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VOLUME 3.
GOOD HEALTH
Is piramount to wealth. If the system if- ia
baJoidw purge out the vile l u mors and dis
tenipers with Roback'a Blood Pilli, and get the
internal organs performing their regular fonc
tiors. tnd once ia order, keep them bo by the
Roback'i Stomach Bitters.
DYSPEPSIA.
Thete prohabiy.no one disease with which
maLkibd are afflicted which is the source of so
nianv ailments as DisPErsi a, find there is no
more cerUiu cure than Roback's Stomach Bit
ters. A REMARKABLE FACT
That not a sine'e instance has come to the
kno e-Jj; of the proprietors, of the loilur of
llobacit's Medicines to give entire satisfaction
in the hundreds of thousands of caea in which
they have been ued; thu is worthy of remark
and undeniable evidnce of their intriucia mer-
GCD
I the pruife in the Hiouthiof evert hod y ii fa
vor of Kolmck'n Stomach Bitters, Blood Pi: Is
il Bluod Purifier.
IS IT RIGHT
Th.it you should bid defiance to all natural
ltw and the .cience of medi-nl men, and suffer
with l)pepia or Indigestion when Roback's
iStuin ich iiit.ers cau be procured at iuj dru
store.
AS A PREVENTIVE
Ajraiimt Mlaria, Fever and Ax'ie, and all dis
eases, arising from a torpid stale of the liver,
there i no ineuTckjo to hi'hiy f ecouiincuded
Hi Kob.ick's Stomuc-h Bitters.
THEY WILL CURE YOU
Oi'S r.fula, Erjsipelaa, Sick or Nervouj Ilead
nciie, HiliouHi :it Liver Complaint, Dyspepsia
r Iiidijre-iiion, Consumption, Pain in the Back
r Loin, (I ut, P'curisy, Leucorrhrei, Krr.p
s, and all dicaes arising from n dismdered
t-uteot t!:e atoniKcn Itobuck's Blood l'iils,
StuuMcb Bitter and Blood Purifier.
GRATIFYING
To know '.hat a leliabie remedy is within the
rvich of ever) body f i the radical cure of D ts
f'psiri or Im'.icestion . Such a remedy ia Ro
L.tck's Sloinsch Bitters. Suldby all Druggists.
JT-tV.d b; Lt.iiMON k MtaBAT. Ebi-uab'g.
ROHRER'S WILD CHERRY
TONIC BITTERS
ARE THE
BEST IN USE!
isi mm toxic bitters,
The very best in the Market
R. E. SELLERS & CO.,
AV 45 Wood St.. opposite St. Charles Hotel
Also, Entrance os. 102 L 1C4 Th;rd St.,
PITTSBURGH, PA.,
Z1T Wholesale Agents for the West. '
For sale by A. A. BARKER for Ebensburg
and vicinity fje.l l,'6f.-ly.
! 1869. SPEXNG ! 1869.
I Opining of NEW SILKS.
I Orssiso or XEW SHAWLS, '
1 OrE.siKo of NEW CHINTZES,
J OrtMNG of NEW POPLINS.
I Full stock of STAPLE and F -NCY
SPRING GOODS.
EYRE LAXOELL,
TOUHTH AND ARCH STREETS,
PHILADELPHIA.
K. B JOBS from AUCTION dnilr re-
pDar.rl.-bt.
I O II v n p n tt
S E
WHOLESLE DEALER IN
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC WINES
AND LlQUOItS.
? ,EANDS OP BRANDT, WHISKY,
IRISH WHISKY. GIN. &c, &c.
. rVifLi 1uae of Liquors, Wines,
to giv me a call at y- , .
mlbuddlng formerly ooou by T. Q. 8tewart I
' uuiisiuwil. A lie 77 1 KH tf
' 000) Feet of HEMLOCK LUMTJER.
?r0dCe- WiU
Adit... 8,f 4, Elllside, Westmoreland Co.,
" ' J mar.4.-2m.
ENTISTKY. The undersigned, a
graduate
of. the Balti
more College
of Dental Sur
gery, respect
fully offers his
pftorKs&ioNAi.
services to the
citizens of Eb-
ensburg and vicinity, which place he will viait
on the voubth Monday of each month, to re
main one week.
Angl3. SAM'L BELFOKD, D. D. S.
DR. H. B. MILLER, fim
Altoona, Pa.,
Operative and Mechanical DENTIST.
OiBce removed to Virginia street, opposite
the Lutheran church. Persons from Cambria
county or ekewhere who get work done by me
to the amount of Ten Dollars and upwards, will
have the railroad fare deducted from their bills.
All -woiiK wabaantsd. Jan. 21, lfcG9.-if.
TU. D. W. ZIEGLER, Surgeon Den-
- list, will visit Ebensburg pro
fessionally on the bt-UUr D Mox
one week, during which time he
may be found at the Mountain House.
PSPTeelh extracted without pain by the us
ol Nitrate Oxide, or Laughing Gas.
TAMES J. OAT3LYX, it. D.,
tenders his professional services as Phy
eioian and Surgeon to the citizens of CarroH
tewn and vicinity. OfGce in rear of build
ing occupied by J. BucE & Co. as a store.
Night calls can be made at Lis residence, one
door south of A. Ilaug's tin and hardware
store. rilay 9, 18C7.
TjT DEVEREAUX, mTd'I'hy-
BICIAK AND ScT.GtON, Suilljnit, Pa.
Office east end of MansioL. House, on Hail
Road street. Night calls may be made at
the office. fm23.tf.
J. LLOYD, successor to R. S.
Dunn, Dealer in Drvys, Medicines,
Paiiiis, 4'c Store on Main street, opposite
the "Mansion House," Ebensburg, Pa.
October 17. 1867.-Cm.
ILOID & CO., IJanlif r,
Pa
Gold, Silver, Government Loans, and
other Securities", bought and sdd. Interest
allowed on Time Leposits. Collections made
in all accessible points in the United States,
and a general Banking business transacted.
M. LEO YD & CO.,
Bakkeus, Altoona. Pa.
Drafts on the principal cities and Silver
and Gold fir sale. Collections made.
Moneys received on deposit, payable on de
mand, without interest, or upon time, with
iuterest at fair rates. an81.
rUANK W. HAY,
WHOLESALE and RETAi L Manufacturer,
of TIN. COrPKK and KIIEET-IKON
WAUE, Canal street, below Clinton, Johns
loicn, Fa. A Urge stock constantly
band.
r A SHOKMAKES..
. CKO. w. OATH Air
SHOEMAKER & O ATM AN, Arron
nkt at Law, Ebensmirg, Ta. Ofllcea on
High street, immediately ct of Huntley 'a
hardware store. apS.'CJ.'
L. M'LAUGHLIN
ITTOKNEY AT LAW, Johnstovn, Pa.
l Ofiice in the Exchange building, on the
Uorner ol Clinton ana L.ocust streets up
stairs. Wul attend to all business connect
ed with In profession.
Jan. 31. 1867.-tf.
B. L JOHNSTON'. J E. ECASLAN
JOHNSTON' & EC A NLA X,
Attorneys at Law,
Ebensburg, Cambria co., Pa.
Office opposite the Court House. -Ebensburg,
Jan. 31. 1867.-tf.
JOHN V. LINTON,
ITTOIINEY AT LAW, Johnstown. Fa.
l Ofllce in building on corner of Main and
Franklin street, opposite Mansion House,
second floor. Entrance on Franklin street.
Johnstown. Jan. 31. 1SG7. tf. ,
WILLIAM KITTELL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Ebensburg, Fa.
Office in Colonade Row, Centre street
Jan. 31, 1867.-tf.
ft L. PERSUING, Attokxey-at-
5 Law, Johnstoxcn, Pa. Office on Frank
lin street, tipstairs, over John Benton's
Hardware Store. Jan. 31, 1867.
WM. II. SEC II LEU, Attorni
Law, Ebensburg, Pa. Office in
EYAT-
in rooms
recently occupied by Geo. M. Reade, Esq , in
LOlonaae how, Centre street. - aug.S,
GEO. M. READE, Attorneat-Laic,
Ebensburg, Pa. Office in new building
recently erected on Centre street, two doors
from High street. aug.27,
THAMES C. EASLY, Attorney
at-Law, OarroUtoxcn, Cambria Co.. Fa,
Collections and all legal business promptly
attended to. Jan 31, 18G7.
A. KOPRLIN,
Johnstown.
T. W-DICK.,
EbenBborg,
T7"OPELIN & DICK, Attorsets-at-
JLw Law; EbenRburg, Pa. OfBce with Wm
Kittell, sq., Colonade Row. oct.22.-tf.
F..P. TIEIiNEY.
ITTOIINEY AT LAW,: Eiensburg, r&.
Office in Colonade Kow. '
Jan. 6. 1867-tf.
JOSEPH M'DONALD,
ITTORNEY AT LAW, Ebensburg. Pa.
J! Office on Centre street, opposite LiDton'a
Hotel. Jan. 31, 1S67-U.
JOHN FENLON,
ITTORNEY AT LAW, Ebensburg Pa.
ft Office on High street, adjoining his resi
dence. ' Jan 81. iabv.-u.
HKINKEAD, Justice of Vie Peace
and Claim Aqent. Office removed to
the office formerly occupied by M. iiasson
Esq.. dee'd, on High St. Ebensburg. s jlS
If S. STRAYER, Justice of tub
J" Peace, Johnstown. Pa. Office on th
corner of ' Market street and' Locust' alley,
Second Ward . dec.I2.:ly
far j- gut s&&&.sg&
dat of each month, and rcmahifcW3tViiV
E B EN S BURG, PA, THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1869.
Kjje Jpad's gfpartment.''
XO TIME LI RE THE OLD TIM E.
BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
There's no time like the old time, when you
and I were young ;
When the buds of April blossomed, and the
birds of Spring time sung!
The garden', brightest glories by Summer
suns are nursed ;
But, oh, the sweet, sweet violets, the flowers
that opened first !
There's no place like the old place, where
you and I were born ;
Where we lifted first our eyelids on the
splendors of the morn.
From the milk white breast that warmed us,
from the clinging arms that bore ;
Where the dear eye glittered o'er us that
will look upon us no more !
There's no love like the old love, that we
courted in cur pride.
Though our leaves are falling, falling, and
fadiog side by side ;
There are blossoms all around us with the
colors of our dawn,
And we live in borrowed sunshine when the
light of day is gone.
There are no times like the old times thev
shall never be forgot !
here's no place like the old place keep
greeu the dear old spot !
here aie no frienda like the old friends
may Heaven proloug their lives!
here are no Iwves like our old lovas God
bless our loving wive!
Salts, Slific&ts, ntcbofes, tfc.
THE WILDERMESS.
UY REV. AY II. H. II. ML RICA Y.
The Adirondack Wilderness, or the
North Woods, as it is sometimes called,
ies between the Lakes George and Cham-
pLin on the east, and the river St. Law
rence en the north and west. It reaches
northward as far as the Canada line, and
southward to Booneville. Its area is
about that of the btate of Connecticut.
The southern part is known as the Brown
I'racl Hegicn, with which the whole wil-
dermis by some is confused, bat with no j
more accuracy than any one county might
be said to comprise an entire State. In
deed, Brown's Tract is the least interest-
Dg portion of the Adirondack region. It
acks the lofty mountain scenery, the in
tricate mesh-work of lakes, and wild
grandeur of the country to the north. It
is the lowlnnd district, comparatively
tame and uninviting. Not until you
reach the Kacq-iette do you get a gliaipse
of the magnificent scent ry which makes
this wilderness to rival Switzerland
There, on the very ridge-board of the vast
water-fhed which slopes northward to the
St. Lawrence, . eastward to the Hudson,
and southward to the Mohawk, you can
enter upon a voyage the like of which, it
is safe to say, the world does not any
where else furnish. For hundreds of
miles I have boated up and down that
wilderness, going ashore only to "carry"
around a fall, or cross some narrow ridge
dividing the otherwise connected lakes.
For weeks I have paddled my cedar shell
in all directions, swinging northerly into
the St. Regis chain, westward nearly to
Potsdam, southerly to the Black Hirer
country, and thonce penetrated to that al
most unvisited region, the ''South
Branch," without seeing a face but my
guide's, and the entire circuit, it must be
remembered, was through a wilderness
yet to echo the lumberman's axe. It is
estimated that a thousand lakes, many
yet unvisited, lie embedded in the vast
forest of pine and hemlock. From the
summit of a mountaiu, two years ago, I
counted, as seen by my naked eye, forty
four lakes gleamiDg amid the depths of
the wilderness like gems of purest ray
amid the folds of emerald colored velvet.
Last summer I mot a gentleman on the
llacquetfe who had just received a letter
from a brother in Switzerland, an artist
by profession in which he said that "hav
ing traveled over all Switzerland, and the
Rhine and Rhone region, he had not met
with scenery which, judged from a purely
artistic point of. view, combined so many
beauties in connection with such grandeur
as the lakes, mountains and forests of the
Adirondack region presented to the gazer's
eye." And yet thousands are ia Europo
to-day as tourists who never gave a pass
ing thought to this marvellous country
lying as it were at there very doors. An
other reason why I visit tha Adirondacks,
and urge others to do so, is because I
deem the excursion eminently adapted to
restore impaired health. Indeed it is
marvelous what benefit phypically is often
derived from . a trip of a few week s to
those woods. To such as are afflicted
with thai dire parent of ills, dyepepsia, or
have lurking in their system consumptive
tendencies, I most earnestly recommend
a month's experience among the pines.
The air which you there inhale is such as
can be found only in high mountainous re
gions, pure, rarined and bracing. The
amount of venison steak a consumptive
will consume after a week's residence in
.that appetizing atmosphere is a subject of
daily and increasing wonder. I have
Pknown delicate ladies and fragile school
girls, to whom ail food at home was dis
tasteful and eating a pure matter of duty,
average a gain of a pound per day for the
round trip. This is no exaggeration, as
some one who will read these lines knows.
The spruce, hemlock, balsam and nine,
which , largely compose this wilderness,
yield upon the air, and especially at night,
all their curative qualities. Many a eight
have I laid down upon my bed of balsam
boughs and been lulled to 6leep by the
murmur of waters and the low si-'hino
melody of the pines, while the air was
Iadtn with the mingled perfume of caJar,
of balsam and the water-lily. Not a
few, far advanced in that dread disease,
consumption, have found in this wilder
ness renewal of life and heallh. I recall
a youi'g man, the son of wealthy parents
in New York, who lay dying in that
great city, attended as he was by the best
skiil that money could secure. A friend
ealliug upon hitn one day chanced to
ppeak of the Adirondacks, and that many
bad found help from a trip to their region.
From that moment be pined for the
woods. lie insisted on what his family
called "his insane idea," that the moun
tain air and the urotan of tha forest
would cure him. It was his daily request
and entreaty that he ruij:ht go. At last
bis parents consented, the more readily
because the physicians assured them that
their son's recovery was impossible, and
his death a mere matter of time. They
started with him for the north in search
,of life. When he arrived at the point
where he was to meet his guide he was
too reduced to walk. The Uide seeing
his condition refused to take him into the
wood?, fearinpr, aa he plainly expressed it,
that Li would "die on his hands." At
last unother guide was prevailed upon to
nci . i.uu, hui pu uiutu iur iu money, as i
he afterwards told nap, but becauee he j
pitied the young man, and felt that "one j
so near death as he was should be grati- j
fled even in his whims."
- l.tktl , v . . , I, A 1 . . '
ihe boat was halt filled with CL-dar, j
pir.c, and b.ilsam bows, and the young
man, carried in the arms of his guide
from tho house, laid at full length upon
them. The camp utensils wer8 put at
one end, the guide seated himself at the
ether, and the little boat passed with the
living and dyiug down the la.ke, and
was soon .ost to the erouD watchin?
thein amid the islands to the south. This !
was in early June. Tha liist week the !
guide carried the younz man on his back
over all tqs portages, lifting him in and
out of the boat as he mihta chill. But
the healing properties of the balsam and
pine, which wire his bod by day and j
night, b?gan to exert their power. Awake i
or asleep, be inhaled their fragrance. j
Their pungent and healing odors penotra- j
ted his diseased and irritated bin js. The
eecond day out his cough was less sharp
and painful. At the end' of tha first
week he could walk by leaning on the
paddle. The second week he needed no
support. The third week the cough
ceased entirely. From that time he im
proved with wonderful rapidity. He
went hi" the first of June, carried in
the arms of his guide. The second week j
of November he "came out" bronzed as !
an Indian, and as hearty. Ia five months
he had gained sixty-five pounds of iloh, J
and llesli, too. "well packed on," as they j
say in the wood. Coming out he carried ',
the boat over ail portage., the vary same
over which a few months before the guide
had carried him, and pulled as strong an
oar as any araa.eor in the wilderness.
His meeting his family ! leave the reader
to imagine- I he wilderness received him
almost a corpse. It returned hiri to his
home and the world an happy and healthy
a man as ever bivouacked under its pines.
1 his, I am aware, is an extreaia case.
and, as such, may seem exaggerated ; but
it is not. I might instance many other
cases which, if less startling, are equally
corroborative of the general statement.
There is one sitting near me as I write,
the color of whose check, and the clear
brightness of whose eye cause my heart
to go out in ceaseless graliiudo to the
woods, amid which she found thai health
and strength of which they are the proof
and sign. For five summers have we
visited the wilderness. From four to
seven weeks, each year, have we breathed
the breath of the mountains ; bathed in
the waters which sleep at their base ; and
made our couch at night of moss and bal
sam boughs, beneath the whispering
trees. I feel, therefore, that I am able
to speak from experience touching this
matter ; and I believe that, all things be
ing considered, no portion of our country
surpasses,' if indeed any equals, in health
giving qualities, the Adirondack wilder
ness, f .
Mr. ' Brady's Last Writing. The
following remarkable passage is tho last
ever written by Jamc9 T. Brady, the emi
nent New York lawyer, who died not long
since:
"Our brothers in the pilgrimage will
fall at our side,: but, however tbiekly the
arrows of death may shower, we can,
while our powers contiuue, do naught but
move on until we reach tho awful instant
when we are to exchange the feeble pulses
of transitory existence for the ceaseless
throbbings of eternal life. There, even
there, at that mysterious frontier, if we'
have been faithful and fearless in the march
we may lie down obedient to destiny, with
the exalted hope that, after all the objects
of this world shall have become lost .for
ever to our mortal sight, there may be un
folded to our new aod spiritual vision
another realm of unimaginable glory,'
where we, and all whom we loved on
earth, may realize the promise which the
Great Ruler of tho Universe has made un
to the Just."
WILKIK3 OH TEE PIANO.
"Mrs. Wilkins, of all the aggravating
women I ever came across, you are the
worst. I believe you'd raise a riot
in the cemetery if you were dead, you
would. Don t you ever go prowling i
around any Q.iaker meeting, or you'll
break it up. Why? .Why, you'd put i
any other man's back up until he broke '
his spine. O, j'ou're too annoying to j
live ; I don't want to bother with you. i
Give me more covers, and go to sleep." j
'But, Wilkins, dear, just listen a min- j
ute. We must have that piano, "and ',
"Oh, don't, daar me, I won't have it. ;
You're the only dear thing around here; j
j'ou're dear at any price. I tell you once j
for all that I don't get any new piano, and
Mary Jane don't take singing lessons as !
long as I'm her father. There, if you j
don't understand that, I'll say it over, '
again. And now stop your clatter, and j
go to sleep. I'm tired of hearing you
cackle." i
"Hut Wilk
"Now don't aggravate me. I say
Mary Jane shan't loam to sing, ami plant
another instrument of torture in the house,
while I'm boss of the family. Hor voice
is just like yours ; its got a twang to it
like blowing on the ede of a piece of
paper."
"Ain't you ashamed, Wilk
,it,.. . i.i -i I
"Its disgrace enough Jo have vou sit-
tt . i i . . ,3 ;
ting down and pretending to sing, and
A ' A .1 f t . I .
i ry injj to ueaien peoptP, wiinout uavln
the children do it. The first time I heard
you ein, I started round to the station
house and got pis policeman, because I
thought there was a murder in the house,
and they wen, cutting you up by inches.
I wish somebodv would. I wouldn't eo
for any policemen not much."
"I declare, you are n perfect brute."
"Not much I wouldn't; but Smith he
told me yesterday that hi3 family were
kept awake half of the night by the noise
you made, and said if I didn't stop those i
dosrs from howlintr in mv -ellr hM ba !
obliged to complain to the Board f j
Health."
"What an awful story, Mr. Wilk "
"Then 1 told him it was you, and you
thought you could sing ; and he advised
me as a friend to get a divorce, because
he had said n) man could live happily
with any woman who had a voice like a
cross cut faw. He sai 1 I might as well
have a machine shop with n I'd of files at
work ia the house as that, and he'd ralh-
er at any tunc."
"i'hu-h ! I don't care what
Smith
says."
'And yuii are talking about a new pi-
ano I
u hj, haven't we got musical in
struments enough in the house ? There's
IL'l fern'S Montgomery blowing away
j in the garret for ten days with that old key
hule, until he's got so black in the face
that he won't get his color back for a
month, and then he only gets a spurt out
of her every now and then. He's blown
enough wind in hor to (ict up a hurricane,
and I expect nothing clo but he'll get the
old machine so chock full that she'll blow-
back at him some day, and bust his
brains out, and all along of your tomfool
cry. You're a pretty mother, you are.
You'd better go and join some asylum for
feeble-minded idiots, you had"
"Wilkin", I declare you arc too bad,
for "
"Yes, and there's Bucephalus Alexans
der ; he's got his head full of your senti
mental nonsense, and he thinks he's in
lore with a girl around the corner, and he
meanders about and tries to sigh, and
won't eat h'n victuals, and he's cot to ro
ing down into the celler, and trying to
sing 'No one to love' on the coal-bin,
and he liked to scare the hired girl out of
her senses, so that she went up stairs and
had a fit on the kitchen door-mat. and
came near dying on my hands."
"That's not true, Mr. Wil "
"AnJ never ennio to until I put her
h?ad under the hydrant. And then what
does Bucephalus Alexander do but go
go round night before last and try to sere
nade the girli until the old man Listed up
the sash and cracked away at BucephaluB
Alexander with an old boot, and hit him
in the fac and blackened his eye, because
he thought it was two cats a yelping.
Flang such a mother as you are? You go
right to work to ruin your own offspring."
"You're talking nonsense, Wilk "
"You're about as fit to bring up chil-
dren as a tadpole is to run a ferry boat,
you are ; but, while I'm alive, Mary Jane
takes no singing lessons. Do you under
stand I It's bad enough to have her bat
taring at the piano like she had some
grudge against it, and to have her visitors
wriggle around, fidget and look miserable,
as if they had the cramp colic, while you
make her play for them, and have thena
getting up aud lie, and ask what it was,
and how 'beautiful' It is, and steep (heir
souls in falsehood and hypocrisy, ail on
account of you. You'll have enough to
answer for, old woman, without that."
"I never did such a thing, and 3-ou "
"Yes, and then you think Mary Jane
can play, don't you ? , You think she can
sit down and tackle that piano, and jerk
out more music than a whole orchestra,
don't you ? But she can't. You might
just as well iet a crow-bar to openicg an
oyster, as to set her to playing the piano."
"You talk like a fool, Wilkins "
"Play ! She play ? Pshaw ! Why
she's drummed away at that polka for six
months, and she can't get her grip on it
yet. You might as well try to sing a
long , metre tune to a hornpipe as to un
dertake to dance to that polka. It would
jerk your legs out at the sockets, certain,
or else it would give you St. Vitus' dance,
and cripple you for life."
"Mr. Wilkins, I'm going to tell you a '
secret.
"Ob, I don't want to hear 3'our se
crets; keep them to yourself."
"It's about Mary Janc'a singing."
"What!"
"Mary Jane, you know her singing."
."I don't know, and I don't want to ;
she shan't take lessons, so rlry up."
'But ehe shall take them "
"I say she shan't."
"She shall, and you can't help it."
"By George, what do you mean ? I'
master in this hous-2
know."
1'J
like
you
"Ye?, but she's been taking lesson for
a whole quarter, while you were down
town, and I paid the bill out of the mar
ket money."
"Well, I hope I may be shot! Yon
don't mean to say that ? Weil, if you
ain't a perfectly abandoned wretch, h-iug
me. I'm going to sleep alona after this."
And Wilkius kicked out on to the floor,
and went into the other room.
But lie made up with his wife, for I
heard him quarreling with her next day,
because she left a
workbasket lull or i
,,c,:u"-5 v" l' cuaii, covered wiin n piece
r t , . , . 1
of work, and he set down on it.
1 ! .1.. 1 . . - - . . 1 -., -
The FinnLEK, His Wife, ant the
Fiijdlk Cask. A fiddler and his wife
who had rubbed through life, a most
couples usually do,sometimesgood friends,
at others not quite, so well, one day
happened to have a dispute which was
conducted with becoming spirit on both
sides. The wife was suro she was rijiht.
and the husband was resolved to have his
own way. What was to ba done is such
a case ? The quarrel grew worse by ex
planation, and at last the fury of bo'h
roe to such PIfcIi ,Iiat tlicy nlaJe tt
vow never to sleep in the same bed for
for the future. This was the most rash
vow that could bo imagined, for they still
wcrefiier.ds at bottom, and, besides, they
had but one bed in the house. However
resolved they were to go through with it,
and at night the fiddle-case was laid in
livid between them, in order to mike a
separation In this manner thev contin
ued fur threeweeks; every nisrht the fiddle
case buing placed as a barrier to divide
them.
By this time, however, both heartily
repiMited of their vow, resentment was at
ao end, and their hiva began to return ;
they wished the fi Idle-case away, but
each had too much spirit to begin. One
night, however, as they were both lying
awake with the detested fiddle-case be
tween them, tho husband happened to
sneeze, to which the' wife, as is usual in
such cases, bid God bless him : "Ay,
but," returns the husband, "woman, do
you say that from your heart I" ''Indeed
I do, my poor Nicholas," cries his wife .
"I say it with all my heart." "If so,
then," says the husband, "we had as
good remove the fiddle-case." Goi.d
SMixa. UsrnEMEniTATBD Eloquence. As an
example of powerful unpremeditated elo
quence, may be given a short answer of
Curren, the lrishorator, to a certain Judge
Robinson "the author of many scurril
ous political pamphlets" who, upon one
occasion, when the barrister was ar;ruin;
a case before him, had the impudence to
reproacn Curran with his poverty, by tell
ing him that he suspected "his law libra
ry was rather contracted.'
"It is true ; my Lord," said Curran,
with dignified respect, "that I am poor,
an1 the circumstance has certainly cur-
tailed mv librarv ; my books are no! nu
merous, but they are select, and I. hope
they have been persued with proper dis
positions. I have prepared myself for
this high profession rather by the study of
good works, than by the composition of
a great many bad ones. I am not ashamed
of my poverty, but I should be ashamed
of my wealth, could I have stooped to
acquire it by ser ility and conniption. If
I lise not to rank, I fchall at leard be hon
est ; and should I ever cease to be so,
many an example shows me thut an ill
gained reputation would m.ike me the
would universally and the more notori
ously contemptible."
"Just as I Effected." An old lady
was one night reading a passage in the
Bible, which speaks of faith that can re
move mountains. Now, there w its be
hind her humble dwelling a high hill,
which hid the nearest village from iriew.
She had often wished this hill- might be
taken ; so. before retiring, she prayed that
it mightbe removed, because fhe had
faith that it would be done. But in the
morning, when she arose, she lifted her
curtain, and lo ! the mountain was still
there. Then the old woman said to her
son : "Just as I expected, John ; the old
hill stands there yet !"
During the first, battle of Bull Kun a
brigadier general discovered a soldier con
cealed in a hole in the ground and ordered
him to 'join his regiment. The man,
looking him full in the face, placed his
thumb upon his nose and replied, "No you
don't, eld fellow ; you want this hols
yourself."
NUMBER 14,
A CHILD SOMWAEIBULIST.
A Milwaukee, Wis., paper tells the fal
lowing remarkable story :
"Some three months ago a farmer nam
ed Knuteson, living a few miles froio
Stockholm, went away from his . house,
leaving at home a daughter about thirteen
years of age, and the only occupant of th.
house. Upon the return of Knuteson he
found the little girl lyin; on the bod in fc
half insensible state. From marks about
the girl's neck it appeared that she had
been severely choked and sadly frighten
ed. As soon as she had in a degree re
covered, fhe told her father that shortly
after he liad left the house a rr.an cam
in, went to a bureau, in the drawer of
which was a pocket book containing two
SI 00 and one 50 Government bonds and
papers of value, nnd took the book wi'h
its contents. Upon 'securing thesa the
man grasped the girl by the throat nnd
made her swear all the solemn oaths ho
could think of not to tell her father or any
body else who he was, or give a hint
which might lead to his detection. AEida
from tha bonds, tha book contained papers
that were of importance to the farnu-r,
and the Iwss of which he severely ftdt.
"The girl acknowledged that the knew
the man well, but could not tell who If
was, as she had promised not to. Slit
t-"-"
sorrow ci her lather ovr the loss of pa-
pers so valuable to him ; but despite all
this, she could not be induced to give the
name of the thief. Whenever urged to do -so,
with tears she said the could not she
had given her promise and could not break .
it.
"The grief of the girl at the. sorrow of
her father, and the excitement through
which she passed, were the means of
throwing her into a severe fever, and for
many days 6he was quite out of her head.
In her delirium she talked quite incessant
ly of the robbery, but the only word blia
uttered that in a.ny way gave a clue to
the robber, was an occasional appeal to
Ca?pet" to spare her, and she would not
tell. As Casper Schmidt was a young
man who formerly worked for her father
on tho farm, and was well known by the
girl, suspicion turned toward him, and as
he had been tracked from Now Stockholm
to this city, the officer came herein search
of him. As it was shown that Casper
had remained hi Milwaukee but a few
days and left, the search was ineffectual.
"When the child had nearly recovered,
from her illness, and was able to walk
about a little, its mother, who 6lept with
' Ir, awoke just at daylight one morning to
find the bed empty. Calling, and re
cehing no nnswer, tho mother gave the
alarm to the f.ither. who arose and hast
ened out of tl e house. In the light snow
that had fallen, he saw tracks of the
child's feet leading to tho barn, and fol
lowed them. Entering the barn the farm
er saw a fight which paralysed him a
singla timber, stretched from a scaffolding
to a small platform hih up, and on this
timber tho girl was slowly working her
way along. The position was a danger
ous one, and the father was aware that few
persons ,cven with steady nerves wou! 1
care to take it. The father, not daring
to speak, -xnd fairly holding his breaih from
fear, watched the girl as she made her way
across the limber, and breathed easier
when he saw her at length reach the plat
form and secure a firm foothold. Then
she reached among some old boxes, and
drew out the lost pocket book. As sbe
did so she uttered a cry of joy, and imme
diately after a cry of affright. "
"The farmer did not stop, but reach!
the platform by a ladder, and when thero
found the girl holding ihe lost pocket book
in her hand and trembling with fear.
The girl was in her night clothes, and
was soon taken fioin her position and into
the house and to bed. She could give no
account of how she reached the platfotni,
only that she had been thinking very liarL
of her father's loss, and dreamed one night--that
the thief had gone to the barn, and.
up to the scaffolding and across the tiua-
ber, and hidden the stolen article amou"
the old boxes. She dreamed, too, of fol
lowing him and recovering it, and it w.-is.
understood that she had made this peril
ous trip in her sleep.
"The pocket book was found focontni-'&
all the papers lost, excepting the bondj,
and the finding was another evidence of ins
guilt of the young man Casper, he having"
frequently walked across the timber, pie-'
ferring the dangerous route to the rooie
easy one of ascending tlie ladder, w hen h
Lad business among the old boxes."
Too Mccn for Her. A good story
is related of a prudish old maid who at.-,
plied at a certain fashionable photograph -gallery
to hare her picture taken. A
old maids are sometimes ot a very inquisi
tive nature, always poking around where
they have co business, she accidentally
looked into the machine, and to her hor
ror discovered that objects are reflect A
inverted, or as she expressed it, "upsidf .
down." She peremptorily refused to si r
any more, and, adjusting ber bonne
ribbons, remarked that "That gama w
played out. She wasn't going to be stf
up In that manner, if she never had pjc
ture;" and, with a swing of the "V .Iter'
which would have done credit to Yew
York Broadway fashionable she ra nej
from the room with an air of Insulted;
nity.
A friend of ours had a. surprise nsrtv
the ether night.
'j.was,a Doy,
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