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A gleeeome, happy maid.
Who came with constant *tep to church,
In comely garb arrayed, ' v
And knelt her down fnll aolemoly.
And penitently prayed-
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,n* STAbLiSHBD AS A REFUGE FROM .
The Only Place Where a Cure Can
be Obtained*
DU. JOHNSON has discovered the
most Certain, Speedy and only Effectual Remedy in
I I f . r «n private Diseases. Weakness of the Back
TS I n“ tnr", Affections of the Kidneys and B ad
■; , Dtoiualary Discharges, Imputency, Generall Debility,
' ‘ Dvspepay, Languor. Low Spirits. Confusion,
,sa® lb II«A.Ti-lditrvT^niblings.
of Sight or Giddiness. Disease of the Held.
Throat Nose or^Skin. Affect ions of the Liver. Lungs. Stom-:
d r Buvrels-tlinse Terrible disorders arising from the
tiiurv Habits of Vouth-those secuet and solitary prac-;
< more fatal to thcii victims than the song of Syrens to
& Mariners of Ulysses, blighting their most brilliant
t pP s or anticipations, rendering marriage. Ac., impossi-j
YOUNG MEN
Ciiwcisllv. who have become the victims of Solitary Vice,
i ■ dreadful and destuctivi. habit which annually sweeps
; ! :I;„tTi,n‘i; g .ave thousands of Young Men of the most
■ skilled talents and brilliant intellect, who might other
vii-e have entranced listening Senates with t ‘e thunders
of eltspience, or waked to ectasy the living lyre, may call
#. i»l* full confidence
MARRIAGE
-Harriett J‘ei>on», or Vonng Men cotempinting marriage,
lifiag aware of physical weaknets, organic debility, defer
imty. if., speedily enred. _
lie wbi) places hiiiuelt under the care of Dr. ,T. may re
.ifii.usly confide in lii» honor .us a gentleman, and confi
dently relv upon his skill as a physician.
ORGANIC WEAKNESS
Immediately Cured, and full Vigor Restored. I
This Distressing Affection—which renders Life miserable
and marriage impossible—is the 1 penalty paid by the
victims of improper indulgences. - Young persrns are to
apt to commit excesses from not being awaie of the dread--
fid consequences that may ensue,. Now. who that under-'
-tamls the subject will pretend to deny that the power of
procreation is lout sooner by llin-e falling into improper
Imhils than by tho prudynt; Besides being deprived the
pleasures of healthy offspring, the most serious and del
-tractive lo both body and mind arisen Tho
system become* Deranged, the Physical ami Mental Func
tions Weakened. Los- of Procreative Power. Nervous Irri
tability. Dyspepsia, Palpitation of the Heart. Indigestion*
Constitutional Debility, a Wasting of the Frame. Cough,
Consumption, Decay and Death.
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A CURE WARRANTED IN TWO DAYS
jVo Mercury or Xust/nis Drugs.
DR. JOHNSON,
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London. Grad
uate from one of the most eminent Coll -ges in the Uuihd
Suites, and the greater part of whose life has been spent 1b
the hospitals of L*-nlon, Paris, Pbi:& ;e!phia and else
where, has effected some of the most astonishing euros
that were ever known; many troubled with ringing in the
hwvl and ears when asleep, great nervousness, being
alarmed, at sudden sounds, bashfulness, wifh frequent
blushing, attended sometimes with derangement of mind,
were cured immediately.
TAKE PARTICULAR NOTICE
Dr. J. addresses 0.11 those who have Injured themselves
bv improper indulgence and solitary habits, which, rain
both body and mind, unfitting them fur either business,
dudy. society or marriage.
These are some of the sad and melancholy effects piV
■laced by early habits of youth, viz: Weakness of the
Back and Limbs, Pains in the Head, Dimness of Siglft,.
boss of Muscular Power, Palpitation of the Heart. Dys
popsy, Nervous Irritability. Derangement of the Diges
tive Functions, General Debility, Symptoms of Consunip
lion.'4C. .
MiJfTALLT.—The fearful effects of the mind are much, to
bo dreaded—Loss of Memory, Confusion of Ideas, De
pression of spirits, KribForebodings, Aversion to Society.
MHMstrust. Love of Solitude, Timidity, Ac 4 are some’ of
the evils produced.
Thousands of persons of all ages cap now judge what Is
the cause of their declining health, losing their vigor, be-
Mining weak, pale, nervous and emaciated, having aa3n
cular appearance about the eyes, cough and symptoms of
consumption.
YOUNG MEN
Who have injured themselves hy a certain practice-in
dulged in when alone, a habit frequently learned from
• viV companions, or- aV school, the effects of which are
nightly felt, even whei&sleop, and if not cured renders
marriage huposible, and destroy* both mind and body,
■should apply immediately.
Whut a pity that a young man, the hope of hl» country,
the darling of his parents, should be snatched from-all
prospects and enjoyments of life, by the consequence of
deviating from the path of nature, and indulging iu a
certain secret habit. Such persons vest, before contem
plating
MARRIAGE,
reflect that a sound ralud and body are the most necessary
requisites to promote connubhl happiness. Indeed. w|th
out these, the journey through’life becomes a weary pil
grimage; the prospect hourly darkens to the view; Xhe
ralnd becomes shadowed with despair and filled with the
melancholy reflection that the happiness ot another
come* blighted with our own.
DISEASE OF IMPRUDENCE. !
When the misguided and imprudent votary of pleasure
fitiito that he lias imbibed the seeds of this painful dis
t'Me, it too often happens that nn ill-timed sense of shame.
■' r dread of discovery, deters him from applying to those
who, from education and respectability, can alone be
friend him, delaying till the constitutional symptoms of
this hnrrid disease make their appearance, such as ulcera
ted s.»re throat, diseased nose, nocturnal pain a in the head
*uid dimness of sight, on the shin
hone* and arms, blotches on the head, lace 'and extreml-
progressing with frightful rapidity, till at lost the
palate of the mouth or the bones of the nose fall in, and
v icti«n of thl* awful disease becomes a horrid - object of
lj, mnnBffation, HU death puu a period to his dreadful
'■ufferlngs, by sending him t* •* that Undiscovered Country
no traveller returns.” \ .
ft » a m/Jancholy fact that thousands fall victim* to
•h« terrible disease, owing to the unskillfulness of igno-.
pretenders, who. by the use of that Deadly Ftiisotu
•*frreury. ruin the constitutions and make the residde of
Im* miserable.
STRANGERS
Trust not your lives, or health to the care of the many
bnlearijed and Worthless Pretenders, destitute of khowl
name or character, whi copy Dr-Johnston’s adver
laments, or style - themselves, in the ’ newspapers, regu
•v Educated Physicians, incapable of Curing, they keep
Rifling mouth after month, taking their filthy and
/Jfconons compounds, or as bmp ns the smallest fee; caa
t ami In despair, leave you with ruined health
over your galling disappointment.
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ms credential or diplomas always hang in'his office,
i reD,M *^ 8 or * r,JMt, Dent are unknown ta all'others,
a »pent in the great hospitals of Kurope.
‘ l /^ t In the country ami a more extensive Private Prac
w lhaa *oy pther Physician In the world.
■ INDORSEMENT OF THE PRESS.
“i‘ ny thnnl,aml “ 'if®! at.ihia institution. year after
il ,, *. numer “ lla lm l> < >'tant SurgicaL operations
I normal by Johnston, witm-ae.i by the reporters of the
KWh I, Chf>pcr ” » n <l many othT papers, notices of
h«l a* . vr a PPeared again ami again before Hie public,
aannSLH 1 -! s - , “ TI ' 1,n F «» a gentlemen of character arid re
" ** » sufficient guarantee to the afflicted.
SKIN DISEASES SPEEDILY CURED.V
letw!! '? 8 cT it l nE !''■ particular in directing‘their
to tala Institution, in the following manner:
.. J°«N «• JOHNSTON. M. P«,
Uf the Baltimore Lock Hospital, Maryland.
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A BEAUTIFUL PICtiuRE.
And ofi. wbea.churcb wijw done I marked
That little maiden near
£*hia pleasant spot, with book in band
Ak jrou are sitting here —
She read Ibe story of the Cross.
And wept with grief sincere.
Years rolled away—and I beheld
The child,to woman grown;
Her cheqk was fairer, and her eve
With brighter lustre shone ;
But childhood’s truth and innocence
Were still the maiden’s own.
I never raiu a merrier peal
Than when, a joyous bride,
She stood beueatti the sacred porch.
A uobie youth beside,
And plighted him her maiden troth,
In maiden love and pride.
I never tolled a deeper knell.
Than when in after ygars
They laid her in the church-yard here,
Where this low mound appears—
(Tho very grave, my boy, that you
Are waterlog now with tears!)
It is ihy moUter / gentle boy,
That claims this tale of mine—
Thou art a flower whose fatal birth
Destroyed the parent vine!
A previous llower thou art my child—
Two lives were given for thine!
One thy sainted mother's when
She gave thee mortal birth;
And one thy Saviour’s, wheajn death.
He shook the solid earth ; %
Go! boy, and live as may befit
Thy life’s exceeding worth!”
The boy awoke, as from a i|rcam,
And thoughtful, looked around,
Dut nothing saw', save at his feet
His mother’s lowly mquud,
And bj his side that ancient hell
llalthidden in the ground!
IfiSfelknjj-
BATTLE OF A BULL AND A GRIZ
ZLY BEAR.
In Harper’s Magazine for May there is
a thrillingly interesting narrative of " A
Dangerous Journey,” by a lone traveler,
(a revenue officer,) from San Francisco
south to San Luis' Obispo. The incident
occurred in 1849, when, there was little
law or government in that part of the
world. The officer had lost his mule, and
was on foot when he witnessed the fight.
Here is his story of it:
After losing my mule, I had proceeded
on foot a couple of miles, when I discov
ered that a latge band of Spanish cattle,
w'hich had been visible for some time in
the distance, began to close in toward the
line of my r route, evidently with the inten
tion of cutting me off. Their gestures
were quite hostile enough to inspire a sol
itary footman with uneasiness. A fierce
looking bull led the way, followed by a
lowing regiment of stags, steers, and cows,
crowding one upon theother in their furi
ous charge. As they advanced, the leader
occasionally stopped to tear up the earth
and shake his horns; but the mass kept
crowding on, their tails switching high in
the air, and uttering the most fearful bel
lowing, while they tossed their horns and ]
stared wildly, as if in mingled rage and
astonishment. 1 had heard too much of
the wild cattte of California, and their
hostility to ware men on foot at this season
,of the year, not to become at once sensible
of my dangerous position.
The nearest tree was half a mile to the
left, on the mar-gin of a dry creek. There
was' a grove of small oaks winding for
some distance along the banks of the
creek; but between the«spot where I stood
and this place of security scattering bands
of cattle were grazing. However, there
was no time to hesitate upon a choice of
difficulties. Two or three hundred wild
cattle rushing furiously toward one in an
open plain assist him in coming to a very
rapid conclusion. 1 know of ho position
in which human strength is of" so little
avail—the tremendous aggregation of brute
force opposed to one feeble .pair of arms
seems so utterly irresistible. I confess
instinct lent me a helping hand in this.
Scarcely conscious of the act, I ran with
all my might for the nearest tree. The
thundering of heavy hoofs after me, and
the furious bellowing that resounded over
the plain, spread a contagion among the
grazing herds on the way, and. with one
accord they joined in; the chase. It is in
no spirit of boastfulness that I assert the
j fact, but 11 certainly made that half-mile
| in as few minutes as ever the same dis
i tance was make by mortal man. When I
j reached the tree I looked back. The ad
vance body of the cattle were within a
hundred yards, bearing down in a whirl
wind of dust. I lost no time in making
my retreat secure. As the enemy rushed
in, tearing up the earth, and glaring at
me with their fierce, wild eyes, I had
i gained the fork of the tree, about 'six feet
i from the ground, and felt very thankful
1 that I was beyond theii- reach. Still
i there was something fearful in being block-
ALTOONA, PA., THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1862.
acted in such.a place for the night. An
intolerable thirst parched my throat. The
effects of the exertion were scarcely per*.
ceptible at first, but as I regained my
breath it seemed impossible to exist an
hour longer without water. In this val
ley the climate ■ is so intensely dry daring
the Summer heats, that the juices of the
system are quickly absorbed, and the skin
becomes like a sheet of parchment. My
head felt as if i compressed in a band of
iron ; my tongue was dry and swollen.—
I would have given all I possessed, or
ever hoped to possess, for a single glass of
water.
While in this position with the pros
pect of a dreary night before me, and suf-
fering the keenest physical anguish, a very
singular circumstance occurred to relieve
me of further apprehension respecting the
cattle, though it suggested a new danger
for which I was equally unprepared. A
fine young bull had descended the bed of
the creek in search of a water-hole.—
While pushing his way through the bushes
he was suddenly attacked by a grizzly bear.
The struggle was terific. I could see the
tops of the bushes away violently to and
fro, and hear the heavy crash of drift-wood
as the two powerful animals writhed in
their fierce embrace. A cloud of dust
rose from the spot. It was not distant
over a hundred yards from the tree in
which I had taken refuge. Scarcely two
minutes elapsed before the bull broke
through the liushes. His head was cov
ered with blood, and great flakes of flesh
hung from his fore shoulders; but instead
of manifesting signs of defeat, he seemed
literally to glow with defiant rage. In
stinct had taught him to seek an open
space. A more splendid specimen of an
animal I never saw; lithe and wiry, yet
wonderfully massive about the
combining the rarest qualities of strength
and symmetry. For a moment he stood
glaring at the bushes, his head erect, his
eyes flashing, his nostrils distended, and
his whole form fixed and rigid. But
scarcely had I time to glance at him when
a huge bear, the largest and most formida
ble I had ever saw in a wild state, broke
through the opening.
A trial of brute force that baffles des
cription now ensued. Badly as I had been
treated by the cattle, my sympathies were
greatly in favor of the bull, which seemed
to me to be much the nobler animal of the
two. He did not wait to meet the charge
but lowering his head, boldly rushed upon
his savage adversary. The grizzly was
active and waiy. He no sooner got with
in reach of the bull’s horns, than he seized
them in his powerful. grasp, keeping the
head to the ground by main strength, and
the tremendous weight of his body, while
he bit at the nose with his teeth, and
raked stripepiof flesh from his body with
his hind pawp. The two animals must
have been of very nearly equal weight.—
On the one side there was the advantage
of superior agility and two sets of weap
ons—the teeth and claws; but on the other
greater powers of endurance and more in
flexible courage. The position thus as
sumed was maintained for some time—the
bull struggling desperately to free his head
while the blood streamed from his nostrils
—the bear straining every muscle to drag
him to the ground. No advantage seemed
to be gained on either side The result of
the battle evidently depended on the
merest accident.
As if by mutual consent, each gradually'
ceased struggling, to regain breath, and as
much as five minutes must have elapsed
while they were locked in this motionless
but terrible embrace. Suddenly the bull,
by one desperate effort, wrenched his head
from the grasp of his adversary, and re
treated a few steps. The bear stood tip
to receive him. I now watched with
breathless interest, for it was evident that
each animal had staked his life on the
issue of the conflict. The cattle from the
surrounding plains had crowded in, and
stood moaning and bellowing around the
combatants; but as if withheld by terror,
none seemed disposed to interfere. Ren
dered furious by his wounds, the bull now
gathered up all his energies, and charged
with such impetuous force and ferocity
that thp bear, despite the most terrific
blows with his paws, rolled over in the
dust, vainly struggling to defend himself.
The lunges and thrusts of the former were
perfectly furious. At length by a sudden
and well-directed motion of his head, he
got one of his horns under the bear’s belly
and gave it a rip that brought out a clot
ted mass of entrails. It was apparent the
battle must soon end. Both were griev
ously wounded, and neither cotrid last
much longer. The ground was torn up
and covered with blood for some distance
around, and the panting of the struggling
animals became each moment heavier and
quicker. Maimed and gory, they fought
with the" desperate certainty of death—the
bear rolling over and over, vainly striking
out to avoid the fatal horns of his adver
sary—the bull ripping, thrusting, and
tearing with irresistible ferocity.
At length as if determined to end the
conflict the bull drew bade, lowered his
head, and made one tremendous charge;
but blinded by the blood that trickled
down his forehead, he missed his mark,
fINDEPENDENT IN EVERYTHING.]
and rolled headlong on the ground. In
an instant the bear whirled and was upon
him. Thoroughly invigorated by the
prospect of a speedy victory, he tore the
flesh in huge inasses from the ribs of his
prostrate foe.. The two rolled over and
over in the terrible death struggle; noth
ing was now to be seen save a heaving,
gory mass, dimly perceptible through the
dust. A few minutes would certainly
have terminated the bloody strife, so far
as my favorite was concerned, when, to
my astonishment, I saw the bear relax in
his efforts, roll over from the body of his
| prostrate foe, and drag himself feebly a
| few yards from the spot. His entrails
i had burst entirely through the wound in
his belly, and now lay in long strings over
the ground. The next moment the bull
erect and fierce as ever. Shaking the
blood from his eyes, he looked around, and
seeing the reeking mass before him, low
ered his head for the final and most des
perate charge. In the death-struggle that
ensued both animals seemed animated by
supernatural strength. The grizzly struck
out wildly, but with such destructive en
ergy that the bull, upon drawing back his
head, presented a horrible and ghastly
spectacle; his tongue, a mangled mass of
shreds, hanging from his mouth, bis eyes
tom completely from their sockets, and
his whole face stripped to the bone. On
the other hand, the bear was ripped com
pletely open, and writhing in his last ag
onies. Here it was that indomitable
courage prevailed; for blinded and maimed
as he was, the bull, after a momentary
pause to regain bis wind, dashed wildly at
his adversary again, determined to be vic
torious even in death. A terrible roar
escaped from the dying grizzly. With a
last frantic effort he sought to make his
escape, scrambling over and over in the
dust. But his strength 'was gone. A
few more thrusts from the savage victor
and he lay stretched upon the sand, his
muscles quivering convulsively, his huge
body a resistless mass. A clutching mo
tion of the claws—a groan—a gurgle of
the throat—and he was dead.
The bull now raised his bloody crest,
uttered a deep bellowing sound, shook bis
horns triumphantly and slowly walked off
not, however, without turning every few
steps to renew the struggle if necessary. —
But his last battle Was fought. As the
blood streamed from his wounds a death
chill came over him. He stood for some
time, unyielding to the last, bracing him
self up, his legs apart, his head gradually
drooping; then dropped on his fore-knees
and lay down; soon his head rested upon
the ground; his body became motionless;
a groan, a few convulsive respirations, and
he too, the noble victor, was dead.
During this strange and sanguinary
struggle the cattle, as I stated before, had
gathered iii and around the combatants.
The most daring, as if drawn toward the
spot by the smell of blood or some irresis
tible fascination, formed a circle within
twenty or thirty yards, and gazed at the
murderous work that was going on with
startled and terror-stricken eyes; but none
dared to join in defence of their champion.
No sooner' wits the battle ended, and the
victor and the vanquished stretched dead
upon the ground, than a panic seized the
excited multitude, and by one accord they
set up a wild bellowing, switched their
tails in the air, and started off full speed
for the plains. I was thus fortunately re
leased from imprisonment in the tree, and
continued my journey towards San Mi
guel.
A man in a Federal uniform, says the
Huntsville (Ala.) Democrat of the 9th,
rode into Fayetteville, Tenn., on Sunday
last, conversed freely with the citizens,
said he belonged to an Ohio Regiment, al
lowed a citizen, who asked permission to
examine his gun, removing the cap before
handing it to him, dined at a tavern with
his gun on his lap at the table, had his
horse fed and left. The citizens thought
him one of Morgan’s men notwithstanding
his representation. A short time after,
however, they were undeceived. Coming
four or five miles on the coad to Hunts
ville, he overtook an old white man with
four negroes, and three wagons of bacon;
he forced them to drive their wagons dose
together, put fodder under them, take out
the mules and retire a few steps. Then,
lighting a match, he set fire to the wagons,
consuming them and their contents. -
Riding to a church, a few miles distant,
where preaching was, he asked the preach
er if any soldiers were there, and saying
that if there were he wanted them. Re
ceiving a negative answer, he rode away,
| and crossing the road ten miles this side
,of Fayetteville with two other Federate.
This is the last we heard of them. The
owner of the bacon and wagons returned
to Fayetteville, with his negroes and mules,
! and related his misfortune. Several men
went in pursuit of the bold marauders,
but failed to find them.
WONDER AT A BOLD YANKEE.
CT A little boy, a few days since while
coming down stairs, was cautioned by his
mother not to lose hie balance. His ques*
tion which followed was a puzzle :
“ Mother, if I shqyld lose my balance,
where would it go tot”
CtmULATIH’ A BEEHIVE.
BT CAPTAIS JERE WILLIAMS,
“ Boys, I know where there is a Secesh
bee-hive,” said Jack Philips, one; dull
morning, while we were quartered on Cheat
Mountain Summit
“ Where is it ?” asked ope of his two
hearers.
“ If you’ll promise to go along and help
’cumulate it. I’ll tell you.”
“ Count me one,” said Jed Wicks.
“Count me half a dozen, if you want
that many,” said BUI Beese.
“ But I’ll tell you, boys, it’s down at
Robinson’s, on Cheat river, and worse than
that, it’s in the kitchen loft; and still worse,
he has two all-fired cross blood hounds.” .
“Come to think,” said Jed Wicks, “I
havn’t time to go.”
“I never agreed to go,” said Bill Reese.
“ Look-a-here, feUers, I tell you we can
’cumulate that ’ere honey, and ef you fel
lers are afeored to go, I can find somebody
that ain’t.”
“This left hander at their courage set
them to warding off other excuses. , '
“ I’m not afeered to go,” said Jedjbut
may be Robinson is a Union man, aM it
wouldn’t do, you know.” ;
“ Not by a denied sight, he ain’t." He’s
one of these cussed neutral Secesh that’s
ten times wuss than an out-and-outer.—
ile carries news to Greenbrier camp, and
I’ll prove it on him afore a week.”
- “ But, then,” interposed Bill, “we can’t
get past the camp guards; and if we could
it looks a little to much like stealin.” ,
“ Gittin’ a past the guards ain’t common
amusement,” said Jack, “just say you’ll,
go, and the honey is ourn. And as, to the
moral pint, we’ll go ’cordin to law and
custom, you know. Fust, demandin' of
the Secesh bees to take the oath, .they re
fusin’, we arrest them and confiscate their
property. All fair and legal, you see. —
What’s stealin’ in times o’ peace is confis
catin’ and ’cumulatin times o’ war. For
stealin’ you git promoted. So, you:feee, in
a moral pint of view it’s intirely different.”
Their qualms of conscience being thus
satisfactorily disposed of, and Jack having
insured their hides against the hounds, they
agreed to go if hC would get a pass to take
them through the guard lines.
“ Come right along, then,” said Jack,
and they followed him to a remote beat,
where was walking, to and fro, a Gorman
sentinel, who could not read English.—
After the usual challenge jack advanced,
and drawing from the folds of his pocket
book a crumpled paper, read as follows:
Camp Cheat Mountain Summit,)
,• October 18, 1861. ; j
The guard will pass the bearer, and two
comrades, mi very important business.
Brig. Gen. Mxlboy.
The German understood none of this,
except the name and title of the General,
and Jack, to prevent him from calling a
corporal of the guard, looked very impor
tant, and made him understand that the
General wished the expedition kept a pro
found secret. The sentinel deferentially
slipped aside, and they passed in.
“ How in the dickens did get that
pass,. Jack?” inquired Bill.
“Pass be hanged! It was nothing but
a little note Robinson sent up to thie Gen
eral t’other day by me, about the boys a
stealin’ from him. Yes, I give it to him
much.”
“ But what does He note say ?” eagerly
iniquired Bill.
“ Why, it says as how if the General
’lows any of the soldiers to come, stealin’
about him, his dog shouldn’t leave bar nor :
hide on ’em. He done it to skeer me, as 1
he noticed me a eyein’ his bee-hive. I
tuk the hint and the note, and told him !
like as not some of the' boys would be
down this very day, and mebbe stqal his
bee-hive or somethin’; says he, ‘do you
see them ? pintin’ at his dogs. Says I, ‘1
believe I see ’em.’ Says he, ‘oneo’ them
will tear the hind legs off a man the fust
jerk, ef I tell ’em to.’ Says I, .‘keep a
sharp look out,’ and mentioned to him
'specially to keep his eyes peeled to-day.”
Bill and Jed stopped.
“Jack,” said Bill, “my opinion is you’re
tryin’ to git us into an infernal scrape.”
“Nary time, fellers; nary time. Ijist
wanted the Secesh cuss to understand that
Jack Philips can ’cumulate that bee-hive
if him and his dogs was a straddle of it.
I tell you, ’pon honor, that I have the
ropes all laid, and that bee-hive is as good
as burn without ary scratch. I’ll manage
Robinson and the dogs myself; they shan’t
as much as look toward you.”
After some further assurance they pro
ceeded, and when. they approached the
house they crept quietly through the laurel
to make a reconnoisance. There sat Rob
inson in the very door through which they
would have to pass in order to reach the
bee-hive, and by the doorsteps lay the two
ferocious dogs- Appearances, certainly,
were not very promising, hut Jack quietly
remarked, “ all right, old feller.”
“ Now, Bill,” said be, “ you mid Jed re
main here, silent and stQl» until Jon bear
me boiler, and then double quick in, wrap
a blanket around the bee-hive and bring it
into the laurel up the point. . Yflh needn't
be a afeered of Robinson and. the dogs,
they’ll be ’tended to.”
EDITORS AND PROPMETOSS.
About two hundred yards fcoßkthe
house was a footway acroesthe>river, that
part farthest from the house being a sLpgte.
plank. The water was three or four feet
deep, swift and cold, and the banks quite
bluff.
In about a half an hour front the time
Jack left his friends, Robinson was startied
by hearing a squawking in. the direction
of the bridge, and looking up, haw jack
crossing the river with a chicken under
his arm. 1
“Hold on, there, you infernal scoun
drel !” he shouted, “ or I’ll set the dogs on
you. Here Tiger, here Maj 6,” and he and
the dogs started on a run.
“ ’Tain’t none of your chickens, “shout*
edJack, feigning fright, “I bought it down
at the widder’s.”
“ Hold on, I tell you!” shouted the en
raged Robinson, “ and't’ll see whose it is,
you Yankee thief.”
Jack stopped at the turther end of the
foot-way, and stood/with his toe under one
end of the plank, while Robinson advanced
from the other, shaking his fist and ex
claiming :
“I’ll teach to come here steelin',
you pilferin’,
Rehouse 1
Jack had dexterously thrown the end of
the plank sidewise, and Robinson mid the
dogs were floundering, and fighting, and
climbing over each other in four feet of
water/ Jack gave a loud shout, took to
his heels, and, at the appointed rendezvous
found his comrades with a hive of rich
honey.— WiUxtf Spirit.
POSTAL IHCIDEHT.
A young man from the^-rural district
went to the post office the other day with
a bank-note for a dollar’s worth of stamps.
He was told that paper money was notre
ceived. He went for Spanish quarters.
“We don’t receive them now,” said
the attendant, “for more than twenty rants
apiece.
The countryman thought Uncle Sam
mighty particular, so he went and obtained
a dollar’s worth of coppers.
“Now,” said he, on returning to the
office, and laying down bis pile on the
window of the delivery, “ I guess 1 can
suit you.”
The man inside looked at the display of
coppers, and coolly-replied:
“ We never take more than three cents
iii copper at one time—it is not a legal
tender above that sum.”
The countryman looked at the compand
official for the space of a minute without
stirring, and then belched out:
“Ldok here, you!—ain’t you almighty .
kind of particular, for fellows backed up
in such a jail as this’ere? You don't
take only three cents of copper at a time,
hey ? Well, then, ?’pose you give me three
cents worth of stamps anyhow.’’
The official very politely cut him off a
single stamp, and passed it out, forwhieh
the countryman laid down three cents.— \
He was about to pass away, when the lat
ter cried out: .
“ Look here, you 1 That'ere’s one time.
Now s’pose-you give me three centa woxth
more on ’em!”
Uncle Sain’s clerk was not slow in dis
covering that he had caught a Tartar. He
turned back to the window, and asked:
“ How many coppers have you got?’*'
“ Well, only about ninety-seven of'em.
I had a hundred when I begun.”
“ Pass them in,” was the gruff reply.
“Pass out your stamps fust, and then I
will; but I reckon you won’t ketch me
again.”
The stamps were passed out and the cop
pers handed over, when the countryman
went off, saying:
“S’pose because a fellow holds office
under Unde Sam he thinks he’s smartttte
all creation; but I guess theyleam’tsome
thing that-time.”
Sad Tales, —Correspondence has been
freely resumed with loyal men inandi ptirts
of Tennessee as have been re-opeppd to
civilization by the Union troops. Clergy
men especially are getting to be commtini
cative, and sad, very sad, are the' teles
some of them have to tell. One of them
(an Episcopalian) writes to tbe Church
Journal to say:
“My salary has-been entirely stopped.
For the last month or two I have been
getting only from one to three dpQars a
week for my services as pastor, tUs bdpg
the amount of the Sunday onertory. ’ S<e»-
sides this 1 have a little 'school, but It does
not yield me enough to pay my rent My
family consists of a wife amd six nnpbi
children. From this statement yog may
judge what are my prospects- In Grotfs
gracious providence only have I hope. O
may the Lord send us a speedy peace."
Another writes:
“ these themes have » fiUed aJI. tbgpp
pers, religious as well as
had well nigh come $0 the
religion had been absorbed by politics. O
what a reirpeus dearthpregails horai”
- these d*y» when
ionable female dreaaes, a
be thankful to the lady who may
the contoote.
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