LJ L . - - -. , , - . f McP,KE, Editor and Publisher. BE IS i FREEMAR TVHOM THE TRUTH MAKES FllEE, AND ALL ARB SLAVES BESIDE forms, S2 per year, In advanoe ft iLUMB X. EBENSBTJRG, PA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1876. NUMBER 2. njeiHiiaS fear H PITTSBURGH lily Dispatch. ra FOR TK PEOPLE. ilin: Journal of Western Penn- :. and One of the Largest, i;f!Vst,i'heape.t and Best Xew.opupiis in tlie United States. in runs or TEX at I HOL LA US A 1 JJA li, ami Voatuije J'repaid. His Ml Sterite Fcr II. f -:irr' .' I'-rs who desire si good city I all man.. subscribe for the . H I i-l' iTt n. a Lame. Liv. Itnlc I'ii -r. .i -.v i r! forenion in ot jain.ng .bn. ih(- l..t-t Tews, and beyond iw i f the nn-t r. iKi.ibii-. reliable r.r. .:mit I'.i'ly jourtvil published in 1 it.-. III.- i-iM'ATCif Will enter f'vrry -F i r-t yen r mi thosth of Fobru i :t k ii al'l" .li' type now tic- r:t. :i i.l lUinrv.-ise im proved in nil T-ss. 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The .; '."HN furnihcrlm single u " a )"!ir. tr in ( i s of ten at 1 1.1)0, X I" ''"h ,,i,r,-v f'-ttinsr up the .-'1.r!.m,",,''rt,'Hp,'r iM Aineri.-a. it ""ry:-;;-";;!!,-,;--- t rth avenue. Tittsburir. I'n. Assignee's Sitle or Valuable Real Estate! T'ilF. unJerslirnctl will offer at public ale, at the Jl tore room formerly ooenpil by Oo. K. Zalnn, In EbensburK, Cambria county, l'a , on SATURDAY, FEB. Oth, IS76, the following described real estate : THE NORTH END OF LOT NO. 93, In the Borough of Ebenburar, front in 60 feet on Hl-fh street ami extentliiiK back 132 feet to an al ley, rttljoininir property of Sirs. Hutchinson on the nist ami of .lohn Douifhcrty on the west, having thereon erected a two story Framk Horns. Frame Stable anil nntbiiiltlinss. Also, a two story Frame Store Room and a well finished Frame Huilttlnir, the latter now in the ucrupnney lf Collins, Johns ton & Co. as a hank. Al.o, that certain Hinsxvo oi Cjri'onncl situate in the West Ward of the Horonuh of Eb enfburir, boumled on the north by Crawford street, on the east by Ueeoh alley, on the south by Sam ple street, and on the west by JIary Ann street. A lso, r Acres oT TYTVT situate In Cumbria township, Cambria eonnfy, I'n., about 25 Acres of which are cleared, adjoin Inir land formerly owned by Alexander MeVickcr. JWary McHritle. and others, antl known as the Me trirr Farm, hnvintr tbcreon erected a two story Flank House. Also, Seven Acres of Ttn proved Land, under a liirh state of cultivation, situate In Cam bria, township. Cambria county. Fa., adjoining lands of Geo. Huntley, A. A. Barker, and others. Also, FOUR LOTS In Sallna. Saline connty, Kansas, known as Iots No. BO. 62 and 64 on Third street antl Lot No 7 on S-'ccond street. Tkim9 or Sale One-third of the purchase money to be paid upon delivery of the deed, and frl.u I... In. ...A , A ...... a, 1 I lO-d V lf HAlIk'KR Jan. 17, 1878.-3f Assignee of tiKo. C. K. Zahm. JOHNSTOWN SAVINGS BANK! 120 Clinton St., Johnstown, Pa. CHARTEIIED SEPT. 12, 170. IlEPOSITS j received of all funis not less than Ono Dollar. Present rate of interest, six percent. Interest Is one in tlie months ot June mm ncceniber. nn'l not withdrawn is added to the deposit, thus com pounding twice a year without troubling the !e pi.Mti.r to call or even to present the dejiosit book. Money loanetl on Heal Estate. Preference, with liberal rates and lontr time, given to borrowers of fering first mortgages on la i ins worth four or more timet the amount ol loan desired. Good reference, perfect titles, etc., required. This corMrat ion is exclusively a Savings Bank. No commercial deposits received, nor discounts granted. No Ion on personal security. lilank applications for borrowers, copies of the rules, by-laws, and special law relating tt this Kiink. sentto any address desired. TitrwTKKrt .Taints Cooper. Kavid Pibert. C. T?. Ellis. A. .T. Hawos, F. W. Hay, John Lowman. T. H. Lapsley, Daniel iMcT-iusthlin, I. .1. Worrell. James Mc.Millcn. James -Morley, Lewis Plitt, H. A. Hiirs, Conrad Suppes, George T. Swank, and W. W. Welters. DANIEL J. MflRBELU President. Frawk Kibkrt. Treasurer. CvKt'9 Elder, Solicitor. 12-3,"75.-ly. OKPIIANS COUltT SALK OF VALUABLE 11 K A L KSTATK, By virtue of an order of the Orphans' 'ourt or Cam. bria county, to me directed, there will bo exposed to public sale by vendue or outer', on the premises, on 1'ltl l he-2"tli laty ol Vrhrnnry nrxlatl o'clock p. m. the following described real estate ; Am. the n-ht. title anil Interest of Emily Naade and Owen 111 Nasrle, leir.ir an undivitletl moiety oronetwclfth part. tin that certain PIECE Olt PARCEL OF LAND sitnate in Susquehanna township, in said County of Cambria, of which Richard Naitle died seized, described as follows : Ai1 joininsr lands of heirs of Henry Lloyd on the west, Abraham Kern on the norih. Samuel Kar ber on the east, and John K. Naurle on the fou'.h, containing alioat NINETV .ACIJES, six aches of which are cleared. Tkkm. of Sal. One-third of tlie purchase money to be paid n confirmation of sale, and the balance In one and two years, with Interest, to be secured by the bond and niortsrngo of the pur chaser. SYLVESTER J.LUTHEK. Guardian of Emily and Owen 11. Nagle. Jan. 21, la7ti.-t. "Utm EXP0SXTW.1.M7S. 11 K0SE.VSTEEL, 'r.arturcr ,) supprlr a Crop LEATHER, A;,S DEALER ls 'Dir? ivn '" M I LAMlulIiN 1IAIK, JOUXSTOirx, VA. 'nXluZV I:ark wMteil. 1.1T " at 11 e Ianntrry. CE.Hav;n,, boujrhtnml k-ft ,;iispik, of S.,m-h.,r-,.',. T Hrn? mare- one bay mare, '-tni. .'n ''-T '"ution all irt-rsnns ' vVl-rtwJ! v "h si'ld property. -,t ALtNTi;s t CRAMER lXK: yi- IV, respectfully ' t.C1';11 service, to the 't'u'i i,"1'1 Tieinlty. ffflce-ad- Li'.j.r, i '",u'l'atcly in the rear of ' r. ' . en" "' X"'ht pal, c" ti.C of Mrs- n Craw- H-24.-U.1 nean and Snrteo. " ih trr. t BEWm RO. FA. r',t'"i'riom"!Win Ma"-J"'''n street, Jouia be mude 14-4.-f.l !F? TAIT- m. p., rhJeli. d TarKeoii, Mr. "re. Xifht eIU may H k g resilience. ivh-m' -.iax A-NU St-KdEOX, "'""t'rt'ml.j i . IxtRETTO. PA. l pl', Z "r- Ja'"i"i- Night -'-'Bice. l-14.-in.J "eF'?1111' attorney a, , xY',";1". Office on k'J'l 8 Lew building. Centre tl-2l.79--tf.J fe11 A KKR, Attorney at i r - - :: t-. t.-o.j l'-UTZTY t . I r, la Coart Uo w COMIMITTEE'S SALE! ri'HK nntlerslirned. Committee of the person and rstate of Ki len (J. "alla. whlowof William Callan. deceased, will oiler at Public Sale, at the ' Cailan House." in Washington township, (near Crctton.) Cambria countv, pa., on 'I' I l".sl V. Ft:KJtl'.K' In?'h, a larare amount of per sonal property, conslstlngoft horse, 1 cow. 1 bug. ry, 1 wagon. I cart. I sled, 2 wheel-barrows. 1 wash, kettle. 1 elttthes-wrincer, 1 sewing machine. 1 pi ano, about 2 bud steads, feather beds nnd pillows, Ixilsters. pillows mattresses, bed-spreads, quilts, haps ami a large amount of bed clothing, bur eaus, wash stantl, lounges, large dining tables, other tables, cane-seat cimirs. 70 common chairs, wardrobe, wasli-lmwls, pitchers ami soap dishes; carpets anil mattings, hat-racks, large antl small lot. king glasses, window Minds, clocks, lamps, dinner bells, :t Sioves, rocking chairs, and n large variety or articles usually found in a well-furnished hotel, etc. 4r-Sule to commence at 10 n"c!ock. A. M., when terms i. ml conditions of sa'e will be made known. JOSEPH CKISTE, Committee, fcc. Jan. 12, lS73.-:. I U 13 T. I o v T ii: OF OSK OF TIIK 5I0ST DESIHABI.E hotel ntorEirriEs IN CAMBRIA COUNTY. fl'IIE undcrslgnetl will offer at Public Sale, on 1 1 reltT, the lil day of lhrnnry. at 2 oclock, p.m., a PIE(!EorLOT ofGROUND itnate at Cresstin, Cambria county, adjoining lands or the Cresson Springs Company, heirs of M. PI. Adams. dec"d. and others, containing 4 Arre, more or less, havinc- thereon erected a largo two story FRAME HOUSE, containing tutntwren rooms, Fhasie Stabik, OAnaiAoit Siif.k. I:it Hot SB, an.l other outbuildings. Pure running water on the premises. The location Is admira bly adapted for a hotel antl summer resort. JNO. E. SO A XL AN. l-14.-3t J Executor f Wm. Callaw, dee'd. fTlAVERN STAND FOR RENT. L Tlie well lorated Tav ern Stand and Dwelling House belonging to l no uniiefunoti known as the "Curtin House.' ..... .... T....I 11111 In (Jullit zin township. Cambria county, about a qnarter of mile from Gal litzia Station. Is offered for rent on fair terms. Possession will be given on the first day of March. 1876. This House has all the necessarv accomodations required by law, such as rooms, stabling, etc.: also a never railing BP"" well of the purest water on the premises. "Tit ten applications will be promptly answered, and terms specified, which will he moderate. v MICHAEL Mc.MORRIS. Tunnel Hill, Jan. 7, lS7d.-tf. , EXECUTOR'S NOTICE. Estate of Jacob Sharbacoh, dec'T. letters testamentary on the estate of said dece dent, late of Carroll township, having been rrant B.l.to the undersigned, notice Is hereby given to all persons Indebted to said estate that payment must be inade without delay, and those having accounts against the same should produce them dulv authenticated lor settlement. 3 MARY C. SHAKBAUGH, Executrix. JOHN W.SHAKBAIOH, Executor. January 7, !878.-6t. COMMITTEE'S NOTICE. J The utiderai(jned liavinit Iteen appoint- etl t'omm Cm. Calla the Court are requested to make Immediate payment, and those having claims are required to present them duly authent cate.1 lor seiiiemeni. ' JOSEPH OR 1STE, Committee. Sum m livllle, Jan, 3, 187.-6t. Ittee of the person ami esiaie x.m.eh H, widow of William i;anan, umti, oy of Common Pleas oi uimimj county. m.i.i.iiui t i.in r. . i. b. ... v.... X AW FIRM DISSOLVED. The J I partnership heretofore pxistlng between the undersigned in the practice or the low wm this day dissolved by mutual consent. , F. A. SHOEMAKER, WM. II- -tSECULEB. twniburf, Jan. 10, M70.-W. JiOB'S BAB. A boy sat on a truuk near the baggage room of AVakcsha station, waiting for the train to come in. Not tbat be was expect ing to go anywbere he only wished he could but be liked the bustle and excite ment of the scene, and, what was more to the purpose, he sometimes picked up a stray penny by giving the porters a lift, or standing guard over some gentleman's traveling bag, or carrying some lady's suieinutneraty parcels. On this particular occasion there was an unusual bustle, for it was Christmas morn ing and the depot was thronged with those awaiting the arrival of friends, or who were themselves bound on a holiday excur sion. Presently the engine with its long train of cars came snorting and thuudeving up the track, and the crowd surged forward to the front of the platform. Bob, for tbat was the boy's name, was about to do the same when he was stopped by a showily dressed "woman with a child in her arms. "Please take my baby f jt a moment," 6aid she. "I've forgotten something." "Yes, ma'am," said Bob, receiving the child and seating hirrself on the trunk again, while the woman, dropping her traveling bag at his feet, hurried away and was lost in the great crowd. Bob waited patiently, not doubting that she would immediately return to claim her little charge ; but the minutes went by, the whistle sounded, the bell rang and the train began to move slowly out of the de pot, aud still she did not appear. Then Bob started up in alarm, and ran toward the departing train, and as he did so, he distinctly saw the woman's face at a win dow. "The lady she's lost her baby take it, somebody !". he cried, and held it out to two or three gentlemen who were rushing iuto the cars at the last moment as geu tlemcn will. But neither of them seemed inclined to avail themselves of the offer. The train moved faster and faster, and finally whisk ed out of sight while Bob stood still, gaz ing in the direction in which it had vanish ed, an imageofsnrpri.se and dismay. "Gingo !" exclaimed he then, turning his eyes from the line of blue smoke which still floated abovo the tree top, to the face of the child in his arms; and in that sin gle word he expressed volumes. "Well, what is the mcaniug of this?" asked the depot master, his attention now for the first time attracted to the scene. "Why, you see, the lady asked me to hold her baby while she went to get some thin', and she was carried off without it." "The lady ? What lady ?" "Don't know. Never seen her before." "Where did she come from ?" "Don't know. The fust I see, she was standing right in front of me." "Where was she going?" "I don't know. Don't know nothing about her only she asked me to hold the baby, cause she'd forgot somethin'. She left her bag, too ; there 'tis" pointing with his foot because his bauds were other wise engaged ; "and I know she went off in the cars, 'cause I see her looking out the winder." Thero was a certain straightforwardness about Bob's story which carried conviction with it, and none of the little circle, of which Dob was now the centre, thought of doubting its truth. While the depot master was deliberating what to say next, a rough looking boy about Bob's age, who had left off shouting "Washkesha Chronicle," to hear what was going on, cried out : "Oh, ain't you green I She didn't mean to come back." "That's so, I guess," said the depot master. "Bobby, my boy, you're sold, and have got a baby on your hands," said another. In short, it was apparent that the young newsboy had expressed the seutimeuts of all the men present. The next question was how Bob should dispose of this very odd aud unexpected Christmas present. "You bad better go at once to the town authorities and let them take the child," said the depot master. "Yes." "Certainly," chimed in the bystanders ; and so the matter would have been settled, but the baby, who bad been looking won derinjly from one to another, now nestled closely to Bob's shoulder, and began to wail pitiously. It was only a natural re sult of rinding herself left solong among strangers, but to tender hearted Bob it seemed a direct appeal to his sympathy and protection. 1 should like to keep her. Isbouldjlike to take her home," said he. "Good for yeu I" said the man who had not yet spoken only a poor coal-heaver, begrimed and smutched from top to toe, "Good for you! You see, gentleman, 'taint no ways certaio't the woman won't come back next train, so what's the hurry about sending the baby to the poorhouse for that's wbat't vould come to. If the wo man don't come, and we don't hear noth ing after we've advertised, 'pears to me it'll be time enough to talk about the poor honse tbeo." No one offered any objection to this view of the ease, and the coal beaver added : "U'Uc)t8omethui to iTertise, though; . . ..... .. e r. . I'K.. .. donno's that ought to come on to Bob." "Certainly not," said the depot master, : taking out his pocketbook, an example i which was immediately followed by others, so that an amount was collected quite suf ficient to defray all Contingent expenses, and handed over to Bob. Then he walked wit h Mi A rnhv mul carnet- VUV VI illV wx-fvv y ! bag, followed by his friend, the coal heaver. "Have a ride onmykeart?" asked the latter. "Don't care if I do, if it's in your way," said Bob. "I'll make it in my way," said the good natured man. So Bob clambered in, the horse started off at a slow trot, and the little cart jolted merrily away over the cobble-stones, with its novel freight. It was not till Bob came in sight of the little one-story house which he called home, that he felt be had acted hastily in un dertaking such a charge without consulting Mother Darby, as he called the woman with whom he lived. For Bob was an orphan nay, more, he had neither kith nor kin that he knew of in the wide world. Ever since he could remember ho had been passed from one to another who had been willing to harbor him a little while, either for charity or the work he could do. For two or three months his home had been with Mother Darby, receiving his board and scanty cloth ing in consideration of his tending the cow, bringing in wood and running of errands. "So, w hat will Mother Dai by say ?" was the question he asked himself as the cart stopped at the gate, and, bidding the kind coal-heaver good-bye ho entered the house with his burden. What she did say was : "What under the sun have you got there?" "She's so pretty and the woman left her, and they talked of sending her to the poor-house. I couldn't help it," answered Bob, rather incoherently. "Mercy on us ! What are you talking about? I can't make head nor tail of it? But give me the baby, do. She's most frozen, poor thing." And as the woman, whose heart was much softer than her speech, sat dowu by the fire and began to take off the child's hood and cloak, Bob's courage levived, and he told the story from beginning to end, as we know it already. "A pretty job you've undertaken ?" said Mrs. Darby, then. "The woman never'll come back ; that yoa may depend. She wa'n't its mother uo morc'n I am.' "I thought you'd let it stay till some thing could be done," said Bob, dejectedly. "Of course I will. I ain't a wild Injun to turn such a habeas this adrift by itself," said Mother Darby. She then warmed some milk and fed the little one, and in a few minutes it was sleeping quietly on Mother Darby's old calico lounge, unconscious alike of past or future perils. "Her folks is well off, whoever they be," said Mother Darby, examining the little blue silk hood trimmed with swan's down, and the embroidered thibet cloak. "The woman that gave her to me was a stunner," said Bob ; by which phrase he uo doubt iutended to express his apprecia tion of her fine clothes. Bob lost no time in advertising the child; but days went on, and no answer appeared, nor did the woman return to claim her charge. The traveling-bag contained noth ing that would afford the slightest clue to the child's identity except the name "Elsie" on some of the clothing. "AVell, I'm sorry, but there's nothing for it but to send it to the poor-house," said Mother Darby. "That I'll never do," said Bob. 'Heyday 1 I reckon there's somebody to be consulted besides you. 'Taint likely I shall undertake to raise her at my time of life, and nothing but my two hands to de pend upon neither." "But couldn't you let her stay here if I'd pay her board ?" pleaded Bob. You?" said Mother Darby, laughing derisively. "Much as ever you cau do to earn the salt that you eat." "Well, if you won't keep her, I s'pose I most find a place for her somewhere else, for she shall never go to the poor-house while I can work for her." "Mercy sakes ! If you're so set about it, do let her stay and try it," said Mother Darby, whose heart secretly yearned over the child more than she caied to acknowl edge. And so it was settled, though the good widow could not believe the arrange ment would be more than temporary. "I dare say as soon as we begin to get fond of the child, we shall have to tend her off, " said 6he. But in this she was mistaken. It was true that hitherto Bob had not been over fond of work, and had given her some ground for the taunt that he hardly earned the salt he ate. But now a great change came over him. He felt that be had an object in life ; was ready to undertake any honest job, to work early and late, so that he might keep Elsie with hiiu. And when the story pot abroad, and it was seen how thoroughly in earnest he was, much sympathy t as manifested for Bob and "Bob's baby," as the child came to be called, and many kind-hearted people were ready to aid him in his endeavors. So Bob bucceeded, as he deserved to do, and nothing more was ever aaid about send ing Elsie to the poorhouse.- She, meanwhilo, continued to grow and thrive. In fact, she quite outgrew her original wardrobe, which was carefully folded away in Mrs. Darby's best drawer, and new and coarser clothing provided for her use. Nearly a year had passed away, and peo ple were ceasing to speculate upon the mysterious advent of Bob's baby, when the affair was revived again by the appear auoe of an advertisement in a New Yoik paper, headed : "Child lost." Then followed a descrip tion of the child, of its clothing, with a statement of dates and circumstances which seemed to identify Elsie as the lost one be yond a doubt. The address given was Amos Markham, box 1229, New York city. Poor Bob ! This was a terrible blow to him ; but he felt that he ought to do all that he could to restore El.sie to her parents; so he immediately wrote a letter in answer to the advertisement, and, having dropped it iu the office, returned home with a heavy heart. "Mebbe she don't belong to therr, after all," said Bob to himself, "and they've got to prove it before they take her away." This was the one hope to which he clung, but it speedily vanished, for only three days later a lady and gontleraan stopped at Mother Darby's door. Bob hastened to open it, aud a single glance at the lady's face told him that sho was El-ie's mother. "Is this the place ?" began the gentle man, but, with a faint-shriek, the lady darted through the open door aud caught little Elsie in her arms. "O my darling, my darling !" sobbed she ; for neither time, nor change, nor ab sence deceive the mother's heart. If further proof was needed it was found on Elsie's clothing, which, as we have al ready said, Mother Darby had carefully preserved and iu the complete harmony of the evidence ou both sides. The story Mr. Markham told was this His wife being an invalid, he had taken her to Italy to pass the winter, leaving Elsie in charge of a nurse in whom they had confidence. They kept up a constant correspondence with the woman till their return, when, to their dismay, they found . both nurse and child missing from the i house iu which they had lived wheu they left the couutry. They could obtain no trace of her, and only recently they had re ceived a message from the woman, through a third person, that she bad left the child at some station on the line of the New York Central railroad, but the name of the place she had forgotten or failed to notice Her object in thrs transaction was, of course, to appropriate the money, with which she had been liberally supplied, and rid herself of the burden of caring for the child. To Mother Darby, Mr Markham paid for her care of Elsie twice as much as it was worth, which she received with a grateful courtesy, but to Bob he said : "I don't know bow I can pay you." "I don't want no pay. I did it because I loved her," answered Bob with a quiver ing lip. "I shall remember you, though," said ho and led his wife to the hack which awaited them outside the gate, but when he would have lifted Elsie in, she clung to Bob cry- inK ' "Bobbie go too 1 Bobbie go too I" "And why shouldn't he go too? It is cruel to separate them," said Mrs. Mark ham. Then Mr. Markham said, turning to Bob, "How would you like to go to New York with us?" "To New York and be with Elsie I" cried Bob, his brain hardly able to take in two ideas of such magnitude at once. "Yes, to be with Elsie always. Do you think you could be happy with us ?" "Happy? Oh !" was all that Bob couM say. Another Christmas morning dawned, and again Bob rode away from the station with Elsie in his arms not, however, in the poor coal-heaver's cart, but in Mr. Markbam's comfortable carriage. Presently the carriage slopped, not at Mother Darby'slittle one-story house in the outskirts of Wakesha, but at a pleasant, commodious dwelling in New York city. Mr. and Mrs. Markham alighted, and went up the granite steps, followed by Bob, leading Elsie by the hand. The door opened, and warmth, and light, and beauty greeted them whichever way they turned. Such was Bob's entrance into his new home. Can we do better than to take our leave of him there by wishing him a Merry Christmas ? THE WITCHED CLOCK. Abont half-past eleven o'clock on Sunday night, a human leg, euveloted in blue broadcloth, might have been seen entering Cephas Barbery's kitchen window. The leg was followed finally by the entire per son of a lively Yankee, attired iu his Sun day go-to-mcetisr clothes. Il was, iu short, Joe Mayweed, who thus burglariously, in the dead of night, won his way into the deacon's kitchen. "Wonder how much the deacon made by ordering me not to darken his door again?" soliloquized the young man. "Promised him I wouldn't, but didn't say uothiu' about winders. Winders is just as good as doors, if there ain't no nails to tear your trowsers onto. Wonder if Sal' 11 come down ? The critter promised me. I'm afraid to move here, 'cause I might break my shins over Koinelli'm' or 'neither, and wake the old folks. Cold enough to freeze a polar bear here. Oh, here comes Sally." The beautiful maiden descended with a pleasant smile, a tallow candle and a box of matches. After receiving a rapturous greeting, she made up a roaring fire in the cooking stove, and the happy couple sat down to enjoy the sireet interchange of views aud hopes. But the course of true love ran no smoother in old Barberry's kitchen than it did elsewhere, and Joe, who was making up his mind to treat himself to a kiss, was startled by the voice of the deacon, her father, shouting from his cham ber door : "Sally, what are you getting up in the middle of the night for?'' "Tell him it's most morning," whispered Joe. "I can't tell a fib," said Sally. I'll make it a truth, then," said .Tue, and running to the huge old fashioned clock that stood in the corner he set it at five. "Look at the clock and tell me what time it is," cried the old gcutjciuau up stairs. "It's five by the clock," answered Sally, and corroborating the words, the clock struck five. The lovers 6at down and resumed the conversation. Suddenly the staircase be- gan to crack. "Good gracious, it's fath er." The deacon, by thunder 1" cried Joe. "Hide me, Sal." 'Where cau I hide yon?" cried the dis tracted girl. 4Oh, I know," said he, "I'll squeeze into the clock case." And without another word, he concealed himsaif iu the case and drew the door be hind him. i he deacon was dressed, and sitting himself down by the cooking stove, pulled out his plie, lighted it, and commenced smoking it very deliberately and calmly. 'Five o'clock, eh?" said he. "Well shall have time to smoke three or fou pipes, then I'll go and feed the critters." "Hadu't you better go and feed thect it ters first, sir, and smoke afterward ?" sug gested the dutiful Sally. "F ; smokiH clars my head and wakes me up," said the deacon, who seemed not a whit disused to hurry his enjoyment. Bur-r-r whiz-z ding 1 went the clock. 'Tormented lightning !"' cried the dea con, starting up, and dropping his pipe on the stove. "What in creation's that ?" "It's only the clock striking five," said Sally tremulously. Whiz I ding 1 ding 1 went the old clock, f ui iously. "Powers of mercy I" cried the deacon "Striking five ! it's 6truck a hundred al ready." , "Deacon Barberry 1" cried the deacon'8 better half, who had hardly robed herself, and now came plunging down the staircase in the wildest state of excitement, "what's the matter with the clock ?" "Goodness only knows," replied the old man. "it s been in tlie family these hun dred years, and never did I know it to act so before." Whiz ! bang 1 bang I went the clock. "It'll burst itself 1" cried the old lady. shedding a Mood of tears, and there won't be nothing left of it." "It's bewitched," said the deacon, who retained a luaven of New England super stition in his nature. "Anyhow," he said, after a pause, advancing resolutely toward the clock, "I'll see what's get into it." Oh, don't," cried the daughter, affec tionately seizing oue of his coat-tails, w hile his faithful wife hung to the other. Don't," chorused both of the women together. "Let go my raiment," shouted the dea con. "1 am tairaiu oi tue powers of dark next day all Appletown was alive with the story of how Deacon Barberry's clock had been bewitched ; and though many be lieved his version, som?, afid csjccially Joe Mayweed, effected to discredit the whole affair, hinting' that the deacon had been tryii,g the experiment of tasting frozen cider, and that the vagaries of the clock case existed ouly in a distempered ituagin ati jn. TnE Father of a Family. A regular poser a clincher is the case of an Irish man named Dennis, if true ; if not true, the Annual Register must be held respon sible. He died at Athenry in 1804, at the age of one buudred and seventeen; he had been married seven times, the last time at the age of ninety-three. He survived the births of forty-eight children, two hundred and thirty-six grandchildren, four hundred and forty-four great-grand -children, and t wen ty-fi ve great-great-grandchildren. All the Year Round. The current of air extinguished the light What is the difference between a piece I the deacon, the old lady and Sally Mod of honeycomb and a black eye? Oue is up stairs, aud Joe Mayweed, extricating the production of a laboring bee, and the himself from the clock, effected his oscaie other of Uelaboiiug. jiu the same way be bad entered. The ness. But the women would not let go 6o the deacon slipped off his coat and while, from the sudden cessation of resistance, they fell heavily pn the floor, he darted forward and laid his hand on the clock case. But no human power could open it. Joe was holding it inside with a death grasp. The deacon began to be dreadfully frightened. He gave one more tug. An unearthly yell, as of a fiend in distress, came from the in- "ide, and then the clock case pitched head foremost on the floor, smashed its face aud wrecked its proportions. A GOLD EX GIliE. There is a servant girl living with a fam ily fin Detroit, says the Free Irr, who wouldn't be permitted to change pUces if $ 10 a week would be any inducement for her to stay. She makes it her special dnfy to meet all agents and beggars at the door, and to dispose of them without the least annoyance to the family. She has a rule to meet each case, and her rules are perfection. The door bell never fools her. She can tell a caller's ring from a beggar's ring an ceitaiiily as the bell is touched. When she opens the door and finds a man with a red goatee, having a clothes-wringer in his hand, she doesn't wait for him to hem and haw and say that his clothes-wringer beats all the other wringers ever made. She gets the start by saying : "You seem like a decent, respectable man, and as a friend I warn you that the owner of the house saw you como up the steps and he ran into the back yard to un chain his Russian bloodhound." The mau with the red goatee slings that wringer over his right shoulder and canters out of that neighborhood with histeeth on edge and cold chills playing tag up and down his back. The next one may be a young lady, who boldly inquires for the lady of the house, and has a new kind of face pow der to sell. "You can go in," whispers the girl, 'and I will stand at the door so as to rush iu when yon call. If the mistress asks yon to taste anything, beware of jtoison. She may not have her revolver this morning, aud I guess it will he safe for you to go in." "Why why?" slamuiors the young; lady. "Go right in; she may not be danger ous." "Never mind. I'll call again. I'm in a huiry." And that settles that case. The next is one of those chaps who go about with tears in their eyes, willing to work if work can be had ; but uever finding any woik their health will permit them to do. "Madam," he says as she opens the doc-r, "for Heaven's sake let mo work at some thing long enough to earn a slice of bread?' She motions for him to go around to the side door and is there to let him in. She hands him an axe weighing seven pounds, with a straight handle, points to three o? four big knots which have become -hnoat petrified, and very 6oftly says : 'Vou look hungiy, aud as soon as you split those up I'll give you the best meal you've had iu a month." She goes in and he spits on his hands, looks at that old ax, and then folds his little tent and slips through the gate like a shadow ot fate. Then the little girl who canvasses for the orphan asylum rings the belL She is met with a smile and the hired girl says : "You poor little thing ! I pity the orphans. If you will get the mayor to come here and say it is all right I will give you three cents. The little girl thoucht fully pnrsucs ber way and another case comes, is met and disposed of, and the mistress of that house' is never disturbed or annoyed. Rich Without Monet. Many a man. is rich without money. Thousands of men with nothing iu their pockets, and thous ands without even a pocket are rich. A mau with a good sound constitution, a good stomach, a good heart, and good limbs, and a pretty good head piece isiich. Good bones are better than gold ; tough muscles than silver and nerves that flash- fire and carry energy to every function are better than lauds. It is better than a landed estate to have the right kind of a father and mother. Good breeds and bad breeds exist among men as really as among hcrdsand horses. Education may do much to cheek evil tendencies or to develop good ones ; but it is a great thing to inherit the right propoition of faculties to start with. The man is rich w ho has a good disposition who is naturally kind, cheerful, hopeful, and who has a flavor of wit and fun in his composition. Sharp Camses. Two dogs were often observed to go to a ceitain point together, when the small one remained behind at a corner of a large field, while the mastiff went around by the side of the field, which ran up hill for nearly a mile and led to a wood ou the left. Game abounded in those districts, and the object of the dogs' ar langement was soon seen. The teriier would start a hare and chase it up hill to wards the large wood at the summit, where they arrived somewhat tired. At thi noint the large dog, which was fresh i.. rested aftsr his walk, darted fter tho ani mal, which he usually captured. Thev then ate the hare between them and re- u i nert borne. 11,13 Couise Lad b va tematicallyoarri'd on for some Hm lw,fr Uwaftt-uuderetood
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