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In accordance with an act of the Lfgixhtture and their Articles of Incorporation, the Board of Director announce their tirst Oriimi (Hit Concert inid J'ti.-t rihtif inn liv lot, anion thetieket-holders, of $382,. '.".." IN AS1I, at Laintj's Hall, Leavenworth, on the E.rtli day of .June. ls;7:l, for the benefit of the Lihrarv. 51,S3 CASH (ill-TS, AMOCNTI. TO 33i'55.. 'i his enterprise is endorsed by the Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor of State, Ciuperin tend'tof Public Instruction.Treasurerof State, Mayor and Common Councilor Leavenworth, and all leading business men of tlie State, and the certainty of tlio distribution mid payment of jril'ts, as advertised, is fuliy jruarantecd. Tit liEiKJii I:A'II. S lor f5. li forJtO. Memorandum ot Cash Gil ts to bo distributed June 'Z it h, Ib'.i : 1 (iKANI CASH GIFT I50,OX) 1 C. HAND CASH ( i I FT VJM) 1 GRAND CASH GIFT 35.PO0 1GUANDCASH GIFT )JWI 1 G hand Cash Gift 2.i,0tKJ 1 Gka.M) Cash Gift lit UK") 1 Guam 'asii t ; i ft liS.mHI 1 Gkai Caish Gift 2,mn 1 tiitAu Cash Girr lO.'Jmi 1 (,'rtid t 'hah (lift S.'.kX) 1 a mini Cith (iift 5,1 tw) 1 iirantl ( Hall (iift ;,(j0 1 (Jraiiii Cah (iift ,5U0 For balance of prizes send for circular. This i'oecert is under the supervision and di rection of the fol,owinj ttoAi'.ooF IUkutiuis-C. II. Durfee, Merch't; II. L. Newman. Hanker; H. 1. Uusli, Lumber; H. VV. Gillett. Merchant ; ;. F. l'rescott, Cora-tm-rcia!; .las. li- Kitchen, Farmer; V. C. Gould, Citv F.nir'r; I". i. lwe. Capitalist; C. I. More head, Merchant; .1. L. Wever, M. I).; J. V, Enr lish. Lawyer: C. Moller, Cash'r Ger. ri. IJ.; E. T. Carr. Architect. Offu kiip E. TT. Pcrfee. Tresident; II. L. Newman, Yiee-l'ref. ; Gko. F. I'kkscott, Sec; Caul Mih.i.kk, Treasurer. The well known character of the Directors of the f' rcantiit L.tiitiirj, i As-Whit bm ami theen dorsemi nt pres'nted, is a snllieient guarantee to all absent ticket-holders that tneir interests will be fully guarded ami protected. All corres pondence st riot ly conlidciitial, and any person drawinsra prize need not be known unless they desire it. Tickets drawing prizes will be cashed on sight. This is the aranlrt,afrst and best enterprise ever" presented to the public. Official lists of winning numbers will be sent to purchasers of tickets immediately after the distribuf iou. For information itild tickets address, JlAMIJEHi;E & CO., Crwrnl AiFiitx, 9h LlBKHTV STHEKl', N'LW VllKK, Tickets sent C. . I), at our exeuse. Agents wanted. Liberal Commissions paid. ICOO.000 Acres b :ni! in Market, IV.r salu by the V.CIFIC RAILROAD tOMrY, . , ; ; tZA T l'LA TI E V. 1 L I. V. i". Ac-rs ir. I'eisSral ACKrtKlia i -, I in tract of aeri s and up. wards in j eu r:n i s' I I idif nt t jii' ent. An lilt, It !' I I ,ll ii III. a:n! II i:m.'! i.i i !. Ci.iM Ai r. Fi:kiii.k V A III' M ': I IF ' i I l Ml W AT Kit. ':-:ST MA UK El' IN THE WEST! The '1 t ing (regions of Wyoming. Colorado, I Nev-iida. being supplied by the fa null.- Platte Valky. UI'cRS Entitled to a HOMESTEAD F 1H At RS'S. Bi: U -T LOCATIONS FOB (0I.ONIES. H". Ik 1 i m -I . M . FOR ALL! Millions of Ai res ament Lands open for entry stead Law, near this Great o t markets and all The con ve- -f t led cou nt ry. i. in iiasers of Kailroad Land. .. showing the land, also new i i vi' I'amphli l with NenvMaps whir-. Address II. F. DAVIS, r. I'. I'. It. H., O.MAHA, XEB. I ' - 1;' 1 i n . 2:.. .- ! ' 4 1 4 ? vVA.MED FJR THE .Hi L OK, OTICK TO TAX-PAYKUS. In aeeordanee with an Act of the General Assembly of this Con, monweulth, approved the Slh da v of April, A. D. IST2, -'relaling to the col lection of taxes in the County cl Cambria." no tice is hereby given to the tax-payers residing in tie-districts named below, that the County Treasurer, in accordance with the m cond sec tion of said Act. will intend t. the places of holding the LSorouvli and Township di ctions, on the follow ing named das, for the purpofce of recci vine the County. Poor, State uud Mili tary Ta.tcs assessed for the year 1ST;!: For Croyle Township, Monday, .Tune lllth. " Siiiiime: hill T p.. Tuesday, June K:h. " Wilmorc llevoiigh, Wednesday. Juneisih. " Wai-hif.gton Townsbip, Thursday and Fri- i'j-, June l'.'th and -Dtli. " Puuiniit viiie More ugh. Sat u rday, .1 u nt- 21st. " F.al Ward. Ebeiisburg, Monday, J une " Westward, " Tuesday, J u n" t h. " Cambria Township. Wednesday and 'Iburs- iiiv, .lu ne 2"t h and :'.!) h. " MurMi'i- Twnslii, Friday, .lune 57th. " .Im k.-on Townh'p. M'.ivlay. July -Jlt. itlaekiick Township. Tn-sdav, July 22d. " Galliizin Township. Wci'.ncsdav un.l Thurs- iliiv July .l and 24th. " I.orelto Morough. Friday, July 2:th. " Ailegiienv Township, Saturday and Mon day, July 'ith and sth, " Chest SprinrK Morngh, Tuesday, July 29th. " Clearfieid Township. Wednesday and Thurs day, Julv :ith and Hist. " CarroLtown Horough. Friday, August 1st. " Carroll Township, Saturday and Monday. A ugust 2d and 4t h. " narr Township. Tuesday. August 5th. " Siisyuehanna Twp., Wednesday aud Thurs day. August litli and 7th. " Chest Township, Friday and Saturday, Au- S-ut Sth and i'th. " White Township, Tuesday and Wednesday, August 12lh and l:jtli. And. in accordance with the second section of said Act. upon ail taxes paid to theTreasurtr before the 1st day of September there wilt be a deduction of FiVK pf.h cfnt., while 5 per cent, w ill be added to all unpaid taxes,and pluced in the hands of a constable. JOHN COX, County Treaurer. Treasurer's Ollice, Ebeusburg, April 11, 1373. 1'lCAl'lJJt JLNU rOTATOKB. "If a brother or sister be naked, and des titute of daily food, and one of you say uuto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled: notwithstanding ye give them not ' those things which, are necdtul tor the body, J what doth il profit?" James ii., 1510. ' An old lady sat in her old arm-chair, I With wrinkled visage aud dishevelled hair, Ana hunger-worn features ; for daj-s and lor weeks her only fare, As she sat there in her old arm-chair, Had been potatoes. I5ut now they were gone ; of bad or good Jsot one was left for the old lady's food, Of those potatoes. And she sighed and said, "What shall I do? AVhere shall 1 send, and to whom shall 1 go, For more potatoes ?" And she thought on the deaeou.over fho way, The deacon fo ready to worship and pray, Whose cellar was full of potatoes. And she said: "I will send for the deacon to come ; He'll not mind much to pive me some Of such a store of potatoes." Aud the deacon come over as fast as ho could, Thinking to do the lady some good, Itut never, for once, of potatoes; He asked her at once what was her chief want, And she, poor soul, expecting a grant, Immediately answered, "potatoes!" lint the deacon's religion didn't lie that way ; He w;is more accustomed to preach aud to pray Thau to give of his hoarded potatoes ; So, not hearing, of course, what tiie old lady said, He rose to pray, with uncovered head, liut she only thought of potatoes. Ho prayed for patience, and wisdom, and grace, I5ut when he prayed, "Lord, give her p?ace," 81ie audibly sighed, "Give potatoes." Aud at the end of each prayer which he said, He heard, or thought lie heard in its stead, The same request for potatoes. The deacon was troubled knew riot what to do 'Twas vwry cmbarrasiug to have her act so About "those darned potatoes." So ending his prayer, he started for home ; liut, as the door closed, he heard a deep groan, "Oh give to the hungry potatoes !" And then a groan followed him all the way home. In the midst of the night it haunted his room, "Oh, give to the hungry potatoes !" He con Ul bear it no longer; arose and dressed; From his well tilled cellar taking iu haste A bag of liia best potatoes. Again he went to the widow's lone hut ; Her sleepless eye she had not yet slinT, liui there !he bat, in that old arm-ehair, With the same wan features, the same pad air, And, entering in, he poured on the floor A bushel or more from his goodly store Of choice potatoes. The widow's heart leaped up for joy, Her face was haggard anil wan no more ; "Now," said the deacon, "shall we pray?" "Yes," said the widow, "now you may ;" And he kneeled him down on the sanded floor, Where he had poured his goodly stoTe, And such a prayer the deacon prayed As never before his lips essayed ; No longer embarrassed, but free and full, He poured out the voice of a liberal soul, And the widow responded, aloud, "Amen!" But said no more of potatoes. And would you, who hear this simple tale, Pray for the poor, and praying, "prevail," Then preface your prayers with alms and good deads ; Search out the poor, their wants, aud their needs. Pray for peace and grace, and spiritual food, For wisdom, aud guidance, for all these are good ; liut don't forget the potatoes. AoS IN THE TERRITORIES. .;, l. II. MEADLE. . - (- tit nf i'iiiciHi'iit iCi'intiicvciiil .!! history of that vast region M - -u..i Hiid the Pacific: ItsHe ln'Mhilants. .Natural CurioM- - - -, r i -1 adventure on Prairies, . in Pacific Coast. Mr. I'.eadle . .i-s I raveling in the nevStates i ' -. .i.i.i knows more annul their , .. : ...ii any other writer. The i a t h over -5' tineengta - - rv, i it ies, Lands, Mines, Peo - of i he Great West, a. id is i ...;,iiig book ever published. - ii pa-'e-'i and circular?, with - VVTIONAL l-CULlSHING ' :i :: ' l'a. And Storehouse on Lease. HMIE subscribers offer at private sale their J. entire stock of merchandise and will lease their Store House, -e for a term of years, Said property is al St. La wrence Church, Cam bria co.. and has done a good business. 1 he ill health of thesenioi partner is t tie only reason lor wishing to sell. No better locution in the county for a country store. If not disposed of b.v the (iist dav of April next, we will want a good man to sell goods for us one who can speak German and come well recommended. None other need apply. Good wages will be given to a good man- Apply to Wm. S. Pick tY v Sos, at Glen Hope, Clearfield county. Pa. WM. S, DICKEY & M)N. St. Lawrence, Feb. 14, lf;:i,-3ui. Xothtk. We have no authorized agent doing business for us iu Cambria county or elsewhere. ax old sAir.oirs yaux. THREE WEEKS ON AN ICEBERG IN TIIE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN. -irtlif. '3.-!. i I I : 11 S im, W. 1 '1 1 !ti-: : knnu n miritirr. It will - and thoroughlyjdeetroy ail j ' e- m the Llood and will ef- ; .... i reiiisposition to biliousde- ' M in umir Lirfr ami Sjilcciit ' i -fee. t he blood becomes im - ii it urns, prod tie! ng scrof i - ,t -. blotches. Felons, Pus 1 . !.-. Ac, Ac. i h M.,iatrt Unless diges- 1 -.1 the system i i debilitated ' " ! .H i-, poverty of the Illood, ; ...lieueral Weakness or Las- '.'.ful viaor to weary sufferers. ' . ' a I Dh Mincs t You are '. '. Diarrhiea or the dreadful "' 1 a.' lioM'els. f (,,. fttrint ur I'riuaru i-i-i-t procure instant relief or ' m: lb-ring woise than death. drowsy, dull, sluggish or de 1 with head ache, Imck ache, ii'i l l ad tasting mouth r . r. incii v for ail of t hese diseases, u'i trouliU-s; ior cleansing and v,'! l;lI' 'i blood and imparting vig ' '! - : lor bunding up and restor 'II a c..ts i, uiioii, L'SE --iri --oil t,y ,,t (.a,iin)!. medical -' -i' 'Ion ui 1 Paris --the most pow- rai iv,. known to the uiedi- - im new and untried discov I"' ' iisc.l hy tho leading pby- iniri..; witii unmlcrul reme- Mii).ifr the digestive organs l.-'iis.ei,. Thev give only tern- ;,''"'."-'-.i ilaiuleiicy and dys- "ni kindred diseases, are aura nISSOLUTIOX. Thft iiurtnership heretofore existing between the under signed in the mercantile business, under the firm name ot Ii. li. Davis & Co., has this dav bevn dissolved ty mutual consent. The books and accounts have been left in the hands of Wm. Baxtkk, who is empowered tolsi-tue thw same It. U.DAVIS. SJ,UC- WM. BAXTER. Ebensburg, April 2, 1873.-6t. The mercantile business will hereafter be con ducted at the old stand on High street, near Centre, by Sami-ki. Haxtkk arid Wm. Hutch, who have entered into partnership under the firm name of Haxtkk & Son, and who solicit and hope to merit a fair share of public patron age Dry goods, groceries and other merchan dise of the best fjualities will be sold , at lowest market rates. UAXIfcit tSUA. s T ILL U P AND AT IT! 4H'.K V-blc I'll!'. n l health is assured. '!.";;. H p'hitt St., N. Y., ' t f.-r the I'nited Stat en. "'l-r lion Send tor Circular. -AIIOUNKV AT fyW, VA)1 iliice;in front rK. in of T. ''"idii.g. Centre ft reel. All ,:,.,"'""" "Hen. led tos.itisfac-'-'-- jl.s u specialty. lO-H.tf. J CABINET MAKING JND UNDERTAKING. Thankful for past liberal favors, the subscri ber desires to Inform the people of Ebensburg and vicinity that he is still carrying on l,'9 iness above named in all its branches, on High stre t,nearly opposite the Public school House. Substantiallylmade Furniture of all kind sold at lowest ktlgu res. Coffins of any desirable size or finish lurnished on short notice, ana funer als attended to promptly anjaon! Ebensburg, March 21, 1873--6in. - "VALUABLE fa KM FOR SALE. V -The undersigned offers at private sale herFHM in Siimmerhill township, about miles north of Wilmore. Said Farm contain 100 Acres and allowance, about 50 Acres being cleared, under good fence and well cultivated, and having t hereon a Log House and Loir Sta ble. There is also a small orchard of choice fruit on the premises. The balance of the lann is covered with hemlock, cherry and ash tun tier, and mills for cutting the same are at conveni ent points. Title Indisputable, tor further particulars, terms, etc., call on or address Mas. MARY GREW. March 14, lS73.-tf. Wilmore, Pa. allTFzix hotel, VJ G A LLIT.IN PTATIOX, PA. R- R- Having jiiet purchased, refitted aud rofur- nisheil this well Known an I coinmoul ous Hotel, the subscriber is f tiliy pre pared to accommodate all who may favor him with tbeir patronage, and especially invites the attention of his friend in Cambria and Miair counties to this fact. Neither expense or pains will bo spared to make all lee I at home who sojourn with me- TfcitMS moih.ihtk. M. F1T.H ARRIS, Proprietor. GalliUin, April 4, J7:j.-tf. n i "I don't think I can Io cttcr, sir, this afternoon than just go on riht whore 1 left off the other day, when I had to go home to the old woman, and toll you all that me and JScotty and Ned Jones, the other chap what was with Scott v in the lioat when they j picked me up, went through with, onto ' that ie-oliero;. " I assured my friend that it was a matter of indifference to me what the subject matter of the yarn might be, since I knew it would Im? a good one if he spun it, and he then proceeded : "You see, sir, when I'm a spinnin' a yarn, I'm just like I am when I'm a doin' a job of work, I don't like to leave it half done, as I was obliged to the other day ; but you see my old woman, though she's as good a woman as ever draw'd a mug of ale, has her ways, and as Kill Fisher used to say of Kill Kursley in the Ilottinguer, 'damn her ways.' So long as I gets home to tea at five o'clock, why I finds my tea all ready and everything bright and clear all round the horizon as well as overhead, with prospects of contin uance. I eats my supper, and finds my pipe all filled for a smoke after wards ; and at six o'clock I finds my lantern all ready, and my pail with a snack in it for twelve o'clock, and I just kisses Kolly and away I goes down to my dock regular ; but if I don't get home in time, or if I have taken a little more'n is good for me, then the weather is very cloudy round our honse, and I has to look out for squalls. Polly's as sweet a tempered woman as ever stood in a tap when everything's all right ; but atweeu you and me, 1 found a many a year ago, that it aint best to put her out. Asa sailor for many years, of course I be lieves in discipline ; always obey your officers, no matter whatsumever your officers are, and get out of that ship as soon as convenient if things aint aorcoable, that's my motto. I believe in evcrvbodv being captain of their own cnttl, and so Folly naturally com mands at home, and of course has to presarve discipline among me and the children, and I don't mind a tellin' you she does it. "I suppose, sir, one of the lonesom est feelings that a man can have is to find himself in the water away out on the ocean and sec his ship a sailin' away from him. Leastwise I know I never felt so deserted before as I did on that afternoon when I tumbled olf the old Albocore's forecastle and seen her a sailin' olf from me. Of course the main yard was aback, but that ain't no way to stop a ship, not if you want to stop her dead, which was par ticularly desirable to me about that time, but as I told you afore, it was all along of the confusion which always pcrwails, and always did porwail, and always will porwail on board a ship whenever a man tumbles overboard or a tire breaks out sudden, or when she fetches up a sudden on a rock or a ice berg. It's the suddenness of the thing that does it, you see, and not the dan ger. I've lieeu on the Jersey coast in a steamer with the machinery broke down aud a hard gale blowing from the eastward and she a driftin' in shore at the rate of a couple of knots, and all hands readj to let go both anchors and cut away the masts. Well if the anchors didn't hold, that ship would go ashore, and though all hands would be likely to lose the number of their mess, the discipline of that ship would be presarved to the last, and all orders would be obeyed, 'caue there would be time to get readr for the event, and it would be expected ; but if that same steamer, through an error in the chro nometer, or from overrunning her reckoning, was to have run onto that same shore sudden, why every man would be for hissolf and the Lord for the whole of 'em, and there would be all sorts of confusion. If all hands had a know'd I was a goin' overlioard that arternoon, why when the helm was put down, she would a shot up in stays well to wind'ardof me, the after yards would have been braced about, the head yards would have boon loft aback, the ship would a stopped dead in the water and would a drifted down atop of rne, and I might a been picked up as little Hilly Tooley was off the (Jape of Good Hope without ever low erin' a boat. 15ut you see it weren't to be so, and arter the main-yard run in of course she wouldn't go round, and when she fell olf she got way on her and a?cay she went a couple of knots an hour. I suppose if it hadn't a been for them single whips I was a tellin' you on they never would a got that stem boat down so neatly. If she'd been rigged with any of them detachin' apparatuses, which never was no good in no ship I've been in, 'tis ten to one she'd a been' swamped afore she got clear of the tackles, 'cause them things always ojeratod too soon or else not soon enough, but with these whips all you had to do was to let go and they unrove and our boat was all clear f;om the ship and all right. "'Twas a luck3' thing for me that I had the life-buoy, for although I could swim like a fish I couldn't have kept up long in that cold water, and with all my clothes on, and anyhow I was mighty glad when the chap in the boat heard me holler and pulled for me. They had a hard job a pullin' me into the boat, all soaked as J was, and I was so numbed that I could not help myself much, but they got mc in at last, and I laid down in the stern sheets completely beat out. How we missed the ship I don't know, but I know that we did miss her, and arter it shut in dark Scotty and the other chap give it up and resolved to lay by till morning. So them two laid down alongside of me, and we all went to sleep. In the morning the fog was as thick as ever, so there was nothing for it but to just lie still in hopes some vessel would come along and pick us up. We was right in the track of ves sels, fishermen, and others, so that we had no great fear but that we should soon be aboard of some craft, and the greatest trouble was that we were get ting precious hungry. The fog had wet the clothes of the other two chaps and we was able to squeeze enough water out of them to quench our thirst a bit. As for my clothes they was wet enough, but too salt to lie good for anything. That was the time we would have liked to have had some of old Wiggins' lean9, and more'n once that morning Scotty said to me : " 'Tom, if the Lord spares my life out of this scrape I'll never turn up nose at anything in the way of grub.' . "I guess it must have been about eleven by the look of the sun when the fog lifted, and we looked all around, you may be sure, for our ship or any other that we could get aboard of, but the only sail in sight was a square rig "er aw3" to the westward, her courses Just above the water. Whether she was our ship or not I don't know, but I suppose she was, tiecause I knew the old man would look for us as long as there was any chance of finding us, 'cause he wouldn't like to lose the boat for one reason, and then taking three of us out of the crew would make him rather short-handed. "Away to the northardof us, about three miles or so, was a big iceberg, and as soon as Scotty claps his eves on that, he savs : " 'My lads, there's plenty of good drinkin' water on that 'berg and like- i wise birds. I don't like the look of! the weather to the southward, and I think we'll be safer on that there is land than in the boat, if it comes on to blow.' "Well, Ned and me hadn't neither of us been much among ice, and so we said we'd go anywheres that Scotty thought best, and so I says to him, 'Scotty, you shall have charge of this expedition, and Ned and me will do whatever you think best.' "So Nod and me pulled the boat and Scotty steered. I suppose we was well nigh an hour afore we reached the berg, 'cause we had to pull round to leeward of it, and then pull along till we found a good place to land. We come to a place at last where the sea had worn away a place about twenty foot across and made a little bay like, and we pulled the boat in here and landed. It was a pretty good tug to haul the boat up, but she weren't a very large boat, and we managed at last to get her up on a little ledge w here we thought she would be sale. Then we started for water, and sure enough, as Scotty had said, we come to a little pond of as good water as ever was drank. "Scotty had gone off himself to see what he could find, and by and by he came back and said he'd found a place over on the south side of the island, where the sun or the waves or some thing or other had made a kind of a cave that would be a good place for us to sleep. So we takes everything out of the boat that we could unship, the rudder, thwarts, stem-sheets, bottom board, oars, etc., and carries them over to where Scotty had found this cave. Sure enough when we got there we found the most complete place you can imagine ; if we had made it our selves, we couldn't have made it any better; it wasn't very large, that's a fact, but it was big enough for us t hree, and it was a good protection from the rain, which was a comin' dow n pretty lively, and from the wind, which had been a-breezin' on steady all day, and was now blowin' half a gale. We laid all the boards we had brought over onto the oars and made a kind of a platform, and laid doicn on the boards, and tras more comfortable than we'd been any time since Ave left the old ship. Scott y said as how the berg was aground he thought, else there'd a been more motion to it, for the sea had got up by this time, and was a break in' with great force on the weather side of the berg, sending the spray sometimes nearly up to where we was, and we was pretty high up too. Scotty said as how he was sure we'd get out of this scrape, 'cause, says he, 'it stands to reason if this berg hadn't a been here we'd a-had to stay in the boat, and in the gale that's a comin' on, we'd a most likely got swamped ; but here is this berg all ready for us to land on, and now we are landed, here is this little house for us to live in, and as soon as ever it is dark we'll catch some birds for our supper ; we've got no c ml of water, and tobacker enough for some days, and if we hadn't a-boen a goin' to be took oil" hy and by, all these here things wouldn't a been per vided for us.' "Well, Ned and me, was glad to hear him talk that way, cause we knew he'd been up the Arctic a-whalin', and know'd more'n we did ; but we wished it would come dark, 'cause we was blessed hungry. I'd put a whole, plug of terbackor in my pocket that after noon when I went overboard, and though 'twas pretty salt it was a great comfort to me just then. I didn't like to ask either of the other chaps for any, 'cause, you see, I didn't know how long this voj-age was a-goin' to last, and I know'd they'd want all their supplies. At last it come dark, and then we went for the birds. We had to climb away up to the top of the berg, and it was hard work, 'cause the rain made it very slippery. Only me and Scotty went up, 'cause Scotty said Ned must stay to answer our hail so we could find the way back, 'cause, you know, there wan't no street-lights there, and one part looked prettj' much like another in the dark. We'd seen where the birds had . lighted, and we scrambled up to them afore it got pitch dark, and had no difficulty in catching 'em. We each got a couple, and then we started down again, shoutin' out to Ned once iu a while so that we might not lose our way. "I don't think, sir, you'd make a very hearty meal otF of them raw sea gulls, if you had 'em here to-night, but if you'd a been four-and-twenty hours without food, and knocked about as we'd been, you'd be glad of anything. They was pretty strong and fishy, there's no denyin' it, but we felt aheap sight better arter we'd done supper than we did before. " 'If I only had a pull at a pipe now,' said Ned, 'I wouldn't change places with the Emperor of Kushy.' As he couldn't by no means get a smoke he was safe in say in' so. How soever we cuddled down close toget her and thanked God 'twas no worse, and wont off to sleep. 1 was woke up some time in the night by the old berg lie ginning to thump on the bottom, and the other chaps was woke up about the same time. I don't know how long we had slept, but the wind" had piped on and it was blowin' a hard gaie, and the sea had got up to that extent that each wave would lift the lierg. and when it settled it would strike the bot tom with a shock that would make eve ry tiling t rem ble. " 'Klowed if I ain't rifeMf'd this here craft will go to piece-.' snys Nod. " 'Never you be afeard of that, ship mate,' said Scotty ; 'this old berg ha travelled many a hundred mile, and stood many a gale of w ind afore now, and she aint goin' to pieces yet, not if 1 knows anything about ice.' "Just then there come the most tre mendous shock we'd had yet, and it seemed as it one of the highest peaks had toppled over and come crashing down; and then all of a sudden the wind seemed to moderate, although the sea kept up and the thumps on the bottom still continued. " 'My lads,' says Scotty, 'I think that there squall was the last flurry of the souwester, and the wind's gone in to nor'west, so we'll have line weather to-morrow." " 'Yes, fine, but might V cold,' said Neil. " 'We're in luck agin, Toys,' said Scotty, 'cause our house here's under the lee ; we'd freeze if K on th other side of the island.' "Says I, 'Did either of you hear any thing sinecler when that bio- crash came ? Seemed to me 1 hoard above all the crashin' something like a shout; but of course it couldn't le.' " 'Well, now you mention it,' says Scotty, 'I heerd that too, but of course it was only the wind, 'cause there's no one here to shout except us throe, and we was still enough.' "Well, we got used to the thumps, and as we did not feel the wind and was pretty comfortable we soon drop ped oil" to sloop ag'in, and slept I don t know how loiiff. 1 was waked bv a shout from Scotty : 'Turn out there, lads, for I'm bio wed if we aint shut in.' "The cave was still dark, hut Scotty's voice seemed to come from the en trance. 1 groped my way along, and presently 1 got to where he was and Could see a small chink of light thro' the icy wall which had formed through the night across the entrance of the cave. " 'It's all clear now,' said Scotty. 'That crash we heard in the night was this boulder tumbling down, and when we thought the wind had shifted itwas only that we couldn't hear it on ac count of boin' shut up. I'm more'n ever of a mind now,' said he, 'that we shall be took olf from here, 'cause if we hadn't a been a goin' to le we'd a beeu crushed last night. Now, see here how complete this here is. Last night we had a house all complete ex cept that the doors wasn't hung, and the wind comes in in large numbers ; down comes this chunk of ice and our house is complete and shijvshape.' "'How are you goin' to get out?' says Ned. "Cut ourselves out," says Scotty. "So we took out our sheath-knives and went to work. It was a long job, for we had to cut through about ten feet of ice ; but the ice was not hard, and at last, after fiome hours' hard work, we got out. The lirst thing we did was to look for our boat. We wont over to the other side of the berg, where we had left her, but no trace of her was to be, seen. In fact, the w hole formation of the berg was changed, and it appeared as if on this side also one of the peaks had toppled down and fallen on the ledge whore we had left our boat. Whether that was so, or whether she had been washed away by the sea, we never knew ; she was gone and we never saw her afterwards. "'We're in for it now,' said Ned, 'and may make up our minds to spend the rest of our lives on this blasted icelierg.' " 'That be hlowed for a yarn,' says Scotty; 'we'll le took olf; we're right in the track of ships, and some of 'em will see us ; don't you give up yet, my hearty,' says he to Ned. " 'I ain't a-givin' up,' says Ned, 'but what the blazes is that down on the edge of the ice there ? It looks like a barrel.' "We all three scrambled down and there, wedged into a cleft in the ice, u-as a barrel and on its head was marked ami I won't forget it in a hurry 'Davidson tt Young; best pilot bread.' About three or four feet from this there tras a piece of a settee, such as ships usually carried on their poop deck for passengers to sit on. And this was all. " 'Koys,' said Scotty, 'this is a mighty poor show-; this here barrel of pilot broad and that settee is all that's left of a ship. She struck on this here berg last night and toppled down those ice spires, and that shout we hoard above the crashin' ice and roarin' wind u-as the last wail of ail that were aboard of her. I ler comin' has given us a de cent house to live in, and this here barrel of pilot broad will keep us from starvin' for some time. There's no great loss, but there's some small gain, and it's an ill wind that blows nobody no harm.' "I could continue this yarn, sir, for some time, hut I see 'Us half-past four, and I must get ready to top my boom ami sail large for home. Arter we'd been on that berg twenty-one blonsed days, seein' plenty of vessels but none of 'em seein' us, at last one mornin' we sights a schooner, and she seen our signals and run along to leeward of the berg. Then the skipper he hails: " 'Iceberg, ahov !' . . " 'Hallo !' says'Seouy. " 'Do 3ou want to lie took on"?' " 'Aye, a e,' saj's Scott", and then he turns to me ami Neil, and savs he. 'That there skipper's a fool or else he, thinks we are, but 1 told vou all along we'd be took off.' " " Sea. A". 1. SuuJay Wurlil. hill Any ox Tin: hack. HE 1'i.EADS AI.DEKM AN IC DUTIES AT TWO) IN THE MOKMXG. L'ill Ar; editor of the Home (X. Y.) Com lyurciitl, lias been swimming around tho Council chambers e-v-e-r-y night duriiii; the inundation of the city, and here's what comes of Lis Lwisig out : K-v-e-r-y night! Here is hnif past 1 o'clock ! It's a wonder yon come home at all ! AA'hat do you think a woman is made fur? I do believe if a robber wns to come and carry me off u wouldn't care ; what is hkt you say ? C ity Council business must be attended to ! How do I know you go to the City Council ? Does the Crty Council meet every liicjht ? They don't meet but once a week iu New York. Hut 1 suppose K-o-iu-e is a more important place. Oh, yes, out every night ! Twelve o' clockone o'clock two o'clock. Here I Ktay with tho children all' alone lviip awake half the night waiting for you! Couldn't come home any sooner! Of course you couldn't, if you don't want to. But I know something ; you think I don't, but I do. That I do. "i wish I didn't. VVheie were 3011 Monday uight ? Tell mo that. The marshal told me the Citj- Coun cil dou't meet that night. Now what havo you to say? Couldn't get a quorum! Well, if you couldn't, why didn't you coma home? Out e-v-e-r-y night limiting fin a quorum. ii:t you wouldn't hunt for me this late if I was missing. Where were yon Thursday uight ami Friday night ? There was a show in town, wasn't there? What did you buy that bottle of hair oil for aud hide it? Oil for your hone, indeed I Whoever heard of hair oil for a whetstone 0 So you think I didn't see yon in the other iwni brushing and greasing your hair and looking in th'.j glass at your pretty self? A man ought to he decent. He ought, ought he? ' Ye.-, indeed, a man ought to ; and a decent man will stay at home with hi wife .sometime:, and not be out e-v-e-r-y night. I low comes it that the City Council didu't meet but twice a month last year? Trying to work it out of debt ! Yes, that's probable very laughing ; and jok nifir, and smoking, aud swapping lies will work a debt off, won't it ? Now I want to know how much longer you arc gomg to keep up this night business? Yes, I want to know. Out e-v-e-r-y night. City Council, Free Ma sons, shows, hair oil and brush, aud brush, and brush, until you've nearly worn out the brush on your head, too. "What is it you say? It helps your business to keep up your social relations 1 Ah, indeed I You've got relations here at home, sir They need keeping up some, I should think. What did you say about catching it the other night at a whist party? Fellows, it's eleven o'clock, but let's play a while longer we won't catch it any worse when we get home. A pretty speech for a d e-c-e-n-t man to make. Catch it ! Catch it ! Well, I intend you shall eaten it a little. "What's that you say? If I wouldn't fret you so you would stay at home more ! Well sir, do you stay at home first a few nights and try it. Perhaps the fretting would stop. Out e-v-e-r-y night because I fret you so. What's that, sir? You know ladies who ain't always a scolding their husbands! You do, do you ? How came you to know them? What business have you to know them? What right have you to kuow whether other women fret or not ? That's always the way. Yon men think all other women ate suhits, but your wives. Oh, yes ints s-a-i-n-t-s. I'll have you to know, sir, that there isn't a woman in this town that's more of a saint than I am. I know them all, sir, a heap better than you do. You only see the snar and honey side of them, and the- only see tho sugar side of you. Xow, sir, I just want you to know that if you can't st.iy at home mote than you do, I'll leave these children here to get burnt up, and I'll go out every night. hen a poor woman gets desperate, whv, sir, the is she is desperate, that's all. Fond op the "Widows. The following story is 1 elated of an old man of strict creed and high moral standing iu the com munity where he lived. It is said imme diately following the death of his third wifo he donned his coat and hat, and with a smiling face that iudicatvd no thought of failure, summoned a widow lady living in the iicighlxrhool to the dixr, and au liounccd the news to her thus : "(lood-uioiiiin'. ma'am ; I'm 'round tell in' folks how my old woman's dead. Dou't know for sartin that I shall get married ajram. You a:e aware, howsomcver (with a"knowing wink), tl':tt A ,n mighty fond of the widdei-s.' His f.urth marriage has bceu placed on record. A coi ri.K apjiearrd before a clergyman in Sandy Hi',!, X. Y a few days since, and dcsiitd to be united in the "bands of matrimony. They were directed to placo themselves in position, and just as the cer emony was about to begin, a little urchin forced his way into the minister's study, yelling at the top of Ii is voice, "Don't do it. Mister; mother don't want yer to." This produced a "stay of proceedings," and the last seen of the disappointed pair they were walking aim inarm in search of seme one empowen-d to consummate their bliss bv making the twain one llen-h.
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