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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: . ......:,.
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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.
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