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)LUME IX.
EBENSBURG, PA., FRIDAY, JUNE IS, 1875.
NUMBEtl 22.
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fc!"r,CT""' ' PLANING MILL
N. F. BURNHAM'S
WATER WHEEL
; ielerfpt,4 vears Biro, ftnd put
l.i'mirk in the I I'atnnt Office,
H. ('. and hii" proved to be the
ht. Nineteen sixes made. Irl
r(. lower than any other first
,..tJJ whff!. Pamphlet free.
N. f. HI'HNHAjI, York, Pa.
GILES'
LINIMENT
IDE OF AMMONIA
L .rlel- rereAriir. Kiieamamm. imii,
v : . . a i.iii.iIm. sun- 'I hroiit.. Kri slucl..
E, rri. f ii -- ---- r -t
-..ni sss',,l cvcrv nature In man orani-
ri rcieSOs:,le cures this remedy has ef-
r .... .1 . w... .vr..l fur I In iiiii
,.'M ,.i "In rrnup, laryniiti nn.l
.,,! I have nr liilr l.iithnrht nf
,,' w th innrkfl an.l .leri-le.l hpneftt."
kkt's. tw ruN. M. i., iar w. 47th St.,
Y..rk. ...
L.i,l,r I P Tin ' " ' '- r-iM-nnnurir. f
P ' , I. l l.M Ml I. A .- TV.' -V'
I 1HBTH. rTHK WOHI.IV-Hrthrvila ffatir
It tlHt rt'tatiirii IIMnl-:tii'in iniiii 11117 i.riiin vil
-vr: if-vin h iltli ami ."iri-rnth to thuxe
..l.i)il the rearli "1 all mcilical science,
;r:i-ii lilir path of atllii'tlnn to utii- of haii-
i , t!,,. ,i.jinn wiimn its riniicj. 11 lurrj
!iv Hritth' iitwaf.' ami inannrn : eraiu
il: i -n it" el thv k; !m y ; rt'Storoi the url
rinn ! . ! ri-r: !i mi-l p.'iwiT In n wopl. It la
K-u rv-.rir 1 l!("t l' 11. ;i 1111 n:i-ii'riiirini"il (lie
r.n. i-rin. ml imra-u lull rare of any known
i-i- en ilic it'. Ail'lri'sf. fur cin-tilars.
. . . i 11 .......... 1. ..It.. irt..
1 M'-ti. l. 11 rt. i' 1. 1 , 1 , iu irrua, , in.
for ssyviii:.
''I'H E nililerairned otter at private sale tlie prrt
1 perty recently neenpleil hy the "Kbenstiurg
Mining; ami ManufacturinirlJo.;" situate In Ebcn
burjc, Comlirla county. Pa., eoiisOctinij; of
ONE ACRE OF CROUND,
fronting on the Etenlurtf ami Oresson Railroad,
havlnn thureun erectel a
LARGE PLANING MILL,
4.11 feet, ttirei gtorleM lilirli, with HIIer Shel at
taeheit, 12x93 feet. The roachinerv eonsistt of one
40-llilllSE IMWEil ENGINE AM) BOILER.
1 ! itel Pln-r, 24 tnehe wide, for nr-fai-lntr
and trroovintr; 1 vr i.lt,r. ao In.
wtd; 3 Irrulr itip Sum. with lift tables;
a irrntar roos-rtit Sn -.. with slide ta
ble: f Swtriir 'renlnr frmn-t m Haw:
1 IKiolile lloaiied Mlmpinr Hnrhlae, with iron
trame; 1 l entrie I.athe t I Hand Lathe, with com
plete set ot Tools. I fo!isliin Dram, 12 feet lonjr,
1 floaldinc Mat-nine, with slide heads. Theanore
machinery, with neeessarr shartlnir. beltinir and
pulleys, is in erood worklriir order, with nn abun
dant supply of running water on the promises.
Said tuiildinir was erected specially for and has
been used In the manufaetare of flooring, sidinir,
all kinds or handles, brush bloekft, hnllu.ters. etc.
I hrery. ash. poplar, linn. siiit;ar. beeeh. maple and
white pine lumlter to be hatt at moderate price.
There Is also ererted ou the preinist'S a
Tiro Story Frame Dwelling House
COHTAISI Jif SIX ROOMS A IV D A CELLAR.
iFor terms apply to
JOHX A. RL.AIR, Kbensburp;,
JOHN I. K WIS.
W. H. HON ACKER, Johnstown.
Ebensburg;, May 14, l75. ani.
Trustee's 8ale.
dvertiser's Gazette.
itirnnl of Information for Ad-
iiwi, Etlition. V.tHH) copies.
Itisfini trn lJif. Terms, p'2 per
nm, in ail en iter.
W'. -ini ii jj:t', '.il.eient dates) toonead-
lur I ' ci i. Ctii.'i-. o. 41 Park Kow, New
111(1. P. KOWKLI.kCO.,
K-JitiT and Publishers.
i.tn -r f-iy ut h'.tne. Tirm tree. Address
l ii'o.iN ft Co., Pur Lin lid, Mc.
remise. in Cam brut township,
on
VJ K!C .i.T-.'-'r- to Male and Ve
! .'i in th-.ri'wn Io'-rli'y. Cos'f
r!::' t.. trv It. Partieulars Free.
I- f. V I :.l i:Y V !.'(.)., Au.'usta, Me.
TliK WALTER A. WOOD
t.l iXu.iillRT iHiiLllliiiJ.
yong Local r&-:!orsement.
."f'li.- ' :t r fully explnftis ifsi-lf , and
'.i. . in-ut :
I . lsi!'. I.O. r.. April 13. 1S75.
( II . i. I'-f U nl, rtr.
I k S: ThH l to cert fv
. ' 'a 1. S. ',' . Pavs. y,.ur
r:-i jr t!i.- y nr I -'72. t'..- of
- ' "-V i.:.'S. r,-liifh I h tvi: fit't-r-':.r.o
m .i.,t: -;:h entire .ne.
:L .1 ;t:i.:lti triliy 4iM ri Ti'j of
. ..T.,.-., V ! ri ut 1; fur
'.!i' r';i ; l.'if. ii ; nm perf-'-t,
.til-, ':mi t I iin.i r.-:.h !t is hat
: v :h -,iui;- :r li''r-- iii.-1.! ad
- '.i:i ktj- easily operate it in
-.. . ' npiin I.
.! :( T. Iliii;i!'.
' ' jC ' -s sutu h of l.I.ensbiirar.
. J wiiii wish to sen th
i . r i XmiiiiH- the mi l its of
' ! i'.-ioi-r. Pratt's, Safitiif,
' '' ' il I!;)':", "tmiri's Fanlmiir
i I np n il Plow. Hinl other
' i i. H hltiery. orf invited to
' a.': l .iile Statil? of
I.. A S. W. II. WIS.
. r.t for Cambria Couaity.
i;, ;.. -::in.
'IHE nnderslrned Trustee will expose to Pnbilc
M raie. on wie pret
Cambria county. Pa.,
proximo, at 2 o-o I !. t., the following real
and jiersonal property, to wit:
425 ACRES OF TIMBER LAND,
situate on the Turnpike, 2' miles west of Ebens
burg. with a
Stationary Steam SAW MILL,
3 one.nn.l-a-halt storv HOT'S ES a large FRAME
ST A liKK. and atmut l.i OO.OOO feet of pecleil Hem
lock Loos, all on said tract. Also,
situate on the Hlackltek. known s the ''Morgan
Tract." iitv.tit three miles from E!ensbnrir. well
tlmli.-red with Cukrry. Poplar and Hkmi.otk.
nud properly lo-nteil for logglnir down the llliick-lic-k
oi" 1'i.r niannfaeturing jmrposcs. Also, the
Ui.tlivified One-Half of 106 Acres Land
situate In Itarr town-nip, Cambria countyi
Tkrmb nr Sai.h. One-half of the purchase mon
ey to be paid on the delivery of the l)eed, and the
halanee in one year t hercs" Iter, with intereft, to
be secured bv bonds and tnortijairc.
JOHN A. HLA1R.
May 2S, 1S75. Trustee nf Owtx t'l jsinoiia.
Cast Steel Plow Points.
T'VMIM F. R. one and all. are hereby Informed
1 that money, time and labor can lie saved by
us:n- Cast Steel Plow shares, of which only one
has in many eases proved Fiilltcl,:rit for a whole
season's, plowing, and in pome soils, by beiin twice
sharpened, one share has :is;t., t wo seasons.
They scour briurht and ma ke t he plow scour and
run easier, and are o stronir and touih that they
will not break. When worn dull, they can be
sharpened and tempered by any irood blacksmith
without disturbing the fitting part.
All regular sizes kept on hand and fit any Pitts
burgh Plow.
Any special siie or kind made to order.
RETAIL PRICES of POINTS.
cutti-r.
. .1.15
.. 1.45
Willi
tultrr.
fl.SO
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Jteiw
tvfor. 80
l.im
1.25
'Urtl VEr,T. ElnVAIIIl WE5T.
LL, WEST &L CO.,
V N i !' ( TI' l FUS ill.'
InVtl,: oiirl TJvm nil nn
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r-ll!idMMIIr.ITO,
in
ur
Sacks, Crocers Bags,
v nntu t , civaks, de.
lil M' OM tVKM i:.
vrrHrirtti ui Woou Smr.ETs,
i'i rrni'iKjn, pa. sm.
E Vi t Coim; TO lLf?"
erill Chemical Paint
J !' ' '" 'i'"" and colors, ready to
''.:-;. ... i:i ! u-e. A n v one can be' h Is
I. . 'r :1 binine.. hv using it. It is
" ' :; '''' fry a sample can. Sold at
l llVv 1) t I lltrtX- n
1)1UY1. & tU.,
Wood StPOOt,
pi i rsiu -nun, pa. i6m.
?le PLANING MILL
"SI M o XV ,
m ' Ti rtrim op
21. 5feEo3i, SMlers,
3ER OF EVERY DESCRIPTION,
No. 3. riifht and left
No. 4 lett and 5 Hit lit ... .
Nb. 7 left and 8 Hht ..
No. B. 3 2:1. 14 an-l West V
Hillside 1.75 1.50
Erery share has my trade mark and the words
"Cast steel" cast thereon.
Order one ol these at once and try it now,
and you will bny no more cast points hereafter.
The process of making this Steel Is patented,
and this quality Is made at no other Steel Works
but my own.
Cast St.eel Axle Boxes And Wagon Skeins also
made under patent, havlnir from tonr to six times
the strength and onlv half the weiirht of those
made or cast iron. " J. C lil Ii W YJA..
Dtiquesne Way and (larrlsun Allev
Pittsburgh." Pa.
Pittsburgh Plough Works, Jane 4, lo5.-3m.
ni nnn I Thn m.nn is the un
III II II II I and ir it is hn)ure the whole sy
III II Mil I tem wj" diseased. You ra
ULUUI a not purify a stream while tl
" n l !MKTs-Mr LMsmt.
uk 'i'-sawlng done to order.
' ."a'Nvv sn Ajiijerhos Sra.,
..".'.iin.rcirY.PA.
(2'm.)
Ur,., ,.. iVljl.
.' . -! I 'N'r U AtlONS
r'i ...
! N vAtlOXS.
v.: i ,,,,- FARM WAUONS.
r- i. ,r''- H kinds of Carts ami
.rr-, 'n ", 'turedand Tor sale cheap at
8 WAGON WORKS,
N ' " n i ' f "en v river, 2siiuares
r''f - Alitgheny t.lty, Pa.
' . COLEMAN fc SON.
rRVST F0R7aENTS
-.'.. "J etin the 7 Wonders, or
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tho
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health to the human body while the blood is eon
vevinir the seeds ol disease toall parts of It. There
lore PL'RIFY the HUMID, and nature will heal
the disease. No remedy has ever been discovered
which has etfected so great a number of i-rma
ueitt cures as
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i
It is rapidly acquiring a national reputation for ,
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Jlheum ..Mercurial and
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The remedy Is a Vegetable Compound, and can
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this remedy. Beware ofeonnte felts. The genu
ine has our name H. E. SEIEEKS & CO., Pitts
burgh. on the bottom of each liottle.
For silo by all Druitiiists and Country Dealers,
and by A. X. Harkkk H. Sou, Agents. Ebens
burg, Pa. -4.-3m.J
Manhood; How Lost, How Restored.
Just published, a new edition of
Itr. iiUrrneirs I miv on the
,Sia rmlirnl rare, without medielnel of
Spekw atorhkah. or Seminal ami
Mental and Physical Incapacity, Impediments to
Marriaife, etc.; also, Cosst Mi-TioN, Kpii.kpst
and Fits, Induced by selt-imlulgencc or sexual
extravagance, fcc.
i"Price. in a eilod envelope, only six rents
The celi-lirau ! author. In this admirable Essay,
clearly demons! rales, from a thirty years' sue
eessfiil practice, that the alarming ennsequences
of self-abuse mav be radically cured without the
dangerons use of internal medicine or the appli
cviion f the knife: point insr out a mode of cure
at once simple, certain and efleetu jl. by means of
which every sufTerer. no matter what his condition
may be, may euro himself cheaply, privately and
tillif "'.
-This lecture should he In the hands of every
youth and erery man In the land.
Sent under seal in a plain envelope, to any ad
dress. ) -i-aiil, on receipt of six cents, or two
poi stamps.
Address the Publishers.
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4-19-ly. 127 Bowery, New York, P. O. Box
Mrt
ronr Pat.
or address
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ADM I XISTK ATOIt'S NOTI CE.
Estate of Wm, Patteksov, d:M.
letters of administration on the estate of said
decedent, late of Croyle township, Cambria coun
ty, bavinar been Issued to the undersigned, all per
sons indebted to said estate are notified that i.ay
inent must be made forthwith, and those having
claims against the tame will present them duly
probated for Settlement.
May 21.-6t. K. L. JOHNSTON, Adm'r.
TpRANCIS MULVEHILL, Ver-
TINA RY SfROEON AND FARRIRR.
All diseases of Horses and Mules treated prompt
ly. Intelligently, and upon very moderate terms.
Residence on Hlarh street, near the western ex
Iremity of EbonsTmrg. fr-14.-tf j
THF. MAXI.IEST JtA.1.
Tli manlieMt man of all thss rare,
Whose heart ia open as his face,
Puts forth his hand to help another.
'Tis not the blood of kith and kin,
'Tis not the color of the skin;
'Tis the heart that beats within
Which makes the man a man and brother.
His words are warm upon his lips,
His heart Wars to his finger tips,
He is a friend and loyal neighbor:
8reet children kias him ou the way.
And the women trust him, for they may.
He owes no debts he cannot pay;
He earns his bread with honest labor.
He lifts the fallen from the ground,
And puts his feet iipnn the round
Of dreaming Jacob's starry ladder.
Which lifts him higher, day by day.
Toward the bright and heavenly way,
And farther from the tenipterV sway;
Which stitigeth like tLe angry adder.
He strikes oppression to the dust.
He shares the blows aimed at the just)
He shrinks not from the post, of danger;
Hut in the thickest of the fight.
He battles bravely for the right.
For that is mightier than might,
Though cradled in an hntnble tn.inger.-
Hail to the manliest man! be comes
Not with the sound of horns and drum;
Though grand as any duke, and grander;
He dawns upon the world, and light
Dispels the weary gloom of night,
And ills, like bats and owls, take flight;
He's greater than the great Alexander.
AlA'S OLD HIS A u,
The recent rerelatiansj concerning tieed
forgeries at a criminal trial at Chicago
reminded me of an incident that occurred
ft few years ago, in the vicinity of St.
I,ouis, which seems tome to be worth re
lating. Clara and Mary Mcrwin, sisters and or
phaus, were in the sitting-room of their
pleasant home on the edge of a village near
the Missouri. Their mother had been
dead several years ; their father had lately
died, leavirg them au estate; as they sup
posed, of tho value of some forty thousand
dollars, but they had learned quite recently
that the projiei ty was encumbered to such
extent that they were likely to be deprived
of it all. This discovery, a may bi sup
posed, filled them with sadness and anxiely,
and they were seated in silence, unable to
read, to converse, to work, to do auythinr
but brood over their great misfortune.
While they w?re thus occupied with som
bre thoughts, a buggy drove up in front of
Ihc house, and a man alighted, and the
ouKSy drove away.
The man must have been a little on the
shady side of fifty, to judge from bis gray
hairs although his faCe was fresh and un
writ.klcd. He was dressed with remark
able neatness, and his manners indicated
brisk. .ess as well as precision". Iti one
hand lie carried a small valise, and in the
other an umbrella, and he steped quickly
to tlie dKfr and rang the bell. In a few
minutes he was ushered into the presence
of the young ladies.
"I'm obliged to introduce thyself," he
said, smiling and bowing in a courtly man
ner "Abner Pierce. Here is my card
professional card. You will perceive that
I am a lawyer in St. Louis, and presumably
a respectable man. Don't be afraid; I am
not here to hurt you, but to help yon. I
have the honor to call myself the friend of
your family that is to say, although it is
many years since I have seen any member
of said family. I always had the highest
possible regard for your now sainted moth
er, and nothing would please me better
than to be of some service to her children."
"We are happy to meet you," murmdit'd
Clara.
"Thank you. I happened to hear no
matter how that you are in trouble, and
have Come up here in the belief that I can
assist yoi. I hope you will feel that jou
can trust hie. I am actually an honest
man, although n lawyer, and I mean well,
although I may express myself clumsily."
"I am free toadmit" said Clara, "that
we need assistance and advice, and that
we have not known to Whom to look for it."
"Very well. It is a good thing, no doubt,
thac l have come. Xow sit down and
tell me all about it."
Clara Merwin, who was the elder of the
orphans, and leader in everything, told
how she and her sister had taktn out It ti
ters of administtation upon their father's
estate, when a man of whom they had
never before heard put in an appearance;
and presented a moitgage, with bond in
cluded, executed by the late Mr. Merwin,
upon all his real estate, for the sum of for
ty thousand dollars. Not content with
prohibiting them from attempting to sell
anything, he had tied up their money in
bank, leaving them absolutely penniless.
They had used their credit, but tradesmen
were becoming impatient, and some had
refused to supply them any further, with
out pay.
"That is a bad case," said Mr. Pierce.
"You need money that is the first thing
to be attended to. You must let me act as
your banker nntil I get you out of this
6ct ape, and that won't be very long, I hope.
How much do you owe ?"
"More than one hundred dollars,' an
swered Clara.
The old gentleman counted out two
hundred dollars from a well-filled pcket
book, and handed it to ber.
"For your mother's sake," he said, when
Rhe refused to receive it, and he forced it
upon her in such a way that she could not
help taking it. He then accepted the
young ladies' invitation to make their
house his home duiing bis stay, and went
into dinner with them.
'J there any place where I can emokef
he asked, when they bad returned to the
sitting-room.
"Yon can smoke here," said the impul-
sive Mary. "Pa always smoked here, and j
we are used to it.' " ,
So he took a meerschaum and some to- (
bacco from his valise, and wfis soon puff
ing away with an air of great contentment.
"I can think better when I smoke," he
said. "Did you have any legal advice in !
the matter of that mortgage, Miss Mer
win ?"
"Yes, sir,' replied Clara. "Our lawyer
said that it was a plain case against us,
although it was strange that we had nevar
heard of the mortgage before."
Mf. Campbell was fidgeting uneasily in I
his chair, and made no reply.
"Here is the glass," continued the old
gentleman, taking it from bis pocket, "and
you can see for yourself how well it mag
nifies. Now, as I look at thit 'forty' why,
bless the, the same sigtis are visible 'that I
saw in my Tennessee mortgage i I think
you will be obliged tod rep this, Mf. Camp
bell. My Tennessee man's name was .
Alexander Bell, and he has added a Camp ;
to it since he came to Missouri'
CampbelL bis face red as flame; raached
out his baud for the document.
"I believe twill keep this, Mr. Campbell, .
for fear of iccidenta. What, do you think
TRUTH WILL OUT.
THE lHAXT03t TOE
JAHKY, HIS MA ASD TT1E SCX DAY-SCHOOL.
TEACHER;
Very strange. What is the name of I you could take it by force ? Here is some-
the man wbo holds it?"
"Alexander Campbell.''
"Hum. A good name but a bad man,
I am afraid i Wbeu and where can I see
him ?"
"He will be here this afternoon" an
swered Clara. "He proposes if we will
make him a deed of the real estate, to give
up the bond and mortgage leaving dtir
money in bank and the rest of the personal
bro perty."'
"Very liberal. Introduce me to him,
when he comes as an old friend of the fam
ily, and not as a la-vyer."
Mr. Alexander Campbell called in the
course of the afternoon, and was made ac
quainted with Abner Pierce, at whom he
looked suspiciously ; but bis eyes fell when
he met the old gentleman's intent gaze.
Mr. Pierce glanced but slightly at the deed
that wasotTered for the consideration of the
ladies, being occupied iu studying the
countenance of the man in whose favor it
was drawn.
"I can't decide upon it just now," he
said, at last. "As a friend of these young
ladies standing ts I mty 6y, in loco pa
rentis t must make a few enquiries con
cerning the value of this property; Sup
pose you come nfter supper, Mr Campbell;
and suppose you bring that mortgage with
you. I have no doubt it Is all correct; but
would like to see it."
Mr. Campbell assented to this and with
drew. Abner PieiCe filled his pipe with
nervous haste but also with tobacco, and
Mary brought him a light.
"I know that you have some gtiod news
for us," she said, "I can see it in your
face."
"Not bad, my child. I hope and trust
that it is very good. A good name, but a
bad man, I said, and that is true. I think
I see my way out of this difliculty; and the
money that I lent you is safe. But you
mnsn't interfere with me, young ladies; or
be surprised at anything I may say or do,
or object to it. Yon must trust ine, and
let me work in my own way."
After supper, when Abner Pierce had
enjoyed another comfortable shioke, and
conversed with the gills concerning their
mother as he had known her in hei youth
a subject upon which ho grew quite elo
quent Alexander Campbell came in,
bringing the deed and moi tgage, both of
which he handed to Mr. Pierce for exami
nation. "I have made inquiries concerning the
property." said the old gentleman, "and
am satisfied that it is not worth more than
the amount f the mortgage, and wou'd
probably bring much less if sold at fore
closure. Your offer is a liberal one ; but I
must first look at the mojtgage. This ap
pears to be correct," he continued, when
he had examined tlie instrument, "it is
properly acknowledged, and the signature
is undoubtedly that of Philip Merwin; I
suppose the young ladies will have to goto
the county seat to execute the deed."
The girls' coiinteilarltes fell at this sud
den surrender on the part of their cham
pion. "This reminds me;" said the did lawyer,
picking up the mortgage again, 'of an oc-cun-ence
that fell undei my observation in
Tennessee. Not that the two cases are
ftlike, as the Tennessee case was undoubt
edly a fraudulent affair, but there was a
similarity in the circumstances. Don't
look so downhearted, young ladies. What
will be must be, and it is useless to cry
, about what-can't be helped. As I was
j .tbout to say, a man died in Tennessee,
; leaving a widow and one daughter. The
j widdvV was about to administer upon liis
j estate; when a man who was unknown
. came forward, and presented a mortgage
1 similar to this; and for exactly the same
' amount. It was examined by lawyers who
were familiar with the signature of the
deceased, and pronounced correct. Al
though there was something strange about
the affair, they could find no Haw iri the
instrument. It was particularly puzzling
to one of them, who thought that he had
transacted all the law business of the de
ceased. He got bold of the moitgage and
brought it to me when I was in Nashville.
I happened to have in my possession a
very wiwerful magnify ing-glass that had
btci presented tome the most powerful
sn.glw lens I have ever seen. With this I
examined the mortgage, and soon discov-
thing thai shoots five times. Going, are
you ? Very well, I don't think you will b
molested, if you will leave this part of the
country and never retui n to it. It is barely
possible that the estate of Philip Merwin
may really owe you four thousand dollars.
If so, I advise you not to try to collact the
debt, as snch an attempt would land you
in the Penitentiary. Good-night, Mr.
Campbell, and farewell."
"Wliat sit? What docs this mean?"
asked Clara; as Mr. Pierce, rubbing his
hands and smiling, bustled about to fill his
pipe.
"Are you so dull; hly child? Why, the
fellow is a swindler, and has been found
out. I guessed as much when I first heard
of the affair, and was sure of it when you
told me his name. Yotf will ftoOit be ablo
to pay me my $200, and then we will
straighten up matters. Thank you, Mary,
you are very kind to give me a light."
"Don't yod ttieah to punish him ?" asked
Mary.
"It would hardly p.ty; We could pvit
him in the penitentiary, but you might
lose four thousand dollars by the jobi By
trying for forty thousand he has lost four
that may have been justly his due. He
will be far fiotn here by morning, I have
no doubt, and good riddance to him. Ah!
this is comfortable. I knov that I feci
better, and I hope that yon do."
The girls were sure that a great weight
had been lifted from their minds and hearts.
Alexander Campbell, alias Bell; decamped,
and Abner Pici-ce stayed a week with the
orphans, dining which time he arranged
all their affairs, satisfactorily, and won
their lastiryj gratitude and love.
"How riitii vtd ever thank you for all you
hate done for us?" said Clara; whcu.he
was about to leave.
"It was for your mother's sake, my child.
And for ber sake,- if I onri eer help ydu,
all i have is at your serviof."
Abner Pierce has made visits to the or
phans frequently since the event above
narrated, and they have always had a Cor
dial welcome for "ma'e old beau."
I am not a stf peretitinrts rhnn -far fn fit
it but, despite all my effort to Uie contra
ly, I could not help thinking, directly I hud
taken a survey of my chamber, that I
should never quit it without going thrors-h
a strange adventure. There Was bome.
i tbltig in its immeuse size, heaviness and
I fclooin that seemed to annihilate at one
j blow all my resolute skepticism as regards
! supernatural visitations. It appealed to
I TT)e Litjtll v imrMtilil trt krn Itif.
iit v ,. i 4 ..;. i ! . IHM iwim
ii a was cauea young jacouj tie a ue ana disbelieve in ghosts. The fact is, I
called old Jacob, wouldn't lib?"' : incautiously partaken at supjier Oi that
"Yes, my dear , what makes yoti ask i! VJitlbi d I
lnnll , , suppose it bd disagreed with roc and pot
nch question as that ? , ct range fanele into my head.
"Nothing, only I beard something flbotit I Be that as it may; I only know tfcat aftf
him last night." parting with my friend for the night I grad
Mrfc Watts srlddenlv br:itrfitt irirest.d ' workd w'?elf jn, ate of
. Tiugeinesa mat at last I wstan t Stlre whether
Jakcy crept tip and sat down by his
mother's side as she was looking Out of the
window yesterday tndrhing. After a few
minutes of silence, be broke out wit u-
"Ma, ain't pa's name Jacob?"
"Yea, Jakey."
"What was It; my son ?"
I hadn't become a phost myself,
"Oh; nothing much i sotilelhinar the new The old, cumbrous harisintfs of thA h.l
Sunday-school teacher said." ! Pp,edto nj diseased mind to be swelled
v. n,,i.,u i - : out as with a whole army of goblins in-
Yououghtn ttohave anything jotir deed; I almost thtfught I saw them move of
mother don t know; Jakey," Coaxingly their own accord-and the Carted figures
plead Mrs. Walts; , upon the mantel-pieces seemed to faaveen-
"WeU, if you mnst go poking into everr- I ntY 8ome devih compact on pur-
u- n " pose to platrue me; Everything- In short,
thing, I'll tell you. The new teacher bays id a snsmcio,,, i,-iir. ; tlT
? .
to me, what'a your name, my little man ?'
and when I said Jacob, he asked me if I
was increased when: tiiKin turning t.o ttw.
door to fasten it I found neither bolt nor lot k
a ins new iis:ovbry raised a hot of nei
erer beard of old Jacob, and I thought that t 1 "ew ",sovry ,Rert a host of ne
. . !' fears in my biain, and a thousand recoller.
was pa', name, so I told him I gues I tions of midnight robbers shot thrown it
uu, out, a nice to uear wuat he had to i Tupts!iig," ruminated I "supposing
say about him. He said old Jacob used to t,,e ,!dlord himself Should be a practised
be a little boy once just like me, and had if ! UTd6'!uU,d kVe Ukfn t,,u tnM
. . . , ., . ' J the door for the purpose of enter no- horrt
bean-shooters and stilts, and used to play in the dead of nigl.CTbstracting all my
hookey aud get licked; and used to tend property, and perhaps murdering me. I
tattle' thought the dog had a very cut-throat air
"Yes, I believe he said bis father used ' "TlZ 1,hA H.
to keep r. cow," interrupted Mrs. Watts, j that moment, for my host was a flat, stupid
"And he hogged his brother Out of some- looking fellow, who I don't believe had
thing or other, and he got stUtk with a i "T? tuwuKh to know or understand what
re.om.0,..,.d Md ( w.t,.!1r;r,:,rt.'t".oii
became still more interested), and was go- ; really annoy us (and it certainly was not
iug to marry her; but her old man fooled : pleasant to gu to bed iu a strange place
him arid made him marrr his Other dangh- : ?hont ei"e ab,e fa?ten dwr we
i.li .,..,M1,. , . s : rfe sure to aggravate it by myriads of chi-
ter ; but pa said he guessed he was no- ; nie,as of oilt own brain. Sti Ton the pres
body's fool, and married them both." ent occasion, in the midst of a thousatid
"The wretch!' ejaculated Mrs. Watts, ' d Keeable reveries, some of the most wild
ei.ittriir t,- c.t- -f it. w-ti.t i: absuidity; I jumped very gloomily into bed.
l' ." , udi n.-m . ji. Tfntl.-t DllIi'JI. i , . ; . .- ... , - . -
" " 1 iiavirto- Mist, niir nff MnU t. t
- ' - ' J it. , i.ri unai
Passixo ix ttie Crowd. A well-known
drummer fora dry goods bouse who chanced
this summer to bo in a Pennsylvania town
where the circus showed that night, made
a bet that he could pass every ore of a
party of thirty who had come over from a
neighboring town into the show without
paying a cent. The wager being accepted;
the pitrty was marshaled, and proceeded to
the tent, where the doorkeeper was busily
engaged taking tickets fiom all wbo passed
through the aperture ill the canvas. Corns
ing up with his crowd, the drummer rushed
up to the ticket-taker with his hand full of
cards, and said : "Just count these gen
tlemen as they pass in, fending with the One
with the straw hati"
"Certainly, sir ;" and the Cerberus went
to work : "Five, ten, fourteen, eighteen;"
etc., as they passed by him and mingled
with the crowd, till the straw hat was
teached, when he shouted "thirty-one,"
and tttrlicd round for the tickets. Hut the
polite individual who had bade him enu
merate had vanished, while the party who
was crowned with the straw hat; the ohly
one who was stopped before he had mingled
with and melted into the indistinguishable
mass of the crowd inside, proved to be an
innoceut countrymen who had legitimately
procured his admission pasteboard. The
ticket-taker couldn't leave his post; for the
ingress of regular spectators was pressing,
so be made the best Of it, and said nothing.
He had learned a lesson, however, that
made him take trckets first, aud count af
terward, for the future.
Couldn't be Bluffed. A cottple of
horsemen, coming into the city the other
day from the interior, overtook an old
man and his wife seated In the bottom of a
mule-cart. Feeling in high spirits, one of
the men called out I
"Hello, uncle, how much will you take
for your wife, cash down ?" ,
"Oh; I dunno;" he slowly replied;
"Well, name yjnr prifcei
VHow rnuch'll ye give?" he asked.
"Ten dollars."
"Take her !"
The horseman didn't know what to say
and was gathering up the reins, when tho
old wotuau jumped to the ground and ex-
ered that 'forty' had been raised from J ciajmeri t
Tour.' 1 here was no mistake about it I j
could easily see the marks of chemical i
erasure, and the difference in pen and ink. ',
between the 'raised and the rest of the i
instrument. How the rascal got Into the i
Agister s office, 1 don't know ; but thd ,idillJf wff at fu Rpeedj
-vi,i iiiciq unit .c-ii mrereu in inv same
manner. He ran away, and it was not Con
side ted worth while to follow him. Strange
circumstances, wasn't it, Mr. Campbell?".
"Pass Over the ducats, mister ! I like the
old man, and he likes me, but we are a
family which can't be bluffed by no man ou
horseback 1
The "bluffers" got out of the scrape by
A ScnfexECTADT girl at a spelling school
sat down on "pantaloons." This hannena
-
"He said old Jacob had a dozen or two
children, aud "
"Did I marry him for this?" exclaimed
Mrs. Watts, Sobbing arid throning herself
on the sofa, making all the springs, brim like
a set of tuning-forks.
Jakey said ho didn't know what she
married him for, but she wouldn't catch
him telling her anything very soon again if
she was going to kick up such a row a lx nil
it; and went out of the room highly in
dignaut. When Mr. Watts UStne home ho met
Mrs. Watts -iti the hall, with a very red
face, who pointed ber finger at him arid
jerked oiit tho word "Villain !'' and asked
him if he could look his innocent wife and
infant son in tho face. Mr. Watts showed
that he could, by staring very hard alter
nately at Jakey and Mrs; Wits;
"I know where yoil go, sir, when you
stay away from home," continued Mrs.
Watts; "I've beard the story of your per
fidy. Can't you tell me how Hachcl and
that other woman arc-to-day?" she asked,
with forced calmness. Mr. Watts con
fessed his inability to enlighten ber on the
health of the ladies about whom she was SO"
solicitous. Mrs. Watts said tbat she al
ways knew that something like this would
occur, and ended with another hysterical
Interrogation after the children's health,
but not receiving any satisfactory answer,
she threw herself on the sofa again and
sobbed and asked herself a few timM
why she had ever left her mother's house,
it lid then she Called Jakey to her and told
him that they would have to live alone in a
little house and be very poor, and maybe
not bave Cnough to eat, w bici. made that
hopeful utter a series of most doleful howls
and b&sten down to the kitchen to examine
the larder.
Later in the day Mrs. Lewis happened
iu, and Mrs. Watts confided to her the
story of her husband's villainy. Mrs.
Lew's was very pVopcily shocked, and
tried to impress upon Mrs. Watts the
necessity of being philosophical, and left
with the observation that she bad ncret
yet seen a man with a mole on bis nose who
did not, sooner or later, prove to be a rascal.
Towards evening Jakey was sitting ou
the steps, hating recovered from his grief
of the morning, when the Sunday school
teacher chanced to pass by; and Jakey
hailed him with : "Say, master; I told my
mother what you told 'ne about old Jacob
last night, and there has been the old
scratch to pay ever since. Ma called pa a
villain and a bloody thief, and tried to
break her back t'u the sofa, and said that
there wouln't be anything to eat, and thete
ain't been such a time sinee pa offered to
k is Au n i Jane good- bye. May be y Od b d
bettor drop in and see the old lady, mister ;
she ain't so bad as she wasi"
The teacher, after sohib pressing; ac
companied Jakey into the house, and waa
presented to Mrs. Watts in the parlor.
Mrs. Watts began to thank him for dis
closing her husband's perfidy, but he dis
claimed having done anything of the kind,
darkness was far preferable to its flicker-
ir:?;, ghostly light, which transformed ob
jects, aud soon fell asleep, perfectly tired
out with my day's riding.
How long I lay asleep I don't know, but
I suddenly awoke from a disagreeable
dieam of cut-throat Rtutstsind long, wind-
ing pasagc'3 lii a haunted iuu, an indescri
bable feeling such as I never before ex
periencedbeing upou me. It seemed as
if every nerve iu my body had a hundred
spirits tickling it. And this was accompa
nied by so gieat a beat that, inwardly
cursing my host's saner kraut, and won
dering how his gricsts could endure such
poisort; 1 ttas forced to sit up iu bed to cool
myself. The whole of tile room waa pro
foundly dark excepting at one place, wber
the moonlight., peering through a crevice
in this shutters, threw a straight line of
about an iiloli or so thick upon the floor"
clear, sharp and intensely brilliaitt agamst
the darkless: I leave the reader to con
ceive my Hiti rnr when, uon looking at (hi
Raid line of light, I saw there a naked hu
man toe! Nothing more. For the first
instant I thought the vision must be some
effectof the moonlight; then that I wasou
ly half awake, and could not see distinctly
rJo I rubbed my eyes two or three times
and looked again. Still, there was the ao
cursed thing plain, distinct, immovable
marbleslike in Its fixedness aud rigidity,
but everything else horribly human f
I am lidt ait easily frightened man. No
one who has traveled so much, and seen sa
much, and been exposed to so many dan
gers as I; Can be. But there waa some
thing so mystei Idtis and uniisua in the ap-f
pearance of this single toe that for a short
time I could not think what to be at ; so I
did nothing but stare at it in a Btate of ut
ter bewilderment;
At length; however, as the toe did not;
vanish under ray steady gaze, I thought
I might as well change my tactics j and te
nicmbering that all midnight iuvaders,
bo they thlevbs, ghosts or devils, dislike
not H ing so much as a good noise, 1 1.1 touted
oiit id a loud voice:'4 Who's there V Tho'
toe instantly disappeared in the darkness.
Almost simultaneously with my word I
leaped out of bed, aud rushed toward tho
plac where I had beheld the otiauge a
peararice. The next instant I ran against
something, and felt an iron grip Pound my
body ! After this, I have no distinct re
collection of what occurred, excejting that
a fearful stiugle ensued between me and
my unseen opponent ; that every now and
then wo were violently hurled U I he floor,
from which we alwajs rose again in an in
stant, locked iu deadly enibiacv ; that wo
tugged aud strained, and pulled and pushed
I in convulsive and ft an tic energy ot" A
fight for life he (for by this time. I had
discovered that the intruder was a human
being) actuated by some passion of whteu;
1 was ignorant ; that we whirled round and
round and round, cheek to cheek, aud aj .a
to arm, in fierce contest, until the rootti ap
peared to whizz round with lis ; and that
at least a dozen people (my fellow-traveler
among them); routed, 1 snppoie, by our
repeated falls, came potif thg into tho room
with lights, and showed me struggling
with a man who had nothing ou but a shut,
whdse long, tangled hair aud wild, unset
tled eyes told me he was insane. And
then, for the first time, I became aware
that I had received Iti the conflict evc.al
gashes from a knife which my opponent
still held in his baui.
To conclude my Strii f Iri a few words, it
tinned' dut that iny midnight visitor was a
madnan who was being conveyed to, a
lunatio asylum at the Hague, aud that ho
and his keeer had been obligt d to stop at
Delft ou the way. The our fellow bad
Contrived; during the night, to escape front
his keeper (wbo had carelessly forgotten tei
lock the door of his chamber), and with
that Irrrsistible desire to shed blood psrn:
here often, but it never gets luto the papers.
and at length, after considerable talking, it
was discovered that Jakey had misapplied liar to many insane people, bad possessed
the story of the patriarch Jacob; Mrs: himself of a pocket-knife belonging to the
Watts started right Oilt to hunt op Jacob, ,naM Hi?.h.1d l,,m c'iire. entered my
, . ; . . . A , , j .. riMM iwhicli was nuist likely the only ono
and when she fotind him astonished him ll the house unfastened), and was prob
again by being as loving as she had been ably meditating the fatal stroke when t
distant. Jakey Is contented iri Hie .fact Mw hla too the mo4ilight; the rest of
that there is no immediate prospect of a 7 hidden In the shade
. . , ,. . ..V. Jv ! After this tenible freak of his he was1
lack of supplies in the family, aud Mrs. tched witb much greater strictness ; but
Watts would be perfectly happy if she I ought td dbserve, as mime excuse for the
could only shut Mrs. Lewis's mouth. keeper's nfcgliseiiee. thai this was the erst
Bi'ltinorc Amsrictni ct of w attempted