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PIKE, Editor and 1'ubllhlier.
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he Cambria Freeman
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'.tivlUtlOUS 01 Societies, or cwimuuita-
lot a personal tature must bo paid for
ii?ertuement.
Ts bate made arrangements by which
can do or have done all kinds of plain
. 'ancy Job I'rimwg, sucu ns iookb,
i.hets. Show Cards, Biil and Lettei
4 Handbills, Circulars, &c, in the best
the art and at the most moderate
Also, all kinds of Ruling. Blank
n.v.V P.mriincr fre... t-xocnted to order
- J, t - - i""" "u) - - - r
pod as the lest and as cheap aa the
ripest.
yOOD, MOR11ELL & CO.,
"WASKISGTOX STREET,
rPa. R. R. Depot, Johnstown, Pa.,
Whohtult and Retail Dealers in
PCIAKD DOMESTIC DRY GCODS.
JllLLIEItY GOODS,
Ql'ELNSWARE.
BOOTS AND SHOES.
HATS AND CAPS. .
IKON AND NAILS.
RUTS AND OIL CLOTHS,
READY-HADE CLOTHING.
fiSSWAP.E. YELLOW WARE.
W00DKN AND Wl LLO W W A RE,
F.OViSIONS and FEED, ALL KINDS,
WMrwuh ml manner of V estorn Produce,
h u FL0TR. BAfinX VISH. SALT
HBONOIL, tc.,4c.
tws hoiale aod retail orders solicited
Y om?tl! filled on the shortest notice and
N'. wuoiuijle terms
I tfOOD. MORRELL k CO. '
W- C K. Z AHM ......... J AS. B. Z AEM.
ZAHM &L SON,
DSALEE3 IX
HC00D8, GROCERIES,
HARDWARE. QUEENSWARE,
?ats,Caps,Boots,Shoes,
ALL OTHER ARTICLES
nally KCpt In a Country Store.
FOOL AND COUNTRY PRODUCE
UM 13 IXCBAHOK FOE GOODS !
STOEE ON MAIN STREET,
Next Door to the Post Office,
.1869. F.RVsp.rrna pa
.1 DREW M OSES,
i -
RCHANT TAILOR.
r'EoiLDINQ Ph.. C T ' ...
LTiQ ,
1 f fir V "na w,nter
-OfHfl ''"eh, London and American
'-U fill CAbSIMERES and VEST1NGS,
wU vjciil h rLK.niHiil.NU
Tears cutter at
. ,.ulOIHriirin .: r i
'tC i hl" rriend 4 the public ge
merit, and new
en
f r.J,'.., .n Clinton stieet. with a etocl
1 auumArt .. . . L . . . . . .
f Srri . ue lau hna 'nter, which
rcT'e,afi0ake,,,Pin the ,aU!8t 8tJles
t" to h f t8 Ior ca8n- hoping by at
b.tt",.u" " merit a share of miblia
fVs ,na maintain that bucm whinh
rrrp!aUended hi effort9 n producing
fiT?1 Gi' 'm a call.
O n' SePl- 2. Ife68..tf. .
Pte T LAND OWNERS.-
lln'Llt0?wi a per,ect of
!!!5t of tZ ' tte8 01 "Tants. and of the
I lkererionfl i,Ur-cbase moricy he names
V "S m tbe official rcord sbow-
F,tent8 from tl L" Of-
I.'uf a " i f uPatented lands, under
CVi7 tbe20th of May. 1864,
fcil.Vetit thereto .a V u a
I 1
"nroeueni.
hr u V , nj GEO. M. READE.
SAVE MONEY !
liV PATItONIZIXQ
SI. L. ATII1M
CHEAP CASH DEALERS IJT
ALL KINDS DRY GOODS,
LADIES' DRESS GOODS,
Ready-Made CLOTHING,
Hats, Caps, Boots, Slices,
CLOTHS, CASSIMERES,
SAT1XETTS,
And a Frcnli and Complete Slock of
CHOICE FAMILY GROCERIES
CONSISTING CP
Dule lim Family
GRAIX, FEED,
BACON, SALT, FISH,
FRESH VEGETABLES,
DRIED 8l CAtNTD FRUiTS,
SUGARS, TEAS, COFFEES,
SYRUPS, MOLASSES, CHEESE, &c.
Alao, a large stock of the
Best Brands of Cigars and Tobacco,
STORE ON HIGH STREET,
four Boors East of Crairjord's Hotel,
Ebensburgr, Pa.
piRE! FIRE! I FIRE!!!
DO YOU HEAR THAT, FIREMEN?
AKD AKE TOW PREPARED TO
OBEY THE SUMMONS!
This you are not, unless jou have been to
Wolff's Clothing Store,
and have bought one of those superb
FIRE MA IV S COATS,
to keeD ton wnrtn and dry. "Woifk makes
them at from SIB to if 20. and any other gar
ment you want jou can have made to order at
abort notice. "
KTXO FIT, NO CHARGE
Mr. WOLFF hns inst returned from the East,
and his READY MADE
iUr DMMlllilIM
now contains the largest assortment, the most
varied assortment, and altogether the most
pleneitg assortment of
SUMMER GARMENTS
FOR MES AXD BOYS,
EVER DISPLAYED IN ALTOONA.
tSTOYERCOATS. from the lowest piiced
Caxsimere to the fiiient Beaver all zea.
J3"FulI Suits of Clothine at from 9 to ?30.
Panta from 41.50 to $9. Vests from 75 cents
to $5. Also, a geneial variety of
NOTIONS & FURNISHING GOODS,
Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes,
UMBRELLAS, SATCHELS. TRUNKS, &c.
r-In the LADIES DEPARTMENT will
be louud a full stock of FURS, from the low
est piiced Conev to the finest Mink and Sable.
GODFREY WOLFF,
Next door to the Post Office, Altoona, Pa.
CBOSBIHG
i
i.
HAVING recently enlarged our etocfc
we are now prepared to sell at a great
reduction from former prices. Our Etock con
sists of Drugs, Medicines, Perfumery, Fancy
Soaps, Leon's, Hall'a and Allen's Ilair Restor
atives. Pills, Ointments, Plasters, Liniments,
Pain killers, Citrate Magnesia, EeS Jamaica
Ginger, Pure Flavoring Extracts, E.-eences,
Lemon Syrup. Soothing toyrup, opiceu ojrup,
Rhubarb Pure Spices, &e. ; . , - - -CIGARS
AND TOBACCOS,
Blank Books, Deeds, Notes and Bonds; Cap,
Post. Commercial and all kinds of Note 1 aper;
Envelopes, Pens. Pencils, Arnold's Writing
Fluid, Black and Red Ink, Pocket and lass
Books, Magazines, Newspapers..Novels, Ilia
tories. Bibles. Religious .Prayer and Toy Books,
Penknives, Pipes, &e
rs?- We have added to our stock a lot ol
FINE JEWELRY, to which we would invite
the attention of the Ladies. :
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS at lower prices
than ever ofl'ered in this place. .
Paoer and Cigars sold either wholesale cr re
tail - LEMMON & MURRAY,
July 30, 1SG8. Main Street, Ebensburg.
O GREAT CHANCE
nQX. to Bave 3Ioney ! :
A LL PERSONS buying Gooils frora.ni
Z . . i t PASII for tbe
ja alter tnis aaic. ""Jrit upd ppvt ntr
same, will be allowed TEN PER CEJ ri off
regular prices. No discount will be allowed
unless ca is paid down at time of purchase.
tSTCome one! come all "Ivwi? nv
seWes that MONEY CAN BE SAVED B
BUYING FOR CASE fn. .
IF AVE WOttD.
If we would but check the Epeaker
When he soils a neighbor's fame;
If we would but help the erring.
Ere we uttrr words ot blame;
If we would, how many might we
Turn from paths of sin and shame.
Ah! the wrongs that might be righted,
If we would but eee the way;
Ah ! the p:iins that might be lighten'd
Every hour and every day: ;
If we would but hear the pleadings
Of the hearts that go astray.
Let us step outside the stronghold
Of our Fe'.fishness and pride;
Let us lift our fainting brothers,
Let us strengthen ere we hide;
Let us, ere we blame the. fallen.
Hold a light to cheer and guide.
Ah, how blessed ah, how blessed
Earth woulri be if we'd but try
Thus to aid and right the weaker
Thus to check each brother's sigh;
Thus to talk inxJuty's pathway
To our better life on high.
In each life, however loly,
There are seeds of mighty good;
Still, we shrink from souls appealing.
With a timid "If we would;"
But God, who judgeth nil things.
Knows the truth is, "If we would."
alts, Slut ejjes, ned)ofes,iK.
A MAN ABOUT TO BK BCRIF.I) ALIVE THE
FAI-I. OF THE COFHS AWAKENS I1IM.
The Detroit Free Jrcss publishes quite
a lengthy account about a man named
Hart, who was recently awakened from
a trance at Great Harrington, Mass. On
the 19th ult., Fays the Press, "Hart sat
with Lis family and fome neighbors on
the verandah of his residence, conversing
together at times, and apain listening to
the voice of a 3-oung lady who was sing
ing and playing upon an accordion.
Gradually, as the young lady pang, a cu
rious feeling came over him as he sat in
a rocking chair, with his limbs slretched
out at length over a stool. He describes
the feeling to have bren like the strange
numbness that is felt when a member of
the body 'gets asleep," which all of us
have experienced, only the feeling seemed
fo start fust around the heart, spreading
'.hence all over the body. There was no
pain, no alarm, but tbe sensation was
rather agreeable, as it seemed to modify
all the sharp notes of the song, every
word of which could be distinctly l.eaid by
Hart. After the song be heard the words
of admiration expressed, and was about
to make an effort to shake off he stupor,
when the white column of the verandah
just in front of him grew dimmer and
dimmer, until it faded away in the mist,
and then the man's eyelids fell, and he
thought to himself that he wa9 going to
sleep. Instead, he commenced to think
more rapidly than he did before, and to
feel that he ought to start right up ; the
voices did not die away, and he heard the
farewell words of a woman who took her
leave.
As she went, the group arose to go into
the bouse, Mrs. Halt approaching her
husband with a 'Come, John, let's go in.'
He could not move; his whole body felt
as if asleep, and no exertion of strength
or will could stir a finger. Seeing that
he did not move, the wife laid her hand
on bis shoulder, shook him lightly and re
peated : "Come, John, we are going to
bed." He tried to move, realizing that
he tiied to, but he was like a stone, only
feeling that he lived, and that he knew all
that was transpiring around him. "John's
reallv ?oue ofFinto a naD." said the wife
to the others who stood near, at the same
time shaking him, and then she playfully
seized the chair by the back and pulled
it part way over, thinking that the fear of
the fall would wake him. As the chair
tipped, Hart's body fell over the arm to
one tide, falling as would a bag of sand,
his head striking heavily against Hently,
his brother-in-law, who had approached.
The group became alarmed, feeling of his
heart, dashing water into his face, and
Mrs. Hart commenced crying, saying that
she believed John was dead. They picked
bim up, carried him into the bed-room,
where his clothing were quickly removed.
Hart heard every word, knew just what
they did, but every feeling except that in
his brain was benumbed, and be could
not even tell when his garments were
taken off, so numb and unfeeling was his
flesh. While his wife and sister were
getting blankets, liquor and the like,
Hently ran to the gate and sent a boy for
the doctor, and Hart, through the open
window, distinctly heard the word, 4Tell
J w, '
him not to lose a single minute. Ihe
women were both weeping and lamenting,
the wife reproaching herself for fancied
carelessness, and Bently tried to cheer her
up, saying that it was a fit of some kind,
which the doctor would easily throw off.
Hart did not care much, feeling to him
self that it would all turn out a funny
joke that they could laugh over ; nor was
he frightened when the doctor, alter teel
ing his pulse, his heart, and trying in vain
to open his fast closed mouth, told IJently
that the man was dead of heart disease.
and that no doctor on earth could raise
him- Perhaps all of us have beard tbe
wails and sobs that are uttered around the
couch of the dead and dying, and have
ourselves felt the cutting crief that comes
of seeing the light of lite fade out of the
body and soul of a dear friend, aod there
is no need to tell of the scene around this
bed, after a time, Hently went awuy, and
when he came back, Hart realized that a
man came with him to measure "the
corpse" for the coffin. Soon after sever
al men came in, "the body" was removed
to the parlor, a table was drawn out, a
board brought in, and the living-dead
was washed and wrapped in a sheet. To
show how active the mind was in the
dead body, Hart stated that when the
table was drawn out, one of the castors
caught and tore a hole in the carpet, the
sound and the result particularly impress
ing itself on his mind. After the body
was laid out Mrs. Hently came in, and
there was whispering and talk about h
shroud, and other ladies came, and it was
finally decided to enshroud the corpse in
a suit of black, a new one ; and the very
suit that the man had on as he related
these facts. The men put the clothing
on the corpse, lifted it this way and that,
and a scar on one of the arms was noticed
and spoken of.
And then there was a change in the
feelings of the man. He knew that he
was laid out, that his coffin was making,
that the windows had been opened and
two mtn were "watching," talking in
low tones over the sudden demise, and
one of them related a similar incident
that he had heard of. The brain began
to numb, the voices died away to a mur
mur, the sounds from the street became
fainter, and the dead man felt as if swing
ing in the air, and at last he remembered
nothing more. There was no dream, no
no more feeling or thinking. Did you
ever wake up quietly of your own accord,
and yet lie still, your ej-es open and see
ing, but your resting place so agreeable
that you did not care to move, and de
sired to remain so, without any harsh
noise breaking the spell ? Well, Hart
awoke just in this way. There was no
sudden shock, no warning voice ; but the
eyes opened, the flesh resumed its feeling,
the brain worked, and the man, resting
on his back, on bis 'dead board, knew
not but that be was in bed, and that his
awakening was as usual. He missed his
wife and thought to himself that she had
crept softly out to let him have a morning
naD. He heard a cow-bell tinkle, heard
boys shouting, heard sounds about the
house, and thought how curious it all was,
as he believed it was not yet light, owing
to the cloth over his face, which shut out
the light, but its presence a"d dampness
had not yet been realized. As he lay
there jubt struggling out of his stupor,
Hart heard slow and heavy steps ap
proaching ; they came through the hall,
through the dining-room, iuto the parlor,
close up to him, and there was an excla
mation and a fall, and the dead man sat
up on his board. It was the accidental
fall of his cotlia lid which had started him
up.
Dou Tfatt and the Postmaster.
I had been at Lake George some two
weeks without getting any mail matter,
although I had sent over almost every day.
Wearied out at last, I weut myself. I
found a little, sandy-haired, heavy jawed,
full-stomached man pegging away at an
old boot on a cobbler's bench. I at-ked
this industrious son of St. Crispin for the
postmaster.
"I'm him," responded the shoemaker.
He might be a Sam or a him, but I
looked incredulous upon the fact asserted
or referred to, of Postmaster. He contin
ued to drive iD the pegs, whistling, as
shoemakers are wont to whistle, in a
waxy way, a tune that, when accompan
ied by the proper words, refer to some
eccentricity of the weasel when popping,
whatever that may bo. , I looked at this
vegetable production with carroty hair
and reddish cheeks, as he pegged .and
popped, and finding that he intended
taking no further notice of me, I mildly
suggested that if he were the postmaster I-
would be pleased to get my papers ana
letters.
"What's your name!" he asked, sus
pending the whistled popping of the wea
sel, but going on with his exasperating
work.
I responded by giving tbe cognomen,
and was told, briefly, in words, to wit:
"Ain't nothing for you," and then he
took up the extraordinary weasel. I re
monstrated, and asserted that there must
be some mistake.
"Well," ho said, "go look for yourself.
There's the P's."
I did as directed, and found eighteen
letters and a pile of newspapers.
"What the devil do you mean by say
ing I bad no mail V
"Is that your name V he asked, coolly.
"Certainly it is."
"Well, I thought it was Daniel Pratt "
I was rapidly resolving into an indig
nation meeting, with divers resolutions,
and a strong tendency to punch some
body's head. :
' You thought that name Daniel Pratt,
did you? Well, it strikes me that it
would be well for you to learn reading
and writing before Dlaving tbe tlevil in a
rj & w
post office."
"Well, stranger," he responded, bus
pending both music and work, "if I bad
such an outlandish name as your'n I'd go
back and be a baby, so as to be christened
over, I would. Cor. Cat. Commercial.-
As onk of the. results of the fifteenth
amendment, the Assistant Secretary of
State, Mr. Davis, has tbe fever napr.
rxmeTTjar uy fire.
A RACK FOR LIFE.
Tbe country around Ottawa, Canada,
wag lately the scene of one of the most
terrible and destructive conflagrations on
record. For several days the flames raged
and roared, sweeping over vast sections of
land and consuming houses, cattle, and
all kinds of property in their irresistible
course. A correspondent who traveled
through the burned region a few days
after the fires ceased, gives a heart-rending
account of the desolation visible on
every side. The flames spread and sped
wiih such fearful rapidity that many
families barely escaped with their lives.
We quote an account of how a brave
woman saved herself and several others :
Driving on we were soon almost over
powered by the stench from the carcasses
of cattle which had perished in the flames,
their white bones standing out in bold re
lief against the blackened ground. Little
mounds by the roadside matked where
other carcasses bad been buried. And
now we come to another scene of des
olation, where there had been, but a
few days before, a comfortable and happy
home. Leaving the road we drove into a
field toward two while tents, a few hun
dred yards distant. On our right were
the cellar walls on which a snug farm
house had stood; and the remains of a
neat little garden, where flowers had
bloomed and fruit trees blossomed and
borne fruit". We baited near the smaller
of the two tents, and out of the larger one
came the farmer's wife, a nice looking
woman with a pleasant voice, and with a
rosy little four year old girl clinging to
her skirts. It was a sad story bhe had to
tell. The night of the 1 7ih ult. the house,
bain, outbuildings, and wood-pile were
fired, as it seemed simultaneously, and in
many places. From the house a few ar
ticle of clothing and two feuther beds,
and from the barn a road wagon and horse
were saved, and that was all. The barn
contained two years' crop of hay and
grain, the last load of grain having been
hauled in that evening and left upon the
cart. Ninety cords of wood ready fur
market were consumed. Of eight cows
two were burned to death, and four so
badly injured that they must be allowed
to go dry, leaving but two to furnish milk
for the family. Nineteen sheep perished
together, and were found in a dreadful
heap the next morning. Two porkers
shared a similar fate. The money valuo
of marketable produce alone destroyed
here exceeds $1 ,000. The scene was de
scribed as a teriible one. Fire rained
down from overhead, and forked tongues
shot hither and thither. The stumps in
the fields were all ablaze and the ground
strewn with burning fragments. "We
knew not what to do or which way to
turn," said the poor woman.
Finally, she harnessed the horso tothn
wagon, (which bad but a single seat), and
placing in it her uncle and aunt, an aged
couple, three of her own children, and the
few clothes and beds saved from the house,
she started to seek the shelter of her moth
er's house, a mile or more away. She
had not gone far before five more children
were added to ber load, and to make
room for them this brave woman stood
upon the step at the side of the wagon and
drove the horse down the valley, with the
fire racing and roaring on either side, and
sometimes close upon her. Indeed, the
cotton dress she wore was burned off her,
as well as the hair from her head. The
clothes and bedding in the wagon took
fire and had to be thrown out. Then, as
the fires closed in nr.d the smoke grew
denser, death came to the old man, as
told in a former letter. Twice he fell
into the road and was lifted into the
wagon again, but the third -time he was
unavoidably left to his fate. Nut a dozen
rods from where the old man perished the
wagon was halted by the roadside. To
go further was impossible. To remain
seemed like tempting death; but still there
was no hope. The children and the old
woman were placed under tbe wagon, and
an attempt was made to shut out the
flames by banging up sheets and blankets.
The horse, which was one the farmer's
wife had been in the habit of driving.
seemed to understand tbe situation, and
stood perfectly still, though the fire burned
the hair from his body, and the roaring of
the wind and the flames was enough to
strike terror into the heart of the boldest.
The faithful animal turned his head now
and then, as though to see if the party
were safe, but never moved an inch.
Had he ran, or even gone a few j-ards
farther on, nine lives more would have
been added to tho deaih-roll. The chil
dren escaped with but slight injuries from
the fact that they were dressed in woolen
clothing. They "uttered neither moan
nor cry," save that the youngest, a four-
year-cld girl, would sometimes say, as the
sparks fell upon her, "I am burning up."
The old lady was badly burned from hav
ing on a cotton dress, and ber recovery is
considered doubtful. The party remained
some six hours in this painful position,
when, daylight, appearing, and the fire
having somewhat subsided, they were en
abled to reach a place of shelter. It was
learned later that the mother's house had
been burned before the daughter left her
own house.
, Having told us her story, which I have
briefly jotted down, the farmer's wife
said : "Won't you all get out and have
fur an ap answer and was urging a 3 to
accept her proffered hospitality, when her
husband, a tall, beaided, good-looking
man, stepped up, and, after being intro
duced, turned to his wife and shic! ;
"Martha, cn t you get these people a cup j
01 tea ana a bite ot something T And
then we had to resist the importunities of
both. They tendered their hospitality in
such a hearty, open manner, that I, for
one, felt somewhat ashamed. Here was
I, riding about, spying out the misfor
tunes of these people, and feeling as if 1
ought to open my purse-strings for their
relief, and they offering to share wiih me
their little store saved from the flames.
Hereafter, when J hear the hospitality of
other sections vaunted, I shall certainly
have something to say of Canadian hos
pitality, as shown in the "burnt district"
around Ottawa in August, 1870.
Curious Xatural Phenomcnou.
Mr. Thomas Waring gives in the Me
Itorohtyicul Magazine the following de
scription of a recent mirage of unusual j
splendor in the British Channel : j
The party on board my yacht Hadasah, J
on her passage from Alderney to Guern
sey, witnessed a phenomenon so striking,
and in these latitudes so rare, that I am
tempted to send you a short account of it.
The wind was lisjht, from F. N. E , the
sky cloudless, the sun very hot, and the
barometer steady at 20:21. There had
been some signs of a fog in the morning,
but they had disappeared. At about
3:30 in the afternoon we observed over
the small island of llerme a peculiar hazy
reflection, which became more defined,
until it presented an exact inverted image
of the land beneath. A similar effect
was soon visible round the whole horizon.
The Islands Alderney, Guernsey, Jersey',
5?ark and llerme seemed raised to more
than twice their height; sharp-pointed,
out-lying rocks were capped with inverted
images of themselves, apparently balanced
upon them, point to point, like enormuus
rocking stones. Tho Ortach rocks, of
which we had previously lost sight, were
now to he seen with startling clearness in
the air. The Caquetes with its three
lighthouses, presented a most cut ions ap
pearance. The lighthouses were drawn
out into colossal pillars, on whose summit
rested a huge mass of rck, clearer in the
outline than the real island beneath.
Ships were seen sailing keel upward thro'
the air, every sail and spar distinct, and
in some cases the images were reduplica
ted. Several of the vessels thus redacted
were below the horizon, and invisible to
us The northern end of Guernsey,
where the land runs low, was twice re
flected in Ihe eir so distinctly that even
those who were familier with the island
found it haid to recognize it. We seem
ed to be looking at Borne half-merged coun
try, where countless still lagoons were di
vided from each other by narrow strips
of land. As we neared Guernsey, the
picture became less distinct, but mean
while the mirage was becoming more
wonderful still over Alderituy. Here the
deep marked chlTs were magnified to an
apparent height of many hundred feet,
and no scene painter deising a grand
transfoi mation scene ever dreanipt of more
fascinating groups of basaltic columns,
grottoes and rock arches, with the tide
flowing beneath, than was exhibited by
the island, and the isolated stacks around
it. Having remained visible for more
than three hours, tho pnnorama of won
ders gradually faded away, and by seven
o'clock the horizon was clear, save where
a dark line yr cloud or mist hung low in
the northeast. I may add, for the infor
mation of weather prophets, that this
unusual state of the atmophere was not
the forerunner of high wind or any chango
in the weather.
ISSTANCF.S OKGkEAT IJl'MAN STIiKNGTIt
The hamals or porters of Lake Van, in
Asia Minor, are the strongest men known.
They come to Smyrna to do the porter
age, and have a hereditary claim to the
business. There is a man living in Cal
houn county, Miss., who id supposed to
be the strongest man in the State, if not
in the entire South. He is thirty-five
years of age, and weighs two hnndred and
twenty-five pounds. He has been known
to carry three bars of railroad iron, when
it .takes from three to five ordinary men
to carry one. lie can take a cask con
taining frty gallons of whiskey or water
(the former is preferred, we presume), and
raise it from the ground and drink out of
tho bung-hole with as much ease as others
could out of a common pitcher; and he
has frequently taken a barrel of flour
under each arm, and balancing a sack of
salt on his head carried them for several
hundred yards with apparently but little
effort. He offers to bet that he can lift
thirteen bundled pounds.
IIoav He Fixed Them. Zadock
Pratt, the millionaire tanner of PrattSi
ville, Green county, N. Y., has a hearty
contempt for stuck-up people. Learning
one evening that some young men in bis
ompioy were excluded from a ball-room
because of their occupation, ho repaired
forthwith to the hotel where the ball was
in progress, procured an axe, and with his
own hands cut down the stairway leading
to the hall. Telling the dancers to stay
there and enjoy their exclusiveness R3 long
as they choose." he turned to the landlord
and told him to employ a carpenter after
the ball was over to rebuild ll --"
j and brin2 a bili 0
Advice to Yunnsr Ladle.
TALK CT-DH- IMO LtWH.
Now. ladies I will preach you just a
little sermon, 1 about an -inch long. I
don't often preach, but in this case no
thing but a sermon will do
Firstly You are perfect idiots to go
on in this way. Your bodies are tho
most beautiful in God s creation. In the
continental galleries I always saw groups
of people gathered about the pictures of
women. It was not passion ; the gazers
were just as likely to be women as men ;
it wus because of the wondrous beauty
of a woman's body. .
Now stand with me ut my office win
dow and see a lady pass. There goes
one I Now isn't that a pretty looking
obj ct ? A big hump ; three big lumps ;
a wilderness of ct imps and fulls 5 a haul
ing up of the dress here and there ; an
enormous, hideous mass of false hair or
bark piled on the top of the head, sur
mounted by a little flat, ornamented with
bits of lace, bird' taili, etc., etc. The
shop windows tell us, all day long, of the
paddings, whalebones and steel springs
which occupy most of the space withiu
that outside ring.
In the name of the simple, sweet sen
timcnts which cluster about a home, I
would ask, how is a man to fall in love
with such a piece of compound, doubled
and twisted, touch-me-not artificiality,
as you see in that wriggling curiosity ?
Secondly With that wasp waist,
squeezing your lungs, stomach, liver and
vital organs, into one-half their natural
size, and with that long tail dragging on
the ground, how can any man of sense,
who knows that life is made up of use, of
service, of work, take such a partner?
He must be desperate, indeed, to unite
himself for life with such a fettered, half
breathing ornament !
Thiidly. Your had dress and lack of
exercise leads to bed health ; and men
wisely fear that instead of a helpmate
they would get an invalid to take care of.
This bad health in you just aa in men
makes the mind as well a's the body
fuddled and elleni'mate. You have no
power, no magnetism ? I know you gig
gle freely and use big adjectives, such an
'Splendid," "awful ;" but then this don't
dt-ceive us ; we see through it all. You
are superricialy. affected, sill ; you bavo
none of that womanly strength and
warmth which are so assuring and at
tractive to men. Why, you have be
come so childish and weak-miuded that
you refuse to wear decent names even,
and insist upon baby names. Instead of
Helen, Maigaroi and Elizabeth, you af
fect Nellie, Maggie and Lizzie. When
your brothers were babies you called
them Dobby, Dickey and Johnny ; but
when they grow up to manhood, no more
of that silly nonsense if you, please. But
I know a woman of twenty-five years,
and she is as big as boh of my grand-
mothers put together, and her real name
is Catharine, and though her brain is big
enough to conduct the affairs of State,
she does nothing but gigg!e, cover up her
face with her fan, and exclaim once in
four minutes, "Dou't now you are real
mean."
How can a man propose a litV partner
ship to sucu a silly goose f My daar
girls, you must, if you would get hus
bands, and decent ones, diesi in plain,
neat, becoming garments, and talk like
sensible, earnest sisters.
Y'ou say that the most sensible men
are crazy after these but terries of fashion.
I beg your pardon, it is not so. Occa
sionally a man of success may marry a
weak, silly woman ; but to say, as I have
heard women say a hundred rimes, that
the most sensible men marry women with
out sense, is simply absurd. Nineteen
times in twenty, sensible men choose
sensible wives. I grant you that in com
pany they are very likely lo chat and toy
with these overdressed and forward crea
tures ; but they don't ask them to go to
the altar with them.
Fourthly. Among the young men in
the matrimonial market, only a very small
number are independently tich. and in
America such rarely male good husbands.
Hut the number of those who are just be
ginning, who are filled with a noble am
bition, who have a futore, 'is very large.
These are worth having. IJut Fuch, will
not, dare not, ask you to join ihern, while
they see you so idle, silly, and scjgorgeous
ly attired. Let them see that you are
industrious, economical, with habits tht
secure health and strength, that your life
is real, that you would be willing to begin
at the beginning in lifa with the man you
would consent to marry, then marriage
will become the rule, and not as now, the
exception.
A party, of respectable Chicago ladies;
have ' formed a society for reclaiming
young men, and they go about the streets
at night and pick up young men who show
signs of dissipation, invite them to their
bouses, and treat them to ice cream, chicken-salad,
etc., and then let them go home
sober. Half the young men in town lie
around the street nights, to be taken in.
One w hole engine company went . to one
of the ladies' houses and asked to be re-
claimed.
Polish soldiers should r.Kvva rfiA-
iLe needle pun. T -' -ose
I tm - ueedie is always,
. me Pole.
ia f - If not.
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