I ? THE n ? " t p t ," FREEMAN Woi-timng: I?rr - Tta !ar? ard rliabl Mrr-lrtorj ct t! Caw. bkia Ir.tv c'immind5 It to t be fr.,r i le eo. Ideratmn pi nilrertier. wbf.M 1h Torf wi :i in '?-til at tLe !i,ilt.iDt lnw rate : :.ll- i-Ulf at .' Co., ra. II. A. M-1 Ilvl".. 1 a i i ft ir. -i 1 5fr mortt-f ' 1 ypur ".m.llll.i'm'l! 6 moot at ."!!.'." 1 yi-ar i 6 mon'tm - 6o .V&O n e ' S.OQ 12t' Ifi.rO ai.oo af. o v.o T!S OO t Kt X oo 1.152. f H'l r" ' 'rrl C X 5 , 'tire- , i -.im-" H -l .'! mo. 1.71 . ..' j "i-rj it mod. 2.t0 . ' t .r;!Mi:i j-"ar.. 2.25 -;d- t hp county , r v.i, ;.'- eharired tO col H " emon;ht S 1 vear I "'month 1 " 1 roar ".".".!! Admfn!iri..r' and Exerutor'a Notice Amll'or't Notice" Stray And similar N"ot1i " (i rf:i: Irt n.i--!' pa rtf f own In iiiovp terms be de 1 m't e ir-ult Iheir : a IrHtiiv mint not i- fontine an those :tnot!y un'icrttood H. A. McPIKE, Editor and Publisher. "hb is a freeman whom the truth makes FREE. ASD all are slaves beside." Hu nrp Item' flri"t lner'l'.n lc. per line ; each ratenent InAertlon &e. er line. fr? Resolutions or pro-rfdtng of e-t "ij.. flf,0 ty 'cif v. o nif roiiitifiirnf iiti d'tiz-nf -i to c i irrrm- II SI.SO and postage per year, In advance. r, f.r ni '"if r f wh ( r i 'i t cr rl-e. f r w i r 1 . "n o inv mnllfr of Onirrrt or tntit-l'fu-. iut Ir poiif Jor at a irertur-mrnti. ir- yna Atop it. If VOLUME XYI. rtlt. EB ENS BURG, FA.. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1SS2. NUMBER 41. Job PinTimi of all kind neatly and eTfedlt!- uIj- executed at lowest prlew. lioti'i ytu tjret lilt Is i'0 short. (ffll fifif If ,t ft My 41" 44 rf? irsf AA AQ ,wv. NEW FIEM! n Largestanil Cheapest CLOTHING HOUSE! Eicher & Latterner, SiifrmnrH t .4. J. Andcroon A o., 13US Eleventh Avenue, Altoona, Pa., i , f F!i ih V. iiii. rcr.i II HI NO. . i liCNh-i, VI.:! S. SATC1I rx VI ::NI - ! IN' f ( r( )T'S ..t nil vcr T -r'.T'''.r' I t-r'iit:tit to the ii'trI'rk rin'irni'f th srratet h i a f n.s a- i ';!: It-iT. 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'.Ian, t 1 1 , i.t I'D it".: rii. 1 i DO VOl r a k i: THE (UTIIOIK' WORLD: GENERAL LITERATURE and SCIENCE? ! nULL-rtgr. -!T' THE Al-fRoLATKiit r HIS EMI K' K THB CAHHIAI. a Ri-nnisnoF OF .1KVT V'll.K. THE CATHOLIC WORLD ,fi.i2.n of H4 t'iirfef. luskinK two laro rol 2 ' f 1,75 p"!'"!. "ach y-ir. an t l fnr l!Jh.l t-i snricorlbc- for JUUR DOLLARS A YEAR, at in dvnre. Single C"li. 35 rent. MriTiMic rrrlicATioN societv:co. v renre Kehoe. Manager. 9 BARCLAY STREET, NEW YORK. (i(VK voi;n -SfllflflL rillLDRE. 1 riA.XIsrMK I'liKSICXT iiii: Tflcxc '.vnioijc! Ua.trat.il VpfT lor Oar PoT, .d GIrlf. r vry m. Kin. C-..utafn jfln. illngtrfc rea:licit. ami j. turn : ,t 1'r.ei--. - ij.1o In a i-ance: ' l'r annum 9 2 00 fs.oo ,. I'.oo .. 30.00 70.00 la-v.oo - -r.ril.,n tor ! than Cro ei. re- ait than nvo c-jnea tent to ous n -ran.I ruininunieatiorn ihould be -- t oattclic PnliljcatioE Society Co., law rrnp. .-, u ' """"" Kehoe. Xanae. Ii ar'ljV Sil .., V T -I . ...... .XKfr r(M,.s SOTICF - t..; ' uc..l t ', ,t:ny """'l. leased, ,"- ) lt.," .,;"' lo un.lersinad. notice u 4. .em rrwierly ji.t ,er,.te(1 fr ,eu " "" Co., I'tftland.Me. U ft T rJ2 i 1 1 i sai.i; i I'f t i'1, m"'J i..:r I'li'-k-i : i '.u I I r re f T... l,;Mtit-f r A ''I !U. ! I f! t 1 ! . :.f;rr-l- '-f wo. U--t ?Ijv '!'!-'- it thf I In i Ar-F . v v I . I r.i t .MI ' :m ) I :- "iyi.-.l .V (llilt. In'. I H'.iv a'-o i..;t rh1 r I.t:n( wa.- owncl i y .M r. Tm.i. urM weiu!.ll 3U5 ! I "'in.!- fur!-! ia' -iiit in. :- F'tftif-I ;it hi? rii!'tir..' AT WANAMAKER'S Visitors to Philadelphia are invited to visit the store, whether to see or to buy. Your parcels are checked ; a waiting-room is provided, where you may rest with ladies and children; guides conduct you through the house, or you wander at will ; there are many things of interest to see, and a wel come. For two years, perhaps, we have had the richest, largest, most varied and most exhaus tive collection of dress-goods in Philadelphia. Before that, we may have had the largest, and even the most exhaus tive, but perhaps not the richest The slowest trade to come to a new merchant is the trade of luxury. It is the slowest to change from one to another. But it does change. We may say our dress goods of all sorts are at about their highest now. Eecr.nd ami third circles, southeast from center. Silks of all sorts have come; and never were silks more acceptable. And these words have a meaning here beyond any they could have elsewhere; because of the greater variety of wants tha look to us for supply. We must have all ciccepted styles, and all the approved quali ties of those styles; and, as to colors, can vou think of one that we can do without? A store that has only one c'ass of trade can get along with comparatively few silks. Which jstock would you rather buy out of? Next outer circle, south entrance to main building. Two damask towels at 15 and iS cents may serve to show what we gain by buy ing of the makers. The very same towels are in the whole sale trade in New York at about 21 and 22 cents, which means at least 25 cents at retail. We are not going to say that all our retail prices are below New York wholesale; nothing of the sort. " More than one swallow to make a summer." But where such towels are to be got for 15 rents is a good place to look for bed and table-linen, and all the other linens. That's wjiat we mean exactly; it's true, too. Outr circle Oity-hall nare entrance A very wide and surpris ingly good navy-blue twilled flannel for 50 cents; 45-inch. Do you remember a 35 cent flannel for 25 cents, of which we had 18,000 yards last fall? Afterward we got 7,000 yards more of it; and a little of it is left yet. That is 23-inch. This wide flan nel is fully as good as that. Third circle, touthet from center. All the warmer sorts of underwear are ready; for men, women and children; thick-cotton, merino, wool, and silk. All the sorts need ed for all sorts of people with all sorts of notions; and, for people who want it, there is quite a little wit about underwear to be pick id up at the counter. Where else would you look for it ? Not in books surely; for goods are changing all the time; and so get ahead of books. Wert of Arcade. ISIS ChMtnnt; west counter. John Wanamaker, Philadelphia. Cheetant, Thirteenth, Market and Juniper aceeeaible by heme car from arery whera Farmers, Look Here! I have on hand, ready for a IM of tho'e juitly celebrated ONK-lloKSE KNDI.Kss CHAIN Tread Powers and Threshers. AIo. a few TWO-HOUSE 1'OWKks and THRESHERS AND WINNOWERS (.-x-paramr). wnirti i will llr price. The nierlta of thete M lll dl'no.e of at rrannahlfi iAMHnR are no well aud widely known that 1 need onlj nay they are .ni c i iu piiic (.rrirri PHLvilU'llon. 1 nee INlA. chinea are I art of the unfltit'hert Mork left among; the edeeti of my deceased brother, Joshua Oilbert and therefore they will he old cheap. -Sale rooms on the Fair rrotind, near the Al toona i:r Works, for further Information call on oraddre-a FKKDKKM'K (HLBEKT, Sept. 16, '82. -2m. Box 73, Altoora, Ta. ADTrKTKKRXt nd f rotir Set. Uat rf r.oeAl Newjpapen. fleo, p. Hoen-U Ur, p) Sprue Sirewt, New York. 1 ONE AMDTITr.V ANOTHER. One step and then another. And the lonerest walk if ended ; One stitch and then another, And the longest rent is mended ; One brick upon another. And the hluhest wall is made; One flake upon another, And the deepest snow is laid. So the little choral workers. By their slow and constant motion, Have built these pretty islands. In the distant dark Okie ocean ; And the noblest undertakings Man's wisdom hath conceived ; By of t-repeated effort lias been patiently achieved. Then do not took disheartened On the work you have to do. And say f hat such a miphty task, You never can get through ; But just endeavor, day by day, Another point to pain, And soon the mountain which you feared Will prove to be a plain. "Rome, was not buildd in a day," The ancient proverb teaches. And nature, by her trees and flowers, The same sweet sermon preaches. Tblnk not of far off duties. But duties which are near. And having once bepun to work, Besolve to tersevere. TIED TO A TREE. BT ROBERT MORRIS, LI D. In the early settlements below VicksburR, ! .Mississippi, there was a want of law and j morals. Might was right and weak-handed j justice had no chance to make her power ! felt. Amor.g the nnjjodly reprobates who infest- ed the country, living by no honest labor and j to no useful end, wasone George Davenport, 1 by profession a gambler, by practice a bully, j the terror of the few peaceable and law-abi-! ding citizens. Davenport was a man of fam ! ily, his wife eqnally lawless with himself, I accompanying him upon his excursions, a ! sistlug him by counsel, and, unless common report greatly scandalized her, lending a ! hand occasionally when an extra hand was needed. For a number of years this undesirable pair made their ordinary home at Wilder, a vil- ; lage now deserted, wrecked in the banking j hurricane of 1833. Here they occupied a j neat, one-story house of their own, and, when j not absent upon professional excursions, kept open house for all who, like themselves, i had a "hand against every man and every ' man's hand against them." This class of persons of the Ishmaelite j persuasion cannot be said to enjoy, in the j long run, much satisfaction in life, but they , make up the deprivation by enjoying them- selves very fast when they get at it, and this ; explains the uproarious shouting and singing that accompanied the orgies t Davenport's, and for the ferret-red eyes and the poke- berry scarlet of the noses that emerged from the place when the fun was over. It was observable, however, that no fighting was done, at Davenport's, for the proprietor opened the carousals by the declaration that j he had a character to sustain, and that his i guests must deliver up to his keeping knives, pistols and other weapons of offense during j the spree. And it was always done. Thus, j while at all other public meetings in Wilder, j fisticuffs, stabbing and shooting were la- j ) mentably common, nothing of the sort oc- j j curred at Davenport's, where Milton's adage ' was folly confirmed, "devils with devils ! j damned hold concord, men only disagree." ; It was in the town of Wilder that the sub- i j stantial firm of Fahnestock, Beverley & Co., j ; commission merchants, was established. I i ; say substantial, for when all other banks ; went up In the financial convulsions of the ' ; period named, and teported "no assets at I j ail," F., B. A Co. paid fifteen cents on the ; dollar, w hich fact was deemed so remarkable at that time that the New York merchants ! , made them up a handsome service of rlat I Now this substantial firm had just received remittances on account of cotton to the , am.v.mt of ?4,000, and bavin it secured in ! their iron chst, they had retired to their . homes as confident in it safety as in their wn solvency. But when busioesi was re i sumed next day the safe, a sad misnomer, was found to have been violently wrenched j open, the money-drawer empty and the trea j sure abstracted. j Vain were the attempts to describe the scene that ensued. Fahnestock rudely col the monev. lared Beverly and demanded Leverly chased the ' 'Oo. Into the strpet said "Co." screaming "fire, murder, thieves,'' in singular confusion. People crowded into the store to see F. gasping in his chair, B. making extravagant gesticulations. 'To - j dissolved in unconscious grief. The sight j was truly painful. The danger of a soul j falling from grace could not excite so much ! Stress in Wilder as the loss of all that mo- ney. I Amongst the bystanders, the least concern . rd of all was George Davenport, accompan j ied by Mrs. George. He examined the bro j ken lock with a shrewd smile, and remarked that n was a ju'cy thing, words evidently j full of meauing. though no one present ; seemed to comprehend them. Great rewards were iortnwith offered for the return of the treasure. The Inducements of "noquestions asked," "five hundred dollars." etc., were very tempting, but as this devolved a clear , loss of $3iOO cash already in hand, the temp tation was resisted and the thieves permitted the sufferers to ask as many questions as thev j naeo. rannestocic. Beverly & Co. j heard of their money. never j The singular words used by Davenport j concerning th lock and his general bad char. j acter naturally Inclined suspicion in his way. j ne was observed to use daintier qualities of j food, drink and clothing than before. Mrs. Davenport paraded the later fashions of cot, tume and jewelry. Additions to their furni . ture were made. So shrewd an Individual j could not but see by the side way glances and j the muttered expressions as he walked the j street that public sentiment was fermenting i and that no good toward him was intended. I But, like a man who has smelt a rattlesnake j before, he only held his head the higher and j moved along. His wife counseled him to j prepare himself for an assault, but laughing at ner fears he continued his daily prome nade with nothing better than hia knife and two pair of pistols. He had speedy cause, however, to regret his carelessness, for vhlle drinking one eve ning about dam at a public saloon, he was suddenly seized from behind and red pepper flung Into his eyes. Then he was gagged and hurried to a skiff in the river, rowed across to the opposite side, led half a mile back through the canebrake, tied to a holly tree and then his four abductors explained their purpose. The spokesman, whom he easily recognized as Dr. Wells, informed him that he had gone too fai ; that (4,000 was too much for on time : that be must return then stolen treasure, at least what was left of it, or they would whip him to death.?,' Andjthis comprehensive declaration was enforced by oaths and pledges from the otherthrei". But a Mississippi gambler in the old days was schooled against fear. Davenport had been too often under the crack of the pistol and cut of steel, and bis reply was full of audacity. "Whip away ! But, if you begin, you had best kill, or I'll kill the whole four of you !" I need not describe the horrid scene. The endurance was equal to the occasion. The hardened ruffian was a match for the four, aDd alUtoagh -tiieir whips were clotted with bfood, and their arms weary with the exer cise, his indomitable spirit defied them to the end. He fell into a dead faint, and the four lynchers consulted in dismay what they should do with him. It was past midnight.. The sultry, mias matic air of the canebrakes, heated up occa sionally by one of those hot gusts that come from no one knows where, spoke of an ap proaching storm. Tha biteSjOf the mosqui toes that choked the very atmosphere with their abundance, were past endurance.faiid as the half-naked body of Davenport hung i backward in its lashings, the strips of bloody skin torn loose by the whiplashes were quite concealed under their black and greedy forms. What should they do? The suggestion of Dr. Wells the reader can surmise what it was was not accepted. Finally it was agreed to leave the miseiable creature there until morning and return. Left there among the mosquitoes .'left hanging to that holly tree, agonized with stripes f More kind the doctor's suggestion. But thunder clouds were darkening and roar ing around them, and the party had great ado to follow the dim path and cross the river before the storm fell. Amidst the crashing of timber and the howling of the blast, the unpitied gambler recovered his senses. That sleep would have been the sleep of death but for the insects whose intolerable venom aroused him. The dash of rain upon bis wounded back was grateful to his nerves. The lynchers had gone -that was clear. He had not been whipped to death. Xow if lie could only re i move those cords vengeance was within his reach'.'- How that hope strengthened his sin ews to strain, and hardened histeeth to gnaw at the strong cords that bound him. What a scream of demoniacal hatred issued front his lungs as the first band.gave way ! With what an exulting bound he sprang back from that holly tree, whose virgin bark had been stain ed with his blood. Wih his red right hand extend-d toward the Thunderer, he vowed "death to the four or death to himself!" But little he heeded now the torn skin or the keen sting. Fixing his eye resoluteiy upon a star, he dashed the eanes aside and at a run reached the river bank- Half a mile Hp stream found him at a wood yard, where a skiff lay chained tothe bank. Tearing away the fastenings,; he pushed off, and by day light hadjlanded some i miles below the village of Wilder and con- cealed himself until night. j It was an easy matter then for such a man ! to find hi9 way home. Unknown to any per- ! son save his wife, he lay there for a month, raging with delirium, while Mrs. Davenport," ! f; upon hopes of revenge, preserved the I secret nor suffered anyone to know of his ! return. A strong constitution carried him ! through, and at last the faithful nurse felt j that he was out of danger. Then the twain Rave themselves up to plans of revenge. The amount of the provocation should measure the extent of vengeance. Death, death was the horrid sum total. Only the details had consideration Which of the doomed fnnr i.i i i .u- lIe WRy , t,jfc death be truTe, Cli...,1l . ! . . the sword fall ? So carefully had the heroine concealed the i fact of his return no one suspected it. She 1 had no friends or visitors about Wilder, and i the lawless fellows who had made up her ' company were refused admission during her ! husband's absence. The lynchers had dis- J covered Davenport's escape from the holly ! TfPM Kit rw. m .a. - . .,' rwer, and thev kept the guilty secret in thei, own hearts. rr n.. enport adverti-ed in the villas t,., , fering lar cerning h hinted, tr rewards for information con n:i.,irig husband, who. it was Have been drowned or abducted; IIv bpTAma ii.Kl: i .. , " ' ' r"!r became public, the implicated breathed more freelv parties The avenger was on their path. A States warrant was sworn out against the four for a cnmmal assault Confronted with their ac cusor in the Magistrate's Court, they were compelled to give bonds to very large ppeai ance of trial. First, the ! "'Pearea no one knows how, but he never returned. Could the clue be found his bor.es would be seen in the hollow of a large sycamore tree near town. Then the doctor's assistant died suddenly of poison, by whom or how administered only the re corderU book celestial can reveal. The other I.Wn U7k-Ca Ta.im a.: a of m L J tree in tbe dei,th OT I lift aortn K.f.n A . lh ;T otarvea to death. And then the Davenports emigrated to another vni,,, were neard of no more. PI9Aoiwted Candidate. -The (1 datA Whnnr,t l. .1 inB can- ran be to w tiT J.e county convention an oe tola by the way he grasps vour hanri Waces himself against hfs gurgling "emotion and whisperingly inquires emotion, You '"u J"u ever near nr a ao i;i ,m line I L f never did. You tell him did, and he pulls ton int - V." continues: ua "No"dnfi W'th rolitics forever." ''Yes, I am, and with the nartir .. " ou don't say -" - n,;Ktii So sirasyjiasra ' Possible !" to beat1 Tthd.il!?1 KUt! They ,wd ey to neat. I hey lied about me. Thev nlavert hypocnte and knave. Here I have served the party for nineteen long years and never asked for an office, and the ininute I decided to accept the nomination - n, IV. " cent position they go to work " and leat n,e in convention with a wooden head who don't know enough to make a barrel of pork ketC r,i'-0rruP-8hun-n1 th- tic ket will be defeated on account of it " And the best of It is he takes you for a man who isn't posted. He doesn't believe ed"t h?2U h"7e Slightest idea that he pack ed three or four caucuses, bought a dozen del egates, told three lies to the other man's one and was beaten because his delegates sold out. He takes you for an Innocent, and he grasps your hand again at parting and chokingly says : s "Corruption vile corruption ! Most bare faced fraud in American politics! Can't train with a party upheld by the practice of such principles can't possibly do iu" "Do you buy your music by the roll " in quired a young lady of the Deacon's daueh- 40,n0'" 5h.1 ""P". "I 'ways ait ontll Sunday and then I get it by tbe cliir." CARPETS. There is in carpets a curious and undoubt ed malevolence, which is never exhibited un til they are brought into the family circle. There Is nothing more inocuous except to the purse than a carpet in the carpet store. It is soft, warm and bright, and is apparent ly tractable. One can readily imagine that it can b6 tnude to fit any room, and that it will always give entire satisfaction. Noone ever buys a carpet without feeling confident that it will wear well and long, and will prove to be, fully worth the price, no matter how large the latter may be. But when this plausible and apparently hmocenf carpet is brought home, it immediately begins to dis play its true character, and to destroy the peace of mind of its unfortunate proprietor. At the outset the carpet rarely consents to fit the, room for which it is intended. No matter how carefully. the area or the floor may have beer, calculated, there always will ne 100 mtu-ii or too l-ttle carpet. If there is uiiir, no: iium can not, te decently cov- ered without the help of a "border," and the can et must be stretched to such an extent that :t seams will persist inlyirg in serpen tine lines, and the muscles of the unhappy carpet-layers are strained to a very painful extent. If (here is too much carpet, the su perfluous pieces me put away with the view of using them at some future day to replace worn and soiled parts of th" carpet. They are never thus used, for two reasons : Either they are destroyed by moths long before they are wanted, or when the attempt is made to put new pieces into an old carpet, the brightness of the former emphasizes the shabbiness of the latter, and the attempt is quickly abandoned. A carpet always persists in becoming threadbare in its most conspicuous parts. Little harm would be done were it to grow shabby underneath the sofa or in the dark corners of the room, but these are precisely the localities where it invariably remains bright, while the spaces jiut in front of the grate and the piano, or around the centre table, or bv the door, auieklv crow unen- durably shabby. It is then that the consci entious housewife findb herself confronted by one of the most Intricate of carpet pro blems. How is she to so rip and chance the position of the breadths as to p!a e all the shabby spots out of sight, and all the bright spots in conspicuous places? The feminine fingers engaged in the piactioal solution of this problem know their' own weariness. There are few tasks more tiresome and dis tasteful than ripping an old carpet except that of sowing it together again. The malev olent carpet destroys the edge or penknives and scissors, and breaks the strongest nee dles. No woman ever rip a carpet w ithout cutting her finders or breaking her finger nails, and few women succeed in sewing a ripped carpet together without losing pieces of broken needles, and afterwards unex pectedly finding them in the soles of their feet. In thrifty families the devastating career of a carpet is never confined to a single room. When it becomes to n shabby f ir the drawing-room or the dining room, it Is re- moved to an up-stairs bedroom. Of course it is always too large for the latter, and hence a new calculation as to how to dis pose of the superfluous breadths becomes necessary. The sanguine housewife always maintains there is just enough of them to cover the floor of the second-story ball, but she is always mistaken, and after wasting several hours in weary efforts to make two hundred and fifty square feet of carpet cov er three hundred square feet of hall, she ad- mits her mistake. Quite a large quautity of half-worn carpet is thus added to the reseive stock of pieces of new carret in the lumber room ; and as years go on a foimidaMe pile of this useless material accumulates, w hich can not be thrown away without :n guilty fear of extravagance, and cannot be kept without luring countless moths into the house, and occupying room that could be put to much better use. couid carpets be permitted to rest on ' their floors for any length of time, they ' would be much less exasperating than they are. All carpets, however, have a really fiendish alacrity in collecting dust, which renders it absolutely necessary to take them up at least once a year, and subject them to i the severe discipline of a thorough beating, j It is an error to imagine that the dust which j collects underneath carpets is placed there I by any human agency. A carpet mav be I placed on the floor of a perfectly clean room, and the doors and windows may then be closed, and the room left unvisited for a year. At the end of that time the carpet will have gathered so much dust that noone can tread upon it without filling the air with di, and the necessity of taking it up and shaking it is obvious even tothe dull mascu line ruind. This avidity with which carpets collect dust is clearly due to the malevolence of their nature, and it betrays an ingenuity which Is as wonderful as it is shameful. unfortunately there is no substitute for I carpels which is satisfactory. India tnat ting is cold in the w inter, and wears out rapidly under the attrition of chair legs, while oil-cloth in all its varieties is utterly incompatible with the domestic virtues. What is needed is a variety of carpet that retains the warmth, softness, anil beauty of the present carpet, but which 'Is also suffi ciently elastic to admit of being stretched to twice its normal size, absolutely impervious to dust, and as durable as the softer grades of cast iron. Such a carpet Is sometimes seen in dreams by weary and perplexed housewives, but it is almost too much to hope that such blessed and glorious dreams can ever be realized in this imperfect woild. Harper's Iiazar. Good, But Not Vouched For This is given for what it's worth, WTe don't vouch for it : "A story is told of a man who, while shaving, accidentally cut off his nose. In his excitement he dropped the ruzor and de capitated one of his toes. Hastily picking up the dismembered portions or his anatomy he clapped them to the bleeding wounds and bound them up tightly. After the flesh had grown fast and healed up he removed the bandages, and wa filled with horror when he found a well developed toe in lieu of a nasal organ and vice versa. Now, whenever he gets a cold, be has to remove his shoe ami stocking in order to blow his nose." Haiti more American. A New Jersey fortune teller prophe lied that something terrible would happen to a man on his thirtieth birthday. And sure enough, on the day specified a fife and drum corps rented a room directly opposite the man's re6ider.ee, and practiced three hours in one inning. Remarkable Adreuture of Two Children, On Friday morning, June 21, 182, four little children living at Allouez mine, Ke- weenaw county Michigan, started out with j WPuld onft d; be ' -pails and baskets to pick berries. They ; st,tw, rhn, . , wandered along the highway for alout a quarter of a mile, and then turned on a new road, which leads through the thick woods tothe new mine called the Wolverine. All went well until the youngest, a mite of a girl, and very small of her age. being but seven years old, complained of being tired and wanted to go home. Then for the first time, iu their efforts to retrace their steps, they discovered that they bad btiayed from the path and were lost in the thick wooc's, where the trees in many places are but a foot apart, and the undei brush grows as high as five feet. Vainly thev sought the right path till nightfall eiosed around them then, bruised and scratc'-.cd by the bushes, with bend, face and limbs bitten and badlv I swollen by the nip of the wicked black-flv , tha two o der chil.Irun (belonging to the Finn settlement beyond the Allouez proper), tired and frightened, lay d. wn and cried themselves to sleep, and w e;e f. und by anx ious searchers the following day in a woeful condition. When these children were asked for their little companions, they replied : "We begged them to stay with us, but the boy said he would go and find the way to the road, and then come back for us, but his little sister would not stay without him," and they pointed the way they had gone. In that direction a party of men searched all day, aided by the half-crazed Norwegian father and Finn mother of the lost httie ones, and all day the whistles of Allouez and Wolverine mines blew at intervals of ten minutes to guide them to the settle ments. Saturday night came and r.o chi'dron found. The weary mother must retu.n to her babe, but the father with a few men spent the night in fruitless search. Sunday we found the road full of Swedes, Norwe gians and Finns, while large parties were in i the woods, and the whistles blew all dnv. I Monday came and the Calumet and Iltcla ! joined in the search, sendingabout four hun ! dred men. Toward night, a little foot-print I was discovered, and a piece of the little girl's t dress. Tuesday more men weut out and success was thought to be certain, but alas ! ; no children were found. At evening the sky : was full of dense black clouds. The tl.un j der was awful never bt-foie do I remember ' such a rainfall and tempest as raged for a f- ,r,ro o-nilo t1, ...J: 7"' - '"fi!iii! I uay were 8uitry wuli drizzling rain and I Wednesday night another tempest. Still the search was continued. Every day the shouts i of six hundred men or more were making j the woods alive. Friday morning one week , from the children's disappearance cmie, and the Calumet and Hecla mine was closed j and the whole force together with the Al i louez men were stationed along the road j frout, five feet apart, with orders to break I through the woods in that line as best they ! could, to search every hollow stump, to re ; move underbrush, to examine holes and j make sure of leaving no si'ot unexplored. I una yet nigni orougnt nearly every man ' back with no traces of the children. Some 1 stayed all night at their almost hopeless t task, and some, a party of four Swedes, were themselves lost, and here is their wonderful story : "At three o'clock Friday afternooi; wo sat down by a brook to rest. We were tired and bewildered and shouted loudly for our companions to come to us, when from a heap of bushes came a boy saying : 'Where are ' JOU? V ho is it?' We, thinkinghe belonged to some party of searchers, asked : 'Who are with you?' Hisanswer came : 'My sis ter. ' Up we sprang to our feet, and knew, even in our amazement, that the lost chil dien.were found, and alive, and in t'.ieir right senses, although they had ben alone in the wood, amid lightning at;d tempest for eight days, with nothing to cut hut i-eiries. And the boy of but nine yeai h,"1 bui.thuts of brush to cover thetn at niglit, had gather ed and loaded both himself mid sister with great branches of bhieberi ies where they were to be found, and was trjing to follow the tortuous course of the brook, whi -h, he remembered, emptied into Torch Lake. He was still brave. We gave them small pieces of bread at intervals during the afternoon and night, as we walked in or by the sides of the streams as best we could with our joyful burden, or lay down for a little needed rest, each two men w ith a child between them to give warmth to the little, chilled frame." Saturday morning some one in the street shouted to me : "They are found I" I threw up the sash, and a patty of men were right ! in front of the house. They had the chil dren with them. They refused rood and drink, saying they had just fed them and did not dare to give thetn any more. Both chil- ! dren's eyes looked wild and rolled restlessly as they clung tightly to the necks of their rescuers; their bodies seemed covered with ! bruises and their little feet were badly biis- i tered ; they were being taken to the hospital ! for examination. Dr. D., the Assistant Su- perintendent of the mine, rode with head- ! long speed to tell the parents. The mother wildly clung to him and fainted away, while the father, who had spent every day and part of every night in the woods, was nearly overcome. Boston Post. Be Gentle at Home. There are few families, we imagine, in which love is not abused as furnishing the license for impolite ness. A husband, father, or brother will speak harsh words to those he loves best, and those who love him best, simply because the security of love and family pride keeps him from getting his head broken. It is shameful that a man will speak more impolitely at all times to his wife or sister than he would to any other female except a low and vicious one. It is thus that the honest affection of a man's nature proves to be a weaker protec tion to a woman iu the family than the re straints of society, and that a woman is usu ally indebted for the kindest politeness of life to those not belonging to her own house hold. Things ought not so to be. Tbe man who, because it will not be resented, inflicts his spleen and bad temper upon those of his hearthstone, is a small coward, a very mean man. Kind words are circulating mediums between true gentlemen in society, and noth ing can atone for the harsh language and dis respectful treatment too often indulged in between those bound together by God's own ties of blood, and the still more sacred bonds of conjugal love. II earl Ily Recommended. Don't condemn a good thing because you have been deceived by worthless nostrums. Parker's Ginger Tonic has cured many in this section of nervous disorders, and we rec ommend it heartily to such sufferers. X&ns. j (iiRis WHO .MARRY PRESIDENTS. The story that Mrs. Lincoln said, before she married that. Dm man ck. , ...... - . . . . . v. iii i.i iivn itj , A - istence written to friends of her youth in which she reiterated the assertion, is having quite a run in the papers, and some are in clined to looK upon the prediction of the girl as marvelous. We do not look upon it as marvelous at all. It is simply one girl out of a million guessing right. All girls think the same thing when they get married, and before, and as somebody has to be elected j President, about one girl out of a million j hits it t ight. It is safe to say that no girl ! ever martieil a man unless she thought he had in him the making of the smartest man j In the country. That is, when they marry for love, and are really mashed to begin . with. A giil who is in love with a young ; fellow rever sees his disadran'.-if ... siio j feels that by proper treatment ai.d advice , there no position in the world that he can- I j not fill, in time, and she decides then and j there to put him in trainii.g for the Presi- ; ! dency. No matter if his head U a number I six and slopes the wrong way, she thinks it j will fill out. She is going to do her best on j him anvway. Take nine girls in ten who ; I marry little shrimps of big. awkward boys, ; j and talk to them in confidence, and they I will tell you that their husband is bound to make his marl: in the world, and that he will be Pn-nideiit some day. Ot course near ly all f them fail. Hundreds that set out j Willi the intention of being President never j get above working in a paint shop, or mak ing shoes, or driving team, or farming. ; They lose their grip before the campaign j opens. In a short but brilliant career we I have seen hundreds of young fellows who ! started out from the district scl onl to win the Presidency. I'p to this t!n:e none of i thetn have got there. They have all got ; married to "iris who expected them to be Presidents, but they have gone ashore all j along the stream that leads to the White House. One is holding down a dry goods box in front of a store while his wife sup ports him, working in a millinery store. Another don't do much except on election day, when he peddles tickets, or clerks at the polls, and makes four dollars, and ltinche that day on herring and crackers at a grocery. Another is tending bar, and he was the smartest of the lot when the Presi dential fever w as on. Dozens of the bovs u. Ulliui, , W I rmaffll ; are Eucceedin in business of various kinds, though their wives have an idea yet that if the husband fails to be President the chil dren will, some of them, take the cake. It is a prond day for a woman when she takes a hubr.nd, and thinks how she will sur prise the other girls w hen ..he escorts that husband to the Whi'e House, but how disap pointed she is when he gets the nomination for ward constable, and then gets beat. She then begins to realize the horrors of disap pointed ambition. It is well for girls to have a high ambition for the men they mar ry, but where there is such an enormous supply ot Presidential material, and only one offi'-o, it looks to us as though it would be better to settle on some small office, say town supervisor. That is an office any wo man may aspire to, for her husband, and a greater proportion will catch on. Wh-n a girl marries a young fellow and desires to stimulate his ambition to become a states man, let her point to some supervisor or al derman, and say to him that she will never rest contented until her husband occupies that exalted position. Then a fellow won't be so apt to be discouraged, but if you spring the Presidency on him be is apt to lose his cud. Wise Words. Faith and hope cure more diseases than medicine. Hope is the brightest star in the firmament of youth. The reward of doing one duty Is the now er to perform another. The pleasure of doing good is the only one that nevei wears out. It is on the smooth ice we slip, the rough est path is safest Next to love, sympathy is the divinest pas sion of the human heart. A noble part of every true life is to learn to undo what is wrongly done. The very nature of love is to find its joj in serving others, not for ore's own benefit but for theirs. Fity is sworn servant unto love, and this be sure, whenever it begin to s iake the way, it lets the master in. Fear of punishment and hope of reward moves cowards and sycophants. Virtue is independent of either. The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts and the greatest art In life is to have as many of them as possible. Behind the snowy loaf is the wind-wheel, behind the mill the w heat field, on the w heat field lalls the sunlight, and above the sun is ' God. j Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than i happiness ever can , and common sufferings I are far stronger links than common joys, j A good wife is like the Ivy which beauti j fies the building to which it clings, twining I its tendrils more lovingly as time converts the ancient edifice into a ruin. Temptation is a fearful word. It indicates the beginning of a possible series of infinite evils. It is the ringing of an alarm bell, whose melancholy sounds may reverberate through eternity. Home is not a name, nor a form, nor a routine. It is a spirit, a presence, a princi ple. Material and method wiil not and can not mane it. It must get its iight and sweet ness from those who inhabit it, from flowers and sunshine. "Widder Jen kiss," said an Ohio farmer, as he bustled into her house one morning, "I am a man of business: I'm worth 10 000 I and want you for a w ife. I give you three ) minutes in which to answer." don't want ten seconds, old man !" she replied, as she shook out the dish-cloth; "I'm a woman of business, worth $l6,0on, and wouldn't marry you if you were the last man on earth ! I give you a minute and a half to git !" He got. Wall Street Ketes. FREE OF ( IIAKOF. All persons suffering from Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Bronchitis, Loss of Voice, or any affection of the Throat and Lungs, are re quested to call at James' Drug Store, Ehens burg, and get a Trial Bottle of Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, free of charge, which will convince tbeui of its won derful merits and show what a regular dollar size bottle w ill do. Call early. Man advertises, then realizes. THE l0(i. T!'e dog is dlgit'grade carnivorous mam mal. This will le news to most persons, who always supposed that a dog was toTrply a dug. It has been binited about that the dog Is the best friend to man among the brute cie ation. He pants after the thief and when once he gets hold of the thief's pants he trinket breeches. The dog leaves off his own pants during cold weather. A bai king dog never bites : that i t - ny, win n l.e begins to bite be stops barku g. Conversely, a biting dog never barks, and ! ff similar reasons. The hair of a dog will cure his bite, is a cute-ious superstition among brained young men who are fast go the dog-:. Dogs are dentists fry profession, insert t'-ith withtvit chaiv. T! dug never barks except when awpke. He Is always aw-ake. Tbe doc lif.s no other way to rxpje joy than V'. aik. 11-nl-vnys teels joy he sees a mar. When there is no man to see, he expies-es bis joy to t'n in the moon. As we remarked, the dog is always s- This g to They 1: Is I is when t her i::aa This is no talc, though he carries a tail in his wake. The sea dog loves to bark. Did you ever see a dog that din't ? The head of a dog has a dog-head lnk. The baik of a dog is unlike the bark of a tree. Even a dog-wood know this. Dogs are not always kind, though t' ere are many kinds of dogs. Every dog has bis day, although dog days last but a few weeks in the vear. I Thete must be a Sirius error here. The dog's star is the dog's plant t. 1 hey planet so that their days come while the star is in the "hy. They do not fear It. It is not a Skye ter l i'-r. i W hen a dog enters a pitched battle hs ' uses dog' 'tar. J Brutus said: "I had rather be a dog an4 bay the moon than such a Roman." I He had seen the dogs roainin' around on the bay. They never get over the bay. i Sea ? ; The Jews considered tin- dog unclean. And 3-et the dog will clean out a crow.?, no matter how dirty. But the dog Spitz. A living dog is said to be better th in a , dead lion. There's no lyin' about th:-, hut a dead dog is dog gone bad. ! Tray was a good dog, bu threes is worse j than the deuce when he is against you. Dogs weui the original Argonauts. They ; have never given up their search loi the ' fleas. The bulldog is a stubborn fellow. H Is ; not ea-ily cowed. ; Of cours-.- the gentler sex is the more ! stubborn of the two. You have heard of i dogma. ' A great many stories about the dog l ave obtained currency. The man who ha-- .. :ta ! rair of his clothing wiih the dog has cur i rent. S -e ? j Puppies are born blind. They are not see il ts then. There are many typ?s of dog, including the dosui-rrotve. The dog has lour legs ; two of them fore ! legs. ' But perhaps we had better paws here. How'l this do for the dg ? ; THE W AT OF AMATEl R HIMI IIS. ! The early frosfs are fast bringing into pub i lie notice the young man who seems to have I an idea that an amateur hunt is not complete , unless the tiunter Hows down the inurz'e of , his gun. An early frost, however, is not pos ; itive'y necessary to this class of hunters, nor is this class of hui.ters in any way peculiar to the early frosts ; but the fall season In ings the young men out in greater numbers than at any other time of the year. It may be thought that these young men are governed ' only by the laws that regulate the actions of j all lunatics and people of eccentric habits, , but blow ing down the muzzle of a gun is not ; a habit, for the reason that no one has ever i been able to continue the practice long ' enough to become accustomed to it ; th-re-, fore a hunter who fastens bis mouth t.i the i wrong end of a gun cannot be classed w ith : lunatics and persons of eccentiic minds. Ills . mind runs so much in grooves of c.t h,-r "-o-I pie that the law of common sense has no la- fluence with him. j There !s only one law that will prevent the ' entire extinction of this class of hunters, but ; unfortunately that cannot be enforced. It is the unwritten law of absence. In plain, words, the young man should keep away from the gun until he has learned whlh. onl of the weapon to put in his mouth. The muzzle of a gun is not a sweet-tas'.ing thing, and it gives the low er rart of the face an un certain look when the sorrowful friend gather around the coffin at the funeral. The loss of a jaw sometimes causes a blemi-li In the young man's facial appearance that even the most indulgent of relatives cannot recall with their ideas of beauty. Next to thet young man who uses his gun as a breathing tune is the young man who transforms his gun Into a crutch while gazing at the glories of the November landscape. A gut is not entirely reliable as a prop to tbe chin and Is not necessarily associated with art In a land scape p'cture A rail-fence is much safer and more picturesque and is certainly mucti preferred by young people who expect ta pass a long and happy existence in cacSi other's society. The Indications are that the crop of young men who blow down their guns, n"? of young men who use their guns in li. 11 ot crutches, will be unusually large this season. The returns received with the repot ts or the early frosts have more than verified the pre diction that this would prove a good year for a large harvest of idiots. The foundation of this prediction Is so unmistakable that It can be understood by every amateur sporting youth. The abundant crops of c...a! fruits and nuts have made smsi! game t f all kinds unusually plentiful. Tbe game will entice the hunters in great numbers, and the young men who blow into the mnri.-s of their guns will wander through trie w.hkIs in droves, mowing themselves down liKe a mob before a battery of gatlinp guns. This Is the only reasonable explanation of the fact that undertakers rub their bands in g'ee when rrports of good crops are seen in the newspapers. "There Is, unfortunately, no law preventing this wholesale slaughter of young men. rrBLiSH your joys, but conceal your sorrow. Si 1 1 1 it I : r '. r I f t t i
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