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T. XV. DICK, Secretai T-Ebcnsbuig-,
Dc. 10, 1673.
EBENSBURG,
TUE 1?AIX DllOrS.
A farmer had a field of corn of rather large
extent,
In tending which, with toil and care, much
anxious time he spent;
But after working long and hard, he saw
with grief and pain,
His com began to droop aud fade because it
wanted rain.
So sad and restless was his mind, at home
he could not stop,
But to his fields repaired each day, to view
his withering crop.
One day as he looked up despairing at the
sky,
Two little rain drops in the clouds his sad
face chanced to spy.
"I feel so grieved and vexed," said one, "to
see him look so sad,
I wish I con Id do him some good i ndeed I
would be glad.
Just see tho trouble h h?.s had, aud if it
should not rain,
Why, all his toil, and time, and care he will
have spent iu vain."
"What use are you I" cried number two, "to
water so much ground?
You are nothing but n rain drop, and could
not wot. one mound."
"What you have said," his friend replied,
"I know is very true,
But I'm resolved to do my best, and more I
cauuot do."
"I'll try to cheer his heart a bit, so now I'm
oft"; here goes!"
And down the little rain drop fell upon the
farmer's nose.
"Whatever's that?" the. farmer cried; "was
it a drop of rain?
I do believe it's come at last; I have not
watched in vain!"
Now, when the second rain drop saw his
willing friend depart,
Said ho, "I'll go as well aud try to cheer the
farmer's heart."
But many rain drops by this time had been
atl racted out,
To see aud hear what their two friends were
talking s,o about.
"We'll go as well," a number cried, "as our
two fik-nds are gone.
We shall not only cheer his heart, but water,
too. his com
We're oil'! we're off!" they shout with glee,
and down they fell so fast,
"Oh, thank ihe Lord!" the farmer cried,
"the rain has come at last."
The corn it grew and ripened well, and into
food was dressed,
Because one little rain drop said, "111 try
and do my best."
This useful lesson, workingmen, you'll not
forget, I'm sure:
Try, do your best do what you can angels
can do no more.
A s ti:a js g e s 'i on i .
It is possible that some readers may be
fond of ghost sdories, ad therefore I re
late for their benefit the following legend
about a certain Louuoti house. For obvi
ous lc.iKoiiS I suppress the names of per
sons, and exact localities, and I further
deti;e it to be understood that I do not
hold myself responsible for the accuiaie
ti tiili of all the details of the story ; I need
only at I that the events are to be taken
as having occurred soma years ago.
Some years ago, then, a gentleman whom
we will call. Colonel Somervtlle, was desi
rous of buying a house in the west eud of
the town, and passing, one day, through a
well known square, he observed a house to
be sold, which seemed to him as far as
outside appearances aud situation were
concerned, to be the very thing he wanted.
The printed bill referred him to a firm of
estate agerts in the city, and to them he
at once went, though he could not help eu
teriaining a misgiving that the price would
be exhoibitautly high and beyond his
means. No harm, however, could be done
by sin. pie inquiry. lie was agreeably as
tonished to find that the sum demanded
was only four thousand pounds. Not
being a commercial man, he could not help
expressing his astonishment at the small
sum demanded, and naively inquired if
the mansion was very much out of repair.
The representative of the firm unhesitat
ingly replied that the house was iu very
good repair, and would not require more
than the usual outlay upon decoration.
The Colonel pressed his inquiries, aud, as
he seemed to be a likely and desirable pur
chaser, he was soon informed of the cir
cumstances under which the house in ques
tion was to be sold. It had Lelonged to a
queer old gentleman who lived in Clerk
euwell, and who had died intestate, and
tho sale was ordered by bia next of kin,
who had been found with some difficulty.
This old gentleman had died, strangely
enough, in the very act of drawing up his
will, lie had just penned the words "And
I desire that my house in Square
should be " when some kind of fit seized
him, and ha was discovered the next morn
ing by his housekeeper dead in his chair.
Now tho next of kin was found iu Austra
lia or some remote colony, and was anxious
to realize on the property as quickly as pos
sible. The house iu Square had been
uninhabited for yeais. There was not a
scrap of furnituie in it; but it had been
scrupulously cared for and kept clean by
an elderly deaf woman, who did not live
in it, but used to go to it every morning
and spend almost all day there, and pre
served it in such a condition that the own.
cr might have furnished it at any time,
and come to live there without experienc-in"-
au v sense of discomfort which would
O v
ordinarily arise from residing in a house
which had not been inhabited for a long
time. It was well known, I may add, that
the elderly care-taker never slept there.
The Colonel went to view the house. He
found that he had not been deceived by
external appearances, or by the descrip
tion of the accommodations detailed by the
arent ; it was, in short, just such a house
as he and his wife wanted for a town resi
dence, and in due course the purchase was
completed. A, he wa iu uo particular
PA., PEIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1S74.
hurry to enter, and as Mrs. Soruerville
happened to be unwell at this particular
time, and unable to come to London tostt.
periutend the furnishing, . he contented
himself with preparing a bedroom for his
own use on the first floor, and another for
his valet on the floor above. He retained
the services of the elderly deaf woman,
who appeared to be grreful for Ins con
sideration, as she alleged that the pay she
received for her trouble was almost all she
had to live on. The house became the
properly of the Colonel at mid-summer,
185-. Towards the end of July the rooms
mentioned were furnished in a temporary
manner for the accommodation of the
Colonel, who at that time was frequently
called to town on business, but it was not
till the first week in August thrt Colonel
SomerviT.e, accompanied oy a valet who
had been in his (service for about two years,
actually eDtered as a resident. But iu
that house ho only remained one night and
lie never slept there again.
Ue arrived in town about mid-day on the
Wednesday in the first week in August.
The day was oppressively gloomy ami dull
iu the country, and all London seemed to
be seethiug in a sullen heat. He went wiih
his valet straight to his new house in
Square. The cabman took the faie offered
to him without grumbling, observing (as
he glanced somewhat suspiciously at the
house), "This is the first time as I ever
drove a gentleman, nor a lady neither, to
this 'ere 'ouse," and he went away as
quickly as he could.
Colonel Someiville took no notice of the
remark at the time, though it came vividly
to his recollection afterwaids.
Having deposited his luggage, and seen
that his room looked tolerably comfo. table,
he told his servant that he intended to
dine at h.s club and should bo home about
eleven. Tho elderly deaf woman, I should
say, was in attendance.
Well, the Colonel transacted his busi
ness, dined at his club with a friend, and
returned lo his house shottly after eleven
o'clock. His servant, a smart, aciive fel
low, opened the door for him, showed him
to his room, asked for his orders for the
morning, and, having received them, re
tired to his voom above.
It was hut iit the streets as Colonel Som
eiville drove home ; it was hottor still in
his beuioom, yet he felt scarcely 5ny incli
nal :ou to &leep. Anof her cig.ir, he thought,
would soothe hi in into somnolency, so he
accordingly lit one, and tried to amuse
himself by considering how he thould fur
nish his new house, having due regard to
the exigencies of London gas and atmos
phere, liis cigar finished, ho undressed
leisurely and got into bed ; the wind, such
as there was, came from the sou id, and he
heard the giant clock of Westminister
6tiike twelve. Ey and by he heard the
quarter, and then t -j half hour, and then
he fell olT into a dose from which he was
awakened by repeated knocks at h.s door.
He called out -'Who's there ?" but the an
swer was unintelligible, though he heard a
voice in reply. He hastily lit the candle,
and opened the door. In the passage he
found his servant half dressed looking
fi-ightiully pale, and shiveiing violently
from head to foot.
"Why, Warren, what on earth is tho
matier?' he exclaimed ; "are you ill?"'
"1 don't quite know what is the matter,"
was the reply. 'Please sir, may I come
in ?"
"Certainly," said the Colonel, who was
one of the kindestof human beings ; "come
iu, Warren, you must b ill."
The man eutercd shaking as though an
ague had seized him and the Colonel has
tily took his flask from his dressing-bag
and gave him some strong brandy and
water. This teemed to do Warren good,
and then his master asked him again what
was the matter.
"I don't rightly know, sir," he answer
ed. "I went to bed all right and went
very sound asleep. But I had a bad dicam.
I thought a pale-faced man came into my
room, although I knew I had locked the
door, and he stood beside my bed, looking
for all the woild, sr, as if he would like to
eat me ; and than the air in the room be
came so oppressive that it seemed to weigh
upon my face and head, and I hen this ter
rible shivering came over me as if I was
lying out of doors in a bitter frost, though
I knew at the same time how hot it was."
"Incipient fever," said the Colonel, "let
me feel your pulse."
"Strange," he muttered, after a minute
or two. "Have you ever had malarial
fever, intermittent, or that sort of thing ?"
"No, sir ; never that I am aware of."
"But yet you must be ill. Shall I go
and fetch a doctor?"'
"Oh no, thank you sir. I feel so much
better now."
"Well, Iheu, Warren, I think you had
better go back U bed again."
Tho man bocame pale again instantly,
and another attack of shivering seized
him, and he exclaimed almost in agony:
"Oh, no, sir, not to that room ! I feci
certain that I should see that white-faced
man again, and feel that weight upon my
face and head. Oh, sir, do let mo lie upon
tho lloor."
The Colonel looked gravely at Warren.
Ho had in India seen a good deal of deli
rium tremens and he enleitained a very
siroue suspicion that this was the real
cause of Warren's strange behavior ; and
yet the man hud been iu his service Some
time aud he had never any reason to sup- .
pose that be was. not thoroughly temper
ate and sober. So he said, "Well you can
take this blanket, and lie down upon tho
lloor, or sit up in a chair as you please. I
expect you will be heartily ashamed of
yourself to-morrow morning, Warren."
"I think not, sir ; I shall only bo must
giateful to you."
So Warren rolled himself in the blanket,
and Col. Somei ville put out the candle and
got into bed again and tiled to go to sleep.
Ilis efforts were in vain, lie knew him
self to be provokingly wide awake, aud
though he counted numberless sheep going
through a gate, and resorted to all those
devices which are popularly supposed to
encourage sleep, he remained as id
awake as ever he had been in his Lfe.
Everybody knows how ptetci naturally
acute the senses are when al'tur midnight
they positively refuse to be lulled to slum
ber ; and the Colonel felt as terribly on tho
alert as he had felt sometimes in the Indi
an mutiny. Waoeu had quite got over
ins bad dieams and indisposition, and
snored in the most comfortable manner.
Suddenly some noise within tho house
made the Colonel start up iu his bed aud
lisieu attentively. Yes there could be
no doubt about it ! there was the sound of
a stealthy footfall upon the stairs.' He lit
his caudle hastily again, aud his gaze was
turned toward the door, which he had
locked after it was settled Warren should
remain. He stw tho haudle move.
In a flash of thought he a&ked himself
what this could be. London thieves would '.
novet- dream of running ihe risk of enter-
ing a bouse iu which there was absolutely j
nothing to steal. To physical feai- Colo- !
nel Sumerville was a stranger, and so lie at
once snatched up tho short, heavy poker
from the fireplace, and without waiting to
arouse his servant, whom he saw was
sleeping heavily, he went quietly to the
door, unlocked and opened it suddenly,
to capture the intruder. But the passage
outside was vacant aud silent.
Being a man of more than ordinary
strength, and thoroughly accustomed lo
danger, be did uot hesitate about coatinu-
ing his search. Theio were ouly two other j
rooms upon this lloor ; these he entered, 1
and, .as they weie desdUuo- of furniture, a
glance was sufficient to show him that
there was no onethee. He went up stairs,
caiefuliy er-aromed Warren's room ; then
he went down stairs, walked through the 1
drawing-room, dining room and study,
theu i:no flic offices, but he encountered
nobody. Then he proceeded to examine '
the doors and windows f the basement, I
aud satisfy himself that nobody could have '
entered theie. His examination of the !
lower pa.t of the house occupied him about
a quarter of an hour, and then he arrived j
at the conclusion that he had been the vie- 1
tim of his own imagination. Then he
yawucd and began to 1 Link he felt really !
sleepy, as he ascended from the offices, ;
thinking that he should get a few hours j
rest at last. Just as he put his foot upon i
the first step of the stairs leading Loin the
hall, somvthiug glittered from the floor.
He stooped down to sec what it was, and
lie picked up what appeared to be a nee- j
die of about four limes the ordinary length I
with a tiny steel button at the end. He '
examined it curiously, for he did not re- j
member to have seen such an implement '
before. The point he remarked, appeared j
to be slightly tarnished. Wiih this, the I
sole result of his search, he returned to his '
bed-room. He entered and locked the j
door after him, and was about to throw off I
his dressing gorn, when to his intense as- ,
touishment he found that Warren, whom
he had left sleeping soundly, was gone. j
He opened the door airain and called
loudly. No answer. He hurried upstairs 'ou Kathleen ? Why dou"t you bring the
to his servant's room no trace of him , ice water iu at once, iustead of dawdling
there ; indeed no trace of him anywhere, ther?''
aud Col. Somei ville never saw or heard of j Kathleen obeyed, but the dreary, home
James Warren again. He had no reason 6ick feeling that thrilled through all her
to suppose that there was any motive
for his mysterious disappearance, for he
had not lobbed or defrauded his master in
any way whatever. The next day the po--
lice examined the house thoroughly, but
nothing of importance transjired. Need
I add that Col. Somerville's new house
was up again for sale immediately.
Three facts remain to be recorded : First,
the st range-look iug needle which the Col
onel found was subjected to chemical in
spection, and the tarnishes upon tho point
were found to be human blood. Secondly,
when the house had been for sale about
six weeks, Col. Somerville received a let
ter from the agents, announcing that the
house was sold for Ihe same ainouut that
he gave for it. The Colonel being a man
of strict honor thought himself in duty
bound to make the purchaser aware of all
that hd occurred and hurried up to towu
to the agents for the purpose of procuring
the name and address of this person. All
that the agents could inform him was that
the. purchaser was a gentleman named
Williams and appeared to be an American.
He gave a cheque upon a well known bank
for the amount aud it was duly honored.
The only pecularitv about Mr. Williams
was that he had a leraarkable palo face.
Thirdly, the house has never since been
put up for sale, but it remains to all ap-
peaiauces, untenanted, though I under-
stand the deaf eld woman is still the care
taker. To the lovers of mystery, I commend
this story. "Lotidou Society."
a xEir yea ji soya.
A tear for the dying Old Year
His locks are all whiteued with care:
Let hiiu go with his record severe,
'Mid warm benedictiou and prayer.
A song for the laughing New Year
A shout for his heaven-lit flame;
lie scatters the clouds of despair,
And covers corruption with fchatne.
Breathe odors of fragrant delight
For Hope in her vestal arrav;
Her tiesses are bathed in the light
And her garments are woven of day.
Bring confident words tor Old Time,
Whose footsteps are hastening ever,
BtU onward, still onward sublime,
Seeking the bouudlot-s forever.
Bring songs of thanksgiving and praise,
Au offering accepted above,
An earnest of bright coming days
Iu atonement and love.
Speak freedom to millions oppressed,
lie just to your brother, and good.
And the loon shall be ever coutV-ssed,
The price of a nation's best blood.
Speak, speak then the life-giving word,
And oncoming ages shall say.
As proudly the deed they record,
"A nation was born in a dav."
KATHLEEN O'NEiL.
"Kathleen, is it possible that you are
crying again ? Did I not tell you that I
j would discharge you if I found you indulg
! ing in this foolish whimpering any more."
I Poor Kathleen O'Neil had been dusting
the elegantly furnished drawing-room, and
I sbe stood before an exquisite little painting
: of one of the blue, sparkling Irish lakes, I
set in gold green shores with a sky beyond
like liquid amber stood with her apron to
her eyes, and her ruddy cheeks deluged j
with tears.
"I couldn't help it, ma'am," she sobbed,
"but it puts me in mind of home."
"Home !" scornfully echoed Mrs. Arnott.
"Tour homo! A shanty in a bog. It
isn't likely that you ever taw such a spot
as that."
"'Deed did I, then, ma'am." answered
Kathleen, "and many a time ; for we lived
boyant them same green shores, when - j
"There, that will do," said Mrs. Aruott,
coldly, "I don't cai about any reminis
cences." Kalhleon did not understand the five
syllabled woid, but her quick ratine com
piehended the sarcastic tone. The tears
were diied in their fount the scarlet spot
glowed in either cheek.
"She looks down on me as if I was a
dog !" Kathleen thought to hersC'f. "And
sure it's the same lloh and blood God has
given to us both. How would she like it,
I wonder, to be in a strange laud, and
niver a kind word spokeu to her? O, but
if I could see the mother and little Honora,
and Teddy, that's but a baby yet ; but it's
the blue sea that rolls between us, and it's
all alone I am !"
Poor Kathleen ! the sense of desolation
came upon her with sickening power just
then as she stood before the picture of the
sweet Irish lake, with the wet splashes on
her cheek, and Mrs. Arnott' s cold, bard
voice sounding in her cars.
"It's a great pity to be obliged to do with
these wild, untutored Irish."
Kathleen was just bringing up the tray,
and Mrs. Arnott's words sounded distinct
ly in her ears as she paused on the top step
to get breath.
"Of course, my dear," said Mrs. Tudor
Audor, sympathetically, "they're bad, thor
oughly bad, the whole lot of them. I'd
send them all back to their native country
if it lay iu my power."
"I wish they were all at the bottom of
the sea," said Mrs. Arnott, "and then, per
haps we would have a chance to employ
Swedes, or Chinese, or somebody that
would at least earn their bread. Is that
j Fulses can hardly be described
If I was only at home again," she tho't,
'where the poorest and the meanest have
a kind word for each other! They scorn
and hate me here; and, sure, I've tried to
do my best, but the lady has a heart of .
stone, and even the little children in the
J nursery, with their French maid, make fuu i
of Irish Kathleen." j
I And the lonely exile wept herself to sleep ,
on her solitary piilow that night. It was
a mere closet of a room, without light or
; veutilatioit, that she occupied. Mis. Ai
' nott thought that any place was good
enough for Kathleen. Tho bed was hard ;
and insufficiently provided with clothing,
but, as Mrs. Aruott carelessly observed, it
was uo doubt a great deal better than she
was accustomed to at home. And she had
just paid to Isaacson & Co. a thousand
dollars apiece for draping her drawing
room windows with lace and brocateile
so, of course, there was nothing left for
such a trifle as the comfoi t of her servants.
"Is Kathleen sick, mamma?" hole Ju-
lia Arnott asked one day ; "she erics so
much and looks so white."
Mr. Arnott, a stout built, good-natured
man of forty or thereabouts, glanced up j
; fivni his l'-'l'"-
' "w,,at d"M lhe cl"M lnoan' I t''"
lli"ed hls v,fe" hoi'c -vou K,i'k u ht"
t!e ufu1" J'uUr C"",s-"
.u toiiise x uo, r-nts biia: ,;iy.
I "Kathleen Is a silcut3 sullen thing, and I
shall discharge her next month. Natalia
" has a coitoia who wauis the pLce."
NUMBER 49.
"Has she any friends in the country-
Kathleen, I mean?"
"Not that I know of."
"Seems to me I wouldn't discharge her,
then. It would be rather hard, unless she
is guilty of some fault."
Mis. Arnott bit her lip.
"Gentlemen understand nothing about
the management of a household," said she,
tartly. "These girls haven't mr sensitive
natures, either. They are quite used to
kni eking around the world. Ate uu going
down towu now?"'
"Yes."
"I with you'd f top and ask Dr. Hart to
stop here this morning ; little Clateuco is
feverish."
"Anything serious?"
"I hope not," the mother answered,
"but I always like to take these things in
time.'
Dr. Hart leaned over Clarence's little
crib ; lie involuntarily uttered lhe name of
a malignant type of fever just then raging
in the city.
"I wish that you had sent for uie be
fore. I fear that it is too late to secure
the exemption of your two other little
ones. But with constant care I think wo
may save the little fellow. You have a
good r.ursc ?"
"An excellent one. I can trust Natalia
rs I wi u d trust myself."
"You are fortunate," said the doctor.
He had scarcely closed the door, when Na
talia came to her mistress.
"My month expires to-morrow, madam;
w ill you pay me my wages and let me take
my departure at once?"
"But, Natalia, the baby is sick "
"One's first duty is to one's self ; I would
not risk the infection for twice what you
pay me."
And Natalia packed her trunk and de
pa! tod, without even coming into the nurse
ry to bid little Clarence good bye.
The cook was the next to give warning.
Matilda, the laundress, took herself off
without any such preliminary ceremony.
"I am going, too," said the seamstress.
"Mrs. Arnott wouldn't have lifted her fin
ger if we'd all been dying, and I boliexe
in doing to others as they do to me." -
And almost before she knew it, the strick
en mother was left alone by the bedside of
her suffering babe. Neighbors crossed on
the other side of tho street like the priest a
and Icvites of old ; friends contented them
selves by sending in to inquire ; even hired
nurses avoided the malignant fever.
"Is there no one to help me?" tho
moaned, wringing her white jeweled hands
together. "Have all pity and womanly
sympathy died out of the world?"
A slight noise caused her to turn, and
Kathleen O'Neil was at her side, busy in
arranging tho table.
"I thought you, too, had gone, Kath
leen '." she cried.
"Sure, ma'am, what should I be going
for?"' asked Kathleen, simply, "and tLo
bits of children sick, and you in sore trou
ble ? I nursed the little brothel's and sis
ters at home, and I know just what needs
to be done."
And she took little Clarence iu her arms
with a soft tenderness that went to the
mother's heart.
"Are you not afraid, Kathleen?"
j "What should I be afraid of, ina'am ?
Isn't the God's sky over us all, whether
it's the green banks of Ireland, or the
church steeple of this great confusing city?
Oh, ma'am, He'll not take the bonny baby
from us."
All Mrs. Arnott's children had the fever
last of all she was prostrated by it and
Kathleen watched over evciy one, faithful,
true and tender.
"Kathleen," Mrs. Arnott said, the first
day she sat up, with the Iri-sh girl arrang
ing the pillows about her wasted foim,
"Oh, Kathleen, I don't deserve this."
"Sure, ma'am, if we all liad our deserts
in this world, it's a sorry place it would
be, I'm thinking," laughed Kathleen.
'But, Kathlcct., I was cruel to you so
perfectly hoartlesa !"
"We won't talk of it, ma'am dear," said
Kathleen, evasively.
"But say just once that you forgive nie!"
pleaded the lady, once so bauf-Lty.
"I forgive you, ma'am, as free as tho
sunshi::e," Kathleen answered softly.
"And you'll stay with me always ad
be my friend, Kathleen."
"If God wills it, ma'am."
And Mrs. Arnott put up her lips to kiss
the fresh, cool check of Irish Kathleen.
The years that havo passed since then
have made men and women of the little
people that Kathleen nursed through the
fever; and strangers who visit Mrs. Ar
nott scarcely know what to make of tho
plump, comely, middle-aged woman who
moves itbout the house apparently as much
at home in it as the mistress herself who
is always consulted about everything, and
trusted with all secrets.
"Is she a housekeeper, or a servant, or
a relation?"' some one once asked.
Mrs. Arnott replied: "She is my true
and trusted friend, Kathleen O'Neil, "
j A Macon negro who went into a franco
; at a revival the other night, was uccldeni
aiiy overlooked. When he found thv lights
j were ail out he followed the cultivation
and succeeded iu seriously alluping oot
o" the deacons. Hv giwsr.s . vxeusohat
"dcy lugged wider nipgen. ho.ae, a.;d dt-y
Hiout as well luggul nie. Do church ain't
uo i luce tvi git up ".-uiicUft;s iu a'civtj."
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