THE MILLHEIM JOIRYAL, PUBLISHED KVREY THURSDAY BY R. A. BUMILLER. Office in the New Journal Building, Penn St., near Hartman's foundry. 81.00 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE, OR $1.25 IF NOT PAU> IN ADVANCK. Acceptable Correspoudcnce Solicited Address letters to MILLHEIM JOURNAL. B US IN E SSC. J J{ 7) HARTEIT, Auctioneer, MILLHEIM, PA. D R JOHN F. IIARTER. Practical Dentist, Office opposite the Methodist Church. MAIN STREET, MILLHEIM PA. R. G EG. 8. FR A N K, Physician .V Surgeon, HEBERSBURG, PA. Office opposite the hotel. Frofessional calls promptly answered at all hours. ~|"~) R n. 11. MINGLE, Physician & Surgeon Offllce on Mam Street. MILLHEIM, PA. J. SPRINGER, Fashionable Barber, Shop 2 doors west Millheim Banking House, MAIN STREET, MILLHEIM, PA. D. H. Hastings. W. F. Reeder -QASTINGS& REEDER, Attorney s-at-Law, BELLEFONTE, PA. Office on Allegheny Street, two doors east of the office ocupied by tbe late firm of Yocum A Hastings. C. T. Alexander. C, M. Bower. 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Good Sample Rooms for Commercial Travel er* on first noor. QT. ELMO HOTEL, Nos. 317 & 319 ARCH ST., PHILADELPHIA. RATES REDUCED TO $2,00 PER DAY. The traveling public will still find at this Hotel the same liberal provision for their com fort. It islocated in the immediate centres of business and places of amusement and the dif ferent Rail-Road depots, as well as all parts of the city, are easily accessible by Street Cars Constantly passing the doors. It offers special inducements to those visitiug tbe city for busi ness or pleasure. Your patronage respectfully solicited. Jos. M. Feger. Proprietor. pEABODY HOTEL^ 9thSt. South of Chestnut, PHILADELPHIA. One Square South of the New Post Office, one half Square from Walnut St. Theatre and in the very business centre of the city. On the American and European plans. Good rooms from 50cts to $3.00 per day. Remodel ed and newly furnished. W PAINE, M. D., 40-ly UwiiVr & Prtfprlet'diS R. A. BUMILLER, Editor. VOL. 58. TJR. A. W. 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(A full line at the v JOURNAL STORE. | Parents are invited to call at our i place on Penn Street. * MILLHEIM Sewing Machine OFFICE, F. O.IIOSTERM AS, Proprietor, Main St., opposite Campbell'* store. -AGBNCT FOR TUB World's Leader AND TUE "WHITE SEWING MACHINES, the most complete machines in market. machine is guaranteed for five yearo by the companies. TP e undersigned also constantly keeps on hand all kinds of NeeiLs. Oil, Attatents. Sc. Sc. Second Hand Machines sold at exceedingly low prices. Repairing promptly attended to. Give me a trial and be convinced of the trutli of tlfcse statements. F- 0 308TEML4N MILLHEIM, PA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4. 1884. Behind the Tapestry. Ten ye.us ago I was In the first s>r row :> ; ami when Ilia m .ivo ci >*ed over tuy husband 1 thought that there was no place left for nie in the woild. I was rich, young ; and my friends and my own r. fleeti ins in the glass, told me that I was beautiful. 1 did not. caie for the people who fl it tri ed and made much of me, hut ! turned, even in the first days of my trouble, to one friend. .She, too, was young and beautiful, We wt re schoolfellows ; we were en gaged at the srme time ; we were mar ried in the same mouth of the same year. During rhe three years of my mar ried life we had seen little of each oth er, but when my husband died, and Mary Clifford wrote to me tendeily out of her full heart, I answered back her love. She asked me to stay with her and I went. I stayed with the Cliffords a couple of months. During that time the house was quiet, visitors few—they eschewed company for my sake. At the end of two months I feft them, comforted and helped, and with many promises of a return by-and by. Circumstances, however, too varied and too many to mention, prevented that second visit taking place for a couple of years. At the end of that time a great longing came over mo to see Mary Cl.ff>: d again. I must write to her and promise a visit. 1 did so. By return of post I got a short but charactistic reply* : "DEAREST HONOR ; Of course I long to see you. but unfortunately the house is full. Large as it is, it is crammed from celler to attic. "My dear, I don't want to refuse vou. Ido long to see you. Will you sleep iu the Tapestry room ? for of course it is empty. I dare not put anybody else there, hut I don't think you; Honor,will be afraid of the ghost. If the Tapestrv room will do, come, and a thousand welcomes. 1 can put up your maid. Your loving friend, MARY CLIFFORD.'.' To this letter I made a short ans wer : "I do not believe in the ghost. The Tapestrv room will do beautifully. Ex pect me to morrow." The next evening I arrived at As* pen's Vale in time tor dinner. The Tapestrv ro >ra looked charming. I fell in 1-tve with it at once, and vowed laughingly that tne ghost and 1 would make friends. My maid, however, looked grave o ver u y jesting remarks ; it was plain thai she believed in supernatural visi tations. The Tapestry room was quite away from the rest of the house -it was at the extreme end of the wing. No oth er bedrooms weie in the wing. Altogether, this wing of the old house seemed dead. Visitors only came to it out of curiosity ; they paid brief visits, and prefeired doing so in broad daylight. Old as the other rooms in the wing looked, the Tapestry room bore quite the palm of ancient appearance. The furniture was all of the blackest oak ; the bedstead the usual four-pos ter on which our ancestors loved to stretch themselves. But the curious feature of the room, that which gave it its name, was the tapestry. Not an inch of the walls was to be seen ; they were hung completely with very an cient and very faded tapestry. Dame Clifford, of long, long by-gone days, had worked it, with the help of her maidens. She had come to an un timely end on the very day on which the great work of her life had been completed. It does not matter to this story what became of the proud and fair dame, but it was her ghost which was said to haunt the wing, and the Tapestry chamber in particular. Wardeti, my maid,as she helped me to undress, looked quite pale with terror. "They do say, ma'am, as Dime Clare Clifford appears with her head tucked under her arm, and threads from the old tapestry hanging to her skeleton fingers. She's dressed in gray silk, that don't rustle never a bit, though 'tis so thick it might stand all alone, they do say. 'Tis awful lone some for you, madam, to sleep here a lone r and I'll stay with vou with pleas ure if it comes to that, though my nerves arn't none of the strongest." I thanked Warden, however, and as sureu het th it I was not in the least afraid ; and she, with a well-relieved face left me alone. I hsard her foot steps echoing down the corridor—they died away. I was now out of teach of all human help, for in this distant I*OOlXl, in this distant wing, n"of pjasibTd A PAPER FOR THE HOME CIRCLE sounds could preach any other inhabi tants of Aspen's Vale. I think I have Inapljsd that I was brave. In my girlhood, In iny shore married life, even in the sail depression of my e irly widowhood, 1 had never known physical fear ; neverthelees when the last of Ward MI'S footsteps echoed out and died, and that pro found stillness followed which can he op isesslye, I had a curious sensa tion. I did not c ill it fear, I did not know it for that grim and pale faced tyrant ; hut it made me uncomfortable, and caused tny heart to beat iaregul illy. The sensation was this- I felt that I was not alone. Of course it was fancv ; and what had I to do with fancy V 1 determined to banish this uncom foi table feeling from my mind, and stirring the fire tp a cheerful blaze, 1 drew one of the black oak chairs near it and sat down. Warden had looked so pale and frightened before she left me, that out of consideration for her feeling I had allowed her to leave the jewels which I had worn that eveuing on the dress, ing table. Thete they lay, a set of very valua ble hriants. There was an old-fash ioned mirror over the mantle piece,and as I sat by the fire I saw the reflection of my diamonds in the glass. As I noticeed their sparkle, again that strange sensation returned ; this time more strongly, this time with a cold shiver. I was not alone. Who was in the Tapestry chamber ? Was it the ghost ? Was that stoiv true, after all ? Of course I did not believe it. 1 laughed aloud as the idea came to me. I felt that I was getting quite silly and nervous. There was nothing for me but to get into bed as quickly as p ssihle. I was about to rise from my easy chair and go over to the old-fashioned four-poster, when again my attention was attracted lo the glass oyer my head. It was hung i.i such away as to if veal a laige portion ef the room, and I now saw, not the diamonds, but —something else. In the folds of the di*. and old-world tapestry I saw something move and glitter. I lot ked again ; there was no mistaking it—-it was an eye, a hu man eye, looking fixedly at m u through a hole in the canvas. Now* I knew why I felt that I was not alone. There was some one hidden between the tapestry hangings and the wall of the chamber. Some one—not a ghost. That eye wat human, or I had never looked on human eye before. I was alone with a thief, perhaps with worse and gems of immense value lay within his reach. I was absolutely alone, not a soul could hear the most agonized cty for help i' l t!iis distant room. Now 1 knew—if 1 had ev*r doubted it before—that I was a very brave wo man. The imminence of the peril stead ied the nerves which a few minutes be fore were beginning strangely to quiv er. I never started nor exclaimed. I felt that I had iu no way betrayed my knowledge to my terrible guest. I sat perfectly still, thinking out the sfitui tion and my chances of escape. Nothing but perfect coolness could win the victory. 1 resolved to be very cool. With a fervent and passionate cry to One above for succor,! rose from tny chair, and gung to the dressing table, I slipped several costly rings off my fi igers. I left the n scatter care lessly about. I denuded my self of all but my wedding-ring. Then I put the extinguishe son the caudles - they were wax, and stood in massive silver candlesticks. Tne room, however, was still bril liant with the light of the fie on the hearth. I got into bed, laid my head on the p Mow and closed my eyes. It may have been to; minutes—it seemed more like an hour to rav strained senses—before I heard the faintest movement. Then I discovered a little rustle behind the tapestry,and a mat) got out. When he did so I open ed my eyes wide ; at that distance he could not possibly see whether they were open or shut. He was a powerful man, of great bright and breadth. He had a black beard, and a quantity of thick black hair. I noticed his feat ures, which were tolerably regular. I also noticed another peculiarity : among his raven locks was one perfect ly white. One rather thick white lock was flung back off his forehead—so white was it that the Ore iustantly re vealed it to me. The man did not glance toward the bed, he went straight, with no partic ular quiet step, to the dressing-table. I closed ray eyes now, but I heard htm taking up my trinkets and dropping them again. Then he approached the bedside. I frit him come close, I felt lus breath as be bent over me. I was iying on my side, my eyes werb abut?, I WUB Wreathing gently'. He went away aga'n ; lie returned to the di cing -table. I heard hlra rather noisily strike a in ate 'i. then with a lighted candle in his hand lie once mote approached the bod. This time lie bunt vety low indeed, and I felt the heat of the tl ime as he passed it softly before uty closed eves. I lay still how ever ; not a movement, not a burned breath, hetrayrtl me. I heard him give a short satisfied sigh. Again,candle in hand he retunr ed to the dressing-!able. Once more I heard the clinking sound of my trinkets as they fell through his fin gers. There was a pause, and then—for no reason that I ever could explain— he left the trinkets untouched on the ta blo, and went to the door. He opened the door and went out. I know not what he went for—perhaps to fetch a companion, certainly to re turn—hut I did know that my oppor tunity had come. In an instant quicker than thought, I had started from my feigned slum bers ; I was at the door, I had bolted mid locked it. There were several bolts to this old-fashioned door, there were even chains. I drew every b