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UK IS A FREEMAN WHOM THE TRUTH MAKES FREE, AND ALL ARE SLATES BESIDE.
II. A. JtI'IIKE, Iubllilitr
VOLUME
EBENSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1868.
NUMBER 16.
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628 HOOP SKIRTS. 628
WM. T. HOPKINS' "0W5 MAKE"
or
"KEYSTONE SKIRTS"
are the beet and Cheapest Low Triced
Hoop Skirts in the market. Trail Skirts,
26 springs, $1.00; 80 springs, SI. 20 ; and
40 springs, $1-45. Plain Skirts, 6 tapes. 20
springs., SO Cents; 25 springs, 95 Cents;
30 springs, 1.15; aud S5 springs, $1.25.
Warranted in erery respect.
Our OWN Make" of "Union Skirts,"
Eleven Tape Trails, frpm 20 to 50 springs.
$1.20 to $2.50. Plain, Six Tapes, 20 to 60
springs, from 95 Cents to $2.00. These
JSkirU are better than these Bold by other
establishments as first class goods,, and at
much lower prices.
"Our OWN Make" of "Champion Skirts"
are in every way superior to all taher Hoop
SkirU befcre the publie, and only have to
be examined or worn to convince every one
f the fact. Manufactured of the best liuen
fiu'whed English Steel Springs, very superior
tapes, and the style of the rnetalia fasten
ings and manner of securing them surpass
for durability and excellence any other Skirt
in this country, and are lighter, more elastic,
will wear longer, give more satisfaction,
and are really cheaper'than all others. Every
lady thould try Uion. They are being sold
extensively by Merchants thryughout this
and the adjoining States at very moderate
prices. It you want the best, ask for
"Hopkins' Ckampion Skirt." If you do
not fiud them, get the merchant with whom
you deal to order thorn for you, or come or
end direct to u. Merchants will find our
different grades of Skirts exactly what they
need, and wo cepeclally invite them to call
and examine our extensive assortment, or
eead fdr Wholesale Price Liit.
To be had at Retail at Manufactory, and
cf the lietall Tradd generally, and at Whole
sale of the Manufacturer only, to whom all
rders nhonld be addressed. "
JJamifiKiery and ScJtrroooi, C28 Arch Street,
Between 5th aud 7th Stg.. PMlnd'a.
April 2, l8.-4ru. WM. T. HOPKINS.
H. A. Shoemaker if Co. are the only
4alrs in Ebtrnsbarg who keep tbece celv
brted Skirt for sale.
Gr
EIS & It E TJ T IT ,
JohbJtevru, Pa ,
BOOKSELLERS. STATIONERS
AID ISOOiX BIRDERS.
MANUFACTURERS OF BLANK ROOKS,
POKTE-MONAIS. PAPER BOXES
AND LOOKING GLASSES.
Locking Glass and Picture Fraiaes always
cd hand, and made to order. A large and
inokt complete assortment of Diawing Room
aad Miscellaneous Pictures, consisting of
Chromos, Paintings in Oil, Steel Plate En
gravings, Pkia and Colored Lithographs,
Oil Printe, rkotograph3 and Wood Cuts.
Tkis collection embraces a selection of large
eixed match pictures of Landnc-ape and Do
mehtic Scene and Portraits, and 5,000 dif
ferent varieties cf O.rd Photographs of protn
ineut men, comic and sentimental scenos and
cpi6 of subjects by celebrated artists. We
Lave al.o a varied assortment of BIBLES,
PRAYER. HYMN and SCHOOL ROOKS.
HISTORIES, BIOGliAFHIES, NOVELS.
As. Religious Prints and Emblems in great
variety, and the largest and most complete
stock of STATIONEUY ever brought to this
cointy. 500 new and beautiful stjles of
WALL PAPER, including an assortment of
rotter's celebrated English make, for which
we are sole agents in this locality. Theso
Wall Papers are handomer in design, supe
rior in finish, and 21 inehes wider than any
cr&rr make.
The citizens of EbenBburg and vicinity are
Tftjrectfully notified that we make BOOK
IlfNDING and the manufacture of BLANK
ROOES a speciality. A'.l work promptly
executed at moderate rates.
j-Store on corner of Clinton and Locuet
streets, immediately opposite Foster House.
Johnstown, Oct. 24, 1867.-tf.
QREAT BARGAINS!
J PjI pircher
MSBieiABIE CLQTSIEH .ft TilM
IS SELLING OFF HIS ENTIRE
STOCK OF CLOTHING
At Reduced Prices,
AND WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO
UNTIL MAY lat, 1808,
IN OIIDL'R TO MAKE ROOM FOR A
VERT LARGE ETCCK OF
SPRIPiQ AND SUMIjIER GOODS,
DON'T FORGET THE PLACE.
Montgomery Street, below Blair St.,
Next Door to Masonic Hall,
Mar. 12. Uollldaysburg, Ta
p;VEPiE THE MEMORY OF
FRIENDS DEPARTED !
MONUMENTS, TOMBSTONES, &c.
The subscriber still continues to manufacture
cf the Lest material and in the most
workmanlike manner, at the
Loretto Marble Works,
all kind of MONUMENTS AND TOMB
STONES, as well as TABLE and RUltEAU
TOPS, aad all other work in his line. None
but the best American and Italian Marble
used, and perfect satisfaction guaranteed to
all cases at prices as low as like work can
be obtained in the cities or elsewhere. Call
and see specimens and Judge for yourselves
as to tie merits cheapness cf my work.
JAMES WILKINSON.
Loretto, March 12, 18C8.1y.
I C II A R D ROWAN,
ALTOONA, PA.,
HOUSE AND SI8N PAINTER
Is prepared to make contracts for the paint
ing of Churches, Dwellings and other Cuild
lDe3 ia Oanibria and surrounding counties,
acd for the execution of all other work in his
line. Painting done at prices more moder
ate and in a btyle far superior to most of the
work executed La thhi swtlen. Satisfaction
SuaractSKl. ms.20.-tt.
rmHZ ALT00NA WARE HOUSE CO.,
WHOLESALE
Dealers and Conunission Merchants
Comer Virginia St. and Plank Road,
Will keep constantly on hand a large and
well selected assortment of FLOUIt, FEED,
SALT, FISH, GRAIN, COAL, LIME, SAND,
Ac, at Wholesale, in AltoonaCity, and
thekadjoiDing counties can be supplied with
the'leading articles generally used by them
at city and mill prices.
All kinds of country produce received and
paid for in cash, or sold on commission.
I'rempt returns will be made.
Storage furnished for all articles, such as
floor lumber, shooks, shingle, etc.
Articles will be delivered to purchasers
or Bent to freight warehouse.
Having the only house where good3 by
the car load can be removed at the door,
thug saving drayage, our customers will re
ceive the benefit of it.
Trice currents will be sent weekly to per
sons desiring them.
THE ALTOONA WAREHOUSE CO.
Altoona, April 80, 1863. -tf.
WM. 3t. LI.OYD,
President.
JOEN LLOYD,
Cashier.
IIKST NATIONAL BANK
OF-ALTOONA.
COVEUWMEXT AGCXC1
AKD
DESIGNATED DEPOSITORY OF THE
UNITED STATES.
Comer Virginia and Annie Streets, Nori7t
Ward, Altoona, Pa.
Authorized Capital, $200,000
Cash Capital paid in, - - - - 150,000
All business pertaining to Banking done
on favorable terms
Internal Revenue Stamps of all denomi
nations, always on hand.
To purchasers of Stamps, percentage, in
stamps, will be allowed, as follows :
$50 to $100, 2 per cent.; $100 to $200,
8 per cent.; $200 and upwards, 4 per
Jan. 31, 1807-tf.
LOID &. CO., Daakers
Gold. Silver. Government Lfians. unJ
Other Securities, bought and sold. Interest
allowed on Time Eeposits. Collections made
on all accessible points in the United States,
and a general Banking business transacted.
January 81, 1867.
. 91. LLOYD Si CO.,
Bankeks, Altoona. Ta.
Drafts on the principal cities and Silver
and Gold for sale. Collections made.
Moneys received on deposit, payable on de
mand, without interest, or wpon time, with
interest at fair rates. an31.
L . B R A L L I E R ,
with
GILBERT &, ROYAL,
Established 1S35,
Wholesale Druggists,
Xog. 309 and 311 7S, Third Street,
PHILADELPHIA.
JOIIX GILBEKT, . . THEODORE A. EOTAL,
Importers and Dealers in
Drug3, I Spices, I Oils, I Dye Stuffs
Medicines, Paints, Glass, &c, Scc.
April 2, 18G8.-3m.
WALL PAPERS.
PAPER. IIAKGiaTGS!
A BTOOK OF
WALL PAPERS-,
NEW AND ELEGANT STYLES
FOR PARLORS, HALLS, ETC.,
"WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,
HOWELL & HOURKES,
Comer cf Fourth and Market Streets,
April 2. 1868.-3m. PHILADELPHIA.
X. CUKSSWELL, JOHN A. RYCEIt,
H. T. BLACK, WM. D. GEMMILL.
31. 3IcSOXAL.D,
WITH
M. CRES3WELL 8l CO.,
Importers and Jobbers of
FANCY AND STAPLE DRY GOODS.
X. 911 Market Street,
Juno 20, 1807-ly. PHILADELPHIA.
A C. D I B ja R T ,
WITH
BORER & BROTHERS,
Manufacturers, and Wholesale Dealers in
CITY AND EASTEItN MADE
BOOTS AND SHOES,
SO. 43 MARIIET STREET,
Below Fiflh, South Side, - PH1LAD A.
WHOLESALE
GROCERS
SI
P . DAVIS;
wrm
BOYD El STROUD,
Importers and Dealers in
QUEENSWARE, CHINA and GLASS,
No. 32 North Fourth t
Four doors below Merchants' Hotel, PIIILA
A M E S H. D AY I S,
Dealer In all kinds or
POPLAR, CHERRY &ASH LUMBER,
Yard Nos. 314 and 216 N. Broad St.,
PHILADELPHIA.
fcS-Business attended to in Ebensburg by
Wm. J. Williams. fmyl6-ly
ETER SIDES,
WITH
IllCIOIAtf, 11UEX. & CO.,
WHOLESALE TOBACCO DEALERS.
3T. K. Cor. Third fc Market Stu ,
Jan. 22, 18G7. P H--LADELPI1IA.
TJ.RAFF, WATKIN & CO.,
Wholesale Dealers in
BOOTS AND SHOES,
No. 512 Market Street,
FLEil. UOLLIDAY. PIIILAD'A
WANTED AT THE CROSS ROADS.
I was in a hurry to reach home. No
wonder, for it was the wildest night I had
ever known in all my life, and the country
road over which I took my way as bad
and dark as country roads in general. I
consequently was walking at a great rate,
with the collar of my rough coat over my
ears, and a comforter tied over ray soft
hat and under my chin, to keep it on and
to protect my ears, when suddenly a man
stood full in my path and caught me by
the arm.
Hullo!" said he. "You're just in
time ; you are wanted at the cfoss-roada
to-uight !"
The voice was the voice of a ruffian.
I fancied myself attacked by a high
wayman. I stood quite still, and strove to show
him by my manner that I was able to pro
tect myself.
"What the deuce am I wanted at the
cross roads for V asked I. ''Unless I
choose it would be a hard matter to get
me there."
But instead of producing a pistol and
demanding my money or life, the man an
swered in an altered tone :
"Beg pardon ! I made a mistake. I
thought it was my brother, aud wanted to
frighten him. Bad night, sir!"
"Very !" said I.
"You don't know the time?" he asked.
"It was seven when I left the train at
L ," said I.
"Thank ye," said the man. "Good
night !"
If his object had been robbery, probably
lie had decided, from my rough appear
ance, that I was too poor a man to be
worth the trouble.
But alter all, thought I, probably he
spoke the truth. A man may have such
a voice without being a highwayman, no
doubt.
So I went on homeward, and soon found
myself under shelter and partaking of a
warm aud savory supper.
My mother was there and my brother
Bcu. lien was a great strapping fellow
who could beat any other boy of his age j
for miles around it it came to wrestling or j
boxing, and as good humored boy as ever
lived a boy always to mother and I,
though he had exercised his right to vote
already in one Presidential election.
When supper was over and we had
chatted tor an hour, we went up stairs to
gether. We fchared one room.
The mount tit Ben's head touched the
pillow he always went to sleep. That
night I followed his example.
But 1 did not sleep long without a dream
a dream in which 1 felt a rough grip
on my arm, and was roused by a cry in
my ear :
"Wake up ! You're wanted at the
cross roads ."
It was so real, so palpable, that when
I started broad awake I actually believed
that some one was in the room ; the man
who bad met me on the road perhaps, and
who intended robbery or violence. Hut
when I had arisen, and lit my lamp, the
room was empty, except myself and Ben,
who lay snoring on his pillow.
I went to the door ; it was locked, I
went to the window; the rush of rain
against the panes was all I heard. I even
went across the passage to my mother's
room. She was awake ; there had been
no unusual sound she was sure.
Only a dream born of my meeting the
strange man in the road, I felt had awa
kened me. I went to bed and fell asleep
again. Again I was awakened by the
same words ; this time shrieked in my ear
by an unearthly voice.
"Wake up, wake up. You are wanted
at the cross roads."
I was on my feet once more, and caught
Ben's hand as he came toward my bed.
"What ails you !" he cried.
"Nothing," said I. "Did you hear a
voice ?"
"Yours," paid Ben, "yelliug 'wake up ;
you fairly frightened me."
"lien," said I, "wait until I light the
lamp, I heard another voice. There must
be some one in the house or outside."
So I lit the lamp and we searched in vain.
"Nightmare," said Ben, when I told
him my 6tory.
"Ben," said I, "what is thove at the
cross roads ?"
"A houpe," said Ben. He had lived
in the neighborhood a long while, and I
not long.
"One little house, besides two oak trees
and a fence. An old man lives .there, a
rich man, and a bit of a miser, they eay.
Ilia grand-dau-rhter keeps house for him."
'Ben, that fellow may have meant
harm to them. I may be wanted at the
crors roads."
"Brother," said Ben, "go to sleep.
You had a nightmare," and Ben plunged
in between the blanket?, and was soon
snoring again.
I also in ten minutes slept as soundly
as before, but the awakening came again.
I opened my eyes to Ree a girl standing
at the foot of my bed a irl in white
robe?, with golden hair all about her
shoulders, who rang her hands and cried :
"Oh, wake up, you are wanted at the
cross roads."
This time I started out of bed, bathed
in a cold perspiration. I trembled like
a leaf. I bad no doubt that I had re
ceived supernatural warning.
"Ben." I cried, "Ben, for the third
time I have been told that I am wanted
tt the cross road?, and I am going." -
And I began to dress myself as speed
ily as possible, listening the while to the
torm raging madder and wilder than at
any other period since its commencement. L
Ben remoHStrated with me in vain.
At last he also began to huddle on his
clothes. "If you have gone mad I must
go with you and take care of you," he
said.
"But fancy another man going in a
storm like this to the cross roads because
a nightmare advised him to do so, and
what would think of him !"
I said nothing. All I could have an
swered would have been :
"I am compelled to go T must go. I
dare not refuse, whatever may be thought
of me,"
In ten minutes we were splashing thro
the mud and rain along the road. It was
perfectly dark ; now and then a blazing
red star in the distance told us that a lamp
was gleaming through the rain in some
cottage window, bi't otherwise we would
not have been conscious of our proximity
to any habitation whatever. At last
Hearing the spot where the road from
S crosses the road from P. , we
were indeed in as solitary a place as could
be imagined.
The house which abutted on th very
angle of the roads, called in familiar par
lance the Cross Roads, was the only one
for some distance in either direction, and
certainly on 6uch a night we were not
likely to meet many travelers.
All was silent as the grave. We stood
quite still. In a moment Ben broke out
in one of his wildest laughs.
"Well," he said, "how now? Will
you go home and have another night
mare ?"
But hardly had the words escaped his
lips when a shriek broke on the air, and a
woman's voice, plainly comiog from the
interior of the cottage, cried :
"Help! help! help!"
"Ben," said I, "we are wanted at the
cross roads," and then, understanding each
other, without moceeword3 we made our
way to a window, through which a light
shone, A muslin curtain, draped the
panes, but through it we saw an awful
bight.
An old man lay upon the floor, and
over him bent a rafliari, clutching his
throat, and holding a pistol to his ear,
while another man grnsned a shrieking
girl by the arm a girl in a flowing night
dress with such lng golden hair as be
longed to the woman of my vision.
Not a moment was to be wasted.
Ben flung his weight against the slender
lattice and crushed it in, and we had grap
pled the ruffians before they knew whence
the attack came, -or bw many foes were
upon them.
I do not intend to describe the struggle:
indeed I could not, if I would. But we
were strong men, and inspired by the cries
of tho helpless old man and the terrified
girl, we soon had one of tho villians
bound, and the other lying prostrate on
the flxr.
Then lien started for assistance, and
before morning both were in jail, Ben ad-
mitting, as we shook each other by the
hand that we were "wanted at the cross
roads."
The old man was not a miser, but he
had saved some few thousands for his old
age, and living more plainly than he need
have done, had given rise to the rumor,
and so brought the burglars to the cross
roads in the hope of booty.
The girl, a beautiful creature of seven
teen, was his grand-daughter, and as no
story is'acceptable to the Jady reader with
out a flavor of romance, I will tell them
that she became in after years, not my
wife, but the wife of my darling brother
Ben.
Killings on a Hoiteu. The Bible
sea "The grasshopper is a burden," and I
never knu the Bible tew say anything
that wasn't so.
When the grasshopper begin tew live
they are very small, but in a little while
there gets to be plenty of them.
They only liv one year at once, and
then go back and begin again.
Their best gait is a hop, and with the
wind on their quarters tbej can make sum
good time.
They are a sure krop to raise, but some
years they rnise more than others. I have
seen some fields bo full of them that you
couldn't stick another grasshopper in,
unless you sharpened him tew a pint.
When they git so very plenty they are
very apt to start, and then they becum a
traveling famine, and leave the road they
take as barren as the inbide of a country
church during a week day.
Grasshoppers don't seem to be actually
necessary for our happiness, but they may
be we don't even kno what we want
most.
I don't want grasshoppers to give en
tirely out, not if they are a blessing, but I
have thought, (to myself,) if they would
let grass and cornstalks bo and pitch into
the burdocks and Canady thistles, I'd jist
encourage the fight, and wouldn't care a
cuss if they both pot finally licked.
But my best judgment would be tew
bet on tho grasshoppers.
Among the ashes of the Erie Railroad
wreck was found a body, and on it an
accident insurance ticket for three thou
sand dollars, around which the fire had
burned every tbinj away, but leaving this
and thus identifying tho charred remains
tf tbo victim.
The Power of Truthfulness.
A TRUE STORT.
Once there was a good man whose
name was John Kant. He lived at Cra
cow, in Poland, where he taught and
preached. It was his rule to suffer wrong
rather than do wrong to others.
When he got to he quite old he was
seized with a wish to see once mora tho
home of his childhood, which was many
miles distant from where he now lived.
So he got ready, and, having prayed to
God, set out on his way. Dressed in a
black robe, with long gray hair and beard,
he rode slowly along.
The woods through which he had to
pass were thick and dark ; but there was
light in his soul, for good thoughts of God
and God's works kept him company, and
made the time seem short.
One night, as he was thus riding along,
he was all at once surrounded by men
some on horseback and some on foot.
Knives and swords flashed in the light of
the moon, and John Kant faw that ho
was at the mercy of a band of robbers.
He got down from his hotse and said
to the gang that he would give up to thenj
all that he had about him. He then gave
them a purse filled with silver coin, a
gold chain from his neck, a ring from his
finger, and from his pocket a book of
prayer with silver claeps.
"Have you given us all?" cried the
robber chief, in a stem voice ; "have you
any more money ?"
The old man, in his confusion, said he
had given them all the money he had ;
and when he said this, they let him go.
Glad to get off so well, he went on and
was soon out of sight. But !1 at once
the thought came to Lira that he had some
gold pieces stitched in the hem of hi3 robe.
Thesii he had quite forgotton when the
robbers had asked him if h3 had any more
money.
"This is lucky," thought John Kant,
for he saw that the money would bear
him to his friends, and that he would not
have to beg his way, or 6u3er for want
of food or shelter.
But John's conscience was a tender
one, and he stopped to listen to its voice.
It seemed to cry to him in earnest tones,
"Tell not a lie !" These words would not
let him rest.
Some men would say that such a prom
ise, made to thieves, need not be kept ;
and fow would have been troubled after
such an escape. But John did not stop
to reason.
He went back to the place where the
robbers stood, and walking up to them,
paid, meekly, "I have told you what is
not true. I did not mean to do so, but
fear confused me ; so parden me."
With these words he held forth the
gold pieces, but to his surprise not one of
the robbers would take them. A strange
feeling was at work in their hearts.
These men, bad as they were, could
not laugh at the pious old man. "Thou
shalt not steal !" said a voica within
them. All were deeply moved.
Then, as if touched with a common
feeling, one of the robbers brought and
gave back the old man's purse ; another,
his gold chain ; another, his ring ; another
his book of prayer ; and still anothor led
up his horse, and helped the old man to
remount.
Then all the robber?, ns if qdito
ashamed of having thought of harming so
good a man, went up and asked his bless
ing. John Kant gave it with a devout
feeling, and then rode on his way, thank
ing God for so strange an escape, and
wondering at the mixture of "ood and
evil in the human heart.
Fax About Butter. I sincerely wish
that the serpeiU that wuz so konspicuous
in the fall ov our fust parents wood try
sum ov hiz seducliv wiles on the present
hi price ov butter.
We went one week without it up to our
hous, but at larst giving wa to the chi
mera ov the children and the tearful en
treaties ov mi wife, I bought hafTa pound
and mortgaged mi house and lot.
Oh, 4 a kow.
Butter is very ekerce. Kows ar as
plenty as ever and giv j jst as mutch milk,
but the avaricious farm'iBt packs hiz but
ler up fur a big thing nex winter. Tha
'don't konsider that the world may come
to an end before that time aud thare but
ter spile on thare hands.
A farmer bro't a teakup full to market
yesterday and he kame near losin' his life
bi bein smuthered tu deth hi grocers hoo
crowded around and offered him fabulus
sums for it. I modestly olfered him mi
life and sakred honor for half an ounce,
and he askt me with a sarkastic grin if I
tho't biz butter wuz strong. That wuz a
pretty etrengthy sarkazaru. Ho finally
sold hiz butter tu a man for $18 in stamps
and a femai dorg. The cup waazent
thrown in.
Thare hez bin sum very ekaly butter in
cirkulation within the parst few weeks.
I got a roll sum times ago for an chTgold
watch that wuz left tu mi wife with the
etrick injunkehun that she shoodent part
with it unless it wuz tu git surnthun tu
eate. We koodent eat that butter. I
hired a powerful man to carry it far intu
the country and bury it. Cum tu find out
that roll uv butter bed bin made bi an eg
rikultural girl fur an old flam uv hers in
our plais. Tho hi flavor uv the butter
wuz eipreaRiv uv the strong luv she boM
him. She had also sent him a lock of her
hara yery skillfully wQrkt ur in the roll,
Discovery of a Wonderful Cave.
A new and wonderful cave has been
discovered in Armagh township, Mifflin
county. A correspondent of the Lewis
town Gaeetle, from Milroy, gives the
following description of it :
Ob the 2ith of April, while Charles
Nageny, of Milroy, was having a site dug
for a limekiln, he was surprised by find"
ing an opening in the sido of the hill" Tho
moment it came to view a strong stream
of air began oozing forth, like 'the pressing
of a pair of bellows ; the work was con
tinued until the aperture opened in size
large enough to allow the body to crawl
in, and then it was found to be a splendid
cave, with gorgeous subterranean gang
ways ; during the week the work progress
ed, and a formal entrance was made. Ou
Saturday, 2d of May, the citizens of Mil
roy and vicinity had the pleasure of a full
view. The attendance was composed of
about one hundred and fifty ladies and
gentlemen. Lights being at hand, hav ing
been furnished by Mr. Nageny, it made
the affair quite interesting. After first
entering, we found ourselves enclosed in a
narrow underground path, for the distance
of twelve feet ; here the gre:it cave enmo
to view : the gangway about f.ftoen feet
wide, with gigantic walls of rock, was a
direct line of about eixty feef, in the cen
tre of which we beheld the hnnging or
projecting rocks, in the shape of a mantel,
underneath which wero small, c ys alized
rocks, long and hollow, appearing like
ickles on a house in winter time. Here
we turned to the right, and had a full
sight of the "Platform llock," a natural
platform, about three feet above tho level
of the floor, and running together in the
centre ; above it wa3 a shelf or canopy,
which indeed presented a sublime sight.
Here, one hundred and seventy feet uuder
the ground, and in natural formed room
or gangways, with a splendid spring of
tresh water beneath your feet, who could
not realize that the hands of nature had
truly boon at work here. A eh rt distance
farther cn, we beheld the hanging lamp,
and then came the subterranean chamber,
situated below, where the rocks seemed
to be more marbleized, as they aro firmer,
whiter and more solidly settled.'
After returning,. we, with the assistance
of a ladder, provided by Mr. Nngcny,
were enabled to take a look np stairs.
Here was another chamber, with colossal
walls of rocks, which presented a sight
never to be. forgotten ; the distance tra
versea was aoout o'JU toet. lhe air
within is very warm, and the floor cr
ground seems as if cemented, and is firm
and solid. The diagram is in the sliapo
of an II written, and very weatly laid out.
The base of the springs are like small peb
bles laid aside of each other, with a bor
der composed of a larger size.
The cave is situate on the line of the
Mifflin and Centre County Railroad,
about three-fourths of a milo below Mil
roy, and i9 a grand and sublime sight a
relic of nature's handiwork that Milllin
county may some day be proud of. It
will be open for visitors, during the com
ing week, when all who may wish to ira
prove themselves in the study of nature's
works, may have an opportunity to visit it
Inside a Printing OClce.
The composing room of a printing of
fice is about as productive of various
questions and elicits as much curiosity
from visitors as any place of business we
know of.
The first thing a visitor does, is to step
up to a case whera fingers are ct work
and watch every motion with perfect
steadfastness ; looks mysterious, and
questions follow about like this :
"How do you know where to find the
letters? Are they arranged in order?
How do you know when they are right
sid up ? What is the reason that there
is more type in some boxes than the
others? 1 should think you would make
mistakes ; you ought to hara the boxes
marked ? Don't you get the wrong let
ters some times ?"
Looking around he ppics in a corner a
lot of "something" that calls forth :
"What are these ?"
Compositor "Quads."
Visitor "What's Quads ?"
Compositor explains.
Next finds the forms which another
person is distributing.
Visitor "Tearing 'em down, eh?"
Compositor "Yes."
Visitor 'Can you do that faster than
you an set? What rrmkes you wet the
ty e ? (Looking at the form ) Why, it's
all up eide down ; is that the way it al
ways is? You can't read it, can you ?"
Next goes around the press and finds
the roller, puts his fingers on it, and gets
them dyed a shade or two duiker than
their original color.
"What's this roller maJa of India
rubber ?"
Compositor "No, of glue and "Eaolass
BCS."
Visitor "Of mola-ses 1 I'd think it
woi I J melt."
Compositor 'Twill, when it gets
warm enough."
His ext fall is upon tho paper, wet
down, ready for press.
Visiter "Why, this paper 13 all wef,
do j ou have to do that ?"
Compositor "Ye3."
Visitor "What for?"
Compositor explains and wishc3 lie
tyould dry up.
He looks around and finds a form of
advertisements laid aside. He runs his
finger over a column and knocks a wbole
square of it into confusion.
Compositor crose, 'and says "You've
knocked that into pi."
v isitor whistles, and goes or.t when
compositor ain't looking.
A Husband's Tribute of Affection
Mr. E. Cowan, tho editor of the TVar-
ren Mail, in the last number of his jour
nal publishes an obituary of his deceased
wife, written by Limself, which is so
beautifully worded that we republish the
following extract from it. After alluding
to her worth, her virtues, and her en-Iurs
ance during her long illness of consumption,
the bereaved husband writes : "Dear
reader, we are fully conscious that we
have obtruded our private afHiirs on tho
public too long already. But wo do rot
trouble you often with matters personal
and 3'ou are our only confidante now.
There aro timc3 when the heart finds re
lief only in words or tc-ars.. Far nearly
two and a half years disease sat in our
household by day and by night and threw
its dark shadow on the wall. Ilona and
fear gladness and gloom have alter
nately flashed their shadows across our
way. Many others, and you, perhaps,
have had a similar exrcridicc; but tho
discipline is new to u?, and this week we
can think or write of little else. Wo
have borne it, ani ehall bear it, with as
cheerful a philosophy, as resigned a faith,
and a strength fs manly as we may ; but
God only kmws how deep is the shadow
of t'.iis w'jtt after tlte funeral. Tho
children of Le; love and her care have
g n motherless to bed. Tho kind neigh
bors nnd friends have come and gona with
noiseless tread and many tears. The man
of God has oflvrod the solemn prayer and
the singers have fang the solemn hyran. -The
bearers have bcrne away the shadowy
form of her whoso health and lifo and
gentle goodness still linger only in mem
ory and the picture on the wall. Tho
house never seemed bo oppressively fctill,
and the clock never had so loud a tick.
The playful cat, even, does not pur on tha
rug to-night, but dodges in aud runs out
with a startled, pitiful look. The work
basket, with its half liniahed articles laid
f.side scarce four days ago, seem? only
waiting for the once bu?y fingers, now.
alas ! folded uuder tha pines in peaceful
rest. Traveling back over the bridge of
year?, wo recall the gathering of many of
the same friends in the old homestead just
eighteen yesis ago last week. Not tho
cross of flowers and the sad eyed mourn
ers were there, but the bridal wreath and
the voice of miiih foreshadowed a futuro
bright and beautiful. Siufo then; how
many of that 'nierrie companio have pass
ed 'over the river cr known the darkness
of to-night ! Thus has it ever been
thus will it evr be, till we pas3 to that
belter land where there is no night after
the funeral, and no river runs batvcen
tho living and the dead !"
The Niggku axi the IIunroost. A
friend who accompanied me had heard of
a bargain in real estato on the hilltop above
Jackson City, and we went up to look at
it. It certainly was a cheap property, on
Arlington Ilcigh's, and or. a mile from
Washington..
We asked the tenant if the negroes of
the neigboring village troubled him. "Tho
sight of 'em troubles me," said this Last
Family. "Dogon 'em , I do hate a freo
nigger ! As to stealing, if that's what you
mean, they steal nothing but the chick
ens." "Then they do take poultry ?'
"It's my belief," said the solitarj' ten
ant, "that there'll have to bo chickings in
a future state for tho nigger. Heaven
will be no heaven to him without hen
coops. 'Pears to me the chickens know
him. They never cackle where a tiigger
comes. They roost low on his night. It's
a nigh to lh"i3 pint, gentlemen, that in tho
Stato of Virginia nobody but a niggercaa
afford to eat chicking? in five years. Tho
animal will be his specialty and monopoly.
Chicking will ba to a wLite family what
pork is to a Jew."
"But why -do tho negroes confine their
depredations to poultry ?"
"The nigger aint got enterprise to steal
any tiling bigger," ho said, "he'd no mcro
steal a cow than he'd steal tha Capitol
yonder. He's fond of stews. Tho chick"
ing jist fits into hi gipsey pet. Tha
grease cf it i!cs Lis jint?. He loves it be
cause he stota it. He eats it oat of puro
affection. He cooks it at nighttime, und
biles it with the feathers on. He hopea
the feathers will evaporate with the bil
ing ; but if they don't he goes the whole
fowl, quills and all. Gentlerr.en, if there's
any sincere happiness in this world, it's a
nigger
sly I"-
eating a biled chicking on tha
Cor. Cincinnati Commercial.
A LEAiiNFD ruovEssoit in a New Eng
land college was accustomed to demand!
of students an excuse whenever they wero
dilatory at recitation. The excuse given,
he invariably added : Very well ; but
don't let it happen again." One morning
a married student happening to be behind
time, was promptly interrogated as to tho
couse. Slightly embarrassed, he replied:
"The truth i?, sir, I had r.n addition to
j my family this morning, and it was not
convenient to be here sooner. "ery
well," replied the professor, in his quick,
nervous manner, "very well ; but dont let
it i-rnncn ajain f" The Benthamite !