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BEDFORD, PA. THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 31.1870.
Ihe §dfotd fiaartlf.
A TEMIOLE ESftOINTKK.
Many years ago, my health having
become much impaired by over study,
I was recommended to pass a winter
in the south of France. Of so agreea
i ble a prescription I readily availed
myself. I was without wife or child
to encumber my depart Jl* . und, arm
ed only with a |Hjrtinuntau, made a
most delightful journey of it to the
charming town of V
Shortly after my arrival, whilst sit
ting at the window of my hotel, a
man passed by so very much like my
self that, struck with the resemblance,
I rose, f.nd leaning forwartl, followed
him with my eyes. His dress bespoke
him an Englishman. He was tall, so
wasl. Slim; lam slim. His eyes
were blue, his skin fair, his hair a deep
auburn, his nose aquiline. All this
was my portrait. When he reached
the bottom of the street he paused,
looked around, then slowly returned,
crossing the road, however, and taking
the opposite pavement. This enabled
me to get a clearer view of the man.
I con less I was much impressed with
the resemblance, and hardly liked it.
The physiologist, I thought, may de
light as touch as he pleases in such co
incidence; for my part I decidedly ob
ject to being made a portion of any
sort of a phenomenon. I had read of
very unpleasant consequences follow
ing personal resemblances, and earn?
estly hoped that this individual, whom
nature, short of moulds at the time
had undoubtedly cast in mine, would
speedily clear the neighborhood of his
presence.
A week or two after this, in taking
a walk across a iieautiful bit of adja
cent country, 1 suddenly encountered
my likeness, seated on a rustic bench
beneath a tree, with his arm encircling
the waist of a very beautiful |>easant
girl. Her skin, of a pure and cream
like tint, rinely contrasted with the
splendid luxuriance of black hair.—
Her eyes flashed upon ine as I passed,
and I noticed her draw herself erect
with rapid hauteur, as if indignant or
impatient of detection. The man by
her side, who would have passed very
well for me to an v other person but
my mother and myself, still maintain
ed his caressing attitude. He did not
condescend to raise his eyes to me as I
passed, but kept them fixed on the
face of the girl, who, I could see,
watch me with a sjieoies ot sullen ea
gerness, as if wishing me well out of
sight.
As I passed them, I must confess to
having experienced a momentary
sensation of envy of the man. Since
nature has put him in my skin, I
thought it seems only fair that I should
put myself In his shoes. For all I
know, I reflected, that beautiful peas
ant girl might have been originally
destined for me ; but the intention of
nature has been defeated by her loveof
coincidence, I laughed at my thoughts
as I walked on, and turning a corner,
lost sight of the lovers.
On reaching the bottom of the lane,
I found that I had fallen upon a eul-de
gac. The passage terminated in a se
ries of fields, across which I could dis
cover no footpath. 1 had no wish to
be arrested for trespassing, so I decid
ed on returning the way I had come.
On sighting the beach, I found it
was deserted. I was not sorry. I
would by no means havedisiiked anoth
er peep at the beautiful brunette; but I
at the same time had no ambition to
inspire the couple with the notiou that
I was watching them.
I had got to the top of the hill, and
I was passing between a row of thick
bushes, making a sort of natural heuge
for abroad area of tress, like a gigan
tic peak, when I was suddenly startled
by a report of a pistol discharged to
my left. At the same time I heard
the hollow sound of a bail striking my
hat, and that article of dress rolled to
the ground.
I looked round with a pale face.—
Theattack was horribly sudden. Who,
in the name of heaven wanted my
life? For what crime was ray blood
demanded? What had I done? I
saw the blue smoke curling up from
the densest portion of the bushes, and
heard the crackling o' the furze and
twigs caused by the hasty flight of
some one.
I picked up my hat. The ball had
passed clear through it. Had it struck
two inches lower, it would have entet*
my head.
I hastened toward town, possessed
with much the same sort of enviable
feelingsasyou might i magi ne a Tippet
ary landlord or agent would feel who
sees threats of his life carved on every
other tree. Bravery in a situation of
this sort was quite out of the question.
Ot what use is pluck when you have
to deal with invisible foes? I might
also confess to having broken into a
downright flight as I nearcd the town
so extremely anxious was I to escape
every sheltering bush, tree or hedge in
the neighborhood.
On gaining my hotel I began to re
flect on my narrow escape. I had been
too much excited to attach to it the
significance it demanded. But the
hole in my hat ijonveyed the mast
shuddering evidence of my narrow es
cape. Beyond ail reasonable doubt my
life within that paltry hour ha i only
been worth two inches.
I repeated the question to myself:
Who wants my life! And, if any
body wants it, what are his claims?—
What have I done to merit assigna
tion?" Being wholly unable to an
swer these queries, I resolved to make
a confidant of my host, the hotel-keep
er. I called him to my room, and toid
him what had hap|>ened. He shrug
ged his shoulders, as he exclaimed :
"Monsieur, like the rest, of man
kind, umst pay the penalty of love,"
"But," said I. shocked by his sang-
froid, "I have nut made love. Since
I have been here 1 am not conscious of
having looked at a woman—much less
•poken to one."
"Then it is an enigma," he replied.
"The only solution I can offer you is
—that you have been mistaken for
I some one else."
"Bon Dieu!" I exclaimed. You
have undoubtedly hit the mark. I
have been mistaken-and I know for
whom. Have you not seen a man in
this town bearing a striking resem
blance to ine?"
"No," was the answsr.
"Well, my friend. I have. The mo
ment when I saw him, I felt uncom
fortable. I had a presentiment ofevil.
You will oblige me by letting me
have your bill. I shall go to Paris to
night. If I stop here another day, my
life, which I left England to fortify,
will he snuffed like a'candle."
The hotel keepei seeing matters come
to a point that affected his interests,
endeavored to laugh down my doubho
He argued that the hall J had received
in my hat might have been destined
for a bird; that it had been shot by
some wretched marksman, who had
mistaken my hat for a crow.
"That may all be very well," I an
swered ; but suffer me to tell you that
your excuse only makes me more res
olute to leave this place ; for of what
value is a man's life in a district a
bounding with spcrtsmeu who can
mistake a hat for a crow?"
A train left for Paris at 2:30. It was
an express, and I found it to be due at
eight o'clock. I dispatched my port
manteau by a porter to the station,
arid having twenty minutes before me
sat down to a slight repast of cold
fowl and vin ordinaire. The position
of my table enabled me to get a view
of the street. As the porter strode a
way with my luggage, I observed a
man cross the. road and accost him. In
reply to what was obviously a question,
the porter, with the gesticulations of a
Frenchman, pointed w'ith his thumb
to the hotel, and vigorously nodded
his head. The man crossed over again
to the pavement, came on until he
was opposite the window, and abrupt
ly turning on his heel, walked off in
the direction taken by the porter.
1 thought nothing of this. The
man, I conjectured, probably wanhd
tbe job I had given to the porter. He
was a common looking fellow, dressed
in leather gaiters, n blouse, a slouched
cap, and a belt. There was nothing
singular in his face. He was dark,
with a black beard and moustache. —
He was a familiar type of the middle
aged peasant of sunt hern France.
Having discharged my bill r I walk
to the railway station. On one plat
form there was much tumult, a train
from Paris having just arrived. But
upon the platform against witich stood
the train.which was to bear me to the
north, I counted only five persons, ex
clusive of porters.
But I hud little time for observa
tion. The train would leave in three
minutes. I saw my portmanteau
stowed away in the luggage van, pro
cured myself a first-class ticket, and
took my H-at.
The shrill whistle of the guard
sounded. The engine gave a snort,
and the line of carriages clanked to
their chains as they tightened to the
strain. Suddenly several voices cried
"Stop! stop! Now, then, quick!
Which class—first? Let's see your
ticket. Right. Here you are—Jump
in !" The door of my carriage was op
ened, a form bounded in, the door was
slammed, there was another shrill
whistle, and off went the train.
I looked at my companion. He
was the tnan whom I had noticed
speak to the porter and stare in the
window of tny hotel.
A thrill passed over me. My recent
escape had greatly shaken my nervous
system ; and the apparition of the man
whom I felt I ought to suspect, sent a
chill through my blood. As a peasant
which he was—not expressed only in
diess, but in his hands, which were
dirty, ro igh and horny—what did he
do in a first-class carriage? I would
have given something to have exchan
ged carriages. But there was no com
munication with the guard. Morever,
the train as 1 have told you was an ex
press, and did not stop until a run of
sixty-six miles had been accomplished.
We were now blowing away with
great ru,pidity.
The man sat screwed up in a corner
away from ine, immoveable. He ap
;>eared in be looking through the win
dow at the country as it whirled by;
but there was an abstracted expression
in his gaze which indicated that he
saw nothing. His arms were folded
upon his breast. Though he must have
been conscious of my scrutiny, he nev
er turned his eyes uj>on me. His lips,
I saw were tightly compressed and he
breathed slowly but deeply through
his nose, the nostrils of which dilated
to the steady respiration.
I began after a little to regain my
Composure. I struggled to laugh down
rny fears. What, I thought had I to
fear from a man I had neverseen—who
had never seen me! The thing was
preposterous. I extracted a paper
from my pocket and commenced to
read. I might have spoken to him
only I imagined that a man in his
situation might have been em
baraased at my French, which I
did not speak with a good accent.—
Besides there was something that re
pelled all approach in his immobility.
Half an hour passed away. All at
once, G'.'er the edge of my newspaper,
I saw hitn put his hand out o! tne win
dow, as if to open the door. I had no
time to conjecture his intention when,
with a wild screaming whistle, we
were hurled into the uigld of along
tunnel.
The rapid disappearance of daylight
made the oil lamp suspended in the
carriage emit but the dullest sight for
lome minutes.
1 laid the newspaper down with my
old Aar- revived in me. I had scarce
ly t'otie so when I saw the outline of
a man rise in the carriage. He leaped
over to where I was seated. I saw the
gleam of a knife in the air.
Mad with passion and surprise, I
grasped the descending arm. A furi
nu* determination to preserve my
life inspired m; with the strength
of a giant. Tbe ferocity with which I
seized the wrist forced the hand o|en.
The kbil'e fell ; and then commenced a
silent, furious struggle.
He seized toe by the collar and dung
with the tenacity of a tiger. I heard
him snapping his teeth as if he were
endeavoring to bite. We swayed from
one end of the carriage to the other.
I felt how weak ill health had left me
and prayed to pass out into the light,
that I might better see how to encoun
ter the ruffian.
Sudden!;, I felfe myself swung around
with tremendous energy. I bounded
against a door which opened, and we
fell on the lines in the very centre of
thetunnul.
The fa i se( med to have stunned
him, for ,e fell under me anil remain
ed there or a time motionless. For
myself I received an indescribable
shock, such as is experienced in a col
li ion ; but I retained my senses. I
heard tin roar of the train dying away
in the distance. I saw the red gleam
fading like the eye of a dying demon.
I still clutched hini by the throat,
nor did I dare relinquish it. My situ
ation V's frightful. I suspected that
a down Haiti would soon be passing,
and in the intense blackness of the tun
nel I could not see on which line we
had fallen. I would have stretched
forth my hand to grope for the rails ;
I might have found a place of safety
by judging the distance between them;
but 1 felt the form of my assailant
beneath me. His struggles grew fier
cer. He endeavored to rise, but with
the fury of dispair I kept him pressed
down, one hand on his throat the oth
er ot; his breast. What I desired was
to render him insensible. I would
then leave hiin in darkness, and grope
my way as 1 could
It never occurred to me at the time
that there was no need to make
him insensible in order to elude him.
The darkness would have rendered
my presence invisible to him.—
But my mind was hopelessly con fus
sed. I was breathing sulphurous air
made thick and difficult by its black
ness. My only thought was to keep
the ruffian down. I was only capable
indeed, of this thought.
A few minutes had elapsed when
I heard distant rumbling like ap
proaching thunder. It increased. I
seemed to feel the wind blowing a
gaiust my face. I tasted too a contin
uous draught of smoke and steam.
I knew thai a train was approaching,
and my hair lifted on my head. What
rails were we on ? Tbe suspense was
frightful.
My assailant increased his struggles.
He became furious. He was evident
ly fighting to throw me down, and o
ver in the direction of that side of the
tunnel along which came the roar of
the train. I saw his object and madly
pressed upon him. His body frantical
ly writhed. He twisted under me as if
he revolved upon a pivot. He endeav
ored to shriek some words to me, but
uiy throttling grasp made his voice no
more than a horrible hoarseness.
I saw the red and green lights of
the engine approaching. They grew
in size aud lusture with hidious ra
pidity. There was a roar, a shower of
dust, a wind that struck me down
likea blow from a strong man's fist; then
followed by the dying,rattle ending in
a dull and sullen moan.
I rose to my feet. I crossed over to
the wall, and, feeling along it, took a
walk with all the syeed my sink
ing frame would suffer me to put forth.
How long I walked I know not. My
passage seemed interminable. The
damp of the wall against whicli my
hand constantly pressed, froze my
blood. Now and then 1 stumbled over
piles of rubbish lying grouped against
the side; and sometimes my groping
was bewildered by coining across re
ceases into which my hands guided
me.
At length I saw a star, tremulous,
glorious, iu the distance. It was day
light ; the aperture of the tunnel, auti
I pushed forward with invigorated
spirits. 1 neared it slowly; for this
star seemed to maintain an inexorable
distance and would not enlarge. How
shall I describe my joy as I gained tbe
twilight of its reflection—as I advan
ced and felt the pure air of Heaven up
on my dry cheeks and burning lips—
I saw the blue sky, and the dim vista
of the pale green bauks.
As I got into the light, aery escaped
my lips. My trousers were splashed
with blood. There wasoneeusanguiued
line, as if a fountain of blood had play
upon me.
I seated myself to recover my
strength. I could see that I presen
tented a dismal and terrible specta
cle. My oat was torn, my hands
were bhtek— so, too, I judged was my
lace—my collar had been torn from me
and the skin a f the ends of my fingers
had been lacerated. After reposing my
self I climbed the bank, and perceived
at the distance of about a mile a sir all
station. I made toward it, and gaint-d
it. A railway official, who was stand
ing looking at two children playing in
the back garden, uttereG a loud cry of
alarm as he spied rne. I narrated my
st ry as coherently asl could, and thin
ci'.nJi p®n the ground in a fainting
condition.
Of what happened aAer that I ha\e
no remembrance. When 1 came to
my senses 1 discovered that I had been
takeu to the house oi the station mas
ter, aud carefully tended by hh wife.
From him I learnt he conclusion of
this singular incident iu my life. D
secqis that after my story had been
told, two men were dispatched into
the tunnel in search of my Assailant.
They discovered him lying dead with
both his legs cut clean off a little above
the knees. They bore the corpse to an
adjacent dead house; and an inquiry
into his death brought out particulars
that are easily anticipated. The man
who so closely resembled me at V ,
had seduced the betrothed of a laborer
one Theodore Vertot. This Theodore,
reck less now of life, and resolutely
bent on vengeance, swore to kill her
seducer. Mistaking rue for his enemy,
he attempted to shoot'me. This fail
ing he hung about the hotel, armed
with a stiletto, determined to stab me
whenever I should appear in the
street. Hearing, however, that I was
about leaving for Paris, he perceived a
better and safer means of prosecuting
his design, by stabbing me in the tun
nel through which he knew we would
pass,and then escaping in thedarkness.
Reflection had obviously taught him
that revenge would he none the less
sweet because it did not entail his de
struction by the law.
Such is the simple but tragical story.
My prototype, who had been the
means of twice imperiling my life, I
have never seen since. I confess to no
wish to see him. It is bad enough to
have to hear the brunt of one's own
follies, it is altogether miserable to
suffer the follies of others. Ever siut e
the occurrence of this small eposide, I
have always thought there is a much
wiser providence manifested in the dis
similarity between man and man than
our philosophers suffer us to dream of.
Gentleman's Magazine.
Prince Arthur came down heavily
on the dignitaries of Washington and
the magnates of New York. This ve
ry great Prince Arthur William Pat
trick Ueasarea Philosola Bustamento
Frederic Phillip! Augustus, whom the
flunkies of Washington and New
York danced, dined, wined and kiss
ed for his mother, says: "The ball giv
en in his honor at Ottawa was une
qualed by anything he had seen this
side of the Atlantic." How do the
flunkies throughout the country like
the compliment? How do the hea 8
of department and other officials at
Washington, with the thirty-six
committee men and other New York
todies, feel when told that they have
been eclipsed by the rustics of a huck
leberry town in Canada?
Havana dispatches contain the usual
record of Spanish victories and the kil
ling and surrendering of insurgents.
No insurgent successes whatever are
reported. The victories are invariably
on one side. Captain-General De
Rod as has authorized the release of ihe
imprisoned Masons on bail. Mr. Phil
lips, late Acting American Consul,
was waited upon in Havana by a gang
of "regulators" and forced to sign a
card repudiating the statements con
tained in the despatch alleged to have
been sent by him to New York. The
card lias been published in tne city pa
pers, and Mr. Phillips has fled from the
island by the first steamer leaving for
a foreign port.
A home-made divorce has been rat •
fk-d in Pittsburg between a man and his
wife. An article of agreement was en
tered into between them, the man ob
ligating to pay the woman fifteen dol
lars a week, and she stipulating never
hereafter to interfere with him while
he enjoys himself with another woman
he has takeu as a wife. The parties are
now living in separate houses, and en
joying themselves hugely.
A colored man named Richardson
has been surrendered by the Governor
of Massachusetts on a requisition of
the Governor of Maryland. He is
charged with being implicated in the
murder of William Gayles in Prince
George county, in July, 18G6. Five
negroes, two of whom have beeu
hanged, were concerned in the murder.
Advices from Panama predict the
ratification of the treaty between the
United States and Colombia. An A
inerican citizen, Mr. Ambrose Thomp
son, has obtained from the State of
Chiriqui a contract to build an inter-o
ceanic rail road across the isthmus.—
In Guatamala several important rail
road contracts have teen executed with
the government.
The Venango Spectator reports a
new paying oil well near Nickleville,
in tiiat cpunty, an entirely new terri
tory. The well is good for twenty
barrels per day. The same paper
peaks of a new well being struck in
the Red Hot district, yielding two
hundred barrels per day.
The Easton Express chronicles the
arrest and imprisonment of a gay de
ceiver named Willoughby Grcenwald,
He has accomplished the ruin of three
young women. From all accounts he
is an accomplished, heartless scoundrel,
and should be put out of the way of
effecting the ruin of another girl.
The Doylestown Democrat reports a
regularly organized gang of incendia
ries in that county. There is no other
plausible theory for the origin of the
numerous fires which have occurred
within a short time in that county.
A woman nrrestedin Troy, "strut k
out from theshoulder" knocking down
the officer. Her sonterce was doubled,
and so was he —doubled up.
If you are going to visit at a house
where a cross dog Is kept, take a pistol
along for company. Then when he
annps at you, you can snap at hire.
We have discovered lately that
health is most unquestionably a fluid.
A friend drinks ours very often and
not at his own expense either.
A young lady iu Chicago laid a wag
er of a kia-t, but the umpire declared
all best off becausa she failed to put up
the stakes.
VOL. 65.—-WHOLE No. 3.361.
llOtftK .> 11101.
Change of Oittle Feed Necvtsrwy.
Man, when confined for any consider
able time to one kind of food, is more
liable to disease than when his regimen
is varied. The disease common among
sailors on long voyages is an illustration
of this. Now, what is true of man, is
true of various species of domesticated
animals. When confined for an undue
period of time to one kind of feed they
sicken and die. For cattle, nature has
furnished a variety. In summer the
different kinds of grasses, with their
richjucies tempt their taste and im
prove their flesh. Yet even then, we
obtain an argument for a variety of
feed, from the fact that cattle, feed
with grain or other vegetables, put on
flesh more rapidly then when they
are kept on grass alone. Hut In the
winter our ordinary dry food is net
conductive to growth as are summer
grasses.
"Fodder," as it is termed, has
much of its original properties in cur
ing. The defect, in part, may le sup
plied by roots of various kinds. A
mong these, turnips, carrots, beets,
and the like, have their value. Hut
thes a , or something of the kind,should
te provided as a variety to winter
stock. Farmers should look to this,
end see if the best cattle, and the best
folds of sheep, are not those which are
furnished with a variety of feed during
winter confinement. Would you have
good stock ? then have a variety of
winter feed.— Boston Cultivator.
An Experiment icith Potatoes.— The
Country Gentleman's Magazine (Lon
don) gives details of several experi
ments made by M. H. Gillioda of the
administrative Council of France, to
test the influence of flowering upon
the yield of potatoes, the results of
which have been so significant and con
clusive, that he has come to the deter
mination lo "hold up the floral organs
in the potatoe." He concludes that the
buds should be removed as soon as
possible, in order to prevent the fixing
of the nourishing principles necessary
to the complete formation of the floral
organs, and that the removal should
be done by hand rather than with any
sickle or other sharp implement, as
the latter would be liable to injure the
vines or tops of the potato.
Lime Jor Plum Trees.—Acorresj>oud
ent of the Rural New Yorker , says:
Having some plum trees that blossom
ed every year for several years, but did
not bear; a year last fall I put a quart
or so of lime on the ground around all
except two, which I left on purpose to
see if they would bear as well. These
two were at the end of the rows. The
soil gravelly, with soft water quite
near, and I inferred that the soil did
not contain enough lime to form the
pit of the plum. Result—all the trees
with lime around them, bore a good
crop of plums, while the others blos
somed but as usual bore no fruit.
What is more distressing than to s e
a roasted fowl coming to the table
"flying" with outspread wings, and
legs and looking as though the
bird had been kicked before the
fire. A turning of the wings, and
a bit of string around the legs, would
have converted the ridiculous looking
object into a respectably dressed fowl.
Even so simple a thing as mutton
chops may be neatly served or other
wise. Compare a dish of chops thrown
into the plate "higgledy-piggledy,"
with one in which the 3inall ends are
laid one way, with the broad portions
slightly overlapping, and the difference
will be manifest at once.
Such matters may seexu trivial to
some, but much of our comfort is due
to the observance ot trifles.
Toast and Cheese, —Cut a slice of
bread half an inch thick ; pare off the
crust, and toast it very slightly on one
side. Cut a slice of cheese a quarter of
an inch thick, not so big as the bread
by half an inch on each side; pare off
the rind, lay it on the toasted bread,
place on a flat tin plate, and put in the
oven for ten minutes or so. Mi* a
quarter of a teaspoonful of salt and
mustard and sprinkle of pepper; stir
it into the cheese, and you will have a
delicious luncheon.
Lemon pie.—Grate one small or half
a large lemon, mix with the yolks of
two eggs, four tabiespoonfulsof brown
sugar; stir in one and a half table-
Bpoonfuls of flour into half a teacup of
water; beat the white of two eggs to a
stiff froth ; stir into it two tabiespoon
fuls of white sugar, put it over the
pie crust after it is baked, and place it
in an oven and browri nicely; be very
careful, as it browns very easily. You
will And it a superior pie.
Bread custard.— Take two or three
slices of bread ; cut them in little rube
shaped 'pieces- In a quart of sweet
milk put some loaf sugar anil ground
cinnamon ; in this soak the bread un
til it has absorbed as much of the milk
as it is capable of. The n take the
bread out. Into the remainder of the
milk stir from four to six eggs, raisins,
currants, sugar and nutmeg ; butter a
tin basin, put iu the bread, pour over
the custard and bake.
Welcome Cake.— Stir a cup and a half
of sugar and half a cup of butter to
gether with three well beaten eggs; sift
a teaspoonful of cream of tartar and a
half a teaspoonful of soda with three
small cups of flour; this with a cup of
milk, must he mixed with the above,
and baked in a moderately quick o
ven. By adding raisins and currents,
half pound of each, a very good fruit
cake may be made.
Marble CXike.— Having never publish
el in these columns a good recipe for
marble cake, we now give the follow
ing : One cup of brown sugar, one half
cup of molasses, one cup of butter, one
f nirth cup of sour milk, one-half nut
meg, one spoon chinaman, one-half
sp on alspiee, one half-spoon cloves,
one-fourth spoon pepper, one-half tea
spoon soda, yolks of four