VOL. 48. .
The Huntingdon Journald
J. R. DURBORROW, - - J. A. NASH,
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AP. IY. JOHNSTON, Surveyor and
• Civil Engineer, Huntingdon, Pa.
OFFICE: No. 113 Third Street. m1;11,1572.
Tel F. GEHRETT, M. D. , ECLEC
-11-.• TIC PHYCICIAN AND SURGEON, hav
ing returned from Clearfield county and perma
nently located in Shirleysburg, offers his profes
sional services to the people of that place and sur
rounding country. apr.3-1872.
DR. H. W. BUCHANAN,
DENTIST,
No. 224 Hill Street,
HUNTINGDON, PA.
July 1. '72.
DR. F. O. ALLMAN can be con
salted at his office, at alt. hours, Mapleton,
Pa. _ Imarchll,72.
D . CALDWELL, Attorney -at-Law,
eNo. 111, 3d street. Office formerly occupied
by Messrs. Woods & Williamson. . [apl9,ll.
D R. A. B. BRUMBAUGH, offers his
professional services to the community.
Office, No. 523 Washington street, one door east
of the Catholic Parsonage. [jan.4,'7l.
EJ. GREENE, Dentist. O ffi ce re
• • moved to Leister's new building,Hillstreet
Pe-ttingdon. fjan.4,'7l.
L. ROBB, , Dentist, office in S. T.
...-A • Brcwn's new building, N0..520, Hill St.,
Huntingdon, Pa. [apl2,'7l.
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GLAZIER, Notary Public, corner
lin-1 • of Washington and Smith streets, Hun
tingdon, Pa. [jan.l2•7l.
- FT C. MADDEN, Attorney-at-Law
fl-JL• Office, No. —, Hill street, Huntingdon,
Pa. i51 , 19;71..
FRANKLIN SCHOCK, Attorney-
J• at-Law, Huntingdon, Pa. Prompt attention
given to all legal business. Office 229 Hill street,
•corner of Court House Square. [dec.4,'72
tIrSYLVANUS BLAIR, Attorney-at
• Law, Huntingdon, Pa. Office, Hill street,
hree doors west of Smith. [jan.4.7l.
x CHALMERS JACKSON, Attnr•
'Co • nay 'at Law. Office with Wm. Dorris, Esq.,
:No. 403, Hill street, Huntingdon, Pa.
.All legal business promptly attended to. [janls
_ir R. DURBORROW, Attorney-at
r-7 • Law, Huntingdon, Pa., will practice in the
several Courts of Huntingdon county. Particular
attention given to the settlement of estates of dece
dents.
Office in he JOURNAL Building. [feb.l,'7l.
W. MATTERN, Attorney-at-Law
r- , • and General Claim Agent, Huntingdon, Pa.,
Soldiers' claims against the Government for back
pay, bounty, widow.' and invalid pensions attend
ed to with great care and promptness.
Office on Hill street. [jan.4,'7L
L S. S. GEISSINGER, Attorney-at- •
Law, Huntingdon, Pa. Office with Brown
A Bailey. [Febis-ly
li. Ai.buts Lovett. J. ll.txx iltssen.
L OVELL & MUSSER,
Attorneys-at- Law,
HUNTINGDON, PA.
• Special attention given to COLLECTIONS of all
'kinds; to the settlement of ESTATES, &c.; and
.all other legal business prosecuted with fidelity and
• dispatch. i n0v6,•72
M. A M. S. LYTLE, Attorneys-
AIL • at-Law, Huntingdon, Pa., will attend to
all kinds of legal business entrusted to their care.
Office on Fourth Street. second floor of Union
Bank Building. rian.4,'7l.
IR A. ORBISON, Attorney-at-Law,
.." , -w• Office, 321 Mill street, Huntingdon, Pa.
[may3l,'7l.
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JOHN SCOTT. S. T. BROWN. J. X. BAILEY
(C OTT, BROWN & BAILEY, At
li-7 torneys-at-Law, Huntingdon, Pa. Pensions,
and all slime of soldiers and soldiers' heirs against
the Government will be promptly prosecuted.
Office on Hill street. [jan.4,'7l.
WILLIAM A. FLEMING, Attorney
at-Law, Huntingdon, Pa. Special attention
given to collections, and all other Isgal business
attended to with care and promptness. Office, No.
220. Hill street. [apls,'7l.
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Hotels.
MORRISON HOUSE,
OPPOSITE PENNSYLVANIA R. R. DEPOT
BUNTING-DON. PA.
J. It. CLOVER, Prop.
Aprils, 1871-Iy.
- WASHINGTON - HOTEL,
S. S. Downes, Prop•r.
-Corner of Pitt & Juliana Sts.,Bedferd, Pa. mayl.
Miscellaneous.
OYES! 0 YES! 0 YES!
The subscriber holds himself in readiness to
cry Sales and Auctions at the shortest notice.
Haring considerable experience in the business
he feels assured that be can give satisfaction.
Terms reasonable. Addreea G. T. HENRY,
March:, dines. Saxton,"Redford county, Pa.
VIT ROBLEY, Merchant Tailor, in
• Loister's Building (mooed floor,) Hunting
.don, Pa., respectfully solicits a share of public
—ipatronage from town and country. [4)&16,72.
- pp A. BECK, Fashionable Barber
• and hairdresser, Hill street, opposite the
Franklin House. All kinds of Tonics and Pomades
kept on handand for sale. [apl9,'7l-6m
I.IHIRLEYSBURG ELECTRO-MED
1•77 NAL, Hydropathie and Orthopedic Insti
tute, for Lae treatment of all Chronie Diseases and
Deformities.
Send for Circulars. Address
Drs. BAIRD & OEIIRETT.
Shirleyeburg, Pa.
.0v.27,'72tfj
The II unti g-t ;
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New Advertisements
MERCANTILE APPRAISEMENT
Classification of Merchants in Huntibg
don county, by the Appraiser of Mercantile Taxis
for the year 1873.
Alexandria Bemugh.
Class Rate Crass Rte
W M Plitilips 12 12 50 S 11.1.111e1d &Co 11 1500
C Porter pat med 2 10 00 J. R.Gregory 14 'OO
J H Kennedy 12 12 50
Brice township.
13 10 00141 Ember
II Conover
A Crownovor 13 10 001 A Wilson
Brady township.
10. 20 00IW 111 Dorland 14 700
IA P Burnham 14 700
Etnier k FonAt
13 10 00!G W Thompson &
12 SO
14 7 001 Co IKstillery
Donald
0 Metz
Broad Top City.
P Ammerman 14 7 00 , A llouck pat med 4 hOO
A Houck 14 7KJ noffmali ' 4 'UO
Fielier .5 Miller 11 15 00,W Brown 14 700
Reakirt, Era &Co 13 10 00'11 U Jacob &Oi 12 12 50
J F Meant 14 700 F Tool 13 10 00
J M Bacon 12 12 50 A Gleason &Co 12 12 50
I) F Horton 14 7 00J J Reed 10 20 00
Cass township.
Keptlig it Rosa
ter 14 7 001
Cassville Borough.
J F Reston 14 7 00;0 Al Green 14 700
J Henderson 14 7 00;A L Huse 14 700
Clay Township.
T Utley 14 7 00151cGranns • FitA-
J Elendernon 14 7 001 pntrick 14 700
c`rointve4 Tmenship.
Rockbill Iron k
Coii Co
C.lmont Boroigh,
G A Ileaton 13 10 00 1 T Thomann 14 700
14 7 00,
Franklin TUIC7IYtP•
James Cree
• IA G ping 13 10 00
14 7 00X Amthullt 14 700
Hopewell Towth,l,
G & J If Shoenber
ger
J F Shirley .f Bro 34 7 asp leaver
Mating).
OCunuingham 10 20 00 xS Africa 14 700
Denny A M'Mutrielo 20 00 Ober A Sous 11 15 00
A B Flood 14 700 :Greenburg 14 700
21 B Corbin 13 10 00 1 . Gain 12 12 50
J. Cunningham 12 12 5 uchanan & Son 14 7.00
R Langdon 14 7 a Tenter 13 10 00
D A Nye 14 7 0/William Lewis
J Reed A Sons 1 Book Store 14 700
WI - -
illiam Lewiq
Groceries 13 10 00
Drugs &c 1 50 CI
Wallace & Clementl4
_7 fl
~-.....--,.....
IFS . Wharton 925 015 A Brown 13 10 00
.T
E. J. Greene 14 7 1 0 Alt Stewart &CO 12 12 50
Wm Africa 14 TM 0 W Swartz 14 700
17 L Bricker 14 .00i March & Btu 12 12 50
J C Blair 12 I: 50 NC Decker 13 10 00
Benj Jacobs 13 yOO Remy & C.: 0 30 00
Geo. Schafer 14 I oo r Hagy 13 10 00
J C Miller 14 If 0/ E C Summers & Col 2 12 50
Smucker &Brown 12 4 50 Glazier & Btu 11 15 00
Franciscan fi ne d- Brown & Tylmrst 12 12 50
ware Co 11 15 00 A Etnier 11 16 00
A P W Johnston M Fetterhoof 14 700
pat med % 10 00 S P Wenzel 14 700
B F Douglass 4 700 S WCulem 14 700
Aaron Stewart 14 700 Martin Morton 14 700
Jacob Africa .4 700 Port & Fridley 14 7OG
Henry Leister Oil- J R Cannon 13 30 00
Bards 2 tables 40 00 Mr/ M Smearman 14 700
Samos Port 14' 700.1 H Westbrook 14 700
H Roman 11 10 00 J Leister 14 700
S S Smith 14 7 00151 re M Reneger 11 700
S S Smith mama 310 MORN E Africa 14 700
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Jackson Township.
H Smith & Sh 13 10 00W H Harper 13 10 CO
Mcßurney (Neilson &Co 740 00
Nephav 13 10 00 " pat met 5 500
Cleo H Little 13 10 00 i
.81mon Cohn p 10 0n1.4. Cunningham
I et Co 12 12 50
Morris Township.
T C Waite 13 10 001Isett to Thompson 11 16 00
Wm Davis 14 7CO J K Templeton 12 12 50
E W Graflita 13 10 001
Mapleton Borollgh.
A W Bwoepe 12 10 00j." namilton
J Sown= 12 12 501
Mount linion Borough.
Blair 6 AppldY n• 15 00IA Eberman 14 700
F D Stevens 12 12 5018 F Douglass 14 700
Miller 01krk 12 12 50Geo W Lukens Id 10 00
T H Adams 11 15 WIG Wolf 12 12 50
Orbesonia Borough.
T R 00... 13 ID 00!31 S Starr Co 12 12 50
IV II Miller 13 10 00 Win Robertson 14 700
Oneida Townehip,
14 7 001
• Run Township.
B G reen
J G Boyer 14 7 091 F Hoover 11 700
31 W lbaton 14 7 001 J Dell 14 700
W E Eiong 14 7 0010 rove S Peiglital 14 .7 00
G B Brtmbaugh 14 7 001
Dorris FCo n 15 00
Shirley Tc.nship.
H B:Welker 14 7 001.1 P Davi"!
{{'Gilliland 11 7 001
Sherleysburg.
Wli Brewster 13 10 001 W A Fraker 12 12 50
J AKerr 13 10 001
Rpringfield Tcncieship.
J C arewder. 14 7 OND Leeks
Shade dap Borough:
J Shade 4 ti oo,WCSwan II 700
11R Shearer 11 7 00,11 Zeigler 11 TWJ
C Roddy 11 7 001
Tell Township.
Ak J M Blair 13 10 00 Samuel Parton 14 700
Stevens Btu's 13 10 00jCovert d Heck 13 10 00
R Aahnun 13 10 00
Tod Township.
Cbilcoat d Cook 14 7 00 L Mancgan 14 700
14 7 00111 Quarry
Wanriorsmark Tbmoskip,
Tnompson cE De- IC L Addlemen •12 12 50
trick , 12 12 50 D Rebold 14 700
. pat med 4 600 2 51 Alattan at
A P OwenA 14 1011 Bro 12 12.50
L Clobaugh J W Danwiddie
pat med 4 500 medicines di 3 10 00
J Eater
O w sta., Agt 14 700
West Township.
.7 M Oaks &Co 13 10 00 .1 Cresswell
J itl Oaks 11 15 00 Sone
J5l Stewart med 2 80 00 J Obern
J C Walker 11 10 00 C B Nylon
ISamuel Troutwine 13 10 00
The above lathe corrected statement after the appeal
held at Huntingdon, on May 1, 3873. Any person who
believe themselves improperly messed and were not no
tified of the above, will be beard by sending an affidavit
to that effect to me on or before the 20th inst., at Shrrley.
burg, Huntingdon county, Pa.
U. W. CORNELIUS,
Mercantile APPruiller •
NOTICE.—By an act passed the eleventh day of April,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, it is the slaty
of the County Treasurer to one out all license not lifted on
or before the that of July. Seventy-five cents fees will be
charged In addition to the amount of license.
A. W. KENYON,
May7;73. County Trearsurer.
NOTICE TO TAXABLES.
The Treasurer of Huntingdon County will
attend at the time and place specified in the fol
lowing liat for the purpOse of collecting State,
County and Militia Taxes
Huntingdon, East Ward, June 2d and 3d.
Huntingdon, West Ward, June 9th and sth.
Juniata, Hawn's School House, June 6.
Oneida, Warm Springs, June 7.
Orbisonia, Howie of A. Carothers, June 10.
Cromwell, House of A. Carothers ' June 11.
Shirlcysburg, Leas' Store, June 12.
Shirley, Leas' Store, Juno 13.
Tell, Nossville, Juno 17.
Dublin and Shade Gap, Shade Gap, June 19.
Springfield, Meadow Gap, June 19.
Clay and Three Springs, Throe Springs, June 20.
Brady, Mill Creek, June 23.
Mapleton, June 24.
Mt. Union,June 25.
Union, Sheridan &boo! House, Juue 27.
Carbon, Dudley, June 29.
•
Broad Top City, July 1.
Tod, Eagle Foundry, July 2.
Cassville and Cass, July 3d and 4th.
Coalmont, July 7.
Hopewell, Coco Station, July S.
Lincoln. Coffee Run, July 9.
Penn, Marklesburg, July 10.
Walker, 111•Connellstowb, June 11.
Birmingham. July 14.
Warriorsmark, July 15.
Franklin, Franklinville, July 16.
Morris, Waterstreet, July 17.
Porter, Alexandria, July 18.
Henderson, Union School House, July 21.
Barret; Saulsburg, July 22.
Jackson, M'Alevy'a Fort, July 23.
West, Wilsontown, Jnly 24.
Petersburg, July 23.
Alexandria, July 28.
A. W. KENYON,
. County Treasury.
Treasurer's Office, May 7, '73-31.
A REMARKABLE INVENTION.
One of the most important improvements.
ever perfected in musical instruments has lately
been introduced by Geo. Woods & Co., in their im
proved Parlor Organs. It consists of a piano of
exquisite quality of tone which will sever require
. .
The instrument was lately introduced at a mu
sical soiree in Baltimore and received the cordial
applause and endorsement of the many eminent
professionals present. [m7-3t
NOTICE TO BUTCHERS.
The undersigned gives notice, to butchers
and others, that he keeps on hand all the time a
fine lot of FAT CATTLE, which he will sell live
weight or dressed by the pound, or by the lump.
He has on hand forty-five head, weighing from
890 to 1200. Address JOHN JACOBS,
mchl2-2mos. Shirleysburg, Pa.
COLORED PRINTING DONE AT
the Journal Office, at Philadelphia prices
Uhe Now gam.
The Old Man in the Model Church
Well, wife, I've found the model church 1 I
worshipped there to-day 1
It made me think of good old times beforo my
hair was gray.
The meetin' house was fixed up more than
they, were years ago,
But then I felt when I in, it wasn't built
for show.
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The sexton didn't seat me away back by the
door;
He knew that I was old and deaf, as well as
old and poor ;
Re must have been a Christian, for be led me
through
The long aisle of that crowded church to find
a place and pew.
I wish you'd heard that singin' ; it had the
old time ring,
The preacher said, with trumpet voice, ' , IAA
all the people sing!"
The tune was Coronation, and the music up
ward rolled,
Till I thought I heard the angels striking all
their harps of gold.
My deafness seemed to melt away; my spirit
caught the fire ;
I joined my feeble trembling voice with that
melodious choir,
And sang, as in my youthful days, "Let
angels prostrate fall ;
Bring forth the royal diadem, and crown him
Lord of all."
I tell you, wife, it did me good to sing that
hymn once more;
I felt like some wrecked mariner who gets a
glimpse- I shore •
I almost wanted to lay down this weather
beaten form,
And anchor in the blessed port forever from
. the storm.
14 7 09
The preachin' 1 Well, I can't just tell all the
preaeher said,
I know it 'wasn't written; I know it wasn't
read,
He hadn't time to read it, for the lightnin' of
his eye
Went flashing 'long from pew• to pew, nor
passed a sinner by.
The sermon wasn't flowery, 'twos simple gos
pel truth ;
It fitted poor old men like me ; it fitted hope
ful youth.
'Twas full of consolation for weary hearts that
bleed ;
'Twas full of invitation to Christ, and not to
creed.
The preacher made sin hideous in Gentile and
in Jews ;
He shot the golden sentences down in the fi
nest pews,
And—though I can't see very well—l saw that
falling tear
That told me Hell was some ways off, and
Heaven very near.
How swift the golden moments tied within that
holy place ;
How brightly beamed the light of Heaven from
every happy face
Again I longed for that sweet time when friend
shall meet with friend,
"Where congregations ;Hoer break up, and
Sabbaths have no end."
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I hope to meet the minister—that congregation
too—
In that dear home beyond the stars that shine
from heaven's blue.
I dot.bt not I'll remember, beyond life's eve
ning gray,
That happy hour of worship in that model
church to-day.
Dear wife, the fight will soon be fought—the
victory soon be won ;
The shining goal is just ahead ; the race is
nearly run,
O'er the river we are nearin' they are throng
in' to the shore
To shout our safe arrival where the weary
weep no more.
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Ulte #toq-Ztlltr.
11 7CO
ONLY A MECHANIC.
THE snow was falling like a myriad
flight of tiny white-winged birds ; the De
cember blast howled mournfully through
the twilight streets, when the lights were
beginning to shine out here and there,
solitary beacons of fire, and Grace and
Myra Payne were sitting before the grate
in their cosy, well-used sitting-room, talk
ing. .
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Grace had been darning
stockings, a
piece of domestic finger-craft not particu
larly ornamental, but nevertheless most
essential, and Myra was dotting the edge
of a shirt collar with stitches like seed
pearls, but it had grown too dark to work
now, and they tut in the ruddy shine of
the grate fire, enjoying the season com
monly known as "blind man's holiday."
"Now, Grace, I'm sure you'll think bet
ter of it," said Myra, coaxingly. ,
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"Don't think there's the least prospect
in life of any such thing," returned Grace.
Stay, though. We have not photo
graphed our heroines for the eye of the
reader's fancy. Well, they were two pret
ty girls, although in somewhat different
styles. Myra, the elder by a year, was
tall and slender, with dark, languid eyes,
an oval face, and jet black hair, slightly
rippled, while Grace was small and spright
ly, rather inclined to be plump than other
wise, with big brown eyes, full of liquid
laughter, a skin like rose-colored satin,
and brown curls which could no more have
been coaxed to lie straight than so many
grapevine tendrils.
"You are really going to marry a cent
mon mechanic !" persisted Myra, remon
stratively.
"Well, I think he's a rather uncommon
one, myself."
"But our papa is a gentleman."
"Our papa is a lawyer by profession,
Myra, but I don't think he is any more of
a gentleman than Walter Geniis.'
"Mechanics are not gentlemen !"
"Yes, they are, if they behave them
selves. Now, look here, Myra," and the
big brown eyes became very resolute, "I
am very glad that - you are engaged to a
Wall street broker, who lives in a brown
stone house, but I don't think that givcs
you the privilege of criticising my lover."
"But, he is so poor, Grace."
"He has health and strength, and his
own strong right arm to help him."
"And you will have to work."
"Well, what, then ? My goodness gra
cious!" and Grace elevated two little plump
hands, "what do you suppose these were
given to me for ? To wear kid gloves and
diamond rings only, and to gather roses?
No, indeed ! I can find a better use for
them than that."
"Grace, you are perfectly incorrigible!"
"Yes, I am ; so you may just as well
leave off lecturing me," said Grace, sauci
ly. "I plead guilty to all your accusations.
I am going to marry nothing but a me
chanic. I shall live in half a house; I
can't go out in a carriage, nor give parties,
and I think very likely that I shall not
unfrequently wash dishes, sweep rooms
and iron my husband'sshirts. And through
it all-expect to be very happy."
Myra sighed and abandoned the useless
argument. What was to be done with so
very unreasonable a damsel as this ?"
* * * * * *
A bright little hearthstone—a kettle
HIINTINGIiON, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1873
singing on the hod; the crimson carpet,
not Brussels, nor velvet, but simple in
grain ; and the plain, neat furniture, with
Grace smiling at the ready-spread table—
this was a pleasant home for Walter Gen
iis to come to after his day's work in the
machine shop was over.
"Upon my word," .he said, gaily, '•I
think we're happier here than Myra in her
big house, with her swarm of servants. Do
You know, Gracie, I felt almost at one time
that I was doing wrong in marrying you ?"
"Wrong, Walter ?"
"Myra seemed to think you were such
a victim."
"Do I look like a victim ?" demurely
asked Grace:
"Why, no, I can't say I think you do,
but I wish I could have brought you to a
house all your own, my pet. Never mind,
some day you shall reign in a palace wor
thy of you."
"Nonsense, Walter; could I be happier
anywhere than I am with you ?''
"Arc you happy, love ?"
She rose from her seat and came over
to her husband's side, looked full into his
face with eyes so eloquent that all the dic
tionaries in creation could not have spoken
more plainly.
Yes, he knew that she was lopry.
Mrs. Linley, too, though that she was
happy, and pitied "poor diar Gracie" from
the bottom of her heart No servants; no
silver napkin rings; ns double damask ta
ble cloths with embrotiered monograms on
them ; no carriage • io Wilton carpet; no
brocatel curtains. What would life be
worth without thee r And then, toe, she
lived so outlandahly L ictually dining in
the middle of tlts trq'Tand having—good
fates'—pork mid cabbage occasiona;ly, and
fried onions ! Mrs. Linley was quite sure
that she cou.d not have existed under such
a fearful concatenation of circilmstances.
"Of course we must continue 'to visit
them," said Myra, inhaling the Lubin]
perfume from her Valenciennes edged
pocket handkerchief, "but really, I am
quite ashamed to have our carriage seen
in such a common-place street." -
"She's your sister,"
said Mr. Linley,
"and Geniis is a goon fellow, after all."
"I know it, but a common mechanic I"
And Myra took out her pearl, tablets to
look over her visiting list. •
Grace Geniis knew very well that Mr.
Gustavus Linley despised her and her low
estate, but Grace cared not two pins for
that—why should she ? Was she not
happy as Queen Victoria herself in her
snug little house, with love to brighten
the low ceilings and beautify the maple
wood furniture.
"Grace is a pearl of price," thought the
young husband, as he watched her at her
thrifty housewifery, "and some day she
shall shine in a proper sitting as well as
Gustavus Linley's conceited doll of a wife:
She shall, or my name is not Walter Gen
iis I"
Mrs. Linley did not find herself entirely
inconsolable when Walter Geniis accepted
an offer from a California firm to come out
as head machinist, and her sister went
away.
"It's just as well," thought Mire; "for
I want to give a series of Germans this
winter, and I couldn't have invited them,
and of course, they would have been mor
tally offended ! Now it's all right."
The years passed by, and Myra Linley
forgot to answer her sister's letters so often
that, at length, Grace left off writing. Mrs.
Linley became a bright star in th world
of fashion, and enjoyed the false artificial
life as one enjoys fevered excitement of
any kind !
One evening Mr, Linley came in late,
but he often did that. Myra glanced
laughingly up from the book shelves skim
min.." over, not because she enjoyed read
ing,but because it was fashionable work,
and she wanted 'to say she had read h—
and noticed that his face was perturbed.
"What's the matter?" —she inquired, a
little startled by his look.
"The matter," returned Gustavus, de
liberately seating himself — opposite her,
"is that we are ruined !"
"What do you mean ?"
'Simply that we are penniless—beggar
ed—havn't a penny in the world, and
debts enough to sink the Spanish Arman
do!"
Myra looked at him in blank dismay
"And what aro we going to do ?"
"Do ? Why, do what other people do 1"
savagely answered her husband. Go into
the second story of a tenement house and
starve ?"
Mrs. Linley fell into weak, sobbing
hysterics. Her husband not heeding her,
sat staring moodily at the floor.
"It must be a horrible dream," groaned
Myra; "it can't be true."
But, unfortunately, it was true, and in
something less than a week, Mrs. Linley,
her husband and three children found
themselves the inmates of a tawdry, third
rate, boarding house, while Gustavus vainly
tried to obtain a situation somewhere as
clerk, and Myra cried and scolded altern
ately, and wished herself dead so many
times a day that Gustavus finally lost all
patience, and intimated, darkly, that "lie
wished so too." _ _
And then Myra called him a "horrid
brute," and cried more persistently than
ever.
* * *
"A carriage at the door, and to see me.
It can't be possible !" said dire, Linley,
peeping over the blind of the window.
"It was Mrs. Gustavus Linley the lady
asked for, ma'am—a bright pleasant spo
ken lady as ever I seen," said the maid-of
all-work who had brought up the message.
"Tell her to come up here," said Myra,
recklessly as she hurriedly smoothed down
her neglected hair and twitched at the
buttons of her faded silk wrapper.
Why, Grace Geniis ! it isn't you ?"
It was Grace Geniis, nevertheless, in a
superb black silk, and a priceless India
shawl, and real diamonds in her ears, but
Grace Geniis all the same—eager, loving
and impulsive
"We 'beard about Gustavus' failure,"
cried Grace hugging her, sister and laugh
ing and crying alternately, "and Walter said
he would come to New York at once and
see what we could do for you. We are
rich people now Walter and I," said Grace
with a spice of innocent triumph, and he
has concluded to settle in New York, and
Walter owns the Geniis Iron Works, and
we should like Gustavus for book-keeper,
and, of course you'll all come and live with
us, and—that's all, Walter, dear, isn't it ?"
"All 1 I should think it was," said Mr.
Geniis, who bad listened smilingly t 9 his
wife's avalanche of words, "and a pretty
mess you've made of it. There, Myra stop
. crying—we'll be all right again, presently."
It's so—so trying," sobbed Mrs. Linley,
"that Grace should be rich and wear dia
monds, and I—"
"Didn't 'I always tell you I should put
my little wife in her right place one of
these days, although I was nothing but a
mechanic ?" demanded Walter. "Why,
there is Linley, I declare. Give us your
hand, old fellow; you havn't changed a
bit."
And Gustavus Linley listened with hum
ble thankfulness to his brother-in-law's
offer to make him book-keeper to one of
the branch establishments of his famous
Iron Works.
"But how did you strike this golden
vein
.?" inquired he, when he had accepted
the position, with thanks, and Myra had
whisperingly commented on their being re
duced to such an ignoble fate.
"It was all through an invention of Wal
ter's," said Grace, gleefully. "I always
knew. Walter would make his way in the
world. But come—get your things on—
I'm going to take you away with me. Wal
ter and Gustavus can walk, and there's lots
of rebut for the children in the carriage
with us'"
Mrs. Liuley was thankful enough to
leave the cramped limits of this third-rate
boarding house, and return once more to a
spacious brown stone-front; where the halls
were pawed with mosaic marble, and the
ceilings frescoed in dove color and gold.
Butit was none the less a sovlcome-down
for her pride that the house was not her
own, but that of the simple-minded little
sister who had married a "common me
chanic."
"Who :would have thought it ten years
ago !" sighed Myra.
.
for tht Wm.
A Letter
. to Young Men
Somebody gives the following very sen
sible advice to young Men, through the col
umns of the - Springfield (Mass.) Republi-
I take it that the first great lesson a young
manilas to learn is that be is an ass. The
earlier this lesson is learned, the better will
~,k e for his peace of mind and success in
of existence, their ears lenr,th
life. ome never learn it and extend into
Some learn it e shadows as they go 'by.
and shy nothing 8 t it •
the eve
ening with
get their ears . cropped,
sensibly retire into n , ' .
where it will not be nett
net their
while others
a employments,
A young man bred at ho
.....\l d growing
up under the light of parents
g ir t . e
and faternal pride, cannot readily amn
stand how any one else can be as smar er "
he is. He goes into town, puts on airs,
gets snubbed, wonders what itmeans, goes
into society, and finds himself tongue-tied,
undertakes to speak in a debating club and
breaks down, or gets laughed at, pays at
tention to nice young women, and finds a
very large mitten on his hand, and in a
state of mind J•bordering 'on distraction,"
sits down to reason about it. - This is a
Critical period in his history. The result
of his reasoning decides his fate. If he
thoroughly ctomprehends that he doesn't
know anything, and excepts the conviction
that all the world around him knows a good
deal Snore than he does, that he is but a
cipher, and that whatever he getsmust be
woOty hard work there is hope for him.
He*ill go to work and learn how to live.
On the contrary, if a huge self-conceit
still holds possession of him, if he gets cross
and sour, if be turns up his nose, or sneaks,
be will be cut. The "mid has no use for
him. ,A young man wlt, is not tractable
admit to him
and placable, and refuses t°
self that he does not knowN„thing to
speak of, and to do it good-naturen*,\might
as well retire to private life, first as.h ist.
After a young man has thoroughly _
prehended the fact that he is an ass, t
next thing for him to learn is that the world
doesn't care anything about him—that he
is no subject of anybody's admiration or
overwhelming esteem—that he has. got to
look out for himself. A letter of recom
mendation will procure an invitation to tea..
If he wears a good hat, the sexton will
show him to a pleasant seat in church, and
expects him to contribute liberally when
the plate goes round. If he is a stranger,
nobody will look after him. Every man is
busy with his own affairs. He will not be
notichd until he becomes noticeable, and he
will not become noticeable until he does
something to prove that be is an absolute
value in society: No letter of recommen
dation will give him this. No family con
nectiop will give him this except among
those who think more of blood than brains.
Society demands that be should be some
body, and that has a right to demand it.
Society is not so particular what a man
does, but he must do something to prove he
is a man.
I used to know a man who achieved a
very handsome position by writing artio'es
for the North amerkan Review. N °bitty
read the article, but the fact that he wrote
one, that it was published, that it was
long, did the business for him. H had --
done something. But everybody cannot Think how the abstraction of the Sab
write articles for the Jr orth Amerwa — at bath would hopelessly enslave the working
least. I should hope nut for I reive that classes., with whom we are identified.
publication through a benevolet friend. Think of labor thus going on in one mo-
Everybody, however, can do act ething, or notorious and eternal cycle, limbs forever
be something. There is a wii range of on the rack, fingers forever straining, the
effort between holding a skei of silk for a brow forever sweating, the feet forever
pretty girl, and saving the sole girl from plodding, the brain forever throbbing, the
drowning; and between electing votes shoulders forever drooping, the loins for
on election day and tearing a Sunday ever aching, the restless mind forever
school class. But a inan,inst enter into scheming.
societj on his own free i .ll, as an active Think of the beauty it would efface,
the
elemett or a valuable Anponent, before merry-heartedness it would extinguish, of
he willieceive the reeeNition that every the giant strength it would tame, of the
true wan loarfr tr. -1 t?,l it that this is resources of nature it would crush, of the
right A man who is wi 1 1.., to enter so- sickness it would bring, of the projects it
ciety as a dependent, is memind does not would wreck, of the groans it would ex
deserve recognition.
tort, of the lives it would immolate, and of
There is a great many yount-,,en
who the cheerless graves it would prematurely
indalge in dreams that in order secure
in life, they must have h,
.dig! See them . toiling and moiling ,
andsweat
snesess ins and fretting grindin. and hewing,
that will perhaps turn up at a con.. ent t, ,
weaving and spinning,
.sewing and .. gab
' moment. The vision haunts them oi
ering, moving and repairing, raising and
benevolent old gentleman, with a pa e t
full of rocks, and a remarkable appred. building, digging . and planting, striving the
Lion of merit and genius, who will perha i.and stin.the
ruggl ing—m the garden
andin
give or lend them anywhere from tea Odd, in the granary and the barn,
twenty thousand dollars, with which they story and in the mill, in the warehouse
Ain the chap, on the mountain and in the
can g o on swimmingly. Perhaps he will
a. on theroadside and inthe
take a different turn, and offer to educate t hl,
them. Or, perhaps, with an eye to- the a"ity and in the country, out on the seae
shore, hinbrightness the day of
saored profession, they long to become the om i t t
beneficiaries of the education society, or wan ialght of gloom. What a picture
some benevolent circle of females. it is a b at h ?"a world present if we had no Sab
most inspiring sight—that of a young man
with health in his blood, with a pair of
broad shoulders and presentable calves, and
a hundred and fifty pounds, more or less,
of good bone and muscle, standing with
his hands in his pockets, longing for help!
I admit that there are positions in which
the most independent spirits may accept
of assistance—may in fact, as a choice of
evils, desire it ; but for a man who is able
to help himself to desire help in the ac
complishment of his plans for life, is proof
positive that he has received a miserable
training at home, or that he is mean dean
through.
I have often thought that the education
society does a great deal more harm than
good in this very way, by inviting into the
christian ministry a lot of young men who
, are willing to be helped. A man who re
ceives assistance always sells himself to his
benefactor unless that benefactor happens
to be a man of sense, who is giving abso
lutely necessary assistance to one he knows
to be sensible and honorable. Any young
man who will part with freedom and the
self-respect that grows out ofnelf- , upport
is a sneak, neither deserving assistance
nor capable of making good use of it.
Assistance will always be received by a
young man of-spirit as a dire necessity—
as the chief evil of his poverty.
When, therefore, a young man has as:
certained, and fully admitted the fact that
he is an ass, that the world doesn't care
anything about him, and that, while he
holds tho means in his hands of obtaining
an independent liveliebood he cannot re
ceive assistance without compromising his
self-respect, and selling Lis freedpm, he is
in a fair position for beginning life. When
a young man becomes aware that only by
his own efforts can he rise into compan
ionship and competition with the sharp,
strong, and well-drilled minds of those
around him, he is ready to work and not
before.
The next lesson is that of patience and
contentment, with the regular channels of
business effort and enterprise. Angelina
Matilda must understand, in the firstplace,
that she has got to wait; and if Angelina
Matilda is a sensible girl, and fit for a wife,
she will be good, and tell you to take your
time. There is no good building done in
this world without a good foundation, and
for you to enter upon a business that you
have not thoroughly learned, and before
you have won a character or "a red," is
ultimately to bring your house down about
the ears of Angelina Matilda and such
pretty children as Angelina Matilda may
give you. Don't think of winning success
in one year or two years. If Heaven
should so prosper you that at the age of
thirty you have really established a busi
ness that pays you with certainty a living
income, you are to remember that you are
faring better than the majority of men.
If you achieve a competence at forty-five
or fifty, that will be soon enough; and if•
you have had to earn it by the hardest,
you will know how to take care of it, and
your children will be so bred that they
will not squander it.
You will hear of some one who has
made fifty thousand dollars speculating in
western lands. Pity him. He will be
almost certain to lose it. You will hear of
-gioua fortunate speculations, and the
the ;Nyou hear of the failure of
are that .
be in a b lion within two years. Don't
but with genuine '•Teuton
ic pluck,"
wa '''‘nd work. Stick to your
business. Do ,
, the best manner w.bat
ever you uneterta
"step by step,"
as A and be content to go
go; and by all means r
books addressed to younn•
most of them written by nitin,_
\\Nci,n,
endlum did not
n from reading
0 ri. They arc
with kinks in their heads' Read 1 .-, letter
and you will be all right. or men
TIMOTHY TITCOMB.
Evils of Gossip._
I known a country society which
withered away all to nothing under the
dry rot of Gossip only. Friendships once
as firm as granite dissolved to jelly, and
then ran away to water, only because of this;
love that promised a future as enduring as
heaven, and as stable as truth, evaporating
into a morning mist that turned to a day's
long hours, only because of this. A fath
er and son were set foot to foot with the
firy breath of anger that would never cool
.gain between them, only because of this;
d a husband and his young wife, each .
' 5 • ing at the hated leash which, in the
beg' "ug had been the golden bondage of
a God- sed love, sat mournfully by the
side of tlz grave where all their love and
. joy lay buried, and only because of this.
I have seu faith transformed to mean
doubt, hopgive place to grim despair, and
charity tat on itself the features of black
malevolence all because of the spell words
of scandal, hel the magic mutterings of
gossip.
Great arias work great wrongs and the
deeper traglies of life spring from its
larger passion; but wofui and most melan
choly are the incatalo,,, ,, ned tragedies that
issue from gpsip and detraction ; most
mournful the tipwreck often made of no
ble nature andovely lives by the bitter
winds and deatsalt waters of slander. So
easy to say, yeso hard to disprove—throw
ing on the inocent, and pushing them as
guilty, if unale to pluck out the stings
they never at, ana to silence words they
never heard. Gossip and slander are the
deadliest anduruelest weapons man has for
his brother'shurt.—Allthe Year Round.
The lAhrid Without Sunday.
AT one=" —
winter a ,
de New York sociables last
was 'art young lady, .while she
man's face, in a certain gentle
mlsoofkaeineg,
' , The Urps quoted the couplet :
Shall nor touch wino
To which the yot.nia."
“Gir . ls that quickly replied :
Ought nevermtlut, - -
because, you know, ",
after sotne thoeghtlei don't look pretty
water in their face, a d, lady has thrown
along their cheeks.,, ,de little gutters
And while he never ai
smartness
en hair,' that one elibid to 'bought
sealed his fate. He is nt ;ipoking for
another "witty, pretty,
Igirl," and has quit wine. agreeable
A FAITHFUL filend is a good
nice.
What They Do, and Do Not Wear.
BY FANNY HOBART.
"You can't have everything," says the
proverb, and instead of fair weather, the
season has brought forth so many fine
things in the shops that no one knows what
to choose, and is likely to commit the un
pardonable crime of dress, which is blind
imitation. We have never had a season
so free from fashionable absurdities, nor
one in which style,
grace, and simplicity
were so well blende andthed. t should
be appreciated.
*
Camels' hair cloth and all superior wool
fabrics are in demand, but beauty of shape
and workmanship take the place of pro
fuse trimmings. For ladies who dare ven
ture on them, the long and shapely gores
of the Gabrielle or Princesse styles are
repeated in the modern redingoteor polon
aise, and all draperies are close and scant
at the front.
For misses' wear there are summer Cash
meres, and numberless varieties among
serges. poplins, and pongees. Basques and
overskirts belong to the bona fide little
girls not yet in the glory of teen-hood,
and for the rest—are there not mothers to
pattern aft& ?
The new bonnets are conspicuously new
yet. There is a consciousness about the
wearer of the asserting rabagas and tower
ing coronet shapes that are the choice of
quite too many tall and showy women.
The prettiest bonnets are the "dissenters,"
venturing upon unauthorized fancies, such
as old crowns with new brims, and vice ver
sa. All the girls, however, wear the sailor
shapes, placed far back on the head, and
the yee brains have no end of lovely Nor
mandy caps.
Mixed colors distinguish floral favorites
of the season, blossoms of pale blue, ting
ed with green. are chosen by both blonde
and brune.
Watered ribbons have ceased to beupon
bonnets, but are notably popular upon im
ported costumes in way of sashes and rib
bon granitures in general.
Gloves for the itreet arc of soft brown
shades, the Quaker drabs, and peculair
chocolates, and such are three-buttoned
plain, or stitched with black, as preferred.
Gloves for evening dress are represented
by pale tints of gray, primrose, and pearl
color, and over all there rests a greenish
tinge; indeed the fastidious, golden youth
choose a shade called "gosling green,',; so
suggestive sometimes that one scarcely
knows how to compliment young men on
their courage.
It was never a graceful fashion which
ordained the parasol to be worn at the side
sword-fashion, and a few caricatures kayo
served their purpose. Tha_fonuniue totl
ette is nob ntaau-niore gracefully-I.y. such
innovations; nor are the clumsy looking
club handles of the new parasols likely to
supersede those more modest and conve
nient.
In preparing misses' and children's 0ut
..., enuetry this, eprtlig,
Many judicious mothers_are making but
two kinds of cos One is the sailor
suit of navy blue or gra. el,
with white braid, the other is e same
design, made of fine repped pique orwhite
alpaca, with collar, cuffs and pockets of
blue.
Buttons of oxydized silver, but more
especially of old-fashioned filagree silver,
are in demand; and crochet 'buttons, or
these of the dress material on moulds--
show a little bright embroidery. Button
holes upon rich and heavy fabrics are no
longer wrought with twist, but delicately
bound with silk, the color of the costume.
It would be pleasant to tell of styles de
vised solely for young girls, but the time
is not yet. • What one might call the rank
civilization. of America is in no way bet-
ter represented than by our premature
womanhood dressed in untimely flounces
and intrusive frills. Alas ! the dasies and
the violets are all pi:4n under glass now
a-days, and as for Ahe girls upon the wo
man-threshold, one wishes the law would
step in and institute a minority act as to
quirks and furbelows, the better to preserve
a legitimate and simple girl.hood —Bald
win's Monthly.
Women as Doc t ors.
Dr. C. H. Thomas, in an address before
the Philadelphia Woman's College, says :
"While, no longer than five years, the
number of women throughout the world
enraged in professional preparations, was
hardly three-score, to-day, more than as
many hundred are quietly engaged in the
labors their elder sisters and the advancing
spirit of the age have bade tenable. * * *
Three htindred Russian women have claim
ed admission as students in medicine and
surgery to the newly opened Medical
School of St. Petersburg.
As the number of students, however, is
fixed at seventy, there will be a greatnum
bar disappointed. The London Lancet in
fornis us that there are now sixty-three
lady students studying at Zurich, and that
a lady M. D. is assistant to the Professor
of Clinical Medicine, adding : 'As the
number of male students at the University
is only two hundred and eight, it will be
seen that the ladies constitute nearly one
fourth of the whole.' The former author
ity also states that all restrictions on the
admission of ladies to the lectures and
labratory practice of the Pharmaceutical
Society of London (where Miss Garrett
graduated) have been removed. The day
for the general unqualified and formal
professional recognition of women as
physicians is doubtless - close at hand, see
ing that several ladies are now in active
membership in leading medical societies
represented in the American Medical As
sociation. To cite some strikinn• ' recent in
stances, Mrs. Gerry, Misses Rutherford
and Baker were elected members of the
Michigan State Medical Society at its last
annual meeting, as were also Miss Tyng
by the Rhode Island Society, and Miss
Porter by that of Kansas. It is interest
ing to us to note that all these ladies are
alumni of this college. And, further two
of the admittedly greatest universities of
the country now offer to women (medical
students) the same facilities for study as
are enjoyed by men. Medical women are
also in great demand as missionaries, and,
in order to meet this demand, the Woman's
Medical College has adopted a rule, ad
mitting at half-price, all students sent from
benevolent institution or organizations for
the purpose of being educated as mission
aries.
AN old writer has quaintly said : "God
looks not at the oratory of our prayers,
how eloquent they are; nor at their geom
etry, how long they aro; nor at their arith
metic, how many they are; nor at their
logic, how methodical they are ; but He
looks at their sincerity, how spiritual they
are."
NO. 21.
Tit-Bits Taken en the Fly.
Milky white—Chalk.
On hand—The fingers.
A large mite—Yosemite. ,
A good motive—Locomotive.
shocking events—Earthquakes.
Overland route—Up in a balloon.
Mischievous teaching—Modoctrine.
Who pardons the bad injures the good.
Children are the to-morrow of society.
Corn dodgers—Sensible folks who wear
big boots.
When put want friends is the time to
find out if you have any.
Like the measles, love is most dangerous
when it comes late in life.
Buffalo declines to pay for having Ger
man taught in its public schools.
The man that speaks plain truth is a
cleverer fellow than he is generally taken
for.
The Pall Mall Gazette says 'that Amer
icans have ruined the best of London
hotels.'
Two students of the Berlin University
have got into trouble for ridiculing Bis
marck.
Southern farmers are employing agri
cultural machinery more extensively than
ever before.
The largest wire works in the world are
at Worcester, Mass. They turn out thirty
tons of wire per day.
A. Minnesota man has made maple sugar
from trees which he planted himself only
five or six years ago.
Early rising contributes as surely to
personal beauty as the dawn does to the
beauty of the world.
The Legislature of Kentucy has passed
a law prohibiting the introduction of for
eign capital into that State.
The first Chinaman ever arrested in
San Francisco for drunkenness, turned up
in the police court the other day.
There are , two and a half or three mil
lions of dollars idle and useless in cotton
warehouse% at Memphis, in cotton.
They tell of a man in London who has
net missed attending the theatre a single
night, excepting Sunday, for seven years.
An Indiana justice of the peace claims
the power to nnmarry as well as to marry,
and has been granting divorces accordingtr:
An old frontiersman asserts that if the
Indians were deprived of their steeds their
warlike resources would soon be eshaualadr
beel77l3ened
at Doncaster. It has been erected by the
corporation of the town, at a cost of nearly
£25,000.
Makers of fishing tackle complain of a
scarcity of feathers for the manufhcture of
artificial flies. The ladies have monopo
lized them.
The motto at the head of the note-sheets
of the Amboy, 111., Journal reads : "That
Which is worth doing is worth advertising;
print and prosper."
At the Viena Exhibition there will be
exhibited a machine, for stereographing
musical composition, as the fingers of the
pianist fly over the keys.
The latest verdict recorded was upon a
gentleman who expired in a fit of inebria
tion. The jury returned: "Death by
hanging—round a grog-shop."
Cheek is sometimes better than a first
class collateral, but the difficulty is ittakes
more cheek to set up business than most
meo possess.
The Governors bf Virginia, West Vir
ginia, and the District of Columbia, have
accepted the invitation to attend the Con
vention in Atlanta on the 20th, inst.
Henry Newman, better known as the
notorious "Dutch Heinricha," has been
removed from the New York Tombs to-the
insane asylum on Blackwell's Island.
Of all cities iu Europe, Amsterdam is,
perhaps, the most &mous for the number
of its charitable instutions. There are no
less than thirty of different character.
The slang phrase among the street Arabs,
of "I'll put a Mansard roof on your nob,"
has beenpuperseded by "If per don' tge' me
that Chi ney alley I'll take and Modoc you."
"Where are the men of '76.?" shouted
a Newtown orator. "Dead," responded a
sad-looking man in the middle aisle. The
Newtown orator was surprised at the in
telligence.
The Supreme Court of Missouri has de
cided that women are not voters either
under the constitution of Missouri or the
fourteenth amendment to the Pelle*Con
stitution.
With the exception , of the Coliseum at
Rome, the largest amppitheatre in the
world is in Verona, Italy. It was- built
in the reign of Titus, and is in excellent
state of preservation to this day.
Colonel James W. Lath, of the First
Regiment National Guards, of Philadel
phia, has been appointed Adjutant-General
ofPennsylvania, vice General A. L. Russell.
resigned, to take effect June 1.
One hundred and twenty-four thousand
five hundred and seventy-nine natives of
New Hampshire are living itt other States
of the Union, and only 46,219 natives of
other States reside in the Granite State.
The salt well near Leavenworth, Craw
ford county, Ind., which is 1065 feet deep,
and has for several years yielded paying
brine has suddenly ceased to be salty, but
is pouring forth coal oil in strange abun
dance.
The person who pretends to be Sir Roger
Tichborne, an English gentleman who dis
appeared by the shipwreck of the Bella, is
April 1854, is likely to fare even worse in
this, the second trial, than , he did in the
first one.
A Rochester thief can take the "cham
pion belt." He stole a story and a half
house in the night, but missing the well
and the cistern in the dark, went back in
the morning to carry them off, and was ar
rested.
A day or two ago, in Erie, a Portuguese
laborer working at the Pittsburgh docks,
carried a lump of coal weighing three
hundred and forty pounds, up the hill, and
to his house, half a mile distant from the
starting point, without once resting.
Makers of fishing tackle, whose season
is now at hand, complain of a scarcity of
feathers for the manufacture of artificial
flies. One of them says that all of the
feathers have flown into the heads of wom
en, who are a little better than artificial
flies themselves, with the hooks 'very well
concealed.