VOL. LV. BARTER, AUCTIONEER, REBERSBURO, PA. J C. SPRINGER, Fashionable Barber, Next Door to JOURNAL Store, MiLLHEin, PA. JgROCKERHOFF HOUSE, (Opposite Court House.) H. BROCKERHOFF, Proprietor. WM. MCKKKVKR, Manager. Good sample rooms ou first floor. Free bus to and from all trains. Special rates to jurors and witnesses. Strictly First Class. IRVIN HOUSE. (Most Central Hotel in the CltyJ Corner MAIN and JAY Streets, Lock naven, Fa. s. WOODS CALWELL, Proprietor. Good Sample Rooms for Commercial Travelers on first floor. D. H. MINGLE, Physician and Surgeon, MAIN Street, MILLHKIM, Pa. JOHN F. HARTER, PRACTICAL DENTIST, Office in 2d story of Tomlinson's Gro cery Store, On MAIN Street, MILI.HKIM, Pa. C. T. Alexander. C. M. Bower. A BOWER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. BKLLEFONTE, PA. Office in German's new building. JOHN B. LINN, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BEL L EFONTE, PA. Office on Allegheny Street. QLEMENT DALE, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BKLLEFONTE, PA. Northwest corner of Diamond. YOCUM & HASTINGS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. BELLEFONTE, PA. High Street, opposite First National Bank. C. HEINLE, ATTORNEY at la W. BKLLEFONTE, PA. Practices In all the courts of Centre County. Spec al attention to Collections. Consultations In German or English. F. REEDER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BELLEFONTK, PA. All bus'ness promptly attended to. Coilectloi of claims a speciality. J. A. Beaver. J W. Gephart. JgfiAVER A GEPHART, ATTORNEYS AT LAW* BELLEFONTE, PA. Office on Alleghany Street, North of High. A. MORRISON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BKLLEFONTE, PA. Office on woodrlng'a Block, Opposite Court House. JQ S. KELLER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BKLLEFOHTK, PA, Consultations In English or German. Ofllce in Lyon'o Building, Allegheny Street. JOHN G. LOVE, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BKLLEFONTE, PA. Ofllce in the rooms formerly occupied by the late w. p. Wilson. ADVERTISE IN THE Milllieim Journal. RATES ON APPLICATION. lie pitlleiii fiirtal PARTED. Can I believe, what yet mine eyes have seen, That we are parted who were once so near? That far behind us He the meadows green. Where we no more may greet the early year, Anil pratse the dewy crocus buds, while yet More happy iu each other than iu Spnug? If 1 remember, how should you forget. And leave uie lonely In tuy wandering? Can 1 believe, what yet mine ears have heard, That severed Is our sweet companionship? An autumn wind among the woodlands stirred And blew your kisses from mv grieving lip; Time stepped between us and unclasped our hands That reach in vain across the widening days; Life met our w lawful looks with steru commands, And led us coldly down divided ways. Can I believe, what yet my heart has felt. That never more our paths will be the same? That even now your Joyous musings melt "To tenderer longing at a dearer name? Then say farewell, since that must be the word. In life's strange Journey 1 may yet rejoice. But still through all its voices will be heard The lingering echo of your vanished voice. THE HOARD FENCE. "SIKH>, SIHHV, got homo, you plaguey critter ?" criotl Mr. Bnbeook, waving his arms, its ho chased a dozen sheep and lambs through a gap in the fence. It was a wooden fence, and when he had succeeded in driving the animals to the other side of it, lie lifted it from the reclining position and propped it up with stakes. This was an operation he found himself obliged to repeat many times in the course of the season, and not only of that season, but of several previous seasons. Yet Mr. Babeoek was neither slack nor thriftless ; in faet, ho rather prided himself on the ordinary appearance of his farm, and not without reason. How then, shall we account for his negligence in this particular instance? The truth was that this fence formed the boundary line between his estate and that of Mr. Small, and three gene rations of men who owned these estates had been unable to decide to whom it belonged to rebuild and keep it in re pair. * If the owners had chanced to be men of peaceful dispositions they would have compromised the matter and avoid ed a quarrel ; but if, on the contrary, they belonged to that much larger class who would sooner sacrifice their own comfort and convenience that their so called rights, this fence would have been a source of unending bickerings and strife. And of this class were the present owners. Again and again had they con sulted their respective lawyers on the subject, and dragged from their hiding places musty old deeds and records, but always with the same result. "I say it belongs to you to keep it in repair; that's as plain as pike-staff," Mr. Babeoek would say. "And I say it belongs to you—any fool might see that," Mr. Small would reply ; and then high words would fol low, and they would part in anger, more determined and obstinate than ever. The lawyers' fees and the loss by damages from each other's eattle, had already amounted to a sum sufficient to have built a fence around their entire estates, but what was that compared with the satisfaction of having their own way? At last, one day, Miss Letitia Gill, a woman much respected in the village, and of some weight as a land-owner and tax-payer, sent for Mr. Babeoek to come and see Iter on business ; a summons which he made haste to obey, as how could it be otherwise where a lady was concerned ? Miss Lititia sat at her window sewing a seam, but she dropped her work and took off her spectacles when Mr. Bab cock made his appearance. "So you got my message ; thank you for coming, I'm sure. Sit down, do. J suppose my man Isaac told you I wanted to consult you on business—a matter ol equity, I may say. It can't be expected that we women folks should he the best judges about such things, you know; there's Lsaac, to be sure, but then he lives on the place ; maybe he wouldn't be exactly impartial in his judgment about our affairs." "Jes' so," said Mr. Babeoek. "Well, the state of the cast; is this : When Isaac came up from the long meadow to dinner—they're mowing the meadow to-day, and an uncommonly good yield there is—when he came up to dinner, he found that stray cows had broken into the vegetable garden," "He did, hey?" "You can fancy the riot made. I de clare, Isaac was almost ready to use profane language. I am not sure that he didn't ; and, after all, I couldn't feel to reproach liim very severely, for the pains he has taken with that garden is something'amazing ; working in it, Mr. Babeoek, early and late, weeding, and digging, and watering, and now to see it all torn and trampled so that you wouldn't know which was beets and which was cucumbers. It's enough to raise anybody's temper." "It is so," said Mr. Babeoek. * 'And that isn't all, for by the looks of things they must have been ram paging m the orchard and clover-fields before they got into the garden. Just you come and see;" and putting on her sunbonnet, Miss Letitia showed Mr. Babeoek over the damaged precincts. "You don't happen to know whose animals did the mischief?" said Mr. Babeoek. "Well, I didn't observe them in par ticular myself, but Isaac said there was MIIJJIKIM. PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1881. one with a peculiar white murk, some thing like u cross, on its haunch." "Why, that's Smull's old hrindle," cried Mr. Babeoek. "I know the murk as well us I know the nose on my face. She hud bulls on her horns, didn't she ?" "Yes, so Isaac said." "And a kind of hump on her buck V" "A perfect dromedary," said Miss Letitia, "1 noticed that myself." "They were Small's cows, no doubt of it at all," said Mr. Babeoek, rubbing his hands. "No sheep with them, hey ?" "Well, now 1 think of it there were sheep—they ran away us soon as they saw Isaac. "Yes, certainly, there were sheep," said Miss Letitia. "I knew it—they always go with the cows; and what do you want of me—" "It's to fix damages," said Miss Leti tia. "As 1 said before, women folks are no judges about such matters." Mr. Babeoek hesitated a moment, and t In si said: "Well, I wouldn't take a cent less than seventy-five dollars, if I were you— no# a cent." "Seventy-five dollars ! Isn't that a gixkl deal, Mr. Babeoek? You know 1 don't wish to be hard on the poor man ; all I want is fair compensation for the mischief done." "Seventy-five dollars is fair, ma'am —in fact, I might say it's low. I wouldn't have a herd of cattle and sheep tramp ling through my premises in that way for a hundred." "There's one tliinff I forgot to state ; the orchard gate was open, or they couldn't have got in ; that may make a difference." "Not a bit—not a bit. You'd a right to have your gate open, but Small's cows had no right to run loose. I liojx' Isaac drove them to the pound, didn't he? " "I heard him say he'd shut em up somewhere, and didn't mean to let 'em out until the owner calls for 'em. But, Mr. Babeoek, suppose he should refuse to pay for the damages V I should hate to go to law about it." "He won't refuse ; and if he dix's, keep the critters till he will pay. As to law, I guess he's had about enough of that." "I'm sure I thank you for your ad vice," siud Miss Letitia, "and I mean to act upon it to the very letter." Scarcely was he out of sight, when Miss Letitia sent a summons for Mr. Small, which he obeyed as promptly as his neighbor had done. She made to him precisely the same statement she had made to Mr. Babeoek, showing him the injured property, and asked him to fix the damages." It was remarkable, before he did this, that he should tusk the same question Mr. Babeoek had asked; namely, wheth er she had any suspicion to whom the animal belonged. "Well, one of them I observed, had a terrible crooked horn." "Precisely—it's Babeock's heifer ; 1 should know her among a thousand. She was black and white, wasn't she?" "Well, now I think of it, she was ; one seldom sees so clear a black and white on a cow." "To bo sure, they're Babeock's ani mals fas# enough. Well, let me see ; what you want is just a fair estimate, I suppose ?" "Certainly." "Well, I should say ninety dollars was as low as he ought to be tdlowed to get off with." "Oh, but I fear that it will seem as if I meant to take advantage. Suppose we call it—say seventy-five ?" "Just as you please, of courso ; but hanged if I'd let him off for a cent less than a hundred, if it were my case." "And if he refuses to pay?" "Why, keep the animal until lie comes around, that's all." "But there's one thing I neglected to mention-—our gate was standing open ; that may alter the case." "Not at all ; there's no law against keeping your gate open; there is against stray animals." "Very well ; thank you for your ad vice." said Miss Letitia; and Mr. Small departed with as smiling a countenance as Mr. Babeoek had worn. But at milking-time that night he made a strange discovery—old brindle was missing ! At about the same hour Mr. Babeoek made a similar discovery ; the black and-white heifer was nowhere to be found ! A horrible suspicion seized them both —a suspicion they would not have made known to each other for the world. They waited till it was dark, and then Mr. Babeoek stole around to Miss Letitia's and meekly asked leave to look at the animals which had committed the trespass. He would have done it with out asking leave, only that thrifty Miss Letitia always shut her barn doors at night. While he stood looking over into the pens where the cows were confined and trying to negotiate with Miss Letitia for the release of the heifer, along came Mr. Small in quest of his brindle. The two men stared at each other in blank dismay, then hung their heads in confusion. It was useless to assert that the dam ages were too high, for had they not fixed them themselves ? It was useless to plead that Miss Letitia was in a man ner responsible for what had happened, on account of the open gate, for had they not assured her that that cireum stunee did not alter the case? It was useless to sav she had no right to keep tlu* eows in custody, for had they not counseled her to do so? As to going to law about it, would they not become the sport of the whole town? "He that diggeth a pit, he himself shall fall into it," said Miss Letitia, who read what was passing in their minds as well as if they had spoken, fur the light from Isaac's lantern fell full on their faces. "However, on one condition 1 will free the cows audforgive the debt." "What is that ?" Both thought the question, but did not ask it. "The condition is, that you promise to put a good new fence in place of the old one that separates your estates, di viding the cost between you, and that henceforth you will live together peace fully, so far as iu you lies. Do you promise ?" "Yes," muttered both, in a voice scarcely audible. "Shake hands upon it, then," said Miss Letitia. They did so. "Now let the eows out, Isaac ; it's time they were milked," said she. And the two men went away driving their cows before them, and with a shame-faced air, greatly in contrast to the look of triumph with which they had before quitted her presence. The fence was built, and the strife ceased when the cause was removed ; but it was long leforo Miss Letitia's part in the affair cftine to the public ear ; for she hersep maintained a strict silence concerning it, and she en joined the same U]Kitt her man-servant, Isaac. Tl- Fritgllt- Follower. "Are you esthetic ?" inquired a New Haven young lady of a Brooklyn girl, as the two sat down to a dish of fried claws in a Fulton street restaurant. "I guess so," replied the Brooklyn girl, vaguely. "Why.do you ask ?" "Cause its so terably awfully the thing. We're all Athetic at home. Everybody is, and yy Snakes. Not long ago some boys from Williamsport, Pa., started up Lycoming creek after making arrangements to have their stores transported to a wiid point in a little dell, surrounded by ragged rocks, where they intended to camp. They reached the jxiint selected early in the afternoon and pitched tlieir tent. The first night was passed quite pleasantly, although Eeles dreamed that he was chased by an enormous black snake and did not sleep very soundly. The next morning they started out early to fish, each man armed with a small bottle of snake medicine in his satchel. The stream made its way over rugged rocks, forming little cascades and pools every few hundred yards, where some very fine trout were found. Primeval hemlocks formed an archway overhead, completely shutting out the sun, and the air was cool and refreshing. The second day the party scattered along the little stream to fish, each man intent on bagging all he could. Deacon Calvert went ahead, followed by Policeman Bubb, who was about a quarter of a mile in his rear. The others fished down stream. Everything went well for about two hours, when Bubb was suddenly startled by a series of frightful screams m the direction the deacon had taken. Dropping his rod he ran to see what the trouble was, fearing that his comrade had been caught by a bear. Arriving at the spot he was horrified to find the deacon standing like a statue on a large flat rock, so completely charmed by four enormous rattlesnakes that he could not move. As he did not fear snakes and wished to have some fun with tlie deacon he rushed up and grasped the largest snake with liis right hand around the neck, as it evidently was on the point of springing at the charmed fisher man. This broke the charm. The other snakes fled and Buhl) shook the poisonous reptile which he grasped at Calvert, who gave a frightful yell aud started down stream as fast as his legs would carry him. Bubb pursued, slink ing the snake at him, which writhed and twisted as he held it in his grasp. In a few minutes he discovered that it was coiling tightly around his arm and it shook its rattles defiantly in liis face. He found its coil grow tighter every minute aud his hand began to relax. This alarmed him and he would gladly have flung it from him, but he could not. He must retain his hold, as it was life or death with him. Great beads of perspiration stood on liis forehead and lie felt sick. The reptile coiled tighter and tighter around his arm, while its eyes glistened like sparks of fire and its white fangs could be plainly seen. Finally, in a moment of desperation, he thought of his jack-knife and after fumbling for some minutes he got it out and, opening the blade with his teeth, severed the head of the reptile from its body and saved his life. His arm re mained partially paralyzed for the balance of the day, and he declares that he w r ill never grasp a snake in that way again. On making his way to the camp he -ound the "Deacon" looking as white as ' a sheet and swearing furiously that he 1 would not remain there auother hour | and he immediately commenced packing up to leave. And while engaged in this ; work Fremont came tearing up the path, pursued by a blacksuake which appear -led to be alsjut ten feet long. It ran alongside of him, with its head elevated | as high as his shoulder, and looked him squarely in the face in the most tantali | zing manner. Buhh managed to seize a j stick with one hand and dispatch it before it got away. Fremont, too, was ' terribly frightened aud fully satisfied | with fishing on Ihx-k run. Ho declared i that he would leave at once for llalston 1 and he did. Eeles had not been heard from and it was feared that, as he was so afraid of snakes, a whole colony might have attacked and devoured him. The three fishermen now resolved to leave the accursed place, which seemed to be the favorite abiding place of ser pents, and giving orders to the servant to pack up as quickly as possible they hurried away. On arriving at Ralston late in the afternoon they found Eeles ahead of them. He had l>een chased down stream by a big blacksuake, evi dently the mate of the one that had pursued Fremont Updegraff to the camp, and lie looked as pale as a ghost. "There," said Ciiet. Myers, with a broad grin on his face, "I cautioned you about keeping a sharp lookout for snakes, but you seemed to think there was no danger. Why, I tell you there are blacksnakes up in that mountaiu ten feet long, and as to rattlesnakes, there is no end to them—l mean in numbers. I am glad you got back safe. Have a little of this snake medicine to drive the recollection of the serpents out of your minds!" The bovs declared they were satisfied with fishing for trout ou Rock run, and when their baggage arrived they lx>arded the evening train for Williamsport. And as they stepped on the cars the piazza of the hotel was filled with young ladies who were heard to remark to each other: "Oh, I'm so glad the poor fellows were not eaten up alive by those horrid snakes." When the train rolled away diet swung his hat and yelled after them : "Come again, boys ; there's always good fishing in these mountain streams." The Late I'ope'n Tomb. The translation of the l>ody of Pope Pius IX., from its resting-place in the Basilica of St. Peter to the tomb pro vided iS it in the Church of San Loren zo was accomplished recently in a single night. The ceremony was attended by some of the most shameful scenes ever seen in Rome. Immediately after his death and his obsequies, it will be re membered that the Ixwly of the late Pope, encased in several coffins, one within tlie other, was elevated to a niche prepared for it high up on the walls of one of the chapels of St. Peter's Church, where it remained until the time of re moval. Meanwhile, in accordance with the order given in his will, a simple and inexpensive tomb had been prepared as its last resting-place under the altar of the Church of San Lorenzo, which is some distance from the Vatican. The late Pope had certain tender reminis cences connected with this church and for this reason wished his body to repose there. Moreover, it is said that the profound humility of spirit of which he was capable at times had iuduced him to wish to mortify his pride in life by directing that his body should not have the honor of permanent sepulture in the grandest church of the world and near the remains of the Apostles Peter and Paul. The tomb in the Church of San Lo renzo has been completed for some time but for reasons satisfacton* to L'is execu tors the translation of the body was postponed until last night. A careful watch was preserved over it until all the arrangements were complete. At mid night the coffin was carried from the chapel, and, surrounded and followed by a large body of priests and Catholic laymen, the mortuary procession set forth. The coffin was placed upon a bier drawn by horses and the priests and laymen carried lighted candles. The scene was solemn and sombre in the ex treme, but scarcely had the procession left the steps of St. Peter's than an un ruly mob of the roughs of the city swarmed around it, hustling and inter cepting the priests, endeavoring to ex tinguish the candles and to overturn the bier and shouting "Long live Italy!" "Down with the Pope!" Away with the black gowns!" and so on. The disturb ance became so great and the fear of a terrible scandal was so imminent that the city authorities were compelled to intervene. The police force proving in adequate, some companies of soldiers were hurriedly sent for. On arriving they dispersed the mob, order was re stored, the procession moved ou to the church ami the ceremonies of placing the body in the tomb were completed. Dangers of the Ice-House. It iR not generally known, but chem istry nevertheless affirms, that a certain gas is generated from ice. An ice-house is, in fact, a regular powder magazine, and people who have ice-houses should take care to secure proper ventilation. At a certain state of heat, the gas in an ice-house has been known to explode by the lighting of a match. The fact does i not appear to be generally known. Political Tragedies. The disputes of party leaders for the last three-quarters of a century in the old states would make a wonderful volume, but those of New York would surpass all others. As I recur to the bitter contest between Burr and Hamil ton, I find how many others have flowed from that early example, and how strangely history repeats itself. There was a period in the history of New York filled with duels produced by these con flicts. From 1797 to 1801, and from 1801 to 1804, the utmost violence marked the politics of New York. Not only ink but blood was freely shed by both parties. I count a dozen serious duels in that interval of eight years. The rivals were Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, but long before the first was killed by the bullet of the latter, there were other fatal aflairs. In 1798 Mr. Henderson killed Mr. Jones in New- York city for writing a political squib. Jefferson and Burr were both Democrats, and in 1800 both received the same uumt>er of votes for president, and some of the federalists, eager to defeat their ablest foe, Jefferson, were disposed to throw their electoral votes for Burr, but Alexander Hamilton, the federal leader, bitterly opposed that alternative, and no doubt his opposition to that scheme led to his death at the hands of Burr, less than four years after. "I trust," wrote Hamilton, "New England will not so far lose its head as to fall into this snare, there is no doul)t that upon every per manent and virtuous calculation Jefferson is to be preferred. He is by far not so dangerous a man, and he has pretensions to character. As to Burr, there is noth ing in his favor. His private character is not defended by his most partial friends. He is bankrupt beyond re demption, except by the plunder of Ids country." And Jefferson was elected over Burr. Then began the reign of the Democrats in New York, and oilier duels. First, the death of Philip Hamilton, the eldest son of the great financier, Alexander Hamilton, in 1802, in a political duel with a Democrat named Eacker; then the quarrel between Cheetham, the Jefferson editor, and Coleman, the Hamilton editor, which resulted in the duel which ended in Coleman's death. This was followed by the fierce conflict between De "Witt Clinton, afterward governor of New- York, a Federalist, and John Sartwout, a Democrat, and a friend of Burr. They fired five shots, and Swartwout was terribly wounded. This followed by a challenge from De Witt Clinton to Senator Dayton of New Jersey, after ward arranged, and this by another duel between Robert Swartwout, in which Richard Riker was severely wounded. Matters were shaping for the mortal combat between Burr and Hamilton. Jefferson was nominated for reelection as president in 1804, but Burr was de feated for vice-president, and Governor Clinton selected as the Democratic candidate in his place. Indignant at this new outrage on his pride, and fail ing to get the regular Democratic nomi nation for governor of New York, Burr ran as stump candidate for that office against Morgan Lewis, regular Demo cratic candidate. Hamilton was fierce in his hostility to Burr, and Burr was badly defeated in the same year that saw Jefferson chosen president a second time. There is no doubt that from this moment Burr resolved to fight Hamilton. The latter had been unsparing in his assaults upon his rival, and Burr, hear ing of these comments, sent him a challenge, and refused all compromise but an abject apology. This was refused by Hamilton, and on the 11th of July, 1804, they fought at Weehawken, near New York, and Hamilton was killed, leaving a widow and seven children, his beautiful daughter Angelica, made a maniac by the fearful tragedy. Such is th-e skeleton of New York politics over three quarters of a century ago. The future, if less tragical, has not been less quarrelsome. Both parties have been almost equally afflicted by able and ambitious rivals. George Clinton, De Witt Clinton, Governor Morris, the Livingstons, the Yan Rensselaers, the Hoffmans, the Wrights, the Yan Burens, the Dickinsons, the Sewards, Weeds, Talmadges, the Jays and the Marcvs have been on both sides of various factions in the Democratic, Federal, Whig, Anti-masonic and Republican parties. Hume Pretty. It is strange how little people make of means that are at every one's disposal for making homes pretty. Creepers over a doorway, or climbing up a house, attract one's attention directly one turns into a side street; it is singular that they should be comparatively rare. In this soil creepers, like the Virginia, flourish luxuriantly, and another hardy cluster, the ivy, will grow anywhere, under any circumstances. In Germany the ivy is an intimate family friend. It fc is often trained indoors, carried over framework, and cultivated until often the whole side of a room will be covered with it. In many parts of the country beautiful com binations are made by the simple inter growth of ivy and the Virginia creeper; and in the fall the effect of oontrast be tween the dark deep green of the ivy in termingled with the varying colors of the favorite creeper, make the ruins of the Rhine more picturesque than any thing else could possibly do. Let any one who desires an interest and an or nament in one, cultivate an ivy tree and he will be surprised and gratified at the results he will obtain with scarcely an effort NO. 34.