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(A full line at the v JOURNAL STORE, L P.ueii:B are invited to call at our a place <>n Penn Street. * MILLHEIM Sewing Machine OFFICE, F.. JIOSTER.iI A. Proprietor, Main St., opposite Campbell's store. FOR TUB World's Leader AND THE WHITE SEWING MACHINES, the most complete machines in market. machi eis guaranteed for five years by tho companies. Tte undersigned also constantly keeps on hand all kinds of M'S. Oil Attachments, k Sc. Second Hand Machines sold at exceedingly low prices. Repairing promptly attolei to. Give me a trial and be convinced of the truth of tfcese Statements F atfOSTMRMA.Y- MILLHEIM, PA.,THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11. 1884. Tin: i:vi:xix call. We live in tlte far \\\st, in a little settlement called Sium Town. My aiulf.ilher was named Ozias Steel, and as he was a deacon in the chinch, he generally leeeived thai title. 1 unsettled Hi** deacon's liu le Becky. 1 was HM ii i:i Maine, but when my pa ti iits died ii.y graudla' ler c roast d the continent, ami brought, me back with him. lie curt fed me all the way iu a ll.it basket, tilled with cotton bitting, which he held on his knees. lie often tolu me how lie walked into the hotels or taverns where he stopp d with me for luggage, and how much interest 1 excited, I was only three months old, and I found a mother at every resting place. Since I hen he had been all to me, and as ! remembered nothing else, I was perfectly happy. At sixteen, I had my schooling,and had settled down to be housekeeper, under the tuition of our one servant, S.dlv Wells. It was a still night following a beiu tifnl day. As I sat at my window I could hear all the insect voices hard at work— cricket, katydid and locust and the queer linle toad Away iu the heart of the old woods a scr*ach owl was hooting. Down in the town the bells were ringing for evening meeting, which they held on Wednesday. Grandfather hart gone to church. He had taken old Widow Glennings and tier uaughter with him, and the buggy would hold no more. So I stay ed at home. Sally had gone to get s me yeast cakes at the stoie,and I was alone. I didn't mind it. I had neyer known what it was to be afraid of soli tude, though a crowd would have fiightened me. The room was our sitting room. It was eai ly in Oc'ober and the windows were op MI, lut there was a little log tiie on the hearth. A lamp, with a green paper shade, decorated by a design representing three little kittens eating a pound cake stood on the table ; near !t my woik basket. The chairs had rushbottoms, with the exception of two B iston rock ing chairs, with chintz cushions ; an engraving of the Battle of Bunker Hill, a portrait of Washington, and some family photogiaphs hung on the wall, which was cover-d with a pale grey paper with a pink fliwer upon it. A clock and two vases stood on the man tl°-piece, rag carpet was on the floor, and a secretay and book case combin ed filled one recess. We had a best parlor, which was dusted every Satur day, but we never thought of using it. I felt very lazy that evening, and though I had a very pretty sort of tape trimming, had no desire to take it up. I looked at the stais that twinkled and shone so biightl); at the splendid plan et shining over the distant mountain pea'i. I hard a bro k bubbling iu th e hollow,and I fancied after awhile,when the church bills had done linging, that I heard some unusual sounds, men's voices calling to e .ch other far awat, and saw lights now and then iu ttie fi inge of woods that coven d the hill. Belated diovers, perhais, urging their cattle on to a safe st pping place, or wood cutters who intended to camp out to be leady for work in the morning. As I looked at the bright dots moving to and fro, I heard another sound i ear at hand— crunching of feet on the stony road,and looking toward the gate I saw a man open it and hurry in, and come up to the door. I was not stir prised that he opened it without knock ing, for people were not ceremonious there, hut I felt a little startled when I saw that he was a stranger. He was out of breath as though he had been running. His face was damp with per spiration, his clothes, which weie good otherwise, weie torn, as though he had made his way through thorny bushes, and it was evident that he was listen ing intently. 1, too, heard something —what, I hardly knew. As soon as he could do so he spoke. "Are you all alone in the house, young 1 idy ?" he said. "Yes I" I answered. "For God's sake tell mo where I can hide I" he said. "The lynchers are af ter me." I knew what he meant. I knew,too. that men were only lynched foi fear ful crimes; but I had a woman's heart Whatever he had done, he asked my help. Yet wnere conld he hide ? There were five rooms in tl e house ; each lia 1 a small cupboard. There was no exit to the roof, no secret closets, no large furniture, and I heard them coming. Suddenly a thought struck me. "Go into that room," I said. "Do not shut the door. Get into the bed you see there and tie the handkerchief on the bed-post over your head. Turn your face to the wall. It's your only chance." lie obeyed me. I sat down by the table, dragged mv work toward me,and began to sew and sing. I heard many sfteps iqwu the ruatf. Ttte gate Chang'- A PAPER FOR THE HOME CIRCLE 1 ed. I knew im ncane up the path and peeped in the window. Then the door opened. A rough face was llnust hi. One man entered—another and anoth er. I knew them all by sight. "Excuse me, Miss Becky," siid the leader ; "but we are aft?r a man, a stianeer in these parts, who has done a murder. We saw bin come this way. We rather reckon li®d got you to hide him by some lie. Have you seen him ? Where's the deacon V" "Try not to wakft grandfather," 1 said, "lie's not well. You can lo"k under Iheb dif you choose. There's no other pi ice to hi le in tu it, ro nn, as you see.'' One of the men wont on tip toe into the room and locked under the bed, laughed sofily ami came out. "You may go over the house if you Uke,"said I, "and see i? you can lind tii* 1 fugitive." "He can't get away if he's anywhere about," said the uiau. "The house is surrounded." They took some candles which I gave them and went through the house. They went to the siahle, fortunately padlocked on the outside, to they did not see that it was empty. They heat the hushes and peeped into the chicken coop and went oil together, furious at their disappointment and I was left a loue with the man they had spoken of as that fearful tiling a murderer. I st.ut the shutters and pulled down the blinds, and lie came from his hiding place pale lint calm, and stood looking at me a moment. "You will hear the whole story to morrow," lie s.id. "Dni't think me guilty. I should liaye been a black hearted brute, indeed.if I had commit ted the crime theychmge me with, but lan innocent. Gid bless you for your mercy —I cto save ruyself now." He opened the door and daited out into the night. A little later Sally came home. Later my grandfather, who heaid a lionibis story of a woman muidered in the settlement beyond. 1 told neither of them anything. I kept the adventure to myself for a few da\s after the truth was discovered,and it was known that another woman and no man at all had committed the mur der, and then I told grandfather. A year after a parage Ctme to me by -xpress. It was from California—a little box of gold nuggets and a 'et ter. The sender, it said, was the innocent ma i I had saved fro n Judge Lynch. He had bee uin* a miner, had prospered and was happily married, and begged me to accept ihe little present offeied by one who would he ever grateful. There was no signature,but I was glad to In ai again from one 1 bad nev r for gotten and i.eyer shall. How He Got Ha t. "Oh, my child, how did your face be- bruised ? Corae to mamma and tell her al 1 about it. "I l l was over 'cross the ro-a-d, play iu' with Jfrs. Howe's little g-i-rl ; boo-11 00-( >o-o< i-oo.'' "And did she hurt you like this " Y-y-y-y-es." "Wed. that was real naughty in her. What did she do to little Georgie ?" "Sh-sh-she knocked me d-o-w-n,an an-and then she hit m-e w-wl-w-i-t-h a b-r-i-c k and pounded me w-wl-with a b-r-o-o-m s-t-i-c-k." "Oh, dear, what a terrible child. Well, don't cry any more, Georgie. What were you doing when this hap pened ?" "Pl-pl-pl tying w-we w-a-s m-a-r --r-i-e-d."—Detroit Free Press. A CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY. A red faced man rushed up to a quiet old gentleman aud said : 'How do you do, Mr. Jones ?' 'Excuse me, but you have the ad vantage of mo.' 'Are you not Mr. Jones ?' 'No sir, you are mistaken,my name is Smith.' 'Are you sure V 'Of course I am. You are mistaken.' 'Are you quite certain, Mr Smith, that it is not you who are mistaken. May you not be J ones after all, Mr. Smith V He Should be Grateful. Old Judge Peterhy las been laid up for some time with the gout. His legi. are swelled to an enormous size. A doctor,who is also a church member, rebuked his impatience, and told blm : 'You should be grateful to the Al mighty for his kindness.' 'What kindness V "'Bis kindness in giving you only two legs to suffer with. Suppose you had as many legs as a centipede V A father and son are both under sentence of death in a Farinerdville,l4a,, jail. THK IIA IDIOT TEAK. BY 11. S KELLER IN TEXAS SITTINGS. Drip, drip, <1 rip t The golden leaves lie in brow ti. tear palTMies upon the pasture land along the edge of tin* grim H'ladowo .vwlu All div long the sky has Suing heavy and sombre ; and now that nightfall is here ttie scurrying clouds weep tears. And the trees,they bow and lieud hef ire the storm, and breaking, fall like stricken giants shiv ering from root to bianchlet in the last expiring throes. And the da.d leaves, heavy and wet, pile up iu pitch es along the rude fence of guailed, twisted and distorted stumps. "Ah I What a nasty night. I must hurry home. Poor Satan w ; ll be scar ed to death. Satan knows his master's step ; lie understands me if all the rest of the world does not. Good S4tan ! Patience, ray dear Satan. What's that !" The mumbling of tho hump-bick man skiitiug the edge of the woods was brought to a sudden stop. His foot hit against something lying in his path. It was not a stone, but some thing soft and \feldng. "Oh loh ! please don't hurt me. I hain't d*in' any harm," came from the dark, biindled-up obj'Ct at the hump back's feet. "Good heavens ! It's a child. Sav, you brat, get up and out of here quick. If the Squira c itches you here he'll sue —it's a git II" ej icul ite I the ra iu start ing back as a vivid fl sh of lightning revealed a slim slip of a girl. The long, black hair, wet and limp hung about the sharp shoulder like snokv ropes. Til" m rath was drawn down at the corners iu a sorry droop, and the eyes,groat hi tck eyes were sad, so sad, that even the old hump-backed miser felt a throb of pity pulsate through iiis flinty heart. " Wh > are you, gii 1 ?" "A brat, o ilv a brat. They call me that up in the house where all the poor people live." "Alt I A pauper brat." ".Yes. so-. Some calls me that. But —oh ! I'm 'fraid. so 'f-aid," wailed the poor little morsel of st >rm-tossed humanity hugging up close to the old .niser. This was a new, or forgotton feature in human nature to the man He hid been in a habit of being feared and held aloof from by all. But this poor waif, this a!i n slip of a girl with sad eyes and limp lucks almost hugs hi in for protection. "Child, w' at are you afraid of ? Thedarkne-8 won't hurt von—though this damp ground isn't just the bed for * girl." "Oh, no ; I don't mind the dark. I'm so afraid sometimes of—of the growling, quarreling men and women they keep in the cellar up at the poor house. They're just like beasts. They glare at me with their red eyes, and shake their first, and bait a?ai isfc the liars 'till they're all blood. I'm 'fraid ••f 'em. I want to hide away from 'en I could almost dig into the ground iike a woodchuck does, only to hide away from 'eu." "Poor thing I She's afraid of the crazy ones. I—but will my darling Satan like it if I take her home with me— " "Oh, sii,pleaße take me 'way off—off somewhere where I can't see the peo ple with red eyt-s who Dvw in I lie cellar and eat like bents." Tne thin atras almost encircled the short angular neck or the old miserly hump back. "Eh I yes ; onrae—c one with mo," returned the miser. Grasping the lit tle hand in his, lie jigged on along the quaint s'ump fence until he reached an opening. Following a path leading in to the heart, of the wo > Is, the piir fi nally halted before a dilipi l tt.ad hut. The door was pushed open. Off at the other side of the room shone a pair of green, wicked eyes. A loud purring, then a spiteful spit, spit, and Satan bounded through the darkness and rub bed his inky coat against the old hump back's ankles. "Ah, sweet Satan, good Satan I Glad to see me hick.eh V l ' The asheg upon the mud hearth were raked away, disclosing a small pile of glowing embeiß. The old uan knelt down and pi!3d, some pine cones upon the embers ; then blowing with all 'h' B might, he s on had a blaze. Tossing a couple of pine knots upon the ignited mass,he chuckled as a huge fl uue went roaring up the chimney. "Child, come here," he said, turning toward the girl, who was tiying to stroke Satan's fur. But Satan was coy of all advances, and leaped beyond her reach each time, "Aieyou hungiy ?" asked the mis er. "Yes, sir." "Then eat. There's a crust of bread upon the table " The waif gnawed the crust as she sal down on abl >ck of wood near the fireplace. Thb flames roared up thfl Terms, SI.OO per Year, in Advance. chimney. The soft, sleepy purring of Satan kept on, and in a few minutis the black eye* were veiled by the bine vetnod lids as the little head leaned back s.gainst the wall. "Asleep. Poor thing ! A pauper brat. Afraid of the pauper lunatics. Satan seems to take to her. That is strange. He always spits and huinps his bac a, in t'tes a cat hump-hack of himself, when strangers come. J Folks don't like me. They say I'm a miser. I lovu Satan and my gold. Satan un derstands me, and I undeistand my gold. Am 1 growing solt hearted? Why did I bring this pauper brat here? flow pret'y she is. I've got enough gold to make a tine lady of her. Would she (urn away from me I wonder after I'd made a fine lady of her ? Ah ! she wakes/' The great black eves of the gii 1 ojieiiel. They we fastened upon the old miser in a strange look. The thin lips parted as she rose from her scat and came toward him. "I —I, please sir, may I kiss you fust once ?" Her hands were stretched out to the old man appealingly. He had be friended her. The old man felt a 6tanger dart pass through his heart. What did she mean ? Why did she want t > kiss such a grizzly old hump back ? "I—well, yes, if you like," came from his lips falteringly. He closed his eyes as the girl's thin arms wound ab >ut his Then, as he felt trie sift. w inn pressure of her pure lips upon bis a great wave of hu man affection came over him, and he hugged the pauper brat to his breast. When be opened his eye< again, the thin pathetic face was lifted up to him. Upon each 1 iwer eye-lash flitter ed a tear. Eicli tear as it rolled down the pale cheek fell upon the flinty heart of the inner, and melted away the ice and hardness of it. "Why weep, girl," he asked. "Be.'ame you are the only oue I ever kissed." "And why kiss me ?" "Because you are so good tu a pauper brat, that I love you.' The sweet-faced old m in who, years afterward beamed s> lovingly upon a fair young mother, felt in his heart, that the maiden's tear had brought ihe fullest returns that heart could de sire. NOT A BE3QAR. How an Impecunious Fellow Raised the Wind in Detroit. "Gentlemen," he began in a smooth, molasses sort of voice, "I am dead broke but no )>eggar. I want to raise about three dollars, but I shall do it in a legitimate manner. Now, then, let me ask you to inspect this." He to. k fiom lits pocket a piece of iron chain as large as his thumb and com lining six links and passed it a r<>und. After it had carefully been in spected by each of the party he contin ued : "I want to bet my overcoat, which is certainly worth $lO, against in cash that none of you can separate oue link from the others." The piece of chain was passed around again to be moie closely scrutinized, and finally one of the party, who was a machinist, returned it with the re mark : "And I want to put up that sum a gaiiißt your overcoat that you cau't do it yourself." "D ne i" said the stranger as he pulled off liis coat. Coat and cash were put up iu the hands of a stakeholder, and the stran ger the gioup to f .flow him. lie walked across the street and into a blicksmitn shop, and picking up a hammer and cold-chisel he deliberate!) cut out a link. The crowd stood around like so many pumpkins at a county fair,but when the stranger neld up the link anu claimed the stakes the machinist recovered his wits sufficient ly to exclaim : "Sold by a professional deadbeat ! The money is yours, old fellow, but in ex tc'ly thirty s-courts after you receive it I shall begin to kick, and you had beiter le twenty rods off I" "Thanks—glad to have met you— good day I" repl'ed the stranger,and he was out of sight iu seven seconds.—De tioit Free Press. A Western Farmer. Portrait of the Big Farmer Who Raises Food Enough for Thous ands of Throats. The Buffalo Express says : He was a tail man, with rather sandy and long hair and an iron-gray chin whisker. He wore a black suit of steel-rnixed and a yellowish-brown slouch hat. There was a red buttonhole boquetin his coat lap. el. His stand-up collar w tt s surround ed by a black tie. 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As he vtnlked up from the Western Union main office he joggled along carelessly, looking naither to the right nor the left, but en gaged in sort of communication with himself. The man was Mr. Oliver Darlymple, the most extensive farmer in the United States. Mr. Darlymple, although he lives in St. Paul, Minn., con dues his fanning operations to Da kota, where in Case and Trail counties he has a two-thirds interest in 75 000 acres of as line wheat land as the sun ever shone upon. The product, as indi cated by that so far threshed, will be a bout 600.000 bushels this year. Mr. Dalrymple employs in his farming op erations 1,000 men,Boohorses and mules, 200 self-binding reapers and 30 stearn threshers. "I h-iye lived in St.Paul thirty years/ said Mr. Dalrympie, "and seen it grow from 10,000 to 100.000.' When asked relative to his age he said : "You may tell them that I have not yet got to the gray-haired, broad-shouldered man of sin. My visit here is for the purpose of seeing if I can make favorable ar rangements with Buffilo elevator men tor the storage of this year's crop.'' An Excellent Spine. In the Scriptures it is related that Daniel was preferred above princes bc cause he had "an excellent spirit" in him. A boy being asked, in his Sun day-school class,why Daniel was thus preferred, replied * "Because he had an excellent spine in him." This boy's blander on the word "spirit" is amus ing, but yet bis answer hit the nail square on the head. Daniel got on because he bad "backbone" enough to stand up against corruption. There was never a time in the his tory of the world when "spine'' was needed more than to-dav. Fiaud seems to have crept into ever}* line of business. FQrmerly it used to be said that "corporations had no souls." It was raeaut by this that when men u □ ited in associations, and worked un der a President and directors, they would do things as a body which they would be ashamed to do as indi viduals. But to-day it looks as if the old proverb had lost its peculiar force. Men have let down the bars more and more in business, till it sometimes seems as if any trick were thought justifiable if it led to making a dollar. It is difficult now to buy anything that is not adulterated. Dealers do not hesitate to misrepresent—or lie outright. Speculators are not partic ular whose money they use, or how they get it. Men hardly dare trust their dearest friends. And all this sort of thing is tolerated, so long as it brings success. Thus it is that the boys of to-day need a doubly stiff backbone to stand up against dishonesty. Respectable asage leads them into temptation at every step. Fraud is gilded by wealth and young eyes are dazzlod. Almost above all else, what youth needs to cultivate is an "excellent spine."— Golden Argosy. The Masher Mashed. I was riding out one evening in a car in which were two lovely, laugh ing young ladies, when a young man entered and took his seat, says a St. Louis reporter. He seemed to bt very much taken with one of the girls, and soon began to make delicate endeav ors to get up a flirtation. His efforts became bolder, and I noticed a signific glance passed between the girls, fol lowed by a whispering conference. Presently I noticed that the girl who had mangled his heart had her eyes calmly fixed on the young man's feet with a meditative smile on her lips. He glanced down at his feet to see what was wrong several times, tried to draw them under him and moved them about, but the steady gaze of the young lady continued to be fixed on his pedal extremities Restive would hardly describe the condition of the would-be masher. His face became the color of a boiled lobster, and final ly, after twisting about uneasily, be hastily jumped up and left thi car. As soon as he had left the girls were nearly convulsed with suppressed mer riment. I happened to know one of them, and she explained the whole af fair. She said she had often heard that men were very sensitive about their feet, and that a prolonged stare at these members would throw the boldest of them into ' embarrassment and final rout. She had tried it sever al times with unvarying success, and bad hit upon it as the beat way to get rid of a mtt&bet
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