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r.r,!.j hr New York advertisers for ailvertsin oat'
i j that city noes 10 i.n-ipera-.ive Iewsracr8.
I' t his statement is trne there is no occasion for
1 nrprise that prominent papers which are mil
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i n to ho.e a rival with which they find theni
l.eivps nnahle to maintain a competition.
I Fail particulars ahout the Co-operative News
i,iiers. together with catalogues and ad vertisinir
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II EEC RE UUYINO OR RENTING A
CABINET OR PARLOR ORGAN
1 jure to .'end for on r I.ATKST Cat Al.ori! anil
C: urn. a its with new stylks, REnrrr.n pricks
ttn.l much informTtion. if frrr. MASON J
HAMLIN OKOAN CO., Uoston, New York or
I'hicaso.
, n HiX Fl V It 1N. with tintni. 10c. A pent s'
4Uutfit loc. L. JON F.S & CO., Nassau, N. Y.
H retail price ?so only 5.V PIANOS
retail price fold only 185. Oreat
bargains. Beatfy, Washington. .. J.
or Fnrj fsrils, Knowflak llamask
Assorted
LJ m tii styles, with name, locts.
Nassau Cat d
V')., 'a.'sau, N. Y.
Ci A KAY to Aarents canvassing: fnrthe Flre
J4 i.te Visitor. Terms and Outfit Free Ad
VI .lre.s P. O. VIUKERY, Augusta, Maine.
.mTinm
hayy
Tobacco
ATirl-l mhtt pr,z at Crntmnlal Exposition Tor
' ' r'.'-ri y q mHtin am! rrrrtfrnce n,,d Voting tfmr
an." f rirreK ,i;g and fimnring. Th best tubarro
iTtr nvl: As oar bl-.ie strip trarfr-miirk i rlwlr
Karat 1 01 inferior pnawia. m lliat J irkmn't Hrl is
m e--y j,l:nf. S.,11 I t all dealer.. s,..i ,ati.K
V e, :o C. .V. Jackson A Co., Mfr., sbuiic. VI
;. F. W AItlM.K, rhlla., ra.,(,neial Areata.
INSTITUTE'Bw,No.oa W.4th CC.
tnrlnnatl. ,tabiibrt tar the can at Cmnerr,
Tviaora, Ikra, Sercfiila. o.l dkla llr.
r.ocrrcurrdwlioout IhenKoruieknirForeauitlc.
F or lnrirmation,pocloaetwo atarapii fbrbonkcontata.
in llrrif irwimfM, tmimonlali from patlrata
I- M. fcrmUcnj, M. !., Box 598, Clnclnn.U. O.
RFST FrT KTf forall SewinarMa.
I,r'M InWLII chine. 5)c. iwr ilor..
KKDLES
free.M.I FLOCK,
Hackettsfn, N. J.
OUTI'MKH !- I IK lift T Vrevented
3nt( nr- l by the use of PVLMONA. Pre-'ri.n-il
liy our leiftinn phvsioians. Ak Tour
'ra.'iti.t !..r it. nnd refuse ail other medicine's ot
lre l m its stea J.
Messrs. EDITORS:
As we were connected with
Dr. QUINCYA. SCOTT'S
Dental Establishment!
AT THB TIMK HIS
CENTENNIAL SPECIMENS
Wer mqnufj.-tur-il. westate positively that those
elegant i' ntal Specimens which received the
CENTENNIAL MEDAL and DIPLOMA
WKItF. f A Dtt (IT
DR. QUINCY A. SCOTT
An-I
th-it
iiive
lii' aaistsnts. And we desire also to state
we h:ive licon In many dental offices, and
si-n -i'-Dtistrv in all it iihases. but have
i hit .).-n ,rk tarned oat anywhere to eiiul
lhaims.leat
t x I im Avenue,
Pirrsni ikjii, ia.
'e J B-tt think It necessary, but we also wish to
endorse
Oiii.icvy Scott
Ala rentlemnn. npriatht and honorable in
all social anil business relations.
I'R .TtiHN st'OTT. Dr. W. H. PF.RKY,
lt. JOS. OKA II AM. JOHN K. A1IL,
A LI. of riTTSItBCIH, PA,
NOTICE
TO CONSUMERS
Th! trot celebrity or the TIN T AO TOBA
' i In- ciiuyed many imitations thereof to he put
"n the market. e therefore caution all Chew
t n i n s r iiirchnsing sucli imitations.
All 'teller tuvifitr or selling other pluir tobacco
'"'jrin a hsrd firmtaltc iatel render themselves
l'Me in the penalty of the law. and all persons
V"!atin:t our trade mark are punishable hv tine
n l 'ti!.ri,.nmcr,t. !S KB ACT i F CONG K KS,
Ar,- U. 1-79.
I lie miine I.f) II ! I,T, A It I TIN TAf T
"AfCt can be distinguished bv a TIN TAfI on
'"Mi liimn with the word LOItli.LA III) stamped
tnre.n
"Ter T.n tons tofmcco sirld In 1S77. and near
IJ S.ntm per.ms employeit In fnct.trles.
Tes pai.i -vernment in 1S77. nbont 3.S00,PO9,
M .luring past tt venrs. over CO.000,000.
rh?e KW is Svdd W all jobbers at manufactur
er mif,. J J
!' T-h T' Tn SmrtK,ni? Tobacco Is "second
-Mril 12. 1
3tU.
lliATIIKR
AND
RUBBER BELTING
KlBBtK Hose; Rl BBF.tt
ri.LMBfil, AHST08,
Italian and
Hemp Packino ;
Lace Lkatheh.
Excink Oii,
And Mill Supplies Ceneraily.
W 4KI IIOI 8K anil OI I K I ,
"Vo. los Writer Street, J'ittsbiirffh.
THORP .Sc CO.
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H7S.-ly.
Ill IS THE riM K.TO SEI'PR K T KRR I
W lOUY for IHt. MiLE'S GIIKAT WOUK,
if Til K SKW 1 1. 1. 1 NTH ATM)
i- va w
y grN4e,t selling book Tor the PennevlvHtiia
''''id. Liber! terms to Agents. Send SI i.o at
"'l'a f,,r tJomplele outfit, or 10 cents ror our (14
Sntnplo, and name territory wanted. Ad
r' S l. f jM!CITI. Hiiblisher,
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''t fail tn miy'what jcpt.r t" ac thi 4i.
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i-Laip Johnstown. Pa OfSce In the old
aaV!''? biling', (uptaira.acopet of Clin-
. " vinwnai. iirtKt, win aiiena vo mi mmm-
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TOBACCO !
a
Written for the Frekxax.
MY BIRI, AT THE l'lJIP,
t
lrw Iore,y ""1 fair was the tnnrnlnir,
w--.we",n ,hro"r, 'he rlusterinlf trees
I,i'rn,,!iZ,,, ,he1r b"UKhw9ilorniruT,
Shilted soft by the wandering breeze!
II.
1 'mid the radinncr, a maiden
One tiptoe the old pump stand by
ith (rlittcrinjr pail liKhtly Imlen
Keach up to the pump hafidle high
in.
Twas early, so earl- at dawninir.
The tdr-ds were awild In th Ir irlee ;
The mendowg rty low in th Ir swarding-.
But naught was so lovely to ine
IV.
As the fresh race that bent o'er the water,
v ith irrave eyes so tender and sweet
With lips half enci cled with laughter.
The beautilul vision to meet.
V.
The brown arms, so strong-, raised their burden
And o'er Iheitreon path took her way,
That Dauirhter of Nature disturbing
No note of the minstrelsy gayt
f.
That waited on each bush about her.
To carol her on her way home;
Lonely the scene was without her,
My girl whom I worship alone.
VII,
Slowly I rode to my labor
At.d oreamed of the picture so fair.
Wonileriiifr it my trentle young- neighbor
Could 'ceptor my honest, best care.
Tin.
How could I enjoy of a mornlna-
To catch 1 he pure itlint of htr tone."
Coming buck from my pump in my garden,
And call the dear sioger mine own.
A MURDERED PEDDLER.
BY JIDT.E CLARK.
An old time Pennsylvania Governor tts
once interviewed as lo t lie methods lie pro
posed proposing in his forthcoming mes
sage. "Viist and voremos'," he said, ,:I dink
of ricomnientin' a bill to iani.sh Yankee
.et tiers viom de Sbate. You sec detn fel
lers dovs noting but o apotit lioonipuckin'
de bfple mit deir pcn cliimeracks, sucli
as. bassvoot nutmegs; vereas any pot y, as
ki ows anydinrr, knows dot de cmywine
ntitmeck is nude out of sassy fiack."
Had fuch a law beeo passed and stiictly
enfoiced, it would have saved .led Sinkey
a woild of trouble.
It was my riist murder. Don't.be start
led, reader I only mean it was my fiist
case of that kind ; ihe aforesaid .leil being
the accused parly, and his alleged victim a
Yankee peddler.
Jed wan Ihi poor to employ counsel ; so
the court eonjiwitetl my services in his be
lialf. In other words I was assigned the
horrible duty of conducting his defen.se
ffftiti. We young la wyersj;ot most of that
sort of business, and we willingly accepted
it ; it served to bring us out, you see.
The case was a tough one. lu brief it
was this :
On a certain evening a Y'ankee peddler,
who had been making a profitable tour of
the i;eighboi hood, found himself at Jed's
dor, and applied for night's lodging.
Jed gave him a hc-aity welcome. He
would have done so at any other time ; but
on Ibis occasion, his greet itig was the morn
cordial because he was alone, his wife hav
ing gone to attend a sick neighbor, and Jed
was a man fond of company.
He and his guest, and a neighbor who
dropped in, spent a jolly evening, and when
the last meiiti.med had gone, Jed at least
that was his stoiy and the peddler bade
each other good night and good-bye, the
hitter intending to make an eaily start
next morning.
The sun "was some hours high when Jed,
who was never an eaily riser, and whose
late hours the night hefoie had probably
deejwMicd his morning a him bet a, was
aroused, after some effort by a crow d of ex
cited neighbors gathere.l about his bed.
'The peddler! the peddler f were the
words ta everybody' mouth.
"A plague oil the peddler!" growled
Jt-d, rubbing his eyes; deleft afore day
lightleastwise lie said lie would, and I
suppose he kept his word, tho' I wain't
fool enough t lay awake to see."
Uut his horse is m your stable,"
"In Course he is. l)idn"t him and mo
swaji yesterday evenin' ? (iuess the Yan
kee didn't, get much the best of it, nuther.
Old Hockey's fifteen, ef he's a day, ami if
liis eyes keeps on, he II have to take lo
sjecs soon ; besides lie's had the lamjjers
these ten year. Hut it was a fair and
square trade. Jem JJui Kilt ueie siooa oy
and seed it."
Hut. Jem Burkitt, the neighbor who had
n tiled on the previous evening, failed to
c nlirm this statement.
'I didn't see no swap," said Jem ; "and
wo.' more, Old Kockey's out there iu the
lot now. '
"You don't say so," cried Jed, starting
op; "I wonder if that tarnal Yankee's
coining tack to me."
"The Yankee won't never come back,"
ut ered half a dozeu voices in solemn Con
cert. "It's to be hoped he won't," said Jed,
"but if he comes back on 6uch a fool's ar
rant a tilde's a trade the world over."
"He won't never come back not in this
Troild," gravely repeated a gray haired,
earnest man "he's dead ! murdered !
his head allsjjit to pieces, and it's only
light lo sny there's a strong suspicion that
you done it !"
The light of that morning had, in trulh,
revealed a horrible deed of crime. The
peddler's lifeless body, covered with sick
en'.ng wounds, had been discovered in a
ravine not far from Jed's cabin. A bhxdy
hatchet ljing near, evidently the ins'.ru
mcnt employed in the murder, was identi
fied as Jed's property, while in his stable
was Touud the horse the peddler had lid
den. Jed was more profuse than col erent in
his explanations. He protested that after
retiring for the night, he had neither seen
nor spoken to tLe pcddlei ; that the latter,
in accordance with his previously express
ed pm pose, must have left befoie day ugnt,
and the story of the swap Jed stuck to with
dogged pertinacity, in the face of Jem
Buikitt's rlat contradict ion.
Black as Jed's case looked at first, it was
not long until it looked blacker. A search
of the premises was instituted and under a
pile of straw in the stable was found the
dead peddler's pack. The murdered man
was known to have had a considerable sum
of money, none of which was found, either
on the body or in Jed's possession a cir
cumstance whiclT weighed but little in the
latter's favor, for money is a thing easily
concealed.
Evervbodv believed Jed guiUy every
body but bis poor wife, who reached borne
just ia time to see her husband led off to
201 -it ji BTTiti?!-" jp p?jppS ti -za-fc; sags . IggH Slp
EirV8-ey View, John Wanamaher's Grand Depot, Thirteenth Street,
SI? jRLZSST US-, 1878.
Silks
Dress Goods
Mourning Goods
Cloaking
Flannels
Linens
Muslins
White Goods
Laces
Ribbons
Trimmings
Embroideries
Fringes
Zephyrs and Worsteds
Xecktccar
Gloves
Toilet Articles
Stationery
Flowers Feathers
j.iil. She clung to him to the last, sobbing
out, "Indeed, indeed, he never did ir."
The day of trial was at hand. I was sit
ting in my office at a la:e hour, giving the
finishing touches to a speech I was prepar
ing, more, I confess, for my own sake than
the piisoner's when the d.Hir opened, and
the prisoner's wife, with haty and un
steady steps, advanced and stod before
me. Her face looked hauiaid. but a crleam
' of eager joy shone from her eye?.
! "I have walked twenty miles to see yiti
to night," he said, "I have at last the
I proofs of my husband's innocence."
j She spoke iu an assured tone, and when
I I had heaid her strp.nge story through, my
coovicwon 01 us tiutu amounted to cer
tainty. "Have you any evidence of the facts you
have related other than your own word?"
I asked.
'Xo," she replied, tremulous and anx
ions, "is that not sufficient ?"
"A wife cinnot be a witness for her hus
band." I answered relnetaiitlv.
------ -.j -
The strength that had borne her up gave '
way, and reeling back, she fell swooniug to
the lloor.
I raised her gently and placed her in a
chair, and when she had sufficiently recov
ered to understand my words, I did my
best to soothe and salni her stiiving to
make her comprehend that, though he- lips
were scaled as a witness, now that she bad
placed the clew of truth in my hand, I
might, with heaven's help, be able to find
for her husband a way out of the peiils
with which lying circumstances had sur
rounded him. Above all things I caution
ed her to keep her secret, and by no means,
unless I sent for her, to be present at the
trial.
On the morning the case came on Jed
looked despondent, but. on the whole bote
up with courage. A jury was soon obtain
ed. and the case opened. The prosecution
proved substantially the facts alvove narra
ted by a number of witnesses, all of whom
I suffered to go without cross examination
till it came Jem Buikitt's turn.
Jem, as the strongest witness, was re- ,
served to the last. In addition to what the
others had told, he knew the fact of the
peddler's presence at I he prisoners house
on the fatal nigl t, where he had left, them
together at a late hour, and besides that he
was able to expose the falsehood of Jed'a
stovy of the horse-swap.
The witness gave his evidence with con
fidence and clearness. It evidently had
the effect of dispelling any lingering doubts
of I he jury in whose faces a stern look of
conviction was plainly visible.
For the first time, I rose to cross-examine.
The witness confronted me with an
air of c-miposnre.
"Pleas open and examine that," I be
gan, handing him a small parcel.
He eyed me suspiciously, and with ner
vous fingers began to undo the wrapping.
He gave a sudden start when he had re
moved it, and a silver-cased hunter's watch
fell from his hands to the floor.
"Did you ever see that be fore?" I asked;
taking it up and reaching it toward him,
but he shrank from touching it.
"I I never did," lie stammered, bis
face turning ghastly white.
"ier. me reiresn your memory, ' I r-ft
ceerterl. " I bat is the dead ma'i watch,
and here is the pockeLjui.tH containing the
money for wlucfrymi murdered him. Yon
w followed ou you i last visit to the bid
EBENSBURG, PA., FRIDAY, MAY 24, 187S.
THE second year of the General Dry Goods Business
at the Grand Depot is just opening. It is proper to
Bay that -what -was deemed an experiment, the first
year, experience proves to be a success, and we now
propose to greatly improve on the first plans.
The principles of
X A uniform low price for ovorytliins throughout
the House.
2 One Price and no partiality.
3 Politeness and Patience to rich and poor.
4 Cash Returned if buyers return coda (even
though Dress Patterns) in reasonable time
and uninjured.
A very large stock of all kinds or newest Dry Goods
always on hand, arranged on one floor with plenty of
light to see them. A thousand people can easily be waited
on atone time. 'Where so many goods are selling every
day the people are sure of getting only fresh goods.
Earnestly desiring to serve the people well, and inviting
them to visit the Grand Depot whether they wish to buy.
or "only to see the fashions."
at? If 001 coming to the city to see the magnificent
Sayj ril J new s'ock for Spring, send for samples, describ
ing class of goods wanted. We do a large business through
the mail.
Very respectfully,
JOHN WAN AM AK ER,
Grand Depot. Thirteenth and Market Sts.
PHILADELPHIA.
ing-place in which you have kept them,
where you were'seeo to take them from
their concealment, and after assuring your
self of their safety, to replace them. When
you had gone, the person who watched
you, and who is now within call, took pos
session of these evidences of your guilt, and
they are here to confront you."
'I he base wretch shrank upon his knees
in abject tei ror.
"Have mercy !'
he exclaimed, turning i
. .. n 1 n .. : r ....
appeanngiy troni one
nuiniri m hire io
another. "Have mercy, and I will confess
all;" and he did so, relating in broken
sentences, the story of his waylaying and
murdering the eddler in the daikness of
the eaily morning, and the steos he had
afterwards taken to cast suspicion on the
prisoner.
The words, "not guilty" had"jiist fall
en from the lips of the foreman, when a
cry of j-y rang through the court room,
and Jed's wife, who, iu spile of my Injunc
tion, could keep away no longer, fell weep
ing Jon her husband's bosom. Convinced
from the first t.f his innocence, she had felt
almost an equal conviction of Jem Bui kill's
guilt, and by stealthily hanging on the hit
ter's step, with the vigilaiieo of a woman
devoted to a purpose, she was at hist ena
bled to unveil the teriible secret, and save
her husband's life.
Advice to Y'ouno Ladies. Trust not
to the uncertain riches, but prepare your
self foi every emergency in life. Learn to
woik and not be dependent upon servants
to make your biead. Sweep your own
floors and knit your own stockings, and
dam them when they need it. Above all
things, do not esteem too lightly those
honorable young men who sustain them
selves and their parents by the woik ot
their own hands, while you receive into
your company thoso lazy, idle loafeis who
never lift a finger to help themselves, nor
their patents, nor anybody else. So they
just keep soul and liody together, and get
sufficient to live in fashion, is the height of
their ambition. Y'oung ladies, slum the
c impany of such characters as these. Bid
them good night and. order them out of
sight.
i oung ladies, remember this, and in
stead of sounding the praise of your lovers,
and examining the cut of their coats, look
into their hearts and habits, and see il they
have trades, and can depend upon them
sel"CS. See if they have minds that will
lead them to look aliove a butterfly's ex
istence. Talk not; of the beautiful white
skin, and Ihe soft, delicate hand, and the
fine appearance of the young man. Iet
not these foolish considerations trouble
your minds.
Young ladies, when you marry, b sure
and get a man who is not too lazy to work.
The elevation of man is to be sought, or
rather consists, first in force of thought
exerted for the acquisition of trulh. All
that a man d.ies outwardly is but the ex
pression and completion of his inward
thought. To work eff.-ctnall y"'""rr ust
think clearly; to act nijbly.'ve mnt think
nobly. Intellectual Torce is a. principal tl
emenJof the soul's life, and should 1 ac
cepted by every man as the lincipal end
of his being. ,
Sr.T.t df.sal is a graqd virtue : we al-
ways delight tojsee it ia other persons, . .
Ladies Jb Misses Suits
Sacques C Cloaks
' Undertvear
Hosiery
XTjyholstery Goods
Blankets ami Quills
Trunks and Valises
Rubber Goods
Horse Covers
Mens C- Roys Clothing
Hats
(
SJioes
WHO B UIL T IT?
ItEMAT.MS OF A STRONG STOSF, WALL WHOSE
INTENTION AND HISTORY ARE A
MYSTERY.
There is in Fayette county. West Virgi
nia, the remains of an ancient stone wall,
iu regaid to which nothing definite seems
to be known, and which is acttiiosity well
worth investigation by those inteisted in
. ... ... : : . . ti.; n i i .
iinici lu.iij tint iifiiii i. una nun wanoiiiii
tn tlie so mini; of an alm;st inaccessible
ridgo, foi ining the wateished between
Armstrong and Loup creeks, ahout a mile
from their confluence with the Great Kan
awha River, and w hich at this point i ises
to an elevation of 1,375 feci bve the
river, forming a short ridge or' backbone, -comparatively
level in tho direo ion of its
course. In ascending the steep slope fac
ing the river ;he wall is encountered aliout
seventy five feet vertically'from the top of
the mountain, and from this point it can
be traced entirely around, following as
near as piacticable the contour of the
ridge. The en.ire length of this wall, to
the best of my knowledge, is about six
m iies, though it is estimated by smue at
twelve and fourteen miies. There is a
single cinss wall dividing this enclosure
into two unequal compartments, within
the larger of which is a pool of clear water,
ten or twelve feet in diameter,, and which
the old settlers of this regiou believe lo
have been a well.
Mr. Bmler, who came to this section
w I, en it was partly occupied by the Indians,
allii ins this pool to have been ten feet deep
er than it is at the present, and that, as far
as he knows the Indians knew nothing in
regard to the wall save its existence.
The wall seems to have been about eight
feet wide and as many in height. Wbete
it has fallen the stone covers a space of
twenty or ihir'.y feet wide, and in places it
is raised five or six feet above the surface:
the remains aie so distinct that it may be
traced several bund ed raids on euher
side from the summit of the ridge. All
loose stones have been cariied from within
the enclosure to the wall, and for some dis
tance on the outside there is no htose rock.
Large masses of black flint may be seen
some distance nbove the ledge, and since
there is only one black flint ledge iu this
formation it is evident that these masses
have been carried np the hill to the wall.
There are two important questions to be
answered Who built the wall? For what
purpose was it built?
I will leave the answer to someone bet
ter infoi ined ou I hese subjects, but will al
ways be ready to answer any ques.ious
which ni.iv throw light on the subject.
William N. Pace,
Hawk's xest, Fayette county, W. Va.,
31ay 2, 1S73.
File Yorit Paper, ThellwnTg clip
ped from an exchajige Txpresses au idea
well worjJhjitf-wTteli ion :
fsfwell worth while to ware your home
paper and bave it lonu.l. A few years will
make it the most instruct! ve and entertaining
volume that yon can possess. All the laws
of association make it more or less a history
of yourself and friends. Names, dates, facts,
are preserved for yon in the most accessible
manner, river it von may cry at your mis
takes and langh at youi follies and rejoice In
a review of those wteps that have led you to
prosperity, it gives the history of your town
which is butan epitome of ouiversal history."
SA VED.
THE HEMABKABI.F, Fl'I.FILI.MEXT OF TWO
DKF.AMS.
One winter evening about fifty years ago,
a post chaise, with a single gentleman in
side it, drove up to a little Inn on the
Pcntland Frith, in the noith of Scotland,
where passengers who weie going to cross
to the Orkneys usually spent the night.
Mr, Mac T. was the owner of a large
estate, and an old house which had be
longed to his family for hundreds of years,
in the Mainland, or chief of the Orkney
Islands, and was now about to visit his
probcrty. It was a blustering, stormy
night, but that only made more pleasant
the Vgar and the glass of whisky and the
cracking wood -fire by wh'ch Mac T. sat
chatiing with the landlord, who was an
old friend both of his father and himself,
and who was proud of entertaining the
"young laird," as he called him, with his
wildest tales of advent ure on the sea. They
did not, however, sit late, for the Orkney
packet sailed very early in the morning,
and Mac T. soon found himself in his cozy,
well-appointed little bed-room.
The wind was chanting a grand Bar
serker melody, and the sea was roaring a
deep bass accompaniment. Mac T. loved
those sounds, for they bad often been the
lullably of his childhood, and soon .fell
asleep. Forsome hours he slept wi bout
an image or a thought reaching his mind ;
but. at length, when tne morning was
glimmering gray in the east,
A STKASGE DREAM
came to trouble him. He dreamt that he
was in the ancient banqueting hall of li is
r.i-r i t,;.i.. . .1.
head of ivA.vlr.ntr table. Tl. lui.ni.nt in.r '
ball was now in reality almost a miu, but
in his dream Mac T. saw it bung with
tapestry, and blaz'.ng with a hundred
lights. The table was well rilled on both
sides, and he thought he glanced curiously
down its length to see who the guests weie.
Ashe looked he shuddered iu his dream.
Those who sat at the table w ith him were
all his dead ancestor for many generations ,
back. He knew their faces and dresses
well from their portraits in the picture
gallery. Next to him sat his own father, j
who had died about a year before. And !
at the bottom of the table sat a fait-haited !
man in the dress of skins, who was a Noise :
chieftain, the founder of the family. It I
seemed to him that he sat for some minutes '
as if spell-bound, while the sjiectres mur-
mured together iu low, hallow tones. At :
length they all rose, and slowly, one by j
one, in turns, left the ball, lint befme
they went, each one paused at the door, ;
and turning, raised his hand in a warning
attitude, fixed his eyes on Mac T. ami
said in a deep voice, the woid "Beware."
the smr WRECK.
"The packet stalls in twenty minutes,
sir," cried a loud voice at the door, rousing
Mac T. suddenly from sleep. Confused at j
fiist, ye, soon remembering wheVe he was, ;
he sprang out of bed and began hurriedly j
to dress himself. Being a bad sailor, his)
first glance was naturally enough at the '
sea, c'ose to which the inn stood. The ;
wind had lisen in the nicht. The waves '
thundered on the shore, and the lit; le Oik- !
ney-packet was tossing np and down like a I
limjiet shell. As he gasced, his stiange
riieam rose up with sudden distinctness be- I
fore Mac T.'smlnd. He was infected wiih J
a good deal of thorough Scotch suierstition. !
Besides he did not much like the look of j
the sea, and so he resolved not to go till
tomorrow. That day the Oikney packet'
was lost wuh cveiy man ou board, and
Mac T. and his little w.fe, who was left at
home with the babies, had to thank that
warning dream for Irs life. The other iu
cident we have to tell is quite as singular.
ANOTHER rCH'OlS CASE.
Many years sgo the ltev. Mr. N. held a
small living in the wildest part of West
Somerset. The parish chinch st'd on a
bleak hill side, and Mr. N. who was a
batchelor, lodged in the farm house close
to it. Among his flock theie was no one
in whom the clergyman took more interest
than in Mary, the pretty daughter of the
farmer, bis landloid. When Mary was
about twenty, Mr. N. was much troubled
by finding sha had formed an attachment
with Jack l'owuseiid, the cleverest woik
man and the most worthless fellow on the
farm.
One autumn nighl the clergyman dreamt
that Marv stood at his l.edsule and cried
out :u an imploting voice. "Come out on '
to the hillside." The impression left on
his mind on waking was so dial ioct that, j
if he had not known bis door was locked, '
so that no one could enter the t smij-.lie j
would have thought. Mary must have
in !
reality bc?n thre. . Kcejiiig, howe'veV, woe
that it was only 'U cfrt'atu he ejynposed him
self once more to sleepv Bul'scaicely had
he closed" his eyesw lifen Mary was again
Mere, "calling ro him to come ou the hill
side: Seven several times he tl ied tosleep,
and seven times the phantom came back,
always with tho ame ciy. At length,
mastered by an almost ii resistible impulse,
be lose, diessed himself, and went out. ou
the bill. He walked some distance, but
could see nothing except tlu heather-bells
waving in the m.wiiliglit, could hear noth
ing but a distant she?p bell tinkling softly,
aud the stream warbling below Ihe valley.
He was just going back, when suddenly
a shrill ciy leached him. seeming to come
from a neighboi mg combe. Hiinyiiig iu
that direction, he saw at the bottom of the
combe two tlgnics, those of a man and
woman, apparently slinguling wuh each
oilier. As he dicw near, the man ran
away and tho woman fell to the ground.
When he came ii lie found it was Mary.
She had only fainted, and lie rooii brought
her to heisclf. Then by degrees she con
fessed to him that her lover bad peisuaded
her to meet him that night in the combe,
bnnf'.nif wuh tier a small sum ol tuoacj;
which she had saved from eajJttttrTiKl
by laying by little giflAfiTTeiids and re
lalious. Minima hni accoiding to custom
ComrDHi TTmoiig her class iu that day, she
hu kept in an old stocking instead of in
the bank. Towusend had promised to
eloje with her. aud many' her. and as she
loved him, and her father would not allow
the match, she had consented logo. But
when he met her. Tow nsend, instead of go
ing away wilh her, had Mied to rob her of
her money. She had lesistud, aud strug
gled with him, nnd j-ist then the clergy
man had come up aud thp villain had run
( away
Aftr that night Mr. iS. was a Ins
liever in the provideutial nature of dreams.
Argotg. -
A bit job a ne wspaper.
NUMBER IS.
D L D S O UMl AM A x r.
AN F.LErilANTtNF. CF.NTF.NA111AS ACTITO AS
A baby tender.
The following cut Ions anecdote is from a
book about elephants, wiittenbya French
gentleman named Jacolliot, and we will let
the author tell his own story : . ,
In the autumn of 1ST0 I was livinjj iu the
Interior of Bengal, and I went to spti d
Christmas with my friend, Major Daly.
'1 he Major's bungalow was on the bat-Ls
of the 'Janges near Ownpoie. He had
lived there a good many years, beinrj chief
of the Quartermaster's department at that
station, and had a great many Dative, t ie-
phauts, bullock cailsand sold it-it under his
command.
On the morning after my arrival, after a
cup of eaily tea (often taken before day
light in India), I sat smoking with my
friend in the veranda of his bungalow,
looking out Umiii the windings oflne sacred
liver. An I diiectly I asked the major
about his children (a boy and a girl), whom
1 had not yet seen, and begged to know
when I should see them.
"Soupramany has taken them out fish
ing," said their father.
"Why, isn't S uipratnany your great war
elephant?" I cried '.
'Exactly so. You cannot have forgot
ten Smpramany?"
"Of course not. I was here, you know,
when he had that fight w ith the elephant
who went mad while loading a tiausjxut
with bags of i ice dow n yonder. I saw the;
mad elephant when he suddenly began to
Ming the lice into the river. His 'mahout'
tiied to Mop him, and he killed the "ma-
l,m,t T I . u cn;l,.. .
. away to
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trumpeting, charged into this incl.isiue.
Old iMiupramany was here, and so weir
Jim and IJelsy. "hcn he saw the mad
animal, he thiew himself between him and
tho children. The hole ones and their
nurses had jost time to get into the house
when the tight commenced."
"Yes," satd the Major. "OlrT Soup was
n It ii r A rot) rt i-ei .-.1st 1 1 . 1. -1 i
lowar),,,d to fljUt he rlinoc
but be was too old lo hunt then."
Aud yet," said I, becoming animated
by the recollections of ihat day, "what a
galiant fight it was! Do you remember
how we all stood on this poich and watch
ed it, not dating to fire a shot lest we
should hit Old Souprara my ? Do you re
member, too, his look when he drew off.
after fighting an hour and a half, leaving
his adversary dying in '.he dust, and n nlk
ed straight to ihe corral,' shaking his
great eais which had been badly torn,
with his head binised. and a great pieco
brokeu from one of his tusks?"
"Yes, indeed," said the major. "Well,
since then, he is moie devoted to my dear
little ones than ever. He takes them out
whole days, and I am peifectly content to
have them undei his charge. I don't l,ke
tiusting Christain childien to the care, of
natives; but with Old Soup I kuow they
can come to no harm."
Besides the childien. oa the batiks of the
Ganges, stood Old Soup with a bamboo
rod in his trunk, with line, hook, bait and
coik, Lke cliiMien s. I ha 1 not wnicotd
him long befoie he had a bite ; for, as tl i
religion .f the Hindoos foibids them to
take life, the liver swaims with fishes.
The old fellow did not stir; his little
eyes watched his line eagerly; he was uo
novice in "the gentle ciali." He was
waiting I ill it was time to draw in his prize.
At the end of his line, as he drew it up,
was dangling one of those golden fish so
abundant in the Ganges.
When Sonpiamany perceived what a fine
fish he had caught, lie littered one of
those long, low gurgling notes of satisfac
tion by which an elephant expresses iov
and he waited patiently, exacting Jim to
take his prize oil the book and put on
some mote bait for him. Bat Jim. the
little rascal, sometimes liked to plague Old
Soup. He nodded at us as much a to
say, "Iook out, and you'll see fun. now !'
Then betook olf the fish, which he threw
into a watet jir placed there for the rnir
jMse, and went back to Ins place w ithout
putting any bait on Old Soup's hok.
The intelligent animal did not attempt to
throw his hue ii to ihe water. He tiied to
move Jim by low, pleading ct iea. Ii was
cm ions touoie what tender tunes he seem
ed to try to give his voice.
Seeing that Jim pa d no attention to bis
calls, but sat and laughed as he handled
his own. line, Old Snip went up to him,
and with his trunk tiied to turn his head
iu the direction of the iait b .s. At last,
when be found that all be could do would
not induce the wilful fi ieml to help him,
he turned round as if struck by a sadden
thought, and siintcbNig up in his trunk
the box that contained the bait, came and
laid it down at the Majoi's fett ; then pick
ing up his rod, he held it nut to his master.
j VY hat do yon w ant me to do w ith tb is,
Old Soup?" said Ihe nnjur,
j The crt at me lifted one great foot nfer
i Ihe othei, and again Ix-gau to utter bis
i pla'ntive ciy. Out of mischief, I uxk
I Jimmy's pa it. ami, picking up the bait
j box pretended, pretended to run with it.
I The elephant ws not going to be teased
j by me. He dipped his tiuk iDto the
tianges, and in an luMaoi squirted a stream
of water over me wi'h ail the force and
precisionvof a fpe engine, to the immense
amusement of ihe chil-lrrn.
The M.ij ir at once made Soup a sign to
stop, and, to make my iK-ace with the fine
old fellow, 1 baited his hook myself.
Qniveiing wiih j -y. as a baby does when
it gets hold at last of a .l.-iy thing someone
has taken from it, Old Snipiatuany hardly
....! ... .1. .. 1 1 ... . r.
i.r iiisi.in inc u, a .(Oil note Ol vv
or nailing ins line lor mm, Delore lieirt
back to his place, and wasagn watching
ins t-oik as ii tiemtjiarTTti,e tipples of the
walvr
j4rtil" for 4-
Clothes moths arc always worsetn tfie
Fummer than in any other period of the
year ; but theie ts oire plan by which Ihey
may be bafih.l, It is simple, but useful
fiom its v.-iy simplicity, and may' be ex-1
pressed in two wmds biown paper.
I'beie is no sucli protection against the
clothes moth as brown pajK-r. Annually
thousands of valuable seal skin jackets ani
other furs aie handed ovei to the dealers
foi p esei vation during the summer, and
not hiug is done except wrapping Jtiem up
iu brown pajrer and letting tberi be until
the dawning of u'nmn. There are of
conrs instances where furs and oiher
-miliar ai!iclt must of necessity be left
exposed duilng ttie sum;nr time.-' L-t
every piece of wol or fur be violently
shaken every rooming, and not clothes
moth will harbor within it.