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fsurtsett to the following synopsis of the News
paper law*:
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wtfer, {ret urnin g a paper does not an s wcr the law i
when a subscriber doe* not take hi* paper oat of
the office, and si.to the reasons tor it* uot being
takrn; and a neglect to do to makes the Postmas
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2. Any person who lakes a paper from the Post
office, whether directed to hi* name or another, or
whether he Use subscribed or not is responsible
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must pay all arrearages, or the publisher may
continue to s-nd it until payment is made, anil
olleet the whole amount. teke'kerit he taken from
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lisece until the payment ia made.
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tioues to send, the subscriber is bound to pay for
it, if be takee it out of ike Pant Office. The" iaw
y-oceeds upon the ground that a man must pay
for what he uses.
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newspapers and periodical* from the Post office,
tr removing and having them uncalled for, is
prima facia evidence of intentional fraud.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
\y C . HULA II AN ,
ATTORNEY- AT-LAW,
BEDFORD, Pa. *
.Tan. 2S, '76-tf
4 LET. KING. It.,
A .I TTORNE Y-A T-LA W.
BEDFORD, PA..
AU business entrusted to his care will receive
pr itq>t and careful attention Office three door*
e ih of the Court House, lately occupied bv J.
TV. Dickron. sov2t> j
AND LINGEXFELTER,
ATTORNEY'S AT LAW, saopoan, PA.
Hare formed a partnership in the practice of
the Law, in new brick building near the Lutheran
Church. [April 1, 1869-tf
A. POINTS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, BSDPOBD, PA.
Respectfully tenders hi* professional services
to the public. Office in the Isqci nxEni'ding,
second floor.)
ri-fl-CoHectiona promptly made. [April, 1'69-tf.
nSPY M. ALSTP,
Uj ATTORNEY* AT LAW, BFDPOBD, PA.,
TV ill faithfully and promptly attend to all busi
ness entrusted to his care in Bedford and adjoin- j
eg counties. Military claims, Pension*, back
. y, Bounty, 4c. speedily collected. Office with
Mann 4 Spang, on Juliana street, 2 doors aoutb
r.ftbe Mengel House. apl 1, 1869.—tf.
T R. DL'RBORROW,
•J . ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Braroup, Pa.,
Will attend promptly to all besiness intrusted to
hi care. Collections made on the shortest no
tice.
if* 1 s ateo, a regularly licensed Claim Agent
: wil give epecial attention Jo the prosecution :
'lit r against the Government for Pensions,
Back I ay, Bounty. Bounty Lands, 4e.
Office on Juliana street, one door South of the
Inquirer office, and nearly opposite the • Mengel
House" April 1. 1369:tf !
S. 1— RUSS*LI_ J. H. LOSCESRCKItR
RUSSELL A LONUEXKCKER,
ATTOBSSRS A COCNSBLLOHS AT LAW,
Bedford, Pa.,
TVi'.l attend promptly and faithfully to all basi
nets entrusted to their care. Special attention
g; nto collection; and the prosecution of claims
. r Back Pay, Bounty, Pensions, Ac.
TSriOffice on Juliana street, south of the Court
13 .so. Apri 1:69:1yr.
J' M'D. SHARPE E. P. SERB I
OHARFE A KERR,
O ATTORSEYS-AT-law.
Will practice in th© Court# of Bedford and ad- j
joining counties. All business entrusted to their
care will receive careful and prompt attention. :
Pensions, Bounty, Back Pay, ±c., speedily col
lected from the Government.
Office on Juliana street, opposite the banking
L use of Heed k Schell. Bedford. Pa. Apr l;69:tf !
PHYSICIANS.
J JR. B. F. HARRY,
Respectfully tenders his professional ser
vices to the citisens of Bedford and Ticinity.
Office an 1 residence on Pitt Street, in the building
formerly occupied Dy Dr. J. H. Ilofius. [Ap'l 1,69. j
MISCELLANEOUS.
IACOB BRENNEMAN.
U WOODBERRY. PA..
SCRIVENER. CONVEYANCER, LICENSED
CLAIM AGENT, and Ex-Offieto JUSTICE
OF THE PEACE,
Will attend to all business entrusted into his band*
with promptness and despatch. Will remit mon
ey by dralt to any part of the country. 17sely
D ANIEL BORDER,
PITT STKEKT, TWO WEST OF THE BED
?O*d HOTEL. Best jRD, Pa.
M ATCHMAKER AXD DEALER IX JEWEL- j
RY. SPECTACLES. AC.
lie keep# rn hand a #tock of fine Gold and Sil- ;
ver Watches. Spectacles of Brilliant Double Refits- j
#1 Glasses, also Seotcb Pebble Gla##es. Gold
W atrb Chain#, Breast Pin#, Fineer Rings, be#t i
quality of Gold Pens. He will supply to order
any thing in bis line not on hand.
W'TR OU StT.
* DEALER 131
CIGARS, TOBACCO, PIPES, AC.
On Pitt street one door east ot Geo. R. 0.-ter
A Stre. Bedf rd. Pa., is now prepared
to sell by wholesale all kinds of CIGARS. AH
orders promptly filled. Person# desiring anything
in hi* line will do veil to give him a eail.
Bedford April I. **9..
P N. HICK ok, ~~
V . . DENY IST.
Office at the old *tand in
BASK BCILMSO. Juliana it.. BEDFORD.
All operation* pertaining to
Surgical and Hechn u ical Duitiitry
performed with car* and
WARRANTED.
I eremthetien ndmicintered, ncken denired. Ar
ial teeth inecned at, per eet, 88.0(1 and tip.
T* I em determined U. do a CASH BUSINESS
r none, I have reduced the price* for Artificial i
Teeth of the nrioiu kinds. 2" per cent.. ted of j
0 Id tilling* 33 per oeot. Thi* reduction will he t
:r le only to strictly Cash Patieata, and all such ■
*i!l receive prompt attention. 7feb6S !
\\ M LLOYD
" • BANKER.
Transacts a General Banking Business, and make* ;
collection* on al! accessible poists ia
the United States
GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. GOLD, SIL- j
VER.STERI.IVU an t CONTINENTAL
EXCH ANGE bought and sold.
U.S. REVENUE STAMPS of all descriptions j
atway* on band.
Accurate of Mereh*nts, Mechanic*, Farmers and j
all other solicited.
INTEREST ALLOWED ON TIME DEPOSITS.
Jan. 7, '7O.
LUCHiSGK HOTEL.
Ei HUNTINGDON, PA.
This old establishment having been leased by
J MORRISON, formerly proprietor of the Mor
rison House, has been entirely renovated and re
funiivhed and supplied with alt the modern im.
p-oi eoients and eonveaience* necessary to a Sr*t
c;ac UoteL
The do ing room he* been removed to the 6r*t
-i- and is n.w spacina* and airy, and the < ban
kers ar* all well ventilated, and the proprietor
Will endeavor to make his guest* perfectly at
- -oe. Addre-sa, J. MOKKInON,
Excaaacc (lorn.,
Jljulytf Huntingdon, Pa.
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ITEMS.
RAILROAD ACCIDENT*. —The Lehigh
\ alley Railroad has aiopted a general rule
to the effect that all persons employed on
the road, trains or switches, while upou
I duty, rnurt abstain entirely from inroxica
ting drink, under penalty of dismissal. The
i same rule is prescrbed on other roads, and
• if it were to be universal and strictly enfor
: eed, railway travelers would fed safer.
GRANT'S LATEST HIT.—A Washington
correspondent of the Louisvil* Courier &
Journal rela'es tliat a letter from Governor
Ashley, of Montana, to a friend, was lately
! read to General Grant. The Governor wa
rather free in his strictures on Grant's ap
; poiatees. I iuaily this passage was read; —
"The Pre-ident has made some tad ap
pointments," Ac. Grant quietly said,
"Well, I think I have, and I'll just remove
one of th m now." Aud the order for
I Ashlwy'e decatiiiatioo was made forthwith.
A PERPETUAL CANDLE.—The Hon.
Cassius M. Ciay, late Minister at St. Pe
teisburg, is in \\ aterburv, Connecticut, for
the purpose of having a "perpetual candle"
manufactured, and the Benedict & Burn
ham Company has taken the contract to
make it. The candle burns a fluid called
"Ferraoce," and gives a light equal to one
and a half sperm candles, at a co.-t of one
cent for twenty-four hours. It is a Russian
invention, used by the nobles of that coun
try, of which Mr. Cay has the patent for
this country.
THE CHINESE IN THE SOITH.—A letter
has been received in this city from Gen. J.
G. Walker announcing that he had ariiveu
in Texas with the 250 Chinese Jaborers
lately conveyed by him Iroui San Francisco
via the Miasissipi i river. Genoa! Walker
writes that the Chinamen arc at work on the
Texas Central Railroad, near Calvert, Tex
as, where they were giving en-ire sati-fac
tion, and appeared contented. He thinks it
probable that he wilire'urn to California for
fresh lot of the satire kind of iabor during
the spring.
THE TENNESSEE CONVENTION. —The
w okoftbe Tvnn. Ssee constitutiona! conven
tion thus far is, in bri -f: Giving the Cover
nor a limited veto power; restricting the se>
-it-ns of the Legislature to seventy-6ve days
for recuLr session, and twenty days for
called sessions: prohibiting the State from
loaning its credit or issuing its bonds ia aid
of railroads and such like improvements:
changing the number of supreme judges 1
from three to five; making all judges e'eetive
by the people; making unversa! the fran
cbi-e, with prepayment ot poll tax required
before voting.
JURY DUTY.—' The New York Journal of
Commerce, in a thoughtful article upon the
failure to do jury duty, proposes a remedy.
It would "allow all civil suits to be tried
before a judge alone in every ease where
neither party demanded a jury. This would
strike out the call for such service from three
fourths, if not nine-tenths, of the civil ca.-es
on the calendar. There are few disputes in
wi ieh both parties and their lawyers would
not rather leave the decision to the bench
than to the jury box. In the remaining
eases, let any party demanding a jury be
compelled to give security for the payment
of a sum sufficient to furnish ample remuner
ation to those who may be compelled to give
tin ir valuable time to the task."
NEW JUDICIAL DISTRICTS.— The pro
posed Northern Judicial District of Deno-yl
var.ia, according to the bid introduced into
the I niifd States House of Bepmetatim,
i- to coo-i-t of the following counties Sehuyl
kill. Carbon Monroe, INke, Wayne, Wyo
ming, Luzerene, Colnmbia. Montour, North
umber'aod, Union. Snyder. Sullivan. Lv
coming, Clinton. Camero". Elk. Su-qnrhan
na, Bradford, Tioga, Pottrr and MvKean.
The Di-triet Judge is to posa as the fame
powers within the district a- are pos?es-ed
by the Di.trct Judge for the Eistern Dis
trict of Pennsylvania. The terms of the
court are to be he'd at Pottsville. Schuylkill
count v, on the second Mondays of Jtnuary
and Julr, and at \\ iikesbirre, Luzerne
county, on the f.urth M todays of April and
September. The District Ju i *c, with the
Circuit Judue, is authorized to hold Circuit
Courts at Wilkesbarre, Pottsville and Wil
lam sport. Cases now peudiug, if originally
cognizable with the new district, can, on
petition, be removed to the new District
Court.
A CRUEL BLOW.— Alas! for Indiana
divorce lawyers and the "gras-" widow,
and widowers temporarily sojourning there!
We see that the I nittd States Supreme
C< urt has decided that divorces obtain*d in
that State by parties reiding in other States,
but going to that State for the sole purpose
of Iwing divorced, are void. The court held
that the ooi? exception i- that, where a hus
hood abandons bis wife and establishes a
different domicile, and even then the wife
can only retain the domicile where she was
abandoned, and seek her remedies there, or
go back to her original domicile and have
redress there. This is cruel. It strikes at
the one branch of business that specially
thrives in that State. Then too, it indi
rcctly strikes a blow at Chicago. Not alow
divorce seekers re-ide legally, in It diana,
hut spend nearly all their time in Cl-icagn,
thus bringing money to the exchequer of
this city, and sometimes adorning our fash
ionable society.
COUNTERFEIT FIVE CENT COINS. —A large
number of counterfeit five cent coins are
reported in circulation and are thus de-cri
bed: The motto *'io God we trust," is much
larger in the counterfeit than in the gen
uine. The yellow color of the spurious coin
is aLo another test. This is caused by the
presence of zinc. Mr. Eckleldt, the assayer
o * the mint at Phiadelphia, says that the
most ready test with all kinds of coio is the
weight, which counterfeiters are seldom abl •
to bring out right. Hi ad is: "Th .• true
weight is 77 1 6 grains. Three of the pieces
were grossly io error, being under 70 grains;
a fourth suspected piece happened to be
just right. This last pt ee was subjected to
as-ay, and proved to contain 14 per cent,
nickel nstead of 25, the lawful proportion.
It also contained a large proportion of sin",
making, io fact, the usual 'German silver.'
The dies were the same as in the other
three, except the date, 1869, the others
being 1868 and 1867. Ail < f the*e four
pieces have a yellowish tint, and the engra
ving is false and coarse, hut not sutErieotly
s to be detected by a hasty inspection. On
the whole, it is a dangerous is-ue, and
proves that, with wore skill in engraving
and a laying, gnat frauds could be ptacticed.
BEDFORD, PA.* FItIDAV, FEB 25 INTO.
Jocttg.
GRBKIK API'LEd.
[This beautiful poem is taken from Trow
, J bridge's "The Vagabond and other Poems:"]
Pali down the bough, Bob! Isn't this fun?
Now give it a shake, and—there goes one!
Now put t ur thumb up to the other, and eee
J it it isn't as mellow as mellow can be !
I know by the stripe.
It must be ripe!
That's one apiece for you and me.
! Green ! are they ? Well, no matter for thai.
Sit down on the grass and we'll have a chat,
: And I'll tell you what old Parson Bute
Said last Sunday oi" unripe fruit;
••Life," says he,
"Is a beautiful tree
Heavily laden with beautiiu! fiuiL
"For theyouth thcre'slove, just streaked with
red,
"And great joys hanging over his head
"Happiness, honor, and great estate,
I "For those who patiently wait;
"Blessings.'' said he,
• of every degree,
"Kipening early. and ripening late.
"Take tied) in season, pluck and eat,
"And the fruit is wholesome, the fruit is
sweet
"But, O. my friend-!"—here ho gave a rap
Ou bis desk, like a regular ibuudet-clap.
And made such a bang,
Old Deacon Lang
Woke up out of bis Sunday nap :
"Green fruit,'' he said, "God would not bless:
"But half life's sorrow and bitterness,
"Half the evil, and ache, and crime,
"Came from tasting before their time
"The fruits Heaven sent."
Then on he went
To his Fourthly and Fifthly—wasn't it prime?
But I say. Bob, we fellows don't care
So much for a mouthful of apple or pear;
But w hat we like is the fun of the thing.
When the fresh winds blow aud the hang birds
bring
Home grubs aud sing
To their young ones a-swing
In their basket nest tied up with a string.
I like apples in various ways;
They're Grst rate roasted before tbe blaze
Of aw inter's fire; and, O. iny eyes !
Aren't they nice, though, made into pies?
1 scarce ever saw
One. cooked or raw,
That wasu't good for a boy of my size!
But shake your fruit from the orchard tree,
' Aud the tune of tbe brook and tbe bum of the
bee,
And the chipmuck's chippering every minute,
Aud the clear, sweet note of the gay little lin
net,
And the grass and flowers,
And the long summer hours,
Anc, the flavor of sun and breeze are in it.
But ibis is a hard one. Why didn't we
Leave them another -eek on the tree?
Is yours bitter? Give me a bite?
The pulp is tough and the seeds are white,
And the taste of it puckers '
My mouth like a sucker's ;
I vow, 1 believe tbe old parson was right!
gUflttUanflni*.
Till: AJBBKK UliOUt II
BY MRS. tUNISON.
This amber brooch is an heirloom, a
quaint c neon iu earring, bequeathed to me
by my grandm -her. It belonged to her
irreat grandmother, who was a famous belle
in her time. She was a Virginian, and re
nowned Ihi and wide for her exquisite love
; lines?.
A few weeks ago I was visiting a friend
who lives in Alexandria. As we sat at the
table that literally groar.cd under its weight
of good things, something was said to ine
about uiy ancestor, Elsie Wainright. Be
! side o:e -at an antique dame of eighty-nine,
regnant still in her shrivek-d comlincss—
etect a- an Indian.
"What! E'-ie Wainright a re'ative of
yours? I *a- a girl when she wa- ps-t her
prime, by many year.-, and ol all the women
I ever saw, young or old. she was the hand
somest, and stateliest. Why. child, you've
no idea—he was s- "lithe as a water li ly,
and striight as a pine, too. People n-ed to
wt-.ndur why she married so late in life—not
: till she was forty-two, my dear; arid had hut
one son. They say sh" was a great friend
ol the Washington- and that the General
or his wife had presented btrwith an amber
brooch."
"This was jr. I said touching the rare
1 ornament that fa-tene'd uiy collar.
"D.'-tr me. let me put on my glasses not
that 1 can't sec to sew and the like withour
them," said the garrulous old lady placing
• her gold bow, d spectacles upon her nose
with trembling fingers. "I've heard about
it, some love affair," she added in a whi-per,
intended for my tar only. And I think she
i did some brave act or other —do you know?"
I answered that I had heard something
of the kind, but did not know the facts.
After dinner I had to go the rounds. All
I the old ladies who had ever heard of the
wondcrlu! Miss Ei.-ie Wainright begged to
get a look at the brooch, which 1 unfastened
and pa-sed from one to the other. I felt
' conscious of being the object ol much scru
i tiny and many comments.
"Beauty culminates like everything else
and then deteriorates," I overheard one
say, by which remark 1 supposed she wa
commenriug n;>on my unlikeness to the
celebrated belle, or to any one whose birth
right was beauty.
I am not handsome, but have often heard
that I have the "Wainright nose," aud I
■ i mu-t add that I have always feature.
"My dear," said the first named old u 'y,
"I want you to-come up in my room I have
something to show you." So I followed
her into the old fashioned front chamber,
whose furniture di-p'ayed. tbe amplitude
and richne-s ot old Virginia upholstery.
Have you ever sojourned, reader, in oae of
those nobel mansions, once the pride of the
jOd Dominion, where the chairs are
miniature lounges, and one could hardly be
prevailed on to !• ave th- ir luxurious depths?
Where the beds, piled Pclioo upon Osa, on
■; a frame whose ample dimensions would
• more than fill many a modern room, carved
• with elaborate de.-igtis. and Lunz about with
flowering curtains of lace in summer, and
I thick, rich, stuff- in winter, might truly L-e
i said to invite repose. Where, over tbe
i many windows and along the edges of the
: ceikng, ume master * pencil bad designed
, i lruita at.d fl were of exquisite delicacy? Il
not, you have lost what would have been
"a joy forever," to retnemb>:r.
"Sit d .wu, my love," said the old lady,
as I Wended my way among chairs and
hassock- to *n immense chest of drawers,
A moment after she brought nte a box of
-ttmt thing like a modern wotk-box.
" There my d--ar !" she cried triumphantly,
"ihit once belonged to your great great
grandmother, when she was El-ie Wain
right. J, JJ ag eQ j a mv p,, S4 ,. s^i,jn twenty
I years. 1 got it at a vaodue. when my
|lne e fcpofTerd, dear—-old out. iL>w he
came in po-c-sion of it, I never L ard. It
ha . bt-cn said, though, that his father was
an o J ! ver of Ilia, Wain right's dear, but
■be lial lever- io plenty! She was so
(acinxting, you kn w."
All this time I had beet: examitiing the
box. wbieb was made of sandal wood, was
delightfully odorous, and dotted in a curious
tuann r with n.iuute piecesof eh-ony, one of
which I noticed, after much scrutiny, pro
truded ir-ttn the box about midway between
the ever and the bottom.
"It - a horred little face—you'll see if
you fu-Jc through ihi," hautling ate a
magnifier, "something like a grinning
Chinese mandarin. True enough, it re
sembled a fantastic, elf countenance.
"It ooks a little loose," I said, and
pressed.t with my thumb. lustantaneon-Iy
out ftp Tang a drawer, with a fre-h waft of
ceder fragrance, filld with a package of
yellow paper, closely written over, though
the itik had fadt-d to a pale du.-tv r- d.
"Wei, well, cried the old lady in as
tonishmcnt, "to think I should have had it
so long, and probably it was in my uncle's
family thirty odd years, and never kn two or
dreamed of such a thing! What is it—let
ters, did you say? Take it, mydtar, what
ever it is."
I gladly availed myself of her permission,
and. unfolding the paper, some parts of
which fell from my gra-p, deciphered with
difficu'iy.
"DIARY OF KLSJE WAINWRIGHT, FOR THE
YEAR 17 —
"You hsve the best right to it, of eourse j
my dear," said the old lady, after we had
discus- d the matter thoroughly; if you
think there i* anything th re that would in
ten-t me wi'h abt trsyal of confidence, I
wi-h y.>u would let me hear it."
I took the manuscript home, and with
some difficulty read and copied it; whfn.
making allowance- f. r peculiar old fa-hiooed
spelling, and a Word gone here an l there, it
ran as follows:
DIARY.
June 21W, 17. —My birthday ! Nineteen
year- old ! and to night my first ball! Aunt
Grizzy. peering tut through that huge false
front of hers, -ay- I tuu-t ciptivate some ol
the-e British officers. Mn*t! I fancy I
-hall not have to try very hard, aunty raine.
Nt that I like them particularly, thoutih
Captain Flos-velt is a gem of an officer —
the handsomest man except one. I ever saw.
But, oh! that one, in whoso face -bines
something beyond beauty.
Papa has a-k< d the captain to diue here
to morrow. 1 l.ke that, he i- .-o droll, so
eotertatniog. What pretty picture-of high
born ladh -he g've.- us. One sees the c url
through hi- eyes, the-piogles and feather-,
the ri h laces and shining trains upheld by
gaudy pages. I wonder how I should look
ttieked off so bravely? Aunt Grizzy thinks
I shall be son eiitne; I know it is the su
preme wi-h of her heart —poor soul—Tory •
that she i-. 1 wonder if I shall live to bes >
oid asd grim, and snap my eyes, and wear
a fi.l-e front? Never! I'll co bald fir-t.
22 !. Went to the hall at nine. M ore
the >M point !ac. —the beautiful yellow *
ancient web, over white satin, both heit j
k in:-; felt at home in them.
"I.iws, miss," said cricket—-he's my '
maid—"why didn't jon get new white Isce ;
that don't loek like a spider web, full of
darn-? ' H.>w I laughed. Captain Flo-. ,
v. It painful y attentive —the Fiossrelts arc;
a very old family. Aunt Grizzy *ays. 1
wa- so happy ! I wonder if there i- anything
!:ke the triumph of a girl of nineteen at her j
first hoii ? I had no rivals, why should I not
confess it? I know lam beautiful, but I
h ;-c lam not vain. If I know what vanity
means. I am sare Ia in no: vain. Ah';
much a* f value my good looks I would pait j
with then, for one -mile from any hero, j
Shall I te 1 you here ju-t what he did? The ;
-tory i- a long one, hut the gist of it is ;
thi-. By riding over long stretches of;
frez-n ice. through the piercing cold falling ;
down, indeed, in a dead faint after he had ;
delivered hi# mes-agp, be saved the life of ,
our d ar. noble Colonel Washington and ,
not only bis but his dear ladv's life also.
But the ball! Lettice Ritner was there:
she and I sympathize in common. Onr j
lathers are both loyalists. She knows hiai
—Untenant Moine—thatthe dear name.
It wa- at her father's house I met him.
three years ago. Since then ah ! I know
what I know. Do not eyes look love to
eye? I don't we him often; lie never
spoke tp uie of—of—bow foolish lam ! As
if there was any need ol speaking.
Old Joe Hitter knows a i about the
movements of our enemies. Vi rv sly is old
Joe. He says there is trouble brewing.
Sort. Let(ie has asked me to come over
to-mmrow, they are expecting a call from
C'-lon l G. W. ll' alway* accomranie
him. To tbiuk if that noble face 's i.
pulses flying.
There com s Captain Flossvtlt, I know
his hores step. Of course, to please Aunt
Grixzy. I must look rny fce>t for dinner;
w.ll war my blue dri f with pearl stom
acher. ""ball we ever lirve a iasbioo book
in A merle t. I wonder? One never knows
what the style is lot one's self. The Cap
tain ib-es mo the honrr to -ay that I dress
remarkably well. I really think he feels
sure of uie. I shall never break my heart
'or him. Aunt Grizzy adores hi;n. If it
ere not for paralysis which keeps her chin
wagging ail the time, and her false front
—I am writing noes-m*.
Ah my ( less 1 journal, if some folks
-hould see you, what u scrapeyoa would get
rue into, to be sure. A shadow falls upon
no-. All the heavens kink tbroaming. The
wind rushes in and aeat'ers every moving
article; it blows my curb almost straight.
The trees moan —there's a thunder clap I
How vivid that white fia-h of lightning !
Won't the Captain be glad? He never goes
home iti a storm. He says thunder aud
lightning makes him a coward. I must go
down to was tire him. p..or f'ei ow 1
July hi The Captain went away by
dariight, I fancy he was ea'lcd for.
"Elsie," said Aunt Gr.zzy, "go up iut<
the spare room where the Captain s'ej t
and bring down the cut gliss goblet. ]
i didn't dare trust it to the servants, for if i
should be broken, it can't be matched in
this heathenish country."
"Aunt Griizy," I retoited highly indig
nant, "please to remember that F was born
here."
"Don't care if you was," gbc muttered,
! ' you didn t better it," I went up stairs
quite wiling, I am afraid, to sma-h that
' goblet. Coming out of the bed room, I saw
a folded paper Iving on the floor. Some
thing impelled me to pick it up and secrete
it. Papa and the Captain have acted so
strangely of late, I am sure there must be
trouble and plotting.
Evening. The happiest, happiest day of
my life! To write these words mak* my
heart tumultuou-ly. I fee! as if enveloped
in a halo of light. lam conscious of notb
ing but this—my hau l laid on bis ; his
gtand, grave smile was bent upon me; there
was something in his look—oh, what was it,
that made me at the same time triumph and
. sad? As for me, silly, timid, fluttering fool,
I withdrew my band too suddenly: I looked
and felt like a frightened child. Never in
uiy life did I lose ciiurage before. It ia bliss
to think of his beautslul stuile, unlike that
: of any other man. Is this rhap-ody? Pa
pa wonld fly in a pas-ion if he dreamed—
oh. but I could, I could leave all the world
for tiinj, if I knew, only knew that he loved
tue. Ido know it; my heart is my counsel
J lor.
When I first went over, L -ttice and I
could do nothing, lut talk of hint. Lettice
is not a beauty, but she is one of the attrac
tive kind. Gentlemen like her. There is
not a particle of jealousy iu her disposition.
I).-ar L -ttice* I believe she- would go to the
stake for me.
the word "Co!" i< interlined
'hree times in a fresher hind. But to the
journal.
I look out inv paper, and, .-ure enough,
it wa3 a plan of fortifications. We could
not understand it, but wfun I put it in my
pocket again, my mind was quite made up
what to do with it.
At ten they came —the Colonel and his
aide. Lettice and I were in the parlor.
He knew me. His trow flushed, and hi
cheeks, and bis eye- .-parkied like diamond-.
I grudged the few moments that Aunt Ri'-
ter calied me out to sc-e what I thought of
the tab'e, aud to place the boquets, for the
Colonel was out, and we, altno-t alone
When I went back. Lettice crimsoned and
and then turned pale. The naughty child
. had !>een paving compliments, I suppose.
and felt guilty. But I cared for nothing
i but to set there at.d steal, now and then, a
glance at his glorious face. To bear the
rich tones of his voice made me supremely
coo tent I could have sat forever aud looked
and li-tened. No wonder everybody likes
him. It is said that his mother, dying
when he was very young, begged Mrs,"!
W; -hineten to care for him, as he is asdear i
t- his own eon.
Ju.-t as they were going away I stole out
of the door and gave Colonel Washiogton
tfe paper without a word. He looked it
ov. r. then glanced at ntc.
IV) you know the importance of this?"
he a-ked. "My dear child, it tuay save a
thousand lire*," and he looked so grave that
the tears came to my eyes. "May save our
country,' he added .-oftly.
I see myself, now. standing on the old
gray step, wofn hol ow by a-e ; I see the
glories of the fading sunlight, the fervid
red on the horiz >a —against all, two noble
faces. It was then be took my hand after
Colonel Wa-hingtoa. and held it a moment
cioje cla-ped. I da-cd not look up—l should
have cried.
Oh, I loved him. loved him to adoration
am proud of loting him thus ! I know I
could die for bitn. And my whole nature is
ennobled and ptniaed by this love.
When I arrived home this morning
the household was in commotion. Aunt
Gr zzy met me g ave-than ever ; her fiom
was pitched over nearly on her nose —a sign
of anger.
"Do you see, child, what a state we're
ia?" she eried. "You had no more than
gone yesterday when the Capttain came
riding back furious to find a paper he taid
he lot here. Bat he had to go without it.
A pretty time I hate had of putting things
to right again. As for your father, he
swore up and down dale becau-e the Cap
taing hinted that he had spies in the house.
Ye-, he did, indeed, the upstart! He beg
eed pardon afterward, the Captain, that's
the only gentlemanly thing he did do."
I hurried away as soon as I could. For
tunately. Aunt Gtizzy never a.-ked me if I
had seen the paper, and I gloried in my
deed.
Feb. 17/A It has been a weary, long win
ter. with a great deal of fighting. I'apa and
Aunt Grizzy have loth been ill and I —have
lived.
I have not seen him : I shall never see ;
him again. Captain Flossvelt proposed
ni' nths ago: my refua! made papa very an
gry. Everything is changed since Lettice
Ritter died. During the winter she was ;
very ill; in January she breathed her last.
The day before she died she sent for me, ;
telling me she had a conft-s-ion to make. I
found her sitting up in her great bed chair, ,
hvr pcOr blue eyes all hollow, her cheeks
riuted with a red, like fire.
"Oh. it's hard to tell you —you won't
carse me?" she cried, thiowing her thin j
an ,s over my neck, "promise ute you won't
curse me. I shall be gooe in a lew hour.-,
| bu: I cannot die till you forgive me."
"What have I to forgive darting?" I'
; a.-ked.
"An when you know —when you know!
You remember the time Colonel Washing
! icu came here with lieutenant Moine?"
Ah, uiel felt the scarlet in my face.
"Yes."
"You were calied out —Colonel \\ asbtng- j
;on had al-o gone. Lieutenant Moine said
! to me; That is the loveliest girl I ever saw,
and a- good a- beautiful, or I am o judge
of faces.' O ENe, I .-aw what was in his
heart ; I lied to bim ; I lold him you were
engaged to Captain Fio;svelt, and were soon
!0 be married. Then his face frightened
ate, but he commanded himself, though it
j senned with a great struggle. That made
me madiy jealous—sick and faint, for Elsie.
I loved h'tij—l loved him !"
"I cannot forgive you," I said with a
heart that seemed turned to stone. "Go to
your grave with the fal-hood on JOttr soul,
unforgiven," aud I ru-bed from the room.
3ly brains se med bur.-ting, I ran into the
woods behind the house, through the deep,
white, cold drifts of the snow, on, on, like a
wild animal longing for revenge. How I
found my way home in that storm I never
kn -w. At once 1 took to my bed. The
11 next day poor Mr. Ritter came over to see
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me. Lettice could not, would not die with
out my forgiveness. and the poor old woman
P'ayed me on her knees to hive mercy. I
! said "le*," at last, quite worn out, but,
God forgive me, I fear my heart was not in
it. Since then the world is ail d -ad to me."
And here the journal ended. I baveon'y
one mor-: pa-sige in the life of my great
grandmother to relate. It is referred to in
a letter kept in the family, and was written
some ten years after the date of the journal.
"I visited the White House to-day, Mr 9.
Washington was very attentive; ! did not
see the General, our President. His por
'rait shows him older. Mr*. Washington
spoke of the little service I rendered. How
strangely it brought back old cct-ne*. After
dinner 1 was booking over some -souvenirs.
Mrs. \\ ashington a little box, in it
lay a small diamond cross, a pearl ring, and
a curious little timber brooch, that took my
fancy at once.
" 'lt belonged to toy dearest friend Mr*.
Moine, said the President's wife. At the
name I felt the blood curdling in my veins.
In another moment I was unconscious. It
did not last long. I said I was not well,
and escaped. Mrs Washington, however
followed me. and was very gentle and ten
der. As I was going away she gave me a
little box. "Keep it for my sake and hit,'
she whispered. 'You know be has been
married these eight yeais; but I could not
refuse that. This I tell you. who are my
only confidante." '
But listen to the best of ail. Elsie Wain
right married her old love. They met
nearly twenty years after. He was a widow
er, had been fur years. She wore the am
ber brooch, and he was delighted at the
sight of it, that it made them lovers again,
at once. That i- why she married at forty
two. She had been true to him. and re
ceived splendid offers, with never a thought
of marriage, all these years. He married
the fir-t time to please his father, the sec
ond time for tru. Jove. It is said that ihey
wvre like young lovers to the la-f.
Do you woneer that I cherish, and con
-ider richer than di.mon-ls, the best of all
my possessions—the Amber Brooch ?
A NATIONAL DISGRACE.—A feminine I
lobbyist, magnificient in figure, and dress of
velvet and ermine. Her face is familiar in
the hall*, and on the east side of the Sen
ate. which she prefers to the notorious re
ception parlor, the dread of all informed
Washington people. This woman is the
finest looking of all that haunt the place.
Round, tall figure, good features, rather!
full for pleasing, creamy complexion, dark ;
crisped hair, and eyes with a commanding '
stare are very attractive, added the art of
toilet which never shows her but in dress j
that rep-ato her own colore of black or white.
The woman, or one like her, was sent by the
M Coal and Iron Company to obtain
their large claim for coal furnished the Gov
ernment during the war. These women de
serve to be paid freely for their unscrupu
leus operation.*, for they are the most inde
fatigable lobbyists. The tired doorkeeper
declares that he has refused the same wo
man nine time* in half a day for a single
Senator. There is plenty of refined lobby
ing which goes on outside the Capitol,
among women who have a presumptive right
to think well of themselves. One clever.
l>erf, young woman gitned the suffrage of
one Congressmon by regularly sending him
a bequet every morning, the flowers from
the Capitol garden, procured through the
order of another M. C.
FELLOW FEELING AGAINST CROWS
A-ide from the special question of profit and
loss, we have a warm side towards the crow.
He is so much like ourselves. He is lazy
and that is human. He takes an advantage
of those weaker thai; himself, and that is
life like. He is sly, and bides for to-morrow
what be can't eat to-day, showing a human
providence, lie learn* tricks much faster
than he does useful thing.*, showing a true
boy nature. He thinks his own color the
best, and loves to hear his own voice, which
are emineut traits of humanity.
He will never work when he can get an
other to work for hiuj—a genuine human
trait. He eats whatever he can get his
claw* upon, and is Ic-ss mischievous with a
belly full than when hungry, and that is
like man. He is at war with all living
things except his own, and with them when
he has nothing else to do. No wonder men
despise crows. They are too much like men.
Take off his wings and put bitn in breeches,
and crows make fair average men. Give
men wings, and reduce their smartness a
little, and many of them would be almost
good enough to be crow*.
SIGNS. —We don't go much on fi izns,''
but the following are so clearly signs that
will not fail in time of drouth that we give
them for the benefit of cur readers:
When you see the sun rising before you
get out of bed it is a sign that you'd not do
for a farmer.
When yoii sec a man yawn and close his
eyes during the sermon, it is a sign that he
is getting sleepy.
When you see a man trying to convince
a letup post that it is impolite to get in the
way of a gentleman, it is a sign that he has
' en drinking something—lemonade, per
il i p".
V; hen you see a boy throwing stones on
the treet and speaking impudently to old
people, it is a sign that his parent* don't
ere much for him.
Whtn you s-ea girl throwing kisses and
winking at the boys as they pass her window,
it is a sign that she is too young to be out
of sight of her "maternal relative."
When you see young gentlemen and la
dies whispering, giggling, and writing notes
in church, it is a sign that the man who
tea lies good manners omitted to give theni
a call when he came along last time.
MARK OF lu. BREEDING—There is no
better test of Ul-brecliog than the practice
of interrupting another in conversation, by
speaking or commencing a remark before
another has ful'y clo-ed; no well bred per
son ever does it, or continues conversation
long with one who Joes. Tbe latter finds
an interesting conversation abruptly waived,
closed, or declined by the firmer, without
suspecting tbc cause. A well-bred person
will not even "interrupt one who is in re
spects greatly inferior. It is amusing to see
persons priding themselves on th-s gei.tilitj
of their manners, and putting forth all theii
efforts to appear to advantage in rnanv oth
er respects, so readily betray ail in this re
spect.
If any very sm ill boy asks what fruit i
like the site of the United Slates Navs
Academy, tell him an apple it
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PAH rv JOI ttN AI.IMM.
Thoroughgoing party journalism in the
j United State*—that is the old-fashioned
kind of party journalism that felt itself
! loin- 1 , as ama ter of enure, to support
■ all the measures and opinions that emanated
from the politicians of its own set, and to
disapprove whatever was thought, said or
done by its opponents —is fa*t dying out.
Thar a journal should give a general and
cordial support to the policy of one p* r, .V of
another is natural enough, and perfectly
right; hut the pn ss ought to. and doe* now
; to a a-gr extmt. dictate to the politicians
on questions of public policy, instead of
blindly and servilely following their lead.
When we see staunch party journals criti
cising fearlessly, not only the acts and utter
ance* of individual leading politicians of its
own faith, hut also the general policy of the
party itself, we begin to hope that the
American press i abont to take a tru'y in
dependent position-censuring and ondema
i itig whatever is wrong, and upholding and
j advocating right view* of public policy, in
' different as to which party originates or
favors those view#, and not for the supreme
ly silly reason that they are party measures,
and party fealty require* that they should
be advocated and supported merely because
they are such. When American journal
ism reaches this point, the press will then
occupy its true position—that of the inde
pendent and fearless leader and moulder of
public opinion, and no' the slarih follower
of politician*—often Wind leaders of the
blind—or worse.
In this connection, we have a word for
readers of newspapers. We are compelled,
by the logic of facts, to believe that there i
a certain ela*s of readers, and we are very
sorry to *ay a very large class, who like to
fee!, before they take up a paper, that, be
the subject or the result what it may. they
are sure to find the measure* and advocatee
of thi party lauded to the -tie*, and the op
posite as vigorously abused. This is prob
ably due to the partisan journalism of the
la*t half century. Readers, however, a*
wel a* newspaper*, should now takeab-gh
er stand. None of the parties have been
entirely good or entirely bad. ami it is the
duty of the people to look at With sides of
all que-tions. and consider patiently and dis
passionately the measures of all parties; not
adopting opinions ra public policy simply
because they are held by tie party to which
they are attached, or because former politi
ciin* whomthey have been taught to honor
professed the same beliefs, but for the reas
on that they have examined for themselves
—hare looked at the arguments for and
ngaint, and have formed opinions of their
own.
With the press independently criticising
the politicians, acd the people independent
ly criticising the press, we might look for
the political milieniuro. There is vast im
provement in the press during the past few
vests; and intelligent people, while holding
fast to v tal political faiths, are ca*tine aside
political fetter*. Let n* hope the good work
will go on.— Brooklyn Influx.
HEALTH.
One great cause of the poverty of the
j present day i*. the failure of the common
people to appreciate small thing*. They
feel that if they cannot save large sums
they will not save anything. They do not
realixe how a daily addition, be it ever so
-mall wiil soon make a large pile If the
young men and young women of to-day will
only begin and begin now, to save a little
from their earnings, and plant it in the soil
of some good saviocs bank, and weekly or
monthly add their mite, they will wear a
happy smile of confidence and independence
when they reach middle life. Not only the
pile itself will increase, but the desire and
ability to increase it will also grow. Let
clerk and tradesmen, laborer and artisan,
make now and at once a beginning. Store
up some of your youthful force and vigor
for future contingent*. Let parents teach
Their children to begin early to save. Begin
at the fountaio-heaJ to control the stream
of extravagance, and then work will be
easy. To choose between spending and
saving is to ehoose between poverty and
riches. Lit your youth go on io habits of
extravagance, for fifty years to come, as
they have for fifty years past, and we shall
|be a nation of beggars with a moneyed
aristocracy. Let a generation of such as
save in small sums be reared, and we shall
be free from want. Do not be ambitious
for extravagant fortunes, but do seek that
which is the duty of every one to obtain —in-
dependence and a comfortable home.
Wealth and enough is within the reach of
ail. It is obtainable by one process, and by
only one saving.
To CHEAT THE PRINTER, is regarded by
some people a small matter; but honest peo
ple regard it a* a very mean and small busi
ness. To subscribe for and read a newspa
per devoted to the interest of a community,
and then try to sneak oat without paying
for it, shows very bad character. Such
men generally have hard getting along in
the world. They soon get known by (he
community, and are watched, and seldom
trusted, thus losing n re than they mat*
Honesty is always the best policy, depend
upon it.
As iuveterate stammerer one day. upon
a journey, stopped to dine at a bote). On
attempting to help himself to pepper at the
dinner, he found,after a violent ehakirg,
that there was no pepper to be had. He
turced around, and, beckoning to the waiter,
commenced : "Wa-wa-wa-waiier, this pep-
W'P P"P*P®V m m som-ome
thing like me.'' "Why, so, sir? " "Po-po
po po poor delivery."
Ax Old Lady bought a shroud for her
husband iti Norwich, Conn., on Monday re
marking that he was not otad yet, or par
ticularly ailing, but she "didn't thiuk she
should ever be able to buy it so cheap a
eain." The purchase of one for herself
she put off to a more- convenient season.
' How could God make a woman out ot
a rib, p:>pa?" "I don't know, my child; it
was a miracle." "All the questions yon
can t answer yon call miracles, don't you
papa" a
A BACHELOR used the following niodili
-1 cation of a hack neve 1 phra*e in congratula
ting a newly married friend —"I wish yon
much jaw.
t j YOUTH s.t'ers itsaffecc'oni with afibsia
! j hand, like a young he ; r. ignorant as vet of
! the value of bis possessions.