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EBENSBURG, PA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1875.
NUMBER 3G.
poetical oejss.
Of single examples of elegiac verse more no
table than their author's rame, a writer In the
Boston "Transcript'' has given to print the fol
lowing. In the bOD that the nnaettlml nnpct.lnn
whether It was written by Moore or his friend
Joseph Atkinson, or by somebody else, may be
thereby helped towards solution :
AH EPITAPH.
If every lot was prosperously east.
If every life was like the gentle flow
Of some sweet music sweetness to-the last,
Iwashiswho. mourned by many sleeps be
low. The sunny temper bright where all Is strife;
The simple heart that mocks at worldly wiles:
Light wit, that plays along the calm or life.
And stirs its languid surface Into smiles;
Pure charity, that oomes not In a shower,
8udden and loud, oppressing what it feeds,
B,i.t.,,kw thr dew' w,tD rradual, silent power.
Felt in the bloom It leaves along the meads;
The happy, grateful spirit, that Improves
And brightens every gift so richly given.
That, wonder where It will those It loves.
Makes every place a home, and home heaven ;
All these were his. O thou who read et this
stone,
TVhen ror thyself, thy children to the sky
Thou humbly pray ear, ask this boon alone.
That ye like him may live, like him may die.
Beyond religious literature proper, the sol
emnities and memorial services of the Muse
seldom dwell long in popular esteem unless
commended by the highest genius. Poems of
sentiment, passion, and animated description
are those that people read with most avidity
and remember longest. "Though they may
forget the singer, they de not forget the song."
It is not known who wrote these lines, now
aboat twenty years old :
THE OLD IX) VE.
I met her she was thin and old
She stooped and trod with tottering feet;
Her locks were gray that once were gold.
Her voice was harsh that once was sweet;
Her cheeks were sunken and her eyes.
Robbed of their girlish light of Joy,
Were dim ; I felt a strange surprise
That I bad loved her when a boy.
But yet a something In her air
Restored me to my youthful prime ;
My heart grew young and seemed to wear
The Impress of that long lost time:
I took her shaking hand in mine
Its touch awoke a world of joy;
I kis-ied her with a reverend sign.
For I had loved ber when a boy I
8imple and innocctit as a nursery rhyme,tbose
two stanzas have a certainty of enviable popu
lar applause and literary honor for the author
who should be able to do so as well la succeed
ing efforts. Indeed, simplicity of expression
may be regatded as an inexorable condition of
poetic long life. It is characteristic of every
poem given in the present article, and Us possi
ble disregard by some of the writers in later
mistaken attempts to be more sophistical, may
account for much of the single piece celebrity
Involved.
What could be simpler, for instance, than
Mrs. Barbauld s lines :
Life I we've been long together.
Throuirh pleasant and through cloudy weather;
'Tis hard to part when friends are dear.
Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear ;
Then steal away-give little warning ;
Choose your own time
Say not good night, but in some brighter clime
Bid me good morning.
Tet, according to Henrv Crabbe Robinson's
Diary, Wordsworth esteemed those lines above
all other verse by tbe sarrie author, and their
fame outlives the whole remainder of the vol
ume in which the first appeared.
A TERRIBLE ALTERNATIVE.
"You seem to have been struck by that
picture," said rny old friend th Colonel
(for as I don't mean to betray family se
crets, I shall speak of him as the "Colonel"
only), at whose cosy nook in Buckbam
sbire I had quartered myself for a few
days.
"Well, yes," I answered ; "regarding it
as a picture, I should say it is by no means
the best of your collection, but, regarding
it as a portrait, there is something about it
that 'fetches' me. It is not that tbe face
is either handsome or intellectual, but
there is a strange, weird something about
it which the artist seemed to have caught
fresh, from the living face and transferred
to the canvass, and which all after-art bad
failed to point out. I am sure there is
some grim seeret connected with that pic
ture; you may as well tell me what it is
If it is a family secret, I promise to keep
it sacted."
"Well," be answered after a moment's
reflection, "there is a painful story con
nected with it. The portrait is that of my
grandfather Dr. Mat bias, let us call him.
lie was one of tbe physicians-in-ordinary
to George III, which position be occupied
long before be had reached middle age.
He, was a courteous genial, kindly man,
full of those social qualities which make a
man a favorite of society. 80 much I have
heard. When I knew bim things were
different. In 1770, full of high spirits and
pleasing anticipations, be went on the con
tinent for a month s holiday ; be came
back at tbe end of it an altered roan his
genial nature clouded with an ineradicable
gloom.
"He purchased and retired to this place
and turned his back upon the world, and
though be was no world scorner, nothing
would induce him to enter it again. He
was a widower, and his only son ray
father was then a boy at Harrow. You
may imagine this was not a lively place for
a high spirited young fellow to come home
to. They saw little of each other. In due
time my father married, and I was born.
Years passed, aoS one wintry night, when
I was abouteighteen years old, we received
a telegram summoning us here. We came
and were Ebown into tbe room where you
Siept last night. The old man with the
stamp of death upon his ta, was propped
up on pillows where be had lain for hours,
his eyes fixed on the door, watching for us.
As we entered tbe room tbe filmy eyes
brightened ; his eager, outstretched arms
trembled as we touched him. With the
damp death dew on bis brow, his voice
quaking, and his whole soul shuddering s
he lived over again one terrible moment of
bis life, he told us the story which I bad
better fut together in my own words."
It appears that during that momentous
visit to the Continent he went to Naples.
He was received by tbe beet society, and
most hospitably entertained in the most
social and political circles, where he passed
i many pleasant hours discoursing and dis
cussing intellectual and scientific subjects
chemistry, surgery, and once, among
these things, the use and misuse of poisons
cropped op in tbe course of conversation ;
and some one present a gentleman of
some note and importance asked what
was the quickest and easiest death to die.
The subject was freely debated.
One evening he returned fiom one of
those pleasant gatherings, and in a reflec
tive mood of mind, sat for an hour looking
over the mooolit city and the beautiful,
world-famous bay. It was near midnight
when two strangers were shown in to him,
and requested his immediate attendance in
great urgency.
A carriage was at the door; be got in
first, they followed him, pulled down the
blinds, and the carriage rattled away.
They seemed to drive a great distance,
turning and turning many times. Once be
inquiied, "Had they far to go," and re
ceived tbe brief answer, "No." At last
they drove into tbe court-yard of a great
bouse. The door opened as if by magic
They ascended tbe wide stone staircase,
and on reaching the first landing they
threw open a door, and for a second be
was almost blinded by tbe blaze of light
that streamed out upon him. Tbe door
closed behind him as he stepped in the room.
He took in the whole aspect of the room at
a glauce ; it was gorgeously furnished and
brilliantly illuminated with wax candles ;
at a table near the heavily curtained win
dow a man of stern, commanding appear
ance sat writing. He raised bis head as
they entered, and pointing to the far end of
the room, exclaimed :
"Your patient lies there, sir."
My grandfather's eye followed the di
rection of bis finger, and observed a wo-'
man stretched upon a couch. Where bad
he seen that face before ? Slowly it dawned
upon his memory. A few days back be
had been at tbe theatre, and, glancing
around was struck by a beautiful fair face,
which, for tbe time, fascinated him; be
thought it the loveliest there. He looked
on it again now ; but, how changed I The
hands were clasped upon the breast, as
though in prayer; a dumb, white terror
was written 011 the face ; and in the great,
uplifted eyes there was a hopeless, despair
ing agony, sickening to behold.
He inquired what was the matter bow
she bad been attacked, and seeing that she
was gagged, he begged them to release her
mouth, that she might answer his ques
tions, adding :
"I must know something of the sym
toms before I can attempt a cure."
"Your business here is to kill, not to
cure, doctor," said one in a strangely sad
tone which accorded ill with his stern,
fearful phrase. "Your patient has spoken
her last words in tb is world. She is doomed
to die by a secret, though just, tribunal,
but we must temper justice with mercy
and spare ber the shame and public dis
grace. You can cause ber to die easily
and secretly, therefore we have brought
you here."
"A doctor never travels without bis
tools," resumed the stranger, and as he
spoke he turned tbe lace back from the
tender throat, and pointing to it added
significantly, "Open the jugular vein ; itis
the easiest and quickest way to die."
My grand father started back amazed and
horror-struck. These were the words he
had uttered during one of those pleasant
gatherings at the house of a celebrated
Neapolitan a few days back.
"How dare you propose to me such a
crime?" he exclaimed. "Iam an English
man, and will not eommit murder."
"Pshaw 1 your nation produces as many
honorable criminals as any other. Do
your work, sir, and quickly r
"I refuse to obey jour cruel command.
Let me go."
Tbe man who had been writing, and
until now had taken no part whatever in
the scene that was passing around him,
then rose and joined tbe group. Laying
his hand lightly on my grandfather's
shoulder, he said :
There is no escape for you, Doctor;
every moment you hesitate you prolong
that woman's pain. She must die ; and
you can dispatch her with painless speed."
"What if I refuser You cannot force
me to commit so foul a murder."
He pointed to two swarthy figures (either
soldiers or liveried servants of some noble
family my grandfather could not tell
which), who had been standing motionless
by tbe couch, and answered :
"Then those faithful fellows will dis
patch you and afterwards dispatch her;
tbey are not professionals, and their work
will be clumsily done. If tbe operation
be not performed upon your patient before
the clock strikes, you know your fate
your life without saving hers. She Is
doomed ; no power on earth can save her."
It was vain to speak or to expostulate
with those fiends in human form. He felt
tbey were as stern and inexorable as fate.
It was as ciuel as it was horrible and
I cowardly. Five men assembled to witness
the professional murder of a young and
beautiful woman 1
The clock began to chime the quarters ;
it. was about to strike. At a given signal
tbe statue-like figures stepped forward and
rapidly uncoiled a rope with a noose al
ready made ; they were about to slip it
over his head and bang him to a beam
which ran along the centre of the celling.
The horror of facing a sudden and violent
death seized him his death would avail
her nothing for whom he died. His senses
were in a whirl ; be threw up bis hands
and sprang forward.
"I'll do it r he exclaimed, and fell on
his knees before her. "They will have
your life ; I can not aave you, child ; but
can shield you from their rough and cruel
hands, and put you painlessly to rest. For
give me, forgive me, for it is in mercy to
you I do this cruel deed."
The white hand went out to him and
closed over his in a soft, forgiving clasp ;
tbe agony died out of the sweet eyes as
they rested one moment on his face ; then
with a low sigh she closed them and turned
away her bead. In another moment her
young life was ebbing slowly away. He
remained by her side, holding her band in
his and watching till all was over. He
would not for a second leave her with those
stern men, lest a wounding word or rough
touch might disturb her on her way from
this world to tbe next, ne was conducted
from the place in the same way as he had
entered it, and when his conductors took
leave of him they suggested that it would
be well if he would leave Naples with as
little delay as possible. This forced mur
der for such it really was lay upon bis
conscience to the end of his life, and filled
it with one long remorse a living night
mare for that scene was always present to
his mind. The change that bad puzzled
us puzzled us no more. He could not car
ry bis secret to the grave with him, so he
gave it into our keeping.
"It's a terrible story I" I exclaimed.
"And, unlike most terrible stories, it is
true," he answered. "Come out for a
breath of fiesh air and sunshine, to blow
this gloomy subject from our senses."
MARY JAXE.
JUST IN TIME.
A young surgeon, having tried in vain
to get into practice, at last fell upon the
following expedient to set the ball to roll
ing. He sprang upon his horse once a
day, and rode at full speed through tbe
town. After an absence of an hour he
would return, and carry with him some of
his instruments thinking if he could im
press bis neighbors that he bad practice,
they would begin to place confidence in
bis ability.
,A wag, who mere than suspected tbe
deceit which he was practicing, determined
to know the truth. He accordingly kept
bis horse in readiness, and tbe next time
the doctor galloped past his door, sprang
on his steed and placed himself on the
young gentleman's trail.
The doctor saw the man following at
his heels, but did not, at first, evince any
uneasiness. Atlength, however, he thought
it advisable to turn down a narrow lane.
The pursuer followed on like an evil
genius ; but tbe d octor was not discouraged,
as another road lay a short distance ahead
of him, down which be turned. Tbe other
kept close at bis heels, aud the doctor
grew impatient to return borne. There
was no bouse by tbe way at which he
could afford any pretext for stopping.
In the meantime bis saddle-bags were
with him, and he was otherwise equipped
for business, so that he could not return, in
the face of his neighbor, without exposing
tbe secrets of the trade in tbe most palpa
ble manner. Every bound of his steed
carried him farther from his home, and tbe
shades of night began to fall on bill and
dale. Still the sound of horse's hoofs
were thundering in his ears, and he was
driven. to his wits' end; but just as he
turned the angle of a wood, he beard a
low moan. A man lay prostrate near the
fence of a meadow, and blood gushed from
a fearful wound in his arm. He had cut
an artery with his scythe, and was in dan
ger of immediate dissolution. The young
doctor sprang from his horse and staunched
tbe wound. Bandages were applied, and
his life was saved. The pursuer had also
thrown himself from his horse, and as tbe
surgeon tied up the last bandage, he looked
up in his face, and said :
"now lucky, neighbor, that I was able
to arrive just in time P
The wondering spectator was silent with
awe ; and after assisting the wounded man
home, he told such a miraculous tale to tbe
wondering town folk, as secured to tbe
young surgeon a reputation not only for
skill, but also for supernatural prescience.
Thus did the merest accident contribute
more to bis advancement than years of
studious toil could have done ; and the im
pertinent curiosity of a waggish neighbor
opened for him a path to business which
the most influential patronage might never
have been able to provide for him.
A Question. Twelve persons stopped
at a hotel over night. On asking their
; bill the next morning found it to be $12.
Tbe old men paid f 4 each, the young men
paid 50 cents each, and the young women
paid 23 cents each. How many old men,
how many young men, bow many young
ladies were there traveling in the crowd ?
Can any of our readers figure it out and
send us the answer?
There is no foolishness about some of tbe
fathers in Dubnqne county, Iowa, who have
marriageable daughters, and they know
how to precipitate business when the fiuit
is ripe for plucking, aud hangs wasting in
sweetness when it should be plucked.
Matters were brought to a climax with a
rush at a certain fanner's residence in
Vernon township recently. A young tiller
of tbe soil had for some months been paying
most assiduous attentions to one of bis
daughters, but he was such a bashful, mod
est young chap, never having been much in
tbe company of girls, except this one, that
be had never been able to raise bis courage
sufficiently high to pop the all important
question.
He had gone to tbe bouse in which his
adored lived, upon at least twenty different
occasions, resolved to know his fate ; but
when ushered into the presenoe of his fair
one, in whose keeping be had placed bis
heart, his courage would invariably "go
back on him," and he would return to bis
lorely'room in greater suspense thau before.
Upon the evening in question be had de
termined that, come what would, he would
tell his Mary that he loved her. He would
once for all decide tbe matter ; but, as upon
each former occasion, be could get the
matter no nearer than bis throat. There it
stuck, and he had just determined to gulp
it down and give up the siege, when the
door opened, and in stalked the girl's father,
who advanced to where they were sitting,
and thus addressed them :
"I came in to put a stop to this infernal
foolishness. It ain't the courtin' expenses
that I'm looking at, for coal oil's cheap, and
wood can be had for the haulin' ; but I'm
sick aud tired of this billin' and cooin' like
a pair of sick doves, keepin' me awake
nights, and it's got to be slopped right
here. Mary Jane, look up here. Do you
love John Henry well enough to marry
him?"
"Why, father ; I I you must"
"Stop that darn foolishin I" roared the
old man. Answer 'yes' or no' an' mighty
quick too. It's got to be settled now or
never."
"Well, but father, you don't know if
you'd only wait, "
"Dry up ! answer 'yes' or 'no.' Speak."
roared the old gent.
"Well, yes, then ! there now I" and Mary
Jane again hid ber face.
"That's business ; that's the way to talk.
Now John, look here look up here or I'll
shake you &11 to pieces. Do you waut that
gal ' mine for a wife ? Speak out like a
man now."
"Why, Mr. ain't this rather a I
mean, can't you "
"Speak it out, or out of this house you'll
go head-foremost 1 I won't wait a minute
longer. There's tbe cal, and a likelier gal
ain't in tbe State, and you just beard her
say she wanted you. Now, John, 1 won't
stand a bit o' foolin' ; once for all, 'yes' or
no' I"
"Well, yes sir, I have been presumptuous
enough to hope that I "
"O, cuss your soft talk I the thing's set
tled now. You two blasted fools would
have been six months more at that job that
I've settled in five minutes. I never saw
such foolin' as there is among young peo
ple now-a-days. Ain't like it was when I
was a youth au now good-night. You
can talk the thing over, an' you an' me,
John, '11 go town to-morrow and get the
license. Soon be time to go to plowin'
no time for love-makin' then. Good-night,
good-night; hope it wasn't too rough; but
I was determined to fix the thing up one
way or t'other;" and the old man went back
to bed.
Now that the ice was broken, the young
people laid all their plans for the future,
and John felt just a little bad at the com
fort be bad lost, when Mary, looking at him
shyly, said :
"This would have been all right four
months ago, John, if you hadn't been so
skeery. I know'd all the ti me that jou
wanted to ask me ; but it wasn't my place
to say anything, you know."
No cards.
O YEZt O YEZI
' All who have had the privilege of being
drawn on a jury must be familiar with
this quaint old Norman French expression,
used by the sheriff or bis representative,
when opening court. But few have ever
been lucky enough to listen to such an ex
ordium as came upon the astonished ears of
the Mansfields and O'Conors of Musking
um, from the lrjts of the compatriot of Bis
marck, as thuswise :
HE OFESED COCRT.
Wm. Ruth is Sheriff of Muskingum
county, Ohio. He is also of t lie Teutonic
persuasion. When he was elected three
years ago he was in blissful ignorance of
hisdntics, and was greatly troubled about
the proper way of ojenhig court. He con
fided his troubles to Congressman South
ard and several other young members of
the bar, and they coached J.iim in bis du
t'es giving him to understand that be was
a higher official than the court itself, and
that Judge Frazier, of the Common Pleas,
was in the habit of interferine with the
sheriff in a manner that no well regnlated
sheriff ought to tolerate. "Py shimmtny
is dot so?" said the functionary. "Veil
ynst vait till I opens the port mid he find
that Bill Hoot isu not Pense Lloyd by a
chug full." When court came on Sheriff
Iiuth verified his prediction. For weeks
he had been practicing on bis opening
speech, and when Judge Frazier turned to
him with a look of judicial dignity and
said, "Mr. Sheriff, open the court," Mr.
Ruth struck an attitude and began: "O
yesh, hear ye eferpoddy und de pcebles in
sheneral, that the honorable Gort of Com
mon Sessions, in un for de honorable pod
dy of Mooskingum gounty.ish aow in pleas,
und dot its doors are open for to hear the
gomblaints of all the yeomanry nnd pom
mo n und take gognizance of all mishde
meanors und " "Hold on there 1 Hold
on, Mr. Sheriff. What isthe meaningof all
this rigmarole?" exclaimed Judge Frazier.
"Sbust bold a leedle on, Mr. Shudge," re
turned the sheriff. "I'm Bill Hoot, tbe
sheriff of this gounty, und I know my
pishness, und all you whohaf any pishness
to transact mit dis gort und ony gauses to
present for its honorable gonsideration will
now approach und dat same known, und
und may Gott Almighty haf mercy on your
sonls, nnd all of you off mit your hats right
away guick !" By the time the sheriff con
cluded even Judge Frazier was roaring
with laughter. It took the constables half
an hour to restore order. The first case
was called, and the Judge said : "Mr.
Sheriff, call Peter Jones, John Smith, and
Sarah White three times at the door." Ad
vancing to the door and opening it about
three inches, pitching his voice to the
highest key, he began : "Peter Shoties,
Shon Smit, Sara Vite, Shon Shones, Peter
Smitt, Sarah Vite, Sarah Shones, Shon
Smitt, Peier Vite, gome'right into court
mit you dree dimes. Your Honor, they
gooms now." Judge Frazier. "That will
never do. Call them three times, one at a
time." Sheriff Until. "Peter Shones
Shon Smitt, Sarah Vite, dree dimes, von at
I a dime, gome into wourt mitoutanvdplav."
Judge Frazier. "That's worse than it was
before. Call one of them three tiroes,"
Sheriff Ruth. "Mr. Shudge, yust look-a-bere.
Dot is vhen you make foolish mit
me. You say to gall deru dree dimes vonce,
und den you say gall dem vonce dree dimes;
und den you say dot isli worsb und worsh.
Oof you vant Peter Shones, und Shon
Smitt, und Sarah Vite, vonce dree dimes
or dree dimes vonce, you pettei gall dem
yourself. I not stand dot kind of foolish
ness." Sheriff Knth(retired to Fred Dit
mer's and refreshed himself with sundry
glasses of lager, while the constable called
the witnesses.
now It Came About. There is a bit
of romance quite racy in tbe early life of
the two elder members of the family now
very emiuent in French affairs. It is rela
ted thns :
In the middle of the winter of 1838 a fire
broke out in the female seminary at Limo
ges, France, and spread with such rapidity
that it was feared all the inmates would
perish. The firemen, however, brought out
all, as they supposed, and then, as is nsual,
the crowd watched, the destruction of the
building. Suddenly there was a cry that
oue little girl had been left in ber room.
There was an immediate rush for the doors
and windows ; but the flames drove every
one back. As the excited spectators were
beginning to pray for the unfortunate child
a tall girl, with disheveled blonde bair and
flowing nightgown, cut through the crowd,
and with a shriek of, "I'll save her I" that
rose above the sound of crackling timbers
and falling masonry, dashed into the door
way. Many of thos apparently never
ending moments elapsed. The populace
prayed for twoouls with closed eyes. A
loud hurrah, that was prolonged to the echo
only to be repeated again, attracted the at
tention of tbe devotees, and tbe pale-faced
girl was seen skipping through the flames
with tbe terrified child. A few days there
after. King Lrouis I'bilippe sent theheioine
j a gold medal for her bravery, and a captain
of the French army, who had witnessed the
j girl's pluck, begged an introduction. The
1 captain is now President of France, and
tbe brave girl Madame MacMabon.
A Pretty Tocou Pi.ro. One day last
mouth, when trade was dull, a Vicksbuig
grocery clerk procured a piece of sole-leather
from a shoemaker, painted it black, and
laid it aside for future use. Within a few
days an old chap from back in the country
came in and inquired for a ping of chewing-tobacco.
The piece of sole-leather was
tied up, paid for, and the purchaser started
forborne. At the end of the sixth day he
returned, looking downcast and dejected,
and walking into the stoie be inquired of
the clerk ;
"'Member that terbacker I got here the
other dav?"
"Ves."
"Well, was that a new brand?"
"Xo same old brand."
"Regular plug-'erbjcker, was it?"
"Yes."
"Well, then, it's roe ; it's right here in
my jaws," sadly replied the man, "I k no wed
I wns gittin' puity old, but I wus alius
bandy an bitin' plug. I never seed a plug
afore this one that I couldn' tear to pieces
at one chaw. I sot my teeth on to this
one, and bit and pulled and twisted, like a
dog at a root and I've kept biting and
pulling for six days d thar she am now,
the same as the day you sold ber to me f
"Seems to be a good plug," remarked
the clerk, as he smellcd of tbe counterfeit,
"She's all right ; it's me that's falling?"
exclaimed the old mad. "Pass me ont
some fine cnt, and I'll go bonie and deed
the farm to the boys, and git ready for the
grave 1"
Twixs. Max Adder tells a new story
the gist of which is as follows : Bill Slocum
was nominated for Mayor of Pencader, aud
one day, in a street conversation, be re
marked, "I've got to win." He pronounced
it. "I've got t'wiu" and old Mrs. Martin
overhearing it imperfectly, went arcund
and repotted that Mrs. Slocum had twins
The boys at once decided to serenade Bill
and that night tbey marched out to his
house, with a band playing "Hail to tbe
Chief," several ward clubs some fire com
panies a group of white-dressed girls in a
wagon, a lot of banners and plenty of en
thusiasm. Bill made a speech about tbe
canvass and then there were shouts of
here's the twins !" and the like. Bill
said there was a mistake, but the band
sarcastically played, "Listen to the Mock
ing Bird," and the boys shouted londer for
the twins. When tbe truth prevailed the
assembly dispersed in disgust, and Bill was
overwhelmingly defeated at the polls.
As industrious colored citizen of Rome,
Georgia, was lately overheard by' a renre
tentative of The Commercial, of that town
thus to complain : "Neber seed sich times
since 1 been born. Work all day and steal
all night, and blest if I can hardly make a