CAMBRIA FREEMAN
A-dvertiHing- H tit en.
The lanre and reliable rtrcnUtin ef the Cam
bria Frkemaw enmiTirod, It to tb faToraol ci'O
Uderatlon of dTertler. whom larorf will be In
serted at tbe following low rates :
1 Inch, timet. ft i Ml
1 ' 8 month
1 wmths fro
1 " 1 year a 00
S e months t oo
a " 1 year lu.oo
S " 6 months too
3 " 1 year 12
i col'n 6 monthi 10 oa
V2 6 months xu.0
k " 1 year a "o
I " e monthi
1 1 year
Admlnirrftt..r"(i and txecntor i Notice W
Andltor-i Notiees. 1 00
Stray and (imilar Notice 1W
Bu8ine item, first Iniwriton Uc. pet line ; each
tnb'eqaent Inwrtion 5c. ier line.
IVRnohirimi or procrrdino of mnw corpora tim
or tocirtif, mud communications dcimcd to call ottm
tion ta any m titter of limited or tndividual xntcrctt
matt of paid Jor at adtrrtitcmcntt.
Jon Vriktiko of all kind neatly atxl erneditf
ously.execnted at lowest prices. Hun'l yon forget
l.YSI'.l f ltUVlY 10UMN0
-r.r, Fa., !-y H. A. ?lcPike.
,t.d Circulation - l,OGS
t ROOMING. MATCH IT?
,:uir
1 r 1 111 Mil 1 1 I M I
WW
,. , i ir. cash in advance fl.SO
- ..' ' if not pM wiihin 3 mo. l.T
- if not p'd irit hm a mos. 2.00
" if not p'd within year.. 8.25
, ,,.toii!- residing outside the county
! i; i in! p r year will be charged to
! ... .
'ft' ," nt will the inrc terms bp lc-
, , i those who don't consult their
a-' . '. '- ! - i ivSnx iti aJvantf tun,t not
' . ,. t..i the footinir ns t hose
i ' i . I.e.-' distinctly understood
i ' i ! . r -v:i e' 1.
'r " : .", i , ir r.!. r before yon stop it. if
' Xi .:!- bit iwajr. I. ot Ii
i' 1 ' i'.i- r ;,-- as",:i.iwa,r--iilc' too short.
H. A. McPIKE, Editor and Publisher.
"HE IS A FREEMAN WHOM THE TRUTH MAKES FREE, AND ALL ABE SLAVES BESIDE."
SI.50 and postage per year. In advance.
VOLUME XIV.
EBENS13URG, PA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10. 1SS0.
NUMBER 33,
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Hu NOW ON HANI) THE
HEC-EsT, BEST i MOST VARIED
stock or
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A. : i.i .i.-oi-. A. W. Jiticlv.
.iokxstox.
IOELIAKER & BUCK,
BANKERS,
.BENSBURG, Pa.
:hy eeglived on deposit,
p.H'Ai::.r. o.v :n..M.
IM.lLLiiV.ED&N Tli'E DEPOSITS.
C0LLSCTiO?i3 MADE
i:-fl !!: rillXCIPAL X'lTIES
n:m;ii isini St?;,!, an,i n
"ULilNKIX(ri;rSINKSS
1 i:.'X.(Ti;!).
''otiiiis Solicit oi-
A. W. LUCK, Cashier
: 1IUVKA U.I I S 1S-5T.
5LY CX MUTUAL PLAN.
f?.0I0Ti3Ji ?.vJTl!AL
C" ENSEURC, PA.
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STEAM MILLS TAKEN.
-d FARM PP.OPERTES
''-.' .!.. ' DKSIUKD.
GEO. M. KE.VDE. President.
I- I'ICK, Secretary.
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BIDE0FF8 BLOCK,
CARL RIVHUIUS,
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I lj . T ri ,-nn rnrt ifirrrfinn
t3EiSSDUnCf pa.. I
, .. -: ' ' i V:a.v! a Urae. vancl and etc- I
; '..-..' f-ntr.t oi WAli'lil.s, ('MHiKS,
"'V,5':',' ' rACLI S, EVIMJLASSES,
,",r ' -r" l.-r s.tie at 1 wcr j.rii t, than
i r 1 ' r , 1 '-e c wn-y. rcrt; need.nn
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r - '! '-wh.jre.
- r. ',""::"-,-n to rrr.sirl p;r Clock,
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:3 fire ferai!C3 Apcy'l
: erl Insuranca Aaent,
h. -Ki-:.sit una, m."
: w."'"ti!n at ithort noties In the
LIABLE "ETNA"
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1 '- '' V TTO :; N K Y- a r - Jj W , I '". b-
'T1' ' "' R"9 in fr"rt rotn of T.
i ,'''"1 tiEg.C'cntre street. Ailman-
. . ' -" attended to satisfactorily,
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BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
And Still Another Big Boom !
TIIIJS TlIli:, IIOVEVER,
Till: BOOM INCLINES DOWNWARD
USTSTEVT) OF UPWARD !
Special LOW PRICES
TO SUIT TPIB TIMES!
No use talking about it, we have the goods and must get rid of them, even though we
should lose money hi the operation. That means that we have an overstock of
Ladies' Fine Shoes and Gaiters,
Men's Heavy Slioes,
AM) MISSES', YOUTHS', CHILDREN'S AND INFANTS' SHOES,
all styies, sizes and qualities, and that we must close out the entire assortment before the
our new stock arrives, which will be about the 1st of September. Hence
we have determined fur the NEXT FOKTV D.VVS to offer
Shoes at Greatly Reduced Prices I
Our prices now :tie acknowledged to le much lower than anywhere else, so that the special
prices wo offer to buyers at, this time afi".;rds rvcrjbody a chance to get
BETTER BARGAINS IN SHOES
than ever before dreamed of in their philosophy. It will pay you, then, to buy your shoes
row, even if you do not wear them for the iiext six months, as it is a fact of which
all should be aware that boots and shoes will be higher next winter than
they are now ; therefore our loss will be your train. The only pur
pose we have in reducing prices beyond all precedent is to
MAKE ROOM FOR OUR NEW STOCK,
which has already been ordered. So if you are open for a bargain now is the time and our
ntoie the piace to get more and better goods for your money than will probably
ever again have a chance to eiijoy. We also have snne bargains in
DRY GOODS, REM XAXTS OP CALICO, 1
SHOUT PIECES OF I)1!ESS GOODS, j
vviC, &c, whicii we must and wi'l sell regardless of what they cost us. In addition to
all these extraordinary bargains and many inure in other departments, we have j
the largest, most select and certainly the finest and best assortment of j
Reaclv-Mixcle Clothing! :
in Ebensbuig, and are prepared at a'.l times to furni-h either full or partial suits of wear-
ing apparel for men or boys at lower 1 l'ccs than goods ot like quality can be purchased at
a:iy other establishment. More th.i'i that, we have, special bargains in seasonable clothing
just now for everybody who wants to dress well at a very small outlay. j
CALL AND EXAMINE 01 11 GOODS AND LEARN OUR PRICES ! ;
AMl.YOC WILL. FIXi) THAT 1VE 3IKAX liXACTLY WHAT WE SAY. j
"V". S. 33a,r-kei &: Br-otliei 1
EBENSBURG, JPl. !
NOW the LOUD WELKIN RINGS
WITH THE NEWS THAT IT BRINGS j
OF SO MH YHRY GOOD THINGS
FOR THE FOLKS OF CHEST SPRINGS.
In other wr,I-" unit to T.e more explicit. Uhtt i irrcnt rH..iciiiiC onion? the ienilo of Northeastern
in olntr w"ru J.mina atthc ..p.... wt Spr-in-. nt lint l. knuwn ss the "Old
I'siinp fiirnirr," or l'uu-l.iss Property , o! a
New Store by S. B. Corn & Co.,
Wl.ich rverv f.rm'T an.I r.M.lent in the m-luhlmrlioo.l should patronize. , the proprietors are detor
i'n"l to "flint fie lovrot Aitoina prices for cither ca.-li or country produce. lh-y will keep a
GOOD STOCK OF VAKIOUS KIND OF GOODS
. - . .,.,,,, ..,, ,,i children 'l ran obtain fn-ra their Ptore In Altoona nt rtiort notice any rtjie or
T ""' C':,i ,- ollire-' ("ood" Si'.ki, SSttn-, farpets. Oil riot!. .Vc, that may be desired.
q UuC ii,Hra has been nttcd uo and tilled exclusively with
CLOTHING, HATS, CAPS and olher Furnishing Goods
For men and boys, while the other Koom is devoted to
LADIES' GOODS OF ALL KIND,
Kmbraclns everything SSKkSS! Vntriunncd Hat,
r-orJTHAT, INVITATION TO CALL
. . . i ..i i -iv n,I ioir
li hereby rxicnm u "" .'"""s , jv..nhern
ith
I, V aTed to .-vhaajew"-.!. UW,. chicken,,
mirklt rates, for :ir.-l c!as men-l.an .isc at U.
mo in i-i ........ chickens,
c- mi
t
i:iMi:Miii:n riuz and I'Iack:
CORN&CO.'S BRANCH STORE,
niwf, 3rriiios, Cambria Co., Fa,
S. n. COKXS CO., Proprietor.
OSTER&.QUIN
in & 11j CLINTON STREET, JOHNSTOWN, PA.,
-AIWAY8
T.:i i-";i'st sine! Chcaiost JStoclt of
Dry ctncL Dress GroocLs,
NOTIONS, rvllLLirsitKY, UAKr'tl tiu,
i . t ifi Cambria or adjoining counties. ; ;:?"Korgct not the street and numliers
to be found in can.tr
A DMINISTIIATOU-S NOTICi:,
Kstatc of Join J. I-A !'-.'" -I.
Ut(,r4of Admini-iratlon on tl: ,;t::to ... . ;d.n
j v,. ,. lateol the inniusli oi 1 -'--'" .
,' :..;.,V ha vi n ben Brantml to -lie iiii.i.TMats.-,.,
I ,'crs :i' in i.-btc.l to said .st.iie.ire l.er. l y i..,n-
f. V that vav..-.i-nt must be :... without .1- ay.
I , ih.'se having el.u.ra-'.ln- I !n ' I'e-
"i,t tt.em i.m.crlv am ii ti : V d .,r s.-ttl. i nut.
still wim i () K( ( n, L Adiumntr.it-rr.
I.' e !. titv. Au-i. '-l-v.-. -i.
m-av.1 ami b-.iv. all of whom will bo accommodated
Cumbria, no matter whether they brine the cash or
bwtt. - r. cxx. or other desirabl
wtt.T. oii:. or other .lesiratiie produce, at. me mgn-
lowest Allooim city price?.
- S. M. DOUG T, ASS, Sttlesman.
m
1IAVK TIIE-
XXKCUTOirs NOTICK.
J U lisi.itc of M.ritcAr.LT .'.Ic.Mn.iES. dee'd.
Letters te-t-unentiiry on the estate of Manrarct
MiMuil'Mi. Ir.teoi fleniiebl township, deceased,
having bc.m nr.in.c.i to the tin.len"ined. nil per
sons iii.i.-liic.l to ,-.ud estate will please make im
r"..:.i iato payment, and I hose ha vint? el aims against
ti esi.-i;.- will present them propvrlv authentica
ted lor s. til -ment.
fuKNKLU's; MOHIJIS, Executor.
Cita.t.c'iJ Ti... Aui,. a i, liro.-ul.
THE DOVE'S T0WEK.
The house where I spent my honeymoon
was in Ireland, In the county of Kerry, and
not very far from Tralee, It had been high
ly picturesque, no doubt, for it was one of
the old tower manor houses, and dated from
the sixteenth century ; but the owner's of la
ter fenerations, finding it decidedly uncom
fortable, had altered and added, 'painted,
papered, boarded and bricked until it was an
architectural niht-mare, calculated to strike
terror to the heart of any devout antiquarian.
However, there was romance, antiquity,
and picturesqueness still left in the land.
Not far away was an ld oratory ; made, as
they told me, for I was nut clever enouifh to
find it out for myself, without mortar or ce- ,
mcnt of any sort, and with its stones all so j
daintily fitted together that it had withstood j
ii.- i -: . r 1 1 n. - i i 1
the suns and rains of all the centuries be.
tween the twelfth and the fifteenth. On the i
nearest hill arose a great gray, mouldering I
castle, invaluable to amateur artists who j
"sketch from nature." There, was an An-glo-Xorman
chapel quite within sight, and !
farther away, in what looked like the dry bed
of a lake, stood a queer, rough stone tower,
from the top of which one could get a fine
view of the country, particularly of the road
which led to Tralee. Indeed the first few
weeks I spent in Ireland were devoted to the
seeing of antiquities, and I even went out to
some of the little islands along the shore to
see the rough oval structures that are called
bee-hive houses. I liked the country ; it was
romantic ; its gentry were refined and hospi
table, and its peasantry picturesque. There
was certainly a great deal of .bog land, and
there were a great many beggars, but we
were happily able to avoid the first and bring
b'esslngs on our heads by giving small coin
and cold victuals to the last, who instantly
became happier than kings,
Our hearts were light, and we were young
and very much in lovo, and we were willing
to swear that Ii eland was a paradise.
I It is the experience of every pair of lovers ! ,,,e tower ; it was time I took my way home
i !... . ..: i,.... ward. With one lintreritio irhirrn tmvir.l
that without any evident reason, with noth
ing in the surroundings to cause the effect, 1
some special day, some particultuliour, seems i
happier than any other. The two draw j
nearer to each other are more utterly con- t
tent; they can remember the fact all their
lives, and neither can tell why it was that
they loved better and were more de'.iciouly
happy just then than at at any other time.
A day such as this, a whole, perfect day,
came to my husband and me. It was that on
which we went to visit the old tower. We
went alone and on foot ; we climbed the
manyTookcd and broken steps hand in hand.
At last we stood on the summit and looked
out upon the lovely picture spread before ns.
The pictnres nature paints are always line.
This seeme.l to be her masterpiece. Below
us lay spread the emerald fields, the deep
green woods ; beyond were the purple moun
tains ; silver water caught the sunbeams, and
a hoary castle crowned the summit of the hill
beyond : while over us lay a sky as blue as !
that of Italy. Eut it was not only the beauty
of the place that thrilled us. Turning from
it we looked into each other's eyes, and it
seemed as though f.r the first time we knew
how dear we were to each other.
"Does Love dwell here ?" I thought; and
suddenly my husband drew me to his breast
and held me closely. There we uttered not
a word, but each knew the thoughts of the
other.
All was silent ; the lapping of the beck be
low, and the faint lowing of the browsing
kine, were unheard where we stood ; but in
a little while the stillness was broken by a
strange sound a musical sort of sobbing or
gurgling that seemed very near to us. On
me it had the effect of something supernatu
ral. I started, trembled, and clung to Ed
ward's arm ; but he, not susceptible to such
impressions, sought at once for a natural
reason for the sound, and in a moment more i
had found it.
On the parapet of the tower a dove had
perched itself a beautiful, mottled thing.
It was this that had uttered the sound. My j
husband tixik it in his hand ; it seemed quite
tame, and to desire caresses. In a little
while it allowed me to take it and even nest
led in my bosom.
'Twill take it home," I said; "and since
this old place has no name that I know of, I
will slnisten it 'Dove's Tower. "
Soon after we had eaten the lunch we had I
brought with us vve descended the crooked
stairs again. They tottered beneath our feet.
They were without doubt rather dangerous,
but we were light of heart and light of foot,
and enjoyed the fun mightily. The dove
fluttered in the handkerchief in which I had
imprisoned her, and crooned and cooed dis
tractedly. "No, no," I cried laughingly. "You can
not get away. I believe you are love him
self in disguise, and I mean to take you
home and cage you."
I did. I named it Cupid, and so the little
creature became a family pet. I am not sure
that an ornithologist would have called her a
dove, but I take my permission from the. po
ets. Assuredly I have read of a "carrier
dove." This proved to be an actual fact a
carrier pigeon. One of those pigeons whose
love of home is so great that it may be trnst
ed to return to it from any possible distance.
I loved my dove better when I knew its na
ture, for their was romance about its very
name. Lovers have used the carrier pigeon
as their postman, when all sorts of obstacles
lay between them, and other messengers
were false, and it has flown with messages of
import into many a beseiged town, or sur
rounded camp. We amused ourselves by
sending our carrier pigeon to each other with j
messages. Now from the arbor, now from ;
the river bank, now from the hill. From j
cither place she returned with the little billet ;
fastened to her foot, by its silken thread, as j
surely as the white dove of old returned to j
the ark ana waiting Noah. Finally, Edward
took her with him to Tralee, and sent her I
home with a letter. I found her on the libra- j
ry window, hei small head on one side, her j
round eyes fixed upon the panes, and when
I had cut tho thread that Held my darling's
note, she flew into her great wicker cage as
into a haven of peace. After that we per
mitted her to have complete libeily, and twi
light always found her on the sill of the li
brary window.
For three months after our arrival at the
manor-house Edward and I were never apart
as many hours at a time. One day, however,
there came to him a letter from a friend,
whose pretty little yacht was dancing on the
waters of Tralee Bay, asking him to take a
little trip in her. I knew Edward loved the
water, aud much as I hated to lose him, even
for a week, I would not stand in the way of
his pleasuie. I even urged him to go, and I
did not shed a tear until he had left me ; but
tl.eu how lonely the Lours seemed. How I
pined for him ! How I counted the hours,
and shuddered when some sudden breeze
tossed the branches of the trees about, and
spoke of fresh gales and rougher water out
at sea. I almost doubted then that I had not
been wrong In leing so ready to let him go.
Oh, the days were weary; the nights sad,
"with my glide man awa."
At last, however, the week was gone. Ed
ward will return to-day, I thought, as I open
ed my e3-e upon the clear dawn. The dove
stood on my window sill and pecked at the
panes. I Hung the sash up and she flew out.
"Go," said I, "perhaps you will cross his
rath."
And I tried to wait his coming calmly, but
in vain; as the afternoon drew on I could
rot stay in the house. I did not know the
hour of his return, but I foolishly set forth to
meet him. I only intended to wander about
near home, but soon I found myself at least
three miles away from its gates and near the
old building where I had found my carrier-
i pigeon and which I had named Dove Tower.
I And now a fancy came to me : From the
j top of the tower one could overlook the road
j to Tralee ns far as human sight could reach,
j and could see either pedestrian or horseman
i who came along it from that town. I resol-
ved to climb the stairs and watch thence for
my love s coming.
I I did so. I reached the top of the tower in
I safety. I leant my head upon the parapet
j and looked along the road. Carriages rolled
I swiftly along it ; horsemen galloped by ;
pedestrains plodded slowly toward me.
j There were long intervals lictween them, for
: the road was not a busy one. Few people
! came farther than the next town, but I
j watched for hours, but still my ruler '(-.line
j not. I could not mistake his graceful figure
or the black horse he loved so, his bright eyed
j Romeo. The sun approached the horizon,
j the shadows grew long ; tears arose to my
; eyes.
j Peilmps, after all, Edward would not re
turn that dav
and I ought not to remain in
I ward. it li one lingering glance toward
Tralee, I turned in the direction of the old
stone staircase, but, happily, before my foot
had touched it, a sound like a clap of thunder
smote my ears ; the tower was shaken to its
foundation, and I was thrown upon the floor.
For a little while I was too terrified to move,
but at lasted lifted myself and looked about
me. What had happened ? The sky was as t
I clear as ever, the earth showed no traces of
; any convulsion of nature. A terrible thought
struck me. The tower was falling. Slowiy
! and tremblingly I approached the staircase,
I doubting thatmystrengthwonld be sufficient
, to descend it, but feeling that flight alone j
could save me. Alas, flight was impossible.
. There were no stairs to descend. Half at j
least of their crooked length was gone. It ,
was their fall that had shaken the tower. ;
j I clasped my hands over my heart and j
knelt down, trying to utter a prayet as one
who knew herself upon the verge of eternity. !
Kut ""thing more happened.
Soon 1 ltegan
to be comforted by the thought that the tow
er was not about to crumble into utter ruin,
that hour at least. Perhaps I might be saved.
I leant over the parapet ; below a man plod
ded by a lalMirer going home from wciik.
Ho looked like a toy figure. I called to him
I screamed with all my voice. Evidently
no sound reached him ; he went Ids way.
A jaunting car drove past upon the road.
Agaiu I shrieked. Again I knew that my
cries were wasted on the upper air.
My prayers for aid might reach Heaven,
but they could never be heard by man. Sick
to the soul, I ceased my cries. 1 had one ' saloon to bind the bargain. The proprietor,
hope left. He might come, my husband, my t willing to carry the joke along, for he did not
love. Surely there was that between us that ! look at in a serious light, went with her. On
would cause him to hear my voice, if iuatidi- j his return to the store the j'ottng lady accom
ble to others. My soul would speak to his. j panied him, and as she started to leave, said:
He would come to my aid, led by some inner i "I'm going home Monday noon ; so have that
knowledge of m presence some magnetism
1
r clairvoyance.
Despair departed,
alor.g the road. Oli
not mistake ! That
I strained my eyes
surely, surely, 1 could
was Romeo. I knew
'' black form, his fine head, his step, too
well, not to besure of it. And it was Edward
who rode him. My Edward. I waved my
kerchief in the air. 1 lifted my voice again.
I screamed ids name Edward ! Edward !
He cculd not hear me yet, 1 knew ; but I
was wild with Impatience. He came on.
He was beneath the tower. He paused a mo-
nient.jand looked up at i.
"Edward! Edward! I am here!" I
shrieked. "Edward ! Edward !"
Alas ! he neither heard me t.or saw my
fluttering signal. He doffed his hat for a
moment, looked at the tower again, and rode
on. As he went I tore my hat from my
head and cast it down, hoping it might at
tract his attention. Alas I the wind caught
it and blew it I knew not whither. My hus
band passed on. The sound of his gay whis
tle arose to me. I could hear that, but my
despairing cries could not reach him.
I sank upon the. lloor and hid my face in
my arms. He was going home. He would
not find me. No one knew where I had
gone, or when I lelt home. He would search
for me, weep for mc, perhaps die of my loss;
and meanwhile I should starve to death, and
the fierce birds would pick the flesh from my
bones on the summit of that high tower,
from which I knew I should not have the
courage to cast myself down
My voice had been so strained that it was
now only a whisper; my limbs failed me,
my eyes grew dim. I abandoned myself to
despair. A fluttering sound and the flirting
of wings across my face aroused me from
the lethargy into which Iliad sunk. Some
birds were flying about me. Had they come
to feast on me already",? I opened my eyes ;
the thing, whatever it was, bad alighted on
my knee ; it perched there, looking up at
me sidev. ise, out of one of its red-ringed eyes.
It was a dove.
"Great heavens '" I cried, "it is my dove
it is Cupid !"
I knew him by his tints, by his shape, most
of all bv his familiarity ; but I had a surer
proof in the remnant of blue silk still pend-
ant from one of its feet, a thread by which
the letter Edward had sent me from Tralee
had been tied. I caught the dove to my
heart, I kissed it and held it tight, at first
only as a friend from home, but in a moment,
as something sent by heaven to save me.
Doubtless the little creature came daily to
to the old tower, but it seemed to me a mir
acle worked in my behalf, for at dusk Cupid
would fly lioiue, and with hint he should
bear the summons that I doubted not would
bring me succor.
I held him tight, dreading nothing so much
as his escape ; with the other hand I search
in my pocket for pencil, card or paper ; none
were there j but I had my bankerchief, and
happily, in my hair, was a long, sharp pin.
Muffling Cupid in my dresj, I drove the pin
iuto uiy finger, and, with the dripping blood
traced this across the handkerchief :
"I am in the Dove's Tower. The stairs
have fallen down. Come."
It was legible. I thanked God, and pray-
I ing w mm lor iurtner aid, tiea my Kerciucr
to the bird s root, and set him free.
Straight as the bee flies I saw him take his
way to the manor-house.
And here I am alive, and so you know help
came, and that I did not cast myself from the
old tower. Cupid went home. While they
were all searching for me, while alarm was
at its height, my hnsba-nd, going for a mo
ment into his library, hoping to find that I
had left some written message which would
give him a clue to my whereabots, found
Cupid at the panes and saw what was tied
to his foot. The message once read, he start
ed immediately with men and ladders for the
tower, and, though it was no easy matter to
reach me, love was too powerful to be baf
lled. And Itjwas my little dove m y carrier dove
my Cupid, who really saved my life. We
always say that Edward and I. And when
at last ho flew away from us and returned no
more, wo knew that he had gone to die upon
the old tower,.the old home from whence we
won him. It is now his mausoleum.
AN ICE-CREAM HISHAM).
A strange little affair tie amour has lately
come to light In Saugert.es, N. Y. A Colum-
; bia county heiress named Iitta Smith, of
I Stockport, and a well-known dry goods clerk
j of Saugertis named George L. Myers, as
i sumo the title roles in the farce that is at
present agitating the social circle in which
j they move. Miss Smith is a young lady of
ravishing beauty, after the Amy Kosbartand
1 Helen Jewett type so pretty iu fact that she
I is called the handsomest girl in Columbia
J county, with vivacious manners, a keen atid
I ready wit, and plenty of cash.
Sometime prior to August 1st, he came to
Saugerties to visit her aunt, Mrs. Alida Wyn-
koop, or that city. Her appearance on the
streets of Saugerties instantly caused a terri
ble flutter in the bosoms of all the gay Eoth
arios in the place, and whispered questions
were heard as she passed. "Who is she, I
wonder?" "Do you know her?" and the
like. Before she had spent a week in Sau
gerties every masher in the place had com
pletely lost his heart, in fact was willing to
make an unconditional surrender ; but Miss
Eotta sheered clear of all such breakers and
gave the gay deceivers the cold shoulder.
She had set her eyes and heart upon particu
lar game, and she was bound to have it at all
hazards. .
She had noticed during her walks through
the city a very handsome young man in the
store of Frederick 1". Bussed, corner of Main
and Market streets, and upon him had she
set her;heart, and him she was bound to have,
and this is the way she accomplished her
purprse.
On Friday, July .loth, Frederick P. Itus-
sell, the proprietor of the store, was standing
in the store door and George S. Myers, the
clerk in question, was cleansing the show
windows. Suddenly Miss Lotta, handsome
ly dressed and radiant in her beauty, stepped
up to Mr. Russell and said in a vivacious
manner, "What will yon take for that arti
cle in the window?" meanwhile nodding
significant ly toward Myers, the clerk. Rus
sell laughing, replied that he would sell him
for a dish of icecream. "Very well," said
Iotta, "I will take him." She then depart-
! ed, but returning soon in the company of
! lady friend, invited therproprietor out to
a
a
j article ready tor me, as I shall certainly call
r ' l ,, rM... . . : 1 .1 ..
( lor iu 1 lie cicik in question, Hereupon uc,
i murred, and said : "The bargain wasn't
! binding unless he had a plate of cream also,"
j "Very well," said Miss Eotta, "you shall
, have it." She went out and soon returned
with a dish of cream in her hands.
The young man devoured the cream, mean
while socially chatting with his beautiful pur
chaser, became interested in her, and taking
into consideration that stic had the "rocks,"'
concluded to stick.
On Monday afternoon, the young lady,
true to her promise, drove up in a baroushe
to the merchant's establishment, on Main
street, and out stalked her purchase, clad in
a new linen duster and stoie'clothes with sun
uniDrella and grip-sack in hand.
The barouche drove off amid the laughter
and best wishes of his fellow-clerks, mid the
congratulations of Bussell to Miss Iotta
warranting her purchase to "wear well,"
hold his color, ahd never shrink from paying
(Ling Wall) his washee washee bills.
The happy couple took ttie 2:30 p. m. train
tin the Hudson River Railroad for home, and
on Mondav evening the merchant received a
; telegram from Stockport informing him that j
the young lady bad arrived safe with her j
purchase. j
Miss Lotta Smith is an heiress to a large j
fortune and besides lieing worth $2.1,000 in
her own right, owns the finest house in Stock- j
port, and the best looking fellow that Ulster
county can turn out.
Myers is a young man of industrious, steady
i habits and has quite a snug bank account of
his own, and all unite in saying that had the
young lady made a less romantic choice she
might have fared woise. As it is the hand
somest girl in Columbia county and the lest
looking fellow in Ulster make a rattling
i team
An Ixhiax Bridk's Dkvotion. There
are few instances of devotion that prove the
existence of love in a higlier degree than
that given by Kit ("arson's Indian wife to
Iter brave and manly lover. While mining
in the West lie married an Indian girl, who
lived very happily. When he was taken ill,
a long way from home, word was sent to his
wife, wh. mounted a llect liuisl.tiig potty
and traveled hundreds of miles to reach him
Might and day she continued her journey
resting only for a few hours on the oien
prairie, flying on her wonderful little steed
as soon as she could gather up her forces
anew. She forded rivers, she scaled rocky
jMisses, she waded through in-trasses and
finally arrived just alive to find ln-r husband
ixjtter. But the exvsure and exertion kill
ed her; she w.is seized with penumionia and
died within a brief space in her husband's
anus. The s'utck killed Kit Carson, the rug
ged miner he broke a blood vessel and both
ar buried in one cr.ive-
Whoever is an imitator by"natutv, choice
or necessity, has nothing stable ; the flexi
bility which affords this aptitude is incon
sistent with strength.
M CO DEMI'S D0DUE.
When I was a boy in a printing office in
Missouri, a loose-jointed, long-legged, tow
headed, jeans-clads, countrified cub of about
sixteen lounged in one day, and without re
moving his hands from the depths of bis
trowsers pockets, or taking off his faded
ruin of a slouch hit, whose broken brim hung
limp and ragged about his ears like a bug
eaten cabbage leaf, staring indifferently
around, then leaning his hip against the edi
tor's table, crossed his mighty brogans, aimed
at a distant fly from a crevice in his upper
teeth, laid him low, and said with composure :
"Wha's the 1kss?"
"I'm the boss," said the editor, following
this curious bit of architecture wonderfully
along up to its clock face with his ey.
"Don't want anybody fur to learn the bus
iness, 'tain't likely?"
"Well, I don't know. Would yon like to
learn it?"
"Tap's so po' he can't run me no more,
sol wanttogetashowsomers, if I can, 'tain't
no difference what I'm strong and hearty,
and I don't turn my back onnokindof work,
hard nur soft."
"Do you think you would like to learn the
p: inting business ?"
"Well, I don't re'ly k'yer a durn what I
do learn, so's I git a chance fur to make my
way. I'd jist as soon learn print'n's any
thing." "Can you read ?"
"Yes middlin'."
"Write ?"
"Well, I've seed people could lay over me
thar."
"Cipher?"
"Not good enough to keep store, I don't
reckon, but as fur as twelve times twelve I
ain't no slouch. 'Tot her side of that is what
gits me."
"Where 13 your home ?
"I'm from old Shelby."
"What's your father's religious denomina
tion?" "Him ? Oh, he's a blacksmith."
"No, nc I don't mean his trade. What's
his religious denomination ?"
"Oh I didn't understand you befo. He's
j a Freemason."
"No-no, you don't get my meaning yet.
What I mean is, tioes he belong to any
church?"
"Now you're talkin. Couldn't make out
what you was trying to git through yo' head
no way. B'long to a church I Why boss,
he's been the pizinest kind of a Freewill
Baptia'for forty years. They ain't no pizen
er ones'n he is. Mighty good man, pap is.
Everylxxly says that
ii iney saio any un-
ferunt they wouldn't sed it where I wus
not much they wouldn't."
"What is your own religion ?"
"Well, boss, you've kind o' got me thar
and yit you hain't got me so mighty much
nuther. I think "t if a felkr he'ps another
when he's in trouble, and don't cuss, and
I don't do any mean things, nor nuth'n' he
j ain't no business to do, and don't spell the
jsiyior s name wmi a little g, ne am t run-
nin' no resks he's al out as saift as if
he
b'longed to a church."
"But suppose he did spell it with a little g
what then ?"
'Well, if he done it a-purpose, I ieckon he
wouldn't stand no chance, anyway, I'm most
rotten certain "bout that."
"What is your name?"
Nicotlemus Dodge
I think maybe you'll do, Nieodemus.-
We'll give you a tiial, anyway."
"All ri$i,ht."
"When would you like to begin '?"
"Now."
So, within ten minutes after we had first
glimpsed this nondescript, he was one of us,
and with his coat tiff and hard at it.
Beyond that end of our establishment
which was furthest from the street was a de
serted garden, pathless, and thickly grown
with the gloomy and villianous "jimpson"
weed and its common friend the stately sun
flower. In the midst of this mournful spot
was a decayed and aged little "frame" house
with but one room, one window and no ceil
ing it had been a smoke-house a generation
before. Nieodemus was given this lonely
and ghostly den as a bed-chamber.
The village smartits recognized a treasure
in Nieodemus, right away a butt to play
jokes on. It was easy to see that he was in
conceivably green and confiding. (Jeorge
Jones had the glory of perpetrating the first
joke 'on him. He gave him a cigar with a
fire-cracker in it, and winked to the crowd
to come ; the thing exploded presently and
swept away the bulk of Nieodemus' eye
brows and eyelashes. He simply said :
"I consider them kind of seeg'yars danger
some," and seemed to suspect nothing. The
next evening Nieodemus waylaid (ieorge
and poured a bucket of ice water over hiin.
One day, while Nieodemus was in swim
ming, Tom McElroy "tied" his clothes. Nic
itdemus made a bonfire of Tom's by way of
retaliation.
A third joke was played upon Nieodemus
a day or two later he walked up the middle
aisle of the village chnrcK
Sunday night,
with a staring handbill pinned upon
'US
shoulders. The joker spent the rest of the i
night, after church, in the cellar of a desert-
ed house, and Nieodemus sat on the cellar
door till toward breakfast time, to make sure
that the prisoner remembered that if any
noise was made some rough treatment would
be the consequence. Tbe cellar had two
feet of stagnant water In it, and was bottom
ed with six inches ot soft mud.
But I wander from the point. It was the
subject of skeletons that brought this boy
back to my recollection. Before a long lime
bad elapsed tlie village smarties began to
feel an uncomfortable consckHisness of not
having made a very shining 6ucccss out of
their attempts on the simpleton of "Old Shel
by." Experiments grew scarce and chary.
j Now the young doctor came to the rescue.
There was delight and applause when be
proposed to them the plan of frightening
Nieodemus to death, and explained how he
was going to do it. He had a noble new
skeleton the skeleton of tho late and only
htcal celebrity, Jimmy Finn, the village
drunkard a gi isly piece of procrty he had
bought of Jimmy Finn himself, at auction,
for fifty dollars, under great competition,
when Jimmy lav a cry sick in the tan-jard a
fortnight before his death. The fifty dollars
had gone promptly for whiskey, and had
considerably hurried up the change of own
ership in the skeleton. The doctor would
put Jimmy Finn's skeleton in Nieodemus'
bed.
This was done about half-past ten in the
evening. About Nieodemus' usual bedtime
midnight the village jokers came creeping
stealthily through the jinipson weeds and
sunflowers toward the lonely fr.me den
They reached the w indow and pt-eped iu.
There sat the long-legged pauper on his bed
in a very short shirt and nothing more, no
was dangling his legs contentedly back ant
forth, and wheezing the music of "Camp
town Races" out of a paper overlaid comb
which lie was pressing against his mouth ;
by him lay a new Jew's-harp, a new top, a
solid india rubber ball, a handful of painted
marbles, five pounds of "store" candy and a
well-gnawed slab of gingerbread as big and
thick as a volume of sheet music. He had
sold the skeleton to a traveling quack for
three dollars, aud was enjoying the result.
.From yfnrk Twin's yew Hook, "A Tramp
Abroad."
A 0UMAM)Y TEMPEST.
mii.i.kt's c.nApmo unscniPTioN of ship
wreck ON THK COAST.
In the opening rages of the life of Jean
Francois Millet, "Peasant and Painter," be
gun in ficrVmrr for Septemler, occurs tlte
following simple and graphic description by
Millet himself of a series of shipwrecks on tho
coast of Normandy, which formed one of the
most striking memories of his childhood.
There are not many records of calamities or
series of calamities so extraordinary :
"It was All Saints' Day. In the morning
we saw that the sea was "very rough and ev
ery one said there would le trouble. All the
parih was in church. In the middle of Mass
we saw a man come dripping wet, an old
sailor, well known for his bravery. He im
mediately said that n be came alongshore
he saw several ships which, driven by a fear
ful wind, would certainly shipwreck on the
coast. 'We must po totiieirassistanee,' said
he louder, 'and I have come to say to all who
aie willing that we have only just time to put
to sea to tiy and help them.' And about fif
ty men offered themselve and without shak
ing, followed the old sailor. We got to tlm
shore by going down the clifT and there we
oon saw a terrible sight several vessels, ne
behind, the other, driving at a frightful eed
against the rocks.
" "Our men put their boats to sea, but they
had hardly made ten strokes when one boat
filled with water and sunk, the second over
turned with the breakers and the third thrown
up on shore. Happily no one was drowned.
J and all reached the shore. It was easy to
. see that nur boats would be no use to tho
j poor people on the ships.
"Meantime the vessels came nearer and
were only a few fathoms from our black
cliffs, which were covered with cormorants.
The first, whose masts were gone, came like
J a great mass. Every one on shore saw it
i coming : no on dared speak. It seemed to
J me a child, as if death was plaving with a
j handful of men, whom it intended to cru.-h
I and drown. An immense wave lifted itself
J like an angry mountain and wrapping the
, vessel brought her near, and a still higher
j one threw her upon a rock level with the wa-
ter. A frightful cracking sound the next
instant the vessel was rilled with water. The
sea was covered with wreckage tilanks.
i masts ana poor urowmng creatures. .Many
warn andthen disappeared. Ournien threw
themselves into the water, and, with tbe old
sailor at their head, made tremendous efforts
to save them. Several were brought back,
but they were cither drowned or broken ou
the rocks.
"The sen threw up several hundred, and
with them merchandise and food.
"A second ship approached. The mats
were cone. Eveiy one was tin deck, which
was full ; we sw them all ou their knees and
a man in black seemed to bless them. A
wave as big as our cliff canied her toward us.
1 We thought we heard a shock like the first,
I but she held stanch and dirt not move. The
1 . . : . ..... . i . .,- . . i
) W II CS l-ill HUil 1 ll-l lie I , I 11 1 M If 11 1 11 IIOI UUUe.
I She seemed petrified. In an instant every
one put to sea, for it was only two gun shots
I from shore. A btr.it was made fast aioucside;
i our boot was tilled instantly, one of the boats
: of the ship put off, threw out planks and
! boxes, and in half an hour every one was on
J shore. The ship had been saved by a rare
accident : her bowsprit and foiepart had got
I rli'V'
1 he waves
which had thrown her on the reefs had pre-
! served her as if by a miracle. She was F.n
j glish, and the nitn who blessed his eompan
j ions was a bishop. They were taken to tlm
I village, and s-kui after to Oherbourg.
t "We all went back airain to the shore.
j The third ship was thrown on the breakers,
i lashed into little bits, and no one could be
j saved. Thebodies of the unhappy crew were
i thrown up on the sand.
j "A fourth, fifth and sixth were lost ship
, and cargo on the rocks. The tempest was
! territic. The w ind was so violent that it was
useless to try to oppose it. It carried off tho
j roofs and the thatch. It whirled so that birds
, wen-killed even the culls, which are accus
j tomed, one would think, to storms. The
, night was pased in defending the houses,
Some covered the roofs with heavy stones,
; some carried ladders and poles and made
i them fast to the roofs. The trees bent to the
ground and cracked and split. The fields
; were covered with branches and leaves. It
! was a fearful sconrce. The next dav All
! Soul's Day the men returned to the shore ;
it was covered with dead lwxlies and wreck
j age. They were taken up and placed in tows
along the foot of the c-iifis. Several other
I vessels came in siylit : every one was lost on
; our coast. It was a desolation like the end
i of the world. Not one could be saved. The
rocks sma-dicd them like glass and threw
them in atoms to the cliils.
i "Bassing a hollow place, I saw a great sail
' coveiin"a hat looked like a pile of merclian
J disc. I lilted the corner and saw a heap of
, dead bodies. I was so frightend that 1 ran
i all the way home, where I found mother and
i grandmother praying for the drowned men.
j The third day another vessel came. Of this
i one they found possible to save part of the
j crew, about ten men, whom thrv got oft the
rocks. They were all torn and bruised"
l ney were taken to t-rucliy, cared Tor a
! month and sent to Cherbourg. But the poor
I w letches wire not rid of the sea. They cm
I barked on a vessel going to Havre; a stnrrn
took them and they were all lost. As for thp-
i dead
all the lieaises were cmiiloved for a
i 2." T 7- tne ceineter).
. 1i4.OT.lp cnid tlicv wrrp not i.iwmI f 'brit in r
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.'
j ,4,ged
i trict of Columbia. An old colored man was
I on the witness stand. The district attorney
! hni bcfo Km a long list of convicted crimi-
II.I.. .1 I ll 1 ll.llll 11. -J ll IV 11U IllM'S lOVUCIl
the witness as follows :
"What Is -our name ?"
"John Williams, sab"
"Are you tne John Williams who was sent
to the Albany penitentiary ''
"No sab ; Lot this Joint."
"Are you the John Williams who wassent
to tbe district jail for assault?"
"No stih : not this John."
"Are you the John Williams who Avas con
victed lor arson and scut to the Baltimore
penitentiary ?"
"No sail."
Tired of asking fruitless questions, the dis
trict attorney suddenly put a leading one :
"Have von ever been in any penitentiary?"
"Yes sab."
All eyes were now turned upon the wit
ness. The district attorney smiled compla
cently and lesnined :
"How many times have you been in the
penitent iary '.'"
"Twice, sab."
"Where'.'"
"In Baltimore, sab."
"Ilow long were you there tlte fiist time?""
"AWtut two boms, sab."
"Ilow Ion the second time?" quetied the
attorney, rather crot fallen.
"An fu.ur, sh. I went there to w hitewash
a eel', for a shyster lawyei who had roblted
bis client."
The lawyer sat down amid the laughter ot
the sicctato!s.
Thk ctdebrated Hrn silver mine, in Utah,
has Itccii sold to tlte Cunard steamship com
pany for the enormous sum ol tl.t,ooo,otK.
TlnceAears ago the mine a.is so'.! by tbe
discoverers tit it lot f-.",noo, to four men. who
sub-eqiioii1!v sold it to ji'A Coa I.C mid others
tors7,oiffi"'i.