il.u. C tin; yplEC, Editor and Publisher. nB IS A FREEMAN WHOII TIIE TRUTH MAKES FREE, AND ALL ARE SLAVES BESIDE. Terms, $2 per year In ndrhsice ;?po5 re. ."kin , Us,' W 't . OLUME 5. :,,r RETAILERS ok Foreign ' 1 .,-nr MERrnAsnizK In Cambria '.I'lV-r the year 1871: 'r. et's:: - He , Ap.MSTOWX6UIP Lir'xc. ft H Charles IIclser.7 50 :"a!.VillESV TOWNSHIP. - Via' klic k 'township. pp',i i tViu x nonoron. ; , u .1 ism '. ,,,'rii' ;it 14 YA Harker&Son .. T ti U J Wertncr "" Va!'.P.1 A H.llJOmH. roo : w ' 00 (H) :oo 50 00 50 mi 11 Joiin tvurtz M:1 : mi 11 J Stilvioli n.ESKALK WIRorOU. T III 11 -M I OOtl'.'V ; mi 1-i John ltradlcy. : m iu.v towxphip. - :,r'.ntT. . " " , i kai::-" tor- -life C Sis. "or Vtv.'.i:! , TiV' r TOWNSHIP. ;. it 1 M cV J Brown. u p-i,.tli '" 11 -s s Faul ' ' (Ht-Tsi i'iscs itaxorcn. :v 1 7 Mi' 14 V.' V." Saupp 700 7 00 7 50 700 ' ; ,.;i uM:M vt till ISOKOrtai. i 1.1 .. 7 114 Bracken & Kgan V'.tiw'our. 7"'- , s.-m iu; nonorr.H. . ',, vi .1 :i" 14 .1 1 Thompson.. 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Ml 700 750 7 50 700 z;;;o waiter TT t-ti- .. & ou,';ir,,';:r,;l.t,' troih.... . . I', anil it i:t ir oo rooih 15 50 'T. u-i ooiinstowu lkrooU.. . 15 (W 15 50 15 no 15 50 15 00 15 (H) 15 50 rt-ss. Cs rn i'vn Uorou-h , . k .......... inotnnii.pl, T.. i Jtp-Fr,T' AVa'inirton Township.'. '!Vn lht'-'l at the nine- . at vi.. . ' KL "oiiice' cn me . tM-uburK, on .lonilay. June A. 1). ('KISTK Mercantile Amtrniyfr. ? ,XDlANACOUNTY FAK1I ! T PRIVATE SALE! '!!-.lr!.LE FAltM. Pittiato In Tino town- ;!: . ,lln'.v, rn., three miles north of ",- r!. i , Hn''1 f'Tstilf- on tho most nc ki k . , "rum. Tin. l-' .if .n.in-i(in rSi-VVn'."''nt ''V1'1' ir' Arret cleared, "d in a trood state of colti- r"!iili'o tr1", '" meadow.) tho balance ''Mi'lYii -l k K'owthof pine timber. Kit itr-' JL'-sL ?l EM S eonsi?t llOCSKS. in first a pood FKAMK jy'? ft., Fkamr well as a Water riiriiiiuK order. f. .!,',".";! a,1 11 splendid APPLE OH- "aoi exefi lout water conv'ni- Ti.. 1 l;oi -est i run, on tno iin-1,. isalsoii ciia I. it t vt'......,i -ri... .un'l of lirst rate onnlitv. t! '""Of :',!" . !r. """-,r umJ Cherrytree Kail -'rlnf Uly. uu,lt'r contract. For terms ...... arin lswtuate Smiles uiuti.ui H l V OJl 1 ... PKTKHMlL I Btrongstown, Im' the premises or Indiana Co., Ta. .V fc.ll 1 l.l U-.y i. 1 he undersigned Exeeutoranf M "'! hrT.'". ,! Lorelto Borough, dee'd pi. taie, on accommodating terms, ! TRACT OF LAND 'i ti'jl1)' t,,wnship, Cambria county, situa 'A Mi.. n"1 leading to St. Augustine and fiiliv i.i "n Lorctto, containing 7 1 .UVi-d. ociiig cleared, we! : '). ,,.i a. 'r?'1 and in a good state of cul . !i''r,.,w ",,v,"ff hrst rate Lorj Banui ' ',, r,:eted. The balance of the land I u,e tii. . nut, oak, sugar, and other laai,i.i.. . '"i" terms and other -nifor- i'i i.;. ' l,"'r o the undersigned. . Ai UKT 1-KA V Y, Ix.retto, li.li,.. WALTERS, Carrolltown, Ltcutor of AT. Eeavu. dee'd. j;,P)r, Jcstice ok the Teace L li. . . '"U. Pn. Illllwrin Tn.n . ' "Deuimi,,!, I(,.,l,. ..,,,1 !., 11 !'..,. . h "-ll-CIil . n. I., li. itr- '"lln... B,"1U" ousiness lulrusted to " ITOUlPtlv iittcil.tc.l In I I 1 L-IL QIIEHIFPS SALES Hy virtue of sundry writs of Vend. Erinn. and Levari I acta issued out of the Court of Common Pleas or Cambria county, and tome directed, there will be exposed to Public .Sale, at the Court litiuxem Ehenxhurg, on JIo.ndav, the 6th day i',F ,H-'K npxt' l 1 o'clock, p. m., the followinir Heal Estate, to wit: All tho rhrht, title nnd interest of Alice Ha ?.a,?,'.ot' iu "nu to Lot of Ground situate in OiUlitzin township, Cambria county, fronting 3 3-10 perches on the New Portajre Hail Hond, on the south an alley, on tho east lands of James Mc( loskey, on the west ;by Lot Xo. 21, known t,Su " having-1 hereon erected a one-and-a-half story lTank House, with shed roof at tachednow in the occupancy of Andrew Clitts Taken In execution and to be sold at the suit of John Bradley. Also, all the rijrht, title nnd interest of A. Humphreys, of, in and to a Tract of Land situ ate in Chest township, Cambria county, ndjoin liisj lands warranted in the names of Samuul Kuth, Wtn. Parker, John Ashley, and others, containinjr 400 Acres, more or less, unimproved. Taken in execution and to be sold at the suit of Martin Yahner, jr. AImo. all the ripht. title and interest of Martin Peymore, of, in and to a piece or parcel of land situate in Carroll township, Cambria county, adjoining- lands of John Pennet, John Davis, and others, containing CO Acre, moro or less, about 30 Acres of which are cleared, having thereon erected a one story Lojr House and Ioiy llaru now in the occupancy of Martin r-ey-inore. Taken in execution aud to be sold at the suit of J. Moore & Son. AIo, all t he ri(,rht, title and interest of David Wilhelui, of, in aud to the following- described Huiirtiiifrand Lot of Ground, towit: A one-and-a-half story Prune House, about sixteen leet by eighteen feet, and a Frame Stable about ten feet by twenty (20) feet, situate iu tho village of Hemlock,;Wa.shington township, Cambria coun ty, and in Tiley's block of lots, bounded on the norm oy a lot ol w in. TUey, on the south by a street, on the east by a street, and on the'weut oy an alley, fronting 50 feet and extending- back liJO leet. Taken iu execution and to be sold as the suit of Tate W. Allison, for the use of James -At. Cooper and Samuel Milliken. Also, all tho rijrht, title und interest of Geo. Litziiifrer, of, in and to a l.ieccor Parcel of land situate in Allegheny township. Cambria coun ty, adjoining- lands of W. A. li. Little on tho north, Josc-pn Null on the west and the Prolips burir road on the south-east, containing lu.-lcrc, more or less, all cleared, having- thereon erect- d a two story Plank House now in the occu pancy of Geortre Liliiiiiircr. Take in execution aud to be sold at the suit of C: i). M'Cieesjt Co. n no. all the ritriit, title and interest vt Thos. Brannon, of, iu aud to a piece or parcel of land situate iu Munster township, Cambria county, adjoining-lauds of Mrs. Susan Gallagher, Joseph U Itrieu, and others, containing- 7.5s Acrt, more or less, all cleared, having thereon erected a Cog-Stable, not now occupied. Taken in exe cution and to be sold at the suit of John O'Brien. Also, all the right, title aud interest of Jos. Irexler, of, in and to a piece or parcel of land situate in Cleariield township, Cambria county, adjoining lands of Jlarv iieinlon. llavid T and others, containing 75 Acrtit, more or Jess, about -j Acres. of which are cleared, having therei n erected a two story Frame House and Fraoi-- Barn now in the oecupanev of Josenh Trexb-r. Tak n in execution and to be sold at the suit of Mary Hendon. , au toe right, title an interest of Benja min i . Byers, of, iu and to all that certain tract or lor tit' land situate iu White township, Cam bria cmnty, Pennsylvania, containing 50 At res and allowance, beginning at a stone heap, in a tic-Id, tueuce north K degrees to a post or dog wood, thence east InO perches to a hemlock, thei:i; K perches to a Post, thence west loo ier- hes !o the place of bcirinuiiur. making in nil 5.1 Acn-s with allowances. Takes in live acres which was formerly sold by Benjamin Byors to said Benjamin F. iiyers. The above described icce oi tana is a part ot a larger tract ot land urchased by the said Benjaniiri Hvers of Kd- wara Shoemaker, deceased, by deed dated 7th Scp;eiiiler, A. D. ley, reconJed in th' olhe-e for recording of deeds, Feb'y 14. lslo, in Record Bifik. Volume 5. 1'ae 4'2. toirether witli tlii hereditaments and api.iirtenanccs. Taken in xccution aud to be sold at the suit of I'.i-nin- min Iiyers. Ti-.K.M.s or Sale One-third of tho nurcha money on the day of sale, and the rcnminui two-thirds at the contirmation of tho deed. U . IS. llOXACKEIt, Sheriff. Sheriff's Office, Ebensburg, May 15, lt71. TDEGISTEK'S NOTICE ! Notice is hereby given that the following Accounts have lieon passed aud filed in the Register's Of fice, at Ebensburg, and will be presented to the Orphans' Court ot Cumbria count-, for confirm ation and allowance, on IFcdncadui, t7ic 7th dav of June next, to wit : First and partial account of Catharine Bloch. Adru'x of the estate of Christian Bloch. late of Conemaugh borough, deceased. Second account ot George Conrad, Guardian of the minor children of Samuel Keam, late of molilalia township, deceased. Account of James Rose, one of the Executors of Jos. Rose, late of Richland township, dee'd. Third aud liual account of Samuel Douglass, Guardian of the minor heirs of Daniel Huher. jr.. deceased. ihe account or Jacob Kline, Guardian of Ad am Kollis, a minor son of Nicholas Koliis, lato of Allegheny township, deceased. tirst account ot win. it. Geis, Administrator, Ac, of Martin Obcrmycr, late of Cambria bor ough, deceased. First, account of Evan M. Davis, Executor of David M. Davis, late of Summerhdl twp., dee'd. rtrst account or Josiau .Joetinour ana Ste phen Goelmour, Administrators of DanT Goch- nonr, late of Taylor township, deceased. The account of Edward Roberts, Executor of Evan H. Morgan, who was Executor of David w . Pryce. late of Cambria township, dec d. The account of Margaret Lea vv ami Augus tine Walters. Executorsof the last wiil a:id tes tament of Michael Leavy, late of Loretto tor ough, deceased. First and partial account of Margaret Mitchell, Administratrix of James H. Mitchell, late of Johnstown borough, deceased. 1 he partial account ot A. Ji. I isko, Ks., Ex ecutor of the last will and testament of Nancy Kriso, late of the township of Clearfield, dee'd. The second partial account of Cecilia McNeal, (formerly Cecelia MeGough,) Administratrix of the estate of Geo. MeGough, late of the town ship of Clearfield, deceased. t trst account of v . w. Harris. Administra tor, &c, of Isaac D. Schnabley, lato of Jackson township, deceased. lirst and final account or Cyrus L. Pershing, Administrator of the estate of George G off, late of the township of Jackson, deceased. the account or tieorge Uostert, Guardian of Geo. Doerr, minor child of August Doerr, dee'd. iuenccomi and uual account or Jas. lirown, Executor of Charles Kennedy, late of Munster township, Cambria county, deceased. Ihe account ol John Kennedy and Jamen Brown. Executors of Ann Kennedy, hue of Monster township, Cambria county, deceased. The tirst and final account of Jos. S. Mardis. Executor of Elizabeth Patterson, latoof Black- liok township, deceased. The fourth and final account of Wtn. Kittell, Administrator, &e., ol t lit; estate ol Rob't Fliun, late of Summerhill townshin, deceased. GEO. W. O ATM AN, Register, register's Oflice, Ebensburg, May 10, la71.-4t. N THE ORPHANS' COUKT OF -L CAMBRIA CorNTT.- Notice is hereby giv en that the following Appraisement of certain personal property of a decedent, selected and ct apart for the widow of an intestate, under the Act of Assembly of 14th of April. Is5l. has been tiled in the Register's Jflice at Ebensburg and will be pre .tented to the Orphans' Court for approval on Wulnclan, the It.'ulnu of June next, towit: The inventory and appraisement of the per sonal property or Michael G rady, lute or Mill ville borough, Cumbria county, dee'd, set apart mi yiiuuiv en said ueco'itjni i;iytju. GEO. W. ((ATM AN, Clerk O. C. Clerk's OfSce, Ebenaburg, May II, lb71.-4t. TSTOTICE OF DISSOLUTION No- ticc is hereby given thr.t tho partnership between A. J. Hartsock, Elias l'aul and G. W . SettU-myer, in the mercantile business, was dis solved by mutual consent on the 2-'d day of March, A. D. l71. :i debts due to E. Paul & Co. are to be received and all debts owed by said firm aro to be paid by Elian Paul and G. W. Set tlemyer, who will continue the business under iho llrm name of Paul 4- Sett lent ver. A. J. HARTSOCK, ELI AS PAIL, G. W. SETTLEMYEE. Wilmore, May 13, 1871.-3t. POUNTY COMMISSIONER ! The Buhseriber hereby announces himself as an aspirant for tho Democratic nomination for the position of County Com miss ion ek, and pledges himself, if nominated and elected, to discharge the duties of the office honestly and to the last of his ability. JOHN S. LOMEltEAUX. Blacklick Twp., April 15, 1371.-tc. TSBENSBTJRG, SDjje pott's grparfrntnt. PIT DOTYSf THE BHAKLS. No matter how well the track may be laid. No matter how strong the engine is made, When you fiud it running on the downward grade, Tut down the brakes I If the demon of drink lias entered the soul. And his power is getting beyond jour control, And dragging you ou to a terrible goal, l'ut down the brakes ! Remember the sdnge, "Don't trifle with fire;" Temptation, you know is always a liar; If you waDt to crusk out the burning desire, Put down the brakes! Are you runnir.g in debt bv living too fast? Do you look back with shame on a profitless past, And feel that your ruin is coming at last? I'ui down the brakes ! Whether for knowledge, or honor, or gain, You'ie fast wearing out your body and brain, Till nature no longer can bear with the strain, Fut down the brakes ! The human is weak since old Adam's fall: Rewtre how you yield to tippettte's call "Be temperato iu all thine?" was practiced bv down the brakes! Ah, a terrible thing is hr.man life ! Its track with many a danger is rife; Do you seek for the victor's crown in the strife? l'ut down the brakes 1 Salts, iglufcljcsntcbotcs.vvc. BELLE ALDEN'S TRAVELING BAG. A train bound for St. Louis Iad just left the depot of Bellefut.taine, when a gentleman entered ti e smoking-car and laid his hand upon the shoulder of his traveling companion a tall, handsome man of thirty, who Fat musingly blowing rings of smoke into the air. "Marcy," said the new comer, "if you want to see at unce the sweetest and sad est eight you ever beheld, go into the last car but one on the train. There's an emigrant German woman with four chil dren, and during the afternoon the young est, a baby, l p.s died. The mother and the o'.her children are inconsolable." 'I can understand," interrupted the smoker, "the sadness of such a scene, but where is the sweetness you spoke of? "I'm coming to that. The whole party have been taken in charge by a young lady.- Such a beauty! She dried the mother's tears aud wiped the children's nose?. She's a divinity ! She only reeds a few feathers on her shoulder-blades to make a fall-Hedged angel of her. If I was not a married man, I'd never leave her till I'd made Mrs. Angelica Townsend out of her." "That's a speech which I shall faith fully report to Mrs. Agnes Townsend," said the gentleman addressed as Marcy, rising. "I shall go back and feast my eyes on this beautiful 4Si?ter of Charity,' and," he added, taking his traveling satch el and shawl from the rack, "as we stop at the next station, which is due in ten minutes, I may as well lake rny tixps through wilh me, and join you on the platform." Thus saying, Richard Marcy threw his shawl over his shoulder, and sauntered leisnrely through the long train rushing blindly and calmly to his fate. For, as he entered the last car but one, he became a witness and an actor in a scene that in fluenced his whole future life. The poor, griefstiicken German, of whom his companion, Dr. Townsend, had spoken, with the dead infant in her arms, sat silently weeping over the little dead face. Tho three sturdy children grouped in childish sorrow about their little dead brother, was indeed a touching spectacle. But standing beside them was the divini ty of Dr. Townsend's admiration, and she who was most certainly to "share ends" with the unhappy Richard. She was a tall, slender girl of eighteen, with magnificent eyes and hair. As he entered the car she was speaking, her lovely (ace flushed, and the small rosy mouth disclosing a beautiful set of teeth, turned bewitchingly toward the tall stran ger at the doer. "Ladies and gentlemen," said the sweet voice, "this poor woman, friendless, ppeaking no English, with four little chil dren, was expecting to find wotk in St. Louis to support them. If everything had gone well with her, it would have been hard ; but with her little dead baby and sorrowing heait, feho is certainly a deserving object of charity ; and I propose that such as feel willing will contribute their mite toward a little purse for her immediate wants and the burial of her poor baby. And," fihe added, with a bewitching smile, "if any gentleman will lend me a hat, I will go round and take up a collection." - In an instant the gallant Richard pulled his traveling cap from his blonde curia and offered it to the angel ofmercy, who ac cepted it with a smile, this tiirjp all his own, and commenced gathering the readi ly forthcoming dollars her generous, grace ful appeal brought from the purses of all in the car. Richard watched the slender figure in cray gather the money, and looking at the plaid cap in while jeweled fingere, he bethought him of his donation, and step ping to the 6eat the beauty had just occu pied, he laid his satchel and shawl upon a family of its kind, belonging to the angel in gray, and took from his pocket a ten dollar bill, which ho placed in the little hand that returned him his cap. Further damago tho poor fellow received, when a PA., SATURDAY, smile and warmly-worded thanks for his contribution were dealt from the beautiful mouth. Dick was in the midst ot an elaborate reply when the cars stopped. He lingered yet another moment, seized his satchel and bhawl with his eyes on the face of his charmer, and then, even as the cars were again in motion, he bethought him self of the doctor, and hurriedly left the car and joined his friend on the platform. "Well," ejaculated the worthy, "I be gan to believe you'd concluded to go and bury the dead baby, -and make the pro tecting beauty Mrs. Angelica Marcy. Isn't she a stunner ?" "Townsend," returned his friend, "don't use slang in speaking of the noble ciea ture." lie looked alter the train juet dis appearing in the distance. "I wish to heaven," he continued, "I'd remained on board. How stupid I was to leave it. I might have learued her name and resi dence. And now " "Now, in ail probability," broke in the doctor, "you'll never meet her in this vale f tears, lint you'll know her in heaven, if you'll behave yourself well enough to get there, by her wings ; she'll have the biggest of them all, seeing they've com menced to sprout on earth." And thus rallying his thoroughly-captivated friend, the two made their way to the house of an acquaintance, with whom they were to remain that night, and go on next day to tLeir destination St. Louis. After Ihe first salutation, our hero went to his room to remove some of the eviden ces of his long tide from New York. He had removed his coat, vest and collar; ho had splashed and soaped and washed, till his damp curls elunjj close to his shape ly head, when he made a startliog discov ery. Flushed and breathless, he burst into the next room upon his friend. "Townsend,'' exclaimed he, "what on earth do you suppose ? I've got the wrong bag ; I've changed baggtiee with the at-gc-1 of mercy. Look at tlta slipper. See that thimble. Contemplate that glove I"' "It's evident you've got the lady's satch el. And what was there in yours !"' "Don't bring up that dreadful idea," said Dick. "Cigars and a hair-brush, a pack of cards, pocket-flask and a tooth brush everything disreputable. If I am judged by that bag, I'm a lost man." "And this I took for a clean shu t," and Dick held up a fii'led and fluted sack, such as do duty for more extensive night dresses with ladies when traveling. "I'd like to see Angelica when she opens my satchel." And Dick fell to musing, with the slipper perched on two fingers, and the frilled white lace spread out tenderly on his knees. In tho upper apartment of a handsome mansion in St. Louis, on the eveninn of the day our heroine first made the read er's acquaintance, beautiful Belle Alden, the petted and only daughter of the house, sat contemplating the various articles her confidential maid was disposing upon tho table articles taken from no less a re ceptacle than Dick Marcy 's traveling bng. The cards and cigar case lay 6de by side, and a highly scented party they were. "What's in the little silver flask, Rosa?" said the fair mistress. "Brandy, ma'am," replied the maid. "fie can't be very dissipated to travel with such a little bottle. That's in case of sickness, I suppose," returned Belle. "It's my belief," said Rosa, who was a shrewd girl, "that the gentleman was n mighty nice one, else you'd not so readily excuse the cards and the bottle." "For shame, Rosa. All gentlemen play euchre, traveling, and even clergymen take a little brandy in case of sickness," answered Belle. "And this man was a gentleman, and a liberal one, too, for he gave the poor emigrant woman ten dollars. What's that, Rosa !" For at that moment Rosa held between her lingers a letter. Vrhether it was wrong to read a stran ger's letter vexed Belle for a moment, as her eye glanced at the supetsci iption and handwi iring. "Why, of all things I" exclaimed the delighted girl, seizing the letter, "Why, Rosa, this is Jennio Marcy's writing, and addressed to Richard Marcy her only darling brother who wjis in Europe when we two graduated at Madam Ritter's in Brooklyn." Belle read rapidly till she roached the middle of the letter, when she burst into a merry laugh. "Hear this, Rosa," she said, and she read from the letter: "Above all things, Dick, dear, don't fail while in St. Louis to see my best friend and schoolmate, Belle Arden. I know you will fall in love with her, for, besides being the best girl in the world, she's a beauty and an heiress, and father's choice above all others for his son's wife. He ufod to talk it over at home, and hoped Belle would not marry before you came heme from Europe. She is full as anxious to know you, and wears your hair and mine in a locket father gave her last year. Give her lots of love, and beg her to overlook your many imperfections for the sake of her old schoolmate, Jenny." "Then the gentleman is, of course, Miss Jenny's brother," said Rosa, "and what will she say when she hears of you're hav ing met in such a romantic way ?" "I don't intend to tell her of it till I go J MAY 27, 1871. to New York this fall," said Belle. "Perhaps her brother will call." But in this supposition Belle was wrong. The month passed, and she eavr no more of the golden-haired Richard. And she carefully separated the yellow lock in the little keepsake from the dark tress of Jenny's, and put it back into its place alone, while another locket held a piece of Jenny's, And somehow, Belle looked very, very often at the wee, golden curl, and she never did so but the rest of the handsome head sprang up beside the locket ; and she would sit and contem plate the picture her fancy had wrought for her, little dreaming the interest she was allowing to grow in her bosom for Jenny's brother. In the fall, Belle and her father went to New York, and the first day after her arrival found her sitting with her old friend, who, after the evasive meeting, sat down to empty her soul. "I am so glad you are here this month,'' Jenny said, "because I'm to be married in October, and I have always been crazy to have you for bridesmaid, and Dick is to be Harrv's best man." Bello blushed. , "But Dick has fallen hopelessly, madly in love." Belle turned pale. "Yes, I was dreadfully provoked when he passed through St. Louis, and never went near you. But he went wild over some lady he met on that fatal trip. "He will talk to me by hours of Angel ica. And when I have spoken of you he has been positively rude, aud asked me to have done bothering him about my freck led school friends you know your pic ture fhowj freckles ; but, bless me, you haven't any now. And your picture don't look any more like you than it does me, not a bit." "But tell me," asked Belle, "is your brother engaged to this lady ?" "Engaged ! Why, dear heart, he don't know her name. He just found some of her clothes somewhere. He's got her old slipper under a glass case ; lie's got her gloves stuffed under another ; he's got her nightgown done up in lavender ; he's got her gold thimble hung on his watch chain; and I do believe he's got a hair-brusu and some hair-pins next to his heart ! Oh, it's folly to .interfere ! He's beyond all hope ! I did think the excitement of my wedding would wean him from it, but not a bit of it. He looked at my new thing; as calmly as an oyster, and said it is not kind of me to repeat it, though," broke off Jenny. "What was it he said V inquired Belle, laughing now heartily. "Don't fsar for my feeling9." "Why," he said, "I'll etand up with your friend, Belie, and see you Bafely married ; and then I'm off to winter in Paris. I'm done with love on my own account. It's positively awful." And so Belle thought, as she looked at her old slipper and glove lying beneath a globe on either side of the faithful Rich ard's mantle. "And," said Belle, "since he desires only to meet me on the morning of the wedding, so it shall be. I will be intro duced only as we are leaving the house, and he can do as ho pleases about con tinuing the acquaintance afterwards." Belle was radiant with happiness when she returned to her fuher, and delighted his fond heart by the change, for she had been very quiet of late. Jenny and Bella shopped and talked and visited together for the next few days, and when the eventful morning arrived, and amid a bevy of beautiful girls, Belle shone like a queen, the btido was eclipsed, and delightfully acknowledged it. "Oh, Belle I" she s;;id, 'lI long to have old stoic Dick see you. 1 1 ark I there's his step. Come into the next room and be introduced. Don't wait till the carriages come it is au hour yet." And Belle, with a beating heart, swept through the door r.n l s.'cod even as Dick first saw her, only iu the place of the grav traveling dress a magnificent white satin fell in rich folds about her, and upon her lovely white throat lay the turquois locket that held Dick's golden curl. Upon tho beautiful head, crowned by its chestnut hair, a cornal of pearls added to that grace and lwauty of an image that, shrined in Dick's heart, was already an angel. Bello did not look up, but she felt the presence, as Richard Marcy came up and was introduced to litllo Jenny's old school mate Then, as he held ont his hand, she raised her eyes, and laid her tiny hand in his, and said : "I think we had better rectify that mis take about the traveling bags, Mr. Mar cy!" "Good heavens, Jenny!" said Dick Marcy, "Why didn't you tell me that your friend Belle was my angel of mercy?" "Because I didn't know it till last night, and then Belle mado me promise not to tell. And, besides, you didn't want to meet the freckled school girl till it was positively necessary," retnrncd Jenny, mischievously. It would be hard to say which of the four that made Jenny's bridal party was the happiest that day. Dick did not go to Paris that winter. He found St. Louis contained more at traction than any foreign city. But. the next fall will Bee Dick and Belle on their wedding tour, and he vows he will have the two romantic traveling bags brushed up for the occasion. Dr. Town send, who is to be along, says he knew the minute he saw the girl she would one day ba xVnge'ica, as he "felt it in the air." ax affi:jti.g sci:.c. A genteel and intelligent young man about thirty years of age, was recently taken up at St. Louis on a charge of being drunk in the streets and disturbing the peace. He plead guilty to the charge, and evidently labored under great emo j tion. VV hen requested to give some ac i count of himself (svo copy ft om the St. I Louis Ball' tin) he replied : "Sir : I have now arrived at the ex tremity of that depredation which, long ago, I become satisfied would one day or other become my portion. Sir, I do not believe I was born to this. In my youth, when I first started in the world, my hopes and prospects were as bright as the sky which bent over me. I married a beautiful wife, when I was twentyeight years of age, and had acquired a consider able competence. Sir, I need not tell you how I loved her. I perceive by your countenance that you know something tf human nature, and are already satisfied that I nm not a common loafer and that I have been driven to the present ex tremity by some extraordinary circum stances. But I will proceed with my story. Two yeats subsequent to my marriage with my wife who was a young Englisii lady of handsome expecta j tions, and had a beautiful boy to bless me wiiu his innocent endearments we reeeived letters from England, announc ing the death of my wife's father, and soliciting me to come to England immedi ately, for the purpose of settling up the affairs of the deceased, and receiving my wife's portion of ti e estate. I immedi ately made preparations for my departure, and leaving my wife under the protection of an intimate friend, whose name was Henry Anson Willougliby, I set sail for England. "My business detained me longer than I had anticipated, and I began to feel the most intense anxiety respecting my family. The hitters I received from my wife grew brief and unfrequent, sometimes startling me with their abruptness. Just before the final steps in regard to my wife's pro portion were about to bo completed, I received a htter from America, warning j me to hasten home, if I would preserve my luiure happiness and the honor of my wife ! Imagine my dismay I I hurried home, leaving my business still unsettled, and arrived in time to find my hearth des olate, my wife eloped with my friend Willoughby, and my boy my darling boy in the orphan asylum, aa object cf public charity ! "Willoogbby had represented himself a rich planter from Alabama, and that he was sojourning at the north for the purpose of regaining his healih. Placing my child under proper protection, I flew in pursuit of the destroyer of my peace, with my heart bursting with revenge. At Montgomery, Ala., I learned that Wil lotighby had been there, in company with a lady, whom he called his wife that he had been for years a notorious blackleg and swindler, and had gone to Mobile, leaving his wife (my wife) behind him in circumstances of destitution. After wait iug fjr some time, and hearing nothing from her base paramour, she borrowed money from some of tho citizens and fol lowed him. Mad with rage nnd disappointment, I pursued. At Mobile I lost all traces of the villain and his wretched victim. I pro ceeded to New Orleans ; and, on making inquiries of the dfferer.t boats, I was told by the captain cf one cf them engaged iu running to St. Louis, that a woman answering the description I gave, had gone up the river on his boat some time since. I immediately embarke.l for this place, sir ; and my money being nearly exhausted, I was compelled to take a pas sage on deck. "I arrived here iu a complete state cf destitution ; arid beirg unab'.e to letrn anything of my wife or the villain Wil loughby, I became discouraged and dis heartened, Thi bottle was my resort. I mingled with the vilest of ihe vile , and, last night was pursuaded by several others to visit a house of ill-fame. I entered and the first object that met my gaze was my idje, sitting upon the lap cf a disgusting ruliian, and lesigning her ten der cheek, which I had not suffered 'even the winds of Heaven to touch too rough ly,' to his disgusting caresses. Sir, sir ! I became mad ! I can tell no more, but that I rushed from the house invoking the most impious maledictions upou him who had been the cause of such misery and anguish ; and found myself -this morning in the situation you behold me. Sir, nothing which you can inflict will be pun ishment to me ; and you can bestow no greater favor than to take my life I have lived too long I am ready to die." He was discharged. A CRUSTY old gentleman in Boeton de cided to invest in a two cent paper, and handed tha boy a twenty five cent piece of currency. He couldn't change it, but offered to go out of th- car nnd change it. Crusty man objected, and broke out with, "Hold on, you little rag:el rascal, do you suppose I'm gcing to trust the likes of you with so large a aura of money. Lay down your papers for security, you little rascal," and the "little racal," did make crusty the custodian of his papers, and bounded out of the car "f t to c-iango" the twenty five cent scrip. But the bsy for got to return, and crusty found himself in possession of four copies of a two cent paper. NUMBER V7: A 32ot tier's Mistake. I thought I knew before that grown-up people should regard the rights of their children, and be careful not to destroy any of their precious little possessions But it seemed I needed a little bitter ex perience to make me know it thoroughly. In cleaning un lh3 room I gathered up some torn pieces of newspaper, and with them a leaf from an old blank book scrawled over with the curious hyro glyphics my little boy delights in. I crushed them all up together, and stuffed -them m the stove, with a sudden fear, as the flames devoured them, that the child might miss his drawings. B:,t he made so many such scrawls, I hardly could sea -why he should wish to preserve any of them. After breakfast I heard hirn saying t "1 wonder where that paper is that I marked on last night. I wish I could find it. Don't you know, mamma, that piece of count book I made machinery on when you lay on the lounge ? Where do you suppose it is V "Can't you make another one like it ?'' I asked. ''1 can't just remember how that was," he said ; "and it had my dmdul curs on it. I want that. I must find it !" And he emptied his box of playthings and tools upon the floor, to make sure whether it was among his books or papers or not. I had not the courage to tell him that it was gone p.tst a!l recovery, and by tha cruel thoughtlessness of Li own mamma. At last he concluded to try sgain on a fresh leaf of ihe old account book. Pres ently he came to rne, saying : do want that piece I h;.d Test t i "Oh! I night so mucn i Kj9X t vou mi it f..r t Suddenly I found grace to say : "My lit tle boy, I am afraid that is what mammi burned up this morning with some torn newspaper." "Oh! I can't live I" ho burst out, "I want it so very much 1" For a minute or two 1 suppose his loss was quite as severe for him to bear as was Carlyle's for his man's heart, when ha discovered that his maid-servant had kin died the fire with his precious manuscript of the "French Revolution," on which ha had labored so long. My boy saw that I was sorry, and Le soon became reconciled to a loss for which tin re wai no remedy. It is one of the greatest wrongs)iittle child ren have to bear the failure of grown up people, who should be their guardians and helpers, to appreciare their feelings and aims. We expect the little ones to understand us and try to conform to our standards, but we Jose many beautiful lessons in not trying to enter into their spirit and plans matching the outreach ing of their growing faculties with wise and gentle guiding, so that all their happy play shall really be useful education. My mother told me how she learned to enter into a child's feelings and bear with its "litter." Her first-born son a chil l always to her heart, becauso the nnlgela took bim so early had got possession of an old jacknife. She had just swept her carpets, and put the room to "rights," when she discovered Henry, with a pine stick and his knife, making little chips all over on the bright clean corpet. "Oh, Henry !" she said, TOu havo littered my clean carpet. S- e how bad those little chips loot on the floor !'' With wondering gravity, he gazed at the dear little chips he had been so proud to be able to scatter, then lifting his frank, innocent eyes, he said earnestly ; "They look 't!y to Hi.- r' Instantly tho whola scene was beautiful to my mother, little chips and all ; and bhe carries the sweet picture with her ever since, and all the little children love her the better for it without knowing why. Faith Rochester. , TriE Vagabonds Fete. Years Hgo a singular fete in favor of the poor class was established in a corner of Switzerland. The village of Gersau, situated near tho Lake of Lucerne, together with the coun try for many miles around, formed fur many centuries a miniature republic, called San Marino. At the village of Gersau, the festival of the vagabonds fete was each year celebrated. Three days prior to the fe'e, troops of wanderers, men, women and children, could be seen descending the mountains and coming from the surrounding vallevs, bearing with them cooking utensils and bundles. They were permitted to take up their temporary abode in out house?, barns or sheds. During the three days the authorities suspended the restraint upon begging and vagabondage the po lice had no right to arrest, but on tha contrary, extended protection. On Sun day, escorted by a ymV armcy a long pro cession composed principally of old men and women, and little children, attended mass, and then proceeded from door to door gathering offerings of food and money. The young men and maidens weto not al lowed to join the procession, lcing less calculated to arouse pity, but while wait ing the return of their companions, passed the time in dancing and sin'-in". Tiik lady principal of a school, in her advertisement, mentioned her lady assist ant and the "reputation for teaching which she bears," but the compositor in putting; up the type inadvertently left out the word "which," and so Iho advertisement went forth broadcast to thfl wot Id com mending the lady's "reputation for teach ing she Icars!" il
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