THE COLUMBIAN.
-nuilA MMOOaAT.STAK OFTBB NORTH AMDCOLCM.
issued weokly, ever y Friday morning, it
. .....uannno. COLOMDIA COUNTY. PA
, , , -o pollasj por year, M co n la discount allowed
ESSntrtho terms aro ft por ycar.strlctly In advance.
liver discontinued, except at tho option of the
LnMiQuicrt. unman arrearages ro paia,uui long
fflnuoil credits nftor the oxplratlon of the nrsl
' ll PP" enf out of the Htato or to dlsUnt post
!iwo person In Columbia county assumes to pay the
! ."kSSmiou duo on demand.
'YostAOE Is no longer exacted rrom sunscrlborsln
k. (.mini?.
.,o'.inMiieirliepartmontof the Coi.tHBUNlsvery
Lnmnieie. and our J p Printing will compare favora-
Mr witn IMt of tno largo chics, aii wore aone
I'rrMJcnUud jo-William Klwell.
Associate Judgci-I. K. Krlckbaum, P. L. Bhuman,
vrotlionulftry? AC-Wllllam Krlckbaum.
rt Menograplier-s. N. Walker.
!iiister Hocorder Williamson II. Jacoby,
ims r ci Atlorney-nobertll. Utile.
.'V.Viir Mhn Ilonmnn.
Surveyor Samuel Neyhard
Tre,
rrewurer-ll A. Hweppenhelscr,
jnimHsloia'rs Stephen Pone,
Charles lllchart,
A.'.'.'-Jii'iII S&rs' Klerk- J. 11. Casov.
Auditors-!!. II. smith, W. Manning, C. D. 8eo-
jury't'ommlssloners-Kll ltobblns, Theodore w,
Ii'i'irv M-.im,rtntondont-Wllllam II. Hnvder.
iiiooml'oor District 1) trccUirs 1 1. 8. Knt, Scott,
Win. Kramer, llloomsburg and Thomas Itcecc,
icon.
Bloomsburg Official Directory.
President of Town Council 1, 8. KU1IN.
Clerk-Paul K. Wirt,
chief of Pollco-I). Laycock.
President of Has Company S. Knorr,
LLn.t r.-t:. w. Miller.
liliKiinsourg Hanking company John K. Funston,
President, Jl llturnii, usuier, uuuu i euAXjVK, lei'
nr National Dank Charles It. Paxton, President
J. r. TUSIIQ, t;uauier.
Columbia County Mutual Saving Fund and Loan
AsiooU'loa-li. ii. Little, President, c. W. Miller,
liloomsLiiirg Building andsavlng Fund Association
Wm. I'eacocW, President, J. 11. Uoblson, Secretary.
llloomsburg Mutual Having Fund Association J.
j urower, President, P. E. Wirt, Secretary.
' CHUKCII DIKECTORY.
BArTIST CHURCH.
llev. J. P. Tustln, (Supply.)
Sunday Scrvloes-lOX a. ml and 1 p. m.
Sunday school 9 a. in.
Prayer Meeting Every Wednesday evening at ejf
slSts'trco. Tho public are Invited to attend.
ST. MATTItaW'B t.CTnSHAtt CHUKCII.
Minister Hot. o. I), s. Marclay.
Sunday 8ervlccs-10X a. in. and 1i p. m.
Sunday school-9 a.m.
I'ravcr Meeting Every vVednesday evening at IK
scats' free. Nopows rented. All are welcome.
rKBSBTTRRIAH CnCKCU.
Minister IlcV. Stuart MUchell.
Sunday Sen lccs iox a. tn. and )4 p. m.
Sunday school-!! a. m.
prayer Meet lug Kvcry Wednesday evening at t
seais'free. No pews rented. . Strangers welcome.
MRTItODIST EPISCOPAL CnURCH.
Presiding Klder licv. W. Evans.
Minister llev. E. II. Yocum.
Mtnday Services 11) and 6X p. m.
sundav School 2 p. m.
lllble Class-Kvcry Monday evening at o'clock.
Voimg Men's Prayer Meotlng-Evcry Tuesday
e7enlng at o'clock,
(leneral Prayer Mcetlng-Every Thursday evening
7 o'clock.
KXPOHMID CHUKCU.
Comer of Third and Iron streets.
I'astor-llov. W. E. Krebs.
itesldence Corner 4th and Catharine evcets.
Sunday Services 10 a. m. and Tp. in,
bundav School 9 a. m.
prayer Meeting Saturday, I p. m.
All are Invited Thero Is always room.
ST. PAUL'S CHURCH..,
Hector Rev L. Zahncr.
Sunday Services 10J a. m., In p. m.
Sunday School 9 a. m.
First Sunday In tho month, Holy Communion.
Senlees preparatory to Communion on Friday
eenlng before the st Sunday In each month.
Pews rented J but everybody wolcome.
ITANOIUCAL CHURCn.
Presiding Elder ltov. A. L. lleeser
Minister llev. Georgo Hunter. .
Sunday service! p. m., in tho Iron street Church.
Praver Meeting Every sabbath at 9 p. tn.
All aro milled. All are welcome.
mit ciiDRcn op cnRisr.
Meets In "tho little llrlck Church on the hill,"
known as tho Welsh Baptist Church-on Kock street
Caiiegula?'mcetlng for worship, every Lord's day at
lernoon at 3J o'clock. . . .
seats frooi and the public ore cordially Invited to
attend
SCHOOL ORDERS, blank, just printed and
neatly bound In small nooks, on hand and
or sale at tho coi.uubiah onico.
DLANK DEEDS, on I'arclimint and Linen
l" Paper, common and for Administrators, Execu
tors and trustees, for sale cheap at the Columbian
offlce.
MAPRIAOE CERTIFICATES intt printed
nnd for sale at the Colombian Oftlce. Minis
era of tno oospcl and Justices should supply them
selves with these necessary articles.
1 IJSTICES and Constables' Fee-Bills for sale
. P 'ft tho Colombian oftlce. They contain the cor
rected fees as established by tho lost Act of the Leg.
.lature upon the subject. Every Justice and Con-
table should havo one.
VENDUE NOTES just printed and for sale
cheap at tho Columbian oDlce,
BLOOMSBURG DIRECTORY.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
CI G. BARKLEY. Attornev-at-Law. Office
j , lu Brower's building, 2nd story, Rooms 4 5
JB. ROBISON, Attorney-at-Law.
'. in Uartman's building, Main street.
Office
s
AMUEL KNORR. Attorney-at-Law.Office
in Uartman's Building, Main street.
It. WM. M. REBER, Surgeon and Physi
side.
cian, uiuco marKCb sueci. auuvo dui jvuai
T R. EVANS, M. D., Surgeon and Physi
I . clan, (omce and Resfdenco on Third street
T B. McKELVY, M. D., Surgeon and Pliy
J slclan, north sldo Main street, below Market.
Tyj. J. C. RUTTER,
PHVSICI AN J; SOUUEON,
Offlco, North Market street,
Mar.ST,74 Bloomsburg, Pa.
T)R. I. L. RABB,
PRACTICAL DENTIST,
MnlnMreet, opposite Episcopal Church, Blooms-
aug M, n.ly, '
MISCELLANEOUS.
r M. DRINKER, GUN and LOCKSMITH.
sewing Machines and Machinery of all kinds re
dalrcd. Opbka nousi Building, Bloomsburg, Pa.
AVID LOWENBERG, Merchant Tailor
Main St., above Central Hotel.
IS. KUHN, dealer ii. Meat, Tallow, etc.,
Centre street, between Second and Third.
H' ROSENSTOCK, Photograpliex, over
. Clark Wolf's Store, Main street.
A UGUSiUri FREUND, Practical liomec
j pathlo Horse and Cow Uoctor, Bloomsburg, Pa,
IHl. 14, 19-tt
"y Y. KESTER,
MERCHANT TAILOR,
RoomNo. 16, opkba lleuu! Bcouino, Bloomsburg,
aprlll9,18l8.
TJR1TISII AMERICA ASSURANCE CO
NATIONAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY.
The assets of tneso old corporations are all In
vested in SOLID SECURITIES and are liable to the
hazard of Fire only.
jiuueruuuinea on tue uest risks ure aione acvepieu.
Losses from ptly and uomsti.y udjusted and paid
as soon as determined by Christian F. Knapp, Spe
cial Agent and Adjuster, U'oomsburg, Penn'a,
Ihoiltlzensol Columbia county should patronize
tue agency where Iosscb, if any, are adjusted and
paid by one of thelrown cltlieus. nov.Ie, '7My
IJKEAS BROWN'S INSURANCE AOEN
? CY, Exchange Hotel, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Capital.
tna,insco., of nartford, Connecticut... 6,600,000
Uveniool, London and Olobo . 20,ijOu,ouo
Jiojalot Liverpool U,6oo,ooo
Lancanshlre', , lo.ooo.ww
nro Association, Philadelphia s.lo,ooo
rarmers Mutual of DonvUle 1,000,000
puTUie Mutual K,ooo
Home, New York, .. 6,000,000
lS0,aai,0O0
As the agencies are direct, policies are written for
tosured w lUioul any delay In the offlce at Blooms-
Slarch 9,lT-y
F. HARTMAN
KIPRKSINTS THX rOLLOWINO
AMERICAN INSURANCE COMPANIESi
LKcming of Muncy Pennsylvania,
f?fSAm;rlcan of Philadelphia, M
'ranichn( of
toasylvanla of "
f Armere of York, Fa,
HAohattanof
on Muket Street No. e, Uloomahurg, Pa,
jT THE
OBANOBVILLB ACADEMY.
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E. WALLER,
Attornoy-at-Law.
iEcrease of Pensions otUlned, Colletioniadi.
ornco, second doorfrom 1st National Bank.
BLOOMSBURO, PA.
Jan. 11, 1578
JJ U. FUNhi
Attornoy-at-Law,
Increaso of Pensions Obtained, Collections
Mado.
, BLOOMSBURG, PA.
Offlce In Knt's Bcii.dino.
gROCKWAY A ELWELL;
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,
CotpiisiAN BciLntNO, Bloomsburg, Pa,
Members of tho United states Law Association.
Collections made In any part of America or Europo
Q 1 av7j.buckalew,
ATTOltNEYS-AT-LAW,
Bloomsbarg, Pa.
Offlce on Main Street, first door below Courtnouse
JOHN M. CLARK,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,'
Bloomsburg, Pi
onico over Schuyler's Hardware Store.
r. BILLMEYER,
' ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Omci-ln Harman's Building, Main street,
Bloomsburg, Pa,
H. L1TTL1, mo,.,, UTTU.
H. & R. R. LITTLE,
ATTORNKYS-AT-LAW,
Bloomsburg, Fa.
Q W.MILLER,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
omce In Brower's building, second floor, room No.
Bloomsburg, Pa.
B.
FRANK ZARR,
Attornoy-at-Law.
uuojioounu, ra
omce In Unanost's Bcildino, on Main street second
Can be consulted in German.
Jan. 10, 19-tf
CATAWISSA.
"y-M. L. EYERLY,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Catawlasa, Pa.
opposite Catawlasa Deposit Bank. em-89
H. RUAWN,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
CutAwlnflA. Pa.
omce, corner of Third and Main Streets.
July 11, 19-tt
QLARK F. HARDER,
BUILDER AND MANUFACTURER OF
Doors, Sain, Blinds, Honlilngc, Brackets,
ami dealer In LUMBER and all kinds of BUILDING
MATERIAL, HARDWARE,.,
THIRD STREET, CArAWISSA, PA.
May lo, 9-sm
BLATOIILEY'S PDMPS !
The Old Reliable
STANDARD PDMP
For Wells 10to 75 feet Deep
New Price LisTJan. 1, 1879.
ADDRESS
C. G. BLATCIILET,
4 40 MARKET ST., PHILAD'A,
April 11, 1879-m
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matorrhea, lmpo
tencj', and all disea
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memory, Universal
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Before Taiiiieoi vision. Prcma-. v'i..
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are first caused by deviating from the path of nature
and over Indulgence. The specino Medicine 13 the
result of a Ufa study and many years of experience
In treating theso special diseases.
full particulars In our pampblets,whlch we desire
to sen J tree by mall to every one.
The ipccltlo Medicine Is sold by all Druggists at II
EerpacKige, or six packages for $s, or will be sent
y mall on receipt of the money by addressing
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No. 10, Mechanic's Block, Detroit, Mich.
sold in Bloomsburg bye. A. Klelm, and by all
Druggists everywhere.
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sept. , is-U
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Manufacturers of
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PLATFORM WAGONS, Ac.
First-class workalways ozdhand.
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Prices reduced to suit the times,
Jan. 5, isn-tt.
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Should subscrlbo for
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ORANGEVILLE, PA.,
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copy.
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Editor.
April 18, Ulft-U
$2
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men or agents. New business; light work.
Address Co-Ohbativi AaiNcr, Madison.lnd'
June 91, iOT9-4ta
Private Sale
The following valuablo property, the Estate of tho
late John SwtBher,deceased,wlll be offered at private
sale up to
SEPTEMBER Ut 187'J.
The property Is situate in the village ot Jersey
town, Columbia county pa., ana contains aoout
FIFTY ACRES
nf excellent farmlnir land unon which are T"WO
HOUBEBi BABN, and other out
buildings, and Is one of the nnest localities In the
county. There are
TWO GOOD ORCHARDS
tr-For inlormaUon concerning the property ap
ply to C. B. iirockrway, or muuiasuiuv, v .J
Swisher, of Jersey town.
May w,-u
He
Poetical.
FAITH.
ST CEL1A TIIAXns,
Fain would I hold my lamp of llfo aloft
Like yonder tower built high abovo the reef
Steadfast, though tempests rave or winds blow soft,
Clear, though tho sky dissolve In tears of grief.
For darkness passes j storms shall not abide.
A little patience and the fog Is past.
After the sorrow of the ebbing tide
Tho singing Hood returns In Joy at last.
The ntght Is long and pain weighs heavily j
But (lod will hold Ills world above despair.
Look to the east, where up tho lucid sky
Tho morning climbs I The day shall yet bo fair 1
THE WIFE'S S0NG-"LIN0ER SOT LONG I"
Linger not long I Home Is not home without thee,
Its dearest tokens only make me mourn i
Oh I let lis memory, Uko a chain about thee,
Gently compel and hasten thy return.
Linger not long I
Linger not Ipng I though crowds should woo thy
staying.
Bethink theo-can the mirth ot friends, though
dear,
Compensate for tho grief thy long delaying
Costs the poor heart that sighs to have thee hero t
Linger not long I
Linger not long l-how shall I watch thy coming,
As evening's shadows stretch o'er moor and fell i
When the wild bee hath ceased her woary hum
ming, And silence hangs on all things like a spell I
Linger not long 1
now shall I watch for thee when fear grows stronger.
As night grows dark and darker on the hill I
now shall I weep when I can watch no longer t
Oh, art thou absent, art thou absent sUll t
Linger not long I
Yet I should grieve not, though tho eye that seeth
me
Gazeth through tears that make Its splendor dull ;
For oh, I sometimes fear, when thou art with me,
My cup of happiness Is all too full I
Linger not long I
Haste haste theo homo unto thy mountain dwell
ing. Haste as a bird unto its peaceful nest I
nrste as a skiff, when tempests wild are swelling,
Files to Ita haven of securest rest I
Linger not long I
Mi seellaneous.
A WHAHF HAT.
He was a levee 'Rat,' and his name was
Dick. As a child he managed somehow to
escape the massacres of want, neglect, and
dlseaso in great cities ; and we find him a
small boy 12 years old living where he may,
eating what he can get ; his band against
everything (that will sell at a junk store),
and every one's against him. A human rat
a thing to bide itself in dark places, and
to be chased and worried when it ventures
into the light.
The levee which Dick infests is that of
New Orleans ; down by the foot of Jackson
street where the English steamers lie, is his
happy hunting gronnd,and on the day when
we make his acquaintance.it Is not very pro
ductive. The hunting has been all on one
side, and how Dick is discovered hiding be
tween two bales of cotton is the query. He
is kicked, punched, dragged, jostled back
ward and forward by the stevedore's men,
like a ragged shuttlecock, every one has a
curse and a blow for the 'Rat,' with whom
things are going hard, when
'Oh, how shameful to beat that poor boy
so 1' exclaimed a soft voice with a ring of
genuine Indignation In it.
The speaker is a lady, clad in crisp, cool
muslin a lady, beautiful in face and
form.
'Oh,' she exclaimed, how shameful, to
treat that poor child so t Do, please, Cap
tain Gilbert, make them let him alone.'
Captain Gilbert, whose guest sho is, and
who leads her up the stage, shouts :
Halloa 1 quit that 1 Let the boy go, and
get on with your work.'
Dick who, unable to dodge his tormen
tors, has emulated the example of a hedge
hog, and made himself nearly as spherical
as possible against a cotton bale does not
rise. The foe has not sufficiently retreated,
but he keeps a bright lookout from the cor
ner of one eye, so as to be ready for a
jump.
'They have hurt him,' said the lady. 'He
can't get up, poor little fellow 1' and before
any one can interfere, she trips down the
stage and stooping over the 'Rat' who is so
taken aback by the apparition that he for
gets to jump, and rolls over straight. Hit
plight when it appears that no bones are
broken makes the lady smile. He has
been cuffed against a lot of oil cake, and
is russet brown. He is Huffy all over with
cotton waste. Ilia mouth is open' and his
eyes are wild with astonishment. His mouth
is open' and his eyes are wild with astonish
ment. He had never been so near to a lady,
and don't know what will be dono with
him.
'Come, get up, says the Captain, 'there's
nothing the matter with you.'
'Can you rise ?' asks the lady, and she
touches him with the most wonderful thing
Dick ever saw her hand I The creamy
glove upon it, the shimmer of lace and glit
ter ot gold at the wrist, and the soft, white
flesh beyond ; never had he felt such a touch
or been spoken to in such a tone.
'Ob, ain't I in for it now V he muses, and
then he looks up into the lady's face.
There was no chance for & bolt now. The
lady, the gentleman who came with her, the
captain of tha steamer, and its chief officer
formed a semi-circle in tront ; behind was
the bale of cotton against which he had
rolled himself for protection. He sits up
drinking in that strange expression which
at once scares, puzzles, and pleases him, till
a sort of sleepy, faint feeling makes him
close his eyes.
'He's going to faint,' says the lady. 'I
knew he was hurt, Oh,see how he Is bleed
Ing.'
He is bleeding badly. Iligdrods are trick
ling fast down his ragged sleeye, which will
soak no more. These come from an ugly
tear (caused by a nail iu the wharf plant
ing) on his arm just above the elbow.
'Don't look, Mrs. Austen,' says the cap
tain ; I'll have him attended to. Ho, quar
termaster I come and carry this boy on board
and give my compliments to the doctor,
and ask him to plaster up this cut.'
Dick has no power to resist, He is carried
on board, muttering, "Come, I ain't done
nothing to you.'
They were all standing on the main deck,
Two other ladies, with their escorU arrive,
but the meal Is delayed by the appearance of
some of the crew, bearing squat heavy boxes
which jingle as they are lowered through' a
trap door la the deck,partly under the lunch
table,
'Mexican dollars,1
tain.
explains
cap-
'What a lot of money I
ed.
the lady remark-
'Not so much as you suppose, tut a tidy
sum. Each box contains 12,000 and there
ate fourteen of them eh, Mr.' Mansfield ?
This is the officer in charge, who confirms
the count.
They have got their first glass of oham
pagne, when the doctor joins them,
'Well, how's your patleut J' asks the cap
tain. 'AH right, and clean for once In his life,
but rather weak,' Is the medical report upon
the Rat.
'Poor child,' sighs the lady, 'what ought
he to take?'
'I should prescribe something to eat.' the
doctor replies, helping himself to a slice of
tongue.
'Captain, I should like to give him tome
dinner,'
It is unnecessaary to say who speaks, and
the skipper would Indeed have been a stern
man If he could have resisted the pleading
of those brown eyes. The quartermaster Is
summoned again, and appears, leading Dick,
It has begun to dawn upon him that he Is
not going to be abused.
'What is your name, little boy ?' asks the
lady.
'Dick.'
'Are you hungry, Dick ?'
'Rather.'
'Only rather?' in a tone of disappoint
ment, 'Rather,' explains the captain. 'In that
tone, means 'very."
The lsdy takes the plate and fills It with
cold chicken, stuffing, salad, bread, and what
not ; adds a knife and fork, and gives it to
Dick.
'I should keep some of that for to-morrow
if I wero you,' observed tho doctor.
'Then you'd be a fool,' Dick replied with
a scoff. 'The big fellows on the levee would
take it 'fore you'd gone two blocks. To
morrow ain't here, but the grub is, and so
I'm going to get outside it while I can,'
There is a general laugh at this philoso
phy. Dick 'gets outside' his grub without
further comment, and is walking off, when
the captain calls him back with a
Why you young rascal I are you going
ithout saying thank you?'
'Thank ye.'
'No, not me. Thank the lady.'
'Thank ye kindly ma'm,' says Dick.
It was the first polite speech he had ever
uttered, and heaven knows where he picked
it up.
Tho party remained on board till aoout G
o'clock, and by the time it broke up every
one had forgotten about the 'Rat,' but as
Mrs. Austin was crossing the levee he ran
up, much to the annoyance of her compan
ion, who had had enough of him.
'I say,' says the Rat,' 'do you like him ?'
with a chuck of the thumb toward the steam-
'Captain Gilbert?'
'Yes is he your feller ?'
'Get out, you scamp,' cries the gentleman,
indignantly.
'Let him speak,Fred,the lady pleads, 'No,
Dick, I am married,and this is my husband;
but Captalu Gilbert is our friend. I crossed
with him once, and be was very good to me
when I was sick.'
'Was you ever sick ?' asks Dick, with a
face full of wonder.
Often. So I can answer your question,
and say that I do like the captain very
much.'
'You'd hate for anything bad to happen to
him?
'Why, of course to him or any one
else,'
'Wot, to me ?'
'Indeed I would, my poor boy. O, Fred,
see how wistful he looks 1 Mayn't I give
him some of Charley's left off things ? I
have a little boy at home,' she goes on, see
ing astonishment in her husband's eye,
'about your size.'
'Does ho get chickens to eat ?' asks the
Rat.
'Yes.'
'Every day ?'
'No, not every day,' she answers smiling ;
it is well she does qualify her reply, for
Dick's credulity was not yet sufficiently
elastic to bear such a marvel as a boy about
his size, who had chickens every day.
So they bade him follow them, and more
wonders were in store for him. He sees
Charlie. He was taken up to the lady's room
where the promised things were produced
and tried on over his rags. Here he stood
lost in admiratiou. He gazed about him be
wildered, and some dim sense of shame stole
over him as he saw his own reflection in the
looking glass.
'Mayn't I put'em on now V he asks, as
the things are selected.
'Better not,' says tho lady. Put them on
In the moral ug. Come here again about 10
o'clock.and we will see what we cau do with
you.'
'He submits, and goes down very reluct'
antly, with two whole suits of Charley's
left-off clothes bundled up in a large hand
kerchief, and fifty cents In his pocket. As
soon as the hall door closes after him the
brute instincts of secrecy and evasion pull
his jelly bag hat over his eyes and send him
off at a run.
Captain Gilbert spends the evening with
his agent,and then returns tq the ship about
11 o'clock.
'Sorry to say sir,' begins the chief officer,
'that most of the men are on shore.
'Without leave ?'
A shrug of his shoulders is his only an
swer ,
'Whose watch is it?'
'Mr. Andrews.'
'Bend him here.'
'How's this, Mr, Andrews,' asks the cap
tain, angrily.
'It's net my fault, sir. They don't go over
the gangway. They crawl over the side and
onto the beams of the wharf, It's Impossible
to Btop them.'
The captain knows New Orleans, aud be
ing a just man, had no more to say. It is
very provoking. He Is going to sail to
morrow, and theso men will come on board
either drunk or stupid from the effect of
drink. Borne of them, perhaps, will not come
at all.
Tho weather for the last few days has been
oppressively hot, and now there ii hope of
rain. The iky Is dark and low, and the
faint evening breeze has gone down. The
captain has gone down to bis cabin,and tries
to read, but the mosquitoes won't let him, so
he get Into bod, tucks In his bar, and sleeps
the sleep of a tired man,
the
Something makes him conscious that two
bells (I o'clock) is striking. Then he hears
a whisper, 'Cap'n I Cap'u I' close by his side.
In an Instant he had his revolver ready, and
In the act of striking a match, when the
whisper says, 'Hush I It's me Dick. Don't
say a word ; don't light a match. Hush I
Is there a man named Phil Woods In your
crowd V
'Yes, a fireman; but he deserted last week,'
the captain whispers back,
'Have you got any specious aboard V
'Specious ? Oh, specie, you meau,'
'Wot's that ?'
'Money.'
'I thought so. Well, Cap'n, Phil Wood
and five more are after that there spcclousi
and they are aboard now.'
'Good God I why didn't you tell me be
fore ?' gasps the captain.
'Policemen cheved me, 'cos I'd got a bun
dle that the lady gave me. Ho took it
away, he did, and locked me up,' exclaimed
Dick, 'but 1 got out.'
'On board now ; do you say 1' asks the
captain.
'Yes, and at work, too. Listen I'
What the captain hears sends him out of
hrs4iirth with a spring.
'Fire that,' be says thrusting a pistol Into
Dick's band, 'and run forward shouting for
help as loud as you can scream.' Then he
darts out on deck.
And no timo to spare I Tho thieves, have
overpowered and gagged the men on watch;
have cut around the fastenings on the hatch
leading to the specie room, and already two
boxes are out and ready for spiriting away.
It is a brisk affair while It lasts ; which is
until the chief officer, doctor, steward,
aroused by Dick's shouts and the firing.come
upon the scene. Then such of the thieves
as can do so jump overboard for their re
treat forward Is cut off. Three remain ; one,
the leader dead, and another with his thigh
Bpllntered, and a third with several balls in
his body.
The first thing they do is to release poor
Mr. Andrews, whom they find still insensi
ble from a blow on the head. By this time
the police have come, and are searching the
ship, lest others of the thieves might be hid
ing. 'What's that in the wheel-house says ?'
the chief officer ; 'bring a lig.ht here. Ah I
It's another of them. Turn him over. Ob.
Lord I captain, look here. Here's grati
tude 1 It isn't that Rat that the
lady '
'My God I' cries the Captain, 'I forgot all
about htm ? Is he hurt ?'
'Shot right through the body, and serves
him right,' is Mansfield's reply. It struck
the Bpeaker 'silly' as he afterward said, to
see the skipper fall down on his knees be
sido the 'Rat,' lift his head upon his should
er, and in a voice hoarse with emotion say,
'are you hurt bad, boy? Don't start. I'm
your friend the captain, Dick speak to
me 1'
'Is the police gone ?' he moans.
'They shan't hurt you, Dick no one
hall. Oh, doctor, come and attend this
poor, brave little fellow. Any drop ot
blood Is worth more than all the lives of
these scoundrels. Do your best for him,and
send for all the surgeons in the city, if they
can help poor Dick I Poor little faithful
chap I'
the wounued tbieves are carried oil to
the charity hospital by the police. Dick Is
taken to the captain's cabin, and placed in
his bod. The Bhip's doctor does his very
best for him. Tho most famous in the city
comes and looks grave. Captain Ullbert
never leaves him.
'Say ?' Dick's voice has become very low
and tremous 'was that there money
yourn ?'
o ; but it was in my cnarge.
You'd a got it if you'd lost it, eh ?'
'I should have been ruined.'
'She wouldn't ha liked that.'
'She?' who do you mean, my boy?'
'The lady her as you was good too.'
The captain turned aside, and tried hard
to swallow something which had never pass
ed his lips.
'Was it for tier sake, he asked that you
did this?'
'She Bald she'd hate to have anything to
come to you,' replies the Rat, 'cos you was
good to her when she was sick. Two nights
ago, I heard Phil Wood and his crowd talk
ing about robbing a ship of specious. They
said they was going to 'tice all the men
ashore with drink, and there'd be only one
man forward besides the captain. There
was to ha' bin one put at the cap'n's door to
knock him on the head If he came out. I
didn't know for aartin it war your ship, and
I was a-coming to ask If you had specious
when the p'liceman chevied me.'
'Who was It that shot at you ?'
'Don't know. When I see the p'lice I
crawled away to where you found me, I was
skear'd, for fear they'd think I belonged to
the other crowd.'
The Rat is skin and bone, and nervous as
a cat. He has lost more blood than he can
spare from that slight wound in his arm.
When the lady come early in the morn
ing, the Rat is Binking slowly. His face
brightens up as he sees her.
'I say don't you cry like that,' Bays he.
Childlike he puts up his hand to withdraw
hers from her eyes. He touches it with awe.
It does not break nor fly off, and nothing is
done to him for his daring. Encouraged by
such immunity, he ventures to give it a lit
tle pat,and then the face which he is watch
ing intently Is lit up with a smile through
its tears. Into his unloved life into bis
half-savage mind dawns the first idea of ca
ress. He clasps the lady's band and draws
It down and presses it there with both his
little brown paws. Then he leans back with
a long-drawn sigh, and shuts his eyes.
Three years have passed, and Captain
Gilbert's steamer is again at her wharf at the
foot of Jackson street, and again Mr, and
Mrs. Austen are to lunch on board. As the
lady Is stepping down from the gang-way, a
well-grown, handsome boy, tn a blue flan
nel knlckerbocker suit, and Btraw hat with
ship's ribbon, came slyly forward.
wuy, mat la never lite 7 sue ex
claims.
'Diok all ovei,' says the captain, proud
ly.
'Ob, Dick, how you have grown, and how
improved 1'
'There was plenty of room for that,' laughs
the quondam Rat.
Then the captain takes her aside and ex
plains. 'He's been at school ever since be
got well, and has learned more than other
boys in double the time. Ob, he i smart!
I'm educating him now for my profession
and belieye he could past for mate to-mor-
row.1
'What name have you given him ?' asks
the lady.
'My own. My wife thinks as much of
him as I do j and we've no children of our
own, why '
'Captain Gilbert, you are a good man I'
and,' lowering his voice, 'a grateful.'
This Is thn end of the Rat's tale.
Some scraps from a lunch table, kindly
given, stood between a man and ruin ; and
a tender touch of a woman's hand saved a
boy's life.
ICELANDIC COSTUMES.
The full dress consisted of n helmet shaped
head dress of some stiff white stun", with a
golden tiara around the front of It, and a
large lace veil over all ; a black cloth jack
et, partly open In front, trimmed with vel
vet and gold embroidery ; a black cloth
skirt of moderate length, and pretty full,
embroidered wilh yellow silk. The belt
was very handsome, being covered with cold
ornaments. For out of doors thero was a
long, round, black velvet cloak, trimmed
with white fur, and lined with green cloth.
The shoes are generally like those worn In
the Faroe Islands. The everyday dress li a
black cloth jacket trimmed with velvet, but
not embroidered ; a dark skirt, and a large
apron of some bright color. A silk necktie
is also worn, the color of which ought to
match that of the apron. Diversity of taste,
however, is exhibited both In the color of
these parts of the dress and In the fineness
ofthe work on the chemhette and cuffs.
The head dress is a small black worsted cap,
with a long black silk tassel, and It is worn
by all classes, the only difference being in
the gold, silver, or tinsel ornament on the
tassel, and the slightly larger size of the
caps worn by the old women. Oooo! Words.
UUICK WIT WINS.
Years ago, into a wholesale grocery store
In Boston walked a tall, muscular looking
man, evidently a fresh comer from some
backwoods town iu Maine or New Hamp
shire. Accosting the first person he met
who happened to be the merchant himself,
he asked :
You don't want to hire a man in your
store, do you ?'
'Well,' said the merchant, 'I don't know ;
what can you do ?'
Do ?' said the man ; 'I rather guess I
can turn my hand to almost anything what
do you want done ?'
'Well, if I wag to hire a man, It would be
one that could lift well, a strong, wiry fel
low ; one, for instance, that could shoulder
a sack of coffee like that yonder, and carry
it across tho floor and never lay it down.
There, now, Cap'tin,' said the country
man, 'that's just me. I can lift anything I
hitch to ; you can't suit me better. What
will you give a man that will suit you ?'
'I'll tell you,' said the merchant : 'If you
will Bhoulder that sack of coffee and carry it
across the store twice and never lay it down
I will hire you a year at $100 per month.'
'Done,' said the stranger, and by this
time every clerk in the store had gathered
around and waiting to join in the laugh
against the man, who walking up to the sack
threw it across his shoulder with perfect
ease, although extremely heavy, and walk
ing twice across the floor went quickly to a
large hook which was fastened to th-3 wall,
and hanging it up, turned to the merchant,
and said
'There, now.it may hang there till dooms
day, I shall never lay it down. What shall
I go about, mister ? Just give me plenty to
do and $100 per month and it's all right.'
The clerks broke into a laugh, and the
merchant, discomfited yet satisfied, kept bis
agreement, and to-day the green country
man is the senior partner in the firm, and
is worth a million dollars. Utica Obierver,
If you want to prevent Typhoid Fever, or
f you ieel as if you were going to have the
chills and fever, take Dr. Bull's Baltimore
Pills. Price 25 cts.
SUB-SOILING AND DEEP PLOUGHING.
Discussions are going on continually as
to the merits and demerits of deep plough
ing. The following from The World is one
of the best expositions we have seen: The
depth of soil can alone determine tho depth
of plowing. When the soil is shallow the
gradual deepening of it should be sought by
the use of appropriate materials for improve
ment until the object is fully attained. The
sub-soil ought not, as a rule, to be brought
out of its bed except in small quantities to
be exposed to the atmosphere during the
fall, whiter and spring, or in summer fal
low ; nor even then except when such fer
tilizers are applied as are necessary to put
it at once into a produciug condition. Two
indifferent soils of opposito character, as a
stiff clay and rllding sand, sometimes occu
py the relation of surface and sub-soil to
each other, and when thoroughly mixed and
subjected to cultivation they will produce a
soil of greatly increased value. Soils ap
propriated to gardens and horticultural pur
poses are often deepened to fifteen and even
eighteen inches with decided advantage,
But whatever is tho depth of the oll the
plow ought to run up the entire mass
itbin ita reach, and what is beyond it
should be thoroughly broken up by the sub
soil plow. Wbeu all circumstances are fa
vorable lo tue use or the sub-soil plow an
increase In the crop follows, as the bard
earth below the reach of the ordinary plow
has been loosened. This permits the escape
of the water which falls on the surface, the
circulation of air and a more extended range
for the roots of the plants, by which they
procure additional nourishment and secure
a crop agalust drought. The benefits of sub
soil plowing are most apparent in an im
pervious clay sub-soil and least evident in
loose aud leacby soils. Most of the objec
tions to deep ploughing were from those
wnu bring tue poor Bub-soil to the surface.
Cured of Drinking.
'A young friend of mine was cured of an
InBatiable thirst for Liquor, which had so
prostrated him that he was unable to do any
business. He was entirely cured by the use
of Hop Hitters. It allayed all that burning
thirst ; took away the appetite for liquor
made his nerves steady, and he has remain
ed a sober and steady man for more than
two years, and has no desire to return to bis
cups; Iknowcf a number of others that
have been cured of drinking by it.' From
a leading It, R. office, Chicago, Ills,
nODD LUCK IN WHEAT.
During the past five years the good luck
of American financial and agricultural In
terests has been remarkable. It Is true that
our enterprise and Industry have been
very great and have deserved suc
cess, but the forces of nature have
worked with us to make that success hardly
less than marvelous. For example, take
the wheat crop that has just been harvested.
It Is almost without precedent In tho acre
age under cultivation, the yield per acre,
the quality of the grain and the heaviness
of the demand and the consequent high
price. To our own Industry is due tho fact
that a larger area has been planted In wheat,
that It has been well cultivated and econo
mically harvested and transported. But
there our ends meet the rest Is the gift of
good fortune. A bad season would havo
ruined our crops as the crops of England
and France have been ruined. The grass
hoppers might have attacked them as they
did tho crops of Southern Russia. War
might havo laid waste our fields as In Bulga.
ria and Roumania, or floods like those along
the Danube, might have washed them away.
We have escaped all these perils and have
harvested a crop superabundant In quantity
and of the finest quality. But unless this
our good fortune had been supplemented by
the III fortune of our neighbors, the advan
tage would not have been bo great. A su
perabundant crop would have proportion
ally lowered the price and the incomo of
the farmer would havo been materially in
creased. Tho excess of supply over the de
mand would have taken all tho profits out
ofthe crop. Ourciowning streak of good
luck has been the partial failures of the
European crops and the consequent enor
mous demand for American grain. It was
officially announced the other day by tho
French minister that France would need
$1,000,000 of American wheat. The Eng
lish demand will be considerably larger.
There will thus be no difficulty In disposing
of our immense surplus at high prices.
ringiug to the wheat growers a very hand
some return on their investments of capi
tal and labor. This will give them some
$200,000,000 to spend, and the merchants
will in turn get the benefit of It, It was
said that Good Fortune brought us these
blessings, but still they are iu largo part
the reward of our former labor. A consid
erable portion of the profit lies in the mod
ern economies in handling, transporting and
loading the grain on tho outward-bound
ships. If it were not for our large railroad
facilities and the competitions which keep
freights down, together with the terminal
facilities in the way of grain elevators, it
would not be possible to supply the Eu
ropean demand for grain ; and the cost of
landing it in Europo would put the price
too high for a very large consumption by
putting it out ofthe reach of large classes of
consumers. The elements of our good fortune-are
largely the results of our own en
ergy, forethought and invention. Heaven
has helped us becauso we first helped our
selves.
But our wheat successes have not been
our only strokes of good luck. The increas
ing foreign demand for American petroleum
is due chiefly to our improved appliances
for handling, transporting to the coast, and
shipping It. It has thus driven out other
illuminating-oil in many parts of Europe
and has become an enormous article of ex
portation. Our crops of Indian corn have
in the same way been creating European
markets for themselves and there is still
room for vast expansion in this direction.
The cotton crops for the past four years
havo been far larger than the crops raised
by slave labor before the war, and the pri
ces considerable higher. The current cot
ton year product may prove to be the larg
est crop ever picked in this country and
yet, owing to the large demand, the prices
have kept up remarkably. It is this long
series of fortunate events which has given
us the enormous balance of trade in our fa
vor, which caused the premium on gold to
disappear, made resumption possible, and
the reduction of a large part of the bonded
debt from six to four per cent. This is in
deed a happy land.
A JURY OP MATRONS.
A curious incident occurred at the crim
inal court of the Old Bailey, London, on
the 8th of last month. On that day a wo
man was tried nd convicted of murdering
her mistress under Circumstances of great
brutality. After sentence had ;been passed
upon her she pleaded in stay of execution
that sbe was soon to become a mother. Up
on this plea the judge dismissed the jury by
whom a verdict of guilty had been found,
and within ten minutes thereafter a jury of
matrons, selected from a crowd of'females in
the gallery, was etnpanneled and sworn to
give a true verdict on the Issue. The ma
tron of the prison was first called. She tes
tified that the prisoner had been under her
charge since May 21, that she had made
such examination in her case four days be
fore as was customary where women were
charged with murder, and did not think the
statemeut correct. The judge not satisfied
with the testimony of one person on the
subject, directed that the prisoner be taken
from the bar to a Bide room, and that there
in the presence of tne jury of matrons, fur
ther inquiry be made with the aid of
Bklllful physician. The report ofthe latter
was adverse also to the prisoner's statement
Judge Deuman then seemed at losswhat to
do. He remarked that "after thirty-two
years in the profession he had never been
at an inquiry ofthe sort." Mr, Avery who
conducted the prosecution, aud whom the
judge called "one of the most experienced
criminal lawyers in England," said the
same thing, and Mr. Sleigh, an old practi
tioner, who defended the prisoner, Bald, "I
also my lord, have never had such exper
ience.' I be judge summing up said :
"This Is a very unusual inquiry, and
ladles of the jury, it has never happened to
me before. T he law If that is it be estab
lished to the satisfaction of a jury that the
prisoner is as she claims to be, then the' ex
ecution must be respited." Thejurywomen
after two or three minutes' deliberation, sta
ted they had agreed upon their verdict, and
rendered it to the effect that the woman was
not in the condition she represented. So
the sentence stood without stay, Rare
such an incident Is, the right to summon
jury of matrons In certain cases Is a part o
the common law of England, and hence,
though fallen Into disuse, may be a part of
the law Id this couutry,;
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Items.
The hackman's business U driving,
Tho ladles say that home-made dresses
are generally cut by us.
Pride goeth before a fall, but a great
deal of bad language cometh after It.
A German nbvslclan orders fresh fruit
and oysters for gout and ludigestlon.
Gotham's lawyers are the men to work
with a w'll, says tho New York Mall.
Of all classes that employ the brains
men of science are said to live the longest.
Eighteen hundred girls under twenty
years of age were married In New York last
year.
One who knows says that mixed voices
on't produce bait as much music as mixed
drinks do.
Daw's brewery yielded a profit of $2.-
000,000 last year, to bo divided among eight
partners.
Market imitations do not affect the
price of liberty, which always remains at
eternal vigilance.
A Maine naner complains that money
is I lull t thero. And this in the heart ofthe
prohibition paradise I
Why is a corner peanut-seller like an
pothecary? Because he does business on
tbe small scale, Puck says.
worth says I-.nglisb women do not dress
as extravagantly as the women of France
and America.
It has been observed that although
birds in their little nests agree." whales
often come to blows.
A little girl, on being shown a neigh
bor's bonnet said : "Mother says it's a per
fect fright, but it don't scare nio."
"Can a clergyman marry himself?" asks
an exchange. All we can say is, that if he
does, he gets a duced poor wife.
Seventy vessels, from five to seventy
tons burden, with 350 men are now engaged
in the Key West sponge trade.
A well known wnlkist mikes the aston
ishing announcement tint ho is about to
cover two thousand miles "on his feet."
There has been a IniiU application of
hardly ever" invented. It runs thus :
Quoth the raven, never well, hardly ever
more.
Under the sceptre ofthe Czar of Russia
live thirty-eight different nationalities, eath
speaking its own language, which is foreign
to all others.
An atlracton at a recent church fair
was a shooting gallery ?with five shots for
ten cents. We,hope that the moral aim of
the gallery was good.
The last Ohio idea was invented bv a
divorced wife, who sues her successor for
alienating the affections of her former hus
band. Experience in Africa proves that the
bayonet is a poor defense, and the nronrietv
of arming the British infantry with revolvers
is discussed.
When you are losing money, the most
economical thing you can do is take in a
partner, that is tbe wuy carclul business
men do.
Men nrate about women tonkin? beau
tiful in calico, but somehow the young lady
no promenades once in calico, never gets
second invitation.
The New Orleans Picayune assures us
that dreaming on a piece of wedding-cake
is not always a sure mine. Mince pie and
cheese are much more certain.
"Painting." says Charles Blanc, "holds
the middle place between sculpture, which
we can see and touch, and music, which we
can neither Bee nor touch.";
There is a man in the Taunton alms
house who, a little more a year
ago, was assessed and paid one hundred and
lourteen dollars taxes on real estate.
It Is a common belief of Dhilosonhical
minds that the anticipation is more enjoya
ble than the realization. This applies to
strawberries when you eat too many.
-Mr. Edison might turn his attention to
the invention of a patent safe lock, which,
when meddled with by a burglar, shall seize
him, handcuff, and take him to a police-sta
tion.
"Never put on" till to-morrow what can
be done to-day," is a pretty good motto ;
but tbe man who believes in it firmly will,
nevertneiess, ueiay a visit to tne dentist as
long as possible.
When a tireless book agent left a small
town, after getting all he could out of it, tbe
people had just spirit enough left to remark
that, by going away, he was "filling a long-
ieit want."
Dairymen may be interested to know
that there are 10.705.000 cows in the United
States, which represent a value of $299,705,
000. The country can certainly stand on
herd dignity.
A New Jersey grocer can fill a dry co-
coanut with water and plug up the hole so
demy mat tne small boy suspects no cheat.
And yet men say that inventive geulus is
in Its Infancy.
A lady, who has long been recognized
as an uncompromising opponent ofthe use
of tobacco I n any form did ac
tually account for early rising, the
other morning, by aaying she was "up to
snun me early breeze.
-The average salary of Methodist minis
ters in fourteen Southern conferences is
said to be $672, aud tho average amount
paid t-tzs, in northern conterences tue
average is $700, and the deficiency in pay
ment about 12 per cent
Rev. Samuel Marks, Episcopal minister
at Huron, Ontario, has just preached !a ser
mon on his fifty-fifth anniversary of his or
dination to the ministry. He is 82 years of
age. lie was ordained In l'blladelpbla, by
Bishop White in 1824.
An Oil City boy, who had run away
from home, and at last returned, was asked
11 bis tatber killed tbe rattened call lor tbe
prodigal. "Not much," he replied. "He
didn't kill tbe fattened calf, but bo wanted
to slay me prodigal."
We read that the Strand Theatre. Lon
don, recently had the following droll se
quence oi plays on its bills: "i-.ngaged,
'Xrarrlcl ' "llnhv All van, natural on, I
if It bad only followed these up with "Di
vorce," the list would have been complete.
Some ofthe missionaries In South Afri
ca are engaged in an attempt to prove that
the Zulus are lineal descendants of the lost
tribes of Israeli It is said they "havo gen
erally marked Jewish features, and their
language is full of Hebrew idioms."
Emerson, on his 70th birthday, was on
ship board. Onel of his fellow-passenger
congratulated Mr. Emerson on his birthday,
health, and vigor. "Yes I yes I" said the
Concord sage, in his mot-t reflective tones,
"but I consider it the end of my youth.
The Protestant churches of Ireland
complain that they are constantly losing
their beet and brightest ministers. Presby
terian minesters go to Scotland and Amer
ica, and Episcopal ministers go to England,
receiving in both cases better appoint
ments, The first apple ofthe season, with a
hectic worm-flusu on Ita verdant cheek, in
sinuates itself into the confidence of thejuv
eniU, and plays with his ttomach as with a
band-bellows, and the fond mother anxious
to allay intestinal strife, administer caster
oil upon the troubled waters,