YOL. LY.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS OF
BELLEFONTE-
T. Alexander. C. M. bower.
a BOWER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
I •
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JOHN B. LINN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Office on Allegheny Street.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW.
BRLLMOSTK, PA.
Northwest corner of Diamond.
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ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
High Street, opposite First National Bank.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Practices in all the courts of Contre County.
Spec al attention to collections. Consultations
in German or English.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
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of clalmsa speciality. _____
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ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Office on Alleghany Street, North of High.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Office on Woodrlng*s Block, Opposite Court
Home.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BELLEFONTE, PA,
Consultations In English or German. Office
in Lyon'i Building, Allegheny Street.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Ofhce In the rooms formerly occupied by the
late w. P. Wilson.
BUSINESS CARDS OF MILLHEIM, A.
A. STURGIS,
DEALER IS
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silverware, Ac. Ra
pairing neatly and promptly done and war
ranted. Main Street, opposite Bank, M llhelm,
Pa.
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. * • NOTARY PUBLIC.
SCRIBNER AND CONVEYANCER,
MILLHEIM, PA.
All business enf rusted to him. such ae writing
and acknowledging Deeds, Morlgages, Releas- a,
Ac., will be executed wuh neatness and dls
patch. Office on Main Street.
TJ~ H. TOMLINSON,
* DEALER IN
ALL KINDS OF
Groceries. Notions, Drugs, Tobaccos, Cigars,
Fine Confectioneries and everything in tho line
of a flrsi^ciass '.rocery bt-re.
Country Produce taken In exchange for goods.
Main St. eet, opposite Bank, Ml lliehu. Pa.
,T^VAVID I. BROWN,
MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN
TINWARE, STOVEPIPES, Ac.,
SPOUTIAG A SPECIALTY.
BhoD on Main-Street, two houses cast of Bank,
- - - Millhelm, Ponna.
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* JUSTICE OF TIIE PEACE,
MILLHEIM, PA.
All business promptly attended to.
i;ollectton of claims a specialty.
OH ice opposite Jtlsenhuiu's Drug Store.
A,| L'O&ER A SMITH, .
DEALERS IN
Hardware, Stoves, oils, Pa'rits, Glass, Wa
Paper, coach Trimmings, uhd fcaddleiy Ware
Ac,. Ac.
All grades of Patent Wheels.
Corner of Main and Penn fetreet-', Millhelm,
Peuna.
JACOB WOLF, .
I'AS 11 ION ABLE TAILOR,
Sr *
MILLHEIM, PA.
Culling a specialty.
" Shop iMtkt door to Journal Book Store.
ivf ILLHEIM BANKING CO.,
BAIN STREET,
MILLHEIM, PA
A. WALTER, Cashier. DAV. KRAPE, Pres.
HARTER,
AUCTIONEER,
HEBEBSBURQ, FA.
Satisfaction Gnarantopd
From THE LAY of the'LAST MINSTREL."
Call it not vain j- they <?o not eir.
Who say, that when the l\>et dies.
Mute Nature m >urn ) er worah pper,
AuJ celel ra'ea hi* obscquie ;
Who far, tall cliff and oavern lone,
For ilio departed BarJ make moan ;
That mountains weep in crvbt.il r.U ;
That flow* re in tsar* of balm distil ;
Thiou.h hia loved groves that bretxes *ih.
And oaks, in deeper gioan, reply :
And river* teaoh their rushing wave
To murmur dirge* rouud his grave.
Not that, lu aooth, o\r moita! urn
Thoa ' things inanimate can mourn ;
But that the stream. the wood, the gale,
Is v. cal with the p a : utive wail
Of those, who. • so forgo ten long,
Lived in the poet's faithful soug,
And, villi the poet's part.ug breath.
Whose memory fee!* a s.oond death.
The Ma.d's pale stia te, who wails lu r lot,
That lcve, true love should be forgot,
From rose and haw horn shukos the tear
Upon the gentle Minstrel a bier :
The i hint ni Knight his glory tied,
Mourns oerth? field he lie&p'd with dead ;
Moui.te the wild blast that eweeps aiuaiu,
And shrieks along the battle-plain.
The Chief, nut.quocrouulet long
Still aparklad in t e ftudal song,
Now, from the mountain's misty throne.
Sees, in the tbansdom ouce hi* own,
U:s ashes uu Jiitinguiah'd lie,
His place, hie power, hi* memory die :
His groans the lot.ely cavern-, fill,
His tears ol ra.e impel the r.ll :
All mourn tie Minstrel's harp unstrung,
Their name unknown their praise uneung
The Doctor's ktory.
We were a kuot ol! doctors, enjoying
our.ielves after meetlnf* of the Hippocratic
Medical Society, whose members were ac
customad to assemble once a year for pur
poses of mutual edificatiou and improve
ment. Dr. G deu Cupps was in the chair.
He was our Nestor, our old inan eloquent,
a living professional legendary budget. Ou
his face you could read "Entertainment"
as plainly as yon saw it painted ou an old
fashioned taveru sigu; and to it, after a
day of weary rambling over the dusty
paths of therapeutic lore, we turned aa
naturally for refreshment as the tired way
farer halts before the inviting signboard
waving hospitable welcome to the cheer
within.
Genial Dr. Cupps! Like Father Grimes,
that other good old man, "we'll never see
him any more." No monument marks his
last resting-place. The guild of under
takers, possessed they a spark of graiitude,
would not suffer this to be. As for his
surviving professional brethren, few of us,
I fear, have money to spend in that way.
"llow do young doctors, as a rule, get
their start ?" queried a cynical-looking M.
D. at the foot of the table, with a nose as
sharp as the tip of his own lancet—"leav
ing out, of course, exceptional cases, like
that of a man swallowing a fish-bone, or
dropping suddenly into a fit, where there
is no choice but to seek the nearest aid.
What I ask is, how do people come to trust
their lives deliberately in inexperienced
hands ? What's the philosophy of it ?"
"Popular ignorance, probably, "suggested
ODe.
"Or cheek m the youngster," another
hinted.
"It's mostly luck, I think," remarked
the chair, whereon had converged a num
ber of inquiring looks.
"Come, doctor, ipves us your ex
perience on the point was seconded and
carried.;
"Aline was a case of pure luck," sa d
he.
"Won't you tell us about It ?" we en
treated.
Dr. Cupps was Dot the man to refuse.
"Young men now-a days," he began;
"enttr the profession witn other advan
tages than we old fellows had. The pub
lic hospitals, now accessible to students,
attord them opportunities to learn much by
observation, which tve were Jeft to find
out through experiments on our patten's.
"Though 1 took my degree after a
creditable examination, 1 doubt if I could
then have distinguished, by inspection, be
twen the incipient stages of chicken-pox
and measles. Had I been called to treat a
simple case of rheumatism, ten to one I
should hare found a verdict of white
swelling, and passed a sentence of amputa
tion without stoppiug to ask the victim
what he had to say against it. My first
patient was Percy Topham, a young man
who had inherited a splendid const,tution
i.s well as fortune, but was fast making
way with both. The case, no doubt, would
have fallen in Dingo's hands, for he mou
opolized the practice thereabout, but for bis
absence on a distant call.
"Come quick, sir!" urged the messen
ger; Mr. Percy's taking on at an awful
-ate.'
"Without staying to inquire further, I
snatched my hat aud sailed forth, quite
forgetting, in the excitement, the new-pill
bags wherein was stored my stock of
samples.
"1 arrived to find my patient 'taking on'
at an awful rate, sure enough.
"Poker in hand, he was laying about
him in a manner highly detrimental to the
furniture. He was killing snakes, he said.
Had it been dogß, hydrophibia might have
been my diagnosis; but snakes I knew,
meant delirium tremens. And such was
the decision of Mr. Tophatn's own more
practiced judgmentfor,turning toward me.
in a lucid moment:
"I've got 'em, Doc,' he said.
"I did my best to calm him,assured him
I should bring him around, placed my fin
gers on his pulse, and began to count the
MILLHEIM, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1881.
boats, but, darting from me, he exclaim
ed:
''There goes the biggest snake yet —the
old sernent of all!' making a slash with the
poker? which caused me to do lge into u
corner.
"Leaving two to watch him,and accomp
anied by the man who had summoned me.
1 hurried home to prepare such remedies
as 1 should conclude the case required—a
|H>iut, 1 must confess, I was very far from
clear upon. I had been reared in a tern
perate community, had seen little intoxica
tion or its effects, and my reading had not
borne specially in that direction.
"Before reaching my ofhce, however, 1
decided what course to take. There was
no time to consult bks. Besides 1 was
ashamed to do that in the presence of the
man who waited to carry back the physic.
He would have taken it as a confession of
ignorance, and would have lost no time in
proclaiming me a dunce.
"Overhauling my stock ot drugs, and
takiug a little from every one, I produced
mixture, some element of which 1 hoped
might prove a service.
"Give him a tablespoonful of it every
half hour,' Isaid to the mau, handing him
the bottle, on which 1 was careful to put
no label.
".Not caring to be present to witness the
effect of my maiden prescription, 'Tell
Mr. Topham I'll call in the morning,' 1
said.
"Whatever my patient did, 1 passed a
bad night. Of all cases in which to make a
debut , why should the malgnant fates send
the very one most likely to expose me?
'•With many misgivings I presented my
self next morning at the patient's door. 1
was glad to see there was no crape on it.
Passing the servant, wiio admitted me. 1
hurried, trembling, to the sick room.
"Good-morning, Doc,' cried the invalid,
rising from a tumptuoua breakfast, wiping
his mouth with one hand and extending
me the other.'By George,you did bring me
through famously! That stuff was mighty
nasty, but it did the business. I'm sound
as a dollar this morning !'
"Before 1 coiild reply, a serving-man
entered, the-same by whom I had sent the
medicine.
"What's the matter, Dick ?'said Top
ham.
"Boxer's dead, sir."
"Dead! The deuce 1 There's a go! I
suppose you forgot to call at Botts,'' the
firrier's for that drench yesterday; Just
like you when my back is turiwd
"No, sir," the man replied: '1 stopped
and got it on my way from the doctor's,
and gave it according to direction.'
"Just my luck 1" cried Topham, smiting
the table, 'You see, DOC, Boxer was my
fastest trotter. I counted on winning a
mint cf money ou him at the coming races,
and now he's gone and kicked the bucket.
Well, "peace to his manes /'• as the poet
says. Here, Dick, hand the doctor that
medicine bottle from the mantel. He may
as well fill it up again. This morning's
luck may set me on a fresh spree, and
there's no telling how soon I may need
another dose.'
"A g'auce at the bottle as I took it made
me start. It bore a lable, on which I read
SIMON Bona, farrier.
"Can it be," I mentally exclaimed,
"that it was Botts'' potion that cured
the man, and mine that killed the
horse f" It was a strong case or circum
stantial evidence, at any ra e.
"Quietly pocketing the bottle, I went
my way. If the truth was as I surmised,
it never came out. Topham souuded my
praises every where, and soon the local
death-list was pretty equally filled with the
names of old Dingo's patients and my
own."
Forgotten OlHoiul*.
A writer wU uas been giving reminis
cences of life in Washington 6ays : Before
this house (the one occupied by Mr. Sew
ard when he was attacked by Mr. Payne)
for several years afterward a sentry paced
night aud day, even when Mr. Seward nad
moved away and gone out of otiice. The
same building was once us id as a club
fcojse, and irom it Key just issued when
he was shot, by Sickle?. This lonely sen
try, still at his post loug after he had been
forgotten at the wai department, aud al
lowed io remain, I suppose, because no one
thought it was his duty to relieve him, re
minds me of several similar incidents that
are related in Washington. The great
fails of the Potomac are about sixteen
miles above Washington, and during the
war there was a station lor the collection
of provisions for the army on tho bank of
the canal near these grand cataracts. The
road between Washington aud Great Falls
was several times laided by the Confede
rates, and a block house was erected by
tue Federals at a point three or four joules
above Georgetown to prevent parties of
Southerners irom passing up and dowu the
r ad. At tne close of tne war the defences
aboilt the capital were one alter another
deseited, but nobody seems to have re
membered the corporal's guard stationed
out there on the Aqueduct road, aud they
remained on duty lor a year or two. Al
ter they were relieved, the block house
was set on tire by tramps or boys, and only
a few blackened posts now mark its site.
A still more reniaikable case was that dis
covered by General B F. Butler, about ten
years ago. He was nosing around among
me appropriations, one day, wuen he dis
covered an officer in the cupitoi whose du
ties he did not understand. He was
"watching crypt." Au investigation
showed that many years ago it was propos
ed to deposit the bone? of General Washing
ton beneath the capitol, and a crypt was
prepared for that purpose. When it was
completed a public officer was appointed
whose duty it was to watch this crypt and
prevent jt,9 desecration, and there he had
been ever since, growing gray in the ser
vice; while Cengresß had appropriated
money to pay his salary year alter year,
nobody had thought it worth while to in
quire now he earned it.
Widow Harkin*.
One eveuing a crowd of young people
congregated at Bill Burtou's ranch, and
when the first quadrille was over he took a
stand in front of the fire and parting ids
coat tails iu a comfortable mauuor remark
ed :
"That was i urty neat dancing; you ail
know the step and haudle yer hoofs purty
peert, but some of you young folks can't
hold er candle to sura old 'una I've seed,
an' that kinder reminds me of old Widow
llarkir.s I knowed back in Georgy, when I
was a boy.
"Oh, tell us about her, Uncle Bill," ex
claimed a chorus of voices.
"Wall, she wus tlier all flredest activest
old heifer 1 ever knowed. She lived up in
the Peaclt Branch settlement nigh to Bill
Brown's an' was kin—aunt ar suthin'—to
ther Millers from Alabaniy. When i
knowed iier, she was crawlin' on to eighty
years old, but she was tougher'n 'er pecan
sapling, an' the way that 'ere old critter
knocked dust that June day was'er caution
to 'er ntusiaug colw"
"Was she scared, Uncle Bill?" inquired
the crowd.
"Wall, now, I guess she was kinder
skeert. You see one day I had Jes' cum
outer the field from plowin' au turned old
Job iu ther lot. Darn that old mule, he
had jes' busted a new pair of traces to flin
ders tryiu' to kick 'er parcel of bumble
bees ot'ern bis hind legs. Ho was aller*
getiiu' m a yaller jackets' nest or suthin'
else, an' cons&ru his ole pictur; he busted
uty leg outer lint je>' wken cautp nieetin'
was euuiin' on 'bout 'or week arter that. As
1 was goin' ou to say, I tous liuntiu' round
'er stable gettin' up 'er new set of gear
when 1 heerd the derndesl yellin' an' er'
bellowin' up ther lane, 'an it peered to me
it wus cumiu' closer ail the the lime, au 1
dim' on the fence an' 'gin to iook. Ther
fust thiug I seed wus 'er big cloud 'er dust
'an ther next thing my eyes lit on wus Bill
Brown's ole brindle Dull jes 'er rippin' an
'er rearm' an' 'er lifilu'up his tail an' 'er
chasin' old Widow Hatkins fur everlhing
she wus worth. Tharwus ther bull with
his head down 'an tail ap, an, thar wus ole
Widow Il&rkins with hei balmoral histed,
jez' 'er clatterin' down ther lane like 'er
couple of race horses. I waru't muck
pious in those days, an' jet tin' kinder ex
cited 1 tuk off my hat an' yelled, 'Sling
out yer best hoof,go it,oU gal, till you make
ther gap in the call-pen an' thar you're
safe.' When I hoilerid to her It braced
her up. She puckered her mouth like ther
butt end of 'er persinxnon, histed her
balmoral 'er little higher, 'an I tell yer it
fairly made me sweat to lee ther way that
ole citizen did climb over dirt. She sorter
looked back over one sh Aider an' saw that
bull about ten feet behind her an still 'er
cummin' 'er rippin' an' rearin'. But feel
in' she wus safe, she jest pulled the bal
moral over her head, 'an the ole bull stood
still, astonished, an' went off kinder'**
kitten. 1 would jest like to see some of
you quadrille dancers try to take the rag
off Widow Harkius."
"You Bill!" shouted his wife ip dismay.
He stopped dead short, and there was a
pause—a long, dreary paiue, until one of
the young men looked out of the window
aud said he thought it would rain before
morning, 'ihe young i<es said they
thought it would, too, aad Old Bill Burton
went dowu to the oow-pon to see if the
calves had been turned out, acd never came
back in the parlor again that night. __
A Team of KUntleer.
Each of the Wapoos had under his or
fcer charge five deer, and except upon these
Ave animals, they did notbestow a thought,
leaving the others to eaci c.ipture his own
individual Ave as best hecould. Even the
old Wapoos, Ntlas, by mine, did not offer
to assist Uis belter half, nor did she seem
to expect such assistance. The animals
having been very speedily got in order, the
next thing io to IMMDCO* Uum, which is done
in Lbi* fat-hion : The doer has a sktu col
lar on its shoulders, to wiiich is fastened a
long strap, also of untanued skin, which,
going between the legs of the auiiaal, is
lied to a ring at the prow of the poolk.
The single rein with which we drive is
made fast to the left side of the head and
H held in the right hand. Iu steering to
the right, cast the rem over the right shoul
der of tne animal, and pull, or iaiher tug
a little, if you wish to hasten you can
strike with the rem on the animal's sides
and back, though if you have a wild brute
this is rather dangerous, as it on being
struck becomes utterly unmanageable, and
therefore it is generally quite sufficient to
raise the left hand, as if tor u blow, which
will cause the deer to run off smartly
enough. Ihe instant the foremost deer
starts all the others follow in a long line,
winding in aud out uccoriing as the lead
er's tracks go. All deer won't lead the
way. Many are trained to follow only.
Over all Fiuuiarkeu, in fast, oVer all Lap
land, one neyer sees two deer harnessed
togelht+ br wit hproper geat. In this re
spect the are far more practical,
aud not niy uo they bring the animal to
the same statu of subjection xs ihe horse
with us, but they also use eutire bucks for
domestic purposes, a tiung unheard of in
Lapland.
Tauuiutf*
The process of tanning in China is thus
described: The skins are pi 3 into tubs
containing water, saltpetre and salt, after
thirty days they are taken out, the hair is
shaved off, and the skins are veil washed
in spring water. Each hide a then cut
into three pieces aud well stemied, which
is done by passing them severe! tiuiei back
ward and forward over a ste&ning oven.
Further, each piece is stretched out sepa
rately over a fiat board and secured wall
nails, iu order that it may dry gi aduaily
aud thoroughly in the sun. 7tie smoke or
the oven makes the leather black, aud if it
is required to give it a yellow appearance,
it is rubbed over with water in wnich the
fruit of the so-called wouphee has been
soaked. Of the off al, glue s made by heat
ing it in pans for twelve hiurs over a slow
lire. The glue so obtuinel is poured into
rough earthen vessels, wiere it remains
three days, iu order to coagulate. The
solid mass is then cut in paces with sharp
knives and carefully laid tpon grating, like
trays, to dry, which arc jlaced in open
spaces resembling the Lutch threshing
floors.
—There are In the Soldiers Orphan
School of Feiiusylvanitts tbout tweuty
six hundred pupils, wlo*e mainten
ance and education duriig the coming
year will ooe. the State aDeut $860,000.
The Holy Fire.
It is stated, that on the last night of the
year 1880., about nine o'clock, a large por
tion of the counties of Galway and Mayo,
Irelaud, were suddenly ablaze with torches
formed roughly of sheaves of wheat. It,
was not a quarter of an hour from the
time that the first torch was observed be
fore the country to the horizon was all
alight. Loud shouts were heard, horns
and whistles were blown, cans were beaten
and the inhabitants seemed to have become
demeuted. County houses were hastily
closed up and secured; the police prepared
In theiir barracks for defense, and every
body outside the Laud League made cer
tain that the dreaded momeut had come.
The lights and the noises subsided about
'eleven o'clock, and the night passed over
with no more than the usual number of
outrages. The country people affect to bj
iguorant of the cause of the illumination;
some said it was to celebrate the liberation
of Paruell, but the facts of the trial are
well known in every hauilet and such a
reason could not hold water. There is no
custom of the kind on New Year's eve.
The question asked on every side in Ire
laud is, we hear, was it a preconcerted
practice in signalling? or was it an expe
riment? A lew nights before the Fenian
rising something of the same kind was
observed in several parts of the country,
and many well affected people are of the
opinion that the incident portends no good,
in the winter of 1832 the country was ob
served one night to be full of flashing
lights in every direction. Men were fran
tically running around with lighted sods of
turf in their h&uils, with which they
rushed from one house to another. The
origiu of the phenomena was never clearly
traced, but it was supposed to have been a
man appearing at a house and leaving a
lighted sod of turf, at the same time giv
ing directions that the house owner should
run it to seven other sods which he was
t le.ive to • v. n house-, t lat had not before
received thcui. This was to be done on
pain of eternal perdition. That night al
mos' every Caihohc house In Ireland was
visited,and many died from the exertion of
getting rid of their seven sods of turf. It
t* supposed that it was an experiment to see
in how short a time communication might
be effected on an emergency from different
centres of activity, acting simultaneously.
It was called "the night of the holy fire."
In Ireland no sign ought to be neglected.
In 18(17 the police were still in their
country barracks when the day of the ris
ing came, although orders had been issued
lor their concentration in the event of the
near prospect of what was known must
come."
The Man at the Wlud*or.
While riding up towD the other day in a
Filth Avenue stage, New York, a reporter
met an acquaintance who is a frequenter of
races during the season, and a fair juJge
of a horse.
"Anything new f" inquired the reporter.
"1 have just heard of a trick in horse
selling that I thiuk should be shown up in
the newspapers."
"What is the dodge?"
"My uncle, wliocnaaiders himself pretty
sharp, came dowu from the country to buy
a trotter. Without taking any one into his
confidence, he started off alone to make a
purchase. He met with several queer ex
periences, oue of which, being new to me,
is best described as follows:
"A stramrsr enters a sales stable and ex
plains what sort of a horse he desires. Af
ter two or three ordinary animals are shown
up, an apparently likely horse is brought
out with considerable flourish. 'There,'
says the seller, 'is the offer for you. You'ii
never take auyliody's dust behind that fel
low. The fact is, I sold him to a city man
recently, and allowed him to try the horse
on the road. I kuew the man had plenty
of money, and thought he could manage a
trotter. In about three hours afterward a
luaouyln. tiui horse hack, with tW
harness and cutler all knocked to pieces.
He said am m who was a little off had
given him $5 to bring the horse around,and
say that he would call aud pay for him.
But,'continues the seller, 'he can't have
the animal at any pnee; I'll never seil a
good horse to a man that can't take proper
care ot hitn. You can have him for S2OO
less than he promised me.'
" While they are dickering about the
ani nal in walks a well-dresed man, saying
;n a rather blu-teiicg manner. 'I have
orne to pay for that horse I bought recent
ly,' at the same tune displaying a large
roll of money. •'You can't have him,' re
plied the stableman. 'Why?' 'Because
you damaged my property,and don't know
how to use a horse. Besides, I have sold
him to tuts gentleman."
"After a quarrel, in which the city man
swears that he will have the horse at auy
price, and the seller is equally emphatic in
declaring that the horse is sold, the city
mau sidles up to the stranger, whispering,
'l'll get the best of him any way. You
pay for the horse and bring htm right
uiound to me at the Windsor, when I'll
hand you SIOO more than you pay for
hnn.'
"To cut the matter short, the stranger
buys the horse, and afterward looks in vain
for the man At the Windsor."
"Did your uncle look for the man at the
Windsor?"
"No, but I know of several who would
like to see him."
He Dldu't Want to Bay.
Looking at the twin "before" and "after"
pictures on the bottle, the bald headed old
gentleman asked, *'! that the way it al
ways works ?" "Always," said the clerk.
"Produces hair on the smoothest head ?'*
"Yes," eaid the clerk, "produces a most
luxuriant growth of hair in six weeks or
money refunded. Never was known to
fail, sir, and we have sold a million and a
half of bottles. How many will you have?"
"Y r oung man, don't ask me to take any
more bottles. The last one I took home
has ruined my peace of mind and brought
desolation to my home. My wife thought
it was bay. ruin or something or other for
the complexion, and she's just worried to
death now that she's found out what it will
do, and spends half her time at the mirror
watching for the first premonitions of the
luxuriant full beard that i 9 to hide her
beauty forever. No young man I don't
want any more of it. And to tell you the
truth," he added in a stage whisper, "it
wouldn't be of any use. Bhe is that mad
that she pulls out my hair as fast as it
grows. Look at my bald head, now. The
clerk looked, and had not the heart to say
more, but put the bottle away and advised
the old gentleman to present his wife with
a raaor and fixings.
An Age of Crlino.
Not long ago a wagon rumbled swiftly
away from the Eastern penitentiary, at
Philadelphia, Pa., and an hour afterwards
stopped in the municipal buryiug-ground
—the potter's field of the vulgar—and in a
few minutes a plain pine box was lowered
into a hole in the earth and the frozen clods
rattled upon the pine-inclosed form of
Wade Sipple, alias Pierce, alias William
Gray, who in his day was one of the most
famous hotel and sneak thieves in the Uni
ted States. His end was that of aine out
of ten malefactors, although his fate had
not overtaken him until he had gone be
yond ihe allotted three-score and ten years.
For more than forty years Sipple had pur
sued a criminal career, and in that lime he
had been made familiar with the interiors
of the county prison, the Eastern peniten
tiary, Sing Sing, Charlestown, Mass., Bal
timore, Richmond, Whelling and Wilming
ton, N. C'., prisons and penitentiaries. lie
was known to the detectives all over the
land as a daring hotel thief ; the stories of
whose exploits would fill books. He was
first known in 1830, when he became
an inmate of the Eastern penitentiary. In
the great days of steamboat travel along
the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, thirty years
ago, when the boata were intested by regu
lar coalitions of tremblers, who preyed upon
the Southern and S >uth western planters
who travelled between New Orleans and
Cincinnati and St. Louis, the fine art of
sneak-thieving was adroitly [lied. The
thieves stole from the planter and from the
successful gambler alike, often taking
thousands of dollars from the staterooms,
where it had been deposited by the. cam
sharpers for safety during the progress of
the famous games in which the reckless
planters often staked, not only the ready
money derived from the sale of their ciops,
but wagered, besides, their plantations,
field hands, residences, etc., and lost all to
tb& cunning knaves whom the blind god
dess and skill favored. Sipple, who was
down on his"luck" after a lerm of impris
onment at Richmond, Virg n a encountered
an acquaintance of Hi Mcgary, the notori
ous Mississippi river thief, who was ia part
nership with Al Bjrtis and Tom Buchanan
in working the steamers plying the Father
of Waters. This man look Sipple West
with him, and his coolness and adroitness
so pleased the veterans that he was admit
ted to full membership in the band ol plun
derers, with whom he remained many
years. He had a thrilling adventure once
near Natchez, Miss., which is said to have
frightened him into abandoning his affiii*-
tion with Burlis and his other confede
rates. A party of gamblers had come up
from New Orleans, hai "cleaned out'' a
number of planters, and were making mer
ry over their triumph. The spoils of vic
tory were supposed to be fabulous. Sipple
learned that the money, which was mostly
in bundles ot brand-new crisp bank notes,
was in the stateroom of one of the gam
bler*. He determined to possess himself
of it and succeeded in his enterprise, after
wards concealing the plunder in his own
room. Tne gambler discovered his less in
a few hours and notified hi* associates.
They fixed on Sipple and another man as
the thieves and, catching them on the up
per deck of the steamer on a moonlight
night, as she was passing Natchez, they
surrounded them, and, with drawn bowie
knives and dertiogers, threathened ihjai
with instant deain unless they produced
the booty or told where it was hidden.
Sipple pretended to be frightened into com
pliance. and told his capiors to accompany
him to his room. On his way thitDer, al
though encompassed by gleaming steel, fie
.sprang through his environment aud
plunged overboard. An attempt was made
to stop the boat and capture Uie thief, but.
no trace of him couid be uistinguished
even undei the uioouiight, and he was
given up for lost. Not sJ, however. He
escaped, aud not liking the manners of the
Soul hern gamblers, he lorsook steamboat
thieving as too perilous. Ihegmubieiaxe
covered their money ill Stpple s room after
a fight with his compauious. As age crept
over the once dariug criminal he descend
ed lower aud lower in tne grades of crime
uulil he became a mere sueak thief—a
snapper up of trifles. Suspicion was not
liKelj to se.t e upon a wlme-naired, white
whiskered, nicely-dressed old m n, and so
he subsisted miserably ou his pilfering
where thousands hid been insufiicient to
satisfy him before. He was arrested many,
times tor petty larceny aad sentenced to a
few mouths in the county prison. in
January, 1878 he was ia custody under
the name of Feck along with (Jnarles
Blake, the burglar, ou tUe charge of dis
posing of some of the plunder irom J. E.
Bium's house, 2036 Diamond street, at a
second hand dealer's store, represeuiiug
that Blake was his son ta-iaw, who wa*
breaking ap housekeeping. Blake was
taken to West Chester aiterwards on sus
piciou of participation in the Baney mask
ed robbery, Uu October 16, 18/8, Gray
is found iu trouble agaiu for tUe last time.
Three men wUo climbed over a back feuce
from a brickyard were surprised while iu
the act of breaking into tne residence 1208
Thompson street. Two of them escaped
from the police, but the third, poor, old
Wade Sipple, who told the magistrate
aiterwards that his name was William
Gray, was too stiffened by age andjheuma
tisui to clamber up tUe ladder again aud
was ornered behind a barrel in the yard ol
the dwelling. He was oouvicted and sen
tenced to tnree years imprisonment. At
ter a little over two years' confinement he
fell dead on Saturday last from appoplexy
and his melancholy burial, line tUat of tne
forger Rollins, tooa place in Rotter s field.
Very few of Uis old associate* in crime are
behoved to be alive.
A Marvelous Stage Ride.
One of the darkest, coldest, rainiest
nights of the past month, an adventure oc
curred in a neighboriug county which de
serves be perpetuated among the re
markable episode* of stage traveling. Tin
lady and gentleman who were prominent
actors in tne almost tragedy were recently
at the Morris House, aud tne story is in no
manner exaggerated or overwrought. This
couple were the sole occupants of the inte
nor of the stage on the night in question,
and were sitting silently muffled up wish
ing for morning to dawn. Tne hack was
drawn by two horses that were quite res
tive and high-spirited, thoi ~ti the drowsy
passengers gave little heed to this fact until
afterward. The night was so dreadfully
dark that it was almost impossible to keep
in the road, and the stage was finally
brought to an abrupt halt by one of the
wheels striking against a stump. The
gentleman partially undid the ropes in
wnieh he was muffled, and asked the driver
if lie needed any assistance, and receiving
a negative answer, snuggled back into bis
wiappmgs. Presently the stage moved on
and the incident atuacted no lurther atten
tion. In a little while another stoppage
occurred and the passengers had a vague
conscious! ess that the driver again descend
ed to anange something about the wheels
or tiaces. The raui pattered unceasingly
upon the roof, the wind mcaued through
(lie forest branches, and weary, exhausted
aud benumbed, our friends were only semi
conscious ot the lact that the stage again
resumed |ils journey, budtienly the gen
tleman became impressed with the uka
that they were tiaveliog at too high a late
oi speed, and this conviction became so
strong that he dually leaned out of the win
dow lar enough to ascertain that the driver
had disappeared aud his horses were run
ning a A ay.
Without awakening his wife to a sense
of their danger he attempted to perioral a
feat which lew lneu would have the nerve
to do in bread daj light, 'i his was to climb
out of the window whde the team was run -
mug at lull speed, aud swingh meek up on
to the driver's scat so as to secure the reins,
it required the strength of an a hiete and
the coinage of a hiro to accomplish this
task, but it was accomplished. As soon as '
hi ga:ued the driver's sea. he reached lor
.he reins which he expected to find twisted
aoout the biake, and to kis utter horror
louud ihey were gone. Meantime the horses
were raumng a. me top ot iheir speed, tlie
hack was ueing violently jolted aud tossed
iroiu side to side,auil the ominous darkness
into wmcti they were plunging threatened
ius.ant destruction. Leaning over toe boot
tryiug to rta h down aud and the rema, the
stage gave a sudden lurch aud Uid gewl>
u.au was hu-icd haoioug under tne wheels.
I here was momemarily a stunned sen
tatou, atharppain as the wheels passed
over ms legs, aud ibere was a rush ano cla -
ter ot boots as lha runaway team aiaap
ptared m the da aneas. Abe wite wai
gone in the ruua Aay s age. Fiction never
conjured up many situa ions more uniquely
unconiiortaole. Tuwolod uoceremon.ou -
ly out mto Uie mud aud wa er, with a naif
orokeu leg aid a lull knowledge ina. bis
wrife woula be da hod speedily to a horrible
dca h, our friend was almost fi autre wbeu
he anally arose aud commenced groping
along in the darkness.
It was not very long before the driver
ca ue rushing a.oug in pursuit of the stage
aud his paaHmgens, and gloriously astonish
ed be was to meet with one of mem under
sucb circumstances. There was nothing to
do bu: follow the road and await the ter
uuna.ion of attain. tiuducniy, as they
were passing over a brusby knoii, tbey
htafci a sound wiucb tbey readily knew
must be occasioned by the runaway tea u.
the wonder ot it, bowevar, was tbat tne
icam was eviden.ly coming toward timm
by some iiit.au* ibe bones bad turned
a. ouud aad were coming back, it was no
easy matter to cbeca too tnghtaned aui
uiais, but by vigorous shouting aid bumu
mg th y were turned into Ibe bruan and
caugut. iturning to ibe stage to aee wbat
nai become of ms wife, tea gentleman
round ber all wrapped up as be hki left be?
aid loudly oblivious ot ibe last tuat sbe
nai been ibe Object ot auy paiticnlar eolic
nude on ms part, or ibu be mux been ab
sent troin ber side, or to a. sue hid been in
auy cauger. tine knew tue a.age was go
ing very npidiy, but innocently supposed
ma. toe driver was making up tor io*t mm*
AO. alb tug was broken about lbs aarriage
LT Harness.
A Terrapin Farm.
Mr. Dorloa'a gnat terrapin farm Is loca
ted at Ceuar t'uuL Tuu p* ejection of
laud ut on me wesijru shore ot Monde Da/,
aoout Xu wiles below una city, aud is w
uabited prmcipa ly Oy oysteruieu wuo rta.
jfdl'l* ll |iar * w '"' tm,tk UVOB wniau
luruish nearly every oyster brought to me
port ot Mobue. Mr. Durlon, wuo Keeps a
a.ore at mis point, oat aOout 'hree acres
teuceu in wun strong pilings. Headta* to
una lucloaure are two cauaij, one on tile
uay side aua ihu oiher on me gulf side,
wuicli supply wim talc wa.er a nuuioer ot
ditones lu lect wide aud ItAJ teet long. The
tftud accumula.wg lroui thj excavaiou of
mese ditches nt turown on each side, and
used terrapins to sun themselves
aud lay tueir eggs in, which, if couuteu,
wouiu go up in me miihota, aad can be
tatted up by Hie buanel. in tne winter sea
son me terrapuia remain imoedded in me
uiud ot me ouches, wnere mey stay until
apriug time, never touciung a morsel ot food.
A. system ot sluices enaules Mr. Uurlon to
aeep tne diicnea lull ot sat water,or drum
tneui at pita tare, and h.* is iota . all de
pendent on me tide tor tint purpose.
The number ot terrapins on the far in, aa
lar as can be ascertained and by Uie Closest
calculation, is between 20,000 aud 2d,Odd,
and in tne course ot tUe next three or lour
s.ars wnl be soinemiog iiard to calculate.
Auout May Ist, Mr. ioorlou wanes Uts pur- •
cnaie of teriapius from tue country people
on me Mississippi douuo, aid taxes all hu
i.au secure at $-1 a dozen, and mat gener
ally averages aoout 8, Odd a year aided to
ma larui % outside ot ihuae breed therein,
i'ne luuanitania of Mississippi and
auut tne terrapins wim dogs ira ued tor ont
puipoae. Tne dog barKs wueu ha tim>4
one aud the Uuuter immediately secures a
oy going to tbe spot where tne dog poinu£
ine cost ot feeoing tue terrapins, wnicn,
as we nave said, is only done in me sum
mer, is about $1 per uozen for the season,
mid tue price per dozen in .New Jfork has
varied Horn $lB to SB. Tne tood, winch
cousists of craos ana lish, is caugnt wim a
seine in front of ihe tarm, and really very
lutie expense is attached to the raising of
mese valuable land tor.oisca. Mr. J dor ion
oegius to snip aoout Ociooer, Ist, aud men
ou to aoout May lorn. He gen. iauy sends
ms to oavauuau by rail, aud thence to Jttew
tfork by steamer, averaging aDout A2,00U
a season, aud, had it uot been lor a disas
trous hmneaue wnich some time ago wash
ed out Mr. idorlon'sianu, it would be to
uay me greatest terrapm larm in me world,
tie can always snip all ne can get,tor mere
is a ready market tor these delicacies.
Pasts for Paper.
To ten parts by weight of gnm arabic add
three parts of sugar in order to prevent the
gum from cracking; then add water until
the desired consistency is obtained. If a
very strong paste is required adi a quan
tity of flour equal in weight to the gum,
without boiling the mixture. The paste
improves In strength when it begins to fer
ment.
NO. 13.