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The Huntingdon Journal. ti he Plow'gvatitr. be a very bad or boisterous place; in work- kind o' pleadin for help : and isc . '
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ing hours it indulged in a kind of feverish her back—poor thing! Tbere .:1 The Song of the Decanter.
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----------,--------- rest. But it was by night that it shone in siugie dr i n k taken on the 1 . . d a y . 1
J. it. tit . I:BORROW, - - J. A. NASII,
l'I•BLIS116:10 AND PROPRIETORS. Push On. the fell glory of its appropriate name.— Cap. ;it seemed to go agin t , And 1
Then it was that the vampires that sucked Oregon Sis—her that rat. I
9,.4.. •-•:. rho, torn, nj Fifth and Worthin g ton tercet.. Awake and listen. Everywhere— the blood of honest-labor came forth.— bad—she emptied out - sok2ht .so
From upland, grove and lawn, led hair. and
Short. card men, poker sharpers, monte deal- knelt down and k•...
Tun. HUNTINGDON Jonas. is published every Outbreathes the universal prayer.
Wednesday, by J. R. Dvnuonnow and J. A. NASH, The orison of morn. ers. faro dealers and otheri Of tle._- ftater- two mil,- afoot t sas .4 y, and went
acadows and got
under the firm name of J. It. Dunnonnow A; Co., at Arise. and don thy working garb,
All natnre is astir • ' nity sneaked out to prey on the earnings flowers .....1 pu .in the littk blue
s2.ett per annum, IN ADVANCE, or $2.50 if not paid
of the day, and the Bar ran riot_ It was hands, aml t
for in Fix mouths from date of subscription, and . , . •
..:c laid her. tap—up
Let honest motives be thy barb,
ia if not paid within the year. then that great strong, fellows, who were there. uh: .
And usefulness thy spur. .ec them white pickets.'
No paper discontinued, inlets at the option of
Stop not to list the boist • rous jeers, wearing eat their lives in a daily conflict For . •
, he pithlishers, until all arrearages are paid. Ate the poor fellow could say
No paper, however, will be Fent out of the State (Ile would be what thou art ;) wills naiiire—tearing ' , pen the mountains n n in , •
slt n-i ‘ ii bi 4 taef' Irltiivd in
wile. absolutely pail for in advance. They should not e'en offehd thy enr,, and wrcatl:ng with the i•treams, that ethers I hi
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Transient advertisements will be inserted at Still less disturb thy heart. might wear the gold they won—would
ywci.ya AND A-HALF CENTS per line for the first What, though you have no shining hoaril. 4 Joe !'" I asked.
gather round the gambling tablet , to , -t
,
insertion, SEVEN AND A-RALF CENTS for the second , (inheritance of stealth ;) i tush." he Said , po:nting to the saloon.
and rive czars per line for all subsequent laser- To purchase at the broker's board. their leek"—and this tiling called "I ,
doe's in there; his rand'. about panned
tie... Push on! You're rusting while you stand: in the early daya was a strange th* down—shot. night ofors last, in a row.
Regular quarterly and yearly business advertise- Inaction will not do ; Existin.. on the superstition that _
meats Will he inserted at the following rate, 4 I e;ttc'e a p a ssin' in his checks, 'sure l Yo,u
Take life's small bundle in your hand. in the composition of every
m a , see Joe went to the kJ. IN sat by the
: I , , ~ 1 1 , i And trudge it. briskly, through. .r7nter --..- !eas degree, it w
! ain:Cm 9 oi l ly 1 ',,a,:tintl.trn!ly Push on! ..antom 1 old float-log. tnelancholy-like, and wandered
i I I 1_ aat haunted all elassea an. 4 into all iup and down the creek. and no one could
1 tu T e - h I 37 - ,o 1 Tie 5g 1 6 u01!..;,,n1 9 00,19 00 $ 27,$ 36 Don't blush ja-eituse von have a patch, human ealeulathms.
2 " saw EOOlOOO 12 VON "124 00138 1.0 El 65 ,aced reason do anything with him, and he took to
3 " 7001000 14 00118 nO!% " 134 00,50 Oti ‘
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n a Co t t hr r o o n o e fe . d with thatch. t a i, t i,, s, a la r„ ,
.. back, dritik and aga ; n h
e. and
dt
tthoequeaursrscddint,einwiptehr
every-
Local
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i i Te n irie h aElc e h lt anp 3i p -a r b eFihi l i, .alka mae t a tn ni at a i n e' ' ' K l l''enerk
was much of ,*
Local notices will be inserted at FIFTEEN CENTS Push on ! the world is large enongi. waking. it was fid- body. Night afire fast he got in . row
per lino for each and every insertion. For you. and me. and all: lowed with
...cnt fittuity that led the with Portegee John, in a p
w . - 4:er game;
All Resolutions of Associations. Communications Ton must expect your share of rough. trot ~ f t•
.
of limited or individual interest• all party an- And now and then a fall. I into bad and dangerous they both drawe.l, but John was too quick places.
nouncements, and echoes of Marriages and Deaths, But up again ! act well voar pa, t-- .s the scapegoat for all sins for him, acid Joe's bad hurt. The doctor
exceeding fire lines, still be charged era CENT - CENTS Bear Bear willingly your load ;Ailing& It was the rock upan says he ain't got no livin' show. May be
pee line. W
There's not hlrig like a cheering iirsrt • ore built the golden castles of the you'd like to see him, Cap ?"
Legal and othzr notices will be charged to the -
To men d A stony logo.. party having them inserted_ Vi' future; the shifting sands :led We went together into the room where.
_Advertising Agents must find their eommiesiu': Push on t - - - -
outside of these figures.
' the wounded man lay. The broken windows
Jump over all the ifs and 61t... were darkened with blankets, and on a
ill adrertiaing arcatotte are flge anti connectable
trkr“ tie advertisement i* 01.4.* i'aiter.e,l. Vim's always some kind hand - pallet we f.und a poor fellow, breathing
- JOB PRINTING of every kind, in Pl a t a . z a t T, i , ..1 lifc'e wagon free. ~,,,, rut ,
heavily, and two boys fanning hint tender-
Fancy Cetera. done wit% mcatwess and diepatels.— 1,, r‘.l“ ..-., ,ilt. SlTti.
;load-bins, Blanks, Card, Pamphlet:. ac..arevrry ' il• - tn,,,I,,r rs i.i ,1 y. - -!,:. ~ i ly as a mother. The ashy face and heavy
variety and style, printed at the shorter, notice, Is shadowed by a clots, drops of sweat that gathered on the fore
and every thine in the Printitte !toe will tee ex•ru- I The ann will shi ne Rshead told the unspeakable agony of the
tel in the mo=t .7 , i-sic :ILl:ince and... - ei at the teweet A, f,, t h t . L ., on .
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sufferer, and showed that, sere enough,
rates. ; l! :c html written , -
...on Joe's sand was nearly run out, and he be
- ths.: :oil •
Professional CAIN'S 7 The kin!, .n• : yond all reach 9,f. hurrean leecheraft. We
With • e A rik:AllOvti had not meant - to disturb hint, but his ear,
, T.C”:7 of y our, Fest,quickened by pain, caught our stealthy
j I'. M . -1911YSION. t.orvev• - .. red .re rustiag while you stand;
Ix.. Civil Earineer. Ilartiar. , :on. Pa: r ai 1201 do: footsteps, and, turning round, he recog.
C.rricr : No. II:: Third Stec-•. enc.:1.1,72. , .arnall gentile in your band. nixed me.
sudsy it. :.Seklv. through. , 1
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I S T . lleil-Roaring Kir was neither a pretty
'A. nee enphonious_name. nor a reverential The Law of Accumulation
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Cii.I I WELL Attorsey -at -Low.
ilibc. 111. 1.4 agree., Nice feruketZt. aw.a9ste.l
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w J. (MEESE, Fientl,J. OLze re-
AA* w .sw4 to, teri.ver'euewb4athling, ilillftmet
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llAttornepat-Law
AL• N., • otreet
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rtt ANKLIN SCIIOCK, Attoruoy.
J • •t Law. 11111111 , 01p1.11%. Pa, Prompt atteati.bn
all l.x.t 4 .kue*l. Offiec 221. hill .treet,
...ran Ck M.A. (dee.l.":2
JSYLVAN CS ttornekat
• L s , u••ti•gru.., F. ltoirc, UiU Mewl,
env 4.ors ;pro 04.711itk:
ramatints • JACKSON, Attar
J• •-• a t LA, OM:z. with Wm. Dorrio, Es q .
Na 403, Dili strewt, Ilu•tinsdun, i\.
All Lial buvittott; promptry attlett.h.i to. IjanUt
J• It. DURBORItOW, Attorney-at
t. • Law. Ilantingden, Pa., will p.actice in the
oercral CO.. of Pinpoint.lon Particular
.....nttien girth to the iettirinent of ',states of dere
lent
Tee it Joras tt. [feh.l,7l,
W. MATTEIIN, itturuepat-Law
J • and ilenerel Claim Agent. Iluutingdon.
Soldiers* claims against the Government for bark
pay, bounty, stidowe and invalid nensionA
anis promptness.
Odlee es nil street. [jaa.4;7l.
S. GFASSINGER, Attorney -at-
L• Law. liontinvion, Ps. (Mee one door
Said of R. M. Speer'. °Mee. [Peb.S.ly
K. A&.LIN LOVCL,
L ovELL s:
Att..rneyi-nt-Latr,
iliemmoeux, PA.
Sped: I attention given to COLLECTIONS of all
kinds; to the eettlement of ESTATES, do.; end
all other legal buAinets proFeeitted with fidelity and
ttiopateh. inovlt,72
RA. ORBISON, Atterney-at-Law,
• °Moe, 321 Hill ftteet, Huntingdon, Pa.
[maY3l,7l.
IfILLLkM A. FLEMING, Altorney
at-Law, Huntingdon, Pa. Special attention
given to collection., and all other legal buainess
attended to with care and promptnesa. Office, No.
2:9, Hill /tree. [ap19,71.
JACKSON HOUSE
FOUR DOORS EAST OF THE UNION DEPOT,
HUNTINGDON, PA.
N0,12;73-6m.
ApRRISON HOUSE,
OPPOSITE PENNSYLVANIA R. R. DEPOT
HUNTINGDON, PA
April 5, 1871-ly ,
Miscellaneous.
1 - lEf ILOBLEY, Merchant Tailor, in
Leister's Building (second floor,) Hunting
don, Pa., respectfully solicits a share of paths
patronage from town and country. [ractl.6,72.
A. BECK, Fashionable Barber
R• and Hairdresser Hill street, opposite the
Franklin House. All kind; of Tonics and Pomades
kept on handand for sale. D1P19,71-6m
HOFFMAN & SKEESE,
Manufacturers of all kinds of CHAIRS,
and dealers in PARLOR and KITCHEN FURNI.
TURE, corner of Fifth and Washington streets
Huntingdon, Pa. All articles will be sold cheap'
Particular and prompt attention given to repair
ing. A share of public patronage iv respectfully
solicited. Dan.15,73y
WM. WILLIAMS,
MANUFACTURER OF
MARBLE MANTLES, MONUMENTS,
HEADSTONES, &C.,
HUNTINGDON, PA
STER PARIS CORNICES,
MOULDINGS. &C
ALSO SLATE MANTLES FURNISHED TO
ORDER.
Jan. 4, 'IL
G 0 TO THE JOURNAL OFFICE
for *ll kinds .f printing.
FOR ALL KINDS OF PRINTING, GO TO
THR JOURNAL OFFICE
roc ; but. c,,nsidet lug the character of its
dwellers, it was an exceedingly fitting one
f•r the locality that bore it. A six months'
res:donce heir convinced Inc so thoroughly
of this fact that I could not conscientiously
have chanzed a single letter of the nau►„
even had I pas , essed the power to do so.—
Sot that it savored of sulphurous odors;
nut that the Koarings of its apparent patron
taint were ever heard echoing among the
canons that encompassed it ; but for sin
fulness, and wickedness, and rioto►is de
bauchery, it was peerless among the mi
ning camps I had ever visited in CalitOr-
Tiaa.i.": I
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I was sent there in the summer el 13•):1
by a San Frsnchei firm, to dose ont
busine , s that was drilling to involuntary
bankruptcy, ttud a long, dusty ride found
ate there early in June of that. year. A
doe o r the camp front the mountain had
not impressed Die fitvorably with it, and a
nearer acquaintance only confirmed that
first impression ; but, like a half reluctant
bridegroom, I had resolved to take it for
• better or worse," with but slight hope,
however,. that it would prove any better
than it looked.
tjan.lll.
de aeon : What do you want in
Ilell Roar in' ? Pwaelierd don't stand u►uch
iu those diggitts. Von ain't wauted ;
better ;fit !"
This was my greeting. I had just alight
' eti from any mule, tired and out of humor,
and felt inclined to resent the brusque,
unmannerly salutation, butdid nut. it was
not a consciousness of the truth that qui
eted me, for any appearance was slightly
clerical. True, I had a prfect i'l tt o
differ to opinion with the speaker, for of
verity this was just the place where they
should stay; but, making no pretensions
of goodliness, I held my tongue for a mo
ment. I looked up, a brawny and power
ful figure confronted me, and I prudently
held my temper, I replied blandly that I
expected to remain there awhile, and sug
gested with all meekness, that appearances
were something deceitful. Soon the Bar
was agog with curiosity, and a crowd gath
ered. And such a crowd! Great broad
shouldered fellows, dirty and unshaved,
deeply marked with chronic dissipation,
whose tongues were volubly impudent and
early trained to blasphemy in imitation of
their elders, gathered around, while I un
saddled my Mule, in so awkward a man
ner as to excite derision. These people
weighed everything, like their gold dust,
in their own scales, and measured by their
standard. I was regarded as a worthless
imposter. I had "store clothes" on, and
this fact alone was too much for the fixed
conventionalism of the Bar. Buckskin and
flannel assumed a dignity in early times
among the "honest miners," more yielding,
more exacting than purple and fine ham'.
My "boiled shirt" was considered an in
fraction, and therefore the Bar was affront
ed. "Deacon" was echoed from mouth to
mouth. Bets were offered and freely tak
en that I was a psalm-singer; a gambler,
with a "dead thing," or "waxed keerds ;"
a lawyer, a doctor; anything but a horse
jockey or a gentleman. Although nettled
with the uncorteous reception, I could not
afford to quarrel with my neighbors. Beat
ing my dusty hat against my knee with a
well assumed swager, I turned quietly and
asked if the Bar was dry. And the Bar
was dry.
With a whoop the crowd adjourned to
the saloon—a rickety, clapboard institu
tion, furnished with a few stools and rough
tables—and the Bar drank—first with my
self, then with Joe Miles, proprietor; then
with the bluff individu.ii who had first ac
costed me. Passing through the crowd,
he held out his big, rough hand, and ta
king mine, he led me forward with Note
thing of a triumphant air.
"Boys," he said, "I take it all back.—
This is my old skipper, came out with him
in '49. He ain't no preacher—he spends
his money like a man and don't whine.—
Any one that don't like him can call on
Bill Thorp. That's me, boys ! Let's take
suthin'!"
J. HALL HUSS..
Hotels.
A. B. ZEIGLER, Prop.
J. R. CLOVER, Prop.
Finding that things had taken an unex
pected turn, I immediately took advantage
of the new situation. Thorp stood sponsor
for me, and his emphatic assurance of my
unpreacherlike character and proper dis
regard of the value of money, put the Bar
in good humor; so I explained my busi
ness and hoped to deserve well of the boys.
And I won the friendship of those people
—not by pandering to their tastes or fall
ing into their practices, but by minding
myown business. While abstaining from
rubbing against their prejudices, and
scrupulously avoiding all interference with
their pleasures, I sympathized with them
in all their little troubles, and they respect
ed me. The Bar by day did not seem to
..led away w;th it the 1: - ..r.ti!tful and dis•
4 .4istus past ; the harvest whose sheaves of
promise often yielded only bitterass and
iiisappoird.mont. la :Des e tits with for
tune the Bar drank deeps If it was dry
by day, it was unqueheliable by night. If
luck waswith the boys they drank. and
with it ; ifagainst them, they drank
tt:itt deeper anti cursed it .
Although the Bar was a wild and
abandoned place, attrition with these
people taught me that there are solvents
fir even chrystalized wickedness, that
there is no cloud so dark as to be without
a single streak of silver, no nature so rug
ged as to be impenetrable or beyond reach of
humanizing influences.
I had been domesticated io my new
home about a month when a circumstance
took piece which seemed to change entire
ly the whole routine of Hell-laring.
There was an arrival one morning, and the
Bar throbbed wit h a new sensation, a quiet.,
unassuming lady—a Mrs. Hampton—and
her little daughter, who sought rest. and
health in the mountains. Mrs. Hampton
was widowed, but no one inquired into her
history. She was welcomed as a new and
strange element among so much wild, reck
less life, that brought back memories of
mother, or sister, or sweetheart far away,
and the liar was pleased. The Bar eltris•
toted the daughter -Daisy," and she was
well named. Front this day a remarkable
change took place. Every (Am desired to
he well though of by the new comers; dress
became an object of solicitude, drunken
yells rending the quiet night were less fre
quent, spirits of evil seamed to be quelled,
and the Bar was on its good behavior.
Little Daisy was everywhere as a minis
tering angel. li' there was a sick bed in
camp, Daisy was beside it with the luau
riis that the hand of woman only knows
how to prepare. If it pen fellow was about
to "pan out" his few last. studs it life,
Daisy was there, to wet the parched lips,
to fill the poor, neglected heart with hope,
or to write the last message to loved ones
over and beyond the plains. Quiet and
unobstruaive, Daisy moved about in her
ministrations. As she passed the saloon on
her errands of mercy—her brown hair
• neatly folded over the pale ferehead, her
little basket of "goodies' on her arm, and
a word and smile for every one—oaths
half-uttered would be choked back, and
reneb and brutal jests shrunk unspoken,
as it' ashamed in her presence. Even
Oregon Sig—to whom a blush was a stran
ger—would hang her head silently when
Daisy was near, and her eyes would swell
--perhaps, poor thing, with looking back
to the old days seteng the apple-bh
when she,
too. was pure and innocent—at
least I thought so. Somehow, the Bar
was not so dry as formerly ; and Joe 31iles,
its ruling spirit, neglected his business,
and said he was tired of whiskey-selling.
Ile laid aside the six-shooter, that, reports
said. had served him too well on more than
one occasion, with the remark that "the Bar
was so quiet now, it wasn't no use to
carry it." Joe was very particular now as
to his appearance, dressing in the once
despised "store clothes, " an took to soli
tary rambling about th neighborhood. It
was noticed it' Daisy had occasion to pass
along the dangerous trail through the
canon, Joe was there with his strong hand
to guide her. If she crossed the foot-log
over the turbulent stream, a steady arm
was generally there to support her, and
more than once Joe was found in honest
conversation with her, or readino ' the books
with which she supplied him. Joe finally
sold out the saloon and invested in a mi
ning claim, which he was industriously
working when I closed out my business
and left the neighbOrhood.
I visited the Bar once again. Down
the wild Sierra,
by the same tortuous and
rugged trail that I had traversed nearly
two yearsbefore; windingamong the same
lordly pines, rich in fragrance and stand
ing like sentinels in the mountain passes ;
through the same groves of laurel and
and manzainto, glistening like waves
of emerald and silver in the noonday sun,
full blossomed and wondrous in their
beauty, I visited the Bar. The place
seemed changed. A few little white cot
tages peeped out from among the rich foli
age, spots of ground were under cultiva
tion, and the hand of industry had been
busy. The clap-board saloon stood in the
same old place just as I had first seen it,
but its dilapidated condition showed that
the institution was poorly patronized. A
crowd had gathered near it--not such a
crowd as iu the (Idea time, but asober and
quiet one. Every one looked anxious to
tell me something, but no one spoke till I
found my friend Thorp. Taking my hand
kindly he led me aside, and for a moment
was silent. "Well, Cap ," he said earnest
ly, "things is rough on the Bar; they
ain't like they was when you left.. She's
gone—that's Daisy—and thingsain't gone
right for some o' the boys ever since. Yes,
Cap., it is mighty rough."
I asked where Daisy bad removed to.
"Oh, no, Cap., you don't understand.
The old woman she went back to Sacra
mento—broken-hearted, they said; but
Daisy, she's gone ; called for, taken up
among the stars where she belonged. We
miss Daisy, Cap. She got round some o'
the boys, and she made them promise to
knock off their grog ; I hain't touched it
since and I've saved a little, If she'ctonly
staid, this thing would not a happened.
You see, Cap.," he continued, "here's how
it was : One o' the boys got badly hurt in
his drift across the creek, and one morn
ing Daisy started over to take him suthin'
and it was a runnin' bank full and the log
was slippery, and—well, we found Daisy a
mile below, with her brown hair all tangled
among the willows; and her blue eyes
"0, Cap.," he said, "you have come at
last. I knew she would send some one to
talk to me, as she used to—to tell me
about that blessed land where Christ lives
—Him that she just made me understand
a little when she left tu,. And pray for
me, Cap., and ask Daisy to forgive um for
letting the devil come back, and forgettin'
all that she taught me. She told me if I
would only believe all she said, that I
would go to a glorious land that was away
beyond the stars. She's gone there, Cap.,
and I believe every word of it now. 0,
can you pray ? She taught me, but. I most
forgot how."
If I ever felt like praying, it was then.
It' ever I asked forgiveness fir a poor, way
ward, shattered soul, trembling on the
brink of the Unknown, about to he weighed
in the balance of the Eternal, it was at
that moment.. 5 ,, 011 there was a silence
unbroken. save by a few smothered sobs
among the bystanders, but a pilot. peace
ful light rested on poor Joe's face. -Come
close," lie said, in a low time. "I feel
better now; I know that I'm train' to
where she is, and somehow I don't feel so
much pain. Tell the boys to lay the be
side her ; there's room enough, and then
I can find the way to where she is. And
Cap," he whispered, as he reached his
hand under:the pillow and drew out two pie.
tures, "put these on my heart, for they be
long there ; poor old mother and her—
the only two that ever know how to reach
it. Write to mother how it was, and that
it I did forget her, I never will again.
When I'm gone, whisper to Daisy be
lieved it all, every word of it ; that I found
the road at last, and am cumin.' Yes,
Cup, I'm guilt to Da--."
l'oor doe: the blessed seeds of light
sown by the little Daisy, had taken root
at last, and an unruly and turbulent spirit
was at rest forever awl forevermore.—
December Overland.
'43,tadirici for the Pi
Personal,
A Massachusetts man is suing a lady
for breach of premise to marry. She did
wed, but it was another man. The dam
ages claimed are 810.000. She should
pay it. It's worth the money to have es
caped a life partnership with such a party
as lie would have proved.
Marshal Bazaine. in his '•seclusion" at
Saint Marguerite, only goes out for two
hours in the day. walking in the court be
longing to his prison, under the surveil
lance of two keepers. His meals are fur
bished by the boatman of the island, who
is, at the same time, sutler of the troops.
His guard is composed of ninety soldiers
of the line and five jailors.
Walter Finlaison, better known in
the theatrical world ns Walt. Fletcher. the
comedian, was married to Miss Lizzie C.
Hollis, a popular actress, at Rochester,
New York, last Friday. Wild Bill, Buf
falo Bill, Texas Jack, Morlacchi, John
Frederici, the manager of the troupe, John
Burke, the agent, were all there, and little
Kit Carson Cody, too, the son of Buffalo
Bill.
Fulton county, Ind., has a remarkable
woman in the person of Ruth Young, who
was born in Virginia, remembers perfectly
the canonading at Yorktown in 1781, and
is 105 years 01. She is six feet tall, and
wears a broad number twelve shoe. She
has done plowing, chopping, harvesting,
and everything else in the farming line, in
which she is the best posted person in the
county.
Hon. George Bancroft, our Minister at
Berlin, has taken a residence at Washing
ton, and his presence there is early expect
ed Whether he is to receive an official
position at the capital is a topic of inquiry.
Some say that he is soon to publish vol
ume nine of his history
. of the United
States, and wishes to continue the work
uninterruptedly to the end, adjacent to
the American archives, as he has already
completed his researches in the old world.
C. C. Leonard, a bright and promising
young journalist, died at Cleveland, the
Other day. He never recovered from the
effect of the severe wounds he received in
battle during the rebellion, and had been
failing very fast during the last year. Mr.
Leonard belonged to the Danbury News
school of American humorists, and some
have called him the pioneer in that style
of writing, which has made Mr. Bailey
both fame and fortune. The celebrated
sheet iron cat story, which Mr. Leonard
wrote while connected with the Cleveland
Leader, gave him a national reputation,
and many or his subsequent performances
were equally meritorious. From Cleve
land he went to Titusville, where he was
engaged on the Herald, and early in 1873
he accepted the position of news editor and
paragraphist on the Democrat staff. He
went from St. Louis to Cleveland, and du
ring the last months of his life he was a
correspondent of the Danbury News.
There was z. de
canter and mouth was
gaping wide ; the
rudy wine had
ebbed away
and left
its crys
tal side
and the wind
-vent humming,
humming—
up and
down the
sides it flew,
and through the
road like
hallow neck
the wildest notes it
blew. I placed it in the
window, where the blast was
blowing free, and fancied that
its pale mouth sung the queerest
strains to toe, "They tell me—puny
conquerors l—that plague bath slain his
ten, and war his hundred thousands of
the very best of men. but. "I"—'twas thus
the bottle spoke—"but I have conquered
more than all his famous conquerors, so
feared and famed of yore. Then to me you
youths and maidens, come drink from
out my cup the beverage that dulls
the brain and burns the spirits up,
and puts to shame the conquerors
that slay their scores below ; for
this has deluged millions
with the lava tide of woe.
Though in the path of
battle darkest wavesof
blood may roll, yet
while I killed the
body, I have
damned the
very soul.
The dial
e r a, the
sword, such
r u i n never
wrought as I. in
mirth or malice, ou the
innocent, have brought. And
still I breathe upon them, and shrink
before my breath ; and year by year the
thousands tread this dismal road to death !"
Everybody knows that money makes
money, but it is not everybody that pays
attention to the modus operondi by which
this is brought about and the practical con
sequences which f .
schoolboys are taught the rule of com
pound interest, but nine out ten of them
forget all about it for the remainder of
their lives. Yet this principal has more to
do with the accumulation of large fortunes
than any other cause whatever; and it has
hearings on the ratio style of expenditure,
both personal and natural, of which the
practical character cannot be overrated.
We read in a paper a few months ago of
the death of an eminent London capitalist.
who left the enormous fortune of three
sterling. This old gentleman was .
over ninety years of age at his death and it
is pretty evident that he was a man of quiet
habits and moderate expenditure, letting
his capital accumulate from year to year by
its own natural force. Now, it is only
when it has becu in operation for a long
aeries of consecutive years that we see
what the force of compound interest is.—,
For the first few years theaugmentation is
almost inperceptible, but when once the
power of increase has become developed, it
goes on at an augmentating ratio until the
results are almost incredible. There can
be no doubt that in the case just mention
ed the wealth accumulated after the nat
ural duration of life had been reached was
far more than all the seventy years previous.
If money can be invested - at eight per
rent.,
;aid the iotervst re;nvested at the
same rate, it will double itself in five years.
Allow ten years for this to take place,
owing to loss of time and reinvesting, and
we reach the 'remarkable conclusion—re
markable, we mean, to those who have not
thought about it—that if a man can lay by
a thousand dollars at one and twenty, and
it accumulate at compound interest it will
amount. to the enormous sum of thirty
thousand dollars if he lives to the age of
seventy, to sixty thousand at eighty, and
to a hundred and twenty thousand at nine
ty. This is the secret of the large fortunes
of the great bankers and capitalists of
Europe, whose money goes on accumula
ting for generatiowt, augments with pro
digious rapidity after thirty or fifty years
have passed on.
The process, however, may be reversed.
A man wastes or spends a thousand dollars
needlessly by the time he is two and twen
ty. What is the effect? If he lives till
seventy he will be thirty thousand poorer
for it; or we will say, ho will have lost the
chance of being thirty thousand dollars
better off than he is.
We then arrive at the general truth,
that the younger a man is the more valua
blo money is to him. We have seen what a
thousand dollars is to a man of twenty-one,
viz : the making of a fortune ; but a thous
and dollars to a man of fifty would be of
comparatively small amount.
Suppose a man begins life with econom
ical habits, and by rigid self-denial accu
mulates five hundred pounds by the time
he is twenty-five. That sum will amount
to a competency by the time he desires to
be free from the cares of business, and he
then (and indeed for years before) has
the pleasure of laying out his money freely,
and without fear in gratifying his tastes or
in doing gore).
But if he is inclined to gratify his tastes
when young, to buy, we will say, expen
sive furniture, or to mingle freely in so
ciety, so that he never saved at all until
he is five and forty what good will five
hundred pounds do him then ? It is of
course, good in itself, but as the founda
tion of a competency it is utterly inade
quate. It would only amount to two
thousand pounds at sixty-five, and not to
competency till long after threescore and ten
The points of the whole matter are
therein these : Every dollar saved in
youth is worth thirty doll.trs at old age;
every hundred dollars spent in foolery or
ffnery before five and twenty is simply
three thousand dollars thrown away of
provision for the time. when work ratust be
a burden.
Let our young men iu business think of
this. They are exposed on entering life,
to innumerable temptations to spend. Let
such be steadily resisted. The true course
in youth is quick saving and careful econ
omy. By and by a time will come when
this will bear its legitimate fruits. Then
is the time for open-handed freedom in ex
penditure, when the judgment is matured
when the knowledge of the world is re
quired, and when capital is accumulated
to such an extent that even if there is no
more saving, there need be nofurther anx
iety.—Mercanes Manufacturer and Re
view.
The Nasby Letters ,
The Femak Temperance Movement Strikes
the (hose Roods—What Effect it had
Upon Bascom.
CONFEDRIT X ROADS (which is the
State uv Kentucky), February 28, 1874.
—When I opened my Northern papers and
red ay the prayin movement by the wim
min uv Ohio and Injiana, I red to myself.
"The Cross-Roads is bound to ketch it."
There ain't no troubleagoin but what it
liter onto the Cross-Roads Misforchon
has markt the Cross Roads for its own.
And last Monday Bascom got a postal
card, on which it wuz statid that on the
Friday followin a delegashen uv ladies
from New Boston, a manufaktrin village
started by a lot uv Yankees over about ten
miles fr, m here, where they don't sell no
spirits, wood visit the Cross-Roads and try
the efficacy of prayer onto Bascom to see
of they coed not convert. him to stop his
sole-destroyin, demoralyzin bizness. Ez
Bascom red the postal (or rather ez
red it for him) he was a picter to look
upon. His knees knockt together and his
face turned a ghastly pale, • and his hand
trembled so that it wuz with difficulty
that he coed rise a glass uv likker to his
"My sole destro)in biziness !" said he;
"my biziness sole-destroyin : ! Good
Heavens, what nest r
"My time is about up, Iguess." remark
ed Deck in PoL7ram. "I hey seen strange
things in my lifetime, but when I am not
allowed to take my regular drinks, it is
time I wuz goin hence."
"The idee," said Issaker Gavitt, "that
selliu liquor or drinkin it is demoralizin.
I her drunk likker all my life, and—"
At this pint Issaker's wife come in and
wantid Issaker to go and get some rice, and
then go home and split some wood. Issa
ker wantid to know wot she come there
for, and the onreasonable woman bustid
into tears, and sed she couldn't split wood,
with no shoes and three inches of snow on
the ground, and that there wuzn't a thing
in the house fur the sick baby to eat, and
of Issaker wood spend half the time at
work that he did loafin at Bascom's and
half the mosey on his children that be did
for likker, and—
Issaker did not allow her to finish her
onreasonable harangue. Ile took her by
the shoulder and shoved her out of the
door, and swore that he didn't know how
it wuz in Ohio and Neatly, but he'd be
d—d if in Kentucky woman shoodent
keep in her proper spear. Ile wurn't a
going to allow no woman to dictate to him
wot he shoed do with his time or Isis mon
ey, either.
Copan MePelter remarkt that of his wife
ever jined in :deb a demonstrashun
wish she hadn't. His wife tried to stop
him from takin another drink wnnst, after
he felt his oats and lied throwd a candle
with a six month's baby out sir the door,
and the black eye she got wuz a warum to
her never to interfere with his prerogatives
no mere.
Poor Bascom woe east down. He Bed
Amerikin liberty wuz gone, when a passel
nv wiwwin got. to goin about interferin
with a tuau's bizuess. But he shoodadopt
vigorous measures. He'd never surrender
—never.
Friday come and Bascom wuz ready for
em. Evry wun uv our persuasion in the
Corners bed ordered his with to keep strik
ly in doors an on no akkount to voucher
out doorin the day. Bascom asked us all
to stay with him and see him thro it. To
with we all agreed. Them ez wuz mar
ried and kept house, went home to fix up
ther doors and nail boards over the broken
glass in ther winders, so that ther wimmin
ahoodn't see outside. Its no small matter
to close up all the holes in the houses at
the Corners.
Well. at 11 o'dock perucz, , ion av wo•
men did make their appearanceat the kw
er end or the village, and they moved up
slowly Wards Bascom's. G. W. woe ez
pale ez a sheet.
"What shel I do ?" asked he.
"G. W.," sed I, "there is but one thing
yoo kin do. Rally yoor friends about yoo,
and make head agin this unholly croosade.
The regular frequenters of the place are
triton, and are not here. Bring em here !
Bring em here to-wunst ! Swing out a
placard with shel read :
"Likker free to all ! doorin the contin
yooance uv this fanatikle canipane !—Ho !
all ye that thirst ! Come and drink, with
out money and without price."
"This, G. W., will fetch em in, and ez
long ez te likker is free they will stay in,
and give yoo their moral support. Shel I
write the placard 7"
G. W. wavered. He cast one glance at
his keys, and sighed hesitatingly. I cast
one glance at them kegs and wuz deter
mined that so good an opportoonity shood
not be lost.
"Ha !" sed I, "the foe ! they come !
they come ! To hesitate now is to be lost.
The bed uv the invadin column hez turn
ed the corner. Shel I write ?"
"Yes !" sed Bascom, bustin into tears,
"write. Ef they abet me up I'm mined,
and of you her free drinks I'm bustid.
But I'd rather take the free drinks part of
; f
"Certainly," sed Issaker Gavitt, sooth
ingly; "free drinks, by all means. After
all, Bascom, it amounts to the same thing.
It's free drinks anyhow, for yon her to
charge 'em to us, don't yoo ?"
And so I writ the placard and histed it
up at the door. The result wuz roajical.
In less than ten minits the glad noose bad
reached every house in the village, and
there wuz gathered together in Bascom's
rich a solid mass of liberty-loving men cc
had never been seen together at the Cross-
Roads.
Bascom appointed two uv uz to draw
likker for the thirsty crowd, and then we
throwd open the doer, calkilatin to greet
'em with sic!► cheers ez would effeetooally
silence all the singin and prayin they rood
do.
The wimminapproached. We cood see
'em. They wuz all closely called. Ez they
approached the door I directed the likker
to be served out faster, so ez to get the
boys tuned up to the right pitch. But
alas ! They didn't stop to slug or to prayer
nuthin. They simply passed by pulling
their vails closer to their faces and snick
erin. I looked under the wail uv one uv
em and saw whiskers.
But with rare presence uv mind I sed
nothin.
"Draw more likker I" I shouted, "they
will be back in a moment."
By the time this drink woe down Bas
com wuz so far gone that he didn't know
nuthin. He got lunatic, and, springin
from the counter, insisted on everybody's
not only drinking, but that every man nv
us shood fill a bottle, and take with U 3.
It is on necessary to state what follerd.
The revelry waxed furious, and by night
the bodies uv the fallen were piled on top
nv each other four deep. Every drop of
likker in the house wuz gone, for what
wezn't drank lied bin allowed to waste.
for men drawl it who wuz too tite to sbct
the faucets. Bascom wuz laid out, Deekin
Pogram was snorin ez tho he hedn't slept
for a week. and I. seesoned vessel that I
am, wuz the wust played out uv any uv
The nest morncn :Joe Bigler Tenchered
around, and I asked him concernin the
wimmin.
"Wimmin :" sed he, "them wuzn't:wint
min. They wuz boys employed in the lite•
trys in New Boston' Nasby, - scd he,
con6denshly, "my opiuyun is that that
cuss. Pollock, put this job up on you, with
a view to rooinin Bascom. f heered him
talkin with one uv them factry men, who
is his brother-in-law, and I heerd the
brother-in-law say that it wuz tooguod not
to do it. I presume that is wat they refer
red to. But don't say that I told yoo."
Passin Pollock's an hour after I heerd
him and Bigler a laffin vociferously, and
I know that this was wat they wuz laffin at.
But thank Heaven, the joke isn't onto
me. I got twenty square drinks out uv it
for nothing. But Ido pity Bascom. His
heart is broke. His empty barrels, his
broken glasses and bottles, bear mute tee.
timony to his losses. May Heaven forgive
Pollock mad Bigler.
PETROLEUM V. NASBT, P. M.
Retiring from Business.
A man will seldom do it if he knows
himself. To be able to retire signifies that
he is able to do business, no drone nor
dead-beat, but a man of faculties, who has
always been girded tight with responsibili
ties. In some weary mood, under the de
pression of a worn out feeling, he thinks
of slipping off the yoke and turning him
self out to grass. It is a delusion. What
is he going to do with himself, with his
habits, his faculties ? Does he want to
make an end of himself before his time?—
Is he ready to drop out of the world ?
This is the result of retiring from his busi
ness. The question will soon prick him
uneasily, both from within and without,
what business he has to be in the world,
and a very uncanny qytestion it is. He
feels "as one who treads alone, some ban
quet hall deserted.", "It is good for a
man to bear the yoke in his youth," and
to keep young just as long as you can. It
is a question of resources, but not of ex
ternal resources. They must be of "the life
which consisted not in the abundance of
things which be possesseth." Let a man
retire fr.tu the business that has kept him
alert and stirred up his gifts, and put his
internal resources at usury, atitUie becomes
like scrap iron that was once bright ma
chinery, rusting not in the weedy corner
of a hack yard, or like one oldie details in
Ilogarth's pictures of Finis.
A leader in the dry goods trrdo at Boa
ton. had by dint of hard and systematic
work and keen ability amassed a fortune.
Visiting a rural cousin and country parson,
who flourished under the spreading elms of
ono of the loveliest of our Connecticut
valley villages, ho was so charmed, sooth
ed, refreshed by its leafy, restful beauty,
that he vowed an escape forever from the
racket and hurry and din of the pavements,
and the ..rovrdingbrain.work of the count
ing room, to retire into a fine old mansion
that stood opposite the parsonage in the
aristocratic and smiling beauty of lawn
and avenue and groves and garden, to in
vite his soul to steal away from cumbering
cares, and attach a finis to his earthly
troubles.
But going back to Boston with this love
ly days dream in his fancy, he must first
consult his business friend. Mr. Abbot
Lawrence. "Don't do it," was the sage
advice. "It may be well enough for a
while, so long as you can be well occupied
with your repairs and improvements; but
Ifter that. vehA thzta What are you go
inr with yourself ? What arc your
? They are not internal, apart
from your insinear activities. You won't
settle down to authorship. Yon and I
never enjoyed a liberal education. We are
dependent on external resources, the sur
rounding circumstances to call out mental
activities. Let us stick to our last.
Dr. John Todd was constrained by his
good sense at the age of seventy to make
a martyr of himself in retiring from his
pastorate. It was a hard and noble strug
gle against the strongest impulses and in
wrought inclinations of his fresh and
buoyant nature. "What shall Ido ?"
cried he. "If I stop preaching, it will be
ths end of me." The internal resources
ot' his vigorous mind rose up in protest;
his whole being revolted against retiring
from the business of his life. It was the
healthy action of a manly soul, and that
which best tones up and preserves the
physical powers, and keeps the "mens sane
iu sano corpore." Re-create—in order to
recreate. Play with work—and above all
the refreshment of good company and so
cial cheer,—but, let us work while the
day lasts.
4.--
The Man who can be Spared
When trade becomes dull, and but little
work is in the factory and not much pros
pect of more coming, employers ask
themselves, "Who can be most easily
spared ?" One or more men must be dis
charged, and those most easily spared are
the ones marked out for a discharge, iu
the knowledge that those most easily
spared are the very men who can be most
easily replaced. The men we are most
loth to discharge in dull times are those who
have been long in our employ, who have
always been attentive to our interests, by
a faithful discharge of duty, and toward
whom we have learned, from long associa
tion, to entertain a feeling of interest and
friendship. Such men will be retained
under any and all circumstances, while
the shiftless eye serving, afraid-of-doing
'too much class will be shipped" at the
I first opportunity they can be spared. The
same result extends to all branches of
trade, and be who would succeed in the
battle of life must make himself master of
his business, or be reckoned among those
who oan be spared.
Young man, remember that the men
who can be easily spared are not the ones
fought after when responsible positions
are to be filled. Would you like to guage
your own fitness for a position of promi
nence? Would you like to know the prob
abilities of your getting such a position ?
Inquire within - Are you trying . to make
yourself valuable in the position you now
occupy ? If you are doing with your might
what your hands find to do, the chances
are ten to one that you will soon become
so valuable to that position that you can
not easily be spared from it; and then, sin
gular to relate, will be the very time when
you will be sought out for promotion to a
better place. Be content to grade among
the men who can easily be spare, and you
may rest assured that nothing will "spare"
you so certainly and so easily as promo
tion.—Ex.
NO. 12
Sleighing with a Girl
Of all the joys vouchsafed to than
In life's tetnp.tuous whirl.
There's naught approaches heaven so near
As sleighing with a girl—
A rosy, laughing, buxom girl;
A frank, good-natured, honest girl;
A feeling, tiirting, dashing, doling,
Smiling, smacking, jolly, joking,
Jaunty. jovial. poser-poking,
Deer Hifi • oleo* of a girl.
Pile op your oralth a mountain high.
You 'flooring, scuffing churl!
I'll laugh as I go by
With my jingling bells ast... - girl—
The brightest, clearest, sweetest girl
The trimest, gayest, neatest girl—
The funniest, pushiest, frankest, fairest,
Roundest, ripest, roguishest, rarest,
Spunkiest, spiciest, squirmiest, squarest,
Best of girls, with drooping lashes—
Half concealing, lore-provoking amorous lashes—
Just the girl for a chap like me to court,
And lore, and marry, you see—
With rosy cheeks, and clustering curls,
The sweetest and the best of girls.
Clippings from State Exchanges.
Pottstown has a watch 150 years old
The strike of the peddlers in Reading
ended in a fizzle.
Reading says she is the healthiest city
on this continent.
Work is reported dull in the Lehigh
county slate quarries.
The new Kutztown furnace will go into
blast in about two months.
The project of establishing a new daily
paper at Erie has been abandoned.
Fifteen liquor dealers have been indict
ed at Warren for selling without license.
The Wayne free Prrgs is soon to be
started in Honesdale with F. A. Dony as
editor.
Nearly fifteen hundred dollars has been
subscribed in Carbondale towards a
library.
_lll the material of the Lycoming Stan
thud will be sold at assignee's sale, in Wil
liamsport, on the 26th inst.
The assets of Mercer county, January
Ist, 1874, were 846,111.42; the liabilties,
820,982.12. Excess of assets over-liabil
ities, $25,129.30.
The iron trade is much depressed in
Reading, and the outlook anything but
favorable. About 2,500 men are now em
ployed, the number in brisk times being
over 4.000.
Peter Merr:ts has just enjoyed his first
ride on a railroad, although ninety years
old. It was to the Blair county poor-house.
His aged and blind sister accompanied
hint.
Tho parents of Hon. J. P. Wickersham,
State Superintendent of Public Schools,
celebrated their golden wedding day at
Marlborough, Chester county, on the 10th
in4t.
A Reading drunkard let his dead child
lie in the house two days without Making
any preparations for the funeral. Ile was
drunk, and continued so while Mayor
Evans made the required arrangements.
The business of the Corry brush factory
is increasing so r' idly that forty addi
tional hands will be immediately employ
ed. The factory is owned and operated by
Mr. Flynn Kent, formerly of Jamestown.
Joshua U. Tomlinson, of Attleboiough,
Bucks county, was nearly choked to death
by his fain teeth becoming loosened while
he was asleep, and lodging in his throat.
The timely arrival of a phymician saved
him.
The Oxford Co onerative w nr i,
are under a cloud The prospect now seems
to be that there will have to be a sale of
the whole real estate by the sheriff upon
judgments under the Mechanics' Lien
Law.
A West Chester paper says : "A friend
rubbed the snow out of his eyes last Thurs
day, to tell us he bad just planted his early
potatoes, and from the looks of the weath
er ho thought he would have to cultivate
them with a cold chisel."
A young man named Shepard recently
started from Gratiot county, Wisconsin,
for Erie county, Pennsylvania, withadrove
of forty cows, purchased for an average
price of twenty-four dollars each. They
are to be used for dairy purposes.
The family of A. W. Woodward, of
Lancaster, had a very narrow escape from
suffocation by coal gas, on the night of the
11th inst. The gas was generated by a
stove on the second floor, and found ingress
to the sleeping rooms through a defective
flue.
The Lehigh Steamboat Company have
ordered a steamboat of Albertson Bros.,
Philadelphia, which will run from the Le
high bridge in Bethlehem to Calypso
Island. The boat will be a propeller, run
by a six horse power engine, and will draw
two feet of water.
Hotel keepers and others in Meadville
have been grievously "taken in and done
for" by one Charles Whitney, who, under
pretense of •advertising a show, succeeded
in sponging several days' board, borrowing
some money, getting many drinks and
seers, and then leaving forparts unknown.
Alfred Boehm, aged fourteen, quarreled
with John Papenfuse, aged thirteen, over
a game of marbles, in Meadville, and beat
the latter over the head with a club, in
juring him very badly. It was thought at
first that young Papenfuse would die, but
at last amounts he was improving. Boehm
was arrested and gave bail for trial.
A special telegram from Modoc City to
the Derrick says : In the Butler region
alonethere is two hundred and fifty thous
and barrels of empty tankage waiting to
be filled. The production has fallen off
more than half since the month of Decem
ber. In that month it was six thousand
barrels. Now I put it at twentyfive hun
dred barrels .
The Bulletin of the American Ircn and
Steel Association, published at No. 265
South Fourth street, Philadelphia,appear
ed last week in an entire new dress, and
considerably enlarged. The Bulletin is ably
edited by James M. Swank, Esq., the
Secretary of the association, and is doing
excellent service to the iron industries of
the country.
The American Steamship Company of
Philadelphia, at a meeting on Thursday,
passed a vote of thanks to Captain C. L.
Brady, who brought the steamship Penn
sylvania into port after the loss of Captain
Bradburn and the first and second officers,
and accompanied the thanks with some
thing tangible in the shape of a check for
$l,OOO. Captain Brady was a steerage
passenger on the Pennsylvania when the
officers were lost.