishing in confine- < >, | ment ou Johnson's Island. She was when some one came up the steps and br eathlesfly 1rqu1r-n ee ed . 4:1? “jg—gr “bay Mrs. Weaver hive you. teen? ;. {any -one run by here-a re<Lha1fed J 'man with a plug hat on ? py \ Both mother and son repheixll in- fihe negative; and when the mar had gone. 'the widow went to hunting up books. After half an hour she brought, me seven, ~ It was now between oneyand, two o'clock, and as I wanted tog lull time, I made arrangements for diff and after the njeal sat and talked; i four o'clock. She then- recomme\ ; me to another heighbor, and, in ng --- 'C By 'M. QUAD. \_ [Continued.]. - =~ She looked into the closet, and then- uttempted to take down one of the | dresses which concealed me. L pulled |; ut) --and she pulled, but I was the stoutest. [0 As she persisted, I Saw that I must be | -. exliscovered, and so -I made a sudden' | jump, .and had my fingers on her -> Zithroat before she had scarcely seen me. . rHIoldmg her just tight enough to pre-A 5 vent her from racreammg, I whlqpel ed : to $ \I am that rebel! If you attempt to Sigscream out I shall stab you to the} If you d6 as I gay, I shall go go }{ «iinght out and not hurt you!\ - Ag; . ff Algough my grasp could not have Spained her much, the girl was nearly ' Sdead. I thoufrht sure I had made ei- || -, ther a humble or: an: idiot of her. I {(Aheard the men up stairs, and so I let go my grasp, slipped out, turned the R ibutton, and had reached the shed when she ' gave several screans which - could have been heard several blocks, away. Theard the men runmng, and \ I dodged out iuto the yard;ran through a barn, and was probably four blocks away before the girl had given any correct mformatlon. 'A ran south tw it was dark before I went onck block. ouf