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MACHINERY CO. 301 Levi tttrect, ItatU Creek, Jlich. b EVERYBODY In Cambria county should read !i the Fhkemam. Only il.bu per year. WBij ii try si.. 'ERi Proprietor. HOME-HAVEN. Huh! sklown the western heaven felowlj moves the shining sun, To the east the sha low lengthen, stretching forward, one by one ; From a day of toil or pleasure back again we gladly come. From the moiling working places, filled with care and weaiincstsea. Now to seek a kindly shelter in the haven of our home. On her nest am.mi the branches now the mother-bird can rest, Yith her little one safe nestled underneath her loving breast: Now the cows their mili ore giving into pails all white with foam; Now from blossoms warm and sunny hie the bees back, rich with honey. And the bleallnu lnmlS come nibbling down the pathway toward their home. 1 Soon the fireflies flash their beacons In and out the gardi n's gloom. While within tbe lamp bLlncs softly on thu readers in the room ; In our arms the children slumber, with their feet too tired to roam ; Out from dewy woodland covers whispering come the happy lovers; In the bles-scd night we gather In the haven i f our home. II. E. larkcr, in Springfield (Mass.) Repub lican. FK03I RAILS OF STEEL. An Old Engineer Tells of Soma Narrow Escapes. A Justice of tbo Supremo Court is not more taciturn than the average railroad engineer. And. not unlike the eminent jurist;, when onco his habitual roservo is cast aside he is a veritable mino of anecdote and wit. A Washington Star Koporter one afternoon during the past week ran across ono of these "Knijrhts of the Throttle" in the neighborhood of the "round house" on Virginia avenue, a,nd, as luck would havo it, the "Salvation car," as the paj car is designated in the railroader's parlance, had just arrived and he was in a good humor and talka tive. "Come, John, you won't go outon your run for two hours yet. Tell mo about some of the tight places you've been in since becoming an engineer." "WelL young man. we don't like to talk about theso things, but, as you appear to bo aaxiouS for a story, I don't mind tolling you one." "Tell me about that long red scar there under your chin. That must have boon quito a wound." "That was rather a hard ono, but when I received it it was a smaller af fair in comparison with my other breaks and bruises. As you know, I havo pulled a throttle on tho I'.altimore & Potomac road ever t-inco the first rail was laid. Railroading to-day is child's play to. what it was then- Now our greatest risk is u broken, rail or axle; then it was a dozen different things to keep us alert, chief among them being washouts, insocuro trestles and mis takes in telegraph orders incidental o a singlc-traclt road. Overwork always -played a prominent part, and it was owing to the latter fact that this scar adorns my meat-chopper. "It was during tho busy days of the Inauguration of Garfield, and all tho sleep tho boys had secured for a week was only cat-naps. I was coming north, out of Washington, on the evening of inauguration day, and ex-President Hayes occupied a private car on tho rear of my train. The cars wero crowded to their fullest capacity, and with this re sponsibility upon me I believe I could have done without sleep for a month. All tho cars were in Washington or bound north, the engines coming south generally being empty that is, without cars. Tbe engineers of these empty en gines would momentarily relax thoir vigilance, owing to the lesser responsi bility, and it was during ono of those moments that I got into the tightest place and received the closest call of my lifo. I received orders to pass two empty engines coming south at Severn, a tm all telegraph, station about thirty miles north of Washington, and that they would take the 6iding for me. My engine was doing nicely and wo were licking it along at a pretty lively gait, when, just as I turned the Severn curve, flip bang came tbe two engines into me, and when I woke up two weeks had passed, an engineer and baggago-m aster had been burlod, three locomotives and a half-dozen cars smashed into splinters, and I lay on my back in the hospital with a leg, an arm and three ribs broken and my under jaw almost torn off. The engineer of one of the south bound engines had relaxed his vigi lance for hardly more than a. minute, ran by his siding, and his life. paid the forfeit "Why didn't I jump? Holy smoke, young follow, that never entered my mind. I reversed my engine, put on the air, and by that time we were piled up and I was unconscious. The good Lord only knows why my railroading days didn't end there, but they didn't, and I flatter myself that 1 can make time with any of the boys." "How about that little accident out at McGruder's curve; weren't you mixed up in that affair? It occurred a good while ago, but I never heard the par ticulars." "Well, I should say I was mixed up in that affair. In all my days of railroad ing that was the luckiest accident with the queerest trimmings I have over known. The little details that I am go ing to tell you in connection with the affair came to me some time after their occurrence. "This time I was coming south on tbe New York express, and was due in Washington at 11:30 at night I had about twelve cars filled with passengers behind me. At that time there was a telegraph station about a quarter of a mile north of the curve called 'Wil son's.' The express generally had a clear track, and orders were never given it only when of great importance. Owing to this fact it made very fast time, and at that point usually ran about forty or forty-five miles an hour. As I swung in sight of this little lonely watch-box I saw that the red signal was down, and after a fierce-pull at the whistle I reversed the lever and put on the air. We came to a stop in a hurry, and, thinking orders were awaiting me, I made a break for tbe office to secure them without losing any more time than ntrushTng open the door I saw the op erator lying back in bis chair, as 1 SoSbt ?Mt asleep. There was a stronj odor of coal gas In the room, but in the Sat of passion at what I thought was a case of neglect of 4uty,Ipaid no at this, but crabbing him By tho collar of his coat, I yanked him out on to tho floor. As he was a ntuo . ow coming around I caught up a bucket of water and threw the contents over him. 'II IS A yEKlKiH WHOM Til TBTJTH EBENSBUftG, PA., bringing him to bis senses iustanter. " 'Whore's my orders? What's the red down for? I shouted in his ears. " 'There's no orders. I must have gone to sleep or fainted. Hvery thing's all right,' he replied in a dazed sort of way. "With an oath I used to swear then I rushod back to my engine, whistled for a flagman and pulled out, vowing vengenco on that operator in the shape of a report to the superintendent upon my arrival at Washington. That re port never went in. "I had gotten my train under way and was going only about five miles an hour when, just as we swung around McGruder's curve, the track sank under mo, and with a loud crash-and a splin tering of buffers we came to a dead stop, with the front part of my engine sunk about three feet below the track in mud and gravcL Thero was a dangerous quick-sand there, and it had washed about fifteen foet of the earth away from under tho track. Owing to our rate of speed a good shaking up was about all wo got, but suppose for ono minute that red signal had not been down on us at Wilson's. They'd have picked us up all in pieces, as I would have gone into that hole at the rate of forty miles an hour. "Itoth tho day and night operators at Wilson's wero practical jokers. A bright idea struck the day man, and climbing noiselessly on to the roof of the office he placed a board over the chimrey, shutting off the draft of the stove. After performing this brilliant foat ho wont home for a night's rest, resolvod to learn the noxt morning the result of bis machinations. The stove door was partly open, the gas from tho stovo was forced out, it soon filled tho room, and had I not boon stopped by the red signal the chances aro the boy would have been smothered to death. So you see tho mul tiplication of circum stances engendered by that practical joke although it nearly killed one per son, saved my life and many more be hind me." Chicago Journal. UNUNITED FRACTURES. Delayed Union Occurs as Often as Onee In Five Hundred Cases. The failuro of broken bones to unite firmly, which is met with now and then, is usually duo to somo local or general condition of the system, which binders tho formation of solid bony tissue be tween tho fragments. In many cases an important element soems to lie in the fact that too great freedom of mo tion between tho broken ends has been permitted, but in persons who aro de bilitated from diseaso there seems to bo sometimes a lack of the vital energy needed to throw out the material whi;h shall bold tho fragments in position. According to some authorities delayed union it usually takes place at last occurs as often as once in five hundred ciMs. At such times what union does finally take placo is generally of a fibrous nature, and if tho injury is in ono of tho longer bones a so-called falso joint may be tho result. Dr. Donald McLean, of Detroit, who sees many cases of this kind among the lumbermen in the northern part of his State, has como to tho conclusion that the causo of the failure to unite lies largely in the sever ity of tho original local injury, which, with his patients, is generally a direct blow from the trunk of a tree. Tho treatment is often difficult, and always tedious. A nice fitting together of the fragments, with care that no soft tissue is caught between them the pos ition being retained by means of a stiff bandage may be sufficient. If tho position is thoroughly pre served by the splints, it may bo just as well or even better, that the patient move about, for a certain amount of in flammatory action is necessary in order to got the full reparative power of na ture.. For the same purpose the ends of the bones aro sometimes rubbed smartly together before being placed in tbe stiff bandage. Tho modern system of performing op erations under the protection of carbol ic acid spray, or other antiseptics, which prevent tho entrance of tho microbes which produce' blood-poisoning, makes possible somo operations that in former times would certainly havo been fataL Among other things, thero has been in troduced a method of treatment which consists of sawing off the ends of the bones and fastening them together by nails or wires; but it seems to Doctor Mc TLiean, from the study of his cases, that .hose do quite as well in which the sole -cliance is put on tbe outside dressing without the use of wires. In some ;asos where wires are used it becomes necessary to perform a sebscquent op eration for their removaL Youth's Companion. DISCHARGING A MAN low Some Employers Get Arouud the Disagreeable Fart of Thl Hoty. Discharging a man for any cause is a duty that most employers dislike, says tbe Pittsburgh Dispatch. To get around the disagreeable part of this obligation some men resort to subterfuge more or less amiable. For instance, a certain firm in New York had a letter form which it always used when bouncing bad bad to be Sone. Her it is: Dear Sir: The condition of our business will not remit cs to avail ourselves of your valuable services after next Saturday. Duank & Co." Another largo employer of labor told roe not long ago that bo never discharged an employe. "What, never?" I inquired. Never," he repeated. "I always ask a man to ' resign, and if he doesn't re sign. I resign from tho place of paynias 10 " That reminded me of a foreman in a factory who was so soft-hearted that he never could bring himself to fire a man in so many words. When it became nec essary to get rid of a hand be u fed to send for the victim and aJdress bint thus: I'm sorry. Wiihelm. but I lays you off for awhile." "How. long for?" is tho visual re sponse. 'Oh! I doan know may be six months may be-a year-or two years or -ten years I doan know!" Cleaning Russet Shoee ' - Do you of the russet shoes know how to clean tbo leather and restore it to its first estate? Of course you Lave tried tho varnish and washes and found them altogether vexation of spirit. And the real thing i so easy when you know about it. Just squeeze tho juice of a lemon on a bit of soft cloth, give the leather a thorough treatment with this, and see if jour shoes doa'tlook as well as they did when you bought them. MASKS F&K1, 1KB ALL 1B1 ftLATKa BUIDL' FRIDAY. JANUARY 2, GRANDFATHER TO HIS WlhE. TThen, in the first fr.ir Hush of hapy youth, I looked with loving eyes upon thy face. It seemed to me I there could find. In truth. The pcrluct tyyc ol beauty and of grace. And as th bells rang out their gladsome chime That day when we were wed, I did not dream Thiit ever, with the raeLowiagof lirno, . Could that sweet face cf thine more lovely seem. Vet. as I see thrie now thy crown of white; The rlory or thy muthcrbool; the lines Upon tiiT brow and cheek, marks of time night; . The many woctocsscs thy life corabiaes Methinks that in my youth my jud rmont erred. Despite thy beau'y, seeming so benign. This heart of rain UtlU never been so stirred As by the lovelir.es that now Is thine. John KendricU Hangs in Harper- Weekly. BY HAIISJI .WORDS. How Bquiro SaJley Was Tang tit to Speak Klr.dly to Hi3 Wife. . The little silver column in the ther mometer was gradually mounting to ward tho nine-tics; the leaves' Lung mo tionless in the furnace-like air, and tho scent of tho perf umed swaths of newly cut hay pervaded every tbing, as Squire b'adley stood under the umbwl la-shaped apple tree and wipod his reeking brow w ith a yard-square handkorcl-iel of yel low silk. "Phew!" cried tto soaire, "this is getting too ixiucu; I think I shull go homo an hour earlier than usual." "So' J 1, if 1 wasn't workin' for day's wages," said Israel Newcomb, who was vigorously turning tho fragrant billows of green with a fork whii-h gleamed like serried lightning in the sunsnine. Tbe squire glared angrily at Israel; it was his prido that he worked as hard as any of his hired men, rich land-owner though he was. I s'pose I can do a-s I please!'' said ho. "Sartin'." observed Israel- "I only wish could!" The squire went home, selecting tho 6hady path which lay part, way through tho woods, and cros-ing the noisy little stream on a make-shift bridge formed by a fallen cedar trsve. Far down in the green crosvlights and glinting reflec tions of the glen, ho could ac Will Dallas, who had .andor.cd all pre tenses of fisbiag, a i l lay on the moss at Mary Sadlcy's feet, reading aloud to her, out of somo pocket rolumo of poetYy. The squire frowned. "Spooning as usual," growled he, un der his breath, and pushed steadily on. Tho old homestead, paint'-d white, with a refreshing contrast of grei-n blinds, lay baskirg in tho vivid sun shine. Tho squire looked at it wilh a complacent sense of proprietorship, as ho went around to the briek-door, where a great honeysuckle vino was all in curls of buff and w Into blossoms. The roomy kitchen, with its shining copper boiler and white-board floor, was silent and empty. lie looked, around. - "Hallo!" ho shouted. "Is every one dead?" Little Kitty came running out of the front-room. "Hush, father!" said she, holding up a small forefinger. "Mother is asleep." "Asleep!" roared the squire. "A pretty time of day to bo u't4jh and the whole house wide open, ready for any tramp that may come along, and your grandmother's silver spoons in plain view on tho dressor-fchelf. Athepf" 'I'm sorry, Titus," said an apologetic voice, as a pale, shadowy little woman issued from the hall beyond, where she had been lying on a lrocrustean lountrv. fashioned of unpaintcd pine boards, and draped with a lumpy mattress- "I hadn't any idea of falling asK-t p when I 17 down; but my head ached a little it's the beat, I suppose and I felt dizzy. I'm very sorry, but surely it isn't twelve o'clock yet." 'It don" lack many minutes of it," said the squire, gloomily, looking at the big wooden clock, whose fat. black Roman numerals glared back at him from behind a green nebulco of aspara gus b'rancbes. "The boat, eh? Well, I s'pose other folks feel it, too. My head aches, but' I don't take to my bed. And when a man comes homo tired and beat out from the hay field, he naturally ex pects to find things comfortable. I don't know what a woman has her board and keep for, if it ain't to see that meals is reg'lar and things decent." . . "I'm sorry, Titus," nervously reiter ated the little woman, fluttering to and fro like a lame-winged pigeon, "but I'll make all the haste I can. Dinner will soon be ready. Here, KittT" (to tho child), "wash these potatoes in the sink as quick as you can, and trim tho beets, while I run out for some kindlings to hurry up the fire." A minute afterward, ho could hear the quick strokes of the hatchet, and he bethought himself that, in tho hurry incident to haying-time, tho pile of kindlings had been allowed to get low. "It does seem," he said, petulantly, "as if every thing hindered a man's din ner." Then, father," said Kitty, glancing shrewdly over tho top of the tin potato pan, "why don't you go out and split tho kindlings, and let mother 'tend to the things indoors? "Hush, Kitty," said Mrs. Sadley, quickly, as she touched a match to the mass of crumpled papers under tho grate. "Where's the last Gazette?" snarled the squire, ignoring Kitty's query. "Oh, Titus,"" cried his wife, "I've just set fire to it! I supposed, of course, you'd read it it's week old to-day, you know. "Of course," said Squire Sadley, "I might havo known without asking! It's waste and fling away and burn up in tldt house. There ain't nothing safo where an extravagant woman's con cerned!" Mother ain't extravagant!" said Kitty. "Where's them peas I brought in this . morning?" sharply demanded the squiro, looking around him with Argus eyes. "There isn't time to shell them now," said Mrs. Sadley. timidly. - Time time!" repeated her husband. "Of course' there ain't time, if -you sleep away your life on that thero' sofy. I mean to have it taken away to-morrow. It's a deal too handy. What's tho uso o' my pi an tin' tbe earliest peas in market, and hoein' aud brushin' era,' and then goin' out aforo sun-up to pick 'cm, if my folks ham t life enough to cook 'em?" "Fll have 'em for supper.' said Mrs. Sadley, with a little tremolo In her voice. "No you won't, neither," said the squire. "I'll send 'em over to Neighbor I Barton's. Hi wife's got somo snap to i tor! I declare, it's cloar diacouragia' r 81. SO and IS9I. for a man to bo dragged back all the time 1 y a shiftless wife!" A big round drop plashed down: into tho fryin-pan whicl Mrs- Sadley was just preparing to reoeive sundry slices of well-cured ham which she haj leen cutting; she made no verbal reply, however. "Eh?" said tho squire, "why dca't you say something? Sulking, I s'pose, as usual?" At this, poor Mrs. Sadley burst Into tears. "No, Titus," said she, "I ain't sully ing. Hut I feel awful bad to-day, and it don't take much to upset me. It's all true what you say. I am a poor, worn out, feeble creature, and I don't blame you for gettin' out of patience. Eut if I hadn't worked so hard all those years " Oh, yes, there's alway trnne excuse," growled the squire; and taking a stray "sample number" of a fashion papr, he went out to sit in the honeysuckle shade. "I can't stand that roasting firo,said he. Then," said Kitty, the enfant terrf.Ie. "how do vou suppose that mother likes it?" In an instant, however, her fickle, childish attention was diverted. Soc!" she cried. "Ther come Cousin Mary and Mr. Dallas over the hill! Oh! father! they're engaged. Did you know it?" "Yes," absently answered tho squire, intent on his paper. "I was in the parlor that night; it thundered and rained so hard," said Kitty, with a twinkling eye, "and they didn't know it. And I heard them talk ing to each other. And Lo called her Lis dsrlin glove "Humph!" grunted the squire. "A reg'lar case o spooning." "And she said he was her dearest, detrct one," added Kitty tho circuin stantiaL "Young fools? snapped Squire Sad- y. "Father," said Kitty, leaning on bis shoulder she was tho only ono in the houso who was not afraid of the stern despot "don't all lovers talk so?" "They're fools for their pains, if they da" "Didn't you love mother when she was a girl like Cousin Mary? Didn't yon say just such things to her?T Tho squiro moved uneasily in his chair under the cairn, searching light of Kitty's eyes. 'I might ha done," ho owned at last. "I s'pose I was just as great an idiot as other folks be." "I don't see why people ever leavo it off," said Kitty, abstractedly. "Was mother a pretty girl?" "I)on"t talk nonsense," said the squire, almost angrily; and he got up and walked around to the old wooden bench beside tho well curb. Had Kitty's mother been a pretty girl? Yes. that she had rose-checked and limpid-eyed, with a laugh sweet as tho noto of a thrush, and tho lightest foot, In a Virginia reel, of any girl in the neighborhood. And now, "I am a poor, worn-out, feeble creuture," s'iO h -.d said, in the faint, weary acernts. looking at him out of the dim, faded eyt-s: "ami I don't blame you for get ting out of patience." Yes; it was all true. Hut what had wrought the change? Whoso fault was it? "1 don't know," said tbe squire, star irg at Heaven's blue eyo reflected far down in the heart of tho deep, cool well, "but I 'most think Pvo been too hard on her. Now I come to study on it, I've had lots o' hired help about the farm, and she's done all the house work herself. And she never was very strong! Was sho a pretty girl? Thero wasn't none prettier in a radius o twenty miles around Kingslcy Church! And to look at her yjofr." The squire got up and stamped un oa.sily arounl tho welL "I've Lcc-n a brute!" ho muttered to himself. "Worse than a dumb brute for they ain't supposed to know no bet ter. I don't know what I've been think In' of all theso years. Leave off loing hor? I hain't never loft it off. I love her now, bless her faithful, patient soul, as well as ever I did, only I've fell into the way of .Loin' careless and neg lectful. l!ut I'll turn over a no' leaf this very day, see if I don't!" He kept his word. "Engaged, Mary? Is It really a settled thing?" said Mrs. Sadley. Oh. . I hope you'll Lo happy! I hope, after twelve years of marriajre, dear Mary, you'll be as happy as I am now!" Her eycs shone; a faint color glowed on her ordinarily pale cheeks. Mary Sadley looked at her in surprise. "Would you believe. " went on the scjniro's wife,: "be has hired a girl to come here and do all the rough work, so as to spare me? And there is 6tich an easy, spring-upholstered sofa in the Lall, in placo of the lumpy old lounge; and there's one of the hay-hands split ting a pile of wood to last from now to Michaelmas. And wo are to keep our wedding anniversary in real old-fashioned style, next week; and Titus has ordered a dress trimmed with whito rib bons, just like the one I was married in. He says I shall look as young and pret ty as I did then. Such nonsense, you " know; and yet it is nice of him to say so now, isn't it?" And Mrs. Sadley laughed through her tears. Poor soul! The sunshine had come late in life, yet it filled her whole be ing with blessedness. "I'm so glad!" said Mary. "But you deserve it all. Cousin Eunice. And tie newly-betrothed lovers whis pered to each other that tho millenni um must surely be at hand- For what else could 60 have changed the squire? They did not stop to reflect that there is truth in the old saw: "Good in all, and none all good." Amy Randolph, in N. Y. Ledger; n Got Things Mixed Vp. A theological student, who was accom panied by his professor to a country place where the former was to preach, prevailed upon the professor to make' the opening prayer. Arising to make the announcement, ho amazed tho con gregation by saying- 'Professor Smith w ill now lead us in a petition of tho fac ulty of the II Seminary to the throne of grace of which. I havo the honor to bo a student. After accom panying him, your humble servant will attempt to preach tbe Word whose hhoea be is not worthy to unloose." Letter Carrier "A registerod letter. You will havo to sign your name. "I havo neither ink nor pen. Can 1 sign in pencil?" "O yes. I can mark it over for yo-.i in is:k when I got to tUo oJico.'' r iictfondo L'laUer. 0 postage per year In advance. XTJMBEK f0. tOOJt-b I Y. One deeply aorcnui thought Haunts te X j night and day, Char.girg u!l yg to naught. Driving ati iiUsis uay; It Is the thought fc? tleath That thus 1 pom-V-r on, Tin pity for the i or. Ioor world When I am dciwl aaJ gone. For I sometime must go And leave the world forlorn Since I must br!i:g uch woo Wuy was I ever Is urn? Dear human race, my grit f Is not for rue, but you; When 1 am dead and luUl to rest What will the poor world do? Win this Jar p!anct HIU. As UuW, go hizzit:g round Its path of good and til When I am rn t he ground And will the glorious sun Continue to appeur. And w-r!t the srars imne oat cacti ni;;Iit When I'm no looker here t Then ask me not to smile I What comf rt caii. I Uud Tormented all the whilo liy grW for aM mankind? Oh. millions, nov uiibeni ! My abst-acc ye mit-l rue Wlilaou! one ,sjrlt rl comfort, save To know I rT'-vrd !r you ! - Geort-c Hoctou. in Chicago HursJd, A BALLOON EPISODE. An Old Showman's Story oC u. Eravo Acrobat. One evenin?, in looking over the tli showman's scrap-book. 1 read the- fol lowing from a Now York paper; "Yesterday afternoon tho bailoem from UoLinson's circus, carrying? two. performers, was caught in a storm ove-r the sound and wrecked. Ono of tho prforTuers, Toma Patra, fell into the. water and was drow..cd; while tho other man hung to the cordage and was carried into Connecticut, where he was found uninjured, though tho balloon was a total loss." Closing tho book, I turned to the old showman, and said: "As you evident ; ly know something about this accident, tell it to me." He answered: "Yes. I do know something about that accident, for I was one of the occupants of the balloon, and don't think 1 shall forget the experience if 1 live for a thousand years. "Toma Patra, or Tom, as we callod him, was a strange man with a stranco history. Though he was with the show for three years, he never told his real name or his history, except to me, and that but a motcent before ho died. "We were performing in tho West when ho appeared and applied for a po sition as an acrobat. Though asked for credentials and questioned as to Lis professional record, ho refused to answer, and demanded an opportunity to exhibit his skill. He was given tho opportunity, and proved to bo one of the best acrobats that our manager had overseen. In some respects, particu larly in balancing objects. Lis skill was really marvelous. AU that he did was truly artistic, without any resort to the trickery so common among such jor formcrs. "Tom mado friends very slowly, and made no confidants whateve.r. Though he treated all poliudy, he showed a re serve that was not pleasing, because it kept bim from joining with tbe rest in ihe-ir sports. Then it was soon noticed that Tom never spent any money, ex cepting for absolute necessities, and this fact soon gave bim the name of Stingy Tom, though no one would havo dared to use the name in Lis hearing. "I never knew him to tako tho least interest in any oneor any thing, except once, when I bad foolishly been under tho influence of liquor, he said to me: 'My boy, s'.op it, for it can do you no good, and may do you great harm. "I have always thanked him for those words, though at the time they did mo no good, and I felt more kindly toward him after ho spoke them. I lelievo that he did not feci toward me quito as ho did toward the others. The manager decided to send up a balloon each afternoon, and while I had to perform on tho flying trapeze under it Tom staid in the basket to manage it. so far as a balloon can bo managed. This balloon performance was a great card. "Wo had been doing tho balloon act about a month, when we roacbed New 'York City for a four weeks' stand very glad of a rest after weeks of traveling. "One Saturday night. after tho per 'formance I found Tom reading a news paper by the Iigbtof a torch, and I could see tears coming from his eyes. In spite of Lis apparent effort to keep t hem back. As I wished to spare his feelings, I pre tended not to notice his agitation; and I thiiik he silently thanked me. Ho looked at me for a moment, and then said: 'Will you go to Philadelphia with me early in the morning, and come back again at night? ' "What, for?' I asked . " 'For company; and it is my request that you tell no one of our journey and ask mo no questions. "It was with a sad voice that he spoke the words, and they again brought tears to bis eyes. It seemed strange that a strong man should show so much agita tion, and it affected me deeply as I took his hand and said: "Whatever your trouble may be, you have my sym pathy, and I will do as you request.' "When wo reached Philadelphia ho hired a horse and wo took a long drive about the streets, with no apparent ob ject In accordance with my promise, I asked no questions, but I noticed that there was a particular point on Locust street which he passed frequently; and, though he drove from it apparently in different as to his direction, he always returned to the same place. In this way several hours passed, and finally, when wo returned to tho plare which seemed to attract Lim, thero wero a hearse and somo carriages before one of tho Louses. After that he did not drire out of fcight, but waited, sometimes at cne point and then at another, but always aiih the bouse in view, until four pall-larors came from tho building carrying a small coflln and placed it in th hoarse. Then, as the funeral train moved slow ly along the street, be joined it and follo.ved tho last carriago to Laurel HilL We left our buggy and stood among those nearest tho opn grave. I watched Tom's face, in which I could view a frightful struggle, tho struggle not altogether successful of a btronj man with LU emotions. When 'Ashes to aslu s and dust to dust was said and the hollow sound of tho falling earth was heard, the tears gushed from Lid eyes, und, turning from the others, be walked away. 1 did not follow, but loft Lim to himself, and stood there after tho eithers had gone, and waiujd. At letitU ho returned, and, dropping u A lvertipiiiK- I J as. The large an4 r.llsole circulation of tha It hi a I KKkMAti commend It to 'be lavoral-le con sideration ol advertiser, whore favor will be In terred at lb following- low rate; t met., umea 91.M I month!....... ............ .......... SXo 1 month....... , ............. a.ao 1 l year ...... .......................... .00 S t month CO S l year...... J momhs... .............. ......... a.Oe t 1 year l.oj i ool'n months. ....... ........ Hi.Oo U montba so. o U - 1 year -0 8 mor.tb v 00 lyear. ........ TtO,, lloflcMi Items, f rt Insertion lOe. net lite; eacb subsequent insertion Se. per Una. Administrator s and Lxec star's Ir U?eS..... JM Auditor's Notices .... t oo Stray and clmllar Notice 1 M -& Itraolvticms r rrocrdml of mr.w rvrj vrmtvm r toartw, a -l common ronton (fnywi ro tri . Vm erg wtat'rr of fuHti or ta4rrfuc 'ttirt awf i ku n a tdtrrrttirmrnti . jMj'uiirmol all kind neatly ar JV'. ouily eseeaied atiowait prei . lioa'tm 'Jrsro It. tiiniph- rriehu on tLc earth tLat cov ered tlieoflin. tir eaid to tr.e: Come.' Y'e han'ty ok Jiring our journey to New York, and. though 1 wa fail of wonder, 1 mado not tho flight.', ri erenc' to what Lad w-curred. Wli'n Monday e.ame a storm was threatening, and the manager ncil .f wo dared make the Luiloou asa ,; h-n. Tom answered that k would do us 1 said, and I said thut I would g. Wo ascended, in an uncertain and Ltful wind, aud tho t. pec tutors arpUui' d us tho hur ilken bag danced from oarlh with T.nn in tho ba-ske-t, whi'o I sr.i:i. from the slender bar twenty feet L..i. w him. 1 lfft tho lrapi-zo nooner t':i:..i usual, aud in climbing I notlied that tho wind was coming much Mrong: r from the west. As I stepped mt'ho basket, a contrary current gave t' e bal loon a stiddeu lurch lht throw il on its side, uluiost pitching us out- TL-i .Lo huge bubble righted, and shot toward the f-ast with friglitfulspoi.at the .atno time descending. As wo looked I ' low we saw water under us that was ' . I ii lasiie l Lylhegulo. We i.rU d wi : ..ou i Fjeakiiig, for we saw that the b..1 o n must Lave been torn, and that t:- ru-i was rapidly e-hcapi ng. We threw .w -all of the ballast, and ascended ajrairt for a short distance, hoping to n j.c.' tho north 6bore of tho sound, bis Mil hoje was short, for again vie b-g;n o descend. Then 1 ki'seneii the tr:.pe.j aud let it go, but it was too liht o count for mticli, urd wo contin u' u approach tho white-capped wave-s. Ti o Laket,' said 'l orn, us Lo opened L knife. Then we climled into tho eor dayo, and hold on us he cut away tl.. basket, and all within his reach ihat was not necessary to support us. Aain wo ascende-d and sjx-d toward the4 nlioro, but there was no hope of reaching it. 'One can bo saved, but uol both, fcuid Tom. "I was a out to answer, when ho in terrupted rse, baying: "Not a woid, f-T your life is worth more than mino, and. I must go; Irii first iiste-n: Tvvtn'y yeai ago 1 was csargod with murdering i.y "w ife, and seeencod to luiprisociijjeut f.-r life; but I was innoew-nt, as the Lad taken her own life. In prison, to j-nss tho time, I aracticed thu tricks ef lLe circus, and after fifteen years" training I escaped ami joined tL' show. 1 hm.I but ono son. who died five years :i go, leaving a motherless baby, my grand son, who was Iff t in the can- of his mother's aunt Yesterday wo ati-a.'.-l Lis funeral. All tho rr.oney I cuid rave was sent to him, though no 'ic knew whore it cauio from. My numu is . I can not U 11 the name, for it was given in confidence. After srwak ing it ho lood his hold, and pi .; ugod into tho angry- waves only ten f-et be low us. Then the balloon again ale-ended, and when it came down it was among the" brancno of a tree on tho Connecticut shore. Harry C Fulton, in Chicago Daily News. THE PRICE Or SUCCCSS. JTonors and IormMt-lt y aual y lttuted on Lnonuou Labor. TLo splendor of such Lonors ns brve eo'i.'o to Von Molikn nnd t l;i-nj ircic t,hi:ics in th- eyes f all men, but iu.it which very few mn r'-alizo is the enor mous labor on which tht-ir honors werv based. Everybody sees results but ve'.-y few people perceive the moans by wbi.-L results aro attained. TLe- outward show of a great career imprr-ises even the no. t. casual, b-.it only tho man himself kii-. vs what prolonged and often agonising work has secured those honors. In this life nothing worth Laving ean lx- Lad for tho :;sl;ing; on'- r?ist pay f.-r what ever he-gets, and p.iy in sl"i ling colli. TLo moral order of the" world re-. .; on the true' tue-astire" between vw.r!; ;.:u n wv.-d. In the degree that a man's s-ue-coss is really grout nnd worthy, be- i.iust work to secure it; und Lc hi:id tLo bje cess which fills tho world with its re nown the ro lien buried a Loily ef work as solid us the foundation ui.dt r tho light-house-. Most men aro not willing to pay tLo price of a groat sueciss. The unbroken heroism ef sixty ye::r, ai.l more of work which is to bo four d in the lives of Yon Muitku nnd IU-imrck and Gladstone de uianJs a ui;.n of '. . iw'c temper. These statesmen arid soldier have won nothing for which they Lao not paid a full price. . 1 Ley Lavo climbed to tbe heights on which tljo world now sees ti.e-n, and v.h;;t 'i.oy value, undoubtedly, is not that v. hk :j men see, but that of which, they their selvea aro conscious the integrity of the labor to which their lit en have- been given. WLen a man ttecures tLsei great successes, th very trail, ir of preparation destroys the illusion, of mere popular fame, and ftippli'-s hint with a true standard of values. V Lai such a man feels is not tLo satisfaction f popularity, but the consciousness of a great work done, and the sense of a ajt responsibility borne. Great place noser means ca-so and self-indnlgor-e; it means always ardncxrs toil and self-sacrifice. Tho great question for u.i all is: llow much aro wo willing to pay for a true success? It can never come to us by accident It will nevcer fall into our laps like a ripenc-d fruit We must pluck it w ith hands that dare, and that do not shrink from toll. Christian Union. LEARNED TO WAJDC... A Hah lic-romee I'sed to LI wins; ou Laud and t-tuatly la Urawued, Henrik DaLL, of Aalesund, Noway, wan, a reader and folio we-r of liurwitw Wishing to apply his. theory of tho. limit cf adaptability ot a specii s to itj. environment, he procured a berring froiu a neighboring fjord ami carried it home in a tub. of seta water. IJ re newed the watcsr daily for some time, and gradually redue-ed tbi quaauty, with so little inconvenience to tM- her ring that he eonelsjded that the rUh might, in tim learn to lcoathc air un diluted with water, like the cat and th nin. It turned out aA he exi-ctod, and tho water was finally turned out of tho tub of the herrig. never to lw replaced even lor bathing. Ib-qrik next re moved the tL-b. from its tub aud placed it on the ground, where it flopped ultoiit very awkwardly at first, but soon, learned to move fr- y and rtt.M'y. In a little while tho ht r.-i .,- ..: . ;.ble to follow its tnai-r wiVo :: (liiVi !.!!, and llioii it became' hi-s const :i it com panion about Hto stre'tt,s of tbe city. On a certain unfortunate day IK-nrik Lad esfea-skin to cross a. dilapidated bridge wLi-h spanned an arm of the Larlxr. The honing coming gracefully alongv headless of danger, raw and ami a springing at the ephedra, for which it had acquired tin especial for. -I: loss, Inissod his filling. :.l;pjH'ii lhro..gh a orack into the water be-'if a kit uud wa drowned, say loiest and Siraem. at !! I? I. r v ) j; I) i fi ii (
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