IS' itt If'lti' ' EVfllfti lg iA PrtcPlKE, Editor and Publisher. 1 4 "HI IS A fREEMAX WHOM THE TRUTH MAKES FREE, AND ALL ARE SLATES BE9IDE." i Tcrrrts S2 per year. In advance j.UME XII. EBEXSBURG, PA., FRIDAY, JUXE 14, 1S7S. NUII1E1 21. i J . 1 1 !. ' i I .r,it,r nurg by the bair.-Samuel, 1 " ' ., y hui'.t bfj?i in the air. Genesis, i airfiin o'crlookinir the sen. I. KfnK, T. ! ..4- . . . turieil unucr it urn-uciicms, . - , ...t t ,.t tf-rti. nail lrom 1113 y on in. ne f" ' vi 1 ' ' "who trembl-d at truth. Acts, r " ' ' i ?...Vsi"'iirer sent with sc.-iml word. Dan i '. 'r lo;incl to the Lord. I. Samuel, ref ived of the Lord. Genesis, ? i' . i 'n r J in Arabian Jnnd. E.crdus, 1 1 r 1 :.. ptiirthe ds rt of sand. Deu- f -.v. i . i'. 1 ', . , r h. jfiiinsr hi? broad. Luke, xvi., :.',' ,'. !, an "t j ct of dread. Leviticus. I '," j,,. -t (teres mm.- Genesis, r i 13 2.1. .'. i ,rt in kMi p out the foe. II. Chron- ?. ..:xvWM..:W. . f. wti -nee a saint looked Bbovp. ... . 1.1 j "W-'ri-'m" "saiuted in love.-Romans, ' ire. rtt a mother of kinjrs. Mat I , !i t -iid wonderful thing's. that had u nrons hold. II. Samuel, .- uiV:ry productive of (foW. Jeremiah, 1 '. : :i whom a kins set aside. Est her. : i; whre a caw. w ished to hide. x;v . I. t . -t tt . :ii . .). l SMUGGLERS DAUGHTER. ;v In 'lie pvespiit rer.t ury that part of I f r'-it "f England Jvinsj between kr .,h of t!;e Ilumber mii-.I Bridlington j v w,is a i.iv n ite tesoi t f pnnignlers. & . . t t!;.- p.mst -.vpie depots for contra ? i i . . i sios many vi me p - pcui'jIh families residing near did , . v.. to fivor tiie trade and to lend i nn.l a,' to tliose engaged in it. One j nl.t ti'itoi ions stnngglei s was a man ej'i't!. He had Leen a fishei man 9 i. yi ostensibly at the time of vvhich t.ntive speaks, lie livra not tar ' e t t iv. ;U!il kept a smail inn which . lesiut, of seafaiing men of all .. Uo lz a d tumbler, Mary, aged !-. a lovely girl, possessed of i:.ou!iiarv in'elliar tire and knowl- i ?. r i i -fa viii! otis constittitioti. Shel pt.ictteeu Ins traae as a cm t :t;i(i had been more than once Imt s successfully had he man- 1 1'1 r 'V m up Ins tracks tiiat the aufhor- ': i i iiu '1 iti vain to cuu vict him of any :l;'iPie rime to the Qutv a Lieu : ; ; t take ch.uge f the pre ve s-ivi;e on that patt of the coast. s a ni-.n of about twenty seven, tall i-t, of mat) Iy b-eai ing and e.vtt eme- ; .ssin a pea i snce. He speedily i a i . 1 1 t n1 ized the service, fil "f si.oi;:l miiiesii abln men and mi; t'r;i places wirli el tiers of a cl';u:ctcr. i ' i ;;!it ' I X.ivembcr 5, ICO, Lien- r -, t.u'ked a smuggling party i ' tli-i ac of taudiog cask's, anil there -si"-'..'!' V M.etiio!) was fatally !. :;y l.irutetiant Major was miss 1 "i di'.d ithi:i twenty-four i !s (i iiijlitei buried hitn with y si ;u :r ii of (;:ief. It was pos--. j-'-1 ! J.y thoso who ought to know !?.:t".veJ I is death blow from M '- 'i . Vh;t bad biicotue of ' i is not l:p.7Vi. jut it was Rnp- i t'..: had b c.i killed and his body : by the li.te. Tlnee weeks af- fi ! !ir! i.ietitenatit Mjm- ap. : -.' ! :s i !;n-s in iirtdiihftoii Qnty, . f"'. er of tiijiit. H told the ! afiri the Atlack and after he ! 'I I leceivtd a bhov on r! iv'. i' U s untied htm. When be 'iff! r. .sciu;is i"ss, he found himself .'Mid !.) smulcr bigger, and wa.s '' i i i-i-.nii !;, whenc? he ttiatntged to i'.. '.r.t'ie hi;: way to the san! J,;ither that as soon as bo - '' " ! 11 niotK-y tool ai t icle. fur w hicb i .:'..:!. tV..itc i.! ed he was going to "' ' ' ;:.e impoitanl information tt :-c w here Major lodged was a ' 1 livo st.ii it s. Ma jor's bed- ; :i v, i'li' t i-aclierl by three steps 0 'I' be laudiiidy w.isa wid- i.i'. 'v. ' ' .1 rk .Mis. Slowly cm ifd a nin M nn.g hot lii n, d- and water to the 'I i .-. ij and ba'le liim god !; 'li s. (,, call him at six next 2. so t , cr.-t the eaily coticli for I'o rr.a 'A, win) bad gone to the f t lu'.i;. s'lL'ai to not in the biau- v if !, tni'l t he Kiocer of Lieuten i s Mit'xpf-ctrd tetuin and l ite ns ti e news .spu ad over the town that i ccl; next morning, whic'i was ' -'h. M,s. Slowly aiose, bellied 'I .1 v ent to ca .Ma hir M, 8he bad "liM the liailor. anil as k!ii riid 1 r-i.i:i-l,t of cold air. Looking in I'sit.'m ht-nce it came, she saw ibal v is oi.en. At It,,- s itiiK inKi:ini Him in- "-vivtii ih:a the noorof Ma il's in ,'1.". i,d that a light was burning -s i'..e stood wonJeiiug what this -i Mie heiid footMcp, and the next iabijr mastiff, which was let loose ''V' :,t "iKl.t, stool in (he door-way - 'I in.iiu and looked towaid Mrs. ( ) I lien he carnc down the slans '( l'''T:il his inisucss. Crossing the ' e -fi.b cloth on the tl Kir, Mis. Slow. . '(t'M! the dog kfr. behind him dark t.' 1 ' 't'iin;s. vVheti became up to t'Ut 1 is Lead int. I.r- I. ....Jj lf;u ir et 1,is mistress felt the t -...-( wttn sticky moislui-e. On U",V' tl.'"1 si'R-w Unit the moisture -i d" Slowly was not a weak- , v wiiiviii, neveitheless she was al '.c l,e'""- feaiing h,e knew not - Ci ,? ',Vi"''l to M;ij,,r's room as- ' i 'in; stun j j O , o. , H , - ' eo. iti" '' V- y llie 'st naked body -1 !.'.''' ! 1,e!e was bhMjd on bis chest ana l,i.K.d saturated the H.ior ; i !f, ' siwinu ining win tne iiean H,ts "iKhtfnlly crushed, and pi,Salmust Ifn off. There was 'e bed had been more than ' , 'J' the form of the necniiAiit i.,e'e ' '"- "pen. A pile of money Mu'nUl, 'olbiiig apparently i.. j "'wiv ii.r.i...,j .i ..r i n,y I bI me am noi iiiet ami '-ii,.,. 'lie '"'use was under exami- a" d.. , ll'"'' ha,l been d. ione, there wss ' "'nril i'1 Uut- Tl,e pepertor of U Ut . '"u-red by the open window. lid beu doue while tb vie urn was asleep , a chair. He had been in bed evidently, but bad soon eot out again, appaiently to count over and wrap rtD Me money While so occupied, it was' sup posed "'ft be had come acioss a niece of old newspaper-it. was lying on the fbtor containing an account of the wreck of the Grimsby Castle a fewmontlis before. While leading this he had fallen asleep it was thought, never to wake again. A Hard, blunt instrument had smashed in the skull. The hori ible mastiff, which had a cross or the Cuban bloodhound in him, had smelt the bl...d, entered by the corridor, a ltd devoured the Hesh of the face and part of ibebraiiu But how had the muideier escaped the notice of the dog? He was a savage beast and would tolerate no stran ger near the place at night. How, then, had Ibe perpetrator of the deed managed to pass him and pacify him ? That was a mystery. A search of the yard and garden resul ed in the finding of a slipper but it was only a woman's slipper and no significance could attach to it, the magistrate said. The doctor who examined the body neverthe less scrutinized the slipper closely. There was a en:, through the thin sole, as though the wearer bad trodden on a broken ir.'ass bottle, and inside was the fresh stain of blood. The authorities, however, did not think that the slipper was any clue to the crimo. The doctor, however, kept posses sion of the article. After as thorough an inquiry as the authorities were capable of making they were obliged to admit that I hey were baffled. Suspicion naturally Tell on some of the men who were known to be engaged in contiaband trade, but theie was no clue to any one in particular. So the body was buried and the crime became a thing of the past. '1 hree jrceks or mote after the close of the inquest, Dr. Madely, the surgeon who had examined the body of the nnudered man. was asked by a brother doctor to con sult over a singular case in the latter's charge. The daughter of Sheldon, the dead smuojrler, was suffering from a se vere cut in the right foot, nod gangrene threatened. Dr. Madeley examined the foot, w hicb was in so dreadful a state as to render amputation almost inevitable. The girl said that she bad tiodden on a sharp stone while moving around in t tie yard in her bate feet. This stoiy was highly im probable, for it was winter-! ime, and no tine would be likely to bp about unshod, and leat of all, a young ebb A sudden light seemed to break in upon Dr. Madeley and while musing on the strange coinci dence which was before him, he found hitn s;:M gazing on a solitary slipper, which lay under a small wushstand in the girl's anaitinent. Before be quitted the place he had the slipper in bis possession, and on going home be compared it with that pick ed up in Mrs. Slow ls yard. They match ed exactly. Here then was a startling discovery, which, in connection with the wounded foi t, seemed to point to Mary Sheldon fts having been on Mrs. Slovly?s premises n th night of the murder. Another theoiy, too, and one that furnished a motive was the fact that the girl s father met bis death at the hands of Lieutenant Major. I)r, M idely resolved for the present to keep bis discovery a secret, or at least un til M-iry's recover. In a month's time the foot was healed, and then Mary was arrest ed. The event created intense excitement in the neighboi hood, but when it was pro ven that, Mary was mysteriously absent fiom her home on the night of t;ie murder for some lime, and when a stick with blood and hair upon it was found thrust under the dog kennel in the rear of Mary s dwell ing, people betran to think that the girl had really peipe1 rated the crime. She was tiied and convicted and sentenced to be hanged, and the penalty was inflicted at Vo;k in the spring of 18"J7. Everybody was satiMied that the giil, to avenge the death of her father, bad done the deed. She admitted that she bad lieaid of the return of .Major, but denied to tb.o last she bad murdered him. After the whole thing was over, it was retnfttked .bat the dog kept by Mrs. Slowly had oi tainaliy be'.onged to Sheldon, and thai until it was well grown it bid b&sn the pet and com panion of Mary. This was supposed to explain the ease with which Mary had en tered the premises t perpetrate the dread ful crime. In May, 127. a few weeks af ter Mary's execution. Lieutenant Major, who was supposed to have been inuideitd, appealed in Biidlington. The astonish ment of the inhabitants may be imagined He said that on the night of the attack on the smugglers, lie was stunned with a blow and carried aboard their lugger, wiiich was in the oiling. There be was kept a prison er for mouths and never allowed to land at Dunkirk where the luggci lay. One of the ciew manifested irieat intei.st in his case, and promised to do all he could to aid him. This man, whose name was.Iones, was very like Major in peison, and they both often icmaiked ibe lesemblance. One day Jones said that he was ordered on a special errand to England and that he would procure and bring back for Major anything lie wanted from Ins residence, and also let his fiiends know on the quiet how he was situated. Major gave him ti e needful dnecilous, and furnished bini with the keys of his tiunks. The fate of this oiaii is already known. Several years after the occurrences nar rated herein one Peter Fisher was shot in an attempt to run a cargo of gin at Filly at the mouth of the Ilumber. Fisher was formerly a resident at Bridlington Quay but quitted the place soon after the minder at Mis. Slowly s. Fisher, finding that he was dying, requested to be removed to his home at Barton-on ilumber. This wish was complied with, and after his ariival he sent for a clergyman tnd a Man int rate, and desired them to lake down and witness a confession which he was about to niske. The confession is given below. 'On :he night that Lieutenant Major was supposed to have returned, I heard of it, and went straight to tell Mary Sheldon, to whom I was engaged to be married. She told me if I was a man I would never let him leave the place alive. We spoke about the matter, and she engaged to go with me and see me saTely through the woik we had agreed on. Sue got over the wall and bad no dillicu'.ty in keeping the dog quiet as he knew her well. I the window and g t into the p trior. 1 he door of the room in which Major nea to sleep was open, and a lnjht inside. 1 crept up and saw a man asleep in chair. I lino" brought with me a stick the one alier ward found and with thin in my hand I ente.ed Major'- room. The tlmr creaked and he moved. Willi one blow I bramed bun, ud tbu followed the blow uy with t?fcJ t"'1 tmf ' -' '' ". Fj ! i Silks Dress Goods Jlouminff Goods CloakinffS Flannels TAnens Jfuslins irtite Goods Laces Tlibbons Trim mlngs Embroideries Fringes Zephyrs and Worsteds Xcckiccar Gloves Toilet Articles Stationery Flowers Feathers Bird's-eye View, John lFanamakers Grand Icpot, Thirteenth Street, SPRIHG, 1878. T HEecond year of the General Dry Goods Business at the Grand Depot ts just opening. It is proper to say that what was deemed an experiment, the first year, experience proves to be a success, and wo now propose to greatly improve on the first plans. The principles of X A uniform low price for every-tbise thro-aglioat the House. 2 One Price and no partiality. 3 Politeness and Patience to rich and poor. 4 Cash Returned if buyers return c oils 'even though Dress Patterns) in reasonable time and uninjured. A very large stock, of all kinds of 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 at one time. Where so many goods are setting 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." If not coming to the city to see the magnificent nw s'ock for Spring, send for samples, describ ing class of goods wanted. We do a large business through the mail. Very respectfully, JOHN WANAMAKER, Grand Depot. Thirteenth and Market Sts. PHILADELPHIA. Ladies Misses'' Suits " Sacques Cloaks Underwear j Hosiery Upholstery Goods Blankets ttnd Quilts Trunks and Valises Rubber Goods Horse Covers Men's cC Boys' Clothing Hals Shoes many more. I saw the piles of money on the table but touched none of it. I re turned to the window, where Mary Sheldon was standing. She said to me : -Peter I beard the blows. As we were crossing the gaiden Mary trod on a sharp object and cut her foot through her slipper. I tied my haudkeichief aro'.iud the font and just as I bad finished we weie startled by a noise. We looked towaid the boose and saw the dog clambeiing in at the window. Mary said : '.tiod God he will raise the boose !' "We hurried away and left Mary's slip per behind us. This is the truth, so help me God I'' Many years later an uncle of Mary Shel don came to reside in the, old inn, and in Soft the w i iter saw in bis possession a miniature of'M uy Sheldon. Il represent ed a woman of splendid physique, with an eye of great beauty and depth. No one could supis that the original was ever connected with such a tragedy as that nar rated. Migratory Sq;trrki.s. Squirrels in Lapland are in the habit of emigrating in large parties, and sometimes travel hun dreds of miles. When they meet with broad lakes, they take a very extraordinary method of crossing. They approach the banks, and, perceiving the distance be tween them ar.d the opposite shore, tl ey return, as if by common consent, into the neighboring forest, each in search of a piece of bark or light wood, which answers the purpose of a boat to ferry them over. When the whole company Are provided in this manner, they boldly commit their lleei to the waves, each squirrel sitting on his own boat, and fanning the air with his rail, in order to drive bin. self across. In this ordeily manner they set iut. and often cross lakes several miles broad in this wav. It occasionally happens, however, that the poor squirrels encounter such a gale that nearly all their vessels aie capsized, and they are shipwrecked. It is an ill wind that blows nobody good, however, and the shipwreck so disastrous to the squirrel, is a matter of great rdjoicing on the part of ibe Laplander on-shot e, who gathers up the dead animals thrown on sboie by the waves, eats the Mesb, and sells the skius. A Natural Curiosity. Silver Springs, Floiida, is ooo of the greatest curiosities In the South. It bursts foith in the midst of the most fertile country in the State. It. bubbles up in a basin near one hundred feet deep and about an acre in extent, and sending from it a deep stream sixty to one hundred feet wide, and extending six or eight miles to the Oclawaha river. In the spring itself sixty boats may lie at anchor quite a Meet. The spring thus forms a natural inland port, to which three steam er run regularly from the St. John's, mak ing close connection with the ocean steam ers at Palatka. The clearness of the water is truly wondeiful. It seems even more transparent than air. You see the bottom eigthy feet below your boat, tne exact form of the smallest pebble, the outline and color of the leaf that has ttunk. and all the pris matic colois of the rainliow are re denied. Large fish swim in it, every scale visible and every movement distinctly seen. If you go over th spring In a ImhI, you will see the fissures In the rock from which the river rushes upwrd like tu iuverted cataract. A FnoXTIKK BULL-DOZF.ll. When I applied for Ibe position of city editor f the Daily Scalper, a frontier pa per of 6iini(i pretense, the man at the helm simply askct! my name, age and weight, and what I knew about the business, and be employed me. "The proprietor is not hard to suit," I said to the foreman that evening as I began business. "Why do you think so?" "Because he engaged ine at once," I re plied. The foreman laughed. "That's because he thinks you won't last more than a day or so. Tbev never do." "Who ?" 'The editors get. cleaned out yon know; knocked in the head, shot to pieces bust ed. Some of 'em leaves first day, others hang on a week or more anil then we carry 'em to the bill you see over there and plant em. 1 here's a row of local editors ovet there hall a mile long, ana all died with their boo s on." Truly this was not. very encouraging but I did not half believe it. "It's a fact though," declared the fore man. ''This town ain't like ot.her places, and then I his is a high pressure newspaper. If you wish to be popular yon must pitch into people like blazes. Those fellows on the hill was popular.'' "And ih.t s the reason that they got killed, I suppose ?"' said I. "I reckon so ; at any rae they are dead. Joe Hodges killed tbeui.'J Moe Hodges I" "Yes." "Who is he pray?" "The town bully ; the masher of the v:I lage, a genuine double back action. Bet ter not sny anything about. .I.ie, or he'll w-aliz in and smash your head into jolly in no time. Very pirlicular is Joe about newspaper notices." 'Then be shall have none in this paper," I said determinedly. "Oh, but that won't do,'' exclaimed the foreman. "Joe is a sort f fellow that won't I to slighted nothing be bates so as neglect; and I lien he mixed up in every row, mi yon will have to mention him. In fact, Joe Hodges is on the tight worse than any man I ever knew." "Copy '" yelled one of the compositors. The foreman cleaned the hook and rush ed into the composing room. "I'll tlx Joe Hodges," I said to myself, when ibe man was gone. "The first blow j is the best, so here goes." I seized my encil and wrote a little no tice, comparing Joe Hodges with a mule, and saying that, according to all acco-.inls, be is a drunken rascal unfit for human as so iation. The notice was put in type at once and appeared in the papei nvxt morning along with other locals, and that aftern-xin Joe Hodges called. I was busy writing when he cime in but I looked up and a hut lied glance told me who he was. A short heavy set swarthy, low bred rascal, with black hair, and ces. and red shirt that, was Joe Hodges. I " Pake a neat," I said and went on writ- j ing. j In a halfdrunken way he floundered into 1 a ch nr. j "What Is your name?" I said glancing t hitn. "Joe Hodges." I dashed it down on a broad piece of blank pier on the table. "How old are yon ?"' "Forty-two," nub a snrprcssed look. I dashed that down in the same way. "Your birth place ?" "Missouii." with still more surpriso. I put it down and then leached for a heavy revolver which I cocked and laytd upon the table. "Are yon a married man?" I asked with a quiet look at the a.stonislie.l man. "No," he replied staring wildly. I put the answer down. "What is your business V" "A blacksmith." I made a lecord of that fact, and looking up to ask another question when I sa v that the bully bad risen and stood glaring at me, with his hand on the door. "What in thunder are you writing?" he yelled, his face almost purple. "An obituary." "Whose?" "Yours." He may have had urgent, business down on the stieet ; I do not know, at any rate be suddenly withdiev from my presence and never appeared again. Exchange. Your Local Patkr You might nearly as well foiget your chinches, your acade mies and school-bouses, as to lorget your local paper. It speaks to ten times the au dience that you loc d minister, does. L is reid eagerly each day and week fiom be ginning to end. It readies y u all, ami. ns it. has a lower spiiit aiid less wisdom than a sennon, it has a thousand times better chance at you. Lying, as it does, on eVeiy t ible in almost every bouse, yon otve to youi selves to literally arid to its support, and exact from it as heightened a chaiac ter as you do from and educator in your midst. It is in no sense beneath i"i ico and care unless you yourself are beiienl b notice and caie for it is j'onr repiesenta tive. Indeed, in its charactei. it is the sublimation of tne iinxirtancc, interest and welfaie of all. It is the aggregate of your o-n conscience, and you cannot ignore it without miserably depreciating yourself. Chicago Ledger. Two brothers lived in a village in .Terspy. They wcie twins, and their rxtraoidinary resemblance to each other caused many queer mistakes. The following story is told of them, but we do not vouch for it : An Iiishman wax offended by one of the brothers, and was a long time watching his opf-orlunity for revenge. The twins were constantly together, and although Pat was pre:y well able to manage one, be consid ered that the whipping of both together was a luxury he could not affoid to indulge in. At last, however, he met one of them alone, but was not quite sure that be had the light man. detei mined to impilie into the matter. "Is that you?"' said he, "or are yon only your brother?' The fel low, taking in the situation, answered. "Oh I'm only my brother." "Then it's well for ou if isn't yonruelf that's in it." sid Pa-, as be walked off with a clear conscience. BUD HA Hi. The name of 'the lady who a few weeks fiinco dropped her back hair on the side walk of a street in Clinton, Illinois, has now been ascertained. -.'l")ie hair in oues ! tion was of a bright red color, and few jei ! sons would have imagined that it was dan- i genius when unconnected with i's owner. j Nevertheless, that seemingly innocent back ! hair led to a tragedy that nearly mined I the peace of two happy and let-pctable ! families. ! M essrs. Smith . Brown are the leading j citizens engaged in the grocery business in j Clinton. They are men of great woith of j character, and have reached middle age I without liici.riing Hie bieath of slander. 1 One evening Mr. Smith :eltimed from the r.tore, and sitting down at the lea table, j produced a Chicago paper from bis pocket, ; and lemaiked with much indignation, J "That revoking Buecher suaudal has been j revived, and its loathsome details are again polluting the press and corrupting. ine minus ot the public. "Mis. Smith replied that it was a shame ful outrage that the papers wi i e allowed to publish such disgusting things," and ask ed her husbanl "which paper had the full est account of the matter." That excel j lent man said that he believed the Gtzttte I contained moie about it than any other p.i j per, and that after tea he would send one of the bos to get a copy of it. His wife thanked him, and was in the act of lemaik itig that ha was always thoughtful and Considt i ate, when the eldest boy exclaim ed, "Pa, you've got a long leJ Lair on your coat collar !" A prompt investigation made by Mis. Smith confirmed the boy's accusal ion. Theie was an unmistakably female hair on the collar of Mi. Smith's coat, and it was obtrusively icd. Mr. Smith said that it was a veiy extraotdinaiy thing. Mrs. Smith also lemaikiug "veiy exfraoidiuai j , indeed." in adiy, s.ncastic voice, txpiess Cd deep disgust at red hair, and a profound contempt, lor ine "nasty creature who weais i , 1 . s . . AU'Mti ine same hour .nr. lirown was : also seated at the tea table, and was en I daavoring to excuse hiaiseif to Mis Brown for having forgotten to biing home a pa I per. The lad, alter having expicssi-d the i utmost indignation at the revival of the j Beecher scandal, had asked for the paj-ei j in oidei tosee who was tit-ad ami m iuk-d. j and was of course indignant because liei ; husband had n t brought it home. In llie beat of the discussion she noticed a lout ! iei hair on Mr. Brown's coat collar, aim j holding it up before him she demanded an .explanation. In vain did Mr. Biowu al i let;e thai be bad no idea bow the hair be I Ci'.ine a'.laclud to his collar. His wife le I plied that what l.o said was simply ildicu i Ions. "lied hair rio:i'l blow an-ond like thistledown, and at o:u time i.l life. Mi. i Biown, you ought to be ashamed of y mi j Self. I he less you say the bellri ; but 1 can tell you that you can't deceive me. : I'm not a member of tne 1'lym.iuih Chinch, i and you ciu't make me believe that black j is ii ite.'' ! i!ow, bol h Mr. Biown mid Mr Smith weru ei feci ly innocent. Of com.se, the I weri annoyed by Use lematks of Ihe'r ic i sjwetive wives, but, like sensible men, the ; avoided unuecessai y discilr'sioti of the pain ' Ful topic. The next day they each bioiighi home all the Chicago p.tpeia that Contain i ed any leleretico to the Beet: her mattei, and, us ttie papers weie received by Mis lsniwii iiml Mis. 2 tilth with pi otest aliotis of the disgust which they fell at healing ! even lhi name of beecher nient ioued. I hey j lilt ui ally supposed that they had madt their peace. Bui maiital suspicion once awakened is not tasi'y put to sleep , W Idle Mr. Brow n w as handing h is w ife t lie bundle of newspaixiis, she was ciosely , Scrutinizing bis Coat CoS'ai, and. aflt-i sln- bad laid the papeis on her plate and told ' the chiidien ti t to touch I hem, she quie 1 took two long led bans horn heru'iloilu nale husbands cott, and held them bol emiily betoie bis lace. "Maiy, I give you my solemn word," began ttie Hlaimed.ur. Uniivii ; lull he was Hot pel nutted to finish Ins sentence. "Don't say ono woid," exclaimed Mis. Biow n. "Falsehood won't help you; 1 am a faithful and loving wife, and I'll have vuii exposed and punished if there is any law in Illinois." Thus saying, she gathered n:i her ncwspapeis, and lushing to bei room, locked heist if in. It was not until Liter in the evening that Mis. Smith, as , she was about to turn down her husband's i lamp, which Was smoking peiceived thai I two led hairs weie attached to his sImhiI ! del. She said nothing, but, after Living them on the table belore him, bnift into tears, and refused to be com foiled until ' Mr. Smith solemnly swoie that he had not seen a red-haired gill for months and yea:, i and offcicd to buy hvt a new pailoi cupel the veiy next day. Of the twoladns, Mrs. Brown was much the stronger nod Ibe more detei liiim d. The n-xt evening, when Mi. Brown bio': b:ck fiom the store no less than live red ! bans on his coat Collar, she bioke a p e : plate over his head, and, leaving him il i teritig in diied apples, put on her b uinel ' and left the house. .Mis. Smith on the ; fame evening found four of the tnystei i.m- led bails oi her husband's Coal, but she ' lefiamed from violence, ami nieiely telling : him that she would not b beve in his in i noceiice if he was to swear lill he was j black in the face, called loudly for her ' sainted mother, and was about lo faint When Mrs. Brown buisl loilii mio i lie room. Mr. Smith, I ke a wise can, fled from the scene, and the two ladies soon confided their wrongs . each other. When Mr. Brown ami Mr. Smith met the next day, the fotiuer confessed to the latter that he had got in a terubio scrape. Confidence begot con'idence, and they soon become convinced that. I hey were the vic tims of a f.ighlfid coiispnacy to whic'i some unknown wearer of red back hair was a paity. Their dist less was inci ei-(.d oaily in the aflernHn by the appearance of their lespective wives, w ho w alked up and down the opfMisiie side of the street for hours, each canyiug a conspicuous raw hide, and evidently lying in ''i f' tho iinaginaty red-haiied woman, Messi. Smith and Brown felt that they weie luin efeiy day, and you just bet liny ketcbed il from ihetrold women when they went home. Smith, he is solemn as an owl, and old Brow n looks as if be was uoing to hs? hung." The remains of the boy wre removed by the constable, and the Smith and Biowu families aie once, mm e united and Laiipy. Mr. Aldcn in yew Tork Ttiue. TUB BR OK FA B. G A G BM By T. A 1 II fill. I. Mi HV. IHAl'TlH 1. It was a beautiful evening in the dawn of summer. Two forms weie silling in close proximity to one auothei by l he win dow of a f 12, in HI house heavily moitcag ed in the upper pait or this cdy. I i.e hand ol one lested lovingly on that of iho other, and the arm of one desoihed a semi circle around the othei's waist. Il baldly necessaiy to say that they w.-ie loveis, and this was us far as the yoin g man could go in geometry. Theie w s no light in the loom, but there was no oc casion for any, Willi li.tr taper waist ami spai klmg eyt s and tl.imiug woid?. '1 his is a sample f their small talk : "Deai est Flora, tell, oh lell me what I cau do to maku myself more woitiiy t' your love. Bid me under ake hut mission you please, and I will obey. Ay, et.u though il be to cut my bait short saei din my must .telie--weai Luge I units, or ik for my living sjeak, anything you in iy comiujiid me." 'Oa, Chailes! calm yourself. Do not speak in this teuible strain ; you make me .shudder. N.i, Chailes, I he you lor yourself alone." Then placing her band gently up. hi his blow she iiaii mined. "Soft, my love, s-ieak so't, my oah, .md tell ine do you love ine as much asevei.aod will 1 ever be the same to u as 1 am HOW?" 'Hear me twear 1" cried the au":."it youth, dropping iijioii bis knees f r Ibe lost time in his lile, b.il siiddt-ii'y aiism unli a tumbled expiession of the counteuriM t.', as something put htm in mind ol the light ness of Ins nether appaiel. "Oh, Floia, theie is not a coat tiftt adoi us W ilnou's l-5tahlishm-nt thai li- so high a pUce in my atlect ions as ymiis. Il ! on are lo me is hat shni.lt-i ami c'ssip to young chuich memtieis, oi f uuei ai I mai l led women my lite, my an. bit ion. my hope, uiy all ! A lew da-iS ui.iie and snail be united fotever. 1 can scaiCily .tlize my happiness.' The fair one blushed and nestled c' to lii:? T,esi pai iei u of Iho happy youth, we lcMe them. w v m r Sj CHAPTKIt II. It was a dalk, gloomy night, two d 3 beloie the t ime iippomted lor t he nupt ial ceiemotiies ot the oiing pair. lb:t!'. 3 bent his way full of j y, hope and si;j r to the mansittii ol f:in t, lovetl. He I'ei the bell and was usbeied into the pail if. r'lota was not theie, and, after waiting it lew moments, lJt- resolved lo descend the staiis to the tiitiiug-ioom, ostensibly t" seek f.ir her, but most piobahly with'vis loiis of spoons dancing thioiigh his eiri leemmg biam. With steallby sups bo approached the door and suddenly opened i',whtii there buist upon his usiou isl d gaze a sight which fio?e the blood wilh ii his veins. I pot: the dining-room table lay many dishes and other ail idea of riuckery. Be loie it, w ith ilisbeveh-ii hair and tuck d up gown, s ood Floi a, a huge cat ving kntte in her baud, which Hie was iti the act if plunging into a pan T hot wa'er. i he h'td heen caught in the act of dvih-g houxt ff ;: f oh one loud shi lek'she It-ti lo the 11 tor, while bet distracted and be wildered lover lushed from the bouse. It is needless to add that the eugafj ment, along w ith seveial but tie cups, w .3 broken on Ibe spot. Thus weie two f,ti:d and doting he;.i(s inevocably Sep nuted If my stoiy, dear reader, will be ii. means of peisiiadiug one young xeituit never, under any circumstances, to do aey a oik about, the house, bui alwnys to Lt her ntothei and the other pi-i .tots do i, my object is more ill m accomplished, t are w 1 1 1. CA ivagn Lt Uge r. EvF.RYTBtNO except the Labrador ice crop na railed.-ana the inhabitant are :tting their dugs I i ed men. and that a tremendous scandal 1 wa$ about to overwhelm then. They t even wished they wete dead. About 4 .1 clck n m. Mis. Nimtn cm. cu ed her companion's arm and bade her lis ten to small boy w ho who wan relating one of his reoent ciimes to a youthful Com panion, "i just picked up that there hair " rematked the wicked yontn, 'ami d talking of .Hikes ru"C-mewf it w old Smith's and o.. old Browu's coats r 1 Trep a pu;;.n f it b A Ltttt fc Lr.M'iy.Wi) ought not to complain ttto bitteilyor be Ih much nisi. 1 deadened at the misfoi tunes that m.y b - l.ill us, as we never can be sine tlott 11:3 events, however iipp.-iiently Uiilowaid in f not tui it out to be toistoi 1 um-s at all in ' I, t end, Ttie piinciple is wed illustrated ty the following Caf.e : A seaman on board a man of.wal h;. l both his leu broken by the tousling of . bomb on the dt eks in the midst, of a battle. He was taken below and his case was sooti examined by the snieou. The smite, n decided that the left one was so bait v I'laciuicd that it must come off. Th; n. vt morning, being oe?npii-d himself " i h tho rases of Mtitu of the oficers be sent two of his assistants to peifoitn the ampin at ion. They somehow or other made a mistake, and look off the right leg which in this case W as the w long our. Tne suigeon, when be rame to see what had been clone, was much incensed aguiust the assist an is. as w as !so t he seaman him self. The latter, ho a ever. derUicd that he woo Id not submit to another amputa tion, but wou'd lake bis chalices w ith the wreck that lemained to him, and live nr die as fate might determine. t'01 tiaiy to ibe suigeon's predictions, be got well. I he left leg ncvered ami Im came sei viccable a ver. He bad a wood en leg made to leplace the other. Sometime hfteiwaid be was in another battle. A shot came from the oemj'a ship, and. sweeping the deck, S'tuck cur seamnil and Ithtkoff his woden leg. He seized hold of the capstan tusteariy lumtself, as soon as he bad reoovered Mlutlefioin the shock, and the atonisiiiint f weeing the sp'.luleiS of bis Woieti limb dying by his side, he snped his flngei, saying : "How lucky it is f me that those blnn. dering fellows tistk off the leg iheydid! For if they had 'aken oft the other one should not now have any leg at all. A f Y in a Fnmlay scImm1 proposed q. lest urn to be aiis-w e. the Sunday tol. lowing) "How ruai'Y letter, does the Bi ble contain ?" an-stor was tin ee njil- Lo.,k tive huinJi-ed and Itttily thousand three huodiwd and XUw ty 1 lire. I be co- lames "Is hat 1 ighl ?" pi, nop it;,iy. "A'liS v ju piea ted us Uvv timtiy Uiwie aua tUeaf' TwntT-si, sir," pei iuteii.lut says to . "No, sir," whs t he
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