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OhUME 4.
EBENSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1870.
NUMBER 31.
He Cambria Freeman
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iiih-a-duont insertion.
Resolutions of Sureties, or communica-
s 't a personal Lature must be paid for
advef tis-cmit.
Jol! I'RINTIXG.
We Live made arrangements by which
Mr. do or have done all kiduh i plain
! Iucy Job Pi hit in.s, such as Books,
niliets. show Cards, ttill and l.ettej
Js, Handbills. Circulars. &c, in the best
s of the art ami at the most, moderate
o,n, A!.s(), all kinds of Hiding. Blank
ts. Ro:ik I'.iniiiiiL'. Ac .executed toorder
"A us tho best and as cheap as the
ajx..
BENSBURC FOUNDRY
AU1 I. H I.L 12 LAST!
tW FIRM, NEWBUILDINGS, &c.
J AVINO ywri li;?il tlip well known F.B
J. KNilil'U; FOl N DRY from .Mr. Edw.
asul inbuilt, mid enlarged it almost en
f. (wide refining ii with new machinery,
i;!riiiei s a.e now jrepared to furni.sh
K. PARLOR 1IEATIXO SIX) ITS,
-t latfrt a;id most iipprnved patterns
u.MUMi MAUIHM'S. MILL UEAIt-
KOiE and WATER WH F.KLS of every
nriion. IRON FENCING, PLOUGHS
PLOUGH CASTINGS, ami in fact all
h f article manufactured in ;i first class
n". Jol Work of all kind attended to
Ml? ati.l ilone cheaply.
e fpeciul nitention of Farmers U invited
!!? pntci.tcl rLOUOUS which we
; iiiesule nglu to niunufacnire and fell
county, aiic" which are admitted to be
'pl over intiDilucetl to the public.
"Wig ouifelves capable of performing
- hi unr ; ,e in tno rnnst satiJ ininr.
''tt.Mid knowing that we can do work at
ttrncis thao hare been chai ned iu this
XUIiilVblTOtrifi.ra .,.,..(; ! . .1..
y;"V !om,d worthy oi liberal patronage.
li'L'i1!0'-5 mJe to wholesale dealers.
i 1 '4 ill u;iBil 1UI UiU
f". orc..t;.P9 Riven ; exci,nll:e
Fi' ntm m, ... - -
COXV ER Y, Y1NROE & CO.
'.burg, Scjjt.2, IfCB.
fARMERS, Look to Your Interests,
SI CUT OXK or
SPROUT'S COSIDIXED
",IBUD0 HtFKCItT COMDIXtD
pork and Knife Manufactured.
lVERY F0ItK WARRANTED.
118,1 ",umber can be supplied for
wuntr, orderH for tr is celebrated
U"J ork and Knife should
be eeut in Cui)j to
StAgmt for Cambria County.
IELgrVppT l? Ir,n Pu,lea- Also,
Ftu.r,. n i LES for fabtenining PuIIcts
tct 1. 1 . tne 111091 convenient faa
w 'down Tei as thcy can be Put UP
ms.,. "u"ut 1,10 us oi ladders.
acc:
9. 18C9. 6m.
IN
teR.AND SHEET-IKON
Warp SUAu5Klvr.
;n.JJ'.-T.Havinir rurchased th
tne tools
1
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'ne r."i ' lu,m". a leased
otil!; "nt occupied by S. Singleton,
"'0t Mr T r .,,.. -r. T
' a suh! 1 ' P0"11 the PUre of Zahm
:'iiwns of P " Tould wpeclfully inform
Ik:. - -oensburi ami n-iia
1 (!
rtein n eR.nd roterial,but fully
IvinE!06 a9.llke art'c' r sold by
PWdton. l" 6 cou"ly. Special at
1 4f kinda rg and P"ttinB up S POUT
V in iJ. "aniination of my work
3S1
tc f
all
n "thi t ' "'"n. ann i uave
B?S T0 LAND OVVNERS.-
iT4111 of the D'ure9 01 wa"a"s. and of the
f drift ..Pyhie thesam .
PJeioiSm lh? official recordB how
biK Patent f'om th. Land Of-
rof ku,'Zr iPtented lands, under
Vt'itt th tb 20111 of May-1864
r of tU b'reto'8'lred by the
5tf
".March UrM0..Tr: &
1870. Summer. 1870.
I am now prepared to offer
SUPERIOR INDUCEMENTS
TO CASH PUKCH ASKRS OF
innur o nnr.i
iUUli ML I'Ji
I K li IU lT I I : k
KITIIKR AT
WHOLESALE OR RETAIL.
My ptock consists in part of every variety of
Tin, beet-Iron,
COPPER AND BRASS WARES,
F.NAM KI.I.KD AND IM.AIN
SAUCE-PANS. BOILERS &c ,
COAL SHOVELS. MINK LAMPS, OIL
CANS. IIOUSF.FURNISIIING HARD
WARE OF EVERY KIND.
Sprat's Anti-Dust
HEATING am COOKING STOVES
EXCELSIOR COOKISG S1VVES,
NOBLE, TRIUMPH and PARLOR COOK
ING STOVES,
And any Cooking Stove desirod I will get
when ordered at manufacturer's prices.
Odd Stove Plates and Grates, &c, for re
pairs, on hand for the Stoves I sell ; others
will be ordered when wanted. Particular
attention given to
Spouting, Valleys and Conductors,
all of which will be made out of best mate
rials and put up by competent workmen.
Lamp Burners, Wick and Chimneys
WHOI.K9AI.B OR KETAII..
I would call particular attention to the Light
House liurner, with Glass Cone, for giv"ng
moie liidit. than any other in ue. Also, the
Paragon Burner, for Ciude Oil.
SUGAR KETTLESaND CAULDRONS
of all sizes constantly on hand.
Special attention given to
Jobbing in Tin, Copper and Sheet-Iron.
at lowest possible lates.
Wiioiesai.e Merchants' Lists
now ready, and will be sent on npp.icatioii
by mail or in person
Hoping to see all my old customers and
many new ones thi Spiing, I return ray
most sincere thanks fcir the very liberal pa
tronage I have already received, and will
endeavor to pleas : ail who may call, wheth
er they buy or not.
FRANCIS W. HAY.
Johnstown, March 7. 1867.
G
'REaT RKnrcTiox jx Pkices !
TO CASH MY EES!
AT Till: I.III ASIU It
HO li S E-F LI Pi i I S Hi A G 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 Stores, of the most popular kinds ; 2Y;t
tcare of every description, of my own man
ufacture ; HarJu-are 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
giat variety, Fcitsors. Shears, Razors and
Strops Axes, Hatchets. Hammers, Boring
Machines, Augers. Chissels, Planes, Com
passes, Squares, Files, Rasps, Anvils, Vises,
Wrenches, Rip, Panel and Cross-Cut Saws,
Chains of all kinds. Shovels. Spaoes. Scythes
and Snaths, Rakes, Turks, blcigh Dells,
Shoe Lasts, Pegs. Wax Bristles. Clotb.es
Wiingers, Grind Stones. Patent Molasses
Gates and Measures. Lumber Sticks, Horse
Nails, HoTFe Shoes, Cast Steel. Rides. Shot
Guns, Revolvers, Pistols, Cartridges, Pow
der, Caps, Lead, iSrc, Odd Stove Plates,
Grates and Fire Bricks, Well and Cistern
Pumps and Tubing; Harness and Saddlery
Ware of all kind ; Wooden and Willow Ware
in great variety ; Carbon Oil and Oil Lamps,
Fish Oil, Lard Oil, Linseed Oil, Lubricating
Oil, Rosin, Tar, Glassware, Paints, Varnish
es. Turpentine. Alcohol. &c.
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 and
CIGARS; Paint. Whitewash, Scrub. Horse,
Sl oe. Dusting, Varnish, Stove. Clothes and
Tooth Brushes, all kinds and sizes; Bed
Cords and Manilla Ropes, and many other
articles at the lowest rates for CASH.
(fyHauce Spouting made, pair d and put
up at low rates for cash. A liberal discount
made to country dealers buying Tinware
wholesale. GEO. HUNTLEY
Ebensburg. Feb. 28. 1867,-tf.
G
EORGE'W. YEAGER,
Wholesale and Ilets.ll Dealer In
HEATING AND COOK STOVES
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION,
TH. COPPER Jffl SHIET-ISi WARE
OF HIS OWN MANUFACTURE,
And GENERAL JOBBER in SPOUTING
aud all other work in his line.
Virginia Street, near Caroline Street,
ALTOOX.4, PA,
The only dealer in the city having the right to
tell the renowned " UARLEY SHEAF"
COOK S rOVE, the moet perfect
complete and satisfactory
Stove ever introduced
to the public
Stock Immense. - Prices Low.
satisfaction guaranteed. .
IjlRANK D. STOKM, Practical Sur
vcvob., EEBNgBUka. Pa. Office on Cea
tr etreV)opposUe Colonade Row. (mj.5.)
jje poet's grpartrntnt.
PrLLIXO IIAR1 ACJAIXSTTIIE TIDE.
In the wr rid I've gained my knowledge.
And for it have had to pay;
Tho' I never went to college,
Yet I've beard the poet's say:
Life is like a mighty river.
Rolling on from day to day
Hen are vessels launched upon it,
Sometimes wrecked and cast away.
Many a bright, gooddiearted fellow,
Many a noble minded man.
Finds himself in water shallow
Then assist him if you cau.
Some succeed at every turning.
Fortune favors every scheme;
Others, too, though more deserving.
Have to pull against the stream.
If the wind is in your favor.
And you'vo weathered every squall.
Remember those who luckless labor.
Never get fair wiuds at all;
Working hard, contented, willing,
Struggling thro life's ocean wide
Not a friend and not a shilling
Pulling hard against the tide.
Don't give way to foolish sorrow.
Let this keep you iu good cheer:
Brighter days may come to-morror
If you try and persevere.
Darkest nights will have a morning,
Tho' the sky be overcast;
Longest lanes must have a turning,
And the tide will turn at last.
Salts, Shears, lucbotcs, t.
STEPHEN APPLETOK'S WIFE.
When Stephen Applet or. had lived
some thirty five years a bachelor, he be
thought him that it would be well to get
manied, and looked around him accord
dingly for a wife. Had others looked
for him, they would probably have cho
sen a self-contained, decorous person past
thirty, and would not have been particu
lar as to looks, iiiasu.uch as Stephen was
no beauty himself, and never had been.
He, however, greatly to the surprise of
every mortal who knew him, walked up
the church aisle one Sunday morning,
with a very pretty girl upon his aim, and,
after the service, introduced her to his
friends among the congregation as his
wife. Sho looked a great deal more like
his daughter, and a blushing, .smiling,
loving hale creature, who must, so far,
have had a happy life, to have brought
out of it so many happy dimples.
So she had, indeed. A half-dozen
bright-eyed sisters, and a mother who was
only an older sister in years, bad cried
bitterly when Stephen Appleton had
marched off from their country home with
one of their number on his arm, and hud
gone so far as to ask each other confiden
tially : 44 What Tilly could have seen in
that old fellow " And certainly it seemed
almost a mystery that such solemn woo
ing 6hould have proKpcrcd with such a
merry girl wooing without many of
those accessories, which women hold so
dear, of praises and caresses.
Probably, poor Tilly thought they were
all to come after marriage. 4'IIe's not
handsome, perhaps," Tilly would say ;
"but he's very prepossessing, arid he has
such a mind !"
And then it seemed to her that he need
ed some one to look after him, to sew on
his buttons, and tiu his cravat, and prop
erly prepnre his tea, which he had a cus
tom of making wretchedly for himself in
his dusty little study.
So she left home and love, and plunged
into the maelstrom of wedded life with a
man who had so stiongly imbued himself
with the idea that woman was his inferior,
that he thought it a waste of intellect and
time to love one overmuch, or to study
her tastes and fancies for a moment, if
they conflicted with his own.
She, the inferior, bad on the contrary,
said to herself, 44I must try to adapt ray
self in every way to Stephen and had
thought also that sho would never find
happiness in anything which did Dot
please him. She bad joyfully accepted
all his invitations to weariful lectures, and
refused to enjoy her favorite pastime, tho
polka, when who discovered that he dis
approved of it. And now, in her plain
little home, she hopefully aud smilingly
took up the dull routine of woman's house
hold drudgery, and made all fresh, and
sweet, and pleasant, fed her genius and
hero daintily, and saw to his stockings
and buttons.
He hardly knew it. He never awoke
out of bis hard and cruel self-absorption
sufficiently to be aware of her constant
thought for him He gave her so much
money a week and found that it sufficed.
She had a home and clothes ; that, it was
his theory, was what women married for.
He knew she was pretty, but it was
his right to have as pretty a wife as he
could get. And she adorned herself with
ribbons, and twined flowers in her hair,
and took thought about her cuffs and col
lars in the vain hope of being told just
once that these pretty things became her.
Woman's vanity should never be en
couraged, was one of his theories. Other
men looked at her admiringly ; other men
hinted what she would have given worlds
to hear Stephen say. But she received
nu eucb homage from him. She had no
kind words of appreciation, no kisses, no
endearments.
In the morning a mandate was given
concerning dinner. In the evening he ate
it with ber ; and though he had no fault
to fiod, never praised a dish. After the
meal, he citbetuwent out or locked bim
self in his study among books and papers
Onco, at the very first, she had taken the
crochet work to the door, and asked to
be let in ; but ho had answered by denial.
"Man's work," he said, sententiously,
''is too great to be broken in upon by
womau's chat, or woman's lidgeting;" and
she had retired quietly.
She never tapped at those panels again ;
nor did she ever hint at any wish for re
creation at any desiie to enjoy a play or
a concert, even at the natural longing for
a moonlight walk. The inferior creature
had some pride in her composition. No
more would she woo her husband than
she would have wooed him when his
bachelor fancy first selected her to be his
future housekeeper. A proud woman
had rather miss attention altogether, even
from the one to whom she is married,
than ever seem to ask for it.
Men will not believe it, but many a
woman has died of such a life as Tilly
led. The case was not so bad with Tilly
as it seemed, however. Under all his ab
straction, and coldness, and critical supe
riority, lurked a tenderness that Stephen
would have been ashamed to express.
His neglect arose from absorption in his
pursuits, rather than any repugnance to
Ids wile's society. And he did not pro
vide her with amusement, because he
firmly believed that woman could be thor
oughly satisfied with sewing and fancy
work; and for this reason he gave her
no praises, nor recognized her toil as a
labor of love, but as an employment as
delightful to her as his profession was to
him. And the fact that he never praised
her beauty was due to his theorizing also.
Woman, the weak, vain animal, must be
guided, lest she should go astray; and
always lovers' talk had disgusted rather
than pleased him, and he bad vowed
never to yield to any weakness whatever.
And so be called her Mrs. Appleton, aud
she dared not call him Stephen ; and when
sometimes his long arms would fain have
encircled her and drawn her to his bosom,
he refrained for shame of a fully, and she
was too proud and too deeply pained even
to touch bis shoulder w ith her palm un
asked. One day he caught her reading certain
love poems, and took the volume from her
hand, pleasantly enough, for he was sel
dom rude, with all his coldness, and furled
the pages over.
4,A man wrote this," he said. "Praises
of a woman's face ! Yearnings for her
presence ! Why, a man should be all
sufficient for himself. Love makes a man
weak, contemptible love that these poets
siit so much value on. I think you had
best not read this thing, child, it is full of
folly."
Then he tossed the book upon the table
the treasured volume over which her
girl's eyes had gloated before ever she met
this husband of hers, saying, "Would
that some man would feel thus to me I
talk or write so to and of me !" believing
that there was a love life before her in the
extatic future. He went up into his
study and laboratory, where some 6trange
metallic compound was filling the house
with its fumes, and where for days he
had been toiling for the purpose of com
pleting an invention of which be had
dreamt a long, long while something
as dear to him as ever the philosopher's
stone could have been to any old alche
mist. Tilly took the book from the table,
and walked towards (he bright tire with
it. She rent the pages, full of her own
girlish pencil marks, from top to bottom,
and heaped them on the red coals.
"Rest there, rhymed lies that deluded
me !" she said fiercely. "There is no
such thing as love. You mocked me
with the falsehood. I believe it no longer.
Hum, worthless jingle, that mean nothing.
Would that I had never been fooled by
you !"'
And tongues of flame, yellow, red and
blue, licked about the paper, and hissed
and crackled ovar the shrivelling lantern
cover. Tilly watched the work of de
struction, and had seen the flames die out,
and the red train of sparks which children
call "people going to church" travel over
the crisp tinder and drop off it, with the
big 4parson" and "clerk" following after,
when a cry she had never forgot, smote
her ear a something indescribable rum
bled and shook in the house, suddenly
full of dust and hot metallic odor; and
rushing by a sort of instinct to her hus
band's study, she found him lying among
the dtlris of his apparatus, a senseless,
motionless, disfigured thing, that could
neither speak to nor look at hor. An
explosion had taken place, and the inven
tor was the victim.
At the eight of him lying there, dead,
as she feared utterly uudone, at least, as
she doubted not all Tilly's love returned.
She took the disfigured face to her bosom,
as she had never dared to take it before.
She kissed that fioin which any one else
would have shrunk with loathing, and
knew that the poet had not lied, but that
love was tho oue real thing in this mad
dream of life and that once born, it died
not.
"Tell me what I can do for him," ehe
Baid, after those who came to her aid had
done their best. "Let me work for him,
or I 6hall die 1 There is nothing I am
not strong enough to accomplish, if ouly
he is better for it."
And there was work enough before her,
as she found work such as she had never
dreamt of before.
Three months from that day, Stephen
Appleton opened his eyes, and saw notb-
lag; groping about wito ms imn nanas,
j he felt a girl's littje, warm band crp
into them, and 6aid, "Tilly, is it you?
What has happened to me t"
Then in another moment he remem
bered. "There was an explosion I" he said.
She sobbed, "Yes."
There was a pause. He asked again,
and Tilly told him.
"Lying here three months !" ho said
"I lying here three months, and and
there was so little money for you ! What
have you done T Who has helped you t
Am I in a hospital, or '
"You are at home, darling," said she ;
"and no one has helped me. I have
helped myself. People have given me
plenty of woik for my needle. And now
that you know me, and can speak to me,
I am so happy."
She put her cheek to his as she spoke,
and in the awful darkness of bis blindness
be twined his arms about her.
"Tell me again," he said. "1 lave you
nursed me, helpless, and wandering, and
worked also for my bread and yours, for
three long months ? Y"ou, little Tilly 1
Why, half of that is one man's work ;
and a girl has done tho whole. What
strength was given you 1 Whence did it
come t"
She put her lips to his ear.
"Once you told me that love made a
man weak, my dear," she said. "It
makes a woman strong. A woman can
do anything for the sake of a man she
loves ; and I have loved you very much,
Stephen.
Whether he ever loved her before or
not, the man loved her then. A kind of
adoration for her strength, and truth and
constancy was born in bis mind, and
never left it.
It was not God's will that he should
drag all his days out in blindness and
helplessness. Sight and strength returned
to him at last ; but ere that time Tilly
had often been eyes for him, and right
hand also, and he was cured of many
things besides bodily ailments. His theo
ry of love's weakening power his fancy
that woman was a frail, fickle, foolish, un
leasoning thing, to be sternly kept in hand
like an unbroken coif, and his shame of
yielding to any gentleness or softness, had
quite left him. He saw in his fair young
wife the helpmate heaven had given him,
thanked it for the gift, and ie fused her
nothing of that meed of tenderness and
love which all good women long for, with
out which married life is to them more
miserable than any lonely lot with dreams
of what might have been in it.
A Goot Stouy. Once upon a lime
there lived among the bills uf an adjoin
ing county an old gentleman, whose entire
personal and real estate consisted of a wife,
a well ventilated log cabin, half an acre
of not very productive laud, and a violent
fondnc.s tor what is sometimes called
"tangled" w hiskey. One spring morning
the owner of this property was struck with
the conviction that his land must bd plow-
ed. But he had no horse, and found it
impossible to borrow one. Nevertheless,
the ground must be broken up, horse or
no horse, and it was finally determined
that the "old wouiau" should hitch up the
old man, and bold the handle and drive,
while he drew the plow. This was ac
cordingly done, and the plow went brave
ly on, until the plowshare ran under a
root, and the team was brought to a dead
halt. But the "critter" had become
warmed up by this time, and as the old
lady gave him a rap with the reins and
cried out "git up there !" he threw his
weight upon the harness with a heavy
jerk, which snapped the traces off short,
and he shot forward against a fence, his
head striking agaiust the end of a rail
with the force of a maul. "Thundcra
tion, old woman!" he exclaimed, as he
wiped the blood and dirt from his eyes,
"why didn't you say w-h o a V
Hints fok Warm Wkatheb An ex
change says : "The warm weathbr comes
on apace. The lovely evenings ate almost
here when Samuel Augustus in his summer
duds can walk out beneath the moon with
gushirjg PI cebe Matilda, garbed iu her sim
ple drees of white starched muslin, and
whisper sentiment or agriculture, or any
thing else be has a mind to, in her left ear,
while' Pi. cebe Matilda bltshiogly fans her
uelf v;ith her straw jockey, and wishes with
her. inmost heart that Samuel Augustus
would cork up for a while, aud ask her to
have some ice cream. There are too many
Samuel Augustuses who imagine they pos
sess sufficient gift of sentimental gab to keep
a girl's m;nd off ice cream during a summer
evening' walk. It cau't be doue. Says
the Schnectady Star : We never saw a girl
yet who wouldn't rather eat ice cream than
becd an ear to Oii! 6tar of my life,
would that we might forever mate like two
bumming birds on a twig of night blooming
cereus ; niethiDks I would need no food but
snake benies plucked by your fair hands,
aud no drink but the evening dew caught
iu your straw bonnet. There, bring us a
pail. Sentiment will do to bring a girl to
terms sitting by the stove in winter, but in
summer it takes ice cream. Young men
take notice and shape your course accord -ii-gly-"
t
. Is Wyoming a fellow was traveling
over the dry waste of the Bitter Creek
region recently when, as the train stopped,
he asked one of the settlers at the station,
"What kind of country have you around
here !' "Oh !" was the response, "w
have a fair country ; all we lack is good
Bociety and water." The fellow was
somewhat comforted by the assurance
that "h -1 has the same advantage lack
, of good eociety and water."
AMOSG THE CAAMDtLS.
A Sad Story of the Sn-VT-oIiOI In the
So u Hi Atlantic Twenty lnna
I'riHoner lterac iivntli.
The following outline of the sad story
of a citizen of New Jersey appears much
like the romantic tales found in our sen
sational weeklies ; but the narrative is
nevertheless, true aa the distressed family
of the adventurer, who still reside in
Jersey City, cau testify :
Twenty years ago a gentleman in mod
erate circumstances, living in Jersey City
determined to try his luck in China. Ac
cordingly he invested most of his capital
in goods suited for that market and em
barked on a ship bound for Hong Kong
via Liverpool. His family, consisting of
bis wile and several children, weie left
with sufficient means for their maintenance
until his return, which was expected to
be within four years. The ship on boaid
which our Jerseyman was a passenger had
a line run to Liverpool, where she com
pleted her lading and then proceeded on
a long voyage to China. Once only did
the family of the Jerseyman hear of him
after leaving Liverpool, and that was by
a letter received by a ship which spoke
the Jerseyman's craft after rounding the
Cape of Good Hope. Months passed by
and no further news of the ship. She
never anived at Hong Kong, and nearly
a year after her departure from Liverpool
her cuptaiu returned to that port with the
sad tale of her
l'OUNDKltlSG IN MID OCEAN,
i and bis own escape, wub most of his crew
and passengers, from a fearful death. A
dreadful stoim, which continued many
days, drove the ship far out of her coutse
to the southward, and finally, after losing
all her spars, she went down, giving the
crew barely time to lower the boats be
fore the noble vessel made her final plunge.
The boats containing the captain and most
of the crew, after tossing upon the sea for
several days, finally reached a group ol
islands, where they remained six or seven
mouths, kindly treated by the natives,
until taken oil' by a transient trader and
carried to Calcutta, where they secured a
passage to this city. Hut the boat in
which was tho Jerseyman and live seau,en
was never heard of siucu the first
after leaving the wreck.
liijjll
TWENTY YEARS OF SORROW,
tugging and privation for the Jery fam
ily passed. The noble-hearted widow
and mother fought against the il It of pov
erty, keeping her children under her own
toof tree, educating them well to fight the
battle of life ; and had the happiness of
seeing them become brave men and good
citizens, honorable amongst the most hon
ored. During all these long years of sor
row and toil she clung to the hope that
the husband of her youth would tetuin to
her ; his memory was kept fiesh in her
heart, and almost her only solace was the
recollection uf the happy hours passed
I with him in their cottage home, and
he
j belief that she once more would be folded
to his heart. Twenty years rolled slowly
around, children became men and women,
and strange young faces were seen around
the hearth stone. The suffering wife's
hair was turning white, and her trusting
heart was well nigh btoken from its long
waiting, when, six months ago, came
A LETTER FROM THE WANDERER,
reciting hi sad history. The second mor
ning after the wreck nothing was to be
seen of the other boats. With but a
email stock of provisions the Jersey man
and his five companions, hoping against
hope, determined to shape their course
south of east, trusting to make one of the
many groups of small islands known to
lie in that direction. After ten day's toil,
during which two of the seamen died of
privations, the party reached a small is
land, when they were immediately seized
by the natives and condemned to a life of
slavery. Their captors were cannibals,
and long sought to induce the white men
to join them in their horrible orgies j but,
rinding both threats and entreaties unavail
ing, they finally desisted, and allowed
their white slaves to use such food aa they
themselves choose. One after another
his white companions died, until the Jer
soyman was left alone to his life of
SERVITUDE AMONG THE SAVAGES,
and so closely was he watched that al
though many ships touched at the island
he was unable to communicate with them
At last a schooner from Australia drop
ped anchor during a night in March last,
in a cove near the hut occupied by the
Jerseyman, and being the first to discover
her, he seized a canoe and paddled to her
before any of the natives worn astir. So
long had he been among the savages that
he had lost nearly every recollection of his
origin, and bad forgotten his native lan
guage. After gaining the deck of the
schooner be was for soma time unable to
articulate a word, and only after a copi
ous flood ot tears had relieved him was
the 6trong man able to utter the single
word "home." Finally, after tuany ef
forts, he made the captain understand his
story, which so aue.cted the noblo-benrted
sailor that he at onco weighed anchor aud
sailod for Melbourne, where he arrived
after a short passage.
THE I.AST SCENE OK Al.i.
Here the Jerseyman was kindly cared
for by the authorities, but being too unwell
to take passage by the first fteamer to
Honolulu and San Francisco, he sent the
letter containing the joyful tidings of h'v
6afety. Last week a letter in; a. liipum-
envelope, from M.elttourna, was re-
ceived by tbjs Jersey m au's family. t
was from a city official, and contained the
sad tidings of the wanderer's death. After
twenty years of hardship and slavery,
just as he was ready to embark for bis
long coveted home, be was called to take
a longer, more dreaded journey, and in
that tur oil land, and among. Christians,
his Fpirit took its flight.
ADVICE TO C.IKUS.
BT JOSH till.U.NGS.
1. The man who is jealous of every
little attenuhun which you get from some
other fellow, you will poind, after you aro
married tew him, he luvs himself more
than he dnz yu, and what you took for
solisi-itude yu will discover hi.s changed
into indifference. Jealousy isn't a harto
disease, it iz a liver complaint.
2. A mustach iz not indispensable ; it
iz iudy a little more hair, and iz a good
deal like moss and other excressenced
often duz the best tile that won't raza
anything else. Don't forget that those
things which you admire iu a fellow be
fore marriage, you will probably hev to
admire in a husband after, and a mustach
will bo a very weak diet after a lime.
3. If husbands could be oA ou trial,
as Irish cooks aie, tew thirds ov them
would probably be returned, but there
don't seem to be enny law for this
Therefore, g'uls, yu will see that after you
git a man yu have got to keep him, even
if yu do lose on him. Const quently, if
you have got enny cold victuals iu the
house, try htm on them, once in a while,
during the season, and if he swallcrs them
well, and scz he will take some more, he
is a man who, when blue Mondays cum,
will wash well.
4. Don't marry a pbeller who is always
a telling how his mother duz things. It is
as hard lew suit these mill us it iz to weau
a young ouq.
o. If a young man kao beat you play
ing on the pianer, and kan't hear a fish
horn playing in the street without a back
somerset on account of the musick that iz
in him, I tay ship him ; he might an
swer tew tend the babe, but if you put
him to hoeing out the garden, you will
find that you will have to du it yourself.
A man whose heft lies in music (and not
very Lcfiy iu that) ain't no better for a
husband than a sedlitz powder, but if he
luves to listen while yu sing some gentle
ballad, you will find him mellow aud BO
soft. But don't marry ennybody for gist
one irtue any quicker thanyu would flap
a man for just one fault.
G. It is one of the most tuffest things
for a female tew be an old maid success
fully. A great menny has tried it and
made a bad job of it. Everybody soems
tew look on old maids just as they do on
dried yarbs in the garret, handy for sick
ness and therefore girls, it ain't a mistako
that you should be willing to swop your
self oph, with 6um true fellow for a true
husband. The swop iz a good one, but
dou'l swop for enny man who iz respecta
ble just because his father iz. You bad
better be on old maid for -1 thousand jears,
and then jine the Shakers, than tew buy
repentance at this price. No woman
ever made this trade who didn't get either
a phool, or a mean cuss for a husband.
7. In digging down into this subject
I find the digging grows harder the further
I get. It it is much easier to inform you
who not to marry, than who tew, for iho
reason there iz more ov them.
I dou't think you will follow my advice
if I give it ; and therefore I will keep if,
for 1 look on advice as I do on castor il l
a mean dose to give and a mean dose
to lake.
But I must Bay one thing, girls don't
spile. If you can find a bright-eyed,
healthy and well ballasted boy, who looks
upon poverty ez sassy cz a child looks
upon wealth, who had rather set down on
the curbstone in front of the 5th avenue
hotel and eat a ham sandwich than rt
inside and run in debt for his dinner and
toothpick ! that is armed with that
kind of pluck that mistakes defect for
victory, my advice is to take him body
and sole snare him at once for he iz a
stray trout, of a breed very scarce in our
waters.
Take him, I say, and bild onto him as
hornets bild onto a tree.
Ccrious Things to Know. Besides
the fact that ice is lighter than water,
there is another curious thing about it
namely its purity. A lump of ice melted
will always become purely disrillcd watte-.
When the early navigators of the Arctic?
seas got out of water they melted; frag
ments of those vast mountain ui c-e called
iceberg", and were astonished to find that,
they yielded Only fresh water. They
thought that they were frozen salt water,
not knowing they wcie formed ou tUi land,
and in some way latin, bed into the sea.
But if they had been right the re6urt.
would have been all the samo. The fact
in, the water in freeaing turns out of it all
that id not wuter salt, air, coloring mat
ter, and all impurities. Frozen sea water
makes fresh water ice. If you freeze h
basin of indigo water, it will mako it as
pure as that niaae ot pure ram water.
When the cold is very sudden, tbc&e for
eicn matters have no tiiue t;x escape,,
either by rising or sinking, uJ are tbua
entaugled wU tk iv but do not forrr
any jurt of It.
Why must the devil da a perfect gen
tleroan T Because the imp o' &ark.aesa
cauuot be i.mp-o Ute