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L’lthlu three months; after which Three Dollars
[will bo charged. These terms will be rigidly ad
hered to in every instance. No subscription dis
continued until all arrearages are paid, unless at
ho option of the Editor.
IhofcjsaUmal Ctarta.
A DAM KELLER, Attorney at
A\_ law, Carlisle. OlDoo with W. M. Penrose,
teq., Rhoem's Holt
October 8,1867—0m*
UNITED STATES CLAIM
AND
REAL ESTATE AGENCYI
WM. B. BUTLER,
ATTORRIST AT LAW, &
Office in 2d Story of InhofTa Building, No. 8 South
Hanover Street, Carlisle, Cumberland county,
Ponno.
Pensions, Bounties, Back Pay, Ac., promptly
collected. . .
Applications by moll, will receive immediate
attention.
Particular attention gluen to the selling or rent
ing of Real Estate, in town or country. la all let
ters of inquiry, please enclose postage stamp.
July 11,1867—tr
r\R. GEORGE S. BEARIGHT, Den-
I J TI3T. From the Baltimore College of Denial
Bargery . Office at the residence of his mother,
East Louthor street, throe doors below Bedford,
Carlisle, Penna.
Dec. 1,1805.
iM WEAKLEY, Attorney at Law.
, Office on South Hanover street. In the room
morly occupied by A. B. Sharpe. Esq.
E. BELTZHOOVER, Attorney
P a and Counselor at Law, Carlisle, Pcnna.
Office on South Hanover street, opposite Benia s
Store. By. special arrangement with the Patent
Office, attends to scouring Patent Rights.
Deo. 1.1805. '
CHAS. E. MAGLAUGHLIN, Attor
ney at LAW. Office In Building formerly
occupied by Volunteer, a few doors South of Han
non's Hotel.
Deo. 1,1865..
TOHN. 0. GRAHAM, Attorney at
si-Law.’ Office formerly occupied by Judge
Graham, South Hanover street, Carlisle, Penna.
Deo. 1, 1805-ly.
MC. HERMAN, Attorney at Law.
. Office in Rheem’s Hall Building/In the
rear of the Court House, next door to tho “Her
ald” Office, Carlisle, Pcnna.
Dec. 1.1805.
SF. SADLER, Attorney at Law,
- Carlisle, Penna. Office In Building for
occupied hy Volunteer, South Hanover
street.
Dec. 1, 1885. ___
~\XT KENNEDY Attorney at Law.
YY . Carlisle, Penna. Office same as that ol
the “American volunteer,” South side of tho Pub
lic Square.
Dec. 1. 1885.
JOHN LEE, Attorney at Law,
North Hanover Street, Carlisle, Pa.,
I* eh. 15,1806—ly.
TAMES A.-DUNBAR. Attorney at
fj Law, Carlisle, Penna. Office a few doors
west of Hannon's Hotel.
Doc. 1,1805.
BR. J. R. BIXLER offers bis profes
sional services to the citizens of Carlisle and
alty.
Office on Main street, opposite tho Jail, in tho
room lately occupied by L. Todd, Esq.
April 11,18 OT
Dig ©ottos.
1867. BPBINO ' 1867.
BAR GAINS
Now opening In
DOMESTIC GOODS,
DRESS GOODS,
CASSIMBRES, SATTINEIT3 AND JEANS,
WHITE GOODS,
DRESS TRIMMINGS,
ZEPHYRS,
RIBBONS AND NOTIONS
RING’S NEW STORE,
NO. 59 WEST MAIN STEEBT,
Opposite tho Mansion House,
Next door to tho Post Office, Carlisle.
. . *
April 18,18G7.
A NEW ATTRACTION
AT '
BEN T Z*® STORE.
Wo have now received a nay .and great sup-
T>ly (if
GOOPS,
consisting of .
< CASBIMEREB,
SATONjgl^,
FLANNELS,
Ajso, YARNS, &c„ &c.
-These we consider a gr ml acquisition to our
1 immense stock of Goods.
LADIES' CLOAKINQ&
In endless variety, such os
WHITNEY BEAVERS,
’in different colors,
CHINCHILLAS, Ac.
Our carpet department lias again Been replen
ished wltn cheap and every description of desi
rable
CARPETINGS & OIL CLOTHS
• \ n variety of design.
Nov, 7,1807. No. 27 8. Hanover SI.
m
HOOP SKIRTS.
WILLIAM T. HOPKINS.
"OUR OWN MAKE.” „
After more than five years experience »ndex
■'perlmentlng In the manufacture of STRICTLY
FIRST QUALITY HOOP SKIRTS, we offer our
Justly celebrated goods to merchants and the
public In conlldenoa of their superiority over all
•others In the American market, and they are so
.acknowledged by all who wear or deal In them,
as they give more satisfaction than any other
skirt; and recommend themselves In every re~
spect* Dealers in Hoop Skirts should make a
note of this fact. EVERY LADY WHO HAS
.NOT GIVEN THEM A TRIAL SHOULD DO 60
WITHOUT FURTHER DELAY.
•Oar assortment embraces every style, length
:ond size for Ladles. Misses and Children. Also.
.Skirts MADE TO ORDER, altered and repaired.
Ask for “ Hopkins’ Own Make,” and be not de
volved. See that the letter “H” la woven on the
tapes between each hoop, and that they are
Stamped “ W. T, HOPKINS’ MANUFACTURER,
•028 AROH STREET, PHILADELPHIA,” upon
-each taps. No others are genuine.
Also, constantly on band a fall line of good
New York and Eastern made Skirts, at very low
prices.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,
April 18.1887-l Om.
Prufi
DRUGS I DRUGS I—Dr. D. Common
having to relinquish an extensive practice,
ai well u ala Drug business In the city or Pltto
• burg, several years on aeepunt ol 1U health,
has now opened at No. 38 N. Hanover street, bo
tween the office’s of Drs. Kleffer and Zltzer, a
DRUG STORE, where he has and la receiving ev
ery tew days a pure stock; of Drugs, Chemicals,
Dye stuns nnd everything gonoraUy kept In a
well-regnlated City Drug Store Proscriptions
carefully compounded and family receipts will
roceivespeoial care. Tho Dr. can bo consulted at
any hour, at hla office, back pf his store, or at his
dwelling. No. U 2 N. Hanover street, after store
hours. Remember the place, No. 88 N. Hanover
Street, Carlisle. , ; pR p CORNMAN.
Sept 12,1SW—ly
J) INEBMITH & EUPP, No. 88 North
Vj -Hanover street, Imvo on hand the iMßest and
at tuaortmont of STOVES and TINWARE, to
ho found In CarUglo.
Cot, 81,1807—tf
BY BRATTON & KENNEDY.
Sjtobea, ®ntoare, &c.
W ANTEDI WANTED
EVERYBODY
TO CALL ON
Messrs. WALKER & CLAUDT,
AT GORGaS’ OLD STAND,
CHURCH ALLEY,
IN REAR OF XIIIEEMS HALL,
TO SEE Tim LARGEST STOCK OV
STOVES AND TINWARE
EVER OFFERED IN CAXUSLE.
As tho season Is approaching for house-keepers
and others to look xor a GOOD STOVE, wo would
beg leave to call their attention to our stock of
COOKING STOVES,
among which may bo found tho following now In
tho markot;
REGULATOR,
QUAKER CITY,
NOBLE COOK,
SUSQUEHANNA,
NIAGARA,
COMBINATION and
EXCELSIOR PENN,
all of which are warranted to bo the best
ROASTERS AND BAKERS,
■with all tho MODERN IMPROVEMENTS.
We would call especial attention to tho REGU
LATOR COOK, whloh possesses -advantages
which should recommend It to all. It hns a RE
VOLVING TOP, by which orrangemont tho cook
can reverse the cooking utensils to any position
desired Without tho NECESSARY LIFTING, It
Is decidedly tho best cook stovo in tho market.
Messrs. Walker A Claudy have also on hand a
large stock of
OFFICE, PARLOR
AND
DINING ROOM STOVES
among which may ho foundtho celebrated BASE
BURNING
MORNING GLORY!!!
MORNING GLQRY.
!>
s
a
WALKER ± CLAUDY, j §
SOLD BT
Solo Agents Q
FOR CARLIBLH.
MORNING GLORY.
THE MOST UEAirrfFIJT, OFFICE AND bATJXOB STOVE
BVKtt OFFEHED TO TJJK PUBLIC.
Too much cannot be said In pralso of tho
MORNING GLORY, which so far Ims taken the
leather all other stoves In tho market. It Is a gas
oonsamer, burns its own cinder, and requires
very little attention after tho fire Is mado.it be
ing so arranged that it wiR
PEED ITS OVN OOALI
For proof of what we have stated wo would re
fer all to tho following gentlemen of Carlisle and
vicinity, who have haa tho MORNING GLORY
in us© lost whiter, ai?d .oJjppjrfUUy testify to
Its merits:
JOHN CAMPBELL, GEO, WEISE.
DAVID RHOADS. W. B. MULLIN, EsQ.,
H. L. BURKHOLDER, JOHN DUNBAR,
J. M. WEAKLEY, Esq., JACOB RITNEU, <tc.
Wo would respectfully nak those who wish to
rarcftoso ft No. 1 stove to call at onco and exqm-
THE GLORY!
Wo also have on hand the
MORNING GLORY HEATER!
WHICH CANNOT FAIL TO GIVE
ENTIRE SATISFACTION!
FLEER’S FRUIT CANS
constantly kept on hand and for sale.
•Our stock of TINWARE la <wcmleto In nil Its
branches ami will bo sold at reasonable prices.
TIN ROOFING AND SPOUTING
AND GENERAL JOBBING,
promptly attended to and don© In tho most
workmanlike manner.
#3* Do not forget to give us AN EARLY CALL (
AN .'yw/iw- V /• WALKER «t CLAUDY,'
v - i •*' \y- Gorgets' Old Stand.
August 1,
TAMBSM'GONIGAL
UAinirACiinuiß and maAnun in '
STOVES TIN AND SHEET-IRON WARE,
&nOA Hanover SL t Adjoining Blair <fc Soh's Grocery ,
CARLISLE, PA
The subscriber thankful for past favors, ro
spectfully Informs his friends and tho public,,
that ho has now on hand a largo supply of the
latest and best improved
COOK and
PARLOR BTOV&3,
v HEATERS and RANGES.
In the Stovo Department wo desire to call par
ticular attention to the following, comprising os
they do, tho very best Cook and Parlor Stoves
now In use:
NIMROD,
QUAKER CITY,
EXCELSIOR, PENN,
NOBLE COOK,
NIAGARA,
SUSQUEHANNA and IRONSIDES.
To apeak at length of tho different Stoves would
occupy too much space, but we deem it necessa
ry to ftAii the attention of the public to tho
EMPIRE GAS BURNER.
Thla truly wonderful Parlor and Offlce Stove
la so constructed that the cheapest quality of
coal (Lknebumer’s), can be used with success.—
It barns continuously and the lire Is easily kin
dled. It la capable of beating one room below
and two rooms above. Thera la no dust and no
escape of gas, and on actual saving of coal, which
Intwoor three seasons will pay for the stove..
TbeEmplre has many valuable qualities whloh
can only be fully, appreciated by seeing 11 In op
eration. We claim that It is far superior to any
other Stovo now In use, and.wo feel satisfied that
wo can convince all who will favor us with an
examination of tho Stove at our shop of thla part.
We have on hand a full assortment of
TIN W A RE.
Repairing promptly attended to. ‘ Roofing done
at Iho shortest notice. Spouting will bo put up
Street. aSjolntog Blair's a^- M , QONIGAL .
Sept, 19,1SOT—6m
TJLAIN and FANCY FEINTING of
jT ktbby desgbiftxov rwaity executed At tne
WWBTBXB OfflioQ
[Special Correspondence of tho 2Y, T. Tribune,
THE PACIFIC RAILROAD.
RAILROAD CONTRACTORS COMPELLED TO
CARRY ON WAR—THE KANSAS INDI
ANS FIGHTING FOR A PARADISE.
27CTU Mile-Post of the Union Pacific 1
Railway, Kansas Branch, Sept. 21, ’O7. j
Tho North I]ork of tho Big Creek, an
affluent of tho Smoky Hill, divides at
this point the' bed of the national road
across tho Continent, and sjiould have
been baptized by Congress, “Tho Atlan
tic and Pacific Railway,” with a water
channel 240 foot wide. A Howe-trusa
bridge issues from the east bank, and
grows over to the west abutment with a
movement rapid and grand, for which I
find no comparison save tho arching
birth of an iron rail from tho jaws of the
rolls.
’Tis an 18-inch square black walnut
beam that I stand on, cut and sawed-270
miles awny from hero. The ties that
wait their iron, right up to tho bank of
the Fork, are of oak. A pockot-riilo ap
plied to them shows that the smallest
have a face of 7 inches; mainly they face
from 10 to 14 inches. Tho contract of the
road with its builders rejects all under 7,
and rejects, too, that meanest tlmber.on
the continent—tho cottonwood. Heavy,
broad-oak ties, a 12-feet,road bed, water
channels on both sides of tho track, 27-
fcot American rails, 56 pounds to tho yard,
(tho Cambria Company's best), two spikes
to each rail to every tie, 2,400 tics to a
mile; manifestly tins Kansas branch of
tho Union Pacific Railway is being built
to be kept, owned, and operated by its
builders. Manifestly it is not being con
structed for its franchises, and it will nev
er be flung upon tho hands of tho Gov
ernment as a work too costly to bo re
built and maintained, or too difficult to be
operated, or too unremuncrative to bo
owned, or as a speculation which has ri
pened all of its expected fruits in its last
receipt of the public aid. This oak tie
cost, within sight of tho Missouri River,
$1.50. Mules and locomotives alternately
hau'lng it have brought it 270 miles, right
past and temptingly near to tho cotton
wood, which the contractors’ axes do not
respect but despise. As it lies hero, this
oak stick is an expensive filament in tho
chain that is to bind together the Atlan
tic and Pacific States. Yet the thousand
of ties piled up all around waiting pass
age over the Big Creek to tho 43 miles of
track already graded beyond the bridge,
are all of oak and as costly.
lam in the buffalo-range. This short,
curly, springy, matted grass is buffalo
grass. The horizon-bounded prairie is
wholly pitted with indentationsasif it had
the small-pox last Spring. Myriads of
buffaloes rolled here while shedding their
hair, and pawed tho cooling dirt on their
irritated skins. For 70 miles have I come
through these “buffalo wallows” and
over buffalo trails, the broad and deep cow
paths of old Eastern farms. Musket# and
rifles lie on tho ground about me, conve
nient of reach by men who shovel and
pick upon tho line of the road. ■ Six
graves break the smoothness of the pra
rio beyond the Fork. Five of tho dead
who sleep In them were killed by Apache
arrows. There is not a house, nor a hut,
mor a tent for 68 miles behind me. North,
west, and south is the sea of grass that
rolls to tho Rocky Mountains. Every
ounce of food, save buffulo-meat, every
stick of wood to raise steam or cook a pot
of coffee, every ear of corn for the con
tractors' horses and mules, is brought
from far to the East. Tho line of direct
est route bore tho track away from the
river. Therefore, tho Water for the work
men, and tho animals. and tho locomo
tives, had to bo dug for, and the wells had
to be huge. What a country to build a rail
road in! And yet what country on earth
is there in which a road should be built
rather than this? Look at this soil at
this 279th mile-post. Eighteen inches of
black loam overlying a deep subsoil of
loamy clay, do surely guarantee heavy
crops of wheat and corn to even careless
farming. The grass that has sprung up
in the denuded buffalo-wallows, Is not
tho short aud curly buffalo-grass, but is
of the long and vigorous growth of the
prairies east of the Mississippi. The bu f
falo gone, aud the annual fires kindled
by tho Indians discontinued, and domes
tic stock cyen sparsely introduced, tho
verdure of this vast ypgiqq will be imme
diately aud permanently changed, and
hay for the nation can he cut here. The
tramping, rolling, and browsing-buffalo
gone, and tho firing of tho dead grass to
start an early growth of feed discontin
ued, trees, by a law of nature, will imme
diately spring from the soil, and in 15
years, tho fabled “ Great American Des
ert” will be a timbered country as it now
is a land of unsurpassed excellence for
grazing. With tho tiiqborw.iU come in
creasing moisture and more frequent rains
for cultivated crops. Tho “ Great Ameri
can Desert!” Supreme lie of our old ge
ographies and atlases, exceeding the
Munchausonisms of the maelstrom of
Norway, aud tho more ancient humbug
of the attriding dangers of Scylla and
Charybdial Why, this region, -the cen
tre of that picture which* in every map of
the United States 30 years ago, and down
to a quite recent period, was strippled
aud painted fiery yellow, i.or left blank
white, and made to represent utter bar
renness and suggest thirst and death to
man and animal—this region is now In
large part the very garden of America,
and will altogether, constitute under tho
name of Kansas, the richest, healthiest,
handsomest, ana most populous agricul
tural State in the Union within 20 years
from this day. Nothing la wanting to
assure this destiny.
Running parallel to tho railroad, and
on both aides of it, stratified limestone
crops out from tho aides of tho gently
swelling loam-coverod bluffs which rin>
thewide river bottoms—white,cream col
ored, pink, yellow, and red building
stone, wholly iiiexhaustable, lying hori
zontal, requiring no other quarrying than
the use of a crow-bar to lift it in blocks
out of position—stone as wonderful in its
adaption for immediate architectural use
as it is admirable for its beauty. In the
quarry it is soft, in the sense that it Is
easily worked. I have seen it hewn to
shape with the common wood-ax —have
seen it morticed with a carpenter's chisel
as quickly as ts pine beam could be mor
ticeffT-ffave seen it planned with a jack
plane, sawed with g sprqlhsaw into brack
ets aud ornamental door and window
caps. and’eut wltba“ buzn” sawl nto yard
square blocks for sidewalks and into
bricks of required size. This material, so
easily worked, hardens on exposure to
the air, and becomes as impenetrable as
Tennessee marble. It is identically the
Caen stone of France . Travelers who
have seen the beautiful effect which that
material gives io Napolpon'p new archi
tecture In Paris can apprec:ate the quiff i
•ties of this rook vjhloh underlies Ihc whole
of the high praiHc land of Kansas, and
which will make Kansas a State of stone
bouses cheaper than can be built any
where else in the world, and painted
while yet In the quary with the four most
popular colors.
Morn yet. Tho lifting of the vail with
which ffrsti Border Ruffianism, and then
the hostile Indians, bgve for twelve years
covered Kansas and hidden from view
her marvelous endowment of beauty and
wealth, reveals to us now that a part of
her lavish heritage Is Bltuminious Coal.
Kansas can afford to wait for, timber to
succeed the buflblo, and the annual grass
burning of the Cheynnes and the Arra-'
paboes. Thereisabundantcoal near Fort
Wallace, and surveyors' aud the scouts,
and tralo-inasters, familiar with every
mile square of the plains, report it in
workable veins near Harker and Hayes.
The “Coal Question,” tho vital one in
transcontinental railroad engineering,
has been solved for this line of Pacific*
Railway. West of Kansas the company's
surveyed route strikes sixteen feet of
bituminous fuel of tho best quality. The
Engineers report the deposit to be suffi
cient not only for tho uses of the road for
ever, but for Colorado and Arizona as
well as for all Kansas. But independent
of this supply; Kansas can, from her own
resources, furnish herself witli coal on
herparirles for domestic and manufactur
ing purposes. And it is timely here to
CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1867,
say that domestic life in Kansas, and
manufacturing and farming industry,
maintain in an atmosphere where con
sumption as an indigenous disease is un
known, and in which the delicate or dis
eased lungs of settlers from the Fast are
braced to health and new leases of life are
taken on tho cheap condition of mere res
piration.
Whata superb country, and what a tru
ly national enterprise is this that trav
erses it! And yet aeo how it has to light
every mil© of its progress to the Pacillc,
and how it crawls across the continent
when the guardian hand of the nation
should push it with military speed. See
theso muskets and carbines on the grass,
and these belted revolvers. See these
graves filled by the victims of a savage
and murderous opposition to the con
struction of this beneficent and needed
highway. I said to Mr. B. M. Shoema
ker, tho head of the great railroad-build
ing firm of Shoemaker & Co.: “ Sir,
you have a double and discouraging
work to do. ‘While you construct this
lino under extraordinary difficulties, it
seems to mo that you aro also required to
carry on an Indian war. I never hoard
of a contractor who had such a load put
upon bim.”^
“ Yes, I have to fight while I dig. I
wish the .Government would discharge
its duty to this enterprlse-r-do tho fight
ing and leave mo to do tho digging. The
work on this road certainly should bo
protected from warlike interruption, for
in a large sense it is a natioual cutcrpriso.
Infantry in sufficient force should guard
my men at their labor. Cavalry should
scour tho country on both sides of the
line as it progresses. The road, as fastos
completed and operated, perhaps can take
care of itself. I consider that it settles
the Indian question as it goes. You can
see from this dally record which is kept
by one of my clerks what sort of a work
it Is to build 250 miles of Pacific Railway
across the Plains, and you can also see
tho necessity of hearty governmental co
operation with the work.”
I turned over the leaves of this log-,
book, kept on tho sea of grass, and culled
from it the following entries:
March I.—Cold, rainy day. Men struck
for higher wages.
March 13.—Intensely .cold last night.—
Negro woman and two oxen frozen to
death at Soloman. Nearly all teamsters
ha*' frozen feet. No work done.
• March 18.—Dry, windy. Laid 1§ miles
track.
April 3.—-Rainy and windy. Lpid
8,235 feet track.
A2)ril 10.—Out of wood; burning cross
ties.
April 11.—Out of wood and burning
cross-ties.
April 12.—Burning cross-tics.
Ajiril 15. —Whole country under water.
Little work done.
April 16.—Little work done. Whole
country under water.
May 8. —Laid 13,720 feet, of track, or
2 G-10 miles. Gen, Hancock spent tho
day on the* works; hi the evening con
gratulated the men on having done a
good day’s work.
June 10. —Several culverts east of Rock
Creek Spring side-track washed out, and
track east and west of Dry Creek flooded.
June 11.—All hands filling up washed
out culverts and embankments, and sav
ing bridges and culverts.
June 27. —Laid 3,780 feet of track. Re
port of Indian attacks on Government
train near Mill’s Camp, on Cow Creok>
and on McCorrajck’s Camp west of Cow
Creek, and Riley’s Camp at Wilson’s
Creek. At latter, one man of our party
killed, one wounded. Three or foqr In
dians including a chief killed. Robinson,
Lansing, and I went to distribute guns.
June 28.—5,022 feet of track laid. Ex
pected an Indian fight at Wilson’s Creek
at daylight. No Indians came. Wo left
in disgust with tho Rod man,
July 2.—No track laid. All hands grad
ing at old town of Ellsworth—raising,
grade above reach of high water.
July 22. —Laid 1$ miles track to 230th.
mile post, and raised bridge 80 feet long
over Fremont Creek. Sergeant of our
guard died of cholera last night.
July 23.—Laid H miles of track, finish
ed Fremont Creek bridge, commenced 120‘
foot bridge over Cow Creek. Lane, one
of our carpenters, and a temperance man’,
taken ill at 4 P. M. yesterday, died of
cholera at 3 this A. M. Mat. Green,
foreman of track layers, Davis, boss car-
E enter, With-eroll, paymaster, and the
lacksmltb all sick.
July 24.—Laid A mile track and finish
ed Cow Creek bridge. About a quarter of
our best track men have left within.the
past week.
July 25.—Heavy rain last night; wash
ed away about 50 feet of track. Laid J
mile new track.
July 26. —Lyman, contractor, taken
very ill. Roman Catholic priest taken
sick and died last evening.
July 27. —Took Lyman to Fort Hurker
Hospital. Warren Farris deserted his
train. Laid 4,800 feet of track.
July 20.—N0 track laid to-day. Many’
of the men sick; balance repairing dam
ages from heavy rains.
July 30. —Laid 0,500 feet of track.
"Any. I.—Qno of pur guard 3d Infantry
died of cholera to-day-
Aug. 3.—The younger of men sunt to
Ellsworth died to-day. News received
this evening of attack on men of Con
tractors Campbell and Clinton by the In
dians and seven of them kiyod. Attack
made 2 o’clock P. M., the men at work
in a cut. About 25 Indians came on them
suddenly. Two escape on horses,
five were killed outright, one died two
hours after, the other yesterday morning.
Indians took nine head of stock from
Campbell and Clinton.
Aug. 7. —Track laid j mile. Most of
flip day grading where force was driven
off by'Txrdlana in latter navfc pf Juno, and
known us the “ Bloody Ground,”
Aug, 17. —To-day laid 7,344 feet of track.
Delayed ono hour for want of materials,
Aug. 25.—Track up to 249th mile-post.
Gen. Hancock rode over our work and
expressed himself highly pleased with
the progress we had made, considering
difficulties In shape of floods, cholera and
Indians we had to contend with.
Aug. 31V—Laid 8.2351bet0f track to-day.
Delayed one hour by iron runn ng out in
the morning.
Sept. 3. —Laid 9,163 feet of track. All
aroused at JO-P. M., by one of the cavalry
guards firing at toyq qf their o\yn ujoqnt
ed men. Our men badly soared.
Sept. 4.—Laid up to noon 3,448 feet of
track. Majority of the workmen refused
to go out m the afternoon, saying tho
grubsupplied tothem wasn’t goodenough.
No cause for their conduct—only desire
to make a disturbance. • •
Sept. 9.—Laid 8,424 feet of track. V
Sept. 10. —Trade laid, 0,100 feet. . ■■■
Seiit. 11.—Laid 8,100 feet of track.—
Last'night as Falls's train wos going
down to Ellsworth, short distance west
of Cow Creek, engineer saw ties on the
track, but notin time to avoid striking
them. At same moment several shots
wore fired into the train by Indiana, sev
eral of them being seen. This morning
the track was obstructed at same place for
both trains coming west, but no shots
were fired. Two companies cavalry went
to the spot from Fort Barker, found no
body and returned. Track was again ob
structed for socpnfi £rq|a west after cav
alry had passed Ellsworth on return to
Fort Hamer. Indian pony snd mocca
sin tracks were plainly visible on sand
bare in the Smoky near that place*
Sept. 14.—Reports came down to-night
that all the. contractors \Veat .of Fort.
Hayes, were driven in'to that fort last
evening. ' About 100 men left the fort
this 'morning to rescue some 30 of our.
workmen whom tho Indians had corral
ed In a dugrout qbout five miles west of
tho fort. All the* men qt Styarpo & Shaw’s
camp driven in,'completely demoralized.
One of Sharp's men killed. Laid to-day
4,203 feet of track. S. W.
BST* A notorious foppr used to njourn
about not having a regular pair of eyes-r
-ono being black and the other light ha
zel. . “It is lucky for you,” replied ms
friend, “for if your eyes had been match
es, your nose would have set them on fire
long ago,”
Cortical.
THE FROST KING,
A spectre strode across tho land lost night,
Whoso brpw grew dark beneath tho stars’ pale
light.
At length, close mufllecl In n cowl, ho stood
In tho dusk outskirts of ahlll-sldo wood.
Hla eyca were glossy, but their glance wos bold;
His breath was chill—his shrivelled Angers cold.
Ho stretched hla icy hands abroad ; olas 1
The light tlow froze to crystal on tho grass.
Tho fair green leaves began to crisp and curl
With nil tho rodlouttlnttngs of npcorl v
And rustling mournful requiems In the wind,
In death, liko lovers fond, together twined.
Tho few surviving Cowers grow wan and pale,
Their dying odors fed the plUlcai gnlo.
And showers of quivering petals In the globm
Of a near churchyard, drifted round a tomb.
Tho graceful ferns drooped lower than before,
Like broken hearts that rise to hopo no more.
Tho prickly chcsnut burrs dropped slowly down,
And ghastly grinned with teeth of polished
1 brown.
Hill, forest, field, and valo grow sere and dry.
With sad, dhmb sllcuco, as If wondering why.
All Nature's fair gifts 'nealh a monarch will,
Died, as they murmured softly—" I’eaco, bo
still!”
Tho watchful stars paled at tho approach of
dawn,
And, smiling at tho change sin co yeslcr-morn.
Tho spectre stooped and wrote upon tho clay
Beauty’s death-warrant, the ono word—“ IJe*
- cay!”
Sniamernfl’rlghfed, fied before tils sight;
Behold tho Frost King—“Spectre of tire night I”
diluelfattou6.
QUEEN VICTORIA ANI> MR. BROWN.
London is tho centre of England. The
Queen is the centre of London. Her pres
ence is the light of tho aristocracy—her
absence their sorrow. Her going out and
coming in—her down sitting and upris
ing—when and where she walks or rides—
how she dresses—to whom she speaks—
who attends hor—are carefully noted and
greedily read. After thirty years of a
model domestic life, with , her domestic
fame traveling round the globe, and her
self the idol of tho British public, an
American is astonished to find the Lon
don atmosphere full of scandal; tho name
of the highest lady in the land connected
with ono of her lowest subjects; the name
of the “Queen and Mr. ’Brown” on the
lips of all classes, from the rag-picker in
the streets to the peer in tho realm. The
Queen is seldom seen in London. She
flits back and forth from Windsor Castle
only to meet the duties of. Btato. Site sel
dom sleeps at Buckingham Palace, her
own town residence. She likes the re
treat at Windsor, and lives near the room
W’horo the Prince Consort breathed his
last. Thesolitude of the Isle of Wight is
a favorite with her, forshocau ride twenty
iniles iu her own dominion without being
seen. Among the Highlands at Balmo
ral she lays off* tho Queen and plays the
woman. Driving around in alow wheel
ed carriage to which is attached a runt of
a pony, she visits tho sick, tho infirm,
and the poor. Her carriage is loaded with
comforts which she distributes with her
own hand. Her coining to any house Is
a benediction. All this the Londoners
dislike. They pay for the pomp and the
show of royalty, and they want it. They
give the Queen five thousand dollars a
day in gold. They furnish tho palace,
her state carriages and her hundred hor
ses, the plate for royal banquets, and also
pay for tho entertainment of all royal
-guests. Her refusal to join in tho gayest
of life—the closing of the palaces and her
refusal to play the Queen deeply offend
•the Londoners. It harms trade, they say,
and the sufferings of the poor for tho
want of employment are laid at the
Queen’s door. Her ministers have plead
ed with her to meet the public demand.
Punch has lampooned her with his most
effective saracasm. A less worthy retire
ment is uow.attributed to the Queen than
grief for.the Prince Consort. In print
and in speech she is accused of being in
love with Mr. Brown. It is openly said
that she has transferred her affections for
the Prince Consort to this gentleman.
WHO IS MR. BROWN ?
Mr. Brown is the Queen’s confidential
servant. Her majesty found him at Bal
moral. On a visit to that castle she be
came a widow, she found a servant silent,
end and obsequious, very Attentive, very
efficient, a man who seldom spoke a word.
On inquiry she .found that the man had
been u servant long in the employ of
Prince Albert. He enjoyed the confi
dence of the Prince. His mourning for
his late master was the talk of the castle.
The Queen took him at oiico into her em
ploy, and it is said into her affection. Be
ing a Highlander, lie came into the pres
ence of Her Majesty in full custome.’that
is, with bare lege, to the great scandal of
the full dressed lackeys of tho palace.—
From stop to step Brown went up till he
has become the prime minister of tho
Queen's household. All her orders go
through him. His body-guard are High
landers also, and the old feud between the
Scotch and the English is revived in the
Queen's presence. AH sorts of stories
were started and are still in circulation.
Atone tlmeitwas reported thatsho would
marry Drown if she had to abdicate. Tho
Queen Is known to be a spiritualist, upon
whiefi it lg said thatsho hqllcvosj the spir
it df Rr|noe Albert to tie lij this man. All
Eossible influence have been brought to
ear to .remove him from the Queen’s
service. Bho is well aware of tho scandal
connecting her name with Brown’s, but
she will not yield one jot. To the impas
sioned expostulation of her ministers she
refilled by an imperious wave of her hand,
which Induced the ministers to buck out
audjdepart. , ,
HOW BROWN LOOKS.
Wherever you find the Queen there you
will find Brown. He is a shrewd Scotch
man, who knows that there is no power
behind tfie t-broqq thftt cqn toqtoh him.
Pfe is q coarse, ponpqoq-lQQklng sort of q
follow with irqn-gcqy hair. Ho is about
yifty years of age, nervous and wiry, with
?[uitc a stoop in his gait; coarse, hard
cnturcs, wich make him look like a col
lier or ditcher dressd up, and quite un
comfortable In his nice clothes. Ho is
about as unattractive-looking a person as
any day-laborer about our warves. Ho is
nervous, buisy, meddlesome, but ho at
tends strictly to his duties. He seen* to
know nothing, and cprtqinly spends to
oaro nothing for tho detestation in whio|i
ho is held by the servants of the Queen,
and the nation at large.
THE QUEEN AND BROWN ON CANVAS;
The opening of the Royal Academy at
London for tho season is a great event.—
The aristocracy attend the opening. An
extra charge is made the first day, and all
London goes because there is a jam. At
tho opening in May lost a genuine sensa
tion was produced.
One picture oxoitpd the attention of nil
visitors. Crowds hung around it through
the whole day. This picture occupied
one side of an appartmont. It was called
the “ Widowed Queen.” It was a superb
life-size likeness of Victoria. The scene
is laid at Osborne. She is represented in
a close-fitting habit, and robed wholly in
black, as usual, her widow's cap being
hidden under her bat. She is mounted
onan elegant black horse, ami is repre
sented qs reading q desnqtcl}, while q let
ier fallen frQmhecnqnd’iios on tljoground.
In 'the foreground, at tho head of her
horse, Stands tho noted Brown, as com
plete a likeness as was over drawn of
mortal man, He is represented in his
Highland costumo. He was put in tho
pominont position he occupies, it is said,
by. order of the Queen. X was present
when the Academy was opened and this
picture' first exhibited. The room in
which it hangs was crowded with the
nobility and tho elite of London. It was
known thatagrand likenessof tbeQueon
• was to bo the leading feature of the Exhi
bition. All were on tip-too to behold
this great work of art. But no ono knew
that Mr. Brown was to be exhibited also.
. When the curtain was rolled up there
was an insensible bowl of indignation.
Some ladies actually covered their, faces.
“It’s Brown! it’s Brown! wbatashame!”
was heard all round. Threats were made
to cut Brown’s head out of tho canvas,
and it will bo done if the people have a
chance. Crowds surrounded the picture
all tho time, as people will look at a dis
agreeable object, and this picture is high
ly offensive to the Queen’s subjects.
THE REAL FACTS ABOUT MR. BROWN.
The Queen can have no society. No
subject can speak to her without her per
mission. She Is as Isolated as the statue
of Nelson on the top of tho column at
Trafalgar Square. On the death of the
Prince who had done all the business of
the State, she found herself alone with
tho kingdom and an* immense household
to take care of. She could get nothing
done. Her orders had to run through a
dozen or twenty hands. The royal ser
vants have a routine out of which they
will not go even for tho Queen. It takes
about twenty to do one’s man’s work,—
The servant who opens ono door will not
open the next. The one who brings a
pitcher of water will not fill the glass.—
The Queen found in Brown a prompt,
able and attentive .servant. She gave
him full charge of her domestic arrange
ments. If sho wishes to rido or walk,
have a carriage or have a railroad train,
her orders go through Brown.. He is at
tentive and obsequious, but is an excel
lent busines man.. One of the Queen’s
characteristics is promptness. She ex
acts this of her servants, and Brown
meets this exactly. Ho attends the
Qneon in all her journeys. He presides
over that portion of Windsor Castle ap
propriated as tho Queen’s residence. In
to it none Of tho royal servants enter
without his permission. He has more in
fluence over the Queen than any living
man in the Kingdom, and he will hold
his position ns long as tho Queen holds
hers. But he Is thoroughly detested by
all the household. Littlo ho cares for
that.
BROWN AT THE RAILWAY STATION.
The coming and going of the Queen
from Windsor is heralded .in tho court
papers. AH London goes to see the arri
val or departure. Sho has a special train
to herself. A right royal train it is. It
consists of three coaches, an engine ele
gantly adorned, and a pilot engine runs
.before. Nothing is ullewcd on the track
while the royal train is running in or out.
Twenty minutes before the train leaves
Loudon nothing is allowed to start from
Windsor. Nothing leaves London till
the signal is given that the Queen has
reached the royal station at hor castle.—
It costs the Queen $5OO for the round trip,
which she pays out of her own pocket,
every time the train runs from Windsor
to London and back. Over this train
Mr. Brown exercises supreme control.—
In the presence of hundreds of people
who gather in and about the station to
witness tho royal sight, Brown enters the
middle coach to be occupied by his royal
mistress, and examines everything, to
see if it is all right. Ho stands on the
crimson carpet stretching from the outer
door to tho Queen’s coach. He looks
steadily into tho eyes of the crowd, who
are kept back by the railing and by tho
police, and does so with the look of a
servant of the lower class, yet with as
shrewd and “canny” a look as any
Scotchman who ever crossed tho border.
His quick ear catches the sound of the
advancing cortege. The Queen’s train
starts at half after five. It is twenty
seven minutes after five and Her Majesty
has not appeared. Said tho officer who
stood beside mo on the crimson carpet, in
answer to my question, “Is not the
Queen late?” “Doycusee that clock?
It is now twonty-nino minutes past five.
In half a minute those doors will open,
the Queen will enter, take her seat, the
whistle will sound and tho train bo in
motion half a minute after precisely.”—
Sure enough, at tho exact moment men
tioned the doors were thrown open and
tho Queen, headed by Brown, entered, —
A short, thick-set, Germun-looking wo
man she was. dressed wholly in black,
followed by ner younger children and
the ladies of her household. Sho walked
with a sharp, imperious tread, looking
neither to tho rightnor to the left. Brown
handed her into the coach. The doors
went to with a slam. Brown gave the
signal and disappeared in one of the
apartments. The train moved on the ex
act minute, amid faint cheers to the
Queen,and loudexecratloiHon “ Brown.”
TJic Foimtln uv TonJJi,
A .MOVIN' T ALE—WAKU ANTED ITUKI.Y VEGETAIILE,
AND NONE GENUINE UNLESS SIGNED DYTJIEIMIO^
eunrrou.
By Petroleum F. Rasby, p. ?jk, (Il'ich is Poshn(u!n\)j
CHAP. I.
I wuz In Noo York city, that gay me
tropolis, the seefc of luxury and refine
montj and the home uv.Tolui Monday and
tho black Crook.-
Thither lied I come, after O how many
days uv tiresome walkin ez the rear gard
uv a drove uv tho cattle uv a thousand
hills uv western Pennsylvany. I wuz In
Noo York, and on Broadway wuz a site !
Tho rumbliu, jumbliu mass uv wagons
ami stages and coaches! the sidewalks
filled with a huiryin mass, tho rich, the
poor, the high, the low, the proud, the
humble, tho aged, the youthful!
I gazed into the winder uv a drugstore.
Fatal gaze! Unfortunate look! Thqtlqok
hod infloosneo onto my fuqheu life. '
• \Vqt did I 6ee?'
A card. ...
Thus it rod : “ Barrett’s Hair Restora
tive'?” with a pictor uv a man with thin,
gray lox afore usin it, and the same man
with heavy hair ez black i z Poe’s stately
raven uv tho days uv yore, after usin it.
Only this and nothin more.
It wnz euuff. My hair wnz gray. I
bought a bottle,and applied ifcezby direc
tions on the wrapper.
CHAP. 11.
Home agin! homo agin I from a furrln
shore! I wuz on the threshold uv my
homestid, wich wuz a homo to me, hum
bumble though It wuz. Loozeir Jane,
the wife u v my buzzum, wuz at the gate a
gortsipln with her nabor ez wuz her wont.
“ Looizer Jane!” shreekt I.
“ S-i-r!” said she'in a surprised tone.
“ Ha,” hist I, “is this the treatment a
fond husband receevea on his return to
the buzzum ov his family ?
“Husband! yoo? is’t possible? Wher
is them gray lox? Hast grown young
agin, ez when in boyhood’s prime thou
woodst and won me? Itcqnuot bo,—and
yit,-—that breath! Itisl Ip is I 1 * and sho
B\yoond|d at my feet.* The children I hed
more trouble with, but they finally ac
knowledged me. The nose wuz the feech-
took hold uv; that was unchang
ed.
CHAP, HI.
“ Husband mine!" she sed to me in
her winniest tone, “ thy lox is black,
while mine, alas ! is gray. Buy for mo
also Buyyett’s potent curq, thqt I may p.o
qz fust yoo me in Jove’s young
dream!”
Good I resist the entreaty ? Nary. I
bought a bottle, and lo I in a month she
was transformed. Her rusty gray hair
become cz black cz jet. A now set uv
custom-made teeth, which cost mo fifty
dollars, completed tho metamorphose,
and she wusyoung agin,— heryooth cosin
me fifty-one dollars, cash.
Disastrous InYUStiqentj Fmuv weeks
from (liqt'tlqtc, sl;e rqu off’ with ayankoo
pedlqr, who sposed she was hut twenty
four!
Kin I sue Barrett and git judgment for
hervaiyoo? Alas, no! And sol plod
on wearily mid alone, a uiisablo objick, I
cqpld marry agin es a young man, but
this fond heart kin never thump for
anuthor.
False Looizer Jane! Too efllcashus
Barrett!
VOL. SL-m 22,
Tim Wortli of Knowlctlec. y
Could young men generally be
eel to bolievo that “ knowledge is power,”
ami he who possesses it has withm him
self all the elements of enjoyment and
success in life, there would be a closer
husbanding of leisure hours, fewer eve
nings spent in lounging upon corners,
and fewer dimes and dollars expended for
cigars, lager beer, and tobacco, ami other
costly ami hurtful indulgences. It were
folly to assert that such ability as. was
possessed by Shakespeare, Scott, Ma
cauly, Noah Webster, Agassiz, or other
illustrous poets, novelties, historians,
lexicographers or naturalists, Is within
the reach of all men ; but it is sound phil
osophy to assume that every young man
who will, may so store his mind with
useful knowledge as to fit him for pleas
ant and profitable association with intel
ligent men. The evening hours wbicli
the majority of our young men fritter
away in idle lounging and unprofitable
conversation and association, if properly
spent wouldgivo them a moral inUucncein
society, and improve their chances of suc
cess in life.toa degree that can scarcely be
over-estimated. How small an amount
of money Is sufficient to secure to those
who desire to cultivate a taste for mental
Information all the needed facilities? —
Think of it young men! the fifth of the
cost of that bad cigar you smoke, or of the
glass of lager you drink every evening,
will secure to you for that evening the pe
rusal at homo of some Interesting and
valuable book. Surely the thrusting
aside of such golden opportunities is little
less than criminal, when it is remember
ed that their improvement would not
only proveaaoureb of lifetime enjoyment,
but in almost every pursuit of life a pow
erful adjunct to success. Ho is but half
fulfilling the purposes of his creation
who, having within ready reach the
means of improvement, fails to employ
them. He is but half a man who, with
books and newspapers at command, con
tents himself with ignorance and mere
sensual enjoyments. An upright, skill
ful mechanic is to be commended always;
but when to his skill ho adds a compre
hensive and cultivatedintellcct, he stands
before the world one of nature’s noble
men, Neither wealth, rank, nor power
can enchauce the lusturo of his character.
Why have wo not*thousands such? —
Viewed In a more utilitariu light, how
superior are the advantages of such a
man !. How much more readily will ho
find profitable employment; how better
fitted for the discharge of duty, whore he
combines Intelligence with skill! The
well informed mind directs the masterly
hand, and his labor, instead of wearying
drudgery, becomes pleasant recreatlou
Sjqiiownll JacUflon’s First Public Prnyor.
When General “ Stonewall” Jackson
first united with the Presbyterian church
in Lexington, he became at once very
regular in attendance upon the services
of God’s house and the performance of
external religious duties, but for a long
time he did not take any public pari in
church matters. At last his pastor (the
venerable Dr. White), preached a ser
mon on prayer in which ho urged that it
was the duty of every male member of Hie
church to lead in public prayer. .The
nextday a faithful "elder” (since called
to his reward) asked " Major’** Jackson
what ho thought of the sermon. Ho
promptly replied that he did not believe
that it was his duty to lead in public
prayer—that he was satisfied that he
could not pray " to edification,” and it
was useless for him to attempt, It.—
“ Have you made the matter a subject of
secret prayer, Major, that God might di
rect you to proper decision ?” persisted
the elder. "No air, I have not, but will
do so to-night, was the characteristic re
sponse. The elder advised him to talk
the matter over with Dr. White, ami he
started at once for the pastor’s study,
when ho had a long conference on the
subject—taking full note of what the pas
tor had to say.
The next day the elder saw him walk
ing rapidly by his place ot business,
without stopping, as was bis custom, and
fearing that he desired avoid the sub
ject of the previous (fay’s conversation,
he called him back and asked if he had
prayed over that matter. “ Yea air, and
I was just on my way to tell Dr. White
that he must call on me to lead in prayer
at the prayer meeting to-night.” Meet
ing his pastor on the street, he walked
out in the mild to tell him that he was
satisfied that he ought to lead in prayer,
and wanted to bo called on. In due time
this was done, and the Major made a
bungling, lame ettort, which made the
pastor and all present feel very badly for
him. A lew days after, Dr. While said
to him: "We do not want to make our
prayer meetings uncomfortable to you,
Major, and if ypu prefer it I will not call
on you to lead in prayer again.” The re
ply contains the key-note to Jackson's
character: "My comfort sir, has noth
ing in the world to do with it. As my
pastor, you think I ought to lead in pray
er, and the word of God seems to bear
you out in it. I must not shrink from
duty, because it is unpleasant. Call on
me, sir, just os often as you please, and
the ofteuer the better.” He persevered
until ho became exceedingly gifted iu
public prayer.
I.OKD ELUOX.
Tho chancellor was flitting j« his study
over a table of papers, when a young and
lovely girl—slightly rustic in her attire,
slightly embarrassed by tho novelty of
her position, but thoroughly in command
of hpr'vnts—cntsrpd the room and walk
ed up to tho lawyer’s chair.
“ My dear,” said the chancellor, rising
and bowing with old world courtesy,
“ who are yon ?”
“ Lord Eldon,” answered the blushing
maiden, “I am Bessie Bridge, of Weo
bly, the daughter of the Vicar of Wcobly,
and papa has sent me to remind you of a
promise which you made him when I
was a little baby, and you were a guest in
his house on the occasion of your first
election as member of Parliament for
Weob]y.”
“ A promise, my dear young lady ?” In
terposed the chancellor, trying to recall
how he had pledged himself.
“Yes, Lord Eldon, a promise. V°u
wore standing over my cradle when papa
said to 3’ou : Mr. Scott, promise mo that,
if ever you are.loVd chancellor, when my
little girl Is a poor clergyman’s wife, vou
will give her husband a living;” and you
answered, “Mr. Bridge, my promise is
not worth half a crown, but I give It to
you, wishing it were worth more.”
Enthusiastically the chancellor ex
claimed :
“ Vou arc quite right, I admit the obli
gatlon. I remember all about it;" nud
then, after a pause, archly surveying the
damsel, whoso graces were the reverse of
matronly, lie added: “But surely the
time for keeping my promise has not yet
arrived? You cannot bo anybody’s wife
at present?"
For a few seconds Bessie hesitated for
an answer, and then, with a blush and a
ripple of silver laughter, she replied:
“ No ; but I do wish to bo somebody’s
wife. Xam engaged to a young clergy
man ; dud there’s a living in Hereford
shire, near my old home, that has recent
ly fallen vacant, and if you'll give It to
Alfred, why, then, Lord Eldon, we shall
marry before the end of tbeyear."
Is there need to say that the chancel
lor forthwith summoned his secretary,
and the secretary forthwith made out the
presentation to Bessie’s lover, and, that
having given the chancellor a kiss of
gratitude, Bessie made good speed back
to Herefordshire, hugging the precious
document the whole way home.
ZSSy'An English paper receives a good
story of Daniel O’Connell. O’Connell
once met a conceited literary friend, and
exclaimed:
“I saw a capital thing in your last
pamphlet."
“ Did you ?" eagerly replied his delight
ed listener, “What was it?”
“ A pound of butter,”
llateo for
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er description of Jon and Card Printing Resen
ted In the neatest stylo, at low price*.
ONE OF NATURE'S NOBLEMEN.
thoughts were far away from any
noblemen of any kind os I stood among
a uC ulticjo Vn
dry goods establishments situated on tho
fashionable promenade of our thriving
metropolis.
I was one of the many who lined tho
polished counters, looking with admiring
eyes on the beautiful fabrics so tempting
ly displayed. Tho half hour’s absence of
the obliging clerk, who could find the
stylo I required only In a distant part of
tho house, allowed me to bo entertained
with watching tho stream of fair ones
coming and departing.
And while I waited and made mental
criticism to amuse myself, an incident .
occurred n.little out of the common ob
servation of shop visitors.
A slight, small woman, pale, sad-eyed,
and wearing faded black, came in with a
now influx of visitors, walking timidly
and casting a half-frightened glance at
tho piles of pretty stufls.
A bright new material on the counter
near where I stood caught her eye; she
tremblingly inquired the price; when
she was told, my sharp eyes saw a bill
twisted in tho quivering flngere with a
perplexed, troubled air, and my cars
heard tho murmured—
“ Aunio will need ten yards.”
“ Will you take it?”
She lifted her pale, meek face, and an
swered :
“I cannot; I did not think it would bo
so much.”
- She was turning away when a gentle
man, who. like myself, had been looking
and listening, drew near, asking of the
clerk:
“ What does tho lady want? I will
wait upon her. You attend to the custo
mer below.”
Tho respectful manner in which he was
obeyed made mo at once aware that he
was the proprietor, and I was alittlo sur
prised at what followed.
“ How many yards did you want, mad
am?”
Her aatonishpaont was amazing.
*‘l can’t take It, sir.”
“lam not talking about that,” with a
smile, “just answer my question.”
He cut off more than she folteringly
mentioned: and while he was packing it
she found voice to teU him that ill-health
had forced her to relinquish tho work
with which she had obtained a support
for herself and her two fatherless chil
dren. But tho eldest girl, barely seven
teen, was going to teach In a week, and
she needed a dress to make her preseuta-
Ho made no reply, taking in silence
the ilttie bill she onered—the very last of
a small hoard—and from his own port?
monito added a greenback, the amount
of which I could not see, and slipped
both between the cord which bound the
parcel and handed the parcel to her
with—
. ‘‘There, tell your daughter a stranger
wishes her success.”
He walked away hastily to avoid her
tearful thanks, and the little woman
looked, as she turned to depart, like one
in a dream. ,
It was a simple act, unobtrusively, qui
etly done; and not a week before, that
same gentleman had been pronounced
uncharitable, because his name would
not bo put down to swell the list for aid
towards some missionary scheme.
He may withhold his benevolence from
a popular enterprise that would promul
gate his name to the world, but for true,
unostentatious charity (since I’ve learned
this was not the only case), he is, I
thought, one of 14 nature’s noblemen.”
Dearly would I like to give his name,
but it would seem like desecration to
draw aside the veil from-suoh noble good
ness; so let him in secret dispense hia
charity while angels praise, and surely
God .will reward.
flS?” What a queer, fellow the French
man must have been, who for twenty
years loved a lady and never missed pass-*
ing his evenings at her house, She be
came a widow, 44 1 wish you joy 1” cried
his friend, 44 you may now marry the wo
man 3’ou have so long adorned. 44 Alas!”
said the poor Frenchman, profoundly de
jected; 41 and if so, where shall I spend
my evenings?”
The Pella Jilade says: 44 A GUl
cago 4 Runner’ recently loft a shirt at one
of the Oskuloosa Hotels, and wrote to the
chambermaid to forward it to him at this
place, upon which she wrote to him the
following reply:
"I hope clear sir you’ll not feel hurt,
I’ll frankly tell you all about it; I'vo
made a shift with your old shirt and you
must make a shift without jt, n
#5?" A young man who attended church
in Minneapolis, Minnesota, last Sunday
week, wont to sleep during the service,
and while sleeping suddenly arose to hk
feet, and with violontgostqrea exclaimed,
" I won’t do it! lam going to bed!”-*
Ho was prevented from retiring In so
public a place by being awakened,-
fiST* “ How camo you to lose your
legs?” “ Well,” said Jones, “on exam
ining my pedigree and looking upon my
descent, I found there was some Irish
blood in me, and becoming convinced
that it was all settled In that left leg I
had it cut ofTat once.” “It Is a‘ pity ”
said an Irishman, “that it did not settle
in your head.”
JCS 2?" A Scotchman put a crown piece
into “ tho plate”, in an Edinburg church
on a late Sunday morning, Instead of a
penny, and asked to have it back, huC
was refused. •“ Aweel” grunted W
“ I’ll get credit for It in heaven.” • “
na,” said the doorkeeper, “ye’ll getcred-
It only for the penny ye meatit Ui
Bashful Women.— Bashful ’wotnen
are not always the most modest. Pru
dery is often assumed rather to keep off*
suspicion of criminality than to protect
from criminality itself. There is a degree
ofreservo, which like vaultingumbltloh
overleaps itself. •• >
XSF*My son, take those eggs to town
and If you can’t get a dim? a dozen for.
them bring them oack, Jemmy went as,
directed, and came back again, saying'
Mother let me alone for a trade; they all
tried to get era for fifteen cents, but I
screwed up to $ (\inm.
In an advertisement for a young
gentleman who left bis parents, It Is sta
ted that “ If master Jacky will please re
turn to bis disconsolate parents he shall
not bo sent to school, ana he shall sweet
en his own tea."
It won’t do to be so devoted to a
tender-hearted wife as to comply with her
request when she asks you, “Now tum
ble over the cradle and break your neck,
my dear, won’t you?”
Theodore f’orker aptly compared
some who grew suddenly rich to cabba
ges growing in a bed. They smother
the.violets, nut after all nothing but cab
bage heads.
An applying for relief
being told to work for his living, replied,
"If I had all the work in the world, I
couldn't do it." ’
tST “ Am I not a little pale ?” inquired
a lady who was short ana corpulent, of a
crusty old bachelor?” “You look more
like a big tub,"-was the blunt reply v
BSS“*A little girl hearing the remark
that all people had once been children,
artlessly inquired: “Who took care of
the babies ?"
&aj“*Why do birds feel depressed curly
In a summer morning? Because their
little bills are all over due.