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I.loyiL. 7 50 14 liittinxs Jones . tiritliths. 7 DO' & Co :oo l.f-rtvVSon 12 50 14 Anilrc w Strilt- e faiitv '-t'f we n. hi Si mailer 13 (.en. Huntley. 13 Mvers i Lloyd. 7 50 lo oo io oo ray I WM1S. . . . J. Lloyd, i. uurker & ' on ; 0.1 7 00 14 S. H. wans 7 oo 114 J. I'. Thompson 10 00 iiLtow-. 13 .riO it Jucon i nomas. 7 00 i -t r -u s & Co. 7 00! 14 (1. C. K. Zabui.. .'vrJi Sou.. 10 0i ) 14 C. T. Koberts.. (.rtiiiian.. 7Kl14 K. J. Mills KltASKI.IN IIOHOl-OH. '.'..' lister 7 00 14 J. W. PriiiK-lw.. , ...iulter.. 7 00.14 l'eter KubriLZ. (iAI.I.lTZIN TOWNSHIP. r oo : oo i oo ; oo : oo r oo M"W.1C unlink, t' i!ou?!. .j-Muiray. 7 01 14 I. Smith .. aili.-y.. 7 oo i .iAi.i.iTziN nonorr.n. :M;1! 7 0O 14 T. J. hrisly. .. :. ri!.. . 70'14 John Simmons. ,ix; kisii.n township. j.hsiiitU... 7 00 A: Co :vi;.iK.tt ;14 D-Siininonj .. !:ick ii 1 l.Bjfc . "i ! 00 00 00 00 i':'-'j. J .lollNSTOWN BOKIIItiH i it a. I Hay i,.-Kf-. i. l.acn 7 00 14 Wm. 1'. J'atton 7 00 7 00 7 00 7 00 7 00 7 tJ if1 . . . 7 00 14 Jacob Wild ier- 14 Andrew Moses. ... 7 00 It Kiuil Voiinif.... 1 -''jjrjnd. -IP Heiser. jl. r.-fl .. 7 no 14 A. liiirtfratr ... 7 00 14 E. ZHiijr 7 ooi 14 t 'has. f. Ituth 7 00 14 (finlhrli & Mro . 14 John I'enUry. . 7 00 14 V. Luther 7 no 14 Geo. I'nvoizajft 7 00 14 Murphy Co. . i .i h flu. J ' !.i i ;. :.r.- .'"fii .... !;. i.-s i i'iV ;'!:a: 'i ., Mf rcry W.:Zf,Mf r A: 7 00 I 7 on 7 oo I 7 00 700 ; 7 00 i I -?V!f. :14 X. Jc u. oailu- 7 00! her 7 00 .!.'. I: !".. Kf hi- r. 7 00 14 L. Cohen 7 00 i i.i,i,rri :14 A .Montgomery 7 00 7 Oil 14 Kred'k flayers. 7 ) -'ir;ij:" 7fOl4 BuileyA,' Hay.. 7 00 V iliiriie- 7 no 14 F. W. Kirlm... 7 00 u-livr. in '. if) 13 F. W. Krops... 10 00 f' , il ( fi 7 10 13 S. J. Hess Ac liro 10 CO .! e 7iiii !-' -.aT vS. Ill ; -T : -T ' -ri. Li Cf If!; t'ri'.Hn; .u!ii ij ! I !s of c l.-!.iU"i.fV Too u -i. ii. rsaiMHii- k'.Wi: ia son 10 00 i , .. 7 0) 13 I. IibM t AcSoii 10 00 ii.rv -ff- 1 13 J. A. AlcKiimey 10 00 ff.n 7 la) 10 T. O. Stewart Ulit!-,- i Co 20 CO : nlf , . 7 00 10 Benton & Tittle 30 00 !) - !. 7 00 10 Diliert, Waynt ".-:. ...rn il i Ar Co 3)00 i t'.ff ... -iioo 13 M. BossartiCo U b K.Hjv- . -T-'lrfi!'.. iTil'.f .. .k,trf Lt V- 1 -! i "tlltz- 7 ! 14 J. A. Btrnslioof. 7 00 7 iki It Will. Bei liu 7 IHl I 7 oo 14 Ceo. J. Thomas 14 C Heck roth. -. 7 00' 14 it. Ac W. Dihert 1 14 Miss J . Bl inker 7 01 .; It C. C. Yot 14 Jacob) Jc Kose. 7 i0 7 0.i 7 7 t.0 !!:.iuon. ; r t I:p r ibts .1, i'njxti-; I ty : ..r 5 - .; l;e r it,r 7 00 7 00 7 O0 7 00 7 oo 7 oo lo 00 10 50 io 00 7 0-t 7I.-0 7 50 7 00 7 oo 7" oo 7 on 14 W. P. Davis :'.-T ... 7 '"i 14 J. T. Kinney . . . ''f.f r . 7oo 14 John Muller... " is-1 r.... . 7'H'lt S. It. Varner.. . 1 t ' . .. 7 0 . 13 Joiin Thomas. ' : :i .. Ti) 13 N". C. Wil'L-r.. " !: ' i 7 io 13 Howe S. M, Co -'It r- .ii 7 on i4 A. l'feifer t'r 7 'i 14 K. 1'1'eister E-1 til . 7 oo 11 John Blocu '.KuiiK- 14 Little n IXipp. i.';. . 7(o 14 I'. Kreblis . rn!t . 7 in It Jacob Fend.... ' v . . 7 hi t v tn.Levprjrooii r t f ,,rr jCii Ili;l--f ' I ':-:v: id . T:r!- .t-.v:,ef-v. i per k-irictun Ihvu .knof ,,s r. viriBce in ,ave ' r's 7 00 7 0l 7 00 7 00 7 00 7 00 7 00 7 f,fi 14 in. Caldwell. 14 Veley (iroen. Ki if II ( bas. Oswald. . l'i fi H 'hrist. K imple. 7 ni 14 John Porter. . . -t,r & i ''.). H r:ie. 7 ' 14 L. Lucklmrdt.. - tf. 7 on l.olth'JTil llOKorOII : :0 14 11. F. O'FrTel... !'-. 7 10 14 !-l;iel.ls & Soil . .Mi: in.,; I ,. 7 00 7 00 7 00 7 00 i.-a!i.-v 7 . o )4 A.J.Christy... ;T K-! ar. 7 Vj 1 4 V ni . Li tziner. ill i."'1 ' v"-'-R IIXKilfUH. lAcIi-r- U P. Itodifors oo oo 1 r, t oo 14 j. w .btutzuian . ou i en 7 hi. 1'1' lll.AMl TOWNSHIP. sr. v.- ; u j s naunrhman 1 'ifr., 7 mi u t-hall'er & Co... i" H ii-.-y 7 no , "'.1 HI ANNA TOWNSHIP. '"niMii : oo oo red f0fr'i: oo MITVII I.r. I!.)HOOH. 7 on It James Itiadloy. ' T no 14 ( hi ibt Keich. .. HI 7nf ' ' I.i HI Ti lWNPlIl P. r-.l ni,, oo oo it :.M., 7 00 700 7 oo 7 00 7 00 7 00 -X. TOWNSH 1 P. '- 11 S. M. Kenzio. ie fjlowir t..f ief,!r t in:"1 ; for W l.at V : jrn tke 7 io 14 .Martin i Co. .. Jr- " on II P.M.i.I. Hrowu r 7 -f it Mrs. K. Mclti v,r tosli 7 on u Alieo Hagan. .. in 'hk iioitorr.il. " "0 14 P. M. Wolesla- !zleSnn " H Jno. McCol(?an. K TOWNSU1P. . . . WU.M ,"."-'. Ii J-lhurt ': .. .'if- I'., "illT. 7 00 7 00 7 00 j 7 00 j 7 60 1 I 7 in 11 Kates. Son Ac Co H Itainsey A; Bro. "vai.k uokolgh. 7 00 j 1 00 ! 5 00 j 5. Bf, 1 'ftiV H TOWNSHIP. Sfi, Wihnore Roroug-h .f. l.W KKI KS. i I . ."'!. I Arr.ul ...... .. a.-,,. j.fffiwn uoroujrn. ?15 00 ' , " 15 00 f. Jfjlinstown Borough... 15 oo ...15 00 " ... 15 00 ,-'V-ti nil be. If 15 00 , r, '.i.inr imrouirn. 15 00 15 00 15 00 ni:t iir n Township '"nl'.'i: llorouirli 4 :1 f"! k'aviingtuii Twd. . . 15 00 I I .?iroo 15 50 n- hMiinirtnr, Township... . ... - - - i.i. p. , I.-M-l-iv F.l,-.hurg.... "' 15 50 51 ''Lfiiii "Pst"n Township 15 50 50 00 "'.Ir. ' -lolinstown 40 50 ' be held at the Treasurer's on 'lonHny. June Int, 1 M Joh n B. ltosis, -Men-aniile Appraiser. ii'.NiS ; i IIATOR'S NOTICE. - "'A !.n T' K ARRA, decM. ;V;::'l:-.b.wr?"tr,?L!! i. ;. 't. 1 . 'r. ''in r. - r-.Mufi3ici.v.ttluun '''rr,( , ,7 to he undersigned '"''irir ro .''"""'' persons In.iehu I l)iM" er C 'f Hi. 1 ro "eited to make immediato :., .. "JViiigr r aims nimtnar ih. ' ha -t:"P. k;r , 1R C- O-HARRA. 0 " i 1 . t f ,r. . - Adm'r. H;..l'F IVrsnna in.Ul.i.,.7 .t. .' "'II r ... iv-. n-i n LUC 'i,,'" s,'ule without delav. and v ii n r tie "nine will i.rdcnt ifnted lor settlement,. t r !, Trnsti: . STATEMENT OF AUDITORS' I SETTLEMENT with tl. I ofCarrollTownshln: II. Hopple, Supervisor, in aee't with Carroll Twp. 1874. April 13. To amount of duplicate. .$540 sa uraer 01 mis uate .. 90 93-$631 79 By exonerations " 64 days' services at 48 50 per lay 99 00 " amount of work done by taxablen 635 31-631 73 Vincent Rf.io. Superv'r, In accH with Carroll Tp. April 13. 1S71. Iir. To amount of Duplicate $535 38 " Order of this date . 69 7fl " 1! " " 159-$806 62 Aj.nl 13. 1S74. ('. By 54! days' services as Supervisor, at ijil.50 fper day 81 75 " stone hammer 2 M " exonerations ......"....".. 28 " amount of cash collected ami 'ex pended on tli.i roads 15 00 " per centae colltcctini; cash .. . . 145 " amount work done by taxables. . 603 60-i608 58 STATEMENT OF SETTLEMENT with the Treasurer and Collector of Carroll Township: Jons Snyder, Treasurer and Collector. April 18. 1874. Dr. To amount of Duplicate $264 44 April 18. Is74. Cn. By order paid J. Litrinicer (plank). .$11 60 15v order paid E. Dishart " .. 19 32 liy order paid J. 15. Miller " .. 2 10 J!y order paid Jos. Gossbarger " .. 6 20 P.V orler paid .1. Yost " .. 3 80 Hv order jiaid H. Fuehs " .. 6 00 By order paid H. llite " ..4 00 By order paid Henry Mellon " ..450 By order paid V. Reip;. Supervisor . 69 76 By amount paid H. iloiple Supervi sor, on ordor 50 f 0 By exonerations. l 88 l?y per eentajre collecting 13 22 By 2 days' services, at f 1.60 per day. 3 00 By order for plank 5 60 By order paid D. Enfjer (rent) 1 00 By order paid D. A. Luther. Auditor 4 81 By order paid S. A. Shoemaker. 4 60 By order paid J. J. Thomas, T. Cl'k. 15 50-;22S 29 Balance duo Township $ 36 16 "Witness our hands, this 18th day or April, 1874. J. J. THOMAS. ) S. A. SHOEMAKER, Auditors. 1). A. LUTHER. S Attest J. J. Thomas, Clerk. 5-1.-31. "D ECEII'TS & EXPENDITURES of th Itoroitprli of Elwnsburg for the year endin:-; 28th February, 1874 : luL To amount or Huplicate. 1873 ... $1.184 18 " cash received from Weiu-hmaster ... 114 75 " " " " sale ol Toll House. 277 41 " " " " Fines and License. 62 00 " " " " a. A. Berry, late Burgess 15 00 " cash received from William Davis, late Treasurer ;:,9 S5 " cash ree'd for Kent of Market House.. 2a 33 (sl,92a 62 Cr By exon era ions to Collector 7 04 commission paid Collector .. 58 85 " " ' Treasurer.. 12 92 " cash paid Assessor 5 00 " " ' Return .Tuflies 3 to " " " Borouvh Auditirs. 10 00 " " " Fire Committee. . 30 00 " " " Clerk to Council. . 4 00 " " " Srr'-et Commis'ers. 146 00 " " " for Printing 21 75 " " " " Repairs to St'ts and Alloys 24 76 " ensh pai.i lor New t'rossir.ars. 80 00 " ' Borough l'rop- crty. Lumber, kc 238 92 " cash paid old indebtedness... 112 54 i 1,010 78 Balance In hands of Treasurer . . . 915 74 ASSETS. Balance In hands of Treasurer $ 915 74 " due from sale or Toll House 14144 " " " Win. Davis, lato Tr'r. 40 07 $1,097 25 LIABILITIES. Outstanding; Orders 19 85 Balance In favor of Borough $1,077 40 Witness our hamlR. at Ebensburjr, the 16th day of March, 174. JOHN OITTINCIS. I ,,,. 5-l.-3t. J NO. E. SCAN LAN, f Auduors. OUrHAXS' COUIIT SALE. "By virtue; of an order of the Orphans' Court or Cambria County. to;me d irecte.l. there will be exposed to public sale," on the premises in Wash ington township. unbria county, on h1 l A V, y V "i"illi. is7 t. at 2 o'clock. P. v.. the follow ing described real estate, of which Wm. Tiley, sr., died seired. to wit : 'o. 1. The undivided third part of a tract of land known as the Ross property, situate in Wash ington Township, in the County of Cumbria, and State of Pennsylvania, adjoitiina lands of Otho Styner, dee'd. I. J. Morrell, and others, contain ing Utt Arrrs. more or less, with appurtenances. lo. t. A cerun'n tract of land situate in Wash ington township. Cambria county. Pennsylvania, n.ijoininir lands of .las. Conrad, Otho Styner, and others, containing :t"i Acres, more or less, with the appurtenan.-es. i . 3. A certain tract of land situate in Wash ington township. Cambria county. Pennsylvania, adjoinini? lands or 1'eter Movers, it. B. West brook, and others, coiilain'na; V-4 Aerm, more or less, with the appurtenances. No. 4. A lot of ground situate in Washington township aloresaid, bounded by land of Win. Mc Closkcy, Thomas Hewitt, and'otliers, containinsr 4Iiie-loii rt It f nil A-r. "o. . A lot ol ground situate in the village of Hemlock. Washington township aforesaid, bound ed by the Old Portage Rail Road. Pennsylvania Rail'Koad.and land or John Hamilton and Win. Tiley. containing ;t Acrm, more or less, with the appurtenances. I t-rniM. One-third or the purchase money in hand and the remainder in two e.jual annual pay ments, with interest, to be secured by bond and mortgage of the purchaser. k " 1 WILLIAM TILEY, 5-l.-3t. Adm'r ot Wm. Tiley, sr., dee'd. C1TATEMENT of SETTLEMENT $3 with the Supervisors of Croyle Town ship Tor the year 1873: Isaac Pail, Supervisor, in acc't with Croyle Twp. Da. To amount of Duplicate $501.65 Cr. Bv amount of work done on nads. .$422.09 " 47 days' work at 1.50 per day.. "0.50 " exonerations I00 " amount returned to Commiss rs 1.00 " cash .0 ft-T.65 Oeo. Kriko, Supervisor, in acc't i Dk. To amount of Duplicate C'n. Bv amount of work done on roads ith Croyle Twp. $543.50 423.85 7.20 exonerations " amount returned to Co. Com rs. " 26 davs' work on roads at $1.50 per'd.J.V " lumber lor bridges, and probate " cash 10.00 39.00 5.35 1.27 $106.00 We the undersigned Auditors or Croyle Town ship, do certify that the foregoing is a correct state-n-ent of settlement with the Supervisors of said Township. K,oraIIi) KLIAS I'AI U rv (Auditors. J A M KS A. S K l.U.) , I Attest J. W. Pkikole, Twp. Clerk. 8-3t. LAND for SALE. I will ecll at rrivate Sale, at a low price, 52 Acres Timber Land, ltnated In White township. Cambria county. Fa., the fame being part of what is known as tne jmiRMIA II MOSllEU Tit A CT, adjoining lands of Joseph Fry, Miles Davis, Rob't Stewart and John Glasgow. ,, -BS-Partics wishing to purchase will V?? eal1 on or address JAMES F. M ILL! K tr , Hollidaysburg, Pa. P. S. Any Inrormatiorj that will lead to the con viction of auv person eutlinir timber on the above tract will be liberally rewarded. i-i.-o- r EO. M. KEADE, Attorncy-al-Lm':, VI T'lenclinrg. Pa. Office on Cr.nje utroct. Mi roc doors from nigh street. lu;j.:."7,"72.1 " HE IS A. FREKMAX EBENSBURG, PA., FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1874. Winsome Maargie. TThen winsome little Majrgie Comes dancing down the street, The people smile upon her, And pause, and kindly greet ; The white-haired parson gently Inys hand upon her head, The roguish doctor pinches Her cheek so round and red. The grim old judge's visage, Forever in a frown. Relaxes for an instant, As, passing, he looks down. The matrons stoop to kiss her. The children, at their play, Call out, as. little Maggie (Joes tripping on her way. Not e'en the dreaded go-sip Who through her half-closed hi'ind Peeps forth, with little Maggie Ila-s any fault to lind. When winome little Maggie, With Kisket on her arm, In which her father's luncheon Is wrapped so nice and warm When she enters the long workshop And pauses nt his side, Quiek down he lays his hammer And turna in love and pride. To look into her limpid eyes, And stroke her sunny hair, ril jest and frolic with her- Forgetting toil and care. For the music of her laughter And the mirth of her replies. The while there's not a happier man. Or richer, 'neath the skies. Ah well, it Ls a blessing To have a heart so gay That it keeps your feet a-dancing, Your face alight alway. And, that like winsome Maggie. It seems, where'er you go, As if the clouds had partea To let a sunbeam through. STRANGE BUT TRUE. Among the terrible phenomena connect ed with the rice of intemperance the one most to be dreaded is that least spoken of by temperance advocates; I allude to the dela Fion the unhappy victim of this rice is very frequently under that he is haunted by a phantom, whose mission it is to prevent his return to the paths of sobriety. And this omission on the part of the temperance advocates is the more remarkable as the delusion is very common among habitual drunkards. In fact there is scarcely a phy-f-ician of a lunatic asylum in England who lias not had one or more cases of the kind under his notice. This delusion has also a feature of interest about it distinct from its psychological phe nomena. It frequently so much resembles the mediaeval tales of individuals who had wild themselves to the fiend, and afterwards repenting of their liargain had endeavored ineffectually to break it, that one is almost tempted to believe that dipsomania, imagined by our forefathers to be demoniacal posses pion, was a very common mistake in the middle ages. Admitting this to le the case, it would be a singular study to trace out how many poor wretches have suffered at the stake for imaginary crimes connected with sorcery, which after all were merely the effects of habitual drunkenness bringing on this pecul iar phase of insanity. The particular phenomenon allude to OS common in the middle ages as well as in the present day is that the victim of drunkenness imagines that a phantom appears to him whenever he attempts to recede from his bargain with the evil one, or, according to our modern ideas, to return" to the paths of sobriety, and, pertinaciously following him, drives the unhappy wretch to continue his habit till it forces him into the grave. So close did the affinity between the medieval tales and the present drunkards phantom appear to me that I determined to .make a collection of the latter cases in order at some convenient season to bring them under the notice of the public so as to add one more effort, and perhaps as fruitless as the many that have already been made, to stem the increasing misery occasioned by the vice of drunkenness. Circumstances, however, oc curred which obliged me to delay the publi cation of the whole collection. One among the number, which may be taken as a sam ple of the rest, I now bring under the notice of the reader. Some thirty years since there resided at X , a flourishing city in the north of Italy, an English gentleman whom I will designate by the name of Smith, admitting that for obvious reasons it is an assumed one. At the time of my making his acquaintance he was between twenty-five and thirty years of age, of middle height, and although not decidedly handsome had a very intelligent cast of countenance. He was well educated, had naturally courteous manners, and was generous and charitable. With all Smith's good qualities he had one besetting fault, which went far to neu tralize his many virtues; or, to tell the strict truth, he was a confiimed drunkard. He had acquired the habit in Kngland, and in Italy, where he was under little suljection to his family, it increased in intensity. One of the results of this failing was that it shut him out from the better class of Italian society, by whom intemperance is justly considered as a filthy and degrading vice ; while many of the worst portion of the Italian young men the city collected round him. tempted by his great liberality and unbounded hospitality to ignore his faults, or, rather, they encouraged him in them, they profiting to a great extent by his failing. It Is only justice to Smith, how ever, to state that his senses were not entire ly deadened to the degrading course of life Lt; w-is Ita lics. Naturally gentlemanly and WHOM THE TRUTH MAKES FREE, AND ALL high-spirited, lie telt keenly the tacit refit- I sl of the )wer .li. ..rii.i: . ......:,. -.- ' i.i a id I m I L LO n:-.v . 1 . 1 V , with him. So keenly, indeed, did he feel this aversion that he made several attempts to break himself of his habit, and at last so far succeeded that he would frequently keep sober tor a fortnight or three weeks togetl r And then again would come over him the irresistible temptation to return to his old habit, and in it he would indulge for nearly the same space of time he had remained sober. -rr-r. . He possessed another noteworthy feature frequently to be detected in these occasional drunkards, that when solier a more amiable or gentlemanly man it would have lieen difficult to meet with, or a greater ruffian and blackguard when in a drunken fit. His violence would then, however, be restrained by his parasitical friends, so that he was seldom allowed to make himself publicly ob noxious, or at any rate not to a greater ex tent than to call down on him the courteous remonstrances of the police. Although the city of X was my head- qitarters in Italy, I was frequently obliged to leave it on matters of business for three weeks to a month at a time. On my return after one of these alisences Smith paid me a visit. He appeared in much better health than usual, and in good spirits. Moreover, there was a remarkable change in his dress, which, although it could hardly have lieen called slovenly, had generally in it an affL-ct-cd air of carelessness, as if he were totally indJfferent to what others thought of his ap pearance. He was now, on the contrary-, remarkably well dressed, in excellent taste, and his clothes it was easy to perceive had been made by an expert tailor. After con versing together on indifferent subjects for Rome little time he said to me : "I have at last determined to break my self of my unfortunate habit, and have no doubt I shall succeed." "1 am glad to hear you have come to that conclusion," I replied. "You may depend upon it it will contribute greatly to 3our happiness ; but it is no use having come to the conclusion if you do not resolutely abide by it. You must rememlier how often you have already come to the same decision on the sul ject and never had the constancy to keep it." "My dear fellow," he said, "the present case is quite different. I have now a stimu lus which I never had before. To make a long story short, 1 have fallen desperately in love, and am going to lie married. I am sure you will admit that, whatever my fail ings may have been during my bachelor hood, things wiil be very different with me as a married man." "I congratulate you on your determina tion, and sincerely hope you will keep it," I said. "And now tell me who is the young lady?" Smith told me she was of a highly respect able family, the daughter of a widow, and that she was a very pretty and amiable girl, very intelligent, and would no doubt make him an excellent wife. They had applied for a dispensation from tfie Pope for a Catholic to marry a Protestant, and hoped it would soon arrive, and immediately afterwards they were to be united. In fact, he hoped in the course of a fortnight all would be over, and that he would be a married man. The next day Smith introduced me to his future bride, who was about as fine a speci men of Italian beauty, of the Leonardo da Vinci school, as I ever saw. I must .-.ny that as I gazed on the poor girl I did not look on her future prospects without some misgiv ings. The marriage had been concocted no doubt by her friends from the worldly ad vantages a union with so wealthy a man would bring with it, rather than out of any consideration for the poor girl's happiness. Should Smith, after his marriage, again re turn to his drunken habits, what a life would she lead if, in fact, she could live under the treatment she might possibly then receive. The affair was, however concluded, and all interference on my part would have been useless, so I remained silent on the subject. The dispensation at last arrived; a brill iant marriage took place in one of the prin cipal churches of the city ; and, the cere mony over, Smith started on a wedding trip for Venice. About a week afterwards I left X for Rome, where I remained without receiving any intelligence of the bride or bridegroom for more than three months. I then returned to X , and made inquiries of a mutual friend respect ing Smith, how he had conducted himself during my alisence. "Oh,! it's all over with him," he re plied. " He liehaved very well for the first five weeks, when his old habit broke out again, and he committed more than one terrible assault on his wife. Her family were at last obliged to interfere, and they were separated. She has returned to her mother and they are now living in Turin; and Smith has been informed by the police that if in any manner he attempts to inter fere with her or annoy her he will be arrest ed." I now called on Smith in his new abode and found him at home. His appearance was very different from what it had leen at the time I left him. He was then in good health and spirits ; but now, on the contrary, he appeared low-spirited and miserable. Pretending I had heard nothing, I inquired after his wife. For some moments he made no reply, and then, the tears starting to his eye, he said to me : " My dear fellow it's no use my conceal ing matters from you. My wife has left me. I assumed a look of great surprise, but made no remark. " It's all my own fault," he continued ; " I cannot blame her for it, dear girl. ' I ARE ELATES BESIDE. must, nowever, get you to play the part ol peacemaker between us. 1 know she has a great respect for you, and if any one can do it you can." Candidly, Smith," I said, " I don't like interfering, and that for both your sakes. In one of your drunken fits you might either kill her or inflict on her some serious injury. You must be perfectly well aware you are not master of your actions on those ocea eions, and strong as your determination at the present time to remain sober may be it is no guarantee that you will keep so, and I would rather not interfere in the matter." ' Do not give me a positive refusal," he said, " but try what you can do. If peaca Ls not made between us it will break my heart, or what is still more probable, induce me to commit self-destruction, fori cannot live without her." " But consider the consequences," I said There is no fear this time," he replied " I give 3'ou my word of honor that for the last fortnight I have not touched one drop of wine or spirits." "But 3ou have often kept solier for as long as that before, and had not the courage to continue it," I remarked. " It is different with me in the present in stance," he said. "Nothing shall ever in duce me to take to the habit again." Poor Smith pleaded so earnestly with me to be peacemaker between him and his wife that at last I made a conditional promise I told him I was nbout to leave X , foi Switzerland, and should lie aljsent aliout a month, and that if on my return I found he had kept his promise and I would accept his word as proof without further inquiry I would try to make peace between Lim and his wife. He willingly accepted these con ditions, and the following day I started on my journey to Switzerland. On my return to X at the time speci fied I called on Smith. He certainly looked in better health and more cheerful than when I left. He told me he had scrupulously kept his word, and that it was more than sis weeks since he had tasted either wine ot spirits, and he now called on me to fulfill ni3 promise. I unhesitating agreed to do so, but on inquiry found that his wife would return to X in about a fortnight's time, and thinking I could better intercede with her by a personal interview than by letter, to which she might reply under control of her friends, I proposed to wait till she ar rived, and this I did the more readily as it would fiiye Smith another ten days or so to practice his sobriety. T this proposition he agreed, and we said no more on the sub ject. " And now I want to speak to you," he said, "on another nutter. You are ac quainted with the head of the police, and I wish you would call on him and implore him to take away a spy lie has placed over me. The fellow almost drives me mad. Wherever I go I see him with his rye fixed on me, watching my every movement. I suppose thc3 are afraid I should quit X , and crossing the frontiers, visit my wife in Turin, where I should b,? from under their control. You may assure them I have no intention of doing anything of the sort, and it would be a:i act of kindness to relieve me from this intolerable surveii lance. I promised Smith I wou'd do a he wished, .nd nilling on Count Vel!etri, the head of the oli-e, toM hini my mission. " Your fi lend," said he in reply, " i. under some great mistake. No p. dice nfi: cer has lcen set to follow him, nor d' I i"i in any way to annoy hi:n. All I require i that he shall not insult or injure his wife, rind that almost at much for his own sake as hcr-."' I gave this reply tn Smith, who s;,;.l it wr.s untrue, and that the spy was perpetu ally following him. A few days afterwards he spent the even ing with me, and I accompanied him hi.ii c to a large, rambling sort of half palace, hail dwelling-house, in the outskirts of the town, in which he occupi.il appa: tm;-;its on tlit ground fl.jor ; General R , commandant of the troops in the district, hairg apart ments on the first 3 or ; and with the excep tion of the sergeant's guard always on duty, whose quarters were in the rear of the house, there were no other inhabitants. On our way home Smith conversed votubty, sometimes on matter1- connected with his wife, at others on the infamous Iehaior of the police in setting a spy to watch him. Present!, on entering a broad, straight street, brilliantly lighted by an Italian full moon. Smith suddenly stopped, and clasp ing me 03 the arm, whispered : " There the fellow is ! Now let's catch him !" " I see no one," I said. " You must make a mistake;" " He darted into this passage," he said : "come here and we shall find him." We now went into a narrow passage through a doorway, and closed at the end so that no one could have escaped, but he was not there. The idea then first crossed my mind that Smith was laboring under a delusion. I asked him what sort of a man the spy wa, and he replied that he was tall and thin, with a pale face, and cold, glassy eyes ; that he was dressed in black, had three black studs in his shirt, and alwa- carried a black glove in his right hand. This imme diately tended to convince me that Smith was laboring under a delusion, and I questioned him further on the subject, endeavoring to I prove to him that he was in error. He re- J mained firm, however, to his conclusion, and finding it was useless to argue the matter with him, I gave it up for the moment, de termining to watch him narrow', and find out whether or no a ?r.V followed him in tne mannei lie described. During the next week I called d.iiiy to see Smith and received from him a most minute account of the p.-is cation he en dured from the spy he imagined to lie fol lowing him. He told me that instead of diminishing it positively increased, and that even in the night he could frequently see the fellow's eyes peering through the intersti ces of the wooden window-blinds. Here was another proof to me t! at the whole was a delusion, but before determining what course to take to prove it to be one, I resolved to make one more effort to ascertain whether there was the shadow of truth in his statement. Knowing one of the a ids-de-en nip of Gen eral R , I asked him as a favor to allow the sentinels to watch during the whole of one night the windows of Smith's ran-re of apartments, which he promised should be done. The next morning he informed me that no-person such as de-cn"led had made his nppearnnce; in fact, not nn individual had attempted to come near the house. T then questioned Smith, who told me that several times during the night he had risen from his bed and seen the spy lurking aliout outside the house, and that he had watched him the day lefore so pertinaciously it had almost driven him out of his senses. It wanted but three das to the time for Mrs. Smith's return to X , when the servants in the house were in the night aroused by violent cries from their master. On going to his assistance they found he had quitted his lied-room and entered another, where, armed with a sword, he was stabbing the bed-clothes through and through. On inquiring the cause, he replied : "The fellow is here, and I have caught him at last. He shall not escape me this tune;' and he again commenced stabbing through the lied-clothes till he was so ex hausted that lie fainted. The servants, now terribly alarmed, ser.t for a doctor in the neighborhood, who, find ing Smith in a fainting fit, attempted to re vive him by pouring brandy down his throat, and in a little time he succeeded in restorm animation. Smith, on recovering his senses, g'ared in a terrified manner round the room, and then exclaimed, "Thank heaven, the wretch has gone nt last !" He was then Con veyed to his own bed, where he slept sound! till the following day. I was now fairly puzzled what steps to take. To have informed l is wile's family of the mania Smith wr.s laboring under, would be to preclude all possibility of a reconciliation ; and 3et to keep it a secret would scarcely have been justifiable on my part. As Mrs. Smith was expected to arrive on the following day, I resolved at last to call on her husband, and argue the matter coolly with him. I found him in pool "pints. He told me he had now dNc.neiv.l I was correct in my conclusion that he was laboring under a delusion, and that l''e spy Was only a phantom of his own creation. "The doctor." l.e coi-tiuued, "adised me, whenever it appeared to me, just to take a little drrp of biandy. and no doubt it would vanish. I have twice tried the exper iment, and in both instances it succeeded. The merest taste of brandy, I find, is suffi cient, so you need not be afraid of my falling into my old habit again." Of this, however, I was by no means per maded, and I determined not to call on Smith's wife for some days after her arrival, "s t' nM'erlain clear')' (lint tl.-ere was no (larger of her husband's returning to Lis old habits. It was well I did so, for unfortunately it turned out that although fir the first few lays the small drop of brandy was sufficient to dispel the delusion, by degrees it required more, and vo on till it terminated in a violent ft of intoxication. When the fit was over, Smith again 1-egged of me to effect a reer.i. riiiation with his wife, assuring me he would not return to the habit again. I told him I should take a week liefore deciding anything in the matter, and during that time he made the most strenuous efforts to abstain from drinking; but so pertinaciously did the de lusion pursue him that, in spite of all his good resolutions, he was obliged to have re course again to his little drop of brandy. This was effectual for a short time, but after a little use it required a greater quantity to take effect, and it again culminated iu a drunken fit. In this manner flairs continue !, the poor wretch struggling continually in a most de termined manner to abstain from vice, and on each occa-ion the delusion appearing to him, and standing motionless liefore him, gazed on him with its cold, inexpressive eye, till at last this poor ictim of drunkenness utterly succumlied, and a few months after his wife's return to X he occupied a grave in the city cemetery. The following is good : "Engaged yoi-nj 1 idies" are done by a writer in the Jirtisl M'isxtnycr, who says : "'S nice, is it not. to be e'ng;g"d ? Every morning her y mng man cails upon her on his way to his i.fii.-e, kisses her, and presents her with a fresh rose, so emblematic of herself : and every evening he calls again, ki-s.'-s her. and U stows upon her a new novel and a dai.in bouquet. He tn'ie tea with her f..Ik, and admires the way in which she presides over the U.ble, and whispers to her . soft! : how delightful it will be when she pour the tea and butters the toast for him alone ! Then tlios-c heavenly evenings in tne parlor, with the gas dimly burning, the old folks asleep, that horrid brother in the theatre oj the club, the teasing si-ter studying her les sens in her bsl-room they two ah-ue ii. their happiness; was eer such bliss ex pected when she used ti talk to her Echoul nutes about her future?" , . Terms, C2 per year, In advance. NUMBER 17. A 'I rick V. ith u Apple. ' Not long since I v as whiung away a pleasant etching with a nundier of young friends, jin l, as is so ( ften the case, our con versa ;i..n was-gradually led into the su! ject of ledgcrdemam, or sleight-of-hand, and many very queer and puzzling experiments in that direction were displayed. It was a subject on which no one of our number seemed wanting f,,r an example, as each in turn offered some amusing feat of the na-pri-in's art, occasionally sandwitched by some winy conundrum or pun, by way of taiiey. ).-r young people will easily un-d.-r-iand why it was that no other sulject crept in upon us during that whole evening, and bow, when the late hours came, we were all loth to break up, and depart to our several homes. There is scarcely any other way in which young people seem to enjoy themselves more t,;ln in this, and it is al ways pleasant t i have in one's mind a store of reminiscence of such experiences. Many are the long w inter evenings that are ren dered weary and tiresome only for the want, perhaps, of some such amusement. On the evening referred to one thing and another led to the subject of magic, etc., and one individual, rather gifted in that di rection, commenced by placing a penny in the hollow of my hand, and, although 1 was "positively certain" that I constantly felt it there, lie seemingly withdrew it without my knowledge, and I afterward found it in my vest pocket, whereupon I was branded as a "felon and a thief," and my confusion created much merriment. This was followed by another and another equally Strang?, unii; a great part of the evening had slipp-d by, when there came a sudden lull in our enthusiasm., as the do mestic entered the d r liearing a silver dish containing a variety of delicious fruits and nuts. We had scarcely commenced at them ljefore the subject was again retived. "Dd yon see that apple?" said a friend sitting near me, as he took from the siiver dish a brightly-colored "Baldwin." "Do 3011 see that apple?'' We all replied in the affirmative, gazing at it attentively, expecting to see it turn int a mouse, or some' other ridiculous thing, right liefore our eyes. "Well," he continued. "I can cut that apple in halves, aild I defy 3-.n1 to Cud a break in its skin afier I hate done it." We were nil on the watch, thinking that there might b some so-culled "sell" in bis manner of expressing himself ; b it no. Ho assured us that he was literally in earnest, and we all gazed with close attention to see how the feat was to be done. Taking tho apple between the tips of his fingers and thumb, he thus hell it for a minute or so. He then p'.-n-ed it in the hollow of one hand, covering it with the other, and another minute chipsed. "Wny don't you cut it?" we all asked. "It is cut," he replied : "and a smart lot of feli-.ws you have been not tj have seen me do it." He I'ow pnssed the npple around, and wc all devoured it with o: r eyes as we searched for the knife-cut in the skin; bat v.e wero none of us successful. Hating satisfied our selves that the outside was unbroken, the apple was passed back to the original indi vidual, who, after inspecting the stem of it a moment, broke it open, dixlosiug to our eyes two smoothly cut sections of equal size. The pulp l-re the appr-aranre of J.nvin litvn liti-ItI by a sharp knife, and it was evidently no accidental break. A slight discoloration ttas also visible, show ing that the dit ision had existed some little time. An examination of the halves gave us a clue as to the manner in which it had been done. Another apple was taken from the dish, and tve all witnessed a repetition of the operation, which was conducted as follows: It had lK3en done with a fine needle and a piece of silk thread. Taking the apple, with the stem uppermost, the needle was inserted deep in the hollow, passed through the pulp, and brought out again at alxmt half an inch from the place where it entered. A few inches of the silk hat ing been di-.iwu throagh, the needle was again inserted in the same aperture from which it had just emerged, passed along -directly under the skin as before, and the same process con tinued until the needle was brought out directly in the calyx. The other side of the apple was now followed up in a similar manner, and the needle at last brought ou at the stem end on the opposite side from where it first entered. The principal part of the trick was now finished, but what fol lowed required just as much care. Our f. iend now took the apple between his knees, keeping it in such a position that the threads, following their own direction, would fall to lu's right and left. Next, the thread emerging fio:u the hft siJe of the apple was taken in his riiht hand, and the other in hi.sMeft hand, letting them cross deep in the hollow of the stem. A little gentle sawing with one hand and the other soon brought the thread through the pulp, coreand all. and out it came, leaving scarcely a mark behind. It was a very pretty trick, and had been well carried out. The apple hating been previously prepared, was brought in with the rest of the fruit. This, and the wonder ful ease w ith t hicli our friend, seemed to perform the feat, while covering the apple with both hands, were all calculated to mystify us, as it certainly did. To avoid suspicion the trick should always lie per formed in this wa3-. The apple may also be cut at right angles to the core, but the breaks in the skin are more ohsertaWe in this method than in the other, as the ,t'em hcllow and calyx 'ii.-ic. uiiot. vty .Jli-t-i-ually. -rrV .
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