II. a. ai'PJKE, Editor and Iubll liter. 1 A VR BBSS AX WHOM IHJS TRDTH MAKES FRKE, ABO ALL ARB tLATBI BEIIDK, Terms, t f car Ad ranee. VOLUME 3. EBENSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1869. NUMBER 12. ! Ayer's air Vigor, For restoring Gray Hair lo its natural Vitality and Color. A dressing which is at one agreeable, healthy, and effectual for preserving the Lair. Faded or gray hair it toon restored to tit original color with tht glott and freshnest of youth. Thin Lair is thick- tried, falling hair checked, and bald nesi often, though not always, cured by iti use. Nothing can restora tha hair where tha follicles are destroyed, or tha gland atrophied and decayed. Bat such as remain can ba saved for usefulness by this application. Instead of fouling the hair with a pasty sedi mect, it will keep it clean and vigorous. Its occasional use will prevent the hair from turning gray or falling off, and consequently prevent baldness. Frea from those deleterious substances which sake some preparations dangerous and iajiixious to the Lair, the Vigor can oaly benefit but not harm it. If wanted merely for a HAIR DRESSING, nothing else can ba found so desirable. Containing neither oil nor dye, it does not soil whito cambric, and yet lasts loug on the ltair, giving it a rich glossy lustre and a grateful perfume. Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., P&actigax ad Analytical Chxkut, LOWELL, MASS. PBICB $1.00. Tor sale by R. J. LLu L. A-tsn, Ebersbu'g Ayer's Cathartic Pills, pwpoaee of a Xavxative Perhaps no one medi etas i. so universally ro qairi by everybody as a cathartic, nor u ever an j before to universal ly adopted Into ue. la Very country Jui-i uuoof all duses, aa Una mUa but afflcieut purgative I' iil. Tha obvious re son is, that it U a more ra liable and far mora aSeo taal remedy Una any other. Those who have triad it, know that it cored them : those n b.) have t.l, koow that it curea their neighbors and fi-iondrf, uJ all know that what it does ouce it doe always tout it aerer fails through any fault or neglectof romposiliC We have tbouaanda upun thou u'1j of rei-tlttr-ate of their remarkable curea of the following complfunU, but such cures are Uuwu in avury neighborhood, and W3 need not publiih them. iiiWd to all ajres and conditions in all climates; coQtuniDr neither ealomol or any deleterious drur, tWr may be taken with safety by anybody. Tliej 'u.r roaunjf preaerres them ever fih and tuples Uuai plaasaut to take, while being purely vegetable uo taarn can ansa from their ue In any quantity. Thar operate by their powerful influent on the leUrnil viacera to purify the blood and stimulnto it lato healthy action re in or a the obstructions of the atoinacb, bowels, -liror, and other org-xna of Uie body, ra.toriojc their irrejmlar action to healtl), aud by correr.uug, wherever they exist, auch deranxe uienu aa are tlie Crtt origin of diaeaae. Minute directions are given In the wrapper en Hie box, for the following- complaints, which Uxaae J'UIs rapidly cure : For nrapopals or IsicllsrMtloa, at.lleaa aau. JLaaraer and aViaaa of apptl(, they saouid ba taken moderately to stimulate tiiu stota ach and restore its healthy tone and action. 'or tArtir Coaplaiat and Us various symp toms, Blllna S(eadcsia, Mick Uciatiacti, JltBBjialic'ti or (arrra Micbacss, JKilloua Colic and SJi liana STarwra, they should be ju diciously taken for each case, to correct the diseased action or remove the obstructions which cause it. For Dr.saicry or Diiarrbaeam, but one mild dose is freneraliy required. For Ilh.DmatUm, (Isot, Gravel, Pialnl. atla of tltn Heart, Bjla la tha Hiaa, Slatck and X.olm, thay should be continuously taaen, aa required, to chansre the diseased action of Uie aystora. With such ckang-9 those couiplainta dikappenr. For Orupar and DropalcsU Swrlliaw they should be taken in Urge and frequent doses to pro duce the effort of a drastic purge. For suppraHisa a larjre dose should be takea as it produces the di-aireit effect by aymnathv. As a liinnrr Fill, tako one or two fill to pro niote digestion and relieve the stomach. A a occasional dose stimulate the stomach and bowels into healthy action, restore the appetite, and invurorates the system. Hence It is often ad vantageous where no serious derangement exinta. One who fool, toleralilv well, often finds that a dose of these fUl makes htm feel decidedlv better, from their cleansing and renovating effect on the diges tive apparatus. , JDS. J. C.A.TMS. at CO., JPratUml CkeuUfU, IO WXJLL. trjLMB., XJ. AT. U. And Rrisc J. Llotd. EstbbtEa ROHRER'S WILD CHERRY TONIC BITTERS ARE THE BEST IN USE! III fflllU'S TOSIC BITTERS, The very best in the Market R. E. SELLERS & CO., j o. 45 Wood St.. opposite St. Charles Hotel I Alao, Entrance tfos. ICS k 104 Third St., I PITTSBURGH, PA.. j tTWhoW. AgenU for the WeaC I . ZTx by A- BARKER for Ebensburg d riciDltJ rie.ilCS-ly. j JOOK HEIIE! LOOK IlkRE!! A VALUABLE FARM FOR SALE. heTeU fCr'.b,r VU Bel1 lLe Frn " h Thl v J ' AI 8,,'T twP-. Cambria county, the tin lm8 145 Acrea (fl0 eed) and rXZY "n'Pl in good order. r.4.1fGJ,tf. LorettoP. O. JI1J Tor all f-ia) d!aias. "BTkENTISTKV. Tha uadersrgued, a JLF graduate of the Balti more Coilege of Dental Sur ; zty, i-epect-i full offer hi' j raorxsiofai. services to the ! citizens of Et- ! ensburg and vicinity, which place he will visit on the rouBTH Moxbat of each month, to ra- main on week. j Aug 13. SAM'L BELFORD. D. D. 8. DR. H. B. MILLER, i AIloouu, Pa., Operative and Mechanical DENTIST. Office on Carol atreet. between Virginia j and Emma fdreeta. rVraon from Cambria j county or eUewhere who pet work done by me j to the amount of Ten Dollars and upward-, will j hare the railroad fare deducted lrom their bills. All wok wabsantkr. Jan. 21, lci69.-tf. TTi: D W. ZI EG LEU, Surgeon Den- Hit, will risiit hiienb(irg p.o- f . 11 . I. L. . If dat of each month, and remitiiif5Si;ir( one week, during which time he may be founJ at the Mountaiu lloue. frfTeeih extracted without p tin by the nse ol IN i '-rate Oxide, or Laughing Gas. TASIES J. OATMAN, 31. D., tender Lit profersioua.1 services aa Phy iulan and riurgeon to the citizen of Carroll tewn aud ricinity. QfTioe iu rear of buiM ing occupied hv J. Buck t Co. as a store. Night call can be made at hi re.-.iftence, one ? dMir toutu of A. Haug'a -tin ami hardware i store. May 9, 18C7. DEYEREAUX. 31. D., Put- Office eaat end of Uansiou Htune, on Rail Hoarl trect. Night call id ay be made at the office. fmj23.tf J. LLOYD, successor to It. S. CcsM. Dealer in Drugs, Midicincs, Paintt, ice. Store on Main tret, o(pOkite the "Manaion Llcuse," 1"1 eusburg, Pa. October 17. IK67.-6n.. FKANK W. HAY, f HOLES ALE and RETAI L Manufacturer, of TIN. COl'PKll and SHEKT-IIJON WARE. CaiuU street, below Clinton, Johns tow it, Fa. A large stock conatatitiy band. D. M'LAUGIIMN, iTTORNEY AT LAW, Johnstown, Pat. Office in the Exchange buihliug, on the ortierof Clinton and Locust street up stairs. Will attend to all buaiaess connect ed with his profession. Jau. 81. 1867,-tf. "j5 LOIO L. CO., BitnkerN, M.J KBKN8BURQ, Ta Gold, Filver, Government Loan, and other Securities, bxjught and n 11. Interest allowed on Time i-epfits. O'llectlona made in all accescihle p.t.intH in the United States, and a general Banking burin transacted. 91. LLOYD & CO., Ran k .kri. Altooha. Pa. Drafts on the priucipal citiett and Silver and Gobi for sale. Collections made. Moueys received m deposit, payable on de mand, without interest, or upon time, with interest at fair rates. an31. B.I. JOHNiiTOM. i I. KANUM. JOHNSTON EC AN LAN, Attorneys at Law, EbeuHburi;, Cambria co , Pa. Office opposite the Court House. Ebensburg. Jan. 81. I6t7.-tf. JOHN T. LINTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Johnstown. Pa. Office in buildiug on corner of Main and Franklin street, opposite Mansion lloune, second floor. Entrance on Franklin street. Johnstown. Jan. 81. 18C7. tf. LTiTMirrELL" ATTORNEY AT LAW, Ebensburg. ra. Office in Colonade Row, Centre ittreet. Jau. 81. l8G7.-tf. CL. PERSUING, Attokn ey-at- Law, Johnstown, Pa. Office on Frank lin street, upstairs, over John Bentou'e Hardware Store. Jan'. I, 1807. WMH. SECIILEU, Attokn kt-at-Law, Elietiuburff. Pa. OfBce in rooms recently occupied by Geo. M. Iieade. Esq . in Colonade Row, Centre etreet. aug.2. EO. M. KKADE. Attornrg-vt-Law, Eltenshur, Pa. Office in new building recently erected oh Centre atreet, two doors from High Mice t. aug.27. 7V3IES C. EASLY, Aitoeney- jf at-Law, Carrolltovn, Cambria Co., Pa. Collections and all legal buuint-FS promptly attended to. Jan 81. 1867. A. KOrSXIN, - - - - T. W. DICK, Johnstown. Ebenburg. KOPELIN & DICK, Attorneys at Law. Ebenaburg, Pa. Office with Wm. Kittell, q., Colonade Row. f oct.22.-tf. F. 1. TIEIiNEY, iTTORNXY AT LAW, Ebensbitrg, Pa. Office in Colonade Row. Jan. 6. 1867tf. JOSEPH M'DONALD, ITTORNEX" AT LAW, Ebensburg, Pa. A Office on Centre street, opposite Linton's Hotel. Jan. 81, 1867-tf. JOHN FENLON, T ATTORNEY AT LAW, Ebensburg Pa Office on High street, adjoining his resi dence. Jan 81. 1867.-tf. HKINKEAD, Justice of the Peace and Claim Agent. Office removed to the office formerly occupied by II. Hasson. Etq dee'd, on High St.. Ebensburg. jl8. IT S. STRAYEIt, Justice of the Puck, johnstown. Pa. Office on the I corner of Market street and Locimt alley, Second Ward dec.12.-ly 10.000 PRIME CIGARS just re ceived at M. L. Oatman's, one oor east of "Freeman" office. Also, a large stock of tbs best brands of Chewing Tobacco. ia a wBOietai prrcea. WnC!f TOG TIDC COES OUT. Through the weary day on bit couch he lay. With the life blood ebbing slowly away, And the dew on his cold brow gathering fast, As the endulum- numbered moments passed. And I beard a sad voice whimpering say, "When the tide goes out he will patss away. Pray for a souls serene release 1 That the weary spirit may rent in peace. When the tide goes out. " When the tide goes out from the sea girt lauds. It bears strange freight from the gleaming eauda ; The whits winged ships that tilent wait For the foaming wave, and a wind that's late ; I be treasures cast on a rocky shore. From the btrauded eh;ps that shall sail no more ; And hopes that follow he rhining seas. Oh ! the ocean phull win all these When the tide goes out. But a!I that drift from the shore to the sea, the human soul to Eternity ; Floating away from a silent shore, Like a (a ted ship to return no more, Sacideat. nv-st solemn of all, a soul, P u:ng where unknown waters roll. Where elifll the singing currents tend. Slowly drilling fricud lrom friend, When U-e tide goes out 7 For our parting spirit pray, oh I pray. While the tide Ot life is ebbing wty. That the soul m.ty piss o'er t-ui.nier seas Than clasped of old the Llesperidea. A b.irk whoe sail by angel hands Shall b furled on a t-tr-.n J of go! Jen s tuds ; And the fiieuds that stand on a silent shore. Knowing that we nhall return uo more, Shall wish us joy of a voyage fair. With calm pweet skies and a favoring air. When the tide goej out. ales, jfidtjfs, gmcboks, tc. THE RESULTS OF JEALOUSY. A FI3UEKUAK S STOUT. Pre seen that same face of hers scores of limes since, and though it makes me shudder, end nips me to the heart, I ul wu)8goand have a good long earnest look at ir, and come away a better man. You may see that face yourself as much like as it' it bad been taken from her sad, anxious looks you may see it at the picture shop windows, and its of a wo man tyin a handkerchief round a man's arm, and she looks up at hiru pitifully, and it's called "The iluguenut." That's like the look, and the face that gazed up into niine, after she'd told ine what I know now was the truth ; and yet I'm most anharoed to own it I flung her away troni me, and wouldn't believe what she said. There was a tear 'upon each cheek, and the bright drops were brimming in her eyes, and ready to fall ; but 1 was bard and bitter, and whisper ed to myself that they were fale tears, put on to cheat me. and I ran out of the hoiite, swearing that I'd enter it no more. It wasn't a large house, that houpe of ours, but if it had been a palace I don't think it could have been a happier home than it had been fur years ; and of course 1 know that that's a foolish way of talk ing, for huppiness isn't a thing to be found it: palaces, any more than in the smallest of cottages. It seems to me that reat happiness grows, as it were, out of the true faith and trust that a man and his wife have in one another; while the strength of two working together the same way gives them a help forward in the world that nothing can resist. Speaking as a fisherman, and one who was brought up witii the sound of the sea always in his ears, I may say we rowed well together in the same boat, Mary and I. I had a long fight of i: b fo e 1 could persuade her that it would be best for her future that ehe should take me for a pilot, and Dot Harry Penelljn; but I did persuade her at last, and we were mar ried down at the little fisherman's church at the head of the cove. Four years of as happy a life then fell to my lot as could fall to that of any man in this life, I believe. My ways were rough and hers were not those of a lady, but they suited our station in life, and what more would you have ? Liv ing the life I do now, buty here about this great city fih market, I look back upon that bit of life as if it was but a dream ; and though I can't settle to go back to the old place, I cling to the fish and look upon those days when a west country boat comes in as days worth rec ollecting ; for they bring the blood in one's cheek, and a bit of light into one's eyes. I can see it all now as plain aa can be ; the little fishing village under the cliff, the stout granite pier running out so as to form a harbor for the fishing boats, and the blue sea stretching away far as the eye could reach. Down by its edge, too, the weed-fringed rocks, piled high in places, with the sea foaming among the crevices, and again forming kittle rock-pools where the bright sea growths flourished ; and as the tide came in, with its fresh cooling waters, you saw the limpets and sea flowers wakening agaia to life, w bib many a spider-crab and ehell-fisb crept out of the nook or crack where it had hidden from the warm sun. I can see it all now at any time, though I am growing gray ; and a score of years have passed since ; but bright er than all seem to stand out those two mournful eyes, with the same tearful look they gave me as I flung out of the door and saw them for the last time ; for when next I looked upon that face the eyes were fast closed, and could I have opened them the lustre would have been gone. A west country fisherman's life is one which takes him a great deal from home, for sometimes we go off for perhaps three months at a time to tbe noilh coart, or to Ireland when the herring season is on ; and, like the rest I used to be off in my boat sorry enough to leave home happy enough to return after a busy season till one year, when I took it into my head to think it strange that Harry Penellyu, my wife's old beau, should spin his ill ness out so lon?t and stop ashore, time after time, when the boats went out, and him seeming to be well and strong as any of us. There had been a heavy gale on the coast some weeks before, and. as we always do at such times, we had run in for the harbor as soon as we saw it com ing ; but, through bad seamanship, Pen ell yn's boat cane inside the rocks, when she should have come outside ; and then through their not having water enough, she grounded, lifted again, caught by the stern, and then swung round broadside to tbe waves, which swept bur half deck, while a regular chorus of shrieks rose from the women standing ashore. It was a rough time, for even our boats that were in the harbor were groaning and grinding together, while every now and then tbe sea washed over so as to threaten to kill them, and sweeping the pier from end to end. In an ordinary way we made it a custom of laughing at a crew of a boat who, through bungling got her on the rocks, for born, as we were in the. buy, with onr fathers' tishers before us, we knew every stone along the coast, and almost steered out to ihem blindfold ed ; but this was no time to jeer, for now the poor fellows were being swept one by one from their hold, and borne struggling through the surf to the rocks, where they were in danger of being dashed to pieces, for ours was no smooth and sandy beach. Some were swimming, some beating the water frantically ; and clad as our men arc, in tbek cloth troupe' ?, heavy sea boots and slout Guernsey shirts, they ftood a poor chance of keeping afljat long, as their boots is enough to drag them down There was every one in a state of ex citement ; men running out as far as they could and throwing ropes men shouting orders that nobody attended to women tossing their arms up and crying, while Hist one and then another of the boat's crew was dragged ashore, and carried half drowned up to the cottage. I "was standing looking on with Mary by my side, for she was out on the cliff when my boat ran into the little hatbor, while her hani was the first toclanp mine when I got ashore, thanked for the escape we bad ha3, for the sea had risen wonderfully quick. I had taken no part in trying to save the boat's crew, fi.r there were plenty of willing hands, and there being now but little standing room down below the clitf, I had thought I should be in the way ; but now it seemed to me that one poor fellow would be loot wilb tbe ef forts they were making to save him, for he was too weak to cling to the ropes thrown out, and as fast as he was swept in by the waves they sucked him back aain thtce or four times. I had not seen who it was, but just then, as I made a start as if to go down, my wife clutched my arm, and there was a wild look in her face as she said aloud, "Harry Penellyn." The excitement of the moment carried almost everything before it, but I had a strange feeling shoot through my heart, and something seemed to say, "keep back," but the next minute I was fight ing with the noose of rope around my body and plenty of stout mates ashore fast hold of the end ; while, after a strangling bat tle, I got a tight hold of Penellyn. aud we were drawn ashore, aud both of ua car ried up to my cottage, though I tried hard to get upon my feet and walk, but I might have known that our fellows would not have let me on any account. Well, Harry Penellyn lay at our place three or four day?, and Mary tended him, and all that time 1 had to tight against a strange, ungenerous, cowardly feeling that would creep over me, and seemed, at times, to make me mad till I got myself in a corner aud asked myself questions, to all of which I could only answer the same word nolhing. Then Penellyn got better, and went to his mother's bouse ; and time went on till I grew bitter, and harsh and morose; was always haunted by a suspicion that I would not put into words, though now the questioti came again and again "Why doesu't Harry Penellyn go to sea !" But bo answer came to my question ; and though he seemed now to be well and as strong as ever, he always kept at home while we went out ; and in my state of mind this troubled me, and I kept feeling glad that we were only out now on tbe short trips of a few days in length. I grew angry with myself and all around. Ay, nd I grow angry even now when I think that a few earnest words of expla nationa few questions that 1 know would have been answered freely would have set all right, and perhaps save tbe life of as good and fine a woman as ever lived in the light ; bot it was to be so ; and I went on wilfully blinding my eyes to eve ry thing placing a wrong construction upon every look and word, making those true eyes gaze at me again in wonder ; while Harry Penellyn, who bad never be fore ebown ma much good will, now that I had saved his life, would have been friends, only I met his every advance with a black scowl, whea he always turned off and avoided me. One evening it had come to the lot of my boat to run into the harbor with the fish of several other boats; for the takes had been very light, and somehow or other I felt more light and happy that night than I had done for weeks. I got ashore, left my mates tending the mackerel, and ran to our cottage, to find my wife out. This did not trouble me at first, but af ter a few minutes of fiduetinz about I felt a flush come into my face ; and hurrying out I made an excuse at Mrs. Penellyrt's, and got to know that Harry was out too. Tbe hot blood rose from my cheeks to my forehead and seemed to blind me, while a strange singing sensation came in to my ear ; but the next moment I was tearing along the cove in the dark of the evening, so as to get away where I might be alone with my thoughts, for that vile suspicion tLat was struggling with me be fore had now conquered and beaten roe down, in that I was its slave and, for the time, a regular madman I had run about half a mile when I stopped, panting, and began to walk slow ly along while beneath the trees, close beside the fern-hung, rocky bank, while it was now too dark to see far before me. But the next instant I was standing with my breath held and one hand resting on my side, for as I crouched close to the bank I heard Penellyn's voice talking earnestly as he passed a few yards f om me, with his arm tightly clasping a wo man's waist, while just as they had punt ed tbey stopped, and there was also light enough for me to 6ee him bend over her, and their lips met in a Ions, clinging kiss a kiss which sent the mad blood bub bling through my veins as, without stop ping to think, I leaped from where I was hid, and as the woman shrieked and fled, I had Penellyn by the throat and we join ed in a fierce struggle. It' an angel had told me that I was de ceived, I should not have believed him then in my blind fury ; and it was not until, having da&hed bis bead sgainst the ground again and again, I felt my enemy's grap relax, that I leaped up, kicked him savagely, and then ran back. Just as I expeeted, Mary was al home, looking hot and flushed, but she jumped op with a smile, and hurried to me, say ing : 'I was down at Mis. Trevere's, dear ; but I heard your boat had come, and " She stopped short, half frightened by my wild looks and disordered clothes, and half by the savage curse I gnashed out at her as I seized her arms ; while, as the truth flashed upon her, she was tbe next moment at my feet, appealing to me, ut tering vow after vow, clasping her hands, and seeming half crazed with horror ; while I, poor mad fool, glared on her and thought her anguish was caused by guilt. Ah, me ! that I could have been such a fool no blind, so mad that I could turn from those true appealing eyes, aud ru.h from the place, meaning never tore turn, and feeling savagely glad as I saw her fall senseless on the floor. Would weeping blood for ray folly have recalled all that, would giving up my life have crushed it out I would have done it a hundred times; but it was done it was one of the hard thinps of fate, and i rushed from the room and from the village, heed less that the girl who had been Harry Pe nellyn's companion had spread the alarm that he had been attacked and that he bad been brought in nearly dead. I knew nothing, saw nothing, except my own mad misery, and at times was wild that I hnd not slain the wife who had Iain in my bo som, till something rese up whispering me of the past. I found my way to Bristol, and to Lon don and after a time I learned from one from my own part that Harry Penellyn had recovered and was married, and that my wife was ill. I fought with myself one week two weeks a month and then I went, get ting taken round the coast in a fishing boat. I landed and went up the old slip, on to the cliff in the dusk of evening, jut as I had walked a year before,aod I roused myself up to my task, saying I would go and forgive ber, and see her no more. Forgive her ! What had I to forgive. Had she forgiven me before ber eyes closed in that long sleep, and her pure spirit fled ? I asked myself that again and again, when her mother led me to the room I dare net enter alone, and, with the few words she had uttered, made the black vail of mad jealouy drop from be fore my eyes. But it was too late too late and I could not see thoe eyes look their forgive ness, for tbey were sealed close and I was alone. Her mother left me there for a while, and then fetched me away ; and I followed her like a child, listening to her long tale of her child's sorrow, and the upbraid mjs she heaped upon my head. What could I do but groan and bear it bear it as a part of my punishment here for my tolly ! It was a mistake tbe act of a fool but I have suffered for it ; while with me ever, seeming, too at times, even to smile upon me upon me, a broken man a man of rough toil, and a bard life there are those two faithful, loving eyes, aud the memory of their last look seems to grow brighter as I get near er and nearer to the end of my bit of life. There "Ir, that's my story a Bad onough ene, toot you will say and I'm obliged to try to laugh it off, or I should get no work done. We all have hearts, sir, and no more or leas they're moved by the same feelings. Nothings good with o it a moral, sir ntver bo beyond lis tening to reason. Roy's Composition on Sheep. A sheep is about as big as a dog, though tbey are better than dogs, 'cause dogs kill sheep, but sheep don't kill dogs, except once when a man wanted to cure his dog of killing sheep, and so held hira and let an old sheep butt him until he broke his bones into little fine pieces, about as big as a tooth ; and so that was the way tbe dog got broke ; and I guess he wished he had learned some other bus iness besides butchering don't you. There are mostly two kinds of sheep, ewes and rams. There are principally several kinds of rams also. There is the battering ram they had in the olden time to knock at the gates of cities when they wanted to come in. Then there's the ram that they ram down guns with, (I wish I had a gun.) and the hydraulic ram tbat they ram up water.witb. Sometimes when they wanted to knock down folks' walls in the Bible, they didn't have whole rams enough to batter them down, and they had to take ram,s horns and blow them down. That they did with the walls of Jerry Coe. I don't know whether he was any relation to the phosphate of lime roan or not. There is two kinds of sheep, the South Down, that they have down South, and the Merino, which it tbe Spanish for marine, 'cause they come over tbe sea. They keep the sheep for their mutton, which is good, when they can't get turkey, though generally they all jump out and run away, to that they can't keep them. The way to make them jump is to tie old barrel staves to their logs as fetters The fetters scare them, and they jump to get away from them. Sheep are troubled with wool growing all over tbem, so in the hot weather they cut it off to keep them cool. I suppose tbey would have to cut off at any rate to get at the mutton. They spin up the wool into stockings on Lamb's knitting machine, though some times the grandmothers knit them with needles, which, I think is tbe best way, because it keeps them quiet, and they won't bother us boys so much. When sheep jump and run, one always follows the rest. I mean the rest always follow the one. If the leader should jump thro' a key-hole, or over the moon, tbe rest would all follow, which I think is very bright in the sheep and in other folks who always follow the leader ; of course tbe leader is always right. Lambs are kept for their innocence, which I think don't pay, very much, though they do gambol all the time, which isn't so innocent. though I suppose they are the blackleg lambs. I forgot to mention that there is another kind of sheep called goats, which, when you put up at night, have to be kept separate from the real sheep the sheep on the right and the goats on tbe left. I don't know as I know any more about .heep, though Cousin Dod does, 'cause be keeps 'em, and has got 'em so they'll jump first rate too. Ax Act or Heroism is the Pbes nok or Two Armies. At the battle of New Hope Church, fought lata in May, 18C4, an incident occurred that attracted the attention and elicited the praise of two gallant armies. This inci dent is rather obscurely hinted at, in an otherwise admirable notice of the lute Col. Wm. H. Martin, of tbe Confederate army, which appeared recently. In the battle referred to, the Federals along one portion of the line bad met wilb a disastrous repulse. The ground as is always the case in pine forests was covered with fallen leaves. These had been set on fire during the action, and the repulse of tbe Federals having been sudden and decisive, they necessari ly left their wounded, who lay thick in all portions of the woods, exposed to a more terrible ordeal than that of battle merely. They were about to die in the flames, when Col. Martin, taking the lead him self, ordered his men from the fortifica tions, when with switches they whipped out the fire. At the time they left their positions a heavy firing from the restor ed Federal line was going on, but of course this ceased soon as it became man ifest tbat the Confederates were engaged in a work of humanity to their fallen en emies. A we have stated, this act upon the part of Col. Martin was for awhile lie com mon topic of conversation in two great armies, and there are very many who will remember it distinctly. One who knew all things deep and true, and sad and strange in human life, has said that the word "Honor" is made a lying slave on many a tomb, while it is often dumb over the resting place of "honored bones indeed." That it may not be thus with Col- Martin, whose unknown grave is in the sands of a fair, foreign river, we seek in simple justice to his memory, to re call a gentle and knightly incident of bis life, which gleamed out like a star from the deep murk and gloom of a sanguinary war. A Hint to Merchants Nev.tr run down any other man's goods in public Let him $sy for bis own adTtrtielrg, Comforllnr the Cochlea or lb Heart. Sitting in a station the other day. I had a little sermon preached to me in tb j way I like ; and I'll report it for your benefit, because it taught one of the beau tiful lessons which we all should learn. and taught in such a natural, sim ple way, that no one could forget it. It was a bleak, snowy day ; the train was late ; tbe ladies room dark aal smoky, and the dozen women, old and young, who sat waiting impatiently, all looked cross, low spirited, or stupid. I felt all three ; and thought, as I looked round, that my fellow beings were a very unamiable and uninteresting set. Just then, a forlorn old woman, shak ing with palsy, came in with a basket of little wares for sale, and went about mutely offering them to the sitters. No nobody bought anything, and the por old soul stood blinking at the door a miu ute, as if reluctant to go out in tbe bitt er ttorm again. She turned presently, aud poked about the room, as if trying to find something ; and then a pale lady in blacfc whe lay as if asleep, on a sofa, openvi J her eyes, saw the old woman, and instant ly asked, in a kind tone, ''Have you loat anything, ma'am V "No, dear. I'm a looking for the heat in place, to have a warm 'fore I goes o .t again. My eyes is poor, and I doa't seem to find the furnace nowhere." Here it is ;" and the lady led her to the steam radiator, placed a chair, and showed her how to warm her feet. "Well, now ; ain't that nice !" said the old woman, spreading her ragged mittens to dry. "Thanky, dear ; this is proper comfortable, ain't it ? I'm moat frcso to-day bein lame and wimbly ; and not selliu' much, makes me sort of down hearted." Tbe lady emiled, went to the counter bought a cup of tea and some sort of food, carried it herself to the old woman, and said as respectfully and kindly as if tbe poor soul had been dressed in silk and fur, "Won't -you have a cup of bot tea t It's very comforting such a day aa this." "Sakes alive I Do they give tea to thia depot T" cried the old lady, in a tone of innocent surprise, that made a smile g round the room, touching the glummet face like a streak of sunshine. "Writ, now, this is jest lovely," added the old lady, sipping away with a relish. "Tbis does warm the cockles of my heart." While she refreshed herself, telling hor story meanwhile, the lady looked over tb poor little wares in the basket, bou.1 I soap and pins, shoe-strings and tape, an 1 cheered the old Boul by paying well for them. As I watched her doing this, I thought what a sweet face she had though 1 J considered her rather plain before. I felt dreadfully ashamed of myself, that I h 4 grimly shaken my head when the basket was offered to me ; and, as I saw a look of interest, sympathy, and kindliness com into the dismal faces all round me, I did wish I had been the magician to call it out. It was only a kind word and a friendly act ; but somehow, it brightened that dingy room wonderfully. It chang ed the faces of a dozen women ; and T think it touched a dozen hearts, for I saw tunny eyes follow the plain, pale lad with sudden respect ; and when tbe oil woman, with many thanks, got up to po. several persons beckoned to her, and bought something, as if they wanted u repair their first negligence. Old beggar women are not romantic t neither are cups of tea, boot-lacings, and colored soap ; thera were no gentlemen present to be impressed by tbe lady's kino! act ; so, it wasn't done for effect, and oo possible reward could be received for it, except tbe ungrammantical thanks of ragged old woman. But that simple lit tle charity was as good as a sermon tj those who saw it ; and I think each trav eler went on her way, better for tbat hall hour in the dreary station. I can testify that one of them Hid; and nothing but the emptiness of her purse prevented bar from "comforting the cockles of tha heart" of every forlorn old woman' aha met for a week after. L M. Alootx. Merry a Museum. , Power of a Geowiks Thee A atory has been going the rounds about a filbert tree which grew up through lbs hole of a millstone, filled it and ultimately hoisted it off the ground and wore it lik a ruffle around its trunk, although it was five and a half feet diameter and seven inches thick. Some are skeptical about this story ; but nevertheless growing treea have a creat lifting power, as may be Droved by sight any day in the cemetery at Old Cam bridge, where a email tree which has apparently sprung trom a seed enclosed in a heavy stone tomb, baa crown through a chink between two stones, lifted the heavy superincumbent masses of stone some inches, and pushel a stout iron railing off the perpendicular br the force of its growth. It is quite curious thing to look at. and furnishea very decided evidence of the power of pa tient perseverance on the part of nature. Mask Tvrxnf. lect urine on the Sand wich Islands, offered to show how tha cannibals eat their food if "ome lady would lend bim a baby, lbe baby was not forthcoming, and the lecture bad to do witkaut iiluitratiaur. J
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