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Good Sample Room on First Floor. Free Buss to and from all trains. Special rates to witnesses and Jurors. OUMMINS HOUSE, BISHOP STREET, BELLEFONTE, PA., EMANUEL BROWN, PROPRIETOR House newly refitted and refurnished. Ev erything done to make guests comfortable. Ratesmodera" tronage respectfully solici ted 5-ly yRVIN HOUSE, (Most Central Hotel in the city.) CORNER OF MAIN AND JAY STREETS LOCK HAVEN, PA. S.WOODSCALDWELL PROPRIETOR. Good saraeple rooms for commercial Travel •n.on first floor. R. A. BUMILLER, Editor. VOL. GO. A Fortune Teller. One day Mrs. Lorrimer'a daughter, Violet, WHS nowhere to be found ; neither was the gentleman, Sen or Es panol, who taught the guitar. The whole city was alarmed by the account of the mysterious disappearance of a beautiful belle and a hard working gen tlemanly young foreigner. However, when some one had discovered that the last gave lessons to the first, an infer ence was draw n by some cool looker on. "May they not have gone together?" The mother at once drove the slan derer from her presence, preferring the idea that her Violet was murdered. However, before long a penitent letter all blotter! with tears reached the poor old lady, all alone in her great Fifth Avenue mausion. Violet was married to Senor Espanol. The more one lovts a person the more furious does anv deception on her part make one. A less loving mother might have forgiven. Stung to mad ness, this one wrote a terrible letter to the foolish girl who had so hurt her. The husband, a hot Spaniard, read it. It insulted him, and he forbade his wife ever to see her parent again. To do him justice, love, and no mercenary motive, had led him to elope with the pretty heiress. So the gulf was fixed between the only two of the same blood who lived on earth, and Senor Espanol began to give lessons on the guitar for two in stead of one. Then lor three, four and five. If he had lived a little longer it would have been for six. But the day the fourth child was born, a country man, who had mistook him for h rival, stabbed him in the back. He apologiz ed the next moment, but the poor vic tim did not live to hear him through, but died trying to express the fact that the gentleman was perfectly excusable. And so Violet, who bad besn very happy with her music master, wa9 left a widow with four babies, no money, and no accomplishment that had been sufficiently cultivated to earn a living by. Of course she took in sewing, and of course a day came when there wa9 a very small prospect of supper and not even a dream of breakfast. Not a penny in the house, not a loaf of bread in the closet, not a dollar's worth of woik to be got anywhere, what was she to do ? The poor little woman walked up and down the room and cried. That did not help her. She looked over the relics of the past. There were pretty pieces of jewelry, worth nothing. Valuable things had all teen sold long ago. She glanced out of the window. A woman with a very large new basket and no shoes went begging from door to door. The basket was worth two dollars and a half, the shoe 9 could be bought for two. The singular circumstances preyed upon her mind. She began to take an interest in ihe ways and man ners of beggars as the awful expecta tion of becoming one began to haunt her. "I could drown myself," she said, "but I could not well drown four chil dren. like a litter of puppies." Then leaning her chiu on her hands she watched from her window another woman, with a handkerchief over her head going from door to door. Was she begging ? It seemed not. Once or twice she entered and stayed some time. At last she saw her at her own door, aud heard her going from room to room. There wis a knock at the door. She opened it, and the woman was there. "Well ?" she said Inquiringly. "Let me tell your fortuna, lady. I only charge twenty-five cents,"said the woman. "My fortune is told, since I have not twenty-fiye cents in the world," said Violet. The woman turned awty. "Stopa minute," said Violet. "In this age do people say you tell their fortunes ?" "No age is too old." said the wo man. "I just told an old lady's for tune below. It was iu the card 3 that she was to have a husband—her fourth. She gave rae a dollar. Look !" she o peued her palm. "I make money,! do. I'm a seventh child ; I sea the future. I'll take any bit of jewelry if you have not any money. Have your fortune told ?" But Violet shook her head and closed the door hastily. "I cannot steal, and to beg I am ashamed," she said to herself. "Alter it is dark to-night I will go out and tell fortunes. Then she took two flat irons to the junk shop,bought a loaf of bread and a pint of milk, and fed her four children—she for whom nothing had once been dainty enough, and who had ridden in her own carriage. She put the children to bed, and left the key with a neighbor, in case of fire, a dread that haunts those many storied houses like a ghost, and then,disguised in veil, shawl aud hood, weut forth ou MILLIIEIM, PA., THURSDAY,MARCH 11., I<SB(>. her errand. It was a crazy dream. She had not courage foattoinpt fortune telling. It was worse than begging. She wandered along the streets,coming at last to the homes of luxury. In the end she stood before her mother's win dow. There was a light in the base ment, and through the lace curtains she saw a table spread, and the shadow of a figure she knew to tie her mother's on the curtain ; and there, drawing down (lie shade, was Martha, who had nursed her when a child. Tears filled her eyes. It was a para dise which she never hoped to regain. Had not her mother written : "A curse on you. Never darken iny doors anymore unless yon wish to hear uie utter it." But there at least she had not the terror of strangers upon her ; she could beg or tell fortunes. Martha was su perstitious and always had dreams of matrimony, and of the coming back of a loyer who had gone to sea when she was in her teens, and had never been heard of siuce. She crept up to the window and tap ped on the panes. In a moment Martha opened the door. The hooded figure drew near. "Let me tell your fortune ?" she said. "Bother/' remarked Martha. "I am past fortunes." "What," said Violet. "With a lov er gone to sea ?" "Lord save us !" critd Martha. "And in one place twenty years," said Violet. "You know more than is good," said Martha. "Stop a bit. Are you one of them clairvoyants ?" "Yes," said Violet. "Could you see where people are, what's come of them and that ?" ask ed Martha. "For instance, a gal that's been gone eight years, could not look for her in a dream, like as I have heard ihey can, and find her ?" "Yes, I think I could," said Violet. "Sit here, then," said Martha, point ing to a chair in the hall, and hurried into the dining-room. She came back in a moment. "Come and speak to missus," she said, and Violet,trembling so she could scarcely stand, entered her mother's presence. No love is like a mother's. Violet had known that since she cast it off. She knew it now, looking on the pale face where wrinkles had come so thick ly—on the hair, a'l turned gray now— on the sad eyes, that were si bright win ti she last saw them. She longed to kneel at her mother's feet and beg for forgiveness, but she dared not yet ; had not she sinned too deeply to hope for pardon ? She stood silent with her head bowed down. "They tell me you are a clairvoyant," said Mrs. Lorrimer. "I haven't much faith in such things, and if the power prospers its possessors so little it can not he worth much ; but still I have something I should like to ask you. You seirch for lost things ?" Violet bowed. "If you can find something I have lost I will repay you well," said Mrs. Lorrimer. "Here, sit down. Perhaps if you have this kuowledge, you can tell rae what I have lost." Violet sat down. "It should be darker," she said "will you h'wer the light ?" Martha lowered the light and stood bv the lady's chair—aud there was silence. Violet bad cast b ick her veil, but the firelight was not bright enough to show her features. "Lady," she said in a low voica, '"it Is not gold or silver, that I see ; it is nothing that can be bought for money. What I see is a girl." "Good heavens !" cried the old lady. "A girl of sixteen, with fair hair and blue eyes," said Violet. "That was what she was when you saw her last. Am I right ? ' "Yes," said Mis. Lorrimer. "You loved her," said Vh let ; "she loved you. But she deceived you ; she was wicked—wicked—wicked ; but there was no excuse for her. She fell in love; she was mad for awhile. You cast her off. She is gone. You will never see her more." "Hush I hush!" cried Mrs.Lorrimer. "She was not bad. I was wicked ; I knew what it was to love, yet I forsook her because she knew it also. Look again. How does life use her ?" "She is a widow, and is very poor," said Violet. "So wretchedly poor that she does not know where to get bread ; but she will not come to you. You would curse her. You will never see her again." The old lady started from her chaii. "What are you ? How do you know the secrets of my life, the words I most repent uttering? Look again ! Tell me shall I see her once more. Tell me where to find the only babe I ever held against my breast! My little one—my Violet—where is she ?" And the wo man she addressed fell upon her kuess aud clasped her hands. A PAP Kit FOR TIIE IIOMK CIRCI.K "She is here," she cried, "Mother she is here I" and the two wept togeth er in each otheUs arms; and all was forgiven. The good mansion is no longer deso late, There are little children's voices there, and the mother and daughter are together once more. And in that oth er world, where we cannot believe that wrath endures, doubtless the lover of her youth rejoices that Violet's moth er's fortune was told so well. English and American (From the New York Observer.) It is often said that Americans aud Englishmen have a common language ; and so they have—with a difference. In a small circle of educate 1 people in both countt ies the English language is spoken in the same way, barring some very noticeable differences of inflection. But the masses in the two countries have a considerable vocabulary of dif ferent words. Walking down Fleet street, in London, the other day, I saw a sign in a barber's wmdow, which read : 'Teeth scaled, drawn and stop ped.' I,of course.kuew what it meant, but I never heard either word us* d in the same sense in America. I found the 'Baggage Room' to be in England a 'Left Luggage Room,' and a 'Ticket Office' a 'Booking Office,' an 'Elevator' a 'Lift,' and I might go on to the end of the column enumerating different word 3 of different sense applying to the same word. But more than this, I went out to Ilampstead Heath one day, within the postal circle of Lon don, and not finding a cab, asked a lad to show me the house I sought—some half a mile from the station. The child was a veritable cockney—had literally been born within the sound of Bow bells. He was a very talkative lad,and spoke English as his native tongue ; but I was actually unable to under stand more than twn-thtrds of his talk. Of course, iu spuukiim of this differ ence of language, I do not refer to the radical differences that exist in the English counties, where, practically, English is not generally spoken ; but to that class ot people who would claim a vernacular right in Webster's Dic tionary or'its English Tak ing a hundred men, as you would meet them on Broadway, and another hun dred men as you would meet them in the Strand,l am sure the former would speak the better English,judged by atiy mutually acknowledged standard. But the English-speaking voice is better than ours—fuller, richer, and gentler ; and the mere sound <>f a group of En glishmen talking together is pleasanter to the ear than the talk of a similar group of Americans. W. M. F. It. Humorous Mistakes of Parish Clerks. We have great respect for the follow ing humorous items. Their age enti tle them to it. Parish cleiks are pro verbial for their absurd mistakes, but I would back old Le against any one of the fraternity. Though a kind-heart ed old fellow, he used to declare regu larly that he was become 'a lion his mother's children,' instead of alien. On one occasion he give out that 'Mr. A and Mr. B would preach ev ery Sunday to all eternity'—he meant alternately ! Tradition says ho once announced publicly 'that there would ho no service next Wednesday, 'has master had none a -fishing for another clergyman'—officiate was the word in tended. The following occurrence was a severe trial to our risible muscles. An interesting event had happened in the squire's family, which was duly fol'owed by a thanksgiving service in the church. After the minister had said, 'O Lord, save this woman, thy servant,' the clerk responded, 'Who putteth her ladyship's trust in thee.' But the richest tiling of all was Lee's reply to au inquiry as to how many of the clergy he had known in the parish during his half-centnry of clerkship. Ho gave the names of sill the rectors, beginning vvitn the squire's great uncle 'a mighty hunter in the land,' known for his ttncleric.il exploits fifty years ago. "But how many curates have you seen ?' demanded the enquirer. "Bless you sir, I don't take no account of curates 1" While on parochial mat ters, I must not forget the story of (Churchwarden Jenkins, who once pro posed that the church music should lie improved by a 'baboon.' 'A bab oon !' repeated the rector in dismay. ,Yes, sir, a baboon is a wonderful help to the musicians in the gallery—it en courages them to sing out.' Of con rse he meant a bassoon. The rector never told the story without laughing. Preacher' 1 s Analyst. NEW PROCESS Roller Flour—best in the market—manufactured at Fisher's mill, Penn Ilall, is for sale at Kauff man's store. It is the delivht of the housewife and constquently it is the most popular ro'ler flour used. —SUBSCRIBE for the JOURNAL. SHY'S WONDERFUL FIGHT. Slnple-handod Repulninjaf a Band of llosiilu Apaohoa, and Saving liia. Wife. (From the Albuquerque Democrat.) Mr. Shy is a sturdy, plain-spoken, intelligent man, and apparently una ware thai he has achieved a feat unex celled by any of thekuights'of romance. He was just sitting down to his dinner with his wile and bov, and had one arm in a sling because of some recent injury to the hand. He heard some slight noise in the yard, and, glancing through the window just in his rear, he was horrified to soe a painted Apache stealthily creeping up. Quick as thought he tore the bandages from his arm, sprang to the corner of his room where his Winchester was resting, and seized it wheeled around just in time to receive the tire of the savage, which he instantly returned. Mrs. .Shy closed and locked the door at the same mo ment. And the Indians, seeing that they had a brave man to fight, placed themselves out of view of the window and opened a rattling lire upon the house from all sides. It was a flimsy frame structure, a bullet would go through the walls as though they were pasteboard. It was a tei rible time for about tin hour inside of that little house, with the pale, terror-stricken wife and boy crouching in the loft and the desparate ranchman crouching in the room beiow, firing only when he could see an Indi tit through the win dow, listening to the angry zip of the bullets as they tore through the thin walls and whistled about his head. After awhile there was a lull iu the firing. A few yards distant from Mr. Shy's house was lbs house of Mr., A. J. Yeater, his partner in a cattle ranch, and who was at that twit)"being butch ered iu company with his wife, four miles away. The lull in the firing was caused by the fact that the savages had broken open Mr. Yeater's residence and were making themselves merry eat ing and drinking and breaking up the furniture. After getting through with this they fired the house, which in a few minutes was a mass of flames. Mr. Say saw that his own house .vould he on fire in a few minutes, and for a mo ment was well-nigh paralyzed with des pair. lie glanced at'liis wife and boy, and knew from the ominous signs with out that the Indians were only waiting for the flames to drive them out. In a moment his house was oti fire, and tell ing liis wife and boy to come down from the loft, he prepared to open the door and make a rush for safety for some large rocks near bv. Opening the door he threw his body half way out and fired full at a group of savages ; at the same instant lie sprang back with in the house. The next moment at least a dozon bullets were buried in the door facing. The llaraes were getting too hot, however, to remain in doors, and Mr. Shy telling his wife and boy to fol'ow him, sprang outside and made a rush for a large rock near by. When he got within about twelve feet of it, five sayages jumped up from behind it and fired right in his face. By a won derful providence not a bullet struck him, and he instantly started for anoth er large rock, from which another group of red skins fired a volley in his face. A storm ot bullets were whistling a round him from all sides, but he seem ed to bear a charmed life, and not one of them touched him. He had the presence of mind before leaving the house to fill his pockets with cartridges, and he kept popping away at the sav ages. Out in the open and knowing that he could no longer be tortured to death like a rat iu a hole, all sense of fear left him, and he actually assumed the ag gressive and ran the savtges in a body some distance away, where they secret ed themselves behind some large rocks. He also placed himself behind a rock, and in this position whenever ho could see the body of an Indian exposed ho find at it. Meanwhile his little boy had been shot down, and Shy had kept the Indians so busy by his own deter mined work that Mrs. Shy had an op portunity to get up the gulch. The wounded boy had crawled into a thick et where his father had directed him to go, hut not uefore his devoted mother, fearlessly exposing herself to the firing had taken off one of her skirts and wrapped it around the little fellow. There are numberless details connected with the fight which I have no space for. but it is sufficient that this heroic ranchman kept bacK the savages until dusk, when they retired. Meanwhile Mrs. Shy had made a detour and stait ed on a trip for Deming, twenty miles awav. hoping to get assistance for her husband. The poor lady was found in ail exhausted condition late at night struggling along the road about ten miles from Deming. She was picked up by a relief party of men who had been notified by cowboys that Sh) was surrounded by a large party of hostiles. 'Now tell me, candidly, are you guilty V asked a solicitor of his client. 'Why, do you suppose I'd be fcol enough to hire you if I was inno cent ?' Terms, SIOO per Year, in Advance. ANECDOTES OE THE FKENOH REVO - LUTION. At the commencement of the French Revolution, nearly one hundred years ago, the lieutenant-general of the police of Paris had upon his r.gisfer the names of no fewer than two thousand suspected and depraved characters, whose pursuits were known to be of a criminal uatuie; yet by making the de partment of police the immediate ob ject of the close and uniform attention of one branch of the executive govern* inent, crimes were much less frequent than in England. ami the security ex tended to the public with regard to the protection of life and property against lawless depredation was inlinitely great er. The following narratives were au thenticated by an English magistrate at that time, and a record of them, written at the commencement of this century, is now in the possession of the present writer. A mercban t of high respectability in Bordeaux had occasion to visit Paris upon commercial business, carrying with him bills and money to a very large amount. On his arrival at the gates of the French metropolis, a gen teel-looking man opened the door of the carriage and addressed him to this ef fect : 'Sir, I have been waiting for you some time. According to my notes, you were to arrive at this hour ; and your person, your carriage and your portmanteau exactly answering the discretion I hold in my hand, you will permit me to have the honor of conducting you to Monsieur de Sar tine.' The gentleman, astonished and alarmed at this interruption, and still more at hearing the name of t lie lieuten ant of the police mentioned, demanded to know what M. de Sartloe wanted with him, adding that he had never committed any offense against the laws,and that the police could have no right to detain him. The messenger declared himself igno ant of the cause of the detention, and said that when he had conducted him to M. de Sariine, he should have executed hi 3 orders. Af ter som-* further explanations, the gen tleman permitted the officer to conduct him to the police official. M. de Sartine received him with great politeness, and after requesting him to be seated, to his astonishment described his portmanteau, and told him the exact amount in bills and cash which lie had brought with him to Par is, where he was to lodge, his usual time of going to bed, and a number of oilier circumstances, which he had con ceived were known, only te himself. Having thus excited his attention, M. de Sartine asked him: 'Sir, are you a man of courage ?' The gentleman, still more astonished at the smgulaiity of this interrogatory, demanded the reason why such a ques tion was put, adding that no man had ever doubted his courage. M. de Sartine replied: 'Sir, you are to be robbed and murdered this night. If you are a man of courage, you must go to your hotel and retire to rest at the usual hour. But be careful not to fall asleep ; neither will it be proper for you to look under your bed or into the clos et which is in your chamber. You must place your portmanteau in its us ual situation near your bed and betray 110 suspicion. Leave what remaines to ine. If you do not feel your courage sufficient to bear you out, I will pro cure some one who shall personate you and go to bed in your stead.' The merchant being convinced that M. de Sartine's intelligence was accu rate in every particular,'refused to be personated, and resolved to follow liter ally the directions he had received. lie accordingly drove to the hotel, and went to bed at his usual hour, eleven o'clock. At half past twelve—the time mentioned by M. de Sartine—the door of his bedchamber] burst open, and three men entered with a dark lantern, daggers and pistols. The merchant perceived one of k theui to be bis own servant. They rifled his portmanteau undisturbed and settled the plan of putting him to death. Hearing all this and not knowing by what means be was to be rescued, it may be supposed he was under great pertubation of mind during such an interval of sus pense. When at the moment the Vid ians were preparing to take the mer chant's life, four police otticers, who were concealed under the bed and in the closet, rushed out and seized the of fenders with the property in their pos session. The consequence was that the perpetration of the murder was preven ted and sufficient evidence obtained to convict the offenders. M. de Sartilie's iuteligence thus enabled him to pre vent many cases of murder and robbery. The second story is as follows : The Emperor of Austria, Joseph 11., having in the year 1787 formed and promulga ted a uevv code of laws relative to crim inal and civil affairs, and haying also established what he conceived to be the best system of police in Europe, could scarcely ever forgive the French nation, in consequence of the accuracy and in telligence of Ai. de Sartine's police having been found superior to his own, notwithstanding the pains he bad be- NO. 10 NBWBRAPER LAWB If subscribers order I lie discontinuation of ne\VH|>u|M>rs. the uuidLsliers may continue to send thein until all arre.nat.es arc paid. If subscribers rcliue or neplert to tal-e their newspapers from Iheoillee to which they are sent they are held responsible unld they have settled the hills ai d or|oii d tliem discontinued. If subscribers wove toother places withoiitin forming the puhliHier, and the new spit jw is are sent to tin-former place, they are responsible. y■' ' ■ ADVERTISING RATES. !w k. 1 mo. 3inos. t'uuifc. M\rn 1 square t 2im *I on *3 (Hi % U h sjt (hi !4eolunin -I (Hi tiin lotto l~m )*tu> % " 7 ihi lout ir,(H) :m to to (hi 1 " loop 15 OU 25 00 4.7 00 7500 One inch makes a square. Administrators and Executors' Notices ♦f.Vi. Transient advei tlaements and locals 10 cents iter line for ilr>t inseitlon and 5 cents per line for each addition al Inset Hon stowed on that department of his tzoy- I eminent. A notorious Austrian offend er, who had committed many atro cious acts of violence and depredation in Vienna, was traced to Paris by the police established by His Majesty, who ordered his ambassador at-the court of France to demand that this delinquent should be delivered up to public justice. M. de .Sartine acknowledged to the im perial ambassador that the person he inquired after had been in Paris ; that, if he wished it, he would inform him where he lodged, and the different gaming tables and other places of re sort which he had frequented while there ; but that lie was now gone. The ambassador insisted that litis of fender must still be in Paris, otherwise the emperor would not have command ed him to make such an application. M. de Sartine smiled at the incredul ity of the imperial minister, and replied to -the following effect: 4 l>o me the honor, sir, to inform the emperor, your master, that the person he looks for left Paris about the 10th of last month, and is now lodged in a back-room, looking into a garden, in the third story of a house, No. 93 in—-street, in his own capital ; where Ilis Majesty will, by sending to the spot, be sure to find hi in. It was literally as the French minis ter had stated. The emfteror, to his astonishment, found the delinquent in the house and apartment described ; but he was greatly mortified at this proof of the superiority of the French police.— Ncic York Observer. The Treacherous Frog. A Source of Annoyance and Dan ger to Railroad Men. The frogs on railroad tracks are the dread of many railroad men, and they try to keep their feet clear of them. A travelling man said the other day : "Itjs the easiest thing in the world to slip your foot in some of the frogs. They are shaped sometimes like the letter Y, and when you slip your foot in the open part it is fast. There seems to be no way of getting out of it except to pull the foot out of the boot. A man lias no time for that always. I remember once, very distinctly getting my foot iu a frog. I had on a pair of rubber boots, aDd I got my foot fast just as easy as anything could be. I thought I could pull it out without any trouble,and as a train was backing down on that part of the track I pro ceeded pretty quickly to try. My foot did not come out. A little astonished, I pulled again, but it did not come. It did not seem to be squeezed very tight, and I was annoyed. The train was coming nearer and,as the engineer was backing his engiue down, there was no way to stop it. I gave a terrible wrench on my foot but it did not come. The train was so close 1 knew that it would run on me. Luckily, the train was coming down on the rail outside of my foot. I leaned over and twisted my legs over away from the car as it came. When the wheels passed over I knew something was crushed, though it did not pain me much theu. The whole train went over. After they had got by, as the boot was pretty well torn, I managed to pull it out of the frog and was helped to the station. It crushed my foot pretty badly, but not so much that amputation was necess ary, and I saved my foot and leg." "Why didn't you pull your foot out of your boot ?" asked the reporter. "Well, I tried that," said the man, *but I couldn't get it out. The frog had pressed over the sole. .No doubt I could have cut the boot off if I had done it right away, but I thought until it was too late that I could pull the boot out." Another man had a similai experi ence. It broke bis leg. He jumped of! a car and jumped in a frog. Before be could pull his toot out the wheels ran over the outer edge of the rail in a aim-, ilar way. Those who are caught are not always so lucky- Once in a while a maa is caught and tin wheels of a car run di rectly over the frog, and then the man is injured. Railroad men are quite unanimous in believing that frogs on a railroad are verv treacherous A Congressman's Wind. Half a dozen men in a saloon in Nip andtuck,the other night, were trying to blow out a candle ten feet distant, but all failed. Presently a enteely dressed gentleman entered the room and offered to bet fifty dollars be could extinguish the candle twelve feet distant. The bet was promptly taken, and the genteely dressed man blew out the candle at the first effort, pocketed the money, took a drink, and then left the barroom loafers looking at each other in blank astonishment. '•Who iu the dickens is that 'ere fel ler, anyhow ?" queried the "bum*' who had lost the bet. "Don't you know him?" asked the bartender. "Why that feller is an In diana. Congressman, and goes around to the county lairs and wins money by blowing the bottoms out of lung-test ers. It's no use to bet against his wind, boys !"
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