T A PEACEFUL VILLAGE. SELECTIONS FROM THE WRITINGS OF ARTEMU3 WARD. th HnmorUt Found 1m Riot anil Tnr mnll Than In w Vork City, bat More of Hrt,ltcpoe and Contentment Hum ble Failures and Rurre. Cnprrluhtod and pnlllhvl by pcliil arranire- ment with U. . viiiingnain, r-w 10m, puu lisher.1 AFFAIRS A110C.ND TH8 VILLAOE GREEN. T ISN'T every one who has a viLago green to write atxmt. I have one, although I have not Been much of it for some U years past. I am back again now. In the language of the duke who went aronnd with a motto abont him, "I am here!" and I fancy I am abont as happy a peasant of the vale as ever garnished a inelo-drama, al though I have not as yet danced on my village green, as the melo-drainatic peasant umitdly does on his. It was the case when Iiosina Meadows left homo. Tho time rolls by serenely now no se renely that I don't care what time it is, which is fortunate, because my watch is at present in the hands of those "men of New York who are called riotors." We met by chance, tho uwual way certainly not by appointment and I brought the interview to a close with all possibles des patch. Assuring them that I -wasn't Mr. Greeley, particularly, and that he hail never boarded in the private family where I enjoyed the comforts of a home, I tendered them my watch, and begged they would distribute it judiciously among the laboring classes, as I had seen the rioters styled in certain public prints. Why should I loiter feverishly in Broadway, stabbing the hissing hot air with the splendid goldheaded cane that was presented to me by the citizens of Waukegan, Illinois, as a slight testimo nial of their esteem? Why broil in my rooms? Yon said to mo, Mrs. Gloverson, when I took possession of those rooms, that no matter how warm it might be, a breeze had a way of blowing into them, and that they were, withal, quite conn tryfled; bnt I am bound to say, Mrs. Gloverson, that there was nothing abont hem that ever reminded me, in the re notest degree, of daisies or new-mown .lay. Thus, with Bar casta, do I smash the deceptive Gloverson. Why stay in New York when I had a village green? I gave it up, the same as I would an intricate conundrum and, in short, I am here. DoI miss the glare and crash of the imperial thoroughfare? the milkman, the fiery, untamed omnibus horses, the soda fountains, Central Park, and those things? Yes, I do; and I can go on miss ing 'em for quite a spell, and enjoy it. The village from which I write to you is small. It does not contain over forty houses, all told; but they are milk white, with the greenest of blinds, and for the most part are shaded with beauti ful elms and willows. To the right of us is a mountain to the left a lake. The village nestles between. Of coarse it does. I never read a novel in my life in which the village didn't nestle. Vil lages invariably nestle. It is a kind of way they have. We are away from the cars. The iron horse, as my little sister aptly remarks in her composition On Nature, is never heard to shriek in our midst; and on the whole I am glad of it The villagers are kindly people. They are rather incoherent on the subject of the war, but not more so, perhaps, than are people elsewhere. One citizen, who used to sustain a good character, snb ' scribed for The Weekly New York Her ald a few months since, and went to studying the military map in that well known journal for the fireside. I need not inform yon that his intellect now totters, and he has mortgaged his farm. In a literary point of view we are blood thirsty. A pamphlet edition of the life of a cheerful being, who slaughtered Ids wife and child, and then finished him self, is having an extensive sale just now. The store I must not forget the store. It is an object of great interest to me. I usually encounter there on sunny after noons, an old Revolutionary soldier. You may possibly have read about "Another Revolutionary Soldier gone," bnt this is one who hasn't gone, and, moreover, one who doesn't manifest the ulightest inten tion of going. He distinctly remembers Wasbingtou, of course; they all do; but what I Winn to call speci-'J attention to is the fact that this Revolutionary sol dier is one hundred years old, that his eyes are so good that he can read fine print without spectacles he never used them, by the way and his mind is per fectly clear. Ho is a littlo shaky in one of his legs, but otherwise he is as active as most men of forty-five, and his gener al health is excellent. He uses no to bacco, but for the last twonty years he has drunk one gloss of liquor every day no more, no less. He says he must have his tod. I had begun to have lurk ng sunpicioiis" uboul this Revolutionary .olilier business, but here is an original Jacobs. But becanse a man can drink a 'flam of liqnor a day and live to be a hundred years old, my young readers must not infer that by drinking two glasses of liquor a day a man can live to i be two hundred. "Which, I mennter say, it doesn't f oiler," as Joseph Gargory miRlit observe. This store, in which may constantly bo found calico and nails and fish and tobacco in kegs and snuff in bln.lders, is n venerable establishment. A i long ago as 1814 it was an institution. Tho country troops on their way to the de fense of Portland, then menaced by British ships-of-war, were drawn tip in front of this very storo and treated at tho town's expense. Citizens will tell you how tho clergyman refused to pray for the troops becanse ho considered the war an unholy one; and how a somewhat eccentric person of dissolute habits vol unteered his servicos, stating that ho once had an undo who was a deacon and ho thought ho could make a toler able prayer, although it was rather out of bis line; and how ho prayed so long and absurdly that tho colonel ordered him under arrest, but that even whilo soldiers stood over him with gleaming bayonets the reckless being sang a preposterous song about his grandmother's spotted calf, with its Ri-fol-lol-tiddory'-l-do; after which he howled dismally. And spoaL-ing of the store reminds mo of a little story. The author of "several successful comedies" has been among us, and the store was anxious to know who the stranger was. And therefore the storo asked him. "What do you follow, sir?" respect fully inquired the tradesman. "I occasionally write for tho Btago, sir." "Oh!" returned the tradesman in a confused manner. "He means," said an honest villager, with a desire to help tho puzzled trades man out, "he means that he writes the handbills for the stage drivers!" I believe that story is new, although perhaps it is not of an uproariously mirthful character; but one hears sto ries at tho store that oro old enough, goodness knows stories which, no doubt, diverted Methuselah in tho sunny days of his giddy and thoughtless boyhood. Sometimes I go a-visiting to a farm house, on which occasion the parlor is opened. Tho windows have been close shut ever since tho last visitor was there, and there is a dingy smell that I strug gle as calmly as possible with, until I am led to tho banquet of steaming hot biscuit and custard pie. If they would only let me sit in the dear old fashioned kitchen or on the door stone if they knew how dismally tho new black fur niture looked; but never mind, I am not a reformer. No, I should rather think not. Gloomy enough, this living on a farm, you perhaps say, in which case you are wrong. I can't exactly say that I pant to be an agriculturist, but I do know that iu tho main it is an independent, calmly happy sort of life. I can see how tho prosperous farmer can go joyously a-field with the rise of the sun, and how his heart may swell with pride over bounteous harvests and sleek oxen. And it must be rather jolly for him on winter evenings to sit before the bright kitchen fire an 1 watch his rosy boys and girls as they study out the charades in the weekly paper, and gradually find out why my first is something that grows in a garden, and my second is a fish. On the green hillside over yonder there is a quivering of snowy drapery, and bright hair is flashing in the morning sunlight. It is recess, and the Seminary girlB are running in the tall grass. Looking at these girls reminds me that I, too, was once young and where are the friends of my youth? I have found one of 'em, certainly. I saw him ride in the circus the other day on a bareback horse, and even now his name stares at me from yonder board fence in green and blue und red and yellow letters. Dashington, the youth with whom I used to read tho able orations of Cicero, and who, us a disclaimer on exhibition days, used to wipe the rest of us boys pretty handsomely out well, Dashing ton is identified with the halibut and cod interest drives a fiaU cart in fact from a certain town on the coast back into the interior. Hubertson, tho utterly stupid boy the lunkhead who never had his leaeon he's about the ablest lawyer a sister state can boast. Mills is a news paper man, and is just now editing a Major General down South. Singlinson, the sweet-voiced boy, whose face was always washed and who was real good, and who was never rude lie is in the penitentiary for putting his uncle's autograph to a financial docu ment. Hawkins, the clergyman's son, is an actor, and Williamson, the good little boy who divided his bread and butter with the beggar-man, is a failing merchant and makes money by it. Tom Slmk, who used to smoke short-sixes and get acquainted with the little circus boys, is popularly supposed to be the proprietor of a cheap gambling estab lishment in Boston, where the uncertain prop is nightly tossed. Be sure, the Army is represented by many of the friends of my youth, the most of whom have given a good account of them selves. But Chalmerson hasn't done Chalmerson is rather of a failure. Ho plays on the guitar and sings love songs. Not that he is a bad man. A kinder hearted creatnro never lived, and they say he hasn't yet got ower crying for his little curly haired sister who died ever so long ago. But he knows nothing about business, politics, the world, and those things. He is dull at trade, in deed, it is a common remark that "every body cheats Chalmerson." He came to the party the other evening, and brought bis guitar. They wouldn't have him for a tenor in the opera, certainly, for he is shaky in his upper notes; but if his sim ple melodies didn't gush Btraight from the heart, why wore my trained eyes wet? And although some of the girls giggled, and some of the men seemed to pity him, I could not help fancying that poor Chalmerson was nearer heaven than any of us all! A Beggar Journal has been started in Paris and meets with success. The cost of a number is two cents, and it con. tains articles on the best methods of pur suing the business and advert-sements of use to those soliciting charity. The People's - DANVILX.K, PEN A., Are now offcrinc creat inducements to the CITI2JENS of I1L.0092SI1URG ami -April they agree to pay the fares ior the round trip via the Delaware, Lackawanna it Western and the Philadelphia & Reading Railroads on all Cash purchases amounting to Ten Dollars ($10.00) or over. This will enable the people of Bloomsburg and surrounding towns a good chance to visit the largest and finest store room in the Susquehanna Valley ami at the same time the largest stock of Dry Goods, Dress Goods, Bilks. Velvets. Plushes, Domestics, Prints, Ginghams, Notions, Hosiery, Underwear, Coats, Capes, Carpets, Roots and Shoes, Hardware, Crockery, Groceries and Provisions. From which to make your selections. We guarantee that you will be well repaid by a visit to our mammoth establish ment. Ruy your round trip ticket and on presentation of return coupon and purchase of goods amounting to Ten Dollars the price of the ticket will be refunded D. L. & W. R. R. Trains ldave Rloomsburg " " Rupert " " Catawissa Arriving at Danville Returning leave Danville Phila. & Trains leave Rloomsburg " " Catawissa' " Rupert Arriving at Danville Returning leave Danville RESPECTFULLY, THE PEOPLES STORE" W. C FRICK CO. Cor. Mill & Centre Sts. DANVILLE PENNA. ALEXANDER BROTHERS & CO. DEALERS IN Cigars, Tobacco. Candies, Fruits and Nuts SOLE AGENTS FOR Henry Maillard's Fine Candies. Fresh Every Week. PENNY1 000X33 SFZCXJLTrir, SOLE AGENTS FOR F. F. Adams & Co's Fine Cut Chewing Tobacco Sole agents for the following brunds of Cigars: Henry Clay, Londros, Normal, Indian Princess, Samson, Silver Asb Bloomsburg, Pa. IF YOU ARE IN ' NEED OF CARPET, JHATTING, or OIL CLOTH, YOU WILL FIND A NICE LINE AT W. H. BMOWEM'S 2nd Door above Court House. A new lot of Window Curtains received this week. CLOSING OUT GOLD PENS AND PEN CILS AT COST, at JV O-. WELLS.5 Bring Your Watch, work to J. EYES FITTED FOR GLASSES FREE OF CHARGE AT J. G. WELLS, COLUMBIAN 3UILDING. CnicHESTtR'a Bnqush, THE OliaiNiL AND aVNIIINV Ladle Mk DriiMtal tor MaiWl puu mled vlib Mil. ribbon. Tali All plIL lu uuiabotrd boxMtpiuk i iiiwVr pmwvui-., i-i More, OF - vicinity. During the month of A. M. P. M. P. M. 8.151 12.18 4.15 8.37 12.23 4.22 8.42 12.28 4.28 8.57 12.42 4.40 10.33 2.11 G.05 Rdg. R. R. A. M P. M. 8.10 3.K5 8.10 3.20 8.17 3.28 8.31 3.43 11.0'J G.03 Clock, and Jewelry B. WELLS. Red Cross Diamond Brand -. ttu A. .-J 7. - LI-Ol II ..I. JftwMiJk iHomund Brand iu Krd mil Hold aunaUla no alker kind. Htvu .(..iul..n and JmMHtnl. wr.trara.udunmruuaoanlrrrlt&i AtlruggUu,r lend ai iiiim.k, win iwiiii iur w WHfi ay pctnni MMb will "Holier for l1lra," MM, by relara Mai 4 V CLOTHING ! CLOTHING 10 Per Cent M Auction. WE ARE SELLING OUR STOCK OF Winter and Spring Clothing, ALSO Gents Furnishing Goods, at a re duction of 10 per cent. Call at once and secure bargains. Our stock is new and all of the Latest Patterns. You can Save from $2.00 to 55.00 on every suit you buy. This is POSITIVELY the best chance of BUYING CLOTHING ever offered in Bloomsburg. We have also a fine lot of cloths from which we can make Suits to Order. WE GUARANTEE SATISFACTION in our make of clothing both as to quality and style. Come while this reduction lasts. Bloomsburg, Pa. PIANOS, ORGANS ife SEWING MACHINES. J. SALTZER'S nm mime 1 tim mm mmm. With many years experience in buying and selling musical instruments and sewing machines I can guarantee to my customers the best in the markets Pianos and Organs purchased of me can be relied upon. If anything get out of order, it can easily be corrected, and a great deal of annoyance saved. Instructions given to all purchasers of Sewing Machines, how to operate them successfully. The STECK PIANO is the best made. Its tone is surpassed by none. You make no mistake if you buy a Steck. We hare also the ESTEY and the STARR j PIANOS, And The ESTEY, MILLER and UNITED STATES ORGANS. We sell Pianos from $250 to $600, and Organs from $75to $175. In Sewing Machines we JSL.iL We sell the best Sewing Mach ine made for $19.50. jr. Saltzer, Blaamsbmrg,j Fa 0. B. KOBBHfS DEALER IN Foreign and Domestic WINES AND LIQUORS. Bloomsburg, Pa. EVANS & EYEB 9 CORNER MAIN AND IRON STREETS. 111 can give you the Celebrated "WHITE" The best Machine in the world. The NEW DOMESTIC, The ROYAL ST. JOHN, The STANDARD ROTARY And the NEW HOME.
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