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HUNTINGDON, PA,, FR E4t lists' Nniter. For the JOURNAL.] A Health Restorative. Rising in the morning, by the break of day, Snuff the balmy breezes e're they flit away; Walking in the woodland, hail the joys of spring ; Hear the feathered songsters how they sweetly sing. Soul-reviving elixir, curing all your ills, More than all the druggists with their paltry pi Is; Breakfast six or seven, if you wish to thrive, Dinner at eleven, sip your tea at five. If appetite is failing, saw a pile of wood, Get in a perspiration and then you'll relish fwd; Keep your feet protected, never mind your head, Never eat a luncheon when you go to bed. Never read at twilight or too late at night, Optical taxation makes you dim of sight; Follow this prescription you will never get the spleen, . And you will grow corpulent, and the doctors will grow lean. The dying leaves fall fast; Chestnut, willow, oak and beech, All brown and withered lie. Now swirling in the cutting blast, Now sodden under foot—they teach That one and all mutt die. This Autumn of the year Comes sadly to my poor heart, Whose youthful hopes are fled. The darkening days are dear -1 a,ch love once mine I see depart, As withered leaves and dead. But is it all decay ? All present loss—no gain remote ? Monotony of - pain ? Ah, no ! I hear a lay The robin sings. How sweet the note— A pure, unearthly strain. And, of all flowers, the first Beneath these leaves in Spring shall blow Sweet violets, blue and white; So all lost ones shall burst In Springlike beauty. Summer glow, In Heaven, upon our sight. Et ,sforg-Etlicr. IN CLOSE QUARTERS. One of the most singular men I ever met with was a private soldier in the Twelfth New York Infantry, which tegi went was brigaded with the Second and Third Michigan and Second Massachusetts during the first year or so of the war.— Seen at one time you would say that Dan Harrison had blue eyes. Five minutes afterward you would make oath that they were black, as indeed they were. Dan also had wonderftil control over his voice. He could mimic the voice of any man in the brigade. He could bark like a dog, bray like a mule, whistle like a bird, and was the wonder of the camp.— On one occasion our wagon master was asleep in his wagon, with his six mules toped near by. Dan crept behind a bale of hay and brayed loud and long. The wagon-master awoke and jumped down and pounded the nearest mule, growling out as he re entered the wagon : "There, blast ye—l guess you'll feel humble for a while !" In about two minutes Dan repeated the words. The voice was so exactly the same that a dozen of us, who were hiding near by, thought it was the wagon-master again. The latter individual stuck his head out, looked around in surprise, and then said : "Well, it took the echo a long time to get around this wagon." There were yet other reasons why Dan was considered greater than a menagerie. He could drop one shoulder three inches lower than the other. He could work his ears like a horse. lie could cramp his hands until they seemed to have been drawn all out of shape by rheumatism. He could make it appear that he had a squint in either eye, and he could raise his eye brows clear up into his hair. He was a farmer's son, genial, brave and good hearted, and he was never tired of doing something to amuse us. Soon after Heintzelman made his recon noissance from in front of Alexandria down toward Centerville, he sent for Dan Harrison, and the result of the interview was that Dan was engaged by the Govern ment as a spy. His curious physical structure and his natural coolness and bravery fitted him for such dangerous work, and I may say here that for three years he was accounted the most successful and daring spy in the service. One lonely, rainy night in the begin ning of '62, Dan Harrison set out to work his way into the Confederate intrench ments around Centerville, and hear every thing that might be turned to value to the Federal cause. Dan had no particular make-up except the dress of a Virginia farmer, and no story to tell except that he was, (when he got there), within the Con federate lines to secure some sort of com pensation for three horses seized by a party of Confederate raiders. Circumstances might alter his plans and his story, but if so, he would have something else at his tongue's end. The spy left the Federal outposts and headed directly for Centerville. He met with no adventures that night, laid in the woods all next day, or advanced under cover of them, and at night again took the highway. He knew that danger lurked in every fence corner for one who skulked along, and he therefore put a bold face on the matter and walked briskly forward, passing quite a number of negroes and several white men without being disturbed. Just then many slaves were trying to reach the Federal line, and this fact got Dan in to trouble. B. JACOB. About nine o'clock, as lie stepped briskly along, a patrol consisting of three men sprang from the bushes and confronted him, supposing him at first to be a negro, when, finding thtt he was a white man, the leader of the patrol began asking ques tions and insisting upon prompt replies. For some reason Dan thought best to change his plans. Dropping his left shoulder and humping his back, he replied to their questions in a whining, drawling voice, in imitation of half wit. "Laid for a nigger and captured a fuol 1" growled the leader, as Dan began to ask silly questions and dance around. "Well, I suppose we'd better give him a kick and let him go," said the leader. "He don't know enough to be a soldier, and we'd better hurry him along." "I don't know about that !" remarked the third man, who had all along been si lent. "I don't know of any fool in this neighborhood, and we should not let this chap go until we have had a closer look at him. Here, you infernal idiot, do you know anyone about here ?" "Missiis Brown—Missus Brown !" re plied Dan, using the first name that came in his way. "Well, it is only a step down there," said the man, "and if she knows him it is all right." So there was a Mrs. Brown close at hand I No one could have been more sur- Autumn. DAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1879. prised than the spy, and he feared that he had gotten himself into a bad scrape.— There was no chance for him but to go along, and go he did, amusing the men with strange antics and silly talk. Mrs. Brown was a widow, living in a very com fortable, though small farm house, and Dan was marched straight to her door. She was a woman of about fifty years of age, with a kind face and motherly ways. "Widder Brown," began the leader of the party, as he put big hand on the spy, "we captured this fool down the road thar. He acts and talks like a fool, but we want to be sure he isn't tricking us. He says he knows you. If you know him that's all we want." "Missile Brown know Tommy," chuckled Dan, as he boldly entered the house and at down and took the family cat on his bp. - The widow's vanity was a little bit flat tered, in the first place that she had been called upon to identify a stranger, and in the next place she would lose prestige if she failed to do so. "blebbe I know him—mebbe I do," she replied, as she looked around for her spec tacles. "Somehow I allus know all the fools going, and most of 'em come around her for vittels. Now, then, I'll look at him" She put on her spectacles, took the candle in hand, and Dan was scrutinized for a long minute. lle looked up in her face and grinned and chuckled, though his heart was in his mouth. "She don't know him whispered one of the men. The widow overheard it, and she was of her mettle. Walking slowly across the room to put down the candle and her spec tacles she turned and said : "Yes, he's a fool, and you are bigger fools for stopping him !" "Then you know him ?" asked the leader. raythur think NO llis name is Tom my, and be lives somewhere around Fair fax. He's been here more'n a dozen simes." "Didn't propose matrimony, did he ?" asked one of the men. "No !" she snapped, "but if he had he'd flood a better chance than white men who de.in fence corners to capture niegers !" - So saying she slammed the door on hem and went away. She sat down at the table and looked across at Dan, and presently mused : "Yes, lie's a fool, and those men had no business hauling him around, no matter whether I knew him or not I guess he's hungry and tired, and I'll give him some thing to eat and send him to bed." Dan "played the fool to perfection, and vthen be had eaten, the woman had a real motherly interest in him. She guided him up stairs, showed him the bed he was to occupy, and -then went down with the light, saying : Tools can see in the dal k as well as by dgfylight, and you might set the house on " The Fpy was out of the scrape in one t-ense, and yet he was in trouble. lie wanted to 'reach and pass the Confederate out posts before daybreak. If he remain ed in the house all night he would en counter people neat day who might want him more fully identified. But how was he to leave The chamber was a half story affair, all in one room, and a window at either end. One of these would let the spy out. He crept across the floor and tried the sash of one. It was old and shaky, and yet he worked at it for a long ten minutes and gave up in despair. The sashes were not nailed, but so warped that to get them up or down or out would make noise enough to arouse everybody about the house. The sash in the other window could be raised, but Dan's fingers had scarcely touched it when two or three dogs, which seemed to be kenneled directly below, commenced a furious barking. Escape by that way was cut off. After a moment's thought Dan decided to wait until the house grew quiet. and then descend the stairs and go out by the front door. He might have to wait for an hour or more, and he therefore threw himself on the bed. He had scarcely got settled when he heard a commotion down stairs, and the heavy trod of a man. Creeping out of bed, and putting his ear to the floor, he soon learned that the wo• man's son had returned home after a con siderable absence within the Confederate lines. Dan listened for a long time, catching words enough to keep the run of the con versation, and when he beard both moving across the floor he slipped into bed again. It was well he did so. The stair door opened, the light appeared and as mother and son ascended she said : "Of course he's a fool ? Do you think I've got so okl that I can't tell an idiot when I see him ?" "Well, these are suspicious times," mut tered the son in reply, and bottled advanc ed to the bed. Dan seemed to be fast asleep. One band all cramped up, was on the quilt in plain sight, and be had his face screwed up un til the lonesome look ought to have melt ed a heart of stone. -"There ! don't be look like a fool ?" wh!sppered the mother. "lie may be one, but it won't do any butt to let the patrol take him to our out posts," answered the son, and both descend ed the stairs. Dan must get out of that. Not by the way of the window, but down stairs and out of the front door. The patrol could not be far off, and he had no time to spare. Hastily resuming his garments he softly descended the stairs. While waiting at the door he beard the sou go out, and af ter two or three minutes he softly opened the door. No one was in the room. Tip-toeing across it he opened the front door and stepped out, but only to stand face to face with the son, a young man of about twenty five and of good muscular development. For what seemed a long minute they look ed into each other's face. Then the Con federate said : "Throw up your hands, Mister Yank, the game is played ?" "I just came to bid you good night," coolly answered Dan, and he made a rush. The Confederate id not follow, because he realized that Dan was running directly for the approaching patrol. He was under full headway when he met them, or saw that he was going to run into them, and swerved aside. "Shoot that Yankee—kill him ! kill him 1" shouted the Confederate at the house, and the patrol opened fire in re sponse. Dan was not over thirty feet away, and the gloom of the night saved him from be ing riddled. One bullet struck him in the left arm, just above the elbow, inflicting a painful wound, but the others went wild, and he soon distanced pursuit. Dan did not get into Centreville that time. * , tiect D. Lothrop & Co.'s Fall Books. No publishing house in the country is making more active preparations for the holiday trade than D. bothrop & Co., and their list of announcements exceeds in ex tent and attractiveness that of any past year. As usual, the strongest effort-has been made in 'behalf of young readers, and the books offered fbr their delectation are as beautiful in their outside appearance as they are fascinating inside. 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It is to be brought out in large quarto form, magnificently illustrat ed and bound, and containinc , besides the hymn, an illustrated sketch of r the venera• ble author, who is still living. It would be interesting if he could know the vari ous important occasions upon which this hymn has been sung since it was first writ ten. During the war it exerted a wonder ful influence at home and in the field in the way of strengthening patriotic feeling, and it has lost none of - its popularity or power since. The volume which presents it is artistic and beautiful, and it should be found in the household of every true American. The five handsome printed volumes which constitute the Idle Hour Series, and which have put off their light summer clothing for tasteful cloth covers, claim the attention of all lovers of choice literature. They have all been warmly praised by the press, and in their cheaper form have had a large and steady sale. Their character is not ephemeral, nor are they simply intended as "summer books." One can enjoy the experiences of the Two Girls who Tried Furnzing by a coal fire as well as in a hammock, or the narrative of the trio who sailed Up and Down the Merrimac when that fatuous river is frozen as well as now. My Daughter Susan and Priscilla Bunter are acceptable acquain tances at any time of year, and there is no particular season to be set apart for Poor Papa. There are two other series which seem to require special mention. The first, His. tory and Biography, containing five vol umes, and Famous Americans, containing the lives of Franklin, Sumner, Webster and Amos Lawrence. They are books which every boy- should read, and will be the better for reading. Another new book, Mrifs and their Authors, is now in press, and nearly ready for issue. It will be in the regular quarto form, illustrated. Of new editions, prom inent are Tarbox's Life of Israel Putnam, which has been materially reduced in price Sunshine for Babyland ; Pansy's three ever popular books, Mother's Boys and Girls, Picture Book and Our Darlings, all of them enlarged, and in choice bind ings. The Children's Almanac, which cre ated such a sensation last season, should not be forgotten. It is one of the most useful and beautiful little volumes ever brought nut by the publishers, and is sold Jur hardly more than a nominal price. It will be remembered the calendar reaches over five years, and is as good to day as it was last year. Limburger Cheese As its name indicai(s, Limburger had its origin in the province of Limburg, in Holland, where, with its peculiarity of shape, smell, process of making and cut ing,, it was formerly exclusively made. Thirty years ago its production in the United States was almost unknown, it being :fit that time thought, on account of the dif ference in climate and pasturage, impos sible to produce it here. The same notion in regard to Swiss cheese prevailed, and consequently numerous quatitities of both were imported from Europe to supply the large demand in this country. Va-, it has been found that both can and have been produced in this country in such perfec tion that the very best judges are unable to detect any difference from the imported article. In Green County, Wis , hundreds of tons are made annually, more than twenty factories being engaged in its man ufacture. In Dodge and Jefferson counties large quantities are also made. The cheese is made in factories capable of working the milk of from 100 to 400 cows, rarely ex ceeding the latter number, and more would require a larger area of country than would be desirable on account of distance to the factory, as the milk is hauled and the cheese made twice a day usually. The makers generally buy the milk from the farmers at a price agreed upon for six months, beginning about May 1. The process of manufacture in its first stages does not differ from the usual way, except that a lower temperature is kept while the curd is forming, the animal beat alone in summer being often high enough. Great care is taken to use pure milk, free from taint or fiith, and cleanliness being requi site in every stage of the making. Upon the curd being formed it is slowly cut into squares, pieces the size of a dice, low temperature and careful handling being necessary to avoid breaking the butter globules, upon which the richness of the cheese depends. It is slightly scalded and stirred, most of the whey drawn off, and, without being salted, the curd is dipped out into perforated wooden boxes or molds. about five inches square, and left to drain without any pressure being applied. In a few hours the packages are carried into curing cellar and placed cdgeway on shelves, like bricks set to dry. Every day thereafter they are rolled in salt and re placed when they have aborbed enough salt. They are turned almost every day, and the slimy moisture which exudes is rubbed with the hand evenly over the sur face, which serves the double purpose of keeping the cheese moist and to close all cracks, into which flies might lay their eggs. This outside moisture decomposes while the cheese ripens, and being mostly composed of albumen, like fresh meats, eggs, &c., the same results follow the de- , composition, and in this case the Limburger odor is developed, which never forsakes it, and sticks closer than a brother to all who touch or eat it. After eight or ten weeks it is packed in paper and tinfoil, and is ready for market—in consistence, contents and nourishment the richest cheese that can be made, but to the uninitiated, a inalicicus and predetermined outrage upon the organs of smell. A Millinery Opening "You see this lovely bonnet right in front of us, dear ?" said Spriggins' wife at the theatre the other evening ; "the one with the blue trim"— "See it !" he growled. "•I should think $O. I can't see anything else." .. . "There! don't be aisazrceable dear. It's that stuck•up Mrs. Perkins that's got it—she that was a Lawton, and so poor before she married so well. That's the one I wanted dreadfully, and"— "What ! wanted that Perkins ?" "There, Spriggins," she replied severe ly, "don't get off any of your sharp witti cisms here, if you please. Don't rob your paper of your bright things. A man has uo right to bring his business affairs home or anywhere else where his wife is trying to get a respite from her humdrum life. But about that bonnet; it was so cheap. I know it is the same one that I saw at Mtne. Ribbon's opening, and"— "Saw it at an openin, did you! Well that's just where I see it now. I don't know whose opening it is; but it is right square in the opening between the ostrich feathers on the right and the ribbon pal ace on the left, and 1 can't see a duccd thing on the stage. Next time I come to the theatre I'm going to take a front seat on the gallery." "So do, dear," said his wile, having the last word of course. I have no doubt you will find the company more congenial, and you won't have to suppress your horrid oaths." The curtain fell on the first act just then, and Spriggius went out for a moment ; and when we returned he smelt so strong of cloves that his wife asked him if he could tell her how large an opening Ns..s in an inverted tumbler. __,._ Evils Among Among Young Men. Of all the evils prevalent among young men, we know of none more blighting in its moral effects than to speak lightly of the virtue of a woman. Nor is there any thing in which most young men are so thoroughly mistaken as the low estimate they form as to the integrity of woman. Not of their owty mothers and sisters, but of others, who, they forget are somebody else's mothers and sisters. As a rule no person who surrenders to this debasing habit is to be trusted with an enterprise requiring integrity of character. Plain words should be spoken on this subject, for the evil is a generar one and deep root ed. If young men are sometimes thrown into society of thoughtless or depraved women, they have no more right to meas ure all other women by what they say of those than they have to estimate the char acter of honest and respectable citizens by the development of crime in our police courts. Let our young men remember that their chief happiness depends upon utter faith in women. No worldly wisdom, no misanthropic philosophy, no generaliza tion, can cover or weaken truth. It stands like the record of itself—for it is nothing less than this—and should put an ever lasting seal upon lips that are wont to speak lightly of women.— Comnmwealth. AN ignorant old lady was asked by a minister visiting her if she had religion. She replied : "I have slight touches of it occasionally." An Amazonian Forest. On three sides of the cane field the for est rises in solid mass fully one hundred feet. A distance of fifteen or twenty miles, maybe, has been reached by the hunters and sarsaparilla gathers; beyond that the country is as completely terra incognita as the other side of the moon. But so far as we know, with very slight breaks, the wbule, of the Amazonian highland is cov ered with this thick growth crimes; there is no other forest region in the world of like extent, and richness of its productions. Where the land has been recently cleared we get a kind of section of the forest ; hundreds of gray and white columns set close together like the pickets in a fence, and supporting a green roof above. But within everything is a maze; a chaotic confusion of tree trunks and vines, and branches and leaves. Even on the ocean you are not SG weighed with a sense of your insignificance as'when wandering in these pathless solitudes. For at sea there is always the same horizon, a definite boundary to vision ; and in the very at tempt to reach bcycnd it the imagination fom; an ideal ocean, a limited immensity. The ship carries you on without any bodily exertion of your own ; you know that yogi, arc moving, as you know that the earth moves, but day after day there are the same sea and sky to give the lie to your reasoning. In the forest you are roved to measure your own power with the in finite. Guided by the compass you keep a straight line for days together, but it is not like a woodland walk at home; you must do battle for your right way, cutting a narrow passage through hedge-like thickets, and mate of woody vines, and in• terlaced branches. And then, after a day of hard fighting, you lay yourself' down at the foot of some giant tree, and look up, to where the terighs are all mingled to gether, and single leaves are undistin guishable, where the fragments of blue sky seem hardly more distant than the tree tops. as it you saw them through an inverted telescope; and then off through the vague network of leaves and tree trunks, and ropelike roots, and twisted vines, until the vision is lost you know not where; only you feel in your inmost soul that there is a mysterious and unfathomed depth beyond; you know that you are hardly within the borders of the wilder ness where you could travel for months aisl never reach the end ; you . compare your owu littleness with the littleness of a single tree, which, standing alone, would be a beacon for miles around ; and you bow your head with fear and trembling, with the cry of the human, 'lle pitiful, 0 God !" At first there is only the overwhelming impression of exteal and impenetrable tangle. After a while the eyes grow ac• costumed to the labyrinth, and we begin to notice the component parts; then we see how different the highland fotest is from the pictures we have drawn of We get our ideas of the tropics from the greenhouses, where a great number .of broad leaved, handsome plants are gathered from every quarter of the world, and thr . own. together without any regard to their dis• tribution in nature; all of them remark able for their singular forms, or bright colors, or showy flowers. But the high forest has nothing to compare : with this ; in many respects it rather resembles our . woods at home, only it is far thicker and higher. Palms are common in many places, but, as their tops are lost in the tangle above, we hardly notice them; only the large stemless curuas sometimes form a peculiar foreground. There are no ba nanas, no callas, no bamboos; even the orchids and bromelias are hidden among the branches, fifty feet over our heads.— For the most part the trees look much like northern species. Almost all forest trees are straight and comparatively slender; here the trunks are more buried in foliage, and the upper branches are a hundred, perhaps a hundred and fifty feet from the ground. Some form fluted columns of buttresses around the roots ; a few are spiny. In the foliage we only notice the curious effect produced by the preponderance of pinnate leaves, as in the acacias and myr tles. But in the northern wood, over large tracts we find only pines, or beeches, or oaks, or at most only four or five kinds together. Here there will hardly be two kinds alike on an acre; in a day's walk we may see three or four hundred species. But there are exceptions to this; in many places the ground is largely occupied by two or three species, but not to the entire exclusion of the others. A Child's Heart. The other day a curious old woa►an, having a bundle in !rar hand, and walking with painful effort, sat down on a curb-step, up Woodward avenue, to rest. She was curious because her garments were neat and clean, though threadbare, and carious because a smile crossed her wrinkled face as children passed her. It might have been this smile that attracted a group of three little ones, the oldest about nine.— They stood in a row in front of the old woman, saying never a word, but watching her face. The smile brightened, lingered, and then suddenly Laded away, and a ear ner of her old calico apron went up to wipe away a tear. Then the eldest child stepped forward and asked: "Are you sorry because you haven't got any children ?" "I—l had children once, but they are all d—dead!" whispered the woman, a sob in her throat. "I'm awful sorry," said the little girl as her own chin quivered. "I'd give you one of my little brothers here, but you see I haven't got but two, and I don't believe I'd like to spare one." "God bless you, child—Mess you for ever!" sobbed the old woman, and for a full minute her face was buried in her apron. "But I'll tell you what do," seriously continued the4hild. "You may kiss us all once, and little Ben isn't afraid you way kiss him four times, for he's just as sweet as candy !" 'Pedestrians who saw three well dressed children put their arms around that strange old woman's neck and kiss her were greatly puzzled. They didn't know the hearts of children, and they didn't hear the woman's words as she' rose to go : "Oh ! children, I'm only a poor. old woman, believing I'd nothing to live ter, but you've given me a lighter heart than I've had for ten long years !"—Detroit Free Pass. A YOUNGSTER being required to write a composition upon some portion of the human body selected that which unites the head to the body, and expounded as follows: "A throat is convenient to have, especially to roosters and ministers. The former eats corn and crows with it; the latter preaches through his'n, and then ties it up. This is pretty much all I can think of about necks." NO. 46.
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