1 I j ( 0 - II. A. MTIKE, Editor and Publisher. UK IS A FRKBUiS WIIOU THE TROTH MAKES PRICE, AMD ALL ARC SLAVES BKilDK. Tunas, $a per year la advance. VOLUME 3. !8C9. SF1IS6 nilL 1869. I ar& now prepared to offer SUPERIOR INDUCEMENTS to cash roBCBiini or TDi. SIEIT-IROI & COFPER WAEI. EITHM AT WHOLESALE OK RETAIL, Sf stock consists ia part of avery variety of Tin, Sbeel-Iron. COPPER AND BRASS WARES, BNAMFI.l-KD AND PI.AIM SAUCE-PAWS, BOILEBS. &f, COAL SHOVELS. WINE LAMPS, OIL CANS. II0USEFCRN1SHING HAIiD WAPJi OF EVERY KIND. Spear.' Attti-Duat HEATING and COOKING STOVES, EXCELSIOR COOKISG S1WES, "N'OCLE, TKI UMPII and PARLOR COOK ING STOVES, AuJ any Conking Stove desired I will gat when orderd at manufacturer' prices. Old Stove Plates and Grates. &c, for re pairs, on hand for the Stoves I sell ; others will be ordarsd when wanted. Particular atteutiou given to Spouting, Valleys and Conductors, 11 of whicuwill ba made out of best mate rials and put up by competent workmen. Lamp Burners, Wick and Chimneys WHOLESALE OK EKTAII- I would call particular atteution to the Light I louse Burner, with Glass Coua, for giving inuie lislit than any otbar in use. Also, the Paragon Burner, for Crude OiL SrE:XCEIt3 SIFTER I It recciamenda itself. SUGAR KETTLES AND CAULDRONS of all sizes constantly on baud. Special attention given to Jobbing in Tin, Copper and Sheet-Iron. at lowest ptible rate. Wholesale Merchants' Lists now ready, and will be sent on application by mail or in person. Hoping to see all my old customers and nuuy new ones this Spiing, I return my uiotst binoere tl auks frr t!ie very libera pa troLa-e I hare already received, sud will eudeavor to please ail who may call, wheth er they huy or not FRANCIS W. HAY. Johnstown. March 7, 18C7. ! - t CIS & li E U T II , V Johnitonii, Pa . BOOKSELLERS, STATIONERS a EsuciEi iji.ydlibss V. A X V F A CT r R 1 2 liS O h 15 1. A N K BOO K S , P0UTK-MONA1S. PAPER BOXES AND LOOKING GLASSES, looking (31a!a and I'icture Frarscs always on hand, and made to order. A large and v t complete assortment of Diawing Room Mini Minieilanecus Pictures, consisting of Cnromos, Painting in Oil, Steel Plate En gravings, Plsin and Colored Lithographs, Oil Prints, 1'hotograpbs ar.d Wood Cuts. This collection embraces a selection of large t-ized match pictures of Landscape and Do mestic Scenes and Portraits, and 6,000 dif ferent varieties of Card Photographs of prom inent men, comic and sentimental scenes and copies of subjects by celebrated artists. We have also a varietl a.-sortment of UII5Llv, PRAYER. HYxMN and SCHOOL BOOKS. HISTORIES, BIOGRAPHIES, NOVELS, &c. Religious PrintB aud Emblems in great variety, and the largest aud most complete block of S l'ATIONERV ever brought to this county. 600 new and beautiful styles of WALL PAPER, including an assortment of Potter's celebrated Englh-h make, for which we are sole agents in this locality. These Wall Papers are handsomer in design, supe rior in finish, and 2 inches wider than any tthrr make. The citizens of Ebensburg and vicinity are x-speet fully notified that we make BOOK RINDING and the manufacture of BLANK BOOKS a speciality. All work promptly executed at moderate rates. fjrj-Store on corner of Clinton and Locust streets, immediately opposite Foster House. Johnstown. Oct. 24. 18C7.-tf. CHAIR MANUFACTORY. FI.P.PATTOI. JOHXSTttWiV, PA. ALL KINDS OF CHAIRS, such as common Windsor Chairs, Fret Back Chairs, Vienna Chairs, Bustle Chairs, Rim Backed Chairs, Sociable Chairs, Cane Stat Sair3, ROCKING CHAIRS, OF EVERY SIZE SPRING SEIT CHAIRS Settees, Lounges, Uc, &c. CABINET FURNITURE of every description and of latest T1'LS, WITH PRICES TO SUIT THE . Tastes of all. Thankful for past favors, he reanect- ully tolicit3 a liberal share of public patron- unnton btreet, Johnstown Cambria vxj. ra. Jan. 81.1867. "WORD from JOILNSTOWNI JOI1X j. MI BPUT & CO., Have constantly on hand a Urge and well selected stock of seasonable Dry Goods, Boots, Shoes, Groceries. and a general variety of NOTIONS, Ac i lf,itck consists of almost every article usually kept in a retail store, all & widen have been selected with care aud are offered at prices which cannot fail to prove sathifae- l V aild eiilwae for yourselves. Feb. 8, m7.-tf, 8 (O iiEAT Reduction ix Piuces I TO CASH B tYEES ! AT Till? EDEHSBUR6 flOUSE-FURMSlMG STORE. The undersigned respectfully informs the citizens of Ebensburg and the public gener ally that he has made a great reduction in prices to CASH BUYERS. My stock will consist, in part, of Cooking, Parlor and Heat-, ing Stoves, of the most popular kinds j Tin ware of every description, of my own man ufacture ; Hardware of all kind, such as Locks, Sciews, Butt Hinges, Table Hinges, Shutter Hinges, Bolts, Iron and Nails, Win dow Glass, Putty, Table Knives and Forks, Carving Knives and Forks, Meat Cutters, Apple Parers, Pen and Pocket Knives in great variety, Scissors. Shears, Razors and Strops. Axes, Hatchets, Hammers, Boring Machines, Augers, Cbissels, Planes, Cbm-pa-sses, Squares, Files, Rasps, Anvils, Vises, Wrenches, Rip, Panel and Cross-Cut Saws, Chains of all kinds. Shovels, Spades, Scythes and Snaths, Rakes, Forks, Sleigh Bells, Shoe Lasts, Pegs. Wax Bristles, Clothes Wringers, Grind Stones, Patent Molasses Gates and Measures, Lumber Sticks, Horse Nails, Horse Shoes, Cast Steel, Rifles, Shot Guns, Revolvers, Pistols, Cartridges, Pow der, Caps. Lead, &c, Odd Stove Plates, Grates and Fire Bricks, Well and Cistern Pumps aud Tubing ; Harness and Saddlery Ware of all kind ; Wooden and Willow Ware in great variety ; Carbon Oil and Oil Lamp6, Fish Oil, Lard Oil, Linseed Oil, Lubricating Oil, Rosin, Tar, Glassware, Paints, Varnish es, Turpeutiue, Alcohol. Arc. FAMILY GROCERIES, such as Tea, Coffee, Sugars, Molasses, Syr ups, Spices, Dried Peaches. Dried Apples, Fish, Hominy, Crackers, Rice and Pearl Barley; Soaps, Candles; TOBACCO aad CIGARS; Paint. Whitewash, Scrub, Horse, Shoe, Dusting, Varnish, Stove. Clothes and Tooth I'nihhes, all kinds and sizes; Bed Cords and Manilla Ropes, and many other articles at the lowest rates for CASH. Qcf-House SX)uting made, painted aud put up at low rates for cash. A liberal discount made to country dealers buying Tinware wholesale. GEO. HUNTLEY Ebensburg, Ftb, 28. 18C7.-tf, L. L, LANGSTROTH'S PiTEIT MOVABLE COMB BSE HIVE i PRONOUNCED THE BEST EVER YET introduced in this Comity or State. Any person buying a family riht can have their Bees transferred from an old box to a new one. In every instance in which this has been done the result has been entirely satisfactory, and the fir?t take of honey has invariably paid all expenses, aud frequently exceeded tbem. Proof of the superior merits of this invention will be found in the testimony of every man who has given it a trial, aud among the number are the gentlemen named below, and their experience should induce every one interested in Bees to BUY A FAMILY RIGHT! Henry C. Kirkpatrick, of Carroll township, took 1V6 pounds of surplus honey from two hives, which he sold at 35 cents per pound. Adam Deitrich. of Carroll township, took from two hives 100 pounds of surplus honey. James Kirkpatrick, ot Cbest township, took CO pounds of surplus honey from one hive. Jacob Kirkpatrick, of Chest township, ob tained 72 pounds of surplus honey from or e hive, worth not less than $21, and the right cost him only $5. Peter Campbell from one hive obtained 36 pounds of surplus honey at one time. IW Quite a number of similar statements, authenticated by budi of the bent cititenB of Cambria county, could be obtained in proof of the superior merits of Langstrotb "s Patent Mo vable Comb Bee Hire. Persons wishing to purchase family rights should call on or niMresB PETER CAMPpJELL, Nov. 5, lSSG.-tf. CarrolltJ-rn, Ta. EBENSBURG FOUNDRY AGAIX IV FILL LAST I NEW FIRM, NEWBU1LDINGS, &c. HAVING purchased the well known EB ENSBURG FOl NDRY from Mr. Edw. Glass, aud rebuilt and eulargel it almost en tirely, besides refitting it with new machinery, the subscribers a:e now prepared to furniRh COOK, PARLOR S? HEATING S'W VES, of the latest and most approved patterns THRESHING MACHINES. MILL GEAR ING, ROSE and WATER WHEELS of every description, IRON FENCING, PLOUGHS and PLOUGH CASTINGS, aud in fact all manner of articles manufactured in a first class Foundry. Job Work of all kind attended to promptly and done cheaply. The special atteution of Farmers is invited to two newly patented PLOUGHS which we possess the sole right to manufacture and sell in this county, and which are admitted to be the best ever introduced to the public. Believing ourselves capable of performing any work in our line in the most satisfactory manner, and knowing that we can do work at lower raiCKS than have been charged in this community heretofore, we confidently hope that we will be found worthy of liberal patronage. Fair reductions made to wholesale dealers. t2TTbe highest prices paid in caib for old metal, or castings given in exchange. Oca TEAMS All STAICTtT CASH OA COUWTBT produce. CON VERY, VINROE & CO. Ebensburg, Sept. 2, 1668. New FirmNew Goods. THE undersigned, having given his son, J. E. Shields, an interest in his store, the business will hereafter be conducted un der the firm name of P. H. Shields & Co., and as we are determined to sell Goods cheap for cash, or exchange for grain, lumber or produce, we hope by strict attention to bus iness to merit a liberal patronage from a generous public. Having determined to settle np my old books of thirty years standing, I now ask those indebted to me to come forward and make settlement on or before the 1st day of December, 1868. P. H. SHIELDS. Loretto, Oct. 15, 1868,-tf. F. ALTFATHEB, .. MAKCFACTOBKB And Wholesale and Retail Dealer in HAVANA AND DOMESTIC CIGARS, PLUG AHD WSK CUT Cbetvln? and Smoking: Tobacco, Snuff", Pipes, Snvff Boxes If Cigar Cases, AT THE klO-t Of XAK IMDiAW, MAIN STREET, - - - JOHN STOW?. EBENSBURG, FA., THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1869. OUT IX THE COLD. With blue, cold hands and etockingless feet, Wandered a child in the cheerless street ; Children were many, who, housed and fed. Lovingly nestled, dreaming in bed Caroled their joy in a land of bliss. Without a thought or care of this, They were warm in humanity's lold. But this little child was out in the cold Out in the cold. Bleak blew the wind thro 'jthe cheerlesr etreet; Dashing along the merciless street. All fdrrid and shawled, man, woman, and child Hurried along, for the storm grew wild ; They could not bear the icicle's blast. Winter po rude on their pathway cast. Alas ! none pitied no one ceusoled The little wanderer oat in the cold- Out in the cold. She had no father, she had no mother. Sisters none and never a brother ; They had passed on to the star-worlds above- She remained here with nothiag but I .re. "Nothing to love" O 1 men did not know wnat wealth or joy that child could bestow, So they went by aud worshipped their gold. Leaving the little one out in trie cold Ontin the cold. Wandered she on 'till the shades of night Veiled hr shivering form from sight ; Then, with cold hands over her breast. She prayed to her Father in Haven for rest. When hours had fled, 'neath the wwld'B dark frown, Hungered and chilled, she laid herself down ; Lay down to rest, while the wealthy rolled In carriages past her, out iu the cold Out in the cold. Out in the cold lo ! an angel form Brought her white robes that were rich and warm : Out in the cold, on the sleeping child. The sainted face of a mother smiled ; A sister pressed on her brow a kiss- Led her 'mid scenes of heavenly buss ; And angels gathered into their fold, That night the little one out of the cold Out of the cold. Sales, Shef cjjts, t ebofes, ifc. IDA LEWIS. THE GKACZ DARLING Or AMERICA. Thirty years ago, just at the dawn of a stormy September morning, Grace Dar ling, the daughter of the Long tone lighthouse-keeper, on the English coast, launched a boat on the raging tide, and rescued, with her reluctant father's aiJ, and at the imminent peril of her life, nine persons from the disastrous wreck of the Forfarshire steamer. For this fearless and noble act, done in her 23d year, praises and rewards were heaped upon her in unstinted measure, a fund of $3, 500 was subscribed for her benefit, the remaining four years of her life were crowned with every comfort, and her name has passed into current usage as a ryno nym for an unselfish and heroic woman. Two weeks since, toward the close of a 6tormy March afternoon, Ida Lewi?, the intrepid daughter of the Lime Rock light keeper, in Newport (It. I ) harbor per formed a deed that places ber tda by ide; in point of self-sacrificing cournge, with the Grace Darling of England, and rounds a career of even a greater useful ness in the saving of human life. The rain fell that day in blinding towctits, and the gale drove the waves across the har bor with a fury that taxed the full strength and skill of the most experienced boat men. Iu the midst of this storm, a reck less boy, scarely 14 years old, who had somehow obtained possession of ono of smallest and most unsafe sail-boats in the harbor, (uince christened the "soldier drowner,') succeeded in persuading two soldiers, Sergt. James Adams and Pn rate John McLaughlin, to let him carry them acroFS from the city, whither they had gone to make some purchases, to lort Adams, where they were stationed. Anxious to escape the dreary three mile tramp by land, and believing the lad's assertion that he could manage the boat as well as any one, they trusted them selves in it, and made half the trip in safety, but about midway in the harbor a sudden blast struck the sail, the start led boy jammed the helm in the wrong direction, the boat capsized in an instant, and the waves rolled it .twice over, like the veriest cockle shell. For a long half-hour its luckless occupants clung to the keel, and wrestled against the blinding rain and the fierce salt wares with all the en ergy of despair ; but finally the boy's strength was exhausted, bis hold relaxed one clutch at McLaughlin's shoulder, and, with a frenzied laugh opon his lip, he was gone ! nor has any trace of him since been seen. Fast paralyzed with cold and almost bereft of hope the two soldiers saw no chance left but to clasp each other in a last embrace, and sink to a mutual grave when suddenly, out from the Lame Kock, half a mile away, shot a little boat, driven by rapid strokes and sure, straight over the bounding waves toward the drowning men. Hope kin died in their breasts again, but faded when they saw in the boat only a slender youth, and a still slenderer woman plying tbe oars. On it swiftly came, however, and the boy was almost reaching over the side to grasp the nearest soldier, when his quick-witted sister, crying, "Stop, Hosey! we shall be capsized that way 1" turned tbe boat with a well-timed stroke, backed it up, one man was drawn eafely in over the stern, another backward pull, another lift, and the uext moment the craft, with its freight of rescued lives, was scudding swiftly through the spray back to the Kock again. The Sergeant was able to stagger on shore, but private McLaughlin had to be carried into the lighthouse, where both of them received the utmost care and kindness, and were safely con veyed to Fort Adams the next day. The heroine of this daring exploit was born Feb. 25, 1812, and is thus in her 28th year ; but her first rescue of imper illed life dates back to September, 1859, when she was only 17. Four gay young fellows, all about 18 or 20 years of ae7 and all eons of wealthy gentlemen, one from Philadelphia and the rest from New port, went out for an evening sail, and one of them, more full of mischief than the others, climbed the mast and upset the boat half a mile from the nearest shore. None of them could swim that distance, night was rapidly coming on, the capsized boat was too light to support more tban two or three of them at once, and Ibey were ruefully awaiting the bitter conse quences of their mad frolic, when the keeper's daughter, spying thein through the dusk, hastened to their relief, and rescued them all from their impending fate, lhe one who climbed the mast en listed at tbe opening of the war, and re ceived a mortal wound at the disastrous battle of Hull Hun, but the others are still living, and doubtless cherish grateful ly the memory of their youthful preserver. During the intervening period of ten yepi-s, this heroine of the harbor has sav ed five other lives. One cold and wiodv February day, three intoxicated soldiers stole a skiff and set out for the fort. Hy some drunken recklessness they soon stove a bole in the bottom, and the boat rapid ly filled. jL wo of the men succeeded in swimming ashore again, and were so alarmed at their adventure that they ran away and never -came back ; but the third clung to the submerged bkiff and tried to paddle it with his feet across the harbor. hen discoved and picked up, with his hat in his teeth and a bottle of whisky in each pocket, he was stifl with cold, and barely escaped perishing in his desperate- attempt. The next rescue was in January, 1867. A valuable sheep es caped from those who had it in charge, dived off one of the wharves, and started to swim around the harbor. Three men. who went in pursuit along the fort road, found a skiff and put out to rescue the animal. Hut the fierce south-east "ale was too much for them, tbe boat began to swamp rapidly, they could not regain the shore, aud wero staring death in the face when the fearless Ida went to their relief, carried them and the skiff to land, and then went out aud saved the sheep ! In the remaining instance, it seems that a fine looking but reckless young fellow stole a large sail boat from one of the wharves one W inter evening and put to sea with it, but the gale drove the craft opon the "Little Lime Rack," about a mile from the light, where it sunk, leaving the thief clinging to the halyards from raid night till dawn, when the heroine reached and picked him up. "There he was," iwya Miss Lewis, ia relnting tbe incident, ha..i lg, and God blessing me, and beg ging to be set on shore, and the last I saw of him bo was crawling up the wharf on his hands and knees !" The heroism of Grace Darling was the result of a single noble impulse $ the bra very of Ida Lewis is part of her daily life. Sixteen years ago, the light on Lime Rock was established, and llosca Lewi3, a veteran ex-revenue pilot famil iar with the coast from Halifax to Nor folk, became its keeper on the 8th of De cember, 1853. The southern line of the harbor makes a wide, deep-angled sweep, with the city on one side. Fott Adams, two miles off on tbe opposite point, and Lime Hock midway between, about 300 yards from the shore. This rock com mands the widest view of the harbor, and upon it tbe keeper lived alone three years and a half. Then a substantial, square, two-story brick bouse was built, and in June, 1857, his family joined him. Four months later a stroke of paralysis disabled him from all work, and ever since his eldest daughter Ida has been the main stay of the family. It was she who cared for her father, and lightened her mother's toil, and watched over her younger sister Harriet, and rowed her brothers liudolph and Hosea to school, and eked out the light keeper's slender pittance with her needle and other femenine labors, and flew to the rescue of imperiled life with an instinctive courage that would not let her worst enemy sink without her risking her life to save him. In personal appearance this Newport heroine scarcely attains tbe average height of women, is remarkably slender, and would be thought much nearer 20 than 27. Light brown hair, blue eyes keen but kind, and cheeks pink-flushed, though not round enough for beauty, attract one to a woman whose quick smile and frank and friendly manner more tban excuse the inevitable educational deficiencies which such a life must always entail. No one can talk with her without believing her as unselfish as she is fearless, and tbe fame her heroism has created seems sim ply to amuse her, without exciting tbe least vanity. So little had she thought of her own deeds that, when first asked, she Lad to spend much time in consideration before she could exactly say how many she had saved I Her father is still a sociable and pleas ant old gentleman, able to walk a little, but spending most of his walking hours in his chair. Mrs. Lewis is a free-spoken and hospitable matron, devoted to her family, to ber four story papers, of which Bonner's ledger is one, and to the care of the lamp whose flame has glistened across the harbor from sunset these many years with as sure and unfailing a ray as gleams from any light upon the Ameri can coast. Itudolph is a young sailor of 23, now absent on a voyage, and "IIos ey" (Hosea) is 20 and a teamsfer in New port. Il.'ittie U only 17, aud possesses a wealth of personal attractions that many a fair Fifth avenue girl might envv. Both tbe sisters indulge in rings and ear drops, and other vanities dear to the feminine heart, and wheu they have recourse to the treasures of their wardrobe, accumu lated chiefly by Ida's industry, they might easily be mistaken for damsel of high degree. The house in which they live is white washed till it glistens like 6now. and ev erything is kept scrupulously clean. The Rock itself is a jagged pile, less than an acre in extent, divided by a channel, which is bare at low tide, and so ultcily barren that not a blade of grass will grow . CO upon it. A mischevious black poodle, two rabbits, three plump cats (who made an end to all the rats am mice long ago,) a couple of turkeys, and a dozen common fowls give quite a Robinson Crusoe air to the place. The tide rises here about sev en feet, and the highest point of rocks is 17 feet .above that line. On the land ward side is a long high pier, capped with 15 massive blocks of stone, and here, swinging from the derricks, or rocking on the tide, may be seen the small, Kpiare sterned, well worn Gox'ernrnent boat, black without and white and green within, in which Miss Lewis has learned to row so well that even the brawny boatmen of the harbor concede her superior skill, and with which most of her rescues have been achieved. A portrait of the American Graee Dar ling, and a picture of one of her exploits, were published two years ago in an illus trated paper, and many compliments and requests for photographs ensued. More than one romantic gentleman tried to per suade her to change her name for his, and found a friend indeed, but no wife Two brothers, seafaring men, from Black Rock. Connecticut, hae pressed their suiu at Lime Kock with mo:e success, and it is quite probable that both the sis ters may be married before another Spring. It is worth nothing, perhaps, that Mio3 Lewis is rightfully entitled to the extra ordinary and unprecedented name of "Ida wally Zoradin," which she inherits from the quaint fancy of her maternal grand father, an estimable but eccentric Block Islaud phyfcician. This name, however, she has wisely discarded, and writes her Belf simply "Ida." In France or England such a heroine would have Ioog since received many honorable and substantial testimonials, but scarcely any gifts wcie made to Miss Lewis until the two soldiers, rescued on the 29th of March, insisted on her ac cepting a gold wateh und chain of Swiss manufacture, valued at 100. L I'rang, the Boston chromo publisher, sent her last week a kind letter and half a dozen choice pictures. John Carter Brown, Esq., of Providence, and John Auchin closa, Esq , of New York, have each sent her a check for 25 ; and a Boston gentleman transmitted to her last Friday the sum of 100. An active Newport cit izen, of long salt water experience, is rap idly raising in that city and Providence a subscription of 135, for the building of a cedar life boat, to be finished in the finaet style, by one the of best Newport builders, and painted white with a gilt stripe. It is almost certain that this will be completed and presented to Miss Lewis within a few weeks. Another energetic citizen meditates raising a fund for her benefit, this season, from the Summer visitors at Newport, and one or two pri vate enterprises of moment for her benefit are also in progress. In the opinion of the best judges, no truer or moree fearless "heroin than Ida Lewis ever found a place in the annals of any humane society on either side of the Atlantic, and nona more unselfish ever received honors from those whose posi tions or wealth enables them to crown meritorious acts with euitabla rewards. y. Y. Tribune. We can always tell what 6ort of a wo man a man marries by the way he treats tbe printer. . If he gets a common wife he forgets the printer altogether. If he gets a tolerable good wife, be will send in the notice of the marriage. If he gets a very good one, he will send the printer a slice ot cake accompanying the notice. If be gets an extra good one, he will send a greenback with the notice. And if he gets a glorious angelic creature all af fection and goodness he is sure to send the printer a gold or silver dollar with the notice of his happiness. No good wife allows her husband to owe for his paper, and if their worse half does not attend to these things, it is a clear case of deception; because a man that tvori't pay for his paper will deceive his wife, and we have our opinion of such.- Covington (Va .) Times. A ladt acquaintance has had live chil dren, all of whom have red heads. As both herself and husband are similarly afflicted, she has wisely concluded that it is redheaditary in the family. UlLlJLtGS OX lllLES. Spring came this year az mutch as us ual, hale butt'ous virgin, 5,000 years old and upwards, hale and harty ole gal, wel cuni lew York State, and parts adjacent ! Now the birds jaw, now the cattle hol ler, now the pigs skream, now the geese warble, now the kats sigh, and nature is fiiskey ; the earnest pissmire, the virtu ous bedbug, and the nobby cockroach, arc singing Yankee Doodle and coming thru the thi." Now may be seen the muskeeter, that gray outlined critter of destinj-, solitary and alone, examining his last year's bill, and now may ba heard, with the naked ear, the hoarse fihanghigh bawling in the barnyard. Kittens in the doorway, andpuppys on the greeu, neighbor chats with neighbor, and the languid urchin creeps listless to wards the school. These things arc all fust rate in their place, but spring brings pesky hilts, and plants them carelessly, sometima3 among the maiden's charms, and sometimes among the young men's. I kan talk like a prechuro poet about biles now, for i have one in full bloom grow ing on me, almost reddy tu pick, az big az an egg plant, and az full of anguish az a broken heart. Biles are the surest things of their size on record, az cross to the touch as a set tin hen, or a dog with a fre.sh bone. Biles always pick out the handiest place on your body to build their nest, and if you undertake to break them up, it only makes them mad, and takes them longer to hatch out. There ain't no such thing uz coaxing ; nor driving them away. They are like au impudent bed bug, they won't move till they have got their fill. Biles are az old az religion. Job, the proflit, was the fust champion ov bilc6 and he is currently reported tew hav more biles, and more pashunce, to the square inch, than enny one, two very rare things to be found in any man. PasJiunce and biles ! I should as soon think of mixing courting and tauskeeters tcgether for luxury. I have got a great deal more faith than I have pashunce, but i hain't got enough faith in biles. I wouldn't trust a bile even on one ov my boots. I think faith is n better article than pashunce. Faith sofneticucs 13 an evi dence of brains, and pashunce quite as often iz only numbness, but I don't think, in these smooth and rough times, it is bisi to hav toi rjuch c: p tal invested in either of them. But I am out ov the road. I must get back onto biles again. If u feller begins to wander, and get out of the strait and narrow path, it is curious how quick he will go to the . Biles are very sassy ; sumtimes when yer go to set down, they will git between ycr and the chair 5 that is one evidence of their ill-breeding, and i had one once plant herself on the frunt endov my nose, which was a most remarkable piece of bad manners, for there is no room on my nose anywhere for a bile, for when it. is even ebb tide with my nose, it covers halfcf mi lace. Biles are scd to be helthy, and i gess they am for i hev seen some helthy old biles, az big az a hornet's nest and az full uv stings. I always want to be helthy but if i bed to hev 2 biles or. me awl the time, in order to be healthy, i should think that i was bulling the market. There is one more smart thing about biles ; they are like twins ; they hardly ever come singly, and i have known them throw double sixes. What! twelve biles on one man at a time ! This iz wuz than fightin bumble bce3 with your summer cloths on. Biles are sed by the educated and cor rect spellers of the land to bo an opera shun of nature to get rid of sumthing wich she wants to spare. This is tru without doubt, but it don't strike me as. being a polite thing in nature fo shuv oph her biles onto other folks. I say, let every body tend to their own biles. But say all ycr kan about biles, call them all the mean names current among fishmongers, revile, persecute, and spit on them, groan, grin, and swear when they visit yer, hit them on the head and set on them if yer please, there is a time in their career when they concentrate awl the pathos of joy that a man has on hand to spare and that is when they bust. This is bliss, glory and revenge on the half-shell. A man leans back in rektmed comfort, az innocent and az limber as a mermaid. This pays for the fretful nights and nervous days wile the bile has been batching, this shows us what it iz to grin and bear it this shows what it iz to be biled, wrung out and bung up to dry. This is tbe calm after the storm, the wedding day of pashunce and joy ; thU iz the chi isening of hope, the myetick ben that lays 2 eggs a day ; this iz butter on yer sassages. Exit biles. A Stkange Mistake. A couple in a town in Massachusetts recently had an anniversary wedding-party with such a large gathering of their friends that the town hall had to be used for the occasion. Everything was delightful till one of the couple happened to think that the day they were celebrating so joyfully was not the anniversary of their marriage, but an aged mother's death ! They had confus ed the dates, and in this way made the strange mistake. When is a lawyer like a donkey ! When he is drawing a conveyance. NUMBER 13. A Huge Sell Over Two Hundred Medical Students Taken In. Medical students, as well as every oth er sort of students, are proverbial for practical joking, but about the best thing we ever heard of them in this line occu; red in this city yesterday. The first thing noticeable out of the usual routine at the University on that morning was a large, handsomely printed placard posted in the vestibule, and hav ing at the bottom the names of the well known firm of J. P. Morton & Co., tho Main street book-publishing house. Thi. placard announced that, in consideration of the fact that the students of the Uni versity had been liberal in their purchases of said firm, it had been decided to pre sent each and every one of the students a copy of the "Physician's Guide," a medical work of great merit." The pla card further annouueed that the etudei.U would be expected to call during the day and receive their presents. Of course, the praise of John P. Mor ton & Co. was sounded all over the Uni versity, and preparations were forthvi:u made by all the students, individually and in (quads, to call on their generous friendo on Main street. Now, John P. Morten & Co. all this time reposed in blissful ig norance of what was going on at the Ui i versity, and were as innocent of the pla card pested in the vestibulo as were D. Applcton & Co., or any other bookmen. It was all the work of some villainous students. Quite early in the day a squad of stu dents were on Main street, and in at Mor ton's. Their call for the "Physician's Guidtf" was promptly responded to. but when they told who they were, and l!..ic they had understood they were to get tlu book "on the dead," the clerks looked ::t each other in amazement and didn't at nil understand. In this emergency John i Morton & Co. themselves were called i;t to explain matter;, but they were equal! astounded when the errand of the studems was made known. They denied all know 1- edge of the placard, and then the students, with unusual long faces,'ooked at each i.tL'--er as much as the clerks had done. Ti. whole truth soon flashed upon them, how ever, and the scent of "mice" being pe culiarly apparent, they apologized to J. P. Morton & Co., and beat an inglori ous retreat. The sell was too good, though, ft,r them to divulge to their fellow student, even had their pride allowed them to a -knowledge being placed in ro ridiculous- a. position by a practical joke they had b.t ten at so readily. Again and again was the first scene repeated in tho book store, as, throughout the day, the students poured in, some times coming in squads, sometimes by' twos, and sometimes singly, and sure enough they were when they learned how ' they had been gulled. The clerks grew very weary of the joke, and of explainii; the matter to theirdisappointed visitors. They were glad enough when night cauic. and two hundred and eiht out of the two hundred and ten students in the University had been explained to. The end of lh sr " discomfiture was not yet, however, 'lo cap the climax, late in the evening, -gawky-looking fellow dropped in, and, moving doubtfully up to the counter, spoko hesitatingly and not without some coi-.-barrassment: "I reckon, all tiiem uooks is gone, ain't tluyr This was the last call, and the Uiu hundred and tenth student not making Lis appearance, the conclusion necessarily fol lowed that ho was the wretch who perpe trated the sell. He ia still at large. Louitvrfle Courier Journal. "Bot Wanted!" The editor of the" Erie Gazette, no doubt tired of the old ty. tern of apprenticeship, thus advertises fjr a boj' : "Wanted, at this office, a boy fo take' sheets from the press every Wedue&day a;:d Saturday afternoon. No limits as to ta1 v, and the said boy to consider that the fll- exists for his special convenience. If 1 -don't feel well, or wants to go fishing. .,c' play marbles, or see match games of bat-e ball, or go shopping with his girl, or visit his cousin, the paper will wait his sovereign pleasure. Anybody who presumes to criti cise bis efforts is to be immediately arrcnd for contempt. All the boys he knows ar to have free run of the office. The editor's time to be exclusively at the aforesaid boyV disposal. Salary to be drawn several year before. A boy possessing these qualifica tions, please report where he can be f .uuJ. and at what time a deputation of prim- may call upon him, and respectfully pie sent references of good character on the part of the ofilce and its employes."' A Tough Stoet. An old fellow whe never yielded the palm to any one In reelii g a knotty yarn, was put to his trump at hearing a traveler atata that once he 6w a brick house placed upon runners and drauu up a hill to a more favorable location, son half a mile distant. "What do you think of that. Uncle Eithel?" said the bystaod--ers. "O, fudge," said the old man, "I once saw a two -story stone house, down Hist, drawn by oxen three miles." A de?d m lence ensued. The eld man evidently La.I the worst end of it, and he saw it. Gath ering his energies, he bit off a huge bit f" pig-tail, by way of gaining time for thought. They drawed the stone house," said tho old man, ejecting a quantity of tobacco juice towards the fire place; "bat that wasn't the worst of the job after they'd done that, they went back and drawed the cella.-"' The stranger gave in. Good Hay Weathek When it raic pitchforks, three pronged ones- J
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