LU f - A. Mt;PIKE, Editor and Publisher. 'EE IS A FREKMAIf WHOM THE TKCTH MAKES FREE, AKD AI-L ARE SLAVES BESIDE.' Terms, S2 per year. In advance. DLUME IX. EBENSBURG, PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1875. NUMBER 7. i iin fiii i TO ATT. 0M IT HIT COHCEMl Iy t'--,vw'ii w me great scarcity . i "ji l wji of money and the long con led neglect of matij of my customers to J up their indebtedness for the past year jure, I am compelled to adopt ' INOTIIEII SYSTEM Joing basines?. Very many of my cus lers have allowed their accounts to run such an unreasonable length of time it a grout loss to me, without any benefit ihemselves, has beeu the result. Hence ' that I find it I faille to CoatuM tls Credit System 1 At the fame time keep up my stock I l,meet my obligations promptly. .1 am sincerely thankful for the liberal ironnge that has lieeu extended to me, J now earnestly ask one and all who are Jebtcd to me, no matter how large or , jw small the amount, to call and settle, iher by cash oi note, IOISETIIE 1ST ILV OF JANUARY, LS7J, 1 1 need and must have money. Bcliev- as I do fou past experience (which I ve paid well for) that it will be better )r nr.c a well as for my customers to adopt je ready, pay system, t: 1 WIII NOT, r tte FIRST of JANUARY, 1875, y HV.1.L AM UOOIS OS I BKIIT. j I am fully convinced that in three cases it of four persons buying goods never find j 'moro convenient lime to pay than when jey make their purchases, and as an in- iormcnt to my customers to buy for cash Hn exchange for country produce, I will, , Iter the ub ve date, jNOCK OFF ONE-HV Ft .c PROFIT prrtofore realized in I his place on goods f the same class. j : "Hoping that my old cnslomcrs will take J offense at the now mode of doing busi ness I am about to adopt, but will contin ue to favor me with their patronage on a irie.tly cash basis, which they will be sure i find the very best for all concerned, I pledge myself t. mark my goods dowu to Clie lowest ca:h late.s. OA7 I'l? I (.'! TO ALT! OMFET'TICN DEFIED! 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Pur psrtieu '.ar ca it on or ad. i t'.ffa j -in...! . .. i i- T ' r ....... .. f . i m fj CHILES9 Jmmmmm m m m m a 0a THE SCARLET SrECTIiE. I can tell you a story that you may not believe ; yet stranger things happen every day ; and I will tell you just as it was, j .ist as I see it before me row, written id. characters that cannot be effaced. I am sitting at the window, looking er.t uon the lighted street. It is a clear, cold evening after the storm. The snow has been falling for twelve hours, but now the last flake is down ; and the wind is rising, t-cattering the fleecy white, baring the earth in some places, that it may put a ten fold cove.ing upon others. The flickering firelight is casting dancing shadows over the wall of mv room : but the treuial warmth .,, , , . . . T . i vt i'i iiaMi.y Keep out loo coin, as x &ii aim think of the story I am to tell. It was just such a night as this, five years ago. There were three of us loung ing about the office of the detective police in the city of Frankfort; and the chief, whose name was Karl Eunson, sat at his desk. Wax, grown gray iu the service, i was by the fire smoking his pipe, as usual, j and, no doubt, conceiving some new plan , for "working up' different cases. In the corner was another veteran whvso name j was Stein, the best fellow that ever caught a rogue, and the shrewdest detective in the I whole force. I was sitting by the window, . just as I am to-nighf, only I was thinking ! of nothing in particular, but watching the passers as they toiled through the snow, homeward bound. There was nothing to break the stillness of the room but the scratching of the chiefs len as he wrote wrote wrote ; and seem ed that it never would stop. The dropping of a pin to the floor, or the foot-fall of a mouse, would have p.oduced a distinct and a welcome sound. I never knew what impelled me to turn my eyes toward the door, for there was no sound no indication of the entrance of any one; yet there stood the most beautiful woman I ever saw. Her gi-eat mournful eyes I shall never see the like again were turned full upon th chief; be knew noth ing of it, and her hands were raised in sup pliant attitude, as if craving some boon that he alone could grant. Her head was ndorned with a profusion of soft brown hair, which fell carelessly over her shoul ders, giving her a wierd, unnatural appear ance that was startling, and enveloping her person was a cloak like garment of the brightest scarlet hue. Max was puffing away at the everlasting pipe, taking not the slightest notice of the visitor ; Stein had turned his face to the wall, while the chief still kept his pen in motion, not once lifting his eyes from the page. Was it possible thac I was the only one who saw her? If so, it became my du'y to learn her wishes. I was hastening to her, when my steps were arrested by a groan of bitterest anguish from the chief, lie had whit led about on his stool, and sat facing the door, his eyes widely staring, his hands clasping the desk, and his whole aspect one of the most terrible agony. 'Quick, tlerman V he cried to me. '"She must not leave me again. Do not let her go. There she is going ! Too late, Her man !" Impressed by his earnestness, I turned again to tho door, but the strange being was now here to be seen. I sprang forward, threw open the door, and rushed into the passage, lie fore I reached the outer door, I was sure I heard tho rustling of female garments and was equally positive I felt a touch upon my arm, I reached out my hands, and grasped nothing. Almost stupefied with astonish ment, 1 closed and bolted the door, and then called for Max, for Stein, for the , r r it- 1- , i I Chief, for any one, to bring a light. Stein answered with a .lantern. I snatched it from him, and searched everywhere, but found nothing. "I'll tell you what, Herman,' whispered Stein, glancing towards the office door to see that the chief was not there, "you had better leave this affair to some other hand." "I am not afraid to try my hand at it." I replied, somewhat aunoyed at his man ner. "You'll wish you liadu't, Herman. It was no woman." "What do you mean, Stein ?" - "I mean, Herman, that you have been chasing a spirit a spectre a real ghost." "Stein, don't bo a fool," said I, vexed at what I then considered the most stupid su perstition that ever cursed mankind. "I'll give you the same advice, llciman," was his reply. "But if you are really esrnest in your belief that she is a living th woman, I 11 say no mote, Max was of the same opinion ; and I was not surprised, for I knew that he had a good deal of superstition in his nature. But when Karl Dunson told me seriously that we had witnessed a visitation from the land beyond the grave, I knew not what to thiuk. "Yes, Herman, it was a spii it, a ghost or whatever you may chose to name it," said he solemnly. "I would give everything I am or hope to be in this world if I could know it was not so ; but it is no use. We shall meet again only as we have met to night." What could I say? I could not tell him that she was a living reality, yet I believed it. I conld only press his hand in Mlenev, and pray hat the great fon'nv, unknown Alter mat we mauiuiiiicu a jjcucti. bi lence on the painfnl subject, yet there was not a day no, nor an hour that I did not think of th mysterious being. I heard the office door open without thinking of ber ; but it was a full year before she came again. It was in the evening, as before. There was no sound of footsteps, nor of opening doors ; but there she stood, in the same j suppliant attitude, her matchless eyes fixed on the careworn but handsome countenance ' of our chief Karl Bhhkoc. j I did not wait for instructions. I cleared the space between us at a bound, yet I was , too late. She had left the room, but how I conld not tell. I hastened thiough the t passage, conscious of a flighting presence j just befoie me, yet out of reach. Out into the street, still guided by that unseen pres ence ; I mounted behind a carriage that was just starting away from the door. After passiug through many streets, the driver halted before a house well kuown to i ; me, Without giving me time for thought, that j man got down from his seat, and went to the door of the carriage. From my perch I peered around the corner of the vehicle ; but in my eagerness to see the strange be ( ing who had seemed to lead me on, I forgot I my usual caution. My hand slipped its hold, and I fell awkardly to the pavement, disclosing my presence and startling the i driver. He closed the door with a btng that sounded like the report of a score of ' muskets, while I slipped away in the dark -. ncss. j I returned to the office in a mnch cooler frame of mind, and I could not help smil ing when I thought of what I had done. ( I had rushed out of the office like a mad- man ; I had stolen a ride upon Archibald Randal's carriage, and when I stopped be- . fore the house, I had capped my adventure by tumbling to the ground. Yet, after all this, I had discovered nothing. The chief was waiting for me. "Welt, Herman? But I need not ask I know it never can be." He leaned his bead upon his desk, and great sobs shook his frame. What caused such agony? I dared not ask him, but I pitied him. After a while he looked up, and brushed the hair off his forehead. "There, Herman. I know it seems fool ish, but I cannot help it. It is all over now and I must go. You are going with me, aren't you ? You kuow we arc engaged for Randal's to-night." I felt very little inclined to go anywhere, and leastof all to Archibald Randal's ; but I knew the chief would not go without me, so I told him I was ready. There was a very pleasant company as sembled, yet I felt ill at ease. Thelteauti ful bewitching face of the lady in scarlet, or the Scarlet Spectre, as Stein persisted in calling her, was continually before me, re minding me of Karl Bunsen'sunhappiness, I could not be merry while he was sad. I did succeed in throwing off" my gloom iness long enough to enjoy a brief tete-a-tete with our host's pretty sister, Maud Randal, but it ended abruptly. I became conscious of a strange sound coming from without the room. I heard it only when tny head came in contact with the wall, and at first so very faiut that I could not liken it to anything. After awhile I detected the tones of a human voice. There woulJ have been nothing surprising in that, had I not been leauing against the outer wall of the hou;e. How were the sounds conducted through that mass of stone? From whence did they come? These were the questions that coursed through my brain as I sat there, entirely forgetful of the young lady I had been striving to entertain ; but they were not answered. I listened the voice growing more and more distinct as my ear became accustomed to the sound. "No, madam," spoke the voice, "I would sooner take your iife." Then came an answer, clearand distinct, but in a diffciout tone of voice : "You dare not, sir; ono murder is enough." A short, hard cruel laugh came from the first speaker, and then all was still again. ! I was pleased when I saw the chief ap proaching, for I was making sorry work at entertaining Maud Randal. I gave him my scat, and I had the satlsfacl ion of seeing his hiad resting against the tell tale-spot. For a moment there was no change in his manner ; but presently his face grew a Khade whiter, his eyes seemed to glisten wildly, and, by the upheaving of his chest, I saw that his breathing was short and painful. I knew that the mysterious voice from the wall had reached his ears. As ston as he could leave, he beckoned me to follow. "Herman, I shaM go crazy, if this lasts much longer. It is horrible! I cannot bear it ! O, Herman, if I have been iu the wrong !" I had no comfort for him, so I waited . until he grew calm again. j "Say nothing of this, Herman," he add- ( ed in something like his natural voice. "Be ready for business at noon tovmorrow." I asked no questions, and, during the walk to the office, not a word was spoken ! by either. As wo separated for the night, he said, "O, Herman ! you do not know how anxiously I wait for the ni'rrow." At th- pp. J !::. th, ,,vr gether we went to Archibald Randal's house. Max and Stein were posted out of doors, with orders to intercept whoever should attempt to enter or leave. I follow ed Bunsen into the house. "Herman," he said, and his voice was husky and unsteady, "I cannot go down there," pointing to a door opening out of the hall. "I will go, Karl." "I will wait. If you need me, call and I shall hear. Search thoroughly, Herman, and I will try to be paticut." It was a dismal hole, that cellai neder Archibald Randal's house, promising no pleasant task, nor startling discoveries. Yet I knew by the chiefs manner that he was expecting to find something ; and that was sufficient for me to know, or he would have told me more. I stumbled about among empty wine casks, peering into black, mouldy corners, sounding the walls with my heavy stick, and even the damp floor I tried, but nothing was revealed. The last and only spot that I had not ex plored was a small, square vault, Juilt into the side of the wall, a place black with darkness. I moved cautiously, for my lantern threw but a dim light before me, but I was entirely unsuspicious of the danger that meuaced me. I groped my way through the small door, and stood within the vault. Ere my eyes became accustomed to tho intense darkness, I received a stunning blow in the face ; and, before I could re cover, my nnseen assailant grappled with me, and together we went to the floor. My lantern was extinguished at the first onset, and there in the darkness, we strug gled as only men can struggle for life. My weapons were useless, for I could not get them ; but I felt a sharp prick upon the cheek from my adversary's knife and felt tho warm blood start. It roused me to a sense of my peril ; aud summoning all of my strength iu one desperate effort, I thrust the villian fiora me. I drew my re volver and shouted, "Back, or I will send a bullet through your heart !" No answer came to me. All was still as the grave. I stared into the darkucss, ex pect ing him to renew the attack. I thought I heard a stealthy footfall right in frout of me, and my finger was on tho trigger ; but, before I pressed it the vault was flooded with light, revealing a room beyond ; and right before me, was my aits '.agonist, Archibald Randal. With a cry of baffled rage, he turned and fled through the door which had been opened so opportunely. I followed, but I met a sight that bailed me at th6 threshold. In the center of the room, in all her wondrous beauty, stood tho Scarlet Spectre. Before I had recover ed from my amazement, I felt a hand upon my shoulder a hand so hot that it seemed to burn through my clothing. I had no fear ; I dd not even look arormd, for I knew it was the chief who stood behind me. '-O, God 1 my lost wife?' he moaned. She heard his voice, and knew that be was there, though she had not seen him. "Karl, Karl!" she cried, "have you come to save me at last ? Come to me and take me from this living tomb ! Come, Karl, for I am chained aud cannot go to you !" "God have mercy on me for the wrong my suspicions have ennsed her !" he ex claimed, casting me aside as if I were an infant, and rushing forward with open arms. "Forgive me, my Marion." "I never blamed you, Karl," was her trusting reply, leaning forward to meet him. "I knew yoc wotdd come." There was but a step bet ween them, when Archibald Randal raised the pistol, and deliberately took aim at the pure woman he had held in bondage so long ; but heaven averted the blow. The ball, glancing against an iron plate, entered his own side, and Randal fell in the agonies of death. This is all I ever knew of Karl Bunsen's wife. And I need not detail the last mo ments of Archibald Randal ; but I will tell you of an old chimney, long out of use, that had its base in the prison cell of Marion Bunsen ; and of a crevice in that chimney, in the room above, through which those mysterious sounds came to me. The strange appearance of Marion Bun sen in our office I leave it as it is. I can offer no explanation, for the secret died with her. A Bangor man has invented a fire shield to prevent fires from leaping across a street on to adjoining buildings,and also to protect the firemen. The device is light and por table two men can easily handle it about fifty-four inches in width by six and one half feet in height, with a protecting curve at the top, the whole being of galvanized iron. Near the center, and on a level with the eye, is an orifice some eight inches in diameter, which can be wholly closed or opened sufficently for the introduction of the nozzle of the hose when playing. The ! patent also includes the insertion of a small ' window of mica, through which the hose- ' man can watch the action of tho flames : while fighting the hottest fire in safety. i Only a woman's hair ! Who has not' some time in his life, picked such a gulden J thread from his best coat collar, andfclt his heart beat the quicker for it ? Or gazed upon a tress laid away in some nook, and not felt the influence of tender memories? (i',y n Tiratv's hvv ? rn.l vet we J' !"" SEVES' METALS. In the discovery of the met lis men first asserted their m.vstery over nature ; yet the discovery is still progressing. Before the fifteenth century only seven were positively known. They were each held sacred among the ancients to some ruling deity. GoM indestructible, malleable, the richest color ing, the most precious of decorations v consecrated to Jupiter, or the sun, and ha, l already assumed the supremacy which it has never lost. It was coined into the heavy daries of Persia and the aureus of imperial Rome. It was tisj.1 to gild tem ples and statues, was wrought into rich jewelry and woven in delicate threads that enlivened the flowered stuffs of B ibylon. Gold mines and gold-bearing streams were found in Arabia, Syria Greece, It -.ly and Spain, and the pursuit of tta precious metal was carried on with variooa success by countless throngs of miners. The rich est mines, at least in Liter ages, were those of Spain ; and the enormous productiveness of the Spanish soil was slowly exhausted by the successive labors of the Carthagenians and the Romans. So successive was their industry that but little gold or silver can now be found in a territory where the pre cious metal once lay scattered in boundless profusion on the surface of the earth Silver ranked next to gold, and was nam ed from the soft light of the mom. The richest silver mines were thoee of Spain. It was wrought into cups, vases, limps ; ad rn ed the helmets and shields of warriors, and formed the costly mi Tors with which the Roman ladies shocked the austerity of Lac tantius or Jerome. The beautiful silver coins of the Greek and Roman cities filled modern collections. Five other metals iron, copper, mercury, load, and tin were employed by the ancients for various pur poses ; they made steel by a rude process, and brass without discovering tine For many years no addition was m vie to the Bacred seven. Three thousand years passed away before it was snspv cted tliat the number could be increased a memora ble example of the slowness of human ap prehension. At length, in 1400, antimony was added to the metallic family ; and far off from the period of the discovery of a new world, the chemists were about to enter upon fresh fieHs of science scarcely lesa boundless or inviting. A second met.d, bismuth, came in almost with the Reformation. Zinc, jvrliips the most important of the new family, may have preW led the others; it was certainly described long before. It is, in Joed, quite curious to notice how the bright metal had been const vntly forcing itself upon the at tention of careful olservers, and had yet been wholly overlooked, had been used by the ancients, in the form of an earth, to color copper intobr.issand give it a shining surface like gold, was soen dropping from the furnaces of the Middle Ages, or melted in rich flakes from their walls. Two magicians or philosojoi-.-rs at last d ? tected the error of ages ; and Aibertus Mag nus and Paracelsus probably both discover ed that sine was as indestructi'de and as free from foreign substances as gold. It seemed a pure element. Paracelsus, who was fond of pent trating to the sourco of things, admits that he could not tell how the bright metal grew ; nor in the height of their magic renown was it ever foreseen that the rare suhitanoe the sorcerers had discovered would on day shed knowledge in tongues of fire, from London to Japan. Two centuries followed, during which no metallic substance was discovered. Para-ct-Ljus found no successor; Aibertus, almost the first in .ui of science in Europe, was re membered only as a sorcerer. It was not until 1733 that the vast field of met Jlic discovery bean to open upon in n. Two valuable and well-known metals platiuum and nickel among several others, first aj pearcd about the middle of the eighteenth century. The number of the metUs now rapidly enlarged ; galvanism lent its aid to dissolve the hardest earth, and at length, in the opening of tho nin2tonth century, a cluster of brilliant discoveries aroused the curiosity of science. Bach eminent philosopher seemed to pro duce new met ils. Bcrzelius discovered three, Davy, the Paracelsus of his age, is the scientific parent of five potassium, sod ium, barium, strontium, calcium. The number advanced until already more than fifty metals, of various importance, have boen given to the p.irts. The new experi ments in light . have been added, caesium and rubidium, and no limit can now be fix ed for the metallic family, which for no many ages embraced only swn members hf emblems of the ruling -rods. a xr.w snow. Paris, the city of eccentricities, i about to witness the spectacle (vouchsafed by the manager of one of tlic theatres) of a man tntoocd all over hi body. lie is a Greek by birth, at present aged forty-seven lie was when young made a prisoner by a horde of Manchoux Tartars, win) amused themselves by tatooing every par? of his body in various Colors. Tlic torture l.c endured from the continual puncture or ho many itccdlox was lJcsrrilwhle. He often prycd for death, bat he survived the trial, and he L mm about to show the effect prodmvj It was among the loveliest custom" of th ancients to bury the young st morning twi light ; for, as they sftxVe to give the softest interpretation todrnth. so they T-.itsn"'-e1 t'.s Aiir rn. wh. i. re.i r' f v.j-;r. bnd uutun vs. ci:toiv. Amorg all the declarations Jt LSTberty which American mankind are so fond of making it seems strange that there is no league, association, party, or other combi nation to defend In not men ag.unst worn out or absurd custonjs. For example, will any man tell me why I am forbidden by hat he calls "good man ners," to pour my tea into a saucer and cool it there? Much reproach has been heaped upon strong tea and coffee, which properly belongs to hot tea and cofTe". Every one knows how much the efficient action of chemical agents are intensified by heat. Scalding t,m is far wots than strong te j but to be both scalding and str 'tig is an at tack upon the human body which no man ought to venture who has any regard for his health. But etiquette forbids me to cool my coffee in any other manner than by Waiting. In the houses where the secret of making goode fl e is known, cups should be bke the human heart, large and deep, and in such cases the 1-everage wilL like true affection, cool very slowly. Hence, one who does not wish to wait till the meal is over b if ore drinking coffee, must either cool it in his sancci or drink it hot, or wait and drink it after breakfast, and all be cause of the absurd notion that it is not good manners to pour coffee into your saucer. The spirit of "76" ought to rise with every afflicting yulp of hot coffe! The custom is wanton and crueL It is tyranny over the inner man, carried on by force, if not by the sword. I count it therefore a duty to humanity to set at defiance the edicts of this liquid despot hot drink. For the wellf are of mankind I refuse to burn my mouth or stomach. In behalf of mute devotees of etiquette, I raise a plea for relief. Meanwhile endowed with courage, and armed with principle, I r-joice in pouring forth the fragTant liquid into a capacious saucer, and before the wondering eyes, to raise the beverage to my lips. Supersti tion is rebuked ! Health is justified of her more will be shocked when I avow myself as an advocate of the rights of the knife. New, custom has reduced it to the mere function of cutting np one's food. That done, and a fork serves every other purpos-3. By practice, one gains unex pected dexterity in using a fork for pur IC8es to which it is ill adapted- The Chi nese, in like Laanner, make awkward chop sticks, rarely serviceable, by practice little short of ledger lermain ; but is that a good reason for the uso of cUop-sticks ? A fork, as now made, is uxiatt jl to pierce any morsel itpc-n its tine, and yet they are sharp enough to afflict t ho ton 0-ae if care lessly used. They are EjTit so as to be use less for liquids, and yet they are used as if they were spoons. The fo.k compels the manipulator to poke and push and pile up the food-mateiial, which tends to fall back and opart ; it is made to pursue the dainty titbits, in which often the very core of fla vor resiles, around the plate in a hopeless chase, and at length a piece of bread is called in as auxiliary, and thus, while the elini-lij.zgcd fork, in cue hanl, is chas ing a slim bqnid mouthful, a wad of bread iu the otlier goes mopping and sopping around to form a corner, aud between the t'.vo is at Ic-ut1i necoii-i lished what is called genteel feeding. Meanwhile, abroad knife is ftt.'J for the very function which the fork refuses, and t':e w..d of bread ill performs. The reason ut refus:ng t':e knife as a foc-lin.? imple ment ;s worthy of the awkward practiced. It is liable to cut the mouth f no siiore than a fork is to s-tick into lip or ton-ue. If men ate with razors, tiiere would be some rva.sn for a-.oidance. But table knives are bluat-edod. It is evj difficult to make them cut when one tries, and if they are properly nsexl, the 'back of the blade v. i!l 1 turn.-d t t'ta mouth. We do not ';- t to the fork ; but we demand a restora..:on of the koife from banishment. Wc clo not desire to enforce its use, but such a liberation as shall luavc each one free to use the knife for conveying food to the mouth when that is most convenient, and fie fork when that is preferred. Equal rights we demand for black and wlate, for home-Txrn or emigrant, for rich and poor, for men and women, aud fur knives and forks. Old Ira Thornton was a dreadfully mean man, and had difficulty, sometimes, in j drawing his breath, lxscausi he begrudged ' the air necessary for that ojeration. One day the old fellow wvs at work upon the high lieams of his bara, when he lost his balance and fell heavily upon the floor, twenty faet below, he was t iken up for dead, with a fractured skull, and carried into the houie. All forts to bring him to conaciousDoss were unavailing, and tbo i doctor was exiled. Finally, the doctor t having trepanned him turned nd asked j Mrs. Thornton for a silver dollar ta put in where the piece of skull was wanting. ' At this remark, Ira, who had been breath . ing heavily, turned in bed and groaned i out "Wouldn't a cent do as well r" A W Method of preparing coffea is be coming popular in Franoe. After roasting, the coffee is gronnd to a very fine flour, which is then slightly moistened, mixed with twice its weight of powdered sugar, and pressed into tablets. Coffee prepared in th'? TrvTmir 5 c! i . J. p-.r f . U le sts.-v;-til.- of f : ;. ..- ,-,..ut0,-;.j . i .
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