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LOST—SOMEBODY ’S CHILD.
BY THOMAS MACKELLAB.
Somebody’s child is lost to-night !
I hear the bellman ring ;
And the earth is frozen hard and white,
And the wind has a nipping sting.
I know my babes aro long abed,
A tender, motherly hand
Laying a blessing on every head
After their evening prayers wore said—
God keep the slumbering band !
Yet somebody's child is lost, I say,
This night so bitterly cold,
Some innocent lamb has gone astray
Unwittingly from its fold.
“Bellman! ho, bellman, whose child is lost?”
Aud I grasp my staff and cloak ;
But the ringer over the wold had cross’d
Before 1 tardily spoke.
The neighbors soon gather, and far and near
We pry into ditch and fen,
Till, bnrk ! an answering shout I hear —
The rover is found again.
Ah ! mother, fond mother, your heart is light
With Joe to your bosom bound ;
But many a child is lost to-night
Who’ll never, no, never bo found.
Ay ! somebody’s child is lost to-night,
While the wind is high and hoarse,
And the scudding ship, like a bird a*fright,
Flies shivering un it a course.
She suddenly drops in the yawning deep
As never to return ;
She leaps atop the watery steep,
A-creaking from stem to stern.
Hold,well, good bark ! for a score of lives
Comprise thy costliest freight;
Else loving mothers, nnd maids, and wives
Will ever bo desolate.
And well she holds, with a single sail
Outspread to guide her way,
While all the furies of the gale
Around her bulwarks play.
The sailor-boy, with a fearful heart,
Sighs for bis distant home,
And the hasty tears from his eyelids start,
And drop in the briny foam.
In the months agone a father sigh’d,
And a mother trembled with fears;
But that father’s law had he defied,
And bo scorn’d that mother’s tears.
The pitiless blast now mocks his grief,
And a huge and hungry wave
Bears him away beyond relief,
To tbo depths of an ocean grave.
The brand is blazing upon the hearth,
The work of the day is done,
And the father’s heart runs over the earth
In search of the wandering son .
“Oh ! where is our poor boy to-night—
This night so bleak aud wild ? ”
The mother shuts her eyes to the light,
And inly prays for her.child
The busy needles all cease their flight,
While their hearts say, “Whore is he f”
They dream not bo has sunken from sight,
Down, down, down in the sea.
The mother may pray, and she may weop
Till she weep her life away,
But never more will she find the sheep
That wilfully went astray.
Somebody’s child is lost to-night!
Oh! sorrow is on the day
When a virgiu’s fame is rnurr’d with blight
That cannot be cleansed away.
An humbled family sit in the gloom,
Bemoaning their hopeless shame —
Would that she were safe in the tomb
With honor upon her name!
While deck'd in garments of satin and sin.
The fallen daughter, I ween,
Is scorch’d with a fever of heart within,
Though reigning as wanton-queen.
0 merciful Father! is this the child
Thy hand created so fair,
With eyes where simple innocence smiled,
' And coy and maidenly air ?
Is this the promising moruing-tlower,
The brightest its rivals among ?
Is this the bird that sang in the bower
With sweetest and merriest tongue ?
Ah me 1 this child is more than lost;
For her low-fallen form,
On sin’s voluptuous surges tost,
Will perish in passion’s storm.
And the mother may sigh, and she may weep
Till’sho weep her life away,
But never more will she find the sheep
That wickedly went astray.
Somebody’s child is lost to-night—
A widow’s only son,
With brow as light and eye as bright
As you ever look’d upon.
“And he will bo my staff and stay”—
Her words were inly spoken—
“ When I am old, and my hair is gray,
And my natural strength is broken.”
Her motherly soul with pride o’erran
As the lad grew up to the estate of man,
And she said, in her joy,
That nobody’s boy
Could match her paragon by a span.
Time stole along, and her locks were gray,
But her heart had lost its pride ;
Bor the man had wander’d so far astray,
’Twere better the boy had died.
A loathsome, vile, and gibbering thing,
Stung by the fatal still-worm’s sting,
Despised of man, contemning God,
And gnashing at the avenging rod
Wherewith his passions scourged him sore,
Till, fainting, he could feel no more, —
Ah ! somebody’s child was lost in him
When ho took up
The wassail cup,
And sipp'd perdition from its brim.
Then his manhood died,
And the beautiful boy
Of his mother s pride
Spill’d in the sand the cup of her joy.
Instead, she quaff’d
A wormwood draught,
A sorely-smitteu woman;
l'ct loved she still,
Through every ill,
The child so scarcely human.
In weariness and watchings often
tkimurmuringly her grief she boro,
Until, unwrapt in shroud or coffin,
Her son lay dead before her door.
Her sorrows had come so thick and fast
They cluster’d round her everywhere,
Till, reason utterly overcast,
The darkness hid away her care.
Yet ofttimes would she ask for one
Long gone from home, her beautiful son ;
And while she chided his long deluy,
Bhe sigh, aDd whimper, and pray.
That mother will sigh, and she will weep
Till she weep her life away ;
But never more will she find the sheep
That wickedly went astray.
Bo many children are lost to-night
That I, even I, could weep
As I hear the breathings, soft and light,
Erom the crib whore Tommy's asleep.
And 1 strain my vision to pierce the clouds
That hang over years to oome ;
But utter darkness the futuro shrouds.
And the tongue of the seer is dumb.
So I lay them down in the bosom of grace,
Tbe children whom God has given,
Trusting he’ll bring them to see his face,
The face of our Lord in heaven.
LETTING IN THE NEW YEAR,
BY FANNY H. ROCHESTER.
It was the last night of the old year, and
Grace Dean and her mother were alone in
their cottage on the edge of WolCott woods.
Once Grace had been a petted heiress, but
since the insolvency and death of her father,
she had made only too familiar acquain
tanceship with poverty. Little, indeed, did
the inhabitants of Pineville suspect that
the pale, weary-looking seamstress who had
oome a stranger among them and rented
the Wolcott Cottage, and who depended
chiefly for her subsistence on the patronage
of Judge Wolcott’s family, had once, in a
distant city, moved among the highest in
the land, and been even the belle of her
sex.
And on this night tbe heart of Grace
was heavy. Though it was nearly midnight
she still plied her needle, and her tears fell
fast as she sewed. She was thinking of
the festive party up at the hall, with its
lights and flowers, and music and dancing }
and she pictured the portly old judge, once
her friend, gaily leading the revels ; and
another, younger and handsomer than even
the judge had been in his best days, who
wasalso aliouated from her. Mrs, Dean
sat slumbering in her chair, occasionally
waking to bemoan their hard fate, that
they had again to seek their fortune in a
strange place ; but the mother knew
nothing of the deeper sorrow of the daugh
ter, and Grace vowed that Bhe never should,
though her own heart broke for it.
Grace had been sewing at the W oleott’s,
when Mrs. Wolcott was seized with a ma
lignant fever. The servants had fled in
dismay, leaving only the invalid’s two
daughters to take care of her : and these
were young, ignorant and necessarily in
efficient. In this emergency Grace had
tendered her services. All through Mrs.
Wolcott’s long and dangerous illness,
Grace nursed her faithfully and tenderly.
For many days the room was kept dark
ened and quiet ; Madge and Fanny hover
ing uneasily about, obeying Grace’s
suggestions with the docility of children,
while tho judge and his son Richard would
steal in softly and sit beside the sufferer,
while Grace rested.
At length came the days of convales
cence, and now the family gathered in Mrs.
Wolcott’s room, and whiled away the hours
with reading and pleasant conversation ;
and when she was stronger, there were
long, pleasant evenings in the luxurious
parlors, when Madge played and Richard
and Fanny sang, and Graco sat by Mrs.
Woloott’s side, quiet and happy. In those
days, all social distinction seemed to be
forgotten, and the poor seamstress was
treated as a valued friend. Grace never
could forget the evening when Mrs. Wol
oott first joined the family at the tea-table.
Judge Wolcott carried her out in the
dining-room, while the rest followed. It
was a warm, pleasant evening. The win
dows were open, and the sweet odors and
sounds of summer came stealing in. Mrs.
Wolcott motioned Graco to a seat beside
her, saying, ‘ I have had Grace by me so
long, I should feel lost without her.’ They
were all in high spirits, glad and grateful,
and happy that the danger had passed, and
the beloved wife and mother was with them
as of old.
Grace sat and listened to the cheerful
flow of words, but felt strangely—she could
not eat. Richard, who sat opposite,
noticed it, and said, ‘ Miss Rean looks like
an invalid herself.’ A faintness came over
Grace, and she fell insensible. When she
awoke to consciousness again, she was
lying on a sofa, and the family were
grouped around with anxious faces. Madge
was bathing her head, and Grace heard the
physician’s voice, saying, 1 It is the fever ;
she is worn out with her exertions in your
sick room, madam, and will need the best
of care.’
Grace was weak and helpless as a child,
and Mr. Wolcott carried her up stairs.
Then came a blank. Sometimes she would
see kind, anxious faces beside her ; then all
would be dark again. But it passed at
length, that terrible illness ; and it was so
pleasant to be carried into the sitting-room
those pleasant autumn mornings, while
Mrs. Wolcott, who was now quite restored,
occupied her usual place. Madge usually
busied herßelf about her embroidery, and
Richard often read to them, while Fanny
flitted about like a little humming-bird as
she was. While Grace grew stronger, she
often went out in tho carriage with Mrs.
Wolcott, and sometimes one or both of the
ladies. When the danger of infection was
over, things fell more into their regular
course—Grace returning to her mother at
the cottage. But she was, nevertheless,
almost constantly at the hall, where,
! though nominally still the seamstress, her
: position in the household was entirely
| changed. Whenever the family spent the
| evening at home alone, she often joined
i them in the parlor, and afterward a servant
; would be sent to accompany her home, or
' the' judge, or his son, would walk down
with her.
It drew near Christmas. Some guests
had arrived several days before, among
whom was Mrs. Landsdowne, (Mrs. Wol
cott’s sister,) and her daughter Minnie,
with Maud Redfield, an old school-friend
of the Misses Wolcott. Nothing could be
more unlike than the fair, violet-eyed
Minnie Landsdowne, and the dark, regal
beauty of Maud Redfield ; and Grace felt
a dislike to the latter, as she did a prefer
ence for the former. The antipathy seemed
to be mutual; for whenever they met, Miss
Redfield regarded Grace with a haughty
stare that deepened her dislike.
One day, after Miss Redfield’s arrival,
Grace met Riohard on the stairs. He
greeted her cordially, saying, ‘ Where do
you keep yourself these pleasant days, Miss
Dean ? I’m afraid our guests frighten you
into making a prisoner of yourself.’
Grace blushed more at his manner than
his words, and before she could reply, a
voice said, 1 I am ready Mr. Wolcott,’ and
looking up, she saw Miss Redfield standing
at the head of the stairs, dressed for a ride.
Riohard answered with a bow and smile,
and offered his arm, while she gave Grace
a look of mingled contempt and hatred.
Christmas came and went. New Year
was at hand. Now, New Year was always
the great day at Wolcott Hall. The judge
belonged to au old Knickerbocker family,
and besides, New Year was his birthday.
This year, New Year fell on Tuesday. On
Saturday, as Grace was sewing at the Hall,
‘ Miss Redfield entered the room.
Will you sit dowD V Grace asked,
scarcely knowing what this visit portended.
Miss Redfield smiled and drew np a
chair beside Grace, saying, 1 1 have oome
to ask you a favor. It is a trifle, and 1
am sure you will grant it. I had a dress
made jnst before I left home, and intended
to wear it New Year’s Eve, but I neglected
to try it on till yesterday, when I found
that it needed some alteration before I
could possibly wear it. I was out a long
time, trying to find some one to do it in
the village; but everybody is busy just
now, and as a last resort I oome to you.”
‘ Certainly I would do it if 1 had time,’
replied Grace, ‘ but I don’t know how it
will be.’
« 0, I know you will have no time on
Monday,’ interrupted Miss Redfield ; ‘but
you might do it to-morrow.’
‘To-morrow!’ Grace repeated in dis
may. ‘ Surely, you don’t mean it ! To
morrow is the Sabbath!’
‘ But,’ said Miss Redfield, ‘ it is a work
of necessity.’
‘ Pardon me, Miss Redfield,’ said Graces
‘ But it does not seem at all necessary to
me. I have seen you wear a number of
heaptiful dressos since you have been
here, and surely some of them would do
for Monday evening.’
‘ Yea,, yes,’ she rejoined impatiently ;
« but I have worn ihem all, oyer so many
times, and this is new and so becoming.
I have sb'{ s niy heart upon it and'ihust have
u that country is the host whirs labor commands thi okiatbst riward.”—buchanan.
LANCASTER CITY, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 18, 1862.
it.’ And she placed a shining gold piece
in Grace’s hand.
‘ Them that honor me, I will honor!’
seemed to sound in Grace’s ears, and she
answered decidedly, as she returned the
gold. ‘No, Miss Redfield, I cannot do it
to-morrow. Money is no temptation to me
to violate the law of God and my own
conscience. And if I did it at all,’ she
continued proudly, ‘ I should do it for
nothing.’
A malignant expression crept over Miss
Redfield’s face as she rose, saying, ‘ Yon
will repent of this ! But I know what
your objeot is ; you have got some of the
Wolcott’s puritanioal ideas, and yon think
your saintly ways will find favor in
Richard’s eyes. But 1 cap tell yon he is
as proud as he is good, and, with all his
chivalrous ideas of right and honor, he
will never stoop— ’
The hot blood was flushing Grace’s face,
as she rose and held open the door. Miss
Redfield, angrier than ever at this hint of
dismissal could not finish the sentence,
but with a look of bitter hatred, passed
out. Grace closed and looked the door,
then threw herself on a chair and wept as
if her heart would break.
On Monday there was a joyous bustle
through the house. Grace was working
busily upon some articles that she knew
Mrs. Woleott wished to have done that
day, when she heard Miss Redfield’s voice
in the hall saying, ‘ I have a portege
whom I would like to recommend to you
in her place. 1 think she would please
you better.’
To Grace’s astonishment she heard Mrs.
Woloott say in reply, ‘Thank you; I
think I shall employ her, as I have con
templated a ohange for Borne time.’
Grace was thunderstruck. What could
Mrs. Woleott mean? How could she have
offended Mrs. Wolcott, who was so gentle
and so just ? All the mornrng Grace
pondered her words, and wondered what
she should do when oast off upon the
world again.
‘ She will surely help me to find another
place,’ Grace thought. She knew she bad
done right; and, as human helpers seemed
to fall away, she leaned with firmer trust
upon the Divine. ‘ Truly,’ she thought,
‘ the ways of the All-wise are mysterious
and past finding out. It seems strange to
me that this wicked girl should triumph ;
but I know it is all right. The hearts of
men, 0 God, are in Thy hands, and, trust
ing in Thee, I will await the issue.’
And so she sat, that bright morning,
and listened to joyous sounds, and noted
the guests as they flitted past her half
open door, and saw the sleigh drive off
with Richard and Miss Redfield.
It was afternoon when Madge came in
hurriedly, saying, ‘ Why, Grace, how pale
you are! We have been so busy lately,
that I haven’t seen you. You are too
much confined here.
‘ Yes, and it’s a shame for her to be
stitching away this merry holiday time,
when everybody else are enjoying them
selves!’ chimed in Fanny, who had entered
unpereeived. ‘Mamma sent me to tell
you,’ she continued, ‘ not to mind about
finishing that trimming—something else
will do just as well. She said she meant
to tell you before, but she had so much to
take up her attention lately. We are
going‘ to have a grand time to-night, and
mamma wants you to come down.’
‘ I thank you,’ Grace managed to say ;
‘ but I think I had better not come.’
‘O, but you must!’ said Fanny, and
nover supposing that Grace would continue
obstinate they left her.
Rut how could Grace go? What was
there in common between her and the hap
py, brilliant compauy to be assembled that
evening 1 The dream of her life was over.
Not until it had been so rudely dissipated
was she conscious that she had indulged
in it. How insane she now saw it to have
been ! Ah ! little—she thought—did her
triumphant enemy know of the blow she
had struck, and how it had gone to Grace’s
heart of hearts !
When night began to fall, she had come
home, plodding her way wearily over the
snow, and having prepared her frugal sup
per, had sat down to sew. Her mother
had observed her evident distress, and had
insisted on knowing the cause. So Grace,
unable to put her entirely off, had men
tioned her own approaching dismissal from
Mrs. Wolcott’s as the reason of her de
pression. In vain, however had hor
mother begged her to lay down her work.
Her answer had been, ‘ No, I must be more
industrious than ever now. God only knows
indeed, what will become of us. We must
leave here ; nobody will employ me, now
that Mrs. Wolcott casts me off.’ And her
mother, unable to comfort her, and equally
oppressed with fears of the future, had
finally desisted.
The moonlight lay bright and oold with
out ; the woods, except where the avenue
pierced them, were dark ; but neither was
colder, nor darker, than the heart and
hopes of Grace. It was the habit at Piue
ville, as it is at many other places, for
parties to go about, on this evening, from
house to house, singing, which they call
letting in the New Year. As Grace sat
sewing she suddenly heard voices without;
but she was in no mood for such a visit,
and she rose to draw the curtain, not with
out a secret fear, for the cottage was lonely,
and she knew no one who would be likely
to oome singing at their door, unless rude
boys or ruder meD. Her alarm was in
creased, when she saw, through the lat
ticed window, a face that was unknown to
her, and she gave a scream. At that mo
ment, however, another step was heard,
and a deep voice, that made her heart leap
with a sudden bound, was hoard, speaking
authoritatively, even angrily.
Instantly there was a knook at tbe door,
and the same voioe cried—
‘ It is I—don’t be afraid Grace.’
With trembling hands she opened the
door. The men were disappearing down
the road—the little gate into the Woloott
woods was open—and up the avenue (which
led to the hall 1 she thought she saw a
sleigh, with a muffied figure or two in it.
‘ 0, Grace, bow could you V were the
first words of the young man, as he took
her hands.
She blushed crimson, but oould not
answer. What did it all mean 1 Rich
ard gave her no time for thought.
‘ We expected you, till night set in,’
he said ; ‘ and then the judge, finding you
did not oome, ordered me to start in the
sleigh and bring you, rating Fanny sound
ly for having forgotten to ask your mother,
whioh is the reason, he says, you didn’t
come. So Fanny is out in the sleigh,
waiting to help you dress—and the house-
keeper comes to stay with your mother,
if Mrs. Dean thinks it too cold to go ont to
night.’
What could Graoe say? Before she
conld reply, Richard had darted back to
the sleigh, and was leading baek
Mrs. Dean, when her wonder let her under
stand how things were, said she was too
old to leave a warm fire at snoh an hour,
and so the housekeeper was oalled in.—
Graee, still bewildered, was soon ready,
thanks to the nimble fingers of Fanny and
her own simple wardrobe ; and, with a
beating heart, took her place in the sleigh,
whioh moved merrily off in the moonlight
and under the still, grand trees.
The judge oame down to the front door,
to hand Graee out of the sleigh, and him
self led her up to Mrs. Woloott, who rose
and kissed her as if Grace had been her
own daughter. Miss Redfield, standing
aloof, looked daggers at the new comer.—
Poor Graoe did not dare imagine what it
all meant. It seemed so strange to her to
be moving among that brilliant throng,
leaning on Richard’s arm.
The pleasant remarks of her companion
had the effect to restore her, in some
measure, to herself, and she was almost
surprised to find herself talking so freely
to Miss Landsdowne, whom they met near
the door of the conservatory, to which her
partner soon led her.
The perfume of the rare exotics greeted
her here like the breath of summer. At
the farther end of the room they stopped
to admire a brilliant flower, when Richard
said, ‘ I have a gift, Grace, which I want
you to accept from me,’ and he held up a
diamond ring ; but first will you give me
the hand upon which I would place it ?’
‘ Richard ! Mr. Woloott!’ she exclaim
ed. ‘ You are not in earnest ?’
‘ I never was more so,’ he said. ‘ Will
yon take the ring ?’
‘ But your parents ?’ she asked, half
bewildered, hardly knowing what she said.
‘ I have their sanction, dear Graoe, and
I await yours,’ and he held up the ring
with a questioning gesture.
Graee extended her hand ; he pressed it
to his lips, placed the ring upon her finger,
then drew her head to his bosom. ‘My
poor little lamb,’he murmured, drawing
asid the veil of ourls that hung over her
throbbing brow —‘ now I have a right to
take care of you. It has made my heart
ache to see you looking so pale and to
think of you toiling so patiently.’
Graee could only listen passively ; the
change was so sudden that it overpowered
her ; she could hardly realize that she was
betrothed tb Richard Woloott.
At length she said, ‘ They will miss
you—had you not better return to the
parlors ? I will stay here awhile.’
He smiled, and replied, ‘ I want to
present you to my parents first.’
‘ 0 ! I cannot see aDy one to-night !’ she
exclaimed. ‘ Indeed 1 cannot!’
‘ You needn’t fear,’ he said ; ‘ you will
receive a daughter’s welcome.’ And he
led her baek to the parlor. The judge and
Mrs. Woleott were standing together, and
though everything around Grace seemed to
float and blend in inextrioable confusion,
yet she was oonsoious that they welcomed
her to their hearts and home ; and she
heard Miss Landsdowne say— ‘ So you will
be cousin Grace. Well, I shall love you
dearly !’
And then came Madge and Fanny, with
their warm hearts and grateful welome.—
But everything seemed to Grace like a
dream, till she found herself again in her
little room, Riohard having driven her
home himself.
And that was the way for Graoe, that
The New Year was let in.
The Confession of a Tea-Kettle,
or, a Hint to Housewives.
Everybody said so, and we all know
what everybody says must be true, especi
ally what every lady says. Now, what
every lady said was this, that I was a ‘ love
of a tea-kettle.’ I’m not a vain kettle ;
and, although I say it, who shouldn't say
it, in my youth 1 was pretty. Ah! you
may laugh, but you’ll be old some day,
depend on it.
Well, I promised you my history, and
now I’ll tell it, if you’ll only listen.
I was made of oopper, but no sooner
was the last polish put upon me, than my
owner, a furnishing ironmonger, placed me
in a conspicuous position in his shop win
dow. My bright appearanoe and neat
shape very soon attracted the attention of
passers by. Every one admired me, and
some pleased me much by openly express
ing their admiration. One day a young
lady—evidently but newly married—de
clared I was a ‘ love of a tea-kettle,’ and
having satisfied the ironmonger as to his
demand for me, requested I should be
forthwith sent to her house. Home 1
went, and had the satisfaction of hearing
both the cook and the house-maid speak
favorably of ray appearanoe ; and that’s a
great thing, mind, for a kettle. I was
very oomfortable in my new abode, and
each evening, when filled with water, pure
and soft, and plaoed upon the hob by the
side of a cheerful fire, soon sung away to
my master and mistress’s satisfaction, and
my .own content.
All went smoothly on, until one day,
my master having received an appointment
abroad, resolved to dispose of his house
hold goods, myself among the rest. A
lady residing in a neighboring village
purchased me, and I was immediately
packed off. Somehow or other I speedily
found that, although the water I was daily
filled with was clear and bright—more
sparkling indeed, than I had been ao
customed to —it made me feel very uncom
fortable about my stomach, accompanied
with a tight sort of feeling, and thicken
ing of my inside, together with a great
disinclination to boil and sing as I was
wont.
My mistress constantly complained of
me ; and as for the oook, she was positive
ly rude, for, on more than one occasion,
she shook her fist at me and exclaimed,
‘ Drat that kettle, ’twill never bile !’ My
ailment increased, and 1 continued to get
worse, and my owner grew alarmed. A
smith residing hard by, was my medioal at
tendant, and he undertook to effect my
cure ; he saw at onoe that it was not my
fault that I did not boil—that I was coated
inside with a substance foreign to my
nature, whioh he termed ‘ furr.’ Taking
me to his smithy, he set to work with ham
mer and ohisel, and speedily removed the
cause of my troubles. But, oh, the remedy
was as bad as the disease ; my poor sides
were so battered and bruised that I felt
sure that when I reached home I should be
dismissed to the kitohen, and never more
be summoned to the tidy parlor fire, and,
moreover, one small hole was knocked right
through me, whioh pained me mnoh ; that,
however, was patehed up, and as I did no t
complain, no one noticed it. Although
the ‘ fnrr ’ was removed, I was left very
rough in my inside, and being onoe more
brought into daily requisition, soon beoame
as bad as ever. Neighbors were oonsulted,
and all sorts of remedies proposed for my
cure ; one that potato peeliDgs were to be
boiled in me; another, a marble, and so
forth; but no good came of them, and I
continued to get so had and clogged np
with ‘ fnrr,’ instead of holding three
quarts, I-’hardly could oontain as many
pints. One day a travelling tinker hap
pend to pass through our village; he was
a loquacious fellow, and soon made the
aoqnaintanoe of my mistress’s cook; she
happened to mention me to him, and he
undertook to put me to rights in half an
hour. In an evil moment for her, she
parted with me, and next day I was miles
away, in a large manufacturing town, never
more to return, for the tinker was not ao
customed to the method of business, ac
cording to the rule of meum and teum.
He soon sold me for half my weight’s
value to a chemist, who taking off my lid,
exclaimed, ‘ Ah, my poor fellow ! you’ve
been badly used, I can see.’
His sympathizing tone induced me to
open my heart to him, and to tell him my
whole history from the very first.
‘ I see how it is,’ said he, ‘ bnt we’ll
soon have it all right. I understand you
to say, that the water you were first sup
plied with seemed very pure and soft,
though not so sparkling and bright as that
you were filled with by your second owner.
Well, that is quite in aeeordanee with
ohemioal facts ; the water from the pump
of your second mistress owed its brilliancy
to the quantity of lime it held in solution.
Rain water, caught in olean vessels away
from large towns, is the purest that can be
procured, without resorting to artificial
means ; and this, although pure, will not
sparkle like sprrng water, for the reason
that it contains no lime or salt lime matter
possessing the power of refracting light
The water used by your first mistress con
tained little or no lime, and all went on
well. You see, the old proverb, ‘ not to
trust too much to appearance,’ will apply
to water as well as to men. Bnt how oame
it that bright and sparkling water oaused
such a disturbance of your stomach, and
coated your inside with ‘ furr’ nearly an
inch thick ?’ asked my Dew master.
Of course I could not say ; and so he
continued :
‘ I’ll tell yon. The water used at the
house of your second mistress oontained a
goodly quantity of lime—carbonate of lime,
or chalk—dissolved during its percolation
of tho earth ; this, from its perfeot solution,
would render it sparkling. Now my good
friend, you have helped to enliven many a
Christmas party with the hot water you
have supplied, and oannot fail to observe
that when the guests were mixing their
toddy, how much sooner the sugar dissolv
ed in hot {pater than in cold; so it is with
substances generally, they are more readily
soluable in hot fluids than in cold.’
‘ Yes, I’ve remarked that, sir,’ said I.
‘ Lime, however, is an exception; at
ordinary temperature a pint of water will
dissolve fully eleven grains of lime, while
at its boiling point the same quantity will
not take up seven. Of this water, bright
and brilliant, and fully saturated with lime
or its carbonate, you were daily filled, and
as it beoame hotter and hotter, down and
down went the lime, leaving day by day
an additional coat on your poor sides ; and
as a very small snow-hall will, when set in
motion, increase to a monßter, so the oon-
tiiiued daily film of limy deposit increased
to an inconvenient and. unoomfortable
thickness, and ultimately brought you to
grief, for this thick deposit of ‘ furr,’ by
reason of its being a bad conductor of heat,
prevented its passage through you to the
water ; it would not boil, and you got
blamed.’
‘ You know best, sir, and no doubt ii
is as you say,’ was all I could give ut-
terance to,
‘ But to the point,’ he continued. ‘ You
are nearly half full of this troublesome
stuff, and no doubt all good housewives
will rejoice to learn an easy remedy. This
limy deposit, though hard, and trouble
some to remove by hammer and chisel, is
easily got rid of by ohemioal agenoy. Hy
drochloric acid—(giving a winoe at this
hard name, my master noticed it, and said,
‘ Don’t be alarmed, it is commonly called
spirits of salts,’) will remove the cause of
all your troubles in a few minutes, without
injury to yourself, and that we’ll at once
prove.’
Accordingly, my good master sent to a
druggist a bottle and procured half a pound
of spirits of salts, costing but a few pence;
he placed me in the open air, and having
diluted the ‘ spirits ’ with a pint or so of
water, poured it into me. Oh, what a oom
motion it did produoe ! I laugh now ; but
really I was alarmed at the effervescence
that took place within me, but as in a mo
ment the ‘ furr ’ began to get less and
less, I felt relieved, and my spirits began
to rise accordingly. My master Bhook me
about now and then, taking care, 1 ob
served, to avoid the fumes that arose, and
in a few minutes exclaimed, ‘ All right old
fellow, I can see your oopper ; now you’ll
do. Come with me to the pump, and a
douche will set you quite to rights.’ For
ten|minutes I waß under hydropathic treat
ment—such as patients at Ben Rhydding
or Malvern rarely experience—and I was
well as ever, ‘ good as new.’
I am now happy to tell I have never had
a relapse of my old complaint, am happy
as the day is long, and sing as readily as
ever.
THE LANCASTER. INTELLIGENCER
JOB PRINTING ESTABLISHMENT,
No. 8 NORTH DUKE STREET, LANCASTER, PA.
The Jobbing Department is thoroughly furnished with
new and elegant type of every description, and is under
the charge of a practical and experienced Job Printer.—
The Proprietors are prepared to
PRINT CHECKS,
NOTES, LEGAL BLANKS,
CARD 3 AND CIRCULARS,
BILL HEADS AND HANDBILLS,
PROGRAMMES AND POSTERS,
PAPER BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS,
BALL TICKETS AND INVITATIONS,
PRINTING IN COLORS AND PLAIN PRINTING,
with neatness, accuracy and dispatch, on the most-reasona
ble terms, and in a manner not excelled by any establish
ment in the city.
jQGf- Orders from a distance, by mail or otherwise,
promptly attended to. Address
GEO. SANDERSON A SON,
Intelligencer Office,
No. 8 North Dnke street, Lancaster, Pa.
Ready-hade clothing
a COUPLETS STOCK OP
MEN AND CLOTHING,
ALSO
BLACK FRENCH CLOTHS,
BLACK FRENCH DOESKIN CASSI.MKREB,
PLAIN, SILK MIXED AND FANCY CABSIMERE3,
BATTINETB, VELVET CORDS AND JEANS,
Will be made to order in s superior manner at low prices.
MILITARY BUITB
Made to order in the best style at short notice, by
nor 29] HAGER A BROS. [tf 46
H D, FOR THK HOIIDiTSI!
CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEARS GIFTS,
nr th* qraauot vaeutt at
SHEARER’S CHEAP BOOK STORE,
Comprising the largest and best selected stock of
ILLUSTRATED AND STANDARD
RELIGIOUS, HISTORICAL, POLITICAL, SCIENTIFIC,
AND MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS,
CHILDREN’S BOOKS,
TOY BOOKS, (Linen and Paper.)
GAMES AMD PUZZLES ,
Innumerable in quantities and kinds
FAMILY BIBLES,
The Largest and best Assortment ever offered in the city,
at all Prices.
POCKET BIBLES, PRAYER AND HYMN BOOKS,
Suitable for all Denominations, in all Sixes and Kinds of
Bindings from the most common to the finest Velvet bound.
A Large Assortment of •
DRESSING OASES, LADIEB’ TRAVELING
AND SHOPPING BAGS, PORTFOLIOS,
CABAS, WRITING DESKS AND OASES,
MONEY PURSES, POCKET BOOKS, Ac.
MA THEM A TIG A L INSTR UMENTS,
CALL BELLS, FINE POCKET CUTLERY,
PEARL AND IVORY PAPER CUTTKRB
AND TABLETS, FINK GOLD AND BILVB
PENS AND PENCIL OASES,
Infinite in number, Style and Finish.
A great variety in size and price of
CHECKER BOARDS AND MEN.
DOMINOES, CHESSMEN, Ac., Ac.
The best place in the city to bay Books. We sell at less
than half price, and give yon
YOUR CHOICE IN A LARGE LOT FOR 25 CENTS,
YOUR CHOICE FOR 37 OBNTB,
YOUR CHOICE FOR 50 CENTS.
The above consists In part of the many articles which
have been selected and purchased expressly for their ap
propriate character for the approaching Holiday Season,
and will form a large and choice assortment from which to
select CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEARS PRESENTS.
For price aDd assortment of Goods in oar line, we feel
confident that we cannot be eurpased by any bouse in the
city, and for a proof of what we say, we invite one and all
to call and look at the great variety at
SHEAFER’S Cheap Book Store,
dec 17 tf 49j 32 North Qneen Street, Lancaster, Pa.
SOMETHING FOR THE! TIMES! II
A NECESSITY IN EVERY HOUSEHOLD!! 1
JOHNS <£ CROSLET’S
AMERICAN CEMENT GLUE,
THE STRONGEST GLUE IN THE WORLD
FOR CEMENTING WOOD, LEATHER, GLASS, IVORY,
CHINA, MARBLE, PORCELAIN, ALABABTKR,
BONE, CORAL, Ac., Ac., Ac.
The only article of the kind ever produced which will
withstand Water.
EXTRACTS
“ Every housokeeper should have a supply of Johns A
Crosley’s American Cement Glue.”— New York Timet.
“It is so convenient to have in the hoose.”— New York
Express.
“It is always ready; this commends it to everybody.”—
N. Y. Independent.
“ We have tried it, and find it as nsefnl in oar house as
water.”— Wilkes’ Spirit of the Times.
PRICE TWENTY-FIVE CENTS PER BOTTLE.
Very Liberal Redactions to Wholesale Dealers.
TERMS CAB H.
Jj£g- For sale by all Druggists and Storekeepers generally
throughout the country.
JOHNS A OROSLEYj
(Sole Manufacturers,) .
'8 WILLIAM ST., (Corner of Liberty St,) NEW YORK
july 9 ly 20
rjIHK PEOPLE'S HAT AND OAF
STORE
SHULTZ <£■ BRO . ,
HAT MANUFACTURERS
Wo would again call the attention of our CUSTOMERS
id all disposed to favor us with their patronge, to
OUR STYLES FOR THE FALL OF 1861.
Our Stock will consist as heretofore of
SILK AND CABSIMERE, FIR AND WOOL
SOFT HATS,
IN ALL THEIR VARIETIES
We would call particular attention to
THE McCLELLAN HAT,
THE FREMONT HAT,
THE OXFORD HAT Latest Out.
A Beautiful Assortment of
FALL STYLE "CAPS
CHILDREN’S FANCY HATS, CAP 3 AND TURBANS,
BOY’S FATIGUE CAPS
We would earnestly invito all to give us an early call
before purchasing elsewhere, feeling well assured amid
the varieties offered, they will not fail to bo suited. In
conclusion we would return our sincere thanks for the
past liberal patronage afforded us, and we trust, by close
attention and despatch, to merit its continuance.
JOHN A. SHULTZ,
N rteQuekh Street Lancaster
QEO. CARDER «& CO
Have removed their
WAREHOUSE, COAL AND LUMBER YARD ,
FROM GRAEFFS LANDING,
To the Property formerly occupied by Messrs. P. Long &
Nephew, on the opposite or sooth
side of the Conestoga,
And would call the attention of their old customers and
all interested, to their superior
STOCK OF C 0 A L ,
Suitable for Steam, Lime Burning, Black Smith and
Family Uses, by the boat load or ton. Also, to their
STOCK OF LUMBER,
or IVEBY DESCRIPTION, CONSISTING OF
Ist and 2nd COM. BOARDS,
Ist and 2nd COM. PLANK,
CULLING BOARDS,
BARN BOARDS,
CULLING PLANK,
PINE SHINGLES,
CYPRESS BHINGLES,
HEMLOCK BCANTLING
AND JOIST.
CAROLINA YELLOW PINE FLOORING BOARDS,
PLASTERING LATHS ,
PAILS AND PICKETS, 40., Ac
All of which is of the best quality, and will be sold as
low as can be purchased elsewhere.
j We have the best Stock of POSTS and RAILS in
the city of Lancaster, consisting of
LOCUST MORTICED POSTS,
CHESTNUT MORTICED POSTS, '
BOARD FENCE POSTS,
AND A VARIETY OF CHESTNUT RAILS AND OTHER
FENCING MATERIAL.
GROUND ALUM AND ASHTON SALT,
LUMP AND GROUND PLASTER.
Recollect that we have remored to the other end ol
the Bridge, where we will be pleased to see our old friends
and customers.
Q . CAL D E R dt CO.,
OFFICE IN LANCASTER, AS USUAL,
East O&AJtat Street, brooks doob feom Nobth Queer.
DRS. WAYLAN <fc SWENTZEL CON.
tlnue to practice Dentistry at their Office, 60North
Queen street, half souare from the P. R. R. Depot, Lan
caster. Pa. faprl7tfl4'
Emporium of taste.
SHAVING, HAIR CUTTING AND BHAMPOONINS
BALO 0 N ,
One door Eaet of Cooper's Hotel, West King St., loncartrs
sep Sly 311 8. J - WILLIAMS, Proprietor.
Furniture of evert descrip
tion, warranted as good as the best, and .cheaper than
the cheapest— at KETOHAM’S, Nobth Qwnoi street, op
posite Shenk’e National House, Lancaster. _ ' .
N. B. To any one purchasing i&oworth tefore tte,flrst
of November next, 10 per oent-xwlll be allowed fbr C*Ab.
augBl •
gOMETHISQ FOR THB TIMES I I
A NECESSITY IN EVERY HOUSEHOLD.
AMERICAN CEMENT GLXTE
The Strongest Glue in the World.
The Cheapest Glue in the World.
The Moet Durable Glue in the World.
The Only Reliable Glne In the World.
The Best Glue In the World.
AMERICAN CEMENT GLUE
is the only article of the kind ever produced whloh
WILL WITHSTAND WATER
IT WILL MEND WOOD,
Save your broken Furniture.
IT WILL MEND LEATHER,
Mend your Harness, Straps, Belts, Boots, Ac.
IT WILL MEND GLASS,
Save the pieces of that expensive Cat Glass Bottle.
IT WILL MEND IVORY,
Don’t throw away that broken Ivory Fan, it is easily re
paired. -
IT WILL MEND CHINA,
Your broken China Cups and Saucers can be made as good
IT WILL MEND MARBLE,
That piece knocked out of your Marble Mantle can be pa
on as Btrong as ever.
IT WILL MEND PORCELAIN,
No matter if that broken Pitcher did not coat but a shil
ling, a shilling saved is a shilling earned.
IT WILL MEND ALABASTER,
That costly Alabaster Vase le broken and yon can’t match
It, mend It, it will never show when put together.
IT WILL MEND BONE, CORAL, LAVA, AND IN FACT
EVERY THING BUT METALS.
Any article cemented with AMERICAN OEMENT GLUE
will not show where it is mended.
«* Every Housekeeper should bave a supply of Johns A
Crosley’s Amorican Cement Glue.” —New York Tinea.
“It is so convenient to bave in the house.* 7 —l Veto York
Express.
“It is always ready; this commends it to everybody.”—
Independent.
“ We have tried It, and find it as useful In our hoUBe os
water.”— Wilkes' Spirit of the Times.
ECONOMY IS WEALTH
$lO.OO per year saved in every family by One Bottle of
AMERICAN CEMENT GLUE
VERY LIBERAL REDUCTION TO WHOLESALE
£3- For Sale by all Druggists and Storekeepers generally
JOHNS <£ CROSLEY,
78 WILLIAM STREET, NEW YORK,
Corner of Liberty Street.
Important to House Owners.
Important to Builders.
Important to Railroad Companies.
Important to Farmers.
To all whom this may concern, audit concerns everybody,
JOHNS & QROSLEY’B
IMPROVED GUTTA PERCUA CEMENT ROOFING,
The Cheapest and most durable Roofing in use.
IT IS FIRE AND WATER PROOF.
It can be applied to new and old Roofs of all kinds, steep
or flat, and to Shingw Roofs without removing the
Bhingles.
THE COST IS ONLY ABOUT ONE-TIIIRD THAT OF
TIN, AND IT IS TWICE AS DURABLE.
This article has been thoroughly tested in New York
city and all parts of the United States, Canada, West Indies
and Ceutral and South America, on buildings of all hinds,
such as Factories, Foundries, Chnrchos, Railroad Depots,
Cars, and on Pablic Buildings generally, Government
Buildings, Ac., by the ptincipal Builders, Architects and
others, during the past four years, and has proved to be' the
Cheapest aud mo6t durable Roofing In use ; it is in every
respect a Fire, Water, Weather and Timo Proof covering
for Roofs of ail kinds.
This is the only material manufactured in the United
States which combines the very, desirablo properties of
Elasticity and Durability, which are universally acknowl:
edged to be possessed by Gutta Percha and India Rubbed
NO nEAT IS‘REQUIRED IN MAKING APPLICATION.
11. A. SHULTZ.
The expense of applying it is trifling, as an ordinary Rob
can be covered and finished the same day. '
IT CAN BE APPLIED BY ANY ONE,
and when finished forms a perfectly Fire Proof surface,
with an elastic body, which cannot be Injured by Heat
Cold or Storms, Shrinking of Roof Boards, nor any ester
nal action whatever.
LIQUID GUTTA PERCHA CEMENT,
For Coating Metals of all Kinds when exposed to tho
Action of the Weather, and
FOR PRESERVING AND REPAIRING METAL ROOFS
OF ALL KINDS.
This Is the only Composition known which wllL snccess
fully resistextreme changes of all climates, for any length
of time, when applied to metals, to which it adheres firmly,
forming a body equal to three coats of ordinary paint,
costa much less, aud will last three times aa long; and
from its elasticity is not iojured by the contraction and
expansion of Tin and other Metal Roofs, consequent upon
Buddea changes of the weather.
It will not crack In cold or ran iu warm weather, and
will not wash off.
Leahy Tin and other Metal Roofs can be readily repaired
with GUTTA PERCIIA CEMENT, and prevented from
further corrosion aDd leaking, thereby ensuring a perfect
ly water tight roof for many years.
This Cement is peculiarly adapted for the preservation of
Iron RaiUngB, Stoves, Ranges, Safes, Agricultural Imple
ments, Ac., also for general manufacturers’ use.
GUTTA PERCHA CEMENT
for preserving aud repairing Tin and other Metal Roofs of
every description, from its great elasticity, is not Injured
by the contraction and expansion of Metals, and will not
crack in cold or run in warm weather.
These materials are adapted to ail climates, and we are
prepared to supply orders from any part of the country, at
short notice, for GUTTA PERCUA ROOFING in roll*
ready prepared for use. and GUTTA PERCHA OEMBNT
In barrels, with fall printed directions for application.
T We will make liberal and satisfactory arrangements
with responsible parties who would like to establish them
selves In a lucrative and permanent business.
OUR TERMS ARE CASH
We can give abuodmt proof-of all we claim ta favor of
onr Improved Roofing Materials, having applied them to
several thousand Roofs in New York, city and vicinity.
Wholesale Warbbousb, 78 William Street,
Corner of Liberty Street,
Foil descriptive Circulars and Prices will bo furnished on
application.
MONEY WANTED.—In pursuance or
an Ordinance of Select and Common Councils of the
City of Lancaster, passed the 6th day of August, 1861, the
undersigned is authorized to borrow a sum of money suffi
cient to liquidate City loans now due and demanded. This
is, therefore, to give notice that proposals for loans to-'an
amount uot exceeding ten thousand dollars, will be received
at the Mayor’s office, for which Coupons or certificates of
loan wilt be issued bearing 6 per .cent, interest, and T*"
dee enable in ten years from date.
GXO. SANDERSON,
Matos’s Office, Lancaster, Aug. 13. Mayor,
aug 13 3tBl
‘ ‘ 1 MAIsGAM.B® 1, l' S ”
A at prices within the roech of every Church
School House, Factory and Fa™ * n , lanl J- >, TbeT .~?
In all parti of the United State* for the ;paet three yean,
have nrovan them In combine most valuable quallUM.
Amonu which a?o TONE. STRENGTH, SONOROOSNEBB
nnHAHIUTF OF VIBRATION,, uneqnaled by: any
Itber Sinuractnro. Sizes, 50 to 5000 pounds, costing less
tha h£lf Other metal, or Icento per pound, at which
price we warrant them twelve months.;
y irs- Send for Circular.
PRATT, ROBINSON k 00. -
(lliTB M. p. CHADjnOX A Co.) -
j&n 28 3m 3}
Fishing tackle.
Rods, Limerick and Kirby Hooks, Net-Twine,,. SfR
Grass. Cotton and Linen Line*; Floats, Snoods, Ao. ♦'
. For sale at THOMAS ELLMAKBBEh :.
Drn* A Cbemleal Btore,'opposite Cross Keys Hotel, ; W
.troaL Lancaster. [majll-tt-18 ?
TAITBSSAIiIi’B'HKITK fo WBBH
Powdered Rosin,. Antimony,- Fennlgreek^; £o»pa^r
w Drug and Chemical Store, West King ft
NO.JS.
JOHNS A CROSLEY’S
EXTRAQTB
Price 25 Cents per Bottle.
Price 25 Cents per Bottlo.
Price 25 Cents per Bottle.
Price 25 Centß per Bottle.
Price 25 Cents per Bottle.
Price 25 Cents per Bottle.
TERMS CASH
throughout the country.
(Sole Manufacturers,)
AGENTS WANTED
JOHNS A CROBLEY,
Sole Manufacturers,
NEW YORK.