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NASH, Huntingdon, Pa. riAjcscs' Yes, I must leave you all, dear ones, My truest friends on earth, For childhood days and riper years Make plainer still your worth. Oh ! feeble. faint, and trembling still, Are all the words I say ; When my full heart seems btrrsting, then For you, dear ones, I pray. Father, you're growing old. No more The firm, free footstep's thine ; And on thy head, a glorious crown, The silvery locks now shine. Father! thy daughter loves thee well ; Though erring oft, yet give Thv blessing ere I leave thy home, In a new home to live. Mother 1 with reverent lips I speak The holiest name I know— Oh, thou art true, though all forsake They daughter her below ! Mother, forgive they tears I've caused From thy fond eyes to flow, And with thy trembling lips now bless Thy daughter, as I go. Sister ! I leave you all. And now A faithful memory brings Some bitter memories back to me, Upon her darkened wings. I Lave not loved as !ton have loved ; Forgiving all the wrong, So gentle still, with all thy faults, You've loved me well and Jong. Brothers 1 upon life's stormy sea I've launched my trembling barque ; Oh, let forgiveness from you all, Make its dark waves less dark I It is a stormy sea, God knows, And dark the clouds above; Yet there arc golden streaks that gld— These are—forgiveness—love. 0 00000000 0 And now it comes at last. Farewell, The loved and true of home ; Though oft within your sacred walls Your Mary still will come, Yet not as in th?. days gone by, 4.1 s one of you to live; But give a kindly welcome still, And all the past forgive. Life's battle must be fought, and we The victory must win ; Yet not with folded hands, but with • Brave hearts the strife begin. • New homes we all must make, you know, And happy, if we will ; By loving, working, we can all Our destiny fulfill. Farewell I My seat is vacant, now ; Another bids me come, And, with a cheerful, loving heart, Make light within his home. You know I love you all—my heart Still clings to its first love ; Have faith in God, and tie will keep A home for all above. (Tijc torß—triftlicr. OLD ELSPA. I was alone in the world, or I thought I was, which amounted to pretty much the same in its mental and moral effects. My mother died when I was so young that I had only a shadowy remembrance of a pale face and a long, last clasp to the loving heart. I bad been my fatherriet and darling, and now he was dead, too, and his will had consigned me, just like a bale of goods, to the care and guardianship of his brother, a doctor, whose home lay amongt,l the picturesque mountains of Cumberland. I was "toe impulsive," said the-will and would "throw myself and my money away before I knew the value of either, if I had no one to take care of JIIC ;" and so when my poor father died in the south of France, where we had gone to winter, Uncle Ritson, who came barely in time to ay him in the foreign grave, carried me off at once to his house on the bleak hillside, gave me a kiss as he lifted me out of the stuffy vehicle which had conveyed us from the station, presented me to my aunt and cousins with a 'Well, here's Adele!" and told me to consider myself "at home." It was the beginning of January, in tensely cold. The sudden change from a warmer climate had sensibly affected me; I was chilled under all my furs and per baps more chilled by the restraining influ ence of my father's will, having pondered the "too impulsive" all through the :our. ney." Certainly, I was not "too impulsive" on my entrance to nay new "home." Aunt and cousins had met me on the threshold with warm welcome, pressed to remove my raps and make me comfortable. There was a huge fire blazingon the hearth, a tea-table piled with north country lux uries, and all that should have made me feel at home ; but some4hing was wanting, and instead of responding to their greet. ings in my own natural fashion, I dropped into a seat, after my first glance around, and, covering my face with my hands, burst into tears. I have small, thin, quick ears. I over heard aunt Ritson whisper ,to Beim and Winnie as she drew them back : "flush I. It's but natural, poor bairn Leave your cousin alone, lasses; she will come to herself all the sooner." And I did come to myself; but whether my tears had fallen frostily on their hot hearth, or we travelers had brought a chill in with us, or my own manner did not in• vite effusion, a certain air of restraint seemed to grow upon us; and when I was shown to the room set apart for me, and left to myself, I flung myself upon my bed and sobbed in passionate grief for my dead father, declaring that I was alone in the world, utterly alone. And this feeling grew upon me. Look ing back, I am conscious that it was much my own fault that I had not responded with sufficient warmth and gratitude to the relatives who had made room in their household for one they had not 9cen since she was a baby, and had met with open armq and hearts. cr co 0 They had heard that I was gushini , and exuberant, a creature of impulse, and find ing me reserved and languid, concluded that I, accustomed to elegance and luxury, could not brook the homeliness and retire ment of my new life. I was rich, and they were not. They mistook my morbid melancholy for pride, and ceased to press their society or attentions on me, lest I should attribute to them mercenary motives. H • CD K 0 70 .1 tz+ El t ' 0 a 0 . - I aa I see it all now, but then I was blind. I had another grief at my heart besides sorrow for my dead parent, and I fear whenever my thoughts flew to that lonely grave among the Pyrenees, I questioned the policy which had so isolated me from the world—the world in which my hero lived and moved—and prisoned my free soul among those unresponsive walls of stone. , ri, 0 0 In this rhapsody I did not apostrophize alone the four walls of the solid stone house that, set against the mountain side, with a background of pine, larch and mountain ash, looked so cold and gray, staring with its many lidless eyes from its rocky perch above the straggling lake village, on the steep. unguarded roadway in front, and The Last Night at Home BY MARY N. KIRER DILWORTII HUNTINGDON, PA,, FR the narrow strips of garden ground stretch ing like green arms on either side. No, I held converse with the mountains They were to me the barrier between love and life and happiness, but it was only on their solitary heights I felt free to give the feeling utterance. The thrifty house hold ways of my aunt and cousins, which kept them ever busy, were strange to me. My dainty fingers had no acquaintance with rolling pin or paste beard. It was not I who kept so bright the mirror in which I saw my own beauty—aye, and my own unhappiness—reflected. I was sup plsed to be mourning, and with mistaken delicacy, was left to do—nothing. Had Uncle Ritson known it, or how I spent my time, he would have shaken me up like a bottle of physic, and I should have been the better fbr it. But whether on foot, or horseback, or in his ancient gig, lie was off in the morning, and fre quently was absent all day. His patients were scattered, and his rounds extended I, having no occupation for hands or energies, feeling myself something apart from the rest, was off and away up the ' breezy hillsides to the lon?ly margin of the lake, or into the most secluded g'eas, my only companion my faithful dog; and there, where there was only the wind to answer me, I poured forth all the pent-up feeling of my heart; and oft my gusts of passion found utterance in song. At times I took a pencil and sketch-book with me in these wanderings, but there was ever one figure in the foreground of the must picturesque scene, and often enough the picture was there alone, the adjuncts all forgotten. At first Bella or Winnie had borne me company, but I think they saw my longing to be alone ; and I had my way, not with out many cautiops from my aunt. What were perils to me, chaffing against the restraint of my father's will, crying from the depths of my utmost heart for the banished love, who would never find me in those solitudes, and longing for wings to traverse land and sea until I found my home on his faithful bosom ? Lost in abstractions, all danger was for gotten, and I had paid the penalty but f,r a guardian angel little dreamed of. My first peril was from the mountain mist, which came down and around me with bewildering suddenns?ss, blotting out the landscape far and near. Still I thought I knew my way, and was stepping onward, though with caution, when my dress was clutched from behind, as I fancied by some hush ; turning to dis entangle it, I was confronted with what seemed an awful apparition looming through the misty veil, and with a suppressed cry, I stood still in affright. • I saw a woa►an's form, bent with age. a face intersected with lines and wrinkles like a map, from which nose and chin stood out like mountain peaks, and the sunken eyes gleamed like fiery depths of two volcanic craters. "Stop, my !eddy !" she cried, "the gates of death are open hef)re ye ! Take my baud and le me lead you ; titan!: God, my bairn, that Elspa was near you in your I had heard . of Flspa as a woman wh , ) dealt in herbs and simples, but I had beard Of her as one with an uncanny reputation. was spoken of as "the wise woman," btt.ther words were uttered as if they meant "witch." I 'Jobless I was half afraid to accept her guidance, but she stampd her fo)t, and by gesture strong as words gave me to un derstand that I had been walking toward.; a precipice, and three steps farther would have borne me to destruction. What landmark she had I know not, but I think she seemed to feel her way with her feet. /U all events, after about an hour's cautious stepping, we stood be low the mist, the blue lake gle•lining like a mirror farther down, and my uncle's house within sight. Conscious of the service she had rendered, I did not confine my thanks to words, but was liberal with my coin. As she took "the shier," she scanned my face curiously, then seized my hand, peered into it closely, while a sort of creepy sensation (excusable in a girl of 19) stole over me. Once, twice, thrice ! Three perils, my bonnie leddy. One is past. The ithers lie before. Perils of your ain seeking. The gates of death stand in the path of your true love. Open them not with rash or heedless hands before the year be out, or love may mourn for love that couldua bide. The air of mountain and of lake is na gude for ye, bairn. Koep mair at hame and dinna he misdoubtin'. There's a gude God above a' ! Remember!! One danger is overpast. Tae' heed ye see not the ithers ; and dinna scoff at old Elspa's warnin words" The old woman trotied off with her basket on her arm, a rusty black bonnet on her head, garments poor but clean, and only a small check woolen handkerchief to protect her from the chilly mountain mists I had scarcely decided whether to laugh at her maunderings or to yield to the su perstitious feeling she had awakened when I opened the house door to find all within in a state of excitement. It wai long past the dinner hour and my absence had alarmed them. Of course, I explained the cause of delay and it was only by Aunt Ritson's agitation that I fully comprehended the danger I had es caped. I think her motherly concern made me more communicative than u.tial. We were still speaking of Elspa when my uncle came in. !" said he as Winnie helped him off with his overcoat, "ah ! my , dear, you might thank your stars Elspa was on the mountain side. I dare say . sha bad fol lowed you. The old scotch woman ►s shrew and fir sceing ; she has turned her eighty years' experience to account, has a good practical knowledge of common nil uients and curative simples. I should lose my own credit or I might do worse than take her as an assistant ;" and he laughed "Then she can read character with any physiognomist in the world, and the silly folk think her prophetic, when she is only clear eyed." I think my uncle was using an invisible probe. I know I colored and he laughed again, but said nothing—nor did I. The excitement had all been on my ac count. Bella has received an invitation to spend some months with a newly mar ried friend in London, and good natured Winnie was in high glee. Even aunt ac knowledged it was a chance not to be miss ed, if possible ; and I saw her glance fur tively in Uncle Ritson's face, which I fancied was graver than usual. Still, pos sibilities were not discussed in my pres ence. It was not until I had retired to my own room for the night that I over heard the sisters discussing the problem, unmindful of the thin partition between the head of my bed and theirs. I found that money—or its scarcity—stood in the way, and heard the chances of the matrimonial market calculated with a balance greatly in favor of London. DAY JANUARY 24, 1879. ;Money! How I hated the word ! I would have given every shilling I possessed to be assured that Edgar Neville was true to ape and would seek me out when the peiied of probation prescribed by my fath er pas none by. But where could he seek lot me ? orrespondeuce had been for bidden. He knew not my address, and 14 father had withheld Edgar's from me. Ah, how he repented before he died ! How giad he would have been to have left me in these strung protective arms ! I soon bridged the monetary difficulty over in spite of my uncle's opposition. and I think I showed something of my old self in the spirit with which I entered into the needfdl preparations for Miss Ititson's launch on the sea of London society, little thinking what might be its import to my self. ft was May when she went. I suggest ed'that she should lighter, mourning, be ing about to visit a bride—a hint she seem ed glad to take, for her pretty lavender bonnet set off her face much better than her heavy crape. She kissed we very heartily before stie got into the gig beside her father to be driven to the station to which her boxes had already been dispatched, and I felt more satisfied with myself than I had done singe I har crossed the Cumberland border. ]getters filled with the wonders she had seen and the places she had visited broke up the monotony of our lives. Then came on%from Hastings, in which she told of her introduction to a Mr. Neville. I think my pulse stopped as Winnie read out the name. I know aunt asked me if I was ill—if the heat was too much for me. But I drew myself together, said "nothing" was the matter, and tried to convince myself that the name was a corn- DIM) one. Again and again we heard of this same Mr. Neville, and my heart began to be torn with doubts and suspicions, and a very demon of jealously _seemed to take posses sionof my breast. I felt assured that Bella was . in lotto with him, and that he was the Edgar Neville of my adoration ; all that she' tated of his appearance and family were convincing. At length a letter came. addressed in a manly hand to Uncle Kitson, with Edgar's well ;known crest upon the Beal. It was a proposal for my cousin's hand. head swum around, but I sumnionA courage to ask Mr. Neville's Christian name. lie had merely signed J. E. Ne 4, that was it, sure enough—John Edgir I bad my back towards my uncle, stand ing s jn the doorway, as I asked. No one notteed bow l staggered into the hall, or howl snatched my hat from the stand and dartk up.the mountain side to cool my feveiteetbrow and still my throbbing pulses. Elowl went or where I went I could never rem per. I have some recollection of falli as I bounded across a beck, of old Elspgti face bending over me, and then no ciieire, until I found myself in my own snow Lod, with Winnie watching me and an a - i : of physic bottles on the wind'w seat. Elspa had found ma where T had fallen, half in and half out of the stream. Una ble to drag me thence, she had summoned / help with a peculiar' listle she kept sus pended to lir. gird the shrill note of which no shepherd red to disobey. It brought a couple of shepherds to the spot. My limbs were lifted out of the stream—she lqd already bathed my brow arid had plastered up my temple—and then I was carried slowly down to inter• rupt the answer Uneie.Rition was sending to Bella and Mr. Neville My fall and the immersfon were accred• ited with the prolonged fever which almost baffled my uncle's skill. If any one sus pected otherwise it was old Elspa, but she was too "wise" to revert to the subject when she came to see me er&'my conva lescence. Very slow was my recovery, retarded no doubt by the scraps Winnie read to me as pleasant news from her sister's letters It was now "Eddie" this, or "Eddie" that, and as I shut my eyes and ground my teeth, the better to endure, I felt indig nant that my noble-fronted Edgar should have a pet name like a baby. To me he had the majesty of a monarch. How could she address him so? I was down stairs before the Christmas came, able and willing to assist my aunt in her multitinduous preparations, and tried to smile and look gratified during the Christmas merry making. I heard, but hardly seemed to realize, that Bella was to be married early in the new year, and that she and her husband would come to spend the honeymoon with us, and I was doing my best to nerve my self tbr the meeting The old year was closing in. Elspa— who else ?—came up to the house with a letter she found lying in a byroad. It should have been delivered some days pre viously ; and it was supposed that the Postman had taken more drink than was gond for him during the .Claristmas "card 'and dropped it by tiai.way. Goodness ! how that ittipr stunned me ! Bella was by that time married_ She and her husband was to be ,With us on New Year's Day, and they should brio.. ' with them a New Year's gift . tbr Cousin Adds, as a thank offering firs bringing them to gether. Their photortivphs were inclosed. I only saw one. Ye , it was Edgar's. There was no mistake. The house was at once in a bustle of preparation. Again slipped, out to hide my agony and prepare myrielf for the coin inr• Dreamily I went along. I saw nothing beFore me but that meeting oriihe morrow and the revelation it was sure to bring - . My mind seemed a chaos, in which thought was lost. All at once I found myself on the reedy margin of the lake, as the silver circle of the moon was rising ablve the mountain tops And there I stood, looking on the dark waters, while something seemed to whisper to me that t.here was peace, that I need not meet the proud bride and my in constant lov, r unless I chose ; that I might hide my sorrows and secrets there, and none to be the wiser. Ny foot was on the brink. There was a step on the stones behind me. I turned; and I think my half formed purpose was visible in my face, as I once more confront ed old Elspa, weird and witch-like in the moonlight, a warning finger held up Sharp were her words, sharp as my need. She bade me go down on my knees, and thank God that he bad sent her to save me from my third peril—the peril of body and soul. What was I pulling over ? What right had I to fling away the life that was given for the service of others ? How dared I tempt death, loving the creature more than the Creator ? She had heard me raving to the winds when I thought myself alone, and had kept a watch upon mc.. And she bade me go back home, and pray to be forgiven, and "trust the Lord to make his dark ways plain." Sho took my hand and led me back like a penitent child ; said to my aunt drat she thought. I was mot well, and, by her leave, would watch me through the night. Some thing, too, she gave, and I slept. When I awoke a chaise was at the gate, and before I could fasten my dress with my trembling fingers Bella had burst in, radiant with happiness, and flung her arms around me. "Come, Ade!a, make haste !" said she, "Edward is al iniptienee to see you and show you our New Year's gift" "Edward !" I gasped. "Yes, my dea . .. Edward ! Did you not know his name ?" It was all a tangh% I followed her to the living room below, where the great holly bush was hanging, and there stood a stranger who was introduced to me as James Edward Neville, my new cousin— and surely, too, Edgar, my own Edgar ; for he held out hi, arms and caught me as I was falling. _ _ He had been best man at his cousin's wedding, and Bella had only seen him a few days previously. The postman must have lost another letter, one Edgar had sent me. The photograph had been inclos ed by mistake. The other would be in the lost letter. Old Elspa kept my secret well But I never forgot the lesson bhe had taught we; and though Edgar carried me away from Cumherland as proud a wife as Bella, we took good care of old Elspa for the rest of her days. sclert glisttliang. A Man-Baby. THE REMARKABLE CASE OF A MAN 22 YEARS OLD WHO IS STILL AN IN FANT. From the New York Times.) In the second story of one of the low rickety wooden buildings on the east side of Chatham street, in humble apartments. there lives nne of the most curious of hu man monstrosities. It is a boy, or man, 21 years and six months old, having been born in 1857, that in all respects, physically and mentally. he is nothing more than an over grown infant. Its parents are Mr. and Mrs Jacuet Jenu, of 165 Chatham street, in dustrious French people. The child was born on the 10th of June, 1857, and was christened Jule. Up to his eighth month he did not differ from other children ; but at that age he was taken sick with measles, and for six months it was thought that be could not live, one childish disease follow ing rapidly upon another. His last ailment and the one to which his parents ascribe his deformity, was one that baffled the at tending physician, and is described by the father as •‘the English disease." Both physical and mental growth seemed to he arrested by this disease The boy is not quite three feet high, but measures four feet around the Waist, being inordinately corpulent.. His head is well shaped ; looks much too Tarr for his body, being more than two feet in circumference. His hands, and feet are exceedingly small, like those of a. one year-old infant, and he weighed' 160 pounds. Every effort has been made to educate him, but he is not capa ble of leirning anything. When he was ten Years old he was scarcely two feet high, but weighed almost 100 pounds. The phy sician who attended at his birth predicted that he would not live to be 14 years old. but he is now in good health. The boy's skin is remarkably soft and white, like a baby's. All of his habits are childish, and he can speak only a few words, such as "papa," mamma," 'yef-," and "no." His ex. trcuie corpulence prevents him from walk ing, but he is very active with his hands and feet. He amuses himself with child ish toys, and is very shy when strangers are about Ex police Surgeon Baker, who has watched the case very closely for sev eral years, says it is the most wonderful case he ever heard of. 'the boy has been examined by a number of scientists who have all came to the conclusion that. he is a perfect baby in mind and body. His fath er has been approached by many showmen who were anxious to add the boy to their list of attractions, but Mr. Jenu has de dined every offer, not desiring to have his son exhibited to the public. Elephants. Elephants have hitherto been shot down rather too freely in India, and rather too much so in Africa and Ceylon, and it is only of late years that their true value has been recognized. Within the last few months steps have been taken by Col. Gordon Pasha to acclimatize the Indian elephant to equatorial Africa, and it appears not improbable that this expari went may lead to the removal of what has hitherto been the chief obstacle to the opening up of that wondrous continent— the question of locomotion. An idea of their value in India may be formed from the fact that a herd of :55, caught in one day, was estimated to represent a profit, after deducting expenses, of £4,000. After this the Government will do well in the interests of the Indian finances to prohibit the indiscriminate slaughter of this useful beast by roving sportsmen. Sir Samuel Baker's spirited biolis on elephant shoot ing in Ceylon showed how far more ex citing than lion-hunting such sport was, and what a much stronger claire to the title of the king of the beasts the elephant enjoyed. Mr. Sanderson has gone further; he has studied the habits of the beast with professional interest and even affection, awl the pictures he draws give an insight into the idiosyncrasies of the Indian ele phant which has never hitherto been ob tained. English readers may probably be surprised to hear that twice round an ele phant's foot is his height, and there is probably no elephant in India which measuresas much as ten feet at the shoulder. On the other band, what the elephant lacks in height he makes up in longevity The general opinion of experienced natives is that in captivity he usually attains eighty years, and one hundred and twenty years in exceptional cases; but our author believes that the elephant attains at least one hundred and fifty years. The ques tion, "Where do the elephants die ?" is apparently as far from solution as ever, for Mr. Sanderson, like Sir Emerson Ten neat, confesses that he never came across the carcass of one that had died a natural death. HAPPrNEss closely resembles a very popular disease—one bright day with a day of chill and fever on either side. SOLOMON truly sayeth: "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine; but a broken spirit drieth the bones." Round Pegs in Square Holes. Hollidaysburg Standard ] There are a great many of them. No young man's hair would turn while from age while in the search for one. No old man, though he had but a winter day's lease of life would need despair of finding one, if duty demanded such a task in his last moments. They are everywhere—ex. cept in heaven and the grave They are self perpetuating and are as prolific as slander itself. You run against them every hour of the day—at every corner, in every calling and vocation of life. They are positiv 4 .! facts; though in must cases they may as well be phantoms for all the use they are. They are real flesh and blood though, and as they go blundering through life, doing good neither for themselves nor f-r others, one looks at them in pity, while thinking with indignation of somebody s mistake Before proceeding with this artic'e it ..may be well to say that in what, follows we are dealing with a clms, and not with in dividuals. Doubtless some unfortunate being who finds himself a round peg in a square hole, and who would fain conceal the discovery from a smiling world, will . get into a passion with this article. But we solemnly declare that, so far as possible, individuals have been driven from our mind, and we have only in view a (lase., of whom what follows is said in the hope that some word or thought may prove helpful to a parent who is about to decide the future calling of his son. Or, mayhap, the boy himself, reading this, may gagne his own mental calibre and guard against a fatal mistake—a mistake which might wreck his life. No man will deny that the two learned professions of law and medicine are over. crowded Further, while there comes up from the theological seminaries of the various denominations the' cry that the number of young men who are preparing for the ministry is constantly decreasing, it is also a notorious fact that there are to day thousands of ministers in this country who are sitting in the market places with folded hands because no man has hired them. On the other hand it is au equally patent fact that there are thousands of congregations without the aid of a pastor. All of which goes to prove that in the highest and holiest calling to which man can aspire there are many who have mis• taken their own notions for the voice of God. But that will suffice as to the min istry. It is not the province of a secular paper to discuss theological problems, and the abode is only brought in here to show that even in the ministry there are many round pegs in square holes, while a good many pegs, both round and square, are in no holes whatever, and vice versa. It is admitted that the learned profes sions are overcrowded ; that there is a growing indisposition to muscle toil upon the part of the rising generation. Why ? There are various answers. In the brief space allotted a newspaper article it is-im possible to even name all A hurried glance at one or two mast. suffice. It is asserted that mar common school system is largely responsible for the .growing aver sion to honest labor. The argument is that our methods of instruction are such that the young man,.as he gains a smatter ing of knowledge, finds his self esteem growing to enormous dimensions. He cuaclucies that manual labor is dishonorable, and the words which fall from the lips of his teacher confirm his growing opinion. Thus it comes that his distaste for honest labor grows with his growth and strength ens with his strength. When he reaches the proper age he gravitates into some law or medical office, and that without the slightest reference to his ability, and in due course of time is inflicted upon some community a fifth rate lawyer or physician If his opportunities do not allow this, he grows up in idleness, which rapidly de generates into dissoluteness and crime, and he becomes a criminal and the father of criminals, entailing enormous expense upon the commonwealth whose false system of education has made him what he is. If this statement be true, one may well shud der at the terrible sins which must be laid at the door of the common school teacher. But is it true ? In some instances, partly. In most cases, no. It is a con venient way human nature has of shuffl ing off its sins on the back of its next neighbor. The school teacher makes a very convenient scape goat, but for all that he will not bear the entire burden on the final day. It is granted that there are many unwise teachers, who, by injudicious attempts to stimulate a false ambition by lying flattery, in order to gain and retain the good will of selfish patrons, by neglect ing to give the true mental measure of their pupils, do assume a portion of the blood guiltiness. But it is not just to lay the sins of a few inexperienced or un principled people upon the shoulders of a class of men and women who are honest in their efforts to do good to the young by giving them right conceptions of the re sponsibilities and opportunities which the future is bringing them. The home is the fountain of most of the evils which trouble the country. The fifth rate doctors and lawyers and preachers come, not from the schools, but front the homes. They are the products, not so much of our system of public instruction as that more subtle and more powerful in struction which they get around the family hearthstone. No man who takes the trouble to keep his eyes and ears open but will come to this conclusion. The homes, are the great fountains of blessing and cursing The influences which they wield are potential, and from them will issue the men and women who will either purify and save the Republic, or rend it into a thousand fragments. Let us look hurriedly into a typical home or two. Hon. Mr. Dash is an eminent lawyer. His fame is not limited to local bouudries. Ile is a man of unquestioned ability. He is a leader of men His success in his pro fession, to say nothing of politics, has brought him a competence. But he is Ilgt noted for his business shrewdness, and the probability is that his death will leave his family practically destitute. He is the father of a son. The boy is entirely unlike his father. His tastes are dissimilar. He has no fancy for book knowledge. He possesses no fluency of speech. He is not devoid of sense, but finds it impossible either to write or deliver a speech. He is, in fact, nearly a failure. There is a chance that he might make a respectable mechanic. What does the father do ? Does he ap prentice that boy to some master mechanic that he may be taught some useful trade? Not at all. That would be considered dis graceful. What I the son of Hon. Mr. Dash a common mechanic ! Never. And the boy is forced through school until he has graduated in some shape either at a loge, t legal or medical col sod is turned adrift with a profession, * without the ability to use it. What hake result ?He drags out a miserable existence, often shortened by excesses to which he is tempt ed by his consciousness of failure and by the difficulties which crowd his pathway, and finally dies, bequeathing to the cold charity of the world a helpless family. We should like to present the case of the successful physician, the wealthy pro fessional or business man, whose incompe tent children are treated in precisely the. same way and sent forth to swell the grand army of humbugs. who are crowding each other for a precarious foothold and a pre carious living, and who are humbugs, not through their own faults, but because of the foolish pride of their parents . One more example must be given to complete the picture. Here is honest Mr. Blank's boy; what shall be done with him ? Mr. Blank is a hard-working mechanic or farmer. By industry and economy he has laid a snug little sum by for a rainy slay. And now his boy has grown from babyhood to youth. Something must be done for that boy. What shall it be ? Of course Mr. Blank loves him and is proud of him. He sees possibilities lurking back of that fair young brow. He calls to him his good wife and they talk of the boy's future. He shall not follow his father's calling; that is certain. He shall not be a mechanic or a farmer He shell have a good education and then he shall be a lawyer. They have the money and it shall be thus applied. There shall be at least one gentleman in the family. And so the matter is settled, and the boy knows that he is to be a law yer when he grows to be a man. And he despises farmers and mecharttite according. ly and looks with awful reverence upon all the lawyers that pass within range of his vision. Now, the truth is that the boy is a very ordinary boy. There are thou ands much brighter than he who will nev er dream of the law. He lias not the in tellectual calibre to achieve saccees. He may make a pettifogger; be can never be a lawyer We have not had space to enumerate these pictures. But are they not tree ? And are we not. convinced that the grow ing contempt for honest labor originates, not in our schools, but in our homes 2-And may it not be traced largely to parental affection ? It will be remedied when law yers and doctors and teachers deal with the utmost frankness with such misguided parents. Yon are a lawyer. A father brings his son to your office and enters him as a legal student under your instruc tion. In three months time or lees you have gauged the young man's ability. Yon know precisely how much chance there is for his achieving success in your profession. Suppose he has no ability; can you not, as an honest man, go to the father and say : "My dear sir, your boy will not make a lawyer. There are peculiar qualifications required for success in the legal profession, and he does nattliirtiera. Take my ad vice and put hipkat %rattling elsewhere where his chances for suecesttwill .• er." This may seem MS!! B%ay first, but the parent isiltlkisike yon end. Let, physicians dio the'same Let teachers cease to fletteraseesistal ity by giving Johnny v' Mtge , • which he does not poe e's . In'short, in the spirit of truset charity, 10 the exec* truth be told always to ail men, and though vanity and selfesteem may get many an ugly wound, ttier4 will be fewer round pegs in square .holes. --- A Gambling Incident. I once found myself on a steamer going down the Alabama river. These itemery have on the saloon deck, a very 1(41i/cabin, and at one end of the cabinis a bar where liquor and cards are sold. One evening, for the voyage oceuied several days, a passenger asked me whether I would play at whist; I asiented, and a whist party was made up. 't soon perceived that I and a decent looking, old man, who was one of the players, were being by the two others, but I played Rniutbrea until overy one except the captain, who was seated at the other end of the cabin, had gone to bed; then my brother victim, rafter paying his losses, wbioh amounted to several hundred dollars, went to leis cabin. I took the cards in my hand and asked what I owed. It was two or tree hundred dollara. -Captain," I said, "be good enough to come here; I've been cheated." Up jumped the gamblers and asked me whether I wished to insult them. The Captain, a sturdy yoking man, was now by my side, so I banded him the cards and requested him to examine them. They were marked, in the manufactory, the stars on the back of each particular color being made either higher orlower at the corners. The gamblers swore they knew nothing of' it, and had bought them of the bar keeper. Half a dozen citizens were at once palled to act as a jury, and the bar-keeper was interrogated. After same shilly-shallying„ be owned that one of the gamblers bad given him some packs to sell. Th:s was enough; the engine was topped, and the gamblers landed on a swamp, where they probably died, for it was a long way from any habitation, and as the Captain said, a place where only snakes could live. WHERE THIS TIMBER GOEB.—To make shoe pegs enough for American use con sumes annually 100,000 cords of timber, and to wake our lucifer matches 300,000 cubic feet of the best pine are required every year. Last and boot trees take 500,- 000 cords of birch, beech and maple, and the handles of tools 500,000 tnore. The bekin. 4 of our bricks consume 2,000,000 cords of wood, or what would cover with forest about 50,000 acres of land. Tele graph poles already up represent 800,000 trees, and their annual repairs consume 300,000 more. The ties of our railroads consume annually thirty years' groth of 75,000 acres, and to fence all our railroads would cog $45,000,000, with a yearly ex penditure of $15,000,000 for repairs. These are some of the ways which Ameri can forests are gging. There are others. Our packing boxes, for instance, coat in 1874 $12,000,000, while the timber used each year in making wagons and agricul tural implements is valued at more than $100,000.000. A PATHETIC LITTLE Wiley Hurst, of Four Mile, Kan., told his wife he wished to be buried oa a cer tain hillside, under some locust trees. Af ter his death his wife, not being certain of the exact spot he had requested to be bur ied in, went out to see if she could Identify it from his description. As she approach ed the locust trees she noticed two white doves sitting in them. The doves did not fly away at her approach, but flew down from the tree and lighted at her feet. One of them stood still and the other walked off about the length of a grave fro® ita bate and stopped And under the exact spot thus measured off was Mr. Hurd buried, NO. 4.
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