THE CAMBRIA FREEMAN I , iiibllbcd Weekly at ZZfzysBUIZGj Cambria Co., ra 1 liY 1 1. A. Mci'IKE. The lre an! reltaMe clrculatl"H of the t'Aar bri a Frkek a c cororuend It loth farorapi. con sideration of advertiser. bin feron will be in serted at the following low ratea : 1 inch, 8 time i t 1 S month 1 ' months.". 1 " 1 year S 6 month 3 " 1 yer S 8 month? " 1 year """""11111' W col'n t inorfh ".." H " 6 monthi )-i " ' year " 1 " e in on tin I ' 1 year - Administrator's and Execotor'a Notices. Auditor's Noticci Stray anil similar Notice? I W I 60 a Mi Guaranteed Circulation - l,OGS. exi lo.o IM 12 00 lu 0 "il oo '. 4o.ii 7i.J . t 60 SlHStRIPTIO-1 RATE.". , r n one year, cnsti in aavance i.ni if not n'd within 3 rao. I. it ! .. " if not p'd within 6 nios. 3.00 I " " if not p'd within year.. 2.25 Ti person residing outaide the county at a Mitioiial per year will be charged to If to S 00 Business Items, first Insertion l.ic.per lie : each ,-1:1 ii event will the atiovp terms ce ie- H. A. IVlcPIKE, Editor and Publisher. subsequent insertion 5c. jicr line. 17 HrsnHilion or j'Tocrtdi-no fit ar. corporation or xtmty. and communitntirmt drsionrj to celt effrai. fio t any mottrr of limi'rd or xnilividucl tulcrt.t, must be paid Jor as advrrtisrmmts. Job ritiTio of all kind neatly and evpeditf ously executed at lowe.-t prices. Itou't you forget i t: "HK IS A FREEMAN WHOM THE TRUTH MAKES FREE, AND ALL ABE SLATES BESIDE. St.50 and postage per year, In advance. l rests by p:il:iir in 'ivncr mui uui Njt to he placed on the Mini loonna hb musif , t ! time forward. P i" for your paper hefore you ston it, it VOLUME XY. EBENSBURG, PA.. FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1SS1. NUMBER 2(3, It you mart. Mine mil pcmawiura mi one n.in't l? a S'-aUwa j lite i) short. iHEAP! o o c o o o d o V c H H H II HUH H H II 11 FEE A Fl'F i: A A V J FK AAA FFV f. A A P KLE A A P f'.EE niJK ! K K K ! KE KRR K U R EEE K K ! ! horxpest! ( to GEO. HUNTLEY HAS NOW ON HANI) THE UJGEST, BEST s MOST VARIED STOCK OF Stoves, Tinwore, fKJO HOlSEFt K.MSHI.MJ ssssss ati OIllliJ OOOO I)T)II)I ssssss 0 oo o oo on i s OOUa OOOO OOOO DDDDI) ssssss ke., fce., tliat ran te f.mni! In any one estaMI.-h menti n Pennsylvania. His stock comprises m, mm and mm mm, of various styles and patterns; Biiill?t-s;' XIti.icl"vie Of every ilescripMon and of besfquality ; CARPENTERS1 TOOLS! -of ft 11 kln'U and tho hest In t lie market. Also, a lare stuck of TABLE AND POCKET CUTLERY, ;lnanrr. ( ureiinw are, Kll ver-llatetl 1Ur, ikiiI and W lllov Ware. Hall Pa par, rriinli. in.l Valises, Kevol vera. An vil., wi.. Horse Sliops. liar Iron, Rail nfl. Horse iails. 4 arrlace Holts, Itlv ets. Mill Saws. rilsf ones. Steel Sliov- tlow Slmilils, Koail Sroops; Mowin? Mac ines, Horse Hay Rakes, If or.e Hay lurks, Hope and I'nlleys, torn nlll vntors, and a lull lineot llarv- -eatlnff 'l oitls. Also, a laro assortment of Table, F'fonr and Stair Oil Cloths, Carri.i29 Oil Cloth, FPKR ami OII.Of.OTH WINIK'W SHADINd )v) SHtl'K KIXTI KI-.S; I.ivkhi'Ool ASHTON the he.st In tin; world lor 1 :iirv an.l TaMe e-r; Iviotko IUK'K SALT, th cliran.-t and t-j-'l fit t.-c !:r,i Iie Sto. k : I, AM) I'LAhiTEK; a in i-1 cr.N I'l.'.M 1"S. of the rest ututlitv: FEj.aJNS PATENT SArETY I.AMI'S. which curi" I tie exploded: t h iliiik's VAONS and AKfS: tho larse.t sto.-k of MILK fKOt'KS of h -raps and .irts and of snpenor ware ever of f ... ..j tpr i Ue in Kl'en-t urit : a lull line or PAINT 1 SJ1ES of the ino-t d-iral le i)iialltv: WIN-I- VGT.ASS. OILS. PAINTS, TI KITlNTINE, V' SM'HES -Vc. touether with a largeuud com p.r'i? 9t' '-k of choice til; CKIIIES, T0B.HT0 AM) SLUARS, . w! thousands of ether useful and needful "-. ltif it. anytlilnir 1 haven't irot or can't f " "t th- rt not:ce is'not worth bnyinir. and what I (j : tt l'-r f-.i'.i' may alw.yj lc refied in as rinriT- - r-. tv qcamtt. while they will invariably ho .' A A'l IJOT'l'OM I'UIClS! 3 t r Hvinir had nearly thiivtt teab.V Eirp.iti t i :i. sale of ifoods. in in y line. I am emildod i) p'y my ciitomor with the very hc.-t in the Tr.irii -t, " ' ii e me a l.ttT.il hare ot your pafron h,T:. ii'i l 1-e c-nvtn'Cil that the best i. always t e che . -t. :;ii. that if never pays to tuy an In Tr'.or ar' - l. Mindly bc-atie tlo: price is low. as It i an lai -j uta le i.o t that such jroods are always 4Se dear--t In the end. (IKO. Enenst-.r.', Atr.l 11. HUNTLEY. Established for tiiirty-foiTi years. HAY BROTHERS, I IMiiiiiiitio'tiii'ei's, t Wholesale and retail, -OF- pm, coma, -AND BHeet Iron Wares : f I I il AND DEALERS IX ; EIATING, PARLOR aai COOKING I Stoves, SHEET METALS, AND . if HIRMSBING GOODS GENERALLY. I s ilN, COPPER & SHEET-IMS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. k X i 273, 2S0 and 2S2 Washington Si. JOHNSTOWN. PA. McNEVIN &l YEACER, -msrrAi-rvp.siw or- Copper ana Ste-ta WARE, i AJD PBALERS IN ;JINTf& HEATING STOVES, Rit..s, rinxAtEs, Ac, tWentii Amine, . Altoona, Pa. tn Door Wet of Opera Home. i f I IN; AM) SI'OtJTINO 1 rP.cfrTI-Y ATTENDED TO. V lOtt hTOVIS I0.STA.TLI OS Bk. ii. cmt. i0 1979 tr. 4 - n . r .if i -11 i m; i'Kopi.k's 65 d h.1.!?.-:?,;::;!': salcen. 7 i enher h:u the i.1r.a-ure cf annoon-ina: CCX'C y r. r.e ; ;.lO in' . hr-t-rlaf. u.nortl e.tahlidntnent jj.ilinit rewrit ! s-i,i..i hy Jo.le Ller.l .'..'"" "n UJuli ""' M I"iite the Mou'n-to'-'Tn"rJ" hew'11 rhl to welcome all w. to he ahaveil. hare their hair fit. orrte- i vrcinltiriK. eia.le intocur!. an.l awlteh .V'1.' s i'1'tvtion rendered or no 1 -tz.l 1 iri-e frlv. in. a call. H. P. SUUAXFEK. ltlllT2 The Great SKIN" CURE. Itching and Scaly Diseases, Humors of the Scalp and Skin Permanent ly Cured. niNCWORIVI. Oco. W. Hrown, 43 Marshall St., Providence, R. I., cured by Cuticura Remedies of a Ringworm Humor (rot, at the barber's, which spread all over his ears, neck and face, and for six years resitted all kinds of treatment. SKIN HUMOR. F. H. Drake, Esq., assent for Harper A Brothers, Detroit, Mich., Rives an astonishing aecountof his case (eczema rodent), which had been treated by a consultation or physicians without benefit, and which speedily yielded to the Octictra Kesolt kst internally ami Cuticura and t'aTicuRA Soat externally. SCALD HEAD. If. A. Raymond, Auditor F. W., J. A S. R. R., Jackson. Mich., was cured of Scald Head of nine years' duration by tho t'utieura Remedies. ECZEMA. Hou. Wm. Taylor, Boston. Mast., permanently cared of a humor of the face and scalp (eczema) that had been trcatod unsuccessfully for twelve years by many of Hostnn's ocst physicians and most noted specialists, as well as European author ities. MILK CRUST. Mrs. Howers, 13 Clinton St., Cincinnati, speaks of her sister's child, who was cured of milk crust which resisted all remedies for two years. Now a fine, healthy boy, with a beautiful head of hair. FALLING HAIR. Frank A. Hean, Steam Fire Enirine 6, Iloston, was cured of alopecia, or falling of the hair, by tho Cctictra Resolvent Internally and Cuticura and Cuticura Soap externally, which completely restored his hair when all said he would lose it. Thomas Lee, 2-T7d Frankford Ave.. Philadelphia, afflicted with dandruff, which for twenty years had covered his scalp with scales one-quarter of an Inch in thickness, was cured by Cuticura Remedies. TREATMENT. The Cuticura Treatment consists In the inter nal useof the Cuticura HKSOLVKtsT, the new r.!ood Furifier, and the external use of Cuticura and Cu ticura Soir, the Orcat Skin Cures. For Snnhurn, Tan and Oreasy Skin ne Cuticu r.A Soap, an exquisite toilet, bath and nursery san ative, fragrant with delicious flower odors and heal ing balsams. CUTICURA Remedies are for sale by all druggists. Prlc of CrTicur.A , a Medicinal .Icily, small boxes, 60 ct". ; large boxfs, il. Cuticura Resolvent, the new Blood Fufifier, $1 per bottle. Cuticura Soap (the queen of medicinal and toilet soaps), '25 eta. Cuti cura Medicinal Shavinu Soap. IScts. Principal depot, Week A I'otter, Roston, .Mass. Ad"AU mailej free rn receipt of pri -e. COLLiNs LTAicE5Eian More continuous find pow rrml e!ct rif r."T ion In nh- CUA1C g4tLtg..UJKertrjr ia,ton than any !;ittrry mnie. i nev are a ?r.'dv an 1 cprtnin rare fir Pa in.- ah'i Weaknf.-N M" the I,uni5-. I-ivrr, Kid ney;" and I'rinury (r-rits, Khcuma: ism, Neural-:-a. Uyptria. Female ViafcTn. Nervous Pains find W i'ikiiPfi?fi., Mnlari:i. and Fever nd Aitu-. Price 25 cfttl SM everywhere. lVeU A I'otter, I to ton. Mans. (T-l.-lm.J TO (Hill) (Ml MORS! 1st Buy seven bars DOBBINS' ELECTIITC SO A I' of your Gro cer. 2d. Ask Aim to yive you n bill of it. .Id. JTatl h his bill and your full address. 4th. We u ill mail you FREE seven beautiful and elegant cards, in six colors ami gold, representing ShaTcsjteare's 'Seven Ages of Man.' I. L. CRAG N & CO., no Hontn r'oxii-tH Ht., rUIL.ADEI.TIlI A, TA. AT-IKUIBINS' El.EfTKIC SOAP Is sold by V 8. Harkbr A Bro., Khensbura;. 4-l.-e.o.w.m. STEEL luRlT FENCE CHF.APKK THAN WOOL). ki t rn.i, she.) On Wire I'ainted Costs but TEN CENTS per HOIK Samples and ralalofnft Sent Free. OLIVER BROTHERS & PHILLIPS, 01, M A 91 WA1I B HTBttT, 114, 116 A IIS riKKTlrtaae, a-tT.-sm . PITTSBURGH, PA. 820.00 SAVED! $20.00 il:! 120. OO SH r.I) I t rinrohas- 13", - -4 Inif n Sl.V.l.Ml M At'HlNK from the iintrria nnd. whys' office is at 1"4 Kleventh Avenue. !etw-en lfMh and 17th St.. Ai.tooka. 1'., and who r ft era the Editor of the i'i ttx ' ah br i a f bki'Mak as reiorencc. 1 .1. McCiUATH. Altoona, April 15, lSSl.-tf. Dr, Jones' Taraxcanum Tonic, or lVPrEi"SIA Mkdicink. a vegetable compound who?e Tirtuen has a food the teat of 40 yenra. In in fallible In theenreol liyapepala. tieneral IVhllltr, f 'hronle Weakness of L,uiijjs, Sideen and Kidney's, Short Kroath, Hearthtirn. St. Vitus' IHnce, pai'ns In the Stomach. Back and I'heat. I'artirularly adapted to all Female Disease.'', no matter what the as of the patient may he. l'rice. TScta. Sold by I)riucz!t.. (7-9.'80.-ly.J THE MAN WHO SPENDS MONEY l- .r a,i vert inir in newspaper in theae tunes with out fjrt ol.ta ninr an e-timate of the coat Irons Ki. r. liOWKI.hfcCil.'S Ni-wapaper Advertla in Bureau. No In Spruce St.. New York, i likel to pay io ..r what miirht he obtained for f S. Such rt;mtia nr. fnrnvl.ed to all applicant gratia. Send accent" fr.r pki pna,' pamphlet, with liat of newjpap.r rate? and references. "Tn. M. J. BUCK, Physician ani Stroeon, A I took a. Pa. Office and residence on Fourteenth street, near Eleventh avenne, where ninht call can be made. Office hour from to 10. a. m, and from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8. T. M. Special attention paid to lin es e 9 of the Eye and F.ar. a well as to Surgical Operations of everv description. M I.-if.l BUCKT.KY. ATTORXF.Y- AT-I.A W, ALTOONA, TK. f Office at 1102 Twelfth street. In same b. aid ing; and Immediately in rear of First Nat l Bank. Altoona. April 2A 18Sl.-tf. CCf week In y vOOftte. Addii oorown town. Tcriniand tlontflt Addiets H. Hatutt l Co., Fcrtland, lie. 1 A WF. WERE CHILD BEN OMK OCRSELTES. One by one Ibo whit hairs glisten. One by one the wrinkles come; And the time, too, with thoir advent. When we love quiet home ; When the patter and the frolic Of our little household elves Makes in quite forget, my neighbor. Wo were children once ourselves. Once we folt tho young blood tinglo All along our youthful veins. As we roamed the fields and meadows, Sped the ball, or held tho reins 1 Ay, to full of joy and gladness Were our hearts In life's young day. That we only saw the roses. While the thorns werehid away. Well, ah ! well should we remember How we loved the cheery song Of tho merry, merry skaters, As we mingled with the throng ; How we loved the dear home frolics, "Blind Man s Buff" and "Busy Bee," Or the quiet games at evening; Mother looking on to see. Dear old days of happy childhood. Full of joy, with little pain ! They are gone, and tho' we miss them. They shall ne'er return again ! Let us, then, though growing older, Like tho books upon our shelvos. Ne'er forget, my friend and neighbor, Wo were children once ourselves. WAS IT A DREAM. A PERSONAL REMINISCENCE. On the 2f.th of August, 1862, 1 was in the Union army, and thereniment to which I be longed was deployed as skirmishers in front of Longstreet's (Confedrate) corps, not far from Gainesville, Va. Duriuethe day there was desultory firing on the part ot the oppo site forces, but no sustained eneagement, al though we continued to press upon the ene my until daikness settled down and put an end to further maneuvers. At nighfall, I with four or five companies of my command, remained in the position oc- J cupied by them during the day, while the ; rest of the regiment, detailed for picked duty j advanced to the front. I was in excellent health and spirits, but : being greatly fatigued, fell asleep almost im mediately aftei the arrangement for the night . had been perfected, and soon began to dream, j For wmc considerable time my mind wan dered over tho events or dwelt upon scenes , which were familiar, and which, upon awak ening, I found no difficulty in locating, j After a w?iile, however, I wandered into ' a dreamland where all seemed strange. I 1 fancied myself in a line of battle with my j comrades lying in a piece of timber fringing an open field cf some considerable extent, j the faither side of which sloped gently for ; ward forming a ridge parallel to our front, j Upon the ridge I could distinguish something i like a dozen canons, and could see the Con- federates artillerymen resting npon the earth , or lounging in little groups with their guns, j as distinctly as I could have done with my natural vision. ; I could almost perceive the puffs of smoke j from the rifles of the enemy's sharpshooters . and hear the reports of their firearms, and j the ding and thud of the bullets. I might here mention, as a further description of the field, that the wood in winch we lay was j quite clear of underbrush ; that we occupied the edge nearest the foe, with a rail fence be- tween us and the cleared space of which I ; have spoken, and this fence some three hun- ' dred yards more or less to our ri"ht turned ' ! off at a right angle and ran quite up to the Confederate line. As was the case where we lay, so It was on our right. The fence separated the cleared field frbm the timber, which latter constituted two sides of a par alellogram, the angle being, as already ob served, not far from the right wing of my regiment. While I was taking in these details, and experiencing meanwhile the peculiar sensa tion which sometimes annoy even old cam- paigners when compelled to remain inactive j under a crooping nre, i mougiic an oroer came for us to charge the batteries before us. The regiment arose, formed in line, and started out from the timber, and instantane ously the guns upon the heights beyond open ed fire. As we passed on I saw men fall as though killed or wounded, and heard all the various sounds and din of battle. About midway in our line, running, paral lel with our line, I noticed a depression com monly called by farmers a "dead-furrow" it being the "finishing off" place in ploughed fields. We passed over this and continued our charge across the open space and up the slope almost to the very muzzle of the cannon comrades falling by scores at every step and then, all at once, we seemed to be envel oped in Impenetrable darkness. My senses were left blank. The next moment, how ever, light returned and I was lying on the ground, fighting still going on about me, but whether wounded or not, my dream, or what ever it was, did not Inform me. While thus prostrate and helpless, I gazed about me and saw, a short distance in the rear of the guns, a small cabin, and in its ga ble, which was towards me, a window. About the building were grouped many wounded men, some standing, and others ly ing down. In"the immediate vicinity of my self there seemed to bs hundreds who bad fallen in the contest. Casting my eyes in the direction from which we had come,-1 beheld the remnants of my command in full retreat. I also noticed the sun, which was shining brightly, andappear. ed to in the vicinity of an hour above set ting. At this point I was awaked from my slum ber, and learned the time to be about 2 r. m., of August 20. Having my dream, as I con sidered it, in my mind, I made inquiries and ascertained that during my nap everything had remained unusually quiet, only a few shots having been exchanged on the picket line. An" hour aftei w were on the march to Manasscs and the battlefield of Groveton. I must really confess that the realistic char acter of my excogitations during sleep affec ted me considerably, and all the more be cause the scenery depicted was altogether stiabge. My memory, though qnestioned to the uttermost, failed to recall any locality through which I had ever passed that all re sembled it. Consequently I felt unusually gloomy and depressed In spirits, and all the morning carried in my heart a presentment, the nat'ire of which can scarcely be describ ed, of approaching evil. The old battle-field of Bull Run was reach ed early in the forenoon, and about 12 m. we were advanced a mile or so to the northward, where we were assigned our position in the line of battle then forming. The station occupied by my regiment hap pened to be in a timber 6kirting an open field, which terminated at a distance of some 500 or 600 yards in front of us in a ridge crown ed with several Confederate batteries, the guns in plain sight. The enemy's sharpshooters lay by their ar tillery, concealed from view, but the puffs of smoke from the muskets sufficiently indica ted their locality, and disclosed the fact that our opposite lines were parallel. On our left the country was open, out in the opposite direction, beginning at a dis tance of some thrcf hundred yards from our right, the timber extended up to and beyond the ridge already described. The excitement consequent upon the fight ing going on about me and the skirmish fir ing drove the dream temporarily out of my mind, although its impressions were allowed to remain. About 5 o'clock in the afternoon, as I should judge, we were ordered to charge the position in our front ; and the various regi ments of the brigade, my own occupying the second place from the left, advanced to the dangerous undertaking. Moving from our place of shelter, we were greeted with a severe shower of grape, can nister or shell, the first discharge of which encountered us as we were climbing or in some manner getting over or pasta worn fence of five or six rails high, and which had intervened between ourselves and the clear ed field beyond. When about half the distance of the ridge had been traversed, one of the men nearest to me fell ; and although going at a double quick, I noticed as I hastily glanced down at him, that he had fallen in a "dead -furrow ;'' but yet the event of the night previons did not recur to me. I was thinking of some thing else about that time. We charged ahead and reached the hill The enemy's gunners fled. The crest was almost gained, as we (for at least, I) thought, when suddenly I found myself in total darkness. A pressure npon my throat, a ringing in my ears as though;my head was plunged in a stream of running water; a sensation of dizziness, numbness, stiff ocation. and of falling, and then a shock as I struck the ground ; how well I remem ber it all now. The concussion of the fall seemed to re store my sight (consciousness had never left me) and to this day the incidents then trans piring are as fresh as though they had occur ed within the 3"ear. For instance : While I was momentarily reeling, just at the time of being hit, prepar atory to a fall over backward, I beau' a com rade remark : "There goes " (mentioning my name,) and I remember thinking, even on my way down to kiss Mother Earth with the back of my head, that I was '"gone," in stead of going. But to continue : So soon after falling as possible, I constituted myself a board of sur vey to assess the damages sustained, and forthwith entered upon the investigation. I found that, as a personal matter, the in juries were quite serious a minnie ball hav ing penetrated my throat, passed between the jugular and windpipe, and found an ex- it at the back of my neck, quite low down, and close by the spiue which is slightly frac tured. After making up and sending in this re port, and doing what I could to stop the flow of blood by forcing into the wound some lint, and a handkerchief I fortunately had with me, I crawled, as best I could, in my para- l.vzed condition, to a more sheltered position, which, however, was exceedingly difficult to j find. It was the hottest place I was ever in, and hotter than I hope for in the future, The losses were terrible, more than half my com rades being either killed or wounded, the i other regiments ot the brigade suffered in proportion. Speaking of hot places in a battle, one does not cannot understand wha they are tin- , til he is struck down on the field, there to lie, utterly helpless, while bullets are hum ming and singing like ten hundred thousand swarms of bees, pattering on the ground and casting up little puffs of dust and dirt, as the rain-drops during a heavy shower do on the waters of a lake, or crushing into the bone or striking with a dull thud the quivering flesh while, grape and cannister shot and shell are howling, hissing, screaming over and about his prostrate form 1 say one must need experience all these things in order to fully understand the meaning of the term "a hot place." Then, if he thinks at all, he will be inclin ed to believe that thecauldron of hell, with the cover off, is but an ice cavern compared to the particular locality fate has fated him ta occupy. The fighting continued only a short time after I fell ; but before it was thoroughly over, still In search of a place of safety, I dragged mjself into a cut of an abandoned railroad, which ran along its hill side almost at its summit, and where the Confederate army had lain. As I did this I caught sight of a small cabin standing just beyond the batteries we had so vainly tried to capture. 1 could perceive the roof, and as low down as the. eaves. Ths gable stood facing me and in it was a small window. At this moment I remembered my visions of the previous night. Instinctively I turn ed and looked in the direction of my com rades. They were in full retreat, followed up by the victorious foe. The sun was low down in the heavens, just as I seen it in my sleep. Soon afterward the Confederates carried me back to the cabin. Ilundteds of our wounded were there as well as the enemy's, besides a large number of men who had died. Everything corresponded with what I had gazed upon four hours before. The vision was verified. Now comes the curious feature of the case. The nearest I had ever been to the locality described, pre vious to the day on which 1 was wounded, was upon the old Bull Run battle-field, some two miles distant, and from which it was ab solutely impossible to get a limited view of the field upon which I lay. I had never seen a sketch or a photograph of the country. These are facts upon controversy. How then is the matter to be explained? Was it sim ply a coincidence, or was the circumstance to be properly classed among those strange cases of "second sight," of which we read? I can understand an ordinary dream, for the visions which it brings to view are al most invariable based upon some iucident of the past. ' The visions may be grotesque or distorted, but yet, if we search long and carefully enough, we can reasonably account for them. As heat will restore the date on a coin otherwise undistinguishable, so Bleep will frequently restore, through the agency of dreams scenes and events long since for gotten and gone fiom the recollection during waking hours. But if the coin never bore a date, then Dotting exists to be restored, And if there be no foundation in fact, bow can a simple dream bring to view scenes through which the dreamer subsequently passes that are verified in every important particular by his a?tual experience ? It is a knotty problem, and one I have tried again and again to solve, but without suc cess. The facts are submitted as they actually presented themselves in my case, and let him who can, or thinks he can, furnish the key that shall explain them satisfactorily. REWARD FOR KIND WORDS. Noah Winslow, ot Boston, was fond of telling the following incident 8t his mercan tile life : During the financial crisis and rrash of 18.77, when heavy men weie sinking all around us, and banks tottering, our house became alarmed, in view of the condition-of its own affairs. The partners three of ns, of whom I was the senior met in our private office for con sultation. Our junior had made a careful inventory of everything of his bills receiva ble and bills payable, and his report was, that Sl'0,000 of ready monov, to be held thro" the pressure, would save us. Without that we must go by the board the result was in evitable. I went out upon the street, and am.mg my friends, but in vain. Two whole days I strove, ahd begged, and then returned t the counting bouse in des pair. I sat at my desk, expecting every mo ment to hear our junior sounding the terri ble words. "Our paper is protested !" when a gentleman entered my apartment unannounced. I could not locate him nor call him to my mind any way. "Mr. Winslow," he said, taking a seat at the end of my desk, "I hear you are in need of money." The very face of the man inspired me with confidence, and I told hirn how I was situated. "Make your individual rote for one vear, without interest, for $20,000, and I wilf give you a check, payable in gold, for that amount." While I sat gazing upon him in speechless astonishment he continued : "You don't remember; but T remember you. I remember when you were a member of the superintending school commttee of Bradford. I was a boy in the village school. j -My lather was dead ; my mother was noor ; j and I was but a shabbily clad child, though I clean. When our class came out on e-xami- nation day, you asked the questions. I fan : cied you would praise and pet the children j of rich and fortunate parents, and pass me by. i "But it was not as I thought. In the end you passed by all the others, and came to me. You laid your hand on my head, and i told me I did very well ; and then you told j me I could do better still if I would try. I You told me the way to honor and renown , was oper to all alike, no one had a free pass. 1 A II I had to do was to be resolved and push i on That sir was tlie tnrnmir nninr. in mv ! life. From that hour mv soul was inspired", 1 and I have never readier d a great good with out blessing you in my heart. I have pros- pereti, aim am weaiiny ; ana now i oner vou but a noor return for the soul wealth von gavp me in mat ny-gone lime. "I took the check," said Winslow, "and , r zzr?-1 ded. "do you suppose I found niy note?" In possession," he said, "of my little orphaned granddaughter ! Oii, hearts like 1 1 1 'i n niDliiii nra -. 1 1 t 1 1 1-i n . r onM, on.) 1 1 n roll nearer together !" 3 A Romance of Real Eife. A Hunga rian paper, under the title of "A Novel Read- Made," tells the following story as one that will shortly have to be told in a law court at Budapest : "In 18.1- a merchant of that town whose name was S had a son whose extrava gance giving him great trouble he thoueht it "est to oniain mm a commission in me aus- trion annt T ri n rr mail liort rionn t .- tha .iil- , f I ;A, n i li.n ,f,A ., f 1 lim broke out. Being sent auninst the pie1". i montese he thought proper to desert the en- , emy, but on the first engagement he was i one'eve ynrSorea,ain,,art tial if he bad not fallen dancerouslv ill of fe- i ver. n the day of the battle of Macrenta he ' lay in the military hospital there. The hos- j pital was hastily evacuated by the Austrians ! after the battle, the patients "who were sufri- j cicntly recovered were hurriedly removed, ana tne rest abandoned to the mercy of the French. There was thus left behind in one room the young S and a lieutenant-colonel of Spanish origin, Count Rodriguez by name. Between the departure of the Aus trians and the arrival ot the French, the lat ter died, and youne S felt himself strong enough to make such alterations in the ar rangements of the room as should indicate that lie himself was the Count Rodriguez. the peace of lllafranca found him restored i neHiiii aim nneriy, ana in me possession of Count Kodrign'ez's papers, cash and . , , ,.. . . . ., .1 name, vv itn mis stock in crane our nerosei up as a man of fashion In Petersburg, where he gained the heart of the daughter of a Russian Rear Admiral , whom, with her father's consent, lie married. When the young wife was about to become a mother the false count proposed that they should visit his ancestral home. He did not how ever, take her any further than Hamburg, whence be wrote to his father-in-law to the effect that the home of liis ancesters was, in the French snse of the word, a chateau tn Epagne, that his real name w-ns S , and that ne was in urcent want of funds. The Admiral at once started for Hambug ; but on his arrival found his son in-law had died of the small-pox, Fiom the papers left behind him by the deceased it appeared that he was the son of a merchant at Budapest a fact which liecame more interesting to his father-in-law from his accidentally leading an offi cial advertisement calling upon the long-lost S to appear and claim a large inheritance left him by an uncle, as in case of his not ap pearing it would be distributed among the collateral relations." noNOR the dear old mother. Time has scattered snowy flakes on her brows, plow ed deep furrows on her clieeks, but is she not sweet and bea utiful still ? The lips are thin and shrunken, but those are the lips which have kissed many a hot tear from the childish cheeks, and they are the sweetest lips in the world ; the eye is dim, yet it glows with the soft radiance that never can fade. Ah, yes, she is a dear old mother. The sands of life are nearly run out, but, feeble as she is, she will go further and reach down lower for you than any other person on earth. Ton cannot enter a prison whose bars can keep hermit? You cannot mount a scaffold too high for' her to reach, that she may kiss you in evidence of her deathless love when the world shall despise and forsake you ; when it leaves you by tne wayside, to perish unnoticed, the dear old mother will , gather vou in her arms and carry you to her home, and tell you of all your virtures until you almost forget your soul is disfigured by vices. Love her tender ly, and cheer the declining years with holy devotion. Osly a woman's hair, binding the now to to the past ; only a single thread, too frail to last. Only a woman's hair, threading a tear and a sigh only a woman's hair found to day in the pie ! An article in n agricultnral paper is called "How to Eat Strawberries." .A man who doesn't know how to eat strawberries should be compelled to live on dried apples and salt mackerel. A STORY OF MISERY AND WOE. A more honest fellow than Tennington Smythe never lived. lie was yonng say twenty two or three full of a large assort ment of honest enthusiasms, possessed of an unlimited belief in the goodness of human nature, and absolutely incapable of false hood. And yet, curiously enough, he had a pas sion for mysteries. Although practically a common place Presbyterian, he nevertheless affected to believe in the mysteries of Rosi crucianism. TI was perpetually striving, with conspicuous want of success, to mag-' netize his friends, and although he wus too orthodox to believe in Spiritualism, be lived in constant hopes of inducing his washstand to move and his writing table to rap by the patient contact of his tireless hands. As for secret societies, they were his delight. He belonged to every ancient and venerable or der of very modern mechanics and grocery men in existence, and kept locked up in his trunk more flaring gilt badtres and fantasti cally trimmed aprons and horse-collars than would have sufficed to purchase the sover eignty of a dozen African kingdoms. And there never was a more honest and straight forward little girl than Mary Mor ris, to whom Smythe was eneaeed to be married. She was just out of boarding school, and her lespectable father in the wholesale lard business and her equally re spectable mother in the wholesale family business and all her thirteen brothers and sisters of assorted sexes were ready to swear or affirm, as the case might be that Mary was as good as gold and many times as val uable. The engagement of these two young per sons was with the full approbation of the elder bmythes and Morrises. Young Pen nington was expected to spend three even ings every week with his betrothed, and they were always accommodated with a conve nient back parlor in which to converse after the manner of their kind. In these circum stances Pennington Smythe oueht to have been happv, but be was not. There was no mystery about this love affair, and the fact weighed upon his spirit. He did what he could to convince, himself that the respectable old Mr. Morris, who used to say when Tennington made his ap pearance, "Now. you children, keep out of that back parlor, and give Maty and her young man a show," was bitterly opposed to the match, and must be kept from perceiv ing that his dauehter was beloved by her young man." But the onfy possible way j which ho could devise to throw an air of se- crecv over the affair was to write notes to beloved in a very cramped hand, and to ! bis beloved in a very ... ., .. ,, . , 3 oenver mem nimseir. Lsnanj ne naa to deliver them himself. read them, too, since his handwriting was 1 too mystical to be readily deciphered, and I - : nothing but an amplification of the innocu- : mi idea that he. Penninrton Smvthe. pro- 1 posed to love her, Mary Morris, in spite of everv obstacle. As there were no conceiva ble obstacles this statement was not one of tremendous moment ; but still it gave young Smythe no little comfort to make it in writ ing and deliver it with an air of immense se crecy. One day a happy thought struck him. How delightful it would be to correspond with his darling in cipher. This idea filled him with a calm, mystical joy that was real- ly a first class sensation. So he devised a cipher of the kind so much in vogue among school girls, and which consisted in substitu ting one letter for another, and instantly ; wrote a brief note to Mary. This he carried " same evening, together with the i key, and attained the seventh heaven of; mystical delight in transmitting it to her. j Poor Marv suffered much from this cipher, j It was very hard work for her to write an in- telligible letter with the new alphaliet. She ! continually made mistakes in it, and so kept ; Pennington out of his bed for hours, while, j with locked doors and shaded windows, he j tried to decipher some such sentence as, "I , do so long to see you. It was only when J mistakes were made in the use of this cipher that it became at all difficult of comprehen sion to an ordinary reader. Poor Penning- ! tin i.nA avitail niiicli attpnt.inn tn tlio i ) ... - , , . . ' j subject of cryptography, or he would have tA.111 il4l IlUb UtYVIH-V .IJMI. v.. " V. i Known mai mere is nowiing more intnsjia- rent than a cipher which merely consists of the substitution of one letter for another. He was, however, soon to learn this fact in a very unpleasant way. . One evening Mary dropped a note which she had received by mail, and it was picked up by her father. The old gentleman was wild with horror. There was his trusted daughter actually corresponding with some unknown villian in cipher. Obviously the cipher must have some shameful secret. He sat in his arm-chair with the open note in his band, and serious thoughts of imme diate apoplexy in his mind, when his son Tom, a young fellow just home from college, entered, and, frightened at his father's ex pression of face, asked and received an ex planation. Tom was a briuht young fellow, and he at once remarked that it was hardly worth while to take to apoplexy until it was really apparent that the mysterious note contained something wrong. He suspected hat it was written by the mystery loving Smythe, and he did not doubt his ability to read it. The note was as follows : CRSMPSMX: II TTVPS XBC SYC ST FSXHFIITT. OSYYAYOUBY XPXULS. In less than ten minutes Tom had trans lated this innocent mystery into the words : "Dear Mary, I love you and always will. Pennington Smythe," and thus banished his father's doubt and wretchedness. However, the old man was angry enough to desire to give the unfortunate rennington a lesson which he might remember. So when the young man made his usual evening call he was awaited in the parlor by the incensed father and his greatly amused son, and ad dressed in the following stern and cruel words : "Mr. Smythe, what do you mean by writ ing to my innocent daughter m such mfa moue style as this, sir ?" and he shook Pen nington's letter befoie, his astonished eyes. "Sir," replied the youth, "it is not infa mous. It is an entirely proper note. All the world might see it." "Then why the devil did you write it in this outlandish lingo?" returned the father. "She is not to blame," hastily urged Pen nington, judiciously shirking the main ques tion. "I assure you she never can read them without my help, and when she writes them she makes so many mistakes that often 1 can't make head or tail of them." "By 'them I suppose you mean the letters written in cipher," replied Mr. Morris. "Well, I won't add to your trouble. Only let me advise you. not to write any more ci pher nwtes, my boy. Tom, here, read your note almost as easy as if it had been written in print. There, go along, now, and don't be silly again at least any more than you can help, you know." And the old man, I iuue rccovereu iroiii ins anger, went laugll- ingly away. Pennington lingered. "Is it really true, Tom, that you could read it without a ke- ?" he doubtfully asked. "Of course I could. Why, Pen, there is nothing easier to read than that sort of ci pher. If you will write in cipher and I don't see why you shouldn't if yon want to, though you'll find it beastly tiresome I can tell you of a cipher that no one can possibly translate." "If you would be so very kind," murmur ed Pennington. "Why," continued Tom, "you select some book. Then out of t?ie words in this book you make your cipher. For, instance you want to write Mear," as I suppose you do, and you find it, say, on the twelfth paee of the book, in the second line from the top and the third word in the line. You then repre sent it by the numbers 12, 2, 3. And so with the rest of yo'.ir not". You see, no hu man being could possibly read it unless they happened to guess what book you used" Pennington was overjoyed at this delight ful plan, and, thanking Tom warmly, has tened to unfold the new cipher to Mary He felt at perfect liberty to disregard Mr. Morris's advice not to write in cipher, for he now decided that Mary's father wou'd be justifiably regarded as a hoary-headed ty rant, bent upon separating two loving hearts, and only fit to be circumvented bj careful strategy. So he selected a novel of which he knew that both Man- arl himself possessed copies; explained the new cipher with the utmost care, and after he reached home put it in immediate practice by wiiting a brief note and sendine it by post, as he would be i unable to see her the next evening. This is what he wrote : 35 0 S 33 2.3 .V..4 4 (1(1.5 V-Tr, A . M IS. .5 1 .1 1 4 77. 1 . 1 !'.'). 10. 1 S;l. 4 2 S3. 8 6 89. 2 0117..") f 71.17.8. Xow the book upon which this cipher was based was printed in double columns. Un fortunately Pennincton forgot to explain which of these columns he intended to use. However, he decided to use the outer col umn trust ins the other heart, which, as he frequently remarked, wa one of two "which lent us one," would instinctive ly divine his selection. j Two nichts afterwards he reached the ; Morris's door, full of delightful anticipations, i He was met by old Mr. Morris, who, thrust- ) Ing a note in bis hand, explained, wi'h much tinnecessary emphasis and a total disregard of the commonest rules of politeness, that if he ever ventured to present himseif at that j r ? r in hp T!d kkke? rr r front steps, mixed up in complicated re la- . tions with the family bull-dog, and commit- 1 ; ted to the final care of the police. He went home- maddened with this very i nndesirahle mystery, and confident that old , Morris had been attacked with deliiium tre mens and was an exceedingly nple:isant ac- ; qnaintance. Once in his rivim. he sat down ' to read the crumpled letter that had been ' forced upon him. It was his own letter to I Man-. Below the cipher was written Mary's j translation of it. The poor girl had tried to ! i translate it by using the inner columns of the book, and with the following unsatis- factory results : ! "You liar when almost hate her and fare- ; well you deceitful never again and base in- S famy." 1 And stiM further down on the page was ' written in Mary's hand, "I can make out ! enough of your letter to see it is a cruel, wicked insult, and shall tell papa." i It flashed across Pennington's remnant of 1 a mind that perhaps Mary had made a mis- j take in the columns of the book. He seized i the volume and verified his susjicion. The innocent note be had written was actually ! transformed by the simple process of read- ing it with the wrong column as a key, into the incoherent, but obvioHsly impolite letter, which had wrought such unhappy conse- j qnenees. j Pennington sank into the chair utterly i overwhelmed. He called himself all the j choice names that old Morris had applied to him, together with a lartre se'ect'on of other epithets. He spent an hour in this profit a- ( ble occupation. At the end of that time lie j had formed a resolution which he proceeded to put into immediate execution. . j He rose up, and. going to his trunk, took j out his secret society emblems and solemnly j threw them in the erate. He next sat down j and wrote twelve separate resignations for twelve different lodges. Then he wrote a j solemn pledge never, to ine nay oi ms oeaui, j to meddle with cipher or any other mystery, and, finally, writing out a full history of the cipher letter, sent it, tocether with the book which he had used as a key, his pledge to solemnly abstain from mysteries, and an j humble apology to old Morris. Of course his explanation was accepted, and Mary forgave him. Several years have passed since that event, but if vou want to make rennington Smythe blush with wretch edness, all that is necessary is to ask him if he knows of any good, trustworthy cipher. ! A Word for the Mother-in-Law. Are j there no estimable mothers with married i daughters? The mother-in-law is not re ! sponsible for her position probably does not admire it. Yet she has been the subject of J numberless stories, myriads of offensive jests and quantities of sarcastic rhymes. Into all of these has entered an element of bitterness which does not appear in the gibes that are j hurled at the window and spinster. Malice I is the inspiration of the assaults upon the j mother-in-law. Perhaps it is a savagery ! born of a sense of detected guilt which has j been hidden from the too confiding wife, but detected promptly by the penetrating eye of j the mother-in law. She is not blinded by love for the man and to perfect clearness of , vision sr.e aii ii an experience which is i useful as second sight in enabling her to see to the bottom of things. Yet if she be wise she w ill not give her daughter the benefit of her experience, but allow her to enjoy her fools' paradise as long as possible. A good mother-in-law is really a well-spring of pleasure to a properly conducted husband. Shs is assiduous in taking care of the baby, and the serviceableness of her knowledge concerning the most effective methods of earn ing the infant through critical periods, the efficiency with which she dispenses para goric, measures out Ipecac and compounds plasters, fills the minds of just men with ad miration and thankfulness. Give the mother-in-law her due. It bas been withheld from her long enough. THE MHISTLINU TREE. TALK OF MM 111 A.I I.RI4 .. r.v T. w. The niiiht its eye. The wrathful star its Oreath. The wandering wind. Light oj Ana. "Who is whistling, Jack?'r "1 doi.'t know, Cap." "Do you hear it ?" "Yes"" "What is it?" "A ghost ?" "Psliaw :" and Capt. Zack Farnell strode into the tent and returned w ith hisritle. II? had pushed out fifty miles from any hiunar habitation and pitched h'w tent in the hears of a vast forest in a trptajt'ljj-egion of Af i?a. Ilis companion was .TacT; Menlo, a brave, fearless fellow, but one inclined to be super stitious. Capt. Parnell shouldered his rifle, and Jack seizing his, strode away amid the trees toward the whistling sound they bad been hearing for a couple of evenings. A moment alter they had started it ceased, and on reaching the locality from whence it came, nothing was to be seec or heard, no re treating footsteps could be detected ; no o! ject discovered. Perplexed, the Captain re traced his footsteps but still not believing in any supernatural agency in the matter, as his companion, Jack Menlo was constrained to suppose. "Well, Cap., what is it?" "Can't say." "What do you think it is?" "I'll find that out." "Maybe." "I will." We will see." "Yes, get a light, let us have supper." After supper silence reigned, the Captain was lot in meditation and Jack was inns'.ng o'er the strange noise that was too much for the Captain. Jack Menlo, like Bobcrt Burns, in tender years had been told by a garrulous old wr man stories inunierable of ghosts and g.jb ins j and, unlike Robert Burns, had believed j them. The meditation of the Captain and I Jacks's mnings were abiuptly brought t a : close by the recurrence of the same 1 , i weird, whistling sound coming from the same ! locality, some three hundred yards a" ay ;n a deep forest gloom. But a moment had the I strange sound fell on the air until the C.ip 1 tain stood without the tent and Jack by his side. "C"np., no livinc man is doing that." "No, Jack, no hunter would venture .t'otie from the settlement through the haui.t ot thl bloodthirsty tiger and the home oi tlie U-tri-ble lion to scare two strangers." "What is it?" 'Wait, and we wi'.l see." The sound died away as he spoke, and . , , .lioinct mvei ions and - ljeat0l1 air tllf prwt ..aniing constellation. and blazing stars of the Southern hemisphere buined in the Heavens above, and forest depth on depth surround the little opening or miniature glade, where tl.eir tent was pitched beside a beautiful spring. It was a perilous adventure to pierce those forest glooms at night, where it was danc.r ous to tread by day, and Cap. I'arr.ell dis missed the ha'f-fi'rmed search and returned to his tent, resolved to solve the mystery ere he left, while Jack's fast rising fears to haj' droji an intimation that a speedy departure was advisable which offered counsel, va? re ceived w ith a laugh on the part of the Cap tain followed by the succestion, it was bed time and that they would postpone the con sideration of all important matters until morning. But long before the uionuinj's dawn Captain rarnell arose and pas-ing without the tent stood beneath the star : et ted vault, where the nn,.n n-w risen sJ.ccie brighter than in his northern home, and ast nebulaes and stars, and asteriods, and clus tered constellations make the southern heav ens the grandest star field, visible from tlie ofonrtli- lint linuotii'ed now the frraud- I ,.i,ln, that but 4i hours before captivated the Captain's attention and awak encd his admiration his listening eacer th st ranee whistling occurred. On the morrow, ten natives were to arrive to carry his tent, and guard him back, and this would be the lat day to investigate this mystery. After I j., ar.0(imranif.d by Jack, lie so.ht the forest and discovered a lion, the oh.'.ct of his trip, and by a fortunate shot be killed it taking the skin to carry back t;i r.nr'anJ, they returned to the tent. After dinner they proceed-d to the spot from whence ti e whist ling was heard, a caruftil survey hwed no signs of anything but wild beasts to have been in the vicinity. "Well, Cap. , are you satisfied?" "Xo, not yet." "It's the old Harry." "Den't care if it's young Harry." "Let us go back." "Xo, we will stay here until.eveuing and wait for his whistlership." "(Jraeious !" "You don't mean it ?" "Yes, we will stay till evening; joa will find provisions in that bag for supper." The Captain and Jack w ith their riC- s ready for any sudden attack of wild bea -ts or huge serpents, spent the hours of the af ternoon in closest watch but nothing reward ed their efforts. After eating their supper they resumed watching, and the sun "a sinking and the dusky shadows of cvetrng came on, a light breeze arose and the weird whistle sounded in the air just above Jack's head. Jack taft his position w ith a rcipi tation that would have been fatal to In, flight, it any obstacle had been In his path. The Captain was immediately on the spot. The whistling sound seemed to come from the lartre tree under which Jack bad been standing. Calling Jack back, who had i.or got the better of his fears, the Capt ait. swung himself ir.to tne ueeanu tne mj was solved. The tree bore long drooping branchc. white as chalk, covered with long thorns, an,! in these thorns a s-.na'.l insect ina.lo its home for a shoit senson, and boring OJt left thcr. v,..!!,.- TIip evenine wind sirii' s " and wh-sthng thrown these l-ng hollow thorns, produced the wei.d, whistling sour heard wherever these trees grow m the Af rican Continent A man in Xew Wilmington bas open. rd f. doctor's office, a drugstore and an undertak ing shop all in the same room. It is evident that such an establishment is theroughin all particulars, being able to begin and com plete work all under the same roof. When you are sick and the doctor ies this and then that, stop fooling and t ik- P-. bvsa. S-old at new drug itore, Ebe:.sl ur
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