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: removing and having them uncalled for, is
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ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
j M.REYNOLDS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Bttrant PA.
isiness intru-ted to bim will be attended to
with great care. Upon notice will appear for par
-11 • a f u its before Justices of the Peace in any
i tof the county. Office with J. W. Dickerson,
I, on Juliana St., next door north of Mengei
h use. 4marly.
W C . HO LAH AN ,
ATTORNBY-AT-LAW,
BEDFORD, Pa.
Jan. 28, '7O-tf
■ AXC A. Kixc, jr.
Oi'ANG tc KINO.
>- ATTORN EYS-AT-LAW,
BEDFORD, PA.
V inptly attend to all business intrusted to
: care in Bedford and adjoining counties.
■ c m Gazette building, on the corner of pub
- .uare and Juliana street. Sap
JMMMEU AND LINGENFELTER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW, IKDFORD, PA.
Have f rmed a partnership in the practice of
: - Lav, in new brick building near the Lutheran
Chi: h. [April 1, 1869-tf
A. POINTS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, BRDFOBD, PA.
■ vrfully tenders his professional service*
e public. OEea in the Ixqct RRBuild ing,
second floor.)
r-driCc'.lection* promptly made. [ April,l'69-tf.
TVSPY M. ALSIP,
tj ATTORNEY AT LAW, *nd Justice of the
peace, Br.croap, PA.,
' 1: faithfully and promptly attend to all basi
s' t entrusted to his care in Bedford and adjoin
r counties. Military claims, Pensions, back
;ay B unty, Ac. speedily collected. Office in
• in on Juliana Street lately cceupird by Reed
I a hell Bankers. apl 1, 1569.—tf.
~ DrRI?OH j {(nv
1 • ATTORNKY AT LAW,
BEDFORD, PA.,
promptly attend to all business intrusted to
. e in Bedford and adjoining Counties.
See on Juliana street in the building ocru
f r many years by King A Jordan, and latc
v Uall A Kcagy.
:.. RCSSELL. J. a. LOSGKSECCER
1) L'SSELL A LONOENECKER,
i k VTTOEXRTS A COCSSELLORS AT LAW,
Bedford, Pa.,
' I attend promptly and faithfully to all busi
ness entrusted to their care. Special attention
a to collections and the prosecution "f claims
- - Back Pay, Bounty, Pensions, Ac.
"-er-Office on Juliana street, south of the C url
R use. Apri 1:69:1TT.
. M'D. SBARPE t. r. KERB
TtHARPE A KERR,
0 A TTORXE rS-A T-LA H".
"'•'ill practice in the Courts of Bedford ai d ad
.ting counties. All business entrusted to theii
•re will receive careful and prompt attention
ns. Bounty, Back Pay, Ac., speedily col.
ted from the Government.
Office on Juliana strest, opposite the banking
t use of Reed A Scheil. Bedford, Pa. Apr
PHYSICIANS.
J B. F. HARRY,
Respectfully tenders his professional ser
' t the citisens of Bedford and Ticinity.
c an i residence on Pitt Street, in the bßildiog
■:ier y -ecupied by Dr. J. H. Hofios. [ApT 1,69.
MISCELLANEOUS.
I A COB BRENNEMAN,
W WOODBERRY, PA.,
KIVENER, CONVEYANCER, LICENSED
AIM AGENT, and Ex-Officio JUSTICE
OF THE PEACE,
tend to all business entrusted into hie hands
P" mptnesa and despatch. Will remit mor
'.ralt to any part of the country. ITsely
j \ ANIEL BORDER,
1 ' PITT STREET, TWO DOORS WEST or TB* BED-
R R; HOTEL, BEIFORD, PA.
TCHMAKER AND DEALER IN JEWEL
RY. SPECTACLES. AC.
He keeps on hand a stock of fine Gold and Sii
r Watches, Spectacles of Brilliant Double Refin
f i Glasses, also Scotch Pebble Glasses. Gold
atch Chains. Brevt Pins. Finger Rings, best
uality of Gold Peas. lie will supply to ordet
any thing in his line not on hand. [apr.2S.'6s.
| )B. J. ROSS ANDERSON.
■TecifuUy tenders his professional services to
cltiiens of Bedford and vicinity.
Office 'hree Joere Eat of the Bedford House.
W Night calls attended to with promptness.
April 8, 1870-tf
p N HICKOK,
' - DENTIST.
5 e at the old stand ia
BAVX BCILDISO, Juliana St., BEDFORD.
A . iterations pertaining to
> rgical and Mechanical Dtntiftry
performed with care and
WARRANTED.
A : rmkctic* administer td, uhen dtsired. Ar
il teeth imserUtd at, per set, sß.Oil and mp.
t'fird.
As I am del*: mined to do a CASH BUSINESS
none, I have reduced the liricej for Artificial
h of the various kinds, 20 per cent., sr. ] of
I r&isgs 23 per c*nt. This reduction will be
ale only to strictly Cash Patients, and all such
W .U receive prompt attestica. 7febfiS
\V r MLLOYD
'> • BANKER.
7 -Losact* a General Banking Business, and makes
"lections on all accessible points ia
the United States.
VF.RSMENT SECURITIES. GOLD. SIL
VER, STERLING and CONTINENTAL
EXCHANGE bought and sold.
A REVENUE STAMPS of all descriptions
always on hand.
Aci .unt* of Merchants, Mechanics, Farmers and
all other solicited.
INTEREST ALLOWED ON TIME. DEPOSITS.
Jas. 7, *7O.
\ f ARRIAGE CKR TIFCATES.—On haad and
•te for sale at the Inquirer office, a fine assirt
ment cf Marriage' Certificates. Clergymen end
J ustiees should have them.
LUTZ 6l JORDAN. Editor and Proprietor*.
Jtequim (Etflman.
ADVERTISERS:
THE BEDFORD INQUIRER.
PUBLISHED
EVERY FRIDAY MORNING,
BY
LUTZ A JORDAN,
OFFICE OX JULIANA STREET,
BEDFORD, PA.
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is
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CIRCULATION OVER 1500.
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JOB PRINTING:
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WITH
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SUCH AS
POSTERS OF ANY SIZE,
CIRCULARS,
BUSINESS CARDS
WEDDING AND VISITINO CARDS,
BALL TICKETS,
PROGRAMMES,
CONCERT TICKETS,
ORDER BOOKS,
SEQAR LABELS,
RECEIPTS,
LEGAL BLANKS,
PHOTOGRAPHER'S CARDS,
BILL HEADS,
LETTER HEADS.
PAMPHLETS,
PAPER BOOKS,
ETC. ETC. ETC. ETC. ETC
Oar facilities for doing si) kind* of Job Printing
ore equalled by very few establishment! in the
noon try. Order* by mail promptly filled. All
letters should be addressed to
LUTZ A JORDAJT.
3 llocal anU (General ftetospaper, DeUoteb to polities, (Gtmratton, Utteraturc anti iiftorals.
ITEMS.
Templar Lodge of Odd fellows, in San
Francisco, has voted $1,200 to assist in in
troducing the order into Kurope.
( HIVIVSE, April 13. —This afternoon
) four of our citizens went out fire miles west
of this city, to locate hay claims, and were
attacked by fifteen mounted Indians and
driven to hort Russell. A telegram from
South I'a&ssays the citizens there killed
eleven Indians yesterday. A dispatch from
Sidney says that small parties of Indians
were seen on the surrounding bluffs to-day
A Novei. Challenge. —The Mechanics
Logins Company of New Orleans wants to
race half a mile with a hand engine, to be ;
I pulled by thirty men, and force water
through fifty feet of ho;e in the shortest
time, and have challenged the Philadelphia
firemen. The Hope Hook and Ladder
Company of the same place wast to race
with their truck the same distance, with \
twenty six men, and rear ladders up to a
building. They are the champion running
firemen in the South , and are anxious to
test their mettle with the Yankees.
SIDNEY", April 14. —A party of Indians
cut the stringers on the bridge three miles
east of Antelope and threw fourteen cars off j
the track about ooe o'clock this morning
All the tra'.nmen except one brakesman got
on the engine and run to the next station.
After they left the Indians broke open a
number of cars. The remaining brakesman
fired on them and they left. The western
bound passenger train was delayed six hours
waiting for the Wreck to be cleared away.
FATHER HYACINTHE stuck the posters ad
vertising his own paper on the pillars of the
various chapels in Paris, a privilege accord
ed only to the Emperor's speeches and the
Bishop's pastorals.
AR FALL RIVES, Mass., on December 10,
a ru&n, while eating his breakfast, got a nee
dle in his throat. It was lodged crosswise, j
but was too far down to be seen. After three
or four lays it worked into the left ride and
came nearly through the neck, causing a
painful abscess. A little above the abscess :
the needle was so near the surface that it
caused the flesh to protrude like a pimple,
but the physicians declined to cut to find it,
especially as they had some, doubt as to the
cause. The abscess was subsequently land
ced. The needle in the meantime worked
back into the side of the throat and then up
under the tougue, causing great swelling and
pain. Finally on April U, it was discovered
protruding under the tongue and was extrac
ted. The needle was Ij inches long, and
bad been lour months on its travels.
ANNEXATION IN NOVA SCOTIA.—Nova
Scotia bas)an annexation league—annexation
to the United States. This league sets fortb
in an address just issued that the United
States contain the chief consumers of Nova
Scotian products and it is, therefore, but
proper that the province should become a
part of the American Union, since in its
present attitude its merely nominal depen
dence on Great Britain cuts it off from the
fostering care of the home government,
while the fact that it is a British dependency
however nominally, puts it at the disadvan
tage, so far as regards the United States, of
being part of a foreign power. A'so, argues
the address, annexation would not result in
increased taxation to Nova Scotia, since the
United States would assume the provincial
debt, and only subject Nova Scotians in re
turn to a Federal taxation, largely based
on the use of articles not much in vogue
in the province.
CAPTAIN CHARLES \V. RATUOSH, of the
Corps of Engineers, United States army, the
young officer who was sent to make the first
exploration by steam up the Yukon river, in
Alaska, gives a very interesting narration of
ihe expedition. This river has been ascer
tained to be among the longest on the con
tinent, and is the only important stream that
Alaska boasts of. The trip wa3 made in a
small steamer, which was carried to the
mouth of the river on the dtck of the United
States ship Commodore. The expedition
consisted of about a dozen men a'.l told, and
they were successful in reaching Fort Yukon,
near the source of the river, end returning
in safety. The captaio gives a very uo
er.couraging description of the character and
customs of our new Alaskan fellow citizens,
and although those he met with on the coast
were bad enough, they seemed to grow worse
as they proceeded farther toward the interior.
The population except the traders, are all In
dians, but very cowardly ones.
THE Revenue returns for 1860 show that
tbe catch of pearls and shell for the past year
on tbe Gulf coast of the territory granted to
the "Lower California Company" amounted
to tbe large sum of $78,000. This, of course
is tbe valuation of the pearls given by the
divers and speculators, and is consequently
very much below the actual value of the
catch. A pearl is sold frequently for S2O,
which, resold at Panama at S2OO, brings
sl,UOOin Paris, and in many cases much
greater profits have been made on very fine
gems. Not one-half of the cat ah is ever re
ported to the Government, and the yield of
the Gulf lor 1800 may be safely estimated at
SBOO,OOO in gold.
Ir wis JIAT believe the Irish papers the
Irish Force bill recently passed by the British
Parliament will have the effect of largely in
creasing the Irish emigration to ibis country
during the present year. For some years
past the emigration from Ireland has been
decreasing as compared with the emigration
from Germany, which has been increasing
largely; and it has been thought by many
that we should never again see such an ex
tensive Irish emigration to this country as
we bad in former years. Bat it appears now
as though this generalization may have been
rather too hasty; and, if present promises
from Ireland be realized, we shall see that
severe measures of legislatioa on the part of
the English Government are in themselves
sufficient to add many thoasands to the
volume of emmagtion.
Smiors TSA in large quantities is com
pounded in China by persons skilled in the
manufacture of imitations. The ingredients
cf this fraudulent composition are stated to
be of the most disgusting description- A tea
sold as "scented caper,'' "gunpowder" and
"siftings," is made up of the excrement of
silkworms, dust, dirt, extract of gum, with a
v ery minute proportion of the genuine leaves.
This "China mixture" is sold wholesale at
twelve cents a pound, and pays the same
amount of duty. It is asserted that there are
teas worse than the one mentioned, being
rated by the brokers at five cents a pound.
Recently a large consignment of these spu
rious teas was rejected in England, and it is
believed that the cargo was re shipped to the
United States.
NEVKB lay a stumbling block in the way
of a mau who is trying to advance himself in
the world honestly and uprightly.
BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY, APRIL 22. 1870.
Joflnj,
KATIE LEE AND WILLIE GREY.
Two brown heads with tossing cnrls
Bed lips shutting over pearls,
Bare feet white and wet with dew,
Two eyes black and two eyes blue:
Little boj and girl were they—
Katie Lee and Willie Oroy.
They were standing where a brook;
Bending like a shepherd's crook,
Hashed its silver; and thick ranks
Of gTeen willow fringed the banks.
Halt in thought and half in play,
Katie Lee and Willie Grey,
fhey had cheeks like cherries red,
He was taller—most a head;
She with arms like wreaths of snow,
I Swung a basket to ard fro.
As she loitered, half in play,
Chattering to Willie Grey.
"Pretty Katie," Willie said,
And there came a dash of red
Through the brownness of his cheek.
"Boys are strong and girls are weak:
And I'll carry, so I will,
Katie's basket up the hill."
Katie answered m a laugh.
"'You shall carry only hall;"
And then, tosring back her curls,
"Boys are weak as well a? girls."
Do yon think that Katie guessed
Half the wisdom she expressed?
Men are only boys grown tall,
Hearts don't change much after all:
And when, long years from that day,
Katie Lee and Willie Grey
Stood again beside the brook.
Bending like a shepherd's crook,
Is it strange that Willie said,
While again a dash of red
Crossed the brewnness of bis cheek—
'"l am strong, but you are weak.
Life is but a slippery steep,
Hung'with shadows cold and deep!
Will jrou trust me, Katie dear,
Walk beside me without fear?
May I carry if I will,
All your burdens up the bill '"
And she answered with a laugh,
"No—but yon may carry fcalf."
Close beside the little brook,
Beading like the shepherd's crook.
Washing with its silver hands,
Late and early at the sands,
Is the cottage, where to day
Katie lives with Willie Grey.
In the porch she sits, and lo!
Swings a basket to and fro,
Vastly different from the one
That she swung in years agone—
This is long, and deep, and wide,
And has rockers on each side !
piscdanrous.
KALNTLEROY, THE FOKGEK.
W hat I am going to tell you, gcDtlcmcn,
happened when I was just setting up in
business on my own account.
My father had been well acquainted for
many years with Mr. Fauntleroy, of the
famous London banking firm of Marsh,
Stracey, Fauntleroy and Graham. Think
ing it might be of some future service to
me to make my position known to a great
man in the commercial world, my father
mentioned to his highly respected friend
that 1 was about to start in business for
myself in a very small way. and with very'
little money. Mr Fauntleroy received the
information with a kind appearance of in
terest, and said that be would have his eye
on me. I expected from this that he would
wait to see if I could keep on my feet at
starting, and that if he found I succeeded
pretty well, he would then help me forward
if it lay in his power. As events turned
out, he proved to be a far better friend
than that, and he soon showed me that I
had very much underrated the hearty and
generous interest which he had felt in my
wclfare from the first
While I was still fighting with the diffi
culties of setting up my office, and recom
ml riding myself to connection, Ac., 1 got a
me-sagc from Mr. Fauntleroy telling me to
call on him. at the banking home, the first
time I was passing that way. As you may
easily imagi.te, I contrived to tie passing
that way on a particularly early occasion. I
nnd on presenting myself at the bank, I
was shown at once into Mr. Fountleroy's
private room.
He was as pleasant a man to speak to as
ever 1 met with—bright, and gay and com
panionable in bis manner —with a son of
easy, hearty, jovial blunt new about him
that attracted every body. The clerks all
liked hiiu—and that is something to say of
a partner in a banking house, I can tell
you!
"Well, younu Trowbridge.'' says he,
giving bis papers on the table a brisk push
away from him, "so you are going to set
up in business for yourself, are you ? I
have a great regard for your father, and a
great wish to sec you succeed. Have you
started yet ?
No! '
Just on the point of beginning, eh?
Very good. You will have your difficulties
IUF frictvJ, ftntl I mean to .-uiooti>o onv of
them away front you at the outset. A word
of advice fir your private ear—Bank with
us.
' You are very kind, sir," 1 answered,
"and T should ask nothing better than to
profit by your suggestion, if I could. But
iny expenses are heavy at starting, and
when they are all paid I am airaid I shall
have but very little left to put by for the
first year. 1 doubt if I shall be able to
muster much more than three hundred
pounis of surplus cash in the world after
paying what 1 most pay before I set up my
office, and I should be a^ham-d to trouble
your house, sir, to open an account for such
a trifle as that."
Stuff and nonsense!"' says Mr. Faunt
leroy. "Are you a banker? What business
have yon to offer an opinion on the matter ?
Do as 1 tell you—have it to me—bank with
us—and draw fur what you like. Stop! 1
haven't done yet When you open the ac
count, speak to the head cashier Perhaps
you will find that he has got something to
tell you. There! there Igo away—don't
interrupt mc—goodbye—Hod bless you!"
That was his way—ah ! poor fellow, that
was his way!
I went to the head cashier the next morn
ing when 1 opened my iittlc modicum of an
account. He had received orders to pay
my drafts without reference to my balance
My checks, when 1 bad overdrawn, were to
be privately showti to Mr. Fauntleroy. Do
many young men who start in business find
their prosperous superiors ready to help
thern in that way ?
Well, I cot on—got on very fairly and
; steadily, being eareful not to venture out of
' my dentil and not to forget small beginning
may lead in time to great end*. A prospect
of one of these great ends—great, I mean,
to such a email trader as 1 was at that
period—showed itself to me when I had
been some little time in the business. In
plain terms, I had a chance of joining in a
first rate connection which would give me
profit and position, and every-thing I
wanted, provided I could qualify myself for
engaging in it by getting good security be
forehand to a large amount.
In the emergency; I thought of iny kind
friend, Mr. Fauntleroy, and went to the
bank and saw him once more in his private
room.
There he was at the same table, with the
-ante hearty easy way of speaking his mind
to you at once in the fewest possible words.
I explained the business I earoe upon with
some little hesitation and nervousness, for I
was afraid he might think I was taking an
unfair advantage of his fo r mer kindness to
me. When I had done he just nodded his
head, snatched up a blank sheet of paper,
- £t*"w Uticp uu H lit a raptd wijr,
handed '.he writing to me and pushed me
out of the room by the two shoulders be
fore I could say a single word. I looked at
the paper in the outer office. It was my
security from that great banking house for
the whole amount and for more if more was
wanted.
1 could not express my gratitude then
and I dv-n't know that 1 can describe it now.
I can only say that it has outlived the crime,
the disgrace, and the death on the scaffold.
I am grieved to speak of the death at all;
but I have no other, alternative.
The course of my story must now lead me
straight on to the latter time, and to the
terrible discovery which exposed my bene
factor and friend to all England as the for
ger Fauntlleroy.
I must ask you to suppose a lapse of some
time after the occurrence of the events that
I have iust been relating. During this in
terval, thauks to the kind assistance I bad
received at the outset, my position as,a man
of business had greatly improved.
Imagine me now, if you please, on the
hich road to prosperity, with good large
offices and a resrceuble staff of clerk*, and
picture me to yourself sitting alone in my
private room, between four and five o'clock
on a certain Saturday afternoon.
All my letters had been written, all the
p iple who had appointments with me had
ben received. I was looking carelessly over
the newspaper, and thinking about going
h ime when one of my clerks earoe in and
s.iid that a stranger wished to see me itnmc
dlately on very important business.
"Did he mention his name?' leu
quired.
"\o sir.
"Did you a-k hint for it ?"
Yes, sir. And be said you would be
none the wiser if he told roe what it was."'
"Does he look like a begging letter
writer ?"
' Hesp ki- sharp and decided, sir. and
said it wa~ in 3 our interest that he ciroe,
and that you would deeply regret it after
ward if you refused to see bim."
"He said that did he ? Show hiut in at
once."
He was shown in immediately: a middling
t'z- d man, with a sharp, unwholesome-look
ing fa re. and with a flippant, reckless man
ner, dressed in a style of shabby smartness,
eyeing me with a bold look, and Dot so over
! urdeoed with politene-s as to trouble liim
- If at ut taking'off hi? bat when he came
in.
I had never seen him before in my life,
and f could not form the slightest conjecture
from his appearance toward guessing bis
position in the world. He was not a gentle
man, evidently, but as to fixing bis wherea
bouts in the inflnatc downward gradation
of vagabond existence in London, that was
a my-tery which I was totally incompetent
to solve.
"Is your name Trowbridge ?" be began.
"Yes," I answered, dryly enough.
"Do you bank with Marsh, Stracey,
Fauntleroy and Graham ?'
"Why do you ask ?" ,
"Answer my question and you will know.
"Aery well, Ido bank with Marsh, Stra
coy, Fauntleroy anl Graham —and what
then ?"
"Draw every farthiog of balance you have ;
got before the bank closes at five to-day.
I stared at him in amazement. The words
for an instant, absolutely petrified me.
"Stare as much as you like," he procee- |
ded, coolly, "I mean what I say. Look at
your clock there. In twenty minutes it wiil
strike five, and the baDk will be shut. IVaw
out every farthing, I tell you again, and 1
look sharp about it."
"Draw out my money 1" I exclaimed par- j
tially recovering myself. "Are you in your
right senses ? Do you know that the firm I
bank with represents one of the first houses in
the world ? What do you mean—you. who
are a total stranger to me—by taking this
extraordinary interest in my affairs ? If
you want me to act on vour nltwc, why
don't you explain yourself?"
* I have explained myself. Act on my \
advice or cot, just as you like. It don't 1 ;
matter to me. I have done what I pron.- !
ire I, and there's an end of it."
lie turned to the door. The minute hand
of the clock was getting on from the twenty
minutes to the quarter.
"Done what you promised," I repeated,
getting up to stop him.
"Yes." he said, with his hand on the
lock. "1 have given my message \\ batever
happens, rc-mcmbcr that. Good afternoon.' -
lie was gone before I could speak again.
I tried to call after him, bnt my speech
suddenly failed nir. It was very tcoti.-h, it
was very unaccountable, but there wassome
uing in the man s las words which had
more than haT frightened me.
I looked at the clock. The minute hand !
was cu the quarter.
My office was just far enough from the
bank to make it ntcessary for me to decido
on the instant. If I had time to think, I
' am perfectly certain that I should wot have
profited by the extraordinary warning that
bad just been addressed to me. The suspi
! cious appearance and manners of the stran
ger; the outrugeous improbability of the in
ference against the credit of the bank,
1 towards whieh his words pointed; tbe
chance that some undeihand attempt was
being made, by some euemy of mine, to
frighten me into embroiling myself with one
of my bcut friends, through showing an
ignorant distrust of the firm with which he
was associated as a paitnet —ail these con
siderations would unquestionably have oc-
turred to mc if I could have had time for
reflection; and, as a neetp-ary consequence,
not ODe farthing of my balance would have
been taken from the keeping of the bank on
that memorable day.
As it was, I bad ju-u. time enough to act.
and Dot a spare moment for thinking. Some
heavy payments made at tbe beginning of
the week bad eo lar decreased my balance
that the suui to my credit in the tanking
book barely reached fifteen hundred pounds.
I snatched np my check book, wrote a
draft, for the whole amount, and told one of
my clerks to run to the bank and get it
cashed before the door closed.—What im
pulse urged me on to accept the blind im
pulse of burry and tawiiderment I can't say.
I acted mechanically, under the influence of
the vague inexplicable fear which the man's
extraordinary parting words bad aroused io
me, without stopping to analyze my own
sensations—almost without knowing what 1
was about. In three minutes from tbe time
when the stranger had closed my door the
clerk had started for the bank, and I was j
alone again in my room, with my hands as j
cold as toe and aiy bead all in a whirl.
I did not recover my control over myself
until the clerk came back with the notes in
his hand. He had just got to the bank in
the ijick of time. As the cash for my draft
was banded to him over the counter, the
clock struck five, and he heard the order
given to close the doors.
When I bad counted the bank notes arid
had locked them up in the safe, my better
sense seemed to come back to me on a sad
den. Never have I reproached myself be- j
fore or since as I reproached myself at that
moment. What sort of return had I made :
for Mr. Fauntteroy's fatherly kindness ? I j
had insulted by the meanest, the grossest '
di-trust of the hooor sni the credit of his
house, and that on the word of an absolute
stranger, of a vagabond, if ever there was
one yet. It was madness—downright mad
ness in any mao to have acted as I had done, j
I could hardly believe iu it myself. I '
opened the safe and looked at the bank 1
notes again. I kicked it once more and j
flung the key down on the fable in a fury of
vexatio.n against tnysclf. There the money
was, upbraiding me with my own inconceiv
able fully, telling me in the plainest term*
that I had risked depriving myself of my
best and kindest friend henceforth and for
ever.
It was necessary to do something at onee
towards making all the atonement that lay
in my power. I felt that, as soon as I be
gan to cool down a little, there was but one
plain, straightforward way now left to get
out of the scrape in which I had been mad
enough to involve myself, so I took my hat,
ami. without stopping an instant to hesitate
hurried off to tbe bank to make a dean
breast of it to Mr. Faun'leroy
When I knocked at the private door and
asked for him. ! was told that he lad not
been at the bank for the last two days. One
of (be other partners was there, however,
and was working at that moment in his own
room.
I sent in my name at once, and a-ked to
see him, He and I were little tatter than
strangers to each other, an 1 the interview
wa< likely to be, on that account, unspeak
ably embarrassing and humiliating on my
side. Still, T could not go home, I could
n>t endure the inaction of the next day.
Sunday, without having done my best on
the spot to repair the error into which my
own folly had led me. Uncomfortable as I
felt at the prospect of the approaching inter
view, I should have beeD far more uneasy
io my mind if the partner had declined to
see me.
To my relief the bank porter returned
with a message requesting me to walk in.
What particular form my explanations
and apologies took when I tried to offer
them is more than 1 can tell now. I was so
confused and distressed that I hardly knew
what I was talking about at the time.
The only circumstance that I remember
elearly is that I was ashamed to refer to my
interview with the strange man, and that I
tried to account for my sudden withdrawal
of my balance by referring it to some in
explicable panic, caused by mischievous re
ports which I was unable to trace to their |
source, and which, for anything I knew to
the contrary, might after all, have been
started only in jest.
Greatly to my surprise, tbe partner did
not seem to notice the lamentable lameness
of my excuse, and did ot additionally con
fuse me by askiug any questions. A weary j
absent look, which I had observed on his j
face when I came in, remained on it wlile I :
was speaking. It seemed to be an effort to
him even to keep up the appearance ot lis
tening to me and when I finally broke down
in the middle of a sentence and gave up the
hope of getting any further, all the answer
he gave me was comprised in these few civil
commonplace word.-:
"Never miud, Mr. Trownbridge: pray
don't think of apologizing. We are liable j
to make mistakes. Say nothing more abont:
it, and bring back the money on Monday if
you .till honor US with your confidence."
He looked down at his papers as if he was
anxious to be alone again, and I had no al- j
tentative of course but to leave immediately.
I went borne, feeling a little easier in my
mind now that I had paved the way for ma
king the best practical atonement in my
power by bringing ray balance back the frst
thiog on Monday morning. Still I passed
a weary day on Sunday, reflecting sadly
enough that I had not yet made my peace
with Fauntlcroy. My anxiety to set myself
right with my generous iriend was so in
tense that I risked intruding myself on bis
privacy by calling al bis town residence on
Saturday.
He was not there, and hi# servants could
tell me nothing of his whereabouts. There
was no help for it now but to wait till bis
week day duties brought him back to tbe
bank.
I went to business on Monday morning
half an hour earlier than usual, so great was
my impatience to restore the amount of that
unlucky draft to my account as soon as pos
sible after the bank opened.
On entering my office, I stopped with a
startled feeling just inside the door. Some
thing serious had happened. The clerks,
instead of beiDg at their desks as usual,
were huddled together in a group talking to
each other with blank faces. When they
saw mc they fell back behind the mana
ging man, who stepped forward with a cir
cular in his hand.
"Have you heard the u-.ws, sir? be
said.
"No; what is it ?"
S He handed mc the circular. My heart
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gave one v iolent throb The instant I looked j
at it I felt myself turn pale ; l£.-lt my knees 1
trembling under iuo. it j
Msr-b, Strieey, Fiuntleroy sod Graham
had stopped pavineut.
"The circular had not been issued uiorc
. than halt an hour, continued my clerk. "I
have just come from the bank, sir. The
doors are shut; there is no doubt about, it.
Mar.-h A Co, have stopped this morning." i
I hardly heard him , I hardly knew who ;
was talking to me. My strange visitor of;
1 the Saturday before bad taken in-taut pas j
session of my thoughts and his words of warn j
ing seemed to be souudingoncc more in my I
cars. This man had known the true condi
tion of the bank when not a soul out side
| doors wa3 aware ol it! The last draft paid
J across the counter of that ruined house,
when the doors closed on Saturday, was the
; draft that I had so bitterly reproached my
self for drawing; the balance. Where had
the Strang, r got the information that had •
saved me? and whv had he bro'tit to my j
ears ?
I was still gropiDg, like a man in the dark !
for n Bonwcr to these qoestK-Os—T vn otrH j
tdnUhrsa by the vof.vlrovtUe rnvtAet-y of ,
doubt into which they had plunged me—.
when the discovery of the stopping of the !
bank was followed almost immediately by a I
second shock, far more dreadful, far heavier
to bear so far as I was concerned, than the 1
first.
While I and my clerks were dis -assiug ;
the failure of the firm, two mercantile men, 1
who were friends of mine, ran into the office '
and overwhelmed us with the news that one !
of the partners had been arrested for forgery. ; ,
Never shall I forget the terrible Monday :
morning when those tidings reached me, and i
when I knew that the partner wast Mr. ! i
Fauntleroy.
I was true to him—l can honestly say that I
I was true to my belief in my generous friend i
—when that fearfu' news reached me. My '■
fellow merchants had got a!! the particulars '
of the arrest. They told me that two of Mr.
Fauntleroy's fellow trustees had come up to ;
Loudon to make arrangements about selling 1
stock. On enquiring for Mr. Fauntleroy at
the banking house, they had been informoJ
that he was not there; and after leaving a
message for him they ivacl gooe to the aity u> i
make an appointment with their stock bro- i
ker for a future day, when their fellow trus-;
tees might be able to attend. The stock
broker volunteered to make certain buisincss {
inquires on the spot with a view to saving
as much time as possible and left them at .
his office to await his return. He came
back, looking very much amazed, with the
information that the stock had been sold out '
down to the last five hundred pounds. The I i
affair was instantly investigated ; the doca- <
meat authorizing the selling out was pro
duced ; and the two trustees saw on it side
by side with Mr. Fauntleroy's e'mgoature.
thcre own namesforged. This happened OD 1
Friday, and the trustees without losing a
moment, sent the officers of justioe in pur
suit of Mr. Fauntlroy. He was arrested,
brought before the magistrate and reman
ded on the Saturday. On the Monday I
heard from my friends the particulars which
1 have just narrated.
But the events of that one morning were
not destined to end even yet. I had discov- '
ered the failure of the bank and the arrest j
of Mr. Fauntleroy. I was next to be en- :
lightened, in the strangest and the saddest j
manner, on the difficult question of his inno- !
cecce or guilt. Before mv friends had left!
my office—before I had exhausted the argu
ments which my gratitude rather than my I
reason suggested to me in favor of the pris. :
oner, a note maked "immediate, was pla- i
ced in my hands, which silenced me the in- ;
stant I looked at it. It was written from
the prison by Mr Fauntleroy, and it con
tained two lines only, entreating me to appy j
for the necessary order and to go and see
bim immediately.
I shall not attempt to describe the flutter j
of expectation, the strange mixture of dread :
and hope that agitated me when I recog
nized his hand writing and discovered what j
it was that he desired me to do. I easly ob
tained the order, and went to the prison.
The authorities knowing the dreadful
situation in which he stood, were afraid of
his attempting to destroy himself, and had
set two men to watch him. One came out
as they opened his cell door. The other, j
who was bound cot to leave him. very
delicately aDd considerately affected to be ,
looking cut of the window the moment I ,
was shown in.
He was sitting on the side of bis bed with j
his head drooping and his hands hanging i
listlessly over his knees when I first canght
sight of him. At the sound of my approach
he started to his feet, and without speaking
a word flung both his arms around my neck.
My heart swelled up.
"Tell me it's net true, sir! For God's
sake, tell me it's not true," was all I could
say to him.
He never answered —oh me ! he never j
answered, and he turned away his face.
There was cDe dreadful moment of silence.
He still held his arms around my Dick, and
on a sudden he put his lips close to my car.
'"Did you get your money out?" he whis
pered. "Were you on time on Saturday
affrnon ?"
I broke free from him in the astonish
of In iring these ward*.
4 What !" I cried out aioud, forgetting
the third person at >he window.—"lLat
man wbo brought the message—"Hush '
he said, putting his hand upou my lips.
"There was no better man to be found, after j
the officers had taken me—l kuow no more j
about him than you do—l paid bim well, as j
a chance messenger and risked his cheating
mc of the errand."
"You sent hint, ihca
"I sent him."
My story is over, g nth-men. There is no
ncid of me to tell yon that Mr. Fauntlcre-y
was found guilty and that he died by tbe
hangman's hand. It was in my power to
soothe his last moments in the world by ta
- king on myself the arrangement of some of
! his prvate affairs, which, remained un
settled, and weighed heavily on his mind.
They had no connection with the crime he
had committed, so I could do him the last
little service he was ever to accept at wy
haodswith a good heart.
I say nothing in defence of his chaaracter
—nothing in p-alliation of the offense for j
which he suffered. But I cannot forget that j
.in the time of his learful extremity, when
the strong arm of the law bad already Seized
! him, he thought of the young man wfcwe
humble fortunes felt gratitude he bad fr.rly
won; whose simple faith lie was rso.vxd sev
er to betray. I leave it w greater intellects
I than mine to le-oncilethe awemalyoffcis
4 • ' f *.
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reckless falsehood toward others arsd his
steadfast truth towaS me. It is as certain
as that re sit here ibat one i f Faontk-roy's
lad efforts in this world wis the effort he
mxde to prcsere Hie from being a loser by
the trust that I Lad placed in biai. There
i< the secret of mr strange tenderness for
the memory of a felon, that is why the word
villian does somehow still grate on my heart
when I hear it associated with his name.
UIIAT SI.KKP W I 1.1, ClHt
'I he cry for rest has always been louder
than the cry for food. Not that it is more
important, but it is ofien' harder to get. The
best rest cocoes from sound sleep. Of two
men or women, otherwise equal, the one who
deepsibe best will be the most moral, healthy
and efficient.
Sleep will do much to cure irritability of
temper, peevishness, uneasiness. It will
restore to vigor an overworked brain. It
will cure iu&aoity. It will build up and make
strong a weak body- ft will do much to curs
dyspepsia, particularly that variety known its
. nervous dyspepsia lv win ,■>, i ■ vfee )■
' gour and prostration felt by consumptive*.
; It wiil cure hypochondria. It will core the
blues. It will cure the headache. It will
cure the heartache. It will cure neuralgia.
It will cure a broken spirit. It will cure
sorrow. Indeed, we might make a long list
of nervous maladies that sleep will cure.
The cure of sleeplessness, however, is noi
se easy, particularly in those who carry grave
responsibilities. The habit of sleeping well
is one whicb, if broken up for any length of
time, is not easily regained. Often a severe
illness, treated by powerful drugs, so de
rauges the nervous system that sleep is never
sweet after it. Or, perhaps, long continued
watchfulness produces the same effect; or
hard study, or too little exercise of the
muscular system, or tea and whiskey drink
ing and tobacco using. To break up tfce
habit are required:
1. A clean bed.
2 Sufficient exercise to produce weariness,
and pleasant occupation.
3. Good air, and not too warm a room.
4. Freedom from too much care.
6. A cieau Stomach.
6. A clear conscience.
7. Avoidance of stimulants aud narcotics
For those who are overworked, haggard.
nervous, who pass sleepless nights we com
mend the adoption of such habits as shall
secure sleep, otherwise life will be short, and
what there is of it, sadly imperfect.— Herald
of Health.
Curious Facts lv Regard to Soukd—
The following curious observations ih regard
to the transmission of .sound have been care
fully verified by an extended series of exper
iments: The whistle of a locomotive is heard
3200 yard-: through the air, the noise of a
railroad train. 2SOO yards; the report of a
musket end the Lark of a dog, 1800 yards:
an orchestra or the roll of a drum, 1600
yards; the human voice reaches to the dis
tance of 1000 vards; the croaking of frogs
900 yards; the chirping of crickets, 800
yards. Distinct speaking is heard in the air
from below up to a distance of 600 yards:
froui above, it is only understood to a range
of 100 vards downward. It has been ascer
tained that an echo is well reflected from the
surface of smooth water only when the voice
comes from an elevation.
Other similar phenomena connected with
the transmission of sound have been obser
ved, but the results disagree either from in
accuracy in the observations or from the
varying nature of circumstances affecting
the numbers obtained. Such variations oc
eur to an extent of 10 or 20 per cent, and
even more. The weather, being cold and
dry, or warm and wet are the chief influen
cing causes, in the first cause the sound
goes to a greater and in the second to a les
ser distance.
Advice to Girls.— By Jotk Billing*.
My dear girls'keep cool. A blessed future
awaits you, enny how Take lessons on the
pianas, tha are gelt in skarce. Bi ail means
larn tu pla the nu song that has just-cum
out. "Whoa John Brown ie over we have
Father Abraham cumiDg with this cruel
war several strong." This stanxy tuck the
first premium at the stait fair. —Don't be
a fear d. to git mairied , yurema wrsn'tafeard
Be vartuous and putty. Eat slate pencils
tha will make yu spry at figers- Eat Ka
lone water, that will give yu a good smell.
Let your petty coatee drag on the sidewalks,
and if enny man steps on them and tares
oph the rim, slap his chops at onst. If yu
have gat small feet keep them hid—small
feet haz gone out ov fashion. Study tavek,
Tom Moors and Byrones and Gullivers, is
all fust rate. If yu can spare the time be
luvly and sweet. Remember one thing,
thar ain't nothing in this life worth livin fur
| but a rich husband. II you don't b'leve me
ask your ma. If yu have got red hair yu
had better exchange it for black ; black tha
tell us is going to be worn muchly next rear.
Don't have enny thing tew du with hoya
unless they mean tuisoess.
Married Mb*. —There ia ao expression io
the face of good married man who has a
good wife, that a bachelor's cannot have. It
is indescribable. He is a little nearer the
angels than the prettiest young fellow living.
Yon can see that his broad breast is a pillow
for somedody'a bead, and that little fingers
pall his whiskers. No one e*er mistakes
the good married man. It is only the erratic
one, who leaves you iu doubt. The good one
can protect all the unprotected females, and
: make himself generally agreeable to the
adiee, and yet never leave a doubt on any
j mind that there is a precious Utile woman at
j borne worth all the world to him.
A census of South Carolina, just completed
••hows that she has only 2,314 more people
than in I860: that there are fewer while males
by 5,880, and fewer black males by 11,812;
but that there are 9,f06 more while and 9,-
160 more black women than in 1860. The
np country districts have all diminished in
population, and rhe Charleston and adjacent
seacoast districts have increased, owing to
:he tendency of the negroes to concentrate
for mutual protection in the counties in which
they are already most numerous.
Health. —lt men gave three times as much
aWeatiou as they do to ventilation, ablution
and .exercise in the open -xir, add only onr,-
thit'J as much to eating, luxury and late
hours, the number of doctors, destisls, ami
apothecaries, and the amount of neuralgia,
dyspepsia, gout, fevers and consumption
wosld be changed in corresponding ratio.
The sweetest word in our language U love.
■ The greatest word in our language is God.
> The word expressing the shortest time ts
s now.