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Terms, S2 per year, In r.tfvan
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XUME IX,
iPORTANT
TO VT.T
109 IT BIT CQHCERN!
, J,"-sOwiiig to the great scarcity
i(. j?a of money and the long con
I $ ueglect of many of my customers to
I J up their indebtedness for the past year
t ' rre. I nui compelled to adopt
MOTHER SYSTEM
Xr buv'ties?. Very many of my cus
r 'nave Allowed their accounts to run
ath an unreasonable, length of time
k great 1ss to me, without any benefit
eu.f !v"s, li isLecn the result. Hence
thai. I find it
to C;fe th CreJit Sjstsa
t tnu Maine time keep tip my stock
re! my obligations j ininptly.
ID! rM'.ccidy thankful for the liberal
Kiajj thrit has beci' extended to me,
Set v earnestly ak one and all who are
tei to me, no matter how large or
sinull t'ne amount, t cull and settle,
Jt by cali or note,
;p,E l!!E 1ST I)AV0FJ.M.I!V,IS7a,
" 9ti nnd must have money. Belicv
JK ( !' i'i'm past experience (which I
;iM well for) that it will be better
jr a veil as for my customers to adopt
jB:idy.j ny system,
; I the FIRST of JAXUAllY, 1S75,
i &K! L AM COOUS fUrUlT.
r In fully convinced that in three cases
i f. it? i iivrs-uis Lining goods never tiud
v e.n .ocii-nt lime to pay than wheu
' n.xka their pu: chafes, and as an iu-:-;!it
to tny cut-tomeis to buy for cash
Fs'.t:iuse for country prod iice, I will,
t the shove date, I
1CK OFF ONE-HALF the PROFIT
Wore realized in this place on goods
same cl tss. I
.iZ tl:;it my old customers will take
a at the new mode of doing luisi
1 :m about to adopt, but will contin
s f:.voi me with their patronage on a
tiy cisli ba.si.s. which they will be sine !
i the very best for all concerned, I
" i:m clf to niaik my gowls down to
Owcst cash i a tea.
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IN A3 WELL AS PRICES.
r eorge Huntley,
- V1 MfcAI.F.It MS
MMwarcTrare, receries,
m feints, OISs, &c, &c, ,
msiiy sit una, va. !
". B. V i:r.if:ct tirrr nml other who ime- !
fiml it iiec";ry losuoil orders for gooils 1
ei t rv-ir tut: .ii. can imik peviui ar
i Ki.t4. with tin." iiiiilerstainliiiir iliat th ir
Br.'a .y ill t pai J in f ull at In-i-tnl tf fio'h
Hi. llee.ll, 1KM.
tps M.;PE THAN HALF A CtfUUlY AGO.
(Ml? lr. IT. 1). SKLI'KKS,
L Vb-.i'?d j hysician of Pittsburgh. d'.-
t jt it :ud u.-od in his practice the popu-
L f . ..'v known throughout the country
f EI.I l'Hs" IMPERIAL (.'Ol Clil SYU-
.; Tins is no quack remedy. It was
I h'T wi.-dom. nurtured hy science, and
.t:,' ;;ro living witnesses of its won-
oi c.ti.ive powers. It is pleasant to
t ai-d sirre to cure Coughs, Colds,
v 11 S lMoi.chial Affections, Tickling in
( 11:M-nt. nnd all diseases of a kind.cd
T 7f-. U. I'. Sri T.r.r.s Co.. Pittsburg,
" ;Ve also proprietors of JOHNSTON "ti
Jit.'M ATI'' COMl'OL'NI), the K,eat
l ii-n'.'l .envdj for Hhcnnmt ism, Xeuial
J., ll-.atl.'.cho, :c. Yon can have a doc
tor la.vs in the house by kct-ping SKL
I.niJS' i'anii'y Medicines on hand, 'i'tcir
I " Jit are 'lie oldest and best in
t- fr tVei, and eveiy bottle of thcii Yer
t is warianted.
. br r;le hy diiinrsists and country deal-
A. A. 1!ai;kki: fc S?o.v, Agents, I.o-
t:r.., IV. rS-5.-.hn.l
- ,ri!.i.
NOKTll WIST. EUWAKUWE3T.
VEST &, CO.,
V MAMTACTUKEKS OF
' Jooms and Brnslies,
iSD WBOI.I.ULS niALEUS IN
ST.STIiAW.RAG A M.WILL PAPERS,
.COTTOJf AMI II IMP Twnr.s,
V.ir Spicks, Grocers' Bags,
rVooden "Ware,
ZTIds, to it a ceo, era Aits, fc.
i - 1 sh on t A v r. v
Swce.f MiTiiricT t asd Wood Strefts,
.9.1 PlTTSBUUr.tl. PA. 3.n.
Iglo planig mill.
UiMitcuRins or
K:.--:a. cuckets a'j mouldings.
E.t OF EVEP.Y DESCRIPTION.
lll X;l.KS sad POSTS Cedar and Lorat.
."'.! Rawing and Re pairing done to order.
) ALLEclHEXY CITY. PA. (2ui.)
f FOR SAL.Ei
)t,ATFfRM SPniVf WAGON'S
f PLAIN SPRIM '.VAfJiWs
L. .t.v.. FARM WAGON'S.
J n'l Maht Wagons, all kinds ,f :ari and
: orr...manufactnred and lor calecheap at
mm WAGON WORKS,
Km rain Hi reet and Allegheny riTer,2 snnares
pii-nj pronjj.tly done. J "
t C COLEMAN fc FOX.
PTi'i; On hand, ft large lot of
It. for .a'.3'.';1 Spllt Ch,9t"t nd Locust
joj. ir fa.e ehcap for cash.
EO. HCXTLEY.
Ayer's
Hair Vigor,
For restoring Cray Hair to
ils natural Vitality and Color.
A dressing which
is nt once agreeable,
healthy, nnd effectual
for preserving the
hair. Faded or gray
hair is soon restored
to ils original color
xcilh the gloss and
freukness of youth.
Thin lmir il.w-t--
Mm
caed, falling hair checked, hald
ne3s often, though not always, cured
by its use. Nothing can restore the
hair whero the follicles are destroyed,
or the gland atrophied and decayed.
But such as remain, can he saved for
usefulness hy this application. Instead
cf fouling the hair vith a pasty sedi
ment, it will keep it clean and vigorous.
Its occasional u?e will prevent tin hair
from turning gray or falling off, and
consequently prevent baldness. Free
from those deleterious substances which
make soiiic preparations dangerous aud
injurious to the hair, the Vigor can
only benefit but not harm it. If wanted
merely for a
HAIR DRESSING,
nothing clsa can be found eo desirable.
CouUiuit) g neither oil nor dye, it docs
uot ?oil whito cambric, and yet lasts
long on the hair, giving it a rich glospy
lustre and a grateful perfume.
Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co.,
Practic al and Analytical Chemists,
LOWELL, 31 ASS.
PHICE 51.00.
GiUKUIFF-S SALKS. Uy virtue of
Dtiudry ritsof Vend. Espoii. and Ft. Fu.,
isu't out of Hip Court or Common Pleas or
Ciiiiibriii county amt lo me directed, there will
bcfxposod to'l'iiblic Si.le. at tin' Court Mouse
in i:o.'iiliurtr. on Wkdmsd.iv. the iStti .lny of
M r next, nt 1 o'clock, P. m., the following real
et it, to wit :
Ai.r. tne risht, title and interest of T. M. Ap
1p. of. iu au I to the following nlrcfa nr tr.irli ,r
Itl'l. ta-Wit: A t'it'CI" Or Ti:ir('l of Inml ailnnta in
A hite lownship, C;imiria rcuntv. adjoin'ii
Iti !x wnrrnn'eil to Thomas Sanbourn, .Tolm
M iriin. Henry I'hillips. and olliers, containing
A.i.i acres, more or less, unimproved. A l: a iioce
or i;iroel of land, situate in White Township,
l?auil.rK county, mljoinlnw: lands warranted to
Simon Walker. James Thompson, .lacob Sline
heiner. ami others, containing T2': aero?, more or
P-.o. unimproved A x'i. a piece or parcel of land,
pitn ite in While Township, Cambria county, ad
joining lands of lianiel llollc-n. land warranted to
William Spade and others, containing 160 acree,
m ire or lt s. about. 4o acres of which are cleared,
having thereon erected a ono and a half storv
plank house, and frame barn, now in the oeeu
i:ney or T. M. Apple. .-I No. a piece or para-el or
l.tnd. pitu.ite In V. hite township. Cambria count v,
adjoining hinds warranted to Vm. Spade. Levi
ltnors, Tiioiuas Santioum, and others, containing
2-J2 acres, more or less, about 20 acres of which are
cleared, having thereon erected a two story plank
hou.-e, frame stable and water sawmill, now in
tho occupancy of A. I). Flanagan. Taken in ex
ecution and to be sold at the suit of Gates, Son &
Co.. Isaac Gates, and cither.'.
A I ; ., all the right, title ami interest of Victor
oslitly. of, in and to a piece or lot of ground,
bwuite in the village ot Summerhill, t'royle
township. Cnmhria county, bounded by lot of .frs.
Mary Stinenrin on the south Mrs Kl zabeth Pat
terson on the west, John Grillith on tho non h.
and Township Koad on tho east-not now occu
pier. Taken in exeeu: ion and to be sold at the
suit or Jacob C. Siincman, executor of Jacob
sjunoinan. deceased.
Also, all the right, title and interest of Victor
Vor-ght.ly and William Lloyd, terrr-trnnnt. of, in
and to a piece or lot of ground, situate In the vil
lage. oi Sumtiierh.il, rovlc township. Cambria
county, adjoining lots of 1. A. Hurt well. James
Flummer. and oi hers, having thereon erected a
one and a half story frame house ami frame stable,
and now in the occupancy of James Fowler and
A. f C. Penrod. Taken in execution and to be Fold
at the f nil of Jacob F. Stall, Trustee to sell the
real es.ate of Solomon i Ister, dece'd.
Also, ail tha right, title and interest oT John
Fisher, garnishee, of, in and to a piece or parcel
of land, situated In Carroll township. Cambria
couii y, adjoining lands of Uobt. McCumhic, John
Uin k, Cain, and others, containing 51 iktcs,
more or less, about 3 acres or which ore cleared,
having thereon erected a one-story plank house
and board stable, now in the occupancv of John
Fisher. Taken in exneution ami to be sold at the
suit of iiurns & Smucker, and others.
Tkums ok .Sale. One-thlrd the purchase mon
ey to be paid when the property is knocked down,
and the remaining two-thirds on confirmation of
thedeel. 1 i K K MAN HA I'VE It, Sheritf.
Sheriffs Office, Ebcnsburg, April 12, ls"5.
ORPHANS' COURTSALE
OF VALUABLE
Coal and Timber Land.
J
Y virtue of an olid order of the Orphans'
Court of Cambria Countv. the under.iiirned
will otlor at Public- Sale, at Lilly's Station, on the
x euii.-j ivuniu. nauroau, on
3IAY r$,
proximo, at TEN O'CLOCK. A. M., the follow
ing described real estate, to wit:
A PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND,
situate In ashlngton township. Cambria county,
Pa., adjoining lands of the Cambria .Mining and
Manubtcturmg Company, heirs of Jeremiah jUc
Gonigie, and others, containing
Two Hundred and Ten Acres,
more or less, about fifteen acres cleared, having
thereon erected three tenant bouses. The land is
well timbered, and underlaid with
THREE VEINS OF COAL.
A four-root vein Is opened, and the coal is of su
perior quality lor manufacturing purposes. It Is
so located as regards dip and drainage that the
coal can be taken out at comparatively little ex
M?r"""n A ,ram roa'1 onnecting this land with
we lennsylvania Hailroad was built by();ho
; ..?,?"r IV"1 lho -linii and -ManuUeturing Com
'.,.?'?. ..c"!,t of 7 ouo- I'ne interest of the es-
D V "K" tho land, or separately.
l.itva or Salk: uno-ihird of the purchase
money to be pai.t on con hr mat ion or salef and the
baiaucein twoe.juni annual payments with in
terest, to be secured by le juuseTbo1Iua and'
mortgage of the purchaser.
JOsKPH t KISfE,
Kxeeutors ot Ottio Stvner dioM
Statlon t"mlock), April W, 15.
T7X ECUTOR'S XOTICeT
K.st.ite of William M'Cot dee'd
Letters testOnienlary on the estate or William
Met Toy, late of Clearfield township, Cambria coun
ty, hive been granted the undersigned. All per
Jons indebted to said estaie are requested to make
Immediate payment, and those having claims
against the same will present them without delay.
COKNKLICS MOKRIS, Executor.
St, Augustine, March 2d, l&7a-6t.
JTOTICE TO FARMERsTDraft
Horses, "Wagons and II arnests for sale
or In frhan,r. for CW. MARTIN k CO .
April is. 1876.-21. Port.ae, Pa.
EBENSBURG,
A row of lamps that flame tin flare
A strangely troubled world behind,
With passion, like a desert wind.
To breathe its fierce enchantment there.
A regal beauty, strangely fair,
(A palid face, behind whose smile
A touch of pathos bides the while)
With white camel ias in her hair.
The music of a woman's voice
Whose laughter ended in a moan.
Like sweet bells jangled in a tone
No sound to make the heart rejoice.
The dawning of a brighter morn,
- A rifting in the clouds above.
For her who gave back love for lore,
Yet dared to battle scorn with scorn.
The resting of a wind-tossed bark,
A sweet dream in a gloomy night,
The memory of whose vanished light
But makes the shadows doubly dark.
The glaring world of sin once more,
The hollow mirth, the scornful smiles.
The pitch that touches and defiles,
And then the sacrifice is o'er.
Mirth, music, song all, all have fled
The dawning of eternal peace;
A weary heart hath found surccaee;
A lover moumeth o'er his dead.
WHO MELINDA MARRIED.
"So you're back again with your old em
ployers, and at a first-clas salary. I'm
very glad, I assure you, and so will my hus
band be when I tell him. Sorry you can't
stay to tea with us on account of the chil
dren. How old is your eldest. Tommy ?"
"Let me see." The individual addressed
balanced his hat between his knees on both
little fingers, and carefully studied its in
terior, as though the information he sought
lurked somewhere under the lining. A
great, blonde-bearded m in, but he always
was and always would be Tommy. Never
teing able to rid himself of a certain awk
ward bashfulness, nor ever having lost the
big, innocent eyes, honest mouth and ruddy
complexion that made him look like an
overgrown schoolboy. "Amanda's eleven
this June. Lucy was nine in February.
Melinda seven, and Vinnie that's the baby
my wife left, you kiiow will be three to
morrow."
"All girls ?"
"Yes ma'am, all girls."
"llow long since you left the city?"
"Let me see," and Tommy agj.in consult
ed his hat. "I loft the spring I was twenty-one,
didn't I? Well, I've been away
thirteen years. I married Amanda White
just six months after I left."
"She made a good wife, didn't Bhe ?"
"The very best; but, then, it wasn't as
though I'd married Molinia."
"No. I suppose not ; and yet, Tommy, I
tell you, as I've always told you, Melinda'a
cot altogether worthy of you. Not that she
isn't good-principled, warm-hearted, and
all that, but her views of life are false."
"Then you think there's no chance for
uie. Is anybody eke in the way ?"'
"Nobody, and never has been, excepting
the girl her self. To my certain knowledge,
she's had but one offer b&si le yours. That
was from old Air. Hulks, the great shipper.
I thought Melinda would tear his eyes out.
So, you see, she won't marry merely for
money."
"Still, you think there's no chance for me ?
I daren't ask her, you know ; she said the
last time when I came on after Amanda
died, you remember that if ever I did it
Bgain, she'd never speak to me."
"Saying that she meant it, best not to
venture. Lot matters take their course.
See her as often as possible, but keep a
certain distance. Maybe things will work
around somehow. She's got in with a new
set lately clever people but they have a
fancy they've discovered a new way to put
the world to right3, and are just the ones
to do it. It's all well enough, I suppose.
Amuses them and don't hurt anybody, but
I'm out of patience, for all. See here.
Tommy, I've an idea. She visits the Park
the day the society meets that's to-morrow
to commune with nature,"she says. I
know her favorite epot; sha's always alone;
you go there, tke the children, and get
somewhere near her."
"Tke the children! I'd frighten her
miles and miles away."
"No, you wouldn't. The more I reflect
on this plan, the better I like it. Ask
for a half -holiday, gather up your girls, and
BO-
The day was all that could be desired.
A May-blue sky, with a drift of clouds like
departing snow across it ; warm, penetrat
ing sunbeams; soft airs, alive with chil
dren's voices and bird-warblings. Yet could
not my heroine find herself in harmony
with the scene. She succeeded in securing
her favorite seat in the Park, a niche on
the hillside, with an interlacing of boughs,
and glimpses of rock and river. It con
tained only two settees,
Melinda met Tommy Whittlesy juat as
he was leaving the afternoon previous.
Somehow those big, blue, reproachful eyes
met hers whichever way she looked. More
especially did they haunt the page she
tried in vain to red, and moved in her
pencil's wake when she turned to writing
for relief. Not that she cared for their
owner. Oh, never a particle. Any time
since her fifteenth birthday, she had but to
say, "I love you," to make Tommy the hap
piest of men. Yet she never did say it
never intended saying it. True, life was
unsatisfactory. One dream after another
faded ; etlll there was a hope of her be
coming something, being somebody ; tied
to Tommy, that was gone. Ac Mrs. Whit
tlesy, her days would be bounded oir the
cact by breakf aet, south by dinner, north
PA., FRIDAY, AmiL 30, 1875.
by supper, and west by a basket of un darn
ed stockings.
Was there ever no, there never was
such impudence ? Tommy Whittlesy and
one, two, three, four feminine Whittleys,
walking in upon her seclusion quite as a
matter of course. Yet, no, not altogether
so. Tommy swayed awkwardly from sida
to side an instant, then, with a lift of the
hat and a scrape meant for a bow, turned
M red -as the Giant of Battles, and drop
ped npon the other bench, also upon her
ehawl.
"This is Miss Denver, children," and
Tommy almost stammered in his embar
rassment. "Come and speak to the
lady."
To rise and leave would be an acknowl
edgement of weakness ; so, outwardly cool,
yet inwardly burning, Me' In la kept her
seat, turning her attention to the children.
A pink -dressed brood, each one a trifle
overgrown, like their father, staring at
her with his eyes, and making not the
slightest pretence of manners.
"Who fastened your clothes ?" she
asked, seeing that Amanda's and Lucy's
buttons began too soon and ended too
late.
"The woman we board with.'
"You're big enough lo fasten them
for each other. Come here, both of you."
After having straightened "their backs,
as Lucy afterward expressed it, she dis
missed Amanda with, "Now look after
your little sister, and turn your toes out.
What's that on your drtss ?" to the third
girl, who singularly enough, reminded her
of her own child-self.
"I don't know."
"It's a shame to hava that pretty suit
spoiled. 1 wonder if ammonia wou't take
it out ? What's your name ?"
"Melinda Denver Whittlesy." .
Melinda senior actually flushed. "My
name's Melinda Djnver; did you know it ?
Keep your nger3 out of your mouth !" and
the sharpness of the tones botrayed uiiusa
al emotion of some sort.
Very shortly the oldest girls strayed
away. Melinda said at once she must go,
but taking Vinnie, who hid got something
in her shoe, delayed her. There proved to
be nothing in that tiny pink boot. A hole
in her stocking, through which peeped a
toe as pink, caused the difficulty. Miss
Denver rubbed tho little foot, and was so
long getting on the pink boot t it the
blonde, baby-head nodded agair.st her
breast, and at length found itself cradled
there.
While Melinda sat there with Tommy's
youngest in her arms, and the man himself
opposite, there came upon her a feeling
that just such a scene was enacted once
before. It was like the turning back of a
leaf and finding the same passage, word
for word, upon it. She was almest tempt
ed to speak to her companion, and ask him
about it, when all of a sudden there was a
flutter of pink dresses, and Amanda
and Lucy appeared before them, breath
less. "Is Melinda here ?"
She was not, that was quite certain.
Tommy took himself off, listening to their
hurried explanations as he went, and the
only woman in the world he ever loved was
left alone with his baby.
"The trio returned without the missing
one. Thought there wis a chance of find
ing her there. Their united voices arous
ing Vinnie, Melinda gave her into Tom
my's arms.
"I'll go and see what I can do," she
said, with the mien of a conqueror. "Chil
dren, you come right along with me.
You're to tell me just where you went, and
when you missed her. Tommy, you stay
about here, there's a probability of her
finding her way back."
Having issued her orders short, sharp
decisive Melinda hurried away; to be
met by Tommy half an hour later, com
pletely crest-fallen. Her search had fail
ed. Tommy looked ready to drop; the
girls sobbed bitterly, declaring "M'lin"
was drowned in the river while Melinda
scanned the horizon for a guard whom she
had not already consulted. .
Suddenly a voice: "Madam, there's a
little lost girl at the mansion, dressed like
these ; is she yours P"
"Yes, thank you, sir," replied Miss Den
ver, promptly, and healed the party that
went toward the place indicated as fast as
feet could carry them.
"We all go the same way," said Melinda,
holding fast her namesake's hand, "and
may as well start home at once."
"One word, Melinda. When the gen
tleman asked was this your little girl, you
said yes ; is she ?"
"Of course," replied Miss Denver, her
cheeks in a blaze. "These children need
somebody to take care of them, and I'm the
one to do it,"
"Melinda Denver excuse me, Mrs.
Whittlesy, I should say I'm surprised;
completely so I" and the light of the new
society snook her head sadly. "You told J
me again and again jou never meant to
marry that man."
"I haven't married him. I've married
the children ; that's all."
Still, Tommy looks as radiant aa if it
were himself.
"If there is anything on eajth that beats
four lares it is a kind and amiable wife."
The author of this trnistn wore an elonga
ted scrap of conrt-plaster on his left cheek,
and when we inquired what occasioned it
he gave us a significant look and replied:
"It wasn't four aces,"
CHIMES OX THE OCEAN.
STARTLING ADVENTURE ON A VOYAGE TO
INDIA.
The following startling incidents are said
to be strictly true. We copy from an Eng
lish paper the deposition itself of the hero
of the story. He says :
My name is Austin Gray. I am an Eng
lishman, aud the son of a clergyman. Two
years ago I met Miss Flora Locke, the
young and beautiful daughter of an Indian
officer. I became engaged to her and we
were to have been married shortly, when
her mother died, and her father wrote for
his child to come to him in India.
Iu her desolation and sorrow, she could
not endure the thought of the long voyage,
uuaccompan'ed, and I decided to be here m
panion, hoping that her father would give
Lis consent to an immediate union on our
arrival.
We sailed on the 15th of , and for
the first week of our voyage there was
nothing amiss.
The eighth day out I noticed, for the first
time, that the Captain a coarse, but rather
handsome man appeared very much in
terested in my betrothed. I felt strangely
uneasy at the looks of admiration he cast
upon her from time to time, and finally
mentioned my observations to Miss Locke
herself.
To my surprise, she turned very pale, and
could with difficulty refrain from bursting
into teais.
"I know it," she said ; 'he has looked at
me constantly for the last three days, aud
seized every opportunity to speak to me."
I was very much annoyed at this. We
wcie the only passengers on board, and
Captain Gark looked capable of any crime.
A week aficr that Flora came to me sob
bing a:id tiembliug, and told me that the
captain had asked her to be his wife, and
when she had refused, had threatened her
with his vengeance. My first impulse was
to givo the rascal a good thrashing, for he
knew we were engnged ; but Flora was
timid, and begged that I would act as if in
ignorance of the fact. I consented, but
was sorry for it afterward. It was only the
next day lhat, while walking the upper
dec'.-, I heard a low frightened cry, and saw
Miss Locke cmlenvorii'g to escape from the
urms of Captain Gark.
Without stopping to think of (he conse
quences I st ruck the viilaiu a violent blow,
which felled him lo the deck. He rose to
his feet immediately however, and, calling
the crew about Lim, commanded them to
seize nie and put me in irons. I resisted,
but resistance was useless against so many.
For 6ix days I was imprisoned in the hold.
I was scarcely allowed enough to eat, and
was in constant darkness. On the seventh
day I was brought in the presence of the
Captain, aud face to face with Miss Locke,
who was weeping bitterly.
The monster then asked Miss L. which
she would do marry him, or see me put
ashore on a desert island, at which they
would arrive in a few hours.
Almost crazed with grief and anger,
Flora told him that she loathed him, and
would sooner die than be his wife.
"Very well," said he, "then you shall
both be put ashore."
"We did not believe lhat he would execute
his threat, but found that it was really his
intention. At noon, that day, they cast
anchor, and Miss Locke and myself were
put in a boat and taken ashore, together.
with the captain and about a dozen of the
crew. To my amazement I saw that the
men had brought wilh them iron and vari
ous tools. I understood what it meant,
however, when I saw them seize my be
trothed and prepare to fasten her to a rock
by a belt of iron.
The -poor girl wept and implored them to
have pity upon her ; but the wretches bad
not the courage to disobey their master ;
beside, they believed her guilty of gome
horrible crime I know not what. The
captain bad told them. At last, as they
were fastening the last rivet that bound her
to the rock, I succeeded in bursting from
those that held me, and seizing a sword,
sprang to her rescue. It was useless. My
swoid was dashed from my hand by a gi
gantic sailor, and in a few moments more
I should liavo been a dead man, had not the
captain commanded him to forbear.
"Do not hurt him," he said. "We will
leave him get his sweetheart free, and then
they starve together." The whole com
pany then took their departure, leaving, as
if in mockery, two days' provisions.
I was so worn with my imprisonment
that it was a long time before I could rise
and try to release my bride. 1 resolved to
loosen one of the rivets which bound her
iron belt to the rock, if possible, with my
clasp-knife.
I worked for hours, but with very poor
success. Poor Flora was in a terrible con
dition ; fright and despair took away her
little strength, and she was barely conscious
most of the time.
By noon, next day, she was free, but I
despaired of her life, even if we should be
rescued, for she was to weak.
The provisions which they had left, we
made last three days, but at the end of that
time made up our minds to die, for there
there was no fruit upon this dreadful barren
island, and though we scanned the horizon
daily we could see no ehip.
The sunset of the fiah day, however,
Providence sent the good ship Alabatros to J
ur rescue. Under tbe kind care of the
captain and the passengers we both rem.
ered. We reached India in safety and were
married immediately. I returned to Eng
land last week, bat on trying to find Cap
tain Gark found that he had disappeared.
I mean to find him and punish him before
I return to India.
So ends the most remarkable statement
of factse ever heard. Tho paper from
which we make this extract adds that the
police are on the track of Captain Gark.
Siiiftlessxess. Shiftlessness and lazy,
ness are often confounded, but there iz
'eally much odds between them.
Lazy folks hate to work, but when they
do set about a thing, they often do it bet
ter than any ono else kan, while a shiftless
person iz az often bizzy doing things so
slovingly that it disgusts everybody.
I have seen lazy wiramin who wefe az
neat, and az klean az a mi 3 cent piece,
and I have seen shiftless ones who waz az
bizzy as a hunny bee in a sugar barrelL
and az badly daubed up.
Shiftless people make almost az much
trouble in this world az wicked ones do.
They never do ennything entirely right
and perhaps not entirely wrong, and yu
kant git a good average on one ov them,
enny more than yu kan on the fuss aud
hurry of a piss mi re.
I have a grate menny lazy ones on my
list ov acquaintances, and even friends, but
I never hav ennything to do with a shift
less one. They are alwuss reddy to bor
row sunithiug, and are alwuss reddy to
keep it.
I luv to lend things, even mi boots and
umbreller, but I do bate to hav to go two
miles and a hafif after them, in a wet day.
The shifUcss and the drunken are a good
deal alike ; every time yu lift them up aud
let go ov them they go again.
Yu kan't help this kind ov people, yu
kan't even skare them ; they will promise
ennything, and they will tell a lie just az
honestly az they will tell the truth.
I had rather watch two raskals than one
shifiless kuss.
Lazy people kan be puntched up a little
once iu awhile, but the more yu puntch up
a shiftless one, the wussyu aud they are off.
Death is the only sure kure for shiflless
ress they kan't fool with this remidy
mutch. Joth Billings.
WrsnoM of Shopping. As a rule, there
is no ec-momy in buying a thirdsrate arti
cle because it is cheap. The best is usually
the highest pricsd. Of course: in many in
stances, this kind of economy cannot be
practiced, because the money is not at
band ; but it is well wotlh a thought
whether it would not be wiser to put off
buying anythiug at all until one cau afford
to buy it good. With children's dresses,
for an example, how a good material can
be passed from one child to another, then
(urncd, re-turncd, made up again, alteied,
re fitted, trimmed differently, and brought
out at last once more as good as new. Of
course, lam supposiug now that the mother
can use her fingers. If tho dress has to be
'put out" each time there will not be much
sav ing. Oh. that in these days of enlight
emneut it were a little more usual for girls
to be clever with their needles. Another
lesson is that a thing is not necessarily good
because it is expensive. Here experience
and common sense come in. It is astonish
ing how soon a little attention will enable
a person to tell at once whether a material
is likely to wear, or to wash, or to shrink,
or to fade, or to fray, or to cut, or any other
borror. Like every other science, the art
of shopping requires learning, study and
forethought; and when it is thoroughly ac
quiid by a wife or mother she may by its
aid procure comforts and even elegances,
lor a sum which without it merely suffices
for necessaries.
Ice two inches thick will support a- man ;
at a thickness of three inches and a half it
will support a roan on boi-seback ; five
inches of ice will support an eighty-pounder
cannon ; eight inches, a battery of artillery
with carriages and horses attached ; and,
finally, ice ten inches thick will support an
army au innumerable multitude. These
are facts, published somew hat out of season
for the benefit of small boys and sk iters
generally, and although it may cheat our
columns out of a good item occasionally, it
is given in the most Christian spirit.
A felicitous old gentleman is Elder
Pease, of Franklin county, Mass., aged 90
years and over, and married a few weeks
ago to the widow Paine, settling sweetly
down in her old home. Some days after
the nuptials an acquaintance, ignorant
thereof, inquired at the door for Mrs.
Paine. "My friend," said the Elder, who
had answered tho bell, -wc have no more
Paine here." But we suppose that it will
be an old story by the time he gets to be
oue hundred and twenty or so.
Milwaukee Sentinel : "To be angry,"
said the Buperintendant of an East side
Sabbath School to his pupils. "Is to re
venge the faults of others upon ourselves."
On bis way home an icicle caved in hissilk
hat, and he danced around on the sidewalk
and said he could whip the socks off any
infernal idiot who didn't have sei.se enough
to keep the icicles off his porch.
A Detroit photographer says he'd rath
er fight a tiger with a snow-shovel than to
see a baby come into his gallery.
NUMBER 15-
UAXGE1) ItV I)1E AM.
DETECTION OF A CRIME BT A BOt's DREAJf
WONDERFUL, IF TRUE.
I was staying fr a short time iu Medina
county, Ohio, when the following occurred'
A boy, living in S- Centre with
parents was "bound out" for a year to
Mr. Evans at Medina, the county seat. His
work was to chop wood and run errands.
As the boy was perfectly honest and not
afraid of work, he soon gained the good
will of his employe., who, when the year
was out, made him a present, in addition to
Lis wages or a fine copy of "Robinson
Crusoe." The boy had been kindly treated
during l,is term, and this with the addition
of the present, gained his emplover his es
teem. The boy wished to stay anotker
year, but Lis parents bad need of him at
home, and so he returned.
About three months afterwards he visited
his old employer. He remained a day or
two, and during that time "struck up" aa
acquaintance with a man who had succeed
ed him in the old merchant's service. Now
as all boys are social and wish for company,
it is not surprising that he went with the
hired man a good deal. At night be was
allowed to sleep with him, yet the man al
ways viewed the boy with dislike.
Mr. Evans extended him a cordial invi
tation to come again, and once moie the
boy returned home. Not a week had pass
ed when one morning the boy, coming down
from his room, pale and embarrassed, asked
for a horse to proceed to Medina. Such a
request was not common, and the parents,
by close questioning, succeeded in eliciting
the following story : "When I went to bod
last night, I soon got to sleep. I do not
believe I slept over an hour when something
awoke me. I lay there chinking and
thinking, and then turned over to go to
sleep. All at once I felt as if a sword had
been struck through me, and immediately
I jumi-cd, or rather floated from the bed.
It seemed rather curious so I cast a glance
towards the bed and saw somebody was
there, to all appearances sleeping soundly."
The mother then interrupted him saying,
"I guess you afe too much supper and had
the nightmare."
The boy made ne reply except to proceed
with his story. "I tried to feel the body
m the bed, but by some invisible agency I
was whirfed out of the window, and with
terrific sieed was hurried toward Medina.
How it was done I know not; yet I am sure
I was abstnt from this house last night in
spirit or body as I am that I now live.
Passing over the fields I noted every house
and farm until Medina was in sight. Fast
er than the wind I went until I was looking
into the chamber window of Mr. Evans.
He was sleeping with his wife calmly and
peacefully. I looked toward the door. It
creaked on its hinges opened and three
men entered softly. One of them was the
hired man. The others I know not, yet I
could recognize them among a thousand.
One was a half-breed, and the other appa
rently a Scotchman.
"The hired man opened a drawer in the
stand, and took from it the old man's own
razor ; he w ent to the bed, and with it cut
the old man's throat as calmly as if he was
butchering a cow. The hot blood spurted
forth ; the old man gave but one groan, and
he was dead. The blood fell upon the face
of his wife. It awoke her. There in tl.
moonlight, she saw her husband's murderer
uis iianns dripping with blood,
she turned toward the mnrtWr
Then
She
seemed endowed with a crianf f,u
Snatching the razor from the bed where it
had fallen, she sprang like a tigress upon
the murderer. He shook her off. Then,
with one superhuman effort she drove the
razor deep into the breast ofth nn. d.
stood nearest. It was the half-breed. Tbe
other two seemed transfixed with horror;
but the Scotchman, recovering himself!
seized a hatchet which he had brought, and
literally hacked Mrs. Evans to pieces.
Their devilish work being done, ;they rifled
the pockets of Mr. Evans, and raising the
mattress took from ucder it a package of
bills round which was wrapped a piece of
writing paper. I saw no more. I was
conducted back lo S Centre, aud I
awoke from a sound sleep. It was morn
ing." When the boy began Lis story the pa
rents ridiculed him.fijut his earnestness and
the knowledge of his integrity bad con.
vinced them that theie was "somethinc in
it."
So. according to his repeated reqoes'
he was allowed to go to Medina. He ar
rived at noon and found that Mr. and Mi.
Evans had been murdered; that one of the
murderers had been killed by Mrs. Evans
and that the police weris on the tiack of the
hired man, who Lad not been seen since
the murder.
The boy remounted and started home,
and when the news came tkat the murder
era had been captured, he went up to Me
dina and satisfied himself that they were
really the murderers. The trial came off.
Silas Ketch am, the hired man, pleaded nos
guilty, and so also did his comrade. Tii
presecuting attorney had heard the boy'
story and began an address in which be le.
scribed everything as the boy had related.
When he came to the part where the
Scotchman had been killed by Mrs. Evans
the prisoner started up and cried one i
"Oh, God I Silas we're lost some" op
has seen us. (To the judge) t I will con
fess. V hat Mr says is Gospel truth?
we did kill them. May God hve meicy
upon us."
The two were sentenced to death, and
hanged soon aHer, for justice was sure and
speedy at that time in Ohio. X. T. D ii'g
AW i.
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